Just a quick update this morning. Another morning full of bricked UKOPS sats, must be like 15 I've played now and not come close once. Closest I got today was ddown to the final 5, winner takes all, was CL, then lost every pot I played from there on.
Only lost about £20 this morning on them cos a lot were getting cancelled sadly.
Cash went alot better today, I was feeling really good about the result then I checked at the end of the session and was like wtffff when I saw +£8. Then I remembered I'd regged the £55r UKOPS and the £55 BH so I could play the sats for cash, so turns out cash was actually +£118 so wiiiii a winning session
Just a quick update this morning. Another morning full of bricked UKOPS sats, must be like 15 I've played now and not come close once. Closest I got today was ddown to the final 5, winner takes all, was CL, then lost every pot I played from there on. Only lost about £20 this morning on them cos a lot were getting cancelled sadly. Cash went alot better today, I was feeling really good about the result then I checked at the end of the session and was like wtffff when I saw +£8. Then I remembered I'd regged the £55r UKOPS and the £55 BH so I could play the sats for cash, so turns out cash was actually +£118 so wiiiii a winning session Points = 1718 Posted by Lambert180
In Response to Re: Lambert180 ----- Lolpro and Onwards ------- : Playing sats for cash? How do you sleep at night! Posted by MattBates
i usually do the same thing myself.
one of the reasons i usually prefer to use cash tables rather than join sats is cash is a very nitty game at the lower levels, the number of times i've a flop such as 3c 7s 3s or Qc 2d 6s, in cash i'm expecting to win the pot as soon as i cbet, cbet the flop in a micro stakes MTT or sat and i'm called 9 times out of 10 but Ch and i see these min blocker bets done.
it might sound strange but i'm thinking i myself for some reason have better times playing against players such as yourself than i do against those who like to see flops.
i don't know weather it's me being over aggressive, over playing hands, over valuing them or just not being respectful enough post flop.
so i would love it if you could do a video of how you yourself play against these players in the semi and mini MTTs please.
Craig that is an age old fish comment to say stuff like 'I'd rather play against better players', 'they respect my raises' etc etc. It's just flawed thinking, you wanna play against the worst players you can find, sure sometimes there's bigger swings involved but your edge/winnings will be bigger long term. GL FT'ing main events if everyone you played against was like Matt Bates!
Wiiii had my first good session for a while. I played 2 x £6 UKOPS sats and 2 x £12 ones, and finally managed to win one to take £110 cash. Only took me about £105 to do it
So I was +£74 for the sats and finished just over +£270 for cash too, so a very decent morning, and got myself in the black for the month now.
Gonna be starting back at the gym again soon. It'll be good for me to just actually leave the house for a change, good for my health, it just helps get a bit of balance into my life/game, plus I think it'll help my general mental state/tilt etc.
I got some pay back for the nice session this morning by literally everything going wrong tonight.
The most frustrating one was the main cos obv it's the biggest BI and it's a bit of a morale killer when you bust the biggest comp at the start of the session. I had a big punter on my table, you may have seen on 861, first hand of the comp he 3b and called huge 4b OOP first hand with K9s, managed to get very lucky and bust the guy who had KK. Then those 5k chips he'd won were gone again instantly. He was 3betting huge every hand etc.
He drops down to about 2.5k (5k starting) and 3b me very big (normal sizing for him), so I 4b vv big with AK, happy to GII and making it pretty obvious it was a committing size. He ignored that and just decided to peel the 4b OOP for half his stack with 57o instead. He flops 2nd pr and given stack sizes I can never fold, goes in on like J72 and we miss our overs.
Shortly after I'm SB v MacMonsters BB, I have AJ, he has AA, flop is like J63 in a 3b pot, so that was gg.
Reg an £11 BH, open 33, flop comes 369ss, guy donk ships KQss, and that was gg another comp. By this point I was running out of comps to register on Sky and didn't wanna sit there 1-2 tabling while I wait for the later comps to start so tried opening 888 and stars, both of which needed a software update and for some reason wouldn't update, so I can't play on either of them atm lol.
I sold a package to a few guys and gals for 50% of my UKOPS action (didn't include the minis cos they're cheap) btw
So in the end was only able to play ...
