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Title: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on September 13, 2014, 12:51:47 PM
Hi all,

I've been a long time lurker on here and very occasional poster. I have a diary style thread running on Sky Poker's forum and have done for a good few years now but would love to interact a bit more with some of the players/posters on here so thought I'd set up something similar here.

Here's my blog for a bit of back story... (I didn't realise at the time I was stealing Alex Goulder's pun when I started it)

http://paullambert180.blogspot.co.uk/

Any regular Sky forum users will probably know me but if you want the short version... I've been playing on Sky for maybe 4-5 years now. It was about a year of playing on there before I actually took it a little more seriously and put some effort into improving. Started at the bottom (£4NL) and playing the odd MTT and went from there. Skip a few years ahead, and I've been playing the game full time now for maybe 9 months, mostly grinding £50NL and still the odd MTT. The highlight of my poker 'career' so far was in the February UKPC, I came 3rd in the £550 6-max side event for £18,000

Gonna try and keep this not totally boring by just updating sessions results etc, so any questions are welcome?

Paul


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: tikay on September 13, 2014, 12:56:18 PM

Good luck Paul.

Personally, I don't have much interest in flop stories and hand histories, though plenty others do of course, but I like to see the real life side of things.

So, let's start with a bad beat story.

How much did it cost you when your cat was unwell recently? :)

Good luck with the diary.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on September 13, 2014, 02:58:29 PM
Mmm that was an expensive tale...

We've got 2 cats (brother and sister) called Sly and Zelda. About two months ago the boy, Sly, seemed to be having trouble going the toilet, I won't bore you with tons of details but he had a urinary blockage and crystals had formed in his bladder. My girlfriend, Emma, is a big cat lover and knows her stuff so she said (and the vet confirmed) that this is one of the few conditions with cats that they treat as very serious emergencies as it can cause death pretty quickly.

It only became apparent he was having trouble going to the toilet on a Sunday which means out of hours vets (and the price that comes with it), they kept him overnight and transported him to our regular vets in the morning (our vet doesn't do out of hours), then he had an operation at our regular vets and they had to keep him in for a couple more nights. So a couple of days and various x-rays/tests later when he was starting to go the toilet on his own again we picked him back up for the princely sum of £900.

They told us to keep an eye on him, and bring him back if he looked like he was having any more trouble going the toilet, but gave us no other advice to avoid it. Within about 5 days he was having similar problems again, take him back in, has to stay a couple more days, ya da ya da, £500 more to get him cleaned out again. Similar happened not long after and they put him on a special diet.

Long story short, over the last like 6 weeks or so, it's cost not too far off £2k to keep the little fella going. Now he's on a special diet which is a bit more expensive than regular food but ALOT cheaper than visits to the vet! and he seems to have been fine for about a month now so hopefully it stays that way.

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Thinking of life stories... something I've never really mentioned on Sky but I have 2 daughters who live with me (Lily is 6 and Leah is 4), and both of them (Lily in particular) have had pretty tough starts in life due to various illnesses/conditions so I'll tell you a little about them two soon.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: tikay on September 13, 2014, 04:17:00 PM

Thanks Paul, & yeah, I'd like to hear about Leah & Lily.

Think you'd best throw in a flop stories first though, for the poker purists. ;)


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: shipitgood on September 13, 2014, 05:14:14 PM
Hey Paul,

All the best with the new diary.

What are your aims from poker in the next year and beyond?



Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: mondatoo on September 13, 2014, 05:43:12 PM
GLGLGL with the grind.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on September 13, 2014, 09:41:18 PM
Here's a picture of the expensive fella btw.

(http://i62.tinypic.com/11ayg3s.jpg)

As poker players go, I pretty much couldn't be any less of a punter if I tried. Never ever do any sports betting, table games etc but I got a free £5 bet from Sky the other day from a promo they're running so decided to punt it on Villa beating Liverpool today so just won a free £50 :)

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Goals for next year and the future...

Get ALOT better at the game. While I am doing well at 50NL now, I am still a fish myself in the grand scheme of things (maybe I'm being hard on myself), I'm sure there's a ton of room for improvement in my winrate where I am now, plus I want to move up, and the games are probably only going to get harder. I just want to keep improving.

I've been playing bits of £100NL on and off over the last month or two, but took a break from it and stuck to £50NL after a rough period at the tables cos I'm not quite as rolled for it as I'd like to be. This time next year I wanna be regularly grinding £100/200NL and think that's a very realistic goal.

I wanna get out and play a lot of live cash (only ever played once). That's partly down to the distance I am from a casino but more down to laziness. I live in Oxfordshire, the closest casino to me is Reading which is about a 1hr drive, further than that it's like Luton or Birmingham.

I also wanna get out to more live tours, GUKPT/GPS/UKIPT etc. Again up to now, a lot of laziness on my part in terms of getting round to depositing on other sites and playing sats.

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P.S. A few people on here may know me from Sky but I don't know many people on here (at least not by their username on here) so if you know me, please let me know who you are.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Jac on September 14, 2014, 01:11:14 AM
Bet you can't guess who I am?


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: tikay on September 14, 2014, 08:29:29 AM

"...P.S. A few people on here may know me from Sky but I don't know many people on here (at least not by their username on here) so if you know me, please let me know who you are....".


"shipitgood" is someone you know quite well from Next Door, though he has a different Alias here. It's up to him as to whether he "identifies" himself of course.

You know Paul Jackson (not the poker player) of course.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on September 14, 2014, 03:06:58 PM
I'd been looking for a new TV series to watch recently because I usually have something like that on my 2nd monitor while I'm playing. I'd already done Dexter, Breaking Bad and 24 pretty recently so asked for ideas on FB and was swamped by suggestions. I'd been reliably informed that The Sopranos and The Wire were/are the 2 big daddies but need your full attention so shouldn't really be watched while grinding.

I ended up going for Prison Break and have been pretty disappointed... I'd heard so many good things about the show and the first series was pretty decent, it was no Dexter/BB/24 but it was worth a watch. Now I'm a good chunk into series 2 and have just completely lost interest. I never usually stop films/tv series midway through (the only film ever I had to stop watching before it ended was Saving Private Ryan), I'll always give it a good go but with Prison Break it just seems realllly average and like a waste of my time.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: OverTheBorder on September 14, 2014, 03:21:21 PM
I'd been looking for a new TV series to watch recently because I usually have something like that on my 2nd monitor while I'm playing. I'd already done Dexter, Breaking Bad and 24 pretty recently so asked for ideas on FB and was swamped by suggestions. I'd been reliably informed that The Sopranos and The Wire were/are the 2 big daddies but need your full attention so shouldn't really be watched while grinding.

I ended up going for Prison Break and have been pretty disappointed... I'd heard so many good things about the show and the first series was pretty decent, it was no Dexter/BB/24 but it was worth a watch. Now I'm a good chunk into series 2 and have just completely lost interest. I never usually stop films/tv series midway through (the only film ever I had to stop watching before it ended was Saving Private Ryan), I'll always give it a good go but with Prison Break it just seems realllly average and like a waste of my time.

I have a two hour bus it and from work so I download series on to my iPad to watch.

Sopranos is excellent in my opinion. I liked prison break but it gets a bit "conspiracy heavy" like many American shows that kill a great start by trying to expand it and deepen what is just great superficial entertainment. Series 2 is not the best, it does pick up in 3 and 4 though. I have just started boardwalk empire, I am pretty hopeful it looks good.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: verndog158 on September 14, 2014, 03:34:33 PM
I'd been looking for a new TV series to watch recently because I usually have something like that on my 2nd monitor while I'm playing. I'd already done Dexter, Breaking Bad and 24 pretty recently so asked for ideas on FB and was swamped by suggestions. I'd been reliably informed that The Sopranos and The Wire were/are the 2 big daddies but need your full attention so shouldn't really be watched while grinding.

I ended up going for Prison Break and have been pretty disappointed... I'd heard so many good things about the show and the first series was pretty decent, it was no Dexter/BB/24 but it was worth a watch. Now I'm a good chunk into series 2 and have just completely lost interest. I never usually stop films/tv series midway through (the only film ever I had to stop watching before it ended was Saving Private Ryan), I'll always give it a good go but with Prison Break it just seems realllly average and like a waste of my time.

