Was a really good weekend down at newcastle, was good meeting everyone.
Pokerwise wasn't 2 great!
In the main I had Jac35 at my table, was good fun playing at the same table. Table was pretty quiet and there was quite a lot of limping going on, it was probably one of the best tables i could have been on 2 be fair.
Early doors i ran a stupid (pointless bluff) and done about 4/5k for no reason what so ever lol
Board was QQxxx, i was repping the queen and of course guy's just calling down with 10 Q.
Won a few smallish pots, then lost a biggish pot with pocket Aces against Jac, i 3xed, flop came down K56 Rainbow, i bet just jac called. Turn was a 9, i bet 2.1k and was raised to 5.3, i tanked for a while and called. It was either the straight or nothing. On the river i checked Paul bet 10k, and i had 2 fold. Afterwards he told me it was the straight, which is what i was first thinking on the turn, but then talked myself into the fact it was a bluff.
A bit later I had a flush on the turnon a paired board. river was a 6 and opponent donk bet for 5k, i called. Hard to get away from really, he could easily have been doing with with just a jack x hand, jj board. That left me with 15k, half the starting stack, a bit later on blinds were 200-400, guy raised to 1.2, button 3 bet to 2k (really small??) and i jamed the small blind with pocket queens. Button showed aces good game!
Apart from the first hand when i put in the stupid bluff, i didn't run that well. But really glad i got down to meet people i'm playing against all the time.
If i ever played one again, i would be a lot more patient. Found it a bit hard going from playing loads of hands an hour to hardly any 10 handed. Playing 10 handed was a bit different 2!
Hey! Was a really good weekend down at newcastle, was good meeting everyone. Pokerwise wasn't 2 great! In the main I had Jac35 at my table, was good fun playing at the same table. Table was pretty quiet and there was quite a lot of limping going on, it was probably one of the best tables i could have been on 2 be fair. Early doors i ran a stupid (pointless bluff) and done about 4/5k for no reason what so ever lol Board was QQxxx, i was repping the queen and of course guy's just calling down with 10 Q. Won a few smallish pots, then lost a biggish pot with pocket Aces against Jac, i 3xed, flop came down K56 Rainbow, i bet just jac called. Turn was a 9, i bet 2.1k and was raised to 5.3, i tanked for a while and called. It was either the straight or nothing. On the river i checked Paul bet 10k, and i had 2 fold. Afterwards he told me it was the straight, which is what i was first thinking on the turn, but then talked myself into the fact it was a bluff. A bit later I had a flush on the turnon a paired board. river was a 6 and opponent donk bet for 5k, i called. Hard to get away from really, he could easily have been doing with with just a jack x hand, jj board. That left me with 15k, half the starting stack, a bit later on blinds were 200-400, guy raised to 1.2, button 3 bet to 2k (really small??) and i jamed the small blind with pocket queens. Button showed aces good game! Apart from the first hand when i put in the stupid bluff, i didn't run that well. But really glad i got down to meet people i'm playing against all the time. If i ever played one again, i would be a lot more patient. Found it a bit hard going from playing loads of hands an hour to hardly any 10 handed. Playing 10 handed was a bit different 2! Posted by LARSON7
Was really annoyed at how i've been playing MTT's recently, hense why i started the MTT thread!
Recently, even done it at Newcastle, i was being way 2 aggro in the wrong spots, especially early doors, which is not the right time for it.
Also, i was bluffing people in the wrong spots, stations who can never fold, really basic stop but i had reverted to old ways.
Decided i needed to do something about it, go back to basics a bit and play to my strengths and cut out silly moves.
I ended up playing really well tonight, played 2 mtt's,
the 1st mtt, i went out with half the field left, got it all in on a 678 board with pocket queens, opponent had 9s and hut his straight gg. I did the right thing, so no qualms about how the hand played.
I won the 2nd tournie, was focussed all the way through, didn't make 2 many mistakes apart from one when just about the bubble i lost a big pot with pocket 7s, thinking the guy was bluffing when clearly he wasn't! he had 2nd pair, it was pretty bad. That left me with 15k average was about 28k, grinded on for a while, seen the bubble, which seemed to go on forever, then 5 handed (10 left) managed to hold on, tread water, take down pots here and there. Got to the FT 5th lowest stack, but had a dream opponent on my left, he would 3/4x most hands and fold to a shove, quite quickly i went on to be chip or 2nd chip leader, gained a bit of momementum and got to HU with wheelz over a 2 to 1 chip leader, then lost a hand, Really short stacked i called All in with Q4, wheelz kx hand held. Couple of hands later, got 88s in against wheelz 10s/ Back to level pegging, eventually managed to get it in Ace 8 versus Wheelz K8 to take it down.
