Crawling slowly to 60k. Wish I was there already, but having to push myself to do the grind, and thoughts are drifting to the real life things I will get back to doing when this has finished.
Did a bit of geeky stuff today.
Worked out that if you did the 60k points playing purely £0.50/£1, you will end up playing over 130,000 hands.
At £0.50/£1 you get 18 points for 20 raked hands.
Took a small sample today (much too small to be really meaningful), and just under 50% of hands were raked - therefore say 50% for the sake of finding an answer.
Need to play 40 hands therefore, to get 18 points.
60,000/18*40 = 133,333 hands.
Same calculation gives about 100,000 hands @ £1/£2, and 80,000 at £1.50/£3 and above.
In Response to Re: January Cash 4 Points thread..... : No mate - just do the same as you. Will report it to Sky, now I know it's not just me. Posted by jakally
This happens a huge amount when playing on a laptop as never experienced through pc...but if you click on the standard/mini view icon to switch between the two, then click back again it rights itself... Hope that makes sense....so basically if your on standard view and it happens click on "mini view" then click back on "standard view" ... It's a rather annoying bug but like I say it's never happened on my PC, weird!!!!!
Won quite a lot today mostly playing PLO which is strange because I have so much to learn about it.
Ran incredibly badly at holdem cash was just about up in the end but felt I should have been up loads. Just won the open which is good 1st time i've won the main event in a long time, heading towards an average month now which would be nice. Been playing on and off pretty much all day so got plenty of points
Ive totally wound down my cash month, stalling at 12.5k, which is disapointing but much more than in a usual month.
Also been flirting with some daytime mtts on another site with some success, finished 5th out of 700 runners yesterday in a $7k 6 max mtt, something I have never done on a large sky mtt.
The biggest daytime mtt on sky is a £1k, bh at 2 and 4 pm. The 2pm makes the gtee normally, the 4pm usually has overlay. Why doesnt sky combine the two and have a 1.5-2k daily gtee event starting at say 3pm, with loads of frenzy qualifiers to allow the gtee to be met?
After a long night last night, just knocked off the final 300 pts.... total now at 60,165 (phew!).
Played 5-a-side last night, so didn't start playing until after 10pm.
Set out to try and knock off the remaining 2500 all in one go.
A combination of playing too many tables (for me - 12/13), and then far too tired later, when I played on til 6am, resulted in a massively spewy session..... and still 300 pts short of 60k.
NVM, despite that, and a big downswing mid-month, I ended up in profit, and achieved what I set out to do.
Feel drained, and a bit fed up with poker right now, but that will probs only last until tomorrow!
After a long night last night, just knocked off the final 300 pts.... total now at 60,165 (phew!). Played 5-a-side last night, so didn't start playing until after 10pm. Set out to try and knock off the remaining 2500 all in one go. A combination of playing too many tables (for me - 12/13), and then far too tired later, when I played on til 6am, resulted in a massively spewy session..... and still 300 pts short of 60k. NVM, despite that, and a big downswing mid-month, I ended up in profit, and achieved what I set out to do. Feel drained, and a bit fed up with poker right now, but that will probs only last until tomorrow! Posted by jakally
dym's are supposed 2b weak at like 4am, did not expect 2c u, can I just give u the 10 pts next time?!
After a long night last night, just knocked off the final 300 pts.... total now at 60,165 (phew!). Played 5-a-side last night, so didn't start playing until after 10pm. Set out to try and knock off the remaining 2500 all in one go. A combination of playing too many tables (for me - 12/13), and then far too tired later, when I played on til 6am, resulted in a massively spewy session..... and still 300 pts short of 60k. NVM, despite that, and a big downswing mid-month, I ended up in profit, and achieved what I set out to do. Feel drained, and a bit fed up with poker right now, but that will probs only last until tomorrow! Posted by jakally
Play or spectator ?? I didn't think sports centre's liability insurance covered over 50's !!! but this of course could just be a brag.....
Almost won back to back main events just lost HU got myself a 4:1 chip lead too then lost a flip... but nevermind
Really disappointed with cash again, pretty much sums up hows it going for me at the moment. Got three 2.5/5 games going which is good, was doing fairly well and then lost KK vs AJ all in on 10 J X. Then as the games breaking up I get QQ, button raises £15 i make it £45 he makes it £115 and I flat the flops Qs Ts Xh, I decided to bet out £175 he raised to £360, I shoved and he called with KK and makes a backdoor flush for the £2k pot... keep getting outdrawn in my big pots so it kind of overshadows all the £200nl and £300nl games. Still finished about one buy in up and a decent cash in the tournament so doing ok
In Response to Re: January Cash 4 Points thread..... : Play or spectator ?? I didn't think sports centre's liability insurance covered over 50's !!! but this of course could just be a brag..... Posted by GliterBabe
Unsurprisingly I play in goal!! I can't dive around as much as I used to be able to, but to compensate, I fill enough of the goal to make it less of a requirement.
