Hi Rich, my br challenge is going well so far 450PP and have met my target 6 out of 7 days and up to £184.31 from £50. Very pleased so far! GL tonight! Posted by mrsduck
Hi Mrs D!
This is awesome news. That's a massive hike up from £50 in a short space of time.
Keep it up and keep disciplined. Don't blow it all in one crazy session or anything- always play at the right level if you can.
As a reward for good bankroll building, I'm giving you a free shot at next Tuesday's Turbo Open main event at 8. (Tuesday 15th April). Just look out for your name in the tournament lobby just before the game starts.
Hopefully this will boost your BR from £184 to over £1000! Good luck!
Rested and playing in silence I had a much better session with my full concentration on the tables. I got lucky in a pot when hit my flush after big action on the turn, but generally I knew where I was in most pots and picked up a fh in my penultimate hand to make this a very profitable session.
Not good MTT wise, sats just about worked, i got in for £32.40 so i saved 60p! Main/Mini just didn't go well from the start, despite myself picking up 1 head in main and 2 in mini - i was out fairly early in both. Another good night on the cash tables however - maybe i should try grinding cash a bit more often. Only just learning though and playing multiple tables whilst there is a mastercash hour on live shows. All in all a negative night but good fun and a great show to go with it. Nice to see my cash game progressing
GaryLaud is back - yes I had a major downturn in fortunes recently (last weekend) but a couple of positives to look back on. Played a good freeroll on Tuesday afternoon in which I ran quite well and restored confidence, and then took part in Turbo Tuesday and "cashed" in it, finishing 69th and earning a nice £21.17.
Put these earnings to use over the last couple of evenings - decided to stay away from my DYM's for now and have been having a go at the 2p/4p cash tables. Now, I was warned to expect losses in my early cash life and that is exactly what has occured.
Played like a monkey on Monday night however, the most significant loss was £1.13 when I went crazy on my AA's and failed to spot the fact that three spades came on the flop, and you can guess the rest! Overall result finished -£1.87
TONIGHT
Tonight was a MUCH better afair, again despite another 50p loss in my 2nd hour, I finished with a narrow 22p loss in my first hour. I'm playing pretty good and feeling generally good and are getting good value from the higher pairs. However am iSTILL having problems cracking hands like AJ, KT, KQ, which was where the bulk of my Big losses have resulted from.
Overall bankroll is now at highest since I made a major withdrawal to cover life expenses 15 months ago. Lots of spare time over the next 4 or 5 days so hoping to get to 2k points by the end of next week. Feeling goo000oood.
In Response to Re: Build A Bankroll 2014: next session TONIGHT TUESDAY 1ST APRIL : Hi Mrs D! This is awesome news. That's a massive hike up from £50 in a short space of time. Keep it up and keep disciplined. Don't blow it all in one crazy session or anything- always play at the right level if you can. As a reward for good bankroll building, I'm giving you a free shot at next Tuesday's Turbo Open main event at 8. (Tuesday 15th April). Just look out for your name in the tournament lobby just before the game starts. Hopefully this will boost your BR from £184 to over £1000! Good luck! Posted by RICHORFORD
Hi Rich Thank you so much for your kind offer , but I always have to work Tuesday evenings. Please give my seat to someone else...unless you can pop me into a tournie tmw (sat) night? Thanks again Mrs D
Back down to earth again. Had big pocket pairs a lot but didnt hold up. Got a bit fancy towards the end and cost myself 20 quid bluffing a station twice and making a big 4b bluff to go hu with a weaker player but then didnt flop well....still a profit for the day of 35 quid so ill take that.
My standard of poker is clearly improving and I'm feeling alot more confident.
It was good to play on the same table with a member who has asked tough, but fair questions when reviewing my hands, so I was kind of determined to run well, especially to prove to him that despite my inexperience, in the long run, Im actually doing really rather well! Another player on my table was very tough to play against, and was repeatedly shoving ALL IN for amounts well over £5, enforcing a-lot of fold's all around as people didn't want to risk their stacks!
Played 2p/4p cash for just an hr and finished the table "Nuneaton" with a small gain of £0.21p! Small by most people's standards, but as far as I'm concerned, any gain is very positive. Earlier I ran really well and finished 13th from over 200 runner's in the £20 Gtd F/R at Mid-Day and earned myself a prize of 26p, which meant this was my second cash in a row from an MTT!
Nuneaton - Yuck. Nice work though Gary, might join you on those tables sometime :-).
No play tonight because of catching up on sleep missed.
No play tomorrow because Leamington are away at Harrogate, and the wetherspoons there has cheap beer. I don't play poker well after multiple drinks so i'll save myself for the roller on sunday :-)
Swapped some brief notes with CraigSG1 then ended up on his left or right over 4 tables! As he is a solid player at this level it kept me in check and I only went into fancy-play-syndrome for 1 or 2 hands.
Lost £20 in one pot with tptk - stationing 3 streets against a player who my notes say 'Never bluffs'....sigh...
Its these nonsensical and inexplicable hands that have held me back in this challenge. The player donked and I actually opened his notes.....decided it was best to flat and fold to turn action.... however, then I completely ignored all logic and reraised. On the turn, my head said FOLD, I clicked call. Blank river and facing shove for less than half pot but still 30+ bb and still absolutely convinced that I am behind I click call. Useless!!!!
