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Couple of hands here just for comedy value where I was just stunned by the river flat. I mean yeh I got coolered BBY blah blah, but nevermind that, both of these hands are against the same villian... I mean if you wanted a definition of passive!
Points = 8997
Not loving hand 1.
Think flop is a check back (willing to be convinced otherwise) and river is not a v-bet imo. If it is £17.50 is far too big considering the fact you can have like 0 bluffs on the river. Think villain has played hand 1 pretty well tbh.
At least villain was kind enough to save you a tenner in hand 2!
Deffo not expecting him to fold any 2pr, any set, any King (he is capable of getting to the river with some), most 5x, 77-QQ, obv won't fold an ace that we chop with.
Based on Lamberts reads then the river value bet seems completely fine. Could go a tad smaller but I think even bad villains sense smaller bets to sometimes be a milking bet - they're not good enough to then find a fold but I think it just means the frequency of calls won't change much between say a £12 and £17.50 bet.
As for flop bet or check, I think it can go either way tbh. Villain will miss this board a lot and a small bet is great for value/protection. Obviously vs a better player it's a clear check but don't need to worry that much about balance and c-betting frequencies vs this villain.
Pretty much agree with you re AQ otf. I didn't know at the time villain was a weaker player so I'm pretty much betting flop here 100% vs villain as described and checking vs a reg.
Just my opinion but I feel like the frequency of calls will change quite a lot between say £10.50 & £17.50 re river hand 1. Think even someone that is fairly inexperienced is likely to realise that we are very rarely bluffing considering how the board ran out. Just looks to me like this bet sizing limits villains calling range to Ax, 6x and flushes which is obv v bad for us.
One other thing I wanted to add is in hand 2 I would definitely be going bigger on both flop and turn. £3.25 OTF and then £8.75 OTT so that we can ship river for max value.
I used up my freebets today. I wasn't interested in trying to lock up a safe/tiny return, so just went for £10 on the enhanced odds Sky offered this week just cos it's good value imo...
Liverpool, United and Swansea to win - £50 ftw
Then the longshot 4fold for my other £10 free bet - Arsenal to win, City to win, Everton/Spurs draw, Liverpool/stoke draw - £570 ftw
Wouldn't mind the latter one coming in too much
So last night I started at about 8pm with the 8997 points from my last update and decided to not stop until I got to 10k, I did it and stood with dead on 10,000 points a little after 2am. Smashed it and finished the night +£400, a long overdue big session.
Now it's a big Sunday today including the $109 $2million GTD on stars.... one timeeeee
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Tonight was pretty decent
I ended up not playing a huge schedule, in fact it was a tiny schedule but whatever... on the various different sites I played:
Stars
$11 Storm - no good
$109 $2mil GTD - no good and didn't win any of the prizes
Big 11 - The guarantees for all the Bigs and Hots were trebled tonight for Carnival week. It got 24,380 runners and had a little shy of $25,000 for first place. Sadly I didn't come that close but I finished 2186th for about $22
888
Just a $2.50 turbo with I think $1500 GTD. You were only allowed 1 rebuy in the whole comp (and there was no add-on) so I took mine straight away, then my very first hand was AA<JJ aipf and that was my rebuy gone lol. Built my stack up pretty well again and had about 3x starting stack then GII AK v AJ, and a J on the flop bust me miles from the money.
Sky
£11 Mini Roller - Was plodding along well for most of this, nothing spectacular but steadily increasing my stack, got pretty close to the money but shoved AT, called by QJ and a J on the flop was gg me.
£3k £11 BH - Smashed this from start to finish so was really gutting to finish where I did. I got off to a great start then just seemed to be taking head after head, was a top 5 stack probably about 30 mins into the comp and remained a top 5 stack until there was maybe 30 runners left. Then lost a lot of races and eventually bust in 19th out of 316 for £38.44
£55 Speed BH - I only played this cos Dohhh is always binking seats from the AI sats, and I was chatting to a few of the lads and decided to give them a go. Dohhhh forgot to register the first AI sat which was probably a good thing cos he has an unreal record in them and I binked a seat first go for £3. He then registered the 2nd AI sat and went and binked one too from his first £3 go. I ran pretty well from start to finish, the first got was winning a flip 66 v AT against Gazza, and when that happens I KNOW I'm running good. Ran well lots, and eventually me and JJ both got to the FT. I had a unlucky big flip on the FT but in comps like this you can just never turn down spots like this imo.... I'm 1/5, UTG ships for about 10xBB, SB i think reships for about 20xBB, and I reship/call when I'm sat with about 28xBB. UTG has AT, SB has QQ and I have AK, if I did hold I'd be 1/3 with something ridiculous like 80% of the chips in play but I couldn't find the A or K. So I was left fairly short (but it aint that short but this comp), managed to do some spinning, shipped A6o BvB, called by A3o, I flop my 6 but it goes runner runner straight and I'm left v short again. Dohhh ships AJ, I snap from the BB w/ A9 and flop my 9. Next hand I get AK, shove, Doh calls with QJ and I hold to get down to 3handed. Long story short but I knock out the shorty 3handed and then win the HU to take it down from a £3 AI sat
So a small schedule but a +£800 night. Maybe more binks like this to come hopefully as I'm now gonna be grinding MTTs every night instead of cash.
