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I genuinely enjoy it very much, & if I thought I could earn an average of £25 per day whilst still working, the temptation to play these full-time when I retire (or get retired) is really tempting. Just think, no hassle, just play poker all day? Ooohhhhhhh....
I did retire one before, in 2003 I think. That went well.....
Thursday 14th November
Played 20
Won 11
Lost 9
Split....
£2.25 - Played 0, won 0, Lost 0
£5.50 - Played 13, won 6, lost 7
£11.00 - Played 7, won 5, Lost 2
PROFIT/LOSS on Day £11.50
REWARD POINTS = 135
BANKROLL at close of Play = £413.64
REWARD POINTS at close of play = 1,471
November so far.....
Played 224
Won 132
Lost 92
Win-rate, November, 58.92%
For those who easly criticise Poker Sites for not scheduling stuff they want, it's worth saying that these days, site traffic can be forecasted with remarkable accuracy, taking into account weather, major sporting events on TV, time of year, rival or home Promotions, da de da.
Although it is only on a micro-basis, I play these DyM's every night, & so have a fair feel for how many will run at each level.
For example, at the £11 Level.....
Sunday - 1 all day.
Monday - 4
Tuesday - 4
Wednesday - 1
Thursday - 7
I doubt I've ever seen 7 @ £11 (PLO8) in a single 4 hour session, so why all of a sudden did that happen last night? Site traffic last night was normal for a November Thursday, nothing out of line.
And yes, it definitely skewed my results, winning 5 out of the 7. Just as well, too.
A peculiar but interesting session last night, with some drama, umbrage, & CC duties, combined with some very mixed results.
Lost the 1st game, then won 5 on the bounce, including 2 @ £11. Happy days, "time to quit" I'm thinking. Then it all went horribly but almost predictably wrong, & wheels were coming off in all directions.
I ended up losing 4 of the last 6, including the very last, so I could see my juicy profit gradually being eroded, with no time to repair the damage.
I lost a little concentration at times, too, as a chap had a "Customer Care" query, a perfectly reasonable question, but an open question, not a closed one, & that is kinda hard to field when 4-Tabling & Tables are popping up all over the place when it's me to act. I can't complain, people see me & so ask questions about this & that, but it does certainly mess a little with the focus & concentration.
A few other things went off, too.....more of which later, maybe.
Anyway, the mini-heater - more of a warm gentle breeze really - continues, but it's been some days since the ever fickle & often mardy Miss -Variance paid me a visit, so tonight we might just found ourselves back in the £300's.
Good night for Reward Points, too, racked up 135, about as many as I've ever had in a weeknight evening session of PLO8 DYM's, so I now have nearly £15 locked up for next month in Reward money.
Most enjoyable.
If you have ANY questions as to PLO8, DYM's, or both, please Post them here, & as you will have seen, loads of helpful folk will dispense good advice.
If you look back through the thread, lots of really good advice been Posted by various individuals, & all of it is good. This is Level 1 Poker, not the Level 8 stuff we see at nosebleed NLH, and all you need to do is follow & practice the very basics, & keep good discipline.
Do that, & your poker £ will last a very long time, & you'll be able to affiord to play more often. And that is all most of us dream of doing, is it not, just playing often, without hurting our pockets?
Good luck Stu, & enjoy the ride.
No, I keep a complex, Level 7, Spreadsheet, with a 15mg core reflex & dual memory processor, & BigAGig upgrade, to enable it to handle the complexities & speed required with such complex data.
I'll upload a screenshot shortly if I can.
That would be a pen, a piece of paper and a latte then.
There you go DimTzar, in all it's A5 Notebook glory. Can't show you the official Spready, obv, that's Top Secret stuff.
I update it as I go along, & it lists....
Time commenced
Value of Buy-In
Colour Coded Red or Green for Loss or Win
Running Total of Reward Points in Session
Running total (approx, excl Reg Fees) of Profit/Loss as I go along.
Running total of games played as I go along.
Then, once the session ends, I go to "MY ACCOUNT" to see what the balance is, & check to make sure it all tallies.
