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Enjoy your winnings, good luck at the tables in the future!
Monday Update
Very little on Sky again, I only played the forum DTD, and bricked all 3 comps from promising positions, will get to those later.
Spent the afternoon grinding away on stars.fr, and managed to come 2nd/190 in a 10e turbo 6max tournament for 235e, and then won 6 consecuative 20e HU hyper sngs, to make it a +350e day there.
Pleased to get the momentum back straight away after Saturdays 'run bad'. Roll over there is up above 550e again, and go in to today on a 6 game HU winning streak.
Confidence/optimism restored!
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Will post my 3 exit hands from the DTD tournaments with abit about my thought processes, feel kinda unlucky in all 3, not bad beats or anything, just 'meh' kinda spots where I think I played well but just had the 2nd best hand each time.
DTD 1
After doubling up the very first hand, things slowed down and I seemed stuck between 8k and 12k for the next couple of hours.
I think this is a fine spot to jam, I'd expect to take it down pre flop almost every time against weak limping ranges.
I doubt I ever have less than 45% equity on the rare occasions that I am called, maybe they could have 77/88 at best, or a loose KQ/KJs type hand.
AJ is maybe the worst case scenario from my P.O.V.
Oh well, still happy with my shove, I guess the small blind saw me coming
DTD 2
This hand is pretty straight forward against fellow forumer Tintin.
Although he's known mainly as a cash player, he's won this DTD comp at least once before that I know of, and seems to do really well in tournaments in general.
He's probably one of the better players in the field, plays tight but aggressive, which is obv optimal in micro stakes tornaments.
My 3b from the sb is standard, 50xbb deep I can make it abit bigger maybe, but it's fine.
Flop top pair top kicker on a monotone flop in a 3b pot, from my P.O.V that's enough for 50xbb.
So many hands he can continue with here, KQ/KJ/KT, pair & fd combos, naked Ace/Queen of spades.
Could also have AK but pretty unlikely as that would normally go in pre.
Maybe getting it in here is one of the reasons I'm not very good at sky tournaments.
Should I be more risk averse? Or is this a standard get in against a TAG player?
If it was a loose/passive guy and/or a dry board I'd probably think twice, but think in this scenario it's got to go in.
Turn gave me chop outs, but no such luck. nh
DTD 3
This hand maybe not so standard.
I'm only 1 tabling at this point, so I've abandoned the 'play tight and play the nuts' strategy and have started playing much looser.
I isolate the limper for the 2nd hand in a row, and face a lead in to me on another 456 monotone flop.
Think I shud just fold here but get too stubborn, FPS creeps in, proves fatal.
I'm thinking I have 2 overs and a gutshot, there are so many scary turns for his donk-lead range, all high cards, spades, straightening cards etc.
I guess I didn't spend anytime thinking about his range, which in hindsight has to be pretty strong. If he doesn't have a made hand already, the chances are he's donking some equity, which will get there on alot of the turn cards I'm planning on 'representing'.
As it plays out, I'm uber lucky to hit my gin turn card, and I'm getting my apology ready before he's even shoved the turn.
lol.
Maybe not such a great turn then!
6 card straight flushes ftw!
Fwiw, this was the hand immediately before my exit hand. Same villain, same action.
Maybe I thought he might have been getting frustrated by my aggression, and decided to start playing back.
Levelling myself as usual.
This morning I'm full of optimism again and planning on winning the World
Lets see if I can string 2 winning sessions together for a change.
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Tip of the day returns today.
Try Simon Whitlock to beat Adrian Lewis @ 6/5 in the Premier League Darts tomorrow*
Nailed on imo!
Good luck all grinding today!
some very nasty hands their
that K10 hand could it have been J10 seems strange for him to jump right in with a bet when you showed aggression preflop?
as for the others very unlucky with them especiall that J10 and A8 i had some myself on thursday but made a big step back to recovery today.
V quick post today, only played the £2.20 scary mtt, the £12 sat to the £55 main, and the Orfordable on Sky on Friday.
Bricked the 2 small ones, got through the middle one = +£45 or something.
1 comical hand from the Scary that I have to share....
Sunday today = MTTs. Hopeful of a bink somwhere.
