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i don,t really get the moving up a level
when a player hits the 22 buy-in
well obviously i do,because you do it
and others have copied you.
surely isn,t it better to play at your b/roll level
(in my case;b/roll £350, so playing at £3.30
for each game i lose,that is 1.1% of my roll
which is comfortable when i do get that bad session
as i did the other day,losing £22.50, pluss £4.50
earlier in the day,
a loss of 8% to my b/roll
surely,if i had the 22buy-ins @ £3.30 (£72.60)
lost my 2 shots @ £5.50 (£11)
now holding £61.60
(still with me?)
then say i lose i don,t know
another 3 games say @ £3.30 (£9.90)
i am now down to £51.70
so i,ve lost approx 2/7ths of my b/roll
£20.90
surely ,that,s got to hurt?
i know it would me!
and to be honest it could get even worse
even i might go "on tilt" for a while
(which i should add,hasn,t happened for a very long time
well over a year ago....i didn,t like it, and vowed it would never happen again,
touch wood!)
anyway,to summarise,
isn,t my way a better way,if not the safer way,
to tackle this DYM challenge,
or am i just "an old geezer(52 by the way),or am i simply out of touch
with the way the game is being approached,these days?
look forward to hearing your thoughts
cheers
devon
that,s what i wanted to hear.
thought i was correct in my thinking
but it,s nice to have it confirmed,
thanks mate
keep going for it
i know you will do it!
i,ll keep on chasing you
even if it is very slooooowly!
thanks
devon
Played 25 £11s W 15 L 10
Played 3 £16.50s L 3
Bankroll - £387.02
Poker points - 305
Should get a few in today, currently in the £11s with the odd £16.50..
Originally my targets were going to be to move up to £22s and earn 4,000 Poker Points but as I have only just gotten around to setting them, I obviously need to adjust these as I will be starting £22s tomorrow anyway. So my targets will be:
Move upto £33 DYMs (so increase bankroll to at least £660)
Earn 6,000 poker points
I think these targets could be quite difficult to meet, particularly if I need to drop straight back down to £11s and £16.50s. Then again, with a bit of run good they may be quite easily achieved, we will have to see, obviously hoping for the latter."
Ok, so December appears to have ended up as a bit of an epic fail, targets wise :-(. I'm not too disheartened, though, it was going well enough for the most part and then just hit a bit of run bad right at the end. The only really disappointing factor was my volume over Christmas and missing out on the TSP qualifier. Who doesn't like to enjoy Christmas though?
January will be another difficult one to set for targets for as it will depend a bit on how I set off. Should get a fair bit of volume in though (apart from going away for the last week) so will be quite ambitious and set myself the same targets as I did last month:
6,000 Poker Points
Move up to £33s
Good luck everyone with your own January targets!!
Think a couple of pretty poor mistakes slipped into my game this morning. Twice I stacked off when I hit top pair on a sb vs bb steal gone wrong. Ordinarily I would be fine with this, as I say in the blog tpgk is a strong hand in a stealing position, even more so blind on blind. But on both these occassions my opponents gave me the information I needed to get off the hand, in the form of horrible click raises to my c-bets (one with 2 pair and one with top set). I say horrible, but that's probably more to do with my play being horrible in subsequently stacking. At the end of the day, their play worked great and did for me comfortably. These 2 hands (luckily for me within moments of each other) prompted me to break for lunch.
Anyway, just off for a quick pizza. I'm sure I'll be back pretty soon as the tables look really good so far today.
Bankroll after this morning - £352.52
Played 41 £11s W 27 L 14
Played 9 £16.50s W 8 L 1
Bankroll - £544.52
Poker Points - 880
Almost a £200 swing since lunch in £11 and £16.50 DYMs, wtf? Anyway, will be having another crack at those troublesome (so far) £22s tomorrow night I think. Hope some others ran as well as me tonight.
you deserve it after all your hard work.
as you say,"how quickly the game changes"!
it just shows how if a session runs well for you
you really can make some good money,
as you have just shown.
and the really great thing about it is;
at no time are you ever risking losing your whole winnings
on one hand,as you are when playing cash,
ie;£16.50 is the max you can lose
at any one time.
brilliant ,aint it!!!!
gl with the £22,s
devon
Played 15 £22s W 6 L 9
Played 1 £16.50 L 1
Bankroll - £513.02
Poker Points - 1195
"a winner never quits
and a quitter never wins"
devon
And Nutter is playing as many games as he can from £22+ to see if hitting the 60k for the rake race is possible through DYMs
Should I pass KK here??? £10 dym 200/400 blinds
I know how frustrating those kinds of sessions can be, trust me. Especially on the back of a high. Just keep your chin up, keep doing the right things and you know the results will follow.
