Well, I don't have a lot to rant about today. I am happy to be back to be reporting another profitable day. Again, I tried to play the £100 Nightly Micro MTT, but that was a disaster again and I busted within a few hands. I also didn't cash in the rewards freeroll. My DYMs were pretty good today, apart from the 4 shots I took at the £2 level. I lost all but 1. Which was rather disappointing.
I started the day playing 50p DYMs and then played £1s ones until the last session when I added a few more 50ps in order to start more quicker. I was conscious of getting another 10 points for an extra golden ticket before midnight.
Daily Results
Played: 47
14*£0.55 DYMs -- Won 10 | Lost 4 27*£1.10 DYMs -- Won 21 | Lost 6 4*£2.20 DYMs -- Won 1 | Lost 3 £1,000 Rewards Freeroll -- 768 / 1527 £0.55, £100 Nightly Micro -- 205 / 207
Today was another very good day. At the third time of trying, I won my two shots at the £2 DYM level (I almost busted within a few hands in one though, which would have annoyed me no end [see below]), but at the same time, I lost the 3 $1s I played, so didn't really affect the profit too much. That's about as bad as it got.
Anyway, here's that hand that crippled me. It was more annoying because the two players basically covered each others outs. But then that flop came. *sighs*
Player
Action
Cards
Amount
Pot
Balance
thedazzman
Small blind
15.00
15.00
1925.00
pikeman22
Big blind
30.00
45.00
1565.00
Your hole cards
A
A
winnie23
Call
30.00
75.00
1820.00
Whymewhyno
Raise
120.00
195.00
1840.00
BURNS10191
Fold
Laryx
Call
120.00
315.00
2385.00
thedazzman
Raise
425.00
740.00
1500.00
pikeman22
Call
410.00
1150.00
1155.00
winnie23
Fold
Whymewhyno
All-in
1840.00
2990.00
0.00
Laryx
Fold
thedazzman
All-in
1500.00
4490.00
0.00
pikeman22
All-in
1155.00
5645.00
0.00
Whymewhyno
Unmatched bet
20.00
5625.00
20.00
thedazzman
Show
A
A
pikeman22
Show
J
K
Whymewhyno
Show
K
10
Flop
3
2
Q
Turn
4
River
7
pikeman22
Win
Flush to the King
4935.00
4935.00
thedazzman
Win
Pair of Aces
690.00
690.00
You just gotta laugh!
Daily Results
Played: 38
18*£0.55 DYMs -- Won 13 | Lost 5 18*£1.10 DYMs -- Won 13 | Lost 5 2*£2.20 DYMs -- Won 2 | Lost 0
Profit: £66.86 Bonuses: £4.60 Current Bankroll: £76.86
I really don't want this to sound braggy or jinx it, but in my last 100 games or so (yes, I know its a very small sample], the graph looks very nice. It's almost as vertical as it possibly can go playing DYMs. So would just like to say it's probably the best run of games I have ever had in all the years I've played. I can feel I am playing very well. And that is thanks for allowing me to rant away in this forum post and especially to all you guys that are keeping me focused and extra determined to do well. So thank you!
I will update the graphs and stats again tomorrow before I play any sessions.
As promised, here are the graphs & stats for my play up to yesterday (after the 15th active day [20th May])
The MTTs are a bit sparse, but I am waiting to build my BR a bit further, as there are not many micro MTT in the Sky's Schedule, from what I can see anyway.
If there is any stat or filtered graph or anything anyone would like to see, let me know and i'll try my best to work it out. I have tried to include everything I can think of.
Today I woke up. Was quite busy, and made some scones for the first time. They didn't rise very much and were too small. But tasted okay. So didn't play any poker until the Reward Freeroll started. That was a disaster. I may have missed the very first hand of the tournament as I late-regged a minute into it. I was dealt QQ straight away and raised it as you do. A player open-shoved and I called. He had J3h and hit a flush. Game over.
I also played the Nightly Micro again to try my luck. That didn't fare much better. A few hands in, my top trips/top kicker (AT) on turn ran into a flopped set of 5s to FH. Game over again. The way the player played it actually felt like trips on the flop, however, how much respect can you give these types of players in these types of tournaments?
