Great to see you over £200 again Gary, soon be at £500 I'm sure. Good luck Posted by Boxster
Cheers David, thanks for your support.
I'm not even thinking about £500 yet. That seems daunting, miles away. My approach is to focus on a smaller step and ignore what I need to do beyond that. For a couple of weeks now I've set my sights on breaching £230, the point at which my 40-buy-in rule will permit me to buy into £5.75s. Not far to go now.
My fortunes were mixed in the morning £3.30 Bounty Hunters today. In the 9-45 I was going great until busted with QQ<AJ aipf against a fellow top-five stack for a pot worth the chiplead in the mid-stages.
Pocket QQ made amends early in the 10-45 when it gave me a very lucky treble-up against two players both holding KK. My 2-outer hit on the river of course. The hand has been posted in the Brags, Beats and Variance section of this forum.
The flying start didn’t last long and my big stack dwindled, mainly because I found myself getting totally owned by Young_Gun after he moved to my table. At one point I found myself down to only 11BB. I shoved my way back into contention, getting folds when I was light, doubling a couple of times when I had the goods. Soon after the bubble burst I finally got the better of Young_Gun, busting him in a standard flip. I made it to final table after but things didn’t go my way once there and I busted in fifth place.
Later I played some HU STTs managing 2 wins from 3. Despite having a feeling that it was a weekend of near misses I’m very happy to find myself posting a new highest balance.
Nice hand! Always nice to get paid when you get quads!
As I've said to you though, I'm using this thread to try and build my bank roll up to £1000 instead of keeping it at a maximum of £100. I've always took my winnings out above that so I have spending money and also to stop me doing stupid things if I'm in a tilting mood which everyone gets every now and then. But I have to say thanks as your bank roll discipline is exemplary and I'm following those same rules. Im about on par with you at the mo but of corse I didn't start from nothing!
Nice hand! Always nice to get paid when you get quads! As I've said to you though, I'm using this thread to try and build my bank roll up to £1000 instead of keeping it at a maximum of £100. I've always took my winnings out above that so I have spending money and also to stop me doing stupid things if I'm in a tilting mood which everyone gets every now and then. But I have to say thanks as your bank roll discipline is exemplary and I'm following those same rules. Im about on par with you at the mo but of corse I didn't start from nothing! Keep it up! Posted by CraigSG1
I'm very pleased to hear you're still doing well Craig, very well played, keep up the good work. If I can do it anybody can do it.
Knowing that this diary sets an example to others that helps improve their results means more to me than the profit made.
Another couple of tournament near misses today with third place finishes in a £3.30 freezeout and a £2.30 Bounty Hunter. In the freezeout I was coolered 99<JJ aipf blind v blind, unavoidable with stacks shallow and an aggresive dynamic. In the Bounty Hunter my button open-shove with pocket TT was called by A6, the flop came down A6A, what more can you do lol?
I roughly broke even in HU STTs. It’s funny how it often goes in those; I got the cards to beat the best player I faced in comfort, whereas the worst opponent managed to come back and beat me after surviving three all-ins for his tournament life as an underdog.
A small profit on the day, another highest balance, £50 profit over the last 7 days.........I’ll take it!
No MTT success today. My best chance of a decent score came in the 10-45 BH. I recovered from only 520 chips early-on to well above average with the bubble looming but couldn’t recover after losing two thirds of my stack in my first big flip with AK<66 aipf for a 40BB pot. My exit in 16/72 came soon after with QJ<AK aipf.
In the afternoon there was a lot more bingo play at the tables than usual for a weekday, surprisingly the worst of it I saw was in a deep stack. I tightened-up and got my chips in in good spots but I couldn’t find a way through the minefield.
I think I finished slightly up in HU STTs today. I’m thinking of throwing in a batch of 100x £3.15 hypers at some point over the next few days. It’ll be something different and will ensure I qualify for a C4P payment (I’m well behind schedule to get there at the moment). If I decide to go for it I’ll announce it here before I start and happily take on all-comers.
First one was brutal to lose £3.30 with no cash or any Bounties. Couldnt have played it any differently IMO. When people just camble with low Pocet Pairs nolt you can do execpt hope to hit!
