Great to see you have ground out enough results from the freerolls to really kick on with this challenge... you seem like the sort of player who has the discipline and skill to do this now you have the bankroll, just a matter of how long it will take to achieve.
In some ways its probably a good thing you are in the challenge, otherwise the £50 would just be used for more poker - definite bonus to have the opportunity to enjoy the fruits of your hard work and have a good night out (or whatever) instead!
Boom! There was a very welcome result for me today with a second place finish in the 10-00am freeroll for £8.18, the biggest win of this BR challenge to date. These freerolls are a crapshoot in the late stages and you have to run well to make final table. That’s exactly what I did including winning 2 big late-stages flips and binking when I shoved my QT on the button into JJ in the blinds on the final table bubble. Right at the end my luck totally dried up. With 3 left the eventual winner doubled off me with A7>AK aipf for nearly all the chips in play, I fought back to get heads-up only to take another cruel beat in the final hand with AQ<KQ aipf. Still, I can’t complain, I’d have snap-taken second place money before the tournament started.
In the Omaha freeroll I went nowhere fast, making an early exit without winning a single pot.
Punching through the £20 barrier marks a major step for me. It means I can now switch my focus from freerolls to micro-stakes STTs.
Maxally’s suggestion above mirrors what I was already thinking. For the time being I’m ditching freerolls (apart from the weekend Omaha games which are great value for 10 points) and I'll focus on STTs. As a result my Poker Point balance should start to slowly rise again. I’ll save them up as something to fall back on should I suffer a downswing that takes me close to busto.
Today started terribly. I bought into a selection of micro-stakes games that looked soft enough, but found nothing was going my way and I lost my first four buy-ins. At around 4-00pm the site crashed for half an hour. When it came back on it seemed like my luck had been reset. I finally won my first game, only a 55p HU match but a start. After the HU win I binked in my next game too, a 35p 10-player Bounty STT.
A few minutes later I also got HU in a 60p Bounty STT. A win would be enough to put me into profit by a couple for quid for the day. I held an 80/20 chip lead with 6 heads under my belt, but no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t close it out. Four times I was all in and ahead, one of them post flop, but I just couldn’t find a hold no matter how hard I tried. Eventually it came down to a flip in which my QJ failed to improve against pocket 44. Still second place was enough to bring me back to almost break-even for the day, it could have been worse.
Latest results;
7525002HNLB0.1GBPSkyPoker04/02/2013 17:43NL Hold'em £0.5 + £0.12/10£1.387525071HNLB0.05GBPSkyPoker04/02/2013 17:27NL Hold'em £0.3 + £0.051/10£1.187525204HNLHU0.05GBPSkyPoker04/02/2013 16:39NL Hold'em £0.5 + £0.051/2£0.457525215HNLHU0.05GBPSkyPoker04/02/2013 16:32NL Hold'em £1 + £0.052/2-£1.057524697HNLHU0.05GBPSkyPoker04/02/2013 15:49NL Hold'em £1 + £0.052/2-£1.057524816HNL6MX,DN0.15GBPSkyPoker04/02/2013 15:23NL Hold'em £1 + £0.155/6-£1.157524707HNLB0.05GBPSkyPoker04/02/2013 15:06NL Hold'em £0.3 + £0.055/10-£0.357514542OPL0.0GBPSkyPoker03/02/2013 16:19PL Omaha Hi Freeroll225/381£07503452HNL0.0GBPSkyPoker03/02/2013 12:13NL Hold'em Freeroll2/163£8.187499588HNL0.0GBPSkyPoker02/02/2013 21:34NL Hold'em Freeroll1/6£507514962HNL6MX,DN0.15GBPSkyPoker02/02/2013 16:21NL Hold'em £1 + £0.151/6£0.857509280OPL0.0GBPSkyPoker02/02/2013 16:13PL Omaha Hi Freeroll23/299£0.797486666HNL1.0GBPSkyPoker02/02/2013 02:51NL Hold'em £10 + £1344/344-£11 Graph of progress so far (click link or pic to enlarge);
Gd work Gary, glad to see you've finally made enough to play some proper poker and use your skill,rather than relying on the cards to decide how much you win. Dem freerolls take some winning.
Great work to get up to £20 from nothing Gary. You just need a little bit of rungood to get you off to a good start and you'll be flying.
I set an aim to get to £1000 about 4 months ago and I started with like £200 so be pretty sick if you beat me to it lol, but once you get a roll going, I'm sure you'll start binking a few MTTs.
Plus you can start earning some poker points now so you got something to fall back on.
