In Response to Re: Ramblings of an old man : Agree Many people say our problems started when Mclaren went to Man United. For me it was selling Carsley at around the same time. Got £3 million for him and signed useless Seth Johnson for more money. Silver lining was that Dirty Leeds were stupid enough to take him off us for £9 million! Posted by Jac35
Love the story of when Leeds signed him. Shows how messed up their financial dealings were....Seth Johnson sits in the office discussing personal terms with I assume Risdale and others but not sure. Apparently SJ was looking to double his basic Derby wage, but this hadn't been brought up, just a hopeful thought he kept to himself. Leeds offer him £25k a week, which is way way more than he earnt in the midlands. SJ and his advisor sit there so shocked that they can't speak. Leeds take this as them holding out for more and offer him an extra £5k a week.
Beating Forest is great. Beating Forest 5-0 is super great. Beating Forest 5-0 and Billy Davies being their Manager is super, super great. (Super super great is better than just great I hear these days)
A couple of weeks ago it looked as though this match would be huge as we were going for automatic promotion. After recent results it was still huge but for a slightly different reason. I think most Derby fans were a little concerned that we could end up missing out on the play offs. I believe we'll be fine now for that. Burnley appear to have 2nd locked up. Good luck to them. I'd much prefer them to get promotion than QPR. Also, with Burnley being the Bromleys team, it's all good.
I imagine that everyone watched our magnificence on the box yesterday. Chelsea v Arsenal couldn't possibly be a bigger draw for armchair fans.
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The Sng promotion is wonderful. There's so much to take into consideration for it and it's totally inclusive. I've noticed that some of the players who have set the early pace have dropped back a bit after playing more games. What a decision to make. Do we think we've done enough and stop playing after posting a good score? Or are we confident that we can improve it further and take the risk of playing more?
I think it's still really difficult to judge what would be enough to make the top 6. There are going to be plenty of people holding back from completing their 30 games until right towards the end. The last day could be really fascinating.
I had a good start. After 12 games I was at 67%. After 23 games that's fallen to 48% which still leaves me in contention if I have a good finish but still disappointing to drop back. 6 tabling them was prolly a bit silly.
I need a good finish and if I have that I will most likely stop and see if it's enough. I have a number in mind and will follow it closely to see if I'm right.
Had a decent run tonight in them. Played 7, 3 wins, 2 2nds and 2 no cashes. It's got me up to 61.8% which I think may be a bit short in the final reckoning.
Frustrating last game where heads up I checked back AJ on a Ace high board heads up. He got there with runner runner flush and I finished 2nd. Could be costly. Happy it was right play, he'd called all ins preflop with Q8 etc and I think would have gone with his hand if he'd hit any piece of the board. Hindsights always great. Should have just 'mashed' (popular word it seems) the bet button on flop I suppose.
Well I'm done with the SNG challenge. Had a decent run tonight in them. Played 7, 3 wins, 2 2nds and 2 no cashes. It's got me up to 61.8% which I think may be a bit short in the final reckoning. Frustrating last game where heads up I checked back AJ on a Ace high board heads up. He got there with runner runner flush and I finished 2nd. Could be costly. Happy it was right play, he'd called all ins preflop with Q8 etc and I think would have gone with his hand if he'd hit any piece of the board. Hindsights always great. Should have just 'mashed' (popular word it seems) the bet button on flop I suppose. Posted by Jac35
Give u 20 quid for 10% of the 'final' sng action. If you don't make it, u keep the 20!
I won my 1st sng. I felt like I was half way there.
I bricked my next 11, not even a 2nd!
Then gave up.
I reckon 62% will be plenty. Impressive stats, wp.
In Response to Re: Ramblings of an old man : Give u 20 quid for 10% of the 'final' sng action. If you don't make it, u keep the 20! I won my 1st sng. I felt like I was half way there. I bricked my next 11, not even a 2nd! Then gave up. I reckon 62% will be plenty. Impressive stats, wp. Posted by DOHHHHHHH
Thanks Dohhhh Really? that confident? Not sure, I hope so. It'll be a bit frustrating if I don't make it as I can't play any Dyms for the rest of the month now
I've just played the speed rebuy tonight, no good
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Disappointed the thread I started regarding Spt's has been moved to a distant part of the forum.
