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Get it all in preflop versus kings for a 40k pot, opponent has me covered by a few hundred.
First card out was a K, this was pot was for 2nd chip lead. Chip leader had 52k.
Seems this stuff is happening all the time in MTT's just now, I've never had such a bad run in MTT's before, no idea how to shake it off!
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Looking for some thoughts on these 2 hands,
I ended up losing over 2 bi's at 50nl last night.
1st one the hand played itself really, I had a set of 3's and opponent had a straight flush draw from the flop. He played it really passive. Opponent has 4s6s, flop was 3s5s x. I was on the button it checked round to me, I bet quite big, opponent just called. Turn was a brick, I bet again to set it up to ship the river. Opponent just called again.
River was a 7, all flush draws had missed. Opponent checked. Only draw that came in was 46. I was thinking he could have that, tho 46 os, never putting him on a flush draw. I don't know if the river was a check behind for me. It's hard for anything worse than a set of 3s to call, I suppose. I shoved. Don't know if this is a check behind?
The rest, was just a lot of small pots from spew.
I've done a fair bit of moaning over the last 2 weeks. Must say I have ran pretty bad in MTT's, but still we all know it's just part of the game. Going forward no more moaning about bad beats, totally pointless in fairness!
I wasn't really "bankrolled" to play 50nl, so wont be doing that again in a hurry until I've built up enough of a roll to justify playing it.
I think the biggest thing is I was sitting down at 1/2 tables, and the whole thing with that is I get bored and probably play to many hands. With a bankroll of £2.5k at least you can quite comfortably 4 / 5 table. Not that I think you need that amount of bi's it's more psychological, as in if you lose it doesn't really matter. But if you lose from a smaller bankroll, then it's more of a "hit".
I've withdrawn quite a lot last month and this month, it was an expensive month, tax to be paid, and my car broke down at the start of the week, which was another £220 to get fixed.
I think for the time being i'm not going to withdraw money, and build up to about £1500-£2k of a "bankroll".
I say that, but things change all the time (in poker) so we will see!
So no more moaning, and just get on with it.
I wasn't sure last night.
I was thinking what's he calling with 2 streets, 4 6 sprang into my head. I was thinking surely can't be a set/ 2 pair, has to be a draw. Really hate how villain played the hand. He flopped the world lol
But definatly agree I had to shove the river, that was always the plan, so stuck to the script!
After a bad day yesterday I've made just under £50 today, another 10 days like this please
Played another 4mtts tonight, didn't do anything in any of them apart from 3 bounties, run bad in mtts has to finish sometime!
It's been about 2/3 weeks since I've had a deep run/ Final tabled in anything. Hopefully MTT run good is coming back soon...
Last couple of days have been really good.
I played the main tonight, and ended up 25th for a smallish cash, exit hand was A5 with <10 bigs on the button, into the big blinds AQ.
Got lucky in a hand just before the bubble, AJ all in over a short stack shove, guy in the small blind also shoves all in.
Shortie had Ace 7, sb had Ace Ace, flop 910qx, river a K!
Really like this tournie, it's a good laugh. Hadn't played it in ages till Diminuendo twisted my arm into playing it last week!
Got a free seat into next weeks game as well through the show, always nice!
Played cash for 2 hours aswell and ended up about 6 BI's up. Over the next few weeks, i'm going to try and build up £500 profit, and have a go again at some higher games, to hopefully move things along a bit.
This was my favourite hand of the night against a total maniac
When I said HU challenge I meant a personal one.
I did really well over the games I played, my roi was about 8/10%, however they stopped been fun when I was "grinding" them.
Plus from a money perspective, I make way more money playing cash.
If you were interested in doing something mate, why don't you make a post of what you want to do?
I wasn't really that keen on cash at the start of the month so thought MTT's would be fun for a change.
I don't know if i just ran bad or played bad, but i couldn't really get anything going in MTT's. The deepstacks i used to crush and FT for fun didn't go well. I was running bad, and in turn that resulted in bad play, tilt i suppose!
