craigcu12 diary

craigcu12

the score is now donks 2- 1 myself, after the good cash won from that master cash donk, today it was the turn of nl4 gamblers and donks, one donk with A7 managed to defeat me on the turn going all in, had it been AA, i would have folded most days on a board 10 9 8 6 but it's a different matter when you hold set, i might be loosing to any 7 but having seen him do a few donks including a one on the flop, i not certain to be losing, still even if i was, i still have 12 outs and had commited most chips in the pot, another donk who got lucky with a straight who'd over valued TP WK (A8), i would have beat him most days with AQ but he was lucky enough today, the worst loss came when 43s too a chance shipping preflop, he defeat my AA with a flush. It wasn't all a case of donks, there were some coolers and the odd bad call as well, there were also some donks who didn't get so lucky and faced a decent hero call on the river and others failing to get me to fold after 4 streets of betting.

OVerall the poker today give my BR a knockdown to £236.35 but you could say it's the donks getting their own back having saw me upset one on master cash.

craigcu12

Today had another bit of loss, but it wasn't so much maniacs, I just didn't think careful enough about some of my play, KK for instance should have been able to get away from AA having call a 3bet preflop and saw a flop come QJ2cc, having the Kc myself made it all the more evident that i was behind, somehow it doesn't stop me calling down the streets.

Overall I don't really care about these losses at all because the whole point of my poker tonight was purely and simply a form of fun and no matter how often i lost cash, I still was having a happy time and enjoying what was the final sky poker TV stream.

So it is a sad day and that sadness comes from the loss of 861.

BR itself £202

craigcu12

Before i type anything, I would just like to say "thank you" to those who created this weekend DTD, I had never attempted play in a live casino because offear being around strangers. What give me  the belief of attempting this one waas i did have a small prt of me with confidenc of them from the TV and forums. I would like to give a special thank you to those who assisted me in getting to grips with live poker and also those who assisted me on managing to catch the night bus back knowing how dangerous newcastle could be at night.

The MTT itslef didn't seem to go too well, I had made a good start but then came a silly mistake of raising my AQs OTF 2 3 4 having got a 3bet done against me pre, That lost me about 20BB and my stack that was once above average, soo became average size before i too a riskk calling a extreme stacks 3bet jam with QJ vs AQ and went out having missed it.

It was around 2pm at the time of this incidient and having still got lots of time before my plaaned bus arrives, I decided to attempt some cash tables and that was a different story altogether. When online the average size recommended to raise a hand by is 3BB, when it's live that's the smallest of raise sizes, The major standard of raising in a live table was between 8-16x BB! Early on in the cash, I was left feeling extremely disappointed, what happened is  I 3bet with JJ, a short stack 4bet AI, an 5th person did a 5bet jam leaving myself and the open raise to go and fold, when the hands were turned over, i got the shock of my life 72s and A10s+ the flop itself coming J75r so not only did i miss my set, i also lost out to 2 maniacs.

Later on, I myself made a huge gamble, 3bet A10o pre and saw 642, i cbet and was shove, having opted to call, I got myself extremely lucking hitting an A OTT and him missing his open ended straight draw jammed with 33.

When that hand was finished it was now a simple story really, I charged them large, they called, I cbet and take it down due to such tight game, I make over £180 in a day of pure cash, My total overall was still at a loss because of the stuipid play aagainst a sky community member on cash friday+ the £60 lossed from MTT. The great thing is but I loved this 100% and aim to now attempt occassional  cash play at the live casino and also make it to the other DTDS of north east.

craigcu12

another day goes buy, another loss occurs, this loss was however caused from a entry into semi and then entry into mini roller having gained entry into the main event via the semi. Cash alone is at a winning today of £13.30 overall, My first part went having managed to leave a number of tables holding stacks above £15, i did get one chip stack over £27 but that table had started off very poorly seeing me reload £39.31. Whilst i was playing the semi, my tables had began going down hill, i was thinking now i would have not wanted to do an entry into the semi or should have taken the £110 instead of playing the main. Once i had exited the main, i went back for a final couple of hours play on cash and this was the best one, it had a combination of master class and l8p tables and achieved the best result of the night.

