4/10/07 - Full Tilt Poker (Online)
$.50 - $1.00 No Limit
12:15am - 12:45am (.5 hrs)
Buy In: $200.00
Cash Out: $356.00
Profit: $156.00
Hourly: $312.00/hr (I only wish)
After taking all of Monday off from Poker, DJing etc.....I got home that night watched Entourage (love that show), and decided to sit online and try to make a little money. I have changed my focus online to play small cash games and work on building a bankroll. I figured it was too hard to beat the rake on the HU SNG's. I was gonna have to be at +4 buy-ins per hour just to try to stay a little ahead. This would allow me to win around $20.00 - $25.00/per hour. Although, this is an attainable goal, I feel I can get closer to $30.00per hour multi-tabling cash games.
So I start this week with $.50 - $1.00 No Limit Hold Em cash games. I did think about Omaha, but I think my play in Omaha is a little too loose for what I want to accomplish, plus the play in the online cash game is so bad, I feel it is easy to beat the game.
I sat down at two tables and bought in for the max. I did not take me long and I had scooped a couple different pots. One which was the first of two, I picked up 7h 7c and the flop of As 7d 3c came down. This pot had been raised preflop, and I closed the action when we went 3 ways to the flop. I was check raised by the original raiser All In, with his Ah Kh. I called showed him the bad news and scooped the $45.00 pot.
The second big hand, went a little like this. I limped UTG with Jc Jd, a player in middle position raised to $6.00 with no other limper's in front except me, the button called, as did I. The flop of 5h 4h 2s came down. I lead out, I did not want to check raised here. I bet $15.00. The original raiser made it $45.00 to go and left about $60.00 behind. I thought til my time bank started to kick in. Finally I re raised All In. I figured him for a hand like pocket 10's cause $6.00 was pretty steep preflop, or he had two over cards to my Jacks and I did not want him to out draw me. He started thinking, and I knew I had the best hand. Eventually he called showing 9d 9h and the board double paired the turn and river. I was pushed the pot. I immediately sat out and left the table.
I don't mind taking a quick win sometimes, especially a decent sized one. This week i will be focusing on maybe playing one live session and finishing my hours online. I also will be adding poker tracker and the video software at the beginning of May. I will track some hands and results a little better this way. Good luck, and remember,
"A good suck out feels way better then a well played hand, any day. After all there is nothing better then dishing a beat, when you are used to receiving them!" The Gamblin Duke
El Diablo - The Fighting Chicken
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Monday, April 9, 2007
Nothin new, but a results Month to date...Update
So not a whole lot new. Have not really played the first couple of days. I will be heading out to play today, as I spent way too much money this weekend. But what is life if you don't have fun. My plans this week are 12 - 16 hours live, and the rest online at Full Tilt.
Below are my results so far this month. It has only been a week, but so far, it seems like this month (as far as an hourly goes). Is running pretty well. OK here they are.
Full Tilt Poker (Online)
Hours: 3 hrs
Profit: $64.00
Hourly: $21.33/hr
Live Play
Hours: 20
Profit: $483.00
Hourly: $24.15
Total
Hours: 23
Profit: $547.00
Hourly: $23.78
I would like my hourly to be up around $30.oo and hour, but this is a good start, since I also played a few short sessions where my wins were small. SO I will be off today to start a new week. Good luck.
El Diablo
Below are my results so far this month. It has only been a week, but so far, it seems like this month (as far as an hourly goes). Is running pretty well. OK here they are.
Full Tilt Poker (Online)
Hours: 3 hrs
Profit: $64.00
Hourly: $21.33/hr
Live Play
Hours: 20
Profit: $483.00
Hourly: $24.15
Total
Hours: 23
Profit: $547.00
Hourly: $23.78
I would like my hourly to be up around $30.oo and hour, but this is a good start, since I also played a few short sessions where my wins were small. SO I will be off today to start a new week. Good luck.
