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The profits from each table were £4.26 (nl10) £30.84 (nl20) -£11.54 (nl20).
the hand losses today were not quite as heavy as they were on tuesday
£7.40 £4.90 £4.40 £4.40 £4.40 £4.05
the big winnings were
£16.94 £10.57 £9.33 £8.38 £7.52 £6.36 £5.28 £4.35 £4.32
the biggest 3 losses were from KQ.
i'm thinking maybe i should have folded this one as i am OOP
if the passive players were loose and fish like then i would want to be aggressive and tight but if i see villians playing as passive as the ones today i thinking that i will play a much more passive approach myself but a loose one.
my exit hand was
The one thing that has seen improvements already is my 3betting making it less easy to know my hand strength.
So my preflop 3betting has managed to see improvements the task now is to work on my aggression postflop.
so this march i have only got 1 target but that target is a big target, that target is MY AGGRESSION POST FLOP.
It's time to stop worrying about getting trapped and start focusing on charging them hands that chase.
i might as well say we were bluffed every street because i thought on the flop he was scared then on the turn i put him on a diamond flush or middle pair and on the river i allowed him to try a bluff.
iweather or not i i played it wrong on the turn and should have either donked in or check shoved i don't know but it was a cooldown on the river.
the thing that seems to have kicked it off was when i finished 3rd my BR increased to £1K, the people who help me out with my life in general see this as a one off, poker itself is like other forms of gambling, the only winners are the companies themselves, sky poker in this case.
so what's happening now is i'm certainly getting results orientated, worrying about the table losses knowing they will want me to make a withdrawl even more so and finally going back to what i was like from november through to the end of january when i was going over the top with the amount i spent entering MTTs.
I don't want to go back to putting the lottery on every week knowing the losses add up over time and i don't want to be spending very long hours playing micro stakes when i could have a reduced amount of time on the nl10p/20p cash now that my BR has got to what it is.
so it's going to be 7-14 days of cooldown from sky poker and i'll play on 888 poker where my BR is just $53 before i do anymore damage to this one.
I was watching the TV channel while playing and i didn't suffer with mistakes so i think i was certainly just needing a break.
I might have been playing too much for the sake of getting through boredom as i was in the house everyday except wednesday, now but i do volenteer work tuesday and thursday too and cycle monday. So once all that is over their is nothing better than to just sit back, have a few days relaxing and it's when i can easily relax that i will be playing at my best.
My evening had 1 sat, 1 semi, I was able to qualify into the main from the semi.
In the main event itself i finished 25th and won £73.51+£140.62 from 8 heads
I also had 2 MS tables and did very well on one with a profit from it of £41.30 (nl10p/20p)
the second one was a loss of -£11.13
overall my day was a profit of £232.03
BR £1087.69
I did have 2 cash tables up at the time and they came with a profit of £6.90 both tables were nl10p/20p.
After about an hour i left to watch the match, waste of time really when remy is out.
tonight i went for a safer option and played some hi lo for fun as i was watching MOTD too so could have got some distractions , I did have one nl10p/20p too and got profit from that £15.32 while the hi lo got losses of -£4.54 and -£6.72.
the day overall has won £10.96
BR£1098.65
the cash tables were not so bad with £23.18 £14.17 -£7.72 and -£6.66
i didn't do that badly in the main or the mini tonight and finished in the top 30 of the mini so won £20.25 in that
the main i went out in 38th
my BR finished today at £967.57
the money i used for the main tonight was just traveled over from the sky sports BH on thursday when i won £213 i should have still been over 1K and shouldn't have entered any sats.
the only main i will usually enter is thursday, the only reason i enter that itself is because i need early nights on monday and tuesday so the £11 turbo £5.50x2 in monday and tuesday mini and the £7 from the DTD can be used for the main on thursday.
to start with i bought into the semi and a sat for the chance to get into the main cheaper and it was a sucess. The sucess didn't last long when i went out so that was a loss of £14.40. The mini too was no better and i went out that with nothing, i did manage better luck when i entered a £500 BH and won £3.68 (£2.30). i entered a sat for the 4K BH which i got myself into but unfortunately didn't have luck in that event itself, finally i entered the 1K BH (£11) and that was one where i did make it to the final table but even that didn't go without a bad point where i held a set AAA on the flop did a check which the villian decided to bet but their comes a crash so i lost my hand.
the cash started off well with 2 massive profits £48.11 and £51.82
once i went out of the main and 4K i went on a few nl10p/20p but these ones were not so good with 3/4 getting losses of -£42.56 -£28.55 and -£4.24 the only win was a profit of £11.05
still i did finish on a profit and the BR is £1025.74
Last week I just remained quiet as I was a bit tilted over the amount of crashing which was happening.
