So the spreadsheet I've got going is falling a bit behind - not updated the last few cash and tournament sessions but will make sure I do so tomorrow! Also still got february and january results still to do.
Having dropped back down to 50NL when I had a bit of a downswing I've not rushed into getting back into 100NL, but tonight I thought I'd give it a shot. Started 2 tabling with 1 100NL and 1 50NL and had doubled up on both tables when I opened up a 100PLO game. But then had a few small losses on that game and then an all in pot which I lost. Closed the table for a minute and then re-opened - then from there out I just completely crushed the table for the next 2 hours! Finished around £540ish and on another PLO table finished on around £300. Played some of the best PLO I've played for a while on a table full of regs for the most part.
Overall just over £420 up for the night. Definitely need some sleep now though!!
Been a long time since I posted. I realise I tend to post more when things are going well as opposed to badly!!
Had an absolute nightmare in June. Couldn't cash a tournament and lost a lot playing cash including one really horrible session @ 50PLO where I went on tilt and ended up some 15BI's down. It's not so bad tilting in PLO because of how close equities run - in fact, it can be a good thing if everyone is nitting it up because you just take so much down uncontested - and if you do GII (as long as it's not a pure bluff) you usually have decent equity where you're not losing that much.
But that day, just absolutely nothing went for me. A couple of villains had 5-7BI's, mostly donated between me. I finally pulled it back somewhat and got to around 5BI's up. Decided to play on rather than cut my losses - ended up badly when I pulled a huge bluff and got caught.
This month had been steady progress...mostly ups, a few downs. Then Sunday night I cashed in the super roller in 9th place. Somewhat disappointing as I was chip leader with 100k at one stage and bossing the table. But took my foot off the gas and lost a flip. Ended up middle of the pack. Lucked out with A7s vs 88 to double up to 180k and thought I had a good shout of making the final table but then against the same player snapped his SB shove with AQ - he has the A7 this time and sees a 772 flop. Still, a good cash and put me on the leaderboard for this MTT priority promotion to win a TSP seat at UKPC. Saturday also saw deep runs in main and mini but cashing out just before the money in both.
Tonight was the 800th million hand promo - missed out on that. Had a bit of a break and then regged a free-roll (never usually bother with most free-rolls but there wasn't too many runners and just thought may as well see what happens - also regged the main, mini and had the priority free-roll. I binked a UKPC semi-final seat in the free-roll, so was entered into that. And also regged the BH, so had 5 tournaments on the go. And boy was it hectic! Usually don't play that many tables - it's 3 usually, occasionally 4. I see now why there's so many multi-table nits - it just becomes impossible to try and play that active if your playing that many tables.
Anyway, had a great start to the mini, bad start to the main. But then main started going better as mini went worst and it was the first table to disappear. The priority free-roll I had a slow start, but then picked up a couple premium hands and was chip leader. Was 7 left with 5 cashing and I defended Ac9c. Flopped a flush draw on 7xx and hit the flush on a 7 turn. Got it in against trip 7s only for river to give them a FH. Would have put me as chip leader and a lock for a decent cash but went out soon after with no cash. £800 up top as well for a free tournament with only 30 odd runners in a free tournament - can't complain with that!
So was down to just 3 tournaments - the main, the UKPC semi and the BH. BH was another slow start, but then somehow quadrupled up within a 10 minute period and found myself at the top of the pack. By this point I was concentrating on the main though as it was getting to the latter stages. And the BH suffered as a result because instead of applying the pressure I just tightened up and must have folded 30 hands in a row - or at least it felt like that! The UKPC semi-final seat I won was going even worse - I was short stacked and barely playing a hand but I seemed to be somehow survivng. Got to the final table of the main and needed 2nd place which would put me at the top of the cashes for this TSP MTT race for priority. But busted out 4th when my 88 couldn't hold against QT. Still, a good result! I somehow managed to double up twice in the UKPC semi and put myself in contention - and then from there, I managed to win a seat. Down to the 1 table I decided to concentrate on the BH. I found myself in a spot where I'd called twice after being donked into when I was the PFR on a 9348 board. River was an 8 and I almost instant called in tilt, but then thought about it some more - and called anyway! I was good, and then I was back in the mix. Managed to chip up gradually and got in the money. With 9 left I found KK in the BB raised it up. 1 call. Flop was 9 high with 2 hearts and I bet/shoved against NFD which got there on the river.
