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Biggest improvement: finally seem to be not losing at cash
put me in the last longer please
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It's the morning after the nights before!
Our amazing run of 8 consecutive UKOPS shows is over. Hope you all enjoyed it. And so this Tuesday we're back to our regular service, bringing you the full interactive experience of...
TURBO TUESDAY!
I feel the need. The...
And your speed merchants will be Richard Orford and Ryan Spittles...
...who will be casting their eyes over...
THE TURBO OPEN!
And here’s how the show will go-
7pm- 40K UKOPS Main Event final table from Sunday 3rd November.
8pm- Live coverage from the TURBO OPEN
9pm Live action from the Master Cash tables.
10pm–midnight- Live coverage from the Turbo Open till we get a winner.
Look out too for our...
LAST LONGER COMPETITION!
Yes, once more we've got a free seat to Thursday's main event-the £33 buy-in £12K Sky Sports Bounty Hunter to the player who registers in our Last Longer competition and, as the name suggests, lasts longer than the other competition entrants in tonight's main event.
Email your registration or post on here to say you're in it. Any entries submitted after 8pm Tuesday night won't count..
More to follow...
Score out of 10 please!
PLUS-
What's been the single biggest improvement in your game in 2013?
And where's the biggest room for improvement?
OK, here's mine:
Score out of ten: I think my game has gone up one notch this year. Personal opinion of course, other opinions are available!
If 0 out of 10 is someone just learning the rules of the game (or just completely hopeless), 10 out of 10 is Phil Ivey, and the average player is 5 out of 10...then I'm rating myself this year as a 6 out of 10.
I think I'm just nosing now into the top half of all players- the 50% who are above the average mark. What do you think? Too much, just right, not enough? Am I flattering to deceive? How about yourself?
Biggest improvement: bet sizing. I'm utilising 2x and 2.5x bets more often these days and not just sticking to 3x all the time.
Biggest room for improvement: still being taken off pots by aggressive players when I've a little something but nothing earth-shattering e.g second/third pair or overcards and you get the feeling that your opponent missed the flop completely but are just more gung-ho and cavalier than you, and you end up playing the cautious/passive route of folding to a sustained battering. Yes, I'm talking about you, MattBates!!!!
Be honest, you're amongst friends :-) And Ryan will no doubt be on standby to help with advice.
Looking forward to your answers, and good luck in the event and Last Longer.
See you at 7 on Tuesday.
My biggest improvement is studying the odds of random 2 cards against the field from any position, more accurate in 6 max but difficult in more than 8 players at the table.
I have a table by my side when I play, cannot use it when playing live, but certain hands in certain positions get embedded in your mind.
Most accurate when playing heads up, but I hate heads up!
Gives one a certain edge when down to final 2 players.
Where do I need to improve, I need Ryans luck!
He took me out the other day in a ukops mtt. Iwas under the gun and made a raise with a big pair, he was in the big blind and called my raise with 96 os. and hit the 96 on the flop, need I say more, I got sucked out,kept callin my raises.
Today is my birthday (5th Nov. 75 years old)
Please Sky Poker Gods give me the luck of Ryan(Smiley) Spittles!
Looking forward to the show!
Biggest improvement: Not calling all-ins just because I'm a risk taker and they "may be bluffing". Now I'm assessing the situation more and folding where appriopriate.
Biggest room for improvement: Need to find the ability to multi-table without making poor decisions. This is a strange one, when I'm two-tabling I don't feel particularly rushed, but my results are much worse than if I am on a single table.My rating: 6/10 - better than an average player, but still have a lot to learn.
In for the last longer please!
last longer please
Biggest room for improvement: Where to start?! Tilt has to be numero uno on the list. Losing my stack too often with big hands either bluffing with them or not believing villain called my original raise with such trash even though it's very obvious they have hit big time. Oh and learning when to 3 bet more profitably.
May or may not be able to play tonight but sign me up for last longer comp just in case!
GL for the show!
Oh and happy birthday Wynne!!!!!!
7.6 up from 5.8
must have been shot by an agent earlier this year as suddenly I started seeing what was happening much more clearly
now on to the machine world where I hope to become able to see Matt Bates cards
I think ,I should carry on as I started,usually do well,and then later change my game and become more tighter,probably my biggest mistake, I will try to carry on as I started, be bold!
See if it changes my game!
hmmm.
Started with a solid 8... then a steady decline to 4/3... then a boost to 8/9. Currently rate myself as about a 1/10.
Cant do anything right.
How do you deal with it Rich?
So I guess about a 6 overall as I am in bit of profit for the year.
Biggest improvement - cash poker. Before I used to sit on cash tables and just stay until I lost the lot (even if I went up a couple of BI's in the session). That was mostly due to the fact that Im used to playing tournaments where there is a definitive end to my session - win or go broke. Took that across to cash but as you can't 'win' cash... it almost always ended with me just going broke. Now im much better at standing up when in decent profit when the cards look like theyre being a bit meaner to me.
Biggest improvement I need to work on - BR Management. Terrible at this. Oh I just went out of a £5 BH.... meh theres a £55 BH starting in 6 minutes, i'll just enter that. Sigh.
Room for improvement - Concentration (i often achieve my objective to build a stack. Then spew hard earned chips widening my range against short stacks because I start to believe i'm invincible and can win every time)
Thoroughly enjoyed the UKOPs coverage by the way!
I hope to take part in the last longer this evening depending on whether I have to be the family taxi
News just in- the prize for the player who lasts the longest in tonight's main event out of everyone who registers on this thread is now a free seat in Thursday's £12K Sky Sports Bounty Hunter worth £33!
Just 9 people contesting that at the moment!
Get on it!
looking forward to the show tonight, should be a good'un!!
I would rate my understanding of the game as 9.4/10
It might sound conceited but to say less would be false modesty. I know my stuff, I do.
I would rate my actual performance as 3.1/10
For someone that knows as much about the game as I do, I really do play badly. I'm being generous and giving myself an extra 0.1, though.
I suppose that averages out to 6.25/10
Biggest improvement needed in my game - Playing greater volume.
I play very infrequently and have no discipline at all: Why shouldn't I 5-bet bluff against someone that I haven't seen 4-bet in weeks?
There has been no improvement in my performance this year.
Have a great show, chaps.
last longer please
Best acheivement - you'll laugh at this but for me it was getting the courage/stupidity up to attend the live SPT event in Dublin. After the first one I was hooked (even though I went out around 10pm on the Sat night lol).
Oopps - just realised the question was what was best improvement. For me it was probably learning that BH games and Deepys are not played the same way. It was hard to get my head round it but I think I'm finally getting there.
As for room for improvement there is just too much to mention!! I still don't understand all the poker terms, I seem to be very easy to read for when I have a good hand and have no real understanding of bet sizes etc - but I've just bought a few books so you'll all have to be careful for when I finally get round to reading them!!
Rating prob 4 out of 10 (but better than 2 out of 10 for my facebook poker games lol)
Some of those dollars were of course formerly Tikay's!