Haha yes mate, it has saved you a dreadful day out. The town is as bad a Skint made out! Unfortunately the next series of Skint was set in Grimsby, but in that series it painted a TOTALLY false picture of the town ofc!.............but yeah I agree, great programme that always made you feel a bit better about your own life haha.
So, it appears you have just the one ground to attend for the full set now. Not a bad achievement that!
Re: the boxing. Can't wait. There hasn't been this much expectation about a british heavyweight for many years (apart from Price until his chin was found out). Personally I think he would win a World title fight now, but I guess he needs rounds and a step up in class on the way. He might even have a glass jaw himself but somehow I doubt it.
Joshua is ready now............there is no domestic fighter who can beat him, he would destroy Fury. Who else is there?? He will batter White, then they seriously need to up the class. World title fight within 3 fights gotta be?????
Joshua is ready now............there is no domestic fighter who can beat him, he would destroy Fury. Who else is there?? He will batter White, then they seriously need to up the class. World title fight within 3 fights gotta be????? Posted by waller02
I don't know much about boxing but it sounds like the heavyweight division is polarised.
It's either elite fighters where the pundits claim AJ would be an underdog at this stage, or fighters where he can win as and when he likes.
Not much inbetween.
Having seen White fight last night he's got no chance. It's going to be another waste of time.
It's just a matter of how/when AJ stops him. Apparently there's bad blood between them 2, so he might take his time to find a spot to punch him over the ropes!
As an aside, it's amazing how many black people have the surname White. And White people are called Black.
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I watched the fight before between Hibbert and Ryan where the latter bossed and was well ahead on the cards before injuring his back and effectively retiring as he couldn't continue.
I thought the celebration of the other chap was very poor given he'd won by default.
I'd liken it to disconnecting HU in the super roller.
Would I expect the other chap to take the walkover victory? Yes.
Would I expect him to celebrate, brag, and rub my mis-forunte in my face? No.
Typical the 2 sessions after I say I'm quitting this silly format I win 10 buyins in 2,000 hands.
The mini challenge, to play 20,000 5nl hands was set after reading an article written by poker coach 'BalugaWhale'.
He wrote.....
PART 1: Confidence For me, I gained confidence from having two things: a complete bankroll and an absolute knowledge that I am a winning player. The only way to be sure you're a winning player at any given limit is to beat that limit consistently for a considerable number of hands... so thats what you are going to do. Play the limit you're at for 20k hands AT LEAST.. When you're done, check your ptbb/100... if you don't think its high enough, do it again.
My win rate over the 20k hands was 9.7bb/100.
Am I happy with that?
Yes.
But I ran significantly above ev, the winrate of my ev line would be around 6xbb/100 I think.
Poker has been very slow this week, the tiredness thing is ongoing and not getting any better, if anything worse.
I did abit of gardening mid-week using a chainsaw to trim down the connifers in the back garden.
The day after was not pleasant!
Anyone who's ever played cricket will understand the aches and pains you get the day after the first day back (normally a net session) at pre season training.
You're told (and its common sense) to ease in to it.
Yet by the end of the session you're charging in trying to bowl 90mph because you feel fine.
Then the next day muscles that've been in-active for months of pre season ache beyond belief, reminding you why it wasn't a good idea to do that!
Felt abit like that
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I didn't feel like grinding, so I used the $100 or so I have left on bwin/partypoker to donk around on abit of 10nl./ (this isn't 'challenge'/'spin up' money)
Just a quick update, it's not very exciting at the moment but I still have to 'keep score' at least during good, bad and indifferent periods or the challenges just don't work.
Volume still low, still struggling away @ 10nl on 888.
Could be running better, should be playing better.
Will keep trying !
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Eyeing up the Chesterfield v Burton Albion game this weekend, another new stadium and the visitors are top of the league so should bring a decent following and looks like it should be a good game.
After the Japan win v the Saffers I was well up for watching some Rugby Yawnion, the double header this weekend at Ellend Road looked good.
Ugh, 4th consecuative post by myself, bad times for the diary writer!
