Prose from a Poshboy

[smashedagain]

What are Hannah's plans post graduation. Does she have any work lined up or is she gonna carry on her education

[NEWY]

Good Honesty as usual Alex, IMO I think freeing up some ££ is fine as you are disciplined enough that once you have binked another Monte Carlo (must be due one soon) or won a few sessions at cash will put the ££ back where it belongs.

Not saying this wud b wrong but fwiw i think u shud show ur professionalism and practise Gud BR managment with the roll u got building it up in order to take shots. What happens if u dip into savings and go on downswing, Cud easily leave u shorter than u want and then will u feel u need to dip in again. I understand u r a gud player and wanna b playing the biggest and best games and I am sure u will, but do it the right way. GL whatever u decide u seem sensible enough to make right decision for urself.

i ht psts lk ths they gt rt up my nz

Srry. If u prefer I woh bovva postin agen

It was just a joke mate.

No problem. I did presume it was tongue in cheek, FWIW I get ur your humour and find u you highly amusing. I will endevour to use better english from here on in. Please understand that I will not be as gud good as yourself or poshboy so please do not dwell on it too much then hunt me down on ur your bike and scare the shite poop out of me.

Regards from a thicko

[david3103]

Good Honesty as usual Alex, IMO I think freeing up some ££ is fine as you are disciplined enough that once you have binked another Monte Carlo (must be due one soon) or won a few sessions at cash will put the ££ back where it belongs.

Not saying this wud b wrong but fwiw i think u shud show ur professionalism and practise Gud BR managment with the roll u got building it up in order to take shots. What happens if u dip into savings and go on downswing, Cud easily leave u shorter than u want and then will u feel u need to dip in again. I understand u r a gud player and wanna b playing the biggest and best games and I am sure u will, but do it the right way. GL whatever u decide u seem sensible enough to make right decision for urself.

i ht psts lk ths they gt rt up my nz

Srry. If u prefer I woh bovva postin agen

It was just a joke mate.

No problem. I did presume it was tongue in cheek, FWIW I get ur your humour and find u you highly amusing. I will endevour to use better english from here on in. Please understand that I will not be as gud good as yourself or poshboy so please do not dwell on it too much then hunt me down on ur your bike and scare the shite poop out of me.

Regards from a thicko

 

[RED-DOG]

Good Honesty as usual Alex, IMO I think freeing up some ££ is fine as you are disciplined enough that once you have binked another Monte Carlo (must be due one soon) or won a few sessions at cash will put the ££ back where it belongs.

Not saying this wud b wrong but fwiw i think u shud show ur professionalism and practise Gud BR managment with the roll u got building it up in order to take shots. What happens if u dip into savings and go on downswing, Cud easily leave u shorter than u want and then will u feel u need to dip in again. I understand u r a gud player and wanna b playing the biggest and best games and I am sure u will, but do it the right way. GL whatever u decide u seem sensible enough to make right decision for urself.

i ht psts lk ths they gt rt up my nz

Srry. If u prefer I woh bovva postin agen

It was just a joke mate.

No problem. I did presume it was tongue in cheek, FWIW I get ur your humour and find u you highly amusing. I will endevour to use better english from here on in. Please understand that I will not be as gud good as yourself or poshboy so please do not dwell on it too much then hunt me down on ur your bike and scare the shite poop out of me.

Regards from a thicko

Thanks. I appreciate that, but don't label yourself a thicko, that has nothing to do with it.

For what it's worth, I have absolutely no problem with the way people write, their grammar or their ability to spell.

I don't confuse education with intelligence. As it happens, I know a lot of extremely bright people who are semi or totally illiterate. They don't write well because they can't.

It just irks me when people who can, don't.







 

[mondatoo]

What sort of shares do you have ?

GLGL with the online grind.

[shipitonetime]

Thanks all for the posts and advice

I think I will focus more online than before.

Really enjoyed the football today, playing with Bobby was really cool and we had some good link-ups - chemistry still there from the back garden north paddock days!

Winning 20-0 was pretty cool too, scored 6 or 7 myself which was fun.

Took Bobby back to DTD tonight, played 50/1 with him, was really fun and a much better experience for him than playing a comp on his own. He's no idea what he's doing so not exactly +EV for me to put him in the game, but well worth the £60 he lost for the experience and good time we had.

After he went to bed I went back to play 1/2 and made a massive mistake in a hand which cost me £500 Everyone had been straddling every hand, including Thigh, who was utg this hand and apparently didn't straddle and raised to £7, Kurt 3bet the cutoff and I was in the small blind with AK. I thought it was straddle/open so I thought I was making a standard 3bet, Tom then clicks it back, Kurt folds. I thought it was a cold 4bet and I shoved £500. Had I not misread the situation I might've even open folded the AK, certainly wouldn't have got it in for 250bbs.

