Behave, Jackson, behave. By the way, it may amuse you, all things considered, that on the flight home from Vegas, I lost my passport, so I got "detained" at Gatters, & was, briefly, a stateless person. Fair to say I was in a state. That's karma, weaving it's magic. Posted by Tikay10
In the past it had been a running joke in our family that I get rather "dictatorial" when the Phantom family are in an airport. Holding all passports/boarding passes - marching as to the gate to make sure we are on time, not ridic early - just on time - before the ground staff start announcing your name and you get nasty looks as you approach the gate.
Last year I decided to chill and gave everyone the responsibility to look after their own documents.
Queueing at passport control and son#2 announces he cannot find his passport. Turns out he wasnt joking.
Tell Mum and son#1 to go through passport control and then have to explain to customes officials while they radio plane and we stand around being watched by armed police. Uncomfortable.
Luckily passport was found, still in the seat pocket where son#2 had left it.
Becoming a bit of a PLO8 bubble boy at the moment.
Funny how milestones can affect your game - been hovering above and below £100 B/R for some time, then BOOOM!
Hit on through it with a huuuuge (for me) cash session. Mrs P not feeling so good and had an early night and I played a spinup cash on my mobile and made 15BIs in under 2 hours. It was x3 and x4 points too although I didn't end up near enough to the 500 pts threshold to make a push for it. So over £50 profit for the week and the roll is now £145.
Thought I'd celebrate with some graphs...
ok so they exist and look good I just need to figure out how to get them in here!
Decent start to the week, actually cashed a couple of PLO8 dyms at £3 and £5 and still picking up cash on the spinups.
Just had a bit of an anti-rant rant on one of the threads complaining about them. To be fair to Ivano he was only saying stop highlighting them so my rant wasn't really aimed at him, more the sort of person who has been complaining on other threads.
Reading between the lines the moaners are not worried about not being able to find their games, they are worried that their favourite bums will load these as they appear first and not appear at one of their many regular cash tables.
Every time Sky announce a change I dread the forum for the next few days (and sometimes weeks).
Change happens - deal with it - don't assume its bad for you, or bad for the site, give it time, try it, see if you can adjust and take advantage of it. If it turns about to actually be bad then present some evidence not opinion when complaining and maybe try coming up with a positive alternative.
I had concerns about new rewards and spinup tables, but I tried them both with a positive frame of mind and so far that at has been to my advantage.
Thanks to the cash winnings, Phantom fund is outrunning Mrs P fund at the moment. I have an opportunity to redress that on Thursday thanks to being awarded a seat in Thursday's main BH. Now I have never cashed from a free entry before, so maybe I am due a bit of good fortune and will take it down (honestly at least 1 head will be fantastic).
So although it's not a rewards FR or tourney token, any winnings from this will be going to the Mrs P fund less 10% of any winnings to the Flynigdagg fundraiser.
Decent start to the week, actually cashed a couple of PLO8 dyms at £3 and £5 and still picking up cash on the spinups. Just had a bit of an anti-rant rant on one of the threads complaining about them. To be fair to Ivano he was only saying stop highlighting them so my rant wasn't really aimed at him, more the sort of person who has been complaining on other threads. Reading between the lines the moaners are not worried about not being able to find their games, they are worried that their favourite bums will load these as they appear first and not appear at one of their many regular cash tables. Every time Sky announce a change I dread the forum for the next few days (and sometimes weeks). Change happens - deal with it - don't assume its bad for you, or bad for the site, give it time, try it, see if you can adjust and take advantage of it. If it turns about to actually be bad then present some evidence not opinion when complaining and maybe try coming up with a positive alternative. I had concerns about new rewards and spinup tables, but I tried them both with a positive frame of mind and so far that at has been to my advantage. Thanks to the cash winnings, Phantom fund is outrunning Mrs P fund at the moment. I have an opportunity to redress that on Thursday thanks to being awarded a seat in Thursday's main BH. Now I have never cashed from a free entry before, so maybe I am due a bit of good fortune and will take it down (honestly at least 1 head will be fantastic). So although it's not a rewards FR or tourney token, any winnings from this will be going to the Mrs P fund less 10% of any winnings to the Flynigdagg fundraiser. Posted by Phantom66
Just read your post now Phantom...haha I totally forgot about those betting patterns! Run good mate, your a gent and great player too. Ger Posted by gerardirl
I'll take the gent but I know the great player is just a bluff to keep me donating to your dym challenge cause.
Well the BH main came to nowt or £-5.50 to be precise as entered the mini just in case.
