Token of Appreciation (0 to somewhere nice with the aid of a few tokens). Pledge of Positivity.

rainman215

Good afternoon Phantom.

All the best for your dog, what breed is she?

All the best Rainman.

P.S HAS ANYONE MENTIONED BRENTFORD 5 PRESTON 0 YET. 

Phantom66

^^^^^ That's a coincidence rainman397 was a brentford fan too.

Molly is a cocker spaniel.

Phantom66

In Response to Re: Token of Appreciation (0 to somewhere nice with the aid of a few tokens):

Hope your dog fully recovers. PS - Brentford won 5-0 - did you happen to notice that?
Posted by Tikay10

Thanks for the kind words. As to the other words I just have to accept the rubz from fans of good teams. WP.

Phantom66

Challenge update. Despite being on holiday most of last week, managed to bag another £2.30 token.

So now the fund is up to £16.10 tokens + £9.05 in reserved cash from 500 pt weeks.

This week thanks to the very generous 3 days of double points on offer I am already over 500 points. Hope to bag £7.50 in the premiership promo too.

However, those £5 turbo dyms have been biting the bankroll again and back down to the 50's.

Could someone with S/S please do me a favour?

I normally keep track for myself but with multi-tabling turbo dyms I lost track. If someone could kindly show my 2016 stats for 3.30 and 5.50 nl turbo dyms I would be grateful and hopefully have the facts I need to stop playing the £5ers. 

I definitely had some run bad but I also need to tweek a couple of things v the regs at those too - but now is not the time, some proper bankroll management is needed. I am going to try more tables at lower BIs while I try and scoop a few more double points later today with hopefully better results.

VWP belsibub and mkgunner for turning nothing into plenty last night. Shows it can be done.

WP Preston reserves on beating ballmouth reserves 3-0 last night. Bring on the pie munchers.

Phantom66

Most important update first, Molly is doing really well - time and a few drugs have her well on the way to recovery.

Dont know if it will ever be a full recovery, and we now have the worry of it happening again. BUT she is mobile, pain free, alert and happy. If I can say the same when I am her age in dog years I will be very happy.

On to more trivial matters.

Managed to bag a £8.07 rewards bonus, which is huge for me. Never had the chance to push on for 1000 and the jump to £12.50.

So that is another £2.30 cash reserved for taking a shot at a main. The date is getting closer to the punt as my first tokens run out on 23/10. Should see me have enough for a £33 main entry though.

B/R £100.82

Now I did deposit £10 but that is currently riding on Patrick Reed to be top points scorer in the Ryder Cup. Hope he isnt really as of course I want Europe to win, but he seemed value as he won this summer and been in major contention and seems to raise his game for the Ryder Cup - The US Poults or new Corey Pavin maybe? Anyhow its on at £5 e/w @12/1 and thanks to the sky bet offer I get a £5 free bet every time he wins a match.

The fund is now £16.10 tokens + £11.35 in reserved cash from 500 pt weeks.

PS Lynsey Horne (now Hipgrave) was mentioned ealrier in this thread. Only just realised on Saturday that she is co-presenter of the Football League show on C5. 

RIP Arnold Palmer. Surprisingly I am too young to remember him playing (in his prime anyway) the first stand out golf player I remember seeing was Seve. However I am old enough to have had one of these...

Phantom66

Looks like there will be more tokens on offer in October.

Might have to change my thread title to "On a mission..."

Not sure if I will go for it yet, don't get regular slots where I can play MTTs, albeit 50 points for a fiver should be doable for me.

Phantom66

BUMP.

Any chance of a bit of pic moderation before the weekend?

It was topical at the time.

Tikay10

In Response to Re: Token of Appreciation (0 to somewhere nice with the aid of a few tokens):

BUMP. Any chance of a bit of pic moderation before the weekend? It was topical at the time.
Posted by Phantom66

Apologies for that POTO,

I'm afraid that's something I am unable to assist with.

You know my feelings on this matter, it makes me jolly cross that we even have to get photos approved in this day & age, but I've knocked on this door so many times & my pleas have not been well received.

