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« Reply #45 on: October 09, 2014, 11:58:21 PM »

Consistent hourly from other networks beats the really high variance fields on Stars. Stuff like the big 22/55 are really really good value but the fields are just massive. Small fields just have to be part of your schedule, otherwise mtt variance goes off the hook. Furthermore, you want experience on final tables. Small fields give you the ability to practice the final table bubble and dynamics on the ft, someone who mostly grind stars nlhe might make one a week or so. Roi comes from the end game, its the most important part of the tournament, playing well here can turn you from a close to breakeven player into a monster. Apart from watching videos and reviewing tournaments, getting a lot of practice in these areas are key. What happens if you final one of the turbos on stars and suddenly have 1k buyins up top and its something you just haven't experienced. You'll be confident, you win a greater % of your sessions and you come into final tables thinking, I've done this a hundred times before. Practice for the big situations, who cares if its only $400 for winnng a 26$ mtt. Lol bowl comp even being a phrase shows how silly mtters can be.

Great post, especially for an online noob like myself
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« Reply #46 on: October 10, 2014, 12:03:22 AM »

Cheers for all in the input guys. All very valid, logical, good points made... guess I was just being 'a fish with a dream', aiming for the BIG BIG scores. My problem was that I wanted to include a few extra MTTs and outside of the main and mini on Sky, almost all the other comps get <100 runners and I was looking for something a bit bigger, but there's a ton of middle ground between 100 runners and 10,000+

Will deffo take you up on the offer of chatting a few things through on Skype Matt
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« Reply #47 on: October 13, 2014, 09:50:03 AM »

Here's a picture of the expensive fella btw.

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spoiled fella Cheesy

i have a cat in my neighborhood which is also white&black with a black spot on the chin
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« Reply #48 on: October 13, 2014, 06:16:51 PM »

Not played for a couple of days. On Saturday afternoon I went to a kid's birthday party with my little girls and me and Emma were chatting about a few things and it made me think that it's crazy how clever/strong the human body is. I won't go into all the details but when Lily was born the doctors said she had a 50/50 chance of surviving, and if she did she would definitely suffer long term damage. When she was born she had quite severe brain damage, she didn't take her first step until she was 3 (and it would be a long time before she could actually walk) and it was roughly the same age before she could talk.

I was reminded of this because of something that came up on Emma's FB on Timehop (for people that aren't sucked into the world of FB - it basically makes u aware of things you posted on this day 1 year ago, or on this day 2 years ago etc). The thing that came up on Emma's timehop the other day was from 3 years ago when Lily had the results back from her MRI and was told there was no signs of brain damage, so in the 3 years since she was born she had gone from severe brain damage to her brain 'healing itself'.

She is still of course behind on a few things, mostly physical things, but there was was at the party (6 yrs old now) dancing etc when it took her to the age of 3 to even walk, and she's literally top of the class in a lot of academic areas like reading.
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« Reply #49 on: October 21, 2014, 12:42:13 AM »

The whole MTT idea has been kinda sidelined for the moment. I was playing £100NL a little while ago and took a step back to 50NL when a combination of things meant I wasn't as rolled as I'd like to be ideally for the level. Things have been going better the last month or two though and I've started re-introducing 100NL back into my grinds (just a couple of tables at first alongside 50NL) so I've been focussing on that atm. Things have gone well so far, the standard is much the same as 50NL so I feel perfectly comfortable in the games ability wise.

I'm gonna be playing the Grand Prix Final this week at DTD. Every time I see a Grand Prix is running I always think 'sigh forgot to get involved again, deffo gonna play the sats for the next one', then the next one comes round but I don't hear about it/get round to playing sats until it's too late, so this time I've just taken the lazy route and I'm buying in direct.

I'll be playing the 2pm one on Friday so I can get home at a reasonable time. Anyone else playing? What day you playing?
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« Reply #50 on: October 25, 2014, 10:17:45 PM »

So I played the Grand Prix Final at DTD yesterday. The day started in a really frustrating fashion, just kept bricking all my draws and no-one ever failed to brick their draws V me when I had a hand. I was up and down for a while, only winning non-showdown pots, and got from the 50k starting stack up to about 60k by 500/1k (I think level 4/5), then I had a really grim hand. The runout was 348dd, To, Ko, so no possible straights or flushes and the money went in over 3 streets with my 33 V villian's 44. That left me with 5xBB and I shipped K9, called by Q6 and bust.

