I forgot to welcome a returnee to our table, blankcheck, who was AWOL for 4 or 5 years but returned mid-November.
Lovely guy, and a really good player. I don't "table select", I just reg for everything, but if he is in the game, the potential value reduces considerably, he's very good indeed.
There was a "new face" this week, too, bigpimp, which is an interesting alias. I resisted the urge to comment on his alias, & just welcomed him to the table.
Then he posed the oh so embarrassing question, "are you the real tikay?"
I never know quite how to reply go that, but once we'd sort of sorted it out, it turned out I know him very well from another forum, where he is a very good tipster on Italian football.
I mentioned on Monday how embarrassingly well I was running, though I managed to lose all 4 games at £5.
Tuesday, I won 11 out of 15 @ £5, a complete turnaround. No games ran at £16.50, but I just shaded the 7 £11 games 4-3, for a £3 profit, oioi. So this time the £5 games kept me ticking along nicely.
Amazing how it varies so from night to night.
This period of run-good really is astonishing, & I'm starting to believe I simply can't lose at the game.
Always a dangerous mindset that, as last night was to prove.
I somehow managed to lose the first 10 games on the trot, & go £49 down. If we add in the last game on Tuesday (an £11er) that made an eleven game losing streak.
How is that even possible? ELEVEN in a row.
For the most part, I don't think I did too much wrong. In one game, 4 handed, I had 4,500, & one chap had 200. I lost that one. I managed to lose two games in a row to one outers after incredibly optimistic calls by oppo. And I made a few bad plays I guess.
I had some computer issues, so I logged off after losing the first 10, tail well & truly between legs.
I returned an hour later, played another 20 which I split 10-10 for a whole £4 profit. Played so-so, but got my timing all wrong, & kept raising into whoppers.
Whatever way we look at it, P30, L20, W10 makes bad reading, not to mention £45 down the swanee, my worst night in yonks. So now I have to try to win £45 just to get back to where I was.
Still, at least I have paid off a small chunk of my run-good overdraft. More payments will no doubt follow, you know how these things tend to go in "runs".
I lost one game in the first orbit, after getting it all in pre (we both had full stacks) with my really good aces by the somewhat eccentric 6-6-7-7.
It turned out that the fella thought two pairs in his hand was better than any one pair hand. He then managed to lose the game after getting all-in with J-J-J-6. "I had a set" he typed.
It is amazing how it goes, the last couple of weeks have not been great, I have lost around a hundred pounds, this includes a few all in tries for the big tournaments. Then the last three days I am seventy pounds up. All the fifty fifties have gone my way, I have been patient, made the right decisions on calls and folds.
The game just knows how to sit you back down when you get too high and surprises you just when you need it to.
Emotions, that old foe can be a problem. occasionally, when I am not playing well, or, get impatient, It is all too easy to give up and push a button and hope. You forget that it is actual money you are giving away with the optimistic call or shove.
I however was amazed the other night when one chap almost let you back in an £11 game by just calling pre every hand. only four of us left, you were 1400 we were all over 3000 and yet he wanted everyone's chips instead of just beating up the small stack. I think in the end you got back to parity with him but lost to one of those 50/50 which you were actually 75/25 ahead.
I lost my last game last night, it probably was avoidable , but Churchy turns up with such a Heinz 57 variety sometimes, that I just did not believe he had the ace high heart flush, for the second hand in a row, to beat my king high flush. Serves me right.
A couple of players I have not come up against before brings new interest to our nightly games.
I lost one game in the first orbit, after getting it all in pre (we both had full stacks) with my really good aces by the somewhat eccentric 6-6-7-7. It turned out that the fella thought two pairs in his hand was better than any one pair hand. He then managed to lose the game after getting all-in with J-J-J-6. "I had a set" he typed. Quite so Sir, quite so. Posted by Tikay10
Nothing wrong with that hand
I seem to remember a game a couple of nights ago where you were egging me on to steal AJ's BB.