El Diablo
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Back Online, With a game plan
4/5/07 - Full Tilt Poker (Online)
$10.00 + .50 Heads Up Sit N Go's
10pm - 12pm (2hrs)
Buy In: $80.50
Cash Out: $126.00
Profit: $52.50
Hourly: $26.25/hr
Well I deposited more money on Full Tilt, but only $200.00. My plan is to play $10.00 heads Up Sit N Go's and see how they go. Work to build my bankroll off them to $500.00. Then I will move up. Had a great start. I played in 7 total HU SNG's and went 6 had 1. I found if I was patient my opponents would start raising a lot and started over playing starting hands preflop. I did get lucky once, but every time we put all the chips in I was ahead, or a favorite.
Good session, I will try to get in a few hours online here and there, and hopefully, I will be able to maintain my online bankroll a little better. Well I am off to wish Sandviper 23 off, as his going away party is tonight as he heads off to Sweden to play Baseball professionally.
The Duke
$10.00 + .50 Heads Up Sit N Go's
10pm - 12pm (2hrs)
Buy In: $80.50
Cash Out: $126.00
Profit: $52.50
Hourly: $26.25/hr
Well I deposited more money on Full Tilt, but only $200.00. My plan is to play $10.00 heads Up Sit N Go's and see how they go. Work to build my bankroll off them to $500.00. Then I will move up. Had a great start. I played in 7 total HU SNG's and went 6 had 1. I found if I was patient my opponents would start raising a lot and started over playing starting hands preflop. I did get lucky once, but every time we put all the chips in I was ahead, or a favorite.
Good session, I will try to get in a few hours online here and there, and hopefully, I will be able to maintain my online bankroll a little better. Well I am off to wish Sandviper 23 off, as his going away party is tonight as he heads off to Sweden to play Baseball professionally.
The Duke
One Day 2 Sessions - New Planet Hollywood Room
4/4/07 - Planet Hollywood
$1 - $2 No Limit
1am - 7am (6hrs)
Buy In: $600.00
Cash Out: $525.00
Profit: -$75.00
Hourly: $0.00/hr
This session was frustrating between the suck outs I was taking, and the fact I was card dead, I was surprised that I did not lose more the I did. After I was there for two hours I was re buying when I flopped bottom set, in a set over set over set situation. Yeah my pocket 5's we no good on the K 8 5 flop. So I re bought and actually got myself even pretty quick when this hand came down.
While in the Big Blind I checked my option in a 6 way pot with the 3d 6d. The flop of 8s 5d 4d came down. I checked and a loos aggressive player in early position bet $10.00, it was called by 3 people and then back to me, I raised to $75.00. I thought I may just pick up the pot here.....I was wrong. the original bettor folded and a calling station behind him, went all in for $220.00. I normally would fold here, but the way the session was going, i thought this was my best shot to book a win on the night or morning as it was.
I called and he showed me Ac 3s, the fucking guy had a gut shot wheel draw. he draw was no good as is the 2 came I would have a bigger straight. And on top of it now my 6 was live also. I started booking my win. The turn card was the 10c river was the 4h. He won the pot with A 3 high. I was furious, how in the hell does this guy play for all his chips here? So I played til the game broke at 7am, picked up my chips and did the Duke like walk that only I could do, and made my way to the Black Jack table.
At Black Jack i was able to not only cover my $75.00 at the table. But I was able to book a win of $180 for the day. So over all my session looked more like this.
1am - 7:30am (6.5hrs)
Buy In: $600.00
Cash Out: $780.00
Profit: $180.00
Hourly: $27.69/hr
My second session was also at Planet Hollywood, as I had planned to meet Highwaytime Mike there. it would be his first time checking out the new room. Both of us agree the room is solid, lots of room, and seems to be set in a good place. It's only a matter of time for this room to get busy again like, when we first started playing there.
4/5/07 - Planet Hollywood
$1 - $2 No Limit
6pm - 8pm (2hrs)
Buy In: $200.00
Cash Out: $315.00
Profit: $115.00
Hourly: $57.50/hr
This session was not long and not much too report. The only real interesting thing that occurred was that I had KK in back to back hands. And in both they were no good. the first hand, I was in the small blind raised to $15.00 got called by a short stack, I check the Ace high flop and he bet $25.00 of his $35.00. I just folded and bitched under my breath, the said, "Show me how bad your Ace was, he showed Ah 9h, and all I thought was figures.
