Most of you will know the general idea of how my Monte Carlo went but I'm gonna write a post on here about it all tomorrow. I was gonna do it tonight but lots to say and it's been a really long day and I just need to get to bed. I played 1hr 30 mins of 3tabling 30NL tonight. There was a reason I was 3tabling but dunno if I can mention it, so I'll leave it at that. I finished +£28.93 for the night. Bankroll: £1,755.68 Poker Points: 4331 (£69.30) Posted by Lambert180
Nice BR figure, everytime I look at your diary its progress all the way. What I am dying to know is why you played 3 tables, come on spill the beans !
Sorry, I still aint done my TSP update. I ended up getting a cash session in tonight, only just stood and not really in the mood for writing it now after tonight's session. Definitely tomorrow!!!
Was a pretty brutal session, one of them sessions where every single time you have a hand you get zero action and everytime you run a bluff you get some hero call/station with 3rd pr no kicker Got taken for 2 stacks in the space of 4 hands, both hands I had AA in a 3b pot (me being the aggressor), first time villian flopped 2pr, second time same villian from the other hand just 2 hands earlier, he flops a set. Sigh.
Oh I played a £5.50 HU BH Shuffle before the session but didn't get anything for that.
Had a punt on a few cheap MTTs this morning, just for a bit of fun really.
£5.50 Time Tourney - bust
£1.60 Micro Sat into the Semi for tonight's ME - bust that in pretty horrible style. Stacks are fairly shallow, think there are about 11 people left with 3 seats up for grabs. I'm 2nd in chips and only have 12xBB, the chip leader is to my left and only has like 14xBB (most have like 3-4xBB). Folds to me on the SB, and I ship into him with K9s, he calls with QTs and gets there. It's not so horrible losing a 60/40, I can live with that, but just the fact there is zero reason for him to take the gamble calling it off with QT against 2nd in chips. Oh well.
£3.30 £50 GTD - bust
£2.20 Time Tourney - cashed for £4.55
So a total MTT loss of £8.05 this morning.
Then I went through some HHs with some of the cash regs on Skype, and rightly so, pointed out some horrendous mistakes from last night. Looking through them myself was pretty horrible, some situations where I just don't know what I must have been thinking at the time, cos I can see myself now it's horrible. Ah well, it's reinforced a few things. Then I did a live sweat with them for abuot 1hr 30 mins, just 5tabling (4x 30NL and 1x 20NL cos tables just weren't running). and made a profit of £27.57
Ok, so finally I'm gonna do my MC update. Firstly if I haven't said it enough already, I was really honoured and over the moon to be chosen for TSP.
I set off on the Thursday for the pre-match pub meet-up and in true Lambo style, things weren't smooth from the get go. My hotel didn't have it's own parking so I had a post code to put in my sat-nav for the nearby NCP car park, did that all fine, then realised I didn't know the way to the hotel. I knew it was like 2 mins walk away but there about 5 different roads I could take and I couldn't see the hotel. Asked about 3 people who have never even heard of the Britannia hotel until eventually someone pointed me in the right direction.
Got to Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem (as Tommy mentioned, apparently the oldest pub in the world) about 7pm. Was a good night out, lots of very interesting anecdotes from Andrew1947 and a fair amount of poker talk (I can happily talk poker till the cows come home). I have no idea when but at some point Ryan and JamieLou turned up and we left shortly after to go get a curry.
I had a pretty terrible night's sleep, ended up waking up about 8am which meant I ended up killing time watching Fraiser on channel 4 for a bit. Got my TSP shirt, did my interview with Orford and got sat down on a really good table (which I stayed on for the entire tourney), I'd say only 1-2 players on the table were troublesome. I didn't really get involved in any big pots, just kept picking up loads of small pots and chipping up slowly. Got to around 70k in chips then got it in AK v 99 against a 20k stack but couldn't get there. Kinda dwindled a bit after this and was probably down to about 38k at one of the breaks. First hand after the break, I flat an open IP with 78s and I flop the flush on 23T, he C/C the flop, then C/R a blank turn all-in and I snap him off to see JT and get back up to just under 70k. Dwindled a bit again, a couple of badly timed bluffs and one call down on a dry flop and turn w/ 88, to see him checkback JJ on the river. My exit hand I have AKhh with around 28k @ 500/1k, there are 2 limps in front of me so I bump it up to 4.5k, I get shipped on by the initial limper and just have to call imo (even more so because he'd been shipping over SO many 3bets and opens in the last few orbits), he turns over TT and I lose my second flip of the day to bust out. Think I bust out about 20 mins before the end of level 10, and they played 11 levels in day 1.
Of course, I was disappointed to have busted out so early, but I think I played really well and that's the nature of the beast with MTTs... most times you're gonna bust out with nothing.
