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the day itself started off not as good as i thought it would, i had a cash session on nl10p and that saw me get a loss of -£10.68.
i took a second cash session after having a break and that didn't go into loss but it didn't get myself into an overall winnings just yet as this session was a winnings of £6.07.
whilst playing the UKPC sats i also played on 2 cash tables and they were able to get a winnings total of £7.52.
my final session of the day was a nl20 session and that session was a great one itself. i had 1 bad table in that session and it saw me get a loss of -£26.69, but that was just 1 buy ins worth of loss. i had a table profit on the other hand of over 2 buy ins (£42.28). overall i managed to get profit of £50.02 in that session.
so my day has been
MTTs- £211 (£220-£6 direct sat-£3 AI sat)
cash- £52.93 (-10.68 £6.07 £7.52 £50.02)
overall £263.93
points so far 1161
the cash was a total different story, my first and second session were both sort of break even sessions i lost £7.20 on one table but won £8.77 overall on 3 other tables so won £1.57 in the first one. The second session had one big loss of £26.30 on a table but their were two tables in that session that give an overall winnings of £24.33 so i lost £1.97. The final session i had was once i was down to my last two DTDs and in that session i managed to get lots more profit than i got in loss, the only table loss was a one of -£3.10 i did have to rebuy my whole stack at the very start but then hands were hitting me good and so that table saw a win of £2.15, the 3rd table i was playing is where the money was mine, that table got a winnings of £22.14
so overall today it was
session1- £1.57
session 2- -£1.97
session 3 -£21.19
MTTs- -£3.21
points total- 1283
the hand that left me not much luck in the main was this.
am i right to call knowing my best hope is he has the flip?
their was a match on during this session but it wasn't the match i really wanted to watch so i just played a session and listen to columbia on the radio.
the cash session itself saw a few mistakes and also some misclicks so i think now that even listening to the commentry might be a wrong thing to do whilst playing.
their were 3 big losses (-£29.52, -£20.55, -£25.79) their should have been a 4th one when i did a double barrell £6 (£13.80) with KQ on the A turn, the villian went all in (£31.66), i knew i was behind and the only river cards that would get me a win was one of the 4 Js but still put the last £11.86 (£43.52) and the so called nasty sky river give me that very card. Their were lots of cooldowns too.
overall i've lost -£25.46
time now for the group D matches.
come on ENGLAND.
Their were 2 big cash wins, the reason i got them two cash wins was a 77 getting set on flop which was very wet, when i raised my set on the flop the opponent reraised with his KK knowing i might be holding straight flush draw and we went all in on turn. The other table that got a big win was a table where i had JJ, I did a open bet, then called a 3bet IP and the flop came 10h 10c 5h, he checked then i checked back, on a brick turn he did a bet £4.20 and i decided to just call. When the river came another brick the villian shoves and i decide to make the hero call thinking he had either slow played the strong hand or tried to scare small and middle pairs into folding which it turned out was the case and he showed AK.
So the overall day was £60.79 £25.52 and losses of -55p -£4.16 -£31.04 -£2.60 and -£4.52
their was a lot of MTTs today too (DTD 1 2 3, main via sat and mini and the £750BH) i had 2HP in the main event and also got £14.50 in DTD 3 with a 5th place final table finish. so overall i have profit of £6.05 in MTTs.
£49.49 was todays total.
so the story today is my first session was a very good one which saw me getting the value i want to get when i'm hitting the sets and suited connectors. overall i managed to get a massive profit of £122.76.
the second session was a very heavy loss of £60.
althought that seems a big loss part of me is thinking that the decision to withdraw £80 this afternoon might be partly to blame as i was now seeing a drop in my BR and then i had a few early cooldowns in the evening which make me feel annoyed about withdraw that other £80.
my day overall has finish as a profit but the withdrawing of the £80 made it seem like a loss as my BR is below £500 again.
yesterday when i saw this hand i said to the player with 99 how could you not see that you were now highly likely to be only getting a call from JJ?
what he said was that he was would have had possible draws such as Q10 108, J9 and top pair which i do understand in some ways.
is it best to just call the flop and then do a donk lead on the turn rather than Ch/R the flop?
wp tonight.
