In Response to Re: Can an old dog learn new tricks? : Unfortunately, I am responsible for that. When I signed up to my - in fact THE - first Online Poker Site, in 1998, I was new to computing & the internet, in fact we all were, it only became widely available to the public a few years earlier, & we were all on achingly slow hard-wired "dial-up" at the tme. So things that are common practice & instinctive now, were all new to us then. The site was Planet Poker, and shortly after they signed the world's first ever "Online Pro", a chap by the name of Mike Caro, who penned many books on poker, & contributed much to Super System. I later met Mike, & I'd label him as, well, a tad eccentric, but for balance, he was the first persion I ever heard foretell the upcoming boom in Internet Poker. Anyway, I digress. I filled in the Sign-Up guff, & then it asked a daft question. What alias do you want? Eh? Alias? Why do I need an alias? My name is Tony Kendall, I'll use that. Why would I not? Incidentally, 16 years on, & I still don't understand why we don't all have to use our real names. Anyway, I digressed again..... I tried to take "Tony Kendall" as my Alias, but the site rejected that, because it was part of my Password. So I decided to use my initials, phonetically, & "TK" became "tikay". I've probably got, or had, Accounts on over 30 Online Poker sites down the years, & with one exception, they are all variants of "tikay", usually with a number suffixed. The one exception was in the last 4 or 5 years, when I opened an account with Full Tilt, for business reasons, & did not want my regular alias seen on there. My real world relationships are divided into two groups, those who call me "tikay", & those, usually close friends, & of course all my girlfriends.....who call me Tony, or Kendall, even Mr Kendall on occasion.... I've been with Sky Poker over 7 years now, & every suit & all the Staff call me "tikay", even to this day. Sometimes they call me far worse, too, I imagine...... There you go Paul, you asked, you got. Posted by Tikay10
Thanks for that.
My alias is hugely imaginative
I went through a spell of using Derby legends for my aliases. Igor Stimac on Full Tilt as an example.
Unfortunately I ran out when I got to my fifth site!!!!!!
I guess I've run super-good all month, turning £215 into £478 I must have run hot, so the big downswing had to be expected.
Very odd night all round, though. 16 x £11ers ran, must be a record for PLO8 here, & my win-rate is these is better by far than anything else. And yet I lost 11 out of 16, including 5 out of the last 6. Yikes.
I was close to break-even, just losing a bit @ 10pm, & almost drew stumps, but I made that fateful decision to chase. That worked well.
No concentration issues at all, I was strongly focussed all session.
Made - arguably - a couple of bad plays early, but the sort of ones which most times we get away with, so don't get questioned. These are all about 4-handed play, and is very tactical. With 2,000 @ 150-300, we can wait for others to bust, or better spots. Can be awkward with that stack too, as if someone playing 1,600 reshoves, we are pot stuck. With 2 or 3 bigs, our shoving range is huge, with 7 Bigs, it does not need to be. Anyway, twice I shoved too early (or, more correctly, got caught doing so) with marginals such as A-Q-4-5. With 2 Bigs, a no-brainer, with 7 Bigs, not so much.
Had a few eye-watering outdraws, too, but no worse than I dish out to others when I'm running hot. Think I just ran a bit bad, but the worry is, we all think that when we have a bad night, it's such a convenient psychological crutch.
Anyway, gotta get back on the bike tonight, & see if I can claw some if it back, & get back in the right tempo. My timing was a bit off on occasion last night, that's about the biggest fault I can readily identify.
Gotta love the way poker does that, just when you think you've got it cracked, slap, right round the chops.
Was there ever a better game to test the resilience of human character, our backbone & mettle?
Unlucky Tikay, in a weird way i bet it's a relief to get the bad session out of the way. After a period of things going well, you know the bad session is coming, so at least it's done and dusted.
With the Ashes starting tomorrow night, are you planning any all nighters? I'm going to see how long I can last on Day 1. Much depends on how we fare, if Aus are 250/0 at tea, I'll definitely call it a night :P
Unlucky Tikay, in a weird way i bet it's a relief to get the bad session out of the way. After a period of things going well, you know the bad session is coming, so at least it's done and dusted. With the Ashes starting tomorrow night, are you planning any all nighters? I'm going to see how long I can last on Day 1. Much depends on how we fare, if Aus are 250/0 at tea, I'll definitely call it a night :P Posted by splashies
Yes, fair point, you are a proper "glass half-full" chap.
I knew it was coming, but just not "when", so in a way yes, I'm glad, it felt like I lost a lot more, to be honest. I did not dare look last night, & ended up getting a pleasant surprise this morning, as I thought I'd dropped north of £100. Almost felt like a win this morning.
