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Everything good apart from Mrs J being bloody grumpy. Spent about 4 hours yesterday doing bits and bobs around the house. Apparently, I'm a lazy toad for not emptying the shredder. Ffs.
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Made the smart decision last night when I got home from the pub to play a few more games. Luckily it went well and made about £40.
Tonight has been really, really tough. A few players who I don't normally see at the Dyms. Presumably players looking for points for the promo. Jakally graced us with his presence. Not for long though did I have the pleasure. Forgotten now exactly what happened but I made a dumb move. Again there were some new guys who had an aversion to folding. Being dead clever though, I still kept on betting. went well [ ]
Folded a full house to MATT8. Can't remember doing that many times in a Dym. He said he had it afterwards, I believed him.
Played a couple of £33's. Super tough field. Won both, Roi up to the heady heights of -27.4% in those now. Ended up doing my usual trick of winning 6 out of the last 8 to get out of it. The 33's were in there as well and obviously helped. Not going to keep getting away with that for ever. Still i'll enjoy it for now. £30ish up on the day plus pleasant rakeback.
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Just for a moment yesterday I had that really pretty sharkscope star for 1 on the leaderboard. Not sad or anything but took a photo
Really tough night.
I've had enough now, head frazzled
I think I have found a fairly big leak in my DYM game, at least I think it might be. I think I may be shoving too light too early. An example from earlier is: I'm 4/6, 1800 chips at 75/150 (although the next blind level was imminent). I'm in the cut off with 44, there is one limper in front of me. I shove and I'm snap called in the bb by QQ.
Another example: I was 4 handed, 100/200 blinds, folded to me in the small blind with QJ. I have 2100 chips and am the shorty (although not by much), again I shove and bb snaps me off with A2............have had a few scenarios like this when 4 handed.
Would love some advice here if you have the time or don't mind. I have pretty much given free info to any DYM reg who may read this haha, but I think the decent players have cottoned onto the fact that I'm not always that strong when shoving. As you know, it's so easy to get blinded out in the late stages but am I "going for it" too early? How many blinds can you realistically go down to??
Fully understand if you don't wanna give away any tricks of the trade but thought I would ask anyway lol
Gl at the tables mate.
Not a dym player, but the JQ hand sounds like a really standard shove.
The 44, I dunno! !?!?
Ok
Bear in mind that things like M, Nash, Stoving and ICM may as well be a foreign language to me. I probably do apply these things but just don't know what the correct jargon is these days. So, this will be pretty basic stuff from a poker simpleton. You never know though, some of it may be useful.
This is by no means a dig at Dohhhhhhh but I think there is an argument to say that 'standard' is overused and incorrect in a lot of cases.
The hand Waller has describe may well be standard at first glance. However, I think it's anything but standard.
I find the 100/200 level by far the most difficult to play.
In this situation I might min raise, shove, fold or even from time to time limp! (I appreciate that's not really a very helpful answer Waller)
How is the table playing? Are 2 likely to go to war soon enough? What do we think of the big blind? Even more importantly what does he think of us?
There are players who are going to need AA, KK to call a shove in this spot but may peel with pairs, broadway cards etc. Others, like in the hand you played, will just snap with a terrible Ace.
I understand JD's view but disagree a little. If I min raise here, then I'm going with the hand the majority of the time. Therefore I probably want to be a little stronger than JQ. I really hate putting 25% of our stack in the middle and then folding. Never 2.5xing here. 2x achieves exactly the same thing and 100 chips is significant. Readless, are you being balanced? I think balance is over rated sometimes but in Dym's playing the same players every day it's important. If you would play premiums in exactly the same manner it's fine.
A few examples
A few days ago at 100/200
Similar stack sizes to Wallers hand. I have Ace Rag in the SB. Very good player in the big. I think I should shove or fold but min raise instead. He puts me in, I fold. His hand was irrelevant.
Last night
Again 100/200
I have 10's in the SB. BB is a reg who will probably perceive me as 'aggro' (I know, bizarre) I know he will very rarely flat here, which would leave me playing guessing games on broadway flops. Shove and I lose any value. I min, he shoves, I call, he shows J9 and I cash.
