Internet was being hopeless today, so didn't get anywhere near as much time playing as I would've liked. Seriously need to increase the volume if I have any plans to get into the top 150 on the STT league and the subsequent freeroll.
Currently, 30th place has around 1,500 points, and 150th place has just under 600 points. These are probably slightly higher than usual because of the "Full House" promotion, but 150th is definitely achievable, and around 90 points a day for a shot at TSP in the beginning of April? Falling behind atm but if I can catch up, which isn't impossible, then why not?
DYM:
£1.15 NLH - W1 L0, +£0.85
£2.25 PLO8 - W2 L1, +£1.25
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Tournaments:
£200 Download FR - Virgin Media was playing up, so didn't start playing until level 5. As a result, I decided to donk my chips off and enter something else, or get a big stack trying :P
Was about £20 up, then decided to play some NL4, left the table about 10 minutes later due to tilt, about £8 down.
1st hand...FFS, sigh fold.
Player
Action
Cards
Amount
Pot
Balance
poustilaki
Small blind
£0.02
£0.02
£1.58
NEOSTYLE
Big blind
£0.04
£0.06
£3.62
Your hole cards
Q
Q
pageyboy03
Fold
genlee
Fold
EvilPingu
Raise
£0.16
£0.22
£3.85
poustilaki
Fold
NEOSTYLE
Call
£0.12
£0.34
£3.50
Flop
9
7
9
NEOSTYLE
Check
EvilPingu
Bet
£0.17
£0.51
£3.68
NEOSTYLE
Call
£0.17
£0.68
£3.33
Turn
8
NEOSTYLE
Check
EvilPingu
Bet
£0.68
£1.36
£3.00
NEOSTYLE
Call
£0.68
£2.04
£2.65
River
J
NEOSTYLE
All-in
£2.65
£4.69
£0.00
EvilPingu
Fold
NEOSTYLE
Muck
NEOSTYLE
Win
£1.88
£1.88
NEOSTYLE
Return
£2.65
£0.16
£4.53
Another hand that makes you question people's intelligence. How stupid can people be? A2 /> K4 > JJ AIPF? I'm all for respecting other players, but you can't seriously call these people poker players. Ridiculous. Might as well head over to Sky Vegas stick their entire bankroll on 00, more chance of winning something that way.
Player
Action
Cards
Amount
Pot
Balance
NEOSTYLE
Small blind
£0.02
£0.02
£4.51
Dazza63
Big blind
£0.04
£0.06
£0.65
Your hole cards
J
J
pageyboy03
Call
£0.04
£0.10
£0.64
genlee
Raise
£0.08
£0.18
£2.45
EvilPingu
Raise
£0.20
£0.38
£2.80
poustilaki
Fold
NEOSTYLE
Fold
Dazza63
Fold
pageyboy03
All-in
£0.64
£1.02
£0.00
genlee
Call
£0.60
£1.62
£1.85
EvilPingu
All-in
£2.80
£4.42
£0.00
genlee
All-in
£1.85
£6.27
£0.00
EvilPingu
Unmatched bet
£0.47
£5.80
£0.47
pageyboy03
Show
2
A
genlee
Show
4
K
EvilPingu
Show
J
J
Flop
4
K
5
Turn
6
River
3
pageyboy03
Win
Straight to the 6
£1.95
£1.95
genlee
Win
Two Pairs, Kings and 4s
£3.41
£3.41
Then tilted, shoved QQ into KJ on a KT2 flop, and AT into KQ on a JT9 flop.
Just to annoy me even more, 99 < KQ AIPF. What a load of c**p.
they hands are just typical of how im doing today at NL4. i thought i ran the worst i could towards end of last month but today has topped it. im in 2 minds wether to carry on and play thru or just smash comp to bits. it can be demoralising at times
they hands are just typical of how im doing today at NL4. i thought i ran the worst i could towards end of last month but today has topped it. im in 2 minds wether to carry on and play thru or just smash comp to bits. it can be demoralising at times Posted by TINTIN
I know exactly what you mean, it's so annoying when you put your money in as a 80% favourite and lose 80% of the time, lol. Will probably leave NL4 for a week or two, I need to get STT League Points anyway.
