I'd kept myself away from poker tables last week because I didn't feel that relaxed and just ensured it wouldn't create another run like the one I had earlier this year.
I didn't feel too relaxed to start off with today, I had decided to deregister from the 3rd and 4th DYM and leave once my first two finished having now started. This mood did soon turn around again and just as I exited DYM those two I fealt as though I now could and did want to play whilst listening to the darts matches in the back ground.
I've made a quick jump up to £3.30 DYMs making them my main one now because my BR has 50 of these in it, they are smaller rake that the £2.25 and have played poker for a few years now. I had 22 games and would 4 table them. I had won my first 4 DYMs which came after exiting my 2 tables at the beginning. Now that I knew I was up in cash I made one final break to review myself and went on to feel confidient enough to continue.
I'm not suggesting you are not telling the truth, but You SHOULD get 3 points for a £3.30 Six Max & I can't think of a reason why you would not, unless they are set up incorrectly.
Sit & Go's and Tournaments: You will also earn Poker Points for buying in to any Multi and Single Table Tournament. You will earn 10 Poker Points for every £1 in entrance fees paid. For example, if you enter a £10 + £1 tournament, the £10 is your contribution to the prize fund and the additional £1 is the "fee" that you pay. This means in this example that you will earn 10 Poker Points. All loyalty points earned will be credited to your account at the end of each hand or tournament and can be viewed by going to 'My Account'.
There's an MTT that doesn't cough up the correct amount of points. It's the £200 deepstack, £5.50 buy in but only 3 points when you bust. Runs a couple of evenings a week.
I'm just not petty enough to complain about it to anyone, though there are a few on here who would happily chunter over it!
There's an MTT that doesn't cough up the correct amount of points. It's the £200 deepstack, £5.50 buy in but only 3 points when you bust. Runs a couple of evenings a week. I'm just not petty enough to complain about it to anyone, though there are a few on here who would happily chunter over it! Posted by hhyftrftdr
It's possible the £3.30 Six Max points are set up incorrectly, but if so, I'm extremely surprised there have not been a lot of complaints, all things considered.
It can't be set up wrong ONCE, it's either always right or always wrong with a particular SNG.
In Response to Re: craigcu12 diary- Merry Christmas all : My own shock of this points rewards ttal only really came about because of a 50 points total being my aim at th time, I wanted to try hat christmas freeroll therefore tried to fit some poker time in amountst a busy weekend. At the late stage of that final table I was starting to get wound up by the dog consistantly squealing at me and began to regret just doing 2 30p turbo DYMs which would get sat out. Finally I finished and therefore took the dogout for it's walk with expectation of beig in the freeroll but having noticed it didn't accept me I became shocked and asked about it on communty. Now that points challenges have finished I'm not really bothered myself so you don't need to look into this, I just didn't like made to look like a lier. Posted by craigcu12
Whoa there Craig, read my posts again.
I just tried to sort it out, including writing to the Office, & posting 5 or 6 times on this thread & the other thread.
At no stage did I suggest you were telling porkies, & I was very careful in my choice of words, saying you SHOULD get 3 points for a £3.30 SNG (& you should), & suggesting that PERHAPS it finished after the deadline, as I could not fathom any other reason why you would not be credited with the correct points. It's all done automatically.
I can't really say I regret anything I wrote, or did, in trying to help you. It was just that - trying to solve the problem, no more, no less. Can't think of too many sites that would go to such lengths over a single Reward Point & a Freeroll. I most certainly did not cast any aspersions as to your integrity.
In Response to Re: craigcu12 diary- Merry Christmas all : My own shock of this points rewards ttal only really came about because of a 50 points total being my aim at th time, I wanted to try hat christmas freeroll therefore tried to fit some poker time in amountst a busy weekend. At the late stage of that final table I was starting to get wound up by the dog consistantly squealing at me and began to regret just doing 2 30p turbo DYMs which would get sat out. Finally I finished and therefore took the dogout for it's walk with expectation of beig in the freeroll but having noticed it didn't accept me I became shocked and asked about it on communty. Now that points challenges have finished I'm not really bothered myself so you don't need to look into this, I just didn't like made to look like a lier at the time. Posted by craigcu12
Just a brief on tonight where I give some UKOPs a go along side that £400 BH uning a token.
I tried 3 all in sats all of which lot first hand. The mini BH was short lasting when I getmy chips all in with AK against KJs and get left drawing dead on the flop something I'd say is a bigger upset that being rivered.
the £400 Bh had got 2 head prizes which itself was more than I expected having had a table with chipstacks twice as big as mine by the time it was 75/150 blind.