I raised with 6677, he repotted it and i ended up busting him (sorry AJ, Tikays fault) :-)
In Response to Re: Can an old dog learn new tricks?: It is amazing how it goes, the last couple of weeks have not been great, I have lost around a hundred pounds, this includes a few all in tries for the big tournaments. Then the last three days I am seventy pounds up. All the fifty fifties have gone my way, I have been patient, made the right decisions on calls and folds. The game just knows how to sit you back down when you get too high and surprises you just when you need it to. Emotions, that old foe can be a problem. occasionally, when I am not playing well, or, get impatient, It is all too easy to give up and push a button and hope. You forget that it is actual money you are giving away with the optimistic call or shove. I however was amazed the other night when one chap almost let you back in an £11 game by just calling pre every hand. only four of us left, you were 1400 we were all over 3000 and yet he wanted everyone's chips instead of just beating up the small stack. I think in the end you got back to parity with him but lost to one of those 50/50 which you were actually 75/25 ahead. I lost my last game last night, it probably was avoidable , but Churchy turns up with such a Heinz 57 variety sometimes, that I just did not believe he had the ace high heart flush, for the second hand in a row, to beat my king high flush. Serves me right. A couple of players I have not come up against before brings new interest to our nightly games. See you tonight Posted by pompeynic
Morning Nick.
Variance is so cruel at times, & I see you did not run too well last night either - think maybe you did the wise thing by calling it quits early doors.
Churchy? I can pretty much predict what most players will do in a given spot, & if they get it in, I know pretty much what sort of range they go to war with, when, & why. Except Brian, who scares the life out of me & makes really unorthodox plays. And if it works for him, good luck to him. I certainly call him wider than I do most players, but that's the beauty of his game, he's as likely to have it as not.
In Response to Re: Can an old dog learn new tricks? : Nothing wrong with that hand I seem to remember a game a couple of nights ago where you were egging me on to steal AJ's BB. I raised with 6677, he repotted it and i ended up busting him (sorry AJ, Tikays fault) :-) Posted by VespaPX
Happened again last night, Mr Optimistic got it all in pre, Level 1, with 5-5-6-6. He hit his 5, but I hit my set of Aces & busted him, whereupon he said I was "so lucky".
A real Friday night on the tables last night, epic scenes.
I AM A ROBOT Very odd turn of events last night, when a regular on the O8 player pool suddenly accused me of being a robot. The convo went something like this..... Are you a robot? (No answer, as we did not know who he was addressing) No answer, so you are a robot. Depends who you are addressing mate, if you don't name the player how do we know who you are talking to? You, obviously Ha, no, I'm not a robot Typical robot reply, proves it Ahh, gotcha You would say that if you were a robot I would? You must be a robot, you are on 3 tables 6 actually 6 tables? Proves you are a robot Well players like DontTellMum & Melty play 15 or 20 tables at a time So Sky Poker allow robots then? I give up, enjoy your game m8 Proves you are a robot Posted by Tikay10
Don't take it to heart. Hendrik62 gets like that sometimes after a couple of beers
Variance visited me again last night, & was in THE most wonderful mood. If I had won the last game of the night, I'd have cleared £100 of profit in a single session, maybe my best night ever in these.
Unrepeatable numbers, these....
£2.25, P3, W2, L1
£3.30, P12, W10, L2
£5.50, P7, W4, L3
£11, P10, W7, L3
£16.50, P2, W2, L0
Very rare I do a clean sweep of profit at all 5 buy ins, & it'll be a very long time before I have another night like that.
On Wednesday, of course, it was the exact opposite, when I lost the first 10 on the bounce, & knocked in £45.
Funny old game.
On the points front, I have 1,157, & the target is 1,500, for £22.50. It'll be touch & go, but we'll give it a try.
Have a great weekend. Gonna watch England v Australia Rugby today - that'll not be for the faint of heart - & then see what mood Miss Variance is in tonight.