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Billy Davied sacked. That's a shame! It must really hurt that it was following losing to the Mighty Rams as well. Poor little mercenary.
Didn't you drop out of the top 6 of the Skill and Go? Either way I've seen you're back in it now. One of the top 6 people must have took your advice and carried on playing
Vwp, I'd hold on for as long as possible and only play another game until/if you drop out of the top 6.
Didn't you drop out of the top 6 of the Skill and Go? Either way I've seen you're back in it now. One of the top 6 people must have took your advice and carried on playing Vwp, I'd hold on for as long as possible and only play another game until/if you drop out of the top 6. Posted by Lambert180
Thanks Paul
Yeah, it's interesting
What tactics to employ?
Sit tight and hope people may shoot themselves in the foot?
Play 1 game at a time to try and nudge up the top 6 slightly but risk dropping out of it?
Instinct is to try and hold my nerve and see how it's looking on Sunday.
Thoughts would be appreciated?
I'm hopeless with the maths. Now I've got a decent ROI. Let's say I play 1 Dym and win, what would that do for my %
Flipside, play 1 Dym and lose. How many do I then need to cash in to recover?
At this stage a loss would be FAR more detrimental than a win would be good. Not 100% sure on the exact figures but I suspect if you lost 1 DYM, you'd probably need to win 3 in a row just to get back where you started.
I'd sit tight, no point risking it for no reason. If you drop out the top 6 then you'll have plenty of time, it's not like you'll ever be more than a couple of wins from catching up (and if you lose a few then it's probably gg anyway), so even if you left it till like 5 hours before the end date you'd be able to play enough games if you needed to. So no rush imo, just hope to cling on and play the it 1 game at a time as and when necessary.
Have you tried chickmelt's spread sheet? Anyway, definitely best to just wait it out for now. Plenty of time left still and if you drop out before the end then you can try and work out whether you'll need to play a DYM or six max to try and get back in.
In Response to Re: Ramblings of an old man : Thanks Paul Yeah, it's interesting What tactics to employ? Sit tight and hope people may shoot themselves in the foot? Play 1 game at a time to try and nudge up the top 6 slightly but risk dropping out of it? Instinct is to try and hold my nerve and see how it's looking on Sunday. Thoughts would be appreciated? I'm hopeless with the maths. Now I've got a decent ROI. Let's say I play 1 Dym and win, what would that do for my % Flipside, play 1 Dym and lose. How many do I then need to cash in to recover? Help! Posted by Jac35
here you go - use the orange downlaod button on the right, the rest are adverts.
it looks like a loss will bring you down about 6%, and a win will put you up 0.6% lol. If you want to increase your ROI a decent amount last minute, then you need to be playing regular 6max SNGs imo - a win in one of those would boost you by 6%.
hey - peeps seem to like it so don't change just for me. i'm happy to pick over the ashes to look for still-glowing embers & little nuggets of gold.
as for me - well a
"JACs guide to crushing stts" wouldn't go amiss a la Tikay's hilo DYM thread
"JACs guide to bring up a baby" to laugh along with (those memories)
all your live poker current & nosta is great
and if you must talk football how about what went wrong with english football, and what you need to learn from the Spanish & Germans
and stop setting me difficult questions - i've just gone out a stt hh because it was under my browser and i forgot about it. another nail in the skill challenge coffin
hey - peeps seem to like it so don't change just for me. i'm happy to pick over the ashes to look for still-glowing embers & little nuggets of gold. as for me - well a "JACs guide to crushing stts" wouldn't go amiss a la Tikay's hilo DYM thread "JACs guide to bring up a baby" to laugh along with (those memories) all your live poker current & nosta is great and if you must talk football how about what went wrong with english football, and what you need to learn from the Spanish & Germans and stop setting me difficult questions - i've just gone out a stt hh because it was under my browser and i forgot about it. another nail in the skill challenge coffin Posted by GELDY
The people paid 100's of thousands a year to try and answer this question still haven't a clue Geldy, give him a chance!
