NOVEMBER POSTS
Nov 30, 2008 5:18 PM
November Roundup
from Donkey Thrasher by BurnleyMik
Novemeber was a yoyo month for me poker wise. I had to really work hard and grind the games. I always felt everytimei took a step forward, I come back three and then have to grind my way back ahead. It was hard work, but at the end my stats are not too bad.
I managed to hit Silver Star on Pokerstars.
I played 325 Tourneys in total on Stars. 21 of them were $6 18 player and then I stepped up to the $16, 18 player for the rest.
here are the stats:
ROI 12,4%
ITM 26.8%
TOTAL PROFIT: $621
So not too bad, but could have been much better. I also filterred my results to find out when multi-tabling, how many tables were the most profitable for me and the result was 10 tables. For some strange reason, 7 tables was when I lost money..lol. Best day was 27th November when I won $271 and worst day was 14th November when I was down $144!
I also played a few games on Party and a few game on iPoker. For some reason Tourney Manager is not importing my Party tourney info and neither is sharskope, which is a bit of a bitch, but I know I deposited $250 to play the $10 sng’s, not sure how many I played, but I reckon between 25-50, but my balance is $239, so i am down $11. The games were soft as crap, but the new software was messing with my PT3 HUD and for some reason, even though I created and saved a layout, the wrong stats kept appearing under the wrong people. It was only after a few shoves into spaz’s, that I thought were rocks, that I realised. Still don;t know why it won;t work, maybe I need to switch back to the old tables.
On iPoker, I played about 6 tourneys and lost all 6.. lol. down $60. I stopped playing immediately when my aces got bust in two tourneys and i ran like shat. iPoker definately has my doomswitch on. I ran like that in the cash games too.
I might withdraw the money from iPoker again, but no clue where to go with it yet.
So all in all, not a bad month. Another month of profit is always good and an improvement on last months profit of $447, but then again that was at the $6 level.
I am not planning on moving up again this month, the games at this level are soft enough for me to grind out for a while yet. i get the feeling that if I move up I am going to run into many more solid regs, which is just too -EV to be worth the hassle.
I will keep playing Party, but no where near the volume I will be putting in at stars. Possibly aim for maybe 50-75 tourneys there in December. Also want to try and maintain silver star status at Stars. Finally, I want to do well in the Stars !”run good” competition and get a cash in the Stars BOP’s promotion. Well fingers crossed.
Hope you ran good and do so next month
atb
BM
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Nov 28, 2008 7:45 PM
Regrouping and recouping baby!
from Donkey Thrasher by BurnleyMik
Thank christ! I finally seem to be out of my horrible downswong.
Played a long session on Stars last night and did well. One thing I did notice was i was just determined to not let the beats get to me and for once i didn;t. it started off bad with AA getting doen over by AA AIPF, but I just moved on.. I also stepped up from 8 to 10 tables and I think that might have helped me too. It did feel good though when my luck started to turn and my hands started to hold and even better.. I got a few suckouts! SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIP!
Its amazing the power that poker has over your mood. I run good, i feel good and feel like i am playing good, but when i run bad, my mood is bad and my confidence goes down the swanny. I also lose motivation for the game. Fortunately now I am in the good mood..so SHIIIIP IIIT!
Just got to get 72 more point for silver status on stars this month. So ship that!
Finally an up beat post.
Right come on stars, let me run goot two days in a row… one timeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
BurnleyMik
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Nov 26, 2008 10:24 AM
**BEWARE** Tilt Post
from Donkey Thrasher by BurnleyMik
I can do absolutely Fuck all right at the moment in these tourneys. Here are my bustout hands as they happened in order:
$15+1 on Stars - Getting short, 8 BB’s I shove AsTs on the button,on the bubble, with 5 left. A9o and 8s7s both call. Board comes 4s 3c 2s, Jc, 8h. I miss every out. gg me.
$15+1 on Stars - Guy mini raises from CO, I shove him from SB with Ako. He has QQ. I get no help GG me.
$15+1 on Stars - I open push AQo with 8 BB’s from the Button. SB insta calls and has AK. I get no help. gg me.
$15+1 on stars - I get it in vs a tilting maniac. 6 players leftand he just lost a big potwith hisAQ vs KJ. Next hand he is in SB and I am in BB. I have KdTd and we see a flop of 6h Td 5c. He open pushes the rest of his stack. I make the easy call. H has Th 7h. I have him in bad shape. Turn is 7s for his two fkin pair, river is 6d. gg me. FFS.
$15+1 on stars - Getting short,with 9 BB’s (5 handed befre tables break to FT). I make an UTG push with KTs, big stackmakes a quick call with 88. 6d8c6s7h4s. Another race lost.
$15+1 on stars - My mistake in this one. Loose player raises CO. I shove button for 16 BB’s with AJs. He was raising 26% of his hands,figured AJ was well ahead of his raising range. He actually had AK..lol. gg me.
$15+1 on Stars - I have 11 BB’s left at the 50/100 level. I am in the MP2 with QhQs. UTG+1 mini raises to 200 and MP1 flat calls. So I take my time and then blast with the Q’s. It folds back to UTG+1 who calls and so does MP1. UTG+1 flips 44 for his stack and MP1 KcQc (lolol. wtf? with two allins before?) I am in great shape, until the final board is 9c 9h Ks 3c Kh. Oh nice. The wanker wins and i lose AGAIN.gg me.
$15+1 Stars - Weak player limps UTG+1, 7 handed on FT. Blinds are 300/600. I am in CO with A9o and 4k in chips, so I push. Everyone folds to weak player who quickly calls with Td Qs. Board is Th Kc 5s 8s Ks. Sigh. GG me.
That was my set of Stars games last night. I mean WTF can I do. I lose very race, run big hands into monsters and lose every showdwon.
Here is how my Party set went:
$10+1 Stt. - Blinds at 100/200. A shorty pushes all in with 1100 chips. Imoves over the top for 2100 chips to isolate with JcJd. Maniac big stack in SB calls. Shorty has Kc6h and maniac has the mighty 8sQs..lol. Board comes 4s 9h Qh Tc 6d. I am no longer laughing. gg me. Another donkey takes my chips.
$10+1 Stt. No bad beat here, just a setup. 8 BB’s, i shove A3o from SB into BB. He wakes up with QQ. gg me.
$10+1 STT - Again, standard setup. I manage to finally make the money in one and then three handed shove A9o right into BB’s Aks. Where’s my suckout? exactly. gg me.
