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My total overall was a profit of £19.47
as for the player in the hand above, I think when heads up this player and me have got a big rivalry going at the minute,
1 MTT win to report and that is the £100 deepy (1.10), but how can you win if flips always go wrong. i did have a good looking time in the mega stack and around the time of the bubble i made the mistake />10BB A8o i raised when i should have just shipped, if they werte going to fold they would have been more scared of calling a full stack pre than calling a min raise but folding a cbet.
so overall my night has finished with a cash total of £51.54 and MTT loss of -£8.70
£42.84 overall also this month is when i'll be getting very serious with myself keeping track of the wins and losses.
recent weeks had seen that done frequently and that was followed by me chasing those losses in the cash itself which usually resulted in more losses. Today the amount of sats i entered might have been chased but when i did exit the MTT i took the exit with ease and basically had a bit of fun with laura on master cash.
shame laura suffered because Ad2d getting raised on Kd8s7s i would normally alway fold as would AhJh on 9s8c7h but i just enjoyed the fun with laura.
so i lost £43.25
When you have managed to leave a table with almost quadruple the entry, what I shouldn’t be doing is losing it through basic mistakes.
On a nl30 table I had got off to a very good start, I held 99 did the usual raise a villain decided to ship his full stack, going off history I made the hero call with my 99 and as expected I was ahead, he held 55 so my stack became doubled, I also hit set 3 times and got good value from them, I may have even missed some value from two of them as I did ch on one street each time.
The £80.05 that should have allowed a great win was a saviour because of two costly mistakes on nl40. The first one came when I held KQo in CO, as UTG had just min raised I decided to go for a 3bet with my hand but what I should have took into account was the QJ KJ K10 Q10 have now even more reason to fold, basically I’d be facing AK AQ and pocket pairs, the flop came K98 SB donk bet £5 and I make the call as K was the card I wanted he then bets turn I call again and by the river the pot was now £54 and I had £18.66 so had to call it. The second heavy loss what my squeeze in the blind the person who made a raise was very loose making it a big risk to squeeze he had called 108o in this spot and hit trips.
That table was looking at a loss of -£74, I did get some cash back and made the loss drop down to £40 but then through stand poker the final loss was £59 on that table.
I did get losses of -£31, -£2.35, -£1.80 and -£7.90 all through standard poker and I had a big win of £24.33.
1 bad mistake by myself made a great win become a profit of £5.87 in total
this set was likely an easier one to fold than that other one yet i decide to call.
ok flush draws might have missed but the speed at which he shipped it in was quicker than a blink of the eye, so he certainly had to have something,
i didn't have QJ in mind but his speed certainly screaming KK.
The total spent in MTTs today was -£37.40 about £10 went on sats into main, i entered £2K BH (21:30) for £11 and the rest was use in deep stacks. I had also played a few SnG too for a change but they didn't go that well and i lost -£4.10 overall in them.
The cash was a different story altogether, Overall i was on 14 tables this evening but not all were being played at once, instead I had a total of 6 tables up and would just choose to switch tables occasionally. Out of the 14 tables i had played, i only had a loss on 2, the amount they lost were -£6.29 and -£3.36. Most of the profit tables made profits of <£10 but i did manage to get 3 table profits of >£20, they were £22.56 (nl20), £29.74 (nl30) and £22.19 (nl30).
cash £99.75
SnG -£4.10
MTT -£23.21
total £72.44
My session this afternoon is a good example to take into account, rather than playing the micro sats i spent that time playing 4 cash tables for 2 hours and got a profit of £124.11 which is even more money than i would have actually got playing sats. Some might think that whilst playing the sats why not load some cash tables, the problem with that is it can become a more confusing game because one will need careful play and the other is aggressive play. I did play some cash whilst playing the early stages of the deep stack as this MTT does start like a cash game, the cash tables during this time all suffered -16.64, -3.49, -58.95 -12.45 -3.88, there was a lot of coolers in that cash session too but i think some were from me being so focused on the MTT table dynamic.
i had made entry into the main event directly knowing i had great wins in the first session and managed to get a profit but didn't get past the bubble, my exit hand is questionible too because at this stage of the MTT people do start getting tight and i don't think i've got the odds to call it knowing i'm going to need the board to pair as hewill have the straight most days.