Last night
Very strong last 4. TimmyRaRa, SuperSnedd and Walks. 200/400 and we all bizarrely have near enough identical chips. Pretty much for the entire level UTG shoved. If there had been a weak player at the table, I'm sure it would have played out differently. No mistakes were being made and it was just going to eventually come down to the BB finding a hand strong enough to call with. It happened Snedd had AA and Walks was really unlucky as he actually had a big hand himself, QQ
From a while ago
Again 100/200
A renowned player on here who used to keep a diary is on my right. He has around 1200, I have maybe 2400. The other 2 are out of sight. I'm in the BB and feel that 100% of the time if it folds to him, then he will shove. He obliges and I make the call with K3. I hold against 2 low cards. He mentioned in his diary at the time that he felt when he played lower stakes then he was getting called very lightly. I wondered if he was talking about that hand. To me, that one was standard. He's a good player. Fold here and he's up to 1500. Next hand he has the opportunity to get in there before me again. Against 2 players who will be very unlikely to call. He now has 1800. Totally back in the game.
A very good player at mainly the £10 stakes beat me up quite often in the SB v BB situations. I would min, he would shove. I'd call it off and he would show me a big hand. I then noticed something. He would never call in the BB. Sometimes though, he would put in a tiny 3bet. I wanted to see what this meant and 4bet all in. He folded. I'm yet to see him call after he has done this and it's probably been 10/15 times now.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that, from far standard, each hand will be very different against different opponents. The key, I guess, is to keep making and updating notes.
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There are a few players on here who are signed up to Dyms strategy sites. Not really for me. Great basic strategy but very exploitable in my opinion. I could even set up my own 'Jacs No Frills Dym site' and charge half the price.
Play supertight early on and then 4 handed just shove shove shove. Play a bit differently to these players and they're really out of their comfort zone as they would never play the hand the same way.
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A little shorter
Fold the 4's
In total agreement with all 3 of you about the 44...spew!! At the time I couldn't win a flip, wasn't getting any decent spots to build a stack in ANY of my games and I guess this lead to the "ffs ALL IN!" haha. The QJ (and similar spots) I'm not too concerned about, blind v blind, 4 handed in the later stages I think we have to widen our shoving range slightly. Plus, like you said, if the oppo wants to call with A2 I still have a reasonable chance of winning the hand. I guess this is why note making is important so you know who will call you raggy hands and who won't.
I only had a small session tonight as I was working late. I took everything on board and ended up with a +£32 session which I will always be happy with at my level. Still a couple of leaks to sort out (mainly knowing when I really shouldn't have cbet!!!)
Thanks again, much appreciated. Best of luck on the tables
Footy - Q. What's worse than getting thrashed 4-1 live on the box for everyone to see?
A. Getting humiliated 6-0 against a very average Shef Weds team! ... live for everyone to see. Sigh. I thought programmes with such graphic content weren't allowed on before 9!
Pokers - Congrats on the heater! ... No very little about DYM's, played a couple before but didn't really get in to them (Don't like folding enough to be any good at them!)
Hope the run good continues!
Yeah, we were both pretty awful.
Went into Derby for the competition. Got there just before 8.00. "Oh, you have no entrants yet. Have you put the time back since I last came?"
"Nope"
"Great!, i'll sod off home then."
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Played the rebuy. Lose a big pot that I played as badly as I possibly could to "The Beast" aka Bighawk. No problem, I'd just had a text "Pub mate?" Down to 2000 chips, I answer "Give me 10 mins" 10 mins later I have 18950 chips. "Better leave it mate"
Say to the beast. "Watch me get knocked out just before closing now"
10.51 - I have QQ in the BB. UTG ships about 25 bigs! SB calls. I call. 66 for UTG. An interesting Ace 6 for SB.
Flop has a 6.
Balls!
