Risky play pays off

So everything was going fine on Cake and I had returned to $305. I played as usual and dropped to about $285 when I decided to do something stupid.

Firstly I played a guy at NL20 Heads-Up. He was sitting at the table with onlt $12 so thought I could take a shot. Well 45 minutes later he was sitting there with $60 and I had rebought to $20.

At the same time this was happening I decided to enter a $10 rebuy tournament.

And worst of all...a $50 HU Sit and Go.

At the end of this and about 2 hours later I had won all my money back from NL20, I hadn't cashed in the $10 rebuy (or rebought thankfully), but most importantly, had won the $50 HU game.

So I got kind of got lucky. Well I didn't really as I played well and won. But what I mean is this could have easily damaged my bankroll. I don't know whether to be happy or annoyed about the fact that whilst I was doing this I was never on tilt. I just did it. Well I got away with it and won't be doing it again. Here's how I'm looking now (new crappy stat tracker remember). You can easily see where the NL20 cash guy stacked me stacked me a few times:



Bankroll: $337.92
Total Hands: 22,723
Rakeback (included): $21.52

Cake beats Betfair

So it was an interesting experience at Betfair. After about half hour of poker, I had already decided to bet on anything Betfair would offer me. I had also dabbled in some HU cash as they run these games at quite low stakes, which I swore to myself I wouldn’t do as I have issues losing Heads-Up…I take it too personally.

The cons for me outweighed the pros of playing here. Accessing my account was tedious, the currency was in £’s, multi-tabling was awful, the ‘21’ button on the poker client encouraged me to play blackjack, etc, etc. The only pro is that players seem to be more inclined to gamble…well it is a betting site, but as a result the poker client was in no way tailored to suit a poker reg.

After much contemplation I joined Cake Poker with a nice 33% rakeback. You cannot fit many tables onto 1 monitor but the cascading and pop-up system works very effectively once you configure the tables. One plus of playing here is that it doesn’t allow PokerTracker/Hold’Em Manager or similar tracking software and as a result the site is avoided by many regulars.
Saying that, I have managed to get hold of some software that tracks your own play only.

It’s not as glamorous as PokerTracker but it’s free and does the job. I've only played 2000 hands so once I’ve played a few more thousand hands I’ll post an updated graph.