craigcu12 diary

craigcu12 · December 2012

my first year on sky poke has not been a good one i have allow myself to be wound up to easy from bad beats not been careful enough with my bankroll and have chased too many of my losses so 2013 will be a new year of poker for me where i will try and get myself into a winning style or atleast a sensible playing style.

Having saw what happened following the amount of money i lost when taking my cash a step too far, most MTT prizes will now be withdrawn, i might keep them in my BR if they just small ones but when it's reaching a sizes larger than what my average cash priize total would be, i'll then be withdrawing it

English was a bad subject when i was at school so my apologies for the wording.

edit: i've got a mental health issue called autism and one of the problems it has is emotion control and sometimes I might go over the top with a bad day, M.A.I.N is now working with me to control them better. my apolegies

WHOAMI196 · December 2012

gl, but its worth saying that its pretty dumb logic to take a break after every bad beat, you should take breaks when you play bad, playing bad is what you can control and bad beats you can not, its the nature of the game, you got to play through them.

CrazyBen23 · December 2012

Judging by the normal standard of your usual posts i'd say this has the potential to be the best diary on the forum

Curt360x27 · December 2012

In Response to craigcu12 diary:

my first year on sky poke has not been a good one i have allow myself to be wound up to easy from bad beats not been careful enough with my bankroll and have chased too many of my losses so 2013 will be a new year of poker for me where i will try and get myself into a winning style or atleast a sensible playing style. my aims from 2013 1. be careful with my hands. 2. take a break as soon as i get a bad beat 3.monitor my bankroll and HH better. 4. make notes of the way people play. 5.be more polite with my texts.
Posted by craigcu12

What da fook does this mean?

GL at the tables and with your diary btw.

Jac35 · December 2012

Good luck with this Craig if you do decide to do the diary.
You seem to get a lot of stick on here and the diary maybe a good idea, so that we get to know the real you.
Maybe have a think before you post and be a little less emotional. I think you realise this from your point number 5.

Jac

bearlyther · December 2012

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2. take a break as soon as i get a bad beat
Posted by craigcu12

Do not take a break when you get a bad beat you are going to have to get used to these they are standard for everyone. I know a very good pro who went on a $50,000 downswing at 1 time. Not because hes playing bad hes 1 of the best players around its because of the varience involved at the stakes he plays. So what im saying is it doesnt matter if you are a recreatioal player or a player who plays for a living we all suffer bad beats and varience in the same way and you need to accept that these bad beats are going to continue to happen.

I am in a stable with a group of guys and we discuss hands after tournaments to see what we could have done better in certain hands etc. The number 1 rule they have is no bad beat stories at all. As talking about a bad beat is not going to change anything therefore focus more on your own hands and see what you could do differentely ratheri than focusing on that bad beat.

I used to be as bad as anyone for bad beat stories but you have to learn to accept that its all part of the game.

craigcu12 · December 2012

after having a day's rest from playing on the tables i have fealt much more relaxed and not had a singler bit of stress. my biggest loss in a single pot was 60p my biggest profit from a pot was 1.45 with three 3's
over all i made 2.46 1.03 and 0.26 on three of my table and lost a total of 1.12 on one table.

also just want to say thank you to all who have given me advice about my hands i posted on the forum and sorry about the way i sometimes have type my sentances.
and i wish you all a happy new year

Lambert180 · December 2012

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after having a day's rest from playing on the tables i have fealt much more relaxed and not had a singler bit of stress. my biggest loss in a single pot was 60p my biggest profit from a pot was 1.45 with three 3's over all i made 2.46 1.03 and 0.26 on three of my table and lost a total of 1.12 on one table. also just want to say thank you to all who have given me advice about my hands i posted on the forum and sorry about the way i sometimes have type my sentances. and i wish you all a happy new year
Posted by craigcu12

No worries, we've all become accustomed to reading IDONK's posts now so should be easy

Spikelad · December 2012

Good luck with this Craig and i look forward to reading your diary.You have realised that you can do better at poker and that is a big step in the right direction.If i can give you one piece of advice mate at microstakes people will call with any Two cards,dont try and work out why they are doing this Craig just make notes as you say, and when you hit, value bet, these same players will pay you off.

craigcu12 · January 2013

btw in terms of my luck please provide me with some good luck that will allow my football team newcastle to defend better

smarr · January 2013

In Response to Re: craigcu12 diary:

gl, but its worth saying that its pretty dumb logic to take a break after every bad beat, you should take breaks when you play bad, playing bad is what you can control and bad beats you can not, its the nature of the game, you got to play through them.
Posted by WHOAMI196

Big + 1 to this.

