Being a Lolpro for dummies.

[Evilpengwinz]

So glad to see a good player get a space in the world of internet.

All the best mate and I can guarantee everyone that this diary will be a good read.

Question for you: With whom did you stay in the first live tournament you have attended?

I went straight home after SPT Brighton

I know you mean the 6max at DTD - I can't remember. Some drunk fish. Still don't know to this day how he cashed

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May 1st update:

I woke up yesterday to discover that Sky was down for maintenance, or whatever alternate word Sky uses to mean the same thing after Black Friday. This gave me the opportunity to read some more of The Mental Game of Poker 2, which I would recommend to anyone who hasn't got the book yet.

Yesterday was a profitable start to the month, although I barely played. Started a session, and within 10 minutes, the tables I had joined broke and I was falling asleep, so stood and left. However, in that time, I did manage to stack somebody

Did some targets for this month, too, but Sky have announced a SnG promotion overnight for this weekend (Announce a week or two in advance next time please!). I'm going to have to tweak them before posting in here.

May 1st: +£20.12
This month: +£20.12
Poker Points: 10/10,000

[GreekWay]

I still can't believe you played the SPT in Brighton and didn't come to say hello.

What a day and night that was. We have to do this again. Can't remember how many beers and sambuca shots I had.

Still I don't know how I managed to cash. I guess each fish has its day or its the alcohol effect. :-)

[Evilpengwinz]

I still can't believe you played the SPT in Brighton and didn't come to say hello.

What a day and night that was. We have to do this again. Can't remember how many beers and sambuca shots I had.

Still I don't know how I managed to cash. I guess each fish has its day or its the alcohol effect. :-)

I didn't really know anyone then, and it was before Team51, I think.

I'm definitely in if Macapaca is paying again, lol. I'll hopefully be at SPT Birmingham but staying sober until I'm out of the tournament this time - You going mate?

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May 2nd: +£46.09
This month: +£66.21
Poker Points: 199/10,000

[adiman999]

Only just noticed this diary, will defo be keeping an eye on it. You seem to be at a similar stage in poker as me, except i took the potentially questionable decision to go to uni anyway. Still think its a good long term choice but find poker is my main focus for sure. Paying my way through with poker.

Should be good to watch your progress

[GreekWay]

Good excuse mate.

I don't know yet mate. Depends. I am playing the BlackBelt event next week so if that goes decent I might be tempted to play the SPT Birmingam.

I finish my exams also on the 3rd but haven't booked my tickets to Greece yet so it depends on this also.

I might just come for the rail or maybe play some cash as I really enjoyed it the last time in Luton. If I decide to come will we share a room again?

[Evilpengwinz]

Only just noticed this diary, will defo be keeping an eye on it. You seem to be at a similar stage in poker as me, except i took the potentially questionable decision to go to uni anyway. Still think its a good long term choice but find poker is my main focus for sure. Paying my way through with poker.

Should be good to watch your progress

I can definitely relate to that - While I was at College, I never really wanted to be there, but didn't want to leave because I knew it wasn't the most sensible thing to do. Staying at home and playing poker was much more fun. Tbh, I regret not finishing College and going to Uni now. As much as I hated College for a variety of reasons, it makes sense to have something to fall back on if Poker doesn't work out, and by not finishing College, I only have a Maths A-Level and GCSE results to my name.

I have considered going back to College after moving out, maybe in September 2014, but that's a long way away...

Good excuse mate.

I don't know yet mate. Depends. I am playing the BlackBelt event next week so if that goes decent I might be tempted to play the SPT Birmingam.

I finish my exams also on the 3rd but haven't booked my tickets to Greece yet so it depends on this also.

I might just come for the rail or maybe play some cash as I really enjoyed it the last time in Luton. If I decide to come will we share a room again?

I'm not sure if I'll even bother with a hotel for a one day event, might stay at the casino and play cash until the first train home in the morning then sleep all day when I get home lol. But if I get a hotel room, then yeah, sure

GL with exams - See FB re: East End Live action if you haven't already.

[tikay]

George, Andy - get yer arses up to SPT Birmingham. No excuses, please, be great to see you both.

