Thanks for the feedback everybody!
This week so far has been fun. Managed to find a properly incredible game at alea on Monday, where sitting down with the max £300 in 1/1 was basically a short stack, and money was jumping around the table like I've never seen before. Managed to lose for that day. One particularly interesting hand of note, that went up in the HH section of this. In writing, it looks like a very standard fold, but at the time given body language and previous experience of the guys play it seemed like a very standard call. So, I called a shove on
with
, and got shown
. Ez game, sometimes.
Yesterday was another one of those days where you end up just wanting to smash your head against a wall. Was sat on a great table in a good spot, and adapted my usual style into playing much more of a big bet/raise to iso etc style as the table seemed to demand it, and really I don't think I made a mistake for the night. Just got it in with a
on
after check raising the flop and continuing on the turn, only to get shoved on by
who makes the backdoor flush, loving the 5% flop equity of that pure float that got there. Also made a fold in an interesting hand with a dtd reg, where I make it 18 over a raise and a call from the SB with
. BB peels the 18, and the other two fold. We see a
flop, continue for 28, get called, see a turn
, are literally sick everywhere, check call (hate this call) a very quick bet of 50, and then see a
on the end, and check tank fold to a shove. Really struggled to put the villain on a hand, seems like something didn't quite make sense about it. Ended up basically calling the clock on myself so I didn't make a very bad call, as Mr. 5.0 once said, sometimes they just have it.
Somehow, through all this, I was still up for the night by a fair amount, until we flop a set with
again on a
board, and get involved in a three way all in against two people who have flopped the nuts for a pretty big pot. Sometimes I wonder what actually is my life. Very disheartening to have played another day where I don't feel like I made a proper mistake all night, save maybe the turn call with KQ, only to find the deck refusing to let me catch a break for more than a few hands. Hopefully will continue to play well though, as always the support from people at dtd while you're having a bad day is astronomical. Very disappointed that I let this get to me, especially after recent discussions with some very profound people. Apparently the action in the last hand was quite funny. On the flop in a limped pot, we see a lead out of 5 into a pot of like 7, a call, we make it 19 with 77, its made 51 behind me, original raiser makes it like 120, fold, we jam, call, call. "I have the nuts right now", "yeah, so do I" (slight pause...) "oh for fucks sake...." :p
Considering playing the ROE tonight, although I'm having very strong second thoughts about the value in essentially a £100 tournament with a 20 min clock that, given the structure that I assume it will be operating on, will very quickly descend into a £100 crapshoot. For all those fond of multiway omaha flips, head on down to dtd tonight! Seriously though, making basically all the tournaments reloads and then having such a short clock is really affecting the value for someone like me who is playing to make money more than just for fun. Even though the actual tournaments look very interesting, the price and the clock are just destroying the attraction for me. Will defo be playing cash long into the night, stacking dependant, either way.
Final note, I will be selling action for two bullets in both the GPS and the ISPT. ISPT is practically all gone save a % being held back on request, but details of the remainder and of the GPS will be going up here soon. I will be selling at face value, defo don't think I'm anywhere near proven enough to be selling at a mark up.
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