Lambert1801760001£407 + £324.21 Head Prizes8£99.78Doyley9602£242 + £127.73 Head Prizes4 luckme00203£165 + £28.13 Head Prizes1 DOHHHHHHH04£121 + £52.73 Head Prizes2 Ranners05£88 + £60.94 Head Prizes3
Yeah definitely the first big bink. I'm not sure if it can be classed as a bink but I won an MTT on here the other day too, just a £5 turbo for about £80.
Only played about 100 MTTs in the last week or so since I've been grinding MTTs so early days yet but a good start, hopefully many more binks to come.
Nice result tonight! I got completely owned in that $109 on Stars...they don't know when to fold on that site
Tournaments I bricked were....
£11 Turbo main
£1k GTD £11 BH
£300 GTD £5.50 Timed Tourney
£12 Sat to £55 BH
£200 GTD £5.50 freezeout
£200 GTD £5.50 turbo
£6 Sat to £55 BH
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Tournaments I cashed...
£5.50 Mini Turbo BH - Another deep run in the mini but lost 2 races as a 60/40 to bust, finished 28/573 for £23.68
£6 Sat to £55 BH - 1 seat GTD + money in this, I got HU with a pretty decent CL, got it in KJ v Ax, made a pair but he rivered his Ace, lost another race to be left with vv little. Managed to spin up a little bit then lost another flip so bust in 2nd place for £33
£2k GTD £11 BH - Best £11 BH of the day, love this comp. Long story short it was my first FT of the month, and I think I got a little unlucky in one hand on the FT to be left short, then I shoved my last I think 8xBB wit K4 BvB, called by QT but he flops the Q to bust me. I finished 4/245 for £114.14
So all in all pretty much a +£100 day, so not too bad.
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I got one comedy hand from the £11 BH that I FT'd, where I got vv lucky to double when I should really have just got a fold. Check this out for a value shove
Decent morning session on cash today, finished +£80
I noticed btw on the live show thread that I won a Turbo Tuesday free entry for next week...
A soon as he clicked call I would have assumed I'd bust and have started looking at something else lol.
Pretty much bricks all round everywhere else as well. Close to the money in the £200 GTD, 4 off the money in the £1k £11 BH with £7 of heads, semi deep in the £2k £11 BH again but bust outside the money with about £5 of heads. Main and Mini didn't go very well.
About -£85 in total, so at least it was covered by this morning's cash session. Then I played a few HU SnGs to close out the night, won 3 out of 4 games at £10.50s for an £18 profit.
On the bright side, this advent calender promo thing for today, I'm pretty sure that 300 points would easy be enough to make the top 100 on here for 1 day, and I made 400, so should be in for a free tenner
Points = 525
So yesterday I got back from dropping the kids off to school in the morning, sat on the couch and could barely keep my eyes open, feel asleep and that was gg morning session. Decided to take the night off too (even though I was gutted to miss the softest main of the week) to get an early night and catch up on my sleep so I could come back refreshed.
One of my daughters been struck down with some kind of illness today anyway and had to have today off school, so just decided to play 5 x £10 HU SnGs cos that's enough for me to make the 25 points needed for the freeroll tonight so that I can include that in tonight's schedule.
I won 4 out of 5 of them for a £27.50 profit so not too shabby.
So cashed for about £90 in main
Missed the money and no heads in £55 BH
Just outside the money in that 9:30pm £11 BH again 52/396 (40 paid), was a big one tonight with £500+heads up top. Got £5 of heads in that.
Bricked the mini, no heads, GII AQ v AT v T9 and got beat by both. Bricked a £10 UKPC QF, the iPhone FR, a £12 sat into the £55 BH, and another £11 BH.
-£43 night in all when the night held such promise about an hour ago
Ah well, back again tomorrow!
Semi deep run in mini ended with AT<AK aipf, think I was fairly close to the money, wasn't really looking tbh, got 1 head. Bust very close to the money in an £11 BH (£1k GTD) with 1 head, bricks all round elsewhere.
