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The last 2 hands I've posted have been slightly braggy, so to go for one in a different vein, here is one from earlier today...
Bankroll: £1,225.10
Poker Points: 2160 (£25.92)
Then I got in a bigr cash grind, started off playing 6tables of 30NL and later started 7tabling. Played from about 9pm til just after midnight and made a very respectable £84.14 profit so that covered my MTTs and then some.
Biggest pot of the night, using the old 'people don't fold FHs' theory, I went for the max'...
Pretty sigh how much bigger my BR would be if I hadn't spent like £150 on MTT BIs so far this month with zero return, but if ya don't take the shots, ya don't get the big binks
Bankroll: £1,259.74
Poker Points: 2503 (£30.04)
I thought, i was ahead here depsite his mad pot size bets
Good shout, its ok to fold FH sometimes! No way is he meant to have kings here lol
Was doing well in the ME then this happened...
Bankroll: £1,243.24
Poker Points: 2503 (£30.04)
Not much to say about tonight really, ran quite well in flips against <40xBB shorties. Finished up with a profit of £78.16 which more than made up for the £16.50 I lost through MTTs.
It didn't all go well though....
Bankroll: £1,321.40
Poker Points: 2753 (£33.04)
Nice 1 having a go at these big tournies, just think about it one big win and thats your bankroll through the roof lol
Outside that, playing cash, your bank roll is still growing at a brilliant rate.
Outstanding stuff, well done mate
Forgot to mention on here that I played some £1 HU SnGs with you last night, Larson thinks it finished 4-4 and I have no idea, but I know I finished about £1.20 down
I broke one of my targets today because I know I definitely tilted for a period of time. I did keep it to a minimum, but found just enough time to donate a BI to Dohhhh w/ 88 in just the most embarrassing fashion. May post a couple of hands on here tomorrow, I'm sure there are plenty of amusing hands from tonight.
Finished the day -£199 so only about 6.5 BIs in total, and I was fully aware that with the amount of volume I need to put in this month to get Priority then it's almost a certainty than I am gonna experience a few brutal sessions. Ah well, chalk it down as a bad 'un, still got £1100+ and still happy playing on at 30NL
Fresh start tomorrow and hopefully back to winning ways.
Bankroll: £1,121.09
Poker Points: 3447 (£48.26)
It's a Chevrolet Lacetti 1.8 Sport. Yes, some people have mentioned some negative things about this car/manufacturer, but nothing about it's reliability and basically all I want in a car is ... cheap (nit innit), gets me from A to B without breaking down, and looks nice, this does the job for all 3 so it'll do.
On this topic, I've decided to withdraw whatever I make from C4P this month to put towards the cost of the new car. Everything is already paid in full etc (I don't do loans) but just thought I'd do this to reduce the amount being taken out of our bank for it and C4P is only supposed to be a bonus anyway imo so I expect to be making a decent profit this month from the games.
Back to poker. After last night's session, I really needed a session to get me back on track both in terms of £££ and to keep my confidence up. Well I got just what the doctor ordered. The start of the session was similar to yesterday, just a mixture of horrible situations, losing flips and constantly betting betting 2 streets knowing I'm good then having to fold rivers. After about an hour, all that finally ended and I managed to get things together a bit and start taking down some decent pots.
This hand was good...
12 days x 333 is 3996 so again, just behind the running, I'm also gonna drop further behind tomorrow because I'm at my mum's Saturday night where her laptop can only handle 1 table. Not sure what I'll play (if anything) cos don't think I can face 1tabling cash, so looks like it's gonna be a big Sunday grind! Definitely break 4k points next sessione easy and I think that'll be my biggest ever C4P total.
Bankroll: £1,242.03
Poker Points: 3730 (£52.22)
Dare I say it I don't think you played it very well, but I'll leave it open for debate )
Maybe it's just a level !
I agree with you a bit Donk, but then we (everyone) would be pretty bad players wouldnt we if we played exactly the same style against all types of opponent.
I know Rancid is 3betting wide, especially 3handed and especially v me cos he just owns me non-stop, so think pre is fine. Again, I can take different lines on the flop, and obv he still has all sets, loads of 2prs, pr + draws, draws, and bluffs in his range. I do have basically the nut pr + draw hand, and I know Rancid will give me action with his draws, pr + draw hands. If he has sets etc (hands where Im in real trouble), and I flat, then there are hardly any turns where Im gonna be able to get away from anyway.
Granted this line does fold out all his bluffs, but I think its better in terms of getting value from the hands Im currently beating as his equity is gonna massively drop with his drawing hands if the turn is a blank.
