Joined: May '13
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 37 (M)
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I have had a bad then good then bad then good night tonight. For the first hour I was getting no decent hands on the flop and I even had AK 5 times in the space of 20 minutes on one table and never hit a A or K. At one point I was down to £18 but I have just finished on £30, and now bed as its 6am in the morning. This finally took me over break even and I am now £4 up on my poker tracker. officially £25 up so it is all good. Now I have enough BR to move up to 2/4NL but I am going to grind to £40 like I said just to be safe.
I also want to fix that -£6 on that 1/2NL 9 seater table so I don't have any bad states for 1/2nl before I take the next step. Stats updated below and its nice to see the graph finally go above the break even line. This time next year i'll be a millionaire!
Joined: May '13
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 37 (M)
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Been doing well since my last update. The bad beats and bad luck(Or maybe my bad play) have been nearly non existent as I slowly climb my Bankroll up. I now have £44 from my £5 bankroll start so I have more than enough to jump up to the next level but I don't know if I should seeing as I am finding 0.1/0.2NL easy and always making profit from my sessions.
You guys think it is time for me to move to 0.2/0.4/NL now or stay where I am for a little while longer?
New stats update below and now £18 in the green from break even. Stats are looking good now:
There is also a decent freeroll on tonight for the last Ladbrokes social club with some decent prizes so I will be playing that see how well I can do after not playing in a MTT for a while.
Joined: May '13
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Been a good week for my grinding since my last update and I have rocketed up from +£18 to +£79. I have actually been running good as you can tell by the graph below apart from today where I ran bad for a while but I just managed to win it back just now. Add that to the MTT money I won last night I am sitting on a nice profit since my first deposite.
Deposited - £5 Bank Roll So Far - £161 Next Goal - To reach £200 then stay in the 0.5/0.10 stakes instead of occasionally trying it along with stakes below.
Stats looking great and I have improved in a lot of things, I am still an amateur though so with more practice, playing and reading up I can improve more and hopefully make more. Does anyone read this?
Stats looking great and I have improved in a lot of things, I am still an amateur though so with more practice, playing and reading up I can improve more and hopefully make more. Does anyone read this?
Just now read this; your graph looks pretty good, nice going...
One question; in only 16000 hands you've already moved up 2 levels. Are you not worried you're moving too fast? After all at the NL0.10 level it would only take one bad session to lose everything again.
Joined: May '13
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The two lower stakes I find easy and have been crushing them more than losing and find 0.5/0.10NL the same as the two stakes below to be honest(apart from bigger blinds and bets of course) and I have six successful sessions and one bad earlier due to some lucky donks and me not playing the two hands as well as I should have, so I have dabbled trying that stake out now and again so I think I can handle it even after losing £20 earlier and winning it back. I will however not been moving up to the next stake for a long time.
I have played many hands on stars and 888 so a bit more than just my Ladbrokes one above but if you or anyone has any tips or advice I am always happy to listen and digest it
Edit:
I actually use a medium stack stratergy on ever stake which involes only buying in with half the max buying and thus it makes me have a back up of 40x the times the buy in when I play so I am a bit more careful than you think as I dont want my hard work to be ruined.
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Been a weird two nights of table grinding but variance always weighs itself out. I played last night and was up to £190 after that and the night before but by the end of it I was back down to £168 due to a few bad beats and getting min raise trapped by AA. I then came back fresh tonight after having a cooling off period and after an hour I was back up to £184 but after that I started getting dry hands for a while and also when I finally got some hands I got two bad beat all in(Not pre flop coin flips) by both guys fishing and hitting their flushes on the river(Standard I said to myself but actually thought to myself variance I will get mine soon) and went back down to £166 then came two amazing hands where I won some big money in a row. First one brought me back up up to £176 then after that I caught a monster hand and won just over £33(I know I should have not called the 3bet but other times he has 3bet with rubbish so thought he was just trying to steal) so I am now up to £211.(After a few more small wins too) Variance, got to love it.