Was one of them nights where so much went for me - I got unlucky in some spots, but then sucked out quite a lot when I was like a 30% dog... but at the same time, I felt I could have played a lot better if I wasn't playing so many tables. But can't complain with a winning night!
This sunday hasn't been much to write home about. Good start in both the main and mini but couldn't keep the symmetry going as I exited the mini in 2 painful hands. One was when I flopped trip 6s only for the board to run out KK to give the KQ a better FH. Then JJ couldn't win a flip against AK. In the UKPC final I never made any waves but chipped up ever so slowly. Got down to 16 left with 8 cashing and I needed a double up to stand a chance. TT couldn't hold against AK which rivered a 4 flush.
Speed BH started and I bleeded away a few chips before finding a double up with queens against jacks. Then got in AK against JJ and 88 for a chance of 2 bounties. Miss. Got another bounty when I picked up QQ against a short stack shove. Then shipped over a 3x open with AK and lost to QQ for my stack.
And just bust out the main shortly after. From being on 35k it just went downhill. Hit absolutely nothing. Every time I raised to make something happen I got unwanted action. 3bet in good looking spots after being super tight only to get shipped on. Bled right down back to 10k. Got a double up when a 3x opener at blinds 400/800 opened and I shipped with A7s... they snap with T2s. I win first all in of night. Couple hands later it's my BB with A8o... it gets opened and flatted and I 3b. Get 4bet by BTN who's never folding to a shove but I think he's pretty light so just ship and hope it's a flip. I'm right, they have 77 so not too light but good enough. Couldn't spike anything tho and that was that!
Awful night all in all. Needed a decent cash in main or mini for this MTT priority promotion but wasn't to be. Should be in the playoff though in 2 days time for a TSP seat!
This sunday hasn't been much to write home about. Good start in both the main and mini but couldn't keep the symmetry going as I exited the mini in 2 painful hands. One was when I flopped trip 6s only for the board to run out KK to give the KQ a better FH. Then JJ couldn't win a flip against AK. In the UKPC final I never made any waves but chipped up ever so slowly. Got down to 16 left with 8 cashing and I needed a double up to stand a chance. TT couldn't hold against AK which rivered a 4 flush. Speed BH started and I bleeded away a few chips before finding a double up with queens against jacks. Then got in AK against JJ and 88 for a chance of 2 bounties. Miss. Got another bounty when I picked up QQ against a short stack shove. Then shipped over a 3x open with AK and lost to QQ for my stack. And just bust out the main shortly after. From being on 35k it just went downhill. Hit absolutely nothing. Every time I raised to make something happen I got unwanted action. 3bet in good looking spots after being super tight only to get shipped on. Bled right down back to 10k. Got a double up when a 3x opener at blinds 400/800 opened and I shipped with A7s... they snap with T2s. I win first all in of night. Couple hands later it's my BB with A8o... it gets opened and flatted and I 3b. Get 4bet by BTN who's never folding to a shove but I think he's pretty light so just ship and hope it's a flip. I'm right, they have 77 so not too light but good enough. Couldn't spike anything tho and that was that! Awful night all in all. Needed a decent cash in main or mini for this MTT priority promotion but wasn't to be. Should be in the playoff though in 2 days time for a TSP seat! Posted by F_Ivanovic
Bled
Was all set to welcome you to the FT jackpot club and everything
Gl in the playoff sir, got a sneaky feeling you'll clinch it
In Response to Re: F_Ivanovic New Challenge Ideas : Bled Was all set to welcome you to the FT jackpot club and everything Gl in the playoff sir, got a sneaky feeling you'll clinch it Posted by hhyftrftdr
haha I jinxed myself as soon as I wrote in this thread! Just thought it was pretty mad to be the exact same position with exact same numbers left in both tournies!!
Wasn't to be in the playoff unfortunately. I didn't have the cards but didn't play aggressive enough early on. Got down to 4 left with one of us away and I had about 1400, raised with AQ and shipped over a 3-bet by TimmyRaRa's KK. Couldn't spike an A and that was that. Doubt I'll be playing the Sunday Final unless I maybe give a semi-satellite another shot so as it is I'm just going to be playing the mini UKPC. Currently sold 30% of myself with no markup but looking again at the tournament it's a 1 rebuy which makes selling action more awkward maybe? Cause it means if I did want to, I couldn't really buy in again because I'd have put up a lot more than my backers yet still be getting the same cut.
