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I know some people keep records of bb per hour, never really done that, i just really look at the money made over a day, week, month. Any ideas what a reasonable amount of BIs for cash in a month is?
Was curious as well about the abilities of players that do well at Cash at different levels, would a good winning player at say 30nl, have the same success at 50nl? I suppose some might and some wouldn't, it could be down to money or bankroll, though more generally it would make sense to think a reg winning at 50nl would be slightly better than one from 30nl.
Also wondering at higher up levels, if the winning cash players make a lot of money of weaker regs, or if it's just a matter of the recreational player sitting down which a reg should have a big advantage over?
Just wondering what other people thought of this
In monetary terms, i'm hoping to make atleast £1000 clear profit, hopefully more than this.
It's a big ask, but if i do the right things it should be achievable.
Part of the plan is to utilise bonuses else where to achieve this, and spin money up froma deposit bonus.
It's mostly me talking to myself and people dropping into say hello now and again lol
So prob will be a mini break from poker till i'm back up and running, going to just get it from a shop this time instead of online, so that i can atleast see what i'm getting. Don't get me wrong it's an alrite computer, looks pretty smart, but can't stand windows 8 and a mouse that doesn't work is pretty bad when trying to play poker!
Re Poker, I've never really "studied" poker, or did much stuff outside of analysing hands. Although this is definatly the most important aspect in improving in my opinion.
The only book i've read was on the train down to Newcastle for the SPT, Winning a tournie 1 hand at a time (or something like that) it was quite interesting looking over players hands, and seeing how they anaylsed them and why they did what they did, it changed my game slightly, the biggest thing it showed me was not to go crazy early doors in a mtt when they blinds were small. I just didn't apply it with the queen hands above!
I got another couple of books at the same time, but have only glossed over them "k everyone" and "doyle brunsons super system".
Right now poker wise, i'm fine for the levels i play, but there's a load more i need to learn. I prob know 20% of what i need to know to be a somewhat competent player. I'm going to spend more time over the next few months trying to learn as much as possible and enhance my game.
Talk soon!
I got a new laptop over the weekend which had windows 8 on. I feared the worst after reading the reviews, and wouldn't have bought it myself, but after a couple of hours using it, it's fine.
If you just click onto desktop mode it's exactly the same?
River play is really dubious by me though (calling)
Dohhhh, just wasn't very user friendly imo. Was only afterwards I heard all the bad reports on it.
Just clicking on desktop is ok, and you get used to it. I don't like the fact it doesn't have a start button etc. I had to download another browser, because internet explorer displayed pages really bizarly.
If it wasn't for the mouse been goosed, I would have stuck with the laptop.
You seem to be blurred by the fact that your read was indeed correct on the flop. Interested to know what range you assign him when raised OTF, then fires again on turn and overbets the river. It's a pretty innocuous flop after all. It's kinda irrelevant that villain turns a set, though obviously we can never really put him on that hand. Did you think he just had air? Busted straight draw?
I don't think calling the river is a mistake if you called the turn in the belief you were ahead (as you have stated before). Calling the turn to then fold the river would be pretty dubious, and begs the question of why would we call the turn? As I've said before, I'm reluctantly comfortable to fold the turn here, as we know we will be facing another bet on the river, and ultimately we only have QQ on an A high board, we still have bags of chips behind and can look for better spots to chip up.
Should stick it in the clinic, as I'm genuinely interested to see and read other peoples POV.
Not played much poker in the last few days, mostly been mtts.
Not played much cash at all. Havn't really felt like it, where as last week I was playing cash all the time.
Results wise, I've played pretty terrible in the MTT's and the results show that.
Up to 5k c4p, which is the highest ever, i'm not 2 worried about getting much more, as there isn't really any jump in the cash.
Computers getting returned on Monday, so will be able to get some poker in over the weekend.
Things have been going pretty well at cash. Not really done anything in tournies this week, I've played pretty bad in MTTs.
Probably because I had cash tables up and running at the same time, so I was more interested in the cash tables which was worth a lot more, than the buy in's of the tournie's I was playing.
I was wondering what a good level of bi's winrate was at cash. People seem to judge it on bb/100 (hands I think)
I always thought this was a bit bizarre and never really paid to much attention to it, I was only ever concerned with profit or loss.
On average I must play about 12 -14 hours per week at cash, 4-6 tabling, so probably about 4k hands per week (assuming 60 hands per table per hour), don't think you can find amount of hands played on sky per week? Don't think there's an option to do this search?
I worked out my win rate is about 10bb per 100 hands played. It might be a bit more or less, depending on how many hands can be played in an hour. I'm really pleased with this, and will stick to playing 10nl for the time being, and maybe look at going to 20nl in the New Year. It is a totally different ball game to 10nl, the standard, from what I can see, is significantly better.
Do you play much cash c/m, or is it mostly mtts?
