This is going to be tough but I guess the whole process of Total Player was never going to be easy. I will post updates when possible. GB Posted by GliterBabe
I was dreading tonight, had a few shandys last night, and felt really tired and deflated. Not great preperation I know.
Tuck was late coming on, connection probz or something....So I didnt know my challenge until half 7, at which point Id entered the forum Dstack, which went wrong when 2 bluffs got shoved on early. I hope u guys had a hand
Anyway Tuck came on and told me what I had to do, the one that caught my eye was the Sit n go HU challenge.
I made a krazy call in the open, and just told him I needed a break, n went away for ten mins.
Most of ya know Ive just started playing HU , so a HU game against my direct competition, (nutter) was perfect for focussing the mind(well, for most of the time).
Nutter plays big HU, and hes the best Sit n go player there is, so this was the perfect chance to enjoy and test myself in a game I plan to play alot more of - after TP.
I played a mixed game, made some stooooooooopid moves, which resulted in losing 2 games, Going all in pre flop with ace ten off, with a 1.5k stack and 10/20 blinds. How daft was that?
The 2nd one, I 3 bet Bens raise on the button...I had 9-2, and the stoooopid flop came 9 high! Hard to justify the fold here, and I gave another game away to his 9-10 ---- so 2 games down within the first level.
The games I won, I had to work so hard for. This is where I need to learn. Constant aggression, ground him down, until he had no option but to shove, which he did successfully a few times. I just needed to find a hand, I was very surprised how deep he was showing, both open shove and 3 bet shove, but managed to find a couple to win.
There was one hand, on a JH 6H 2x flop....I had 52 hearts, V J2, big suckout, I think that was my only bit of luck (all in) throughout the 6 games, but I dn think anyone gets off that.
Ended 4-2 up - I could play those all night - and the instruction is to do so, so I cant wait to get back into it.
My word just how hard was that!!! Wish they would remove this Star from my head, maybe just maybe I can get people to fold...
Ok, So off into Phase 3 we went and the challenge had been set by Mentor ED( ^^^^^^). I can tell you that is some challenge please please let me run good..
So here are the results!!!!
19.30 £400 BH £11 69 runners 4th£42.94
20.00Main event £11 473 runners 236th
20.30 £1000 BH £11 160 runners 50th
21.00 £1000 Gtee £5.50 235 runners 26th£8.81
21.30 £1500 BH £11 197 runners 62nd
22.00 £1000 Vel £5.50 221 runners 83rd
22.30 £800 BH £11 112 runners 37th£3.75 1 head
Tournament entries £66 cashes £55.50 loss £10.50
Played very solid tonight and got off to a great start Final tabling the 1st tourney. Again if only I could win when massively in front then another couple of cashes even a FT would have been on the cards. JJ vs 66 for a 20k pot when down to 27, only for the poker gods to magic out of thin air a 6 on the river GG. I have to say I felt for Dan tonight he took some real bad ones, but hey 2 days to go.
Enjoyed the challenge roll on tomorrow.
Hope everyone else done ok.
GB.
Just sneaked in £400 BH @ 1130 ish £22 couldn't resist 24 runners 2nd for £96 with head prizes. But I think this doesn't count towards challenge.
Hard one the explain tonight and i won't tell you my extact challenges set because people can go out thier way to be a pain in the bum .
I started off by regging in everysingle MTT on sky untill David arrived late and set the challenges....i then had to turbo un-reg from all my games and did so to the 8pm flagship by accident and by the time i realised i missed it....oops !
i played 5 or so Mtts tonight and won one deepy for £50 and got a bounty or so in the others and maybe finished slightly down on the night in those. The HU games was pretty weird to tell you the truth and i won't go into much detail again as we have to play a best of 7 tomorrow night and thursday aswell.
Cash was ok tonight and you wont see me posting any good figures for this over the coming days as the challenge is somewhat non money based. MTTs is where the figures sould hopefully come from and i hope to impress all over the coming days with a win or two and some FTs.
Heavy heart at not still being involved but I wish all 6 the very best of luck............you are all such great players and have done so well. Phil Posted by phil12uk
I echo these sentiments. I had a great time working with Dohhhh and Nutter, but I missed working with you Phil.
As for the TP - it's all gearing up.
These are my TP challenges:
1. I'd like a HU competition between the remaining TPs - if they aren't up for it, then definitely have Nutter play Dohh in a best of 7 (first to 4 wins)
2. I'd prefer they emphasize MTTs since the prizes are skewed that way....
3. lastly....I want them to play very small stakes and buy in for the minimum: Lets see if they can play a short stack in a small buy-in game.