Sky__James

In Response to Re: Token of Appreciation (0 to somewhere nice with the aid of a few tokens):

BUMP. Any chance of a bit of pic moderation before the weekend? It was topical at the time.
Posted by Phantom66

There's every chance mate

Phantom66

In Response to Re: Token of Appreciation (0 to somewhere nice with the aid of a few tokens):

In Response to Re: Token of Appreciation (0 to somewhere nice with the aid of a few tokens) : There's every chance mate
Posted by Sky__James

Cheers

Phantom66

MTT Mission has started so had a go at a £5 PLO8 MTT to pick up 5 points.

Managed to bink a 2nd for £36. Pomfrittes deservedly won it having bossed our table.

However when the FT bubble finally broke (still don't understad why it had to be hand for hand play) there was another player with over £40k chips and pom was looking a bit short all of a sudden and the other 4 of us were just thinking ladder ladder ladder with only 3 places played. Pom carried on with the aggression and I snuck into 3rd and then the 2 chipleaders went to war to leave me v short with pom. Survived a few allins to make it interesting but eventually got my dues.

Did badly at the DYMs but some good fun at the tables.

Phantom66

Got myself another £2.30 last week so that makes the total fund...

£18.40 tokens + £11.35 in reserved cash from 500 pt weeks.

Reed won me some money on the golf (withdrawn profit plus a bit more) as B/R is now £164.45. Have some free bets to use this week but not much on that I know anything about. Might just have to mug punt a few e/w shots.

As it is MTT Mission month I am going to go for the first £5 Token, which needs 50 points. Having got off to a good start with the PLO8 mtt and with double points on MTTs should be easy to qualify this week.

With another £2.30 token to come it could mean my rewards qualified main event will be played next week.

MTT Mission results so far are below. Making a profit and 22 points earned so far.

                P/L ROI points   MTT Mission October 2016         £25.49 123.7% 22                         entry rake type entrants pos cash heads p/l cum p/l pts 1 £5.00 £0.50 plo8 24 2 £36.00 £0.00 £30.50 £30.50 5 2 £5.00 £0.50 NLH B/H 157 72 £0.00 £1.88 -£3.62 £26.88 5 3 £3.00 £0.30 plo8 35 17 £0.00 £0.00 -£3.30 £23.58 3 4 £2.75 £0.25 a-I sat 17 5 £0.00 £0.00 -£3.00 £20.58 3 5 £3.00 £0.30 15m timed 27 4 £8.21 £0.00 £4.91 £25.49 6

weecheez1

In Response to Re: Token of Appreciation (0 to somewhere nice with the aid of a few tokens):

Got myself another £2.30 last week so that makes the total fund... £18.40 tokens + £11.35 in reserved cash from 500 pt weeks. Reed won me some money on the golf (withdrawn profit plus a bit more) as B/R is now £164.45. Have some free bets to use this week but not much on that I know anything about. Might just have to mug punt a few e/w shots. As it is MTT Mission month I am going to go for the first £5 Token, which needs 50 points. Having got off to a good start with the PLO8 mtt and with double points on MTTs should be easy to qualify this week. With another £2.30 token to come it could mean my rewards qualified main event will be played next week. MTT Mission results so far are below. Making a profit and 22 points earned so far.                 P/L ROI points   MTT Mission October 2016         £25.49 123.7% 22                         entry rake type entrants pos cash heads p/l cum p/l pts 1 £5.00 £0.50 plo8 24 2 £36.00 £0.00 £30.50 £30.50 5 2 £5.00 £0.50 NLH B/H 157 72 £0.00 £1.88 -£3.62 £26.88 5 3 £3.00 £0.30 plo8 35 17 £0.00 £0.00 -£3.30 £23.58 3 4 £2.75 £0.25 a-I sat 17 5 £0.00 £0.00 -£3.00 £20.58 3 5 £3.00 £0.30 15m timed 27 4 £8.21 £0.00 £4.91 £25.49 6
Posted by Phantom66

Vwp phantom keep an eye on your free bets from the golf they are only valid for one week not like the poker freebies gl gl gl

Phantom66

Cheerz MR Cheez.

