tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12819223913707652352024-03-05T08:54:47.343-08:00Zoom pokerZAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454575931562616137noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1281922391370765235.post-79335052028027377212015-01-06T09:49:00.000-08:002015-01-06T09:49:13.583-08:002014 ReviewIt's been a long time since my last post as I got lazy with the blog for the last 6 months. This is just a quick post to wrap up 2014 and lay out a few goals for 2015. Its been a very busy and successful past few months. <div>
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Gambling wise it was a good year, I grinded out reasonable profits most months at zoom and since the summer I managed to stumble upon the world of +EV football betting. I won't go to much into this but I have done very well out of it so far and I'm now at the point where I'm making more from this than poker. </div>
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I'm currently playing 25nl zoom (6 max), mainly just because it's within my comfort zone at a level I know I can completely crush. I should probably push myself to move up and become a 50nl reg and maybe even 100 by the end of the year. If all goes well hopefully Supernova will be a possibility as well, although I would rather focus on maintaining a high win rate than becoming a RB grinder like many of the Supernova's you see.</div>
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Aside from grinding I bought my first house in 2014 where I live my girlfriend. It's a pretty sik pad where I have my own office ideal for grinding the pokerz and trading the sports!</div>
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We also bought a puppy in December, his name is Alfie and he's a pedigree black Labrador. Like most labs he's very energetic and requires a lot of work but he's well worth it and has an amazing temperament and is highly intelligent, so I will have him grinding the 2nl in no time.</div>
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This was when we first met him when you could scoop him up in one hand :)</div>
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This is what he looks like now in his fancy Christmas bow tie!</div>
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So hopefully 2015 will be another great year with even more profits. I will try and update the blog with a least monthly reviews. GL everyone. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454575931562616137noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1281922391370765235.post-36284439618151018322014-06-05T19:07:00.002-07:002014-06-05T19:10:28.599-07:00Back To PokerI have not made a post for a while, and the reason for this is that I haven't played any poker, live or online for a good month. My girlfriend and I have just bought a house (sick brag :) So grinding the micros hasn't really been a priority.<br />
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I haven't been completely out of the gambling game though, I've spent a bit of time last month bagging all the sign up bonuses on sport books. Its been quite an interesting project and I have made approximately $500 completely risk free by bonus whoring a few different sites.<br />
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For those who don't know how to do this, its quite simple. Most sports books in the UK offer some sort of sign up promotion. For the most part these are in the form of a free bet. So for example, Ladbrokes offer a free matched bet up to <span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16.545454025268555px;">£</span>100.<br />
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So whatever the out come of the match you will only lose a small amount but you are now credited with your free matched bet of <span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16.545454025268555px;">£</span>100. Simply repeat the process again with your free bet and you will end up with anywhere between 60 to 80% of the free bet as profit, which in this case would be <span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16.545454025268555px;">£</span>80. I did this on about 6 or 7 of the big sites, its important to make sure there's no wagering requirements in the terms and conditions and to spend some time trying to find the good bets where the bookies don't have to big an edge. The next month will be a great time to start doing this as the bookies will offer some great sign up deals with the world cup going on.<br />
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As for poker, I'm just getting back into the swing of this back at 10nl Zoom. I've had 3 solid days of grinding and it's been fairly smooth sailing so far.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454575931562616137noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1281922391370765235.post-62598229553704801302014-04-07T14:08:00.001-07:002014-04-07T14:10:23.706-07:00Irony/ March ReviewSo my last post I showed off my office set up and my new pc. Ironically a few days after that post my PC started having problems where it would freeze and then blue screen. Not ideal for grinding online poker, despite only being a very simple problem to fix it took 2 weeks to get sorted so with lots of free grinding hours in March, it was a volume write off after an already slow start to the month :(<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454575931562616137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1281922391370765235.post-31524596109752406452014-03-18T10:02:00.001-07:002014-03-18T10:02:08.166-07:00My Office Set UpHere's a picture of my office set up:<div>
