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Day 59 (Wednesday)
Played 3 x £20 Gtd (15 mins) (results: 2nd for £8.47, 7th for £3.20, Knocked Out)
Day 60 (Thursday)
Played 1 x £750 Bounty Hunter (result: 69th with £1.88 head prizes .. was out-drawn)
Played 1 x UKOPS IX Freeroll (result: 28th/541 - good position, but needed top six!)
Played 1 x Sky Head Hunter MTT (result: out after about 3 hands, keep getting out-drawn ..)
Played 1 x Sky Head Hunter STT (result: 5th)
Played 2 x £5 Turbo DYM's (results: 5th, 5th)
Played 1 x £5 Double Your Money (result: 1st)
Played 1 x £2 Turbo DYM (result: 4th)
Balance now £69.58, will update the first post now.
Feeling very down about my poker right now, some words of encouragement or help would be nice to be honest! :-(
It doesn't seem like you have dropped down in stakes you are still playing £5 games with a sub £100 BR. This is not good been there done that and never again.
Drop down to £1 and £2 games again until you build back up.
I also said It earlier in your thread DONT play the turbo DYMs as 2 min blinds and 1000 starting stack is really just a gamble.
Regular DYMs are fast enough 5min blinds they are usually over within half an hour. PLUS looking back you are getting better results in the regular speed ones.
I recently used a 40 Buy in rule a month or so ago stricty, I dropped below £120 a few times so I went back to £2 games.
I have now hit the £5 games now and going well.
In Response to Re: Diary of a fledgling player: I am trying to drop down the levels, but after playing £5 MTT's the low stake DYM's just don't have as much excitement for me now ..
As for the Turbo situation, I just prefer quicker games! However while I'm on a bad run, perhaps I should go to less variance games. Thanks for that suggestion :-)
I do regularly make notes and check my hand histories, posting on the poker clinc when required!
In Response to Re: Diary of a fledgling player: I'll do my best! It is the excitement factor that is lacking when playing low stake DYM's though :-(
Having said that, one breakthrough I did make in the past few days was the ability to multi-table, I'm now two-tabling without any problems! Although this has probably made my losing run even worse.
Anyway, taking on board the suggestions from people earlier, the last two games I played tonight were £2 DYM's (not turbo's like usual) and I cashed in both! Suddenly feeling much better about my prospects.
Here's my full list of play for today:
Day 61
Played 2 x £2 Six-Max (Speed) (results: 4th, 4th)
Played 1 x £5 Six-Max (Speed) (result: 4th)
Played 1 x Orfordable D/Stack (result: about 60th-ish, no cash)
Played 2 x £2 Double Your Money (results: 2nd, 2nd)
Balance now £57.68, will update the first post now.
I did say that I was determined to get back up to £200 by the start of UKOPS - that remains the aim. I am £142.32 away from that target with six days to go (including the first day of UKOPS) so I need to be earning £23.72 per day. A tough ask, but I'm really going to push for it - let's see what the poker gods have in store!
I must confess to being a bit of a forum parasite as I always read the posts but never contribute.
I really enjoy your diary because you're playing at a level I can relate to and you're posts are always enthusiastic. Unfortunately I'm not skilled enough to give you any game-play advice but I have a few tips that may help you.
I use 2 accounts (on ipoker network) - 1 is for MTTs and the other for SNG games. If you had this you wouldnt have moved up to £5 SNGs when you won good money in tournaments the other day.
Also I notice that you employ a bankroll strategy of 20x. I think you shuld increase this to about 60x and then you can play at that stake under no pressure, it will take you longer to move up in stake and when that happens you will truly deserve to move up in levels.
I hope your luck turns around this weekend pal, with or without my input :-)
That's an interesting idea about having two accounts. I do have an account on another major poker site, but since I discovered the Sky Poker community I haven't played there. To be honest, at this stage I feel like I need to be loyal to the Sky Poker community now! However I have learnt my lesson - when/if I get up to the £200 mark again, I will play more STT's and less MTT's.
As for my BRM, it keeps changing to be honest, depending on how I'm running. Currently I'm playing the £2/£3 level which is 30/20 buy-ins. Perhaps that should be a little higher as you suggested, but if I drop down to the £1 level then I'm never going to hit my £200 target for the start of UKOPS
Really appreciate your interest, thanks :-)
I wouldn't make an extra effort to qualify for some promotion they're running, thats what they want you to do after all.
Wouldnt you prefer to play maybe the £1 dups and not have a chance of going broke. If you look on sharkscope theres a graph of results x stake. This should give yo a decent indication of your 'level'
Also by playing with a more conservative BRM you may or may not increase your £££ as quickly as possible but you will be increasing your confidence and experience levels which are maybe more valuable assets.
Is your other site on the ipoker network, if so I'll send you my username and I'll show you where to find all the Russians. muahahahahaaaa.
Rules vary site-by-site, where it's against the terms of service you risk being kicked off the site and losing your balances.
I am very serious about improving my game, and I think I have over the course of this diary actually. One thing I am struggling with is actually knowing at what point I can call myself "decent" or "good", perhaps I'm just getting lucky all this time?
In Response to Re: Diary of a fledgling player: UKOPS is the UK Online Poker Series, unique to Sky Poker. Essentially a poker festival with great guarntees for all levels :-)
Yes, I've seen the results x stake section on Sharkscope, my stats aren't brilliant, but they are improving at a decent rate actually :-)
Hmmm, but surely my skill will still improve, even with slightly more aggressive BRM? The thing is that I can afford to reload if required so I don't feel like I'm playing outside my comfort zone.
I'm not sure we're allowed to name other poker sites on here, but it is not the one you mentioned. It is (probably) the biggest poker site there is ;-)
In Response to Re: Diary of a fledgling player: Hmmm, I thought he was talking about two different accounts on two different sites? Surely that's allowed?
A decent day today, I'm back in profit! Dropped down levels and stuck to non-turbo DYM's as suggested to me by responses on this diary - and it seemed to work :-)
Played 2 x £2 Double Your Money (results: 3rd, 2nd)
Played 6 x £3 Double Your Money (results: 2nd, 2nd, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, 4th)
Also played the two UKOPS IX Freeroll's finishing 209th/489 and 131st/421.
Balance is now £65.38, that's £7.70 profit today. It's not the £23.72 I wanted to achieve my UKOPS target, but that's more than likely going to happen suddenly (if at all) with a decent MTT cash (if the bankroll permits) rather than just by playing STT's.
Will update the first post now :-)
A small profit today, but a profit nevertheless :-)
Played 7 x £3 Double Your Money (results: 5th, 2nd, 5th, 1st, 3rd, 3rd, 2nd)
Played 1 x Sky Head Hunter (result: 3rd, no heads)
Now up to £68.98, will update the first post now :-)
Didn't play too much today, but I was in profit :-)
Played 3 x £3 Double Your Money (results: 2nd, 3rd, 1st)
Played 1 x £200 DTD 3 (result: 46th/113, no cash)
Balance is now £74.88, will update the first post now!
Just been looking through my sharkscope stats, and this is my graph for 6-handed games:
Am I right in thinking that the number of 1st places is really good?? It seems good to me anyway!
Also, my "ability" seems to be fluctuating between 54 and 57 lately, does anyone know how this is calculated?
Sticking rigidly to the DYM's, and it's working!
Played 6 x £3 Double Your Money (2nd, 2nd, 2nd, 3rd, 4th*, 2nd)
*This 4th marked the end of a 11-game win streak on the DYM's!!
Balance now £85.08, will update the first post now. Planning on a lot of volume today, would hope to be back into triple figures by the end of today :-)