Hi wacko Many congrats. Great win. I love the way your wins are treated as so come day go day. I'd be soooo chuffed and on an adrenaline high, i think! 5000+ players in 4 hours seems very short... Played with you in dtd last night but you were in bullying mode after you caught str8 to ebberdons two pair early on. There was a big pot a little later where i had AA but bb went all-in on turn, i think, trying to rep the flush. When you overbet shoved i had to dump my aces but then couldn't get a hand to compete as another early big stake joined you. By the way you had the ace flush as seemed obvious at the time. Posted by profman15
Cheers prof well I was chuffed and high on adrenaline a few hours back, calmed down now though and its just another normal night I guess :P Yes, pretty insane hand, if I remember rightly I flatted ebberdons raise pre with 35 on the button, flop came 467 and we got it in with him having 76! Crazy, I was very confident when one tabling of playing the table and sort of crushing, but then, suddenly, 5 other tables popped up from no where and my focus was divided
Was a good game though, where did you end up in the end?
Bit of an also ran this week, middle of table. Hooks were my downfall, i'm afraid. Had AQ v JJ AI twice called ...couldn't hit...just standard for the stack sizes. When i had JJ w/ flop JXX. Opponent was all in with JX....(6% equity)...unfortunately runner runner diamonds gave him a flush. ..killer but it happens. PS why that avatar W? ha
Hi W Bit of an also ran this week, middle of table. Hooks were my downfall, i'm afraid. Had AQ v JJ AI twice called ...couldn't hit...just standard for the stack sizes. When i had JJ w/ flop JXX. Opponent was all in with JX....(6% equity)...unfortunately runner runner diamonds gave him a flush. ..killer but it happens. PS why that avatar W? ha Posted by profman15
yeah true, sh** happens : Why wacko? Well my last name is Watkin, and I knew I was a bit wack y and my play was a bit wack y so went with wacko. It was meant to be 92 (D.O.B) but I messed it up during my registration lol! Silly me :P
OK, can finally get the diary going again, uni work done for christmas now. Last week was a tough one, alot of work had to be done but it was finished in the end and now going to have a relaxing week before going home. Really gutted about missing Luton but never mind!
I actually played like 3 tournies in the past week (not including yesterday). Not on sky though, managed another bink across the water. Ended up final tabling the hot 55 turbo. I played about as well as I could, the final table was fairly crazy from my point of view and I feel hard done by so il give a little report here.
I got to final table in second place on around 800k chips I think, over 30bbs still. The chip leadfer was on over 1 million, and the rest were below 500k, most below 300k so short. It was basically a shove fest. Yet no one was calling any of the 7-10 BB shoves. The chip leader was incredibly infuriating. He was using his stack well (ish) raising most hands and literally he folded at least 20+ times to a 7-10 bb shove into his raise. I was dead as ever and with him raising alot I didnt have much to fight back with and slowly started dwindling.
Eventually I broke, q9 on the BB he min raised again to like 80k or something and I shove my 500k into him. First time id shoved on the ft, think there were about 8 or 7 left at this point. Obvs he snap calls. AA. WTF! Anyway board runs q729Q. MBN. SO I double to 1 mill and at break im 1/7 just. Bli9nds were like 30k/60k so people had like 5 BBs and still for 15 mins no one went out. Some bloke was on 10k at one point, barely an ante and still he clawed it back. And so it folded round to me in the SB, im sitting with k6cc, shove into the BB expecting a fold (only the second time I shove and he was uber tight) and he snaps 88. FFS HOW????? SO I lose that and am down to 300k and near last. I pick up q8cc utg. 5 bbs, I want FE for the next round, theyll fold A rags and k10s etc so I shove, snap re shove from tighty, allfold and he has KK.
So essentially my FT last almost an hour, where 9 people had less than 20bbs and for the most 5bbs and only 3 went out. I shoved 3 times ion about 200+ hands. And ran into AA, 88 and KK. So I truly do count myself UL there. But thats the way it goes, 11k up top too and I came 6th for about 2.6k$. So cant complain one bit.
Played on sky last night, had a decent night came like 11th in the 9.30 BH for 70 odd then came 2nd in the 10pm 22£ bh for 200 odd so did okay. BR is at its highest since the start. Enjoy sky alot more anyway
Poland was fantastic as always, going back in Feb to ski, apparently its -20+ though.......hmmmm should be great fun though. Expecting some good things today.
