Every Don has its day

The_Don90

SPT

A quick update.

Haven't played much tbh. Tueday night was main, mini and MC was another losing day. Hit £309. C4P will boost this updates BR. 

I decided to take Wednessday away from poker and Thursday we had plans. That allowed me 2 normal life days and a third day of travelling to completely de-tilt thus allowing me to have maximum amount of fun at the SPT. 

We left home at 7.30am on the Friaday. We had gone for the budget bus option. I will not name the bus company as i will moan slightly and i feel its unfair to name, when not always things can be helped. We got on at St. Andrews bus station in Edinburgh. Given i don't drive this in an area i do know pretty well. We left Edinburgh at 9.15. The Bus was pretty quiet till Glasgow where i swear down it changed. There was a huge smell of pee. Sigh. 

Despite the smell, it wasn't too bad until we got to Wolverhampton, however then traffic was a mare, it wold seem everyone wanted to go to Birmingham. Thus we didn't arrive in Birmingham till 7pm. Which wouldn't be a problem if we didn't have a table booked for 7.30, and we hadn't worn our evening clothes. So quickly off to the hotel, quickest change ever and dive up the road (the restraunt wasn't far from our hotel) where we met the first batch of Sky regs, a couple for the first time. 

We then went to a pub, which was fun, although rather cold for whatever reason, the lack of roof probably didn't help.  

After that we got lost, but ended up in the casino for a few more drinks then back to the hotel. 

Saturday we woke early to get Mel ontothe alternates. Wer stopped off first for breakfast at Frankie and Bennys Cant say i have complaints apart from mels Ice Cream pancakes, her ice cream looked, smelt and tasted rather like bacon. We then met some more regs there before heading to get mel into the event. 

Then having our usual banter. 

My table was a mix tbh. James Hartigan 3 seats to my right (2 technically as one guy never showed up), with a player who I've played alot of fun games with Roguecell two seats to my left. There was Joe - aliase was Joe and some numbers and Leftyy on my table as 2 other sky players i knew. The rest i think where locals. 

I was actually card dead for most of this event. I didn't want to fold away my stack so the first hand i played its folded to me in the button. I open 3x, with Qs4d. It does seem light but at this stage i don't think Clare would play back and the local i felt i had a huge edge on. The local peeled, and the flop lands Qh 3s 5s local check called my cbet. Turn Ks. I think i made a mistake here but i decided to check back for pot contol, I wasn;t really sure where i was if i was honest. The FD got there, although we do have the 2nd to nut re-draw, The K got there and how many 3's and 5's does he have in range? So we don't relly beat much, i was kind of in shutdwon mode. The river lands the 4s though. Our local then leads for pot. I took time to think this decision over. Most of that was between raising and calling. The reason for that is, if we raise does the T or J call. I felt there was a chance of this specific player making that call, even after about 6 or 7 hands. In the end i just called he showed air. 

I made a few mistakes, i defended from the BB with a wide decent post flop kinda hand which I know i shouldn't do, and I'm putting it down to the bordom of looking at sigh hands so often. Anyways then the first bust on our table, I did have a part to play in this. I opened from the c/o with 65dd, BTN called and Leftyy in the BB 3b. I decided to peel as again i felt i had an edge post flop. Flop lads Qs 8d 5c Leftyy cbet for about pot, i folded and the local shoved, leftyy checks his cards and snaps, Local has KQ leftyy has AQ which held. 

I think i went quiet for a while after, Leftyy then bust someone else and the table dynamic started to change slightly. At this stage i went even more card dead, then a heater for about 4 or 5 hands. I lost the first one meh standard cant mind how it played, didnt lose much though. I took the blinds in the next few then one where i think Clare (Roguecell) done something awesome. I hope she won't mind me saying, Clare and me have spoken alot about strat, with eachother and others. I open from the c/o button folds and clare 3bets. Now 3b sizing from these stacks is something which over the past few weeks we'd discussed alot of. Thus this hand was maybe slightly leveled. I have since explained why i thought it was awesome, basically because of these recent strat talks, she knew i was stuck between a 4b jam and a fold. It was probably pretty close anyways given our history, and she probably knew i would likely want to 4b jam on her alot in that kind of spot. Thus she sized accordingly to make me think, i ended up folding, and clare went onto come second - glad my chips went to use.  