One of my intentions this year was to play a greate number of MTTs and i couldn't have begun much better aving got my lowest main and mini score yet having finished 55th in the main and 2nd in the mini.
My entry into the main event was 30 minutes late and gained through Lr semi, I might look back on this and deem myself paying the price of a bubble chance wth throwing away a double up victory just 6 hands later calling 10BB 3bet all in with my KQs.
The mini event was entered just after it started and appeared to have me written all over it. My stack began buildng in standard game play then came 3 bounties with KK, AA and JJ in 3 of 10 hands and was decent from then on until a min 3bet bluff failed even then my chipstack was still over 10BB and soon became doubled.
Being under 1K i'm going to leave this prize in my BR.
A combination of not being fully focused, not knowing as much about PL08 and some bad luck and timing in holdem has resulted in a costly weekend.
Saturday appeared to be a not fully focused day. The LR semi of that day appeared to see me turn hyper all of the sudden resulting in a great looking stack threw away in seconds. I did have a standard exit in the previous semi and might be able to deem that second exit a cost of 0 thanks to a cash prize in both a £5.5 and £3.30 PL08 DYM played.
Sunday I played my other 5 PL08 DYMs and they proved to be costly, not a single one saw me pass the bubble so all in all that cost me £22.30. My PL08 part of the challenge had now be do therefore I went onto holdem DYM thinking I could recover some of that loss I made but I was proven wrong due to a couple of badly timed bets and the occasional bad luck when AI, I won 6 out of 11 and left me pretty much break even
My Br today has seen a turn for the worse making a loss of over £80. Volenteering work was cancelled tomorrow so I decided to spend an hour on the master cash table which had the rec and pro as a one off. I could have left the minute both sky TV players had left because my enjoyment was to play on the table amoungst those two players but no I decided to take a gamble remaining on the table even when these had gone and it wasn't long before my full stack went out the window from callig a 4bet raise on 992 J, I end up hitting K, he goes Ch leaving me to pot bet and get him AI.
The sit and g time hadn't been much better itself having cashed out in 2 of 6 £5.50 DYMs, I might have £300 now but maybe I'm taking myself too far consistant of £5.50 DYMs alone, Tomorrow I'll start playing a mixture of £3.30 and £5.50 because £3.30 DYMs are the type i've confident enough to cash prizes already and can keep any £5.50 losses to a minimum whilst I discover how well I'll do in £5.50
Today was a day where the sickening 30BB defeat to A5 took control me and made each and every all in from then on extremely awful, The sickening part was he went limp AI and holding AA I make the call. The hand was playing in the early stages of DYM and unexpectedly these DYMs consisted of a number of maniacs shoving with all sorts, knowing they had to be called sooner or later I was makng the calls and the majority of the hands were the more dominating hands but it didn't stop me from losing.
I took a break away from the tables for an hour or so until the freerolls would start and was beginning to feel relaxed but it wasn't long before the shocks came again and it appeared as if premium pairs would never see victory, AA itself was twice defeated by JJ.
Once my final game was over I began taking a look into how frequent I was getting these losses and could see from th that they weren't as rare as first thought and found out my mistake was I hadn't put an notice down of all those winning premium pairs or those all in spots I had previous to that A5 making all those maniacs and that A5o get the better of me.
consistantly badly timed all ins have seen a large quantity of exits in DYMs, at the time of some exiteds I was starting to regretting it wishing i waited just one more turn. Keeping a notice of my all ins might sound like a risk given my difficulty with tilt but what I see from keeping notice of them is that I have an easy review of just how mmuch was really bad luck in comparison to bad timing.
Whilst playing my games iwas write down the all in situation and if it won or lossed, I don't put down the board at all just the two hands done most times this won't affect me in a negative way because once I've review my day those results will be getting deleted and i'll just describe myself as either bad luck or good luck and even without results too much bad consistant bad running is something which could see tilt and thereby i'll take a break.
DYMs have made a turn around today awarding me awinnings rather than a loss. The winning itself isn't too big and when subtracting MTT fees i'm still coming out at an overall loss. I made an attempt to try playing 6 DYMS in one go rather than4 because this would then allow me more to play more £3.30 tables at once whilst I continue getting an understanding of £5.50 DYM unfortunately £3.30 didn't finish out as expected instead it was£5.50 DYMs that made the cash.
MTT games may have went a bit too far, my intention was to just play the semis in an attempt to get into mainevent but when they both were failures I too it a step further by making entry into another 4 AI sats. The price of doing this wasn't too costly in self because had the LR semi got me into the main event I would have been in mini and to make up that little price extra I did get £2 in a freeroll.
