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The Edges £100 to £1000 challenge.
TheEdge949
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Starts with tonights 23.15 £2.30 deepstack.
Will keep you updated on progress but not every day because well lets be honest. It's boring
Yours in hope
Mark
Will keep you updated on progress but not every day because well lets be honest. It's boring
Yours in hope
Mark
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On a serious note , best of luck with this.
Dont really seem to have an edge anywhere tbh and although i enjoy dyms i dont think the rake at smaller stakes makes this a viable prospect for a bankroll challenge. So it looks like its going to be centered around deepstacks, freezeouts and bounty hunters at up to £5.50
I have little confidence in my 6 max cash game at the moment so Im not going to play too much and certainly no multitabling. It feels like I just cant adjust to the pace and action of 6 max cash.
Im not setting a time limit for the challenge mainly due to the fact that I just feel it adds unnecessary pressure and the fact that the optimum time to play Fri thru Sun is the time Im at work and therefore I often play when theres more regs than recs.
Any observations, advice, criticism etc always welcome. You guys in Sky Poker Land are nothing if not knowledgeable.
Yours in poker
Mark
Off a small bankroll i think they’d be the perfect game to increase a roll.
I could never one table them though. It’s dull enough playing dym when 10 tabling so a single table would be horrific
Highest £111.92
Lowest £ 86.34
Ok. It would appear that this isnt as easy as it appears lol. No seriously in a week where work and family have decimated my opportunities to play Im happy just to be above starting point.
Took Jac35s advice and guess what he was right dyms do offer a low variance and are certainly beatable. Although I need to play the same stake constantly as winning several £2.20 only to lose a couple of £5.50 isnt +EV.
Oh well on with the plan
Mark
Similarly to you, I started this year with a DYM target of 'doubling my money'! So no matter what I stake across the year as long as I double up my stake, i'll be happy..So I've been playing mainly HeadsUP/ Turbo and standard DYM with the occasional 6 max thrown in BUT THEN
Sky throw in the SPT's and Vegas sats so I've sidelined this until I've got these out of mys system! Currently about -£220 for DYM's/ only but 3 seats for Glasgow makes up for it BUT not in real £ terms so will push on
I found that playing 2*5.50 worked well, then progressed onto 2*11 then 2*£22.00-no higher...not winning a big enough ratio of games tho
GL and look foward to your posts
LMPIHYRG
Danny
Welcome to the latest exciting episode of deal or mis-deal
Current bal £106.68
Lowest £ 92.35
Highest £133.60
Well the week was going swimmingly until about 11.25p.m. on Friday night when for some strange reason I morphed into misterpj and could only giggle maniacally to myself as the fickle finger of variance rampaged like some drunken viking horde over my game.
Deepstack, wasnt for long, freezeouts, yup certainly was and dym's a plenty left bloodied and battered on the battlefield of 6 max mayhem.
But here's the thing. I expect these things and even embrace them as vital to eventually getting the better of these games. To be honest at one point I even got a perverse delight in correctly predicting the runout when my all in Aces got called for his tournament life by 8 3 off. Mystic Meg pah! nothing to it.
So in summary a horrible session means my net profit over the week is 2pence plus 5 freerolls and a £2.30 ticket
Until next time, rungood
Mark
^^^
Ha, very nice piece of writing.
2p profit? Beats a 2p loss.
Current bal £65 and change
Highest £106.68
Lowest. Your'e looking at it.
Difficult to imagine a worse run of results really. Still getting the downside of variance although its getting harder to put a pragmatic face on things as the downswing shows little sign of arresting.
I got tilted for the first time during the challenge which probably accounted for several exits from £2.30 mtts as I volcano spewed chips with oversets into pots knowing that the villains were drawing to fl and str8 only to see them get there. I was working on the surely one of these has to miss and pay me off theory. However like many theories it doesn't really stand up to close examination and they just lol'd away into the chatbox as I spent the next ten minutes trying to avoid subverting the swear filter and stop from throwing the laptop across the room.
I'm going to revert to a grind over the next few days but with one difference. I am going to play like the result and the bankroll don't matter (which lets be honest they shouldnt). The money already on deposit is lost and lets face it anybody can look at my Sharkey and realise that there are good players, average players ,bad players and then there's the Edge.
Hey great idea, maybe what poker needs for the really bad players to enjoy it is a handicap style tourney. Surprised stars havent devised one tbh.
Til next time rungood guys n gals
Mark
That's never going to happen, as in poker there are always some who exploit these sort of things, & get round it by Account Sharing, M-A-ing or ghosting.
Unforch, poker is not a "Widows & Orphans" pursuit, it attracts some dodgy sorts who will do anything to win.
Current bal £76.38
Lowest bal £56.30
Highest bal £76.38
Well I finally managed to get the reserve chute to open and stop the plummet to the beckoning abyss of go broke. Spent most of the week fluctuating between winning and losing with equal portions of both.
Im finished with cash completely online. I cant play it with any confidence so I may as well not play it and concentrate on games that I enjoy. Its really not good for a challenge when you grind up a tenner profit on dyms over a couple of hours then lose 2/3 buy ins at .02 / .04 in the space of a few minutes.
So its more dyms and bounty hunters in future. Starting to enjoy the bhs now I have more of an idea on how I should approach them and hopefully this will pay dividends.
Will keep playing the deepstacks (work permitting) but for some reason I've gone backwards in these. Time was I'd bink one a month, now I'm so far outta the money I'm in a different postcode. Don't think I've changed my style too much so maybe the player pools just gotten better and I need to make a few tweaks.
Until next time. Rungood.
Mark
On this very forum last week, we saw someone write "why should I help my competitors?", which was a little sad to see.
However there are certain parts of the game that need to be correct or close to correct to turn a profit and I am more than happy to help anyone with that.
The hardest part is having the discipline to continue to implement it when things are going wrong!
I find that my personality isnt suited to the disciplined regimen of a small stakes mtt grinder and to me if you cant enjoy the game you may as well not play.
That doesnt mean im going to stop trying to improve my game, to me being a rec shouldnt mean you merely make up the numbers and donate, but I'm going to play as I would in a live situation. that means find a tourney i want to play, pay the reg fee, open a beer and have fun.
I dont know if I can explain it but having the challenge on a forum kind of distracted from my game. I was more concerned about what people thought about me through the challenge and became almost soley focussed on having to post winning sessions to prove myself. NOT the way to play well or improve.
In hindsight I am glad that I attempted it because I think Ive learned more about myself as a player and the fact that I realise that I cant grind might just be a big positive for my game.
Yours in poker
Mark
Mark
Sod's law never fails.
Crazy really since I stopped the challenge I can suddenly play poker. Like who knew.
Mark
i,m yanking your chain Mark
well played on your cashes onwards and upwards
Happy with my game atm. playing for fun takes all the angst out of the process.
Mark