the diary has been quiet in recent days because i've been staying up very late in the evening and my grammer is very weak so it can take longer than usual when typing how i do on that day. today didn't get off to the best of starts with a lot me having to reload to my full stack on regular occurances. once sky TV was showing master cash things started to change to more looser tables and got me more value from hands. in my first hour and a half i had 11 hands overall which saw losses over £1 and a lot of cooldowns i did have some good hands too but when i'm getting big losses then things will not help the bankroll increase. unlike the first hour the losses in the second hour were a lot less and overall i have 6 losses over £1 and unlike the first hour in the second hour the highest loss was just £2.80. overall the tables were £6.31 £3.68 £5.31 £14.82 £8.09 and -£6.05 . so overall today i've won £32.16 . Posted by craigcu12
Interesting that the tables loosen when the matercash segment is going to be shown, good spot.
today i chose to enter into the 12KBH main event and it was a tale of 2 halfs. the first hour of the MTT was a very good hour and i got a very lucky river card when i called a jam on a board with low card held QQ and needed the set which came, as the opponent had KK, the table itself consisted of lots of min raisers and limpers and unfortunely for KJs it lost to my 72o.
the problems arrived in the second hour when i was moved off the passive table onto an extra aggressive table the thing with this table was it had players with low stacks />40BB still doing 3xBB preflop and unlike the min raise with 3bets their it was leaving me with no choice other than to fold or jam. i did get one head prize but poker was overall just not my day. so my BR is down today at £583.04
I was on poker until 2am yesterday so this update relates to the friday night session which was a tale of 2 halfs. First i went into the orford league and that MTT was never going my way and i finished 76th/128 but really you could count my number winning pots on 1 hand. i did enter the main and the mini and they didn't go well for me either in the main it was AA and QQ which lost me my chips both opponents were short stackers at the time, i did manage to get atleast 1 head prize of £11.25 so used that as an entry into the 3K BH but that too was not going well either, finally i saw a cheap 1K BH for £5.50 so tried that and it too got me nowhere so overall i lost -£45.42 from MTT.
having seen bad times in MTT i decided to take a shot at cash knowing they will be looser than normal and my cash tables were just what i needed sets were coming at the right time jin cards too and the fit or fold villians were missing, instead these tables had calling stations and loose aggressive. So overall the cash tables were £8.54 ms £4.75 £32.14 £5.46 -£5.39 -£11.46 nl10 for a total of £34.04
the nits over run the tables today so i called hands that i would normally be expecting to only be done by total air
here i thought he must have AK and even if he did have a pair i am sure to still have outs yet he has got AA, well next time he can just take the cheap pot
the nits over run the tables today so i called hands that i would normally be expecting to only be done by total air here i thought he must have AK and even if he did have a pair i am sure to still have outs yet he has got AA, well next time he can just take the cheap pot DaveL1906 Small blind £0.10 £0.10 £11.50 craigcu12 Big blind £0.20 £0.30 £25.12 Your hole cards A K suedehead7 Fold tarmentar Fold Donttelmum Fold ness4 Raise £0.40 £0.70 £35.58 DaveL1906 Call £0.30 £1.00 £11.20 craigcu12 Raise £1.20 £2.20 £23.92 ness4 Raise £4.00 £6.20 £31.58 DaveL1906 Fold craigcu12 Call £3.00 £9.20 £20.92 Flop 5 5 10 craigcu12 Check ness4 All-in £31.58 £40.78 £0.00 craigcu12 All-in £20.92 £61.70 £0.00 ness4 Unmatched bet £10.66 £51.04 £10.66 craigcu12 Show A K ness4 Show A A Turn 8 River 2 ness4 so BR is down to £473.64 Posted by craigcu12
Craig mate i dont understand your thinking one bit in this hand
At first you say "the nits were all over the tables today" so you def know the type of player that your up against here and then you flat his/her 4 bet out of position trying to hit a flop what you like (which imo v this type of reg is only a flop of 10jq cos even a A or K high flop could have you beat here).
Then when you miss the flop you call an extra 100 big blind shove with ace high v the very sort of player you should NEVER be doing this against. Also the way in which the hand was played against you this player obvi thinks that you will never fold an overpair so you need to address this part of your game imo.
You did everything right up to the point where you made the 3 bet and should be binning the hand the very second you get 4 bet from a player like this and there is even a case for just folding pre v players like this and just giving up 1 big blind because if you hit and they dont then you get no action in anycase and the only time you get action from them is when they have you crushed.
Try to focus more on taking on the weaker players and the ones you know will call you down light and just steer clear of the good regs or the tight nits (especially when out of position) and your BR will grow alot faster.