Up at the SPT someone asked me where to next with poker.
Not to sure at the moment!
I'm happy with my MTT game, and at cash (the stakes I play at), and HU S n go games.
A lot of people have commented in the last while I should be playing higher stakes. I'm not to sure, it's like you have your comfort zone, you are winning why change it?
Don't know, maybe something i'll have to look into at some point before the end of the year/ start of next year. Some one came on the forum a while ago, think it was EST, and they started a thread saying spin £50 quid into a decent amount. About the same time Kalie rejoined the forum starting something similar, I thought that's something I want to achieve. In the last while I have done that thanks to a few good wins at MTTs, and also cash as well.
I started taking with drawls, purely to stop me tiltling, which I've been having some success with - stop playing when i'm on tilt or tired. Quite like the idea, taking a couple of hundred quid out of my account every month, for something that is a hobby / past time, without jeopradizing bank roll, and doing it in quite a risk averse way, which I am doing playing lower stake games.
I'm hoping to make about £1000 between now and Xmas, still going to make withdrawls, but if I hit that, I might redeposit it to £1000, and use that as a "bankroll" playin higher levels. If i'm going 2 do that I definatly need to improve on my cash game for playing at 20/30 nl.
Withdrawing is something I do.Its always nice to treat yourself or someone close to you with your winnings.
I can't see any downside either once it leaves you with a comfortable roll to play with.
For most of us here poker is a hobby so I dont see the point of leaving a couple of grand in my poker account when there is other things the money can be used for.
Hi Pal, Withdrawing is something I do.Its always nice to treat yourself or someone close to you with your winnings. I can't see any downside either once it leaves you with a comfortable roll to play with. For most of us here poker is a hobby so I dont see the point of leaving a couple of grand in my poker account when there is other things the money can be used for. Pat Posted by day4eire76
Think this is perfect advice.
With regard to moving up.
I think you put it just right. If you are winning at a level and making decent returns, then you don't need to move up.
I believe mixing in a few higher stake games with your present ones is a decent idea. Just see how you do.
Sometimes I think people want to move up too quickly and ego means they can't drop back down.
I know the levels where I can make some money and the levels where it gets harder for me. I just stick to what I know I'm best at now.
Just going to keep doing what i'm doing for the time being.
Really need to work on cash if i'm going to "move up", noticing a lot of leaks not to mention the ones i'm not aware of. Like i'm playing a game a 10nl today, i have 2 pair on the flop, and bet out flop and turn (guys already all in) so i'm betting into a side pot, on river guy shoves for 2 x the pot and i call! Was a really bad call, i was beating nothing, river had given him higher 2 pair, not to mention i was seeing his cards anyway so he's never bluffing.
Between now and Christmas, probably going to get a few sessions going and get some feedback on those sessions, and will probably spend a bit of time looking over hand histories/ get others to have a look at hands i'm playing to try and plug any leaks/ mistakes. If anyone ever wants to view one of my sessions, or me there's, let me know to get some feedback.
Football last night was gutting, Celtic were playing really well just couldnt convert our chances and losing 2 late goals pretty frustrating. Next game is Barca at home, will be another brilliant night at parkhead, and hopefully there can be a repeat of last year!
I ended up playing 2 MTT's 2 night first the first time in about 5 days, i was really up for it, was itching to play a tournie. I started out well in 1, badly in another. Got to 12k max in both tournies, and when blinds at 400/800 had a bit of a blow up moment and went out of both in a pretty bad fashion lol
For the last few days / week i've mostly played cash cause i've not had the time to sit down for a few hours for a MTT.
Wondering if other people notice a difference moving between the two? It was like later on in the MTT i was making moves like you would in cash when you have 100 bb, but clearly cant do deep in a MTT. I think playing so much cash the last week affected how i played tonight. Totaly bizarre even though it's the same game, the format and strategies are so different.
Although the MTTs were disapointing tonight, cash has been really decent over the last few days.
After speaking to someone at the SPT, i decided i would maybe try a couple of other sites to build up some more money for a bankroll. Up until now i've just played on Sky and very seldom on one other sight.
Last night i regd with another site, which is mostly a bookies. I'm up a whole £2(from pokeR) lol, the poker wasn't brilliant, there was hardly any volume at all (for cash), i'll prob mostly use it for playing a few mtts.
