19 May, 2009

I'm a golfer!!

For many years I have been thinking of taking up golf, I took some classes when I lived in Spain but there was never enough time to get serious as my work took too much time and once I had some time off I just wanted to hit the beach and relax with a cold beer under the parasol. Today I live only a few miles from the golf club and I also have more time. So two weeks ago decided to sign up for a beginners course and I will have my green card on Saturday. I used to play almost every ballgame available during my childhood and until I was in my late teens. This made me cocky enough to think that I will be able to get my handicap below 20 during the first summer. I guess I still have a few hours on the driving range until I can accept the mighty Dusty Schmidt and his $1,000,000 challenge (read never unless I have Bill Gates staking me). I’ll keep you guys updated on the golf and if you don’t get any golf info during the next few weeks, well blame that bloody driver! As far as poker concerns I think I have to quote a phrase from the Leatherass blog where his wife told him with a sad face after a downswing that; “I’m just so swingy”. I do love that comment! This fourth training session was focused on stealing the blinds as often as possible and change tables if I had some loose players behind me. As I was playing during the weekend nights I didn’t follow the plan 100% there is just too much money to be made if you get a few drunk fish at the tables. But I did steal a lot but I wanted to have some kind of playable hand 9-3 off suit don’t play well but 9-7 suited do. Some stats from the last 5,000 hands: Steal from the Button: 67% and I got away with it 51%. Steal from the Cut Off: 30% and I got away with it 47%. I stole 173 times and faced a 3-bet only 14 times where I happened to have a pocket pair 5 of these 14 times and could call in position and take down some of the pots on later streets. I was called 73 times of the 173 steal attempts, but playing the hands in position helped me to break even although many times I was holding pure crap. I made a profit of 23bb/100 when I raised first in from BTN or CO. I once again managed to push my aggression factor above 2 and it feels like I’m getting there. Over all winnings +10,6 bb/100 Results after 20,000 hands. Winnings: $275 Win rate: +5,5bb/100 Bonus: $0 Bank Roll $775 (started with $500) Graph after 20K hands:

2 comments:

  1. Hi Kirk,

    Thanks for the encouraging comment!! I'm pretty happy with the $$ results so far. But there is so much more money to be won for a better player. I looked at a few NL50 tables the other day and my HM was on so I realized that I have stats on 50% of the players when they played NL25 and only one of them where a winning player. Although small samples but I'm convinced that NL50 is beatable once I get there.

    There has so many other things than Poker lately so I haven't had time to focus on my play just grinded a few hours once in while.

    But on Monday I have booked a session with Jason Ho which I really look forward to. If he can't help me to improve I'm doomed to play NL25 for the rest of my days.

    Take Care!

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