Being a Lolpro for dummies.

[Evilpengwinz]

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

Hows the FPS going?

Cheers

I still can't resist a 5bet bluff with an Ace blocker once in a while, lol. Have cut it out of my game for the most part, there's just so much easy money out there without needing to get massively out of line all the time, at least not as much as I used to. There's definitely a time and a place for it though, and I've learned to pick those spots much more carefully than I used to this time last year.

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6th May

Really couldn't be bothered to play much yesterday, so didn't :') Remained in the top 10 on the leaderboard promotion though, giving me another £100. FWIW, I would've got £100 for anywhere between 5th and 10th, so I didn't lose any leaderboard money by not playing as I had no chance of catching 4th place anyway.

May 6th: +£12.52
"The Big Deal" promotion: +£100.00
This month: +£235.28
Poker Points: 1,325/10,000 (= £13.25 rakeback)

[adiman999]

What sort of monitor setup have you got to grind on?

[Evilpengwinz]

What sort of monitor setup have you got to grind on?

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Specs:

2 x 1920x1080 monitors
Intel Core i7-3770k Processor
16GB RAM (Was going to use this as a gaming computer, not just for Poker)
1TB Hard Drive
1.25GB Nvidia Geforce GTX 570 graphics card

And a far messier desk than when that photo was taken, lol.

[tikay]

Enjoyed that little Omaha cash game last night Andy.

Fancy trying to bluff me off 5-6 when the board ran out 7-8-9-10-J........

You are the only person on earth I can make that call against.

Did you finish in profit? You deffo livened it up.

[Tal]

Enjoyed that little Omaha cash game last night Andy.

Fancy trying to bluff me off 5-6 when the board ran out 7-8-9-10-J........

You are the only person on earth I can make that call against.

Did you finish in profit? You deffo livened it up.

Never bluff a station

[Evilpengwinz]

Enjoyed that little Omaha cash game last night Andy.

Fancy trying to bluff me off 5-6 when the board ran out 7-8-9-10-J........

You are the only person on earth I can make that call against.

Did you finish in profit? You deffo livened it up.

Yeah, it was good fun, and a pretty impressive hero call, although probably standard against me as I never have it

I finished with a massive 47p profit from that session, lol.

[Jac]

I've played against you many times in the Dym's on Sky.
Was wondering how easily you adapt when going from one to the other?
Personally, when I go back to cash after playing  the Dym's for a long period I become way too aggressive.
Having  the freedom to play 'normal' poker feels great after the grind of the Dym's. I tend to follow a pattern of winning decent amounts for a spell playing cash and then having a night where I just spew the profits away.
From that I then go back the monotony of the sit and go's until I get bored again and find my way back to the local casino.

You're pretty tough to play cash against by the way. You did unintentionally slow roll me once in an all in pot but apologised straight away in the chat box. I think you were playing about 20 tables at the time, so I'll let you off!

I'm playing the SPT at Birmingham, I'll say hello if I see you.

[Evilpengwinz]

7th May:

Didn't do an update on Tuesday as I forgot Don't worry, this isn't one of those diaries where I brag when I win and don't post when I lose. I only lost £4 or so.

May 7th: -£3.95
This month: +£231.33
Poker Points: 1,473/10,000 (= £14.73 rakeback)


8th May:

I hadn't played a proper cash session since the start of the promotion I was taking part in over the bank holiday weekend, so it was nice to finally be back on a cash table and making some decisions other than standard push/fold stuff. I played quite badly, but being a total luckbox, I managed to win every single flip for stacks that I can remember getting into. Would've been a better session as well if I didn't keep trying to call people down with Ace High, but I can definitely consider myself fortunate to come out of yesterday with any kind of profit.

May 8th: +£68.71
This month: +£303.99
Poker Points: 1,720/10,000 (= £17.20 rakeback)

[Evilpengwinz]

I've played against you many times in the Dym's on Sky.
Was wondering how easily you adapt when going from one to the other?
Personally, when I go back to cash after playing  the Dym's for a long period I become way too aggressive.
Having  the freedom to play 'normal' poker feels great after the grind of the Dym's. I tend to follow a pattern of winning decent amounts for a spell playing cash and then having a night where I just spew the profits away.
From that I then go back the monotony of the sit and go's until I get bored again and find my way back to the local casino.

You're pretty tough to play cash against by the way. You did unintentionally slow roll me once in an all in pot but apologised straight away in the chat box. I think you were playing about 20 tables at the time, so I'll let you off!

I'm playing the SPT at Birmingham, I'll say hello if I see you.

A while back, before I was playing full time, I used to switch between cash and DYMs every couple of weeks or so. I would usually play DYMs, get bored, play cash for a while, win, have a several BI downswing then sulk for a couple of days before going back to DYMs, lol. I can't recall ever finding it that difficult to switch between the two, to be honest. It helped that back in the day when I was doing that, I was playing 4NL and DYMs, and at micro stakes cash it was all about waiting for a premium hand then bashing the 3/4 pot and pot buttons. I think if I'd been playing a more loose aggressive style at the time, I would've found it more difficult to go from one to the other.

