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I wish you luck with the poker and the diary, but I promise you this. You won't last more than two years as a teenage grinder.

I wish you luck with the poker and the diary, but I promise you this. You won't last more than two years as a teenage grinder.

I wish you luck with the poker and the diary, but I promise you this. You won't last more than two years as a teenage grinder.

Haha, I'm going to stop doing this now  ::)

Haha, I'm going to stop doing this now  ::)

Hello  :) Welcome to Blonde.

We will most probably bump heads at DTD when you move here.
Looking forward to this haha

Whilst it is easy to make money at 50/1, I agree with PJ that it is hard to make a decent living out of it.
This i had not really thought off. my plan was to put most of my volume in online anyway, what site do you play on?

. Online is always going to be better and it's true that you learn a lot faster online too (online players are better) ;)
Obv true ;)

Any male that post on blonde , Melissa will try to chat them up .

Oh be quiet Frankie! Just ignore him, this isn't true :)

Oh be quiet Frankie! Just ignore him, this isn't true ;melissa;

I play on stars, 6-max games mostly.

For 1/1, if it was your only income then a minimum of £5k I would say. The max buy in is £250 so I usually go a minimum of 20 buy ins for full ring. It really depends what you are comfortable with though. The 1/1 games can be soft, so if you felt comfortable and confident taking  a shot at it with less than 20 buy ins, then I would encourage that (obviously as long as you don't put yourself at risk of going broke). If you want to move up pretty quick then I suggest you be quite aggressive with your bankroll.

I play on stars, 6-max games mostly.

For 1/1, if it was your only income then a minimum of £5k I would say. The max buy in is £250 so I usually go a minimum of 20 buy ins for full ring. It really depends what you are comfortable with though. The 1/1 games can be soft, so if you felt comfortable and confident taking  a shot at it with less than 20 buy ins, then I would encourage that (obviously as long as you don't put yourself at risk of going broke). If you want to move up pretty quick then I suggest you be quite aggressive with your bankroll.

I play on stars, 6-max games mostly.

For 1/1, if it was your only income then a minimum of £5k I would say. The max buy in is £250 so I usually go a minimum of 20 buy ins for full ring. It really depends what you are comfortable with though. The 1/1 games can be soft, so if you felt comfortable and confident taking  a shot at it with less than 20 buy ins, then I would encourage that (obviously as long as you don't put yourself at risk of going broke). If you want to move up pretty quick then I suggest you be quite aggressive with your bankroll.

Polerization,

Fellow diarist here. I have a few questions.

1. Why did you choose to spell your screen name like you did?
My online screen name and just the way i always spelt it haha

2. How many hours lifetime do you think you've spent playing cash game poker?
A lot (mainly home games) and id say about 100k hands online maybe a little more

3. What's your default Nando's order?
Dont go that often but usually like medium half a chicken guess thats quite standard haha


4. When's your first shift at DTD? ;)
And im on holiday at then end of this month, which is going to cripple my role i guess but it will be at the end of september maybe the middle.

Haha Adrian, you quoted me 3 times

It's a fair point, I personally don't take any money out of my bankroll that would make me drop below 20 buy ins ever but I don't rely soley on poker as an income. A lot depends on your playing style too. So maybe having more than 20 is better for you, but certainly no less than that amount.

I'm presuming you already have about 6 months of expenses set aside incase of a bad downswing?

Hi pole, welcome to blonde.  Although I am currently pessimistic about this idea (with the information currently available), I most sincerely hope that I'm wrong about it and you go on to do well.  I also have a few questions:

Do you play online? (Games, stakes, volume, results etc.)
Have you had any coaching / done any studying?
Do you feel like you have any weaknesses in your game?
Strengths in your game?
Have you ever tried to make a cup-a-soup in a bowl?

Looking forward to this diary and think it has a lot of potential to be an interesting read. GLGL.

I would certainly recommend trying to get involved in some kind of online staking deal that comes with coaching.  That was how I started out and within 2 or 3 months I was 10 times the player I thought I was before I started (and now 2 years later I still don't rate myself as anywhere near the best!)  

As for cup-a-soup in a bowl, don't do it, it's terrible!

Depends what for.  Cash games, MTTs, sng's?

I have a fair bit of experience coaching MTT's & 180 man SNG's (micro-low stakes) which I do exceptionally well in. 

