Hello all, I've made two goal threads here before (and one in NVG) but, in the event that you missed them (unlikely as they really were very popular), I'll recap.

-British
-Entering first year of Uni
-HUSNG player.
-OK at Turbos ($60-$200)
-Pretty bad at Hypers ($15-$60)
-Still not lovin' Doc Sands

Goals for this thread.

I'm going to be pretty conservative with most of my goals, absolutely no excuse if I don't achieve them.

-10k before New Years.
Should be more than achievable.
-Be a reg at $200+ live games (pound sign isn't working).
I'm very confident that I'd be a winning player in most games now, just need to get a bit more comfortable playing live.
-Stop being a pussy
Weird one, I actually used to be a bit of badass-the Isildur of the micros, you could even say- but in recent months I've become very cowardly when it comes to playing regs, especially so when you consider the fact that I think I have an edge on most of them.
-Be a reg at $100 hypers
This is going to be hardest one to achieve, I'm really pretty woeful when it comes to hypers.

Graphs These are all from my PC, I play a decent amount on my laptop though so they aren't 100%.

Stars Hypers

Not quite as bad as it looks as I used to only play them when drunk, tilted, or both.



Stars Turbos.



60+ Turbos, Stars



Thanks for reading, gl!

gl good sir

Yugh..you again... (welcome back darling, gl!)

GL!

nice results at non-hypers, gl

Cheers lads,

No action today as I was jet lagged and wanted to watch TV. GTA's out tomorrow and I want to do some reading before I start Uni, don't expect a massive grind.

Pretty wild start to the thread.

Only played $30 hypers, just to get back into the swing of things. Going for one last drinking session with my pals tomorrow before we head to Uni (British University's are pretty teetotal places, unfortunately), so I don't expect to put in too much volume tomorrow.



Promised my Mum I'd be in bed by 6am today, going to have to 007 this ****.

G'night, gl!

What???

They aren't? Think you need to check your facts mate...

Them being tee-total places is not a commonly held opinion in my experience

it was a terrible bit of sarcasm, for which I can only apologise.

I'd like to be able to claim that my post was a level, unfortunately, it was not

Nice threads, by the way, and I know that means a lot coming from me.

Ok, I have to say I've been very lazy, both with playing poker and updating this thread. In my defense, I've had some minor software problems, although I'm sure the prosecution would say that 'miner software problems' shouldn't keep you out of the game for a month (the prosecution aren't the best at spelling).

Anyway, I'm up about $500 for the 10 or so Turbos I've played in the past 4 weeks, I would post a graph but, yeah, minor software problems.

I spent all of today watching the EPT live stream, it was about equally as boring as, you know, actually playing poker, so tomorrow I hope to do that instead.

Daily updates from now. Good luck!

Graph of the past few days.



I want to play 150 Turbos this week. And 140 Hypers.

Time to pick it up a little.

Played 5 games against a fish yesterday and lost them all, sigh. Also lost a flip when Sharky registered me for a game I really wasn't in any state to play.

Today went better, I think I won 4/4 games. Volume......may be an issue.

Monthly graph.



20 games tomorrow, I hope.

PLayed some live today. Won about £250 but ran pretty well. Biggest hand was all in with aces against top pair on like a 2,6,9 flop. Obviously I looked emotionless on the turn and river, I'm on that Morgenstein ting.

Need to get back into poker, I really miss being rich.

Hello everyone.

Today was actually quite productive, I think I'm playing really well and now that university is starting to calm down a bit I can maybe start cranking my volume up to over 1 game/day. A boy can dream.



I have a lot of financial **** to sort so my roll is under $1k at the mo, this means I've only been playing $60 Turbos and $30 Hypers. I should have my finances sorted by the end of the month and then I think I'll have around 10k or so to play with .

GL MAN, I wanna grind SNG HU too!

Choose life!!

Today went pretty well, pretty much my biggest day since starting Uni.

Won a few hundred dollars playing online and then went to play some cash, winning about £300, minus £15 or so for expenses.

I really enjoyed playing live, British casinos can be pretty soul-crushing places at times but the games today were really quite fun.

A few choice hands.

8 handed or so, blinds $1-$1. Effective stacks £120 or so.

Straddle and a few limpers, I pop it to £15 on the button with red 10s. Fat, old guy who all the staff seem to know cold calls from the SB and everybody else folds. Flop is 2 36 rainbow. Check/I bet £15/call.

Turn- about £80 in the pot-

8 Check/check.

River- Q, he leads for £35 I tank/call.

My biggest hand of the night was against a tilted Vietnamese chap. Eff stacks £200

-He raises to £3 UTG, one or two callers and I flat A,jo on the button.