The first session today was a mixture of everything; I had 3 cash tables, a DYM (5.50), a 6 max (5.50) and a few sats. The cash tables had the same dynamic today as those I played on yesterday and overall i got a loss of -£15.42. The DYM i didn’t get the luck and the table was playing really tight the blinds had got to 100/200, then came AK which i raised on the button and am made to take the risk when the BB jams, sadly i missed and his 99 suvived. The 6max was a completely different story, the blinds were still 40/80 and the bubble burst leaving me with 2900 chips and the other player with 6000 chips then i got the double with 1010 vs AQ which survived and i remained ahead from then on so won £19.50. The satellites all failed so i lost £16 overall there.
When the sky poker live started i did a master cash session and that session was a session that has changed my attitude completely in regards to being raised. Hands such as sets are a hand i will want to get the maximum value from but as i will not get them regularly i should be generally happy to see weak passive players and be glad to win lots of small pots in the long run. The biggest pot that i won in that session was suprise suprise not a set at all, it was AK that i raised OTB and when the flop came Ah 10h 8c i’m donked a bet size of £1.30 and a limper calls so i did a raise and the person in the BB calls then the limper shipped the rest of his stack and we both called, 4c came OTT so i did a bet of £10 and the donked calls that then when the river came 7d i decided to check thinking he’ll either have hit a straight been trapping me with his monster or missed a draw which it turned out was the actual answer as he showed QsJs. Overall that session saw me with a profit of £69.22
After having another break i went back onto the tables for one final master cash session and that session i feel was the monster action packed session of them all, to start with i had a very good heads up session against a player who would do a 3bet with hands such as 67s, the hand i had at the time was 44. The flop itself came 2h 3h 5d which he then cbet/call then when the turn came 2s i made a cbet of £10 and faced jam from him so i was now left with a difficult decision whether to call £25.30 (pot £87.06) or fold, my decision was to go for the call as i wasn’t totally certain he had an overpair also if he did i knew i had A 6 or 4 as outs the river card itself didn’t help his and so i won the hand. That session overall was an astonishing one which i managed to make a grand total of £177.89 with two table winnings of £169.20 and £93.88.
My finish total for the day is £244.19
the expirence i had tonight having the aggression putback at me, i think now i might know what is an agressive player and what is a calling station
Session one was a bit of a roller coaster, i decided to do 4 sky tables and 2 tables on 888 poker but the 888 poker was having problems getting fully set up as i couldn’t seem to get my HUD to work.
After about 15 minutes i was finally able to start playing what seemed looked to be a quiet session and i was picking up lots of small pots. 1.5 hour into the session the tables saw a change in dynamic, starting with KKvs44.
When he does a 3bet on the flop, i can only see myself with two choices i either go all in, knowing he’s behind with hands like nut and straight flush draws or fold to the set. When i see 44 which gets a runner runner flush in a way it was an easy to accept loss because the truth is i’m putting him on nut flush draws that are behind and they hit so i’ve lost to what i’m expecting him to hold. The loss i got from that hand was not a disaster for too long as 20 minute after that one i got a win AQsvs JJ when the flop give me the nut flush and the hero cbet then reraised my 3bet, i made the decision to just call and we got the rest in on the turn. Moments later it was another loss this time but it was just a standard cool down QQ vs KK. After 40 minutes of action things went back to what they were like to start with and slowly i got my losses shorter and shorter.
The overall loss in that session was -£15.23
When the show started i went for a master cash session and also bought into a few sats for the main event. The sats didn’t go my way with a total cost of £20.30. i did ok in the master cash session and saw lots of good wins with premium pairs, overall my profit in that cash session was £8.07.To end the day i played on 5 standard nl20 cash tables and they finished my day very good and just accepted them callers rather than hope for them to raise draws, so that session finished with a profit of £66.60.
