Good luck with this Simon! I'm a maths tutor, considered becoming a teacher but can't deal with that many kids at once so massive respect to you for that
Very interesting, I'd be keen on hearing a bit more about your career as a maths tutor as that could be a potential option if the current COVID situation persists.
To be honest I've always just used it as a way to supplement my other job, which is doing seasons as a bartender (can't really get any more different than that I don't think). I usually come back to the UK for a couple of months around May-July and specialise in exam prep, then head back overseas when the work dries up. Unfortunately no exams means no work for me at the moment, although I know there are a fair few homeschooling placements going around. It is very good money so would definitely recommend if you have some time to spare, although I would hazard a guess that as a new dad you probably don't have a lot of free time!
Have noted some interesting spots from the session so will get at least one hand posted at some point this week. Really appreciate the interaction so far, great to see so many positive messages!
Second session in the bag last night, a bit more profitable than the first!
Also managed to get my first bink of the challenge, in the £11 Rebuy £1k BH
Although we returned a very decent ROI on the night, it was very much a case of hitting the crossbar elsewhere, as we final tabled 6/16 MTTs and only managed to get the one trophy. Without downplaying the significance of variance, I don't think it's a coincidence that we made so many deep runs as I feel so much more involved in the game whilst playing a more streamlined session, rather than auto-piloting 30-40 MTTs and not really being mentally invested in the session. I'd be keen to hear other's experiences of playing many/few tables and how it's impacted their approach to the game.
Here's how we stand after the first two sessions:
I'm going to review some of the more interesting spots from last night and post one on here later today.
To be honest I've always just used it as a way to supplement my other job, which is doing seasons as a bartender (can't really get any more different than that I don't think). I usually come back to the UK for a couple of months around May-July and specialise in exam prep, then head back overseas when the work dries up. Unfortunately no exams means no work for me at the moment, although I know there are a fair few homeschooling placements going around. It is very good money so would definitely recommend if you have some time to spare, although I would hazard a guess that as a new dad you probably don't have a lot of free time!
Sounds like you've managed a nice balance in your working life!
Do you have to affiliate yourself with an organisation or do you get most of your business through traditional word of mouth?
Would be great to get some thoughts on this hand from an £11 Bounty Hunter. Think everything's fairly standard until the river, where villain leads out of position for the minimum. My thinking is that this is very 'block bet' heavy, where villain wants to take his marginal hand (e.g. top pair with weak kicker, second/third pair etc.) to showdown. I'm almost at the top of my range apart from nutted flushes, so very comfortable raising for value in case villain doesn't believe me and hero calls me with his marginal hand. As it happens, villain jams on me - at which point I'm very much in two minds about whether to make the call as this is almost never a bluff from experience. Having said that, I am so far up in my range that I think folding would be too nitty as we still beat some of his value hands that might jam (e.g. 67, top two pairs, sets etc.) and the original river lead for the minimum didn't make any sense to me if villain had a flush.
First of all, very good luck with this. We probably won't meet much on the tables as you play at a higher level then me. Second, cutting down on the number of tables should help your ROI a fair bit. Mainly because it will allow you to take better notes on oppos. For example, I see the villain in the hand above is sitting on 250ish bb before the hand started. Had he made the same play before to get them? TBH, I agree with your analysis of the hand. A flush is well within their range but so are sets and 2 pairs too, maybe even AQ with the a diamonds as he would block the nut flush and maybe thinks he can push you off something better. As played, I'm going broke on this hand too. I think you are ahead more times then behind to make it profitable, unless notes indicate they only do this with nutted hands.
As a dad of two, I would love to tell you that fatherhood gets easier. I would be bluffing if I did
First of all, very good luck with this. We probably won't meet much on the tables as you play at a higher level then me. Second, cutting down on the number of tables should help your ROI a fair bit. Mainly because it will allow you to take better notes on oppos. For example, I see the villain in the hand above is sitting on 250ish bb before the hand started. Had he made the same play before to get them? TBH, I agree with your analysis of the hand. A flush is well within their range but so are sets and 2 pairs too, maybe even AQ with the a diamonds as he would block the nut flush and maybe thinks he can push you off something better. As played, I'm going broke on this hand too. I think you are ahead more times then behind to make it profitable, unless notes indicate they only do this with nutted hands.
As a dad of two, I would love to tell you that fatherhood gets easier. I would be bluffing if I did
Thanks for the words of reassurance, both on the hand itself and fatherhood .
I had villain tagged as a recreational, which actually made me less inclined to call once he jammed river over my raise as I don't think they are bluffing with nut flush blockers in that case - reducing their amount of bluffs significantly.