Another day for me battling it out in the micro-STTs. I’m finding plenty of weak opponents to play, exactly what I want. Unfortunately I’m not getting the results yet due to bad runnage. Not a problem, I have plenty of patience and I know these weak fields will prove to be a profitable hunting ground in the long run.
Great work to get up to £20 from nothing Gary. You just need a little bit of rungood to get you off to a good start and you'll be flying. I set an aim to get to £1000 about 4 months ago and I started with like £200 so be pretty sick if you beat me to it lol, but once you get a roll going, I'm sure you'll start binking a few MTTs. Plus you can start earning some poker points now so you got something to fall back on. Posted by Lambert180
Thanks Paul. It's gonna be a long slog until I get to the MTTs based on the last couple of days. I'm unsure at the moment how much cash I want behind me before before I dabble in the £2.30 Bounty Hunters, at least 20 buy-ins (£46) seems prudent.
Gd work Gary, glad to see you've finally made enough to play some proper poker and use your skill,rather than relying on the cards to decide how much you win. Dem freerolls take some winning. Posted by Mohican
Cheers Carl. What you say is very true, winning a freeroll is much easier said than done. I'm very glad to have the freedom to take a break from them and take my pick from micro STTs.
After a so-so start it came good today with a run of four £1.05 heads-up wins followed by a £1.15 DYM success. Happy times as I see both my cash and points balances rising to reinforce my position.
It appears Sharkscope hasn't tracked all my games today, so here are the results copied and pasted from 'my account';
Date & TimeProductDescriptionAmountHeld FundsPlatformDetail06 Feb '13 at 15:10PokerDouble Your Money£0.85£0.00Poker AIR clientHand History 06 Feb '13 at 13:56Poker£1 + £0.05£0.95£0.00Poker AIR clientHand History 06 Feb '13 at 13:11Poker£1 + £0.05£0.95£0.00InternetHand History 06 Feb '13 at 12:54Poker£1 + £0.05£0.95£0.00Poker AIR clientHand History 06 Feb '13 at 12:47PokerHypercharged£0.95£0.00Poker AIR clientHand History 06 Feb '13 at 12:33Poker£1 + £0.05£-1.05£0.00Poker AIR clientHand History 06 Feb '13 at 11:58PokerDouble Your Money£-1.15£0.00Poker AIR clientHand History 06 Feb '13 at 11:14Poker£1 + £0.05£0.95£0.00Poker AIR clientHand History 06 Feb '13 at 10:34PokerSpeed 8 (3 paid)£0.30£0.00Poker AIR clientHand History 06 Feb '13 at 10:16PokerTKO (Bounty)£-0.30£0.00Poker AIR clientHand History
Gd work Gary. What points do you earn from these? Are you going to build up a BR and keep building up your points to fall back on or use the points to try to build extra BR?
Gd work Gary. What points do you earn from these? Are you going to build up a BR and keep building up your points to fall back on or use the points to try to build extra BR? Posted by Mohican
I'm earning points the same way as everybody else in the micros; ie 2 points for each £1.15 DYM, 1 point for each £1.05 HU match etc. My plan is not to rely on the points any more and try to win the remaining £976.09 (gulp) from real money games. Progress will be very slow for now, things should speed up when I can afford to move-up to bigger buy-ins and MTTs.
The points can stay there as something to fall back-on if I go on a terrible run and lose all the cash. I'll probably still enter the Weekend Omaha freerolls for now because they're such good value for 10 points.
Really interesting diary gary, very well done so far. I dont know if you have seen that I am doing a diary of £200 --- /> £2000, should be interesting as we may soon be on a similar bankroll! What games are you planning on playing? Just heads up? any chance I will see you on the cash tables? Posted by sighcall
Thanks a lot. Yes, I have seen your diary, best of luck to you.
It's very unlikely you'll see me at the cash tables as I'm a tournament specialist. Most of the money won in this thread will come from MTTs, though I won't be buying into any just yet as my cash balance is still too low. I'm playing a mix of STTs at the moment. HU games are my favourite choice because the rake represents best value. For example at the £1 level the rake in a DYM (15p) is three times as much as that in a HU STT (5p).
