Joined: Nov '12
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G'day mate
Well when your right you are right. It is sad but over 95% of poker players do not even want to hear about bankroll management. Never mind trying to work within its confines. I have fallen prey to this myself from time to time. Going to make a real go of it in 2014 best wishes be cool
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Most people just get bored with small money grinding on the micro stakes. Especially on 0.01/0.02NL tables whereas 0.05/0.10NL ones are when things get better, but eventually you will get enough roll to get to those tables. You just have to wait.
Joined: Nov '12
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G'day mate
Well I hope your day is going better than mine. The down swing has continued yet again. taking a little break will go back at it later. best wishes to you. be cool
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Well I had a day off yesterday as had no desire to play but just started a session now and already £1 up after I bet out on the flop as I had a flush draw and hit on the river. Set me up nicely to fool people into thinking I didnt have one. Hoping to have a good session and profit so will see.
First loss and flush/straight draw chase already. Nice.
F**king nice. Four hands and two flush chasers hit rivers against me. Variance and odds mean f**k all. That saying about hitting a flush once every so often is bull. Down £4. Nice. What makes it even worse is I flopped a straight. Go figure.
What a start to the night. Flop two pair and check as theres four other people on the table hoping to check raise and everyone checks and a 2 comes out on the turn. Who calls massive raises OOP with 22 as he hit a set of twos. F**king sick so far and £10 down. Awesome session so far. When I have a massive hand the fish always check or fold, when when I have a TPTK or whatever they chase and call everything.
------------ This game is officially a cunt now. Get KK and get a Q high flop so guy with QJ oop(Who called my massive reraise) calls me down all streets, by the river its a massive pot and guess what rivers...a f**king Q. Awesome. So after going back up to £17 after playing well I get river f**ked over again. This game is out for my bankroll so it can f**king have it
------------ So I cant even get value or make any proper profit without donking it seems. F**k you ladbrokes
------------ And now some f**king cunts call me down with Q6 on a 345 board and guess what f**king rivers a Q. Nice down to my last £5 SO F**KED OFF F**K OFF YOU CUNNNNNNNNNNTS everyone lucks against me f**ki durfffffffffffffffffffffg1p3rjfk'p1mefm
------------ River river on the wall whos the biggest cunt of them all
------------ Funnily enough my only proper win tonight has come from hitting a lucky set on the turn by seeing if this guy was bluffing all my illegitimate hands have been chased and crushed every time.
------------ Dropped back down to the bottom stakes again and used my 600 points I saved up for another £4 so I can start again. Going to deposite £10 tomorrow and take advantage of a 200% bonus as Ladbrokes is moving to Ipoker and see if I can make some of this money back,
Joined: Nov '12
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G'day mate
Damn I was very sad to read about the crappy session. I just finished a 3 hour tour of the insides of my eyelids. The nap was just what I needed, a nice calming nap. Going to play a session later. wishing you all the best be cool
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Yeah. it's been weird. I have been getting my money in good against them every time but they still suckout against me. With both QQ's I just folded them as it was obvious he called with low cards every time so a no brainer.
Ladbrokes has gone to Ipoker now. Not really happy as Ipoker as I hate it but so far I am up $3. They have abolished £ for $ and Euro and being able to upload your own avatar picture instead having a few to choose...lame. I hate Ipoker. My VIP status has been re-started and it is different and I have a $19 bonus which I can unlock in installments. A nice software and feel could do wonders so I will see how I get on. I miss the old Ladbrokes already.
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G'day mates
Well lets hope the new changes turn out to be good ones. I understand that being forced to change sucks. wishing you the best as always merry xmas be cool
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Well you have seen first hand how I get sucked out on now, but my bankroll is okay at the moment. Now there is no £ I have to play with $ which means I don't win as much when I win. I am $2.30 up so far but thats just over a £1 for me.
How are you doing in the home game?
------------ Been having an up and down session. Was down quite a bit but won back quite a bit. Suffered two bad beats as well. Flopped two pair and calling down the guy in front he turns a better two pair. Second one got my AK cracked by a 9 on the river, and it was a massive pot too. Should be on about £35 by now but as usual people keep lucking out against me. Currently on £19.50.
------------ Would like to just have a session without massive pot beats for once. its all getting too sickening lately.
------------ That is it for tonight. I finish the night off with a decent session. Highlight was calling two people before me with AJo and flopping a set of jacks. Guy before me had QJs. So just called him down and he donked all his chips off on the river.
Getting used to Ipoker know and its alright so far.
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G'day mate
Just dropped in to say hello and wish you all the best. Well I got taken out of the Xmas game fairly early and choose not to do a rebuy. It was a legitamit hand my Ace King suited against pocket Aces if memory serves. It was nice to see Aces hold up. best wishes be cool
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At least you lasted longer than me. Damn pocket queens.
Have you been playing with your roll again yet?
------------ Just had a great hour session playing on a $0.02/$0.05 speed poker table. Started with $5 and finished just slightly over $19; three times my buying. Sadly $19 is about £12 but its still a good amount to finish on. Had a 52% winning on showdown stat too which was nice.
