DTD Checklist

Bubble the final table of the team event - check
Team to bubble the team prizes - check
Bubble the £50 evening comp - check

Great night and thought I played well in the £50 but finishing 8th with 7 paying was a bit disappointing!

FML

been a while

Not been up to much really. Firstly, Puds, I did mail you but only yesterday, apologies, I haven't looked here in a while and didn't see it. If you didn't catch the mail and still want a word, I'll mail again, just let me know.

Secondly, saved £34 per month today getting a £15pm saving on Sky and saving £19 on the internet, but I've moved down to a 10mb connection. That's made my day!

I've been playing some limit at $1/$2 and have the help of another mentor. Simon Galloway (from blonde) is helping me out and we've only had one session so far but I think it went ok. From my view it did as I had a nice winning session, not sure how it was for him, but hopefully not too bad, good enough to schedule another lesson in anyway. I did manage to lose $150 by myself tonight though which I'm very disappointed at. Obviously I have excuses and was subject to some ridiculous bad luck, but I'm also happy to admit I could have played certain hands better and will review them soon to see where I went wrong. It's learning curve so I'm not too downbeat about it, but I have stopped and am playing some tourneys for a bit.

Nothing else to shout about really. Made a final on Stars the other week but only came in 9th out of over 5000 runners, shame I only got $385 for my efforts, but profit is profit. Off to DTD for the Team Challenge Saturday which will be good. I'll play the £50 if it's on but it's 3-2-1 week and my poor bankroll wont quite stretch to that unfortunately. Love going to DTD though so will enjoy myself and if there's no £50 on will probably play small stakes cash for a bit.


Hands to review soon

Hand 1
Hand 2
Hand 3
Hand 4
Hand 5
Hand 6

That'll do for now

I was going well, but alas, shit happens, why I don't know, but it's how I run from time to time.

Hmmm,

Been playing mainly mtt's recently but also giving limit poker a go. I quite like limit poker - the pots are more controlable, I try and focus more post flop and I still play for nice size pots (for me) that make it interesting. I'm starting at $1/$2 6 max LHE and to be honest, have lost money so far. On blonde, I down about $30 but the rakeback makes up that loss and on Stars I'm down about $70. The majority of my losses come early on where I'm raring to go and don't want to let go of average hands because it's a) cheap to call and b)think the oppo is a donk, but after a while I settle down and have made back some of the losses or the rate of losing calms down. I managed to claw back a $90 loss the other night back to even which was nice and last night I managed to get back a few bob before getting my money in with JJ against KK which obv hurt, but on the plus side to this, in NLHE, I'd have lost my buy in and in LHE, I managed to realise that I may not be ahead and just flat call the bet on turn and river - money saved imo!

I'm hoping to play on Stars to make silver again for next month, although I'm not sure why but the freerolls are ok I guess and I'll play on blonde for the rakeback and to do my bit, although the resizable tables are good!

MTT's are coming so close. I'm starting with cheap buy in's still and managed a 6th for $170 in one yesterday on blonde, but I'm also playing the 6pm sat to the $80k on Stars as it generates about 80-95 seats and is pretty easy, then I'm having a bash at the main comp rather than bank the $55. I'm yet to cash in it but am getting close. Last night I lost a crucial hand with AQ against 7's which cost me half my stack and late comp, I can't be losing that much. Never got going again and finished 288th and I think the moolah started at 280. It wasn't like I could hang on though, I was miles behind. I'm obviously no stranger from the money end of comps but I'm trying to get there with a decent stack rather than scraping in and during the comps, I'm doing quite well but losing just one key hand. I'm sure it will come good soon and I'm positive I've improved a bit. I'm also playing the FT daily doubles at 9pm which I quite enjoy.

I'm not quite sure on the areas of improvement to make on my game. I think the whole thing needs a restructure to be honest. I qualified again for the $80k on Stars and was going ok, even if a bit off average when it folded to the small blind with me in the big blind. He shoved for 2kish and I made the call with KJo. I just assumed he had rubbish when in fact he had 5's but thankfully a king came and saved my bacon. The call was a bit loose, but I got lucky. Later, I was in the BB with AQs and this hand happened. I can't begin to explain why I played it like this, it's just all wrong and it cost me my tourney.

I've been trying to build up my £50 into £300 so when I go to DTD next month if I get busted out of the team comp I can play the 3-2-1 but I managed to suffer a few bad beats and it's not looking great for that.