You could look at it like this;
A £1.15 DYM win returns £2.00 for a ROI of 73.9% (85p/115p x 100%)
A £1.05 HU STT win returns £2.00 for an ROI of 90.5% (95p/105p x 100%)
In Response to Re: 1,000 Poker Points ----- /> £1,000 Can it be done? Latest balances; Cash £23.91 Poker Points 231 : Thanks a lot. Yes, I have seen your diary, best of luck to you. It's very unlikely you'll see me at the cash tables as I'm a tournament specialist. Most of the money won in this thread will come from MTTs, though I won't be buying into any just yet as my cash balance is still too low. I'm playing a mix of STTs at the moment. HU games are my favourite choice because the rake represents best value. For example at the £1 level the rake in a DYM (15p) is three times as much as that in a HU STT (5p). You could look at it like this; A £1.15 DYM win returns £2.00 for a ROI of 73.9% (85p/115p x 100%) A £1.05 HU STT win returns £2.00 for an ROI of 90.5% (95p/105p x 100%) Posted by GaryQQQ
ah right yes, unlikely I will see you then.
I understnad the low level DYM have rediculous rake.
Will be interesting to see both unfold I feel, a bit like a MTT v Cash challenge.
There was an unusual occurrence at the start of my session today; at my first HU STT I was joined by a player using the alias KevQQQ. It was a **** of a lot of Qs for one table.
Anyhow, I beat Kev and went on to enjoy a run of six wins from six HU matches. It was all the more pleasing because the slow-structured games don’t run often enough in the late morning/early afternoon for me to table select. A couple of days ago I got bored of waiting for weak players to sit down first, so I now just open a table myself and play whoever shows up. At the moment I’m on a streak of 10 consecutive HU wins, and I’ve won 14 of the last 16.
I’ve had a great seven days. Over the last week my balance has grown from £11.07 to £29.61, that’s an increase of 167%. I’m very pleased with progress and enjoying the hot streak while it lasts.
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In some ways its probably a good thing you are in the challenge, otherwise the £50 would just be used for more poker - definite bonus to have the opportunity to enjoy the fruits of your hard work and have a good night out (or whatever) instead!
Boom! There was a very welcome result for me today with a second place finish in the 10-00am freeroll for £8.18, the biggest win of this BR challenge to date. These freerolls are a crapshoot in the late stages and you have to run well to make final table. That’s exactly what I did including winning 2 big late-stages flips and binking when I shoved my QT on the button into JJ in the blinds on the final table bubble. Right at the end my luck totally dried up. With 3 left the eventual winner doubled off me with A7>AK aipf for nearly all the chips in play, I fought back to get heads-up only to take another cruel beat in the final hand with AQ<KQ aipf. Still, I can’t complain, I’d have snap-taken second place money before the tournament started.Closing Balances; Cash £20.39 Poker Points 198
Up £8.18 today
In the Omaha freeroll I went nowhere fast, making an early exit without winning a single pot.
Punching through the £20 barrier marks a major step for me. It means I can now switch my focus from freerolls to micro-stakes STTs.
must be something in the air down Exmouth way this w'end.
lol
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Well done 1st hurdle cleared.
Closing Balances; Cash £19.80 Poker Points 206
Down 59p today
Maxally’s suggestion above mirrors what I was already thinking. For the time being I’m ditching freerolls (apart from the weekend Omaha games which are great value for 10 points) and I'll focus on STTs. As a result my Poker Point balance should start to slowly rise again. I’ll save them up as something to fall back on should I suffer a downswing that takes me close to busto.
Today started terribly. I bought into a selection of micro-stakes games that looked soft enough, but found nothing was going my way and I lost my first four buy-ins. At around 4-00pm the site crashed for half an hour. When it came back on it seemed like my luck had been reset. I finally won my first game, only a 55p HU match but a start. After the HU win I binked in my next game too, a 35p 10-player Bounty STT.
A few minutes later I also got HU in a 60p Bounty STT. A win would be enough to put me into profit by a couple for quid for the day. I held an 80/20 chip lead with 6 heads under my belt, but no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t close it out. Four times I was all in and ahead, one of them post flop, but I just couldn’t find a hold no matter how hard I tried. Eventually it came down to a flip in which my QJ failed to improve against pocket 44. Still second place was enough to bring me back to almost break-even for the day, it could have been worse.