$10+1 STT - I raise UTG+1 with Ah Kh to 600, at the 100/200 level. A guy in MP, who was a total idiot playing over 54% of his hands mini raises me to 1k. I put my last 1800 chips into the middle and he quickly calls. He shows Ad Js lol. Board comes As, 3c 3s 9s 4s. His fkin Js makes him the flush and again I bust to a total fkin nugget. gg me.
$10+1 - I got HU and shoved A9.He had a 3:1CL and called with the almighty T3o. Of course he flops a 3 and its gg me.
You want more? I thought not, but how can this not drain your confidence? I really am losing the urge to play at all, as I just start to feel I can;t win. Ikid you not, these are the games, as played yesterday. They are in order of bust out. TBH though this is how my last few sessions everywhere have gone. Maybe I am doing something wrong, but I can;t see what. All I know is I need to get my money in good and with the goods. I do and I lose. Whats the point.
/rant
Not sure where to go from here TBH.
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Nov 25, 2008 2:41 PM
Moving things about
from Donkey Thrasher by BurnleyMik
After 3 continuos bad beat and bad luck sessions on stars, I started moving the roll around. I deposited some on Party and some on iPoker. I have to admit the standard on both is worse than horrific! So few players have any clue of what they are supposed to do. I am only rolled for the $10 games on both ATM, but plan on putting in some volume to find out which is the juiciest.
I have to admit I find multi-tabling, with overlap very difficult on iPoker as the table with the action doesn;t pop to the front.I must have timed out about fifty hands and it tilted the shit out of me. I also ran like a one-legged donkey on there. Getting AA twice and cracked both times. Interestingly enough, I checked PT3 and found that iPoker is the worst place for me to get AA. It has only won 76% of the time I have gotten it, in comparrisson to Stars, where is has won 91% of the time. Strange eh? In fact according to PT3 QQ/AKs/AQo and JJ all have a higher win percentage than AA. Morale of the story? Fold aces on iPoker!
I am quite enjoying the new party tales now i am getting into them. I admit they are mega juicy and full of idiot calling stations, which is sweet. I am still trying to figure out if I prefer the cascading or tiling of tables when I ply there. I just think things get a bit too small and cluttered if you start shrinking those tables.
Sunday night Iplayed someMTT’sfor the first time in Ages. I also qualified for the SM, unfortunately KK is not as good as TT and my final shove with K5o was called by some mug with Q8..lol. gg me. I got deep in the $11 $15k on Stars and also very deep in the new double duece on Full Tilt. Unfortunately both were for just small cashes. I bummed outof the 100k early, how does anyone get deep in that donkfest? Also played the two daily doules on FTP and didn’t do much in either. Enjoyed being able to have sometime to play MTT’s hough. Made a nice change.
Maybe I will get timeto play some more this week?Fingers crossed.
gl and ATB
BM
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Nov 19, 2008 8:29 PM
Tough old game for sure!
from Donkey Thrasher by BurnleyMik
Well, I am still grinding the $16 SnG’s on Stars. I have been a bit busy recently to really squeeze the volume in, but I have played something like 200 SnG’s this month and TBH I am extremely dissapointed at my current ROI, which is about 8.6%. I felt I have been playing fairly well and my recent addidtion of using the PT3 HUD (as suggested by Longy) has definately helped me to stop shoving into the spazzy players and so technically should be reducing the variance. I KNOW I am due a good run soon, as I’m certain my luck has been way below the EV. AA cracked by AJ again last night.. of course he makes a straight on the river six handed! lol. This game can really make me a bitter guy sometimes!
I still have one major problem though… berating the fish. Its really really stupid, but I go on crazy monkey tilt if I get smacked by a few beats or setups and then I try to go back to abuse the prick who just isolated my re raise with K9 vs my AQ and he hits a K. This is costing me on more than one level. Firstly, it just helps build up my anger and secondly I am losing concentration on my other tables. I can’t get it into my head that i WANT these complete pillocks at my tables. I WANT them making stupid fucking calls. What I don;t want though is for them to keep busting me out!! I just want my hands to hold sometimes. I get so annoyed when “another donkey makes a bad call and wins” (which is something I type often), but in reality I should just make a quick note and move on, but I can;t. These guys are affecting my bottom line. Everytime i don;t cash, my ROI and total profit is affected and lets be honest, I am a results orientated player. I think this is actually a leak in my game. I am letting things get to me fairly easily. Even though i have over 100 buy-ins for the games I play, I still get pissed if I go on bad-uns. I need to find a way to control this monkey-tilt. Advice accepted.
I have recently been coming accross players who have superb ROI’s and total profits, playing the same levels as me. Watching their game and checking their stats, they play a very similar game to me, so i find it a bit hard to comprehend how they have such high ROI’s. Are they just luckier than me? Possibly. Are they just better than me? Definately. I think I really need to study SnGWiz harder because I am sure there must be fundamental mistakes I am making.
I noticed Acornman, is a member of SnGIcons and I was wondering what that site was like. Anyone any ideas?
Anyways, i am gonna continue to grind and hit Silver Stars on Stars this month. Nothing special, but I’ll give it a shot and see if i can play some of those freerolls. I just hope I can finally run good one time.
Gl at the felt and ty for reading.
BM
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Nov 12, 2008 10:25 PM
WTF???
from Donkey Thrasher by BurnleyMik
Its been two days and I finally have been able to get back onto Pokerstars! I tried everything, but something was blocking my connections. I turned off Windows firewall and Norton Firewall and still I couldn;t connect. I started to worry I had picked up a virus.
Once I had downloaded the latest stars update, I could no longer connect. I posted on the forum and found a guy with the same issue. I eventually dropped him a PM and he explained it was a problem with Norton Firewall, so I uninstalled, re-installed and renewed my subscription and then ker-ching, we are back on line!
So I have hardly been able to play a friggin game!
I did manage a bit of 8-tabling on Full Tilt, playing 4 tables of the old $6 games and one $22 Matrix. Ended up second in the matrix game, winning a table, a second and a fourth, I lost to the lucky MF you have ever seen too! grrr.
So i did manage a small profit, but the games took forever to fill. Definately not as busy as stars.
Last week I managed more games on Stars and improved my ROI a little. I think its somewhere around 14% now, so not too dis-heartened. Hopefully I can knock some more out soon and build on that.
I am still bemused by the amount of rake charged on a SnG. How can they charge say, 7.5% on a game that takes no longer than an hour? When you pay the same rake on an MTT and they can last for hours. If you are knocking out a lot of SnG’s you are paying a disgusting amount of rake to the sites. IMO, its about time one of them took the initiative and started being much more reasonable, somthing like 2-2.5% would be much fairer. I am sure they would nail the SnG market if they did.
