Rancid and his Roll 2011 - (Diary of a losing recreational player making good)

rancid

Happy New Year, time for a bit of reflection (feeling a bit emotional!)

Start of the new year and on reflection the past 7 months since I stared to actually make an effort with my game with depositing £80 on the 18th June 2011 and incorporating BRM is starting to show how important solid BRM is for any player at any level and what a differance it can make.
I am not an amzing player, but anyone with a solid BRM and a solid strategy for NL4 or/and £1 DYM's can make money for the pub or whataver )
Variance killed me at times over the last 7 months, and you do start to question it all, but over the long term you can see the theory of "it's rigged" is all BS.
I have been on really bad runs where no matter what hand I have, I just can't win.
Then all of a sudden you just keep on winning!

I have been studying the game a lot and has really helped me plug leaks and look at the game from another perpespective. I suppose the most important thing I have learned is controlled aggression. We are constantly being told that you have to be aggressive to get anywhere and yes this is true but you need some control and all out aggression just ends up as mistakes and spew !

I started playing NL4 and have moved up to NL8/10 and am now playing £2-3 DYM and with a DYM BR of £90ish I am looking to get to and stay and grind £5 level. Still playing the mini events but will probably move up to the £250 GTD and maybe some £11 BH.

As for aims, just want to keep on improving my all round game and move up the cash levels and manage some nice MTT finishes. Would also like this year to attend an SPT event and also see if I can sat into a big event and TID )



Main BR
Last Deposit 18/6/2011 £80
Roll at start of this dairy 17/11/2011 £437   
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Current roll 1/1/2012 £601 C4P 18

rancid

Played some more DYM and had a nice kick up the backside in NL8 cash

DYM were going great then lost the last four SIGH !
But at least I ain't doing anything wrong and it was just a few prs v overpairs

DYM £	PLAYED	MONEY IN	CASHED	OUT	DIFF	LOST			win perc
1.15	80	£92.00	53	£106.00	£14.00	27			66.25%
2.25	122	£274.50	77	£308.00	£33.50	45			63.11%
3.3	51	£168.30	30	£180.00	£11.70	21			58.82%
Total	253	£534.80	160	£594.00	£59.20	93			63.24%
							Start DYM BR	Current DYM BR
							£25.00	£84.20

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
rich-a-64	Small blind		£0.04	£0.04	£7.68
rancid	Big blind		£0.08	£0.12	£25.44
	Your hole cards	A A
rossatron8	Call		£0.08	£0.20	£9.67
JAMRACCON	Fold
Teevers	Fold
tonbino01	Raise		£0.40	£0.60	£11.19
rich-a-64	Call		£0.36	£0.96	£7.32
rancid	Raise		£1.60	£2.56	£23.84
rossatron8	Call		£1.60	£4.16	£8.07
tonbino01	Call		£1.28	£5.44	£9.91
rich-a-64	Call		£1.28	£6.72	£6.04
Flop
		7 10 Q
rich-a-64	Fold
rancid	All-in		£23.84	£30.56	£0.00
rossatron8	All-in		£8.07	£38.63	£0.00
tonbino01	All-in		£9.91	£48.54	£0.00
rancid	Unmatched bet		£13.93	£34.61	£13.93
rancid	Show	A A
rossatron8	Show	6 4
tonbino01	Show	10 10
Turn
		K
River
		3
tonbino01	Win	Three 10s	£33.21		£33.21

rancid

Main BR
Last Deposit 18/6/2011 £80
Roll at start of this dairy 17/11/2011 £437   
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Current roll 2/1/2012 £590 C4P 85

rancid

These DYM's are doing my head in, yoyo'ing is so annoying - won five then lost four grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr !!

