try refreshing your cache, deleting cookies etc. I looked at the leader-board earlier today and it says there is an IPAD AIr due to your, for your efforts in March...
I would suggest you get in touch with customer services about it. I will try and PM you a picture of what I have seen if you need it.
Cheers Gary but that's just the latest leaderboard you'll be seeing, so it'll say 'Last Updated: 21/04/2014'. It needs to have been updated today to include Monday's points to confirm if I'm still top 5 or not. I'm pretty confident I will be but I obv want confirmation.
They've said now anyway that there's a problem with the reporting so we'll have to wait until tomorrow (morning hopefully)
I was very happy to see the final leaderboard today and see that I did win an iPad. Somehow I even managed to move from 4th to 3rd despite hardly playing anything on the last day so everyone must have just took their foot off the gas on the last day.
I went out and got a new (used) car yesterday after my last one blew up recently. I don't really do that many miles these days now that I don't commute to a place of work but we kinda do need that 2nd car because I go to spend the weekend with my daughter in Liverpool every other week and Emma doesn't appreciate me stealing her car because it means the one time of the week she gets free time to go the shops or take the kids out she doesn't have a car (and we live in the middle of nowhere).
So yeah not many miles these days so just wanted a basic runaround that was gonna last me a while. Got a 2005 Peugeot 206, it is a sport like but was one of the best priced cars around, low insurance, low car tax and only 45,000 miles on the clock... and I do love the black wheels
One more night off for me tonight and then it's back to the grind Thursday and try and win the jackpot.
Just stood from my session early cos I'm feeling more tilted than I can remember feeling for a VERY long time. I've just bust out of the main just outside of the money... I was doing amazing in the main from start to finish, everything was going pretty much as good as it's possible to go. There are about 60 left and I'm 3rd in chips (52 paid) and very deep stacked. I'm in a pot with the only guy at the table that even has close to my stack, I mean to bet 2300 and I bet 23000.... nooooooo but then I think 'it's ok, what are the chances he has a hand to call such an insane over bet with'..... SNAP with a set and I'm drawing dead. Left with 5xBB and end up finishing about 5 off the money.
I had the most amazing table ever, and was like 50xBB deep, feel absolutely gutted that I just completely blew a shot at like £2k or at least making my 2nd ME FT.
After that I was just way too tilted to be able to carry on with the rest of the session so I snap left all my cash tables. I've ran rubbish in pretty much every single MTT I've played this month and had no results and then the first time I go on a suck run, I go and blow it
Very unlucky, Paul. I've done similar things in the past and I'm sure you have too. Such as gone to fold but as you select table the button changes and you raise! Time is a great healer and remember, you could easily have made the money and still got coolered and/or lost a pot on cash that left you down. Poker is a cruel mistress we all return too!
"Not a bad day overall" £200 profit for the day, obviously tilting going out in that fashion in an mtt where a big score could come your way, but yeah to put into perspective not long ago you wouldn't of just been merely mentioning a £200 day as if it was nothing you would of been celebrating a really good session. Nice work on the cash tables lately clearly crushing, keep it up no doubt be crushing higher soon.
you sound like myself paul, i watched some of the hand myself as i was following you and ryan (scotty77) to keep myself relaxed in it. i think he looked to have played it weakly himself. i was thinking myself i would get to the final table and was shoved by 99 OTF when he called me preflop and now their was a K.
UL with your attempt to bluff and the size, the positive thing is you didn't do as i did when i went AI with a missed draw in that UKOPS. keep it up mate.
I can see how the flexibility would be a bonus with pro player... always the best part of being your own boss!
I think the thing I'd struggle with most is the work/life balance of playing regularly - ie the best time to work is also the best time to be in the pub with your 9-5 mates I guess that dissipates when you live with your partner and have children though, off-set by getting to at least spend a lot more time in their company (even if you are concentrating on poker at the same time).
It is great to read that you've been able to give yourself this option though. You and also people like Larson are both players for those of us getting our head around NL4-NL10 to aspire to and see what could be possible if we continue to put the effort in.
Fell off the radar a bit recently which is usually the sign of losing lol.
I try not to post all the really negative/moany thoughts anymore, I just don't think it helps me in terms of my mental game/playing well and it's gotta be rubbish to read.
Some of you will saw I posted about nearly being at te end of my biggest ever winning month a little while ago, I was cruising to have my first month of over £2k profit (excluding my UKPC bink obv) and then my Friday/Saturday sessions where just horror sessions. Just the usual, no-one ever folding when you aint got it, and when you do just snap folds, and a lottt of coolers.
Took Sunday off to chill out for a day and not think about poker and finally watched The Hobbit (the 1st part) which Emma got me on DVD at Xmas and we still hadn't got round to watching. I was a bit sceptical but I really enjoyed it and wanna see the 2nd film asap. Does anyone know, is the 3rd one even made/released yet?
