Played a small session this morning (3hr) and had a small win of £75. Had another spot today where I think it's a pretty clear fold pre with KK.... fish opens, I 3bet, nittiest nit from nitsville cold 4s BIG, I shuold fold here but mehh I didn't... fish calls the cold 4bet which is like 80p less than his all-in. I call too, get vv lucky with a KTx rainbow flop and I stack cold 4bettor who obv had AA.
I'm not really into sports betting at all, partly cos I'm not really a big gambler, but also cos I haven't got a clue about most sports. Well JJ, gave me a tip, lol I know .... but another site was doing an offer where they would pay out 3/1 on Phil Taylor to win his match last night when the real odds were 1/10. Max bet of £10, JJ said it was basically just free money, so I punted the tenner last night and he won.
Siiiiigh, another deep run in an MTT with an anti-climatic end. Either I need a bit of rungood OR I need help on my end game... so many wasted deep runs recently.
Main I didn't do that great, but finished 245th shipping KK into AK and losing.
Mini was a lot better, ran vv good in races for quite a while but again at the crucial time it all went to pot. I had about 25xBB @ 2k/4k, SB opens from about 12xBB, I ship K9o, he tanks off A7o and holds. Very next hand, folds to me in SB, I ship JTo, BB snaps w/ AJo, and I'm left with 1xBB. Spun and stuck around for a little bit but bust 15th out of 668 for £42.90 (mostly heads). See Jac.... don't bother with MTTs, they suck
Another decent cash session, nothing special, finished +£90.
Decent start to the month, even if I am starting the month about week later than the rest of you.
Siiiiigh, another deep run in an MTT with an anti-climatic end. Either I need a bit of rungood OR I need help on my end game... so many wasted deep runs recently. Main I didn't do that great, but finished 245th shipping KK into AK and losing. Mini was a lot better, ran vv good in races for quite a while but again at the crucial time it all went to pot. I had about 25xBB @ 2k/4k, SB opens from about 12xBB, I ship K9o, he tanks off A7o and holds. Very next hand, folds to me in SB, I ship JTo, BB snaps w/ AJo, and I'm left with 1xBB. Spun and stuck around for a little bit but bust 15th out of 668 for £42.90 (mostly heads). See Jac.... don't bother with MTTs, they suck Another decent cash session, nothing special, finished +£90. Decent start to the month, even if I am starting the month about week later than the rest of you. Posted by Lambert180
not saying you do, but isn't this the problem with shipping K9. you fold out everything that you beat and are called by everything better. why gamble without a good chance of a double up?
In Response to Re: Lambert180 ----- Lolpro and Onwards ------- : not saying you do, but isn't this the problem with shipping K9. you fold out everything that you beat and are called by everything better. why gamble without a good chance of a double up? Posted by GELDY
I'm not looking to double up, in fact, I can't double up jamming into someone that I have twice the stack of. I know a lot of people are vv reluctant to call off their stack at the end of tournies, so jamming over a minraise when someone only has about 12xBB is gonna get a TON of folds, plus it's BvB so alot of people are just opening anything as a default to steal at this stage, and I've got like 30% equity minimum when called anyway as long as it's not by AA/KK.
That's my thought process anyway, happy for others to disagree obv cos I might very well be taking bad spots... dunno, I'm no MTT sicko.
Dohhh is telling me it's just variance and almost all my exits are good spots.
Fwiw, here are the 2 hands from the mini last night that I mentioned in last night's update. All let me know what you think...
Another decent session this morning on Sky, finished +£100 on cash.
I was planning to deposit on 'the big site' to punt a few of the cheap BI/huge field comps, and some of the lads suggested I have a go at a load of the 180man SnGs over there too so I can get lots of practice on my end game of MTT, so I did that this morning. Will be good tohave those games I can play on the side in the mornings if cash is slow on here.
Played 5 of them in total (4 x $2.50 and 1 x $3r) and min cashed 1 so not a great start but yeh that's tournies.
Ended up having a bash at those Spin N Go SnGs on there too. Obv played 5 and got the PP that's only two thirds of what the proper PP should be everytime. I won 2 of them, and got HU in 2 more of them (1 of which I realllly should have won but the guy was unbeatable in a race). so finished -$3 on those.
What do you think of those Spin and Go's? Ive played 70 so far and won 25 and managed +$40 return (at the $1 level). Obviously if your lucky enough to catch a jackpot SnG and win it then that would be awesome but I try and look at it to make a profit from the smaller bonuses that come along.
Have you any idea what a decent win rate in a 3 man hyper SnG is? 40% or is that too little/small?
