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Cheers JD. Yeah I live down in Oxfordshire now and have a daughter that lives in Liverpool (where I'm originally from) so I do that 170 mile journey and have her for the weekend every other week.
Cheers Teddy, nice quote. The guide is more gonna about general strategies, like I'm not going into specific ranges you should be playing or 'how to play poker', it's more about changing gears, and the different things you need to think about at different stages of an MTT, but combine that with your beastly knowledge of theory and you'll be sorted.
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Only played 4 tables on lads poker tonight + the roller on Sky. I've been playing a lot less tables recently, like NEVER more than 6 just cos I need to be a lot more focussed on gameflow and be able to make more play specific decisions etc now I'm playing a much more laggy style.
I late regged the Roller and just sold 25% to JJ again, I'm posting now so it obv wasn't another FT
the donk bet on the flop i would say is sure to be atleast top pair, normally we expect them to do it with draws too but the thing with this guy is when he choose to limp with KQs I start thinking now he doesn't feel keen on raising incase he missed.
the flop was played fine.
what i might have did on the turn was just bet another 3000/fold because the chances are he has got K10 108 97 or a set the only hand i see that is behind is 86.
Then again i would have went in the same route as yourself.
good luck with the MTT guide looking forward to it.
Not gonna be putting huge volume in on Sky this month cos I'm gonna be focussed on my stake this month but I'll be playing the £55 9pm BH pretty much every single night just to make sure I get my 50 points lol. I'll also be dedicating 1 week of the month to coming back and attempting to smash out some volume at 50NL to try and get a top 5 in one of the rakeraces.... not sure which week yet but it won't be the first cos that's when all the biggest grinders will win one and then they won't be allowed to win 1 in future weeks
i) I'm essentially playing the same stakes on there that I'm rolled to play myself. $100/200NL in £ is basically £60/120NL but because I only get 50% of it, I'm essentially playing £30/60NL which I'm rolled to do myself
ii) The games are a lot tougher than they are on Sky and I think that's partially down to my own unwillingness to completely change my body clock. As it is, when I finish my sessions around midnight/1am, because 95% of the players are from the US, that means I'm standing just as 'peak time' is starting, so I'm mostly playing all my hours when it's basically the afternoon to them so vvv few recs, it's very reggy and they're good regs
iii) Connected to the above but I miss a good Fri/Sat/Sun night on Sky where the games are a lot better/very juicy, whereas on there Friday night is no different to a Wednesday afternoon (which sucks) but again think that's down to time difference etc.
iv) Coaching was always a big deal breaker for me but I know a couple of people that I think I could get better coaching from for a pretty reasonable price which imo would be more than paid for by the difference in standard/my winrate between here and there. So I can still continue to improve while playing these better games on Sky... jeez, who'd have thought someone would say the cash games were good on Sky!
v) Now I've got a good bit if experience, the jackpot/rakerace promo they have on there is like setting fire to money for me. Money is taken from every single pot to build the prizepool which is then distributed weekly but imo the only people that end up gaining from it is the people that finish top 5 but I literally have zero chance of making top 5 unless I start 30tabling for like 15hr per day.
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I discussed it with others after and they thought I should flat the turn too.The turn 3b is just like wtfffff, he can't have 22/44 imo after 3betting pre, and I block both of the other possible sets. Don't know much about villain, he's not a reg afaik and not played with him much tonight (never seen him before). He can maybe have A2s/A4s. Turn might be a fold, I dunno... seems too nitty, then when he checks river I'm like wtffff lol cos now I think we can rule out AA/KK. I've went small cos I think it's only a vv weak range we can get called by and he folds his bluffs, but I think I can go bigger for value after discussion. I really dunno, weird spot.
Re the hand...
Personally I'm tank jamming the river. 99% of the time your ahead and I think a jam may occasionally level the villain into thinking you have QJs/J10s.
Betting small may convince the villain your giving yourself room to b/f so I don't mind going small either.
Wouldn't go for anything middling though it's small/jam imo. Anything else just stinks of value.
Tbh it's a complete miracle the villain has any showdown value here as played lol!
Finished just outside the money in the main; 2 players limp, I ship 17xBB with AT and one of the limpers had AK, flops the K and it's gg. 40th out of 303.
Yeah I know a fair few of the regs already cos quite a lot of them play 30/40NL too so I've played them there. It is pretty reggy but the games recently seem to have been surprisingly good (hence me being like 15 BIs up over 2 sessions). Will be looking to mix in some 100NL too soon when I see good games running.
The main got off to the absolute dream start, I'd trebled up to 6k and took 2 bounties inside the first 40 minutes, then the wheels just fell off. Lost a few small pots here and there, couldnt find any spots and before I knew it was pretty short and shoved A2s into KQ but couldn't hold. Finished 64/431 (40 paid) with £22.50 of heads.
On another topic... I'm gonna be doing another blog soon, I'll be talking about leaving the staking behind etc but also wanted to talk about something else to beef it up a bit and I'm not sure what. Being just pure poker talk can get a bit boring so if anyone has any ideas for something I can blog about that's a bit more entertaining then please let me know.
So you can see I've already discussed how I got into the game etc. Any ideas are welcome.
not sure of a topic that not poker related, so how about you write something about the
affect it has had on your personal life.
What effect has it had on Emma, the rest of the family,
how have you and your family coped when you've had downswings / upswings in general.
Maybe write it from there pov, if its not to personal I think this would be an interesting read.
Anyway just a thought gl with whatever you write sure it'll be v/good
Regards Alan
(will post below).
Managed to finished just over +£300 which is pretty sweet for just 2 hours grind!
I wasn't trying to induce a bluff on the river, I expect to get called by lots of worse hands but when he raises, obviously my hand instantly turns into a bluff catcher (imo).
In which case your 2pr is still good
Ps welcome back and good luck
Played 2 of the late night £11 BHs, cos they're good value but I'm not usually awake at this time to play them. Did ok in both, but nothing major. First one I was going ok then then bust 17/74 with 10 paid, can't even remember the exit but got £5.15 of heads. Second one was a bit better, but ended up bubbling the FT w/ AA<JTo, a really short guy UTG shoves 34s, big stack obv calls to bounty hunt, I reship my AA and he fancies going for 2 bounties. Meh it was a great spot to go CL just didn't work out. So I finished 7/90 and got £47.79 including heads.
Not sure exactly on the points but since midnight I think I've made about 650 points, should be able to get that to 1100 ish after tonight's session so a good start to the rake race.
This is post number 2222 on your diary, Ducky's favourite hand!