Nothing much to update on Sky really. Played a £2.20 TT earlier cos I was bored and bust that, then I played 1 £5.25 Hyper and won it so a couple of quid up.
SPT Stratford got released for direct buy-in this morning so I bought in for that. This hasn't come out of my BR though because I've been 50% staked and the other £110 is coming out of my pocket so I just deposited the BI amount this morning.
Played 2 MTTs on the french site today, went deep in both but just missed out on the big paydays.
6euro Storm - This was a rebuy so rebought 1st hand for a double stack and did the add-on so 18euro outlay. About 450 runners with 1250euro for the win. Exit hand was me 3bet shipping A9 from the BB over an open from the CO... he had the one hand I really didn't wanna see, AA... gg me. Came 43rd and got abuot 35e.
3euro 1R1A - Also a rebuy but limited to a maximum of 1 rebuy, and the addon. Again got a double stack at the start and the add-on so 9e outlay. This one only had 125 runners and 135euro for the win. I final tabled it but finished in 7th for about 23euro. Exit was me 3bet shipping Q6o which sounds mental but he was raising and limping so often but repeatedly folding to jams, I'd jammed on him at least 5 times in the previous 15 mins. He did fold which was good, the bad bit was me getting cold called by QQ... gg me again lol.
Frustrating to fall short of the big money again but still not a bad day and got my roll over there up to 100euro already which is good going.
Forgot to say but Lol bbMike for your comment above... very close to the truth. My daughter is a big power rangers fan so enjoys playing that on there but I inevitably have to get her past anything that doesn't involve walking in a straight line (she's very young).
Anywayz...
I made 2 attempts to log in to Sky today, both times I opened the client it failed, I closed and retried like 10 times with no success. The second time I took people's advice uninstalled it and reinstalled it still with no success.
So I ended up going to play on the french site because I refuse to play in the browser. Played a 5e 6max freezeout. No luck there, think there were just over 400 runners and I came high 90s (top 50 paid), pretty sure IIRC my exit was just a standard get it in pre flipping and either couldnt hit or hold, can't remember which.
Played a 6e Knockout 27-man SnG, similar to a bountyhunter but only 1e goes on your head and you get the full amount when you knock someone out so head prizes dont increase in size, the rest goes in the normal prizepool. Biggest mistake ever not looking at the structure before playing it... I was literally 1 hour into the game and blinds were either 30/60 or 40/80, so slow it's unbelievable. Think I came about 14th in that (top 5 paid) and got 1.50e of heads. How 1.50 you may ask... there was a shorty all in on the BB, I opened the button, SB called and we ended up checking it down and splitting the pot with A-high so split the bounty.
I know I said I wouldn't (cos of the rake) but I couldn't log into Sky, there were no MTTs I wanted to play and the SnGs are really slow to fill so I played some Hypers on there, won back my BIs for the 2 MTTs above and made a few quid profit on top.
Eventually managed to login to Sky aftetr a 2nd uninstall and reinstall about 8pm tonight. Decided to have another bash at this SnG comp and the first noticeable thing is how quickly they're running now. I busted one, regged another straight away and we were off in <2 mins. Miles better than it used to be!
I must have played and busted without any cash like 6 of the SnGs in a row (£1 games), kept myself in profit for the night by winning @ £5 Hypers on the side, and eventually on my 7th (I think) attempt managed to win it for £3.90 so that's Level 1 of the challenge completed and I'll play Level 2 tomorrow.
Well today has been a complete mare. I have no idea how I'm down as little as I am. I've spent most of the day trying to do the SnG challenge, I must have played 12+ £1 SnGs and have not cashed in a single one, bubbled about 4 times from great positions in just unbelievable strings of hands. Jammed into massive pairs more than I can ever remember doing in 1 day, lost flip after flip and 60/40 after 60/40, got it in post flop as big favourite so many times and could just never hold.
Pretty brutal, but at the same time, great that it happened @ £1 SnGs cos it feels like nothing to my BR. A few times I was 2tabling, playing the £1 game and £2 game at the same time, and I did win 1 of the £2s for £7.80 whch was my only cash in them all day.
