Fish Or Chips

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im going to give a daily account of my poker in this thread.i play 8-10 hours a day on pacific(888).the games i play are $40 triple up,where the winner gets $120.so is it fish for the fish or the chips for me? we'll see:brr

[peza2605]

hope it goes well EP.

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thats the nicest thing a manc had ever said to me ,bless you:D

[presto]

good lu...... nah - thats not the right word. - hope you do well with this EP, will be following your progress.

[yerotsluap]

All the best for this EP

[sparkyminer]

What name do you play under EP?
I could do with watching some games to brush up and it's always nice to have an added interest when watching a game.

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3cwp

[sparkyminer]

Cheers mate. I've just watched your last game and I'm watching your current one.:)

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see that one as well sparks:wiggle:

[sparkyminer]

Yep. Money for old rope mate.:D
Being a total poker nobber myself, I've not been impressed with your opponents so far. I think the game before last had slightly better players but not much.:)

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up $213 so far today

[Mavrick]

Are y ou still playing ep, I can't seem to see you?

[presto]

i must say playing for 8-10 hours sounds very taxing, do you always keep your disciplin for that ammount of time?

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Are y ou still playing er, I can't seem to see you?

ill be back on between 6 and 7 up $290 at the mo

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i must say playing for 8-10 hours sounds very taxing, do you always keep your disciplin for that ammount of time?

i,m pretty good most of the time.but you cant win every day.i lost $220 wednesday, but still up $700 this week

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well its been a chips day today.all the fish are floating on top of the water. i've spent 8 and a half hours playing,and i'm up $386,so its a big:wiggle:.just cracked open my first can of murphy's enjoying the rugby

[Mavrick]

Well done ep, I watched a couple of your games tonight. I had to go out when you had about 3000 and were heads up. I assume you won that one then?

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yes,i lost my first 2 games tonight marginally,and then i won 2 which put me $80 up tonight minus commission

[Mavrick]

Nice recovery on that game.

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getting killed by a few fish mind.all in earlier aq gets a call a5,and 2 5s popsout::swearbut still in front

[Mavrick]

That one must have been a bit tough to take.

There's no way I could do that for living. I'd be an emotional wreck.

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bit of a mixed bag today.i got to stop for the day before tilt sets in.the number of times i lost all in calls with the best hand was no-ones business,the worst being jj vs j9 spades only to lose to a flush on the river.have a look at these games i won.the first one i played a guy that would bet at everything and wouldnt believe that i had an 8.the second one the guy must have been gutted,after i caught a straight on the flop.
the end of the day i was only up $16 dollars,but its been a cracker of a week,winning over $800

[Mavrick]

I was watching the last one, but my computer died. Not a bad week then.

It passes the time whilst waiting for Keiths system banker selections so I'll try to keep an eye out for you. No pressure:D

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i,ve had an excellent month mav,i,ve cleared $3-4k

[Mavrick]

i,ve cleared $3-4k:yikes:

Very nice.

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Loving the old granny avatar EP :D I'd have a butcher's myself if the pacific client would actually install. Apparently it's down to my firewall that er I don't actually have switched on so chuff knows what the problem is.

[Mavrick]

Just watched your last one. That was one brave call.

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which one was that

[Mavrick]

The very last hand. Pair of 7's, or did you have trips and I missed it?

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i had trips 7s he was drawing dead:wiggle:

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called it a day today.first day of the week and it was a fish day,mind you i met a few sharks on the way.so it was 5 hours play and a loss of $126:ermmm

[Mavrick]

Then it wasn't such a brave call then:D

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this is what i mean when i'm playing fish,he raised me preflop just like every hand so i went all in

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fish,fish:censored:fish.thats all i can say about today.down $286,must have played 11 or 12 $40 triple ups.i probably lost about 9 all ins with the best hand.
this has got to be my worst day that i have ever played. have a look at the picture below,i gets raised preflop and then he goes all in on the flop;fire,f:censored:g idiot thats all i can say.so now its going to be the multi table for the rest of the night and play ultra tight:ermmm

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went out 68th had $60 back.some clever f:censored:r raised with 9j os and i had kk,and the genius hit 4 clubs:yikes:.
so down $226 today,so tomorrow is anothed day,another dollar

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Unlucky there EP. My luck took a small turn for the better on losing-hand-wins-stars last night. Deciding to be all in at every opportunity with the worst hand I out drew everyone like a donk. Hehe worked nicely.