My day overall was a loss of -£16.69  (18.31-£35)

craigcu12

MTTs and cash tables added together have produced a good cash prize today, It began when i first came back from cycling and spent some time on nl10p, during the last couple of days, i've seemed to get bad luck and lost money from a number of maniacs, perhaps i was playing the wrong cards or just didn't get the luck. Today it was my turn for the luck, a person who held A8 over bet the river and allowed me maximum value with set. The table dynamic during the evening seemed to be a very passive game, the main times we saw loose aggression was when a river card was used as an attempt to bluff.

Cash games themselves were calm but I still got some form of maniac, it came in DTD  and 2, what happened was I isolated a limper and the flop came Q7x he shoved A7 and i called Qj the turn itself give him the A, that was me out. DTD 1 had a simular circumstance itself, this came when I hit top pair on flop and saw a fish shove 107 holding TP WK but got lucky when the turn and river give runner runner straight. When i first exited DTD1 and 2, i had decided to just leave DTD 3 and go total cash, I then decided to change my mind as  the cash tables were all full and I did have a mega stack on DTD3, having got the mega stack, i went on to win DTD 3 and with some  mattbates type game along the way.

Overall my game today has finished just shy of the £100 totaling £99.31
cash £52.30
MTT £47.01

Tikay10

oioi, nice one Craig.....

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craigcu12

As it's so late, i'll make it a brief one, today has been a day purely and simply cash alone, first session was in the afternoon where i managed to make a total winnings of £9.67 through a large quantity of tables getting on average £5 winnings and two big table losses of £12.86 and £13.94.

My second session in the evening was making it look as though i would be going into a loss the first 7 tables i had enter were making total losses of £32.18, when i switch tables i did start turning things round and whilst on master cash, i did receive some nice pots allowing me to go back into winnings, as the day was getting towards the end, i did suffer a large loss on one mastercash, so i decided whilst watching paul finish his stream, i'll continue poker for one final hour and having remain up, i had got back into a winning state through two table winning of £14.56 and £12.24.

overall my total winnings today was £12.69

craigcu12

due to a broken mother board, i've missed most of the UKOPs, today i decided to attempt all the low UKOPs and also attempted the main event as well as the 3 DTDs, my thought now is call an end to the £5.50 BH because they involve extremely large amounts of luck, I'm not sure i've even final tabled a small stakes BH once and they can get really frustrating at times because of all the gambling that goes on. in DTD 2 i managed to achieve a stack of 20K (5000BB) at the early stage and that chip stack remained stable through but had it been a BH i sense it would have soon dropped back down to a starting stack. If I'm playing the main BH, I might play the mini, but anyother time i'll be better off using the time on cash tables, the prize pool of these £5.50 BH are not really that big unti.l i reach top 6 most other could just as easily be achieved playing 6 nl10p tables.

topt loss £100 MTTs and rebuys

£4 made on cash during the 30 minute play

craigcu12

today has been a day where my poker game has been great overall but it started off in a very loose aggressive way. Due to my own PC not working ATM, i'm having to use my sister's lap top and the problem i have with this is it does't have excel on it, therefore i'll not be able to give an exact figure of winning just a rough guess, MY BR is currently £225, I had played in a rebuy MTT and did give the turbo an attempt, as they didn't give a prize, i've already spent lost £33 and this indicates i've probably won an overall prize on cash of about £42,NOw i might have been able to gain an even greater winnings had I been more careful at the start, then again maybe it was the thought of now having a nl20p table along side my nl10p tables that made me play more carefully. 

