Just A Break

Everybody needs a break now and again. Im on a long break from poker and so i hadn't felt the need to be blogging as nothing interesting has happened. But im still reading, and im still checking to see how everyone is getting along.

I hope to return, and to return on good form. When i do is undecided.

I wish the best of luck to all my readers. ATB...portdeco20..x

Quick Update

Sorry for lack of posts recently, but i just wanted to update...with nothing really! lol. I'm on a break from poker at the moment, hope to resume soon but maybe not for a while depending how money issues pan out. You may notice i have taken many blog links off my site, this is because i either, don't read them or they have not linked me. If i have taken your link off and you want it back up just post on my blog....update's soon

My Sunday Night

it was all going on on friday night! The world blogger championship of online poker aswell as the bloggerment, does life get any better??

I started off well in the WBCOOP, was involved in 5 pots in about 18 hands and won everyone, but my biggest was when i raised pre flop on the button with A8 and i get called by BB. Flop comes 10 high with nothing particularly scary. He checks to me and i put my continuation bet of about 60% of the pot, i get massively re reraised and from then i knew he was either weak or had squat so i decided to just call his massive raise and again call his huge turn bet when it came to pair the board, you may think this is seriuosly bad play by me, but i was going with my read here, dont ask how i know he doesnt have anything i just followed instincts. When the fish overbet the river i shoved all in quickly and he folded instantly lol, and i caught absolutely nothing on the board but i probably had the best hand, maybe up against a small pair but i don't think so. Anyway, my success was short lived as a few hands later i shoved against a player i was re raising quite a lot pre flop, i think he got aggrovated and called all in with A8os, i held QQ and that ace hit the flop hard! and my stack was dented about 10k with only 6k left it was being eroded by the blinds and so i bet a large proportion of my stack (to emphasise i was pot commited) when i held 66 on the button when it had folded around, a shorter stack in the SB called and i get re raised from the BB and i was all in pre flop, 66 vs A5 vs 99 and no help...99 takes it....gg me. Just want to congratulate burnley mik, lou saban, and ace filled dreams for a great game, well played and well done BM and lou for finishing enough to bag some prizes!

I had the bloggerment to fall back on after i left the WBCOOP early, and it was a good turnout this week, thankyou everyone who turned up. Not many interesting hands really, got caught bluffing with 35s AIP vs 77, 77 hit quads! nh. made final table and bagged 7th place, more points for me =) again...would like to congratulate burnley mik for finishing 1st, an irregular occurance ;) but i cant speak because im just a bridesmaid!

WBCOOP

The World Blogger Championship Of Online Poker is going to be played tonight, many members of raise the river are playing and i wish you all the best. I hope someone from RTR takes down a prize because the prizes, although it will be tough, are definatly worth playing for. The tournement starts at 15:00ET...thats 8pm for UK'ers! and i wish you the best of luck.

also, bloggerment 30 tonight aswell :)

Roll's gone...tilt got the better of me

Past few days i have realised, despite being a profitable player (see sharkscope or official poker rankings) i am not a very good player. Why i say this is because i do not have the ability to keep my head. When i suffer a bad beat or numerous bad beats in a short time i chase my money on higher tables, i lose my head and i start playing really really badly. Im starting to get aggrovated by the fish when they make bad plays and get lucky and take it up with them in chat.

Why have i changed?? I used to be a quiet yet profitable player who could take a bad beat and carry on busting the fish, i could build my roll no problem and used to avoid tilt quite simply. I was able to tear up most of the 1 table sit and go's and make a healthy profit, i was able to use bankroll management effectively without steaming and needing to play higher. I think i know the cause and its similar to 'bluescouse' in my opinion. Ive been blinded by the higher stakes and now the stakes i play with mean nothing to me, which is where im wrong, it does mean something to me, infact its a lot of money to me. Ive lost the ability to understand the value of money and what im playing with. I dont think it is going to change and i dont think i can successfully build a roll from less than $200 because i end up losing it. Although this may sound that i am reconsidering playing poker as much as i do, which is true, i doubt i will change, i feel im addicted to poker already after a short period of time playing.

