A diary with a twist....... You decide

cenachav

Hello all.  Due to circumstances beyond my control I have £5.91 in my account and no way to top up until late January so it's spin up or go home time.  There have been lots of diaries before staing they are starting from a low, or no, balance and how they intend to spin it up to a fortune.  This is different as I am asking you, the community, on how I should play.  I will give you 6 options and will go with the one with the most votes.  In the event of a tie, I will toss a coin to determine the winner.  As I, hopefully, get a bigger roll I will put up more polls so you can decide on how I should go.  I will be playing various frerolls along the way too in an attempt to boost my balance.

First poll

Cash, STT or MTT???  

Cash, 2 tables of 2p/4p cash with about a £3 buy in on both or 1 table of 5p/5p cash with the opition of a small reload if it starts going wrong.

STT, 5 £1 DYM's or 1 £2 dym and a £3 dym.

MTT, A £3 morning BH and a £2 evening BH or the 2 afternoon £2 deepstacks and a £1 rebuy with no rebuys allowed.

Sucess or failure is in my hands but the path to riches or ruin is in yours

cenachav

As per normal diary, hands will be posted with witty banter and beard related jokes supplied.  I will attempt to answer any questions on here apart from what I would prefer to play.  What I want is irrelevant it's up to the community to choose my path through this.

If I get to £40-£50 then I will put up new polls as I will be able to action a bit of BRM then.  With under £6 this is impossible

THEROCK573

turn heel imo

GELDY

Hilo dyms

Very low variance

and our resident expert tikay posts all you need to know on his thread

including how to play omaha hilo

Lambert180

Where was the option for a £5.25 HU Hyper

Oh well, I decided to punt for 2 tables of 4NL, safest option imo.... apart from £5 DYMs but you'll have to win 4/5 to make about 12p profit  at them

GaryQQQ

£1.05 HU tables ftw. 10x prefereable to £1.15 DYMs, 5% rake v 15% rake.

Good luck

Slykllist

Have voted for the DYM option initially as it's the lowest variance option there.

GL

HITMAN_RV

GL Mate!!

..was tempted to vote "whack it on Sky Bingo, you have more chance"

...but i respect you as a player more than that!


Hope works out!
Will pm you later in week with a proposal, but focus on this for now!!

Gwan Comrade!!

Lambert180

In Response to Re: A diary with a twist....... You decide:

GL Mate!! ..was tempted to vote "whack it on Sky Bingo, you have more chance" ...but i respect you as a player more than that! Hope works out! Will pm you later in week with a proposal, but focus on this for now!! Gwan Comrade!!
Posted by HITMAN_RV

I'm pretty sure Mark is taken... and I'm sure you've got a wife Dave!

play2win02

You could do Lambos Challenge !

cenachav

In Response to Re: A diary with a twist....... You decide:

You could do Lambos Challenge !
Posted by play2win02

I did actually think about putting that in but it's a little too high variance even for me!  If I get to the next level and the challange is still going then I may put it in .  The HU too.  TBH a bit gutted that I didn't put that in to start.  Live and learn I suppose.

I may as well include a sample hand from the 8.05 £2 bh on Saturday I played with the free tourny ticket sky was giving away.

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
cenachav	Small blind		10.00	10.00	1990.00
MattH23	Big blind		20.00	30.00	1920.00
	Your hole cards	7 4
PROINSIAS	Fold
chalfont18	Fold
dawlish68	Call		20.00	50.00	1690.00
**	Call		20.00	70.00	2580.00
cenachav	Raise		90.00	160.00	1900.00
MattH23	Fold
dawlish68	Call		80.00	240.00	1610.00
**	Call		80.00	320.00	2500.00
Flop
		7 3 4
**	Bet		270.00	590.00	1630.00
dawlish68	Call		270.00	860.00	1340.00
**	Call		270.00	1130.00	2230.00
Turn
		K
cenachav	All-in		1630.00	2760.00	0.00
dawlish68	Fold
**	All-in		2230.00	4990.00	0.00
**	Unmatched bet		600.00	4390.00	600.00
cenachav	Show	7 4
**	Show	K 5
River
		7
cenachav	Win	Full House, 7s and 4s	4390.00		4390.00

I'm never a great fan of playing oop especially early doors but I wanted to size up the table as there were loads of limpers every hand and 74 is in the top bit of my range

cenachav

Played the freeroll to try to get into tomorrows ME.  I hope I start running better!