Busted main with a poor call - had dwindled chips playing a few too many marginals too strongly and missing everything and then either running into hands or getting pushed off pots too easily.
Hit AA and AKs in consecutive UTG+1, UTG hands but only got minimal action for a small recovery before the rot set back in.
Down to £2k ish and manage to get a turn all-in air bluff through and then a few hands later called a shove on a AsJs8sx board with KQs. Their A9 meant I was drawing only to spades and tens the 9 was gn gg. Opponent had been very active and hitting everything and also shown bluffs but probably still the wrong spot.
Mini was just a standard AQ < AK (well not so standard deep enough not to have called my stack off with AQ just wasn't feeling it tonight.
1st hand of the night was AQ too - on the button - UTG+1 minraises I 3bet around pot and they jam on me.Maybe if I had gambled there things could have been different but I figures as this was a main and not a 2.30 speed BH I was unlikely to be in good shape and wished I had called with position and not left myself open.
Jumped back on a spinup table to claw myself back over the £200 mark which had been achieved earlier in the day so all is not bad (unless you are an aussie cricket fan)
Spinup results so far... spinup P/L sessions wins % avg p/l bi/sess 10nl -£2.61 4 2 50.0% -£0.65 -0.65 20nl £69.14 34 23 67.6% £2.03 1.02 50nl £36.81 7 7 100.0% £5.26 1.05 £103.34 Going at over a buy-in/session which I am very happy with - usually short sessions too 10-20 mins must be the norm. Keep it quiet though dont want anyone decent pitching up and spoiling the fun. Posted by Phantom66
Good stuff. I wish I could get a 100% winning run over 7 sessions at any form of this game
Hi Mumsie, thought as much I did say nh after your AK > my AT and knew you would have responded if able.
Hi Shaki the run has ended. Won 8th then hit my 1st bad session at 50nl down just under £30 which is naughty as I am supposed to sticking to a 5BI stop loss. Some bad beats which are inevitable especially when in 60/40 ahead alot its easy to face a run of 40's winning. Also took a big dint with a set losing to flush post flop.
The 20nl session at lunch was tough too, 1st losing session there for a while (stopped a run of 10 wins actually).
So dipped well back below the £200.
Took a break and came back and made some ground back up.
This happened which was nice, kind of killed the action on the table though...
Well for the first time since this challenge began I dodnt earn my £2.30 reward, that's because I smashed the 500pts barrier so I'll be getting over £6 (plus the FRs of course).
I didnt win anything from a FR this week but did profit at the tables. It seeems I have been getting some stick since the Phantom fund outgrew the Mrs P fund (when I started I honestly thought the Mrs P fund would be the greater of the 2). So I have decided to merge the 2 into a Phantom family fun fund, or Phantom FFF for short (full name too long for my spreadhseet celll).
The Phantom FFF now stands at £129.72 of profit since the beginning (ie balance is £179.72).
I logged in Sunday just after 10pm. I certainly wasnt thinking about points as I knew I had got my 100 for £2.30 in the bag and was well short of 500 pts and the next rewards "ladder". I regged for a PLO8 dym and just after it started up popped the notice about rewards. I had totally missed this was on and handn't been thinking about the new month at all.
I had around 370 points and figured with 2 hours of x3 and x4 cash I should be able to reach 500 and went for it. Opened 2 spinup tables. Playing spinup cash and PLO8 dyms at the same time isn't recommended, luckily the PlO8 table played out pretty straight forwardly with an early bust out by one closely followed by another and a double up scoop for me with a FH+2nd nut low on a low straighty/flushy board. The bubble went on a bit but no dramas. In this time though I was in a bit of a hole on the cash, things started to turn around and I opened a 3rd spinup and the points were racking up thick and fast. Managed to get over 600 before winding down just before midnight. Didnt make a note of the final tally but will be getting that paid today (not including in above figure).
All in all was down a couple of quid on the session so the extra rewards mean a small profit overall on that sesson (I feel like a proper cash 4 points grinder now).
Looking back I had a leak on the 2 tables early on. With multitabling (and formatting) I hadnt been paying as much attention as I should to the table. The 20nl table was way nittier than normal and I didnt adjust. I wont go into my ranges in detail but in general spinup play at 10bb A5s goes in if 1st to shove - no question. Howver this table the lower end of my range was getting swamped - only getting called by big aces and mid-high pairs and I didnt adjust quickly enough. It was nitty enough that min and x3 raises were getting through so I mixed them in with shoves and recovered.
Had a brutal run on the 50nl table, it seemed every time I got it in with a dominating hand the free card was hitting, and post flop shoves were getting outdrawn all too regularly by flush and straight draws and low pairs tripping. Still it's a high variance game and those runs happen.
Another leak I spotted in myself on a couple of spots this week was not standing when the table stacks are not in your favour. Obviosuly I wouldnt chose to with huge stacks to my left - at 10bb you just haven't got the time to wait for a good double up opportunity. But I wasnt standing when the table got like that and that cost me one big losing session at least.
Had a couple more comedy misclicks which I'll post if I can find them in the Hand History.
Sure it wasnt funny for the opponent - this was another hand where I was intending to check the sit out next BB box and the betting buttons popped up at the wrong (turns out to be right) time. Suited twos are clearly the nuts.
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Funny how milestones can affect your game - been hovering above and below £100 B/R for some time, then BOOOM!
Hit on through it with a huuuuge (for me) cash session. Mrs P not feeling so good and had an early night and I played a spinup cash on my mobile and made 15BIs in under 2 hours. It was x3 and x4 points too although I didn't end up near enough to the 500 pts threshold to make a push for it. So over £50 profit for the week and the roll is now £145.
Thought I'd celebrate with some graphs...
ok so they exist and look good I just need to figure out how to get them in here!
In the meantime here's some numbers...
Neither did I really but Ger got it from me ;-)
Just had a bit of an anti-rant rant on one of the threads complaining about them. To be fair to Ivano he was only saying stop highlighting them so my rant wasn't really aimed at him, more the sort of person who has been complaining on other threads.
Reading between the lines the moaners are not worried about not being able to find their games, they are worried that their favourite bums will load these as they appear first and not appear at one of their many regular cash tables.
Every time Sky announce a change I dread the forum for the next few days (and sometimes weeks).
Change happens - deal with it - don't assume its bad for you, or bad for the site, give it time, try it, see if you can adjust and take advantage of it. If it turns about to actually be bad then present some evidence not opinion when complaining and maybe try coming up with a positive alternative.
I had concerns about new rewards and spinup tables, but I tried them both with a positive frame of mind and so far that at has been to my advantage.
Thanks to the cash winnings, Phantom fund is outrunning Mrs P fund at the moment. I have an opportunity to redress that on Thursday thanks to being awarded a seat in Thursday's main BH. Now I have never cashed from a free entry before, so maybe I am due a bit of good fortune and will take it down (honestly at least 1 head will be fantastic).
So although it's not a rewards FR or tourney token, any winnings from this will be going to the Mrs P fund less 10% of any winnings to the Flynigdagg fundraiser.
Nice read.
Good luck in Thursday's Main.
Hand History #931916099 (21:07 29/07/2015)
Busted main with a poor call - had dwindled chips playing a few too many marginals too strongly and missing everything and then either running into hands or getting pushed off pots too easily.
Hit AA and AKs in consecutive UTG+1, UTG hands but only got minimal action for a small recovery before the rot set back in.
Down to £2k ish and manage to get a turn all-in air bluff through and then a few hands later called a shove on a AsJs8sx board with KQs. Their A9 meant I was drawing only to spades and tens the 9 was gn gg. Opponent had been very active and hitting everything and also shown bluffs but probably still the wrong spot.
Mini was just a standard AQ < AK (well not so standard deep enough not to have called my stack off with AQ just wasn't feeling it tonight.
1st hand of the night was AQ too - on the button - UTG+1 minraises I 3bet around pot and they jam on me.Maybe if I had gambled there things could have been different but I figures as this was a main and not a 2.30 speed BH I was unlikely to be in good shape and wished I had called with position and not left myself open.
Jumped back on a spinup table to claw myself back over the £200 mark which had been achieved earlier in the day so all is not bad (unless you are an aussie cricket fan)
Hi Shaki the run has ended. Won 8th then hit my 1st bad session at 50nl down just under £30 which is naughty as I am supposed to sticking to a 5BI stop loss. Some bad beats which are inevitable especially when in 60/40 ahead alot its easy to face a run of 40's winning. Also took a big dint with a set losing to flush post flop.
The 20nl session at lunch was tough too, 1st losing session there for a while (stopped a run of 10 wins actually).
So dipped well back below the £200.
Took a break and came back and made some ground back up.
This happened which was nice, kind of killed the action on the table though...
Hand History #932420928 (15:43 31/07/2015)
Sure it wasnt funny for the opponent - this was another hand where I was intending to check the sit out next BB box and the betting buttons popped up at the wrong (turns out to be right) time. Suited twos are clearly the nuts.
Hand History #932745839 (14:55 01/08/2015)