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people frequently are fit folding and therefore i've not been able togain that point i need, even a call on the flop will not often work, when doing a standard raise, i might need to raise by 50p preflop then do the cbet 50p or second option is play more nl20p again and just move all that 888poker cash over to this one for now.
After taking a break whilst eating my tea, I returned to the cash tables again and would play until i go to bed. This time things didn't go as well cash wise because most tables finished out on losses. Although they were losses, i still believe I should have came out on only a small loss or maybe a winning becaue a large number of them losses were small />£1 and i did see a number of my table winning reach £10+. My real damage came when I remained for an hour too long, the tables now were starting to fill with maniacs and donkeys, these would be hard to read having got so many tables and due to them overvaluing top pair, I needed to think more carefully about what hands to call and what hands to fold.
Overall i made a total winning of £32.07 (£56.39-£24.32) but should have been maybe £50-£60.
My points total in january was 3216, so i'll need 6432
My points total tonight is 4624, today I believe I've made roughly 500 points. If by friday, I get anywhere between 5500 and 6000, I'll transfer every single bit of 888poker BR across and do grinding on nl20 on saturday when I'll be confidient of getting the final 500-800 points needed for the total to get reached.
Things should be a lot easier for you to make the totals now Sky have double points running from Thursday through Saturday. 8 hours of 6 tabling NL10/NL20 on each of those 3 days should pretty much be enough to get well past the 6k barrier?
My first session of the day didn't actually start until 16:55 and it wasn't a very long one either because at 6:15 I needed to stop and have my tea. As far as suprises go, them too were not yet happening, it was more or less a standard grind session and overall that finished as £29.87
The second session of the night was where suprises came in, first up I probably lost way more than what i should do based on equity as i suffered alot of bad beats, KK vs K9ss sees a over aggressive play OTF Qs9d2s cause him to go AI and he hit the 9 OTT, i lost £7.55. JJ vs 47s all in pre went on to lose, so another £5.98 lost. AA vs 73o all in pre and lost a small £1.30. Then at 20:50 my game suddenly froze and i was thinking i had now lost my AA but i must have got unfortunate to have bet the flop just before it froze as it wasn't in my losses.
Once My Pc and broadband was reset, I reopened most my tables and did change a couple of the high winnings tables for some new ones. As far as suprises go, The post flop donks were now more often suffering, my preflop jamming was still not having much sucess especially the times it was AK and maybe now it was my turn to loose out when the table that had my premium pair (KK) got accidently minimized, therefore i was too late to make my 4bet preflop, who knows it might have save me from a full lost against AA.
overall my total winnings today is £50.88
I mi9ght have lost lots of cash against some of those donks but one thing it was helpful for is my points tally. My points toal now stands at 5051 and as it will be double points on thursday, friday and saturday, I could be standing a great chance of reaching my target points and who knows i could leave my 888poker BR alone and just continue grinding on 9 nl10p cash tables and 3 nl20p.
I did make one awful mistake at 7pm, I decided to take a punt on MS tables and it mesed my game up completely. When playing anna, i tend to enjoy a bit of fun and sometimes like to play the position game. The problem is i've taken it too far and i've ended up loosing more cash on the other tables. That mastercash session lost me £68.84.
Had i used common sense and just remained on my 9nl10p and 3 nl20 i probably could have won myself over £50-£100 but that bit of stupidity has caused me to now only win £18.21, still i won some cash and that's the main thing.
As far as my points tally goes double points certainly did give me the added benifit and now i'm in with a great shout of reaching my target of 6432 because my points tally now stands at 5793 and today i've made over 700 points
Having got the DTD1,2 and 3, i had to remain on just a small number of tables because lot's of focus was needed for MTTs. Once i exited DTD 1 and 2 i give up DTD 3 as my chip stack was small and now i was certain to miss out on a free MTT prize, so i attempted to spend time on 12 cash tables and sure enough I now found myself much calmer when getting a loss and knew that the were other tables making up for that. There are a number of other valid reasons too, once it get back onto nl20 i'll return to only having 6 tables but on nl10 their is so many Calling stations, fish and maniacs.
my cash today was £23.34
MTT was -£12.70
points 205
I also might have over valued QQ pre because knowing how passive people can be with AK, i might have better equity with AK that QQ.