Obv really England got rid of the finest Manager in all of the world. Mighty Mac! World Cup would have been a doddle with him in charge. And if only Conor Sammon was English
Just for you as well. Coming soon, Jacs alternate strategy guide to 6max Sng's, (WITH PICS) Will be concentrating mainly on table position. Will be one for the purists.
A sneak preview for you all
The cut-off
Much fun can be had playing from this position
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Played 2 comps tonight, was a bit bored
£2 rebuy, was a dunce and missed the addon Came 4th. Pretty decent considering I chopped AA v AQ, lost 10's v Ace 7 and bust QQ v KJ. All in preflop in each case
£11Bh Bubbled, grrr. 3 bet all in with AK and got called by KJ. Apologies to RedArrows. I childishly tapped in 'nice call' in the chatbox. Let myself down a bit there. Just a bit frustrating when you bubble but regardless, stupid comment from me. Someone else wrote 'bubbleboy' to which I replied 'ta for that, didn't realise'. I think I'm ok in not apologising for that one
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Some decent advice folks. Thanks for that. Yep, think you've confirmed for me that it will be right to wait it out and see where I am after the weekend. Dyms also look like a bad idea. If I have to play it will be the 6-max and i'll just see if my usual shove and hope tactics work their usual magic.
UL bubbling, I remember thinking what a good spot it was as you'd expect to be called only by the peak of the range but then, if he knows you know that he could give you credit for a much more marginal hand. Let's also not forget that a £6 bounty is also quite attractive when the next 10 pay jumps only cover £3 or whatever (but then if he knows you know he's attracted to the bounty you're narrowed down again, errr, i dunno).
I bust the hand after A9s < A7o, one of them, innit.
Underrated English players. Saw Gary Pallister on Question of Sport tonight. Him and Bruce as a centre-back partnership in the day, not sure how they got so few caps between them.
UL bubbling, I remember thinking what a good spot it was as you'd expect to be called only by the peak of the range but then, if he knows you know that he could give you credit for a much more marginal hand. Let's also not forget that a £6 bounty is also quite attractive when the next 10 pay jumps only cover £3 or whatever (but then if he knows you know he's attracted to the bounty you're narrowed down again, errr, i dunno). I bust the hand after A9s < A7o, one of them, innit. Underrated English players. Saw Gary Pallister on Question of Sport tonight. Him and Bruce as a centre-back partnership in the day, not sure how they got so few caps between them. Posted by bbMike
Pretty sure Bruce didn't ever get a cap.
Very, very good premier league defender. Think he was just a big unlucky that Adams was around at the time. They were very similar players and Adams was arguably just a little bit better.
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I rarely write anyything uncomplimentary in chatboxes Mike. You always seem to be around when I do it! Must think I'm a right gobby xxxx
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'super' Claus Jensen another great baldie
Possibly not yet in the great player bracket but Shelvey has a shiny bonce and is at a nasal advantage.
Surely bonus points for filling in the centre of the Venn...??
Beating Forest is great.
Beating Forest 5-0 is super great.
Beating Forest 5-0 and Billy Davies being their Manager is super, super great. (Super super great is better than just great I hear these days)
A couple of weeks ago it looked as though this match would be huge as we were going for automatic promotion. After recent results it was still huge but for a slightly different reason. I think most Derby fans were a little concerned that we could end up missing out on the play offs. I believe we'll be fine now for that. Burnley appear to have 2nd locked up. Good luck to them. I'd much prefer them to get promotion than QPR. Also, with Burnley being the Bromleys team, it's all good.
I imagine that everyone watched our magnificence on the box yesterday. Chelsea v Arsenal couldn't possibly be a bigger draw for armchair fans.