George can indulge in some more PLO cash with me, too.

[Evilpengwinz]

May 3rd:

Although my plan at the start of the month was to basically grind 20NL and 30NL all month (Tables don't run all the time at 30NL on Sky, and not the amount that I would like, so I have to add some 20NL instead), this promotion meant a change of plan. With £300 up top for whoever plays the most tournament and SnG hands between Friday and Monday, and very few micro stakes SnG or tournament grinders to take advantage, I decided that from yesterday until Monday would be better spent doing this to try and take down the £300.

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Currently waiting to find out whether yesterday's 140ish Sit 'n' Go's is enough to put me top of the leaderboard after the first day; I have no reason to believe I won't be top as I didn't see many grinder regs on for most of the day yesterday.

As a result, I will reassess and post targets for the month on Tuesday once the promotion has finished. The one thing I will definitely be trying to is earn at least 10,000 Poker Points on Sky for Priority Club, which has many benefits, including a couple of decent sized freerolls with small fields, additional promotions, and the ability to buy-in direct to the Sky Poker Tour before anyone else.

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May 3rd: +£38.55
This month: +£104.76
Poker Points: 708/10,000 (= £7.08 'rakeback')

[Katais]

GL with the promo Andy.

I think you'll struggle to win it though, couple of guys putting in insane volume.

If supercrazy isn't top on the leaderboard update today I'll be surprised. And Donttelmum 2nd.

Found a loophole w/ the standard sngs, there's 9k chips in play and blinds don't go above 1.5k/3k.

Get HU with a mate (no collusion obv) then suddenly both disconnect, leave it running for 3 days and you'll bank zillions of hands.

Do that on 7/8 tables and you're laughing.

Or I was until I read this.

"Winner’s play will be monitored and customers who are found to agreeing to fold hands to benefit from the promotion (or directly associated with or benefiting from this behaviour) will be removed from the competition will not be eligible to receive any bonuses."

Party poopers

With u snging, Rancid up to 50nl, AJ still @ 20nl and Lambert addicted to starcraft, 30nl could be fun this BH weekend

Just need to stop paying off vinnybhoy & co and I might make some money

Run good!

[Evilpengwinz]

GL with the promo Andy.

I think you'll struggle to win it though, couple of guys putting in insane volume.

If supercrazy isn't top on the leaderboard update today I'll be surprised. And Donttelmum 2nd.

Found a loophole w/ the standard sngs, there's 9k chips in play and blinds don't go above 1.5k/3k.

Get HU with a mate (no collusion obv) then suddenly both disconnect, leave it running for 3 days and you'll bank zillions of hands.

Do that on 7/8 tables and you're laughing.

Or I was until I read this.

"Winner’s play will be monitored and customers who are found to agreeing to fold hands to benefit from the promotion (or directly associated with or benefiting from this behaviour) will be removed from the competition will not be eligible to receive any bonuses."

Party poopers

With u snging, Rancid up to 50nl, AJ still @ 20nl and Lambert addicted to starcraft, 30nl could be fun this BH weekend

Just need to stop paying off vinnybhoy & co and I might make some money

Run good!

They've just updated the leaderboard and wow, I'm only 5th and DTM is top. Bloody hell. Going to be tougher than I thought - Better get grinding. Not surprised by any of the 4 names above me being there although confused as I didn't see them much at all yesterday, aside from Supercrazy.

Will be loads of value @ 30NL if you can get games running with hardly any regs around, glglglgl. I'm not there to hero call you down with Ace high when you have a set any more though...

[Evilpengwinz]

George, Andy - get yer arses up to SPT Birmingham. No excuses, please, be great to see you both.

George can indulge in some more PLO cash with me, too.

I'll be at SPT Birmingham barring any unforeseen circumstances

[GreekWay]

George, Andy - get yer arses up to SPT Birmingham. No excuses, please, be great to see you both.

George can indulge in some more PLO cash with me, too.

Long time no speak TK.

I don't know if I am coming yet. As I mentioned above my schedule is a bit bliah. Nothing scheduled.

