Don't think I've felt this tilted for a very long time!
I got down to the final 12 of the SPT QF so 2 tables of 6, and there were 7 seats up for grabs (I'm 6th in chips). I click away from the table, to load the other table up, click back to my table as someone has shoved and I click back on my table over the call button
I had QTo and luckily I was against AK which is as good as I could have hoped for but he flopped the Ace and it was game over as he had me covered.
Most tilting mis-click ever! Not bothered about losing the £4.60 it took to get me in, but I was pretty confident of having a seat locked up for the £48 game and just frustrating to waste about 4 hours of my day on SPT sats to blow it on a stupid misclick.
Since the above satellite I thought I'd give one of the SPT Frenzies a go. Got up a decent stack at one point and just needed 1 more hold to be in with a real shout of taking it down but no such luck. 10 rebuys in all so that cost me £24.40 and took my bankroll down to £781.94
As mentioned on Robbie's diary, I've been away from cash for a good few weeks now but was (emphasis on was... lol) feeling a lot more motivated to play and de-tilted as I know I was carrying a fair bit of accumulated tilt into each session.
Played about 4.5 hours 6tabling (4x30NL and 2x20NL).
So I sat down tonight, usual routine tick the box to wait until it's my BB, then my very first hand of the session, I get dealt 88 and flop a set... WAL
Player
Action
Cards
Amount
Pot
Balance
shawsok
Small blind
£0.15
£0.15
£30.15
Lambert180
Big blind
£0.30
£0.45
£29.70
adougal10
Sit out
Your hole cards
8
8
RWG123
Call
£0.30
£0.75
£11.75
callumm18
Fold
alfarch30
Raise
£1.20
£1.95
£22.65
shawsok
Fold
Lambert180
Call
£0.90
£2.85
£28.80
RWG123
Call
£0.90
£3.75
£10.85
Flop
8
9
K
Lambert180
Check
RWG123
Check
alfarch30
Bet
£1.88
£5.63
£20.77
Lambert180
Raise
£4.50
£10.13
£24.30
RWG123
Fold
alfarch30
Raise
£9.00
£19.13
£11.77
Lambert180
All-in
£24.30
£43.43
£0.00
alfarch30
All-in
£11.77
£55.20
£0.00
Lambert180
Unmatched bet
£6.15
£49.05
£6.15
Lambert180
Show
8
8
alfarch30
Show
K
K
Turn
3
River
6
alfarch30
Win
Three Kings
£47.25
£47.25
Sigh, great positive start to the session lol, but shrugged it off and carried on. Things were really up and down from there, got owned by Rancid a few times, won a few nice pots, lost a few all-ins, even one that involved me getting it in on a 457 flop when I had bottom set against a caller with 2 overs and no draws but somehow managed to runner runner a flush w/ KQo.
Finished the session -£36.64 which could have been a lot worse. Really due a winning session of some sort soon, preferably a big one!
Looks like it's time for me to step down and start playing purely 20NL for a little while until I can rebuild a little.
Chin up m8, things will turn around. To sit down and be on the wrong end of a cooler like that in the very first hand is always a kick in the teeth!! Fair play to you for shrugging it off and not letting it get to you.
Woop! I finally had a winning session lol. It feels like it's been a reeeeally long time since I've had any winning session at cash.
For the first time in a long time, things seemed to be going my way. Tonight I managed to set over set someone (ul AJ) which makes a nice change from me not having the underset. Also won that big like 500xBB pot on a mastercash table that got shown on 861... for anyone that missed it...
Player
Action
Cards
Amount
Pot
Balance
STR1BS
Small blind
£0.10
£0.10
£47.06
Lambert180
Big blind
£0.20
£0.30
£45.30
benc
Sit out
Your hole cards
K
K
nite_owl55
Fold
DAPREACHER
Raise
£0.80
£1.10
£38.98
BigHawk89
Call
£0.80
£1.90
£62.33
STR1BS
Raise
£3.20
£5.10
£43.86
Lambert180
Call
£3.10
£8.20
£42.20
DAPREACHER
Call
£2.50
£10.70
£36.48
BigHawk89
Fold
Flop
3
2
3
STR1BS
Bet
£5.35
£16.05
£38.51
Lambert180
Call
£5.35
£21.40
£36.85
DAPREACHER
Call
£5.35
£26.75
£31.13
Turn
3
STR1BS
Bet
£20.06
£46.81
£18.45
Lambert180
All-in
£36.85
£83.66
£0.00
DAPREACHER
Fold
STR1BS
Call
£16.79
£100.45
£1.66
STR1BS
Show
Q
Q
Lambert180
Show
K
K
River
4
Lambert180
Win
Full House, 3s and Kings
£98.65
£98.65
Annoyingly, I was leaving my session just as the tables broke, and as they did one table went down to me and 1 guy playing HU, it was my last hand of the night on that table and got it in pre for 100xBB w/ AK only to see AA, so that's chipped off a bit of profits.
