Operation One Million dollars!!!!

Originally Posted by Irisheyes

Originally Posted by sandstorm

But the rate at 1000NL will be higher, right?

?? Did you just catch me playing 1kNL?

No, but I mean, the road to 1000NL goes via 600NL

Originally Posted by sandstorm

Originally Posted by Irisheyes

Originally Posted by sandstorm

But the rate at 1000NL will be higher, right?

?? Did you just catch me playing 1kNL?

No, but I mean, the road to 1000NL goes via 600NL

Yeah, true. You still killing it?

I havent played in a few days, took a test today in school. Will be moving on Sunday too, so we'll see when I get the Intarnets again. Hopefully in a week or so, I'll be back then.

I have been running good, (7-8ptbb/100 after 2k hands or so) but I'm preparing myself for the swings. Stars is full of regulars, still don't know if I can't beat them long term obv. This gave me a good start though so I have some breathing space. 1000NL would be nice in a few months or so, I'll have almost half a year to dedicate to poker so it could be fun!

(Maybe I should start an "operation 2007" thread so I won't be hijacking your )

Lifetime 6max hands, 600NL from about the 113k hands mark:

Wow man, savage graph. It's taken me like 400,000 hands to get to that stage. Yeah get your own thread you're making me look bad in here!

btw I got killed for like 5k at 1kNL last night. It was nasty.

Did you find any good tables or just feel like taking a shot? (1kNL) I've played 100-200 1000NL hands but man it's scary :P Got set-over setted, no more for a while Grind 600NL is the main plan.

I found some really good tables. I def had a huge edge there but yesterday was downswing day for me. It was just a bunch of straight out beats though so I'm not worried.

I got set-over-setted for 200bb yesterday. Fun experience.

Btw, what do you feel are the main differences now, and back when you got killed and moved down etc. (If there are any big). I'm too lazy to look in the thread for answers :P

Originally Posted by sandstorm

Btw, what do you feel are the main differences now, and back when you got killed and moved down etc. (If there are any big). I'm too lazy to look in the thread for answers :P

You mean differences in my play between now and a couple of months ago?

Yeah, you know, general stuff. What made it turn up again?

Yeah I was kinda meaning to make a post about that. I think it's a combination of a whole bunch of things.

I had no clue about pot control. I'm checking turns and doing other shit alot more now that I wasn't before.

My image manipulation and related skills have improved a whole bunch. I posted some hands in this thread where I'm shoving against 4bets with JJ and stuff and being right just bacause I have a good read on the flow of the table and my image. I coulda never done that stuff a few months ago.

I'm just starting to cotton on to stuff like game theory and mixing up your play now. Stuff that extends from the theories of image manipulation I guess.

And plus I'm just running real good at the moment. Well at least I was until yesterday.

Here's a hand where I made a move and got pwned:


Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ BB (5 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

Hero ($388)
SB ($717.40)
BB ($400)
UTG ($335.80)
MP ($511.40)

Preflop: Hero is Button with J, A. SB posts a blind of $2.
2 folds, Hero raises to $16, 1 fold, BB calls $12.

Flop: ($34) 2, 2, 3 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $24, BB raises to $60, Hero calls $36.

Turn: ($154) 8 (2 players)
BB bets $120, Hero calls $388 (All-In), BB calls $192.

River: ($854) 7 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Final Pot: $854

Results in white below:
BB has 3h 3d (full house, threes full of twos).
Hero has Jc Ad (one pair, twos).
Outcome: BB wins $854.

Nice to hear your thoughts. Keep blogging.

The hand: Why did you think he'd fold? I would put him on 77+ here and they seldom fold that turn.

The guy was kinda TAG. I know I'd fold, I felt there's a reasonable chance he would too.

disregard that maybe half drunk (mow full drunk)=

Good for you. went out last night. Don't remember a thing from about 11.30 on. Good times.

