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No not headaches much really. As said, I think its just the constant bubble tension.
don,t think there,s much you can do about it then AMYBR
i,ve got a couple of friends who play on party poker,
tried getting them to join sky but they seem 2 like it there.
i did look into it and in fact deposited £25 with them
but wish i hadn,t ,as every time you wanted to make a withdrawal
it cost you £1.50,
so as a matter of principle withdrew the lot,on the same day in fact,
and got back £23.50.....great hey!
still, you live and learn i suppose.
anyway....
glad now i,ve stayed with sky,as i am on the best run i have ever been on
since joining back in the summer of 2010
can,t do no wrong playing dym,s at the moment
don,t know how much longer it can last?
hopefully,untill xmas at least and into next year...who knows!
Hand History #450903390 (15:51 17/12/2011)
can't see stack sizes to make a judgement.
it was definately the wrong play 4 me
with blinds at 150/300 no need to make this move
all you have there is a rag ace,you are losing to so many hands
i think if you play rag ace,s at all,which you shouldn,t
best to see a flop as cheap as poss, then go from there.
if you had just made up the big blind there,costing you 150 chips
SSSSmurf probably raises or goes all-in and you fold,no damage done
don,t 4 get dym,s are all about surviving as long as possible
you are not neccesarily playing just for the win
you should have checked youf ace 3
then if SSSSmurf checks behind you
you get to see flop 4 free
if he raises you or goes all-in,which he might
you can then fold,i think.
any way..it worked out for you this time
would you make the same play next time?
still grinding at £3.30 level
no change,won 15 lost 8
won £14.10
balance now £328.82
target now to get to £500 asap
then attack the £5.50 level
good luck to everyone for 2012
In DYMs though its easier to rely on other people to make mistakes and carry you through.
HU youre in the action every round. Much more pressure and at micro level very difficult to rely on skill over luck.
won 18 lost 5
profit £32.10
balance £360.92
can,t believe how the run keeps on going
surely got to hit the brick wall sometime....haven,t i ?
anyway,got to enjoy it while it lasts
keep you posted
the devonfish
won 20 lost 16
profit £1.20
at least c4points going up 929
71 to get tomorrow
balance £362.12
back tomorrow
nite
god knows what 2nite was.
hit that dammed brick wall,
but no surprise,i knew it was coming.
won 21 lost 24
lost £22.50
it,s ok though
i,m rolled for it.
balance now £335.12
still £117
up since starting dym,s
so,no worries
as the great man said
"i,ll be back"
nite
since i started DYMs on nov 14th,
so can,t really complain though....lol
i knew it was coming
and it,s happened so many times playing cash,
i was ready for it...boo hoo
anyway,see you on the tables no doubt
and best wishes for 2012,
i,m sure you will!
devon
As you say only the first bad nite, so lots of good ones been had and still to have...
I on the other hand am getting the roll...
Even took a gamble tonight and played a very hard game (and risky) at £5.50 stake
Was a long game and I was almost a gonna on a couple of occasions
Down to bubble and 3 of us were all closely stacked and with blinds up to 300/600 it was flowing back and forth for a while. Getting no hands to play safely..
Took a gamble on a K Q suited and luckily hit a Q to take chip lead and next hand pair 7's with a 7 river took the original chip leader (for maybe 85% of the game) out of the cash (he must be gutted!! lol)
Don't you just love the game they call Poker... ha ha..
Back to the £1.15 stakes tomorrow (less stress)
Twenny
can you do it ?
YES YOU CAN.
won 26 lost 20
won £4.20
balance £339.32
nite
but hey i started the post,
so i might just get away with it,
hooooray,just won 10am freeroll £13.50
(4th time actually,but guess that,s bragging a bit)
all helps though,doesn,t it!
bankroll now £352.82
devon
lol...
Quality
Playing the 30p games, with the 5p (20%) buy-in means you have to be playing consistently with a 20% advantage in order to come out on top. As someone has pointed out, the tourney structure with increasing blinds means this is unlikely - at some stage you'll be obliged to play many -EV hands, let alone ones that carry an EV of +20, and the averaging effect of doing so will dilute away those big advantages you have when they do turn up (the AA v underpair). So at the micro levels I think the chances of consistently beating the buy-in are slim. The best level to play is the £3.30 games, as these carry a HE of just 10%, and beating 10% is certainly achievable.