Yes I know about the time limit on the free bets, hence the might have to mug punt comment.

I only have any sort of track record on football and the big events on the golf, cycling and tennis calendar.

The only footie is the internationals plus the EFL trophy, not sure there is much edge in betting on Derby u21s v Doncaster's probable reserve team. Maybe once team sheets are out you might be able tell which lower league teams are actually up for it.

The £5 token will have a 1 week limit too, hence I am quite likely to use next week on a M/E with the other funds.

Phantom66

Got my 50 points in and doubt I will be able to hit 250 so that's probably it for this week.

I hit a couple of £5 turbos freezout and bounty hunt at 10 and 10:15 and the £11 bounty hunter at 930.

Bad mistake in the £11, knew I had to be behind to a better kicker on a AAT board but still called #sigh

Took 1 head in the £5 b/h and then when getting short and still a way from the money shoved a suited ace and ran into AQ.

Was going ok in the freezout until KK wasnt good enough aipf v KQ.

Still a better player than me said they keep getting it in 90% ahead and losing all the time. I know they are better than me because they said they were profitable and if it wasnt for the bad beats they would be a millionaire. 

Put my bets on the golf details on betting thread. No real insight so they are not tips, I am running well on a very small sample of bets this year. 6 runners and 6 places paid will hopefully give me some interest for the weekend. 

Phantom66

Had a pleasant morning/lunchtime.

Tried a £2 bh this morning and binked it. A couple of standard flips won to get me to the money then we were playing tag with the chip lead until I totally luckboxed a flush with rag ace v AQ. Makes the months MTT figures look better. Still dont think I'll get up to 250 points but the £5 token will be handy.

Then saw Mr Channing was on the cash tables. I think I carried a turbo bh style into that game, which worked until I tried an ill-judged bluff on Neil and was thankful this was a 2p/4p table. As I commented at the time great to be able to pit your wits against a professional with only a few pounds at most at risk.

In truth I was playing aggressively but with decent (imo) starting hand ranges and I wasnt bluffing post flop much at all.

Phantom66

MTT figures

						points		P/L	ROI
	MTT Mission October 2016					66		£25.32	56.5%
	entry	rake	type	field	pos	cash	heads	p/l	cum p/l	pts
1	£5.00	£0.50	plo8	24	2	£36.00	£0.00	£30.50	£30.50	5
2	£5.00	£0.50	nl b/h	157	72	£0.00	£1.88	-£3.62	£26.88	5
3	£3.00	£0.30	plo8	35	17	£0.00	£0.00	-£3.30	£23.58	3
4	£2.75	£0.25	nl a-I sat	17	5	£0.00	£0.00	-£3.00	£20.58	3
5	£3.00	£0.30	nl 15m timed	27	4	£8.21	£0.00	£4.91	£25.49	6
6	£10.00	£1.00	nl b/h	194	127	£0.00	£0.00	-£11.00	£14.49	20
7	£5.00	£0.50	nl turbo f/o	36	11	£0.00	£0.00	-£5.50	£8.99	10
8	£5.00	£0.50	nl turbo b/h	161	39	£0.00	£1.88	-£3.62	£5.37	10
9	£2.00	£0.20	nl turbo b/h	20	1	£15.00	£7.15	£19.95	£25.32	4

Phantom66

When I joined the Challenge Channing cash game I started off very aggro, to be fair I had KK, 89s and AT in first 3 hands. After a couple of orbits of no cards I received another cluster of starting hands and got busy again. I won a lot of uncontested pots for a handful of pennies. I can't remember calling much pre, or checking much post.

Then when I started getting resistance I took that to mean that opponents had adjusted to my aggression and were playing back at me. Rather than the more obvious conclusion that they had picked up the hand or hit the board like they had been patiently waiting to do and could sit back and let me do the betitng for them like the cash fish that I am.

NC did me twice (I think I did myself really in one, check-raise bluffing with air) and the one pot I managed to win v Neil he confessed to a misclick reraise. My reraise getting him off the pot for the princely win of 58p. Still I will save it for posperity, the hand I 5 bet Neil Channing.

