£15 - £1500, The Diary of a dreamer.(Status - £988)

devonfish5

well done mate,
how fantastically well you are doing
:-)
i have been playing £3.30 dym,s myself,
but as i have just withdrawn £400 from poker account
to buy a new pc(arrives mid week...can,t wait),
i have dropped back to playing £2.25 & £1.15,s again.
hopefully when pc arrives will be able to step-up
number of tables (planning on playing 9 to start
then just keep increasing.

i have to ask you this;
when you jump up a level,
say u r playing £5.50,s
and u then load up aN £11
do you not think about losing,
as it,s a £20 swing in effect,
especially if you are flipping,
which as u know,you quite often are.
so just the flop of 1 card could be the diference
of £20.
or,
are you just thinking about what you stand to gain?

devon

rancid

Keep it up goldie, great stuff!
While your on that wave, just ride it baby.

all the best, not far to go now once you start playing the £11 games you will fly to £1500

run golden

cgoldie

Thanks guys! Jealus of the new PC, I need an external screen for my laptop badly as 6-9 tabling already overlaps on the screen!

When I go up a level I am naturally nervous but I don't worry to much as the steady profits from the the lower level covers the buy ins for the next level if I am lower than a 55% win rate.

I try not to worry about putting my money on a flip as I am rarely calling an all in preflop and pushing mid stacks that can fold 95% of hands if possible. Your almost always negative equity wise calling all in for a flip for your full stack, sometimes even with AA!

Not a great day for DYM's today but a positive overall ITM. Also played 2 2.40 and one 4.80 satellite for the 3k BH's. Couldn't pick up many hands and lost my preflop all ins at the later stages. 

I did manage to win a 9.60 satellite to the 5k BH though! Was running good and had more than doubled my stack and then some unfortunate hands when I kept losing on rivers etc. Lost with AA when a guy hit the full house on the river with 99 =(. Last hand was pretty unlucky as I was 58% favourouite to win, 38% lose. Had jT Hearts and board was 89hjc. We went all in, he had j9, turn made the flush and river made him the full house. Gutted!

DYM's:

5.50 11w 8l 58% win

11 7w 5l 58% win

Current standings:

£800

4731 Points (Almost 5k!!)

3365 Cash Points

2284 STT Points (top 150 I think? Does that mean I get to do league stars freeroll?)

Poker_Fail

In Response to Re: £15 - £1500, The Diary of a dreamer.(Status - £492):

Also what is the worst swing people have had here if they play many?
Posted by cgoldie

I used to grind DYMs, before I had a soul

http://oi42.tinypic.com/llm4h.jpg

1.7k games and no big downswing, even though I played several games from £22 - £55

BTW you have an amazing record so far! keep that up and you'll be a millionnaire in no time

cgoldie

Very nice graph! I hope mine has no major swings after 1.7k.

I don't know why there are so many people saying DYM's are boring soulless etc. I quite enjoy grinding them and it being easier to multi table!

A question I have that is probably been posed before somewhere on the forum. What does everyone think of the rake sky has on DYM's? Even at the top level they have the rake at 10% while on other sites it tends to be 2-5% as they tend to have lower average ROI's than sng's. Also the blinds are over twice as fast as a regular and it always ends early as it stops when they are down to 3 people so the volume is higher. It seem's the rake is very high and it must be tempting for a lot of grinders to play elsewhere with better rake.

Poker_Fail

In Response to Re: £15 - £1500, The Diary of a dreamer.(Status - £793):

Very nice graph! I hope mine has no major swings after 1.7k. I don't know why there are so many people saying DYM's are boring soulless etc. I quite enjoy grinding them and it being easier to multi table! A question I have that is probably been posed before somewhere on the forum. What does everyone think of the rake sky has on DYM's? Even at the top level they have the rake at 10% while on other sites it tends to be 2-5% as they tend to have lower average ROI's than sng's. Also the blinds are over twice as fast as a regular and it always ends early as it stops when they are down to 3 people so the volume is higher. It seem's the rake is very high and it must be tempting for a lot of grinders to play elsewhere with better rake.
Posted by cgoldie

Thanks, I think the rake on SnGs and MTTs on Sky is rediculous, especially the super extorionate rake on the low stakes games, they have a great welcome bonus that attracts many many new players yet the rake will do nothing but scare them away.

