Every Don has its day

The_Don90

So the runbad retuns, but the MS has its second cash

So today was pretty brutal I won't say otherwise, you will see reading this. However I don't think i played enough either. 

The day started with a 5 euro deepstack on lose the max. Never got going can't even remember my exit. 

Anyways it turns out Lose the Max also has a series of mtts at the moment with some low stakes buy ins. Turn out tomorrow is the last day but i regg'd up today. Managed to get a good start in the 5pm one. Until we got into a 100K pot pre with KK v JJ. He 4 card straighted on the turn and to rub it in hit the 4 card flush on river. At the exact same time i exited event 2 with QQ on a Q high board. Was for a 40k pot which would put us in good shape for the rest of the mtt with a very soft table. 

The other 2 started after the microseries. In one i busted with QQ v KK. Standard. The other we open TJs in the c/o 2 callers both from the blinds. flop 689. SB donk pots BB calls, i shove. SB calls with A7. Everything bricks. Sigh. 

Onto the MS. This has been a disappointing series so far, Today had 2 events. A standard 6 max, and a full ring big game format mtt. 

The big game format was up first. For those that don't know thats pot limit pre, no limit post. It was also a double chance, we didn't need our second chance. We plucked away for ages. Eventually we got KK v QQ all in pre for a 100K pot. We held. very next hand, literally we are dealt the same to Kings. We get it in v KT for another 30k (60k pot) A on flop Q on turn, ill let you pick out ur river. We later got moved table, opened 3 hands, in 2 of them we get 3 bet by the same opponent. On the third he peels and get there. Later we have 8BB, we cant open jam so open the max we can to take the first spot we got. Same opponent 3bet jams, we have tiny amount behind so call off. he has Jacks. Sigh gg. This was just inside the money though. We have almost doubled out full series cash with rebuy saved and cashing for this one mtt. 

The 6max we had a soft table. Eventually we plucked away and went spot dead. We took what spots we did have but got 3bet. In the end we had 12BB and shoved 66 UTG, re-shove from +1 you know is never good. It was KK. gg. 

DOHHHHHHH

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So the runbad retuns, but the MS has its second cash So today was pretty brutal I won't say otherwise, you will see reading this. However I don't think i played enough either.  The day started with a 5 euro deepstack on lose the max. Never got going can't even remember my exit.  Anyways it turns out Lose the Max also has a series of mtts at the moment with some low stakes buy ins. Turn out tomorrow is the last day but i regg'd up today. Managed to get a good start in the 5pm one. Until we got into a 100K pot pre with KK v JJ. He 4 card straighted on the turn and to rub it in hit the 4 card flush on river. At the exact same time i exited event 2 with QQ on a Q high board. Was for a 40k pot which would put us in good shape for the rest of the mtt with a very soft table.  The other 2 started after the microseries. In one i busted with QQ v KK. Standard. The other we open TJs in the c/o 2 callers both from the blinds. flop 689. SB donk pots BB calls, i shove. SB calls with A7. Everything bricks. Sigh.  Onto the MS. This has been a disappointing series so far, Today had 2 events. A standard 6 max, and a full ring big game format mtt.  The big game format was up first. For those that don't know thats pot limit pre, no limit post. It was also a double chance, we didn't need our second chance. We plucked away for ages. Eventually we got KK v QQ all in pre for a 100K pot. We held. very next hand, literally we are dealt the same to Kings. We get it in v KT for another 30k (60k pot) A on flop Q on turn, ill let you pick out ur river. We later got moved table, opened 3 hands, in 2 of them we get 3 bet by the same opponent. On the third he peels and get there. Later we have 8BB, we cant open jam so open the max we can to take the first spot we got. Same opponent 3bet jams, we have tiny amount behind so call off. he has Jacks. Sigh gg. This was just inside the money though. We have almost doubled out full series cash with rebuy saved and cashing for this one mtt.  The 6max we had a soft table. Eventually we plucked away and went spot dead. We took what spots we did have but got 3bet. In the end we had 12BB and shoved 66 UTG, re-shove from +1 you know is never good. It was KK. gg. 
Posted by The_Don90

Plucking good effort Donald!

Tomorrow's the day for a big 1!

The_Don90

Sigh jj just sigh. 

Anyways, on another side note, the guy who bust me in the "big game format" mtt went onto win the mtt. I was kind of annoyed at the time. However it turns out this guy is a pretty decent mtt player. 

DOHHHHHHH

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Sigh jj just sigh.  Anyways, on another side note, the guy who bust me in the "big game format" mtt went onto win the mtt. I was kind of annoyed at the time. However it turns out this guy is a pretty decent mtt player. 
Posted by The_Don90

Only a numpty MTT player wud assume a guy is a good MTT player because he won an MTT

The_Don90

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Posted by DOHHHHHHH

When i seen results i looked him up 

The_Don90

A disappointing day overall, but some positives. 

So today seen 3 of the lose the max things, and 2 MS.

I'll start with the Lose the max mtts. The first we went deep in. Busted with AA v 66 on 6xxx board. Was a 150K (120BB) pot v literally the only stack that had me covered on the table. So tilting. I can't remember the exits from the other 2 in all honesty so i assume they are standard. 

The micro series. Well that was much more fun. 

