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  • edited January 2015
    In Response to Re: New kid on the block:
    Just noticed your bink in Tuesday's main. Wp mate
    Posted by waller02
    Thanks good sir, always seem to do well in that if i'm going to go deep in anything big haha.

    Portfolio is almost at completion and will be submitted tonight (hooray!)

    Off to Chorley tomorrow for another away game, expecting it to be a little chilly.

    Back on the tables Wednesday I hope, will be free other than this Saturday before my exams next Wednesday/Thursday/Friday.
  • edited January 2015
    And the solid and successful start to 2015 continues.

    Tuesday 20th

    Played Main/Mini and 5 DYMs. Managed to cash in the main event again for approximately £25, Mini I took a head for £1,88 and in the DYMs I cashed 3/5 for a £2,50 profit, so overall made about £13. Played pretty well, not much else to say.

    Thursday 22nd

    Played Main/Mini and cash. Managed to satellite into the main for £7,20 in the Late reg satellite, was too busy cooking when the 6pm Sat was on. Played cash alongside the satellite and got stacked twice .. One hand there was absolutely nothing I could do as I played it or if I just peeled a 3bet+call, other hand I intended to bet/fold a river but instead misclicked call, a call that costed me £8. 

    The Mini was going well early on then when in dire straights I got a treble up and continued to build stack in the middle stages. Had a few lovely pots when I was dealt QQ 3 times in 5 hands and got up to the top 5 with 60 left. Continued to apply pressure and try to put middle stacks in spots, ended up losing hands A4<A9 and A9<A10 for heads and I was back down to average. Grinded out to final 2 tables and then finally got my big double up in the form of 88<66. Interesting dynamic then formed when 8 players left - 1 player was away with 2bb and the other player on the same table had folded down to 1bb and was trying to outlast the disconnectee. The other 2 players were myself and another decent stack and I was applying the pressure hard on him and ran up a decent stack for the final table. Knock out someone in 7th when my J9 turned quads, get to the final table. Turn completely card dead for 10 orbits or so. Get dealt KK. Get 3bet. I 4bet jam. Guy has AA.

    Matt23706£66.62 + £19.37 Head Prizes6

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    Not long to go till our big day out. Stockport County away. 38 hours to go.

    Next session likely to be Sunday, hopefully continue this momentum.
  • edited January 2015
    Was all going swimmingly last night until ....
    PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalance
    haddock214 Small blind  5000.00 5000.00 83341.49
    senga1888 Big blind  10000.00 15000.00 141631.26
      Your hole cards
    • K
    • K
         
    Matt237 Raise  20000.00 35000.00 131254.06
    andyrob178 Raise  50000.00 85000.00 90455.26
    Th1nkerman Fold     
    AllyD90 Fold     
    haddock214 Fold     
    senga1888 Fold     
    Matt237 All-in  131254.06 216254.06 0.00
    andyrob178 All-in  90455.26 306709.32 0.00
    Matt237 Unmatched bet  10798.80 295910.52 10798.80
    Matt237 Show
    • K
    • K
       
    andyrob178 Show
    • A
    • A
       
    Flop
       
    • 3
    • 5
    • 6
         
    Turn
       
    • 4
         
    River
       
    • 8
         
    andyrob178 Win Pair of Aces 295910.52  295910.52
    :-) Never mind
  • edited February 2015
    Been a while. Exams now over (Wahey!). Didn't write up last Mondays session but I final tabled the Megastack for about £30 so ended up the night overall. Big local derby yesterday went amazingly well, last minute winner!

    Bring on the poker tonight, been a perfect weekend so far.

  • edited February 2015
    Not a great start to February. Played 7 MTTs and cashed in 0. Went deep in 4 and got returns of £6.50 off around £55 in head prizes.

