November Goals.

hey so havent posted here in a while, had a slacky october, reviewed some etc.
only made a couple of 1000$ but probably ran worst i have so far so its np.

anyway i posted my november goals on 2+2 so i thought i'd share em here;

* 86000 VPP by december 31st starting with 2k BR.
* play good/run good.
* start going to the gym, get into routine to possibly go for SNE next year.
* not get mad in the slightest about running uber bad vs the 16/27 regs so far who have quite alot of leaks.
* possibly make a video at each stage i move up > 16 > 27 > 38 etc.
* at least 6-8 hours 5+ days a week 21 tabling continous.

i started playing stars at the end of october, played over 700 games in the last 5 days. i reached goldstar from scratch, so november i will get platinum and hopefully supernova ready for january if i decide to go for supernova elite.

My experience on stars so far has been good, ive ran pretty badly, some of the regs make really questionable plays, yet they are fairly big winners :(

PokerStars Game #21612489258: Tournament #117323072, $15+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII (200/400) - 2008/10/30 4:58:41 ET
Table '117323072 1' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 3: kamel_0078 (1695 in chips)
Seat 5: Jeroen Braad (3975 in chips)
Seat 7: jamerOK (5115 in chips)
Seat 8: iwantchipz (2715 in chips)
kamel_0078: posts the ante 25
Jeroen Braad: posts the ante 25
jamerOK: posts the ante 25
iwantchipz: posts the ante 25
iwantchipz: posts small blind 200
kamel_0078: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to jamerOK [Kh Kc]
Jeroen Braad: folds
jamerOK: raises 4690 to 5090 and is all-in
iwantchipz: calls 2490 and is all-in
kamel_0078: folds
Uncalled bet (2400) returned to jamerOK
*** FLOP *** [Ac 8c Js]
*** TURN *** [Ac 8c Js] [As]
*** RIVER *** [Ac 8c Js As] [4h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
iwantchipz: shows [Jd Ad] (a full house, Aces full of Jacks)
jamerOK: shows [Kh Kc] (two pair, Aces and Kings)
iwantchipz collected 5880 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 5880 | Rake 0
Board [Ac 8c Js As 4h]
Seat 3: kamel_0078 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: Jeroen Braad folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: jamerOK (button) showed [Kh Kc] and lost with two pair, Aces and Kings
Seat 8: iwantchipz (small blind) showed [Jd Ad] and won (5880) with a full house, Aces full of Jacks


my hand really doesnt matter here, he knows im on ATC, the bad beat isnt the case.
even when im pushing 100%, its still -0.3% EV for him to call here with the other shortie, and thats when im on 100%, any lower and it becomes a really huge mistake.

Going through hands with this dude i found another spot where i found an obvious leak of his, so i decided to run that too.

Table '117323072 1' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 3: kamel_0078 (2195 in chips)
Seat 5: Jeroen Braad (2350 in chips)
Seat 7: jamerOK (6785 in chips)
Seat 8: iwantchipz (2170 in chips)
kamel_0078: posts the ante 25
Jeroen Braad: posts the ante 25
jamerOK: posts the ante 25
iwantchipz: posts the ante 25
iwantchipz: posts small blind 100
kamel_0078: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to jamerOK [Ac Qh]
Jeroen Braad: folds
jamerOK: raises 6560 to 6760 and is all-in
iwantchipz: calls 2045 and is all-in
kamel_0078: folds
Uncalled bet (4615) returned to jamerOK
*** FLOP *** [9h 7s 4s]
*** TURN *** [9h 7s 4s] [Td]
*** RIVER *** [9h 7s 4s Td] [6c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
iwantchipz: shows [6s 6h] (three of a kind, Sixes)
jamerOK: shows [Ac Qh] (high card Ace)
iwantchipz collected 4590 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 4590 | Rake 0
Board [9h 7s 4s Td 6c]
Seat 3: kamel_0078 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: Jeroen Braad folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: jamerOK (button) showed [Ac Qh] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 8: iwantchipz (small blind) showed [6s 6h] and won (4590) with three of a kind, Sixes

This is just ridiculous from a winning regular.. he is like 15% roi over 3k+ games.
his call is -0.7% if im on 100%, any less than 100% and it becomes huge.

as im in a berating mood, ill post another hand from one of the FEW i've played with him, to spot this many obvious leaks after only a few games is ridiculous, he must have a personal vendetta against me or something.

