Gervinho's Galaxy ツ 4NL Back to Basics!

Hey Gerv

Your blog looks great! It's really organised and after reading it, I know your very serious about playing poker. Good luck in your future escapades!

I'm sure we'll talk

[x] Titan makes me go SlowPoke

Jmackenzie: The album 'Stop Making Sense' is a live-concert video, is that right? otherwise I will download some albums of them.

Thanks for your comment Ruleza , see you on the foras ♦

Back to my SSS NL20 cashgame adventure on Titan:

I spended merely 2h and 30 minutes to play 361 hands 5tabled on Titan Poker. I hereby award the Titan Poker for being The Slowest Poker PlatForm in the Universe
I sometimes think Pkr.com or even livegames goes faster than iPoker, absurd.

I played on NL20 instead of my Party Poker's NL10 , however I made some very very dumb play mistakes early in the game. Luckily I tripled up with TripsTens and such so I actually had profit... ánd rake!

Nothing special happened actually on the tables, I tried out some new stealing methods (BSS stealing ranges against Unknown) and it worked out pretty well.

This is the 2nd day I did not received any PartyPoint so playing there is quite a no-no at the moment

Im going to take a nap - see you tomorrow!

About music mate!

I usually listen to one of the online ministryofsound.com radio stations!

Check out drum and bass its awesome while you play!

stop making sense soundtrack can be downloaded its basically the soundtrack of the movie they did its great!

On another note I see youve switched to bss gl with it.

Originally posted by jmackenzie
On another note I see youve switched to bss gl with it.

I think I confused you with my post but I only play SSS regardless which platform. I only grabbed up the stealingranges of the BSS strategy and tried to implement it in my SSS game in order to cover my blindlosses

ah ok i understand now, definatly a good idea you can raise alot looser against other shortstackes in late pos. Infact I raise any2 cards against a shortie in the sb when im first in definatly +ev.

I think i checked the image problem on my blog can you check it?

[x] The Rollercoaster continues!

My day began as I woke up at 11:30 CET as usually. I started slowly, making breakfast, reading the newspaper etcetera.
Then around 13:00 I jumped in front of my PC checking both the English & Dutch forum of PS to watch, participate and learn from Sample Hands and other stuff.

I wrote down yesterday that I had to restudy or reread Odds & Outs and Post-Flop play during Freeplay. Therefore I solved some minor leaks of mine.
After studying of like 2h and 30 minutes I was ready to go play.

But where?
If I play on PartyPoker, I do not get any PartyPoints due vacation.
If I play on TitanPoker, I will fall asleep in no time. At least that is my opinion sometimes.

After some thinking I decided to play my remaining time until dinner on Party poker. Titan would give me like 50 hands anyway in a hour. Not really profitable.

5 Tables, equilator and my gameface. Let's go!

Hand #6 gave me PocketKings on BB. UTG+2 raises to 4BB. I went all-in and he called me down with JQs, nothing stranges happens there.

Hand #15 AKo got slapped in my face by Two jacks.

Hand #20 AKo went all-in with 2 other guys who turned out having KQo & AQo. I already sighing because any PP would have me beat

Hand #35 My AKs went All-in on the flop with 3 other Villains. Luckily I split the pot with another AKo. Other guys had JTo & A9o (???)

Hand #47 My worst play I ever made. MP1 minraises, I reraised to 60c with AJo from BB -> coldcalls. Flop brings 5♦ T♦ K♥ . My stack was equal to the size of the pot. I had 7 outs at that time with my Gutshot straightdraw and Overcard Ace. I also got a runner-runner flush chance but let's not win in at that way.
I went All-in instantly without thinking *stupid* and I got called by KQo. The turn brought a diamond but it was no avail and I lost.

Hand #54:

CO: $12.67 (126.7 bb)
Hero (BTN): $1.70 (17 bb)

Pre-Flop: Hero is BTN with 8
5 folds, CO calls $0.10, Hero raises to $0.40, 2 folds, CO calls $0.30

Flop: ($0.95) J (2 players)
CO checks, Hero bets $0.60, CO calls $0.60

Turn: ($2.15) K (2 players)
CO bets $0.70, Hero calls $0.70 and is all-in

River: ($3.55) T (2 players, 1 is all-in)

Results (listed below in white, highlight to see): $3.55 pot ($0.17 rake)
CO showed Ad Th (two pairs, Kings and Tens) and won $3.38 ($1.68 net)
Hero mucked 8c 8s (two pairs, Kings and Eights) and lost (-$1.70 net)

To sum it all up until 17:30 CET : I managed to break-even to +5BB with high swings.