The hand below, both other guys unlucky was just thankful not straights hit:
** New Meadow [Hold'em] (0.05|0.10 NL - £ Cash Game seats:6 ) Real Money
- Phisix sitting in seat 1 with £26.48 at end £56.05 - tescoAAA sitting in seat 3 with £19.14 at end £0.00 [Dealer] - CINCIN sitting in seat 4 with £11.58 at end £0.00 - wulliemac84 sitting in seat 5 with £9.26 at end £9.16 - GreenWhite sitting in seat 6 with £10.00 at end £10.00
CINCIN posted the small blind - £0.05 wulliemac84 posted the big blind - £0.10 ** Dealing card to Phisix: 9 of d, 9 of c GreenWhite folded Phisix raised - £0.30 tescoAAA raised - £1.10 CINCIN called - £1.05 wulliemac84 folded Phisix called - £0.80 ** Dealing the flop: J of c, 8 of d, 9 of h CINCIN checked Phisix bet - £3.40 tescoAAA raised - £13.60 CINCIN went all-in - £10.48 Phisix raised - £20.40 tescoAAA went all-in - £4.44 Phisix returned - £5.76 Phisix shows: 9 of d, 9 of c tescoAAA shows: K of s, K of d CINCIN shows: 8 of s, 8 of h ** Dealing the turn: J of d ** Dealing the river: 6 of h Phisix wins £33.59 from the main pot Phisix wins £15.12 from side pot 1
Deposited - £5 Bank Roll So Far - £211 Next Goal - I guess grinding this stake for a long time until I improve my poker and have more than enough bank roll for the next step up(Any ideas on a next goal as not ready to move up and like it on this stake?) (Monthly win/lose overall - July( -£17 cash table) Aug - (+£158 Cash table /+£60 MTT)
So comparing last month and half of this month I have improved a lot in all stats, my poker and of course making money. Here is too another £200 by the end of the month
Joined: May '13
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Slowly grinding away since my last update(I need to play a few more hours) but I am still going up in profit since my last £211. I tried testing the stakes above the one I am now(0.10/0.20NL - 0.25/0.50NL) and I found them easy enough so my next big goal is to grind enough BR to move up to 0.25/0.50NL as you can make much more than I do down on 0.05/0.10NL.
I need to stop doing one of my biggest leaks which is thinking my smaller pocket pairs are enough or can turn into something too.
Deposited - £5 Bank Roll So Far - £276 Next Goal - £1000 BR for 0.25/0.50NL(Maybe £1500)
------------ saved it
------------ Just had a massive session and made £200 in one night by playing on higher stakes. I know I shouldnt but the players are really easy. here are my results below:
Deposited - £5 Bank Roll So Far - £430 Next Goal - £1000 BR for 0.25/0.50NL(Dabbling in that stake too)
What you think?
------------ Scratch that, I just got arse raped 4 times by AA, AA, then trip 55s and trip jjs. Cannot make a good hand and have lost like £60, this game can be cruel sometimes.
------------ And now smooth called by someone for a flush you cant make this shite up
------------ £100 down to traps and fucking luck in the last 30 mins. Nice one variance.
Joined: May '13
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Going to have a four day break as cannot take playing at the moment. Hopefully this will sort my head out and to work on everything. I may try a BRM bankrolls start up as well as depositing when I re-start as well as doing a new look goal set up in here.
Seeing the post above hurts so I will leave this thread now.
Joined: May '13
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Had a nice few days off and deposited a small £5 once again to try and turn it into another £400 profit, but already I am getting my ass kicked by the fish. Getting my AJs big raised call by two people with much lower rubbish cards and both flopped two pairs. Made a bit of profit but about five times they have hit with rubbish. It is micros though so I guess it will happen.
Other than that I am happy with my play so far though even though I should have known when two other people went all in before me when I had AJ they have had two crappy pairs of something lol.
Joined: May '13
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Another Bankroll nearly busto and as usual its my own fault. I start doing well in micros and then try and take some pot shots at 0.05/0.10NL Blaze(Zoom type game). I usually start doing well then the beats, fish and variance come into play and I lose. Then I try again wanting to win it back and I just keep getting variance thrown in my face. I think it must be Blaze and the super fast hands which means variance is even more than usual, especially for me.
I have about 2% of my BR left so I am not down and over yet but I need to stay away from this damn blaze until I have £100(20BI's) and not like 3BI's. I can play that stake fine but with such low BI's I am going to get busto all the time.
Joined: Nov '12
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G'day mate
Yes I actually do read your thread. Very sorry to hear that you nearly busted out your entire bank roll. Dude why do you keep playing zoom type tables? Did you not read my response to you before about 98% of zoom players being losing players on the zoom tables. I am part of that 98% for the record I lose every time I play on the zoom tables. Dude I do hope you can rebuild your bank roll. wishing you all the best be cool
