Not so bad this time though, I thought I did myself justice, and just got unlucky in the bigger games. I didn't 'give them away' anyway....
Can kinda handle running bad or being outplayed, it's just hard to live with when I play bad/stupid or take shots in the wrong frame of mind. These were kinda calculated shots.
I wasn't going to play poker today, but because of that loss, and needing to get my schedule set to play the roller next Thursday, I'm gonna try and get straight back in to the action.
There's prob a good chance I could bust what's left in my account today after that thrashing^^^^.
That hasn't happened in a while
Next time I take a shot, I'm gonna reg for the HU game myself, and wait and see who joins, rather than just joining the first one I see.
Might be interesting to see if the sharks chase me, I have a feeling they will be fighting over my money!
Hey JJ, I may just have imagined it, but I'm sure I heard somewhere that you were matey with Coxy/used to talk to him a bit about poker. I was just having a look on his website (because Jock mentioned about being coached by him) and reading his blogs about that challenge he did starting from £50. He said he played SnGs and the odd very cheap MTT until he had built up a roll he was happy to play cash with. I was just wondering if you knew what SnGs he was playing, cos I imagine he'd have said if they were HU SnGs and I can't imagine him doing DYMs (just cos there's better winrates out there), but I always thought there was hardly any money in the regular SnGs. So do you know what games he was playing? And am I right in thinking them regular SnGs are junk? Second place only gets about double his money (so you might as well play a DYM and only need to come 3rd) and 1st gets about 4x the BI but surely you can't expect to be winning THAT many in comparison to the number of times you won't even cash?? Is this wrong, dya reckon they're good if you're crushing them, how much could you really crush them? (not you in particular). I only ask all this because after withdrawing some money, and then getting butchered in satellites, I carried on cashing it for a bit, but after having a serious think, I know that my bankroll is not an amount that I'm happy playing cash (even 4NL) but I'm sure I could spin it up through some SnGs, just deciding what's best to play... Cheers mate. Posted by Lambert180
Hey Paul.
Are you changing your game, again????
I'm sure at some point in the last 3/4 months you have been grinding,......
NL4
HU sngs
DYMS
MTT's
NL4 again!
If you go back and read through the HU sng period of your diary, I'm pretty sure you'll conclude they're your most profitable game. Also will fit in well with your current circumstances, with the computer share/work/small sessions etc, you can pop in and out as and when you like, you only really need to commit 10 mins for a game.
In the early stages of his challenge I was sending coxy his graphs to update his blog, as I was a skope member and he wasn't back then....
So yeah I had a look around at what he was playing.
He didn't play any standard sngs (think you mean scarys). His games were mainly HU sngs, and some dyms. Both NLHE and PLO.
He favoured the reg speeds, saying they don't take long at all at the micros due to the terrible standard of players.
But he can easily multi table 3/4 HU sngs alongside mtts etc. Not all of us can do that....
If I were you I'd go back and play the micro turbocharged games. I think they tick most of the boxes.
I watched it twice, and I really couldn't figure out what it was all about.
Following the twitter feed and it got really mixed reviews, people seemed to love it or hate it. I was straight down the middle, I was just confused.
Saw before it started Gervais tweeted something like....
"I hope to make you laugh and cry for 30 minutes, hopefully in the right places"
Well I laughed a couple of times, but that's it. People were tweeting they were in tears...
Why??? Very very strange.
Obviously I hope it turns into a proper series, as more Gervais on tele can only be a good thing, but I hope I'm not always left totally confused after watching it!
I Sky plussed Derek last night cos I didn't wanna miss it but was doing something else. So still not got round to watching it yet... gotta say it did look a little bit strange from the adverts, but I'l give it a go. Can't imagine anything written by Gervais could be THAT bad.
Also cheers for the input. Yeah I'm just being a really indecisive ****, I'd narrowed things down a bit in that I do not have the BR for cash at the moment, I don't think I'll ever play DYMs again (not seriously anyway) because of the rake and how long they take, I know (like you told me when I first started the DYMs) that I can make more money and much faster from HU SnGs.
So that really leaves me with HU SnGs and micro MTTs. I think I'll be mostly playing HU SnGs and maybe the odd micro MTT like the £1, £20 guaranteed tournies cos the standard is awful! The other day I flopped a set, bet 3/4 pot on flop and turn, then jammed the river and got called by 4th pair lol. Went on to win that for about £17.