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Finished for today, healthy profit thanks to binking one of the PLO8 tournaments, could've been better if it wasn't for the worst NL4 session ever though. Won't get much time to play tomorrow, but got the house to myself all weekend Playing catchup on the STT League atm, so will be playing a lot of HU games and DYM's whenever I get the chance.
Would like to get up to 1,000 STT points this weekend, to ensure a top 150 position at the end of the month and hopefully close the gap on 30th place as well. As most of my time is spent staring at the lobby or spamming the F5 key on Facebook, rather than actually playing Poker, I think if I try, I should be able to not drop any further behind points wise, and slowly catch up to the top 30. Definitely won't be easy, but not impossible either
Couldn't update this yesterday before going to bed as internet was playing up, sigh.
DYM:
£1.15 NLH - W0 L1, -£0.00 **
£3.30 NLH - W1 L0, +£2.70
£2.25 PLO8 - W1 L1, -£0.50
** Disconnected from game due to ISP being hopeless, buy-in refunded
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HU:
£1.05 Turbo - W0 L4, -£4.20. Ran into an opponent who kept flopping 2 pair, generally getting lucky. Limped every button and thought me raising most buttons was bingo. Sigh :')
Started the day by cashing in one of the new timed tournaments and a PLO8 DYM, went downhill from there. Lost a PLO8 DYM but won a £3.30 NLH DYM, so around £8 up.
Decided to play some HU Turbos, 4 against 1 person which were all pretty farcical, three times I ran overpairs or TPTK into a flopped 2 pair, and the other time, I shoved on the button into KK. Fair enough, but was more annoyed by this person in the chat box calling me a bingo player because I raised most of the time on the button. Sorry for knowing how to play heads up, just keep limping your button every time please, and find something better to do than abuse people in the chat box, like improve your own game ) Rant over.
Then played 2 more games against someone else, where I ran AK into 34 on an A25 flop (Sigh...) and A2 vs. 22 AIPF. Ace on the flop, of course.
I was 10p down at this point, so played a £1.15 DYM, basically wanted to record a profit on my spreadsheet for the day instead of a loss. Down to 4 players, flop a set of 6's, internet freaks out and won't reconnect. Contacted customer care and got my buy-in back, but still slightly annoying to flop a set of 6's, think you're going to win a big pot and probably knock the other guy out, then the internet cuts out.
On the bright side, it's nice to have a c**p day and only be 10p down
Seem to be inexplicably running like Usain Bolt @ £3.30 DYM's, and running badly in every other DYM level this month, how strange. Also found I can fit 9 tables on my screen if I change a few settings, so obviously, I tried it. Felt fairly comfortable doing it but think I'll build my bankroll before trying that again, even though it didn't go too badly. Actually won more when playing 9 tables than I did the rest of the day, sigh.
Tried moving back up to £5.50, some of the players on there tonight must have rocks for brains, quite frankly. AK < 74 AIPF (Yes, he called with 7 high), T5 < 33 AIPF (Stealing the blinds, how can you call with 33 in a DYM?), and I can't remember my hand when I shoved, and the guy who limped in called with A6. Sigh. £16.50 down thanks to people who don't have a clue what they're doing, and back to grinding £3.30.
Said it before and I'll say it again, JohnConnor's blog is wrong IMO, 20 buy-ins is nowhere near enough. At least, not for me.
have 2 agree with u Evil regarding 20 buy-ins not being enough. i did ask jc about that and he did say that he was only using that ammount 4 his dym challenge., and that to play dym,s properly ,if u like, he would use the 100 buy-in rule. ie;to play at £3.30 level u should have a b/roll of around £330 or more. which basically means each loss is only 1% of your b/roll.
i did lose £41.70 a week or so ago in 1 night, so i do know how it can go,on a bad night, as i do use the 100 buy-in rule myself, although it hurt,obviously, it was only 10% of my b/roll whish was at that time £415 approx.