Skypoker
I started playing on Skypoker via the TV! I had been at the casino with friends, and roughly knew the rules of poker, like a straight beats a flush, and 2 pair was awesome, get the money in!
Straight beats a flush? I'm pretty sure that's what I thought at the time.
I played cash, blinds were 50 and 1, and somehow I left the Casino that night having doubled up through poker. I thought this is an easy game. This must have been about 2.5 -3 years ago.
Ended up going onto the online gaming and found sky poker which you could play through your remote.
That was my start on sky, I used to play loads of DYM's and satelites, cause they were cheap and I didn't have a clue what I was playing in, just that it was a game. A couple of times I won the sats, and ended up playing in something else which loaded up later, I thought this is brilliant! But didn't have a clue what I was playing for.
Needless to say, Sky got rid of playing through the TV a while ago. If it wasn't for this I doubt I would be on sky at all.
Although mines is pretty poor, no big characters or dodgy surroundings lol Just a Tv and a Remote control lol
See I do read diaries lol just don't know what to say half the time haha
That above post was totally random, so i'm gonna have a rant, I feel like a rant, not like the bwaaaa I run so bad just a general rant.
I know variance exists, and is a part of the game. I've ran pretty bad the last 2 days, but mostly I have played terrible.
You should have seen some of the hands from cash tonight, I lost 2 stupid pots that were easy folds.
It's so stupid and annoying, obviously i'm beat and I go ahead and call. Totally pointless.
I've prob been playing 2 much! Sometimes it's just frustrating.
Rant over
I've just been playing badly in certain spots at cash.
Might take a break, i'll see how I feel in the next couple of days.
- Thanks Mike, yeah I was just a bit frustrated yesterday I gave away 1.5 bi's at cash, where I should have been able to find easy folds. I still made a profit on the day, was just frustrating it should have been a bit more. Im not going to take a break, just going to keep focussing on doing the right things, and prob play a bit less.
- Stay focussed
- Don't tilt
- Don't play cash and MTT's at the same time!
- Stop playing when you get that feeling it's time to stop
- Crush!
- Spend sometime looking over hands/ doing some study to help my game improve.
If I play my best game, I should crush the games i'm playing, into 2014, i'll look at moving up levels, but I'll need to do a bit of study before then.December
From now till the end of Dec I've got a target of 1k profit from playing Cash MTT's.
It's quite a big ask, and far from easy, but is doable. It's just a target, if I don't meet it then no drama's.
Goals for December
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Off to the football tonight, hopefully an easy game, only AC Milan lol Mon the Hoops
It wasn't 2 be, I got lucky 3 handed, 55s in versus aces pre and binked a 5 on the river.
That gave me a decent stack.
Got to HU almost 50/50 in chips then this happened, one of the worst calls I've ever made, everything was saying fold and at the last second I called. My opponent played well through out so deserved to win, but it's a weird one in poker, you come so close and 2nd feels pretty tainted. In saying that, i'll be happy about 2nd tomorrow, right now i'm just a bit gutted I didn't win it.
You are spot on, I should have 3 bet it pre.
The call on the river, I typed in the chat box I have an ace lol
Then as it was about to time out, I thought it could be a mad bluff to win what is in the middle.
In these games some players will do that, but, this opponent wouldn't, he had played well through out the time I was on his tables, and didn't really put a foot wrong. It was the easiest fold ever in the history of folds.
I don't normally get fatigued playing, but I definatly was in this spot, it was quite an intense FT lasted over an hour, the silly thing is I was 1 minute from the break.
If someone is on sharkscope, could you do me a big favour and tell me my stats for MTTs for November (excluding HU games, which are terrible!) And my stats for MTTs since June- present.
Thank you
November
Was a realy good month at MTT's and cash;
SCHEDULED 11/01/2013-11/25/2028 83 £2.47 £2.09 143% £205 75
With cash I have made a really decent profit as well.
But I have made so many mistakes it's been unreal (at cash)/ chasing losses, tilting. I won a lot at 10nl, I won 1 bi at 50nl (only played 50 nl twice), I lost about 4BI at 20nl. After a losing session on 10nl I "chased losses" on 20nl, and basically played terrible!
Someone else where said that 20nl wasn't that much different to 10nl. I'm not to sure about that, I definatly think 20nl is tougher.
In saying that the times, I have played 20nl its been a reg fest (wrong times of day).
I reckon I'm definatly good enough to beat 20nl.
For December, hoping to make a good profit again, and might get stuck into 20nl a bit more.
The Orfie game (7:10)
The 2 freerolls (7:00) and 7:15
2 deepstacks, 7:15 and 7:45. Might give the super deestack game a go too.
Not sure about the 8:05 BH it's a bit of a luck fest.
If you are on my tables later, be sure to say hello!
I'm feeling quite confident for tonight, A game all the way!