Rlt's Diary. First update of 2017

RLT16 · May 2016

In Response to Re: RLT's diary: Focusing on the BRM:

In Response to Re: RLT's diary: Focusing on the BRM : Even with the best read I don't think many people would get away from this I am wondering though if you thought about folding when you posted the hand knowing you had the third nuts
Posted by weecheez1

No at no point did folding even cross my

Mind, if he's got it in this situation you have to pay him off, the thing I'm pondering is wether I should have flatted instead of raising his initial raise. I don't think I'm being called by worse so raising here is poor I think. It leaves me calling off my stack hoping for a split pot

shakinaces · May 2016

WP on the MTT scores, BR looks way healthier in almost no time at all!

Equally no expert HU, although given the turn check he could easily be betting worse on the river and call off any pocket pairs that are in his range - possibly even bluff catch with things like A3 or flushes. All player dependent, so is up to what notes you had at that point.

Are the recent results swaying you to less DYM, more MTT?

And confident that Benitez will stay and help your lot boss the Championship next season?

hhyftrftdr · May 2016

Flatting is far too nitty, and I don't think we can or should raise fold the river. AA and Jx are so unlikely.

Think I jam over his lead and give him the decision with a worse FH/flush.

RLT16 · May 2016

In Response to Re: RLT's diary: Focusing on the BRM:

WP on the MTT scores, BR looks way healthier in almost no time at all! Equally no expert HU, although given the turn check he could easily be betting worse on the river and call off any pocket pairs that are in his range - possibly even bluff catch with things like A3 or flushes. All player dependent, so is up to what notes you had at that point. Are the recent results swaying you to less DYM, more MTT? And confident that Benitez will stay and help your lot boss the Championship next season?
Posted by shakinaces

yeh im tempted to give myself a bigger mtt volume and see how it goes, had some decent cashes recently, and even did well in the last ukops bh, hard to judge my true mtt ability as ive played very few tournaments sinced ive recieved my coaching but i feel like i can compete in all tournaments, atleast up to the £11.

i believe rafa will stay, but tbh i think we will win the championship regardless, its really the first season back in the premiership that i want him here for, he could do good things

RLT16 · May 2016

In Response to Re: RLT's diary: Focusing on the BRM:

Flatting is far too nitty, and I don't think we can or should raise fold the river. AA and Jx are so unlikely. Think I jam over his lead and give him the decision with a worse FH/flush.
Posted by hhyftrftdr

cheers H, my thinking at the time was to go reasonably small to try and extract value from any smaller pairs if he doesnt give me credit for the king, and ofc once he raises i have to call never feel great about it though. but cest la vie

RLT16 · May 2016

	£3.30 DYMs	£5.50 DYMs	£11 DYMS	£16.50 DYMS	£22 DYMS	Other	Total	Balance	Weekly PP
# Played	0	69	0	0	0		0		1338
# Cashed	0	39	0	0	0		0		Monthly PP
FT's							0		6030
Profit/loss	£0.00	£10.50	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00	-£102.87	-£92.37	£789.20

so today went ok on the dyms, but i lost abit playing heads up and a few mtt's, id given myself a limit to have a go with in HU and was just playing them for abit of a laugh really hopefully bink some money but it wasntto be.

didnt play at all last night went to see sarah millican at the hexagon theatre in reading with the mrs as her birthday treat. was my first time seeing a comedian live and it was a good night out and soemthing im going to look to do more off, cant just sit on my backside playing poker all the time

stuarty117 · May 2016

In Response to Re: RLT's diary: Focusing on the BRM:

£3.30 DYMs £5.50 DYMs £11 DYMS £16.50 DYMS £22 DYMS Other Total Balance Weekly PP # Played 0 69 0 0 0 0 1338 # Cashed 0 39 0 0 0 0 Monthly PP FT's 0 6030 Profit/loss £0.00 £10.50 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 -£102.87 -£92.37 £789.20 so today went ok on the dyms, but i lost abit playing heads up and a few mtt's, id given myself a limit to have a go with in HU and was just playing them for abit of a laugh really hopefully bink some money but it wasntto be. didnt play at all last night went to see
sarah millican at the hexagon theatre in reading with the mrs as her birthday treat. was my first time seeing a comedian live and it was a good night out and soemthing im going to look to do more off, cant just sit on my backside playing poker all the time

