Thought id just log on and play the main and the mini - couldnt help but feel that my swing is surely going to end sometime soon.
But...
Mini:
TimmyRaRa
Small blind
10.00
10.00
2000.00
jimifloyd
Big blind
20.00
30.00
1980.00
Your hole cards
A
9
NooGooood
Fold
offshoot
Raise
60.00
90.00
2000.00
batfink336
Fold
gazza127
Call
60.00
150.00
1910.00
TimmyRaRa
Fold
jimifloyd
Fold
Flop
9
9
8
offshoot
Bet
120.00
270.00
1880.00
gazza127
Call
120.00
390.00
1790.00
Turn
5
offshoot
Bet
300.00
690.00
1580.00
gazza127
Call
300.00
990.00
1490.00
River
Q
offshoot
Bet
780.00
1770.00
800.00
gazza127
Call
780.00
2550.00
710.00
offshoot
Show
9
Q
gazza127
Muck
A
9
offshoot
Win
Full House, 9s and Queens
2550.00
3350.00
offshoot
Small blind
10.00
10.00
3400.00
batfink336
Big blind
20.00
30.00
1940.00
Your hole cards
K
K
gazza127
Raise
60.00
90.00
650.00
TimmyRaRa
Fold
jimifloyd
Fold
NooGooood
Raise
160.00
250.00
1790.00
offshoot
Fold
batfink336
Fold
gazza127
All-in
650.00
900.00
0.00
NooGooood
Call
550.00
1450.00
1240.00
gazza127
Show
K
K
NooGooood
Show
A
J
Flop
J
6
2
Turn
A
River
9
NooGooood
Win
Two Pairs, Aces and Jacks
1450.00
2690.00
Main:
clarky76
Small blind
75.00
75.00
3415.00
gazza127
Big blind
150.00
225.00
2800.00
Your hole cards
5
5
Direwolf
Fold
steviejean
Fold
mrlucky16
All-in
785.00
1010.00
0.00
ELVIS73
Fold
clarky76
Call
710.00
1720.00
2705.00
gazza127
All-in
2800.00
4520.00
0.00
clarky76
Call
2165.00
6685.00
540.00
clarky76
Show
K
K
gazza127
Show
5
5
mrlucky16
Show
9
J
Flop
6
10
K
Turn
J
River
3
clarky76
Win
Three Kings
6685.00
7225.00
Filthy tank from opposition on this hand - I was not happy. Snap call if you have Kings. There is no need to let the whole time bar go down. I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt saying he was on another table, but he was always quick with his calls and raises before. Nothing worse than a slowroll.
I had told myself I was 3 bet shoving to a single raise pre as soon as I dealt the hand... maybe given action I should fold as I dont have much FE. I dunno... think I can easily be up against just overcards a very decent amount of time... and im not exactly deep with blinds going up soon.
Hi Gazza and all. This really is fascinating reading. Been playing on the site for about a year now but never really delved into the forum. glad I have. Great to read evaluations of hands from players with far far more experience than me. I am thinking about setting one of these 'diaries' up myself to make me focus on my bankroll more, as at the moment, I have virtually no management skills of it. WOuld people be interested even though I am new here? One other question which will make me seem a total 'noob', what does NL mean when refering to buy in at a table? Posted by Jack3010
new player diaries are quite popular, there's probably loads of players in the same boat as you that would follow and come out of the lurking woodwork. peter27 has started one that's had a great response from everyone.
people go out of their way to help people here, post some hands in the clinic, get a thread started, even if it helps you focus it's worth it.
In Response to Re: The ramblings of a young man (gazza127 diary) : new player diaries are quite popular, there's probably loads of players in the same boat as you that would follow and come out of the lurking woodwork. peter27 has started one that's had a great response from everyone. people go out of their way to help people here, post some hands in the clinic, get a thread started, even if it helps you focus it's worth it. good luck at the tables. cheers, TEDDY Posted by TeddyBloat
I've hijacked TPTP123's hypers diary, only update it once a month, and i have a mega-standard life, like TT v AK late MTT standard, so i couldn't inflict that onto the forum.