I then decided i had enough with MTT's so was going to play a lot more HU games, sit and go's and cash.
It went really well, my ROI for fiver sit and go turbos was about 8%-10%. I played over 100 games over a 3/4 day period. But it was a lot of "grinding" for not a lot of profit.
So i ended up going back to cash the last 2 weeks of January.
I played some really big games (for my bankroll).
Firstly i played 2 £110 sit and gos against nosebleed_, it was just before i played the 100plus fiver sit and gos. Basically i was playing a lot of £1 games to try stuff out, i was playing with my game, seeing what would work not work. For example, i wasn't continuation betting as much, stuff like that. Small stuff.
I seen a game in the lobby so i clicked register thinking it was a £1 game, not realising it was a £100 game. Luckily i won both these games.
I also played a bit of 50nl, i lost 2 bi's in a night of madness. Basically i had a bit of a cooler with a set of 3s over a rivered straight. Lost 1 full buy in and tilted away another £50.
Cash went really well last week, i was 20plus bi's up at 10nl. I thought this is an easy game! But i was running awesome.
The last week has been a bit swingy, up and down. I've not been playing my best.
I ended up withdrawing a lot of money at the start of the month/ lat December.
My bankroll currently is about £800ish on sky. I don't know yet if i will be playing much on sky this month.
I also have a bankroll of £500ish on another site aswell. Might give that site a go this month, just to see how it compares, and try and get that up to about 1k.
Not really decided yet.
This month if playing on sky, i'll prob be playing more 20nl over 10nl.
Thank you for reading!
Not a lot has been happening with poker in the last few days. I'm up a small amount, but nothing to write home about.
I won the 7:45 deepstack on Tuesday night as well, know it's only a small one but great feeling taking down a MTT. 3 handed i had 85% of the chips in play! The other 2 players were folding way 2 much/ not willing to get their chips in the middle, so my stack just kept growing and growing.
Cash hasn't been going brilliant, i don't think i've been playing my best, and the cards havn't been great for me either.
In the last 2 days, i got up to over £100 on a HU 20nl table, Tuesday was £140 at it's highest, yesterday was £110 at it's highest. On both occasions i managed to throw away a lot of this and left the tables with 75-80 and 60. Still a profit, but feels like a massive loss. I guess similiar to when we play a session end up down 5 bi's, then when them back.
To me that feels like a big win! With these 2 examples, i feel like a threw money away.
If i get up to 80 plus in future i'll probably just stand, and resit with £20 again.
I'm at the stage now where i'm going to be playing mostly 20nl. Going to start later on this week/ weekend. Wish me luck!
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The other site i'm on, not a big fan of their software. I've not put much volume in at all. There also seems to be a lot of nitty reg's! A lot more so than sky, it seems at any1 table there is 4 if not 5 players hardly playing a hand. On there i'm down about a tenner, will give it a few more chances and if it's not for me, i'll try else where.
I played 4nl for the longest time ever. Pretty much all my time on the site until Oct November last year. Then i started playing 10nl. From June/ July last year to November i made quite a lot of money playing poker to give me a sizeable bankroll (for the stakes i was playing), it was the plan to play 20nl from December, i had over 100bi's for 10nl. I hadn't much experience of 10nl, so thought i'd be better playing this for a bit before moving up 2 20nl.
During the summer of last year to November i had won quite a few £££ in MTT's which definatly helped bankroll.
About December time (and before) i had started to make withdrawels. I was making withdrawels pretty much every day. Or every 2nd day at worst. Basically i kept my roll at a certain level and withdrew any profit i made.
Eventually i decided i didn't need anywhere near the amount of money in my account and with drew down to £500, this was also after i had a stupid £100 losing day.
I've decided i', not going to withdraw for a while and build things up.
The future
I'm now well rolled for 20nl.
The plan is to make 80-100 bi's at this level, and at this point look at playing 50nl.