£110 main (£55 cos part of the package) £22 Deepy (£11 cos part of the package) £750 GTD £11 BH £1k GTD £11 BH £2k GTD £11 BH £6 UKOPS Direct Sat to £110 ME tonight.
Got 1 head for £3.75 so lost about £100 total. I've had worse days!
Another sigh night of MTTs. Ran awful in the UKOPS main again, ran awful in £55 UKOPS BH, i just seem to be unable to win a pot in any of the tournies I've sold action for. My first chance to get some money back for the stake was 99 v 44 in £55 BH but 4 river put a stop to that. I eventually managed to spin my stack back up and did take 1 head, then I GII on J95r with KK v J4o, obv river was the 4 for me to bust, so got a total of £18.75 cashes for the stake atm.
I regged a sat which I thought was to the ME but it was actually to the ME semi which if I'd known I wouldn't have bothered with so just regged Semi to take the £££ if I won.
Another mega sigh from yet another deep run on here (in the mini) that amounted to nothing.
So in total I played....
£110 Main (£55 cos part of package) - £0 £55 BH (£27.50 cos part of package) - £18.75 of heads £1k GTD £11 BH - 58/161 and £7.50 of heads £2k GTD £11 BH - 112/241 and £8.44 of heads UKOPS Semi Sat - 3/11 bubbling the seats for £4.80 £250 GTD £2 Speed Rebuy - 5/104 for £28.08 £5.50 UKOPS Mini - 12/786 - £31 ... siiiiigh
Hey Lambert, I just looked at your profile on SharkScope. What are the small buyin STT's your playing? The graph shows that the rake is crushing you. I highly doubt that they are beatable with 10% rake. http://postimg.org/image/g5w3dm4f1/ Posted by dub1
Lol I assume this is a genuine question and not another rundown about this topic, either way I don't mind.
Those games you refer to will be Russian roulettes so yes they are unbeatable. I only played them for a points promo on here cos I knew it would be +ev if I ran even close to EV. Obv I ran like lambo tho and finished £500 below EV.
So the sng part of my SS is ruined but meh I only care about the mtt bit anyway. Shows I lose just under £3k iirc but obv you can't see that I won a £1k ukpc seat + £500 cash + nearly £1.5k rakeback. So would have been about +500 if I ran EV but worked out as a vv small loss.
So now looking st scheduled only is the only way to see a meaningful SS for me
In Response to Re: Lambert180 ----- Lolpro and Onwards ------- : Lol I assume this is a genuine question and not another rundown about this topic, either way I don't mind. Those games you refer to will be Russian roulettes so yes they are unbeatable. I only played them for a points promo on here cos I knew it would be +ev if I ran even close to EV. Obv I ran like lambo tho and finished £500 below EV. So the sng part of my SS is ruined but meh I only care about the mtt bit anyway. Shows I lose just under £3k iirc but obv you can't see that I won a £1k ukpc seat + £500 cash + nearly £1.5k rakeback. So would have been about +500 if I ran EV but worked out as a vv small loss. So now looking st scheduled only is the only way to see a meaningful SS for me Posted by Lambert180
No it was a genuine concern. Lol, I just read back through your thread and seen your post on the matter. I can't believe you actually get action on RR's. I understand your reasoning now but the poeple giving you action must be really stupid.
Getting boring writing it (and playing through it myself) but if I'm gonna sing when I'm winning then it's only fair I moan when I'm losing and tonight was yet again brutal.
UKOPS Main, I was fortunate to get an early bounty, one guy dropped to 15 chips a couple of hands in, and the very next hand I had AT and won the pot/his bounty. Obv that luck lasted for all of about 5 minutes when I had 88 v 99 shortly after on 89T flop, GII on the turn and it was gg.
£22 UKOPS BH was AK<QQ no heads
£55 deepy I trundled along for longer than the others but wasn't getting much going and eventually bust 31/70.
£1k £11 BH - I doubled early doors (but didn't take a head), so I had 4k and another villian on the table had 4k too. 5 mins later, I iso'd his limp with JT, got the Q89ccc flop, turns out he'd limp/called 74cc and I was drawing dead. So doubled starting stack and bust in <10mins... impressive skills.
