In Response to Re: Many Rivers To Cross. A Diary. : Hey Chris Yeah today represents my 'light internet' day so I don't catch any Game of Thrones Spoilers by accident. Should be a good one tonight. When I started on Sky in the very early days like I lot of people I just put on a few hundred and played the TV tournament to get on the tele. When I took it more seriously I deposited a couple of hundred I believe and started at 5p/10p, the £5/£10 SnGs and the low level MTTs. I have said in a recent thread about the satellites that I got my roll from £60. That is true and isn't true. That £60 story is in one of the early pages of this diary, it was the bottom point of a killer downswing I had here some years ago now. Cliffs are I refused to top up and made an oath to myself to never have to deposit on here again, that I would spin up or walk away. I'm still spinning. Good luck with the Roller, if you have any satty questions or hands feel free to post them up here. I'm ok at sats. Posted by TommyD
Hate spoilers!!!
have you read the books tommy? i'm not much of a reader but reading "the mental game of poker " at the minute, enjoying that, but hear TGOT books are fantastic.
there is a good chance ill be playing a lot of sats for the bigger tournaments and only reg for the mini if I make the main.
Im also playing low level cash at the minute so any advice on any of these will go a long way, play 8nl and if mastercash is on I will try and sit on one of the lower stakes too see if I get any TV feedback.
also just started the 6max challenge last night, only too realise its for £5.50 or more, so that will destroy my BR if I don't run well, so far played 1 came 2nd, which allows me too play another 2 of these. plus DTD Monday aswell.
In Response to Re: Many Rivers To Cross. A Diary. : BB needs 44.8% equity for a call to be +ev. Tommy needs to be shoving 49% of hands in SB for K7o to have that equity. When Tommy is playing against someone who he knows will call v wide I don't think he will be shoving that many hands. It's probably somewhere in the region of 30-40% of hands. Ax+, any pair, K5+, Q7+, JT and maybe a few small SC's if it's closer to 40%. So IMO it's not a terrible call with K7 but it's far from an easy call. Were Tommy to be on 7bb's or less then K7o does become a super standard call. Posted by F_Ivanovic
1) Not having a pop at the call. In a vacuum if we are saying solid winning reg shoving my stack here it is standard.
2) With regards to the part of Ivan's post I have bolded, he's pretty much nailed it. Giving it away a bit here but my shove range was actually slightly tighter than Ivan has set out, purely on the basis I knew Pad's call range pretty well. It's a standard adjustment imo when you start really thinking deep into it and as much as I hate to be relatively nitty 3 handed and sub 10bb, I felt it was the only way to be.
Hate to hijack this thread but I just have to!!!! Love GOTs! And I've read all the books and yes they are amazing....thoroughly recommend them! You are in for a treat in tonight's episode...argh can't wait!! Ahem... Good luck at the tables! Posted by mrsduck
It is quality. I have the first two books on my shelf but I'm yet to read them. They are on my list for travelling reading for the next poker related train journey I go on, along with what's left of the Stephen King back catalogue I haven't read yet.
In Response to Re: Many Rivers To Cross. A Diary. : Hate spoilers!!! have you read the books tommy? i'm not much of a reader but reading "the mental game of poker " at the minute, enjoying that, but hear TGOT books are fantastic. there is a good chance ill be playing a lot of sats for the bigger tournaments and only reg for the mini if I make the main. Im also playing low level cash at the minute so any advice on any of these will go a long way, play 8nl and if mastercash is on I will try and sit on one of the lower stakes too see if I get any TV feedback. also just started the 6max challenge last night, only too realise its for £5.50 or more, so that will destroy my BR if I don't run well, so far played 1 came 2nd, which allows me too play another 2 of these. plus DTD Monday aswell. Posted by Chris_Mc
Like I said to Ducky, not read them yet and I loathe spoilers. I allow myself to see the episode title to give myself a little tease so as long as they never call an episode 'How xxxx gets beheaded' I'll be alright.
Low level cash is all about doing the basics well. It's a fantastic proving ground to build up your poker ability. Just keep doing the simple stuff correct and you will make money, it won't be a quick buck but it will be a slow solid growth.