Good luck all on your Sunday grinds!
Apologies for the lack of updates recently.
It's totally due to a lack of volume on Sky. I'm sure that will change sometime soon, but at the moment I'm playing mtts during the daytime and therefore sky isn't the best option for me right now.
My last update on here was a Sunday morning going into an MTT session.
I posted the update @ 3 minutes past midday, entered a tournament at 15 minutes past midday, and an hour later had taken it down!
Hyper turbos ftw.
I cut the session short because I wasn't feeling well, I think the combination of winning something on a Sunday, and doing it with less than 2 cans of alcohol in my system was too much for my body to take, and the shock made me feel weird/dizzy.
I played again on Tuesday, and won another tournament! 6max turbo this time. I love the structure of their turbo games. The tournament had 300 runners and was over within 3 hours.
However a full 40 minutes of that 180 minute period was spent 4 handed on the final table.
Compare that with Sky, and you get to play deep on the starting table and the final table often has an average stack of like 9xbb.
You want the play to be at the end, where the money is. Not at the start when everyone is playing tight.
Sky could learn so much just by looking around at bigger/more successful sites imo.
Anyway, I don't really want to post too much/too often about my poker elsewhere as this is a Sky forum. But just to stop the diary slipping completely off the forum radar, I'll just put up a summary of my results for the last 3/4 weeks since opening an account on a new site.
MTTs
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/23/frmtt.jpg/
The MTT graph is starting to look good. Like a 'proper' mtt players graph should look.
All of the wins are in turbo tournaments. Skope has given me a stat, showing that 81% of the MTTs in that sample are turbos. So obviously you'd expect the wins to come from those games. But I do play a few standard games also (19% infact), it would be nice to get a result in one of those soon.
SNGs
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/255/frsng.jpg/
The sng form isn't what I'd like it to be. It's very inconsistant. A huge downswing at 1 point looks like a sick run, but really it was just 2 games when I tilted and entered 2x 50euro games.
The upswing that follows, is me coming back the next day and winning 7 consecuative 20e games!
Swingz!
It needs alot of work. The standard is terrible, but the rake is high. Maybe I'll spend a few hours today trying to fix it and make it look more respectable.
Thanx to GaryQQQ for helping with the above graphs & statistics.
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Whilst typing this I've had a few ideas about stuff I can do on Sky to post here. Might look at playing a few HU sngs and recording them, then posting the link up here. Maybe a BH or something. Think I still have the software.
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There may be some readers here who aren't farmiliar with the Sky poker legend 'the_don90'. He's just started up another diary on the forum entiled 'every don has its day'.
His spelling has always been abit ropey, he's missed the k off donk. I'm sure he'll edit it later.
It's always a quality read (it's his 3rd attempt at a diary) full of ups and downs, and rants/sulks. But in an entertaining way. Well worth a read, check it out over the next few weeks
Good luck all playing today!
sent u a pm, wanna pick ya brain in private - feel free to ignore me if you prefer )
How do I lose the game from this position?
Love the limp from 2xBB w/ 93s btw lol
Ha pretty spectacular comeback from 20% of 120 chips
@splashies.....
Classic bear, TT hand just after 13 minutes.
http://www.pokertube.com/videos/dabear-buzz-poker-bounty-tournament-with-ukipt-tic-21631
Description of player 5mins - 6.30ish mins pretty funny here too.
http://www.pokertube.com/videos/buzz-poker-london-ukipt-satellite-170213-part1
Things still going good ont'tother site.
Took down a 20e Hyper Turbo HU MTT on Friday for just under 300e, taking my roll over there to above 1.1k.
Some weird French withdrawl law that I wasn't aware of forced me to withdraw anything over 1k automatically though. Which is annoying, as I had good momentum.
I would re-deposit it if a) my bank didn't charge me £2.50 per deposit, and/or b) I wasn't too tight to part with £2.50.
I've cleared a 100e deposit bonus anyway, so withdrawing that amount means my roll is actually money won. Need to win today or I'll end up tilt withdrawing most of it. Stupid rule. sigh.
Only played 1 MTT on sky since Monday, was the Friday night team Orfordable thing.
Got a good early double up, using the 'overbet to induce' line on the river.