In Response to Re: craigcu12 diary:

btw in terms of my luck please provide me with some good luck that will allow my football team newcastle to defend better
Posted by craigcu12

Could be worse mate, you could follow Bolton

bearlyther · January 2013

Hand 1 dont shove the flop generally your never going to get called by worse and all the hands that do call you will have you crushed make a normal 3/4 sized continuation bet.

Hand 2 Flat with your 66 set on the flop as its a dry flop with a view to raising the turn. Also you decided to raise the flop to need to make it so big 40-£2 you can make it £1.20.

Best of luck

craigcu12 · January 2013

well after another stressful day with the football i was wondering if i could manage to even play myself and it seemed that my play today started off weak but after an hour started improving so i managed a total of 4.43 on my tables on of which i made 3.60 alone. the main thing was i didn't loose anything on any of my 3 table i was on.

craigcu12 · January 2013

well i the first week of new year thing have look so much better in relation to my poker.
last year i would have lost my weekly amount in just a couple of day but now it look as though i am getting to grips with myself and able to build up my bankroll.

out of a total of 22 cash tables
i mad profit from 15/22 biggest profit being £8.12
so 68% of my tables had profit
my biggest loss on a table was £2.66
with SnG
won 1 £2.1heads up hyper and1 £2.10 turbo charged
1DYM £1.15 cost
1 DYM £60p cost
i lost twice in £1.15 DYM
my biggest loss this week has came from thursday when i went a step to far entering a 5KBH semi for £12 and a £750 BH for 5.75
so over all i could have made over £20 profit but only managed £6
thanks for the info from the clinic with my hands

craigcu12 · January 2013

well after the way things have been in the last couple of hours i think that now even my bets are getting better
i have made a profit of £17 pound and managed to get at least 8 hands that gained over £1
my best hand of the day was this and it made me over £5 profit

my bankroll now is £49 so i am starting to now playing 3+ tables

craigcu12 · January 2013

well after having another excellent day of poker it is so good to sense that i konw i can avoid putting money in each week.
What i like best about my poker now is i am finally managing to just stay relaxed.

so today i've gain an extra £24 and soon might be thinking of moving up to the 4/8p and have already started on the action tables

waller02 · January 2013

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after having a bad day on sunday things have managed to recover again today. my main problem today has been premium pocket pairs as sometimes even a 5xbb will get ragged callers Player Action Cards Amount Pot Balance 58 Small blind £0.02 £0.02 £1.92 KKKKGHFH55 Big blind £0.04 £0.06 £4.69 Your hole cards K K vil1 Call £0.04 £0.10 £2.02 vil2 Call £0.04 £0.14 £3.14 craigcu12 Raise £0.16 £0.30 £9.95 doughnut1 Fold 58 Fold KKKKGHFH55 Fold vil1 Call £0.12 £0.42 £1.90 vil2 Call £0.12 £0.54 £3.02 Flop 5 10 4 vil1 Check vil2 Check craigcu12 Bet £0.20 £0.74 £9.75 vil1 Raise £0.44 £1.18 £1.46 vil2 All-in £3.02 £4.20 £0.00 craigcu12 Fold vil1 All-in £1.46 £5.66 £0.00 vil2 Unmatched bet £1.12 £4.54 £1.12 vil1 Show 5 4 vil2 Show 5 10 Turn 2 River 5 vil2 Win Full House, 5s and 10s £4.19 £5.31 thankfully because they were all low cards apart from the ten and it was a dry board it was easy to think they had a set
Posted by craigcu12

great fold....I used to play 4nl a bit and if I had KK and 2 limpers I would have raised more to around 24p, sounds a lot but you want to narrow the field and ideally just have one caller giving you less chance of being outdrawn....someone will almost def still call and pay you off with their junk

devonfish5 · January 2013

nice going craig...
soon be seeing you on the nl8 and nl10 tables.

the best player i ever saw playing nl4 (can't remember his name...wasn't me btw. lol) whenever he played a hand he would always raise to 40p pre-flop.
a lot of the time opponents would fold.
then when he got the caller he would always or very nearly always c-bet £1
it was a brilliant strategy and i've not seen anyone else do it since.
takes some guts but it worked.