I think there is decent value in the £5 SnGs tbh. SnGs are funny, they used to be the most popular form going. Then they got 'solved' and previous winning regs were becoming rakeback winners, everyone ran so close. Then most of the world stops playing STTs. Now everyone appears to have forgotten the absolute optimal strategy for them (I'm talking on most sites) and the recreational player pool has topped up somewhat. I'm gonna be having another go at it probably. I started on STTs on another site really and I do love playing them.
Only played the two MTTs on ***. Pretty sure the first was a standard exit towards the bubble, JJ v KK Button v SB 25bb effective. It went min, click back, 4bet click to induce, induced jam, snap call oh my he has kings. The other was a marginal shove for the blinds and antes and out pipped 55 v 66 but v BB 13bb effective. Meh, never mind.
Next door I drew another total brick. Got 2 of the 4 entries to their Sunday main within a few of the bubble then took spots. One was close/bad with AT, the other was a straight up flip for a 40 bb stack. Their UKPC sat was fun. Had a maniac at the table. Only one seat so it was winner takes all (however this was in the rebuy period so a few late reggers sometimes turn up for the freezeout stage). Five left I decide that it would be a good line to 3bet jam A7o for value versus this one person. Result would be 1/3 of the chips in play with 4 left iirc. So I did. He calls with KTo and rivers broadway. Oh well. I didn't even bother rebuying, had a stack in the SCOOP main at this time and decided to move on with my life.
On Sky, well what can I say. STT Challenge was easily the best game I played all day. Everything just clicked. Most of the TV coverage was from the first half of play, you would have noticed me folding a bunch. Completely standard for me, including KQo in the SB to an open and a call. It was described as snug which is fair but I absolutely hate peeling from my stack OOP there, it's just spewing off chips against these players. It felt a little light of both value and fold equity for the 3bet jam so I folded. Finished up second to Solack. I had Jacks twice HU. Didn't win. I'm still yet to be credited with anything for that but I see Solly is in the lobby for the UKPC, hopefully Dylan was right in his post a page or two ago and I have £500 at least on its way.
The Sky UKPC sat. What can I say. 8 seats and £440 for 9th. I go out 11th. Was strange, 3rd through 10th at the time of my crippling hand were so close together you could through a blanket over us. I definitely had to play on. Those watching the show will see that I got my AK and 20bb in v AQs pre and didn't win. Gutting £1k swing there (not be arrogant but if I win that hand I get 9th easily, I'm too old to give away a 40bb stack on the bubble of a satty). It wasn't the lowest percentage beat I took yesterday but it was the biggest gut punch.
Roller was strange. Made a good start, was playing alright. Chipped up nicely then lost focus of it while trying to concentrate on other tables. Went on a little swong, mentally lost all focus and was spinning out of control. Got my nines in versus tens and jacks, had a nice turn then regrouped completely. I didn't play a great game but I played ok, wa a little disappointed not to at least FT but you can't have everything.
So overall I am slightly down on the Sunday, pending the UKPC return which would give me a small profit.
What have I learnt? Really need to stop fannying about with my schedule. Next Sunday we plan properly, always been a leak of mine. We set out an optimal session and we write out MTTs I will late reg/put onto the schedule should the screen real estate suddenly become barren. Perfect planning prevents poor performance. Or at the very least stops me from scrambling to de reg a bunch when I realise I am about to get 6 more tables on a screen which already has 12. In other news, I really need to get a second screen.
On the above note I will tailor down the session next week, try to go for quality over quantity. Another leak is me chipping up in a few, as I did Next Door, then practically forget about them while I try to sort out stacks on other tables. That lead to too much dribbling down from a good stack. I'm not trying to min cash a bunch of MTTs, I am looking for one or two fat end scores.
