wow…..wow…..wow

2009 has started with a bang and I have won more in the first two sessions than the whole of 2008. I am now concentrating on the 25-50 game but believe it or not I am also multi-tabling NL50 and NL100 games on Cake which is proving just as much of a challenge. Well to cut to the details I am ahead by $14,000 so far this year after one really great session.

I had some great data on a player who was very aggressive. Their VPIP was running at 53 and the check-raise percentage was very high post flop. I had pocket jacks on the button and raised to $175 and was called by the big blind villain. He liked to call raises and then look to make moves post flop. If he had a hand then he liked to call down with it and let his opponent have the lead. His pattern was so exploitable it was silly.

Flop came K-10-3 rainbow and he checked and I bet $275 and he check raises me to $800 and I re-raise again and put him all in……he folds. I was torn between calling and letting him outdraw me or squeezing him out. The next hand was more of a test as he had a similar stack to mine but I felt that he was gunning for me.

I had AK on the button and raised to 175 and the BB calls again. Flop comes A-J-9 and they check and I make my usual 2/3 pot sized bet and he shoves all-in……all $4600 of it. Now I hate to go against my philosophy of big pot big hand and getting all in for well over 100BB at this stage with one pair is not geat.

But he was so erratic that the call looked pretty good to me and the fact that I am properly bankrolled now made the call far easier than it would have been last year. I called and they showed Q-J, I sweat the five outer but win the pot and he leaves the table……hope he comes back.

New year was quiet for me but as always I have set myself some personal as well as poker goals. My aim is to win $250,000 this year although only around 1/4 of this will be mine but this will well and truly get me back on track and into the modern online WINNING poker scene again. I am also hoping to start earning in the small stakes games and am still around $1000 up so far but I am hoping that my e-book should do well if I can maintain the discipline…..should be an interesting year.

Have a big bet riding on Phil Taylor in the PDC, laid him at 1.6 but I am just hoping for a close match or for him to get behind and should be able to trade this for a profit. Barney is looking good which is great news and his nine darter last night will have made Taylor take notice.

See ya soon

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