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Diary of Thomas 'rolfus' Rolfe

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  • rolfusrolfus Member Posts: 61
    edited February 2012
    In Response to Re: Diary of Thomas 'rolfus' Rolfe:
    Suprised how brief your sessions are, is this because you are busy? or you can only concentrate up to a certain point then you quit before you start losing? 
    Posted by YOUNG_GUN
    Have just found that my concentration generally slips a bit after about 2 hours. If I'm feeling good or the games are really good I try and play longer
  • DazlerDazler Member Posts: 3,970
    edited February 2012

    Hi Rolfus will be interesting to hear about your poker sessions, you sound quite a layed back person i dont know why! maybe its the way you write lol. Are you quite layed back when it comes to poker and do you think it helps your game or are you a 16 table mad man when you play cash? Anyways GL at the tables and with your diary 0:)

  • rolfusrolfus Member Posts: 61
    edited February 2012
    In Response to Re: Diary of Thomas 'rolfus' Rolfe:
    Hi Rolfus will be interesting to hear about your poker sessions, you sound quite a layed back person i dont know why! maybe its the way you write lol. Are you quite layed back when it comes to poker and do you think it helps your game or are you a 16 table mad man when you play cash? Anyways GL at the tables and with your diary 0:)
    Posted by Dazler
    Yeah I would say I'm pretty laid back and some people would call me horizontal :)

    I find being laid back is good for my poker game as it helps to stop me from tilting. I try to take my time when making a decision but if your playing 16 tables you have to be a bit mental/frantic. I'm pretty quick to go to the thinking ''It's not going my way right now, I'll take a break and come back to it''

    I think you just have to play to your strengths and work on your weaknesses(emotionally/mentally). So if you have a high tempo don't try and overthink things at the table just go with your gut...but then your going to have to put in a lot of work away from the tables, reviewing HH's etc

    Thanks for the GL
  • MickFoleyMickFoley Member Posts: 86
    edited February 2012
    Hi Interesting Diary, just wondering what's your way of withdrawing your profits since you play professionally. Do you just have a set bankroll eg £5000 and anything above that after the week/month you withdraw?

    Also if you do use this method what do you do if you have a big downswings just drop down the levels or deposit and continue as normal

    Thanks Ryan
  • rolfusrolfus Member Posts: 61
    edited February 2012
    Finally found an interesting HH.....
    jakally Small blind   £1.00 £1.00 £203.50
    rolfus Big blind   £2.00 £3.00 £264.85
      Your hole cards
    • A
    • 4
         
    jakally Raise   £3.00 £6.00 £200.50
    rolfus Call   £2.00 £8.00 £262.85
    Flop
       
    • 10
    • 3
    • 5
         
    rolfus Check        
    jakally Bet   £5.00 £13.00 £195.50
    rolfus Call   £5.00 £18.00 £257.85
    Turn
       
    • 3
         
    rolfus Check        
    jakally Bet   £13.00 £31.00 £182.50
    rolfus Raise   £36.00 £67.00 £221.85
    jakally Call   £23.00 £90.00 £159.50
    River
       
    • J
         
    rolfus Bet   £134.00 £224.00 £87.85
    jakally Fold        
    rolfus Muck        
    rolfus Win   £89.00   £176.85
    rolfus Return   £134.00 £1.00 £310.85
    Me and Jakally played HU for a little while when the tables broke down. He eventually got the better of me when we got in TT vs KK but there was this HH which I thought was interesting....

    I check/call the flop with what is probably the best hand and also has decent equity (an Ace, Gutshot to the wheel and backdoor flush draw)

    On the turn I think I very likely have the worst hand so with the picked up flush draw I still have a gutshot draw and the fact that I could quite easily have a 3 as I had been calling a lot of his minraises....I check/raise

    He calls...woops
    I think it's very unlikely that he has a 3 and I would have to be on a very random bluff for me to be bluffing and his Tx to be good so I carry on with my bluff....I overbet just to make sure ;)
  • rolfusrolfus Member Posts: 61
    edited February 2012
    Ended up £269 for the day, am on 19,054 points for the month and am up £8525 for the month....got 1 week to push for 5figures :)
  • simuksimuk Member Posts: 315
    edited February 2012
    Can you teach me how to play a hand against Jakally where he doesnt have KK or top set?

    PM me with the secret.
  • jakallyjakally Member Posts: 421
    edited February 2012

    Nice hand sir.

    When you raise the turn, you pretty much only have 55, and 3x as value hands, so I planned to call turn, call river
    .
    Levelled myself on the river, when you overbet, and decide there are so few hands that you can take this line, and be bluffing the river, that I'm not ahead often enough to call - even though your value range is v.narrow.

    Not seen you overbet many / any rivers before, which was obviously a factor in changing my mind.

  • yoyoyoyo Member Posts: 642
    edited February 2012
    another nice read, sounds like ur doing very well tom,

    i'll pose the same question to you as i did to tommyD;

    bestest high, worstest low on the tables?
  • YOUNG_GUNYOUNG_GUN Member Posts: 8,948
    edited February 2012
    Nice bluff skillz, defo repping da A3, did jakally have a bare 10? would have been a sik call. Id say he has a 10 or overpair to board although less likely still think he fods here with QQ 

    wp

    What sort of range did you put jakally on? i can understand if you dont want to give this away as obviously he reads this thread.

