You need to be logged in to your Sky Poker account above to post discussions and comments.
You might need to refresh your page afterwards.
You need to be logged in to your Sky Poker account above to post discussions and comments.
You might need to refresh your page afterwards.
Comments
Cheers
paul
I was at my mum's again tonight. For anyone that doesn't know, I have a daughter that lives in Liverpool so I come and have her for the weekend on alternating weeks, so I stay at my mums on said weekends.
Anyway, as I've mentioned many a time, I'm not sure whether it's a rubbish laptop, a rubbish internet connection or a combination of the two, but at my mum's house running 1 table is a bit slow and running 2 tables is so laggy it's just unplayable. As I can only play 1 table, I feel my time is better spent playing MTTs, so here's a summary of what I played tonight....
2 x £3 all in sats for the £33 £4k BH - no success.
£2.40 Frenzy for the £25k roller (2 rebuys) - no success (don't even know why I played this tbh, they're awful games.) So £7.20 total there.
Late regged the Mini which was a pretty disgusting affair. When I late regged it was 40/80 so I had 50xBB. Very first hand I was dealt AA but my mums laptop was so laggy that I saw it, but the betting buttons didn't appear and I was timed out before I could do anything. Fold the next hand, Then the 3rd hand I pick up QQ and get it in pre v 99 and AA, so that Mini lasted about 90 seconds.
Played the £2.20 Speed Rebuy, love these games, great value, good money up top for small outlay, plus it's nice and quick. Finished up 11th out of 119 for £10.49 so made £3.89 profit. Was a good tourney tonight too with some good rail/banter because Emma ended up finishing 8th or 9th and GregHogg ended up winning it.
Finished the night off with the £11 £400 GTD Freezeout. That was going really well, got my starting stack up to about 4.5k, then @ 75/150, I lose two races, that left me with 10xBB and before long it was sayonara Lambo.
So that comes to a total loss of £25.81
Bankroll: £1,715.49
Poker Points: 5305 (£95.49)
Now I've done my update for tonight, I just thought I'd let you all know that I'm going to be taking a little break from poker. I'm not sure how long it'll be for, but I'll be sure to let everyone know on here when I'm back. This isn't anything to do with running bad or anything, in fact this has been a great month so far, I just want to get my head round a few life issues.
I'll do a little April summary now as I won't be playing for the rest of the month...
April Summary
Another great month for me, I started the month on £1,163.95 and will be finishing the month on £1715.49 so a total profit of £551.54. Roughly off the top of my head it's about £300 profit from cash and £250 profit from MTTs
Didn't record a session, but it probably wasn't a good idea to try this on a Priority grind cos pretty much all of my sessions were like 6-7tabling and I was just too busy playing to be stop/starting recording.
Finished no where near Priority, because I took the odd day off, then I had like 3 days off for TSP, and now I'm taking off the last week of the month. I did reach my highest ever points total of 5305 though which gets me just shy of £100
Obviously, the highlight of the month, and actually the highlight of my entire poker playing life had to be getting picked by Tikay to be in TSP. It was a fantastic experience and hopefully I'll get the chance to take part again in the future.
===========================================================================
So I'm off for a little while, GL everyone and run well.
P.S. I'll still be at SPT Birmingham.
Paul
+ its super standard to have 200s buyin for MTTs on stars due to the fields but feel 100 buyins for mtts for sites like this and other european sites is standard.
a competent nit can never have a ten buyin downswing only if mass multi-tabling
as the definition of a nit is......... A nit is a term that refers to someone who plays a very narrow (or tight) selection of hands and is very unlikely to place or call bets without a high level of confidence that they are ahead in the hand.
so AA on certain board textures can easly be folded but yeah i agree with what your saying in the whole about bankroll managment.
seems like your progressing super well.
2 more question.
what percentage of players on this site are recreational players who are spewtards (what youve incountered)
do you play on other sites or just this 1? im in two minds about this site and i think its to do with the poor software.
Depends where you play, at like 10NL - 30NL imo virtually every single table has somewhere between 1 and 3 'regs' although that doesn't mean they are good 'regs'. Plenty of rec players still in cash though at my levels. MTTs are pretty much full of recs but that doesn't mean they're all bad.