I also decided to finally move up in limits in the DYMs to £2s, as I have built up quite a good cushion above the 20 buyins I gave myself at the start. It was a yoyo couple of sessions. The first session I won 50% so lost out on only the rake. The second mini session I won the first 5 - I thought 'great', This is going well again - then it was all undone by losing the next 5. From then I was basically struggling so gain any sort of momentum. However, my last mini session I opened up a final 8 games (I was hoping to open 9 to gain 1 extra ticket in the giveaway [you never know it could have been the winning one]) but the last one didn't fill in time, so unregistered. I then went on to win all those final 8 games to turn another overall profit for the day.
"...However, my last mini session I opened up a final 8 games (I was hoping to open 9 to gain 1 extra ticket in the giveaway [you never know it could have been the winning one]..."
"...However, my last mini session I opened up a final 8 games (I was hoping to open 9 to gain 1 extra ticket in the giveaway [you never know it could have been the winning one]..."
Excellent! Not even gaining half the possible amount of tickets, I really wasn't expecting to win anything. But an almost 25% boost to my BR and it's almost double my highest daily profit, so it's very welcome indeed.
I logged in this morning to some pleasing news that I had won £20 in the ticket promotion. All the mentions in the last week about being more conscious about the points I was earning has paid off. It was a pleasant surprise and a very welcome boost to my BR. It has now broken the £100 milestone.
On the poker front, I only played a small session before my backshift at work, and I decided against playing again after, as an early morning start awaits me in the morning. I played a mix of 50p, £1 and £2s as they were not filling very quickly.
Results are;
Daily Results
Played: 9
3*£2.20 DYMs -- Won 2 | Lost 1 4*£1.10 DYMs -- Won 2 | Lost 2 2*£0.55 DYMs -- Won 2 | Lost 0
That's a great achievement, not only the amount but using the figures you have provided you are itm 62.85% of the time which is certainly at the top end of expectations.
So you started with £10, & in less than 3 weeks you've run it up £108, mainly playing £1 & £2 DYM's?
That's really quite something, very well done Dazzy. I'm not blowing smoke, all things are relative, and it's not an easy thing to do at all.
You sound like a man who enjoys his poker too.
Great stuff.
Thanks Tikay. A lot of the profit has been from bonus tickets and the ticket giveaway prize, but poker these last couple of weeks certainly has been very enjoyable, and I doubt i'd be saying that if I was at a loss. I'm not getting ahead of myself though, as I know its a very small sample in the grand scheme of things and I'm just putting it down to The Run Good Factor.
That's a great achievement, not only the amount but using the figures you have provided you are itm 62.85% of the time which is certainly at the top end of expectations.
Keep it up and gl
Thanks. Yes you are pretty much spot on with the ITM number. Hopefully I can replicate the form for as long as possible. However, I would be still be very happy at anything above the 55% ITM mark in DYMs over the long term.
It's comments like these from other users that keep me determined and actually confident in my ability. They are appreciated.
Time to play my first session of the day, after being at work all day. I shall report back, as always, with the results.
This is a very good thread for how to build a bankroll for newbies, using good discipline, slow and steady and fantastic results, well done.
Dazz, I am curious as to why you started this? - Is it just to document a BR challenge?
I am not here to criticise as what you have done here is textbook stuff - brilliant.
BUT, you are clearly a good player already (not a newbie) and know what you are doing - why didn't you deposit 100 pounds rather than 10 pounds and start on the 2.20 and 3.30 tables? - You are good enough to crush these levels, this would have saved you days/weeks of grinding?
I'm tempted to say once you have got up to 250 pounds, document your grind up to 1000 pounds from there - as I don't think it would take you long at all.
This is a very good thread for how to build a bankroll for newbies, using good discipline, slow and steady and fantastic results, well done.
Dazz, I am curious as to why you started this? - Is it just to document a BR challenge?
I am not here to criticise as what you have done here is textbook stuff - brilliant.
BUT, you are clearly a good player already (not a newbie) and know what you are doing - why didn't you deposit 100 pounds rather than 10 pounds and start on the 2.20 and 3.30 tables? - You are good enough to crush these levels, this would have saved you days/weeks of grinding?
