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Monday 2nd April
Had a go at qualifying for the £25k Super Roller, unfortunately, I ended up being card dead with the biggest station ever on my left who had built up a stack, so there wasn't that much I could do. Eventually found a spot with blinds @ 50/100, short stack on my right shoves 3rd hand in a row, I re-shove with A6s, knowing that I can't wait much longer, difficult to steal blinds with station on my left too so although it wasn't a great spot, I didn't think I'd get a better spot any time soon either. Snapped by station in the blinds with AK (Yes, he had a hand that shouldn't have been folded pre for once...) which held up for the side pot. Short stack had 77 and trebled up.
Played a bit of everything today, also having read Lambert's post decided to play DYM's again. After an hour or so of 12-tabling £5.50 DYM's, I made about £40, which I donated to the main event prize pool. Aren't I kind? More importantly, regained confidence in my game, then just played whatever was running, and ran better than I have been the last few days.
Another 1k or so C4P - Lost £50 today, but with the amount of C4P I expect to have by the end of the month, that 1k C4P I earned means I'll get that £50 back at the end of the month, hopefully. (sigh @ being break even at best after getting rakeback...)
£400 down in 3 days, and getting slightly sick of all the text on my spreadsheet being bright red with minuses in front atm... Plan for tomorrow is just to make a profit, no matter how big or small, so might drop down to £5.50 DYM's, play a couple of hundred of them, and grind out a profit tomorrow (touch wood).
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3 x 50NL (+ Wrestlemania, wiiiiii), +£4.30
2 x 50NL, +£97.31
3 x 50NL (Happy Hour), -£40.87
£5.50 DYM - W21 L11, +£34.00
£11 DYM - W7 L6, -£3.00
£16.50 DYM - W3 L5, -£45.00
£22 DYM - W1 L2, -£26.00
£33 DYM - W2 L2, -£12.00
£10k GTD BH (£33) - 274/374, got owned by a fish which left me with a shortish stack, before getting AJ AIPF vs. AQ and missing.
£1,200 GTD Mini BH (£3.30) - 158/503, away player all in on the small blind, guy after the bounty raised, I shoved A10, knowing I'd get called by pretty much ATC, villain snaps with K6o, and hits. Sigh.
20:40 £200 Timed (£5.50) - Out
£25k Roller Semi (£24) - 9/15.
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Bankroll: £2,138.58 (Including £54.54 C4P Due)
Today: -£57.06
C4P: 2,234
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In the early hours of the morning, 50NL tables are full and nobody wanted to start another table with me
Afternoon session was almost non-existant, due to having to wait around for a shopping delivery, couldn't play DYM's at the time as a result, although I did get myself on a table during Happy Hour and won a buy-in.
1 x 20PLO, +£12.87
1 x 50NL, +£59.87
Master Cash 3, +£5.31
Master Cash 8, +£6.25
4NLO, +£0.08 (I was bored, lol)
£5.50 DYM - W4 L4, -£4.00
£11 DYM - W1 L1, -£2.00
Was going alright until evening happy hour...
4 x 50NL, -£103.60
So instead of making £80 today, I ended up with more red text all over my spreadsheet -_-
Final session was pretty ridonkulous tbh. Ended up a buy-in down without really winning or losing any big pots, which I'm going to blame on the Sky Poker School being about c-betting, not the fact that I have a VPIP of at least 9000%, as EVERYONE wanted to re-raise me when I c-bet on the flop with nothing. Nobody wanted to do that when I had a hand though
Then had a really... peculiar hand (And this isn't a bad beat story, just a really interesting hand) where me and a villain got 100bb in with AJ vs 77. Villain was raising every button, I have AJ in the big blind so 3-bet, villain tanks and 4-bets. I 5-bet jam, thinking I get a lot of folds and pick up £16, and I'm not necessarily going to be behind against this villain if I get called. I did get called by 77. Think I flopped a jack and villain turned a 7, another jack on the river but didn't make any difference. Lost another £50 in that pot, but information well worth paying for IMO
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Bankroll: £2,113.36 (Including £54.54 C4P Due)
Today: -£26.22
C4P: 2,469
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Really enjoy reading this diary
Just wondering how long you have played poker and at what stakes do you feel the most comfortable ?
I myself have only played poker for the grand sum of 5 days lol but have watched sky poker for a long time and now i have finally opened a account am really enjoying it.
I started playing at 50nl and 100nl but have dropped down a bit until i get the hang of multitabling although we may still bump into each other from time to time on the medium stakes mastercash while i try to improve my game by getting advice etc from the guys in the studio.
Anyways best of luck to you at the tables mate and keep up the good work
Daz.
Your right in thinking 4nl would be too low for me to take it serious and in all honesty even as high as 200nl i wouldnt be playing scared money but with the experiance i have (or even havnt) got lol i thought it better to drop down to 20nl and 30nl while i practiced my multitabling.