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The Sng promotion is wonderful. There's so much to take into consideration for it and it's totally inclusive. I've noticed that some of the players who have set the early pace have dropped back a bit after playing more games. What a decision to make. Do we think we've done enough and stop playing after posting a good score? Or are we confident that we can improve it further and take the risk of playing more?
I think it's still really difficult to judge what would be enough to make the top 6. There are going to be plenty of people holding back from completing their 30 games until right towards the end. The last day could be really fascinating.
I had a good start. After 12 games I was at 67%. After 23 games that's fallen to 48% which still leaves me in contention if I have a good finish but still disappointing to drop back. 6 tabling them was prolly a bit silly.
I need a good finish and if I have that I will most likely stop and see if it's enough. I have a number in mind and will follow it closely to see if I'm right.
Well I'm done with the SNG challenge.
Had a decent run tonight in them. Played 7, 3 wins, 2 2nds and 2 no cashes. It's got me up to 61.8% which I think may be a bit short in the final reckoning.
Frustrating last game where heads up I checked back AJ on a Ace high board heads up. He got there with runner runner flush and I finished 2nd. Could be costly. Happy it was right play, he'd called all ins preflop with Q8 etc and I think would have gone with his hand if he'd hit any piece of the board. Hindsights always great. Should have just 'mashed' (popular word it seems) the bet button on flop I suppose.
I won my 1st sng. I felt like I was half way there.
I bricked my next 11, not even a 2nd!
Then gave up.
I reckon 62% will be plenty. Impressive stats, wp.
Really? that confident? Not sure, I hope so.
It'll be a bit frustrating if I don't make it as I can't play any Dyms for the rest of the month now
I've just played the speed rebuy tonight, no good
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Disappointed the thread I started regarding Spt's has been moved to a distant part of the forum.
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Billy Davied sacked. That's a shame! It must really hurt that it was following losing to the Mighty Rams as well. Poor little mercenary.
I'd sit tight, no point risking it for no reason. If you drop out the top 6 then you'll have plenty of time, it's not like you'll ever be more than a couple of wins from catching up (and if you lose a few then it's probably gg anyway), so even if you left it till like 5 hours before the end date you'd be able to play enough games if you needed to. So no rush imo, just hope to cling on and play the it 1 game at a time as and when necessary.
Seth Johnson. Sigh.
The people paid 100's of thousands a year to try and answer this question still haven't a clue Geldy, give him a chance!
Obv really
England got rid of the finest Manager in all of the world. Mighty Mac!
World Cup would have been a doddle with him in charge.
And if only Conor Sammon was English
Just for you as well. Coming soon, Jacs alternate strategy guide to 6max Sng's, (WITH PICS) Will be concentrating mainly on table position. Will be one for the purists.
A sneak preview for you all
The cut-off
Much fun can be had playing from this position
......
Played 2 comps tonight, was a bit bored
£2 rebuy, was a dunce and missed the addon
Came 4th. Pretty decent considering I chopped AA v AQ, lost 10's v Ace 7 and bust QQ v KJ. All in preflop in each case
£11Bh Bubbled, grrr. 3 bet all in with AK and got called by KJ. Apologies to RedArrows. I childishly tapped in 'nice call' in the chatbox. Let myself down a bit there. Just a bit frustrating when you bubble but regardless, stupid comment from me.
Someone else wrote 'bubbleboy' to which I replied 'ta for that, didn't realise'. I think I'm ok in not apologising for that one
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Some decent advice folks. Thanks for that. Yep, think you've confirmed for me that it will be right to wait it out and see where I am after the weekend. Dyms also look like a bad idea. If I have to play it will be the 6-max and i'll just see if my usual shove and hope tactics work their usual magic.
I bust the hand after A9s < A7o, one of them, innit.
Underrated English players. Saw Gary Pallister on Question of Sport tonight. Him and Bruce as a centre-back partnership in the day, not sure how they got so few caps between them.