PokerStars Game #21612335319: Tournament #117323068, $15+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2008/10/30 4:40:29 ET
Table '117323068 1' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: mamonsito (645 in chips)
Seat 2: iwantchipz (2190 in chips)
Seat 3: KingKehn (3090 in chips)
Seat 5: Fanti1337 (1970 in chips)
Seat 6: jamerOK (1220 in chips)
Seat 7: supreamdream (2950 in chips)
Seat 8: VinceBlack20 (1435 in chips)
KingKehn: posts small blind 50
Fanti1337: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to jamerOK [As Ks]
jamerOK: raises 1120 to 1220 and is all-in
supreamdream: folds
VinceBlack20: folds
mamonsito: folds
iwantchipz: raises 970 to 2190 and is all-in
KingKehn: folds
Fanti1337: folds
Uncalled bet (970) returned to iwantchipz
*** FLOP *** [4d 6s Ac]
*** TURN *** [4d 6s Ac] [9c]
*** RIVER *** [4d 6s Ac 9c] [6h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
jamerOK: shows [As Ks] (two pair, Aces and Sixes)
iwantchipz: shows [9h 9s] (a full house, Nines full of Sixes)
iwantchipz collected 2590 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2590 | Rake 0
Board [4d 6s Ac 9c 6h]
Seat 1: mamonsito folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: iwantchipz (button) showed [9h 9s] and won (2590) with a full house, Nines full of Sixes
Seat 3: KingKehn (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: Fanti1337 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: jamerOK showed [As Ks] and lost with two pair, Aces and Sixes
Seat 7: supreamdream folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: VinceBlack20 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

If he puts me on about 5% here, which is AQo+, 99+, which for 12BBs is probably the loosest range, this is a -1.7% call and its such a huge leak...
anyway thats enough berating lol. i hope he doesnt read this and adapts ;)
hopefully november will be a good month, i plan to play at least 3000 SNGs towards making supernova, and hopefully i can run well, ive basically had a pretty bad stretch on stars of about 1500 games which is pretty gay since i only just started here, but good to have a bad patch i guess, makes the good days feel even better :)
expect updates here on my progress to supernova :)

September is over...... finally.

Longest month ever. I did a rake race with a friend, basically playing non stop the whole month, we played about 8 hours a day each. We didn't run so well expectation wise, but we still managed to make 15000$, so $7500 each or £4100, not a bad month but i am hoping to make more playing my 10 max STT's this month in october.

The whole month was such a grind, im so glad its over, we played over 6000 SNGs together. I'm going to try and not play poker today (Tues 30th) to take a break, but i probably will end up playing, though i really should take a break, i cant help myself, im just a degen. So when i wake up (its 3am now) im going to try and not play, think i will go play some golf, maybe go to the gym for a swim or something, play some PS3, watch some more 24 which ive just started getting into and it is pretty cool so far, Jack Bauer is a pro.

On a side note, i've been swimming a little bit recently, going early in the mornings, its full of old people. They basically group up in a corner and whenever a women comes in the pool they will talk about her looks etc, its pretty funny. Me and Ben decided to label them the OAPC, Old Aged Pool Crew. They also shower naked, which isnt a pleasant site, but when i decided to shower naked myself, i did feel rather blessed. It sucks that im a crap swimmer though. Does anyone want to teach me how to swim?

Back to poker, september was probably my biggest volume month due to the amount we had to play, which i guess is good, because following months will seem easier, especially as it wasnt that fun to play constantly like that. It is a little weird than im not to happy about getting £4000 for a months work, but looking at expectations i should be making a bit more than that by playing 10 mans with less volume.

I will post up some October goals in the next few days, and i really think i will try my best to achieve them.