I don;t really know what it is in comparrison on a cash table, but if I knock out 12 tables per hour (often many more simply due to busting early in some) thats $12 per hour in rake minimum, thats gotta be destroying your bottom line as a grinder and making it much harder to be a winner. What levels are you playing at to be paying the equivalent in rake at a cash game? Maybe its time to petition the sites or one of the sites to see if they will take any notice. Maybe they should create a maximum rake charge per hour, similar to max rake per hand?
Just thinking out loud, but it would be nice if they stopped being so damned greedy and looked at it from a players’ perspective.
Thats all for now.
/rant
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Nov 6, 2008 12:57 AM
Stepped up, but struggled.
from Donkey Thrasher by BurnleyMik
As the title says.
I stepped up from the $6.50 SnG’s to the $16.50 SnG’s on Pokerstars this week and although it’s still littered with donkeys, there are many more solid regs, which reduces your EV for sure.
To help my quest i tried to download the trial version of tournament shark. This is a simple program thats linked to a database, similar to sharkscope, but shows the stats for each player at your table, whilst playing. I figured this would make it much easier for me to work out who I could make moves against and who were the donkeys to be more careful with. Unfortunately the software was a complete sack of shit and would not work. I even got on to live support who couldn;t help. Useless.
Anyways I just got on with it and played. Upto now I have completed 91 tourneys, but its two steps forward one back all the time. I am running at something like 8% ROI, which is making it one tough fucker of a grind. My luck has been on the worse side I would say, especially as I keep making moves into monsters, which helps fuckall. I would say that although my luck is worse, the players are definately tougher. It’s not rare to be getting towards the bubble and the blinds being at 600/1200 and 2 or three players less than 3 BB’s. This just makes it a crapshoot. I have also found myslef making daft moves at times i don;t need to and not applying the gap concept properly, which again is a big mistake really.
I have dropped my tables to 8, as I feel I need a little more concentration in these games than the $6.50’s. The thing is I used to play these a lot about a year or so back and the games were definately softer. I am amazed when i hit a final table and the full table of 9 is playing with the blinds at 200/400. I mean WTF? People are really getting onto the idea of how to play a solid SnG strategy and you really have to work a lot harder to force them into mistakes. You also need more well timed aggression, which can have the adverse affect if you pick the wrong players to try it on.
Don;t get me wrong, the games are not super tough, they definately are not, as some of the calls these guys will make at crucial stages completely fucking boggles my mind. People still willing to happily stack off with Ace rag, and I don;t mean they are the ones making the moves, I mean they are the ones making the calls for 50BB’s +..lol. Yep, i see it a lot.
There was one guy who really tilted me and when i checked his stats he was up like 26K in SnG’s, average $15!!! FK ME! His play was awful too (well it seemed awful to me, but it may have been some crazy metagame shit). Basically I raise MP with KK he flats on the button. I have him tagged as a multi-tabler so should be decent ( he was in all the recent games i fired up). Flop is KTx with two clubs. Its a heavily drawing board, so I put the pressure on and pot it. He thinks and smooth calls. Turn is another blank card, not a club, something like a 4 I think it was. Pot was now like 900 ish and I have 1.3k behind and he has about 1.5k. so i move it in. He thinks and then calls me with AJ.. ???? Ok, he has the ace of clubs, but that draw is now totally dead and so he is down to four outs against my set, with one card to come. You can guess what the fkin stars river was. yep the Queen hit and he makes the str8 to bust me. WTF was he thinking there? In fact I am gonna root that hand out and post it on the forum to see if anyone can work out what the fuck he was putting me on to call with Ace high and the gutter.
meh. Anyways, like I say, i found it tough. I’ll smash some more out this weekend and see how I go. If I feel the games are not worth it, then I may look elsewhere, as the rake is a killer anyways. I may just leave enough on stars for the $6 games and keep trying those to make a play at the BOP’s leaderboards and then play my higher stuff on another site. if I can ever find one i really wanna play on.
So SnG’s are still the only thing I am playing right now. I know they can be robotic, but i don;t mind them TBH.
There were a couple of good regs, who I knew were tough players…
powelljam and scdraven were both my nemesis’s. scdraven, must have busted me in at least three tourneys. There was also a New York guy, can;t remember his name and he was very good. One thing I do maintain though.. the German playes are without a shadow of a doubt the worst. They really suck and lathough i want them in the games, i wish they would stop hitting fkin everything against me! England FTW!
Anyways, off now, to keep pissing and moaning about my luck at the tables! hahahaha
BM
Wednesday, 13 May 2009
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
OCTOBER 2008
I have been trying to recover my old blog posts from my other blog as not to lose them.
******(running from latest to first)*****
Oct 29, 2008 10:52 PM
Pump up the volume baby!
from Donkey Thrasher by BurnleyMik
Thats exactly what I have done. I have been absolutely nailing the 16 player $6.50 SnG’s on stars. Well, probably not nailing them in the sense of some of you heavy grinders, but for me its a lot. I have played 107 Sng’s since 26th Oct. I have also been having to squeeze them in here there and everywhere whenever I could. I ran pretty horribly through out the mid to later stages, but my hands started to hold again towards the end. Its amazing actually how you see how your luck fluctuates throughout the games. I definately run in patches, so-to-speak, of luck. When I run bad nothing holds and I mean nothing, but when i run good, I start winning when dominated and stuff, so it works both ways, although as human nature is we only tend to remember the bad rather than the good!
I didn;t do too badly, but wanted more TBH. I finished up $114 to the good after all those games, which is neither good nor bad, but like I say, i know I had a VERY dry patch from around the 30-75 game range and at one point almost quit as it was starting to get to me. Fortunately I persevered and got it back, but in all honesty I am a tilt monster and I get mighty pissed off when I start losing every showdown, but I realise there is nothing I can do. Its simply nasty variance.
I completed my 100 for the PokerStars Battle Of the Planets promotion. Like I said, towards the end, my hands were holding and it was all coming together nicely. I figured I must have been on for a good score in my next block of 20. When the session was over I went to the stars homepage and read all the ins and outs for the BOP’s promotion and saw that only your fist 5 blocks count… WTF? Thats pretty shit IMHO. Just my fkin luck that when It all finally slots into place, I am outside the qualifying boundary! grrrrrr
So, now I have lost motivation to continue until next Sunday, when the promotion resets and starts over again, as it runs weekly. I can;t see the point of lashing in the volume, hoping to get a good block in to make a top ten spot, if I can;t qualify! lol. I know I won;t have time to crank out another 100, so whats the point?
