Sustainable, IMO

I’ve been putting off writing this post for a while, as I really don’t want to jinx the current good run that I am on. I played some donkaments on Friday, I cashed in three without going super deep, but felt that I played well enough. I also had the pleasure of being sat with Joka briefly in the Stars $109 freezeout. Obviously I courtesy three bet him at one point (for a change I actually had a hand) but because he is good at poker he folded and I cursed him under my breath and add him to my ever-growing slowroll list.

However, following on from a very good month at HU last month, I’ve absolutely flown out of the traps in January, and am currently up c. $1,800 over 6,000 hands, which is 39bb/100. Sustainable, IMO. I’ve got some good volume in, with over half my monthly 10,000 hand target accomplished inside 10 days.

I’ve been taking on a couple of the regs, and played over 3,000 hands against one guy who I am currently up 20 buy ins on at GBP 50NL. I have run well against the guy, but he is simply too aggressive a lot of the time and I am fairly confident I have the beating of him. We played an epic 1,800 hand session on four tables over two hours last week, which I really enjoyed. I’m not sure if he’ll play me again, I kind of get the feeling he will. I have also played another reg who was terrible, but beat me fairly soundly a few months back (if he is terrible, what does that make me?), that I have outplayed fairly comfortably over c. 1k hands since. I think I’m playing a whole lot better than I was three months ago and am a shit load less tilty, which is saving me a fortune. I’ll probably stack of 20 buy-ins over the next week or so, so watch this space.

It has taken a while, but I think I am getting the hang of cash game poker. Up until recently I had basically had a real problem with folding once I had put money in a pot (in the words of Bond18, “folding is a sin and he is a pious man”) – of late I have been able to click the fold button when it appears right and simply move on to the next hand. I got way too attached to strong pre-flop hands and was unable to re-evaluate street by street (or if I did re-evaluate, I’d ignore the results of the re-evaluation and call anyway). I’d also be simply too eager to get money in with hands on the flop when often calling may be the better play, instead of simply shutting out all of my opponent’s bluffs.

I’m still bad, but I’d like to think I’m finally making some progress. It has taken 100,000 hands, eight months, a reasonable amount of coaching and a lot of frustration, but hopefully I am now at least a winner at the stakes that I play.

Most of the football was snowed off this weekend. I wasn’t sorry, it was baltic outside and we could do with the extra time to get Cole and Parker fit.

It is still snowy here, and since the poker snowmen picture was so well received, I thought I would include this one of two snowmen having sex. Don't pretend you don't think it is funny, it clearly is.



Good luck at the tables.