Thursday night was a decent night for me. I got off to a cracking start - I came 1st in the 7pm £22bh for a cash of £275 and won a seat to the big BH. I ran like god in the BH - not getting lucky in hands per say, but getting monster after monster, hitting every flop, mostly having a dominating hand when going all in, that sort of thing.
I managed another deep run in the big BH too, and was chip leader with 7 left... I really felt like I was going to take it down again. It wasn't to be though - AJ < KJ AIPF on an xxxxK board on the final table bubble left me with just 10bb. I managed to ladder up to 5th before shoving my last 9bb from the button with 77 and getting called by AhQ, and losing the flip on a xxhxhxhxh board. A cruel couple of hands as I was ahead in both until the river, and the first one was a 3 outer!
my other cashes for the night were 19th in the mini from 600ish runners, 6th in the UKPC super sat for a seat into the UKPC final, 9th in the £11 11pm BH, and a £80ish cash in the £22 timed.
on the whole, I feel i played pretty well last night - nothing like the frequency of mistakes as the previous evening.
I finished about £270 in profit and on top of that I won the seat to the UKPC final, so I'm pretty pleased with last night.
Don't take that as advice lol. I have no idea. I am **** at MTTs. I don't think you can 4b bluff out of 30bb ? It's just awkward either way Posted by RyanC7
na im a cash player too - been playing more tounries on the side tho latley, mainly cos there soft as F*C* on sky so not much thought to play them..
im happy to obv get ppl to put money in as massive dogs tho if i didnt run bad id be a millionaire hahah ps. hate the call pre in these spots even if i am 3bet u wide- mainly cos u still play them pretty passive post- anyhooo GLGL
In Response to Re: Can a chicken go pro? : na im a cash player too - been playing more tounries on the side tho latley, mainly cos there soft as F*C* on sky so not much thought to play them.. im happy to obv get ppl to put money in as massive dogs tho if i didnt run bad id be a millionaire hahah ps. hate the call pre in these spots even if i am 3bet u wide- mainly cos u still play them pretty passive post- anyhooo GLGL
Posted by LnarinOO
Yeah there were a couple of spots last night I played passively vs u after u 3bet, I had my reasons. Bloating the pot with a medium strength hand isn't a great idea + any agression would just scare off all your many bluffs
Yeah there were a couple of spots last night I played passively vs u after u 3bet, I had my reasons. Bloating the pot with a medium strength hand isn't a great idea + any agression would just scare off all your many bluffs
That above is very good advice. No need to bloat pots with medium hands and definitely don't show strength against an aggro who has a high bluff %, just let them hang themselves.
ok, so an early start for me today - all those early starts at work this week meant I could leave early today, and I started my session at 4pm. I bought into everything I wanted to play then checked back at my balance...about £600 woth of tourneys - gulp! I was playing too many tables, so I couldnt take any notes, so its just an update on results this time I'm afraid.
luckily I got off to a cracking start, coming 2nd in the 4pm £11bh for bout £125, won 2 £52 seats from 3 £10.50 sats, and cashed for £20 in a £5 timed...not bad
the next result was in the 7pm £22 bh, coming 2nd again for about £100, losing to TommyD HU, always going to be tough, esp when he's running well! I won another £52 seat from a UKPC quarter final, then I came 1st in the £22 deepstack for another £300 or so... I ran redic well in that, coming from behind a couple of times to double up just before the money... but I made up for my rungood in this with equal amounts of runbad in the main and in the big BH, not really managing to get going in either.
something wierd happened too tonight, I cashed in the £55 speed!!...coming 2nd (again!) this one I can remember well though QJ vs Q7 AIPF and they river a straight with the 7, doh! that was another £300 in the bank! I finished the night by finishing 4th in the 10pm turbo and another nice cash in a £5 timed.
tonight, beast mode was ON
i probably shouldnt have bought into the 11pm, and 11:30pm BH's, because by 12:30 I had had enough, and got a bit (very) gambly and donated my chips to the rest of the table.
sooo, overall, I finished £600+ up for the night
The only slight disappointment is that I didnt close out 1 or 2 more of the HU matches to come 1st instead of 2nd in some tourneys, but I can hardly complain after tonight.
if anyone wants to bring up any hands thay played v me, feel free, I cant remember any atm lol
In Response to Re: Can a chicken go pro? : lol, yeah, I know, I'm rubbish! thanks for the congrats, pleased to be deep in the black for this month now after a horrid start/middle! Posted by chicknMelt
I ran pretty well yesterday... but I payed for it big stylee today. I started the night feeling a bit on edge/grumpy - no idea why - but I didnt play well for the first hour. bit of a spewfest really. A particular favourite was 3betting Q3o for no good reason, cbetting, then having to fold to a shove...the villain then showed an underpair to the board...which was obv good anyway, and I think they knew it!
