Saturday, December 31, 2005

Ladbrokes: 237 dollars
Pacific: 160 dollars

Total: 397 dollars

THE FISH BITE BACK!

Another week of high volatility with the Pacific account veering from down to 127 to plus 174 and finally ending up at 160 for a very modest profit. The main reason was that the fish fought back yesterday, with a succession of irritating hands where folk were catching running gutshot flushes, straights and the like. The worst one was when I had two Aces and hit another on the flop which came Ad 6s 2c. Needless to say I was betting for Britain and was happy to see three punters. Fine, except one of the villains hits a couple of spades on the turn and river to take me down. At least I got out when he raised on the river...sigh. You just have to live with this sort of thing, but it isn't funny, especially when it happens serially, as it did yesterday.

I have hardly played at all on Laddies, except for one night when I two tabled - you can only play one table at a time on Pacific. I might well do more of this.

Still at least my old favourite, Kicking King, obliged again in the King George to keep the horse account healthy. A close run thing though, with Monkerhostin overtaking him just after the winning post. I had Harchibald too a few weeks back but correctly passed on him on his latest outing. A difficult horse that one and I'll avoid him in future.

7 comments:

Maxwell Adams said...

Hey Kronsdat,

Want a game of chess? My username on schemingmind is ben_willets.

Good luck,

The Edge.

_Kronsdat said...

...and we're off. French defence so far.

Juice said...

Hello Kronsdat, I was reading this in a poker mag thought you might be interested. Its only a list but perhaps you can make something of it

10 common and costly hold em errors:
Preflop
1 calling too many raises with anadequate value

2)Raising from the blinds with the wrong hands

Flop
3) Improper betting from the button
4)Raising with draws when next to act
5) playing small pairs after the flop

On the turn
6)Not betting/raising with the best hand
7) Calling raises with one pair
8)Not taking the free card

On the river
9) not betting when leading out throughout the hand
10) not betting after making your hand

without the accompanying article perhaps it doesnt make much sense but maybe you can take something out of it.

_Kronsdat said...

Thanks J. I'm pretty familiar with most of that. Sklansky's book has been very helpful in tightening up my game and reinforcing concepts like the "free card" etc. I have invented my very own poker aphorism "always play with people who are worse than yourself!"

Maxwell Adams said...

Juice - what do you mean by

"4)Raising with draws when next to act"

???

Also, at Pacific, players will raise with nothing. So on occasion it is worth calling with TPTK.

Maxwell Adams said...

Kronsdat,

Juice and myself have started putting in more hours at Pacific again. It would be good to meet you at the tables. Is there a player search function? My username is fcmisc and we've been at the $0.25/$0.50 limit tables.

Got killed when I had AA last night, in a similar manner to yourself. I had AA on the big blind and raised. The villain, at UTG called my raise (he'd already called from UTG). The flop was T64 rainbow. Needless to say, my flop bet was raised by the villain. I didn't really see what he could have and so the action was capped. Needless to say, a 2nd T fell on the river, to give the villain trip T's to kill my AA. Nice!

The Edge.

_Kronsdat said...

Hi again. As I have reported in my latest post, my ambition is to move up to the 50/1.00 tables next so I will keep a look out for you there. I'm not sure about a player search facility - I'll check it out. The Pacific software is very much inferior to Laddies - but then so are the players :-)