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I'm a little puzzled by my January results, but I'm certainly not being chuntery, just thought it might encourage others who are having a relatively rough ride. And there's deffo some play-bad in there, too, one is sometimes the consequence of the other.
The 2 things to guards against are.....
1) Over reacting to a lean spell.
2) Auto saying "it is variance". Because it not always variance.
As to Mr Wet Blanket, his actual comment did not bother me one iota. There are over 12,000 games of evidence out there. Of course, in thin liquidity PLO8, we do play the same people time & time again. In fact, here's the stats, this is how many times I have played each of these in a PLO8 DYM.
Eon, 3,100
Maca, 2,295
Alexis74, 2,162
Whizzewky, 1,065
MOTHER 1,042
(You are in 7th place, with 726).
So yes, he's right, we do play each other a lot. And I do fold a lot to Eon. I fold a lot to EVERYONE, lol.
What saddened me was not that - it's that such mean-minded people think they can say these things, & generally diss everyone & everything in life. What sour, bitter little people they come across as.
Course, at the other extreme, we open the next table and Lady Twaddle is doing her Delia impression & subjecting us all to an endless list of ingredients for tonight's claggy meal.
I'm unsure which is worse.
Morning Churchy.
Thanks for posting this.
It's quite interesting actually, so I'll answer in two parts.
1) As played
2) The reason you lost the hand.
As played
It plays itself really. Once you see that flop, you are not going away.
Don't mind raising my flop bet at all, though I suppose you could peel another card & re-evaluate. Either are fine, but your play was OK.
It was just unlucky that you missed all those outs at both ends. Huge huge hand on that flop.
Couple of things you may consider here.
What did you put ME on?
I've not raised pre, I'm out of position, & I have a ton of chips. What can I be betting? It's not nut diamonds, & I'm never gonna play the A-2 draw that way, & I'm not in a "push" spot here am I? So really, I'm almost certain to have a set. You can still take me on, but always try & think why is he betting here, & with what?
Why even get involved here?
We are 4 handed, you, Eon & me all have plenty of chips, sjb is the shortie. Why go to war with a big stack, 4 handed, when there is a shortie on the table? We should ALL be folding to each other, but piling the pressure on Mr Shortie. 4 handed THAT IS ALL THAT MATTERS. The shortie. Squeeze the shortie, starve him of spots, don't limp into his blind (raise or fold), & the 3 big stacks fold to each other.
The reason you lost the hand.
Now look again at this hand.
There is something very, very obvious here as to why you lost this hand.
What is it?
Here's your starter for ten.
Most problems in poker - or life really - start with a very small mistake. That mistake then escalates into a big problem.
So look at your hand, look at my hand,. & tell me what the little mistake was.
If anyone else wants to chime in, go ahead. This is a cracking example of an own goal, & losing a DYM we should have won.
Meanwhile, as I dispense advice, on the basis that I know what I'm talking about........
I've not updated my results lately, as it might look like I'm having a moan, turning into a MTT player "woe is me", but truth is, I'm knocking it in a treat.
I expect to make around £100 per month, but in October - December I had a heater & cleared £450 profit.
Since 1st January 2016? £90 DOWN.
It's just bad everything, play bad, run bad, concentrate bad, & bad bad. Oh, & bad.
January was easily my worst month, & it's continued into February.
Anyway, I've sent myself a memo.
"Sort it out"
Now a question for Churchy.
Sometimes, you do THE most unexpected things, & as someone who likes to understand "why" it intrigues me.
Only one £10 game ran last night, barely a handful have run all week, so they are rare beasts, & we are generally on our best behaviour. I mean, I know it sounds obvious, but a £10 game is 3 x £3 games or 2 x £5 games rolled into one, so they make a big difference to our results when we mostly play the smaller games.
Anyway, last night this £10 game was a weird one. One play permanently away, never sat in all game, someone had bust early, another player was just splashing around & limping into every pot. Then there was you, Eon & me. And you busted Eon in spectacular fashion.
I only saw part of the hand play out, but you had total spanners.
How did all the chips get in with that hand?
I'm definitely not dissing you, I'm just interested in your line of thinking. I mean, when Eon pots it, he is never bluffing, he is super solid. Maybe plays low hands stronger than most, but, like Maca, when they start going pot-pot-pot, we are usually in shocking shape.
Look ay my hand - K-8-8-5 - it's utter & complete tosh. It's not a hand. Nothing, just a pile of poo. I'd not make up the Small Blind at 10-20 with that.
Brian only has to breathe on his chips pre-flop & my hand is in the bin. I guarantee I'd never play that hand (in these circumstances) EVER.
Brian raises pre, I snap muck, next case.
Its that simple. But that little mistake - the limp - was the WHOLE problem here, not anything else. And Brian had a lovely raising hand, too.
We all do these daft things sometimes - me more than most. But they are the difference between profit & loss. We know that almost nobody can exceed a 60% win rate in these things, so these little errors make all the difference.
Oh yes, well done hendo, he's coming to the UKPC from a chuffing FREEROLL.
Gt8 stuff, or, to use his own word...
sigh
Saturday morning, everyone is chilling, & then you rev me up with that stuff.
Get outa here.
I got an e-mail yesterday, 5 sentences, 5 exclamation marks,. What DO they teach kids at school these days? Certainly not written English.
But the "what were they thinking?" absolutely intrigues me.
I got called last night, effectively all-in - we both had playable stacks by 10-8-8-2. That ranks as 4,953rd out of 5,300 hands in the PLO8 Hand Rankings.
Why would anyone think that made sense, & would win more often that it would lose?
God bless these guys, they are our long term profit, but I'd love to understand the thinking.