As for the 180 man SNG's, there a decent way of learning end game as you only start with 75BB and its hard to get deep so your always in those spots your looking to improve in.
Hi, What do you think of those Spin and Go's? Ive played 70 so far and won 25 and managed +$40 return (at the $1 level). Obviously if your lucky enough to catch a jackpot SnG and win it then that would be awesome but I try and look at it to make a profit from the smaller bonuses that come along. Have you any idea what a decent win rate in a 3 man hyper SnG is? 40% or is that too little/small? As for the 180 man SNG's, there a decent way of learning end game as you only start with 75BB and its hard to get deep so your always in those spots your looking to improve in. Posted by CraigSG1
The swings will be unbarable
A 36% itm will profit long term but if you run bad in the big multipliers you could be a solid winner and have crazy downswings
The rake is lol bad. Staking stables and regs profit sharing could be one way to dampen variance but collusion becomes a risk. Winning players are slaves to recs and recs will love em so I can see regs forming groups and shared bankrolls to beat them. A few mega whales will be created and lots of peeps will lose tons playing them
Yeah, what Teddy said... swings would be unreal. I had/have no intention of grinding them, just played a few for fun.
Another steady decent session this morning, played for about 3 and half hours and finished +£100, glad to see my momentum from Sept carrying through to Oct.
I think I'm gonna play the £125 Grand Prix Final at DTDD coming up soon, anyone else going?
So I was out of tonight's main by about 10 past 8 tonight, sigh. Someone dropped short (about 900 chips) early on and then 3b/called it off pre w/ QJo, they held V my TT to halve my stack. Shortly after I walked into QQ myself as an OP to the board.
Cash started great, and I was running pretty amazing, then for the last hour I got hammered. Really frustrating and ending up standing from the tables to avoid doing anything stupid and spewing off my remaining profit. Finished +£110 on cash, was at least £250+ 60 minutes earlier like but still can't complain.
Suppose it's a bit overdue but had a grim session tonight. For some reason, I always seem to have horrible Fri/Sat nights when they're supposed to be the most profitable times to play. The tables were great as well, but it was just one of those nights where people keep getting there.
These 2 pots were against the same guy in the space of about 3 minutes. Fwiw, in the 2nd hand I'd never normally raise any hand on such a dry flop but the villian was .... 'not very good' shall we say, and he really didn't like the fold button so I just wanted to make sure I could set him up to get the lot in by the river.
Player
Action
Cards
Amount
Pot
Balance
Darian
Small blind
£0.25
£0.25
£24.84
Lambert180
Big blind
£0.50
£0.75
£134.11
Your hole cards
6
6
unclerolf
Fold
X
Raise
£1.75
£2.50
£57.19
NooGooood
Fold
zinfan
Fold
Darian
Call
£1.50
£4.00
£23.34
Lambert180
Call
£1.25
£5.25
£132.86
Flop
7
6
7
Darian
Check
Lambert180
Check
X
Bet
£5.00
£10.25
£52.19
Darian
Call
£5.00
£15.25
£18.34
Lambert180
Call
£5.00
£20.25
£127.86
Turn
2
Darian
Check
Lambert180
Check
X
All-in
£52.19
£72.44
£0.00
Darian
Fold
Lambert180
Raise
£104.38
£176.82
£23.48
Lambert180
Unmatched bet
£52.19
£124.63
£75.67
Lambert180
Show
6
6
X
Show
7
10
River
2
X
Win
Full House, 7s and 2s
£122.83
£122.83
Player
Action
Cards
Amount
Pot
Balance
Lambert180
Small blind
£0.25
£0.25
£76.18
unclerolf
Big blind
£0.50
£0.75
£34.93
smoogsie05
Sit out
Your hole cards
4
4
X
Raise
£1.50
£2.25
£120.91
zinfan
Call
£1.50
£3.75
£79.54
Darian
Fold
Lambert180
Call
£1.25
£5.00
£74.93
unclerolf
Fold
Flop
2
4
A
Lambert180
Check
X
Bet
£3.00
£8.00
£117.91
zinfan
Call
£3.00
£11.00
£76.54
Lambert180
Raise
£9.00
£20.00
£65.93
X
Call
£6.00
£26.00
£111.91
zinfan
Fold
Turn
J
Lambert180
Bet
£16.50
£42.50
£49.43
X
Call
£16.50
£59.00
£95.41
River
3
Lambert180
All-in
£49.43
£108.43
£0.00
X
Call
£49.43
£157.86
£45.98
Lambert180
Show
4
4
X
Show
5
A
X
Win
Straight to the 5
£156.06
£202.04
Those were just a couple of the big losses but yeah it was fairly brutal. Ended up being -£185 so could have been worse.