First one was brutal to lose £3.30 with no cash or any Bounties. Couldnt have played it any differently IMO. When people just camble with low Pocet Pairs nolt you can do execpt hope to hit! GL Posted by sighcall
With hindsight maybe I shouldn't have taken the flip, I probably could have outplayed this guy by playing smaller pots. Mind you, had it gone my way I'd have taken his bounty and been near the top of the field with the bubble looming, I love playing bubbles when I have a big stack. Oh well, on to the next one. I hope you managed a deep run, you were well placed when I busted.
There was a very near miss in my first tournament today, a second place finish in the 9-45 Bounty Hunter. In the first hand I played like a donk and needlessly gave away 35% of my stack, however after the embarrassing start things went much better. I picked up plenty of cards to work with and gradually chipped-up finding myself near the top of the field with several head-prizes come the bubble.
There was a brief panic after two hours of play when my broadband connection went down, however iPhone tethering came to the rescue and after missing a few hands I was able to continue using the phones 3G connection. With 9 players left a river bink in a huge 3-way aipf pot when my AK eliminated opponents holding pocket 99 and A5 gave me the chiplead, a lead I was able to maintain more-or-less all the way to heads-up play. Once there I came within one card of winning the tournament in a standard race, my 33<QJ (10BB effective stacks) when a jack hit on the river. Soon after I was left on fumes; my raise with AKs on the BB over an open-limp was flatted, I flopped top pair/top kicker on the KQ8r board, however when stacks went in my opponent flipped pocket 88. An unavoidable cooler for me when we were only 20BB deep before the blinds were posted. I was disappointed not to take the victory however the £39.11 return for my £3.30 buy-in, my second biggest bink of this challenge so far, is a sweet consolation.
For the first time since this began I’m now rolled to buy into £5.75 games in accordance with my 40 buy-in rule, I’ll start playing them soon.
Bink! Fun river card for me with 2 tables left in the £3.30. Lea116311 can consider herself somewhat unlucky not to hold with the third player in the pot holding one of my outs.
PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalance* Small blind 400.00 400.00 8388.25 Mr__Spoons Big blind 800.00 1200.00 17773.50 Your hole cards K A lea116311 All-in 15538.75 16738.75 0.00 GaryQQQ All-in 29007.50 45746.25 0.00 donk30 Fold * All-in 8388.25 54134.50 0.00 Mr__Spoons Fold GaryQQQ Unmatched bet 13468.75 40665.75 13468.75 * Show A 5 lea116311 Show 9 9 GaryQQQ Show K A Flop Q Q J Turn 3 River 10 GaryQQQ Win Straight to the Ace 40665.75 54134.50
Is your'e 'dinner in the dog' after that hand Gary? You are also rolled now to play the DTD on Monday nights....... Keep it going mate. Posted by MAXALLY
Haha, if we had a dog it probably would be, you should have seen the death stare I got. No evening pokers for me unfortunately, work hours mean I'll be sticking to daytime stuff. Cheers Al.
I had a bit of a mare today. I’m happy with my play, it’s just that I ran about as badly as is possible. In all three MTTs I busted after losing all-in situations with 70%+ equity.
My first £5.75 Bounty Hunter of this challenge couldn’t have gone worse. After a decent start I lost over half of my stack to a chaser who completed his gutshot on the river. I rebuilt to average only to then go out in sick fashion. First my AK lost to A5o aipf for a head-prize. Two hands later I called an open shove with my pocket AA. I was up against the mighty J2o……….but I still managed to lose! I was too tilted to continue playing after that hand and called it a day.
My stay in £5.75s might be very brief. In accordance with my 40 buy-in rule I won’t play them while my balance is a penny less than £230. Mind you, every cloud has a silver lining; the standard of opponents I faced in the £5.75 today was no different to those I see at £2.30 and £3.30. If anything it was worse. That’s an encouraging sign for future games.
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I'm not even thinking about £500 yet. That seems daunting, miles away. My approach is to focus on a smaller step and ignore what I need to do beyond that. For a couple of weeks now I've set my sights on breaching £230, the point at which my 40-buy-in rule will permit me to buy into £5.75s. Not far to go now.