Just remember that poker is all situation and player dependant and what might be a monster hand v one player could be a fold v another.
Ive played you a couple of times and have never seen you basically waste a stack the way you did here so im guessing that you might have been tilted,tired or both to have done it
You BR is still plenty big enough so youve got no worries there and in future if you start feeling tilted or tired etc and feel as if your starting to pay off the type of players you should never be giving action to then just leave the tables mate and come back when your feeling ok again.
nits are everywhere at the minute so i'm thinking of starting to just keep my bet sizing weak on the flop and only slightly larger on the turn because then if i see folds like this one being made, then i can sense that this villian doesn't want to dare bluff
GTPOKER
Small blind
£0.05
£0.05
£19.55
Donttelmum
Big blind
£0.10
£0.15
£25.08
Your hole cards
7
7
jack100
Fold
craigcu12
Raise
£0.30
£0.45
£22.57
Call
£0.30
£0.75
£24.95
heidabaw
Fold
GTPOKER
Fold
Donttelmum
Fold
Flop
2
5
7
craigcu12
Bet
£0.40
£1.15
£22.17
Fold
all i want to do really is for now i want to be able to know who are fish who are calling stations and who are fit or fold.
the luck i've had this friday is astonishing i was constantly being saved by sets. the day was an MTT day itself with me first doing 3 sats for the main and after failing twice the 3rd time i got lucky and so qualified for the main event, also i decided to do the 1K BH (£5.75) but didn't get anywhere in that and the same with the mini too, the poker gods decided to award me the luck in the main event and orford league and i managed to finish 6th in the orford league but best of all i finished 3rd in the main event
CSCS
680867.72
£283.08 Head Prizes
11
£109.37
ZiggaZagga
81132.28
£143.27 Head Prizes
6
£62.76
craigcu12
0
3
£508.63 + £147.21 Head Prizes
6
Crossy1992
600000
1
£100.62
TRIP5
0
2
£61.38
waller02
0
3
£37.80
GEO68
0
4
£30.42
pomfrittes
0
5
£25.92
craigcu12
0
6
£22.32
Sngwizkid
0
7
£18.54
although it sounds nitty i am thinking that i could have folded this hand as the player did seem to be doing different size bet sizes preflop which gives the me the feeling he is going by the strength of his hand
ZiggaZagga
Small blind
4000.00
4000.00
133132.28
craigcu12
Big blind
8000.00
12000.00
291678.70
Your hole cards
K
K
x
Call
8000.00
20000.00
317189.02
ZiggaZagga
Fold
craigcu12
Raise
16000.00
36000.00
275678.70
x
Call
16000.00
52000.00
301189.02
Flop
9
7
7
craigcu12
Bet
24000.00
76000.00
251678.70
x
All-in
301189.02
377189.02
0.00
craigcu12
All-in
251678.70
628867.72
0.00
x
Unmatched bet
25510.32
603357.40
25510.32
craigcu12
Show
K
K
x
Show
10
7
Turn
5
River
J
x
Win
Three 7s
603357.40
628867.72
truthfully but i should have been already out with him one this hand so was lucky.
craigcu12
Small blind
3000.00
3000.00
96892.90
x
Big blind
6000.00
9000.00
427081.92
Your hole cards
3
3
ZiggaZagga
Raise
18000.00
27000.00
211025.18
craigcu12
All-in
96892.90
123892.90
0.00
x
Call
93892.90
217785.80
333189.02
ZiggaZagga
Call
81892.90
299678.70
129132.28
Flop
6
5
A
x
All-in
333189.02
632867.72
0.00
ZiggaZagga
Fold
x
Unmatched bet
333189.02
299678.70
333189.02
craigcu12
Show
3
3
x
Show
K
A
Turn
5
River
3
craigcu12
Win
Full House, 3s and 5s
299678.70
299678.70
at the end of all this my bankroll has broke the £1K mark and is £1,035.64
thanks those who followed me through the main. what would you say about my action post flop?
i wasn't bothered about that KK, i would say it's the last piece of the jigsaw really, i shown weakness OTT in a hand which had 2 queens and clubs on flop and this guy had the flush draw but didn't take the chance to steal the pot either on turn or river, he was doing various opening bet sizes preflop, the way he played AK looked to me like the way a bad player plays it and then when he jams his trip 7's i've seen enough and know for sure that this guy varys bet sizes on how strong his hand is.
As my BR is over 1K i get the feeling that NL2p/4p is history and now the lowest stake table is nl5p/10p or nl10p/20p.
when i was on nl4 notes were hardly used at all, it mostly was just a simple description of the type of play ie TAG LAG, now that i'm on nl10p/20p i'm going to be starting to be more detailed as the hand range of people i'm thinking will vary much more and also the aggression post flop will be more varied.