Yeah I play here, FT, stars and stars .fr. To be honest, I know everyone goes on about it but I don't see a huge problem with the software, there are a few tweaks that would be nice but I play 6-7 tables and never have any problems big enough to stop/hinder my play.
============================================================================
Right so I have played pretty much no poker in the last 2 weeks. I played the KOTH once for like £7.50 (or whatever it is) and Sunday just gone I satellited into the Primo (for £35) and played the mini. Bust the Primo after an hour or so w/ AA v 24 on 522 flop.
Got quite far in the Mini, but bust in a flip (IIRC) a little off the bubble.
So BR is about £50 down since my last post about 2 weeks ago but meh that's MTTs innit, only played 3. I got my £95 C4P today but like I said weeks ago, I'm withdrawing that so I won't include it in my total.
I will start grinding some cash again soon, just needed a break from poker/the forum for a bit.
P.S. Maca, if you happen to read this, I'm more confident than ever that I will win our little bet and you won't have to shell out a few quid
Bankroll: £1,667.78
Poker Points: 109 (£1.09)
Tonight I finally got back to cash which is obviously what I should have been doing all along cos I seem to just be playing like a complete donkey in MTTs recently. I 6tabled for about 2hr 30 mins and made about £65 profit. It was closer to the £100 mark until the 2 pretty horrible hands below happened just before standing.
Bankroll: £1,698.15
Poker Points: 351 (£3.51)
Now it's been confirmed I guess it's time to get looking for a new manager ourselves. My money is on it being Martinez and I'll be pretty happy with that (as happy as you can be after losing one of the best managers in the Premiership).
===============================================================================
I've been reading some strategy articles/guides around low stakes cash games recently which Dohhh gave me links to and just thought I'd share a really interesting analogy used in one of them:
"The pots where you should bluff are the small ones, where you can feel villains hesitation: "Am I behind or ahead? Is it worth it to call this for this smallish pot?" Villains will talk themselves into folding small pots a lot more often. Why? Because your stack is a weapon, and the pot is a shield. A bet is more threatening when there's lots of money behind: your weapon looks dangerous compared to the shield. When the shield is big, your weapon doesn't look so scary."
Played a £5.25 Hyper a minute ago just for a larff, and won it.
Bankroll: £1,702.90
Poker Points: 354 (£3.54)
As for everton next manager it's tough as unless you have money to spend it just doesn't see likely you can improve on where you are atm- martinez would be interesting although i perosnally think he is overated and hasn't really done enough to warrant all the praise he gets. There isn't many obvious stand out candidates, read earlier moyes will target baines and fellaini which will make the job even tougher if that happens.
Well done on being given the chance to represent tsp by the way Paul, doesn't seem like that long ago you were considering giving up the cash after a bad session some turnaround.
Net spend for the seasons 2007/08 - 2011/12 (obv doesn't include this season)
Manchester City: £430.77 million
Chelsea: £159.7 million
Liverpool: £99.25 million
Sunderland: £57.6 million
Tottenham Hotspur: £49.4 million
Manchester United: £47.25 million
Swansea City: £8.25 million
Everton: £5 million
Newcastle United: -£30.25 million
Arsenal: -£31.3 million
£5 mil net spend in 5 years and consistently finishing top 8, plenty of cup finals during Moyes' time and even a champions league place.WP on your net spend btw before you say it.
RE: The BR... it's easy to be stable, just be a BR nit
================================================================================
@Benc - Cheers mate, yeh TSP was pretty sweet and yeh funny now that you say it about me thinking of giving up lol. My mental game really sucked back then, and it's still far from perfect but it's definitely better.
Always gonna be tough for Moyes stepping into them shoes but I reckon in time (which I think he will get) he'll definitely come good there.
===============================================================================
@NColley - Sigh yeh I've heard the rumours. Alot more bothered about losing Baines than I am Fellaini tbh but still pretty meh if it happens.
