AbvUrPlayGrd

Better luck with the next one!

Well, here's the facts of the matter, for what it's worth. Poker is a really shitty game. I can't think of a worse game to play for money. Yes, there are some really crappy games out there, but poker is special. You are constantly fighting a love/ hate battle with it. You know you should be winning, you know you are better than your results, but you can't do anything about luck and that's where the struggle comes in. In the game of roulette, you could pick 1 number and it never come in for you, ever. Highly unlikely, but possible. Now compare that to poker, where there are many more variables involved, and you begin to see the problem. You may never win a tournament in your entire life and may go bust reloading at cash games before variance decides you've had enough bad luck. When you look at it in those terms, you're doing ok 🙂 Keep making the best decisions you can and if you don't go broke in the meantime, it will turn around(probably). You already know all this, but sometimes it's just nice to have someone reinforce it.

It is now 🙂 LOL Excellent! I'm using that. So now when someone asks me what I'm playing, I'm playing Ploker because I'm a Ploist. The next person I speak to after a conversation like that, will be a psychiatric nurse i'm sure 😆

Been a while, so quick update.... Haven't been putting in much volume at all. What may surprise those of you who have followed this blog, is that the little time I have been playing, it's mainly been PLO 😆. Yeah, the game I hated. It all started with the monthly challenge, when I used PLO to complete some of the challenges. I think it's the mood I've been in lately, where I haven't really had the time or the patience to grind tournaments or NLH, and so PLO seemed to fit in nicely. No time commitment and plenty of action to keep my interest. I got into a bit of a hole with the challenge, mainly due to those damn Hexapro's. PLO is what has actually helped me recover and start heading in the right direction again, all be it, slowly, as I'm not playing much and only at 4PL. It's way too scary for me to even think about moving up, until I am more confident with it. However, considering that I'm basically a PLO beginner, there are some really bad players. I can only assume they are just there simply for a gamble and have money to burn. Which is fair enough. Current BR €583 (had slipped to€525) Oh yes and while I remember. This is me when I flop the stone-cold nuts, go to bet, and then realise I folded pre-flop !

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Well yes, otherwise it might not look as good! Pretty pointless way of doing ROI when I think about it because everyone knows what I started with so it's easy to work out 🤦‍♂️ As it happens, it was probably quite accurate as I was playing €2<. Not so much now I'm starting to add bigger buy-ins. I'll see if I can get a report at the end of the year and see what it ends up being. LOL possibly but i'll try and do both because I like torturing myself 😁

It's most likely from the construction work, especially if it also involves some demolition work.

Lovely isn't it 🙂 (mind you, I only started with £50) Won a handful so far, a few 2nds and 3rd's. A couple of those were around €150 mark which helps a lot at the stakes I'm playing. But It's hard to know with any accuracy without tracking software and I don't have the will to write these things down at the moment. I have great respect for those of you who do. I would say that some of the adjustments I've made, mean that I reach the money less often, but when I do, it's tends to be a deep run.

If I had watched that Wordle video at around 5 mins, before I started playing poker, I never would have started 😂

So, I gave in to the 1% and played a €5 because for the first time in a while, I felt like i was in the mood for a 4 or 5hr game. Turned out to be a €10 game because I hadn't realised there was an add-on 🤦‍♂️. I had 10k>chips and above avge at the time> from 3k starting stack and the add-on was 7k, so for me it was very borderline to take it or not, plus technically, I was already playing above my BR. With about 3 seconds left to decide, I cringed and took it. Prepared to punch myself in the nuts if I didn't at least win back my outlay. . I would be interested what others think with regard to taking the Add-on in that situation? As it happened, I was fortunate enough to make a nice profit from the game and would have been H/U if I could have held against a FD. The question is, would I have made it, had I not taken the add-on! I honestly don't know for sure. At one point I made a misjudgement when already in the money and went down to just under 3bb. So based on that, you would think the extra chips saved me, would I have taken different decisions in other spots if I didn't have the cushion. I certainly would have had to play more aggressively at points where I would have either been out or won more than the add-on. Also, I never really doubled up to the point where the 7k extra made a difference. On this one, I'm leaning towards believing the add-on was a good choice, but I don't think it was a clear-cut choice at the time. Incidentally, my major misjudgement earlier was I believe out of frustration as much as anything else. Once in the money, I never got a raise through without at least a call. And the BB always defended against my raise. I got AA back to back (never happens to me) and guess what, everyone folded both times 😂 Very pleased with my discipline (once in the game ☺️ ) , especially as I was the shorty again when reaching the FT. It was nice to play something other than micro's and a slightly better field (generally). Would I have posted this if I hadn't cashed? Probably not tonight anyway, because I would have still been rolling about in agony! BR= €554 ROI= 1004% (enjoy it while it lasts) ITM = 21%

Sky is incredibly soft and I know of a couple of stables that play there for that reason (or at least used to, may have changed in the last couple of years). I have an account kicking about somewhere but it was so antiquated that I couldn't live with it. They do have the ability to take notes as you say. Which is always nice. That's really my only gripe with UB. Not having the ability to take notes. I think it's great being able to change ID's and not allowing software but I really don't understand why we can't have notes or even just colour coding. Would make life so much easier AND UB would make more money 😉

Swimming is the best all round exercise. Just get an all-over body massage with moisturiser 😉 win/win As for running...I can't think of anything worse! I would rather get in the ring with Mike Tyson and have my ear bitten off!

BR is fairly stagnant at the moment on £395. Every time I should be cruising over the €400 mark, something like this happens..🤦‍♂️ Final table all-in pre for CL HU 😪 I always feel when its coming! Don't think I'm playing too well lately. Making some poor decisions but scraping through with the occasional spark of brilliance 🤪 I'm desperate to start playing €5> , so I decided to play a qualifier to get a ticket, because I'm trying to remain disciplined (99% success rate). I didn't realise it was for a "live" game. Is it possible to have this ticket exchanged for a generic €10 MTT or 2x €5 ? I can't find any details in the lobby to show what or where the live games are going to be held.

I stopped using the auto top-up feature for that reason and because I think it's dangerous if you're having a bad session and just don't realise how bad, until you close and look at your balance ......

When you see the rake displayed as clearly as that, it strikes home just how much of an impact it makes. At least 07condja didn't pay rake, that's the benefit of losing 🙂