I am not new to playing poker here, just new to the forum, so have a fair bank roll with some decent results over the past year. May start one over the weekend!
Thought id take a break... withdrew my money. Next day I got bored and put it back in - woe is me!
Either way I ended up playing the main on Friday night... and well long story short I ended up finishing 7th. Exit hand AK v 99 for a mega pot which probably would have seen me cash in top 2/3 at least if I had won the flip. BUT I CASHED. My downswing kinda hit me hard after such an incredible upswing.... best few weeks in poker, followed by the worst - my head was screwed.
Played the rebuy tonight after busting main and deepstack and finished 5th after a rather horrible play by me. I knew I was making a mistake when I hit the 'all in' button but couldnt help myself. It was like an outer-body experience with me shouting at myself 'FOOOOOOOOLLLLDDD' and yet all I could do was watch myself effectively hang myself in slow motion.
Still... a cash is a cash right?? And i'll keep taking these cashes after the last few weeks i've had. Belief tentatively restored.
4) I've set myself a little target. I've withdrawn some of my BR for obvious reasons leaving £300 in my account. Target is to grind this into 2.5k by the end of 2013 - tough as I only play MTTs. I have serious doubts about doing it, but I suppose it'd be pointless to set an easy target!
Welldone on smashing your target 4) I've set myself a little target. I've withdrawn some of my BR for obvious reasons leaving £300 in my account. Target is to grind this into 2.5k by the end of 2013 - tough as I only play MTTs. I have serious doubts about doing it, but I suppose it'd be pointless to set an easy target! SCHEDULED 1,769 £3 £10.04 24.1% £5,314 80 Posted by j3ono
Cheers mate, although i think thats my total MTT stats. Think im more around the +2k mark on sharkscope since starting this diary, plus a min cash from SPT and a bit on cash. But yeah generally things are going ok
I'm out already! Similar hand, AKs and flopped the A but someone flopped a set, so lost quite a few on that then ran my remaining stack AQ into AK. Thankfully I also got in for £12 as 15 minutes of poker for £55 wouldn't have been a very good £ to minute ratio!
The only plus side to being out already means I can save a fiver by not entering mini
Well I've read the thread about RTR now. Nice to see Sky have closed it to completely confuse and frustrate people. Nice to know we can't even have a discussion about even a sky promotion without the thread getting closed.
But I feel like every sky customer has a right to be irritated by this situation. Yes Sky want to make money and attract new players, but offering a significantly better promotion to these new players via this affiliate compared to those offered to the regs is baffling.
If I understand it correctly, if you sign up through RTR then you automatically get 30% rake back regardless of what points you get... and it looks like its over a longer period than just the first month too.
So if I get 1000 points by playing solely tournaments I have paid £100 rake, and get £10 back. If I get 1000 points by solely playing cash I have paid £166 rake, and get £10 back.
However the same for 30% rake back is £30 and £50 respectively.
Expand these numbers to 5000 points instead of 1000 over a 12 month period and you can really highlight the difference it makes to a lot of players - Hundreds and hundreds of pounds worth of extra money each year, just for signing up?
I play on sky almost exclusively. All my money goes on Sky. I've been here over a year and usually im the one backing sky, highlighting that they do have good promotions to those who criticize on the forum. But the difference between this promotion and any that are available to existing customers is staggering. Sure, offer good deals to new players, but don't make the deal so tempting and that much better that you alienate your current cliental. It makes no sense.
Preparing for this thread to be closed now as apparently we aren't allowed to express an opinion on here.
Agreed. I mean if it gets a lot of bad players to sign up then I guess that's good for us, but it won't just be bad players that sign up - and if it attracts good players as well then that's going to be even worse for us!
It will attract wayyyyyyy more good players than bad players.