Been playing 7 tables at one point today which isnt bad for a beginner i should think so im really pleased with the start i have made and the game seems to be coming naturally to me.
Just came off playing 3 tables of 50nl and did ok but also noticed a few leaks in my game what i need to plug before the cash goes rushing out, like calling reraises out of pos to good players etc which is like burning cash in my opinion but i am a very fast learner and i will get there eventually im sure
Ive taken alot of time out over the past few days to take notes etc on most of the regs betting patterns etc and will soon be ready to go to war with them
When i first sat at a table the other day i thought i had it all worked out and it was going to be a breeze but after only about 5 hands i realised that there is alot more to this game than i first thought and i suppose only playing the game and getting the experiance of being at the table with cash on the line will be the only thing that makes me a winner in the long run.
Think i am going to try the big bounty hunter tourament tonight so will prob need alot of luck in that from what i have seen on tv in the past
Good luck at the tables mate and also in hitting your targets for the month.
I had the same thing when I started, having watched the channel for ages I thought "This game will be easy". I'm probably stating the obvious when I say that the game is much harder when the cards aren't face-up, lol. Used to be especially difficult when I tried playing 4NL in the same way that I'd seen everyone playing @ High stakes on the telly. Took me a while to figure out how they could call my 4-bet bluff with middle pair and no kicker, lol.
GL in the BH tonight, TID
Getting very interesting since that big win - GL with rest of diary
MP
I nearly done a Pingu but only finished 8th in the roller - so pished
Won the seat in a frenzy, wow they are fun -
Seriously though Pingu why are you playing NL50 and £2 MTT's - makes no sense
At least play £10+ MTT's
Think you need some stability or some kind of level you can sit in
enjoy
I really don't want to be reading NL100 -£560
Only 20 buy in's )
BRM EVILBINGO BRM
Played mostly tournaments today. Had what turned out to be a very short 10PLO session before the iPad freeroll as the table broke.
10PLO, +£3.78
iPad Freeroll - Out 243/342, played 2 hands, got my money in ahead twice, went behind twice.
£11 Rebuy Open (1 Rebuy, 1 Addon), 44/335, £0.00 - 4-bet shoved 99 into a player who was playing like a complete donk for the most part, arguing in the chat box and tilting, unfortunately they had AA.
£3.30 Mini Open, 269/384, £0.00 - Got all the money in pre flop with AA and lost, c'est la vie.
£24 Super Roller semi, 15/48, jammed into AA...
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Bankroll: £2,063.38 (Including £54.54 C4P Due)
Today: -£56.52
This month: -£384.66
C4P: 3,049
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Haven't eaten anything other than chocolate all day so off to get some food, will be back later once I've eaten and there's some seats on the 50NL tables. Will post any hands of interest in here.
Started off by playing a 50NL session before going to bed @ 3am. Wasn't anywhere near my best, but should've been a couple of hundred quid up in the session. However, 2 big pots where I got my money in as a 93% and 88% favourite both times respectively, only to get rivered, meant that I ended up £100 down instead. C'est la vie.
Woke up, sat at MC9. Doubled up when someone stacked off with top pair against my set. Later got away from JJ for £10 against a fish who thought the old limp/call UTG and check/min raise "trap" with AA/KK would actually work against me... No. Aforementioned fish (who would probably stack off with TPTK in the same spot as this one) then doubled up with 36 v my set of 5's after hitting a backdoor flush, which was slightly annoying... Left the table at that point before I tilted and donked off the rest of my money.
In a nutshell, would probably be £400-£500 up today if my hands could actually hold up, but they can't ) Gotta love Poker. Anyway, dropped below 40 BI's so no more 50NL until I get back up to £2,500. Everything else went terribly, until an evening DYM session in which I won 17 out of 20 games @ £5.50.
Anyway, downloaded the free PC kindle app, and picked up "The Mental Game of Poker" for just over a fiver. If it stops me tilting when a bad player gets lucky and wins a buy-in from me, then it'll have been worth buying.
00:28 - 02:58, 4 x 50NL, -£98.32
13:02 - 13:24, MC9, -£37.48
10PL, +£0.10 (Sat at Pot Limit Hold'em table instead of PLO table by accident)
2 x 10PLO, +£35.51
£5.50 DYM - W29 L11, +£70.00
£11 DYM - W2 L1, +£7.00
£2.30 Omaha BH, 2/7, £1.75 + £0.75 (Profit: £0.20)
£24 Roller Semi - 17/60. Based on the standard of some of the satellites I played, I'll be buying in direct anyway as at least half of the field tomorrow won't know whether a straight beats a flush or the other way around. #Valuetown
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Bankroll: £2,016.39
Today: -£46.99
This month: -£431.69 (Sigh)
C4P: 3,506 (£49.08)
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GL