Quality over quantity and bankroll rules December 15, 2006
Posted by yorkshirepuddings in Cash game, Online Poker, Poker Sites, Strategy.3 comments
Sorry about the miserable tones of my last post from this morning but I was feeling strangely green round the gills and had a really shitty journey into work which always puts me in a right mood before I even start!
I slagged off Prima and it’s software before I have really given it chance. What kind of donk moves to a new site and immediately sits down at four 6-max NL tables and expect to be profitable? LMFAO, what a knobhead! So I have decided to give Prima until around Christmas to try and win me over! After deciding this I got to thinking about bankroll management, stop gaps and the like and have come up with a new system that I am going to stick to religiously.
- Always have at least 20x, preferably 25x the maximum buy in for any given level
- Never have more than 10% of my bankroll in play at any given time
- If I lose 5% of my roll in a day, walk away until tomorrow
- When moving up, if 5x buy ins are lost, drop down to the previous level
This means that I will be, for the time being, be limited to be playing a single table of NL10! I can hear Cadmunkey laughing his bollocks off as I type this. I had to withdraw around $400 in the past couple of weeks for Xmas related shit so I only have online around $248-$250 (I think), which is around 25x buy ins for NL10. I will be adding some cash on December 22nd when I get paid but I can’t count this amount as my roll as it isn’t readily available yet for pokery and I honestly don’t know how much I will be able to put online so I have to work with what I have got I guess!
I also think that by doing this I should always be playing within my comfort zone and by playing one table I should be able to improve my reads, thought process and overall play in general. I read a lot of forums and high stakes player’s blogs and I am amazed on how much thought they put into a hand. Yeah I think about the hand I am in but a lot of my thought processes come after the event because I am too busy trying to keep up with 4 screens and 20 opponents! The amount I win will be much less I should imagine but I expect my PTBB/100 to go up and also by playing this way I think I’ll be laying some good foundations for when I move up levels in future because I sometimes feel like I’m running before I can actually walk!
You reader might want to check out Blackscribe’s blog (I’ve just added him to my blogroll). It’s one I browsed a while back but have recently started to visit a bit more. The guy is killing the the NL10 games at Prima, maybe I’ll have a tale to tell after this weekend if we lock horns at some point!
Thanks for checking in, have a good weekend and best of luck at the tables 
Mis-clicks, mis-clicks everywhere! December 15, 2006
Posted by yorkshirepuddings in Cash game, MTT, Online Poker, Poker.3 comments
It was meant to be my office Christmas party last night but I couldn’t be arsed going so I didn’t go! My main reasons were the fact it was in the middle of Leeds (I live in Dewsbury about 12 miles away) and with me having to use the buses and train for work it would have been a mad rush getting home then back to Leeds for the do and then I’d have to leave early doors anyway to get the last train back home. Also, I work on the finance floor so the room would have been filled with accountants and I can think nothing worse than being sat with a bunch of pretentious knobs pretending to like then when they don’t even give me the time of day during working hours. Just seemed like too much effort for such little reward. Minus Life EV 
By the sounds of it I didn’t miss much and drinks were extortionate costing £3.50 ($6.60) for a pint of beer! Fuck that, it’s only £1.75 ($3.30) where I live / work!
Enough ramblings. With me not going to the Xmas bash I decided to get in a few cans and hit the cash tables on Prima. I tried out the mini view and managed to fit 4 tables on my screen with no overlap. That’s how bad my laptop is, I could only fit 4 screens on, bet Cadmunkey could fit a couple of hundred on his fucker! Anyway, I only played for about 20 mins but this was enough for around 120 hands as the speed is pretty quick at the 6 max on Prima and I managed to ship about $5 in the process, mainly due to the shit software! On one table I sat at I clicked “Wait for BB” and the “Auto-post blinds” buttons but it seems that the auto-post blinds button overrides everything else so the piece of shit posted for me UTG and I was dealt T7s! FFS 
Cue me flopping bottom pair and an OESD on a 789 flop and losing around $6. After around 15 hands PAHUD displayed the stats but they were all over the shop in this mini-view so I turned it off and played blind for a short while and misclicked more than a dozen times due to the buttons being in weird places compared to what I am used to. After a while it was starting to piss me off so I closed all 4 tables.
I then had the bright idea to sit at an NL50 game, and despite only consuming 2 cans of Scrumpy Jack cider I felt like I’d had a bit more! Anyway, first hand in KK and took the blinds. 2nd hand 99, and again I took the blinds with my raise. 3rd hand AA, I kid you not! I raise to $2 and villain reraises to $8 I raise him to $30 and he folds and I don’t show and I guess I now have a big Bull’s Eye on my back. Very next hand I get QQ and this is getting stupid! I raise one limper and am called. Flop is 6c2d9h and I lead out and villain min-raises me. Turn is 6s and he bets out 1/3 of the pot. I opt to raise him as something was screaming “BOAT BOAT” at me and I wanted to find out now so I raise to the size of the pot and he insta-pushes all-in. Easy fold you say. Well it would be if the fucking buttons were clearer and in the normal place! I click call instead of fold and he flips 22 for a turned boat and I can’t suck out and lose $40. Bastard.
So I’m a bit pissed off at this point and join a $3.50 MTT with a guaranteed prize pool of $1.25k which had attracted around 600 players and the prizes were pretty good. As the game started I noticed it was 6 handed, FFS! I couldn’t be arsed so donked around for the first orbit then sat out because I just didn’t fancy a SH tournament. God knows how I did because I didn’t check back! I then entered a “Rounders” SnG which is basically the same format as the Party Steps, with the top 2 going through to round two. The first level is a $5.50 and the 2nd level is a $27.25 entry with the top 2 going through and the 3rd place getting to try level 1 again. Well to cut a long story short I won a ticket to level 2 which I will give a shot at some point tonight once Pudding Jr hits the hay!
So my account is around $50 lighter this today which is never a good thing but I suppose I did win $30+ the day before so all is not lost. I really need to re-evaluate what I’m going to do because I can’t see myself sticking with Prima to be honest.
Have a great weekend and thanks for reading! 