Player

	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
WEEDSTER	Small blind		£0.02	£0.02	£2.88
metz7	Big blind		£0.04	£0.06	£3.96
	Your hole cards	10 10
gurney10	Fold
NChanning	Raise		£0.08	£0.14	£6.06
ristop	Fold
Phantom66	Raise		£0.30	£0.44	£3.70
WEEDSTER	Fold
metz7	Fold
NChanning	Raise		£0.44	£0.88	£5.62
Phantom66	Raise		£1.32	£2.20	£2.38
NChanning	Fold
Phantom66	Muck
Phantom66	Win		£1.10		£3.48
Phantom66	Return		£1.10	£0.00	£4.58

Phantom66

So my mini MTT Mission is over. I have qualified for my £5 token and it is double points SNGs coming up for the weekend.

Last night I played tired and it showed bricking a timed tourney and turbo bounty hunter, This morning bricked 3 b/hs apart from a couple of heads.

So this evening it was the FOSP PLO8 league games. The new late reg is a great addition as it meant I could play all 4 despite only loggin on around 8:15. Happy days!

Even happier when I won two tourneys! The only downside being that one of them wasnt a FOSP tourney. I just auto regged all PLO8 ones and took in a £3 one as well.

Having 4 on the go was a bit taxing for me especially when deep in a couple so lost my focus in some spots but cannot complain.

Overall figures for the run of MTTs

Played 19

Cashed  5* 

Won     3

Staked  £80

Profit    £35.50

ROI      44.4%

* In fact the other 2 cashes were a 2nd and a 4th. If I include the all-in sat (which I have for stake and points counts) thats 3 Final tables in addition to the 3 wins :-)

Phantom66

The £5 token for the MTT Mission (2x£2.50 actually) is in the account now.

So it is official, I have enough rewards saved up to have a shot at a £33 main and only 1 week to do it before the £5 disappears.

Decisions, decisions...

Phantom66

Accidentally regged a 16.50 instead of a 3.30 dym tonight.

Sat between tsarina and timmyrara didnt do much for the confidence. In not a very long time got myself pot committed against an unknown player to me with 77 and shoved on turn. called by KQ overcards. K river gg gn.

Now my B/R is higher I really must use the filters on game size to stop mw doing that again.

In other ways ran pretty well as B/R now up to £270.

Think I will go for Tuesday freezout with the tokens. I know B/H would spread the variance and give me more of a chance of getting some cash back but I just prefer freezouts and so will stick to what suits me. The 15% payouts might help me too.

Phantom66

As I will be getting 30 points for the main (and 5 for the mini) I may as well go for 50 points and the £5 token again this week, once the double points for SNGs finishes.

Phantom66

Had a bit of a melt down last night.

Had an enjoyable set of PLO8 dyms winning 4/5, shame the 1 was an £11 but never mind.

When these stopped I checked the time and the the points balance and decided I could get to 500 points.

It didnt go well, couple of mistakes, some runbad and then a computer lock up at 11:45pm with 5 tables running didnt help.

Lost quite a bit and to cap it all didnt make 500 points, busting out at 00:01 for the game which would have seen me over, a £16.50 turbo that I had regged for deliberately this time. 

B/R now £155 with another £2.30 token to come today. 

I have reached my goal of tokens for the main entry so maybe I really should stop chasing points.

Taking a break from the tables today, hopefully to come back focussed for the main tomorrow night.

Phantom66

Just realised I also made a withdrawal yesterday so not quite as bad as first thought, but still pretty bad.

£23.40 in tokens plus £9.60 in cash from the weeks when I got 500+ points will be used in the main, leaving me with £1.75 to rollover to the next challenge.

bbMike

Good luck in the ME tonight, be great if you can spin it up.

Phantom66

Cheers Mike, actually going for it tomorrow (fingers crossed).

Jac35

Gl Phantom

rainman215

The very best of luck tomorrow Phantom.

All the best.

Rainman215.

weecheez1

Good luck tonight phantom 

Phantom66

I'm in.

Thanks for the good wishes.

Hopefully I will be posting updates.