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
JARON	Small blind		10.00	10.00	3455.00
cenachav	Big blind		20.00	30.00	2085.00
	Your hole cards	K K
clawman118	Fold
ALA230	Fold
**	Raise		80.00	110.00	1920.00
GBUS	Fold
JARON	Call		70.00	180.00	3385.00
cenachav	Raise		480.00	660.00	1605.00
**	Call		420.00	1080.00	1500.00
JARON	Call		420.00	1500.00	2965.00
Flop
		5 8 7
JARON	Check
cenachav	Bet		420.00	1920.00	1185.00
**	All-in		1500.00	3420.00	0.00
JARON	Fold
cenachav	Call		1080.00	4500.00	105.00
cenachav	Show	K K
**	Show	4 4
Turn
		J
River
		6
**	Win	Straight to the 8	4500.00

IDONKCALLU

gotta be dyms  last longer and vriance is low so the £5 can last a while     2p/4p only takes 1 hand u can go busto

VespaPX

Save your money for a beard trim :-)

cenachav

Freerolled into the main.

Can it be taken down with no rebuys and no add on?  Only one way to find out!

cenachav3231014Entry to £12,000 Rebuy Open

Lewisp

My word a fully grown man with a bald head and ridiculous beard writing a diary about playing poker with a £6 bankroll, what is this world coming to you sad b3stard

cenachav

Out in 204th.  Not too bad seeing as I had to really batton down the hatches early on then couldn't get a break later.  Onwards and upwards

cenachav0204

cenachav

Very hard playing the rebuy when you have hands like this.  At least it was an easy fold on the flop

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
4th_street	Small blind		40.00	40.00	2840.00
andrea1971	Big blind		80.00	120.00	4000.00
	Your hole cards	A J
**	Call		80.00	200.00	2070.00
Mclean_616	Fold
*1	Call		80.00	280.00	2360.00
cenachav	Raise		400.00	680.00	1160.00
4th_street	Fold
andrea1971	Fold
**	Call		320.00	1000.00	1750.00
*1	Call		320.00	1320.00	2040.00
Flop
		8 10 3
**	All-in		1750.00	3070.00	0.00
*1	Call		1750.00	4820.00	290.00
cenachav	Fold
**	Show	3 Q
*1	Show	3 9
Turn
		6
River
		9
*1	Win	Two Pairs, 9s and 3s	4820.00

I will be taking the results of the poll tonight and starting to play tomorrow.  Let's hope the poker gods let me win my flips for the next week or two!

cenachav

The results are in and tomorrow I will be playing.......

7 Votes (20.0%)2 2p/4p cash tables

0 Votes (0.0%)1 5p/5p cash table

14 Votes (40.0%)5 £1 dyms

4 Votes (11.4%)1 £2 and 1 £3 dym

2 Votes (5.7%)BH Mtts

3 Votes (8.6%)Deepstack Mtts

5 Votes (14.3%)Just whack it on sky bingo, you have more chance

5 £1 DYM's.  Good luck me!  I think I will need it!

mac24

i'd go for the bounty hunters but only as I have had a bit of luck on them.

so far I have spun a fiver into just shy of 29 quid in a week on my way to a buy in to the 4k bh tourney by playing 2.30 buy in tourneys

cenachav

Ok, played the first 3 DYM's.  One NLH, one PLO and one PLO8.  Results, won the NLH and lost the Omaha ones

All pretty standard stuff and variance was not my friend.

Any feedback on this hand would be welcome.  I called the flop bet with a gutshot to the nuts as I was getting great pot odds and better implied odds

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
doublen	Small blind		10.00	10.00	1870.00
cenachav	Big blind		20.00	30.00	1950.00
	Your hole cards	9 10 3 3
**	Call		20.00	50.00	2170.00
VespaPX	Fold
maybenever	Call		20.00	70.00	2080.00
macbroon	Call		20.00	90.00	1870.00
doublen	Call		10.00	100.00	1860.00
cenachav	Check
Flop
		K 6 8
doublen	Check
cenachav	Check
**	Bet		20.00	120.00	2150.00
maybenever	Call		20.00	140.00	2060.00
macbroon	Call		20.00	160.00	1850.00
doublen	Call		20.00	180.00	1840.00
cenachav	Call		20.00	200.00	1930.00
Turn
		3
doublen	Check
cenachav	Check
**	Bet		200.00	400.00	1950.00
maybenever	Fold
macbroon	Fold
doublen	Fold
cenachav	Call		200.00	600.00	1730.00
River
		K
cenachav	Check
**	Bet		600.00	1200.00	1350.00
cenachav	Call		600.00	1800.00	1130.00
88	Show	Q K 3 2
cenachav	Muck	9 10 3 3
**	Win	Full House, Kings and 3s	1800.00

Should I of gone bust after the miricle turn and river cards?

