[Insert funny and witty diary title here]

[celtic]

Gone in alternate list, still in at level 4, got in at level 3, so not as great as it sounds.

[AJR14]

Also, are they not all 6 max events with Sky being a 6 max site? Always presumed they where.

No, they're usually full ring, except for the 6max at DTD obv.

Cheers Andy. Thats another hurdle i will have to overcome on top of my lack of Tourney skills if i wanna take one down. I havent played full ring for years. Im still def gonna play one soon though.

How about you? you playing this one after your last SPT deep run

Should've entered and not turned up so I can say I went deeper than last time

Nah, gave this one a miss because I'm being a bankroll nit, but regretting not going now though. I'm hoping to play the final at the end of October at DTD, depending on the buy-in which hasn't been announced yet.

October will be too early for me to take a shot, def looks like next year for my 1st one now then . You have played a few SPTs havent you? Whats the deepest run?

[AJR14]

Gone in alternate list, still in at level 4, got in at level 3, so not as great as it sounds.

Not sure what an alternates list is lol. My live poker background is very limited to pubs and my memory isn't usually at it's best the day after. Anyway im assuming it's a back up list and your playing from level 3 so glglglgl.

[Evilpengwinz]

Also, are they not all 6 max events with Sky being a 6 max site? Always presumed they where.

No, they're usually full ring, except for the 6max at DTD obv.

Cheers Andy. Thats another hurdle i will have to overcome on top of my lack of Tourney skills if i wanna take one down. I havent played full ring for years. Im still def gonna play one soon though.

How about you? you playing this one after your last SPT deep run

Should've entered and not turned up so I can say I went deeper than last time

Nah, gave this one a miss because I'm being a bankroll nit, but regretting not going now though. I'm hoping to play the final at the end of October at DTD, depending on the buy-in which hasn't been announced yet.

October will be too early for me to take a shot, def looks like next year for my 1st one now then . You have played a few SPTs havent you? Whats the deepest run?

Have you considered playing the one in Newcastle in September? That's only a £110 buy-in, and it's 2 days as well so it's not a total crapshoot.

I've played 3, but my record in SPTs is crap. Deepest run was in the first one where I played like a total nit (Because I was a micro stakes grinder so waiting for AA was the only way I knew how to play at the time) got a double up, folded down to 10bb again then went out in about 50th with about 15 or 16 paid.

[AJR14]

Well, I’ve just discovered i am pretty evil. The missus just left the house and 5 minutes later it started to thunder. If anyone knew how scared she was of the thunder you would know why i started to laugh. The fact it’s pretty loud only adds to the amusement.

Anyway onto some poker. Things have picked up over the weekend. I was steadily losing money through poor play and bad cards before the weekend but i managed a couple of big sessions over weekend and doubled my roll. There is definitely a pattern at the minute of big sessions to get me out of holes i have dug myself. Don’t get me wrong, i love big winning sessions but needing them to recover the roll is getting tedious. I need to sort my standard game. There are obviously a lot of things i am doing wrong in small and big pots, im just struggling to find the answers.

After a 3 figure withdrawal im at 30nl again.


Loooool that thunders getting quite bad! She won’t be happy and judging from the abusive text back i have just received...she isn’t.


I decided to stick The Prodigy on midway through a session last week....that was an error on my part. I spewed like mad, splashing money everywhere and generally adopted a maniac style for the duration. So there is an AJ top tip, if you want to listen to Prodigy while playing, wait until you have finished.


I’ve been listening to a lot of older stuff last couple of weeks. 50’s 60’s etc and it is quite mad on how acceptable it was to sing about young girls. With all the news of that sort of stuff going on, some of the lyric sheets could be handed in as statements. Although i want to go to ‘surf city’ unless that is another song discussing young girls!




Some great music around that time though, I’ve only recently started listening to 50’s through to the 70’s in the last few years so don’t know all that much. I am enjoying finding new ones though.


Going back to what i was ranting about the other day with sites not having a strategy to help alleviate conspiracy theorists views on internet poker. It may just be me that feels like this and I may be over egging the problems but it does feel like a huge problem to me. More and more threads on sites are left to forum regs to bash down, every session (and thats not an exaggeration) i see people with their rigged theories discuss it yet i still see nothing from sites to put the theories to bed. 

Is it a big problem? I dunno, it might just be me but it certainly feels like one when you see it every day. I want the sites to do something to keep these guys playing please .

Again, this isn’t aimed at any particular site or person. When starting this thread i did it with the intention of writing down my thoughts and feelings on certain issues and perhaps to be educated in parts that i obv don’t understand. There is obv a lot of things i don’t understand that goes on behind the scenes, the lack of action taken to help the rigged discussions disappear being one of them.



