keep going Evil, always an interesting read, finding out how it,s going(or not....lol) best wishes, and good luck! devon Posted by devonfish5
Not seems to be the case quite often for me, lol. I usually end up winning a small amount for a few days on the bounce, then have 1 bad day where I basically lose everything that I've gained in the last week or two :P
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Was exactly £2.30 up so far today so decided to have a go at the £600 GTD Bounty Hunter @ 8:05, guy to my left seems to be happy to play any old junk, and some guy who has been bad beated by this guy already managed to get this guy all in with Q4 vs AQ on a xxQQx board, leaving him crippled.
The guy on my left was UTG, and open shoved 37BB, and the guy who had got involved with him previously decided to flat call on the button. Meanwhile, I've woken up in the big blind with KK, having not played a hand so far I 3-bet shove, and get called. KK vs. A7s vs. A7o, so as well as being miles ahead already, they've got each other's outs. Bit of a sweat when the A7o picked up a flush draw on the turn, but my hand held up, so a double up and a bit more along with a bounty, happy days
Then picked up AK vs. someone who decided to limp/call pre flop, and got about half of his stack when I flopped TPTK, up to around 6k chips. Could've probably stacked him if I'd bet pot rather than 1/2 - 3/4 pot, so slightly disappointed about that, left some chips and 75p behind, but not the end of the world. Won't be making that mistake again any time soon though.
Will post again after tourney is finished, hopefully I cash as my tournament Sharkscope looks pretty rubbish, might at least give me a smaller -ve number and it'd be a nice boost to the bankroll too
8:05 £600 BH - 43/376. Top 40 got paid, the bubble burst about 10 seconds after I went out, and the guy who called slowrolled me with A9, sigh. He tried slowrolling someone a few hands earlier with JJ, only to find they had QQ, which was rather amusing. £2.25 in bounties though so only lost 5p. Should've probably just folded and at least min cashed, rather than trying to pinch the guy's big blind, then got my money in afterwards, so maybe need to look at bubble play in these spots. Was down to something like 86/95 at one point, so guess I did well to finish 43rd, but slightly disappointed at missing out.
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10/1/12, 10:17pm Bankroll: £93.82 (Including £50 deposit) So far today: +£2.25 C4P: 410 STT League points: 275 Cash League points: 131 MTT League points: 0
Played 5 £1.15 DYM's to see if my computer was capable of running 5 tables at once, won 3, lost 2, for a profit of £0.25
11/1/12, 01:20am
Bankroll: £94.07 (Including £50 deposit)
Profit yesterday: +£2.50
C4P: 420
STT League points: 296
Cash League points: 131
MTT League points: 0
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So far today:
NLH £1.15 - W0 L2, -£2.30
NLH £2.25 - W0 L0
NLH £3.30 - W0 L0
NLH £5.50 - W0 L0
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12/1/12, 01:36am
Bankroll: £91.77 (Including £50 deposit)
So far today: -£2.30
C4P: 424
STT League points: 296
Cash League points: 131
MTT League points: 0
Very difficult to be profitable in £1.15 DYM's, as you just get donk called to death. Just had KK, shoved, got called by A5, bam, full house. Standard shove, gg ul.
You can only lose 42.5% of the time if you want to beat the rake at this level. KK v A5 is about 70/30. Therefore, you will get knocked out 30% of the time. The remaining 70% of the time when your hand holds up, you have to win enough to cash 57.5% of the time overall.
57.5 = 0.8214, so if your hand holds up, you have to then cash at least 82% of the time.
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The chances of AA winning against an overpair is only 81%, or about 77% against suited connectors. Therefore, even if you get it all in twice, KK vs. Ax, and AA vs underpair or suited connectors, you'll lose money at this level over time. As you will get an all in called at least twice in pretty much every game you play at this level, it's not profitable to carry on playing.
For that reason, I'll ditch the idea of grinding several £1.15 DYM tables. My choices now are:
1) Low stakes tournaments - £2.30 BH, £2.20 Deep Stack and below.
2) NL4
3) Low stakes HU Sit 'n' Go's (Just played a 55p one, my opponent was terribad)
Playing NL4 at the moment, was waiting for a delivery so didn't want to start a Sit 'n' Go, and found a decent table. Not going too well so far, was card dead early on then ended up with nut straight vs. quads. Pretty much made my money back now, and somehow managed to not go broke with AQ vs. AK on an ace high board against a semi-regular player with about £7 back.