They also gave a £10 free bet, which i used today on Swindon, Mansfield and Hamilton Accies at about 4.5-1. So i'm already £45 quid up on the site.
Played a tournie today, 14 left, I have AK and jam am looked up by AJ and AJ wins:(
But the worst part was, the guy was a shortstack just before, when i'm 6th in chips, he jams a guy calls, i re jam with AK, other guy folds, 77s against AK and 77s hold!! Me and Ace King have fallen out lol
This month feels like i've played loads, but in reality it's just been a lot in the last week or 2, first couple of weeks of Sept, with SPT and other stuff i hadn't played much at all.
Target for the end of the year is to have withdrawn £1000 from my account, which, if i can achieve it, will be a really decent achievment.
So far in the last week, i've withdrawn £60 from Sky so only £960 to go! Basically i keep my account at a certain limit, and once I reach an amount over that i make a withdrawl. If i go below this figure i need to build it back up again to a level where i can make withdrawls.
Got £25 from the goldenticket draw which was a good surprise.
If i achieve the 1k, plans are to redeposit and have a go at 4 tabling 20nl and hopefully in the main time continue to improve at cash. Reason for withdrawls is sometimes on a bad day i can go on tilt and spew money off, doing this means i have no room to tilt! And it works lol
Re, cash games, game is really improving, if i play 20nl the big thing will be adjusting slightly, but i don't reckon it will be that big a jump if i keep doing the same things at the moment.
There has been a few people from the sky community that have really helped me improve my game in the last 6 months, a big thank you to all those players.
Ended up playing 3 tournies tonight, 2 on here and one else where.
Ended up cashing in all 3. On sky i ended up 4th in the 7:15 deepstack, i lost a flip 5 handed AQ versus 10s all in pre, which left me with 1 bb, i some how managed to get my stack up to about 10 bigs, 4 handed shoved A8 from the button, BB looked me up with A9, pretty standard (and he had the chips 2 call)
I made a big fold 5 handed, guy at the table would min raise and fold to a shove. With his bigger hands he went 3.5/4x (at FT), i had pocket 10s, i would never normally fold these 5 handed. He raised 5x!! I ended up folding, i thought at the time it was a good fold as based on his previous bets, i felt it was either AK AQ JJ KK Aces, and folded given that i was crushed by a lot of his range. It is the nittiest fold i've ever made at a FT, i'm starting to wonder now if it was a big mistake, he made a similiar bet (in the all in hand) when he had 10s. There was a hand just before where he had 4xed with 9s.
In the 7:15 deepstack stack i ran the show for the first 2 odd hours, i was massive chip leader the whole way with 50k when blinds were still really small. About 10/15 before the bubble i ended up playing the biggest pot of the tournie so far, KK versus 8s all in pre. An 8 turned up on the turn! If i had won tat pot i would have had about 80k in chips. Left me with 26k, which dwindled with blinds to about 18-20 k, saw the bubble out.
1st hand after the break, i shoved pocket Js (big blind) into the UTG limper he called with A7!! Ace came out good game.
On the bright side my sharkscopes now in profit for the first time ever on Sky!
Another night another FT. Was chip leader with 20 left till it got to 7/8 handed, i was getting no breaks whatso ever, and ended up at the FT 2nd in chips, but stacks were quite even apart from 2 shorties.
Got 2 4 handed, and i lost a big flip AJ versus 99s. That's the second FT i've got to 2 go out fourth.
Bit annoying everytime there's a big flip and you end up losing it.
If anyones a member on sharkscope, would it be possible to do a search for me of my MTT results only for the whole of September?
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Hey!
Was a really good weekend down at newcastle, was good meeting everyone.
Pokerwise wasn't 2 great!
In the main I had Jac35 at my table, was good fun playing at the same table. Table was pretty quiet and there was quite a lot of limping going on, it was probably one of the best tables i could have been on 2 be fair.
Early doors i ran a stupid (pointless bluff) and done about 4/5k for no reason what so ever lol
Board was QQxxx, i was repping the queen and of course guy's just calling down with 10 Q.
Won a few smallish pots, then lost a biggish pot with pocket Aces against Jac, i 3xed, flop came down K56 Rainbow, i bet just jac called. Turn was a 9, i bet 2.1k and was raised to 5.3, i tanked for a while and called. It was either the straight or nothing. On the river i checked Paul bet 10k, and i had 2 fold. Afterwards he told me it was the straight, which is what i was first thinking on the turn, but then talked myself into the fact it was a bluff.
