Ah got a feelin

LARSON7

Short but sweet!

Monday and Tuesday were bad days. First bad period in a while.

Mixture of playing bad and running bad. I'm down about £20 in the last couple of days. Not major, but a bit frustrating that through tilt I've thrown away money.

It was a lot worse than minus £20, yesterday at 1 point I was minus £40 but clawed back £20 through cash.

The biggest problem, and it always tilts me is Sats. I really need to stop playing these!

I ended up getting into the main last night but prob spent about £8 in sats. Day before I played a few sats for the main event which was probably another 5 plus wasted.

Basically I need to avoid sats!

gazza127

In Response to Re: Ah got a feelin:

Short but sweet! Monday and Tuesday were bad days. First bad period in a while. Mixture of playing bad and running bad. I'm down about £20 in the last couple of days. Not major, but a bit frustrating that through tilt I've thrown away money. It was a lot worse than minus £20, yesterday at 1 point I was minus £40 but clawed back £20 through cash. The biggest problem, and it always tilts me is Sats. I really need to stop playing these! I ended up getting into the main last night but prob spent about £8 in sats. Day before I played a few sats for the main event which was probably another 5 plus wasted. Basically I need to avoid sats!
Posted by LARSON7

Looks like value to me?

hhyftrftdr

In Response to Re: Ah got a feelin:

Short but sweet! Monday and Tuesday were bad days. First bad period in a while. Mixture of playing bad and running bad. I'm down about £20 in the last couple of days. Not major, but a bit frustrating that through tilt I've thrown away money. It was a lot worse than minus £20, yesterday at 1 point I was minus £40 but clawed back £20 through cash. The biggest problem, and it always tilts me is Sats. I really need to stop playing these! I ended up getting into the main last night but prob spent about £8 in sats. Day before I played a few sats for the main event which was probably another 5 plus wasted. Basically I need to avoid sats!
Posted by LARSON7

No Henrik! The sats on Sky are generally pretty soft. If you're only chance of playing a ME is through a sat then just limit yourself to 2 or maybe 3. There is no greater feeling than taking down a Main Event after getting in for a fraction of the buy in....and yes I'm speaking from experience . 

A cash/FT/outright win in a ME can work wonders for your bankroll, so it's worth having a shot or 2 at some sats and giving yourself the opportunity of a big score should you bink a seat.

Run well!

LARSON7

You are both right! it's just a numbers game you aren't going to cash in every big event you get into or run deep, but from sating in you can get a big score, even a cash is a decent ROI if you sat in.

Was annoying last night in the main a guy limped in, and called my shove with J7 (200 left), I had AJ they bink a 7 on the river.

I agree totally that Sats are a good route into potentially achieving a big score.

Right now, because of my "strategy" basically be as risk averse as possible to build up to £1000 (just playing games I know I can beat), i'm going to avoid sats, or maybe a maximum of 1 a week. Once I get to £1000, it'll be the second stage.

It'll allow me money to play about with to enter sats, play bigger events, and go from there. 

Once at a 1000, I will take punts (at mtts) to try and see the bankroll rocket up. 

Right now its slowly slowly catch a monkey.

Slipwater

You have a solid game, mate (despite the odd spewy barrel ) so I'm sure you will reach your target and be playing with the bigger boys soon.

LARSON7

lol just replied to your message and it then said I wasn't logged in, hate when that happens haha

Thanks Brian!

Still got a lot to learn and as they say it's a never ending game, but am pretty confident one day I will be beating reasonable buy in mtts and cash, that's the bigger picture goal anyway!

Slipwater

In Response to Re: Slowly, slowly catch a monkey:

Thanks Brian! Still got a lot to learn and as they say it's a never ending game, but am pretty confident one day I will be beating reasonable buy in mtts and cash, that's the bigger picture goal anyway!
Posted by LARSON7

...not if I'm on your table, buddy

LARSON7

Tonight was poor again, but the turn around is on for tomorrow.!

