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March 2015
Points so Far: 3650
Total Profit/loss so far: +£1717.70 (have pre bought in for £667 worth of the VLV satty tree, these figures reflect these unplayed events).
DYMs: - £18
Cash: + £1753.20
MTT: -£65
HU SnG: + £47.50
Total VLV spend to date: £820.20 - (£317 in cash returns) = £503.20
Was great to see you at UKPC.
Like you, I was hugely saddened by the loss of Dave Mackay, a real man's man. Quite surprised to see you mention Steve Perryman in the same class, though.
Perryman opened a chain of sports goods stores at one time, mainly in West London. Some say his claim to greatness was playing an astonishing 854 games for Spurs, but of course the pinnacle of his career was being Brentford Player-Manager, something which every footballer must surely aspire to?
Here's the thing with Perryman. I'm not sure if he is in my all time first XI, but if you pick him to get the best out of him you have to make him captain imo. He needed that armband to really give him an extra focus. Dave MacKay doesn't need it, in fact he would be a captain on the field with or without an armband and he's one of the very first on the team sheet for me where as Perryman is a maybe.
Being player/manager for Brentford is a role I dream about every night. Every single one.
GL Getting the packages
Man goes out for curry then beer. Hang over is the result.
We all have a friend with a questionable concept when it comes to the shades of grey in morality. Especially when said friend has had a few drinks. After curry and pub number one, myself and a few good friends moved onto pub number two, this is now gone midnight and I am not quite at full sobriety. Now I got this friend, he's a really good guy. Great company, very funny, however isn't quite sure where the edges of taste and decency are, especially after the second round of shots. So I toddle off to the Gents, leaving him and a couple of others at the bar. This was my first error. I wander back lighter in body yet still lighter in head and suddenly I hear him yell 'And here he is' to a few women I had never seen before. Suddenly these ladies start asking about my health and tell me how brave I am. Weird. I soon found out that my friend had decided to convince a passing group of lovely young ladies that I had leukemia and that the outlook was quite bleak. Now how do you respond to this? I am not joking, these ladies were hooked completely, he does have the gift of being exceptionally convincing. So guess what, I had no choice but to play along and plan a revenge for a later date. Was an interesting night. I am expecting some cards in the mail.
The Saturday grind was tough. Managed to bag the £3.2k Vegas final seat which was useful, had up and down cash sessions but generally in the upward direction. The rest of the MTTs were an absolute blow out.
So pre the big old Sunday session, here is where we are:
March 2015
Points so Far: 5585
Total Profit/loss so far: +£2262.75 (have pre bought in for £590 worth of the VLV satty tree, these figures reflect these unplayed events).
DYMs: - £18
Cash: + £2135.62
MTT: + £97.63
HU SnG: + £47.50
Total VLV spend to date: £872.20 - (£667 in cash returns) = £205.50
But first, the poker. I haven't updated because not too much out of the ordinary has happened. Peaks and troughs abound. Cash has been in general a gentle upward curve. MTTs I have gone a little stale. I suffer from disconnecting with them occasionally, like I am not really part of the game. I try to not mix cash and MTTs too much in a session, but lately I have been playing light MTT sessions and if I don't seem to find immediate success I go a little slumpy in the shoulders and start to have one eye on the cash lobby, wanting the session to end so I can fire up a few cash tables. This happens from time to time, it generally comes around in the end. VLV chasing has been the stop/start first car you buy which sometimes hums down the motorway and other times makes a weird clicking sound before enveloping you in smoke. Nearest I have come lately was a 12th in the VLV Leaderboard freeroll. That was a little disappointing but at least I made £200 towards the cause. Hopefully I will find renewed rigour in the pursuit starting from tonight.
March 2015
Points so Far: 12437
Total Profit/loss so far: +£3678.26 (have pre bought in for £350 worth of the VLV satty tree, these figures reflect these unplayed events).
DYMs: - £18
Cash: + £3867.04
MTT: - £218.28
HU SnG: + £47.50
Total VLV spend to date: £976.20 - (£867 in cash returns) = £109.20
So to the matter of the day. It's football. But no, not watching. It's playing. To update recent followers here (thank you very much for reading) I have played in the same Sunday League side for around 15 years. Now despite some people, mainly little Matt Bates, telling me I am too old for this and should spend my mornings knitting in a corner instead, I am still going strong. Now we used to be utterly awful but a whole lot of fun. We were your typical bad pub side, with a variety of self induced conditions on a Sunday morning resulting in hammering after hammering. This year though, we're actually not too bad and today is a cup semi final. I can't believe it to be honest, it used to be saying 'I've got to get involved with a semi in the morning' meant something completely different. We've even got league appointed linesmen. It's living the dream.