My very last session did feel a bit frustrating to begin with when this person was playing like a maniac and showing his junk afterwards, on two occasions he did a junk show off and then followed up with a monster hand, it was as if he hacked the cards and would guarentee himself the monster.

craigcu12

My first attempt at a main event rebuy and my first prize in it, during the first hour of the tournament it was non stop premium hands, during the first 90 minutes alone, I was dealt 4 KK, 2 AKo  1 AKs and 2 AA. something tells me i should have went on to win this MTT or atleast finished on the final table, something mattbates himself would have certainly done, My mistakes came when i had been raised on a flop 444, OOP i should have just given up my A3s but somehow i called and then shipped it all in on the turn. later on i went on to get myself a chipstack back into the 50K when a large stack attmepted to make me fold his ship due to it being near the bubble. My next mistake cme when a 20 BB stack open raised, I myself had  30BB and done a 3bet raise in the SB with AQ, having seen him jam i make to call and get the deserved loss running into KK. All in all this MTT has make it clear where my mistakes lie as the premium pairs were certain to give pros a final talbe.

My overall BR now stands at £41 and i'll be leaving this MTT winnings inside to make up for the losses i got during final UKOPS night

craigcu12

Today the poker has taken a turn, I had a very poor time during this afternoon, I was making aggressive bets that would charge the draws, unfortunately it was giving two pair hands the cash and like any low stakes poker, two pair combos are much more difficult to spot due to the fact you see things like K3o calling.

When the darts finished, I opted to go back on a see if i could make a recovery, unfortunely nl10p were now dull consisting of very little action what so ever, had i been using my own PC, I would have just gone across to 888 poker but due to it being my sisters laptop, i decided to remain on sky poker playing some nl20 as my sister would have been too happy with me downloading the 888 lobbby.

My BR after tonights game is £322

craigcu12

the general rule of good BR management would usually mean nl20p is not recommended when a BR stands at £300 but the fact I know these players so well, I'm thinking I may be able to play 6 tables of nl20p, Today I began on a number of nl10 and it went awful, What I found was bordom would begin kicking in because everything was getting limped and very little action occured, I did try being aggressive myself but that didn't do much good either and I kept having to reload, nl10p is a stakes I prefer when i can play 12 tables but due to such a small screen on the laptop, i'm left with just 6.

nl20p did get some loose players, but it also had tight players and the thing about tight players is hey will not be in the pot everytime therefore my head wasn't getting so lost thinking about all the different hands.

In the lost hour I also attempted some omaha and that went excellent, after just 20 minutes my chipstak tripled.

All in all it still finished as a loss but My final few hours of nl20 saw me achieve 3 cash triple ups and a number of double ups too, so my BR now stands at £316

craigcu12

My current poker form seems to have lots going against me, usually i've managed to get two tables with stacks of £60+, I should be walking into big winnings, well today it was jus a way of ruducing all the big losses coming from back luck, people were frequently over bet jamming on flops happily taking a gamble, the difficulty about this was AK now fealt a much weaker hand, infact things such as 99 and 98s seemed stronger. after about 4 hours, i was beginning to feel like something was missing and then noticed without my own PC, I could only limit myself to 6 tables, when my own PC is onnected to the TV, the screen is big enough allowing me to play 15 tables but due to a small screen on the laptop, it can be a nightmare attempted to read the tables and stacking them onto of each other made things extremely confusing when I attempted to do so.

craigcu12

Ir's offical, i'm on an awful tilt at the minute, the issue is a combination of awful luck, bordom and not having my PC which when combined together are getting me frustated.

I'm going to not play anymore poker now until i've got this meeting out of the way on thursday.

craigcu12

I might have the ability to play nl20, but i've most certainly not got the BR for it, really, I don't even have the BR for nl10p the best thing for me at the minute is playing between 8 and 12 nl4p tables. Having made £27 in just 3 hours of nl4p, i'm going to give myself a target, that target is to get my BR built back to £1000 in 2 months, I might have some losses during the months but these losses should be tiny due to most playing not having a full chipstack to begin with, If i don't reach my target, I should now be able to remain more calmer as i've started reading the ment states of poker book. I will usually read 1 chapter of that book a number of times each week, that should allow me to undstand it clear enough and take it into my real game.

