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I had another bit of fun with the 2 sky poker TV guests on the 45 minute master cash session and again I give the rec some aggressive bullying. I did have one cooler against th pro and got away cheaply by playing KK in a deceptive way rather than 4betting pre before getting it's stack all in against AA. This won me £1.62. My general bankroll should me I keep away from master cash but I put an exception here due to the number of leaks these guests make, i'll be unlikely to get up against the rest of the table and it's only 45 minutes.
Overall:£12.87
nl4: £11.25
MSnl20: £1.62
Did everyone put clock forward? I certainly forgot, it wasn’t until 9pm actual time that I realized my clock was wrong. Putting the clock forward at the time it was done made me get a little less confident over my moves. The tables themselves were picking up with aggression and due to the time I felt as if I needed to be more aware and cautious of my aggression. I finish my session just after 10pm following the 3 cash wins in a row (58p, 76p and £1.06) and making a total prize of £7.10.
The villains more loose aggressive style of play might have been one reason to call it a day but hand history might say it was more of a quiet more fit folding type tonight. 8 pots won me £1+ and 8 pots lost £1+, 3 of each involved me sitting in the blind and going in against a monster hand held by villain. I had 8 pots with £1+ won and 8pots with £1 loss. During the early stages I did miss out the one chance an AA would be ahead when 32p was min raised by a player and second player goes £1.64 all in resulting in me folding AA. The board at this time was 996, 2 players were in and without much known yet I fold. The min raise had J6 and the all in guy held 65.
Overall £7.10I took a break away from the tables on a high and decided to make a return for an evening session. It was a session intended to last from 6pm-10pm but required another break due to lots of big pot losses.My focus during this part of the session was clearly not up to its full self on guy was able to over bet jam full house and gets me to call the A high flush thing I was sure to be ahead. nut flush might look a standard call in the first place but on replay this person played the full house face up and had I realize it was paired I would have certainly folded that overbet jam. Like the noon session I again took a short break got new tables and from doing this I had what was my best point by far. This session had the easiest of table dynamics. I finished the night with all 6 tables making cash, this cash still wasn't enough to make a win but the great thing was it made a bad looking time turn good.
Overall: -£3.83
noon nl4:- £6.66 (-£11.76+£5.10)
evening £2.83 (-£8.45+£11.28)
As it's such a bad loss i'm calling it a day and won't be playing that TV mastercash table mean my day has finished -£17.49
Tonight I was on the verge of finishing the night a few pound down and sitting onthe end of a sickening river when I get all in with AJ against a J6 holding trip jacks and see him get the 6 on the river. A few moments later J10 thought an over bet jam with J10 would wrk on me holding JQ on Q55 7 board but it failed providing me an extra £1.76, I also got a double up with agains an AQ who went aggressive pre. I left both these tables the minute the hands fnished and it was just moment later I retrieved some of that cash lost against J6 with a more sucessful AJ.
My night has still finished down but rather than being pounds down it's ended up pennies down.
Overall -83p
Recent days I’ve been away from the tables due to an anxious and stressful mood. This mood wasn’t poker related I just didn’t want to risk taking that mood into my poker game given my current time in that.
My return tonight was a case of good tables very good and bad tables very bad as the majority of them finished large in loss or win. One table saw a number of big losses from coolers and cost me -£8.62 so I exchanged tables meaning the big loss would be unknown. A second table lost £4 and this time it was more about bad luck than coolers I normally got it in well but that didn’t work out well and allowed a selection of small stacks to double. Today’s session of big losses were not going to mean big loss to finish as I did get 3 tables achieving over £6 winnings and like the big losses these too were sometime getting switched afterwards meaning Those high losses wouldn’t be noticed in my BR drop at all.
Overall I made £3.65 but my finishing total will be £2.95 as I added an extra 70p onto my free MTT token enabling me to try 1 main event AI sat.