My poker overall is going to be more of a mixed site approach where i will have 4-6 tables but 3 will be from 888 poker and 1-3 will be from sky. the tables that i will be most focused on is the sky poker, the 888 poker tables i'll be taking advantage of the HUDs and time bank.
tonight i t played on 3 cash tables 2 were nl10 and 1 was nl20, i only had about 1 and 1/2 hours and tomorrow afternoon i will be doing the analsis of the hand history itself. the table outcomes were £2.42 nl20 £1.37 nl10 £5.70 nl10.
Great stuff Craig, some really good results recently. Good luck at the new levels. Just remember, everyone just has 2 cards like you, everyone isn't going to be a sicko and 3 barrelling air loads etc. Just focus on assigning people ranges and have a good reason for why the decision you make is better than all the other options you could take and you can't go wrong
Hadn't been on here in a while good to see you have a 1k roll Craig hopefully will be the start of a monster roll and climbing the stakes, seems ages ago now i was sweating you at 4nl! gl just be patient, don't tilt and you will make load of profit at cash.
tonight i was on 3 cash table 1 nl10 and 2 nl20 the nl10 got 71p profit but the 2 nl20 lost £48.71 overall. i did have some heavy losses on them and have posted a few hands up onto the clinic to see if i could have avoided as much.
their was a few good hands too which i got a bit puuzled with
for instance the villian of this hand says to me nice river as though he thinks i'm chasing and ace
tonight i had 2 nl20 tables and 1 nl10, the nl20 would be where i was most focused and on nl10 i just played a standard ABC game. The profits from each table were £4.26 (nl10) £30.84 (nl20)-£11.54 (nl20).
the hand losses today were not quite as heavy as they were on tuesday £7.40£4.90 £4.40 £4.40 £4.40 £4.05 the big winnings were £16.94 £10.57 £9.33 £8.38 £7.52 £6.36 £5.28 £4.35 £4.32
the biggest 3 losses were from KQ. i'm thinking maybe i should have folded this one as i am OOP
craigcu12
Small blind
£0.10
£0.10
£17.34
Big blind
£0.20
£0.30
£18.44
Your hole cards
K
Q
BIGsharky
Raise
£0.40
£0.70
£34.08
RyanC7
Fold
Donttelmum
Fold
craigcu12
Raise
£1.10
£1.80
£16.24
Call
£1.00
£2.80
£17.44
BIGsharky
Call
£0.80
£3.60
£33.28
Flop
8
J
3
craigcu12
Bet
£1.20
£4.80
£15.04
Call
£1.20
£6.00
£16.24
BIGsharky
Call
£1.20
£7.20
£32.08
Turn
7
craigcu12
Bet
£5.00
£12.20
£10.04
GoonerDup
Call
£5.00
£17.20
£11.24
BIGsharky
Fold
River
Q
craigcu12
Check
Bet
£7.00
£24.20
£4.24
craigcu12
Fold
Muck
Win
£16.34
£20.58
Return
£7.00
£0.86
£27.58
this one i'm thinking was just unlucky
craigcu12
Small blind
£0.10
£0.10
£19.86
x
Big blind
£0.20
£0.30
£11.17
Your hole cards
K
Q
y
Call
£0.20
£0.50
£25.96
sniper51
Fold
Donttelmum
Fold
weedgi
Fold
craigcu12
Raise
£0.90
£1.40
£18.96
x
Call
£0.80
£2.20
£10.37
y
Call
£0.80
£3.00
£25.16
Flop
3
10
J
craigcu12
Bet
£1.50
£4.50
£17.46
x
Call
£1.50
£6.00
£8.87
y
Call
£1.50
£7.50
£23.66
Turn
7
craigcu12
Check
x
Bet
£2.40
£9.90
£6.47
y
Call
£2.40
£12.30
£21.26
craigcu12
Call
£2.40
£14.70
£15.06
River
K
craigcu12
Check
x
Check
y
All-in
£21.26
£35.96
£0.00
craigcu12
Fold
x
All-in
£6.47
£42.43
£0.00
y
Unmatched bet
£14.79
£27.64
£14.79
x
Show
J
9
y
Show
8
Q
y
Win
Flush to the King
£26.25
£41.0
as for this one maybe i should have used the fact he was UTG as a reason to just fold rather than 3bet
Comments
the first hour of the MTT was a very good hour and i got a very lucky river card when i called a jam on a board with low card held QQ and needed the set which came, as the opponent had KK, the table itself consisted of lots of min raisers and limpers and unfortunely for KJs it lost to my 72o.