Latest results;
7525002HNLB0.1GBPSkyPoker04/02/2013 17:43NL Hold'em £0.5 + £0.12/10£1.387525071HNLB0.05GBPSkyPoker04/02/2013 17:27NL Hold'em £0.3 + £0.051/10£1.187525204HNLHU0.05GBPSkyPoker04/02/2013 16:39NL Hold'em £0.5 + £0.051/2£0.457525215HNLHU0.05GBPSkyPoker04/02/2013 16:32NL Hold'em £1 + £0.052/2-£1.057524697HNLHU0.05GBPSkyPoker04/02/2013 15:49NL Hold'em £1 + £0.052/2-£1.057524816HNL6MX,DN0.15GBPSkyPoker04/02/2013 15:23NL Hold'em £1 + £0.155/6-£1.157524707HNLB0.05GBPSkyPoker04/02/2013 15:06NL Hold'em £0.3 + £0.055/10-£0.357514542OPL 0.0GBPSkyPoker03/02/2013 16:19PL Omaha Hi Freeroll225/381£07503452HNL 0.0GBPSkyPoker03/02/2013 12:13NL Hold'em Freeroll2/163£8.187499588HNL 0.0GBPSkyPoker02/02/2013 21:34NL Hold'em Freeroll1/6£507514962HNL6MX,DN0.15GBPSkyPoker02/02/2013 16:21NL Hold'em £1 + £0.151/6£0.857509280OPL 0.0GBPSkyPoker02/02/2013 16:13PL Omaha Hi Freeroll23/299£0.797486666HNL 1.0GBPSkyPoker02/02/2013 02:51NL Hold'em £10 + £1344/344-£11
Graph of progress so far (click link or pic to enlarge);
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/893/graphday33.jpg
I set an aim to get to £1000 about 4 months ago and I started with like £200 so be pretty sick if you beat me to it lol, but once you get a roll going, I'm sure you'll start binking a few MTTs.
Plus you can start earning some poker points now so you got something to fall back on.
Closing Balances;
Cash £20.51 Poker Points 219
Up 71p today
Another day for me battling it out in the micro-STTs. I’m finding plenty of weak opponents to play, exactly what I want. Unfortunately I’m not getting the results yet due to bad runnage. Not a problem, I have plenty of patience and I know these weak fields will prove to be a profitable hunting ground in the long run.
Todays results;
7529762HNL6MX,DN0.15GBPSkyPoker05/02/2013 17:08NL Hold'em £1 + £0.151/6£0.857529626HNLHU0.05GBPSkyPoker05/02/2013 16:28NL Hold'em £1 + £0.052/2-£1.057529392HNL6MX,DN0.15GBPSkyPoker05/02/2013 15:24NL Hold'em £1 + £0.151/6£0.857529210HNLHU0.05GBPSkyPoker05/02/2013 14:31NL Hold'em £1 + £0.051/2£0.957528871HNLHU0.05GBPSkyPoker05/02/2013 14:08NL Hold'em £1 + £0.051/2£0.957529044HNL6MX,DN0.15GBPSkyPoker05/02/2013 14:03NL Hold'em £1 + £0.155/6-£1.157528462HNLB0.1GBPSkyPoker05/02/2013 13:32NL Hold'em £0.5 + £0.14/10-£0.67527885HNLT,6MX,B0.05GBPSkyPoker05/02/2013 12:39NL Hold'em £0.25 + £0.052/6£0.117528826HNL6MX,DN0.1GBPSkyPoker05/02/2013 12:37NL Hold'em £0.5 + £0.11/6£0.47528736HNL6MX,DN0.1GBPSkyPoker05/02/2013 12:12NL Hold'em £0.5 + £0.16/6-£0.6
The three hands below are all taken from losing games today. They give you a taste of how it was going.
10-man 60p Bounty Hunter bubble;
PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalancelozanlew Small blind 200.00 200.00 4930.00 GaryQQQ Big blind 400.00 600.00 3477.50 Your hole cards 8 6 Whizzer1 Fold Call 400.00 1000.00 1822.50 lozanlew Fold GaryQQQ Check Flop 3 2 8 GaryQQQ Check All-in 1822.50 2822.50 0.00 GaryQQQ Call 1822.50 4645.00 1655.00 GaryQQQ Show 8 6 Show Q 3 Turn 9 River 3 Win Three 3s 4645.00 4645.00
£1.15 DYM PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalancecharity Small blind 10.00 10.00 1490.00 lizardman6 Big blind 20.00 30.00 1980.00 Your hole cards 6 6 hawkins88 Fold davy46 Fold Raise 40.00 70.00 1525.00 GaryQQQ Call 40.00 110.00 1910.00 charity Fold lizardman6 Call 20.00 130.00 1960.00 Flop 6 8 5 lizardman6 Check Bet 65.00 195.00 1460.00 GaryQQQ Raise 175.00 370.00 1735.00 lizardman6 Fold All-in 1460.00 1830.00 0.00 GaryQQQ Call 1350.00 3180.00 385.00 Show 9 10 GaryQQQ Show 6 6 Turn 9 River 7 Win Straight to the 10 3180.00 3180.00
£1.05 Heads-up match;
PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalanceGaryQQQ Small blind 30.00 30.00 1870.00 Big blind 60.00 90.00 1040.00 Your hole cards 5 9 GaryQQQ Raise 90.00 180.00 1780.00 Call 60.00 240.00 980.00 Flop 9 8 Q Bet 120.00 360.00 860.00 GaryQQQ Call 120.00 480.00 1660.00 Turn 5 Bet 120.00 600.00 740.00 GaryQQQ All-in 1660.00 2260.00 0.00 All-in 740.00 3000.00 0.00 GaryQQQ Unmatched bet 800.00 2200.00 800.00 GaryQQQ Show 5 9 Show 10 Q River 8 Win Two Pairs, Queens and 8s 2200.00 2200.00
Cheers Carl. What you say is very true, winning a freeroll is much easier said than done. I'm very glad to have the freedom to take a break from them and take my pick from micro STTs.