Event 1 was .fr's premier low stakes tournament. Seems its been adapted purely for this series. It was a 7 euro bounty hunter. Anyways we went very deep in this, comming 803rd. 685 cashed. our exit was standard, folded to the cut off who open jams 18BB. We have Jacks in the BB and are covered by literally an Ante. We call and lose the 100K flip. It sounds like 100K is alot but at this stage it was only 40BB at this stage. Would have guarenteed a cash though with the biggest stack on table we could have changed gear and got mammoth. But ah well. We did get 5 heads though, one equivelent to just shy of the tournaments buy in. So we have added another 50% of total cashes to the series just in heads here. Currently sitting on 64.14 euros cashed. 

The other event wasn't quite so sweet. It was a deepstack and we did increase our starting stack. Until we got over-ruled by 77 on 7xx board twice. The first we hd AKdd. 3b a UTG raise with 2 calls. Both blinds, UTG and callers call us. 2 diamonds on flop with a 7. In it goes 77 holds. Later our exit we have TT, flop 97x and we have 30BB stack. BB donks into us, we shove and SB (same oppo as previous 77 hand) snaps with 77. So sigh. 

I also set out to do 1,000 cash hands after busting all of these. I played on lose the max. I'm currently saving up some C4P for a rather smart looking t-shirt, and I'm trying to build  a strong sample of hands to see what we can do a certain level. In the end i didn't quite manage 1k hands, stopped at around 700, anyways +6 euros. Given how we ran for the first 400 hands half a buy in is a sheer miricle. 

DOHHHHHHH

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A disappointing day overall, but some positives.  So today seen 3 of the lose the max things, and 2 MS. I'll start with the Lose the max mtts. The first we went deep in. Busted with AA v 66 on 6xxx board. Was a 150K (120BB) pot v literally the only stack that had me covered on the table. So tilting. I can't remember the exits from the other 2 in all honesty so i assume they are standard.  The micro series. Well that was much more fun.  Event 1 was .fr's premier low stakes tournament. Seems its been adapted purely for this series. It was a 7 euro bounty hunter. Anyways we went very deep in this, comming 803rd. 685 cashed. our exit was standard, folded to the cut off who open jams 18BB. We have Jacks in the BB and are covered by literally an Ante. We call and lose the 100K flip. It sounds like 100K is alot but at this stage it was only 40BB at this stage. Would have guarenteed a cash though with the biggest stack on table we could have changed gear and got mammoth. But ah well. We did get 5 heads though, one equivelent to just shy of the tournaments buy in. So we have added another 50% of total cashes to the series just in heads here. Currently sitting on 64.14 euros cashed.  The other event wasn't quite so sweet. It was a deepstack and we did increase our starting stack. Until we got over-ruled by 77 on 7xx board twice. The first we hd AKdd. 3b a UTG raise with 2 calls. Both blinds, UTG and callers call us. 2 diamonds on flop with a 7. In it goes 77 holds. Later our exit we have TT, flop 97x and we have 30BB stack. BB donks into us, we shove and SB (same oppo as previous 77 hand) snaps with 77. So sigh.  I also set out to do 1,000 cash hands after busting all of these. I played on lose the max. I'm currently saving up some C4P for a rather smart looking t-shirt, and I'm trying to build  a strong sample of hands to see what we can do a certain level. In the end i didn't quite manage 1k hands, stopped at around 700, anyways +6 euros. Given how we ran for the first 400 hands half a buy in is a sheer miricle. 
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The_Don90

PROFIT!!!!

I took some time to sober up before even attempting to write this. I was planning on writing in the morning but can't sleep and sobered up enough. So why not.

The day started strangely with some cash. I played for around 700 hands again. I finnished slightly in profit, and after 2k hands puts me in profit for NL10 on lose the max. 

I had also qualified for the syndicate freeroll on sky. I ran pretty decent to be fair and took a nice £23. Have to admit was nice to play on sky again. 

There was 2 micro series events today. 

First up with the 2 euro 6 max turbo. I played probably the best i have throughout this series, but i also managed to run nice aswell. In the end we went reasonably deep, finnishing 43rd. Exit was annoying guy limped and we have 15BB and 2's. He limped Queens. Given that the ante's where also larger in this mtt i think our shove is a must. 

Next up was a Speed Down 2R1A. Much like earlier in the series i took both rebuys straight away. We started well, and hovered around 15k-17k for a while (15k starting with 3 rebuys) before some huge pots. We then hovered between 30-40k. Eventually passing the rebuy stage we doubled. We then made min cash before 3bet jamming KQ into AA. sigh. We could have laddered but by that stage it was into the "deepstack" part of the mtt, thus picking up chips now would be huge for bullying the shorties and allow us to develop into the late stages of the mtt. 

However this trully was a good day at the office. 

robbie1992

What's lose the max? That an actual poker site i never heard of it or is it code for a more well known site?

The_Don90

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What's lose the max? That an actual poker site i never heard of it or is it code for a more well known site?
Posted by robbie1992

Code for a well known site. 

The_Don90

Variance again!

Yesterday i came back to Sky, it was also the last day of the MS. I'll start with that. 

Event 47 was a HU shootout. Round one was a pain was literally about who could suck out when. Feel i had a huge edge on this guy but all the pots where I'd normally scoop big he got there or folded for minimal. Found myself a 5/6-1 dog several times. However as the blinds went up my edge increased, i got out of jail a few times and made it throo. Match 2 was much easier, very early in the match i called a  min raise with 56 of spades. flop 348 all spades, c/r he shoves with snap and hold v him TP no draw. Match 3 was the bubble. Rather annoyingly this guy 3b and peeled 4bs for fun. Even more annoyingly he got there in all the major ones. AQ v Q9, Q9x flop. We lost the min, JJ v A2 he hit a flush we went broke. Sigh bubbles.

