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I always try to do anything that will make things more efficient, so if you have a spare bit of time go and tick the autofold button when you have 72o in the CO or whatever.
RE: Lag.... I really have no idea, I've never had an issue with lag on Sky ever even now I'm 12tabling unless I'm doing something else at the same time, like screensharing/watching youtube/watching 861 on the live stream.
FWIW, I play on a laptop (with a 2nd monitor you saw in the blog) and specs of that are only...
Intel Core i3 2.53GHz processor
4GB RAM (3.8GB usable apparently lol... dunno what that means)
64 bit Windows
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@Borin - Yeah would definitely be good to get you involved. Can send you a PM on here if you like to explain but basically you just need to google 'Skype' and download it for free. I don't think you need to make a log-in for it if you use hotmail/windows live (whatever they call it now), you just use your email address and the password you use for your hotmail emails. If you get on, then you can add me.... Lambert1801 .... yes I know, Lambert180 was taken
@ FlyingDagg - Lol, good point. I wasn't sure how to word it with me talking about the past.
@Benc - Cheers mate, aint seen you around for ages!
As per some advice from Dohhhhhh, I decided to have a more chilled night tonight just playing a few MTTs. It was a night of near misses really but still managed to make a decent profit which is more than can be said for cash recently
Played the £11 £4k BH, went semi-deep but missed out on a cash and finished with £8.44 of heads.
Not so deep in the mini, but still probably 2hr+ hours in before I bust with just £1.88 of heads.
Played the UKOPS supersat, £13 BI and 1st got a £530 high roller seat, 2nd - 6th got a £110 ME seat. I'd pre-regged both cos I just wanted to play for the cash, and ended up busting in 8th, 2 spots off the seats
My best result was in the main event where I finished 22nd out of 806 runners for a little over £170. Nice cash but still really feels like a near miss and I'd said quite far out I wouldn't be happy with anything less than a FT.
Lambert180 0 22 £66.50 + £105.30 Head Prizes 6
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Still though, finished about +£100 for the night on MTTs so happy with that.
Anyway, I sent a contact request.
Tbh bankroll has been taking a beating recently. I'm currently in the middle of a £1.5k downswing on cash at the moment, just seem to be incapable of bagging 1-2 half decent winning sessions without having a monster losing session days later and wiping it all out (and more). Luckily a bit of C4P and small bits and bobs from MTTs has kept my head above water.
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On a similar topic to the above, I think all this battering I'm taking at cash is starting to just leave my head feeling mashed. I've looked at an absolute ton of my HHs and while there's some bits of bad play here and there and I'm by no means the perfect cash player, a massive amount of the hands are just completely standard and it's mostly just variance... whether that be in the form of not getting value from big hands, getting coolered, getting bad beats when aipf, opponents catching up a lot more than they will do long term etc etc.
Obv I'm experienced enough to know that changing game won't change how I run, but it can definitely change how you feel mentally and that's a massive part of poker... nothing worse, both in terms of just how you feel and your actual results, than to sit down expecting to lose.
So I'm changing things up a bit, will be playing a few more MTTs this week and gonna generally be grinding alot of HU SnGs (Turbos). Chance to go back to a format I know I'm a winner at, earn double points and get a break from cash.
Then I'm planning on putting together my first proper schedule for a UKOPS (possibly selling some action), and will hopefully come back feeling all refreshed to finish out the month with double points on cash. Also got SPT towards the end of the month too.
New blog gonna be coming for SPT Grand Final, will post up a link when it's done.
@Jac - I don't know if you're mistaking me for someone else or it's just a joke that's gone completely over my head lol but that doesn't sound like me you're describing. I'm 26 and have left the country (not counting Scotland and Wales) once in my life and that was to France when I was about 7.
Related to this actually... I may post about this tomorrow but in short, Emma's brother who lives in San Francisco has fallen very ill over the last few days, so I think we're going to be flying out soon to see him, so that'll be my 2nd time out of the country and my first time in America, although sadly not under the best of circumstances.