Didnt play on sky today. In fact didnt plan on playing at all, gym this morning then shopping in town then work/watching harry potter (lol) meant I didnt have much time. However I did manage to have a small go on stars, played some of the bigger mtts and lost my flips, played a few smaller mtts and had success! Here is the result of one, never beaten a field this big before. PokerSt*rs Tournament #648794003, No Limit Hold'em Buy-In: $2.00/$0.50/$0.20 USD 5922 players Total Prize Pool: $11844.00 USD Tournament started 2012/11/27 17:15:00 WET [2012/11/27 12:15:00 ET] Tournament finished 2012/11/27 20:43:28 WET [2012/11/27 15:43:28 ET] 1: Wacko92 (United Kingdom), $1856.39 (15.673%) 2: boehnchen (Germany), $1379.82 (11.649%) 3: DRAFTIE (United Kingdom), $977.13 (8.25%) 4: Ace Zzang (South Korea), $669.18 (5.649%) 5: almate56 (Romania), $503.37 (4.25%) 6: HUMPHREY00 (Germany), $384.93 (3.25%) 7: A. Shamykaev (Russia), $266.49 (2.25%) 8: versulotti (Brazil), $148.05 (1.25%) 9: iRaged (Finland), $94.75 (0.799%) 10: akarrin (Australia), $70.47 (0.594%) 18 heads for 9$ too, huge bonus . Only last like 4 hours too, ran so well towards the end. Personally I think I played really well, managed to get to 600k ish from 3k, down to the last 30 odd then the blinds finally caught up with me. Eventually I shoved 5Bbbs with q 10, only for the BB to have KQ, and me bink the 10 on the river. Then, sat on about 500k, BB was like 120k I think, I shoved q8cc in late pos, only for ak to look me up, and flop to come Q108. Went from strength from there, AA holding vs j6 then a few other holds. Eventually somehow got HU, about 9 million each, first hand had a2 q8x flop, I floated a bet, 2 on turn, floated again in pos, river 2, shoved and got snapped by q10. TYVM. Finished him next hand. Although I got a bit lucky towards the end, im happy with my play, dont think I made many wrong moves all game. ROI is pretty sick for a 2$ tourney So yeah, not a bad night all in all Very busy day tomorrow, got like 50 things to organise and plan, before im up at 5 on thursday morning for a flight to Poland lovely stuff, a good way to enter a break in Poker. Posted by Wacko90
Good to see england beating germany for once ! Its no coincidence that you crush on stars as well but what is your opinion of the german/russian players over there ?
Well played again but not so fast sir..."unlucky to run into AA" ...but get a mammoth chunk of positive variance to suck out from 17% equity. Nice one though. Bet that gave you a buzz. Do you ever get players becoming maniacs on the Ft. I got to the 10 handed Orfordable Ft last night. One guy had a big stack before this and had been 'bullying' but instead of folding he was calling and sucking out. I hadn't played badly, had a tight image and been playing to my stack size as well as observing players around. This guy just altered the dynamic. Blinds were going through me and i had about 15 or so but was lowest stack. I decide to try to keep some FE by letting the blinds get through me and finding a spot in next orbit unless i get a good hand. i'm in big blind w/ QJs and three others limp including big stack UTG. My free flop comes J high two suited not mine. Top pr good kicker, i decide to AI. Big stack calls w/ K9o then catches runner runner for str8. It happens. and i was ok ith it. However, he got caught out next hand, lost a chunk and decided to announce that he was then bored. Consequently he decided to go Ai or call with silly hands eg Q7 o etc. He left 5 pots or so later. I can't understand how you can play for 5 hours, Ft, then decide you've had enough. He even started putting "call" in the chatbox. We've all had 'moments' deep in a T but this was very weird...happened to you?
Update on past 2 days, now im free I can get busy replying to people who posted ages ago, I havnt forgotten.
Yesterday didnt go so well, didnt get going in anything apart from the main really. Managed to get myself into a position whTurn A, GG. Didnt have any other near sucesses. Never mind
Tonight had a great night. Played Sunday million on other site and a few big ones, im serious, I always, ALWAYS run so bad in the SM. Another bad beat sent me packing for a 30k+ pot with 2k left which would of set me up nicely, was not to be.
Played primo and mini primo on sky and the 16.50 turbo. Ahhh this will be one of my favourites I can see it now. Came 4th or something tonight for 120 so was happy with that. Mini primo, AA into kj on a kj2 flop GG.
