Has TP_Keysa voided his TP account now as he is playing on his TP account below 25/50p? Posted by ChirpyChip
I am not a Referee, or Arbitrator, and this is NOT a "ruling", it's simply my personal opinion.
But.....
No - not at all. My understanding of the Rules is that so long as each TP-er completes the minimum requirement that is stipulated, over the three evenings, then over & above that, they can play whatever they want,at whatever level. As long as it's on Sky Poker.
But that is ONLY my personal opionion.
It's up to the Players to read & interpret the Rules as they see fit, & if in doubt, they should speak to their Mentor.
The poker gods are trying their very best to put me on Tilt tonight lol, computer has crashed twice allready and I am not running well - had an awful amount of starting hands, not a moan, it happens, but why tonight of all nights lol!! Will update later my story - won't be interesting i promise, to all the other TP, keep it going lads!!!!
In Response to Re: OFFICIAL TOTAL PLAYER THREAD : I am not a Referee, or Arbitrator, and this is NOT a "ruling", it's simply my personal opinion. But..... No - not at all. My understanding of the Rules is that so long as each TP-er completes the minimum requirement that is stipulated, over the three evenings, then over & above that, they can play whatever they want, at whatever level. As long as it's on Sky Poker. But that is ONLY my personal opionion. It's up to the Players to read & interpret the Rules as they see fit, & if in doubt, they should speak to their Mentor. Posted by Tikay10
AHH No worries Tikay my old friend.... I wasant stirring anything lol... just Wanted to make sure Keysa did not harm his chances of competeting in Total Player!
But thanks for clearing that up Tikay, you are prompt as always!
Bad stuff out the way first - played 3 mtts tonight and busted in all when going in ahead pre...... no complaints as it'll be mine tomorrow Feel I played well in them and got myself into good positions.
Cash - played for a while and was up until a crash towards the end of the session which knocked me back to a smaller profit than had been coming.
SNGs - played 4 DYM's - 3x £22 and 1 x £33 and cashed in all 4 Got myself into good positions and felt I was running good throughout.
End of Day 1, and despite a few bad plays, and a general run cold in SNG's I've really enjoyed the challenge.
Stats first :
Overall :-£54.71
Tourneys :-£11
SNG's :-£85
Cash :+£41.29
My strategy was to play a block of SNG's, alongside the Open, for the first 1.5 - 2 hrs, then grind the cash tables, until late on when I might load up a tourney / SNG.
Pleased that I stuck with this, although after the block of SNG's I felt a bit frazzled, and it took me 20 minutes or so of cash to really settle down and play.
Generally ran v.bad in SNG's, ok in cash and played the tourneys pretty badly.
My real weakness in the tourneys was that I didn't know any of the players, and the play was so variable from player to player, I was second guessing myself.
A good approach would be to play super tight early, but I got a bit too involved and need to really focus on improving this for tomorrow.
Made a couple of mistakes in SNG's, but deserved more than I got.
Had a couple of good situations in cash.
Raised a limper with 8h5h, 2 callers.
Flop KhTh6h, get it in against a set of tens and fade the house.
Reraised from the CO with AdKd, flop JdTd7s, get it in versus QQ and hit a flush on the river.
Probably not +EV having any of the other 5 on the same table, but was a good vibe when we met up, despite the competitive edge.
Ok....after watching all six of my players and speaking with 5 of them (Nutter?!? - we've got to figure that out), I know one thing for sure. I am going to hate Saturday! It's going to be so hard to make eliminations. Not only are all of the players good, but they are all so committed to getting better. Well done everyone. I'm proud to be part of this community - must say....
My real weakness in the tourneys was that I didn't know any of the players, and the play was so variable from player to player, I was second guessing myself. A good approach would be to play super tight early, but I got a bit too involved and need to really focus on improving this for tomorrow. Posted by TP_Jakally
We'll work on this because unfortunately in most tournaments, you have to make decisions without really knowing the players. no worries....it'll happen
Ok so here is the stats for my night after just finishing.
