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The bit in red is one of the main reasons i chose 5s instead of 10s, even though technically i think i'm good enough to play the 10s i still find it difficult mentally still to lose a load in a row, i want to eventually overcome that, but at the moment i want to be playing comfortable and without pressure as with uni work being stressfull coming on and losing £100 in a standard session just not what i need from my hobby lol. Btw i am just about to send you a pm.
What are your plans then? I think it sometimes feels like it's going no-where if you aint aiming for anything.
Do you still enjoy playing HU SnGs or is it only fun when you're winning?
apologies for the long post if you got bored and skipped to the end to summarize.. for the moment bankroll is at the 1k mark and i will be playing the turbos mainly with the odd hyper mixed in and some mtts and cash when i feel on my game.
To make things a bit less poker related...
1. Favourite Film? (I know it's tough)
2. Favourite Book?
3. What footy team do you support?
1) This is england is a great film had to study it in media at A level and really enjoyed it, tv spin off not so good but still a decent watch.
2) I dont actually read that much apart from psychology journals every so often and whatever book related work im assigned, i read one flew over the cuckoos nest when i did english lit at A level and i enjoyed that so i guess i would say that is my favourite book.
3) West Ham are my team have been since i was old enough to be taken to upton park by my dad, had a season ticket for years untill i was like 18, have been to three playoff finals and the famous 2006 cup final which was amazing, still bitter about gerrards goal in the last few minutes costing us but was still a magical game to be at.
How about you? havn't seen much related to football in what i have read in your diary..
2) Shogun by James Clavell. Also love 1984
3) Everton, the only team a proper scouser supports
I felt i was on top of my game early on patiently picking good spots and i made one call which i was happy with which i will post in a minute, Hu was against a very good player, i had a 3/1 chip lead at the start and he got even quite quickly, then i got the lead again with a well timed bluff before getting nearly even again. Then i got lucky when i made a play that pretty much won me the game, basically the player had been minraising almost every big blinding so i was jamming over the top alot, ended up getting in q2 against k10 and hit the 2 on the turn always nice to win when i'm a slight underdog and then i won a standard all in with JJ against Ax to win the game. So i'm very happy with that result, only played about 4 HU games previous to the mtt and was on a little profit, probably helped me to play better coming into the tournament fresh without having played for hours and hopefully will increase my confidence in buying in to mtts on a regular basis when i feel i'm playing well.
The game flow/dynamics felt very different to what i'm used to, which means that a badly timed bluff or missed value can be a big difference in the game therefore it feels alot more intense, now this is probably alot to do with my perception of the stakes and i'm sure to the villain it is just super standard. But it's funny in HU how context can really affect your game and how you play, i'm sure if i was playing the exact same player at 2.10 level without any knowledge of the player the game would of felt super standard and thats why i'm trying to test myself against these players every so often so i can tell myself they are not like crazy brilliant players who read your soul HU but just another player whose style be it a very good winning style, you have to adjust to in order to beat. By no means do i think i could beat these guys who make very decent profits long term at the moment, but it is good to know that i can at least hold my own and it is always a confidence booster to win any game above the usual stakes i play.
Playing some 5 aside football today should be fun, played football for a team most of my childhood and miss playing regularly so looking foward to it and it's probably one of the few activities i can do these days without drifting off and thinking about poker.
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=2006%20fa%20cup%20final%20gerrard%202nd%20goal&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDYQtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DwSJSaHDcVYo&ei=_v8PUZ6rKMnD0QXm9oDQBw&usg=AFQjCNHydx1BQxELfcQrm14Dt44ALKeLJw&bvm=bv.41867550
I've done it before, before you play the first game you can swear you will definitely only play 1 regardless of the result but the brain will think of all kinds of excuses to get you to keep going so just be careful.
From what I can see, every time you've took a shot @ £15s, £21s etc it's went well but we all know that sometimes you'll play someone who has literally no clue what they're doing and still get crushed by the deck.
5 a side was good, our team had no subs though so 20 minutes was actually tougher than i expected, i jog regularly so managed to last without passing out or playing the goalhanger role. We lost 6-4 to a much better team, It is a regular thing so looking foward to next week already.
Second hand of eliminator ...... although i have managed to win every all in since to get a near starting stack back lol
Will try add in the image of this morning..
When the 7 hits on the river i'm fairly certain i have the best hand, i choose to minbet for a number of reasons..alot of the time the player will call with anything just to see/not have a bruised ego at folding to a minbet thats a quarter of the pot which means a little extra value, in this particular case the opponent has a tendency to do strange things like raise to a big amount in a manner that is inconsistent with how they play hands when they actually have it, so i'm also fully expecting a minraise or even a 3x bet which i can snap off. To put it simply based on past info and how they have played previous hands, if they had a hand good enough to shove they would of already bet on one of the streets and most definetly led out on the river, so i can rule out the hand being a monster and therefore the shove being for value, which leads to the question why would they shove a marginal hand when they can easily call and take away a decent pot, which all adds up to make this a snap call when they shove the river, as it always feels like a desperation bluff that is preying on my show of weakness with the minbet, but luckily i'm well aware that they percieve my minbet to be weak and therefore believe a shove with nothing should take the pot away. What made me particularly happy about this hand was that it was the higher level game and i still trusted my read and made the call when on previous occasions i may not off. I hope this gives some insight into how i'm thinking during these games and doesn't just seem like a load off rambling....Here is the hand: