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  • edited October 2015
    I've had to force myself to finish my day early today and a loss of £6 knowing now that i'm feeling a bit annoyed.
    The poker part of my game was for once not part of this problem,you'd be suprised to see it when typed because the annoying cause itself was My main PC and it's web browsers.

    Usually i like using fire fox but this web browser doesn't seem to complete it's installation, I've tried a number of occassions but each time it seems to fail. This alone wouldn't be too big an issue if google chrome was to come up but that has got this problem taking extremely long to just get up, the only web browser actually working is microsft edge but that web browser is consistantly failing to allow more than 6 tables to play. Taking it back might normally sound fine but already i've needed to spend £80 on a replacement mother board, £70 on a repair followed by another £20 just 2 days later and now I feel if it's pointless even bothering to pay for another repair.
  • edited October 2015
    Today was my most active night of DYMs so far, the total number played overall was 82(40x60p 28x30p 14x £1.15)!Usually I was playing between 6-10 DYMs at once and It was know that turbos don't take too long to get themselves into a preflop shoving game and only taking 15-25 min to generally finish along side the general dynamic of a DYMs it was difficult to begin with having all these DYMs but it wasn't long before things pulled together.

    Out of the 3 DYM costs i was able to cash out on 20/28  30p gaining a profit of £1.60, i'd cashed out on 27/40  60p making a total profit here of £3 and i'd cashed out on 10/14 the £1.15 making profit of £3.90 . The  £1.15 costs weren't far behind with a bubble percentage of 71%, the profit here was  made £3.9 with a win percentage of 71%. The 60p price range wasn't far behind with a profit of £3 in a win percentage of 67%.

    I had played a small bit of poker yesterday too but soon ads were popping up everywher and i'd knew my PC had a virus and the scan itself revealed that 1570 files were infected!
  • edited October 2015
    The unfortunate luck and mistakes from a wear tyne derby weekend didn't seem to go away today. I had to begin SnG a little earlier than I usally do. My freeroll 20 points were not yet obtained , I took an early SnG session to gain these points and saw bad luck happen in an odd way and i didn't have the chance to make any late AI jam due to a disconnection whereby i needed to reset modem and by the time i returned it was too late. A bit like sunderland getting that luck gifted penalty due to a couple of seconds worth of silly play from ourselves.

    You could say my evening session is like that of newcastle itself not scoring those chances they had and so it goes on to cost us. What had happened is my hands had been hidden away from an over lapping table, i'd continued playing like this for about 2 hours in the expectation on would end soon when I could have zoom out one right away as it would have zoomed out the others too and any additional ones would be that size too.

    25p+5p -£2 16/30

    50p+10p 40p 25/41

    £1+15p -£1.35 16/29
  • edited October 2015
    I usually would be still playing at this time but the volenteering I do on wednesdays means today I need an early night especially when they're setting off earlier which they're doing this week.

    The night itself proved a to be a much more relaxing night that yesterday night with the zoom itself been out well enough to enable 8 tables on screen without any over lapping, I had a couple of occassion where i'd had to see 10 tables up but that was soon resolved when them with the larger SS/BB did see the final short stack knocked out and the registration in lobby would have been going infront of my tables more that this all in all it was a very relaxing time and a winnings higher than expected.

    My night wasn't all happy mind. It was in a SnG turbo, the blinds were 25/50, i had 21BB, held AA and 4BB raised a limper.  The flop comes Q43hh, the pot was 450, I now make the jam with my other 850 see the limper call and reveal a set. The unusual thing about the unhappy part was the hand itself had actually still been won by me when the turn brings an A giving me the better set and so I feel a bit sorry for this guy. oddly enough I do later allow myself to double my stack when i shove 33 pre and hit the set which remained ahead. The probably reason behind this is my autism and how it can effect emotional control.

    Back to my total it was £5.90

    25p+5p 50p (7/10)
    50p+10p -80p (7/13)
    £1+15p £6.20 (10/12)
  • edited October 2015
    Tonight shall be another early finish only this time I feel as though i'm not in the mood and feel too tired after having a very wet afternoon of volenteering work.

    I've lost £3 overall but the main thing about my night is i've managed enough SnGo in to ensure i've got the 20 point.

