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Surprised the conclusion of that post was stick to online lol.

It's not very exciting to talk about the hours in very mediocre games or the month long downswings. If that game still existed in its prime I'd play more lI've but I've not really found one similar. Interestingly enough I know one reg who works very hard to make sure the game runs and I imagine he wins 40k a year or so in it. Live is possible but certainly not for me. Nothing is worse than driving 30 mins to sit in a 50p/50p game in Sheffield like my most recent experiences of live.

DTD has been fun but that's mainly been omaha and because there is usually a drinking partner about if worse comes to worst. Having Guys who are used to playing 500bb deep when you specialise in tournaments isn't my idea of fun.

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Ahoy there Mr Ship.

Just read this blog in one sitting (Well two if you count going to sleep in between) and I thought it was excellent.

Would be interested to know what your online cash stakes range is, which site, format and stake gives you the best return, and what you think about the change in standard as stakes increase. i.e. on Sky, I don't see any real difference between 5/10 and say, 15/30.

Also, how many tables do you typically play on Sky? I really struggle with more than 3 but that's mainly because I'm old and there is no time bank.   

props
Tom

[shipitgood]

Hey Tom,

Thanks.

For cash I only play on Sky and Unibet, mostly sky though.

On sky 95% of volume's at 50nl, on unibet I play 50/100nl. Started out playing @ 4nl on sky so know all of the lower levels on sky pretty well.

On sky I normally play 5-8 tables, 6 is ideal, with 8 there's a small amount of overlap.

Playing more tables it's a bit of auto pilot.

I like playing 2/4 tables, it's a lot easier to pick up on what's going on/ who's doing what, where as with more tables I miss out on a lot of information to an extent.

When I play 100nl on Sky, I normally only play 3 tables maximum, in April I only played 100nl 3 times.

There is a slight difference between 10nl and 20nl. @ 10nl "regs" when they 3 bet will pretty much always be QQ +, AK. @20nl you will get folk 3 betting a bit wider, but still very much "regs" will be TAG. 30nl is pretty similar. There will be quite a lot of overlap of the same player group playing 10/30nl.

Going into the winter I expect i'll be playing more 100nl> 50nl.



   

[shipitgood]

wowha, watched the Barca Bayern game.

Messi is a total legend, truly phenomenal and amazing...2 totally sublime goals.

Breath-taking how one player can be so talented,  definitely the best player in the world!

Wonder who the Messi of poker is, Moorman for MTTs  / Kanu7 for Cash?

[verndog158]

wowha, watched the Barca Bayern game.

Messi is a total legend, truly phenomenal and amazing...2 totally sublime goals.

Breath-taking how one player can be so talented,  definitely the best player in the world!

Wonder who the Messi of poker is, Moorman for MTTs  / Kanu7 for Cash?

disagree, think ronaldo is better.

hmmm not sure pads will like that either!!

[shipitgood]

Ronaldo is of course a great player, it really is a fantastic rivalry.

Both having scored 50 plus goals already is truly amazing.

Just been to the polling station. Going to be really interesting tonight to see which way it goes, must be a good chance of a hung parliament.

 

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Hey Tom,

Thanks.

For cash I only play on Sky and Unibet, mostly sky though.

On sky 95% of volume's at 50nl, on unibet I play 50/100nl. Started out playing @ 4nl on sky so know all of the lower levels on sky pretty well.

On sky I normally play 5-8 tables, 6 is ideal, with 8 there's a small amount of overlap.

Playing more tables it's a bit of auto pilot.

I like playing 2/4 tables, it's a lot easier to pick up on what's going on/ who's doing what, where as with more tables I miss out on a lot of information to an extent.

When I play 100nl on Sky, I normally only play 3 tables maximum, in April I only played 100nl 3 times.

There is a slight difference between 10nl and 20nl. @ 10nl "regs" when they 3 bet will pretty much always be QQ +, AK. @20nl you will get folk 3 betting a bit wider, but still very much "regs" will be TAG. 30nl is pretty similar. There will be quite a lot of overlap of the same player group playing 10/30nl.

Going into the winter I expect i'll be playing more 100nl> 50nl.



   

Good stuff thanks.

[shipitgood]

Been quite a quiet week for poker. Had a fantastic Friday - Sunday. Then the May Bank Holiday was really bad I kept playing when I should have just stopped, ended up down about £300 on the day.

Didn't play much Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday, and had a spewy Thursday but luckily hardly lost anything.

From Monday of this week up until today i'm in a  about a £250 hole.  Wasn't really enjoying the poker that much.

It's been really good pretty much taking it easy this week after Monday.

Can't wait to get in a proper session tonight, feeling really confident i'll be on my A game.

I'm going to be playing these games

7pm £22 BH
7pm Mayhem Freeroll
7:45 £11 BH
8:15 £11BH
8:00 Main £33 BH
8:30 Mini  £5

With cash afterwards.


