Don't know why you're giving that hand a second thought Phil, looks pretty standard to me. Yes in cash or a MTT there is a bluff range I have in that spot. However despite having a recent awful record in DYMs I at least get the early stages right most of the time. I hated the spot because I had to turn my hand face up but I really don't see what other choice I have. Taking it three way really doesn't thrill me, I think I have to 4bet and hope either of you make a mistake, or take down an uncontested pot which is never a bad thing.
Like I said before, it's a DYM, and in a DYM I always tell myself 'Keep it simple, stupid.'
Dropped back somewhat yesterday. Falling asleep in the middle of a hand didn't help matters. The fact this was before 8pm really didn't help. Exhausted from a long grind and Sunday League football I should have logged off a lot sooner than I did. TBH I should have just taken the night off but I tried to power through and at least accumulate some points. I didn't really achieve either and by the last session I was just spewing money away on nl300.
On the plus side I finally chucked in the towel relatively early and am now refreshed and ready for action.
Been a few days and things have not been good. Confidence in my own ability is pretty much non existent. My game sucks. Any form of the game isn't working, just losing money left right and centre. When I lose a cash pot I lose a stack, when I win a cash pot I win like 4bb. In the DYMs when we get to the bubble everyone just folds around until I have to shove, then I get looked up by Q8, K2, J8 etc. Normally I'm actually ahead because I've tightened my shove range due to everyone having a wider call range v me than against the rest of world as it seems. However, not holding. Greg told me yesterday that you want them to have a wider call range. I disagree, I don't want to be involved with the bubble hand, I just don't want to be called ever. Whatever my odds, no matter how good they are, they are no where near as good as the two people not involved in the hand. Sucky run of variance I guess, not playing great either though.
To make matters worse my points accumulation is through the floor. In poker terms I feel completely broken right now. Just come off a cooler cash session. KK<AA INPF, 3bet QQ in the BB v two people, get an 8 high flop, one of the villains has middle set obv. Vbet top pair, get called by bottom pair, 5 kick, turn trips it up. Other hands where I'm just shooting myself in the foot.
If you have been playing bad tommy, im sure you can do something about it m8, take a day off or something and get your head in a positive mood again, you should not sit down and be doubting your game before playing a hand.
FWIW (not much i reckon) Yesterday was a bad day for me, no regs when i start the tables and fish everywhere £££ right! ..wrong.just could not win a dime, 4 x 100 bb in the middle,Aq vs A10, ak vs 95, ak vs qj, set over sets any other day i would be up 4 buy ins + more, i was so *****sed i broke my mouse! silly me , and realizing the mouse didnt work i went on TILT overload as i could not get my money back, played the egg-box had a quick jolly: THE END tilt over...so bought a new mouse today . Run good tommy.
Haven't been paying attention but i'm sure it would help you to report things in terms of buyins rather than in terms of monetary amounts. That could be 10-15 bis of 100bb which is a negligible swing or you could be playing nl10 and doing your brains lol
Usual suggestion when things aren't going well is to take a break but as you're points grinding it's hard, you're welcome to pm me if you want to pay for some of my time. It wouldn't be cheap as you play in the same games I play but i'm sure i'd have you confident again in sub 3k lol
Before I go on, this will look a bit like a 'only sing when you're winning' update. There is a valid argument for this but here's the whole story.
Really played a dreadful cash poker Thursday night. Some interesting pots, some coolers, lots of pay off too late/firing too many barrels on the wrong boards and a classic splash of tilt to 4 bet shove JTo into Aces. Anyone railing would have seen a scene similar to the car chase scene in Blues Brothers.
I was touching 5k in the hole. I slowly ground some back but was preparing for making this silly 50k points for a net loss after the C4P money & bonus. I had a busy day today so I decided at first to give the MTTs a miss. Eventually the GF got pretty tired, dropped off eary so I thought I'd late reg for Main, Mini and maybe play the 9pm.
Won the Main. 2nd in the 9pm (I lost a flip in the final hand. Yes I know, that doesn't happen usually, but it was against Ryan so I think the Fates were screaming for mercy having to make one of us lose a 50/50. Expect scheduled maintenance soon).