A bit later I had a flush on the turnon a paired board. river was a 6 and opponent donk bet for 5k, i called. Hard to get away from really, he could easily have been doing with with just a jack x hand, jj board. That left me with 15k, half the starting stack, a bit later on blinds were 200-400, guy raised to 1.2, button 3 bet to 2k (really small??) and i jamed the small blind with pocket queens. Button showed aces good game!
Apart from the first hand when i put in the stupid bluff, i didn't run that well. But really glad i got down to meet people i'm playing against all the time.
If i ever played one again, i would be a lot more patient. Found it a bit hard going from playing loads of hands an hour to hardly any 10 handed. Playing 10 handed was a bit different 2!
Run well pal
hey Pat, really good meeting you mate! Good luck with tournies and cash, and i'll see you some monday in the DTD games to donate my chips
Even more never getting involved OOP
Even even more never getting involved placed top 25% of tourney
Recently, even done it at Newcastle, i was being way 2 aggro in the wrong spots, especially early doors, which is not the right time for it.
Also, i was bluffing people in the wrong spots, stations who can never fold, really basic stop but i had reverted to old ways.
Decided i needed to do something about it, go back to basics a bit and play to my strengths and cut out silly moves.
I ended up playing really well tonight, played 2 mtt's,
the 1st mtt, i went out with half the field left, got it all in on a 678 board with pocket queens, opponent had 9s and hut his straight gg. I did the right thing, so no qualms about how the hand played.
I won the 2nd tournie, was focussed all the way through, didn't make 2 many mistakes apart from one when just about the bubble i lost a big pot with pocket 7s, thinking the guy was bluffing when clearly he wasn't! he had 2nd pair, it was pretty bad. That left me with 15k average was about 28k, grinded on for a while, seen the bubble, which seemed to go on forever, then 5 handed (10 left) managed to hold on, tread water, take down pots here and there. Got to the FT 5th lowest stack, but had a dream opponent on my left, he would 3/4x most hands and fold to a shove, quite quickly i went on to be chip or 2nd chip leader, gained a bit of momementum and got to HU with wheelz over a 2 to 1 chip leader, then lost a hand, Really short stacked i called All in with Q4, wheelz kx hand held. Couple of hands later, got 88s in against wheelz 10s/ Back to level pegging, eventually managed to get it in Ace 8 versus Wheelz K8 to take it down.
Not to sure at the moment!
I'm happy with my MTT game, and at cash (the stakes I play at), and HU S n go games.
A lot of people have commented in the last while I should be playing higher stakes. I'm not to sure, it's like you have your comfort zone, you are winning why change it?
Don't know, maybe something i'll have to look into at some point before the end of the year/ start of next year. Some one came on the forum a while ago, think it was EST, and they started a thread saying spin £50 quid into a decent amount. About the same time Kalie rejoined the forum starting something similar, I thought that's something I want to achieve. In the last while I have done that thanks to a few good wins at MTTs, and also cash as well.
I started taking with drawls, purely to stop me tiltling, which I've been having some success with - stop playing when i'm on tilt or tired. Quite like the idea, taking a couple of hundred quid out of my account every month, for something that is a hobby / past time, without jeopradizing bank roll, and doing it in quite a risk averse way, which I am doing playing lower stake games.
I'm hoping to make about £1000 between now and Xmas, still going to make withdrawls, but if I hit that, I might redeposit it to £1000, and use that as a "bankroll" playin higher levels. If i'm going 2 do that I definatly need to improve on my cash game for playing at 20/30 nl.
Just going to keep doing what i'm doing for the time being.
Really need to work on cash if i'm going to "move up", noticing a lot of leaks not to mention the ones i'm not aware of. Like i'm playing a game a 10nl today, i have 2 pair on the flop, and bet out flop and turn (guys already all in) so i'm betting into a side pot, on river guy shoves for 2 x the pot and i call! Was a really bad call, i was beating nothing, river had given him higher 2 pair, not to mention i was seeing his cards anyway so he's never bluffing.
Between now and Christmas, probably going to get a few sessions going and get some feedback on those sessions, and will probably spend a bit of time looking over hand histories/ get others to have a look at hands i'm playing to try and plug any leaks/ mistakes. If anyone ever wants to view one of my sessions, or me there's, let me know to get some feedback.
Football last night was gutting, Celtic were playing really well just couldnt convert our chances and losing 2 late goals pretty frustrating. Next game is Barca at home, will be another brilliant night at parkhead, and hopefully there can be a repeat of last year!