But yeah the games on here are definitely tighter/more solid than they have ever been, to the point where it's become an absolute nightmare to try and get value out of anyone at times. One thing I think I need to do is reduce my number of tables, and get back to really playing some poker because playing like a robot (I aint quite that bad
I really agree with you though, and I'm desperate to get out there and play some live cash. I always mean to do it at an SPT but annoyingly the next one is at DTD and I've been warned that if you wanna play live cash, it's definitely better to play at a proper casino and not DTD (a cardroom), and that while the games can still be soft there, they are nowhere near as soft as in casinos. I think, SPTs aside, I need to plan a few days out to my nearest casinos (probably Reading or Luton) and give it a whirl.
Slight misunderpitation there Lambert.
Ok well same applies about me wanting to play more live, but yeah wanna give things a go in my more exotic locations too.
Cheers Harry, we've currently in the process of trying to get passports ASAP (Emma has never had one and I got my first one when I was 16 and I'm 27 in a couple of weeks so it's just recently ran out). Cheap flights would be good, I'm the ultimate life nit... think the best Emma could find was in the region of £500 per person, is that good/average/bad?
As a bit of background, we found out nearly a week ago that Emma's brother who lives in San Francisco has something called AVM. I don't know the full details but I believe it's an issue with the arteries around the brain or at least it is his case. He was brought in to the hospital a few days ago when he went numb down one side of his body and has been sedated most of that time while they try to drain the blood from around his brain. They've had awake on and off for for the last couple of days and he is now able to talk although seems to have trouble finding the words he wants to say. He's been able to lift the thumbs on both hands which is a good sign but is still unable to move his toes and obviously they won't be can't be sure yet if there will be any lasting damage to his brain.
Emma's bro is quite high up (director of product design) in Yahoo and we've had a phone call from the CEO of Yahoo who is very good friends with him saying that they're gonna do whatever it takes to make sure he gets the absolute best possible care so it's great to have that support. Seems pretty crazy knowing the CEO of Yahoo is involved!
So we're looking to go out there to see him in the very near future which means me and Emma are both in a rush to get ourselves passports.
Yeah my BR has taken a bit of a beating but at this stage it's not enough to force me to move down stakes... JUST! So yeah can still continue as I am now but can't afford to continue getting battered for too much longer.
Grind schedule is organised and decent, possibly too rigid if anything. I'm definitely doing well with the volume, usually playing between 9-12 tables for the better part of 40hr per week. I generally do like 6-7 hours on a Friday and Saturday night, then do 4hr sessions a few other weeknights and a few weekdays to make up to about 40hr. This has reduced a little over the last week or so because I'm finding it mentally tough just getting butchered every session. Sometimes I find it hard to switch off after a horrible session but if I'm playing on the Xbox 360 or watching a film with the girlfriend or something then that generally takes my mind off it all.
I can't help but feel that my game has become a little more robotic of late. Not like being a massive nit just waiting for the nuts but sometimes missing out on villian dependent moves so might miss out on a street of value against X villian because he's stationy or by incorrectly paying off Y villian because he's just nut peddling. So these are definite leaks.... but then I dunno if I'm overthinking this and possibly just trying to find excuses for why I'm losing. There's no doubting, no matter what I say, the majority of is it pure and simple variance giving me a kick in the chops. Very good idea about spending some time to focus on a particular player and figuring out how to destroy him. One thing I do know is that there are a group of players who all play my level and who are all staked by the same person and all have virtually identical nut peddling games, so watching one of them is basically the equivelant of watching about 6+ of the regs at my level.
It's really hard to know what the best thing to do is. Part of me wants to reduce the tables and try to get some focus back because I'm wondering if the problem is playing so many tables.... but at the same time, I played about 100,000 hands in my first month which were pretty much all while 12tabling and I smashed it, and really don't think I ran particularly well in the process.
Obviously I'd love to be sponsored by Sky or something lol but would have no idea how to go abou it and doubt they'd want to. There's nothing really special about me, other than I guess they could say I'm the guy that spun it all up from £20 but I'm sure there's a million others out there that have done similar.
