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'Schedule'...
£1.65 Sat into the KOTH (yeah I know, what a nit lol), jam QJs w/ 10xBB into QQ.
£5.50 Mini, doing pretty well in that, then I walk into a short stacks flopped set which took a bit of a chunk off me, then I jam A9s into AJ. Took one head there for £1.88
£2.20 Speed Rebuy - Doing fantastic in that, started with 102 runners and I'm massive chip leader with 25 left (13 paid). Lose 3 races in a row, never being worse than a flip (the only one I remember specifically was KQ v KT), then I ship the BTN and walk into AA. From CL to finishing 21st in <5 mins. That was the biggest sigh of the night.
£5.50 Velo - Can't remember how I bust that but it was fairly early... forgot how quick that is.
£3 all-in sat. Managed to get past the first hand which aint happened for a while, that put me on FT but came 5th with top 2 paying.
£5.75 BH - Again, doing really well, took my first head quite early, but couldn't win a race. Shipped over a shorty limper with AJ, snapped by K3 who got there. Same spot later, A7 v QJ, lose that, and eventually jam the BTN with A3 and walk into AA, fml.
So that's a total loss of £24.24
On the brightside it's the first time in a while I've had any return from an MTT
For about an hour I was playing 30NL HU cash alongside my MTTs and managed to eek out a £8.85 profit and I do mean eek out, cos I know my opponent was pretty decent and players higher. So that was some of my MTT BIs back at least
Bankroll: £1,636.14
Poker Points: 1357 (£13.57)
I started the month on £1715.49.... I'm now on £1636.14 which is a loss so far of £79.35 which is pretty small really, certainly nothing to get worried about. But I have a spreadsheet for all my cash games so I know to the penny how that's going, and so far this month on cash I am +£230.33 which means I've lost £309.68 through MTTs (and the odd STT).
Granted during this time, I've spent abuot £45 for Birmingham and I do have a £110 seat to show for that so I guess I could say the loss is only £199 but it's still pretty disappointing.
Less MTTs, more cash for the rest of the month!
First hand I play...
Last time I played was Sunday night and it wasn't pretty so I took a day off from everything (including updating). Now that I look back at it, the damage is alot less than I thought.
I lost the £1.65 from the KOTH (I satted in) mentioned above and played 1 x £3 all in sat and lost that.
Then I jumped on the cash tables
I thought I was about 3 BIs down at this point but after working out my results I was actually only 1 BI down. I also remembered the 2 pots I'm about to post being bigger than they actually were.
As you may have picked up, I think I'd been gradually accumulating tilt throughout the last week or two, from just constantly running bad in every single MTT I enter. Then the hand below happened and after the slight build up of tilt, the only thing I could do was say ARGHHHH!!
I'm thinking on the flop I'm gonna have to dodge a fair amount of outs to hold here... sadly I was the one drawing to 3 outs for a split lol.
Anyway, as this hand was happening, I had iso'd a limper on another table with JJ (yes I know it should be 4x, was rushed into getting a raise in before timing out), and literally just as I see the guy turn over AJ on that other table and I'm super tilted, that very second I get 3bet on this other table with JJ, and I just snap 4bet tilt jam for 200xBB with JJ lol just awful... snapped off by KK obv
Hand 2 = Embarrassing
Snap stood from every table after that cos knew how awful that jam was. I thought that the result would be absolutely awful after these 2 hands but having looked at it now was only -£144.90, which is just shy of 5 BIs. I've had sessions like that before, and will have them many times again. Bit sigh that I didn't need to donk off £60 at the end although I probably do lose a few more quid if I play it properly due to the run out.
Am still more than rolled for 30NL imo so will get back on the horse soon. That night kinda got it out of my system and I feel de-tilted now.
Bankroll: £1,486.59
Poker Points: 1694 (£16.94)
Kudos for you posting hand 2 mate because when i see players do this type of thing i always feel the need to type in chat "the blinds go up in 2 mins"
Best of luck
Daz
Hand 2 - Yeah just pure spew, no reasoning behind that other than pure tilt, and as soon as I did it, I was just hoping for a fold, which I'll get probably 95% of the time when we're 200xBB and all he has done is a standard 3bet... just got unlucky this time and he had one of the probably 2 hands he'd call with
Cheers for the replies all.
I'm a massive tilt monster. Before this time round where I've got my BR way higher than it's ever been, I used to always build it up, tilt it off, build it up, tilt it off.
I am still up for the month on cash despite that awful play, just spending £300 on MTTs so far this month and the only thing to show for it is a £110 Birmingham seat aint great.
Looking at it with a clear head, I know I have the game to beat MTTs on Sky it's just been a rough patch. One thing about MTTs is they are pretty brutal, and you need to play ALOT for things to even out... I can play 6/7 tables of cash no problem, and the only reason I don't play more is because I can't fit them on my laptop, but when it comes to MTT I just don't seem to be able to play that many, 3 tables is probably about as many where I feel I'm still playing really well, maybe I need to just put more practice in multi-tabling MTTs.
I don't track them actually, but maybe I should. I kept a rough idea going in my diary last month and was about +£200 for the month MTT-wise I think, which obv mostly came from the Mini win. I did BI direct to that TSP qualifier for £60 that month so that took a chunk out of the profit. Obviously it's tracked via Sharkscope but it's so inaccurate... profit missing from heads in BHs, but then losses not counted for in rebuys, and shows more losses cos I've probably had £150-£200 worth of free entries from Sky that show as losses but obv didn't cost me anything. Think I might put together a spreadsheet
I do include sats when I do my updates and count them as the price I get in for.
