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my first cash session was a very good one, i had 4 tables going in that session and managed £32, £33, £4 and-£9 (tot £60.94) their was the one maniac but really it was not yet mid day and most the people on the table in this session were tight regs so i managed to keep my losses to a low and win some good ones.
the second session was a one where i was either dominating the table or having a nioghtmare i had 3 wins £32 £57 and £12 but i also had 4 losses -£3 -£4 -£18 -£2 the total in that session was £73.47, having got just 1 loss over £10 in that session comparison to the 4 wins over £10 including £42.23 in one alone my guess is there was lots missing and i payed more attention to the big stack tables.
my 3rd session came at a time when the tables were filled with maniacs LAG and calling stations, as i was still in the mode where tables were tight things didn't get off to a good start at all and it was looking very poor for me, after about 30 minutes i started to get into the very tight gear aggressive gear where i was charging lots for them bad calls, sadly i did loose too much to start with so the tables were mostly losses but i did get 1 table with a very good win and i am thinking i might have lost out on a possible £20 more as well as maybe calling an AK when i should have preflop.
£40 -£16 -£29 -£6 -£0.63 -£16 -£12 tot -£41.15
the final session i think was just a one of them sessions i rushed too quickly i did get some good wins but overall that loss was -£5.35
the overall day £89.11
this is the one i question loosing value from
all that seems to have vanished as today has started of with a great cash session.
all in all i seemed to have 2 great cash tables where the profit was (£78 & £52), i also had 2 bad ones which had losses of (£47 & £35), one of the bad losses was understandable but the other one had a big issue and that issue was 1 of the villians on that tables was playing like a totally new style. 99% of hands would be called preflop so i knew he was loose, 99% of streets he was doing a blocker bet so i sensed weakness, the issue with them weak bets i couldn't take the risk of doing a raisk because unlike most others he was also a callingstation so would call 99% of raises, the next issue unlike other calling stations he doesn't reveal stronger hands easily because those too are min bet.
he seemed to be a one who have a bit of every loose type in him except the fit fold type loose player.
overall my win that session was £92.59
Cash was my afternoon game and MTTs were my evening game.
The post above states my cash session, now it's time to report my MTTs.
Things started off with me entering a semi, that was a tricky one, I didn't really get that good a chip stack, late on when we were very close to the bubble I was just above the bubble number and decided to take a few brave folds with hands like JJ and 1010, it did seem to be the wrong choice and so I had to force myself a double up with AQ and got there.
Next it was the orford league, for a MTT that has got a deep stack type structure boy did my table look like that of a turbo or freeroll type, 2 people on it were jamming 250BB with AK and TP that sort of stuff, some of us were feeling annoyed, the minute he went out we all thanked that person who caused him to exit. My position in that one was 62nd.
The main event was my best one of the night, I was very lucky with things in the early stages a person with KJs jammed OTF 7high (chip stack 1100) which forced me into folding A7 but, lucky for me another person made a call with his straight draw so allowed me the note. Later on this same donkey did it again this time I had to call as I already committed too many chips, he may have had a flush but I still I had to call my TP Q kicker and the thankfully it was just another bluff so I won and after that it was finished with me knocking him out with KK vs. A10. My next big event took place when KK hit a set, I had 3bet pre, J10 called and then on the flop everything went in so I won and got my stack to 6K.
Things were now looking great in the main, soon I had a spot where a short had shipped my table had a man who jams air post flop for a possible head prize even if that hand is 62o so I decided to shove my JJ for protection, unfortunately for me another player had AA and both flush draws were ruled out so all I had left was the hope of a straight or set and straight is what came. My stack was getting massive and I was way ahead of the rest. soon I was moved onto a table with a fish who's chip stack was large and I did lose some chips, but it didn't take long before I raised with 109o attempting to steal and got called by a 22 and J8s the flop was QJ2, the fish donked so I called the turn give me the straight, the set himself raise on this street, I opted to just call and then when the river came a brick I went all in and won 29092.
I was doing great for the rest of the MTT, most days you would think I manage final table but I didn't and I would say myself it was down to a bad call against a min donkey and then bad bets against a fish head chaser.
knowing he limp in when in an earlier SB and doing min bets post flop I should have seen the sign of a strong hand on the turn and rather than put my whole life at risk I should have just made the fold.
MTT £80.35
total £172.94
first i tried the semi and didn't succeed, so i just bought my way into the main and mini.