Then I realised it was 11pm Sat night (I'd bust all comps by this point) and I should go play some cash. I went to look and the tables were absolutely grim, literally seen better Wednesday afternoons. Hardly any tables running, 5 of the same names on every table, and 3-4 regs on every single waiting list. I did sit at 2 x empty 50NL tables for a while to get some going but got no takers.
Eventually sat on 1 table where 2 people were playing HU, I don't usually have a go at people but I sat down and literally the VERY first hand after I sit, the reg instantly stood up, and sat back down so he had direct position on the other guy (who was obv a rec). Imo, that's right up there near the top of the list for nut worst things you can do etiquette-wise. I mean ffs, most regs already have a pretty big edge against your average rec, is it really necessary 1) to eek out that extra edge and 2) to do it in such a blatant fashion.
Hate seeing people do it. If you're joining the table then of course pick the best seat, that's common sense, but not swapping seats all the time to get position on certain players.
Anyway, I got lucky to cooler the rec guy, he left, and I cba playing HU, especially as I was already tilted after the arguement which ensued after I called him out on it, but apparently 'that's poker'. So I left +£50
Decided to play a few HU SnGs. Lost the only £21 game I played courtesy of JJ<QT aipf then at the £10s I played 9 and won 5 for a small £5.50 profit so lost £15.50 overall
Points = 938
So we decided to just ditch BT and move over to EE to get high speed broadband from them. All was going smooth, EE were arranging everything, they said our activation date was X of December (can't remember now) and all was agreed. Then BT decided they hadn't mucked up enough, they had to get one more mistake in before we left, so they thought it was a good idea to cancel our internet supply a week before EE had said they were gonna start supplying us.
So long story short, I aint had internet for a week, which is pretty frustrating when you need it to work! The missing work part aside, I've really loved being away from the internet tbh, no forum, no social media etc. it's been nice. So I think going forward I'll probably continue to take a bit of a back seat with regards to all that.
Tonight was the first night playing so I had a lot of catching up to do seen as I've barely been able to play this month and I was only about +£100 for the month iirc, so the plan was to just win the roller
Bricked the £3k £11 BH, getting it in with 55 v A8 on A57r to see running 8s to bust me. Bricked the Mini Roller, can't remember how.
The only other comp was the £110 Roller which I'm gutted about atm, I was going fine pretty much the whole way. I took a small knock early doors when I flopped trip 2s on 922 and the villian had 99. The hand got showed on 861 and thankfully the villian played it in such a bizarre way that I managed to lose very little. From there it all went went, constantly chipping up slowly all the way through to the very deep stages, sitting with a top 10 stack from about 50 left, then got very unlucky for a pretty big pot against rivermunky... not just a clever name
That was a big knock to my stack, I was down to 30k and shortly after blinds went up to 1ki/2k, at this point I think I was 20/26 with 21 paid. Eventually I 3bet shoved 66, looked up by KQ and bust I think in 24th
Volume has been terrible again this month although at least this time it wasn't completely down to my own laziness. As you know, I had no internet for like 7-8 days of the month and then ofc it's Xmas so many a morning/night doing stuff like xmas shopping, putting tree up, enjoying xmas/visiting family etc.
Easily my lowest points total for 2014 that's for sure (although that's largely because when I have played it's been MTTs).
Anyway, had been a bit of a rubbish month, was floating around the break even/small loss/small profit kinda area for most of the month, but yesterday helped sort that out...
Played all the UKOPS events from when I logged on about 8pm ish (£110 main, £55 BH, £22 BH, £11 Mini) and 2 x £11 BHs.
I also played 10 x £3 AI sats for the main during late reg, won one seat for £110 so £80 profit there.
The £55 BH got off to an absolute stonker of a start after this mental hand. After all the flop action when it got back to me, I did start to think 'aslfjnlsdnfsld someone's got JJ!' but I'm just never folding. They didn't and I held/did a re-get-there.
Can't remember Mini but I bust pretty early, and can't really remember £22 BH but I finished 215/442 and just about covered my BI in heads for about 50p profit.
The main as some will already know went a lot better. Was plodding along nicely, chipping up slowly from the start, then got an absolute gift... all 3 of us are 10k effective, I minraise UTG at 150/300, guy just 3b ships 10k (!!) w/ AKo, guy behind calls the AI with 10k himself holding KK, and we hold to go up to about 37k, putting me in the top 10. Went back to chipping up slow and steady after that and stayed in the top 20 all the way to bubble. Then the wheels came off, just couldn't win a pot and kept losing races, the big one was AQ<AT which left me with 30k at 1250/2500 when we were 6 from the money and suddenly I'd gone from being very comfortable to looking very likely to not cash. Getting the odd shove through I somehow managed to cash (40 were paid) but was sat 39/40 by the time I did.