Basically the hourly for playing these things is terrible and would take you a lifetime to make any money doing so.  Even you were abso crushing them with a 100% ROI, you would make $4.50 a game,  they run for 4 - 4 1/2hrs so you're looking at like $1 per game.  Not only this, I think the traffic in the reg speed games is terrible and you might be lucky to average 3 - 4 games an hour, I might be wrong about this, but even if you were a complete sicko, I wouldn't expect you to make more than $4-$5 an hour.  Though to answer you're question, I wouldnt expect more than 200 bi, though I haven't played enough to give a deinitive answer.

The turbo games however are much more profitable.  You play tons of these per hour and with a bit of coaching and practise can make a decent hourly.  I would recommend when starting out to have a roll of 500 buy ins assumming you are a profitable player.  250-300 BI would be aggressive bankroll management and as long as you could afford to reload it would be fine.  Instead of grinding $4.50 reg speeds, I think you would be much better off grinding the $2.50 turbos and building a roll from there.

As a comparison from the $4.50 games, lets say we can play 15 of these an hour (it could be a hell of a lot more with some practise) and we make an ROI of 20% (again ive heard it could be a lot more with practise).  We would make $0.50 per game, so $7.50 per hour and we're only just starting out.  I would say with practise you could play 30+ of these things an hour and have the traffic to allow you to do so.  Not only this, you can quickly build your roll and move up to the 8's, 3r's, 15's and 35's thus increasing your roll faster (and actually make some decent money).

I actually wrote an article about grinding 180's somewhere else, I will post in on Blonde and put you a link in here: ADDED

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=61683.0 (http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=61683.0)

Like I said, even for the best regs, 300 buy in aren't uncommon.  Just gotta stick at it and make sure you're rolled for it.

Don't think I've ever had a 300 bi downswing and I'm definitely one of the more aggro regs ?

Had a 200 bi downswing in all my games at once which wasn't a whole lot of fun.

200 is fairly common and I have a few over the course of the year, pretty certain polerization will be playing lower variance than I do though.

GLGLGL.

180s are a walk in the park compared to mtt's.

Nah I generally play really tight early, then when antes come in, shit gets real.

so woke up this morning and i thought about playing some 25/50c heads up on BWIN these are the softest games and dont think ive lost at these, so put $50 on and made this into $150 in about 10 minutes (they really are bad players) then decided to shot take further cashing in my original $50 and playing 50/1 these players seem a bit better but still not special really i was up to like $140 against a guy who was playing like $180 when i tried tripple barrel semi bluffing on KQ56ddxx the river bricks Ax i have 78dd he checkstheres about $68 in the pot so bet $40 (felt like a nice number) for the guy to flat with J10 sigggggh think the xxx were clubs, then ended up getting my last $60 in with JJ on 569 flop for him to turn over 78 haha gg. but feel like i played really well bar these two hands which i think were just unlucky, i really need to get rolled/staked for the 50NLHU its so easy pretty much don't think ive lost at this stake so far.

So excited atm go to Ayia Napa in a week with my friends this should be epic think its time for a break of poker now till i get back so like 3 weeks probably longest i wont have played in so long hopefully it'll help my game fingers crossed :D

Hi Mate,

Been reading this diary over last month or so and it's interesting, I've been talking on facebook to a guy for a while now who is just starting out at poker, he reminds me of me when i was 18-20 and you remind me of him lol you guys should chat!

whats his name? type of game? but could be helpful thanks.

Few things i've noticed, and this is pretty much the same advice I gave the other guy, at the moment your poker has no direction at all, you're trying this one day, that the other $50 punt here, $100 punt there and so on. Now there is nothing wrong with this AT ALL, if this is what you want, but i'd strongly advise that if you're going to do this then you have something else to do as well, a job, maybe a uni course IDK whatever you want, because you're going to find it quite frustrating to approach the game like this if you're relying on it for money - if that makes sense? What will happen ofc is you'll find a format of the game you just really like more than most of the others, or one you seem to be naturally better at and you'll spend more and more time doing that.

really thinking that atm i can support myself playing poker find playing 10/25c on any site but stars a really easy, this sort of counts as a spin up but made a $400 bankroll sort of think playing these of £30 this has now been cashed in but i will have a roll of about £600 to play these in september im really looking forward to the grind and feel that even though yeah i will have pressure for rent/expenditure i can get a job as a back up and already have one as a back up i feel that the 10/25c ive been playing on BWIN recently and these are incredibly easy so i see this as an opportunity to earn the 10/15bi a month that would cover my rent coupled with a live staking deal and the potential to crush these games i could build a roll so easy in these is this being niave? or is that a high win rate?

