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Hello readers.
I'm due a £50 rakeback payment from Sky this week for last months 'efforts', which suggests I must've been playing on here quite alot, or at least, enough for me to have some content to relaunch this.
wiiiiii/booooo ??
Last months poker was mainly based around tournaments, the multi table ones elsewhere on French sites, the single table ones here on Sky.
Both went well for the most part, the highlight being a 2nd place finish in a €6 rebuy which paid around €750. My biggest tournament score for years!
I played 2 specific HU sng sessions towards the end of last week, with positive results.
The results are shown in the graph on the link below.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/827/jyt1.jpg/
I had no real pre-meditated plan to play them, I just fancied playing a few last Thursday, I won, so I kept playing.
After Thursdays success, I decided to play again on Saturday, and again, ran/played very well.
So with the new month around the corner I've decided to take them on again as my 'main' grind throughout July.
The first session was played yesterday, on the 1st of the month.
It was a case of 'back down to Earth with a bump'.
I've played a few thousand HU sngs over the last couple of years, enough to understand that momentum is crucial, it's awesome when you have it, and really really difficult to play against a player who has it.
This naturally makes the games very swingy, especially in the turbo formats that I prefer.
In those 000's of games I mentioned above, I cannot remember a period of 30-40 games where I ran as bad as I did last night. (oh great, another diary, another guy moaning about how bad he runs, bla bla)
Seriously though, ouch! v one guy imparticular, @ £21 a time, it soon adds up!
I'll share some hands below, feel free to skip to the end of the post (or x off the thread and never open it again) if bad beat HH's aren't your thing. But if you're abit warped like I am, and enjoy reading this kinda thing, enjoy!
First the results.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/209/v8yf.jpg/
I know it doesn't look that bad on paper, and in a way that's a good thing, the fact I can run awful, get outdrawn left right n centre, coolered constantly, be card dead game after game, and still come out pretty much break even!
Few hands. This fella was god-moding for about an hour.
Or a £240 swing if I can hold 6 times (obv expect to lose a couple).
Meh, moan over.
To the guys credit, he did continue re-matching for a few games after he stopped binking, normally when 'they' lose after winning loads they run with the money. As they're entitled to of course. I'm glad this guy at least played on a few more games.
I've been playing £10.50 speed games mainly. The average buyin in the above sessions is always around a tenner, with a few £5 and £20 games thrown in when things are slow.
A few hypers too, but I prefer the turbo structure now, makes the 5% rake abit more beatable.
Have no real targets or owt like that for the month. And not sure if I'll continue with the thread after July ends, we'll see.
Have obviously renewed my sharkscope membership for the month, if anyone wants me to get any graphs/stats let me know and I can pm you them or post them here.
Thanx for reading, and gl in July every1!
I like a gamble, anything where the risk is low and the rewards are potentially high will appeal to me, it's why I bet on horses on a Saturday afternoon even though I know very little about the 'game'. It's entertainment and winning is a bonus.
At least with poker I can watch and understand what's happening, and make sure the investments are +ev.
I doubt i'll ever be able to 'buy myself rich'.
Although as you know I recently came kinda close to a $22,000 return on only a $11 investment.
Was great fun sweating that one in, doubt I'll ever get a 'horse' close to that kind of score again but it will be good fun trying!
In Response to Re: "Sit & DOHHHHHHH Diary": Hey Ben.
If Acegooner is your toughest challenge you must be flying
Vaguely remember the HU game, and re-call everything was pretty standard.
Hate playing solid players in hypers. It's not like I set out to 'bumhunt' (or maybe it is) but @ 5% rake it's really difficult to make a profit playing random/bad players.
I'm not even sure it's possible to overcome 5% rake at hypers against players who know what they're doing.
Yeh now that I'm back grinding these again I might finally be able to contribute to that HU group! 6 months + after it started!!!
Will definitely look at doing something this week, will be on tomorrow and Friday, I'll keep an eye out for you.
gl at the tables!
In Response to Re: "Sit & DOHHHHHHH Diary": haha, can very much relate to the bolded bit Prof!
I put an idea up a couple of years ago......
I suggest that when the cards go on their backs, and players respective equities are revealed, instead of dealing the community cards a 'roulette type wheel' appears in the middle of the table, which has a % coloured red, and a % coloured black to reflect the equities, and it spins randomly, and whatever colour the ball lands on, that player wins.
It would save me getting really tilted watching run outs.
Getting it in with AK v a pocket pair, flopping an A or K, then the other player turning or rivering a set is the nut worst feeling in poker!!!
Would love the roulette wheel option to be available in settings.
re the cricket.......
I agree it's not going to be as easy as some people are making out.
I think it will be hard fought, wont have the 'quality' of previous ashes series, but will be lots of drama as ever.
If I were to use the roulette wheel idea above to predict the series, I'd colour 65% blue for the chances of an England series win, 25% black, for the chances of a series draw, and an unlikely 10% yellow to reflect the chances of an Aussie win.