Started playing some Hypers on the side to try and keep on top of the repeated busting of £1 SnGs. Did alright in them, well I didn't keep track but I must have done ok cos I'm only about £8 down for the day and I must have lost like £20+ on SnGs.
Really boring day tbh, never doing that again. Back to cash for me next time I play.
I was looking at the cash tables and they were all full except 1 @ 20nl which just had 1 guy sat on his own with £27. So thought I'd sit down with him, happy to play HU or get a game going, and I stacked him within 5 mins
So I finally got back on the cash tables properly for the first time in ages, and played the longest session I've done for I dunno how long (on cash). I played Mastercash tables 1, 2, 3 and 4 from 5pm until 8pm. So 2 x 10NL and 2 x 20NL for 3 hours.
Profits weren't as great as they could have been but a win is a win, and I made £12.74 tonight. Things were better until I called down 3 streets with TP-Q kicker, to be shown TP-K kicker @ 20NL so think that cost about £15.
I also played on the french site earlier in 3 tournaments. Tbh, I can't remember how 2 of them went but I got through most of the field but fell short of cash in them two. The other one was a 2e rebuy... I was only in for 4e because I was busy doing something and stupidly missed the add-on break. Despite missing out on that, I still managed to go on and get my 2nd FT on there. We are down to 7 on the FT and I'm 3rd in chips, I 3bet ship AK into the chip leader to get snap called by KQ... BOOM!! or not... the door card is the Q... sigh more nasty hands on FTs for me... one day I'll win an MTT!!! Got about 25e for 7th so still a profitable day on there.
So all in all, a very good day, made about 15e profit on X site, made £13 on MC tables tonight and made about £20 this morning so can't be bad.
P.S. Arazi dunno if you were watching 861 but I got a hand V you shown on there, where you 3bet my button open from the BB with 94, nh. Posted by Lambert180
Hi mate.
Just saw hand cos a bit behind time tonight.
I have to keep you guys guessing every now and again mate or i never get called when im sitting with aces lol
Obvi in the hand shown any aggression from you post flop and i bin it but if i had actually had QQ and above like they suggested on the show only strong aggression on the flop might have taken me off it depending on my thoughts at the time ofcourse because once i bet turn i am never folding for the rest imo.
Good to see you doing well mate and your BR growing day by day
Last night (after my update) I played the £1 SnG for the challenge and won that for £3.90, then I went to bed. Played the £2.20 game this morning but bust out early 3bet shipping 44 into JJ and AQ.
Then I saw Tikay's post about HU action and thought I'd go have a look. All the MC games he mentioned had finished but there was some £5/£10 going on which I watched for a bit. Then I watched a 20NL HU table that was going for a bit, one guy left and I'd already noticed the guy that stayed was pretty bad. So thought I'd sit down with him
He was bought in for a random amount something like £12, he lost a bit here and there, eventually topped up to £20, lost some more, topped up again, etc etc. I eventually stacked him and he'd obviously had enough and left. So I left too, with £50
Just having a flick through my diary and I have reached a new all-time peak in my BR. It's a crazy old game sometimes and I'm really impressed with what I've acheived so far.
So many swings, so many frustrating periods blah blah... it was only a few months ago that my BR dropped as low as £90 (the first time it hadn't been 3 figures for a very long time) and I was on massive monkey tilt playing £10 Hypers from my £90 roll lol. Somehow I managed to weather that storm and get back to where I am now.
From a poker mental game point of view I think I'm miles ahead of where I used to be, and technically I believe I've improved loads too.
Nice one Lambert when you said you were watching the £5-£10 i was expecting you to say you sat down for some reason, would of been interesting lol seems to be going well at the moment so keep it up mate.
Wow, seems I've found my way to page 3. Haven't played at all on here since my last post, been playing a lot on the french site with very little success.
I've been thinking about it for a bit recently and I've decided to start mixing some 30NL in with my normal 20NL games. If all goes well it will be a smooth transition to 30NL as I near the £1000 mark (although I'll be taking Ryan's advice and still playing at whichever levels have the best tables or to helpme fill up to the number of tables I want to play).
