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So that took me down to like £740. Played a load of Hypers today, started badly again, was probably £70 down at the lowest point, but got it back for a £9.50 profit. Might play a few more later just to get me to 2k points... nits can't turn down a free fiver lol.
Hands Played: 53,476
Bankroll: £748.87
Profit/Loss: -£173.48
Poker Points: 1927 (£19.27)
Hands Played: 53,476
Bankroll: £751.37
Profit/Loss: -£173.48
Poker Points: 2002 (£24.02)
It's hardly changed since the other post I did but I thought I might as well post my SS stats for SnGs. Hopefully New Years Eve next year I'll look back at this and see how much I've progressed.
Happy New Year All!
Dunno what my plans are for the month/year yet so I'll just go with the flow till I have a think, but one thing is for sure, I am not leaving cash behind by any means.
Played some Hypers today anyway and made a small loss of £23.50
Bankroll: £727.87 (£24.02 C4P to come)
Points: 135
Was having a chat with Dohhhh the other night about whether I'm just on a sick heater or not at Hypers cos I am doing pretty well so I got PatWalsh to scope my HU SnGs from 1st October to date and it's...
Games Played: 1,179
Average Profit: £0.37
Average Stake: £5.97
ROI: 4.5%
Profit: £438
Rating: 65
Well happy to know this recent form isn't just unrealistically good. Like if my ROI was 10% I'd know there's no way I can keep that up but I always knew 4-5% was acheivable at Hypers
Well frustrating cos I'd decided that the game I just lost would be my last regardless of the result but really wanted to win just cos it would push me over £800. Got it in once in a standard 60/40, can't even remember who was the 60 but postflop I was ahead until the river came down to take us back even, then we got it in A4 v Q4... I sigh as the first card out is a Q but then there's an A on the flop too
Does mean I'll be £800+ when I get my C4P though.
Bankroll: £783.87 (£24.02 C4P to come)
Points: 375
I won't bore you with details but I played 62 games and barely won a single flip all night, literally like 1or2, lost soo many 70/30s, 60/40s and 40/60s, and one thing that's always massively frustrating lost like 5-6 games from the stacks being like 900 v 100. You gotta expect that every now and then but I had a lot of 'em tonight.
Either way, the loss is £151 dead on. Felt pretty rubbish abuot it but I looked at my SS after the session and realised in the grand scheme of things, it's still a fairly small dip in comparison to recent results. My BR is still far bigger than it ever has been (and C4P to come) and hopefully I've got that nasty session out the way.
Bankroll: £632.87 (£24.02 C4P to come)
Points: 685 (£5.48)
As I said, it was always gonna happen cos Hypers are super swingy and it's just helped massively that this happened after ages of winning rather than happening right at the start of playing them.
Yeah I remember playing you Benc towards the end of my session, was definitely tilted by that point and made some shocking calls against you lol.
It's hard to say about sample size, and I'd say the more swingy they are, the bigger sample you need. It's easier to tell if you're a winning player at Turbos for instance than at Hypers over the shor-term imo. Just take last night, I know that I outplay 90% of opponents at my level but 62 games says otherwise! Get 1000 games done (very do-able in 1 month) and you should have a good idea.
Cheers for the advice TPTP, albeit a tad late lol, but yeah I've had similar conversations with Dohhh before. I think sometimes people don't realise what forms rungood can take... it isn't always getting it in bad and binking, sometimes it's constantly coolering people, sometimes it's being lucky enough to have someone jam bottom pr when you're sat there with TP or whatever... sometimes even it takes the form of you 2tabling hypers and both opponents disconnecting for 2 free wins (happened the night before last lol).
P.S. I'll definitely be playing 20NL when I go back to cash.
Small profit of £3.50 anyway
Bankroll: £636.37 (£24.02 C4P to come)
Points: 750 (£6.00)
You say a session like the one you had other night is pretty standard. How many bi's do you give yourself when playing these? You sticking with em or moving back to cash asap? Finally, why don't you play many MTT's?
Soz for all the questions but I read this a lot and I'm just curious
1. Yeah it was -14 BIs which is horrible but if you play something as small as even 50 sessions, it probably is gonna happen, but likewise you will have winning sessions of that size too (if you're good).
2. I like to have a bare minimum of 50BIs for these. To be honest 50 BIs might not even be enough but it's what I've always used and I'll always happily step down a level if the bad times go on longer than expected and I drop much below like 35-40 BIs.
3. I aint gonna be going back to cash asap, I will be playing more again though, probably try out some 20NL but will be keeping going with the Hypers, still playing £10s. Won't stop playing £10s until I go below £500 which touch wood will never happen.
4. I think I'm pretty decent at MTTs, not great but probably good enough to do ok on Sky. They're also one of the games I enjoy the most, there's nothing like FTing an MTT. My issue is the variance involved in them, I know that Hypers are super high variance but the results are so much quicker, it's the sitting there doing well for 2 hours and getting nothing that I can't stand. I should play some MTTs along side my other games but I could never be someone who plays just MTTs, I'd find it soul destroying.
