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I would not play the game unless I still got a thrill from it evey time I sit at a table. I honestly don't understand those who moan about the game all the time. If you don't enjoy something.....don't do it! Life's too short & all that.
"I don't really know" is the honest answer to your question as to toping up, I suppose. Clearly, it would be optimal. Rookie error.
How did your first SPT measure up as to expectations?
Did a detect a hint of a Scottish accent?
Sincere apologies about the Blog. I even had Thewy chasing me abouy it, & someone even Tweeted the Live Show to give me a ticking off!
My problem is too many things to do, & not enoigh hours in the day or days in the week, & I got blown away completely last week. I'm getting a little old for these long long days.
I'll try & start on Uploading some Blogs - I've got several in the queue, yours included - today or tomorrow morning.
Once again, apologies.
Me @ 8NL? Honestly, I get the same buzz from penny poker as playing big stuff, even WSOP Events. The novelty should have worn off by now of course, but it gives me a buzz, no matter what level I play at, poker is such an examination of our character.
I was "tested" a few times over the weekend, but that story awaits.....
Hope the wee lad is in good heart, & you enjoyed your time with him in the park yesterday.
Yes, all standard stuff really.
The A-Q fold? It just felt right to me. I'm Old School. very much a nit (& proud of it), & I just felt, against you, I could be drawing very thin.
Am I enjoying the cash experience? Surpisingly, because I so enjoy MTT's & SNG's, yes, I am. Been quite a challenge to adapt though, much harder than I had envisaged. But it was not meant to be easy, was it?!
So, the painful bit.....
Last Time I reported my £200 was down to £151.49, & I had 440 Reward Points.
Since then, my £151 went up to........£129.56.
Why? Don't really know. Don't think I ran particularly bad, just standard beats & suckouts, nothing unusual. Maybe I'm not good enough at NLH these days?
Anyway, after my enforced absence, I thought I needed to do something about this, so I decided on a night or two of PLO8 Cash, to try & claw back the damage.
Went pretty well, aided by a large dollop of luck, & the £129.56 was soon £191, so I recovered most of the losses in just two sessions. I could only play two Tables, as there is not much PLO8 liquidity here (or anywhere else for that matter) but I'm sure I cold have easily coped with 4 Tables of PLO8.
Then, yersteday, I just fancied some PLO8 DYM's, as I had stuff to do elsewhere, so not enough time for any long cash sessions.
It tuned out to be a bad decision from the get go. 2 hands ino my first £5.50 DYM of the day, I had the best Aces you can get - A-A-K-2 double suited - & Villain ALSO had Aces. His hand was near identical, but single suited, & with the 3, not the deuce, so I'm pretty much locked fort half, & big favourite for three quarters if the Low comes. We got the lot in pre, obviously. The Low DID come, but included.....the 2! So that killed my nut low, & he three quartered me.
And so it continued, most of the day I kept gettiing myself in these unavoidable but unfortunate spots.
Anyway, enough excuses, here is the state of play.....
Starting Roll = £200
Current Roll - £179.17
Reward Points - 658
So, a good recovery, followed by a setback.
The battle continues.....
I will be on & off the Tables all day, & this evening.
I'll play any low-limit PLO8 Cash, &/or PLO8 DYM's today. May even play some PLO8 Tourneys later.
Anyone fancies a game today against a confirmed donater, let me know or look me up.
Later.
Offer EXCLUDES FREECHIPS1 - he is way too good. dYM's, yes, cash, not so much.;)
The invite is very much appreciated though, thank you.
As you may surmise by me using "tikay1", I am having a little session now.
Saw a £2.25 PLO8 DYM with a seat spare, so jumped in.
Comical first hand. I'm not really into "flop stories", I've read 16 squillion of them, but you'll have to look away for a mo.
I get A-A-4-4 cc first hand, with 3 limpers in the pot.
I go POT, & get two callers, as expected.
We see a flop of......K-Q-J.
Ugh. That is HORRIBLE for our hand. No low Possible, & a likely 2 pairs somewhere.
With the pot at about 400, BB makes it....30. Ooh, I can call that. Chap behind me peels, too.
Turn was a blank, offsuit 2.
BB bets.....30 again. Call call again.
River was the most beautiful deuce I ever saw - paired deuces kills all the 2 pairs on the flop!
Our man bets 30 AGAIN, call call.
And.....my hand was GOOD. Amazingly, the chap behind me, who was peeling as well ALSO had Aces!