Al in all it was still a great and relaxing day of poker.
Aggression has made today a very costly day of DYMs, players were in a very tight passive mode today even premium pairs were getting limped in. such lack of aggression in these DYM meant chips stacks were hardly ever getting drained down and i felt like doing the work myself the problem was I then put myself into very bad spots by the caller who's nitty nature put cbetting in a aucward position. I consistantly made bets way over the top and cbetting far too often which ended up giving short stacks a large stack whilst I now sit as the short stack.
One thing I have began to realize from getting these loss it's being more thoughtful as to how many exits I should allow myself before quitting especially if they coming consistently because rake itself does mean a winnings the size of recent losses is far less likely.
I did eventually call an end to DYMs but I didn't feel totally convinced of taking a break, I still had some belief in giving 6 max ago, I was more confident in others being able to drain chips down quickly and from what i'd seen just happening on DYMs I felt more aware of my betting game more desperate to keep hold of my chips for that chance to make 1st place. I was able to make a profit from 6max table but itcould be said that I was lucky enough to see cash outs mostly come in £5.50 including my only 1st place. four £3.30 and £2.20 6max were played and of those I only cashed out in one £3.30 finishing 2nd place. The £5.50 were a totally different story 6 were played and I was 2nd in 3 alongside a 1st place finish in one.
It's time I took a break because it seems as though my lucky is a never ending case of bad luck.
DYMs went for another loss having made a total loss of £21.10 I did act more away of my table exiting today ensuring I didn't see too big a loss.
a 1st place finish in a £3.30 6 max did give me a bit of belief but then an came my worst luck of the night when I hit a set on the flop only to see the turn give the opponent his set and my feeling at the time of his action on the turn told me right away that I now fealt as though things weren't going my way, I was thinking to myself at the time of this all that I should fold the set as it will be a set he's now got.
I said I was intending to rebuild my BR from single table tournaments alone but that might no be the case and since having a break from that down swing poker stars as got my mind back into a cash table dynamic, my mood for MTTs is still in me i'm still intending to spend more time in these and my thought is whilst played MTTs i'll have a couple 6 max along side the MTTs.
This weekend was a weekend of nl4 and I could not have seen a selection of sessions played in such a different manner. My first session was on Saturday afternoon and this session was a session which turned ugly and got me in a tilt, the hand which caused this tile has been posted in BBV and what really put me in such a tilt was this person was already starting to show the signs of a limper so to suddenly change into a maniac is lie a shock out of no where and to be holding KK at the time what worse can go wrong?
The break I'd taken to have my tea proved to gig me enough time to get over that upset and through a little talk with myself I was able to return and play 8 tables and it didn't take long fora maniac to get unfortunate making it all the more easier to put that sickener to one side, my best part of that session lied on the river betting, being in a more aggressive mood I had began being much more aggressive with the river bets making the occasional overbet all as a way to ensure I got maximum value from other monster on a board that will have a very low calling range to value bets ie 1010 on a board AJA 1010.
Today's noon session was a losing session that came in a very unexpected manner, rather than suffering from coolers, sickener and river cards it was SB and BB drainage that created the loss. When I first notced the loss I got very puzzled and did a bit of deep loss analyzing and it was from doing this that I realized just how much loss came from SB and BB drainage.
Paul Lambert provided a tip about hand the selection and 3betting range on nl4 on skype. I decided to give this selection a go for myself and it might be proving to be the missing link as this session went on to be the best session of them all. The aggression I did in last nights session will itself play a part because my aggression last night was much greater than some of my previous sessions enabling me to get the greatest of value from weaker hands and those close to the nuts.
The sunday evening session did itself see a large numbe of BBs lost but it wasn't as bg as that noon session and tomorrow i'll make a good comparison of them both to see where else the mistakes might be.
overall: £6.14 saturday: -£20.61 and £10.84 sunday:-£8.37 and £24.33
Today was a day sme might call day of sets because these things were coming non stop as the night gone on I starting t have some banter with others on the table because of how much appearance they made had we finished the night without quads i'd have been more suprised than I was to have hit quads 3 were seen over all myself being involved in two one as the victor the other as victom.
My evening seesion was the easier of the two people were very passive all down the streets allowin me to still take down a pot even when turn river were checked, the noon session had a the occassional player you'd say dominates these tables and the loose players themselves were a more aggressive sort.
I did an attempt to enter the main event via a semi but hands weren't arriving for ages and saw me exit early.
Doing a good analsis of my game has given me a good idea on th best hand selection in these games and from keeping to that hand selection i'm finding it an easy time representing a decent hand and knowing when is best.