Just be very clear in advance and there shouldn't be any problems. You could specify that the stake is for the first bullet only. Or you could give them the option of backing you for the two. Playing Saturday? Be good to meet up and say hello Posted by Jac35
Yeah, am looking to play Saturday though haven't yet booked anything, will be doing so soon. You booked a place to stay yet? Can't remember where I stayed last time I was in Nottingham although remember it was a bit of a walk (40 mins or so) to DTD. Think it was pretty cheap though. That's the problem with live tourneys - loads of fun, but not sure how +ev they are when you think how much you have to spend on the trip.
Still looking for 20% to sell as well if anyone wants a (bad) gamble. PM if interested!
41 days since an update, apologies for those that like to read the diaries!!
UKPC
So the UKPC was really fun but I did spend quite a lot over that week and being a life-nit with money these days it did hurt a bit! I went down Thursday afternoon and arrived at the casino in time (after missing a train by a minute!) for the satellite into the mini event. Now I hate satellites and rebuys online so a live rebuy satellite is my idea of a nightmare. I don't know why - I've done quite well in satellites but a couple of reasons for not liking them:
- I don't see them as great BRM. It's fine satelliting into a tournament that's just outside your BR. In this case, the £250 was just outside mine, so I was OK with it. (especially as I was buying in anyway and had sold 40%) but trying to satellite for example into a £1k tournament when you only have 10BI's for a £1k tournament is just really bad. Sure, if you are good you will have an edge in the satellites - but over the "span" of playing this type of satellite, you'll have spent close to the money it cost you trying just to get into the tournament as the tournament costs.
- I can't play suited connector hands that I like so much. I have to fold the BTN. I can't help but think sometimes with "I know that he knows that it makes no sense for either of us to get involved with each other. Therefore I'm going to 3-bet bluff you."
Possibly another reason I hate them is when I bought in direct to the £1k final of a vegas seat and bust out 2/3 before the bubble. Anyway, despite my hate of them I managed to win a seat for just £40 along with TommyD.
Ended up with a decent run in the mini too. Got an early double up when I flopped a set of kings and the guy overplayed his flush on a paired board by the river. Didn't capitalise though and went into day 2 slightly above average. Had one really memorable hand from the tournament. This was fairly close to the cash bubble (about 10 left) and I had a short-ish stack. I check/shipped river with KJ (overbet) thinking opponent was betting a weak ace on an AJxxQ board and going for thin value. They had rivered 2 pair with QJ but folded! After that it was plain sailing to the cash and then subsequent £1k main event seat. I moved table as a short stack that clearly was looking to gamble and found a perfect double up spot when I shipped AA to make me seem weaker than I was. 99 called v quickly and I held. So was up to 800k and just above avg but then my stack started dwindling with nothing going for me. In the end shipped in with 33 in an UO pot and got called by sixes.
After that went the bar and had a drink with Tommy, Nutter, Dantb, andrew, bromleys and Jac35. All a good laugh! I played cash for about 5 minutes. AQ against A4 on a Q2A flop. Bet flop, turn and river. Turn and river were a 3 and 5 though. Doh
So came back up on the wednesday next week I think it was. Played cash the first night but it was a bit of a borefest with most people playing really nitty. I lost a couple of BI's unluckily but then pulled it back before the end of the night after I moved table and had a change of luck. The main event started off much like the mini - a bit of a flyer. Was playing really well and played an interesting hand when I 3-bet squeezed pre and got 3 callers. c/r a AQ4 flop turned my weakish hand into a bluff and got a fold from the BTN who claims he led out with 67... that same guy was my downfall for the next few hours though. He seemed to read me quite well and made folds when behind and calls when I was at it. I also made a really bad stationary call down vs him. Really bad. So I dwindled to below average but then things picked up again after that player had busted. Started playing well again and moved table with about 10 minutes left of the day with about 127k and slightly above average stack size. 2 minutes left and I open A6hh. Get 3-bet. I'm thinking "just fold, get to day 2" - but I end up calling and see a very nice flop of 569 with 2 hearts. Pair + NFD. Think I should lead out here, check/ship or check/call. I probably choose the worse option in check/raising. Turn is a 9 and I'm left with a really awqward stack size. Don't want to b/c it off, don't want to c/c really. I end up c/shipping (again, probably the worst option) and he calls with KK. Brick river and that's me done.