After the exit I did one last cash session and that itself was a great finish, i did hit 3 sets and loose lots of value on each occasion, with 88 i should have donked the flop myself because i had a note relating to the villian Ch/R AK on J high board the on the turn he hits but it goes Ch/Ch and OTR came another K but again it goes Ch/Ch, no suprise he did the same with AA when flop wasa very dangerous Qd 8h 6h.
The player i did decide to donk my set against had min raise on board 876 rather than reraised i just called as though i was too worried about 88 or straight. the 3rd one was a simple case of me not wanting to scare away the donkey who L/C pre then Donks £1 on flop and turn.
having said all that it did all get made up when i bluffed a missed flush draw on river and get called by K10 who has an orford straight and also rather than Ch/F 95 went b3.90/C13.65 on river 9 J 4 T8 R7 so i got much more value that expected from those.
the overall total today is £66.35
cash £75.68
MTT -£9.33
So an upsetting bubble exit is what i get for being afraid of taking the risk, it had happened 2 times already, A10 in the mini goes all in the open raise calls and held AA, then came AQ going all in against QQ leaving me with just 3 aces and i loose out.
the cash well i'm having a simular thing today. the tables had an abundance nits and fish, 3betting and cbets were not the wisest of moves really. i 3bet AKs the nit had reraise, why i called i don't know, he was a very tight player who already was seen ch/c AA on a board Qd 4d Js (noAd). Bets i do would probably be done for information as well as value and what i shouldn't have did was bluff any hand at all because the chances are they trapping or fishing, AQ had 3bet pre flop came Qs 2d10s he checks, the AK on a river K J 9 8 7 i knew was behind to AA so i just did a hopeful shove but he calls.
Having went out of the main with a disappointing KK running into AA and KQ loosing to QJ in the mini so i went out of them but did manage a win of £6.08 in heads. So to finish my day off i have played a few SnG, this is where my luck seemed to be and i went on to win a profit from the of £30 overall and a royal flush as well.
cash -£44.54
MTT -£14.02
SnG £30
total -£28.56
who says sit and gos are boring.
Hi Craig - given you seem to be one of the regular cash-players that post on here NOT to be on the rake race leaderboards (which is no doubt the cause for there being so many extra nits at the tables), are you finding that their enforced ABC / nitty play (due to playing extra tables) is making it easier for you to exploit?
Playing less than 6 tables there must be opportunities for eeking lots of small pots from people, particularly exploiting good board textures post flops (ie ones that will look bad for premium hole cards)... ask out of curiosity really, as I wonder if those playing less tables end up winning more during rake race comps by just continuing their normal game.
WP on the royal flush - pretty meaningless hand really, but doesn't stop it being that little bit more enjoyable than winning a 'normal' hand!!
The overall total i made in cash today has got me thinking, if i'm going to play a low stakes deep stack or mega stack MTT, I might as well play cash tables as well because the truth is them MTTs last 3-4 hours, the prize pool makes top prize about £50 in deep stacks and £100 in the mega stacks, nl20 seems to be averaging £60 which already makes the deep stack pointless if I'm not going to play a number of other tables because my MTTs are not as strong as my cash and winning top prize in these MTTs is only making a simular size profit from cash tables being made harder, so really if i played this MTT, the mega stack and 3 cash tables I'll get myself a chance cash winnings the easy way and just view these MTTs as a nl20 cash table which is
having a number of cooldowns where i'm the winning hand.
main events and mini event are much bigger prize pools with top prizes of £1K-£7K in the main events and £200-£500 in mini events so getting knocked out of them is much more sigh and i will want it to be coolers more than anything like it was today when i called with 22 flop coming 762 i Ch/R the hit the full house so go Ch/Ch then on river comes an A and i decide to jam attempting a bluffed flush draw miss sadly he held 77 so i lost out, the good news was i got into this main via an all in sat, so overall i lost £7.20 from 2 all ins.
MTTs -£10.82
cash £65.10
overall £54.28
Account wise my night was not a positive one, in MTTs (semi, 2K 9:30BH, BH, mini, 1K 6:45pmBH orford and mega) it was all bad news as all I could manage is an entry into the main event through a sat. I did have a bit of debate in the main event regarding a player calling a cbet, he stated that my play was a bit weird I raised OTB then cbet OTF Ch OTT and pot bet OTR, I replied saying it was also weird him calling the cbet OOP on a flop Ac 2d 4c holding KQo (no club) he simply though I would have lots of hands in my range that he is ahead, the other side of the argument is lots were ahead of him and if he didn't get a K on turn and a bet got made what then? In the end maybe next time I’ll hold Ax rather than J10.