I soon got my head right, but it didnt make any difference... I'm not exagerating when I say I didnt win a SINGLE all in either preflop, or on the flop. whether it be KK vs 67, or AK vs KQ, or just a race. none. zilcho. I cant be bothered to bore you with any more details, but I ended up dropping about £300 tonight. I got a couple of bounties here and there, and got a min cash in the mini...thats about it for tonight. Pretty sure I didnt play badly for the most part though. oh well. Shlt happens!
PLO8 DYMs went well though, winning 4 out of 5, which is pretty good going, esp since I was down to under 1k (600 in one!) in 2 pretty early on after coolers/outdraws.
Overall this month though, I am fairly pleased. I have bitten your hand off if you offered me a small profit for the month a couple of weeks ago (I was £1.5k in the hole at that point), I made priority, and I played well over my 500 game target.
because they were earned this month, I'll include my rewards bonus in my profits for this month...
so, end of month summary
I was a bit rusty at the start of the month, after a week on holiday - I dont have a set way of playing because I prefer to tailor my style to the table where possible, and I ended up just playing way too agro and getting myself £500-600 in the red. I managed to recoup those losses after a heroic 2 days of play, before things took a turn for the worse again.
The next 2 weeks were pretty much all doom and gloom, with mostly heavy losses spattered with the occasional break even/tiny winning day. To begin with it was because I was running horribly, but that lead to tilt issues, which just made matters worse because I ended up playing like a complete nutter some days (more so than ususal!)
I gave myself a good talking to, dropped the number of tables and tried on concentrate on every decision, and in the end it payed off - winning £2k+ in the ast 9/10 days of the month to put myself just over £500 in profit.
I managed to make priority for the first tie ever this month, earning just over 11k points, which should convert into a £220 bonus, bringing me close to £800 profit for the month, not including the £240 UKPC final seat I have for tomorrow.
I'll have to learn how to control tilt a bit better if `i'm going to make it as a pro, but I'm pleased with the turn around.
Highlight of the month was definately winning the big BH.
Saw in another thread you wanted to get so HU practice in to improve that side of your mtt game. I think husng's would be a better bet than cash. You might end up 300bb deep playing hu cash if you swap stacks, and it hardly resembles a tournament where stacks get shallower. Also cash us all foreplay; like a cheap h×oker your goal in HU tournament play is to finish your oppo. Play a few hundred HU games against decent specialists and get the mid to short stacked play nailed. Thats where the biggest edge is to be found imo.
Scope says youve only played 14 husngs, x100 and youll see a big improvement mate.
Feels weird giving advice to a don like yourself, but hope it helps.
Impressive turnaround in November, well playerd. This diary is a good read.
+1 to the above, anybody serious about MTTs should play HU STTs regularly to keep their HU skills sharp. It's a fairly small investment that can make a massive difference to your bottom line.
You don't need me to tell you the HU battle is by far the most important stage of any MTT, far more money is on the line that at any other time. Neglecting your HU game is an expensive mistake.
havent updated for a couple of days - I have been playing though, so I'll do an update after I reply to the posts since my last update...
@Teddy - yes your absolutely right, good advice. I should play some more HU SNGs to improve my HU game for MTTs. I am still interested in HU cash though, because after MTTs, thats the game that most interests me. TBF, even with saturday, my results in HU stages of tourneys have been good recently - something like 8/13. before that though it was truely abysmal though. I know that I can still improve further, so I'll certainly be playing som HU SNGs.
@GaryQQQ - thanks, means alot coming from a pro diary writer like yourself. completely agree with what you said about HU too.
@doubleAAA - yeah I'm up for that, especially if your willing to point out any tendancies you were able to exploit (i'd obv do the same). the best times for me are at the start of a session, when I dont have many tables going - between 6-7:30ish...is that sort of time suitable for you? If not, maybe at the weekend??