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Glass Ikea desk (approx <span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">£80)</span></div>
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It has a cheap generic gaming case, AMD FX 8350 Eight core processor, 2TB hard drive, 16GB RAM and a really powerful graphics card which powers my 3 monitors no problem. So that's pretty much it, I think I will post a blog all about the software I use and my table set up etc, so look out for that. Thanks for reading :) <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"> </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454575931562616137noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1281922391370765235.post-88956953847417971782014-03-16T21:00:00.000-07:002014-03-16T21:02:03.891-07:00March So Far<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Volume and results online haven't been so great this month, a rather lame 15k hands played to be break even. </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454575931562616137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1281922391370765235.post-6281311191298396832014-02-26T03:03:00.001-08:002014-02-26T03:03:45.090-08:00Feb Review and March PlansI didn't hold out huge hope for Feb, I had to commit a lot of days to real life work + its also the shortest month in terms of days. I only managed to play 9 short sessions during the month so my volume really did suck :( <div>
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Although I'm obviously disappointed with such a poor month at least I managed a small profit for the hands I did play. I also managed to spin some points up cashing in the Sunday Storm for $34.29 from a 700 FPP ticket. I also had a $5 ring game ticket on Fulltilt and decided to have some fun with that on the Adrenaline Rush tables where I run that up to $20 and then up to $50 on Roulette LOL. A swift transfer back to Pokerstars and the hit and run was complete. That's the first and last time I will play Roulette online. I'm pretty confident they let you heater on your first session at the house games! </div>
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After the terrible volume of Feb I'm going to be back to Silver star which is a bit annoying. I should get Platinum Star for my efforts in March which will be nice. I know when your putting in enough hands to make Platinum star at 25nl the extra rewards you receive are pretty insignificant but the extra star on your VIP badge is enough for most people... aghhhh, the power of Pokerstars Marketing for you lol</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454575931562616137noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1281922391370765235.post-23574450387669177282014-02-18T21:27:00.001-08:002014-02-18T21:27:08.517-08:00New 10nl Boss in townThere's a sick grinder at the 10nl zoom pool! He's a Supernova Elite x5 <div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454575931562616137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1281922391370765235.post-2798707368545739552014-02-15T22:39:00.000-08:002014-02-15T22:39:25.175-08:00Feb Low VolumeWe have reached the half way point and I have barely been able to play any poker so far this month. I have had to do real world work quite a bit and then the free time I have had I've spent with my girl friend. I think I have played about 3 short session and played approx 5k hands for a profit of about $50 LOL<div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454575931562616137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1281922391370765235.post-61477625280493246412014-01-30T20:18:00.000-08:002014-01-30T20:18:38.434-08:00January ReviewMy main targets for the month were to play 100k hands at 10nl and make $1,000 after rewards. In the end I made about 60% of both targets which is not great but I'm not going to be to hard on myself. I do envy some of the regs I see putting in 150k hand months but I do have a job, girlfriend and a decent social life so its pretty hard to fit it all in.<div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454575931562616137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1281922391370765235.post-17069313813536026232014-01-05T21:41:00.001-08:002014-01-05T21:44:12.005-08:00What goes up, must come down!Pretty frustrating day, things started off great and I was winning 15 stacks in my first session. But unfortunately I lost back 9 stacks of that for a very mediocre Sunday. My volume suffered as well due to me quitting early in frustration. Here's my Mount Everest graph for the day.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454575931562616137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1281922391370765235.post-73965431286799746222014-01-04T21:47:00.001-08:002014-01-04T21:47:12.155-08:00Out the blocks for 1014Just finished my first 2 days of solid grinding exclusively at 10nl. Its been fairly smooth sailing so far despite being a few stacks below EV.