West ham was a great game to watch, never nice to lose to tottenham but what a goal by bale throughougly deserved victory.
Played between half 10-11, very pleased to get 3 winning sessions in, i didn't start well again and then steamed in a couple of games due to a disconnection blinding me down and effectively costing me a game. I'm also pleased i managed to stick to the 5,25s in each session and got a very decent amount of volume in, i also managed to surpass the 4500c4p so am into the £70 figures now which is good.
I realise it is an overload of posts if i carry on this in this manner, so i wont carry on posting each hour i put in, instead i will continue to note down each hourly session as above with a total profit/loss games played in a word document and then post one complete day summary which summarizes each hour in the diary. The aim is to try put in between 12-15 hours a week as if it was a part time job and hopefully if i turn a profit withdraw a percentage of the profit every couple of weeks or so.
This is excellent mate, keep up the good work, just dont get down on yourself if u have a bad session or two as you at some stage will playing hypers, because we both know in the long term your a winner
Thanks Carl, i'm trying to think long term when i play and just concentrate on making the right decisions so hopefully when the brutal sessions come around instead of moving higher chasing losses i will finish the hour and stop. I'm also not looking at my profit/loss untill the end of the session which is is helping me alot more i think as the games come so thick and fast you cant really spend too much time contemplating how well your doing. I scoped my ROI and it was 15.6% for yesterday in total which is running way above average i'm hoping to see between 3-5% roi really over a large sample of games and even that is very optimistic, so bound to be very swingy hopefully i have the mentality to deal with it. I noticed you were playing some supersonics last night? what do you think of them?
First session went very well with another healthy profit, stuck to two tables most of the hour, was chatting to quickfeet as well during this hour so only had one table running at one point, so added an extra 10 mins to session to get to my target of 18 per hour.
This session had the potential to be brutal, was 3 tabling to try and hit the 100 game mark for the two days and hit 3 coolers in a row, obviously they were all calls that i wanted but i started button bashing for a a couple of mins lol i managed to regained composure and take down a small profit, running good against one particular reg who i bump into alot which helps but in general session wasn't great and i'm very happy to have come out of it with a profit. I will probably not 3 table hypers to often, a lot of fun but probably losing a fair bit of edge against the competent guys who occasionally appear.
Some of my figures may be off by a few pence as i'm doing it on notepad during sessions where i write my roll at the beggining and end of each hour and then add up, but i'm veryfying using scope since yesterday so the week total and day total should always be accurate.
Hello, been busyish today went for a jog which i'm trying to do regularly at the moment and been doing coursework/ wasting my time chatting on facebook. Anyway managed to get an hour in early afternoon and just completed another hour a few minutes ago. Got an assignment in tuesday so been working on that as going to norwich this weekend so no work going to be done then probably a couple of long library sessions next couple of days to get that done so i can enjoy the weekend, so that may mean a lack of hours over next few days will try hit a minimum of 10 hours for the week though which shouldn't be too difficult.
Another very good session to start the day,having no problem playing 3 tables when i'm refreshed as well which explains the high volume in this hour. I'm finding this new way of playing in a set time and concentrating fully on poker is helping me stay focused and its also beneficial to not be playing when i have umpteen other things going on.
Session 2: Time:1 hour Stakes/Game: £5.25 hyper 2-3 tabling Total Games: 16 Profit/Loss:+£15.96 Started off with 3 tables but cut down to 2 and then 1 by the end of the session as felt a bit tired and didn't want to start doing anything stupid, another good profitable session.
Total games for the day:44
Must be running very well at the moment to not yet have a losing hour, very pleased with how it is going at the moment but i'm already mentally prepared for the tough times ahead that will turn my roi into a more realistic figure but enjoying the heater whilst it lasts lol
Graph for the week so far. Also forgot to add i won £5 in the golden ticket draw, must be running good at the moment! lol I ahve no added that to the week figures though, i have so far only played £5.25 hypers this week.
Did not manage to find any time to play yesterday so that is why i didn't update. Today has been a really long day played 5 aside and spent hours in the library working on an assignment that is in next week. Going to norwich and meeting up with some friends tomorrow though for the first time in a while so that will be a welcome break.
I just finished a quick session, ended it after 50 minutes as i'm feeling tired and a bit mentally burned out, also felt like i was getting increasingly annoyed at losing some very standard preflop all ins and didn't want to tilt or play higher. Still despite thinking the session was going pretty awfully and that i was down a couple of buy ins at least, i was pleasently suprised to work out afterwards that it wasn't a losing session, maybe due to a mixture of tiredness and burn out i was overeacting to anything slightly negative in the session and ignoring the hands that fell in my favour.