I had opted to take about 30 minutes break and when i returned, i still wasn't getting much luck but it did tell me that my mistakes were common.
paul you've said notes is important and I couldn't agree more, they might be easy to read but even loose players vary as either LP or LAG especially post flop
Overall i had 2 sessions. My first one had been 3hours long spent on the same 6 tables through out. Having colour coded people, I now realize who are the real poor guys and this itself was partly why i remained on the same 6 tables. Overall I won £27.94 this session.
During the football match, I tried some 888poker but due to the tables being so tight, I wasn't having much action at all. I did manage to gain $3 and once the football finished, I went back across to sky.
My final session of the night was the longest one of all, This was also a session which had seen me switching tables more frequently after losing the chance to make £20 on the nl20p when K3ovs 73o, AK vs KJ and AQ vs 99 all lost out, I did continue on the nl20 table that lost these because their was one person who had been playing like a maniac, soon my stack did reach £36, then thanks to a player being decepting with AK, I was allowed to see the flop with my 65s opened pre and hit myself the straight OTT and see him over value the AK now he made his TPTP.
My total for the night was £71.72
point tally this month 740
Yes loose players vary and that's why you take notes. It's not enough for your note to say 'he's loose' cos that tells you pretty much nothing. Every player is a human being that plays their own way for whatever reason. You can't just play the exact same way against all loose people, some people are loose in the sense they just call too much so we need to value bet wider and more often, some people are loose but in a much more aggressive way so more often we can give them the rope to hang themselves when we make hands. But just to take one of those examples, if you 'give the the rope' to a loose passive player when you flop the world what's gonna happen mostly is you get paid nothing cos they'll just check down.
So getting it wrong/not understanding at a bit of a deeper level what kind of player they are has a huge impact on your winnings.
Having got a chipstack 6X the original buy in and a total prize of £81.82 on nl10p, I was tempted to go for entry into the main event but having started off badly on M.cash, I decided to opt out as a decent cash prize turning into losses was the last thing I wanted. Between 8pm and 10pm, things were starting to change in favour of a good outcome, Then i made a sudden U turn, i had lost focus, doing too much bullying against calling stations. At 11:30-12pm, I managed to get back into full focus, now things turned back in my favour and I managed to make myself a small profit in that session.
Overall i made £75.99 (£81.82+£8.57 - £14.40(2xAI+semi))
Today has again been a great poker session, a few big table losses but make up easily by the take winnings i achieved, including a cash prize of £68.43 on nl20. These daily winning i've have in recent weeks might be good but what i've enjoyed best about the last couple of weeks is it's taught me so much about my game, I did have a good poker game prior to that down fall but it was clearly packed with big mistakes as well and worst of all I was extremely results orientated with bad losses and big MTT wins.
This holiday I'm wanting has still not got round to being booked, Whilst carers are here, it'll be a nightmare for me to attempt to make it to a UKPC and due to the recent fits, i'll be unable to drive, but the one thing i spend this money on is pokemon cards, so when i get good MTTs prize, only once i've built my BR up through cash tables alone will i be taking the step up.
cash BR ATM is £458.
My table dynamic is 5 nl10p and 1 nl20p (all nl10p if i've got MC tables). Once my BR reaches £1K i'll then start going mainly nl20p.
I think myself the best MTT is the super roller sadly i will not be doing direct entry into that so my only hope is a sat entry.
