Getting back on track

With the month drawing to a close I figured it'd be a good time to finally update the blog. After a shocking July, August has gone pretty well, almost getting me back on track. I've not put in much volume (around 27k hands) but I've skillfully managed to run well above EV and blink 5th place in the PRK 500 for $3.6k. I was obviously happy with the result but really had my eye on 1st. It wasn't to be with me loosing a flip with 88 Vs the table shorty's QJ, had I won the hand I'd have been close to chip leader with only 4 to go. A few hands later I shoved over an open with AQ for 10-15bbs, unfortunately for me the pfr woke up with AK and that was the end of my tournament.


As usual I'm struggling to think of things to photoshop so for now you can laugh at my last 10k hands, been fairly swingy as 5/10 hasn't been great this month.

Wongadunce and Variance

Last month got me thinking about the variance in poker, I only finished down 4 BI's for the month however with all my looses at 2/4 and 5/10 winning lots of BIs at 1/2 wasn't really going to make much difference. The result was a month in the region of -10k. This was exaggerated by me playing like a moron for the last few days of the month, I can think of several BIs which I lost purely down to tilt, not to mention all the other less obvious mistakes I must have been making.

Anyway back to the variance bit, I decided to go though my HEM and have a look at how some of the other regs on PKR were doing, obviously the sample sizes aren't great but it was still pretty interesting to see how well/badly some are doing EV wise.

Here are some 'run good regs'

And now the run bads :(

What went up is now coming down and isn't stopping

After a great June I was on a bit of a bit of a poker high, since then my poker has crashed and burned. A combination of running badly and playing badly has resulted in July being the worst month I've ever had. I've just finished a session where yet again I played pretty badly ending in a horrible CR river bluff. I instantly logged off PKR and decided to do something more productive with my time..............make a photoshop asking for people to donate to Wongaman again.

So please donate generously.

Getting bent over by poker

I'm currently in the process of undoing my good work from last month. If you see me at a table be sure to sit down as I'll donate you some money. I entered the Brighton UKIPT yesterday, all was going well until I messed up pretty badly with QQ and managed to loose half my stack, after this I never really recovered and eventually busted out with A9 Vs 66 at level 9. Good luck to MrNiceness tomorrow and all the other PKR heads who are still in it/playing today.

Some people don't appreciate a good hero call

Check the reaction below.

Seat 1: Aman830 ($389)

Seat 2: WongaMan ($678)
Seat 3: Angry Man  ($511)
Seat 4: EmilBergelin ($421)
Seat 5: Thiefz ($386)

Dealer

Seat 6: Patatosalatas ($709)

Dealt to WongaMan

Preflop: (Pot: $6)

RAISE Angry Man, to $12
FOLD EmilBergelin
CALL Thiefz, $12
FOLD Patatosalatas
FOLD Aman830
RAISE WongaMan, to $54
CALL Angry Man, $42
FOLD Thiefz

Check odds

Flop: (Pot: $126)

BET WongaMan, $68
CALL Angry Man, $68

Turn: (Pot: $262)

CHECK WongaMan
CHECK Angry Man

River: (Pot: $262)

CHECK WongaMan
BET Angry Man, $389
CALL WongaMan, $389

Showdown:

SHOWS WongaMan

SHOWS Angry Man

WongaMan wins the pot of $1,034

5k hand fail.................again

Yesterday was pretty shitty I played 5k hands mainly because I was trying to get unstuck. In the process I managed to almost bust my other Euro site roll playing some random at HU 2/4euro. I'm pretty sure I had an edge Vs the guy but during our first session after loosing 3BIs or so in pretty standard spots I started playing like retard. At this point there is no way I had an edge, especially with the momentum going his way (this is where tilt kicked in and I couldn't stop playing him). I ended up playing him later in the evening where I lost more, this time I was happy with how I played. He ran pertty hot in the second session with his AA Vs my JJ in a 4bet pot on a Ten high board, set over setting me and hitting two pair with QTs in a 3bet pot Vs my KK.

Hopefully I'll learn from this, it's also made me aware of how much I need to improve my HU game (particularly in adjusting to different players), so if you see me sitting at a 2/4 table you should jump at the chance to play Wongafish HU.

Here's a shout out to RCHLFRMRNDS who has requested that I put up a rollerblading video. The editing and picture quality's not great but it's a banger of a section. Enjoy.

Couple of funny hands and some small stakes run good

Seat 1: Najammq ($573)

Posts big blind $4

Seat 2: DONK ($391)

Dealer

Seat 3: WongaMan ($429)

Dealt to WongaMan

Preflop: (Pot: $6)

RAISE WongaMan, to $12
FOLD Najammq
CALL DONK, $8

Flop: (Pot: $22)

CHECK DONK
BET WongaMan, $18
RAISE DONK, to $36
CALL WongaMan, $18

Turn: (Pot: $76)

CHECK DONK
BET WongaMan, $74
CALL DONK, $74

River: (Pot: $224)

BET DONK, $269
CALL WongaMan, $269

Showdown:

SHOWS WongaMan

SHOWS DONK

WongaMan wins the pot of $783

I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure him calling the turn isn't great. At least his river play prevents me from bluffing, pity I had the nuts. 

Seat 1:WongaMan ($1,301)

Dealer, Posts small blind $5

Seat 2:DONK($724)

Dealt to WongaMan

Preflop: (Pot: $15)

RAISE DONK, to $30
RAISE WongaMan, to $95
CALL DONK, $65

Flop: (Pot: $200)

BET WongaMan, $98
RAISE DONK, to $240
RAISE WongaMan, to $1,206
CALL DONK, $389

Turn: (Pot: $2,035)

River: (Pot: $2,035)

Showdown:

SHOWS DONK

SHOWS WongaMan

WongaMan wins the pot of $1,447

This was pretty funny because he snap called the flop shove, I'd have felt very owned if he had a random Ax hand.

I managed to finish up 5 buyins yesterday, however I still finished the day -2K as while I was winning at 2/4, 1/2 and 0.5/1 I was loosing at 5/10. The highlight of the day was winning 5 buyins at 0.5/1euro in 50 hands (see graph). The month has gone pretty well, although I've been loosing the last couple of days. Hopefully I'll have an end of month heater.