I won't be playing tomorrow as im in norwich, maybe will get an hour or two in sunday night, would be nice to finish the week by completing 10 hours and not digging into the profit i have earned so far. I just need to ensure i pick the right times to play when i'm feeling refreshed and capable of playing to the best of my ability.
Hi benc, not posted here b4 as i've no idea about this game u play. great results from what i've read though,so well played buddy,you obviously i'm guessing anyway must enjoy playing them, and certainly your roi is very good. just a question,i noticed you seem to play relatively short sessions,about an hour or so typically. have you found this to be your optimal strategy or is it something you have always done,maybe because it is all the time you can spare for playing? the reason i'm asking is because although this is an area i've never really looked into,as yet anyway,it is a fact that as i am getting on a bit now (54 this year...aaagh),and like it or not,it's not getting any easier playing 4/6/8 hour sessions,well optimally anyway,so the possibility of playing 'timed sessions' could be something for me to think about,i feel. thanks in advance. 'be lucky' dev
Hi benc, not posted here b4 as i've no idea about this game u play. great results from what i've read though,so well played buddy,you obviously i'm guessing anyway must enjoy playing them, and certainly your roi is very good. just a question,i noticed you seem to play relatively short sessions,about an hour or so typically. have you found this to be your optimal strategy or is it something you have always done,maybe because it is all the time you can spare for playing? the reason i'm asking is because although this is an area i've never really looked into,as yet anyway,it is a fact that as i am getting on a bit now (54 this year...aaagh),and like it or not,it's not getting any easier playing 4/6/8 hour sessions,well optimally anyway,so the possibility of playing 'timed sessions' could be something for me to think about,i feel. thanks in advance. 'be lucky' dev Posted by devonfish5
Hi devonfish, I do really enjoy playing Heads up poker ever since i really started playing on sky. I think the idea of being constantly involved in the action and being able to hone in on one invididual are the main reasons i started playing regularly.
In answer to your question the reason i have started to play short sessions lately is a result of having alot of coursework to do. I'm unsure as to how beneifical it would be long term as it has only been over a short space of time, although i can see the benefits as i seem to be playing my A or B game for a shorter time rather than my C-D game for a sustained period of time. However i'm sure there are times you can be playng brilliantly for like 3-4 hours at a time so you may be missing out on profit by not prolonging the sessions you feel your playing well.
I think just finding time for a break every couple of hours is the best way of going if you play long periods alot, like 10 minutes just to get some fresh air and relax. I think that is the approach i would usually take if i was playing many hours at a time.
Good luck at the tables, your cash challenge has started well on the other site so hopefully can keep it up.
In Response to Re: An insight into heads up grinding : Hi devonfish, I do really enjoy playing Heads up poker ever since i really started playing on sky. I think the idea of being constantly involved in the action and being able to hone in on one invididual are the main reasons i started playing regularly. In answer to your question the reason i have started to play short sessions lately is a result of having alot of coursework to do. I'm unsure as to how beneifical it would be long term as it has only been over a short space of time, although i can see the benefits as i seem to be playing my A or B game for a shorter time rather than my C-D game for a sustained period of time. However i'm sure there are times you can be playng brilliantly for like 3-4 hours at a time so you may be missing out on profit by not prolonging the sessions you feel your playing well. I think just finding time for a break every couple of hours is the best way of going if you play long periods alot, like 10 minutes just to get some fresh air and relax. I think that is the approach i would usually take if i was playing many hours at a time. Good luck at the tables, your cash challenge has started well on the other site so hopefully can keep it up. Posted by benc
thanks benc, yes,i'm sure u r right that playing shorter sessions with your A/B game is better than longer ones where C/D game could well creep in. guess it's all about finding the right balance. i'll experiment with it this month.i'll play some 2 hr sessions first i think and see how that goes. best wishes dev
Just played a quick 5.25 and 1.05 hyper on my gfs samsung tablet as wanted to see if it worked and how it felt was fun, lost the 5.25 and won the 1.05 will update properly later or when i next play in terms of profit etc. It has made me want to invest in one now, played it on puffin broswer and worked fine.
Planned on playing some mastercash at 10nl so only 1 tabled tonight as was going to play 1cash table and 1HU but was on the waiting list for awhile then gave up. I decided to play some 10.50s as i had a good week didn't start off well played someone whose name i didnt recognize who would raise to 6x pre every hand so i decided best way to combat that was to be patient jam over the top fairly light, didn't work out to well i got it in ahead all 3 times but all like 60-40 type situations which i lost each time.
