I've been busy focussing on life stuff and grinding 50nl this week or so.
Both gone very well, little ups n downs in the poker but that's life.
I've managed to win a little over a small sample and have settled into the games pretty nicely. Shared a few hh's with friends and some players i know that have either played at this level or still do. Most of them have been received well, although the overall feeling is that some of the things I've done might not be big ++EV winning plays but shouldn't be -EV. It might be that some of them only win a little long term, or in some cases barely break even.
Best example of this was a hand when I raise/5bt shove button with AQo vs two regs in the blinds who 3bt and cold 4. Clearly this can't be terrible maths wise vs reasonable ranges but the main point made to me is that vs some 50nl players, they could only have a value range when they cold 4bt which means that I don't get enough folds and clearly AQ doesn't play so well aipf vs just KK, AA and AK.
In this particular case, I've since played a few hands with both and believe it 'was ok'. But I can't prove it.
Anyways, talked to Nicola at DTD and she helped me get my DTD500 seat I've now had for over a year online so I can use it for ISPT sats. I had the £500 converted into a Day1 online ticket and some feeder sat tokens which is pretty sweet.
So I've played a few of the feeders tonight:
1st - 30th~ with 25 seats
Lost AJ vs 56o bvb for most of my stack.
2nd - 30th~ with 25 seats
Lost QQ vs AA to bust.
(the QQ hand could potentially be a fold... a relatively weak player with a big stack opened to 4x UTG+1 and we find QQ in the bb when we're sitting in the middle of the field with 10bb's.....
)
3rd - 140th with 50 seats
Lost 66 vs Q9 bvb
I did have some rungood in some spots..
Won a flip or two for big pots and lost a couple for important chips.
Won A9o vs AK where we made a mistake and jammed UTG with about 10bb's. (thought i had less...but unsure where the 'line' is tbh)
Had some nice spots with AA where people went all in with pairs....
we generally win those pots.
Made some very disciplined folds with marginal hands (AJ, KQ, small pairs) when in early position or when raise/folding... etc...
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Had a strange spot in a WSOP ME super feeder - I played really well, ran good and had the CL for most of the tournament.. Got 4 handed (already 'won' my buyin back) and opened first 3 hands in a row with 'meh' holdings but on the third hand we've opened
and we have 6.5k, guy on our right has 5.2k and the other two have 2.4k ish...
We open to 500 (minr) again and fold, fold from the shortstacks... then the other bigstack makes it 1200.. We ship in all the beans knowing its tough for us to be crushed.. it makes no difference if i come 4th or 2nd and with position on him this could easily be him trying to make a stand after us opening 3 hands in a row.
So we quite quickly get it in and he tanks.... eventually he calls off with QQ (nice hand) and we flop a J, but do not manage to win this hand. It takes us down to not a lot and we make a small comeback but bust in fourth in a 60/40 in our favor.
I guess the question here is do we ever fold AJ in this spot? I don't see calling pre being 'good' so I figure its a raise or fold only spot.
We have at least 30% vs a 'good' range and I have no reads on this guy. This virtually gives me the $500 satellite seat that is the first place prize, and up till now I've been pretty 'nitty' only showing down nutted hands. I know I would have had a tough time in the $500 but worth a shot.
I think I'm going to look into the smaller Vegas packages.... might be worth a 'shot'.
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Playing another ISPT sat now, having fun.
Gf has made some bangers and mash n peas while I play and we have 'Rounders' in the dvd player for after dinner while I play my Day 1 online tonight.
gl me, hopefully I can run good in poker, just like I seem to in life, most of the time.
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