I'm a winning player over a long period of time & been around forums a while now, and I wasn't farmiliar with RTR before yesterday, so how would a beginner/losing player know about it?
It will also encourage existing players to open new accounts, there will be many names disappear and come back under new alias's.
I don't give a shiny sh! te about rakeback, I'm happy to scrap it altogether, but the damage that this will do to the games is the big worry.
Comments
But...
Mini:
Main:
I had told myself I was 3 bet shoving to a single raise pre as soon as I dealt the hand... maybe given action I should fold as I dont have much FE. I dunno... think I can easily be up against just overcards a very decent amount of time... and im not exactly deep with blinds going up soon.
Downswing continues...
Yeah I may just get away from poker for a while.
Thought id take a break... withdrew my money. Next day I got bored and put it back in - woe is me!
Either way I ended up playing the main on Friday night... and well long story short I ended up finishing 7th. Exit hand AK v 99 for a mega pot which probably would have seen me cash in top 2/3 at least if I had won the flip. BUT I CASHED. My downswing kinda hit me hard after such an incredible upswing.... best few weeks in poker, followed by the worst - my head was screwed.
Played the rebuy tonight after busting main and deepstack and finished 5th after a rather horrible play by me. I knew I was making a mistake when I hit the 'all in' button but couldnt help myself. It was like an outer-body experience with me shouting at myself 'FOOOOOOOOLLLLDDD' and yet all I could do was watch myself effectively hang myself in slow motion.
Still... a cash is a cash right?? And i'll keep taking these cashes after the last few weeks i've had. Belief tentatively restored.
Cheers mate, although i think thats my total MTT stats. Think im more around the +2k mark on sharkscope since starting this diary, plus a min cash from SPT and a bit on cash. But yeah generally things are going ok
How are you doing these days?
But... as some of you will have seen on the tv i couldnt give my opposition credit for the Jack on the first hand in the primo.
Sigh.
Took a massive gamble 4 bet shoving a serial 3 bettor with 33. Looked up by Q10 and my 3s held.
Out.
Muppet.
DOOOHHHHHHHHH
But I feel like every sky customer has a right to be irritated by this situation. Yes Sky want to make money and attract new players, but offering a significantly better promotion to these new players via this affiliate compared to those offered to the regs is baffling.
If I understand it correctly, if you sign up through RTR then you automatically get 30% rake back regardless of what points you get... and it looks like its over a longer period than just the first month too.
So if I get 1000 points by playing solely tournaments I have paid £100 rake, and get £10 back.
If I get 1000 points by solely playing cash I have paid £166 rake, and get £10 back.
However the same for 30% rake back is £30 and £50 respectively.
Expand these numbers to 5000 points instead of 1000 over a 12 month period and you can really highlight the difference it makes to a lot of players - Hundreds and hundreds of pounds worth of extra money each year, just for signing up?
I play on sky almost exclusively. All my money goes on Sky. I've been here over a year and usually im the one backing sky, highlighting that they do have good promotions to those who criticize on the forum. But the difference between this promotion and any that are available to existing customers is staggering. Sure, offer good deals to new players, but don't make the deal so tempting and that much better that you alienate your current cliental. It makes no sense.
Preparing for this thread to be closed now as apparently we aren't allowed to express an opinion on here.
I'm a winning player over a long period of time & been around forums a while now, and I wasn't farmiliar with RTR before yesterday, so how would a beginner/losing player know about it?
It will also encourage existing players to open new accounts, there will be many names disappear and come back under new alias's.
I don't give a shiny sh! te about rakeback, I'm happy to scrap it altogether, but the damage that this will do to the games is the big worry.
In Response to Re: The ramblings of a young man (gazza127 diary): Not the first time I've seen my alias, the words stupid, muppet, out & bluff in the same post Gazza!
Theres normally some words inbetween tho
They are quite clear you can only have one account/ user name.
Good luck!