Also had this hand where I meant to bet pot and accidentally shoved. Oh well, worked out alright in the end :P
Player
Action
Cards
Amount
Pot
Balance
johnm69
Small blind
£0.02
£0.02
£0.79
oldmankev
Big blind
£0.04
£0.06
£1.85
Your hole cards
4
5
EvilPingu
Call
£0.04
£0.10
£3.92
Gunslingar
Call
£0.04
£0.14
£3.65
Ronniwin
Call
£0.04
£0.18
£1.55
jfmpoker11
Fold
johnm69
Call
£0.02
£0.20
£0.77
oldmankev
Check
Flop
3
10
2
johnm69
Check
oldmankev
Check
EvilPingu
All-in
£3.92
£4.12
£0.00
Gunslingar
All-in
£3.65
£7.77
£0.00
Ronniwin
Fold
johnm69
Fold
oldmankev
Fold
EvilPingu
Unmatched bet
£0.27
£7.50
£0.27
EvilPingu
Show
4
5
Will pick out some of the interesting hands from my session and post them here later. Had a nice hand involving KK, folded to me in the SB, and I just limped in rather than raising - The big blind wasn't a reg but he was a **** of a lot better than the average NL4 player as well. I'll post the hand below as it's pretty incredible, tbh. How does he not go broke? Not sure whether this is a brilliant flat call on the river, or whether he just has to go broke here.
Played the BH @ 8:05 again, cashed today in 40th for £2.41 (basically my buy-in back) and 1 bounty for £0.94
Exit hand, however, was just sick. 18 outs when the money went in on the turn, plus he probably thought he was ahead anyway, but flopping a straight and losing to someone who limped under the gun, ouch.
NL4, -£1.28. Obviously disappointed to not have made any profit, but another day I make the same decisions and end up finishing with a subtantial profit, didn't do anything wrong really. Had to leave the table as it filled up with regs.
12/1/12, 11:57pm Bankroll: £94.09 (Including £50 deposit) So far today: +£0.02 C4P: 446 STT League points: 311 Cash League points: 148 MTT League points: 0
Have officially broken my new years' resolution, decided that as there was a PLO8 cash game running, which only happens about once in a blue moon on here, I'd join in for a bit of fun. Sat down with maximum £20 (strictly no reloading though), played for about 5-10 minutes, table broke, and I was +£4.08 at the end of it. Don't know whether to be pleased with my small profit, or annoyed at my BRM, or lack of.
Back to normal tomorrow, Dad's girlfriend is staying the weekend so lock myself in the bedroom with the laptop, watch footy, NFL playoffs, and grind NL4/DYM's all day.
DYM
NLH £3.30 - W0 L0
--- Tourneys
8:05 £600 BH - Plan on entering.
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20PLO8 - +£4.08 (slap for playing out of my BR)
Bankroll: £100.27 (Including £50 deposit) Today: +£4.08 C4P: 457 STT League points: 325 Cash League points: 151 MTT League points: 0
Have officially broken my new years' resolution, decided that as there was a PLO8 cash game running, which only happens about once in a blue moon on here, I'd join in for a bit of fun. Sat down with maximum £20 (strictly no reloading though), played for about 5-10 minutes, table broke, and I was +£4.08 at the end of it. Don't know whether to be pleased with my small profit, or annoyed at my BRM, or lack of. Back to normal tomorrow, Dad's girlfriend is staying the weekend so lock myself in the bedroom with the laptop, watch footy, NFL playoffs, and grind NL4/DYM's all day. DYM NLH £3.30 - W0 L0 --- Tourneys 8:05 £600 BH - Plan on entering. --- Cash 20PLO8 - +£4.08 (slap for playing out of my BR) Bankroll: £100.27 (Including £50 deposit) Today: +£4.08 C4P: 457 STT League points: 325 Cash League points: 151 MTT League points: 0 --- Posted by EvilPingu
Can't hit a single draw today. Every tournament I've played, I've gone out going all in with a draw and missing. The one time I did hit my draw, I was against a better flush >_> My "Grind DYM's all day" plan didn't really work, I ended up just playing tournaments most of the day. Should be getting some more DYM's in tonight though, 2 NFL games to watch then Master Cash on Sky+, so will probably be playing until stupid o'clock tomorrow morning
**Note to self - New sections needed on spreadsheet for 20PLO8 and below**
13:40, £2.30 - Omaha BH - 17/17, two pairs, up + down straight draw vs. flopped straight. Missed. 14:00, £0.00 - £100 PLO Freeroll - Missed another draw, out around 300th. 19:30, £1.10 - £1000 GTD - 683/843, turned a flush and someone had a better flush. 20:05, £2.30 - £600 BH - 363/422, QQ vs TT AIPF, villain (I didn't call him that at the time...Lol) binked a 10 on the flop. 20:25, £5.50 - £100 GTD PLO8 - 17/21, Nut flush draw, and nut low draw, missed.
