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Up early doors AKs made flush – think I got the most out of hand getting a river call from a pair of 9s (5900)
Lose 4 hands running down to (4830)
- - Give up jj to pot size turn bet with q568 board and 2 to act behind me.
- - Folded bb
- - Jj again! A63all clubs 3T and fold to a hefty river bet
- - Call raise from btn with 9T and have to give up post
Bit later lose another 1200 ATs shoved on at turn A6JJ (now 3840)
Another +1k gone with 55 facing river shove A82QQ board – I had raised pre and cbet.(now 2300)
Momentum swing…
3 consecutive hands…
- - Double up AhT on T96hearts flop reraise all-in and called by Jh9 and hold (4860)
- - 67s had u/d str8 draw which missed but bluff river (5805)
- - AAvAQ – gets to river with double paired board and checked down (6975)
+2750 Double up strange river call TT 222xx board called with A5? (11055)
Setback JdTd on J9d5d board but get customers end up folding to river shove and opponent makes 2 pair with K9.(8417)
Another setback open with 22 get customer after cbet and end up folding to shove (6347)
AA raise pre but lose customer post (8442)
33 hits f/h on QQ3 flop – keep customer and extract value from 66 (13342)
Nothing happens….
Then another big swing 4 winning hands running
- - Raise with QQ over 2 limpers from sb to take 900 with no callers
- - QQ next hand! This time 2 limpers again – I shove instead of just raising and get a call from 44 and hold for a near double up
- - Make TTT from 9T
- - AT ai v KT on Txx flop holds and after these 4 hands – now (39707) and chip leader
Bit later build an 18k pot pre with KK then shove on Jxx flop no call (49707)
Set back make a bad call with Ahigh flush on JJTTx board – surprise (not) to find f/h (43407)
Over 50k when take out shorter stack TTvK6 (50846)
Drop a few with missed flush draw and opponent betting streets (45486)
Minraise button with 36s called from bb then hit the flush and stack opponent who had A but didn’t hit nut. (53346)
River a nut straight to move up to (60246)
Get a bit lucky when get resistance to aggression with 22 but holds up through river (67846)
A few minor swings each way then hit 2 pair with KQ but suprisingly get quite a bit of action from JJ (89046)
Only setback on final table with Jx hitting J66Kx board and opponent got value from their JJ (66745)
Build slowly with a few small pots
92s allowed in from bb then makes a flush to win 20k pot (80647)
We are now 4 handed and I proceed to bust the last 3 players in fairly quick succession
Have 62 on bb and limper lets me hit 2 pair and stack them (116507)
JJ v AK aipf (194396)
Soften up HU opponent with 12k and 2k pot wins, then…
I did win one scheduled tourney, however I cannot call it an MTT because there was only 1 table running - yes I crushed a 5 entry b/h!
Only one other cash (3rd and only 3 paid!) and a few heads here in there.
A lot of run bad - definitely some play bad at times.
Don't bluff early stages (cost me a few bad starts with cbets but getting that out of my play in these now)
Seems to be a good plan to play small ball poker in position when going down the streets in these games.
I was surprised to see some big "names" on the £5 freezout last night and even had DivsDreams on my table in a £5 this morning. I did own him for 1 hand (not really I had just gone down to c100 chips and was all in with A5 he did the decent thing and raised everyone else off the pot and I spiked 2 5's to beat his JJ).
I am getting tilted - even got a bit spikey in a PLO8 chatbox today which is most unlike me - player gives me the "lucky" after I hit a river card. In this situation it is a pet hate of mine - fact was I was ahead preflop when the chips went in so never consider that situation "lucky".
Couple of hands earlier I had been all-in on flop v another player with the nut low only for that to be counterfeit by the river (which is unlucky). Couple of hands later I lose to player who called me lucky - he rivered a flush having been behind on the high and would have been on the low which didn't hit. Gave him a "nh"
So time for a break - Mrs P's birthday this weekend - eldest son back from uni - parents eve for younger son - and me and Mrs P are having a short break next week.
Also much going on work wise and I have some coursework to do.
I'll check out the forum still and at some point will review my MTTs and post a few hands.