I started on [20:15 CET] because I had to fix my PC with possible malware. I found malware in a .mp3 file I downloaded froM LimeWire 3 months ago and it was discovered as a Trojan-Downloader. Great.
I used 1. AVG , 2. SpyWare Doctor, 3. GData and 4. SpySweeper to scan my PC completely on Virus, malware, keyloggers and stuff.

Protection above Poker In my opinion otherwise your money is gone to[o] (hackers) ♦

My session lasted till 22:15 CET and I managed to lose 3 buy-ins early on due coinflips. From there it all went up like a rollercoaster. Loopings, screwdrivers etc.
Eventhough I had the temptations to implement stealings due advices of Leo earlier this day - I decided straightforward basic SSS with the SHC with a few expansions were the best play.
& and it paid off!

AKo vs AQo
AKs vs A8
QQ vs JJ
TT vs 77 vs AKo

So let see the graph of today:

I honestly did not watched my BR on Elephant nor on Party's lobby so it does really work if you concentrate fully on your 6 a 7 tables while playing as good poker as possible

Also there is a small celebration here because I reached my 20 000 Hands mark weeeii!. However I barely have stats on myself. I can only see something in the beginner's section but I do not think they are reliable. Here are my beginner stats if you are interested:

VP$IP : 9
PFR: 7
AF PostFlop: 6++
WTS: 31

Here is my lifetime graph up till now:

Feel free to comment about anything, ask questions etc. Im happy to answer them ♦
For now I'm out, cheers!
Gerv

[x] Short Update

Just a short update from me since I was away from 17:00 CET till basically now. Family birthday weeii! I got a real-life ♦

From 12:00 CET til 14:30 CET I catched up relearning things. I got stuck sometimes with Implied Odds. Math has never been a headache but this term is just killing me.. Also I've summarized my current expansions and chart in one so its easier for me to refer to whenever possible during a session.

From 15:00 CET till 16:45 CET I played a NL20 SSS Titan Session.

5 á 6 tabled, It went smooth, not fast & not too slow. There were some decent tables with 20% flop/plrs and enough money on the tables.

I made a whopping profit of $2 on NL20 during Afternoons. I don't expect much on that day because most fishes are not playing.
Applied some stealing from SB first-in and BTTN against other Shortstacks.

I caught a Deepstack stealing me with A6o while I had AQs. Yes I resteal with AQs but only when I noted him down. I call pre-flop. I hit my ace so I donkbet. He reraises me to like $7 while my stack was like $3. Pretty much an easy call.

A note about PartyPoker and Its vacation time. I get all of my PP I earned during these 2 weeks at once at the end. I hope PartyPoker really does it otherwise the road to Gold is far far away...

Nothing special happened then, doubled up , lost coinflips etc.
See you tomorrrow!
Gerv

[x] Happy Saturday Event!

My day didn't started really good. I woke up around 13:45 CET with a small headache. Drank some coffee and read the latest blogs, news on PokerStrategy.com
Pretty much a dull afternoon surfing on the net. I didnt feel like playing Poker there because my mind was like sleeping.

Anyways it was saturday and here in Holland , the weather was quite good with an average temperature of 30 degrees Celsius and sun.
Also the Saturday on PartyPoker NL10 is famous for its Fishy actions and massive profit.

With all other work still to do I barely started at 22:00 CET. I wish I could start half a hour earlier but nonetheless it went like this:

I think I am a really slow starter so I am going to restrict myself from playing up to 4 tables max in the first half hour - 45 minutes This to minimize any playmistakes.

From -4 buyins, I didnt looked anymore at my graph or current balance it was just focussing on Playing poker. Good poker.