F_Ivanovic

River is not really a mircale... you now lose to any 2 pair hand OTT and have the worst possible FH and when opponent bets full pot you can bet they have a FH more than often enough! So yeah I would probably fold river. If I thought I was ahead OTT I would just raise there btw. 

cenachav

In Response to Re: A diary with a twist....... You decide:

River is not really a mircale... you now lose to any 2 pair hand OTT and have the worst possible FH and when opponent bets full pot you can bet they have a FH more than often enough! So yeah I would probably fold river. If I thought I was ahead OTT I would just raise there btw. 
Posted by F_Ivanovic

Thank you for the advice.  That makes things a lot clearer for me.

Despite some..... interesting play from oppos, I managed to bubble the remaining two DYM's .  Both standard short stack spots so nothing to worry about apart from the bank roll which now stands at £2.16

You have got to love it when you see play like this in the first level of a DYM

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
pappabull	Small blind		10.00	10.00	1970.00
**1	Big blind		20.00	30.00	1980.00
	Your hole cards	10 A
Hibby1973	Fold
jets57	Call		20.00	50.00	2060.00
cenachav	Fold
**	Call		20.00	70.00	1375.00
pappabull	Fold
moony787	Raise		60.00	130.00	1920.00
jets57	Call		60.00	190.00	2000.00
**	Raise		120.00	310.00	1255.00
**1	All-in		1920.00	2230.00	0.00
jets57	Fold
**	All-in		1255.00	3485.00	0.00
**1	Unmatched bet		605.00	2880.00	605.00
**1	Show	7 7
**	Show	A 8
Flop
		7 8 6
Turn
		2
River
		9
**1	Win	Three 7s	2880.00

Playing the social freeroll and the two freerolls to the main to see if I can bink then it's decision time.

Run well all

cenachav

Well, that didn't go well!

I decided to play 50p Hu matches and played spectactually badly and ran awefully.  I can remember a sequance of 10 flops seen and missed all of them.  Oh well, thats poker for you.  I still have 31p left in my account for a 30p DYM later tonight.  If that loses then its game over and if it hits, well, the dream is still on for another day or so .  On the plus side I have just about worked out what I will do for the truth or bluff comp and I'm just hoping I can pull it off

Good luck all and run well

cenachav

OK, so I played the 30p DYM and.......... Won it.  Played a few more and got my balance up to £1.01 so I'm now playing the 60p omaha DYMs and have a balance of £1.81.  Got just a tad lucky in my first as I called off a load of chips with a big draw that never got there and got myself very short stacked knowing that if I lost I had enough for one 30p dym left.

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
Jordy548	Small blind		75.00	75.00	5940.00
beest1232	Big blind		150.00	225.00	2790.00
	Your hole cards	10 10 4 7
cenachav	Raise		525.00	750.00	70.00
davo14	Call		525.00	1275.00	1925.00
Jordy548	Call		450.00	1725.00	5490.00
beest1232	Fold
Flop
		6 10 2
Jordy548	Check
cenachav	All-in		70.00	1795.00	0.00
davo14	Call		70.00	1865.00	1855.00
Jordy548	Call		70.00	1935.00	5420.00
Turn
		3
Jordy548	Check
davo14	Check
River
		J
Jordy548	Check
davo14	Check
Jordy548	Show	A 8 7 K
cenachav	Show	10 10 4 7
davo14	Muck	2 A 3 6
cenachav	Win	Three 10s	1935.00		1935.00

At last I get a flop that loves me! lol.

Freerolls are going as freerolls do.  Trying to avoid the maniacs early and then trying to win the flips when it is needed.  Decided to take a punt with this player as he late regged onto my table 2 hands before and open shoved his first 2 hands.

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
allymo20	Small blind		15.00	15.00	2465.00
**	Big blind		30.00	45.00	2030.00
	Your hole cards	A 9
cenachav	Raise		90.00	135.00	1880.00
AJE222	Fold
1pmc	Fold
becks1991	Fold
allymo20	Fold
**	All-in		2030.00	2165.00	0.00
cenachav	All-in		1880.00	4045.00	0.00
**	Unmatched bet		90.00	3955.00	90.00
**	Show	K A
cenachav	Show	A 9
Flop
		Q 10 Q
Turn
		6
River
		A
**	Win	Two Pairs, Aces and Queens	3955.00

Oh well.  Onwards and upwards.  Off to play Santa in a bit, they aren't providing a beard this year.

Good luck all and run well