Didnt know who he was at the time but was railing the UKOPS roller chris moorman took down and Marc and Chris were the 2 standout players and Marc unfortunately bubbled.
Obviously he came back well with back to back M/E wins that series.
Kind enough to spend time on the forums here too and not just take the money and running.
All that and still manages to reach the final of strictly come dancing and pull a stunner like Michelle Keegan. What a life ;-)
Back on topic - I know Ryan works with him and that lad aint done bad so GL.
sure matt bates credits mark with helping him with his endgame strat.
given that you've often ran deep but found the big wins elusive i'm sure that taking the staking deal will be massively + ev
i'm currently in a staking / coaching deal for husngs and its been the best thing i have ever done. just having access to people to bounce ideas off is enough, when those people include some great poker minds its not just +ev its actually exciting.
as you have lots of time [being a baller pro, innit] just throw yourself into it. ask questions, post hands attend all the coaching you can and make the most of it.
Been 'pro' for 12+ months now Shaun, some may say in the loosest sense of the word.
Cheers all, yeah Ryan worked/think still does work with MW afaik, either way it should be an amazing opportunity so I'm gonna really get my head down and not waste the chance.
@BBMIke - Yeah maybe that sums up how I felt about the year that I forgot to talk about it lol. Cash went decent but I got complacent when it comes to improving/studying. I finished off just below where I wanted to be really... my aim for the end of the year was to be fully accomplished/grinding 100NL all the time, but I finished just grinding 50NL as my regular game and shot taking at 100NL (had taken a few different shots at it throughout the year, including some 200NL shots at good tables). If my shots had went a bit better, it'd probably be a different story but can't complain, the year still went well, still got a good roll, and still maintained our comfortable lifestyle so can't be too bad (despite numerous problems like cars blowing up and spending £2k on an ill cat). The UKPC fiasco didn't help matters, I ended up break even on the whole but that still involved me effectively buying in direct to a £500 comp which I wouldn't have done, which I bricked so was technically a -£500 affair.
Larson7 mentioned yesterday he was gonna play alot more MTTs this year and asked me if I wanted an MTT prop bet so I've taken him up on the offer. £50 goes to the person who has the most MTT profit in the first 6 months of 2015, so results will be checked on 1st July. Would be nice to bink my UKPC tomorrow night to get a nice £1k head start! I'll get Pingu to skope us both once a month or something and post how we're both doing here.
I finalled (and almost won) my first MTT of the year tonight which has made it a decent night. Went semi deep in main finishing 140/478 with £25 of heads, bricked 2 £11 BHs, came 33/99 in £55 BH with £18.75 of heads, bust AK<KQ aipf
Early bath in the mini, and played a £10 UKPC Semi Direct with the intention of playing the Semi and trying to take the £220 cash (cos you can't pre-reg for the 220 but already got a seat now), bubbled the seats in the Semi Direct though for £40.
The FT was an £11 BH, and I finished 2nd for £172. Frustrating cos such a big jump in the HU with obv the payjump + his head + your own head, was about £100+ difference for winning the HU but meh I ran well to get there so it's all good.
So as far as I know, took an early lead on Larson, but he'll probably go and bink the roller tomorrow now!
Dunno if Larson has played at all yet but either way he'll have taken the lead back cos Sunday sucked for me. Played a few less games than normal because last night was my first night playing for the stable. Bust the mini very early. Bust the UKPC Final about an hour in, that was a nightmare comp, pretty much won 0 hands in that hour. The Roller and £55 BH were both going well but I finished a few off the money in the roller and 1 off the bubble in £55 BH, but pretty much freerolled it from 2heads (although SS doesn't seem to have counted all my heads Ryan )
Under the stake I played 9 comps total across 4 sites. I only managed 2 runs/cashes, they were the biggest comps of the night as well, but sadly I didn't go super deep. I finished about 200/8500 in the Hot16 for about $60 and I finished about 500/5500 in the Big55 for about $100. The former had $24,000 ftw, the latter had £40,000 ftw.... would have been pretty sweet to make a real run in one of those on my first night! Bricked everything else though a small-ish loss of about $150.
I've said it before, but I'm feeling super motivated for this big change over to MTTs with Marc Wright & co, to crush in 2015. I'm gonna try and work my socks off this year and really put the work in to get the best results I can. One thing that's included in the deal/stable is Elite membership to RunItOnce (which I think is like $100/per month usually) so gonna get cracking on there, starting with a vid now that's ranked most popular, all about ICM.