If i play that is lol maybe poker break time:D

Jac35

Nice thread title

LARSON7

Catchy?

liamboi11

best of luck buddy you defo are more than good enough and will move up stakes quite soon imo.

gl at the tables

LARSON7

Hey mate,

Thanks,

Yeah hopefully will be playing higher levels by about xmas time.

Cash and MTTs, probably going to give MTTs a good going first. Playing bigger games, and main events using sats to get in a lot cheaper.

How are you doing? Enjoy the holiday next week.

LARSON7

Not played that much since tuesday.

When i have it's been pretty silly stuff for a bit of fun!

Serious play and come back starts tomorrow!

LARSON7

Today was really going to have a go at cash again, which i did. It went pretty badly from start to finish, i ran really bad, as well as misplaying a lot of spots. Confidence was pretty low. This week has just been a sustained period of not winning. Pretty weird, cause before this week i was pretty much winning 5 days out of 6 when i was playing.

No idea if it is just me or variance.

I played a couple of tournies tonight, and thankfully ended up 2nd in the 7:15 deepstack game, which helps a good amount for the losses in the last few days.

I also ended up qualifying for the £11 BH through the 7 o clock freeroll, unfortunatly i ran pretty bad in it and didnt even pick up any bounties. My exit hand was AK versus KQ - they flopped a straight.

Overall today started bad, but ended up on a positive note.

Been really weird this week having so many losing days. I think it might be a case of when you are winning, it all goes right for you so when you start playing you expect to win, and when your losing, maybe some where you are saying this is going to be a bad session. Tho i really thought i was gonna crush cash today and end up loads of buy ins up.

LARSON7

Last night and today have been pretty decent.

Running total, £190 withdrawn since 24/09, £810 to go

Almost 20% of the way there! Will be really hard to do this by Xmas time

LARSON7

Not played much the last few days apart from a few HU games, 1 hour of cash tonight and the DTD games on monday. I did quite well apart from bricking all 3 of the DTD games!

I was thinking at some point next year, or Christmas time (probably a good time for it with all the merry Xmas goers!) having a go at cash in the casino.
 
To start with i'm going to try 50nl, atleast some casinos do this.

I'm pretty sure now it should be easy enough to spot those who play poker serioussly, and those who are just there for a bit of fun.

I think overall i'll probably play pretty tight and aggressive and keep bluffing to a minimum, pretty sure that's the best way to play cause most casino cash games i've seen people don't fold and like to call!

I won't have any particular "bank roll" for this as people would talk about it online. Plan is 2 set aside a few hundred quid, if things dont go well with it then it'll be an experience, if things go well/ i run good i could turn it into a decent amount. Any thoughts on Casino cash games?

 

Slipwater

The most important thing about cash in the casinos is that a lot of what you learned from the virtual felt goes out the window. Live poker is (obviously) much more about observation than its online sibling. There is no timebar, and snap decisions are much more rare. It is a very different game at times.

Just be careful, because while I do believe it's usually softer than the games you'll get online at the same level, there are always sharks out there who make it their business to sniff out the rookies.

LARSON7

Been a while since I updated, will post tomorrow how October went, been a pretty funny month. Bit of good and a bit of bad, one of the most up and down months I've had between running great and running terrible. The running terrible was compounded by playing bad and chasing losses. I had my worst day in October 3months, I lost £60 one night, thanks to playing a mastercash 20nl table and lost a 200 bb pot against DTM with pocket kings, I called his all in even though I knew I was beat, and a shortstack was already in, so was getting to see his cards anyway lol. It was not that bad a board, but was pretty obvious top pair was no use. I was on tilt and wasn't folding. 

Played some live cash as well, which went really well, i'll update tomorrow.

New computer is in, it's got windows 8 so is taking a bit of getting used to.

Not played much online poker at all in the last week.

