Tonight:- (Cont) - REVERTING BK TO 30p I decided to revert myself back to playing 30p turbo's at this point, thinking "I'm good at these I might be able to salvage something...First game was pretty standard, but alas a defeat ensued. Second game, was going quite well, and I was pretty much fairing between 3rd-4th, and thinking of the spots that I c..............****! WHATS HAPPENED I asked... TV Show Frozen, Poker Table Frozen...No activity from browser window! OH ****.. So I ended up re-starting both my laptop and router and by the time my antiquated equipment was back up & running the DYM I was playing in had finished, and alas I had been blinded out! 30p GAME THREE So I plod-on into one more 30p DYM, all i want is ONE win tonight pls...Just ONE!!! NAH! I called my 33's into a player shoving with A-K. Which looked OK as I was over-stacked on my Oppy, until the river comes and Oppy has a str8.. Next hand, THREE of us are A/In with my J-T facing off vs 2's and A-3o. Flop is 889, Turn a K and the river a 3, meaing I'm out to two pairs 3 & 8's. Posted by GaryLaud
My last posting I made to this diary I was in the midst of a Run-Bad. However I did alot of reading on the 7th and played 10x30p Turbo DYM's. Cashed in Four of them, so made a loss for the day.
8th May, was the day I lost my Grandmother, so I didnt play any competitive poker and railed a few friends in the evening, whilst talking alot to other S/P members.
Fri 9th
8x30p Turbo's in the evening hrs, only cashed in two of them - decided to change strategy somewhat after practicing on a play-money site at a much slower pace of DYM and winning regularly, I moved UP to the 60p Standard speed (5min Blind) DYM. I CASHED IT!
Sat 10th
After yet more practice and analysis of hands & techniques and another watch-thru of the DYM show with Rich & Ross, I played some more 60p DYM's with VAST improvements, 75% win-rate for the 4x I had time for in the evening hrs. Only time I failed in a DYM today was when I lost my computer for a good 10-mins or so and had to re-start. By the time I got back to the table, I had a mere 200 chips!
Sund 11th
Didn't play on SKY until late tonight. However another run-good followed and I cashed 2/3 of the games played, again at 60p. I GII with AA's and got UL when my oppy finished with 2x pair against my AA's, which was the only time tonight I failed in a DYM.
The finish to tonight's play was an incredible hand. I GII with my pocket QQ's having the table 4x handed with me on 5bb's next nearest on 7BB's and two large stacks @ around 30-40 BIGS.
7 bigs came along with 77's as did one of the larger stacks with AJo. Flop was QA2, Turn=9, and another 2 on the river meant I had a Full House and had my cash safely locked up, and the larger stack was also awarded a few chips with 2x pair. Good way to finish a gr8 weekend.
I much prefer the structure on the 5min dym's over the turbo's(more beatable in long run for solid play).
The only problem is since the introduction of hi lo splitting liquidity(& the loss of 30p 5min blinds) the standard micro dym's do not run as often.So as a rec I end up playing whats running & what I can earn the 10 points a day to play the £300 freeroll in the limited time I have to play.
I've just read your diary by chance from start to finish and it rather refreshing to see a player not fighting and complaining because their bankroll hasn't increased as exponentially as it should due to their ability. This is good because it show an honesty in your emotions as well as ability. You deserve to improve for the effort you are putting in. Your organisation seems good but you must look at how good players are playing hands.
One other thing is that at very low bi's etc or 30p dyms, there will inevitably be a naivety, shall we say, of play. The mental side of poker involves what level of thinking you are appling(key it in to your internet). If you can be a level 3 thinker then you will have an advantage.
Also, it seems fairly obvious that you are whats known as a passive player at times. You need to see the advantages etc of LAGs Tags etc and start to use a particular way of playing.
There are so many stages to improve at but you will see that improvement by recording. One thing is that you may find it difficult when you are playing a mixture of games especially cash v mtt's as they are different beast.
There are so many stages to improve at but you will see that improvement by recording. One thing is that you may find it difficult when you are playing a mixture of games especially cash v mtt's as they are different beast. All the best in your journey... Posted by profman15
Hi profman,
Thanks for your kind words and ecouragement - have given me a couple of little bits to lookup now. You said about recording results so that I can track improvement. I've started a comprehensive spreadsheet where every game is copied from the account page into it, and I've got a running score of my DYM play, in both 30p turbo & 60p standard variant, as well as an overal total of DYM's regardless of format. Together with this I have also recorded a win % which I am actively tracking on a day-to-day basis, with one of my main daily targets for may, to score an above 50% win rate.
I am also actively monitoring the movement on my bankroll so both good & bad days are showing up clearly, both in terms of win % and net effect of profit/loss on my BR.
You'll see my analysis of yesterday's play which will follow in the next posting.
I think I can use this word to best sum up my performance at the tables last night. I took part in 4x 60p DYM's and only cashed in 1, my last one of the evening..
I noticed that ALL of the games I played in were very tough, tight afairs and that in one game, the first elimination didn't come until Blind-level 8!
Would have expected this sort of standard at much higher levels than 60p!
In my last game that I cashed, I think I locked up my result when I changed my attitude from one of playing tight, (as per advice on Ross/Rich DYM Guides) to very loose/aggressive.
Towards the end, getting fed up, I put in a 3x raise with AT UTG, and got fold's all around!
Next suitable hand I had AK in the BB, I got a raise in front, and called off the raise. Flopped 1x pair of A's and put in a 2x Bet. Q on the turn, 8 on the river and I bet all three streets. Only player left folded on the river and I collected a very nice pot..