Just noticed that we have over 10,000 views for this thread! Thanks to everyone who reads and contributes.

Operation Mini-Operation Update:

Just pulled an all-nighter. Almost 31k hands now. Profit is $15,222.

Not running as good over the last few thousand as the hands before that. I just noticed that if I include hands from before I changed my username I'm at 6ptBB/100 for 50,000 hands now!

K I'm off to do some laundry.

Crazy funny hand from tonights session.


Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ BB (5 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

saw flop|saw showdown

BB ($280.46)
UTG ($1198)
MP ($423.54)
Hero ($743)
SB ($751.22)

Preflop: Hero is Button with A, Q. SB posts a blind of $3.
UTG raises to $24, 1 fold, Hero raises to $84, 2 folds, UTG calls $60.

Flop: ($177) T, 5, J (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($177) 6 (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero checks

River: ($177) K (2 players)
UTG bets All-in ($1114), Hero calls ($659)

Final Pot: $1493

Results in white below:
UTG has 5s 3s (one pair, fives).
Hero has Ac Qc (straight, ace high).
Outcome: Hero wins $1493.

Had a $4000 day today at 600NL on Party.

It's interesting cos I'm playing with no PT or hud, watchin the tables a bit more now.

BR= around $38,000

whoa, stop overtaking here i just got my internets in my new apt, will be getting back in the groove and expect a full force attack in january ---> eternity.

nice job.

Mini operation is still chugging along nicely. I'm 36,500 hands in now with a total profit to date of $21,800.

BR still hasn't hit 40k because I dropped some money playing 1kNL. I'll get there soon hopefully.

Originally Posted by sandstorm

whoa, stop overtaking here i just got my internets in my new apt, will be getting back in the groove and expect a full force attack in january ---> eternity.

nice job.

You too. We need to start a race or something.

How about the guy with the most money when he dies wins?

Thats the rules I live my life by right there!


HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!

Hey great Blog/Operation update, I loved every post. I play Party though and I dont see these limits you talk about? 100/200 is the most I can play upto so am I missing something here? Never seen 400NL or 600NL.


It's probably me but hey, keep up the posts and I look forward to reading you have made the 75K you're after mate!

Thanks for reading.

Are you sure that you understand properly what 600NL means? I mean a No Limit cash game with blinds of $3 and $6 and I sit down with the max. buyin of $600. Does that make it more clear?

lol I get it now, I thought you were playing mega-high stakes i.e blinds of 400/600. But now I think about it thats just stupid lol...im gonna crawl back under my rock now

Originally Posted by martypalin

lol I get it now, I thought you were playing mega-high stakes i.e blinds of 400/600. But now I think about it thats just stupid lol...im gonna crawl back under my rock now

Haha no problem don't worry about it. Once again good to hear from a lurker. Stick around the forums btw, there a cool place in general.

Smashed through the 40k BR mark today with my biggest ever pot, a total of $4021.

In other news: I had a 4- 5 buyin downswing at 400NL earlier on in the night. Nothing to worry about, lost a set-over-set and two underflush hands plus a bunch of other tough decisions. I clawed my way back to nearly breakeven with a combination of some good 600NL hands and a bunch more slogging at 400NL.

That was before I ran reasonable at 1kNL:


Seat 1 : smrad has $665.25
Seat 2 : ganf01 has $227.01
Seat 3 : Irisheyes has $2,006.50
Seat 4 : skipeedee has $3,023.75
Irisheyes is the dealer.
skipeedee posted small blind.
smrad posted big blind.
Game [99911] started with 4 players.

Dealing Hole Cards.
Seat 3 : Irisheyes has 9s 8h
ganf01 folded.
Irisheyescalled $10 and raised $30
skipeedee called $35
smrad folded.