To be honest I've always just used it as a way to supplement my other job, which is doing seasons as a bartender (can't really get any more different than that I don't think). I usually come back to the UK for a couple of months around May-July and specialise in exam prep, then head back overseas when the work dries up. Unfortunately no exams means no work for me at the moment, although I know there are a fair few homeschooling placements going around. It is very good money so would definitely recommend if you have some time to spare, although I would hazard a guess that as a new dad you probably don't have a lot of free time!
Sounds like you've managed a nice balance in your working life!
Do you have to affiliate yourself with an organisation or do you get most of your business through traditional word of mouth?
Yeah it's not been bad!
I've worked through the same agency since uni. They pay very well and have always been good to me. I was very lucky, first year of uni with about £30 in the bank and saw an ad for female science and maths tutors. Got the job and a week later was off to a 3 day residential placement teaching A level physics, and made enough for a trip to Australia that summer. Can't complain at all!
I've worked through the same agency since uni. They pay very well and have always been good to me. I was very lucky, first year of uni with about £30 in the bank and saw an ad for female science and maths tutors. Got the job and a week later was off to a 3 day residential placement teaching A level physics, and made enough for a trip to Australia that summer. Can't complain at all!
Happy days, I might have a little delve into tutoring options depending on how the situation is when I start training in September. What agency are you with, if you don't mind me asking?
A night of so near but yet so far yesterday. Despite outlining that I wouldn't play satellites at the beginning of the challenge, the Sunday Major satellites were just too appealing so I jumped in a couple and managed to win a seat. Fast forward to the end of my session and I'm 6/10 with ~£5.5k up top and we 3-bet jam our ~15bbs with QQ from the SB only for the BB to wake up with AK and spike their K on the river. No complaints at all and, for the sake of this thread, it was probably a good job I didn't bink it anyway .
It was a case of always the bridesmaid never the bride in two other tournaments too, as we managed 2nd places in a £5.50 BH and one of the £11 Rebuy BHs. I also played the mini and main on Saturday evening whilst watching the mighty CFC so have added those to last night's session stats. The ABI looks a bit inflated after winning my £110 seat in the Sunday Major; if it wasn't for that it would be around the same mark as previous sessions:
Here's how we're shaping up overall:
My next session with be either Wednesday or Thursday and I'll do my best to get another hand posted up whenever I can.
I ended up getting another two sessions in this week, one on Wednesday and the other last night.
Nothing too interesting to note, although we did manage to pick up our second trophy of the challenge last night in another £11 Rebuy BH .
Here's how we're looking overall:
As a side note, really enjoying the Sky poker streams that have developed over the past few months. I always thought there was a void to be filled with the great community Sky has, so it's great to see @Duesenberg@Allan23@PKRPar and anyone else I've missed off that list giving it a shot and seemingly succeeding!
Another session in the bag. Managed to satellite into the Sunday Major again this week (taking the advice you gave at the start of the challenge @goldnballz!) and had another deep-ish run for a top 25 finish. One really interesting hand ITM of that one when I was 6/25, which I will post below later this afternoon and would really appreciate some views on please
Here's the summary of last night's session:
Which, incidentally, has taken us over the £1k profit mark:
This is the hand from the Sunday Major; we are 6/25 and ITM. I think I'm happy with my fold on the river but would really love to get some opinions if possible?
Pre-flop is fine; I will 3-bet the majority of the time but with the BB so short I think a flat is fine here - especially on the button.
Flop gets interesting when we get check-raised after betting 1/3 pot. I think villain's value range looks something like QQ/KK and all sets, although I'm not sure villain is always opening 22 UTG so perhaps we can discount one or two 22 combos. I'm also not sure that villain always check-raises top set, so perhaps we can discount one or two JJ combos too. I already had in my mind at this stage that we block a lot of villain's semi-bluffs by holding the Ah, which is not ideal as they are clearly the most likely bluffs IMO. Having said that, we can't fold given how high up in our range we are so happy with the call.
Turn is far from ideal IMO as one of villain's value hands that we beat improves to a set. I'm not loving life at all when villain fires a 1/2 pot bet into us, especially given that the K actually hits our range pretty hard and we can still have all of the sets. If we look back at my reading of the hand so far, the only value hand we now beat is QQ, which I'm not even sure bets turn given how good the K is for our range. I'm then thinking about the bluffs villain can have in this spot and I'm struggling to find any natural bluffs at all given that we block the Ah. Could folding turn be optimal here in that case?
Once villain fires river I think we have to fold as the only hand I think we are now beating is QQ, which has actually turned into a good bluff candidate by the river given it blocks the nuts. Therefore, I make the lay down and feel okay about it.
As I said, I'd be really grateful for some thoughts here as it was a pretty big spot against a good reg, which had me up for a while after the session!