My overall day has finished in double figures for the first time in days and was a case of one session with fit or fold and another session of keeping my game dynamic going whilst having the interuptions
My first one would last between 1pm-4pm. The table dynimics in his session were far more passive than the recent ones the only time a large pot came from a LAG was when a person shipped Q6o he got victory against my 1010 but that cash was returned back to me the very next hand when his shove with 55 lost the flip against my AQ. One table did stand out easily from the other 4 whilst a second one was standing out a short while until a person lost out doing a jam with K10 against me with A2 on riv A24 2 K. That one which had the K10 jam did change following what happened in that hand but the second one was certainly a more aggressive. I had the feeling this table was leaking cash easily but that didn’t prove to be the case. I had to reload a total of £9.02 and had it not been for my AK getting a double up against QQ this table would have seen loss over £10.
My evening session was a session which tells me that down swing was not a down swing at all but more a case of not being in the right shape of mind. Things began in a great a humorous way when somebody decides to make a few comments about me folding against a player who 3bet jammed. This player did soon get his wish when I call an all in jam holding JJ. The humorous side was not only the fact I won the pot but also seeing him go all in second later and lose. Mid way into my session I did become distracted from my game and had to take a short break meaning I had a short spell of losses whilst readjusting. This short spell of losses wasn’t that severe and as a whole I might have given this session a double figure finish had it not been for a few very late heavy losses.
Overall: £13.85 (8.24+5.61)
I’ve had a selection of sessions today beginning at 1:30pm. My plan was to play until 4pm unless things started going wrong. The funny thing was my session did begin to go wrong and force me to finish at 4pm. I was sitting about £8 up at 3:30pm and then came the horror. First up was a spot where I'm 3bet jammed on a 3 diamond flop, I myself was holding QQd and had notes already that he shoves loose, The call did reveal to be correct as he turned Ad8 the trouble was I didn’t remain ahead therefore lost £5.56. The next damage came when my aggressive line with AK didn’t succeed. I was intending to just call it but changed my mind last minute and doing this left me another £3.80 down thanks to opponent’s QQ. Now I knew for sure it would be my final round so took the final free cards before sitting out in the BB. One of those hands dealt at this time was KQ. This hand was going to be played calm but getting trips meant I would call a large bet with greater confidence of being ahead and that was correct until the river when the opponents KJ got his J to go ahead of my KQ. This session could have won me £8.41 but a sickening end means I finished £4.11 down.
I can that sickening end of my first session to one side having had the start I had in my early evening session. First up came two decent pots thanks to a bit of Ch/C when one guy tried to steal the pot away with IP bluffing when I ch turn, the second Ch/c was when a player did a flush draw semi bluff on flop and then tried attempted a river bluff having missed it. A 3rd player had awarded me his full stack when middle pair got played over aggressive what he didn’t know was I held 2 pair at the time. The Lag didn’t stop there next up I got 2 preflop all ins thanks to an AKv AJ and QQv KJ. The session went on for 2 hours but had those hands went wrong it would have lasted just minutes. £11.58 was made
After another short break I returned to the cash tables again with intention to play the live master cash table. The nl4 tables were fairly passive most way through and my stacks saw little change, the very end of that time did see one suprise when I got myself the full stack from a player who held 84 two pair and called a 4bet jam on the board J10 4 9 8. Mastercash itself didn’t manager to go ahead because the lobby failed to update therefore I missed out the table that held the guests.
That last period finished with £8.70 and my overall winnings is £16.17.
overall -£8 (estimate had lots of table switching)
Calling stations are great value in the long run but in the short run they can be costly. These tables might have lots of loose callers but it's been years since the tables were as loose as this. Hands like AK or AQ had to hit and if they didn't well you'd be left with the question do we make a cbet, ch/C or just Ch/F because bluffs were sure to be high risk against the calling stations and one problem these calling stations did have was a bit of aggression. At £16.14 down I took the break and had a bit of think about my game. I hought seriouslyabout the final 30 minutes and thought of ways in which I should change my game.
