ANZPT qualifier fail

but all is not lost

Cliff notes on last night's action:

Beat: rebought five times in the ANZPT satellite and still finished second last
Brag: won $800 playing 10/20 limit before and after the tourney
Variance: should have stuck with Limit

For some of the time, that was the worst limit table ever (and by worst I mean best). Much of the play was short handed (4 or 5), including when I sat down, and a couple of the players were going "friendly table here, no bluffing or raising." I didn't buy into that, because I have to play my game - there's too much money on the table to deliberately play bad. I just quietly ignored them and they didn't actually complain about my (mostly) open raising preflop. Iso raising the guy on my right who limped every hand was fun, except that I was very frequently cold called on my left and sometimes in several places. I kept it friendly by chatting a lot, showing some winning hands (see, I don't bluff you), and occasionally checking down multiple streets.

The classiest bit was a four way capped hand preflop, where 63o UTG sadly found his 6 high flush was no good against Q7o in the CO (my AK had to go in the bin on the turn).

The win also came despite losing a $250 pot in a massive cooler with eights full of tens to quad tens. The guy with quads slow rolled me unintentionally I think, having genuinely thought that full house beat quads.

The tourney was not fun. I shoved JT on a flop of J98, guy has QT. I flop trip tens with my AT, and get run down by a flush. I flop top, top and get run down by not one but two flushes. I make one or two bluffy moves and get cut down each time. Just wasn't my day. Or it was my day, just not my table.

But yeah, winning 40BB in four hours of fixed limit despite a huge cooler hand is pretty good going. Shame about the tourney.

A cursory glance at a yerar's statistics

A few observations on my limit holdem stats over the last 12 months.

Hands played: 65k

BB/100 actually -0.2. Not marvellous, but certainly more than covered by rakeback.

It's actually better than that though, because I have 1.4BB/100 over 30k hands at 3/6 and 5/10 and 13BB/100 over 1k at 4/8. I lost at 0.5/1, 1/2 and 2/4, and also made statistically insignificant losses at 6/12 and 8/16 plus a big heater win at 10/20.

I wonder whether the lower stakes are causing me to play suboptimally due to a lack of sting?

End of year summary

After the fairly amazing November result, December was a bit of a downer with a net loss of nearly $900. This set back my bankroll back below the $10,000 target I had set at the start of the year. However with my overall profit sitting at around $11k, I am not too concerned.

2009 goals:

• $10k bankroll: hit, then dropped below. I'm very happy with the result, considering my roll started the year on just over $2k.
• Play more tournaments: not really - I'm finding it hard to set aside enough time to play online tourneys
• Play more big live events: the APPT teams was the biggest event I've played and provided a lot of great experience. It was good to mix it with (and outlast) some of Australia's top pros.
• Get back to 3/6 and 5/10 limit: definitely achieved. These are my staple levels in FL, including Euros on Purple Lounge.
• Get into cash NLH: Not really achieved. I've had a few shots at NLH and PLO, but not enough to be confident of beating these games.

Overall year result: net profit of around $8600. Not bad pocket money for a hobby.

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Shot taking WIN!

Ok, blog slackaments no post in donkeys. I am overdue in posting my year summary so that will come in the next day or so.

But I did have to report yesterday's awesomeness. One table of PLO100. 45 minutes. Five and a half buyins profit. Between that and some 5/10 limit, I had a $1000 day.

Here is the PLO session. The whole session was 79 hands, and I have removed the hands where I folded pre or on the flop - leaving 42 hands (giving an inkling of how good I ran).



I don't think I ever played PLO100 before, and I certainly haven't thought deeply about the game. Advice appreciated.

Rule #1: remember to run good once in a while