I am now considering what and where to grind for the rest of the week. I am toying with Full Tilt, but without rakeback and with their points system being just so shitty, I am struggling tojustify playing there. Party is out of the question for a number of reasons, the new software is not nice at all and the main reason is that charging $1 rake on $5 buy in game is simply taking the piss and I am not prepared to pay 20% rake per game, that would just destroy my bottom line. I thought about Cardoza again, but i am too pissed off with them for my own personal reasons to want to give them another single fucking dollar of my money, so the question is where too?? Where has decent traffic and a good bonus incentive? I was thinking about maybe Littlewoods, now they have moved to the Pacific Platform, but tthere is a drawback with that too… all my other poker accounts are in USD, but my Littlewoods account is in GBP, which means Neteller would double fuck me when transferring in and out. As they charge 2.5% ontop of the exchange rate and then they also charge for the transaction and they would do the same for any money I want to put back into my account… sigh.
I can;t find anywhere. I need to have a think.
ok, enough of my ramblings.
GL at the felt.
BM
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Oct 24, 2008 1:48 AM
cream crackered.
from Donkey Thrasher by BurnleyMik
Well the wife has been having some troublesome nights with the littleman, so in my wisdom I told her I would stay up after work and stayt with him until around lunch time so she could catch up with a little sleep…
Well, with only catchin 6 hours myself the day before and getting up at 2.30pm I should have realised I wouldn;t be in the best of states..haha. I did get him at about 6.30am and took the little man downstairs and stayed with him, doing all the usual crap, until 1.30pm and then snuck off to bed for 5 and a half hours.. arghh. Now I am absolutely Cream Krackered! eleven and a half hours sleep in over 60 hours is just not gonna cut the mustard! haha. I am sat here at work, typing this and I just feel like getting my head down and sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeping.
I am so looking forward to hitting that bed in the morning, I really am!
So, with all that as you can imagine, no poker. None at all. Not even had time to think about it really!
Hopefully, my little man will be a good lad for his daddy this weekend and let him get some poker played. Fingers crossed.
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Oct 23, 2008 4:44 AM
BurnleyMik? FK YOU!
from Donkey Thrasher by BurnleyMik
That’s what the Pokerstars’ “Random” Number Generator thought of my today when I started playing! LOL. I decided to step up to the $16 games today. I used to play them, but only ever 2-4 at once, but after my recent multi-tabling skilzzzzzzz have come into play I was gonna do the same. I actually decided to take it slowly and just start with 8 tables for a little while and then step up. Well I got right royal reamed in 7 of the games. I kept getting TT in the push fold stages and kept running it smack into over pairs! LOL. so from now on, TT can just fak off! hahaha. The other game i won and I won it being a right spawny bastard too. I play well down to 3-handed and then tilting from the other games I played like a pillock and I ended up winning. Final hand was me blasting A5 into the other guys AQ and turneing a straight. Sick! 3-handed I moved over a guys raise on a shitty 445 flop, holding A8, only to nearly spew when he insta calls with his JJ and unfortunately I thought he was mega weak..arrgh, but the turn brought me a saving Ace.
Its weird as hell really. The games I played well in and deserved to do a lot better, I had to take a dry one from behind and the game I deserved to lose, for getting it in bad, I win??? How the fuck does that work?? Sometimes the Stars RNG baffles me, it really does. I can play brilliant and not put a foot wrong and have a completely shit session, but other times I can play like Louie Walsh takes criticism and win…. Oh i don;t know. Volume. Thats the Key. Even out all that BS!
Had some good news on the work front. I am moving onto 3-day rota shofts… ahhhhh bliss! 3 12hour days per week and thats me lot! Its a cool shift, but if you want routine then this is not the shift for you! It works like this:
Wed, thurs friday - days - 7.15am to 7.30pm (for four weeks)
then swap to:
Sun, Mon, Tues - days - same hrs as above (for four weeks)
then a week off
Then onto nights:
Wed, thurs, Fri - nights- 7.15pm -7.30am (for four weeks)
then onto
Sun, Mon, Tues - Nights same hrs as above (for four weeks)
rinse, repeat!
So, every eight weeks I get a week off and only have to work 3 days per week. Haha! I could land in a barrel of shit and come out smelling of roses sometimes!
Means more time with the wife and baby, which is brilliant for us.
Life is so sweet right now
I hope things are going as well for you guys.
ATB
BM
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Oct 21, 2008 9:29 PM
Interesting stuff…
from Donkey Thrasher by BurnleyMik
I still haven;t had time to really sit down and play, but the last few days have opened my eyes a bit to a few excellent tools out there to help aid my play.
Firstly, with multi-tabling it can be very difficult to do certain things when playing.. i.e. You have 12 tables going and bust out of a game, its then very hard to get back to the pokerstars lobby, find another registering game, open that lobby, register and confirm registration all before your next table pops up! Believe me its bloody hard work. I have known about AHK Scripts (Auto Hot Key) for some time, but I was never really pushing myself hard enough to need them. I could quite easily cope with 6 tables without any help, but now I decided to start looking into them and was actually suprised at just how much they can do!
For example:
StarsSnG Opener - This one asolves the problem I described above.
There are also ones to make your mouse go to the most urgent table and it activates the time bank for you automatically so you never time out. There is a StakesGuard script that makes sure you stay within your bankroll for Pokerstars and the list goes opn and on. Even just simple stuff like you can press a certain key to bet the pot another for 2/3 pot etc etc.
I would advise anyone who plays to take a look, you don;t know what you are missing!
Also came across a peice of software I have heard of previously but never seen in action. Its called Tournament Shark and basically its like Sharkscope and OfficialPokerRankings all rolled into one and it attachs to the bottom of each of your tables, so you can see which players are the decent players, who you can make moves on and who are the donkeys not to be bluffed and all at a glance. Seems pretty good to me. Only downside is that one of the forum guys thinks it won;t be too far into the future before stars starts clamping down on “pooled” resources like Sharkscope and similar.
Some good discussion going on over at the forum too. I posted some HH’s recently too which I thought I was make good +EV folds at bubble time during SnG’s, but after some good discussion and thoughts I have rtealised my calling range on and around the bubble is simply way too tight, especially vs decent players who know how and when to make the moves. This is something I am going to work on and TBH, something i would have probably not realised had it not been for poosting HH’s and discussing them. So I advise you guys to do the same. Join a forum, post hand histories and look for leaks in your game. We only learn from our mistakes!