If by sunday I still haven't made progress, there is always putting bets on against NUFC like i did on monday.

The PL darts are tonight, so this should be me finished for today.

craigcu12

If things continue going like this, i might be able to achieve £1000 in just a months worth of nl4p. Today I had 3 sessions,  each achieving a winnings toal of about £20. My first session of the day at 2:45pm had 17 pots whichhad seen myself winning or losing £1+, of those, 5 were £1+ losses and 12 were £1+ winnings. whilst most of the losses were caused from bad turn and river cards, I had made a bad call with AQ when i got Ch/R on flop K6K, later on I also should have saved myself £1 when a person who Ch/MR me on a 2nd heart turn shoved on the 3rd heart river therefore he was sure to have gone ahead, (actual hand of him was a straight hit on turn).

My second session of the evening was at 5:15, that session certainly did see me gain chipstack of £10+ on a majority of tables but I also had required a couple of reloads in that session from coolers, I should really complain of course because  I too got a large quantity of coolers in my favour too such as Kj against J10 on a rive board K J 10 J 4

My most interesting session of the night came in the 3rd session, when on nl4p a chipstack of £12 is quite a decent one to win itself but during the final session of the night, I had managed to make one of my chipstacks reach £21 The way it came was through a failed attempt to bluff 33 when i shipped on turn A K 5 4, i wasn't able to see 77 fold and therefore lost £2, The benifit of this bluff came when i'd hit a flush during the turn in a hand later on, his chipstack preflop was now £7.77,having got A10s i raised preflop, the flop comes Q88cc, having got the flush draw I made a full pot bet and was called by Kc10d when the turn came 6 clubs i'd held the flush and knowing he saw my bluff I did the bet on the turn and having saw him make the call on the turn, i overbet shoved the flush when the river came K thinking to myself well he's call 77 so the chances are he'll still stand a chance calling with Q and knowing clearly that any 8 or flush was certain to call overall that pot saw myself win £16.38 and put my chipstack over £20.

The general thing about the game as a whole is when 93o can call pot size bets as long as I accept them bad luck, I should do fine.

craigcu12

Having seen how much I made in the first two days of my 1K challenge, I choose to take a break over the weekend and watch some sport. My first day back has been another great day, I thought the challenge would be a difficult one but when i look at the number of poor calls i see being made on these tables, I think to mysself it won't be that hard to do and my real challeng should be to see if i can make 1K in just a months play, nl4 is sure to get callers most times therefore it;s just a case of knowing how much to bet based obnn the amount of danger cards.

The session itself was 3 hours long, I made (edit) 32.70 overall and had 4 table stacks finishing over £12, as far as pots go, I had 11 pots where i commited £1+ and lost, of those i could say 3 were losses i made due to taking my hands too far, the number of pots i commited over £1 and won were a total of 40, the is a number of them which nl20 would have seen win ning alot less but that;s nl4, "I myself was a loose caller when i first started".

being a Monday, I'd normally be joining the DTDs but this challenge has got me playing nothing else, i'll be just on nl4 for the next two months and get that BR built back, even if I make over £1k in just 1 month i shall continue to play nl4 for the second month.

The_Don90

gl with the challenge craig. 

craigcu12

When looking back at the amount of times I went all in with a dominant hand and lost out post flop, it makes me regret not quitting whilst ahead at about 8pm. today maniacs were everywhen and the problem with having these maniacs is the can cause hand selection to become a nightmare, AK, Aq were getting into alot of all in spots preflop, I could make the simple decision and fold but in the long run the cash will be in my favour so i had to call, it was to same thing happening frequently post flop this time when i've held top pair, TK or overpairs, again they were made to go all in against donks on the flop frequently and on a number of occassions they had lost out.

my total loss overall was £28.

Next time i see luck going against me i shall attempt to quit.