I AM A ROBOT Very odd turn of events last night, when a regular on the O8 player pool suddenly accused me of being a robot. The convo went something like this..... Are you a robot? (No answer, as we did not know who he was addressing) No answer, so you are a robot. Depends who you are addressing mate, if you don't name the player how do we know who you are talking to? You, obviously Ha, no, I'm not a robot Typical robot reply, proves it Ahh, gotcha You would say that if you were a robot I would? You must be a robot, you are on 3 tables 6 actually 6 tables? Proves you are a robot Well players like DontTellMum & Melty play 15 or 20 tables at a time So Sky Poker allow robots then? I give up, enjoy your game m8 Proves you are a robot Posted by Tikay10
Variance visited me again last night, & was in THE most wonderful mood. If I had won the last game of the night, I'd have cleared £100 of profit in a single session, maybe my best night ever in these. Unrepeatable numbers, these.... £2.25, P3, W2, L1 £3.30, P12, W10, L2 £5.50, P7, W4, L3 £11, P10, W7, L3 £16.50, P2, W2, L0 Very rare I do a clean sweep of profit at all 5 buy ins, & it'll be a very long time before I have another night like that. On Wednesday, of course, it was the exact opposite, when I lost the first 10 on the bounce, & knocked in £45. Funny old game. On the points front, I have 1,157, & the target is 1,500, for £22.50. It'll be touch & go, but we'll give it a try. Have a great weekend. Gonna watch England v Australia Rugby today - that'll not be for the faint of heart - & then see what mood Miss Variance is in tonight. Posted by Tikay10
I AM A ROBOT Very odd turn of events last night, when a regular on the O8 player pool suddenly accused me of being a robot. The convo went something like this..... Are you a robot? (No answer, as we did not know who he was addressing) No answer, so you are a robot. Depends who you are addressing mate, if you don't name the player how do we know who you are talking to? You, obviously Ha, no, I'm not a robot Typical robot reply, proves it Ahh, gotcha You would say that if you were a robot I would? You must be a robot, you are on 3 tables 6 actually 6 tables? Proves you are a robot Well players like DontTellMum & Melty play 15 or 20 tables at a time So Sky Poker allow robots then? I give up, enjoy your game m8 Proves you are a robot Posted by Tikay10
Teeks, this hand is bugging me. Hope you don't mind me posting it here for your readers views. If you think it should be in the clinic would have no problem if you move it. I really did not know what to do in this spot.
Teeks, this hand is bugging me. Hope you don't mind me posting it here for your readers views. If you think it should be in the clinic would have no problem if you move it. I really did not know what to do in this spot. Posted by pomfrittes
It's probably supposed to be an ICM fold.
I probably click call anyway, because folding is no fun, and A267ds looks pretty.
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I forgot to welcome a returnee to our table, blankcheck, who was AWOL for 4 or 5 years but returned mid-November.
Lovely guy, and a really good player. I don't "table select", I just reg for everything, but if he is in the game, the potential value reduces considerably, he's very good indeed.
There was a "new face" this week, too, bigpimp, which is an interesting alias. I resisted the urge to comment on his alias, & just welcomed him to the table.
Then he posed the oh so embarrassing question, "are you the real tikay?"
I never know quite how to reply go that, but once we'd sort of sorted it out, it turned out I know him very well from another forum, where he is a very good tipster on Italian football.
Always good to see fresh faces.
I mentioned on Monday how embarrassingly well I was running, though I managed to lose all 4 games at £5.
Tuesday, I won 11 out of 15 @ £5, a complete turnaround. No games ran at £16.50, but I just shaded the 7 £11 games 4-3, for a £3 profit, oioi. So this time the £5 games kept me ticking along nicely.
Amazing how it varies so from night to night.
This period of run-good really is astonishing, & I'm starting to believe I simply can't lose at the game.
Always a dangerous mindset that, as last night was to prove.
Wednesday? Carnage, utter carnage.
I somehow managed to lose the first 10 games on the trot, & go £49 down. If we add in the last game on Tuesday (an £11er) that made an eleven game losing streak.
How is that even possible? ELEVEN in a row.
For the most part, I don't think I did too much wrong. In one game, 4 handed, I had 4,500, & one chap had 200. I lost that one. I managed to lose two games in a row to one outers after incredibly optimistic calls by oppo. And I made a few bad plays I guess.
I had some computer issues, so I logged off after losing the first 10, tail well & truly between legs.
I returned an hour later, played another 20 which I split 10-10 for a whole £4 profit. Played so-so, but got my timing all wrong, & kept raising into whoppers.
