Another quick few games in tonight, wasn't running so bad this time, won 4/5 for £2.75 profit. Stats Won 129 Lost 112 Profit +£3.90
Poker Points: 469
On a side note, I forgot to mention how my job interview went on Monday. Well I don't know yet, he's gonna be getting back to me by the end of this week, although it was shortlisted down to only 6 for interviews and I think it went really well, he seemed really impressed with all my experience. And for the first time in an interview, I managed to do what 'they' always suggest and dodged answering the question about what salary I want, which turned out quite well cos he offered slightly more than what I would have said. Fingers crossed.
Another really quick 'session' this morning, not sure it's even big enough to count as a session but I won 4/4 anyway. For my first game I found this guy who I scoped and had only played 5 SnGs on Sky and was already in a nice loss, he was a pretty awful player and I managed to get 2 rematches out of him before he'd had enough. Finally feeling like I'm running about EV. Stats Won 133 Lost 112 Profit +£7.70
You wanna lock up small profit after a good start? etc?
What's the longest session you've played on the hypers in terms of games?
Always use the 'M' word when bankroll building, but momentum is even more important when playing HU, if I was on a run of 4/4 wins, last thing I would wanna do is quit. At the very least, play on until you lose a game.....
Need to smash em while you're hottttttttttttttttt!
Yeah I know you're right, some of it is trying to lock up profits after a good start which I know makes no sense. The stupid thing is, the times I go on to play long sessions are when I'm losing.
I think my longest session of hypers has been about 40 odd, but they tend to be between 10-20 usually. Did try playing 2 at a go for a bit, but it didn't feel quite as comfortable and it was a losing session (whether that be through bad play or just runbad) so I've been sticking to 1tabling mostly.
But yeah I know you're definitely right about momentum, I've experienced enough negative momentum already.
DOHHHH's above post is very true. We're always told in poker to 'play for the long term' etc. and we can't cheat variance by only playing small winning sessions. If it's just time constraints then that's fair enough, but you should always try to play as many games as possible when we are in a good frame of mind and playing well. Your true ROI in hypers is always going to be very small (1-5% typically for winning players), so the only way we can amass decent profits is to put in as much volume as possible. C4P's (or other reward schemes) are the main benefit of hypers as they offer guaranteed income providing you put the volume in.
I agree with nearly everything you've said there nagrom, although I would say the main benefit of hypers is to make decent amounts of profit from the volume you put in.
I only started playing these on 15th April and so in 10 days have played abuot 250 and this is with what I would class as very small volume. I'm confident I could smash 1000 games most months. So if I'm making 5p per game (on average), then 1000 games is £50 profit, where as 1000 games would give me 1000 C4P which is less than a tenner.
But yeah, these are all abuot volume, volume, volume (when you're in the right frame of mind)
Decided to get a bit of a bigger session in tonight after your comments, not massive but yeah. Bit of a long slog, ended up winning 21 and losing 19 which makes me exactly break even lol... but at least I broke the 500 points barrier and am now earning money cash for every game played. Stats Won 154 Lost 131 Profit +£7.70
Poker Points: 513
I may have broke even tonight, but I'm now owed a whopping £4.10 in C4P
Nice, C4P makes a huge difference when you're playing a game which is only beatable with a small ROI; a 53% boost to your profit for the month in this case.
Indeed Gary... Sky sent me an email saying they'll give me 25% more C4P if I earn 1000 but that might be out of reach for me now, I dunno, few monster sessions could get me there. Either way, I'm sure I'll get to £6-7 C4P, and I'm playing well and think I'll be definitely be £10+ profit by the end of the month, short of alot more runbad
Another decent session earlier, same problem as I remember you mentioning JJ, I always seem to start the session down and then spend the rest of the session catching up. So started badly and managed to get close to break even, not as close as I'd like though. Won 23, lost 25. Stats Won 177 Lost 156 Profit +£3.30
Thanks for your input Spades, it was very...informative.