Cash tables themselves were again very good, having got a maniac playing on a nl10p i did insist on remaining on that able until he was gone and so tremained on all he tables, having chosen to remain up for long, my thinking was that will be where the money comes from but it wasn't, instead i lost a chunky amount from that table, instead it was a nl20p table that saw me gain a big caash prize, first up my stack reached £48.30 due to a shove by AJ on a board KJ105 and i held KK at the turn, next up comes QQ and unlike my KK, this hand required a set as it was against KK, sure enough it hit the set and was all in on the turn, so i left with £75.58.
overall my day has seem a winnings of £43.18
£79.30 cash tables
-£36.12 MTTs
At 6pm, I went for direct entry into the semi, yes it might be £24 but the difference with a semi is I can finish in 16th place and will still get the same prize i would have got for 1st place whereas the standard MTT i'd have to finish 1st. The semi itself had seen me get off to a great start with both a bit of luck and someove else over valuing over pairs, the luck came when 1010 hit the top set and being such a dry board, he doesn't raise top set, unfortunately for him i got myself a premium set on the turn when J came, therefore my stack was doubled. 20 minutes later I was the overplayer overpair, having raised in SB i decide to call 98o and when the flop comes 765dd he seemed happy to do a 4bet jam with 1010 having seen me 3bet my straight. Later on luck turned against me my stack halfed, having got donked on the flop by a short stack, i chose to 3bet jam my QQ and get called by 99 this itself would be a win most days but having had the good luck with my JJ, now it was time for bad luck and the 9 came on the turn. I was thinking to myself now i'd just living in hope that someone else is willing to game but the bad luck i got with QQ was about to repay me with some good luck and awarded me a double up when my QQ suvived against an A8s, then it was just a simple tight game whilst the buble is on the verge of bursting.
In the super roller itself, i'd got off to a very good start, the first hour alone, my chipstack reached 15731. Being a cash player, this is the sort of tournament that suits me best, A BHs themselves are far looser and have a much quicker pace plus stacks are more shallow. At about 12pm i fealt i might have lost a bit of focus having questioned my weak bet with quads and this then caused me to miss the chance of bluffs when they possible and do bluffs at times when they were better off Ch/F.
In the grand sceme of things i was very happy to have managed to make it past the bubble and won a prize of £216.
my overall total today is £177.73 all of which will be taken out.
When you see my title, it should mean that my main poker time would be spent playing cash, it's true I should be playing cash but that didn't mean I would be avoiding playing the 6pm semi and like Sunday, I again had achieved entry into the main event through the semi and like Sunday's super roller, I got myself a deep run during Monday's BH and finished in 14th place, It did have one think different about it, tonight the luck came I the main event itself when at the very start, I was all in against a two pair with AA, my lucky card this time was a river 2 that awarded me the straight and like the late stages yesterday my luck again went against me when a QQ lost out this time it was a flip against AK, make me wonder, instead of attempting to steal a button raise by doing a 3bet jam with Q5s, should I have just waited for another QQ and again like the semi on sunday, I double my chipstack with the lucky QQ?
overall my winnings is £102.05 (15.31+ £86.74)
the little bit cash I did play was ok and got me £15.31, only that will remain in the BR, the MTT cash made after costs of entry will all be coming out.
overall between £150-£200 had got lost.
My BR has now dropped down to just £200, i likely feel more comfertable playing a nl20p that a nl10p and as my BR is so low, i shall be starting off on nl4p as that will give me 50 BIs.
There was one or two people just running beyond golden at the tables I shared with you last night Craig... but it seemed to tilt you way more than has normally been the case when I've seen you at the tables. You were lucky that you had position on the poor player so would have likely gotten a fair amount back from them if you'd stuck to your normal game.
Perhaps some work on mental game or a short break from the tables would be of benefit?
as i say nl4 is going to be where i am as a bad run like this, nl10 is far too dangerous for £200
They might have been bad yesterday but today was a much better day for sets, I did lose with some of my sets but these ones were a more standard loss to things like straight and flush, not runner runner full houses.
Having played on so many nl4 it's going to be hard to give a precise figure of my overall totals, my reacent points tally tells me I can sometimes play on uge numbers of cash tables and the combination of 50 buy ins and the tables consisting of short stacks, I opted to play on as many as 15 tables together!
MR at this point is £275.28