Back in the land of the living

I've been able to grind away this past week due to manflu. I go through fits and starts with online poker. Earlier in the year I put in some serious volume in the evenings but ever since poker.co.uk lost their €20 deepstack I have lost my motivation. I would use that one game as the anchor for the evening and then play the micros either side of it. They have recently reintroduced a €10 game with the same structure. I think I prefer this as it is more affordable and sits snugly amongst the level of buy-in I am comfortable playing at.

I am definitely a bankroll nit online. I’m rolled to play €30 freezeouts but this past week I’ve played 90 MTTs where the average buy-in is just one tenth of that. There are two main reasons for this. Firstly I like multi-tabling. I play 8 games simultaneously. I know full well that my results are a lot worse when playing this many games, but this is offset by the volume which means I’ll go deep in one or two. I get bored just single or double tabling.

Secondly, the standard in the cheap games is laughable. There is some ability around, but it is pretty diluted. I tend to play strong hands far far stronger preflop as it is an easy way to accumulate chips. I’ll often ship all-in pre into an unraised pot with AK, JJ & QQ for 15-20 big blinds cos some muppet will decide his AT, KJ or 66 is good in this spot. Of course this means bad beats happen quite regularly, but the plusses outweigh the minuses, and there is always going to be another tourney just starting which I can join.

One way I release the tension when having a bad beat is writing ‘wp’ in the chatbox. I find this far more effective than giving abuse or saying nothing at all. I get to feel all superior for being sarcastic and the person at the other end might have it reinforced in their mind that a middle pin straight draw really is a good hand to call your chips away with.

So to my session this past week… I played 90, final tabled 21 and had 6 wins with average fields of 136 runners. Giving me a profit of €600. I’m happy with these numbers. I’ve also spun up 15FPPs on Stars into a €700 Step F ticket. That’s about a 4000x increase in value. If I make it through this step I’ll be into the final step for a €7000 EPT Prague package. I have unsurprisingly run like god. I have had far more than my fair share of high pockets and have binked turns and rivers when required. I just hope the luck holds out for a little bit longer.

I’ll finish up with my sharkscope graph. I like how I am a losing player but all of a sudden it takes an upwards tick. I think someone must have died and passed their luckbox on to me.