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swanny36
Joined: 26.07.2010

WTF is going on tonight!

Cassava Poker $0.05/$0.10 No Limit Hold'em - 3 players - View hand 1442018
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Hero (SB): $15.03
BB: $12.60
BTN: $11.05

Pre Flop: ($0.15) Hero is SB with A :club: K :diamond:
BTN calls $0.10, Hero raises to $0.40, 1 fold, BTN calls $0.30

Flop: ($0.90) 7 :club: K :club: 6 :club: (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $0.50, Hero raises to $1, BTN calls $0.50

Turn: ($2.90) 8 :club: (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $1.91, Hero raises to $3.82, BTN calls $1.91

River: ($10.54) T :club: (2 players)
Hero bets $9.81, BTN calls $5.83 all in

Final Pot: $22.20
Hero shows A :club: K :diamond:
BTN shows 5 :diamond: T :spade:
Hero wins $17.11
(Rake: $5.09)


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swanny36
Joined: 26.07.2010

OK time for a proper update. Since I had that horrific downswing I have managed to recover my bankroll... and then some. After me complaining and moaning and bitching about bad luck, bad beats, and variance, I have been on a bit of a heater. Since getting poker tracker back I have really started to play some good poker and have also managed to single out fish much better and take advantage of them. I have also ran in god mode, I think about 5 1/2 buy ins above expected.

This is my graph since I started using poker tracker on 888:

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Of course not much of a sample yet but I really feel like I have an edge in these games.

I do think that the downswing was actually a good thing in some ways. It definetaly taught me a bit about variance. And sometimes you are going to lose no matter how wel you play. Hopefully the experience will allow me to deal with a similar swing in the future in a better way.

With regard to my bankroll, I am now sitting on a whopping

$445 :f_cool:

Not sure when I should start taking shots at NL20, will probably wait untill my roll reaches $550 or so :)

Cheers. Euan.


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vonki
Joined: 18.03.2008
YabYayo
Joined: 25.08.2011

Im following this, i enjoy your succes ;)


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swanny36
Joined: 26.07.2010

Thanks Vonki and YabYayo! Means a lot.

FISH ON A HEATER!

Another very exciting day on the poker front today! and my biggest winning day in poker to date. Played a session this morning before i posted my update and have played two more since, totaling in around $140 profit!

My bankroll now sits at $548!

This means that tomorrow is a huge day. I will be taking shots at NL20! I know I am on a heater and to be honest I'm running a shitload above ev but I don't think that should stop me? Even ev adjusted I'm up 20 buyins over the last 6k or so hands. And I have been working a ton on my game. Reading many articles and watching videos etc. Observed a couple of NL20 tables on 888 today and the standard didn't look overly impressive in any way! Still some tables playing like 40% players seeing the flop. :f_biggrin:

The only thing is how to approach moving up? I usually play 4 tables so should I just mix one NL20 in? Or two and two of NL10 and 20? Any advice on this would be extremely helpful :)

Cheers. Euan.


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tcs35
Joined: 31.01.2009

do whatever you feel comfortable with :) i usually will 2 table for 1h when taking shots, next session 4 table but two old limit and two new limit do that for a while then four tables of the shot limit.

hows your golf game going? i bought a new scotty cameron putter :)


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IvanSh1
Joined: 04.10.2010

Hey, I am just reading blogs here in the English section, but noticed a familiar nick on 888. Now I understand why you are crushing NL10, we have played a bit the last few days, also whe chatted a bit, I'm SilenceSH on 888. Nice to see you are going for NL20 shots, cause it's really hard to play with you on the same tables hehe. I'm going to read the whole blog, I'm sure it's interesting. Good luck with NL20, I was told it is a bit harder, but NL30 seems soft. :)


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swanny36
Joined: 26.07.2010

@ Toby.