The other 2 events we just never got going. Flips didn't go our way and  give then they where both hypers that run good is needed. 

Sky we played the main, mini and mastercash for 2 hours. Disappointing verall and -£40. Can't complain most of that is the mtts, and a semi-bluff on EvilPingu. Happy with the bluff, its a pretty grim spot i put him in andi still think he folds enough of the time, and on the times he does call we have alot of outs. 

The main was sick, AA and KK both being cracked, by the same guy too. (see BBV for more) and the mini was annoying. Early welost a huge pot, 20BB stack open shoved a call from 40BB stack we re-shove. ten high is good enough to get in pre for 40 bigs though and it got there. We did recover to take a head and must have been close to money when our KQ lost to AJ - standard stuff. 

Overall im happy with how we played. 

Dad has said he's taking me to the casino for my birthday. Not sure how you get a poker tournament as a birthday present but managed it twice in the last 3 years lol . I guess its better than the lottery ticket some people get. Less problems when you win, and more chances of it. 

splashies

I've replied to your PM Donald.

I got a bit trigger happy on the send button, think it sent 10+ times. lol

waller02

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Posted by The_Don90

I am slow, which site? PM me if you don't wanna say on here

robbie1992

I wasn't sure either but when he said about the micro series and how many events there was, then I think its a site that sounds like bokerstars..... dw I put the name in a code no one will understand it.

The_Don90

.fr was the microseries and that is pokerstars.fr which is the french site for pokerstars. lol. 

Lose the max, If you go back a few pages i origionally called it loseamax which is much closer to its real name, think the opposite of lose. Again i am playing on the .fr version.

Appoligies on delay on reply, will address why in next update, which will be soon. (within the next hour or 2) 

The_Don90

Highs, lows, and pokers

So I'll back track slightly. Last monday was my Birthday, but because i had the MS i done nothing, same with Tuesday. Wednessday i went to the live game with dad. To say i never got going would be an understatement. Very first hand, 2 limpers we're in SB KK, yey, Raise 8x, 3 callers, flop AQJ sigh nh lads. Pot got huge. We lost our 8x pre and not a penny more. That one hand sums up the tournament. Losing the min in literally every hand, but winning none that got to a flop. In the end i lost a flip for what would actually have been a pretty decent stack to build from with shortys around to pick on too. But thats standard. 

On Thursday mum took us out for a family meal. The meal was pretty pathetic tbh, for the price i expected far greater quality. The good news was mum paid. - the soup was good though so i guess thats a plus. The main issue i guess is the main meal I had macaroni. I really should stop eating Macaroni when I'm out. I gave Mel my recipe for it when we got together and she's modified it slightly, unfortunetly for about every restraunt in the country, its bloooming good. Thus when it comes to eating Macaroni out, I just never enjoy it anymore. 

Friday night a couple of mates took me out for some drinks. It was supposed to be a meal at weatherspoons and 2 or 3 pints and home. 12 hours later i was walking in the door very, very drunk. Mel wasn't amused. However  Iwill fully recommend to anyone the Large Mixed Grill that weatherspoons do - it also comes with free pint. 

Saturday i had to stay at mums, we had arranged to visit my sister in Newcastle on thr Sunday and mum lives closer so wanted us to stay there so she didnt have to pick us up then drop us off. That also covers Sunday. 

Monday and a return to poker. Played around 1k hands on lose the max, finnished 4 buy ins down. All standard stuff. 

Tuesday and Wednessday, i played about 300 hands on Tuesday same place and won a buy in. Wednessday i went back to MTTs. I continued my staggering record of either final tabling or not cashing. 3rd in a €1 deepstack, however i lost €10. I did however get my first segment of my first deposit bonus. Basically its a 100% deposit bonus (so if u put in €10 you get €10) but it splits it into 5 segements (so each segment would be worth €2 for the €10 example) this is supposedly to make it easier to achieve. Mine was worth €8 so only down €2 for the day. 

I am also getting closer to that t-shirt, about 25% of the way.

Over the weekend I have set myself a goal to play 15,000 hands. I have gave myself Saturday, Sunday and Monday to do this. 

The_Don90

Highs and Lows.

Again a bt of a delayed update. I never made my 15k hand target, and was kind of miffed about it. Played alot of mtts, ran soo dahm horrible. 

Anyways i was starting to tilt, alot. It just seemed every time i had AK they had AA. Every time i had AA/KK they got there. 

I won't go into too much detail but this bringd me to yesterday. Probably the best result I have ever had in terms or how i ran v how i played and result. I registered for a €2 6-max deepstack on lose the max. It had a pretty nice meaty €2k guarentee. Which i will add it beat. Anyways I can't remember the early stages much, but i know i was never much above starting stack. 

Several times during this tournament i took a beat and it resulted in being crippled and down to 5bb or less in some cases. In each time i fought  back. Again and again, then get into a chip leader pot and lose and fight back. It was the story of my mtt.

As we got into the cash i was decen stacked, i hadn't long recovered. I kept plucking away. Picking every single spot carefully. Eventually i found myself closing in on a final table. Consistantly in the 2 or 3 shortest stacks. Consistantly not going broke. Consitantly getting it in good. 

In the end i came 5th for €105 but given the circumstances of the full mtt i find that shows how well i played. I ran very -EV in that mtt and still went onto final table, lose a flip and then a 60/40 to finally finnish me off. Obviously i won't complain at variance in that spot, but never before have i bustd a tournament looked back at hands, and went how the **** did i make it that far without being angry at myself.

The_Don90

Whines, Whines, Whines and Brags.

