April 19, 2012
Killing It
Hey guys just a quick post, so for the last two weeks i have been pumping a lot of zoom poker and iv logged about 18 sessions and 21,000 hands and of those 18 sessions iv not lost one of them, id like to say I am just plain good but i have to be running good as well i guess. I feel like I am playing well though and making good decisions all the time i have been reviewing a lot of my hands on HM2 and happy to say I am looking pretty leak proof at the moment roll is building pretty fast and iv mainly been playing 10NL and 25NL but will move up to 50NL zoom in the next week or so and ill keep yall posted. Voltastyllo out.
March 31, 2012
Two Months
Hey to any or all of you who may be still reading this blog, its been two months since i have done a blog post which is the longest iv gone with out doing one and im sorry.
In other news life is good except I am still working a normal day job which is never really good, my day generally involves me getting up at about 6am every day going to work get home about 5pm maybe do some exercise or gym training then dinner with the misses then bit of TV and bed at about 9-10pm.(gay)lol
so not really living life these days but the future always looks bright in my eyes. I am always dreaming of what could and will be someday. My days will soon become more jam packed as i have decided to go back to finish my studies which will be two or three nights during the week and half day on Saturday ill have about 9 months of studies then ill be finished, I am studying to become a qualified personal trainer( something i am passionate about) and will give me the freedom of either enjoying getting out of bed every morning to go to work or give me the freedom to be self employed, which is always nice! ill talk more about this when i commence my studies.
Speaking of fitness and exercise lately i have been so slack i was doing well for a few weeks there and i manage to lose 4kg but another 5 weeks later and its almost all been put back on. sigh. but over the last week i have been planning food menus and meal eating plans and ideas that will be put into place with a training schedule i have put together and will plan to kick start that in about 10 days so exciting times ahead, i currently weigh 94kg and I am 175cm's tall and i just turned 24 years old, i plan to get down to around 82kg doing circuits and a lot of cardio then when i hit my goal of 82kg ill focus more on strength training the over all plan is to be looking skinny fit and muscly before i become a personal trainer. which shouldn't be hard its more a question of can i stick to a plan. I was always healthy and fit when younger but once i hit 18 and started drinking and partying i slowly got lazy. any way enough about me..... for now hahahah.
So i bet your all thinking Volt this is a poker blog when the hell are you going to tell us what you have been up to with poker. Well not much to be honest i have been dabbling around with zoom poker through march and to explain my results with two words id have to say "KILLING IT" it is so soft and so fishy and i have been winning at an unbelievable rate. only really been playing 5NL-25NL ZOOM but they are slowly adding more stakes so its getting exciting and i just received an email from the holdem manager team today announcing that they now track hands for zoom and have a working hud for zoom on HEM2 which is awesome but kind of suck because i only have HEM1 but ill be upgrading in the next week so i can hopefully get some sick looking graphs for you guys.
Plans for the future,play more pokers, keep working, start studying try living life more and spending more time with the misses join a sports team( i wanna get back into soccer i played for 12 years). and get fit and stick to a healthy balance of diet and fitness. also quick note i do have a strong desire to compete in a half marathon or like one of those fitness challenges such as urbanathlon www.urbanathlon.com.au check it out its a 10km course with obstacles through cities all around the world and there's one in Sydney Australia. Exciting. any way till next time see you at the tables. Voltastyllo
In other news life is good except I am still working a normal day job which is never really good, my day generally involves me getting up at about 6am every day going to work get home about 5pm maybe do some exercise or gym training then dinner with the misses then bit of TV and bed at about 9-10pm.(gay)lol
so not really living life these days but the future always looks bright in my eyes. I am always dreaming of what could and will be someday. My days will soon become more jam packed as i have decided to go back to finish my studies which will be two or three nights during the week and half day on Saturday ill have about 9 months of studies then ill be finished, I am studying to become a qualified personal trainer( something i am passionate about) and will give me the freedom of either enjoying getting out of bed every morning to go to work or give me the freedom to be self employed, which is always nice! ill talk more about this when i commence my studies.
