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I saw Eon nudge you, so knew that one would start pretty quickly.
Fingers crossed they run again tonight. Eon will always play them, he registers for them every night, as will hotwheals when he is around, & a few others such as MOTHER, Geldy, Nomadicus, Yorkie, Tuney & JACEON. Some DYM players cba with £3 & £5 games, but when they see £11 games going they get interested.
One chap who sometimes joins us is "tomgoodun".
If you have played against him, you know what a top bloke & proper gent he is.
Anyway, thanks to Matt237, I saw a thread of his today, & I hope you will take a moment or two to read it please, it is HERE
Has anyone else ever had that kind of run? A couple were standard lost flips three were just spiteful by the poker gods and one was just plain frustration by me. I am sure I had steam coming out of my ears last night, and if I had a cat the R.S.P.C.A would have been in business but today is another day and as MacArthur once said I shall return.
Nick
It's why personally I don't get all giddy when I win 8 or 9 on the trot, I am just as likely to lose the next 8 or 9.
Yes, VERY painful, on the bankroll and the ego, but it happens to all of us.
Your game is solid, you have all the fundamentald spot on, you'll bounce back.
Vespa had a similar run a while back, but then......well, he ended up with his head supported by a scaffold.
Yep as TK said, i had a really,really bad time in July and start of August.
Couldn't win a sausage.
Probably lost about a third of my modest BR.
Was tempted to reload , but didn't.
Just kept plugging away, doing the right things.
It'll turn around ................. eventually!
GL
Mick
PS
TK - how dare you insinuate i would raise you with Spanners ! :-)
As a gentle nudge to others, it is HERE
pleased to see your bounceback Tikay, and did I detect a little more aggro in your game against me?
I do enjoy these PLO8 games even if they are dyms, and part of that is definitely the community spirit as shown here and in the chatbox. not sure that I should play a PLO mtt at the same time again though. I kept catching myself checking for the low and wanting to fold 89TJ in the Omaha mtt, and having to focus to get over that, which meant I wasn't concentrating on the PLO8. still managed a cash (3/20) in the Omaha and 50/50 in the dyms, but probably more through luck than judgement.
I can play NLHE mtts & sats at the same time as PLO8 dyms no trouble, but not it would seem PLO.
The evening started badly in the main event with someone going all in on me when I had the nut flush on the flop and he had Q2 for bottom pair and a useless Q high flush draw. Next two cards were Q's! I had a number of bad beats (as we all do) yesterday evening and some were quite cruel (KK v 55 AIP pre and the first card on the flop is a 5 but what do you expect from Ben Nuttal?) I did however manage to final table the mini (finished 5th out of 550ish) to at least recouped my losses on the Omaha HL tables. The guy that won the Mini just ran like God all game, I saw him play 92 and 72 when in the money and both hands he ended up with a FH! My exit hand was against him (obviously) when I raised pre flop with a good ace, he called and the flop came three spades, happy days as I had As. Anyway I bet, he min raised and then I shoved thinking I could push him off and had the nut flush draw if he called. He tanked, for quite some time, then called with the flopped Q high flush! Oops.
Anyway as I finished at about 12.30 this morning I am banned from a long session this evening but may try and squeak a couple in early evening after some tennis.
Run well and good to see you banking a good profit at my expense!
Good comeback, wp.
Anorther regular on the comeback trail is pompeynic. Nick had a torrid evening on Friday, & started off badly last night, but the last I saw of him, he was winning more than he was losing.
6th SEPTEMBER Scores on the Doors.
Played 37
Won 22
Lost 15
£3.30, P 14, W 12, L 2
£5.50, P 18, W 8 L 10
£11, P 5, W 2, L 3
Opening Balance - £1,389.15
Closing Balance = £1,380.95
Profit/Loss on Night - £8.20
Profit/Loss on Month = £21.80
REWARD POINTS on night = 182
REWARD POINTS IN MONTH = 803 (= £8.03)
GAMES PLAYED IN MONTH = 178
GAMES WON IN MONTH = 100
AUGUST WIN % = 56.18%
August Profit/Loss per game = £0.12
Lost £8, but it felt like a win.
Had a torrid mid-session, could not do much right & made an unforced error or two, including busting in Orbit One of an £11er. I mean, he could not possibly have that hand......
Turning into the home straight, I was in a big hole, but won the last 5 (£1 x £11, 2 x £5 & 2 x £3) to nearly get out of it, so that was a bit of a result really.
Had some titanic battles with JACEON, the sort of New Kid On The Block. He is very aggro, so I decided to fight fire with fire, & I played back at him a great deal. You can't just call pre-flop raises v this lad, as if you miss the flop he kills you, so when he raises pre, it's re-raise or fold, so some big pots were played much earlier than I'd normally wish. Generally, though, when I played back at him, he let go. Gotta be done. Don't think I flatted him once, it was all or nothing.
Wonderful atmo again, & tremendous fun all evening. Thoroughly enjoyable.
Another session planned for this evening, probably starting around 5pm, hope to see some of you later.
More aggro, & earlier per game, against everyone really, not just you Gelders. Just a bit of a tactical tweak, to see if I can find a way to kick on, as my 'roll has been becalmed, neither up now down, for a while now. Once we get beyond Level 3, I never limp, & once we get down to 4 players, I up the aggro dial considerably.
Well done on cashing in the PLO8 Tourney.