 

We shall start at Friday with this update. I wke up at mums, which was arranged well in advance as mums is closer to Berwick train station which was the cheapest route to Nottingham. Traveling down was a pain, train 1 Berwick to Newcastle was an hour late ontop of that the following train was cancelled so passengers for that where told to board mine. Someone was sat in the seat with my ticket on it, and refused to move. Train service said tough. The delay meant i missed my connection. Although that wasn;t too much of a problem. 

 

The issue arose when i got to Nottingham though. I hadn't been able to get to a cash line. This meant i had no money to get from Nottingham Train station to my hotel. I walked around Nottingham for over an hour looking to discover i was lost. Luckily i managed to find a taxi and turns out I was very close to where i had started. lol. Well played me.

 

Anyways i got to DTD to late reg the £25 turbo. I had a decent first table but never really got going, a table move i had around 14-16bb ish. First hand utg AQ shove, 2nd hand BB raise and call, AQ shove so we pick up lots there. Third hand Flashflush opens, 1 peel, i probably should shove but elected to peel with 88. I was putting it in on about 70% of flops anyways. 8xx rainbow flashflush cbets about 1/3drd of his remaining stack. I shove he snaps with AA, turn Ace. However i was left with chips. I managed to steal some blinds. Then from UTG+1 there was a UTG raise, we look at AA. YEY. Shove folds to SB who is in severe pain. Eventually he re-ships, UTG lets of a loud sigh i think he was snapping now he sigh folds, he later claimed tens which given his reaction is a strong part of his range. SB flicks over rather ironically 88. I hold. 

The rest of that tournament for me was shove fold. I doubled at one stage with Q8o v A9 which was a standard spot. 19 left, 16 cash we have 8BBish. UTG limps, +1 folds, we looks down at AA. We shove. UTG snaps shows Kings. xxxKx run out. GG. 

The Main Event

I will be using my updates elsewhere to remind me of some hands played here. As really I can't remember 100% all hands. 

Table draw seen me in seat one, Dippydora to my left, SkiItaly to his. 2 unknowns/locals/good live players to my right and an away stack. 

The hands started early. First i raise BTN (AJs) Dippydora calls, Axx 2 club flop, i cbet we get called. Turn club, i bet again, we get called. Club on river. Urgh. FFS! Etc Etc. Anyways i decide to rep, bet around pot, he tank calls with A8 the 8 being a club. However we take that all back quickly, from SkiItaly. Again i open the c/o this time with KJs. Both Dora and Ski call. (im shortening names as this is going to take an age to type up). Flop lands Q97 with 2 clubs 1 spade. We have bkdoor spades. Ski Italy leads for 300 - about 1/3rd pot. I elect to peel and assess, we also have outs to the nuts and position. If Dora gets fancy we can fold. Turn lands the magic T. He continues very small again 1/3rd of pot. I pump it up to 1200. River lands a 6. This means any 8 has a straigh too. He now leads again for 2500. 2/3rds pot with this line does look valuey. But i has the nuts. Because of his sizing i go bigger than normal with my value bet and went to 13.5k. He tanked and sigh folded Q9s face up. The river card is a killer for me then although still think he can fold to that sizing. I was expecting to see some kind of straight he would be unable to fold. 

Updates show this hand, can't rember full hand and update is small. Dora opens utg for around a min raise. Folds round. We have around 40k and he is double stacked as has knocked out SkiItaly. We peel with 78. Flop is A56. we c/c turn goes c c. river 4. We lead for about 1.5x pot and get a call. Seat 6 also busts just after this and 2 new players join our table. One was an older local 2 to my left, the other was aq sky player with a hand written badge, unfortunetly i couldn't quite read it. I thought at first it was steamboat but on a second look i think that was wrong. 

Next hand comes is an interesting one. Seat 5 opens. Seat 5 i think is a local but since found out is part of the another poker forum Tikay uses alot. I had picked him out early as one of the better players at the table. Anyways he opens to 700. The new sky player peels, and i decide to squeeze from the button with AJs. I hadn't done this alot and he's opened alot of my btns. Anyways seat 5 folds, seat 6 calls. Flop lands Ace high giving us nut flush draw. About as hard as you can hit a flop. We cbet for 3650. My opponent asks to see my stack, I'm confused by this as he was easily the effective stack, and it leads to a mistake from him and me. He raises to 10k. While he was eyeing up my stack to leave fold equity he took no consideration of his own. I had a beedy eye on this and seen he only had 15k back. My mistake here is not flating and jamming in an attempt to get it in there and then. He sighs, and snap folds. 46k at the break. 

After the break tho we got into a very annoying pot. We open QQ from UTG+1. Dora calls, and seat 5 defends. Flop lands 972 with 2 clubs. I cbet get 2 calls. We dont have Qc. Turn Tc. Literally one of the wettest cards in the deck. I slow down and check. I expect dora to check back alot and i can assess the river. When dora bets seat 5 will fold alot again allowing us to assess. However Dora bets closr to pot. Seat 5 calls. My mind just goes like this "&*"(*$&*" we find the fold. River is a blank dora bets large again and gets called. They both had a bare 9, seat 5 wins. I was annoyed at this. Although i think long term its a good fold. I eneded up going back down to starting stack. 

Then i got into another pot with dora. I open KJo. He calls. Flop 23K 2 clubs, we have Kc. We cbet, Dora raises. I don't like it but i call, i think i have to see one, he can have draws. Turn is Ts, he checks back. River Jh. I lead for around 5.3k which is again pretty close to pot. Dora snaps, i scoop. 43k at the dinner break is alway nice. 