I got off to a really good start on Sunday, winning cash for a UKPC final seat, and coming 3rd in the 7:30 deepstack. The 7:30 deepstack was a really interesting tourney. I shot off to a massive chip lead after taking advantage of some questionable play from others and stayed near the top for the majority of the tourney. the real interesting bit was on the final table - there was a tense 4 way battle which included F_Ivanovic. It must have been minimum half an hour before someone was eliminated, and I think we all had the chip lead at some point. really enjoyed that battle, but ended up busting in 3rd.
next up was the super roller...I didnt have the best of tourneys by any stretch of the imagination. I was barely above starting stack at any point and managed lose half my stack twice, only to get AA and double back up to starting again. lol. that still didnt help me though. I ended up shoving the remainder of my stack qith AcKc into KQ on a QcQTxc board and missing, and busting in 208th or something rubbish like that. I really should be doing better in these - both of the recent rollers have been very diappointing.
thankfully, I didnt go on tilt though, because I was playing in the UKPC final by this point. For ages i only managed to chip up a little bit, and it was starting to get to the point where I would need to take some risks. thankfully, some well timed 3bets gave me some breathing room and from there I was able to mostly play smallball vs smaller stacks and chip up more, and going into the bubble I had a very healthy stack - the kind of stack that you'd need to do something stupid with to not get a seat (around 18k with 3 shorties around 4k and 2 places before a seat)...your half expecting me to say I blew up and bubbled arent you! how rude!...I won a seat!! I was obvioulsy super please, I've never played ina live tourney with a buy in over £330! The only problem now is, I dont have any annual leave left lol...so I'm gonna have to make something up, quit, or beg them to give me unpaid leave...hmmm
I had a slightly diaaspointing end to the night - I stone bubbled the £55 speed BH, coming 6th with 5 paid. I hate this tourney!!! but I'm determined to get the better of it, and my results have been improving in it. You cant really count stone bubbling as a big failure, because by that stage there is a lot of luck - getting into that potiion frequently is the key. I also finished 18/281 in the 9:30 bh.
not including the UKPC seat, I made a small loss of around £70 or so. annoying to make a loss because there were 3 tourneys that could easily have turned this into a profit - the £55 speed, the 7:30 deepstack and the 9:30 bh.
I had gotten off to a good start, with a £20+ cash in a £5 timed, and winning a seat to the UKPC semi. I also got off to a flying start in the Main event. I had 4.5k chips after 15 mins, without taking a bounty and was truely running the table over. it sisnt stop there either, and by the time there were about 80 left I was in the top 10 and cruising. at that point I moved tables/table was split or something, and I ended up on the table with a few good players I recognise, like Lnarin00. I lost a few chips before changing down gears, but nothing to worry about really, and then it all started to go wrong. a SS shoved UTG and I snapped him off in the BB with AQ. he turns over A2 - happy days. he hits his 2 an doubles through me. grrr, oh well. it happens. I'm down to 20bb though, so i'll need to get a shift on... a few hands later, there is a limper and Lnarin isolates from the button. I look down at AhTh from the SB... I know he will be isolating fairly wide, this is a great spot to shove - so I did...Lnarin calls with A9s (it was probably one of those "he knows I'm isoltaing wide, so he will probably be shoving wide" things, so I dont mind the call with A9) ... anyway, happy days.....9 on the flop, goodnight!
I exit the mini soon after, shoving 14bb or so from UTG with AK and getting called by the BB, for 90% of his stack with J6s?? obv he hits a 6.
not to worry, during this time, I have also managed to build up a big stak in the big BH - about 15k with the average around 10k..then this happens -
Player
Action
Cards
Amount
Pot
Balance
Shortie
Small blind
100.00
100.00
270.00
xxx
Big blind
200.00
300.00
15420.00
Your hole cards
·A
·Q
plonker
Raise
400.00
700.00
22707.50
chicknMelt
Raise
1000.00
1700.00
13505.00
xxx
Call
1000.00
2700.00
5955.00
Shortie
All-in
270.00
2970.00
0.00
xxx
Fold
Plonker
Call
600.00
3570.00
22107.50
Flop
·Q
·9
·5
Plonker
Bet
3400.00
6970.00
18707.50
chicknMelt
All-in
13505.00
20475.00
0.00
xxx
Fold
Plonker
Call
10105.00
30580.00
8602.50
Shortie
Show
·9
·9
Plonker
Show
·10
·5
chicknMelt
Show
·A
·Q
Turn
·4
River
·10
Shortie
Win
Three 9s
1680.00
1680.00
Plonker
Win
Two Pairs, 10s and 5s
28900.00
37502.50
ARRRHHHHHGGGG!!!!
