Well tonight was a masterclass. In how not to play poker.
Firstly, the Mini UKOPS PLO8. Absolute train wreck lasted all of 20 minutes and went out 131 of 136. I mean, honestly, it was embarrassing.
Then the 11.15 Deepy. Only played this because its currently running at £200 more than usual. Shame I didn't play it like usual, no Mr. Spewey Spanner came to tea and wtf was I thinking?
Seriously if this is the new improved Edge then I might as well put my dingus on an anvil, hammer it flat with a large mallet and try and get work as a beaver.
Well tonight was a masterclass. In how not to play poker.
Firstly, the Mini UKOPS PLO8. Absolute train wreck lasted all of 20 minutes and went out 131 of 136. I mean, honestly, it was embarrassing.
Then the 11.15 Deepy. Only played this because its currently running at £200 more than usual. Shame I didn't play it like usual, no Mr. Spewey Spanner came to tea and wtf was I thinking?
Seriously if this is the new improved Edge then I might as well put my dingus on an anvil, hammer it flat with a large mallet and try and get work as a beaver.
Well what an insane 9 days or so as I take an 8th in the mega stack on Friday the first followed by the above session.
I then take 12th in the mega stack on the Tuesday and proceed to play like a spanner the rest of the time.
Took Friday and Saturday off due to an inadvertent overdose of alcohol celebrating V E day which morphed into an all nighter and then a 24 hr playstation session.
Fired up the laptop Sunday morning to see I had an extra £20 in my account thanks to the bronze ticket giveaway and later realise I've tied 3rd in the forum comp to bag a £5.50 entry for this coming week.
I know what I'll do whilst I'm running lucky, I'll take the extra £20 and use it to freeroll the £500 deep stack and the Mini Main Event.
Good call as I manage a 13th place and a min cash of £11 in the deepy and then somehow stumble into a 4th place finish in the main Event for £781 and my biggest online score to date.
Well at least my "Sharky" wont be as much of a train wreck now lol.
Ok. I'm going to stop now, I need to come down off the adrenalin rush. Perhaps a tramadol and a Stella will do the trick.
Well following last nights good showing it was back to the small stakes for me today.
I began with the 14.15 deepstack and soon got blasted away and exited before the end of registration.
Decided to just play the Forum Triple Takedown and very nearly did just that. Well not that nearly, but a 10th, a 7th and a 2nd place respectively saw me cashing for £5.04 then £5.93 and finally £22.41 + £9.71 in bounties.
To be honest poker somehow feels different and I'm certainly playing with a better understanding of why I'm doing things and maybe more importantly being able to consider why my opponents are doing what they do and what their actions might signify.
Its not like I suddenly know how to play, but it's helping me to make less mistakes and the less mistakes I make the less money I lose, and, it would appear, the deeper I can run.
Great deep runs in all three tournaments Mark. I'd say with those scores you're in for a very good shout of bagging a bonus £25 token for next week too!
Well its now 2 weeks since I returned to the virtual felt and to say its been good, would I feel, be something of an understatement.
Now having suddenly found myself with a bankroll for the first time I asked myself a few questions and came up with some quite sobering thoughts. The first of these being how long before I begin to punt this off on £11 dym and £33 mains etc ?.
Well I'm not. I actually dumped a monkey into my bank account and in doing so gained lots of brownie points with the Mrs and kept my self destructive tendencies in check.
It means I can continue to play my usual games with a 100 + buy in reserve, enjoy a bit of it and kick some to the various community initiatives that our Church is involved with, so hopefully more people get a little benefit.
Got the hitman mini tonight courtesy of the forum comp, huge thanks to you guys who make it happen, and probably some deeps and a freezey. Then tomorrows Orfy and a mega stack etc.
If I don't post again on here before, have a banging weekend.
"I actually dumped a monkey into my bank account and in doing so gained lots of brownie points with the Mrs and kept my self destructive tendencies in check.
It means I can continue to play my usual games with a 100 + buy in reserve, enjoy a bit of it and kick some to the various community initiatives that our Church is involved with, so hopefully more people get a little benefit."