A while after this i raised A9 of spades from the HJ (think it was a round later to be honest) Joe peeled from the BB. The flop landed K high with 2 spades. I made a terrible mistake with a live tell in this hand. Basically i knew because of my stack if i cbet i was calling off, thus i counted out my cbet then second guessed my cards. Even if i was second guessing in future i dont double check and go with my initial instict, by looking i make it obvious i have a flush draw. I then made my cbet, and Joe obviously clicked to the annoying tell i gave off.  He shoves with QT, i snapped as i followed through with what i was doing, and i got there. 

I then managed to raise fold and hold aound a 13k stack. Then a brutal spot came up, i raised from MP. BTN called, SB called, BB has 5bb which i was obviously calling HU. He shoves, i have 88 and 30BB. Calling seems weak, shoving seems overplaying, folding feels horrible. In the end i folded and BTN re-shoved with 4's. I would have held. Not to matter i hate every option i have in that spot, and may discuss in more detail with others later.

A while later i opened UTG with 66, +1 shoved, again i made a mistake, it looked like 4k, my raise was to 1.2k (min raise) and i snapped as a result, turns out it was nearly double 4k at around 7.6k sigh. If igot a count as i should have i would have folded. 

That left me crippled with 5BB going over the dinner break. Its hard going into a break with that kind of stack, because you just want your chips in the middle. I also didnt like what was on offer, but 30mins is too short for frankie and bennys and Sub way isnt filling enough. In the end me and Mel arranged a compramise, Sub way for now, proper meal later. 

I got a pint, nothing is worse than not having the confidence not to take a spot, so i decided to have my first pint of the day, which would in theory help me get those 5bb into the middle. Second hand back i was BB (I had folded J2o UTG) 3 limpers, sigh. I look down, Kh, meh stuff it, it'll do, shove, i had seen it was accompanied by a 6 but meh, K high is K high. Some how, and I will not ever know how, i got it through. I had 10BB just from that. 

2 Hands later 1 limp UTG i shove on the BTN with 55, UTG snaps with TT and holds, gg me. I hadn't even drunk a quater of that pint. 

In the end i decided to socialise more and have a proper drink. I did play the side mel outlasted me due to a mistake. Basically i shoved fro re-entry(doublee chips or bust and get double chips kind of thing), got put on an alternates list. I swear my name never got shouted, but apparently it did so sigh. Matt Bates was in the same boat so sigh on that part too. 

So we just got very, very drunk. 

Which lead to returning home on the bus with a stinking hangover. 

Bankroll: £327.73

liamboi11

I sent you a wee pm but it was nice meeting you and mel at weekend buddy i`m sure i was helping you get drunk lol.

hope see ya at next one

The_Don90

Return Online

Liam I've just seen this, was great to meet you will check pm's - since messenger stopped i never see emails unless i have to and normally its fos so i just delete all lol. 

Anyways Sunday night i was too gone to play really. So Monday was my return. Pretty daft day from my point of view really, played DTD1 & 2 bust both before DTD3 started so just de-regd. Somehow ended up playing 5 or 6 all in sats, lost them all. 

Tuesday was similar, Played the 6.30 rebuy - which is becomming a regular in my schedule, main and mini, then some all in sats. Got nowhere reallly. I also jumped onto NL10 for Mastercash. Early on doubled then got 2 pots v dohhhh to get to a £60 stack on one table -£5 on the other. In the end i lost £15 of that £60 and £5 more on the other so made a small profit. But loss for the day.

So today, I added in some PS tournaments today. Got nowhere on them, lost flips and AQ v AJ and AQ v A2 done huge damage. Anyways, sky the rebuy went horrible again, cant complain thought. The 6pm Guarenteed tournament was added to my grind, along with a 6.05pm SPT sat and 6pm bh. The bh went horrible. 

The SPT sat had 3 seats to the QF, i made final 5 second in chips, and came 5th. AA v A2 lost, and then KT into KK BvB standard stuff. 