I'll be doing a live sweat with a few Sky regs when I get round to sorting a time they're all free, but I decided to dip my toe in the water today. Just finished a session of 3tabling @ 30NL for 1hr 30 mins. Stacked off in some pretty spewy spots, mostly V Rancid cos all sense seems to go out the window when I'm in a HU pot with him
One pretty annoying spot where someone made some kinda crazy hero (or terrible) call with AK high (no draw), when I c/r a FD on the flop, then shipped the turn when I picked up an OESD to go with it and missed all my outs.
Despite that I managed to finish £26.80 up, so can't complain with that.
Played a £2.40 All-in sat for SPT the other night which I forgot to include, just playing to win the £220 cos I'm already regged, but no luck there.
Was playing some cash earlier, shocked to load up the cash lobby and see there was not 1 player sat on a single 30NL table. Went away 'cooked' a microwave pizza, came back and saw one person sat down @ 30NL and I'm confident in my HU skillz so thought I'd give it a bash.
Main hand of the session was this:
Player
Action
Cards
Amount
Pot
Balance
X
Small blind
£0.15
£0.15
£32.25
Lambert180
Big blind
£0.30
£0.45
£27.30
Your hole cards
5
3
X
Raise
£0.75
£1.20
£31.50
Lambert180
Call
£0.60
£1.80
£26.70
Flop
5
K
3
Lambert180
Check
X
Bet
£0.90
£2.70
£30.60
Lambert180
Raise
£2.50
£5.20
£24.20
X
Raise
£6.70
£11.90
£23.90
Lambert180
All-in
£24.20
£36.10
£0.00
X
Call
£19.10
£55.20
£4.80
X
Show
K
A
Lambert180
Show
5
3
Turn
8
River
5
Lambert180
Win
Full House, 5s and 3s
£54.20
£54.20
Finished +£37.83 so have now broken the £900 barrier Slowly edging closer to that 4 figure BR which will mean I've completed my target.
Cheers Larson. Really the target won't change, it'll just increase, my aim is to be rolled for and playing 50NL before the end of the year, so wanna build up to around £2000 to be comfortably playing 50NL.
Cheers for the input Percival.
Got in a pretty big session tonight, was only 4tabling (2 x 20NL and 2 x 30NL) but played from abuot 8pm - midnight. Some pretty cruel spots that stopped me from breaking into profit, was doing great throughout the night, picking up loads of pots but everytime I got it in pre it just went to ****.
Won't list 'em all cos there's no point and it's boring but sigh @ my first big pot against Doh @ 30NL being where I get it in pre w/ KK v QQ and lose. Losing KK v AK aipf for 250xBB was pretty bleurgh too!
So all in all I finished £12.44 down which I'm pretty happy with considering how I ran in big races and I'm happy that I completely managed to avoid any tilt during some nasty periods.
Cheers Larson. Really the target won't change, it'll just increase, my aim is to be rolled for and playing 50NL before the end of the year, so wanna build up to around £2000 to be comfortably playing 50NL. Cheers for the input Percival. Got in a pretty big session tonight, was only 4tabling (2 x 20NL and 2 x 30NL) but played from abuot 8pm - midnight. Some pretty cruel spots that stopped me from breaking into profit, was doing great throughout the night, picking up loads of pots but everytime I got it in pre it just went to ****. Won't list 'em all cos there's no point and it's boring but sigh @ my first big pot against Doh @ 30NL being where I get it in pre w/ KK v QQ and lose. Losing KK v AK aipf for 250xBB was pretty bleurgh too! So all in all I finished £12.44 down which I'm pretty happy with considering how I ran in big races and I'm happy that I completely managed to avoid any tilt during some nasty periods. Bankroll: £894.55 Poker Points: 852 (£6.82 ) Posted by Lambert180
Yeah ok Doh, I knew as I typed that it kinda made no sense at all.
Got a very small session in before dinner, only had time for about 1hrs play and could only manage to get a seat on 2 tables of 30NL.