Also, i don't use any table selection, i jump straight into the game with no information on my opponents, no bankroll management and have no idea how i will get on. My confidence in my game has just plummited. All i need is a boost of confidence, a deep tourney result, a big win in cash, or just little things like a progressive income everyday, a 1st place finish in the bloggerment.....i just need to something, just to keep the faith.

Im 80% sure that most poker players have felt this way i am feeling now and i am very curious how they overcame this. Any help will be very much appreciated.

Bad Tilt, Bad Play, Why the Good Reward?

< thats how u avoid tilt! or make it better!

As you can see it didnt go well, but then again it did!!?? wtf are u on about lloydy?? i hear u ask!

Well, im not amatay! so i cant keep my head or just stop playing when i feel myself going on tilt. And i did, big time. I played 2 gurantee tournements and did absolutely shit fair do's. This put me on the edge and quietly steaming, then posting about it on rtr just made me flip, i was soon to open up a $0.50/1 table with more than half of my BR ($60) to sit down with. As you can imagine, i didnt last long! Not till i busted a fish then hit and run him, but i did wait until he left the table 1st, after a few more hands. Im not a big fan of hit and run but i knew if i stayed i was going to bust 90% of the time the way i was playing.

The hand!! ur screaming. Well unless you read my post on rtr you will not now how i bust this fish! firstly a $4 from my left, i bump it upto $15 with 99, i then get re raised from a pusher to my left who has me covered. The original raiser gets out the way and i dont even anticipate folding 99 in this spot the way my head is and i quickly push another $45+ into the pot willy nilly like

flop brings me good fortune and i hit a set of nines, there's an ace up there aswell, plus a jack on the turn and a blank on the river, I pray that he has not got JJ or AA, to my relief he turns over QQ for one sick bad beat by a bad player! That pot was $125 and i leave it there. That put my roll back upto $160.

Then i actually run quite bad 3 hands in a row, i say run bad, i mean i dont get lucky. I push all in with AKdiamonds on a 10 high flop 2 diamonds and dont hit, lose to 10J. Then a get AQ and raise pre flop, i get re raised for not much more than double what i bet, so i call and fold on a 9 high flop after he c-bets. The same player i re raise him with KK and i thought this was excellent timing for KK, i can make it look like i was steaming from last 2 hands, he comes over the top and i push. he insta calls and i lose to fukin AA, what are the fukin odds pokerstars??? 3 hands in a row and i lose all 3 with some premium hands! it was a good job this was at 10c/25c otherwise i'd be a broke man!

Quite depressed today tbh, my bro has moved to oz so i wont see him for a year or 2 depending how long he wants there! bit pissed off with the poker tonight, only good and positive thing is that i played amazing at footy today despite losing 2-1, my manager and the 1st team manager all gave us the talk 'im very dissapointed' and boy were they! 'im so pissed off cos i know u can do better but u didnt put the effort in' they say to the whole team, They then turned to me in front of every1...'lloydy, i was very impressed with the way u played today, u were the best on the fukin team' =) so i'll keep my head on this i think to keep me cheerful!

Also, i can't wait for the bloggerment now, ive seen the new league table and im determined to score more points! see burnley miks on links if u want to see the table.

sorry i cant post much positive stuff!

BR-$154

A Blindin' Week!

From sunday right through to...monday has been an awsome week (+1 day) really! although down a bit due to personal problems in the real world, all is good on 'poker planet'!

it started in the bloggerment, i had bought in for the tournement and if i had not cashed, my roll would've have stood at $9. Luckily enough, i did cash, a 2nd place finish brung home a nice $33 and some points for WALES! wehey!

next day, monday, i had cashed after getting deep into a $5 turbo event out of 2027 entrants in which i had boosted my bankroll another $45. while this was enough to up my confidence, i decided to play some 10c/25c tables on the tuesday for the whole week basically. I made a nice profit most days and i had peaked my new bankroll at $120 by the friday. Then played a few more tables but unfortunatly started to lose and my bankroll plumited to 80 something dollars.

Then, the good old bloggerment came along again, played well imo once again, maybe not aswel as i played the previuos week and i bagged another 2nd place finish for $27? i think??

My roll was once again over $100, The next day i played cash, soon went to $120. Then played another turbo tourney and finished 31st out of 858 for $35 and a $25 profit. There it peaked after a $5 win on the cash tables at $150 on the monday =)