Singing whilst I'm winning!

Pud's Poker Progress / Matthew Pitt / 27 September 2010 / 2

In the past ten days I have managed to play 4,028 cash game hands and although some players log that many hands in a single day, averaging 400 hands a day for me is pretty good, even better when I am winning at a quite ridiculous rate too!

Since my visit to the Casino at the Empire last week where I saw some of the biggest names in poker, I have had a renewed confidence in my game and I am playing some great poker, even if I do say so myself! I've opened up my range and I am now playing around 28% of hands and raising 24% so my stats look a little like 28/24/3. I'm also three-betting a lot more, isolating limpers and generally getting on people's nerves!

Constantly applying pressure really does work, especially when you just know the person is going to spaz out at any moment and pay you off. There was one guy last night who was on two of my tables and kept attempting to steal the blinds, like 85% of the time so I simply kept re-popping him and taking it down. After doing this at least 10-15 times, he steals again, I three-bet with aces and he four-bet shoves. Obviously I call and he shows pocket eights, honestly, WTF!

Some of the play has been ridiculous, I must be running into players who are either drunk or off their faces on some sort of substance. One villain I managed to win two and a half stacks off first cracked my aces when the money went all-in on a Jc-3h-7d-6h board, he has Ts9d and spikes an eight on the river! Few hands later same guy moves all-in for $20.53 when the pot is $2.77 and the board reading 4c-Qc-9d-Ad-Ah. I snap-call holding As4h and he turns over TsTh, seriously! Online poker is dead everyone's solid, yeah, solid my arse!

So from the 4,028 hands I have played I have managed to win more than 11 buy-ins at a rate of almost 14BB/100! I'll take that all day everyday! Plan for the rest of the week is to play another couple of thousand hands if possible, which might turn out to be less as I'm going to London again for the WSOPE Main Event final table in the morning.

Hopefully I've turned a corner as I have played without looking at my stats or cashier balance whilst I have been playing which has helped me not to tilt once, either aggressively or passively. I'm not far from moving up stakes, in fact I could probably play NL25 at a push but I have enjoyed playing with 45-50 buy-ins for each level as it lets me play my new looser style without worrying about losing a stack or two.

As always, thanks for reading and best of luck at the tables!

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Rossi | 27 September 2010

Nice one mate, glad to hear your doing well and are winning.
Playing with loads of buy-ins for a level is defo the way forward.
Simon Debanks | 01 October 2010

Good stuff, hope the winning continues