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As a bit of an update, I played the DTD last night which couldn't have went much worse, think I was like 2nd to bottom in the DTD league lol, so that was £5.50
Today I played 2 x £2.30 SPT Micro Sats and got into the QF on the 2nd attempt. So got in cheap and I'm playing that now so updates (good ones hopefully) to come later... just took a small hit which dropped me to 18th out of 22, but we're still really deep and there are 6 seats + cash for 7th so still confident.
Also played 2 x £5.25 HU SnGs earlier today after busting the first Micro Sat and wanting something to do before the next one started (and it's a decent way to fund my sats), won both of them for £9.50 profit so freerolling the QF
Bankroll: £817.54
Poker Points: 1802 (£18.02)
I got down to the final 12 of the SPT QF so 2 tables of 6, and there were 7 seats up for grabs (I'm 6th in chips). I click away from the table, to load the other table up, click back to my table as someone has shoved and I click back on my table over the call button
I had QTo and luckily I was against AK which is as good as I could have hoped for but he flopped the Ace and it was game over as he had me covered.
Most tilting mis-click ever! Not bothered about losing the £4.60 it took to get me in, but I was pretty confident of having a seat locked up for the £48 game and just frustrating to waste about 4 hours of my day on SPT sats to blow it on a stupid misclick.
As mentioned on Robbie's diary, I've been away from cash for a good few weeks now but was (emphasis on was... lol) feeling a lot more motivated to play and de-tilted as I know I was carrying a fair bit of accumulated tilt into each session.
Played about 4.5 hours 6tabling (4x30NL and 2x20NL).
So I sat down tonight, usual routine tick the box to wait until it's my BB, then my very first hand of the session, I get dealt 88 and flop a set... WAL
Finished the session -£36.64 which could have been a lot worse. Really due a winning session of some sort soon, preferably a big one!
Looks like it's time for me to step down and start playing purely 20NL for a little while until I can rebuild a little.
Bankroll: £745.30
Poker Points: 2142 (£21.42)
Not posted in your diary in a while, but have been keeping up with how you are doing.
Was really impressed when you had lost a bit a while ago, your head was right back on it, and were soon back to winning ways.
Not much to say that you won't already know/ have heard, you'll be used to the ups and downs.
All the best to you, and am sure you will be back up there sooner rather than later
For the first time in a long time, things seemed to be going my way. Tonight I managed to set over set someone (ul AJ) which makes a nice change from me not having the underset. Also won that big like 500xBB pot on a mastercash table that got shown on 861... for anyone that missed it...
But, that said, I still finished +£65.86 which is a great feeling after so many losing sessions back to back. Shame it's not £85 but I won't complain. Nice to be back above £800.
Bankroll: £811.16
Poker Points: 2248 (£22.48)
Played £10.50 SPT QF on Monday, can't remember what happened but didn't get through
Played DTD on Monday, had a couple of deep runs but bust DTD 1 two places off the bubble (can't remember how) and got a little further in DTD 3 but bust 99 v KQ in 11th place for £5.93 so just about covered my BIs
Lambert180 0 11 £5.93
Then tonight I played a Micro sat which went very badly. I late regged and came in @ 75/150 w/ the 3k starting stack and was on a 3handed table. Open AJ from the SB, get it in w/ TPTK v AA and that leaves me without about 1.2k. Next hand on the BTN I shove K9s and the same guy has AK, gg.
Then I just bought in direct to the SPT QF, was doing ok, chipped up a little bit then lost AK v TT. Left me fairly short and just grinded away for another half an hour or so, folding lots, getting the odd jam through til eventually someone open limped the BTN w/ AJ (just meh) then called when I shipped from 10xBB from the BB w/ 5Ts and A-high was good by the river.
Bankroll: £788.29
Poker Points: 2273 (£22.73)
Then I played the £11 £2k BH. Was doing pretty well throughout, not really any tricky spots. Then shipped my 15xBB w/ QTss into an 11xBB stack who had A8ss BvB and couldnt get there. That left me crippled and I busted shortly after just outside the cash. I took 1 head
Lambert180 0 31 £3.75 Head Prizes 1
Pretty sickening now how bad I race in MTTs. If it was stars or w/e I'd expect them to be ridic high variance with the massive fields but we're talking like 100-200 runner MTTs where yes there will be high variance as in all MTTs but not as high as like 1k+ runner MTTs. I consistently get deep runs and then become incapable of winning a race.
Bankroll: £775.04
Poker Points: 2288 (£22.88)
I regged the £12 SPT Direct because I saw there was 1 seat GTD and only like 7 runners so loads of overlay. Ended up getting 18 runners anyway so just 2 runners shy of the guarantee but still only 1 seat up for grabs.
I ran pretty da mn good and won my seat
Lambert180 36000 1 Entry to £40k SPT Nott/ham
Really shows what you need to win a shortstacked MTT, you basically need to win every single race. I was doing well the entire way through and had twice as much as 2nd place for most of the game but even still losing just 1 race would have crippled me.
The one hand that basically won it for me I got super lucky
Bankroll: £763.04
Poker Points: 2298 (£22.98)
Decided to have a look at my SS this morning (just for MTTs) and last night has helped it look a bit more respectable. I've pretty much always had a really good ROI (for as long as I can remember lookinag at it anyway) just still waiting for them big wins. More volume needed!! 500 MTTs in the space of like 4 years is pretty lolbad.