P/L: -£1,989.75 C4P: 31,155
Pretty confident of making the 50k points, feel like I'm going downhill now. Learning a lot about myself from this grind. Some bits I like, others I really don't. Challenges and troubles forge you as a person as well as shine a light on who you are. I'm seeing a ton of personal positives to come out of this process. Also never been so happy to be down £2k on a month.
The plan for the rest of the month is to play some low variance stuff. I'm sticking to nl100 and lower, just getting eaten up by some of the regs at nl200+ right now. I have a decent record playing that high but I need my game about me, it's not at the moment. Going to attempt to grind to B/E a day or two before the end of the month and spend that spare time before February going over the Hand Histories. This month has given me plenty to look at.
Well done on the main event tonight Tommy and 2nd in the other 1. With regards to the downswing i have been on a downswing myself this week of £750 on 50nl after being up £400 playing it from the week before. Yes i have been running bad but main reason for the downswing this week playing 50nl is me playing bad myself and ive gone into clicking buttons mode like you mentioned you had gone into. With regards to the tilt 4 and 5 bet shoves i have also done this on a few occasions. When i think about the hand immediately after its played how did i think i was ever going to get that shove through the answer is simple it was never going to get through so it has to be a tilt shove.
When i am playing well decisions come a lot easier i find but when your on a downswing you stop thinking about the hands and go into auto pilot mode and make bad calls as you want to win the buyins back and thought process turns to yep the flush missed so i have to call here with 3rd pair because hes bluffing when hes never going to be bluffing lol.
Been a few days so here's the latest. Not much to report TBH, a bit further back since the last update but I've been bouncing between a rather narrow range so we seem to have him a sort of plateau. I think I've addressed a few major concerns in my cash game and plugs some of the leaks in the last couple of days. It seems to be much more solid than previously this month. I'm also once again getting trolled in the chatbox by some old friends and getting PMs calling me various sweary things. Now that's a sure fire way to know I must be playing better
P/L: -£2,200.92 C4P: 37119
Still very confident of hitting 50k by month's end. I feel a heavy grind of a weekend coming on to polish off what ever is left by the time I get there.
In life news, because too much poker stuff is boring, Grant the cat has made a reappearance. As you can see from the above photo we've had some cold weather here recently and I was getting a little worried about the little mite. I still don't know if he's a stray but he hadn't turned up to keep us in his dinner rotation for a while. I feared he had trouble in the snow. That was until 4am this morning. I was just finishing up a mega grind session when I heard some scratching at the backdoor. I stupidly opened it and in shoots Grant for his first appearance in a couple of weeks. Now I had a dilemma, you see I'm a little allergic to cats and should not feel responsible for him bearing in mind he's not my blooming cat. On the other side he does a great impression of the cutest cat in the world every time I tried to build up the courage to put him outside, staring at me with those 'why would you send me out in the cold?' eyes. So he slept in the office. And because I didn't want him to rip things up I pulled an all nighter grinding PLO50 on Stars during the scheduled maintenance here. Grant ended up making me some bucks. Love that cat. Note to self, must get a picture of him the next time he shows.
Just thought I'd show my face so to speak. Great thread and I'm enjoying the read about your experience of the 50k points chase. Interesting that you played Omaha on Stars. May I ask your view of the game and how many tables you play of it? I'm starting to play more and more of the game myself and thoroughly enjoying it.
I will get to all the questions above either tonight or tomorrow. But right now I don't know about you, but I need some cat pictures.
This is Grant - The 'Stray or maybe owned by someone who doesn't use collars' Cat who pops around for dinner and has me under his/her thumb (no idea if it's a boy or a girl cat TBH).
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Don't know why you're giving that hand a second thought Phil, looks pretty standard to me. Yes in cash or a MTT there is a bluff range I have in that spot. However despite having a recent awful record in DYMs I at least get the early stages right most of the time. I hated the spot because I had to turn my hand face up but I really don't see what other choice I have. Taking it three way really doesn't thrill me, I think I have to 4bet and hope either of you make a mistake, or take down an uncontested pot which is never a bad thing.