Dunno if Larson has played at all yet but either way he'll have taken the lead back cos Sunday sucked for me. Played a few less games than normal because last night was my first night playing for the stable. Bust the mini very early. Bust the UKPC Final about an hour in, that was a nightmare comp, pretty much won 0 hands in that hour. The Roller and £55 BH were both going well but I finished a few off the money in the roller and 1 off the bubble in £55 BH, but pretty much freerolled it from 2heads (although SS doesn't seem to have counted all my heads Ryan ) Under the stake I played 9 comps total across 4 sites. I only managed 2 runs/cashes, they were the biggest comps of the night as well, but sadly I didn't go super deep. I finished about 200/8500 in the Hot16 for about $60 and I finished about 500/5500 in the Big55 for about $100. The former had $24,000 ftw, the latter had £40,000 ftw.... would have been pretty sweet to make a real run in one of those on my first night! Bricked everything else though a small-ish loss of about $150. I've said it before, but I'm feeling super motivated for this big change over to MTTs with Marc Wright & co, to crush in 2015. I'm gonna try and work my socks off this year and really put the work in to get the best results I can. One thing that's included in the deal/stable is Elite membership to RunItOnce (which I think is like $100/per month usually) so gonna get cracking on there, starting with a vid now that's ranked most popular, all about ICM. Posted by Lambert180
Sounds a really good opportunity this Paul, good luck with it pal.
Good luck with the prop bet with Larson. Who won the most last year? Posted by TimmyRaRa
Cheers. No idea tbh, but I'd imagine Larson cos last year I hardly played any MTTs. Posted my 2014 stats in the summary, only played like 400 comps and was abuot +£2300
In Response to Re: Lambert180 ----- Lolpro and Onwards ------- : Sounds a really good opportunity this Paul, good luck with it pal. Posted by BigHawk89
I'm down like 100-200, so am sure you are ahead! Don't have the Internet this week, so won't be playing properly til the weekend at the earliest. Gl man, hope you smash the mtts
In Response to Re: Lambert180 ----- Lolpro and Onwards ------- : Sounds a really good opportunity this Paul, good luck with it pal. Posted by BigHawk89
In Response to Re: Lambert180 ----- Lolpro and Onwards ------- : Cheers. No idea tbh, but I'd imagine Larson cos last year I hardly played any MTTs. Posted my 2014 stats in the summary, only played like 400 comps and was abuot +£2300 Posted by Lambert180
Oh rite cool well best of luck again pretty confident your have a good year in tourneys.
Hi Lambert180(Paul), just a quick note to wish you all the best for 2015 in your poker endeavors. I must just quickly explain that i came across your blog on the forum a few days ago! and i'm sure we must have played a few years ago on £3/5/10 dyms. Anyway as i'm just out of work at the minute i have caught up on most forum posts...... meaning your year as a poker pro from post 1 in 2 days to now has flown by!(sent off 10 job applications as well) I hope Emma's brother in America (your potential brother-in-law) is much better,sounded very bad.Apologies for sounding like a stalker,i'm not. But reading through your blog in such quick time makes you appreciate the highs and lows any full time player must face.Keep updating please when you have time, and congrats on your new staking deal.
Thanks Dave, it's always really nice to hear people reading/enjoying this... often it gets quiet in here and I feel like I'm just prattling on to myself.
Tuesday was pretty rubbish, pretty much bricks all round on Sky and other sites. The only 'cashes' were some heads in stuff like $27 KOs on stars.
Yesterday was better, could have been a sick day if I've done a bit better in a couple of the deep runs but turned out to be a pretty decent day anyway. Must get boring reading a list of bricked comps etc and it'll only get more boring as the list of comps I play per night gets longer and longer so just gonna mention the ones I cashed/came close.
888 $25 Deepy - Finished a couple off the money
Stars $8 Turbo - 500 runners and I came 28th for $26. There was $800 ftw in that and pretty gutting cos at the time of busting I was 12/28 and played this pot for near enough the CL.... such a grim runout
888 $4r - Big comp this and amazing value, $4r rebuy but usually has $1k ftw (and did that day). FT'd it but just had no spots on the FT, didn't ever really have a spot on the FT where I had FE cos someone had always opened (and I was short) and didn't ever have a hand where I wanted a call. Managed to ladder 2 spots on the FT and get 7th for $150
That was the few (succesful) comps I played in the morning then in the night...
Sky £11 BH - Almost had my 2nd FT of the day here, tought I was cruising for a FT, 4/10 and really had control of the table, then lost a load of races, spun it back up, lost a load more races and it was gg, bust out(s) was back to back flips with PPs v Ax against the same guy, and both times the board double paired high enough to counterfeit me. Ended up 8th for £65. Sky is going awful atm, this is my first cash on here in what feels like quite a long time.