I ended up playing 2 MTT's 2 night first the first time in about 5 days, i was really up for it, was itching to play a tournie. I started out well in 1, badly in another. Got to 12k max in both tournies, and when blinds at 400/800 had a bit of a blow up moment and went out of both in a pretty bad fashion lol
For the last few days / week i've mostly played cash cause i've not had the time to sit down for a few hours for a MTT.
Wondering if other people notice a difference moving between the two? It was like later on in the MTT i was making moves like you would in cash when you have 100 bb, but clearly cant do deep in a MTT. I think playing so much cash the last week affected how i played tonight. Totaly bizarre even though it's the same game, the format and strategies are so different.
Although the MTTs were disapointing tonight, cash has been really decent over the last few days.
After speaking to someone at the SPT, i decided i would maybe try a couple of other sites to build up some more money for a bankroll. Up until now i've just played on Sky and very seldom on one other sight.
Last night i regd with another site, which is mostly a bookies. I'm up a whole £2(from pokeR) lol, the poker wasn't brilliant, there was hardly any volume at all (for cash), i'll prob mostly use it for playing a few mtts.
They also gave a £10 free bet, which i used today on Swindon, Mansfield and Hamilton Accies at about 4.5-1. So i'm already £45 quid up on the site.
After i have a moan tho lol
Played a tournie today, 14 left, I have AK and jam am looked up by AJ and AJ wins:(
But the worst part was, the guy was a shortstack just before, when i'm 6th in chips, he jams a guy calls, i re jam with AK, other guy folds, 77s against AK and 77s hold!! Me and Ace King have fallen out lol
Poker is brutal:P
Target for the end of the year is to have withdrawn £1000 from my account, which, if i can achieve it, will be a really decent achievment.
So far in the last week, i've withdrawn £60 from Sky so only £960 to go! Basically i keep my account at a certain limit, and once I reach an amount over that i make a withdrawl. If i go below this figure i need to build it back up again to a level where i can make withdrawls.
Got £25 from the goldenticket draw which was a good surprise.
If i achieve the 1k, plans are to redeposit and have a go at 4 tabling 20nl and hopefully in the main time continue to improve at cash. Reason for withdrawls is sometimes on a bad day i can go on tilt and spew money off, doing this means i have no room to tilt! And it works lol
Re, cash games, game is really improving, if i play 20nl the big thing will be adjusting slightly, but i don't reckon it will be that big a jump if i keep doing the same things at the moment.
There has been a few people from the sky community that have really helped me improve my game in the last 6 months, a big thank you to all those players.
Ended up playing 3 tournies tonight, 2 on here and one else where.
Ended up cashing in all 3. On sky i ended up 4th in the 7:15 deepstack, i lost a flip 5 handed AQ versus 10s all in pre, which left me with 1 bb, i some how managed to get my stack up to about 10 bigs, 4 handed shoved A8 from the button, BB looked me up with A9, pretty standard (and he had the chips 2 call)
I made a big fold 5 handed, guy at the table would min raise and fold to a shove. With his bigger hands he went 3.5/4x (at FT), i had pocket 10s, i would never normally fold these 5 handed. He raised 5x!! I ended up folding, i thought at the time it was a good fold as based on his previous bets, i felt it was either AK AQ JJ KK Aces, and folded given that i was crushed by a lot of his range. It is the nittiest fold i've ever made at a FT, i'm starting to wonder now if it was a big mistake, he made a similiar bet (in the all in hand) when he had 10s. There was a hand just before where he had 4xed with 9s.
In the 7:15 deepstack stack i ran the show for the first 2 odd hours, i was massive chip leader the whole way with 50k when blinds were still really small. About 10/15 before the bubble i ended up playing the biggest pot of the tournie so far, KK versus 8s all in pre. An 8 turned up on the turn! If i had won tat pot i would have had about 80k in chips. Left me with 26k, which dwindled with blinds to about 18-20 k, saw the bubble out.
1st hand after the break, i shoved pocket Js (big blind) into the UTG limper he called with A7!! Ace came out good game.
On the bright side my sharkscopes now in profit for the first time ever on Sky!
Got 2 4 handed, and i lost a big flip AJ versus 99s. That's the second FT i've got to 2 go out fourth.
Bit annoying everytime there's a big flip and you end up losing it.
If anyones a member on sharkscope, would it be possible to do a search for me of my MTT results only for the whole of September?
Thanks
Count Av Profit Av Stake Av ROI Total Profit Ability
Larson7 393 £0.2 £1.05 14.1% £80.01 63