Really enjoy these games. Was there a stream last week? (17th?), I can't seem to find anything on YT.

not last week, and i don't think this week too (festival week)

usally non-fesitval weeks

Thanks for the info

Really enjoy these games. Was there a stream last week? (17th?), I can't seem to find anything on YT.

any news on when the first episode will be up on YouTube? or have I completely missed it and it's already there?

Not forgotten your question, am still trying to find out, bear with me please.

Cheers tikay! I completely forgot about it when it was on!

any news on when the first episode will be up on YouTube? or have I completely missed it and it's already there?

nice one, will ship the money on Tilt now, will be from Jrvs

I'll take one if there's still some avail?

Krakow is incred! Spent last new year's there and it was great! Definitely make some time for a trip to Auschwitz if you can and haven't been before as well.

I'm here today cheering on my mate who's playing the tourney, I'm not so fortunate though so I'm gonna be sat around for a few hours until a cash game gets running probably, so if you need a hand with anything updates wise give me a shout, I'm the short guy in the big black coat wandering around with no purpose haha

I'm also an infrequent visitor to DTD, but when I do I'm usually coming with the main focus on playing cash, so just wanted to agree with some of the points people have made here and also make a few of my own.

One of the big things that personally has a large influence on me is the opening hours, I was used to the late 4:30, 5:30 openings, and was very surprised when this changed to around 3am.

Me and a couple of friends usually travel up for a weekend so when we do we really want to get as much poker in as possible, obviously when the tournaments are running and just because of the way cash games run, it isn't really possible very often to get games going early afternoon, so we usually want to be able to play as late as possible instead to get the most out of our trip, the early closes really don't cater for this, and the last couple of times I've been at the club and the games have finished at 3ish, this has always confused me because almost everyone on my table had wanted to carry on.  I'd guess the majority of weekend visitors usually have travelled a bit further than weekday visitors and have probably paid for a hotel, travel etc so I'd expect there would be quite a decent section of weekend customers who would also want and be incentivised by later openings.

Suggestion is open later on weekends? As I can understand its probably not financially viable to be open late every weeknight with the current numbers anyway.

On the note of straddling, I think it should definitely be allowed on every game, including 0.5/1. I remember playing 0.5/1 before and not being allowed to straddle and it being explained to the table that it was only at 1/2 and above. I remember a player at my table commenting at the time it now felt like this 0.5/1 game was insignificant compared to the other games going and he wanted to move to 1/2 just so he could play in a game that 'looked respected and taken seriously'.

I think there should be one rule for all if I'm honest. A 0.5/1 player should be treated the same as a 1/2 or 2/5 player, they are just as important, if not more.

Also whilst on this point, I think the same should apply for 'running it twice' I think this should be allowed on all games, and all quirky sorta stuff like this should be allowed, if a player has seen this happen on TV they probably want to do it as well, even if they don't understand why, it's all probably added excitement and fun to the players and offers something different to games elsewhere.

I think there should definitely be a cap on the 1/2 or at least a choice. I thought last time I visited new limits had been introduced and there was now both capped and uncapped 1/2, when I got there ready to play and the game was starting it quickly got changed to an uncapped from a capped one at the request of someone, without really consulting the rest of the players taking their seats, this made me feel uncomfortable straight away as some players started buying in what I thought to be redic deep to start a game.

Pretty sure I had some more stuff to add but I've just realised the time! Not sure if this is of any use or if I've just rambled on haha...

Was that a bit of a sarcastic comment from Tighty about Zimblers 'reads' I heard there?

do we know how many levels are going to be played on day 1/predicted end time? Also, all the timings i.e 2.30pm start each day is confirmed?

2.30pm I know is correct

Structure info from Simon, please

Hi

You will play a minimum of 12 x 40 min levels on each day, start time is 2pm. 8 hours of play plus breaks, looking at a midnight/1am finish

Cheers Nicola

Is this still the case? Rich posted elsewhere that it was 16 levels day 1 which makes it a much later finish.

Its 16 40 minute levels with a 2.15am finish on each Day 1, this was confirmed today

Thats my travel plans out the window then haha! I've either gotta now bust out before the last train or sleep in the train station for a couple of hours, lovely.

I'll be playing tomorrow, well today now (day1a)

My reasoning for thinking that you were not bluffing was that you showed your hand. A decent player may turn this in to a bluff. He'd never show it though.

If you're showing a bluff you're showing the old deucey seven or similar.

The following line:

only showed the hand after Derbylad agreed to show his

helps to explain why.

I'd guess there was some of the old 'if I fold will you show?' type thing going on?

Well played.

Thanks, yeah this is pretty much it. Obviously showing the hand there and showing the ability to turn a made hand into a bluff wouldn't be something I normally would want to do. The only reasons I did so was because of the above and what I mentioned about how it was late on in the session, pretty much a couple of hands left with me unlikely to be playing against Derbylad or the rest of the table again or atleast for some considerable time and I thought it was an interesting hand that could bring up some good discussion.

Thanks for the responses. I will do my best to post more, it's defiantly something I want to do and get involved more around here. I have been around for a while usually just lurking though and not really feeling it was for me to get involved in certain conversations, which are swayed with the fact that most people know each other pretty well around here I guess.

