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Yeah going to take tomorrow off as I have to go to funeral of distant relative. Then going to watch some videos, talk to some people and just look at HH. Then deposit on 888 try build that up this week. Then deposit again on sky.
Cheers I appreciate that I may do that if I come over some HH that im abit stuck on, how did u do at 10 nl? guess not bad seeing as you play higher.
I brought a month one aswell, think ill just do that and miss out on any money off I would of got if I brought a 6 months subscription. Most months my c4p will pay for it so its like its free anyways.
Ahh the pro footballer dream died ages ago with me
Yeah true, that why I said I have to prove to everyone and myself before I can even seriously think about it. TBH earning good money would please me, not being a pro or playing full time but like maybe £600 a month I would be proud with and I know a lot of good reg at maybe 20-30 nl would earn that as just playing for fun.
Cheers waller I enjoy your diary too, and uv run bad and not moaned so nor should I, just struggling and want to get back playing good poker lol thanks a lot mate.
I haven't replied to your PM yet cos it's a massive pain replying to PMs on Sky for me, for some reason the browser doesn't let me, but yeah I'm happy to do that thing.
In short though, I'd say it's unnecessary on Sky, it's a bit too much and probably isn't needed but I'll discuss more on Skype or something. If I don't already have you then PM your Skype name thingy.
Massive losing days yet ending up 6 (dollars? pounds? euros?) in profit? I wish my losing days would be like that!
Had planned to deposit £400 on sky today. I looked in the morning and there was 1 10nl table. Really struggling to find reasons to play on sky tbh. The other site has packed tables all the time which means if I want I can get up at 7 play a lot of hours and still have the rest of the day to myself. The tables are re sizable aswell which is a big help.
Been fairly disappointing, deposited $400 on tue, was up to $455 by Friday, then had 3 bad sessions in a row meaning I was down to $365 on Sunday, went to $393 after 3 hours grid in morning, lost all in profit of sundayin the first hour of 3 hours evening grind but won enough to get me back to $380. Just finished 2 hours session , its hot and I spent loads of time over weekend playing and my Br looks unimpressive still so thought ill just do other stuff. Worked on my game a lot, mentally aswell and I feel im slowely getting there. Think im going to give it until 1st September to start making money, atm im a break even/small winning player but I play a fair amount and study quiete a lot so its not really a good enough effort:reward ratio. I like poker.....but not enough to spend so much time on it and not achieve what I want.
Not sure if I should deposit a br on sky, maybe 30 buyins for 10nl and try grind it up? Surprised I don't hear about other peoples BR on various sites in there diarys not sure everyone only plays on sky.
How has everyones poker been going last week update me on what I missed......
I'm not really sure why you left Sky to be honest, with the exception of maybe 4NL, 10NL and 20NL are probably by far the busiest levels on here where you can near enough always get a game. Are you playing at odd hours like 9am or something?
And as FCHD said starting with $400 going up to $450 then down to $406 is not a losing day, it's a winning one. lol
I'm back at cash anyway, been playing mostly 20NL, only been back for 2 sessions but about +£80 so far and got the roll back above £1k now. Tonight I'll be playing the DTD
Tbh, I don't really play the MTTs with enormous fields, you've gotta run SO good to FT one and the payouts are so top heavy that I can't really be bothered to sit there for 8 hours and come like 120th out of 3000 people and probably lucky if I treble my BI. So I've had a few like <€100 binks and stuff on other sites but nothing major. First time I ever started playing online was on Full Tilt and I played a 10 cent MTT (lol), back then I was completely clueless about poker but managed to luckbox a 2nd place out of like 3500 runners for $200. Took me something like from 8pm until 6am the next morning.
Well I had a brutal June didn't I and dropped from like £1800 to £700ish. Spent a few weeks playing MTTs and HU SnGs that got me back to about £950, then started playing cash again and just thought I'd ease myself in at 20NL cos imo it's SO much softer than 30NL. I was playing 4 tables of 20NL and 2 tables of 30NL though, but seems like there's hardly any games running at 30NL these days.