The 6pm thought was ok, i ground away for a long time, won my high variance spots and was able to apply alot of pressure on the bubble depsite being a shorty. That allowed me to get it in not just ahead but with chips behind. I held, then held again, then held again HU 2/1 chip leader. 

In the end i came 2nd, Im really annoyed i didnt see it out to be honest, but i dont think i done much wrong either. Ill have a proper review later. 

Bankroll: £303.74

Points:  412

unknown_username

Great read about your spt exploits don mate

Loving the sound of that bacon flavour icecream lol

The_Don90

Dayments

Horrible day really. Played lots, couldn't do anything. Mostly it was sats but at 8pm tonight i was sitting with a horrible -£60 loss. 

Anyways I was deep in the rebuy, ran pretty strong in rebuy period, couldn't do anything after, first time it went in i ran into KK. Sigh gg. 

Anyways at 5 past 8 i won an all in sat for the main - somehow. So quickly reged for mini. 

The main went well, probably should have cashed but went ftw, as a result took a high variance spot that went wrong. However the mini went well. I grinded away for ages, found myself on a  FT. 

In the end in the mini i came 5th. Feeling really down about it as i feel i had a pretty big edge, but my spots went against me. Nothing you can do really. Dont really want to think about it atm so not going into detail 

Bankroll: £327.26

Point: 505

The_Don90

Sat day

To be honest, I really couldn't be bothered playing today. 

Thus i decided to balance, i wouldn't play but i would play some SPT sats. 

£2 ones went bad, reg'd the QF that went bad, played a direct that went... well you see the patern.

I've made a decision regards to this diary. It seems to be going no where really at the moment. A huge reason for that i think is the lack of a goal. When i started this i had a few goals, mostly which all got blitzed in the first little while. The tilting has got better, Long term im breaking about even atm, but this year i've made a nice profit. And i got my first ME cash. 

I asked a friend for my sharkscope graph for 2013 only and he sent that. I have lost some at cash, and sold some stake for a couple of wins, and the SPT Birmingham sat shows but the fact i didnt cash doesn't. Thus that effects my bankroll. 

So I've decided to add some new goals to help this.

1. Win my first hendon mob flag

2. Cash in an SPT

3. Win a Sky Poker Main Event

4. Continuing developing as a player.

Current Bankroll: £300.16

Points: 528

longman912

In Response to Re: Every Don has its day.:

Sat day To be honest, I really couldn't be bothered playing today.  Thus i decided to balance, i wouldn't play but i would play some SPT sats.  £2 ones went bad, reg'd the QF that went bad, played a direct that went... well you see the patern. I've made a decision regards to this diary. It seems to be going no where really at the moment. A huge reason for that i think is the lack of a goal. When i started this i had a few goals, mostly which all got blitzed in the first little while. The tilting has got better, Long term im breaking about even atm, but this year i've made a nice profit. And i got my first ME cash.  I asked a friend for my sharkscope graph for 2013 only and he sent that. I have lost some at cash, and sold some stake for a couple of wins, and the SPT Birmingham sat shows but the fact i didnt cash doesn't. Thus that effects my bankroll.  So I've decided to add some new goals to help this. 1. Win my first hendon mob flag 2. Cash in an SPT 3. Win a Sky Poker Main Event 4. Continuing developing as a player. Current Bankroll: £300.16 Points: 528
Posted by The_Don90

   good luck with the goals Don, was good meeting you at brum, hopefully ill see you again at Nottingham.
   dam sats are causing me grief at the moment too.

LARSON7

Good luck with your gaols!

You have the determination to suceed and dedication 2 do it.

You have been playing a lot longer than me, but from what i can see it's going well, you are doing the right things and constantly developing.

Good luck bud

The_Don90

Today

Played some stars and some sky. 

Focus on sky here on stars im staked does anyone here actually care? lol. - altho shld have done better sick spot AK v KK  

Anyways, here played mostly SPT sats, feel im going to get abuse to stuff it. Regged every £2 sat from 4pm on. Played the 6.30 rebu y too. 

Qualified for semi twice. Failed in rebuy. 

Qualified from semi, semi didnt run, wont comment much on that atm.

