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He had top pair .... he did not think any further
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Originally posted by mineriva
"didn't see or think about these possibilities"He had top pair .... he did not think any further
I would agree had this not been an all in pre flop situation, the 'thought' needed to be of the full pre flop situation, I am convinced the guy was a fish and was gonna do silly things every now and then, esp when I have been active and he probably thinks I am stealing super wide. Would have been fun if I had of binked a win.
I suspect at the lowest stake level available I should stop trying to work out things like this, they will happen, the opponents are incredibly weak not of the time.
I had a bit of time to watch a table last night so looked in on a $7.00 45man, I couldn't believe the play I saw in the fisrt few levels, I feel the 50c games are tougher !!!
I will find out for real soon enough ♠_cool:
1st 12 table tiled session on my TV/Monitor was fantastic !!!
I actually managed to reg for 13 not 12 so it was a bit of a pain fitting the last screen on tiled. The 12 screen layout was fine, the TV/Monitor is 27" HD - click for spec with a good resolution which gave decent clarity and never gave me a headache (I wear glasses and can get headaches when doing too much on a small screen).
The screenshot above shows both my screens, the tables on the TV/Monitor and the Pokerstars client and Table Ninja on the laptop screen.
Played: 13
1st: 2
4th: 1
6th: 2
Not placed: the rest
ROI: 170%
ITM: 38.5%
P & L: $11.05
$/hour: $7.53 <----- with 50c games 
So the results were excellent and honestly I never got a decent run on some final tables, others I did, Shoving JJ and getting outdone by Th2d which the river brought the 4th heart, but I also got suckouts K4 beating AQ etc. It seems these things even out in the end so getting annoyed by then is counter productive.
I can definitely see why some recreational players, myself included, can get very upset with the results when they are playing. If I played 3 or 4 games of an evening I would be very upset at the run outs as I would have spent all my time, playing better than the other guy and getting no reward. Playing lots of tables either all at once or spread across a lengthy session will make it far easier to take.
I do feel I was on my A Game in this session, I was pushing wide, but not getting silly and thinking about my image too and making some tight folds. I was calling light though, far better to examine the stacks and decide that call with K9o is warranted, often you expect to see monsters when it is shoved into you, but time and again you will be Q7s and 98o etc etc.
Mental Game: A+
Again I was happy with how I was playing, and also reacting to others and the cards. I was not getting upset when players were restealing or shoving v my Blind, I just rode it out and picked my spots. Most of the time I was ahead, but even being beaten in those spots was not getting me upset at all !!!
I like 45 mans
Call me greedy, but having just played a small 8 table set, I feel robbed !!!
I managed a 117.5% ROI and a nice $4.70 addition to the BR, but I had 2 hands that just left me rolling my eyes towards the ceiling. Both were final tables and left me with a min cash... grrrr
Now I know they are 'standard' but come on, I wanted 200% ROI ♠_love:
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Originally posted by Gentari
Call me greedy, but having just played a small 8 table set, I feel robbed !!!I managed a 117.5% ROI and a nice $4.70 addition to the BR, but I had 2 hands that just left me rolling my eyes towards the ceiling. Both were final tables and left me with a min cash... grrrr
Now I know they are 'standard' but come on, I wanted 200% ROI ♠_love:
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Good job Gentari! I'm glad you are enjoying yourself and making a decent profit too
Thanks for the kind words guys, if anyone wants to see the actual hardware in place for the new setup then let me know and I can take a photo and post it up.
For now I am really enjoying it and feel the benefits are good, both from a personal (eyes and seating positon) and results point of view.
Last night I never played (on stars 45s) as I watched both the 6max with Pleno and Collin Moshman's live coaching. If you did not watch them then I feel you are missing out on a huge value training session. It is free and watching pleno play was amazing, he is playing a 6max cash LAG style and thinks at a level beyond most at the moment.
Collin Moshman needs no introduction, last night Collin played on Stars, starting off with some $15 & $30 9man and 18 man SNG, playing a standard style, solid opening and shoving when required. Towards the end of the session he was opening other types of SNG with the last ones being Hyper 6max $7s and $15s.