I have a two hour bus it and from work so I download series on to my iPad to watch.

Sopranos is excellent in my opinion. I liked prison break but it gets a bit "conspiracy heavy" like many American shows that kill a great start by trying to expand it and deepen what is just great superficial entertainment. Series 2 is not the best, it does pick up in 3 and 4 though. I have just started boardwalk empire, I am pretty hopeful it looks good.

best series on at the moment is Ray Donovan, by miles. Guess its a modern day Sopranos. So good haha


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: titaniumbean on September 14, 2014, 05:49:45 PM
I'd been looking for a new TV series to watch recently because I usually have something like that on my 2nd monitor while I'm playing. I'd already done Dexter, Breaking Bad and 24 pretty recently so asked for ideas on FB and was swamped by suggestions. I'd been reliably informed that The Sopranos and The Wire were/are the 2 big daddies but need your full attention so shouldn't really be watched while grinding.

I ended up going for Prison Break and have been pretty disappointed... I'd heard so many good things about the show and the first series was pretty decent, it was no Dexter/BB/24 but it was worth a watch. Now I'm a good chunk into series 2 and have just completely lost interest. I never usually stop films/tv series midway through (the only film ever I had to stop watching before it ended was Saving Private Ryan), I'll always give it a good go but with Prison Break it just seems realllly average and like a waste of my time.

I have a two hour bus it and from work so I download series on to my iPad to watch.

Sopranos is excellent in my opinion. I liked prison break but it gets a bit "conspiracy heavy" like many American shows that kill a great start by trying to expand it and deepen what is just great superficial entertainment. Series 2 is not the best, it does pick up in 3 and 4 though. I have just started boardwalk empire, I am pretty hopeful it looks good.

Boardwalk is fantastic and well written like all HBO shows, you have to bear with it though as it's a slow burner.

prison break is easy watching gash obv.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on September 14, 2014, 08:57:19 PM
Cheers all. Suppose I'll give Prison Break the benefit of the doubt then if you say it gets better in series 3 and 4.

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I just realised, mostly after looking at the first page of Shipitgood/Larson/Kev's diary, that I haven't actually introduced myself really and most people on here won't have a clue who I am...

My name's Paul Lambert (yes, same as the footy manager) and I'm 27, soon to be 28. I was born in Liverpool (Everton fan) and lived there until I was about 22 when I moved to Oxfordshire to move in with my girlfriend, Emma. Lily, our 6 year old is not actually mine but I've known her/Emma since she was about 9 months old and only fairly recently has her dad started visiting her once a month so for all intents and purposes I'm her dad. We also have a daughter together, Leah, who is 4 years old. I have another daughter who lives with her mum in Liverpool called Nevaeh, she's 8 and I go up to have her for Saturday and Sunday every other weekend.

All the info about how I got started playing poker etc is in my blog which is linked in the OP.

Interests outside of poker....

I love books/reading - To name a few... Shogun, 1984, To Kill A Mocking Bird, Lord of the Rings.

I love films - Too many to list but my favourite film of all time is American History X. A few others... Goodfellas, Platoon, Good Will Hunting.

I love music - This list is WAY too long, I got a very wide taste in music and the list I'd give would probably change from one day to the next but to name a few.... Metallica, Rufus Wainwright, Davie Bowie, The Beatles, Billy Joel.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: baldock92 on September 15, 2014, 12:30:36 AM
Don't watch prison break after the first season or 2- it gets shockingly bad!

I'm tempted to start watching lost, no idea if it's any good?


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Marky147 on September 15, 2014, 12:47:57 AM
Prison Break gets worse as you go, which was disappointing after an excellent first season.

I loved Lost, and it's definitely one of my favourite shows ever. I can understand why it frustrated some people, but I wasn't one of them.

Sopranos is incred, as is The Wire, and I also have to throw Friday Night Lights in there, too.


Best of luck with the pokerz!


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Magic817 on September 15, 2014, 03:48:17 AM
Thoughts on 3b 92o in MTTs?


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on September 15, 2014, 12:43:31 PM
Lol maybe Don didn't explain it very well but I was the one arguing with him telling him how terrible 92o was to include in your 3b bluff range. He seemed insistent that his 3b bluff range should consist of hands that never flop well.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on September 15, 2014, 02:52:33 PM
Played my first session this morning for a few days and it was pretty decent. Periods of having insane heat on the go, but a few big losses stopped it from being a really big winning session. Only played about 3hr of 5-6tabling 40 and 50NL and finished just over +£150

Recently I signed up for Unibet to see what it was like and was just mucking about using the token they give you which you can only use to 1table 4NL. You gotta see 750 flops to turn the token into real money that you can withdraw or use for whatever games you want, things started well on there so thought I might as well finish it off.

I had a pretty good night the other night on there where 1 player sat down and was just literally gifting away stack after stack after stack. He'd open between 25-50xBB and just not fold at any stage, getting it in with Q2o pre, full reload, do the same, rinse and repeat. I took about 10 BIs off him in 15-20 mins. Anyway, I finished off the number of flops I needed to see this morning so the money on there is now mine to use as I wish (or withdraw) and I've spun up my £10 4NL token to nearly £100.

(http://i61.tinypic.com/jqjnk0.png)

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I'd like some opinions on the best line to take in these spots. The situation came up in this morning's session so I'll use that as an example but obv it applies to all similar spots

It's £50NL 6-max...

Loose/passive/stationy reg opens the BTN to £1.50

We 3bet from the SB to £4.50 with Ahrt Qh and he peels.

Flop comes  2s 3c 6s

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Villian is peeling so wide here pre but folds so little on this flop. If we cbet, how do we proceed on different turns? Should we not cbet if we're not gonna be barreling a lot of turns? If not c-betting then we can prob c/c but then how do we proceed on different turns?

Fwiw I did cbet £5, he called, and the turn was  4s which I think is an easy card to just c/f which I did.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: SuuPRlim on September 15, 2014, 03:53:50 PM
Watch the wire

/discussion.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: willrobrobu on September 15, 2014, 03:55:07 PM
hey mate - I was sat on yr left on that ukpc final table :p

re urethral obstruction in yr cat
google international cat care and there's good info on their page listed under FLUTD (feline lower urinary tract dz)

but basically
-keep him on that diet lifelong
-increase water intake (water fountains about 25quid in pet shops, add water to food, tuna flavoured Ice cubes, offer rain water if doesn't like the chlorinated tap water etc)
-keep him lean. it's mainly a problem of sedentary overweight cats. if he is leaner he will be more active in theory and void urine more frequently
-make sure at least 2 litter trays available in different parts of house
-if he gets recurrent cystitis (inflammation rather than obstruction) consider cystophan tablets lifelong. - it's like a bladder supplement for healthy bladder lining
-sometimes stress is part of the underlying issue and trigger factor - if u think this may be the case then consider feliway/zylkene or chat to yr vet. the most common cause of stress for cats is other cats so some cats that get this problem repeatedly over a long period of time it's best to re home the healthy cat.if they don't sleep together and groom each other they are probs just tolerating each other rather than being buds still


anyways prevention way better than treatment for this problem, as if it keeps happening sometimes the only option ends up being penile amputation!


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: KingPush on September 15, 2014, 05:11:01 PM




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I'd like some opinions on the best line to take in these spots. The situation came up in this morning's session so I'll use that as an example but obv it applies to all similar spots

It's £50NL 6-max...

Loose/passive/stationy reg opens the BTN to £1.50

We 3bet from the SB to £4.50 with Ahrt Qh and he peels.

Flop comes  2s 3c 6s

=======================

Villian is peeling so wide here pre but folds so little on this flop. If we cbet, how do we proceed on different turns? Should we not cbet if we're not gonna be barreling a lot of turns? If not c-betting then we can prob c/c but then how do we proceed on different turns?

Fwiw I did cbet £5, he called, and the turn was  4s which I think is an easy card to just c/f which I did.

