congratz on the spt notts dude, i might be there - still thinking about it.
anyway i'll prob be playing some hyper HUs in evenings and weekends here for lols, how many you reckon can be grinded out over a week prob playing like 3hrs a day over the course of a month??? say 6pm-11pm...
Hey TPTP, be cool if you made it to the 6max at DTD.
Well depends how you feel about playing more than 1 table cos obv they get pretty hectic if you got loads open, I used to 2table them and I think that's when I played my best, occasionally 3tabled but think my play got worse doing this.
Per table, you can play about 12 games per hour. So I was getting in 24 games per hour when I was 2tabling, then obv if you play for 3 hours that's 72 games per day.
So could get over 2k games in a month if you play literally every day.
yeah im pretty comfortable mass tabling so will be an ajustment at first i guess, literlly just spent my entre poker roll decoratng my house as expecting new a nipper soon (gotta keep the mrs happy) so im thinking she wont mind me building up another roll on the side to spend on the baby when it arrives. i'll prob start at the 3s or 5s...and take it from there, i take it if your playing 2tables the traffic is pretty steady and not much idle time?
At what stake to things start slowing down? 10s, 20s, 30s?
lambert do you think that the cash tables could be much tighter this week as lots of villians will be folding most hands with them having lots of tables open.
@TPTP - Yeah, I mean I mostly played in the evenings and my regular games were the £5s and did spend quite a bit of time at £10s. At them stakes you can pretty much be non stop 2-3tabling of an evening with hardly any waiting time (mostly). Sometimes it can be a little bit slower in the daytime but even then you're generally not waiting much longer than 60 seconds in between regging and getting a game.
Never played 20s and 30s but Dohhhhh can answer that cos he does. GL anyway. Except for about 2 regs games are really soft up to and including £10s so (as always in hypers) just avoid running bad and you should do fine.
@Craig - The tables couldn't be much worse on Sky than when they run a promo like this. This is why I moan about them and why I generally don't play much cash when they're on. The terrible idea to base people's scores on how many hands they are dealt in and not how much rake they pay just encourages the nits to go even deeper into their shell, open up a million tables and sit there folding all day so they can make a couple of hundred from a promo and cooler people with KK+ in between that.
Don't get me wrong, ppeople that play like that are easy to beat, but it's a very slow cos you can only constantly nick small pots off them and it's painfully boring playing against 3-5 people like that per table.
Well it's about time I got round to doing an update I guess...
Since Monday I've been playing HU SnGs cos I just cba with the cash tables during these awful promos that just encourage people to mass table and fold lots. Obv as is standard Lambo, I've ran like a one legged dog, it really is pretty unbelievable how bad I've ran. The only comfort is that the sample size is relatively tiny but have just been unable to win a flip or 60/40 or 70/30 for days.
In Dohhhhh style I'll post a few examples.
So far since Monday I've Won 63 games and Lost 76 all @ £5 Speeds and Hypers for a total loss of £99.75. Imo, I'd say I'm like the better part of £150 below EV atm but meh not much I can do about it.