But, that said, I still finished +£65.86 which is a great feeling after so many losing sessions back to back. Shame it's not £85 but I won't complain. Nice to be back above £800.
Have kept meaning to update but forgot. I keep all the deets in a notepad document until I've updated anyway so just run through them.
Played £10.50 SPT QF on Monday, can't remember what happened but didn't get through
Played DTD on Monday, had a couple of deep runs but bust DTD 1 two places off the bubble (can't remember how) and got a little further in DTD 3 but bust 99 v KQ in 11th place for £5.93 so just about covered my BIs
Lambert180 0 11 £5.93
Then tonight I played a Micro sat which went very badly. I late regged and came in @ 75/150 w/ the 3k starting stack and was on a 3handed table. Open AJ from the SB, get it in w/ TPTK v AA and that leaves me without about 1.2k. Next hand on the BTN I shove K9s and the same guy has AK, gg.
Then I just bought in direct to the SPT QF, was doing ok, chipped up a little bit then lost AK v TT. Left me fairly short and just grinded away for another half an hour or so, folding lots, getting the odd jam through til eventually someone open limped the BTN w/ AJ (just meh) then called when I shipped from 10xBB from the BB w/ 5Ts and A-high was good by the river.
So played 2 more games tonight. I saw there was a £6 super sat for the £110 monthly roller going with loads of overlay so thought I'd give it a whirl. Wasn't even really bothered about playing the roller but was just gonna play it for the cash cos needing to come top 5 out of like 40 (that's what was left when I late regged) runners to turn £6 into £110 is pretty sweet. I 3bet shipped QTcc for 20xBB effective and got a lolbad call with J9o who got there.
Then I played the £11 £2k BH. Was doing pretty well throughout, not really any tricky spots. Then shipped my 15xBB w/ QTss into an 11xBB stack who had A8ss BvB and couldnt get there. That left me crippled and I busted shortly after just outside the cash. I took 1 head
Lambert180 0 31 £3.75 Head Prizes 1
Pretty sickening now how bad I race in MTTs. If it was stars or w/e I'd expect them to be ridic high variance with the massive fields but we're talking like 100-200 runner MTTs where yes there will be high variance as in all MTTs but not as high as like 1k+ runner MTTs. I consistently get deep runs and then become incapable of winning a race.
I regged the £12 SPT Direct because I saw there was 1 seat GTD and only like 7 runners so loads of overlay. Ended up getting 18 runners anyway so just 2 runners shy of the guarantee but still only 1 seat up for grabs.
I ran pretty da mn good and won my seat
Lambert180 36000 1 Entry to £40k SPT Nott/ham
Really shows what you need to win a shortstacked MTT, you basically need to win every single race. I was doing well the entire way through and had twice as much as 2nd place for most of the game but even still losing just 1 race would have crippled me.
The one hand that basically won it for me I got super lucky
Player
Action
Cards
Amount
Pot
Balance
CakeMan_78
Small blind
400.00
400.00
7290.00
rossybee16
Big blind
800.00
1200.00
13550.00
Your hole cards
J
K
Lambert180
All-in
13960.00
15160.00
0.00
CakeMan_78
Fold
rossybee16
All-in
13550.00
28710.00
0.00
rossybee16
Unmatched bet
390.00
28320.00
390.00
rossybee16
Show
Q
Q
Lambert180
Show
J
K
Flop
6
5
K
Turn
9
River
J
Lambert180
Win
Two Pairs, Kings and Jacks
28320.00
28320.00
Such a relief to finally get my SPT seat because now all the pressure is off to play sats and I can go back to grinding cash. So all in all, I got my seat for about £50 so I'm well happy with that.
