So today's play (I missed the £5.50 TT this morning)...
£3.30 - Got it in with AA on the flop against middle set, bust with no heads.
£5.75 - This one sucked a bit more, was doing very good in it again, I think 6th or 7th with 25 left (from 80) and got into a big pot with one of the few people that had me covered and it didn't end well. I raise with AQss on BTN, he peels the SB with J7ss.... flop comes Ah 3s 6s so I have TP and his FD crushed, turn is a jack, river is another jack. I don't give him credit on the river for many (any) Jx or AK and now the jacks paired I have the nut 2pr with basically the nut kicker so that was gg. So bust with £1.88 of heads
£3.30 TT - bust
£11 TT - bust
£2.50 Micro UKPC - bust
£1.30 Micro UKPC - won seat and took the £11.50 cos 7:15pm isn't a good time for me to play.
So finished -£13.77 on MTTs although I did play 1 x £10 HU SnG while I was waiting for my first one to load and won it so +£9/50 there.
Tonight didn't start off too well in MTTs when I bust the first £11 BH with TT<AK and 1 head for £3.75 and then bust the 2nd £11 BH by losing back to back flips and getting no heads. Then I satellited into the £55 BH for £6 and things started to look more promising.
First of all, I absolutely love this tourney! Gives so much play and yet there are still people going nuts to chase £18 for a bounty. Got my first bounty for £18.75 winning a flip KQ v JJ and then just plodded along for a while slowly chipping up. 11 got paid and with 24 left I shipped 99 over a limp and couldn't hold against A6o
Cash I finished +£24... sigh I'll take it obv as it's a win, but used to be booking £100-£200 sessions relatively often at 20/30NL and aint had one for ages.
Tonight didn't start off too well in MTTs when I bust the first £11 BH with TT<AK and 1 head for £3.75 and then bust the 2nd £11 BH by losing back to back flips and getting no heads. Then I satellited into the £55 BH for £6 and things started to look more promising. First of all, I absolutely love this tourney! Gives so much play and yet there are still people going nuts to chase £18 for a bounty. Got my first bounty for £18.75 winning a flip KQ v JJ and then just plodded along for a while slowly chipping up. 11 got paid and with 24 left I shipped 99 over a limp and couldn't hold against A6o So ended up £5.50 down on the night for tournies Target : £1.5k profit Current : £714.60 profit Amount left to go : £785.45 ================================================================ Cash I finished +£24... sigh I'll take it obv as it's a win, but used to be booking £100-£200 sessions relatively often at 20/30NL and aint had one for ages. Posted by Lambert180
Gutted for you m8
I know your supposed to be pro now but couldn,t possibly get deflated or see any negativity with that. You,ll obv get a lot of better days but wouldn,t be disheartened with that unless you,ve been playing really badly and have luckboxed the £24 where you cudda made a lot more
I know what ya mean Paul, shouldn't moan really but aint had what I would call a good winning session for a very long time.
Loads of hassle with a Tesco home delivery means I've had to be sat waiting round by the phone all morning and not really able to get a proper grind in so just played a few £10 HU SnGs on the laptop.
Got my first decent HU session for a while, won 7, lost 2 for a £45.50 profit.
Can we have more of "Living With Lambo" please, its much more entertaining and a good laugh is always welcome...... you never know it could be the next big thing on the Discovery channel.... move over Orange County Choppers Lambos here...
Haven't posted for a while cos I've just been tilted to death and didn't wanna just come on here and sound like moany b@stard.
Needless to say the brutality has continued and it's now reaching 3 months (iirc) that the poker gods have treated me in a pretty horrific manner. Same old, lots of coolers, lots of outdraws, lots of people getting there in a hand and invariably when I have a hand that I can't/shouldn't fold.
My head is completely mashed with cash atm and am constantly wondering what new inventive way someone is gonna find to get there V me lol. Downswings suck and can last WAAAAY longer than most people think.
So with that in mind, I'm going to be putting all of my efforts into MTTs for the near future. Obviously changing games has zero impact on a downswing/variance but I find I'm so much more chilled out when playing MTTs and very rarely feel tilty. Some may think it's strange and I think it's strange as I say it cos it's pretty brutal going really deep in an MTT then taking a sick beat but for some reason I find that a lot less mentally painful than some puke hand in cash like getting 150xBB in with KK v AK and losing... it's also usually alot cheaper lol.