After dinner i call a raise from seat 5 with KJo, Dora also calls. I think i was SB not loving my call in hindsight. Anyways flop comes Kxx, i c/c down v Dora who mucks river, later claimed KT. KTs, get about a million callers, flop second pair and a gutshot. C/c i tiny bet, and dora calls behind. Turn checks around. My thoughts then where just to get to showdown, i don't think we can get value from worse by betting. Anyways I river trips, value bet gets called we win a nice pot to take up to 70k. 

We did manage to get up to around 85-90k ish. However Seat 5 opens, we 3b from Sb with AKo. He 4bets. Now at this stage i am effective stack with double average. Just to give an idea of how annoying this spot is. A 5bet is bad. I elect to peel, miss flop and c/f. We have 60k at this break. After this break tho Dora got very uber aggro and the dynamic changed. I went 3 hours without winning a hand. Every time i opened Dora 3b i either peeled in pos or folded. I bricked soo often, everything was a marginal nothing better or worse. behind me Dora wwas opening id say at least 95% of hands, and 3betting most too. It was extremely difficult to play against when you go card dead. I literally raise folded/blinded down from 60k to 25k when i got a table move. 

On the new table i played 2 orbits, got a walk in BB twice and never done anything else and got another table move. Early on this table move its folded to the btn, he opens 2.5x i have A8 in BB and around 13BB and shove. He snaps with A5 and we hold. We also get some momentum and steal some pots, meaning at this break we have 56K. Most of this was 3b shoving tbh. However never really getting much, but getting through. 

Blinds do go up though and that means our stack is getting shorter despite us breaking around even every orbit. Eventually i have 14BB and see AT i shove. When Bungle snap re-shoves behind you know you're in trouble. He has TT we don't get there and bust in around 52nd. 

 

Sunday

Sunday i railed for a while, i watched the F1 so missed the bubble etc. Then played the 7pm game. £25+6. 

Anyways i managed to split this 5 way, for £575. (second place was normally £513) average stack was 11BB and my chip lead was only 25BB so i think that was a pretty good deal.

 

The_Don90

Thought i would pop in. 

Iam still alive and interested in updating this diary. 

For whatever reason since comming home I haven't really felt like playing. Think I've played 12 mtts since comming home, i did get 1 FT a 5th for €80 of lose the max. 

The_Don90

Back on the game

So today i managed to finally get a decent grind in. 14/15 tournaments accross 5 different sites. The reason for that is to allow me pick of the bunch on mtt schedules. 

Most of the games fell on winamax and FTP, 2 or 3 on stars, one on stars france and 2 or 3 on sky. 

First FT of the day was a £150 £3 bh on sky Came 5th for £10 with heads. lol. 

Anyways that aside I got my first ever cash on FTP that lead to a FT which again didnt fall my way, 8th for $21. Standard spots went wrong for me, and other shortys managed to double so failed to ladder.

I got my second FTP cash too, with a 21st place, again a pretty standard exit, only KK into AA. Got about $14 for that i think not sure tho. 

We then bubbled a further 2. 

We got another small cash on Winamax before the big one for the day. A FT in a €2 deepstack 6 max. I came 5th for €66. 

Over the coarse of the day i feel it should have been more. However things didn't fall my way in vital times, i won't turn down the profit. 

Its been a while since I've actually closed out and mtt, not including the win in nottingham, as that doesnt count because i split it as a result i never seen it out. Although i think that was the right desision. 

I think this year has now been my most profitable year, and if i can turn around my form on stars and stars.fr which have both been woeful (variance or playig bad who knows) i could be showing a very healthy sum. However if i maintain this ability stay way from cash, and continue developing i guess i can't complain. 

One final thing, thoughts on me updating this diary about playing elsewhere, i feel kind of dirty for it. 

waller02

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

Back on the game So today i managed to finally get a decent grind in. 14/15 tournaments accross 5 different sites. The reason for that is to allow me pick of the bunch on mtt schedules.  Most of the games fell on winamax and FTP, 2 or 3 on stars, one on stars france and 2 or 3 on sky.  First FT of the day was a £150 £3 bh on sky Came 5th for £10 with heads. lol.  Anyways that aside I got my first ever cash on FTP that lead to a FT which again didnt fall my way, 8th for $21. Standard spots went wrong for me, and other shortys managed to double so failed to ladder. I got my second FTP cash too, with a 21st place, again a pretty standard exit, only KK into AA. Got about $14 for that i think not sure tho.  We then bubbled a further 2.  We got another small cash on Winamax before the big one for the day. A FT in a €2 deepstack 6 max. I came 5th for €66.  Over the coarse of the day i feel it should have been more. However things didn't fall my way in vital times, i won't turn down the profit.  Its been a while since I've actually closed out and mtt, not including the win in nottingham, as that doesnt count because i split it as a result i never seen it out. Although i think that was the right desision.  I think this year has now been my most profitable year, and if i can turn around my form on stars and stars.fr which have both been woeful (variance or playig bad who knows) i could be showing a very healthy sum. However if i maintain this ability stay way from cash, and continue developing i guess i can't complain.  One final thing, thoughts on me updating this diary about playing elsewhere, i feel kind of dirty for it. 
Posted by The_Don90

Sky know that the vast majority of players play on other sites too, plus it's not as if you have stopped playing on sky altogether.

I'm interested to see how things are going for you whatever site it is on. Keep up the good work don!

The_Don90

Winning

Firstly thanks for the feedback Waller, if anyone else wants to comment on that issue you are more than welcome, all feedback is welcome. 