Mehhh he had 8 club outs too but bleurgh
Player
Action
Cards
Amount
Pot
Balance
barrabus
Small blind
15.00
15.00
1590.00
Lambert180
Big blind
30.00
45.00
1365.00
Your hole cards
J
Q
barrabus
Raise
45.00
90.00
1545.00
Lambert180
Call
30.00
120.00
1335.00
Flop
Q
9
4
Lambert180
Check
barrabus
Bet
120.00
240.00
1425.00
Lambert180
Call
120.00
360.00
1215.00
Turn
6
Lambert180
Check
barrabus
Bet
360.00
720.00
1065.00
Lambert180
All-in
1215.00
1935.00
0.00
barrabus
All-in
1065.00
3000.00
0.00
barrabus
Unmatched bet
210.00
2790.00
210.00
barrabus
Show
2
Q
Lambert180
Show
J
Q
River
2
barrabus
Win
Two Pairs, Queens and 2s
2790.00
3000.00
Player
Action
Cards
Amount
Pot
Balance
FATJIM
Small blind
40.00
40.00
890.00
Lambert180
Big blind
80.00
120.00
1990.00
Your hole cards
9
9
FATJIM
All-in
890.00
1010.00
0.00
Lambert180
Call
850.00
1860.00
1140.00
FATJIM
Show
A
3
Lambert180
Show
9
9
Flop
5
J
3
Turn
A
River
3
FATJIM
Win
Full House, 3s and Aces
1860.00
1860.00
So sigh to have a massive CL, get it in here and then find you're now the shorty
Player
Action
Cards
Amount
Pot
Balance
dantelechu
Small blind
15.00
15.00
885.00
Lambert180
Big blind
30.00
45.00
2070.00
Your hole cards
Q
A
dantelechu
All-in
885.00
930.00
0.00
Lambert180
Raise
1740.00
2670.00
330.00
Lambert180
Unmatched bet
870.00
1800.00
1200.00
dantelechu
Show
J
10
Lambert180
Show
Q
A
Flop
8
8
5
Turn
10
River
8
dantelechu
Win
Full House, 8s and 10s
1800.00
1800.00
Player
Action
Cards
Amount
Pot
Balance
JIM_LAD
Small blind
40.00
40.00
780.00
Lambert180
Big blind
80.00
120.00
2100.00
Your hole cards
A
9
JIM_LAD
All-in
780.00
900.00
0.00
Lambert180
Raise
1480.00
2380.00
620.00
Lambert180
Unmatched bet
740.00
1640.00
1360.00
JIM_LAD
Show
A
3
Lambert180
Show
A
9
Flop
3
4
4
Turn
Q
River
10
JIM_LAD
Win
Two Pairs, 4s and 3s
1640.00
1640.00
Another hold ftw which lead to a double and a loss of the game
Player
Action
Cards
Amount
Pot
Balance
Lambert180
Small blind
40.00
40.00
2415.00
FATJIM
Big blind
80.00
120.00
465.00
Your hole cards
3
A
Lambert180
All-in
2415.00
2535.00
0.00
FATJIM
All-in
465.00
3000.00
0.00
Lambert180
Unmatched bet
1910.00
1090.00
1910.00
Lambert180
Show
3
A
FATJIM
Show
10
K
Flop
8
K
10
Turn
2
River
A
FATJIM
Win
Two Pairs, Kings and 10s
1090.00
1090.00
Standard limp/call spot
Player
Action
Cards
Amount
Pot
Balance
thorley10
Small blind
50.00
50.00
1780.00
Lambert180
Big blind
100.00
150.00
1070.00
Your hole cards
A
7
thorley10
Call
50.00
200.00
1730.00
Lambert180
All-in
1070.00
1270.00
0.00
thorley10
Call
1070.00
2340.00
660.00
thorley10
Show
4
J
Lambert180
Show
A
7
Flop
4
Q
6
Turn
5
River
2
thorley10
Win
Pair of 4s
2340.00
3000.00
Player
Action
Cards
Amount
Pot
Balance
runkieking
Small blind
40.00
40.00
995.00
Lambert180
Big blind
80.00
120.00
1885.00
Your hole cards
A
J
runkieking
Raise
120.00
240.00
875.00
Lambert180
All-in
1885.00
2125.00
0.00
runkieking
All-in
875.00
3000.00
0.00
Lambert180
Unmatched bet
930.00
2070.00
930.00
runkieking
Show
K
8
Lambert180
Show
A
J
Flop
9
A
2
Turn
6
River
3
runkieking
Win
Flush to the Ace
2070.00
2070.00
Gonna spend a few days playing MTTs on .fr (will still update here). I got my C4P today which helped get the BR just about above £700 again but yeh this has been a pretty brutal 6 weeks now... just waiting for it to turn.
Hey paul, I am back into the skype group now so anytime you wanna chat look me up, good to see you are back on the HU sngs, perhaps if sky see volume players are moving away from cash for promos etc, it might make them think about a new sng promo instead of cash champ/big deal.
Dont worry about the small sample you have mentioned, over time things will turn around.
@ Larson - tomorrow is a bit short notice, and people only watched the Youtube draws cos Emma was in them with me and she won't do it lol.
@ Gooner - Meh, if only you were right, I suspect they'll just think 'oh well, he's paying us rake if a different way so who cares'. I don't mind rake races so much, although it's still annoying when every table is reg heavy BUT I do mind rake races based on hands dealt so the tables become full of people 16tabling and folding all day. Yes it's a very beatable strategy but it's **** boring and a far better win rate is attainable from loose bad players than stealing a BB every orbit cos they were only dealt AJ.