Isn't going to be helped by another uneventful poker update.
The challenge continues to plod on slowly, with mixed fortunes at 10nl on 888 which is using 'challenge bankroll' whereas it continues to be plain sailing in the tougher partypoker/bwin 10nl games which uses 'non-challenge' bankroll.
The goal again is to play 20k hands on each before moving up (or repeating if results aren't satisfactory)..
About a third of the way through and the graphs look ok.
More importantly I feel like I'm getting better by playing alot of hands, I've always done little bits of hand reviews and stuff but never any off table learning.
I seem to get alot out of simply playing hands and learning by doing but need to make more effort between sessions to study theory zzzzzz
The problem is poker theory is such a huge subject (especially for cash) so I never have any idea where to start.
And if I do, the subject I chose normally refers to or requires good knowledge of another area which I haven't yet studied yet as everything inter-links.
For that reason it always feels like a waste of time.
It would need to be really well structured for me to want to put the effort in.
The only thing I can think of which would be somewhat structured is a book.
But a) everyone says don't bother with books. And b) I cnt b R'sd with books
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Declined the chesterfield game yesterday in favour of Sheff U v Donny.
First time watching the Rovers for yearsss.
Wasn't a fun experience, the game started pretty good, we looked good going forward and awful at the back, so 2-1 after 20-odd minutes was shaping up to be a good game.
Then the ref decided everyone was enjoying the skills of the players too much, and not paying him enough attention so he made a ridonkulous decision to send a Donny player off and that killed the game.
We did ok to hang on in with alot of luck but never looked likely to even it up.
Mr Sammon was vul when he smashed the crossbar from 30 yards! Helooked very threatening, that does not bode well for our defence this season.
gg Sheff U.
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The health has taken an upturn this week.
I don't want to get carried away with it (coz I've just slept 11 of the last 14 hours after footy yest and feel nackered this morning) but the doctor said improvements would begin to happen after around a month of taking the pills.
I've been taking them 1month and 1 day today.
Please holddddddddddddddddddd.
Everyone always says it but I am OFFISHIALLY using my 1 time.
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Couple of mates have offered to stake the challenge roll to play 20nl on sky. (effectively 10nl 'on roll' as we'll be in for 50% each)
Means I can play 5% instead of 7.5% rake. Taste the next level without so much pressure and therefore less risk of a trademark doh implosion. And it's just a session by session thing, so I can gg it whenever.
Seems a no brainer, and will be happening at some point over the next fortnight.
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TV sport, roasted food, probably more sleep, and maybe some pokerz today.
GL Sunday grinderz.
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Oh I also went in to a 'proper' casino for the first time yesterday too.
I think I was the only 1 in there!
It was very 'powwwshhhhhh'.
A bar. 20ish poker tables, 2 or 3 of each blackjack and roulette, then all the way round the outside of the room was what looked to be FOBs.
Comedy exchange with the barmaid when I ordered a pop.
She said it was free.
I told her, I'm only here for half an hour for a drink (as literally nothing was happening) and I wouldn't be gambling, so she should let me pay. (probably about 4 quid or summat)
I assumed their line would be to give me free stuff to tempt me to punt (?)
Looked like there was a moment of hesitation before she insisted it was free.
She thought I would give in to temptation!!!!
I...didn't.
Maybe I just misunderpitated the whole thing and it really is just standard or she was being nice, idk.
Don't think morning grinders exist irl. At least not on weekends
4) Can't begin to imagine why a profitable & well-rolled CASH GAME player like you wants to give away x% of your profits to a staker. The world must have passed me by if that makes sense, "but each to their own" works.
5) Which Casino/cardroom was it?
And one of my own. How many points will Sunderland end up with this season?
