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Quarantine diaries
aynaricol
Member Posts: 324
Hello everyone! So for those who remember me, I disappeared off to France back in July. Now I'm back, and despite a last minute detour to Portugal, I've found myself in two weeks of quarantine. So what better to do than play poker and write about it?
I left my account with £65 in it back in July, and so that was nice to come back to as a starting bankroll. I've been back since Saturday evening so 3 days down, 11 to go!
I'll try and start tracking what I'm actually doing from tomorrow, but here's an outline of my last few days:
I left my account with £65 in it back in July, and so that was nice to come back to as a starting bankroll. I've been back since Saturday evening so 3 days down, 11 to go!
I'll try and start tracking what I'm actually doing from tomorrow, but here's an outline of my last few days:
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Bankroll has been up and down a lot, starting at £65 it has been down to £3 and up to £130. Luckily I'm at the better end of that at the moment. I was down to £40 on Sunday before FTing in a 5.50BH for about £40, then ran that down again. I was bouncing between £30 and £65 from Sunday until today but this morning I managed to run that down to about £3. Put £2 into a spin up and got up to about £15, and then up to £20. Decided to go for the mini and came 16th (I actually feel like I could have done better but at the same time was delighted with that) for a profit of £23, hit another spin up for a profit of £12, and then noticed there was a 5.50 TBH starting in two minutes so decided to join.
Ran pretty well, FT bubble I ended up all in with 45 with 57A5 on the board. Villain shows AA. He had me covered two times so I thought that's it, I'm out. 5 on the river. Luckily he took it in good spirits, and in the end it was down to us two. Great heads up, went back and forth and on for a long time but I got there in the end, bringing in just over £80. So my bankroll that was down to £3 at about 5.30 this afternoon is now at a nice £130. Also, weird but I feel like I've had quads in the last few days a significant amount more than usual. Not that I'm complaining!
Anyway it's nice to be back, good luck at the tables everyone and I'm sure you'll be seeing a lot of me over the next few weeks!
Gotta love quads.
Welcome back.
Had a bit of a frustrating time in the MTTs I played, with quite a few tables with very sticky opponents. Had an ok run in a BH this morning and took a few bounties, but didn't make it ITM in any the whole day until my very last one. Went back and forth between the spin ups and the MTTs, and there was a huge difference in my results in the two. Thought I was going to end up down for the day but just finished first in a 15 minute timed tourney to bring in £23, leaving me £14 in profit for the day. Happy days
MTTs:
Staked: £48
Return:£30.33
Loss: £17.67
Cash:
Staked £46
Return:£77.96
Profit: £31.96
Total profit:£14.29
Current bankroll: £144.66
Sheriff started pretty averagely, I was hovering just below starting chip value. Then came my massive breakthrough, ended up 4 way all in on the flop, straight vs set vs set vs overpair. Pretty brutal for everyone involved, but my straight held, only got one bounty out of it but I was up to more than triple starting chips, and a few hands later I hit another straight on the flop, all-in, another bounty and I took the chip lead by a long way. I did stay in front for a long time but eventually lost the lead. Still made it to the FT in 3rd place, unfortunately got knocked out in 4th with AA < 97, but hey, I am not in any position at all to complain (note how much money I had in my account at this point)
So absolutely thrilled to bits. Let’s just try not run that down to 0 again
Delighted for you
That’s my kind of
bankroll management!
Vwp
(just kidding, I am going to be a bit more careful from now on)
Won the first tourney I played today - a 3.30 BH for about £45, and had a couple of good runs on the spin ups, the best being £2 up to £18. I won an all in sat to the main and I was running not too bad, and in the mini at the same time, but busted in both within minutes of each other. Finished the day with my favourite tournament, the 22.15 rebuy (the "Roy Invitational") in which I came 4th for £14 (one place worse than yesterday).
Anyway, now, bring on streak week! Unfortunately (well, fortunately, but bad timing) I'm out of quarantine from saturday and have a busy week, so won't be able to put in as much volume as I did last time round, but hopefully I can come even vaguely close to how I did in april, with a 2nd and a joint 1st in the 1.10s. Fingers crossed!
On the bright side, out of quarantine today, it was very nice to be outside and back in the real world!
I'm guessing I should have c-bet the flop but I had been c-betting quite a lot so decided not to this hand