Diary of a MTT Grinder Wannabe

[Ant040689]

Without knowing how these people are playing, You probably win chips in the long run calling but lose money in the long-run calling due to icm. A lot of people don't have minraise/folding range with 15bb and there's always value in laddering ;-)

yeah we dont know the 4th stacksize or the payout structure but ICM is going to have significant effects in a spot like this

gl in walsall today mate

Cheers.

[cambridgealex]

Grats on the cash yday.

oh and FYL completely that Mark mistook you for Mitch by the roulette table!

[Ant040689]

Have a look at my hendonmob, that used to be me 4 years ago Alex, such a cracking looking chap but basically put on 100 pounds since, lol.

Got A VEWWWWYY SNNNNNEAKKKKKY suspicion i am taking down the sunday million tonight.

[Ant040689]

could only manage 600th odd, and down quite a bit for the night, i played ok but same as last week i shouldnt be playing this high on a sunday as it dents all my efforts during the week, but i guess if i was to keep on doing the routine of this i would eventually bink a sunday but the lows of not having a good sunday will mean i will go for the less variance ridden route until its more comfy to play a sunday and not do my bollocks in.

[vegaslover]

could only manage 600th odd, and down quite a bit for the night, i played ok but same as last week i shouldnt be playing this high on a sunday as it dents all my efforts during the week, but i guess if i was to keep on doing the routine of this i would eventually bink a sunday but the lows of not having a good sunday will mean i will go for the less variance ridden route until its more comfy to play a sunday and not do my bollocks in.

Ant with turbos being your game perhaps you should only play the Sunday biggies when you sat in cheap, minimise the dent to the roll

[George2Loose]

could only manage 600th odd, and down quite a bit for the night, i played ok but same as last week i shouldnt be playing this high on a sunday as it dents all my efforts during the week, but i guess if i was to keep on doing the routine of this i would eventually bink a sunday but the lows of not having a good sunday will mean i will go for the less variance ridden route until its more comfy to play a sunday and not do my bollocks in.

Ant with turbos being your game perhaps you should only play the Sunday biggies when you sat in cheap, minimise the dent to the roll

or put up staking for Sunday's?

[Ant040689]

could only manage 600th odd, and down quite a bit for the night, i played ok but same as last week i shouldnt be playing this high on a sunday as it dents all my efforts during the week, but i guess if i was to keep on doing the routine of this i would eventually bink a sunday but the lows of not having a good sunday will mean i will go for the less variance ridden route until its more comfy to play a sunday and not do my bollocks in.

Ant with turbos being your game perhaps you should only play the Sunday biggies when you sat in cheap, minimise the dent to the roll

or put up staking for Sunday's?

could only manage 600th odd, and down quite a bit for the night, i played ok but same as last week i shouldnt be playing this high on a sunday as it dents all my efforts during the week, but i guess if i was to keep on doing the routine of this i would eventually bink a sunday but the lows of not having a good sunday will mean i will go for the less variance ridden route until its more comfy to play a sunday and not do my bollocks in.

Ant with turbos being your game perhaps you should only play the Sunday biggies when you sat in cheap, minimise the dent to the roll

or put up staking for Sunday's?

Prefer VegasLover's option but both are obv credible. I haven't ever had a bankroll management that made things quite easy to deal with in terms of the worst of swings.

Along with that i haven't anticipated how i should approach turbo games which you go through many more in a day so you have to be prepared for even tougher swings. This is obv before you approach playing them but I didn't anticipate the full extent of it.

Had a little review of things last night and realised at my peak i would like to play about 50-70 tourns a night, because i am going to be playing around 16 tourns at the same time and i am going to be playing mainly standard tourns for the added edge in them and adding in the best value turbos i have played and feel i have a great ROI in.

When i start doing 10 hour nights like i assume i will be with 12-16 tables i will actually note down how many tourns i play just to confirm what i will be averaging and then i want to give myself about a 750-800 buy ins average, so i am most probably at the worst case scenario losing around 40 buy ins at worst assuming i accrue some of the buy ins back with min cashes. To assume i lose 50-70 outright would be unexpected, especially as i will be playing lower where the games are easier.

So i am assuming 40 buy ins can go up in smoke on any given night with the lower buy in grind and that will equate to 5 per cent of my roll on any given night with a 750-800 buy ins rule.

The new grind would equate to halving my current outlay, which shocks me as I was operating at a possibility of losing 10 per cent of my roll a night which is mental. With the new grind I will be much more content and I will certainly be playing better for it. Also, because I have had a good few months previous to this stagnant month 750-800 buy ins is actually not bad its around the 33f mark meaning I will be playing 11f-55f and 3r-11r making sure I weight the buy ins so 33 is around the average.

I think its awesome that I am constantly trying to better how I approach the game. Before on here when I first started the blog I was deluded and had many regs on here trying to tell me where I was going wrong but I used to get annoyed and never take it on board. If I hadn’t had that period though or in fact started up the blog on here I know for a fact I wouldn’t have improved at all and would still be entirely deluded. Still a bit deluded now generally but that is a different story lol.

Over the recent months my tourney game has improved ridiculously and I have every confidence I could play in any tournament and would have a nice positive ROI. If I now just coupled that with a very solid BR scheme that will add so much more to my game as I will definitely be playing better and against what I initially believed, it would mean I make more money quicker as I do play worse when I am on the back end of a harsh night and it’s taken out 10 per cent of my roll.

