Ah got a feelin!

[shipitgood]

Copy and pasted from elsewhere:)

Story so far
I played 4nl for the longest time ever. Pretty much all my time on the site until Oct November last year. Then i started playing 10nl. From June/ July last year to November i made quite a lot of money playing poker to give me a sizeable bankroll (for the stakes i was playing), it was the plan to play 20nl from December, i had over 100bi's for 10nl. I hadn't much experience of 10nl, so thought i'd be better playing this for a bit before moving up 2 20nl.

During the summer of last year to November i had won quite a few £££ in MTT's which definatly helped bankroll.

About December time (and before) i had started to make withdrawels. I was making withdrawels pretty much every day. Or every 2nd day at worst. Basically i kept my roll at a certain level and withdrew any profit i made.
 
Eventually i decided i didn't need anywhere near the amount of money in my account and with drew down to £500, this was also after i had a stupid £100 losing day.
 
I've decided i', not going to withdraw for a while and build things up.

The future

I'm now well rolled for 20nl.

The plan is to make 80-100 bi's at this level, and at this point look at playing 50nl. x

[shipitgood]

Hu sit and go's have been a night mare since Sunday. Been on the wrong end of variance so much it's unreal. I've had my biggest losing streak ever playing these games.

Bad variance has resulted in me playing (some of) the games bad as well, to an extent.

Friends i know who play HU used to complain about downswings, good winning players. I didn't really believe it was possible to have such a bad run, but it is!

Anyway enough moaning about HU Sit and Gos lol

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I'm going to be playing 20 £11 MTT's on sky over the next month or so, mostly bounty hunters or the tuesday night main.

I'm getting "staked", so i don't have 100% in myself.

I know it's low buy in games, the reason is really just a bit of fun. It will also make me play my best the fact that other people are involved.

Target is cash in 50% of events, FT 3 or 4 times, and win 1. That is da plan lol

I'll keep my results updated here. Wish me luck!

[lolwutwasthat]

gl with the journey mate!

[shipitgood]

Cheers mate,

Day 1
2 mtts played, 1st one nothing, 2nd won i came 5th with 3 bounties, Lost a massive hand at the FT, AK > KQ and 10J, Flop JJ lol

Total Spend £22, Winnings, £47.25, Profit, £25.25

[shipitgood]

Day 2 and 3[/col

Played a further 3 games, only 1 bounty 3.75


Total Spend £55, Winnings, £51, Profit, minus £4

[shipitgood]

Played another 2 £11 MTTs, last Friday and Tuesday's main (£11 bi's)

Didn't cash for anything in either of them.

Total games 7, Total Spend £77, winnings £51, Profit -£26.

Total cooler in the Friday night game to exit, and just never got going in the game yesterday. I've ran pretty bad in the MTT's so far, fingers crossed some MTT run good is on it's way! 13 games to go...

[shipitgood]

Since my post at the start of the month, things have changed slightly.

Sky did a rake race, which I took part in, ended up getting £75 for it. I was playing games just to get points, and to be honest never again! Playing for the sake of playing is about the worst thing I could have done. I wasn't enjoying it at all. I had 2days in the 1 week where I had £100 plus losing days.

I experienced my 1st ever downswing playing HU sit and gos. I had a losing streak of about 8-10 games pretty much in a row. Confidence was low and I guess that resulted in bad decision making. I had heard friends talking about downswings in HU games, I never really felt it was possible to lose so many games in a trot.

I lost quite a bit at 10nl as well on Friday night. I usually play 200bb deep, and in the space of 30 minutes was 7 bi's down. The 1st 2 were total coolers, one hand I flopped the nut flush, for the board to pair on the river, to give opponent a FH. Other big hand was flush over flush. These 2 hands in total were 4 bi's. I was constantly getting outdrawn and just generally running like shit.

After this there was further losses just down to tilt/ spew. At one point I was in a £150 hole, some losses came from 20nl too. I ended up getting a late rally, so only ended up down £50 on the day, which felt like a success. I said at the start of Feb I was going to mostly be playing 20nl, it's been a bit of both 10nl and 20nl.

I was glad when Friday and the promo were finished with. Would never do that again!
 