Their was one bit of positive news and that news was in my cash, you'll have seen from recent posts that I’ve been questioning my multi tabling during MTTs. I might not have managed to pass the bubble of an MTT (except semi) but I manage to approach the bubble of a mega stack finishing 18th. As I’m at college during the day I won't have time for cash in the afternoon so if I want to play MTTs and still hope for cash I would have to do a combo of MTTs and cash together. whilst playing the main itself I stayed of cash as I had main, mini and orford up, once I exited these event and the 2KBH (103s calling 3bet J10c3c I shipped KK OTF) I was left with just the mega, knowing this has such a slow pace and I sometime get bored I tried my fate on cash.
During the mega stack MTT, I sat down on 5 cash tables, occasionally switching. Reading this you would be expecting me to say I had a good win but surprisingly I didn't make a good win. Overall I got a profit of £5.30 on cash, this might sound bad but the tables themselves included a win of £66.85 and loss of 63.56, the trouble about that loss is £30 got lost when j8s calls my 3bet flop comes J94 so he calls turn comes Q which now gives him a flush but I held Ac myself making flush a doubt and bet again then Ch/C the river, the second one was Kd9d raised pre flop comes Jd10d9 I cbet get raised so call, turn brought a second 9 so I Ch/C and the river bricks so I go Ch/C again and he turns J9s.
so today i make an overall loss of -£32.95 (£5.30-£38.25)
Bad opposition play is one thing but when it's bad calls then it's my own fault, rather than give the free card i should have just cbet my KK on the flop KQ8 because their is lots of gut shots to charge, the Ah is out already A10-Ak beat me as does A8 and A2 finally A3-A7 is likely to only call his hand most days. i wouldn't call the shove in cash so why do it in MTT.
head prizes are very cheap i say "want some of my bread" so stop going after the head prize with my hands and put the focus on my chips the bubble and the opponents range.
my biggest loss suffered in a hand on cash today was -£6.85, the biggest win i achieved today was £27.27
total overall today was a profit of £76.67
MTT -£57.24
cash £124.91
SnG £9
The biggest issue in this MTT the mid stages because now the skill was virtually taken away altogether, instead the only way to achieve anything was shoving the whole stack preflop because the problems with playing it like you would any other MTT was it had lots of limpers and short stacks would insist on only calling a stack 5BB and folding stacks as small as 3BB, so the open raise had to be 3xBB or better to really warn the limpers and OOP it seemed to be best doing an all or nothing.
My cash well that was just like any cash day would be really, great master cash session where i managed to get a profit of £48.51 then a second cash session where i didn't get as big a profit but did make some great recoveries.
my day overall finished with a profit of £8
cash £56.34
MTT -£9.84 (tried to get £110 in a few all in sats then deregister from the main)
SnG -£38.50
Once them sats finished i did a bit of house cleaning, doing all this seemed to get me totally relaxed and so i spent my night in a few MTTs.
Knowing how unlucky my MTT has been in recent weeks i opted to play in the DTDs, to my suprise it was anything but bad, first i got 400chips with 99 as it got a great board F 838 T2 R3, next up i got what was my 1 and only head prize, raised JJ in a highly limped pot OOP flop was 823 (2clubs) i bet 150 and he called, 8 came OTT and i decided to Ch/C 518, then came a J on river the villian made a bluff and i did the call with my set, my stack was now 4K.
After the awful exit i saw happen with premium kings when it hit set, i didn't take the chance with my set of queens when it came on the flop, the flop was KQ4 rainbow, i bet 160 then on the turn came a 9 putting J10 ahead i still value bet and was called then on the river came a second Q giving me the nuts and my stack was now 6K.