I'll probably do that implay thing again sometime. Hope you guys enjoyed it
Not sure I can do that every Sunday man. So Sunday, the aftermath. Only played the two MTTs on ***. Pretty sure the first was a standard exit towards the bubble, JJ v KK Button v SB 25bb effective. It went min, click back, 4bet click to induce, induced jam, snap call oh my he has kings. The other was a marginal shove for the blinds and antes and out pipped 55 v 66 but v BB 13bb effective. Meh, never mind. Next door I drew another total brick. Got 2 of the 4 entries to their Sunday main within a few of the bubble then took spots. One was close/bad with AT, the other was a straight up flip for a 40 bb stack. Their UKPC sat was fun. Had a maniac at the table. Only one seat so it was winner takes all (however this was in the rebuy period so a few late reggers sometimes turn up for the freezeout stage). Five left I decide that it would be a good line to 3bet jam A7o for value versus this one person. Result would be 1/3 of the chips in play with 4 left iirc. So I did. He calls with KTo and rivers broadway. Oh well. I didn't even bother rebuying, had a stack in the SCOOP main at this time and decided to move on with my life. On Sky, well what can I say. STT Challenge was easily the best game I played all day. Everything just clicked. Most of the TV coverage was from the first half of play, you would have noticed me folding a bunch. Completely standard for me, including KQo in the SB to an open and a call. It was described as snug which is fair but I absolutely hate peeling from my stack OOP there, it's just spewing off chips against these players. It felt a little light of both value and fold equity for the 3bet jam so I folded. Finished up second to Solack. I had Jacks twice HU. Didn't win. I'm still yet to be credited with anything for that but I see Solly is in the lobby for the UKPC, hopefully Dylan was right in his post a page or two ago and I have £500 at least on its way. The Sky UKPC sat. What can I say. 8 seats and £440 for 9th. I go out 11th. Was strange, 3rd through 10th at the time of my crippling hand were so close together you could through a blanket over us. I definitely had to play on. Those watching the show will see that I got my AK and 20bb in v AQs pre and didn't win. Gutting £1k swing there (not be arrogant but if I win that hand I get 9th easily, I'm too old to give away a 40bb stack on the bubble of a satty). It wasn't the lowest percentage beat I took yesterday but it was the biggest gut punch. Roller was strange. Made a good start, was playing alright. Chipped up nicely then lost focus of it while trying to concentrate on other tables. Went on a little swong, mentally lost all focus and was spinning out of control. Got my nines in versus tens and jacks, had a nice turn then regrouped completely. I didn't play a great game but I played ok, wa a little disappointed not to at least FT but you can't have everything. So overall I am slightly down on the Sunday, pending the UKPC return which would give me a small profit. What have I learnt? Really need to stop fannying about with my schedule. Next Sunday we plan properly, always been a leak of mine. We set out an optimal session and we write out MTTs I will late reg/put onto the schedule should the screen real estate suddenly become barren. Perfect planning prevents poor performance. Or at the very least stops me from scrambling to de reg a bunch when I realise I am about to get 6 more tables on a screen which already has 12. In other news, I really need to get a second screen. On the above note I will tailor down the session next week, try to go for quality over quantity. Another leak is me chipping up in a few, as I did Next Door, then practically forget about them while I try to sort out stacks on other tables. That lead to too much dribbling down from a good stack. I'm not trying to min cash a bunch of MTTs, I am looking for one or two fat end scores. I'll probably do that implay thing again sometime. Hope you guys enjoyed it Posted by TommyD
So life stuff. It occurs to me I haven't really given a proper update of my neighbourhood since my house move one or two years ago (the time does sorta blend).
Cliffs for new readers: First welcome, please post anything you fancy. My name is Tommy. I live with the GF and the Hound, a woman and a Beagle respectively. Never mix up the two, it can get you In trouble. Pre Hound we lived in a flat with a drunken German below, a Polish lady who either owned her own cleaning business or did a whole other sort of personal one to one cleaning, depending on who you spoke to and diagonally up and across from a very friendly (to us at least) but quite loopy Jamaican lady and her son.
Things have changed.
The new gaff is a lovely bungalow only five minutes away from the flat. When we moved in we brought the average age of the street down a notch. It really is retirement avenue, however peace and quiet totally suits both of us. We have a killer garden, our own space and no one below to cough continually before falling over with a hiccup and a crash, as well as no warring neighbours to the side of us. It's quite delightful.
