Rlt's Diary. First update of 2017

RLT16

missed a days report from a couple of days ago, in which i lost around £60, 

todays results made that abck and abit more, still a really poor dym session though

	£3.30 DYMs	£5.50 DYMs	£11 DYMS	£16.50 DYMS	£22 DYMS	Other	Total	Balance	Weekly PP
# Played	0	73	2	0	0	0	0		1799
# Cashed	0	37	2	0	0	0	0		Monthly PP
FT's						0	0		1220
Profit/loss	£0.00	-£31.50	£18.00	£0.00	£0.00	£105.36	£91.86	£585.13

Todays MTT win means that i am now in profit for mtt's in my whoe time on sky, which is great progress considering only 4 months ago i was -£610 in mtt's hopefully i can continue to progress and build up a roll big enough for some main event and bink one or 2

RLT16

terrible day mostly thanks to one, how should i put it... less than convential player in a £55 dym, but any time someone 3 bet shoves you with 7 2 for 2000 chips your going to be laughing in the long run right...

	£3.30 DYMs	£5.50 DYMs	£11 DYMS	£16.50 DYMS	£22 DYMS	Other	Total	Balance	Weekly PP
# Played	2	3	6	0	0	0	0		1799
# Cashed	0	2	2	0	0	0	0		Monthly PP
FT's						0	0		1220
Profit/loss	-£6.60	£3.50	-£26.00	£0.00	£0.00	-£65.50	-£94.60	£490.53

Nuggy962

Hi mate

Well done on the mtt front - I was quite happily crushing till you decide to join in haha.

Making lots of FT's but running / playing bad in key spots and not getting that bink. How many wins you got now this year? 

£55 dym shoving 72 - sign me up haha 

RLT16

In Response to Re: RLT's diary: The long grind:

Hi mate Well done on the mtt front - I was quite happily crushing till you decide to join in haha. Making lots of FT's but running / playing bad in key spots and not getting that bink. How many wins you got now this year?  £55 dym shoving 72 - sign me up haha 
Posted by Nuggy962

I'll check for sure later but I've won at least 4/5 and had decent finishes in more, I think the main improvement for me is that I'm still cashing the same (maybe slightly more) tourneys but I'm turning these mini cashes into deeper runs, and I tend to have a good record on FT's once there I'll make the top 2/3 more often than not, and strongly rate my heads up game against most people I have encountered so far in those spots.

 But tbh I'm still my playing as many mtts' as I should be so this could all be a short term variance thing, hopefully not only time will tell. But if dyms keep frustrating me as much as they do I think I may heavily increase mtt volume and start playing more of the £11's and ME's

RLT16

late night session last night didnt go so good either.. would really like a few winning dym days in a row now

	£3.30 DYMs	£5.50 DYMs	£11 DYMS	£16.50 DYMS	£22 DYMS	Other	Total	Balance	Weekly PP
# Played	0	14	0	0	0	0	0		230
# Cashed	0	7	0	0	0	0	0		Monthly PP
FT's						0	0		1840
Profit/loss	£0.00	-£7.00	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00	-£15.75	-£22.75	£467.78

RLT16

well overdue decent winning dym session, although for long  parts it looked and felt like it wasnt going to be that way. 

	£3.30 DYMs	£5.50 DYMs	£11 DYMS	£16.50 DYMS	£22 DYMS	Other	Total	Balance	Weekly PP
# Played	0	40	0	0	0	0	0		463
# Cashed	0	27	0	0	0	0	0		Monthly PP
FT's						0	0		2073
Profit/loss	£0.00	£50.00	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00	£10.53	£60.53	£528.31

RLT16

sticking this one down to varience, im more than sure there were bad plays aswell, not worth moaning bout though ive had my share of good results recently was due a bad one

	£3.30 DYMs	£5.50 DYMs	£11 DYMS	£16.50 DYMS	£22 DYMS	Other	Total	Balance	Weekly PP
# Played	21	8	0	0	0	0	0		717
# Cashed	14	3	0	0	0	0	0		Monthly PP
FT's						0	0		2327
Profit/loss	£14.70	-£14.00	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00	-£77.12	-£76.42	£439.94

