10,000 hands later - $60 down

Okies – so a few weeks on and just shy of 10,000 hands from the last post and how’s my roll looking – well it’s at -$285 - $61 worse than the last update – lol.
Basically, I managed to go on a downswing of nearly 10 buy-ins, reduced it to three and now back to 5.5 – so it’s been fun... I’m now playing across 5 accounts. My big losses however have all been confined to FT where I’m stuck $422 for the last 30 days. I’m finding that the site is getting increasingly hard to play on – the players are often very tight and of many different standards making it a bit of a nightmare for multitabling.
For example:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570037 – have no stats on the villain... wasn’t expecting to be behind when that river was checked to me. Lol
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570051 – and then you get hands like this where you’re just shocked at how poor some of them play.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570058 – basically this is the only way to stack them ( I didn’t raise pre because villain was playing 10/5 – so was pretty sure that the hand only had set value)
But then again, there’s still a few players who can’t seem to fold TPTK – this pot is worth a lot to me coz it’s against Sbrugby’s nemesis. - http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570105
.....lol donkaments mixmastered
Overall I’ve found that there are a heap of different styles on FT, and as I like to multi table, I’m finding it very hard to beat these guys. It seems that there’s some that’ll call with pretty much any two vaguely pretty cards pre flop and will call (or check min-raise) all C-bets and make crying calls to the river, there’s others who’ll refuse to put any money in with out the nuts, but most significantly there’s very few absolute donkeys. So many of the players are break-even regs who live off the rakeback deals etc. So, all-in-all after a rather shitty month I’m gonna give it a break for a while.

When things get shitty on FT I always go back to the happy place that is Party – even without it’s rakeback this Mecca for the sort of gamblers who find it hard to choose between craps or poker and play both games in much the same way.
I’ve been running nicely on PTY – making a half stack an hour average.
I found a great table earlier tonight (which helped me to climb near to the surface of my FT hole for the night)-
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570128 – villain is playing 35/3 – but my thoughts were that if he did have a set he’d have probably chosen to 3-bet the flop and therefore, my JJ must be good enough.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570131 – a few hands later I came up against this donk playing 79/25 – (the main reason I didn’t raise pre due to the way the table had been playing) – if I can call, make a hand, and get paid – why take risks?

Ok for some less donkish hands - http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570156 – an interesting way to play TPTK I know – and I have to give Jack the credit as it was to his choosing – based on the opponents’ stats of 50/0 with an agro factor of 2.5!
This hand is very much up for suggestions: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570172 – villain is playing 30/20 which I found priced me into calling him down - just couldn’t work out why he chose to play the hand so fast, and then slow down so much...
Played a couple of hands against this opponent, obv. Mr Townsend’s (less talented) cousin. The first one played itself, the second – well I chose to play that in accordance to my opponent’s style...
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570166
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1570167

As is often the case with party – when I review my hand histories they seem very standard and simple – very little requires and discussion. I made money because people stacked off to me. I lost money on FT coz people refused to stack off to me – lol – what does this say about me as a poker player!

Plans for the next few weeks are to try to $800 so that I’ll have 30 buy-ins for 50/1. I’m going to stick to Party, but maybe integrate a few FT tables if they look fishy. I’m also going to try to build a bit of a roll in Sun Poker (crypto ntwk) because their rake back and monthly bonus deals are rather fruity – and the play is almost softer than party – but they’re not so quick to shove in their stacks...shame.

Also invested a few quid in a new monitor – Dell 27” which works well with my 17” laptop screen – I think I can 16 table FT quite nicely – perhaps this is the key to beating the nits. Hopefully it’ll pay for itself...

Anyways – at least I can look forward to the rake back that FT will be giving me on the 15th – it’s the only time of the month I can say yum yum on that site.

Cheers for reading – please comment on any of the hands

Gl at the tables.

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