Anyone have any advice as how they would adapt to a player like that? his stack offs were all pretty poor so i'm guessing he was just willing to gamble with almost every hand, is it best to just go with the jam or fold strategy? anyway so i played a £21 after them 3 games and lost another 60-40, before winning the rematch and then winning 3 £10.50s in a row to breakeven for stepping up so ended up ok. I wasn't too fussed about climbing up as i had the weeks profit behind me and would of stopped if had lost 3 of them in a row as well. Ended up with a loss but nothing major and it could of been alot worse.
So for the week i made 3 figures which i'm really happy about, i have withdrawn £70 which probably just about covers the cost of all the alcohol and pizza i got through yesterday evening lol So summary of the session and week total below:
Handed my assignment in today after spending most of yesterday in the library, although the discovery that google can cite all my journals in APA this year has made what is arguably the worst part much more bearable, no hand ins for month and a half now so despite having loads to get on with i will no doubt be on the tables alot and having the classic mad rush of getitng work done.
In terms of poker i didn't play yesterday, today i have played 13 hypers at £10.50 level, 1 of which was at half 1 last night when i finished referencing probably not the best idea. The rest were just now and 1 tabling, scope tells me i'm up £3.52 overall so i must of won 1 more than i lost, was rather swingy started badly, down about £30 i think, then got up to about +25 then back down to pretty much breaking even.
Also noticed i have a gold star now on scope which i was baffled about, turns out its for count which means number of games played this year ,which i really dont think is worthy of a star more just a badge that represents the fact i play poker way to much. Hoping to play some mastercash later at 10nl as that is the cash game i'm most used too after playing a fair bit in the summer and in our live games when we i'm at home, although sometimes the live game is as deep as 500bb which is fun, extend mastercash to that deep... lol. So yeah watching what will hopefully be a good game between man u and madrid and donking around on mastercash is probably the plan for later if anyone fancies some easy money.
Had a fun half hour 40mins two tabling 10nl, playing most hands and being viewed as the table maniac moaned at for terrible play etc etc lol I'm having a break for a bit to have din and stuff will most likely be on later here is some advertising if anyone of you want some easy money....
Standard flat pre flop flat for 5x with the brunson (noone folds that hand in cash right?) then an even better flat to the 3bet, clearly getting the right implied odds/pot odds/donking odds/ im a calling station odds/.. so after playing pre flop like a hero i decide that he was definetly going for a steal preflop, will never have the 5 and i'm playing terribly so he will think i have hit the 5.. ALL IN!, showing the brunson is always a proud moment even if you get stacked.
5 bet bluffing a reg at 10nl, i didn't think it was actually possible. He must have notes on me being very agg/bad from the summer ..would love to know what he folded..
Despite the two clearly very profitable long term examples of how to play cash poker i managed to show a loss on the two tables, still it's good fun and i'm already looking foward to playing again later.
Just finished another session 1 tabling 10nl mastercash went well ended up +£14 despite getting it in against pocket ks pre for 200bs for the second time today, so that probably meant i ended the day around breakeven on the mastercash but was good fun especially the second session as there was alot of action. Had about 14 games on hypers after dinner but before sitting down on cash which went really well, run incredibly good including a couple of pretty bad suckouts against a good player who i would probably avoid if i had checked the lobby. But ended up around +£65 due to that mini heater, so all in all a decent day considering i spent most of it donking around at 10nl.
Havn't posted for a couple of days and wont be posting regularly for a little while as i'm taking a much more casual approach at the moment due to alot of other things going on uni related. Profit wise i have been continuing my good form at hypers i feel very confident in my game at the moment having tweaked a few things and tried to improve. I have been making random withdrawals lately and not concentrating on how much i had been winning-losing scope says i have played 76 games since monday and profit is £103 which is another very nice weeks work, although not really much volume. My av stake was £8.87 and roi: 15.2% so i have mixed stakes up a bit playing alot more 10s and feeling more mentally set up to take them on more regularly.
At the moment i just want to ensure i maintain a plus 1k roll so i have a healthy amount in my account for when i play a bit more seriously in the summer. Also anyone who takes there HU game quite seriously there is a free e-book available called HUSNG mersenneary ebook which you can find just by googling, its legit as well they made it available for free purposefully so you wont be illegally downloading anything, i would really reccomend it if you want to improve how you think about the game.