    Near misses include:

    12th in Turbo with 6 paid
    9th in 200gtd with 6 paid
    49th in 11bh with 40 paid
    19th in Speed with 13 paid

    Again, in my exits I did absolutely nothing wrong, just not getting there or holding up. Hand of the night (jamming into a guys BB who I do not expect to fold any hand) :
    PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalance
    Grace08 Small blind  200.00 200.00 15987.00
    jan1981 Big blind  400.00 600.00 7336.75
      Your hole cards
    • 8
    • A
         
    MadHunter Fold     
    Matt237 All-in  2365.00 2965.00 0.00
    tommy114 Fold     
    Grace08 Fold     
    jan1981 Call  1965.00 4930.00 5371.75
    jan1981 Show
    • J
    • 3
       
    Matt237 Show
    • 8
    • A
       
    Flop
       
    • 3
    • J
    • J
         
    Turn
       
    • 5
         
    River
       
    • 3
         
    jan1981 Win Full House, Jacks and 3s 4930.00  10301.75
    Never mind!
  • edited February 2015
    So tonight started exceptionally welll .... Middle was absolutely pants and managed to recover in 2 MTTs to drag a £29 loss to.. wait for it.. 50p profit!

    DTD2 - 
    Matt23706£11.10

    10pm £5 Turbo - 
    Matt23705£18
    Dtd2 was in dire straights, 24/24 on such an extremely long bubble and I was so short but just kept getting there, then elsewhere other people would get there, then I would. Finally someone bust and they dropped like flies. Got to about 10/10 and just thought i'll go for a FT here, kept jamming my button like you usually do, had a few monsters but all got folds. Eventually found myself in with J5 vs 44 - had lots of outs as board paired but could not get there.

    Turbo was a fun game. I found myself on 2bb with 8 left - next minute I was on a FT and someone busted before me so got 3 awesome ladders. Not really much to say, I just could not get hands to go with considering no fold equity was there.

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    Semester 2 starts tomorrow, and Leamington v Chorley is also at 7,45pm weather permitting so no play tomorrow, unless if football is called off. Run good everyone
  • edited February 2015

    Enjoying the diary Matt, suspect we'll be hearing about a big win from you shortly and 2015 will be your year.

  • edited February 2015
    Busy weekend now over, my HDMI-VGA cable has arrived and now we can start playing on this little beauty, as opposed to just a laptop: 


    Definitely will make the multitabling aspect more comfortable and easier. 2 latest purchases i'm pretty happy about as all I was living with was a laptop, did not have my PS4 here at all so can now bring that over to connect up to TV. 

    Despite dealing with a long football away day and a Friday night outing we still managed to fit in 50 DYM games in over the course of the weekend in which I finished 30/50 being 60% which is what we want to achieve over the long term. Received a fair amount of abuse this week for making +ev moves and hitting ... some day people will learn :-).

    Plan for this week is volume, Tonight will be the standard DTD/Megastack night alongside some DYMs on the side, Tomorrow being my MTT night and the rest of the week dedicated to DYMing. Now on 630 games played, definitely will complete the 1000 this month now we have some time and a decent set up.

    Run good everyone, hopefully chat to some on the tables
  • edited February 2015
    Good-Luck Matt. How WAS the game on Saturday? I didn't goto chelmsford's home game on Saturday as I was far too knackered after a busy week at work. On friday I was discussing Tottenham with my Boss who is also a spurs fan, and I discovered there was an Fa Youth Cup game on Last night (Monday) so I headed to the lane for the first time in Nearly TEN YEARS (Due to Various Circumstances) and watched the Youth beat Man Utd Youth 3-1.

    Poker wise not done much - but played mainly cash at 4NL level and are more or less breaking even each time. DYM's although somewhat falling by the way-side I still play these and are doing ok at £1.15 level.