I've been in and out of the side lately having the odd knock, hopefully I am in today. Fingers crossed and maybe, just maybe, JG Chingford are on the way to Wembley! (Editors note: Ok the final isn't at Wembley, but 'On the way to a training pitch Leyton Orient use' doesn't have the same ring to it).
Happy grinding all.
First up, I didn't start. They called in a lad who has played a few times for us before, not a ringer as he's all signed up and everything. He's a good player and all that but I am obviously gutted. Now what does he bring that I don't? Well that was made clear in the 60th minute. There's a bit of bad blood between my lot and the team we were playing, after a bad tackle went in suddenly everyone is involved in a ruck by the side lines. Now just as it's calming down the guy who took my place, while trotting back to his position, decided to give a certain very vocal member of their team a bit of a squeeze on the, ahem, low hanging plums. Now I can offer a team a lot in terms of effort and I'm all for letting them know who you are, but I don't offer that sort of man to man marking without at least getting bought dinner first.
Game was thrown away in the first 30 minutes when we went 4-0 down. I came on with 15 left at 4-2 and it finished an agonising 4-3, we had a couple of chances to equalize as well. Meh and sigh and etc. We still have a good shout to win the league though so season isn't done yet.
Now to focus on the mammoth Sunday Grind, a whole different way to get it in the balls.
Just topped up my karma somewhat. My neighbour on the left, the defo a wild child in her time Kate gave us a shout a few days ago and asked me to get her online. She hasn't had the internet for ten years since she worked from home and had a wired connection. Then she retired, at age 73. She wants to have a tablet and do things like pay the gas bill online and have a surf (I imagine a flirtation with online bingo may well be in the offing as well). Anyways, you would be staggered how little you can do without an email address. We are so reliant on them now it's like they are our own personal index numbers.
So after chatting to a lovely Geordie for twenty minutes and many passing back and forth of the phone she'll be online in a week. I might teach her poker so she can take down a few regs. We're going shopping for ipads tomorrow in a hot date situation, I might put on a suit.
In a mental funk. The pursuit of VLV has stalled somewhat and I am still getting super bored far too early in MTTs. Luckily tonight is rebuy night and I always make sure that is never dull. It might be what I need to kick start the spark again for MTTs. I'm a little less than £5k short of the magical and mystic £100k profit lifetime on Sky MTTs, a figure which has been on my mind and to be honest somewhat distracting. I just want to get over that number and put it to bed at this point, basically collapse over the line.
Got my backside handed to me somewhat over a short £210 HU SnG session, losing 3-1 to a reg. I didn't run well, I also didn't play to the level I expect from myself. I intend to make a run at the SnG VLV £3.2k package leaderboard in the last week of the month. It'll be competitive, but it's the only free week I really have to go at it and a few of the reggy regs will already have qualified. I just need to keep the attitude positive and basically do myself justice, that's all I really ask from myself from poker, the variance is the uncontrollable fact you just take on the chin.
March 2015
Points so Far: 14798
Total Profit/loss so far: +£4694.73 (have pre bought in for £350 worth of the VLV satty tree, these figures reflect these unplayed events).
DYMs: - £18
Cash: + £5359.67
MTT: - £254.44
HU SnG: - £392.50
Total VLV spend to date: £1268.20 - (£1107 in cash returns) = £161.2
Thanks, I didn't play bad last night. I decided in honour of the closing of 861 to have one last TV tart session, haven't actually done that for a couple of years really but I still have the rep so I thought, why not? For old times sake
1) We don't know what the new format is yet, let's give it a chance. Fingers crossed it will move on to bigger and better.
2) While I know you weren't talking about me with the 'best' line, I am considering a couple of things along those lines. I have been coaching a couple of people lately and have several PMs on FB and here about doing it more often from a variety of people. I am seriously considering moving that way to be honest. And you know, this Twitch thing might have something in it, if I can get the rear in gear, maybe I'll have a channel and do some bits. The title will probably be Lol_Pro TV.