It doesn,t seem 2 minutes ago since you were mutli-tabling NL4
GL
Yeah i think i played 4nl forever!
It was a good training ground lol
Often read this diary but rarely post - those are some really impressive numbers!
Given that you are essentially at the place I aspire to get to in poker - able to make a few reasonable withdrawals and comfortably play NL10 / mid-sized MTTs with the occasional shot at higher cash tables - can I ask what sort of time per month you have been dedicating to poker and what sort of split of time you take between playing : studying?
While I could carry on playing NL10, I was just about holding my own there although not with a win rate like you, I've stepped back to the NL4 tables this year (albeit 8 of them, which sends my laptop mental at times) and am trying to avoid the temptation of MTTs so that I can try to focus on relearning cash from the very bottom.
Also playing with a free trial of the pokersnowie software to try and spot some of my more daft leaks. Shame it can't pick up hand history from Sky (that I'm aware of), but playing the CPU has already highlighted a few issues which I credit with keeping me +ve since the drop to NL4.
Shakin, i play a few hours most days. Main way I "study" is really posting hand histories or discussing hand histories with others. Always interesting reading others hands as well.
Fwiw, you have a good game, better than most of the 10nl "regs".
I took up the freetrial on pokersnowie, really interesting piece of kit, loved playing poker snowie heads up, forgot my password after 2 days and havn't been on it sinse lol
Agree with Paul that the biggest thing at 4nl or 10nl is exploiting the mistakes most people make and going for maximum value. Have a look at some of your winning hands, did you get max value from those hands?
Have a look at (big) losing hands also and see what went wrong/ any mistakes you made, or was it just a cooler?
Good luck with cash
Yesterday was really good was a £100 plus day.
Started terrible i was down £40 in the 1st 10 mins at HU 50nl, got it in with the nut set on the turn versus opponents flush draw, which got there on the river!
Yesterday, Profit at 10nl, Profit at 20nl, profit from HU 20nl, losses at 50nl HU, and 50nl capped games (£15)
This was my last hand of the session, love this 1,
I played a lot of HU games, i had my worse ever run in HU games.
I've never experienced anything like it in HU games, i was on a downswing. The amount of times i got it in with a big ace against raggy ace for the rag to hit. This happened a lot. Don't get me wrong, i bit of bad play got involved as well, but over all i was just running terrible. Definatly my worse losing period at these games.
In total, i dont even want to look just now, but in total i must have lost 8-10 games overall, which is a massive loss playing HU. Has never happened before, hopefully it stays that way.
if you've never had a spell like it then you've run golden.
lots of these games end up coming down to 55/45 flips. 70/30 if you are lucky. doesn't take much negative variance to tip you into a 10 game losing streak - no matter how well you have played.
throw in a few JJ v AA coolers and it feels like you'll never win another game lol.
some people are different in how they react to these swings, i just embrace it and grind through till i [hopefully] show a profit for the session. volume is your friend if you can stay tilt free. if not then definately have a break and reset your mind.
remember that all those sessions where you win 60-70% of your games are fuelled and pretty much dependent on you winning MORE than your fair share of these psuedo-flips. your edge as a good player will see you have a win rate of around 54-58% in low-mid stakes turbos. outside of that lies variance - good and bad.
sounds weird and new age, but if you can do some simple breathing excercises after a beat and be aware of you're breathing and heartbeat you can definatley bring yourself out of any feelings of fustration / entitlement / rage whatever.
ride it out, and run better mate.
Yeah 1st time ive really experienced it playing heads up, to this extent anyway!
I remember reading posts by both of you during downswings playing HU. Now i know what it feels like:P
lol Yeah Ben got a silver star, don't know how much longger for tho!
Going to take a break from HU games for a bit.
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I'm going to be playing 20 £11 MTTs on sky over the next few weeks. Looking forward to it,
Hoping to cash in 40/50% Ft 4 and win 1, that's the goal!