General Update
Well, it's been ages since I last posted (mostly since the DreamTeam competition stopped) so time for a quick review of 2006 and goals for 2007.
Ended the year positive (hurrah!) - approx £2373 to the good. I say approx because I don't have all my live results noted down. I do however have all the bad ones noted down(!) so this is a conservative figure.
Highlight of the year: Coming second in a $50 rebuy tourney with 1000+ runners for $18,500
Lowlight of the year: No one thing in particular really, mostly just not winning at cash games!
Now, you may be asking, if I won $18,500 how come I'm only up $4,500 for the year - what happened to the other $14,000 !?
Well, there are some large items on the P&L list....
- Had a terrible start to the year playing live going around £1,200 down in the first month
- Played in a $2,000 buy-in WSOP event
- Also lost $2,000 playing cash games in Vegas
- Lost €1,700 playing omaha in Barcelona
- Bought in for some large on-line tourneys e.g. Ladbrokes PMV final at around $950 a pop
the rest went on "learning" how to play cash games! Curiously I have done reasonably well in live cash games (yes, despite those big losing sessions above!) but appalingly in on-line cash.
On that front I recently signed up to www.cardrunners.com and can highly recommend it if you're looking to learn cash game play. It's not great for Omaha but for general approach and NLHE it's pretty good.
Well, I say it's not good for Omaha but in one of the videos the guy brings up his pokertracker stats which shows he's +$185,000 for Omaha...
I also found a great voyeristic site www.highstakes.nu which lists results from the higher stakes cash tables on various sites. Already this year it seems Gus Hansen is doing well on Full Tilt for Omaha:
Winners Results Sessions Hands Hours BB/100
Gus Hansen +$546 722 35 3899 54.78 18.29
Ugadabugada +$514 056 13 1822 20.95 46.73
cmynuts +$276 451 15 1486 19.32 23.55
howisitfeellike +$104 818 21 1337 18.03 1.37
sbrugby +$104 459 25 4293 50.45 3.53
of course, this money has to come from somewhere, and it appears a certain Phil "the fish" Ivey is donating....
Loosers Results Sessions Hands Hours BB/100
Ziigmund -$292 030 17 1703 19.75 -24.35
Phil Ivey -$204 358 8 339 5.53 -102.42
magicpitch1 -$169 810 25 3691 47.58 -5.79
batoelrob -$147 974 6 252 3.38 -79.06
Mr Poker KDH -$138 518 12 866 10.85 -9.54
still I guess he can afford it.
So, what's up for 2007? Well, the second Dreamteam tourney starts on Thursday so I'll give that a go. Also I'm planning on going to Brighton on 27th for a tournament down there. The main focus however is to become a winning cash game player. Reviewing last year's results I win small and lose big - clearly this must change. Looking at some pokertracker results I push way to readily with a draw, so stack off on marginal hands. At the low levels I play ($2-4 and below) there's really no need for this and ABC poker is more profitable.
That's the theory - here's the practice so far lol:
Best Day 148
Worst Day -421
Winning 3
Losing 4
Total Win 298
Total Loss -651
P&L (£) -353
Oh well, plenty of time to turn it around.
Ended the year positive (hurrah!) - approx £2373 to the good. I say approx because I don't have all my live results noted down. I do however have all the bad ones noted down(!) so this is a conservative figure.
Highlight of the year: Coming second in a $50 rebuy tourney with 1000+ runners for $18,500
Lowlight of the year: No one thing in particular really, mostly just not winning at cash games!
Now, you may be asking, if I won $18,500 how come I'm only up $4,500 for the year - what happened to the other $14,000 !?
Well, there are some large items on the P&L list....
- Had a terrible start to the year playing live going around £1,200 down in the first month
- Played in a $2,000 buy-in WSOP event
- Also lost $2,000 playing cash games in Vegas
- Lost €1,700 playing omaha in Barcelona
- Bought in for some large on-line tourneys e.g. Ladbrokes PMV final at around $950 a pop
the rest went on "learning" how to play cash games! Curiously I have done reasonably well in live cash games (yes, despite those big losing sessions above!) but appalingly in on-line cash.
On that front I recently signed up to www.cardrunners.com and can highly recommend it if you're looking to learn cash game play. It's not great for Omaha but for general approach and NLHE it's pretty good.
Well, I say it's not good for Omaha but in one of the videos the guy brings up his pokertracker stats which shows he's +$185,000 for Omaha...
I also found a great voyeristic site www.highstakes.nu which lists results from the higher stakes cash tables on various sites. Already this year it seems Gus Hansen is doing well on Full Tilt for Omaha:
Winners Results Sessions Hands Hours BB/100
Gus Hansen +$546 722 35 3899 54.78 18.29
Ugadabugada +$514 056 13 1822 20.95 46.73
cmynuts +$276 451 15 1486 19.32 23.55
howisitfeellike +$104 818 21 1337 18.03 1.37
sbrugby +$104 459 25 4293 50.45 3.53
of course, this money has to come from somewhere, and it appears a certain Phil "the fish" Ivey is donating....
Loosers Results Sessions Hands Hours BB/100
Ziigmund -$292 030 17 1703 19.75 -24.35
Phil Ivey -$204 358 8 339 5.53 -102.42
magicpitch1 -$169 810 25 3691 47.58 -5.79
batoelrob -$147 974 6 252 3.38 -79.06
Mr Poker KDH -$138 518 12 866 10.85 -9.54
still I guess he can afford it.
So, what's up for 2007? Well, the second Dreamteam tourney starts on Thursday so I'll give that a go. Also I'm planning on going to Brighton on 27th for a tournament down there. The main focus however is to become a winning cash game player. Reviewing last year's results I win small and lose big - clearly this must change. Looking at some pokertracker results I push way to readily with a draw, so stack off on marginal hands. At the low levels I play ($2-4 and below) there's really no need for this and ABC poker is more profitable.
That's the theory - here's the practice so far lol:
Best Day 148
Worst Day -421
Winning 3
Losing 4
Total Win 298
Total Loss -651
P&L (£) -353
Oh well, plenty of time to turn it around.
posted by Tall Mat at 11:03 AM
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