My overall profit was £39.14
it wasn't a fully bad day mind as i did go to watch the film mrs browns boys da movie and for those who are thinking i seeing it i can guarentee that you will like it, i myself rate it 10/10
the one thing i did notice from that table was there was now a lot more players calling loose and i could now get the multiway pots that i would want for suited connectors and set mining, i also seemed to be getting lots more good luck that allowed my hands to get infront on the turn or river.
so the overall total i won in that session was £98.06 (£9.42 £87.42 £23.13 £10.36 -£32.27)
the total i lost in the first one was -£54.55
sometimes i'm thinking should i check more often on flops which would put me in spots where i'm forced to fold what might be the better hand?
after what had happened when i cbet the KK i decided to just Ch/C on the turn with my set and got just what i wanted, a person who tried to bluff the turn rather than face what might have been a reraise.
That QQ v AK hand feels nuts to me, given how huge his shove is in that spot. Perhaps I'm at too basic a level but I can't see the benefit in his play (and would probably call here as well, thinking there is no way he'd overshove such a strong hand).
Personally, I think you have to bet the QQ and KK hands here as you are otherwise letting people draw for free. Ie with the KK someone could easily want to see another card with a hand like JT or a decent spade that might be good - we don't want them to hit that for free.
the evening started off with a nice winning of about £38 which i decided to use as the buy in for the main i did do two semis but failed in them both and it was the poker channel that has made me think of maybe using the cash tables as my sattellite because i'm thinking myself that now as long as i do 1 main event BH via direct buy in it shouldn't have that big a problem when i've managed to get an average profit of £28.36 with a toal table winnings of £340.35 and the loss was a total of -£189.97.
the oveally total today was a profit of £78.62
i might have lost myself value in these hands
i'm thinking here maybe i did too small a bet on the turn and lost out on the chance of getting the rast of his stack
the cash tables in session 1 and 2 were very bad indeed, overall i had just 1 winning out of 8 tables and that was a win of £1.54 also i didn't get anything from the 6 max i entered so that lost me £5.50, overall the total outcome from those two sessions was -£47.02m. So what starts of as a bad looking spot preflop (session 1) i then miss the flop (session 2) leaving me with just runner runner hope of getting profit.
The turn does give me a little hope as i've now managed to get myself the chance of making a profit as that session did get a decent winnings of £46.04 (£22.23 £24.69 -£0.88), so like the K hitting the turn i myself was still behind but now had the chance of gaining profit, the river comes and it was just what i was hoping for a second cash session with a good run. This cash session like the last one had 2 good table wins of £25.71 and £21.88 i did get 2 losses of- £0.22 and -£3.11, overall the total won in that session was £44.26. So thanks to good river too i was now ahead of AA and made a profit in cash and SnG of £56.18 (between 3rd and 4th session i won £12.90[£16.20-£3.30] in a head hunter SnG).
the MTTs didn't get off to the best of starts either, The 2.20 deep stack and early BH were unable to finish due the the problems, i didn't do too well in the first of my 2 timed MTT. I also spent £2 in the freerolls and as i did win £11.14 in the early semi i used that in 1 sat and the 6pm semi and that one got me into the main event. the main event itself was like a roller coaster, i did loose a few chips from the cbets that got called but they were recoved by me doing a few good bluffs against those who showed signs of passive play. in the second hour i did suffer a dreadful hand which got me down to just 5 chips but i made my way back to 2700 chip through some good luck. having gone out the main event, the £750BH (£5.75) the orford league and the £400Bh (£2.30), my only hope now was the mini and i could not have asked for a torney to play my hands better, the main event lost me chips early when i called a short stack and later on it had a short who insisted on even folding his 5 BB that lost me the chance of chips with AA and KK. the minin event how ever was anything but that and overall i finished that MTT in 20th winning £7.73 plus an excellent HP of £23.51.
overall i've got a profit of £60.55
cash £48.78
MTT £4.37
SnG £7.40
9 times out of 10 i will make a winnings total but it's day like today that i keep saying are the reason i wait until the end of the week, sadly he just comes up with the excuse "withdraw all that money before you loose it". well i decided to just put a cooldown on for 1 day knowing he is now finished until next tuesday so i can play poker without the hassle of him constantly getting worried i'll loose it.