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Games played: 20
Structures/Stakes:£5.25 Hyper two tabling.
Profit/Loss: +£5.05
West ham was a great game to watch, never nice to lose to tottenham but what a goal by bale throughougly deserved victory.
Played between half 10-11, very pleased to get 3 winning sessions in, i didn't start well again and then steamed in a couple of games due to a disconnection blinding me down and effectively costing me a game. I'm also pleased i managed to stick to the 5,25s in each session and got a very decent amount of volume in, i also managed to surpass the 4500c4p so am into the £70 figures now which is good.
I realise it is an overload of posts if i carry on this in this manner, so i wont carry on posting each hour i put in, instead i will continue to note down each hourly session as above with a total profit/loss games played in a word document and then post one complete day summary which summarizes each hour in the diary. The aim is to try put in between 12-15 hours a week as if it was a part time job and hopefully if i turn a profit withdraw a percentage of the profit every couple of weeks or so.
Day Total
Hours played: 3
Games played: 56
Stake: £5.25 hyper
Profit/Loss: +£46
Session 1:
Time: 1 hour 10minutes
Stakes/game: 5.25 hyper one/two tabling
Total games:19
Profit/loss: +£20.04
First session went very well with another healthy profit, stuck to two tables most of the hour, was chatting to quickfeet as well during this hour so only had one table running at one point, so added an extra 10 mins to session to get to my target of 18 per hour.
Session 2:
Time: 1 hour
Stakes/Game: £5.25 hyper 2-3 tabling
Total Games: 26
Profit/Loss: +£3.69
Total games for the day: 45
This session had the potential to be brutal, was 3 tabling to try and hit the 100 game mark for the two days and hit 3 coolers in a row, obviously they were all calls that i wanted but i started button bashing for a a couple of mins lol i managed to regained composure and take down a small profit, running good against one particular reg who i bump into alot which helps but in general session wasn't great and i'm very happy to have come out of it with a profit. I will probably not 3 table hypers to often, a lot of fun but probably losing a fair bit of edge against the competent guys who occasionally appear.
Some of my figures may be off by a few pence as i'm doing it on notepad during sessions where i write my roll at the beggining and end of each hour and then add up, but i'm veryfying using scope since yesterday so the week total and day total should always be accurate.
Day Total: £23.73
Total Hours: 5h 10m
Week Total: £69.67
Total Games Played: 101
I will try post an image/graph for so far..
Session 1:
Time: 1 hour
Stakes/game: 5.25 hyper two/three tabling
Total games:28
Profit/loss: +£23
Another very good session to start the day,having no problem playing 3 tables when i'm refreshed as well which explains the high volume in this hour. I'm finding this new way of playing in a set time and concentrating fully on poker is helping me stay focused and its also beneficial to not be playing when i have umpteen other things going on.
Session 2:
Time: 1 hour
Stakes/Game: £5.25 hyper 2-3 tabling
Total Games: 16
Profit/Loss: +£15.96
Started off with 3 tables but cut down to 2 and then 1 by the end of the session as felt a bit tired and didn't want to start doing anything stupid, another good profitable session.
Total games for the day: 44
Must be running very well at the moment to not yet have a losing hour, very pleased with how it is going at the moment but i'm already mentally prepared for the tough times ahead that will turn my roi into a more realistic figure but enjoying the heater whilst it lasts lol
Day Total: £38.96
Total Hours: 7h 10m
Week Total: £109
Total Games Played: 145
Also forgot to add i won £5 in the golden ticket draw, must be running good at the moment! lol I ahve no added that to the week figures though, i have so far only played £5.25 hypers this week.
I just finished a quick session, ended it after 50 minutes as i'm feeling tired and a bit mentally burned out, also felt like i was getting increasingly annoyed at losing some very standard preflop all ins and didn't want to tilt or play higher.
Still despite thinking the session was going pretty awfully and that i was down a couple of buy ins at least, i was pleasently suprised to work out afterwards that it wasn't a losing session, maybe due to a mixture of tiredness and burn out i was overeacting to anything slightly negative in the session and ignoring the hands that fell in my favour.
I won't be playing tomorrow as im in norwich, maybe will get an hour or two in sunday night, would be nice to finish the week by completing 10 hours and not digging into the profit i have earned so far. I just need to ensure i pick the right times to play when i'm feeling refreshed and capable of playing to the best of my ability.