With such aggressiveness getting through, I am beginning to wonder if it's worth trying the odd aggressive bluff?
The dyms will come in time and you highlight a big issue imo of them in your above post. If the table knows what its doing the edge is tiny and you have to adapt, but adapting isnt always great dym strat.
You mention trying bluffs, this is something worthwhile at the right times. Id encourage you to build your roll a little more first but trying new things, and seeing how they go is never bad, expessially if you take time t understand why it did or didn't work.
The world is your oyster and you seem to be enjoying it alot bud.
This is basically the feeling I have at present. I have this evening played in 5 DYM Sit/Go's and have failed to cash in EVERY ONE, even being FIRST eliminated in my most recent game..
Seemed what-ever I tried, I was destined to fail; Got virtually blinded out having sat there pressing FOLD numerous times haveing been dealt total and utter BS cards, and having pressed fold, having seen myself would have flopped, turned or rivered at least two pairs, sets, flushes etc...Yet when a reasonable hand comes along like AJ, QK, QA, JJs I somehow fail to flop anything and when I did try and bet, found my opponent ended up with anything from JJ's to AA's and Straight/Flushy draws on the board...
With my current mind-set I just gonna go and pack-it-in for tonight, and sit and watch the europa league final
CAN I THROW MY LAPTOP ACROSS THE ROOM PLEASE? This is basically the feeling I have at present. I have this evening played in 5 DYM Sit/Go's and have failed to cash in EVERY ONE, even being FIRST eliminated in my most recent game.. Seemed what-ever I tried, I was destined to fail; Got virtually blinded out having sat there pressing FOLD numerous times haveing been dealt total and utter BS cards, and having pressed fold, having seen myself would have flopped, turned or rivered at least two pairs, sets, flushes etc...Yet when a reasonable hand comes along like AJ, QK, QA, JJs I somehow fail to flop anything and when I did try and bet, found my opponent ended up with anything from JJ's to AA's and Straight/Flushy draws on the board... With my current mind-set I just gonna go and pack-it-in for tonight, and sit and watch the europa league final Posted by GaryLaud
Hey, post up some exit hands? What kind of stack size do you get blinded down to before you start panicking? Patience is good for DYM's. Also if your struggling post flop how to play your hands, if blinds are 100/200 etc and you get dealt AJ, just go all in pre flop, much better then min raising getting called then out played post flop
This was HAND NO 1 of the day...Pocket Jacks...Okay YET AGAIN my BIG error is doing nothing/very little preflop...No wonder though...I keep hearing/reading about getting value for your hands, and am being told to raise up the premium hands..When I do...FOLDS All around and I collect scant rewards in the blinds...If I am going to collect the blinds then why not have folds all around when im in the big-blind..
I often wonder if there was some cheating going on tonight too...at one stage I had KK's whilst in the BB..FOLDS all around AGAIN!
Here's another hand part way through my first game. I'm dealt 99's. I only call the opening bet...Im now fuming with myself as I write this.. no wonder why tonight's been failure....NO aggressiveness in my play AT ALL! WHAT am I running scared of???
I am having to drop these hands into EXCEL in order to get them to post properly and then just write in the suit and are adding rows for my comments...Works quite well TBF
Exit hand from 60p DYM#1. Looks very much to me like I was trying to stay patient but one way or another, including a pot where I ran my 99's into the str8 above, and then raise QK and missed the flop ATG...By the time I got to this stage it was basically me needing two or three double ups just to get even with all three opponents left with 2x-3x's as many chips as me can't but think I perpahs should have ALL In'd the 99's as this other than hands like below was the best hand I'd seen since hand #1.
Here we got to the situation where I had flopped 1x pair, of Jacks. I got called by one of THREE VERY LARGE stacks left in. I had abbout 1100 chips before the hand started and was in the BB..and was prepared to shove anyway. VERY strange dynamic that I have rarely seen where ALL of the remaining players are stacked above 3k chips against the shorty, myself on around 1k. Two of them clearly accrued this by eliminating players?? I'll have to carefully go through these hands one at a time to establish as to what the dynamic of the table was and wether I could have played any differently to become one of the larger stacks...or if it was one of those where it was simply..wasnt to be - which is my overal feel of the evening..
One thing I'm noticing is that as I go through and analyse the play...I've played in three turbo DYM's and it would appear that because the structure is SO FAST and one only begins with 1000 chips, it seems to me that unless you can get a big boost early doors, or have player eliminated in front, then it makes life very difficult to just sit n play tight which would be a good idea in a normal structured DYM.
So I think from now on, I'm gonna stick by the standard DYM's. YES that will erode my small BR quicker but I feel given time, and PRACTICE it'll eventually "come"
Hand 1- you raised a good amount, got some callers, bad flop, checked the flop, called the turn for a straight draw, tbh you did nothing wrong, you had a good hand, got outflopped then after that its about losing the minimum/folding it. just got UL no biggie
Hand 2 - How you should play, Raise to 300, (like you raised with JJ to 60 from 20) Then bet flop about half pot, if he calls ease off and just check it down, no point calling here with a A&J on the board ur likely to be behind
Hand 3 - Thats just UL but thats what happens when you get short stacked your more likely to get called, which we dont want, just go all in with J10/ 910/ suited cards in posistion before you get to low, cos then people will call u with trash and get lucky
Hand 4 - Again its pretty unlucky, top pair vs set, cant get to down about it
Hand 1 just fold on the turn really but no big deal.
Hand 2 also fold on the turn i think. Pot sized bet on the river looks more like AJ than a straight. You have to think what 2x does he have in his range to triple barrell.
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