888 $11 Deepy - Cashed this (30 paid) and pay jumps are just so so tiny in this comp until the FT that you really gotta go ftw, and I took a pretty big flip for CL with AKvQQ... they teased me with Kxx flop but the Q turn was gg in 23rd for like $20
Party $50 Daily Major - This was the session saver, I was going good from start to finish really. It's a vv slow comp (probably a bit slower than the Roller), so takes ages but allows for plenty of play. It started at 9pm, got 234 runners but took until 3am to make a FT. 2 people bust out on the FT bubble so was only 8 when we got FT and 1 bust out first hand. Then I had a really sigh hand, I peel JTdd pre multiway, get Q95dd flop, loving life, jam over cbet happy to see pretty much any hand, I get called in 1 spot by QJo and manage to miss half the deck to bust in 7th for $520 (was $2k ftw).
So I'm actually in profit for the stable now, just about, which I'm happy with cos I'm playing a lot of big comps and in only 3 days it's pretty likely anyone is gonna be in a hole. I got Pingu to set me up a SS group too, for anyone that doesn't know... if you're a member (which I'm not) of Sharkscope then you can set up these groups where you can basically search multiple aliases all in 1 consolidated search. So he's set up Lambo Stable for me which combines all my stuff on 888/stars/ipoker/party into 1 SS, just helps me to keep track of my volume and how I'm doing in nice graph form.
Not updated in a while, cos not much has happened really, I'm pretty much break even in the stable (just less than -£50). I had another FT on Party the other day, found a comp that suits me down to the ground, $50 6-max turbo BH, that's my kinda game, played it the other night for the first time and finalled it, bust 5/76 for $220 + $90 in heads. Sigh spot w/ A6<A9 BvB just before FT, then spun it back up and had KQ<JT on the FT to take another head and go 4handed then bust shortly after.
Had an absolutely grim spot the other night too, deep in a $20 rebuy on Party, we're down to about 40 (something like 20 paid) and think I was like 12/40. We go to a flop 4way, a 5xBB stack jams on Q56dd flop, player A calls, everyone else has folded, me and player A are 40xBB effective and I rejam with AQo, he makes an unreal (but very welcome) call with 96o, then spikes trips on the river for a CL pot I'm left with next to nothing and bust shortly after.
Apart from that a few mincashes and lots of bricks. Pocket5s is starting to look a little bit more respectable, aiming to have total cashes up to $100k by the end of the year, slightly tall order but not completely unrealistic and you gotta aim high.
Been keeping up a pretty solid record on Sky over the last week of not cashing a single comp, all Larson has to do is just not play and he's a lock to win the £50
Played cash on Saturday night cos I was at my mum's and can't really get a big MTT grind on with just my laptop and no 2nd monitor, ran pretty rubbish, managed to only be -£40, but losing 2 pots totalling £200 when I GII on the turn miles ahead both times was les than ideal.
Positives though, I'm really happy with how I've played every single session so far in Jan, just need lady variance to gimme a break.
I just had what could have been a really epic night, and literally in the space of about 3 minutes it all just fell apart in the most grim fashion ever, I'd say it's gotta be the closest I've ever come to just breaking down in a session, just can't believe how unlucky I was in the most crucial spots of every run I had going.
Here was the bad 3 minutes...
Very late stages of the night where pretty much all comps are busto or very deep, and I got quite a few left. Then I have AK<A9 on a $22 FT on 888 to bust 9th for like 5x the BI ($1k ftw), then AQ<AT for a decent stack in $20rebuy on party to bust 20th with 18 paid (just over $2k ftw), then AA<66 to bust the £55 BH in 5th (£1k ftw), then had a pretty big flip in the main w/ 88 v Jordz's A9o and he rivered the A to leave me a bowl.
So I went from great shots in a bunch of comps, and GII miles ahead in all (bar the flip one) to having 1 left (the main) with like 7xBB in a handful of minutes, pretty crushing
So the £55 BH cash was £225, the $22 deepy was $107, I mincashed the big55 coming 230/2052 for $97, took 3 heads in that $50 6max turbo BH on party but just missed out of the cash so got $45, had a really deep run in a $13KO (BH) finishing 40/1307 for $50 ($2.2k ftw), managed to scrape 14th in the main for £100, and 16/172 in £11 BH for about £30.
Amazingly this is literally my first winning session on Sky in the whole of 2015 (including cash and MTT sessions)... ran pretty grim so far this month so hoping the tides turn soon.
