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I think your thought process in hand 3 is spot on. The flop cbet imo is still too big than it needs to be, something between 60-80 should be ample with the intention of going 3 with a psj otr. On this board texture we can confidently cap their range at Jx, very rarely they flat monsters AA-JJ and as you say all Ax 3b jam. Your concern that you rep very little by jamming the flop is true but your line is only exploitable if they are mr/calling their Jx and potentially their Qx/Kx. How many regs at the £10s are really going to be thinking on that level? Very few if any.
You're right though, I shud start a betting diary to remind myself how much I lose when I try take the bookies on for real. shud stick to fun bets
We r so poor.
Going to be a long season.
Is it too optimistic to ask for "Dickov out, Holloway in" ??????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB9rI7p7vmk
Might as well do the poker update while I'm here!
Decent day!
2nd in an £11 BH. Didn't take any heads tho.
HU I ran amazing, and played terrible. Would rather it be like that than the other way round though.
+$93 on the day.
Target at start of challenge = Make $913
Results so far = Plus $498
New target required = $415
Still an outside chance!
Back Sunday!
I don't think you can waste 'rungood' because a lot of the times you can only run good if you play bad.
If I'm playing good, I fold the 78 on 8432r rainbow I fold to the super obvious value line in 3b pot because I know I'm never good.
If I'm playing bad, I station it off and bink the river.
If I'd made the right play, and folded, I would be at a chip disadvantage and probably go on to win the game 30/40% of the time as opposed to 100% of the time if I call and bink!
The main reason I prefer to play bad & run good rather than play good & run bad is that I can change/improve the way I play, it's the 1 thing I can control. The next game, or next session I could play great, whereas with runbad, It's totally up to the Gods, there's nothing I can do about it, so I'll take whatever I can get !
tbh in all my time playing poker online, (spoken like a true veteran, I've only been going 4/5 years) I think I've ran wayyyyyyyyyyyy better than I should have.
I can't remember a prolonged downswing over a decent period of time.
In before I don't win another hand between now and Xmas!
GL all grinding Sundayyyyyyfundayyyyy
Haven't been doing much of either this last week or so Geldy
Normally a lack of updates here means I have been losing a lot. Hasn't really been the case, I've just hardly played at all.
Not through choice, but the games have totally dried up in the sng lobby since the promo week. I played quite a lot, and made the bulk of the profit (plus made up some early losses) during that week.
Not much since and there wasn't much before either!
A skope search between my last post on the 25th and now has me..........
Down $34
That makes totals going into the final day...........
Target at start of challenge = Make $913
Results so far = Plus $464
New target required = $449
Only half way there with 1 day to go. Mehhh.
It's gonna take a miracle.
tbf the challenge wasn't all about making the target (although it would've been nice), I wanted to restore some confidence in my HU game, which I have certainly managed to do.
When I start playing HU again elsewhere I'll feel more confident and hopefully turn my results around.
I've withdrawn everything in my account here but £150. I'm gonna have a real go @ winning this $550 today, if I feel good later I'll probably buy into some bigger stuff, don't mind going broke.
I really want/need to win a fri ggin daytime BH though! They've tormented me all month, and there's no way I'm EVER playing another 1 of them again after today.
Grind starts @ midday. 10 hours of poker to make $550!
Lets gooooooo.
Will post the month results broken down by games n stakes etc tomorrow afternoon.
Thanx to people who have followed/contributed to the thread all month
GL all playing today
Played 23 HU sngs yesterday, and won $162 with an ROI of 15% and an avg stake of $26, so I did raise the stakes slightly.
Played and won 1 £42 game which will make the stats look flattering.
Despite coming 2nd in an £11 BH, I lost $40 again @ mtts.
All in sats have a lot to answer for! grrrr.
Was going well in the UKOPS turbo then had 2 really bad hands which cost me a shot at a deep run.
Final stats for the month are as follows.....
Target at start of challenge = Make $913
Result = Plus $581
(2,700 'reward points')
The (very) annoying thing is, if I hadn't played a single mtt, I'd have been within $50 or so of making the target.
