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Started fairly badly last night at sober DTD, still just can't seem to buy a pot in the early stages - see lots of flops with pairs, connectors and suited aces but hit nothing and whenever I dare to bluff I guess my story doesn't add up and I get called down by bottom pair lol
That pretty much was the story of a couple of £5 and £10 BH games I dipped my toe in as well.
Luckily I can still luckbox my flips with the best of them and after a LOT of folding in DTD1 I got KK with about 15BB and 100-odd runners left and was lucky to double up and go on a bit of a tear.
I *think* it is my first cash in DTD1, I normally get my results in DTD3 where most people either don't enter or have given up and the game is much easier lol
2nd place though, almost respectable, disappointing I couldn't have clung on a bit longer in the other games. Shame that THS had so many runners that us Outlaws could quite knock out enough to have a shot at the monthly table.
We still have the best rail though. TY for the all the banter keeping me awake last night when I should have been asleep hours earlier!!
With 20BB should I have taken a more cautious approach?
I only ask because this is my 4th HU in MTT during 2015 and my 4th 2nd spot. I think I need to hunt out TeddyBloat's HU guide and play a few HUSNG games for the next time I luckbox a deep MTT run
I had actually run up a half decent stack but lost about half of it in the run up to this hand, chasing a bounty with AJ that lost to a shorty with A4 and 3b JJ to see a flop of AKQ and meekly letting QQ and AQ fight out the rest of that hand.
I know the end result would have been the same, but with 20BB what should my sizing be here? Is 500 fine or should I just be shoving?
How do you think the standard of play compares to HUSNG games?
I started reading TeddyBloats' amazing post in the SNG Strategy after I finished last night and will start playing around with some of those concepts/ideas in games over the weekend.
ps I'm sure from some of the winners names seen in MTTs on Sky, luck certainly plays it's part... I'd be an awesome coach if I could bottle my luckboxing and advise other players how to run as well
Well done mate.
I took the call about 6.30 in the evening that my Grandma had died earlier in the afternoon. As noted in some previous posts she hasn't been at all well and been in a care home for the past few months so it wasn't necessarily a shock but obviously still horrible news to hear.
We'd only been down to visit last Saturday, a couple of days after her 92nd birthday, although I'm not sure she even recognised my sister or I and even if she did she wasn't capable of any conversation. I can't work out to articulate without it sounding bad, but for a while now it's not been her, more a shell that looks like my Grandma but sort of isn't... and I know that recently she was suffering really bad physically, to go with the mental pain she's always been very open about since my Grandpa died a few years back.... so although it obviously is horrible for everyone else, I'm sort of happy for her that she isn't in pain any more and (with her being a very committed Christian) now back alongside her hubby.
Ordinarily that would probably lead to me reaching for the whisky and / or full spew at casino games. It's thankfully been a few years since the death of any friends or close family, but that has been the go to response normally.
But given I bet with friends and family that I'd stay dry until at least the end of February and am still desperately trying to put a stop to my gambling addiction, in the absence of just sitting home alone staring at the walls I ended up loading a stupid amount of tables on Sky in a lame attempt to occupy my mind.
And yeah I guess it can't have been too disapproved by anyone watching me from above as I did get even more luckboxing than normal. Perhaps my Grandpa was sending down some help, he had an amazing brain for cards, I was still a young teenager the last time I played any poker or variants against him but I always lost all my pocket money and my dad never fared much better with his money!
Finally broke my duck at the £10 BH games with a few bounties and 6th (KQ < KJ) before the run in the mini.
Mini the cards just seemed to arrive at exactly the right times. Probably worked in my favour that I wasn't even watching the lobby and therefore had played through the bubble without realising, which meant I was probably far too aggro lol
The bad luck from the £10 FT was evened up by KO'ing 5th place in the mini by hitting a 2-outer river and at the risk of sounding positive in my own limited ability, I knew it was mine from there. Someone was definitely sending down some good vibes.
HU must have been nearly an hour long because we were stacked so deeply but I was in the lead throughout and just seemed to know exactly where I was in every hand.
I'm pretty good at being fairly emotion-lite in life (or pretty bad, depending on you point of view), but there may have been a small amount of non-poker related tears straight after the mini ended.
Sorry for the ramble, didn't realise I'd written so much. I suppose I just needed to word spew.
Excellent reult vwp.
All the best.
Rainman397
Life's ups and downs huh?
Best wishes
Mick
Although I'm obviously not on Sky's favourite list as I got no advance warning of the February promotion, which it seems most other forum regs received?
Luckily my rungood extended to being pretty lazy/disloyal to Sky during January and earning much fewer points than I have since I started this thread. c.2,200 should be achievable without too much pain... especially with booze free weekends.
Although I already have several mates trying to put an end to the booze ban in advance of the Wales England game this Friday... always good to have such helpful support when trying to quit something
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Brag post first.
This was one of my many practice £2.20 deepies... why do I never receive gifts like this when it's a Monday night??
Think I missed £8.96 of value here. I don't frequently donk sets, especially on such dry flops, but BBBBB and CCCCC are stations that will pay off with any pair in this spot but would check it through if it wasn't bet for them.
AAAAA being the only caller made me figure they had either AK/KK/AA or maybe KQ/KJ, so the river was either a killer card or a guarantee I'd get paid.
Retrospectively I don't know why I checked because a) I'm sigh-calling any bet and b) he may call KQ/KJ but wouldn't bet them c) I'd sized my bets to set up a river shove.
Still disappointed that it was a rare hand BBBBBB and CCCCC both folded the flop
I think this is the first time I've ever raised a river bet as a bluff. Rare to have enough chips in these sort of spots to have the option available to me.
A bit of me was almost tempted to hero call and hope I look a genius vs 89, but figured that if he was bluffing (as I really felt he was) it was equally likely it was a missed flush as a missed straight and therefore could be losing to K-high.
He made me sweat it by running the time bank down, not sure if that was hollywooding or a weak-Ace that sigh folded. Either way I may possibly have fist pumped as chips came my way.
88 was just utterly cursed for me last night, my exit hand in all 3 DTD games and cost me a whole stack at cash as well. No more pairs of fat ladies for me.
Could run worse though. I could support a football club that think its a good idea to lose all their key management staff in order to bring in a manager who spent his last job taking a fairly decent squad of players to the bottom of the league.
Oh. Wait.
Sniff sniff!!
IIn Response to Re: Further misadventures of a fish at the cash tables:
I really wish I could actually take my own advice...I only went all in on the river because oppo had so little behind (and you never know, they may time out or misclick fold lol)... not after typing 'ah ffs' in the chat box after the jack arrived...
In these spots I feel like I have to bet for value & protection, in case there is a bare 6/7 or J/Q out that can otherwise hit their OESD/GS for free - particularly relevant given the bigger stack (that folded turn) had been calling down very light.
I maybe need to go bigger on flop and smaller on turn?
Obviously against a bigger stack I'm sigh folding any bet on the river and hoping they don't flip over something like JT... but as per above, I think I always have to pay the extra 79p for the few times I will actually win a £10.79 pot.
Anyhow. 2 days in a row of getting battered at the tables and losing a packet... all well overdue... but hope that the tide turns soon!!!
Mantra for today... stop calling river donk bets... they DO always have it in these spots and this isn't the one time they are bluffing...