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i see on poker sites everywhere it saying that MTTs are easier than cash and after having a chat with ryan yesterday i'm starting to think myself that they truthfully are harder because with MTTs the blinds get bigger and bigger also their is a lot more varience based in MTTs. the thing i like with cash is you can leave the table anytime and when multi tabling it can make me feel less concerned about the risk of loosing chips when i'm betting.
the truth is MTTs should be just played as a fun form of poker my main money is make from cash and yesterday i was in a few MTTs but the cash money was big enough to keep me in profit allowing my BR to reach £636.
with it being the early stages of an MTT you can't win an MTT but you can loose one and i know for sure that at this stage their is going to be lot of loose players.
my thinking is if i'm sitting UTG or UTG+1 is it worth playing the small pairs knowing that if i miss my set i'm hoping for them to fold now that i'm out of position and also the times i raise with AA-JJ and see flops like this i won't want to make the cbetting any differant to the size i would make with weak pairs.
once i qualified for the semis i was aiming to win one and use the winning for the UKOPS main itself and i managed to achieve it through the UKOPs semi, i didn't do so well in the super roller semi but their was not much attention going into that one as i was doing very well in the UKOPS semi which was played like a SnG.
so overall i managed to qualify for the UKOPs for a price of £16.60
the cash table session i had after the semis were like a yo-yo, to begin with i was doing ok and things were looking well then the tide turned and players were more tight passive type so i fealt as though it was time for a very aggressive approach at the time i was suffering more losses and villians were starting to get more aggressive, at the time it was costing me lots more small pots but the benifit about it was i now won some massives pots including 1 pot of £99
so overall my money is now £645 and tomorrow i might have a few hands for the clinic.
Thought i'd say a quick hello, been a while since i've posted in your diary:)
Well done on the Ukop seat binks, hopefully another deep run is coming!
Glgl
when you say bet bigger on the turn with KK, was this bet size a one which could have made it too easy for him to attempt a bluff with say Asx Ksx and knowing i would be folding to a Ch/R atleast a large bet would get more from him if he had just the Asx Ksx and when the river does give me the FH if he still choose to call his flush on the turn i might have got most his stack.
what i aim to do from now on is when i'm playing in an MTT i will go through the hand histories as a way of curing my bordom rather than multi tabling because in MTTs their is a lot more randoms comapred to what i see in cash.
overall my tables tonight were losses of -37p -£4.14 -£51.12 -23p -£6.46 and - £3.29 total -£65.61
the winnings were £10.40 £11.42 £42.34 £3.81 and £20.17 total £88.14
so my day overall is a profit of £22.53
what i did on thursday was waited until 6pm before havin any games and when it got to that time in the evening i decided to only play the semi knowing that MTTs are far looser than cash poker so i don't want to mix up my play too much. when i went out them i then went into the mini and played a few master cash too but things didn't go well and i was out after about 45 min. I didn't do that well on the master cash either and my BR was getting very damaging and so at 11pm i choose to return to the standard nl10p/20p where things went fine and allowed me to return some damage.
so overall my BR has suffered a heavy loss and is £320.
i would like to ask if anyone could watch my table in the orford league MTT tomorrow and give me some advice on any mistakes i might be doing in MTTs just so i know ready for when the UKOPs main comes.
gl and hope your br starts to climb back up!
things did start of well and had a few bluffs but it looks as though the tables were after an hour changing into a tight style which left me with a big hill to climb if i went all in behind.
this hand was my own mistake and i should have just folded it when he reraised
the bet size on the flop i could say was a bit over the top but i'm thinking myself if i did just bet 1K and he jams i'm still thinking to myself i would still call, but i will know for sure next time that he could have premium pairs and the limping does preflop is a sign of weakness and he did just check all streets with middle pair on an earlier hand so now i know enough about him.
Are you still ok 2 play it?
some of the hands i think were played terriblely in the main event were
in my two heads up battles i won my opponents 2-1 in both.
the DTD events were both excellent, DTD 1 i finished in 5th position and dominated it nearly all the way it was when the MTT got to the bubble that i damaged my stack by calling an all in with 55 and face KK.
the DTD 2 was another great event and in that one i got to the final table too and finished 3rd.
DTD 3 was not such a great MTT and i went out of that mid way.
the only unfortunate thing about the DTD was that this was one of the rare occasion 5th and 3rd place wouldn't be good enough as their was one oter guy who finished 2nd in DTD 1 and might be 2nd in DTD 2 but it doesn't matter that much as the reward was entry into wednesdays rebuy which i would not have been able to play as i need early night for thursday.
so my BR today is £390
things got off to a very good start when i had AA did a 3bet and was 4bet so i shoved and he help JJ missing set, who says AA doesn't win. the next premium pair didn't go as well a short stack went all in and 2 called, i decided to shove my KK as their was a pot with 50 BB already so i was happy enough with them than waste more to then loose, the flop was not so good and give the shorty his flush and so my only hope then was runner runner FH but failed.
this was the hand that got me really going
the cooldowns i had were when QQ lost to KK KK lost to AK flush lost to FH and KK lost to QQ set.
the two hands i question my own play were AJ calling a shove on the board 8 8 8 2 the guy shoved with 108 so i was drawing dead, what made it so frustrating was he give me a great chance to fold yet i still opted to call.
the other loss i got was not quite as easy because the thing about this player is he was a total maniac and had been betting with total air, i was sure to still be ahead on the turn because although a second club and 7 came onto the board 9776 when the river card came 10c i don't know why i called that as their was lots of cards ahead now. so i should have folded the river for sure.
my original plan tonight was to play poker for a couple of hours then go to bed at midnight, thn i decided to remain up for 30 minutes more and then choose to stay on the tables.
the thing about this calling station is he was reloading every time he lost his previous stack another benifit about him was he had 100BB at once. calling stations like this are good when they are around but the one i had on my table was too good for me to leave behind so i stayed until his game finished. when he finished on the the table it was just seconds later the tables were empty so he had the whole table targetting the same person.
to show just how much of my late night depended on that calling station here is a hand which i had against a different player, the calling station was at the time out of cash and sat out so i was wondering if he is going to leave as he had already left the other table.
basically i thought well this hand i wouldn't have been in, this player said to me in chat that today was not his day and i had taken a full stack from him with AK beating QJ on Q J 10xx
so my BR tonight stands at £393.65 with 78 point so far in may.
what i'm thinking is that i should have taken abreak after a the first two as the tables were beginning to go pasive and i do get extra aggressive when they are passive. 3betting preflop is more common but what i know hasn't changed much is semi bluff and 3bets post flop. they still have a very tight range.
some of the losses i'm questioning are these.
what the check on the turn the right thing to do or should i have still done a bet and just stay weak?
The only thing I'd add... as a general rule you should never be set mining to 3bets when 100xBB deep. That's not to say you can't call 3bets with say 22-99 ever but it has to be because you know their 3b range well and have a plan to outplay them on certain flops. If you're calling 3bets purely to flop a set or fold, then you'll never win enough on the times you hit to outweigh the times you miss and fold when you're only 100xBB deep.