I know there's a lot of money to be made from MTTs on here and I know I'm good enough to win it (variance permitting lol) but I've just never put the volume in.
Will be playing on another site or two just for a few MTTs to fill up tables if there aren't enough good games on here but will be doing most of my volume on here still. No cash at all though for a while, just MTT grinding and maybe the odd HU SnG alongside if I'm waiting for games to load etc.
So last night was my first night and it was probably about as bad a start as you could ask for lol. Can't remember everything but...
Stone bubbled the £5.50 £200 GTD making a standard 10xBB ship with 66 into AA
Bust the Mini jamming 88 into 44 Bust an £11 BH not far from the cash jamming 99 into 77
Bust another £11 BH jamming JJ into KK
Was doing ok after the add-on in the £2.20 speed rebuy but stacks very shallow, jammed KQs over a limp who decided to limp/call w/ A5o. Flopped my king but he rivered the ace.
Also had set under set w/ QQ on KQ4 lol after he just flatted my minraise pre
Positives from the night... well I got 1 bounty in an £11 BH, a mincash in the £2.20 deepy for £4.25, and cashed in a £5.50 TT for £8.99. They're small positives but the big positive imo is that I had a deep runs and was looking in very good shape in like 3-4 MTTs out of about 7-8 games played if not for a few nasty hands. Another big positive is that despite that being a pretty horrible night, I finished up my last table and didn't feel tilted or in a bad mood.
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This morning went better.
£5.50 TT (15 mins) - I cashed for £18.62
£5.50 TT (15 mins) - These play very fast with a starting stack of only 20xBB (and I love that), people don't seem to have a good grasp of how to play this stack size or about shoving/calling ranges so most people fall into 2 categorys, they're either WAY too tight or WAY too loose when it comes to getting it in. Anyway, doubled first hand 99 > A4s aipf, halved my stack next hand AQ<AK aipf, bust the next hand 77<KTo aipf lol. Swingaments.
£5.75 BH - Just bust this 10-15 mins ago, this is the 11:30am one that I won about a week ago. FT'd it again but bust when I got it in on the flop with TP and was outkicked. Only took 1 bounty so bust 5th for £16.41
£5.70 UKPC Semi Direct - Played this for the cash, 1in10 and I think it got 8-9 runners, and I won it so that was +£46.30
Not sure you're approaching this right with you now being a pro.
Is playing £2 comps going to pay the bills?
Downswings are horrible and can be lengthy. I think we all have our 'go to' variant of poker and I think you've said cash is definitely yours.
I know you discuss hands within a group and this can only be of benefit to you.
Just a thought but have you considered getting 'new eyes' on your game. I think it can often be the case that people within groups will often have the same ideas about the game and will play in similar ways. Hands which all agree may be standard may not actually be the case.
I was interested to read a while ago something one of the DTD pros wrote about. He played a hand against a good player and the line the guy took made no sense to him. He spoke to his circle of poker friends and they were all in agreement that it was bad. He sought the player out at the next comp and discussed it with him. What the guy saiid actually did make perfect sense. It was just a different way of playing
@Dann - Cheers, I may take you up on the offer, I'll let you know on FB.
@Jac - Tbf the only £2 comp I'll be playing is the £2 speed rebuy which cos it's a rebuy essentially plays like a £6+ MTT cos most of the weak player are piling in rebuys etc and regularly has £140+ up top (funny actually cos I came 2nd in it tonight lol but will do my update in a min). That £2.20 deepy I played just cos it was recommended by Dohhh (no idea why!!), won't be playing that again. I don't need to fill up my schedule with rubbish MTTs now cos I'm including other sites now.
MTTs can pay the bills with a decent amount of volume, especially as my living costs are still very low. This isn't a long term fix but I've wanted to put more volume in at MTTs for a long time and at the moment if I just keep going on at cash it's gonna continue to destroy my confidence and destroy my bankroll. At the moment, confidence is at a real low with regards to cash poker and there's not much I can do about that really. Sometimes you just need that 1 big winning session or stringing a few decent wins together but it's just not happening. Granted it could happen at any time but it's less and less likely as time goes on and I start to play worse.
