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My cash spinups were yo-yoing abit so put them on hold, in fact £35 from my previous post was about the peak and I ended up back down at around £15.
There was a points promotion on and I wanted points to meet the FR entries.
6max is not a place to gain points.
So I thought about what to do and decided.
1. NL cash - not really rolled BUT had been having some success when spinning up, it was just the restrictions of being on the absolute min buy-in on a deepstack table and not being able to top up make it really hard to win consistently. So I decided to try 1 or 2 tables with a short but not minimum stack. I also made some adjustments to my game based on my spinup attempts, and I try and table select with 1 or 2 shorter stacks.
2. Played some (mainly turbo) dyms. Dyms much quicker to fill than 6max and obviously turbos great for points. In my recent dym failed spinup attempts I had learned a lot about how NOT to play low buy-in turbo dyms. I made some sdjustments and Friday night was my last night of Feb points play as I knew I was out Saturday for a family meal. I won 8/9 sngs at £2 and £3 BI. Obviously some rungood AQ /> AA and after K9s button shove hit and lost to AT and left me with 55 chips I managed to spin that up from 5 handed to win another one I shouldn't have. In fact the only SNG I lost was a bubble bad beat in a £3 6max, the only non turbo dym in the run of the 9.
Achieved 439 points, enough for the 50% up your game freeroll.
More importantly B/R up now to £49.50.
Now I am under no illusions that I have found a "magic winning formula" at either NL cash or DYMs and there was a dose of rungood behind the run from £15 to £49.50.
However while there are double points on especially I will be focussing on dyms and cash.
If it is looking like a more profitable option due to the increased volume possible then I may just stick with them.
I still prefer to play 6max and I really enjoy PLO8 so they will remain part of my game, I just think that to be able to win money only playing short bursts at a time, then turbo dyms and NL cash seem the better option. I just need to put the thought in and work at those games.
I think a change of mentality has helped too. I am embracing these formats rather than playing them grudgingly because the 6max's aren't loading.
I was actually helped along by some duck power...
Hand History #880179892 (09:13 01/03/2015)
I am still around, only due to extreme work related business and having gone bustio I am not playing much atm.
I was having a bit of fun early in the month, experimenting with turbo DYMs and cash mainly capped 10nl tables, yo-yoing abit until 861s last broadcast.
I blame that on the ensuing tilt that saw me play a very overly aggressive bankroll and started playing £5 turbo dyms. Standard did not seem much better than £2 but lady variance was against me.
So here I am waiting for my £4.34 points to be credited, or get a cash in a FR tourney and I'll start afresh.
On 861 very sad to see it go... Best memory personally was one night I had posted on the show thread and when it was read out Tikay gave me a shout out and said how he knew my wife and been very poorly and wished her and I all the best.
Priceless customer engagement - don't see how that will be quite the same with new format - but hope to be proved wrong.
GL all
Poker wise not much to report - had to wait for my points to arrive. So added to my 12p FR win on 1st April I had a B/R of £4.46 on 9th. Then went on a dym streak of 7 losses to nearly go busto. Clawed it back and I'm finishing on £8.12 so at least it has been a profitable month.
In other news - I bought an electric chainsaw - and cut some logs up - boring? well to read about in a poker forum maybe - but to do - wow. Haven't had that much fun with DIY since I took an angle grinder to my former garage.
The mighty Stones are champions - hoorah!
PNE are putting me through the wringer. A fantastic unbeaten streak at the end of the season and promotion is in our hands. However in 2 games we snatched a draw from the jaws of victory and I have a horrible feeling that could come back to haunt us.
Work very busy - hence not so much poker. Slowly getting over the loss of 861. Not overly excited about the 2 hour show, it may grow on me. Hoping there will be some more content available through other formats sometime soon.
Also started an evening course - L3 education and teaching. any tips or 2nd hand books Mrs D?
Been on the forum a bit more lately - reading some of my posts back they may be a bit provocative - meant to be friendly banter. One day I WILL meet some of you and buy a round of drinks and you may just appreciate that I am a decent kind of bloke (or just take the drink and carry on thinking I am a doorknob - s'up to you).
Wont be MK though - Please, please come to Blackpool/Manchester/Bolton some time and I will be there.
I'm sure all of us regret posts we put up from time to time, but hey ho it is the nature of the forum. I know I have went back to edit a few, only to find out it is too late.
FWIW I think you are a decent kind of bloke, but then again I thought DB lovely young lady until you and Mick scarred my mind forever.