MTTs - Played 6 and cashed in two - One first and a Third for + £78.94
DYMS - Played 14 and cashed in 8 - + £28
Hu Sngs - Played 7 and won 5 for + £61.50
Cash - Played for about 40 mins and lost £22
Total tonight then is + 146.55
I'm pretty annoyed with tonight and how i got off to a very good start winning the 7pm tourney and a couple of Hu sngs straight away to give me a huge boost. As the night progressed though I started getting some beats and just stayed on course without it affecting the way I was playing as I know its part of the game.
My Double your Money game was pretty awful tonight to and I aim to correct that tomorrow night for sure and get another tourney win somewhere along the line also cash wise I can't believe the calling range of all the players pre-flop ! definitely something I'll adjust to when I do my cash session.
Look out for fireworks tomorrow night its been awesome and i'm loving the challenge of this STAR avatar which is like a magnet for attention Good luck the rest of the TP'ers tomorrow.
Anyway started at 7pm, HU sng staring me in the face! y not? - played, 7.01 - minus £11, tens v kings pre flop, not a HU specialist but Id say thats abit of a cooler!
DYM! - Out, pushing 33 with 8 bb's on the bubble, called by QQ who suggested he called as Id pushed one too often. Nothing to do with him holding QQ then? lol
Anyway, after a nightmare start, cashed my next 3 DYMS and won my next 2 HU sngs.
Played a normal sit n go, got heads up, managed to work away at the other guy to get the chip lead, then took my "free shot" by shoving with queen high, he found AJ (less than 5 bb's) n he held. Worked hard to get it even again, then got him all in with m KJ dominating his K5, the boss was watching here, and he RIVERED a 5! ugh that hurt! - big swing with the prize structure on here.
Main event - took 2 heads! then the blinds got krazy, couple of c bets got re raised, n that was that.
Entered the 9pm gtd, this was the real sickner. Raised the button JQ diamonds. Flop 9 high 2 diamonds. Donk bet, I raise, call. Turn a queen, Top pair , 3rd nut diamond draw. He donks again, Im all in here, so many outs. Anyway he has the same draw, no pair. River is diamond! Happy days! Ugh - he had an inside straifght flush draw! Ouch -
Onto cash, steady start, fired 3 barrels with 22, when the fd missed, sure enough he let it go. Then hit TP TK with ak, v oppos K7, turned 2 pair on me, n that was that.
Just finished the bounty hunter that started at 11. 1 head! Final tabled, top 5 paid, DOHHH 6th, putting pressure on left right n centre, for every 2 sets of blinds u nik, the third time u try and get caught, whipes the other 2 out. Such a passive ft, ran my AJs into ak, who happened to be the chip leader, and again, that was that!
Final result - £476! - Absolutely no idea what the breakdown is! Im nackered! and guin to bed! lol
Just finished for the night, well what an experience!!
I have never experienced a night like this before in my life!! Nothing went right for me tonight as you will see in the following analysis, I have never folded a many hands before in my life and would not be suprised if I had the highest number of folded hands in Sky poker history, the cards I got were that bad and whenever I tried to get creative and raise in position, someone would call and then after the flop just pushed All in or at times they would mix it up and check to me, I would c bet and then they would Tank it!! To add to my problems my laptop crashed a total of 5 times tonight, its not built for multi tabling lol!!
Anyway tonight has tught me loads about myself in Poker, instead of getting frustrated which at times is to easy to do, I just became patient, tonight wasn't my night with the cards therefore I needed to ride the bad times and limit the damage and that is what I did. Anyway, here goes...
I entered 5 DYM £11 - Won 1, lost 4, Loss of - £35 - had so many bad beats but they happen so I won't go into that.
Cash - I played 2 and a half hours, and made around £29, I had a really tough table and didn't have many hands to play with, Mr Tuck can vouch for that - it didn't get any better once you left mate lol!! But what I am glad with that I learned a lot from that time on the table and incoporated some things that myself and Tuck had spoken about, made some good laydowns, and also was able to maximise, I believe, when I had a good hand (about 3 times I think lol), so again not a big profit but at least it's something to show from a long grind!!
