Poker Blogs: sticky maybe?

ditpoker

I read alot of people's blogs when bored in college, and I know alot of boards players have good blogs. Would it be possible to add links to members blogs either as a new sticky or as part of one of the existing sticky's so that there is one place for users to find a good list rather than having to searching around in people's sigs for them.

Blogs of note:
Luckylloyd: http://Luckylloyd.blogspot.com/
Phantom_lord: http://shanespokerblog.blogspot.com/
HectorJelly: http://hectorjelly.livejournal.com/
NickyOD: http://nickyodpoker.blogspot.com/
Ollieboy: http://boycies-poker-blog.blogspot.com/
MrPillowTalk: http://www.pillowtalkpoker.blogspot.com/
Ditpoker: http://ditpoker.blogspot.com/
Flipper: http://www.kieranwalsh.com/
Operation 75k: http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/forum/poker-37635.htm
Ducked Again: http://duckedagain.blogspot.com/
88percent: http://88percent.blogspot.com/

BigDragon

Seriously, get a news aggregator (online version). Its soooooooo much easier that looking aroung at blogs. Try News Gator www.newsgator.com/home.aspx

Mr. Flibble

I like the idea. Perhaps musician will slightly rename the The Poker Guide sticky and add it to that.

Lafortezza

Add all the (quality) poker blogs you can think of to this thread and one of the mods can add the links to one of the stickys for reference.

pok3rplaya

Add mine in there if you like. Check sig.

sikes

nice thread pok3rplaya, will give it a full read soon

Mr. Flibble

I'm just thru reading your blogthread pok3rplaya in its entirety minus some of the HHs. Good work. Do you still play 8 tables at 2/4 & 3/6 or have you reduced the number.

Also, will you post your rate/hr for each level. You said at one point that you made 1.2ptbb/100 hands. This isn't great if you're sitting at 1 table, but is pretty savage if you are at 12!


Thanks for the good read.

Lafortezza

http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/forum/poker-37635.htm

Just read the whole thing, good reading material, shows up the swings and roundabouts of the middle limits pretty well. Sick how many hands you get through though.

Are you still playing on Party? Do they still have the 6 tables maximum in place?

pok3rplaya

Thanks for the comments guys.


Because of the party poker table restriction my set-up is a bit weird at the moment. I'm currently playing 6 Party 2/4 or 3/6 tables and if I'm feeling good, 2 - 4 Tribeca 5/10 tables at the same time. I was playing 6 Party and 2 Stars for a while but Stars is a nitfest, Tribeca is way more profitable so I've dropped the stars tables.

I'll post the rate/hr if you can tell me where to find it.
I said I was making 1.2ptBB/100 back near the middle of the summer at 2/4. That was playing 6 to 8 tables so I guess thats like $60/hr. I played 70k hands at that rate before deciding I wasn't good enough to compete at 400NL. Basically the variance is sick when your winrate is that marginal and the stress just got too much. I dropped down, learned a bunch and played a bunch then moved back up to 400NL. Over my last 50k hands I've been 6 (or more) tabling at 6ptBB/100.

Anyway the point is, I can't really come up with an hourly rate. When I was a marginal player I was making $60/hr (for 70k hands), now I'm a better player (and running good) and making $250/hr (for 50k hands).

Mr. Flibble

PT will do it for you. Hit session notes and click the show true hourly win rates box. Your win rate will appear. I guess you'd have to filter your data in the preferences to get rates fro different levels.

pok3rplaya

Ok this is kinda difficult because of the sheer number of hands and because I've changed my SN in the middle of it all. Best I can work out it's:

at 400NL, over 120,000 hands, TWR = $108/hr

at 200NL, over 145,000 hands, TWR = $27/hr

at 100NL. over 33,000 hands, TWR = $35/hr

My # of hands at other limits is insignificant.

Mr. Flibble

I'm having problems with 1/2 too!
BTW, if you click the Alias option in the main screen in PT you can 'merge' your nicks so PT treats them as one.

kippy

I check out the duckedagain one now an again. It has some local interest and I find it to be one of the funnier Poker blogs. A bit more about the atmosphere and characters as well as some social observations.
Its not updated half enough though.

http://duckedagain.blogspot.com/


Kippy

Lafortezza

kippy wrote:

I check out the duckedagain one now an again. It has some local interest and I find it to be one of the funnier Poker blogs. A bit more about the atmosphere and characters as well as some social observations.
Its not updated half enough though.

http://duckedagain.blogspot.com/

the single most embarrassing thing I have seen is a guy walking around the room with a Ferrari laptop, this belongs to Tom “The Opinion, and everyone knows what they say about opinions” Murphy, I mean good God man, what do you think goes through peoples minds when they see that thing, it the equivalent of standing under a 20ft neon sign saying “Thunderously Boring Tit with No Penis”. Personally I think selling the laptop and using the proceeds to fund any required enhancement operations would be a better way to go. Of course I am just pointing out how this particular accessory might make one look to other people and I want to make it clear that I certainly have no actual idea exactly how small Tom is.

lol

ollyk1

A blog which I'm currently getting tremendous amusement from is

http://88percent.blogspot.com/

This blog should come with a subtitle "How not to manage a bankroll"

LuckyLloyd

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Mr. Flibble

Did he get his bankroll from a lotto win?

edit: ah, the blog starts in February.

aidankk

ollyk1 wrote:

A blog which I'm currently getting tremendous amusement from is

http://88percent.blogspot.com/

This blog should come with a subtitle "How not to manage a bankroll"

I think i could write a very good blog on how NOT to manage bankroll:mad:

Better go 10-20 limit calling again:(

ollyk1

LuckyLloyd wrote:

I can't quite believe what I am reading. Who the hell is that guy???