I think atm this is the right thing to do, but without the pressure of saying "I wanna do this for a living" all that will do is put extra pressure on yourself, and it will deter from the most important aspect of the game for right now, which is your enjoyment of playing. I remember very fondly when I was first getting seriously into poker and I used to do 25c/50c HU one wednesday, then try some tournaments on Thursday, casino on Friday and play some live cash games and so on. Goes without saying I was not a winner in any of these formats at that time but I just LOVED playing so much...It actually makes me a little sad on reflection that nowadays it takes massive massive games to get me back to that same level of "Fresh Enjoyment" of the game.

With this in mind my advice would be to keep plugging away things outside of poker and just make poker your "main hobby" and keep playing and enjoying the game. Get yourself to some live events like the £50 ones at DTD and down your local casino/card club and you'll quickly meet some other people your age who are in a similar spot and you can talk about poker, go to tournaments with etc but don't ruin all this my putting pressure on yourself to win, as (and I dont mean this with any malice AT ALL I hope that's obvious) you're very unlikely to be in a position where you can actually play profitable poker atm. The key to making money from poker is to have a "bread and butter game" that you know backwards+forwards, have a record of beating and a bankroll to play comfortably, everyone who is successful at poker has this but it takes a long time to develop. I started playing poker at 16, got serious at 19 and I was 21 y the time I could actuallly say I was successfully "BEATING" poker. So there is nothing wrong with not being in that position JUST YET, its exactly natural and right.

Before you can learn to be good, you need to first learn HOW TO LEARN to be good (if this makes sense?) It begins as "sub-concious incompetence" where you're still at a point where you don't actually KNOW what you DON'T KNOW, this is evident from the way people report hands, everyone shares the JJ vs A4 type hands as you did which are very standard/unlucky hands and spending their time ruing those hands and completely ignoring the mistakes they are making in the small pots which is where the money is being lost atm. Luckily you're in a great position with blonde where there are tons of great players who are enthusiastic about poker and also great guys who'd help you along the progress. Tomsom+Monda for example very successful in the 180 mans and I bet either of them would give you 30minutes one day to watch you play or vica versa and chat poker with you, for someone in the early stages of development you can't put a price on that. The community spirit one Blonde is fantastic and if you get stuck into thing over here, then people will put their time into analysing your hands and giving you advice.

I think the biggest problem with players coming up nowadays is people want to be printing immediately, and the huge influx of educational material out there and social media with people sharing poker experiences/lifestyles it's all about patience, realism and like I said 100 times already, ENJOYING yourself. You read "An Ape and a Notebook" its fascinating stuff, but  good example of what I mean - John rushes into everything at 1000 miles per hour and expects to be destorying every poker game within 15 minutes. It's a long process, it takes a lot of time so just accept that right now and have fun whilst it's going on, but in the meanwhile from a practical angle and also to stop yourself going mental (lol) have something else to do in life as well cos it's pretty much a freeroll if you're gonna be crushing the pokers in 2 years right?

GL mate.

I cant really talk with any intelligence  on your poker game right now at all ofc, IDK your bankroll, living expenses etc but 25c/50c will require a decent amount of volume to pay your way, you'll find a lot of your winnings will go towards expenses (obviously the freedom poker gives you will result in you wanting to enjoy yourself a little more - I have some experience of this ;) ) so you won't be able to move up that easily, which means you'll be spending much of your time just grinding to pay rent. Pretty dull way to live at 19 imo.

I just can't stress enough how depressing poker is when you NEED to win, and DONT, and how incredible it is when you DON'T NEED to win, but DO. This is why I'm strongly advising you keep on it with something else for the meanwhile, to ease pressure and aid your enjoyment and whilst you're finding a game you can win in, and learning and experimenting in different type of poker.

John's staking arrangement with Pleno was, imo, the worst thing for him (in heingsight, at the time I thought it was incredible as well) any sort of staking agreement for you at the moment would be a very bad idea, just take your time, build it up and work up slowly. There is a lot of rush these days to get staked when it's a huge strain on your mental approach.

Patience Patience Patience.

In regards to coaching etc, I don't coach really anymore not worth it, although I do sessions with people I like ;) you can add me on skype if you like (same name as here) and if you want to ask about a hand (as long as its not a SnG hand you're better off asking your nextdoor neighbour lol) then il be glad to talk it through with you.

