Ramblings and obligatory photoshop.

I've just finished a fairly tilting session (when I started to write this), which ends a fairly tilting day. As a whole this week's been pretty frustrating, I hit my month peak early on Monday and it didn't take long before the days winnings had been wiped out, since then things haven't improved. This is a little frustrating because I had a target for the month which if I'd hit I was going to splash out on improving my grinding set up, something along these lines. 

 

Anyway given my form this week, it's going to take something very special to hit my target, so I guess the new setup is going to have to wait. Annoying, but I can't really complain as overall it's been a decent month to date, mainly due to running very well at 5/10+. This has been a welcome change, as over the last 3 months I've not fared too well in the higher stake games. 

Apart from poker I've not been up to much this month, I'm planning on booking tickets to Arizona for a rollerblading holiday in January. This will be the third year I've been out there, if anyone's got half an hour to kill, check out this edit of 2010's trip. You'll be able to see Wongaman repping it hard in Az, I've obviously put on a bit of weight since then. I'm off to see WU LYF tonight, from what I've heard they're ment to be amazing live. Here's one of their tracks. 

I'll leave a token funny hand which happend yesterday. Maybe I should have raised a little more on the flop, but I got the feeling he wasn't going to fold. Enjoy the car crash.

Seat 1: cevzy ($206)

Posts big blind $2

Seat 2: iLcApOdiCorleone ($89)
Seat 3: Sniekiemo22 ($114)
Seat 4: WongaMan ($236)
Seat 5: timjeff ($203)

Seat 6: Casinofan ($65.12)

Dealt to WongaMan

Preflop: (Pot: $3)

RAISE BOSH, to $8
RAISE WongaMan, to $24
FOLD timjeff
RAISE Casinofan, to $65.12
FOLD cevzy
FOLD iLcApOdiCorleone
CALL BOSH, $57.12
RAISE WongaMan, to $106
CALL BOSH, $41.12

Flop: (Pot: $223.24)

BET BOSH, $2
RAISE WongaMan, to $4
CALL BOSH, $2

Turn: (Pot: $229.24)

BET BOSH, $4.50
CALL WongaMan, $4.50

River: (Pot: $238.24)

Showdown:

SHOWS BOSH

SHOWS WongaMan

SHOWS Casinofan

BOSH wins the pot of $294

Wonga signing out. 

Big daddy of the day hand

I mentioned in my last update that I'd been breaking even for a bit, well I managed to win a little more in the last week or so of September making it a reasonable month, I never quite got back to the peak of the month. October started very well with the added bonus of getting some HU action at 10/20 Vs a big fish (I'm still up for getting rid of the HU tables on PKR). I'm pretty happy with how I played Vs the Fish, initially I dropped a bit but the turning point was the hand below. 

Seat 1:WongaMan ($2,376)

Dealer, Posts small blind $10

Seat 2: TheBigDaddyOfTheDay ($3,290)

Dealt to WongaMan

Preflop: (Pot: $30)

RAISE TheBigDaddyOfTheDay, to $60
RAISE WongaMan, to $230
CALL TheBigDaddyOfTheDay, $170

Flop: (Pot: $480)

BET WongaMan, $285
CALL TheBigDaddyOfTheDay, $285

Turn: (Pot: $1,050)

CHECK WongaMan
BET TheBigDaddyOfTheDay, $686
CALL WongaMan, $686

River: (Pot: $2,422)

CHECK WongaMan
BET TheBigDaddyOfTheDay, $2,088
CALL WongaMan, $1,175

Showdown:

SHOWS TheBigDaddyOfTheDay

SHOWS WongaMan

WongaMan wins the pot of $4,752

I won and lost serveral 4k pots but this is the largest one I've been involved in. I'm still not 100% sure if I took the best possible line in the hand, there are certainly other lines I could have taken which didn't involve folding (which I don't think was an option Vs this guy). Anyway it worked out and after that he crumbled. This was the first time I'd actually played a full session of 10/20 so it was a massive bonus to run well against someone playing very badly.


Yesterdays grind got off to a good start with me quickly winning around 1.6k, then the blowup began, a combination of running awful in AIEVs and most likely quite a bit of play bad I was quickly stuck around the 2.5k mark.