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Have no idea why you shoved.
What worse hands are you expecting to call?
Sure you can say he was lucky "getting there" against you. But the shove was bad play imo.
We can't play the same against all opponents. Some are fishy, some are stations etc etc. This will get called by worse loads imo and there's very little he can have that beats me, but lots that doesn't beat me that will call.
Also, if they are a calling station why not pot or slightly overbet the draw heavy flop? seems a bit backwards imo.
He's virtually never gonna have QQ+ and never sets, so it's 2pr, flushes, or hands I beat and I think there are far more I beat then I lose to.
RE: over betting the flop, I guess that's possible yeh, but I don't know at this stage he has connected in anyway, and he's a station but he's not completely stupid. Once he calls flop, pretty obv he has some SD value or a draw. FWIW, I did go quite big on the flop
Cheers for the info, just wanted that break down to help me understand.
Oh, and is that type of player going to be frequently seen at 20nl? 10nl can seem a reg nit fest some nights!
ccf
GII AQ v 88 against Rancid - lose
GII AKs v AA against PokerKinga - lose
3bet pot I have QQ on JJJ flop, I play it cute cos I know I won't get loads of action from worse hands if I go mental - villian has flopped the world w/ AJ
gg, profits gone in 3 horrible hands.
So banked another losing session, only £10.81 but this but just so sick to play really well, build up decent profit without having to win a race one, just constantly picking up small pots, then lost every single big pot of the night.
Bankroll: £857.43 (+£24.22 of C4P)
Poker Points: 1058 (£10.58)
It looks a bit to swingy for me. I know your trying to get up the levels and have some bad bts but i wouldn,t rush it and get back to seriously thinking about BRM even if it means dropping down a level which is hard to do when you,ve been playing 1 level for a while or maybe mix it up a bit more and play more sats for MTT,s which you seem to do well at.
Noticed a lot of ppl have picked you in their SPT fantasy teams as well
GL with it anyway m8 and see you over the weekend
EDIT You seem to playing against a lot of regs. I know you haven,t recently but i wouldn,t be posting to many cash hands on this thread as if i were on your tables i,d be studying them before playing you
I don't mind stepping down but obviously don't want to leave a higher level if I have an edge over most tables there and the BR to handle it, but if variance continues to kick me in the teeth, then I would be stepping down to 20NL @ the £750 mark.
To be honest, I'm mates with a lot of the 30NL regs and have a Skype group where we discuss hands anyway. Plus, showing how I play a hand against a really loose bad player doesn't really give them any help as to how I'd play it against them cos I'm not just being a robot playing the same game for everyone.
See you at the SPT.
Splashies that's not really the case. Firstly, I do alot more receiving than giving because they're mostly all better players than me, so tbh I'm probably getting a lot more out of it than they are. Plus I'm discussing hands with some other cash sickos like Percival who don't play cash on Sky or don't play my level so I don't need to worry about them. I'm well aware I can beat the fish at this level, I could probably beat the fish that are at 100NL too but the game imo isn't just about battering the fish... if I can't beat low stakes regs then I'll have no chance playing higher stakes regs later. Plus, I probably wasn't good enough to beat 30NL until I got talking to these people and going through strategy, my game has improved SO much since talking to them.
Most of the money isn't being lost to these people, in fact the onnly hand in that list of 'bad beats' against someone I talk was v EvilPingu, and if I could win a 55/45, I'd be alright lol. Every other hand in that thread (except AA<KK which is just urgh) was played against random recs that I'm happy to play all day long.
It's just variance and it's always gonna be swingier playing against other good regs. The reg that owns me to death is Rancid but he aint in the group so he has no advantage there other than being golden.
FWIW, I should point out, when I said I'm mates with 30NL regs, I should have said that I meant good regs... there are plenty of players who are regs at the level but doesn't mean they're good regs.
Alot of people have been a bit negative about Martinez but it's not like there is an abundance of world class managers, nevermind those willing to take on the Everton job, I'm happy to take a punt on Martinez.