It's a 2hr drive to DTD (and that's pertty much the closest card room/casino to me) so seen as I was already there I thought I'd give it a 2nd shot. So I re-entered with 50 bigs. I was card dead for what felt like an absolute age after re-entering but somehow managed to maintain my 50k starting stack. Blinds got to 1.5k/3k and I minraised 99 UTG, only the BB calls. Flop comes 772dd, I cbet small, villian who has been pretty laggy/spewy raises. I'm pretty sure he'd have 3b pre with most bigger PPs and I didn't think he was raising the flop with 7x or the odd bigger PP he might not have 3b pre TT/JJ, so I stick the rest in, he calls with K2 and I hold for 100k.

Not long after, someone minraises from EP with about 50k, I 3bet AKo, he ships, I snap, and we win a flip against JJ to go to 155k. After that, I was pretty card dead again for ages and slowly blinded down a bit. Long story short, I found myself in the last level of the day (4k/8k) with just over 100k. At this point I wasn't gonna blow it and just gamble but I was hoping some kinda spot would come up for me to try and double or bust before the day ended. It was pretty annoying cos obviously everyone was putting a lot of thought into their decisions at this stage, whether it was a case of 'do I wanna bust out now this close to day 2' or 'how much am I willing to gamble it up to make sure I get a stack for tomorrow' but either way there was 20 mins to go and everyone was tanking for so long about every decision when all I wanted to do was get as many hands as possible played so I had the best chance of finding a hand to GII with. With about 5 mins to go, that laggy/spewy villian to my right minraised, I shipped AJs, he called with AJo and we chop it up. The very next hand he just open ships this time, and I call with AJs. He turns over TT, we flop a FD, brick turn, flush completes on the river and we've go 222k. I put my 1k ante in next hand which is the last hand of the night and we finish with a 221k stack to take into day 2 on Sunday.

GL to anyone else who is coming back on Sunday.
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« Reply #51 on: October 26, 2014, 03:59:09 AM »

Gl today Paul!
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« Reply #52 on: October 27, 2014, 11:43:37 PM »

As I mentioned in my last post, I came back to Day 2 of the Grand Prix with 221k...

361 players came back from the 2013 (entries) that started, 215 were getting paid and average was 270k so I was just a little under that.

The start of the day went great, everyone was either card dead or being vvv nitty and I was getting plenty of playable hands so it was a long time before I lost a pot. I opened 33, then took it down with a cbet, opened 55, took down the blinds, opened AK, and took it down on a Kxx flop, then I 3b sqz AKo, jam QTx flop, villian folds AK and I was up to 360k in about 20 mins.

First pot of the day that actually made it past a flop, I opened ATo in mid position, and was peeled by 1 of the blinds. Flop is  and I bet/call flop. Turn is a brick,  three clubs iirc and he checks so I instantly ruled out most/all value hands that beat me unless he's playing it very strange, I check back. River is another brick,  I think, and he bets small. Calling and losing would have left me with like 60k but called and was good to take me to nearly 500k. Out of interest what are people's thoughts with regard to showdown here? When we call do we hold off and wait for him to show/announce his hand? I said something like 'I've got the ace' and he mucked, am I just giving up free info by announcing first? Don't wanna get into the area of people messing about and arguing over who should show first so just said I had the ace, but he should technically show first, right?

Not long after that someone shoved AT, I reshipped AK and we hold to go up to 650k. By this point average was about 415k, blinds I think were 8k/16k with 238 left.

Can't really remember many more hands of note, just a few raise/folds etc but by the time I got ITM I had 500k (just over avg) and blinds were 10/20k. Once we got ITM obv people started flying out cos the payjumps were dreadful so everyone was just trying to spin it up or go home. So I open KQo with 500k @ 12k/24k from the CO, expecting to snap off either of the blinds who who <15xBB. The SB shipped, I call, he has  and it runs out 24435 and that leaves me with about 150k. I don't play another pot until the BTN shoves on my next BB, by which point I have about 140k and blinds have gone up to 15k/30k so I snap with  and we hold against  . Now I'm back in the region of 300k, and I ship the BTN with  and the 96ss guy from earlier has AK in the blinds and it's gg.

I finished 181st and got £250 so was exactly break even cos I used 2 bullets on it. Meh at least it was a free flag.

One thing I've taken from it though, I don't think I'll be playing another DTD event in the forseeable that gives out seats taken from the prizepool. The payouts were insanely top heavy, to the point where iirc you needed to finish something like 50th out of 2000+ entries to get 4x the BI. Don't think it reached 4 figures until like 10th place.