Decided to take my own advice and play a £1 4man HU yesterday as well, was interesting because I managed to finish off my first opponent in level 1 (as did the other guy) and you keep your chips from the first round so we were 4000 chips deep at only 10/20, never played HU that deep before, but played well and came away with the £4.
So yeah I do still 'want' to play cash but not at the moment, where I can't happily multi-table and lose 4-5 BIs and not be bothered.
I Sky plussed Derek last night cos I didn't wanna miss it but was doing something else. So still not got round to watching it yet... gotta say it did look a little bit strange from the adverts, but I'l give it a go. Can't imagine anything written by Gervais could be THAT bad. Posted by Lambert180
It was cringeworthy! It was a bit like a really bad 1960's sitcom - but without the laughs! Also, Id have thought Pilkington would have piped up at some stage and said "This isn't working guys!"
In Response to Re: "Sit & DOHHHHHHH Diary" : It was cringeworthy! It was a bit like a really bad 1960's sitcom - but without the laughs! Also, Id have thought Pilkington would have piped up at some stage and said "This isn't working guys!" Posted by Glenelg
Sigh.
As Gervais' no.1 fan, I have to admit I used this word to describe the programme.
I was just hoping that 'neutrals' and maybe other fans would see it a different way to me.
My Dad said to me after 10 minutes "I've turned it off JJ it's cr@p"
It tilted me that he could judge it so quickly, so maybe I'm being too hasty after just the pilot episode.
In Response to Re: "Sit & DOHHHHHHH Diary" : Derek! 3 letters. W T F ??? Did you get it??? Posted by DOHHHHHHH
Only seen it the once so far but I didn't mind it. I knew in advance it was a bit of a departure from his usual stuff as I'd read there was a serious side to it, like the message of being kind to your elders and the moving death scene. I thought he acted really well in it too.
Still much prefer The Office and Extras and even Life's Too Short (with Warwick as Brent), but I'd like to see more of this show I think.
PS mate, completely O/T but you should really get into Curb Your Enthusiasm if you haven't already!
In Response to Re: "Sit & DOHHHHHHH Diary" : Only seen it the once so far but I didn't mind it. I knew in advance it was a bit of a departure from his usual stuff as I'd read there was a serious side to it, like the message of being kind to your elders and the moving death scene. I thought he acted really well in it too. Still much prefer The Office and Extras and even Life's Too Short (with Warwick as Brent), but I'd like to see more of this show I think. PS mate, completely O/T but you should really get into Curb Your Enthusiasm if you haven't already! Posted by NoseyBonk
I lol'd at this, and it's given me hope.
The first time I watched LTS, I remember cringing again at Warwicks performance, as you say basically just playing David Brent.....
But the more I watched, the more I liked, and loved the whole series in the end.
In Response to Re: "Sit & DOHHHHHHH Diary" : I lol'd at this, and it's given me hope. The first time I watched LTS, I remember cringing again at Warwicks performance, as you say basically just playing David Brent..... But the more I watched, the more I liked, and loved the whole series in the end. Maybe there is hope for Derek after all......... Think it should be called Douglas tho :P KP ftw! Posted by DOHHHHHHH
Have to admit i was a bit dissapointed myself, although i,ll give it another try next week. He,s got a lot to live up to after The Office, Extras and Idiot abroad. Funniest bit for me was Karl Pilkington trying to act.
On a poker note having similar problems to Lambert. Ended up back at NL4 today after losing a few quid at NL10. DYM results are ok, but thinking of giving the turbo or hyper HU games a go
In Response to Re: : Have to admit i was a bit dissapointed myself, although i,ll give it another try next week. He,s got a lot to live up to after The Office, Extras and Idiot abroad. Funniest bit for me was Karl Pilkington trying to act. On a poker note having similar problems to Lambert. Ended up back at NL4 today after losing a few quid at NL10. DYM results are ok, but thinking of giving the turbo or hyper HU games a go MP Posted by MP33
Ha, that's the thing though he was pretty much playing himself!
I think I'm getting confused by the 'serious' bit of the whole programme. Was just waiting for the next 'comedy' moment.
Are there any successful 'comedy-dramas' that have already been done? Is this Gervais trying to use his genius to do something new? I just don't understand why he'd try summat like this.
Ofc will keep watching for the funny bits anyway. :P
He needs to stop falling in ponds though, playing with worms ftw.
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Try some HU sngs, they will be profitable....
But after testing the water, do some reasearch, coz it's quite a big transition from mtt's and cash games (it's just alot different, not harder. easier if anything)
I'm a massive Gervais fan and you guys are not getting me overly excited about watching this episode of Derek that I've got recorded lol.