LARSON7

October

Stats for MTT's / HU Games, thanks k8lou!

mtts, played 46profit/loss -£50stts 74 playedprofit loss -£4

HU Turbo Games

Pretty disappointed with the Sit and Go HU Turbo stats, probably the first time in a long time I've had a minus for the month. I didn't expect this to be a minus to be honest, was looking at probably break even. The new structure was introduced, which in the first 10 games I did play pretty bad and lost a good few, but i'm more used to the new structure now so nothing to worry about.
 
MTTs

The biggest loss from MTT's came from a BH main event (£33 bi) which I got into for nothing so didn't cost anything, but still shows as a loss on Sharkscope, clearly I didn't cash in it either!

The real loss is minus £17, I also played in a trubo Tuesday main event (£11) which I satted into, again never cashed, and for some reason the win in the sat (it was a 60p all in) did not show as plus £11 on sharkscope.

I've played in a few of the DTD games on a Monday, with no real success as well as other MTTs, the £1 / £2/ orfie £3 deepstacks.

In actualy monetary terms (what i'm down) is probably close to £10, or even under that. Not a very good month for MTT's, but in saying that in cost terms it's not a lot at all.  

Cash

Cash I am up from online cash poker, not a great amount, I had a bad day where I lost £60 2 days later I won £50 back which almost counteracted the silliness of throwing away money! There has been a few more losing days, than at any other time over the last few days, in monetary terms, i'm only up about £50 overall for October which is my worse month in 5 months.

Live Cash

I had a dabble at this, will post up a bit later how it went, but i'm up £300 from this which i'm really happy with.

November and beyond

I've decided to re-deposit winnings from my poker withdrawels, the winnings from live cash into my account so that it is £1000, instead of waiting any longer.

I'm going to have a shot at higher games, I think I will do pretty well. I'm going to set myself a stop loss of £200, if I fall below -200 I will go back to rebuilding, doubt this will be the case, that's just a worse case scenario.

For the next while my objective is to withdraw £400 per month while retaining atleast £1000.

Wish me luck! 

liamboi11

gl buddy for this month I think you will do well,just keep off my tables lol

hhyftrftdr

Sigh. I wish I could have a £10 MTT monthly loss

You seem quite keen to always have objectives. Why not just throw them out the window and just play and enjoy the game? If you bink a few quid then great, if not then just grind away whilst online. You appear to have very good BRM so you'll never go bust or anything. It won't be easy to withdraw £400 a month whilst still retaining the bag of sand (the V word) but I wish you well in your quest. 

You've got a healthy roll, enjoy it without putting needless pressure on yourself innit.

Jac35

Well done with the live cash mate.

Don't see you having any problem doing well moving up. Just remember you don't have to win every pot you play.

By the way. 2 diaries is surely a bit big time!

Oh and don't worry about Chinese Frankiie. Only know him to say hello to but hes a DTD reg and he's known as a nice guy. For some reason though he always gives new posters a hard time, if they don't include enough information about themselves. Mothers maiden name and National Insurance  number etc

LARSON7

thanks mate, for sure avoiding your tables!

hh; i know what you are saying, but it's good to have something to work towards. I think £400 is definatly achievable from a £1000 bankroll. Ultimatly, i would like to move up the levels at cash over the next year. That pretty much hinges on me improving a fair bit aswell. If i drop below 1k there would be no withdrawels. I do enjoy poker, especially taking money out! It's really sweet. I would never want to play poker full time, i'm just happy to take an income from what is a hobby.

lol Paul i'm gonna post results in the other diary to keep me focussed and on track. Chinese Frankie seems like a cool guy and clearly likes an autobiography lol I remember hearing a story once about a poker player that owned a fish and chip shop, can't even remember the story was now but it was pretty funny, it probably was Frankie.

