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Ramblings of an old man

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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 174,794
    edited September 2014


    I quite liked the opening line from shakin......


    When peeps post Q's on here I reckon they pretty much already know what they are gonna do but seek some confirmation it's the correct way to proceed

    ...which is almost always true but PJ (NTTP) may be an exception.

    So, to the question, MTT coaching or stay as you are.

    You are a serial winner, a nice little side income, & winning is nice. MTT's, no matter HOW good you are, have brutal variance, & you'd get very down on yourself if things went wrong.

    You have young Harry to think about, too, you want to spend as much time with him as you can. With DYM's you can create your own time schedule. With MTT's, you might end up playing way too late some nights.
     
    So my view is you are doing well, very well (in long-term ROI, I'd guess you are amongst the top 5% on the site, & remember MOST players are not even winners), don't change it.
      
  • Jac35Jac35 Member Posts: 6,492
    edited September 2014
    Thanks for all the posts

    Cpfc - ta for kind offer

    Adam - you're right, there are a couple of great guests on the show tonight. I don't normally watch it but will be this evening.
    I'll have a couple of questions for you both :)

    Dtm - thanks for nice comments

    Spanky - that's a fantastic post. You're right i guess. My present way of doing things suits my lifestyle. I certainly couldn't commit the kind of hours that are properly needed. The question was an genuine though. If everyone said that coaching and mtts was the way to go and  say play 3 nights a week, then I'd be daft not to look at that as an option.
    Ryder Cup has been great so far for us. Not quite the same excitement as Medinah but it's always brilliant to watch.

    Pat - . My results are decent in mtts from the small sample. Going deep in them is great and a big buzz when you do get a nice win. You're absolutely spot on with me possibly struggling with the variance side. This will sound very arrogant but.. Whenever I play a night of Dyms, I expect to be ahead by the end of the night. That's obviously not realistic solely playing mtts.

    Mike - 3 out of a bunker is standard for me. I particulary enjoy the shot that does eventually get me out of there. That's normally the one that I skin right across the other side of the green.

    Dragon - love Cavendish. The greens are fantastic. Tbh they were a bit slow when I last played it. I think they need to be quick with all the contours. Might have been sorted now? Is it the 2nd green that Mackenzie used as his inspiration for the 12th at Augusta?

    Dohhh - fair point. I am pretty lazy. Heads up? Think there's only Tikay who is worse than me at it. 

    Hhyftrftdr - you were nice! Weird!

    Tikay - think it was spankys post you were referring to. The "confirmation " bit in his post was true. As you know I'm short of confidence a lot of the time. Deep down I probably knew that I should be continuing as I am but wondered if I was maybe missing a trick.
  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 174,794
    edited September 2014


    I am QUITE CERTAIN that you would struggle with MTT variance Paul.

    Life is good, you are a serial winner, with a lovely new baby thing, why change anything?

    Cavendish Golf Course brings back many memories, wonderful greens as I recall.

    I played Mickleover dozens of times, too. Some golf holes, viewed from the tee, are just spectacular. Mickleover have one hole where you tee off from the top of a hill, right down into a sweeping valley below, such a tempting drive. There are trees on the right though. Trust me, there are.....  
  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 174,794
    edited September 2014


    And yes, I meant "spanky" not "shakin". Apols.
  • GELDYGELDY Member Posts: 5,203
    edited September 2014
    If you look back at your previous posts when you tried your hand at mtts there are two clear messages. 
  • GELDYGELDY Member Posts: 5,203
    edited September 2014
    1. You have the potentiel to crush them.  ie you already run deep even without a lot of mtt grind practice. 
  • GELDYGELDY Member Posts: 5,203
    edited September 2014
    2. You hate it when you have a losing run. and that means just a few tournaments after binking a final table. 
  • GELDYGELDY Member Posts: 5,203
    edited September 2014
    my advice
    forget the coach
    challenge yourself to play 100mtts
    evaluate the results. 

    and brm suggests you stay at £5 or smaller.
  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 174,794
    edited September 2014