I'm tempted to say once you have got up to 250 pounds, document your grind up to 1000 pounds from there - as I don't think it would take you long at all.
Don't encourage him further hes already taking money off me at micros. Don't want him playing 2.20 and 3.30, theyre already tough enough.
Why I started this? Well, you kind of answered that in your first line. To use it as a mechanism to control my discipline with the hope of gaining slow and steady profit.
If you read my first challenge, that was started probably about 2 weeks prior to this one, it gave some of my background info. And my biggest weakness in poker has always being turning into a tilty spewtard when results started to go bad over a couple of days.
I gave up on that challenge quite quickly because that's exactly what happened. I just repeated what I had done on so many occasions before. Played higher than I should have and tilted a bit.
It is quite embarrassing really, that I have played poker for many years, and never really learned from my tilty mistakes, Busting many bankrolls. Don't get me wrong though, it has always been fun up until that frustrating point of busting. I guess I could be labelled as a standard recreational player who just deposits constantly in the hope of hitting a big score without much care if I busted or not.
And I guess that kind of answers your next question also. I had already deposited 150 for the previous challenge and eventually did what I always did. So after a break for a week or so, I thought i'd actually do something that would test my discipline a bit more without risking a whole lot. There was no point repeating the same old cycle again. And if somewhat successful and manage to climb a few levels, it would go a long way to making me feel confident in my poker ability (with actual proof of some success over a period of time) and be in much better shape to control any tiltiness at the higher level where the swings would be more noticeable to the BR yet possibly be more rewarding too.
Luckily, as of yet there really hasn't been any prolonged bad runs and has gone much, much better than expected, so really, my weak discipline hasn't really been tested. If I'm being honest, I really thought I'd be stuck around in the bottom levels for much longer. And I really think documenting my progress here has helped. Each and every comment received has kind of spurred me on to succeed. If it wasn't for this thread, I definitely would have been taking shots at higher buyins which would likely have turned sour pretty quickly, as my BR would obviously not be suited to them.
I just hope the good progress can continue, and I'll be maybe meeting you at your tables soon.
As for the book you recommended earlier, I have not forgot. Not being much of a bookworm I have just put it off, however, I did look it up after you mentioned it and it gets pretty rave reviews and really does seem like a perfect fit to help in my scenario.
This is a very good thread for how to build a bankroll for newbies, using good discipline, slow and steady and fantastic results, well done.
Dazz, I am curious as to why you started this? - Is it just to document a BR challenge?
I am not here to criticise as what you have done here is textbook stuff - brilliant.
BUT, you are clearly a good player already (not a newbie) and know what you are doing - why didn't you deposit 100 pounds rather than 10 pounds and start on the 2.20 and 3.30 tables? - You are good enough to crush these levels, this would have saved you days/weeks of grinding?
I'm tempted to say once you have got up to 250 pounds, document your grind up to 1000 pounds from there - as I don't think it would take you long at all.
Don't encourage him further hes already taking money off me at micros. Don't want him playing 2.20 and 3.30, theyre already tough enough.
Haha. you were just unlucky running into my Kings. There's little skill involved in winning those types of hands.
Not much to say tonight. After a looooong day at work and another shift to look forward to in the morning (who likes weekend working anyway?) So like yeterday, I only managed a session before heading to sleep.
Comments
Well, I don't have a lot to rant about today. I am happy to be back to be reporting another profitable day. Again, I tried to play the £100 Nightly Micro MTT, but that was a disaster again and I busted within a few hands. I also didn't cash in the rewards freeroll. My DYMs were pretty good today, apart from the 4 shots I took at the £2 level. I lost all but 1. Which was rather disappointing.
I started the day playing 50p DYMs and then played £1s ones until the last session when I added a few more 50ps in order to start more quicker. I was conscious of getting another 10 points for an extra golden ticket before midnight.