After that I just spent the rest of the day and part of Saturday railing and sitting with the rest of TSP and Tikay in 'bust out corner' which again was great fun.
Saw some pretty sick or famous (or both) players like Jake Cody, James Atkin, Channing, Jamie Burland and Devilfish.
All in all, it was a great weekend, and if the opportunity ever comes up again to represent Sky then (in the style of Suarez) I'll bite their arm off
After all that, I'll keep the update from today's play short.
I played the £5.50 mini and bust out fairly early with no heads. I played a £5.75 £500 GTD BH where I got £4.34 of heads and then stone bubbled which is always pretty sigh. I was 6/12 with 11 paid and could have sat back for a bit but as always, when ya going for the win, sometimes your prize is being bubble boy.
Also played a £6 direct sat into the £55 BH tonight. Was doing pretty well, then shipped 77 into K6, flopped my set but they got runner runner straight to take me out.
So -£12.91 on MTTs tonight.
Then I loaded up some cash, 6tables, about 2.5 hours, and £49.81 profit.
each to there own i dnt think it is big look at the dea money out there u pick up 3.5k if they fold and if some 1 calls ya crushing or a 50/50 i hate playing flops with 30 bigs or less coz if we miss the flop what do we do bet n get called then waht ya in a tricky situation for me 30 bigs or less when 2 limpers just jam u dnt really wanna see a flop as alot of time u just miss Posted by IDONKCALLU
+1 depending on table dynamic
& building an image that you like to squeeze can be useful in getting called light later on
I think 28 bigs is way too big to shove over 2 limpers. I'd say it's even a bit too big to shove over a raise, probably even more so live. I don't expect them to have a big hand anyway, so what I want is for them to limp/call OOP and then get owned postflop Posted by Lambert180
Not sure about this. The prefailing feature of live tournament poker imo is people hate to call for their torunament life. So if you're 3bet shoving AK with 28bb, as long as you're doing it with all sorts, I think it can be super profitable. Uncontested chips ftw!
Think oppo's behind will 3 bet call it off with worse than call a raise jam More likely going to see hands that have you in bad shape the majority when you just jam Posted by rancid
+1
They've only committed 1xBB so far, they aint gonna stick in another 27xBB without a very strong hand.
I know we miss the flop a lot Donk, but they miss the flop just as often too, and we almost certainly have the best hand V a l/c range and have position on both limpers.
From what I've read, just shoving AK over the limpers when playing 28BB is losing a lot of value. You should have a raise/get it in range here as well as a raise/fold range. The one thing I don't think we're deep enough to do is raise/call to a small bet, which means we can't really flat the top of our get it in range for deception some of the time.
AK is firmly in my raise/get it in range, even if one of the limpers rejams (I saw people doing the old limp/raise from early position with things other than Aces or Kings).
From what I've read, just shoving AK over the limpers when playing 28BB is losing a lot of value. You should have a raise/get it in range here as well as a raise/fold range. The one thing I don't think we're deep enough to do is raise/call to a small bet, which means we can't really flat the top of our get it in range for deception some of the time. AK is firmly in my raise/get it in range, even if one of the limpers rejams (I saw people doing the old limp/raise from early position with things other than Aces or Kings). Posted by TommyD
Losing a lot of value to say the least, part of the strength of AK is getting hands we dominate involved. So we jam and cause AQ/AJ/KQ etc out of the pot and only get called by big pocket pairs. Just seems a terrible way to play AK that deep in a £1k event.
Out of interest, what hands would be in the jam range?
In Response to Re: Lambert180 ----- 20NL to 50NL ----- Target = 50BIs for 50NL by the end of 2013 ----- : Losing a lot of value to say the least, part of the strength of AK is getting hands we dominate involved. So we jam and cause AQ/AJ/KQ etc out of the pot and only get called by big pocket pairs. Just seems a terrible way to play AK that deep in a £1k event. Out of interest, what hands would be in the jam range? Posted by MattBates
AA/KK only in your jam range if you think oppo is limp.calling 99+AQ+ ) maybe not !!
Surely we should have nothing in our jam range the first time the action is on us.
Our raise/get it in range would be interesting. I think it changes between the person who did put us in (and others yet to act obviously) and both limpers, and we can probably split ranges for open limp and limper as well.
Against the former I like AQ+ TT+ against a thinking aggressive player, with 99 maybe in there. That might be a too tight calling range actually, would like to hear comments.