Bankroll: £294.86

Points: 551

The_Don90

^^^ I WAS DRUNK WHEN ADDING ABVOE - FFS WHY CAPS 

bbMike

Hello mate.  Wassallthis that the Semi didn't run??

Both times I've qualified for it we've entered in Late Reg, it would make sense for them to start it a bit later so it definitely kicks off if there aren't enough entrants through directs and buy-ins at the time it launches.

The_Don90

In Response to Re: Every Don has its day. - some new goals:

Hello mate.  Wassallthis that the Semi didn't run?? Both times I've qualified for it we've entered in Late Reg, it would make sense for them to start it a bit later so it definitely kicks off if there aren't enough entrants through directs and buy-ins at the time it launches.
Posted by bbMike

From what ive seen 1 person reg'd nd the quarter over ran thus the actual semi didn't run. I've brought this up in the SPT section. I know this effects 9 other players from the semi, not including anyone who would late reg, 

bbMike

Cool. Posted my thoughts there. FWIW, the Customer Care don't really seem to know poker. Unless it's urgent I would always email a Sky Poker care address.

Congrats on making it though, hope it gets sorted.

The_Don90

Trials, Jubilation and a touch of heart break

Well what a mixed day it has been. 

I started the day talking to customer care, I won't go into detail, but was about last nights sat. In the end i got to play tonight . 

The desision of weather to play or not fully rested on that desision from Sky. 

So once Sky said ok, off i went, regged up for most primo semi sats. Won 2 in the end was about break even with a semi seat to play. That didn't go well, in good though. 

I then regged up more sats, ul around the bubble in a number of spots but meh. 

So no main. Sigh. 

At that point i was feeling pretty down. I felt i hadn't done much wrong, but variance isn't a friendly creature. I decided to deposit on .fr - basically i wanted a change a welcome break. So i put in 40E regged up for 3 tournaments all which where recommeded by Sky Poker's very own Dohhhhhhhhh. 

The SPT semi also started around this time. I cant denie that it wasn't hard. I literally felt like i had a nightmare seat draw. However in the end all worked out and i managed to squeeze into a seat for the 6max. Need to sort out travel/accom now which i will do over the next few days. 

The tournaments on the other hand were all around the bubble now too. One by one they all crossed the bubble. 

In the first one across the bubble i trebled my stack quickly after. Some insanely good spots, where people just went nuts. Then AA v JJ i open he 3bs i 4b i have just over pot back, he calls. Flop J high - pot for chip lead goes his way. gg. 

The next one i shove JJ into KK for around 12BB. 

The last one was crazy. 2/31, 25/28, 2/18, 9/10, 2/10, 10/10. In the end i came 6th for my first ever final table in that place. The exit hand im slightly annoyed at. I basically read a hand perfectly, and the lad turned his 3 outer, gg. But thats the nature of the beest. 

All in all a mixed night, but delighted with how i played. 

Bankroll:  £272.46

Points: 627

bbMike

Nice one getting to Notts, especially after all the hoo-ha! Maybe I'll avoid spewing off in one of the sats ans see you there.

The_Don90

MTT Variance

Over the last fews days I've been playing on 3 other sites. Roll Building was the plan however it started well but the last few days i hit a really strong slap of reality. 

MTT variance is cruel. Sometimes nothing goes right, I really feel i blew a few big scores, 2 mtt fianl tables and ne where i had 2 sick pots taken away from me for the chip lead - i ended up comming 23rd. 

However this is all standard stuff.

I think I will play some micro stakes cash over the weekend even f its just to remind myself of the basics. I am also going out on the town with some friends tonight, Mel and the little one are away visiting family this weekend so might aswell take advantage. 

Bankroll and points are same as last post. 

longman912

well done qualifying for notts Don c u there.

robbie1992

Well done on getting through the sat for the 6max, hope all goes well.

Whats your thinking around having a B/r on 3 sites, just so you can have abit of change when you play ?