So that really frustrated me and I didn't even do a sympathy get there vs his Kings! Such a lot of money to lose making a mistake Live and learn I guess.

Anyway, had a really fun day and evening and really enjoyed the admittedly reggy game. Will get back to grinding in profitable games once Bobby and Hannah have gone which is this weekend.

I think its def a great decision to shift your focus to online. No money in live poker everyone is solid.

[NEWY]

Thanks all for the posts and advice

I think I will focus more online than before.

Really enjoyed the football today, playing with Bobby was really cool and we had some good link-ups - chemistry still there from the back garden north paddock days!

Winning 20-0 was pretty cool too, scored 6 or 7 myself which was fun.

Took Bobby back to DTD tonight, played 50/1 with him, was really fun and a much better experience for him than playing a comp on his own. He's no idea what he's doing so not exactly +EV for me to put him in the game, but well worth the £60 he lost for the experience and good time we had.

After he went to bed I went back to play 1/2 and made a massive mistake in a hand which cost me £500 Everyone had been straddling every hand, including Thigh, who was utg this hand and apparently didn't straddle and raised to £7, Kurt 3bet the cutoff and I was in the small blind with AK. I thought it was straddle/open so I thought I was making a standard 3bet, Tom then clicks it back, Kurt folds. I thought it was a cold 4bet and I shoved £500. Had I not misread the situation I might've even open folded the AK, certainly wouldn't have got it in for 250bbs.

So that really frustrated me and I didn't even do a sympathy get there vs his Kings! Such a lot of money to lose making a mistake Live and learn I guess.

Anyway, had a really fun day and evening and really enjoyed the admittedly reggy game. Will get back to grinding in profitable games once Bobby and Hannah have gone which is this weekend.

I think its def a great decision to shift your focus to online. No money in live poker everyone is solid.

Not sure what games u play so wudn (ffs) would not be as bold as to say you are wrong but from my experience its much easier to win in my local live game than online. Think the reason to concentrate online is obviously can play many many more hands online v live and the convenience of it.

[shipitonetime]

Thanks all for the posts and advice

I think I will focus more online than before.

Really enjoyed the football today, playing with Bobby was really cool and we had some good link-ups - chemistry still there from the back garden north paddock days!

Winning 20-0 was pretty cool too, scored 6 or 7 myself which was fun.

Took Bobby back to DTD tonight, played 50/1 with him, was really fun and a much better experience for him than playing a comp on his own. He's no idea what he's doing so not exactly +EV for me to put him in the game, but well worth the £60 he lost for the experience and good time we had.

After he went to bed I went back to play 1/2 and made a massive mistake in a hand which cost me £500 Everyone had been straddling every hand, including Thigh, who was utg this hand and apparently didn't straddle and raised to £7, Kurt 3bet the cutoff and I was in the small blind with AK. I thought it was straddle/open so I thought I was making a standard 3bet, Tom then clicks it back, Kurt folds. I thought it was a cold 4bet and I shoved £500. Had I not misread the situation I might've even open folded the AK, certainly wouldn't have got it in for 250bbs.

So that really frustrated me and I didn't even do a sympathy get there vs his Kings! Such a lot of money to lose making a mistake Live and learn I guess.

Anyway, had a really fun day and evening and really enjoyed the admittedly reggy game. Will get back to grinding in profitable games once Bobby and Hannah have gone which is this weekend.

I think its def a great decision to shift your focus to online. No money in live poker everyone is solid.

Not sure what games u play so wudn (ffs) would not be as bold as to say you are wrong but from my experience its much easier to win in my local live game than online. Think the reason to concentrate online is obviously can play many many more hands online v live and the convenience of it.

You have been levelled sir.

[NEWY]

 

Thanks all for the posts and advice

I think I will focus more online than before.

Really enjoyed the football today, playing with Bobby was really cool and we had some good link-ups - chemistry still there from the back garden north paddock days!

Winning 20-0 was pretty cool too, scored 6 or 7 myself which was fun.

Took Bobby back to DTD tonight, played 50/1 with him, was really fun and a much better experience for him than playing a comp on his own. He's no idea what he's doing so not exactly +EV for me to put him in the game, but well worth the £60 he lost for the experience and good time we had.

After he went to bed I went back to play 1/2 and made a massive mistake in a hand which cost me £500 Everyone had been straddling every hand, including Thigh, who was utg this hand and apparently didn't straddle and raised to £7, Kurt 3bet the cutoff and I was in the small blind with AK. I thought it was straddle/open so I thought I was making a standard 3bet, Tom then clicks it back, Kurt folds. I thought it was a cold 4bet and I shoved £500. Had I not misread the situation I might've even open folded the AK, certainly wouldn't have got it in for 250bbs.