So it was chopped two ways, for a little profit, as we had been 3 way. LIKE
This needs a bump, hey tkay how about a lil omaha league for a month, im no good with the ins & outs but sure itl boost the numbers
Whoops, I clean forgot about this, but the fun continues.
Cliffs.
Tried playing NLH cash, started with £200. Not sure if I ran bad, played bad, or both. Maybe I'm not good enough for cash these days, dunno, but the £200 dribbled down to £130.
Did not want to have to re-deposit, so I decided to revert to PLO8 Cash, & that went much better, got back up to £180 from the £130 very quickly, but some nights could not find enough action, I needed several Tables going really.
Decided to try PLO8 DYM's, I find these nice & relaxing.
By last Thursday, I had inched up to £230, & my final DYM that night was a £10+£1 affair, so £240 hoved into view. But I lost it, so began the weekend with £220.
Friday was just over breakeven, or almost, won 7, lost 7, but I played one £10 + £1 & won that, so a mini-profit.
Had my worst ever DYM day on Saturday. Hard to pinpoint any reason, just ran terrible, game after game. Played 26 of them, & won just......9. Ugh. The loss was £70, so back down to £150. How do these things happen?! I managed to lose 6 on the bounce at one stage.
Sunday (yesterday), ran much better, played 20, won 14, of which two were £10 ones, & I won both. Ended the day £39.95 up, @ £189.95.
Allowing for Rewards money which I got for September, & £10 so far this month on the widget thing, I've won & lost nothing, but played a fair bit, which, oddly, amuses me endlessly. It's just nice to sit & play poker & get the fun for free.
With Double Rewards this week, I've set myself a target of playing 100 PLO8 or PLO DYM's for the week.
I only play the PLO8 ones, but I might experiment with regular PLO DYM's. PLO plays MUCH different to PLO8, but I enjoy both. PLO has greater variance than PLO8, but probably plays a bit tougher. I would guess that the PLO ones finish much quicker though, so that allows more volume.
Dread to think how much I'll lose......
Anyway, current state of the nation is.....
Original Bankroll in September, £200
Current Bankroll £189.95
Current Rewards Points for October = 1,001, = £10.01
If anyone fancies joining in a "personal challenge" for STT's or DYM's this week, post away, the more the better.
Aiming to make about 1000 points per day which is 100 x £10 games this week but I'm also mixing in £5 games too so probably need more than 100 games per day... a tall order!
Will join in with the updates here if that's alright.
So far this week...
Played: 5
Profit: +£28.00
Points: 42
Spent this evening not running so good, just lost one 60/40 too many
Pleased to see the action is really good in these games, not sure if it's the promo or always like this but I was 2tabling £10s all night and barely ever had to wait more than 10 seconds for the next game.
Played: 66
Profit: -£8.10
Points: 538
I actually had a postive ROI of 1% for today but lost more £10s than £5s so profit is down. Not a very big loss considering probably 50+ of the games were £10s so not even 1 BI lost.
You played SIXTY SIX?
Wowzer! 538 Reward Points, very nice.
Had an OK day yesterday, turned a small profit, & am on target - so far - to play 100 PLO8 DYM's this week.
The boring numbers first.......
Monday:
Played 19, won 12, lost 7.
The 19 were composed of....
2 x £2.25. Won both.
12 x £5.50. Won 7, lost 5.
5 x £11.00. Won 3, lost 2.
Average Game Stake = £6.60
Average Profit/Loss per game = £0.66
Net Profit on Day = £12.50.
Original Bankroll - £200
Current bankroll £202.45
Loss/Profit on week = £12.50
Loss/Profit overall = £2.45
Reward Points earned Monday - 231.
Reward Points in month = 1,233
Quite an interesting session yesterday. Played most of my DYM's in batches of two's & three's, & there were always enough games going for that.
Because of the "Double Rewards on STT" week, there were many faces not usually seen there.
One poor lad regged mistakenly for a PLO8, & had never played Omaha in his life, & openly admitted he did not have a clue what he was doing. I had A-Q-x-x on a flop of Q-Q-4 rainbow & I potted flop, turn & river, he called me down every street. He had A-9-9-10 & somehow got there with a backdoor flush, so I doubled him up a treat.....;)
We were briefly joined by none other than Ivanovic, & we chatted for a bit. He caught me calling down until the River when I had to fold, & suggested I was low-chasing....;) It was actually perfectly played, (I think....) as I had a-2-x-x with nut hearts, & the flop came 2 low cards, & two hearts. This is THE perfect coup in PLO8 in a multi-way pot (which this was) , the chance to scoopio, so I wanted to keep all the draws in & play for stacks, & so I played it very passively. But missed, ugh.