Update
Deposited £300 in sky today. so I now have deposited £300 in sky + (275) $400 in 888. That's proberly the most I have put into poker at one time. I have around 1.2k saved from tourney/cash that I havnt spent so im not too afaird, im fully confident I can build both BR's and if it goes wrong, oh well least I had a go.
My plan for sky is £300 />£500 withdraw £100, £400> £600 withdraw £100 > £500 (playing 1 or 2 20 nl game) > 700 withdraw £100. leaves me with £600 for 20nl/10nl games.
888 im going to just keep playing until I think of what I want to do.
played 4/5 and 6 tables for first time on 888 this morning, run well played well and made 3 buy ins. Balance $375 />$405.
Then played 2 tables of 888 and 2 tables of sky for around 2 horus. Had an unlucky start flopping set of 10's on k q 10 board bet flop and safe turn big against LAG, river was A but there was only £2 in his stack and he shoved so called and he showed KJ. Mental game has come on, kept reading mental game of poker and now have a paper where I write my thoughts and write when I had a spot of good varience and its really helping atm.
Any suggestions for better ideas for my BR are welcome
Sky: £407.36
Other: $405
Didn't get much time to play today. was watching Tottenham friendly in the morning and when that finish I only had 2 hours until I had to collect my chocolate Labrador from the vets as he was being newtered....ouch. I decided id spend those 2 hours reading poker players magazine and going through a few things on duecescracked. Couldn't find any videos I was interested in so read through the notes id made form a lot of there videos in my notepad and just refreshed some stuff. Not worried about the friendly loss for Tottenham, we usually go unbeaten in pre season then start awful so I don't mind a loss at all.
Managed to play for 2 hours , 2 tables of sky/2 of 888. Didn't get going to the skys tables for some reason, table was very tight weak so couldn't really get action. 888 I done well, mostly notable hand was me rasing j9s from button. BB flatted flop come 10 q k, he lead out I raised as it was flush draw/very draw heavy board, he shoved with a set of 10's I called and held. Ended up evens on the sky one and +5 buyins on the 888 which im happy with.
Sky: £305
Other: $455
Note to self, less caffeine
Started playing and decided I would try a session with 6 tables for the first time. 3x888, 3x sky, found it tough tbh. sometimes it felt like I was auto piloting my play a lot, sort of button clicking with a gist of whats going on. Lost a hand on sky early on with a set of 10's but I should of folded on the flop, made my set on turn as he made his straight. No complaints I deserved that for calling. Been working a lot of range I bet/call/fold. No point working on it if im not being disciplined enough. I then lost a big hand late on, I flopped a set on 3 7 10 rainbow board against 1 called in sb, he c/c I bet 2 turn he called again, then an ace hit the river making 3 flush cards on the flop. He donked out for pot, I was very confussed but he was very loose and I really felt he could do that with set of 3's (which I was suspicious he had) or a10, that's what I put him on. So I shoved , good value or too thin? ill post the hand for you to decide. I lost to a hand I didn't even notice, he tanked/called with 45s. I actually wanted him to call and the tank just made me think iv gotton this read correct. £28 pot which is annoying but oh well.
Pretty sure I made a loss on both sites today, havnt checked balance yet. Dissapointing but up and downs will happen. Abit more annoying with the hands I lost It on....well mostly the set of 10's hand.
Should I continue to 6 table or cut it down to 5 for now?
Sky: £290. After losing those big hands ill happily accept that tbh.
888: $449. so - $6. So not as bad as I thought but play was poor today. Fully deserving on a losing day.
set of 3's
a10
a7??
10s
flush
bad bluff that's repping a scare card on river as he could put me on a 10x hand.
set 3's call, so shoves good.
a10 judging on previous play, calls, shoves good.
a7, bet/folds, calls better then shove.