[shipitgood]

Saturday, I just wanted to chill out and play a couple of low stake MTT's, I ended up cashing in the 1st 1 and taking down the 2nd one. Really enjoyed it. The tournie I won it was only a £1 deepstack, 1st place was only £36 but was good fun. The FT was so sweet, ended up getting to HU 2-1 chip leader and it lasted all of 4 hands.

Since Saturday I've had a winning day every day this week. I've mostly been playing HU sit and go's with a bit of cash. I've won back pretty much what I lost last week during the rake race.

I started taking withdrawel's again. Originally it was the plan to just build up my bankroll to 2.5k and start playing 50nl. However, for the time being, i'm happy enough just to be taking withdrawels and keeping my balance at a certain level. If I could get a decent bink in a MTT that would really help move things along.

I was on pokerstars last night had a look at the high stakes games, I seen 1 player on every table KAnu7, or something like that, he was just sitting waiting for a table to get going. He had 10s of thousands of dollars over a load of tables. Amazing people actually can build up that much money from poker, would be nice to be in that position one day!

Also seen on Sky there was a player with 15k at a 1000nl table. I reckon that player has a diary on here.

An ultimate goal would be to get to a really good standard at poker. Not to the same extent as these 2 guys above, just decent enough to beat higher stake games!

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I seen there's been a lot of chat recently about the decline of online poker. Joe Hachem started a bit of a debate when he brought this up in an interview last year.

Personally I think that at the types of level I play at it will never really be much of an issue, as by it's very nature people playing these levels will mostly be inexperienced or weaker players. So there is always going to be value there. I suppose to an extent this the same up to say 50nl.

At the higher levels tho, I do think it will just get harder and harder. With so many resources out there players that want to learn will be able to improve rapidly. As this number increases the profit at higher games will get squeezed more and more. Wonder what others think about this?

[shipitgood]

Forgot to say better get my boast in now while it's still there.

Got a wee silver star on sharkscope too, in the top 30 for profit from sit and go's for this year.

Had to get it in before it disappears lol

[shipitgood]

after all the rambling yesterday, for got to say was thinking about coming down to DTD for Fri til Sunday.

Looked into hotels but decided it wasn't really worth it, best rates I could find were about 50-60 quid a night.

Was really up for it, but been a bit rushed I decided against it.

I'l get to DTD at some point!

[shipitgood]

Played the main event on Thursday night, had a good day so thought i'd play it.

Busted Queens versus AK really early, all in pre. King ball in da river.

Total games 8*, Total Spend £110, winnings £51, Profit -£59.

Must do better:)

[Vinodh]

About Kanu7 - Alex Miller

http://uk.pokernews.com/news/2013/09/best-of-the-british-isles-alex-kanu7-millar-high-stakes-cash-11548.htm

[shipitgood]

Yeah Vinod, he does really well.

Maybe one day lol

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One day a long long time away;

I played HU this morning against a really good player. We got chatting, ended up doing a sweat session tonight.

He mostly plays 20nl and is moving up to 50nl soon. Dutch guy he gets coaching, but talking through some of the hands, his knowledge was phenomenal.

Was shocked that i didn't use a HUD lol

What point am i trying to make? I know a lot less about poker than what i thought i did.

I recorded a session today for the first time ever. It was my 2nd HU session of the day. Just looked at it, i think i played ok, but not brilliant. I made a really stupid all in call with Ace 10, on a Ace high board, against this vilian, most vilians i would imagine, i'm never good there. That was about the worst hand of the session.

Basically, i'm not as good as i thought i was. That's all:)

 

[shipitgood]

Played the 12:30 £11 BH, Busted AK>AJ aipf, J on the flop, gg! 20 left, pot was for 4th chip lead. 1 Bounty, £5.63

Total games 9*, Total Spend £121, winnings £56.63, Profit -£64.37.

Don't know if there is any profit in these games, 1st place is only £100 odd pound plus, and it's really is just bingo.

[shipitgood]

Total games 10*, Total Spend £132, winnings £83.01, Profit -£49

16th tonight for 27.38

I have  , folds round 2 me in SB. Blinds are 400/800, i have about 19k, BB has 9k.

Pretty sure this is a Jam?? I min raised, it would have been the same outcome anyway i'm sure.

Flop came Ace 3 x, i bet, call, turn a 6, set opponent all in, they have A6. Leaves me with 9-10k, next hand I jam over a min raise with 77s, Vilian calls with K 10, i lose the flip, which leaves me with 1.5 bigs lol