Not done the numbers for the non-Sky stuff but think it was about break even, which is pretty frustrating with all the decent runs I had.
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Good luck with your coaching with MW and MTTs.
I'm going to be playing more MTT's this year too, if you want to get some challenge going.
given that you've often ran deep but found the big wins elusive i'm sure that taking the staking deal will be massively + ev
i'm currently in a staking / coaching deal for husngs and its been the best thing i have ever done. just having access to people to bounce ideas off is enough, when those people include some great poker minds its not just +ev its actually exciting.
as you have lots of time [being a baller pro, innit] just throw yourself into it. ask questions, post hands attend all the coaching you can and make the most of it.
best of luck mate
Cheers all, yeah Ryan worked/think still does work with MW afaik, either way it should be an amazing opportunity so I'm gonna really get my head down and not waste the chance.
@BBMIke - Yeah maybe that sums up how I felt about the year that I forgot to talk about it lol. Cash went decent but I got complacent when it comes to improving/studying. I finished off just below where I wanted to be really... my aim for the end of the year was to be fully accomplished/grinding 100NL all the time, but I finished just grinding 50NL as my regular game and shot taking at 100NL (had taken a few different shots at it throughout the year, including some 200NL shots at good tables). If my shots had went a bit better, it'd probably be a different story but can't complain, the year still went well, still got a good roll, and still maintained our comfortable lifestyle so can't be too bad (despite numerous problems like cars blowing up and spending £2k on an ill cat). The UKPC fiasco didn't help matters, I ended up break even on the whole but that still involved me effectively buying in direct to a £500 comp which I wouldn't have done, which I bricked so was technically a -£500 affair.
I finalled (and almost won) my first MTT of the year tonight which has made it a decent night. Went semi deep in main finishing 140/478 with £25 of heads, bricked 2 £11 BHs, came 33/99 in £55 BH with £18.75 of heads, bust AK<KQ aipf
Early bath in the mini, and played a £10 UKPC Semi Direct with the intention of playing the Semi and trying to take the £220 cash (cos you can't pre-reg for the 220 but already got a seat now), bubbled the seats in the Semi Direct though for £40.
The FT was an £11 BH, and I finished 2nd for £172. Frustrating cos such a big jump in the HU with obv the payjump + his head + your own head, was about £100+ difference for winning the HU but meh I ran well to get there so it's all good.
So as far as I know, took an early lead on Larson, but he'll probably go and bink the roller tomorrow now!
Under the stake I played 9 comps total across 4 sites. I only managed 2 runs/cashes, they were the biggest comps of the night as well, but sadly I didn't go super deep. I finished about 200/8500 in the Hot16 for about $60 and I finished about 500/5500 in the Big55 for about $100. The former had $24,000 ftw, the latter had £40,000 ftw.... would have been pretty sweet to make a real run in one of those on my first night! Bricked everything else though a small-ish loss of about $150.
I've said it before, but I'm feeling super motivated for this big change over to MTTs with Marc Wright & co, to crush in 2015. I'm gonna try and work my socks off this year and really put the work in to get the best results I can. One thing that's included in the deal/stable is Elite membership to RunItOnce (which I think is like $100/per month usually) so gonna get cracking on there, starting with a vid now that's ranked most popular, all about ICM.
Good luck with the prop bet with Larson.
Who won the most last year?
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Couple of days since an update...
Tuesday was pretty rubbish, pretty much bricks all round on Sky and other sites. The only 'cashes' were some heads in stuff like $27 KOs on stars.
Yesterday was better, could have been a sick day if I've done a bit better in a couple of the deep runs but turned out to be a pretty decent day anyway. Must get boring reading a list of bricked comps etc and it'll only get more boring as the list of comps I play per night gets longer and longer so just gonna mention the ones I cashed/came close.
888 $25 Deepy - Finished a couple off the money
Stars $8 Turbo - 500 runners and I came 28th for $26. There was $800 ftw in that and pretty gutting cos at the time of busting I was 12/28 and played this pot for near enough the CL.... such a grim runout
http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/12421735_0393189909
888 $4r - Big comp this and amazing value, $4r rebuy but usually has $1k ftw (and did that day). FT'd it but just had no spots on the FT, didn't ever really have a spot on the FT where I had FE cos someone had always opened (and I was short) and didn't ever have a hand where I wanted a call. Managed to ladder 2 spots on the FT and get 7th for $150
That was the few (succesful) comps I played in the morning then in the night...