==================================================================================
Last night was a bit meh to say the least, getting really annoyed with MTTs recently. It's something I've been thinking alot about recently, and I think the reason why I enjoy cash more than MTTs these days is that ability to continue playing against bad players no matter what. Like if you're playing against a really bad player in an MTT, and something happens and they bust you, that's it, tough luck, you move on to the next game. In a cash game, if you got a bad player, I can get stacked by them and just think meh I know I'll get it back if I keep playing them.
Anyway, last night I played the £2 Speed rebuy, doing really well, I'm chip leader with about 25k but stacks are still fairly shallow in that comp. I open QQ then give someone a full double up when they decided to peel 34o and the flop came 256hh. Left me with 7xBB, very next hand I ship A3s, called by QJo, river is the Q, CL to out in 2 hands, gg me.
Then played the KOTH, again going quite well, bit above starting stack, then make a pretty standard 3bet shove with ATs into AA, gg me.
Played the £11 rebuy, double rebuy at the start obv so on 4k, doing ok up to about 6k, then give someone a full double up QQ < KK to take me down to 2k ish. So I'm quite short now, maybe 20xBB, I peel a 3b (from an serial 3bettor) with KQ, flop comes QT9ss, villian had 3b 78ss so flopped the open ended straight flush draw (WAL) and got there to stack me. Tilt insta double-rebuyed, doing well again, got my 2nd 4k up to about 18k (IIRC), then in the later stages after getting 3b by the above aggro player non stop, I eventually 4bet him with QQ. The one time I get a hand and 4bet, he flats and stacks me with KK lol, gg me. So was in that for £55 total with the add-on.
Played a £3 all in sat too, no success there but obv not gonna moan about that. Also played 2 x £5.25 Hyper, lost both of them via horrible outdraws but meh that's Hypers. Can definitely tell I was tilting though cos I only ever load up Hypers when I'm tilted (apart from obv when I was grinding them).
So that's a total loss of £82.60 from MTTs & STTs last night.
On the bright side I was 4tabling cash while playing the £11r which stepped up to 6 and eventually 7tabling after I bust the £11r. That started badly, probably wasn't playing 100% A game due to the tournament tilt, but was still playing fairly well and most of my losses were just bad luck. Got myself into grind mode when I was 6-7 tabling and turned it round from like -£120 to +£20.22. Only took one flip for stacks all night, my 99 v the evil penguin's AK but couldn't hold for the £60 pot. That would have made me BE for the day but yeh standard.
So again I find myself asking WHY AM I NOT PLAYING CASH!!
On that note, I'm gonna be taking a break from anything other than cash for a bit because it's annoying to keep winning at cash and then donking it off in tournaments, and I don't think I'm playing so well in them recently. If I do fancy an MTT, I can always have a go on one of my other accounts/sites.
Bankroll: £1,640.52
Poker Points: 661 (£6.61)
I played my first £5.20 sat for a Semi seat earlier, only 5 runners so just winner takes all for 1 seat, bust that in a standard AQ v 66 flip. Then there were no more sats for ages (I've mentioned this in the SPT area of the forum) so I decided to play some HU SnGs as a sort of satellite style way of winning the BI.
All in all today I played 30 HU SnGs @ £5.25 and won 17 of them for a £12.50 profit.
And I haven't long finished playing another £5.20 sat into the SPT Semi where I bubbled the seat but got a few squid for my troubles...
wattsy3240001SPT Birm/ham SemiLambert18002£14.40
Was doing really well and this hand below would have virtually locked it up, I'd have over 18k chips with only 24k in play @ 200/400 but the 5 arrived. Ah well, got myself a few quid.
Bankroll: £1,657.02
Poker Points: 759 (£7.59)
Since my last post I played some more...
1st £5.20 - 3 seats going, and I bubble in 4th.
2nd £5.20 - 3 seats + cash for 4th, and I came 6th
3rd £5.20 - 3 seats + cash for 4th and I bubble the money in 5th.
4th £5.20 - went out early-ish.