Posted by RLT16

Good brm

HENDRIK62 · May 2016

In Response to Re: RLT's diary: Focusing on the BRM:

£3.30 DYMs £5.50 DYMs £11 DYMS £16.50 DYMS £22 DYMS Other Total Balance Weekly PP # Played 0 69 0 0 0 0 1338 # Cashed 0 39 0 0 0 0 Monthly PP FT's 0 6030 Profit/loss £0.00 £10.50 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 -£102.87 -£92.37 £789.20 so today went ok on the dyms, but i lost abit playing heads up and a few mtt's, id given myself a limit to have a go with in HU and was just playing them for abit of a laugh really hopefully bink some money but it wasntto be. didnt play at all last night went to see sarah millican at the hexagon theatre in reading with the mrs as her birthday treat. was my first time seeing a comedian live and it was a good night out and soemthing im going to look to do more off, cant just sit on my backside playing poker all the time
Posted by RLT16

Good to see you winning again buddy, I suggest a road trip around August time to Scotlands capital, more live comedy than you can shake a stick at, a beautiful city, tremendously lax licensing times and loads of pubs to choose from....and for that month its generally full of tourists instead of us grumpy Jocks ;-))

Phantom66 · May 2016

Regarding mixing formats, it can be a bit deceptive. The downswing in the other format could be due to variance. Another reason could be complacency, i.e. we think we have a game/level nailed so we play with other distractions on the go or stop trying to improve.

Initial results can be good just because we concentrate a lot harder on the new format, not necessarily because we are better suited to it.

No harm in trying MTTs either and your results seem encouraging, just be wary and prepared for the greater variance.

Personally, I wouldn't put HU into the mix though.

Saw Sarah Millican at Blackpool recently great night.

PS If you are looking for outside activities have you tried Reading university clay pigeon shooting club? It comes highly recommended.

RLT16 · May 2016

calling it a night early tonight as ive just fell victim to the chat box glitch yet again, wont go into details as it was handeled very well by cc and i ranted enough in the chat box after. but put me on tilt and i dont want to do anything stupid so just going to log out.

had an interesting day on dyms started ok, then had a bad run at £11's then grinded it all back up into profit, then lost 5 11's straight and thats kind of where it ended. im confident i can beat the level i just got abit to confident and did some stupid stuff i guess.

	£3.30 DYMs	£5.50 DYMs	£11 DYMS	£16.50 DYMS	£22 DYMS	Other	Total	Balance	Weekly PP
# Played	4	6	49	0	0	15	0		2048
# Cashed	3	5	25	0	0	6	0		Monthly PP
FT's						0	0		6740
Profit/loss	£4.80	£17.00	-£39.00	£0.00	£0.00	-£38.17	-£55.37	£733.83

RLT16 · May 2016

i think i only played 4 games online yesterday, 2 wins 2 losses for a £4 loss, then i went to my local casino for a live game, eneter for £44 and had to rebuy once, so £88, whle waiting for the tournament to start i wacked a £5 intoa roulette machine and ended up leaving with £110 from tha so that was the poker/food/drink for the night paid for. then i only went and Final tables the mtt. was a very short stacked FT with most players on about 10-15 BB. but im fairly confident in my shove/call/fold game so this was fine with me, managed to double up early when i shoved jacks and got called by kq, and hit a set of jacks for the 4th time... (who said jacks are hard to play) then i dwindled back down to about 20 Bb and shoved A10 from the button just looking to steal the blinds really and got called by AK, 2 players announce that they had folded k's and a flop a 10 happy days.. didnt realy get involved in much after that and suddenly theres 3 of us left all on equal stacks. im very confident that i had a big skill edge 3 handed over the 2 other guys but when the deal was offered for an equal share of the prize pool at 5am knowing that i had to play a game of football at 12 i was happy to snap take the dealas they were.

	£3.30 DYMs	£5.50 DYMs	£11 DYMS	£16.50 DYMS	£22 DYMS	Other	Total	Balance	Weekly PP
# Played	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		2048
# Cashed	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		Monthly PP
FT's						0	0		6740
Profit/loss	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00	£745.00	£745.00	£1,474.83

while this money is not directly in my poker account ive added it to my balance as this is being put to the side for my trip to vegas. for any cash games etc i want to play.

was well happy to have cash this, and while its obviously not on the same scale as a WSOP event, its definitely helped a little with the confidence.

markycash · May 2016

Great stuff RLT, well done!