dev

craigcu12 · January 2013

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nice going craig... soon be seeing you on the nl8 and nl10 tables. the best player i ever saw playing nl4 (can't remember his name...wasn't me btw. lol) whenever he played a hand he would always raise to 40p pre-flop. a lot of the time opponents would fold. then when he got the caller he would always or very nearly always c-bet £1 it was a brilliant strategy and i've not seen anyone else do it since. takes some guts but it worked. dev
Posted by devonfish5

that's my aim to by the end of this year start playing the nl8p and 10p table i start off with a deposit of £20 at the start of january on friday it reached 70 but then on sunday i made a costly mistake when I changed my play.

DOHHHHHHH · January 2013

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after having a bad day on sunday things have managed to recover again today. my main problem today has been premium pocket pairs as sometimes even a 5xbb will get ragged callers Player Action Cards Amount Pot Balance 58 Small blind £0.02 £0.02 £1.92 KKKKGHFH55 Big blind £0.04 £0.06 £4.69 Your hole cards K K vil1 Call £0.04 £0.10 £2.02 vil2 Call £0.04 £0.14 £3.14 craigcu12 Raise £0.16 £0.30 £9.95 doughnut1 Fold 58 Fold KKKKGHFH55 Fold vil1 Call £0.12 £0.42 £1.90 vil2 Call £0.12 £0.54 £3.02 Flop 5 10 4 vil1 Check vil2 Check craigcu12 Bet £0.20 £0.74 £9.75 vil1 Raise £0.44 £1.18 £1.46 vil2 All-in £3.02 £4.20 £0.00 craigcu12 Fold vil1 All-in £1.46 £5.66 £0.00 vil2 Unmatched bet £1.12 £4.54 £1.12 vil1 Show 5 4 vil2 Show 5 10 Turn 2 River 5 vil2 Win Full House, 5s and 10s £4.19 £5.31 thankfully because they were all low cards apart from the ten and it was a dry board it was easy to think they had a set
Posted by craigcu12

Pretty impressive fold tbf!

Nice work Craig.

TINTIN · January 2013

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In Response to Re: craigcu12 diary : that's my aim to by the end of this year start playing the nl8p and 10p table i start off with a deposit of £20 at the start of january on friday it reached 70 but then on sunday i made a costly mistake trying to change my strategy and that i think is just not possible because their are too many calling stations and minimum bets meaning draw hands are not worth the risk as pots will be too low
Posted by craigcu12

this is a good thing, have a big hand bet big get paid more. they will hit from time to time but if you continuley give them wrong odds to draw with weak holdings you will coin it in

GELDY · January 2013

hi craig

wrote a long post on my phone but got timed out.

basically you need to raise more if there are limpers and even more if oop

gl m8

unknown_username · January 2013

HI C
My first post on your diary and i wish you the bet of luck. It does seem like one or two guys on the forum have a bad day and respond in a rather terse way, shall we say. If you can deflect that then i'm sure that you will learn a lot from the comments of good players who offer you advce and will probably find your play improving accordingly. Cash, to me, is pretty unknown so i won't be commenting on your hands you'll be glad to know.
I can fully understand that trying to enjoy the game can be hard when tilt is involved.
All the best fella and gl for 2013.

craigcu12 · January 2013

well after another day of bad luck with my premium pairs i was so close to loosing most but thanks to the killer pair match up and a easy caller while i held quads i managed to recover with these

Flop
haway	Big blind		£0.04	£0.04	£3.16
MRENT121	Big blind		£0.04	£0.08	£3.16
	Your hole cards	A A
MRENT121	Check
craigcu12	Raise		£0.20	£0.28	£6.07
vil1	Raise		£0.84	£1.12	£8.17
haway	Call		£0.80	£1.92	£2.36
MRENT121	Fold
craigcu12	All-in		£6.07	£7.99	£0.00
vil1	Call		£5.43	£13.42	£2.74
haway	Fold
craigcu12	Show	A A
vil1	Show	K K
		8 3 2
Turn
		9
River
		7
craigcu12	Win	Pair of Aces	£12.41		£12.41

CrazyBen23 · January 2013

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Judging by the normal standard of your usual posts i'd say this has the potential to be the best diary on the forum
Posted by CrazyBen23

Oops, i meant worst, silly me.