Thanks for the advice. Going to play 1 table of NL20 i think and then two of NL10 today and see how i get on. Then will move it up to two and two and eventually hopefully just all NL20 :)

With regards to my golf, I havn't actually played that much recently because the weather in the uk has been really bad. I am back to uni on saturday as well and i'm not a member of a club up there so won't be playing much at all which is really upsetting. However, when I finish this year I am going to organise like fortnightly coaching sessions to try and improve. Was thinking about it the other day and I played my best golf when I was getting coached when I was like 16. So will start taking it a lot more seriously after this year.

How is your golf coming along? Scotty Cameron's are sweet! What about your poker? I noticed you are silver this month? Not been playing too much?

@IvanSh1

Good to hear from you mate! Don't know how you managed to find me! Yeah I remember chatting with you. You are one of the only decent regs you can find on 888! Do you have a blog yourself? Are you beating NL10/ rolled for NL20 yet? I feel like you should be crushing it with your play.

Cheers. Euan.


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tcs35
Joined: 31.01.2009

It's really good at the moment, playing like a beast :) Yeah I love them I keep sinking all these really long putts. Does your uni not have a golf society? They usually give you good discount to play on nice course. My uni we pay around £200 a year and get access to a course where membership can be up to 6k. They also give us lessons from a coach for £3 but I go to my friend who is a ex PGA tour player and he's amazing.

With regards to poker not been playing recently went on a downswing and just withdrawn like 3 weeks ago.


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lol the AK vs T5o hand is hilarious. I'd probably don't minraise the flop tho, but it worked out pretty well :)


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swanny36
Joined: 26.07.2010

You would flat call? Or raise bigger? Against a TAG I would probably raise bigger and just try and get it in. But this guy was playing like 90/10 so I am so far ahead of his range I just wanted to try and squeeze as much money out of him as possible. :f_biggrin:

With regard to my shot at NL20. This morning was pretty sick to say the least! Ran in god mode again apart from one flip i lost when it was all in with my ak v his qq pre. Here are a few hands.

Hand 1:

Standard cooler, luckily in my favour :)

Cassava Poker $0.10/$0.20 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 1443528
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MP: $21.42
CO: $9.20
BTN: $10.80
SB: $12.60
BB: $9.46
Hero (UTG): $67.65

Pre Flop: ($0.30) Hero is UTG with J :heart: A :heart:
Hero raises to $0.70, MP calls $0.70, 2 folds, SB calls $0.60, BB calls $0.50

Flop: ($2.80) Q :heart: 4 :heart: K :heart: (4 players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero checks, MP bets $2.80, SB folds, BB folds, Hero raises to $8.40, MP raises to $20.72, Hero calls $12.32

Turn: ($44.24) J :club: (2 players)

River: ($44.24) 9 :spade: (2 players)

Final Pot: $44.24
MP shows 5 :heart: 6 :heart:
Hero shows J :heart: A :heart:
Hero wins $42.03
(Rake: $2.21)

Hand 2:

I raise pre with A4s. Think it is def doable in the cut off when we are only 4 handed. Get a call from a pretty big fish. Bet flop, planning on giving up turn. He checks back so i'm thinking it looks like a T, maybe a weak king although i think he would bet this. Maybe even a hand like 56. And JQ. He then bets pot on the river??? So i'm thinking, would he do this with a T? def not. Probably not with a weak king either. I don't think he backdoored the flush, as he would probably bet his draw on the turn, although this is possible. So pretty much I thought it was either some missed draw, or the flush (maybe like 56 but unlikely). The question is, are we winning enough to justify the hero call?