I'll get back to winning ways at HU before the month is out. And no you can't have him lol.
I've mentioned before that I keep track of session results, certain HHs etc in a notepad doc while I'm playing, well I came across a hand ID today when I scrolled down and had a goosey gander. It was just a brutal beat I planned to share so here it is...
Have 'em dominated ftw, turn a FD to just destroy their soul with 1 card to come, then lose. Pretty sure I also went on to lose this game lol.
i must say it cheers me up knowing i'm not alone having what seems to be a bad week because of this stupid promo. what we should do on Monday is create a post with the head line the big deal has folded finally lol
Gonna cut my playing short tonight cos I'm just sick to death of running horrible. I'm not stupid, not playing won't change my luck but it will stop me experiencing it right now and I'll be guaranteed to tilt very soon so I'll just stop before I do.
Today Won 4 and Lost 3 so a £3.25 profit.
Here are the last 3 hands from the last game when I decided to just quit. Hand 2 is pointless but there just to show the completeness of how I went from 2200 v 800 to bust in 3 hands in the form of puke
Player
Action
Cards
Amount
Pot
Balance
sylvia1970
Small blind
40.00
40.00
850.00
Lambert180
Big blind
80.00
120.00
2030.00
Your hole cards
8
K
sylvia1970
Call
40.00
160.00
810.00
Lambert180
All-in
2030.00
2190.00
0.00
sylvia1970
All-in
810.00
3000.00
0.00
Lambert180
Unmatched bet
1220.00
1780.00
1220.00
sylvia1970
Show
9
J
Lambert180
Show
8
K
Flop
A
7
J
Turn
3
River
Q
sylvia1970
Win
Pair of Jacks
1780.00
1780.00
Player
Action
Cards
Amount
Pot
Balance
Lambert180
Small blind
40.00
40.00
1180.00
sylvia1970
Big blind
80.00
120.00
1700.00
Your hole cards
4
7
Lambert180
Fold
sylvia1970
Muck
sylvia1970
Win
80.00
1780.00
sylvia1970
Return
40.00
0.00
1820.00
Player
Action
Cards
Amount
Pot
Balance
sylvia1970
Small blind
40.00
40.00
1780.00
Lambert180
Big blind
80.00
120.00
1100.00
Your hole cards
A
Q
sylvia1970
Call
40.00
160.00
1740.00
Lambert180
All-in
1100.00
1260.00
0.00
sylvia1970
Call
1100.00
2360.00
640.00
sylvia1970
Show
A
5
Lambert180
Show
A
Q
Flop
2
8
3
Turn
9
River
5
sylvia1970
Win
Pair of 5s
2360.00
3000.00
Hand 1 - fantastic hand to limp/call a shove.
Hand 2 - N/A
Hand 3 - The old limp/call with complete bo**ocks again, but who cares, just get there.
i think you do sound a bit tilted myself. i have been feeling a bit tilted myself too and without thinking decided to enter the mini. it's probably not the same when we are not able to enjoy the cash tables. wish you the luck when the cash tables return to normal. maybe try and watch a bit of Wimbledon to get your mind away from poker this week end.
Didn't update yesterday because I hardly played anything but thought I might aswell stick it down cos I'm gonna play a few games now...
I played a massive 1 game @ my normal £5 speeds and won it. Then played my forum HU games with BBmike and lost 2-1 to him @ £1 Turbos so for the whole day made £3.60 profit. Slow and steady wins the race
Spent the rest of the night playing Dragon Age: Origins on the Xbox. My first time of playing it and I'm loving it so far, so that'll probably take more time away from me playing pokerz.
Was a pretty good day all round today. Made profits in my HU SnGs which is no easy task at the moment, and managed to get 2 small scores in MTTs. On the topic of HU SnGs, was discussing some things with Dohhh about the Speeds cos I haven't been playing them long and think he's found and helped me plug a pretty big leak.
Anyways, I Won 14 games and lost 11, so a profit of £8.75
I decided to play that Syndicate freeroll earlier in the week because after hearing about it sounds like there's loads of value in it because it's a timed tourney where loads of people don't even show up. Well I got into it through that satellite in the week, played it tonight and managed to get a nice bink Lambert180 16987.50 £37.35
Not bad for a freeroll.
