Tuesday, April 12, 2011

$530 FLHE SCOOP Seat + Update

I played a $55 12 runner SCOOP seat into the $530 FLHE event last night. 1 seat and $70 for 2nd.

Believe it or not I used to love FLHE and played it often, it’s a much more fun game than people give it credit for. I use to watch the FLHE WPT events back in the day and realised it wasn’t just a snooze. These days I tend not to play FLHE tourneys as they don’t get the runners so it generally isn’t worth the time and effort.

The satty was 6-Max and I got to the final 6 as the short stack. I luckboxed a huge pot nuthugging a flush draw which obviously paid off. When we got heads up we were both playing 9k and with blinds at 100/200 so it was a slog. It was up and down and he had me on the back foot for a good while. I then began calling him down very light and realised he was playing/raising/betting with junk every hand. I managed to exploit him from this point on and started getting extra value out of my 2nd pairs, etc...

I ungregistered from the event as I don’t fancy this one so it’ll just be a topup for the Stars roll.


Cash

I’ve continued to grind $100NL and will make a post when I reach 5,000 hands. Upon researching, it seems 50,000-100,000 hands is a fair sample size to see where you are. This type of volume is pretty much impossible for me at the moment as an amateur player. However I’ll continue to grind and can hopefully get in maybe 30k hands by the summertime.

Poker Player UK Tour

I played the opening leg in Bristol this past weekend. The blind structure was god awful, 25/50, 50/100, 100/200, etc... on a 30 min clock. Plus it was only a 7.5k starting stack so wasn’t much playing after a few hours. I kept quiet in the early levels then opened up when blinds hit 150/300.

I started 3-betting a lot and quickly got up to 17k. I pick up Qs and some guy opens; I come in for a quick 3-bet which pretty much commits him, its folded back to him, he says “You’ve been doing that far too often....ok! I’m allin”. I snap him off and he shows 99. Flop comes down all blanks however the dreaded 9 on the turn. He fires over the usual rub down “Sorry mate, I had to go with it otherwise I’d be here all day”, blah blah. This left me pretty much crippled and I failed to get going after that, early bath for me.

I doubt I’ll be playing anymore of these, it’s such a shame this is the Coral replacement for last years CBMPT which had a £500 ME at every stop. No one is going to travel up and down the country for a £100 event.

Las Vegas

I’m off next week, everything is now sorted. Looking forward to getting over there and chilling out for a while. Playing some poker and burning some money haha! I noticed that the GUKPT is on in Walsall the day after I get back which runs over a bank holiday weekend. As it isn’t too far I might try and play some sats for the main event, if I fail just head up for some of the side action.

That’s all for now.

Friday, April 8, 2011

FezioJnr.com

I've just bought up FezioJnr.com and .co.uk. Fairly pointless purchases but makes the blog look slightly more professional.

My day job is that of a User Interface Developer so I'm writing HTML, CSS and Javascript on a daily basis therefore I just can't be assed with writing any code for the blog when I get home. With that said I'm going to make an effort to "spice" up the blog slightly, starting with the domain name :) I've also faviconned the address bar right up :)

So therefore watch this space for some interesting blog developments :)

Cheers

Thursday, April 7, 2011

$100NL Cash Games and $1k Super Tuesday Seat

Cash Games (1,800 hands at $100NL)

MTT wise March was a great month, I had a number of deep runs and ended up roughly about $2,000 up on the month, great timing with my Vegas trip looming near.

I also started throwing some cash tables into my schedule, mainly playing $100NL 6-Max. I've found the rake to be a killer at $100NL (obv) but on Stars generally the play is fairly soft. My volume has been minimal and I've managed to get in about 1,800 hands at $100NL 6-Max over the past month ending up roughly $450 up which isn't bad. Obviously this sample size is shocking and I'm still in the "educational" phase of cash games, i.e. watching videos and studying where I can. I did consider myself uber shit at cash maybe 2 months ago but I've taken the time to work at my cash game strategy so hopefully it'll pay off. I'm not interested in jumping up the stakes or anything like that, I'm just "getting my feet wet" so to speak. I feel with my current bankroll coupled with my ability, $100NL is where I'm most comfortable at the moment. I'll continue to get my head down and work hard at my game and then readdress my situation in maybe 6 months.


$1,050 Super Tuesday Seat Binkage

Just a quick minor note, I threw 3 $10 rebuy satellites into my schedule the other night into Stars weekly $1050 event. I bought in once at each busted 2 and added on in one so was in for just over $40. I ran good when it mattered and managed to ship a seat (which I then unregistered from and took the T$ to boost the account)...