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pts 399
Managed to get over the 300pt mark for the freeroll today. Didn,t expect to stay up till 6am playing though. Just need to make sure i,m up in time to reg for it now as its capped at 2000 i think. Looked in the lobby but its not up yet and not sure what time it starts at.(EDIT - Sigh - missed it - it was 2pm ) Time for bed
ps - Sry Craig . Not sure where i got Craugcu from
EDIT : Just been looking through my losing hands and many of them seem to be when i,ve tried a bluff on the river, normally after missing a str8 draw or flush draw. I suppose i could stop bluffing but then i did get paid off on some hands where i wouldn,t normally. Heres the biggest losing hand of the session. Feel free to critisise
pts 399
Just played for an hour and although it was another losing session was pleased with the way i played
Was playing 3 tables and even when playing 2 tables it was super laggy. I was using Google Chrome so i,m hoping it was that, as i kept getting pop -ups every minute or so saying "pages have become un-responsive" and giving me the option to kill the pages where in actual fact they were working fine
Hand 2 (A6s) - Flatting the BTN is fine, and 3betting is fine too. I'd be raising this flop definitely, we're so deep and have no hope of getting 200xBB stacks in by the river in a single raised pot without raising the flop unless you just put a sick cooler on him. We can make quite a few better hands fold and hands that have decent equity where we don't mind just taking it down now.
Once you've flatted the flop, the turn has to be a flat too. You've flatted the flop when our equity is at it's highest, then decided to raise the turn when our equity has been halved AND we don't even know how many clean outs we have if we aint drawing dead, and you've raised to an amount that gives us very little FE when he can call £3 to win nearly £13. FWIW, if you raise flop and carry on barrelling you probably get him to fold 88.
BR 2539.78
pts 440
@ lambert and jimb0od1
Cheers for the input guys. Looking back now the limp pre with TT it does look bad and as a rule i don,t like limping on any hand. I think the reason on this occasion was it was UTG and i was expecting a raise in front of me and was happy to flat the raise and try to go to the flop multiway but realise now it was a mistake
The A6 hand - looking back now i realise the check raise on the flop would have been better than on the turn as Lambert explained about the equity and when it got to the turn i wanted to try and rep a big hand for a bet on the river if i missed which i did
This is the reason i,ve got my diary moved to GPC so ppl can point out where i,m going wrong. Thx again
Hi Paul,
Thanks for your comments mate over in my nl4 thread, much appreciated.
thought I'd just say hi here and wish you good luck.
not read a great deal but it sounds like you've just started or gone back to playing cash, please excuse if I've got it wrong.
you have done fantastic mate, all from just £40 I gather, so really well done...hope I can follow you
yeah nl10 is tough, I know from playing there last year. my advice would be play 1 table only and be very selective who you play, and then when your confidence grows add the 2nd.
I made the mistake of trying to play too many, so don't do the same.
best wishes,
dev
Not seen your diary in a while.
You have done brilliant spinning a small amount into 1000s.
Is it mostly MTT's and sit and go's you play?
With the timed freeroll's, i'd say don't sit tight, if you have a really strong hand, AK-J, 99's and better, just shove all in pre over a raise, you will get looked up really light.
I made the mistake of trying to play too many, so don't do the same.
best wishes,
dev
With the timed freeroll's, i'd say don't sit tight, if you have a really strong hand, AK-J, 99's and better, just shove all in pre over a raise, you will get looked up really light.