I got reraised or openraised in front of me several times by players who are either:
*Incredibly stupid (Q5s)
*On Tilt (Pocket Deuces)
*Are playing Maniac style while being Shortie

Illustration of someone who was on tilt and lost his stack of 125BB on NL10 within 2 or 3 hands. ♦

Party Poker, $0.05/$0.10 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 9 Players

MP3: $21.34 (213.4 bb)
Hero (CO): $1.85 (18.5 bb)
BTN: $2.41 (24.1 bb)
SB: $10 (100 bb)
BB: $21.21 (212.1 bb)
UTG+1: $13.79 (137.9 bb)
UTG+2: $7.91 (79.1 bb)
MP1: $1.70 (17 bb)
MP2: $10.14 (101.4 bb)

Pre-Flop: Hero is CO with A
3 folds, MP2 raises to $10.14 and is all-in, MP3 folds, Hero calls $1.85 and is all-in, 3 folds

Flop: ($3.85) 6 (2 players, 2 are all-in)
Turn: ($3.85) 9 (2 players, 2 are all-in)
River: ($3.85) 8 (2 players, 2 are all-in)

Results (listed below in white, highlight to see): $3.85 pot ($0.19 rake)
MP2 showed Jd Qc (high card King) and lost (-$1.85 net)
Hero showed Ah Ad (a pair of Aces) and won $3.66 ($1.81 net)

Thanks for coming, please come back anytime :P! *added to BuddyList*

I tried 2 NL25 Tables in the last 15 minutes. Unfortunately I went broke *stupidly* with AT against a flopped Trips 4s.. so - $4 from the actually profit.
As an addition, I still see some playmistakes as in calculations and very doubtful situations. I all learn from them so I hope Im experienced enough to smash NL25

Concerning music: I think I am going to stick with Deep.FM instead of my own music. Its house/dance style so it is more active but not as active as Hardstyle and rock

My 3rd slab of $25 is released so 1 to go. After that I think my conservative bankroll allows me to play on NL25. I think I am ready for it as long as I keep focussing, learning and paying attention to NL25. Most tables are Jackpot though, It's not really profitable for a shortie but who knows I might hit the BadBeat ay? The pot there is currently 800k++.

That's all for now, tomorrow I will attend Jaro's SSS coaching I think + 2 Titan FreeRolls of PS.com

Goodnight,
Gerv

Hi Gerv!

Good to see your going well keep it up! I don't want to hijack your blog so just delete this after you read if you like!

Okay background to this hand! I don't usually play KQ often so i limped here and one of my fav loose guys tried to steal! I got 500 hands on this guy and anyways i put him on shit surprisingly he actually was holding something better than usual! But yeah enjoy this was the last hand of my +8BI day

I only called the 0.40 because i knew i was ment to raise +0.40 roughly so yeah thought nah since its this guy see if i can flop something

0.05/0.1 No-Limit Hold'em (8 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: PokerStrategy Elephant 0.57 by www.pokerstrategy.com.

Preflop: Hero is MP1 with K, Q (Comment)
UTG+2 calls $0.10, Hero calls $0.10, MP2 calls $0.10, MP3 raises to $0.50, 5 folds, Hero calls $0.40, MP2 folds.

Flop: ($1.35) 4, J, 9 (2 players) (Comment)
Hero checks, MP3 bets $1.35, Hero raises to $1.35 (All-In).

Turn: ($4.05) T (Comment)
River: ($4.05) 5 (Comment)

Final Pot: $4.05

Results follow (highlight to see):
Hero shows a straight, king high (Ks Qd)
MP3 shows high card ace with queen kicker (Ac Qs)
Hero wins with a straight, king high (Ks Qd)

I got Rucky!

See you at the free-rolls and at coaching

Hi Gerv,

As you might have noticed I'm really not much online anymore these days. But when I'm on the forums I always read your blog ♦

It still looks pretty damn good!
But just some things about slow-starting in sessions and the rollercoaster you were talking about. Today I've experienced again that the result doesn't matter at all.

Small example:
I was holding AA and went preflop all-in with 2 other guys, so the pot was 60BB already. However, I got beat by KK. It's a difference between -20BB and +40BB, -1BI or +2BI. Those things just happen and can make a huge difference at the end of the session.

So just don't be too worried about that, you'll catch an upswing soon enough if you continue like this.

We should do a session again sooner or later, but that'll probably be at the end of the week I think..

Good luck on the tables and I'll see you around!

DeKuip

BTW: Congrats with your MTT result on Titan, playing FT in such a tourn must be a great feeling.

