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« Reply #165 on: May 22, 2015, 10:17:05 PM »

Good Luck mate, I hope you stay top of the leader board! Sure you will go get them bounties!
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« Reply #166 on: May 23, 2015, 02:06:07 PM »

Thanks, I wil still top yesterday, but havn't got any bounties the last 2 days. It's getting really close at the top, suspect I may have dropped down to 2nd or lower now.

But there is still 2 days to go and all to play for!

I had a look at it last night, there isn't really anything I could have done different in the last 2 games, it's just one of those where the cards weren't in my favour.

Looking forward to the last couple of days and hopefully can get some run good in these games.
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« Reply #167 on: May 23, 2015, 04:04:52 PM »

Do you play live much? Where is you local?
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« Reply #168 on: May 28, 2015, 02:14:56 AM »

Glasgow mate, and no not a lot!

Probs going in this weekend. Indiana Jones then pokers Grin

All this talk of vegas everywhere is making me want to go lol but probs wont be over the summer.

Missed out in the Mayhem games I ended up coming 5th, last 4 games I bricked absolutely everything.

And boooom got jeevsey back, gotta love the Jeeves.
 
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« Reply #169 on: May 28, 2015, 02:20:28 AM »

... I was going to go to Vegas in Matt Bates suitcase till we realised it was too small Sad

He only went and won a 10K main event package. Well done sir!

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« Reply #170 on: June 01, 2015, 12:42:18 AM »

Went to see the mad max film on Friday, it was really good, if you enjoyed the originals you definatly need to see it. It was action packed from start to finish and contained all the best elements of the originals retaining it's unique character. Mad Max making his way in this surreal post apocalyptic world. Story was a bit sketchy by comparison to the originals and there was quite  a bit of ambiguity, like at the end of the film. But overall was an excellent film and defo a must me!

Poker has been a bit surreal this month, especially tonight.

The start of the month was excellent, it dipped mid way through, and the last week has been awesome. If it was to be shown in a graph it would be a massive spike, period of stagnation / slight increase followed by another decent spike.

I won 5 Mtt's during May, including one tonight, nothing big like the mains, but still really pleased with that.

Today has been a really interesting one to finish the month.

It's split into 3, The Good the Bad and the Unknown

The good was defo winning the 7:45 £11 BH for just under £300.

The bad, yeah this was pretty bad. It was the Roller. I'm not at all happy with how I played in this tonight. You know when you play and you just know you are playing shit. It happens so much, like you don't play your A game, but overall even your B game, you are still going to do ok. I don't even think I was on my Z game. The 1st hour was all really standard stuff, I had to fold pocket kings on the river, versus the nut worse run out against a guy who doesn't fold pre and was never bluffing on the river, there was a straight/ flush on the board. At the end of the 1st hour I was down to 8k from the 10 k starting stack. Within 5 minutes of the 2nd hour I had doubled to 16k. That was as good as it got. Ran a dumb bluff, when I called certain hand on the button. Then I called someone OTR with 2nd top pair, even though it was a clear fold. Then my exit hand was just ridiculous, I check jammed the river when a flush came in, I shouldn't even have been in the hand beyond the flop, and the guy snapped with KQ, Q high board. It was really poor by me.

Normally if i'm playing bad it reflects on all tables, but thankfully I seemed to be playing decent in the other MTT.

In saying all the stuff above, I would say generally I ran pretty bad in the roller. On a more positive note, I learned an important lesson from this game.

All that sounds negative, but it's just frustrating when you play badly, or more importantly play certain spots badly. But with poker it's inevitably going to happen at times.

The Unknown

This is a kinda cool sweat. Sky has been running these freerolls through out May, over 7 days. Who ever knocks out the most players during the 7 days, Mon- Sunday, wins a vegas package, 2nd place gets £500. Last week after 4 days I was leading the leaderboard and pretty much bricked the last 3 days.

Tonight I was sitting on 18 bounties, top of the leaderboard had 23. After tonight I reckon i'm up to 25 bounties, I won't know till tomorrow how every1 else done, but atleast I get to sweat it overnight! With a bit of luck in with a chance of finishing in no1 spot. Even getting 2nd would be pretty awesome.





   
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« Reply #171 on: June 01, 2015, 12:48:29 AM »

That could be a good remake, The Good The Bad and the Unknown.

Not to sure what genre it would be, Western? Horror? Horror Western?


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« Reply #172 on: June 01, 2015, 03:20:03 PM »

I ended up coming 2nd

1st ubeenpwned 27 £3,200 Viva Las Vegas Package
2nd  25 £500

£500 is nice, but was a sick jump between 1st and 2nd!

 
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« Reply #173 on: June 04, 2015, 01:37:33 PM »

I ended up coming 2nd

1st ubeenpwned 27 £3,200 Viva Las Vegas Package
2nd  25 £500

£500 is nice, but was a sick jump between 1st and 2nd!

 

ul but nice consolation, keep crushing pal
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« Reply #174 on: June 07, 2015, 12:01:29 PM »

I went up  to the unibet open party on Friday night and ended up playing some cash, it was 200nl.

I sat down with 200£, there was 1 player with - £500, 2 on close to £200 stacks and the rest had <£140 stacks.

The table was really talkative, everything was having a good time. To my left was a Scottish player, he seemed decent and had a good understanding of poker. Then there was 2 Dutch friends, one playing the UNibet Open, he had satted in and his friend who had come along with him for the few days in Glasgow. Then there was an American guy, he proceeded to lose atleast £500, reloading for £50 and losing it every time. There was another unibet open qualifier on the table who played 2 hands all night, the rest of the seats came and went.