Cheers Jac, you got in there before I could even brag
Decided to have a look at my SS this morning (just for MTTs) and last night has helped it look a bit more respectable. I've pretty much always had a really good ROI (for as long as I can remember lookinag at it anyway) just still waiting for them big wins. More volume needed!! 500 MTTs in the space of like 4 years is pretty lolbad.
Had a bit of scary incident yesterday. Me and Emma took the kids out to a Harvester which was nice (and not scary at all). Then driving home on the windy roads (that is winding roads, not roads where wind is blowing) with rain pouring down, we're on an A road about 2 mins from our house and just as I drive round a bend, we see a car on the opposite side of the road (coming towards us) completely spinning out of control only about 30ft from us. Luckily for us (and them), they managed to end up spinning out to the left so avoiding us and only spinning into a field where they managed to at least stay flat and come to a relatively safe stop.
Just finished a 3hour session of 6tabling 20NL. Nothing really major of note, could have went better, probably unnecessarily bluffed off a BI by the old 3 barrelling with air trick once, but still managed to make a teeny weeny profit of £2.73
I have no idea in this hand what villian could possibly have to bet/call, bet/call and then bet/fold river Guess it can only be trying to cheaply bluff a missed draw
Player
Action
Cards
Amount
Pot
Balance
Blingalow
Small blind
£0.10
£0.10
£17.21
waz66
Big blind
£0.20
£0.30
£38.09
Your hole cards
5
5
slystoat27
Call
£0.20
£0.50
£64.93
T_BRADLEY
Call
£0.20
£0.70
£75.35
Lambert180
Call
£0.20
£0.90
£38.31
manj8028
Fold
Blingalow
Call
£0.10
£1.00
£17.11
waz66
Check
Flop
7
5
4
Blingalow
Check
waz66
Bet
£0.60
£1.60
£37.49
slystoat27
Fold
T_BRADLEY
Call
£0.60
£2.20
£74.75
Lambert180
Raise
£2.50
£4.70
£35.81
Blingalow
Fold
waz66
Call
£1.90
£6.60
£35.59
T_BRADLEY
Call
£1.90
£8.50
£72.85
Turn
K
waz66
Check
T_BRADLEY
Bet
£4.25
£12.75
£68.60
Lambert180
Raise
£11.00
£23.75
£24.81
waz66
Fold
T_BRADLEY
Call
£6.75
£30.50
£61.85
River
2
T_BRADLEY
Bet
£9.00
£39.50
£52.85
Lambert180
All-in
£24.81
£64.31
£0.00
T_BRADLEY
Fold
Lambert180
Muck
Lambert180
Win
£46.70
£46.70
Lambert180
Return
£15.81
£1.80
£62.51
Thoughts on this, good spot to turn my hand into a bluff? Pretty confident villian isn't strong by his sizings getting (relatively) smaller and smaller each street, I just don't wanna call and then puke when he turns over like 8To
I was staying at my mum's again tonight so the usual story of me only being able to 1table for the night. After asking round some mates, it was decided the most effective use of my 1tabling time would be playing HU SnGs, so that's what I did
Since they altered the structures of all the HU SnGs a couple of months ago, the Turbo games are just too fast now imo.... I know that's funny coming from someone that used to grind Hypers, but I used to use Turbos when I fancied something a bit slower, something where I knew I had a bigger edge and wasn't so swingy, but now Turbos aren't far off what Hypers are.
So I stuck to the Speeds (which are as close to the old Turbos as there is), didn't manage loads of games cos I wasn't in full grind mode, just chilling out while watching TV and again I could only 1 table. Started off a bit rubbish, got coolered a couple of times and 1 game I lost was just a standard GII first hand JJ v AK and I can't hold.
Finished up winning 8 games, and losing 7 for a whopping total profit of £1.25
I also got a free £5 thing from Sky which had to be spent on roulette, and I ran pretty bad there too lol. Bet on red & even, it comes green 0, then I bet red & even again, it comes black 33, then I bet odd and black, it comes green 0 again lol. I did manage to place 1 bet that won something though and as every bet was just coming out of the free bet and all winnings were in real money, I did finish +£1.50
Got a 3hr session in tonight of 6tabling 20NL. Another small win and I'm happy with that, not as big as I'd like (obv) but it's all good for the confidence after so many losing sessions
Finished +£21.35. Probably could have been more if Trebor wasn't just completely running over me HU on one of the tables that broke.