How do you guys grind these, so boring and annoying )
Especially when you have a big stack (5000) giving the bb small stack (600) a walk when blind are 400 WTF !
Played 295 games for a profit of £58, cashed in 183.
Think I'll give em a bash again tomorrow, and see if I can get through this and play some £5.50'S

DYM £	PLAYED	MONEY IN	CASHED	OUT	DIFF	LOST			win perc
1.15	80	£92.00	53	£106.00	£14.00	27			66.25%
2.25	126	£283.50	79	£316.00	£32.50	47			62.70%
3.3	89	£293.70	51	£306.00	£12.30	38			57.30%
5.5		£0.00		£0.00	£0.00	0			#DIV/0!
Total	295	£669.20	183	£728.00	£58.80	112			62.03%
							Start DYM BR	Current DYM BR
							£25.00	£83.80

Played a SAT and some MTT's = no joy in the main apart from small cashes

Played some NL8 and done ok tonight, brought BR back up again
Thank god for cash !

Main BR
Last Deposit 18/6/2011 £80
Roll at start of this dairy 17/11/2011 £437   
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Current roll 3/1/2012 £606 C4P 265

devonfish5

hi smarr

the 5% rule is basically,
whatever you are playing,cash tournies,dym,s etc


,you never play with more than 5% of the money in your sky account.
 so if you have say £50 in yours.
you shouldn,t be puting in anymore than £2.50 at any one time.,

it,s basically a safety net to stop you going broke.

mind you it,s very easy to say it,
but not so easy to carry it out!

in my case,i play £3.30 dym,s
my bankroll(money in my sky poker account) is around £350,

so each game i play is costing 1% of my b/roll
as i am playing 5/6 tables i am risking 5 to 6% at any one time.

a cash table example would be;
for a 2p/4p game;
to play comfortably and to the 5% rule;
 
you should have £80 in your poker account
(if you load up the max 4 that table,being £4.00)

some would argue that 5% is a bit low,
so lets say you had £40 in your account
and playing 2p/4p n/limit cash
and you load up the max £4.00
(you are now risking 10% on that game.)


which is ok.
but you only need 2 or 3 bad sessions,
and your £40 soon becomes £30

if you can stick to the 5% rule,that,s ideal.
if you can,t,...try not going above 10%,
and that should be fine.

good luck smarr

devon



 

rancid

DYM, nearly over the £100 mark, played a coupld of £5 teasers

DYM £	PLAYED	MONEY IN	CASHED	OUT	DIFF	LOST			win perc
1.15	80	£92.00	53	£106.00	£14.00	27			66.25%
2.25	128	£288.00	80	£320.00	£32.00	48			62.50%
3.3	121	£399.30	71	£426.00	£26.70	50			58.68%
5.5	2	£11.00	1	£10.00	-£1.00	1			50.00%
Total	331	£790.30	205	£862.00	£71.70	126			61.93%
							Start DYM BR	Current DYM BR
							£25.00	£96.70

Played some more MTT/SATS and cash, main BR not really moving much
Just seems to be yoyo'ing upto £620 then down
It's the MTT/SATS that eat the profit :(0
Treated myself to a £11 BH, all in on the river and three of us have the flush - backdoor madness
Anyway, played 65s so kinda deserved it




Main BR
Last Deposit 18/6/2011 £80
Roll at start of this dairy 17/11/2011 £437   
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Current roll 4/1/2012 £597 C4P 421

rancid

Well, well, well here we are again - updating with some good news - only a little bad

DYM- Getting there, but I really don't know how much more I can take of playing these DYM games that
always require getting cards or shoving and getting through
Sorry but there really ain't any skill to these, I think you could teach DYM basics to a 10 year old
No offence to any DMY REGS, which I am a DYM Reg of sorts but you play very little poker in these!
Obviously I am going to get lots of flack, but like I say I respect the players that do make money because
it does require so much discipline.