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Edit at 00.17
Thursday appears to be better
Played about 12 Dym's. I say played. Actually played about 6 hands in all those games. Quite aggressive would be one way of describing the games. £130odd profit. Minus the rebuys, around £100 on the day. Think I might stick to what I know in future. (ensures guaranteed pub time)
Lost a bit, no biggie, £26 which could have been worse.
The tables are in general, very friendly at the slightly higher stakes.
Today, I played with a guy I'd not seen before, Maxthxrk27. He is semi-competent, no more, about £25 up in his short time on here. What he does unfortunately is spend every game abusing the rest of the table. Not content to win a hand, he then has to tell the player who lost it how bad he is and then call him names. None of this was directed at me. Well not until I suggested that he maybe calm down a bit with the abuse. Inevitably, it was then my turn.
His final act before I finished my session was to let his timebar run right down until calling a shove with his aces. If he won, I'd cash but I was really hoping he would get sucked out on.
Obviously, I'll get told off for putting his name up. I will hear that there are two sides to every story. Shame, it would be nice if I could just be trusted on this one. I'm sure any of the other players who were at the tables would happily verify all this. Yes, I suppose that I should just report it to Customer Care (I will later on).
Rant over
Just been back on. Turned the loss into a £40 win for the day.
Unfortunately we had more of the same. Player from earlier was still dishing out the abuse.
Then we had lxdxdx21 start grumbling at another player about playing slowly. That got sorted out. Then when I put a bit of a beat on him, he got angry again.
It wasn't particulary imaginative. Just "moron" followed by "lucky moron" and so on.
Hopefully these people will disappear once the promo finishes.
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Edit - Sigh, I suppose I should take these gentlemans names out. Well mostly out anyway
I would be thinking that with him offering/trying to do the work is kind of admitting liability?
you are screwed
gust of wind blew over a steel panel
pull another one
better continue the run good
He can't deny doing that surely.
It's an interesting debate and maybe I don't know enough to really comment... Part of me says that increasing the rake at the lower end does help the poker economy, keep the rec players happy etc BUT the other part of me says meh most rec players are still probably gonna get like <£5 back each month, is that really gonna be the deal breaker? These people are playing for a laugh, enjoying the game/the gamble etc and if they're willing to stick in £50 a month and give it a spin, I don't think getting £1.50 back is gonna make the slightest difference as to where they play, or encourage them to play more than they want to just so they can get an extra 50p.
Unfortunately on tonight's evidence, I'm not good enough to play Dyms either! Did not go well.
However, I am reasonably capable at the "crapshoot tourneys" as the lovely AJS refers to them. Decent record on the night. Played 1 won 1. A nice £188. Think all my luck came in that tourney rather than the Dyms. 3 handed I skillfully had AA in the BB and the small shoved. I then very skillfully flopped quads.
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Had a fun exchange in a Dym. Was playing stacks of tables and raised with JJ. Got shoved on and snapped him off. Oops, 1st level. Made my set but not good enough against his set of Aces. I made a comment about mixing up my tables. Player then did a "really?, ty for your chips" thing. I replied with something very mature
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Decent result for Derby today. Bamford looks a player. Love McLaren at the moment but I can only assume that Jamie Ward has some hold over the club. How does he get a game every week? Surely he'll start Bamford on Tuesday.
Noticed Billy Sharp has gone back to Donny. Thought that we might have gone for him for about the 5th time. As a loan, I think he's a great signing. Knows how to score goals.
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Lost my gold star which sucks
Good read as always.
I'm not one for comments in chat but I will admit I had a little rant last night after bubbling a seat for UKIP Dublin on an other site.It did spill over to Sky and to an unlucky limp caller who did me in a mtt here.
I did say sorry when I bumped into them tonight.
I always find it funny the cash v mtt player debate.
To me its like 5 a side footballers and 11 a side players same game but different skills.
It seems to me that its always cash players saying they are the better players but I suppose we could all crush if we got to choose our opponents.
Hopefully you will get your star back soon.
PS Hope Penny is doing well , cant be long now.
Run Good Pal.
Pat