I have over £4 in rewards coming (high for me!) which will take me back over the £50 mark and I'll start again when refreshed.
GL at the tables
See you back at the PLO8 tables soon.
Mick
Signs were there in earlier posts - poor B/R management the main cause sprinkled with continued run-bad, a pinch of tilt and some play bad.
Had one day between the weekend and my trip away where I lost over £30.
I don't have time to post all the details - but MTT run continued bad - lost 2 BIs on cash 4nl coolered QQ<AA and then QQ < AQ. I will update the stats but not sure MTT results are complete so the public shaming will have to wait.
Main issue definitely BRM - I could have taken the losses at lower levels and hopefully hit some rungood to turn numbers around - now I am not rolled to enter the levels that cost me the losses and so it will be a long road back now.
Workload will dictate low volumes over the next week - so I will stick to the odd SNG anyway.
6max NL £1s and PLO8 dyms 60p and £1
Only MTTs will be FR for now.
See me on anything bigger and please call me out on it!
Anyway to get a bit of perspective - This time last year Mrs P was being rushed back to hospital after a setback when allowed home for her birthday.
This year we had a nice break away from everything - quality time with Mrs P and managed to switch off from work etc. Spa break in Cheshire - extremely nice hotel - patchy service though so cant give a wholehearted recommendation.
Did have a couple of nice meals out the Thatch in Faddeley? Nr Nantwich and Amici's in Nantwich both great meals/great service.
Reading the paper and saw the news and some analysis on the Skypoker sale.
Firstly my thoughts go out to the employees at Skypoker - bound to be uncertain times and coming over Christmas that isn't good.
However, reading up has to be good that sky have kept 20% - hopefully that means the continuation of 861?
The investors will no doubt want the continued exposure via the TV side of things - although ultimately as investors they will want to turn a profit on the inevitable resale in a couple of years or so and will be looking to increase revenues and cut costs to achieve that.
Only thing we can do here is give the current staff a big +1. If only there was a high profile industry award with Sky and some worthy contributors nominated in categories open to a public vote - oh wait!
A lot of whinging about promotions on the forum- seems Skypoker are only allowed to give free money to the benefit of the most worthy punters (worthy being very subjective and heavily biased by the playing habits of the individuals concerned).
"As a high roller reg it is disgusting that sky dare to give a FR to players who don't play here"
"As a low roller rec it is disgusting that sky gives all the rewards to the high roller regs"
Perspective is a funny old thing.
Just like to say +1 for the Christmas promotions - free money given a variety of ways - cant accuse sky of being lazy there as it must take a whole lot more effort to do that than 1 for the month or 1 a week.
No doubt not many will be tailored for low stakes 6max specialists or new found PLO8 enthusiasts but I'm not complaining!
Well I did enjoy the break.
Hopefully I will kick some RRRRs certainly need to!
So far 1 £1 NL 6max since the return - 2nd place. Ran well to be HU chippy then A5 ran into QQ and 99 < A2.
Banking my third successive winning day with a 20p profit over 2 hands at 4nl.
Sunday was 1 6max 2nd and yesterday x2 dym PLO8 wins and a loss in a PLO8 MTT.
Interesting hand that crushed my stack - I had just about every draw under the sun and potted turn - got reshoved, I called and missed.
Haven't a Scooby whether it was good odds or not - just felt right at the time so happy to post and receive some words of wisdom...
Hand History #846991867 (22:05 07/12/2014)
Can anyone fill me in if they watched the show last night?
I thought Stapes response to my christmas poker song suggestion was the most unimpressed response ever. Tumbleweed doesn't do it justice.
I was entered for free into the Turbo M/E - had a comfortable table but in the end on about x3 starting stack and down to 8bigs had to ship 33, called by KQ and its gg for around 120th.
So 4th winning day in a row - will be continued low volume until maybe the middle of next week.
I lost my first PLO8 dym of the day today - so I had better start grinding until I am in the black.
In reality - Volume is purely workload related atm
Say one joke, book the laugh and fuuuuck off the stage. Always leave them wanting more.
Phantom, very nice post at the top of the page. Hope you can turn the BR around, but as you succinctly pointed out, it often pales in significance to real life stuff.