RLT16 · May 2016

	£3.30 DYMs	£5.50 DYMs	£11 DYMS	£16.50 DYMS	£22 DYMS	Other	Total	Balance	Weekly PP
# Played	0	0	23	0	0	0	0		2502
# Cashed	0	0	13	0	0	0	0		Monthly PP
FT's						0	0		7194
Profit/loss	£0.00	£0.00	£7.00	£0.00	£0.00	£187.80	£194.80	£924.63

decided to keep it as it was and only have my actual sky baalance on here, so while it may show the BR going down i actualy made £194.80 profit in the last day or so, about to start abit of a grind. all things going well might break that 1k mark

RLT16 · May 2016

sigh wrote a big post about todays game but wasnt logged in aparently sigh... heres tonights reults ill repeat my post below

	£3.30 DYMs	£5.50 DYMs	£11 DYMS	£16.50 DYMS	£22 DYMS	Other	Total	Balance	Weekly PP
# Played	0	6	0	0	0	0	0		2688
# Cashed	0	4	0	0	0	0	0		Monthly PP
FT's						0	0		7194
Profit/loss	£0.00	£7.00	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00	£145.44	£152.44	£1,077.07

RLT16 · May 2016

so tonight i decided to have another mtt, and overall it went really well, final tabled a couple of the 5.75 bh's taking 1st and second. results went so well that i decided to use some of the profits to play the £55 speed bh.. and that went extremely well for the most part to. got down to the last 7 players, had £80 of head prizes so was already in profit. i was on the short handed table and was in a good spot to cash but was the short stack on the table i was at. however there were 2 guys really short with 10k each on the 4 handed table. top 6 got paid. and i was in the position where i wanted to gain chips to go for the win. but with the 2 shortys here a good chance i can fold to the cash. i know technically the shove is a good one but im struggling to factor in the two shorties on the other table into wether i should be playing the hand differently. id be interested on getting the thoughts from the guys that play this regularly. will add the hand below to see.

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
RLT16	Small blind		1000.00	1000.00	24095.00
BrayCorp83	Big blind		2000.00	3000.00	42775.50
	Your hole cards	10 K
Matzo	Fold
RLT16	All-in		24095.00	27095.00	0.00
BrayCorp83	Call		23095.00	50190.00	19680.50
RLT16	Show	10 K
BrayCorp83	Show	A Q
Flop
		J 9 6
Turn
		8
River
		5
BrayCorp83	Win	Ace high	50190.00		69870.50

RLT16 · May 2016

as you can see i got a handy 12Bb there while the 2 shortys on other table have 5bb each at this point, i dont know wether MR folding is ever really an option, or even open folding, i just dont have the experience in these situations to know

jordz16 · May 2016

I would normally be shoving there, in some situations i would fold but id say 80/20. I dont really like to raise/fold at 12bbs. That said you outplayed me in this tourny so what do i know

RLT16 · May 2016

In Response to Re: RLT's diary: £55 speed bounty hunter, profit, but noob mistakes proved costly:

I would normally be shoving there, in some situations i would fold but id say 80/20. I dont really like to raise/fold at 12bbs. That said you outplayed me in this tourny so what do i know
Posted by jordz16

i wouldnt say outplayed, our hand pretty much played itself, you were just ul. you win to much anyway, got to share it about

thanks for the input into the hand

FeelGroggy · May 2016

In Response to Re: RLT's diary: £55 speed bounty hunter, profit, but noob mistakes proved costly:

as you can see i got a handy 12Bb there while the 2 shortys on other table have 5bb each at this point, i dont know wether MR folding is ever really an option, or even open folding, i just dont have the experience in these situations to know
Posted by RLT16

I might limp/ fold in this situation as it's very likely one of the 5bb stacks will soon bust and usually the jump from bubbling to min cashing is decent. Its definitely + chip ev to shove but might be - £ ev.

I am a nit though! ;-)

Shoving can't be too disasterous here unlucky a. he had a good enough hand to call and b. you didn't improve.

If nobody was too short i would definitely be shoving here, but with 2 5bb stacks i tighten up push fold here.