The second hand actually involved Highwaytime Mike. I was now on the button with KK and Raised again to $15.00, once again a short stack called, then Mike while in the Big Blind re raised to $50.00. I thought about his raised and re raised to $150.00 the short stack thought for a minute then called. Mike folded quickly, but i could tell he was a little mad I re raised. But with the other player in the hand, i wanted to see the flop heads up at this point with the short stack.
I showed my KK, and the short stack showed 8c 7c. I immediately announced seven eight is real good, you win. Sure enough the flop of Jc 9c 8h came down, turn 10s, river 8d. So the whole board was in favor of this donkey. I just got pissed told him he was an idiot. Bitched over the next two hands, and when he said good hand and tried to shake hands, I said; "Think i wanna touch your hand? You are the last person at this table that I could give a shit about, fuck off!"
Yeah a little harsh but I think a little bit of build up from the last session was still there. I played a while longer, picked up a couple decent pots and called it a day. Decent win for the time spent at Planet Hollywood.
So my goals for this month are simple, I wanna put in 80 hours this month, doing approximately 20 hours per week. So far I have booked 16 hours so I am on schedule. Not a lot of hours about 40 less then what I had been playing overall the last 3 months. I would like to get my earn rate to around $30.00 per hour for this month, which I think is a real attainable goal. Basically I'll tryo to play shorter sessions, and maximize my hourly rate. I may also sneak in some online hours, but we will see.
El Diablo
"While the Rooster crows the Fighting Chicken is preparing for another cage fight"
$1 - $2 No Limit
1am - 7am (6hrs)
Buy In: $600.00
Cash Out: $525.00
Profit: -$75.00
Hourly: $0.00/hr
This session was frustrating between the suck outs I was taking, and the fact I was card dead, I was surprised that I did not lose more the I did. After I was there for two hours I was re buying when I flopped bottom set, in a set over set over set situation. Yeah my pocket 5's we no good on the K 8 5 flop. So I re bought and actually got myself even pretty quick when this hand came down.
While in the Big Blind I checked my option in a 6 way pot with the 3d 6d. The flop of 8s 5d 4d came down. I checked and a loos aggressive player in early position bet $10.00, it was called by 3 people and then back to me, I raised to $75.00. I thought I may just pick up the pot here.....I was wrong. the original bettor folded and a calling station behind him, went all in for $220.00. I normally would fold here, but the way the session was going, i thought this was my best shot to book a win on the night or morning as it was.
I called and he showed me Ac 3s, the fucking guy had a gut shot wheel draw. he draw was no good as is the 2 came I would have a bigger straight. And on top of it now my 6 was live also. I started booking my win. The turn card was the 10c river was the 4h. He won the pot with A 3 high. I was furious, how in the hell does this guy play for all his chips here? So I played til the game broke at 7am, picked up my chips and did the Duke like walk that only I could do, and made my way to the Black Jack table.
At Black Jack i was able to not only cover my $75.00 at the table. But I was able to book a win of $180 for the day. So over all my session looked more like this.
1am - 7:30am (6.5hrs)
Buy In: $600.00
Cash Out: $780.00
Profit: $180.00
Hourly: $27.69/hr
My second session was also at Planet Hollywood, as I had planned to meet Highwaytime Mike there. it would be his first time checking out the new room. Both of us agree the room is solid, lots of room, and seems to be set in a good place. It's only a matter of time for this room to get busy again like, when we first started playing there.
4/5/07 - Planet Hollywood
$1 - $2 No Limit
6pm - 8pm (2hrs)
Buy In: $200.00
Cash Out: $315.00
Profit: $115.00
Hourly: $57.50/hr
This session was not long and not much too report. The only real interesting thing that occurred was that I had KK in back to back hands. And in both they were no good. the first hand, I was in the small blind raised to $15.00 got called by a short stack, I check the Ace high flop and he bet $25.00 of his $35.00. I just folded and bitched under my breath, the said, "Show me how bad your Ace was, he showed Ah 9h, and all I thought was figures.
The second hand actually involved Highwaytime Mike. I was now on the button with KK and Raised again to $15.00, once again a short stack called, then Mike while in the Big Blind re raised to $50.00. I thought about his raised and re raised to $150.00 the short stack thought for a minute then called. Mike folded quickly, but i could tell he was a little mad I re raised. But with the other player in the hand, i wanted to see the flop heads up at this point with the short stack.