Closing Balance £219.16
Up £18.09 today
My fortunes were mixed in the morning £3.30 Bounty Hunters today. In the 9-45 I was going great until busted with QQ<AJ aipf against a fellow top-five stack for a pot worth the chiplead in the mid-stages.
Pocket QQ made amends early in the 10-45 when it gave me a very lucky treble-up against two players both holding KK. My 2-outer hit on the river of course. The hand has been posted in the Brags, Beats and Variance section of this forum.
The flying start didn’t last long and my big stack dwindled, mainly because I found myself getting totally owned by Young_Gun after he moved to my table. At one point I found myself down to only 11BB. I shoved my way back into contention, getting folds when I was light, doubling a couple of times when I had the goods. Soon after the bubble burst I finally got the better of Young_Gun, busting him in a standard flip. I made it to final table after but things didn’t go my way once there and I busted in fifth place.
Later I played some HU STTs managing 2 wins from 3. Despite having a feeling that it was a weekend of near misses I’m very happy to find myself posting a new highest balance.
April Poker Points 273
Today’s results;
7854623HNLT,HU0.15GBPSkyPoker21/04/2013 17:03NL Hold'em £3 + £0.151/2£2.857854445HNLHU0.1GBPSkyPoker21/04/2013 16:19NL Hold'em £2 + £0.11/2£1.97854340HNLHU0.1GBPSkyPoker21/04/2013 16:03NL Hold'em £2 + £0.12/2-£2.17851676HNLB0.3GBPSkyPoker21/04/2013 10:45NL Hold'em £3 + £0.35/80£157851378HNLB0.3GBPSkyPoker21/04/2013 09:45NL Hold'em £3 + £0.331/78£0.44
If Carlsberg did flops. A heads-up hand this afternoon.
PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalance* Small blind 25.00 25.00 1150.00 GaryQQQ Big blind 50.00 75.00 1775.00 Your hole cards 4 J * Call 25.00 100.00 1125.00 GaryQQQ Check Flop J J J GaryQQQ Check * Bet 100.00 200.00 1025.00 GaryQQQ Call 100.00 300.00 1675.00 Turn 3 GaryQQQ Check * Bet 225.00 525.00 800.00 GaryQQQ Call 225.00 750.00 1450.00 River 8 GaryQQQ Bet 400.00 1150.00 1050.00 * Call 400.00 1550.00 400.00 GaryQQQ Show 4 J * Muck 9 9 GaryQQQ Win Four Jacks 1550.00 2600.00
Knowing that this diary sets an example to others that helps improve their results means more to me than the profit made.
Closing Balance £222.71
Up £3.55 today
Another couple of tournament near misses today with third place finishes in a £3.30 freezeout and a £2.30 Bounty Hunter. In the freezeout I was coolered 99<JJ aipf blind v blind, unavoidable with stacks shallow and an aggresive dynamic. In the Bounty Hunter my button open-shove with pocket TT was called by A6, the flop came down A6A, what more can you do lol?
I roughly broke even in HU STTs. It’s funny how it often goes in those; I got the cards to beat the best player I faced in comfort, whereas the worst opponent managed to come back and beat me after surviving three all-ins for his tournament life as an underdog.
A small profit on the day, another highest balance, £50 profit over the last 7 days.........I’ll take it!
April Poker Points 288
Today’s results;
7857886HNLHU0.1GBPSkyPoker22/04/2013 16:52NL Hold'em £2 + £0.11/2£1.97857181HNLHU0.1GBPSkyPoker22/04/2013 16:42NL Hold'em £2 + £0.12/2-£2.17856255HNLB0.3GBPSkyPoker22/04/2013 15:15NL Hold'em £2 + £0.315/23-£2.37856130HNLB0.3GBPSkyPoker22/04/2013 14:45NL Hold'em £2 + £0.33/22£2.857857358HNLT,HU0.1GBPSkyPoker22/04/2013 13:12NL Hold'em £2 + £0.11/2£1.97857319HNLT,HU0.1GBPSkyPoker22/04/2013 12:52NL Hold'em £2 + £0.12/2-£2.17856433HNL 0.3GBPSkyPoker22/04/2013 11:00NL Hold'em £3 + £0.33/12£6.77855584HNLB0.3GBPSkyPoker22/04/2013 10:45NL Hold'em £3 + £0.372/76-£3.3
Closing Balance £216.66
Down £6.05 today
No MTT success today. My best chance of a decent score came in the 10-45 BH. I recovered from only 520 chips early-on to well above average with the bubble looming but couldn’t recover after losing two thirds of my stack in my first big flip with AK<66 aipf for a 40BB pot. My exit in 16/72 came soon after with QJ<AK aipf.