So the next time I play live will probably be Luton, I've been there once for an SPT and thought it was a really nice place (but can't remember which casino in Luton it was)... what are people's opinions? Is one noticeably better than the other?
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« Reply #53 on: October 28, 2014, 12:15:52 AM »

It had 100 seats into a 500 taken out, so still 200k in the pool for a 125.  GL finding that outside the Goliath.  Only running a pretty identical tournament in a week too.  DTD are incredible.

Grosvenor Luton was the SPT venue. Genting is decent too but smaller.  Both have regular monthly events - I think they are usually 20/30kGTD for a 100/150BI but not sure.  Add them both to FB.  Think the Grosvenor monthly is this weekend.

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« Reply #54 on: October 28, 2014, 12:27:59 AM »

Out of interest what are people's thoughts with regard to showdown here? When we call do we hold off and wait for him to show/announce his hand? I said something like 'I've got the ace' and he mucked, am I just giving up free info by announcing first? Don't wanna get into the area of people messing about and arguing over who should show first so just said I had the ace, but he should technically show first, right?

Had some entertaining examples of this recently.  I've taken to just calling river bets and sitting in silence till they either show their hand or muck.  Unless it's a friend or someone I like, then I might let them off the hook.
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« Reply #55 on: October 28, 2014, 12:29:11 AM »

Out of interest what are people's thoughts with regard to showdown here? When we call do we hold off and wait for him to show/announce his hand? I said something like 'I've got the ace' and he mucked, am I just giving up free info by announcing first? Don't wanna get into the area of people messing about and arguing over who should show first so just said I had the ace, but he should technically show first, right?

Had some entertaining examples of this recently.  I've taken to just calling river bets and sitting in silence till they either show their hand or muck.  Unless it's a friend or someone I like, then I might slowroll the shit outta them

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« Reply #56 on: October 28, 2014, 12:32:00 AM »

It had 100 seats into a 500 taken out, so still 200k in the pool for a 125.  GL finding that outside the Goliath.  Only running a pretty identical tournament in a week too.  DTD are incredible.

Grosvenor Luton was the SPT venue. Genting is decent too but smaller.  Both have regular monthly events - I think they are usually 20/30kGTD for a 100/150BI but not sure.  Add them both to FB.  Think the Grosvenor monthly is this weekend.



Yeah deffo, DTD is a great cardroom, meh, maybe I'd feel different if I finished 100th Wink

I've heard of them doing this for a few events recently, and I know they gave away 50 x UKPC main seats in the £500 side event, is this something they do in all major/tour events nowadays?
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« Reply #57 on: November 14, 2014, 09:36:21 PM »

Left it a while between posts again. I'll just keep it to the cliffs of what's gone on...

Played most of the UKOPS on Sky and it went about as wank as it could possibly have. I sold 50% of an £800 package for it, and played a few more of the small BIs on my own £££. I cashed 2 events from about 25, the best result being a frustrating 12th in one of the £5 Minis (off stake) out of about 600 runners, only got about £50.

I turned 28 on 4th Novemeber... getting dangerously close to 30 now 

One thing I did get for my birthday which I was very much in need of...

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Cash is going well, can't remember if I mentioned it in my last update but still mainly playing £50 and 100NL now.

Another UKPC has been announced for DTD, so guess I'm gonna have to get my satellite skates on.
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« Reply #58 on: November 16, 2014, 03:25:04 PM »

Only just seem this, thankfully not as long as expected Tongue

Ever thought of pet insurance? im not offering just seems logical with your cat situation....

Hope things are going well with you at mo Lambo
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« Reply #59 on: December 02, 2014, 12:23:39 AM »

Cheers YG, unfortunately we can't get any insurance for him now (at least not to cover that condition) because it's in the vet's records so is a pre existing condition so they wouldn't cover it.

Not updated for a while (again!!), deffo gonna keep more on top of that!

Only played 1 x £48 UKPC Semi so far which I bricked, still ages to qualify but I would like to get a move on and lock up my seat nice and early.

I made the decision a week or two ago to start putting in some serious MTT volume from now on. I've always done fairly well in MTTs on Sky but my volume is vv poor (1200 games in about 5 years on the site) and my sample size is just completely lol on other sites (probably <100 comps between 888, FTP and Stars combined). So I finally got round to setting up a P5 account as a bit of extra motivation to get grinding those sites more cos atm my P5 is .... not great.

http://www.pocketfives.com/profiles/lambert180/

MTTs were pretty meh for those last like 10 days of Nov when I started grinding them properly but then yesterday I had my first decent bink. It was a £55 turbo bounty hunter on Sky (I got in for £3), only a very small field but I came 1/44 for about £750, nice end to the month.
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