2-0 England the most likely result imo
Can't wait
I'm playing the turbos, which are pretty quick. I wouldn't mind seeing the 10/20 level added, it's only 2 minutes extra per game.
I think I'm misplaying a lot of hands in the early levels currently, often find myself at a chip disadvantage when we get to 40/80 (1k starting stack), but then players just seem to have no idea what to do, and I've been getting back in to it very easily.
If I can remember how to play deep I should start having more success.
Happy to join in any challenge that's based on winrate/profit, if it's anything volume related, I'll leave it to you 2 guys to go Heads Up
I'll prob play between 30-40 HU games a day, every other day.
15 x 35 = ? Not many !
It's very casual, if a friend wants to play a bigger event, normally part of an online 'series' or some kind of promotion elsewhere, maybe even an spt, and they aren't comfortable paying full whack they'll often ask if I wanna chip in a few quid for a few %.
It's all very informal, I'm sure most players do or have done similar at some point, it's just abit of fun for me, and has been profitable overall.
Now that I've posted on your diary, I think I class as a poker friend, and you should sell me 10% of your spt 6max action!
Back2back champion????
2 timessssssssssssssssssssssss
Derby 20/1 to win the championship!! Always feel they're a sleeping giant, massive under-achievers with incredible support home and away.
Might put them in a forecast with Reading, who I think will win the league easy (again).
Just incase!!!
FYP, and yeah no point me and you playing thousands of games against each other may as well just meet up and flip coins for few hours, i can beat people who think about poker at level 1 with ease and luckily 95% at 5.25 turbos are like that.
I'd be up for an roi challenge or something over x amount of games, need a reason to stop tilting up to £21 hypers, i'm trying to get a big grind in myself this month Ace at the 5.25 level so don't be coming and stealing all my customers get back to cash lol
1000 lol mental
Want a sidebet on who has the best ROI after 100 games? I'm playing £1 turbo games, you playing £5 turbo games?
Morn'n.
Stop n start day yesterday, was on the computer all day from midday until around 10pm, but didn't really get much done
Started with mtts elsewhere, and managed to win a €5, 4max turbo for €240ish before 1.30pm! Very strange feeling having won an mtt with near enough a full days play ahead of me, not good for motivation!
I played a few more, mainly small turbos, and bricked everything apart from 1 7th place finish in a 1.2k gtd, which paid around €40, basically just covered all other buyins outside of the win. Decent day on mtts.
Plan is to transfer over to sky for the 2nd half of poker sessions, around 5/6ish until 10/11 depending on what time I pass out.
This didn't quite happen, got distracted by Skype and railing Don to a semi-deep run in another 4max tournament elsewhere.
Had the "well I've won 200 quid already today so I cba" attitude.
Was also a fun rail.
Eventually did get going on Sky, managed to get 18 games in in a couple of hours, between 8pm and about 10ish.
Results and performance were both decent, still room for improvement.
Ran pretty bad again tho!
I try to be as honest as possible when it comes to assessing how I'm running. I hate it when people convince themselves they're running way worse than they are.
But the last 2 sessions, despite winning overall, I've been below ev I think.
There will be periods when I run good and lose, too.
Here's the results.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/14/jlez.jpg/
It's not often I end a session on a positive note, I must really have been struggling to see if I called it a day on a 4 game winning streak! ugh.
Go in to Fridays session with abit of momentum anyway. Will aim to play 50+ HU sngs.
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For the benefit of acegooner/benc.....
My stats for the month are...
58 HU turbos.
Avg stake = $19.31
ROI = 8.4%
Profit $58.54.
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GL all playing today.
My stats for the month are below, played a mixture of everything though which include quite a few £21 hypers last two mornings been purely because i've seen value against one specific player who is a reg at them levels but he had a little heater and coolered me a few times so only ended even today, still in profit at the moment. The bulk of my games will definetly be at 5.25 turbos and hypers though.
Games: 240
av stakes: $12.13
Roi: 4.4%
Profit: $96.85
*wp on the mtt win btw, good to see some regular updating again.
Heres myne, roi will come down no doubt!
Obv the only one out of the 4 of us to be losing! Only played about 100 games so far this week, all £5.25 Speeds & Hypers and am down abuot £40 atm ... I think, something like that anyway. Ran SO bad in my first session of them so have spent ever since trying to win that back (which I am doing slowly).
Dunno if I'll play for the full month, but if I do, I'll join yaz.
Lost count how many times I've said this
Tricks of the trade!
He set up both goals:(
1000 games, you are a machine! Good luck to you!
I didn't know you had a challenge going, sounds good. If you do want a side bet of a tenner let me know.
Based on me playing 100 games, against your x amount of games 1000?.
I take it the rake is the same 5%, no matter what level you play.
The best ROI over that period wins.