Week-end away

Went with my little family to friends wedding this week-end so I played only 2k hands since last post. I really enjoy the way I'm playing for the moment, I try to focus myself to lay down more hands that I used to shove, the kinds of hands were you are slightly ahead way behind. Seems to work. I'm now up 4k$+ for this month, well done since beginning was pretty sick !














http://www.pokerhand.org/?2006662
Funny hand against 50/30/10 opponent

I have a dream...

All poker players, at least the winners, dream of being "poker pro". I often question myself many questions about it as :
- "Would you support pressure if my only income were coming from poker ?"
- "Would you like this game as much as a work as a hobby ?"
- "What would be your common daily planning ?"

I will today focus on this last question. What about a planning that would look like :
- 09h00 Bring kid to her nanny
- 09h30 Sleep
- 14h30 Session review
- 15h00 Video training/Book reading
- 15h30 Poker session
- 18h00 Bring back kid
- 22h00 Poker session
- 03h00 Sleep

That means 6-7 hours of real poker and 1 hour of training. I think that's many hours, certainly more than I could assume for enjoying the game but I guess if I want to be successfull - I mean really successfull - I would have to work hard during few months.

Maybe one day I would give a shot for this crazy try, maybe...

Some good beats

I have been running pretty good for the last 2 days with more than 2K$ profit. However I have to admit that this result would not have been so great without some nice beats.














http://www.pokerhand.org/?1985661
Nice river ;)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1985646
Should obviously have folded against this good regular. I was at least against QQ...


http://www.pokerhand.org/?1985630
A delayed christmas present

KK vs AA sucks...

Just finished tonight session with KK against AA. Could have faced QQ+/AK so I don't regret but I obviously hate ending a session like that.
Last 2 sessions haven't been great but at least I didn't loose. Now that I've cleared my downswing I hope I can get 2 or 3k$ before the end of the month.

Downswing cleared !

I finally got back to even for the month, thanks again to a nice rush at the end of my session after a difficult start.
Got huge hands and my opponents were holding some nice ones too. Poker is easy when it goes that way ;)














http://www.pokerhand.org/?1961559
Over pair with flush max draw vs TPGK with 2nd flush draw. Nice set up

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1961564
I was very agressive against this loose preflop opponent. So he didn't believe me when I raised turn and he catches a horrible Jack for him that gives him full against my quad.
I love this game :)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1961571
Full vs full. I really think I would have folded his hand at the river. Actually he wrote in the chat "TT/QQ?" before calling.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1961576
This hand is to show that set-up can also go the other way ;)

Really tough month !

Thursday I was cheering my 2K$ day... Yesterday I almotst lost all of that and finally today I'm back :)
Tonight I had a very nice rush at the end of the session where I was crushing all my tables. What a nice feeling.














Too lazy tonight to post some hands ;)

Finally a winning session !

After recovering some BIs yesterday, I made a nice 2K$ profit day. No bad beat, only one hand missplayed, I was very happy with my game tonight.














http://www.pokerhand.org/?1945289
The only big lost post of the day. I didn't know well my opponent and as I was playing bad player tonight I thought he could my shove with a small Ax. I should have called turn and reevaluate river.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1945309
Really proud of my call here. I knew my opponent was used to bluff river very often. And that shoved screamed me he was bluffing (sure he would have value bet something around 2/3 - full pot with the straight or DP)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1945317
Full vs full. Nice turn for me

-10 BIs peak !

What a year for the moment !
I reached a -10 BIs peak before grinding back. I'm really happy the way I handle this downswing as I haven't tilted so much
I hope I'm back on track and that I will at least recover my losses (I'm still -3.5K$ down) before the end of the month















http://www.pokerhand.org/?1940682
Set vs flopped Flush
Think I should have fold the turn

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1940674
QQ vs AA (very agressive player)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1940665
Missed bluff. Actually bad play as I really don't know what I was trying to represent here

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1940657
Set over set :(

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1940692
Huge pot for me :)
Nice try from my opponent but bad spot as I would have folded a lot of hands like AA, KK, QQ, JJ.

Horrible start !

I'm really struggling for the moment. Played about 5K hands in 3 days for a wonderfull -3K$ :(
I decided to night so spent some times analyzing the big lost pots














http://www.pokerhand.org/?1930285
Opponent very agressive pre & post flop, so when I CR him I think I'm way ahead of his range.
I have just reviewed the hand and my last call is bad (but not as bad as I thought as we could had also some bluffs) :

[Pokerstove] equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 28.024% 27.05% 00.97% 13122 472.50 { 8c8d }
Hand 1: 71.976% 71.00% 00.97% 34443 472.50 { 77+, AdKd, AdQd, AdTd, KdTd, QdTd, JdTd }

Pot odds : 715:313$ > 2.3:1

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1930388
The kinds of hands that I hate ! It's like a 3 outs beats preflop
I don't think I can do anything here with a short stack and I think I lots a pots like this during this last days

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1930398
Powned !

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1930406
Opponent very agressive here too. Lost a flip

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1930417
Check river would have been much better here

Got a HH that doesn't work with pokerhand. But I 3bet with TT and push with a QQ4 board. Called by AK that suck out a A @ river :(

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1930452
Tilt hand

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1930467
Classic KK vs AA

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1930474
Flush draw vs set that holds

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1930486
New tilt hand :(

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1930503
Wowwwww, didn't remember that one !
What an horrible play with a 3bet called OOP with a SC

Well, after reviewing all these hands, I have to conclude that I played like shit !
I could have run better with some luck but I really deserve this swing

Happy NewYear !

Still few days of vacations in Argentina. We rented with all my family a awesome house 40mn away from B.A. We profit all the day from the swimming pool and eating barbecues every night. The paradise ! I really planned to live in this wonderfull country very soon. If 2008 poker winnings are great, it could be for 2009 !


















Regarding poker I have played at the beginning of the vacations some HU NL200 & NL400 but haven't run very well (think I've lost around 1K$). I however taught some members of my family how to play and we played 2 times for fun (here is a photo of my brother in law). They really enjoyed it :)























I really enjoyed my vacations but I have to admit that I start to be a bit "poker-sick" :) I'm some kind of impatient to get back home to start the 2008 poker year !!!
For 2008 I have 2 main objectives :
- Become a 5/10 NL Regular
- Play a big live event (WSOP or EPT)