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Ha!
I'll drop you a PM Pommy. Not fair on you to reveal it here.
Yup, am playing right now, the £4.50 & £11 PLO8 DYM's. Not much traffic yet, so plenty of seats available.
I'll drop you a PM in the morning.
We all have heaters from time to time, & they are just lovely to experience. When we are having a bad run, I try & remember the heaters, as it makes the downswings more bearable.
Such a strange game, poker, & how it plays tricks with our minds. We get on a heater, & suddenly we start fantasising, "I could do this for a living, yes I could, yay" sort of thing. Then, suddenly, as if by magic, the bad beats return, we lose money for a few days, & realise it was all just a pipedream. Then, suddenly, the upswing returns, & off we go again with the fairies, dreaming of fame & fortune.....
You have certainly developed a "style" of play which is quite awkward to combat, with all those min-raises UTG!
I've no idea what your strategy is, but if it's working, keep doing it. The books, videos & coaches all say you must do this that & the other. Ignore that, much of it is nonsense, you have to develop a style that works for YOU, & we are all different, with different skills.
Keep it going, & good luck.
HUGE heater alert
Wednesday 18th December
Played 15
Won 12
Lost 3
Split....
£2.25 - Played 0, won 0, Lost 0
£5.50 - Played 10, won 8, lost 2
£11.00 - Played 5, won 4, Lost 1
PROFIT/LOSS on Day £50.00
PROFIT/LOSS per game £3.33
PROFIT/LOSS in December, £243.60
REWARD POINTS = 100
BANKROLL at close of Play = £720.81
REWARD POINTS at close of play = 3,125
December to date....
Played 315
Won 189
Lost 126
Win-rate, November, 60.00%
Profit/Loss per game = £0.77
Well done sir.
Incredible run-good, for the 2nd straight day.
On Tuesday, I won the last 7, & hoped to continue the streak yesterday, but I lost the very first one - followed by 4 straight wins, lol. Two losses followed, then I ended the session with EIGHT wins.
12 wins from 15 (80% win-rate) was the end result yesterday, repeating EXACTLY Tuesday's tally. I've never had an 80% success rate over a sample size of 10 or more, & now, like buses, two came along together. You could not make it up.
I busted Aces several times when I got myself pot-stuck, too. In PLO8, when the blinds are big relative to stack sizes, hands like A-K-2-3, A-K-Q-3, are EXACTLY the same as A-K or A-Q in NLH - you have to go all the way with them. No skill, just hope to hit or hold. Mine seemed to hit or hold everytime yesterday.
For balance, I DID lose with Aces several times, but I only went busto on one occasion, as they occurred early doors, when blinds were small, & we must be able to get off Aces when the betting pattern suggests we have run into something.
Comical defeat of the session was when I flopped the house with 8-3, on a flop of 3-3-8. How could Matey Boy have 8-8 in his hand there, lol? Amazingly, he had the other 3, as well! I was a bit cross with myself, as we should not go broke with an underhouse, but I had a bad emergency low draw, too, & just went with it. I think, in truth, given we both held all the outs between us, it was a semi-cooler, but all things considered, I can't complain. It just annoyed me a bit that it was an idiotic way to lose, going busto with underhouses should never happen, it is a novice error.
Incidentally, I had raised pre, as my hand was A-A-3-8, & Matey Boy had called with 3-8-8-9, pretty hard to put him on that sort of range when he called a raise from me. Excuses excuses.....
It will last until tomorrow though, as I'm working tonight, doing the Show, & I've got some UKOPS filming to do this afternoon, & a UKPC Meeting, so no play for me today, I gotta go do some work.....it's all wrong, having to work, you know.
In further good news, I got past the 3,000 Reward Point threshold, so my £30 of Reward Payment magically became £45, just like that! Thats like winning over 3 x £5.50 DYM's. For free. LIKE.
I'm hopeful I can get that number up to at least £50 by the month-end, so that will give January a nice start.
I'll probably stop doing the daily reports at the end of December, & just produce the numbers with no wordy stuff, as they are starting to look a bit chirpy, which is the last thing I want. Struggles against adversity, when we are up against it, reads better, though if the heater ends, & I start losing chunks every day, thats not so bad.
I'm still mulling over whether to transfer across to PLO DYM's in January. Trouble is, I enjoy PLO8 so much, & I play that better than PLO.
Decisions decisions. The challenge of revving up PLO liquidity in the DYM's is really appealing. I am certain I could do it, but equally certain I'd struggle to make money. And winning at poker is nice, especially if you have forgotten that feeling.....;)
OK, all done, I better go & prepare for tonight, working with Miss Fowler.
For those that have never met Anna, I have to tell you, she is THE sweetest person you could ever wish to meet, what you see is what you get, a really lovely, & sincere, person. If she were a sweet, she'd be a Mars Bar, a perfect delight. I see it as Sky Poker's way of compensating me for working with Orford. He's more of a bitter-lemon.
See you later, maybe.
Thanks for the kind comments about the "diary" by melty, Shuv & gelders.
Play the UKPC? Lol, I wish.Work has to come first, so no chance of that, but as long as it is a success, I'll be chuffed to bits, its pretty much my main priority at ther moment, helping to make it a great event. Got a cracking "name" signed up today, top top guy, though not associated with poker. Seen regularly on Sky Sports, every week, though.
In terms of me playing stuff, my current fixation is to get to Vegas for the entire period of the WSOP, & play non-stop PLO8 Tourneys around town, including a few PLO8 WSOP Events. We shall see. If not, I'll go up to the Scottish Higlands for a few weeks around WSOP time, where there is no internet, & cut myself off from reading WSOP & Vegas stories, & I'll enjoy that just as much I guess.
Friday 20th December
Played 30
Won 17
Lost 13
Split....
£2.25 - Played 0, won 0, Lost 0
£5.50 - Played 25, won 14, lost 11
£11.00 - Played 5, won 3, Lost 2
PROFIT/LOSS on Day £7.50
PROFIT/LOSS per game £0.25
PROFIT/LOSS in December, £251.10
REWARD POINTS = 175
BANKROLL at close of Play = £728.31
REWARD POINTS at close of play = 3,300
December to date....
Played 345
Won 206
Lost 139
Win-rate, November, 59.71%
Profit/Loss per game = £0.73
Could i ask your advice on this hand from last night on a table we shared.
As soon as the board paired on the turn i thought a FH was possible.
Just a sigh call on river???