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Looking back at my last post, I neglected to explain what the discussion on Pleno's thread was all about. It was essentially about how much variance is involved in NLHE cash games and the kind of swings/results a good winning grinder player should expect. Scotty (iirc) chipped in and said that after RB if you're not having winning months 10 or 11 times per year then you either need to put some work in to get better or you're not playing enough. Now I'm not gonna say I don't need to improve... obviously I got tons of room to improve and I make many many mistakes every session But I definitely know I don't put in nearly as much volume as I should do.
That was the main reason for removing myself from the forum, FB poker groups, the Skype groups where I discuss poker strategy etc. I needed to up my volume but too much of my time was being wasted mucking about on these groups so I'd have been left with no time at all for just good family time and my own time to chill out away from the game. I'm back now, but my input will be hugely reduced from what it has been in the past.
While I've been gone... in short, June went well, July went well, August was really ugly on cash but a couple of small MTT results and a little bit of RB made it far from the worst month I've ever had. We went on a family holiday to Haven in August and it was the month of the UKPC so that had a massive impact on my volume which meant annoyingly I didn't have as much time as I'd have liked to turn the results around (and earn more RB).
Kids are all back to school from Wednesday and no major upcoming plans so I'm planning on a big grind month in Sept. I'll probably be breaking the 20k points mark this month (I think/hope) for the first time ever (not counting the RR fiasco)
Played the main and mini which went about as bad as can be. The Mini was over 2 hands in after I had set under set. The main lasted a little longer, one guy dropped to about 800 chips early doors, I iso'd his preflop jam w/ AK, he had A7 and flopped the 7 and I never really recovered.
The only other MTT I played was the £2k (£11) BH. That went a lot better, I trebled up early and from there my stack was just constantly increasing and I was CL for most of the tourney. When we got down to 15 I was 2nd in chips and lost a big flip 44<AK to leave me with about 10xBB. Hung around for a bit getting the odd steal through but eventually bust in 14th for about £45 total.
Cash was better, played a mix of 30-50NL and finished +£150.
I did think it was gonna be my night to get some heat after this.... best not 4bet KK CO v BTN, can't be too careful
Better result tonight but still some nasty beats holding me back from marking up some sick results. I finished the night +£200.... would have been +£300 if not for this...
Not mentioned it on here yet but I decided to sign up on Unibet a couple of weeks ago just to test it out cos I've heard some interesting things about it. Didn't deposit just thought I'd use the €10 ticket they give you which you can only use to 1table 4NL. You gotta make it to 750 flops before that ticket gets converted into real money that you can use on whatever you want (or withdraw it), so just been having that 1table running alongside my normal grind.
I unlocked €1 of a sign up bonus today and should be unlocking another €4 soon, also spun up the ticket to €35 and have nearly finished the 750 flops. So should hopefully have at least €50 in there by the time I reach 750 flops to try and spin up on whatever games I want, just a bit of fun really.
Like I said, when I restarted the diary, I'm going for 20k+ points this month. I'm on 1307 atm.
Recovering the session was largely due to coolering one of the best regs (imo) at the level not long before the end of the session.
All still going well on Unibet
Points are up to 1663
Play the 40 euro sat freeroll on the tues, far easier:)
Played the main and mini, no success in either, mini exit was JJ<AK, main was jamming BTN w/ 68s into the SB's AA. I dunno what it is but I just seem to run so bad in main events. I do alright at MTTs on here (albeit with terrible volume) but for some reason just never do well in main events.
That wasn't the grim part though, it was cash. Started a bit up and down, probably in the region of break even for the first couple of hours, then the last hour or two I just got hammered... people just getting there in every single hand. Not much you can do when it's like that.
I was reading one of Barry Carter's articles the other day all about the different types of bad beats and which ones upset people more... like bad beats that are vvv unlikely (say runner runner perfect) or the beats that maybe aren't so unlikely but the moment makes it mean more to you (like obv it's gonna hurt more losing with AK v JT on the FT bubble of the roller than losing AA v AK in level 1 of a £1 deepstack even though the former is way more likely to happen and barely even a bad beat it just means more).
One of the types was about how people get upset more (as illogical as it is) when people get beat by a hand that 'shouldn't be involved', like if you ship AA pre, get called by KK and lose it's like 'meh, just unlucky, whoever lost was vvv unlucky to be in that spot' but if you ship AA and get called by 94o and lose then it's more like 'urgh why did u call' even though ofc we love the call.
Which brings me to a memorable beat from near the end of my session. One of those hands where it's just a really bad call where you just can't comprehend why someone would call.
Anyway I finished -£160, that pot was £125, do I sound bitter
Points are 2005
Gd to see the diary back btw. One of the better reads
I'm at my mum's tonight so not the ideal grind set up but gonna try and get a couple of hours of cash in tonight. Points atm are 2005.... seriously lagging behind now.
Another story I meant to tell when I revived the diary but never got round to was about our cat, Sly.
About two months ago he seemed to be having trouble going the toilet, I won't bore you with tons of details but he had a urinary blockage and crystals in his bladder. This only became apparent on a Sunday which means out of hours vets (and the price that comes with it), they kept him overnight and transported him to our regular vets in the morning (our vet doesn't do out of hours), then he had an operation at our regular vets and they had to keep him in for a couple more nights. So a couple of days and various x-rays/tests later when he was starting to go the toilet on his own again we picked him back up for the princely sum of £900.
They told us to keep an eye on him, and bring him back if he looked like he was having any more trouble going the toilet, but gave us no other advice to avoid it. Within about 5 days he was having similar problems again, take him back in, has to stay a couple more days, ya da ya da, £500 more to get him cleaned out again. Similar happened not long after and they put him on a special diet.
Long story short, over the last like 6 weeks or so, it's cost not too far off £2k to keep the little fella going. Now he's on a special diet which is a bit more expensive that regular food but ALOT cheaper than visits to the vet! and he seems to have been fine for a couple of weeks now so hopefully it stays that way.
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