On my return I was intending to just put what ever damage had happened to a minimum and scrap it if my return remains poor but never was I expecting to see the return come out with the cash prize it did! Was it table selection, was it just great play or was it just great luck? Whatever it was that happened it certainly provided me with an astonishing come back. i certainly believe part of it was down to getting the chance to share the table with someone one tilt because this guy alone provided me over 3/4 of a £16 cash prize I achieve on one table. I might expect to reach double figure profits on most occassions but a profit of £35.16 is like a one off.
Overall £21.17
NL4 -£16.14+£35.91
I also won £1 in the freeroll and £1.80 from russian roulette having used £2.30 token then made a second entry using half of the first win+ I tried one LR semi sat.
My choice of grand national horses didn't provide me any cash in the race but a grand national freeroll cash prize of £20 means the £21 I lost in bets has been reduced to just £1. A triple up with JJ had got me a cipstack that was sure to see me pass the bubble allowing £2. Due to ithe speed of blind increases all in was going o be the standar of the game meaning luck really neeeded to be on my side and it was, Igot tripled up with AK winning the flip against 55 and 66 then came a double up with K4 v A6 mean I was now getting towardsthe upper end of the cash prizes reward and a final triple up with A2 allow me enough chips to get past the £20 bubble.
Tonights nl4 cash would see me get cash prizes in a different direction to it's recent ones. I first at 7pm playing at 6:15pm and had a decent start putting myself up £7.34. I took a break at 8pm before making a return but n my return it was a diferent story altogether. I did finish this session £1.49 but part of that was thanks to 65s getting tself a straight flush running into a nut flush. The players own actuions would have lost me much from a general flush because he just min raised 20p but as another loss I would have left the l table right away rather than attempt to make a couple more pennies.
Overall £28.83
Nl4 cash £7.34+£1.49
MTT freeroll £20
A win of £4 using my token used on an AI HU and a£4.26 lost in a dull sky poker live Ms session packed with junk is all i’ve had to report from recent days.
The return itself has been a real mixture of cash gaming beginning at 12:25 when I chose to include 1nl8p table along side 5 nl4. Being so early meant table selection was limited 7 nl4 tables were being used but 2 f those tables had a number of chipstacks more than twice the size my starting stack. Rather than get straight onto those tables I took a look at nl8 and noticed one of those tables consisted of chipstacks under £6, I made £6.20 on that table and a good chunk of it was thanks to a limped pot giving me a full house against trips.
The evening had a mixture of different cash tables alongside free rolling. During the period of freerolls I had 3 sky poker nl4 cash along side 1 888 poker 7 card stud table. Just 30 minutes in The sky poker cash games were already doing great so I called an end to sky poker cash right away and decided to give poker star cash a try. It’s been a few months since I last played poker stars cash and saw tonight as a great chance of having enough time to play standard whilst having a decent cash prize on sky poker. I had 4 pokerstars cash tables going and knew the aggressive factor would be easy after the amount of aggreesion I had during recent weeks of sky nl4p and that just so happened to be the case. After just 355 hand the graph on holdem manager would see both my showdown and non-showdown cash totals get into profits and not once did they return back into the negative area. I made myself $35.10 ending what was a great day of poker. I did lost $5 on 888 don’t feel too fussed about that at all because 888 is just pure fun and hasn’t got very much BR at all
Overall £25.15 +$3510
Nl4p £17.95
Nl8p £6.20
MTT freeroll £1
Pokerstars nl10 $35.10
One positive thing that final session turn around did have was allowing me the confidence to play what was a sky poker live game of pure fun some of the things I'd do in that live session would never been seen in the normal game. I was amazed when K2 would win value from the celeb caller when my who intention was to double bluff the board AK10 Jccc 2. I could have finished the night at £50+ but the celeb came back at me dropping my cash back down to 45.