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Have noted some interesting spots from the session so will get at least one hand posted at some point this week. Really appreciate the interaction so far, great to see so many positive messages!
Also managed to get my first bink of the challenge, in the £11 Rebuy £1k BH
Although we returned a very decent ROI on the night, it was very much a case of hitting the crossbar elsewhere, as we final tabled 6/16 MTTs and only managed to get the one trophy. Without downplaying the significance of variance, I don't think it's a coincidence that we made so many deep runs as I feel so much more involved in the game whilst playing a more streamlined session, rather than auto-piloting 30-40 MTTs and not really being mentally invested in the session. I'd be keen to hear other's experiences of playing many/few tables and how it's impacted their approach to the game.
Here's how we stand after the first two sessions:
I'm going to review some of the more interesting spots from last night and post one on here later today.
Do you have to affiliate yourself with an organisation or do you get most of your business through traditional word of mouth?
Feel free to call me a station, I'm all ears!
First of all, very good luck with this. We probably won't meet much on the tables as you play at a higher level then me. Second, cutting down on the number of tables should help your ROI a fair bit. Mainly because it will allow you to take better notes on oppos. For example, I see the villain in the hand above is sitting on 250ish bb before the hand started. Had he made the same play before to get them? TBH, I agree with your analysis of the hand. A flush is well within their range but so are sets and 2 pairs too, maybe even AQ with the a diamonds as he would block the nut flush and maybe thinks he can push you off something better. As played, I'm going broke on this hand too. I think you are ahead more times then behind to make it profitable, unless notes indicate they only do this with nutted hands.
As a dad of two, I would love to tell you that fatherhood gets easier. I would be bluffing if I did
I had villain tagged as a recreational, which actually made me less inclined to call once he jammed river over my raise as I don't think they are bluffing with nut flush blockers in that case - reducing their amount of bluffs significantly.
I've worked through the same agency since uni. They pay very well and have always been good to me. I was very lucky, first year of uni with about £30 in the bank and saw an ad for female science and maths tutors. Got the job and a week later was off to a 3 day residential placement teaching A level physics, and made enough for a trip to Australia that summer. Can't complain at all!
It was a case of always the bridesmaid never the bride in two other tournaments too, as we managed 2nd places in a £5.50 BH and one of the £11 Rebuy BHs. I also played the mini and main on Saturday evening whilst watching the mighty CFC so have added those to last night's session stats. The ABI looks a bit inflated after winning my £110 seat in the Sunday Major; if it wasn't for that it would be around the same mark as previous sessions:
Here's how we're shaping up overall:
My next session with be either Wednesday or Thursday and I'll do my best to get another hand posted up whenever I can.
I ended up getting another two sessions in this week, one on Wednesday and the other last night.
Nothing too interesting to note, although we did manage to pick up our second trophy of the challenge last night in another £11 Rebuy BH
Here's how we're looking overall:
As a side note, really enjoying the Sky poker streams that have developed over the past few months. I always thought there was a void to be filled with the great community Sky has, so it's great to see @Duesenberg @Allan23 @PKRPar and anyone else I've missed off that list giving it a shot and seemingly succeeding!
Here's the summary of last night's session:
Which, incidentally, has taken us over the £1k profit mark:
Pre-flop is fine; I will 3-bet the majority of the time but with the BB so short I think a flat is fine here - especially on the button.
Flop gets interesting when we get check-raised after betting 1/3 pot. I think villain's value range looks something like QQ/KK and all sets, although I'm not sure villain is always opening 22 UTG so perhaps we can discount one or two 22 combos. I'm also not sure that villain always check-raises top set, so perhaps we can discount one or two JJ combos too. I already had in my mind at this stage that we block a lot of villain's semi-bluffs by holding the Ah, which is not ideal as they are clearly the most likely bluffs IMO. Having said that, we can't fold given how high up in our range we are so happy with the call.
Turn is far from ideal IMO as one of villain's value hands that we beat improves to a set. I'm not loving life at all when villain fires a 1/2 pot bet into us, especially given that the K actually hits our range pretty hard and we can still have all of the sets. If we look back at my reading of the hand so far, the only value hand we now beat is QQ, which I'm not even sure bets turn given how good the K is for our range. I'm then thinking about the bluffs villain can have in this spot and I'm struggling to find any natural bluffs at all given that we block the Ah. Could folding turn be optimal here in that case?
Once villain fires river I think we have to fold as the only hand I think we are now beating is QQ, which has actually turned into a good bluff candidate by the river given it blocks the nuts. Therefore, I make the lay down and feel okay about it.
As I said, I'd be really grateful for some thoughts here as it was a pretty big spot against a good reg, which had me up for a while after the session!