Oef why did you called his bet on the flop Meso? With 7 á 8 outs I wouldn't ever consider pushing here but you called because he is a LAG Aggro? You beat him nevertheless so congrats!

Welcome back DeKuip was Mother Chess kind for you or did she not?

in about 1 hour we got the 2 FreeRolls, I hope I can get a decent finish, its Titan after all... (very slow)

My main post comes later this evening

[x] Sunny Sunday

A sunny Sunday in Holland! That's rare! However I woke up at around 12:30 CET in the afternoon, I was quite ready to play some poker.

I decided to play 8 tabled NL20 SSS on Titan as NL10 on PartyPoker at that time was full of shortstakkers, doesn't improve much if I play there.

Also I could perfectly time to signup for Both freerolls while playing.
NL20 went ok for me, Swingy as SSS is I managed to keep it on green numbers.

Online support was kind off dead so I couldn't ask how much rake I generated. I believe its around the $4 so I am almost to the $25 mark for the summertime bonus! ♦

As my post is like minimal I would like to share a very very lucky hand of mine. It its Titan after all:

Known players:
[tg]Position_Stack:hands/vp$ip/RaisePreflop/AF/WTS/ORL/BBvsSteal/W$SD;SB$15.24:56/40 /17 /2.2/39 /67 /-/29 ;BB$11.04:104/9 /6 /3.0/27 /0 /100 /33 ;UTG+1$6.12:52/10 /6 /-/17 /50 /100 /0 ;Hero$4.60:///////;MP1$3.90:74/7 /7 /0.3/60 /0 /100 /33 ;MP2$23.97:189/10 /4 /4.0/27 /0 /33 /33 ;MP3$8.78:41/13 /3 /-/25 /20 /-/0 ;CO$20.00:09/11 /0 /1.0/100 /0 /100 /0 ;BU$22.26:94/32 /2 /1.2/32 /0 /100 /44 ;[/tg]
0.1/0.2 No-Limit Hold'em (8 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: PokerStrategy Elephant 0.58 by www.pokerstrategy.com.

Preflop: Hero is UTG+2 with Q♦, Q♠
UTG+1 folds, Hero raises to $0.80, MP1 folds, MP2 calls $0.80, 4 folds.

Flop: ($1.90) T♣, 8♠, 9♣ (2 players)
Hero bets $1.25, MP2 raises to $2.50, Hero raises to $3.80 (All-In), MP2 calls $1.30.

Turn: ($9.50) K♥
River: ($9.50) J♦

Final Pot: $9.50

Results follow (highlight to see):
Hero shows a straight, king high (Qd Qs)
MP2 shows a pair of aces (As Ad)

Hero wins with a straight, king high (Qd Qs)

Shouldn't happen twice - would kill my motivation and rely more on luck

The FreeRoll part, I totally sucked and got sucked out. No more details available. It was a total fluke as I wasn't focussing. My friend DeKuip did well though in Silver Freeroll and finished as 22th worth $30!

After that I didn't feel like playing Poker anymore. Despite that I started up some tables at PartyPoker but I lost 2 buyins quickly, 1 against KK who limped in from Mp3 (Hurray!) and 1 of which you can see in the sample hand section.
That being said, I closed down party and went on listening some House Music and stuff.

Tomorrow my first working day after I recovered from my illness
Cheers and see you around,

Gerv

Titan Poker
Session Time: 1h 40 min.
Hands played: 443 hands
Profit/Loss: +$8.7 (2.1 Buy-ins)
Extra: tried 8 Tabled TitanPoker and it went well
Rake: $14 total atm
iPoints: 452/2500
Playing Skill during Session (0=Disastrous,10=Perfect): 8.5

Hey Man!

Yeah only called him cause loose aggro and i thought i had him beat! but yeah ill keep those plays shelved Don't want too loose my profits over the last week! Making up my 2 weeks down!

LOL I busted out of silver last night!! I hate donkaments!

AA VS Q7 - yep Q7 was good gotta love pocket rockets

Keep it up man hope you finish your month strong!

[x] Lessons... Hard lessons

A quick note: I see that I daily get like 85 hits on my blog thats nice however I think a lot can be improved if I write a blogpost.
So any comments/suggestions/critics feel free to post

Allright today I played some mini sessions and basically that's all. After some hard work from 9 AM till 5 PM CET I think I cannot make up my mind playing Poker very good. Even not on 4 tables and that's like click click 5 minutes straight and doing nothing.