Overall: -£20.37
micro stakes cash-£25.10
MS £4.73
This theory Was tested in the evening when I diverted down to just 2 poker stars cash tables and gone down to 4 sky poker cash. Most my focus during this period was on sky poker cash all I did on the other one was take quick peek at my hand when it was my turn to act. My first attempt at this theory has shown signs working having made $15 during that period. The extra focus on sky poker tables didn't help these cash table get a decent run but I did notice my mistakes more easily.
Overall£1.65 -$32.18
Sky nl4-£2.11
skynl8 £3.76
pokerstars was -$47.18 but dropped down to -$32.18 after giving my theory a try.
I've made 81 loss but overall I consider tonight a good night having made cash prizes on 3 of the 4 tables
During the majority of the evening I was 4 tabling sky poker and 2 tabling poker stars. poker stars itself went fine all the way through and came out $24 greater meaning I've made up a $25 loss I made from a frustrating night yesterday. I left pokerstar cash early and for the majority of my remaining time I was 4 tabling on sky. For my final hour I was about £3 down and thought maybe a couple table switches and adding 2 more might help, this was planned with intention of calling it a day if I were to lose 25bb+ in a single spot and had no very good stack won. When I chose to do it I knew my day would be a decent one because even if I were to lose another £4 I've still got that $24 won from poker stars cash. I was about to call an end when I expect 1010 to have lost on the board 775 A Jssss but he turned 86 meaning I was still ahead even with 4 spade board.
Overall 15p+$24.07
nl8 -£2.64
nl4 £2.79
pokerstars nl$10 :$9.97
pokerstars nl$5 $14.10
Due to all the value I had called an end to poker stars and shifted across onto sky poker cash before leicester city match. In the past i've been playing 6 tables but that could be changing now, I'm still intending to have 6 tables up but only 4 of them will be sky cash the other 2 will be poker stars cash where HUDs and time bank enable me to put more focus onto the sky poker cash and step up in stakes. I'm not going away from nl4 all i'll do is divide the table selection amounst both nl4 and nl8 which is just what I did today when I had 2 nl4p and 2 nl8 and finished with a profit from each of them making a total sky win of £10.15
I was intending to have an evenig cash session on sky but changed my mind at the last minute and looked through HUD HH to help define which villians are good. I did attempt an 888 poker freeroll but didn't cash out.
My current BR on 888 poker is $0.10 but I'm attempting to build that up from it's freerolls and will start to try and build it up more on nl2 cash once I get a few dollars.
Pokerstars cash $19.26
sky cash £10.15
Following on from this meeting I thought it would be best if I now keep away from cash because this meeting would leave my mind less relaxed. I still did have some poker play in me and decided to play the DTDs and some poker stars knock out sit and gos. The DTDs themselves didn't go well, DTD 1 had an early exit on a table that I normally see on freerolls even my current freeroll table didn't get as much all in as this table had. DTD 3 was the next to go as a 3bet AI with my flip hand wouldn't strike leaving me with just DTD2 which was going well but then turned card dead and was soon finished.
The poker stars knock outs were a different story all together, A combination of it's speed and the fact it's got knock out prizes meant players were getting exits right away meaning I could remain patient until that decent hand comes then get my stack doubled up with an AI. 14 were played in total and of those 6 had seen cash. The great thing about these were that you could get 3 times as big a prize for finishig in 1st meaning the number of early exits can be larger than wins. $8.03 was made from these putting my overall poker stars total at $16.70. I did get £2 in the sky freeroll and one DTD was a token entry meaning I'm just £1 down on sky
Overall $16.70-£1
pokerstars cAH $8.67
KNOCKOUT stt $8.03
SKY mtt -£1
I did have some cash table poker on poker stars and this cash period had allowed me to cash out $13.11.
My evening was spent on sky cash tables. These tables didn't really begin well and I decided to take a shower. I made a return to sky cash after having a shower and the return saw things improve. I thought it was mainly directed at myself but something tells me that these tables have actually got a lot of people playing like a maniac generally. One player had screamed yeh when the river card give him a flush but he was in for a suprise when the showdown revealed his nut flush was going to be beaten by straight flush.