RLT16

no update for a few days, but ive won abit, ost abit and now won abit. high level analysis right there. here are todays results 

 

	£3.30 DYMs	£5.50 DYMs	£11 DYMS	£16.50 DYMS	£22 DYMS	Other	Total	Balance	Weekly PP
# Played	7	8	0	0	0	0	0		1270
# Cashed	4	7	0	0	0	0	0		Monthly PP
FT's						0	0		2880
Profit/loss	£0.90	£26.00	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00	£26.90	£470.97

RLT16

	£3.30 DYMs	£5.50 DYMs	£11 DYMS	£16.50 DYMS	£22 DYMS	Other	Total	Balance	Weekly PP
# Played	2	3	22	0	0	0	0		1768
# Cashed	1	1	13	0	0	0	0		Monthly PP
FT's						0	0		3378
Profit/loss	-£0.60	-£6.50	£18.00	£0.00	£0.00	£11.44	£22.34	£493.31

RLT16

had a few days off, then a couple of mixed days but my excel chart got messed up some how.. anyway i fixed it now and yesterdays results are a good way to get this going again

	£3.30 DYMs	£5.50 DYMs	£11 DYMS	£16.50 DYMS	£22 DYMS	£55 DYMS	Other	Total	Balance	Weekly PP
# Played	13	22	0	0	0	0	0	0		959
# Cashed	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0		Monthly PP
FT's							0	0		4611
Profit/loss	£5.10	-£41.00	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00	£130.17	£94.27	£577.97

chiggypig

better get on the grind if you want prio this month!

RLT16

a poor day but thats the nature of mtt's.  going tohave to redesign my chart as im fed up of dyms nowlooking to put in alot more mtt volume instead

	£3.30 DYMs	£5.50 DYMs	£11 DYMS	£16.50 DYMS	£22 DYMS	£55 DYMS	Other	Total	Balance	Weekly PP
# Played	8	0	0	0	0	0	13	0		0
# Cashed	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0		Monthly PP
FT's							0	0		4795
Profit/loss	-£8.40	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00	-£79.23	-£87.63	£490.34

RLT16

In Response to Re: RLT's diary: The long grind:

better get on the grind if you want prio this month!
Posted by chiggypig

hi chiggy,

im not aiming for prio this month as i have had so much stuff going on that it was never going to be possible, want to start actually making money from poker rather than the rakeback so focusing on improving my game

chiggypig

In Response to Re: RLT's diary: The long grind:

In Response to Re: RLT's diary: The long grind : hi chiggy, im not aiming for prio this month as i have had so much stuff going on that it was never going to be possible, want to start actually making money from poker rather than the rakeback so focusing on improving my game
Posted by RLT16

Probably for the best, it's a lot of volume at the stakes you're currently playing, I wouldn't be able to average 30+ DYMs a day!

RLT16

will be continuing with this soon, ive moved away from dyms and am only playing mtt's at the moment, i will probably go back to them at some point im just really enjoying mtt's atm and not enjoying dyms so figure its best not to play them.  just redesigning my table to make it forum friendly then will start to update again

Enut

In Response to Re: RLT's diary: The long grind:

will be continuing with this soon, ive moved away from dyms and am only playing mtt's at the moment, i will probably go back to them at some point im just really enjoying mtt's atm and not enjoying dyms so figure its best not to play them.  just redesigning my table to make it forum friendly then will start to update again
Posted by RLT16

Good luck with the MTTs mate, I'm sure you'll take down a few to give that bankroll a boost.

markycash

Good luck with the MTT's

RLT16

cheers guys, not a bad starts just won the £7 @ 7

RLT16

Been really poor at posting here despite relatively good results, on a bit of a down swing now although nothing major need to improve my focus though so bringing this back.

will update with results after tonights games. but before then figured id post a bit about Vegas.

