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Little Steps
It's remarkable, really, how just winning a few quid each week adds up over time.
£83 in a week - almost as good as I've ever achieved - does not sound like a fortune, & I can't imagine Tom Dwan & Co will exactly be looking over their shoulder. Even so, it all adds up over time, & is very satisfying.
I could not begin to tell you how much I love the game, & the people that play it, I look forward to my session every bit as much as when I first began playing all those years ago.
It's a lovely game when played in the right spirit.
Want some help?
I certainly don't profess to be the best PLO8 DYM player here by any means, far from it, but I do make a steady if small profit, so if any of you are losing money in these PLO8 DYM's, & want as little help with your game, please don't hesitate to ask.
It's amazing to see some of the little technical errors people make in these, cut these out & you can soon turn a loss into a profit.
Not saying I can help, but I can try.
Connection Issues
Guess I should really mention this matter, given that I played 261 SNG's here last week. 40 or 50 per evening means 6 Tabling, so if that's possible for me, on a steam driven laptop, it can't be that bad.
It's so intermittent, & seems to affect us all in different ways, at different times.
I had one bad night, Tuesday I think, where I has to keep logging off & back on again, but that was the only bad night.
On both Saturday & Sunday, it took me 45 minutes or more to get (successfully) logged in. After that, it was as smooth as a tarmacadam motorway, not one problem, it worked perfectly.
If it helps, when that spinning circle has kept spinning for more than 30 seconds, in my experienced it is gonna stay like that forever. So I just log off, close the site down, & start again. It sometimes takes 2 or 3 attempts, but once I'm in, it seems (for me) 100% stable. Fingers crossed the Techie guys will get to the bottom of it soon.
This week's target?
I find I do better if I set myself some realistic targets, so for this week....
500 points, as that gets me the £5 Reward Money, plus entry into the daily Freerolls.
A profit of £0.10 per game.
I won't be playing as much this week, will be AWOL on Friday & Saturday, so that seems realistic.
Last week's profit of £0.32 per game which partly due to some run good, bit of a heater, & I can't expect to repeat that. 57% of games won & £0.10 profit per game would do nicely. I should be so lucky......
If any of the other regulars fancy setting a personal target, be it large or small, go ahead, post in the thread, & let's see how we get on.
Specifically, how to play AQ with about 45bb behind and facing a button raise and a SB call.....
Villain was on the button? They never have it.
They might turn up with the aces, of course, but that's about as likely as Man City winning something this season.
PS - It was fun sharing tables with you until the beautiful union was abruptly terminated by that fella on the button who had the Aces.
that bluff is never getting through
Great to see you back on the tables Tikay, and the numbers are proving it......obviously people smell value ;-)))
Neil
Week ending 2nd August.
Results?
Monday P29 W16, L13 = 55% of games won.
Tuesday P24, W16, L8 = 67% of games won
Wednesday P 27 W16 L11 = 59% of games won
Thursday P27, W17, L10 = 63% of games won
Sunday P26, W15 L11 = 58% of games won
TOTAL P133, W80 L53 = 60.1%
Opening Balance = £2,037.81
Closing Balance = £2,115.34
Profit = £77.53
Profit per game £0.58.
Those numbers include £3 profit from the Rewards Freeroll, & £5.01 Rewards Payment earned in the week, & paid today.
Summarising July, up to & including 2nd August.
P 525, W 317, L 208 = 60.3% games won.
Total profit - £197.91
Profit per game = £0.38
Those numbers include £6 from the Rewards Freeroll, & £24.82 in Rewards Payments. So those bonuses came to £0.06 per game in total.
Current balance = £2,115.34
Hand of the week
Has to be this one, against "philrafs".
I was holding A-2-4-K
The flop came.....
4-4-4.
That'll be quads, then.
I bet small, hoping to get paid off by A-A, K-K, Q-Q, those sort of hands.
One caller, philrafs.
Turn 9
I bet small again, philrafs calls again.
River 9. I bet a bit bigger this time - he must have A-A.
He shoves, I snap him off, oioi.
He shows 9-9-x-x.......
I'm not completely sure about this, but I think, after the flop, I was a 99.88% favourite.
Take a bow philrafs, what an incredible hand.
We had a good laugh about it afterwards, but imagine that coup for big money? (It was just a £2.25 jobbie).
What a great game poker is. You think you've seen it all, then a hand like that comes along.
One stat that amazes me is that you played 133 games and got 501 pts
I smashed the 500 barrier and I bet I played a lot less (only 5 PLO8dyms) so it just goes to show how valuable those x2 x3 x4 points boosts are as I took full advantage yesterday.
Got plenty more in August and x2 SNG double points weekends too.
Nice!
I just went for 100 points per session this week (5 sessions) made up of £2.25 (3 points for those), £3.30, £5.50 & about half a dozen @ £11. I never qualified for any points boosts as I don't play on mobile.