Finished the month on 2697 points so got £26.97 to come, and a £220 SPT seat. Definitely my worst month so far of 2013 but could have been a lot worse and I've definitely been getting things back on track toward the end of the month.
Will set some goals etc for July tomorrow.
Bankroll: £789.87 (+£26.97 C4P to come) + SPT Notts Seat
Usually yes Est... seems to have gone a bit quiet recently, not sure why but I like this as a means of tracking my own progress anyway.
Unlucky Geldy, not many worse feelings (in poker) than someone making a shocking call and you thinking 'wow wtf!! .... oh you got there'
Yeah, won't be long before I'm rolled to move back up. The target is still on to reach 50 BIs for 50NL by the end of the year and imo still very easily achievable.
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I got down to the final 12 of the SPT QF so 2 tables of 6, and there were 7 seats up for grabs (I'm 6th in chips). I click away from the table, to load the other table up, click back to my table as someone has shoved and I click back on my table over the call button
I had QTo and luckily I was against AK which is as good as I could have hoped for but he flopped the Ace and it was game over as he had me covered.
Most tilting mis-click ever! Not bothered about losing the £4.60 it took to get me in, but I was pretty confident of having a seat locked up for the £48 game and just frustrating to waste about 4 hours of my day on SPT sats to blow it on a stupid misclick.
As mentioned on Robbie's diary, I've been away from cash for a good few weeks now but was (emphasis on was... lol) feeling a lot more motivated to play and de-tilted as I know I was carrying a fair bit of accumulated tilt into each session.
Played about 4.5 hours 6tabling (4x30NL and 2x20NL).
So I sat down tonight, usual routine tick the box to wait until it's my BB, then my very first hand of the session, I get dealt 88 and flop a set... WAL
Finished the session -£36.64 which could have been a lot worse. Really due a winning session of some sort soon, preferably a big one!
Looks like it's time for me to step down and start playing purely 20NL for a little while until I can rebuild a little.
Bankroll: £745.30
Poker Points: 2142 (£21.42)
Not posted in your diary in a while, but have been keeping up with how you are doing.
Was really impressed when you had lost a bit a while ago, your head was right back on it, and were soon back to winning ways.
Not much to say that you won't already know/ have heard, you'll be used to the ups and downs.
All the best to you, and am sure you will be back up there sooner rather than later
For the first time in a long time, things seemed to be going my way. Tonight I managed to set over set someone (ul AJ) which makes a nice change from me not having the underset. Also won that big like 500xBB pot on a mastercash table that got shown on 861... for anyone that missed it...
But, that said, I still finished +£65.86 which is a great feeling after so many losing sessions back to back. Shame it's not £85 but I won't complain. Nice to be back above £800.
Bankroll: £811.16
Poker Points: 2248 (£22.48)
Played £10.50 SPT QF on Monday, can't remember what happened but didn't get through
Played DTD on Monday, had a couple of deep runs but bust DTD 1 two places off the bubble (can't remember how) and got a little further in DTD 3 but bust 99 v KQ in 11th place for £5.93 so just about covered my BIs
Lambert180 0 11 £5.93
Then tonight I played a Micro sat which went very badly. I late regged and came in @ 75/150 w/ the 3k starting stack and was on a 3handed table. Open AJ from the SB, get it in w/ TPTK v AA and that leaves me without about 1.2k. Next hand on the BTN I shove K9s and the same guy has AK, gg.
Then I just bought in direct to the SPT QF, was doing ok, chipped up a little bit then lost AK v TT. Left me fairly short and just grinded away for another half an hour or so, folding lots, getting the odd jam through til eventually someone open limped the BTN w/ AJ (just meh) then called when I shipped from 10xBB from the BB w/ 5Ts and A-high was good by the river.