Morning JJ, 1) Am breaking your 4 post dry streak. It sucks to write diaries & not get interaction. 2) Good to hear the health graph is maybe heading north. 3) Poker theory books? Careful. You ever heard of The Emperors New Clothes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_New_Clothes 4) Can't begin to imagine why a profitable & well-rolled CASH GAME player like you wants to give away x% of your profits to a staker. The world must have passed me by if that makes sense, "but each to their own" works. 5) Which Casino/cardroom was it? And one of my own. How many points will Sunderland end up with this season? Posted by Tikay10
tyty TK
Although that throws up a dilemma, do I reply now, or maximise the diary attention equity of having you post on it last by leaving it as long as possible?
"The theory of diary writing"
The staking option is the lesser of 2 evils.
My mental game is beyond pathetic. it might help. Probably wont. But it's one of the few things I haven't tried and it may only be for a few sessions.
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It was Genting club sheffield, just up 'the hill' from the train station, next to the city SHU campus.
I don't know when it was built but I may have walked just past it twice a day almost every midweek day for 4 yrs not knowing it was there!
Would've lost a fortune in it back then though, so will chalk it up as (literally) disguised walk good.
It was about 11am, some employee asked me if I was there for the xxxx poker tournament.
I said no, and before I had time to enquire as to what it was he'd rushed past me
I think it was the final of some pub league or something.
It's very easy for me to get to, but the cash games are apparently way too high for me. And talking to my friend 'themoose' who works at a casino the other side of Sheff, any MTT would end way beyond the time of the last train home, so it'll be difficult to get involved in any games anytime soon.
In Response to Re: "Sit & DOHHHHHHH Diary" : tyty TK Although that throws up a dilemma, do I reply now, or maximise the diary attention equity of having you post on it last by leaving it as long as possible? "The theory of diary writing" The staking option is the lesser of 2 evils. My mental game is beyond pathetic. it might help. Probably wont. But it's one of the few things I haven't tried and it may only be for a few sessions. --- It was Genting club sheffield, just up 'the hill' from the train station, next to the city SHU campus. http://imgur.com/X76LGFf I don't know when it was built but I may have walked just past it twice a day almost every midweek day for 4 yrs not knowing it was there! Would've lost a fortune in it back then though, so will chalk it up as (literally) disguised walk good. It was about 11am, some employee asked me if I was there for the xxxx poker tournament. I said no, and before I had time to enquire as to what it was he'd rushed past me I think it was the final of some pub league or something. It's very easy for me to get to, but the cash games are apparently way too high for me. And talking to my friend 'themoose' who works at a casino the other side of Sheff, any MTT would end way beyond the time of the last train home, so it'll be difficult to get involved in any games anytime soon. Mid term goal for sure though Posted by DOHHHHHHH
Well now, here's the thing - you have, perhaps by accident, put your finger on why poker forums are in decline, a subject of which, sadly, I am well versed.
With Twitter, Eff-Book & all that stuff - I even know grown ups - GROWN UPS - who still play Video Games - people expect OTHERS to provide their entertainment, as it's easier than making the effort to post.
Look at this Community, for example - maybe 10 people do a lot of the work, whilst the vast majority just read, rather than post.
I know this only too well, as I have an interest in a forum elsewhere which is, ever so slpowl, dying. People on there point fingers at everyone - me, the Mods, this that & the other - when discussing why post count & interaction is down, but they are the ones who never make the effort to start interesting threads. It's the world of entitlement.
Keep posting, it's become a really well balanced (poker/non poker) Diary, & lots of people love reading it.
staked for 20!!!!!!!! jeeeeeeez, you're probably rolled for 2knl never mind 20. STOP NIT Posted by percival09
A+
It makes no sense to you or me, no, but it makes sense to Dohhhhhhh, so it's fine.
The irony, of course, is that here we have a self-confessed nit, & proud of it (me too), who is deliberately GIVING AWAY x% of his profit.
It will never make sense to me, but to understand the why, you have to understand the person, & I do.
I hope it works out for him. Meanwhile, whoever is staking him, well done, that's a season ticket to easy money, drip drip drip, every day. For the staker, this is Eldorado, profit without risk.