So now that another 3 busy days of volunteering my poker weekend has started again and tonight the MTTs were not so good, in the main i went out through a failed bluff, the mini was just not giving cards and the 3K BH was just a unlucky river card which allowed an Aks to go ahead of my set (JJJ) with a flush.
After taking a look a some of my cash hands mind it's no wonder I'm sometimes tempted to go weaker with hand like that 44 in the main event
Was my value bet size right or should i just go full pot on the river when i'm not expecting him to make a 3rd a call most of the time after just Ch/C flop and turn unless he was trapping.
I might have had big chip stacks on cash tables Thursday but the thing with them was I didn't keep them big. Tonight saw another great cash session and the large cash stack was kept large this time.
So I had a cash table profit tonight of £62.88 £62.46 £4.52 £38.06 £4.92 and £16.95 -£40.34 -£20
total overall was £129.45
I did have a couple of MTTs as well but got nothing so lost £22 from them.
£954
after getting into the mega roller through the semi I was feeling fine and relaxed but then things became frustrating when I switched tables. I could have went out early when I did suffer a big loss with an attempt to bluff and so was left with 5K chips then I recovered. The trouble came when I switched to a passive table and although these hands look like cooldowns they feel more like a bad beat because of him just limping preflop.
today i just did cash tables but had a bit of trouble as the tables were having occasions where they would crash also my internet sometimes was going down and the puzzling thing was that although internet explorer lost it's connection at times, the stuff i had up on firefox was still working fine.
overall though my BR is today down to £820.49.
It's got a lot to do with the people on nl20 having a full chipstack rather than just 20-50 blinds plus it allows more aggression on these tables too.
the average is £20-£50 winnings and losses
On nl10 I was frequently the first player on a table to make a raise, the 3betting and 4betting was rare.
The other thing with nl10 is when i was a caller preflop sitting OOP, i couldn't afford to check sets because the villain was unlikely to cbet when he missed, the problem with that is they would be taking a slower approach with the hands that they did hit on the flop unless they held over pairs, basically villains thoughts would be that betting is done once the card arrives.
nl20 does still have those who are passive but now I'm needing to do 3betting more than i was on nl10 and be more thoughtful of when i can/can't raise post flop as semi bluffing and Cbetting is more common.
today I'm thinking the game seemed to an all or nothing day the way the hands came out.
The first hour it was very good luck on the tables and one of them give two consecutive quads.
I was in the semi too and managed to make it into the main.
Things changed at 7 as my Pc even seemed to have problems so i took half an hour break before returning for the main event. The main event was also poor most the way and i didn't seem to be getting hands at all then in the following hour things changed my way and i went from 1.5K chips to having 8K chips but the trouble was the blinds were getting too big so it was too late and i went out but i did manage 2 head prizes so got my moneys worth that i spent on sats.
The luck from about 10:30 then went back to bad luck and so i decided to call that a day as the tables were now getting passive too.
my Br overall has had a loss and dropped to £773.30
The table losses were £17.50 £11 and 4 with ranges of £2-£6.
The damage came from MTTs which lost me £27.12 when really all i should have lost was £14.42 from the semi the orford league and mini. What i'm going to do from now on is do a direct buy in for the semi and avoid the other sats all together, unless the sat is what gets me into the super roller or UKOPS semi as £24 is too expensive really.
i might have been just playing on 1-3 nl20 tables last month but i can see from my cash sessions today that now i can manage to play 4-6 nl20p tables as long as non are MS. If i'm on MS then i will only have 3 at max.
so overall my day was a profit of £23.81 putting my BR now to £797.11
just so you have an idea of what i mean here is a prime example of a hand that i played poor
so my BR has gone down to 621.28