pts 440
Got off to an ok start tonight. Acpl of quid up with the 3K BH to play although my record in that is terrible recently. can,t remember the last time i even got a head, so hoping that might change tonight
I did play a cpl of hours at dinnertime, but after looking at the 5p/10p tables and comparing them to the 10c/20c tables on another site i decided to play there. The games just looked softer. PPl were getting it all in pre on lesser than hands than on here in general. May its because they,re used to playing 9 max on other sites and when they 6 max loosen up a bit. I don,t know but ended up making just over $30 playing 3 -4 tables
Results so far tonight - Only played the DYM as it was Omaha which i prefer in DYM,s
EDIT - maybe not - Got off to a good start taking a head str8 away but then my AQ vs KJ got done for a str8 then nxt hand AK vs KJ got rivered for another str8 and tats me out. just cant seem to get any luck in this game
EDIT - So much for a good start - still hanging in- in the £2 rebuy
EDIT - Just gone out of the £2 rebuy in 5th for £20.15 profit after buy in and addon. Chose the wrong time to shove with my K4 from the button which ran into AK but overall lucky to get to the FT. Dished out a cpl of bad bts along the way. Also satted into the 1K BH at 12.30 so hopefully it will be along night
EDIT - No heads and more bad bts in the 1K BH
= + £14.60
pts 526
Can,t win a hand tonight. Just went bust on the satlite bubble when my pair of 3,s got counterfitted by 2 better pairs on the river for the 3K BH and with no cash overlay
Results so far
I do realise i,m not going to get this lucky when i tilt again (or if) so will have to work on that part of my game. I have got Jared tendlers bok but haven,t read it yet. Just got it out, blown the dust off it and will give it a read in nxt few days
EDIT = -£64.08
pts 671
Didn,t play to much tonight but should have done better in te £750GTD BH. Made a mistake at the end by shoving with J6 from the SB. I was in last place and only had a few blinds left but i,d made a simlar move earlier and got called with a mediocre hand so maybe should have waited a hand or two but can,t grumbe considering the hands i was getting and finished 1 off the FT
pts 697
Was hoping for a quick session before heading out but luckily it turned out to be longer than expected due to a deep run in the £200 GTD where i ended up HU aganinst Dollie. Was a good battle and just managed to come out on top. Gonna head out for a bit but might have another sesh when i get in
pts 728
Came back tonight after a cpl of days off feeling pretty confident but after mainly playing DYM,s ended up losing a few quid.
Just watching the FA cup highlights and not to fussed about tonights losses as i lumped on Everton. Thought they were a great price at 1.91 on the exchanges or generally 4/5 elsewhere vs Stevenage. Even if they didn,t put out a full team which was the case you kinda knew the others would play their socks off under Martinez and it would be a chance to impress the manager for a first team place in the Prem leaugue. Just wish i,d done them on the asian handicap betting now
EDIT : Played a cpl more DYM,s whil waiting for a tourney on another site to finsish
BR 2574.35
Pts 766
EDIT - Ouch - Just bubbled the FT in a $1 rebuy. Was in 7th when i got my 55 all in vs 4 10 and got rivered by a ten. Got $22 but was there was $560 up top with 654 runners
Pts 766
Seem to keep losing flips at the moment. Had some bad luck in the £3 DYM when my aces got busted by JJ but had some good luck in the £2.40 satlite to the £3k BH where i manged to scrape a seat without getting a stack over 6k, so its been a bit ixed tonight. Still playing the 3K GTD but my chips have gone down from the 1st level where i dbld up and took a head. I should have done better in the 60 min freerolls where each time i had 15k and got bust with flips 5 minutes and 7 minutes from the end of each game
EDIT : Just crashed out of the 3K BH and lost another flip AQ vs 33 in a sat for the £750 BH after a good start. Played a cpl more stalites for the £750 BH and eventually got through so still got that one to play (12.30am). EDIT - Out in 2nd orbit with AQ vs AQ all in on the flop . he hit runner runner for a diamond flush - sigh. Not to worry tho. I,ll be back tommorow. Got more of an idea of the games i want to playing nxt month now
I,ve always thought there was quite a difference in class between the £3 DYM,s and the £5 ones, but looking over previous results i,ve lost my last 8 or 9 £3 DYM,s in a row, but on the other hand i,ve won my last 6 or 7 £5 ones so i,m not so sure about that anymore
great br mate, well done ...I'm so Gel
only glanced through mate, so not sure how you built up your roll. looks like you play pretty much what u fancy now.
I know u play dym's. I found the £5's a step up from the £3's on my challenge, and in the end found I was making more from playing just the £3's, but as u say a bad run can come at any level can't it.
with such a nice br now, aren't u tempted to play higher stakes?
or have you got so used to playing where you are comfortable?
I see you play b/h and other tournaments too, I'm guessing you must make a profit from these.
also interesting you play the £300 freerolls... and why not.
do you or did you find playing these b/h and other buy-in tournaments a good way of increasing b/r along with playing dym's etc?
do you decide on a plan for each month, as I see you say you've got more of an idea what you'll be playing next month now, or have you got a fav game, dym or b/h or something else?
how's the cash going mate?
I know you are playing nl10 atm. enjoying it?
do you think this might be where the future takes you? or is it just an experiment? lol
anyway mate, sorry to give you so many questions he he
best wishes,
from a small bankrolled very low stake, pretty average,(possibly below), cash player. lol
dev
edit; just read you said you've made most money from mtt's.
so, seeing that... does your dym and b/h winnings etc, simply put, pay for you mtt buy-ins? would you say.