Hope you had a good september, bring on october.

Life at the new flat.

Hey so me and ben have been in the flat since thursday night now, and we've been putting in some decent volume. On Saturday i played 14 hours, sunday i played 10 hours, monday i played 8 hours, although i did slack a bit yesterday and only played about 6 hours. Once i buy some new stuff for flat, aka nice TV/decorate my room up a bit more, ill post some pics on here, prob wont be till end of september/early october tho.

Poker is going good, i've been doing a rake race with a friend, which basically means we play non stop throughough the month and earn as much rake as possible. At the end of september we will split the 20,000$ between us that we win for the race, not a great amount of $$$ for the time we put in, but its pretty nice. In October tho i will be putting in a shit load of volume on ipoker+ongame 50$+ 10 max, and hoping to put in at least 2.5k games a month, hoping to make at least 10,000$ for the first month and hopefully more on the following. I'm hoping to hit an hourly rate of about 100$/hr, but we will see how the month plays out.

I am also looking to coach+stake a few players, not high limits but basically 10-30$ tournaments to start off with, basically you can play using my money, i will give you personal coaching and we split the $ 50/50, i will start staking in october, im basically offering a complete package which means personal coaching from me, which will help you beat the higher games + improve your game endlessly(unless your better than me;)) and hopefully just make a decent amount of money for the both of us, send me an email or add me on msn @ james_cawley@hotmail.com . If your are living near Cardiff in Wales, id also be willing to give like a 1 week coaching session where you can stay with me + ben and we can just sweat you non stop + just coach. Also im still giving coaching lessons without stake, just send an email/msn to same address.

K, so ill post again soon towards end of september probably with some more october goals, and maybe some september results. x

Slightly Delayed Update...

Ok so haven't posted much and got flamed from some people to update it, so im gunna.

Basically i've been looking for a place to live, opting to move out with my friend ben, whose also a poker player which is just sweet. We finally found somewhere 2 days ago, its a top floor apartment along whitchurch road, pretty cool inside, very spacious, 2 nice double bedrooms, sick kitchen + lounge, gunna be perfect for our poker setup, and grinding with a fellow poker player is gunna be sick in the new flat, looking to put in some heavy days and start making some serious money.

We will be moving in next thursday, ive already payed for and setup internet there so we are ready to go straight away, and you can expect me play alot of volume, and i will be updating my blog alot more in the new place, as i will be playing alot more poker so will have more results to post.

On the poker side of things, i actually played some 6 max again after alot of studying again on the ICM side of the 6 max games, and i still managed to run awful, i made like 8000$, then immediately just went downhill and lost like 12k, so lost like 4k in total(wont be playing em again... keep telling myself that).

Yeh so that was pretty sick, and as i knew i need to make a fair amount of money to have in the bank ready to move out, i just went back to oldschool 10 max STT grinding, basically looked at my main accounts 10 max results.. these are my results/graph for 10 max STTs only...

jcawley 2,493 $6.83 $45 16% $17,029



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So for the last week or so i've gone back to 10 max on a new account with a better deal.. didnt run so good at the 50s, but did decently at the lower buyins which compensated, but im sure itll even out at the higher buyins. Anyway my stats so far for them..

MeVersusYou 681 $2.43 $22 10% $1,652



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yeh so a slight BE period on my new games but i felt i ran really bad and to maintain break even took quite a bit of tilt control ;)

Ok so, ill be updating more, and planning to put alot of volume in september + october. Hopefully it works out good and ill be posting results pretty often.

Also, got badbeated, i bought new golf clubs 2 weeks ago, even though id never played golf before that thought id start with some good clubs, cost about 150£. So was at the driving range yesterday playing around, lining up my shot with the pitching iron, take my swing, as soon as i make connection i notice the club is light as a feather, so i look at the end, theres no iron at the end of it, i look forward, and i can see the end of my club flying past the 50yard mark....
hoping to get a replacement, was funny at the time though :D

NL200 So Far.