Right thats all for now.
GL at the felt
BM
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Oct 20, 2008 11:42 PM
Still on SnG’s
from Donkey Thrasher by BurnleyMik
Yep, still at em at the moment, but not getting the time to get my volume in. The little-un has started playing up a bit and has somehow managed to get himself into shorter feeds and sleeps! arrghhh!!! I am sure we’ll get through the other side, but the nights feel long and you feel like you have hardly had a wink of sleep.
All this weekend I have managed only to squeeze in one set of 12 SnG’s today. I ran pretty badly, but I sort of expected it after running well towards the end of my last session. I tend to find (or maybe its a mindset) that I run in short patches on stars, where sometimes my good hands will hold like 90% of the time and I do well, but on the opposite side of that comes the sessions where like only 10% of my hands that are ahead stay that way.
Today A9 was beaten by A8 on the river, JJ beaten by 66 and AK by AQ, all three for tourney lives. The other times I ran into monsters. meh it happens. I did expect it, not that, that makes it any less annoying. Yes it pisses my off, but with the volume I am hoping that I can make the luck even itself out.
So far, for October and remember I am only doing this in the bits of spare time I get, I have managed about 270 games and almost exactly $500 profit. Thats pretty pleasing for me TBH considering I lost my way a bit after the cash game disaster I had.
I am still into MTT’s, but I reckon its gonna be a while before I can sit down and play a long 4hr+ plus session.
Friday night I got permission (as you have to when you have kids..lol) to shoot off to Manchester with a few of the boys to play a £10 buy-in with £5 rebuys. When we actually got there we found it was actually a £10 buy in, with only ONE rebuy…LOL. Shit, I was hoping for a juicy prize pool TBH.
The structure, suprisingly for Grosvenor, was pretty decent. 4k Starting chips, 25/50 starting blinds and a 35 minute clock. Only thing that did piss me off was that each player had to pay £3.50 rake on top of your £10 entry and the fkin thing was self deal… ?? WTF? the greedy bastards. So basically they were charging £3.50 pp for the place to play and a clock on the wall.
According to one of the regulars, Grosvenor have a new rule that no tourneys under £30 buy in, are to be dealer dealt. All their scheduled tourneys used to be dealer dealt, i think as usual greed has out-weighed player requirements.
The thing that annoys me most is that poker has to still be in casinos in the UK (well raked games i.e. tourneys with a rake) because of the old gambling act and the casino bosses are keeping pressure on the government to keep it that way because poker brings in decent revenue to casino’s, bringing players in who gamble during the poker breaks and this is what pisses me off. They want everything, their cake and eat it. They want to be able to control where poker is played, treat us like shit, and force us to attend them if we want to play tourneys with a number of players in. grrrr. Greedy bastards IMO.
Anyways, I digress..lol. Back to the Friday night. 5 of us made the trip, 4 regular players and one guy who had only ever played once before. Guess who got the deepest? LOLOLOL.
I personally got nothing at all in terms of cards. From 9pm to 1.30am when i eventually busted the best pair I saw was 77 and strongest Ae I was dealt was A9. Strongest king I got was KQ and that was my exit hand..lolol. Mega dry cards wise. I made moves to survive. Eventually the blinds were 600/1.2k, a short stack with 4k moved all in UTG and I knew he had a huge range and it folded to me in the CO. I looked down at KQo and decided to go for the isolation raise, thinking KQ was almost certainly as good as the random two the shorty would push.I had 11.8k, so almost 10 BB’s and figured this was as good spot as any. Unfortunately and in line with my luck for the night the BB woke up with AA..lol. Oh well.
Chuddy, the lad new to the game went onto to hit the final table and take down 7th spot! haha, good lad! He was seriosuly pissed as well. The guys on the table were fed up to hell of him because he was so unpredicatable. He never ever raised pre flop. Just call, call, call…lol. Well it got him there in the end and he finally busted with 55 vs AQ, so no shame there.
Finally landed home about 4.50am. Nothing worse than waiting round in a casino, with all those temptations, waiting for one of the other lads to bust! We all went in the same car, so we had no choice.
Was a good night though and enjoyed it.
Thats all for now.
GL
BM
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Oct 16, 2008 3:51 AM
Brag!
from Donkey Thrasher by BurnleyMik
I guess I have a decent cause to brag! Life is good and so is poker.
My time off work has just finished and I returned Monday after my two weeks off. I am genuinely glad I took that time off to help the mrs, as babies are very demanding! Struggling right now to get him into a good feeding routine, but we are still learning and we are getting there gradually. He loves waking up every three hours, sometimes less and wailing until that bottle of milk hits his lips! LOL. The wife is doing a cracking job and starting to get him used to the difference between night and day and he starting to wake for a feed and go immediately back to sleep during the nighttime hours. All we need now is for him to sleep through!!
Anyways whilst I was off and whenever he went down for a kip I decidedto hit the tables. I have a renewed vigour and decided to put some SnG volume in and so far (touch wood) with fairly impressive results.
I am 12 tabling the $6, 18 player games on Stars at the moment, which makes for a very strict style of TAG play. At these levels, there are very few good players, so a simple ABC style works well.
The results of my first 250 games has been pretty decent.
I am running at 32% ROI, with a total of $535 profit. I have won 22, 2nd 21 times, but have bubbled 24 times..lol. Thats probably due to my aggressive bubble play. If that trend continues I may look at adjusting my bubble play TBH because its wasted on the maniacs at these levels who have no clue about ICM, bubble play or calling ranges when there are shorter stacks left behind!
I don;t really know if I am running good so far and this could all change, but I think the mass multi-tabling helps me stay detached emotionally from each game, so I am less likely to tilt or get annoyed at certain individual idiots who i just doubled when their A5 beats my AK AIPF! I was thinking, based on STT statistics, that a reasonable ROI for these might be at around 20%, so once I have played more, I guess I will see. Up to press though, so far, so good.
Also today i noticed some new types of SnG;s on Full Tilt, the “matrix” games. I was looking at the format and although i doubt they are goin to be great in terms of bankroll building, they do look like a lot of fun. I started a thread about them HERE, that you can check out. I like the fact you are sat at all four tables with the same four players. You tend to find any decent player will pick up on tells quite quickly and could be useful for helping improve reading abilities. I managed to squeeze a quick $22 one in today and got something daft like $84 back, when i finished second in two of the individual SnG’s and 4th overall. Personally I think you obtain most points with knockouts, so its worth taking the risk. I;ll probably ttry and play a few more over the weekend. I also noticed that say you normally play $10 sng’s, then you should be entering a $40 Matrix game because its effectively the same, 4 SnG’s. Anyway, I’d like top hear any thoughts anyone else has on these.