Bankroll: £788.29
Poker Points: 2273 (£22.73)
Then I played the £11 £2k BH. Was doing pretty well throughout, not really any tricky spots. Then shipped my 15xBB w/ QTss into an 11xBB stack who had A8ss BvB and couldnt get there. That left me crippled and I busted shortly after just outside the cash. I took 1 head
Lambert180 0 31 £3.75 Head Prizes 1
Pretty sickening now how bad I race in MTTs. If it was stars or w/e I'd expect them to be ridic high variance with the massive fields but we're talking like 100-200 runner MTTs where yes there will be high variance as in all MTTs but not as high as like 1k+ runner MTTs. I consistently get deep runs and then become incapable of winning a race.
Bankroll: £775.04
Poker Points: 2288 (£22.88)
I regged the £12 SPT Direct because I saw there was 1 seat GTD and only like 7 runners so loads of overlay. Ended up getting 18 runners anyway so just 2 runners shy of the guarantee but still only 1 seat up for grabs.
I ran pretty da mn good and won my seat
Lambert180 36000 1 Entry to £40k SPT Nott/ham
Really shows what you need to win a shortstacked MTT, you basically need to win every single race. I was doing well the entire way through and had twice as much as 2nd place for most of the game but even still losing just 1 race would have crippled me.
The one hand that basically won it for me I got super lucky
Bankroll: £763.04
Poker Points: 2298 (£22.98)
Decided to have a look at my SS this morning (just for MTTs) and last night has helped it look a bit more respectable. I've pretty much always had a really good ROI (for as long as I can remember lookinag at it anyway) just still waiting for them big wins. More volume needed!! 500 MTTs in the space of like 4 years is pretty lolbad.
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Had a bit of scary incident yesterday. Me and Emma took the kids out to a Harvester which was nice (and not scary at all). Then driving home on the windy roads (that is winding roads, not roads where wind is blowing) with rain pouring down, we're on an A road about 2 mins from our house and just as I drive round a bend, we see a car on the opposite side of the road (coming towards us) completely spinning out of control only about 30ft from us. Luckily for us (and them), they managed to end up spinning out to the left so avoiding us and only spinning into a field where they managed to at least stay flat and come to a relatively safe stop.
I have no idea in this hand what villian could possibly have to bet/call, bet/call and then bet/fold river
Bankroll: £765.77
Poker Points: 2460 (£24.60)
Since they altered the structures of all the HU SnGs a couple of months ago, the Turbo games are just too fast now imo.... I know that's funny coming from someone that used to grind Hypers, but I used to use Turbos when I fancied something a bit slower, something where I knew I had a bigger edge and wasn't so swingy, but now Turbos aren't far off what Hypers are.
So I stuck to the Speeds (which are as close to the old Turbos as there is), didn't manage loads of games cos I wasn't in full grind mode, just chilling out while watching TV and again I could only 1 table. Started off a bit rubbish, got coolered a couple of times and 1 game I lost was just a standard GII first hand JJ v AK and I can't hold.
Finished up winning 8 games, and losing 7 for a whopping total profit of £1.25
I also got a free £5 thing from Sky which had to be spent on roulette, and I ran pretty bad there too lol. Bet on red & even, it comes green 0, then I bet red & even again, it comes black 33, then I bet odd and black, it comes green 0 again lol. I did manage to place 1 bet that won something though and as every bet was just coming out of the free bet and all winnings were in real money, I did finish +£1.50
#highroller
Bankroll: £768.52
Poker Points: 2505 (£25.05)
Finished +£21.35. Probably could have been more if Trebor wasn't just completely running over me HU on one of the tables that broke.
Finished the month on 2697 points so got £26.97 to come, and a £220 SPT seat. Definitely my worst month so far of 2013 but could have been a lot worse and I've definitely been getting things back on track toward the end of the month.
Will set some goals etc for July tomorrow.
Bankroll: £789.87 (+£26.97 C4P to come) + SPT Notts Seat
Unlucky Geldy, not many worse feelings (in poker) than someone making a shocking call and you thinking 'wow wtf!! .... oh you got there'
Yeah, won't be long before I'm rolled to move back up. The target is still on to reach 50 BIs for 50NL by the end of the year and imo still very easily achievable.
My personal favourite was when I have 2 people each drawing to 2 outs, to then flop a FD and have them each drawing to 1 out.... turn bink!
Bankroll: £778.87 (+£26.97 C4P)
Poker Points: 0