Then I played the DTD. Busted out of 2 of them probably about an hour in both in fairly horrible fashion.
DTD 1 - I 3bet KK and c-bet on 579, villian shoves with 66, I snap and it comes turn 3, river 4 for a straight.
DTD 3 - Don't remember action throughout the hand but we got to the river on a non paired board, Solack ships the river with the 8high flush, I snap him off with the K high flush.... sadly the guy behind snaps me off with the A high flush lol (only 3 clubs on board so we all had 2 hole card flushes).
DTD 2 went a bit better and I made it to the FT as chip leader. Got down to 3handed and I minraise/called it off with 22, was holding v AT until the T on the river which left me with a bowl that I couldn't rebuild so another small bink there. bugsytwo 1070000 1 £57.48 neil1970 0 2 £34.30 Lambert180 0 3 £20.46
So wins in all formats today and a nice little boost to the roll after a horrible few days/weeks. Total profit of £61.05 for the day
Played quite a few HU SnGs today. Got in one battle with a guy where I won a standard race in the first game to win and he had a bit of a rant, so admittedly I did deliberately try to tilt him lol... played him 3-4 more times and won them all.
Really tiny profit again, but slowly turning round that bad start. Won 22 games and lost 19 for a £4.75 profit
Played a very small session of HU SnGs yesterday just while Emma was watching her soaps. Still really struggling to get that bit of help you need to string a few wins together so it's constantly 2 steps forward and 1 step back, but that still means I'm moving forward slowly.
I won 6 games and lost 5 for a profit of £2.25.
Also, I managed to bink a free Primo seat last night on 861 for sending in advice to Charlotte Jackson's questions around set mining, bet sizing and chasing FDs. Pretty shocked I beat BorinLoner tbh as he is the king of excellent, lengthy advice on solid poker fundamentals.
Comments
Well depends how you feel about playing more than 1 table cos obv they get pretty hectic if you got loads open, I used to 2table them and I think that's when I played my best, occasionally 3tabled but think my play got worse doing this.
Per table, you can play about 12 games per hour. So I was getting in 24 games per hour when I was 2tabling, then obv if you play for 3 hours that's 72 games per day.
So could get over 2k games in a month if you play literally every day.
Never played 20s and 30s but Dohhhhh can answer that cos he does. GL anyway. Except for about 2 regs games are really soft up to and including £10s so (as always in hypers) just avoid running bad and you should do fine.
@Craig - The tables couldn't be much worse on Sky than when they run a promo like this. This is why I moan about them and why I generally don't play much cash when they're on. The terrible idea to base people's scores on how many hands they are dealt in and not how much rake they pay just encourages the nits to go even deeper into their shell, open up a million tables and sit there folding all day so they can make a couple of hundred from a promo and cooler people with KK+ in between that.
Don't get me wrong, ppeople that play like that are easy to beat, but it's a very slow cos you can only constantly nick small pots off them and it's painfully boring playing against 3-5 people like that per table.
Since Monday I've been playing HU SnGs cos I just cba with the cash tables during these awful promos that just encourage people to mass table and fold lots. Obv as is standard Lambo, I've ran like a one legged dog, it really is pretty unbelievable how bad I've ran. The only comfort is that the sample size is relatively tiny but have just been unable to win a flip or 60/40 or 70/30 for days.
In Dohhhhh style I'll post a few examples.
So far since Monday I've Won 63 games and Lost 76 all @ £5 Speeds and Hypers for a total loss of £99.75. Imo, I'd say I'm like the better part of £150 below EV atm but meh not much I can do about it.
Mehhh he had 8 club outs too but bleurgh
Standard limp/call spot
Bankroll: £702.89
Poker Points: 429 (£4.29)
Thanks
@ Gooner - Meh, if only you were right, I suspect they'll just think 'oh well, he's paying us rake if a different way so who cares'. I don't mind rake races so much, although it's still annoying when every table is reg heavy BUT I do mind rake races based on hands dealt so the tables become full of people 16tabling and folding all day. Yes it's a very beatable strategy but it's **** boring and a far better win rate is attainable from loose bad players than stealing a BB every orbit cos they were only dealt AJ.