The midweek "session" that started with a loss stayed a loss only played 3 games W1 L2.
Today x3 £1 NL dymd which I haven't played for a good while now.
1st game 2 players donk out fairly quickly then pretty standard shove/fold stuff until someone busts - felt most were too tight and I managed to nurse what was shortest stack and not run into trouble. The chat was borderline offensive but I'll let it rest - 2 in particular having a go at me and other player. I tried to join it a bit of "bantz" but inevitably that poured fuel on the fire so went into ignore mode. Sure 1 of them is pretty well known for these antics but other was new to me. Eventually cashed ok.
2nd game was ok down to 4 then son asks for lift home at 830 - I was expecting this request but the plan had been 1030. Switch to phone and as getting in car get Aq on BB and limped to from button. Jam and get call from AT and hold. Luckily by the time I return home I have cashed. don't play and drive folks!
3rd game pretty straight forward so 3/3
B/R now £22.05 and thanks to my mini streak my NL dym numbers are in the black at £1 level. ROI has even overtaken PLO8 dym due to the recent downswing there.
Mini dip and mini recovery back to £20.61.
Would have better but it served me right for breaking B/R rules AGAIN and playing a £3.30 PLO8 dym - comfortable stack with 4 left - but the table goes on 1 of those runs when every decisive all-in isn't, shortie winning or split pots.
Take a dent when have to make a sigh call in BB when shortie utg shoves with about 3.5BBs- it was pretty light as it turned out and I was in ok shape but missed everything. Then a few orbits later I am almost aipf v same player having pot raised SB with a strong combo hi hand but no low. When flop comes I hit trip aces with only 1 low card out. I put my remaining 100ish chips in and other player seriously considers folding but had to call off their last 80ish chips. When I see the cards I realise that 2 low cards are now guaranteed to come and give a split pot - they did and worse they went runner runner for a str8 and a low. Sigh.
In non-poker matters it has been a crazy busy week - definitely cant complain - 2 big jobs came in just before christmas and things are looking positive for the new year.
Biggest news though was that my eldest son appeared on TV this week. This time last year with all the troubles with his mums hospital stay and things being tight financially with my business still getting established and my wifes pay moving on to half pay - he applied to the Chase. He got through the written application, then a phone interview then an in person assessment centre and was called to film in June. The show aired on Thursday.
For any fans of the show - he was Sam in Seat#2.
He did a decent job in the cash builder, £5. The high offer was for £25k and much to everyones surprise he went for it (dont know where he gets that gambling gene?). The reason was he wanted to take us on a special family holiday because of what we , and especially his mum, had been through. He ran very unlucky with the questions, none of them his sort of topics and unlucky with the guesses so he bust out.
Still Mrs P and I immensely proud - he came across well and went for it - once in a lifetime freeroll shot for £25k so cant blame him. Bradley Walsh and the chaser Sean Wallace had warmed to him on the day and chatted to him a lot after filming and encouraged him. Sam's biggest regret on the show was not going for the higher offer, or even mishearing the 1st question and answering System to the question what does the V in VHS stand for... it was the fact that they edited out the bear-hug Bradley gave him when he said he was going for £25k.
Last update on the SNG stats was this...
bit of rungood since then in NL dyms.
NL 6max keeping up the ROI
Hit a bit of a downswing in PLO8
NB that 100 PLO8 games isn't my score in the challenge as I have only played 66 since that started.
So despite the largely positive numbers there my current b/r is £25.80.
Just goes to show most of the losses came from the MTT bad run and a bit of cash.
I still haven'y repaired my MTT results part of the sheet but it was all about poor BRM really and don't need the full results to understand that.
Keeping positive thoughts and trying to stick to BRM and SNGs until I have a solid basis to try and branch out again.
Now I am having a bit of run good on TV show spot prizes and won an entry into tonights mini. Bit of a BRM dilemma as it is a rebuy. Obviously I will take the add-on if still there for it - as for the rebuy? I know best practice is to take it as soon as below starting stack and I have to be prepared to do that but I might just wait a few orbits and see how table is playing first.
Get grinding and you can put your feet up on that Caribbean cruise.
Happy to take a peek at any tournament hands you might be unsure about....as long as its 2 cards and not 4