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Great read Andy!
Keep playing/posting & sod the exams! Only joking m8, you seem VERY level headed and I'm sure you'll make the right choices in life.
pad
Wednesday 13th June
Didn't play at all yesterday, in anticipation of the arrival of the new computer, which I am now using to type this message. Pictures will be posted up shortly
hope you have plenty of success with your new toys
:-)
dev
That hand was cruel, lol, especially the King on the river to give you the house and rub it in. At least you can say you lost to quads though
In Response to Re: Donk actually plays some Poker. It's a miracle! [EvilPingu's Diary]: Cheers Devon
i,ve ordered a new 27" monitor myself today,should arrive b4 nxt wed.
so even more tables 4me 2....hooooray. lol
gl m8.
dev
Thursday 14th June
As you may have noticed from the earlier posts on this page and the change of thread title, my new computer arrived earlier today. I've stuck a photo further up this page
My return to grinding today resulted in me earning more C4P that I have all month. Unfortunately, the results today weren't too great, mostly due to running terribly in my first session, monster hands being cracked by random bingo junk continually, which put me about a dozen buy-ins down. I started running better again later, but the whole session was damage limitation, really.
Felt as if I played okay for the most part, just need to learn to fold in them spots where my head says I'm beat but my hand feels like it's too big to fold and it makes no sense for me to not be winning the hand because the villain has a hand that they shouldn't ever have. An example of this is where someone limp/called my 5x raise, I had AQ, the board ran out A77x3, I value bet 3 streets and shove the river, thinking the villain is a massive fish and will probably have Ace Rag which he can't fold a lot of the time. Nope, he has 73o. At least I was half right.
I also need to stop bet/calling min raises on the river against players who only raise when they have the nuts, when I know it's the easiest bet/fold ever.
On the bright side, the amount of C4P earned today probably means I'll probably get a decent amount of my losses back at the end of the month anyway, so today isn't a disaster by any stretch of the imagination.
Interestingly, I found there was a strangely high amount of Quads out today, too - I flopped Quad Kings twice, Quad Aces, Quad 5s, had Aces cracked by Quad 5s all in pre, plus I got TT v AJ all in pre, the other guy flopped trips and turned Quad Aces. Quads everywhere today. Probably won't see Quads again for the rest of the year now, lol. Variance ftw.
£5.50 DYM - Played 134, Won 71, Lost 63, -£27.00
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Poker Bankroll: £353.16
Today: -£27.00
This month: +£106.32
C4P Earned today: 670
C4P: 1196 (£11.96)
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Gl except when you're in a hand with me )
In Response to Re: Donk actually plays some Poker. It's a miracle! [EvilPingu's Diary]: Sounds awesome
only cost £199.99 on-line at currys/pc world.
there were a few more that were a bit more expensive that i could have gone for,but i figured it comes with a 1 yr guarantee & 3 yr screen warranty so hey,as long as it works & does the job,that,ll do 4me.
gl m8,
dev
yes m8.
i paid £385 i ithink 4 my viewsonic 27"the 1 i am on now,so yey,think it,s a bargain.
don,t know if i will need 2 buy a new desk to go with it,as mine is only 4ft long,might just fit on. lol
gl buddy,
dev
it is 1920x1080 and so is my viewsonic that i,m on now which cost £385.
i find the picture fine so i can,t see what your problem is?
perphaps u could enlighten me?
dev
Sorry, I just meant its a waste if you bought to multitable poker.
Screen size doesnt matter here, its only resolution that matters.
You could have just bought a 20-22" 1920x1080 monitor for around 60 - 80 pound and you would have the exact same screen space.
I would say a 27 inch monitor is too big for that resolution, you would want 2560x1440.
yes,i am buying it specifically to multi-table.
i also have a 23" atm which after playing on my 27" seems like a portable.
i,m sure if u have watched say a 42"+ size tv or bigger then gone back to say a 28" you would understand.
as to the resolution needing 2b as you said,2560x1440 you may well be right.
but as i,ve already mentioned i find the picture plenty good enough on 1920x1080.
as to the price £199.99 2/3 of that has been payed 4 by cash poker winnings from another site,so it will in real terms be costing me about £70/£80.
i hope this clears things up & no hard feelings,
dev
I never realised how difficult it is to win 87p before )
Started off this morning with a bit of 4NL, a short 1 hour session to see how many tables I could play at once. I can fit up to 24 tables on my two monitors, so the aim was to try and get up to 24 tables if I possibly could. However, this plan changed somewhat when there was only a dozen 4NL tables running at the start of the session. Oh well.
I joined every single 4NL waiting list, and sat on the empty tables which soon filled up. Before long, I was struggling to keep up with the action, and once I got to 18 tables, I decided that there was just no point in loading any more tables. Played 18 tables for around an hour, and finished with a small profit of £4.17, which I'm pleased with, I was expecting to play like a total fish and lose a load of money instead.
Got some more DYMs in while the football was on, I played until just before midnight and added just under 500 C4P to my total for the month. Not setting any targets for this month, but I'm hoping to end up with a decent C4P total at the end of the month.
18 x 4NL, +£4.17
£3.30 DYM - Played 6, Won 4, Lost 2, +£4.20
£5.50 DYM - Played 65, Won 36, Lost 29, +£2.50
£11 DYM - Played 10, Won 5, Lost 5, -£10.00
Euro All In - Didn't cash.
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Poker Bankroll: £354.03
Today: +£0.87
This month: +£107.19
C4P Earned today: 486
C4P: 1,682 (£16.82)
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I enjoy reading your diary (and I'm a Big fan) but this makes we wonder....
"I joined every single 4NL waiting list, and sat on the empty tables which soon filled up. Before long, I was struggling to keep up with the action, and once I got to 18 tables, I decided that there was just no point in loading any more tables. Played 18 tables for around an hour, and finished with a small profit of £4.17, which I'm pleased with"
Could I ask how does one play optimally when playing SO many tables?
In Response to Re: Donk actually plays some Poker. It's a miracle! [EvilPingu's Diary]: Haha, yeah, played pretty much non-stop yesterday lol
The two things I had to contend with were no reads on anyone unless I had notes beforehand, because you're always concentrating on something else, and not really watching the action when you're not in a hand.
Timing out was a problem too, sometimes I'd be trying to get value from 4 or 5 different hands at once, then I'd get dealt QJo on the button, which I'd usually raise 100% of the time, but instead, I'm playing other hands so I just fold the QJo because I can't be bothered with the 1.5bb in the middle when there's a couple of 100bb+ pots going on elsewhere, so that's probably not optimal either.
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BTW, it's worth pointing out to anyone who thinks I'm crazy/stupid/whatever for going from 9 tables to 18 straight away that yesterday's session was a one off, basically finding out what is the absolute maximum number of tables I can play before my head explodes. Most of the time, I'll be playing less than that.