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Thanx for the feedback both.
I'm trying to play a lot more risk averse in the games, to try and lower the variance and use post flop edges that I (hope I) have over my opponents as much as possible. This was a big factor in bet/folding the KQ. In the past I'd have probably called it off.
It also helps when things are going well. If I'd have lost my last 2/3 games, I probably call there.
Things wont be going this well forever, so hopefully I can keep playing well when on a bad run too.
In Response to Re: "Sit & DOHHHHHHH Diary": Teddy, don't be.
You can tell from your post here and general input around the forum that you have a better understanding of the game than most of my opponents at £10s.
You know what a value hand, and a range is. That puts you in the top 5% of players @ 10s already. Very surprised you're grinding £1s. Have you been doing that long, or are you new to the game? I know u haven't been on here for long.
fwiw, I called the last hand when I had the under house, and the opponent showed a total airball. No pair no draw from the flop.
Spose his bluff isn't that bad, he could have runner-runnered the over-house, which he could legitimately bet like that expecting me to have 8x sometimes. I have to fold A high, 5x, maybe some other stuff that has showdown value against that bet size.
Think I'm just too strong to fold.
Will try and post more strategy hands in here in the future.l
Great start to a sporting Saturday.
This guy has to be one of the best sportsmen on the planet.
BOOM BOOM
Session of 2 halves yesterday.
I didn't play well at all, had some probz with a tooth on Friday overnight, then woke up with abit of a cold too, so the combo of tiredness/painkillers & beer I think got to me around 8ish and I wasn't focussing very well. So ended early.
The first half was fine, it was business as usual, playing well, running well, being on the right end of the coolers & 'standard spots'. Got on a run of 6 wins in a row @ 10s.
Then I started really struggling, finding myself being the 800 stack v 1.2k stack @ 40/80, and having to get lucky just to survive. And went on a run of 5 losses
Graph.
http://imageshack.us/f/203/33bu.jpg/
Target at start of challenge = Make $913
Results so far = Plus $371
New target required = $543
$550 required in 5 sessions.
I've had no luck at all in the sky daytime bounty hunters this month. I've taken 1 bounty from a total of 10 tournaments. No cashes.
I suspect I'm going to need to win 2, maybe 3 this week to threaten that target.
Back at it Monday morning, gl all playing today!
Have abandoned France for today apart from 2 of my fave mtts, 1 @ midday and 1 @ 5pm.
All out on sky, playing every tournament £5 or £10 with a reasonable gntee.
Couldn't be going much worse tbh.
£11 and £6 BHs down already, no heads no cashes.
V short in another £5 and a £5 freezeout.
These buyins addup when converted to dollars!
This hands sums the day up so far.
I can see why people don't enjoy playing these, they're an absolute minefield. And without good hands, there's not much you can do to win.
'Super' high variance.
2nd £11 game about to load, hope this hour is better than the previous 2.
fwiw France is going quite well! #irony
Horror mtt day.
1 cash in a £5 freezeout.
A9 < KQ for 20k. std.
yler2428873.11 coolhand8725522.78 BCFCTAFF1911604.11 DOHHHHHHH04£18.15Wacko9005£14.85
Can't seem to crack em!
Was going quite well in a £11 BH, then had this.
Tripled up in a £3 timed 'mtt' also to claw some dosh back.
I'm $200 down this month in Bounty Hunter tournys.
If I hadn't played any, I'd be almost at the target!
HU sngs mainly from now until I drop, please run good doh.
Think we just met on the FT of a £5.50 game? I maybe wrong....
Relatively new here in all honesty but hoping to build a roll - I love 6max games and feel like I should have an edge in the ones on offer here.
I'm not bolly/flashflush!!!
My graph is more like Phil Thompsons nose.
Unspectacular, but consistently rising!
Also that mountain has a rather steep decline 'ovvver t'uver side' which I wouldn't want my graph to reciprocate!
Have u climbed it?
In Response to Re: "Sit & DOHHHHHHH Diary": We did coolhand, welcome to the thread.
syler2428873.11 coolhand8725522.78 BCFCTAFF1911604.11 DOHHHHHHH04£18.15Wacko9005£14.85
I believe it was this one, how did you get on?
Without being disrespectful to the chipleader when I busted, I would have fancied you to take it down from that position you were in above.
High variance though ofc, so you could just as easily bust the very next hand without doin a thing wrong.
I'm not a great 6max MTT player tbh, I think I'm way too tight. I play a lot of mtts elsewhere that are 9 handed and do alright, I just can't seem to adapt to sky tournaments.
Will keep working at it!
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General update, spend the last hour doing nothing. €20 HU hyper mtt in France in 5 mins, then definitely grinding sngs all night!
*edit, lasted 5 hands.
Be nice to me, sky sng rng!
gl all playing.
Erm..... Not sure about your comment re 6max games though... I've seen your stats/graph and I think the opposite would be more true... Yeah the standard seems quite soft here, but you're 12k or so up.... steady away through 2k+ games is that.
I'm sure I'll be seeing you around much more anyways.... Whilst on a BR building mission on Sky, i'll defo be adding funds in the future if all else fails - feel like I'll get on okay here... Tight is fine as long as you have a solid shove/fold range later on in these games... Stacks defo seem to be quite shallow when deep, even in the non-turbo games.
Bet Ivey/Cody/Mercier & co are relieved!
haha, nah nowhere even close to that level! I only play £10 games!
I just play online on some French sites. I spose people new to this diary aren't to know that.
Congrats on the 2nd. Syler seemed to 'have it' everytime. Tight is right, I guess!
Good luck tonight.
Another dull/uninspiring day where I made very little progress.
Not much action at all, and I finished early again.