He often does game reviews, but this was live play !!! Next session he will be playing formats that those attending the coaching had asked for like KO and 180 mans.
Just realising that this guy would easily charge $300/hour for a coaching session you would be CRAZZZZYYYYYYY to miss out. Every Wednsday evening has to be training night!!!
Additional to what I posted above, Collin Moshmans coaching is available to view on the link posted below. There are some tech issuess early but skip to about 13 minutes and it is sorted there.
Enjoy
Tonight I played a 12 table set for about 2.5 hours adding on tables as I bust out. A total of 30 games were played and the results were great. No wins, but 3x 2nd place helped to boost the Bank Roll once again.
ROI: 52.3%
ITM: 30.0%
P & L: $7.85
Mental Game: A-
I marked the session A- although I felt brilliant with no tilt issues in game (I really don't get them now), but I did have an odd feeling before running the session. It was as if I didn't want to start up, like I was worried about something, perhaps about losing and not being able to increase the BR again. Probably a little part of me is waiting for the doomswitch to come, but I need not have worried, even playing ok with a lot of suckouts I managed a nice return.
My Stats so far on 45man MTSNGs this year are as follows:
Played: 237
ROI: 60.3%
ITM: 30.0%
P & L: $71.47
Time Played: 39.3 Hours
$/hour: $1.82
I had my first losing session for a while last night. I played 22 games on my 12 table tiled setup but had to stop loading games when I felt I was being affected by the bad beats & suckouts that were coming my way.
Played: 22
1st: 1
6th: 1
7th: 1
ROI: -25.4%
ITM: 13.6%
P & L: -$2.79
The tipping point in the session was KK v 99 v A2 where the door card was a 9. I caught myself saying WFT? !!!!! I know once I start doing that I need to take a break.
I ran down the session with similar situations cropping up, but did manage to take 1 win which I particularly enjoyed having run 3x 2nd in my previous session.
So I reviewed the main hands in the games I played and was pretty happy overall. I am playing on the edge of the NASH push/fold ranges so must expect sessions where I fail to make a profit. I was happy that I played nice and tight early and never got into silly spots, while pushing my edge in the late stages, just coming up against better in a few spots, AK into AA was a theme 
So the month is still fantastic and if I continue to play well then the results will keep on coming. I am looking forward to tonights session
Mental Game: B
Played: 23
1st: 2
2nd: 2
3rd: 1
6th: 2
ROI: 135.3%
ITM: 30.4%
P & L: $15.56
An excellent session was had but not without it's issues. The first few games were hard going QQ, KK & AA busted and after a succession of beats I again decided to stop loading games and run out the set. The break came in soon after I stopped Table Ninja from loading any more games so I went and got a cuppa and refocussed.
I returned fresh and played out a nice set hitting 7 final tables and getting 2 wins. I feel great with these games, this month I am up nearly $50 playing 16 hours of 50c 45man games with an hourly of $3.01 !!! That is huge for 50c games IMO. My hourly will be helped now that I am playing far more games in my sets, I just need to play more. I do feel that the time I am spending looking at coaching materials on PS is helping me stay focussed though, so the time spent not playing is adding value to my poker game and I will continue this.
Tomorrow I am going to attempt to get a 30 game set played for only the second time. I would like that to be a volume target to hit daily, that way playing most days, I should get close to the 1000 game/month mark which would be incredible volume for me. Going at my $/game rate ($0.244) I would be on $1.50 games by the end of the month with a comfortable BR.
Lets hope the wheels don't fall off 
Keep up the good work!