Dealing flop.
Board cards [6s 9d 8s]
skipeedee bet $44
Irisheyes called $44 and raised $110
skipeedee called $110 and raised $220
Irisheyes called $220

Dealing turn.
Board cards [6s 9d 8s Qc]
skipeedee bet $400
Irisheyes called $400 and raised $1,192.50 and is All-in
skipeedee called $1,192.50

Showdown!
Seat 3 : Irisheyes has 9s 8h
Seat 4 : skipeedee has Qs Ts
Board cards [6s 9d 8s Qc 5d]

Irisheyes has Two Pair: 9s and 8s
skipeedee has Pair: Queens
Irisheyes wins $4,021 with Two Pair: 9s and 8s


BR = $40,100

Awesome, that's a huge pot... but i just noticed ur opponent had a shitload of outs, it's always a great thing to be able to dodge the bullets and haul down a monster pot!!

Yeah it was EXACTLY a coinflip on the turn.. still very very nice

Played some more 400NL over the last day or two. Ran good, up about 5k or so. I have to make some withdrawals now to pay for college stuff which sucks a bit but it has to be done. I think operation mini-operation is completed now I'm just not sure because I'm home from college andI don't have full PT access at the moment.

I saw a post on 2+2 just there about how not taking shots is costing people money in poker and it inspired me to grow some balls a little bit. So I'm gonna take the rest of my bankroll (about 40k) and concentrate on trying to beat party 5/10 for a while. I'm going to set a stopper at the 35k bankroll mark and if I run bad I'll drop back to 400NL at that point. Hopefully I'll run hot and own the place for a while though.

I'm also going to try and play alot less poker from now on. I'm really falling behind with college and shit and since this is my last year I really need to put in a big effort between now and my exams in June. I guess it can be my new years resolution. Play less poker, but more quality poker and try and improve my game to a point where I'm solidly beating 1kNL.

hey man

you re not the first person I've seen who's oscillating between 2-4 andn 5-10

3-6 is tough? what's the deal?

My br is around 30k but I'm still wimpishly donking around nl200 and I'm wondering about your reasoning behind jumping directly to nl1k. Do the games actually seem juicier at 1k than at 600?

The problem with 3/6 on Party is the lack of tables. For some reason there always seems to be more 1kNL tables running then 3/6 tables. Because of the lack of tables, they very quicklt get filled up with a bunch of TAGs who I don't really want to play with. The best way of describing it is that at non peak times, all the 3/6 tables are the equivilent of a table full of 2/4 regs.

5/10 seems to have a different set of players then 2/4 and 3/6 (which are kinda the same). I don't know if this means more fish or just a bunch of players who are even better then the 3/6 regs but here's hoping....

lol I have my own thread (I also FINALLY ran really bad and blew most of the running-hot-$$$ I made, but I'll be back soon). So you are in the lead again, big time. Damn. Anyway, don't take it easy over New Year's and see you in 2007 (which will contain a lot of ownage).

Hey Irish I'm back on Party now after TonyG refused to cash me out for the last time so what tables and times do you play, I'll come along and donate my money one time!

lollers I made like $9000 today!

wtf stop it. 10/20?

this is pretty amazing, i remember playing you at party 100nl...congrats!

Amazing is not the word for it. I'm blown away by how good I'm running. If you scroll back there's a post I made where I withdrew all of my bankroll down to $3000 on the 21st Aug. Thants when I was playing 100NL. Since then I've made almost $55,000 dollars! In two months! I never dreamed I'd be able to do that!

Been playing mostly 5/10 and some 10/20 lately. It's being going pretty good and I feel like I can muster together some sort of an edge if I table select well. Hopefull all my days will be as good as yesterday was.

BR = $55k ish

You smell.

Give me your luck plz.

Extravagant... reading about your immense good fortune in last few months makes me think of this speech: "May your cards be live and all your pots be monsters" (M. Sexton)...

Originally Posted by Irisheyes

Amazing is not the word for it. I'm blown away by how good I'm running. If you scroll back there's a post I made where I withdrew all of my bankroll down to $3000 on the 21st Aug. Thants when I was playing 100NL. Since then I've made almost $55,000 dollars! In two months! I never dreamed I'd be able to do that!

