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Lost a fair bit.
Withdrawn over 1k today from my account (which is nice). So im now playing with a £1k roll. Think i get a bit spewy when I see i have a load of money in my account. Sometimes I forget its all real money and that I should treat each pound as preciously as the next...
A lot of people dont have it as easy as I do. I should be more grateful for what I have and not go throwing money around like its worthless.
Lesson learned.
Its like i completely ignored that last post of mine.... like it isnt even there!
Headed to the cash tables tonight...
50nl... oh everything is full
100nl... oh everything is full...
40nl.... full
20nl....full
200nl?? not a game thank god.
BUT WAIT. THERES A 300nl GAME GOING ON!
Sure i'll just sit down and play a few hands while i wait for free spaces on the other tables...
5 hands in... -£240.
Good one.
Luckily I managed to claw it back and sneak a £150 profit from it... but thats not the point.
Eurgh. Irritated with myself.
Judging by your session reports, and the fact you always have 5,475xbb stacks, they sound entertaining!
Lol. I'll be sure to let you know next time. You can stop me doing something stupid!
lol like your style
I've been on the cash tables hopping between 50nl and 100nl depending on whos about/where the seats are. I've tried the £5 to £200 challenge a couple of times as well. I got to £50 and bust the 100nl level. Maybe i'll give that a go again later.
Cash has been going quite well as of late giving me a profit of nearly £600 in just two days. Pleasing things. I've been playing a very high variance style this week, trialing things out. Not going to say exactly how ive been playing but it seems to be working.
I'm tempted to ask opinions on the following hand... but i feel like im going to get a bit of stick for it. To understand the history between me and this opponent is key. He's seen me bluff a fair few spots so is likely to think im going light check/raising... or best im on a draw (which I am). The reraise caught me by surprise. This guy is passive. He is super passive. He doesnt 4 bet kings or aces pre.... like ever and he always seems to play his big hands slow - he has let me bluff off £120 in a previous hand. So when he 4 bets... oddly, i think he is super light, hence the 5 bet. And to me the 6 bet is an even bigger indicator that he's light. If he had a draw.... surely hes shoving... if he had a big hand, he'd call and let me bluff everything into him. This is how this guy plays. He doesn't want to let go of this pot with a distinctly average hand/possibly nothing.... so I shove. He folds and i pick up the pot.
Dare I ask for thoughts?
Yeah me too lol. Wanna check my read was right... or maybe he made a big lay down?
Im going to send it into the show and find out
Essentially whilst doing work experience for Accenture I got introduced to another guy who was looking for a temporary employee in a football statistics company. So after the work experience at Accenture I went to work for them... and 10 months later im still there (with a few changes to the co. but essentially the same), now on a full time permanent contract.
I really just stumbled into my dream job. Lucky me.
With this double points malarky on cash, i've solely been playing on cash racking up the points (over 3.5k already). To say i've been doing it solely for the points would be inaccurate too. For some reason this week I have been annihilating cash at 50nl and the odd game on 100nl. I think itd be unfair to say i've been running well. I haven't. Dont get me wrong im not running badly but ive had more than my fair share of beats/coolers this week where ive lost a number of BI... however through sheer determination picking the right spots I have clawed it back.
Before today I was up £750 on cash this week which I thought was pretty decent going! I started today quite well on cash too running the profit up to over £820, however the day would not end like it started. I made a bad call here and there and definitely bluffed the wrong player at the wrong time (he called me with 42 on a 258910 board after I three bet pre and barrelled 3 streets). So today I was down about £150ish overall leaving my roll at +£600 for the week. (£1600 since I withdrew).
Scr*w cash I thought. I havent sat down and focussed on a tournament in a good while. Woops... missed the main so I decided to reg for 2/3 different tournaments, none of which bore any fruit.
I also reg for the £11BH £750 Gtd. I started well in that picking up a few decent pots here and there. One of which I 3 bet KK from the BB after an UTG raise from an aggro player and a caller. He then shoved 100bb and I called to see he had gone uber aggro with 42. Cheers!
I was hovering near the top for long periods of the tournament... still not picking up any bounties though. I was using my stack to boss the table around. Too bad every time I got called I lost each and every race. I must have doubled up about 6 shortstacks more than once on my way to the final table.
I came onto the final table 2nd in chips, but after one massive pot where a player limp shoved 33 utg and got there v QQ there was a massive stack at the table. I managed to keep my head above water despite doubling up shorty a few times (sigh). I got to the final 3 in 2nd... but after a hand where I raised with A5 and hit an A56 flop and bet the flop and turn big v a station... to see the 6 on the river I had to check back and lose the pot to a better kicker, I was adrift in 3rd.
Mr Big Stack Aggro Man as i'll call him was dry shoving 80bb time and time again... I eventually picked up AK and doubled up through his J8 (or such similar) despite him hitting the flop. I then pick up 55 v same player. I raise button and he 3 bets... i call. 5 on the flop and he shoves with just two overs like 9x pot. I call and suddenly im massive chip leader.
After 3rd was knocked out we were HU... but his internet went. What do you do in this situation? Do you wait? I didnt really want to wait 10-15 mins and see where he was so after tanking the first 3/4 hands, I just laid into his blinds. He got back with still about 30bb to his name after about 10 minutes away and shoved near enough every hand.
I just waited for any Ace and called an all in to see 510s and held for the win!
So maybe I should stick with tournaments and not cash...
Either way £280 for the win and I go to bed a happy man with about £1900 in my account. +900 for the week. Happy days.
Nooooooooooooooo, you can both have the "best read on here"
You are related, right?
Diary of a young man, diary of an old man, I mean it gives it away!
Plus you inspired the title, so you deserve credit too lol
Incidentally Larson, no disrespect to Jac but I hadn't a clue there was a 'ramblings of an old man' thread. I thought I was being original! Pah. Suppose great minds think alike
Splashies. If only eh?
Interesting idea Ivanovic. It was one of those moments where I sat tanking the first couple of hands and was like 'a decent guy would wait for a while and give the guy a chance'. After a couple of minutes I looked at the time - it was 2 o clock. I was tired and had no idea if and when he'd get back. So maybe a tired and a bit unsportsmanlike me just decided to go for the win and go to bed. I did think 'would he wait for me?'. The way he had been playing there wasn't a chance he would, which may be the wrong way to look at it but decided id steal the blinds until he returned... if he returned. As it so happened he got back with still a decent stack but maybe I should have waited longer... I dunno.