Flop- A,10,x rainbow. He c-bets I flat. Turn J- he bets £7, I make it £20- he over jams massive and I call. He had A,10.

They run 2/4 on the weekends, but it's 10% rake- is this beatable?

Played some hypers over the weekend, lolvolume of course, but I ran well.

Also went to the casino, lost £260 in the softest 1/1 game on the planet, which was quite an achievement. Didn't lose much more than £50 on any one hand, but literally won 1 hand in 4 hours of play.

Biggest pots. All 9 handed. Eff stack $170ish

My hand KQd
Young asian limps in early position, he hadn't played a hand over a short sample but bought in for like £160 rather than £200 so I presumed he wasn't a reg.
One more limper and I pop it up to £7 from one before the cut off. Two calls from super splashy fishes (SSF). Asian repops it £21. At this point I'm like 99% sure he has aces but I wanna keep up my 100% lifetime record of calling 3 bets with K,Qs and flat (I actually think it's fine as the SSF probably aren't going anywhere), one of the SSF calls from the blinds and we go to the flop with like £80 in the pot.

Flop K,9,x 1 diamond. Asian quickly bets like £50. I have to be honest and say I genuinely don't know what the correct play is here, but I flat. SSF gets out of the way.

Turn. Asian puts me all in. I fold. He seemed a bit pissed off when I told him I folded a K, he told me he had aces and his later play pretty much confirmed this to me.

Second biggest hand (just to show how I donked off all my money in small increments)

Eff £200

Reg opens to £5 after a couple of early folds. I have 9,7 and decide to repop it to £15 from the cut off. I did this for a couple of reasons: 1) He was using online phrases in a really donky manner: 2) He had a better Iphone than me:3) I had a nitty image and figured he'd show me some goshdarn respect.

Flop comes down 10,7,2 all spades. He checks, I bet half-pot, he raises to like £50. I fold. He shows A 10.

One more hand, this could actually be the second biggest loser, I'm not sure. Only hand I'm pissed off with how I played. Only history between us is me raising in earlyish position, him calling behind, me c-bet/call flop. Check/check turn. Check/he bets/fold river.

Folded round to me in the sb (). I look down at K,Jo and raise to 6. Young, aggro guy with the haughty demeanor of a guy who probably beats 10nl calls in the BB. He was probably the second best player at the table

Flop is like 674 twotone. I c-bet (I think this may be bad). He calls.

Turn is a 10, putting two flush draws out there. I barrel for like £13. He calls. I think this was certainly bad.

River is a Q, completing the flush draw that was available on the flop. I decide to bet around 70% ($30ish?) of the pot. He jams for like £37 more. I fold and he shows A,4 for a bluff. Was a really impressive move until he started explaining his thought process.

Not a great day in all, the incredibly pretty dealer didn't see me lose though, so I hope I'm still a winner in her eyes.

Sickest thing about the day is that I had a portion of chips that cost me literally £100s in equity. Let me explain: because of said chips I arrived 5 minutes later than planned, and just missed getting a seat in the juiciest game I've ever seen. These two Iranian guys managed to lose over £2k between them in like an hour, in a £1/1 game!! It was bloody incredible, they were drunk and just spaffing off chips left,right and centre. Jamming pre blind, calling all ins with like J,3o, stuff like that. Every single other player at the table (most of them not winning players themselves) won at least £200! The two guys eventually got kicked out of the casino for fighting with each other in the smoking area, what a night!

Online graph for the weekend-

GL everyone!

Yesterday was pretty meh. I think I've sorted my **** out now, so hope to start getting back on the grind. I'm 0/3 in cashes in the Uni poker society's weekly tourney, which is really killinh what little confidence I have left in my game.



Got a feeling I've been scammed for $200, I have literally one poker friend and he scams me.

GL all!

The few days since the last update have been pretty uneventful, I've managed to put in two decent online sessions and one trip to the casino, so I've managed a little bit of productivity.

Online



I won about £175.

Biggest hand-

7 handed. £200 eff.

I raise K,9o from the cut-off to £5, an aggro, slightly tilted young guy calls from the BB.

Flop- K,5,7 with two clubs. Check- I cbet 7. Villain raises to like £21. I call. Turn is the 4 of diamonds. Villian bets big. I call. River is a brick. He jams and I tank call.

Won a £100 pot with A,j on a 4,5,J,x,x run out, with the money going in on the flop.

Lost a flip for around £300.

Sexy dealer saw me with like a £400 stack, and I tipped her £1.50 like an utter balla.

GL!

I'm a little bit drunk but have got chips in the micro millions main.

Played two LOL hands against this Mexican.

Before the hand he called me a donk, I told him that I'm the backbone of his countries economy. What a line!