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Diary of Thomas 'rolfus' Rolfe
Hello People, I've recently started to read the forums on SkyPoker and heard of this diary trend rather than a blog. I like the idea of it and TommyD's Diary has been a good read so thought I would give it a crack.
I've been playing poker for about 6 years, 3 and a 1/2 of which have been as a professional. I play mostly cash games in NL Holdem and PL Omaha at the 0.25/0.5 through to 5/10 if I'm taking a shot, with the odd MTT added in which I've been lucky enough to have some good results in. I've been a bit lazy in regards to poker for basically 2010/2011 and have got back my motivation/passion for poker this year.
Goals: I set out in January to get to the 10k points mark to get Priority Club status [x] and am now trying to achieve 30k points for February (currently on 18k points for February). Other than that it's to get as good at poker as I can and hopefully the rewards come with it.
Thanks for reading, I'll try to update it as and when I play poker or have something interesting to talk about. Feel free to ask me any questions you may have. Tom
I've been playing poker for about 6 years, 3 and a 1/2 of which have been as a professional. I play mostly cash games in NL Holdem and PL Omaha at the 0.25/0.5 through to 5/10 if I'm taking a shot, with the odd MTT added in which I've been lucky enough to have some good results in. I've been a bit lazy in regards to poker for basically 2010/2011 and have got back my motivation/passion for poker this year.
Goals: I set out in January to get to the 10k points mark to get Priority Club status [x] and am now trying to achieve 30k points for February (currently on 18k points for February). Other than that it's to get as good at poker as I can and hopefully the rewards come with it.
Thanks for reading, I'll try to update it as and when I play poker or have something interesting to talk about. Feel free to ask me any questions you may have. Tom
Comments
SORT IT OUT SKY! your pictures are too small!
When you coming on the Show, Rolfy?
Should be a good read, this Diary.
I am doing the Show that night, & Fowles is the Presenter! How neat is that?
Can't wait!
Heads up 4 rollz?
I've only really played snooker with mates, my highest break is somewhere between 30-35. Small brag: My cousin is Neil Robertson
I've always been on and off with going to the gym but the last 4months I've been going pretty consistently and it's all because I've now got a gym partner...makes you unable to sack of the gym because your now letting someone else down.
I must say on the tables we've hit what is now called a bit of a 'meta game.' (In the old days this was just called 'have played a lot together'). I am finding this enjoyable, stimulating and frightfully tricky. I look forward to it continuing.
If Sky run another rake race for 60k points would you have a crack at it and do you think you could do it?
The reward for the 60k points is very good. In theory I could do it as I can play up to about 11 tables on sky and can do it for a couple hours at a time but thats in theory...
I know Beaneh and lol_raise did it and they were pretty burnt out/came out with injurys lol
If the promotion came along again I would seriously consider it but would prob be 50/50 I take it on and then 30/70 that I actually managed to do it
Look forward to reading this diary .
Would you mind telling us a little about your poker day.
On an average day, would you get up at 11, play 11-3 then have a break and play 8pm-12 maybe. (depending on weather your busy or not). Or do u just play as and when you feel like it ?
Im guessing you play almsot every Sunday and aim for a big tourne bink? Do you have saturdays off? etc..
Thanks in Advance
I lended up winning £208 playin NL50-NL200 and a bit of HUPLO100. Am now up to 18,449 points.
Not really any interesting HH as I didn't get into any pot over £100 and didn't have any tough spots this time.....
Sunday evenings are good for poker but I'm more of a cash game player so don't look to bog myself down with loads of MTT's but a couple mixed into my usual session is good if you have a sweat and keeps you grinding as MTT's last quite a while.
Don't really have any particular days off. If I go out on a Friday I'll play Saturday and vice versa
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:)
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
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