Primo, started slow, didnt have the best table. To make a change I cant remember too many special hands, grinded to the cash, had a mini blip then grinded it back. FT was good and managed to get HU quick against a bloke who was only raising 5x pre (sounds good right) but was hitting like every flop so hard. I wasnt that far behind, but in the space of 20 hands I didnt hit one pair off any flop somehow. Undertandably was frustrated, was short and shoved 3rd pair and fd in next pot, obvs he had top pair and I didnt catch on river, VWP to him.
So its been 2 days since im free of uni work for a while and I feel alot better about how im playing, last 2 weeks Iv had some really great results. I really do love the primo. Can have a week of going to the gym and grinding now before I go home for christmas for a few weeks.
Cash was for about 1.9k ish plus 120 for turbo so a 2k night.
I really want to improve my mtt game I was talking to a m8 of mine about how I play in mtts he reckons i`m being too aggro and gambling a bit much in certain spots but me thinks thats because i`m mainly a cash game player.
what would advice would you give me to improve you think anything at all would be appreciated thanks.
wow nice one m8 you really are a machine in mtts. I really want to improve my mtt game I was talking to a m8 of mine about how I play in mtts he reckons i`m being too aggro and gambling a bit much in certain spots but me thinks thats because i`m mainly a cash game player. what would advice would you give me to improve you think anything at all would be appreciated thanks. gl at the tables not that you need it lol.
Posted by liamboi11
I don't know whether you have the same problem or not but I seem to run into hands all the time when I 3bet jam light over a mid-late position raise when I have a 15-20bb stack and never bink when I'm behind lol. Maybe 15-20bb is bigger than I realise w/o antes I don't know?
In Response to Re: Diary, Challenge, Motivation.Challenge to £9999.Current BR £486.40!! Star Bink..!! : Good to see england beating germany for once ! Its no coincidence that you crush on stars as well but what is your opinion of the german/russian players over there ? WP wacko. Posted by ACEGOONER
Cheers ace Haha yes I said that too tbh I havnt played enough to get much of an opinion, but from what I have seen theyre all just solid players that are very capale of making moves in position. Theyre unlikely to get out of line too much tbh, not easy players to play against.
Hi W Well played again but not so fast sir..."unlucky to run into AA" ...but get a mammoth chunk of positive variance to suck out from 17% equity. Nice one though. Bet that gave you a buzz. Do you ever get players becoming maniacs on the Ft. I got to the 10 handed Orfordable Ft last night. One guy had a big stack before this and had been 'bullying' but instead of folding he was calling and sucking out. I hadn't played badly, had a tight image and been playing to my stack size as well as observing players around. This guy just altered the dynamic. Blinds were going through me and i had about 15 or so but was lowest stack. I decide to try to keep some FE by letting the blinds get through me and finding a spot in next orbit unless i get a good hand. i'm in big blind w/ QJs and three others limp including big stack UTG. My free flop comes J high two suited not mine. Top pr good kicker, i decide to AI. Big stack calls w/ K9o then catches runner runner for str8. It happens. and i was ok ith it. However, he got caught out next hand, lost a chunk and decided to announce that he was then bored. Consequently he decided to go Ai or call with silly hands eg Q7 o etc. He left 5 pots or so later. I can't understand how you can play for 5 hours, Ft, then decide you've had enough. He even started putting "call" in the chatbox. We've all had 'moments' deep in a T but this was very weird...happened to you? Posted by profman15
hey Prof,
haha yes I suppose you can look at it that way, I wasnt suggesting I didnt get V lucky to suck out, only that I was Ul to be looked up by the hands that I was.
Yeah sometimes you do get people like that, I dont think iv ever been "bored" but in my early days iv deffo tilted (most likely from another tourney) and thrown away a winning position, im sure everyone has done it at some point. Havnt done that for well over a year now for some reason too you often find these players are running really good!
wow nice one m8 you really are a machine in mtts. I really want to improve my mtt game I was talking to a m8 of mine about how I play in mtts he reckons i`m being too aggro and gambling a bit much in certain spots but me thinks thats because i`m mainly a cash game player. what would advice would you give me to improve you think anything at all would be appreciated thanks. gl at the tables not that you need it lol. Posted by liamboi11
hey Liam,
Well, being aggro and maintaining it is very difficult. Most o the mtt crushers on sky are tight aggressive. Alot of losing players are loose, passive or loose aggro. For me I like to have a loose image but it often makes it hard for me, as my bluffs constantly get called down by 3rd pair or something lol. For you, if your playing to aggro then just reduce the gambling.