Just playing loads and thinking objectively about situations, don't focus on the badbeats and suckouts and think about your overall game and which situations (might be as small as times you call from the SB and fold the flop etc) are the ones you never seem to win.  When you play and play the same games the same sort of spot continues to arise and you always seem to lose the pot you gotta think, what am I doing there, why do I always lose that pot? and so on.

I hope none of this seems like a dig btw, I have been asked recently for an interview "what is the one piece of advice you would give yourself when you were just starting now" and the answer to it is that I just wish I'd had someone on board with a little bit of realism - I actually had a job well into when i was playing poker full time and it was a great decision as much as it didn't feel like it was at the time. You got a great chance to get to the right place much quicker than I did (chances are you;re prolly naturally a better player than me too) but don't rush yourself or get too carried away cos it'll just cause you a LOT of stress!

Obviously one of the best times of my life was when I was just starting out rocking around with Jamie and Ash scrapping about so I'm really just saying you gotta enjoy this time of poker and dont criple your morale with too much pressure.

Nice, sensible advice Dave, fair play

" but its a horrible feeling having earnt like £200 in like a 5 hour session on tuesday night go to work to earn $40 on the wednesday for 8+ hours work."

This reminds me of a point Sam Grafton raised in his wel,l about young poker players who might struggle to enter/re-enter the employment market because of (a) lack of employment history on CV whilst playing poker full-time and (b) the difficulty to get used to a standard hourly rate of pay in a normal job when used to much higher levels of cash playing poker.

It's just so important to keep perspective and remember that only a very small % of poker players actually make a significant living from the game. This is NOT to say you shouldn't pursue your dreams etc, if you really want to play poker long-term then by all means do so - but why not play it as your main hobby while working at the same time, gradually working your way up?
Unless you're very well rolled, playing poker as a living with the pressure of having to win to pay rent etc could put you in difficult circumstances and possibly put you off the game long term. I think it's fair to say that poker plays are more likely to play their A game if they don't have to win.

I also think it cannot be under-estimated how much having a normal job & working for a living at an early age enhances appreciation for the value of money, as well as being character-building.

Thanks for the advice and i really need to get skype set up as a lot of people use it but this would be majorly helpful, think i saw you sat down in a game at DTD like a big 1/2 or something not sure haha but i really feel that unless it was a huge upswing i can win at a high enough level to support myself (living expenses are so low) plus i can move from my current job to a store in Nottingham if i need to but don't really want to do this i really hate working and always end up arguing with people especially managers, the sample size i have is quite small about 5-7k hands on BWIN and won like $400 so 16 bi over this sample size felt i had a fair share of bad beats/mistakes (soon to be sorted working on the game a lot :P )  I don't want to sound naive or anything but i think i can win at a high enough rate to pay all my rent and stuff then be able to gain in my role i find it really easy to put volume in and the 8 hours id normally spend at work could be spent earning double as mucch at home, this is obv a stupid thought when i could also lose but its a horrible feeling having earnt like £200 in like a 5 hour session on tuesday night go to work to earn $40 on the wednesday for 8+ hours work.

I'm not suggesting keeping a job you really don't like btw - I'm suggesting keeping something else that isn't poker, maybe like a course of some sort or better still a job you actually enjoy/might gain some life skills etc - sitting and playing poker 8 hours in a day is actually really really hard (ok it's "easy" to do) but the thing that makes it different to a normal job is in that 8 hours every hour you lose focus/play badly then your wages turn into NEGATIVE. I still struggle to this day to play consistently well in sessions longer than 3 hours. Even in a full time job who can honestly say that there level of work in an 8 hour day NEVER EVER drops?

If you got the bankroll to play what you're playing atm and wanna go get stuck into it then defo go for it, just don't shut everything else off cos poker isn't going anywhere! And it does sound pretty fkn exciting tbh so I dont wanna dampen the high morale by being all Captain Sensible. Very best of luck!!

BTW - why do you always end up arguing with people? This doesn't sound healthy for poker lol poker can make the worlds calmest man wanna kill people! In all seriousness though if that's true think long and hard about why? There is no tool out there quite like good social skills.

FYP

I LIKE YOUR POST FRANKIE

so decided to do a write up of the holiday this was by far the best two weeks of my life and was absolutely mental:
1) Drunk way way way to much
2) Had a ridiculous lack of sleep
3) Spent more money than i ever have in my life
4) But we did some amazing moments (boat party, cliff jumping, general drinking and buggies)
This is the most abs amazing two weeks ever but now it feels like its down to the hard work need to see if my house is sorted for September then to earn all the money for my apartment but most of all i cant wait to start playing poker again, missed it like hell for two weeks, cant wait for DTD as well might try and get down for a tournament on Friday or something hopefully meet some Blonde's :)

more on aiya nappa mate! Ive just been there too and had a pretty sweet coupla days. Put a youtube vid I made on my blog - its worth checking out...

where was the casino...?