I'll post a few hands for a change... first one, blah. Should have flatted the flop, I flat pre to dsguise the strength of my hand and keep his range wider and then just bllow all that by c/r. But not yeh same result here
Player
Action
Cards
Amount
Pot
Balance
mccaw03
Small blind
£0.15
£0.15
£30.83
nu
Big blind
£0.30
£0.45
£28.61
Your hole cards
Q
Q
Lambert180
Raise
£0.90
£1.35
£38.50
mess1
Raise
£2.70
£4.05
£17.90
ACEGOONER
Fold
vinnybhoy
Fold
mccaw03
Call
£2.55
£6.60
£28.28
nu
Fold
Lambert180
Call
£1.80
£8.40
£36.70
Flop
6
2
8
mccaw03
Check
Lambert180
Check
mess1
Bet
£4.20
£12.60
£13.70
mccaw03
Fold
Lambert180
Raise
£9.50
£22.10
£27.20
mess1
All-in
£13.70
£35.80
£0.00
Lambert180
Raise
£16.80
£52.60
£10.40
Lambert180
Unmatched bet
£8.40
£44.20
£18.80
Lambert180
Show
Q
Q
mess1
Show
K
K
Turn
A
River
2
mess1
Win
Two Pairs, Kings and 2s
£42.40
£42.40
Dream flop, ACTION, BOOM!!! .... Turn
Player
Action
Cards
Amount
Pot
Balance
pokeherbum
Small blind
£0.15
£0.15
£4.45
fringe107
Sitout
madriles22
Big blind
£0.30
£0.45
£38.13
Your hole cards
6
5
Lambert180
Raise
£0.90
£1.35
£30.00
WATERTAXI
Fold
pokeherbum
Call
£0.75
£2.10
£3.70
madriles22
Call
£0.60
£2.70
£37.53
Flop
A
10
Q
pokeherbum
All-in
£3.70
£6.40
£0.00
madriles22
Call
£3.70
£10.10
£33.83
Lambert180
Raise
£9.00
£19.10
£21.00
madriles22
Fold
Lambert180
Unmatched bet
£5.30
£13.80
£26.30
pokeherbum
Show
A
A
Lambert180
Show
6
5
Turn
Q
River
7
pokeherbum
Win
Full House, Aces and Queens
£13.11
£13.11
But turned it all round with a lovely value jam on a pretty scary board
Well I got in another 1hr 30 mins just now after dinner. Time to get off though to earn some brownie points with Emma. I was 5tabling this time (1 x 20NL and 4 x 30NL).
Quite a few interesting hands that I'll be posting in the clinic shortly, but things went well, hands held up, went for some pretty thin value in some spots and it paid off, got my bluffs through, things just went generally well.
So the important bit... I finished the session +£57.85
So close folks, so close! This might be my last post for a few days, not sure if I'll play tomorrow or not, and if I don't, I'll then be away for the weekend at the SPT.
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SPT Stratford got released for direct buy-in this morning so I bought in for that. This hasn't come out of my BR though because I've been 50% staked and the other £110 is coming out of my pocket so I just deposited the BI amount this morning.
Played 2 MTTs on the french site today, went deep in both but just missed out on the big paydays.
6euro Storm - This was a rebuy so rebought 1st hand for a double stack and did the add-on so 18euro outlay. About 450 runners with 1250euro for the win. Exit hand was me 3bet shipping A9 from the BB over an open from the CO... he had the one hand I really didn't wanna see, AA... gg me. Came 43rd and got abuot 35e.
3euro 1R1A - Also a rebuy but limited to a maximum of 1 rebuy, and the addon. Again got a double stack at the start and the add-on so 9e outlay. This one only had 125 runners and 135euro for the win. I final tabled it but finished in 7th for about 23euro. Exit was me 3bet shipping Q6o which sounds mental but he was raising and limping so often but repeatedly folding to jams, I'd jammed on him at least 5 times in the previous 15 mins. He did fold which was good, the bad bit was me getting cold called by QQ... gg me again lol.
Frustrating to fall short of the big money again but still not a bad day and got my roll over there up to 100euro already which is good going.
Bankroll: £782.91
Poker Points: 236
Anywayz...
I made 2 attempts to log in to Sky today, both times I opened the client it failed, I closed and retried like 10 times with no success. The second time I took people's advice uninstalled it and reinstalled it still with no success.
So I ended up going to play on the french site because I refuse to play in the browser. Played a 5e 6max freezeout. No luck there, think there were just over 400 runners and I came high 90s (top 50 paid), pretty sure IIRC my exit was just a standard get it in pre flipping and either couldnt hit or hold, can't remember which.
