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shame your run ended at 15... phew lol
still a great achievement vwp
gl if you play the £5's today..just mind the reg's & you'll be fine.
IF YOU DO PLAY THEM..PLAY A SET NUMBER OF GAMES... 3 MAX would be my advice.
speaking from experience I'd wait a while longer & build that b/r playing at the £3's
only because if you lose @ the £5's your b/r drops back & your confidence takes a hit as well
not to mention that they play even harder imo.
avoiding the reg's though will help along with having good notes on players.
if you don't have them then you are playing blind, so look to see who does what right from the first hand.
don't mess about on the bubble either..all-in or nothing poker pretty much.
glglglglglgl
dev
When i woke up again i felt refreshed so figured id play on, and ended well. one of the things i have noticed tonight, is that their are just as many players making silly calls and plays at this level as there are in the 3.30, the regs from what i can tell are playing very similiar to the 3.30 regs, most of the games i played today were agaisnt people that had made alot of profit according to sharkscope, im sure that once i get a feel for who the regs are and can avoid them a little more this will improve my returns.
I think my blip in the middle was due to me being a little on tilt, got abit angry when on the bubble with me on about 1.5k big stack on 5.5k and two others 2.5k each, i managed to go one on one with the big stack, he was small blind me big, 100/200 blinds he raises to 600, i have AA so shove over the top, he calls, turns over 10/4 and ends up hitting 2 pair. i know i want these people to be calling me but that doesnt stop it being annoying when they hit.
also played the orforable tonight, which lasted about 5 hands for me in abit of a cooler so ill have to wait until next week to win that.
Todays DYMs played 29
Todays DYMs won 17
Todays DYMs Lost 13
Todays profit/loss +£5.40
C4P 895
Total games played 274/400
Balance £108.89
overall im very pleased with my first session at the 5.50 level and will give it another shot on sunday.
Away from poker its been a bit of an annoying two days really, yesterday my washing machine broke and today the tumble drier decided to pack up to.. in other news though i bought the two best pairs of socks i have ever owned, they are extremely warm and comfy if your lucky ill send you in a picture, sports direct thermal socks 2 pairs for 11 quid, highly recommended for people who hate having cold feet but don't wear slippers.
Todays DYMs played 7
Todays DYMs won 6
Todays DYMs lost 1
Todays profit/loss +£21.50
C4P 930
Total games played 281/400
Balance £130.39
I Want to throw a question out to mainly to regular DYM players i guess but i'm sure its a question that others can answer to, what ROI should you be looking towards achieving, My ROI for the month to day is 8% which i consider to me really good, considering everything i played before this month totaled -5.4 ROI.
but should i be aiming for around 8% or are regular DYM players hitting more than this?
Oh and on top of my washing machine and tumble drier breaking, Newcastle lost to Southampton.. again... and i thought it couldn't get any worse. i wonder how long until they start chanting to re hire pardew, i'm sure there's a saying about not knowing how much you will miss something until its gone..
Todays DYMs played 13
Todays DYMs won 7
Todays DYMs lost 6
Todays profit/loss -£1.50
C4P 995
Total games played 294/400
Balance £128.89
probably let myself sdown a little with table selection tonight, seems to be sat on tables with alot of winning players on them, which is obviously less than ideal so ill have to be a bit stricter on myself to make sure im using table selection as much as possible, although sometimes you just want to start a game it does take a little while for games to fill
I also played a few heads up games and won 4 from 4 and a handful of bounty hunter tournaments that i played well in for the most part but didnt make the cash and also didnt track the costs etc properly as my spreadsheet wasnt really set up for them.
DYMs played 91 (40 of which were 5's)
DYMs won 53
DYMs lost 38
profit/loss -£11.59
C4P 1358
Total games played 391/400
Balance £118.34
Its basically a certainty that i'm going to reach my target of 400 games now and ive done so making a very decent profit which is not only my highest profit month ever (if it stays as it is now) but my second in a row, so the signs of improvement are there, just got to keep building on them.
keep up the good work,
dev
^^ lol lol
so i haven't posted for a few days although i have still been playing, since i last posted i've played 87 dyms and to be honest with you i haven't tracked the results extremely well, i've also played some HU games which i started doing quite well at, then i sat down with donttellmum and he crushed me about 6 times straight and that put a bit of a dent in my profits, but oh well live and learn and avoid DTM.
like i said i haven't tracked my results very well but i do have today's results i played 45 DYM's and won 22 of them, which is obviously not great, but i had an awful start for the day winning 5 from the first 15, then while 4 tabling i got disconnected and by the time i got back i was out of 2, and down to minimal stacks in the other 2, i managed to claw one back though so from 6/18 to 22/45 will have to be good enough for today.