the problems arrived in the second hour when i was moved off the passive table onto an extra aggressive table the thing with this table was it had players with low stacks />40BB still doing 3xBB preflop and unlike the min raise with 3bets their it was leaving me with no choice other than to fold or jam.
i did get one head prize but poker was overall just not my day.
so my BR is down today at £583.04
First i went into the orford league and that MTT was never going my way and i finished 76th/128 but really you could count my number winning pots on 1 hand. i did enter the main and the mini and they didn't go well for me either in the main it was AA and QQ which lost me my chips both opponents were short stackers at the time, i did manage to get atleast 1 head prize of £11.25 so used that as an entry into the 3K BH but that too was not going well either, finally i saw a cheap 1K BH for £5.50 so tried that and it too got me nowhere so overall i lost -£45.42 from MTT.
having seen bad times in MTT i decided to take a shot at cash knowing they will be looser than normal and my cash tables were just what i needed sets were coming at the right time jin cards too and the fit or fold villians were missing, instead these tables had calling stations and loose aggressive.
So overall the cash tables were £8.54 ms £4.75 £32.14 £5.46 -£5.39 -£11.46 nl10 for a total of £34.04
my BR was down by £11.38 so is currently £571.66
here i thought he must have AK and even if he did have a pair i am sure to still have outs yet he has got AA, well next time he can just take the cheap pot
Craig mate i dont understand your thinking one bit in this hand
At first you say "the nits were all over the tables today" so you def know the type of player that your up against here and then you flat his/her 4 bet out of position trying to hit a flop what you like (which imo v this type of reg is only a flop of 10jq cos even a A or K high flop could have you beat here).
Then when you miss the flop you call an extra 100 big blind shove with ace high v the very sort of player you should NEVER be doing this against. Also the way in which the hand was played against you this player obvi thinks that you will never fold an overpair so you need to address this part of your game imo.
You did everything right up to the point where you made the 3 bet and should be binning the hand the very second you get 4 bet from a player like this and there is even a case for just folding pre v players like this and just giving up 1 big blind because if you hit and they dont then you get no action in anycase and the only time you get action from them is when they have you crushed.
Try to focus more on taking on the weaker players and the ones you know will call you down light and just steer clear of the good regs or the tight nits (especially when out of position) and your BR will grow alot faster.
Just remember that poker is all situation and player dependant and what might be a monster hand v one player could be a fold v another.
Ive played you a couple of times and have never seen you basically waste a stack the way you did here so im guessing that you might have been tilted,tired or both to have done it
You BR is still plenty big enough so youve got no worries there and in future if you start feeling tilted or tired etc and feel as if your starting to pay off the type of players you should never be giving action to then just leave the tables mate and come back when your feeling ok again.
Theres always another day
Best of luck
Kev
thanks those who followed me through the main.
what would you say about my action post flop?
Well done Craig, pleased to see you being rewarded for sticking at it!
Wouldn't worry too much about your exit hand, don't expect anyone to jam a 7 there. Easy call for you.
when i was on nl4 notes were hardly used at all, it mostly was just a simple description of the type of play ie TAG LAG, now that i'm on nl10p/20p i'm going to be starting to be more detailed as the hand range of people i'm thinking will vary much more and also the aggression post flop will be more varied.
My poker overall is going to be more of a mixed site approach where i will have 4-6 tables but 3 will be from 888 poker and 1-3 will be from sky. the tables that i will be most focused on is the sky poker, the 888 poker tables i'll be taking advantage of the HUDs and time bank.
tonight i t played on 3 cash tables 2 were nl10 and 1 was nl20, i only had about 1 and 1/2 hours and tomorrow afternoon i will be doing the analsis of the hand history itself.
the table outcomes were £2.42 nl20 £1.37 nl10 £5.70 nl10.
the BR is £1,045.13
the nl10 got 71p profit but the 2 nl20 lost £48.71 overall.
i did have some heavy losses on them and have posted a few hands up onto the clinic to see if i could have avoided as much.
their was a few good hands too which i got a bit puuzled with
for instance the villian of this hand says to me nice river as though he thinks i'm chasing and ace
The profits from each table were £4.26 (nl10) £30.84 (nl20) -£11.54 (nl20).
the hand losses today were not quite as heavy as they were on tuesday
£7.40 £4.90 £4.40 £4.40 £4.40 £4.05
the big winnings were
£16.94 £10.57 £9.33 £8.38 £7.52 £6.36 £5.28 £4.35 £4.32
the biggest 3 losses were from KQ.
i'm thinking maybe i should have folded this one as i am OOP