So what of our new neighbours. Well either side of us live Kate and Audrey. Two widows in their 70s or 80s. And they are quite lovely, we get on with both sides. However they don't get on with each other. In fact, they seem to detest each other with a passion. I haven't gotten to the bottom of it just yet but it seems to involve the former residents of our place and a tree which used to be in our garden. Gotta love suburbia and the things a feud can start over.
Audrey is your prim and proper neighbour. Immensely house and garden proud, I swear her lawn is an example of grass perfection. She's decently posh but you feel with the accent it's middle class pushing up a little, very much a Mrs Bucket. Now Kate, this lady was a goer in the past without doubt. She's in her 80s. We were talking about a lottery rollover a little while ago and she snap said 'If I won it I'd jump on a plane to Vegas tomorrow.' Good girl.
One across from Audrey is Three Fingered Roy. That's a misnomer. One of his hands has the traditional set of digits, the other not so much. It turned out after we moved in that him and my Dad, D the Elder, were old old friends. My Dad knows the story behind two fingers no longer being a part of the man but he won't tell me yet. Over the time I have let my imagination fill in the blanks of that story, we're up to juggling with hand grenades. He and his family are lovely though. In fact there's not one neighbour issue here. It's all quite serene.
I will keep you all informed of the inevitable implosion of that serenity as and when.
I always need something to shoot for. According to Sharscope on MTTs only I am just under 10k short of 100k site profit. Across all games it's a bit more, this was due to me being a HU STT donk for a bit and some immense play bad/run bad at £55 DYMs. Leaks I admit to and have to fix. There will be time for that. From what I can tell no one has hit 100k from MTTs only yet on this site. Nutter has from all games but MTTs represent £40k of that massively arousing graph of his. If anyone else knows of anyone who already has hit £100k in MTTs please let me know. I've checked the usual suspects, Matt and Divs are around the £60k mark I believe.
So yeah, I want to be first. And to add a little spice to it I want to be there within 5000 MTTs. That gives me 395 MTTs to get there. I need to score big in either a Primo, Roller or a UKOPS to do it and it has been a while since my last +2k score but what's life without some aims eh?
That's half the reason the Roller exit was somewhat perturbing to me. A win there would have been very much welcome and a help in this shot.
And remember, if I can make £100k, anyone can do it. You can do it. Trust me, ask people, they'll tell you.
I was wondering about Roy and his 2 missing fingers. Could it be that either Audrey or Kate has something to do with it? Some kind of seedy Suburbia games perhaps that went wrong (hence the fall out)?
Excellent read Tommy, will follow this. I was wondering about Roy and his 2 missing fingers. Could it be that either Audrey or Kate has something to do with it? Some kind of seedy Suburbia games perhaps that went wrong (hence the fall out)? Posted by DoubleAAA
You've started my imagination down a road I never wanted to go. Not sure there's any coming back from that...
Great read Tommy. However, the flat had a lot more interesting characters. Re Mr. Digit....there is a certain "group" down your way where when one was a member and commited "misdemeanours" resulted in the inability to play Bartok's second concerto. Just a thought.. :-) BTW AWESOME results!
Excellent read Tommy, will follow this. I was wondering about Roy and his 2 missing fingers. Could it be that either Audrey or Kate has something to do with it? Some kind of seedy Suburbia games perhaps that went wrong (hence the fall out)? Posted by DoubleAAA
I am sure this will find its way into 1 of Slippy's short stories, a must read lol.
Great read Tommy. However, the flat had a lot more interesting characters. Re Mr. Digit....there is a certain "group" down your way where when one was a member and commited "misdemeanours" resulted in the inability to play Bartok's second concerto. Just a thought.. :-) BTW AWESOME results! Posted by Glenelg
Are you saying Roy was part of Richard (the filter won't let me use the more common first name for him, yet I can say bottom) Turpin's gang? I can see him in the garb actually.
tyvm, tonight is rebuy night. Always a time where I half fancy a decent run
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Hate spoilers!!!
have you read the books tommy? i'm not much of a reader but reading "the mental game of poker " at the minute, enjoying that, but hear TGOT books are fantastic.
there is a good chance ill be playing a lot of sats for the bigger tournaments and only reg for the mini if I make the main.