4. Then....I want them to buy in for the minimum in a bigger game (.50 - 1.00) Once again, lets see them play the Short Stack this time in a bigger buy-in game.
in the above Short Stack scenarios, NO REBUYS - I want to see them come back from the short stack as they'll have to if they play in big tournaments.
5. No DYMs - these guys should dominate those and I don't get anything out of them
Dohhhh took the first night's HU competition by beating Nutter 4-2. Nutter seeks revenge tomorrow night.
As for the Short Stack challenge....Nutter got the best of Dohhh on this one. He was able to adapt a little better and twice built his 20 BB stack into 50 BB stacks....
I'm sure they'll both bring their A games for the next two nights!
Ok so I think every TP this evening had MTTS on the brain. Obviously due to the prize itself as Ed pointed out, we all had to perform, so the pressure was definitely on.
I had decided to play only 5 Mtts, quality rather than quantity. However due to being out quite early on in 2 of them, ended playing 8.
Results below
7pm Forum Deep stack9/42
Final tabled this, and exited with AQ vs. AJ all in pre. Villain rivered the J.
730pm £400 Bh.17/69
8pm Open128/473
830pm 1k Bh.124/160
Had an accident early on, losing aces to a flopped 2 pair.
915pm £250 Speed31/64
I decided to make a move with A8 here; after the button had min raised my BB. Bad timing as he had Kings.
930pm £1.5k Bh166/197
10pm £200 guaranteed14/22
1030pm £800 Bh.11/112
Overall I felt I Played well in most of them except the 930pm Bh. This one I was probably a little too aggressive early on trying to gain a good chip lead. I also feel like 8 Mtts in a 5 hr slot was too much in my opinion to play them well and to my best ability. Therefore will play only 5 tomorrow night. BH tournaments also suit my game less than a Deep stack, so will maybe only play one of these tomorrow evening. I grinded out 1 cash table over the course of the evening, and made a small profit which paid for the buy in fees for the Mtts.
So to summarise:
8 Mtts.1 Final Table and 2 cashes.
End BR£997.53
Profit£65.00
Really enjoyed the challenge this evening and will adjust my format tomorrow to aim to achieve some better results.
We should therefore in my opinion applaud some fantastic demonstations of heads-up cash play in the earlier rounds but really now concentrate on finding the best MTT'ER to represent Skypoker over the coming months.
I am doing the show on thurday night so i will speak to the producer very nicely and ask if there is any possibility of showing some of the remaining tp'ers in the first hour of the £12000 guaranteed bounty hunter.[unless ofc they are still on the h/u cash tables -:) ] Posted by EdGiddins
It was a rather nice showing if I may say so myself But it is exactly for ur mentioned reasons why i am playing solid mtts and proving I can play them and why i should be chosen! I have worked hard on them, and hope that my results will prove that I can play different forms of poker
So results time...... I am pretty unhappy, got shut out of my account for some reason when sky froze on me. I lost loads of chips in this time, notably the open where i had around 11 bb when I left, and only 1.5 when back. Still finished 82nd/473 runners, so not terrible, but thought i could of gone on further. Although annoyed I just put some queen on and got back into the zone, and loved all the poker i was playing!
I thought generally i played really well tonight. Was a bit unlucky to not win a tourney, but i think i proved i had the patience of a saint as well as being able to play controlled poker.
So tonight i played 15 tournaments, and final tabled5 times. Below are a list of them:
Forum deep stack 10 handed £5.5 8th/42
1000 bh £11 3rd/160 . SOOO gutted here. 3 handed when big stack lost my AA vs A3. I then had this hand. Look at what he called with to knock me out....
I had been playing tight too. Gutting! guess he had odds ish when putting me on a range!
>nemelem posted a big blind 4,000.
>TP_Sparce raised for 8,000.
>toonjat66 folded
>nemelem called for 4,000.
>Dealing the flop (5d,7s,5h).
>nemelem checked.
>TP_Sparce bet 9,250.
>nemelem raised for 36,625.
>TP_Sparce has gone all in for 75,595.82.
>nemelem called for 48,220.82.
>nemelem showed Jd,8c
>TP_Sparce showed 4h,8h
>Dealing the turn (9s).
>Dealing the river (9d).
250 gtd £5.5 3rd/66
1000 vel £5.5 5th/221
400 bh 5th/31
1500 bh £11 17th/197
open £11 £11 84th/473
150 gtd 6 handed £5.50 9th/35.
bounty hunter £2.30 44th/100
400 bh £11 23rd/69.
deepstack £11 5th/5
500 bh £5.75 56th/158
1000 guaranteed £5.5 85th/235
500 bh - £5.75 89th/136
400 bh £22 11th/24
Final brol 1714.66 - Not exactly sure what my last broll was. but think i am uper around 170 solely from Mtts tonight.