We chatted interestingly about the logic here, but then a trash talker got a bit uppity...... Mr Trash Talk was giving it large, not a name I knew from the PLO8 regulars, & he was raising every hand, (which is OK), but I had position, & lay in wait, awaiting the right spot.
Eventually I found the right hand, a nice two way affair, A-K-2-4 DS, so I re-potted him, & he snapped me off with J-9-8-5 rainbow. For those not familiar with PLO8, J-9-8-5 is about THE nut worst hand to play in PLO8. He busted me, obv.......to be fair, he had the stack, & aggro play is fine in the right situations.
MTT hot-pot goodylad21 joined me on one table, too. He absolutely crushes the MTT's, but is a stranger in PLO8 games as far as I know. We had a smashing, good-natured chat & banter.
He noted that in SIX levels, my stack never fluctuated lower than 1,850 or higher than 2,100.....then he typed "did you know that on the bottom right, there is a button with "RAISE" on it?"
Me? Raise before Level 6? YBA......
Truth is, I play VERY few hands in PLO8. My view (may be wrong, of course) is that we want scoopio potential starting hands ONLY, & they are far & few between, so I just sit quietly, pass pass pass, & watch a bit of TV out of the corner of my eye.
Some guys play every hand of course, & there is a case for that in PLO8, but each to their own I say.
Very enjoyable, & relaxing.
Very pleased with the amount of Reward Points gained because of the Doubles week.
Same time, same place, today. Hope to see a few of you there.
Played: 175
Profit: -£136
Points: 1448
Hoping the deck will be a little kinder to me tomorrow
By happy chance, it worked the opposite for me yesterday, which is fair warning of an incoming chirp......
I seem to be back in the good books of the Goddess of Variance, & had a cracking day yesterday.
First, the numbers. You must pardon the boring detail, but I'm a bit geeky with stats & numbers, & it helps me focus on targets.
Firstly, the day.....
Tuesday:
Played 19, won 12, lost 7. (Same number as Monday, but different mix)
The 19 were composed of....
4 x £2.25. Won 2, lost 2.
11 x £5.50. Won 6, lost 5.
4 x £11.00. Won all 4.
Total invested yesterday = £113.50
Total invested this week = £238.90
Tuesday's Average Game Stake = £5.97
This weeks Average Game Stake = £6.29
Tuesday's Average Profit/Loss per game = £1.82
This week's Average Profit/Loss per game = £1.29
Net Profit on Day = £34.50.
Original Bankroll - £200
Current bankroll £236.45
Loss/Profit on week = £49.00
Loss/Profit overall = £36.95
Reward Points earned Tuesday - 214.
Reward Points in month = 1,447
So yes, I ran very well yesterday. The crucial thing was winning all 4 £11ers. This just happens, variance is a fickle young lady, but I caught her just right yesterday, & winning those £11ers made a huge difference. I got a bit lucky a few times, as I recall.
I register for £11's permanently, but this is PLO8, so liquidity at that level is wafer thin, but if they start, I'm in them. Only 4 ran yesterday, obviously.
You cannot imagine what a difference a Televised England football match makes to traffic levels, & the whole SNG lobby was quieter than Monday yesterday, though of course Sky Bet has a VERY busy day. Swings & swongs.....
Some interesting visitors to the PLO8 DYM's yesterday.
Penguin7, (Tony) who came to Vegas with us as few years back & excelled, played several. I put an absolutely horrid beat on him, too. We were deep in the DYM, at the "playing for stacks" stage with 4 left. He had reverse position on me, & he'd been a bit too busy for my liking, & I rather thought he was at it, so when I found a cracking 2 way hand, A-K-7-2 DS, it was time to stick it right in his pretty little eye. How could I know he had Aces - good aces, too, A-A-K-3 - in that spot? And I did a get in the most awful fashion, two pairing my dreadful danglers. It happens. Fortunately for him, he recovered remarkably well, went on to win, & busted me on the way. Justice & all that.
Solar-Carro was in another game, later, too. He built a big stack, then exploited it woinderfully, raising every hand. He had position on me too, & was getting a bit too agricultural on me for my liking, so I had to bite the bullet & fire back at him eventually, & he folded like a good chap.