Im also playing low level cash at the minute so any advice on any of these will go a long way, play 8nl and if mastercash is on I will try and sit on one of the lower stakes too see if I get any TV feedback.
also just started the 6max challenge last night, only too realise its for £5.50 or more, so that will destroy my BR if I don't run well, so far played 1 came 2nd, which allows me too play another 2 of these. plus DTD Monday aswell.
2) With regards to the part of Ivan's post I have bolded, he's pretty much nailed it. Giving it away a bit here but my shove range was actually slightly tighter than Ivan has set out, purely on the basis I knew Pad's call range pretty well. It's a standard adjustment imo when you start really thinking deep into it and as much as I hate to be relatively nitty 3 handed and sub 10bb, I felt it was the only way to be.
Yeah tonight looks grand. 'Mocking Bird.' Hmmmmm
Low level cash is all about doing the basics well. It's a fantastic proving ground to build up your poker ability. Just keep doing the simple stuff correct and you will make money, it won't be a quick buck but it will be a slow solid growth.
I think there is decent value in the £5 SnGs tbh. SnGs are funny, they used to be the most popular form going. Then they got 'solved' and previous winning regs were becoming rakeback winners, everyone ran so close. Then most of the world stops playing STTs. Now everyone appears to have forgotten the absolute optimal strategy for them (I'm talking on most sites) and the recreational player pool has topped up somewhat. I'm gonna be having another go at it probably. I started on STTs on another site really and I do love playing them.
So Sunday, the aftermath.
Only played the two MTTs on ***. Pretty sure the first was a standard exit towards the bubble, JJ v KK Button v SB 25bb effective. It went min, click back, 4bet click to induce, induced jam, snap call oh my he has kings. The other was a marginal shove for the blinds and antes and out pipped 55 v 66 but v BB 13bb effective. Meh, never mind.
Next door I drew another total brick. Got 2 of the 4 entries to their Sunday main within a few of the bubble then took spots. One was close/bad with AT, the other was a straight up flip for a 40 bb stack. Their UKPC sat was fun. Had a maniac at the table. Only one seat so it was winner takes all (however this was in the rebuy period so a few late reggers sometimes turn up for the freezeout stage). Five left I decide that it would be a good line to 3bet jam A7o for value versus this one person. Result would be 1/3 of the chips in play with 4 left iirc. So I did. He calls with KTo and rivers broadway. Oh well. I didn't even bother rebuying, had a stack in the SCOOP main at this time and decided to move on with my life.
On Sky, well what can I say. STT Challenge was easily the best game I played all day. Everything just clicked. Most of the TV coverage was from the first half of play, you would have noticed me folding a bunch. Completely standard for me, including KQo in the SB to an open and a call. It was described as snug which is fair but I absolutely hate peeling from my stack OOP there, it's just spewing off chips against these players. It felt a little light of both value and fold equity for the 3bet jam so I folded. Finished up second to Solack. I had Jacks twice HU. Didn't win. I'm still yet to be credited with anything for that but I see Solly is in the lobby for the UKPC, hopefully Dylan was right in his post a page or two ago and I have £500 at least on its way.
The Sky UKPC sat. What can I say. 8 seats and £440 for 9th. I go out 11th. Was strange, 3rd through 10th at the time of my crippling hand were so close together you could through a blanket over us. I definitely had to play on. Those watching the show will see that I got my AK and 20bb in v AQs pre and didn't win. Gutting £1k swing there (not be arrogant but if I win that hand I get 9th easily, I'm too old to give away a 40bb stack on the bubble of a satty). It wasn't the lowest percentage beat I took yesterday but it was the biggest gut punch.
Roller was strange. Made a good start, was playing alright. Chipped up nicely then lost focus of it while trying to concentrate on other tables. Went on a little swong, mentally lost all focus and was spinning out of control. Got my nines in versus tens and jacks, had a nice turn then regrouped completely. I didn't play a great game but I played ok, wa a little disappointed not to at least FT but you can't have everything.
So overall I am slightly down on the Sunday, pending the UKPC return which would give me a small profit.