    25p+5p -0.1 1/2
    50p+10p -£1.40 4/9
    £1+15p -£1.50 5/10
  • edited October 2015
    It didn't cost me money to enter but i still go into a bad mood simply because I exite the UKOPS freeroll when the chance to treble with AA was stopped by an AKs flush.
    I did have some Sngo up too and have made 5p on them.

    at first sight my very negative and stress likes posts look like a standard bit of tilt but the truth is i've had a mental health problems called aspergers sydrome which is a mental health issue that will cause various mental health problems to people in different ways.  One of the issues i've got is autism which can made social interactions very difficult and make emotions difficult to control. I've begun to get help from M.A.I.N. which is an autism socity and one of the main things they'll be helping me with is my anger.


    £1+15p 55p 2/3
    50p+10p -20p 1/2
    25p+5 -30p
  • edited October 2015
    My sit and go run today makes me believe it was a big mistake not to begin my poker time on them because it doesn't really matter if those flips and dominating hand win or lose i'll still feel calm and relaxed whilst continuing to play. I describe them as a combination of cash and MTTs combined, like cash tables SnGo don't need the larger of BRs to allow multi-tabling and can build the BR slowly, the MTT part i like about these is you'll have a number of AI situations where you strong hander hand will be defeated therefore become more us to the bad beats and unfortunate bad luck


    Today looked as though it was going to be a good day at the start having won my first two of each buy in but then things began to change, flips went against me, dominating hand failed to remain ahead and i went on to lose 6 30p in a row and 3 £1.15 in a row and as time went on it was like a bubble this Sng fail your next Sng meaning the rake would cost me and so as a who i've lost £5.05

    25p+5p -£1.20 6/14

    £1+15p -£2.65 5/11

    50p+10p -£1.20 9/17
  • edited October 2015
    Hi Craig.

    Good to see you back on the tables and the diary.

    One piece of poker advice I would give you is to ditch the 30p and 60p dyms, especially turbos, I don't see how anyone can beat the 20% rake at those.

    Have you tried the 55p and 1.05 6max? Lower rake plus the extra reward for winning means you can maximise the skill edge and hit a much better ROI. Admittedly they don't run as often as dyms.

    I am grinding up a roll at these stakes at the moment, I'll throw in the odd dym (especially this double points weekend) but mainly at 1.15.

    gl with MAIN.
  • edited October 2015
    Tonight was based entirely of £1.15 DYMs along with a couple of £1.10 and 55p 6 max. Overal i'd played 35 £1.15 and won on 24 of them gaining myself £7.75 cash. The 6 maxs I'd fitted in were 2 £1.10 and 1 55p and in total they came to a loss of 65p having managed to finish 2nd on just 1 of the 3.

    One of my DYMs did see a player hold a royal flush and although it wasn't my own it was a bit suprising because I myself had hit a royal flush of my own earlier this week and being rare enough to hit yourself it's staggering to think a second one would come in same week.

    £1+15p 7.75 (24/35)
    £1.10 6 max -10p 1/2
    -55p6 max 0/1
  • edited October 2015
    thanks phantom
  • edited November 2015
    As a way to be more ensured that playing some £3.30 or £5.50 UKOPS MTTs I'm playing some DYMS at the time usually spent on cash tables across at poker stars. It's like what you might call satelliting into them because this will ensure my BR doesn't drop down too big incase of an unlucky run during the evening time SnGo.

    My first day into this hasn't had the best of sucess making a BR increase of just 25p, I might put this down to the 6 max as 2/2 failed.
  • edited November 2015
    An early exit in my first UKOPS MTT meant tonight was a night of SnGos.

    The sit and gos themselves had two different stories because like my pre UKOPS session these too had decent DYMs yet poor 6 max, the issue seems to be the mid stages, the 6 maxs have a different game dynamic to the DYMs, i'm likely making mistakes due to being use to a DYM dynamic as they are the main ones up.

    £1+15p DYM 2.55 11/17 and 23/38

    6max (1.10) -£6.50 0/2 and 1/6
  • edited November 2015
    I've chose not to bother with a UKOPs event today bause the £3.30 MTT itself was a rebuy event, therefore i've spent my entire night playing £1+15p SnGo along side the evening freerolls.

    The night itself was again very relaxing with no sign of a drop in mood at all, if anything did give me a bit upset it would have been when my AA becomes defeated and I go out having too the tight option allowing my chipstack to go down 3BB at an early stage rather than shove an earlier hand during the previous two rounds. Early and mid-way through the session the rake was building up as a loss as i'd been sucessful in one and failed the next but then at the very end i'd won 5/6 on my Sngo along side an accidental 50+10p one i'd went in and therefore i'd finished with  profit of £1.55.