Here is the graph for HU only this month....
http://imageshack.us/f/842/wa7k.jpg/
So although I fell short of my main target, I have certainly restored a lot of faith in my own HU game, and I feel in better shape to go back and take on the games elsewhere, where there is tonnes more action and hopefully a lot more €€€ to be made!
The only way I could continue to play here, is to move up stakes and take on the 'regs'.
I'm guaranteed action this way as there is always someone sat waiting for a game.
I've tried doing this before on a couple of times. Same as when I played cash, I moved up and had occasional shots and everytime, without exception it ended in disaster.
I wasn't prepared mentally, and always chose bad times to take the shots. I didn't even give myself a chance and inevitably blew up spectacularly & failed. lol.
I might look at possibly getting staked for half of the buyin over a sample of games, so I'm effectively paying £21 for a £42 game, maybe over 20 or 30 games, just to see how I get on. If I go well and prove to myself I can do it, I'll feel more comfortable about going on my own. I'm rolled, I just fail spectacularly everytime I attempt something like that.
Anyway, that's possibly something for the future.
Back to Francais tomorrow!
Thanx to Teddy, Ivan, Jac, Geldy, Pad, Lambo, Donald & all that have read and contributed to the diary this month, it's been fun!
Good luck all in November!
In Response to Re: "Sit & DOHHHHHHH Diary":
I know jacko! It was my turn to be paranoid
I've always said if I were to play MTTs as my main game, there's no way I'd play here. Outside of the mians and maybe 1 or 2 others per night there isn't much there. Do you not play elsewhere?
I've been saying to Donald lately he should find a low variance 'grind game' to fund the MTTs, or at least partly fund them to make downswings less severe.
You have 1 in place already tht you know you can beat so why not combine the 2?
btw, who was the 'interesting pick' ??
Helps if I read the names properly!
In Response to Re: "Sit & DOHHHHHHH Diary": No to all 4 questions Donald!
When do you want your first HU sng coaching session
Hey Golds.
GGs today.
Said I'd post my observations so here goes....
I think your play in the early levels is really good.
You don't make many mistakes which are common amongst lower stakes players. You play in position a lot, you make good use of your button, you don't leek money by peeling too much from the big blind pre flop.
Your play post flop is also very solid.
1 thing I picked up on early is you like to 'donk' bet the flop a lot.
This is ok, especially as you do it with a balanced range.
A draw here....
I was really impressed with your play during the middle levels.
You were min 3betting my min opens a lot which was really frustrating. I didn't have any moves left, and as I have a high steal percentage, a lot of the time I had weak hands and no other option but to fold!
I tried to adapt to this by limping some buttons, but you quicky re-adapted by raising my limps!
Again, leaving me with no option but to fold on a lot of occasions.
The 1 time I limp/raised you shoved over the top. lol. Was really tough to combat.
Here are some examples.....
The big problem I think you have is your short stacked play.
It's a big problem, because it's probably the most important part of the game.
But the good thing is, it's really easy to fix. I think it's something Teddy picked up on above when he played you.
You really need to learn how to play optimally when the effective stacks are between 5 and 15 big blinds.
So often you let me back into games by min raise/calling shoves with hands that you should be either shoving with, or min raise/folding.
I'll look for examples.....
This is a really easy thing to fix, half an hour study should do the job.
As Teddy says, look in to Nash push/call charts, just google them and it will be an eye opener.
I've just had a quick flick through the hands to find these, if you have any specific questions or want me to look at a specific hand history post up.
I think you've got a lot of good things going on in your game. Work on your end game and you'll be a solid winner @ £5 games in no time!
Get all the gold, golds!
I reckon you'll be a big winner on the site before long!
Dunno if anyone is still (or ever was) interested, but I've just got my skope up to $20k profit, and hit the target I set myself on October 1st.
http://imageshack.us/f/31/0kp3.jpg/
Really pleased with how I played tonight, I've never felt this good about my game before, hope the hard work continues to pay off.
There may be some mileage in the staking thing I tentatively mentioned in an earlier post too.
GL all playing tonight!
*nice work on getting to 20k
I haven't seem any regs @ 10s, rarely play a winning player.
5s are probably tougher than 10s tbh!