DYM £	PLAYED	MONEY IN	CASHED	OUT	DIFF	LOST			win perc
1.15	81	£93.15	54	£108.00	£14.85	27			66.67%
2.25	128	£288.00	80	£320.00	£32.00	48			62.50%
3.3	143	£471.90	82	£492.00	£20.10	61			57.34%
5.5	3	£16.50	2	£20.00	£3.50	1			66.67%
Total	355	£869.55	218	£940.00	£70.45	137			61.41%
							Start DYM BR	Current DYM BR
							£25.00	£95.45

MTT - entered a £11 (500GTD) final tabled binked a 5th for £56 but went out on a horrible hand


booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
longjob	Small blind		300.00	300.00	28870.00
Farmboy	Big blind		600.00	900.00	36086.25
	Your hole cards	K K
rancid	Raise		1200.00	2100.00	11420.00
eaturchips	Fold
MATTY1	All-in		4746.25	6846.25	0.00
gEO000	Raise		8400.00	15246.25	20392.50
longjob	Fold
Farmboy	Fold
rancid	All-in		11420.00	26666.25	0.00
gEO000	Call		4220.00	30886.25	16172.50
rancid	Show	K K
MATTY1	Show	5 5
gEO000	Show	10 A
Flop
		9 7 Q
Turn
		3
River
		8
gEO000	Win	Flush to the Ace	30886.25		47058.75

Cash - only played a little so not much doing there, once I reach the £5 DYM, because I really got to do it now ) Then I'll grind some proper NL8/NL10 and see what comes of it, maybe some NL20 aswel )
I know some NL8 Regs are missing me at the tables )

Main BR
Last Deposit 18/6/2011 £80
Roll at start of this dairy 17/11/2011 £437   
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Current roll 5/1/2012 £653 C4P 546
+Silver Star on scope ! Must be doing ok )

walesboy

keep it up m8
you're doing great
win % on dyms are good - but does show you how hard it is to make any significant profit at the lower levels.
I am re-thinking my aim to concentrate on dyms this month (when I can be bothered to play that is - busy month) given the volume you've put in. I'll only be on the £1.15 level I think.

GaryQQQ

Excellent thread Rancid, keep up the good work.

It's always great to see a self-confessed former losing novice work hard to turn things around and successfully become a profitable player.

D_Legend

dude u need to add sats to ur game u seem to do well in tourment so u may bink one gl

rancid

In Response to Re: Rancid and his Roll (Diary of a losing recreational player):

keep it up m8 you're doing great win % on dyms are good - but does show you how hard it is to make any significant profit at the lower levels. I am re-thinking my aim to concentrate on dyms this month (when I can be bothered to play that is - busy month) given the volume you've put in. I'll only be on the £1.15 level I think.
Posted by walesboy

I think until you get to £3-5 then it's a slow grind, even when your winning at £1 level it still feels like you treading water
Think you can make a little bit of money if your grinding £3 or £5 but there's some nice money at the £11 level I feel - I could play that level now but I am a great believer in grass roots traiining )

I have had to make some changes to make my DYM game just to make it profitable, and it's worked, hopefully!
There are some good players at £3 level but there's also a lot of bad )
Sharkscope is brilliant and really helps identify fish and sharks, worth the purchase.

rancid

In Response to Re: Rancid and his Roll (Diary of a losing recreational player):

Excellent thread Rancid, keep up the good work. It's always great to see a self-confessed former losing novice work hard to turn things around and successfully become a profitable player.
Posted by GaryQQQ

Hi, yeah I have put a lot of work in and looked at my game to improve since June 2011 and it's helped.

Thanks

rancid

In Response to Re: Rancid and his Roll (Diary of a losing recreational player):

dude u need to add sats to ur game u seem to do well in tourment so u may bink one gl
Posted by D_Legend

Yeah I sat'ed into the first UKOPS main event, which was nice.
I am looking to play more SAT, it's a good idea I think.
They do play similar to DYM's so.....

rancid

emm banana skins - bad run of cards and tooo much wine = bad evening of poker )
Run into negatives in the £3 DYM
MTT/sats - no good
cash - down a little

Will not even bother posting any bad beats because I can't be asked, silly night

run better

DYM £	PLAYED	MONEY IN	CASHED	OUT	DIFF	LOST			win perc
1.15	81	£93.15	54	£108.00	£14.85	27			66.67%
2.25	129	£290.25	81	£324.00	£33.75	48			62.79%
3.3	172	£567.60	94	£564.00	-£3.60	78			54.65%
5.5	5	£27.50	4	£40.00	£12.50	1			80.00%
Total	387	£978.50	233	£1,036.00	£57.50	154			60.21%
							Start DYM BR	Current DYM BR
							£25.00	£82.50