In the afternoon there was a lot more bingo play at the tables than usual for a weekday, surprisingly the worst of it I saw was in a deep stack. I tightened-up and got my chips in in good spots but I couldn’t find a way through the minefield.
I think I finished slightly up in HU STTs today. I’m thinking of throwing in a batch of 100x £3.15 hypers at some point over the next few days. It’ll be something different and will ensure I qualify for a C4P payment (I’m well behind schedule to get there at the moment). If I decide to go for it I’ll announce it here before I start and happily take on all-comers.
April Poker Points 313
Today’s results;
7861625HNLHU0.1GBPSkyPoker23/04/2013 17:46NL Hold'em £2 + £0.11/2£1.97860766HNLHU0.05GBPSkyPoker23/04/2013 17:45NL Hold'em £1 + £0.052/2-£1.057861545HNLT,HU0.05GBPSkyPoker23/04/2013 17:02NL Hold'em £1 + £0.051/2£0.957859922HNLB0.3GBPSkyPoker23/04/2013 16:15NL Hold'em £2 + £0.38/17-£2.37861297HNLT,HU0.1GBPSkyPoker23/04/2013 16:14NL Hold'em £2 + £0.11/2£1.97861149HNLT,HU0.05GBPSkyPoker23/04/2013 15:08NL Hold'em £1 + £0.051/2£0.957861121HNLT,HU0.05GBPSkyPoker23/04/2013 15:00NL Hold'em £1 + £0.052/2-£1.057859478HNL 0.2GBPSkyPoker23/04/2013 14:20NL Hold'em £2 + £0.210/20-£2.27859453HNLB0.3GBPSkyPoker23/04/2013 14:15NL Hold'em £2 + £0.33/11-£0.17860936HNLT,HU0.15GBPSkyPoker23/04/2013 13:21NL Hold'em £3 + £0.151/2£2.857860883HNLT,HU0.1GBPSkyPoker23/04/2013 13:18NL Hold'em £2 + £0.12/2-£2.17860874HNLT,HU0.1GBPSkyPoker23/04/2013 12:59NL Hold'em £2 + £0.11/2£1.97859040HNLB0.3GBPSkyPoker23/04/2013 12:45NL Hold'em £2 + £0.38/9-£2.37860203HNLHU0.1GBPSkyPoker23/04/2013 12:45NL Hold'em £2 + £0.12/2-£2.17859037HNLB0.3GBPSkyPoker23/04/2013 10:45NL Hold'em £3 + £0.316/72-£3.3
Closing Balance £246.87
Up £30.21 today
There was a very near miss in my first tournament today, a second place finish in the 9-45 Bounty Hunter. In the first hand I played like a donk and needlessly gave away 35% of my stack, however after the embarrassing start things went much better. I picked up plenty of cards to work with and gradually chipped-up finding myself near the top of the field with several head-prizes come the bubble.
There was a brief panic after two hours of play when my broadband connection went down, however iPhone tethering came to the rescue and after missing a few hands I was able to continue using the phones 3G connection.
With 9 players left a river bink in a huge 3-way aipf pot when my AK eliminated opponents holding pocket 99 and A5 gave me the chiplead, a lead I was able to maintain more-or-less all the way to heads-up play. Once there I came within one card of winning the tournament in a standard race, my 33<QJ (10BB effective stacks) when a jack hit on the river. Soon after I was left on fumes; my raise with AKs on the BB over an open-limp was flatted, I flopped top pair/top kicker on the KQ8r board, however when stacks went in my opponent flipped pocket 88. An unavoidable cooler for me when we were only 20BB deep before the blinds were posted. I was disappointed not to take the victory however the £39.11 return for my £3.30 buy-in, my second biggest bink of this challenge so far, is a sweet consolation.
