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High praise, given the calibre of some of the threads around atm. Must've been close between me and lovejunky !
Not sure about the question because I'm not that clued up on the standard or the action etc. Just from talking to other grinders @ 20/30/40/50nl maybe 4 figures a month would be realistic.
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Played a dull session yesterday.
Woke up early feeling great, wanted to do some more hyper study before breakfast, but I've just ran out of material.
Read back all the pages on 2+2, watched all the free videos available 2/3 times over, there's nothing left.
Think I'm going to have to fork out for a subscription
Poker was uninspiring. I crashed mid afternoon, felt really tired/jaded all of a sudden and auto piloted a lot of games.
Did have a fun hour rematching some Brazillian pervert fish @ $7s though.
I have a picture of a hot bird as my avatar on PS.
Obv get a lot of comments about it from fish opponents. When someone is really bad and I want them to keep playing me, I play along and pretend to be her.
This was a highlight from last night.
You know your winning the chatbox duel when the fish you are milking in the hope that he continues playing you offers to teach you how to play poker.
copps18xxx: I am not very good lol
copps18xxx: sorry for bein lucky
dê consoli.: no problem
dê consoli.: but i can see that
dê consoli.: i can teach u poker
dê consoli.: if u wnat
dê consoli.: want*
de console is the villain in this hand..........
http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/9873041_92401BD73B
Fwiw I don't know why I'm shoving, was an example of how bad I was playing yesterday. Just not really thinking at all. Should've quit.
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Anyway, he eventually felt I was getting on top and/or his money ran out, so I quit the session after that and decided to just play the sky turbo main/mini.
Got into the money in the main and mini went rubbish.
Heard about the HU sng promo so played a few alongside at the slower formats and won enough to ensure the day wasn't a total fail.
I'll be moving lots of volume back here for a fortnight, even if I do rubbish in the first 50 games, the action should be good enough to play a load back here.
Love the promo
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So close to the end of Dexter now. It's gotten really good after the first couple of series which I thought were pretty dull and hard work.
But started on Orange is the New Black yesterday and that shall be taking over for the foreseeable future
Lesbians /> serial killers
GL all grinding today.
Christopher Woakes & Chris Jordan.
Congratulations England selectors, you've achieved your apparent goal of giving Captain Cook the most 1 dimensional bowling attack in Test match cricket.
Apparently 3 6ft tall, 84 mph, line and length bowlers isn't enough, we need 4.
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HUSNG promo gone rubbish.
Was 8 wins from 9 games.
Now 13 from 29.
Swings.
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Hyper experiment going mixed.
Orange line going up = Good.
Green line going down = Badddddddd.
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Very brave decision to bat first today.
Ummmm rarely have I ummmm wanted a ummm player to score runs more than I ummmm ummm ummm want Cook to ummmmmmmmmmm get some here.
There must be another series sometime in the future though ???
It was tough going early doors but from The Trinity Killer series onwards I thought it got better and better.
Lumen /> Hannah > Rita > Lila
I also liked the ending until the last 20 seconds, why couldn't they just leave us thinking he was dead! aghhhhh.
24 next .........................
Last day of the month today so here goes with the summary.
Graph (click to enlarge)
http://imgur.com/XtvLYwp **** Link Fixed
The games are split evenly between $7s and $15s, with a handful of $3s and $1.50's thrown in when I had a short session experimenting 3 tabling.
I will probably donk about in mtts/bit of cash in todays session whilst watching England claim their first test victory in 11 matches, so I don't expect there to be m/any changes.
Observations
- As you might expect, there is a noticeable difference between 7s and 15s in terms of standard.
- I am a mental game fish.
I structure my sessions by starting on $7s, just to get the brain going and make sure I've remembered how to play.
The plan in a session is to play 10-15 or so at $7s, then move up to the next level if all is well.
What actually happens is, if I'm playing well and winning at 7s, I stay there way too long and don't leave enough time to play 15s. Even when I do move up to 15s after a good session at 7s, I heap too much pressure on myself, start playing/thinking differently and self imploding. Of course it's not a money issue, the numbers involved are tiny compared to what I'm used to (+/- $400 months) it's just a fishy mindset thing. I'm much more worried about my graph lines going down than my balance!
If I'm playing well and losing at 7s, I move up in a bad state of mind, feeling the pressure. This has negative effects on my performance, especially if I start poorly.
If I'm playing bad and losing at 7s, I move up on spewy donk tilt and play even worse, losing twice as fast.
So the idea of a 'warm up period' at $7s isn't really working out for me. I need to find an alternative way into sessions.
- I need to learn when to let go.
Rematches. Re-matching the same guy too many times when It's not going well.
I use a colour code system to tag fish, big/spewy fish, and then "omg does he even know the rules?" fish.
Within the colour code system there are of course specific notes that I make, but the initial colour code system helps with game/table selection.
