My first Gold Card - Qs

My first Gold Card in my first 1hr session on Sunday on RedStar poker is Q of spades. That's nice :) I've already played on Cake network, won 14 Gold Cards but won mostly 2's and 3's with my biggest card beeing a 9. Q of spades is ninth most valuable card and I guess it's worth ~$50. I just hope I will get the opportunity to redeem it for cash in their daily lottery.

I've run out of Gold Card luck in my second session. I've won almost worthless 2d. So far, I've cleared first $10 of bonus, earned ~$8.5 in rakeback, 1 Gold Chip and 2 Gold Cards. Finished down $0.60 but I didn't play good and had some bad luck. I still can't control myself at the tables but I'm working on it.

Here is my most BB's winning hand from today session. Don't you love when you flop nuts and there's 3 clueless players with you in the hand! I wonder if I could have won more with this hand:

Hold'em Limit ($0.25/$0.50) - 2008.11.03
Table 'Cake_ Westpunt (Turbo, 6-Max) 11669' 6-max Seat #10 is the button
~tem***: posts small blind $0.10
HERO: posts big blind $0.25
Flus***: posts small & big blinds $0.35
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to HERO[7c Qc]
dewe***: folds
Flus***: raises $0.25 to $0.50
flee***: calls $0.50
$AAA***: folds
~tem***: calls $0.40
HERO: calls $0.25
*** FLOP *** [3c 5c Ac]
~tem***: checks
HERO: checks
Flus***: bets $0.25
flee***: raises $0.25 to $0.50
~tem***: calls $0.50
HERO: calls $0.50
Flus***: calls $0.25
*** TURN *** [3c 5c Ac] [6s]
~tem***: checks
HERO: checks
Flus***: bets $0.50
flee***: calls $0.50
~tem***: folds
HERO: raises $0.50 to $1.00
Flus***: folds
flee***: calls $0.50
*** RIVER *** [3c 5c Ac 6s] [6d]
HERO: bets $0.50
flee***: calls $0.50
*** SHOW DOWN ***
HERO: shows [7c Qc] (Flush, Ace high)
flee***: mucks hand
HERO collected $7.25 from pot

ps. you're not allowed to use PokerTracker or HUD while playing on Cake poker network but you can find a hand history converter which can convert Cake hh's into a PokerStars hh format so you can import them in PT database. you also need to replace "," with "." in blind amounts otherwise PT can't recognize commas and will import, for example, $0,25 as a $25 so you will get some weird results

Hi!

I've been playing poker for more than 3.5 years, mostly fixed limit holdem but I also tried no-limit holdem, pl omaha and sit'n'go tournaments, both full ring and HU. I am successfull at all games. I'm losing money by playing only in my main game (not to much, I'm only $180 down), which is fixed limit holdem but overall, thanks to bonuses, kickback bonuses and rakeback, I'm a
moderate winner.

So far I've been playing all stakes from $0.15/$0.30 to $1/$2, mostly shorthanded. These stakes were optimal for bonus clearing, so I wasn't to eager to move up in stakes. I've realized now that playing micro limits for so long did huge damage to my game. I haven't worked on improving my skill, my hand reading skill is non-existant at the moment (it was phenomenal when I first started playing poker) and I tilt to much.

I want to re-learn how to play perfect fixed limit game, move up in stakes up to $10/$20 or even higher and earn big money :) The purpose of this blog is to help me achieve my poker goals and to practice my english. I will record my monthly and weekly goals, track my progress and write whatever I want. Hopefully, this will be an interesting blog for you. If not, I don't really care as long as it helps me with my goals.