So with me doing so great in the main and being in DTDs i think it was a waste of time going in the mini, so i wish i hadn't entered the mini as i didn't want to get too distracted from what was the signs of a great MTT main event.
i did exit the mini after half an hour but wasn't bothered i just focused on the main and enjoyed the DTDs, in fact i don't even know why i bothered entering the 2K BH just because i had now exited the DTDs.
i did get a bit orientated at the end having seen myself in the BB fold suited cards in a 3 way pot with a fish but see the flush come, then i decided to call a K9s as the fish had raised and my stack was short but i should have just folded as my stack was designed to min raise or shove.
overall £87.80
no cash played at all.
the decision to call the reverse implied odds with 93s in BB hitting trips against Ax, then getting a full stack with straight flush which was called by trips, anna has allowed me to avoid what could have been a much more disappointing night.
The issue was that i struggled to get myself relaxed as questions were being asked time and time again, i tried to explain about them but they just don't understand poker so these things were too complicated.
The suspicion of multi accounting was most likely caused my me being so unrelaxedwith the noise in the back ground and the thing about this was it hadn't been a planned sleep over it had been a last minute arrangement so my night was already planner for poker.
I do have a carer in 3 days a week but the difference with him is that he will normally be up in his room don't work on the laptop.
Next time my sister is in i'll just play on my 3DS because that doesn't pose a risk to my money and well she can watch her soaps on TV as i'll benot using it for the PC.
cash £12.07
MTT -£14.62
SnG -£13
overall -£15.55
I'll put the chaos I had on Tuesday down to distractions from my sister. Had it been tilt, I couldn't see myself having 2 great cash sessions which I managed to have today.
the cash sessions got a grand total of £104.84 (54.74+37.24)My first session had me sitting mostly on tables which had regs, the thing with regs, they'll know me very well meaning I certainly needed to take a close look at the board, normally these sessions would see the money coming from small pots but somehow the tables seemed extra nice today and allowed me lots of coolers, I didn't get such good sets mind as the two I hit both got a nasty card on the next street, one was when the 3rd club came on the turn giving him a nut flush, the second was when I got raised on the river, the funny thing was mind this one did see both us ch OTF 9s 8s 6d OTT I donked a set he called then on river Q came I cbet he over bet and that did get me thinking has he got J10 because the pot wasn't really that inflated so why risk a bluff when he hasn't got much in pot.
My second cash session started in the evening and like most evening sessions this had much more loose play so it was about hand strength and extracting value more than anything.
I had entered 1K BH (6:45) and won 2 HP but overall i lost -£1.99
Total profit overall was £102.85
Although i did get a great finish it needed me to get some very early double ups, when the blinds were 100/200 i myself had just 2K chips, i was stealing frequently with my shoves on this round then when the blinds were 150/300 i went all in with AK and managed to double my stack against another shorty who held KQ. Having got my stack doubled to 5K it wasn't too long before it was doubled up again with AKs and like the last double up this too was against KQ. Now that i had 10K i was able to start stealing blinds and 3betting, i Did nearly loose my tournament chips with AK, what happened was i 3bet pre (1200 R3200), the open raise called, flop came Qh 7h 6s i decided to shove my stack as pot was 7K and his stack 6.9K this was my only chance of pulling a bluff, unfortunately he called with KQ but luckily for me the T came K and river A so rather than drop to 4K i was now at the top with 25K.
When my stack was at 31K blinds were 500/1000 i decided to open raise Kc Jc, the CO then did a shove (14K) and i thought to myself maybe i could call this spot, AQ will be 30/70 1010 or smaller and it's a flip and A10 is 40/60. he did then get furious with me stating i made a bad decision but really i tried to explain back to him that if he is expecting tight range to call he is still going to loose most days as JJ-AA were all ahead AJ-AK all have an A on the board. later on a guy with 7K went all in and it was folded round to me in the SB with a stack of 53000 and holding K7 in my hand, now a chip stack this size usually sees people calling massive range as they have a massive amount of chips and the short stacks will be wide in the range they shove. S this reaction tells me he just couldn't take the loss.
the hands i would really say could be questioned is two AA held on the button and the 88 in the very late stages because these might have been what would have made the difference between final tabling and finishing 10
cash -£41.33
MTT £212.74
overall £171.41
Very well played.
Hand 2 - No don't flat, just cos you got folds this 1 time, doesn't mean raising it is bad. I'd have probably raised a bit smaller, around the 10k mark, I'd be 3betting smaller with all my hands cos I won't always be as strong as AA.
Congrats on your deep run though.