Played the main again but it was uneventful, no heads, and bust 134th.
Not played for a couple of days. On Saturday afternoon I went to a kid's birthday party with my little girls and me and Emma were chatting about a few things and it made me think that it's crazy how clever/strong the human body is. I won't go into all the details but when Lily was born the doctors said she had a 50/50 chance of surviving, and if she did she would definitely suffer long term damage. When she was born she had quite severe brain damage, she didn't take her first step until she was 3 (and it would be a long time before she could actually walk) and it was roughly the same age before she could talk.
I was reminded of this because of something that came up on Emma's FB on Timehop (for people that aren't sucked into the world of FB - it basically makes u aware of things you posted on this day 1 year ago, or on this day 2 years ago etc). The thing that came up on Emma's timehop the other day was from 3 years ago when Lily had the results back from her MRI and was told there was no signs of brain damage, so in the 3 years since she was born she had gone from severe brain damage to her brain 'healing itself'.
She is still of course behind on a few things, mostly physical things, but there was was at the party (6 yrs old now) dancing etc when it took her to the age of 3 to even walk, and she's literally top of the class in a lot of academic areas like reading.
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GaryLaud seems to be struggling with 4NL. Beating 4NL is all about just good solid basics but they're only basic when you know them, so I said I'd do a video for him of me palying 4NL. I did it this morning, only 45 mins of me 6tabling with a small amount of me chatting (not much strat really). Just exported the vid so gonna upload to youtube and post on here and to him.
Not played for a couple of days. On Saturday afternoon I went to a kid's birthday party with my little girls and me and Emma were chatting about a few things and it made me think that it's crazy how clever/strong the human body is. I won't go into all the details but when Lily was born the doctors said she had a 50/50 chance of surviving, and if she did she would definitely suffer long term damage. When she was born she had quite severe brain damage, she didn't take her first step until she was 3 (and it would be a long time before she could actually walk) and it was roughly the same age before she could talk. I was reminded of this because of something that came up on Emma's FB on Timehop (for people that aren't sucked into the world of FB - it basically makes u aware of things you posted on this day 1 year ago, or on this day 2 years ago etc). The thing that came up on Emma's timehop the other day was from 3 years ago when Lily had the results back from her MRI and was told there was no signs of brain damage, so in the 3 years since she was born she had gone from severe brain damage to her brain 'healing itself'. She is still of course behind on a few things, mostly physical things, but there was was at the party (6 yrs old now) dancing etc when it took her to the age of 3 to even walk, and she's literally top of the class in a lot of academic areas like reading. Posted by Lambert180
Lovely story.
I have a granddaughter who is now 3. She was born with a serious heart defect and had open heart surgery aged 3 x months. (The surgeon said if this had happened 5 years previously she would probably NOT have survived! Techniques had advanced so much.) Anyhow, the operation was a massive success and she is now a normal kid who is like a whirling dervish ALL the time. You are right, the human body is amazing. The human mind is even more amazing.
Not played for a couple of days. On Saturday afternoon I went to a kid's birthday party with my little girls and me and Emma were chatting about a few things and it made me think that it's crazy how clever/strong the human body is. I won't go into all the details but when Lily was born the doctors said she had a 50/50 chance of surviving, and if she did she would definitely suffer long term damage. When she was born she had quite severe brain damage, she didn't take her first step until she was 3 (and it would be a long time before she could actually walk) and it was roughly the same age before she could talk. I was reminded of this because of something that came up on Emma's FB on Timehop (for people that aren't sucked into the world of FB - it basically makes u aware of things you posted on this day 1 year ago, or on this day 2 years ago etc). The thing that came up on Emma's timehop the other day was from 3 years ago when Lily had the results back from her MRI and was told there was no signs of brain damage, so in the 3 years since she was born she had gone from severe brain damage to her brain 'healing itself'. She is still of course behind on a few things, mostly physical things, but there was was at the party (6 yrs old now) dancing etc when it took her to the age of 3 to even walk, and she's literally top of the class in a lot of academic areas like reading. =============================== GaryLaud seems to be struggling with 4NL. Beating 4NL is all about just good solid basics but they're only basic when you know them, so I said I'd do a video for him of me palying 4NL. I did it this morning, only 45 mins of me 6tabling with a small amount of me chatting (not much strat really). Just exported the vid so gonna upload to youtube and post on here and to him. Posted by Lambert180
That's a great post Paul
So pleased everythings working out for Lily.
With parents like you and Emma to support her, I'm sure she'll be just fine.
