Happy new year everybody. I hope u all entered 2009 in style, unlike me where it was a disaster because of my illness.

Other than that things are good.

Currently deposited £5 on willhill and my challenge is to build that up to 3 figures.
How long it will take ? i don't know

Also one of my new year resolution is to never deposit again. So this year i hope to build a steady and more solid bankroll.

Gl at the tables

Trapped!

hi guys,
No more scheduled commitemnets as i seem to not be able to keep up the promises of having to do regular updates on this blog.

However no blog means no control over my game, so i have to keep the blog hence getting rid of it is not an option.

Since my last post, things had been on a weird roller coaster ride . I think i became the junior version of Bluescouse, where spinning up from small 2 or 3 digit figures to 4 digits and then losing the lot became a norm coz i lack the sense of value whilst things are going good.

It Can't carry on like this! need to put a stop! fullstop


So back again to Abc POKER BANKROLL building challenge.

the royalfire style ... (surely that can't be good)



Gl at the tables

Updates to follow soon ..............

Gaining ..

Not been long since i started to post regularly, and that 140 quid has cashed me out 350 quid and apart from that the roll is at a whopping £550. so in total it has turned in to 900 quid. Its just so i can only play poker with 550 of it. I will not cash out any till the end of todays session.

Things are going good i don't want it to go pear shaped just yet,(well never really but...)I need to add to the current momentum and reach a certain level where i would be comfortable at 1-2.


Roll is at £550
Gl at the Tables

Callpls

Still on the UP!

Slowly but surely. :) Cashed out another 50 quid whilst increasing my roll to £350
i think i have once again got the grips with the level adjustment. I run good, i run bad but having over 10 Buyins at this level gives me the flexibility to play my game. Depending on the succes rate, soon i will start taking shots at slightly higher tables.

I also am fully aware that things can go tits up! i can only do my best and the rest should be my fate :-) My primary aim is to enlarge the bankroll cushion so i can soften the blows that come every now and then.

Roll is at £350

Gl at the tables

Callpls

Another Win!

Managed to keep the roll at £250 whilst cashing out another £250 which i could easily appreciate through quick cash withdrawal. Good side wages to keep me motivated.

I can feel the vibes of the good times again... lets hope its not a false alarm...


Roll is still at £250

Gl at the tables

Winning post!!!!

Wow feels good to write a winning post finally. Although the amount is nothing substantial it certainly is a starting poing. My 140 quid bankroll is now at 250 quid. I will need to cash out as i said i would but i think i will leave that till the end of today.

let this be the beginning of a new heater...

Roll is at £250

gl at the tables

Callpls

BACK BACK REALLY BACK THIS TIME !!!!!

Okay haven’t really kept my word about keeping regular updates. This is mainly because I’ve been dossing around at $0.25 0.50 HU building a nice stack and taking a shot at higher tables with 1 or 2 buy-ins, effectively playing with scared money. Short boom-Bust cycles. For some reason I don’t register $100-$200 wins as success and treat it with disrespect only to lead to the inevitable bust scenario. Things need to change and I have to have a bit more structure to my approach. I need to realise the value of these cyber chips and have bit more respect for it.

In order for me to to realise this I have decided to cash out between £20-£50 per day and also keep building the bankroll. I have been succesfull before so why not again ?  But playing higher is not the answer, not until at least I hit minimum 6 buy-ins of the level I want to take a shot at and be prepared to sacrifice 2 buy-ins at it. Then whether succesfull or not drop down to original stakes until (if succesfull) it sinks in. This however brings the problem of tilt monster. It has been quite for a while but I know it is there waiting to be released. I need to lock it away and lose the key forever…..thats if I want to have any decent success at this game over long period.

So I have cashed out £50 yesterdayand have a remaing roll of £140. 0.25 0.50 HU is where I can be seen for the time being. If any of you guys see me higher it means I am running well and have minimum of 6 buy-ins for that level im at.

Lastly thanx to the regular guys who have been commenting regardless of my lack of updates.
For those provocative anonymous ones though, well I can only laugh at your primitive intelligence. If owning me in a Hu game as claimed ( which I doubt very much, otherwise you would’ve left your name …) is such a highlight of your life then I take it as a compliment and strongly advise you to get a life and drop your ego.

Okay this time I really am back and wish you all good luck (unless u are playing against me)

Roll is at £140
Gl at the Tables

Callpls

HI EVERYBODY!!!

Considering how loyal my readers have been i think i owe an explanation of what i have been doing all this time...

As far as poker goes i have not spent nowhere near as much as i was spending time wise. ?I had the odd casual game but nothing special apart from switching 300 dollars into 2000 at fulltilt in one short session.

After the big bankroll build i had lost sense in value and it took time for me to readjust to smaller stakes. I think i am back to playing my A game at .25/.50 HU so i will update you guys more often.

Also last week i managed to switch 200 dollars into 900 but didn't think i was gonna commit myself to building again so i cashed it all out.

Sure there have also been times where i lost a few sessions costing me around £1K straight after my big cashout.