Cash this night was much better. Was sat on a table with gazza, bearlyther, Larson (for a bit) and TommyD. I got a double up against bearlyther after I slow played a big hand pre-flop. I actually thought I was in bad shape when my flop ship got called but I was ahead! Best pot of night though was between gazza and Tommy. Tommy left and a comedian scouser joined who couldn't help take the mick out of gazza and his jumper among other things! Very funny night anyway!
Total cost of trip was probably more than the £600 I won in the mini but definitely worth it.
Tournament wise on Sky has not been a pretty site lately. I had a really good first 5/6 months of the year making £1k on avg per month in tournaments. But recently I've just hit a really bad patch and can't seem to get anything going. Not sure if it's just bad variance or generally not playing great. Last night I played the rebuy main and the £55BH.
Rebuy main I had a slow start - but mid-way into the tournament I ramped up the aggression and really motored on. I took virtually no risks and played lots of small ball poker to get a 60k stack with about 50 left and near-ish the top of the leaderboard. Then had a nightmare pot against DivsDreams. He opened BTN and I flat with AsTs (I chose to flat bc Divs was almost never raising his BTN vs me) Flop was 66x and it went chk/chk. Turn was a 2nd spade so I decide to bet HP and he calls. River is a blank. Now I have some SD value but not much. Pot was about 8-9k iirc and Divs had 19k behind. I figure he's def calling a small river bet and probably calls a larger one too. So I either have to give up or overbet. Given that I've been playing small ball and it's been working very well I should definitely just give up here. But I end up shipping and Divs snaps with KK... I mean, I was really annoyed with my play here but credit to Divs for checking flop with his hand vs me. So I was down to 32k from 60k. A bit tilted I opened KJ and hit a decent flop of KQJcc 3 way. I bet and get a call. Turn is a 8c. ugh. But I'm tilted so just pray he's on a pair/FD and bet large (pretty much a ship) - he ships and it's like 4k more into 30k so I call to see AT. Not sure if I could/should get away there and maybe check/fold turn or bet smaller/fold to ship. It's still pretty unlucky. And then I jam AJ and A8 gets there. £55BH I bubbled final table when I couldn't get away from queens to a 3-bet.
Cash (or rather omaha cash) is the only thing that's been making me money over the past month or so! I did have one day where I lost £800 playing omaha but then over the next 3 I'd made all that back.
I've also been playing outside my BRM a couple times recently when on sort of semi-tilt in just wanting to chase losses. First time was when I played a 400BI holdem cash game with gazza and then a couple of others jumped in/out. I knew I was playing too outside my comfort zone when I got into a huge pot with gazza and ended up folding. I had 88 in BB, he was BTN (HU) I 3-bet and flat his 4-bet. Flop is 772 and I call his bet. Turn is 6 (two FD's). I call a big turn bet (£80 into £100) but then fold to his river jam for £388 into £280 which doesn't complete a flush. I think it's a close spot and normally I probably call there but by that point I was happy with my minimized loss for the night and didn't want to lose another £390 more in one hand. I snap quit after that cause I was just really annoyed at myself for letting the money influence my decision!
Then a couple days ago I was down £600 and so played style HU at omaha on £1/£2 (well it was six max, but HU for the most part apart from someone joining for a short while) - I played and ran well though and got up to £700 before I decided to quit and head to bed. My original plan when sitting down was to either bust the 1 BI (or maybe 2) or get up to close to even for the night.
Being down £600 for the day then taking on style at £1/2 and coming out in profit must of been a pretty good feeling, crazy though, good read, sure the mtt variance will swing round soon enough.
Being down £600 for the day then taking on style at £1/2 and coming out in profit must of been a pretty good feeling, crazy though, good read, sure the mtt variance will swing round soon enough. Posted by benc
Yeah it was alright I've had much crazier days/nights in the past but haven't done anything 'reckless' in a while so was nice that it worked out OK! Hopefully - Thing is b/c I don't put in much volume at MTT's it can seem to take forever to turn it around. I guess it's not too bad if cash is going OK in the meantime tho.
Tonight I had a pool match on (as with every Thursday) - had won our first 2 games 5-2 and 4-3 (I won both mine) but tonight was a mare. 7-0 loss. I played one of the worst games probably too.
