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I like to stay grounded so always use a childs table!
I rarely play cash.
I think I have done £150ish in an £11r before! A lot of my best results have been in rebuys so I will "invest" a lot at times to get a big stack as historically this has helped me to get decent scores.
At the start of the year I went through a bad spell for about 6weeks or so, I was playing ok but running well in small buy in games and badly in the roller/£55's. This hit my profit line pretty bad. Due to the number of runners on sky and size of the player pool over the last 2 years I haven't had many bad runs as I know most players and your aren't trying to wade through monster fields like on some other sites where you can beat 10k players and still not get a monster score!
I have been playing poker for maybe 10 years now so I have a lot of experience which helps you cope with the beats a bit more. For every beat you get, you will put one on someone else. Some Sundays can be painful when you are running bad and cant get any stacks going but it only takes one score to make it a good day so as long as I have a table left I have hope. I back some players with Marc Wright and some Sundays can be particularly hard when everyone in the group is running bad. This happened a few Sundays back, but as I said, it only takes one tournament and I went on to win an $11r for $3k so a bad day was a good one for me and some of the other guys got scores as well. I think the most frustrating days are when you get a lot of stacks but no big scores/when you make errors. You cant win every tournament so sometimes getting a min cash is a good result or say laddering a couple of extra spots on a ft is the best you could have done. Some days the deck smashes you in the face and you win but haven't really played all that well so you cant be results orientated and need to analyse your game irrespective of your finishing position. You can remove as many errors from your game as possible and this is why I do a lot of work on my game. I get a lot of coaching from Marc Wright, within the stable we analyse hands and discuss spots. I also go through hands/spots with sky regs (and even ask TommyD from time to time) to get their views.
As much as you try to stay on your "A" game you cant always play your best so sometimes you need to cut your session a bit short and dereg some tournaments. I definitely think experience is key though and helps get you through painful sessions along with a good group of players to chat to on Skype etc to keep motivation levels up.
I prefer Indian takeaway to Chinese, fav dish would probably be duck in pancakes or crispy chilli beef.
I think the best players are always looking to improve, some winning players are just happy they are winning.
When I was a lot younger I was a gymnast
Before I started winning on sky I was and have been a consistent winner on stars. I play on different sites and you need to adjust your game to different sites. I struggled for a long time to adjust to sky. Something clicked on sky and I haven't looked back since. It took me a long time to adjust to playing styles on sky and to make appropriate adjustments for the lack of antes.
I think the big win for me was the WSOP package one. Following that win I made a some really good friends (Marc/Tommy/Kev (Oldboy271)/Ryan). Also it allowed me to appear on the show and brought some credibility to my family of the thing I had been spending so many hours playing. The brand of sky helped move my part time hobby from something my family didn't talk about to something they were very proud of telling their friends about!
Also, I won a massive pot against Beaneh early on (he had blockers to the only hand I could call with......I wasn't folding top set....from speaking to Ryan/Nick he took it well!).
I am very good friends with Marc and he has improved my game loads. The way he explains things and thoughts he has continues to take my game to new levels and shows me how much I still have to learn from the game!
*trying to work out which player past his glory days you are talking about!
These days, being able to rail Marc and see hole cards or ask what hands he has is really valueable and you can learn so much.
I guess it was ok to meet you too!
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Wednesday is my favourite night as I love rebuy tournaments.
I feel I approached the ME well (I had the likes of you/Julian/Marc Wright/Tommy/James Raan/Sam Bayliss giving advice before the tournament and in breaks etc which was really useful). Part of the difficulty of answering this is I am a lot better player now than I was then. I think I could have been more aggressive on day 1 as my table was very good to be on and I could have chipped up to an even better day 1 stack to make it easier when I got harder tables.
A few of my friends play a bit of poker, most of my friends/family don't understand it. Winning the ME package helped legitimise what I do especially as I appeared on the show and the sky brand really helped. As I have been playing for so long I think they understand the skill vs luck side of things so don't see it as gambling now.
"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
For rec players, a good piece of advice that I heard is to have a reason for every decision you make. I would also say you need to always try and improve your game but most importantly make sure you have fun
Best moment was beating Tommy HU to win an MTT earlier this year, not so good moment was him beating me HU in an MTT. 1-1 ATM!
It was good texting him to brag I was on mini ft and last 2 tables in a UKOPS last week. Not so good when I finished 7th in the main!
Lambo posted saying he had misclicked, I did a similar thing, was deep in a Sunday tournament on another site and bet 96k rather than 9.6k. I still had a playable stack after but was probably $20k ftw, 100 players left so was pretty painful. It didn't effect my whole session but my mate who was round did get a shock when I shouted "fold you xxxxx (long abusive sentence)" The guy had flopped massive and called!
I originally went down the MTT route as I can only lose a set amount. I played a bit on party poker then moved to stars and managed to get off to a really good start playing MTTs with some decent binks and I was hooked! I played on sky (due to the tv aspect) and was a losing player for a while. My sky breakthrough moment was probably the WSOP win and after that I have had great success since. For a long time I didn't adjust well enough to
playing styles on sky
to the lack of antes
6max vs full ring
When I made appropriate adjustments it has lead to really good results.
Confidence and experience are really key in MTTs. Getting an early win on stars gave me great confidence then moving from a losing player on sky and winning regularly really helped my confidence. Having experience of situations when deep in MTTs is invaluable.
I do enjoy watching other players and I think you can pick up a lot from watching other players. As I said previously I would rail certain guys and I think that helps. What has really helped me even more is railing Marc and being able to ask him what he had in certain spots.
One of the best training sessions I did was with Marc where he went through a HH from an MTT he won and he explained his thought process. Basically he was bullying certain stacks putting maximum ICM pressure on them. Really opened my eyes to things. ICM is key, some people have no awareness of ICM and only look at their hands so you need to be aware of this when trying to put pressure on certain stacks.
I find some people avoid playing me and others call me really light as my reputation is I am aggro and always at it!
Rock has taken chat to new levels and I aspire to get up to his chat levels! I try not to get involved with chat box antics but at times I do and its normally tilt related!
If I have the CL I will pick on middle stacks and bigger stacks but it depends on how many bb's players have. With a lot of MTT experience you can pick up on spots to bully certain players/stacks and this helps you get the balance right between risking a good stack and maximising an ft stack!
I find its a mixture of how many bb you have and how many opponents have as its hard to make a light call when its a decent % of your stack. On sky you can get as low as 6bb at times, in other spots its more like 12bb.
No, I wouldn't chop.
Good work from me in not answering the Q!
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