MP33 · January 2013

GL with the diary - I love the Nl4 diaries although i see your already moving up

Ps - Any chance of filling in the villains names in some of the above hands

Paul

craigcu12 · January 2013

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In Response to Re: craigcu12 diary : Oops, i meant worst, silly me.
Posted by CrazyBen23

if it is really rubbish then why do you read it?
what do you expect me to write "dear diary i played poker ...."
this diary is about my poker so ofcouse it will be based mainly around my hand history and how i'm progressing.

craigcu12 · January 2013

well today has been a strange day for me as when ever i've suffered a heavy loss it always seems to have evened out again not long after the heavy loss and the biggest of them all was this.

Flop
TINTIN	Small blind		£0.02	£0.02	£4.86
craigcu12	Big blind		£0.04	£0.06	£3.76
bjm930	Big blind		£0.04	£0.10	£3.16
	Your hole cards	Q K
jimbo111	Call		£0.04	£0.14	£2.82
vil2	Call		£0.04	£0.18	£2.38
bjm930	Check
vil	Raise		£0.16	£0.34	£5.30
TINTIN	Fold
craigcu12	Call		£0.12	£0.46	£3.64
vil2	Call		£0.12	£0.58	£2.70
jonjo44	Call		£0.12	£0.70	£2.26
bjm930	Fold
		J A 10
craigcu12	Check
jimbo111	Bet		£0.04	£0.74	£2.66
vil2	Call		£0.04	£0.78	£2.22
vil	Raise		£0.45	£1.23	£4.85
craigcu12	Call		£0.45	£1.68	£3.19
jimbo111	Fold
vil2	Call		£0.41	£2.09	£1.81
Turn
		5
craigcu12	Check
vil2	All-in		£1.81	£3.90	£0.00
vil	Call		£1.81	£5.71	£3.04
craigcu12	All-in		£3.19	£8.90	£0.00
vil	Call		£1.38	£10.28	£1.66
craigcu12	Show	Q K
vil2	Show	Q K
vil	Show	J J
River
		10
vil	Win	Full House, Jacks and 10s	£9.50		£11.16

when i saw that river card i was thinking to myself here we go curse of the river time
but it seem to in fact be totally opposite!
just how often will a KK win vs AA

Flop
craigcu12	Small blind		£0.02	£0.02	£3.88
jimbo111	Big blind		£0.04	£0.06	£2.14
	Your hole cards	K K
rolfe06	Call		£0.04	£0.10	£4.80
vil	Raise		£0.08	£0.18	£10.58
vil2	Raise		£0.40	£0.58	£4.48
craigcu12	Raise		£1.66	£2.24	£2.22
jimbo111	Fold
rolfe06	Fold
vil	Call		£1.60	£3.84	£8.98
vil2	All-in		£4.48	£8.32	£0.00
craigcu12	All-in		£2.22	£10.54	£0.00
vil	Call		£3.20	£13.74	£5.78
craigcu12	Show	K K
vil	Show	2 A
vil2	Show	A A
		10 K 10
Turn
		4
River
		4
craigcu12	Win	Full House, Kings and 10s	£10.89		£10.89
vil2	Win	Two Pairs, Aces and 10s	£1.81		£1.81

already when i did the shove i was getting ready to scream in anger so when i saw that king it made me feel sorry for the pocket aces
it appeared to me after that FH killer card i just totally changed the luck into my favour with just the odd upset. but have manage to £20 today. also for the first time ever i have managed to reach the 500 points mark in less than a month

shaun09 · January 2013

i dont understand why your calling a raise pre with 10 5os? all be it is a min raise but still??

craigcu12 · January 2013

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i dont understand why your calling a raise pre with 10 5os? all be it is a min raise but still??
Posted by shaun09

what i noticed is this table had a lot a lot of min betting being done as a way which i believe was to try making other villians fold as the first betting villian missed his flop. so i began to find that quite often if i bet 16p then i coud steal it frop them more often than not.
it start of when i had flush draws raised 4p bets to build the pot, what i found was they folded as soon as i raised even the ones who called the 4p bet.

benc · January 2013

Hey craig, good to see you have the courage to follow through with a plan that is based pretty much soleley on your opponents tendencies rather than your cards, keep up the good work.

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