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20PLO8 - +£4.08 4NL - +£3.45
Bankroll: £98.12 (Including £50 deposit) Today: +£1.93 (Incl. Tourney buy-ins already paid) C4P: 485 STT League points: 353 Cash League points: 151 MTT League points: 0
Cheers PF - Yeah, quite rare to get loads of regs on a table at one time, still happens from time to time though, and makes you wonder whether the 3rd and 4th regs sitting down at a particular table think about table selection or whether they just click the first table with an empty seat and expect easy money from everyone.
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Cashed in another DYM, won't play another game before midnight, so finished for the day.
Get something to eat before grinding all night, DYM's to begin with and probably a bit of NL4 as the DYM's will probably not be running at 6am, then hopefully post back on here with a decent profit in the morning
Bankroll: £100.82 (Including £50 deposit) Today: +£4.63 C4P: 488 STT League points: 360 Cash League points: 154 MTT League points: Zero.
There is probably only 3 regs at 4nl currently that I try not to sit with + coxylboro who is not usually a nl4 reg but has been lately.
There are lots of bad regs who I will happily sit with, if I'm grinding then worst case scenario I'll sit at reg infested table but it'll only happen like once every few days.
There is probably only 3 regs at 4nl currently that I try not to sit with + coxylboro who is not usually a nl4 reg but has been lately. There are lots of bad regs who I will happily sit with, if I'm grinding then worst case scenario I'll sit at reg infested table but it'll only happen like once every few days. Posted by NColley
I'll avoid good regs at NL4 as much as I can, simply because why would I settle for having 3 or 4 bad players at a full table when I can have 5? There are a couple of bad regs who I'll happily play with, though.
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Didn't end up grinding much in the end, hardly any £3.30 DYM's running and single tabling = losing money as I'll get bored. Off to bed, will just grind tomorrow instead. Had a short 4NL session, which finished when I was too busy watching the NFL playoffs, brilliant end to the NFC game, then remembered I had 3 tables open and I'd sat out on all of them, so stood up lol
3 x NL4 - +£1.90
Bankroll: £102.72 (Including £50 deposit) Today: +£1.90 C4P: 498 STT League points: 360 Cash League points: 168 MTT League points: 0
I was on a table with you yesterday and searched you in find a player as I do most guys and noticed you were just single-tabling, and this was in the afternoon. You mention your BR being over £100 and tbh tha is easily enough to 2-table and probably 3-table and if you're comfortable playing mini-view (which I presume you are) then I would defo start doing that as these things are all about volume and you just can't do that playing 1 after the other lol.
Also on a side-note I liked the agression, especially on my BB lol but overall it did seem at times like you were shoving over 50% of hands and at times when you weren't in danger of blinding out. Obviously if you have a hand that's fine but you can't have had JJ/AQ everytime and it just seemed like you had somewhere to go lol.
Hiya mate, I was on a table with you yesterday and searched you in find a player as I do most guys and noticed you were just single-tabling, and this was in the afternoon. You mention your BR being over £100 and tbh tha is easily enough to 2-table and probably 3-table and if you're comfortable playing mini-view (which I presume you are) then I would defo start doing that as these things are all about volume and you just can't do that playing 1 after the other lol. Also on a side-note I liked the agression, especially on my BB lol but overall it did seem at times like you were shoving over 50% of hands and at times when you weren't in danger of blinding out. Obviously if you have a hand that's fine but you can't have had JJ/AQ everytime and it just seemed like you had somewhere to go lol. Good luck anyway on the challenge . Posted by Dudeskin8
Hiya
Yeah, I'm fine with mini view, most of the time I'll be playing 2 or 3 tables, sometimes 4. Sometimes I just load up a table then once I start playing I forget to load up any more tables or register for anything else, lol
As for the aggression, I had seen you in the clinic and knew you usually advocate only calling with really, really big hands in DYM's, and as it was the first time I'd been on your table in a DYM, I thought I'd test the water a little :P
Sunday Survivor - Won seat into Monday survivor, AK AIPF, got called (slowrolled) by someone with JJ and then hit a set, then slow rolled me again when I shoved with K7 as I was down to 6bb, sigh.
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Tournaments:
£200 Download Freeroll - 52/482, 50 got paid (only £1.10 for 50th) . SB shoved, I snap called with KQ, only to find I was up against AK, which held up.
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Bankroll: £106.72 (Including £50 deposit)
Today: +£3.50
C4P: 539
STT League points: 395
Cash League points: 168
MTT League points: 0
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6 days of consecutive profit now, but only a few games each day. Keep meaning to have a day of just grinding for a few hours but then not bothering, or starting and getting distracted.
Comments
always an interesting read,
finding out how it,s going(or not....lol)
best wishes,
and good luck!
devon
EDIT: 2nd bounty, QQ vs A10 on a 10 high flop.