Money is an issue also. If I end up coming, I will just come to play cash and chat. No tours for me.

You make it tempting now TK. Playing PLO in a casino its a nice dream. I can't find any action in Brighton.

[Evilpengwinz]

Didn't post in here this morning as the first thing I did when I woke up was to load up as many Sit 'n' Go's as I could, and because the games I'm playing are pretty dull there hasn't really been much to report.

Yesterday was supposed to be spent grinding and doing nothing else, but I logged on to Skype and another cash reg had asked me if I wanted to to go through some hand histories with him. Inevitably, I got distracted by Skype, ended up chatting to loads of people all evening instead of grinding, which was enjoyable but not +EV :')

I woke up this morning to find I had dropped from 5th to 7th on the leaderboard. As it turns out, it's not the end of the world - The guy below me didn't play at all on Saturday, so even though Sky can't post saying how far ahead/behind the other players I am, I know I was quite far ahead of 8th place this morning.

Today's session was just mega tilting. It was one of those sessions where it felt like every time I shoved, somebody would wake up with Aces, or get called by junk which would then get there. However, I only lost £8 or so, and apart from the first quarter of an hour or so of the session (which I know is one of my leaks as it takes a little while for my brain to start working properly) I played reasonably well. Also, the volume played should help me to maintain my position on the leaderboard for the promotion going into the final day.

To be honest, I'm starting to remember why I stopped grinding Sky's "Double Your Money" Sit 'n' Go's a while ago - They're not the most exciting games in the world. Depending on my leaderboard position, I might go back to cash tomorrow, as 4th through to 10th pay out the same, there's no way I'll be able to catch 3rd, and 30NL is going to be more profitable than micro stakes SnG's. It all depends how far I think I am ahead of the guy in 11th place when Sky post the updated leaderboard tomorrow morning.

May 4th: +£26.15
This month: +£130.91
Poker Points: 943/10,000 (= £9.43 'rakeback')

May 5th: -£8.15
This month: +£122.76
Poker Points: 1,210/10,000 (= £12.10 'rakeback')

[Evilpengwinz]

As it's the end of the week, I shall leave you with this for the time being:

NITROLL OF THE WEEK

I received a £10 discount if I used my eBay account (Which I’ve never used before) to buy something using PayPal. There was no minimum amount that I had to spend, but delivery costs weren’t included, so I went on to eBay and found the cheapest American Football with free delivery. I ended up getting an American Football for about 30p. Bargain!

TILT OF THE WEEK

Realising that I don’t have anything to inflate aforementioned American Football with, closely followed by AutoCorrect telling me that realising is spelt with a ‘Z’ while drafting this post in MS Word. NO IT’S NOT.

INTERESTING SPOT OF THE WEEK

While I didn’t have any pots where hundreds of big blinds went in the middle with quads against a straight flush to speak of, I found a couple of spots which were equally satisfying, if unspectacular and far less lucrative. Doesn't help that in the games I'm playing atm, the correct strategy is far nittier early on, and push/fold later, leaving very little room for doing anything unorthodox.

It was early on Saturday Morning and there wasn’t much happening on Sky Poker as a result. However, because of a promotion, I was playing as many SnG and Tournament hands as I could. To my right, I found a guy who was check/folding the flop whenever he missed, and c-betting the flop when he hit. Even though it was one of Sky’s “Double Your Money” Sit ‘n’ Gos, where tight is definitely right, this opportunity was too good to pass up.

It folds around to the guy on my right in the small blind, who minimum raises with blinds at 50/100 and is check/folding flop 2/3rds of the time and making it really easy for me to fold when I don’t flop a monster the rest of the time.

I wake up with , and decide that the best line is to slow play our monster hand by flat calling. The flop comes down Q53 rainbow, and as expected, the villain checks and folds to a small c-bet.

Only a 6bb pot, but it always feels good when we have such a reliable read as this one, and we can do things which are not necessarily ‘standard’ profitably as a result.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“I’m a good Poker player; I just lose lots of money” – A friend in a Skype call

[Young_gun]

Just started reading your diary Pingu, Best of luck im sure it will be a good read

Hows the FPS going?