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I didn't feel too relaxed to start off with today, I had decided to deregister from the 3rd and 4th DYM and leave once my first two finished having now started. This mood did soon turn around again and just as I exited DYM those two I fealt as though I now could and did want to play whilst listening to the darts matches in the back ground.
I've made a quick jump up to £3.30 DYMs making them my main one now because my BR has 50 of these in it, they are smaller rake that the £2.25 and have played poker for a few years now. I had 22 games and would 4 table them. I had won my first 4 DYMs which came after exiting my 2 tables at the beginning. Now that I knew I was up in cash I made one final break to review myself and went on to feel confidient enough to continue.
overall £17.40
£3+30p: £17.40 (15/22)
I don't understand that, Craig.
I'm not suggesting you are not telling the truth, but You SHOULD get 3 points for a £3.30 Six Max & I can't think of a reason why you would not, unless they are set up incorrectly.
See THIS
And specifically......
Sit & Go's and Tournaments: You will also earn Poker Points for buying in to any Multi and Single Table Tournament. You will earn 10 Poker Points for every £1 in entrance fees paid. For example, if you enter a £10 + £1 tournament, the £10 is your contribution to the prize fund and the additional £1 is the "fee" that you pay. This means in this example that you will earn 10 Poker Points. All loyalty points earned will be credited to your account at the end of each hand or tournament and can be viewed by going to 'My Account'.
So a £3.30 Six Max SNG should be worth 3 points.I'm just not petty enough to complain about it to anyone, though there are a few on here who would happily chunter over it!
It can't be set up wrong ONCE, it's either always right or always wrong with a particular SNG.
I just tried to sort it out, including writing to the Office, & posting 5 or 6 times on this thread & the other thread.
At no stage did I suggest you were telling porkies, & I was very careful in my choice of words, saying you SHOULD get 3 points for a £3.30 SNG (& you should), & suggesting that PERHAPS it finished after the deadline, as I could not fathom any other reason why you would not be credited with the correct points. It's all done automatically.
I can't really say I regret anything I wrote, or did, in trying to help you. It was just that - trying to solve the problem, no more, no less. Can't think of too many sites that would go to such lengths over a single Reward Point & a Freeroll. I most certainly did not cast any aspersions as to your integrity.
Please re-read my posts.
Thanks.
PS - Happy New Year mate.
It's gone now peace at last.
I tried 3 all in sats all of which lot first hand. The mini BH was short lasting when I getmy chips all in with AK against KJs and get left drawing dead on the flop something I'd say is a bigger upset that being rivered.
the £400 Bh had got 2 head prizes which itself was more than I expected having had a table with chipstacks twice as big as mine by the time it was 75/150 blind.
MTT-£11.90
My entry into the main event was 30 minutes late and gained through Lr semi, I might look back on this and deem myself paying the price of a bubble chance wth throwing away a double up victory just 6 hands later calling 10BB 3bet all in with my KQs.
The mini event was entered just after it started and appeared to have me written all over it. My stack began buildng in standard game play then came 3 bounties with KK, AA and JJ in 3 of 10 hands and was decent from then on until a min 3bet bluff failed even then my chipstack was still over 10BB and soon became doubled.
Being under 1K i'm going to leave this prize in my BR.
Overall: £239.06
MTT: £245.16
PL08 DYM: -£6.10
Saturday appeared to be a not fully focused day. The LR semi of that day appeared to see me turn hyper all of the sudden resulting in a great looking stack threw away in seconds. I did have a standard exit in the previous semi and might be able to deem that second exit a cost of 0 thanks to a cash prize in both a £5.5 and £3.30 PL08 DYM played.
Sunday I played my other 5 PL08 DYMs and they proved to be costly, not a single one saw me pass the bubble so all in all that cost me £22.30. My PL08 part of the challenge had now be do therefore I went onto holdem DYM thinking I could recover some of that loss I made but I was proven wrong due to a couple of badly timed bets and the occasional bad luck when AI, I won 6 out of 11 and left me pretty much break even
Overall: -£32.60
MTT: -£14.40
PL08:-£18.10 (1/2 £3.30, 1/5£5.50)
PLO:40p
£5.50 holdem:-50p (6/11)
The sit and g time hadn't been much better itself having cashed out in 2 of 6 £5.50 DYMs, I might have £300 now but maybe I'm taking myself too far consistant of £5.50 DYMs alone, Tomorrow I'll start playing a mixture of £3.30 and £5.50 because £3.30 DYMs are the type i've confident enough to cash prizes already and can keep any £5.50 losses to a minimum whilst I discover how well I'll do in £5.50
overall: -£89.72
£5.50DYM:-£23
master cash:-£67.12
PLO:40p
Morning Craig,
Did you see the replies to your question in the Poker Clinic, on PLO8 starting hand selection?