#grindinginnappawudbsweeeeet

You're moving to Nottingham solely to play poker but you're not rolled to play 50/1?

Have you thought this through?

Just caught up on this diary. Glad to see some people have already posted some words of reason.
I, like you, transitioned from MTT's to cash games with very little previous live experience and have had a roller coaster of wins and losses.
I'll be returning to Loughborough University in October so i'm likely to see you at the tables.

The biggest advice i can give to you is to choose your games wisely and have good bank roll management.
Like previous posters have said, Nottingham is one of the reggiest fields for poker and while it will help you improve your game it can also quickly decrease your bankroll.
If your seriously considering playing out of a 1-2k roll i'd stick to 50/1 and try and grind up the stakes depending on what your other income is like.

How many hours a week are you likely to be playing?
Upto what buy in are you staked for in Live tournaments?

sorry for asking for cliffs, but do you have a job too ro just moved to play at dtd?

oh cool, best of luck. what do you consider "enough" money?

I don't know whats actually happening with the staking now, it was only a verbal agreement and i can't get in touch with the guy so :/
and a lot i suppose a hell of a lot online around work and at dusk a lot playing the 50/1 games like you've said and also the super 50's/xxl 25 sort of torno's seem really good value
you playing the grand prix?
whats a good role to move up to 1/2 at DTD?

Apologies for the slack response, I've only just seen this.
I don't move back in until the 29th so I won't be playing the Grand Prix unfortunately.

In consideration to your bank roll it depends how aggressive your bank roll management is going to be.
If you're a player that will sit for the max I.e 400, you're going to want at least a 30-50 BI bankroll to be able to comfortably afford the upswings and downswings that your roll is going to take.

I'd personally start at 50-1 at gala and dusk and grind out a bank roll from there.
With this you can afford to play tournaments and play online too for the major Mtt's.
If you want to play the larger Mtt's live at dusk take advantage of the satellite structure and bink a 1-2 bankroll for a tenth of the cost.

50p

Your face when he whipped over the  4c 7c was priceless.  Was nice to have met you today.   p.s. I didn't get disqualified by Andy on the bubble because I didn't get there

Good Playing with you mate, Not literally lol. flopped the world 4 times and got rivered

difficult spot v raggy with the KK. having played at the table for about 4hrs in your seat,( before rexas stacked me, the luckbox) he had the cards all night!! i think he shows up beating our KK alot there in general, flushes, straights, sets, even quads! KK just seems like a bluff catcher there. unlucky, am sure the run good will come!

Okay so him turning this hand over just didn't make sense, I'm sat here now still wondering why you'd price yourself in the  4c 7c. But poker aside was nice to meet you too. you playing the headhunter thursday?

Yeah, not sure if I'm playing on Thursday, want to but there's a society tournament.  Due a win there after 7439999 tournaments without a win.

Mr polerization, do you have any idea what a full stop is? The longest sentences I have ever seen!!

I honestly hadn't been concentrating on my punctuation, I'll write properly in future.

That Dickens bloke had a similar lack of concentration..

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. 

Had my first ever sweat on stars in a tournament, playing the hot $0.55 funny tournament both me and my friend have gone deep before so playing it and was building a stack just bust 4th out of 8582 pretty sick but last hand SB vs BB i've got AA and know the BB is a fish who will not let me steal so min+a bit he jams over the top and i call so  Ac Aspades vs  6c 6s flop Q99 turn  6d you absolute beauty.

so that is possibly the longest sentence i have EVER seen! can donk it all to me in the bounty hunter later!!

so how come youre playing nl10, whats your online background?

Pretty terrible if I'm honest keep cashing the tournament's on stars at the moment but not enough really, want some sort of backing for online really as i just keep chucking like $30 at it and losing it obviously tournament's are high varience.

in a way, your lucky only doubling me up. if K2 doesnt peel a 10th of his stack to a 3bet and i win the pot then i stack you :P

but then the card would've been shuffled a few seconds earlier and some of them not dealt out and therefore the shuffle would've been different and therefore that hand may/ may not have happened in this wonderful world of hypotheticals chrisfish

What would you want backed online for? Nl10?

if youre serious about wanting to become a professional poker player then you should deposit enough into stars to play seriously and devote your time to it. Playing nl10 randomly will serve almost no purpose. If you want to just enjoy living life making a little bit from the game and enjoy the social side absolutely continue to play live tournaments in DTD, in fact I would recommend it.

bricked absolutely everything today 6-max, stars tournaments maybe the super50 tonight. Running bad this weekend can't remember winning a flip all weekend.

