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[shipitgood]

Hey Everyone  

Happy New Year to all!

There is some fantastic diaries on here, from seasoned pro's, to those moving up the ranks, long standing ones and everything in-between. Love Blonde!

Decided to start this for motivation in 2015 focussing on MTTs.

2014

I've been playing about 4 years now, first 2 were very infrequent and was a slight losing / break even player. 2014 has been a phenomenal year for me and game is totally different to where it was at the start of the year. Most of my volume was at cash.

2015

Hoping to play more tourneys> Cash and have sessions where I only grind tournies, which I've hardly ever done before! With Cash nowadays it's mostly autopilot but with MTT's quite often there's spots i'm not 100% sure of the best/most optimal line to take.

These are my stats for 2014 to do with MTTs up to 27th Dec

http://gyazo.com/c92b32be78b2293109bcef6442a9fc72

The ROI is quite decent but the average buy in is really low.

Goals for 2015


- Put in more MTT Volume
-Spend more time analysing MTT hands / working on my MTT game
-Increase the Average Buy in
-Increase my score rating on Sharkscope >76.

I'll be posting hand histories on the thread, discussing certain lines I took, and why I took them also looking at strategy.

Cash game style: LAG
Tournie game style: TAG early, LAG later on.

Players that have inspired me (for tournies): Tommy, MB, Gazza, Batkin88, EvilP, dohh as well as many others.

That's where I want to be with MTTs:)
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[cambridgealex]

Good luck sir!

[tikay]

Good luck Larson!

Remind me, did you do a 24 hour "pokerthon" v Slippy in 2014, or was it someone else?

[shipitgood]

Thanks Alex and Tikay. It was me and slippy that did the 24 hour pokerthon

[tikay]

Thanks Alex and Tikay. It was me and slippy that did the 24 hour pokerthon

Thought so, amazing stuff, that, I seem to recall I railed you guys for a bit.

[hhyftrftdr]

Ah got a feeling about this!

Look forward to seeing all the hand histories you put up. I'd probably drop the £5 BH's altogether if you really want to take your game up a notch. Get in the mains, gotta be in them to win them. 4/7 mains every week are bounty hunters so if that's your favourite form of tournament play you should be looking to nail them.

[Young_gun]

GL sir see you at the tables no doubt

[shipitgood]

Thought so, amazing stuff, that, I seem to recall I railed you guys for a bit.
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You certainly did, the rail was buzzing the last 30 mins, everyone was brilliant cheering us on to the finish.

Tried to get the last hand of the 24 hour pokerthon to post up, but hand history only seems to go back 3 months! Was a really interesting one.

It was a 4 way all in pre flop, I had about 500 BB Slip had a lot a bb, plus a couple of others came along for the ride. My AQ triumphed - was never in doubt, not even against slippy's 88 lol

Cliffs: Slipwater (sky reg) and I decided on doing a 24 hour pokerthon to raise money for cancer research, in the end over £1000 was raised for the charity through the generosity of the sky poker community.

 

 

[shipitgood]

Yeah, HH need to play bigger buy in's for sure. I'll need to get a decent schedule together that work's for MTT's.

I certainly will Young_Gun, maybe not as much as before now tho:)

[OverTheBorder]

Gl...let us see the schedule when you have worked it out!

[shipitgood]

Cheers Chris,

Tonight's going to be my 1st proper night. Going to just play on sky for the time being to see if I can get enough games to play and also how I do muli-tabling MTT's.

Tonight i'm going to play the:

£1000 18:45 £5.75
£350 19:15  £5.75
£1000 19:45  £11
£33 Main BH 8:00
£1000 20:15  £11
8:30 £5.50 MINI ?? Maybe
£3000 BH 21:30 £11

There's a £55 game too @ 9:30 / 10:00. might try and sat into that.

[shipitgood]

Tonight was poo lol

Got a £50 bet on with Lambert: Most profit on Sky MTT's 1st 6 months of the year.

Gl Lambo!

[shipitgood]

Hand 1, first level 10/20, we have 2k.  in the BB. 3 Limpers SB folds.

Flop.    . Checks though.  . We bet 67.50 into 90. 2 calls.

River     We bet to 220 into 290ish. UTG Calls. UTG +1 Jams and has us covered. I was a bit concerned about A or K Flush, but felt he'd prob play a lot of flushes this way.

I think given this action against certain players we can fold. I called,  he had 10j o/s

Hand 2,

We have  , blinds 20/40 OTB

Cut off limps - we make it 160. Both small/ big call. Pot is 640.

Flop:  SB donks 80. We call to raise turn, bet a lot a rivers. Or bet (any non club turn and river)

Pot= 800. Turn   Ah. Villian bets 120 into 800

We  to 440. It's quite a small raise delberatly. Pot 1680

River  .

I wanted to bet small but not 2 small. Went for 1k. And are called by  7.

I thought he was pretty weak with a c in his hand. Something like Kc6, 10-Ac x. That kind of range.

I quite dislike my line OTT, just because his Ace c( if he had that just got there). I suppose when he continues to put in an lol bet on the turn, I was thinking he didn't have the A c.

Felt it might be more like 10-K c. OTR don't feel he's ever folding an ace.

As soon as he made the lol flop donk, I decided I was checking raising a lot of turns, Ace h actually looked like an ideal card, but totally overlooked the , which clearly is going to be the most prominent C he's doing the min donk bet with.

Overall, I don't normally make these plays so early, think it's defo better to make these plays later on when blinds are decent and should have just folded the flop.

[shipitgood]

I just had a look at hand 2 again, I really dislike my line here with very little to no equity, think he calls even wider with Ace x maybe as far as 6x club x.

3 Wasn't an ideal river either, if he has 77, 88, or a hand like K6 Q6.

Fold Flop, As played, check back river with our limited show down value.

 Bit spewy!

[hhyftrftdr]

Can you explain why you bet 1k on the river in hand 2, when you say ''he's never folding an ace''?

Not keen on a single street on hand 2 in all honesty.