Now against the limpers, well I saw one fellow in this comp limp/3bet a few times, but that was earlier on. He had QQ and AKo the times he showed. Against the first one I might be as tight as QQ+ AK+. Against the second limper I probably revert back to the earlier range. Stack sizes really matter here as well.
with a jam range i think u can fold out flips tho i like the jam coz u get 88 99 even 10 10 to fold and pick up the extra 3.5k added to ya stack id much rather shove then raise 3 x etc and then if u miss the flop hoping opponent folds think thats just gambling Posted by IDONKCALLU
That is the problem with the jam, you fold out the hands where you are dominating/in a flip and get called when you are crushed. Also by raising an aggro player might jam behind with AQ/KQ suited if he thinks we are at it trying to bully the limpers whereas he isn't likely to hero it off with AQ/KQ etc.
By raising you need to play the streets and evaluate but thats just poker
Surely we should have nothing in our jam range the first time the action is on us. Our raise/get it in range would be interesting. I think it changes between the person who did put us in (and others yet to act obviously) and both limpers, and we can probably split ranges for open limp and limper as well. Against the former I like AQ+ TT+ against a thinking aggressive player, with 99 maybe in there. That might be a too tight calling range actually, would like to hear comments. Now against the limpers, well I saw one fellow in this comp limp/3bet a few times, but that was earlier on. He had QQ and AKo the times he showed. Against the first one I might be as tight as QQ+ AK+. Against the second limper I probably revert back to the earlier range. Stack sizes really matter here as well. Posted by TommyD
Kinda prefer GII range - this was 9 handed though with antes
V open limp QQ+AK
V over limp JJ’s+AQ+
Cold 4 bet JJ+AK+ v thinking aggro
KK/AA versus old man who never played a hand
Deffo agree that you need very specific conditions to jam AA/KK against open limp UTG
FWIW, if anyone didn't read the full MC update, the person that shipped was the open limper, which probably was worst case scenario but I'd already decided before I acted that there was no1 behind that I wouldn't snap a ship from.
Dunno how I've managed to keep forgetting to put this in my diary but we got tickets around Christmas time to see Derren Brown's latest live show in Oxford so me and Emma will be going to see him tomorrow night
On a poker topic, night off the cash for me I think, I'll be playing the ME and Mini and see if there's any other MTTs that take my fancy.
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Look forward to your blog, so jel
Was a pretty brutal session, one of them sessions where every single time you have a hand you get zero action and everytime you run a bluff you get some hero call/station with 3rd pr no kicker Got taken for 2 stacks in the space of 4 hands, both hands I had AA in a 3b pot (me being the aggressor), first time villian flopped 2pr, second time same villian from the other hand just 2 hands earlier, he flops a set. Sigh.
Oh I played a £5.50 HU BH Shuffle before the session but didn't get anything for that.
So my cash session finished -£193.59
Bankroll: £1,556.59
Poker Points: 4785 (£76.56)
£5.50 Time Tourney - bust
£1.60 Micro Sat into the Semi for tonight's ME - bust that in pretty horrible style. Stacks are fairly shallow, think there are about 11 people left with 3 seats up for grabs. I'm 2nd in chips and only have 12xBB, the chip leader is to my left and only has like 14xBB (most have like 3-4xBB). Folds to me on the SB, and I ship into him with K9s, he calls with QTs and gets there. It's not so horrible losing a 60/40, I can live with that, but just the fact there is zero reason for him to take the gamble calling it off with QT against 2nd in chips. Oh well.
£3.30 £50 GTD - bust
£2.20 Time Tourney - cashed for £4.55
So a total MTT loss of £8.05 this morning.
Then I went through some HHs with some of the cash regs on Skype, and rightly so, pointed out some horrendous mistakes from last night. Looking through them myself was pretty horrible, some situations where I just don't know what I must have been thinking at the time, cos I can see myself now it's horrible. Ah well, it's reinforced a few things. Then I did a live sweat with them for abuot 1hr 30 mins, just 5tabling (4x 30NL and 1x 20NL cos tables just weren't running). and made a profit of £27.57
Bankroll: £1,576.11
Poker Points: 4911 (£78.58)
Ok, so finally I'm gonna do my MC update. Firstly if I haven't said it enough already, I was really honoured and over the moon to be chosen for TSP.
I set off on the Thursday for the pre-match pub meet-up and in true Lambo style, things weren't smooth from the get go. My hotel didn't have it's own parking so I had a post code to put in my sat-nav for the nearby NCP car park, did that all fine, then realised I didn't know the way to the hotel. I knew it was like 2 mins walk away but there about 5 different roads I could take and I couldn't see the hotel. Asked about 3 people who have never even heard of the Britannia hotel until eventually someone pointed me in the right direction.
Got to Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem (as Tommy mentioned, apparently the oldest pub in the world) about 7pm. Was a good night out, lots of very interesting anecdotes from Andrew1947 and a fair amount of poker talk (I can happily talk poker till the cows come home). I have no idea when but at some point Ryan and JamieLou turned up and we left shortly after to go get a curry.