Stop winning everything! Lol :) Wpsir :)

it must be good to run good for a change *sigh*

So i may have mispoke as long as i get it in ahead i win shipped the super50 again wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

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back to gala tonight old boy?

tomson, i hope you were referring to me? :D

Of course, you've got a long way to go to reach the dizzy heights of Adam Picken and Tommy Bingham.

But a few more min cashes and you'll be battling for the top spots.

@OP

Nice to meet you btw.  Please ditch the hoody, it makes the place look untidy.  Shoes and black tie in future please.

after spotting the writer of this blog in the 15 freezeout on sunday, his new name is 'bowlerization'. thoughts everyone?  rotflmfao

Bankroll management ...?

ha true, more than most of us thats for sure!!

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Didn't want to play the £58 comp with like £300 to my name -_-

Where's your heart???  Ask plenop about bankroll management, you basically have to have enough to buy in 100 times.

Just awesomesauce

Where's your heart???  Ask plenop about bankroll management, you basically have to have enough to buy in.

Where's your heart???  Ask plenop about bankroll management, you basically have to be able to borrow enough to buy in.

after spotting the writer of this blog in the 15 freezeout on sunday, his new name is 'bowlerization'. thoughts everyone?  rotflmfao

My first post itt, just needed to say <3 this

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haha chris is a douch -_- well done on big game win alex

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haha chris is a douch -_- well done on big game win alex

If you want to ship us the HH I will have a look through it for you?

If you want to ship us the HH I will have a look through it for you?

Definitely a good plan, of all the people who you could get looking through your hh, this guys gotta be one of the best.

If you want to ship us the HH I will have a look through it for you?

call, have u never played with this guy?!

This would be much appreciated to be honest, I'll get them off stars for you. email?

Don't you be ratting me out in here Langley.  Just cause you know I don't know what I'm doing doesn't mean it needs broadcasting to the rest of the world!!!!

For those who wish to see some proof that I do know what I'm doing, please see the link below:

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6083402_C78C91F1D3 (http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/6083402_C78C91F1D3)


somerville.poker@gmail.com

Just realised the email version doesnt work in Universal Replayer.  Any chance you have the original HH file on your comp somewhere (from PT4/HEM)?

If not ill just flick through on PT4, but loads easier for me if I can use UR....

AK hand really depends on the stack sizes of the ALL-INs in front of you, if the first guy shovs 9bb and someone with 21 BB isolates them by going all-in as well then you have a very very easy All-In, you crush one range and do fine vs another getting a gd price (first guy AI with KTs etc and the guy will re-iso a lot of pairs AQ, AJs etc) also what positions they doing this from, if its UTG1 shoves 10bb and 19bb in shoves nextt position its a lot different to CO shoving, and BTN isolating as the btn's range will be  lot wider given there is significantly less risk off running into a big hand cold.

If it's something like Raise to 3bb, shove all-in for 14bb and then someone else shoves over the top for 25bb's then you have a definate fold, given the first shover will be shoving tighter persumably given they have more bets and over an EP opener (more chance of them having a better/calling hand) and this will. in turn make the 2nd ALL-IN's range very strong as his hand need to be ahead of the first shover's range, and there is the risk that the initial opener has a good hand too, AK does ok vs the first range and pretty meh against the second.

Need to pay real attention to these things in game as they are hugely hugely relevant..

Just a quick question if anyone wants to answer: I'm playing 80BB villain is playing 35BB he min open i 3-bet pretty small on my button with  9s Ts am i just giving him a chance to shove here and losing the equity that my hand has so should flat or is this a standard 3-bet he opened hijack im on button?

im no OFC pro, but if he showed that, isnt that a fouled hand?

nope, assume wild 2's, so straight flush, flush and trip nines for 46 points.

am sure ill be about next week. ;) thanks for asking

am sure ill be about next week. ;) thanks for asking

just completely spewed off the best ever spot in the big $11 sat on 40BB with the chip leader on my right playing 80/56 or something like that through 30/40 hands to then lose a 10-15BB all in 77<QQ standard but ended up getting my last 20BB in on  Ahrt Kd Jd with  Ac Td guy calls off with  Kc Qs and turns a  Kh wiiiiii MBN still more annoyed at myself than the cards.