So that really frustrated me and I didn't even do a sympathy get there vs his Kings! Such a lot of money to lose making a mistake Live and learn I guess.

Anyway, had a really fun day and evening and really enjoyed the admittedly reggy game. Will get back to grinding in profitable games once Bobby and Hannah have gone which is this weekend.

I think its def a great decision to shift your focus to online. No money in live poker everyone is solid.

Not sure what games u play so wudn (ffs) would not be as bold as to say you are wrong but from my experience its much easier to win in my local live game than online. Think the reason to concentrate online is obviously can play many many more hands online v live and the convenience of it.

You have been levelled sir.

[shipitonetime]

On a serious note i think its a lot easier to manage an online poker schedule around your life/new ventures than live. While also putting in more volume and continuing to plug leaks and easier hand analysis. Plus it doesnt sound like the games at DTD are great anyway.  GLGLGLGLGL

[jgcblack]

Welcome to come, crash and hang out for a few days and grind with me.

It'd be an experience for sure.  And if we get bored we can hit the £1/1 in Northampton.

[SuuPRlim]

Neil has it spot on when he says that if you being under-rolled is damaging your win-rate then you need to free cash up. At the end of the day your Job is a poker player, and you have built a bred and butter method of making yourself money. I know a lot of people who don't gamble full time will be keener to say to you "don't use money thats tucked away to gamble with" this is pretty strong advice tbf but if freeing up £10k boosts your hourly from £18 to £25 for eg, then a 150 hour week that £10k has created £1100.

There are several options open to you, getting staked again if it's possible is one - you can allocate the current £'s you have for future life money and can be sure you won't be touching your savings, this is sacrificing half of your hourly in exchange for more financial security, this option is dependant entirely on how bothered you are about financial security - I know this sounds kinda stupid not to be bothered about financial security - but F-S is just a faccet of over-all life happiness, some people can live with quite erratic financial circumstances really happily, so for this type of person you would never take a big hourly rate hit to avoid uncertain finances. A lt of people hate financial insecurity and its damages their overall life-happiness so for this person, giving up hourly to keep tight finances is well worth it.

Other option might be to see if someone would lend you what you need for 2 months or so, pay them a vig and hopefully you then won't need to touch your shares to pay them back in 8 weeks time if you grind really hard. That idea will get flamed by loads of people prolly but it's an option.

Grinding smaller is ofc a really viable option, but it's very very difficult to do and maintain focus and whilst it's admirable it's often not the best option from a proffessional (how your game will react to it) or a financial perspective. The suggstion to play more online where expenses are lower and variance has less of an affect is defo a good one, maybe the best - but is this good for your overall life happiness? Would say prolly not, thats something to consider VERY much at a point like this when your morale is a bit venerable.

I've been in a position at a pretty young age to really set myself up, I decided not to take them and to really go for it with some aggressive decisions in and out of poker, currently it would seem that these decisions aren't working out but there is no such thing as "not working out" its either working, with a variant amount of successful progress, or it hasn't worked and you're out of the game. The point to that is that it's a long road ahead and you and me are barely started on it.  At the end of it all we're gambling, and just like any one off gamble the results will dictate the effectiveness of the decision, if you take £10k out of your shares and then lose £9k of it in the first month, then it will seem like a terrible decision, if 5 weeks after you put £20k back in and you haave a perfect working BR then it'll have been a great decision, so it seems like a huge decision but in reality it's just a flip.

GL Mate, you'll be fine - you know where I am if you need to chat ever

[Eso Kral]

^ Std great post from LilD!!

[cambridgealex]

Saw the Dark Knight Rises tonight. The Dark Knight is probably my favourite film of all time, and its prequel, batman begins, is in the top 10. So needless to say, I was seriously excited about the finale.

And I wasn't disappointed. It was awesome. Anne Hathaway's "Catwoman" character was incredible and the inclusion of half the cast of Inception was brilliant. Won't give any spoilers, but it's seriously worth watching, on a level with the dark knight I think. RISE!

Returned home at 1015pm and by 1115pm I had already won my first tournament of the night! Late regged a 50euro turbo which got 68 runners and it was over in an hour, took it down for 1k. Love the frenchies!

Got deep in another 100turbo too on .fr, I was chip leader with  10 left, Stato was in too, alas, Pius Heinz was the other big stack and he ended up taking me out in 10th sigh! Stato came 9th too so poor showing from the brits there, but still had a profitable quick session. Might go to DTD for some cash after I bust my final two tables.

[cambridgealex]

^ Std great post from LilD!!

Yes, great post. thanks.