The Ashes & all nighters? Well I'm doing Thursday's Show, so will miss the first hour, but yes, I might well have a few all-nighters over the weekend so I can watch the 1st Test, though I doubt there'll be any DTM traffic for PLO8 @ 3 or 4am.
Good session last night, marred only be being much shorter than usual. 11 wins from 14, including all 3 @ £11 that ran whilst I was on, was more than I could ever have hoped for, & recouped £40 of Monday's £60 debacle.
I changed a few things to my game at the start of November - aggression-based - & these have harvested better results, but it comes with the risk of increased variance of course. So I turned the dial down a bit last night, & played quite snug, which helped. I ran pretty good, too - obviously - & most of my hands held. Variance is much-maligned, but she is a decent old girl really.
In one almost comical game, I busted THREE players on the very first hand! I had good Aces, (A-A-2-3 Double Suited) & whilst it was maybe not optimal to go to war on Hand # 1, it just sort of happened. I was up against bad Kings, bad Queens, & K-Q-J-10. Incredibly, my danglers - 2-3 - won the high (two pairs) although my Aces held, too, & I took the low, as nobody else had any low cards & the board came all-low. That is deffo run-good.
Once I realised I was well ahead on the night, & with barely any £11 games running at the time (due to England v Germany I guess), I decided to lock up the profit & have an early night. I had already Registered for an £11 game, so I un-regged, but noticed that the Heavy Crew has just started regging for it. Once they start, the £11 games run back to back, but it would have been a 2am finish, & I decided an early night was in order.
I've decided I am going to go for 3,000 Reward Points in November, too. I have 2,300+ & there are 11 days left in November. I've got 2 Shows in that period, leaving me 9 days I can play. 3,000 points would give me a £45 Bonus. Given my 'roll size, that's a hefty lump. Just need to make sure I don't blow my profit in the interim.
I just remembered, I also folded good aces - A-Q-Q-2 double-suited in one game last night.
I was sort of middle-chip, but the BB had half a Big Blind behind. I was UTG, but the Button was a chap who paid no heed to table or "stack-size" considerations, & was almost certain to pot it if I limped in. It just made no sense to get involved, so I found the Pass, & it all worked out nicely.
Folding Aces pre, what a thing, but excactly correct in that spot.
Unless I'm mistaken AQQ2 is called queens not aces
In our game last night I also folded AQQ2ds. Also it seems every time I have a really nice looking playable hand you come along and raise me First time of playing a PLO8 DYM and losing. Don't think I did anything wrong. AA into AA and losing the low half and splitting the high. Then the exit hand was somewhat unfortunate when BTN limp/call off my just less than 2bb stack with K435os. Only to hit a K and take it down (when I had all his other cards covered with an A)
Unless I'm mistaken AQQ2 is called queens not aces In our game last night I also folded AQQ2ds. Also it seems every time I have a really nice looking playable hand you come along and raise me First time of playing a PLO8 DYM and losing. Don't think I did anything wrong. AA into AA and losing the low half and splitting the high. Then the exit hand was somewhat unfortunate when BTN limp/call off my just less than 2bb stack with K435os. Only to hit a K and take it down (when I had all his other cards covered with an A) Posted by F_Ivanovic[/QUOTE]
Lol, I can always rely on my Typos being corrected.
You look to me that you play PLO8 DYM's pretty good, & I am ever wary of you. So if I Pot it, be afraid......
I truly believe that beyond Level 4 or 5, these things are raise or fold, limping makes no sense at that stage.
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Monday 18th November
Played 25
Won 9
Lost 16
Split....
£2.25 - Played 0, won 0, Lost 0
£5.50 - Played 9, won 6, lost 3
£11.00 - Played 16, won 5, Lost 11
PROFIT/LOSS on Day £65.50
REWARD POINTS = 205
BANKROLL at close of Play = £413.14
REWARD POINTS at close of play = 2,226
November so far.....
Played 334
Won 196
Lost 138
Win-rate, November, 58.58%
Wow, how did that happen?
I guess I've run super-good all month, turning £215 into £478 I must have run hot, so the big downswing had to be expected.
Very odd night all round, though. 16 x £11ers ran, must be a record for PLO8 here, & my win-rate is these is better by far than anything else. And yet I lost 11 out of 16, including 5 out of the last 6. Yikes.
I was close to break-even, just losing a bit @ 10pm, & almost drew stumps, but I made that fateful decision to chase. That worked well.
No concentration issues at all, I was strongly focussed all session.