If you're interested, since 24 July when I last dumped a few pennies into my account I've played 571 games (mainly the 30p ones), cashing with 337 and losing on 234. But despite winning 103 (18%) more games than I've lost I'm still out of pocket to the tune of £3.00. An 18% win rate isn't enough to put my results in the black. If you apply these results to the £3.30 games (with the 10% edge), I would be in the black by around 8%, on total buy ins of c£2,840 = £227.20? (all theoretical of course).
The moral behind the story is to play games that have the lowest house edge/buy in if your aim is to either make some money or have results that sit in the black. Individual session results are largely academic, although of course once you have a few hundred games on the sheet you can use them to determine average win/loss rates etc when looking to the future. Having said that, 571 games (22,000 hands at rougly 40 hands per game?) isn't nearly enough to allow one to separate the outcomes caused by variance in the cards being dealt and the outcomes resulting from one's style of play and level of skill.
Moving up or down levels, as a result of analysing your win/loss rate and applying this to games that have a lower house edge/buy in does, of course, bring some other considerations into play - the higher up the levels one plays, in theory the better the opposition - so your skill and style of play is more likely to have a bearing on your results - and so variance less so (again in theory)?
Good cards.
I have seen DYM mentioned all over the forum since I started reading regularly last week. It is only now that I have decided to find out what it meant.. I have played a fair few 9 man STT on various sites in the past, but to be honest I have never heard of a DYM before. Is this type of STT exclusive to Sky or is it a popular variant of Sng I have some how never seen before?
Playing the 30p games, with the 5p (20%) buy-in means you have to be playing consistently with a 20% advantage in order to come out on top. As someone has pointed out, the tourney structure with increasing blinds means this is unlikely - at some stage you'll be obliged to play many -EV hands, let alone ones that carry an EV of +20, and the averaging effect of doing so will dilute away those big advantages you have when they do turn up (the AA v underpair). So at the micro levels I think the chances of consistently beating the buy-in are slim. The best level to play is the £3.30 games, as these carry a HE of just 10%, and beating 10% is certainly achievable.
If you're interested, since 24 July when I last dumped a few pennies into my account I've played 571 games (mainly the 30p ones), cashing with 337 and losing on 234. But despite winning 103 (18%) more games than I've lost I'm still out of pocket to the tune of £3.00. An 18% win rate isn't enough to put my results in the black. If you apply these results to the £3.30 games (with the 10% edge), I would be in the black by around 8%, on total buy ins of c£2,840 = £227.20? (all theoretical of course).
The moral behind the story is to play games that have the lowest house edge/buy in if your aim is to either make some money or have results that sit in the black. Individual session results are largely academic, although of course once you have a few hundred games on the sheet you can use them to determine average win/loss rates etc when looking to the future. Having said that, 571 games (22,000 hands at rougly 40 hands per game?) isn't nearly enough to allow one to separate the outcomes caused by variance in the cards being dealt and the outcomes resulting from one's style of play and level of skill.
Moving up or down levels, as a result of analysing your win/loss rate and applying this to games that have a lower house edge/buy in does, of course, bring some other considerations into play - the higher up the levels one plays, in theory the better the opposition - so your skill and style of play is more likely to have a bearing on your results - and so variance less so (again in theory)?
Good cards."
good post.
you mention you have played some 571
games,since 24/7 /11 mainly at 30p level.
i am interested to know why didn,t you
try your luck at 60p or better still £1.15 levels
where the rake drops to 15%
thus giving YOU the slightly better edge?
as you so rightly say
had you been playing at £3.30
you would be in profit £227.20
isn,t that telling you something?
interested to know what level you are playing now?
anyway,good luck
devon
,
my mistake
hope you forgive a silly old duffer
devon
As to the other question, still playing mainly at 30p a pop, althopugh on occasions I'll push the boat out and put £1.15 on the line. I'm not interested in playing to build a bankroll, make money etc. Strictly for fun, and for the challenge of analysing and understanding the numbers that fall out of it all. So if you drop down to the smallest of the micros we might share a table . . .
Best wishes for the New Year both.
you i think must be in a very small minority,
not interested in building a b/roll?
i have played at the 30p&60p levels,
not that long ago in fact,
and as i won at both levels
quickly moved up to £1.15 purely because of the 5% rake saving,
as above to ££2.25
and again to £3.30.
i would be interested to know roughly
how much you have in your poker account
so i could advise you,(if you wanted me to)
on the level you either should or could be playing at.
anyway,as long as you are happy
what does it matter!
i do know that if i am sitting down playing
for hours on end,i would rather be winning
than just breaking even.
cheers
devon