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i knew that was coming lol
dev
it´s all about leverage
"honey, I will get his decorating done for you - for sure. and if I get a cheap second monitor - right here - right now - I´ll even be able to use gold leaf for the decoration. OK love.........."
Good point re Weighted Contribution, yes it does mean the looser players in theory won't need to play as many tables as they did before the change to maintain that level of points. I've found the need to adjust my game a little due to the change, I've gone tighter rather than looser which is something I didn't expect. Maybe what ego I had thought 'the nits are going to have to play my game now' and in my arrogance I thought it was going to be easier for me. I forgot that any adjustment made by opponents, any at all really, requires me to adjust. Some of the tighter players from before have come out all guns blazing and are doing better than they did when they were much tighter. Obviously others are finding it more of a struggle. I sort of dropped the ball by not preempting this and have been playing catch up since.
Happy grinding Sir!
24 tables? Yucky. I'm guessing this was DYMs? I can see me being able to do that for full ring DYMs but 6 max ones would be far too tough, you get to the bubble quicker and stay there for longer IMO.
Will get the second monitor and as I said before, I'm adding tables slowly, piece by piece. What's the rush?
Back to my head and its issues, at the moment when I hit 11+ tables I stop playing poker. It's no secret I'm much more of a flop and streets player in cash (my excuse for a certain amount of passive preflop play I guess). As soon as I turn it up to eleven then I'm clicking buttons. So the plan is to add one at a time, get to a level where I am as comfortable as I was before I added another, then go one more. And if I reach a point where I never get comfortable with a number, I drop one off and stay at one level forever more, well maybe not forever, just until I try again. I rely a lot on past experience with a player, general experience re: ranges/hand history, psychology and, I really hate this term, feel. When I play too many I'm not gathering any information for the future. When I play too many I start guessing and I'm no longer playing poker, I'm just clicking buttons.
I agree re: coaching as it stands now. I don't think that was always the case but people who think about the game and can actually coach it have got a ton better in the last decade. Before that all most people could teach you were the hand rankings, where to buy Super System and say 'go with your gut.'
Never gonna work....
I've taken a look at that hand Phil. Five handed, I got the double up in my stack and it's a DYM. As much as people may think I'm Mr Crazy Level Bet, it's a DYM. What sort of range do you think I have in that spot? Did you fold Queens or something?
As played, had to fold in a DYM
Don't know why you're giving that hand a second thought Phil, looks pretty standard to me. Yes in cash or a MTT there is a bluff range I have in that spot. However despite having a recent awful record in DYMs I at least get the early stages right most of the time. I hated the spot because I had to turn my hand face up but I really don't see what other choice I have. Taking it three way really doesn't thrill me, I think I have to 4bet and hope either of you make a mistake, or take down an uncontested pot which is never a bad thing.
Like I said before, it's a DYM, and in a DYM I always tell myself 'Keep it simple, stupid.'
Dropped back somewhat yesterday. Falling asleep in the middle of a hand didn't help matters. The fact this was before 8pm really didn't help. Exhausted from a long grind and Sunday League football I should have logged off a lot sooner than I did. TBH I should have just taken the night off but I tried to power through and at least accumulate some points. I didn't really achieve either and by the last session I was just spewing money away on nl300.
On the plus side I finally chucked in the towel relatively early and am now refreshed and ready for action.
P/L: -£1,404.30
C4P: 21,237
That darn comma is back, how I loathe it....
To make matters worse my points accumulation is through the floor. In poker terms I feel completely broken right now. Just come off a cooler cash session. KK<AA INPF, 3bet QQ in the BB v two people, get an 8 high flop, one of the villains has middle set obv. Vbet top pair, get called by bottom pair, 5 kick, turn trips it up. Other hands where I'm just shooting myself in the foot.
Been a tough first half of the month.
P/L -£3544.18
C4P: 26726
On for a record losing month. Fab.
Really played a dreadful cash poker Thursday night. Some interesting pots, some coolers, lots of pay off too late/firing too many barrels on the wrong boards and a classic splash of tilt to 4 bet shove JTo into Aces. Anyone railing would have seen a scene similar to the car chase scene in Blues Brothers.
I was touching 5k in the hole. I slowly ground some back but was preparing for making this silly 50k points for a net loss after the C4P money & bonus. I had a busy day today so I decided at first to give the MTTs a miss. Eventually the GF got pretty tired, dropped off eary so I thought I'd late reg for Main, Mini and maybe play the 9pm.
Won the Main. 2nd in the 9pm (I lost a flip in the final hand. Yes I know, that doesn't happen usually, but it was against Ryan so I think the Fates were screaming for mercy having to make one of us lose a 50/50. Expect scheduled maintenance soon).
P/L: -£1,989.75
C4P: 31,155
Pretty confident of making the 50k points, feel like I'm going downhill now. Learning a lot about myself from this grind. Some bits I like, others I really don't. Challenges and troubles forge you as a person as well as shine a light on who you are. I'm seeing a ton of personal positives to come out of this process. Also never been so happy to be down £2k on a month.
The plan for the rest of the month is to play some low variance stuff. I'm sticking to nl100 and lower, just getting eaten up by some of the regs at nl200+ right now. I have a decent record playing that high but I need my game about me, it's not at the moment. Going to attempt to grind to B/E a day or two before the end of the month and spend that spare time before February going over the Hand Histories. This month has given me plenty to look at.
The GF calls him 'Frosty'
I prefer to call her Georgina.
P/L: -£2,200.92
C4P: 37119
Still very confident of hitting 50k by month's end. I feel a heavy grind of a weekend coming on to polish off what ever is left by the time I get there.
In life news, because too much poker stuff is boring, Grant the cat has made a reappearance. As you can see from the above photo we've had some cold weather here recently and I was getting a little worried about the little mite. I still don't know if he's a stray but he hadn't turned up to keep us in his dinner rotation for a while. I feared he had trouble in the snow. That was until 4am this morning. I was just finishing up a mega grind session when I heard some scratching at the backdoor. I stupidly opened it and in shoots Grant for his first appearance in a couple of weeks. Now I had a dilemma, you see I'm a little allergic to cats and should not feel responsible for him bearing in mind he's not my blooming cat. On the other side he does a great impression of the cutest cat in the world every time I tried to build up the courage to put him outside, staring at me with those 'why would you send me out in the cold?' eyes. So he slept in the office. And because I didn't want him to rip things up I pulled an all nighter grinding PLO50 on Stars during the scheduled maintenance here. Grant ended up making me some bucks. Love that cat. Note to self, must get a picture of him the next time he shows.
This is Grant - The 'Stray or maybe owned by someone who doesn't use collars' Cat who pops around for dinner and has me under his/her thumb (no idea if it's a boy or a girl cat TBH).
I misunderstood what these pictures were going to be of, I feel a little cheated to be honest!
Matt