Yesterday was mostly a debate between me and mel about potentially pre-ordering the Xbox One. So far I've got her to say she'd think about it - given the first few responces thats an improvement. I was hit and miss on the idea, but with Mircosoft chaning alot of their ideas, and Fifa 14 comming free with it, I have warmed to the idea. The PS4 did have a good chance, but meh. 

I have also started uploading gaming videos to youtube. I enjoy doing it, at the moment mostly its Football manager but its more of a tester of software and me getting used to editing again. If anyone is interested in watching give me a pm and ill ship u the link. 

Anyways onto pokers. I have had an insane headache that lasted 3 days. Thankfully today it had finally gone. This meant i could player poker 100% fit. I did play like 3 mtts the day before yesterday. All ended in tears very early. 

Today i reged up for 16 mtts, over the same 5 sites. I cant remember how many on each. Anyways i bubbled 2 on FTP and one basic bubble on winamax. I was running pretty grim in some insane spots tbh. 

Although strangely .fr was offering me my lifeline. PS.fr has been vbery much a bogey site for me, and although its strange to say, in my strongest ever pokering year on PS.fr im in heavy loss, and PS im having my worst year. However i ended up with a 20th and a 25th for a combined €18 still not covering my mtt entries. the 25th was slightly ul i got into a pot for the chip lead in pre with AK. He had KK sigh. I was covered by about 3BB  

However we had one last mtt, It was on sky. I finally managed to remember how to see out a tournament as i took it down for £96 inc heads. 

Have to admit its been nice to actually win a tournament again. 

I will also be unlikely to play any UKOPS, tonoght the Rangers game is on BT Sport - which i get free with my broadband (sweet) and i havent p[layed any sats for the rest. Would be nice to maybe play one, but in honesty im not that fussed - maybe i shud, a bink wud pay for that xbox one lol. 

Edit: just checked my email and apparently i have $2.75 to add to todays total for a 203rd place in some tournament on normal stars. lol 

The_Don90

A few kicks in the teeth, with an apology hug!

So today i played 100% solely on sky. i focused mostly on UKOPs sats, both mains, and a few mtts on the side.

First MTT was the 3pm 3 max, i came 2nd. £28 i got.

Im not sure exactly how many UKOPs sats i played, i know i won a seat to the semi - i took the £24. Ontop of that i bubbled HU for the £55 to Samantha25. Someone i dont mind losing to, but when theres nothing for second it sucks. 

I moved on, next up I'm HU with RyanC7 again nothing for second, and a £110 main seat for first. I lose again. 

So i took some time to chill and came back. Again i got hu. I think it was for the £55 but not 100% sure, anyways nothing for second, guess where i came, yeap 2nd. 

So i try again, this one was for the £55, and there was £44 for second. I came third. With 4 left i was chip leader, in the space of 3 hands, first i shoved putting pressure on shorty with J9 he called with A5 and held. Second theres a limp, i shove 77, BB calls with AT he's second in chips, and limper calls. xxKJQ run out im crippled get it in A9 v K5 and K on the door - i had 3BB left and was bb on that hand. 

As u can imagine, expessially given my past tilting issues, which effect me but not to the same level, i wasn't in the best of fettle. 

The £2 rebuy (6.30 ko) i was in for £8, some how managed to miss the add on. Anyways i got it in with 88 v AT. Yeap i lost. FFS! That was literally 2 mins after the 77 hand in the sat. I was also in my first ever UKOPs event - the £2 rebuy, and the 7pm £200. 

I made the end of the rebuy stage of the UKOPs with £4 spent, so £6 total inc the addon which i didnt miss. I was 14th in chips at this stage, but post rebuy period i got ul in several spots, annoyingly all to the same guy who i think was inexperianced. All the best to him anyways.

The 7pm however was just the gin. There was some overlay, not sure how much but overlay is overlay. Anyways so i raised and folded, and a tilted don is a nightmare to put up with sometimes, and at times the table had no answer, and when it did, i had it. 3 cashed, i buist the guy in 4th - yes i made it throo the bubble. I bust the guy in third, and no i didnt manage to lose the hu, i won that too. £100. 

So i come out of one of the hardest days emotionally i have had in 2013(pokerly speaking), and i have managed to show a £70 profit. I walk away feeling disappointed with that. Insane to say i know.

Tomorrow is a new dawn and a new day, UKOPs im comming for you!!

LARSON7

Good profit for the day.

The fact you got HU in so many sats, speaks volumes!

Good luck for tomorrow and getting your big score.

The_Don90

Satellite Grinding

I've decided to do a mid day report. mostly because i think this half day deserves a post to itself, and partly down to my memory. lol. 

Firstly I'd like to say to some people (i dont know weather they read this or not) its good to see sat grinders on Sky. I know this isn't their normal soarce of income but over the UKOPs theres a huge opportunity, and without some of them, some sats wudn't run. I would say, including myself there was at least 3 other people playing virually every sat. This guarentees they run. 

Anyways, as you will know i played mostly UKOPs sats today. I also played 2 £5 bounty hunters and 3 mtts on Winamax. 

Firstly Winamax, i done pants. Ul in a number of standard spots, a couple of mistakes too. Usual kinda stuff. 

UKOPs sats, The main and Side event sats where literally the mare for me. I got to HU in one, unlike yesterday there wa sa fiver back for second. My opponent was Greghogg. I have vast amounts of respect for Greg, unfortunetly hu Greg has a insane record v me. In the end greg beat me and i got the fiver. 