I've had this arguement with my brothers/mum about how much of Karl is acting in the pod casts, and I really don't think he is that dense (in a way). The majority of things that people would call stupid, I've always thought it's just because he has a mental way of looking at things. I do know someone who isn't quite as bad as Karl but has a very strange way of looking at things, and does have some of the kind of thoughts as Karl does about certain things.
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Thats sickaments, you may be a hyper god but you cant fight the set monster! PlayerActionCards
The ROI is abit misleading there ^^^. I played 10x £1 HU Hyper games at the start, wanted to get a feel for how they play to try and give abit of advice to a couple of people who are wanting to start playing micro HU.
Also set myself a small challenge to win as many as I could outta 10.
I don't remember much about the session, other than god-moding against solack. I wouldn't wanna play him usually, but my policy on rematching new players, is to leave the 'rematch' box and let them make the decision.
Unless I'm down overall, then I take the initiative and decide.
As I went 3-0 up, I had to rematch.
Quickly became 3-3 lol.
Think I edged the decider. Nxt time (hopefully there wont be 1) if we play I think it'll be a 1 off, no matter what the result.
Couple of days off now, gonna watch the IPL double header today, find something to do tomorrow, and Thursday most of the day is gonna be boring, waiting to get on it @ about 5pm, win the sky roller and do an all nighter!
Ez game
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*edit - Just having my daily play around on sharkscope, and I've seen I'm finally back on the leaderboard for sngs on sky in 2012!
Only took me 3 months to recover from the 1k swing! lol.
I ran horribly today in my HU games, could reel off a list of horrible hands like JJ v AJ (aipf) and I lose, QQ v K9 (aipf) and I lose, there's loads more but that's not really why I'm here.
I decided to slip in a few hypers along with my turbos today and I do really enjoy them and think they should be easily winnable at this level, but again things just weren't going my way, although I was just repeatedly losing race after race. I remember you saying something about how it's important to play a low variance game at the micro hypers but how do you do this? Do you do alot more calling preflop so you can see more flops?
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Also cheers for the input. Yeah I'm just being a really indecisive ****, I'd narrowed things down a bit in that I do not have the BR for cash at the moment, I don't think I'll ever play DYMs again (not seriously anyway) because of the rake and how long they take, I know (like you told me when I first started the DYMs) that I can make more money and much faster from HU SnGs.
So that really leaves me with HU SnGs and micro MTTs. I think I'll be mostly playing HU SnGs and maybe the odd micro MTT like the £1, £20 guaranteed tournies cos the standard is awful! The other day I flopped a set, bet 3/4 pot on flop and turn, then jammed the river and got called by 4th pair lol. Went on to win that for about £17.
Decided to take my own advice and play a £1 4man HU yesterday as well, was interesting because I managed to finish off my first opponent in level 1 (as did the other guy) and you keep your chips from the first round so we were 4000 chips deep at only 10/20, never played HU that deep before, but played well and came away with the £4.
So yeah I do still 'want' to play cash but not at the moment, where I can't happily multi-table and lose 4-5 BIs and not be bothered.
Edit: Forgot to say - great diary/read JJ!
Still much prefer The Office and Extras and even Life's Too Short (with Warwick as Brent), but I'd like to see more of this show I think.
PS mate, completely O/T but you should really get into Curb Your Enthusiasm if you haven't already!
On a poker note having similar problems to Lambert. Ended up back at NL4 today after losing a few quid at NL10. DYM results are ok, but thinking of giving the turbo or hyper HU games a go
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I've had this arguement with my brothers/mum about how much of Karl is acting in the pod casts, and I really don't think he is that dense (in a way). The majority of things that people would call stupid, I've always thought it's just because he has a mental way of looking at things. I do know someone who isn't quite as bad as Karl but has a very strange way of looking at things, and does have some of the kind of thoughts as Karl does about certain things.
I ran horribly today in my HU games, could reel off a list of horrible hands like JJ v AJ (aipf) and I lose, QQ v K9 (aipf) and I lose, there's loads more but that's not really why I'm here.
I decided to slip in a few hypers along with my turbos today and I do really enjoy them and think they should be easily winnable at this level, but again things just weren't going my way, although I was just repeatedly losing race after race. I remember you saying something about how it's important to play a low variance game at the micro hypers but how do you do this? Do you do alot more calling preflop so you can see more flops?
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Upswingaments FTW
I love hypers now : ) turbos are still pretty cool