Owner: Willy C's Poker Blog URL:http://willycpoker.blogspot.com Join Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:24:26 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: This is a poker blog of an Amateur Poker Player. I generally play a mix of Limit and No Limit Holdem. I hope to improve my play and in return help others improve their play by having discussions about strategy etc. Site statistics:Click here
Not the best night ever! 2008-07-25 02:42:23 I went from £31.20 to £26 last night, I will see what it is like next thursday, because last night really was so different to all other nights!I know I should really be able to 'adjust' my play depending on what the game is like, but being so used to maniacs all the time, it just came as a bit of a suprise. In all the games I played, there was at least 6 players by level 6 which really is just c
Not doing so well tonight! 2008-07-24 14:46:52 Very strange few games I have had tonight.The £1.20 games are usually full of complete loose maniac noobs, and half of them are gone by about level 4.But the first 2 games I played, it was full of the tightest players ever! No one was knocked out even by level 5, I mean, WTF!?!? I was up from the beginning but ended up just getting blinded out, bad beats galore and all that crap!I came 3rd in my Read more:doing
I am on FIRE!! 2008-07-22 16:08:36 I am up to £24.40 and just started another £1.20 SnG.I know that its not 'big money' and some of you might be laughing at my excitement of actually doing so well on these small games, but my plan is working.All I want to do is build up my bankroll, I've got no plans to withdraw this money at all, but if I get to my first target of £36 (which shouldnt be long at my current rate) then I will be a
£3.60 Challenge Update 2008-07-22 07:37:54 Just a quick update on how my £3.60 challenge is going. Since I deposited the original money on Sunday, I am happy to say that I am over half way to reaching the first target (£36) and am now at £19.20!I really cant wait to reach £36 as I am beginning to really dislike these £1.20 games!The last time however that I tried doing this, I got to about £27 and got bored so I ended up just playing Read more:Challenge
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No Limit Holdem - Sit n Go Challenge 2008-07-20 14:35:52 I havent played any SnG's for quite a while now, and have been starting to miss the No Limit
games, so I have decided to set myself a challenge.(By the way, for you non-poker people out there, SnG's are "Sit and Go's". Basically just short tournamanets).I have deposited £3.60 into William Hill and I am going to try and get to a good sized bankroll using the following rules.I must have 10 times th Read more:Challenge
First Post! 2008-07-19 07:08:48 Hello, and welcome to my Poker Blog!My name is William, and I am a small time Online Poker player that sometimes joins in the Live Poker games if I get a chance.I will tell you now, I am in no way a Professional Player, so if you are expecting someone like Daniel Negreanu or Phil Hellmuth then you wont find them here!I am one of those players that makes all in all only about $10 - $30 a night. I s Read more:First
How long have I been playing? What games do I play? Which sites? Why? 2008-07-19 07:08:02 I have been playing Poker for a few years now. I was first introduced to it on a night out, and some guy asked if we wanted to play some poker for fun with him and his girlfriend.Neither I or my friend had a clue how to play the game, but after about half an hour, I had memorised the ranking of hands and very quickly realised there was something very deep to it all, and from that point, I became u
Limit Holdem 2008-07-19 07:07:15 In the last of my introductory posts on the Poker Blog. I will talk about how I got started with Limit
Poker!I remember when I first tried online poker, it was on Yahoo! In fact, I could probably still log in and see my minus chip count. Hang on a second....... yep, I just logged in, and have -1593 in chips!If you have ever played Yahoo! Poker, you will know what I mean when I say it is awful!But
My Limit Holdem Strategy (Part 1 – Pre & Post Flop Strategy) 2008-07-19 07:04:26 Sorry its taken a couple of days to publish this post!My Limit
Holdem Strategy