How long on average do these tournaments last? I've for some odd reason in my 5 years of online poker neglected to play these games ♦
Originally posted by HollyMichelle
Keep up the good work!How long on average do these tournaments last? I've for some odd reason in my 5 years of online poker neglected to play these games ♦
Hi Gary,
The games this month have an average duration of 43.6mins. my 1st place games have taken around 80minutes to complete.
and they MUST be played if you want to make easy cash ♠_cool:
Cheers Neil are these turbo or standard? 80 minutes is a long time in Gary land unfortunately 
Turbo
Yeah they take a while and as such multi tabling is the only way to go really.
p.s It's Neil 
Volume 141/1000
Mental Game: A
Played: 12
2nd: 1
6th: 1
ROI: -7.3%
ITM: 16.7%
P & L: -$0.44
Not much to write about on this session really. I played 12 tables and ran them out as I was not in the mood to play, but having talked about a 1000 game month on skype earlier I felt I had to play some games.
I never really had a decent run of cards in the session and managed to run KK into AA, losing after flopping a set and some standard coolers/beats like AQ v A7s & 66 v 77 etc
Still can't grumble at how things are going in these as I am only losing a small amount when I run/play bad.
I am looking at options to make my volume targets attainable, stretching me to play more games than I have ever played whilst maintaining a good ROI and still putting in some time learning and attending coachings etc.
I need to push the volume as I want to be in the $1.50 games by the end of Feb. Without big volume I will stay in the 50c games too long. I seem to always find other things to do and get side tracked too often and for too long. I also need to stop running sessions out early as I seem prone to doing lately.
If dinner is cancelled tomorrow night (possible), I will run a long session as there will be no reason to be distracted and go for volume. I should be able to play 4 to 5 hours straight, which I have never attempted before. If I managed that I think I will have 50-60 games played.
I have now played over 100 games on my 12 tiled table setup and the results are encouraging:
ROI: >60%
ITM: >28%
P & L: $45.56
Mental marks were high again this set had no worries for me at all 
Volume 162/1000
Mental Game: C
Played: 21
1st: 1
ITM: 4
ROI: 19.6%
ITM: 23.8%
P & L: $2.06
Dinner is on this evening so I am unlikely to play again tonight . As it is I played a small set before heading out earlier and managed a profit even though at one point I thought I was going to bomb out of all my tourneys and end up with a total loss.
Mental Game was difficult, I was bitching on skype about beats, they are just standard spots where most often I got my money in good and never held or I moaned that the BB always seems to have AQ when I am BvB shoving a less than premium hand. I particularly remember getting annoyed KK v QQ v AQ and losing pretty much my whole stack instead of becoming chip leader with 15 left with that potential triple up.
I need to remedy this if I want to take the whole thing seriously as these suckouts will happen time after time, it's the nature of the beast, I need to man up and load another table. I have thought about the stopping of my sessions early and want to erradicate this nonsense from my sets. From now on I need to be making poor plays due to tilt to stop a session. Today I was annoyed, but making correct choices in the main so felt I was not overly affected by tilt, I continued on until I hit my time limit on loading games. I will do that from now on, set a time to stop loading, normally 1.5 hours before I need to stop playing as all my games are finished within that timeframe even if I make it to HU and that lasts a while.
I did manage to FT a nice table along with one of our 45man Skype group, Seerup, who took a big suckout and was left having to push anything to survive. I managed to take that 1 down as my only session win. My ITM finishes were poor, 4, 5, 6 & 7 along with the win which is not great, I tend to get onto the final table and play pretty aggro to either bust just out of the money or chip up and get to the decent money for top 3 or 4. I suspect I will need to refine my ranges as I move up stakes but for now the plan seems to be working out.
7th place exit was A5o in the CO with 4 bb and the BB wakes up with AJo - gg
6th place exit was AQo in the SB shoving 5bb over a EP limper, he had 10bb and called with J9s and binked the 9 - gg
5th place exit was poor in that I managed to get blinded away. Not my style at all, but there was little I could do about it. I need to review that game later on tonight as I wasn't happy. The final hand was J3s v 54s and he binked the 5 on the flop - pg (poor game)
4th place exit was Q8o v 22 BvB and the guy hits a full house - gg
So some work to be done reviewing, but I really want to spend more time playing, so will do it quickly and get on the tables sooner.