Having said that, I do think if Im raising it should probably be a tad smaller. Im a little confused by Rancids ship though because he will know Im never raise/folding this flop for another £16-£17 and he cant really get it in and see me show any hand hes happy about.
Nice car buddy. What Car will you get one day with your poker millions:D
I always wanted a ferari haha you can get one for 20k, but it's 20 year old lol
Poker; after a bad day nice come back!
When you are playing poker (just cash) how many days would you say are "winning" days versus "losing days"
'They' say longterm, you are probably only gonna be winning just over 50% of sessions, maybe 60% but if you're good, your winning sessions should be alot more than your losing sessions. I got off to a great start in April winning something like 8 sessions in a row, some small but some very decent, so it was always expected that I was due a bad session at some point, Im just glad I bounced back well the next session.
As with everything in poker though, all you can do is play as well as you can and see what happens. Sometimes youll have sessions where you flop 2nd set and walk into top set 3 times and playing as well as you can may mean getting stacked 3 times there. Ive tried hard recently to take on board a piece of advice Rancid gave me ages ago about not being so focussed on what the final result of a session is and more on whether I played well or not. Sometimes youll win by playing like a complete fish, and sometimes youll play brilliantly and lose, thats poker innit.
u could opt to flat flop which is probably better
sometimes taking the view of I am going with it no matter what - doesn't mean you should raise so much bigness
I don't think my shove is great tbh but cba doing any math as I am off out
maybe we can just level ourselfs more and get into some crazy hands
gg
Ah well, Im sure youll continue to own me in future
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As I mentioned in my last session update, Im at my mums today and this laptop can only handle 1 table, so I might use this time to do some hand reviewing when Im not tempted to just go play. Might 1 table an MTT if I spot anything I like the look of, but cant 1table cash.
Aint had an MTT bink for a while, although I don't play many MTTs so that'd be why lol. Seen as I could only 1table, I thought an MTT would be the most efficient use of my time so I late regged the £2.20 £250 GTD Speed rebuy... bought in for a double stack which gave me 4k @ 40/80, obv took the add-on so cost me £6.60 total. Long story short, I ran pretty well when I needed to and took it down
Pretty decent return for £6.60
Lambert1805000001£115.15luckyswift02£70.25Moon_River03£43.26
Could get used to this 1tabling lark
Bankroll: £1,350.58
Poker Points: 3736 (£52.30)
Brilliant you brought it down
you are EASILY the most improved player on sky over the last 18mnths IMO and you are still getting better. I honestly believe that you can end the year playing 100nl+
I also think that you could/should take one of the 2 remaining spots in TSP because of your ever improving game and because of all you do on the forum.....you would def get my vote m8.
I rarely kiss someones rear end btw
It would make perfect sense for them to do this, you are one of the most regular contributors on the forum and get involved in pretty much everything. It would be a good boost for the site getting someone so involved to be a part of TSP, who is Skypoker through and through.
You have also done brilliant at the Poker as Waller says.
Go on Skypoker, Paul for TSP.
Good luck!
I do really feel like I've improved so much over the last 18 months, and I have put in a lot of hard work to do this, but it's something I'd have never acheived without the help of some very good poker mates.
Thanks to both for the vote of confidence for TSP. It's something I'd absolutely love to do and yeah I certainly am Skypoker through and through. It really would be fantastic but I'd imagine Tikay already has his other 2 picks lined up.
Thanks again for the nice words.
+ 2
Got a session in tonight, but not as big as I would have liked. Lots of points to catch up on, but I'll get that sorted in the coming week. So I played 6 tables of 30NL and 1 table of 20NL, and made a total profit of £100.47
What do people think of my line on this flop? I know I'm the PFR and have flopped pretty well, but I didn't wanna c-bet and get raised out the pot.
Poker Points: 3841 (£53.77)
The black one is a boy called Sly, and the other one is a girl called Zelda (obviously a gamer nerd)
Just finished a session, I played 4 hours of 7tabling 30NL and made a loss of £106.09 which sucks. Didn't make too mistakes (I don't think) but just didn't run too well in some of the big pots (one of which I'll post).
It looks like I might have to abort the Priority plan this month because I'm gonna be busy all this coming weekend and it's gonna be a struggle to take another 2-3 days out of the month and still get Priority. Haven't completely given up on it yet but I'll see how things go.
So here's a nice hand from the session, just for JJ's benefit
Bankroll: £1,344.96
Poker Points: 4249 (£67.98)