Annoyed at yourself for getting it in with AT v KQ on AKJ? I'm confused....

was annoyed to be honest i didn't think about his hand at all and didn't really think i was ahead my mind just went blank happy when cards were on the back but it was more the 7's hand really. sorry for the confusion.

Secret of MTTs is smile nod and move on. For every suck out you receive you likely give one back. The mental side of dealing with variance is huge. Forget about previous sessions, start fresh and win. Don't beat yourself up.

Nb getting 20BB in with A10 on that board can't be terrible, especially if you shoved on villain. Can't imagine losing 10>15BB with 77vsQQ could have been that bad either.

just had such a funny spot were I'm in a sat and the top 25 get seats there's 27 left I'm 20th in chips.
button is 2nd in chips and shoves, SB calls all in (one of the shorties) I'm in the BB with  Ad Ac erm...
do i fold and get the seat? but it's aces :/

feel pretty sick to be honest final tabled another $3.50+R was huge chip wise for a while abused the bubble so much when i had like triple average. Found a pretty bad spot when UTG ships like 4BB I've got  Ks Ts in the cutoff rejam 10BB (the original raiser was jamming ATC in my mind) the button wakes up with  Kd Kc waaahh...... was right though UTG had  Jd 7c loool

The way I look at this is if we fold every hand we get a seat 98-99% of the time, if we call, we get a seat like 85% of the time (or however often we lose as a % vs his range).


Sounds pretty standard for 10bb effective.  UTG should be shoving like 80% of hands here, don't hate shoving ATC either.  The variance in 180's is absolutely insane though so be prepared for a rough ride.  The reason why I like stacking tables is so I don't have to see what happens, allows me to carry on grinding without getting affected by how the board runs / what cooler you've run in to.  Once you have established that it was a good iso pre, the runout is basically irrelevant.

Going to play a decent amount of volume today i think. Going to go back through some hand history's and stuff after so I'll post a few funny hands or something.

oh wow im on the edge of my seat, hurry up, come on....

You haven't experienced variance yet. Be afraid. Gl, tomsom is a really good guy and a stake with him seems perfect for someone with your enthusiasm.

Missed it I am sure, do you work, study ?  What time do you start your grind and do you have search on or off, o yes and btw  GL.

Steve

he means do you have a job or are you a student i think.

he means do you have a job or are you a student i think.

300 posts > SNE

300 posts > SNE

For fixing your sleep pattern its all about pulling a really long session (as in staying awake). When i get into a bad rhythm I try to make 9-10pm and just sleep right through. For getting to sleep easier. get away from your screen for 30 mins and read, preferably something enjoyable but heavy reading, and you'll soon disappear into the night.

So this may be obvious but my sleeping pattern is absolutely tez atm, remembered that i forgot to post yesterday's update so will do that now. Went pretty well to be honest managed 2 wins in $2.50's and a 2nd in a $8 and a $2.50 so pretty good day finished about $300 up so out of make up, also put in probably my biggest session so far with like 200 games played so that's good. Had a pretty sick hand on the FT bubble of a $8 were a reg shoves UTG with like 5BB so he's super wide, then MP reg iso's him so still pretty wide, random in the SB then overcalls so not so wide anymore; we find the old  Ac Ahrt in the BB BOOM!!! high fives all around to lose to  7d 7c on a  7h 4h Kh flop with a dry run out UTG had j9o MP had KJs so fairly standard but that was for like 60k and a big stack on the FT would have been nice! Sunday funday tomorrow be nice to take down the storm just saying.
start roll:$455.61
current roll: $433.45 (out of makeup)
FPP's: 654.03

cool story bro

Good stuff mate keep it up!

Is anyone aside from me not winning the lot right now? lol :p

I lost yesterday i guess if that helps?

Haha I'm not complaining, winning is good :p

So finding that I'm getting to sleep later and later, might just try stay up straight through tonight till about 11/12 tomorrow then go to bed then get up at like 10 and try grinding 1/2 till 12 or something. I obviously need something to do during all this time i have awake, apart from watching movies and trolling blonde, decided it was a good time to go through some HH and think I'm going to make a report on the recent 180's I've bubbled just gone through one and i folded  Ahrt Qh with about 5BB; among numerous other stack size failures this is not good ever. I think this may be a huge leak in my game atm were i am overlooking how many BB I've got and just clicking buttons, leads to misclick folding 10's down a hell of a lot, so this is something i think I'm going to work on fo show. Feel like I've found a new motivation though, I don't know were it has come from but all i want to do now is grind (tez traffic is why I'm not) so roll on 4 o'clock and let's get the lot today.