Session:1
Time: 50 minutes
Stakes/game: £5.25 hypers one/two tabling
Total games: 17
Profit/loss: +£0.75p
Day Total: £0.75p
Total Hours: 8hours
24/02/13 +: Week Total: £109.75p
Total Games Played: 162
not posted here b4 as i've no idea about this game u play.
great results from what i've read though,so well played buddy,you obviously i'm guessing anyway must enjoy playing them, and certainly your roi is very good.
just a question,i noticed you seem to play relatively short sessions,about an hour or so typically.
have you found this to be your optimal strategy or is it something you have always done,maybe because it is all the time you can spare for playing?
the reason i'm asking is because although this is an area i've never really looked into,as yet anyway,it is a fact that as i am getting on a bit now (54 this year...aaagh),and like it or not,it's not getting any easier playing 4/6/8 hour sessions,well optimally anyway,so the possibility of playing 'timed sessions' could be something for me to think about,i feel.
thanks in advance.
'be lucky'
dev
In answer to your question the reason i have started to play short sessions lately is a result of having alot of coursework to do. I'm unsure as to how beneifical it would be long term as it has only been over a short space of time, although i can see the benefits as i seem to be playing my A or B game for a shorter time rather than my C-D game for a sustained period of time. However i'm sure there are times you can be playng brilliantly for like 3-4 hours at a time so you may be missing out on profit by not prolonging the sessions you feel your playing well.
I think just finding time for a break every couple of hours is the best way of going if you play long periods alot, like 10 minutes just to get some fresh air and relax. I think that is the approach i would usually take if i was playing many hours at a time.
Good luck at the tables, your cash challenge has started well on the other site so hopefully can keep it up.
yes,i'm sure u r right that playing shorter sessions with your A/B game is better than longer ones where C/D game could well creep in.
guess it's all about finding the right balance.
i'll experiment with it this month.i'll play some 2 hr sessions first i think and see how that goes.
best wishes
dev
Anyone have any advice as how they would adapt to a player like that? his stack offs were all pretty poor so i'm guessing he was just willing to gamble with almost every hand, is it best to just go with the jam or fold strategy? anyway so i played a £21 after them 3 games and lost another 60-40, before winning the rematch and then winning 3 £10.50s in a row to breakeven for stepping up so ended up ok. I wasn't too fussed about climbing up as i had the weeks profit behind me and would of stopped if had lost 3 of them in a row as well. Ended up with a loss but nothing major and it could of been alot worse.
So for the week i made 3 figures which i'm really happy about, i have withdrawn £70 which probably just about covers the cost of all the alcohol and pizza i got through yesterday evening lol So summary of the session and week total below:
Today:
Time: 1 hour
Stakes/game: £5.25, £10.50, £21
Total games: 17
Profit/loss: -£5.06
Day Total: -£5.06
Total Hours: 9hours
24/02/13 +: Week Total: £104
Total Games Played: 175
Week Roi: 12.1%
In terms of poker i didn't play yesterday, today i have played 13 hypers at £10.50 level, 1 of which was at half 1 last night when i finished referencing probably not the best idea. The rest were just now and 1 tabling, scope tells me i'm up £3.52 overall so i must of won 1 more than i lost, was rather swingy started badly, down about £30 i think, then got up to about +25 then back down to pretty much breaking even.
Also noticed i have a gold star now on scope which i was baffled about, turns out its for count which means number of games played this year ,which i really dont think is worthy of a star more just a badge that represents the fact i play poker way to much. Hoping to play some mastercash later at 10nl as that is the cash game i'm most used too after playing a fair bit in the summer and in our live games when we i'm at home, although sometimes the live game is as deep as 500bb which is fun, extend mastercash to that deep... lol. So yeah watching what will hopefully be a good game between man u and madrid and donking around on mastercash is probably the plan for later if anyone fancies some easy money.
Standard flat pre flop flat for 5x with the brunson (noone folds that hand in cash right?) then an even better flat to the 3bet, clearly getting the right implied odds/pot odds/donking odds/ im a calling station odds/.. so after playing pre flop like a hero i decide that he was definetly going for a steal preflop, will never have the 5 and i'm playing terribly so he will think i have hit the 5.. ALL IN!, showing the brunson is always a proud moment even if you get stacked.
At the moment i just want to ensure i maintain a plus 1k roll so i have a healthy amount in my account for when i play a bit more seriously in the summer. Also anyone who takes there HU game quite seriously there is a free e-book available called HUSNG mersenneary ebook which you can find just by googling, its legit as well they made it available for free purposefully so you wont be illegally downloading anything, i would really reccomend it if you want to improve how you think about the game.
Good luck all at the tables.