During the semi i had 4 cash tables and they were a time for me loosing, the total cost lost was -£38.50
once i went i the mini and sat for 2K BH i choose to just keep to cash and by doing this i managed a very good session, i had 4 table wins including £73.17 on one alone, i did loose £26 on a single table too but the rest were tiny where as the other winnings were £10. overall i won £92.93 that session.
my total winnings for the night was £2.73 (54.43-£51.70)
the number of SnG i played yesterday was probably my greatest amount to have been played in one day 10 overall (1HU 2 6max 1 9max and 6 DYM) most the cost were low but i did spend £10.50 and £11 on a 6 max and HU which both were lost.
the overall total for the day was a loss of £21.40
the MTTs i bought into were main & mini the orford the 2KBH and for a change i tried the mega stack. i choose to risk my full stack so I have to accept the exit i get in the main, my good MTT seem to be in the orford and mega stack, i finished 3rd in the orford and thanks to a4th finish a previous week i won the monthly prize too. The mega stack i finished 8th and won £12.48. overall but i lost £30.15 in MTTs
the whole day was -£48.67
i've got a very good stack already am out of position and very little equity. rather than have myself in these spots i should just wait for better spots ie sitting in position.
in the mini i had a great chipstack was very dominant against people doing limps with premiums then i cbet/C AQs on a flop 10 10 9 (rainbow) and call the rest when ace came on turn, normally we don't expect people doing it with trips but some just can't wait, so i should have just ch the flop or cbet/fold, again what i shouldn't have did was get obsessed with a possible head prize.
lots of poor bounty hunters made up my day. I did have one MTT with a difference and that MTT was a mega stack, most the other people were still the same sort of players as them from BH but in this MTT i had managed to get a chipstack and unlike my massive ones i got in those BH in this mega stack i kept it as a big stack.
next aim i need to do is to start being more sensible in them bounty hunters, the time i finished 2nd in a saturday BH main i did so because i folded a JJ overpair knowing i was likely beaten.
also maybe i should say to myself what if he raised? What will he call with? what do i do if a scare card comes?
all this before i bet my hands.
the difference about todays route was i managed to remain calm through out the cash rather than start panicing over the limp blocker players, calling stations and looking as though i might not make it myself, also when i got my self into the event i didn't have all the cost of them sats in the back of my mind either, instead i was just a person with confidence of a good cash session.
i did get a loss of £51 in cash late on but i think my best option would have been to leave sky cash tables and go onto 888 poker as it wasn't much of a cash session really just something else to do whilst i finished the deep stack and watched the last hour of sky poker TV.
i didn't get far in the mega or mini roller but it wasn't all bad news, i did get a small prize early on in a BH winning £11.70 (14.70-3.30) and this evening i won £200 deepy, finished 1st so got top prize of £88.80-£5.50.
my overall day has been a much better one than recent days and i have finished overall with a profit of £36.31, best of all i've not had any of the reactions i had in recent days.
also of course i am consistantly winning profits on my cash table.
deep type games most certainly are the type of game that i like best so now it's hello to deep stack MTTs more frequently.
I spent most if not all of Sunday on sky poker building up the cash for the super roller, so I just took it easy on Monday and will be playing very little poker. I did have 1 cash session but the losses did add up to -£49 and having spent all that profit from Sunday in a super roller the last thing I need is for this sort of losses to be coming frequently.
In the evening I did play DTDs, the mega stack, the mini and the semi, of those 2 prizes were won including a final table in DTD 2 winning £16.92, the second prize I got was a one in the mini with an early post bubble prize of £8.14.
todays game seems to tell me it was just a one off as i've had a great day of poker tonight. to begin with i decided to do 5 all in sats and also 1 semi to see if i could get myself into the rebuy as that was the only main event yet to be entered, as i failed to get in i decided to just stick to the 100&200 guarentee deep stacks, 300 mega stacks and FOSP.
It appeared as though all my lucky was with FOSP, now i would have prefered it to have been in the £300 mega stack because the top prize in that one was £100+ but still it's better to have been in the FOSP than being in the £200 guarentee oor £100 guarentee deep stacks as they hand a smaller top prize, overall i i would have loved good luck in all really but was happy to just win a prize.
premium pairs seemed to be coming 1 in every 10 hands there was one time where 4/16 hands were premium pairs, an AQ went all in preflop against a short stack who's hand at the time was AA but i manage to get a split pot with straight A-5, 3/4 came AA AK and AQ at one point and that itserf wa just moments after the AQ had went all in against AA and about 6 hands later another AQ came. the best thing about it was we all had a good laugh about what was happening rather than making statements such as sky favour me.