C4P 1736
profit/loss since last post -£14.46
Balance £103.88
Games played 478/400
since my challenge is complete i'm going to play a few less games and only two table the dyms now, and play the odd cheap bounty hunter along side those, i really want to improve my MTT game as this is yet another area of my game that needs working on, does anyone have any general advice on how i should play differently to in dyms, i've played a couple and i've drilled it into myself to not go chasing head prizes to build a stack instead and the heads will come or they wont, but it will give me a better shot at running deep, but as for actual game play tactics any advice would be appreciated really.
goodnight
Here's a link to some good info on tournament strategy.
You should be able to get some tips from this. GL
NLH MTTs - Tips, Advice, & Help Thread
Regards Alan (plo8 master)
DTD 1 went very well for the most part a slow and steady start then about mid way through the tournament i managed to build myself up a monster stack of 30k chips. most of them were gifted to me to be honest i dont feel like i did anything spectacular to get them, it must of been the really soft table i was sat on, i had hhtfyfyfyfhtfg to 2 spots to my left
I spent a long time in the top 10 of both dtd 2 and 3 aswell but those ended just as badly just short of the bubble. good fun but ultimately no reward, ill try again next week anyway
Theres a table of everything i have played today, ill try and keep it like that every day now, as its tidier and easier for everyone to read.
C4p : 2623
Balance : £236.31 (i am not sure there extra £7 profit come from must have no tracked my games very well, Bonus!)
Away from the tables my son had to go into hospital today, while this may sound bad its pretty much routine for us at the moment, he hasn't been diagnosed with asthma yet but were pretty sure that he has it, we've been in and out of hospital 3/4 times a year since he was born (he is coming up 3 years old) so i've been at home looking after my daughter most the day while my Mrs has been with him, he is likely to be home tomorrow so that will be a relief.
pretty much all my side of the family, not including me) has asthma, and my brother was a severe sufferer so its something that i've grown used to and can accept now as a daily part of life, although it doesn't stop it being worrying.
At the beginning of the month and this diary, i set myself a goal of playing 400 games and from what i gather the whole point in setting these goals is that when u reach them you reward yourself in some way or another, i didn't specify a reward from what i can remember so i decided today that my reward was going to be buying into the 12k bounty hunter Tonight. its a £33 buy in tournament and one that i would never even go near playing, but i figure that i have worked for it and deserve it, not only did i smash my goal (im at close to 600 games now) but i did so without losing money, which for me is a massive achievement in itself. and who knows i might even win it, id like to say stranger things have happened but that is probably not true.
good night all
overall this month has been the most profitable month ive ever had, and its my second profitable month in a row, so i should be ending the month happy at my results but fact is im abit dissapointed in some of my play over the last few days and that ive let myself tilt a bit.
i obviously still have a lot to work onm over the coming months and hopefully can get back to winning ways.
Todays profit/loss: £35.4
End of month balance £149.33
end of month C4P: 2408
This months profit (incl C4P): +£119.91
My goals for next month is going to be another volum based one, im gonna set myself a target of 500 £3.30 DYMs and a limit of 5 MTT's a week, and not play any other game types, this will helpfully allow me to focus on the game types im strongest at and improve my ROI while allowing me to work on my game.
Goodnight all
The night didn't end particularly well losing my last 4 games but played well enough before that for it to be brushed off and ill make up for it tomorrow my winning all 3 DTD games.
I really like this months sky promo but after putting in my highest ever volume of games last month, i think im going to struggle to get the extra 100% needed to match this, so i've upped my tables to 3 which will give me a 50% extra on last month, and hopefully if i can get online enough while the double points are given out and with the extra table i should just about manage it. however i dont want chasing the promo to get in the way of my results and learning, so if i feel like my game is suffering because of adding a table or chasing points, then ill simply go back to 2 and just give it up. because while £60,000 sounds great, just qualifying is going to be hard enough theres no garuntee i will win anything when entered so i could chase the points and then end up going out early and getting nothing from it anyway.
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I lost 7 of my first 8 games today which if you included the previous days results meant id won only 14 of the last 41 games i had played, i'm sure the more experienced players on here will probably say that down swings like that happen all the time and you just have to learn to deal with them and that its a small sample size, and i guess there right but for a player of my standard (very average) to have your confidence knocked on those runs can be pretty destroying. well anyway I didnt leave instead i loaded up the poker videos id watched a month or so ago and watched them while playing, and also read through johnconnnors blog for what must be atleast the 10th time. i read through the pms that had been sent to me offering me advice.
Then it all clicked into place I played a further 29 games and won 23 of them (including 1 £5.50 that im not entirely sure how i regged for) so i not only managed to recoup everything i lost this morning but most of my loses from the previous night to, and put me in profit for the month. confidence right now is on a massive high hoping to continue tonights form into tommorows games.