Played cash. Lost cash. Tilted at lost cash. Withdrew big chunk of roll. Convince myself its for Vegas trip this year. Actually cause I dont want to do something silly. Child.
Think itd be good for me. I grinded my but off last month and this month I'm still playing until 4am each morning and getting up for work at 8am. Im tired. A man needs his sleep!
Hopefully by taking a week off I can try and restore some sort of poker/life balance midweek.
Don't think the cycle ive got at the minute is sustainable and is certainly going to hinder me long term.
Las Vegas booked! Im heading off on the 20th May and getting back on 8th June. I'll be starting and ending my trip in Vegas with a fair bit of travelling around San Fran, LA and Grand Canyon in between. Looking forward to it! Anyone else on the Vegas plane? Posted by gazza127
About time! Sounds like a good trip in the making. Shame I'm back less than 2 weeks before you fly out.
Been looking into various tourneys on the strip. Unsurprisingly, there seems to be quite a few crapshoot ones (10 min blinds, or 40bb SS etc etc). The better structured ones look like they are held at the Venetian, Wynn, Aria, Caesars Palace and Bellagio. Buy ins hover around the $100-$200 mark, most have 30 min levels and a 200bb SS. They will probably attract a better calibre of player, so there could be some value in the crapshoot ones if variance is kind to us. Allvegaspoker.com gives you the lowdown....
Tip for San Fran (great city), if you want to go to Alcatraz, and you really should do it, then book it in advance. By advance, I mean this weekend! If you rock (no pun intended) up at the ticket office on the day you want to go with nothing sorted in advance, gg.
Think I might take a week off from poker. Think itd be good for me. I grinded my but off last month and this month I'm still playing until 4am each morning and getting up for work at 8am. Im tired. A man needs his sleep! Hopefully by taking a week off I can try and restore some sort of poker/life balance midweek. Don't think the cycle ive got at the minute is sustainable and is certainly going to hinder me long term. Posted by gazza127
If you plan on surviving past your 50's then I would consider sorting this out lol
In Response to Re: The ramblings of a young man (gazza127 diary) : About time! Sounds like a good trip in the making. Shame I'm back less than 2 weeks before you fly out. Been looking into various tourneys on the strip. Unsurprisingly, there seems to be quite a few crapshoot ones (10 min blinds, or 40bb SS etc etc). The better structured ones look like they are held at the Venetian, Wynn, Aria, Caesars Palace and Bellagio. Buy ins hover around the $100-$200 mark, most have 30 min levels and a 200bb SS. They will probably attract a better calibre of player, so there could be some value in the crapshoot ones if variance is kind to us. Allvegaspoker.com gives you the lowdown.... Tip for San Fran (great city), if you want to go to Alcatraz, and you really should do it, then book it in advance. By advance, I mean this weekend! If you rock (no pun intended) up at the ticket office on the day you want to go with nothing sorted in advance, gg. Posted by hhyftrftdr
Ty for the tips man. Let me know what you get up to in Vegas on here so you can give me even more tips about where to go/what to do.
In Response to Re: The ramblings of a young man (gazza127 diary) : If you plan on surviving past your 50's then I would consider sorting this out lol Have a great time in vegas btw Posted by waller02
Lol yeah... writing this at 1:50am I feel like I might have to alter the poker schedule slightly... although tonight its cause I binked something
Mtts have been going... whats the word.... AWFUL recently. Absolutely terrible. Think i've been playing pretty poorly in general trying to force a win from somewhere.
But tonight it all came together. It didnt start well as i regged for 5 MTTs on stars and only made 1 min cash. I regged all the DTD and spewed in ALL of them. Main I couldnt get going and i finished about 25th or something in mini.
But I decided to late reg the 9pm £55 BH out of pure spite cause I was out of pretty much everything else!
I built a stack... got a tad lucky and was chip leader for most of the tournament. Putting pressure on stacks I managed to FT, get to HU and bink it for £1.1k!
Shout out to Mr Bates who again had another deep run. He was very complimentary of me when I won which is nice! It did help that I had position on him entire final table and could apply max pressure.
Skype from Gaz at 9.19pm..."I've lost my MTT mojo" Sick bluff from my man Gaz, made me think I might have a chance of beating him.
