St*rB$cks

I’ve just finished a one hour session on Stars, my Latte is cold and it’s getting dark outside. Problem is that if I try to head home right now I’m screwed—the traffic is just plain stupid.

I played live last night…it was good!

Seriously, I must be killing that game. I’ve not played very much this month, but I did quite a lot last month. I have all the records for the last 3 months in excel format and I have the records from the last few years on my PDA. At some point I’m going to enter everything into the excel sheet and see exactly what I’ve done. I really don’t know what to expect, but I wouldn’t be too surprised to find I’m beating the game for 10-15ptbb/100. My sample size is not HUGE, but I think it’s enough—I’ll find out when I put it all together. I might be able to put a graph together too!

The game I play is 1-2 Pot-Limit Hold’em. It’s GBP, so you could say equivalent to a 2-4 PL/NL game in the States. The fact that we play Pot-Limit doesn’t really make that much difference. If anything it gives me a greater edge against weak players who don’t know how to build pots and can’t simply go “all-in” when they don’t know what else to do.

We have a 5-5PL game too: I’ve played it a few times but when I chickened out of £1500 pot one night, I realized I wasn’t ready. The more experience I gain the more I realize how over bankrolled I want to be for the games I play in. I can’t wait to play that 5-5 game full time, but I’ve set myself a target in the 1-2 game and only when I achieve that am I moving up. When I do play it though, I’ll be so well bankrolled that +/- 2K night after night won’t even flinch me. There are only a few good players and an aquarium of fish—the kind of guys who wipe out their entire bankroll in one night, but always find a way to return the next—and then we have the guys with more money then sense!

Okay, it’s cappuccino time. Ciao.