I'll get back to winning ways at HU before the month is out. And no you can't have him lol.
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I've mentioned before that I keep track of session results, certain HHs etc in a notepad doc while I'm playing, well I came across a hand ID today when I scrolled down and had a goosey gander. It was just a brutal beat I planned to share so here it is...
Have 'em dominated ftw, turn a FD to just destroy their soul with 1 card to come, then lose. Pretty sure I also went on to lose this game lol.
Win my first game of the day.... 2nd game of the day,
what we should do on Monday is create a post with the head line the big deal has folded finally lol
Today Won 4 and Lost 3 so a £3.25 profit.
Here are the last 3 hands from the last game when I decided to just quit. Hand 2 is pointless but there just to show the completeness of how I went from 2200 v 800 to bust in 3 hands in the form of puke
Hand 2 - N/A
Hand 3 - The old limp/call with complete bo**ocks again, but who cares, just get there.
WP Madam
#doisoundtilted
Bankroll: £706.14
Poker Points: 450 (£4.50)
i think you do sound a bit tilted myself.
i have been feeling a bit tilted myself too and without thinking decided to enter the mini.
it's probably not the same when we are not able to enjoy the cash tables.
wish you the luck when the cash tables return to normal.
maybe try and watch a bit of Wimbledon to get your mind away from poker this week end.
I played a massive 1 game @ my normal £5 speeds and won it. Then played my forum HU games with BBmike and lost 2-1 to him @ £1 Turbos so for the whole day made £3.60 profit. Slow and steady wins the race
Spent the rest of the night playing Dragon Age: Origins on the Xbox. My first time of playing it and I'm loving it so far, so that'll probably take more time away from me playing pokerz.
Bankroll: £709.74
Poker Points: 456 (£4.56)
I won 9 games and lost 6, as usual all £5 Speeds, for a profit of £11.25.
Might play some more later, but more likely it'll be more Xbox... depends how I feel.
Bankroll: £720.99
Poker Points: 501 (£5.01)
Would you fancy doing the draw for round 3 of the HU Tournie in a few days time?
There will only be 6 names:D
Anyways, I Won 14 games and lost 11, so a profit of £8.75
I decided to play that Syndicate freeroll earlier in the week because after hearing about it sounds like there's loads of value in it because it's a timed tourney where loads of people don't even show up. Well I got into it through that satellite in the week, played it tonight and managed to get a nice bink
Lambert180 16987.50 £37.35
Not bad for a freeroll.
Then I played the DTD. Busted out of 2 of them probably about an hour in both in fairly horrible fashion.
DTD 1 - I 3bet KK and c-bet on 579, villian shoves with 66, I snap and it comes turn 3, river 4 for a straight.
DTD 3 - Don't remember action throughout the hand but we got to the river on a non paired board, Solack ships the river with the 8high flush, I snap him off with the K high flush.... sadly the guy behind snaps me off with the A high flush lol (only 3 clubs on board so we all had 2 hole card flushes).
DTD 2 went a bit better and I made it to the FT as chip leader. Got down to 3handed and I minraise/called it off with 22, was holding v AT until the T on the river which left me with a bowl that I couldn't rebuild so another small bink there.
bugsytwo 1070000 1 £57.48
neil1970 0 2 £34.30
Lambert180 0 3 £20.46
So wins in all formats today and a nice little boost to the roll after a horrible few days/weeks. Total profit of £61.05 for the day
Bankroll: £782.04
Poker Points: 581 (£5.81)
Really tiny profit again, but slowly turning round that bad start. Won 22 games and lost 19 for a £4.75 profit
Bankroll: £786.79
Poker Points: 704 (£7.04)
I won 6 games and lost 5 for a profit of £2.25.
Also, I managed to bink a free Primo seat last night on 861 for sending in advice to Charlotte Jackson's questions around set mining, bet sizing and chasing FDs. Pretty shocked I beat BorinLoner tbh as he is the king of excellent, lengthy advice on solid poker fundamentals.
Bankroll: £789.04
Poker Points: 737 (£7.37)
How do Lambert, good to see the roll starting to move up.
Which format would you consider your favourite to play as opposed to most profitable and why?
How you feel about Evertons early business and is there gonna be any big out goings?