The bh semi ones though went slightly better, I won 3 of these. The first i took the seat and the others i obviously took the cash. 

The bhs one went poor, never got going. The other i got to final 10 2nd in chips, tore up on the bubble, but got ul in 2 spots, was shorty going over it. Then recovered and was chip leader on FT. Got into a huge pot v 2nd in chips with JJ v AJ which went all in pre. xxxxA sigh - that would have gave me a 3-1 chip lead 3 handed. Instead i had 15BB. Anyways i did manage to double, before he bust the other 2. I got it in with AK v his K9 hu and sometimes people are destined to win. 

Just to put how many sats i failed in today into perspective. On Sky only, i won £50 from that bh and £24 from the sats (not inc the £12 sat to be played) and i have broke even. I think thats a pretty insane record. 

Anyways onto the next, and i will update after another session tonight. I still have the bh semi which starts in 3 mins. 

day4eire76

Gl luck with the sats Don.In the early ones there wasn't many people entering and was sat with mostly the same people in all 3 sats.

The_Don90

At a loss to explain this

Firstly thanks Day4Eire don't think you actually lost a pot v me in a sat today, which sucks, lol. 

So earlier on i broke even. I have now came to an end of my session. I will ask someone for a graph tomorrow to add to this post, as that will be accurate. I ended up finnishing £65 down. How i have no f'ing idea. 

I lost every pot where i was at risk to in tonight, i literally cant think of a single one i won. 

I've decided to post some hands so people can get an idea of what im up against.

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
Madrarua	Small blind		200.00	200.00	15340.00
dobalina	Big blind		400.00	600.00	3830.00
	Your hole cards	K K
Audi81	Fold
garner909	All-in		3590.00	4190.00	0.00
SwineFlu	Fold
The_Don90	All-in		5705.00	9895.00	0.00
Madrarua	Fold
dobalina	All-in		3830.00	13725.00	0.00
The_Don90	Unmatched bet		1475.00	12250.00	1475.00
dobalina	Show	Q A
garner909	Show	J J
The_Don90	Show	K K
Flop
		6 8 10
Turn
		Q
River
		6
dobalina	Win	Flush to the Ace	12250.00		12250.00

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
trevor1948	Small blind		80.00	80.00	4760.00
TAM	Big blind		160.00	240.00	3035.00
	Your hole cards	A A
00mb00	Fold
The_Don90	Raise		480.00	720.00	3418.75
LEEDSHX	Fold
SR23	Fold
trevor1948	Call		400.00	1120.00	4360.00
TAM	Call		320.00	1440.00	2715.00
Flop
		6 8 Q
trevor1948	Bet		1440.00	2880.00	2920.00
TAM	Fold
The_Don90	Call		1440.00	4320.00	1978.75
Turn
		9
trevor1948	All-in		2920.00	7240.00	0.00
The_Don90	All-in		1978.75	9218.75	0.00
trevor1948	Unmatched bet		941.25	8277.50	941.25
trevor1948	Show	9 Q
The_Don90	Show	A A
River
		4
trevor1948	Win	Two Pairs, Queens and 9s	8277.50		9218.75

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
The_Don90	Small blind		200.00	200.00	6387.50
lok123	Big blind		400.00	600.00	3620.00
	Your hole cards	J J
CraigSG1	Raise		1600.00	2200.00	10835.00
jet1144111	Fold
HOLLYWHIT	Fold
tracey1969	Fold
The_Don90	All-in		6387.50	8587.50	0.00
lok123	Fold
CraigSG1	Call		4987.50	13575.00	5847.50
The_Don90	Show	J J
CraigSG1	Show	Q Q
Flop
		4 3 10
Turn
		K
River
		7
CraigSG1	Win	Pair of Queens	13575.00		19422.50

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
Bear_Proof	Small blind		300.00	300.00	5535.00
hazzer	Big blind		600.00	900.00	4447.50
	Your hole cards	2 2
deucebig18	Fold
The_Don90	All-in		6805.00	7705.00	0.00
PEGGY92	Fold
Tsaaaar	All-in		6085.00	13790.00	0.00
Bear_Proof	Fold
hazzer	Fold
The_Don90	Unmatched bet		720.00	13070.00	720.00
The_Don90	Show	2 2
Tsaaaar	Show	K A
Flop
		Q K 7
Turn
		8
River
		4
Tsaaaar	Win	Pair of Kings	13070.00		13070.00

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
homersmpsn	Sit out
Bear_Proof	Small blind		150.00	150.00	4818.75
SR23	Big blind		300.00	450.00	4948.75
	Your hole cards	7 7
dee1983	Fold
stfc_1953	Raise		600.00	1050.00	10360.00
The_Don90	All-in		2420.00	3470.00	0.00
Bear_Proof	Fold
SR23	Fold
stfc_1953	Call		1820.00	5290.00	8540.00
stfc_1953	Show	Q A
The_Don90	Show	7 7
Flop
		4 8 A
Turn
		10
River
		4
stfc_1953	Win	Two Pairs, Aces and 4s	5290.00		13830.00

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
durie	Small blind		75.00	75.00	1765.00
mastahead	Big blind		150.00	225.00	2020.00
	Your hole cards	8 8
Jackpot88	All-in		275.00	500.00	0.00
The_Don90	Call		275.00	775.00	1480.00
kgee	Fold
durie	Call		200.00	975.00	1565.00
mastahead	Fold
Flop
		4 6 7
durie	All-in		1565.00	2540.00	0.00
The_Don90	All-in		1480.00	4020.00	0.00
durie	Unmatched bet		85.00	3935.00	85.00
durie	Show	A 5
Jackpot88	Show	8 10
The_Don90	Show	8 8
Turn
		3
River
		9
Jackpot88	Win	Straight to the 10	975.00		975.00
durie	Win	Straight to the 7	2960.00		3045.00