£2k £11 BH - got to the mid stages without any heads, then opened KT, villian peels BB then donk shoves T93r, I call, he has AQ and I bust.
Played some cash tonight because the brutality above meant that there were periods of me 0tabling waiting for more MTTs to load etc. That went equally bad, lots of coolers, lots of stuff like KK<QQ aipf, lots of runbad essentially. Finished cash -£180 which was a pretty good result considering. Only as good as it was because one of the 50NL tables broke to just me and one guy that was on the fishy side and I took about £100 off him before he sat out.
So-£180 cash and -£95 on MTTs which puts me just a smidge back into the red for the month. God I'll be glad to see the back of this UKOPS!!
sounds very much like a run i had back in seeptember, i was going into MTTs constantly loosing a decent pot having attempted to isolate a limper, then going onto cash, loosing large amounts in coolers and i'll struggle to recover them losses as the cash are not as loose as the MTTs.
don't let it get at you to much, i would recommend just taking a break as you might be not getting the full focus needed as that 7c4c seems to tell me, maybe you have things on your mind, take a break mate.
I got some pay back for the nice session this morning by literally everything going wrong tonight. The most frustrating one was the main cos obv it's the biggest BI and it's a bit of a morale killer when you bust the biggest comp at the start of the session. I had a big punter on my table, you may have seen on 861, first hand of the comp he 3b and called huge 4b OOP first hand with K9s, managed to get very lucky and bust the guy who had KK. Then those 5k chips he'd won were gone again instantly. He was 3betting huge every hand etc. He drops down to about 2.5k (5k starting) and 3b me very big (normal sizing for him), so I 4b vv big with AK, happy to GII and making it pretty obvious it was a committing size. He ignored that and just decided to peel the 4b OOP for half his stack with 57o instead. He flops 2nd pr and given stack sizes I can never fold, goes in on like J72 and we miss our overs. Shortly after I'm SB v MacMonsters BB, I have AJ, he has AA, flop is like J63 in a 3b pot, so that was gg. Reg an £11 BH, open 33, flop comes 369ss, guy donk ships KQss, and that was gg another comp. By this point I was running out of comps to register on Sky and didn't wanna sit there 1-2 tabling while I wait for the later comps to start so tried opening 888 and stars, both of which needed a software update and for some reason wouldn't update, so I can't play on either of them atm lol. I sold a package to a few guys and gals for 50% of my UKOPS action (didn't include the minis cos they're cheap) btw So in the end was only able to play ... £110 main (£55 cos part of the package) £22 Deepy (£11 cos part of the package) £750 GTD £11 BH £1k GTD £11 BH £2k GTD £11 BH £6 UKOPS Direct Sat to £110 ME tonight. Got 1 head for £3.75 so lost about £100 total. I've had worse days! Posted by Lambert180
Hi m8
I was just wondering whjere you sold action at. Also do you ever buy action in other players - GL with turning the minidownswing around
the it went was you would have just seen me 3bet an AK then do a Ch with that on the flop, you'll be likely to show much more respect when a bet is made so i though maybe do a value bet on the flop then it comes a brick so i'm thinking you have certainly got a pair, if i did a second value bet i could well be then thinking i'll have to jam the river and the difference with AQ is won't be as good if a K came,so i treat it like a polarised bet. QQ and JJ charging the AK large amount for calls AK AQ attempting to get rid of the very smallest pairs and AA KK doing a polarised bet rather than two value bets.
@TPTP - Nah I don't keep seperate rolls. Happily rolled for the cash and MTTs level I play so don't feel the need.
@Craig - I don't know what you mean about the 74cc hand. If I flop JT on Q98ccc in an £11 BH then I'm getting it in. We'd have to be insanely deep or playing against the nittiest nit ever to not GII there. That hand is just another cooler to add to my list of many. Nh from the main, it was your turn sizing that threw me off, very bizarre to go from a small flop bet to a relatively huge turn bet on the brickiest of bricks on the turn, it just shouldn't ever be a bluff really and that's all I could beat (I had 99 fwiw).
@MP33 - I have a few poker mates I talk to most days... Dohhhhh, Evil_Pingu, AJ_Rockets and Don_90 who I occasionally sell to. There's also a FB group for anyone on Sky that wants to sell action and that's where I sold this package. I have bought the odd bit of action in players but tbh I'm quite picky and most of the players that I'd deem to be good enough for me to want to buy don't often sell action.