Essentially its all about who is on the table for me. For example, the primo last night had 2 V aggro players on, both pretty loose. So I played v tight, picked my spots and 3 bet spots well and they paid me off purely because they didnt give up. If the table is tight then you have to use your 3 bet to the max. There are so many tight players, especially at the later stages of big tournies who will raise pre and fold to 3-bets. You can pick up so many chips doing this.
So 2 small pieces of advice. Adapt your play to the players that are on the table. You cant play the whole tourney aggro or passive, adapt to the players and use their style to your advantage. And 2, use your chips, 3-betting in position etc against the right players who you know are very likely to only play premium. Especially at the late stages where blinds are bigger.
Congrats on the result last night. VWP. Your flying atm without putting hardly any volume in! Just wondering in the new year are you going to be putting more volume into MTT's? Posted by Curt360x27
Cheers mate, wp you too. I though you were fairly unlucky to go out, very very very marginal call by the opponent. UL.
Yes! Uni is still my priority but I can balance it and im due a week or 2 off, so from now until around the new year im increasing volume, more so next week. No doubt il run into you on a few tables
In Response to Re: Diary, Challenge, Motivation.Challenge to £9999.Current BR 2559.14!! Primo 2nd place. : hey Liam, Well, being aggro and maintaining it is very difficult. Most o the mtt crushers on sky are tight aggressive. Alot of losing players are loose, passive or loose aggro. For me I like to have a loose image but it often makes it hard for me, as my bluffs constantly get called down by 3rd pair or something lol. For you, if your playing to aggro then just reduce the gambling. Essentially its all about who is on the table for me. For example, the primo last night had 2 V aggro players on, both pretty loose. So I played v tight, picked my spots and 3 bet spots well and they paid me off purely because they didnt give up. If the table is tight then you have to use your 3 bet to the max. There are so many tight players, especially at the later stages of big tournies who will raise pre and fold to 3-bets. You can pick up so many chips doing this. So 2 small pieces of advice. Adapt your play to the players that are on the table. You cant play the whole tourney aggro or passive, adapt to the players and use their style to your advantage. And 2, use your chips, 3-betting in position etc against the right players who you know are very likely to only play premium. Especially at the late stages where blinds are bigger. Posted by Wacko90
thanks for the advice m8 will take it all on board. I`m goin to try play a lot more mtts after the new year try to improve and hopefully get some results.
Curt yeah kinda similar buddy getting in almost always a flip like I see 2 limps im in btn/co and shove 18bbs wae ak and guy snaps wae 77 and he holds or a get coolered or sucked out really frustrating seems to be at the crucial time like last 2 or 3 tables for a big stack.But i might win one and get a big score soon never know lol thanks for your reply also.
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Bit of an also ran this week, middle of table. Hooks were my downfall, i'm afraid. Had AQ v JJ AI twice called ...couldn't hit...just standard for the stack sizes. When i had JJ w/ flop JXX. Opponent was all in with JX....(6% equity)...unfortunately runner runner diamonds gave him a flush. ..killer but it happens.
PS why that avatar W? ha
WP wacko.
Well played again but not so fast sir..."unlucky to run into AA" ...but get a mammoth chunk of positive variance to suck out from 17% equity. Nice one though. Bet that gave you a buzz.
Do you ever get players becoming maniacs on the Ft. I got to the 10 handed Orfordable Ft last night. One guy had a big stack before this and had been 'bullying' but instead of folding he was calling and sucking out. I hadn't played badly, had a tight image and been playing to my stack size as well as observing players around. This guy just altered the dynamic. Blinds were going through me and i had about 15 or so but was lowest stack. I decide to try to keep some FE by letting the blinds get through me and finding a spot in next orbit unless i get a good hand. i'm in big blind w/ QJs and three others limp including big stack UTG. My free flop comes J high two suited not mine. Top pr good kicker, i decide to AI. Big stack calls w/ K9o then catches runner runner for str8. It happens. and i was ok ith it.
However, he got caught out next hand, lost a chunk and decided to announce that he was then bored. Consequently he decided to go Ai or call with silly hands eg Q7 o etc. He left 5 pots or so later. I can't understand how you can play for 5 hours, Ft, then decide you've had enough. He even started putting "call" in the chatbox. We've all had 'moments' deep in a T but this was very weird...happened to you?
vwp
I've tried to take some in too!!!! ....am a lost cause really, lol
GL with this, read a few pages, will try read ALL, over next week!
Run Golden!! [as usual]
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keep going mate,you'll soon have that £9999 up.
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