Finished with a profit of £65 and a mental plus of being back over £700 again (and still yet to receive C4P). Told ya Waller, swings and swongs
Bankroll: £701.37 (£24.02 C4P to come)
Points: 900 (£7.20)
I only play mtts now. Cash was soul destroying for me, I'm a terrible HU player and I find mtts the most enjoyable......each to their own and all that.
I would like to have another go at cash in the future though as it is where the money's at (if you're good enough and I obv wasn't)
Good to see you back on winning ways
Anywayz, another small winning session tonight, made a profit of £15, not bad considering I only played 10 games.
Bankroll: £716.37 (£24.02 C4P to come)
Points: 950 (£7.60)
It's stupid really, all started from Monday just gone... played the DTD, as you all know I NEVER go really deep in MTTs lol. Got down to like the final 40ish of two of them, was doing really well then a couple of horrible spots put me out something like 39th and 44th. Even though they're tiny stakes and even the money up top isn't that big a deal, it was the principle of me never running good at the sharp end of tournies that put me on tilt lol.
Been spewing pretty much since then. Booted up a load of Hypers after the DTD, actually played really well in them, got it in good SO many times it's unbelievable, but I've had a good run on them and the time had to come for me to lose all my 70/30s etc and it did.
Trying to think what I've done since then. Played a £5 HU BH Shuffle, busted V first oppo, played another one and came 2nd for just over £30, big sigh though cos HU FTW I had a 2:1 CL and got it in K7 v J9, a hold there nearly doubles what I cashed for but oh well.
Played a lot of Hypers and run pretty bad, more tilt got me playing £21s lol which actually didn't go as bad as it could have, think I'm probably break even, or maybe a bit up from £21s, although SS could well prove me wrong. I did beat Nutter though
Played a few satellites but won no seats. Played a few £5 MTTs but no binks. Was doing great in the £2.20 Speed Rebuy £250 GTD last night, think I was 5/20, dunno how many started but it was 11 paid so I'm guessing like 100ish, great position, lost a few races against shorties and ended up out within minutes.
Oh yeah I played some 20NL too, doubled up really early, flopped set v OP, loving it, donked some back, ended up about break even, maybe £1 up something
Either way, I've just been entering games with wreckless abandon not even paying attention to what I'm playing, had no patience at all when playing, trynig to win tournies in the first level etc, donked off a big chunk of my BR... BUT on reflection, even after this terrible week, my BR still a lot higher than it ever had been prior to like November last year.
Result = got quite a few points, lost a lot of money, didn't really enjoy playing for a week.
Back hopefully refreshed now, decided I'm gonna try to play more MTTs and satellite into bigger MTTs more often. I see some truly terrible players getting big binks in the big Sky MTTs, players I know I'm miles better than so can't be all that hard eh
Still gonna be playing cash with a few Hypers. Satellited into the Primo Semi @ 6pm tonight for £2.60 (or whatever that cheap sat costs), going for a big bink tonight imo
Bankroll: £528.74
Points: 1688 (£16.88)
What was the reason behind this? You are normally very good with your BRM.
loving the diary
not totally stupid to make money from what you are good at (for you - hypers) and invest it in what you enjoy - mtts?
if you just want to play sats - or happy to enter direct is up to you - enjoy - and glgl
It's a combination of things really...
Decided to live a little. All the money in my account (minus £20) isn't money from my bank account, it's money I've won, and being a massive BR nit gets a bit boring lol. Granted if I was playing for a living, I would be a BR nit, but I'm not I'm playing for fun.
Unless I have some horrendous bad run, I don't think I'm ever gonna go broke on Sky cos I can always go lower to levels where I know I can win.
And as I said in this diary not too long ago, I treat the money on here completetly different than I do in the real world. Like £55 for a Primo in poker world seems enormous, but I'm quite financially comfortable (not rich by any means lol) so if I was playing a £55 tourney live I literally wouldn't even give it a second thought.
I went quite far in the main, but got crushed when I 3bet jammed AJ into KQ and he got there, left me with a bowl which I grinded until I eventually jammed A5 into AJ, flopped the 5, turned the J, annoying but can't complain about that one.
Going really good in the mini though, lost a massive flip AK v TT for a massive stack, grinded it back up blind stealing, got down to the final 12, jam AQ into A6 and Mr Waller rivers his 6 lol. Left me with 2xBB which I shortly shared out to the table. Win that and I'm guaranteed a FT so like £100 minimum, £500+ FTW... instead I got £22. One day I'll not run bad in the final stages of an MTT.
You better go and win it now Waller!
But hey, who'd have thought it, I bought in direct to the Primo and thanks to my time on Mastercash and cashing in the mini I actually made a profit on the day, albeit a profit of about £3 lol.
Bankroll: £531.40
Points: 1765 (£17.65)
I didn't win anyway (rightly so)...finished 6th
Wp anyway, you should play mtt's on a more reg basis...very tough player
Yeah I did rip up the table for a bit while we were short handed, cos everyone was just too tight.
Well I'm playing the DTD tonight so maybe I'll get the FT I've been waiting for.