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If i had the technical ability to crush the games, or rather, when I get the technical ability I will be sick
Just seems like such a horrible waste when there's people who crush the game and can't get the bits that IMO are a piece of p*ss like BRM right. That bit is easy, you say you need X amount to play X level, and you do it, zero skill involved. It's the skillful bit I struggle with lol. I'd give anything to have the technical skill and yet there's plenty who have it, and completely waste it by doing some things that are just plain stupid.
I managed to keep up my habit of being unable to lose on Stars lol.. playing some $1.50 Hypers and won a couple of dollars, then finally unlocked $10 of my welcome bonus, then played a $1 9-man BH and took that down for about $5, then fancied some PLO so played a 10-man 50/50 PLO for $1.50, managed to come 2nd in that for $2.93
So all in all, turned my $20 into $40 and had a nice refreshing break from playing cash!
QQ v AA
KK v JT
AK v JJ
AA v JJ
AK v QQ
4 out of 5 of them were for full BIs, all of them aipf, and I lost all of them. So was a good session til that happened lol, but ended up finishing £11.28 down for the night
Hands Played: 43,236
Bankroll: £188.34
Profit/Loss: -£23.69
Poker Points: 1122 (£11.22)
Things haven't been too bad on Sky to be honest, haven't played much, got a freebie into the Friday Main and ended up busting about 8 off the cash getting it in AK v QQ and not binking... sigh, that's 2 freebies into the Friday ME in the last month, and twice I've just missed out on a cash. Was annoying because I was 4th out of 61 (top 40 cash) and just lost a bunch of races v shortys round bubble time, then lost my flip above when I was the shorty.
Donked off my moniez on *s... had about $40, dropped to $30 on Hypers, then started playign 10NL Zoom, was doing really well was up a couple of BIs towards the start, then lost my profit through just some standard flips, coolers and outdraws. Played a few hands I shouldnt to win back my profit, then tilt donked off the rest, was only 3 BIs and was freerolling, sighz
Since then, played a few MTTs, few HU Hypers (can't help myself lol), a 4man HU SnGs on Sky. Ended up with a very small profit from these.
Not played any cash for ages now cos just really not been feeling like sitting down for long periods of pokering, hence why it's mostly been Hypers. Will get back into the grind sometime soon though. So none of my stats have changed apart from my bankroll increasing VERY slightly and my poker points, but won't be updating profit/loss and that figure only includes cash.
Hands Played: 43,236
Bankroll: £189.34
Profit/Loss: -£23.69
Poker Points: 1169 (£11.69)
Now I got that out the way, think I'm gonna relax with some xbox.
I'm considering upping stakes a little bit, but lowering my number of tables. I know I definitely play alot better on like 2-3 tables than I do on 6 when I can focus more.
But yeah, so many good players have said the same as you.
I'll give a proper update tomorrow when I'm not tired but for now just a quick one so I can reply to you Splashies. In short, no I am not back on track at all, I have had a really horrible couple of weeks, I just can't win a single hand, I think over the last 3-4 sessions I've won 1 pot that was over 50xBB. Everytime I make a hand, they've already made a bigger one, or manage to make a bigger one by the river.
Definitely some bad play in the mix too through tilt, but I'm just getting smacked in the face by variance and just can't get going in any of my sessions. I'm getting completely owned by the regs like LiamBoi and Rancid, and it doesn't help when LiamBoi picks up AA when I get KK.
Anywayz, tonight was kinda the final straw, I was just sick to death of getting butchered by variance, so what's the best thing to do in these bad patches, when you're tilting.... jump up stakes and play really high variance games obv!! lol.
So went on tilt and started with £5 Hypers, won a few, lost a few, about break even, so I go on massive monkey tilt even more and thought I'd whack on some £11 Hypers instead lol. Played 5 games against Spad3s and seriously ran like god, I mean I literally won every single race even things like K3 v AK and A2 v A8. Sorry mate!
So I played 5 of them, and won 5. I also had a £3.30 Scary SnG running on the side which I won for £13.50.
My bankroll after this escapade is now back up to £160.90 and it'll make you see how bad things were when I tell you that being back up to £160 is a great result!!
Earned a few poker points too lol... finish the month on 1374 so £13.74
Hopefully this has gotten it all out of my system and I can come back to cash with a clear head for November. Will be playing 10NL (more to come about my new BRM etc in a post tomorrow)
So there you have it, even the bigger BR nit, and most disciplined nitty player on the site can still go on crazy monkey tilt sometimes
I've been a bit obsessed with not re-depositing because it is good I've lasted like 2-3 years without having to deposit on here, but playing at low stakes, with high rake for ages is just slowing down my development. So in essence, I can comfortably afford to play higher, so I am.
Won't be depositing any extra, just keep what I got and see how I go.
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Now I got that out the way... I seem to have really lost my patience in cash poker recently.
I went back to cash again tonight, was going ok, slowly chipping away, winning a few small pots, then boom a few coolers and bad beats took me from a few quid up to 3BIs down. I wanted to carry on playing poker but just knew I wasn't in the right mindset to have the patience to wait for hands etc....
So I did what I did the other night and went back to my old hunting ground, the hypers lol... but £11s. Played 14 and won 10 for a £53 profit, so got my 3 BIs back +£20.
So my last 2 sessions have went like this roughly like this...
Lost £20 on cash, won £50 on Hypers
Lost £33 on cash, won £53 on Hypers
Aint updated for ages but the profit/loss for my cash is now pretty horrendous. I'm just so sick of getting butchered, but I know I am definitely playing well with no tilt since I started 10NL again (I've left as soon as I felt any tilt) so I know it'll turn at some point.