F_Ivanovic

Don't quit when luck is against you unless that is sending you on tilt - if you are making the right decisions, the luck will head in your favour eventually.

rancid

You really need to understand variance

If we tossed a coin we both have a 50 percent chance of winning

So if we flipped 100 times what would the result look like

We'll it would not be 50/50

These 100 times could be in one day or over the course of 3 days

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Remember your only 100 percent to win if villain has zero percent

Even if they have one percent it will happen

Good luck

craigcu12

In Response to Re: craigcu12 diary- cash tables alone:

Don't quit when luck is against you unless that is sending you on tilt - if you are making the right decisions, the luck will head in your favour eventually.
Posted by F_Ivanovic

When i said quit, I meant end my poker for that day not quit altogether, i've got over 50 nl4 entries so I don't care about a few bits of bad luck, besides, i'll normally gain back them losses through some strong betting on my other hands and that is what happened today, i was facing a loss but the fact i saw 88 call 3bet pre, cbet on flop and an AI on turn (Q972) this got me to begin doing pot size  bets with my decent hands because at the end of the day i'll still get called by these calling stations.

when I said quit, i was talking about finishing my poker for that day or session, like today, that session too had a point where I wa getting a bit of winnings but I convinced myself to remain on the tables and soon things went bad again, had I quit like today, I would have made another small winning and in the end what is the point of me continuing to play poker when them tables were constantly  getting spots where an all in was happening preflop?

The last few day i've been away due to being busy with other things nothing to do with quitting altogether my tilt is a thing i'm trying to work on ATM through the mental game of poker book.

F_Ivanovic

I know you were just talking about that session/day but I meant you shouldn't quit your session just because you see that luck is going against you because each hand is a new scenario and being the same session or a new session isn't going to make a difference. 

Booking a winning session is meaningless and shouldn't influence your decision to quit - lets say you are £20 up but lose a £15 pot to only be £5 up and as a result you decide to quit to book a winning session. Now lets look at the scenarios that can happen if you don't quit:

- The bad luck continues and you end up being £5 down before you decide you've played enough for the session and quit

- The bad luck turns around and because of the good table you are on, you get back up to being £25 up and decide to finish the session as you've played enough.

Now lets look at quitting the session and then your following session:

- The bad luck continues into a new session and you lose £10 - the same as in other scenario

- The bad luck turns around but because you aren't playing against the same "bad" players, you only end up winning £10 as opposed to the £20

So to summarize: Only quit because you are not playing your A game anymore and may find yourself tilting if you get another bad beat. Don't just quit to book a winning session.

craigcu12

Ivan

Before saturday, I might have had excuses for getting stressed out over a loss against a stupid hand but on saturday that had all changed when I was stupid enough to call an all in jam with 95o and went on to beat AK having hit trips in my live cash game. I wasn't in any form of negative tilt, infact i was in a more positive tilt having had such a great social time at the casino, I think the main reason behind that stupid move was I had been feeling so hyper now having had such a great time socially.

getting back to my online basis, I've now got no excuse to not accept the badbeats that I get, I give Ak a bad beat against 95 so deserve to get them myself.

craigcu12

before I talk about today, I explain myquitting opinon fully, basically i'll decide to quit whilst ahead if luck is going against me and it's getting quite late (11pm) 12pm-1am will usually be my bed time so a large loss can feel more disappointing and the chances are i'll no longer have time to recover as i've now got bed time to think about. At 9:30 tonight I was looking as though i'd be on a bad streak but i still had 3 hours remaining therefore i just took a small break before return about 10pm.

As far as my overall game is concerned well it remained as a loss even after 10pm.