There was a fun hand later on, guy limps, Button raises to £8, I 3 bet to £23 from the sb, the limper calls the 3 bet, and button 4 bet jammed I sheepishly went to muck my hand and accidentally my cards got flicked over, every1 was laughing when they seen my hand and it would have an impact on later play, it wasn't the best of hands. Limper had 88, 4 better had ace 7, 88s held.

Yeah after that hand Scottish guy who had position on me called every single raise I made in late position lol It was fun, thankfully he never started 4 betting, unless he had it, everyone was very honest with their betting.

I made a mistake imo in one hand, I've posted it up in PHA, I never bet the river, i feel it is a bet.

I made about £100 from the session, about 3 hours, which isn't bad considering I was down after the 1st 2 hands I played.

I really enjoyed it, it's the best experience I've had playing live. Everyone at the table was talking and having a good time, previously when I've played no1 really communicated outside of a silly argument.

Online poker is just repetitive and almost mechanical now-adays, I do still enjoy it but that few hours playing live was the best fun I've had playing poker this year.



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« Reply #175 on: June 07, 2015, 12:16:30 PM »

Going to watch the England game then going out for lunch / dinner(!) @3.

Tonight i'm playing the roller plus 2/3 other MTT's, it'll be pretty chilled out and i'll always seem to do well when i'm not playing 2 many tables, so really looking forward to tonight, plus it's the 1st time I've played online since Thursday.

I'll do a write up on the Unibet open in the next day or 2 and live mtts in general, then i'll give this blog a rest for the next few months. Also during the vegas season there'll be plenty to read from all the vegas threads/ staking threads. There won't be much to say, the summer is here, games will be slower and tougher than over the previous few months (cash). May well end up playing more live cash over the summer months.
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« Reply #176 on: June 11, 2015, 05:11:53 PM »

Really enjoyed the unibet open.

It worked out really well at the start, the table was 5/6 handed for a long while, which was ideal.

9 handed is so slow.

With live mtt's, there isn't a great amount in Scotland, outside of £30-£50 casino games. If I lived near Nottingham I would defo play more live tournaments.

What I might do is just play any of the Tour Games that come up to Glasgow/ Edinburgh with a buy in of £100-£500.

The more expensive ones I'll maybe look at playing Sats to get into them. Just overall, I think it'll be difficult making money from live MTT's, just the fact they are so few and far between, 1 MTT takes up a good few days, in saying that I expect they will mostly be pretty soft.

Quite a few folk have been asking if i'm going to the £550 UKPC in August. At the moment I don't have any plans too, like it's not just the cost of the tournament, i'll be paying for accommodation/ travel food (drink!) and before you know it you have spent well over £1k.

I'll decide nearer the time.

The next couple of months will be really standard so won't have much to say on here.

Have a good summer everyone!


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« Reply #177 on: June 21, 2015, 04:45:59 PM »

The last 13 days have been really bad for MTTs, pretty much since I played in the Unibet Open.

June has been a really good month, I've only had 3 losing days so far, but with MTT's just nothings been happening and cash has saved me on pretty much every day.

I have played loads of games over this time and only FTed one game.

The variance in these games is really low, they are low buyin, there are 100-150 runners on avg and the standard is pretty low.

It's not like stars where there is 1000s of runner fields where variance would be massive.

I don't think i'm doing anything 2 differently to what I've done previously. I don't even think I've ran particularly bad as in getting coolered, there has been a couple, but nothing massive.

Although, there definatly has been spells where I have been card dead and just couldn't get anything going. It's the worst run I've had at MTTs this year.

I really think variance is over hyped in these types of games I play, I most likely havnt been playing my best.

I spoke to a mate about it last night, he suggested doing a review session to see if I am butchering things, so will be doing that after my next MTT session with a few folk to get other peoples opinions.

If you play MTTs regularly, what kind of stuff to do you do when reviewing hands, like use any software/ programmes, or just talk it over with friends?

It has been a bit frustrating this run in mtts, but it happens, the next time i'm playing a session, i'll just be looking at playing my best and can review the games after to see if I've started doing stuff differently or just generally look for leaks.


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« Reply #178 on: June 28, 2015, 01:13:55 PM »

A week since the last post, nothing has changed with tournaments, I've kept losing in everyone I've been playing.

Pretty much not done anything in any game I've played in the last 3 weeks.

Maybe a 1/3rd of this has been spew or silly play, not fancy play syndrome, silly play syndrome:)

I've  defo underestimated variance in not-many-runner MTTs  though.

The other thing that hasn't helped has been playing so much at cash, tournaments were just an aside.

It's a strange one when people talk about variance, if it's a friend or someone you know you feel bad for them, if it's just a moany / whiney person, you are totally apathetic.

The biggest part of "variance" for me over the last period for tournaments, yes there has been coolers, but mostly it's been prolonged spells of being card dead/ not having many decent spots at all.

I won't be playing much again in June after tonight. I'm just going to play the roller plus 2 other MTT's, so only 3 mtts. I'm really looking forward to it, not many tables, so will be able to focus on every decision, really breaking down how everyone at the table is playing.





   
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« Reply #179 on: June 28, 2015, 01:37:59 PM »

Another thing, in loads of MTT hand's, I've been like a bull in a china shop. Like silly play syndrome but not as extreme.

I've just been totally wrong in a lot of spots. One of the things i'm best at with poker is hand reading and putting players on really tight ranges.

This has been really lacking in the last 3 weeks. Intuition/ Feel just hasn't been there. I've been taking lines I shouldn't have been because I had insufficient information, or no read at all.

I've probably been pretty reckless.


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