Hands Played: 45,036
Bankroll: £180.04 (still got £13.74 C4P to come)
Profit/Loss: -£123.79
Poker Points: 115
Emma had the day all sorted in advance, her mum had the kids, we went to see Skyfall and then went to an all you can eat chinese. Firstly, I have to say that Skyfall really wsa pretty great, we're not talking greatest films of all time kinda great, but as James Bond films go, it was most definitely up there. I won't give any spoilers but it is definitely worth going to see.
I've thought it over a few times and after Skyfall, I definitely think Daniel Craig has taken the lead and is now the best Bond. Granted it's a very different Bond to the ones of old, a bit more 'gritty' etc, and just a generally more much believable chartacter imo. This is partly thanks to the writing of the last 3 bond films but still think he pips Connery to the post now.
And the litmus test... Emma has a really short attention span and generally hates sitting through most films over 2 hours, this was 2hr 30 mins and she said it flew by. Just a thoroughly enjoyable good old fashioned action film.
The all you can eat chinese was decent, one MAJOR downfall.... what chinese doesn't have curry sauce?!! Apparently the lunch menu isn't as good as the dinner menu though so I'll let them off a bit lol. All you can eats suit me down to the ground though cos I have an endless stomach.
One of the prezzies Emma got me that I'm most looking forward to getting into is a poker book called 'Kill Everyone' with commentary from Elky. Had a quick flick through so far and it looks really good. I haven't read a new poker book in ages so should be good.
Has anyone read this before, how did you find it? IMO any input from Elky can't be bad!
Also Emma made me a chocolate fudge cake so satisfy my massive sweet tooth...
Feeling like playing some poker tonight, but not really sure what to play yet, fingers crossed things are a bit more smooth if I do play and not so much relying on crushing Hypers to keep me going.
Didn't update last night just cos I was really tired. Ended up playing a few Hypers thinking I'd just get a couple in before deciding what to play... turned out I just played them all night. I forgot how bad the rake was on the Hypers, sigh. Was only playing £5s this time
I'm a little confused cos according to my records I won 47 and lost 44 which is a loss of £30.50 but my BR has only went from £180.04 to £161.79
And I've just realised while writing this that it's Monday and I have probably got my C4P today which explains the above (I think it adds up). Racked up a few C4P on the old Hypers last night which is nice.
I will be going back to cash, but just been feeling a bit bored with it recently and it's a recipe for disaster if I sit down to play it and can't even be bothered.
Hands Played: 45,036
Bankroll: £161.79
Profit/Loss: -£123.79
Poker Points: 394
47 (wins) X profit per game = UP
44 (lost) X loss per game = DOWN
Take wins away from losses and voila!
For some reason last night I thought the rake was 10% (which would be ridic even by Sky's standards lol) so I did...
47 X £4.50 = +£211.50
44 X £5.50 = -£242.00
= Loss of £30.50
BUT the rake is 5% so it should have been
47 X £4.75 = +£223.25
44 X £5.25 = -£231.00
= Loss of £7.75
Which means I obviously counted the number of games wrong lol. But oh well. Didn't even get a birthday bonus from Sky, how bad do I run
Well I've been talked into playing the DTD tonight so I'll update later when I win one
I played the DTD, nothing special happened really, built up a decent stacks in both the deepstacks then think I just had my foot on the gas a bit too much, took a couple of races I maybe didn't need to and lost them so £5.50 down there.
Then played a few Hypers, won 9, lost 9, sighaments @ just paying Sky rake again. So down £4.50
Played some more Hypers tonight, won 10, lost 7 so bit better. Profit of £10.75
Hands Played: 45,036
Bankroll: £162.54
Profit/Loss: -£123.79
Poker Points: 504 (£4.03)
Broke the 500 point barrier super early in the month which is always nice. Don't worry btw, I haven't completely ditched cash, the journey is still on, was just having a few days of playing some other stuff, cos just losing session after session of cash gets pretty boring imo... at least losing at Hypers is exciting lol.
Flop the nuts, and even redraws to get even nuttier but it aint enough...
Bankroll: £129.32
Profit/Loss: -£157.01
Poker Points: 526 (£4.21)
But stubborn and determined as I am, I will not be backing down from the runbad at cash, I know it can't last forever.
I'm playing the 7:15pm £5.20 Sat into tonight's SPT Semi in a bit so fingers crossed on that front. We only got 3 runners and 10 mins to go so get in it people or it won't run!!
Hands Played: 45,276
Bankroll: £142.86 (that includes the fact I've bought in to the £5.20 SPT Sat)
Profit/Loss: -£157.01
Poker Points: 586 (£4.69)
I'll forgive Sky for all my cash runbad if I can bink a seat to Luton tonight
But oh well, at least I only lost £5.20 and I got 20 poker points for the Semi so that's 20p back
Played a few hypers after obv... won 5, lost 1 so a profit of £18.50 so a positive night overall which is quite a rare thing recently.
Hands Played: 45,276
Bankroll: £161.36
Profit/Loss: -£157.01
Poker Points: 628 (£5.02)
I won 22 games, and lost 18 for a £10 profit and another 100ish poker points so another £1 banked there... it all adds up. I'll continue this rule of trying to fund SPT sats through my profits, if it doesn't work out, so be it.
Hands Played: 45,276
Bankroll: £171.36
Profit/Loss: -£157.01
Poker Points: 748 (£5.98)
The reason I don't stick to them is cos I really want to improve at cash, it's the one format I'm most eager to crush.
AND on top of all that, I just don't think I'm good enough at the end game of DYMs. I do ok at them, but think I'm better at hypers