I showed my KK, and the short stack showed 8c 7c. I immediately announced seven eight is real good, you win. Sure enough the flop of Jc 9c 8h came down, turn 10s, river 8d. So the whole board was in favor of this donkey. I just got pissed told him he was an idiot. Bitched over the next two hands, and when he said good hand and tried to shake hands, I said; "Think i wanna touch your hand? You are the last person at this table that I could give a shit about, fuck off!"
Yeah a little harsh but I think a little bit of build up from the last session was still there. I played a while longer, picked up a couple decent pots and called it a day. Decent win for the time spent at Planet Hollywood.
So my goals for this month are simple, I wanna put in 80 hours this month, doing approximately 20 hours per week. So far I have booked 16 hours so I am on schedule. Not a lot of hours about 40 less then what I had been playing overall the last 3 months. I would like to get my earn rate to around $30.00 per hour for this month, which I think is a real attainable goal. Basically I'll tryo to play shorter sessions, and maximize my hourly rate. I may also sneak in some online hours, but we will see.
El Diablo
"While the Rooster crows the Fighting Chicken is preparing for another cage fight"
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
What I need to learn, what I forgot....
4/3/07 - Excalibur
$1 - $3No Limit
3pm - 5:30pm (2.5hrs)
Buy In: $600.00
Cash Out: $810.00
Profit: $210.00
Hourly: $84.00/hr
Today I ventured out early as I used to do early in the week and made it out to the Excalibur or known here after as the Castle. First off Highwaytime Mike and & I have always renamed different casinos names. Like the Aladdin (Now Planet Hollywood) was known as Ali Baba's and so on. Alright I will get back to the session.
Made it down to the Castle and placed my name on the waiting list, thought I would check out the games and see how they were. We'll the first table, is what I need to learn. Here sat YJ, an Asian player I have played with quite a bit over the last 6 months. He is a very aggressive player, that seems to make some of the greatest calls, some of which keep you wondering; "How in the hell did he call that? Not my choice in style but I have to say it works for him, I have seen him consistently built over $1000.00 chip stacks. Today when I got there he has a mere $1800.00 in front of him and had the rest of the table looking like they had just walked through a Tornado to get to the table. Everyone was in awe, they had hand fulls of hair, their eyes were bloodshot, and some seemed down right depressed. I knew this was not the table for me.
The other table looked to be the Excalibur of old, a cowboy, a crazy looking Asian guy and a couple who was from the Midwest who seemed to like to play every pot. Soon after checking out the table I was seated at table two, I was glad this was my table. I will get right too the point, wow, I missed the Excalibur. It is truly the only casino (OK maybe MGM) where I can be in the game for $600.00 in and hour and a half, and get it all back.
It all started on my second hand, when I check raised a calling station with Broadway (that is an A, K, Q, J, 10 straight). I re raised 2 times the pot and he insta-called then pushed the river when he spiked a J for Jacks full, I was mad but knew he would not hold onto it. Then the second buy in about 20 minutes later I had KK and lost to 77 when he called a re raise of $50.00 preflop to flop a set.
So on to re buy 3, I had built my stack up to about $450.00 when this hand came up. From the under the gun position I limped with a classic Duke starting hand 10d - 7 d. In a 6 way limped pot the flop of Ad 6d 3d came down. It was checked to me and I checked as well. There were two players in the hand that always bet when and Ace hit so I thought I would slide in a solid check raise here. As I suspected goon#1 bet $20.00 into the $18.00 pot. The Big Blind called, and then I re raised to $150.00. I was happy taking the pot right here. What happened next I did not expect.
Goon #1 went all in for $1 more, and the Big Blind cold called leaving about $60 behind. I called the $1 as I could not re raise then told the Big Blind, I was going all in no matter what came and pushed my stack before the turn card came down. He said he would call and put his chips in. At this time my Girlfriend Stefanie had walked up to the table, and I told her, "I think I am about to lose a huge pot." The turn card was the 10h, great card, the dealer made the side pot right, then showed the river card, the 4s, I turned over my hand, the Big Blind showed the Kd and folded, goon #1 showed Ah Qd and folded. I was so shocked, I did not expect to have the best hand, but felt I did need to get all my chips in if that is the case.
