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Every Don has its day
The_Don90
Member Posts: 9,814
Decided to have another attempt at doing a diary.
The Background
As many may remember I've had a couple of diarys now where I've completey failed. Mostly because I've tilted playing lots of NL4 and played/run bad. However in around August time, i decided to take what as meant to be a few weeks off to recover my head. I always felt like i was a half decent poker player, but I have the mental strenth of a cabbage. Alot of that was down to issues i have in my personal life and i felt to sort them i had to stop playing poker, aswell as giving up several other things.
More recent history
Well I gave up smoking about a month ago, still going strong despite one mishap. My partner is also expecting our first child. I moved in December, and returned to the tables when my internet came back. I started playing MTTs again, on another site. I had mixed success, one final table and a few deep runs seen me turn $30 into $130 rather quickly. That dropped then back to $130. Then i had a night of disaster. I had a bad spell, playing not great, making some bad calls. Mixed with a little runbad, i lost the lot - in a single 24 hour period playing micro mtts.
That was a lesson on the game i needed when comming back however. I have been playing the odd live game with my father during my break, but until you grind again its easy to forget how brutal poker can be sometimes.
I did say to Scouse one day I'd play the DTD and thats when i remembered i still had £20 in my Sky account. Although quitting smoking has seen an increase to our life roll, given we have previous depts to clear and other issues, we haven't yet seen the benefit of that, so no reload money was avalible. I played the DTD and Final tabled one event. Cant remember which one. That paid for a few unsuccessful games that week.
The return to Sky
This week back to £20 i played the Friday night orfordable. Busting early left me with a roll of around £17. For no apparent reason other than bordom on the friday night, i couldn't sleep so came on and was railing a friend. I decided to reg for a tournament. Given not many good MTTs past 11pm i regged for the 11.30 bounty hunter. £5.75 from a £17 roll was probably a huge gamble, expessially for an mtt, but I knew i get paid soon and i can reload then. However i played one of the best games I've ever played, taking it down including heads for just under £190.
That obviously gave me some bankroll to play with and I could start to grind MTTs properly. With the rule of playing purely for fun, meant I didn't have to tilt myself by saying I cant register for set tournaments because i cant afford it. Although i do have a limit. The next day another small FT took my roll to £230. Given I think i only cashed in 2 tournaments on Saturday and played alot i felt £50 profit was awesome.
Then came the big one on Sunday. I played lots of sats, mostly because of one thing. I've never cashed in a main event on sky. I have no explination for it. I know in some its been bad beats, other its been coolers. Mostly its standard stuff. A couple i have played badly in. But it seems like a huge wieght that i have on my shoulders now. However I failed to make the primo, although i did play other sat and made all those tournaments. Including the £30k roller semi. I went onto win that seat, although on recommendation used my new found wealth to register and take the cash. I'll decide on the day if I will play or not. With other results that took my BR to £320.
Monday seen me rise to £330. Thanks to another FT in the DTD.
Tuesday was wake up day. And the days where my diary will most likley be at its most popular is days like Tuesday. I couldn't sleep so I'd played some cash on Tuesday morning. NL20 mostly because i couldnt get a seat lower. 2 mistakes seen me finnish £30 down. Although i think at one point it was looking at much worse. The rest of the day i played a mix of mtts and NL10. The return of cash brought back the "run bad" I'd experianced while playing NL4.
Although I noticed one thing key this time around. The one thing i won all day was a sat into the main. Which i busted KK v QA all in pre standard stuff. However I felt like i wasn't playing well. I asked a friend to rail me and try spot errors, of coarse hes at the other end of a skype convo so could only comment on showdown hands. He spotted nothing as a result.
I went all the way down as low as £220. Before bed i played an hour of NL4 and did recover back to £224. But i still wasn't playing great. I wasn't going to sleep but decided it would be best to sleep and refresh the brain.
Upon waking up I registered purley for about £50's worth of MTTs. Over a large period of time. I'd missed all the sats bar i think two for the ME so decided to give it a miss. One of the early tournaments i tore up. I was playing well. I'd busted a few others with standard hands. But in this one I was deep and playing some great poker. With 9 left I was a runaway chip leader. However a crash back down to Earth with some craziness later, i finished 5th (the major hands of this are in BBV if anyone wants to see). I still feel like i should have won that tournament, but I can't control calls by others, and i certainly cant control the run out of the board going against me.
I de-reg'd from my last 2 tournaments of the night after that as they hadn't started yet, and i knew i was in tilt zone. I showed a disapline i never used to have. I went for a bath and watched a film with Mel. She went to bed and feeling much more refreshed, i late-regged into one of the speed bounty hunters and the 2am £100 GTD. I finnished second in the bounty hunter, including heads for £26. Never got going in the 2am.
The Goals
Cash in a Sky Poker ME
Become a profitable player long term
Don't Tilt
What I shall be playing
MTTs
Sats
Probably a small amount of cash
Starting Bankroll: £257.18
Starting Points: 622
as you'll see in the pic, i started in loss. Strangely i was always in profit on sky until 2012. At some points in decent profit too. So I'm hoping that 2013 graph returns to the previous way and i can just put it down to a bad year.
Comments
i wanna do a diary aswell but my grammar aint very gd i think am a decent player too as your self but need to seriously get a grip of my bank roll management and learn to not tilt
yesterday for instance i lost a hand by bad beat after playin for hours playin magic then i get bad beta and tilt lose lots then come off have break then start again get aa against opponent dunno what he has but he raises and i have aa i re raise him he calls board jjq he bets i call turn q he shoves i fold wtf he then shows me 3 8 off i was ragin then tilted again
i calmed down then reviewed what i had done after he had bet again i shud have shoved if i lose i shrug it off but i need to learn to do this as i know i can be a gd player
tilt is my number 1 enemy at the moment
run golden
Mums have it the hardest )
Parenting is the most natural thing and you will be surprised how natural it becomes when the baby arrives.
I always remember bringing our first baby home from the hospital and we both felt so excited and anxious all at the same time. We just plonked the baby down on the middle of the room and said "What now ! "
You will become really emotional regarding anything to do with baby/kid stories
You suddenly start to relate to all this, like the fox dragging the baby out of the back door !!
U think OMG it could be mine !!
So apart from anxiety, fear and panic - you will be fine )