MTT - Main event - I was out quite early, guy raises, I go all in with QQ he calls after a long think and calls with KJ off, King on the turn - okay lets move on. £1500 BH, went out early again ran my KK into A9 (suited this time though lol) alas an Ace on the turn. Okay, next, £1000, ran quite deep - top 100 i believe, somwhere, anyway, I raise, guy re raises, I decide to give him no respect because he did this a lot, and because im out of position I decide to go All in, I have AQ, he shows A4, Turn 4, River 4, bye bye me. Was about to give up for the evening when I thought that I would give the £300 BH a shot, managed to go down to 790 chips when again card dead, I tried to be creative - stupid me - I try and represent a Flush on the turn but the guy says "no, no, im All in because I actually have the Nut flush" - I am a donk sometimes!! Anyway grindded away once again, picked my spots to steal blinds etc and managed to represent hands that I didn't have and somehow managed to final table, once the money bubble burst it all went a bit crazy and managed to find an A10, so pushed and got called by A7, nice double up here i thought!! Turn 7, River 7!! Those Turns and Rivers didn't like me tonight, but Im not complaining because Im going to give people bad beats tommorrow to balance things out!! Overall in MTT - a loss of £2.75
All of which leaves my BR standing at £489.57, I am over the moon with this total because believe me it could have been a lot worse!!
Comments
But.....
No - not at all. My understanding of the Rules is that so long as each TP-er completes the minimum requirement that is stipulated, over the three evenings, then over & above that, they can play whatever they want, at whatever level. As long as it's on Sky Poker.
But that is ONLY my personal opionion.
It's up to the Players to read & interpret the Rules as they see fit, & if in doubt, they should speak to their Mentor.
PS - Nice one.
Well done to Phil, too.
Just finished for the night, well what an experience!!
I have never experienced a night like this before in my life!!
Nothing went right for me tonight as you will see in the following analysis, I have never folded a many hands before in my life and would not be suprised if I had the highest number of folded hands in Sky poker history, the cards I got were that bad and whenever I tried to get creative and raise in position, someone would call and then after the flop just pushed All in or at times they would mix it up and check to me, I would c bet and then they would Tank it!! To add to my problems my laptop crashed a total of 5 times tonight, its not built for multi tabling lol!!
Anyway tonight has tught me loads about myself in Poker, instead of getting frustrated which at times is to easy to do, I just became patient, tonight wasn't my night with the cards therefore I needed to ride the bad times and limit the damage and that is what I did. Anyway, here goes...
I entered 5 DYM £11 - Won 1, lost 4, Loss of - £35 - had so many bad beats but they happen so I won't go into that.
Cash - I played 2 and a half hours, and made around £29, I had a really tough table and didn't have many hands to play with, Mr Tuck can vouch for that - it didn't get any better once you left mate lol!! But what I am glad with that I learned a lot from that time on the table and incoporated some things that myself and Tuck had spoken about, made some good laydowns, and also was able to maximise, I believe, when I had a good hand (about 3 times I think lol), so again not a big profit but at least it's something to show from a long grind!!
MTT - Main event - I was out quite early, guy raises, I go all in with QQ he calls after a long think and calls with KJ off, King on the turn - okay lets move on.
£1500 BH, went out early again ran my KK into A9 (suited this time though lol) alas an Ace on the turn.
Okay, next, £1000, ran quite deep - top 100 i believe, somwhere, anyway, I raise, guy re raises, I decide to give him no respect because he did this a lot, and because im out of position I decide to go All in, I have AQ, he shows A4, Turn 4, River 4, bye bye me.
Was about to give up for the evening when I thought that I would give the £300 BH a shot, managed to go down to 790 chips when again card dead, I tried to be creative - stupid me - I try and represent a Flush on the turn but the guy says "no, no, im All in because I actually have the Nut flush" - I am a donk sometimes!! Anyway grindded away once again, picked my spots to steal blinds etc and managed to represent hands that I didn't have and somehow managed to final table, once the money bubble burst it all went a bit crazy and managed to find an A10, so pushed and got called by A7, nice double up here i thought!! Turn 7, River 7!! Those Turns and Rivers didn't like me tonight, but Im not complaining because Im going to give people bad beats tommorrow to balance things out!!
Overall in MTT - a loss of £2.75
All of which leaves my BR standing at £489.57, I am over the moon with this total because believe me it could have been a lot worse!!
Anyway thats all for tonight
Good night!!
Well done guys.
I had to log off early last night - just after 10pm - so missed the last hour. Anyone know how Keysa got on?