Going to get a good few hours in tonight, cant't wait! Didn't get a chance to play yesterday due to the football.

On sky me and Brian (slipwater), are doing a 24 hour poker session for Cancer Research.

www.justgiving.com/pokerthon

Any sponsorship would be greatly appreciated. Brian's down at Dusk to Dawn this weekend for the SPT, if anyone at all wants to donate it can be done through the justgiving site above, or you can see Brian at the weekend if you are playing.

Thanks

Hey Chippy,

I'm not trying to be anonymous, i'm involved a good amount on the sky community, just going to try here for a bit as it's not so specific to anyone particular site.

I don't really like posting hand histories and will keep it to a minimum. This keeps me focussed writing this publically, I find some "diaries" interesting, and hopefully some people will enjoy reading this.

I don't know your name either;)

Hey Doobs,

Indeed:D

 

Use weaktight.com to convert the hands, it might not work, but I saw this earlier and couldn't make any sense of it. Make a note of the betsizing in this hand. Especially if you see the guy a lot.
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Cheers mate, i'll check it out. Normally on that site you just copy and paste a hh at it comes up in full, suits and everything lol

This hand here, the reason i said i played it pretty bad is cause i'm normally really aggro, most people think i'm pretty LAG. I don't like check calling, but against this particular vilian i felt it was the best way to proceed. I especially dislike not continuation betting the flop, but with the time bar going down i felt it was the best line for getting value from the hand. There is no real draws on the board, by the river i'm only slightly concerned they have a raggy King (they play pretty much every hand, and will never fold 2 a 3 bet). I had some good notes on opponent, but unfortunatly they dont play that much. I ended up stacking them 3 times over 2 hours, before they left

Had a quick look at your blog, well done on graduating and good luck with the future, whether it be poker or otherwise.

Hey Oxford,

Thanks for the response!

Yeah reads on villian are they love to fire every street with any2. If you re raise them they fold an awful lot.

I did play the hand pretty bad, check calling, it was kinda player specific. On the river, it is a bluff catcher. With the bet sizing on the river (of oppo) i was pretty sure it was a bluff and called. They had total air.

Out of interest, what is that MP2/ MP3? Some kinda tool for working out possible rangers? Never seen anything like that before!

And sorry about the HH, it's the first time i've posted one in here, clearly it doesnt copy and paste well! I'll work out a way to post HH in a better way the next time.

lol just checked out a few other threads in the diary section, lots of 100nl players. Seems to be loads of live players 2 haha

Well, Blondpoker this is something a bit different!

DTD looks awesome, gutted i'm not going to the SPT now. Always next year!

Not played at all today with the football being on, hoping to get a good session in on wed/ thu and get this thread moving. Now i've started this gotta have some run good, for sure, has to be lol

Not a fan of h/h on here, but might post up a few hands in the next couple of days see how it goes.

involved on here.

Work full time, just enjoy playing poker for fun and it's sweet taking a small income every month from what is a hobby. Ultimatly i just want to keep improving at poker and see where it goes.

lol love the poker speak degen haha

Degen stories? None really lol

So my challange is to get to 1k by the end of this year to give me 50 B/i for 20nl. I was on target but had a bit of a blow up day on Friday and tilted away £60 by just playing really bad. Since July i've won the vast majority of days i've been playing, maybe only having one losing session per week. That was till a couple of weeks ago, when i had 3 consective losing days, i was just getting cooler after cooler and was running really bad which seeped into playing/ bad chasing losses.

I've got a lot better at dealing with tilt, but can still rear it's ugly head on occasion. After a bad Friday, Sunday was a good day plus £50 which almost took care of Fridays losses.

So far since the end of Sept, i am up £200 towards reaching the £1000 target. It's going to be really hard given the amount of time i have to play and also the stakes i play at. Posting this publically kinda gives me an incentive.

I've got a lot better at MTT's in the last while, a nice bink would a sweet boost to bankroll!

At the moment i mostly play on Sky, but am looking at other sites to help me reach 1k target. No idea if it's mostly high stake players on here, but looking forward to gettiing         

 

Great stuff Alex, good to hear it's working out for you and your parents were cool with it.

How are you finding it now? Is it mostly live poker you play?

Hey Chippy and Flush thanks.

Flush, DTD? Nah i'm in Scotland lol Hardly ever play live nowadays, unless just for a bit of fun in a pub game, but definatly looking at playing at the casino (cash) in about 2 months time, when i have a bit more money behind me. I find playing live now really slow, after been used to playing online, but my friends that play live get a good turn they say Friday and Saturday nights the tables are so soft with the amount of drunks sitting down for a gamble.

This "diary" here not sure what format it is going to take yet, it's really boring just posting i won x or lost x, got it in good and got runner runnered! I'll work something out, also can't believe the amount of diaries on here, loads and loads. I'll need to take some time to check out other peoples posts.

Some on here with 1000s of pages lol that's a lot of writing.

No idea if there is many low stakes diaries on here, in a way this is what this will be.

I'll update in the next day or so what format this is going to take.

Good luck at the tables everyone!

Hey Alex,

Just joined the forum today, so just  read the 1st page of your post!

Good on you mate being opened up to the "outside" world during your gap year.

That's the great thing about poker, it brings people from all manner of different backgrounds together.

No idea if you play poker for a living or not, if you do, how did your parents react to that?

 

Whoops it never posted the suits of the card! it is a rainbow board/ no flush possible. or flush draws on flop/ turn

Hey!

Just wondering for thoughts on my line here, vilian is spewy/ bluffy and likes to fire out at everything but most times when you bet they fold.

90% of the time here I am continuation betting this flop, but against this opponent felt it would give them the chance to fold. The plan is pretty much to check /call. I know this is probably to passive, especially on the river, I ended up checking the river to allow them to continue to bluff.

Opponent likes to see every flop pretty much and is pretty loose. They could have a king here, but there's also a high chance they don't. I've excluded the result just now, but will post it up later on.


Hero  Small blind   £0.05  £0.05  £41.02  
MaxFizzle  Big blind   £0.10  £0.15  £26.50  
   Your hole cards  Q Q          
Vil  Call   £0.10  £0.25  £15.32  
fez197  Call   £0.10  £0.35  £21.34  
moyle06  Fold      
Hero  Raise   £0.45  £0.80  £40.57  
MaxFizzle  Fold      
Vil  Call   £0.40  £1.20  £14.92  
fez197  Fold      
Flop
      7 K 9          
Hero  Check      
VilBet   £0.60  £1.80  £14.32  
Hero  Call   £0.60  £2.40  £39.97  
Turn
      5          
Hero  Check      
VilBet   £1.20  £3.60  £13.12  
Hero  Call   £1.20  £4.80  £38.77  
River
      A          
Hero Check      
Vil Bet   £3.60  £8.40  £9.52  
Hero  Call  

Hey everyone,

New to the forum! I'm going to start a diary on here showing how I get on at poker over the next couple of months. Might post up some hand histories too to get some feedback, but not 2 many and just interesting hands!

Started playing poker about 3 years ago as a bit of fun, was introduced to the game through the Casino then pub games, really liked the game but was purely for fun. It still is fun, but I've started winning a lot more over the last 6 months to a year, would definatly say I have improved a lot in that time but there is a long way to go!

I mostly play cash and mtts, all low stake games and seem to be doing well enough at the levels I play. Looking at moving up to 20nl soon and this will really be the journey to that point.

Look forward to getting involved on the forum!