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Craig is on FIRE!
Tonight the story of UKOPS is like a roller coaster that was on the rise then falls then is on the rise again and finished as a good day.
To get things started I went very well in the micro where I managed to finish in 31st place and get 10HP. Being £20.17, the BR size i have makes this seem a tiny prize and my real wins are going to come from main events and middle price MTTs, I decided to use this prize for some all in sats as that might save me up to £110 which it did in the end as I got in on second attempt and did try a 3rd one which if won, I’d use in the UKOPS main coming up on Sunday.
This main event was one which I hadn't quite played so well in, I might have early exited Monday and Tuesday main events but they were both due to being so card dead, someone had thought it might have been a bit of tilt but I’d say it was caused by eating a lot of sugary foods today and also lots of fizzy pop.
I also had a very sickening exit hand in the main event when I went all in preflop JJ vs. 10s9s flop comes Jd 8d 5s, turn 4d and then a Q on the river, I’ve just had an awful beat where he open raised I 3bet then he cold 4bet making me jam, having lost if I were on tilt I would have been furious but I wasn't bothered at all, just put it to one side and wondered how I’ll do in the main event on Sunday itself.Lots of sugar being the cause does sound odd, the thinking of it is the way, I was wasting chips in the £22 challenge event and also how much shipping I did in the mini rebuy, it does still sound like tilt, the thing about being on tilt is that would see me do just as poor in the deep stack when that came, also when loosing these pots I still felt happy but couldn’t seem be relaxed. Once the deep stack had got round i was finally starting to get relaxed, during the first hour but the deep stack itself stopped me making the early exit and i became relaxed by the time the first break arrived
anyway the UKOPS is over and so here is my results for the week overall.
day 1-
HR
mini rebuy
main deepstack
micro BH
the way i respended when exiting these events gives me the indication that i've been terrible with BR management, now that i've got a large BR exits such as the one i got in saturdays main will be nothing more than an unlucky hand, my disappointment today will just be viewed as a one where i choose to play and having cashed in so many UKOPS i now believe i can take more risks and accept defeat easier.
as south africa and australia are both in summer time i think it's too hot for me at the minute but once it cools down i'll be planning a holiday in one of those.
also i might give a few live events an attempt during the college holidays.
my overall losses were -£150.58.
the maximum number involved will be 2, so already i don't have much of an issue with going multiway. UTG being the first to raise my guess is he'll be quite narrow. the chance of them raising a hand such as TPTK and JJ on boards like 9high is also unlikely, so basically i can see them trapping me with a set.
they might try a bluff sometimes but more often than not it's a stronger hand they'll have.
i did play 1 SnG too and that went great so won £56.
overall i lost £93.04
Fwiw, I wouldn't call this major aggression, you've just shown 2 x 3bets and a cbet with 2 premium PPs, and I deffo wouldn't recommend going smaller, if anything those sizings are already too small.
Hand 1 - absolutely standard 3bet of course, I'd probably go couple of BBs bigger with my 3bet as we're OOP, he's UTG so has a stronger range, and he's gone slightly over 3x himself. Again absolutely standard/great board for us to be cbetting here but I'd deffo be going bigger. Most people don't call 3bets to just snap fold to a cbet on this kinda board, especially when they have position. We're still getting called here imo by all Kx, all FDs, most 9x, TT, JJ, QQ, probably QJs, QTs, JTs, and mayyyyybe 1 street with AQ. It's a pretty wet flop and we should be going more like £5 ish.
Hand 2 - I didn't know the villian in Hand 1 but I do know this guy and I assume you must know him too. Against certain people there is no value in 3betting their UTG opens with JJ because they're just too nitty, this is one of them imo. I'd bet his range to open UTG and then continue facing a 3bet is somewhere in the region of JJ+ and AK, maybe AQs, which leaves you in pretty poor shape, especially as we're OOP. So I prefer a flat pre against this player, we keep his range wider and our hand is under-repped.
As played, assuming we've 3bet a person that we can happily 3bet JJ for value in these positions then it's a good flop to cbet, but cbetting one third pot is just SO weak. I very much doubt you'd ever cbet £4 here if you had AQ and if you would then it's a realllllly big mistake. If we're cbetting here I'd go around £7.50-£8
In just 1 week i've lost a total of £400, so enough is enough time now to take £4000 out and leave myself just £3000.
i might not be able to go on holiday yet but i most certainly will get myself one booked for either easter or the summer as college will have finished.
Have heard people talk about the third rule after a big bink.
One third be sensible - pay off some debt or put into an ISA or other saving/investment (get proper advice though)
One third treat yourself and/or someone you care about to something you wouldn't/couldn't otherwise have done
One third keep as poker bankroll
sounds good to me - hope to test it one day!
gl craig but whatever you do make sure that win makes a positive difference somehow.
It can be very easy to lose it all when you get to that point, if you aren't careful. Taking a large sum out is very wise. Remember, you only play for fun essentially, but you're in a financially fortunate position. Don't put pressure on yourself and just enjoy the ride.
the problem is that on sky poker you can't really switch tables because it's only really got lots to choose from when i'm playing micro stakes. What i need is 2 or 3 poker sites that way if one site is looking dull i'll just move across.
now i shall have £1000 in my 888 poker account, so once the sky tables start adjusting to my poker game i can simply go over to the other poker site and get myself the money from them tables.
the other thing about 888 poker is that will have 9 max perfect for hands like suited connectors and small pocket pairs.
as it only really started in the evening i didn't have chance to do much cash, i did manage about an hour and got myself a win of £13.06
The MTTs were a different story. the main event again got off to a bad start and before the first hour i was down to 1400, i did get a prize in 3K BH and the mini (22.96 and 16.27), i was very disappointed with my exit in the 3K BH £55 because it was at the point where the bubble was going to burst sadly i got beat when a player decides to limp QQ, i raise JJ then a short stack shoves and he reshoves making his range look much wider that a Ch/R would have looked without the short stack shoved.
overall i've lost £47.41
so that second place high roller was most certainly based purely on the fact i got lucky hits, i only have to think back to the 3K BH on friday when i lost a stack of 19000 (300/600) with JJ.
one excuse i may have is the fact sky poker doesn't have the time bank because i do get concerned i might time out and although it's 3 seconds it doesn't look as long as that, it just looks like a blue line going down fast and i've lost lots of value previously with hands due to myself getting timed out.
i said in an earlier statement a point about my great chess but the great chess games are done as days per move, if i play quick ones it's going to be an hour at the minimum.
after the frustration I had yesterday over the mega roller exit I've decided enough is enough, that doesn't mean I'm stopping playing poker all i'm doing is make these next couple of months the penultimate months which will tell me where I really stand.
1. days i'm in a main event i'll only have star radio, for now i'll not even have sky poker TV or the mini (unless it's the super roller) up as it's just much of a distraction. if I early exit any of the main events I've always got the chance of entry into the 3K BH at 9:30.
2. 4 cash tables is the maximum i'm going to play (3 nl30 +1 nl40) or 3 nl30 sky tables and 3 nl20 888poker (HUDS can be used on 888)
3. my biggest aim is remain calm and positive about exits and bad cash days because every one has them even phil ivy, I spent the money on mental side of poker so I should read it.
To see you saying that the next couple of months are effectively make or break is very surprising.
Someones not happy with you Craig :-)
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