For me it was a once in a life time trip (unless by chance i happen to win another one) i thoroughly enjoyed every second, and as i have already posted on the forum think sky and the rest of the players out there were all great very helpful and very inclusive, anyone wanting to do the group stuff were welcomes by all, and anyone wanting to do their own thing well that was cool to. 

there was so much to do out there and although i didn't do everything i wanted to i did get quite a few things done, a trip to see Chris angel (enjoyable to a point but i wouldn't recommend it), a trip to see Penn and Teller (would recommend it) and jumping off the stratosphere (would highly recommend it) were some of the highlights of the trip.

the only low of the trip being when we stopped at the Vegas sign to take photos, i hand my mate my phone for the picture stand underneath it strike a pose ask if he has got it to which he replies yes, walk off get my phone back sit on the bus and off we go. later on in the day i look back to see he had taken every photo with my flip phone case cover blocking the screen.. sigh, hardly anything to worry about though its just a photo.

The food out there was great (here's where hufty will get interested) although i probably didn't eat as often as i should have sometimes you gt to into doing things then 10 hours later u think i haven't eaten breakfast or lunch today and now its dinner time the all you can eat sea food buffet at the Fremont was amazing, but the meal that topped them all was at the outback steakhouse by far and away the best steak i have ever consumed ive even goggled where i can find them in the uk so i can treat the mrs sometime, although im not sure she will ever deserve to come with me just to ruin the steak by ordering it well done..

The poker overall went OK. the Droplet i treated just as any other tourney and im happy overall with how i played in most spots, although i did clash with RSPCA a few to many times for my liking. the cash games were very up and down, and had it not been for 2, 2 outers on the last morning costing me approximately $800 id of been coming home with a decent profit, overall i probably finished approximately even at the poker tables for the week.

the same can be said of roulette and blackjack, i had 2 very heavy winning plays at both,  but for the most part lost a little each time i played so probably about BE for those to. i guess whenever you can go to Vegas and not really lose a lot at gambling its always a plus.  

the trip home wasn't ideal with my bags going one way and me another and having to run between last minute transferred flights etc, but that's all part of the fun of traveling (along with my plus one being close to unwakeable on the morning we left causing us to leave for the airport a full hour and a half later than planned and close to the point where i was considering going alone)

overall a great experience one that i can only hope i win again. once again thankyou sky 

RLT16

so last night was a big fat blank, -£75 for the night and only even came close to cashing in one game. dont feel like i played to bad though hopefully things will change soon

Essexphil

In Response to Re: RLT's diary: Dairy of an MTT grinder:

so last night was a big fat blank, -£75 for the night and only even came close to cashing in one game. dont feel like i played to bad though hopefully things will change soon
Posted by RLT16

You seemed to be playing fine to me-sure things will turn around very soon-glgl

TimmyRaRa

In Response to Re: RLT's diary: Moving to MTT's:

Been really poor at posting here despite relatively good results, on a bit of a down swing now although nothing major need to improve my focus though so bringing this back. will update with results after tonights games. but before then figured id post a bit about Vegas. For me it was a once in a life time trip (unless by chance i happen to win another one) i thoroughly enjoyed every second, and as i have already posted on the forum think sky and the rest of the players out there were all great very helpful and very inclusive, anyone wanting to do the group stuff were welcomes by all, and anyone wanting to do their own thing well that was cool to.  there was so much to do out there and although i didn't do everything i wanted to i did get quite a few things done, a trip to see Chris angel (enjoyable to a point but i wouldn't recommend it), a trip to see Penn and Teller (would recommend it) and jumping off the stratosphere (would highly recommend it) were some of the highlights of the trip. the only low of the trip being when we stopped at the Vegas sign to take photos, i hand my mate my phone for the picture stand underneath it strike a pose ask if he has got it to which he replies yes, walk off get my phone back sit on the bus and off we go. later on in the day i look back to see he had taken every photo with my flip phone case cover blocking the screen.. sigh, hardly anything to worry about though its just a photo. The food out there was great (here's where hufty will get interested) although i probably didn't eat as often as i should have sometimes you gt to into doing things then 10 hours later u think i haven't eaten breakfast or lunch today and now its dinner time the all you can eat sea food buffet at the Fremont was amazing, but the meal that topped them all was at the outback steakhouse by far and away the best steak i have ever consumed ive even goggled where i can find them in the uk so i can treat the mrs sometime, although im not sure she will ever deserve to come with me just to ruin the steak by ordering it well done.. The poker overall went OK. the Droplet i treated just as any other tourney and im happy overall with how i played in most spots, although i did clash with RSPCA a few to many times for my liking. the cash games were very up and down, and had it not been for 2, 2 outers on the last morning costing me approximately $800 id of been coming home with a decent profit, overall i probably finished approximately even at the poker tables for the week. the same can be said of roulette and blackjack, i had 2 very heavy winning plays at both,  but for the most part lost a little each time i played so probably about BE for those to. i guess whenever you can go to Vegas and not really lose a lot at gambling its always a plus.   the trip home wasn't ideal with my bags going one way and me another and having to run between last minute transferred flights etc, but that's all part of the fun of traveling (along with my plus one being close to unwakeable on the morning we left causing us to leave for the airport a full hour and a half later than planned and close to the point where i was considering going alone) overall a great experience one that i can only hope i win again. once again thankyou sky 
Posted by RLT16

