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Check out my DYM thread... and people said I couldn't make a consistent and decent profit from them. I'm coining it in!
I,ve only played a few games over last 2 weeks, but will see you on the tables soon
Live game (£20+£2+£5 bounty hunter freezeout. 10k starting 45 min blinds for first 2 levels then 30 min blinds casino adds £5 to head).
Anyways going up to the casino i went my my dad and my mate. This gave me time to dsicsuss my recent poker with my dad, something i usually do on a weekly basis and keeps me at the top of my game. Since Dublin tho we havent discussed much.
Anyways i knew i was lacking in confidence, i needed to win just one big pot really, and a deep run would help but wasnt essential. This tournament does play at about a similar standard to a £2.20 Bh on sky so sitting and waiting for a hand isnt too bad.
Anyways i couldnt have predicted or wished for a bettter start. Very first hand 55 in UTG+1 BB sat out. UTG limps as do i, 6 more limpers behind (400 pot) Flop comes 5, 9, 5 to hearts. I decided to get some value forom a 9 or flsuh draw right from the flop. SB + UTG check. I miscalculate the pot and bet 125. Co calls the rest fold. (pot: 650) Turn 9. At this point i wasnt sure if he had 9 or a Flush draw. I decided to check call to get one more street of value, with a plan to check raise the river. I check he bets 350 i call (pot: 1350) river J of hearts. Now i know a flush unlikley to give me much value here. The opponent is Polish going by the accent and ive not played him before. I check he bets 1000. I raise to 3000 trying to get small value from a flsuh draw or get a 9 to shove. He instant shoves and i snap call. From his accent i thought he said "Pocket 9's" and delays showing. I later appoligied and explained why, to be fair the guy stated he understood and siad well played. Although i think the hand played itself tbh. Anyways i went on to come 4th for £150 + 3 heads for another £30 so total of £180.
Back to my cash situation. Ive decided to drop back to NL4 and completely rebuild.
Being brutally honest I needed just one big hand and the cooler straight off really awoke me to being on the right side of it again. Im not starting till around 3 today giving me plenty of time to relect but i really think that if i get off to a good start today and theres avlue at NL8 i will play NL8. However i think starting at NL4 at least is the best idea.
Appoligies to anyone who took what i was saying the wrong way. Just when i have literally no confidence in my own ability i pack it in a lil. Will try to avoid major outbursts in here for now.
Is it worth you becoming more of a BR nit and instead of moving up a level with 20 BIs make it 25/30 or more before you do? Then a couple of losing sessions may not effect you as much?
As said above it might be worth a glance at teh profit threads - this month's and last.
In any case mate your BR is alot bigger than it was when you started. It is worth bearing that in mind if you have a losing session.
Good luck
That includes, hissy fitting on this thread, facebook or twitter.
But im still allowed to moan at dohhhh, thats just entertainment value.
However I know i really need to keep putting hours in. I believe im better than recent sessions have lead to believe. Over the coarse of the diary i think that shows. Sometimes poker is a battle with the mind. One thing ive always been good with is control of my mind against others, however when trying to control my mind from myself, i have a very weak spot indeed.
Maybe your right, infact on several occassions ive opened a conversation with dohhhh. "ffs (whatever happed)" end of conversation and i feel slightly better. Dohhh might say you could have done this better. And ok fair enough i made a mistake.
Being honest looking over the sessions since the NL10 jump, i felt completely invincible. I needed a slap. I got it.
On the last bit, that isn't terrible as it shows your confidence is at a peak but obvz you have to control that enthusiasm.
Evening session
Tbh i set a goal for this session. I wanted good notes on players. Something i currently dont Have. I mixed my levels between NL4 and NL8. I was also trying various different teqniques ive learnt over the years. Stuff you wont see in Dohhhhhh's NL4 guide.
I felt this was a sucsessful challenege and although the profit didnt come i was pretty card dead. I also made a couple of bad calls towards the end reducing the profit. I will also state ive played £11 worth of tournys today. Im defo down for day, but up on cash.
Anyways towards the end i might have been break even if i didnt hit one flop sideways. I put my oppo on a huge hand and called with suited cons, flopped pair + OESD turned FD missed lot. He had kings, i knew if i hit i was getting paid, thanks to my new "good" notes. That hand cost me about £4 although that was at a NL8 table i was in profit in. My implied odds where £8 in pot + £11 we both had back. So potentially £30 pot. Would have been nice. When i missed i didnt put another penny in pot and he also checked due to an Ace landing on river.
Anyways confidence will keep growning again, although im a little tired to play tonight, able selection will become easier with better notes ofc. And before moving up again i will watch NL10 to get some pretty decent notes before hand. Although i do prefer my notes to be based on how they play me specifically so i can adapt to them.
Closing Balance: £134.46
i felt mixing the levels today was good and will do it again tomorrow pending on oppos. Alythough i can lose to much before ill need to take a proper drop down. But i feel i have a little life lft in me yet and i feel a good run of cards comming
Last night i was happy to have a £2 cash profit. Knowing i was mixing things up and maybe calle a few rivers light to get an idea of notes. I know this isnt profitable, but i feel the short term loss will be a long term gain
I drifted away from the normal ABC poker a little and brought in bits that i have in my own game. I actually believe this allowed me to mix it up considerably. Something which i do, do in mtts, but never tried in cash.
Tbh dude. i think ive done loads wrong over the past 35 pages. Changing my game wasnt one of them. however i almost feel like a robot at times. bringing in little bits of my own game allowed me to feel a little more normal and more thought processed based.
for the first time ever with the better players only (not the regs but the ones between fish and regs) i can put them into a range.
I have a new bed comming today so not sure how much game time ill get.
Closing Balance: £145.48
I used to love plying these £5.75 afternoon BH's the standard from what i remember is terrible
A robot, that is exactly how I played and beat NL4/8 and 10, oh and also very good table selection, stuff like even if you're up 2 BI's on one table and you notice it's now full of REGs don't sit there like a wally admiring your stack instead stand and find more dead money elsewhere.
Better players? These should be very easy to avoid if using good table selection, if you're actively seeking them (God knows why) then you will ofc find it harder to win money as you'll need to build up crazy good reads to play them, which again IMO is not needed at NL4/8 and 10, Debs will obvz say NO! NO! Bloody NO to this but that's her opinion which is fine but for me it's not needed.
Much rather load up a NL10 thats full and just click find similier table until i'm sat at 6
Eventually the higher you go the fush will dry up and you have to learn to play the better players.
The regs @ NL10 will be like the fish @ NL50 right?
Literally anybody. I remember when i was at UKIPT Edinburgh for example. the lonmger it went the more i thought "im better than these guys" tbh i was playing likea complete fish but it felt right. there was only one guy i was consearned about and he hada 7% volantary jhand played ratio and was directly to my left.