Sess 86 (3hr x 6) +£14.65 = 559.33 Swapped some brief notes with CraigSG1 then ended up on his left or right over 4 tables! As he is a solid player at this level it kept me in check and I only went into fancy-play-syndrome for 1 or 2 hands. Lost £20 in one pot with tptk - stationing 3 streets against a player who my notes say 'Never bluffs'....sigh... Its these nonsensical and inexplicable hands that have held me back in this challenge. The player donked and I actually opened his notes.....decided it was best to flat and fold to turn action.... however, then I completely ignored all logic and reraised. On the turn, my head said FOLD, I clicked call. Blank river and facing shove for less than half pot but still 30+ bb and still absolutely convinced that I am behind I click call. Useless!!!! Posted by jimb0d1
Hey Jim,
Despite your comments and playing a hand where you regretted your actions after (I would say you got caught up in the moment?) the figures speak for themselves, you still ended the session UP, so I wlnd't dwell on it, as your BR moved in the right direction, which I think is the overall aim isn't it?
In Response to Re: Build A Bankroll 2014: next session TONIGHT WEDNESDAY APRIL 9TH : Hey Jim, Despite your comments and playing a hand where you regretted your actions after (I would say you got caught up in the moment?) the figures speak for themselves, you still ended the session UP, so I wlnd't dwell on it, as your BR moved in the right direction, which I think is the overall aim isn't it? Posted by GaryLaud
I know from your posts your relatively new to the game but jimbod is quite correct to be critical of the hand despite being in profit from the session.
the game revolves around maximising winnings and minimising losses. the hand he wrote about where he lost £20 he may have been able to play it very different and even from his notes he described fold earlyon in the hand thus not wasting a full stack. he could well have got away from it losing 5 quid or less. this one hand virtually doubles the sessions profit. if theres other similar hands like that in one session where he may have gottan away from the situation for cheaper than he did then it soon builds up. so what was a £15 winning session could easily have been 30, 40 or even 50 quid in profit for the session.
jimbod knows the mistake and its quite important to identify them yourself and be very critical of your own play in order to move forward. its even works like this for hands you win. even if you scoop a large pot, its more than possible you butchered it completely and got lucky. these hands we forget about easily because this one time it went our way, but over time maybe playing this way will cost us more.
sorry for referencing you so much jimbod, just trying to highlight the situation as a whole.
Nee bother TINTIN. Indeed, +3.5 buyins is ssooo000ooo much better than 1.5! Dont worry though Gary, I sometimes go a bit bananas at the table following a hand like that but once I stand up I dont dwell on it too long.
The trouble with correcting my mistake is that I KNEW I was behind and just went action crazy. I need to trust my reads and notes more. Most times in a tournament I can keep my discipline but am continuing to struggle in cash.... once I see that pot swell I want to win EVERY hand over 20bbs
I think some of the regs have picked up on this now and am getting a few light calls, but not enough to make up for spewing off £20 with top pair.
Anyway,
Sess 87 (3hr x 6) +£47.65 = 606.98
What pleased me most in this session was that on two or three of the tables I ddint have to dip below starting stack at all. Lost a big pot in a cooler in one of the last hands played but a good profit.
Football break now!
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First session, played again like a monkey and lost a big amount - I MUST stop going nutts myself over hands like AJ, AT which I am finding are marginal and difficult to obtain value from - this I think will come from XP.
Hour 1
Table: Rockingham (2p/4p)
Variance: -£0.77p
Hour 2
Table: Rockingham (2p/4p)
Variance: +£0.32p (BI was £2.20)
NEW BR £18.32
Hour two was alot better - Felt I played very disciplined and only let myself get involved in either cheap hands where I as in the SB and had little calls ahead meaning I only had to cover the BB for 2p, or when I was on a premium hand. I got very brave in mixing it up when I had pocket kings, flopping a set, and then ended up with the whole-lot of my stack in the middle. won HUGE when the river resulted in a FH. Pot: £3.14
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Thanks again
the game revolves around maximising winnings and minimising losses. the hand he wrote about where he lost £20 he may have been able to play it very different and even from his notes he described fold earlyon in the hand thus not wasting a full stack. he could well have got away from it losing 5 quid or less. this one hand virtually doubles the sessions profit. if theres other similar hands like that in one session where he may have gottan away from the situation for cheaper than he did then it soon builds up. so what was a £15 winning session could easily have been 30, 40 or even 50 quid in profit for the session.
jimbod knows the mistake and its quite important to identify them yourself and be very critical of your own play in order to move forward. its even works like this for hands you win. even if you scoop a large pot, its more than possible you butchered it completely and got lucky. these hands we forget about easily because this one time it went our way, but over time maybe playing this way will cost us more.
sorry for referencing you so much jimbod, just trying to highlight the situation as a whole.
One hand kind of derailed me midway through the session:
PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalanceonthemoon Small blind £0.05 £0.05 £10.52 d Big blind £0.10 £0.15 £11.53 Your hole cards Q Q Monty71 Fold mRaise £0.30 £0.45 £14.86 CraigSG1 Raise £1.10 £1.55 £11.88 jimb0d1 Call £1.10 £2.65 £22.44 onthemoon Fold d Call £1.00 £3.65 £10.53 mCall £0.80 £4.45 £14.06 Flop 3 9 8 d Check mBet £2.23 £6.68 £11.83 CraigSG1 Fold jimb0d1 Call £2.23 £8.91 £20.21 d All-in £10.53 £19.44 £0.00 mAll-in £11.83 £31.27 £0.00 jimb0d1 Call £11.83 £43.10 £8.38 d Show 8 7 mShow 9 8 jimb0d1 Show Q Q Turn K River 2 mWin Two Pairs, 9s and 8s £41.70 £41.70
Looking back I don't think this was such a mistake as had seen these players get a the lot in light before (tpbadk light).