Cheers m8
I,m playing a mixture of stuff at the moment and yes i could play at higher stakes but don,t think i,d enjoy as much and i have been buying in for a few £10 tourneys recently and am playing about 40% of my poker on other sites at the minute . I had a -£60 + day on here the other day. A few of those and my roll could soon diminish esp playing a lot of MTT,s . I do want to set myself a traget next month though to play x amount of satelites and x amount of DYM,s for example and put more voume in .Can,t remember last time i got 1K points on here. I had only had about 150pts nearly 3 weeks into the month
I did enjoy Nl10 on here for a bit on here but found it a bit softer elsewhere at 10c 20c or 15c 30c
Not made to mmuch progress since been in GPC but at least i,m not losing overall. Only played 1 DYM easrlier and having an early night so been playing a few freerolls. The DYM went on forever with 4 players and went from chip lead to last then chip lead to last again a few times before going out
Ended up playing 6 freerolls over 4 sites. Had a bit of trouble with 6 tables at the start but got used to it until , and they gradually went down and won 1 for $26 although i reckon at least half of the 69 players were sat out. having said that you cant blame them as the way the payout structure ids they receive at least 75 cents or even a dollar . I,ve seen this on a cpopl of site. On Betfair they had 129 players with 75 paying out . Made 34 dolars overall and quite enjoyed playing them
BR £2563.18
pts 822
Ps - i seen you asked what most of my roll has come from . Going back over it it is mainly MTT,s (£370 benn the biggest) but i started the roll going on NL4 and played a lot of it for a while. I know your doing something similar on your diary and when you start to add the tables even at NL4 you can get a steady roll going even on a small outlay so GL with it . I remember when i started and TK saying on 861 about NL4 and aiming to make 3 buy ins a day which is £12 a day and it seemed quite easy the way he said it so i aimed for that on NL4
I don't play mtt's but I'm sure you must be able to go weeks without a descent cash, which would see the old br drop back.
don't blame you for not moving up levels if it's not going to be fun. good br management is still so important isn't it, no matter how big your br is, so good for you to sticking to it. I'm sure a number of players wouldn't.
know what you're saying about playing elsewhere, done the same myself...well ok 1c/2c so doesn't really count, does it lol
all good practise though
me & my brother have always said that it must be possible to make some money by joining loads of sites & just play freerolls. lol looks like we aren't the only ones then lol
anyway, all for now Paul,
be lucky,
dev
anyway just gone past the 2nd break and still going ok in the Main although i,m under average in theMini but although we are just approaching the add on period which i means i can,t rebuy anymore , thank god.
I,ll update when i,ve finished. ps I did get into the main on my 2nd 60p all in sat which pays for a cpl of the rebuys in the mini
EDIT : got to the nxt brk but what a time to go card dead. haven,t even had to make a decision hardly as my cards have been so poor but hanging on in both 48th from 64 in the Mini and 29th from 73 in Main. Gonna have to make something happen and soon. only 2 more dbl ups in the main and might catch TommyD at the top
EDIT : No JP tonight . Out of the mini. Was ahead on the turn with overpair and got it all in but he hit str8 on river. A bit gutted as was getting back into it but will be bk to try again soon (still in main)
EDIT - Ouch _gone in the main - rivered again although to be fair the best hand did win - left myself short and then had to go with a6 to try and pick up the money in the middle after a min raise before me. Got called by the BB with A9off and thought i,d got away with it after hitting a 6 on flop but the river does me again with a 9 to send me packing about 8 places off the cash
= -£39.70
Pts 874
Played some speed poker last night after main event exit and won a few euros. Only played this a few times and find it suprising how easily ppl give up on their hands just because the nxt hand is only a click away.
I also played another freeroll. 38 players paying the top 20 for 4.80 dolars although you have to wager x amount on their casino to qualify. There were over half the players sat out as well and i figured the game is worth about $15 so this time i,ve wagered some money on red and black and zero to qualify for the same game next week. Even though i lost about £1.50 ( $2) on the casino i think its well worth it to get into the FR.
Also played a cpl of freerolls on here earlier and for the first time actually cashed in both
EDIT : Got in late but anded up practising some multi-tabling on 2p/4p for what was supposed to be an hour but turned in t about 2 . Lost a buy ins early on and wanted to get them back. Finished over a buy in up or more i think as someone was tilting on last table played and managed to play 5 -6 or 6 tables
Pts 913
Just spent over an hour sifting through emails from various Poker sites, all advertising their new promotions for February and theres quite a few to choose from.