For the first time since this began I’m now rolled to buy into £5.75 games in accordance with my 40 buy-in rule, I’ll start playing them soon.
April Poker Points 322
Today’s results;
7863270HNLB0.3GBPSkyPoker24/04/2013 15:15NL Hold'em £2 + £0.37/16-£2.37862494HNLB0.3GBPSkyPoker24/04/2013 10:45NL Hold'em £3 + £0.349/71-£3.37862200HNLB0.3GBPSkyPoker24/04/2013 09:45NL Hold'em £3 + £0.32/83£35.81
Bink! Fun river card for me with 2 tables left in the £3.30. Lea116311 can consider herself somewhat unlucky not to hold with the third player in the pot holding one of my outs.
PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalance* Small blind 400.00 400.00 8388.25 Mr__Spoons Big blind 800.00 1200.00 17773.50 Your hole cards K A lea116311 All-in 15538.75 16738.75 0.00 GaryQQQ All-in 29007.50 45746.25 0.00 donk30 Fold * All-in 8388.25 54134.50 0.00 Mr__Spoons Fold GaryQQQ Unmatched bet 13468.75 40665.75 13468.75 * Show A 5 lea116311 Show 9 9 GaryQQQ Show K A Flop Q Q J Turn 3 River 10 GaryQQQ Win Straight to the Ace 40665.75 54134.50
Only a matter of time now imo
Good luck
Daz
Have no doubt your roll will steadily increase once you start cashing in the £5.75 BH tournies!
Closing Balance £230.22
Down £16.65 today
Two steps forward, one step back.
I had a bit of a mare today. I’m happy with my play, it’s just that I ran about as badly as is possible. In all three MTTs I busted after losing all-in situations with 70%+ equity.
My first £5.75 Bounty Hunter of this challenge couldn’t have gone worse. After a decent start I lost over half of my stack to a chaser who completed his gutshot on the river. I rebuilt to average only to then go out in sick fashion. First my AK lost to A5o aipf for a head-prize. Two hands later I called an open shove with my pocket AA. I was up against the mighty J2o……….but I still managed to lose! I was too tilted to continue playing after that hand and called it a day.
My stay in £5.75s might be very brief. In accordance with my 40 buy-in rule I won’t play them while my balance is a penny less than £230. Mind you, every cloud has a silver lining; the standard of opponents I faced in the £5.75 today was no different to those I see at £2.30 and £3.30. If anything it was worse. That’s an encouraging sign for future games.
April Poker Points 338
Today’s results;
7868235HNLT,HU0.15GBPSkyPoker25/04/2013 14:38NL Hold'em £3 + £0.152/2-£3.157867019HNLB0.75GBPSkyPoker25/04/2013 14:30NL Hold'em £5 + £0.7565/85-£5.757868034HNLT,HU0.05GBPSkyPoker25/04/2013 13:02NL Hold'em £1 + £0.051/2£0.957867291HNL 0.3GBPSkyPoker25/04/2013 13:00NL Hold'em £3 + £0.37/22-£3.37867949HNLHU0.1GBPSkyPoker25/04/2013 12:59NL Hold'em £2 + £0.12/2-£2.17867130HNL 0.3GBPSkyPoker25/04/2013 12:00NL Hold'em £3 + £0.38/16-£3.3
What can you say? This is my exit hand from the first £5.75 Bounty Hunter of this challenge;
PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalanceLimp2Lose Small blind 20.00 20.00 10195.00 OBBO69 Big blind 40.00 60.00 2181.25 Your hole cards A A * All-in 1895.00 1955.00 0.00 lelly01 Fold GaryQQQ All-in 1790.00 3745.00 0.00 scank300 Fold Limp2Lose Fold OBBO69 Fold * Unmatched bet 105.00 3640.00 105.00 * Show 2 J GaryQQQ Show A A Flop 2 9 6 Turn 3 River J * Win Two Pairs, Jacks and 2s 3640.00 3745.
Pretty sick exit hand - VUL
Keep up the good work.