i did have a small bit of time on cash once the FOSP finished as i was still playing the mega stack at the time, during that cash i won £2.38
overall my day has seen me make cash profit £2.38 MTT win £40.30 and -£11 SnG, total 31.68
What i think happened was i got knocked out of the orford league and couldn't see myself getting anywhere in the deep stacks, as the mega stack didn't start until 8:30 i went into the main event thinking i could maybe do well in that, things didn't go well in the main for the first hour and now i had spent lots in MTTs had 6 being played at once and was playing more like someone who wanted to get past the bubble rather than someone who's aim is to make final table and win.
my overall loss might have just been -£14.23 but i won't always have the good cash sessions to recover these losses, if i get bored waiting for a playible hand in the early stages of an MTT rather than playing on lots of tables what i should do is watch every hand closely and look through the hand history because that will allow me to get an idea of how the table is.
the maximum number of MTTs played at once i would say is 2 BH, 3 if they are all deep stacks.
what a great night it has been, i did make a few mistakes in the main and my exit hand probably shouldn't have been a exit hand as really i should have went all in pre and that would more than likely have forced A10o to fold and Q10s to have folded but as i didn't and i made a bad call it cost me my tournament life.
the mini was a different story, i didn't get off to the best of starts and i did get very lucky when i needed a double up early on with just 4232 (100/200) a raise was already made so i went all in and was called by 77, my hand was AK and it managed to counter feit 77 with 88399, from that moment on i started winning pots every few hands and once i got myself into the top 10 iremain in it for the rest of the MTT. my finish in it was 4rd which itself is my best ever finish in a mini event as i don't seem to remember ever final tabling in a mini.
what i have learned most of all from this is just how good the min 3bet can be.
Would you have min 3bet KK here? You're giving villains a ridiculous price to call with whatever they are raising with, plus potentially inviting others into the pot.
Well done on your mini FT.
All looks well and the next thing it turns into a nightmare, i had QQ went all in and faced KK so lost £33 from that hand, during that time i was loosing lots of small pots some you could say were me going too wide in the CO, a prime example is probably K8s i raised in CO the button called, postflop he called flop and turn, on the river it was still 8 high but i Ch/F.
Other losses were middle pairs still being over paired on flops and their was 3 heavy losses where i had a good hand vs a better one, KK lost to AA, QQ lost to KK and 10 10 lost some when it was on 9924 opponent had AA.
the one i say was purely my own fault was this, after he 3bet i should have just folded pre because these days 3bets are made mostly with AA-JJ and AK maybe AQ so the flop would be needing to come 7 high and then i see AK AQ ch and AA-JJ still calling
i might have improved my MTTs but i'm not an expert yet, i still don't get to many final tables, basically i'm a player who can play for fun and make small profits.
before i make a decision i should be asking myself what i'm trying to achieve.
in the main event i jammed my hand on the flop thinking about the flush draw, i didn't put any thought into the better hands at all
here i thought too much about the head prize and didn't think for a second about the hands i see in his range and what he sees in my range but most importantly was the weak 3bet pre.
rather than playing 6 MTTs i should play 3 and study each one carefully.
rather than playing for 6-10 hours cash games i should play for about an hour or 2 then get into the hand history.
my evening began with an attempt to enter the main via semi and i got what i wanted, an entry into the main event, the main event itself well that wasn't such good luck with the pot odds i called J8s preflop in BB, flop came 234 and as it was low and had a flush draw i tried to rep a set, the call was made an A came on turn so now i tried the straight and got shipped against a better flush draw so lost my stack.
The orford league was just not giving me hands i wanted, also it seemed to have so maniacs on my table making strong hands key, i also tried the mega stack but lost all my chips very quickly with JJ on 10 high board. in mega roller i would have fold the Ch/R that got made on flop but i see people having a much wider range in this MTT than i see by villians in mega stack.
When ever you need to leave your seat, just allow the timer to go down, don't ask your brother or sister to watch the screen whilst your away because rather than tell you what the hand is, they will just click call, so i limped in with KK preflop and had did the raise on the flop then called his shove, the bad news was i lost the chance of a win in the 2K BH (£11) the good news was i didn't have to pay entry as i got in via freeroll.
Finally i had the great final table mini, that was a very poor start and i was still only 2K when the blinds were 100/200, i took the gamble with 33 got the flip i wanted, that flip won me the stack, next minute the blinds were 200/400 i had 5K so choose to risk with Qh10h, a shorty shipped OTB and i choose to risk the call as he could have any A or a middle pair so flips were possible. His hand was KhJh so now i was only going to be saved by hitting either the straight or a pair and i got the Q on the river his J OTF did stop me from getting ahead if a 10 came. i won a flip, then got myself an average size stack the task now was to get my stack built through aggression and it wasn't as hard as expected. a player in the SB limped in with Q9o i was in the BB at the time and held A10o, being SB v BB i raised the hand, the flop came Axx(2clubs) , before doing a cbet i thought to myself i've got the Ac in my hand so rather than cbet why not Ch because i expect my cbet not be called by much else, just them flush draws and raggy aces, the turn did give a 3rd club he min bet and my notes assured me that it was safe to raise this bet of his. The river was 4th club one came he now went much bigger, i had notes on him stating monster bets, monster hands, so i went all in and he turned the Qc so i won 12K and was now right up the top of the leader board and remained top for most the MTT.