Main BR
Last Deposit 18/6/2011 £80
Roll at start of this dairy 17/11/2011 £437   
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Current roll 5/1/2012 £632 C4P 691

rancid

Bad beats/outdraws are killing me in these DYM
had a FH drawn out by trips hitting quads in the river, tough this poker

If only I run better than I would be playing the £5 by now
Looks like after the winnign the first three today, it's gone downhill again
Seems like I will be stuck on the £3 level forever!
Just gotta keep on getting the chips in ahead and over time I will win )
Looks like I am going to have to play up and above 200 games to get the varaince to smooth out

Current roll 7/1/2012 £628 C4P 719

DYM £ PLAYED MONEY IN CASHED OUT DIFF LOST     win perc 1.15 81 £93.15 54 £108.00 £14.85 27     66.67% 2.25 130 £292.50 81 £324.00 £31.50 49     62.31% 3.3 179 £590.70 99 £594.00 £3.30 80     55.31% 5.5 5 £27.50 4 £40.00 £12.50 1     80.00%                                         Total 395 £1,003.85 238 £1,066.00 £62.15 157     60.25%                                   Start DYM BR Current DYM BR                 £25.00 £87.15

rancid

Back on track again after the wobble of last night

Played some NL8 cash and won some, DYM's back to running ok again.

DYM £	PLAYED	MONEY IN	CASHED	OUT	DIFF	LOST			win perc
1.15	81	£93.15	54	£108.00	£14.85	27			66.67%
2.25	130	£292.50	81	£324.00	£31.50	49			62.31%
3.3	190	£627.00	106	£636.00	£9.00	84			55.79%
5.5	5	£27.50	4	£40.00	£12.50	1			80.00%
Total	406	£1,040.15	245	£1,108.00	£67.85	161			60.34%
							Start DYM BR	Current DYM BR
							£25.00	£92.85

Current roll 7/1/2012 £660 C4P 765

Poker_Fail

Just load up 2 tables of NL20 already, you're good enough and even if you lost you'd still be very well rolled for your other games.

rancid

In Response to Re: Rancid and his Roll (Diary of a losing recreational player):

Just load up 2 tables of NL20 already, you're good enough and even if you lost you'd still be very well rolled for your other games.
Posted by Poker_Fail

Maybe I just will take a shot @+_)

Don't think I am good enough at the moment, but may just run good (:)

pod1

rancid ,you getting as bad as dude, your game would beat 90% of players at nl20, so stop being a big girls blouse and put some of that roll to good use.

rancid

**** these DYM - decks are killing me
back to evens in the £3's, seriously tilting
200 games and no profit = WTF !
In profit overall but hey -
Just can't see what I am doing wrong, if anything
stupid game tbh
Just one stupid example !

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
meanmach20	Small blind		150.00	150.00	2550.00
k_mac	Big blind		300.00	450.00	1185.00
	Your hole cards	Q Q
rancid	Raise		600.00	1050.00	2835.00
amy1980	Fold
kevcoke69	Fold
meanmach20	Fold
k_mac	All-in		1185.00	2235.00	0.00
rancid	Call		885.00	3120.00	1950.00
k_mac	Show	5 K
rancid	Show	Q Q
Flop
		2 10 9
Turn
		K
River
		K
k_mac	Win	Three Kings	3120.00		3120.00

DYM £	PLAYED	MONEY IN	CASHED	OUT	DIFF	LOST			win perc
1.15	81	£93.15	54	£108.00	£14.85	27			66.67%
2.25	132	£297.00	82	£328.00	£31.00	50			62.12%
3.3	200	£660.00	110	£660.00	£0.00	90			55.00%
5.5	5	£27.50	4	£40.00	£12.50	1			80.00%
Total	418	£1,077.65	250	£1,136.00	£58.35	168			59.81%
							Start DYM BR	Current DYM BR
							£25.00	£83.35