633 hands
+$26.35 (16.65BB/100)
+$4.40 (SNGs)
$326.90
I was up a buy-in early in the afternoon’s session. Turning nut flush against a fish who can’t lay down pocket kings. I followed this fish onto another 25NL table. And i proceed to call his river bet on a 5789T board holding a 6. While of course he already has JQ for the nut straight. I knew when he shoved the river that he must at least have a J but i still couldn’t laydown.
Later i manage to value bet my AQ against another fish who can’t laydown A8, and bet pot on me 3 streets. I was up half a buyin from him. I followed this fish also to a 25NL 6-max table. This was the first time I’m playing a 6-max game, but for the sake of this 54/30 fish, i would try. I soon find the perfect situation to exploit this fish. He limps and i raise it up with AQ in position, he calls. Flop came A x x two diamonds. I bet, he calls. Turn came another low card, another diamond. I bet he calls. River came another diamond, which was kinda ugh. He bet $6 into the $9 pot. There was nothing i beat considering how he check/call, check/call and lead out so big like that. I knew he had a flush. But i couldn’t laydown. He showed AJ, with the Jack of diamonds. I would have had another street of value if not for that diamond!
Fishes pay me off so much and so quick. That i feel like it is worth the effort to chase them around. But instead of taking their stack, i donated my stack to them because i couldn’t laydown when they actually hit something.
But thankfully i manage to eek out a profit for the session despite being down about $10 at one point. I don’t know how, but it was a series of small $3 $4 pots that end up giving me a $12 profit for the 400 hand session. I am not playing 1000 hands like i plan to. But more like 400-600 hands a day. I am happy with this volume. It is enough to get me a Silver Star for this month. I am at 610 VPP right now, 590 more will get me Silver Star. 2390 more will get me Gold Star. I think the rate is about 1 VPP for 10 hands. So far I’ve played roughly 6000 hands at 25NL, so i guess i will take me 5900 more hands for SilverStar and 23900 more hands for Gold Star. So i need to play roughly 590 hands/day for Silver Star and 2390 hands/day for GoldStar. I was aiming for GoldStar earlier, but it seems that it would be a stretch now. Whereas the 590 hands/day for Silver Star seems perfect.
I am confused what to get with the VPP points. However i would lean towards apparel or books. I don’t know if they could ship to Indonesia though… my friend W said you have to buy loads if u want them to ship to Indonesia. He just bought like 8 Full Tilt t-shirts and has been wearing them the last 2 times i met him haha.
Today i also tried to play $1 SNGs for a change. I started playing SNGs, particularly $3.80 super turbos and $2.25 turbos on full tilt. I actually did pretty good on the super turbos and have like $30-$50 profit on it. So I tried playing $1 SNGs to try to get ranked on the Battle of the Planets for the Mercury Division ($1-$2.99). I played 2 SNGs to start, and ran so bad, i didn’t feel like playing anymore. I had AK with the king of hearts, and flop came heart heart heart and low. Loose chip leader shoved on me, I obviously call. He shoved Q7o no hearts. I don’t know what he was thinking. Of course now he only has 4 outs, and he hits the 7. So i was out. I can’t be bothered playing non-turbo SNGs as they are slow and really boring compared to turbos. I played the $1 45man turbo which I won the last time i played. I also fired up 3 more $1 SNGs. I finished 8th in one of them pffff. QK on the limped preflop. flop Q, bet bet bet, guy shows AQ. Another cooler hands i can’t remember, reminds me that i shouldn’t play marginal holdings like KQ and AJ early in a SNG. However, my luck would turn for the better. I started running insanely well in the 45-man, which is what mattered. And also in the other 2 SNGs. Manage to end 2nd and 3rd on the SNGs for $4.50. Examples of cool hands from the 45man are, i raise 3x from the button with Ac7c. Flop came Kc Xc Xc. Guy shoves stack on me, awesome. I call he shows KTo and was pretty pissed at how lucky i was lol. I also limped 88 and flop came A 8 x, first to act shoved, guy next to him shove too, i call obviously. One guy had ace, the other had like a draw, i won the 3-way pot and was 2nd out of like 20+ people. From then on i just folded and folded. Final table came, and i folded every single hand until i busted in 3rd. Cool, $7! So my profit is $11.50 and i spent $1.20*5 + $1.10 = $7.10. Profit = $4.40. It’s actually pretty good money compared to the effort put in. I certainly think that it was easier earned compared to cash games. But of course i ran well in the 45-man to make up for the shitty 9-mans. Need like 450 points to get into top 100 of Low Orbit. So far i am 45 points after 5 games. If i go on at this rate, i am going to end with 180 points after 20 games. Not even half what it takes! 405 points more /15 games = 27 points/game. So i need to finish 2nd in all game i am to play to just get into the low orbit ranking. Not too realistic. I might just give up lol. Focus on Cash Games!
