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A good pal of mine wrote to me a few days ago, he is doing great at 58%. Over the last year, he paid £900 in reg fees, but got over £600 back in Rewards Payments & Rewards Freeroll winnings, so that's pretty decdnt, & on top of that, at 58%, he's making a nice profit.
60% is harder than it might seem though - it amounts to 3 from every 5, 6 from every 10, and in my case, as I generally play 30 game sessions, 18 from every 30. Sounds so easy, but I find it a real struggle. 57% to 58% seems easy, those extra couple of % not so much.
Anyway, good start last night - 18 from 30, which is bang on 60%. Just have to repeat that for the rest of the week now. Sounds easy, eh? I just need to avoid throwing in the occasional shocker, which destroys the numbers for the week.
No poker tonight - doing the Show - & not many DYM's on Thursday, as I promised the boys I'd play the PLO8 Tourneys this week. That's probably a tenner down the swanee.....
Wednesday, & Friday to Sunday, business as usual.
Have to say, never enjoyed my poker as much as I do these days, can't wait to start every night, & if I let myself, I'd play all night if traffic permitted. I really have to make an effort to avoid becoming too pokercentric, too focused on the game, as there are so many other things I want to do as well, primarily reading, which I might just favour over poker if push comes to shove.
I feel as little sad for the guys who can't think, speak or write of anything except poker, it's bad when it gets them like that, especially in the youngsters.
I sat next to one of those sorts on a flight to Vegas one year. in 10 hours, he never uttered a sentence that was not poker related, the poor chap had no life outside of poker. It's not as if he were a Pro, and even if he had been, surely he can think about stuff outside of "work" on occasions? I feigned sleep the whole way......
Anyone watch the F1 GR from Austin, Texas yesterday?
I had started a poker session, & had it on SkyGo, & it was so good I quit the session once the games I was playing completed.
There's precious little on TV I would miss a Sunday poker session for, but that was a spectacular watch.
Earlier, we had a fest of footie, with Sunderland v Newcastle, then Man U v Man C (no fight, no needle, not much to get the pulse racing) & Liverpool v Southampton.
We really are blessed with Live Sport on TV these days.
Back in the day, with just BBC, we got the Grand National, the FA Cup Final, the Open Golf, & the chuffing Boat Race - that was it. In a year.
Had some fun times this week with a newbie to the PLO8 DYM's, though not a newbie to Sky Poker.
"bluffulot6" (Tony) was having none of it, though. He never got reply.
21:17 XXXXXXX do some of you lot under uderstand HI lo?
bluffulot6: nooooooooo
bluffulot6: teach us
Love being addressed as "you lot".......
Just popped in to say to all my PLO8 friends that I'll be AWOL from the tables now until around Tuesday November 10th. Keep my seat warm, right?
If I get time during the next week or so, I'll report on my numbers for October, but the bottom line is a profit of £395 in October (including Rewards payments etc), taking the roll close to £2,500 from it's original £200, though it had taken a LONG time, over 2 years in fact. However, certainly never had a month like October before.
Take care now, & if any of you play some UKOPS events, & hope you run as well as I clearly did in October.
What a thing of beauty Lady Variance is when she is in a good mood.
We can learn a lot about our game, & weaknesses, by looking closely & critically at our stats. In October, I made several tweaks to my game, in an effort to improve my results.
It's clear I ran pretty good in October, but I missed, by a sliver over 1%, my long-held target of 60% games won over a reasonable sample size. No surprise there, but there were some surprises, & lessons, in the stats, & they jump off the page when you look at the stats. So there's one thing I can do better in future. Unforch, we can't arrange run-good to order, so the 60% is likely to remain elusive. I'll keep trying, though, oh yes.
October - Games Played 816, Games won 481, = 58.95%.
£3.30 - played 488, won 274, = 56.15%
£5.50, played 264, won 167, = 63.26%
£11.00, played 65, won 40, = 61.54
(There is a discrepancy of 1 game there which I cba to research).
The big surprise there is that I did worst at the £3.30 games, & that makes a big difference, as I play more of them than all other buy-ins combined. I suspect I don't pay those £3.30 games enough respect. That's an easy fix.
Profit in October = £412
Profit per game in October = £0.50
Worst session - P 27, W 12 = 44%
Best (2) sessions - P 30, W24 = 80% & P15, W12, = 80%
Sessions played in month - 26
Losing sessions (by Game Count) - 5
So, the primary target for November is to improve the win rate at £3.30, without reducing the win rate at £5.50 & £11 too much.
57.5% across the board would be just fine, 58% would be lovely.
6 is fine, keeps me interested, stops me messing about listening to music or watching TV at the same time.
November - half term report.
Only 5 sessions so far in November, due to diary problems, but here's where we are.
£3.30, P 94, W 57 = 60.6%
£5.50, P56, W30 = 53.6%
£11, P27 W16 = 59.3%
Total Games = P177, W103 = 58.2%
Profit to date in November = £63.53
Profit per game = £0.36
The original £200 bankroll has now gone through the £2,500 barrier for the first time @ £2,522.90
If they ran bigger PLO8 games, I'd play them, but they don't.
I'd love there to be £16.50 or £22 games, but the demand is not there - in October, in 26 sessions, just 65 x £11 games ran. Be great if Sky Poker offered them though - you never know, it might spark some interest from the NLH boys who fancy a change & a bit of fresh air.
It's nice to not need to be staked though, & play well within the roll. I don't much enjoy the pain of MTT variance or losing big money these days, (try reading some of the MTT diaries to see what I mean) so I'm extremely comfy just doing what I do, tick tick tick. I genuinely enjoy my poker. A lot.
In truth, inserting them in the Lobby would be no bother at all, as far as I know.
And I genuinely think that some of the NLH boys, who play £22 & up, might fancy a change & come across.
[QUOTE]+£2.5k WP sir. Honeymoon fund?
Posted by Phantom66
Vegas fund, more like......
Me, I'm like a kid in a toy shop, every day, can't wait to get started. I had to miss Friday & Saturday last week, so I played 60 DYM's - sixty - yesterday.
Every part of every game gives me pleasure - the anticipation of our hand being dealt, will we hit the board, the thrill of hitting the nuts & getting paid, that little square box that comes up at the end "you have won..."
Think I have more enthusiasm for the game now than the day I began playing. Took me a log time to find the secret though.
Be great to see you at the PLO8 tables, the lads there are a great bunch.
The girlies, however - MOTHER & the oleaginous MacacGirl - are such a pain, it's all gabble gabble gabble.
I only learned the word oleaginous today, after Tighty used it elsewhere, & I had to look it up.
And I thought it'd be great to try & work it into a sentence, like, you know, naturally, but I could not think how.
And then MacacGirl's name sprung to mind. Perfect, fits like a glove.
Nice when a plan comes together.
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