10s, cooler so not worries, shoves bad.
flush, shoves bad.
bad bluff, shoves bad.
So maybe looking back the best play is call?
Maybe fold with the right reads, but don't raise.
Bet size is a massive indicator. There are some people who literally just over shove the river with the nuts or VERY close so sometimes you get to the river and they do it, and you just have to say 'sigh, i dunno how they've managed to get here with 8To (or w/e) but I KNOW they have it' cos most of these people aren't good enough to adapt and realise people know they only shove the nuts so they start shoving as a bluff. Sometimes you think that, and you level yourself in to a call thinking 'oh they'll bluff cos they know I think they always have it'.... and nope, they just have it AGAIN.
I'd bet money the villian would do the exact same thing with the following hands if they are both spades KQ, KJ, KT, QJ, QT, JT, T9 maybe T8 if he calls that pre (you did say he's loose),
They've called with either 2 overs or TP. They turn a FD, great we'll call again. I hit my hand 'yaaaay, lets bet full pot'.
That's why I said sometimes it is hard to figure out how they've managed to turn up with better but if it's THAT type of player (I don't know if this guy is) then I'd generally just think 'meh, dunno how he's done it, but he's never bluffing, it's always nutty' and I might call, but never raise.
Had dog walking in the morning with aunt so didn't play then. My sister is a teacher so shes off for 6 weeks so Im going to go more places with her, and she wanted to go to my nans today so didn't have time then.
Ended up looking at 888 and entering a 99c rebuy/add on just for fun. Was $4k gtd so was worth a go I felt. Got up to 11k which was around average, and I added on the 3x u was allowed, so had 41k. Was doing okay, had KQs, and had to call extra 13k with 2 other already all in . Was against kq, 77 so lost. Anyway 668 starting and the pay out was top 120. I busted in 140th after 2 hours, when my a5 with short stack got called by button with j2o....Jack on the river.
I hate mtts for this fact, 2 hours to go out nowhere and even if I got in I only get 1 buyin of a cash game profit. I don't care what anyone says top 120/ 668 is extremely hard to get. Theres so much luck/maths made decisions in mtt that its abit likeplaying bingo, theres a very low amount of skill imho. Fair play to you that grind the mtts but personally there not for me.
Ended up losing 2 byins on sky and winning 2 buy ins on 888 when I played last night. The sky one was flush over flush so meh and cant remember the other hands.
sky: £279
888: $466
Disspaointing day really. Played 2 sky 2 888 for about 2 and a half hours which is fairly short for me but just wasn't getting into it really, just felt like I had enough. Didn't play well on sky really struggled. I seem to struggle post flop with some of the weird bets/passiveness that players have. Don't really know how to fix that just will have to keep watching sweat sessions I suppose.
I value bet 2 pair twice in hands and to my surprise was losing to worse 2 pairs. Also had a 3rd hand where I turnt 2 pair on a 4 Q 10 A board only to get raised by a loose player, I shoved and he showed what seemed obv....kj. I want to feel like that wasn't a mistake but I think it was ill post so you can tell me if it was.
Then I raised with a speculative hand on the button which I like to do so I turn up with something people never expect so then I can then rep low flops. 7 5 s was the hand. I isolated 1 limper, he then lead out on a 3 7 9 rainbow board, I thought to raise there as I don't see what he leads out with tbh, but I think its almost weakness always, I called turn was a K, perfect, now all the 9x 7x and drawy hand, ace highs now will fold to a raise. He lead out I raied he called. The stacks where then so shallow, about £13 in pot and £4 in our stacks. He then lead for £1 wtf?? I knew I wasn't winning but at 13-1 odds I called. He showed KJ, lead out with air, then I repped a scare card he hit.....I don't think he would of folded to a shove on river as we was too shallow..... whats your thoughts?
Won 2 buyins on other site.
sky: £250.42
Other: $486.72
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Rest fine imo.