Cassava Poker $0.10/$0.20 No Limit Hold'em - 4 players - View hand 1443539
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BB: $21.66
Hero (CO): $26.27
BTN: $20.30
SB: $26.49

Pre Flop: ($0.30) Hero is CO with A :heart: 4 :heart:
Hero raises to $0.70, 1 fold, SB calls $0.60, 1 fold

Flop: ($1.60) K :spade: T :club: 5 :heart: (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $1.20, SB calls $1.20

Turn: ($4.00) 6 :spade: (2 players)
SB checks, Hero checks

River: ($4.00) 5 :spade: (2 players)
SB bets $4, Hero calls $4

Hand 3:

Now this was a sick one. Initial raiser is maniac. playing 80/80 over like 20 hands. I think 88 is def good enough to get it in pre as he has lower pairs in his range, and when he raises so big pre I don't think he has all that many higher pairs. Mostly we are ahead/flipping. However it doesn't quite go according to plan when the big blind flats. At the time i was thinking its probably like tt through to qq, maybe ak as his stats were pretty solid. Maybe I should fold when the maniac ships? Or should I flat hoping to see a flop? I thought at the time that I would maybe make the tag find a fold with AK, TT, JJ if I reshoved, but really not sure about this. Any thoughts would be extremely helpful :)

Cassava Poker $0.10/$0.20 No Limit Hold'em - 5 players - View hand 1443542
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BB: $20.00
UTG: $14.23
CO: $27.70
BTN: $20.00
Hero (SB): $24.89

Pre Flop: ($0.30) Hero is SB with 8 :diamond: 8 :club:
UTG raises to $2, 2 folds, Hero raises to $6.20, BB calls $6, UTG raises to $14.23, Hero raises to $24.89, BB calls $13.80 all in

Flop: ($54.23) 8 :spade: 6 :heart: 8 :heart: (3 players - 1 is all in)

Turn: ($54.23) K :spade: (3 players - 1 is all in)

River: ($54.23) T :diamond: (3 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $54.23
BB shows A :spade: A :diamond:
UTG shows 5 :club: 4 :club:
Hero shows 8 :diamond: 8 :club:
Hero wins $35.67
Hero wins $10.96
(Rake: $7.60)

Think that is all for now. Going to have some food and watch a few sport programmes I have recorded. Screw not regularly updating my blog with regards to my bankroll.

It is sitting at $580 :f_cool:


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Zareos
Joined: 16.05.2009

Swanny, you seriously weren't running "in God mode"

Even God would struggle to crack AA by flopping quads! :f_cool:

Well played and may the good run continue!


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swanny36
Joined: 26.07.2010

Haha I know Zereos! It's been pretty ridiculous as of late. Really not looking forward to the come down though. Actually quite nervous for it! haha.

Went out for a family meal tonight as my mum is going on holiday tomorrow and me and my younger sister go back to uni on sat. Food was pretty good Tomorrow I may be going to visit a friend in Edinburgh if I can get the car. If not I will probably just play the pokah's. That's one thing I am good at, putting in the hours.

Just realised that I am getting close to my first $10 of rakeback on 888
But i mean seriously...the fuck is with their rakeback? I must have played 20k hands on there. According to pt I have been raked $170! So sick.

Did play a session when I got back and went pretty well. Don't think I made any major mistakes =) Finished it around $40 up so my bankroll is continuing it's upswing.

Sitting on $629

Goodnight.


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swanny36
Joined: 26.07.2010
swanny36
Joined: 26.07.2010

Originally posted by TobyCS
It's really good at the moment, playing like a beast :) Yeah I love them I keep sinking all these really long putts. Does your uni not have a golf society? They usually give you good discount to play on nice course. My uni we pay around £200 a year and get access to a course where membership can be up to 6k. They also give us lessons from a coach for £3 but I go to my friend who is a ex PGA tour player and he's amazing.

With regards to poker not been playing recently went on a downswing and just withdrawn like 3 weeks ago.

Sorry Toby, didn't see you had replied. Yeah they actually give a really cheap membership to get onto Royal Aberdeen. Don't know if you know it? Played the walker cup there last week and senior british open a coupleof years back. Unfortunately you have to be off of a handicap of like 6 or better to make it in Also I'm not sure I will have much time this year anyway. My last year at uni so will be a lot of work Really can't be bothered. Not to mention the weather in Aberdeen over the winter is absoloutly baltic and pretty uncomfortable to play in.

Sorry to hear about your poker Don't give up though, there is money to be made!