i might like i did today get a loss of £100 in one day, but as i didn't withdraw any money on wednesday, it allowed me to take this loss as nothing but a bad day at the office.most of that loss was from cash table, i was unfortunate not to get a profit on the main event because i already had 2 HP, a person with 66 shipped, i called QJs hit both Q and J but unfortunately for me he hit a 6 on river, the HP i did get were a case of AQ vs AJ where a flop comes AA10 their was little chance of both having an A, i should have just shipped it preflop really as his stack was 20BB after the raise OTB. the other headprize was when i raised 33 and Ch a flop that came 3 4 4, the hero jammed a pocket pair probably thinking i'll have AK.
i did face a couple of tricky decisions too.
this player was an unknown as i was totally new to this table.
Q.is it a bad idea to bet this flop knowing that if he shoved the flop i'd need to him K or straight and on the turn i'm almost certain only a straight would do me any good?
the villian of this had i did have notes of him being a passive player preflop himself with hands as strong as AA but what i found different was on the two occasions he had limped with AA UTG and in SB he turned into a total aggressive play postflop, so i'm thinking he will give away hands easy postflop.
as he opted to Ch the flop and turn i was now thinking he could have a flush draw or he might have a Q or J, so do a bet to charge him. when the river gives J i'm now think his stack is small, Vh probably rules out Q. considering the difference their is between mine and his chipstack could i take the chance here and make the bluff?
the poker i had today wasn't a good one but i'm hoping it will help me get my point across to that it will give me a valid enough reason on why i don't want to withdraw money because at the minute i'm having big issues trying to prove to that carer of mine that it's withdrawing money that cause more deposits and makes me spend more time on poker.
i was finally managing to get a good bankroll management going, today was anything but good bankroll management. overall i spent a total of £81 playing MTTs but if i'm getting told to withdraw money everyday i might as well give the big ones a try because i'll never get myself to the stage where 'll have that BR. lucky enough i got a good position in the main and orford league so got my moneys worth back. Really but i would much rat6her be able to enter a one of these MTTs without the worry of going out.
The worst part about this withdrawing arguement is that he also moans when i'm spending too long on the tables, well that will be what happens if i'm going to withdraw money as i'll be wanting to make sure i get a profit each day meaning days like today could be more likely to occur due to me chasing money.
so COLIN THIS IS WHY I DON'T WITHDRAW MONEY EVERY WEEK. poker is gambling but not lottery gambing. why could people tell lies "(called bluffs)" if it was all pure luck
i decided to do the 2K BH at 9:30 the 1K BH at 10:40 and the £750BH at £6:45 and overall it was only the early BH that won me anything with 5 heads prizes totaling £10.38.and again it was a weak passive player that cost me it. rather than get myself so wound up over these limpers and weak passive players i just went into some PLO8 DYMs which is one form of passive poker that will relax me.
after i went out of the £1K BH i opted to finish the night off with some cash play and this time i was able to keep relaxed and had a PLO8 to help keep me relaxed.
the overall finish itself was a profit of £37.22 (cash £50.70 MTT-£12.33 and SnGo £-1.15).
over the last few days I’ve not been in the best of moods, also with it being so early in the morning I didn't have the time to do my days poker.
My game today tells me that I’ve not had enough sleep recently because there were a lot of hand today which were just as bad a loss as those I’ve had over the last few days, the difference today was I managed to stay relaxed and just continued playing.
The hands I had in the cash poker today contained a bit of everything, I made what looked to be a very loose call with AQo because although I did have the second nut flush draw with Qc, the fact the villain had 3bet preflop makes it not as good as I first thought i would be on the flop Kc 8c 2c. I also called a Ch/R with a straight draw but knowing he had open bet pre, when he then checks the Q 10 2 rainbow I’m thinking he's holding hands like JJ or AK which it was as he showed A8o, thankfully I hit the straight on the river so won £22.74. My hand of the day was a bluff I did with J9s, the key to helping me pull this bluff was a donk bet/call on the flop Ac 10h 8d which now could get him thinking I’ve possibly got AQ. So having got raised and failed to get rid of the small pairs i now was hoping to hit my straight knowing the AQ has failed. The turn did make thing more interesting as the K did now give AQ some obvious outs too which just happened to be the card that comes on the river, so although i knew there was risk in doing this I decided to take the risk thinking there is still a number of other hands that fold ie AJ A10 A8 A9 maybe even AK and the only raise i see having Q would be AQ.
