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Thanks for the welcomes, guys.
Good to see some of you doing well out there.
I would post some of my recent cashes but if anything I'm down over the last 24 hours or so, so that seems almost pointless.
In the last 24 hours I've had just about every kind of sick result that you can think of and then some. Here are two great examples of what I mean:
1. Guy who seems to shove with any two picture cards goes all-in, hands are folded to me in the big blind and I'm sitting there with AA so I snap call. He has KQ, flop brings JT9. I played it cool after he apologised by telling him it happens but that didn't make it any less annoying...
2. I'm sitting there with A9s and min raise, everybody folds, guy in the big blind calls. Flop brings A72, he shoves, like he has done a million times with nothing. I call instantly again, knowing that he would have re-raised me pre if he had any A or a pair. The cards are flipped over to show he has 72os, giving him two pair and I'm done.
At one point I went out of four straight tournaments on river two- or three-outers. And don't get me started on the jokers shoving with J3s while I'm sitting there with a pair who then flop trips. Some sick, sick luck.
So, yeah, a few cashes but not enough to cover the losses caused by the bad beats (80 percent) and my occasional donking (20 percent).
I know someone said I should post every cash for team record-keeping but is it appropriate to do that when you've lost a little more than you've won over a 24 hour period?
Hi wizball its not the overall result that you post it's cashes in individual tourneys. For example:
MTT buy in £33.00. No cash
MTT buy in £5.00 finished 3rd for £56.00
You would then post the result in bold and ignore the £33 tourney even though it may be a loss overall. But it's entirely up to you if you feel a result isn't worth posting.
With regard to your bad beats I assume your fairly new to Skypoker. This will happen now and again and sometimes it will seem heavily weighted in favour of the players making these VERY loose plays. In my view the standard of play on here especially among recreational players is shockingly bad and the law of odds dictate that they will win some hands but a good player will overcome that in the long run. We all have a bad beat story to tell and it's always identical. A better player will always come out on top in the long run.
Well done on taking down the deepy -It really is a great feeling when it seems like we can do no wrong on the tables - Just make the most of it.
Congrats to K8 & Addo on the birth of our Junior TPT Member
WD bracewell nice cash.Hi wizball,let them keep defending their blinds with 72.You will win in the long run.If you look at the last stages of tourneys,from microstakes to the highest level,you will see the same old names time and time again.The bad players can win the odd tourney by running good.But the better players will win tourneys and run deep on so many more occasions through skill.What you have to remember that poker is a game of skill and luck.Use your skill to win in the long run and let the bad players get lucky now and again.As flyingdagg has said at the moment he is running good.Then again a couple of weeks ago he was running bad.We all run good and bad.But flyingdagg shows his skill will be a winning player in the long run with his skill.Gl at the tables guys.P.S i don't do paragraphs lol.
£50 GTD
£25 GTD
And just think - late night feeds can always be done with the laptop open..................
Best of luck with it all
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Dedicate my 1st place in the King of the Hill to all of TPT
Hope that some of you can come rail me on Fri 24 May @ 20:15 for the heads up extra pot - see if I can take this down for the whole of you TPT
Wish me luck
Chris Jones
POKEY2011
Bristol
Staying at the Broadway Plaza myself (not booked yet) next door to casino - nice location but around £150 for the two nights if still available - not yet booked due to work commitments possibly meaning I do not attend until Saturday (hoping not lol) - big party in Broad St , macapaca is in touch with me and he is up for a few sambucas on Fri night lol, Trev is going to stay in contact hopefully and we can meet at the casino as a central point then hit the bars lol - up for a laugh and hope to be their Fri night
Keep in touch and we can all take numbers and meet up.
Cheers all
Chris Jones
POKEY2011
Bristol
Look forward to seeing you there - I will PM you my hotel details (Cheap as Chips)
POKEY2011 - Did you get my email ?
Congratulations on becoming a dad. (I'm assuming you haven't just become a mum because you didn't mention pain!) Enjoy every minute of it while you can!
Well, I've had some ups and downs (more downs than ups, to be honest) in the last 48 hours but I have just had this nice result that has restored my confidence:
£100 Guaranteed, Buyin + Fee £5 + £0.50, 1st place, £74.00
I don't think that's my best ever cash but it's in the top three, so I was very happy, especially after the way most of the other MTTs have gone in the last two days.
I also had one other cash over £20:
£100 Gtd (15 mins), Buyin + Fee £5 + £0.50, 3rd place, £23.76
There have been some other small cashes but nothing better than £10-15.
I'm at the Norfolk Hotel, Directly opposite yours lol.
Good luck tonight pokey.
Right now I'm extremely annoyed.
I've just lost the best part of £30 on a few tables because the Sky Poker app decided to all but grind to the halt while I was playing a few MTTs. I have played that number of tables simultaneously on several occasions before without a problem but on this occasion the app just became all but useless.
Hands would time out before I had even seen them, etc, and I couldn't really do anything. Even restarting my PC and starting the app up again didn't cure the problem. I just couldn't do a thing as my chipstacks were whittled away.
Has anybody experienced this sort of thing before and, if so, what if anything can be done about it?
It's best to make sure non of the above is running whilst you are doing a poker session.
A refund may be possible through Customer Care, but only if you DID NOT play any hands after you were disconnected. Probably more hassle than it worth tbh unless you can prove you were not the only player affected.