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prem league your right its hard to see past MVG, I do feel there will be a backlash from taylor tho, as much as I don't like him I feel he might tear up a lot of the early season events. I hope gary Anderson finds form again, his match v MVG at the worlds defo indicated it. whatever happens it looks a good line up with plenty of good matches to look forward to
He'd be in the group just below Taylor/MVG/Lewis. Would make the 1/4 final every comp and maybe the semi with a good draw.
Weird in darts how playing better players improves peoples performance, it happens all the time more than in any other sport I reckon.
Unless you're James Wade, when you just bottle it every single time. 'Catastrophe theory.'
Get the feeling if someone averages 100+ against Bunting he could match it. Abit like Lewis. Don't think he can hit the 105+ over a decent sized game like Lewis can though.
Hope he switches.
http://psychology.about.com/od/psychologytopics/tp/theories-of-motivation.htm
more tilting than the pokerz
I see your taking up a challenge at nl10 yourself, best of luck with it. no doubt there will be some interesting hands between us at some point
today has been the same theme for much of the week, posting small wins. I had an hour this morning after work which I grabbed a win of 2 buyins and this evening I won what I lost yesterday, so a couple up on the day. im inching forward again which im happy about but once again I played 2 pots horrendously in the space of 5 mins which really annoyed me.
im been quite level headed as well most of the time ive been playing this week and not letting things get to me, a definite improvement from the weekend . I did cost myself more of a loss than I should have done last weekend, so I hope to keep this frame of mnd going.
ive got my last nightshift tonight then its back to normality with dayshift for the next two weeks so I have a "long"weekend this weekend so to speak. cant wait, I forget what daylight is lol
Just wondering how you,ve found the step up from NL4 to NL10 as i struggled a bit with it and mainly stick to MTT,s now.
As for Bunting in the darts. I remember watching him last year or the year before and he really lacked confidence and wasn,t half the player he is today. I think he,ll go along way as he,s only young and will only improve
GL with rest of diary
anyway I got a short afternoon session in. started of okay. I made 2 straight flushes inside the first 20 mins, got paid about half a stack on 1 and nxt to nothing on the other. the rest was pretty uneventful just grinding out small pots again for a small win for the session.
this evening was more of the same tbh. just grinding small pots for the most. I was on the good end of a sick cooler against jimbod1. I flopped quad 10s and the river ace gave jimbod the full house with his pocket aces. that river is just carnage. did call 1 or 2 silly river bets again but they are becoming less frequent than before. one of them I slow played queens against a player who I suspected of overplaying top pair on a 9 high board. another 9 on the river and I still call pretty much knowing what hes got by the bet size. need a slap on the knuckles for that.
overall it resulted in almost a win of 3 buyins and closer to recovery. im happy grinding out the small wins just now even if it isn't flattering reading. I'd love to report winning 6,7,8 buyins in a session but hopefully they aren't too far in the future. I am still tweaking things and trying a few different things at the moment so small steps are ok by me atm
4 bets are certainly rare, the only ones ive seen that haven't been AA or KK have been from players who have around 50ish bb or under and are looking for a gamble, tbh even they have woke up with AA a fair amount of times.
its been playing really tight in general I think, that's why im trying to work out different ways instead of thnking ive a big hand how do I get it in, oh sxxt they've Aces again.
had a mare to begin with at lunchtime. everything went against me, I wasn't doing too much wrong just getting outdrawn. I did make a stupid play which really indicated it was time to stop. end result for that session I was almost 6 buyins down.
came back later on and had a quick session while I was waiting on my dinner cooking and clawed around 4 buyins back in about 1 hour. don't feel I done too much different in this short sessin than I was earlier in the day just that I was getting paid in some spots and I did have a big hold with QQ v AJ v KJ on a J75 rainbow flop for around a £25 pot
later on in the evening I clawed some more back and ended a little in front. I must admit my game was a little erratic at times. I did feel I loosened up a little, maybe tried too many bluffs as I got caught on a fair few of them. suppose it wont do my image any harm.
I have said on the thread I have been on the wrong end of AA vKK quite a lot. well I better report I had it in my favour yesterday. first I can recall for a while. wasn't all in pre either. went in on the turn on a 722J rainbow. was a £30 pot as well, im sure it happened in the quick hour sessioni had.
other stuff. I managed to watch The wolf of Wall Street. thought it was great. im no film buff so my opinion doesn't mean a great deal but I certainly watch it again despite being 3 hours long. can understand why its tipped to do well at the Oscars. would certainly recommened
Hi mate,
glad to hear of another winning session, well done.
you say you went 6 buy-ins down at one point and won 4 buy-ins back in an hour later, just thought I'd get your thoughts on this.
do you think that this is likely to be a normal thing playing nl10 and did it happen to you at nl4?
of course I'm sure it must have but what I'm asking I guess is this, do you think that this is likely to happen more often at nl10 especially when multi-tabling, as I know you are.
which brings me to my next question, if as here there can be a 10 buy-in swing in such a short space of time, do we have to simply accept that this might/will happen sometimes?, and do you think it's simply 'the run of the cards' being the factor here, or possibly some good or bad play on your part?
cheers tintin,
be lucky
dev
thanks for your reply...
so are we saying 10 buy-in swings are a common thing ? (when multi-tabling)
and is it simply put 'the cards' variance call it what you will ? or down to our own good/bad play ? (or a mixture of the 2 perhaps?)
