Ah got a feelin!

[tikay]

Ha!

I'm reading bud, honestly, I'm just terribly busy right now, with this & that.

Keep the posts coming, & an audience will follow.

"Balance" is good, too, part poker, part real life, & upload a few photos that take your fancy - unlike Next Door they are not "restricted" here, as long as you are sensible.

Have you recovered from your 24 charity poker marathon yet? If I remember, I'll give you & Susan a shout out on tonight's Show.

Does Susan post on blonde? She strikes me as a great poster.

[JGill_DTD]

You will notice a lot of people read but don't necessarily post. You are being heard

How did the Sky promo week and 24 hour marathon go?

[Jac]

Hi Kev

Not surprised you're a bit pokered out at the moment.
I know I keep repeating myself but...
Live poker again?
Went well for you last time and so much more fun.

Is your reserve keeper any good?
We'll probably sign Forster in January to help get us over the line

[shipitgood]

Pokers just annoying at the moment i'm playing really terrible. Time for a break!

@ JGill, it didn't go well at all. Monday was the highlight and it soon went down hill! Monday ended up 50thish, lost A9 vs KJ blind on blind. Cashed for about £67, Tuesday was running well till i lost AK versus Ace 7, then with my remaining stack i lost a flip.

Thu, i lost AK vs queens all in pre early doors. Friday was just cooler after cooler. Pretty poor.

24 hour game was really tough, a lot tougher than i expected!, but raised over £1200 for cancer research so was delighted such a good amount was raised. Thought £500 would be great before it started.

@ TK doesnt look like i've recovered! Not played much sinse the weekend, but generally it's not been optimal when playing! And i don't think subo is on here.

@Jac, should give live play a go again, just difficult getting into the casino and back again, plus the games don't normally start till late. Forster's not for sale, but Samaras is available!

[shipitgood]

2014

Next year, especially first 3 months i expect i'll be putting in a lot less volume.

But  would like to make £5k profit, and ideally £10k profit, which will be a lot more challenging. £100 a week is easily doable, £200 maybe a bit 2 much!

I've always been nitty with Bankroll, and keep getting pelters for playing the games i do!

At some point may go a bit aggressive with bankroll, to try and really spin it up, will wait and see.

Merry Christmas everyone and a happy new year:D

[shipitgood]

Last night just played 1 game, the Christmas cracker at 9:00 ended up coming 2nd for just under £300.

Biggest online win so far, was a bit disapointed not to take it down, lost A10 versus K7 all in pre to be left with 2 bigs!

A win would have meant over £600 as there was also a £110 seat for next weeks Sunday roller, which i had already qualified for.

Tho can't grumble was still glad to get a deeprun and surely the big win is coming in 2014, maybe next Sunday!

[shipitgood]

played the main event tonight on Sky.

Finished 48th, 40 paid.

My exit hand was K5 OTB with 10bigs, jammed it into the blinds was called by ace 9 which held.

I don't mind the Jam here, but maybe was a mistake.

Bit disapointed i couldn't go the distance, but one time it will happen.

[shipitgood]

Just worked out how to get graphs into a forum post!

These are my stats from Sharkscope since I started playing on Sky and from Sept- to present.

I'm going 2 play 100 MTT's at £5.50 to £11 stakes.

Sharkscope below exludes one win on Sky just before Christmas, "the Christmas Cracker" in which I came 2nd for just under £300. It was a password protected game, so hasn't been picked up by sharkscope.

Also the recent drop was from the £110 main event, which I satted into through a freeroll.

I'm going to keep a track of those 100 games on here.

[shipitgood]

Just looked at these, neither graph looks that impressive.

I started to make profit from MTT's about the middle of this year. To date I've mostly played low stake bi games.

Everyone keeps saying I should be playing bigger games, so that's what i'm going 2 be doing over this month. I will still play low stake games, but also throw in bigger bi's aswell.

My ROI from MTTs, from June/July - present is really decent, looking to maintain that.

Went off cash a bit, not that I lost or went on a downswing, just don't have much of an urge to play cash right now. So decided it was a good time to give MTT's a good go.

My goal for this year with MTTs, is to have 2k profit as shown on SS by some point this year.

[shipitgood]

Just seen MC's thread (top of the page)

Absolutely phenomenal reading.

I'll use it as motivation to keep improving, and hopefully get the results in.

[tikay]

Larsonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

How are you big man?

I just wanted to explain to you, because I believe the matter arose, about Staking here.

We are very strict about it, but it's not personal - you need 300 Posts before you can use the Staking Board.