Excellent news, well done. Doing good things makes us feel so much better, and anyway, if we have a bink & then up the stakes & lose the lot, as we so often do, it is a real downer.
Well managed to blow a certain cash in the £500 deepstack when sitting in first with 31 left and 20 to cash I decided that my KK were good against a 4 bet all in on a J high rainbow flop.
Obvs villain has JJ and I'm left with about 15 bb which I shove with J Q suited pre gg me NOT.
Now I could probably put this down to one of those things had I not done the exact same with KK on a 4 bet 10 high rainbow in the mini main.
Obvs villain had 10 10 and I'm on life support which goes all in 3 hands later with a A K off and gets smashed by J Q off and gg DURRR
Now to be fair in the mini, I had been playing really well. I never limped either raising first in or raising behind limpers with good hands. In fact I didn't limp a single hand and I can now see the difference it makes.
This however created a dynamic between myself and the player immediately to my left, who having seen me raise, re raise and 4 bet, him without mercy tries to get sticky with sub optimal hands on several occasions.
Therefore when he shoves a 4 bet on the 10 high board I'm actually reading him for A 10, QQ, JJ as with the flopped set I'm figuring he should just call my 3 bet and let me hang myself as I could have folded to his 4 bet and still had 50% of my chips.
The real **** punch for me though is that in the deepstack it was the exact same scenario me and the player to my immediate left. The problem this time was me, as the betting followed the same raise, 3 bet, 4 bet shove pattern I thought "What are the odds in back to back comps".
Turns out they're 100%
Apart from those 2 very big errors I was really happy with how I played and now I understand how not playing pretty and marginal hands, being aware of position and never limping really reduces "difficult situations", I'm super happy to be playing again.
Til next time.
Rungood, love each other, have fun and smash the granny out of it yeah.
Well managed to blow a certain cash in the £500 deepstack when sitting in first with 31 left and 20 to cash I decided that my KK were good against a 4 bet all in on a J high rainbow flop.
Obvs villain has JJ and I'm left with about 15 bb which I shove with J Q suited pre gg me NOT.
Now I could probably put this down to one of those things had I not done the exact same with KK on a 4 bet 10 high rainbow in the mini main.
Obvs villain had 10 10 and I'm on life support which goes all in 3 hands later with a A K off and gets smashed by J Q off and gg DURRR
Now to be fair in the mini, I had been playing really well. I never limped either raising first in or raising behind limpers with good hands. In fact I didn't limp a single hand and I can now see the difference it makes.
This however created a dynamic between myself and the player immediately to my left, who having seen me raise, re raise and 4 bet, him without mercy tries to get sticky with sub optimal hands on several occasions.
Therefore when he shoves a 4 bet on the 10 high board I'm actually reading him for A 10, QQ, JJ as with the flopped set I'm figuring he should just call my 3 bet and let me hang myself as I could have folded to his 4 bet and still had 50% of my chips.
The real **** punch for me though is that in the deepstack it was the exact same scenario me and the player to my immediate left. The problem this time was me, as the betting followed the same raise, 3 bet, 4 bet shove pattern I thought "What are the odds in back to back comps".
Turns out they're 100%
Apart from those 2 very big errors I was really happy with how I played and now I understand how not playing pretty and marginal hands, being aware of position and never limping really reduces "difficult situations", I'm super happy to be playing again.
Til next time.
Rungood, love each other, have fun and smash the granny out of it yeah.
Stay safe
Mark
Hi, not sure if you want discussion but its in the clinic so I think you should think aboout the following:
1. Just because you were beat doesnt mean it was a bad play 2. Following from this just because the 1st one showed top set doesnt mean the 2nd one will 3. They dont seem like the same scenario from info given 4. The decision point in both hands is probably when you face the 2bet and are deciding what to do
You probably know all this , if you want me to elaborate I will. If you are just using as a diary and dont want to get in to it that's cool too
Well managed to blow a certain cash in the £500 deepstack when sitting in first with 31 left and 20 to cash I decided that my KK were good against a 4 bet all in on a J high rainbow flop.
Obvs villain has JJ and I'm left with about 15 bb which I shove with J Q suited pre gg me NOT.