I racked up as I was to be the big blind next, and thought I would take my win. So in the title I said what I need to learn....well that is how to play a little stronger of a style, like YJ, and what I forgot......I love the Excalibur.!!!!
On a side note I was told the the Planet Hollywood room is now open and has been busy all day. I may venture out, depending on how I feel. I know that I will play at Planet Hollywood for the most part, but I need to remember to play more at the Castle. I also an currently taking name suggestions for Planet Hollywood, I was thinking maybe Mars would be a good name. Or ever the twilight zone, cause so much weird stuff has gone on there....Let me know what you think.
10-4
THE DUKE
$1 - $3No Limit
3pm - 5:30pm (2.5hrs)
Buy In: $600.00
Cash Out: $810.00
Profit: $210.00
Hourly: $84.00/hr
Today I ventured out early as I used to do early in the week and made it out to the Excalibur or known here after as the Castle. First off Highwaytime Mike and & I have always renamed different casinos names. Like the Aladdin (Now Planet Hollywood) was known as Ali Baba's and so on. Alright I will get back to the session.
Made it down to the Castle and placed my name on the waiting list, thought I would check out the games and see how they were. We'll the first table, is what I need to learn. Here sat YJ, an Asian player I have played with quite a bit over the last 6 months. He is a very aggressive player, that seems to make some of the greatest calls, some of which keep you wondering; "How in the hell did he call that? Not my choice in style but I have to say it works for him, I have seen him consistently built over $1000.00 chip stacks. Today when I got there he has a mere $1800.00 in front of him and had the rest of the table looking like they had just walked through a Tornado to get to the table. Everyone was in awe, they had hand fulls of hair, their eyes were bloodshot, and some seemed down right depressed. I knew this was not the table for me.
The other table looked to be the Excalibur of old, a cowboy, a crazy looking Asian guy and a couple who was from the Midwest who seemed to like to play every pot. Soon after checking out the table I was seated at table two, I was glad this was my table. I will get right too the point, wow, I missed the Excalibur. It is truly the only casino (OK maybe MGM) where I can be in the game for $600.00 in and hour and a half, and get it all back.
It all started on my second hand, when I check raised a calling station with Broadway (that is an A, K, Q, J, 10 straight). I re raised 2 times the pot and he insta-called then pushed the river when he spiked a J for Jacks full, I was mad but knew he would not hold onto it. Then the second buy in about 20 minutes later I had KK and lost to 77 when he called a re raise of $50.00 preflop to flop a set.
So on to re buy 3, I had built my stack up to about $450.00 when this hand came up. From the under the gun position I limped with a classic Duke starting hand 10d - 7 d. In a 6 way limped pot the flop of Ad 6d 3d came down. It was checked to me and I checked as well. There were two players in the hand that always bet when and Ace hit so I thought I would slide in a solid check raise here. As I suspected goon#1 bet $20.00 into the $18.00 pot. The Big Blind called, and then I re raised to $150.00. I was happy taking the pot right here. What happened next I did not expect.
Goon #1 went all in for $1 more, and the Big Blind cold called leaving about $60 behind. I called the $1 as I could not re raise then told the Big Blind, I was going all in no matter what came and pushed my stack before the turn card came down. He said he would call and put his chips in. At this time my Girlfriend Stefanie had walked up to the table, and I told her, "I think I am about to lose a huge pot." The turn card was the 10h, great card, the dealer made the side pot right, then showed the river card, the 4s, I turned over my hand, the Big Blind showed the Kd and folded, goon #1 showed Ah Qd and folded. I was so shocked, I did not expect to have the best hand, but felt I did need to get all my chips in if that is the case.
I racked up as I was to be the big blind next, and thought I would take my win. So in the title I said what I need to learn....well that is how to play a little stronger of a style, like YJ, and what I forgot......I love the Excalibur.!!!!
On a side note I was told the the Planet Hollywood room is now open and has been busy all day. I may venture out, depending on how I feel. I know that I will play at Planet Hollywood for the most part, but I need to remember to play more at the Castle. I also an currently taking name suggestions for Planet Hollywood, I was thinking maybe Mars would be a good name. Or ever the twilight zone, cause so much weird stuff has gone on there....Let me know what you think.