    Best result thus far this year is a small score in a £3.30 Timed 30min game, where I won-Back £3.60. However it could have been so much more as I got dealt JJ's in the penultimate hand and they failed to hold - thank goodness all of the chips didn't go in - I would have been so gutted to fall at the last! 
  • edited February 2015
    Good debut session on computer, is nice to actually fit 12 tables onto a screen without major overlaps (can fit 16 which is excellent for dym grind)

    I managed to cash in DTD1, no good in DTD2 and DTD3 but a final table in 3rd position of the £5,50 megastack for just over £50, accompanied with a 50% cash rate over 20 DYMs made my night come to a £32 profit, so happy with that. DYMs were a case of the big blind always waking up with hands! I think I jammed button 4 or 5 times and ended up running into bigger aces that are never folding on the bubble. Megastack was a bit of a cruel one, I got A7 in vs AK and flopped the 7, but the guy rivered a flush, justice I suppose ;-).

    Good-Luck Matt. How WAS the game on Saturday?
    Posted by GaryLaud

    Thanks Gary not seen you in a while. Game was away at Harrogate and finished 1-1, could have won, hit the bar with about 5 minutes left but a good point away from home nonetheless.
  • edited February 2015
    Quick update.

    Week hasn't gone too well but will be out in force tonight, possibly playing the £11er for double points. Will be playing with chat off sadly after recent events so if anyone wants to chat I probably won't reply lol. May say hello to 1 or 2 people though.

    Placed bets for tomorrow non league football and looking forward to a potential relegation six pointer as we play Gainsborough at home tomorrow. Hopefully pull away from relegation and sort out our mess at the end of the season after renewing Conference regional status.

    Good luck to all this weekend.
  • edited February 2015
    Been a very mixed past 4 days.

    Friday night was a disaster and one of my worst profit/loss sessions to date. (however we got lots of points!) Did alot of table selecting at the 11s level and then played most of the 22s/33s than ran and ran horrendously at the top end resulting in a bad night. 

    Saturday I didn't play after football but we won a potential 6 pointer with an epic winning goal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIPNl9LCaTI)

    Sunday I came out with an £18 profit, again putting in lots of volume around the £11 and £5 DYM level, another pointfest.

    Monday I final tabled the Megastack (again) , finishing 6th for around £25 as I ran into KK when I jam A10.

    Tuesday I cashed in the main (Lost KQ<10s , board came A Q 2 K J (ouch) ) for £23 and final tabled the £2 speed for £45.

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    So after a disastrous Friday we have recovered since then and looking forward to another night of poker tonight, only have afternoon lectures Thursday/Friday so hoping for some deep runs before the double points hoarding starts again on Friday.

    Also cleaned up the opening post a little bit 
  • edited February 2015
    Considering I played 19 £5 DYMs, 2 lowish field £5 MTTs and a £2 rebuy, A +£105 night is pretty good.

    I played the megastack as usual and finished 15th (3 off money)
    I played the 21:45pm speed and finished 2nd (£66,50) 
    I played the 22:00 turbo and finished 3rd (£36)
    On DYMS I finished 12/19

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    Bit disappointed with my DYM tally considering I was 10/13 at one stage but can't have everything, probably gave more concentration to my deep MTT runs which was understandable. Really happy with how I played tonight and nice to earn a fair amount of bob eh. Final hand of the speed was a fun one. -
    PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalance
    stralis Small blind 8000.00 8000.00 316085.00
    Matt237 Big blind  16000.00 24000.00 113800.00
      Your hole cards
    • K
    • K
         
    scousestar All-in  32115.00 56115.00 0.00
    stralis Call  24115.00 80230.00 291970.00
    Matt237 All-in  113800.00 194030.00 0.00
    stralis Call  97685.00 291715.00 194285.00
    stralis Show
    • 10
    • A
       
    Matt237 Show
    • K
    • K
       
    scousestar Show
    • Q
    • J
       
    Flop
       
    • 4
    • 7
    • A
         
    Turn
       
    • K
         
    River
       
    • 8
         
    stralis Win Flush to the Ace 291715.00  486000.00
  • edited February 2015
    I came out about £5 down. Again played the same schedule as Wednesday but the £2 rebuy instead of the Megastack.

    MTT results good again -

    - Bubble of £2 rebuy - AA did not hold against JTo (Not going to say how I felt about his play on the bubble, we do not like each other as it is!)