14*£0.55 DYMs -- Won 10 | Lost 4
27*£1.10 DYMs -- Won 21 | Lost 6
4*£2.20 DYMs -- Won 1 | Lost 3
£1,000 Rewards Freeroll -- 768 / 1527
£0.55, £100 Nightly Micro -- 205 / 207
Staked: £46.75
Winnings: £56
Profit: £9.25
ROI: 19.79%
ITM: 68.09%
Bonuses: £4.60
Current Bankroll: £63.96
Good luck at the tables,
Onwards and upwards
Today was another very good day. At the third time of trying, I won my two shots at the £2 DYM level (I almost busted within a few hands in one though, which would have annoyed me no end [see below]), but at the same time, I lost the 3 $1s I played, so didn't really affect the profit too much. That's about as bad as it got.
Anyway, here's that hand that crippled me. It was more annoying because the two players basically covered each others outs. But then that flop came. *sighs*
18*£0.55 DYMs -- Won 13 | Lost 5
18*£1.10 DYMs -- Won 13 | Lost 5
2*£2.20 DYMs -- Won 2 | Lost 0
Staked: £34.10
Winnings: £47
Profit: £12.90
ROI: 37.83%
ITM: 73.68
Bonuses: £4.60
Current Bankroll: £76.86
I really don't want this to sound braggy or jinx it, but in my last 100 games or so (yes, I know its a very small sample], the graph looks very nice. It's almost as vertical as it possibly can go playing DYMs. So would just like to say it's probably the best run of games I have ever had in all the years I've played. I can feel I am playing very well. And that is thanks for allowing me to rant away in this forum post and especially to all you guys that are keeping me focused and extra determined to do well. So thank you!
I will update the graphs and stats again tomorrow before I play any sessions.
Good luck at the tables,
Onwards and upwards
I’d like that roi!
Great work Dazzy, keep it up mate.
Somehow I'm expecting a bad downswing soon, but hopefully not too soon.
The MTTs are a bit sparse, but I am waiting to build my BR a bit further, as there are not many micro MTT in the Sky's Schedule, from what I can see anyway.
If there is any stat or filtered graph or anything anyone would like to see, let me know and i'll try my best to work it out. I have tried to include everything I can think of.
Cheers!
SnG Breakdown
MTT Breakdown
Total Stats
Today I woke up. Was quite busy, and made some scones for the first time. They didn't rise very much and were too small. But tasted okay. So didn't play any poker until the Reward Freeroll started. That was a disaster. I may have missed the very first hand of the tournament as I late-regged a minute into it. I was dealt QQ straight away and raised it as you do. A player open-shoved and I called. He had J3h and hit a flush. Game over.
I also played the Nightly Micro again to try my luck. That didn't fare much better. A few hands in, my top trips/top kicker (AT) on turn ran into a flopped set of 5s to FH. Game over again. The way the player played it actually felt like trips on the flop, however, how much respect can you give these types of players in these types of tournaments?
I also decided to finally move up in limits in the DYMs to £2s, as I have built up quite a good cushion above the 20 buyins I gave myself at the start. It was a yoyo couple of sessions. The first session I won 50% so lost out on only the rake. The second mini session I won the first 5 - I thought 'great', This is going well again - then it was all undone by losing the next 5. From then I was basically struggling so gain any sort of momentum. However, my last mini session I opened up a final 8 games (I was hoping to open 9 to gain 1 extra ticket in the giveaway [you never know it could have been the winning one]) but the last one didn't fill in time, so unregistered. I then went on to win all those final 8 games to turn another overall profit for the day.
Pleasing to say the least.
39*£2.20 DYMs -- Won 24 | Lost 15
£1,000 Rewards Freeroll -- 1414 / 1423
£0.55, £100 Nightly Micro -- 164 / 185
Staked: £86.35
Winnings: £96
Profit: £9.65
ROI: 11.18%
ITM: 58.54%
Bonuses: £4.60
Current Bankroll: £86.51
Good luck at the tables,
Onwards and upwards
"...However, my last mini session I opened up a final 8 games (I was hoping to open 9 to gain 1 extra ticket in the giveaway [you never know it could have been the winning one]..."
Funny you should say that Dazzy......
https://www.skypoker.com/secure/poker/sky_lobby/community/forums#/discussion/178479/golden-ticket-giveaway-week-three-winners-prizes
I logged in this morning to some pleasing news that I had won £20 in the ticket promotion. All the mentions in the last week about being more conscious about the points I was earning has paid off. It was a pleasant surprise and a very welcome boost to my BR. It has now broken the £100 milestone.