Were they of any help?
I took a break away from the tables for an hour or so until the freerolls would start and was beginning to feel relaxed but it wasn't long before the shocks came again and it appeared as if premium pairs would never see victory, AA itself was twice defeated by JJ.
Once my final game was over I began taking a look into how frequent I was getting these losses and could see from th that they weren't as rare as first thought and found out my mistake was I hadn't put an notice down of all those winning premium pairs or those all in spots I had previous to that A5 making all those maniacs and that A5o get the better of me.
Overall:-£56.20 (-£29.10 1st session-£21.60 2nd)
£3.30:-£28.20 3+0/14
£5.50: -£21.60 2+4/14
MTT -£5.50 TPTprivate
Whilst playing my games iwas write down the all in situation and if it won or lossed, I don't put down the board at all just the two hands done most times this won't affect me in a negative way because once I've review my day those results will be getting deleted and i'll just describe myself as either bad luck or good luck and even without results too much bad consistant bad running is something which could see tilt and thereby i'll take a break.
Overall:-£35.40
MTT-£26.10
£3.30:£13.20
£5.50:-£22.50
MTT games may have went a bit too far, my intention was to just play the semis in an attempt to get into mainevent but when they both were failures I too it a step further by making entry into another 4 AI sats. The price of doing this wasn't too costly in self because had the LR semi got me into the main event I would have been in mini and to make up that little price extra I did get £2 in a freeroll.
Al in all it was still a great and relaxing day of poker.
Overall:-£14.40
£5.50: £8.50
£3.30:-£3.30
MTT:-£19.60
DYMs went for another loss having made a total loss of £21.10 I did act more away of my table exiting today ensuring I didn't see too big a loss.
a 1st place finish in a £3.30 6 max did give me a bit of belief but then an came my worst luck of the night when I hit a set on the flop only to see the turn give the opponent his set and my feeling at the time of his action on the turn told me right away that I now fealt as though things weren't going my way, I was thinking to myself at the time of this all that I should fold the set as it will be a set he's now got.
Overall:-£30.3
DYM:-£21.1
6max:£2.90
MTT:-£12.20
This weekend was a weekend of nl4 and I could not have seen a selection of sessions played in such a different manner. My first session was on Saturday afternoon and this session was a session which turned ugly and got me in a tilt, the hand which caused this tile has been posted in BBV and what really put me in such a tilt was this person was already starting to show the signs of a limper so to suddenly change into a maniac is lie a shock out of no where and to be holding KK at the time what worse can go wrong?
The break I'd taken to have my tea proved to gig me enough time to get over that upset and through a little talk with myself I was able to return and play 8 tables and it didn't take long fora maniac to get unfortunate making it all the more easier to put that sickener to one side, my best part of that session lied on the river betting, being in a more aggressive mood I had began being much more aggressive with the river bets making the occasional overbet all as a way to ensure I got maximum value from other monster on a board that will have a very low calling range to value bets ie 1010 on a board AJA 1010.
Today's noon session was a losing session that came in a very unexpected manner, rather than suffering from coolers, sickener and river cards it was SB and BB drainage that created the loss. When I first notced the loss I got very puzzled and did a bit of deep loss analyzing and it was from doing this that I realized just how much loss came from SB and BB drainage.
Paul Lambert provided a tip about hand the selection and 3betting range on nl4 on skype. I decided to give this selection a go for myself and it might be proving to be the missing link as this session went on to be the best session of them all. The aggression I did in last nights session will itself play a part because my aggression last night was much greater than some of my previous sessions enabling me to get the greatest of value from weaker hands and those close to the nuts.
The sunday evening session did itself see a large numbe of BBs lost but it wasn't as bg as that noon session and tomorrow i'll make a good comparison of them both to see where else the mistakes might be.
overall: £6.14
saturday: -£20.61 and £10.84
sunday:-£8.37 and £24.33
My evening seesion was the easier of the two people were very passive all down the streets allowin me to still take down a pot even when turn river were checked, the noon session had a the occassional player you'd say dominates these tables and the loose players themselves were a more aggressive sort.
I did an attempt to enter the main event via a semi but hands weren't arriving for ages and saw me exit early.
Doing a good analsis of my game has given me a good idea on th best hand selection in these games and from keeping to that hand selection i'm finding it an easy time representing a decent hand and knowing when is best.
Overall:-£8.87
Nl4: -£1.67 (-£8.05 £6.38)
semi:-£7.20