    - 10th in the turbo with 6 paid - KQsuited missed vs A3o, again another strange call from myself jamming 11bb but happens, we get there, we're in a great spot to win. We don't and gg :-)

    - £2 speed I cashed in about 9th for around about £13, 3rd night in a row cashing this.

    DYMs I finished 14/26, won around 8 in a row towards the end to recover the night.

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    Nice to see another team mate doing well in Lmfa()allin , guy won main last night :-)

    Friday/Saturday/Sunday double points, hitting the DYMs lets gooooooooo good luck everyone! Saturday is in red because I may end up without sleep tonight so not sure if i'll play lol.
  • edited February 2015
    Managed 100 games tonight, won 58 so profit, and lots of points :-) win win

    More of the same Saturday/Sunday. Would post some hands but my memory right now is pretty useless as you can probably guess. I remember one of the games in the very first hand someone jammed before me and I had JJ, snapped him off and he showed 66 and flopped quads. That's about all I can remember :-)

    Leamington play league leaders Barrow tomorrow at our fortress, can't wait.
  • edited February 2015
    I didn't play Saturday, was a bit too tired after football.

    Friday - 58/100 
    Sunday - 97/160

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    So 155/260 on £5 turbos, and with a few games elsewhere we managed to rack up 2820 points and £118 profit. 

    Quite happy with that.
  • edited February 2015
    PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalance
    FeelGroggy Small blind  100.00 100.00 1310.00
    nikid Big blind  200.00 300.00 330.00
      Your hole cards
    • A
    • 10
         
    Matt237 Raise  400.00 700.00 2385.00
    toontoon24 All-in  590.00 1290.00 0.00
    poolm All-in  685.00 1975.00 0.00
    FeelGroggy Fold     
    nikid Fold     
    Matt237 Call  285.00 2260.00 2100.00
    Matt237 Show
    • A
    • 10
       
    toontoon24 Show
    • 7
    • 7
       
    poolm Show
    • 10
    • 10
       
    Flop
       
    • J
    • Q
    • 5
         
    Turn
       
    • K
         
    River
       
    • K
         
    Matt237 Win Royal Flush 2260.00  4360.00
    One way to end a DYM eh?
  • edited March 2015
    11 days really :o

    I played the Thursday which had double points and managed 53/100 which was a £9 loss and an extra 1k points, to boost my February total to over 8500, my highest points total ever. 

    Colwyn Bay weekender happened and happened in style as we won away from home 5-1 in a relegation 6 pointer, hoping to knick a 1-0. I lumped £50 on us at 23/10, that was nice. Got home Sunday and was rather rough so no play.

    Monday visited a friend so no play.

    Tuesday I went away to Chorley, playing a top 7 team away from home and we battered them and drew 2-2, which I happened to have £10 on at 18/1. So whilst not getting all 3 points, at least I made a tidy profit.

    Wednesday I lost a bit of money over here but on stars I went deep in a $3 KO game and won around $87.

    So caught up, tonight was all about Sky. Tidy £60 profit.


    18:30 £2,20 £300 Rebuy Matt237 0 8 £18 
    18:45 £5,75 £1500 BH Matt237 0 12 £9.91 + £4.22 Head Prizes   
    19:30 £5,50 £200 GTD Matt237 0 3 £35.25 
    21:05 £5,50 £200 GTD Matt237 0 3 £40.50

    ----------------------------------------------------------------

    So with nearly £180 to come tomorrow in points from last month, passed all 3 modules for first semester with an amazing attendance of 55% but still need to resit 1 exam.

    Life is quite good at the moment.
  • edited March 2015
    So along with the lovely £176 in points that came in this morning, I pulled off another +£108 MTT session.