RLT16 · May 2016

In Response to Re: RLT's diary: £55 speed bounty hunter, profit, but noob mistakes proved costly:

In Response to Re: RLT's diary: £55 speed bounty hunter, profit, but noob mistakes proved costly : I might limp/ fold in this situation as it's very likely one of the 5bb stacks will soon bust and usually the jump from bubbling to min cashing is decent. Its definitely + chip ev to shove but might be - £ ev. I am a nit though! ;-) Shoving can't be too disasterous here unlucky a. he had a good enough hand to call and b. you didn't improve. If nobody was too short i would definitely be shoving here, but with 2 5bb stacks i tighten up push fold here.
Posted by FeelGroggy

cheers groggy, have spoke to a few people today and this seems to be the general feeling about the hand. was gutting at the time, but its something ill learn from and hopefully now i can stop it happening to oftenin the future

Lambert180 · May 2016

I think there's an arguement for pretty much any option, apart from probably folding imo. I'd be happy to mr/fold, limp or jam depending on the villian. Fwiw, stacks are really shallow deep in the MBI so you can go a bit lower than 'normal' before panicking... 12bb around the bubble is usually a pretty solid stack in that.

Think my default if I didn't know the BB would be to limp/fold to a jam (and limp/call if they do something silly like minraise).

I'd be more inclined to just jam against players like Bates, Bearly, Melt etc, cos the jam is still +EV and if we limp or minraise those are the kind of players that are more likely to not pay too much attention to their cards and just punish us by jamming cos they know we have to have a super tight calling range.

Minraise/fold I'd reserve for the people that are just gonna play vv face up and and vv nitty cos theyll fold probably 90% of the time, and when they don't fold we'll know it's gg our hand ever being good.

ul on bubbling

RLT16 · May 2016

	£3.30 DYMs	£5.50 DYMs	£11 DYMS	£16.50 DYMS	£22 DYMS	Other	Total	Balance	Weekly PP
# Played	0	0	22	0	1	0	0		2688
# Cashed	0	0	15	0	0	0	0		Monthly PP
FT's						0	0		7380
Profit/loss	£0.00	£0.00	£58.00	£0.00	-£22.00	-£1,001.74	-£965.74	£111.33

SJspanky1 · May 2016

Sorry to see it mate. You WILL learn from this eventually. Most of us have done it a time or two.

Spin up tables??

Itsover4u · May 2016

In Response to Re: RLT's diary: tilted off ym roll like a complete moron! chasing loses like a stupid moron:

Sorry to see it mate. You WILL learn from this eventually. Most of us have done it a time or two. Spin up tables??
Posted by SJspanky1

Iv done it 100's of times and never learned, I have however learnt the art of withdrawing - You will get it back its not a major issue.

The mental block is the hardest because of the amount of time spent gaining to buy ins

Donttelmum · May 2016

Chin up Lee. You had that nice live score so just deposit some of those winnings and go again. You have hardly lost anything if you factor in that win.

In the meantime I'd take a day or two off. It's only money and you have a great trip to Vegas coming up. You got me on facey if you want to chat.

Don't stress it

craigcu12 · May 2016

In Response to Re: RLT's diary: tilted off ym roll like a complete moron! chasing loses like a stupid moron:

In Response to Re: RLT's diary: tilted off ym roll like a complete moron! chasing loses like a stupid moron : Iv done it 100's of times and never learned, I have however learnt the art of withdrawing - You will get it back its not a major issue. The mental block is the hardest because of the amount of time spent gaining to buy ins
Posted by Itsover4u

+1

craigcu12 · May 2016

Having a selection of different poker site accounts sometimes helps me. Rather than spread my time equally amoungst them all i'll dedicate myself to one perticular site and use the rest every now and then. I had a really awful run on sky cash back in april meaning I've dedicated most my game towards poker stars and just did the odd sat or DYMs alongside the freerolls. Now things are looking ugly on poker stars meaning it's time I switched back onto sky because I know from my freerolling that i've put hat bad period to one side.

markycash · May 2016

Easily done Lee!

A day off to reset, consider if there is anything you can take from it, put it completely out of your mind and come again stronger than ever!

Phantom66 · May 2016

It's done now. Don't let it eat away at you, but do try and learn from it and control things better in the future.

It wasn't too long ago that a 15/22 score at £11 dyms would have a nice session.

TimmyRaRa · May 2016

Pretty much what everyone else has said learn from it and try and not put yourself in that spot again.

You will grind it back buddy.

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