Got another small session in. but this time it wasn't cos I was trying to lock up a small profit, I do actually have to go out now. Excuses FTW. But anyway, I won 6 and lost 3 for a £2.55 profit. Stats Won 183 Lost 159 Profit +£5.85
Got another 27 games in tonight, and won 15, could have been better, but hey it's all profit. £1.65 profit tonight. Stats Won 198 Lost 171 Profit +£7.50
Poker Points: 597 (£4.78 C4P)
So looks I'm crusing to be making about £15 in the last 2 weeks of playing these (C4P included). May be having an ROI challenge with Doh for May.
keep it going buddy dont think i could have the patience though for so many games and so little profit. But each to there own i presume you still play other formats though like the dtd ect. Otherwise seems like a really hard grind. But at least your sticking to type of game and probably gaining a lot of expierience doing it.
Yeah at the moment, from my profit and games played, I think my ROI is about 3% (that's a rough guess off the top of my head though) so I'm making about 3p per game (@£1.05s) lol. Doesn't sound great but I know I can get an ROI of 5% at these, it's a good way to build my BR up which is what I want, and I'll soon be playing £2, then £3 games when I've got my roll up a bit more. Then obviously I'd be making 6p or 9p retrospectively per game, or 10p and 15p if I get my ROI to 5% which I think is very do-able.
So when I'm playing £3 games, with an ROI of 5%.... 15p x 1000 games = £150 plus about £15 C4P, I'm happy with that considering I don't play for a living or anything.
Also, before doing this, I'd only played about 5 hypers max in my entire life, so I am very new to this format and think my win-rate has obviously been affected in the sense that I wasn't as good at them when I first started as I am now. It's also an easy way to earn a few squid in C4P... I dread to think how much I'd need to play 4NL to get 600 points, probably twice as much as I have done.
Gonna be having an ROI challenge with Doh for May, where we both play 1000 games,
Well as some of you may know if you were following the live stream, I was at SPT Cardiff yesterday and managed to bink myself a little cash. I think I played really well all day (with the exception of 1 hand) so was really happy to get my first live cash for £375, which aint too bad considering it's only the 2nd time I've played live (not counting home games and stuff).
My one bad hand was a terrible lapse in concentration, where I had a perfect stack to be open shoving and taking down some nice blinds/antes, it comes to me in late position unopened (or so I thought lol) I jam with 97, then TommyD to my left kindly says 'did you realise there was a raise UTG' lol... I was like 'oh god that's me out!' (I waited til he called before saying that lol). He turns over TT and I flop a 9, then river another 9 for trips. Felt really harsh on that guy, cos it left him short and he shoved AK a couple of hands later, called by KT who flopped a T to knock him out.
Apart from that, I didn't dish about a single bad beat (or receive one) for the entire tournament. Although I did pick up a few nice hands, like a shorty jamming, a flat call behind, I rejam with AA, called by the caller and knock 2 opponents out.
16th got paid, andd we were down to 12, blinds had just went up to 3k/6k with a 500 ante, and I had just under 60k. Playing 6 handed, folds round to me on the button, and I jam with A6s, only to see CTBN on the BB find KK. I had backdoor straight and flush draws on the flop (and obviously my ace), but no luck so cashed for £375. I was tempted to ladder a bit because there were 3-4 players who were way shorter than me, but once I'd cashed I was always going for the win.
All in all, a great day, with £265 profit, gonna withdraw £110 of the win for the buy-in cos I just bought in direct from my bank account (non poker related bankroll) but I've still boosted my BR up to about £300 now. Bring on the ROI challenge Doh!
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Stats
Won 129
Lost 112
Profit +£3.90
Poker Points: 469
On a side note, I forgot to mention how my job interview went on Monday. Well I don't know yet, he's gonna be getting back to me by the end of this week, although it was shortlisted down to only 6 for interviews and I think it went really well, he seemed really impressed with all my experience. And for the first time in an interview, I managed to do what 'they' always suggest and dodged answering the question about what salary I want, which turned out quite well cos he offered slightly more than what I would have said. Fingers crossed.
