keep on grinding

Sup People,
Nothing much happening in my life at the moment, basically playing crappy at tennis :( Football is going ok, we drew last week and then won 2-1 in the Cup on Sunday so that was good :) Last game of the season tomorrow so hopefully we secure 3rd place and can then build on it next season.
Getting sick of looking for jobs, got to the interview stage on a few now but always seems the same excuse that im not experienced enough in comparison to other candidates :s Anyway not gonna dwell on it!

As with last week NL10 is going well still put in just under 8k hands now and won over 15BI.

So far im happy with how im playing, ive opened up my range a little as you can see and been more aggressive but at the moment its been gradual changes. This is how im doing so far this year...

Overall Bankroll is $318 so only another $9682 to my $10k target :D
Hopefully going to keep putting in the volume and start to take NL25 shots some point in July. Touchwood!

Grind Grind Grind

Well what can I say its been a good and bad week. The good bits have been running good at poker and the bad bits are everything else :/

Having no luck with my jobs, everytime I get to interview stage im told the reason im not given the job is because I cannot work full-time when I start back at uni FML
Anyway, we lost 1-0 to 2nd in the league at football so thats us out the promotion race, we played well but still not playing our best as a team.
Still sucking at tennis, because im not playing as often (once a week) my game seems to have dropped off, gonna have to start my lessons again when I get a job just to stay in a rhythm, on the plus side my serve is a beast now, can put it on a 50pence piece at pace so getting loads of points of my serve which is good.

As I said earlier my run at NL10 has so far *touch wood* been a success, in the last week ive played 8 hours, 2377 hands and showing a $44 profit which is nice, I havent changed to much in my game just kept it tight, im probably saving money rather than earning it from obvious folding spots where I may have called a value bet previously.

Not much else im going to add tonight because im nackered, so will maybe do an update friday or something and include graphs/hands etc

Moving up to uNL ladder

Hello my followers and myself when im WSOP ME champ next year looking back at where it all started :P

Its been a good week so far for poker and life in general, Ive had 2 job interviews which I hope 1 will be successful and played abit of footy and tennis, we drew 2-2 against 4th in the league so we remain 3rd but its an uphill task to gain promotion now with only 3 games left, we need to beat 2nd place and hope they drop points in one of there other games! Tennis wise I missed the match at Brewood (lost 4-0) and played against Bloxwich last night (lost 4-0), first time id played in just over a week and it took me ages to adjust to playing on hard courts again, once I got in a rhythm I played solid but my partner had a nightmare which cost us really, nevermind.


Mostly want to talk about poker this week because im taking a big jump up to *drumroll* nl10 :) Its a big step for me because Ive been grinding nl5 for so long 35k hands this year which for someone who prob only plays about 500 hands or so in a session and not very regularly. anyway since my last post Ive been on a little bit of a heater 1867hands and a profit of $42.55, ive been really happy with the way ive been playing, obviously still some leaks but Im improving everyday so hopefully it can only get better *touches wood*

so I took my first stab at nl10 today and it went well, instead of my usual 6x nl5, I opted for 2xNL5 and 2xNL10, It certainly helped me find a rhythm but 4 tabling is so slow, the next session I may opt for 3xNL5 and 3xNL10 until I get to 25+BI for nl10 and then I will go for 6xNL10 :)

I havent noticed to many differences between nl5 and nl10 but im actively looking out for the regs and fish and trying to avoid/play pots with respectively.

Finally because of all the issues going on with FTP I was looking into what sort of level I need to be playing to get the equivalent of 27% RB on stars and to be comfortable id want to be gaining atleast goldstar each month now to get this id need to be putting in 47k hands/month at nl10 or 33k hands/month at nl25, so when I reach nl25 Ill see how possible it is to put in 33k hands/month and if its possible I may consider moving to stars but for the moment I am happy with FTP mainly because of regular RB :) 


A hand for your consideration; I absolutely hate the way I played this hand, thoughts?



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NL Holdem $0.05(BB) Replayer Game#30941823373


SB ($5)
Hero (BB) ($5.05)
UTG ($5.16)
UTG+1 ($4.88)
MP ($5)
Villain ($6.68)
BTN ($2)


SB posts (SB) $0.02
Hero posts (BB) $0.05


Dealt to Hero 8c  8d  
fold, fold, 
MP raises to $0.15
Villain calls $0.15
fold, fold, 
Hero calls $0.10
FLOP ($0.47) 7s  6s  5d  
Hero checks
MP checks
Villain bets $0.15
Hero raises to $0.45
MP folds
Villain calls $0.30
TURN ($1.37) 7s  6s  5d  3c  
Hero checks
Villain bets $1.20
Hero calls $1.20
RIVER ($3.77) 7s  6s  5d  3c  2h  
Hero checks
Villain bets $2.34
Hero...

2 weeks go so fast

Yo,
Cant believe its been like 2 weeks since my last post, I completely forgot about it last week so much going on for someone that has little to do XD.
Mainly going to talk about my poker progress this week because I want to really focus on it and really get my game moving in the right direction.
First though, haven't played any tennis since the Tettenhall match and im not playing against Brewood tonight because im playing football, hopefully the boys can beat Brewood and we can keep pushing for promotion!
Last Week on the football front we extended our unbeaten run after a 5-0 thrashing of Sons of Pitches and with results going our way we are only 2 points behind 2nd and 5 points behind 1st, we have got a tough last 4 games playing both the teams above us and the teams in 4th and 5th, but we are confident we can still get promoted!


From Friday till Tuesday I was in London with the Fam but because I was ill for pretty much the whole trip that scuppered my plans of fitting in some poker at the fox poker club, gutted I couldn't go but looking to go again later in the summer to play. Other than for being ill it was a good trip, sightseeing the usual spots :)


Poker time...Really gutted with how much volume ive put in the last two weeks, only 6055 hands :S and for the first 2800hands I was up around 3BI and then I had a brutal 2500hand session where I lost 5BI, I don't think I did too much wrong but there are definitely some leaks in my game that need patching up, ABC is still the way too go but when the tables are super nitty their is just no action unless villain has the nuts, so I think im going to have to table select a bit more and open my game up just a little, I usually run around 13/9/2 3bet but ive been experimenting with 15/11/4 3bet, just to generate abit more action and I think it will be alot better for my game.
Now after that rough session I was looking for abit of a BR booster, which I got in the way of finally getting to 5200 academy points, this enabled me to buy a $26 step 3 ticket, I used this to play a $24+2 9man matrix turbo, where I finished 1st/1st/4th/6th and 2nd overall for a $50+ payday, which is a significant chunk of my BR, as a result im going to look into taking shots at nl10 by the end of next week, should I put in a few decent sessions and alot of volume.


Going to cut it short here because Im off for a job interview at Asda, so got to get ready for that, will post some hands up later if I have time.


Wish me luck!