Speaking of fitness and exercise lately i have been so slack i was doing well for a few weeks there and i manage to lose 4kg but another 5 weeks later and its almost all been put back on. sigh. but over the last week i have been planning food menus and meal eating plans and ideas that will be put into place with a training schedule i have put together and will plan to kick start that in about 10 days so exciting times ahead, i currently weigh 94kg and I am 175cm's tall and i just turned 24 years old, i plan to get down to around 82kg doing circuits and a lot of cardio then when i hit my goal of 82kg ill focus more on strength training the over all plan is to be looking skinny fit and muscly before i become a personal trainer. which shouldn't be hard its more a question of can i stick to a plan. I was always healthy and fit when younger but once i hit 18 and started drinking and partying i slowly got lazy. any way enough about me..... for now hahahah.
So i bet your all thinking Volt this is a poker blog when the hell are you going to tell us what you have been up to with poker. Well not much to be honest i have been dabbling around with zoom poker through march and to explain my results with two words id have to say "KILLING IT" it is so soft and so fishy and i have been winning at an unbelievable rate. only really been playing 5NL-25NL ZOOM but they are slowly adding more stakes so its getting exciting and i just received an email from the holdem manager team today announcing that they now track hands for zoom and have a working hud for zoom on HEM2 which is awesome but kind of suck because i only have HEM1 but ill be upgrading in the next week so i can hopefully get some sick looking graphs for you guys.
Plans for the future,play more pokers, keep working, start studying try living life more and spending more time with the misses join a sports team( i wanna get back into soccer i played for 12 years). and get fit and stick to a healthy balance of diet and fitness. also quick note i do have a strong desire to compete in a half marathon or like one of those fitness challenges such as urbanathlon www.urbanathlon.com.au check it out its a 10km course with obstacles through cities all around the world and there's one in Sydney Australia. Exciting. any way till next time see you at the tables. Voltastyllo
February 10, 2012
what to do what to do
Hey every one so i played quiet a bit in January but haven't played at all in February played 100NL exclusively and am sitting around 20k vpps. SNE just seems to keep getting harder with all the changes that stars is making lately and to be honest its just plain tilting. I wish they would just make there changes before the year starts then just leave us all to grind for the year.
in better news i just recieved an email that the WBCOOP "world bloggers championships of online poker"
which im very excited about i did ok last year in this series so hopefully i can pull off a few more final tables this year.
So plans and goals for the rest of the year, i have no idea what im doing am still working a day job so ill keep saving and decide some time by the end of march. till then,
See you at the tables Voltastyllo
in better news i just recieved an email that the WBCOOP "world bloggers championships of online poker"
which im very excited about i did ok last year in this series so hopefully i can pull off a few more final tables this year.
So plans and goals for the rest of the year, i have no idea what im doing am still working a day job so ill keep saving and decide some time by the end of march. till then,
See you at the tables Voltastyllo
December 31, 2011
2011 in review
So 2011 is at an end, it is new years eve 8pm as i write this and looking back at the year and thinking ahead for plans for 2012 so there have been a lot of ups and downs for me this year and online poker was not a success for me but live was pretty good below are the numbers for 2011
online tournaments -$700
online cash games -$3,828
live tournaments +$4,100
live cash games +17,600
2011 total profit +$17,172
so a year of profit isnt to bad but im still very unhappy, really hoping 2012 is a stellar year for me im hoping to play a lot more live tournaments and a lot more online im hoping to make a run at SNE but with new changes to the way vpps are dealt im very unsure as to how hard it will be now so will have to see how january plays out. sorry about the uick post but it is new years eve so will do an update some time early january till then gl every one and happy new year. Voltastyllo
online tournaments -$700
online cash games -$3,828
live tournaments +$4,100
live cash games +17,600
2011 total profit +$17,172
so a year of profit isnt to bad but im still very unhappy, really hoping 2012 is a stellar year for me im hoping to play a lot more live tournaments and a lot more online im hoping to make a run at SNE but with new changes to the way vpps are dealt im very unsure as to how hard it will be now so will have to see how january plays out. sorry about the uick post but it is new years eve so will do an update some time early january till then gl every one and happy new year. Voltastyllo
November 27, 2011
I am alive
So its been a very long time since I have done a post almost two months to be exact, i have been very busy working my day job and studying a lot on my game and to be honest havent really played much poker at all im pretty much dead even for no limit holdem for the last two months and probably down around $500 at the PLO tables which i have been trialing a bit, and no I am not thinking about moving to PLO I am just trying to improve my PLO game along with other variants of the game, but made about $800 in bonuses in the last two months so I am up around $300 not that great, but as i said i haven't played to much.