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I am so glad UKOPS is over. It's been absolutely grim from start to finish.
Main event tonight was pretty meh, going along ok, dribbled away a bit below starting stack. Eventually got to about 25xBB, the table fish opens from 20xBB, I 3b jam AQs, he snaps AJo and in-keeping with the theme of the week, of course he hits the jack. I'm left with 5xBB and it folds to me in the SB the very next hand, I shove A6o and the BB calls with 23s. I flop my 6 and he just does runner runner straight to bust me lol. Absolutely bizarre call, I could 100% understand it when everyone else is SO deep and I've got 5xBB if it was a BH, but in a freezeout it's just madness to call in that spot when you are behind to literally 100% of hands but w/e, was happy with the call until he did runner runner straight obv.
£1k £11 BH - bust out flush v rivered FH
£2k £11 BH - I GII on the turn with the 2nd nut straight and a FD, he had the nut straight and I bricked.
£11 Mini - Doing quite well then bust 88<AQ
£55 BH - Went quite deep in this but didn't take any heads and then bust 99<AK
£22 BH - Went really deep in this and this was the one that could have been the saver for the whole series. Still ran pretty bad in it, had so many great spots to build a stack and take heads and lost the races every single time. Eventually bust for next to nothing (yet again), finishing 17th for £56.44 with £1k + heads up top bust out was ATs<AK
Deffo the worst period of runbad I've had in MTTs are it certainly is marvelous to happen bang in the middle of UKOPS when I'm playing the biggest BIs Sky run all year. Can't wait to just get back to the cash tables and try to get out of the hole from UKOPS.
AJ Rockets is still going in that £22 BH with 3 left so hope he takes it down, and as I write this he's just gone HU against The_Hux.
@TPTP - Nah I don't keep seperate rolls. Happily rolled for the cash and MTTs level I play so don't feel the need. @Craig - I don't know what you mean about the 74cc hand. If I flop JT on Q98ccc in an £11 BH then I'm getting it in. We'd have to be insanely deep or playing against the nittiest nit ever to not GII there. That hand is just another cooler to add to my list of many. Nh from the main, it was your turn sizing that threw me off, very bizarre to go from a small flop bet to a relatively huge turn bet on the brickiest of bricks on the turn, it just shouldn't ever be a bluff really and that's all I could beat (I had 99 fwiw). @MP33 - I have a few poker mates I talk to most days... Dohhhhh, Evil_Pingu, AJ_Rockets and Don_90 who I occasionally sell to. There's also a FB group for anyone on Sky that wants to sell action and that's where I sold this package. I have bought the odd bit of action in players but tbh I'm quite picky and most of the players that I'd deem to be good enough for me to want to buy don't often sell action. ====================================== I am so glad UKOPS is over. It's been absolutely grim from start to finish. Main event tonight was pretty meh, going along ok, dribbled away a bit below starting stack. Eventually got to about 25xBB, the table fish opens from 20xBB, I 3b jam AQs, he snaps AJo and in-keeping with the theme of the week, of course he hits the jack. I'm left with 5xBB and it folds to me in the SB the very next hand, I shove A6o and the BB calls with 23s. I flop my 6 and he just does runner runner straight to bust me lol. Absolutely bizarre call, I could 100% understand it when everyone else is SO deep and I've got 5xBB if it was a BH, but in a freezeout it's just madness to call in that spot when you are behind to literally 100% of hands but w/e, was happy with the call until he did runner runner straight obv. £1k £11 BH - bust out flush v rivered FH £2k £11 BH - I GII on the turn with the 2nd nut straight and a FD, he had the nut straight and I bricked. £11 Mini - Doing quite well then bust 88<AQ £55 BH - Went quite deep in this but didn't take any heads and then bust 99<AK £22 BH - Went really deep in this and this was the one that could have been the saver for the whole series. Still ran pretty bad in it, had so many great spots to build a stack and take heads and lost the races every single time. Eventually bust for next to nothing (yet again), finishing 17th for £56.44 with £1k + heads up top bust out was ATs<AK Deffo the worst period of runbad I've had in MTTs are it certainly is marvelous to happen bang in the middle of UKOPS when I'm playing the biggest BIs Sky run all year. Can't wait to just get back to the cash tables and try to get out of the hole from UKOPS. AJ Rockets is still going in that £22 BH with 3 left so hope he takes it down, and as I write this he's just gone HU against The_Hux. Posted by Lambert180
Everything youve said here it feels like im reading my own diary, so glad UKOPS is over aswell. probably lost about 1k in tournaments. Cash saved me but still ran insanely bad. Hope the luck changes for the both of us lol
my point about the 7c4c is you must have did some over betting, I understand it being a BH and people playing loose but that normally occurs if a short stack has gone all in. overall it was hard to tell without seeing the very hand, early i'm guessing means you have 50BB.