Nevertheless I tried NL25 on PartyPoker since the BadBeat went out for like 960k (=Huge).
4 á 5 Tabled on Normal PP tables.

I realized that there weren't many tables so table searching is a must here.
I failed. Not because of my skill but because of scared money in combination with my physical state of being. Lost 3 buy-ins, doubled up twice in like 326 hands. I was more caring about my BR than on my plays. So untill I feel confident with NL20 Titan! I keep on grinding on Nl10 6 tabled though untill I have fully cleared my Bonus.

So I quit after those hands on Party and immediately switched to 9 tabled Titan poker NL20 SSS.

1 thing to say: IT BARELY FITS MY SCREEN, geez ♦
So a bad thing about Titan was actually a good thing now and that was the slow software. I could even manages 10 tables on Titan but the 10th table didnt fit on my screen

Small screenshot:

Although I did generated $2.4 rake, I lost a buy-in there too because I was tilted too much about my loss on NL25.

I luckily doubled up at the end of my crazy maniac 9 tabled SSS because of this, quite a tilted action:

Known players:
[tg]Hero$4.30:///////;BB$5.16:///////;MP1$3.60:///////;MP2$11.05:///////;MP3$5.77:///////;CO$19.60:///////;BU$19.30:///////;[/tg]
0.1/0.2 No-Limit Hold'em (7 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: PokerStrategy Elephant 0.58 by www.pokerstrategy.com.

Preflop: Hero is SB with 6♣, 5♣
5 folds, Hero calls $0.10, BB raises to $0.80, Hero calls $0.60.

Flop: ($1.60) 2♣, K♣, 4♣ (2 players)
Hero checks, BB bets $1.60, Hero raises to $3.50 (All-In), BB calls $1.90.

Turn: ($8.60) 9♥
River: ($8.60) J♦

Final Pot: $8.60

Results follow (highlight to see):
Hero shows a flush, king high (6c 5c)
BB shows a pair of kings (Ac Kd)

Hero wins with a flush, king high (6c 5c)

Equity on the Flop was 35/65 so seriously a bad bad move and you could clearly see I was on tilt. I only thought about my Straight-flush gutshot draw...

So Tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday I will be working as well so I take some time off playing (Party)Poker.
I think relearning things would be appropriate then so I will be learning 75% of the time I got from 18:00 CET till 24:00 CET and 25% playing.
So 1h 30min of 8 Tabled Titan for the next 3 days after I learned things.

Sad to hear Mesorucky that you donked out as well! I lost from a guy who had oottom pair deuced and dared to call my Check-raise..

Thats my motto of the next 3 á 4 days

Im out & exhausted,
Gerv

[x] Sweet monkeys Tuesdays

Another intensive workday, I requested a day off at Thursday so tomorrow it will be my last workday in this week. Gosh thank you Pokergod!

When I came back home, I took a shower, ate some rice with vegetables + fish (seriously!). I downloaded Monday Night RAW! WWE of Torrents so I could watch it while eating.
On 20:00 CET - 21:30 there was a SSS Coaching in Dutch by Sreteb. While there were listening only 5 people, I had opportunities to ask any doubts I had during his play on FullTilt and about my own play.

I asked him how to fix my $$ SCARED MONEY $$problem and I suggested some solutions. However he gave me another solution. Well not an unique one since another Dutch PS player gave me the advice on the Dutch forums but anyway a confirmation of a solution is always good.

During the coaching we witnessed several suckouts like KQ vs KT and then the T came on the river or AQ vs A2 and the deuce hit the board on the river. Also KK vs 88 and an Eight came.
Auch, must hurt
In the end I found this coaching very educational and its a motivation-booster for me because right after that I decided to play a PartyPoker session instead of Titan.

I followed his advice by playing 3 á 4 tabled NL10 SSS and 2 Tabled NL25.
It went well, no solid hands received in the first 30 minutes but ok Patience is the golden rule.