The update wasn’t meant to be this long. Apologies for any readers i have bored.


I am considering using another site for a month and use a free trial for a tracking software and use that software to analyse my game. After that month i will head back to sky. I am apprehensive about doing that though; Sky is the only site I’ve ever won on. I’ve not changed since becoming a winning player and with sky having a rep for bad players/play (i have no idea how true that is btw. It’s something i read a lot elsewhere so it’s not my words) im a bit worried that i will move and just get outplayed.

There is a deposit bonus aswell but again i have no idea how much that will be when compared to Sky’s C4P system. If i would earn about the same in C4P as i would in the deposit bonus then that isn’t really a plus. I’m going to do some research and maybe do it in September.

Record of the day: James Brown - The Boss

[AJR14]

Also, are they not all 6 max events with Sky being a 6 max site? Always presumed they where.

No, they're usually full ring, except for the 6max at DTD obv.

Cheers Andy. Thats another hurdle i will have to overcome on top of my lack of Tourney skills if i wanna take one down. I havent played full ring for years. Im still def gonna play one soon though.

How about you? you playing this one after your last SPT deep run

Should've entered and not turned up so I can say I went deeper than last time

Nah, gave this one a miss because I'm being a bankroll nit, but regretting not going now though. I'm hoping to play the final at the end of October at DTD, depending on the buy-in which hasn't been announced yet.

October will be too early for me to take a shot, def looks like next year for my 1st one now then . You have played a few SPTs havent you? Whats the deepest run?

Have you considered playing the one in Newcastle in September? That's only a £110 buy-in, and it's 2 days as well so it's not a total crapshoot.

I've played 3, but my record in SPTs is crap. Deepest run was in the first one where I played like a total nit (Because I was a micro stakes grinder so waiting for AA was the only way I knew how to play at the time) got a double up, folded down to 10bb again then went out in about 50th with about 15 or 16 paid.

Yeah the Newcastle one was mentioned and i may make a last minute decision to try and get to it but doubt it. You trying for the Newcastle Leg?

[tikay]

Well, I’ve just discovered i am pretty evil. The missus just left the house and 5 minutes later it started to thunder. If anyone knew how scared she was of the thunder you would know why i started to laugh. The fact it’s pretty loud only adds to the amusement.

Anyway onto some poker. Things have picked up over the weekend. I was steadily losing money through poor play and bad cards before the weekend but i managed a couple of big sessions over weekend and doubled my roll. There is definitely a pattern at the minute of big sessions to get me out of holes i have dug myself. Don’t get me wrong, i love big winning sessions but needing them to recover the roll is getting tedious. I need to sort my standard game. There are obviously a lot of things i am doing wrong in small and big pots, im just struggling to find the answers.

After a 3 figure withdrawal im at 30nl again.


Loooool that thunders getting quite bad! She won’t be happy and judging from the abusive text back i have just received...she isn’t.


I decided to stick The Prodigy on midway through a session last week....that was an error on my part. I spewed like mad, splashing money everywhere and generally adopted a maniac style for the duration. So there is an AJ top tip, if you want to listen to Prodigy while playing, wait until you have finished.


I’ve been listening to a lot of older stuff last couple of weeks. 50’s 60’s etc and it is quite mad on how acceptable it was to sing about young girls. With all the news of that sort of stuff going on, some of the lyric sheets could be handed in as statements. Although i want to go to ‘surf city’ unless that is another song discussing young girls!




Some great music around that time though, I’ve only recently started listening to 50’s through to the 70’s in the last few years so don’t know all that much. I am enjoying finding new ones though.


Going back to what i was ranting about the other day with sites not having a strategy to help alleviate conspiracy theorists views on internet poker. It may just be me that feels like this and I may be over egging the problems but it does feel like a huge problem to me. More and more threads on sites are left to forum regs to bash down, every session (and thats not an exaggeration) i see people with their rigged theories discuss it yet i still see nothing from sites to put the theories to bed. 

Is it a big problem? I dunno, it might just be me but it certainly feels like one when you see it every day. I want the sites to do something to keep these guys playing please .

Again, this isn’t aimed at any particular site or person. When starting this thread i did it with the intention of writing down my thoughts and feelings on certain issues and perhaps to be educated in parts that i obv don’t understand. There is obv a lot of things i don’t understand that goes on behind the scenes, the lack of action taken to help the rigged discussions disappear being one of them.



The update wasn’t meant to be this long. Apologies for any readers i have bored.


I am considering using another site for a month and use a free trial for a tracking software and use that software to analyse my game. After that month i will head back to sky. I am apprehensive about doing that though; Sky is the only site I’ve ever won on. I’ve not changed since becoming a winning player and with sky having a rep for bad players/play (i have no idea how true that is btw. It’s something i read a lot elsewhere so it’s not my words) im a bit worried that i will move and just get outplayed.