Was going to just watch a bit of netflix (probably The Shield) when I got back but ended up playing poker for an hour or so. 1 50PLO and 3 Holdem. Finished +£330 on Omaha (think I ran vv well, hitting most things) and about £50 down in holdem. Was a frustrating start to the session in Holdem and reminds me of just how much I hate folding. First hand in I decided to 3-bet J9o, Ic-bet a 973 flop, c/c a 8 turn and then c/f a 7 river. Annoying. Then after forgetting to auto top up the very next hand I had AQ in SB. Flat an UTG open and went to flop 4 way. I c/c AT7r flop, c/c a 4 turn and c/f a 2 river (bringing BD flush) - all decisions seem close in that hand and maybe I should just nit it up and fold flop. Figure because I'm such a CS that I'm never being bluffed OTR so prob correct fold there. Any advice on the hands appreciated. Wish I could post them but it always fails for me whenever I try a HH in my diary (they work fine in the clinic tho most times)
Hand 1 - Think c/c flop is better for a few reasons. River is close. Gd villains will know that on this run out they have a massive range advantage (Overpair is likely the top of your range depending on you flop/turn strategies) but I wonder if people are thinking enough to bluff enough in these spots. C/f is probably best.
Hand 2 - I personally squeeze SB here after 2 callers. You block some of UTG's value range and I don't feel to bad folding to UTG 4-bet. Think AQs is a better flat in the sb as it plays better 4-way. As played I probably just c/f turn.
Yeah usually I would c/c flop but auto pilot c-bet. Though you can go both ways here I think - check flop to protect your range or bet flop/check turn to protect your turn range.
Hand 2 re. squeezing. It was just the 1 call (and then me and BB called too) - Lots of regs at this level including this one are just really tight UTG and it seems every time I 3-bet an UTG open I nearly always get 4-bet! So I don't want to waste a hand as good as AQ by 3bet/folding. Playing 4 way OOP with this hand isn't exactly a big money winner either though. Squeeze might be better tho. I thought about folding turn too but seems like flop call was burning money if I c/f turn. I dunno.
Played a couple short sessions today. One late afternoon, one just now. Late afternoon I was playing a couple of 50NL and 50PLO. Lost 1 BI at PLO and table broke. There was a uber maniac/strange player at one of the 50NL tables today. He was 3-betting quite a bit - sometimes standard sizing other times quite large. And then he had some normal open sizes but then he also opened ridiculously large to like £22 on more than 30 occasions at least. He was running pretty golden though - one pot I remember he open £22 OTB, the SB shoves 200bb, BB with 100bb snaps and he calls too OTB. So 500bb pot. He has QcJc, BB has AA and SB has KsJs. He flops a FD, turns a club giving him a flush. AA has the Ac but he manages to hold.
Meanwhile, I was card dead but really wanting to gamble at first oppertunity after they get up to a 650bb stack. I finally find a decent hand (KQo) and raise it UTG only to see him raise to £22.50. Now I know he could have a medium Ax here or a worse K/Q (as I've seen him SD these hands after a big raise) but also think he could be doing it with just pure garbage. And so I probably have decent equity here and I shove - if it's a losing play, it's not by much. And I really want to build a stack vs this guy quickly so that I can then hope to get his whole stack in a hand when I'm much better than 50/50. Anyway, he has 57o and I hit my Q and hold. Few hands later I flat an open with AQ. He 3-bets, original opener flats and I 4-bet largish to £22. We get in £124 and my AQ has his AT dominated. QKx flop and you know the turn J came... so that's me back to square one!
Then GII again with As4s vs his QT. And lose. I manage to double up with QQ vs someone else who had TT tho. Didn't get involved in another (big pot against him) unfortunately.
Despite his ridiculous pre-flop game though he was really nitty post flop most of the time. He got carried away with top pair and didn't fold, but a lot of times he 3-bet a normal sizing and then just instant check down 3 streets when he missed w/o ever attempting to bluff. Saw him only bluff once or twice post flop and it was usually only the 1 street.
The first session I had I ended up about £60 down overall.
Second session tonight I played a bit higher with a 100PL0 and 3 NL tables and realised again I should just stick to PLO.