I play like 'they' say to play, tight but aggressive. Which basically means that I pick and choose my hands carefully, but the hands that I decide to play with, I bet strong.I have never written any 'strategy' articles before, so if you can think of anything to help me improve the layout etc., then let me know!Pre-Flop S
Week in Review (4 - 10 August 2008) 2008-08-10 14:59:25 This weeks results are a little bit better than last week!Profit / Loss: $5.92Total Buy-in / Cash Out: $168.16 / $174.08Hourly Rate: $ 0.46 / hourReturn on Investment: 3.52%This week, I managed to make a profit, albeit only $5.92, but its better than last weeks $30 loss.Here were a couple of fun hands I played this week: (I have just found out that Poker Hand Replays don't show up in Google Reader Read more:August
Week in Review (1 - 3 August 2008) 2008-08-10 14:34:09 I am going to start posting my weekly and monthly stats.From the 1st August
(since I have been recording my stats) to the 3rd July (Sunday) my stats are as follows:Profit / Loss: -$30.20Total Buy-in / Cash Out: $211.60 / $ 181.40Hourly Rate: -$1.32 / hourReturn on Investment: -14.27%Not the best results ever, but could have been a LOT worse considering I wasn't on my best game!This week, I hope to
My first night of Omaha - Results! 2008-08-07 14:45:22 I started with 1000 chips in play money and the smallest buy in for the PLAY money Pot Limit Omaha
SnGs was 300+20.This gave me at least 3 games, I managed to play 4!Here were my results and a few notes:9th out of 9 on 1st game. (Thought I had 2 pairs lol. Look at video replay in previous post!)4th out of 9 on 2nd game. (Someone rivered trips and I flopped 2 pair)3rd out of 9 on 3rd game. (This is
My stroll into the world of OMAHA! 2008-08-07 13:16:03 I have decided to learn how to play Omaha. I have only played it once or twice and lost for reasons I really didnt understand!I have been reading up on it though, and now understand it a bit more thouroughly. Things like you have to and can only use two of your 4 hole cards. I was doing a 'which hand is better?' test on my lunch break at work and I will admit to you, I only scored about 70% lol.I
POKER. How to go pro. 2008-08-05 15:28:31 I have been thinking about 'that day' when I finally consider myself good enough to go pro (won't be for a while yet!).I expect being a pro poker player is an exciting, interesting & lets be honest, proper cool career, but on the flip side, it can also be dangerous, roller coastering and un-secure. (But thats what makes it so fun!).I have come up with a few ideas/plans that would enable you to pla
not the best weekend ever 2008-08-02 19:05:06 WARNING: Whining Post!!!!!!!!Not done so well this weekend, have been kind of stupid and playing loads on tilt.My bankroll has gone from around $80 to about $50. If I get into the money on this current game, I will play tomorrow (well... later on today when I wake up!)If I lose, then I will have a day off tomorrow (same as above) and have a bit of a think about what went wrong this weekend!I have
Last post for July! 2008-07-31 14:49:19 Right, last post for July.My poker playing this month has been going pretty well. But I need to start keeping more records about things like hourly win rate etcAs tomorrow is a new month, it seems sensible to start the recording from tomorrow! I will keep track of the following:Tournaments:Game & Limit (although only Limit & No Limit Holdem at the moment, I hope to try and learn a few more games i
Some things about PokerStars 2008-07-29 14:50:08 They have changed their Lobby colour theme to black which is so cool! (lol)The tables are only 9 seated. On William Hill, I had kinda perfected the art of getting to the final 3 on SnG's on 10 person tables, so technically, it should be 'easier' to get to final 3 on PokerStars (?).I play Limit Holdem cash games on PokerStars anyway, so this means my bankroll will all be in one place, however, now Read more:things
Bye Bye William Hill 2008-07-29 13:05:58 I have decided to stop playing the £3.60 challenge on William
Hill, because it just isnt busy enough, waited 15 minutes today to start a £3.60 game and it still hadn't filled up.This is a shame because I have been playing on William Hill for years, but having a look through the higher buy-in games, its completely 0/10 for everything, which isn't good!I am going to transfer my £38.80 into my ban Read more:Bye Bye