Whatever way we look at it, P30, L20, W10 makes bad reading, not to mention £45 down the swanee, my worst night in yonks. So now I have to try to win £45 just to get back to where I was.
Still, at least I have paid off a small chunk of my run-good overdraft. More payments will no doubt follow, you know how these things tend to go in "runs".
Stupid game.
I lost one game in the first orbit, after getting it all in pre (we both had full stacks) with my really good aces by the somewhat eccentric 6-6-7-7.
It turned out that the fella thought two pairs in his hand was better than any one pair hand. He then managed to lose the game after getting all-in with J-J-J-6. "I had a set" he typed.
Quite so Sir, quite so.
It is amazing how it goes, the last couple of weeks have not been great, I have lost around a hundred pounds, this includes a few all in tries for the big tournaments. Then the last three days I am seventy pounds up. All the fifty fifties have gone my way, I have been patient, made the right decisions on calls and folds. The game just knows how to sit you back down when you get too high and surprises you just when you need it to. Emotions, that old foe can be a problem. occasionally, when I am not playing well, or, get impatient, It is all too easy to give up and push a button and hope. You forget that it is actual money you are giving away with the optimistic call or shove. I however was amazed the other night when one chap almost let you back in an £11 game by just calling pre every hand. only four of us left, you were 1400 we were all over 3000 and yet he wanted everyone's chips instead of just beating up the small stack. I think in the end you got back to parity with him but lost to one of those 50/50 which you were actually 75/25 ahead. I lost my last game last night, it probably was avoidable , but Churchy turns up with such a Heinz 57 variety sometimes, that I just did not believe he had the ace high heart flush, for the second hand in a row, to beat my king high flush. Serves me right. A couple of players I have not come up against before brings new interest to our nightly games. See you tonight
Posted by pompeynic
Morning Nick.
Variance is so cruel at times, & I see you did not run too well last night either - think maybe you did the wise thing by calling it quits early doors.
Churchy? I can pretty much predict what most players will do in a given spot, & if they get it in, I know pretty much what sort of range they go to war with, when, & why. Except Brian, who scares the life out of me & makes really unorthodox plays. And if it works for him, good luck to him. I certainly call him wider than I do most players, but that's the beauty of his game, he's as likely to have it as not.
A real Friday night on the tables last night, epic scenes.
I AM A ROBOT
Very odd turn of events last night, when a regular on the O8 player pool suddenly accused me of being a robot.
The convo went something like this.....
Are you a robot?
(No answer, as we did not know who he was addressing)
No answer, so you are a robot.
Depends who you are addressing mate, if you don't name the player how do we know who you are talking to?
You, obviously
Ha, no, I'm not a robot
Typical robot reply, proves it
Ahh, gotcha
You would say that if you were a robot
I would?
You must be a robot, you are on 3 tables
6 actually
6 tables? Proves you are a robot
Well players like DontTellMum & Melty play 15 or 20 tables at a time
So Sky Poker allow robots then?
I give up, enjoy your game m8
Proves you are a robot
Variance visited me again last night, & was in THE most wonderful mood. If I had won the last game of the night, I'd have cleared £100 of profit in a single session, maybe my best night ever in these.
Unrepeatable numbers, these....
£2.25, P3, W2, L1
£3.30, P12, W10, L2
£5.50, P7, W4, L3
£11, P10, W7, L3
£16.50, P2, W2, L0
Very rare I do a clean sweep of profit at all 5 buy ins, & it'll be a very long time before I have another night like that.
On Wednesday, of course, it was the exact opposite, when I lost the first 10 on the bounce, & knocked in £45.
Funny old game.
On the points front, I have 1,157, & the target is 1,500, for £22.50. It'll be touch & go, but we'll give it a try.
Have a great weekend. Gonna watch England v Australia Rugby today - that'll not be for the faint of heart - & then see what mood Miss Variance is in tonight.
Teeks, this hand is bugging me. Hope you don't mind me posting it here for your readers views. If you think it should be in the clinic would have no problem if you move it.
I really did not know what to do in this spot.
I probably click call anyway, because folding is no fun, and A267ds looks pretty.