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I know i'm very unlikely to make a good run in such a tourney, but I respect that there is a chance so it's an opportunity i'd hate to miss!
GL again in speeding through the 1.15 level
Have you ever found that after a break from the game, it takes a while to get back into it. I play only the small games and the occasional hi lo which I really like, but these past couple of weeks, I have been having a really hard time with the discipline, I know I am doing wrong, but do it anyway - really silly I know. Mind you I am an inexperienced player at both hold em and hi lo.
I joined in a couple of your dyms today, an education in itself John.
Thank you
Nads
I am going to be 2-tabling them atm, with my computer crashing often I am not comfortable having much more then £10 at stake at any one time...
So far 4 games, 4 wins
Bankroll: £257.66
EDIT: Just typed you into "Find a Player" and saw the TSP final has popped up and i'm already registered as well, so no worries there.
GL in that on Sunday
To be honest with you, I don't find it hard to get back into it having had a break, This could be because I spend such a large percentage of my poker time playing DYMs that the strategies are deeply embedded in my brain. Or it could be that I play virtually every day and never really have breaks of more than 24 hours (although I recently had a full week off - my longest break by far). Or both, I'm not sure.
I do find it hard, though, when I mix disciplines sometimes as you say you do. Below I've c+p'd an extract from an answer I gave earlier in the thread about the difficulties of mixing disciplines. It's just a couple of suggestions tbh, but I hope you find them useful:
"One thing I found useful on occasion was to just sit there before starting a session and ask yourself, "Am I in the right mindset (i.e. DYM/Cash/MTT whatever) to play these now". Making up (even writing down if necessary) specific scenarios may help certain players here. E.g. Ask yourself, "what will I do if I am dealt pocket 2s UTG first hand?" or "what will I do if someone shoves into me and I have 15BB's holding AK?" To continue the example for the first question one players answers may be as follows:
DYM: open fold
Cash: raise
MTT: limp in to try and see a cheap flop
So long as you are getting the answers right (according to your own strategies) this should help you separate the disciplines.
The other thing is, I would really recommend only playing one discipline at a time. It can get quite confusing trying to juggle 2 different disciplines (e.g. DYM and Cash) and I imagine 3 would be something of a nightmare. This is an easy adjustment to make and I would even recomend doing it as far as possible. What I mean is, don't just say, "I'm only playing DYMs in this session". Try to say instead, "I'm only playing DYMs today/this week/whatever". The less often you mix it up the easier it should be, in my opinion. Of course it may not be practical for players to do this and they may not want to, it is only a suggestion."
Good luck to you too on Sunday sir, ty.
Played 26 £1.15s W 18 L 8
BR - £37.82
Poker points - 204
Will most probably play again tonight, hopefully inching closer to the £45 mark required to play £2.25s.
Hello again
Just a note to thank you so much for your quick response, it is much appreciated and I will of course take note.
All the very best for the future, I will keep reading with much interest.
Thank you again
Kind regards
Nads
Session stats:
Played 23 £1.15s W 12 L 11
BR - £36.22
Poker points - 252
Should get a few games in tomorrow but not too many as have a job interview in the morning and Wednesday is pub night with the football lads. Run well everyone!
lol
Out of interest why don't you just pay for a better/more reliable connection?
Played 2 more, soft, standard games.
Bankroll £266.66 + £30 C4P pending 150 points so far this month
I do stand by my decision to make such a big lay down last night even though I had to continue the game 400 chips down, my read was right, I had put at least one of the shovers on a set and to find that I had made the correct fold just proved to me how far I have come in dym play over the last few months with your help and advice. Thank you
WOW JC ,
Just got a chance to read through this thread ,
i must say bud you are a star and i have no doubt you
will achieve your goal .
Den.
With regards to the tv option you're planning you may know more than me, I don't know. But as I understand it TV screens aren't the way to go. Resolution is far more important than size. There are some very decent options out there though. Mine is a Hanns G 28" and I can 12 table comfortably. It was £250 but maybe cheaper now.
Keep up the good work anyway, your BR is looking good :-)
Gotta be Talk Talk
Ohh no, I was just hoping that would work lol
I'll have to look that up, I still live with my parents too and that's also part of the reason I havn't already bought a new computer.
Thanks, my current plan is to play somewhere between 50 and 100 at the £5.50 level and move up to the £11s if I like my results
Shame about your connection troubles, hope they get resolved eventually : )
EDIT: For some reason the colours are not working properly
Also played a 5.50 turbo and won so current BR: £279.16 and expecting some bad luck to ruin that soon lol
Had a fiddle with Sharkscope and found out I have very good profits in the games I have played against good regs which was nice to seel, although some of those could have been positive variance as only small samples.
Anyway my own day has been fairly uneventful, started really well and even had the £45 in my sights but the session didn't end as well as it started unfortunately.
Played 23 £1.15s W 13 L 10
BR - £35.77
Poker points - 298
Off to the pub tonight. Will look forward to a good grind tomorrow, Thursday is a great day what with the live show and it been the start of the 'poker weekend'.
At least when you do reach £45 you'll reach another satisfying rake decrease. : )
Just played the tightest £2.20 DYM ever. STill all 6 in with similar stacks at L8! Must have all read the blog, lol. Tried to liven it up as it's bedtime and went out in 4th. DOH!
Do you have any tips on multi-tabling? - I always end up getting flustered and make basic mistakes/misclicks and the constant bet-alerts drive me insane!
Good luck with the challenge - looking forward to the next update.
I hate those games where there's six left at that stage, lol, can be quite hard to find shoving spots. Unlucky on bubbling that one.
Re the multi-tabling, if you're making mistakes like misclicks it could just be that you're trying too many tables at the moment or that you just need a little while longer to get used to it. Are you using miniview? I find miniview a lot easier to use when multi-tabling. It takes a little while to get used to at first but it is definately worth switching if you haven't already, imo. Personally, I always line my games up the same way as well. So I load them up from the top left corner of my screen down towards the bottom right. When one ends I drag them all along to fill the vacant spot, so I always have the game that is nearest the end (and therefore most important) at the top left of my screen. If I was in a spot where I was struggling I would know that I could just ignore the games in the bottom right and concentrate on those in the top left.
Another thing you can do, which I have never done personally, but definately has advantages for some people, is to stagger your games. Thats to say, load one or two, wait 15-20 mins, then load one or two more. This means (in theory) that you only have one or two games at the end stage (which require concentration) while the others are right in the early stages and you can just fold away.
Re the sounds, to be honest I would switch those off. I don't use them but on the very rare occassion I've tried them for like 2 minutes, they have driven me insane too. That was one tabling. Multi-tabling with sounds on must be a nightmare, imo.
Good luck at the tables mate.
Played 19 £1.15s W 6 L 13 (2 of the ones I won were largely aided by a player losing connection on the bubble!)
BR - £25.92 :-(