Continuing to play well?!

As the title says, the unbelievable seems to have happened. It's taken me a year, but I seem to be profitable now! A while ago I posted about getting a free party roll ($50) from some random site, which I managed to get up to about $350 over a month or two. I then ran out of money and had to cash out to eat.

Then I realised in the easter holidays that food was for losers, so I cashed into stars for $200. My stars account broke $400 about a week ago after about 10,000 hands of 5c 10c cash and a few of those $2.20 turbo 180 mans (I recommend these to anyone with no money....the field halves in roughly 20 mins, so basically half the pot is free money!) I've tended to play one of these with 3 cash tables. 5c 10c is ridiculously easy, I'm running at over 4bb/100 over 11,000 hands.

Once I get to $500ish I'm going to cash in about $90 more, which is the rest of what I cashed out from Party and start playing 10c 25c....which will be the highest I've ever played. Go me! I know this is nothing compared to the gays who have 10k rolls or more, but from starting last year in the Aidan's JCR and donking off buy-in after buy in both there and online, it's really gratifying to finally be making profit. Especially since my online roll (counting the $90) is now $500 - all of which is pure profit.

In other news, I've started playing well live too...In the DUPS tournaments this year I've managed to be the 2nd highest exec member in the rankings, despite only cashing 3 times. I tended to go out between 14 and 7....infuriatingly. Last Saturday I managed to cling on until 4th place and take home £21 - oooh aaah! - despite having my KK ravaged by Chris May's A10 and my AQs beaten by another AQs, which took it upon itself to hit running diamonds -_-

2 cash games ago at Pauls I managed to leave even - for the 1st time since EVER - no mean feat...I generally treated this game as a quick and easy way to show Paul/Isaac how much I like them in monetary form (about £20 worth of liking generally). But after cashing in for £35 (or £40, because I'm a donk and kept cashing in half buy-ins) I finished on a, perhaps less than impressive, £37.

After the DUPS tourney on Saturday though, I managed to somehow salmon my way to a £50 profit, cashing out for around £90 altogether after I'd urinated away my first buy-in (assumedly to Paul, who was playing like a combination of Allah, Buddah and Chuck Norris). Paul also took away a nice £90, making us the only 2 profitable players of the night....a category in which I have rarely resided.

Loool on a more annoying note - in one of those 180 mans, just had these 2 hands:

PokerStars Game #27803779836: Tournament #160885904, $2.00+$0.20 Hold'em No Limit - Level XVI (1500/3000) - 2009/05/04 11:38:58 WET [2009/05/04 6:38:58 ET]
Table '160885904 19' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: Neippl85 (35423 in chips)
Seat 3: mr alli (20998 in chips)
Seat 4: chaoslordtom (43829 in chips)
Seat 5: choppers396 (54875 in chips)
Seat 6: tcefreP (55311 in chips)
Seat 7: baculaat (40000 in chips)
Seat 9: Jo Ass 50 (19564 in chips)
Neippl85: posts the ante 300
mr alli: posts the ante 300
chaoslordtom: posts the ante 300
choppers396: posts the ante 300
tcefreP: posts the ante 300
baculaat: posts the ante 300
Jo Ass 50: posts the ante 300
baculaat: posts small blind 1500
Jo Ass 50: posts big blind 3000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to chaoslordtom [Qs Ad]
Neippl85: calls 3000
mr alli: folds
chaoslordtom: raises 12000 to 15000
choppers396: folds
tcefreP: folds
baculaat: folds
Jo Ass 50: raises 4264 to 19264 and is all-in
Neippl85: folds
chaoslordtom: calls 4264
*** FLOP *** [5c Qc 6c]
*** TURN *** [5c Qc 6c] [Ks]
*** RIVER *** [5c Qc 6c Ks] [8s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Jo Ass 50: shows [9h Kc] (a pair of Kings)
chaoslordtom: shows [Qs Ad] (a pair of Queens)
Jo Ass 50 collected 45128 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 45128 | Rake 0
Board [5c Qc 6c Ks 8s]
Seat 1: Neippl85 folded before Flop
Seat 3: mr alli folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: chaoslordtom showed [Qs Ad] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 5: choppers396 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: tcefreP (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: baculaat (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: Jo Ass 50 (big blind) showed [9h Kc] and won (45128) with a pair of Kings

Followed immediatly (next hand) by this vs. same villain:

PokerStars Game #27803787261: Tournament #160885904, $2.00+$0.20 Hold'em No Limit - Level XVI (1500/3000) - 2009/05/04 11:39:27 WET [2009/05/04 6:39:27 ET]
Table '160885904 19' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: Neippl85 (32123 in chips)
Seat 3: mr alli (20698 in chips)
Seat 4: chaoslordtom (24265 in chips)
Seat 5: choppers396 (54575 in chips)
Seat 6: tcefreP (55011 in chips)
Seat 7: baculaat (38200 in chips)
Seat 9: Jo Ass 50 (45128 in chips)
Neippl85: posts the ante 300
mr alli: posts the ante 300
chaoslordtom: posts the ante 300
choppers396: posts the ante 300
tcefreP: posts the ante 300
baculaat: posts the ante 300
Jo Ass 50: posts the ante 300
Jo Ass 50: posts small blind 1500
Neippl85: posts big blind 3000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to chaoslordtom [9h 9d]
mr alli: folds
chaoslordtom: raises 20965 to 23965 and is all-in
choppers396: folds
tcefreP: folds
baculaat: folds
Jo Ass 50: calls 22465
Neippl85: folds
*** FLOP *** [7c Ad Qc]
*** TURN *** [7c Ad Qc] [6c]
*** RIVER *** [7c Ad Qc 6c] [8h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Jo Ass 50: shows [Ah Qs] (two pair, Aces and Queens)
chaoslordtom: shows [9h 9d] (a pair of Nines)
Jo Ass 50 collected 53030 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 53030 | Rake 0
Board [7c Ad Qc 6c 8h]
Seat 1: Neippl85 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: mr alli folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: chaoslordtom showed [9h 9d] and lost with a pair of Nines
Seat 5: choppers396 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: tcefreP folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: baculaat (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: Jo Ass 50 (small blind) showed [Ah Qs] and won (53030) with two pair, Aces and Queens

Nothing I can do about that...just annoying! :-D