I am very happy with the studying i have been doing almost two hours of study every day i looked over hand histories of around 200k hands which took forever, but found some good stuff and have worked on little things here and there. Now the only thing to do is wait till January 1st which is 33 days away i cant wait to start the journey which is Supernova Elite. I will write a detailed post at the end of December about my plan for next year, my schedule, my hours and what tables i will be playing. till then hope every one has a Merry Christmas and a happy new year. Voltastyllo
I am very happy with the studying i have been doing almost two hours of study every day i looked over hand histories of around 200k hands which took forever, but found some good stuff and have worked on little things here and there. Now the only thing to do is wait till January 1st which is 33 days away i cant wait to start the journey which is Supernova Elite. I will write a detailed post at the end of December about my plan for next year, my schedule, my hours and what tables i will be playing. till then hope every one has a Merry Christmas and a happy new year. Voltastyllo
October 5, 2011
September Review +
Hey everyone. So i haven't done a blog post in over a month and a lot has happened and I have a lot to talk about. Well to start the month my misses went away to Europe on the 9th of September for three weeks so i didnt play any poker really for the first 9 days before she left, and while she was away i worked every week day with most days doing overtime, so this didnt leave much time for grinding, i think i averaged something like 1k hands per day or something. So the misses arrived home a few days ago on the 29th and I am glad she is home as I missed her a lot.
As for Poker it was a great month i managed to pull off my first winning month at the tables, now I know you all probably just fell off your chairs but its true! I, voltastyllo from this month forward am hopefully a winning player at the tables and not just another "rake back bonus whoring monkey" and before you all think it might be a massive heater i ran something like $300 below EV for the month. So I am going to explain a few things I did that believe led to the result of this successful month. I'll put these in point form.
Study:
Every single day that I played in September I studied, I was either reading strategy in one of the two new poker books I recently purchased or I was studying my hand histories from my play the day before. I also had a few good situational talks with some people on 2+2 as well as reading the forums. I also kept working on leaks that I already knew I had that needed a bit more attention,
Advanced Note Taking:
So until recently my only form of note taking went something like this. (idiot fish, moron calling station, f#$k!NG) and the list goes on, all of which was completely useless, so this month I started noting many things such as hand ranges, hands that people raise with, 3-bet with call 3-bets with players that noticeably spew off there stack with garbage ect ect the list goes on. All in all it was very useful, it often helped in future situations making a lot of very profitable plays/calls.
Changing tables:
Now what i mean by this is before I made this change I used to just open the amount of tables I wanted to play and id just play until I was finished my session, only ever leaving a table if players left and there were four or less people seated. Now I have made the smart move by leaving tables when ever they start to become to reg infested and I have quite a lot of notes on regs on stars, I generally have them all coloured with a green ring around there avatar. So although this may be obvious to some people, it was never really something that I took into consideration.
Less tables:
Now I have been trying this all year, but this month September, was the first month that Ihave ever stuck to playing 12 tables or less and to be honest I spent most of the month just 6 tabling and working on my game, focusing on making good decisions and being patient, I always used to get bored with few tables and couldn't help but fire up 18-24 tables and just grind while missing a lot of free valuable information.
Aggression:
Over the last month i have been working on my table aggression, which to be honest was very non-existent until recently. I was running at about 16/5 with a 3-bet % of 1, lol. I am now running at a more respectable
16/11 with 3-bet % of 4.6. I was pretty much never defending my blinds and often calling raises when I should have been raising them. I also re steal a lot and I am using the Hud stats a lot which is also something i never used to do much, but now most of my decisions are based around hud stats.
So lets get to the numbers for september, here is the graph of all hands played for the month. The thing that makes me really happy is the general direction of the graph is up, where as in all previous months the general direction was always down!
September numbers:
Cash game winnings $304
Bonuses $325
Total $629
So not a stellar month but happy that I am winning at the tables. The only thing I wasnt happy with was the poor amount of volume I put in, but not much I can do when I work my day job 45 hours a week and study for about 10 hours a week. I forgot to mention two thirds of my play was at 25NL and the other third was at 10NL.
October plan- well in October I plan to play a minimum of 100k hands and that will spread over 25NL and 50NL. I'll be 6-12 tabling in every session and will stop a session immediately if I feel I am not playing my A game. I am really looking forward to posting Octobers graph and hope the up-wood graph is steeper then this one.
