Played baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaddddddd. On the plus side, enjoyed some Cheltenham coverage and its nice just to have a day off playing poker. Played on autopilot mostly and opened almost any playable hand from any position...........calling most rivers whenever there was a little doubt and it costs a lot.
Enjoyed a deep run and 3rd place finish in a cheap morning tourney that recouped a little of my losses. Left Rainman HU with another player for the glory. bah!
Sess 59 (4 hrs x 6) -£62.31 BR: 546.54 Played baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaddddddd. On the plus side, enjoyed some Cheltenham coverage and its nice just to have a day off playing poker. Played on autopilot mostly and opened almost any playable hand from any position...........calling most rivers whenever there was a little doubt and it costs a lot. Enjoyed a deep run and 3rd place finish in a cheap morning tourney that recouped a little of my losses. Left Rainman HU with another player for the glory. bah! Posted by jimb0d1
Hi Jimbod1, reading your post, kind of reminds me when I am "let loose" One of my main major flaws is that I get myself some decen hole-cards, bet and then end up folding if I run into a poor FLOP and find one or more opponents posting big bets against me at this stage. I've often been scared away from semi decent hands by people betting large against me.
I was on one of my very attempts at the cash tables recently (2p/4p Blinds), where it seemed like no matter what I did, or what sort of hand I had, there was a user there who seemed to bet some 4x-7x the BB on river....and AGAIN I was finding it difficult to accept that there might be the odd hand where they were lying (Bluffing)...which I now realise...Rookie errors eh?
Just as an O/T remark, is there anyway I can setup my font sizes and stuff as a default...I find the preset font too small......
I dont think you can set the default size bigger, although you could always change the zoom settings in your browser. I think in the main you SHOULD be scared of large bets Gary, look for reasons to fold instead of reasons to call. Unfortunately I dont always take my own advice......
Sess 60(2 hrs x 6) +2076
BR: 567.30
1 big hand (QQQQ vs turned FH for opponent) meant that I won back some monies.
1 hour playing 6 tables Gary. I intended to review my sessions at the end of every month and see how the length of the session and number of tables played affected my results. Of course, I havent been bothered!! 6 is the max number of tables my laptop can fit on the screen anyway and I am very comfortable playing solely cash on all 6 so ill stick with that for now.
After a couple of night's playing the free "practice" or "Play Money" cash tables (Are sky likely to bring in play money tournaments I wonder?) I tonight wanted tourney action and enrolled myself in the "£250 gtd Speed" starting at 21:45 with a £2.20 buy-in which perfectly matched one of my bonuses I still had left to use. I started quite strongly and won one or two decent hands, including a speculative bet to "see the flop" ended up yealding me a flush and the same technique later gave me a STR8.
When it was "all said & done" I exited the competition in 38th/117 runners. So still no improvement on my previous free-roll entry the other night! all this after a seemingly decent night at the practice tables left me around 750 play-chips up!
So maybe its perhaps that one cannot use the play tables as a marker for how an actual MTT could run?
Play tables are a waste of time imo. Free games play competetly differently to even 35p stakes. Put £10 on and play £1 hu games/mtts. Only buy into £2.30 games when you have £20.
You can get yourself going there, but must have the disclipline to stick to cheap games.
Oh dear. Back into a small loss for the challenge so far. This was actually not a bad result in this session as after an hour I was at least £50 down, ignoring my stoploss (again) and tilting so badly that CraigSG1 actually advised me to get a grip in the chatbox after seeing me make multiple bad calls across a few tables. Cheers Craig!
I got my head straight and clawed a little back. I am finding it hard to stop the same leaks.........calling off to overbets and reraises without the nuts, calling 3bs out of position and overplaying strong draws with no fold equity vs loose opposition.
In one pot, my opponent limp-called pre with 99. Donk minbet all streets with top set, then overbet shoved the river with a rivered fh to my rivered flush. I was completely confused and so called off a whole stack when I could have gotten away easily.
It is not all bad news though, I should have wrapped up a £50 bonus in the silver leaderboard and will perhaps play more on sunday.
Back into profit (again). Confirmed win of £50 in the first fortnight leaderboard.
I dont include rewards/promo/sng or mtt winnings in this thread balance, but its worth noting that I have earned about £200 of rewards money from my cash play so far, just as a breakeven player. My style is quite aggressive/spewy and I probably gain a few more points than other regs at my level but even so, anyone who can breakeven at nl10 and plays 2 or 3 hours a day can probably make £800+ in rewards alone easily over the year.....enough to cover the mini every other day if nothing else.
I'm disappointed to have blown my profit again in the last week or so, but will keep plugging away.