Not played for a couple of days. On Saturday afternoon I went to a kid's birthday party with my little girls and me and Emma were chatting about a few things and it made me think that it's crazy how clever/strong the human body is. I won't go into all the details but when Lily was born the doctors said she had a 50/50 chance of surviving, and if she did she would definitely suffer long term damage. When she was born she had quite severe brain damage, she didn't take her first step until she was 3 (and it would be a long time before she could actually walk) and it was roughly the same age before she could talk. I was reminded of this because of something that came up on Emma's FB on Timehop (for people that aren't sucked into the world of FB - it basically makes u aware of things you posted on this day 1 year ago, or on this day 2 years ago etc). The thing that came up on Emma's timehop the other day was from 3 years ago when Lily had the results back from her MRI and was told there was no signs of brain damage, so in the 3 years since she was born she had gone from severe brain damage to her brain 'healing itself'. She is still of course behind on a few things, mostly physical things, but there was was at the party (6 yrs old now) dancing etc when it took her to the age of 3 to even walk, and she's literally top of the class in a lot of academic areas like reading. =============================== GaryLaud seems to be struggling with 4NL. Beating 4NL is all about just good solid basics but they're only basic when you know them, so I said I'd do a video for him of me palying 4NL. I did it this morning, only 45 mins of me 6tabling with a small amount of me chatting (not much strat really). Just exported the vid so gonna upload to youtube and post on here and to him. Posted by Lambert180
Nice post lad.Rarely post on others pages atm,but still enjoy reading them.Yours is no exception.
Not played for a couple of days. On Saturday afternoon I went to a kid's birthday party with my little girls and me and Emma were chatting about a few things and it made me think that it's crazy how clever/strong the human body is. I won't go into all the details but when Lily was born the doctors said she had a 50/50 chance of surviving, and if she did she would definitely suffer long term damage. When she was born she had quite severe brain damage, she didn't take her first step until she was 3 (and it would be a long time before she could actually walk) and it was roughly the same age before she could talk. I was reminded of this because of something that came up on Emma's FB on Timehop (for people that aren't sucked into the world of FB - it basically makes u aware of things you posted on this day 1 year ago, or on this day 2 years ago etc). The thing that came up on Emma's timehop the other day was from 3 years ago when Lily had the results back from her MRI and was told there was no signs of brain damage, so in the 3 years since she was born she had gone from severe brain damage to her brain 'healing itself'. She is still of course behind on a few things, mostly physical things, but there was was at the party (6 yrs old now) dancing etc when it took her to the age of 3 to even walk, and she's literally top of the class in a lot of academic areas like reading. =============================== GaryLaud seems to be struggling with 4NL. Beating 4NL is all about just good solid basics but they're only basic when you know them, so I said I'd do a video for him of me palying 4NL. I did it this morning, only 45 mins of me 6tabling with a small amount of me chatting (not much strat really). Just exported the vid so gonna upload to youtube and post on here and to him. Posted by Lambert180
Here's the video I did for GaryLaud of me playing 4NL. Again not a huge amount of strat chat in the video but I think it's probably better not to go overboard with that anyway at this stage. I made a fair few mistakes along the way but meh, there's plenty of room to make little mistakes at these levels and still crush.
Apart from the little bit of of 4NL for the GaryLaud vid, I aint played a session since Friday night were it all went a bit Pete Tong. I was gonna play last night but Emma's laptop decided to just stop working and so she had to borrow mine in the night time to do the Tesco online food shop.
So finally got a session in this moring. I've been thinking about it for a while and decided it was about time to start adding in some 100NL tables again. Just added 1 table of 100NL this morning alongside another 7 tables of 30-50NL. Finished the session +£150
Points are looking absolutely dreadful at 3065 but I'll deffo be making Prio at least.
I looked at the Cash Kings leaderboard thing yesterday when tey put the hand counts up and glad to see I was like 7500 hands clear of 11th place in the Micro one so should have £100 locked up there with only 5 days to go. Also should be able to get at least £100 from the Low stakes one too.
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Played a small session this morning (3hr) and had a small win of £75. Had another spot today where I think it's a pretty clear fold pre with KK.... fish opens, I 3bet, nittiest nit from nitsville cold 4s BIG, I shuold fold here but mehh I didn't... fish calls the cold 4bet which is like 80p less than his all-in. I call too, get vv lucky with a KTx rainbow flop and I stack cold 4bettor who obv had AA.
I'm not really into sports betting at all, partly cos I'm not really a big gambler, but also cos I haven't got a clue about most sports. Well JJ, gave me a tip, lol I know
Main I didn't do that great, but finished 245th shipping KK into AK and losing.