My whole session was based on a scary, intense but joyful 10 minutes where I decided I was going to blind out and review my sessions.
AA hits my hand on SB. MP1 raised to 4BB, I decided to play it passively since these Jackpot tables are sooo tight.
Board 3 T 8, check/check.
Turn Villain Checked so I Potsized bet. He folds, +5BB

3 Hands later KK hits my hand *Oh my god what should I do with it?!?!*

I shrieked when I saw an Ace, I really was in agony but when I saw no-one had the ace. Honestly, It was like I won a lottery but that's basic instinct when you play for Scared money, at least for your first time and such.

From now on, I will pronounce everything with BigBlinds as profit or loss. This is to keep me focussing on my game instead of Finances.

By the way, I found a new music radio that I enjoy playing with. It will definitly keep me awake. I like House & Dance music they both can be used for Dancing or Relaxing.

Last but not least my graph of today (461 hands)

Tomorrow I will play it again I think. Still I got 1h 30min. Playtime as I said yesterday. Wouldn't be good to break my own measurements against tilting and stuff.

Cheers,
Gerv

[x] Nine Tabled Flaming Madness!:]

As the title says: I was trying out 9 tables at once on PartyPoker. It did fit my screen so it was quite a relief because I couldn't handle Titan tables because they are non-resizable *$*U#$@0!*.

I was planning to grind NL10 with this to gain as much Reward Points as possible to boost my Loyalty multiplier. Not that I care much about Loyalty *hmpf*. I wanted my 4th slab asap.

I know this is the wrong attitude to play poker but I was focussing on keeping the overview of nine tables.

Here is my graph of today:

As you can see in the first 100 hands, I lost 1 coinflip and pretty much waited to be BB and payed the BB to play the table.

Then untill the 500th hand, I was in a temporary upswing. I double up 7 times against 1 buyin loss so it felt pretty well. AK vs KT, JJ vs AK ''I can dodge Bullets baby! and AA vs 88. All kinds of fishy actions of Fi$he$.

From there on it went bad to worse to break-even.
Lost JJ vs AK, QQ vs AT, Someone flopped the nut straight during freeplay while I flopped 2 pair unfortunately he just passive called.
Another huge joke was the fact that someone just limped with Kings and flopped Trips. I got Toppairnokicker during freeplay ( I had the 4th king ). And betted potsize on the Turn. He just called so I bet 2/3 on the river and he just called with a Full house.
I just didnt had the time to laugh about it since I played 9 tabled with an average hand per hour rate of 90 (=820 hands per hour).

And Now Gerv proudly presents:

The Fried Fish Moment
______________________________________

SB: $8.25 (82.5 bb)
Hero (BB): $2 (20 bb)
UTG+2: $11.76 (117.6 bb)
MP1: $8.17 (81.7 bb)
MP2: $10.66 (106.6 bb)
Fish: $1.85 (18.5 bb)
CO: $10.10 (101 bb)
BTN: $10 (100 bb)

Pre-Flop: Hero is BB with K
3 folds, Fish calls $0.10, CO calls $0.10, BTN folds, SB completes, Hero checks

Flop: ($0.40) K (4 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, Fish checks his fried potatoes, CO checks

Turn: ($0.40) 5 (4 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $0.20, Fish calls 20 fried cents, CO folds, SB calls $0.20

River: ($1.00) 6 (3 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, Fish grabs 50 cents from a frying pan, SB calls $0.50, Hero calls $0.50

Results: $2.50 pot ($0.12 rake)
MP3 showed K (a full house, Kings full of Sixes) and charges his Fried Fish for a whopping $2.38 ($1.58 net)
SB mucked A (a full house, Fives full of Sixes) and lost (-$0.80 net)
Hero mucked K (two pairs, Kings and Sixes) and lost (-$0.80 net)

I didnt had much time to learn today and I will definitly do it tomorrow, I dont promise it but I just do it ♦

That's all for now, a boring post as you can see...

Cheers,

Gerv

[x] The Finishing Touch

On a sunny afternoon on Friday, I didnt had to work. So I woke up at like 12:00 CET. It was quite nice but really warm nowadays in Holland.
I still want my PS points from the period 24th of July till 28th of July. Its getting me crazy because its worth like 110 PS points and I need them to become Gold.