The_Don90

Preperations

Firstly thank Longman and Robbie. In responce to Robbie before i go into my update. The bankroll over 3 sites is basically giving me more option to play. I think its impossible for a site to have a mtt schedule which suits me. By having entry fees on 3 different sites (4 as 2 of them are br transferable) i allow myself the best oportunity to hunt down that big mtt score that mtt players look for.

Appoligies for a lack of updates. I've been sleeping horrible. Recently I've not played enough, its about that simple. MTT variance is crushing me, i had to top up on .fr and again I've lost a chunk of that. I can't blame just variance though. I haven't put the hours in. 

Thats the issue with pokers, when your winning you want to play more, your playing well, your running well, and making money. Why wouldn't you. Unfortunetly when you lose it feels the opposite and sometimes worse. Ontop of that I haven't been sleeping well. Thus I'm either too tired anyways, or I struggle to motovate myself. 

The last few days I've also played some NL4 sessions. These where supposed to be cheap ways or going back to basics and having a look at what we're doing wrong. Went through Hand Histories with a friend after and clearly most of it was lack of concentration more than anything. 

Bankroll: £277.53

Points: 716

Edit: I have also sorted out a schedule for the French micromillions and still have 30% to be sold(at time of writing). If people are interested they can pm me for details.

The_Don90

Coolers !

So the MM(MS) started on Sunday. I've had a pretty rough start. Event 1 went really well to begin with trebled my starting stack, had a very soft table and was playing well. One table move, and 3 good spots gone wrong later we're out. 

Event 3(my second) was similar in a sense, we did pick up our first technical cash (1 euro for a knockout), we could have had more AK v A8 v 88 v TT all in pre - i had everyone covered at that stage, ontop of that, that was a 40k pot at 100/200. Again a table move and a cooler ended this mtt. The new table seen the only player who I've used my LAG note on. Opening a chunk of hands, more than mattbates and tommyd combined from memory. Anyways he opened, i had 99, i shoved for 18 bigs, he called with TT. 

Event 5(my third), this was a 4 max. It startedc badly, and ended on a mistake. The inbetween was good though. 

Even 6 was a weird structure. Something I'd heard of, but im not sure on the optimal strategy. Basically it starts off with 3 mnute blind levels, and works its way upto 10 minute blind levels. Was atually rather fun. However it was very tough, i was card dead too. In the end i manage to hover around starting stack till it was worth 20BB then ran TT into JJ. Standard. 

Event 9 (my 5th event) was rush/zoom poker. I've played a few events like this and in mtts they are fun. Although its tough, because some of the field know how to play zoom, the rest see suited cards and are like GET IT IN. Readless, you have to assign which category in to who. Although i managed to get my HH and note function working. Which helped in some spots. In the end i busted, defening the BB with A3 of clubs, the flop landed 356 with 2 clubs. I c/r and snapped the shove, he had 56 and held. I expected to see alot of pverpairs in that spot, didn't really consider 56 as part of their range, but it plays the same. 

As for Sky I have played some NL4 on the side. Not a huge amount and havent been running great there either. Although theres a couple of spots where i could/should lose less. 

splashies

Cheers for the update. gl in the rest of the events. I might play some at the weekend if my docs get verified in time.

The_Don90

Grimmmm!

Today was worse than yesterday. Played NL4 to begin made a total loss of 11p felt i played brill too. 

I played the £1 trident thing, 14 with 11 cashing. 

Played the main, roguecell coolered me. Bust within 10 mins.

Multi series was brutal today. 

Event 14 - got AQ v A4 in for 50BB pre, he got there that was my exit. 

Event 15 - Hyper HU shootout. Round 1 i got a bye. . Round 2 was a yo-yo a reasonable TAG opponent. I got there in one spot was a cooler, then got KK v QQ AIP flop him dead to one out. Guess the river. Yeap the Q of f****** diamonds. Recovered to go throo. Round 3, i couldn't hit a barn down, with a fish, if i was touching the barn door with the fish. Ontop of that every bluff got picked off. 

Event 15 - Triple chance 6 max turbo, we did save a rebuy wasn't bothing with rebvuying for 4BB. Although feel annoyed got into a 100K pot, All in pre At shoved UTG, we re-shove KK and BB calls with JJ. Ace on flop so UTG gets there, J on river so BB also gets there. Sighhhh. Rebought, lost a flip, down to 1 ante + 20 chips, UTG shove 2 calllers hit a FH. BB hand im in with just under 1BB, T6s hit a flusg. bust in SB with KTs but standard that. 