I lost a BI fairly early in PLO when I made a pretty bad play. Called down 2 streets with just top pair + non nut FD. (I should maybe have raised flop since their bet was weak looking and my hand prob has good equity) - river brings a backdoor flush and it's gone 3 way to river. The aggressor checks to me and I decide to ship river. Player behind tank/calls and the other player calls too. He has nut flush and other K high flush. oops. I guess my image payed off later tho because I got quite a few call downs from hands that should have folded. So finished about +£110 in omaha. Holdem though I finished about £40 down.
Had a nightmare with JJ. First I 3-bet with it and then play the c/c game on a 9xxhhh board (no hearts), c/c a huge turn bet (brick) of £45 and then c/f a A (non h) river left for about £38 more into a £200 pot. Don't know what on earth I am doing in this hand. Tilts me so much when I get faced by a large turn bet when they leave a stupid river sizing. Then I cold flat a BTN 3-bet with JJ, c/c a 3 card low flop and then c/c a blank turn. Obv ran into KK when I knew I was up against an overpair too. I pulled it back tho with some luck.
I did a thread a while back about whether people prefer to run well or play well. I just hate playing badly. If I GII bad and suckout then I'm happy as long as I didn't really play the hand bad. But when I play bad I just feel like I'm losing money regardless of whether I'm winning or not. I could be winning more money than I am or losing less then I am when I'm playing bad. Maybe I just set myself too high standards, I dunno.
Alicia had a day off today so we went back home to my mums to see (and walk) the dog! My mum's getting married again now (only been together 2/3 months!! and it's in feb next year) and we've been invited to the wedding obviously. However, I've had a falling out with her which started a month and a half ago when I had nowhere to go after moving out of our last place earlier than we had anticipated. We looked at a few places on the week of moving out but didn't find anywhere so I asked my mum if I could stay at home just until we could find somewhere to live. She said I couldn't - and then so I had to move in with Alicia at her parents. The first week I was living here I just felt really down and had no motivation for anything. Which made me more angry at my mum and started my refusal to speak to her. Too much of a long story to get into, but I finally spoke to her today but we've no closer to resolving it.
Played another late night (short) session tonight. PLO was a small profit (1 table I lost a BI, another table I was up 4 BI's before leaving with just 1 and a bit BI up) Played a mastercash table (50NL) and finished on £640 or so. Gazza was at the table and this time I had position on him. This time I also made money off him! I know it's an obvious thing that having position on someone is an advantage, but when we play each other (especially in a deep game) we really seem to prove that point. Just makes life so much harder on the player OOP. I did run quite well and there were some interesting hands I might post if gazza doesn't mind! I get the sense he might have been a bit tilted after that session though as I know I probably would have been had it been in reverse.
Yikes, been almost 4 months since I've posted an update!!!
How best to make this as short as possible so not to make people bored of reading? I dunno, probably by starting by not rambling! Also decided on a bigger font to maybe help the Tikay's of this world (if he reads this diary at all?) that probably can't see writing that small :P
So, October to December wasn't really the best. My volume was terrible and when I did play I couldn't get anything going. MTT's continued to run + play terrible and I just didn't grind much cash PLO (or holdem) at all.
Life-wise, didn't have a good october or November but December especially over Christmas began feeling a lot more upbeat. Started playing a bit more poker and enjoying the game again. New Years eve was fun, saw some mates I hadn't seen in a long time and played drinking monopoly among other things! Then after New years finally went the casino with my mate (we'd been saying for about 10 months we need to go but never got around to it haha) - went the Genting in Liverpool. I had a great start in the tourney when I flopped a set of 8's on A87 and instantly knew by the betting that villain had 77 so just fast played. Went downhill after that and I failed to win a pot in over an hour and a half. Got short, jammed AK and got beat by QT. GG. My mate was still in so I wondered over to Cash. Quickly saw what looked to be the best seat next to a drunk scouser who didn't seem to have a clue. But instead of being a maniac he was actually pretty nitty. Made about £35 so almost breakeven. My mate bust and his excuse was "I wouldn't usually have gone with that hand, but just thought seeing as you were out I would try and gamble and spin it up! If I'd known you were happy playing cash I'd have still been in!" lol, he does make me laugh!!
January I saw the TSP promotion and was determined to win a seat. Since I went out NYE tho and spent the day recovering, there was little point going for cash or SNG. So just tried for MTT's, but never got any results so that failed. I looked at the Cash promo and saw Blizzy top for a while and then Style catching up. I also saw DTM have a good start but unable to maintain and just thought to myself if DTM is finding it tough with his 14-18 tabling then it's just going to be nigh on impossible for me to do it unless I can get 5/6 games of 50PLO running at least 7-8 hours a day (rack up points a lot quicker playing PLO!)