FWIW, this is my 3rd month of playing full time and so far my first 2 months have been profitable. First month was a very good start, but the 2nd month I kinda got out of jail and only managed to have a very small winning month thanks to rakeback and a couple of MTT binks on another site. It would have been a lot more profitable if not for losing something in the region of £1.2k at cash before the end of last month and this month started in similar fashion which has left me trying to 'get out of it' again.
Meant to reply ages ago but cheers for the advice TPTP, I'm definitely gonna spend some time picking on particular regs and trying to get much more detailed reads.
And yeah the Sky thing is down to me to make it happen, it's definitely something I've always been interested in like. I was well happy with Tikay picked me to play for Team Sky Poker and would deffo love to get more involved with Sky like that, maybe even make a guest appearance on 861.
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I meant to post up this morning so I'll post up in the tone/manner I intended to at the time lol.
Well the hits just keep on coming! It's now the better part of 7-8 weeks where I've barely managed to have 1 winning session at any format. This morning was my first time back at cash in about a week, and it wasn't any kinder to me than it was on my last visit. I also played a couple of MTTs. To the best of my recollection I got it in pre 5 times this morning (twice in MTTs and 3 times in cash).
Cash
AKo v JJ - lose
AKs v QQ - lose
JJ v ATo - lose
MTTs
£5 BH exit - AA v KK - lose
£11 BH exit - KK v AA - lose (gotta laugh at them two)
All pretty standard spots...(well except someone getting stacks in with ATo at 20NL) just a shame all 5 of them didn't go my way. Also had a pretty rough time of people just generally outdrawing me in cash at a higher than normal rate. Bricked every MTT except a £5 timed tourney where I cashed for just over £20 so that saved my MTTs for the morning.
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This evening went a little better. I went in with a clear plan... win the Mini, and win the Priority freeroll. Things didn't quite go to plan as I bust the Mini in probably <30 mins. Pretty standard, I got shortish, and 3bet shipped AT, it was a little deeper than I normally 3bet jam but I know you get such ridic light calls in the Mini BHs so think it was fine, called by KQ and couldn't hold anyway.
I didn't win the Priority FR but I did manage to get my first ever cash in one of them and £160 comes in very handy when you're bleeding money like no-one's business.
shawsok - £7402MIKEY802 - £4403SoLack - £3004b123n - £2205Lambert180 - £1606winner5603 - £140
I also had my first winning session at cash for what feels like about a million years. Only a small win of £33.25 but I'll take anything at the mo.
So all in all, pretty brutal morning, but finished about +£145 tonight on MTTs and +£33 on cash to claw back this morning's losses and make a bit of a profit. Fingers crossed All this rungood I'm due will all be released this weekend and I can get a nice score at the SPT.
Morning session started off pretty horrible and thought I was in for another slog, but it did manage to pick up towards the end, and I clawed back most of the earlier losses to finish -£6.73... I'll take that, given how I ran.
or is it...
Dohhhhh's requested more HHs in the diary so here are a couple from this morning (he specifically requested I post the first one)....
Moore has been open shipping or 3bet shipping pretty much every hand for the last. Don't see any point 3betting to iso, not gonna get people calling 25xBB ships too light behind me.... it's not a BH
Check the flop to give them 1 chance to try and get me out of the pot if they want to, even though it's a dry side pot, most people don't realise... either way I'm not folding. Nice cooler flop either way lol.
Was gonna play quite a few MTTs this morning but such a poor selection going. Don't fancy playing a £5 BH with 15% rake when 1st place is about £40! So in the end I just played a £5.50 timed tourney where I cashed for £27.66 and a few MTTs over in foreign lands. Not been doing too well on there for a couple of weeks, got my first cash in a while today but it was tiny, came in the somewhere in the 40th - 50th region in a €5 which had €500 FTW... I got €6.57 lol.
Amusingly, I'm about +£260 this month on MTTs, the only format I'm in profit for this month.
Tho I agree to an extent it must be pushing buttons playing 12 tables. If that's what paul was doing, he'd be as well playing the same levels as DTM.