    £1+15p- £1.15p (23/39)
    50p+10p- 40p (1/1)
  • edited November 2015
    In Response to Re: craigcu12 diary-:
    I've chose not to bother with a UKOPs event today bause the £3.30 MTT itself was a rebuy event, therefore i've spent my entire night playing £1+15p SnGo along side the evening freerolls. The night itself was again very relaxing with no sign of a drop in mood at all, if anything did give me a bit upset it would have been when my AA becomes defeated and I go out having too the tight option allowing my chipstack to go down 3BB at an early stage rather than shove an earlier hand during the previous two rounds. Early and mid-way through the session the rake was building up as a loss as i'd been sucessful in one and failed the next but then at the very end i'd won 5/6 on my Sngo along side an accidental 50+10p one i'd went in and therefore i'd finished with  profit of £1.55. £1+15p- £1.15p (23/39) 50p+10p- 40p (1/1)
    Posted by craigcu12
    Good to hear you've found a game you enjoy Craig. That's half the battle won :)

    Very impresive results today too, well played.
  • edited November 2015
    In Response to Re: craigcu12 diary-:
    An early exit in my first UKOPS MTT meant tonight was a night of SnGos. The sit and gos themselves had two different stories because like my pre UKOPS session these too had decent DYMs yet poor 6 max, the issue seems to be the mid stages, the 6 maxs have a different game dynamic to the DYMs, i'm likely making mistakes due to being use to a DYM dynamic as they are the main ones up. £1+15p DYM 2.55 11/17 and 23/38 6max (1.10) -£6.50 0/2 and 1/6
    Posted by craigcu12
    Yes 6 max is definitely a different dynamic.

    One I prefer but you do need to adjust from dyms (think standard MTT v a Satellite)

    Payout is roughly x4 for win x2 for 2nd in 6max - don't do anything too silly early levels but obviously try and accumulate where you can. When down to last 4 though, generally aggression is key as the reward is there for 1st. It is definitely not just about survival like dyms.

    If multi-tabling may be better to stick to dyms as it is hard to play conflicting styles at the same time, I just recommend them because I like them and they are lower %rake at micro stakes.

    You weren't doing so bad in the one in which I tried to bluff you off the nut flush :-)
  • edited November 2015
    The SnGo session today is by far and away greatest SnG session i've had, it might even go down as the best one i'll of all having won 23 of the 27 SnGo played. I began with a run of 7/8 sit and gos and at the time was beginning to think of calling it a day. I changed my mind last minute thinking to myself i've still got a lot of time and knew again i'd not be going into a UKOPs MTT. 5 more were run before a few saw exit near by one another. I now had a little though into weather or not to continue for another hour which I then did having knew for sure even another 5 wouldn't lead to a loss and went on to win 9 consecutive SnGo after my final early exit.

    A great Sit and go run is one thing but the best part came from another source the UKOPs omaha freeroll which saw myself get into top 6, gaining entry into the th UKOPS omaha event but rather than play that MTT itself i'd made a direct buy in prior to my freeroll finish and won myself £55 meaning my BR has now broken the £100 mark. I made another £1 in the other freeroll and on this occassion was going to entry UKOPs had I managed to get top 6

    £1+15p- £14.95
    overall £70.95 (
  • edited November 2015
    Good to see you back and enjoying your poker again Craig.

    Was that standard 6-max you won 23/27 in?  That is an insane run if so, vwp!
  • edited November 2015
    In Response to Re: craigcu12 diary-:
    Good to see you back and enjoying your poker again Craig. Was that standard 6-max you won 23/27 in?  That is an insane run if so, vwp!
    Posted by shakinaces
    no I did the run in £1+15p DYMs
  • edited November 2015
    due to the TPT exclusive MTT and also the mini BH MTTs sng and gos themselves were few and far between. 11 were played overall and succeeded in 6.

    The MTTs began in a very slow start, during the first hour oneither of them got me above the starting stack. The TPT event did begin to turn things around, my stack was on a rise and due to enough double ups allowed me to final table unfortunately due to such a limited number of entries Istill failed to cash having went out in 6th place. The mini itself was getting slightly more luck during it's second hour but still didn't go too far, it wasn't long before i'd exited and as neither of them got a HP i'd finished -£13.40 (an addictional £2.40 omaha sat for LR semi)

    overall total -£14.05

    MTT -£13.40

    SnGo -65p
  • edited November 2015
    Sit and go didn't have it's very best of starts with 3 early exits to just the one win. later on my stacks all seemed to be going large but on a number of occassions these weren't good enough due to a few cooler AIs. All in all i've lost £1.05 in DYM cash but maybe this wouldn't be needed if I didn't even bother with BH MTTs, the chance of a head prize seems to make it much more difficult on knowing weather or not an all in is a bluff or not.