There is a deposit bonus aswell but again i have no idea how much that will be when compared to Sky’s C4P system. If i would earn about the same in C4P as i would in the deposit bonus then that isn’t really a plus. I’m going to do some research and maybe do it in September.

Record of the day: James Brown - The Boss

If that really were true, no matter how bad people thought the software was, every elegible poker player on earth would play there.....

Poker players do ANYTHING to find an edge (& why not?) & if it means playing on an uncool site, but nicking £200 or whatever every damn day, they'd be in there like a shot, in their thousands.  See also 'Stars FR (VERY soft), da de da.

It's a perfect nonsense if you think about it logically!

[Evilpengwinz]

Alright mate,

I'm playing crap atm so I'm going to do a sweat session tomorrow. Not sure what time yet, depends who is around and when, but if you're interested, be on Skype

[AJR14]

If that really were true, no matter how bad people thought the software was, every elegible poker player on earth would play there.....

Poker players do ANYTHING to find an edge (& why not?) & if it means playing on an uncool site, but nicking £200 or whatever every damn day, they'd be in there like a shot, in their thousands.  See also 'Stars FR (VERY soft), da de da.

It's a perfect nonsense if you think about it logically!

Yeah i always wondered why that doesn’t happen. As i said, i have no basis for comparison so it wasn’t my view, was just regurgitating a lot of what i have read. When you put it like you have, then it makes sense that it may not be like what people say.

[titaniumbean]

If that really were true, no matter how bad people thought the software was, every elegible poker player on earth would play there.....

Poker players do ANYTHING to find an edge (& why not?) & if it means playing on an uncool site, but nicking £200 or whatever every damn day, they'd be in there like a shot, in their thousands.  See also 'Stars FR (VERY soft), da de da.

It's a perfect nonsense if you think about it logically!

Yeah i always wondered why that didn’t happen.

because the software successfully put people off, combined with the hideous regs.

[tikay]

Hey AJR, interesting to hear your comments about cash on sky. The general consensus is sky cash players are awful, but in my opinion there is no doubt that the poor players are being flushed out by these promos. And yet you have others saying that if you are competent, that you can still beat the weaker regs. That may be the case but reg vs reg inevitably means edge is significantly reduced and a combination of run bad/tilt and just clicking buttons through these promos can have negative consequences.

I've played you quite a lot this year and you are one of approximately 5 players at nl20-40 that I rate (discount that spewy donk dohhhh from the list!), so if you are struggling my decision to stay away from cash is vindicated!

I play sngs and mtts too, going for volume to overcome variance. Do you have a back up game, or have you just decided to chill for a few weeks whilst you try to analyse your game more?

This is my first post, I didn't realise you cant post on the staking page until you been on here 3 months and posted 300 times. Would have been good to get a piece of Tikay and Stuart Rutter for the ME but mehhh looks like its too late.
 

Well you saved a few bob.......

PS - Anyone can stake via ANY other Medium EXCEPT the Staking Boards (includes Social-Media etc) , even if they do not have 300 Posts.

[AJR14]

It’s been up and down over the last few days. Nothing major. I’m just a few buy ins up from the last update. Im fairly happy with how i am playing at the moment. I haven’t looked at my HH’s yet but other than 2 big pots earlier in the week which were clear river folds it’s all been pretty standard so nothing really to write about. I had to drop down to 20nl for a sesssion or 2 but im back to 30nl. For some reason i seem to be struggling whenever i move back upto 30nl. 30nl was my level, and was for a while with the odd move for a day or so but it seems like i may be struggling with mental aspects of moving back up. i have no idea why, i am comfortable with the money aspect and im comfortable v the regs but i cant seem to book consistent winning sessions. I will keep plugging away, but it is starting to get frustrating because i dont feel like a dog in the games but i suppose that doesnt mean i am not. 

Target for 40nl - £150


Football starts today!! Thank God!! Think it’s going to be a good season in all the leagues this year. I like the look of Chelsea in the premiership even though the prem obv doesn’t start today.  It will be tough for them but with Mourinho  and a really good looking squad i think they have a big chance. Not sure what i think United will do this year, the things i hear the players say about Moyes makes me think the big mentality change from changing boses will affect them. With Fergie, he was the boss, no messing but since Moyes has come in it sounds like he is there mate and they all want to do ‘really really well’ for him. Not sure if that’s just me looking to close at things. Add all that to the fact they have a tough start and the fans could on his back after a bad start Untied may struggle.

Im not sure on City either. They have spent a lot but dont think they have spent it well and not sure it will all work with the new manager. Will have to wait and see.