Believe it Lloyd. It's well worth reading over the last year of the blog.

He's gone from playing with very small money, to having £170k+ to being busto two or three times. He's played three EPT events from what I can see (and the Irish open) and played terribly in all of them. He's a teenage kid who wants to be a famous poker player and always wants to play the highest level on the poker sites on which he's on.

Reading the comments from seasoned internet types on his blog (people who have watched him play) it's obvious its not a hoax. I imagine quite a few people keep an eye on the blog with an eye to relieving him of his cash.

ligger

ollyk1 wrote:

Believe it Lloyd. It's well worth reading over the last year of the blog.

He's gone from playing with very small money, to having £170k+ to being busto two or three times. He's played three EPT events from what I can see (and the Irish open) and played terribly in all of them. He's a teenage kid who wants to be a famous poker player and always wants to play the highest level on the poker sites on which he's on.

Reading the comments from seasoned internet types on his blog (people who have watched him play) it's obvious its not a hoax. I imagine quite a few people keep an eye on the blog with an eye to relieving him of his cash.

I read this last week, great read I have to say. From borrowing a few quid off his parents at one stage to playing the EPT in Barcelona. Nuts stuff. Has to play the "top table" don't know why but every time they add a new top table he moves up the levels...

Flipper

ollyk1 wrote:

Reading the comments from seasoned internet types on his blog (people who have watched him play) it's obvious its not a hoax. I imagine quite a few people keep an eye on the blog with an eye to relieving him of his cash.

We were talking about him in Singapore - it's not a hoax. A couple of the UK guys know him. He is nuts

BigDragon

Flipper wrote:

We were talking about him in Singapore - it's not a hoax. A couple of the UK guys know him. He is nuts

Noticed the 3rd blog he has on is blogroll.......

Mr. Flibble

Jeff, would you edit your first post and add the added blog links - make it easier to find them in future.

ditpoker

done!

ionapaul

ollyk1 wrote:

A blog which I'm currently getting tremendous amusement from is

http://88percent.blogspot.com/

This blog should come with a subtitle "How not to manage a bankroll"

What an amazing read! How much is he down on the year, can anyone estimate, or did he cash out and keep any of the $170k he made it to? Seems his 1st month of posts had many 'I threw $2000 into my account, lost it all playing too loose, threw another $1000 in and lost that too'!

5starpool

ionapaul wrote:

What an amazing read! How much is he down on the year, can anyone estimate, or did he cash out and keep any of the $170k he made it to? Seems his 1st month of posts had many 'I threw $2000 into my account, lost it all playing too loose, threw another $1000 in and lost that too'!

I stopped after about 4 posts due to his terrible grammar and lack of capitals. Very hard reading.

Ste05

ionapaul wrote:

What an amazing read! How much is he down on the year, can anyone estimate, or did he cash out and keep any of the $170k he made it to? Seems his 1st month of posts had many 'I threw $2000 into my account, lost it all playing too loose, threw another $1000 in and lost that too'!

LOL I was about to post the exact same question. Great read though, What I liked about the first few months (haven't got onto the later months yet) is you never know where he's going to be playing next, one minute he has a $100 loss limit a day and playing tournaments or buying in for the minimum on some table, then he's thrown that out the window and is playing 25/50, then back to .50/1, then 5/10, I think I even saw a $2+.20 MTT in there as well I think, crazy stuff, he must have hit a serious heater to get up to 6 figures.

One thing he seems to say alot is, "there were no suitable £5/£10 tables, so I played £10/£20, Bought in for (insert random tiny amount), then topped up (a proper amount) 17 times, then somehow, as if by miracle managed to break even!!! Sure why not???

I also love how the odd time when he has a small win, he mentions a BR, even though he seems to have already deposited '000's into his various accounts.

cardshark202

Dom your new avatar doesn't work. Its like some sort of mask. You can't just change an avatar after 2500 posts. Back to eeyore please.

5starpool

cardshark202 wrote:

Dom your new avatar doesn't work. Its like some sort of mask. You can't just change an avatar after 2500 posts. Back to eeyore please.

I'm trying to change my image..........

phantom_lord

I was slighty confused for a short while of who this new guy was, change it back! ianmc changing his was bad enough. i don't like change...

LuckyLloyd

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5starpool

LuckyLloyd wrote:

Dom, the unfortunate reality is that I havn't seen or heard anything recently that would suggest that the choice of a Donkey as your Avatar is incorrect. Change it back please.

I fold......

brianmc

5starpool wrote:

I fold.....

lol. Eeyore always looked like he was saying this in that picture anyway.

LuckyLloyd

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cardshark202

5starpool wrote:

I fold......

Nice laydown. I'm 100% certain you were beaten there.

El Stuntman

poker blogs are gay

5starpool

El Stuntman wrote:

poker blogs are gay

Ooooo, suits you sir.

El Stuntman

5starpool wrote:

Ooooo, suits you sir.

I'm a happily married man, what are you trying to inseminate?

peeko

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