About the hand you posted, I'm guessing you're the BB but either way I can't pass that, I'm afraid. I know there's a shorter stack, who's about to be in the BB as well, but with 1700 chips he's still very much alive at this point. KK is just too big to lay down to a button shove for me here, when I have the guy covered (albeit not by that much).
Please feel free to give us updates of your progress or post hands for advice in here, I for one would be interested in your input, and there are some other like minded people here too who I'm sure would as well. Anyway, best of luck at the tables!
Played 5 £11s W 3 L 2
Played 1 £16.50 W 1
Played 4 £22s W 3 L 1
Bankroll - £563.52
Hello Simonnatur,
I would have to agree with Johnconnor, I'm not folding KK in that spot. You can't be scared to go all in with your KK's. You have to tell yourself, if they have AA, then fair enough, not much you can do about it..If they have any Ace, then they have 3 outs, thats it. If the Ace does come down on the board then atleast you can say you went in ahead, very ahead at that! Interesting you say on pokerstove gave you the result of losing 23% of the time, so of course you will be winning 77% of the times
Hope this helps & good luck!
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
Just sat casually playing 6 tables when it decided it didn't want to play any more. Fortunately it didn't go completely down for more than a couple of minutes at a time but it did do it repeatedly. Also fortunately I had ran well and doubled up in a couple of my games. The point when I really started to tilt was when it went down for 2-3 minutes (a lot of time for 4 players to take it in turns stealing your chips) right at the end of an £11, a £16.50 and a £22. (In hindsight, the £16.50 was probably already in the bag anyway as I had 5k+ and there were 2 under 1000, but still.) This time the lights on my router were giving me the most ominous signal they can and I thought these games were done for. Another £60 or £90 gone I kept thinking as I stared at the stupid thing. Then, from nowhere, it came back on. Thanks for trying but too late, i thought. Anyway I checked the lobby and I had cashed in the £16.50, some relief. Surprisingly, though, I had cashed in the £22. I couldn't believe this as 3 of us had 2k stacks with blinds at 150/300 when the connection went for so long. I didn't expect to ever get away with this vs 3 good players in a £22 but, unfortunately for them, they must have been oblivious to my situation. Anyway, the -£11 in the lobby was small price to pay for the +£13.50 and the + £18. But then, the £11 popped up and I was on the bubble, short on chips. Binked a 4 with A4 vs A10 and I've cashed in that too!
Feel like I got really, really fortunate here so am thankful for that. Even though the router is lit up as it should be right now (as it does whenever it comes back up, even if for a few moments, as just now), I won't be taking any chances this afternoon. It's a horrible, powerless, feeling when your connection drops and you know everyone is helping their self to your money (rightly so).
This really looks like it could be a blessing in disguise then. I'm off now to have an hour reading Sklansky's Theory of Poker which will be really enjoyable and I might even manage to get an hour nap in before tonight's session with 865 on, happy days!
Bankroll - £591.02
played 12 lost 3
won £22.50
not really in the mood for poker
at the moment,
don,t know why,i should be,
i,m winning!
b/roll £376.67
devon
Played 20 £11s W 10 L 10
Played 3 £16.50s W 1 L 2
PLayed 4 £22s W 2 L 2
Bankroll - £527.02
To be honest I'm starting to think that I only used to grind them because I thought i couldn't make a steady profit in cash or tourneys.
I'm gonna keep playing the occasional few though and maybe sometime soon i'll be playing 20+ a day again : )
GL with your progress everyone!
PS How did you get your C4P bonus a couple days ago when it shouldn't until the 9th!?
Played 7 £11s W 4 L 3
Played 3 £16.50s W 1 L 2
Played 3 £22s W 1 L 2
Bankroll - £495.52