Like I said before, it's a DYM, and in a DYM I always tell myself 'Keep it simple, stupid.'
Dropped back somewhat yesterday. Falling asleep in the middle of a hand didn't help matters. The fact this was before 8pm really didn't help. Exhausted from a long grind and Sunday League football I should have logged off a lot sooner than I did. TBH I should have just taken the night off but I tried to power through and at least accumulate some points. I didn't really achieve either and by the last session I was just spewing money away on nl300.
On the plus side I finally chucked in the towel relatively early and am now refreshed and ready for action.
P/L: -£1,404.30
C4P: 21,237
That darn comma is back, how I loathe it....
To make matters worse my points accumulation is through the floor. In poker terms I feel completely broken right now. Just come off a cooler cash session. KK<AA INPF, 3bet QQ in the BB v two people, get an 8 high flop, one of the villains has middle set obv. Vbet top pair, get called by bottom pair, 5 kick, turn trips it up. Other hands where I'm just shooting myself in the foot.
Been a tough first half of the month.
P/L -£3544.18
C4P: 26726
On for a record losing month. Fab.
Really played a dreadful cash poker Thursday night. Some interesting pots, some coolers, lots of pay off too late/firing too many barrels on the wrong boards and a classic splash of tilt to 4 bet shove JTo into Aces. Anyone railing would have seen a scene similar to the car chase scene in Blues Brothers.
I was touching 5k in the hole. I slowly ground some back but was preparing for making this silly 50k points for a net loss after the C4P money & bonus. I had a busy day today so I decided at first to give the MTTs a miss. Eventually the GF got pretty tired, dropped off eary so I thought I'd late reg for Main, Mini and maybe play the 9pm.
Won the Main. 2nd in the 9pm (I lost a flip in the final hand. Yes I know, that doesn't happen usually, but it was against Ryan so I think the Fates were screaming for mercy having to make one of us lose a 50/50. Expect scheduled maintenance soon).
P/L: -£1,989.75
C4P: 31,155
Pretty confident of making the 50k points, feel like I'm going downhill now. Learning a lot about myself from this grind. Some bits I like, others I really don't. Challenges and troubles forge you as a person as well as shine a light on who you are. I'm seeing a ton of personal positives to come out of this process. Also never been so happy to be down £2k on a month.
The plan for the rest of the month is to play some low variance stuff. I'm sticking to nl100 and lower, just getting eaten up by some of the regs at nl200+ right now. I have a decent record playing that high but I need my game about me, it's not at the moment. Going to attempt to grind to B/E a day or two before the end of the month and spend that spare time before February going over the Hand Histories. This month has given me plenty to look at.
The GF calls him 'Frosty'
I prefer to call her Georgina.
P/L: -£2,200.92
C4P: 37119
Still very confident of hitting 50k by month's end. I feel a heavy grind of a weekend coming on to polish off what ever is left by the time I get there.
In life news, because too much poker stuff is boring, Grant the cat has made a reappearance. As you can see from the above photo we've had some cold weather here recently and I was getting a little worried about the little mite. I still don't know if he's a stray but he hadn't turned up to keep us in his dinner rotation for a while. I feared he had trouble in the snow. That was until 4am this morning. I was just finishing up a mega grind session when I heard some scratching at the backdoor. I stupidly opened it and in shoots Grant for his first appearance in a couple of weeks. Now I had a dilemma, you see I'm a little allergic to cats and should not feel responsible for him bearing in mind he's not my blooming cat. On the other side he does a great impression of the cutest cat in the world every time I tried to build up the courage to put him outside, staring at me with those 'why would you send me out in the cold?' eyes. So he slept in the office. And because I didn't want him to rip things up I pulled an all nighter grinding PLO50 on Stars during the scheduled maintenance here. Grant ended up making me some bucks. Love that cat. Note to self, must get a picture of him the next time he shows.
This is Grant - The 'Stray or maybe owned by someone who doesn't use collars' Cat who pops around for dinner and has me under his/her thumb (no idea if it's a boy or a girl cat TBH).
I misunderstood what these pictures were going to be of, I feel a little cheated to be honest!
Matt
All Ginger cats are toms !