Time off from Poker

Have been taking a break from poker and playing some online games with my friends recently. Still did played about 45 minutes at NL50 on Tuesday and was up over 50 bucks. Still can't find the drive to play longer than I would have preferred.

On a sidenote, I sold my telcom stocks that I have bought back in January for about $700 profit excluding the $400 dividends that I received recently. Will update my portfolio here when time permits.

Crushed at NL200

Hands got kinda itchy and decided to move up to NL200 and lost about $400. The play is definitely much intense there. Should have considered myself lucky that i did not lose more.

I should probably stick to nL50 and 100 for the time being since I am doing good there. Well there is always a saying, better luck next time!

Trading vs Poker

Kind of outdated but still decided to share this comparison from tradimo. Do spend some time reading down as the findings are very interesting.

Wish I could be like one of them since I do trading too. :)

Poker vs trading infographic via tradimo.com

Poker Week in Review

Have just been gaming and playing online 6 handed poker for the past 1 week. Can't complain much so far as there were minimum bad beats on my tables except losing AA to a QQ. Flop came with 2 big Qs, giving my opponent a 4 of a kind :(. Was down as much as $150 at start before swinging up again. To be honest, the poker room I am currently at now is far more softer than Pokerstars. I do miss PS's SNGs though!

Here's my graph for the last 1 week. I am not the kind of player that can consistently sit infront of the computer for a few hours each day, hence my hands played are considered low. I am currently only comfortable with playing max 4 tables to keep my concentration level high. Less volume with frequent breaks and getting out once I reach my target ($). I decided to try out Poker Tracker since I just changed my com.

Return to Pokerstars

I have stopped playing at pokerstars since last year after I bust my account on cash tables. I had a little success on SNG / Tournaments though and I'm back this year after a year's hiatus and constantly reminding myself to stay out of cash tables. I'm just seriously bad at it!! There's only $16 in my poker account now and I can only try and see if I'm able to lift it up(mission impossible). On a sidenote, I won't have much time to track the forex movements and shall leave it aside for the time being.

3rd in $3.50-Rebuy SNG 180 players

Took a break from Forex as the currencies were behaving like a rockabye baby and ended up on the final tournament table. Managed to get a 3rd placing prize money of USD$211.82( for 2.75 hours worth of effort)! I'm a little disappointed that I couldn't go further than 3rd though.


Continue reading to see the stats of my final hand which had me knock out.

2nd Placing in Pokerstars SNG $3.50 Buy-In

I have been playing Texas Hold'em at Pokerstars for awhile now and have been placed regularly at the Sit & Go touraments. I have recently moved up to the $2.50 / $3.50 buy ins and tonight is probably the best result I have achieved. A combination of starting hands and luck brought me heads on only to lose a all-in call by my opponent. Overall, the 3 hours of poker bag me a cool USD$348.34 which I'm kinda contented with.


My opponent called an all in before flop. Seeing that he has been doing it all night, I followed and called everything I had too. I had AJ and while he had K4. In the end, he won with a straight 2 to 6. :(