Now I could probably put this down to one of those things had I not done the exact same with KK on a 4 bet 10 high rainbow in the mini main.
Obvs villain had 10 10 and I'm on life support which goes all in 3 hands later with a A K off and gets smashed by J Q off and gg DURRR
Now to be fair in the mini, I had been playing really well. I never limped either raising first in or raising behind limpers with good hands. In fact I didn't limp a single hand and I can now see the difference it makes.
This however created a dynamic between myself and the player immediately to my left, who having seen me raise, re raise and 4 bet, him without mercy tries to get sticky with sub optimal hands on several occasions.
Therefore when he shoves a 4 bet on the 10 high board I'm actually reading him for A 10, QQ, JJ as with the flopped set I'm figuring he should just call my 3 bet and let me hang myself as I could have folded to his 4 bet and still had 50% of my chips.
The real **** punch for me though is that in the deepstack it was the exact same scenario me and the player to my immediate left. The problem this time was me, as the betting followed the same raise, 3 bet, 4 bet shove pattern I thought "What are the odds in back to back comps".
Turns out they're 100%
Apart from those 2 very big errors I was really happy with how I played and now I understand how not playing pretty and marginal hands, being aware of position and never limping really reduces "difficult situations", I'm super happy to be playing again.
Til next time.
Rungood, love each other, have fun and smash the granny out of it yeah.
Stay safe
Mark
Hi, not sure if you want discussion but its in the clinic so I think you should think aboout the following:
1. Just because you were beat doesnt mean it was a bad play 2. Following from this just because the 1st one showed top set doesnt mean the 2nd one will 3. They dont seem like the same scenario from info given 4. The decision point in both hands is probably when you face the 2bet and are deciding what to do
You probably know all this , if you want me to elaborate I will. If you are just using as a diary and dont want to get in to it that's cool too
GL at the tables
Please elaborate away @grantorino , I consider myself a poor rec who occasionally stumbles into a cash. Always willing to learn so I can become an average rec who occasionally stumbles into a cash.
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Played 3 tourneys and had a mixed bag.
finished 13th in the Orfy, what a great comp. Fun, relaxed and a nice atmosphere.
finished 8th in the mega stack running JJ into QQ pre for my last 10 bbs
finished 199th in the mini bounty hunter.
So all in all, a bit of profit and 5 - 6 hours of fun.
Cant complain at that.
Til next time,
Rungood, have fun, stay safe, smash it.
Mark
Well tonight was a masterclass. In how not to play poker.
Firstly, the Mini UKOPS PLO8. Absolute train wreck lasted all of 20 minutes and went out 131 of 136. I mean, honestly, it was embarrassing.
Then the 11.15 Deepy. Only played this because its currently running at £200 more than usual. Shame I didn't play it like usual, no Mr. Spewey Spanner came to tea and wtf was I thinking?
Seriously if this is the new improved Edge then I might as well put my dingus on an anvil, hammer it flat with a large mallet and try and get work as a beaver.
Anyway enough self pity for one night.
Til next time.
Rungood, stay safe, love each other and smash it.
Mark
I then take 12th in the mega stack on the Tuesday and proceed to play like a spanner the rest of the time.
Took Friday and Saturday off due to an inadvertent overdose of alcohol celebrating V E day which morphed into an all nighter and then a 24 hr playstation session.
Fired up the laptop Sunday morning to see I had an extra £20 in my account thanks to the bronze ticket giveaway and later realise I've tied 3rd in the forum comp to bag a £5.50 entry for this coming week.
I know what I'll do whilst I'm running lucky, I'll take the extra £20 and use it to freeroll the £500 deep stack and the Mini Main Event.
Good call as I manage a 13th place and a min cash of £11 in the deepy and then somehow stumble into a 4th place finish in the main Event for £781 and my biggest online score to date.
Well at least my "Sharky" wont be as much of a train wreck now lol.
Ok. I'm going to stop now, I need to come down off the adrenalin rush. Perhaps a tramadol and a Stella will do the trick.
Until next time.
Rungood, love each other, stay safe and smash it
Mark
Fabulous news Mark, fabulous.
Well done mate.
I began with the 14.15 deepstack and soon got blasted away and exited before the end of registration.
