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So I've just finished playing on Sky for today and here are my numbers of the day's Play.
30p Turbos
P3
W2
L1
WR 66%
P/L: +£0.10p
60p DYM: Plyd ZERO
£1.15 DYM:
P 4
W 2
L 2
WR 50%
P/L: -£0.60p
So pretty much salvaged today's results with 2x cashes from 2x games after lunch and a 30p turbo result to boot as well. Didn't think I played too good, but seemed to find the correct spot to get my chips in and get my STACK boosted enough to play tight and let the rest crumble around me for the cashing results.
OKAY we've lost 50p today, but as I posted before, I think I can be happy with progress made in recently. I for one know that those who have watched me are noticing some progress within my play.
I MIGHT play a little tomorrow (Sat) but I'm off to the football tomorrow to watch Chelmsford Vs Worthing in the FA-CUP and then enjoying myself away from the computer screen on Sunday, So I'll be back playing on Monday!
Run-good everyone!
So my first DYM went to plan today and I cashed it winning my third £1.15 dym in a row.
Then in my second one of the day, I played it and won a full double up when holding AA's early on.
Then I had a stack of around 3.6k in Chips and open shoved again and got a CALL one of the lower stacked players. 1.k in chips.
Turns over A10 of clubs, and the run out was as follows
2c Kc 2d 3d 3c
The guy had made a Nut-Flush and I was down to around 2k.
Just a few hands later I called an all-in with my pocket 3's only to find the guy had shoved with 42 of Hearts and flops a SET of 2's, and I'm now down to 1.3k in chips
Then for my exit guy hits runner runner 7 & 2 to kill my shove of 56o which I had to open shove with the blinds climbing and my stack v low having just paid them and no spot to shove...
Now do I continue?? hmmmmmm
55p up for today.
That would be my overal assessment of the way I've been treated at the tables when playing on sky poker today.
I got back into my normal routine of playing DYM's and in those I've ran like absolute nonsence, my first game I got crippled by losing 2x big hands, both of which upon review I think I played VV poorly indeed, and then death came with getting 66 AIPF only to find that my villain hit a J on the end to eleminate me in 5th!
In game 2x, I ONCE AGAIN lost with QQ in an AIPF situation having ran into AA only to find they held up for once - there seems to be a recurring story at present, where no matter what I do with the pair of ladies, I seem to be destined to lose with them, not only here on Sky, but also on other sites as well.
Then in my last game, I was short stacked, shoved my 55 following making a set on the flop only to find 2x villains turn over not only AA but 77 and with a 7 on the flop I was drawing dead in that game too!
CASH EXPERIMENTATION
I've also recently been trying a little experiment playing 2p/4p cash tables here on Sky. Once again i've been experiencing the kind-of brutal treatment which occured the first time around I tried this exercise.
I've lost 5x KEY hands, of which four of them appear to have been made up of either AA or QQ hands being defeated/outrun either into straights, flushes or othter hands. the other big loss was when I had AK and played it V V poorly.
I won't bore you all with stats but as it stands atm my real BR is now £31.55 following my recent HUGE loses.
What a morale sapping past couple of days THAT was playing on Sky-Poker.
The poker demons have crept onto my table and unleashed hell. I've been getting reasonable start hands and getting my chips in, in all sorts of manners, both good & bad, and ended up constantly on the losing side.
I can't remember a run this bad since around may when I bust my bankroll by losing a large run of dym's but back then I was playing 30p Turbo's.
My shining record on £1.15 dym's upto my weekend away last week 3-6th october read an impressive 17 cashes from 28 played.
However, I've now lost 6 in a row and also lost a 30p turbo I had a crack at. Recent cash games have gone exactly how they did back in april/may time when I tried it. Doing okay and then the balance spun away in 1 or 2 very big losses in hands.
I'm all over the place at present, because although I'm doing really rotten here, I keep winning elsehwere...
I'm now away until monday, and I'll use the weekend to try and think out what I've been doing wrongly or rightly and try and get back to winning ways next week.
BR just above £25.
Well here we go with a big update on where things stand now!
Last post my BR was just above the £25 mark and I was in the midst of a slump! Well things have turned on thier head both online on the poker-tables and also in R/L.
Turned things around in my DYM's and ended up cashing 50% of my four games played over two nights, 12th & 13th October. Then my next session I put in some good volume and played seven games, and cashed four but so could have easily been more.
October 14th was a transitional period for me. I'd been experimenting playing cash at 1NL ($/c) on another site and had done pretty well. I recieved some excellent tips from a well-known sky member and took this on board and embarked on playing some lengthy cash sessions.
I had found that in the DYM's, and advice from some of the more skilled players in this format, together with the cash table advice/tips/tuition I had received, I had built up some good basics of Poker, to the fact that on the 15th October I had my first proper serious winning session on sky and ended my session with a PROFIT of over £4, which to me was very huge!