Sky £11 BH - Almost had my 2nd FT of the day here, tought I was cruising for a FT, 4/10 and really had control of the table, then lost a load of races, spun it back up, lost a load more races and it was gg, bust out(s) was back to back flips with PPs v Ax against the same guy, and both times the board double paired high enough to counterfeit me. Ended up 8th for £65. Sky is going awful atm, this is my first cash on here in what feels like quite a long time.
888 $11 Deepy - Cashed this (30 paid) and pay jumps are just so so tiny in this comp until the FT that you really gotta go ftw, and I took a pretty big flip for CL with AKvQQ... they teased me with Kxx flop but the Q turn was gg in 23rd for like $20
Party $50 Daily Major - This was the session saver, I was going good from start to finish really. It's a vv slow comp (probably a bit slower than the Roller), so takes ages but allows for plenty of play. It started at 9pm, got 234 runners but took until 3am to make a FT. 2 people bust out on the FT bubble so was only 8 when we got FT and 1 bust out first hand. Then I had a really sigh hand, I peel JTdd pre multiway, get Q95dd flop, loving life, jam over cbet happy to see pretty much any hand, I get called in 1 spot by QJo and manage to miss half the deck to bust in 7th for $520 (was $2k ftw).
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So I'm actually in profit for the stable now, just about, which I'm happy with cos I'm playing a lot of big comps and in only 3 days it's pretty likely anyone is gonna be in a hole. I got Pingu to set me up a SS group too, for anyone that doesn't know... if you're a member (which I'm not) of Sharkscope then you can set up these groups where you can basically search multiple aliases all in 1 consolidated search. So he's set up Lambo Stable for me which combines all my stuff on 888/stars/ipoker/party into 1 SS, just helps me to keep track of my volume and how I'm doing in nice graph form.
http://www.sharkscope.com/?357#Player-Statistics//networks/Player%20Group/players/Lambo%20Stable
Had an absolutely grim spot the other night too, deep in a $20 rebuy on Party, we're down to about 40 (something like 20 paid) and think I was like 12/40. We go to a flop 4way, a 5xBB stack jams on Q56dd flop, player A calls, everyone else has folded, me and player A are 40xBB effective and I rejam with AQo, he makes an unreal (but very welcome) call with 96o, then spikes trips on the river for a CL pot
Apart from that a few mincashes and lots of bricks. Pocket5s is starting to look a little bit more respectable, aiming to have total cashes up to $100k by the end of the year, slightly tall order but not completely unrealistic and you gotta aim high.
http://www.pocketfives.com/profiles/lambert180/
Been keeping up a pretty solid record on Sky over the last week of not cashing a single comp, all Larson has to do is just not play and he's a lock to win the £50
Played cash on Saturday night cos I was at my mum's and can't really get a big MTT grind on with just my laptop and no 2nd monitor, ran pretty rubbish, managed to only be -£40, but losing 2 pots totalling £200 when I GII on the turn miles ahead both times was les than ideal.
Positives though, I'm really happy with how I've played every single session so far in Jan, just need lady variance to gimme a break.
I just had what could have been a really epic night, and literally in the space of about 3 minutes it all just fell apart in the most grim fashion ever, I'd say it's gotta be the closest I've ever come to just breaking down in a session, just can't believe how unlucky I was in the most crucial spots of every run I had going.
Here was the bad 3 minutes...
Very late stages of the night where pretty much all comps are busto or very deep, and I got quite a few left. Then I have AK<A9 on a $22 FT on 888 to bust 9th for like 5x the BI ($1k ftw), then AQ<AT for a decent stack in $20rebuy on party to bust 20th with 18 paid (just over $2k ftw), then AA<66 to bust the £55 BH in 5th (£1k ftw), then had a pretty big flip in the main w/ 88 v Jordz's A9o and he rivered the A to leave me a bowl.
So I went from great shots in a bunch of comps, and GII miles ahead in all (bar the flip one) to having 1 left (the main) with like 7xBB in a handful of minutes, pretty crushing
So the £55 BH cash was £225, the $22 deepy was $107, I mincashed the big55 coming 230/2052 for $97, took 3 heads in that $50 6max turbo BH on party but just missed out of the cash so got $45, had a really deep run in a $13KO (BH) finishing 40/1307 for $50 ($2.2k ftw), managed to scrape 14th in the main for £100, and 16/172 in £11 BH for about £30.
Amazingly this is literally my first winning session on Sky in the whole of 2015 (including cash and MTT sessions)... ran pretty grim so far this month so hoping the tides turn soon.
Not done the numbers for the non-Sky stuff but think it was about break even, which is pretty frustrating with all the decent runs I had.