Ah got a feelin!

[simonnatur]

I've dabbled playing 50nl on Sky recently, just 2 tabling and game selecting at times when the games are good. There's often 2 or more very weak players per table who stand out like a sore thumb as do the regs who are equally easy to recognise. May just be a consequence of playing less tables, but I'ld be surprised if it wasn't profitable for you.

[shipitgood]

Hey Simon,

Good stuff mate, hope it's going well for you.

Played 50nl on Sat night, lost with 55, on a 52268 board, opponent had quad lol

Made a  schoolboy error, thought i was rolled (50 bis) for 50nl, it was 30 bi's!

Need to play 20nl for a bit longer...

Tbf, 30 bi's is probably fine 2 tabling 50nl, table selecting, but losing against qaud , has kinda put me of 50nl for the time being lol

All the best at the tables

[shipitgood]

Quick update

May to date has been phenomenal.

Managed to bink a  MTT last week for just over £1300. Cash has went like a dream too, in the last 10 days, i've only had 1 losing day, which was only 1 buy in. The rest of the time i was up a good amount of buy ins every day.

Well rolled for 50nl now, i'm going to keep playing my usual games atleast till the end of May, if not June, then I can see about whether i want to move up or not.

Ideally, feel it would be better to have 100 bi's before getting stuck into 50nl.
 

[shipitgood]

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[shipitgood]

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[shipitgood]

May and June were good months, made 4 figures both months, May was especially good, winning the tues main for £1370 really helped for it being a bumper month! June was just over 1k.

Last month I ended up going for priority on Sky, you have to get 10k poker points to get 20% rakeback.

Sometimes it was difficult, decent weather plus I was forcing myself to play at times. Most of the volume came from cash, hardly played any MTT's last month.

This month 2 date, I have about 400 poker points, volume has been really low, mostly I've been playing HU Sit and Go's. Really enjoying it again, just playing because I want to play as opposed to playing to make x target.

Played a live MTT at the weekend too, getting a wee bit of practice before the UKPC. It was going really well, ultimately got knocked out just before the FT lost a 80/20, then lost a 70/30 to leave me with 9k with blinds at 3k/6k lol

Had a funny conversation with my Mum yesterday about poker. She was saying "still gambling?"  doesn't matter what you say it will only ever be gambling lol

[shipitgood]

UKPC time fast approaching!

Can't wait, gonna do wins:)

What's the cash games like down at DTD at 50/1 1/1?

Hopefully like a casino game back home!

[Rexas]

Games at dtd I believe start at 1/1 now, where they offer short (100bb max) and deep (250bb max) games, before 1/2 +. Also offer DC and PLO.

Fwiw I always used to think poker wasn't gambling, before I realised I was only kidding myself. Poker is absolutely gambling, whereby we are directly risking money and hoping for a favourable outcome. The fact that the word itself has developed some pretty negative connotations isn't all that relevant, everyone who plays poker is by definition gambling. Poker is not entirely a skill game, at least not in the short time. Indeed, live poker will never be an entirely skill based game, because you just can't play enough in one lifetime to even out variance. It's perfectly possible to downswing for tens of thousands of tournaments, for example, and a live player just won't be able to cover this sort of sample. So, your mum's right :p

[shipitgood]

Hey Rexas,

What's the standard generally like at DTD at 100/200nl?

If you are there this week, see you there!

[Rexas]

Hey Rexas,

What's the standard generally like at DTD at 100/200nl?

If you are there this week, see you there!

Nah, I'm in coventry this week for the goliath. And have you played much live cash before? The standard deep 1/1 tables have a few good regs in them, the shallow 1/1 rarely has anyone good sat in it, and the 1/2 games will likely play pretty big, be quite aggressive, and have some pretty good players sat in. Dtd cash tends to be of a higher standard than most other live environments at the same level, but live cash is generally of a pretty low standard anyway. That being said, it is sky week, so there will be a high volume of players that aren't regs at dtd, so the standard of the games will be affected by that.

[shipitgood]

Cheers Rexas,

Not played much live cash at all.

Good luck in Coventry!

[shipitgood]

Was looking back at the start of this blog.

Can't believe this was started almost 1 year ago, and what a year it's been!

It's pretty funny, I was reading Frankie's "who are you" posts lol

At the UKPC I was playing at a table, close to Frankie's table, it was early doors, and all you heard was someone talking quite animatedly, it was Frankie.

Roughly it was something along the lines of a lady had only called Frankie's bet with a FH, where she could have had his full stack. The chat continued for quite sometime afterwards, quite a character.

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When I started the thread a year ago I was playing 10nl and was looking to move up to 20nl.

Also about this time me and a friend were organising a charity event on Sky - playing 24 hours non stop to raise money for Cancer Research on 4nl. It was about Nov/ December when we did this. It was a great success, with all the Sky reg's getting behind it - in the end we raised over £1000 for the charity.