i think with your b/roll as it stands around £100 any higher than £1.15 is risky, but that,s not to say u shouldn,t play higher, like i say just hurts more if u do lose.
like jc said 2 me,it,s all about risk & reward, the rewards are certainly there so just keep going for it.
have 2 agree with u Evil regarding 20 buy-ins not being enough. i did ask jc about that and he did say that he was only using that ammount 4 his dym challenge., and that to play dym,s properly ,if u like, he would use the 100 buy-in rule. ie;to play at £3.30 level u should have a b/roll of around £330 or more. which basically means each loss is only 1% of your b/roll. i did lose £41.70 a week or so ago in 1 night, so i do know how it can go,on a bad night, as i do use the 100 buy-in rule myself, although it hurt,obviously, it was only 10% of my b/roll whish was at that time £415 approx. i think with your b/roll as it stands around £100 any higher than £1.15 is risky, but that,s not to say u shouldn,t play higher, like i say just hurts more if u do lose. like jc said 2 me,it,s all about risk & reward, the rewards are certainly there so just keep going for it. best wishes as always devon Posted by devonfish5
Have actually stepped down to £1.15 now, although I am playing 9 tables at a time. This is so that I can get a decent amount of C4P, and as £1.15's still give 7 league points each, it should also push me further up the TSP league.
Interestingly, I've started running a lot better in DYM's now that I'm playing 9 at a time, so I must have some flaws in my game which are more noticeable when I'm only playing a couple of tables - Probably over-aggression.
Was about £12 down at one point today, although have fought my way back up to almost break even, will post again after Master Cash with full breakdown of everything
In Response to Re: Diary of a moaning fish. : Have actually stepped down to £1.15 now, although I am playing 9 tables at a time. This is so that I can get a decent amount of C4P, and as £1.15's still give 7 league points each, it should also push me further up the TSP league. Interestingly, I've started running a lot better in DYM's now that I'm playing 9 at a time, so I must have some flaws in my game which are more noticeable when I'm only playing a couple of tables - Probably over-aggression. Was about £12 down at one point today, although have fought my way back up to almost break even, will post again after Master Cash with full breakdown of everything Posted by EvilPingu
Was about £12 down at one point so delighted to finish the day in profit, 154th on the STT rankings on the TSP league, so will probably be in the top 150 sometime tomorrow, and hopefully keep going from there Despite only winning £1.25, it's probably been better than the days that I've made more because I've dug myself out of a hole rather than just running good. Also found a couple of flaws in my game in the process.
14:55 £1.10 PLO8 - 14/20, Nut flush draw, backdoor nut low draw, and gutshot vs. flopped straight. Missed everything. 15:40 £2.20, £100 GTD 15 min timed - AJ < AK < AA AIPF, then shoved with about 4 big blinds and got called by big stack with 9 high, who hit trips. Sigh. 16:55 £1.10 PLO8 - 7/24, Short stack, was 14/14 at one point but still managed to get to 7th, luck eventually ran out.
---- Bankroll: £103.99 (Including £50 deposit) Today: +£1.25 C4P: 750 STT League points: 717 Cash League points: 170 MTT League points: 10
Not such a good day today, lost £3.65 on an NL4 table where everyone else made loads from a maniac who was all in with any two every hand, lost twice to straights when I had opponent dominated pre-flop, and didn't manage to win as many DYM's as I lost.
Will take forever to build up a decent bankroll playing £1.15 DYM's, but playing 6-9 tables at a time is good fun, not too bothered at being £15 down this month, enjoying the game most importantly, and still got a few days to hopefully end the month break even or with a small profit.
On the bright side, I'm now closer to 30th place on the TSP league, only 867 points behind 30th place.
---- £1.15 NLH DYM - W16 L17, -£5.95 (Rake at this level is brutal)
NL4 - Lost £3.65, was on a table with a lunatic, around £150 on the table at the end, shame that hardly any of it was in my stack. Run better plz )
30th place in STT League: Boss89 - 1,801 points My STT League points: 934 Difference: -867 Projected 30th place on March 31st: 7,126 points Points/day required: 91.05 (13 x £1.15 DYM wins every day for a shot at qualifying for Team Sky Poker in April, lol)
On the £1.15 DYM's I would really consider forgetting all about these as like you say the rake is crazy.