Btw, bit of a diary update, courtesy of a tip from JJ, I've decided to punt my £25 C4P on West Indies to take down this ICC thingy (I know nothing abuot cricket). Not really bothered about my C4P and JJ assures me it's massively +EV to be able to get 8/1 on this bet. This is actually my first ever sports bet... beginners luck plz
£225 if it comes in... come on Windies!!! Can the West Indies be the ones to take my roll back up to £1k
#degen
World class managers available for Everton? cant believe Steve Kean wasn't in with a shout. I hear he did a really good job at his last place...
In all seriousness i'm not sure about Martinez. He was a good fit for Wigan but think that may be his level. I suppose we will see but at least he will keep the Everton tradition of starting poorly but finishing well. You cant argue with a man that took Wigan to the FA Cup final though and then took it down. In fact, the game against Everton in the FA Cup was one of the best performances i have ever seen (especially in the first half) so if he can get Everton playing like that it will be a great appointment. Time will tell.
As you say though, the most important thing for Everton is finding the funds to bring in the right players. Does it look like he might get a bit to spend?
fwiw I don't think I own u that hard......
yeah bye bye cap )
#dontplaywithscaredmoney
Sounds just like moaning again, and I'm as sick of doing it as you probably are of reading it but meh that's the way it's going and not gonna only post when I'm winning. I had JJ diong a live sweat with me the whole time and he couldn't believe how brutal it was.
I played for about 4 hours in total and things did start to change in the last hour, started stacking a few people and managed to cooler one of the best regs at the level (see below). Still a sick sweat when you're running like me, and are sat there just praying for him to not house up in a 470xBB pot
The positive is that I did end the session on a high, running better, and played the whole 4 hours really well so hopefully more of that to come and a big turn around for the month could be on.
Bankroll: £776.15 (+£24.22 of C4P)
Poker Points: 1387 (£13.87)
EDIT: Sigh, they just posted the Cash Champ leaderboard, I know I have no chance against the top 10 players but 6tabling for 4 hours last night has took me from 17th down to 18th, and now I got 2 days off for SPT, so no chance of a top 20 there.
Which reminds me... off to sunny Birmingham in a few hours
Not a rubdown.....but you now have 25BI for 30nl, so are there any plans to drop down to 20nl. I remember when you refused to move up from 10nl even though you had like 1000BI (slight exaggeration but you know what I mean).
You were king BR nit and now you are aggro with your BR when the beats can seriously hurt....I'm sure you know what you are doing but would be a shame for things to go proper t*ts up in a couple of bad sessions.
Yeah dont worry, I know it's not a rubdown lol. Back at 10NL I was definitely a massive BR nit, which isn't the worst thing in the world, but I could definitely afford to loosen the purse strings a bit.
You must have missed it but I have mentioned a few times that I'll be moving back down to 20NL when/if I hit £750 which will give me almost 40 BIs, then will probably grind it back up to £1k and go back to 30NL. My C4P took me to £800 so I probably got 1 more shot @ 30NL before I gotta step down.
Had a good chat with a very good player at SPT Brum, and I'm definitely not gonna do anything that is putting me at risking of blowing my roll or not being able to play at least 20NL.
***SPT summary to come now***
I got back from the SPT last night at about 9pm and it was definitely one of the best SPT weekends I've had for a long time. I got to meet loads of new Sky regs like RogueCell, Geldy, and Jac35 to name a few.
Loads of us went for a curry on the Friday night, spent a few hours drinking in a beer garden then lots more drinking back at the casino until at 4am I had to call it a night.
The ME on Saturday didn't quite go as well as planned but really happy with how I played. Couldn't get going at the start and dropped down to about 5k after losing a few small pots where I was out-kicked. Quick structure, blinds were going up so it was time to get a move on. At the time Geldy had been completely bossing my table so decided to take a stand against him obv...
He opened, and I peeled JTcc IP, then Giant calls from the BB which is always worrying. Flop came 378ddd, Geldy bets, I click it back, Giant folds and Geldy calls. The turn is the 6d, so it's now 3786 (all diamonds), he checks and I have to carry on with the story and ship given it's like the most scary card in the pack, thankfully he tank folded 78 for flopped 2pr, so that took me back to nearly starting stack.
Very next hand I raised AA and took the pot down with a c-bet. Very next hand I raised QQ and took the pot down with a c-bet again which took me up to abuot 8.5k just as we went on the first break. Can't remember many key hands for a while other than FlashJonny being short and shipping AT and me re-shipping to iso him with AK and knocking him out.