Inevitably, my next couple of sessions I lost part of my £4 as expected with a couple of rough sessions but I felt good about my game and was seemingly playing quite well, but not hitting much..
I finished october as follows:-
Cash +£2.35 (4 winning sessions, 1 B/E, 2 losing sessions; -£1.01 & -£2.19)
DYMS P 35 W 19 L 16 W/R 54% ROI -6%
C4P +£1.24
November thus far I've barely touched the DYM's and concetrated on a new direction, playing the 2p/4p (4NL) Tables. I now usually only have time to play Monday & Wednesday night and some play on a friday night briefly using the new i-phone app, which is much better now the bet sizing and call/raise/fold buttons are bigger!!!
my NOV 1st session was a disaster and I finished -£2.26, but I salvaged alot of my next three sessions and logged a total profit of +£3.73 for 3x winning sessions.
TONIGHT, MON 17TH NOV
I've just finished tonight's session and all didn't go too well! I had 2x sessions of 2x tables and played the odd table earlier on in the evening for a micro-loss. There was a couple of tables I played where I just either ran badly or played badly and logged 70p losses on both. However I turned the whole night around with a 35p profit on one table and scooped a couple of Massive hands holding AA and QQ for a QTR B/In at +£1.01 (or half a buy in as I usually sit down with £2, just the way I play and are comfy doing this.)
So where did I finish tonight? well I somehow limited the damage to -19p and I'm quite happy overall with that!
My current BR now stands at just over £32. I will update the topic header now.
MY BIRTHDAY!!! WWIIIII
Hoping for a few pressies from the poker-gods and to run like one - starting my session now - as I write I've flopped a set of 9's! Here we go then!
Well, the poker gods weren't too kind and some of the hands where the villain could have got there they DID! However I'd say in at least 50% of those situations weren't helped by my "Hero calls".
there was one huge hand which I lost, which when I reviewd the hand history with another forum member who's been helping me along, it was very evident to the more experienced of players that with the bet the villain made on the river and the dangerous board presented, there was only one outcome, and that being that they were holding a K.
The rest of my losses were attributed to blinds going through me, being card-dead for a little while, along with playing too many hands!
so it's a big loss and a dent in my BR but one I feel I can recover from, with my current form and confidence.
CASH TABLES:- 4 (2x 2 tables, split over two 40min sessions)
TIME PLAYED: 90mins
PROFIT/LOSS: -£2.53
BR NOW: £29
I think I suspect that it could be I'm playing too loose and not playing the board - I just simply don't know at the mo until I check.
Here's a classic for you all to laugh at in my expense!!! I ended up shoving into a full-house, in which I would suspect and imagine I should usually be ahead. However cheeky villain turns over KJ v my KT and it's GG me!
PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalancesnootyclow Small blind £0.02 £0.02 £5.89 F_E_R_G Big blind £0.04 £0.06 £4.93 Your hole cards 10 K GaryLaud Raise £0.08 £0.14 £2.49 mondo1985 Fold TheRat1 Fold NoHelmet Fold snootyclow Call £0.06 £0.20 £5.83 F_E_R_G Fold Flop J K K snootyclow Check GaryLaud Bet £0.20 £0.40 £2.29 snootyclow Call £0.20 £0.60 £5.63 Turn 7 snootyclow Check GaryLaud Bet £0.30 £0.90 £1.99 snootyclow Call £0.30 £1.20 £5.33 River 10 snootyclow Bet £0.60 £1.80 £4.73 GaryLaud All-in £1.99 £3.79 £0.00 snootyclow Call £1.39 £5.18 £3.34 snootyclow Show J K GaryLaud Show 10 K snootyclow Win Full House, Kings and Jacks £4.79
However despite that, some REALLY HUGE hands came to my rescue and I finished the evening some £2 in PROFIT.
Had a quick go on master-cash table #2 (5p/10p) whilst the live-show was on, and won some really good pots. Including stealing the pot with a bigg-ish bet when holding a Nut-Flush (Flopped) and then a rivered full-house vs a made flush on the turn.
Made up for my last session where I had a really serious cooler meaning I ended up some 80p down for my session - It was a situation where I had made a full house, big serious bet by my villain who acted before me, and I then raised all-in over the top of them, who with a snap call turned over pocket kings for QUADS!!!
I will probably upload a selection of my fav's on the clinic to see wether I played it very week, or it simply WAS the cooler it appeared to be!
as I was on the master-cash table and it was a TV table, what are the likely-hood of it being shown on TV?
I did send in one hand req, but they moved to the UKPC final within a few mins of my post and seemed to be booked to follow it to the end of the broad-cast.
IF I am at home early enough to get it shown I'll pop in a request I think!
BTW my BR is As/IS. £22, having made back the recent losses