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Many Rivers To Cross. A Diary.
So I've been thinking of starting a diary for a little while. I've been less active on forums for the last couple of months, didn't mean to, just had actual real life stuff to sort. I'll probably go into that later on if this thread takes.
The plan is for this to be half poker, half life. Please feel free to post what you like in here.
My goal is to get back to being more involved in the Clinic, as well as sorting out my game. But more importantly, just have some fun
Non Poker fact, am I the only on who thought that Goodylad's forum avatar was a picture of Garfield the Cat rather than a pixilated girl in a bikini. Seriously, I didn't notice for years.
Poker stuff, the head scratcher of the day, hand history is posted below. Young Mr Rolfus, if you had anything other than J8 you have completely done me Sir, very well played. Feel free to berate me all.
The plan is for this to be half poker, half life. Please feel free to post what you like in here.
My goal is to get back to being more involved in the Clinic, as well as sorting out my game. But more importantly, just have some fun
Non Poker fact, am I the only on who thought that Goodylad's forum avatar was a picture of Garfield the Cat rather than a pixilated girl in a bikini. Seriously, I didn't notice for years.
Poker stuff, the head scratcher of the day, hand history is posted below. Young Mr Rolfus, if you had anything other than J8 you have completely done me Sir, very well played. Feel free to berate me all.
| Player | Action | Cards | Amount | Pot | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TommyD | Small blind | £0.50 | £0.50 | £244.34 | |
| rolfus | Big blind | £1.00 | £1.50 | £205.65 | |
| C3PA | Big blind | £1.00 | £2.50 | £115.44 | |
| Your hole cards |
| ||||
| C3PA | Check | ||||
| jimmynoleg | Fold | ||||
| TheyDontNo | Fold | ||||
| TommyD | Call | £0.50 | £3.00 | £243.84 | |
| rolfus | Check | ||||
| Flop | |||||
| |||||
| TommyD | Check | ||||
| rolfus | Bet | £6.00 | £9.00 | £199.65 | |
| C3PA | Fold | ||||
| TommyD | Call | £6.00 | £15.00 | £237.84 | |
| Turn | |||||
| |||||
| TommyD | Check | ||||
| rolfus | Bet | £10.00 | £25.00 | £189.65 | |
| TommyD | Raise | £25.00 | £50.00 | £212.84 | |
| rolfus | Raise | £55.00 | £105.00 | £134.65 | |
| TommyD | Call | £40.00 | £145.00 | £172.84 | |
| River | |||||
| |||||
| TommyD | Check | ||||
| rolfus | All-in | £134.65 | £279.65 | £0.00 | |
| TommyD | Fold | ||||
| rolfus | Muck | ||||
| rolfus | Win | £143.20 | £143.20 | ||
| rolfus | Return | £134.65 | |||
Comments
Don't see why you call the turn if you are folding the river to a shove, hoping for a check behind maybe?
Basically I've levelled myself, I've flatted on the turn to let Rolfus bluff the river and then folded to the shove. In other words, I've probably butchered it, even if he did have J8.
Irony is I preferred it when I thought it was Garfield....
It can be hard to get back into it some times but GL with the diary. It should help
MP
Couldnt fold but thats maybe why i suck
Imagine if the poker tehy showed on channel 4 late at night was for pennies? Nobody would watch it.
Also, take a look at the hand he posted in the OP, that is FAR less standard then any hand that will be seen at lower limits.
fair enough they bore you, don't read them, but to come out with a comment like that comes across as patronising and rude. perhaps us measly low stakes players should check with you before posting our tedious threads?????
My entrance into poker was pretty odd. Aside from a game of strip poker with three Gay men, my at the time girlfriend and a random Dope smoking Italian on a wet night back at Uni, I didn't start playing poker until just after the Raymer Main Event win, and even then I didn't mean to.
I had watched Late Night Poker with my dad, an avid card player, gambler, degen before they had a word for it. Enjoyed it, kind of understood it but never played. Then my father wanted to play online poker as on of his favourite betting exchange sites has a poker room as well. One problem, he was a complete techno-novice. He's better now but I had to teach him everything from the on switch to what a mouse does. As a result he had to actually teach me poker so I could show him what to do. All very inadvertent but I got bit by the bug and have been playing ever since.
I'll save the road into teaching for another time, long story that and I'm mid grind
My poker hero is the late great Chip Reese. Simply put, he got it, the beats, the binks, the highs and the lows, he understood and more importantly kept it all in perspective.
Really got to think about the other questions mate, I will answer them though
Coxylboro told me that there was a hand with me involved on the forum. Guess there isn't much to say other than what hand I had.... 82dd
Look forward to reading further entries to your diary and hopefully don't keep getting stacked when playin you HU
i must be one of very few ppl who know nothing about you but it looks decent so far so i'll prob follow...well, until a really good nl8 diary comes along
i'm a teacher so would be interested in that too.
gl
How long have you been playing?
Where did you start out (in terms of what format you played and what stakes)?
Did you run good at the start with really bad BRM or did you make a decent deposit and start with good BRM?
@Crazyben
Why do you feel the need to tell everyone what you don't like
Maybe you should start your own diary.
"Crazyben's Grim Diary"
Eat some weetabix, it was grim
Read the paper, it was grim
Went for walk, it was grim
Had a poo, yeah it was grim
----_
It seems a quite recent thing and think there may be a case for a seperate section on the forum for diarys.
I don,t want to start a debate on Tommys own thread about this but hope Bens comments don,t put the low stakes players and newer players off from starting or updating there own diarys
MP
I know you like to keep some parts of your life private, but how long did it take for you to set up your very successful website?
How hard was it?
Very much doubt I'll ever post details of my roll, just silly information to give away IMO. May do profit/loss bits and pieces but these will probably be sporadic at best.
I've been playing seven or eight years. I started with micro cash and $5 SnGs.
I used to have awful BRM. I'm only a recreational player so it was more of a budget than a bankroll in the early days. I'd bink a little here and there, blow up a little later. Sadly the bad BRM usually revolved around Blackjack. Luckily I don't play that anymore, haven't played a hand of onlie Blackjack in years and feel a lot richer because of it.
The most important thing is for you to be very honest with yourself, not just about your play but about your mental ability to cope with the swings of poker. Casper Berry, formerly of this Parish and Byker Grove once said on 865, while working as an expert, that he had quit playing serious poker because he couldn't deal mentally with the nuisances of doing everything correct on many occasions but still losing money in those individual spots. I always thought this was incredibly brave as most people who can't deal with the facts like a fifth of the time you will lose with Aces versus Jacks just denial up.
First and foremost you should be playing for fun. If it's no fun anymore, stop.
To answer, some days felt longer than others, and if it wasn't hard then it wouldn't be worth it.
Ah the Bridesmaid month continues. Just finished 38th in the Big $11 MTT from that other site everyone knows. Beat over 10,000 runners and win just under $200. Not to sound ungrateful because $200 might as well be a lottery win if you're skint, but I've had a few of these finishes on that site this month. I'm falling in the run up to the big money and it is beginning to get irksome. Sigh, tomorrow's another day Scarlet.
Thank you all for the positive feedback about this thread.
Regarding CrazyBen Versus Waller, I really don't want to get involved. I like and enjoy reading a few of the low stakes diaries. However Ben wasn't blasting those diaries on those threads, in fact he wasn't blasting at all, he was just very blunt with his opinion and as such I don't think he deserved getting rounded on.
As far as I'm concerned anyone who wants to do a diary should do one. And anyone who wants to read them should, if you don't want to then that's fine too.