I've became £10 and a large amount of these losses were due to myself having bad luck coing flipping AK. when played as a stand street by street value betting it was fin, the bad times for AK were always it's flips both when I held the AK and when my premiums came up against AK. One of my theories on this bad luck is maybe it's getting revenge on me knowing my 95o destroyed an AKo in live cash last saturday. It wasn't all bad luck, being so LAG I decided to call with KK on the turned (Aj8 Qdd) thinking he could well be playing a flush draw like this, unfortuntly it was infact 109o which went on to get extremely unlucky when a river came 10 giving me the more decent straight.

craigcu12

due to the snooker, i've had little time free to play poker, today I've just played an hour and might have been on the verge of a loss had I not got the lucky river card, being such a maniac I couldn't help but call A10 when he overbet jammed the turn C, he did on this occassion hold the flush but the board paired again on the river allowing my two pair to become a boat.

after this hour mr BR has reached 263.07

craigcu12

Now that i've got my own PC back, i will have to catch up with some college work therefore my challenge could be more difficult, I still have confidence of completing the challenge if my days remain as winning days, still have over a month to go.

The bad run might have came to an end today, overall I made £47.32 and a great deal of that was from sets, usually when playing pocket pairs, you'd feel lucky if your pocket pair hits a set once, today a large majority of my pocket pairs would have flopped set 3 times in a day. I didn't have it all my own way, have got myself such a huge number of sets, i was sure to have lost out with some, twice came when I hit AAA still i made a grand total of £47.32, which should mean i've now reached £300 putting me 3/10 of the way towards the £1K target.

craigcu12

today has seen me make another £37.73 of my £1K target, again I gained most of it from sets!
I give an estimate of 1/3 my pocket pairs managing to achieve sets, this time it was the turn of QQ and 22. It certainly does feel like a very lucky point and will be likely to end soon ( hopefully not) because my reaction when I go behind is far calmer that it would usally be, I'm just expecting another one to win in minutes.

my BR as it stands at the minute is £284.91, it should be over £300 when the C4p comes back in replacing the cash i'd withdrawn this week.

I might not be playing any poker tomorrow because i'll be up most the night watching the boxing match and tomorrow i'll have the snooker world championship final.

craigcu12

Today was not as tiring a day as I thought it would be, what happened was I'd fell asleep on the couch missing the boxing match, it didn't stop me watching the snooker mind, what i'd done is played poker on the laptop whilst the TV screen had the snooker up.

When playing poker, I think my emotions ma have got the better of me at times, most if not all day, i've  been under the weather with a sore throat and cough, I tried to play some poker but it wasn't really at the correct time, my poker was played more out of bordom than anything and it wasn't long before I started getting wound up with donkeys.

The amount of weak play certainly let me off, overall I lost about £18 from poor decision making, BR now stands at £256.

Another depressing thing happening ATM is my football club, again they lost to leister and are now even closer to relegation, I've been saying for weeks now that I should put a bet on them getting relegated, now the odds at these times were about 50/1 and boy could i have been rich, saturday enough was enough, they might now be 5/1 but I just can't take it anymore so decided to place £10 on us being relegated, it's certainly between us and the scums

craigcu12

Although I'm unrelax due to a cold, I decided to still play a bit of nl4p thinking it’s a very easy game.

My session was an early one and went quite well, overall I made £10.77 and some of the play that occurred during it gives an idea of what i mean. The session didn’t get off to the best of starts, the problem was the tables had a number of bingo player shoving everything in on flop, it did calm down 30 minute into the session, there was still over betting but this was done for a reason, one of these over bet jams cost me £4.29 the pot at the time was 56p and the board itself was 22 6 Q 3ccc, the opponent decided to jam £4.03 on a river andhaving got hold of the KJcc I made the call myself, once turned over i saw him reveal 22 beating my K flush with quads, I could have folded the flush if I wanted too but when looking at his play, it tells me he’d be just as happy doing a jamming a J high flush because all he’ll be looking at is his own hand,  later on in my session someone done a this type of thing himself only he had 42o which hit a straight on board 8765, the pot inself was 18p big and he shipped in a total of £3.28 into a pot 18p big and ran into myself holding 109, not only had he lost value from two pair and sets but he also lost out to the one hand that will call him.

 

I was thinking of playing another session tonight but due to this cold,  the best thing is an early night.