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Keep plugging away with the job hunting, something will come along. I was in same situation a few years ago, made redundant from good job, spent 4 months looking and in the end worked in a pub for a year, best experience of my life.
I would highly reccomend giving JC's guide a real go, I started with £15 with only the hand rankings as guidance, I read this blog and haven't looked back since upto £188 after only about a month
When I first started to play DYM's I also found the move the £5.50's a little daunting, I ended up trying to get a 100 buy in roll for each level which was obviously to high. I did make it to about £1.1k with the help of a £300 cash in the first TSP qualifier but chickened out at the £11 level and withdraw the majority of my roll and gave cash a go instead.
I'm having another go at DYM's following my poor attempt when this thread first started.
I started with £15 and have been playing the £1.15's for a week, currently at £39 with 500 C4P. Going to move up the levels with 25 buy ins.
Thanks and good luck in finding a job soon, i'm currently trying to find one but as I'm 18 and hopefully going Uni next year i'm lucky that it's not that important to me yet.
I've actually been playing cash for the last month and have had more success although I may still come back to this soon. It's always been one of my goals to rise through the DYMs.
Good thread guys, I don't comment much now that i'm playing mostly cash but it's still a good read : )
so JC has done a great job in getting it up there
P.s. I sympathise with you on the jobseeker's part, especially with some of the things the things they make you do sometimes. For instance, when I left uni, my CV had been drawn up and formatted by one of the most experienced career advisors in the country in his field and when I took it in the job centre the lady penned all over it and made it look like a child had done it. They also tried to send me on interviews that were wildly innapropriate for me so I only managed a couple of weeks. I was fortunate, though, sometimes you have no choice whatsoever I guess.
Played 5 x £5.50 games - lost 5 . wouldn,t mind if it was bad bts, but don,t think my DYM game is as good as it used to be - Also finding easy games a lot harder to come by these days. I,ll post a cpl of exit hands up shortly but i,m finding myself in to many spots where i,m undecided what to do, when it should be a lot more robotic
played 1 x £3 after this and finally cashed after a long bubble
Played 31 £11s W 20 L 11
Played 1 £16.50 W 1
Played 1 £22 L 1
Bankroll - £372.02
Poker points - 2792
The bigger buy-ins were an attempt to get a few extra points in the bag. Now that I have to play 21 more £11s and am properly 'rolled for the £16.50s I feel confident again that I will make 3,000 points this month for a nice welcome £50 bonus.
looking at it now , i,m still not sure if this was the right move or not especially as its Shanxta
2/
After looking at your chart of where ur in trouble in these games, i was running out of hands and don,t know if this was a bit rash ?
Gonna take a look at the hands inthe clinic from dudeskin and play another 1 or 2 . I,ve had a brk and am not tilting and don,t mind if get bad beats . thats a good thing in my book
Paul
would like to hear Jc,s views on this one ( or any of the other DYM regs who post on here )
Man ged to get a good stack with this hand (after reading the poker clinic + jc,c thread - sometimes would have limped )and didn,t have to go all in again
Learnt a lot from this game and managed to cash
Went of my read on this one - it was a snap call , he had been slow playing his good hands , so thats what he would have done with his queen or better if he had it - better take his name out now
Played 6
Won 2
lost 4
-5.50
-5.50
-5.50
-5.50
+2.70
+18
= - £1.30
Also just another question you mention making it 3x all the way up to 75/150, you did say this could be too much and tbh coming from an MTT game it does seem MASSIVE especially late on when I might only have 10-15 BBs, do you think even just minraising IP could be good so you keep pot small?
Played 4 £16.50s W 1 L 3
Played 15 £11s W 10 L 5
Bankroll - £371.02 + £50 C4P paid today making bankroll £421.02.
I will post again later hopefully looking back on November and setting targets for December. Looking to start the month well tonight in front of the live show as well :-)
Is it best for you to post hands on this thread or poker clinic for DYM,s ?
MP
Here are my stats for the whole of November:
Played - 309
Won - 184
Lost - 125
So that gives me a +59 for the month. Managed to get just over 4000 poker points so that will give me a nice little bonus of £75!
So another month begins, good luck fellow friends
PS - Mr JC, nice slow play with your AA earlier, I must return the favour
Review of my goals for Nov
Get rolled for £3.30's check
1000 Poker points Fail
Feature on the first page of STT league check (qualified for league stars)
Goals for Dec
Get rolled for £5.50's (50 buy ins) £275 need to make £83.38
1000 Poker points
Qualify for league stars
Hand 1 I find the most interesting and I honestly don't mind your call here. It looks very marginal as you might not be desperate just yet. If the blinds are up in the next 30s I snap call. That opponent sat 2 to your right is another factor which should make you lean more towards calling. If you don't call here be aware that a good player is going to keep pressing and you'll most likely wish you could get that AK back.
The Q6 shove I don't mind at all, you're desperate in my book but the bb still can fold, wp ul.
The 33 ship is standard, wp ul again.
Regarding the mid stages it could honestly be varience, this is something I notice from time to time. It could be varience in the sense that you just happen to be in tougher games where there's 5 or 6 left later. Or it could be that you're card dead so everytime you steal you have to later give up the hand. Be patient, sooner or later the hands will come and you'll make a lot of chips when people play back because they've seen your failed steals recently. A few of these and your steals should start to get more respect again. Re actual stealing hands my advice is to pick hands that make top or 2nd pair with a decent kicker, mid pairs, broadway, big As basically. Small pairs aren't much good.
Goal review/setting will have to wait until later now as I'm out of time again, sigh. Will be on again tonight though. I also intend to catch up on other specific DYM challenge threads later too, can't wait!
Played 8 £16.50s W 4 L 4
Played 18 £11s W 12 L 6
Bankroll - £481.02
So tomorrow I will be kicking off some £22s which I'm really looking forward to...