Been playing mostly 5/10 and some 10/20 lately. It's being going pretty good and I feel like I can muster together some sort of an edge if I table select well. Hopefull all my days will be as good as yesterday was.

BR = $55k ish

I just moved down to $10NL. Now I know where all my cards have gone for the last three months. Keep it up, nice to have "contributors" in FTR hitting those stakes.

Well done man. keep it up

Operation Mini-Operation is complete. This graph is half of Nov and all of Dec at Party 400NL. I'm really proud of this one.





The mini-op started about 15k hands into the graph. I cut it short after about 45k hands though to go play 1kNL. Where, btw, I got pwned for about 4k today.

Where do you play 10/20 at? I like Bodog 10/20 but I dont like being limited to 3 tables.

I just re-read this whole thread because I was bored and you've been doing so good lately and I remember the old days when you were breaking even over tons of hands and what not, it's pretty amazing what a long way you've came. This thread has actually inspired me just recently to start playing way more than I have been. I finally tonight came to the realization that the reason I play so little (15-20k hands per month on avg) is because I'm scared of failure. If I have a solid month I'll play less so my month doesn't get ruined, which is stupid obviously and kills my bottom line. I also suck at putting in the hours compared to you also, like every post in this thread by you earlier was "well today I played 5k hands blah blah." I'm not sure I could ever have that kind of work ethic and dedication.

Anyways now I'm just rambling on and on. Basically you've come a very long way and I'm proud of you man, keep it up. And yes you'll def have to come visit me if you come near this way on your trip to the states.

Aislephive, would the rest of your (non-poker) life suffer if you put in lots more hours? Maybe you really play 20k hands a month because the equilibrium is already about right?

OK I've decided I'm not good enough to beat 5/10 and 10/20 on Party long term. I haven't lost loads of money or anything I just feel like I'm getting outplayed too much and it takes all my concentration to hold my own there.

So it's back to 600NL for a while to grind and improve. Due to the lack of tables on party I've decided to multitable Full tilt and party at the same time and try to get the best tables on both sites. That'll be my home for the forseeable future.

I'll keep things updated.

Originally Posted by Irisheyes

Amazing is not the word for it. I'm blown away by how good I'm running. If you scroll back there's a post I made where I withdrew all of my bankroll down to $3000 on the 21st Aug. Thants when I was playing 100NL. Since then I've made almost $55,000 dollars! In two months! I never dreamed I'd be able to do that!

Been playing mostly 5/10 and some 10/20 lately. It's being going pretty good and I feel like I can muster together some sort of an edge if I table select well. Hopefull all my days will be as good as yesterday was.

BR = $55k ish

well done mate, mad buzz

THE 6 TABLE RULE ON PARTY POKER IS GONE NOW!!!!!! YAHOOOO!!!!!!!! Seriously this is like all my birthdays coming at once!!!

Yet again I have some decisions to make about where to play.

Is that a good thing? All the regulars will be everywhere and the fish will still be at 1 or 2 tables. Hopefully there are lots of bad regs. I dunno about this since I only 6 or 8 table anyway

Well at least now I can be on 8 tables with 1 fish each instead of 6 tables with 1 fish each.

And YAY 6 pages.

And lol at DA GOAT. Only an Irish guy would write Mad Buzz haha love that phrase.

Originally Posted by Irisheyes

And YAY 6 pages.

And lol at DA GOAT. Only an Irish guy would write Mad Buzz haha love that phrase.

You seem to be buzzing 2day so its even more fitting

playing more than 6 tables of 6-max = -EV in my opinion. In fact I generally play 3 tables and am kept constantly busy making reads and plays on people all the time.

Full ring is another story (you can easily play 5 tables with no HUDs, 6-7 tables with HUDs), but I thought you were a 6-max player.