with the AQ i saw the play i did with AK ,it give me the assistance to represent a large pair this time round if a bet is done.
So having ch the 5 high board holding my AK, on this occasion you might be thinking i've got a premium pair, as you did call, i've thought myself. do you hold the set or does the consideration of you knowing me well tell you a call is fine with middle pairs on the flop. so i see a brick on the turn thought, as i've got over cards i'm still hopeful of a bluff working and if it didn't work i could hit the over card itself on river.
if i did do a value bet on the turn and a 3rd brick came on the river, i see a spot which i'm sure to see you call a large bet because by then you'd think youself it would be stupid of JJ-AA waste the chance of getting that 3rd call by weaker so they do a value bet, the thing about value bet is that has great chance of calls.
Do you ever take a break from poker? like 3days+? if you dont then maybe you should try it, especially when you are on a downsing, even if you have a couple of winning days after it can feel like a defeat if you havent managed to catch up with your losses from before... I always suggest a break and then coming back with a fresh start and a new outlook.
Obviously you are a very competant cash player, but do you refocus before switching to MTTs? Im a poor/average cash player and if im to play MTT's after an afternoon of cash i have to give myself 30mins/hour break to mentally prepare for MTT's otherwise i look back the next day and notice a few leaks or that i was playing with a slightly robotic cash mentality early in the tournaments.
Hope you start to run better mate, but I would definitely look back over your play before the exit hands as it only takes a few small tweaks at certain stages of tournaments to go from having to get it in for your life, to being able to pressurise everyone else for there life around you
my point about the 7c4c is you must have did some over betting, I understand it being a BH and people playing loose but that normally occurs if a short stack has gone all in. overall it was hard to tell without seeing the very hand, early i'm guessing means you have 50BB. with the AQ i saw the play i did with AK give me the assistance to represent a large pair this time round. So having ch the 5 high board holding my AK you might be thinking i've got a premium pair, as you did call i've thought myself do you hold the set or does the consideration of you knowing me well tell you a call is fine with middle pairs on the flop. so i see a brick on the turn i think, as i've got over cards i'm still hopeful of a bluff working, if it didn't work, i could still hit the over card itself. if i did do a value bet on the turn and a 3rd brick came on the river then i see a spot which i'm sure to see you call a large bet because by then it would be stupid of JJ-AA wasting the chance of getting that 3rd call, so i do a value bet and probably see some pairs maybe call. Posted by craigcu12
Craig, really no need to ramble. All you need to say to Lambo is that you owned him in that hand.
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Only lost about £20 this morning on them cos a lot were getting cancelled sadly.
Cash went alot better today, I was feeling really good about the result then I checked at the end of the session and was like wtffff when I saw +£8. Then I remembered I'd regged the £55r UKOPS and the £55 BH so I could play the sats for cash, so turns out cash was actually +£118 so wiiiii a winning session
Points = 1718
one of the reasons i usually prefer to use cash tables rather than join sats is cash is a very nitty game at the lower levels, the number of times i've a flop such as 3c 7s 3s or Qc 2d 6s, in cash i'm expecting to win the pot as soon as i cbet, cbet the flop in a micro stakes MTT or sat and i'm called 9 times out of 10 but Ch and i see these min blocker bets done.
it might sound strange but i'm thinking i myself for some reason have better times playing against players such as yourself than i do against those who like to see flops.
i don't know weather it's me being over aggressive, over playing hands, over valuing them or just not being respectful enough post flop.
so i would love it if you could do a video of how you yourself play against these players in the semi and mini MTTs please.