In Response to Re: "Sit & DOHHHHHHH Diary" : A+ It makes no sense to you or me, no, but it makes sense to Dohhhhhhh, so it's fine. The irony, of course, is that here we have a self-confessed nit, & proud of it (me too), who is deliberately GIVING AWAY x% of his profit. It will never make sense to me, but to understand the why, you have to understand the person, & I do. I hope it works out for him. Meanwhile, whoever is staking him, well done, that's a season ticket to easy money, drip drip drip, every day. For the staker, this is Eldorado, profit without risk. MBN. Posted by Tikay10
Lol it's me :P
Seriously though, all the things that have been mentioned to JJ here, I've already said to him a million times. He's got the roll to play 20NL and he certainly has the ability. To give away a % is just silly because he does'nt need to... BUT the thing holding him back imo is a huge lack of self confidence. I guess we all get that when we step out of our comfort zone, whether it's moving from £5 DYMs to £11 DYMs or from the £11 BHs to playing the £33 mains, we assume everyone is SO much better etc.
So in theory now he's just playing 10NL (cos he has 50% of his action at 20NL) but he gets to pay 5% rake instead of 7.5% and hopefully (which is the idea behind my staking offer) is he plays some 20NL, realises it's not half as scary as he thought then can go do it on his own. Fwiw, I've always told him I'm happy to buy a % of his action in pretty much any cash game or any MTT on Sky... cos as Tikay said, it's easy money for me
In Response to Re: "Sit & DOHHHHHHH Diary" : With Twitter, Eff-Book & all that stuff - I even know grown ups - GROWN UPS - who still play Video Games - Posted by Tikay10
Largest grossing entertainment industry in the world, and as a scotsman one im proud to see we play a big role in. Specifically at video games aimed for adults only.
Worries me you seem slightly shocked on this. Although that maybe just the way im reading it.
few months back you started same roll as me. I believe youve played alot more and crushed and have a much larger roll, however i cant grasp why you haven't moved up instead of just rotating where you play at similar levels. You have more than enough ability to move up. just have the confidence man.
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For me, I gained confidence from having two things: a complete bankroll and an absolute knowledge that I am a winning player. The only way to be sure you're a winning player at any given limit is to beat that limit consistently for a considerable number of hands... so thats what you are going to do. Play the limit you're at for 20k hands AT LEAST.. When you're done, check your ptbb/100... if you don't think its high enough, do it again.
Morning JJ,
1) Am breaking your 4 post dry streak. It sucks to write diaries & not get interaction.
2) Good to hear the health graph is maybe heading north.
3) Poker theory books? Careful. You ever heard of The Emperors New Clothes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes
4) Can't begin to imagine why a profitable & well-rolled CASH GAME player like you wants to give away x% of your profits to a staker. The world must have passed me by if that makes sense, "but each to their own" works.
5) Which Casino/cardroom was it?
And one of my own. How many points will Sunderland end up with this season?
Well now, here's the thing - you have, perhaps by accident, put your finger on why poker forums are in decline, a subject of which, sadly, I am well versed.
With Twitter, Eff-Book & all that stuff - I even know grown ups - GROWN UPS - who still play Video Games - people expect OTHERS to provide their entertainment, as it's easier than making the effort to post.
Look at this Community, for example - maybe 10 people do a lot of the work, whilst the vast majority just read, rather than post.
I know this only too well, as I have an interest in a forum elsewhere which is, ever so slpowl, dying. People on there point fingers at everyone - me, the Mods, this that & the other - when discussing why post count & interaction is down, but they are the ones who never make the effort to start interesting threads. It's the world of entitlement.
Keep posting, it's become a really well balanced (poker/non poker) Diary, & lots of people love reading it.
It makes no sense to you or me, no, but it makes sense to Dohhhhhhh, so it's fine.
The irony, of course, is that here we have a self-confessed nit, & proud of it (me too), who is deliberately GIVING AWAY x% of his profit.
It will never make sense to me, but to understand the why, you have to understand the person, & I do.
I hope it works out for him. Meanwhile, whoever is staking him, well done, that's a season ticket to easy money, drip drip drip, every day. For the staker, this is Eldorado, profit without risk.
MBN.