Closing Balances; Cash £23.91 Poker Points 231
Up £3.40 today
After a so-so start it came good today with a run of four £1.05 heads-up wins followed by a £1.15 DYM success. Happy times as I see both my cash and points balances rising to reinforce my position.
It appears Sharkscope hasn't tracked all my games today, so here are the results copied and pasted from 'my account';Date & TimeProductDescriptionAmountHeld FundsPlatformDetail06 Feb '13 at 15:10PokerDouble Your Money£0.85£0.00Poker AIR clientHand History 06 Feb '13 at 13:56Poker£1 + £0.05£0.95£0.00Poker AIR clientHand History 06 Feb '13 at 13:11Poker£1 + £0.05£0.95£0.00InternetHand History 06 Feb '13 at 12:54Poker£1 + £0.05£0.95£0.00Poker AIR clientHand History 06 Feb '13 at 12:47PokerHypercharged£0.95£0.00Poker AIR clientHand History 06 Feb '13 at 12:33Poker£1 + £0.05£-1.05£0.00Poker AIR clientHand History 06 Feb '13 at 11:58PokerDouble Your Money£-1.15£0.00Poker AIR clientHand History 06 Feb '13 at 11:14Poker£1 + £0.05£0.95£0.00Poker AIR clientHand History 06 Feb '13 at 10:34PokerSpeed 8 (3 paid)£0.30£0.00Poker AIR clientHand History 06 Feb '13 at 10:16PokerTKO (Bounty)£-0.30£0.00Poker AIR clientHand History
The points can stay there as something to fall back-on if I go on a terrible run and lose all the cash. I'll probably still enter the Weekend Omaha freerolls for now because they're such good value for 10 points.
It's very unlikely you'll see me at the cash tables as I'm a tournament specialist. Most of the money won in this thread will come from MTTs, though I won't be buying into any just yet as my cash balance is still too low. I'm playing a mix of STTs at the moment. HU games are my favourite choice because the rake represents best value. For example at the £1 level the rake in a DYM (15p) is three times as much as that in a HU STT (5p).
You could look at it like this;
A £1.15 DYM win returns £2.00 for a ROI of 73.9% (85p/115p x 100%)
A £1.05 HU STT win returns £2.00 for an ROI of 90.5% (95p/105p x 100%)
Closing Balances; Cash £29.61 Poker Points 237
Up £5.70 today
There was an unusual occurrence at the start of my session today; at my first HU STT I was joined by a player using the alias KevQQQ. It was a **** of a lot of Qs for one table.
Anyhow, I beat Kev and went on to enjoy a run of six wins from six HU matches. It was all the more pleasing because the slow-structured games don’t run often enough in the late morning/early afternoon for me to table select. A couple of days ago I got bored of waiting for weak players to sit down first, so I now just open a table myself and play whoever shows up. At the moment I’m on a streak of 10 consecutive HU wins, and I’ve won 14 of the last 16.
I’ve had a great seven days. Over the last week my balance has grown from £11.07 to £29.61, that’s an increase of 167%. I’m very pleased with progress and enjoying the hot streak while it lasts.
Today’s results;
7539471HNLHU0.05GBPSkyPoker07/02/2013 15:42NL Hold'em £1 + £0.051/2£0.957539221HNLHU0.05GBPSkyPoker07/02/2013 14:59NL Hold'em £1 + £0.051/2£0.957538996HNLHU0.05GBPSkyPoker07/02/2013 14:04NL Hold'em £1 + £0.051/2£0.957538743HNLHU0.05GBPSkyPoker07/02/2013 12:49NL Hold'em £1 + £0.051/2£0.957538254HNLHU0.05GBPSkyPoker07/02/2013 11:58NL Hold'em £1 + £0.051/2£0.957538326HNLHU0.05GBPSkyPoker07/02/2013 11:43NL Hold'em £1 + £0.051/2£0.95