    When he makes the Ch on the flop i'm beginning to rule out the over pairs telling myself i've a good chance of being ahead. When the turn gives another 7 and brings the flush I put a bit of thought into it but choose to make the bet as protection from of suit over cards with a diamond. The one thing I didn't think about was the possability of trips.

    Q. Is the aggressive route going to be decent value in the long run or is it better to give opposion chance of bluff?
    albania Small blind   30.00 30.00 1172.50
    waytaz Big blind   60.00 90.00 7795.00
      Your hole cards
    • 8
    • 8
         
    x Raise   120.00 210.00 3690.00
    cummins Call   120.00 330.00 2720.00
    craigcu12 Call   120.00 450.00 1940.00
    hazey64 Fold        
    albania Fold        
    waytaz Fold        
    Flop
       
    • 7
    • 3
    • 9
         
    x Check        
    cummins Check        
    craigcu12 Bet   240.00 690.00 1700.00
    panderys1 Call   240.00 930.00 3450.00
    cummins Fold        
    Turn
       
    • 7
         
    x Check        
    craigcu12 Bet   540.00 1470.00 1160.00
    x All-in   3450.00 4920.00 0.00
    craigcu12 All-in   1160.00 6080.00 0.00
    x Unmatched bet   1750.00 4330.00 1750.00
    x Show
    • A
    • 7
         
    craigcu12 Show
    • 8
    • 8
         
    River
       
    • 3
         
    x Win Full House, 7s and 3s 4330.00   6080.00
  • edited November 2015

    SnGo stats

    £1.15 DYM -£1.05

    six max  85p

    overall i'd 19.15
  • edited November 2015
    My BR has dropped itself down again with a loss tonight of £9.60. playing these MTTs i'd knew for sure my BR was going to have a number of losses but it's not really too big a worry for me because the general story is these losses are being made up by me gaining that £55 in a UKOPS freeroll sat the other day. My general BR itself was about £42 and my plan all along was to take the cash from UKOPs freerolls and spread it out along various low stakes UKOPS.

    Look at tomorrows scedule I'll be basing all my time into DYMs as the only low stakes MTTs are rebuys and turbos,

    Overall= -£9.60

    £1+15p DYM=20p

    freeroll cashed out £2
  • edited November 2015
    Saturday itself had nothing to report other than having no success in the super UKOPS 2 free entry and non in the freerolls, Br itself was no different to what i had been at the beginning of the day.

    No DYMs on saturday had meant an early start to my poker tonight as I'd still required the 20 points for UKOPS freerolls and these ones were beginning earlier than they normally begin. This early start certainly proved a decent one and it was the dawn of some £2+25p DYMs along side the £1+15p. In total I played 27 and of those 12 were £2+25p, I did accidentally have a 25p+5p which stole 30p off me. In total I came out £14.30 better off with these Sit and gos including a run of 8 consecutive ones at the beginning.

    I might Have been £14.30 better off from SnGos alone but I still didn't give my BR a rise. The great run at the beginning made me choose to enter the Super UKOPs 3 directly and I also went for 1 sat for entry into the main semi and because of a couple more good SnGo and a decent run in general entry into the mini just as it began knowing tomorrow will have no entries outside of lower price sats

    overall: -£7.20

    £1+15p: £5.60 (12/16)
    £2+25p: £14.60 (9/12)
    25p+5p:-30p

    MTTs:-£21.80
  • edited November 2015
    I might have said only the lower price sat and freeroll MTTs were to be played today and it was true in terms of cost having tried just 1 sat for the semi but it wasn't the case in of entry as i did have a £2.30 token which got used in that £400BH rather than a £2.25 DYM. Cash terms didn't have sucecss. The sat I was in during the early hours did have a tough decision when it came to a chance of doubling, usually this sort of jam is an easy decision but on this occassion their was the question i did have 1 stack more shorter than myself and on top of that the person currently 3rd was consistantly remaining loose. The final decision came from the fact  as blinds were about to go 600/1200 and he'll probably call most aces.

    £1+15p DYMs had a issue on some occassions not being in the lobby which meant more £2+25p DYMs getting played  than my main DYMs and at one time during the evening play I went disconnected when a stack was getting in need of a double up with blinds at 150/300 and so my day has still been a loss even without much MTT.

    overall:-£2.65
    MTT sat:-£5.3
    £1+15p: £3.65
    £2+25p: -£1
    sat:-£5.30
  • edited November 2015
    Tonight has been a nice night in MTT terms having made my first UKOPs cash of the series and better yet, it came from the 1K UKOPS PLO BH which was an event i've been asky sky to do in recent weeks. Omaha itself might have 4 cards instead of 2 and be at greater risk from draws but one thing that didn't change was the fact most of my big pots came at the times ii've either a premium pair or collection of broadway cards. I finished in 7th overall making a total cash prize of £41.03 (28.84+£12.19 3HP).