The zombie survival night at the Castle Keep was good fun. The setting was perfect, with zombie moans travelling along 400 year old stone corridors and steep uneven staircases. I would recommend this kind of event to anyone who fancies something a bit different!
Finished the night with a few pints of delicious Bourbon Stout in 'The Bridge Hotel', an excellent traditional pub just across the road from the Keep. As I get older (30 now), I am beginning to find the appeal in real ale as opposed to drinking lots of lager. I'm not quite a militant real ale drinker, complete with Hobgoblin T shirt and accompanying facial hair - but I do appreciate something a little different every now and then.
I'm about to head doon Toon shortly for St Patricks Day, which is always eventful! If you see me on the tables later then fill ya boots because I doubt I will even be able to see the screen properly.
Little session whilst hungover. One of the regs suggested playing a few 6max sngs for the promo so I ended my cash session early.
I played 15 sngs: 6 wins and 3 second place finishes. I love the regular 6max games and am delighted to see them running so frequently, at one stage I was playing 9 tables after forgetting to de-reg from a few games. One of my second places was to TOMMYD, shared a few games with THEROCK and also liamboi. It is cool to see a range of regs all playing together at the £5 level... hopefully I can get in amongst them on the leaderboard.
I'm now out of the "Main" tuesday Turbo Open. I feel I ran really quite well having played for 1hr 45mins and eventually my stack ran down to around 2200, with the blinds at 400/800.
I had 9/8 off suit and limp called, as I was due to be in the blinds shortly and felt I may end up getting non-playable hands and therefore "should make a move"
Flop came 6c, Qs, 7d.
so I was thinking I've now got 6789, open-ended str8 draw, with quite a few outs...so I shoved.
Turn and river came the following 4hearts & 2diamonds.
JonesyTHFC's cards were turned over to reveal A,3 SUITED! Im OUT!
Hard-done by? Bad beat? I feel I was.
If you guys want me to post the whole hand I will.
Missed out on the prizes by around 50-odd positions as tonight's comp paid out to 72 places.
I just want to say a massive thanks to Rich for giving me the opportunity to take part and I'll be sure to drop u a message when you are live on thursday.
WELL!! I'm now out of the "Main" tuesday Turbo Open. I feel I ran really quite well having played for 1hr 45mins and eventually my stack ran down to around 2200, with the blinds at 400/800. I had 9/8 off suit and limp called, as I was due to be in the blinds shortly and felt I may end up getting non-playable hands and therefore "should make a move" Flop came 6c, Qs, 7d. so I was thinking I've now got 6789, open-ended str8 draw, with quite a few outs...so I shoved. Turn and river came the following 4hearts & 2diamonds. JonesyTHFC's cards were turned over to reveal A,3 SUITED! Im OUT! Hard-done by? Bad beat? I feel I was. If you guys want me to post the whole hand I will. Missed out on the prizes by around 50-odd positions as tonight's comp paid out to 72 places. I just want to say a massive thanks to Rich for giving me the opportunity to take part and I'll be sure to drop u a message when you are live on thursday. Posted by GaryLaud
Hiya Gary,
I think the whole problem boils down to you having so few chips. As a general rule of thumb, you want to be either shoving or folding with 10bb or less. the reason for this is you dont really have enough chips to be raising then fodling if someone reraises - every chip is vital, especially this shallow because if/when you do double up every chip you had is now worth double.
you also dont want to let your stack drop below 10bb if you can help it (or 6-8 bb in a turbo since the stacks are alot shallower in relation to the blinds). the main reason for this is fold equity. Fold equity is basically the value you gain from being able to make your opponent fold. I dont know what stack your opponent had in your exit hand, but I would also be calling with A high at least some of the time after all, we only hit a pair on the flop 1/3 of the time, A high is often "good" in a spot like this.
one other point (sorry if you feel like i'm pulling your play apart :S) is that is is basically never right to limp (just call the bb) when playing NLH. It makes you very easy to play against because your raising range wil be stronger than normal, and your limping range will include alot of weaker/ speculative hands, you never have the betting lead - so normally need to hit to win.
A simplified version of what will happen often: I isolate limpers with a wide range of hands when in position (they limp, I raise, everyone else folds, and the limper calls). Now I am in position, with the betting lead playing vs a player with a weak range. You check the flop to me and I bet, if you miss, you fold and I win regardless of my hand.
I heard a rumour that Orford will be playing some DYMs tonight from 7pm-8pm... Posted by Sky_Dave
All true! I'm taking on the might of Ross Jarvis. Look out for us between 7pm and 8pm on the £5.50 to £22 DYM TV tables tonight and if you grab a seat on the same table the all the better. They'll be plenty of banter and the games will make for an hour long show next Tuesday night (25th) on Sky Poker TV.
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