£40 to £1,040.... dev's 2nd DYM/CASH challenge.

devonfish5

day 133  friday  24/10/14

1 x £5 & 1 x £3

WON £7.20  B/R £438.41  PTS 1429  £5 GAMES W 1 L 0 TOTAL W 66 L 51 PROFIT +£16.50

VespaPX

That's better Ian
2 winning reports in a row.
Was beginning to look like a yoyo!
Won Lost Won Lost Won.

GL bud
Run good

devonfish5

 ha ha, Thanks Mick  

Thanks Gran  

day 133 friday  24/10/14

part 2...

£3 & £2  2 tables...   also watching evilpingu playing £5 games

WON £2.55   B/R £440.96   PTS 1444   £5 GAMES  NO CHANGE... AS ABOVE.

months profit so far... £85.05  (not inc c4p £14.44  to date)

devonfish5

day 134  saturday  25/10/14

1 x £5 & 1 x £3

WON £7.20  B/R £448.16  PTS 1452  £5 GAMES W 1 L 0 TOTAL W 67 L 51 PROFIT +£21.00

devonfish5

day 135  sunday  26/10/14   day off

day 136  monday  27/10/14

£5 & £3  2-4 tables...

WON £0.50  B/R £448.66  PTS 1497  £5 GAMES W 2  L 4  TOTAL W 69  L 55  PROFIT +£8.00

devonfish5

day 137  tuesday  28/10/14

1 x £5 ...

WON £4.50  B/R £453.16  PTS 1502  £5 GAMES W 1 L 0 TOTAL W 70 L 55 PROFIT +£12.50

unknown_username

Keep the good results comin dev.

Be good

Paul

devonfish5

Thanks Paul... nice win too, wp.

day 138  wednesday 29/10/14

1 x £5  & 1 x £3 ...

WON £7.20  B/R £460.36  PTS 1510  £5 GAMES W 1 L 0 TOTAL W 71 L 55 PROFIT +£17.00

devonfish5

day 139  thursday 30/10/14

3 x £5 & £3 + £2  4 TABLES...

LOST £0.95  B/R £459.41  PTS 1552  £5 GAMES W 2 L 1  TOTAL W 73 L 56 PROFIT +£20.50

part 2 ...

3 X £5  £3 & £2  2-8 TABLES...

LOST £3.85  B/R £455.56  PTS 1651  £5 GAMES W 1 L 2  TOTAL W 74 L 58 TOTAL +£14.00

devonfish5

day 140  friday  31.10/14

1 x £5  £3 & £2  4 tables...

WON £2.35  B/R £457.91  PTS 1668  £5 GAMES W 1 L 0 TOTAL W 75 L 58 PROFIT +£18.50

October summary; 

                         B/R start of month £355.91 (inc sept c4p of £10.08)

                         B/R end of month £457.91  not inc  (oct c4p £16.68 to come)

months profit; £102  inc c4p = £118.68

£5 games; profit of £18.50

Another winning month so as always happy with that,... who wouldn't be.

as to the £5 games,

 happy being in profit, even a small one. had one bad losing session losing £23.50 which I learnt from, & from dropping to as low as -£4.00 from that  a week or so ago, am really pleased to rebuild back up to £18.50 

Going to continue playing £5 games through November, as long as I am in profit anyway, & continuing booking the wins whenever possible.

I think having a solid game plan in place & being able to keep to it, is the way forwards right now.(something any player similar to myself also trying to make the breakthrough at this level, or any other, could try).

by that I mean booking the wins, (which keeps b/r stable at worst hopefully, & moving forwards at best.)...

ok, it's not everyone's 'cup of tea' I appreciate that...but the facts don't lie...IT WORKS that's why I use it & recommend you do it too, if only to begin with, after you have shown you can win at the higher level, then you can please yourself how you wish to progress.

having a 'stop loss' in place is also key right now I feel.  If I lose game 1 then I will play game 2 hoping to win that & being £1 down. I then have the option of playing game 3. winning that ensures a £3.50 win, losing gives a £6.50 loss.

This is where we should now stop....either way.(or I will anyway).obviously the option is there to continue should we win & wish to continue playing, which I don't mind either.