Think I'd check fold here. When we get called we're gonna be check folding a lot of turns and if it comes Q or A we've only got 4 clean outs. We can cbet a lot of better stuff like all flush draws, all back door flush draws and a lot of high card one spade hands. No need to be betting AQhh here imo.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on September 15, 2014, 05:28:54 PM
We dont have to cbet but don't think we can/should c/f given all the trash this villian will peel pre.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on September 15, 2014, 07:47:17 PM
We dont have to cbet but don't think we can/should c/f given all the trash this villian will peel pre.

Also, what dya mean if it comes an A or Q we only got 4 clean outs? If the turn is A or Q we'll have the best hand close to 100% of the time


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: SuuPRlim on September 15, 2014, 09:48:11 PM
Watch the wire

/discussion.

More importantly.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on September 15, 2014, 09:52:18 PM
Watch the wire

/discussion.

More importantly.

Its being downloaded as we speak Dave. Do you agree with others though that have said I shouldn't do my usual thing of having it on my 2nd monitor while I grind cos it needs your full attention?


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: SuuPRlim on September 15, 2014, 10:47:47 PM
yeh wire is hard work, needs full focus.

Also season 2 is a bit donk but its a price worth paying for 3 4 and 5


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: nirvana on September 15, 2014, 11:05:06 PM
If you want something easy to watch without full focus I'd readily suggest Justified

Not a patch on Wire/Sopranos etc but probably fits the bill


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: titaniumbean on September 15, 2014, 11:19:16 PM
yeh wire is hard work, needs full focus.

Also season 2 is a bit donk but its a price worth paying for 3 4 and 5

yeh cant play and watch the Wire it's too good. season 2 sets it all up it's not a bad season it's just not as action pact as others.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on September 17, 2014, 01:26:44 PM
Yesterday's morning session started pretty grim, just being on the wrong end of lots of coolers so was in a small hole but then had a session saver right before I was closing down where I dished out a pretty brutal cooler w/ nuts v 2nd nuts for a 500xBB pot so only finished about -£60.

The night time session was a bit better, despite having AJ<KJ on JJT for a 250xBB pot, finished +£70.

I was all settled in for a big grind this morning, started out 6-7 tabling and then suddenly the all tables just start dying and I was down to 3tabling on tables that weren't particularly great, so I just logged off (was +£50) to spend the rest of the morning/afternoon working on my game and watching some DC vids.

I got another £5 free bet on Sky this week so gone for a 4-fold on Arsenal/Stoke/Newcastle/Liverpool to win.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Marky147 on September 17, 2014, 11:48:06 PM
Nevermind all this poker...  How are you getting along with Stringer, and Omar?


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: baldock92 on September 18, 2014, 11:05:11 AM
I apologise in advance for Stoke letting your bet down.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: KingPush on September 19, 2014, 12:36:52 AM
We dont have to cbet but don't think we can/should c/f given all the trash this villian will peel pre.

Also, what dya mean if it comes an A or Q we only got 4 clean outs? If the turn is A or Q we'll have the best hand close to 100% of the time

if they're spades i think it's going to be difficult to bet bet and get called by worse


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on September 20, 2014, 04:27:07 PM
I apologise in advance for Stoke letting your bet down.

Sigh, thought I was gonna get to post up and say they didn't let me down... until QPR's last minute equaliser, gg acca.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on September 21, 2014, 12:40:56 PM
hey mate - I was sat on yr left on that ukpc final table :p

re urethral obstruction in yr cat
google international cat care and there's good info on their page listed under FLUTD (feline lower urinary tract dz)

but basically
-keep him on that diet lifelong
-increase water intake (water fountains about 25quid in pet shops, add water to food, tuna flavoured Ice cubes, offer rain water if doesn't like the chlorinated tap water etc)
-keep him lean. it's mainly a problem of sedentary overweight cats. if he is leaner he will be more active in theory and void urine more frequently
-make sure at least 2 litter trays available in different parts of house
-if he gets recurrent cystitis (inflammation rather than obstruction) consider cystophan tablets lifelong. - it's like a bladder supplement for healthy bladder lining
-sometimes stress is part of the underlying issue and trigger factor - if u think this may be the case then consider feliway/zylkene or chat to yr vet. the most common cause of stress for cats is other cats so some cats that get this problem repeatedly over a long period of time it's best to re home the healthy cat.if they don't sleep together and groom each other they are probs just tolerating each other rather than being buds still


anyways prevention way better than treatment for this problem, as if it keeps happening sometimes the only option ends up being penile amputation!
,

Sorry meant to say this ages ago but cheers for all the advice.

His first couple of trips to the vets he had crystals, but the last time they said he had cystitis so they gave us steroids for him which seemed to clear things up and he's been a lot more active and more like himself for a while. A few weeks after the steroids (when all seemed fine) he did try to go the toilet and nothing came out, a couple more tries and he didn't seem to be getting anything out. We had leftover steroids cos they gave us more than we needed so we gave him 1 of them and the next day he seemed fine.... but don't really know if we should be 'self-medicating'....


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on September 22, 2014, 12:26:01 PM
I've had a few decent but frustrating results recently in the nightly main events on Sky...

The first and the best of them, was coming 4th out of 297 in the Wednesday £11r for £530 (about £1.4k ftw)

The second was a deep ish run in the Saturday £33 Bounty Hunter where I came 19th out of 362 for £90 (about £2k ftw). The same night I was also going deep in the Mini £5.50 BH with a really big stack and then just lost a ton of races to bust 39/490. Gutting cos I had really big stacks in both and was starting to consider I may have been in the running for a jackpot payout (Sky pay a jackpot if you FT the main and mini in the same night based on where you finish in both, payouts below).

(http://i61.tinypic.com/vo1x75.png)

Then last night in the Sunday £110 Roller, I was CL with almost double the chips 2nd place had with 20 left and somehow managed to come 15th out of 173 for £240 (£4.7k ftw)  :(

I don't think I did anything wrong to blow up in the roller, just lost flips etc and eventually jammed JJ pre into AA. Gotta be happy with those results over like a 5 day period (pretty much the only MTTs I play are Sky mains) but frustrating to not be able to convert any of them into bigger scores.

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Cash has been alright, had one complete mare of a session where I just got hammered by coolers, there was nothing I could do about it, just one of those sessions where you're gonna lose lots, so that finished -£300, but otherwise cash has been ok.



Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on October 06, 2014, 12:38:59 AM
It's been a while since I posted, combo of being simultaneously busy and lazy.

I had another deep (but gutting) run in the £110 Roller on Sky, and it was a week where the guarantee was doubled. Was in decent shape with 20 left (30 odd were paid), ended up coming 19th making a questionable/dodgy 3b ship w/ QJss and bricking v AK for about £280.... £8.4k ftw that night :(

All told though I had a pretty decent month on Sky. About £1k up on cash, about £1k up on MTTs and a few other bits and bobs made it about a +£2.3k month so can't complain too much.

Realised I aint shown a pic of myself yet, and it's always better when you know what the person doing the writing looks like imo so here's a pic of my ugly mug with my youngest daughter, Leah.

(http://i60.tinypic.com/n1x8iw.jpg)

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I'm wanting to start adding in a few stars MTTs to my grinds at night time and looking for suggestions. I help out with the kids from about 2pm until their bedtime so can't start my evening sessions really early so.... Ideally I want big fields, max BI of ~$20 and MTTs I can reg (or late-reg with a reasonable stack) 7:30pm or later (don't mind staying up late obv)

At the mo, I'm gonna start playing the big 11 and the storm on Sundays but any suggestions are welcome cos I've hardly ever played on stars. I want just maybe 3-4 comps in total each night to play alongside cash.

Cheers


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: vegaslover on October 06, 2014, 05:36:08 PM
Plenty of big field mtts on stars, maybe too big

Have a look in the lobby at the Hot/Big tournies (in red)
Plenty of cheap buyin, okay prizepools there


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: rfgqqabc on October 07, 2014, 04:53:46 PM
Stars is the worst place to go, hunt out lower variance fields.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on October 07, 2014, 05:16:48 PM
I already play mtts on sky where variance is pretty low due to the standard and fields generally never going over 300 ish. Used to play them on .fr and WM but won't be able to soon cos of UK legislation.

I just wanted a few comps to punt which I know will be higher variance but give me a shot at big scores for small BIs. You suggest any sites other than stars? 888?


