Yes folks that's right, after shitty times on Betfair and Full-Tilt I'm finally settling into a home on iPoker, PokerPlex to be precise after a recommendation from a fellow player (ty Chris). Thanks to his intervention they got me immediately onto their 2nd highest VIP tier, which doesn't mean a massive amount off the bat but will allow me to redeem their Deposit & Bottomless bonus offers somewhat quicker and if I keep playing a decent amount I can get a new iPod from their limited shop, but hey I don't mind a free Nano.
So to the Poker... as the graph below indicates the initial road was rocky, I was just above and below even for a while after taking some dodgy beats early on but more recently I've done very well indeed. I attriubute this somewhat to the re-discovery of an old tool, EYEPoker by SpadeIT. It's a tool that allows you to important 'observed' hand-histories into Poker Tracker which is simply golden. So i've had the computer on all day/night collecting 16 tables at a time's worth of HH's so I'm getting a decent breakdown of who the fish are. You can then use EYEPoker to scan the tables in real time and give it a search criteria on what kind of players you want to it find based on PT data. Truly awesome stuff and has made a big difference.
As I'm playing with a limited bank roll (yet again, you big fucking fish!) I'm buying in for around 60BBs. In English, I deposited $200, playing $20NL and buying in for $12 bucks a time. This helps my game in the following ways;
1) I can apply pressure to an opponent with a good raise in a hand knowing that I cannot get pushed off it.
2) Bad Beats cost me less lol
However it has it's fall backs too, such as not getting maximum value for my big hands for instance, but from what I recall from my play thus far I've not been all-in more times than I can count on 1 hand anyhow, so perhaps it's a good course at this level.
I've also added a little to my game. I'm finding myself taking floats more often now when faced with aggression on the flop. For anyone who is unaware of floating, this is when you call with a weak hand in order to bluff later streets, it takes some intuitive reading of how the game has been running to do effectively but when done correctly can really keep your head above water. A typical float play would see me call a preflop raise (i like this play when out of position) against a player with a predictable range, checking for a c-bet or sometimes making a weak lead and then calling a reraise with the intention of betting any card on the turn. Usually calling that flop reraise and then leading for 50% of the pot will take it down fairly often, but use vigiliantly!
Needless to say in the last 2 days I've ran super well, the last 700 hands have been exceptionally kind, everything has gone right and even been given a couple of gifts along the way... check this out.
Hand #1487530461 begins at 2009/03/12
Dealing down cards
Dealt to EiN7 [As Js]
gaia91 posts the small blind of $0.10
GingerLynn posts the big blind of $0.20
PPPolutioNNN raises to $0.60.
EiN7 raises to $1.80.
T1LTwhept folds.
gaia91 folds.
GingerLynn folds.
PPPolutioNNN calls $1.20.
Dealing Flop [7h 8c Qs]
PPPolutioNNN checks.
EiN7 bets $1.95.
PPPolutioNNN calls $1.95.
Dealing Turn [6s]
PPPolutioNNN checks.
EiN7 checks.
Dealing River [3s]
PPPolutioNNN bets $48.42, and is all-in.
EiN7 calls $9.13, and is all-in.
PPPolutioNNN shows [9s 8s]
PPPolutioNNN has Flush, Queen High
EiN7 wins $25.06
Tough break for that guy, but the all-in on the river is suspect. I presume he wants it to look like a bluff and would have worked if I had not had such a monster. It's an easy game when you run well folks, I'm feeling good about my cash game for the first time in months. I've always had a crutch that my cash game is nowhere near as strong as my tournament game, maybe this is the case and I'm 100% sure I have much to improve upon in side-games but the nack is there at the moment and bugger me..... i'm actually enjoying it.
GL and have a good weekend folks.
Matt
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