Then I had spot that happened to work out great for me, I shipped K7o on the BTN iirc, SB called, but then BB reshipped and got the SB to fold which is obv amazing cos now I only gotta beat 1 hand to treble up. The BB had AJo and I managed to win the 40/60 and treble up to a playable stack. Shortly after I held 55 v AT to knock out a 5xBB shorty, then chipped up a bit thru stealing. Blinded down a bit then doubled by winning a flip against Sam1986 (!!) w/ AT v 33, run out was K959, then 5 river for the double pair up.
Few 3b shoves got thru, then doubled AA />AQs, then not long after AK>AQ to really get in contention to win the MTT (yeah ok I ran pretty good!). I'll make an appearance on 861's highlights of the FT on Tuesday for all of 1 hand. Very first hand on FT, CL opens (IhaveAAids) and I 3b shove ATo, he calls AQo and it's gg. Finished 6th for £1952 and a pretty sweet end to the year. Always frustrating when you finish an MTT in any spot other than 1st, especially when you see £10k up top, but very happy with the result, especially after being so short around the money and fully expecting to not even cash.
That's not my biggest online score and takes my SS to a new peak of about £3.6k profit, plan to get that over £15k this time next year when a lot of my volume will be switching to MTTs.
Tomorrow will be the last session of the year for me, will be playing all the UKOPS, then I'm done for this year.
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I got a £50 freebet this Xmas from Sky, gutted I missed sticking it on the last enhanced odds spot cos I planned to and forgot, but stuck it on a treble for this Friday.... City, Utd and Chelsea to win, £160 ftw.
Of course the highlight of the year was finishing third at the UKPC 6max side event for £18,000 which at the time was only my 2nd HM flag but then I had only played about 10 live events ever. Now I've played about 11 live events and have a 3rd HM flag after mincashing the Grand Prix Final at DTD. That bink was about 10 months ago though so guess I need to find something new to start bragging about soon!
Just got Pingu to skope my MTTs for the year and here it is. Not bad I guess, largely thanks to my recent UKOPS bink, but then any MTT graph is rubbish if you take out the bigger scores, and obviously I did have the horror show of the previous UKOPS which was pretty much a -£1k dent on the SS (I did sell 50% tho). The main thing is the embarrassing volume, obviously it's understandable when 95% of my volume has been cash but 398 games in a whole year is just bad... it certainly makes a lack of binkage unsurprising.
http://gyazo.com/37b915bd165674ebf9edfce4dff1711f
Plans for 2015
I mentioned this a few weeks/months ago but for 2015 I'm gonna be really hammering the volume for MTTs.Then an interesting opportunity came up very recently (this came after my decision about upping MTT volume)... someone I know a little bit contacted me and asked if I'd be interested in joining a stable ran by a couple of people including Marc Wright. I had to have a good think about it, there are so many factors to consider but there are two major things that have swung me in favour of taking the opportunity....
1) I'd be getting regular MTT coaching from Marc Wright which is worth it's weight in gold imo.
2) I've discussed a few potential issues that I thought may come up and they've been vv flexible about it all. They don't expect me to be putting in crazy volume, they're happy for me to still play cash on Sky with my own £££ (which I'd really only do in mornings anyway but I want that flexibility) and I can keep all my own action in Sky MTTs (just easier cos I'm using my own £££ for cash on here) which I'd prefer anyway.
So I'll be dropping a few of the smaller Sky MTTs from my schedule like £11 BHs, and won't be doing stuff like playing £10 sats for the money just to fill up my table count etc.
I'm gonna have to put a shed load of hard work in myself cos I really wanna get the absolute max out of getting coaching from such a sicko but I know it'll be worth it.
So goals as mentioned recently are that I'll be
1) Top 20 on the SS Leaderboard for Sky
2) Win a ME (finally!)
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Gonna be giving this UKPC promo a go via the MTT route, seems a pretty top heavy points system so realistically you need to finish top 2 in the main or mini alongside some other very decent results to have any chance imo but we're all in the same boat so glgl all!!
The decent part was that I flicked in a £5 UKPC Semi Direct, came 1/15 to win a seat, then won (finished top 8) in the Semi so got my £220 final seat on Sunday for £5.
Just seen this.
Good luck with your coaching with MW and MTTs.
I'm going to be playing more MTT's this year too, if you want to get some challenge going.