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: baldock92 on October 09, 2014, 02:37:05 PM
I'm not sure about now but a while back TitanPoker (allows american players) was ridiculously easy to beat on a weekend, but a bit tougher in the week. Maybe that'd be a good place to at least try? If you're already profitable on a sky just keep at that also :)


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Magic817 on October 09, 2014, 05:27:40 PM
I already play mtts on sky where variance is pretty low due to the standard and fields generally never going over 300 ish. Used to play them on .fr and WM but won't be able to soon cos of UK legislation.

I just wanted a few comps to punt which I know will be higher variance but give me a shot at big scores for small BIs. You suggest any sites other than stars? 888?

888 is good, I play on there a bit albeit have pretty bad stats but I blame this on variance so it makes me feel better! Skype or facebook me if you want and I can go through the good comps to play.

I think 888 or say I-poker would be better variance wise. Stars is great for the $ up top but playing the odd comp a night variance will kill you unless you run like me!

Matt


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: rfgqqabc on October 09, 2014, 06:52:01 PM
Consistent hourly from other networks beats the really high variance fields on Stars. Stuff like the big 22/55 are really really good value but the fields are just massive. Small fields just have to be part of your schedule, otherwise mtt variance goes off the hook. Furthermore, you want experience on final tables. Small fields give you the ability to practice the final table bubble and dynamics on the ft, someone who mostly grind stars nlhe might make one a week or so. Roi comes from the end game, its the most important part of the tournament, playing well here can turn you from a close to breakeven player into a monster. Apart from watching videos and reviewing tournaments, getting a lot of practice in these areas are key. What happens if you final one of the turbos on stars and suddenly have 1k buyins up top and its something you just haven't experienced. You'll be confident, you win a greater % of your sessions and you come into final tables thinking, I've done this a hundred times before. Practice for the big situations, who cares if its only $400 for winnng a 26$ mtt. Lol bowl comp even being a phrase shows how silly mtters can be.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Magic817 on October 09, 2014, 07:33:45 PM
Consistent hourly from other networks beats the really high variance fields on Stars. Stuff like the big 22/55 are really really good value but the fields are just massive. Small fields just have to be part of your schedule, otherwise mtt variance goes off the hook. Furthermore, you want experience on final tables. Small fields give you the ability to practice the final table bubble and dynamics on the ft, someone who mostly grind stars nlhe might make one a week or so. Roi comes from the end game, its the most important part of the tournament, playing well here can turn you from a close to breakeven player into a monster. Apart from watching videos and reviewing tournaments, getting a lot of practice in these areas are key. What happens if you final one of the turbos on stars and suddenly have 1k buyins up top and its something you just haven't experienced. You'll be confident, you win a greater % of your sessions and you come into final tables thinking, I've done this a hundred times before. Practice for the big situations, who cares if its only $400 for winnng a 26$ mtt. Lol bowl comp even being a phrase shows how silly mtters can be.

Brilliant post


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Rexas on October 09, 2014, 08:11:53 PM
Isn't party meant to be quite good variance wise because they tend to pay a larger % of the field than normal?


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: baldock92 on October 09, 2014, 11:58:21 PM
Consistent hourly from other networks beats the really high variance fields on Stars. Stuff like the big 22/55 are really really good value but the fields are just massive. Small fields just have to be part of your schedule, otherwise mtt variance goes off the hook. Furthermore, you want experience on final tables. Small fields give you the ability to practice the final table bubble and dynamics on the ft, someone who mostly grind stars nlhe might make one a week or so. Roi comes from the end game, its the most important part of the tournament, playing well here can turn you from a close to breakeven player into a monster. Apart from watching videos and reviewing tournaments, getting a lot of practice in these areas are key. What happens if you final one of the turbos on stars and suddenly have 1k buyins up top and its something you just haven't experienced. You'll be confident, you win a greater % of your sessions and you come into final tables thinking, I've done this a hundred times before. Practice for the big situations, who cares if its only $400 for winnng a 26$ mtt. Lol bowl comp even being a phrase shows how silly mtters can be.

Great post, especially for an online noob like myself


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on October 10, 2014, 12:03:22 AM
Cheers for all in the input guys. All very valid, logical, good points made... guess I was just being 'a fish with a dream', aiming for the BIG BIG scores. My problem was that I wanted to include a few extra MTTs and outside of the main and mini on Sky, almost all the other comps get <100 runners and I was looking for something a bit bigger, but there's a ton of middle ground between 100 runners and 10,000+

Will deffo take you up on the offer of chatting a few things through on Skype Matt


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: ElkE on October 13, 2014, 09:50:03 AM
Here's a picture of the expensive fella btw.

(http://i62.tinypic.com/11ayg3s.jpg)



spoiled fella :D

i have a cat in my neighborhood which is also white&black with a black spot on the chin


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on October 13, 2014, 06:16:51 PM
Not played for a couple of days. On Saturday afternoon I went to a kid's birthday party with my little girls and me and Emma were chatting about a few things and it made me think that it's crazy how clever/strong the human body is. I won't go into all the details but when Lily was born the doctors said she had a 50/50 chance of surviving, and if she did she would definitely suffer long term damage. When she was born she had quite severe brain damage, she didn't take her first step until she was 3 (and it would be a long time before she could actually walk) and it was roughly the same age before she could talk.

I was reminded of this because of something that came up on Emma's FB on Timehop (for people that aren't sucked into the world of FB - it basically makes u aware of things you posted on this day 1 year ago, or on this day 2 years ago etc). The thing that came up on Emma's timehop the other day was from 3 years ago when Lily had the results back from her MRI and was told there was no signs of brain damage, so in the 3 years since she was born she had gone from severe brain damage to her brain 'healing itself'.

She is still of course behind on a few things, mostly physical things, but there was was at the party (6 yrs old now) dancing etc when it took her to the age of 3 to even walk, and she's literally top of the class in a lot of academic areas like reading.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on October 21, 2014, 12:42:13 AM
The whole MTT idea has been kinda sidelined for the moment. I was playing £100NL a little while ago and took a step back to 50NL when a combination of things meant I wasn't as rolled as I'd like to be ideally for the level. Things have been going better the last month or two though and I've started re-introducing 100NL back into my grinds (just a couple of tables at first alongside 50NL) so I've been focussing on that atm. Things have gone well so far, the standard is much the same as 50NL so I feel perfectly comfortable in the games ability wise.

I'm gonna be playing the Grand Prix Final this week at DTD. Every time I see a Grand Prix is running I always think 'sigh forgot to get involved again, deffo gonna play the sats for the next one', then the next one comes round but I don't hear about it/get round to playing sats until it's too late, so this time I've just taken the lazy route and I'm buying in direct.

I'll be playing the 2pm one on Friday so I can get home at a reasonable time. Anyone else playing? What day you playing?


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on October 25, 2014, 10:17:45 PM
So I played the Grand Prix Final at DTD yesterday. The day started in a really frustrating fashion, just kept bricking all my draws and no-one ever failed to brick their draws V me when I had a hand. I was up and down for a while, only winning non-showdown pots, and got from the 50k starting stack up to about 60k by 500/1k (I think level 4/5), then I had a really grim hand. The runout was 348dd, To, Ko, so no possible straights or flushes and the money went in over 3 streets with my 33 V villian's 44. That left me with 5xBB and I shipped K9, called by Q6 and bust.

It's a 2hr drive to DTD (and that's pertty much the closest card room/casino to me) so seen as I was already there I thought I'd give it a 2nd shot. So I re-entered with 50 bigs. I was card dead for what felt like an absolute age after re-entering but somehow managed to maintain my 50k starting stack. Blinds got to 1.5k/3k and I minraised 99 UTG, only the BB calls. Flop comes 772dd, I cbet small, villian who has been pretty laggy/spewy raises. I'm pretty sure he'd have 3b pre with most bigger PPs and I didn't think he was raising the flop with 7x or the odd bigger PP he might not have 3b pre TT/JJ, so I stick the rest in, he calls with K2 and I hold for 100k.