    On a poker related question, what live events are you planning to play this year? any biggish ones or GUKPT/UKIPT and so on


  • edited February 2012
    In Response to Re: Diary of Thomas 'rolfus' Rolfe:
    another nice read, sounds like ur doing very well tom, i'll pose the same question to you as i did to tommyD; bestest high, worstest low on the tables?
    Posted by yoyo
    Best high was meeting me, lowest low is that he still knows me
  • rolfusrolfus Member Posts: 61
    edited February 2012
    In Response to Re: Diary of Thomas 'rolfus' Rolfe:
    Hi Interesting Diary, just wondering what's your way of withdrawing your profits since you play professionally. Do you just have a set bankroll eg £5000 and anything above that after the week/month you withdraw? Also if you do use this method what do you do if you have a big downswings just drop down the levels or deposit and continue as normal Thanks Ryan
    Posted by Knowles001
    I generally just withdraw as and when and try to maintain about 20 buyins for the stakes I'm playing(for online roll...not total bankroll) If I go on a downswing I just drop down the stakes as I hate redepositing based on the theory that if you don't redeposit you can't go bust. I also find it helps to just build back up your confidence as thats the biggest thing thats hit imo
  • rolfusrolfus Member Posts: 61
    edited February 2012
    In Response to Re: Diary of Thomas 'rolfus' Rolfe:
    Can you teach me how to play a hand against Jakally where he doesnt have KK or top set? PM me with the secret.
    Posted by simuk
    I did try and stack off with TT but he had KK....
  • rolfusrolfus Member Posts: 61
    edited February 2012
    In Response to Re: Diary of Thomas 'rolfus' Rolfe:
    another nice read, sounds like ur doing very well tom, i'll pose the same question to you as i did to tommyD; bestest high, worstest low on the tables?
    Posted by yoyo
    I presume this means poker in general....

    Best high was winning a tournement in Killarney, Ireland for €80k (I got £65k after paying off some action swaping)

    Worst low was losing a £10k pot and omaha screwing me out of 110buyins over the last 18months grrrrr...
  • rolfusrolfus Member Posts: 61
    edited February 2012
    In Response to Re: Diary of Thomas 'rolfus' Rolfe:
    Nice bluff skillz, defo repping da A3, did jakally have a bare 10? would have been a sik call. Id say he has a 10 or overpair to board although less likely still think he fods here with QQ  wp What sort of range did you put jakally on? i can understand if you dont want to give this away as obviously he reads this thread. On a poker related question, what live events are you planning to play this year? any biggish ones or GUKPT/UKIPT and so on
    Posted by YOUNG_GUN
    Put him on 66+, T9+ as I basically don't check/raise anything worse than 3x so if I'm bluffing 66 is good right?

    Well DTD is my local so am going to try and play as many 500 deepstacks as possible. Haven't really looked at schedule for year but 1k events are pushing my limits a bit at the mo so will try some satellites and see what happens. Will deffinately be talking on here about any events I do play in!
  • beanehbeaneh Member Posts: 4,079
    edited February 2012
    In Response to Re: Diary of Thomas 'rolfus' Rolfe:
    Finally found an interesting HH..... jakally Small blind   £1.00 £1.00 £203.50 rolfus Big blind   £2.00 £3.00 £264.85   Your hole cards A 4       jakally Raise   £3.00 £6.00 £200.50 rolfus Call   £2.00 £8.00 £262.85 Flop     10 3 5       rolfus Check         jakally Bet   £5.00 £13.00 £195.50 rolfus Call   £5.00 £18.00 £257.85 Turn     3       rolfus Check         jakally Bet   £13.00 £31.00 £182.50 rolfus Raise   £36.00 £67.00 £221.85 jakally Call   £23.00 £90.00 £159.50 River     J       rolfus Bet   £134.00 £224.00 £87.85 jakally Fold         rolfus Muck         rolfus Win   £89.00   £176.85 rolfus Return   £134.00 £1.00 £310.85 Me and Jakally played HU for a little while when the tables broke down. He eventually got the better of me when we got in TT vs KK but there was this HH which I thought was interesting.... I check/call the flop with what is probably the best hand and also has decent equity (an Ace, Gutshot to the wheel and backdoor flush draw) On the turn I think I very likely have the worst hand so with the picked up flush draw I still have a gutshot draw and the fact that I could quite easily have a 3 as I had been calling a lot of his minraises....I check/raise He calls...woops I think it's very unlikely that he has a 3 and I would have to be on a very random bluff for me to be bluffing and his Tx to be good so I carry on with my bluff....I overbet just to make sure ;)
    Posted by rolfus

    [ x ]  Not sure i'd ever fold river if I got there in Neils spot.
  • beanehbeaneh Member Posts: 4,079
    edited February 2012
    In Response to Re: Diary of Thomas 'rolfus' Rolfe:
    In Response to Re: Diary of Thomas 'rolfus' Rolfe : [ x ]  Not sure i'd ever fold river if I got there in Neils spot.
    Posted by beaneh

    ya thinking about it I prob call with worse than your bluffing with sometimes.
  • simuksimuk Member Posts: 315
    edited February 2012
    [x] that's because you never fold a hand because you hate to be exploited.
  • rolfusrolfus Member Posts: 61
    edited February 2012
    [x] thats why you don't try and bluff Beaneh?
  • rolfusrolfus Member Posts: 61
    edited February 2012
    Basically had a day of yesterday as was my Mums birthday. Need to get a decent catchup with the points this afternoon/evening....reckon I can get a good 4hour session in from about 5-9pm. Had a very quick session yesterday(to stop the withdrawal shakes) and made £14
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