Man did I felt tilted after all that!
I did managed to lock up another UKPC final seat, which saved my night a little bit, thanks to some stubborness from a forum reg at the start amost doubled me up...then a bit later on, after he had managed to double through someone else, I think he thought he was going to get his own back when he shoved AK into my 3bet, only to find out I had woken up with AA (or KK, cant remember now). UL mate, nothing you could do in that hand at least.
break even for the night.
**EDIT**
oh yeah - forgot to mention top of the posts tourney - thanks for all the votes! I got off to a good start and took the chip lead after hitting a disguised hand and getting paid of by a non believer. then when the blinds wer e starting to get a bit bigger, there was an open from the CO, so I shoved 88 from the BB, only to walk into AA...thet left me with 10bb. a couple of hands laterm I shoved J8 from the button and got called by the same guy with AQ and they held. wasnt to be, but to be honest, I'm more than happy for one of the smaller stakes players to take the bigger prizes.
Monday: Monday was BRUTAL! I had gotten off to a good start, with a £20+ cash in a £5 timed, and winning a seat to the UKPC semi. I also got off to a flying start in the Main event. I had 4.5k chips after 15 mins, without taking a bounty and was truely running the table over. it sisnt stop there either, and by the time there were about 80 left I was in the top 10 and cruising. at that point I moved tables/table was split or something, and I ended up on the table with a few good players I recognise, like Lnarin00. I lost a few chips before changing down gears, but nothing to worry about really, and then it all started to go wrong. a SS shoved UTG and I snapped him off in the BB with AQ. he turns over A2 - happy days. he hits his 2 an doubles through me. grrr, oh well. it happens. I'm down to 20bb though, so i'll need to get a shift on... a few hands later, there is a limper and Lnarin isolates from the button. I look down at AhTh from the SB... I know he will be isolating fairly wide, this is a great spot to shove - so I did...Lnarin calls with A9s (it was probably one of those "he knows I'm isoltaing wide, so he will probably be shoving wide" things, so I dont mind the call with A9) ... anyway, happy days.....9 on the flop, goodnight! I exit the mini soon after, shoving 14bb or so from UTG with AK and getting called by the BB, for 90% of his stack with J6s?? obv he hits a 6. not to worry, during this time, I have also managed to build up a big stak in the big BH - about 15k with the average around 10k..then this happens - Player Action Cards Amount Pot Balance Shortie Small blind 100.00 100.00 270.00 xxx Big blind 200.00 300.00 15420.00 Your hole cards · A · Q plonker Raise 400.00 700.00 22707.50 chicknMelt Raise 1000.00 1700.00 13505.00 xxx Call 1000.00 2700.00 5955.00 Shortie All-in 270.00 2970.00 0.00 xxx Fold Plonker Call 600.00 3570.00 22107.50 Flop · Q · 9 · 5 Plonker Bet 3400.00 6970.00 18707.50 chicknMelt All-in 13505.00 20475.00 0.00 xxx Fold Plonker Call 10105.00 30580.00 8602.50 Shortie Show · 9 · 9 Plonker Show · 10 · 5 chicknMelt Show · A · Q Turn · 4 River · 10 Shortie Win Three 9s 1680.00 1680.00 Plonker Win Two Pairs, 10s and 5s 28900.00 37502.50 ARRRHHHHHGGGG!!!! Man did I felt tilted after all that! I did managed to lock up another UKPC final seat, which saved my night a little bit, thanks to some stubborness from a forum reg at the start amost doubled me up...then a bit later on, after he had managed to double through someone else, I think he thought he was going to get his own back when he shoved AK into my 3bet, only to find out I had woken up with AA (or KK, cant remember now). UL mate, nothing you could do in that hand at least. break even for the night. **EDIT** oh yeah - forgot to mention top of the posts tourney - thanks for all the votes! I got off to a good start and took the chip lead after hitting a disguised hand and getting paid of by a non believer. then when the blinds wer e starting to get a bit bigger, there was an open from the CO, so I shoved 88 from the BB, only to walk into AA...thet left me with 10bb. a couple of hands laterm I shoved J8 from the button and got called by the same guy with AQ and they held. wasnt to be, but to be honest, I'm more than happy for one of the smaller stakes players to take the bigger prizes. Posted by chicknMelt
Haha... you can say it was me. I dont mind.