Prem relegation? Palace, Hull and Norwich


Championship looks very competitive this year as well. Easily one of the most competitive leagues in the world,  unfortunately it can be quite poor in standard at times though.

QPR, Wigan and Reading are obv gonna be up there. They both have good squads for this level and all have good managers. I think QPR will lose few more players before the window shuts but they will still have a squad to get back to the Prem. I think Wigans Grant Holt signing will be great for them, he will bag goals for fun in this league as he did last time he was here. Forest, Watford, Bolton, Leicester all with an outside chance.

Will be hard for Rovers to get playoffs with strong teams like that and i haven’t mentioned them all. We have made some steady signings and seem to have managed to keep hold of Rhodes so i feel we have a chance of maybe catching the playoffs. Only problem is that a lot of the signings we have made are players we don’t really know how they will perform. Some seem good signings but they are unproven at this level. Coupled with a manager with little managing experience at these levels and we could struggle. I like Bowyer though, i think he will get us steady and from the games he took over last year he looks like he will get us winning games.

Champ Relegation? Yeovil, Doncaster and Huddersfield


First Accumulator of the season


£10 accumulator

Nottingham Forest
Q.P.R.
Reading
Crawley
Southend
Fleetwood

£10 Both teams to score (taken from Footyaccums on twitter)

Birmingham v Watford
Leeds v Brighton
Crewe v Rotherham
Peterborough v Swindon
Shrewsbury v MK Dons
Rochdale v Hartlepool
Inverness v St Mirren         



Record of the Day: Arcade Fire – Wake Up

[AJR14]

First Accumulator of the season


£10 accumulator

Nottingham Forest
Q.P.R.
Reading
Crawley
Southend
Fleetwood


Nice 38/1 accumulator to start the season!

[BigHawk89]

First Accumulator of the season


£10 accumulator

Nottingham Forest
Q.P.R.
Reading
Crawley
Southend
Fleetwood


Nice 38/1 accumulator to start the season!

BLADY LAVLEY! Thats a nice bankroll booster init? Havent posted in a while been quite busy. Havent played in a week and half, longest in ages. Got back on it tonight though played pretty well won a few quid. Let me know if you want some hands looking over or something, might send a few your way later this week.

GL pal.

[AJR14]

Another poor start to 30nl. Happening every time. Its starting to get right on my boobs. A few coolers to start that leads to spew, log off then repeat. I’ve lost a couple of stacks getting it in pre in spots i should be able to make big folds, but i don’t which is the most frustrating. I also seem to have hit the conspiracy theorists nightmare, the river card! It has provided the perfect card for the oppo quite a lot over the last few days. I may have to start a thread

In all seriousness 30nl seems to be providing me with a few problems every time i move back. A lot is my own doing which i want to eradicate as soon as possible. 30nl isn’t tough, but i seem to be making it so when i sit down. I have noticed that the tables are getting unbelievably nitty as well which is a shame. 30nl used to be a fun level with a lot of action but since the promos (i have no idea if they are the cause, it may just be coincidence) 30nl has become a dull place to play.

Im still up since the last update but that is due to the accumalator. I always take the majority of winnings out and leave a little in. The 6 buyins i left in has mostly Disappeared.

Target for 40nl - £86

I’m almost certain to be moving site for the month in September to make use of the month free trial of a tracker software to help improve my game before i move back to Sky. Hopefully the tables will become better when i get back.

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Rovers start to the season was encouraging. I was hoping for the win so i could bombard Jacs thread next door but it wasn’t to be . I thought we played quite well and if it wasn’t for a ridiculously stupid handball we may have been able to get the win. Gifting the home side a goal is always going to make your day a lot harder.
 
I may be being harsh on Rovers because there were a lot of positives but it did feel like it was 2 mid table sides playing each other. I know you can’t judge a team on the first game of the season but that’s just how it felt to me in game. I hope I’m wrong.

I still feel we need a couple of signings if we are going to push on. Our centre midfield of Marrow and Lowe will struggle. I don’t feel they are good enough yet and you need a strong middle in this league. Its not like when we had Alladyce and we could bypass the middle. I would also like to see another winger come in instead of King. He could be a decent player for us in the future but i don’t think he is good enough to be our first choice. If we got the winger and a centre mid to play with either Marrow or Lowe our team would look a whole lot better. All in my opinion of course.

Although i wasn’t blown away by Derby i thought they looked solid enough. I think they will do ok this season and if they manage to keep hold of Hughes and maybe make a couple of signings they could do well. Hughes looks a cracking player. He impressed a lot last season and i think he will do the same again this year. I’m surprised that teams haven’t took a gamble on him yet although the window still isn’t shut.   


Record of the Day: Maverick Sabre - Open My Eyes