Feel kind of sick at the moment 

LARSON7

Hey Don

Tomorrow is a new day, and it will be yours.

Favourite Donnism " couldn't hit a barn down, with a fish, if i was touching the barn door with the fish". A classic!

You were playing really well at cash the other day BTW when i was on a couple of your tables. I was raising with air most of the time, and you played back brilliant. That takes some going, given the amount of tables you were playing.

Good luck with the promo mate.

splashies

Morning Don. Unlucky yesterday.

Just relax and enjoy the rest of the series, no pressure.

The_Don90

Horrible, but light at the end of the tunnel

Today i completey dodged cash. I finnishd off setting up my account with another well known French site and instead of playing the MS High roller decided to give it a crack instead. 

The day started badly on said new site, we played 3 mtts, 1 standard exit, the others with AA. Meh. 

Sky i trialed both the new events. The turbo one went well till KK lost to 56 on 5996 board. We lost the min. We then busted later v the same opponent/. The steal the button one went much better, our spots went well. In the end i finnished 4th for a tenner, and my first mtt cash in god nose how long. 

The momentum kept up for the MS. I only had one event today. It was the 7 euro 4 max. One event i was looking forward too aswell. A few suggested taking today off, but this single mtt was the reason why i didn't. We did also manage our first proper cash for the series. We started well, making good moves, correct calls, etc etc. We got upto and hovered around 30k for a long time. We did drop back to starting stack, then a few standard spots, and a bink later we had 117k and got a table move. This was an insane table, very soft but one guy was running insane. He just couldn't stop busting people, and he usually didn't have the best hand. I dwindleddown to around 80k then i open QQ UTG. He 3b from the BB, i 4b to 26k, i had 61k back, he calls. We have about 2BB over pot. 457 2 diamond flop, i cbet jam. He snaps having peeled the 4b with 55. Wp sir. Holding there would have put us into the top 10% of stacks again and with position on a weak player with chips i feel i have a huge chance of a deep run. 

Cash for series so far -  14.32 euros (inc a 1 euro head) and we have 5 euros saved from not rebuying yesterday. 

bbMike

Hi mate would you mind educating me on this series of events? What's the craic? I only play on Sky so no idea what you're on about, but multi-eventing sounds fun. Howdz it work then?

The_Don90

In Response to Re: Every Don has its day. - some new goals:

Hi mate would you mind educating me on this series of events? What's the craic? I only play on Sky so no idea what you're on about, but multi-eventing sounds fun. Howdz it work then?
Posted by bbMike

The easiest way for me to describe it is low stakes UKOPs 

The_Don90

The light gets brighter, and the half way stage

So today would see me finnish off the first 50% of the schedule of MS. I only scheduled to play 24/50 events and 10, 11 and 12 where tonight. The series so far has been disappointing but improvements are being seen. 

Last night after updating the diary i couldn't sleep. It resulted in me loading the new site. I'm going to call it Loseamax for the purposes of the future of this diary. I loaded up 2 mtts on Loseamax and contacted a friend about setting up a HUD. At the moment I'm on the trial but will be looking to buy it once that runs out. 

One mtt which name translates direct to "I'm not working tomorrow" thus i expected a long mtt, the other was a turbo. I'm not working tomorrow turned out to be a 9 seated, basically a standard full ring sit and go. I was playing both of these while setting up this hud. Which was rather fun.  

Anyways i won the glorified 9 seater sit and go deepie, for a total of 8 euros. Wooo. Still first win on loseamax. Then the hud was set up and i remembered i had some tokens for S&Gs and thought free testing. The winner of that sit and go got 5cents. so sigh. But it worked.

I re-tested it this morning on a bigger site multitabling 4 sit and go's we made a $3 profit. 

Then i returned to loseamax for the rest of the warm up. We got mega deep in our first tournament with was a deepstack, 150k with 100 or so left, 69 cashed, and we didn't cash. A guy who was playing 67% of pots, hit the nuts v my 2 pair twice. gg me. 