Your current roll of £99.14 gives you 30 BI's at £3.30 which I think is enough to 2-3 table the level and at least break into the 10% rake band which overall will benefit you loads. If you drop down below say £80 then just grind NL4 back to £100 again, this can be a bit stressful if you're close to breaking point but with sufficient run good you should be fine.
On the £1.15 DYM's I would really consider forgetting all about these as like you say the rake is crazy. Your current roll of £99.14 gives you 30 BI's at £3.30 which I think is enough to 2-3 table the level and at least break into the 10% rake band which overall will benefit you loads. If you drop down below say £80 then just grind NL4 back to £100 again, this can be a bit stressful if you're close to breaking point but with sufficient run good you should be fine. Good luck mate, Carl. Posted by Dudeskin8
Have played 111 £1.15 DYM's this month, W66 L45, for a £4.35 profit, so only just beating the rake at that level. You're probably right about playing at £3.30 on less tables, stayed at £1.15 for most of today, pretty much break even again. Only benefits of staying at £1.15 are that I'd get more C4P and League Points playing 9 x £1.15 than 3 x £3.30. I'm not too keen on the idea of any more than 1 table with only 30 buy-ins, fed up with having days of not doing much wrong, and losing 20% of my bankroll because of just running bad, so being a lot stricter with my BRM now.
30th place in STT League: Edrich - 1,925 points My STT League points: 1,019 Difference: -906 Projected 30th place on March 31st: 7,299 Points/day required: 93.73 ----
Yeah I totally get where you're coming from on losing chunks of your BR, same happened to me recently, done about 15 BI's in 2 days at the £3.30 level, lituarlly a vertical drop on SS lol. Stung like **** but the problem was I wasn't playing bad just losing every flip and tons of 70-30's etc.
Have slowly build back now but it takes a lot of effort and patience all whilst knowing that run could strike at any time in the future....
Comments
1st hand...FFS, sigh fold.
Another hand that makes you question people's intelligence. How stupid can people be? A2 /> K4 > JJ AIPF? I'm all for respecting other players, but you can't seriously call these people poker players. Ridiculous. Might as well head over to Sky Vegas stick their entire bankroll on 00, more chance of winning something that way.
Then tilted, shoved QQ into KJ on a KT2 flop, and AT into KQ on a JT9 flop.
Just to annoy me even more, 99 < KQ AIPF. What a load of c**p.
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Finished for today, healthy profit thanks to binking one of the PLO8 tournaments, could've been better if it wasn't for the worst NL4 session ever though. Won't get much time to play tomorrow, but got the house to myself all weekend
Would like to get up to 1,000 STT points this weekend, to ensure a top 150 position at the end of the month and hopefully close the gap on 30th place as well. As most of my time is spent staring at the lobby or spamming the F5 key on Facebook, rather than actually playing Poker, I think if I try, I should be able to not drop any further behind points wise, and slowly catch up to the top 30. Definitely won't be easy, but not impossible either
DYM:
£3.30 NLH - W1 L0, +£2.70
£0.30 PLO - W1 L0, +£0.20
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HU:
£0.55 Turbo - W4 L1, +£1.25
£1.05 Turbo - W4 L2, +£1.70
£2.10 Turbo - W5 L2, +£5.30
£1.05 Hyper - W2 L2, -£0.20
£1.10 4 Player HU - W1 L0, +£2.90
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Tournaments:
16:55, £1.10 PLO8 - 1st/21, won £10.50 (£9.40 Profit)
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Cash:
3 x NL4, -£9.48. Not quite sure how to describe these players without getting myself forum banned. Ridiculous.