Currently i deposited 40 quid into Royalfire and i am now at 88 pounds. I will give regular updates but not sure how long it will take to build into 4 digit even 5 digit roll. Not in a rush either.

But thank you again for coming back to the blog to check it out.

Roll is now at £88 quid :-)

gl at the tables

Royalfire

The Story Begins Like This.....

RoyalFire Account was finally rewarded with 480 quid rakeback, which meant that i had a good starting point to my build a bankroll challenge for this month. Well at least in theory.The muppet that i am though, i managed to go through all of it in a relatively short time.

Was i unlucky? NO! i played like a complete umpty at limits no higher than $.5/$1 (heads up)and manage to dump it all on hands thats not even worth mentioning.

Then gave a break for a short period and revived "Callpls" account. Fortunately with a little respect to the game and a little luck behind managed to morph 160 quid into 520 quid.

So the decision is made and Callpls will try to be the hero on this months journey. Will it be a quick one? boring one? or exciting one like last month? only time will tell.

Currently the plan is to play $.5/$1 heads up until i drop down to $500 or build enough for me to take shots at $1/$2 (1800-$2000 should be enough )

Also i will try to keep the bankroll monster under control and try to tilt less. (was also one of the goals from may)

So the roll is now at 520 quid...


Gl at the tables

Callpls

Should've left at peak....

Started really good today peaked at +$140 profit, then lost $110 of it leaving me with $30 profit.

Still better than a lost.

i will do a review and targets after i recieve the rakeback till then its casual boring play.

Roll is now at $330

Gl at the tables

Callpls aka Royalfire

Break Even Session

Played for about 40-45 mins heads up ($.25/.50). Ended the session with approx $1 up. :-)

Nothing interesting to report.


Gl at the tables

Ok Guys after having few days off from poker, decided to hit the blue cyber felt and deposited 50 quid into willhill callpls account.

after few sessions on .25/.50nl Heads up i manage to bank a nice $200. So i call it a day.

I am also due some nice rakeback on Royalfire account. (5th june)

Nice to be back

Current bankroll $300


Gl at the tables

Callpls aka royalfire

END OF HEATER END OF BLOG!!!!!!

Hi guys, Thanx alot for following the blog whilst i had this nice journey. I have decided to end it here as i encountered my first losing session for a while. I didn't go busto but took a serious damage. Lost around £6K and decided to cash out the rest.

This adventure has served me well and i have made £11K in such a short peroid of time. So i am very happy. I am also expecting a good rakeback. Not sure if i will continue or cash it out immediately.

I didn't have the patience and made a silly move by playing whilst drunk. And penalised my self by cashing out the remainder.

The bankroll is on £0

Gl at the tables

Royalfire.

Luck vs Skill

Following the recent success path i am on, few questions have been raised on the topic by my friends, Naturally they are puzzled by the exponential growth of the roll, and have asked me to come up with a logical explanation of how this sick heater could be anything but pure hard luck!

I haven't played enough days to complete a nice sample of data for statistical analysis, nor do i use Poker Tracker to gather that sort of info. ( although i am seriously thinking about it.)

So is it intuitive? lucky or else.. I have mentioned at the beginning of the blog that i would set up objectives on how i plan to grow my roll. Unfortunately i have never got down to document it as such, but rest assured i had the basics of what i wanted to do subconsciously. I say subconsciously because i have been playing this game for a long time without the BRM. I have read tons of books. articles and various blogs. I have tried to prove the odds of starting hand success vs each other along with other experiments to make me believe that this is nothing other than statistical game. And thats what poker is.

For long time I have played under rolled and it meant that my chips would eventually vanish in to air due to hitting negative side of swings and never be able to recover.

Things are a little different now. I am comfortably cushioned for about 50+ buyins at $2/5 around 120+ buyins at $1/2 and over rolled for lower levels . And the comfort zone means i can play with piece of mind which is very important and lets me concentrate purely on the game rather tan having to think about the financial side of things until cash out.

So was i lucky so far ? Yes i was lucky to hit a sick heater to reach the point i am at in such a short period. But i believe the skill part of my game now has been re-inforced by the stack ive accumulated and it means correct decisions will pay in the long run regardless of swings. (provided i don't go over budget and take shots at levels where i have few buy-ins)

My game is on the edge with 20 buyins at any level, and as that number increases i believe my style gets comfortable and results become visible. I don't multitable. I play maximum of 2 HU tables, and i fully concentrate on the game. I play for stacks rather than BB/100.

The game is a luck game in the short run but as the number of games increases the luck factor decreases and the results are reflected on the bankroll.




Yesterdays profit: 848 pounds,

The roll now stands at 14,597 pounds

The lucky streak continues....


Gl at the tables.

RoyalFire

Still Running Hot!!!

Well, those of you expecting a stop to the good run i am on, will have to wait a little longer. :-) I have been playing straightforward ABC poker at levels between $.25/.50 - $2/5 and managed to increase the roll by £1247.
I don't know if i am extremely lucky or opposition is having trouble to adjust to my game. Not that i'm complaining...