If I am on the back end of a harsh night and it has taken 5 per cent off my roll I wouldn’t care at all. It would mean I can reassess my bankroll after and if 33f is still the average I can stay playing there if not I can move ever so slightly higher or lower, reducing the swings, so money wouldn’t be an issue when I would play. I would only care for how I am playing in the tournies even if it has been an awful night. Whereas before I would have one thought in my mind about how much I am down which makes my play undoubtedly worse.

Will include satellites as well to spice things up staying within the bankroll range I am setting myself. Obv I will be always analysing my approach and may still see that 5 per cent a night possible loss is still too much and if it is I will go lower. Also if any of you see any leaks in the plan here don’t be afraid to chime in.

Want this to be the last planned approach towards getting a very good br and want to finally be settled, have every confidence this is the run in that will get me where I want to be. If I need to do one thing now to improve things it would be to better analyse my play and watch more vids, but I think I am constantly trying new things anyway that nullifies the need to but having as much info as possible is always a help so I would be silly not to. Signed up to deucescracked but haven’t watched a vid on there.

[vegaslover]

All sounds good.
The turbo sats at the low buy ins are a terrible standard, think you would do very well outta them

[Ant040689]

Did a small grind last night with a nice little average of say around 33f and got myself 800 dollars up for the night.

Was close elsewhere, but very happy about it as i feel more comfortable and i think its a sign of good things to come.

Got a live event i am playing tonight though with subsequent cash games at 1/2 after that i am going to play which isn't clever but o well. Leaving shots to live i think is OK enough.

[Ant040689]

Just won £5000 in a £330 buy in event. In a cab home from the Old Vic casino now. Exhausted. Pic of the deal I made with 4 of us left to follow. I took the piss basically.

[Ant040689]

4 left, we're all guarenteed at least 1700, 3rd is 2900, 2nd is 4400, 1st is 6200. I have 320k, 2nd has 240k, 3rd and 4th both about 140k each i think.  Myself and second manage to convince the other two to take 2700 each, which is only 700 more than guarenteed, plus third would give out 200 more. So second got 4800 and i got 5000. A rape of a deal. With blinds at 5000/10000 500 ante.

So i was happy, plus second place was gaining on me with ridiculous 4x pre flop bets which i could have been patient and wait for my spot, but with the deal on offer, and only one bad hand meaning i would be nowhere near having much chance of getting 5000, i would have been foolish not to have  taken it. Probably could have got 5200 to second places 4600 but realised if i did that i would possibly shine more light on how much 3/4th were getting done, so wanted to say yes and get to the cashier's desk asap before people realise what was happening.

I guess this was a reason behind DTD not wanting any deals because this sort of things probably happens all of the time. I wasn't too happy either about being pestered into a deal 8 handed, with only me and one other not wanting it. Got pestered again from 7/6/5 players, saying no but being bludgeoned by incessant inquiries with new more favourable offers being made. I was taking advantage of all of this and chipping up. Shame things didn't transpire so i was out and out chip lead but 5000 is nice and has me 3/3 in live cashes and i am looking forward to the next one, which is probably in 2 weeks time, before hopefully the big UKPIT Notts.

[pleno1]

marbelllllllllllllllllllllllllllla tho

grats

[Ant040689]

marbelllllllllllllllllllllllllllla tho

grats

Cheers and haven't forgot about it lol. Won't be long now until i can confirm if i am in or out.

[Ant040689]

Will probably be fading Marbella and fading poker for the month of April altogether having a disconnection until i get my work done at uni, last year i failed miserably and had to re do this year, so obv have to do things differently and not playing at all i think is the answer. Both assignments i have left are due in early May. I am going to Ireland on Friday for the weekend for a big family wedding, which is going to be awesome, so many cousins, stereotypically so.

After this i am going to put my head down and try and spark the passion i once did have for reading and essay writing. It was a passion too i am sad to say, this was about 8 years ago when i peaked at 14 excelling at that age then just a downhill spiral since then. I think if all i do is reading and writing i should start enjoying it again and will get me going on the front of me wanting to learn French and then other languages and the piano as well. Also might start getting into writing and reading up on how to format different forms to see if i can write anything of any worth. Perhaps mingling with comedy.

Feel like i am quite a creative person in terms of thinking up funny situations in my head that would play out great in a sitcom or as a part of a novel possibly, but as with a lot of people no one really has the perseverance to even bother in the first place, but its one of those things that if i don't give it a shot now i will forever rue it. Same with football really. Excelled at school as a goalkeeper, had everything going for me with my height and build and then spunked it away with heavy eating and lack of self belief. With this though i am going to get fit to give it one last hurrah for the upcoming pre season and see if i can go semi pro just because nothing beats being involved in competitive football.

Semi pro footie, poker, continuing to write, a degree in the bag and maybe some part time work of any sort really is what i am looking to achieve shortly and with poker in particular going well its giving me confidence to just go for it in general, because why the hell not. Life is so short. Tell you what though, been looking at myself in the mirror recently topless and with every viewing i am appearing shorter, which is never good....

[mondatoo]

Piano's been done mate