This Sunday and Monday i've had two awful days. On Sunday i got to the mid stage of the roller then lost chips, the minute i lost those chips i went into maniac mode and played awful. i exited the MTTs then went chasing money on cash late in the evening loosing even more. Monday was the same story but this time i lost much more in cash, i also spent more chasing sats and then when i exit the DTDs mega stack and 2K BH i chase them losses which end up making things worse and i got my BR down to £600. Although it sounds like tilt i'm thinking it's lack of cash games before MTTs that are the real fault.
Today i've started off early with 6 tables 3 nl20 2 nl30 and 1nl40 ! The reason i played on a nl40 was due to such a lack of choices overall, still the last thing i should be doing if on tilt is playing nl40, the good news was i managed to get a good winning on that table of £19.14 (£59.14-£40). Another sign which seems to tell me why i don't think it was tilt is when i managed to reach almost £80 on a nl20, it did drop down to about £68 and i suffered a cooler on it, held KJs called pre flop gives draw call cbet then comes the flush i Ch/R but ran into the nut flush.
It's afternoon time not night time,i'm yet to spend money in an MTT and in the end not everyone is an aggressive player so just accept all the small pots because they will add up over the course of the day.
results were -£23.50 nl20, -92p & -62p nl30. £22.45 and £26.18 nl20 and £19.14 nl40
my next cash session was a master cash one normally when i'm on them tables i'm having to be careful of fish but today they had players with a very good aggressive style, normally when i've seen a 3bet i'm expecting to see AA KK QQ and maybe AK but the player i faced on this occasion was much wider, his 3bets contained hands such as AJo and KQs so the action post flop was a lot more entertaining. still i didn't win a big pot against him, i only managed to loose them, i did get 1 big pot which came when i had hit set (KK) on flop QQ called a cbet, i allowed him a free card which sadly came Q so we both got sets.
Those master cash sessions we -£3.73 -£29.53 £20.81 £5.98 £9.72 and £5.41
after an hour of sit and go which i won £20 but lost £11 and £22 i made a return to the cash for one final session and all i can say about this sesssion is it was tight time as maniacs were everywhere. i was thinking i lost £30 when AJ his his flop, luckily i managed to get a set on river so got myself the win, someone who missed AQ decided to ship £20 for a pot win of £4.50 hoping i would fold but i decided to call my TP thinking he must be expecting me to hold rubbish since i bet so weak on flop and turn. a player with 34 decided to ship the river when i cbet the flop holding top pair but Ch the turn, this pot was £5.40 he put £20 in.
this session i switched tables frequently so i'll just give the total overall which was £32.78 won.
although i don't seem to have the BR for nl20, my cash game does seem much better than my MTT play.
i've known him long enough now to clearly see that he has most likely got QQ or slow played KK, in an MTT most are unknown so this set is something i think would be shipped in an MTT even on this river.
Do you have really solid notes that they have such a narrow range of starting hands utg and would only raise river with a high set?
If so that's a brilliant fold.
Are we really sure AK, KQ, 44 - or a bluff putting you on a hand like a missed flush draw are impossible?
Personally I would have led out on flop. 4 handed a K and flush draw gives plenty of scope for customers with worse hands to stay with us. Need to be building a pot when we flop a set and have to take it on the chin if we lose to a bigger one.
it just doesn't add up.
1. a Ch on a flop with gutshots that are a great part of our range.
2. he's not the sort of player who will allow free cards and he probably does know my own range well. earlier on he held 33 in BB calls my 70p cbet on flop 977 then on turn 2 came he now Ch1.40/R4.60 now this seems like a bluff because to me he is attempting to see other small pairs fold as well as charge AK Kq extra for the river card, river came an A he checked.
what i'm thinking now is it might even have been J10 calling but i was sure his range was most likely to be J10, 55 or QQ.
Without giving your strategies away and history with that you player you need to think..
Has he got you marked as a "small bet believer" on the river? In which case it could still be a bluff and it worked.
If we think the more likely line is he really is strong then 44/55 and possibly KQ are our only hope and QQ KK JT have us beat.
You have put some of his hands out of range because he has missed value on the flop - but my other point was so have you.