Earlier, he has busted Charlie Chunter, who is probably a decent bloke, but does not take his beats too well. As soon as the hand ended, I though "uh-oh, watch the chat-box", & sure enough, right on cue, Charlie had a little chunter. No Xmas card for Dave from Charlie this year, then.
Pommy (pomfrittes) was in a few, too, & he stuck an ugly one on me, but I sort of blame myself in a way. I rarely go to war with Aces early doors, later yes, but not early, as you can't get the guys with potential lows to fold. But there had been two limpers, then he Raised, so I thought it was a great spot to either get him off, or play for stacks, as he must either fold or re-pot here. So I re-potted, it was 25% of his stack to call, but he called instead of potting, which totally confused me, has to be a low draw, surely?, & I was not really concentrating maybe (Rooney SCORES, oooooh!), the flop looked safe enough, with no low draw & one heart (I had nut suited hearts), Q-9-5 I think. Check, bet, call. Whoops.
Turn came a low heart, & I had A-3 hearts, so I had Aces, 4 to the nut flush, & 4 to the 2nd nut low. (he had the A-2 as it happens). Gotta bet I suppose, check bet call again.
He had J-10 in his hand, which fitted the Q-9-x flop like a glove, so he's never folding, & he getted. I missed the lot on the river, & was out 6th, first time I've ever managed that I think, as I take a very low-variance line early. That one is in the log book as an unforced error by me, & wp Pommy.
It seems only a few days ago - in fact it was - that I dropped £67 in a single day playing these. Thats been followed by three days of profits, totalling around £90. When we are winning, we think the game is easy, but it can bite you, & usually does, when we think that. Miss Variance might not be in quite such a good mood today, so best not get carried away.
We swing, we swong.
Swing when we're winning, we sing when we are swinning
Tell you what, those Double Reward points make a HUGE difference. I mean, it comes to, well, double normal.
I've racked up over 200 Reward Points both days so far, & 1,400+ in total, it don't 'arf make a difference.
If I can maintain the current games played rate, 100 games this week should be achievable (38 already), & that would be around 1,400 Reward Points in a week.
Oh wait - I lapsed into spam-mode there, sorry.
On the upside I cashed for a total of about £60 from 2 x £11 BHs and a small win in a timed tourney to still make it a winning day.
Played: 220
Profit: -£149
Points: 1898
Morning.
Yesterday, I said....
"...I seem to be back in the good books of the Goddess of Variance, & had a cracking day yesterday....."
Mistake, that. Bad mistake. I never knew she read this Forum, & it seems she got a bit uppity with me. And she had a foul mood on her last night.
I got battered. And I do mean battered.
Look away now if you don't like the sight of blood.
However, for fans of schadenfreude, you'll enjoy this. You just will. Cracking stuff.
Played 20, won 9, lost 11.
The 20 were composed of....
1 x £2.25. Won 1, lost 0
9 x £5.50. Won 6, lost 3.
10 x £11.00. Won 2. Lost…….8
Total invested yesterday = £161.75
Total invested this week = £400.65
Tuesday's Average Game Stake = £8.08
This week’s Average Game Stake = £6.91
Tuesday's Average Profit/Loss per game = £2.86
This week's Average Profit/Loss per game = £0.28
Net Profit/Loss on Day = £57.25.
Original Bankroll - £200
Current bankroll £179.20
Loss/Profit on week = £10.75
Loss/Profit overall = £20.80
Reward Points earned Tuesday - 296.
Reward Points in month = 1,743
So, a sea of red.
How do these things happen?
The clue is here.
10 x £11.00. Won 2. Lost…….8
Incredible! A £90 loss right there.
It was just one of those days.
Tuesday, ran good, yesterday, run bad bad bad.
To make it worse, there were more £11 jobbies yesterday than ever before in PLO8, which is fantastic news. I just need to win my share of them, & I didn't.
If someone asked me the odds of me losing 8 out of 10 PLO8 DYM's in a single day, the price would have been huge.
Still, its good that the traffic levels were so high in these yesterday, that bodes well. I doubt that many £11 PLO8 DYM's have ever run here in a single day. Plenty of new blood & fresh faces, too.
Nice for my Reward Points, too, I got 296 yesterday, so that's pretty pleasing.
I targeted 100 games this week, & am on 58 now, so we are well on the way to that, too.
Character testing stuff.