Not long after, someone minraises from EP with about 50k, I 3bet AKo, he ships, I snap, and we win a flip against JJ to go to 155k. After that, I was pretty card dead again for ages and slowly blinded down a bit. Long story short, I found myself in the last level of the day (4k/8k) with just over 100k. At this point I wasn't gonna blow it and just gamble but I was hoping some kinda spot would come up for me to try and double or bust before the day ended. It was pretty annoying cos obviously everyone was putting a lot of thought into their decisions at this stage, whether it was a case of 'do I wanna bust out now this close to day 2' or 'how much am I willing to gamble it up to make sure I get a stack for tomorrow' but either way there was 20 mins to go and everyone was tanking for so long about every decision when all I wanted to do was get as many hands as possible played so I had the best chance of finding a hand to GII with. With about 5 mins to go, that laggy/spewy villian to my right minraised, I shipped AJs, he called with AJo and we chop it up. The very next hand he just open ships this time, and I call with AJs. He turns over TT, we flop a FD, brick turn, flush completes on the river and we've go 222k. I put my 1k ante in next hand which is the last hand of the night and we finish with a 221k stack to take into day 2 on Sunday.

GL to anyone else who is coming back on Sunday.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: shipitgood on October 26, 2014, 03:59:09 AM
Gl today Paul!


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on October 27, 2014, 11:43:37 PM
As I mentioned in my last post, I came back to Day 2 of the Grand Prix with 221k...

361 players came back from the 2013 (entries) that started, 215 were getting paid and average was 270k so I was just a little under that.

The start of the day went great, everyone was either card dead or being vvv nitty and I was getting plenty of playable hands so it was a long time before I lost a pot. I opened 33, then took it down with a cbet, opened 55, took down the blinds, opened AK, and took it down on a Kxx flop, then I 3b sqz AKo, jam QTx flop, villian folds AK and I was up to 360k in about 20 mins.

First pot of the day that actually made it past a flop, I opened ATo in mid position, and was peeled by 1 of the blinds. Flop is  Aspades Kd Qd and I bet/call flop. Turn is a brick,  3c iirc and he checks so I instantly ruled out most/all value hands that beat me unless he's playing it very strange, I check back. River is another brick,  7c I think, and he bets small. Calling and losing would have left me with like 60k but called and was good to take me to nearly 500k. Out of interest what are people's thoughts with regard to showdown here? When we call do we hold off and wait for him to show/announce his hand? I said something like 'I've got the ace' and he mucked, am I just giving up free info by announcing first? Don't wanna get into the area of people messing about and arguing over who should show first so just said I had the ace, but he should technically show first, right?

Not long after that someone shoved AT, I reshipped AK and we hold to go up to 650k. By this point average was about 415k, blinds I think were 8k/16k with 238 left.

Can't really remember many more hands of note, just a few raise/folds etc but by the time I got ITM I had 500k (just over avg) and blinds were 10/20k. Once we got ITM obv people started flying out cos the payjumps were dreadful so everyone was just trying to spin it up or go home. So I open KQo with 500k @ 12k/24k from the CO, expecting to snap off either of the blinds who who <15xBB. The SB shipped, I call, he has  9s 6s and it runs out 24435 and that leaves me with about 150k. I don't play another pot until the BTN shoves on my next BB, by which point I have about 140k and blinds have gone up to 15k/30k so I snap with  Ahrt 8h and we hold against  Jh Qd. Now I'm back in the region of 300k, and I ship the BTN with  Kc Qc and the 96ss guy from earlier has AK in the blinds and it's gg.

I finished 181st and got £250 so was exactly break even cos I used 2 bullets on it. Meh at least it was a free flag.

One thing I've taken from it though, I don't think I'll be playing another DTD event in the forseeable that gives out seats taken from the prizepool. The payouts were insanely top heavy, to the point where iirc you needed to finish something like 50th out of 2000+ entries to get 4x the BI. Don't think it reached 4 figures until like 10th place.

So the next time I play live will probably be Luton, I've been there once for an SPT and thought it was a really nice place (but can't remember which casino in Luton it was)... what are people's opinions? Is one noticeably better than the other?


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: scotty77 on October 28, 2014, 12:15:52 AM
It had 100 seats into a 500 taken out, so still 200k in the pool for a 125.  GL finding that outside the Goliath.  Only running a pretty identical tournament in a week too.  DTD are incredible.

Grosvenor Luton was the SPT venue. Genting is decent too but smaller.  Both have regular monthly events - I think they are usually 20/30kGTD for a 100/150BI but not sure.  Add them both to FB.  Think the Grosvenor monthly is this weekend.



Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: theprawnidentity on October 28, 2014, 12:27:59 AM
Out of interest what are people's thoughts with regard to showdown here? When we call do we hold off and wait for him to show/announce his hand? I said something like 'I've got the ace' and he mucked, am I just giving up free info by announcing first? Don't wanna get into the area of people messing about and arguing over who should show first so just said I had the ace, but he should technically show first, right?

Had some entertaining examples of this recently.  I've taken to just calling river bets and sitting in silence till they either show their hand or muck.  Unless it's a friend or someone I like, then I might let them off the hook.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: cambridgealex on October 28, 2014, 12:29:11 AM
Out of interest what are people's thoughts with regard to showdown here? When we call do we hold off and wait for him to show/announce his hand? I said something like 'I've got the ace' and he mucked, am I just giving up free info by announcing first? Don't wanna get into the area of people messing about and arguing over who should show first so just said I had the ace, but he should technically show first, right?

Had some entertaining examples of this recently.  I've taken to just calling river bets and sitting in silence till they either show their hand or muck.  Unless it's a friend or someone I like, then I might slowroll the shit outta them

fyp


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on October 28, 2014, 12:32:00 AM
It had 100 seats into a 500 taken out, so still 200k in the pool for a 125.  GL finding that outside the Goliath.  Only running a pretty identical tournament in a week too.  DTD are incredible.

Grosvenor Luton was the SPT venue. Genting is decent too but smaller.  Both have regular monthly events - I think they are usually 20/30kGTD for a 100/150BI but not sure.  Add them both to FB.  Think the Grosvenor monthly is this weekend.



Yeah deffo, DTD is a great cardroom, meh, maybe I'd feel different if I finished 100th ;)

I've heard of them doing this for a few events recently, and I know they gave away 50 x UKPC main seats in the £500 side event, is this something they do in all major/tour events nowadays?


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on November 14, 2014, 09:36:21 PM
Left it a while between posts again. I'll just keep it to the cliffs of what's gone on...

Played most of the UKOPS on Sky and it went about as wank as it could possibly have. I sold 50% of an £800 package for it, and played a few more of the small BIs on my own £££. I cashed 2 events from about 25, the best result being a frustrating 12th in one of the £5 Minis (off stake) out of about 600 runners, only got about £50.

I turned 28 on 4th Novemeber... getting dangerously close to 30 now  ;tk;

One thing I did get for my birthday which I was very much in need of...

(http://i58.tinypic.com/sfflhj.jpg)

Cash is going well, can't remember if I mentioned it in my last update but still mainly playing £50 and 100NL now.

Another UKPC has been announced for DTD, so guess I'm gonna have to get my satellite skates on.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Young_gun on November 16, 2014, 03:25:04 PM
Only just seem this, thankfully not as long as expected :P

Ever thought of pet insurance? im not offering just seems logical with your cat situation....

Hope things are going well with you at mo Lambo


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on December 02, 2014, 12:23:39 AM
Cheers YG, unfortunately we can't get any insurance for him now (at least not to cover that condition) because it's in the vet's records so is a pre existing condition so they wouldn't cover it.

Not updated for a while (again!!), deffo gonna keep more on top of that!

Only played 1 x £48 UKPC Semi so far which I bricked, still ages to qualify but I would like to get a move on and lock up my seat nice and early.

I made the decision a week or two ago to start putting in some serious MTT volume from now on. I've always done fairly well in MTTs on Sky but my volume is vv poor (1200 games in about 5 years on the site) and my sample size is just completely lol on other sites (probably <100 comps between 888, FTP and Stars combined). So I finally got round to setting up a P5 account as a bit of extra motivation to get grinding those sites more cos atm my P5 is .... not great.

http://www.pocketfives.com/profiles/lambert180/

MTTs were pretty meh for those last like 10 days of Nov when I started grinding them properly but then yesterday I had my first decent bink. It was a £55 turbo bounty hunter on Sky (I got in for £3), only a very small field but I came 1/44 for about £750, nice end to the month.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on January 23, 2015, 01:03:57 PM
God it's been a long time since I updated this! Just a quick summary of how the rest of December went... I was playing pretty much solely MTTs and 95% of the month went pretty wank but then on 28th December I managed to FT the UKOPS main event on there, I bust in 6th and got £2k which got me back nicely into the black for the end of the year.