I was playing pretty terribly last night to say the least. Sat into that tournament for £5 so not the end of the world. I was watching homeland on the side and decided that id try and rep a monster for no other reason than I could...
Spewy mcspewsy. Have to shove on the end to have any chance of getting you off TPTK.... even so why am I 4 betting A7s and calling a 5 bet OOP? I can be such a massive fish sometimes.
appologies for the 9 binkage otf... i knew it was jus a good spot for you after i isso'd the limper and if we had software i would HUD called you with A9 also as u seemed to be playing more aggro on that table -
Chicknmelt, that sounds good to me. I'll come find you on one of your tables either tonight or tomorrow night at the start of your session. How many would you like to play at the same time? I was thinking HU Speed?
In Response to Re: Can a chicken go pro? : Haha... you can say it was me. I dont mind. I was playing pretty terribly last night to say the least. Sat into that tournament for £5 so not the end of the world. I was watching homeland on the side and decided that id try and rep a monster for no other reason than I could... Spewy mcspewsy. Have to shove on the end to have any chance of getting you off TPTK.... even so why am I 4 betting A7s and calling a 5 bet OOP? I can be such a massive fish sometimes. Then AK into your AA. NH. GG. Posted by gazza127
lol, I didnt think you would mind...but I didnt wanna say just incsae
was half expecting you to come forward like you did lol.
in that hand that I had AK, I actually misclicked min 3bet you, i didnt mean to make it that small. in the end it worked nicely because it induced the bluff 4bet from you. It was only then i realised it was you lol....easy spot for a 5bet. I was pretty scared of QQ or AQ, but I was never folding, even to a shove on the river.
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im happy to obv get ppl to put money in as massive dogs tho
ps. hate the call pre in these spots even if i am 3bet u wide- mainly cos u still play them pretty passive post-
anyhooo GLGL
Yeah there were a couple of spots last night I played passively vs u after u 3bet, I had my reasons. Bloating the pot with a medium strength hand isn't a great idea + any agression would just scare off all your many bluffs
That above is very good advice. No need to bloat pots with medium hands and definitely don't show strength against an aggro who has a high bluff %, just let them hang themselves.
Impressive turnaround in November, well playerd. This diary is a good read.
+1 to the above, anybody serious about MTTs should play HU STTs regularly to keep their HU skills sharp. It's a fairly small investment that can make a massive difference to your bottom line.
You don't need me to tell you the HU battle is by far the most important stage of any MTT, far more money is on the line that at any other time. Neglecting your HU game is an expensive mistake.
Player
Action
Cards
Amount
Pot
Balance
Shortie
Small blind
100.00
100.00
270.00
xxx
Big blind
200.00
300.00
15420.00
Your hole cards
· A
· Q
plonker
Raise
400.00
700.00
22707.50
chicknMelt
Raise
1000.00
1700.00
13505.00
xxx
Call
1000.00
2700.00
5955.00
Shortie
All-in
270.00
2970.00
0.00
xxx
Fold
Plonker
Call
600.00
3570.00
22107.50
Flop
· Q
· 9
· 5
Plonker
Bet
3400.00
6970.00
18707.50
chicknMelt
All-in
13505.00
20475.00
0.00
xxx
Fold
Plonker
Call
10105.00
30580.00
8602.50
Shortie
Show
· 9
· 9
Plonker
Show
· 10
· 5
chicknMelt
Show
· A
· Q
Turn
· 4
River
· 10
Shortie
Win
Three 9s
1680.00
1680.00
Plonker
Win
Two Pairs, 10s and 5s
28900.00
37502.50
appologies for the 9 binkage otf... i knew it was jus a good spot for you after i isso'd the limper and if we had software i would HUD called you with A9 also as u seemed to be playing more aggro on that table -