Wiiii had my first good session for a while. I played 2 x £6 UKOPS sats and 2 x £12 ones, and finally managed to win one to take £110 cash. Only took me about £105 to do it
So I was +£74 for the sats and finished just over +£270 for cash too, so a very decent morning, and got myself in the black for the month now.
Gonna be starting back at the gym again soon. It'll be good for me to just actually leave the house for a change, good for my health, it just helps get a bit of balance into my life/game, plus I think it'll help my general mental state/tilt etc.
Points = 2383
The most frustrating one was the main cos obv it's the biggest BI and it's a bit of a morale killer when you bust the biggest comp at the start of the session. I had a big punter on my table, you may have seen on 861, first hand of the comp he 3b and called huge 4b OOP first hand with K9s, managed to get very lucky and bust the guy who had KK. Then those 5k chips he'd won were gone again instantly. He was 3betting huge every hand etc.
He drops down to about 2.5k (5k starting) and 3b me very big (normal sizing for him), so I 4b vv big with AK, happy to GII and making it pretty obvious it was a committing size. He ignored that and just decided to peel the 4b OOP for half his stack with 57o instead. He flops 2nd pr and given stack sizes I can never fold, goes in on like J72 and we miss our overs.
Shortly after I'm SB v MacMonsters BB, I have AJ, he has AA, flop is like J63 in a 3b pot, so that was gg.
Reg an £11 BH, open 33, flop comes 369ss, guy donk ships KQss, and that was gg another comp. By this point I was running out of comps to register on Sky and didn't wanna sit there 1-2 tabling while I wait for the later comps to start so tried opening 888 and stars, both of which needed a software update and for some reason wouldn't update, so I can't play on either of them atm lol.
I sold a package to a few guys and gals for 50% of my UKOPS action (didn't include the minis cos they're cheap) btw
So in the end was only able to play ...
£110 main (£55 cos part of the package)
£22 Deepy (£11 cos part of the package)
£750 GTD £11 BH
£1k GTD £11 BH
£2k GTD £11 BH
£6 UKOPS Direct Sat to £110 ME tonight.
Got 1 head for £3.75 so lost about £100 total. I've had worse days!
Very swingy session, won lots of big pots, but lost lots too. Finished the session +£12
Points = 3187
I regged a sat which I thought was to the ME but it was actually to the ME semi which if I'd known I wouldn't have bothered with so just regged Semi to take the £££ if I won.
Another mega sigh from yet another deep run on here (in the mini) that amounted to nothing.
So in total I played....
£110 Main (£55 cos part of package) - £0
£55 BH (£27.50 cos part of package) - £18.75 of heads
£1k GTD £11 BH - 58/161 and £7.50 of heads
£2k GTD £11 BH - 112/241 and £8.44 of heads
UKOPS Semi Sat - 3/11 bubbling the seats for £4.80
£250 GTD £2 Speed Rebuy - 5/104 for £28.08
£5.50 UKOPS Mini - 12/786 - £31 ... siiiiigh
Total loss of about £30.
Points = 3372
What are the small buyin STT's your playing? The graph shows that the rake is crushing you. I highly doubt that they are beatable with 10% rake.
http://postimg.org/image/g5w3dm4f1/
UKOPS Main, I was fortunate to get an early bounty, one guy dropped to 15 chips a couple of hands in, and the very next hand I had AT and won the pot/his bounty. Obv that luck lasted for all of about 5 minutes when I had 88 v 99 shortly after on 89T flop, GII on the turn and it was gg.
£22 UKOPS BH was AK<QQ no heads
£55 deepy I trundled along for longer than the others but wasn't getting much going and eventually bust 31/70.
£1k £11 BH - I doubled early doors (but didn't take a head), so I had 4k and another villian on the table had 4k too. 5 mins later, I iso'd his limp with JT, got the Q89ccc flop, turns out he'd limp/called 74cc and I was drawing dead. So doubled starting stack and bust in <10mins... impressive skills.
£2k £11 BH - got to the mid stages without any heads, then opened KT, villian peels BB then donk shoves T93r, I call, he has AQ and I bust.