Decided to just play the Forum Triple Takedown and very nearly did just that. Well not that nearly, but a 10th, a 7th and a 2nd place respectively saw me cashing for £5.04 then £5.93 and finally £22.41 + £9.71 in bounties.
To be honest poker somehow feels different and I'm certainly playing with a better understanding of why I'm doing things and maybe more importantly being able to consider why my opponents are doing what they do and what their actions might signify.
Its not like I suddenly know how to play, but it's helping me to make less mistakes and the less mistakes I make the less money I lose, and, it would appear, the deeper I can run.
Til next time.
Rungood, love each other, have fun and smash it.
Stay safe.
Mark.
WP.
Solid results there Mark, well done.
Well its now 2 weeks since I returned to the virtual felt and to say its been good, would I feel, be something of an understatement.
Now having suddenly found myself with a bankroll for the first time I asked myself a few questions and came up with some quite sobering thoughts. The first of these being how long before I begin to punt this off on £11 dym and £33 mains etc ?.
Well I'm not. I actually dumped a monkey into my bank account and in doing so gained lots of brownie points with the Mrs and kept my self destructive tendencies in check.
It means I can continue to play my usual games with a 100 + buy in reserve, enjoy a bit of it and kick some to the various community initiatives that our Church is involved with, so hopefully more people get a little benefit.
Got the hitman mini tonight courtesy of the forum comp, huge thanks to you guys who make it happen, and probably some deeps and a freezey. Then tomorrows Orfy and a mega stack etc.
If I don't post again on here before, have a banging weekend.
Rungood, love each other, stay safe, smash it.
Mark
"I actually dumped a monkey into my bank account and in doing so gained lots of brownie points with the Mrs and kept my self destructive tendencies in check.
It means I can continue to play my usual games with a 100 + buy in reserve, enjoy a bit of it and kick some to the various community initiatives that our Church is involved with, so hopefully more people get a little benefit."
Excellent news, well done. Doing good things makes us feel so much better, and anyway, if we have a bink & then up the stakes & lose the lot, as we so often do, it is a real downer.
Obvs villain has JJ and I'm left with about 15 bb which I shove with J Q suited pre gg me NOT.
Now I could probably put this down to one of those things had I not done the exact same with KK on a 4 bet 10 high rainbow in the mini main.
Obvs villain had 10 10 and I'm on life support which goes all in 3 hands later with a A K off and gets smashed by J Q off and gg DURRR
Now to be fair in the mini, I had been playing really well. I never limped either raising first in or raising behind limpers with good hands. In fact I didn't limp a single hand and I can now see the difference it makes.
This however created a dynamic between myself and the player immediately to my left, who having seen me raise, re raise and 4 bet, him without mercy tries to get sticky with sub optimal hands on several occasions.
Therefore when he shoves a 4 bet on the 10 high board I'm actually reading him for A 10, QQ, JJ as with the flopped set I'm figuring he should just call my 3 bet and let me hang myself as I could have folded to his 4 bet and still had 50% of my chips.
The real **** punch for me though is that in the deepstack it was the exact same scenario me and the player to my immediate left. The problem this time was me, as the betting followed the same raise, 3 bet, 4 bet shove pattern I thought "What are the odds in back to back comps".
Turns out they're 100%
Apart from those 2 very big errors I was really happy with how I played and now I understand how not playing pretty and marginal hands, being aware of position and never limping really reduces "difficult situations", I'm super happy to be playing again.
Til next time.
Rungood, love each other, have fun and smash the granny out of it yeah.
Stay safe
Mark
1. Just because you were beat doesnt mean it was a bad play
2. Following from this just because the 1st one showed top set doesnt mean the 2nd one will
3. They dont seem like the same scenario from info given
4. The decision point in both hands is probably when you face the 2bet and are deciding what to do
You probably know all this , if you want me to elaborate I will. If you are just using as a diary and dont want to get in to it that's cool too
GL at the tables
@TheEdge949
Mark,
It was only after reading the reply by grantorino that I realised this thread is in Poker Clinic.
I'm not fussed where it sits, but if you wish, I could move it across to Poker Chat.
Entirely up to you.