Personally, I can't mix PLO or PLO8 with NLH, NLH seems so "flat" with 2 cards & the lack of creative options it gives us compared to 4 card games.
One thing I could never do is play PLO & PLO8 @ the same time. Totally different mindset required, totally different starting hand criteria. Maybe my mental dexterity is not what it was - well no maybe about it, it must be in decline now, its a fact of life & ageing - but I just can't manage both at the same time. Reckon I could do OK @ PLO DYM's if I had a bash, and I get by @ PLO8, but both at the same time, no way Jose, it is way beyond my abilities.
I enjoy the battles with you, you have become pretty aggro yourself! Good to see.
Love glass half-full types.
And no, I honestly don't mind people knowing how I play. Anyway, you don't need any help to best me, you are doing a pretty good demolition job on me already. Remember though, when I squeeze, I have it. Sometimes.
I lolled last night when I limped with bad aces UTG (it was Level 2, no way I could raise with them & take on 3 callers), & you raised from the BB, & then I potted it. You snap-folded & remarked that the UTG limp from me looked sussy.
As hotwheals notes (another VERY good player), something about your game is quite tricky to play against. I try to devise a standard strategy aqainst all the very good players (they get the "YELLOW" colour code), but when you have position on me, you are a proper headache. With position, I can just about cope.
What made you make the switch from NLH to PLO8? And how much more fun is it?
More & more players are making the switch, & loving it.
Been an absolute joy to lock horns with you,. & I hope we have namy more battles.
A 64% Game Win % is awesome, abso incred in these games, long may it last.
See you later. Don't forget, you raise, I re-raise, and then you.......fold. Please?
7th SEPTEMBER Scores on the Doors.
Played 34
Won 19
Lost 15
£3.30, P 19, W 10, L 9
£5.50, P 11, W 7 L 4
£11, P 4, W 2, L 2
Opening Balance - £1,380.95
Closing Balance = £1,383.75
Profit/Loss on Night - £2.80
Profit/Loss on Month = £24.60
REWARD POINTS on night = 152
REWARD POINTS IN MONTH = 955 (= £9.55)
GAMES PLAYED IN MONTH = 212
GAMES WON IN MONTH = 119
AUGUST WIN % = 56.13%
August Profit/Loss per game = £0.12
Strange session that.
Played 2 @ £11 early doors, lost them both, & as not many of them run, & they "skew" the numbers being worth so much more than the bulk of them, things were looking grim. On top of that, was not feeling so good, or "feeling" the game, so was on the point of drawing stumps early.
But slowly-wowly, it began to turn. Just 2 more ran @ £11 before I quit, & I won both of them, to end up all square on them, & a mini-profit on the night. Phew, result.
The 2 @ £11 I managed to "win" were both absolute corkers, in both cases the line-up included aggro hot-shots hotwheals & JACEON, as well as Tuney who can be a right handful, but has a different style.
I managed a near 2xUp early on in one, when I check-called a lad every street but missed the lot - but to my amazement, the chips slid across to me, & I'd won with A-high! A-high scoops in PLO8, what?!
So, armed with a healthy stack, I decided to fight fire with fire & played really aggro, sort of retaliating first. Makes such a difference to have a big stack, you can really pile the coals on. I only eased off when we were 4 handed, 3 big stacks & a shortie. Makes no sense to take the Big Stacks on when there is a shortie in town. All three of us understood that. Nothing said in the chatbox, but good players know these things & don't mess about. Usually it is me who is the shortie, & it's quite frustrating to realise they are all targeting me & "walking" each other, but that's just good DYM strategy. Anyway, one of the most enjoyable games I've played in a while. A-high, BOOMIO.
Plenty of traffic, though it went very quiet whilst the Football was on, but recovered quickly afterwards.
England play Switzerland tonight, as well as some other more interesting fixtures - Luxembourg v Belarus, San Marino v Lithuania (wowzer), & Montenegro v Moldova - so poker traffic is likely to be a little thinner than normal. I'm trying to average 150 Reward Points every session, so I can top 3,000 points this month & get the 50% Bonus, so fingers crossed there'll be enough traffic tonight. 3,000 Reward Points = £45, that's proper money, & worth going for.
No poker tomorrow - working - or Wednesday, as I have to go up to Leeds in the morning, & then on to a private engagement in the Midlands in the evening, so looking to have a winning session tonight.
See a few of you later, all being well.
Jace has proved that it's an easy transition to make from NLH to PLO8.
I love how you play Jace, I'd much, much rather sit at a table with five aggro players than 5 limpy Larrys.
I made a decided effort two months ago to play silly aggro sometimes. Sometimes it goes atrociously wrong, sometimes ends in a long streak of wins. My overall stats haven't changed since the 'experiment' started (I have 160ish more games to play this way) so I am even more convinced that aggression is the way ahead.
This is the third of my 'experiments' within the PLO8 DYMs. When this is completed will start a thread in the strategy section about them all.
The most startling of these experiments was my pot raise/all-in trick when I was on button or SB, level 6 onwards (with nobody acting before me) and the guys to follow me, were stacked to fold. By that I mean if they folded they still had 1500+ chips. I did the shove thing with anything, for continuity sake of the experiment. Anyone care to guess what percentage of the time I was called/re-raised, pretty much meaning an all-in situation, or us both being pot commited? If you think it was less than 50% of the time, try again!
Best of luck all, see you laters.