    Geldy reads your soul.
  • Jac35Jac35 Member Posts: 6,492
    edited September 2014
    In Response to Re: Ramblings of an old man:
    my advice forget the coach challenge yourself to play 100mtts evaluate the results.  and brm suggests you stay at £5 or smaller.
    Posted by GELDY
    Thanks Geldy. Not sure I'll ever do any crushings at them but the odd binks good :)
    I'm afraid that I'll have to ignore your advice though on BRM. I don't do good BRM. I get bored playing smaller buyins, which is a leak in itself, and just try and run up a stack quickly.
    I feel I do better when playing for the bigger prizes.
    I don't think playing 100 mtts would really tell me anything.
  • Jac35Jac35 Member Posts: 6,492
    edited September 2014
    In Response to Re: Ramblings of an old man:
    I am QUITE CERTAIN that you would struggle with MTT variance Paul. Life is good, you are a serial winner, with a lovely new baby thing, why change anything? Cavendish Golf Course brings back many memories, wonderful greens as I recall. I played Mickleover dozens of times, too. Some golf holes, viewed from the tee, are just spectacular. Mickleover have one hole where you tee off from the top of a hill, right down into a sweeping valley below, such a tempting drive. There are trees on the right though. Trust me, there are.....  
    Posted by Tikay10
    Yeah, considering that it's in the middle of town right next to the A516 it's pretty.
    That's the 7th you mention which us the signature hole. Must be a while since you've played there. There's a ditch which runs right across the hole about 190 yards off the tee now. Trees on right? Never noticed! With my draw...ahem, hook, I don't tend to see the right side of holes very often.

    It was a big decision for me leaving Mickleover a few years ago. I live literally 5 mins walk from it. My closest friends who I played with had all left. Standard stuff. Everyone around 30 and with families and busy jobs. I still had lots of friends there but not many who I would ring for a game.

    A really good friend suggested that I join Horsley and play with him every week there. It's only 20 minutes away and is in my opinion the best course in Derbyshire nowadays. I decided to move and haven't regretted it. 
  • GELDYGELDY Member Posts: 5,203
    edited September 2014
    i don't do good brm either
    but i can't see you coping with a £1000 mtt downswing which is what you will get playing higher stakes only
    and what trying to play 100 mtts will tell you is whether you've got the bottle to do it. At the moment i fear the answer is no, Paul cannot play a sequence of 100 mtts and cope with the downswings. 

    So an alternative idea. 
    dym into the bigger events. Only play the mtt if you have earned enough at dyms the night before. that protects your brm, leverages what you are good at and gives you the opportunity to play your preferred mtts.

    Might also spice up your dym playing as well as it won't be just your usual grind for cash but to buy your mtt tickets for the following night. 

  • devonfish5devonfish5 Member Posts: 4,291
    edited September 2014
    This will sound very arrogant but.. Whenever I play a night of Dyms, I expect to be ahead by the end of the night.

    Not arroant at all mate... I feel exactly the same... think it's called having confidence in your game & ability to win at your level.

    Good luck with the mtt's Jac.
    dev
  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 174,794
    edited September 2014
    In Response to Re: Ramblings of an old man:
    In Response to Re: Ramblings of an old man : Yeah, considering that it's in the middle of town right next to the A516 it's pretty. That's the 7th you mention which us the signature hole. Must be a while since you've played there. There's a ditch which runs right across the hole about 190 yards off the tee now. Trees on right? Never noticed! With my draw...ahem, hook, I don't tend to see the right side of holes very often. It was a big decision for me leaving Mickleover a few years ago. I live literally 5 mins walk from it. My closest friends who I played with had all left. Standard stuff. Everyone around 30 and with families and busy jobs. I still had lots of friends there but not many who I would ring for a game. A really good friend suggested that I join Horsley and play with him every week there. It's only 20 minutes away and is in my opinion the best course in Derbyshire nowadays. I decided to move and haven't regretted it. 
    Posted by Jac35
    I played Horsley when it first opened, at the time it needed to "bed in", it was a bit sparse & overly "new". Lovely course, though, I agree. 

    I used to drive to work in Heage via the back roads, & drove past Horsley every single day for many a year. In the summer, I'd pop in on the way home for a quick 18 holes, best time of day to play golf, after a stressy day in the office. 

    I played almost all the Derby & Notts courses, Mickleover, Horsley, Royal Ormonde of course, where I was Captain, snooty Kedleston (brush the goose poo of the greens before putting) , Breadsall, Cavendish, Chilwell, Beeston, Hollinwell  & Coxmoor (both oh so tough), the Ilkeston muni (ugh), & Morley Hayes. Strewth, I could tell you some racy stories of golf with my then young lady @ Morley Hayes, that copse of trees on the back nine could tell some stories if they could but speak. Think the last round I ever played was at Woillaton, which is a grand track with loads of deer, pheasant & the like.

    Once Sky Poker are done with me, I might just return to golf.
           
  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 174,794
    edited September 2014
    In Response to Re: Ramblings of an old man:
    This will sound very arrogant but.. Whenever I play a night of Dyms, I expect to be ahead by the end of the night. Not arroant at all mate... I feel exactly the same... think it's called having confidence in your game & ability to win at your level. Good luck with the mtt's Jac. dev
    Posted by devonfish5
    Same here. Does not always happen, lol, but when it does not, I feel I have failed.