I mentioned in my last post that I was going to be devoting most of my time to MTTs in 2015, well it seems to have come along at the perfect time that one of the guys I know from Sky contacted me because he's involved in running a stable and wondered if I was interested in joining. One of the people who runs the stable (and provides all the coaching) is Marc Wright which just swung things for me into thinking it was an opportunity too good to pass up. There is a little blog update RE this here:

http://paullambert180.blogspot.co.uk/

So I started with them around 4th/5th Jan and have got off to a pretty great start so far. I knew it was gonna be a steep learning curve... 1) cos I know I'm a decent solid MTT player but I've got a lot to learn to really crush them and 2) having played 95%+ of my volume on Sky, I feel super confident playing 6max but I'm lost in so many spots full ring which is mostly what I'll be playing on other sites. Either way, I seem to have started with a bit of early heat and am about +$3.5k so far in Jan, with my best result being 4th out of 833 in a $22 cubed on stars for $3.2k.

A mate of mine has set up a player group for me on SS (below) which combines my aliases for all the staked sites (basically everything except Sky), just so I can keep track of my profit/loss, volume and have a pretty graph...

http://www.sharkscope.com/?357#Player-Statistics//networks/Player%20Group/players/Lambo%20Stable

My P5s is also looking slightly less embarrassing now than it was when I posted it in early December...

http://www.pocketfives.com/profiles/lambert180/

============================================

As Kev/Larson (ShipitGood) has mentioned in his diary, I got a £50 bet with him over who can make the most profit on Sky MTTs in the first 6 months of the year. I think I just about got the lead atm but it's close. I'll post monthly SS updates of how we're both getting on, I was gonna post one now but I'm too tight to pay for SS and my mate who does them for me is unlikely to be awake before about 4pm.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on January 26, 2015, 07:22:07 PM
I finally got my mate to SS me and shipitgood for MTTs 2015 on Sky so far. It's a day or two old now I think, I dunno about Kev but I've hardly played anything on Sky since this SSS was taken and I'm pretty much break even during that time.

(http://i58.tinypic.com/4h3wr8.jpg)

I'd been thinking about starting a stream on Twitch for quite a while but I used to have a really bad internet connection so I'd tested running it with a few mates and it was just unwatchable for them. Recently I upgraded to high speed broadband though which means my upload speed has gone from about 300kb to 4Mb so I hosted my first stream last night. It was a bit of a disaster logisitically because Sky Poker and Party Poker both just refused to let me login to the sites for like the first 2 hours of the session which killed my table numbers but it didn't go too bad overall for a first attempt.

I'll be giving it another go though and all being well, do it pretty regularly.  I'm far from a sicko so I won't be able to teach much to a lot of you guys on here but hopefully it'll be semi-entertaining and I'm sure there will be plenty o people that can benefit from my (limited) advice. Next time I go live will be about 8pm tomorrow night (Tuesday) in line with the main event on Sky.

http://www.twitch.tv/lambert180


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on February 09, 2015, 12:31:30 PM
It's been a pretty meh few weeks on the MTT grind. No really big scores for a while, I think the best was finishing 3rd in a Party Poker $100 for $1150.

I had a pretty sigh near miss in one of 888's Challenges, it was the $35 double chance, and I GII pre (and lost) KK<A6o with 11 left for a big stack. Losing that left me with about 12bb and I ended up shipping A7o into AA to FT bubble it for about $375 iirc ($7k ftw in that). So deffo down a bit the last few weeks but not much.

Still got the same on-going issue with Sky so pretty much can't play on there at all. Investigation from a few people far more techy minded than me (mostly my girlfriend) has found out that it looks like Sky switch over to a P2P protocol during busy periods and EE (my ISP) block P2P sites like utorrent because it drains bandwidth etc. So I assume it's a case of Sky contacting them, explaining and telling them to stop blocking their site, still waiting on a response though from either company. So as it is, I get booted off the site about 7:30pm and can't log back in until 10pm so I miss virtually 100% of their good comps, which means the prop bet with ShipItGood probably aint going that well.

(http://i62.tinypic.com/11mgkxx.gif)


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on February 11, 2015, 11:20:41 AM
Quite a few decent runs last night but no wins and no huge scores :(

I cashed the $27ko with a few heads for $66

Cashed a $3r for $17, think i was like 160th out of a few thousand, about $2.4k ftw anyway

Went deep in the $13ko too, came 33/1716 for about $50

Deep run in Party's $50 main, but bust ATs<AQs in 15th for $150 ($2k ftw).

FT'd the $11r on 888, gutting though had TT<77 aipf which would have taken us 3handed and given me the CL but running spades gave him the 4flush so I got 4th for about $565 ($2.1k ftw)

A +$500 ish night overall so not bad, just frustrating to not convert a few of those runs into proper scores.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on February 12, 2015, 02:14:06 AM
Had another good session tonight, but again can't help but feel frustrated. Pretty nuts but went and FT'd the 11r on 888 again, but just couldn't get anything going on the FT, got down to final 5, 3b jammed 33, called by A8o, we're good by the turn but needing to dodge like half the deck and we don't, gg in 5th for just over $500 ($2.2k ftw tonight).

Got mincashes (give or take) in $22 deepstack, $5.50ko, $11 FO and 27ko on stars so pretty much another +$500 day, but again so close to much more :(


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Young_gun on February 12, 2015, 01:09:29 PM
Sounds like your on great form, dont think of the missed opportunities at least you are still winning half decent, I know how it can be sometimes, so many near misses but keep giving yourself the opportunity and a big score will be just round the corner.

Keep up the good work sir


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on February 13, 2015, 02:50:10 PM
Cheers YG, yeah I'm sure it'll come... not today though.

More Frustration!

Finally got round to playing my first morning session, it looked very optimistic but fell flat again when it matters.

I was CL for pretty much 3 hours straight in a $10 FO on party up until the point of being 4handed. The blinds are 2.5k/5k, and the 4 stacks are roughly 100k (me) v 100k v 20k v 30k. Yeah I just get KK<AA against the other 100k stack :( Only a small $10 FO w/ 97 runners, was $180 ftw but that pretty much would have freerolled my morning, I got $80 for 4th.

I also FT'd a $25 FO on 888 too with 92 runners, $590 ftw. I jam BvB w/ K9o, called by A3o, pretty much dead on A25r. I got 8th place for $90.

The only other cash was a mincash in a $10 FO on 888.

2 FTs from 11 comps, still make a small loss, mehhh.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on March 20, 2015, 02:41:07 PM
Not posted for a while, and can't really remember what scores I've had since te last post so just looking at date of last post and will check P5s and post a few of the highlights since then...

Last night I got 2nd in the £55BH on Sky for £600, 6th in $50 Turbo BH on Party for $250 and 4th in a  $33 FO on stars for $450

About a week ago I won an $11 FO on 888 for $550 and finished 3rd in the $22 Challenge on there too for just over $1k. It was the night where they have 2 identical $22 chall comps and I cashed both so freerolled the following week too.

Not much else on the stake, other than small cashes of $50-$100 here and there, things going ok though. Having an ok month on Sky so far, I'm about £700 up from MTTs and have been playing the odd bit of 100NL when table count gets really low but I ave no time to re-reg and about +£300 from that.

================================

I've recently started up my Twitch stream again, I did start it a while ago but literally the night I did my first stream Sky Poker just decided to stop working and I was unable to login for like 6 weeks (I later found out it was partly down to my ISP, EE) which is pretty annoying from a profit POV and because I set myself a target to be on the sharkscope profit leaderboard for Sky MTTs, pretty sure I can still do it like, but missing 6 weeks sucked.

http://www.twitch.tv/lambert180

Anyway, so I'm back on Twitch, and I've decided I'm gonna sell a small piece of my action for the upcoming UKOPS on SkY, just to raise some interest and give some viewers a little sweat while they're watching. I was gonna sell it on here but I don't have 300 posts so just had to post it on FB instead. I'm only selling 20%, and capping it at 2% per person, as it's only a bit of fun so just good to let as many people as possible get involved.



Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: shipitgood on March 20, 2015, 02:54:07 PM
I'll take 2% whatever that is


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: shipitgood on March 20, 2015, 03:02:05 PM
Can you make any money from twitch, how does that work?


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on March 21, 2015, 04:13:52 PM
Sorry Kev I already posted it on FB just after my last post above and it was all snapped up in about 30 mins.

I think you can make a bit of money out of Twitch yeh, it's like anything though (and especially like poker), you only get back what you put in. If you put zero effort in to running a good Twitch stream then you'll probably get nothing from it, but if you put the work in, keep it entertaining and hopefully teach people a few new things then I think there's decent rewards to be made.

I also thought this was the nut best time to get it back up and running too because as you know I'm quite well known on Sky's forum and Sky's poker channel 861 has just been cancelled. They've mentioned future media/advertising routes like Youtube, doing pre-recorded shows on Challenge etc and have also mentioned moving into Twitch. Pocket5s have recently set up their own Twitch channel and I think it would be genius for Sky to do the same and take the chance to get in from the start with something that could be huge rather than being a late comer. If they do that, then I wanna already be an established 'Twitcher' with a solid fan base to put myself in the best position for Sky to be interested in me running some shows on their channel etc.

==================================

So I did another show last night, and it went pretty well again. I deffo felt more relaxed and was just chatting 'normally' as the night went on. That was made a lot easier by a lot of Sky regs that I know joining the chat and getting involved. We also managed to finally FT one of the 27KOs on stars after too many near misses to count, I bust in 6th place shipping A9, into AK, blank flop, 9 turn, K river. I can't complain though, I had a lot of rungood to make that FT in te first place and I got just sy of $1100 for that, good to have an exciting sweat on the stream. I also FT'd the £55 BH on Sky again for the 2nd night running, this time only finished 5th though for about £250.... slowly gaining on you in the prop bet Kev... slow and steady.

Fwiw, I set myself a goal at the start of this year when I joined the stable to get my P5s total cashes to >$100k before the end of the year (at the start of the year it was next to nothing, don't even think it was 4 figures cos I rarely played outside of Sky) and last night I broke the $20k mark so 20% of the way there now.

A good night overall and looking forward to doing my next stream. Think I'm gonna have tonight off cos I've played quite a lot recently but tomorrow is Sunday and I play MTTs, so big grind no doubt and hopefully I can get my first win live on Twitch.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on March 22, 2015, 01:39:43 AM
Thought I'd just flick up a link to a new blog I just posted if anyone is interested.

http://paullambert180.blogspot.co.uk/


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on March 23, 2015, 08:36:21 PM
Bit of exciting news to share...

As I mentioned I've streamed a few times on Twitch now and I was watching some streaming on Pocket5sTV (their twitch channel) the other night and was having a chat about wat it entails to get involved etc. Long story short, this Tuesday and Thursday (24th and 26th March) I'm going to be making my debut of going live on Twitch hosting on the PocketFivesTV channel.

The streams will be starting around 7:30pm both nights and not stopping until I win/bust everything.

http://www.pocketfives.com/pocketfivestv/

Everyone is welcome and all questions are welcome. Hope to see a few of you pop in.

Paul


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on May 12, 2015, 03:45:40 PM
Fuk, I've done it again! No update since the end of March.

Just pure results updates get a bit boring anyway so I'll make those brief. Continuing to run really well on 888 and stars while running pretty bad on Sky. Figures so far for 2015 are about +£2k Sky, +£6k across 888/stars/party and then like +£500 from the odd cash session I've played so doing ok, but can always do better.

Here's the heater graph of my 888/stars/party (I can't SS Sky for 2015 only cos I aint a member)

(http://i61.tinypic.com/rclnwz.png)

One comp I've been heatering pretty hard in ever since I started grinding MTTs in 2015 is the $11r at 7:40pm on 888, and a mate skoped for that comp only the other day just so I could see how much of a luckbox I am in it...

(http://i58.tinypic.com/2qv9jsk.jpg)

I dunno if I mentioned it on here, I think I did, but I set myself a target when I started grinding MTTs at the start of the year to reach $100k of cashes on P5s (was <$1k before starting iirc. I'm up to to a little over $30k now, so pretty much on target atm but long way to go.

So that's how poker has been going, right, enough of this bragging nonsense.  Life wise, probably the biggest/best change I've made recently is to stop smoking, it's not been that long since I had one (about 4 days) but I'm feeling totally confident that this is me quit for good now.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on May 14, 2015, 01:44:50 PM
I had a pretty good night last night at the tables, deep runs everywhere, didn't convert them all but still a very solid night's work.

All pretty small fields (except the $5) but I got...

1st in a £22 BH for £380
2nd in a £55 BH for £440
3rd in a $5 FO for $160
6th in a $55KO for $200
6th in a $55 turbo 6max BH for $230

So no huge results but a lot of decent ones to so finished about +$200 on stake and +£700 on Sky. More of that plz


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: shipitgood on May 14, 2015, 05:13:32 PM
Nice night, keep it going!


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on May 15, 2015, 09:22:53 PM
Cheers Kev.

So for those who didn't know, I made a prop bet with Kev/Shipitgood (Larson7 on Sky) at the start of the year, £50 to the person who has the most profit on Sky Poker from MTTs alone in the first half of the year. Annoyingly shortly after we agreed the prop bet, I started having issues with my ISP (EE) and was unable to play on Sky for like the first 8 weeks of the year, but I wasn't gonna back out, I know I play a lot more tables than him and a lot more days of the week so would probably near enough catch up volume wise anyway. Only around 6 weeks left now as we'll be taking the numbers from sharkscope on 1st July (morning).

So there's the cliffs anyway. Kev got off to a cracking start winning a main event, then getting 2nd in a main event about 2-3 days later and I've been playing catch up ever since. Those few results last night brought me about £700 closer to him and this is what it looked like Thursday morning.

(http://i57.tinypic.com/20f7wxh.png)

I had a semi deep run in Sky's main last night but blew up a really decent stack (gonna post HH in another post) and eventually lost the rest A9<Q9 aipf to bust in 19th for £120. I also got 3rd in the £55 turbo BH for £240... Larson also had a deep run (bust about 10 places before me) in the main last night but I still gained about another £100 on him.

So as it stands I got about £1.4k worth of catching up to do in about 6 weeks, it won't be easy but very do-able.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on May 15, 2015, 09:49:23 PM
Fully expecting to get slammed on this HH, I think I played it pretty badly, almost every street is a disaster imo. Really frustrating because I'd been playing really well all comp and then a lapse in concentration this one hand blew it. Anyway...

It's the £33 BH Sky Poker main event and we're on a 5 handed table with 20 left iirc. ITM now (30 odd were paid) and meaningless pay jumps until about top 6. Villian opening had been pretty solid, not getting out of line although most of that time was while he was short and he's fairly recently spun up a stack and is now opening a lot more (whether he's just hit a run of cards or has opened up now he has a stack I can't say for sure).

I think my first mistake is not 3betting pre, feel like I chose the worst of the 3 options pre but meh here it is...

Blinds are 1250/2500, I start the hand with 69k, villian has 136k.


Villian minraises UTG (HJ cos 5handed) to 5k. It folds to me in the SB with  Ahrt Tc and I flat for some reason (I don't like this), BB comes along too.

Pot is now 15k and it comes  Aspades Jd 9h

Me and BB check to the PFR who bets 7.5k, I call and BB folds.

Pot is now 30k and turn is 2d

I donk turn here for 9k and villian calls. I do quite like the donk on the turn here and I do think it should be small like deffo under 1/2 pot, but I think it's a tad too small here, something like 12-13k is probably better.

Pot is now 48k and river is  Kd

We check/call a bet of 24k. I'm never c/r obv but fwiw we leave ourselves 25k (10bb) behind when we call here.

I won't say his specific hand yet but I've mentioned it was a blow so it's obv something that beats me.