I looked at STT's and worked out how much Nutter was avg per hour and thought it was easily possible to beat/match his points tally if I played 14/15 hours per day.
So Thursday night I played my first session of 4 hours. A mix of HU and DYMs. Was pretty hectic to say the least to begin with - and I dropped about £300 in them few hours. Next day I woke at 12 and started grinding about 1. I would grind for 3 hours then have a short break, then go again for about 3 hours. First day seemed to last a lifetime! Then Friday I did the same thing. I was running insanely horrible too. Anyone that played me can attest to that!! Just couldn't win a flip to save my life! After first 2 days I had racked up 21k points. GSmith13 was close behind on 18k points iirc. He posted on forum that he was giving up, so I thought to myself "Phew!" cause at how bad I was running it was going to cost me £5k just to win a £1k seat! Despite him saying that on the forum I didn't want to take any chances and still had a decent Saturday Grind to get me up to 28k points. I was now almost 9k points ahead of 2nd place so all I had to do now really was to keep an eye on it, have a few sessions and I should be OK. After 3 days I had lost almost £2k though. I did make priority within 2 days tho which is a first!
Thankfully, rest of week I didn't drop any more and started making slow progress out of that hole. And nobody decided for a late surge so I finally locked it up with 35k points.
Since then, variance has taken an upturn. I think I FT about 8 tournaments or so within the next week with a total winnings of £1k. None of the main events or mini's tho unfortunately. I FT one tourney and lost HU vs Lambert - next night I get to HU in a 22BH and take it down. Next night I FT the same tourney and bust in 4th (plus a 3rd in a £11 BH) Also got a +£150 in STT promo last week and had a decent few cash sessions. So overall in January now I'm only down £250 and have C4P to look forward too which would leave me in slight profit. So from thinking TSP was a nightmare idea, it's turned out pretty well and can't wait for Februrary and the UKPC now!
Hi bud nice read and well done for winning your seat. Glad you turned that downswing around. Are you planning on playing the Mini aswell? Posted by TimmyRaRa
Cheers bud, yeah me too! Biggest downswing since I started this diary. Funny thing about it though is I've had less severe downswings in the past but where I don't think I've always played my A game and these really get to me but losing the £2k I didn't feel bad at all because apart from the start of the promotion when I was out of my comfort zone playing too many tables (and in a HU format) I've been reasonably happy with how I've played.
I was planning to, yep. But don't really know what day to play. I kind of want to save money cause going to London with the gf 23rd to 25th and staying in a hotel there so was thinking of maybe just going down for the day and playing the Turbo on Sunday. But kind of makes more sense to play on Saturday and get more play in! So yeah, not too sure.
Good to see this back. Noticed you have been doing well in MTT's lately so hope you carry that on to the UKPC. Wish I was good enough to go, so jealous!
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Was all set to welcome you to the FT jackpot club and everything
Gl in the playoff sir, got a sneaky feeling you'll clinch it
Still looking for 20% to sell as well if anyone wants a (bad) gamble. PM if interested!
Hand 2 - I personally squeeze SB here after 2 callers. You block some of UTG's value range and I don't feel to bad folding to UTG 4-bet. Think AQs is a better flat in the sb as it plays better 4-way. As played I probably just c/f turn.
I looked at STT's and worked out how much Nutter was avg per hour and thought it was easily possible to beat/match his points tally if I played 14/15 hours per day.
Thankfully, rest of week I didn't drop any more and started making slow progress out of that hole. And nobody decided for a late surge so I finally locked it up with 35k points.
Since then, variance has taken an upturn. I think I FT about 8 tournaments or so within the next week with a total winnings of £1k. None of the main events or mini's tho unfortunately. I FT one tourney and lost HU vs Lambert - next night I get to HU in a 22BH and take it down. Next night I FT the same tourney and bust in 4th (plus a 3rd in a £11 BH) Also got a +£150 in STT promo last week and had a decent few cash sessions. So overall in January now I'm only down £250 and have C4P to look forward too which would leave me in slight profit. So from thinking TSP was a nightmare idea, it's turned out pretty well and can't wait for Februrary and the UKPC now!
Are you planning on playing the Mini aswell?