Enough of this, let's start with the Poker Issues:
~ I really want to play fully on Titan in the month August due the summertime bonus + to release my bonus
~ I still need 55 SPP on Party to release my $100 PokerStrategy Bonus

So what I basically did during this day is this:
[15:00 CET - 17:00 CET] 10_Tabled Party NL10 SSS Madness in order to gain the necessary SPPoints
[18:00 CET - 19:00 CET] Finishing Party Session as I got 8 points short..
[19:00 CET - 22:00 CET] Fixing my computer, learning stuff, surfing on the web, mixing House music etc.etc.
[22:00 CET - 24:00 CET] 9 Tabled Titan Poker SSS NL20

The Graph:

It went better than yesterday but nevertheless too many suckouts in the end as usual. I cannot keep the overview of the tables and blinds are killing you like hell. But thats standard.

Nothing much happened here, the level of players was below average to quite low. I didnt notice, I had to focus on my 9 tables

I finally hit my last $25 to seal the deal. Feels good to have such a bankroll builded up on Party after 25k hands on Nl10 SSS. Feels good.

PartyPoker implemented a new Loyalty Program or something. If you play beyond your weekly goal, your reward points will be increased by 160%. Quite nice but you get 1.25 Partypoints per 20 raked hands on NL10 which means average 45 points per hour for 6 a 7 tabled. So with my Queen3 multiplier, my reward points are: 187 reward points. But i dont believe this from party so there must be a catch.
Anyway 2,500 PartyPoints is worth $25 USD so ''Rakeback'' isnt really the case here.

I did what I had to do so ByeBye Party, see you in September ♦ oh well I will do 1 session per week to let me stay on Queen3.

The graph

My goal here was to just play the game and being profitable. Im ahead of getting my first $25 rake but nonetheless 9 tabled Titan while you are doing something else is pretty tough. ♦

The level on Titan is not sincerely the problem, its the software once again. Overlapping like shit at the moment, really dire and slow.

One more thing: Waiting Lists of 26 People or more on 1 table?! That's insanely sick.. I was happy I played on 7 tables at once then.

Anyway I think people on Titan on Friday Night do got a Kicker problem. Everytime I push correctly (mathematical or logical according to the strategy) They seem calling with kickers ranging from Ten to Deuce. Really +EV. This could be seen on the graph just before I hit the 300 hands mark.

From there on, I lost AKo vs 59s postflop , backdoor flush. QQ runs against Kings. Kings stumbled upon Aces etcetera. Nothing I could basically do.

I ended my session with profit and a lot of rake I think, the support died at this time haha.

Most important hand during this session is at the same time my Fried Fish moment so.............

The Fried Fish Moment
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Known players:
[tg]Position_Stack:hands/vp$ip/RaisePreflop/AF/WTS/ORL/BBvsSteal/W$SD;UTG+2$18.50:156/8 /3 /2.5/22 /9 /100 /75 ;The Fish Hero$3.50:///////;MP3$19.50:13/18 /0 /0.0/33 /0 /-/0 ;[/tg]
0.1/0.2 No-Limit Hold'em (8 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: PokerStrategy Elephant 0.58 by www.pokerstrategy.com.

Preflop: The Fish Hero is MP1 with 2 hot Babes: Q♣, Q♠
UTG+2 calls $0.20, The Fish Hero raises to $1.00, MP2 folds, MP3 calls $1.00, 4 folds, UTG+2 calls $0.80.

Flop: ($3.30) 8♣, A♥, K♠ (3 players)
UTG+2 checks, The Fish Hero thinks *hmm crap* & checks, MP3 checks.

Turn: ($3.30) 2♦ (3 players)
The Fish Hero thinks *hmm* A BLANK so PUSH with trash hand/ATC
UTG+2 checks, The Fish Hero bets $2.50 (All-In), MP3 calls $2.50, UTG+2 folds.

MP3 shows two pairs, aces and deuces (A♣ 2♣)
The Fish Hero thinks aaa crab I knew it! =(

River: ($8.30) Q♥
The Fish Hero screams FISHIFIED!! w00t TITAN POKER RULES

Final Pot: $8.30

Results follow (highlight to see):
Hero shows three of a kind, queens (Qc Qs)
The Fish Hero laughs
MP3 shows two pairs, aces and deuces (Ac 2c)

Hero wins with three of a kind, queens (Qc Qs)

Right, Im off to bed now.
Seems like eating fish today isnt that good for your health.

Cheers guys,
Gerv