LARSON7

I need a new title:|

hhyftrftdr

In Response to Re: Slowly, slowly catchy monkey:

thanks mate, for sure avoiding your tables! hh; i know what you are saying, but it's good to have something to work towards. I think £400 is definatly achievable from a £1000 bankroll. Ultimatly, i would like to move up the levels at cash over the next year. That pretty much hinges on me improving a fair bit aswell. If i drop below 1k there would be no withdrawels. I do enjoy poker, especially taking money out! It's really sweet. I would never want to play poker full time, i'm just happy to take an income from what is a hobby. lol Paul i'm gonna post results in the other diary to keep me focussed and on track. Chinese Frankie seems like a cool guy and clearly likes an autobiography lol I remember hearing a story once about a poker player that owned a fish and chip shop, can't even remember the story was now but it was pretty funny, it probably was Frankie.
Posted by LARSON7

Fair play to ya, but taking £400 out every month won't be easy. You basically need to win £15 a day, every day, for the whole month. As you well know, there will be days when you call it a day £50/60 down, which will really hinder your progress. Plus if you're looking to move up levels, then you should be looking to grow that bankroll really. Constant withdrawals will be counter productive. Why not take out a %age of your profits every month? Just seems like you've plucked that £400 figure from thin air to be honest. 

Hope that doesn't come across harsh as I genuinely wish you well. 

craigcu12

Larson mate don't let the £10 loss get to you, you doing excellent with all forms of poker at the minute, I wish I was able to only suffer a £10 loss in my MTTs.
remember me i once had £300 back in july but bad time in MTT got me annoyed and cost me massively.
i would hate to see it happen to you.
GL with this month.
please leave the nl4 seats for weak limpers i need them.

LARSON7

In Response to Re: Slowly, slowly catchy monkey:

In Response to Re: Slowly, slowly catchy monkey : Fair play to ya, but taking £400 out every month won't be easy. You basically need to win £15 a day, every day, for the whole month. As you well know, there will be days when you call it a day £50/60 down, which will really hinder your progress. Plus if you're looking to move up levels, then you should be looking to grow that bankroll really. Constant withdrawals will be counter productive. Why not take out a %age of your profits every month? Just seems like you've plucked that £400 figure from thin air to be honest.  Hope that doesn't come across harsh as I genuinely wish you well. 
Posted by hhyftrftdr

Not at all mate. You are right it's definatly not easy. I based it on basically doubling what i have been doing over the last few months, or just more than doubling it. For sure going for £400 this month, i'll be happy with £300 or more but ideally £400. I'll soon find out.

As for moving up stakes, i keep an account that is just for poker, when that gets to 2.5k i'll move up stakes again, that's the longer term plan!

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Cash or MTTs, I think i'm better at Cash than MTT's, but prefer MTT's. Cant beat the feeling of running deep and FTing and taking downa  tounrie. As with now i think i'll just play a mixture of games, with quite some HU S n Go's, £5 ones. 

hhyftrftdr

In Response to Re: Slowly, slowly catchy monkey:

Larson mate don't let the £10 loss get to you, you doing excellent with all forms of poker at the minute, I wish I was able to only suffer a £10 loss in my MTTs. remember me i once had £300 back in july but bad time in MTT got me annoyed and cost me massively. i would hate to see it happen to you. GL with this month. please leave the nl4 seats for weak limpers i need them.
Posted by craigcu12

It's alright Craig, I'm on my way.

LARSON7

In Response to Re: Slowly, slowly catchy monkey:

Larson mate don't let the £10 loss get to you, you doing excellent with all forms of poker at the minute, I wish I was able to only suffer a £10 loss in my MTTs. remember me i once had £300 back in july but bad time in MTT got me annoyed and cost me massively. i would hate to see it happen to you. GL with this month. please leave the nl4 seats for weak limpers i need them.
Posted by craigcu12

There all yours lol

LARSON7

Has been a good start so far this month with cash, mtts have been so so, mtt's played 7, cashed in 2, FT 1 going out in 4th place.

Cash has been really good so far. i'm plus 4 bi's for 10nl in just over 2 hours. I'm mostly going to play 10nl for the next week, with a bit of 20nl mixed in, and over the month move to playing just 20nl.

Hopefully i can run amazing in both to make up for October run bad!