I did have another master cash period with the TV guest but today the hands were junk I did get the occassional hand against another sky player and made £2.44
Overall :£8.70 -$13.37
sky cash £8.70
pokerstars cash $13.11
Pokerstar sit and go -$26.48
Overall
Today the poker begun on poker stars with a cash session making $9.86, I also had a selection of knock out sit and gos and made about $5 from these. Once the challenges were out the way I turned across to sky poker where it would be a case of 2 nl4 and 2 nl8p. The nl8p went very well I made £12.44 from these two tables which is more than my total win thanks to a loss of nl4. LAG is very common at the minute and the problem is broadway cards can get more costly when they miss. I did make a switch from my original nl4 tables during the session and had a turn around on the new tables meaning I still did leave with a decent profit of £8.96
poker stars $9.86+ around $5 of knock out cash
skypoker £8.96
I've lost $25.18 most of which came from a selection of bad luck. I lost another £9.35 on sky poker cash and that too was a case of LAGs.
My diary itself shall get a weekly update rather than a daily update as very little will be said daily.
Monday- I did was a very active tournament day, I had a selection of cash outs in sats for the early semi and went on to use them towards each moday main event semi and mini. I also had a selection of DYMs that day and cashed out in 6/10 £5.50+2/4 £3.30. The DTDs themselves were also played and overall I came out £1.75 down.
Tuesday- A day about live master cash more than anything with a selection of big hands including one against the live TV pro. I begun with rivered trip kings I did a value bet with top pair on the turn and was called by QQ he was confident enough to call the turn meaning a second king probably made him more confident enough to call the river I got £29 with trips. The big story came when I called ryan spittles double or nothing all in at the very end. I wouldn't normally consider calling but in this spot I could see ryan doing it with almost any pair or ace, he needed the double up knowing if he dousn't he'll fail the challenge. £53.98 was made on the master cash. Another 24p was made on a different table prior to me sitting out plus £2 was won in the mayhem freeroll and £9 was won from DYM making a total cash prize of £65.22
Wednesday was all freeroll, the tuesday night master cash allow me the points therefore just the 1K and mayhem freerolls were played and this night was my best freeroll night of the week with a total cash prize of £44.
Thursday- very simple day really it begun points collecting with 5 £5.50 DYMs, I cashed out in 3 of the 5 making me a cash prize of £2.50. That day's freerolls were all early exits so that £2.50 DYM cash was my only cash.
Friday- This begun in the same way as thursday had done with 5 £5.50 DYMs I cashed out in 4 of these 5 awarding me a cash prize of £12.50. Freerolls themselves were not going to see the same story, I managed to get past the bubble of both the £1K and mayhem freeroll with cash prizes of £1 and £20. Overall that day finished £33.50
Saturday- Afternoon of turbo DYM I had been watching football during the day meaningt I had little time left to get into the mayhem freeroll and my current table position would say I couldn't afford to miss one. £2.70 was lost from that evenings DYMs and the early mayhem freeroll exit would say I might as well have skipped it.
To finish the week off I had 2 DYMs and noticed that just 2 £5.50 DYMs was enough to give me the points needed for the mayhem freeroll so called an end cashing out in both making £9. In the mayhem freeroll I was looking to get as many heads as I could but the early table had it's away players and the early all in wasn't due for a while. Around the bubble and just after the bubble I did make 3 heads and was sitting on a table dominated by short stacks. Having these short stacks around me I was thinking more heads were coming and got the decent cards needed but one thing stood in my way and that was laddering. The short stacks were under 5BB deeps but that extra cash prize stopped them going for the all in. £10 was made in this freeroll giving me £19 for the overall day.
This weeks overall total is £159.77
MTT+freerolls £71.45
DYMs £34.10
Master cash £54.22