Made - arguably - a couple of bad plays early, but the sort of ones which most times we get away with, so don't get questioned. These are all about 4-handed play, and is very tactical. With 2,000 @ 150-300, we can wait for others to bust, or better spots. Can be awkward with that stack too, as if someone playing 1,600 reshoves, we are pot stuck. With 2 or 3 bigs, our shoving range is huge, with 7 Bigs, it does not need to be. Anyway, twice I shoved too early (or, more correctly, got caught doing so) with marginals such as A-Q-4-5. With 2 Bigs, a no-brainer, with 7 Bigs, not so much.
Had a few eye-watering outdraws, too, but no worse than I dish out to others when I'm running hot. Think I just ran a bit bad, but the worry is, we all think that when we have a bad night, it's such a convenient psychological crutch.
Anyway, gotta get back on the bike tonight, & see if I can claw some if it back, & get back in the right tempo. My timing was a bit off on occasion last night, that's about the biggest fault I can readily identify.
Gotta love the way poker does that, just when you think you've got it cracked, slap, right round the chops.
Was there ever a better game to test the resilience of human character, our backbone & mettle?
I knew it was coming, but just not "when", so in a way yes, I'm glad, it felt like I lost a lot more, to be honest. I did not dare look last night, & ended up getting a pleasant surprise this morning, as I thought I'd dropped north of £100. Almost felt like a win this morning.
The Ashes & all nighters? Well I'm doing Thursday's Show, so will miss the first hour, but yes, I might well have a few all-nighters over the weekend so I can watch the 1st Test, though I doubt there'll be any DTM traffic for PLO8 @ 3 or 4am.
I've had a few bets on the Ashes, too. Excited.
Tuesday 19th November
Played 14
Won11
Lost 3
Split....
£2.25 - Played 0, won 0, Lost 0
£5.50 - Played 11, won 8, lost 3
£11.00 - Played 3, won 3, Lost 0
PROFIT/LOSS on Day £46.50
REWARD POINTS = 85
BANKROLL at close of Play = £459.64
REWARD POINTS at close of play = 2,311
November so far.....
Played 348
Won 207
Lost 141
Win-rate, November, 59.48%
Good session last night, marred only be being much shorter than usual. 11 wins from 14, including all 3 @ £11 that ran whilst I was on, was more than I could ever have hoped for, & recouped £40 of Monday's £60 debacle.
I changed a few things to my game at the start of November - aggression-based - & these have harvested better results, but it comes with the risk of increased variance of course. So I turned the dial down a bit last night, & played quite snug, which helped. I ran pretty good, too - obviously - & most of my hands held. Variance is much-maligned, but she is a decent old girl really.
In one almost comical game, I busted THREE players on the very first hand! I had good Aces, (A-A-2-3 Double Suited) & whilst it was maybe not optimal to go to war on Hand # 1, it just sort of happened. I was up against bad Kings, bad Queens, & K-Q-J-10. Incredibly, my danglers - 2-3 - won the high (two pairs) although my Aces held, too, & I took the low, as nobody else had any low cards & the board came all-low. That is deffo run-good.
Once I realised I was well ahead on the night, & with barely any £11 games running at the time (due to England v Germany I guess), I decided to lock up the profit & have an early night. I had already Registered for an £11 game, so I un-regged, but noticed that the Heavy Crew has just started regging for it. Once they start, the £11 games run back to back, but it would have been a 2am finish, & I decided an early night was in order.
I've decided I am going to go for 3,000 Reward Points in November, too. I have 2,300+ & there are 11 days left in November. I've got 2 Shows in that period, leaving me 9 days I can play. 3,000 points would give me a £45 Bonus. Given my 'roll size, that's a hefty lump. Just need to make sure I don't blow my profit in the interim.
All good.
I just remembered, I also folded good aces - A-Q-Q-2 double-suited in one game last night.
I was sort of middle-chip, but the BB had half a Big Blind behind. I was UTG, but the Button was a chap who paid no heed to table or "stack-size" considerations, & was almost certain to pot it if I limped in. It just made no sense to get involved, so I found the Pass, & it all worked out nicely.
Folding Aces pre, what a thing, but excactly correct in that spot.
Wednesday 20th November
Played 25
Won12
Lost 13
Split....
£2.25 - Played 0, won 0, Lost 0
£5.50 - Played 19, won 10, lost 9
£11.00 - Played 6, won 2, Lost 4
PROFIT/LOSS on Day £36.00
REWARD POINTS = 160
BANKROLL at close of Play = £423.64
REWARD POINTS at close of play = 2,471
November so far.....
Played 373
Won 219
Lost 154
Win-rate, November, 58.71%