Thoughts on every street... feel free to be cruel :D


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on May 20, 2015, 01:01:32 PM
Not really much to report recently in terms of results, vv small profit (like <£50) on Sky with the best result being 4th out of about 550 in their £5 Mini BH for about £100. Pretty much all bricks on stars/888//party though, few small cashes here and there but prob -$600 ish.

It'll be two weeks this Saturday since I've had a smoke :) First few days were trying at times, but I think that was largely because I did about 7-8hours worth of driving over the first 2 days of quitting and I tend to smoke a lot in the car when I'm just bored out of my mind driving down the motorway.

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I'm gonna be going live again on Twitch tonight from about 7:30pm and my sessions generally go on until about 1-2am (obv depends how good/bad I play/run). Here's my schedule and the details

Www.twitch.tv/lambert180

(http://i60.tinypic.com/bgpvt2.png)


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on May 21, 2015, 11:28:10 AM
Last night was a really solid night on Sky, no huge results but quite a few very good ones to make up a decent profit. Thing are still going pretty poor on stake, another loss yest but a couple of small results meant it wasn't so big.

The only results on stake were finishing 13th in the $55KO on 888 for $100 and 5th/300 in the DTD Micro $5) FO) for $100 + $27 token. The latter was mega frustrating because it was unreal levels of soft, I know everyone always says that but I really did just run over it completely from 2-3 tables left to the FT, everyone just basically permanently had autofold ticked by the looks of it, no-one putting up any sort of fight at all, so we're 1/8 on the FT and then I lose internet connection :( No idea why, it's never happened before but I'm offline for 10-15 mins and I come back to see myself 3/5 (could certainly have been worse) then the very first hand I get is ATo, we open, villian peels 55 from blinds, runout is T5xAx, the lot obv goes in on the river and it was gg.

Few decent results on Sky....

1/126 in £11BH for £245
18/211 in Mini for £27.50
7/78 in £22BH for £70
4/43 in MBI for £175

Few other heads in BHs made for a total profit on Sky of £311 so a solid night's work and some decent work catching up with Larson, his lead must be vvv close to being back in 3 figures now cos I don't think he's played much/had much in the way of results recently. I'll get Pingu to do an updated sharkscope for us both when he wakes up which could be anytime between now and like 6pm.

Cheers to anyone that popped in to watch my Twitch for a bit last night.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on May 27, 2015, 03:34:12 PM
HELP NEEDED!


Feel a bit cheeky asking with stuff like this, but if you don't ask, you don't get....

I'm sure it's fine to link here cos there aren't any links to other poker sites or anything. Basically, I'm a member of a new/small/up-and-coming site which kinda merges FB and poker.

Anyway, long story short, they have a promo at the moment where they give you a HH (one street at a time) and you have to post what you'd do and the analysis behind your reasoning. The best analysis of the situation will win a €1.5k package to Malta. I'm pretty confident in my ability to analyse spots but only the top 5 people with the most 'likes' of their comment will be assessed by the judges, so that's where you come in :D

I need all the likes I can get to be in with a shout of being picked for the best analysis. You do have to sign up to do so (I think) but it's free and takes like <60 seconds, all likes will be very much appreciated

http://www.rankinghero.com/en/players/380799/paul-lambert/activity/2347101.html#activity

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On the poker front, things still going well for the month, I'm about +£1.3k on Sky and have received a little over £700 so far this month in chops from the stable. Life things have been pretty shitty so likely to not be playing again in May but at least I got a £2k month locked up if I do take the rest of the month off.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: UgotNuts on May 28, 2015, 05:57:06 AM
Liked!  8)


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on May 29, 2015, 07:45:57 PM
Cheers UgotNuts, I keep meaning to ask but are you a reg from sky/what's your alias, or would you rather not say?

Thanks all who have voted so far.

Another street has been announced, so we're up to the turn now. For anyone that has missed them and would like them all in one orderly fashion to make them easier to like all at once :p lol, here are my posts so far for the 3 different streets (the river will be released at 3pm tomorrow).

Preflop - http://www.rankinghero.com/en/players/380799/paul-lambert/activity/2347101.html

Flop - http://www.rankinghero.com/en/players/380799/paul-lambert/activity/2356105.html

Turn - http://www.rankinghero.com/en/players/380799/paul-lambert/activity/2360661.html


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on May 31, 2015, 07:37:27 PM
Big thanks to everyone that's got involved helping me out in this promo. We still have until noon tomorrow to get as many likes as possible then it's up to the judge to pick the best 1 from the top 5. I should be pretty safe to make top 5 as the current standings are...

1st - 108 likes
2nd - 104 likes
3rd - 77 likes (me)
4th - 62 likes
5th - 56 likes
6th - 42 likes

but ya never know, so here are the links again one last time....

Preflop - http://www.rankinghero.com/en/players/380799/paul-lambert/activity/2347101.html

Flop - http://www.rankinghero.com/en/players/380799/paul-lambert/activity/2356105.html

Turn - http://www.rankinghero.com/en/players/380799/paul-lambert/activity/2360661.html

River - http://www.rankinghero.com/en/players/380799/paul-lambert/activity/2363905.html


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on September 22, 2015, 04:49:13 PM
Afternoon guys and gals,

I decided to re-awaken my Twitch channel recently with the first 'show' being at 10am Wednesday 22nd Sept, and after some discussion with mates, one of whom doubts how do-able it is to move through the stakes from the bottom on Sky anymore given the 7.5% rake at micros, I've decided to do exactly that and try to prove him wrong.

I'll be giving myself a starting roll of £100 to play 4nl and 8nl, I'll only be playing 2 tables, all play will be live on Twitch and I will be using quite aggressive BRM to keep it exciting. Rough BRM rules will be...

Move to 10nl when roll is £150
Move to 20nl when roll is £250
Move to 30nl when roll is £400

Obviously I'll move back down stakes using similar guidelines too when necessary.

I'll keep everything updated for the challenge in this thread, and  update when I go live in here. All suggestions for the stream are welcome, all feedback is welcome. So it's gonna give me the impetus to get this diary back up and running.

Here is my Twitch link: http://www.twitch.tv/lambert180


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on September 23, 2015, 10:38:50 AM
Going live for first session of the Sky Spin Up series in 5 mins

http://www.twitch.tv/lambert180


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on September 23, 2015, 01:36:40 PM
Just finished up, just over 2hr. Cheers for all the support, got to 18 viewers, I'll take that on my first go in a while, takes time for word to spread etc.

The account summary page wouldn't work on Sky and I forgot to note down balance at the start, and clearly I can't use a calculator either so had to go with 'Andy's' idea of contacting CC to ask for my balance pre-session so done that  and was about a BI up (only played 8nl today).

Bankroll: £107.98
Profit: +£7.98
Hours Played: 2

Someone kindly made this page for my Twitch channel too...

http://staking101.com/paul-lambert/


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on September 25, 2015, 10:38:58 AM
Going live again now for the 2nd 'episode' of my Sky Spin Up

http://www.twitch.tv/lambert180


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Lambert180 on September 25, 2015, 01:17:08 PM
Cheers again for support all, got up to 33 viewers today which is pretty good for early hours of the morning, especially as it's only my 2nd stream for ages. Hopefully it keeps going up, don't forget to follow me on there for notifications of when I go live. You can also watch back old streams on there too.

http://www.twitch.tv/lambert180

Small loss today of about £1.40 so totals now are...

Bankroll: £106.56
Profit: +£6.56
Hours Played: 4

Probably gonna take the weekend off now and will be back again Monday morning at 10am again. Hope to see everyone back there.


Title: Re: LolPro and Onwards
Post by: Magic817 on September 28, 2015, 12:20:59 PM
Cheers again for support all, got up to 33 viewers today which is pretty good for early hours of the morning, especially as it's only my 2nd stream for ages. Hopefully it keeps going up, don't forget to follow me on there for notifications of when I go live. You can also watch back old streams on there too.

http://www.twitch.tv/lambert180

Small loss today of about £1.40 so totals now are...

Bankroll: £106.56
Profit: +£6.56
Hours Played: 4

Probably gonna take the weekend off now and will be back again Monday morning at 10am again. Hope to see everyone back there.

I tuned in but it didn't seem very interactive and there was some visual and sound issues too whereby I couldn't hear or see you at all.