Just played the £12 Direct one, and it ended up getting 19 runners so 1 SPT seat + £99 for 2nd. I was 4/8 but jammed JT on the BTN into AJ
I've regged the £24 Semi which is gonna start any second, so hoping things go better there. If not, I think my time might be better spent grinding cash instead of satellites, cos the seat is only like 3-4 BIs so might just do that and buy in direct.
Also forgot to mention in my last update, I won about £12 on HU SnGs earlier, but then played some mroe earlier in between sats and got butchered and was just unable to win a race, think I won about 3 games out of 10 so lost prob £20ish there.
Finished off the night by loading up 6 tables of 30NL, played them for about an hour and made £111.81 profit, so somehow after all that, I still managed to finish the day about +£50 overall.
Bankroll: £1,689.53
Poker Points: 910 (£9.10)
Lambert180180001Entry to SPT Birm/ham Semiwudibluff02£4.80
Really sick way for the game to end. We'd been playing HU for about 5+ mins, shallow stacked, and we'd each just been jamming our BTN and swapping blinds with neither of us having a decent enough hand to call it off, then this happens...
Poker Points: 914 (£9.14)
may stump up the £120 myself for my first SPT event !!
Won't be buying in direct to any more Semis for £24 but will deffo carry on with the £5 games if only just playing them for cash because they're really good value imo because they're fast and there seems to be a lot of players not sure how to play 10-15xBB stacks.
But yeah, probably end up having to BI from cash winnings.
see if i can get a two day pass from the missus )
Looks like I won't need to grind my SPT BI on the cash tables, just won my seat in tonight's Semi. So today and yesterday combined, think it cost me in the region of £45-£50 so not too bad.
We booked our hotels today so it's game on!
POKEY2011139301Entry to £15k SPT B/hamBOINGBLITZ11267.502Entry to £15k SPT B/hamPOKERTREV105203Entry to £15k SPT B/hamLambert180100304Entry to £15k SPT B/hamBenalman8252.505Entry to £15k SPT B/hamkenchief06£44bbMike07
Bankroll: £1,684.33
Poker Points: 934 (£9.34)
Lost track completely of how I was going in the session and thought I was slightly up or maybe BE but stood from the tables and looked and somehow I'm £46.10 down. Not really sure how but gonna be doing a hand review soon with some cash regs so will have a look through.
Bankroll: £1,638.23
Poker Points: 1123 (£11.23)
I played the Mini, KOTH, the £11 BH (and a £3 all in sat for the £55 BH).
Two of them I busted out by 3bet shipping into AA and I can't remember my other exit but meh, things didn't go well, no heads, no cash. So that was -£27
Played some HU SnGs after that because I wasn't feeling it to sit down for a cash grind and there were no MTTs I wanted to play. Got butchered again, just repeatedly getting it in with 70/30s like AK v A4 and losing. So lost aonther £31.25 playing £5.25s.
I love playing HU but was getting bored of playing so shallow and just losing races, wanted to play a bit deeper and I always enjoy playing HU in 6max when I'm getting tables going so I sat down @ 30NL HU and waited...
Took quite a while but eventually got a customer and after probably 30 mins of play, I eventually stacked them. First guy was pretty tough going, not really a tough opponent, but just SO tight, that I was winning lots of small pots but was a real struggle to get them to put money in the pot. He left after I stacked him, and the one and only IDCU decided to join me
That didn't last too long, we passed chips around for a bit, then he 4bet/called it off with K7s and my QQ held. Left the table with £105 so had £71.55 profit. So somehow managed to turn it round with a bit of luck and finish a tenner up for the day.
The way Donk runs he did have me worried with that 7 on the flop...
Poker Points: 1274 (£12.74)
They can be pretty brutal Benc even over large samples, much the same as MTTs, you can go on long runs of doing terrible and sometimes when you're going through that it's hard to differentiate between whether you're playing bad or just running badly. For a while I've been thinking I must be playing like a donkey in MTTs cos I@m getting no-where but I just don't know know if it's bad play or variance or (most likely) a bit of both
I feel I have a much bigger edge playing 100xBB deep with someone HU than in a HU SnG where effective stacks are usually like 10-20xBB deep at the sharp end, it's just a question of whether my bigger edge is counter-acted by the high rake at low levels.