    17:30 £500 BH (£5,75) Matt237 0 2 £48.59 + £23.40 Head Prizes 6 
    18:30 £300 Rebuy (£2,20x4) Matt237 0 8 £19.07 
    18:45 £1500 BH (£5,75) Matt237 0 34 £5.45 
    21:45 £250 Speed (£2,20x3) Matt237 0 14 £9.14 
    22:00 £200 Turbo (£5,50) Matt237 141000 1 £86.95 


    ---------------------------------------------------------------------

    So a win in the turbo which I probably deserved because 4 handed everyone played the folding game so I took the initiative, got to HU about 3:1 behind and jammed nearly every hand and next minute I was 5:1 in front. Jammed 10 8os and he eventually got fed up and called with 85 hearts, dream spot!

    The BH I came 2nd in for around £71 I probably should have won, although got into some bad coolers when 3:1 in front. Had A7 and the board came down A 9 10 8 A. Managed to find a check behind on the turn and snapped off a river bet so ended up not doubling him up at that point. But he kept getting there and I started to get frustrated. Got 67 in vs AQ on 6 7 Q only for it to come running 9s to counterfeight. Then I was down to 10bb and never really recovered. Still a good night overall.

    Time to place a couple of bets, look forward to Leamington v 2nd placed and moneybags AFC Fylde tomorrow and some sleep.
  • edited March 2015
    Great results Matt, keep up the good work! 
  • edited March 2015
    In Response to Re: New kid on the block:
    Great results Matt, keep up the good work! 
    Posted by RLT16
    Thanks man.


    Had a poor weekend, Leam lost 4-1 at home to a horrible club in AFC Fylde, team/fans/officials alike.

    Poker tonight? Just no. Glad to come out £62 down as I took a few heads in some games

  • edited March 2015
    Again, just No. Managed to make a Mega FT to jam AQ suited to be called by 93o by man who was playing ATC to get them in cause he realised myself and other villain had an obvious edge. 9 flops and holds, very frustrated. Had some more brutal hands which I just have to laugh at. Never mind. Somehow only £30 down, could've been better had the megastack gone my way. 

    Oh well go again tomorrow
  • edited March 2015
    In Response to Monday 9th March:
    Again, just No. Managed to make a Mega FT to jam AQ suited to be called by 93o by man who was playing ATC to get them in cause he realised myself and other villain had an obvious edge. 9 flops and holds, very frustrated. Had some more brutal hands which I just have to laugh at. Never mind. Somehow only £30 down, could've been better had the megastack gone my way.  Oh well go again tomorrow
    Posted by Matt237
    Fair play to him, sounds like he knows what he's doing in a warped way. Take the skill out the game if you think you're the underdog, when the pay jumps are the biggest.
  • edited March 2015
    In Response to Re: Monday 9th March:
    In Response to Monday 9th March : Fair play to him, sounds like he knows what he's doing in a warped way. Take the skill out the game if you think you're the underdog, when the pay jumps are the biggest.
    Posted by hhyftrftdr
    Yeah can't really fault him. In about 8 orbits the best I had was 10 high on reflection, so couldn't really do much, as other player was half my stack.
  • edited March 2015
    In Response to Re: Monday 9th March:
    In Response to Re: Monday 9th March : Yeah can't really fault him. In about 8 orbits the best I had was 10 high on reflection, so couldn't really do much, as other player was half my stack.
    Posted by Matt237
    Perhaps he wasn't as stupid as he looked then ;)

    Though calling the jam with 9 high kinda contradicts that.
  • edited March 2015
    Last night I lost about £18, ended up final tabling a 200 GTD for £31 to sort of rescue a poor night. Had to pull an all nighter for 9am Uni this morning to try and find out when my test is next week, turns out I didn't find out and wasted a day in bed lol.

    Wednesday was a little better, ran horrendously in those key hands which make or break games, except for the £5 turbo in which I came 2nd for £49 and was one card away from victory. We got in KQ vs 68dd on Ad Kx 7d 9 on turn and Qd rivered. Not gunna lie wasn't loving it but not sure why he would donk flop then jam with Ax hands, seemed rather passive to me. Was correct, just didn't hold. Had a chance to regain CL with A2<A9 after flopping straight draw and better flush draw but bricked.