To be honest, I have very little regard for my tournament life, arguably I have too little regard for it, but I'm certainly not afraid to take certain spots if it can give me a chance to go deep for fear of busting out and missing out on a min cash. Min cashes, don't mean anything imo.
@SighCall - A good suggestion but just probably doesn't fit well for me. Personally if withdrew £500 and dropped back to a £1k roll, I wouldn't be loving life playing 30NL, I'd probably be comfortable at first but 1 big losing session could end all that, and I don't wanna have to move down when I can beat 30NL and don't really need to. I'm going to have this roll up to £2.5k and be playing 50NL before the year is out (probably before the summer is finished imo) and withdrawing £500 would just slow that progress down.
Also, my interests are very cheap in life. If someone gave me £500, I wouldn't know what to spend it on anyway. All of my hobbies are very cheap ones... I can get weeks out of a book for £5, weeks (at least) out of an Xbox gave for £15-£20 etc. I don't really go out drinking ever. The only thing I need/want is a new decent phone but I'm a life nit and it would be like a dagger in my heart to spend £300+ on the phone.
If I go and bink the Primo for £3k or something then I'd probably withdraw some, treat Emma etc, get myself that phone
Just need to get in now, which would be a miracle seen as I aint played any sats for it
I also won't be spewing off my whole BR at higher levels. If I play £50 and either can't win or just go on a bad run, and say drop from £2500 down to £1500, I'll just drop down to 30NL again. Having said that, it's not such a bad idea withdrawing some money every now and then, I do have a seperate bank account which I use for poker money when I'm transferring money between sites etc. I've been thinking of withdrawing bits and bobs to give myself a bit of a live roll, so that I can play live cash without it actually coming out of my bank.
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Update time...
Played 4 tables of 4NL earlier today because I was letting someone watch me play (screen sharing) to try to help them out. I was really helpful in showing them how to lose £5 in an hour
Then I played a £12 Super Roller sat but didn't get my seat.
Finished the night off back at 30NL, played 6 tables for I think about 2 hours. Some ups and downs, coolered KKkripler getting it in KK v QQ, then I managed to get it in pre against him again 88 v AA, I flopped a FD and spiked the 8 on the turn. Although I did probably needlessly gift him a BI when I figured he didn't HAVE to have it on a K-high board and he had KK lol... I did have a GS when it went in, but no bad beat for him this time.
Anyway, finished about +£5 which leaves me slightly down for the day.
Bankroll: £1,474.70
Poker Points: 1850 (£18.50)
Also, I always aim to make my money from beating the games and not just grinding rakeback, so I see that as a bonus and am considering just withdrawing whatever I make from that every month. If I get off my backside and actually put some time in, think I cuold make about £300 per month in C4P so that would gimme a few shots at 50/1 or 1/1, hopefully rungood at the start
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Tonight was another night of mostly MTTs and another night (mostly) of just pure brutal variance.
Can't remember them all and it's getting pretty boring for me (and for you, no doubt) me listing them all but the only one I remember it getting it in pre in a £5 BH AQ v AJ and them spiking the J to bust me.
Played another £22.80 worth of roller sats with no success.
A £2.30 BH, £5.75 BH, £5.50 Deepstack, £2.20 Speed Rebuy (£6.60 total), £5.50 Velocity and a £3 all in sat, where again I FT'd and came 6th with 2 seats paying.... think 2nd place must be given at random on the FT of them which is pretty annoying cos I've FT'd 2 with 2 places paid and been given 6th both times, but meh it's all just a random gamble innit.
Bust all of them without getting anything vaguely close to a cash (or a head).
Had basically given up for the night, then I decided to take one more shot and late reg (only 5 mins late) the £1,000 GTD, £11 BH. It got 134 runners in the end, and I managed to finally bag my first cash in what must be 3-4 weeks. Finished up 9th with 4 heads for a small profit.
So in total that was a loss of £22.73 on MTTs for the day but an improvement on what was -£60 before I regged that last game.
Lambert18009£19.09 + £20.63 Head Prizes4
Pretty sigh how I got knocked out, and kinda sums up how I've been running recently but gotta be happy to get anywhere near a FT the way things have been going.
While I was playing that I decided to play some cash from midnight onwards to get a few points going for the cash promo. I can't put the time or tables in to compete or have any chance of winning it but I might be able to get a top 20 for a free £50. If I do, great, if not, no biggie, I'm not pushing for it.
So I 3tabled for 1hr 30 mins alongside the £11 BH and made £21.04 which leaves me virtually break even for the day.
Bankroll: £1,471.81
Poker Points: 1951 (£19.51)
I thought i would get a lil head start on the promo tonight aswell but just realized i didn't put the code in haha
DTM 17 tabling now aswell so probably has it locked up by the morning ha.
Yeah DTM has already won the promo, everyone else is just playing for 2nd place, and I know a lad who has decided to start 12 tabling 4NL for the weekend, so that's probably another top 5 place locked up.
Too many people that have way more spare time on their hands than me so not much point bothering.
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Gonna be sharing some philosophical input, a few interesting facts and maybe the odd fable over the next few days/weeks.