Played a 6e Knockout 27-man SnG, similar to a bountyhunter but only 1e goes on your head and you get the full amount when you knock someone out so head prizes dont increase in size, the rest goes in the normal prizepool. Biggest mistake ever not looking at the structure before playing it... I was literally 1 hour into the game and blinds were either 30/60 or 40/80, so slow it's unbelievable. Think I came about 14th in that (top 5 paid) and got 1.50e of heads. How 1.50 you may ask... there was a shorty all in on the BB, I opened the button, SB called and we ended up checking it down and splitting the pot with A-high so split the bounty.
I know I said I wouldn't (cos of the rake) but I couldn't log into Sky, there were no MTTs I wanted to play and the SnGs are really slow to fill so I played some Hypers on there, won back my BIs for the 2 MTTs above and made a few quid profit on top.
Eventually managed to login to Sky aftetr a 2nd uninstall and reinstall about 8pm tonight. Decided to have another bash at this SnG comp and the first noticeable thing is how quickly they're running now. I busted one, regged another straight away and we were off in <2 mins. Miles better than it used to be!
I must have played and busted without any cash like 6 of the SnGs in a row (£1 games), kept myself in profit for the night by winning @ £5 Hypers on the side, and eventually on my 7th (I think) attempt managed to win it for £3.90 so that's Level 1 of the challenge completed and I'll play Level 2 tomorrow.
Bankroll: £788.11
Poker Points: 255
Pretty brutal, but at the same time, great that it happened @ £1 SnGs cos it feels like nothing to my BR. A few times I was 2tabling, playing the £1 game and £2 game at the same time, and I did win 1 of the £2s for £7.80 whch was my only cash in them all day.
Started playing some Hypers on the side to try and keep on top of the repeated busting of £1 SnGs. Did alright in them, well I didn't keep track but I must have done ok cos I'm only about £8 down for the day and I must have lost like £20+ on SnGs.
Really boring day tbh, never doing that again. Back to cash for me next time I play.
Bankroll: £780.77
Poker Points: 354
I was looking at the cash tables and they were all full except 1 @ 20nl which just had 1 guy sat on his own with £27. So thought I'd sit down with him, happy to play HU or get a game going, and I stacked him within 5 mins
Lost 1 x £5.25 Hyper but still +£20 so far today.
Might jump on some waiting lists
Bankroll: £800.76
Poker Points: 365
So I finally got back on the cash tables properly for the first time in ages, and played the longest session I've done for I dunno how long (on cash). I played Mastercash tables 1, 2, 3 and 4 from 5pm until 8pm. So 2 x 10NL and 2 x 20NL for 3 hours.
Profits weren't as great as they could have been but a win is a win, and I made £12.74 tonight. Things were better until I called down 3 streets with TP-Q kicker, to be shown TP-K kicker @ 20NL so think that cost about £15.
I also played on the french site earlier in 3 tournaments. Tbh, I can't remember how 2 of them went but I got through most of the field but fell short of cash in them two. The other one was a 2e rebuy... I was only in for 4e because I was busy doing something and stupidly missed the add-on break. Despite missing out on that, I still managed to go on and get my 2nd FT on there. We are down to 7 on the FT and I'm 3rd in chips, I 3bet ship AK into the chip leader to get snap called by KQ... BOOM!! or not... the door card is the Q... sigh more nasty hands on FTs for me... one day I'll win an MTT!!! Got about 25e for 7th so still a profitable day on there.
So all in all, a very good day, made about 15e profit on X site, made £13 on MC tables tonight and made about £20 this morning so can't be bad.
Bankroll: £814.50
Poker Points: 459
Hi mate.
Just saw hand cos a bit behind time tonight.
I have to keep you guys guessing every now and again mate or i never get called when im sitting with aces lol
Obvi in the hand shown any aggression from you post flop and i bin it but if i had actually had QQ and above like they suggested on the show only strong aggression on the flop might have taken me off it depending on my thoughts at the time ofcourse because once i bet turn i am never folding for the rest imo.
Good to see you doing well mate and your BR growing day by day
Best of luck
Daz.