Great to meet you buddy really was a sick trip.

We went back to the outback steakhouse on my second week

RLT16

Hi everyone, 

after a bit of thought if decided to revive my diary. after the Vegas trip i went back to playing dyms then dabbled in Mtt's which was all written about here, i then had a grievance with sky along with issues outside of poker and pretty much decided that i was going to stay away until these were sorted out. which brings me to now. 

I've started to enjoy poker again now that there were no worries alongside it as id previously found i was just playing it as a form of escapism so now that i am playing for the right reasons again i thought it would be good to set myself some decent targets. and use my diary as a form of focus and tracking results towards these. 

Some of you may remember when i first started my diary the goal was to pay for a tirp for the family to Disneyland and that was achieved and we enjoyed a great holiday. i've decided to go bigger this time. im currently in the process of proposing to my mrs, and i have decided that my target is to save enough money to pay for a week (or longer)honeymoon for us both. obviously the destination hasn't been confirmed yet as she isnt even expecting a proposal, but im thinking big, she's always like the Maldives and id love a return to vegas so either of those would be perfect.

good to be back hopefully i'll stick around abit longer this time

now to the boring bit... the results

Phantom66

Sigh more competition.

Only joking welcome back and good luck with the challenge.

RLT16

this month has gone very well for me, with the month starting with triple points for 3 hours a day i decided i was going to put in decent volume and go for 20k points this month, however when sky made the decision to reduce this too double points i revised my target and thought just getting back into priority would have to be good enough. ive stillachieved higher weekly bonuses than normal and i am well on track for priority having reached 8652 points so far with relativitely small amounts of time spent playing poker (no more than 3 hours a night)

	£5.50 DYMs	£11 DYMS	£16.50 DYMS	£22 DYMS	£33 DYMs	£55 DYMs	Total	Balance	weekly points
# Played	190	317	30	3	0	0	540		0
# Cashed	109	183	16	2	0	0	310		monthly points
							0		8652
Profit/loss	£45.00	£173.00	-£15.00	£14.00	£0.00	£0.00	£217.00	£1,013.49

stuarty117

Hope she dosnt read the forum lol

Gl lee i am sure you will do it.

RLT16

In Response to Re: Rlt's Revived DYM Diary:

Hope she dosnt read the forum lol Gl lee i am sure you will do it.
Posted by stuarty117

she started reading a book by Alan Carr about 10 years ago and shes still only half way through, i doubt poker forums are her thing

RLT16

In Response to Re: Rlt's Revived DYM Diary:

Sigh more competition. Only joking welcome back and good luck with the challenge.
Posted by Phantom66

Cheers Mark,

I had been silently reading your Diary, but as you know i was actively avoiding posting on the forum to keep myself out of trouble as at times i say things before i think them over. now that thats sorted though ill pop in and give some input from time to time, best of luck with your challange too

Tikay10

oioi, welcome back Bus Bloke.

Can't reply properly right now, am in the studio with Orford all evening (FML) but will reply in the morning.

Great to see you back.

Essexphil

In Response to Re: Rlt's Revived DYM Diary:

oioi, welcome back Bus Bloke. Can't reply properly right now, am in the studio with Orford all evening (FML) but will reply in the morning. Great to see you back.
Posted by Tikay10

Are you getting some poker lessons from Mr O then?

Welcome back Rlt