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swanny36
Joined: 26.07.2010

FISH STILL ON A HEATER!

Played a ton today and had a bit of a downswing (shock horror!) to start the day where I dropped like three stacks at NL20. Played on some tables which maybe weren't completely +ev. Still, played ok for most of the time I think. Lost a flip with AK v JJ all in pre which I maybe wouldn't have lost if I had thought it through probably. Would have just called his three bet probably. It was suited though! :f_biggrin:

Here are some pretty cool hands from today:

Hand 1.

Nice flop!

Cassava Poker $0.10/$0.20 No Limit Hold'em - 5 players - View hand 1445179
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UTG: $25.19
CO: $30.24
Hero (BTN): $27.41
SB: $25.37
BB: $20.00

Pre Flop: ($0.30) Hero is BTN with A :club: T :club:
2 folds, Hero raises to $0.70, 1 fold, BB raises to $1.70, Hero calls $1

Flop: ($3.50) T :spade: T :heart: T :diamond: (2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($3.50) 7 :diamond: (2 players)
BB bets $2.62, Hero calls $2.62

River: ($8.74) 8 :club: (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $10.80, BB folds

Final Pot: $8.74
Hero mucks A :club: T :club:
Hero wins $8.31
(Rake: $0.43)

Hand 2.

Even better flop!

Cassava Poker $0.10/$0.20 No Limit Hold'em - 3 players - View hand 1445175
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BTN: $27.65
Hero (SB): $56.66
BB: $32.52

Pre Flop: ($0.30) Hero is SB with 5 :club: 4 :club:
1 fold, Hero raises to $0.60, BB calls $0.40

Flop: ($1.20) 6 :club: 2 :club: 3 :club: (2 players)
Hero checks, BB bets $0.60, Hero calls $0.60

Turn: ($2.40) J :heart: (2 players)
Hero checks, BB checks

River: ($2.40) K :diamond: (2 players)
Hero bets $1.80, BB folds

Hand 3.

Reg going crazy because I am repping so few hands he doesn't understand. Decided to raise after watching pink performance and TT saying 'just go ahead and raise because they will think you obviously can't have the nuts'. :f_cool:

Cassava Poker $0.10/$0.20 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 1445177
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MP: $20.00
CO: $37.46
Hero (BTN): $60.61
SB: $20.08
BB: $20.00
UTG: $29.46

Pre Flop: ($0.30) Hero is BTN with 3 :diamond: 3 :club:
1 fold, MP raises to $0.60, 1 fold, Hero calls $0.60, 2 folds

Flop: ($1.50) 2 :diamond: 3 :spade: 2 :heart: (2 players)
MP bets $1.12, Hero raises to $3.64, MP raises to $19.40, Hero calls $15.76

Turn: ($40.30) 4 :club: (2 players)

River: ($40.30) J :club: (2 players)

Final Pot: $40.30
MP shows 8 :club: Q :club:
Hero shows 3 :diamond: 3 :club:
Hero wins $38.29
(Rake: $2.01)

All in all, finished today around $40 up. So that means my bankroll is sitting at $673 :f_biggrin:

Goodnight.


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swanny36
Joined: 26.07.2010

Another good day on the poker front. Finished it aroung 5 buyins up for NL20. So my bankroll is now sitting at $770! Pretty excited.

Heading back to uni tomorrow so won't be playing as much :( But will try and keep my blog updated as much as posssible.

Cheers! Euan.


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swanny36
Joined: 26.07.2010

Going to take shots at NL30 when I get my bankroll up to $900. Not played that much recently because I have just moved back to uni. Lots of nights out and drinking which has been good!

Bankroll is sitting at like $790.


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Zareos
Joined: 16.05.2009

Just read hand 3 where you flopped full house... What the hell was MP doing?

Are there players really THAT bad at NL20?


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fatal1tyOne
Joined: 05.01.2010

Wanted to ask u, I see that u played on bwin some time ago...how is it compared to 888? Tks!


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