Played some cash tonight because the brutality above meant that there were periods of me 0tabling waiting for more MTTs to load etc. That went equally bad, lots of coolers, lots of stuff like KK<QQ aipf, lots of runbad essentially. Finished cash -£180 which was a pretty good result considering. Only as good as it was because one of the 50NL tables broke to just me and one guy that was on the fishy side and I took about £100 off him before he sat out.
So-£180 cash and -£95 on MTTs which puts me just a smidge back into the red for the month. God I'll be glad to see the back of this UKOPS!!
Points - 4181
don't let it get at you to much, i would recommend just taking a break as you might be not getting the full focus needed as that 7c4c seems to tell me, maybe you have things on your mind, take a break mate.
QQ and JJ charging the AK large amount for calls AK AQ attempting to get rid of the very smallest pairs and AA KK doing a polarised bet rather than two value bets.
@Craig - I don't know what you mean about the 74cc hand. If I flop JT on Q98ccc in an £11 BH then I'm getting it in. We'd have to be insanely deep or playing against the nittiest nit ever to not GII there. That hand is just another cooler to add to my list of many. Nh from the main, it was your turn sizing that threw me off, very bizarre to go from a small flop bet to a relatively huge turn bet on the brickiest of bricks on the turn, it just shouldn't ever be a bluff really and that's all I could beat (I had 99 fwiw).
@MP33 - I have a few poker mates I talk to most days... Dohhhhh, Evil_Pingu, AJ_Rockets and Don_90 who I occasionally sell to. There's also a FB group for anyone on Sky that wants to sell action and that's where I sold this package. I have bought the odd bit of action in players but tbh I'm quite picky and most of the players that I'd deem to be good enough for me to want to buy don't often sell action.
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I am so glad UKOPS is over. It's been absolutely grim from start to finish.
Main event tonight was pretty meh, going along ok, dribbled away a bit below starting stack. Eventually got to about 25xBB, the table fish opens from 20xBB, I 3b jam AQs, he snaps AJo and in-keeping with the theme of the week, of course he hits the jack. I'm left with 5xBB and it folds to me in the SB the very next hand, I shove A6o and the BB calls with 23s. I flop my 6 and he just does runner runner straight to bust me lol. Absolutely bizarre call, I could 100% understand it when everyone else is SO deep and I've got 5xBB if it was a BH, but in a freezeout it's just madness to call in that spot when you are behind to literally 100% of hands but w/e, was happy with the call until he did runner runner straight obv.
£1k £11 BH - bust out flush v rivered FH
£2k £11 BH - I GII on the turn with the 2nd nut straight and a FD, he had the nut straight and I bricked.
£11 Mini - Doing quite well then bust 88<AQ
£55 BH - Went quite deep in this but didn't take any heads and then bust 99<AK
£22 BH - Went really deep in this and this was the one that could have been the saver for the whole series. Still ran pretty bad in it, had so many great spots to build a stack and take heads and lost the races every single time. Eventually bust for next to nothing (yet again), finishing 17th for £56.44 with £1k + heads up top
Deffo the worst period of runbad I've had in MTTs are it certainly is marvelous to happen bang in the middle of UKOPS when I'm playing the biggest BIs Sky run all year. Can't wait to just get back to the cash tables and try to get out of the hole from UKOPS.
AJ Rockets is still going in that £22 BH with 3 left so hope he takes it down, and as I write this he's just gone HU against The_Hux.
with the AQ i saw the play i did with AK ,it give me the assistance to represent a large pair this time round if a bet is done.
So having ch the 5 high board holding my AK, on this occasion you might be thinking i've got a premium pair, as you did call, i've thought myself. do you hold the set or does the consideration of you knowing me well tell you a call is fine with middle pairs on the flop.
so i see a brick on the turn thought, as i've got over cards i'm still hopeful of a bluff working and if it didn't work i could hit the over card itself on river.
if i did do a value bet on the turn and a 3rd brick came on the river, i see a spot which i'm sure to see you call a large bet because by then you'd think youself it would be stupid of JJ-AA waste the chance of getting that 3rd call by weaker so they do a value bet, the thing about value bet is that has great chance of calls.
Regards, UKOPs HR runner up.