Before I finish i just want to give a few shoutouts..
Dremeber - He has also only jsut had a baby boy and is going through all the same rigours that I am. Thanks for keep popping by mate and congrats and good luck!
Also, Gavin, the author of this blog. I forgot to link him up a short while ago. He hasn;t been blogging long, so pop over, say hi and give him some support on reaching his bankroll goals!
Amatay - He just recently appeared on Sky Poker and is now “Famoooooose”! LOL. He came accross pretty well to be fair but has taken a bit of good light-hearted piss taking on the forum.. check out the pick in this thread! lol.
A big shoutout to Smoothplease, a scumbag of a Chelsea fan, but a good lad and managed to win the 4th series of the RTR premier league! Top work mate.
Finally, a big thankyou to all of you from the forum, who chipped into the collection, organised by Pud for my little one! We are putting the money to good use and you really didn;t need to, but thankyou all.
Right, thats all for now.
Good Luck at the felt.
BM
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mega quickie
from Donkey Thrasher by BurnleyMik
well my boy arrived! All 8lb 2oz of him! A mini BurnleyMik, just need him to get hold of those poker cards and we are on our way! LOL.
Actually it’s life changing. The greatest feeling ever. All you parents out there will know exactly what I mean. No feeling in the world can describe it!
Thats said can someone please describe what sleep is for me? LOOLOL. Man, he has a cracking pair of lungs and lets us know whenever he ain’t happy. I wouldn;t change him for the world.
Just back to playing some poker today. Was messing about on stars and managed to get upto playing 16 tables at once!! It sounds harder than it actually is, thanks to stars awesome software. Real shame they have’nt got anything in place to reward the small stakes players. The FPP’s just are not any good for small stakes grinders.
So today any time I had an hour spare i crashed out some games. I can play 16 tables, but find 12 tables more comfortable, especially when you get to the latter stages and its on you a lot more.
I am currently running at 43% ROI! haha. I doubt that will last long and believe me I have taken some rough beats along the way. The beauty is you don;t have time to let them affect you. I played about 50 of the $6 18 player games and did fairly well. Its very intense at times, but well worth it when you run good!
right, thats all for now.
laters
BM
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Oct 29, 2008 10:52 PM
Pump up the volume baby!
from Donkey Thrasher by BurnleyMik
Thats exactly what I have done. I have been absolutely nailing the 16 player $6.50 SnG’s on stars. Well, probably not nailing them in the sense of some of you heavy grinders, but for me its a lot. I have played 107 Sng’s since 26th Oct. I have also been having to squeeze them in here there and everywhere whenever I could. I ran pretty horribly through out the mid to later stages, but my hands started to hold again towards the end. Its amazing actually how you see how your luck fluctuates throughout the games. I definately run in patches, so-to-speak, of luck. When I run bad nothing holds and I mean nothing, but when i run good, I start winning when dominated and stuff, so it works both ways, although as human nature is we only tend to remember the bad rather than the good!
I didn;t do too badly, but wanted more TBH. I finished up $114 to the good after all those games, which is neither good nor bad, but like I say, i know I had a VERY dry patch from around the 30-75 game range and at one point almost quit as it was starting to get to me. Fortunately I persevered and got it back, but in all honesty I am a tilt monster and I get mighty pissed off when I start losing every showdown, but I realise there is nothing I can do. Its simply nasty variance.
I completed my 100 for the PokerStars Battle Of the Planets promotion. Like I said, towards the end, my hands were holding and it was all coming together nicely. I figured I must have been on for a good score in my next block of 20. When the session was over I went to the stars homepage and read all the ins and outs for the BOP’s promotion and saw that only your fist 5 blocks count… WTF? Thats pretty shit IMHO. Just my fkin luck that when It all finally slots into place, I am outside the qualifying boundary! grrrrrr
So, now I have lost motivation to continue until next Sunday, when the promotion resets and starts over again, as it runs weekly. I can;t see the point of lashing in the volume, hoping to get a good block in to make a top ten spot, if I can;t qualify! lol. I know I won;t have time to crank out another 100, so whats the point?
I am now considering what and where to grind for the rest of the week. I am toying with Full Tilt, but without rakeback and with their points system being just so shitty, I am struggling tojustify playing there. Party is out of the question for a number of reasons, the new software is not nice at all and the main reason is that charging $1 rake on $5 buy in game is simply taking the piss and I am not prepared to pay 20% rake per game, that would just destroy my bottom line. I thought about Cardoza again, but i am too pissed off with them for my own personal reasons to want to give them another single fucking dollar of my money, so the question is where too?? Where has decent traffic and a good bonus incentive? I was thinking about maybe Littlewoods, now they have moved to the Pacific Platform, but tthere is a drawback with that too… all my other poker accounts are in USD, but my Littlewoods account is in GBP, which means Neteller would double fuck me when transferring in and out. As they charge 2.5% ontop of the exchange rate and then they also charge for the transaction and they would do the same for any money I want to put back into my account… sigh.
I can;t find anywhere. I need to have a think.
ok, enough of my ramblings.
GL at the felt.
BM
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Oct 24, 2008 1:48 AM
cream crackered.
from Donkey Thrasher by BurnleyMik
Well the wife has been having some troublesome nights with the littleman, so in my wisdom I told her I would stay up after work and stayt with him until around lunch time so she could catch up with a little sleep…
Well, with only catchin 6 hours myself the day before and getting up at 2.30pm I should have realised I wouldn;t be in the best of states..haha. I did get him at about 6.30am and took the little man downstairs and stayed with him, doing all the usual crap, until 1.30pm and then snuck off to bed for 5 and a half hours.. arghh. Now I am absolutely Cream Krackered! eleven and a half hours sleep in over 60 hours is just not gonna cut the mustard! haha. I am sat here at work, typing this and I just feel like getting my head down and sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeping.
I am so looking forward to hitting that bed in the morning, I really am!
So, with all that as you can imagine, no poker. None at all. Not even had time to think about it really!
Hopefully, my little man will be a good lad for his daddy this weekend and let him get some poker played. Fingers crossed.