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Bankroll: £122.59 (Including £50 deposit)
Today: +£13.77
C4P: 579
STT League points: 458
Cash League points: 170
MTT League points: 10
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Both hands raise more pre, bet more on flop
Always bet ¾ pot minimum for value
not being enough.
i did ask jc about that and he did say that
he was only using that ammount 4 his dym challenge.,
and that to play dym,s properly ,if u like,
he would use the 100 buy-in rule.
ie;to play at £3.30 level
u should have a b/roll of around £330 or more.
which basically means each loss is only 1% of your b/roll.
i did lose £41.70 a week or so ago in 1 night,
so i do know how it can go,on a bad night,
as i do use the 100 buy-in rule myself,
although it hurt,obviously,
it was only 10% of my b/roll
whish was at that time £415 approx.
i think with your b/roll as it stands around £100
any higher than £1.15 is risky,
but that,s not to say u shouldn,t play higher,
like i say just hurts more if u do lose.
like jc said 2 me,it,s all about risk & reward,
the rewards are certainly there so just keep going for it.
best wishes as always
devon
Interestingly, I've started running a lot better in DYM's now that I'm playing 9 at a time, so I must have some flaws in my game which are more noticeable when I'm only playing a couple of tables - Probably over-aggression.
Was about £12 down at one point today, although have fought my way back up to almost break even, will post again after Master Cash with full breakdown of everything
DYM:
£1.15 NLH - W26 L10, +£11.45
£1.15 PLO - W0 L1, -£1.15
£2.25 PLO8 - W0 L1, -£1.75
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HU:
£0.55 Turbo - W1 L1, -£0.10
£1.05 Turbo - W0 L1, -£1.05
£1.05 Hyper - W2 L3, -£1.25
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Tournaments:
14:55 £1.10 PLO8 - 14/20, Nut flush draw, backdoor nut low draw, and gutshot vs. flopped straight. Missed everything.
15:40 £2.20, £100 GTD 15 min timed - AJ < AK < AA AIPF, then shoved with about 4 big blinds and got called by big stack with 9 high, who hit trips. Sigh.
16:55 £1.10 PLO8 - 7/24, Short stack, was 14/14 at one point but still managed to get to 7th, luck eventually ran out.
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Bankroll: £103.99 (Including £50 deposit)
Today: +£1.25
C4P: 750
STT League points: 717
Cash League points: 170
MTT League points: 10
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£2.25 PLO8 DYM - W0 L1, -£2.25
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Bankroll: £110.99 (Including £50 deposit)
Today: +£4.75
C4P: 793
STT League points: 822
Cash League points: 170
MTT League points: 10
Will take forever to build up a decent bankroll playing £1.15 DYM's, but playing 6-9 tables at a time is good fun, not too bothered at being £15 down this month, enjoying the game most importantly, and still got a few days to hopefully end the month break even or with a small profit.
On the bright side, I'm now closer to 30th place on the TSP league, only 867 points behind 30th place.
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£1.15 NLH DYM - W16 L17, -£5.95 (Rake at this level is brutal)
NL4 - Lost £3.65, was on a table with a lunatic, around £150 on the table at the end, shame that hardly any of it was in my stack. Run better plz )
Bankroll: £99.14 (Including £50 deposit)
Today: -£9.60
C4P: 864
January C4P Target: 1200 (£12)
30th place in STT League: Boss89 - 1,801 points
My STT League points: 934
Difference: -867
Projected 30th place on March 31st: 7,126 points
Points/day required: 91.05 (13 x £1.15 DYM wins every day for a shot at qualifying for Team Sky Poker in April, lol)
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u just got unlucky buddy,
that big dave certainly is shall we say ...loose.
keep going m8, and stick with good brm
and it will come in the end.
best wishes
devon
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24/1/12
£1.15 NLH DYM - W9 L7, -£0.40
£2.25 NLH DYM - W2 L1, +£1.25
£3.30 NLH DYM - W1 L0, +£2.70
£0.55 HU - W1 L0, +£0.45
£1.05 HU - W0 L1, -£1.10
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Bankroll: £102.04 (Including £50 deposit)
Today: +£2.90
C4P: 910
January C4P Target: 1200 (£12)
30th place in STT League: Edrich - 1,925 points
My STT League points: 1,019
Difference: -906
Projected 30th place on March 31st: 7,299
Points/day required: 93.73
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