WCOOP & MTT's- I only ended up playing one WCOOP event and that was the $109 NL event. At the end of the 1st week I went pretty well getting my starting stack of 10k up to around 30k. The field reached around eleven thousand runners and I finished around six thousandth, when I eventually got it all in for 22BB with AJ only to be called by the big blind with KJ and he of course hit his three outer, but thats poker. I managed to play around 20 other mtts that night and around 40 for the whole month and finished pretty close to breaking even. I satelited into the wcoop and used tournament dollars for most of the other mtts.
I also got the chance to make it down to the crown poker room in Melbourne for event #1 of the ANZPT(Australia New Zealand Poker Tour) 100k guaranteed. Start stack was 5k and day one went for around 7 hours. I started off well to double my stack in the first hour only to be severely short stacked another hour after that. Then we went on the first break, as soon as we get back from the break I go on a massive heater for 2 hours and get my stack from about 16k to around 70k, then i got into a hands where I was facing an all in on the river for my tournament life, I had TT and there was a QJ3 flop. I check, he bets, I call, the turn was a 6, I lead out, he flat calls, the river is a 2 and i think for a while and decide to check and shoves for about 28k and I have 26k behind. I think for a while and decide to call as i put him on AK or a small to medium pair under mine, I call and he turns over 77 so my TT wins. A few hours later and they announce that day one is over, I count my chips and I'm sitting on about 129k, average is 110k so I am happy. I return the next day for day two very excited as first prize is about 30k and 90 places get paid and theres only 135 left. I think I busted on the third hand of day two when my Q9ss hits trips only to have a guy get it all in with me and he is holding 85cc for a flush draw and he gets there on the river ahhhhh! oh well next time i guess. Any way this is getting really long and I dont like to go on and on and on as i could talk all day so ill try to do a post in the middle of the month instead of leaving it so long again. Till next time, good luck at the tables. Voltastyllo
As for Poker it was a great month i managed to pull off my first winning month at the tables, now I know you all probably just fell off your chairs but its true! I, voltastyllo from this month forward am hopefully a winning player at the tables and not just another "rake back bonus whoring monkey" and before you all think it might be a massive heater i ran something like $300 below EV for the month. So I am going to explain a few things I did that believe led to the result of this successful month. I'll put these in point form.
Study:
Every single day that I played in September I studied, I was either reading strategy in one of the two new poker books I recently purchased or I was studying my hand histories from my play the day before. I also had a few good situational talks with some people on 2+2 as well as reading the forums. I also kept working on leaks that I already knew I had that needed a bit more attention,
Advanced Note Taking:
So until recently my only form of note taking went something like this. (idiot fish, moron calling station, f#$k!NG) and the list goes on, all of which was completely useless, so this month I started noting many things such as hand ranges, hands that people raise with, 3-bet with call 3-bets with players that noticeably spew off there stack with garbage ect ect the list goes on. All in all it was very useful, it often helped in future situations making a lot of very profitable plays/calls.
Changing tables:
Now what i mean by this is before I made this change I used to just open the amount of tables I wanted to play and id just play until I was finished my session, only ever leaving a table if players left and there were four or less people seated. Now I have made the smart move by leaving tables when ever they start to become to reg infested and I have quite a lot of notes on regs on stars, I generally have them all coloured with a green ring around there avatar. So although this may be obvious to some people, it was never really something that I took into consideration.
Less tables:
Now I have been trying this all year, but this month September, was the first month that Ihave ever stuck to playing 12 tables or less and to be honest I spent most of the month just 6 tabling and working on my game, focusing on making good decisions and being patient, I always used to get bored with few tables and couldn't help but fire up 18-24 tables and just grind while missing a lot of free valuable information.
Aggression:
Over the last month i have been working on my table aggression, which to be honest was very non-existent until recently. I was running at about 16/5 with a 3-bet % of 1, lol. I am now running at a more respectable
16/11 with 3-bet % of 4.6. I was pretty much never defending my blinds and often calling raises when I should have been raising them. I also re steal a lot and I am using the Hud stats a lot which is also something i never used to do much, but now most of my decisions are based around hud stats.
So lets get to the numbers for september, here is the graph of all hands played for the month. The thing that makes me really happy is the general direction of the graph is up, where as in all previous months the general direction was always down!
