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As you know, Paul, it is the enjoyment factor which is paramount to me. Trying to win £20 or so a night is never going to set the world on fire, but I'm having a proper ball trying to beat the challenge.
How is the Mum-To-Be getting on?
I still love NLHE Tourneys, eveyone does, but I can't do everything. I'll play them as & when, & I still get a buzz from them, it's just that these days I'm pretty useless at NLH.
I played 3 UKOPS Events last week. I just try to get to midway/two thirds distance, then win my flips, its that basic to me.
I did that on Sunday, was quite deep, then lost a flip, then made a terrible play with A-J. I had reasons, Bolly580 was opening every pot, & I was going over the top a lot, but then someone else got in the way & re-raised Bolly. Instead of binning A-J, I just sort of hoped the re-raiser was just retaliating against Bolly, & would fold. I was wrong.....
Quite painful for me, those 3 UKOPS. The Channel showed several of my hands, all of them butchered hands. Groan. Goes with the territory I guess.
Even worse, one player came onto my Table & said "they are ripping you a new one on the Show". Thanks mate, appreciate that info.....
PS - Good advice there.
PPS - Keep off my Tables, OK?
MOTHER is lovely. JamieLou is not really cut from the same cloth, if you get my drift. Got the fashion-sense of Natalie Bromley.
First day wasn't so great, three wins from six.
Second day was a bit better with five wins from seven
Tonight was even better with five wins from six.
Think i might make the effort to keep playing these. Not much money in them but as I am learning the game, it is best that way.
I agree they are a great way to learn PLO8, at very low risk, as variance means it is hard to lose much more than half. We need to win around 55 out of every 100 to turn a profit.
We are not going to win a fortune, either, but risk & reward is an interesting equation, & here we have low risk & low reward, coupled with low downside, so our poker £ goes a very long way, more, I'd say, than in ANY other poker format.
More important - or to me, anyway - is the fun factor. Are you enjoying them?
Anyway, good to see you join the ever growing numbers playing these, & I hope that run continues.
Thursday 7th November
No games played, but Reward Points money received, & added to balance.
Balance now £355.84.
Friday 8th November
Played 8
Won 4
Lost 4
Split....
£2.25 - Played 3, won 1, Lost 2
£5.50 - Played 4, won 2, lost 2
£11.00 - Played 1, won 1, Lost 0
PROFIT/LOSS on Day £4.25
REWARD POINTS = 39
BANKROLL at close of Play = £360.14
REWARD POINTS at close of play = 854
November so far.....
Played 119
Won 72
Lost 47
Win-rate, November, 60.5%
Just a short session yesterday, after missing Thursday completely to to UKPC stuff, & doing the Show. The real life Diary gets in the way sometimes, but I was itching to play yesterday, so managed a couple of hours.
A 4-4 split did my batting average no good at all, but at least I turned a small profit.
Got hilariously coolered twice, but in a way, they were getoffable I suppose, so blame myself.
I had Potted it after 3 limpers with the quite reasonable A-3-J-J Double suited, & got a customer. The flop was J-J-2, not what I had been looking for, but I had the J, with A kicker, so we went to war. Matey Boy had THE only hand he could re-pot with, of course, 2-2-x-x, but I could not bring myself to believe him, I just thought he had a bare Jack. That'll teach me not to believe folks.
However, I got lucky because I only played one @ £11, & won that, so it skewed the £££'s in my favour, & we emerged with a small profit.
Next milestone, £375. Or £350.
P.S. Well done on the general upwards direction.
I had, of course, A-A-J-3, not A-J-J-3. I'd never pot it (assuming normal stack dynamics, early doors) with A-J-J-3, that one goes in the muck, pre, every time.
Hopefully it makes sanse now! I've not Edited my Post, & won't, or this exchange will become nonsensical.
At least I now know someone reads my inane & endless drivel.
The mind truly boggles.
Try & get the hand correct, I've seen some idiots post hands completely wrong.
You have some nut draws, plenty of paint, connected cards, & it is MUCH easier to shove with a marginal than call with a marginal, so we might pick up 30% of our stack from dead money in the middle. You can rarely be in terrible shape with that hand.
I'd not be interested in the outcome on THIS occasion, rather, what would happen in that identical spot 10,000 times. I'm pretty sure you'd be long-term profitable shoving there. If we do the correct things repeatedly, we'll be just fine, never mind the short-term.
You dried yourself properly? You know, under the arms, cracks & crevices, everywhere?
If i can be allowed to give an opinion on this. For me this is an auto shove hand. You have 4 out of the 6 hands nut drawing and no danglers in sight. With this short a stack you will not get a much better spot. Chances are you will get called but even against a dominating hand you are not in too bad a spot at all. Marginal decision if you were being asked to call with the hand but shoving is fine because there are always the times you wont be called to add to the liquidity of it.
The more I think about that spot, the better I like it as a shoving hand in PLO. We don't always get called, either, so if the shove gets through half the time, our odds improve by 50% over time.
In PLO8, I may answer differently, because, ideally, I want a two way hand in PL08, giving me two chances to win, or at least half. Also, in PLO8, odd as it may seem, but we are not FORCED to shove with 4.5 Bigs, & these "spots" come along far more frequently than in PLO.
This was PLO, of course, but we should all understand "danglers".
In PLO8, to me, danglers would be any 7,8 or 9, all of which are dreadful cards, really hand-killers. In PLO, any 4 paint hand, especially with nut draws, is almost a premium.
With 4 players left in a DYM, at, say, 200-400, the AVERAGE stack is only 7.5 Bigs, so normal rules don't apply.