Put the  Ahrt Qh hand on PHA?

i folded  Ahrt Qh with about 5BB

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very well done!

big flop in your poker careeer that

Congrats.

IVE KNOCKED HER OUT FLOP  3s 4s 7s I HAVE  Js Ts SHE HAD  8d 8h SHE OPEN SHOVES I CALL GUY BEHIND CALLS BOTH DEAD ON THE FLOP!!!!!! IVE GOT A UKPC SEAT!!!!!

incredible stuff! Honestly absolutely chuffed for you!

Marris will take as much as his roll will buy him!!!!

But can you make the MU only 2.0 so he can at least have 0.1%.

Wow, we bust one woman and all of a sudden were the big dick player in town!!!

Great ethos.

Wow, we bust one woman and all of a sudden were the big dick player in town!!!

Great ethos.

im sorry ill go back to moping about because i cant win a 180 :(

So, out of 10, how much did you like that all-spade flop?

Wow, what a thing!

Chuffed to bits for you.

I'll reply on my Diary shortly as to the questions you raised there.

The very first reply on this Diary, back in July, said.....


Good luck with the Diary, & chasing that poker dream

That poker dream just became a reality.

Good luck mate.

Clearly tomsom coaching you is working. Calling 2 shoves with jack high seems like a good move

Got the prob bet set up with callum, doing half volume, half ROI for feb $50 for each! Sick thing is he just goes and drops a $600 day when im not playing cause im ill well played sir; game on!
Guess the whole point of the bet is for motivation on volume and it must be working woke up just wanting to start playing!

nice and close! GL tomorrow

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glgl, what time you starting?

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do you think that some less intelligent players on sky think that thats actually phil ivey whos qualified for the event?

Anyone know why my HUD on pt4 is only picking up the hands i play on ipoker?

Not like your backer knows anything about PT4 or anything.....   ;whistle;

I would also add, you need to be playing on another site for it to pick them up!

Not like your backer knows anything about PT4

lol, playing a 2 euro super turbo rebuy on the DTD site, a guy limps UTG+1 playing like 75vpip i jam 45hh on my button with 10BB the BB iso's for 20BB and he overcalls with K10hh BB has AJo, flop 24468 he puts in the chatbox, cancer deserving play rewarded. I actually cannot believe what ive just seen.

is this part of the whole jokewith tomsom or did you really shove here?!

tyler has no balls!

:'(

Wayne's world style- 'I love you man!!!
Sooooo wana xxl it tonight at Dtd, valentines night so it should be quieter right?

Yeah probably some decent value to be honest, don't think im going :/ you doing any UKPC/sides?

be an expensive week for 12 bullets patman if he lives up to his reputation in the UKPC!

haha my twelve bullets was grand prix before this, i only actually had 3 :(((( so totally shamed myself chris. the april one is over easter weekend so im defo guna have sick amount of bullets. if i had the money id take my uzi to every big comp going ;)

Was so funny watching chris's face as Sylvia layed into him!haha think t was just very late and everyone had alot to drink, Chris must of had like 5! I kept seeing him coming off saying 'I'm out'
It's fun having a full magazine clip to empty on a comp, think we should defo pencil in Grand Prix April and start collecting chips,it's guna be mental haha

Was so funny watching chris's face as Sylvia layed into him!haha think t was just very late and everyone had alot to drink, Chris must of had like 5! I kept seeing him coming off saying 'I'm out'
It's fun having a full magazine clip to empty on a comp, think we should defo pencil in Grand Prix April and start collecting chips,it's guna be mental haha

looool #heavyweightoftheworld

2 bullets friday night, one saturday, inc 2 chips. so shove it up your arse, both of you

Confirmed lightweight itt!

Haha that's made me smile

sigh, was defo meant to say gut, cant alter it now though...
 ;frustrated; ;nemesis; ;madasahatstand;

Defo got a baby on the way. We can't all be wafer think like you Chris! ;) I remember those days! Ok I gotta go back 10years but I do remember!

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ROI obv close and ive got 90 ish games on you! looking like a good battle! GLGL in UKPC!

still good work keep up the nice reading :)

Fish

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Coming for you as of today!

Fucking pussycat.