Gaz played really well, had position on me and put maximum pressure on me. He knows I understand ICM and put me in a coffin in a few spots when he 3 bet me.
Well played last night Gazza Saw your rather early exit in the roller. Really good that you held it together after that to end up having a pretty good night. Posted by Jac35
Thanks Jac.
Yeah it was pretty annoying my exit from roller... on the SECOND HAND. There was me getting excited about a Super Roller and boom im out after aproxiamately a minute.
I tried to keep the pot conservative pre as I definitely didnt want to get my chips in the middle for a flip pre. Maybe I should fold pre at some point. It may have been the best thing to do when things started to get out of hand with the tournament being so early... however after the flop I think I have little other option than to take a punt at it with decent equity. There are few other flops i'd go with this hand. This just happened to be one.
danny1958
Small blind
20.00
20.00
9940.00
TIMBER
Big blind
40.00
60.00
9960.00
Your hole cards
A
K
cpfc_2010
Fold
lilymia
Fold
gazza127
Raise
120.00
180.00
9940.00
blankyboy
Raise
200.00
380.00
9780.00
danny1958
Raise
260.00
640.00
9680.00
TIMBER
Fold
gazza127
Call
160.00
800.00
9780.00
blankyboy
Raise
960.00
1760.00
8820.00
danny1958
Call
880.00
2640.00
8800.00
gazza127
Call
880.00
3520.00
8900.00
Flop
J
Q
3
danny1958
Bet
3520.00
7040.00
5280.00
gazza127
All-in
8900.00
15940.00
0.00
blankyboy
All-in
8820.00
24760.00
0.00
danny1958
All-in
5280.00
30040.00
0.00
gazza127
Unmatched bet
80.00
29960.00
80.00
danny1958
Show
J
J
gazza127
Show
A
K
blankyboy
Show
A
A
Turn
3
River
4
danny1958
Win
Full House, Jacks and 3s
29920.00
29920.00
blankyboy
Win
Two Pairs, Aces and 3s
40.00
40.00
Thoughts?
Anyway... as you've alluded to Jac I ended up having an OK night. Ran OK in mini roller and was 10/10. Managed to get a DU 66 />KQ and pushed on to take it down for a nice bink!
gazza127
1425000
1
£743.85
I've also been trialling stars with very little success recently... in fact none. However I imagine its a learning process getting used to full ring instead of the 6 max ive been playing my entire poker life. Even so I managed to cut my losses last night by winning a $11 180 man SNG Bounty thingy for about $500.
I haven't been putting in decent volume recently on Sky. Things have been OK, however i've just taken a bit of a stepback from grinding cash.
Not sure why. Perhaps im just getting a bit tired.
There isn't much (well any) traffic on this thread. Im thinking i'll continue to update this thread occassionally until my trip to Vegas in late May/June, write up my experience and let the thread whither and die in the nether regions on the sky forum.
It'd be a year since I started this thread when I come back from Vegas. Perhaps its the ideal time to call it quits.
I wanted to get some live practice in before vegas so tonight I managed to convince a few friends to go to Grosvener (sp?) Casino in Reading. They arent poker players but swayed them as we had little better to do.
We get there and there is two cash tables running, both £1/2. I sit down with £200 and one of my mates decides to join me with a slightly shorter stack. We've both only ever played live cash once before, however im a lot more experienced as he doesnt play online. As a result he is uber tight with his money. If you are in a hand with him and he calls one street, you are probably drawing dead.
Naturally before playing any hands I decide I will play sensible. No barrelling or raising with air etc. I didnt fancy a reload so thought id nit it up a bit, especially as we were 9 handed. 5 minutes in I have over half my stack in the middle with K high after triple barrelling. Doh! I convinced myself that he was on a draw from the flop (was very draw heavy) and thought I could shift him off his hand. Lucky for me he tank folded the river!
Another hand of note:
Utg limps. Utg+1 limps. I have KJs and decide to raise to £12. The button calls. So does BB and UTG and UTG+1. So the pot is something like £49.