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454575931562616137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1281922391370765235.post-31395811228522462082014-01-02T21:17:00.001-08:002014-01-31T11:43:47.654-08:002013 review/ 2014 goals2013 was pretty decent overall and my most profitable poker year to date. I grinded out 10 straight winning months but then unfortunately the wheels fell off during November and December so there's still a sour taste left in my mouth about that. November was pretty much break even but then in December I decided to start playing 50nl HU zoom where to be honest I don't really know what I'm doing. I had my biggest ever down swing and including some run bad playing live, I managed to drop about 2k in total. Combine that with the Christmas expenses of presents and going out my bank roll was left in tatters :( <br />
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It's now 2014 and I need to get back to my bread and butter to rebuild my roll. I'm going to drop down to 10nl (6max) and blast out a 100k hands in January where I win at about 6bb/100. With my current bankroll being about $1000 I will be delighted to just put a +$1k Jan up on the board to kick things off and then go from there.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454575931562616137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1281922391370765235.post-50144504925735644712013-11-28T06:17:00.002-08:002013-11-28T06:35:24.769-08:00Heads Up Zoom YAAAY!Pokerstars have introduced Heads up Zoom tables which I'm really pleased about. I used to play a fair bit of heads up but didn't enjoy the bum hunting element to it. Thankfully Zoom solves this problem as you can just jump into the action without having to sit and wait for a non reg to sit you.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454575931562616137noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1281922391370765235.post-15797053211979980962013-10-28T08:33:00.000-07:002013-10-28T08:33:53.066-07:00Back to the online grind!It been over a month since I have updated the blog. The truth is I have not been playing Zoom or online poker at all during the last month or so. I have been playing exclusively live poker and travelling around England. I have been playing mainly in the Midlands area but had a week grinding in London and also a weekend in Manchester.<br />
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It's really hard to get motivated to play 25NL when you have been playing games ten times as a big and ten times as soft. Obviously no HEM graph to show but I recorded my sessions in my phone. I played 15 sessions in Sept/Oct and had 13 wins 2 losses :)<br />
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As they say, there's always a sweat and the board runs out scary for me T33 on the flop and then the turn brings another 3, so on the river they have one ten to win the pot and one 3 for a three way chop but thankfully we brick and win a decent pot. These kinds of players are not one offs. Working class people In the UK dont seem to have any value for money and they literally just give it away at the poker table. I spend most of the time nitting it up. I can fold for 5 orbits, pick a premium hand and make it 5x and my main concern is hoping that just 2 people call rather than the entire table.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454575931562616137noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1281922391370765235.post-67871959127315776452013-09-06T20:17:00.002-07:002013-09-06T20:17:56.480-07:006 Day GrindI've got 6 straight days off work so going to try and play a bunch over this weekend through to Wednesday. Ive played 10k hands today and yesterday and I have been running awfully, at one point I was $200 below EV at 25nl. At my low point I was so tilted I decided to go and play live for a bit and managed to turn my £100 into £300 in a soft £0.5/£1 game. So this de-tilted me and I guess I run well where it mattered lol. I came home and clawed back a break even day online as well so it didn't end to badly at all :) <div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454575931562616137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1281922391370765235.post-3245418378613524782013-09-01T19:08:00.000-07:002013-09-01T19:08:50.969-07:00August ReviewIt's been a pretty bad month volume wise, I thought starting a blog would motivate me to work harder but it seems to have had the opposite effect. I attribute this to partying to much and going out for some amazing meals. I must have spent over $1k in August on eating out and going for drinks etc. Its a massive leak in my life but even a Micro baller has to have a little fun every so often :) <div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454575931562616137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1281922391370765235.post-39186980600448681142013-08-21T08:43:00.002-07:002013-08-21T08:43:58.437-07:00Solid finish to the month!Having not played online for a week now it's time to get back to crushing and finish the month solidly. I absolutely smashed V Fest last weekend and was well worth the time away from the tables. I spent all weekend drinking beer and champagne and loved every drunken minute of it.