So i moved to nl200 after playing a little more at NL100, sustained my 5ptBB/100 there.
within my first hour of moving up to NL200, i dropped 6 BI's. It was pretty sick, back to back coolers/bad beats etc. Between 7 hands of AA and KK, my Win at Showdown % was 0.

Heres a few hands from my short spell at nl200 so far:

Hansa Poker 1.00/2.00, hand converted by the iPoker Converter at Talking-Poker

saw flop | saw showdown

Button Button ($113.65)
SB Hero ($200.00)
BB BB ($24.25)
UTG ($85.95)
UTG+1 ($39.00)
MP ($200.00)
MP MP ($200.00)
CO-1 CO-1 ($111.10)
CO ($37.00)

Preflop: Hero is in the SB with 2 4
3 folds, MP checks, CO-1 calls 2.00, 1 fold, Button calls 2.00, Hero calls 1.00, BB checks.

Flop (10.00) 5 A 3
Hero checks, BB checks, MP checks, CO-1 checks, Button moves all-in for 111.65, Hero moves all-in for 198.00, 3 folds.

Turn (319.65) A

River (319.65) T

Button shows A 5
Hero shows 2 4

Button wins 319.65 with A full house, Aces and Fives

That was pretty nasty, it was my 2nd hand of the session, really good way to start a session off?

Hansa Poker 1.00/2.00, hand converted by the iPoker Converter at Talking-Poker

saw flop | saw showdown

Button ($200.00)
SB Hero ($242.25)
BB BB ($100.00)
UTG ($47.05)
UTG+1 UTG+1 ($193.47)
MP ($72.00)
MP ($203.00)
MP ($202.60)
CO-1 ($503.50)
BB ($40.00)

Preflop: Hero is in the SB with K K
1 fold, UTG+1 calls 2.00, 2 folds, MP calls 2.00, CO-1 calls 2.00, BB checks, Button calls 2.00, Hero raises to 20.00, BB calls 18.00, UTG+1 calls 18.00, 4 folds.

Flop (69.00) 7 5 8
Hero bets 40.00, BB moves all-in for 80.00, 1 fold, Hero calls 40.00.

Turn (229.00) T

River (229.00) 2

BB shows T T
Hero shows K K

BB wins 229.00 with Three of a kind, Tens

Getting money in ahead is what i do best



The other hands are pretty much standard coolers of 4betting AA preflop, getting it all in on a 259 flop vs 55, or vs KK and him turning a King etc.

I played a small 1 hour session earlier, which went pretty decently, made about 150$, im gunna try put in some proper volume this week.

Cash Games so far.

So i've been trying to play some cash games recently, at the .5/1$ blind level, 100$ buyin. i've been 16 tabling these tables, full ring, playing about 1000 hands an hour. played about 16k hands so far in the last week or so, been playing sngs too so thats why i havent got 25k+, but this week gunna put in some heavy volume, hopefully 25k hands(25 hours ish).
Its going fairly good, running just under 5ptBB/100, which is 10$ every 100 hands, 1000 hands an hour = 100$/hr roughly, which is decent. I'm going to be receiving some coaching also soon and then moving up to 1/2$ 200$ buyin games where i hope to beat them, which will give me a pretty sick hourly. i think with the coaching + my own poker game i feel i can move up to nl200 without a problem, and hopefully after 50-100k hands of that maybe take some shots at nl400.

heres my graph so far anyway


running just about upto my equity in poker ev, which means im not running hot, or bad, just average, but im happy with that. im enjoying poker alot more also as its nice to actually think alot more compared to sng where there is alot push/fold mode going down.

Hopefully my next post will be my 50k hand graph, which will include some nl200, and i hope it turns out good.

Chilipoker, sick vip system.

so im playing some games @ chilipoker now also, good software + traffic, and really goo d promotions with a sick VIP system, see some of the things you can use your pokerpoints by clicking the banner to get on the site and going to the hotshop. alot of different welcome offers for low volume or high volume players also, some include a 600$ 100% deposit + an 80gb ipod. i recommend the site to all players, as it rewards you heavily for just playing, with the promotions.