It's not the perfect system - there is no such thing - but it is probably the best of the worst. I'm fdraid we had a bad do or two back in the day, & so we needed to try & control it better.

Hope all is well with your poker, Next Door & wherever else you play.

I believe you won a "Top of the Posts" entry into a nice 6 runner Freeroll SNG last week with a few bob up top. How did that go? You won it, right? 2nd? 3rd?

[shipitgood]

Hey Tikay!

Sorry for the late response, just seen your message this morning!

I read the staking thread after I had posted in here, all the rules, that it applied to all forum posts not just those within the staking section.

Must say I agree, it's good that some one can't just join and post in there right away to prevent fraud/ scams.

Oh yeah Top of the Posts entry! Can't really remember that, but i'm pretty sure I was out to a sick bad beat, like when I got it in behind, flopped the nut flush draw, turned a straight draw, Had an Ace as back up  and bricked the river

That was a nice gesture you made on the day.

[shipitgood]

Went to start my car this morning, stopped at newsagents, came back out to start it up and it wouldn't start!

Pretty annoying lol, ended up getting the RAC out who were superb as ever, got the car started and straight down to the garage.

Hopefully it's not going to be 2 bad, but will find out soon enough!

Decided I wasn't going to play much in January, and when playing was going to focus on MTT's.

Have been pretty fed up with cash for some reason, not that I've lost at cash, it was just getting monotonous.

Same thing has happened with MTT's, I've been running pretty bad, playing pretty bad to aswell to an extent. I've not made a FT or won anything in ages.

Maybe just variance.

HU Poker

I've been playing a lot more HU poker, cash and sit and go's.

I made a mistake last week in regging for a £105 turbo sit and go ended up playing 2 against a high stakes reg. Luckily I won both game, so it was all good. I clicked re register and it came up £105 bi, I couldn't believe it! Snap de regd, checked my account couldn't believe it was £200 quid up, silly mistake turned good.

I thought it was a £1.05 sit and go lol

I was just practising stuff, playing these games different to how I used to play them.

Friday and Saturday, played quite a lot of £5 turbo games, maybe about 70-80, my roi was about 3-4 %. Over a large sample I reckon roi would be about 6-8%.

Also played quite a bit of HU Cash, I played one awesome player the rest I was really comfortable against. The really good player, had never heard of him before, it was only at 20nl, but he was 3 betting light a lot, really mixing it up. Definatly the trickest player I have played HU. He ended up stacking me, I had the nut flush he had a FH, but was a great game.

Played another HU game on Saturday night, stacked the player 4 times.

In the chat box he said "sigh, that's my last bullet"

I felt pretty bad, sounded like he was  only 18/19. He said he'd deposit money, build it up and lose it all. Was making a lot of mistakes, I told him to build a bankroll and get involved on the community on sky to help him improve his game.

Talked over a few of the hands with him.

His goal was to be a pro, maybe one day he will be a pro and can help me out!

[shipitgood]

HU Part 2,

The main event on sky tonight, it's a turbo, 10 before the bubble jammed AK UTG, 16k stack, blinds 800-1600, 2 be looked up by AQ, Queen on the river! Left me with 1 big, du the next 2 hands to squeeze into the money, but run bad in mtt continues. A while ago I was making FT for fun (in low stake gameS). Now I can hardly even min cash!

So definatly think i'm going 2 concentrate onmy HU game for the time being. Bit bored of cash too, although it's where most of my profit comes from.

Thinking about doing a HU challenge, maybe try and play 1000 HU fiver sit and go's.

Hoping to get a ROI of about 10% optimistically, and realistically 6-8%.

[shipitgood]

These are my stats since Friday for fiver hu sit and gos on Sky

SNG  10/01/2014-15/01/2029    137   $0.63   $6.34   9.8%   $85.79   65

Quite a small sample size, but not 2 shabby.

I have lost a good few games just by playing badly/ tilty.

Wondering how many tables, HU Sit and Go players play.

At cash I can play 6, 5 is optimal. For MTT's can play 5, but 3/4 is optimal, especially if running deep!

HU I struggle 2 tabling lol Find it a lot easier playing 1 table, picking up on how players play and exploiting it.

From what I can see there really is 3 categories of player HU, really stodgy passive players, these are the hardest ones to play against really need to just grind them down and win a lot of small pots, to get them down to 500 chips then just ramp the pressure right up.

Loose and aggro players, these are my fave type of player to play against, their play is generally transparent and easier to exploit.

Guess the 3rd would be bluffers, love these players 2, just need to pick your spots to pick up the chips.

Theres this one player, he'd always donk min bet flop/ turn, and pot the river with his bluffs lol