I then got moved onto the 'table of death' with Adam Bromley, Scotty77, Slykllist, and Jac35, luckily for me Andrew1947 had been moved from the table before I got there. I was only there for about 10 mins before I saw the brutal hand where Ryan got it in (about 50xBB eff) with AA v Bromley's KK and the runout was QTxAJ.
Hadn't won any big pots for a while but just picking up the odd small one and getting the odd blind steal through and had got up to 20k @ 300/600, I min-raise TT, a guy with abuot 5.5k ships with 66, I snap him off and he flops the 6. I can't catch up so drop down to about 15k just before the dinner break. Pretty sigh but still had a stack to play with.
Came back from a very taste curry on the dinner break with the 15k @ 400/800, didn't do too much for a while, iso'd 1 limper and had to fold the flop and paid my blinds/antes. Found myself on 11.5k on the BB, folds round to Slykllist on the button who opens, I ship the BB w/ 22, he calls with AJ and I can't hold. Think I finished about 90th out of 205.
WP Paul (Jac35) and Clare btw, pretty amazing to have two SPT debuts playing HU for the win.
Best part of the weekend was definitely meeting Paul, Geldy and Clare for the first time, all really nice guys (and gals)
(got my C4P)
Bankroll: £798.95
Poker Points: 1435 (£14.35)
That'll be the last time people see Paul Jackson on the table draw and feel happy that it aint action jackson
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Tonight, I couldn't be bothered with a big grind, and fancied a few MTTs so played the DTD. Didn't manage a cash in any of them. I flopped top two in DTD1, BD flush came in but we obv can't put 'em on that so that was my exit there. DTD 2 I don't remember the exit but came about 60th. DTD 3 I 3bet shipped TT into AA to finished somewhere around the final 30ish.
On the upside I saw today that I managed to scrape a 19th place in the middle tier of the cash promo for £15. Shocked I got anything to be honest because I spent 2 days in Birmingham and hardly put any decent volume in on the other days, so can't complain. I did think the tiers were perfect for a 30NL reg this time because it only included 20NL - 40NL and practically no1 plays 40NL anyway so that's what gave me a chance imo.
£11 ME - bust JJ into QQ
£5.50 Mini - don't remember the exit but pretty sure I remember it being unlucky.
Played a £5.50 Timed Tourney and cashed for £10.50
Then played the £11 BH and FT bubbled in pretty nasty fashion. Was especially annoying because I had a very decent stack and there were loads of short stacks still in, but just a pure cooler than I can't really get away from no matter how he plays it. Was just posting up the lobby thing and realised I came 6th... there must have been a shorter stack bust out the same hand as me on the FT bubble so it gave me 6th place, so I technically did FT... although I never actually sat down.
Lambert18006£35.03 + £27.30 Head Prizes6
Bankroll: £848.28
Poker Points: 1570 (£15.70)
I also played 2 x £2.50 SPT Micro sats and got into the QF on my 2nd attempt. So got in half price but bust that quite early.
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Uuuuuuurrrrgghhhh is my feelings on tonight.
I played a £2.30 SPT sat... dunno why they've lowered the price but it all seems to add up correctly so I can only imagine the first day or two of sats where actually charging more than the cost of the seat (or charging more rake than it is now). Didn't do any good there anyway.
Played a £3.60 direct sat into the ME which didn't go well.
Played the £7.20 ME Semi, there were 34 seats + cash for 35th, and I finished 38th, sigh.
Then I decided to take a shot at it and just BI direct (which meant I obv bought into the mini too).
Was super focussed and played really well throughout, obv ran well in some spots when I needed to. Got into the deep stages and was sitting 14th with 39 remaining when this hand happened....
Just puke, why do I run so bad in MTTs! This pot is for me to go chip leader with only 39 remaining in the ME, by a mile the best spot I've ever been in during a ME on Sky.
Lambert180039£34.82 + £40.08 Head Prizes2
Anyways, finished 39th with a couple of heads so was +£23.30 for the day
Bankroll: £822.74
Poker Points: 1783 (£17.83)