£3.60 Challenge - Have reached £36!!!!!!!!! 2008-07-27 16:47:05 Oh yes, just played my final £1.20 game for a LONG time (hopefully NEVER again) because I have now reached £36 (£36.40 to be exact)!I can now move to the £3.60 games as I have enough cash to play 10 of them. If I drop down to less than £18 though, I will move to the £1.20 games again and play them till I reach £36 again!My next target amount is £55, which will mean I can move to the £5.50 Read more:Challenge
Bad Beats! FFS 2008-07-27 08:02:26 Lost to a lucky flush both of these hands in the latest £1.20 tournament.Its crazy. I am 'Hero' by the way, not putting my username up yet cos I dont want you lot SharkScoping me!Even worse thing is, is both times I lost it to the same person! I'm not really 'too' fussed though, because at the end of the day, I played the hands correctly both times, and I will still continue to play them in exact Read more:Beats
£3.60 Challenge - Not sure what is going on! 2008-07-27 05:57:47 If you have been following my blog, you will know that I have set myself a challenge, and that is to build up a good sized bankroll from a very small amount, read this: Sit and Go Challenge
.I started with £3.60 and got to about £28 pretty easily and I was thinking, wow I am going to hit my £36 target level pretty quick (Target amount is £36 because that will allow me to play 10 £3.60 games).I
Week in Review (18 - 24 August 2008) 2008-08-25 01:38:42 Did a bit better this week, here are my stats:Profit/Loss: £12.35Total Buy-In - Cash Out: $216.85 / $229.20Hourly Rate: $1.13 / hourReturn on Investment: 5.7%My current full tilt points balance is now at 280.75! Only another 3719.25 points to go then I can get my Cowboy Hat!Even though I am in profit for this week, I played terribly. Played too much on tilt and also played after having a few drin Read more:August
Week in Review (11 - 17 August 2008) 2008-08-25 01:31:24 So yeah, here are this weeks stats.Profit / Loss : -$34.05Total Buy-In / Cash Out: $184.75 / $150.70Hourly Rate: -$1.80 / hourReturn on Investment: -18.43%Not so great huh?The thing that I have to keep remembering is that this bankroll started with a measly £3.60 from my Sit n Go Challenge so not really too concerned at the moment. I will be concerned however if my bankroll goes to $0. If it does Read more:August
Sometimes playing on tilt with no hope left is good! 2008-08-23 12:58:14 Lol, just a quick post today.I got down to my last $15 today and was on pretty bad tilt. So I thought, screw it, and decided to play a $15 9 person Super-Turbo Sit n Go. You start with 300 chips and blinds increase every 3 minutes!1st place was $63 which I was thinking 'that would be nice!'.It got to the final 5 people, with 3 positions getting paid... and I was getting proper pissed off with the Read more:Sometimes
The Psychology of Poker 2008-08-22 14:32:56 First of all, sorry I havn't posted in a few days, I have been working on a new poker blog which I hope to announce in the next few weeks. I won't talk about it now but I will post something about it tomorrow or sunday as there are a few requests I would like to make!For today's post, I would like to talk about the Psychology of Poker
. (And no, not the book by Alan N. Schoonmaker, but that is a VE
I want the Full Tilt Poker cowboy hat made famous by Andy Bloch 2008-08-17 11:09:59 I want this hat! I first saw it being worn by Andy Bloch on the first of the World Series of Poker
2008 espn episodes.It costs 4000 FullTilt Points. I currently have 64.4 lol. Need to start winning more so I can play in bigger games, therefor get more FTP's so I can get the hat!I have only started playing on Full Tilt again because of the BritBlogger Challenge that I am participating in. There are
My poker skills suck at the moment! 2008-08-14 14:14:45 Well for some reason, I have been playing like a total jerk over the past couple of days.Why am I chasing straights and flushes more than I should do and out of the odds all of a sudden?Why am I paying to call someones river bet to see what they have got, 'just to make sure' ? (I am always right as well, which is what makes it worse!)The list goes on how badly I have been playing but I really don'
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