I'll give the Double Points weekend a good go this coming weekend, but I can't do the second one as it clashes with UKPC.
I know it affects us all in different ways, but the new Rewards System actually benefits me slightly, plus, of course, I could bink a decent cash (in theory....) in the Rewards Freerolls.
I've really enjoyed getting back into these, it's not cost efficient as such, making maybe £10 per night or whatever, but it's free fun, & the PLO8 players are a great bunch to share tables with.
I have a sort of secret (well not so secret now....) pipedream that if I finished work, I'd just sit & play these full time, all day every day, & maybe nick a little pension. Beats watching TV, imo.
I did not even realise there was a SNG Double Points thing in August, so thanks for the nudge, looks like a big weekend in prospect for me this weekend.
This week's Targets
I seem to do better when I set myself goals & targets, so I'd best set out my stall for this week.
I can't play Tuesday, so 6 sessions this week.
With the Double Points weekend, think I'll try for 1,000 points this week, which boosts my Rewards by 25%. Ought to be able to get 600 points from Friday to Saturday, so that means 133 points on each of Monday, Wednesday & Thursday.
Profit per game? Be a bit more ambitious this week, & go for £0.15 per game. I've been doing better than that, but I don't think it's sustainable.
% of games won? Again, 60% is not sustainable for me, but I'll aim for 59%. That's a decent profit if I can do it, so that's OK.
So....
1,000 points
£0.15 average profit per game.
59% of games won.
There you go, set myself up for the fall.....
Guess I'd best try & update this, after a monster week last week. "Monster" in that I played a lot of games.
Quick reminder first of where I was, & my targets for last week.
This was BEFORE last week.
Summarising July, up to & including 2nd August.
P 525, W 317, L 208 = 60.3% games won.
Total profit - £197.91
Profit per game = £0.38
Those numbers include £6 from the Rewards Freeroll, & £24.82 in Rewards Payments. So those bonuses came to £0.06 per game in total.
Current balance = £2,115.34
And this was the target for last week.......
"With the Double Points weekend, think I'll try for 1,000 points this week, which boosts my Rewards by 25%. Ought to be able to get 600 points from Friday to Saturday, so that means 133 points on each of Monday, Wednesday & Thursday.
Profit per game? Be a bit more ambitious this week, & go for £0.15 per game. I've been doing better than that, but I don't think it's sustainable.
% of games won? Again, 60% is not sustainable for me, but I'll aim for 59%. That's a decent profit if I can do it, so that's OK.
So....
1,000 points
£0.15 average profit per game.
59% of games won.
There you go, set myself up for the fall....."
Monday 3rd August, 35 games, W 20, = 57%, profit £0.75, = £0.02 per game.
Wednesday 5th August, 37 games, W 24, = 65%, profit £17.35, = £0.47 per game
Thursday 6th August, 30 games, W 19, = 63%, profit £19.55, = £0.65 per game
Friday 7th August, 57 games, W 28, = 49%, loss £28.85, = £0.51 per game
Saturday 8th August, 48 games, W 22, = 46%, loss £21.65, = £0.45 per game
Sunday 9th August, 45 games, W 22, = 49%, loss £18.80, =£0.42 per game.
All figures INCLUDE winnings from the Rewards Freeroll (£10 + £4 = £14) & this week's Rewards payment of £24.30.
Closing balance was £2,083.99, including the Rewards Payment received Monday 10th August.
Summary of last week;
Played 252, W 135, = 54%, loss on week £31.35, = £0.12 per game
Reward Points earned 1,620
Summarising July, up to & including 9th August.
P 777, W 452, L 325 = 58.2% games won.
Total profit - £166.56
Profit per game = £0.21
Those numbers include £16 from the Rewards Freeroll, & £49.12 in Rewards Payments. So those bonuses came to £0.08 per game in total.
Current balance = £2,083.99
Funny enough, terrible as those figures are, it's revved me up to play again, so I might play a few sessions tonight & over the weekend.
Last week's targets then.....
1,000 points - SUCCEEDED
£0.15 average profit per game - FAIL
59% of games won - FAIL
There you go, set myself up for the fall..... SUCCEEDED
Well that went well. Not.
Was going along nicely until the Double Points weekend, & then the wheels went in all directions.
Too many games over the weekend? Maybe. Don't think so, but maybe.
Run bad? Well we always think we run bad when we lose. It felt that way at times, but 150 games in a low variance format is a reasonable sample size. I certainly run bad in the £11 games, which skew the numbers, but I ran good in plenty, too.
Lack of effort? Not at all - I prepared well, & really concentrated.
No excuses really. Long term, the figures are good, but that was a BAD week by any standards.
Since I returned, I've hardly had a losing day, & my stats were as good as they have ever been, maybe I was running good & then, as always, variance caught up with me.
I had always wanted to try a full weekend, playing a stack of games, & I don't regret it, I really enjoyed it.
Guess I'd better try & repair the damage.
Tonight, then.