 

[Jac]

You seem to be having a great 2015 Kev
Good luck with the mtts tonight

[shipitgood]

I ended up playing all the above games, plus another £22 BH plus a £5 bh.

Profit for the night from MTTs is £200 plus.

I came 8th in the main, I lost a 300k pot, with AJ> Ace 6 all in pre, 6 on the flop.

Bit of a sore one, if I win that pot i'm chip leader with 7 left and would have been a really soft FT.

Bit sore just now, but really happy with how I played tonight, didn't make 2 many mistakes.

[shipitgood]

Meh, wish I could edit the above post moaning about losing a 70/30, I really dislike reading that kind of stuff in poker blogs/ diaries.

No more posting in the direct aftermath of a bust out!

Would be interested to hear peoples views on this hand.

5 handed about 9/10 left. We have 120k at the start of the hand UTG+1

We have  , blinds 2.5k/5k

We min raise to 10K, BB defends (pot 22500)

Flop 

We bet 8765, he reraises to 28780. We ??

He has us covered just. He is a bit of a loose cannon,  3 xes his entire range pre flop, and is folding to 3 bet jams, that kind of thing.

I just jammed, if he has Ace 5, 56 gl to him. And don't expect he's ever got 44 from the sizing.

[tikay]

Meh, wish I could edit the above post moaning about losing a 70/30, I really dislike reading that kind of stuff in poker blogs/ diaries.

No more posting in the direct aftermath of a bust out!

Would be interested to hear peoples views on this hand.

5 handed about 9/10 left. We have 120k at the start of the hand UTG+1

We have  , blinds 2.5k/5k

We min raise to 10K, BB defends (pot 22500)

Flop 

We bet 8765, he reraises to 28780. We ??

He has us covered just. He is a bit of a loose cannon,  3 xes his entire range pre flop, and is folding to 3 bet jams, that kind of thing.

I just jammed, if he has Ace 5, 56 gl to him. And don't expect he's ever got 44 from the sizing.

Hi Kev,

You can edit posts, but I think there is a time limit, maybe an hour, I'm not sure.

[shipitgood]

Tuesday saw a bit of silliness

Last night there was this player on my table, just a pure gambler. He was saying how he had just finished his shift, 4 days on 4 off, 12 hour shifts. He was having a few drinks.

He donated well over £140 to me in really bad spots and  just kept reloading.

It's  a shame for folk like that, but of course it's their choice to "gamble" but still got to feel for them.

These are the scores on the doors with Lambert in the prop bet, http://gyazo.com/76725aa7f3de0c9fdfade3d69f6a107a

Not long to go now Paul!   

[shipitgood]

Really enjoyed the EPT show last night. It was a bit of dejavu, I had seen the FT before, not to sure if it was a repeat or maybe I had just seen it in hightlights from the EPT Live Stream. Also pretty sure Jake Cody's call against Kevin McPhee with JQ suited had been discussed on here.

The new Mad Max film looks awesome can't wait to see it!



Growing up it was one of my favourite set of films, along with stuff like Terminator, James Bond (of course!) and Indiana Jones.

Pretty sure I wanted to be Indiana Jones when I was a kid, now it's work and poker on the side!

[shipitgood]

Evening blonde!

It really isn't good posting at this time  lol

My Aunt was in hospital last week for an infection, her immune system is severely reduced cause of the cancer. She got out of hospital last Monday, but still has the infection. You wouldn't think such a minor thing as an infection would be serious, but with a reduced immune system it seems pretty bad. She is spending a lot more time in bed, struggling to walk unsupported, it is a real shame. But through out the last two months up until now she has been fantastic, hopefully the infection can be cured and she can restore some of her strength to get a bit more time.

It's secondary cancer, she originally had breast cancer  a couple of years ago, all seemed to be cured, but then the secondary cancer came back in her liver.

At that time me and slipwater from Sky did a 24 hour "pokerthon" to raise money for Cancer Research, we played on a 2/4nl table for 24hours! It was really good and well supported with over 1k being raised for the charity. So many people were so generous and kind it was awe inspiring.

I kinda wanted to do something today to raise a bit of money for the charity donating a % of my winnings in mtts to cr, unfortunately I ran terrible.

Will maybe think about getting something organised relating to poker in the next wee while.

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Ran bad extended to every game I played including the mayhem game, which was really sigh, but still got 3 days to go to wrap it up. As of today I was top, winner gets a package to Lasvegas for about 3.6k

This is the leaderboard, hopefully still top come Sunday!

1st LARSON7 19 £3,200 Viva Las Vegas Package 
2nd TimmyRaRa 19 £500
3rd ubeenpwned 17 £250
4th anyone 16 £150
5th DrewMcRobb 14 £100
6th TheDart 13