Few interesting hands where i lost a nice $1K pot vs lang56 when i had AAA vs his flush draw on flop.

But luck evened out and i manage to suck out on bluecheek for around $1K AKh vs KK. :-)
I think i won around 3 buyins from him and about 1 buyin from Lang56 the rest was from random smaller games.

I hope i can maintain this streak for a little longer...

I would be interested to know what your longest winning streak is? please leave your comments and experiences as i do not want to be deluded by this success.

Roll is now at £13,749

Gl at the tables

RoyalFire

CRUISING......

It's nice to have a stress free session and come on top!!! Today i started with $.25/.50 a little, then $1/$2 and finally around 30 mins of $2/5 HU GAMES and banked a win of £430

No downswings or dipping down before rising. Plain old sailing.

"Sick Poker" Blogger has been mentoring me in the right direction through real time electronic communication and i no longer feel lost. I have an aim and have around a year to do it. So thank you to Rob also Iron, goose and anonymous!


No more silly moves like yesterday, no more being a hotshot !! just a regular 2/5 hu player with moderate shots at 5/10 when running and feeling good!!!

I wish everyday would be like this.. but thats a dream...

Roll is now at £12,508


Gl at the tables

Royalfire

WAKE UP!!!!!!!!

"Anonymous said...

Unfortunately it looks like you will go bust soon, just seen you hitting the 25/50 tables, you managed to win a nice 10k pot on one table but i thought you were getting a bit beat up on the other one.

YOU CANNOT WIN EVERYDAY FOR A SUSTAINED PERIOD, SOME DAYS YOU WILL LOSE!! If you run to 25/50 for a quick fix everytime u had a bad session i guarentee you will go bust."

This comment sounds very similar to the ones at Bluescouses blog and it reminds me of what i used to think of him....

What is going on? Are the demons trying to get in control?or have they already got me under control.

The anonymous tip has frightened me a lot because i dont think i realise what sort of roll i am dealing with.!!!

It was only about a month ago i was playing at $.25/,50 HU tables and now im on tables with 4 digits. (in this particular case 5 digits)

Ok i am taking this as a major warning and a wake up call!!! My expectancies have already been reached and anything more from now on is plus.

1/2 and 2/5 is my limit and 5/10 is my shot limit.
I don't expect to win everyday and will not force it!!!
I will keep tilt under control!

and will not play when i don't feel like it!!!



easy to say and write but really is a tough job! Nevertheless who says poker is easy!

It's not just about odds and domination and long run !!! its about keeping the monster inside locked. Thats when the rest becomes easy!!!

Back to what ive done yesterday....

Came from work had my dinner and played around 1 hr of poker resulting in 600 quid win.

Then watched the champions league final game and came back to lose around 3-4 buyins to bluecheek at $2/5. Got off not being too upset to look for new oppo's. There weren't any so i waited a while and got bored. Thats when i decided to take shot at $25/50. Im not proud of it but its done now. I will not talk about it either. But i was lucky and managed to come on top.

The roll now stands at 12.078 pounds

gl at the tables

Royalfire

PS: anonymous thanx for the warning!!!!

What am I Playing at???? To anyone who was watching some of the games I had yesterday it must’ve been visible that my emotional state had got the better of me. First pot I got involved was a success and downhill from then on. Cracked AA,KK,QQ you name it …. Eventually lead to a CRACKED ~ROYALFIRE!!!! Making mistake after mistake.

Was down around $2-3 K that’s when I realised I was semi tilting and the worse part is I couldn’t do anything to stop me going in that direction. Not gonna go into details but managed to end the session being apprx £400 UP!!!

It wasn’t just the hands got me tilted it was also the psychological state I was in. I didn’t want to drop from my new £10.000 mark, and it was almost like playing with Scared money.

Ok guys, now I did want this blog to be a bit more interactive, thanx to those who already take part, but those of you who follow silently, would you be kind enough to share your views on how to manage Tilt. I’m sure there are great solutions to this common problem.
While some will work for some and not others.

It’ll be interesting to hear your side.


Roll is now at £10,434

Gl at the tables

Royalfire

5 digits in £'s

Beginning of the session roll dipped down a few £100s, due to lack of cards and quite a loose style. then refocus and having the luck wind behind, manage to get in front around £650 at $2/5 and $5/10 simultaneous HU tables.

To close the session i sat at £.25/.50 and £.5/1 tables to make the rest of the profit which increased my roll to £10,021.

Now i have the perfect roll i need to start laying a cashout plan on regular basis. Otherwise i might be tempted by the devil to take shots at levels i couldn't afford.

todays profit is £813.

gl at the tables


Royalfire

Ended today with 100 quid profit increasing my bankroll to £9208. I have been running fairly dry, and had few hands cracked. But as i was playing .50/1 1/2 and 2/5 HU games, it meant that i was cushioned for it and no harm was done.


short post but nothing interesting happened. (was rather boring)

I guess grinding is tough.... Lets see if i have what it takes...


Gl at the tables

Royalfire