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454575931562616137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1281922391370765235.post-4240255254856157852013-08-16T09:40:00.000-07:002013-08-16T09:40:19.062-07:00Festival/ No VolumeI have managed to get hold of 2 VIP weekend Tickets to V festival this weekend which is AWSOME! My girlfriend and I will be raving it up in our wellies to Beyonce and Kings of Leon so I'm super excited for that. Obviously this means no poker on top of what has already been a poor week volume wise. I have had to work the last 2 days so I could get the weekend off so I'm going to have to work really hard next week if I'm to make platinum star this month. <div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454575931562616137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1281922391370765235.post-6644224115119537052013-08-14T03:54:00.000-07:002013-08-14T03:54:23.369-07:00Disaster TuesdayUnfortunately things didn't go to plan at all yesterday. My body clock is all over the place because I work nights 3 days a week. I attempted to start playing at 6pm but was so tired I decided to have a power nap at about 8pm and ended up waking up at 3am FML. So it was 4am Wednesday before I started playing properly.<br />
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I had missed the best of the grinding hours completely. But never the less I decided to load up four 25NL tables in a pretty reg infested pool and proceeded to get absolutely brutalised dropping 5 buy ins in about 60 mins, sigh.<br />
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I was playing very LAGY and admittedly a bit tilted but the run outs I received were just pure LOL. I had two set over sets, one set that couldn't hold v flush draw on river, and then had two identical spots where I 4 bet with AK suited and the board runs out dry A7x and both times they find a set of 7's.<br />
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Thank god I'm playing micros because I cant imagine running that bad for more meaningful stakes. I'm going to tilt off a few more buy ins on the golf course now! At least my friends can be the beneficences of my cash and not some Russian Nits!<br />
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I will probably play later tonight if I'm not to tired since I will have been awake since 2am lol. I have to work 6 of the following 7 days which is pretty sigh, so my next day of grinding will be Sunday unless I can fit some hours in before work. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454575931562616137noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1281922391370765235.post-75897922132248640042013-08-13T10:20:00.002-07:002013-08-13T10:20:58.860-07:00Mondays SessionI jumped into the zoom pool later than planned yesterday at about 8pm UK time. Since it was Monday and I had a bit of weekend rust I decided to take it easy and just play a mix of 25NL & 10NL. I was planning to play at least 8k hands but unfortunately it developed into a bit of a lacklustre session volume wise.<br />
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After about 1k hands I was running pretty poorly, especially at my 25NL tables and was down about $50. I had built stacks on my two 10NL tables so decided to sacrifice some volume and drop my 25NL tables and just 3 table 10NL for the remainder of the evening. It was worth dropping tables and lowering stakes as by the end of the session I managed 5k hands and $110 profit which is reasonable hourly rate at these stakes. <br />
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So although I only managed 5k hands it turned out to be a reasonable session. I was still about $26 below EV but I cant complain to much as my situational luck was pretty good. Here are a few of the fun hands i played during the session.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">Nut flush no good mate!</span></td></tr>
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About to start my Tuesday session. Hopefully can improve on volume and run better at 25NL tonight. Time to CRUSH!!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06454575931562616137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1281922391370765235.post-78273875644115218702013-08-12T05:33:00.000-07:002013-08-12T05:33:05.906-07:00Grind TimeI've managed to gain some twitter followers and a few other bloggers have kindly included me to their blog lists so I'm at least on a few peoples radars now. Its nice to know I'm not talking to myself :/<br />
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So my grind days this week are Monday to Thursday. I plan to play between approx 5PM and 1-2AM Western European Time whilst the zoom pools are at there busiest and most soft. I'm going to set myself a modest target of 30k hands for the 4 days which I should make comfortably 4 tabling for 4 x 8 hour sessions.<br />
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Just got back from having a really nice full body Swedish massage so I'm feeling great and in the zone. I've got a few essentials lined up at my grind station to keep me focused through out the session.<br />
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