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Very honest post from you above, well done for that, I really do hope you contiue your Diary in the new year tho, best diary on here IMO (mine pushses you close of course).
Good Luck
Shuv
Spec to Acc as you said, and you did get it in good in your £750 flip lol.
Best of luck for your next session and 2013.
Deffo keep the diary imo, maybe just something to mix it up a bit... maybe another lil Hyper challenge between you and me
We've all been there and it's just horrible. Every time we get it in, the worst possible run out seems to happen.
I really think you're being hard on yourself. With the 5's hand i think his call is close, although i obviously don't know the gameflow and history. Win that and everything seems so different.
I like your comment about having another session and hoping to claw some back. That is in my opinion by far the best way to look at it. Rather than going crazy and playing too high and trying to get it all back in one go, approach it as a blip and as a winning player you know you will turn it round by grinding it out. Will just take a little time.
With regard to your diary going stale, couldn't disagree more.
Honest, humourous and really enjoyable to read.
Hope you continue with it.
Good luck
Jac
Not exactly loving life but yeah it has to go in i guess
i understand you feeling well dohhhhh
these all in bet see to cause more losses then wins i myself twice suffered two very simular losses myself where a monster set became a loss due to turn and river card and calling a shove with KK lost to AK i am beginning to think myself of doing a diary and will show my best and worst hand of the day as well as how i did in general
You got the cash in good DOHH, was unlucked to hit both the a and the k, but that is the thing with HU as you probably know, peoples ranges are completely different, especially a player like style, you cant be putting him on AK about 90% of the time.
You got balls though so big respect....you will soon grind the loss back and laugh about it one day I'm sure
So I'd lost the plot, I just wanted to gamble, shove it in, hope I'm racing, and get there/hold!
happy new year,
don't post here very often,but pop in to have a brouse every so often.
sorry to hear about you recent loss, but i'm sure you will recover and soon be back on track.
i can relate to it as in my dym challenge i lost £129 when playing £11's for the 1st time which was over 1/2 my b/roll at the time,and yes it does hurt for a while,but it gets easier by the day and i'm sure you will look at it as a lesson learnt...the hard way,as i did.
best wishes for 2013 and building that b/roll up again.
dev
Cheers Dev.
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Pretty ridic first day back, only played 3 mtts.
£11 BH. exit hand.
exit hand.
Wud have had almost double 2nd place again with 50 odd left and £150 up top.
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Knew it wud happen today, momentum is a killer when it's against u!
bby etc etc etc apdojfkpijaeivj bla bla bla lol. fuuuuu pkr!
Unlucky mate, pretty sick to have that in 3/3 MTTs. Get back to the Hypers
I've been away for xmas and new year and came back to my fav diary. Very brave of you to post the bad cash losses plus hands. Too many players like to big up their play. You tell it as it is and it's appreciated. God 55 all-in pre is 'brave' play for that much cash mate!
For some reason, your bad beats seem to get more of a "aaaaah" effect rather than " and so...!" from me as it shows that experience can not always evade a swerve ball, as it were. Those AA hands esp the AA vAk i've had too and i'm not sure whether tapping it into pokerstove is comforting or not then eh/
Anyway, D, have a great 2013. sue and i are off on a six week cruise in a short while which unfortunately has poker on board...sigh!!! All the best....
Haven't posted for a few days, because I've not really played anything on Sky, I've been grinding away in the afternoon elsewhere looking for an MTT bink.
I've gotten close a few times, the tournaments on .fr really suit me, loads of 6max and 6max turbos.
It's frustrating but the standard is so bad that I actually feel I have an edge and a bink is coming soon! Watch this space
In the 3 sessions I've done since the last update I've played the sky BH's @ 2pm (£11) and 2.30pm (5.75)
I'm so jinxed in these! ha.
4 of the 6 tournaments I've busted within the first blind level!!!!
Got deepish in both yesterday but no luck.
Played some hypers and other stuff here too, but haven't got a record of how much I won/lost. Will have to rely on skope for the stats to update at the end, will ammend later.
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Anyway, yesterday I went back to play cash!!!
Started about 8-15ish, and played until just before midnight (until I ran out of beer
6 tables of 30nl like I used to do all the time. Wish I had the will power and concentratio to play cash more often.
I'm far from the best player at these levels nowardays, back in the day I could have possibly claimed to be up there with the best 3/4 regs @ 30nl, but I've stood still whilst other players have improved and am now probably not even in the top 10.
That doesn't mean I can't win though, and there are loads of fish flying around!
My playing style is still pretty erratic, and I get into reg-wars which probably isn't the best line to take when they're better than me.
Just been over the hand histories, and there are 3 pots of nailed on 'spew'.
Couple of coolers, and 3/4 losses above 50xbb where I've just stationed off.
The calling station thing, isn't so tough to deal with, that's just me being a donk.
The spew is worrying though. Gonna post a few hands, maybe get some feedback.
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Hand 1
This is against a good winning reg. Probably on the tight side, but not a total nit like some.
He will view me as very aggressive and probably spewy.
meh, hate it already now I've said that.
Any thoughts on my line?
Deep enough to call pre, 'implied odds' blah blah.
Sigh, just fold flop dohhhhhhhhhhh.
As played though? sizing? can I get him to fold stuff? BOMB river???????
Another winning reg, more of a laggy style and have a very aggressive dynamic going on.
I've 3b his late position opens alot this session and in the past.
3b/fold?
3b/5b? too optimistic?
He can def 4b bluff here.
Don't even know if I'm shipping for value or what. I think I do okay against his 4b/call range and he folds to the shove sometimes too.
Thoughts?
Had a 3rd hand but not gonna bother with that 1, looks standard. Might do if these get some interest.
Anyway despite the above spew and some more on top, it was a successful and enjoyable return to the tables, once I got going.
I just hope I can find the motivation to play again tomorrow, because it's by far my most profitable form of poker. It always has been.
Jan totals.
Profit +£173 (roughly, to be ammended later)
Points 448
Profit +£35
Points 558
You seem to have such a good grip on how you are playing. The two columns of boards and how yu play looser top to bottom is a vg eg. You've been playing for a fair amount of time. If you had a timeline of your time in poker, how would you delineate the time to identify say when you felt your grounding was good with fundamentals, when your confidence peaked, when you thought your learnig was getting towards the advanced stage. However, you want.
I see some people's sharkscope graphs and after 1000 to 2000 games a player may get a good win and then there seems to be a gradual positive incline in their winnings probably from increased confidence. Would you say there's a period of time that players need to find their game or the confidence to play properly?