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While it might have been a nitty BRM wise at first, playing a lot at the lower levels definitely just gave me a chance to improve my game and get a lot of the basics fine tuned pretty cheaply.
So I actually earned 560 points yesterday, which sets me in good stead to go for Priority next month because I know I'll be having probably 7-10 days of the month without playing.
Felt pretty rubbish last night, the beginnings of man-flu obv and this morning I woke up feeling like death so definitely no poker for me today. Might post up a few hands though from last night.
Bankroll: £1,017.63
Poker Points: 1845 (£18.45)
Ps - having said that - It depends who,s on the table - I had 1 session the other night at NL50 (£15 capped) and it was like a 2p 4p game with ppl tilting going all in every hand (also got the bad bts like in 2p -4p as well )
With regards to multi-tabling and my BR... imo I'm playing few enough tables that it's not really having a detrimental effect on my game, I'm still playing pretty much exactly as I would with 1 table just the hands happen faster. Also I'm happy to take the step down if required, I'd probably drop back down to 20NL for a bit until I rebuilt if I dropped to say £800.
Having said that, 300 BIs for playing 4NL is abuot as nitty as it gets lol but as Tikay always says, loads of people seem to have it built into them that they HAVE to move up in stakes, if you don't want to, then just don't.
@TPTP - Yeah, think this was the turning point for me, I had like £300 and was being really nitty with my BR and just realised that actually losing the money wouldn't mean that much to me, granted it sucks a bit, but it wouldn't affect my real life or anything. And others have also pointed out to me how staying @ micro stakes too long can really stunt your growth with the really high rake.
I think I'm better at handling tilt and negative variance these days but still far far from perfect. One thing is safe to say though, it never leads me to go playing 100NL lol... it just generally makes me play a bit too loose at my current level if anything, but I aint done that for a while.
I also have the mental game of poker but I preferred an audio book I have called The Poker Mindset. Discipline is always something I've been good at, I have the odd lapse like we all do but on the whole I think I'm pretty disciplined.
There are definitely a few very good players @ 30NL but on the whole the games do seems pretty good atm.
Otherwise, it's here http://www.amazon.co.uk/Poker-Mindset-The-Ian-Taylor/dp/0974150231/ref=sr_1_cc_2?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1364466924&sr=1-2-catcorr
I don't know how it's done because it's clearly read automatically by a system of some sort because there are a few mistakes like when it's reading the word 'skills' the voice says 'ski, eleven, s' lol but keeps you on ya toes
It wasn't really that hard going and I thought it was worth it. I wish more poker books were in audio form.
Think I played 3 x 30NL and 1 x 20NL and made a profit of £52.59 so a very good hour. It was going quite well then 5 mins before standing someone just gifted me a stack by raising a 359r flop to an amount which was clearly committing so I just stuck them in with KK and they snapped me off with A9
Bankroll: £1,070.22
Poker Points: 1884 (£18.84)
She's playing the Micro and Mini tonight so I might aswell play 'em too. So hopefully I can...
1) Get through the Semi into the £55 Side for £2.40
2) Have a nice bink tonight
I bust the Mini not too far away from the cash with £6.93 of heads so at least that covered my BI.
The Mini however went much better, think I played really well throughout and I definitely got lucky in a few spots. The most memorable of which was I think of the last 2 tables V nagrom. I opened AK, he clicks it back and I flat. Flop is something like K76cc, I C/C, turn is a Qs, I check, he jams and I snap him off to see him turn over AA .... river is the K!!
Unlucky Nagrom.
I did already have a big stack by this point and losing still would have left me with like 25xBB but instead I was on 75xBB which put me in great shape to FT.
After that, played well imo, didn't get too out of line which is usually my problem and I end up just getting too aggro against people who are sitting waiting for hands when they start giving me action and I just spew. So not too out of line, but still picking up pots regular, got to the FT quite comfortably. Early exit with just a standard AJ v AK left us with 5 and think I was 2nd or 3rd in chips
Then the hand below happened...