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Oct 23, 2008 4:44 AM
BurnleyMik? FK YOU!
from Donkey Thrasher by BurnleyMik
That’s what the Pokerstars’ “Random” Number Generator thought of my today when I started playing! LOL. I decided to step up to the $16 games today. I used to play them, but only ever 2-4 at once, but after my recent multi-tabling skilzzzzzzz have come into play I was gonna do the same. I actually decided to take it slowly and just start with 8 tables for a little while and then step up. Well I got right royal reamed in 7 of the games. I kept getting TT in the push fold stages and kept running it smack into over pairs! LOL. so from now on, TT can just fak off! hahaha. The other game i won and I won it being a right spawny bastard too. I play well down to 3-handed and then tilting from the other games I played like a pillock and I ended up winning. Final hand was me blasting A5 into the other guys AQ and turneing a straight. Sick! 3-handed I moved over a guys raise on a shitty 445 flop, holding A8, only to nearly spew when he insta calls with his JJ and unfortunately I thought he was mega weak..arrgh, but the turn brought me a saving Ace.
Its weird as hell really. The games I played well in and deserved to do a lot better, I had to take a dry one from behind and the game I deserved to lose, for getting it in bad, I win??? How the fuck does that work?? Sometimes the Stars RNG baffles me, it really does. I can play brilliant and not put a foot wrong and have a completely shit session, but other times I can play like Louie Walsh takes criticism and win…. Oh i don;t know. Volume. Thats the Key. Even out all that BS!
Had some good news on the work front. I am moving onto 3-day rota shofts… ahhhhh bliss! 3 12hour days per week and thats me lot! Its a cool shift, but if you want routine then this is not the shift for you! It works like this:
Wed, thurs friday - days - 7.15am to 7.30pm (for four weeks)
then swap to:
Sun, Mon, Tues - days - same hrs as above (for four weeks)
then a week off
Then onto nights:
Wed, thurs, Fri - nights- 7.15pm -7.30am (for four weeks)
then onto
Sun, Mon, Tues - Nights same hrs as above (for four weeks)
rinse, repeat!
So, every eight weeks I get a week off and only have to work 3 days per week. Haha! I could land in a barrel of shit and come out smelling of roses sometimes!
Means more time with the wife and baby, which is brilliant for us.
Life is so sweet right now
I hope things are going as well for you guys.
ATB
BM
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Oct 21, 2008 9:29 PM
Interesting stuff…
from Donkey Thrasher by BurnleyMik
I still haven;t had time to really sit down and play, but the last few days have opened my eyes a bit to a few excellent tools out there to help aid my play.
Firstly, with multi-tabling it can be very difficult to do certain things when playing.. i.e. You have 12 tables going and bust out of a game, its then very hard to get back to the pokerstars lobby, find another registering game, open that lobby, register and confirm registration all before your next table pops up! Believe me its bloody hard work. I have known about AHK Scripts (Auto Hot Key) for some time, but I was never really pushing myself hard enough to need them. I could quite easily cope with 6 tables without any help, but now I decided to start looking into them and was actually suprised at just how much they can do!
For example:
StarsSnG Opener - This one asolves the problem I described above.
There are also ones to make your mouse go to the most urgent table and it activates the time bank for you automatically so you never time out. There is a StakesGuard script that makes sure you stay within your bankroll for Pokerstars and the list goes opn and on. Even just simple stuff like you can press a certain key to bet the pot another for 2/3 pot etc etc.
I would advise anyone who plays to take a look, you don;t know what you are missing!
Also came across a peice of software I have heard of previously but never seen in action. Its called Tournament Shark and basically its like Sharkscope and OfficialPokerRankings all rolled into one and it attachs to the bottom of each of your tables, so you can see which players are the decent players, who you can make moves on and who are the donkeys not to be bluffed and all at a glance. Seems pretty good to me. Only downside is that one of the forum guys thinks it won;t be too far into the future before stars starts clamping down on “pooled” resources like Sharkscope and similar.
Some good discussion going on over at the forum too. I posted some HH’s recently too which I thought I was make good +EV folds at bubble time during SnG’s, but after some good discussion and thoughts I have rtealised my calling range on and around the bubble is simply way too tight, especially vs decent players who know how and when to make the moves. This is something I am going to work on and TBH, something i would have probably not realised had it not been for poosting HH’s and discussing them. So I advise you guys to do the same. Join a forum, post hand histories and look for leaks in your game. We only learn from our mistakes!
Right thats all for now.
GL at the felt
BM
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Oct 20, 2008 11:42 PM
Still on SnG’s
from Donkey Thrasher by BurnleyMik
Yep, still at em at the moment, but not getting the time to get my volume in. The little-un has started playing up a bit and has somehow managed to get himself into shorter feeds and sleeps! arrghhh!!! I am sure we’ll get through the other side, but the nights feel long and you feel like you have hardly had a wink of sleep.
All this weekend I have managed only to squeeze in one set of 12 SnG’s today. I ran pretty badly, but I sort of expected it after running well towards the end of my last session. I tend to find (or maybe its a mindset) that I run in short patches on stars, where sometimes my good hands will hold like 90% of the time and I do well, but on the opposite side of that comes the sessions where like only 10% of my hands that are ahead stay that way.
Today A9 was beaten by A8 on the river, JJ beaten by 66 and AK by AQ, all three for tourney lives. The other times I ran into monsters. meh it happens. I did expect it, not that, that makes it any less annoying. Yes it pisses my off, but with the volume I am hoping that I can make the luck even itself out.
So far, for October and remember I am only doing this in the bits of spare time I get, I have managed about 270 games and almost exactly $500 profit. Thats pretty pleasing for me TBH considering I lost my way a bit after the cash game disaster I had.
I am still into MTT’s, but I reckon its gonna be a while before I can sit down and play a long 4hr+ plus session.
Friday night I got permission (as you have to when you have kids..lol) to shoot off to Manchester with a few of the boys to play a £10 buy-in with £5 rebuys. When we actually got there we found it was actually a £10 buy in, with only ONE rebuy…LOL. Shit, I was hoping for a juicy prize pool TBH.
The structure, suprisingly for Grosvenor, was pretty decent. 4k Starting chips, 25/50 starting blinds and a 35 minute clock. Only thing that did piss me off was that each player had to pay £3.50 rake on top of your £10 entry and the fkin thing was self deal… ?? WTF? the greedy bastards. So basically they were charging £3.50 pp for the place to play and a clock on the wall.
According to one of the regulars, Grosvenor have a new rule that no tourneys under £30 buy in, are to be dealer dealt. All their scheduled tourneys used to be dealer dealt, i think as usual greed has out-weighed player requirements.