I do like the idea of these new Freerolls on Sky for getting 1k-3k points in a month and think that could suit me quite well. However there are some good rake races on other sites for 3 days at a time (during weekends) which are split into different tiers, catering for small, medium and big stake players so i,ll be taking part in some of those as they also apply specifically to STT,s or DYM,s so will be playing a mixture of stuff on here and elsewhere during February and certainly hope to gain over 1k points next month.
Stuck to the freerolls earlier as i was playing on my mates computer and the connection is through a dongle and not reliable at all. Had aces in one hand and had to sit by as i watched them get folded. (No fault of Sky - the whole computer had crashed), but managed to cash in both again for 2nd day running
EDIT : Made an error in the £200GTD after a good start and bluffed the wrong person but not tobad apart from that
GOOD LUCK FOR FEBRUARY MATE...
DEV
Pts 0
Cheers Dev - Same to you m8
Got off to a bad start though and deserved to lose tonight after making a terrible call in the £200 GTD when i was in the lead with about 11k . Had 99 and virtually stacked off on a 387 board to a pre-flop raiser. Wasn,t really concentrating as i was getting something to eat and would never make that call against the same opponent. It left me a cpl of k which i soon tilted off aferwards. At least i can watch MOTD now and see Utd getting beat again
Pts 45
Wanted to try and get some get points on the board so played some cash as it was during the happy hour. Only played for about 40 mins on 3 tables at 2p/4p, 4p/8p and 5p/10p. Then realised i,ve got some other games to play on other sites as i,m playing toward a leaugue and have a cpl of free tokens to use up so any play tonight will have to be mixed in with those games : Gonna try and get to at least 1k points this month (sounds easy but have only done it once during this diary) and hopefully 2K for the "Trilogy Freerolls"
Add in your other bits and bobs and you should easy be able to get 2k points.
happy days has been running all weekend where between Friday at 6pm til midnight tonight there has been a 50% boost on all hands played in that time. cant see it happening every weekend but worth keeping an eye out for
Played the timed FR again earlier. Think i,ve had about 8 cashes on the bounce. Makes a change after playing about 10 w/o cashing
EDIT - Won it for 46 euros. First time i,ve played fixed limit for ages. Shame there arn,t more games on here that play it
@Lambert - I know what you mean but it depends if i get time. I,m playing 2 online leaugues this month on other sites and have set aside 2 weekends for sit and go rake races . Also want to get back into playing live as i,ve not played much recently.
EDIT : Had a cpl of short games before bed (Unfortanetly the 15 min lasted about 3 mins when i lost a flip 88 vs KQ off)
BR £2549.35
Pts 79
How its going tonight :
Played for 6 hours when i got in . Absolutely shattered and lost about £12. To many results to post - Played DYM,s and NL8 mainly. Managed to get over 200pts which is what i was aiming for
- £13
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EDIT - Ended up tilting off £26 . Shouuld probably post some hands but think i know where i went wrong and it was last night now
Currently playing a $400 FR (35 runners with half sat out and top 20 paying) Got dbl my stack but just lost big pot on a flip at 60/120
Also cashed in 60 min FR again. Wish i could take some of that luck into bigger games
- £26
= +£4.49
Pts 256
Still playing the FR from above post . Just on brk 2nd from 17 left with 6.3k at 100/200 and gonna play some sats and MTTs on here
EDIT : Bust out of the 2 below (Dbld up in FR tho and leading on FT of 9 )
EDIT - sigh - down to 5 the misclicked for a 10k pot - still leading just
EDIT _ Got 4 handed and stayed that way for ages - Got it in with k9 only to run into aces, although i hit my straight on the turn but he rivered the flush and gone in in a dissapointing 4th for $32
To many games to post but ended -£29
+ £9.13 (c4p)
Pts 328
Giving it a miss tonight. Had a busy day and pretty shattered. Just been going through some emails and sifting through various free offers and promos. Tempted to start a new BR off from scratch. Couldn,t do it solely on here playing poker but there are so many freebies out there if you look for them i think i might try it and just keep a note of it on paper. I don,t just mean poker either - plenty of offers on sports betting and bingo as well. Won £30 of a free bingo game last night and £300 of a no-lose bingo game a few weeks back as well as a few smaller wins inbetween
I,ll be back playing on here tommorow no doubt
@Joebloggs Yes I am a bloke despite my avatar. Just can,t resist it sometimes in the chat box. Sry hun