PlayMe_ 488772.77 £15.14 Head Prizes 9 £6.03
gartcosh1 293227.23 £15.47 Head Prizes 7 £6.15
Bossman180 0 3 £54.20 + £14.38 Head Prizes 11
supercrazy 0 4 £43.36 + £11.37 Head Prizes 10
Lambert180 0 5 £36.54 + £11.78 Head Prizes 9
Got 9 heads in the end and finished up cashing for £48.32 which aint too shabby for a £2 BI, and I can say I've FT'd a UKOPS event
Bankroll: £1,112.17
Poker Points: 1906 (£19.06)
Well done on the cash though very decent for £2.20.
I did think I had the better of the table tbh, so was very tempted to fold the river given that he isn't bluffing here often I don't think but I felt it was just a bit too nitty with how I'd played it.
Also, dunno if I've mentioned to you before Ben, I'm gonna be playing my first ever live HU Tourney in a few days. There's HU tourney as part of the WCOAP for APAT at DTD (why so many acronyms in poker!!), £50 BI, capped at 64 runners, so only gotta win 4 HU matches in a row and I'll be HU FTW
I spoke to someone who played it last year and they said it was quite a fast structure which is good for me because I think there will be loads of people who don't fully know how to play a 10-20xBB stack.
Played The Hot 3 (basically a 3e Turbo) - Went really deep in that, but as always all the money is on the FT and I didn't quite make it that far. 1600+ started and I finished 66th for 9.40e
I also played a 5euro 6-Max MTT. This got 249 runners and I managed to FT and was running 4/6. One player had a massive amount of the chips in play and was bullying everyone in every single pot. I min-raise A6 on the button, both blinds flat, flop is 265ss, I c-bet fully expecting the aggro player to raise me as he has done to everyone else, he does raise (it virtually puts me all in) I go all-in and he snaps me off with 34
Finished 6th for 44.82e
ARGHHH!!! How many FTs before I actually win 1!!
Ah well, good night of fun and about +45e
One of the tables where I was playing HU was with Rancid, and I think it must be the first time I've ever come away from a session having won money off Rancid! lol.
Finished the night +£20.03
Bankroll: £1,130.00
Poker Points: 1987 (£19.87)
hit n run !
Not saying you were scared to continue but you were still playing on other table's ! )
does leave a bitter taste in the mouth when you just leave after winning some monies
Paul
FWIW, I didnt stay very long on the tables at all, was only playing for as long as it took for Emma to bust her deepstack which was about 30-45 mins after I loaded the cash tables IIRC lol (she had been playing for about 1+ hour before that).
Im always happy to play anyone HU to start a table, although you are pretty much bottom of the list of people I want to play HU
No hard feelings I hope, Im definitely not a hit and run artist.
I only played tonight because I was 13 points short of 2k points so just wanted to get there, partly cos its just like £5 for no effort but more so just because my OCD means I cant bare to leave it a 1987 points.
Im at my mums where the laptop/internet connection (not sure which) make it impossible to multi table so just wanted to earn the points as quick as possible with the minimum effort, then I dont need to play poker tonight or tomorrow. So I played 4 x £5.25 Hypers and won 3 of them (1 of which was against Donk), then I finished it off with a £1 Hyper (which I won) for OCD purposes to have exactly 2k points.
So a profit of £9.95 tonight and that is March complete.
March Summary and April plans coming soon.
Bankroll: £1,139.95
Poker Points: 2000 (£24)
This has been a really great month for me, certainly my best for a long time. Ive seen my bankroll go from £649.89 to almost double that at £1,163.95 (including C4P) which is an excellent profit of £514.06.
Ive also now spent around 2 weeks at 30NL and over a month at 20NL, its still very early days but I am feeling comfortable with the amounts involved and comfortable with the regs at the level.
Ive made IIRC about 6-7 FTs in March from only around 30 MTTs, no big scores yet but I just gotta keep going deep and they will come.
April Targets
1. FINALLY get round to recording me playing a poker session (got the software downloaded now)
2. Achieve Priority - This will be very tough but I like a challenge
3. Dont Tilt! - By far the biggest cause of my losses and VITAL if Im putting in a lot of volume