    3 £5 BHs and 3 cashes, one I blew a top 3 stack with 10 left running into CL KK, again possibly could get away but didn't plan on it. Another I scraped through a min cash whilst card dead, lost flip. Then in the final one, someone in the BB had 2bb, chip leader raises in CO, I jam KK on button with my 7bb and invitably the BB pushes and CL calls. Hands? Q2 and 34. 34 manages to flop me almost completely dead with a flush. Never mind.


    So over 2 days I profit about £15, some good runs and some sick hands denying further progress. We move to Thursday in a final session before a hectic weekend.
  • edited March 2015
    Remember guys tournament players can't play post flop
    PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalance
    Matt237 Small blind  300.00 300.00 36786.50
    x Big blind  600.00 900.00 6510.00
      Your hole cards
    • J
    • 8
         
    brownlow1 Fold     
    Sngwizkid Fold     
    NUTTTZZ Fold     
    Matt237 Raise  900.00 1800.00 35886.50
    x Call  600.00 2400.00 5910.00
    Flop
       
    • Q
    • 3
    • 9
         
    Matt237 Bet  1200.00 3600.00 34686.50
    x Call  1200.00 4800.00 4710.00
    Turn
       
    • 3
         
    Matt237 Check     
    x Check     
    River
       
    • A
         
    Matt237 All-in  34686.50 39486.50 0.00
    x Fold     
    Matt237 Muck     
    Matt237 Win  4800.00  4800.00
    Matt237 Return  34686.50 0.00 39486.50
    PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalance
    x Small blind  15.00 15.00 2975.00
    UGOTNOFANS Big blind  30.00 45.00 2240.00
      Your hole cards
    • 9
    • J
         
    mrc101 Fold     
    Matt237 Raise  90.00 135.00 3410.00
    tayo_mufc Fold     
    Calbo Call  90.00 225.00 2875.00
    x Raise  285.00 510.00 2690.00
    UGOTNOFANS Fold     
    Matt237 Call  210.00 720.00 3200.00
    Calbo Fold     
    Flop
       
    • 4
    • 10
    • 2
         
    x Bet  360.00 1080.00 2330.00
    Matt237 Call  360.00 1440.00 2840.00
    Turn
       
    • K
         
    x Check     
    Matt237 Bet  530.00 1970.00 2310.00
    x Call  530.00 2500.00 1800.00
    River
       
    • 2
         
    x Check     
    Matt237 All-in  2310.00 4810.00 0.00
    x Fold     
    Matt237 Muck     
    Matt237 Win  2500.00  2500.00
    Matt237 Return  2310.00 0.00 4810.00
    PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalance
    SPURS273 Small blind  200.00 200.00 9367.50
    DUDLYE888 Big blind  400.00 600.00 26449.00
      Your hole cards
    • 10
    • 9
         
    x Raise  800.00 1400.00 21054.00
    Matt237 Call  800.00 2200.00 15698.74
    barneyblad Fold     
    JKBLUE Fold     
    SPURS273 Fold     
    DUDLYE888 Fold     
    Flop
       
    • 2
    • 5
    • K
         
    x Bet  1100.00 3300.00 19954.00
    Matt237 Call  1100.00 4400.00 14598.74
    Turn
       
    • 2
         
    x Bet  2200.00 6600.00 17754.00
    Matt237 Call  2200.00 8800.00 12398.74
    River
       
    • 3
         
    x Check     
    Matt237 Bet  2400.00 11200.00 9998.74
    x Fold
    Few fun hands from last couple of nights with ranges (Hand #3 would follow suit if I miss) :p
  • edited March 2015
    Hate the J8 hand.
  • edited March 2015
    In Response to Re: New kid on the block:
    Hate the J8 hand.
    Posted by hhyftrftdr
    Forgot to star out names. Will reply to this later but alot of history obvs
  • edited March 2015
    Remembering you have a test at 3pm when still awake at 1 this morning, and having slept 12pm-6pm the day before. Fair to say tonights session will be replaced with sleep!
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