Came back fresh today and ran about as good as I had on the weekend. Had KK < AA aipf, and then like 5 mins later KK v AA again except this time it didn't go in pre... it did go in after the AKx flop though lol. Pretty brutal session again.
So I was looking at over £2k profit, now after them 3 days I'm still just about clinging on to a £1k profit which is not to be sniffed at but very frustrating. It's times like this you wish you hadn't just blown up a top 3 stack in the main event a few days ago! lol
I did notice the points seem low in the iPad rakerace. Might try and hammer these last 3 days, see if I can win £100 from that and more importantly give myself the best chance of recovering the last few days losses. Either way it's gonna be my first time in Priority for ages cos I'm on 9k and will deffo be making 1k in the next few days even if I take it easy.
I played 6 MTTs tonight and I don't think I survived more than about 20 mins in any of them. My exit from either 4 of 5 of them was QQ into KK/AA or KK into AA preflop. The main ended when JTo turned 2pr against my KK and I couldn't get away.
Played the £33 BH, 2 x £10.50 satellites into the UKPC Semi, 2 x £11 BHs, and one £24 satellite for the Mega Roller. So £100 outlay in total, and my total return was a £3.75 bounty in one of the £11 games.
The good news...
The cash tables tonight started as rubbish as they have been for a few days, then about 11pm, it was like a switch had been flicked and everything turned around, I stopped getting coolered so much, people started actually having worse hands than me that were strong enough to call a street or two and of course I ran well. I also made a few good call downs, the same kind I've be making all the time but just recently despite it being a good call down, they happen to have had the top of their range... tonight things were kinder.
I'll post a few big pots from the night...
I just stood from the cash tables with just shy of £500 profit which is just about my biggest winning session of the month so far.
Still lost the £100 on MTTs obv but prior to the session I'd have taken any sort of winning so a +£400 night is vvv nice!!
Remember!! If your serious about making poker work for you then you need to be looking for spots to take shots at 100-300nl imo. Please don't become a 50nl forever reg. Obv work within the bankroll though. Stick at it. inspiring thread.
Don't worry I've got no intention of being a 50NL reg forever, I've already been taking pretty regular shots at 100NL (as you can see from the hands above) for a lot of the month, and have played a little 200NL when I''ve seen good tables too.
Annoyingly I missed the £10.50 UKPC proper QF tonight, so regged the £10.50 UKPC Direct but it only got 2 runners so didn't run sigh.
So that left me forced to play the £2.60 UKPC all-in sats (I wouldn't have played if they didn't have overlay). Played and won my first one, played a 2nd and just missed out on another seat.
So I played the £48 Semi, ended up finishing 7th/20 with 4 seats up for grabs so a bit gutted there but only cost me £5.20. Discussed the exit hand and just some other general satellite strategy with Tommy afterwards though cos he crushes satellites on here, so hopefully that'll help me to lock up that UKPC seat sooner rather than later.
I didn't play much cash tonight, only like 4 tables, again a mix of 50NL and 100NL but went pretty decent and finished about +£200 so making a very decent dent in recovering a lot of what I lost on 'the bad weekend'.
Quite excited about this individual points targets JP from the Prio team is gonna send out on Thursday... looks like another big volume month for me!
Cheers. Don't worry I've got no intention of being a 50NL reg forever, I've already been taking pretty regular shots at 100NL (as you can see from the hands above) for a lot of the month, and have played a little 200NL when I''ve seen good tables too. Posted by Lambert180
Do you think with the amount of regs at nl50 its harder to move up than it has been in the past for others?
Do you have a long term ambition level that you'd like to play?
It's hard for me to comment Don cos I never played 50NL years ago so have nothing to compare it with but it's clear for anyone to see that 50NL is vvvv reggy, so even if you're exploiting them regs your winrate is still gonna be smaller in reg filled games no matter how good you are, so yeah it will be harder to move up I'd imagine.
Longterm I think I'll be happy when I have a roll (and am good enough) to comfortably play 300-500NL on here.
And that's me done for the month! Just needed to get 1 more mini session in this morning to get over the 10k points mark for Prio so that I could have tonight off. So played a mix or 50/100/200NL this morning for about 90 mins which was all it took to get the extra 300 points to get me over the line.
Finished +£120 and on 10021 points and that's me done.
That bad weekend put a big dent in my final monthly result but I still managed to finish +£1.5k so I'm happy with that.
Big grind starts again tomorrow (or maybe even midnight tonight if I can't help myself) for this Prio promo that is starting.