Obviously losing games 1 & 2  gives us an £11 loss & a tricky decision. do we try to win game 3 & try to reduce our loss to £6.50 or risk losing game 3 & losing £16.50?

I think losing £11 is the better option, (having played the 3rd game both winning & losing it),  & takes away that decision completely. it also guards against a potentially bigger loss, which dents our b/r but more importantly perhaps, our confidence, which if you haven't got then you might as well give up right now.

Table selection; I now use this & advise you to do the same. Any more than 2 good reg's on any table then don't bother playing, it really doesn't make any sense to.

ok, you get to play them & learn from them but you are simply going to struggle to make any money.. it's that simple.

Load up 8 tables & watch them for free.

     Once you have shown to not only yourself but to other players too, that you can win, then you are in a great position to move forwards & take the next step of making this 'your level' & increase the number of games & tables you play.

Even though it is still early days, & there is by no means any guarantees of me beating this £5 level, I am already doing my homework at the £11 level in preparation for that, at some future point

You have to have your dreams, don't you...well I do anyway. lol

Phantom66

Well done and good luck on the step up.

I like the way you are doing your homework so you know who the good regs are and how they play before you risk the money. Wish I was that disciplined!

I asked a question on last nights show about best way to grow profit when a profitable low stakes player and the advice from Chris Moorman was to go for volume above stake increases which I am going to try out in Nov.

Double points for SNGs will help with that too - and it looks like there will be plenty of action on the PLO8 dyms thanks to Maca.

In terms of mentality dym wise I have simple mentality aim to win 2 out of the next 3 I play irrespective of previous results. Obviously nice to win all 3 - but helps with the focus and stops me beating myself about a loss. On a tough table often ends up a shove/fold 4 handed game and there's not much you can do about a bad run of beats from there.

devonfish5

Thanks Phantom, gl

day 141  saturday  1/11/14

1 x £5 & 2 x £3..

WON £9.90  B/R £467.81  PTS 11  £5 GAMES W 1 L 0  TOTAL W 76 L 58 PROFIT +£23.00

devonfish5

day 141  saturday  1/11/14

part 2...

1 x £5

WON £4.50  B/R £472.31  PTS 16  £5 GAMES W 1 L 0  TOTAL W 77 L 58 PROFIT +£27.50

Good table selection again & a little run good when needed, ie; my hands holding or forcing folds at the right time.

TeddyBloat

Dev, your stop loss system 'works' because you have a winrate that allows it to.

In other words you are beating the level. If you are rolled and skilled id advise you to put decent volume in and forget about booking £1-3 session wins. Broll growth will be slow if you are worried about losing sessions.

If its a mental block or confidence issue id want to be advising people to tackle and plug those leaks head on and not accommodate them with such nitty stoplosses and booking miniscule wins.

Glgl

Jac35

It doesn't WORK, the game never ends

If booking the win or stopping when losing is a confidence thing then I guess it's ok.

The example you give just doesn't make sense.

The decision isn't a tricky one at all. You're going to play the following day and your risk of losing £16.50 is just the same.

Volume is the key to Dym success in my opinion. In best ever month at Dyms profit wise, I had a 100 game breakeven run.

Agree on table selection. I don't do it and just register blind but your approach makes more sense than mine.

Don't do yourself a disservice. Just because 2 good regs are registered it doesn't mean that you are going to struggle to win. You're a good reg yourself.

Pleased that you're giving the £5's a good bash nowadays. You can comfortably best them.

Believe in your game. It's good

hhyftrftdr

Dev, you'd probably be on like £600/£700 by now if you dropped the booking of wins and just grinded away. 

Food for thought.

devonfish5

day 142  sunday  2/11/14  day off

day 143  monday  3/11/14

£5 & £3

LOST £8.30  B/R £464.01  PTS 69  £5 GAMES W 2  L2  TOTAL W 79 L 60 PROFIT +£25.50

hhyftrftdr

Cheers for deleting your reply to Teddy, Jac and myself.

devonfish5

No problem...

