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It's well worth going for the experience if you're in to your NFL. I don't know if a London franchise would ever be sustainable but these events are sure getting support. The biggest lol moment are the dozens of people selling flags outside, many being bought, and getting to the turnstile and being told you can't take flagpoles into the ground. There's piles of piles outside each gate as people just rip off the flag.
Yeah gonna try to get to one of them next year, not sure which yet.
To be truthful if it's correct to rejam with AT is completely situational. There are some blind v button raise spots where it is absolutely the right thing to do, others when it's not. My problem is I didn't start thinking about it until after I jammed, I just saw the pretty ATs and decided to go with it. In my case the button wasn't opening many pots and wasn't really playing a stack to bet fold often from. Against his range ATs just wasn't doing too good. Against some people AT is practically the nuts there.
Nice binking mate, keep it rolling!
Yup Glenelg twinned with a bit of Mars, does that make the planet practically Scottish then? Next thing you know Mars will want independence...
Not happy with how I played the UKOPS MTTS tbh. Sat on my hands at the wrong time and played too wide at others. At least I have something to build on, roll on tonight!
Probably going to skip the High Roller tomorrow. I do my volunteering at a hospital on a Thursday night and I really don't like skipping it. The MTT is extremely tempting but I'm just not playing well enough to justify it, plus I feel a ton of guilt when I do give it a miss.
So the month comes to an end and looking at my spreadsheet I can only chuckle. Only in poker can I make more in a month playing than I have in any job I've ever had and still be fairly annoyed as I had a couple of bad sessions at the end. It's just such a silly game.
It's been a good month, got through the reg infested rake race with a nice profit, had a couple of nice MTT results on the side too. The plan for next month? Probably the same again. I will be pushing my 'tweaks' thread though. With all of the grind I haven't looked at the thread for a few days. Well it was half grind and half disappointment a thread designed to be so positive wasn't gaining that much traction. I see from the forum it's back again and I'm going to try to push it so I apologise now if you see it too much near the top of the page.
Run good people.
Would you ever consider playing poker fulltime?
GL
1) The maths of expectation and hope.
Look at it this way. Take another situation where we see the cards flipped up and we see we are miles behind, for instance we have Kings and out opponent has aces. Now at this point we expect to mostly lose but expect to sometimes win and hope it's this time. Flip reverse and we have the aces, our psychology is such that we expect to win. End of. As rational as we can be in the cold hard analysis of the information after the fact or in hypotheticals such as this, in game we cannot help but to expect to win. Every single time. Why? Because we are ahead, so surely we should stay ahead. Yet when we are behind we expect to sometimes win. We hope it's this time, every time. Now the expectation to hold 100% of the time cannot mathematically live in the same universe as the world where we have expectation to sometimes win, we are not mathematically special that this can happen to us and no one else.
It's not easy, hardwiring your brain for the expectation of losing even though we have done everything right in a hand. It something every player, including myself, struggles with. I recently bought a book called 'The Mental Game of Poker' by Tendler and Carter. Now I admit it's presently gathering dust on my bookcase after only the first half chapter being read, but I have read exerts of it elsewhere and it comes highly recommended by a lot of other people. It might be worth a little look for you.
2) This hand
Putting myself in the mind of your opponent in this hand, it's clear very early on in the action he has put you on a range with lots of big aces in it, hence his calling your 3bet with a middle pair. Now people in general don't like to fold a pair, and now on the flop he might be creating two reasons to think he's ahead as he sees it. You've jammed on a two heart board (he must have a flush draw, 7s are ahead) to go along with 'I thought he might have AK, AJ pre, he's trying to bluff be off with his jam, my 7s are ahead). That could be how he has found the call.
You're correct, a lot of people fold sevens there. A lot of people call with sevens there. Neither action is correct 100% or wrong 100% of the time. There are so many other factors to consider (how aggressive you've been playing, how aggressive he's been playing etc) to help us find which is the correct play in each individual scenario.
3) You want this call. Sometimes (around 7 in a hundred) you will lose. Even though you expect to win sometimes you will lose. However the probability of you winning is much greater. You want that call, do not see it as a bad thing.
I hope this helps
Outside poker, hope is a beautiful thing. When it comes to half full/half empty I'm very much half full. The GF's response to is the glass half full or half empty is 'what glass' I will say one thing though, I love the John Cleese line 'I don't might the despair, it's the hope I can't cope with.' And now we're back to expectation.