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
POKEY2011	Small blind		10.00	10.00	1730.00
The_Don90	Big blind		20.00	30.00	2560.00
	Your hole cards	K A
ACEGOONER	Raise		60.00	90.00	1620.00
POKEY2011	Call		50.00	140.00	1680.00
The_Don90	Raise		160.00	300.00	2400.00
ACEGOONER	Raise		480.00	780.00	1140.00
POKEY2011	Fold
The_Don90	All-in		2400.00	3180.00	0.00
ACEGOONER	All-in		1140.00	4320.00	0.00
The_Don90	Unmatched bet		900.00	3420.00	900.00
The_Don90	Show	K A
ACEGOONER	Show	10 10
Flop
		7 Q 9
Turn
		2
River
		4
ACEGOONER	Win	Pair of 10s	3420.00		3420.00

I did manage to find the single flip I won

All these hands are from 6pm as was last 500 hands limit

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
findy	Small blind		30.00	30.00	5915.00
DEANDOG	Big blind		60.00	90.00	2372.50
	Your hole cards	9 9
lpotts	Raise		240.00	330.00	1020.00
quagmire69	Fold
1-DAY	Fold
The_Don90	All-in		1550.00	1880.00	0.00
findy	Call		1520.00	3400.00	4395.00
DEANDOG	Fold
lpotts	All-in		1020.00	4420.00	0.00
findy	Show	K Q
lpotts	Show	10 Q
The_Don90	Show	9 9
Flop
		A 2 6
Turn
		6
River
		7
The_Don90	Win	Flush to the Ace	4420.00		4420.00

day4eire76

Some really bad ones there pal.I seen alot of this today and sats can be very profitable if you play the correct way  (which you did) just very unlucky.I did ok in the early ones and was able to get in to all the semis but was only able to finish one of them off.So my UKOPS won't start till 10 unless I buy in to the others.

Pat

The_Don90

A little something to take you're frustration out on

Firstly thanks to Dohhhhh here is the graph for yesterday as promised. 

As you can see its pretty painful. Other than a £12 sat i qualified for the highest buy in was £6. 

I'm now going to addess something else. yesterday after that session i was feeling extremely down when i finnished. I'm still at a loss to explain those results. I felt i played pretty well. I remember a few months back watching an old American TV programme called, Two Months Two Million. On that they had a Tilt room, where they smashed alot of things up. 

I have found a much cheaper way of letting alot of frustration out. Gaming has always been a passion of mine. Although some games make me rage just as much. However one game, Dynasty Warriors is pretty good for letting all you're troubles out. Is a slash em up type game based on the Three Kingdoms Era of ancient china. But basically when im annoyed i set it to easy and do some of the larger battles, killing 10000 different pixelmen in a short time is a good way to relax and feel better.

I think i will play again today, i wasn't sure if i would or not, but meh stuff it.. LETS GO!!!!!

The_Don90

That feeling again

I'm going to sound moany, and down beat in this update. I've taken a number of hours before updating the diary so its not quiet as bad, but i dont think i can update much better than i will now. 

Today started postitive, almost instantly into the Main Semi. £10 from a bh sat. Sweet, looking good. 

From there on in, yesterday was back. The bubble re-awoke. The pain of it all. 

I defo didn't bubble as many today as i did yesterday, i didn't make it throo as many either. 

All my mtts went wrong bar one on winamax ill address after. 

Sats, as i said i made the main semi, think i bubbled 3 standard ones. The main semi had 5 seats. I made it to 7 left in great shape. Nothing for 6ht or 7th fwiw. 7 people left, i had both tables open, about 9 times, two players got it all in, every time the at risk stack had to worst hand, and got there. Meanwhile I'm spot dead. Someone eventually bust but i was joint shorty. Guy to my left time banks every F'ing hand, thus the blinds go up on my BB. Ontop of that, Sky have no 500/1000 level so not only was it a blind raise n my BB instead of having the 5BB i did have i now had 3.3. If the 500/1000 level was in play i wud have 4BB so not much better but wud allow me to fold and be able to shove the following hand, or the one after. Anyways i got Aj someone raised and i have no choice. The flip over KT and this was literally the only point from 7 people left that i had my chips in the middle with a caller. TTxxx board. Thank you very much, everyone else gets a double up but me. Thank you for that, and yet another stone bubble. 

At that point i decided i was done for the day. Unfortunetly i was crushing a winamax mtt. I did manage to stay focused and ended up comming 14th. Again i feel i should have done so much better. 14th just feels so spewy. My exit there was AK v KK AIP for like 30BB so nothing i can do, expessially 5 handed. 

I  have decided after two extremely painful days, that i need to once again take some time out. I know i have hardly played this month, and over the coarse of the weekend ive ran grim as anything, made £50 profit on sky, about break even on .fr, and a small loss on winamax. There are lots of positives to take away from this. I havent spewed off my roll like i would have in the past, i managed to maintain my composure and run deep in and mtt while id given up all hope. 

Unfortunetly i still don't think my mindset is in the correct place to continue playing over the next few days. I will of coarse judge by how I'm feeling when i wake up. However i think Its best to chill for a day or two and refresh. I will focus on my youtube videos, as i enjoy doing that, its a good sort of Don time.

All the best to all at the tables, and peace!