Looking forward to tomorrow. Hopefully i will win one!! Best of luck to everyone.
As gliterbabe says above, i had a real bad night, right up until my final tourny!!
I will not be posting bad beats for sympathy or to moan, but seen as tho i have to post results, these are the reasons for why i finished where i did. I have no complains and the final tourny showed me that by not tilting and keeping your head and showing a mental determination when things arent going well u can still find light at the end of the tunnel.
Right, so
£400 BH - 69 runners i came 38th - never really got going in this to be honest. 8pm main event 473 runners i came 136th a decent run, but after being left with 8bb i shove the small blind and the big blind finds KK. gg
£1000 BH 160 runners - i came 57th. 55 all in on a 7 high flop, called by aq, q binks the river.
£1000 - 235 runners - i came 183. all in pre with QQ v AA.
£1500 BH - 197 runners (i havent wrote down where i came, was mid field i think) i got it all in on a 10 7 j board 1 club, with 10 10. was called by j8 who held the 8 of clubs and it came club club so gg.
10.00 velocity 221 runners - i came around 70th i think. (again failed to write it down because of the beat, and i cant leave this page now or i lose everything ive wrote!) Im all in with AA on a AQJ flop, and im called by 1010, river is a king to give him the straight.gg
10.30 BH - 112 runners, bust out on level 5, all in pre with kk v ak, ace hits the flop gg.
23.10 Velocity - 115 runners and i came 3rd for around £68!
So after running so horribly all night, in my final tournament i managed to come third, final table, finish in the top 10%of the field and cash all in the same tournament.
So thats 3 things off the challenge list that ED set us!
So in my final two nights, i need 4 cashes and 2 top 10% of the field finishes to complete the challenge. I will obviously be going to take down the win in every tournament i play, but to get the final table challenge out the way on the first night is a big relief!
Congrats to gliterbabe who has performed awesome and was a true gent to me when he knew things were really against me.
To complete the challenge is guna be sooo tough, as we all know the variance involved in multi table tournaments is huge, but total player isnt meant to be easy and im counting down the hours to get back on and go again!
GL and WP to all tpers tonight and in the rest of the competition.
Hard one the explain tonight and i won't tell you my extact challenges set because people can go out thier way to be a pain in the bum . Secret is out Ben....hehe.Posted by TP_GliterB
So 21 tournaments in all, and I have to set gliterbabe and dantb10 a challenge---- At least 1 final table At least 3 top 10% of field At least 5 cashes. continued............................................ Posted by EdGiddins
Ed, I would have completed your challenge in one night, with 6 tournies to spare
WD sparce, but Ed told us that the lower populated fields (around 40-50 runners) would not be included in the challenge. You would still have done well mind! GL 2mo dude Posted by TP_Dantb
Glad you all noticed how wide you get called if you have a "Star" Avatar, the PTP-ers get the same treatment, & the ranges" we get called with are extraordinary! But it cuts both ways, if you actually have a hand, you can really get paid off.
Tonight there are TWO Deedstacks - the "tikay" at 7pm (a 10 seater), & the 8pm Double Stack - hope to run into a few of you TP-ers during those.
Comments
gud luck mate!
Hard one the explain tonight and i won't tell you my extact challenges set because people can go out thier way to be a pain in the bum
I started off by regging in everysingle MTT on sky untill David arrived late and set the challenges....i then had to turbo un-reg from all my games and did so to the 8pm flagship by accident and by the time i realised i missed it....oops !
i played 5 or so Mtts tonight and won one deepy for £50 and got a bounty or so in the others and maybe finished slightly down on the night in those. The HU games was pretty weird to tell you the truth and i won't go into much detail again as we have to play a best of 7 tomorrow night and thursday aswell.
Cash was ok tonight and you wont see me posting any good figures for this over the coming days as the challenge is somewhat non money based. MTTs is where the figures sould hopefully come from and i hope to impress all over the coming days with a win or two and some FTs.
Look out for tomorrows info
As for the TP - it's all gearing up.
These are my TP challenges:
1. I'd like a HU competition between the remaining TPs - if they aren't up for it, then definitely have Nutter play Dohh in a best of 7 (first to 4 wins)
2. I'd prefer they emphasize MTTs since the prizes are skewed that way....
3. lastly....I want them to play very small stakes and buy in for the minimum: Lets see if they can play a short stack in a small buy-in game.
4. Then....I want them to buy in for the minimum in a bigger game (.50 - 1.00) Once again, lets see them play the Short Stack this time in a bigger buy-in game.
in the above Short Stack scenarios, NO REBUYS - I want to see them come back from the short stack as they'll have to if they play in big tournaments.