Bankroll: £93.82 (Including £50 deposit)
So far today: +£2.25
C4P: 410
STT League points: 275
Cash League points: 131
MTT League points: 0
Also had this hand where I meant to bet pot and accidentally shoved. Oh well, worked out alright in the end :P
Will pick out some of the interesting hands from my session and post them here later. Had a nice hand involving KK, folded to me in the SB, and I just limped in rather than raising - The big blind wasn't a reg but he was a **** of a lot better than the average NL4 player as well. I'll post the hand below as it's pretty incredible, tbh. How does he not go broke? Not sure whether this is a brilliant flat call on the river, or whether he just has to go broke here.
Exit hand, however, was just sick. 18 outs when the money went in on the turn, plus he probably thought he was ahead anyway, but flopping a straight and losing to someone who limped under the gun, ouch.
DYM
NLH £1.15 - W0 L2, -£2.30
NLH £3.30 - W2 L1, +£2.10
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Heads-Up
£0.55 - W1 L0, +£0.55
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Tourneys
£2.30 BH - 40/402, £2.41 + £0.94
NL4, -£1.28. Obviously disappointed to not have made any profit, but another day I make the same decisions and end up finishing with a subtantial profit, didn't do anything wrong really. Had to leave the table as it filled up with regs.
12/1/12, 11:57pm
Bankroll: £94.09 (Including £50 deposit)
So far today: +£0.02
C4P: 446
STT League points: 311
Cash League points: 148
MTT League points: 0
that is the question!
well done Evil....
great stuff
devon
DYM
NLH £3.30 - W2 L0, +£5.40
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Tourneys
Orfordable Deepstack - Donked out in 57th, 10 handed is soooo boring. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood for it, idk.
Bankroll: £96.19 (Including £50 deposit)
Yesterday: +£2.10
C4P: 455
STT League points: 325
Cash League points: 148
MTT League points: 0
Back to normal tomorrow, Dad's girlfriend is staying the weekend so lock myself in the bedroom with the laptop, watch footy, NFL playoffs, and grind NL4/DYM's all day.
DYM
NLH £3.30 - W0 L0
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Tourneys
8:05 £600 BH - Plan on entering.
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Cash
20PLO8 - +£4.08 (slap for playing out of my BR)
Bankroll: £100.27 (Including £50 deposit)
Today: +£4.08
C4P: 457
STT League points: 325
Cash League points: 151
MTT League points: 0
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**Note to self - New sections needed on spreadsheet for 20PLO8 and below**
DYM
£3.30 NLH - W2 L1, +£2.10
£2.25 PLO8 - W2 L0, +£3.50
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Tourneys
13:40, £2.30 - Omaha BH - 17/17, two pairs, up + down straight draw vs. flopped straight. Missed.
14:00, £0.00 - £100 PLO Freeroll - Missed another draw, out around 300th.
19:30, £1.10 - £1000 GTD - 683/843, turned a flush and someone had a better flush.
20:05, £2.30 - £600 BH - 363/422, QQ vs TT AIPF, villain (I didn't call him that at the time...Lol) binked a 10 on the flop.
20:25, £5.50 - £100 GTD PLO8 - 17/21, Nut flush draw, and nut low draw, missed.
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Cash
20PLO8 - +£4.08
4NL - +£3.45
Bankroll: £98.12 (Including £50 deposit)
Today: +£1.93 (Incl. Tourney buy-ins already paid)
C4P: 485
STT League points: 353
Cash League points: 151
MTT League points: 0
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GL Pingas, keep it up!
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Cashed in another DYM, won't play another game before midnight, so finished for the day.
Get something to eat before grinding all night, DYM's to begin with and probably a bit of NL4 as the DYM's will probably not be running at 6am, then hopefully post back on here with a decent profit in the morning
Bankroll: £100.82 (Including £50 deposit)
Today: +£4.63
C4P: 488
STT League points: 360
Cash League points: 154
MTT League points: Zero.
There are lots of bad regs who I will happily sit with, if I'm grinding then worst case scenario I'll sit at reg infested table but it'll only happen like once every few days.
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Didn't end up grinding much in the end, hardly any £3.30 DYM's running and single tabling = losing money as I'll get bored. Off to bed, will just grind tomorrow instead. Had a short 4NL session, which finished when I was too busy watching the NFL playoffs, brilliant end to the NFC game, then remembered I had 3 tables open and I'd sat out on all of them, so stood up lol
3 x NL4 - +£1.90
Bankroll: £102.72 (Including £50 deposit)
Today: +£1.90
C4P: 498
STT League points: 360
Cash League points: 168
MTT League points: 0
Yeah, I'm fine with mini view, most of the time I'll be playing 2 or 3 tables, sometimes 4. Sometimes I just load up a table then once I start playing I forget to load up any more tables or register for anything else, lol