I had a pretty terrible night's sleep, ended up waking up about 8am which meant I ended up killing time watching Fraiser on channel 4 for a bit. Got my TSP shirt, did my interview with Orford and got sat down on a really good table (which I stayed on for the entire tourney), I'd say only 1-2 players on the table were troublesome. I didn't really get involved in any big pots, just kept picking up loads of small pots and chipping up slowly. Got to around 70k in chips then got it in AK v 99 against a 20k stack but couldn't get there. Kinda dwindled a bit after this and was probably down to about 38k at one of the breaks. First hand after the break, I flat an open IP with 78s and I flop the flush on 23T, he C/C the flop, then C/R a blank turn all-in and I snap him off to see JT and get back up to just under 70k. Dwindled a bit again, a couple of badly timed bluffs and one call down on a dry flop and turn w/ 88, to see him checkback JJ on the river. My exit hand I have AKhh with around 28k @ 500/1k, there are 2 limps in front of me so I bump it up to 4.5k, I get shipped on by the initial limper and just have to call imo (even more so because he'd been shipping over SO many 3bets and opens in the last few orbits), he turns over TT and I lose my second flip of the day to bust out. Think I bust out about 20 mins before the end of level 10, and they played 11 levels in day 1.
Of course, I was disappointed to have busted out so early, but I think I played really well and that's the nature of the beast with MTTs... most times you're gonna bust out with nothing.
After that I just spent the rest of the day and part of Saturday railing and sitting with the rest of TSP and Tikay in 'bust out corner' which again was great fun.
Saw some pretty sick or famous (or both) players like Jake Cody, James Atkin, Channing, Jamie Burland and Devilfish.
All in all, it was a great weekend, and if the opportunity ever comes up again to represent Sky then (in the style of Suarez) I'll bite their arm off
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After all that, I'll keep the update from today's play short.
I played the £5.50 mini and bust out fairly early with no heads. I played a £5.75 £500 GTD BH where I got £4.34 of heads and then stone bubbled which is always pretty sigh. I was 6/12 with 11 paid and could have sat back for a bit but as always, when ya going for the win, sometimes your prize is being bubble boy.
Also played a £6 direct sat into the £55 BH tonight. Was doing pretty well, then shipped 77 into K6, flopped my set but they got runner runner straight to take me out.
So -£12.91 on MTTs tonight.
Then I loaded up some cash, 6tables, about 2.5 hours, and £49.81 profit.
Back above £1.6k and over the 5k point mark
Bankroll: £1,613.01
Poker Points: 5051 (£90.92)
1k/2k didn't even happen till day 2.
I don't expect them to have a big hand anyway, so what I want is for them to limp/call OOP and then get owned postflop
FWIW raise a little more pre and hopefully someone raises u with worse
ul next race please )
More likely going to see hands that have you in bad shape the majority when you just jam
But, yeah, I wouldn't open shove after 2 limpers.
They've only committed 1xBB so far, they aint gonna stick in another 27xBB without a very strong hand.
I know we miss the flop a lot Donk, but they miss the flop just as often too, and we almost certainly have the best hand V a l/c range and have position on both limpers.
AK is firmly in my raise/get it in range, even if one of the limpers rejams (I saw people doing the old limp/raise from early position with things other than Aces or Kings).
Out of interest, what hands would be in the jam range?
everything else is either call or raise/fold
Our raise/get it in range would be interesting. I think it changes between the person who did put us in (and others yet to act obviously) and both limpers, and we can probably split ranges for open limp and limper as well.
Against the former I like AQ+ TT+ against a thinking aggressive player, with 99 maybe in there. That might be a too tight calling range actually, would like to hear comments.
Now against the limpers, well I saw one fellow in this comp limp/3bet a few times, but that was earlier on. He had QQ and AKo the times he showed. Against the first one I might be as tight as QQ+ AK+. Against the second limper I probably revert back to the earlier range. Stack sizes really matter here as well.
By raising you need to play the streets and evaluate but thats just poker
Kinda prefer GII range - this was 9 handed though with antes
V open limp QQ+AK
V over limp JJ’s+AQ+
Cold 4 bet JJ+AK+ v thinking aggro
KK/AA versus old man who never played a hand
Deffo agree that you need very specific conditions to jam AA/KK against open limp UTG
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Dunno how I've managed to keep forgetting to put this in my diary but we got tickets around Christmas time to see Derren Brown's latest live show in Oxford so me and Emma will be going to see him tomorrow night
On a poker topic, night off the cash for me I think, I'll be playing the ME and Mini and see if there's any other MTTs that take my fancy.