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A lesson in br management
When you're ripping up £5 dyms don't think you're brilliant. Even if you go up a few levels and keep winning don't go onto the £55 ones. (Certainly not when you think your luck's about to change after having KK, QQ, AK and AA cracked in succesive games. Noooo. Go to bed then.)
Because guaranteed your QQ button raise will be called by 10,4 and the flop will come j44 and you have to go all-in.
Certainly don't try and chase your losses because when you limp in with A7 (sb actually) and the flop comes AJ7 someone's bound to have AJ.
I'm not saying I'd have cashed but those were both in the first level.
Had to withdraw my Full Tilt profits to cover the extra ton I deposited here.
I guess you can't be good looking and lucky, huh?
Pah.
Because guaranteed your QQ button raise will be called by 10,4 and the flop will come j44 and you have to go all-in.
Certainly don't try and chase your losses because when you limp in with A7 (sb actually) and the flop comes AJ7 someone's bound to have AJ.
I'm not saying I'd have cashed but those were both in the first level.
Had to withdraw my Full Tilt profits to cover the extra ton I deposited here.
I guess you can't be good looking and lucky, huh?
Pah.
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I hate bad beat stories too, and usually shrug bad beats off. But one after the other after the other after the other??!!
How come my bad runs wipe me out and my pocket AA three times in a row only scrapes me into cashing in a £5 dym?
Is it possible I'm genuinely some sort of cursed idiot?
Goodnight, God bless, and good luck to you all. I'm taking a break and reading through Harrington's problems for a few weeks. Again.
I'll consider that advice in time mate. Thanks for it.
I'm away to bed to cry.
I just come in and realised my coat pocket has a hole and I lost £2 in change!
Really tho m8---dym games are a quick gambling fix---not a proper test of your poker skills--- play some proper games and your game will improve no end--- 5 min blinds are a test of who is the luckiest--- 12 min blinds allow your skill to show through, plenty of times I've been coolered for over half my stack, and come back to make the final table---
you cannot assess how good you are at poker in these silly 5 min blind games--- hope to see you honing your game in the deepies soon---oynutter
Sure I've had a few downswings, but a downswing on that level is very expensive innit--- you cannot be playing for fun and enjoyment after that mate, and once you stop enjoying yourself, your whole game suffers--- I noticed that some very loose and bad players were somehow managing to get a massive stack in mtts, so I loosened up my game on a "can't beat em, join em" philosophy-- This was a mistake, and resulted in a few downswings, so I went back to my tighter game (with the odd dodgy move--lol ), and my profit returned---
In a 2.20 deep stack, you have the chance to win 10x--20x--30x--even 40x your buy in, and no pressure is on you to win, so you can enjoy, watch, make notes, learn a patient, relaxed game--- Thing is Kiewoods, you can make a consistent profit on these games---- I'm not that good a player, and I have a lot to learn, but I have a 35% roi in mtts, and 3k profit in my first year-- so I am doing something right
I have seen that a lot of players don't like long games, they say it is boring--- but poker (proper poker) is a game of patience--- IMO-- there are plenty of games for gamblers to play, but with a consistent 35% roi over 2000 games, I don't consider my poker as gambling--- I would consider 5 min blinds games as gambling, which is why I don't do it--- I shove my whole stack in when I am 90% sure I'm gonna win (usually--lol)-- In 5 min games you have to race for your whole stack too many times to make it anything but a gambling game--- Personally, I can't afford gambling, I am unemployed, so showing a profit is important to me, and me julee--lol
The main point is, there are games that you can show a consistent profit in by playing a solid and patient game, my Daddy told me that gambling is a mugs game, and he was right--innit
the smaller bi deepies £2/£5 are getting more popular by the week which means you are getting more value which also means if you manage to cash or even win one theirs more money in the pool,four hours of play for two quid whats better,if like me you love poker you should never get bored
yeh im in the same position, just finished uni so unemployed, need to be more careful with what little money i have! think il deposit 50 quid or so and play mostly 5 pound deep stack mtts, thanks for the advice really appreciate it.
No worries mate, glad to help, I think the deep stacks should get the recognition they deserve, as proper games of skillful poker,-- imo, far too many players go down the wrong road when they are tempted by what looks like easy money. The 5 min blind games are tempting, I tried them myself for a while, and maybe they do suit some people, but if you can take out a massive chunk of the "luck factor",and play a good game, then surely you are better off, and more likely to profit--- if you make a long term loss in deep stack poker, you have to change your game, because you are playing it all wrong--simples--- but in 5 min blind games, it could easily be bad luck.
If you are new to deep stack poker, I'd advise playing 2.20 games first, then, when you are confident, and your notes are comprehensive, go up to 5.50, ask questions in poker clinic, IRISHROVER is a deep stack specialist, and he has a thead in the clinic for this very purpose----gl--floppa whoppa!!
DYM's are pure evil, Deepstacks FTW !!