Mini was a lot better, ran vv good in races for quite a while but again at the crucial time it all went to pot. I had about 25xBB @ 2k/4k, SB opens from about 12xBB, I ship K9o, he tanks off A7o and holds. Very next hand, folds to me in SB, I ship JTo, BB snaps w/ AJo, and I'm left with 1xBB. Spun and stuck around for a little bit but bust 15th out of 668 for £42.90 (mostly heads). See Jac.... don't bother with MTTs, they suck
Another decent cash session, nothing special, finished +£90.
Decent start to the month, even if I am starting the month about week later than the rest of you.
That's my thought process anyway, happy for others to disagree obv cos I might very well be taking bad spots... dunno, I'm no MTT sicko.
Dohhh is telling me it's just variance and almost all my exits are good spots.
Fwiw, here are the 2 hands from the mini last night that I mentioned in last night's update. All let me know what you think...
I was planning to deposit on 'the big site' to punt a few of the cheap BI/huge field comps, and some of the lads suggested I have a go at a load of the 180man SnGs over there too so I can get lots of practice on my end game of MTT, so I did that this morning. Will be good tohave those games I can play on the side in the mornings if cash is slow on here.
Played 5 of them in total (4 x $2.50 and 1 x $3r) and min cashed 1 so not a great start but yeh that's tournies.
Ended up having a bash at those Spin N Go SnGs on there too. Obv played 5 and got the PP that's only two thirds of what the proper PP should be everytime. I won 2 of them, and got HU in 2 more of them (1 of which I realllly should have won but the guy was unbeatable in a race). so finished -$3 on those.
So a total loss of $20 on there.
Another steady decent session this morning, played for about 3 and half hours and finished +£100, glad to see my momentum from Sept carrying through to Oct.
I think I'm gonna play the £125 Grand Prix Final at DTDD coming up soon, anyone else going?
Cash started great, and I was running pretty amazing, then for the last hour I got hammered. Really frustrating and ending up standing from the tables to avoid doing anything stupid and spewing off my remaining profit. Finished +£110 on cash, was at least £250+ 60 minutes earlier like but still can't complain.
Overall a £200 day, very nice.
Points = 2284 (vvv poor I know)
These 2 pots were against the same guy in the space of about 3 minutes. Fwiw, in the 2nd hand I'd never normally raise any hand on such a dry flop but the villian was .... 'not very good' shall we say, and he really didn't like the fold button so I just wanted to make sure I could set him up to get the lot in by the river.
Played the main again but it was uneventful, no heads, and bust 134th.
I was reminded of this because of something that came up on Emma's FB on Timehop (for people that aren't sucked into the world of FB - it basically makes u aware of things you posted on this day 1 year ago, or on this day 2 years ago etc). The thing that came up on Emma's timehop the other day was from 3 years ago when Lily had the results back from her MRI and was told there was no signs of brain damage, so in the 3 years since she was born she had gone from severe brain damage to her brain 'healing itself'.
She is still of course behind on a few things, mostly physical things, but there was was at the party (6 yrs old now) dancing etc when it took her to the age of 3 to even walk, and she's literally top of the class in a lot of academic areas like reading.
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GaryLaud seems to be struggling with 4NL. Beating 4NL is all about just good solid basics but they're only basic when you know them, so I said I'd do a video for him of me palying 4NL. I did it this morning, only 45 mins of me 6tabling with a small amount of me chatting (not much strat really). Just exported the vid so gonna upload to youtube and post on here and to him.
Here's the video I did for GaryLaud of me playing 4NL. Again not a huge amount of strat chat in the video but I think it's probably better not to go overboard with that anyway at this stage. I made a fair few mistakes along the way but meh, there's plenty of room to make little mistakes at these levels and still crush.
Feel fre to comment/abuse etc
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Whats it like working with Roy Keane? :-)
Great post from one of the best contributors on here !
Apart from the little bit of of 4NL for the GaryLaud vid, I aint played a session since Friday night were it all went a bit Pete Tong. I was gonna play last night but Emma's laptop decided to just stop working and so she had to borrow mine in the night time to do the Tesco online food shop.
So finally got a session in this moring. I've been thinking about it for a while and decided it was about time to start adding in some 100NL tables again. Just added 1 table of 100NL this morning alongside another 7 tables of 30-50NL. Finished the session +£150
Points are looking absolutely dreadful at 3065 but I'll deffo be making Prio at least.
I looked at the Cash Kings leaderboard thing yesterday when tey put the hand counts up and glad to see I was like 7500 hands clear of 11th place in the Micro one so should have £100 locked up there with only 5 days to go. Also should be able to get at least £100 from the Low stakes one too.