    My time on sit sit and gos managed to be spent on more £1+15p today as the lobby itself always had one to join, finishing £3.85 up on £1+15p DYM. I did fit 12 £2+25p DYMs 12 were played in total and was less fortunate making a loss of £3, overall i'm still at a profit in todays sit and gos and the added cash prize in Omaha means i've finish with an increase in the BR.

    Overall £30.88
    MTT 30.03
    £1+15pDYM £3.85 12/21
    £2+25p DYM -£3.00 6/12
  • edited November 2015

    I guess i'll call it a day now having just witnessed an incidient with myself in 1K turbo BH, unual thing about this incident is I've got nobody to blame but myself having decided to call a 3bet jam of 9K (30BB) for a pot that would now be 21K knowing right away all I've got is a flush draw. The only excuse I can give myself is part of my focus was diverted away during this piece of play.

    -5.59 lost
    MTT -£1.04
    £1+15p -£2.30 0/2

    £2+25o -£2.25 0/1

  • edited November 2015
    It's been a few days since my last diary update was made but nothing to do with a bad poker run being kept secret, my time was diverted to the darts matches on sky.

    I might have enjoyed playing some UKOPS but it's probably a good thing they've finished because playing MTTs during the evening has made DYM exits more costly due to such little time. I still had one of those type of days tonight as my evening was spent playing DTD 1, 2 and 3 and  £400BH using the MTT token. I had an hours worth of time playing some DYMs and made a loss of £5.85.

    The MTTs didn't do much better, in DTD 1 i must have lost some focus because one minute 6800 chip stack looked good, the next minute i'm 3K below the average at 6000. DTD 2 had a great gift at the beginning from a person taking the all or nothing chance with J3s, I win with AA and as things went on had a stack of 14K, then at 100/200 comes a killer when my chance of a 25K pot with an A8dd being AI against Q9ss 96dd (A87ss Kdd) lost to a river straight 6-10, 7300 chips were lost and didn't come back. DTD 3 exit was a standard cooler played extra well by my villian.

    overall: -£9.85

    MTT :-£4
    DYMs
    £1+15p: -0.05p
    £2+25p: -£5.50
    25p+5p:-30p
  • edited November 2015
    No such luck during my first total sit and go day. £1+15 had began in a decent manner providing me with cash from 7 of the 8. Mid way into my session I'd got myself into a mess with to many tables and it had gone on longer than expected due to the mid and late stage DYMs being normal speed rather than turbo.

    Overall: -£2.85

    £1+15p:- £3.10

    £2+25p: 25p
  • edited November 2015
    Took another day off yesterday due to such tiredness from my volenteering work at milkwellburne woods in blackhall mill village.

    Tongiht proved to be another night whereby a decent beginning gets mess up because of DYM over load along side lobby confusion. The issues were some of my regular blind level DYMs were going on longer than expected creating points where I've had 9 tables up due to the additional £1K freeroll another cause of it was when I'd occassionally needed to register for a new DYM in the lobby due to failure in the one just finished and if that wasn't enough, I also had occassion issue with tiling forcing me to resize the table myself, this was no clearer than at the very end when I went for a max of 6 after taking a little break.

    It might have had lots of confision but luckily enough £1 DYMs had got themselves lucky with a winnings suprisingly more than i'd though and thankfully this has made up for what was a heavy price i suffered in the£2 DYMs

    overall: -85p
    £1+15p: £6.65 20/29
    £2+25p: -£8.50 8/18
    MTT:£1 from freeroll
  • edited November 2015
    When I first reviewed my game on thursday I thought my bad time might have been due to confusion and playing too many tables at once, I didn't have anything like this today but still seemed to be frequently making exits.

    I've paid a more indepth review of my games today and also looked at those yesterday and noticed my DYM W/L ratio was ok whereas turbo DYMS have had a 50/50 win loss ratio. sometime last month I did a simular review of them and that too had a 50/50 win loss ratio making me  question weather rake could make these too big a risk? Out of the 14 turbo exits 11 were £2.25, 3 were £1.15, i'd won 4 £2.25 and 10 £1.15

    overall: -£4.80

    £2+25p: -£11.75 10/23
    £1+15p: £2.95 17/27 

    MTT freeroll : £4
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