FWIW, I've talked to ALOT of people, talked to all the usual people I do and a few others, I've even had chats with Smitalos on Skype ffs lol. Also, there's very little to discuss when it's just going strings of hands where I've played it well, got it in and been 2/3/4 outered which account for a huge amount of the losses, I've just been running horrificly when it comes to races (although obv there's always room to improve). While I'm playing MTTs, I'm still gonna spend time on studying/improving my game.
So plan is sometime in the near future I will be coming back to cash with a rejuvenated bankroll, a refreshed head and an even better cash player than I was before the downswing
In Response to Re: Lambert180 ----- Lolpro and Onwards: [QUOTEthere's very little to discuss when it's just going strings of hands where I've played it well, got it in and been 2/3/4 outered which account for a huge amount of the losses, I've just been running horrificly when it comes to races (although obv there's always room to improve). Posted by Lambert180
Sorry to hear you're not running well, it's horrible when on a downswing, but if it is literally down to being 2-4 outered a huge amount of the time and you recognise this, then just keep on going knowing that you are playing well and eventually the tide will turn. This is why we have a bankroll to get us through the downswings, moving down levels accordingly etc.
FWIW Lambert, I think it will be good to take a break from cash. Sometimes a change of scenery is all you need + I'm pretty sure they tourneys are softer than cash @ the same sort of stakes
looking forward to meeting you on the tables
If I can help in any way, let me know - MTTs are my thing, so I might be of some use next month if you want it...
Just ranted on for ages above so I'll keep this short. It was a decent night of MTTs but oh so close to a really big night. In the last 30 mins of my session I was down to the last 10-15 runners and doing well in 3 different MTTs all 3 of which had combined 1st prizes probably in the region of £700-£800. Unfortunately I didn't manage to take any of them down but I did get a few quid out of it...
£5.50 £200 GTD - Went deep again but busted 8th with 6 paid. Pretty rubbish cos this is the tourney I stone bubbled last night too, so that's a stone bubble and 1 off the bubble 2 nights in a row.
£11 £2k BH - This didn't last very long, can't even remember what I had but whatever it was I remembered that I jammed it pre into AA lol. No bounties
£5.50 £400 Megastack - This is one of the ones I was running deep in towards the end of the night and it had about £175 up top. Going well but then I bust 15th which was 2 off the bubble. Another sigh.
£2.20 £250 Speed Rebuy - In for £6.60 as standard, this was another of the deep runs late at night and had just over £140 for 1st place. I managed to get HU but I was outchipped quite a bit, think it was something like 120k v 500k and blinds at that stage were 15k/30k lol... needless to say it didn't last long and I got 2nd place for £85.66
£5.50 Mini BH - This was the third of the deep runs I had and by far the biggest with 1st place probably being in the region of £400+ once you include heads. Was doing very well, I think I may have nitted up a little bit too much in the final stages but was just really struggling to find any spots to steal blinds and I was pretty card dead for the last hour of the tourney, the few times I had a go at blind stealing I got shipped on and never had a hand strong enough to go to war with, so there wasn't much I could do. I ended up shoving KQs, got called by a raggy Ax and couldn't get there to bust in 8th place for £54.68
Lambert18008£33.33 + £21.35 Head Prizes5
Also squeezed in 2 HU SnGs (just £5s) in quiet periods and won both of them so tonight I was about +£120 and this morning I was about +£65 so a very decent day.