Anyways i got on with things, and in a turbo i crushed. Made the FT and then lost a mammoth pot. I came 6th despite starting the 6 handed final table 2/6 sigh. 10 euros tho. We also got ul in other mtts with standard spots. 

So onto tonight and the MS. 

Event 1 today was a zoom with a big game format. For those not familiar with that its pot limit pre, no limit post. Anyways this started well, but slowed, eventually busting KK v AQ. Not all in pre. He opened UTG i 3b from SB. I cbet a Qxx flop, turn blank i bet again. 6k in middle, my stack is 4k. River A. Have no option to shove, he doesn't have any A hands in range bar AQ. Sigh. 

Event 2 was a 6 max bounty hunter. A deepstack version of alot of the ones here on sky. But with a much more turbo based structure. In the end I 3b shoved over a 2.2BB raise and call. The opener folded but the caller snapped with AQ. Sigh. 

Event 3. I have to admit i was licking my lips at this one. Its the cheapest of the series but 1 euro entry, 4 max, HYPER turbo. 4 max can be high variance at this buy in limit, purely because people aren't always aware of the correct range. Adding in hyper turbo makes it even more high variance. But both of these factors also increase our edge on the field. We balanced well for a while, lost a flip, won a flip. 332 left. 320 cash. We have 19 bigs. We are presently 3 handed. We don't want a min cash in this mtt, who wants a min cash in a 1 euro buy in. We're going for the deep run. The BTN who has us covered by a tiny amount min raises. Add in dynamic of bubble approching, QJ feels like the nuts. I rejam. He snaps quicker than a snappy thing. His A3o holds.

Sigh.

A disappointing first 50% of events of the MS but i think its only a matter of time. We've had our variance and I've still ran slightly -EV (Hud backed) today and managed to show only a small loss, adding a FT ontop of that. 

Jac35

Hi Don

Nothing to say really.

Hope you're well and all that.

Jus wanted to be post 300 in your diary

(By the way, if you want to be post 250 in mine that would be lovely)

The_Don90

A major result, mixed with more disappointment

Today was a weird day. Yet more disappointment in the MS. 

I'll start with the positives. Loseamax, renaming, Lose the max. :P.

Anyways i played 5 or 6 mtts, lost some brutal pots early. However in the most expensive tournament we entered (a 5 euro deepstack) we folded away for a long long time. Although we did have an early double with AK v KK AIP. In the end we went onto come second for just shy of 220 euros. 

The microseries started brilliant. Event 1 was a 6 max mega deepstack, early on and i mean still level one we got into probably the largest pot in terms of bb ive ever been involved in.  Definately in a tournament A full 750BB. UTG opened, 2 callers and we're in BB with KK. We 3b, get  3 callers. Kxx flop with 2 hearts, we have Kh. We cbet 2 callers, turn heart. I continue, 1 call and a shove. We re-shove, other guy calls. Peeler has AhXs for a backdoor nut flush draw no pair, the other guy has 63 of hearts. River case King. There is an arguement for folding here in an mtt, but i think its flawed, we have the Kh as a re-draw card ontop of that we have all our board pairing outs. 

However that event went pair shaped, we managed to add one more starting stack to our stack before AQ v AA for around 28BB AIP, very next hand i 3b jam A9o and get snapped by QJ for around 35BB, he got there. Sigh.

The rebuy event was event too. We took a triple stack, and folded for pretty much the full rebuy period, a couple of raises and folding nut worst flops. Took the add on. We did double, with QQ v KQ in a 3b pot BvB and flop landed Q high. However AK v KQ AIP later we had 8 bigs. We shove over 2 limpers and one limper snaps with 66. gg. 

The Speed up, i have to admit i loved this one. We where slow for a while but managed to build a stack through various pots. We then lost a flip v a guy who was nuts. He had also won a flip the previous hand. Greedy ******* lol. 

However we now have a nice result under our belt and we're playing well. Again i have looked at the EV graph for /fr and its seriously -EV this only applies to all in situations. We're also slightly -EV on winamax but nowhere near as close.