5. No DYMs - these guys should dominate those and I don't get anything out of them
Dohhhh took the first night's HU competition by beating Nutter 4-2. Nutter seeks revenge tomorrow night.
As for the Short Stack challenge....Nutter got the best of Dohhh on this one. He was able to adapt a little better and twice built his 20 BB stack into 50 BB stacks....
I'm sure they'll both bring their A games for the next two nights!
Reporting in For Phase 3, evening 1.
Ok so I think every TP this evening had MTTS on the brain. Obviously due to the prize itself as Ed pointed out, we all had to perform, so the pressure was definitely on.
I had decided to play only 5 Mtts, quality rather than quantity. However due to being out quite early on in 2 of them, ended playing 8.
Results below
7pm Forum Deep stack 9/42
Final tabled this, and exited with AQ vs. AJ all in pre. Villain rivered the J.
730pm £400 Bh. 17/69
8pm Open 128/473
830pm 1k Bh. 124/160
Had an accident early on, losing aces to a flopped 2 pair.
915pm £250 Speed 31/64
I decided to make a move with A8 here; after the button had min raised my BB. Bad timing as he had Kings.
930pm £1.5k Bh 166/197
10pm £200 guaranteed 14/22
1030pm £800 Bh. 11/112
Overall I felt I Played well in most of them except the 930pm Bh. This one I was probably a little too aggressive early on trying to gain a good chip lead. I also feel like 8 Mtts in a 5 hr slot was too much in my opinion to play them well and to my best ability. Therefore will play only 5 tomorrow night. BH tournaments also suit my game less than a Deep stack, so will maybe only play one of these tomorrow evening. I grinded out 1 cash table over the course of the evening, and made a small profit which paid for the buy in fees for the Mtts.
So to summarise:
8 Mtts. 1 Final Table and 2 cashes.
End BR £997.53
Profit £65.00
Really enjoyed the challenge this evening and will adjust my format tomorrow to aim to achieve some better results.
TP_Sharksb.
As gliterbabe says above, i had a real bad night, right up until my final tourny!!
I will not be posting bad beats for sympathy or to moan, but seen as tho i have to post results, these are the reasons for why i finished where i did. I have no complains and the final tourny showed me that by not tilting and keeping your head and showing a mental determination when things arent going well u can still find light at the end of the tunnel.
Right, so
£400 BH - 69 runners i came 38th - never really got going in this to be honest.
8pm main event 473 runners i came 136th a decent run, but after being left with 8bb i shove the small blind and the big blind finds KK. gg
£1000 BH 160 runners - i came 57th. 55 all in on a 7 high flop, called by aq, q binks the river.
£1000 - 235 runners - i came 183. all in pre with QQ v AA.
£1500 BH - 197 runners (i havent wrote down where i came, was mid field i think) i got it all in on a 10 7 j board 1 club, with 10 10. was called by j8 who held the 8 of clubs and it came club club so gg.
10.00 velocity 221 runners - i came around 70th i think. (again failed to write it down because of the beat, and i cant leave this page now or i lose everything ive wrote!) Im all in with AA on a AQJ flop, and im called by 1010, river is a king to give him the straight.gg
10.30 BH - 112 runners, bust out on level 5, all in pre with kk v ak, ace hits the flop gg.
23.10 Velocity - 115 runners and i came 3rd for around £68!
So after running so horribly all night, in my final tournament i managed to come third, final table, finish in the top 10%of the field and cash all in the same tournament.
So thats 3 things off the challenge list that ED set us!
So in my final two nights, i need 4 cashes and 2 top 10% of the field finishes to complete the challenge. I will obviously be going to take down the win in every tournament i play, but to get the final table challenge out the way on the first night is a big relief!
Congrats to gliterbabe who has performed awesome and was a true gent to me when he knew things were really against me.
To complete the challenge is guna be sooo tough, as we all know the variance involved in multi table tournaments is huge, but total player isnt meant to be easy and im counting down the hours to get back on and go again!
GL and WP to all tpers tonight and in the rest of the competition.
Dan
Well done uys also
You would still have done well mind!
GL 2mo dude
TY i needed it!
You guys are TOO good, wow.
Glad you all noticed how wide you get called if you have a "Star" Avatar, the PTP-ers get the same treatment, & the ranges" we get called with are extraordinary! But it cuts both ways, if you actually have a hand, you can really get paid off.
Tonight there are TWO Deedstacks - the "tikay" at 7pm (a 10 seater), & the 8pm Double Stack - hope to run into a few of you TP-ers during those.
If I bet, I have it, right?
wd all tpers last night ,
gl tonight !