10-4
THE DUKE
Aprils Fools??? Where are they?
4/2/07 - MGM
$1 - $2 No Limit
10pm - 1am (3hrs)
Buy In: $200.00
Cash Out: $253.00
Profit: $53.00
Hourly: $17.67/hr
I got to MGM after a short stop at Planet Hollywood. Planet has been under construction for about 6 months or so, when I showed up to find no poker room, I wasn't surprised. Apparently they closed the Poker Room for a few days as it had been in a temporary location, but will not open today or tomorrow in it's new permanent home. I am excited about the room moving as it will be near the entrance and will get more foot traffic. The room looks good and has better access to parking and Starbucks, LOL.
OK now about my session. Not too much exciting to talk about here. I got to MGM at 10pm who had a huge list, but as only the MGM can do, they opened a new game within 10 minutes of my arrival. I sat down at this new table and quickly realized there where about 4 calling stations, but that they all bought in short. I decided to play tight aggressive. I rarely limped into pots, including folding hands like AJ in early position. I also decided to only raise hands that I either need to raise, or while in position. I really wanna work on my patience, and playing more in position. This worked well, as I did get blinded off a little but every time, I made a hand I was able to get chips back pretty easy.
I did end up running a little card dead. I had AQ three times, and was only good once. I had 4 pocket pairs. Jacks once, where in a raised pot I folded to an opening bet of $25 on a 7c 6c 5s board. I player ended up pushing all in on the turn when the 8s came out, I felt there was not value in my Jacks against the draw. I was right as one person flopped two pair and the other player had Ad 4d and made his straight. So my fold was the right play, after all as Re-Bet would say, "whatever the right play is, yeah that is what I would do." I had Pocket 2's 4's & 5's. Non of which made a hand.
At 1am I ended my session, I could have changed tables, but I like to table change when I have more chips then I started with. I just decided I wasn't really feeling it and that I would get in another session on Tuesday. Well wish me luck, as I will be playing the next few days, hoping that the Planet Hollywood picks up good action the next couple of days and weeks.
The Duke
Oh for your pleasure a new picture of the Educated Donkey has been posted above.
$1 - $2 No Limit
10pm - 1am (3hrs)
Buy In: $200.00
Cash Out: $253.00
Profit: $53.00
Hourly: $17.67/hr
I got to MGM after a short stop at Planet Hollywood. Planet has been under construction for about 6 months or so, when I showed up to find no poker room, I wasn't surprised. Apparently they closed the Poker Room for a few days as it had been in a temporary location, but will not open today or tomorrow in it's new permanent home. I am excited about the room moving as it will be near the entrance and will get more foot traffic. The room looks good and has better access to parking and Starbucks, LOL.
OK now about my session. Not too much exciting to talk about here. I got to MGM at 10pm who had a huge list, but as only the MGM can do, they opened a new game within 10 minutes of my arrival. I sat down at this new table and quickly realized there where about 4 calling stations, but that they all bought in short. I decided to play tight aggressive. I rarely limped into pots, including folding hands like AJ in early position. I also decided to only raise hands that I either need to raise, or while in position. I really wanna work on my patience, and playing more in position. This worked well, as I did get blinded off a little but every time, I made a hand I was able to get chips back pretty easy.
I did end up running a little card dead. I had AQ three times, and was only good once. I had 4 pocket pairs. Jacks once, where in a raised pot I folded to an opening bet of $25 on a 7c 6c 5s board. I player ended up pushing all in on the turn when the 8s came out, I felt there was not value in my Jacks against the draw. I was right as one person flopped two pair and the other player had Ad 4d and made his straight. So my fold was the right play, after all as Re-Bet would say, "whatever the right play is, yeah that is what I would do." I had Pocket 2's 4's & 5's. Non of which made a hand.
At 1am I ended my session, I could have changed tables, but I like to table change when I have more chips then I started with. I just decided I wasn't really feeling it and that I would get in another session on Tuesday. Well wish me luck, as I will be playing the next few days, hoping that the Planet Hollywood picks up good action the next couple of days and weeks.
The Duke
Oh for your pleasure a new picture of the Educated Donkey has been posted above.
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