Flop comes down 256hh. I decide not to c bet and it gets checked around. Turn is an offsuit J. BB leads for £40 leaving £30 behind. Others fold. We do??? I sat there thinking for a good couple of minutes as it was super easy for him to have a set or two pair and have me beat. I decide to stick him all in eventually and he turns over Jx and mucks his kicker. Still unsure about the call from me but those who have played live cash can know how lively it is.
Anyway I finished the night £200 up, treated my mates to a kebab and that was that. My third ever live outing and my third profitible one. Heres hoping the run can continue onto vegas!
Comments
GG main.
GG deepstack
GG £11 BH
GG £22 BH
I wonder whats on tele.
Exit hands from tournaments include AA v QQ AIP, Flopped flush v turned FH, Flopped top two v turned flush, QQ v K5 AIP.
Might call it a night. Clearly the poker gods don't like me today.
Should have.
Played cash. Lost cash. Tilted at lost cash. Withdrew big chunk of roll. Convince myself its for Vegas trip this year. Actually cause I dont want to do something silly. Child.
TV now.
Think itd be good for me. I grinded my but off last month and this month I'm still playing until 4am each morning and getting up for work at 8am. Im tired. A man needs his sleep!
Hopefully by taking a week off I can try and restore some sort of poker/life balance midweek.
Don't think the cycle ive got at the minute is sustainable and is certainly going to hinder me long term.
Been looking into various tourneys on the strip. Unsurprisingly, there seems to be quite a few crapshoot ones (10 min blinds, or 40bb SS etc etc). The better structured ones look like they are held at the Venetian, Wynn, Aria, Caesars Palace and Bellagio. Buy ins hover around the $100-$200 mark, most have 30 min levels and a 200bb SS. They will probably attract a better calibre of player, so there could be some value in the crapshoot ones if variance is kind to us. Allvegaspoker.com gives you the lowdown....
Tip for San Fran (great city), if you want to go to Alcatraz, and you really should do it, then book it in advance. By advance, I mean this weekend! If you rock (no pun intended) up at the ticket office on the day you want to go with nothing sorted in advance, gg.
Have a great time in vegas btw
Alcatraz is on the list.
Mtts have been going... whats the word.... AWFUL recently. Absolutely terrible. Think i've been playing pretty poorly in general trying to force a win from somewhere.
But tonight it all came together. It didnt start well as i regged for 5 MTTs on stars and only made 1 min cash. I regged all the DTD and spewed in ALL of them. Main I couldnt get going and i finished about 25th or something in mini.
But I decided to late reg the 9pm £55 BH out of pure spite cause I was out of pretty much everything else!
I built a stack... got a tad lucky and was chip leader for most of the tournament. Putting pressure on stacks I managed to FT, get to HU and bink it for £1.1k!
Shout out to Mr Bates who again had another deep run. He was very complimentary of me when I won which is nice! It did help that I had position on him entire final table and could apply max pressure.
Gaz played really well, had position on me and put maximum pressure on me. He knows I understand ICM and put me in a coffin in a few spots when he 3 bet me.
WP sir!
P.S. I still think you are a fish!
Thanks Jac.
Yeah it was pretty annoying my exit from roller... on the SECOND HAND. There was me getting excited about a Super Roller and boom im out after aproxiamately a minute.
I tried to keep the pot conservative pre as I definitely didnt want to get my chips in the middle for a flip pre. Maybe I should fold pre at some point. It may have been the best thing to do when things started to get out of hand with the tournament being so early... however after the flop I think I have little other option than to take a punt at it with decent equity. There are few other flops i'd go with this hand. This just happened to be one.
Anyway... as you've alluded to Jac I ended up having an OK night. Ran OK in mini roller and was 10/10. Managed to get a DU 66 />KQ and pushed on to take it down for a nice bink!
A good night all in all!
Not sure why. Perhaps im just getting a bit tired.
There isn't much (well any) traffic on this thread. Im thinking i'll continue to update this thread occassionally until my trip to Vegas in late May/June, write up my experience and let the thread whither and die in the nether regions on the sky forum.
It'd be a year since I started this thread when I come back from Vegas. Perhaps its the ideal time to call it quits.
Most people read them and just don't post on them buddy.
Been some year for you since you started your "diary".
If you feel it helps stay focussed defo continue it, or if not, you can always come back to it later.
Enjoy Vegas, sounds awesome:)