What have I learnt? Really need to stop fannying about with my schedule. Next Sunday we plan properly, always been a leak of mine. We set out an optimal session and we write out MTTs I will late reg/put onto the schedule should the screen real estate suddenly become barren. Perfect planning prevents poor performance. Or at the very least stops me from scrambling to de reg a bunch when I realise I am about to get 6 more tables on a screen which already has 12. In other news, I really need to get a second screen.
On the above note I will tailor down the session next week, try to go for quality over quantity. Another leak is me chipping up in a few, as I did Next Door, then practically forget about them while I try to sort out stacks on other tables. That lead to too much dribbling down from a good stack. I'm not trying to min cash a bunch of MTTs, I am looking for one or two fat end scores.
I'll probably do that implay thing again sometime. Hope you guys enjoyed it
Cliffs for new readers: First welcome, please post anything you fancy. My name is Tommy. I live with the GF and the Hound, a woman and a Beagle respectively. Never mix up the two, it can get you In trouble. Pre Hound we lived in a flat with a drunken German below, a Polish lady who either owned her own cleaning business or did a whole other sort of personal one to one cleaning, depending on who you spoke to and diagonally up and across from a very friendly (to us at least) but quite loopy Jamaican lady and her son.
Things have changed.
The new gaff is a lovely bungalow only five minutes away from the flat. When we moved in we brought the average age of the street down a notch. It really is retirement avenue, however peace and quiet totally suits both of us. We have a killer garden, our own space and no one below to cough continually before falling over with a hiccup and a crash, as well as no warring neighbours to the side of us. It's quite delightful.
So what of our new neighbours. Well either side of us live Kate and Audrey. Two widows in their 70s or 80s. And they are quite lovely, we get on with both sides. However they don't get on with each other. In fact, they seem to detest each other with a passion. I haven't gotten to the bottom of it just yet but it seems to involve the former residents of our place and a tree which used to be in our garden. Gotta love suburbia and the things a feud can start over.
Audrey is your prim and proper neighbour. Immensely house and garden proud, I swear her lawn is an example of grass perfection. She's decently posh but you feel with the accent it's middle class pushing up a little, very much a Mrs Bucket. Now Kate, this lady was a goer in the past without doubt. She's in her 80s. We were talking about a lottery rollover a little while ago and she snap said 'If I won it I'd jump on a plane to Vegas tomorrow.' Good girl.
One across from Audrey is Three Fingered Roy. That's a misnomer. One of his hands has the traditional set of digits, the other not so much. It turned out after we moved in that him and my Dad, D the Elder, were old old friends. My Dad knows the story behind two fingers no longer being a part of the man but he won't tell me yet. Over the time I have let my imagination fill in the blanks of that story, we're up to juggling with hand grenades. He and his family are lovely though. In fact there's not one neighbour issue here. It's all quite serene.
I will keep you all informed of the inevitable implosion of that serenity as and when.
I always need something to shoot for. According to Sharscope on MTTs only I am just under 10k short of 100k site profit. Across all games it's a bit more, this was due to me being a HU STT donk for a bit and some immense play bad/run bad at £55 DYMs. Leaks I admit to and have to fix. There will be time for that. From what I can tell no one has hit 100k from MTTs only yet on this site. Nutter has from all games but MTTs represent £40k of that massively arousing graph of his. If anyone else knows of anyone who already has hit £100k in MTTs please let me know. I've checked the usual suspects, Matt and Divs are around the £60k mark I believe.
So yeah, I want to be first. And to add a little spice to it I want to be there within 5000 MTTs. That gives me 395 MTTs to get there. I need to score big in either a Primo, Roller or a UKOPS to do it and it has been a while since my last +2k score but what's life without some aims eh?
That's half the reason the Roller exit was somewhat perturbing to me. A win there would have been very much welcome and a help in this shot.
And remember, if I can make £100k, anyone can do it. You can do it. Trust me, ask people, they'll tell you.
GL at the tables all.
I was wondering about Roy and his 2 missing fingers. Could it be that either Audrey or Kate has something to do with it? Some kind of seedy Suburbia games perhaps that went wrong (hence the fall out)?
tyvm, tonight is rebuy night. Always a time where I half fancy a decent run