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Had a bit of scary incident yesterday. Me and Emma took the kids out to a Harvester which was nice (and not scary at all). Then driving home on the windy roads (that is winding roads, not roads where wind is blowing) with rain pouring down, we're on an A road about 2 mins from our house and just as I drive round a bend, we see a car on the opposite side of the road (coming towards us) completely spinning out of control only about 30ft from us. Luckily for us (and them), they managed to end up spinning out to the left so avoiding us and only spinning into a field where they managed to at least stay flat and come to a relatively safe stop.
I have no idea in this hand what villian could possibly have to bet/call, bet/call and then bet/fold river
Bankroll: £765.77
Poker Points: 2460 (£24.60)
Since they altered the structures of all the HU SnGs a couple of months ago, the Turbo games are just too fast now imo.... I know that's funny coming from someone that used to grind Hypers, but I used to use Turbos when I fancied something a bit slower, something where I knew I had a bigger edge and wasn't so swingy, but now Turbos aren't far off what Hypers are.
So I stuck to the Speeds (which are as close to the old Turbos as there is), didn't manage loads of games cos I wasn't in full grind mode, just chilling out while watching TV and again I could only 1 table. Started off a bit rubbish, got coolered a couple of times and 1 game I lost was just a standard GII first hand JJ v AK and I can't hold.
Finished up winning 8 games, and losing 7 for a whopping total profit of £1.25
I also got a free £5 thing from Sky which had to be spent on roulette, and I ran pretty bad there too lol. Bet on red & even, it comes green 0, then I bet red & even again, it comes black 33, then I bet odd and black, it comes green 0 again lol. I did manage to place 1 bet that won something though and as every bet was just coming out of the free bet and all winnings were in real money, I did finish +£1.50
#highroller
Bankroll: £768.52
Poker Points: 2505 (£25.05)
Finished +£21.35. Probably could have been more if Trebor wasn't just completely running over me HU on one of the tables that broke.
Finished the month on 2697 points so got £26.97 to come, and a £220 SPT seat. Definitely my worst month so far of 2013 but could have been a lot worse and I've definitely been getting things back on track toward the end of the month.
Will set some goals etc for July tomorrow.
Bankroll: £789.87 (+£26.97 C4P to come) + SPT Notts Seat
Unlucky Geldy, not many worse feelings (in poker) than someone making a shocking call and you thinking 'wow wtf!! .... oh you got there'
Yeah, won't be long before I'm rolled to move back up. The target is still on to reach 50 BIs for 50NL by the end of the year and imo still very easily achievable.
My personal favourite was when I have 2 people each drawing to 2 outs, to then flop a FD and have them each drawing to 1 out.... turn bink!
Bankroll: £778.87 (+£26.97 C4P)
Poker Points: 0
Well depends how you feel about playing more than 1 table cos obv they get pretty hectic if you got loads open, I used to 2table them and I think that's when I played my best, occasionally 3tabled but think my play got worse doing this.
Per table, you can play about 12 games per hour. So I was getting in 24 games per hour when I was 2tabling, then obv if you play for 3 hours that's 72 games per day.
So could get over 2k games in a month if you play literally every day.
Never played 20s and 30s but Dohhhhh can answer that cos he does. GL anyway. Except for about 2 regs games are really soft up to and including £10s so (as always in hypers) just avoid running bad and you should do fine.
@Craig - The tables couldn't be much worse on Sky than when they run a promo like this. This is why I moan about them and why I generally don't play much cash when they're on. The terrible idea to base people's scores on how many hands they are dealt in and not how much rake they pay just encourages the nits to go even deeper into their shell, open up a million tables and sit there folding all day so they can make a couple of hundred from a promo and cooler people with KK+ in between that.
Don't get me wrong, ppeople that play like that are easy to beat, but it's a very slow cos you can only constantly nick small pots off them and it's painfully boring playing against 3-5 people like that per table.
Since Monday I've been playing HU SnGs cos I just cba with the cash tables during these awful promos that just encourage people to mass table and fold lots. Obv as is standard Lambo, I've ran like a one legged dog, it really is pretty unbelievable how bad I've ran. The only comfort is that the sample size is relatively tiny but have just been unable to win a flip or 60/40 or 70/30 for days.
In Dohhhhh style I'll post a few examples.
So far since Monday I've Won 63 games and Lost 76 all @ £5 Speeds and Hypers for a total loss of £99.75. Imo, I'd say I'm like the better part of £150 below EV atm but meh not much I can do about it.
Mehhh he had 8 club outs too but bleurgh
Standard limp/call spot
Bankroll: £702.89
Poker Points: 429 (£4.29)
Thanks
@ Gooner - Meh, if only you were right, I suspect they'll just think 'oh well, he's paying us rake if a different way so who cares'. I don't mind rake races so much, although it's still annoying when every table is reg heavy BUT I do mind rake races based on hands dealt so the tables become full of people 16tabling and folding all day. Yes it's a very beatable strategy but it's bloody boring and a far better win rate is attainable from loose bad players than stealing a BB every orbit cos they were only dealt AJ.
I'll get back to winning ways at HU before the month is out. And no you can't have him lol.
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I've mentioned before that I keep track of session results, certain HHs etc in a notepad doc while I'm playing, well I came across a hand ID today when I scrolled down and had a goosey gander. It was just a brutal beat I planned to share so here it is...
Have 'em dominated ftw, turn a FD to just destroy their soul with 1 card to come, then lose. Pretty sure I also went on to lose this game lol.