Stats
Won 133
Lost 112
Profit +£7.70
Poker Points: 473
I think my longest session of hypers has been about 40 odd, but they tend to be between 10-20 usually. Did try playing 2 at a go for a bit, but it didn't feel quite as comfortable and it was a losing session (whether that be through bad play or just runbad) so I've been sticking to 1tabling mostly.
But yeah I know you're definitely right about momentum, I've experienced enough negative momentum already.
I only started playing these on 15th April and so in 10 days have played abuot 250 and this is with what I would class as very small volume. I'm confident I could smash 1000 games most months. So if I'm making 5p per game (on average), then 1000 games is £50 profit, where as 1000 games would give me 1000 C4P which is less than a tenner.
But yeah, these are all abuot volume, volume, volume (when you're in the right frame of mind)
Stats
Won 154
Lost 131
Profit +£7.70
Poker Points: 513
I may have broke even tonight, but I'm now owed a whopping £4.10 in C4P
Nice, C4P makes a huge difference when you're playing a game which is only beatable with a small ROI; a 53% boost to your profit for the month in this case.
Stats
Won 177
Lost 156
Profit +£3.30
Poker Points: 561 so I'm up to £4.49 now.
Got another small session in. but this time it wasn't cos I was trying to lock up a small profit, I do actually have to go out now. Excuses FTW. But anyway, I won 6 and lost 3 for a £2.55 profit.
Stats
Won 183
Lost 159
Profit +£5.85
Poker Points: 570 (£4.56 C4P)
Just out of interest, my win rate is 53.5%
Stats
Won 198
Lost 171
Profit +£7.50
Poker Points: 597 (£4.78 C4P)
So looks I'm crusing to be making about £15 in the last 2 weeks of playing these (C4P included). May be having an ROI challenge with Doh for May.
Good work, keep it up.
So when I'm playing £3 games, with an ROI of 5%.... 15p x 1000 games = £150 plus about £15 C4P, I'm happy with that considering I don't play for a living or anything.
Also, before doing this, I'd only played about 5 hypers max in my entire life, so I am very new to this format and think my win-rate has obviously been affected in the sense that I wasn't as good at them when I first started as I am now. It's also an easy way to earn a few squid in C4P... I dread to think how much I'd need to play 4NL to get 600 points, probably twice as much as I have done.
Gonna be having an ROI challenge with Doh for May, where we both play 1000 games,
My one bad hand was a terrible lapse in concentration, where I had a perfect stack to be open shoving and taking down some nice blinds/antes, it comes to me in late position unopened (or so I thought lol) I jam with 97, then TommyD to my left kindly says 'did you realise there was a raise UTG' lol... I was like 'oh god that's me out!' (I waited til he called before saying that lol). He turns over TT and I flop a 9, then river another 9 for trips. Felt really harsh on that guy, cos it left him short and he shoved AK a couple of hands later, called by KT who flopped a T to knock him out.
Apart from that, I didn't dish about a single bad beat (or receive one) for the entire tournament. Although I did pick up a few nice hands, like a shorty jamming, a flat call behind, I rejam with AA, called by the caller and knock 2 opponents out.
16th got paid, andd we were down to 12, blinds had just went up to 3k/6k with a 500 ante, and I had just under 60k. Playing 6 handed, folds round to me on the button, and I jam with A6s, only to see CTBN on the BB find KK. I had backdoor straight and flush draws on the flop (and obviously my ace), but no luck so cashed for £375. I was tempted to ladder a bit because there were 3-4 players who were way shorter than me, but once I'd cashed I was always going for the win.
All in all, a great day, with £265 profit, gonna withdraw £110 of the win for the buy-in cos I just bought in direct from my bank account (non poker related bankroll) but I've still boosted my BR up to about £300 now. Bring on the ROI challenge Doh!
well deserved. Regards Alan.