    I genuinely believe that if I could play 100 per day, I'd NEVER have a losing session.
     


  • Jac35Jac35 Member Posts: 6,492
    edited September 2014
    In Response to Re: Ramblings of an old man:
    i don't do good brm either but i can't see you coping with a £1000 mtt downswing which is what you will get playing higher stakes only and what trying to play 100 mtts will tell you is whether you've got the bottle to do it. At the moment i fear the answer is no, Paul cannot play a sequence of 100 mtts and cope with the downswings.  So an alternative idea.  dym into the bigger events. Only play the mtt if you have earned enough at dyms the night before. that protects your brm, leverages what you are good at and gives you the opportunity to play your preferred mtts. Might also spice up your dym playing as well as it won't be just your usual grind for cash but to buy your mtt tickets for the following night. 
    Posted by GELDY
    I think it's a bit much to suggest that I can't cope at all with downswings. I don't like them, who does, but one thing that we know we gave to get used to in poker is losing.

    Dym my way into tourneys? I like that one. I kind of do that now. When I'm going to play the rebuys on a weds It's going to cost around £50 so I often play a few Dyms first or alongside to pay for it.

    Doing it the night before makes more sense. That's a good idea. Mixing the 2 formats is not easy.
  • Jac35Jac35 Member Posts: 6,492
    edited September 2014
    In Response to Re: Ramblings of an old man:
    This will sound very arrogant but.. Whenever I play a night of Dyms, I expect to be ahead by the end of the night. Not arroant at all mate... I feel exactly the same... think it's called having confidence in your game & ability to win at your level. Good luck with the mtt's Jac. dev
    Posted by devonfish5
    Cheers Dev
  • Jac35Jac35 Member Posts: 6,492
    edited September 2014
    In Response to Re: Ramblings of an old man:
    In Response to Re: Ramblings of an old man : I played Horsley when it first opened, at the time it needed to "bed in", it was a bit sparse & overly "new". Lovely course, though, I agree.  I used to drive to work in Heage via the back roads, & drove past Horsley every single day for many a year. In the summer, I'd pop in on the way home for a quick 18 holes, best time of day to play golf, after a stressy day in the office.  I played almost all the Derby & Notts courses, Mickleover, Horsley, Royal Ormonde of course, where I was Captain, snooty Kedleston (brush the goose poo of the greens before putting) , Breadsall, Cavendish, Chilwell, Beeston, Hollinwell  & Coxmoor (both oh so tough), the Ilkeston muni (ugh), & Morley Hayes. Strewth, I could tell you some racy stories of golf with my then young lady @ Morley Hayes, that copse of trees on the back nine could tell some stories if they could but speak. Think the last round I ever played was at Woillaton, which is a grand track with loads of deer, pheasant & the like. Once Sky Poker are done with me, I might just return to golf.        
    Posted by Tikay10
    Yeah, it was dreadful at first. I wouldn't have ever believed someone if they said that I'd one day join.
    Matured a lot now and the new greens they put in made all the difference. Improve it every year as well. Always a project every winter.
    I enjoy most of your stories but I can cope without hearing the one from Morley Hayes
  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 174,794
    edited September 2014
    In Response to Re: Ramblings of an old man:
    In Response to Re: Ramblings of an old man : Yeah, it was dreadful at first. I wouldn't have ever believed someone if they said that I'd one day join. Matured a lot now and the new greens they put in made all the difference. Improve it every year as well. Always a project every winter. I enjoy most of your stories but I can cope without hearing the one from Morley Hayes
    Posted by Jac35
    Yes, it was truly awful when it first opened, but the greens were always very good indeed.

    Don't worry, you wont be hearing the Morley Hayes copse story, or even the Royal Ormonde bunker on the 15th story. Especially the latter. That would have made the Derbyshire Evening Telegraph, for sure.

    I did some daft things back in the day, but looking back, I don't regret them. We gotta live our lives with some added spice now & then, we only get one go.  
     
  • stokefcstokefc Member Posts: 7,929
    edited September 2014
    In Response to Re: Ramblings of an old man:
    In Response to Re: Ramblings of an old man : Yes, it was truly awful when it first opened, but the greens were always very good indeed. Don't worry, you wont be hearing the Morley Hayes copse story, or even the Royal Ormonde bunker on the 15th story. Especially the latter. That would have made the Derbyshire Evening Telegraph, for sure. I did some daft things back in the day, but looking back, I don't regret them. We gotta live our lives with some added spice now & then, we only get one go.    
    Posted by Tikay10
    you old dog :)
    great read paul and stick to what you,re doing you seem very happy which is what matters
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