I'm far too proud/stupid to give up re-matching anyone who has a fish tag, no matter how bad I'm getting crushed or how scrambled my head is. With such small edges, even a really bad fish can go on a run of 5/6/7+ wins. At this point my head goes, I stop thinking about how to exploit such an exploitative opponent, start instinctively clicking and gambling in high variance spots, and whatever edge I did have has now gone, and it's a 50/50 game for me at best.
It's another thing I need to work on, just typing "gg" before declining a rematch, take 4/5 minutes out and play someone else. There are plenty of fish so it's not like it's a big deal.
Some of the severe downward spikes on the graph could have been prevented. They're normally right at the end of a session too. It's frustrating as they are very damaging to overall profit/roi. A lot of the downward spikes I can't do anything about. So I need to keep better control of the things I can control!
- I need to play more
Obv. 720 games is 300 short of my target. But that's not surprising with me.
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I've mentioned a few times that there isn't that much free information out there for HU sng players wanting to improve. Not as much as there is for other formats anyway.
Teddybloat has written an article on sky that is as good as I've read anywhere.
If you play, or are wanting to start playing HU sngs it is a must read. Several times over.
https://www.skypoker.com/secure/poker/sky_lobby?action=show_static&page=poker_community_forums&plckForumPage=ForumDiscussion&plckDiscussionId=Cat%3a2e4f51cb-c64c-449f-a843-8db9c5fe7283Forum%3a596e7081-fff1-4103-8428-5d4d19736b09Discussion%3a214221db-3b07-41df-a2b3-d909c6821814
Good luck all closing out July!
I found your advice on playing micro cash tables has been super productive for me.
Keep up the good work.
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Just done a quick half hour hand review. (read through the big winning and losing hands whilst eating tea and toast. very intense!)
Only 1 of interest really.
Wont give reads because I don't understand them. They're more misleading than helpful when I post them anyway.
Player is unorthodox, some readers will be farmiliar with him.
All options open on the river?
Call? Fold? Shove?
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't at least a little jealous lol
Congrats on a good winning month and all the best for September.
And as an average player that seemingly struggle to dump big hands, I think I probably sigh/spew call with the queens and hope to see a worse PP that has tried to eek out a bit of value from AK/mid PP (given they are unorthodox)
Fwiw, no1 on earth has a longterm winrate like that Shakin lol, not even close.
RE: The hand... If I'm calling then it's deffo not with a sigh, it's thinking I'm good almost all the time. Given your image and the fact you said he's unorthodox I think we can shove the river, but I'm deffo never folding.
Wp for Aug, did you manage to get a 1k sample for the HU games on Stars yet? Be pretty good if you venture back to the group to go through some of your cash hands from the weekend on a jme cos you got a vv different style to most regs, unless you just heatered like mad like, cos obv I already know you can do that
P.S. When you tell me what you got in the chatbox and I continue betting, you're supposed to fold
Will be back in 2 weeks!
But the HH's aren't that interesting at all. I play different (bad?) so when reviewing them there wont be much for anyone to take from them. I aint gonna change and others certainly shouldn't copy so it seems abit of a pointless exercise!
Forgot about the AA hand! haaaaaaaaa. An example of why people really shouldn't copy!!!
@jac Ireland this year is a tad optimistic. I noticed you were flogging for it though. As I was off poker for a lot of last month I went punting unsuccessfully on 2+2, backing self confessed weed addicts. I lost a fortune! Well, 30 quid. I am interested, but didn't see a buyin/price!
@ shakin, Lambert is right, I'd never be able to keep that up. I was only playing 3 tables the first session and 4 the next too. Which amplifies how well I ran. Everyone has 1 off golden sessions. I'll update after my next few and my overall winrate will inevitably regress.
Fwiw think 3 tables is definitely my optimal number. Used to think it was 4 but struggled abit with 4 the other night.
Seems crazy saying this as I used to grind 6-8 tables profitably but I think 4 is too many now.
Played bad, way too spewy, lost track of where I was and what was happening in hands and was betting without any idea of why I was doing it.
It added up to a 2.5 buyin loss @ 30nl.
Here are a couple of highlights, the readers will love this one.
Seems a common theme Englishmen getting crushed by Indians this week!
This next one is a standard collision, but losing it convinced me it wasn't going to be my night. I was playing bad before it, and it could only have a negative effect on my game. So I could've got mullered if i'd played on.
Then ran into Thioch at £20s and I think he won 5/6 in a row to add an overall £30ish to the cash losses to make it a minus £115ish day.
Think that'll be it for this week now, just about to start a Netflix all nighter which will mean no poker tomorrow at least!
@ Splashies, will try and contact Don.
@ Don if you're reading, contact Splashman. Or just confirm here that the details I have are still correct and I'll fwd em on.
well fluked :P