Last night (after my update) I played the £1 SnG for the challenge and won that for £3.90, then I went to bed. Played the £2.20 game this morning but bust out early 3bet shipping 44 into JJ and AQ.
Then I saw Tikay's post about HU action and thought I'd go have a look. All the MC games he mentioned had finished but there was some £5/£10 going on which I watched for a bit. Then I watched a 20NL HU table that was going for a bit, one guy left and I'd already noticed the guy that stayed was pretty bad. So thought I'd sit down with him
He was bought in for a random amount something like £12, he lost a bit here and there, eventually topped up to £20, lost some more, topped up again, etc etc. I eventually stacked him and he'd obviously had enough and left. So I left too, with £50
Bankroll: £844.76
Poker Points: 490
So many swings, so many frustrating periods blah blah... it was only a few months ago that my BR dropped as low as £90 (the first time it hadn't been 3 figures for a very long time) and I was on massive monkey tilt playing £10 Hypers from my £90 roll lol. Somehow I managed to weather that storm and get back to where I am now.
From a poker mental game point of view I think I'm miles ahead of where I used to be, and technically I believe I've improved loads too.
I've been thinking about it for a bit recently and I've decided to start mixing some 30NL in with my normal 20NL games. If all goes well it will be a smooth transition to 30NL as I near the £1000 mark (although I'll be taking Ryan's advice and still playing at whichever levels have the best tables or to helpme fill up to the number of tables I want to play).
I'll be doing a live sweat with a few Sky regs when I get round to sorting a time they're all free, but I decided to dip my toe in the water today. Just finished a session of 3tabling @ 30NL for 1hr 30 mins. Stacked off in some pretty spewy spots, mostly V Rancid cos all sense seems to go out the window when I'm in a HU pot with him
One pretty annoying spot where someone made some kinda crazy hero (or terrible) call with AK high (no draw), when I c/r a FD on the flop, then shipped the turn when I picked up an OESD to go with it and missed all my outs.
Despite that I managed to finish £26.80 up, so can't complain with that.
Bankroll: £871.56
Poker Points: 575 (£4.60)
Was playing some cash earlier, shocked to load up the cash lobby and see there was not 1 player sat on a single 30NL table. Went away 'cooked' a microwave pizza, came back and saw one person sat down @ 30NL and I'm confident in my HU skillz so thought I'd give it a bash.
Main hand of the session was this:
Bankroll: £906.99
Poker Points: 599 (£4.79)
It wont be long till you smash £1000, what's your next target after that?
Kevin McPhee started playing low limits for a few years, slowly buidling it up. In his first big tournie he ended up bringing it down lol
Cheers for the input Percival.
Got in a pretty big session tonight, was only 4tabling (2 x 20NL and 2 x 30NL) but played from abuot 8pm - midnight. Some pretty cruel spots that stopped me from breaking into profit, was doing great throughout the night, picking up loads of pots but everytime I got it in pre it just went to ****.
Won't list 'em all cos there's no point and it's boring but sigh @ my first big pot against Doh @ 30NL being where I get it in pre w/ KK v QQ and lose. Losing KK v AK aipf for 250xBB was pretty bleurgh too!
So all in all I finished £12.44 down which I'm pretty happy with considering how I ran in big races and I'm happy that I completely managed to avoid any tilt during some nasty periods.
Bankroll: £894.55
Poker Points: 852 (£6.82)
Got a very small session in before dinner, only had time for about 1hrs play and could only manage to get a seat on 2 tables of 30NL.
I'll post a few hands for a change... first one, blah. Should have flatted the flop, I flat pre to dsguise the strength of my hand and keep his range wider and then just bllow all that by c/r. But not yeh same result here
Maybe play some more tonight, not sure yet.
Bankroll: £898.43
Poker Points: 885 (£7.08)
Quite a few interesting hands that I'll be posting in the clinic shortly, but things went well, hands held up, went for some pretty thin value in some spots and it paid off, got my bluffs through, things just went generally well.
So the important bit... I finished the session +£57.85
So close folks, so close! This might be my last post for a few days, not sure if I'll play tomorrow or not, and if I don't, I'll then be away for the weekend at the SPT.
Bankroll: £956.28
Poker Points: 926 (£7.41)
Hope you run like God and bring it down. Good luck