Dublin Poker

I've started keeping an excel spreadsheet of my results year to date, and tbh, I'm pretty surprised at the results! I knew I wasn't making much online, but I was shocked to find that my profits for the ytd totalled.....-€78! I've been going up and down like a yo-yo, and when I counted all my lodgements and withdrawals, it turns out that Ive got a total loss of -€78!

Of course this doesn't include the tickets I've won, but Im still a little surprised. Since January I've lodged €978, and withdrawn €900. Ive been lodging €100's and €50's here and there, and withdrawing whenever I hit a few hundred. Most of my losses have come from bad beats in cash games, which is fair enough. I shouldn't be playing them if I dont have the BR to be able to handle the beats.

Ive never bothered with a proper bankroll, and I can see now why you really do need one. Now I'm not to bothered about this, because I only play a few hours a week, and wouldn't look at online as a major source of income.

My live income is looking a lot healthier. Ive played around 12 live games this year, for a total outlay of €335, ive got a return of €4,125. This is due to a few nice wins in the SE and the Team Event. Its a long way off the $10K I made last year, but I hope to play a few big live games this Summer so...

Anyway, I'm happy enough with how my live game is progressing, but I really need to sort out a proper plan for my online play. So with that in mind, I lodged €200 the other day to see how much I could build it up to. I wasn't willing to lodge more than that, so it was looking like I would be buying in short to cash games. Obviously not a good idea, but hopefully I would build up to a decent BR soon enough.

I was playing $15 and $20 STT's and 50c/$1 and $1/$2 cash games. I was making a nice profit until I had a nasty beat on the 50c/$1. I had bought in for $50, and worked this up to just over $300. There was one luckbox at the table who had cleaned out a few players and was sitting on about $350. I was happy enough with how I was playing, and overall the standard wasn't great.

I lost a few pots by giving to much credit to my opponents, when the best play I find is just to wait for good hands. I only bluff when it is very obvious that the players have missed a draw. I have found that 50c/$1 and $1/$2 is very beatable, although I ahave only played for a few days, so its not much to go on.

Anyway back to the hand. We were 3 handed, and I picked up AA (lol yes its one of those...), and raised it up to $20. Super loose player flat calls which could mean anything. We see a flop of 2 4 6. Im thinking of raising to $50 or so, but this player is so loose that I think he is bad enough to call a push if he has hit any of the flop. I know its risky and its not exactly a cash game move, but I'm too used to tournament play... so I push.... for an extra $300 into a $40 pot!

Now i know this is probably bad cash game play, but tbh i was happy with the $40 and didn't want to get outdrawn.

Anyway, he called in a flash with K6. The rest of the is irrelevant, as all bad beats are, but I'm still unsure as to whether it was a silly play. I just wanted the $40 in the middle, and knew that if he did call (which I knew he might) I was probably ahead.

So $667...almost. Obviously I was annoyed, moreso as he left straight after without giving me the chance to win it back! The money would have been nice to start a bankroll with but unfortunately thems the beats...

Anyway, a few more bad games and I'm down to $100, but Ive since worked this up to just over $300, playing cash games and STT's. Hopefully I will work this up a bit more, and maybe have a crack at $2/$4 in a few months. I think I could give it a shot now, but it would be silly to jump levels so fast.

I havent played much MTT's, other than the odd $8 and $10 game. One thing that has cost me a lot has been disconnects. Eircom is acting the bollix again today and I cant seem to last 10 minutes without disconnecting. I thought it was just me but it seems everyone I know that has Eircom Broadband is constantly having trouble with it. I don't mind the odd disconnect but when you have raised for $70 out of your $100 stack with KK, and then get disconnected and come back to find you have been raised out of the hand... it can be annoying.

Anyway, here's hoping I've a proper BR in the near future...

Current BR: $364