On the poker front, I only played a small session before my backshift at work, and I decided against playing again after, as an early morning start awaits me in the morning.
I played a mix of 50p, £1 and £2s as they were not filling very quickly.
Results are;
3*£2.20 DYMs -- Won 2 | Lost 1
4*£1.10 DYMs -- Won 2 | Lost 2
2*£0.55 DYMs -- Won 2 | Lost 0
Staked: £12.10
Winnings: £14
Profit: £1.90
ROI: 15.70%
ITM: 66.67%
Bonuses: £24.60
Current Bankroll: £108.41
Good luck at the tables,
Onwards and upwards
So you started with £10, & in less than 3 weeks you've run it up £108, mainly playing £1 & £2 DYM's?
That's really quite something, very well done Dazzy. I'm not blowing smoke, all things are relative, and it's not an easy thing to do at all.
You sound like a man who enjoys his poker too.
Great stuff.
Keep it up and gl
It's comments like these from other users that keep me determined and actually confident in my ability. They are appreciated.
Time to play my first session of the day, after being at work all day. I shall report back, as always, with the results.
Dazz, I am curious as to why you started this? - Is it just to document a BR challenge?
I am not here to criticise as what you have done here is textbook stuff - brilliant.
BUT, you are clearly a good player already (not a newbie) and know what you are doing - why didn't you deposit 100 pounds rather than 10 pounds and start on the 2.20 and 3.30 tables? - You are good enough to crush these levels, this would have saved you days/weeks of grinding?
I'm tempted to say once you have got up to 250 pounds, document your grind up to 1000 pounds from there - as I don't think it would take you long at all.
Thanks for the compliments.
Why I started this? Well, you kind of answered that in your first line. To use it as a mechanism to control my discipline with the hope of gaining slow and steady profit.
If you read my first challenge, that was started probably about 2 weeks prior to this one, it gave some of my background info. And my biggest weakness in poker has always being turning into a tilty spewtard when results started to go bad over a couple of days.
I gave up on that challenge quite quickly because that's exactly what happened. I just repeated what I had done on so many occasions before. Played higher than I should have and tilted a bit.
It is quite embarrassing really, that I have played poker for many years, and never really learned from my tilty mistakes, Busting many bankrolls. Don't get me wrong though, it has always been fun up until that frustrating point of busting. I guess I could be labelled as a standard recreational player who just deposits constantly in the hope of hitting a big score without much care if I busted or not.
And I guess that kind of answers your next question also. I had already deposited 150 for the previous challenge and eventually did what I always did. So after a break for a week or so, I thought i'd actually do something that would test my discipline a bit more without risking a whole lot. There was no point repeating the same old cycle again. And if somewhat successful and manage to climb a few levels, it would go a long way to making me feel confident in my poker ability (with actual proof of some success over a period of time) and be in much better shape to control any tiltiness at the higher level where the swings would be more noticeable to the BR yet possibly be more rewarding too.
Luckily, as of yet there really hasn't been any prolonged bad runs and has gone much, much better than expected, so really, my weak discipline hasn't really been tested. If I'm being honest, I really thought I'd be stuck around in the bottom levels for much longer. And I really think documenting my progress here has helped. Each and every comment received has kind of spurred me on to succeed. If it wasn't for this thread, I definitely would have been taking shots at higher buyins which would likely have turned sour pretty quickly, as my BR would obviously not be suited to them.
I just hope the good progress can continue, and I'll be maybe meeting you at your tables soon.
As for the book you recommended earlier, I have not forgot. Not being much of a bookworm I have just put it off, however, I did look it up after you mentioned it and it gets pretty rave reviews and really does seem like a perfect fit to help in my scenario.
Cheers!
Not much to say tonight. After a looooong day at work and another shift to look forward to in the morning (who likes weekend working anyway?) So like yeterday, I only managed a session before heading to sleep.
20*£2.20 DYMs -- Won 15 | Lost 5
Staked: £44
Winnings: £60
Profit: £16
ROI: 36.36%
ITM: 75%
Bonuses: £24.60
Current Bankroll: £124.41
Good luck at the tables,
Onwards and upwards