It's all a bit silly, & basic, really, but I'm a bit OCD with stats & stuff, & keeping that little sheet going helps me with the motivation thing.
I'm surprised an old lady hasn't snapped you up already, Tikay, with such a.nal attention to detail as those notebook entries
(period placed due to Sky not liking the word, even when used in a family friendly sense!)
Incidentally Talon, whilst you are there, there was a (not-so) amusing sidestory in one game last night.
One player never took his seat, he was "AWAY" from start to finish.
As you would readily know, once the Blinds get big, & 4 players remain, this introduces some strange dynamics.
Nobody wants to see a player lose his buy-in through absence, but the fact is, eventually, the situation has to be dealt with.
So, 4 of us left, 200-400, a chap with around 2,000, me 2,200, Billy Big Stack with about 7,000, & Mr Away about 800. At 300-600.
Mr Big Stack is SB to Mr Away's BB.
Well this gets interesting, because Billy Big keeps LIMPING into Away Chaps BB. Then checks it down every street.......inevitably, Mr Away kept winning or chopping the Pots! All Mr Big had to do was min-raise, & then Mr Away would auto-fold of course. But he just kept limping.
The other shortie then gets upset - & I do mean upset - with Mr Big, & was, shall we say, "rather rude" about Mr Big, referring to him as an appendage, or male hen.
Eventually, Mr Away is all in with one zillionth of a BB for the 27th time. I unashamedly keep out of the way with my now precious 1.5 Bigs, but the other 2 limp into the pot & take on Mr Away. The flop comes down whatever, & now, at last, Mr Big actually BETS into the dry sidepot, & forces out the other shortie!
Well you've never seen a man so angry as my fellow shortie, but eventually, the deed was done, & we all went home winners, except poor Mr Away. .......
It never ceases to amaze me that people have no concept on how to play the bubble in dyms.
The one you spoke of could have been done and dusted a lot quicker and easier with basic strategy being used to blind out the away player.
The funniest thing i have ever seen in these are when the shorty is all in and has 2 customers and then for no apparent reason someone starts betting into the side pot. And i think about 90% of the time it is a complete bluff as well which leads to the person who should have won being forced to fold and the shorty getting a nice treble up.
When this is happening you are only left with 3 options. Either you can just ignore it and play your game, berate the player concerned or try to tell them what to do to make it work. The third option being on the cusp of collusion though and shouldnt happen.
And as far as away players are concerned. I have actually witnessed it too many times that this is a strategy used to win these. Once the blinds build up others start to fight over the blind stealing and it can lead to someone else crashing out.
But it is always a shock to watch people playing dyms in any form or at any level without understanding the basics of dym strategy.
RAISE!
I don't think players reading this thread play different against me, no.
The "regulars" as you call them - by which you mean those who play these a lot - all know by now that if I pot it, I have a proper hand, a good two-way hand. I rarely raise (in "normal" play, with playable stacks) with a high only hand. I often muck "bad Aces" pre-flop in the early Levels, this is vital, as bad aces are hard to win with multi-way at low blinds when everyone is going to call pre. In normal play, I don't open the betting unless I have a good 2 way hand, & I don't plan to slow down on any flop. So the "regulars" generally get out of the way when I pot it. Others are prone to just call - when they do that, they are behind 95% of the time (if they had better, they'd raise), or just drawing to a low. The flop comes Q-9-9, I bet, & I'm almost sure to get a fold.
Some players do target me, yes, because I do the Show & stuff, but thats OK, I only play hands on my terms, & that works as much in my favour as against.
I genuinely want players to understand the game better, & if that means they play better against me because they see stuff here, thats just fine & dandy.
Hope your game is coming along, & you are making a few bob in these, too.
Congrats on the upcoming new arival, in January! What make are you hoping for, or no preference? How very exciting that must be.
Top of the Posts? I'm always flattered when I get nominated, but I think there be a right hoohah if I ever won it, & I'm happy to be nominated but not considered by the Judge things.
Have a great weekend, may see you at the Tables later. Big session planned for today, ooohhh.