overall it was a day I enjoyed and the total outcome was £20.11 (68.63cash-£48.52MTT)
Friday it's going to be just orford league 1KBH (5.75) 750BH(5.75) and a semi+freerolls.
their has got to be a serious difference between bounty hunters and any other form of MTT because of all the MTTs i play BH certainly seem to have the greatest number of calling stations weather it be trappers or fish.
in the orford league a second 8 comes on the river i do a donk and somehow get the person to fold.
the probability of me holding an 8 would be slim but somehow it worked
i didn't have a good day on cash today, overall i lost £79. tomorrow i should hopefully get that cash loss recovered as i'll be unlikely to enter any MTT unless get through via the freeroll.
the part about the chips i must have got you both mixed up.
it's not that i'm saying i am a great player, what i'm meaning here is that it's not that easy to convince people to fold and when you say i called the 5 bet with 66 that is what i mean when saying i should stop being so interested in head prizes because their was a short stack at the time and so i thought too much about the head prize then on the turn just went for it.
although you were in position post flop, the original raise had you UTG so it's highly likely you had a pair AK AQ KQ or QJs. so if i was raising it would be mostly likely premium pairs or AK/AQ. so what i thought was on the flop you would still call pairs but KQ and AQ i'm thinking would fold now as they stand a big chance of loosing to AK QQ KK or AA, so i tried to bluff knowing AQ KQ are highly unlikely. it was a middle pair ie JJ.
When i've acted in the manner i did from monday through to friday it's quite obvious i spoilt what could have been a great saturday evening because instead of just accepting the MTT knockouts i which i got and the losses i suffered that evening, i instead remain up the whole night chasing all the losses through the whole week, even when i was actually feeling fully relaxed and not moaning about my MTT knockouts!
They might not be exactly the same but they all have one thing in common, this weeks problems showed that i need to be a more disaplined person when i'm playing poker and that is just how i was today.
I lost lots of cash on the table this week but what do i expect to happen when i'm going extra high with monsters and extra weak with the rest. It's time for me to stop that and start doing the value betting because others will be just as aware with hands like top pairs draws and calls when out of position. So time to do value betting rather than getting greedy because they look small but over the whole day it adds up to large sums of cash.
the truth is non of this would have happened if i stopped entering as many MTTs and most importly had fewer poker tables up. if it's cash alone then yes i can play as many as 6 tables at once but if i'm in 2 or more non freeroll MTTs then i should be playing a maximum of 2 cash tables.
So today i just played the £750 BH and the 799 freeroll to begin with and they were great in the end i finished 7th in the freeroll winning £57, the BH was great to start with but the fish soon changed themselves and became nits, sadly i was never getting them shorties shipping when i wanted so it was left with me having to call with things like 85s and hope they have AK, so i finished 19th in that and won £19.20. i then decided to enter some all in sats and i had got myself into the main event itself and suvived until about 11pm them was out the mini i bought myself into that but was not in for too long.
the overall total today was £169.51 cash and £35.30 MTT.
the greatest thing about sunday is it shows me that i can't allow myself too much distraction when in MTTs and in cash i need to be more respectful with bets.
today was a day dominated by MTTs alone, that might sound like a bad bankroll management but the MTTs i was in were of course the great DTDs and the mini, i had an attempt in 3 all ins but they were no good.
DTD 2 and 3 were not going my way at all and soon i was kicked out of them, i did have a very good looking mini but then disaster struck when i had 6c5c saw a flop 842 (2clubs) so with the double gutshot, the gutshot straight flush and the flush draw i saw this as the perfect chance of jamming but what do i see call, no other than KJs and sadly i failed to hit my 5 6 or non club straight so i was out.
still i won a total profit today of £39.49 thanks to the 2nd place finish in DTD 1 (51.67