I did you the courtesy of replying, you read my post, I decided to delete it.

day 144  tuesday 4/11/14

1 x £5 & 1 x £3

WON £7.20  B/R £471.21  PTS 77  £5 GAMES W 1 L 0 TOTAL W 80  L 60 PROFIT +£30.00

ROI on £5 games to date = 3.89%

devonfish5

day 145  wednesday  5/11/14

£5 & £3  6 tables...

WON £4.70  B/R £475.91  PTS 140  £5 GAMES W 2  L 4  TOTAL W 82 L64 PROFIT +£17.00

even though I won, disappointed with the £5's lost 5th game on bubble aipf with ak v kj  & j hit 1st card

ejut even put hooooohooooooo in chat box... what can u do but laugh

devonfish5

day 145  wednesday  5/11/14

part 2...

BANG!!!

1 X £5 & 1 X £3

WON £7.20  B/R £483.11  PTS 148  £5 GAMES W 1 L 0  TOTAL W 83 L 64 PROFIT +£21.50

NEW ROI ON £5 GAMES = 2.66%

devonfish5

day 146  thursday  6/11/14

received Oct c4p £16.68  B/R £499.79

1 X £5 & 1 X £3

WON £1.20  B/R £500.99  PTS 156 £5 GAMES W 1 L 0 TOTAL W 84 L64 PROFIT +£26.00

VespaPX

Well done Ian on getting to £500

devonfish5

In Response to Re: £40 to £1,040.... dev's 2nd DYM challenge....(current b/r £500.99):

Well done Ian on getting to £500
Posted by VespaPX

THANKS MATE -:)

mrsduck

Well done, almost halfway!

devonfish5

Thanks mrsd x

day 147  friday  7/11/14

£5 & £3  4 tables...

LOST £0.40  B/R £500.59  PTS 180  £5 GAMES W 2 L 1 TOTAL W 86 L 65 PROFIT +£29.50

lost 1st £5 game on a flip on bubble, so happy with the 2-1 win.

devonfish5

day  147  friday  7/11/14

part 2...

1 x £5 & 2 x £3

WON £9.90  B/R £510.49  PTS 191  £5 GAMES W 1 L 0 TOTAL W 87 L 65 PROFIT +£34.00

perfect session, also gives me my highest profit so far on £5 games played

devonfish5

day 148  saturday  8/11/14

£5 & £3   4 tables...

WON £6.20  B/R £516.69  PTS 226  £5 GAMES W 3 L 1 TOTAL W 90 L 66 PROFIT +£42.00

lost 1st £5 game but continued anyway, & to win 3-1 & boost my winnings even further is great for my confidence as well as my b/r,  & I now am beginning to believe that at long last the £5 level is beatable... hoooray  

ok, a bad run can spoil everything, I know that,  & things can change 'just like that' but as long as things continue as they are

then I  see no reason to change anything & simply continue with the slowly slowly approach for the time being at least.

NEW ROI FOR £5 GAMES = 4.89%

devonfish5

day 148  saturday  8/11/14

part 2...

1 x £5 & £3  4 TABLES...

WON £3.30  B/R £519.99  PTS 246  £5 GAMES W 1 L 0 TOTAL W 91 L 66 PROFIT +£46.50

just a quickie ROI = 5.39%  -:)

edit;9/11/14

 I know I can't keep this win rate up on the £5's but am on a roll for the first time & it has come at exactly the right time for me, so I'm not complaining, ha ha.

I try & take it not just 1 game at a time but 1 decision at a time on every hand, & as long as I get the majority right then the rest is out of my hands so to speak.

(I made a couple of bad decisions y'day after giving them more thought but luckily they were on 2 x £3 games, one was an allin with ak on kxx after opponent re-raised my initial raise.. he had kk,

the other a tight player raised 450 pre flop I went allin with a7 trying to steal chips(on the bubble)thinking he would fold, he had aq & held, so another 2 lessons learnt... just shows I'm human though I guess, & still learning as we all do especially from our mistakes, I think.)

I know a losing session is coming as winning every time is impossible, so I am ready for it & damage limitation will be my priority when it comes.

anyway, just a few of my thoughts for you.

CraigSG1

Almost half way there mate! The first half is always the hardest. I have no doubt you will complete this, and well deserved. This is a perfect example of how BR management works.

All the best.