This is part of the reason I stopped playing DYMs, just think if you are grinding the £11 games the rake is £1 yet on other sites this would only be 50 - 80p meaning win or lose EVERY game you play you arre being robbed of 20 - 50p which obviously adds up quickly.

The absolute worst thing is the rake on the Bounty hunters, it is a higher rate "because they aere more popular" which is just plain rediculous.

However this is my favourite site as I have found my niches and like playing in £s.

What are your thoughts?

cgoldie

Been a while since a post! Oops!

Yeah I also think the rake is way to high for the reasons in my last post. Reckon a poll would get any actual notice from sky??

The rake is also really high on the BH's but I don't mind it as much because people can maintain high ROI's and they are long games.

Last few days results:

This one is pretty cr@ppy, I jumped straight into 9 tabling 5.50-11 after work while tired and could not keep up! 

5.50 w6 l6 50% win

11   w5 l6  45% win

I then dropped it down to 6 and managed a nice 4w 1l at 5.50. Overall a loss on the DYM's and a couple of sats but I picked up 3rd on take on tikay which made it up for the day.

Next day I focused on 5.50 to wind down from the bad day before. not a great session but did ok. Played some more sats to which brought it down to a very minor win:

5.50 w13 l8 62% win

Today went really well but again I donked more money playing sats, I need to stop playing them so often and half heartedly as they are sucking up my DYM moneys!! If I want to play a tourny JUST PLAY ONE YOU CAN AFFORD and stop trying to sat to mains!!!! (WSOP Vegas excluded of course xD):

5.50 w14 l3 82% win

11    w4 l2 66% win

I have also managed to beat my monthly targets, yay! Smashed the BR target of £300 with end of the having £800. Just about made over 5k points (can't wait for the £96). I didn't manage the top 150 cash league but I made the STT one so I am counting that as complete .

This months targets:

£1200 BR

7500 Points

Top 30 STT League

Current Standings:

£832 BR

171 Points

2640 STT Points

cgoldie

Up and down last few days playing a lot of tourneys and DYM's to cover them. Running good with the DYM's but was break even including the tournies and vegas sats. Over £30 on vegas sats so far making the qtr twice and losing!

Managed a good day today with some good tourny cashes finally, the biggest was a £500 bounty fr £100+£61 bounties bumping up my winnings. Played some cash to and was up £20.

Current Standings:

£988 BR

1051 Points

3033 STT Points

yidette9

very interesting thread, and Wow! superb graph.

wishing you all the best and I look forward to reading about your further progress.

good luck good luck

Lorraine

devonfish5

hi cq,

wow....what a ride!!!!

just been reading back through your journey,

unbelievable!!!!

and i thought that i was doing quite well.

hope i can follow you,

now i am able to play 9 tables?

in fact,i,d settle for 1/2 of what you,ve achieved...lol

what a great story.

could turn it into a film!!!!lol

(obviously Brad Pitt would play you!!!)

keep it up mate

ps,

also,thank you for the advise,

appreciated.

devon

cgoldie

Thanks Lorraine and devon, I am glad you are enjoying the thread!

I am sure you can get there now with your new PC devon! Especially with 9 tables as half the time I am only playing 6. Some great articles on dym play that really helped me understand them further where:

http://www.pocketfives.com/articles/online-poker-strategy-double-nothing-sng-tournaments-405226/

http://www.flopturnriver.com/double-or-nothing-sng-advanced-strategy-pregame.php

They really highlight how tight your call ranges need to be sometimes, fold AK against a shove and push A2 into the BB (crazy). I think these 2 articles can help any DYM player whatever level they are at.