I mean you can play a lot of tables but your playing abilty goes way down and you play really generic. It kills your profits at 5/10 and higher because those games demand you to make individual reads and plays depending on the specific situation and opponent.

Also in lower stakes you win by mostly sitting and camping and this doesnt require very much active play and so you can play a gazillion tables. At higher stakes to win you must be active and so you have to play fewer tables to win.

Irish... great thread. I don't really know what else to say.

Can't wait to see you hit the 100k club.

Originally Posted by spino1i

playing more than 6 tables of 6-max = -EV in my opinion. In fact I generally play 3 tables and am kept constantly busy making reads and plays on people all the time.

Full ring is another story (you can easily play 5 tables with no HUDs, 6-7 tables with HUDs), but I thought you were a 6-max player.

I mean you can play a lot of tables but your playing abilty goes way down and you play really generic. It kills your profits at 5/10 and higher because those games demand you to make individual reads and plays depending on the specific situation and opponent.

Also in lower stakes you win by mostly sitting and camping and this doesnt require very much active play and so you can play a gazillion tables. At higher stakes to win you must be active and so you have to play fewer tables to win.

Thanks for the post.

Yeah I'm starting to realise a lot of this now. Playing fewer tables and making tighter reads is something I really need to practice if I plan on becoming a solid winner at 5/10 and above.

I find though that where I am at the moment solid tag with some varaiations thrown in against the right people works really well. It probably doesn't help further my game much though.

I'm trying to 10 table Party 400NL for the next while and I'll see how it goes.

Originally Posted by givememyleg

Irish... great thread. I don't really know what else to say.

Can't wait to see you hit the 100k club.

Thanks.

Me either.

Your new thread is going to be titled "Operation I wipe myself with Benjamin Franklin's"

Benjamin Franklin's what?

sorry for ', its just benjamin franklins...

Originally Posted by biondino

Benjamin Franklin's what?

powdered wig obv.

god damn euros and not knowing what a hundo is

god damn seppos not knowing what punctuation is

punctuawho?

Played like 5000 hands of 2/4 and 3/6 today. +$68 omg my head is wrecked.

Originally Posted by Irisheyes

Played like 5000 hands of 2/4 and 3/6 today. +$68 omg my head is wrecked.

I hear ya.

Been playing Party 600NL the last while. It's a pretty soft game it seems, I haven't really been playing well though. Or playing enough hands. It's been breakeven the last while basically.


Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ Hero (3 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

saw flop|saw showdown

Hero ($901)
Button ($2895.79)
SB ($784.45)

Preflop: Hero is BB with A, Q. SB posts a blind of $3.
Button raises to $24, SB (poster) calls $21, Hero raises to $96, Button raises to $270, SB folds, Hero calls $895 (All-In), Button folds.

Final Pot: $1291

Results in white below:
No showdown. Hero wins $1282.

Where is my weekly update.

I don't see it.

I'd like to.

Kthx.

Lol I played Irisheyes in a Party SNG and he totally blanked me lol, I hope he's doing well in his Operation 75K though

Originally Posted by martypalin

Lol I played Irisheyes in a Party SNG and he totally blanked me lol, I hope he's doing well in his Operation 75K though

really? how do you know it was me? Was this a HU $10 SnG? I vever play SnGs, this is weird.

Originally Posted by aislephive

Where is my weekly update.

I don't see it.

I'd like to.

Kthx.

Dude you talk to me on AIM like every day anyway.

Originally Posted by Irisheyes

Originally Posted by aislephive

Where is my weekly update.

I don't see it.

I'd like to.

Kthx.

Dude you talk to me on AIM like every day anyway.

Haha.

F U.

I think I've completed this operation. I'm not 100% sure and it won't be till tomorrow that I can add up my total bankroll. I won $6k last night and I'm fairly certain that put me over the 75k mark.

Stay tuned.....