In Response to Re: January Cash 4 Points thread..... : Unsurprisingly I play in goal!! I can't dive around as much as I used to be able to, but to compensate, I fill enough of the goal to make it less of a requirement. Posted by jakally
Congrats on the 60k points, Mr G, & with the fat end of a week to spare. Who says old geezers can't play, eh?
Talking of fat ends, I was watching the football you played, against the kids, & managed to get this photograph of you in action.
In Response to Re: January Cash 4 Points thread..... : Congrats on the 60k points, Mr G, & with the fat end of a week to spare. Who says old geezers can't play, eh? Talking of fat ends, I was watching the football you played, against the kids, & managed to get this photograph of you in action. Posted by Tikay10
LOL.... What have I started sorry Neil..... Oh btw, Brighton are looking for a new keeper if your interested and available!!!!!!
Almost made my 3rd main event final table in 3 days but went out in 7th, was short stacked 3 handed which wasn't ideal. Didnt get going in the roller at all was struggling to make pairs so went out fairly early.
Ran really well in cash all night big pots included! I showed Julian that i'm a nit by once again having KK vs his QQ AIPF
Hit the river in 2 big pots at 2.5/5 The 1st one I raised 26hh on the button and called the 3-bet because i'm a fish like that, flopped 3h 4c 10h I called the bet, turned a Qx, my opponent bet again, I decided to shove about another 100BB and he made a very good call with JJ only for me to make a straight with a 5 on the river!
The 2nd big pot I 4-bet pre with AA got called by 88 and fell behind on the QQ8 flop, i check called flop and turn and was saved by another Q on the river, then i lead out, got called and won my biggest pot of the month
Turning out to be a pretty decent month now after a big downswing in the middle
Haven't updated in a while, as I haven't played much due to other things.
Played ok today. Was in a big hole at one point today but managed to come 2nd in the Roller to SoLack, and then won some back on the cash tables so all in all a decent profit.
Now I haev a room booked for the Friday night at Luton but gonna give it a miss so I can grind online. I think I have around 15 hours of full on grinding left so looks like I won't get it over until Monday. Will try and put a big big dent in it tomorrow tho.
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Would be nice to have it done before Luton SPT but will probably play Sunday night either way
49,954pts
Do any of u big boyz want to kindly donate your excess points to me...........I could play freerolls for the next 10 years! Thank-u, please....
Ran incredibly badly at holdem cash was just about up in the end but felt I should have been up loads. Just won the open which is good 1st time i've won the main event in a long time, heading towards an average month now which would be nice. Been playing on and off pretty much all day so got plenty of points
53,985pts
Also been flirting with some daytime mtts on another site with some success, finished 5th out of 700 runners yesterday in a $7k 6 max mtt, something I have never done on a large sky mtt.
The biggest daytime mtt on sky is a £1k, bh at 2 and 4 pm. The 2pm makes the gtee normally, the 4pm usually has overlay. Why doesnt sky combine the two and have a 1.5-2k daily gtee event starting at say 3pm, with loads of frenzy qualifiers to allow the gtee to be met?
Really disappointed with cash again, pretty much sums up hows it going for me at the moment. Got three 2.5/5 games going which is good, was doing fairly well and then lost KK vs AJ all in on 10 J X. Then as the games breaking up I get QQ, button raises £15 i make it £45 he makes it £115 and I flat the flops Qs Ts Xh, I decided to bet out £175 he raised to £360, I shoved and he called with KK and makes a backdoor flush for the £2k pot... keep getting outdrawn in my big pots so it kind of overshadows all the £200nl and £300nl games. Still finished about one buy in up and a decent cash in the tournament so doing ok
56,243pts
I can't dive around as much as I used to be able to, but to compensate, I fill enough of the goal to make it less of a requirement.
Talking of fat ends, I was watching the football you played, against the kids, & managed to get this photograph of you in action.
Ran really well in cash all night big pots included! I showed Julian that i'm a nit by once again having KK vs his QQ AIPF
Hit the river in 2 big pots at 2.5/5 The 1st one I raised 26hh on the button and called the 3-bet because i'm a fish like that, flopped 3h 4c 10h I called the bet, turned a Qx, my opponent bet again, I decided to shove about another 100BB and he made a very good call with JJ only for me to make a straight with a 5 on the river!
The 2nd big pot I 4-bet pre with AA got called by 88 and fell behind on the QQ8 flop, i check called flop and turn and was saved by another Q on the river, then i lead out, got called and won my biggest pot of the month
Turning out to be a pretty decent month now after a big downswing in the middle
57,937pts