It's hard for me to comment Don cos I never played 50NL years ago so have nothing to compare it with but it's clear for anyone to see that 50NL is vvvv reggy, so even if you're exploiting them regs your winrate is still gonna be smaller in reg filled games no matter how good you are, so yeah it will be harder to move up I'd imagine. Longterm I think I'll be happy when I have a roll (and am good enough) to comfortably play 300-500NL on here. ========================================================= And that's me done for the month! Just needed to get 1 more mini session in this morning to get over the 10k points mark for Prio so that I could have tonight off. So played a mix or 50/100/200NL this morning for about 90 mins which was all it took to get the extra 300 points to get me over the line. Finished +£120 and on 10021 points and that's me done. That bad weekend put a big dent in my final monthly result but I still managed to finish +£1.5k so I'm happy with that. Big grind starts again tomorrow (or maybe even midnight tonight if I can't help myself) for this Prio promo that is starting. Posted by Lambert180
nice work lambo, good to see ur earning a "proper" wage from it now how many hours do you think you have "worked" this month?
been wondering, when you play MTT's you tend to play sats to bigger buy ins, then play them if you qualify...
would you money time not be better off spent playing cash instead of sats, and just buying directly into the games? I know for example you dont play the £48 UKPC sat unless you qualify. IMO its such good value you should play it regardless. not a criticism, just a comment.
you've been pro for a few months now, are you glad you made the decision not to look for another job?
I can tell you exactly how many hours I've played this month cos I keep all session details on my spreadsheet.... I've played 91 hours this month.... **** **** looking at it now... I'm a part-timer! lol. Will be upping them hours for May anyway with all these promos running.
Yeah I know what you mean, I think I just fear the swings in MTTs a bit more than cash but I agree I should be playing the £48 game regardless of if I qualify, I'm deffo rolled for that easily. I don't bother with sats for any of the £33 mains anymore cos I think like you said it's not a great usage of my time, so might just need to up my limit a bit of what I'll allow myself to BI to.
Yeah most definitely not regretting it, it's been really tough at times but it's given me so much freedom to spend time with the kids/girlfriend, and doing jobs that are generally a right pain to get done when you have a 9-5 job like MOT'ing a car etc. Still really enjoying the game, and think I just keep getting stronger (especially in my mental game) the more time goes on.
EDIT: Just realised about the 91 hours thing... I was still playing on the stake up until like 10th April ish, so missed like a third of the month. That would explain the lower hours.
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I had the most amazing table ever, and was like 50xBB deep, feel absolutely gutted that I just completely blew a shot at like £2k or at least making my 2nd ME FT.
I'll just get the results out the way quick...
UL with your attempt to bluff and the size, the positive thing is you didn't do as i did when i went AI with a missed draw in that UKOPS. keep it up mate.
I can see how the flexibility would be a bonus with pro player... always the best part of being your own boss!
I think the thing I'd struggle with most is the work/life balance of playing regularly - ie the best time to work is also the best time to be in the pub with your 9-5 mates
It is great to read that you've been able to give yourself this option though. You and also people like Larson are both players for those of us getting our head around NL4-NL10 to aspire to and see what could be possible if we continue to put the effort in.
Congrats on the new iPad as well!
I did notice the points seem low in the iPad rakerace. Might try and hammer these last 3 days, see if I can win £100 from that and more importantly give myself the best chance of recovering the last few days losses. Either way it's gonna be my first time in Priority for ages cos I'm on 9k and will deffo be making 1k in the next few days even if I take it easy.
I played 6 MTTs tonight and I don't think I survived more than about 20 mins in any of them. My exit from either 4 of 5 of them was QQ into KK/AA or KK into AA preflop. The main ended when JTo turned 2pr against my KK and I couldn't get away.
I'll post a few big pots from the night...
I just stood from the cash tables with just shy of £500 profit which is just about my biggest winning session of the month so far.
Still lost the £100 on MTTs obv but prior to the session I'd have taken any sort of winning so a +£400 night is vvv nice!!
A few hands from tonight...
Don't worry I've got no intention of being a 50NL reg forever, I've already been taking pretty regular shots at 100NL (as you can see from the hands above) for a lot of the month, and have played a little 200NL when I''ve seen good tables too.
Yeah I know what you mean, I think I just fear the swings in MTTs a bit more than cash but I agree I should be playing the £48 game regardless of if I qualify, I'm deffo rolled for that easily. I don't bother with sats for any of the £33 mains anymore cos I think like you said it's not a great usage of my time, so might just need to up my limit a bit of what I'll allow myself to BI to.
Yeah most definitely not regretting it, it's been really tough at times but it's given me so much freedom to spend time with the kids/girlfriend, and doing jobs that are generally a right pain to get done when you have a 9-5 job like MOT'ing a car etc. Still really enjoying the game, and think I just keep getting stronger (especially in my mental game) the more time goes on.
Here is the latest blog... much the same as what you might have seen in the diary but you do get a picture of an iPad