2nd one particuarly brutal, although I did flop some equity!!! Couldn't get there
UL for Rab too. AA v KK one hand, then 2 hands later KK v AA.
Poker Gods giveth.... etc etc etc.
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Bigger fields in the MTTs today, going to have to run even better than I normally do.
Will probably play some roller sats on Sky too, should be good value in those.
Not even risking any that might clash with the actual tournament itself though!!!
No way am I making that mistake again! grrrr.
GL all playing todayyyyyyyyyy!
Anyway! New month, and my first session of the month I did play on sky, back @ 30nl.
Things on .fr had slowed down abit, hit a 250e downswing, hadn't been playing well in the MTTs but all the losses came from HU hyper sngs. Playing 20e games and running bad, can just take huge chunks out of the bankroll very quickly.
Turned it around abit on Saturday coming 8th and 3rd in 200 runner mtts, for a +100e day, so hopefully that's the turning point again.
Sky went well, as it normally does when I can actually force myself to sit down and play. Just 4 tabled, 3x 30nl and 1 x 20nl between about 6pm and 9pm.
Would have played more but there were no more running, and didn't fancy firing up a load of 20nl, that level just makes me sighhhhhh when I look at some of the names sitting @ the tables.
Played alot tighter than usual, as there were plentyoffish.com around and there's really no need to get out of line against them. A couple of new regs around and I couldn't resist getting sp@ zzy against them, but nothing too bad.
Finished up +£100, so like 3.5 buyins.
No real hands of note, I guess this one was frustrating, as I expected to get the lot 100% of the time after his river raise.
Standard 'shuv' right?
Ok it's not a tough fold really, but I'm sure I'm not the only player who struggles to stick to the plan of 'bet/folding'. The bet bit is easy, then when they shove you're thinking, "hmmmmm maybe I don't have to fold after all, they cud have this, that, and t'other, omg I am ahead after all, I CALL!!!!!"
Discipline DOHHHHHHHH!!!
This is quite a funny hand.
Anyone who knows the villain can ROFL @ me for making this call.
haha. I never ever talk to myself or swear or shout or anything when playing online. Knew I was pretty drunk/annoyed @ that point.
Hero fail. Can't he just have a missed draw 1 time? pfffft.
Had to close off about 9 coz I honestly was too drunk to continue, I couldn't keep up with 4 tables. Which is crazy/a poor effort. But it was a Saturday, and I was up late Friday, so tiredness & beer normally = spew/calling station mode, happy to get out of there.
Planning on playing alot more cash this month unless Sky do a sudden last minute cash promo.
You'd think that 4 days in to the month and no announcement would mean I'm safe.
But it would be typical sky to announce a promo at like 3 hours notice.
So far so good though.
MTTs this afternoon on .fr. Theres a 10e 6max tournament on there, starts about 2pm. It's not a turbo but at least it's 6 handed, and has about a grand for the win. I think that's my best chance of winning a sizeable mtt with a prize up around the 1k mark, instead of the 250/300 binks. Which are nice, but not that big.
Gonna prioritise that MTT this month, perfect start time for me, and 6 max is undoubtably my best format. I WILL WIN IT!
Maybe DTD tonight, or maybe cash, depending on how it's going/how the tables look.
Good luck to everyone throughout March!
*will go look @ the NZvEng markets now. 9.30pm start time for the first test btw, should be able to watch quite alot of it
Onions was poor in the warm up game, Woakes is not a test match bowler, so Broad should retain the 3rd seamer spot throughout the series.
Compton top series run scorer @ 12/1
Trying out some of these 50/50s.
Cashed 2/3 before this game, I got £13.71 and £7.43 in the 2 I cashed, and lost the other, all 3 where £5.50
So slightly up, just testing the water.
4th game, we're 4 handed, I'm shortish on 900 (1.5k start stack) but the guy shorter than me on 400 chips has been away the whole game.
I know there's extra reward for having a stack, but cashing is main priority, so decided to take the free cash as I'm in bad shape against the 2 bigger stacks who were very laggy.
"WHAT HAPPENED NEXT???"
MORGAN is the away player.
Starting tomoro obv, today will be mainly spent trying to shake off his Hangover.