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Personally I do not make assumptions based on race/age/ethnicity/sex. The argument for doing this boils down to the old 'Stereotype for a reason' motto. I think it's dangerous to do this, just because we would get trapped into one mode of thought versus this new player and we may adjust far too late spewing far too much money/value.
For example, there is a stereotype that female poker players are really tight. You try telling that to two identical twin young ladies who play on the London circuit. One's loose, the other is crazy loose.
I much prefer to treat every new player as a blank canvas. Yes the shadow of these stereotypes are eating at the back of my mind, but in my opinion these thoughts are to be fought rather than embraced.
The DYMs are almost break even. Finally some volume of players appeared and some good games opened. From a low of 1.1k in the hole it's now two figures in the hole. Of course while my DYM game improved the cash game went to pot and i dropped a bit there I really am that man in the row boat with two holes in the base while owning just one cork.
Luckily I had a very good cash session this morning. Managed to get in the right spots against a player where very big will always be called by medium to big. The value shove swinged out the swong and we're back on track.
Points thus far - 20.1k
Profit/loss +£1.7k
Like Garfield with a lasagne, I am content.
SPEW!!!!!
I bumped into this fellow at half time
I obviously apologised immediately.
For those who don't know, that's Julian {Surname that doesn't get through the fiter}, nicknamed The Terminator and former player for West Ham and Liverpool. He was a left back who took penalties, when i say took penalties he sent the ball, and the keeper if he was stupid enough to get in the way of it, through the net and into the crowd behind. Really nice chap to chat to, very friendly to be honest, still loves the game and is doing some media work at the moment. However what I found both striking and a little disturbing were his piercing blue eyes, they seem to say 'we both know I can snap you in two at any moment don't we.' Sometimes you just know if a guy is seriously hard.
Volume has been down, the sofa grind station does not lend itself to heavy multi tabling and I'm paying the price for that right now. I still think 50k is achievable but it's going to be a close one. I've deliberately not been paying as high as I usually do as I know I won't have 100% of my game available whie doing this.
DYMs is still in the red, lost a little so far this weekend but all seemed standard, down a couple of hundred on them at the moment.
Cash has been swingy the last few days, currently turned on upswing.
Binked another MTT Friday, managed to take down the £110 BHer. Learnt a great lesson about bounty hunters as well. I only took two heads all tournament, these being the gentlemen who finished 3rd and 2nd. While I didn't get the most amount of money in bounties, the three I effectively got (mine included in the final score) put me nearly alongside the person who took a load but busted before the cash. I have to play BHers like a normal MTT except in very rare spots where the bounty money comes into pay and these spots are much rarer than I used to think. Lovely to learn something every day.
Really happy how I played the final table and heads up, everything was clicking and my brain stayed level throughout. Talking of heads up I've agreed to give Ladyfingrs a HU cash game later on today. Ladyfingrs not only is named after a great movie character but for long timers like me made some great posts in the early days of The Clinic on this forum. I think this'll be really interesting, so much so that I'll be playing while Spurs are playing the cup Semi (Sky+ FTW). It'll be great to see where I am with HU Cash, been working at it before this challenge started so this is a great litmus test.
Points so far - 22.7k
Profit/loss +£2.6k
Hi T, (Bump) ;-)
Q's.
1. Was railing a team-mate last night in the £6k rebuy open and you were on his table. When I arrrived you were cl in the tourney by about 20k chips (u had 80k iirc) and there were about 150/330 left. I thought, "well Tommy has this sown up". I continued to rail off & on for a couple of hours & I noticed you slipped away, eventually coming around 20th? Anyways, I remembered that anytime I've been lucky enough to be cl early in a tourney (not often!) I've either became totally card dead or spewed chips unnecessarily. I was wondering what tactics you adopt when in this position? Bully, pick spots? etc.
2. Also, I notice you fired up 2/3 BIG Dym's late last night. (I wasn't stalking -honest!) and I was wondering if this is a normal Friday nite range of games you play?
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2) Most nights when I'm playing I fire up all the big buy in DYMs, just trying to get them to run. Sadly this month I've barely had one £110 run, only ever got the £220 going once ever. The pool is just not that big yet.
Month update, well first the bad news. Taken a downswong in cash, bit of a big one, still up for the month by a nice chunk but was up for the month by a nicer one. I'm pushing it too much, trying to win more pots than I should be, need to blow the dust off of old man TAG for a bit. Now the good news, unstuck on DYMS. From over a 1k negative we are into the black, phew. Also, I'm now definitely in the VLV freeroll, now I just need to sort my volume out and really push on. Hopefully I'll find my mojo again.
Points this month - 30.5k
Profit/Loss +£1.9k
How's the whole live poker going? I remember you saying on 865 a while ago that your goal for 2012 was to play alot more like poker. You trying to play cash or tournies live (or both)? People always say how soft live cash is in comparison to matching levels online
Theres not a lot of hope for some of us if ur only breaking even
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I refuse to say live cash is soft. Yes people are playing what would be considered -ev, the problem is a lot of internet players have forgotten how to take advantage of this. Low limit live cash is pretty passive, but because people aren't as good through the streets the more capable players (I would humbly submit I am among them) can get sucked in and start seeing far to many flops then try to out play people who consider folding with middle pair to be a crime against nature. You have to tighten up for the most part and pick your fancy play spots. This brings up a secondary problem, you're not multi tabling so you can lose focus during a card dead period really easily. Then you lose patience and forget to reign it in a little.
Too many times I've seen good online players storm off ranting about bad players. Yes they aren't playing optimally, but it's your job as a serious player to unlock the door to their money, they're not going to ship it over to you. You have to do the hard yards and that is where so many online players fall down when playing live.
My ROI isn't great for DYMs to be frank, although it is ahead and the £55ers is the hardest level of all, may well be down lifetime at this level but luckily the C4P generated from mass playing this tips it the other way.
Up on cash, up on DYMs, up on frustration.
Only in poker can you make a profit and consider it a day I was bad and then make a big loss the next day and say to yourself 'I played well today.'
Gotta love it.
C4P - 32.1k
Profit/loss +£2.5k
Rumours abound that PS are to buy out/take over FT. No links please to other forums and such but who fancies discussing that. I just don't see the point from a PS point of view. They may be trying to lose the indictments they have from the DOJ but I very much doubt this will make them the centre of the online poker world when the US opens again I'm quite firmly of the opinion that a casino based start up will pop up when America opens it's doors to online poker again and that the US Government will be fully supportive of it.
Plus the DOJ have got some of FT's money haven't they? I'm a little confused by the whole thing, is any of those accounts player's money? And if PS pay off all of the player's accounts, who owns this money?
Preflop was obvious squeeze.