The thing that annoys me most is that poker has to still be in casinos in the UK (well raked games i.e. tourneys with a rake) because of the old gambling act and the casino bosses are keeping pressure on the government to keep it that way because poker brings in decent revenue to casino’s, bringing players in who gamble during the poker breaks and this is what pisses me off. They want everything, their cake and eat it. They want to be able to control where poker is played, treat us like shit, and force us to attend them if we want to play tourneys with a number of players in. grrrr. Greedy bastards IMO.
Anyways, I digress..lol. Back to the Friday night. 5 of us made the trip, 4 regular players and one guy who had only ever played once before. Guess who got the deepest? LOLOLOL.
I personally got nothing at all in terms of cards. From 9pm to 1.30am when i eventually busted the best pair I saw was 77 and strongest Ae I was dealt was A9. Strongest king I got was KQ and that was my exit hand..lolol. Mega dry cards wise. I made moves to survive. Eventually the blinds were 600/1.2k, a short stack with 4k moved all in UTG and I knew he had a huge range and it folded to me in the CO. I looked down at KQo and decided to go for the isolation raise, thinking KQ was almost certainly as good as the random two the shorty would push.I had 11.8k, so almost 10 BB’s and figured this was as good spot as any. Unfortunately and in line with my luck for the night the BB woke up with AA..lol. Oh well.
Chuddy, the lad new to the game went onto to hit the final table and take down 7th spot! haha, good lad! He was seriosuly pissed as well. The guys on the table were fed up to hell of him because he was so unpredicatable. He never ever raised pre flop. Just call, call, call…lol. Well it got him there in the end and he finally busted with 55 vs AQ, so no shame there.
Finally landed home about 4.50am. Nothing worse than waiting round in a casino, with all those temptations, waiting for one of the other lads to bust! We all went in the same car, so we had no choice.
Was a good night though and enjoyed it.
Thats all for now.
GL
BM
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Oct 16, 2008 3:51 AM
Brag!
from Donkey Thrasher by BurnleyMik
I guess I have a decent cause to brag! Life is good and so is poker.
My time off work has just finished and I returned Monday after my two weeks off. I am genuinely glad I took that time off to help the mrs, as babies are very demanding! Struggling right now to get him into a good feeding routine, but we are still learning and we are getting there gradually. He loves waking up every three hours, sometimes less and wailing until that bottle of milk hits his lips! LOL. The wife is doing a cracking job and starting to get him used to the difference between night and day and he starting to wake for a feed and go immediately back to sleep during the nighttime hours. All we need now is for him to sleep through!!
Anyways whilst I was off and whenever he went down for a kip I decidedto hit the tables. I have a renewed vigour and decided to put some SnG volume in and so far (touch wood) with fairly impressive results.
I am 12 tabling the $6, 18 player games on Stars at the moment, which makes for a very strict style of TAG play. At these levels, there are very few good players, so a simple ABC style works well.
The results of my first 250 games has been pretty decent.
I am running at 32% ROI, with a total of $535 profit. I have won 22, 2nd 21 times, but have bubbled 24 times..lol. Thats probably due to my aggressive bubble play. If that trend continues I may look at adjusting my bubble play TBH because its wasted on the maniacs at these levels who have no clue about ICM, bubble play or calling ranges when there are shorter stacks left behind!
I don;t really know if I am running good so far and this could all change, but I think the mass multi-tabling helps me stay detached emotionally from each game, so I am less likely to tilt or get annoyed at certain individual idiots who i just doubled when their A5 beats my AK AIPF! I was thinking, based on STT statistics, that a reasonable ROI for these might be at around 20%, so once I have played more, I guess I will see. Up to press though, so far, so good.
Also today i noticed some new types of SnG;s on Full Tilt, the “matrix” games. I was looking at the format and although i doubt they are goin to be great in terms of bankroll building, they do look like a lot of fun. I started a thread about them HERE, that you can check out. I like the fact you are sat at all four tables with the same four players. You tend to find any decent player will pick up on tells quite quickly and could be useful for helping improve reading abilities. I managed to squeeze a quick $22 one in today and got something daft like $84 back, when i finished second in two of the individual SnG’s and 4th overall. Personally I think you obtain most points with knockouts, so its worth taking the risk. I;ll probably ttry and play a few more over the weekend. I also noticed that say you normally play $10 sng’s, then you should be entering a $40 Matrix game because its effectively the same, 4 SnG’s. Anyway, I’d like top hear any thoughts anyone else has on these.
Before I finish i just want to give a few shoutouts..
Dremeber - He has also only jsut had a baby boy and is going through all the same rigours that I am. Thanks for keep popping by mate and congrats and good luck!
Also, Gavin, the author of this blog. I forgot to link him up a short while ago. He hasn;t been blogging long, so pop over, say hi and give him some support on reaching his bankroll goals!
Amatay - He just recently appeared on Sky Poker and is now “Famoooooose”! LOL. He came accross pretty well to be fair but has taken a bit of good light-hearted piss taking on the forum.. check out the pick in this thread! lol.
A big shoutout to Smoothplease, a scumbag of a Chelsea fan, but a good lad and managed to win the 4th series of the RTR premier league! Top work mate.
Finally, a big thankyou to all of you from the forum, who chipped into the collection, organised by Pud for my little one! We are putting the money to good use and you really didn;t need to, but thankyou all.
Right, thats all for now.
Good Luck at the felt.
BM
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mega quickie
from Donkey Thrasher by BurnleyMik
well my boy arrived! All 8lb 2oz of him! A mini BurnleyMik, just need him to get hold of those poker cards and we are on our way! LOL.
Actually it’s life changing. The greatest feeling ever. All you parents out there will know exactly what I mean. No feeling in the world can describe it!
Thats said can someone please describe what sleep is for me? LOOLOL. Man, he has a cracking pair of lungs and lets us know whenever he ain’t happy. I wouldn;t change him for the world.
Just back to playing some poker today. Was messing about on stars and managed to get upto playing 16 tables at once!! It sounds harder than it actually is, thanks to stars awesome software. Real shame they have’nt got anything in place to reward the small stakes players. The FPP’s just are not any good for small stakes grinders.
So today any time I had an hour spare i crashed out some games. I can play 16 tables, but find 12 tables more comfortable, especially when you get to the latter stages and its on you a lot more.
I am currently running at 43% ROI! haha. I doubt that will last long and believe me I have taken some rough beats along the way. The beauty is you don;t have time to let them affect you. I played about 50 of the $6 18 player games and did fairly well. Its very intense at times, but well worth it when you run good!
right, thats all for now.
laters
BM
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