I am still having a relaxing sabbat. I have a feeling at this point it is somewhat open ended. I don't prefer any set format but I do prefer variety. I get easily bored plodding the same format too long so I always enjoy switching things around from time to time.
March update
Still as it was. Still haven't focussing in on MTTs but only played the rebuy session since my last update. I think I finalled the mini but I didn't close it out, which bugs me. Oh I forgot to let you guys know how the big special super douper multi million on Stars went. I didn't make the antes. Had an special hand about three levels in. Playing a bit less that starting we get to the turn with AhTh on 2269hhh, so the nut flush on a paired board. With around 8k from the 10k starting back we are heads up playing for his effective stack of 7.5k. He's played this so face up, he has AA or KK. He decided to jam over my bet and we call in fabulous shape. He has KK. River K. Goodbye dream. Got the last of it in with AK v 44 or something like that a few hands later. Was slightly perturbing.
So yeah, still generally going in the right direction. Had another funny old night at cash playing 200nl where I got in five buy ins in five different spots with equity ranging between 60% and 80%, managed to shoot zero for five but that happens, I would be a fool to say I wasn't running above expectation this month. Plus since then (I think that was Weds night) I've ran ok and got back ahead of where I was.
In VLV news the only real ticket I have so far is for the £3.2k final for this month, it would be most pleasant to convert that. Or already have that seat by winning the last SnG leaderboard. Countdown for those two avenues is getting closer and closer to zero.
March 2015
Points so Far: 16419
Total Profit/loss so far: +£5714.76 (have pre bought in for £350 worth of the VLV satty tree, these figures reflect these unplayed events).
DYMs: - £18
Cash: + £6409.70
MTT: - £284.44
HU SnG: - £392.50
Total VLV spend to date: £1320.20 - (£1107 in cash returns) = £213.20
Really enjoying the diary.
Still waiting for the MTT brain to click into place. Getting grouchy while I play them, punting it off too much and part the reason of my negativity, running pretty bad in tournaments. My attitude in them absolutely stinks though at the moment, I'm not engaged, I'm not even trying to unlock them at this point. I need to reread 'The Mental Game' again I think, I'm acting like a seven year old child arms folded at Sunday Lunch, stubbornly refusing to eat his greens. The plan is to set up a good old fashioned grind-a-thon in them today, Sunday is MTT day and if I can man up (or person up to be PC) and have the right attitude I'll be playing a big schedule today here and elsewhere. And maybe if I get my head straight and stop being an idiot about them I might just run a little better. I am determined to find my focus in them.
In cash I am running obscenely above expectation. Basically flopping lots of sets. I was around £2k up in my Saturday night session last night and I decided to move down the levels from the 400nl and 300nl to the 100nl purely because I didn't think I was playing particularly well, just smashing the deck. The £200 or so I won there felt I more rewarding because I was playing much closer to where I can play rather than just being a fish on a heater.
Good luck Sunday grinding all, happy roller day.
March 2015
Points so Far: 18626
Total Profit/loss so far: +£8834.52 (have pre bought in for £350 worth of the VLV satty tree, these figures reflect these unplayed events).
DYMs: - £18
Cash: + £9503.59
MTT: - £258.57
HU SnG: - £392.50
Total VLV spend to date: £1372.20 - (£1107 in cash returns) = £265.20
Stunning numbers Tommy, absolutely stunning.
March 2015
Points so Far: 25401
Total Profit/loss so far: +£7813.35 (have pre bought in for £350 worth of the VLV satty tree, these figures reflect these unplayed events).
DYMs: - £534.50
Cash: + £9384.67
MTT: - £709.32
HU SnG: - £327.50
It is also a little comforting to see that someone as good as you can also run badly at the MTTs. Whilst nowhere near your league I have been having a bad old time at them for ages now. It's been a long time since I ran deep in any of the bigger ones and I am struggling to keep the 'profit' graph from turning into the outline of a mountain! I know that mine is not all down to 'run bad' and I have not been playing well for a number of reasons, but not having confidence that any hand will hold up does make the game tougher.
I nearly ran well the other day when I had AQ v QQ AIP then managed to flop the ace! Yippee some run good for me! It didn't even last for the next two cards as the case Q came down on the river! Ho Hum.
I hope that some good MTT form returns (for both of us) and good luck with the VLV qualification. I have no doubt you'll get there.