The thing I find hardest, even now, is loving my life when I see something pretty like on the button in cash, then having the same spot in the first level of a DYM where it's just a standard fold pre, and I really want to play it even though I shouldn't. Over the weekend while grinding for that promotion, I lost count of the number of times I'd look at a table, see I'd raised something marginal on the button, then once I'd been stationed in the blinds, I'd think "Why am I even playing this hand in this game?". Inevitably I'd c-bet, get called again, give up, and lose a couple of hundred chips which I didn't need to lose.

It's a shame that there isn't more regular SnG liquidity on Sky, because it would be a way to be able to change it up when you want to play something other than cash, without the monotony of clicking the fold button 98% of the time in a DYM, especially as the MTT schedule isn't brilliant apart from the main, mini, and 9pm slot. I think there's been some attempts in the past to get people to start playing normal SnGs, but they've never really worked out.

I still remember that "slowroll" - I probably do that more than I actually realise because I have decisions on other tables, although I always apologise if I notice I've done it.

Hope to see you at SPT Birmingham

[tikay]

Sometimes you actually DO have a hand, then.........

[Young_gun]

Sometimes you actually DO have a hand, then.........

Yeah that monstet 108 sooted ;-)  just messing pretty hand in position

[Evilpengwinz]

Sometimes you actually DO have a hand, then.........

Yes, but don't tell anyone. I like my image...

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9th May:

I ran like Usain Bolt yesterday.

Started by firing up 6 cash tables for a couple of hours while watching the first two episodes of The Apprentice on iPlayer. Still wondering if/when the candidates will ever learn that picking yourself to be project manager in the first task is a sure fire way to get into a flip to be fired first. As for the Poker, this was one of those really tedious sessions where nothing much happened, and every time I had a hand, someone else had a slightly better one. Won a big flip right at the end of the session though, and ended up with £4.44 profit.

Decided that I felt like playing something a bit different in the evening, so registered for a couple of £5.50 PLO8 tournaments with Tikay, Sky's main and mini bounty hunters, and a £11 rebuy starting at 9pm.

In the first PLO8 tournament, I ended up flopping the nut house, getting the lot in against a short-stacked Tikay, and rivering quads with no low hand possible. Eventually went on to finish 2nd for £18, with another big pot on the FT where I got stacks in against 2 opponents and scooped with a wheel + 5 low. The second PLO8 tournament never really got started, and I went out 26/52 without really making much of an impact on the tournament aside from contributing £5 to the prize pool.

In the £33 main event, I picked up a bounty in the first couple of hands with 55 > 33 on a 543 board. However, my inability to bet/fold against passive players cost me in my exit hand where I turned TPTK with Q88K board, got raised by someone who obviously had trips but I still called anyway -_- FML.

Fortunately, the £11 rebuy went better. Much better...

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HU lasted exactly one hand, with me 4betting A9s and getting called by his 10s which held. He had a pretty big chip lead going into HU and was probably a better player than me too, so didn't really have much chance of winning once I got HU, but £511 is a very welcome boost to the bankroll

Also had a 45 minute cash session once I got down to 1 table in the rebuy - Loaded a dozen 20NL tables and ended up 5 buy-ins up, helped by getting AA v QQ v JJ against two other players with £20 stacks. Somehow it didn't go in pre-flop, they both flatted my 4bet, but once the flop came 888, and I checked to them, there was no way either of them were getting away from their hands. Closed these down once I got close to being ITM in the rebuy so I could concentrate on that instead.

May 9th: +£567.79
This month: +£871.78
Poker Points: 1,945/10,000 (= £19.45 rakeback)

[Young_gun]

FISH HEATER ITT

P.s well played nice bink skillz

[Evilpengwinz]

10th May:

How quickly things change. Went from binking £500 and crushing cash yesterday to getting absolutely owned today in 30NL games where the standard was so poor that I was raising 4x pre for the first time in as long as I can remember.

Played for about 3 hours, starting with 10 tables but eventually dropping to 7 as games started to break. Not going to bore people to death with the details of people binking 2 outers and me playing awful. Unticking the "Auto Post BB" box at the end of the session, only to run AK into AA summed up my session, really.

Also received an e-mail about a SnG promotion on PKR. Played one SnG, then decided that full ring was boring so gave up.

May 10th:
Sky -£117.28
PKR -$6.00
This month: +£754.50, -$6.00
Sky Poker Points: 2,308/10,000 (= £19.45 rakeback)

[Evilpengwinz]

12th May

No update yesterday as I didn't play on Saturday.

For once, I decided not to bother with Sunday tournaments, and didn't start my session until about 10pm. When I did start, it seemed to be going the same way as Friday's cash session - After an hour, I was 3-4 buy-ins down at 20NL (I was playing this level as there wasn't much 30NL running on Sky at the start of the session)

Eventually, I started playing better, and when stacks went in, I stopped getting two outered as well, which really helped. Despite managing to value own myself for an entire stack, and a few more times for some smaller pots, I finished the session with a 5 buy-in profit.

Falling behind on the Poker Points, which is slightly frustrating, but not the end of the world. It's still recoverable if I put enough hours in between now and the end of the month.

May 12th:
Today: +£100.97
This month: +£855.47
Sky Poker Points: 2,581/10,000 (= £25.81 rakeback)