I understand why players say I've lost/won a number of buy-ins, rather than saying I won x amount of money, I get that bit, but to me it now makes no difference, it's still the same however you dress it up.
I like to use the term 'money won or money lost' as it then seems real somehow.
but then I'm only playing nl4 atm, maybe it all changes the higher you go and players bankrolls are a guarded secret, mostly.
cheers
dev
I think if I break down each session within the days ive had 4 or 5 sessions where ive either finished or been down 5+buyins, some ive pulled back and some I haven't. if I recall I had 2 days back to back where I lost a combined 12 buyins. that was a mini downswing but a bigger one can see a big dent, that's why having a bankroll that can sustain them is so important.
I do admit mine is not the largest and it couldn't sustain much more if I was carrying on on that downswing. another time I would have stepped down but because im playing less tables I know I was still ok'ish.
regarding your question if I think its normal for nl10 and if I suffered the same at nl4 then its yes on both counts. I fully expect more to come at nl10 just a matter of when really, they are inevitable. as for nl4 I had many a day I was down 5-8 buyins in a session but the nxt session or sessions within the day I was able to recover and end in profit, some days I couldn't but you just got to shrug them off.
sorry to hear of your downswing mate.they do hurt don't they, but I'm sure you will battle through it and reach your 50 buy-ins target. gl with that.
yeah those mastercash tables I'd imagine can get expensive when buy-in is double.
interesting that 'regs' are buying in for just 100 bb, surely the idea of those mastercash tables is to win more by being bigger stacked to start with, just my opinion.
yes I'm sure I must have lost 8-10 dym's (I'm guessing you mean in a row), but I played so many it really never hurt me that much, apart from when I moved up to the £11's and lost either 6/7 or was it 7/8 can't remember now but I know it was a costly night also playing £5's too, £129.xx from memory.
still got there in the end didn't I.
gl mate
dev
very honest and good of you to answer mate, much appreciated.
yes being rolled is clearly important, I can see that especially playing cash and I'm sure tournaments too.
playing just the 1 or sometimes 2 tables has helped me for sure I think so far this year, but I know that a bad run can come anytime no matter how many tables we play, but it's so far so good.
anyway mate, I wish you good luck as always...unless you are playing me...obviously
day off today but back on it tomorrow.
gl buddy
dev
sunday another decent day. 1 main session where I was up 3 buyins. the 2nd session I won a whole £1. ive now recovered from last weekend and for the first time I am actually above what I started this thread with. it does seem to be slow and steady at the minute but I will take it for now.
you can get quite a lot at Iceland for £1 you know
well done buddy, keep up the good work
dev
Just what?
Monday was short, very short. played for about 45 mins tops. got off to a good start for a changed, donked it off, felt sick (not thru bad play or that but generally felt ill), logged off went for a lie down. end result I lost a couple of big blinds so no damage done really.
Tuesday. same again. got off to good start then proceeded to play like an idiot for around an hour. done the good start, done some more before regasining a little composure clawed some back, had a break then returned. repeat the procedure ive just typed in last sentence.overall I was down 2 buyins for the day. the result was about the only thing I was happy about because it should really have been a lot worse.
got to get back to cutting out the silly mistakes I was making all too much yesterday.
split tonight in to 2 sessions. the first one wasn't great down 2 buyins. got done for 2 buyins playing heads up trying to start a 6 seater. turn a flush holding Jc5c and walk into a Q high flush, couple of hands later get KK in pre v QQ only for a Q to flop. im resisting the temptation to moan a lot about how bad I run in allin pre situations. anyway I got them back on other tables only to go completely card dead. for about an hour I missed everything and couldn't nick any pot. the highlight being I tried to rep a straight on a board with 4 to a straight on it only to be called by bottom pair nut worst kicker. oops wrong opponent to bluff.lost a lot of silly pots here resulting in being the 2 bins down.
2nd session went better. I won a race early doors, I know I know I said earlier I run bad in allins but I won one for a change, sure it was AQ v TT. it was against a player who likes to mess about a bit. nothing other too memorable till near the end. I ended up turning a set of 3's aginst someone who was slow playing middle 2 pair. got it in on the turn and faded the the remaining 6s and 7s that would have gave opponent bigger house. so I was 4 bins up for the session.
still trying to take the nxt step. it does feel im treading water at the minute. but Im not trying to force things as I feel it will come in time.
Things seem to be going a a slow rate with nl10 at the minute.
After i went out of an MTT i joined a nl10 cash table (you joined it a few minutes later) and it was very tight for a micro limit, do the nl10 tables have more tight ranges with most players or could it just be that as my MTT being a £.75 BH will have lots of loose players, that a nl10 cash table might seem tight.
http://www.bettingpro.com/category/darts/stephen-bunting-switches-to-the-pdc-201401230001/