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DYM Diary! Lambert's In Town
Evening all,
I really fancied a change from cash and I was reading John Connor's DYM guide has inspired me to give it a whirl, practice a different format of the game, maybe spin up my roll a bit and earn loads of C4P. So in true form of most annoying people on Sky, I've decided to start a diary to track my progress. I'll be mostly just posting up my progress in terms of wins/losses, profit/loss etc and maybe the odd hand or two when I've found myself in a situation where I'm really unsure.
So I've actually been doing it for a few days already, started last Thursday (a week yesterday) playing £3.30s and between the 29th Sep - 5th Oct, I played 24 games and won 13 of them so made a loss of £1.20.
It was after that I read John Connor's strategy properly and thought I'd stick to his BRM rule, 20 BIs so I moved to £5.50 (my BR is actually about 30 BIs for this level but it's not enough for the next jump up to £11).
So now I'm playing £5.50s until I get 22BIs for the next level (am I right it jumps from £5.50 to £11?)
I've played them today and yesterday, played 18, won 10 so £1 in profit making me 20p since I started. I'd we really grateful if people (preferably people who really know DYMs well) could give me their opinions on my stats and hands if I post some
I'll keep a running total of my success going so... so far its...
Played 42
Won 23
Profit/Loss -20p
Win Rate 54.76%
Thanks Guys!! (and Gals!)
Paul
I really fancied a change from cash and I was reading John Connor's DYM guide has inspired me to give it a whirl, practice a different format of the game, maybe spin up my roll a bit and earn loads of C4P. So in true form of most annoying people on Sky, I've decided to start a diary to track my progress. I'll be mostly just posting up my progress in terms of wins/losses, profit/loss etc and maybe the odd hand or two when I've found myself in a situation where I'm really unsure.
So I've actually been doing it for a few days already, started last Thursday (a week yesterday) playing £3.30s and between the 29th Sep - 5th Oct, I played 24 games and won 13 of them so made a loss of £1.20.
It was after that I read John Connor's strategy properly and thought I'd stick to his BRM rule, 20 BIs so I moved to £5.50 (my BR is actually about 30 BIs for this level but it's not enough for the next jump up to £11).
So now I'm playing £5.50s until I get 22BIs for the next level (am I right it jumps from £5.50 to £11?)
I've played them today and yesterday, played 18, won 10 so £1 in profit making me 20p since I started. I'd we really grateful if people (preferably people who really know DYMs well) could give me their opinions on my stats and hands if I post some
I'll keep a running total of my success going so... so far its...
Played 42
Won 23
Profit/Loss -20p
Win Rate 54.76%
Thanks Guys!! (and Gals!)
Paul
Comments
Gl with that Paul .
Started up 2 DYMs, these 2 hands happened, 1 on each table within like 30 secs of each other, both in level 1.
Hand 1, I get someone all in pre with AA, he has AK, I double up to 4k.
Hand 2, I get someone all in pre with KK, he has AA, I'm out.
That's the thing I find most frustrating about DYMs... your win rate has to be so high to make a profit and one bad beat, means you gotta win 2 in a row after that just to get back level.
You also just stated the main reason why I hate them lose one have to win two to just break even, and whats worse the guy who beat you can run away and take ya money at least at cash you say to yourself nice one mate and just wait for him to hand it to you later.
I do know what ya mean, but I definitely think I could turn a good profit from them, like I'm 20p down now but quite a few of my losses can be put down to coolers like above or bad beats, so I'm doing ok even though I'm losing 60/40s and 70/30s just one after another.
Plus the other night, I earned like 75-80 poker points for like 2 hours work. No way I could ever earn that at my level of cash. I reckon I could easy get 5000+ points when I start properly grinding them.
if it's what u want to do, then stick at them.
Personally i play them for minimal profit and c4p, but also grind mtts too.
gl
Good luck anyway
Played 54
Won 30
Profit/Loss +£4.00
Win Rate 55.55% (up ever so slightly)
Got myself into profit today, despite a couple of races where I was miles ahead pre and managed to lose.
Now up to 204 poker points after only a couple of proper days this month.
You've got to lose the mentally of " losing one, so then i have to win 2", with this you will just get frustrated very easily. If you can multil-table 3 or 4 at a time and try not to worry about the games you lose so much, just play your game and get it in good as much as possible, even making a little proffit a week will become much greater proffit over a month, thanks to the cash for points. I mainly play DYM's and grafted up through the levels what seems like forever ago, its hard work but with the right mentality and commitment its easily done. GL
Anyway, good luck Lambert.
Plus I'd probably get more through traffic
Im with dudeskin although ive always hated dyms. However i wish you the best of luck.
I note that your results are inproving, which is good. As you play more you get into the swing of the things and can make steady progress up the levels. If your playing solid poker the results will come.
The profit margin is never gonna be as close as cash though friend, these are more fun and fillers.
I'll keep my on your results and try avoid you at the tables haha.
Thanx for the comments on the video's by the way
Latest Update:
Played 70
Won 39
Profit/Loss +£6.00
Win Rate 55.71%
So another very small increase in my win rate and profit, feels like it's going well.
Also, I'm now up 284 Poker Points.
EDIT: Just had a look through my HH for the night and in the 16 games I played tonight, there's only about 10 hands where I lost 1000+ chips and every single one of them was completely standard, just things like losing a race with AQ against KJ and so on. So I guess I may have made mistakes in terms of possibly getting more value (I dunno) but didn't make any mistakes in losing big hands.
Maybe you should consider playing both, depending how many table you can play.
I would suggets playing 4 cash, 4 DYM's.
DYM's do become very robot like and will become easy to play.
As for cash, you have an edge at the level you play so why not play it ?
Yes I have an edge at my level of cash, but I also have an edge at these DYMs, if I didn't, I wouldn't play them.
If you want to grind DYMs you have to play incredibly tight, ideally sharkscope for losing players at the table and be prepared to get down to last 4 as a chip leader and still go out because of random hands occurring around table! If you make last 4, which you should, about 90% of the time at least unless you are unlucky, just play uber tight and be prepared for the variance that comes with shove or fold play.
I've improved my win rate at DYM's a lot since tightening up my play and being very patient waiting for others to make mistakes. I can't stress enough that as the blinds increase, don't play a hand unless you have good cards, preferably position, and always take account of the other chip stacks - if you raise 300 with AJ and a short stack with 1500 moves all in, it's hard to call and if you lose you're in a struggle and have lost a big advantage.
One thing I did wanna ask people about though. Quite often I'm raising pre with strong hands in position like AK...and AQ/AJ/KQ if the blinds are around 50/100. Then i often get someone call OOP and then lead out on the flop and I just let go instantly.
E.G. I raise pre with AQ and get one caller OOP, flop comes J84 and they donk bet and I just let go.
I wouldn't normally do this ALL the time in other formats but these are so shallow and it seems best to just get rid when you don't connect with the board but is this a part of my game that could be very easy to exploit??
Played 89
Won 50
Profit/Loss +£11.50
Win Rate 56.18%
Up to 379 Poker Points now.
I'm taking a little break for a bit but intend to get in another session tonight and smash the 100 game barrier.
As for situation just described, it's hard to say but as blinds increase bluffs and plays without hands become rarer and the consequences for chasing a hand or being called down by a real hand are devastating - normally a bustout/crippled chip stack.
If you become the short stack with 4 people left the collusion to blind you down begins and it's an uphill battle.
Having a good win rate in these is a lot more a question of patience and NOT making errors than it is of great plays post flop. You'll be amazed how often people throw away a comfortable chip lead on the bubble by making bad decisions pre flop.