Highlights include flopping set of kings whereas the person below me flopped a set of queens, a pre flop coin flip between my KK and someone else's KK. I also had AKs UTG and called somones 3x raise and flopped a draw so bet out a Cbet and hit it on the turn. Continued to slow play Cbet the turn and on the the river I raised the other guy for about 60% of his remaining buying and he kicked off saying it was a sick bluff and folded. Shame, he should have called.
I found that table to be very soft and I opened up my range more than usual and could make profit from people folding to a x3 raise with most cards. 60% of my bluffs paid off too. Even cracked KK twice which was awesome.
Bankroll: £42.65
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Joined: Nov '12
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G'day mate
Very glad to see things have turned in your favor again. Hope you continue to find success wishing you all the best will be playing some poker myself later merry xmas be cool
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G'day mate
From your lips to the poker Gods eyes mate. The downswing started on Friday the 13th and is on going. going to play another session later today we shall see be cool
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How did your session go?
Not played any poker yesterday so just going to have a quick session in a minute before I go to bed. Any sort of profit will do.
Edit:
Great start already and I have not even played a game or hand yet. When I last left it I had £42 bankroll but logged on and found £47 in there. This might be from the old Ladbrokes site where for every 100 points you get a £. I also recieved an email after I deposited £6 a few days ago and they are giving me four tokens for four new depositor freerolls and a special weekly one too, so plenty of chance to make some free money soon. Now to actually play...
------------ Woops! I just played a five hour session and its way past my bedtime now. So addicting. Its just gone 5:15am and I will be woken up around 9.10am.
Had a weird session. I started winning, then lost a bit, then got my bankroll up to £60 then I started getting really cocky and arrogant and stupid and lost down to £33 pretending I was some amazinf poker pro who could bluff everyone. I then started playing properly again and now my bankroll is on £57.90. £10 proft so not bad at all. Slowly getting there.
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Well final results is OK but keep in mind you re not a poker pro who can bluff everyone away.
In micro stakes the most important rule is .... avoid bluffing unless you know your opponent very well as most players there will not fold when they have highest pair on the board.
be allert ---> losing 27 pounds in a few hours ---> no good bankrollmanagement
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I was just drunk and being an idiot. Was on a bigger stake.
I just withdraw £16 of my bankroll. That is the money I have deposited this month so everything I earn now is fee money, plus I have not withdrawn any bankroll for a while so wanted to so it wasent a waste of grinding for this last month. Still on £41 so have more then enough.
Just being doing well as was £3 up then the super suckout happened. Flopped a flush with QJ and min cbet the flop and the other who who had position on me raise so I 3 bet him then he went all in so obviously called. he turned over AK and his ace was suited(Of course) and the turn and river both gave the flush cards needed. Such a sick set up.
Also having a problem with premium pocket pairs lately too as in people always fold before it gets to me or if I bet firist(x3 or even smaller) they still fold. Makes it hard to get some value and profit out of them.
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He had one ace with a heart and K with a different suit. There were three hearts on the flop. And after my 3 bet to his re-raise he pushed all in and a heart came down on the turn and river.
Think the doom switch has been turned on since I withdrew. Had JJ cracked twice by fish calling with A-rag, and a few chasers. Standard poker so it happens.
Finally had a two callers when I had AA. One was chasing a flush and one had a set of fours. Always fucks me over when I have over cards. Fucking typical s**t happening now because I withdraw. Nice. My QQ gets cracked by a fish calling me down with K7 and spikes a king on the flop. Start the session playing well then the suckouts and s**t happens. Nevermind.
------------ Variance finally shined back on my shadow. The suck-outs stopped and regained playing as well as I could as I recouped my big losses and to finish officially £2 up. I call that a big successful session after being down quite a few BI's. Trying to keep calm after those suckouts was the key I believe otherwise I would have started spewing.
Now I am logging off to have a break as I have a freeroll in two hours and to chill out eating lovely xmas food
Bankroll: £43.67
------------ Just playing one micro stakes cash table as I play the freeroll. Just flopped a set of sixes and got into a 3 way betting with two other people for once when I had a set. Usually people fold after a 3 bet or calling them down. One guy turns over KK and another A6. KK spikes a third K on the turn. Bah. I never win sets these days with a big pot.
On the plus side I am £2 up still so every little helps.
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Merry Xmas to you as well my friend. Are you still on a break?
Why is it every time I have a smaller pocket pair On the button or in position someone always has a high pocket pair. It's getting boring now. It's like a set up poker sites like to do.
Oh look. premium pocket pair cracked by someone chasing a gutshot straight again. Great odds to hit that 9. Getting annoyed. My QQ to AA either makes people fold so easy or people crack them with shite or chasing miracle one or two outta cards.
Edit:
Doing well on cash tables but bloody sucking in freerolls today. Had someone donk so I called with AKs. He flips over J9s. Can you guess who won? Coin flips hate me.