September numbers:
Cash game winnings $304
Bonuses $325
Total $629
So not a stellar month but happy that I am winning at the tables. The only thing I wasnt happy with was the poor amount of volume I put in, but not much I can do when I work my day job 45 hours a week and study for about 10 hours a week. I forgot to mention two thirds of my play was at 25NL and the other third was at 10NL.
October plan- well in October I plan to play a minimum of 100k hands and that will spread over 25NL and 50NL. I'll be 6-12 tabling in every session and will stop a session immediately if I feel I am not playing my A game. I am really looking forward to posting Octobers graph and hope the up-wood graph is steeper then this one.
WCOOP & MTT's- I only ended up playing one WCOOP event and that was the $109 NL event. At the end of the 1st week I went pretty well getting my starting stack of 10k up to around 30k. The field reached around eleven thousand runners and I finished around six thousandth, when I eventually got it all in for 22BB with AJ only to be called by the big blind with KJ and he of course hit his three outer, but thats poker. I managed to play around 20 other mtts that night and around 40 for the whole month and finished pretty close to breaking even. I satelited into the wcoop and used tournament dollars for most of the other mtts.
I also got the chance to make it down to the crown poker room in Melbourne for event #1 of the ANZPT(Australia New Zealand Poker Tour) 100k guaranteed. Start stack was 5k and day one went for around 7 hours. I started off well to double my stack in the first hour only to be severely short stacked another hour after that. Then we went on the first break, as soon as we get back from the break I go on a massive heater for 2 hours and get my stack from about 16k to around 70k, then i got into a hands where I was facing an all in on the river for my tournament life, I had TT and there was a QJ3 flop. I check, he bets, I call, the turn was a 6, I lead out, he flat calls, the river is a 2 and i think for a while and decide to check and shoves for about 28k and I have 26k behind. I think for a while and decide to call as i put him on AK or a small to medium pair under mine, I call and he turns over 77 so my TT wins. A few hours later and they announce that day one is over, I count my chips and I'm sitting on about 129k, average is 110k so I am happy. I return the next day for day two very excited as first prize is about 30k and 90 places get paid and theres only 135 left. I think I busted on the third hand of day two when my Q9ss hits trips only to have a guy get it all in with me and he is holding 85cc for a flush draw and he gets there on the river ahhhhh! oh well next time i guess. Any way this is getting really long and I dont like to go on and on and on as i could talk all day so ill try to do a post in the middle of the month instead of leaving it so long again. Till next time, good luck at the tables. Voltastyllo
August 31, 2011
Moving Down/ August graph,results
So August was different than most months for me, not in the sense that I made money ( i wish ) but i learnt a lot. I worked on my game heaps, I tried a lot of new things at the tables and I hope that this month September i can pull off a winning month at the tables.
So WCOOP is on this month and i was planning to play four of the tournaments in the schedule but due to a recent down swing i wont be playing them i will only be playing two events the only $109 event in the shcedule and the last $215 NL holdem event so fingers crossed i can bink a score.
Like the title says "moving down" i will be moving from 25NL down to 10NL this month and hope that i can start to apply things to my game that i feel i have learnt in August and if September proves to be a winning month, I will move back up accordingly.
Here are the results and graph for August.
Table winnings -$615
bonuses/stellars +$300
Sit n Go's +$85
Month Total -$230
So not so bad as i only finished down $230 in total but still terrible. As you can see just to be a sook i put in my all in EV line only because it made me sick how bad i ran all month.
Well till next time see you at the tables. Voltastyllo
So WCOOP is on this month and i was planning to play four of the tournaments in the schedule but due to a recent down swing i wont be playing them i will only be playing two events the only $109 event in the shcedule and the last $215 NL holdem event so fingers crossed i can bink a score.
Like the title says "moving down" i will be moving from 25NL down to 10NL this month and hope that i can start to apply things to my game that i feel i have learnt in August and if September proves to be a winning month, I will move back up accordingly.
Here are the results and graph for August.
Table winnings -$615
bonuses/stellars +$300
Sit n Go's +$85
Month Total -$230
So not so bad as i only finished down $230 in total but still terrible. As you can see just to be a sook i put in my all in EV line only because it made me sick how bad i ran all month.
Well till next time see you at the tables. Voltastyllo
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