It seems I may have started up something with my comments on stereotyping etc, and there is some good points made here I think. I was mainly attributing to the fact that some of the replies originally in response to the hand immediately assumed that I had to be a terrible player (if I am or not is totally irrelevant), and it seemed that this opinion was set in stone. I was just trying to get across that I thought this was totally wrong and if this was the mindset that you went in with to every player at 100nl then it is putting yourself at a big disadvantage.

That being said, I think the points that Alex made and SuuPRlim too are very valid and I totally agree with the sentance about how a large amount can be assumed rather quickly, aslong as you are willing to change your mind, and I think thats what I was trying to get across. It just felt like some of the respsonses here immediately were 100% certain of their opinion and were not for changing.

I think I also side with tikay slighty on pleno1's comment (and no disrespect to pleno). I don't think every 100nl player should be thrown in to a group like that. There could be a hundred reasons for them sitting at that level when they are more than capable of beating 1/2 2/5 even 5/10 etc. I know I certainly had my own reasons for sitting at 100nl this weekend and not higher. It's an interesting debate, because I think it's faily obvious the majority of players at 100nl you come across will be just as we all expect and be terrible, I just think that not giving yourself an open mind or allowing for the fact that someone may be decent no matter what their nationality, age, dress sense or any other factor may be is a huge mistake.

I was said villian in this hand...

Sigh fold for sure, much better spots out there but turn bet is too small IMO and exploitable against good players although this guy clearly isn't one!

he could be. turning qx into a bluff here is quite nice, he reps sets, straights and 9T very nicely and has barely any airballs in his range. I wouldn't expect a 50/1 guy to turn a Q into a bluff so I'd be laying down KK here.

Having said that, the betsize leaves yourself wide open to this sort of move.

Firstly thanks Alex for being the only person so far who gives me a chance of any credit whatsoever, and not immediately stereotyping me as a terrible player and someone who couldn't possibly thinking at this level. (Not saying I am a good player and obviously that is to each persons own opinions, although I am now slighty interested in Derbylad's impression of me from the short time we played together?).

Also I do want to throw in that I think it is imaybe a little irresponsible to stereotype or quickly make assumptions about somemone who isn't a known or recognisable face just because they are playing 0.5/1 or because of small factors such as shown a hand once etc, especially if this is being done at the table when an unknown sits down everytime and not just whilst discussing a hand on here.

To the hand itself, Derbylad told me he was going to post it here and there was quite a bit of discussion between myself and him afterwards about it, with pretty much the conclusion of what has been said here already. I obviously knew I was bluffing and only showed the hand after Derbylad agreed to show his for the reason of I actually was quite interested on thoughts on the play. I wouldn't normally show unless I felt it was a really good situation to do so, and showed it for the sole factor of the reason mentioned because I had gathered Derbylad was a thinking player and this was pretty late on during the night, with me knowing that I am unlikely to be playing against Derbylad or any of the table anytime again soon.

Pre we are effectively 300bb+ deep, that being said I probably wouldn't quite a high percentage of the time flick in the call oop with the type of hand I have, and I was pretty sure someone cold called the 3 bet pre before it came back round to me, but looking back at flop bet sizing and Derbylads explaination of the hand I may now be mistaken. Anyway I thought the extra player was there and obivously because of how deep we are my calling range there does become alot wider than at 100bb.

Flop is fairly standard so I'll skip to the turn, when Derbylad bets the turn, from the little of what I've seen of his play, and from what I gather he probably thinks of me so far from my hands that have been shown, my hand is never good here. When he bets only 35 though, I felt it opens up everything for me, from the image I had I was pretty sure I am never expected to be bluffing here, or to have a hand I could be bluffing with. The small bet screams AA,KK, maybe AQ to me and it's making it really cheap for me to find out without having to commit myself. I think a turn raise here means the hands mentioned are never good with the image I have and I thought Derbylads impression of me was that there would be no bluffs in my range at this point.  Also I feel it's worth mentioning a big factor in the raise was a conversation we had a little while earlier, where Derbylad mentioned that he had finally got back to even after slowly girinding all evening, this was getting really late on at night and I didn't feel he'd want to stick it all in here with hands mentioned above where he is behind a decent amount of the time, I thought the small turn bet reflected this as well.

Long time lurker/reader, thought it was about time I registered and got involved. Just thought I'd say great diary so far Sean, I've pretty much caught up and read all of yours and a few other diarys over the last week and this is a great read. I was up at DTD a few weeks ago and I recognised your face from when you'd dealt to me when I've been up there in the past and I wondered what the story was. Came across this a few days after, keep it up!

Hi Jrvs, welcome to Blonde, and thank you for the kind words! How often do you play at Dusk?

Thanks, no problem I really have enjoyed reading your blog so far, it's interesting to see and read a lot of the similarities and struggles, ups and downs that pretty much every serious/pro player goes through.

Hardly play at Dusk at all, probably <20 times since it opened so I definitely won't be a recognisable face. I kinda put poker on the back burner about a year and a half/2 years ago to focus on uni and my girlfriend at the time planning to use my roll to get me through uni. A few jagerbombs and expensive random weekends away later and I'm down to the bare bones and not enjoying my course too much, so turning back to poker again. Was up at Dusk twice in October for the weekend though and maybe up for the Deepstack this weekend as well, I don't think regular trips will work out very economical though in the long run as I live pretty far away and hotel costs etc