It was really tough just staying awake/ focussed/ trying to maintain some level of concentration. It was really nice at the finish up the rail was going crazy as we completed the last 30 minutes of the challenge.

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I started playing 20nl at the end of last year, and it has been a brilliant year. I've never had a losing month since I started playing "properly" - about April of last year. Sharkscope is in profit by about £2700.

My main game tho is defo cash imo. I've put sometime into cash over the last month or so, I also had someone looking at my game, which has helped immensely.

At some point between now and Christmas I hope to spend a bit more time looking at my MTT game/ areas where I can improve upon.

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It was brilliant going to the UKPC had a really good time.

Played a bit silly in the fourth level when I was the chip leader at the table. I had been told before not to do anything silly early doors!

Sometimes I can play a bit crazy, and this was one of them...

I 5 bet    , from the BB versus the button.

The flop was King high with 2 hearts and I checked, pretty terrible I know! Turn was another heart. I bet 1/3rdish pot. Opponent calls. River was a 4th heart and also a King. I set the guy all in with 8 high lol he tanked for a while before calling with AK no heart.

He was like "I was ready to go up Goliath at Sheffield" haha

Turns out he was not a player that liked folding and made a brilliant call - but then again my line was just so FOS.

That left me with 20k couple of rounds later, I got it in with AKsuited, versus the same opponents 77, flop game his 3 to a flush, turn gave him a flush and I was drawing dead. GG UKPC.

I also played my largest ever losing cash hand at the cash tables at 1/1.

I had Kx, think I was the SB,  TommyD in early position opens up to 6 (might have been a straddle) I made it £23/4, BB made it £60odds.

I tanked for a while, I almost folded. I've never folded Kings pre in a cash game in my life, but I was so close to it!

I know people will be like say what, fold kings pre lol But this is one of the rare examples I think it could be a good fold. Is his range so nutted that he can only have AA here? The player was tight/ passive in the extreme. He seldom played a pot.

I don't think he 4 bets QQ or AK in this spot.

Alarm bells were ringing. I couldn't do it, I called the 4 bet. The flop came down 3 clubs (no ace). We both had approx. £250 at the start of the hand.

I checked, he over bet jammed the flop like 2 x pot maybe more. I knew if he jammed I was calling, so I snap called.

When he did that I was pretty sure he had Aces with no club, I don't for 2 seconds imagine he does that with AcecAcex.  

He refused to run it twice, and the board bricked.

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Sam Trickett directly after he bubbled the UKPC played a £10 Sit and Go with some of the Sky Reg's.

Sam is a total legend and a gentleman - couldn't have met a nicer guy.

Was great fun, and I finished 3rd:)

Also had my first Nando's experience. Ended up going over with a sky player who has been very successful at the game. Sitting next to us was two well known EPT players. Was crazy some of the money they talked about for a week of poker!

Crushed a couple of regs at tenpin bowling and went to see The Inbetweeners 2 down there also.

WAs a quality film, funniest scene has to be Simon on the flume, haha

Over all was a great experience, and was brilliant meeting a lot of the people I talk to online but hadn't actually met before.

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Was meant to be a "where I am now in poker" post lol has ended up a bit long so i'll leave that for another time.

[shipitgood]

Just read the start of Rexas's blog there, was interesting hearing peoples views on poker as gambling.

Last week was talking with some people that knew I had been down at notts for the UKPC - non poker players, and someone chimed in how poker is pure gambling and degenerate and is just the road to ruin lol Now I know why I hardly ever talk about poker to non poker players.

Didn't matter what you said, his mind was set in stone!

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Just before the start of September I've started a challenge to make £5k by Christmas. Last couple of days of August/ Early September saw my best week at cash ever, I was up about 25 buys in at cash. Then I hut the skids and lost 10 buy ins in 2 days lol

Ended up playing a lot the 1st couple of weeks, after my heater it was really swingy. I've not played much the last 10 days or so, it's been pretty infrequent.

Late on tonight ran pretty good while not playing brilliant, luckily I ended up about 5 buys in up for the day.

I'll need to check tomorrow, but i'm prob not far off £1k profit for the month when rake back is paid (about 110-120ish)

Off the 5k, was hoping to make about 2k on Sharkscope from MTT's HU Sit and Go's, but so far this month volume has been 95% cash. For Septmeber I might even be slightly down on Sharkscope.

Hoping to get a lot more tournies in next month.

 

[Rexas]

Just read the start of Rexas's blog there, was interesting hearing peoples views on poker as gambling.

I shudder when I think of the sort of guy I was back then :p Just coming off the back of a big bink, thought I was the absolute nuts. Had to lose the lot before I could start to improve :p

[verndog158]

Just read the start of Rexas's blog there, was interesting hearing peoples views on poker as gambling.

I shudder when I think of the sort of guy I was back then :p Just coming off the back of a big bink, thought I was the absolute nuts. Had to lose the lot before I could start to improve :p

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