23 HU sngs, +$61 w/ $17 avg stake and 14% ROI.
I tilted abit and started reging £21 games, luckily won the first 2, then lost a flip w/ 22 < AJ in the third.
That last game was a £40 ($70) swing
Did rubbish @ mtts so only +$34 overall for the day.
Target at start of challenge = Make $913
Results so far = Plus $405
New target required = $508
Think I need to give up on the bounty hunters.
Here's my graph for them so far this month.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/24/n7y6.jpg/
The HU sngs have saved the day!
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/834/h9gt.jpg/
Turns out there are 31 days in October (who knew?) so I still have 5 more sessions to get there!
Need a new plan for daytime games on Sky though, any suggestions?
Not sure I can do dyms. Well I can play them, I just don't think I'll be able to beat them.
Will think of something.
GL all playing today.
Yeh as I said at the table I'm happy to play you a few games at a lower level.
You around tomorrow? Best of 5 £1 games in the afternoon?
Post up here sometime tomorrow or find me at a table to arrange a time.
In Response to Re: "Sit & DOHHHHHHH Diary": Jacccoooooo!
Will try not to write another huge essay...
HU
Main thing is they're quick! Over in less than 10 minutes.
They're fun, we have to play almost every hand!
I don't have to concentrate for long periods, and I don't have to think too hard or get in to many complex spots.
I'm not sure they are very hard to beat.
I play £10.50 games, so compare that to a £11 dym player and I'd expect the top players ROIs to be similar, for example I think 10% roi over a big sample of HU turbos is possible, certainly around what I'd expect mine to be.
DYM players @ any level I would expect would be happy with that!
A lot of people auto assume anything with the word 'turbo' in the name is a 'shovefest' or 'bingo poker'. (not saying you do)
In turbo HU sngs, you get 8 minutes of play before the effective stacks are 10xbb.
That's quite a lot of hands HU, and even 10xbb effective v a lot of players I still feel I have a significant edge.
Play a few!
Sky is really soft for HU sngs yeh. But as always with sngs you have to compare not only the standard, but also the rake and the structures, as well as the 'action'.
Think I'll have to go elsewhere again after this month is over.
Cash
Just can't do it anymore, far too much of a grind, need great discipline & concentration to win on here. I watch Lambert play sometimes just for an hour or so, here and there, to try and pick up on any leaks or give general observations on his play.
It's just such a struggle, the same names day after day grinding it out for small winrates and high points tallys.
Not for me!
Some of the 'regs' are also a lot better than they used to be.
Long attritional grinds have never been for me, give me a 'shovefest, hit n hope, bingo' game anytime
Dyms
Is a 'meh' format for me.
I did try once, to grind them seriously, I had a clinic thread which ran and ran for around a month, just me posting hands in there and getting tonnes of great feedback from people like JC and Shanxta.
After breaking around even for a fortnight I then heatered for a week and over my final sample of 500 games @ £11 level, finished with an ROI of 11%.
I've barely played another 1 since!
The rake on these games is MUCH lower elsewhere though.
If I were to take these up again it certainly wouldn't be on sky.
Rams
I hope so!
Not a Stevie Mac fan though!
Decent start for him, he keeps getting big jobs so he must have something about him!
Not feeling great today, so reluctant to reg up many games until I know I'm going to be able to play a full session.
Already cashed a BH tho, the first all month! wiiii
Exit hand was standard, needed abit of luck to 'go deep' but couldn't spike an Ace,
With the bounty factor and him having a comfortable stack I thought open jamming might be best.
Only a v small cash but a relief all the same!
Couple more running atm, 2/26 in one of them. Hopefully I'll feel better soon and can commit to a full session.
gl all playing today.
£11 game.
Another cash in another £5.75 BH.
3 goes today...
£5.75 BH - 8th/70 with 1 head for a small cash.
£5.75 BH - 7th/70 with 2 heads for a small cash.
£11 BH- 40th/60 with 1 head for a small loss
= +£2.
Are these even beatable?
vvvvv frustrating, let's play HU!
It will have to be sometime in the afternoon, Friday between 2pm and 6pm?
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Rubbish again yesterday, I'm not even gonna bother wasting a search skoping myself.
Balance is 2 quid lower than it was when I started.
Fun!
Back tomorrow for a Friday/Sunday double session.
GL all playing today.
Steve
Good post Teddy.
You seemed to have a lot of the basics in place in the few games we played gold, but as I was focusing more on trying to win I wasn't really in a position to feedback. (ok, I got drunk and can't remember also).
Don is right, I can't play tomorrow afternoon but Sunday is good.
I'll try and add to Teddys post above after we've played again.
Good luck over the weekend.
1) Looks like I've started with a brag again.
2) This is a hyper, struggle to see what the fellas repping here? Can we bet/hero call here???
I'm very aggressive, min raising tonnes of buttons and cbetting a lot of the time. Also cbet smaller on this kinda texture with stack sizes as they are, a combo of those 3 things might have induced a bluff from him?
I think his line reps absolutely nothing, so put the lot in.
Thoughts?
My problem with these hands, is If I actually have Jx or Ax and I get check raised like this, I'd flat with the plan to call off turn/riv v his barrels to keep his range as wide as possible.
So by shipping, do I myself rep nothing either?
I guess small pocket pairs that I think are ahead & vulnerable, but other than that, not a lot?
Always confuses me that spot, the 'bluff and rebluff' type hands.
All thoughts welcome, cheers.
Donny are 5/1 to win @ Boro tonight live on sky.
I have no idea why!
Teams are on the same points, Boro' played 1 game more.
Boro' sacked their manager this week.
No outstanding injury worries for Donny, and they are decent away from home this year, and very good last.
Definitely worth a tenner @ 5/1 !