Just ranted on for ages above so I'll keep this short. It was a decent night of MTTs but oh so close to a really big night. In the last 30 mins of my session I was down to the last 10-15 runners and doing well in 3 different MTTs all 3 of which had combined 1st prizes probably in the region of £700-£800. Unfortunately I didn't manage to take any of them down but I did get a few quid out of it... £5.50 £200 GTD - Went deep again but busted 8th with 6 paid. Pretty rubbish cos this is the tourney I stone bubbled last night too, so that's a stone bubble and 1 off the bubble 2 nights in a row. £11 £2k BH - This didn't last very long, can't even remember what I had but whatever it was I remembered that I jammed it pre into AA lol. No bounties £5.50 £400 Megastack - This is one of the ones I was running deep in towards the end of the night and it had about £175 up top. Going well but then I bust 15th which was 2 off the bubble. Another sigh. £2.20 £250 Speed Rebuy - In for £6.60 as standard, this was another of the deep runs late at night and had just over £140 for 1st place. I managed to get HU but I was outchipped quite a bit, think it was something like 120k v 500k and blinds at that stage were 15k/30k lol... needless to say it didn't last long and I got 2nd place for £85.66 £5.50 Mini BH - This was the third of the deep runs I had and by far the biggest with 1st place probably being in the region of £400+ once you include heads. Was doing very well, I think I may have nitted up a little bit too much in the final stages but was just really struggling to find any spots to steal blinds and I was pretty card dead for the last hour of the tourney, the few times I had a go at blind stealing I got shipped on and never had a hand strong enough to go to war with, so there wasn't much I could do. I ended up shoving KQs, got called by a raggy Ax and couldn't get there to bust in 8th place for £54.68 Lambert180 0 8 £33.33 + £21.35 Head Prizes 5 Also squeezed in 2 HU SnGs (just £5s) in quiet periods and won both of them so tonight I was about +£120 and this morning I was about +£65 so a very decent day. Posted by Lambert180
seeee - MTTs are WAAY better than cash
nice work Lambo! bet it feels good to get a winning day under your belt!
Cheers guys. That's always the beginning isn't it, being 2/3/4 outered all the time and being coolered non stop like set over set, until it gets to the point where after weeks of it, you start doubting spots to get it in postflop cos you're so used to them turning over the nuts, you start dreading everytime you get it in with KK cos the last 5 times you did you saw AA etc etc.
BRM is vital and it's what's stopped me from going bust but it's not always enough to keep you on your absolute A game and not get affected at all by bad runs. I think I'm pretty good at coping with them now (or I thought I was lol), I've had some rough ones in the past but it's pretty hard to fathom consistently losing money over like a near 3 month period (probably 150,000+ hands) when I know I'm easily a long term winning player in my games. I've had Dohhhh watch my game for full sessions and he just can't seem to understand how I keep losing. But whatever, they're the negatives and in the past.
Cheers Chickn, yeah I think a break from cash is good, it's not like I'm taking a break from the game, I'm just playing a different game that I think I can make a lot of money from.
Good work today Paul, nice confidence booster. One other idea. Go crushing at the casino? Live cash at 50/1 way softer than 20/30NL online! Posted by Jac35
Cheers.
Yes! Definitely someting I've thought about and may do soon, I've heard how soft it is in comparison to online.
Good work today Paul, nice confidence booster. One other idea. Go crushing at the casino? Live cash at 50/1 way softer than 20/30NL online! Posted by Jac35
I can vouch for this too!
go on a friday/saturday night...drunks = gamble = easy money
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Bust an £11 BH not far from the cash jamming 99 into 77
FWIW, I've talked to ALOT of people, talked to all the usual people I do and a few others, I've even had chats with Smitalos on Skype ffs lol. Also, there's very little to discuss when it's just going strings of hands where I've played it well, got it in and been 2/3/4 outered which account for a huge amount of the losses, I've just been running horrificly when it comes to races (although obv there's always room to improve). While I'm playing MTTs, I'm still gonna spend time on studying/improving my game.
So plan is sometime in the near future I will be coming back to cash with a rejuvenated bankroll, a refreshed head and an even better cash player than I was before the downswing
Day's update to come...
[QUOTEthere's very little to discuss when it's just going strings of hands where I've played it well, got it in and been 2/3/4 outered which account for a huge amount of the losses, I've just been running horrificly when it comes to races (although obv there's always room to improve).
Posted by Lambert180
Sorry to hear you're not running well, it's horrible when on a downswing, but if it is literally down to being 2-4 outered a huge amount of the time and you recognise this, then just keep on going knowing that you are playing well and eventually the tide will turn. This is why we have a bankroll to get us through the downswings, moving down levels accordingly etc.
Yes! Definitely someting I've thought about and may do soon, I've heard how soft it is in comparison to online.