Mixed Week
Morning all.
After one of the worse nights sleep in a hotel room, ever, I've been up since 5am and hardly any sleep before this. A combination of noisy neighbours and car alarms going off so often through the night, I wondered if we were under attack from all the countries car thieves. Will be driving back home after a meeting this morning so will be dosing up on plenty of coffee to keep me awake in the 3 and a half hour journey back home.
Poker has been improving since my last post, apart from the usual at Joker Stars. Went out to a 3 outer heads up against TripJax, who needed an Ace to beat my pocket 10's - and the way I seem to run at this site - out it came. I had put the minimum 10$ into my account, so decided to see what I could do with the remaining 4.50$ after I'd paid my Blogger entry fee.
First hand I get J8 sooted and check to see a flop of 688 - whoopy!! I bet the flop and turn (K) hard, pushing my remaining few cents in as a 10 hit the river. His cards? Pocket 10s.
So, just one hand at Stars and seems I'm jinxed at this site!
This contrasted very nicely with my play at Poker Room, one of my original poker homes. Depositing 50$ and playing the lowest PL limit, I've managed to build my stack since mid week to $195 - so my game hasn't totally disintegrated - just at Joker Stars!
Been playing a tight strategy that involves playing only premium hands and pocket pairs - and I think the biggest difference for me, is folding AK/AQ to pre flop raises. These are seen as premium hands and watching reading poker offline, the are highly regarded hands. But for me, either I'm playing them wrong, as at the low limits I play, they just don't stand up against a table full of 2 random cards. So I'm chucking them away to any pre flop raise of 4 x bb or higher, and this seems to have plugged a leak in my BR so far. With position, I'm raising, but other than this, no action. To give you an idea, last month Poker Office shows that AK/AQ wins about 32% - therefore 68% of my money is dead here so folding is actually making me money!
Anyway, off to the office - happy pokery all!
posted by MiasDaddy @ 7:26 AM
9 comments
9 Comments:
Good to hear of your upturn in fortune (Stars aside, naturally).
I hate AK personally, and would probably only very rarely have played AQ to a re-raise unless I was either desperate or chip leader.
Keep it up...nice to see some good news :)
Well, I would flat call raises with AK and possibly AQ to see a flop, but I hate going all in with it, hoping for a race (unless you have the villain well covered)or calling an all in with either of them.
Glad to see some confidence is returning mate.
Get some welll deserved sleep now!
ATB
BM
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Hi Kirby - can't believe you openly admit you're related to that fish!!
Linked up and look forward to reading :-)
M.
Hi M
I couldn't agree with you more about AK and AQ in cash games. I employ a very similar strategy myself and it's plugged a leak in my game too. They are drawing hands, which only hit around a third of the time, so in low buy in No Limit cash games they aren't going to to make a lot of money most of the time. Like you I only raise with them in late position to see if I can take out the blinds. I will happily fold them to a big raise pre-flop. It's + ev for me anyway :-)
So nice to hear thing are looking up for you, it's about time, hope the luck continues, good luck!
what the games like on Pokerroom mate? been hearing a bit more about it lately and sounds okay.
Hi Ken,
I play the 25c & 50c Pot & No Limit games and the standard is appalling. This can be frustrating as well as bountiful, as they chase flushs and str8's at any cost. Great if they miss, not so if they hit.
Good choice of games, high pots, high % seeing flop, but variance can be high with all the above!
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