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its been a good afternoon today,winning exactly what i lost yesterday($226).
i've just come off a 10 on a table($50entry fee) in 3rd place ,all in with AQ suited and gets a call with A4,i wont even say what happened;fire.
so having a little break now and i'll have another go at the $20000 guarenteed again tonight

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tough day today with fish raising with 3&5,4&9 etc and then catching straights,2 pair.just feel like giving them a good shaking for being a fish and getting lucky.up $21 on the day after being up $200 this morning;fire.
you just cant keep a good fish down:helper

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not too clever yesterday,i think i was just a calling station all day,totally lost my discipline,and paid the price by losing $167.this is the worste week of the year.
i,ve had 1 losing week since last november so i got friday and saturday to try and turn it around

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another mixed day won 97 bucks on the poker and i took an £80 bet on england +30 and a half points on the rugby @1.36 so well chuffed on the day.
no poker after midday tomorrow as i am out watching the boys entertain the ostroilians:D

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had a few fun games this morning,and won $16,but its the end of the week and looking at the spreadsheet,i'm $187 dollars down,which is not a pretty sight.
looking back on the week i have to hold my hand up and say i played a lot of games badly(calling all ins with only a draw).also i,ve had a lot of bad luck,but tomorrow is the start of a new week and i must change my frame of mind,as poker is a psychological game.
anyway out now for a few beers and give the lads a bit of support against the aussies

[Profit Seeker]

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[sportingprofit]

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pretty good day.up $91 for 5 hours work,so not bad.
had a lot of bad beats on the way as well, you got to take the rough with th smooth.
also i'm in a better frame of mind to what i was last week.there is nothing better that playing with confidence,which is what i've had all day.
should have a better week than the last:thumbs

[Profit Seeker]

Good to see you're back to winning ways.

I've had the most bizarre poker day! Having gotten rivered with the best hand to start with about 5 times in succession I just went mad and blew the rest of my roll (from my old site not my serious one) on a bigger than usual STT. First hand I have 45 with a board of 33355, I bet get raised and call hoping theres no 4th 3 out there. Of course there is. The very next hand I flop a str8, get little bit of action, claw it back to evens. Few hands later, a board of 2TTT9 and I have JJ, I bet and get raised again, surely I can't be quadded out twice in one game?!?! Yup, sure can, and yet still had 800 in chips, I then flop a flush the very next hand :laugh pure madness. Carry on...:waver

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definate fish day today,goes all in with aa and gets a call with 10j and out comes 10 j.also i loses 2 huge pots on the river when i am in front on 4th st.
so at the moment i am down $104,but i've paid $27 to play the $20000 guarenteed at 8.30.fingers crossed.:helper

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down $60 at the end of play .up $31 on the week:mad:

[paul183195]

[QUOTE=eruptive plot;438742.up $31 on the week:mad:[/QUOTE]so far :thumbs

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up $38 on the day definately a fish day.
only up $69 on the week,it is normally up 2-300 by now.
i'm sure this game is getting harder

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someone give me a good kick up the:butthead:.
when i started this thread i said i was playing triple ups,but i've strayed onto the 10 on a table tourneys.
i've said all along that it is much harder to make money on those tables than it is to make money on the triple ups.
if you think logically it must be easier to knock out 2 and grab the pot,than it is to knock out 7 to make a divi.
today i played 3,10 on a table tourneys and failed miserably to fish,so i said to myself "why arn't i winning so much any more",and the answer is,my strength in poker is heads up or triple up.
so the rest of the day that is all i've stuck to for 8 hours and won an impressive 283 dollars

[Mavrick]

We all have bad periods whether we are playing poker or betting on the hosres. It is just statistics, so keep to what you know and it will all turn out cool.

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had about 7 hours today and came away $78 up so i,ve passed the $400 mark on the week,which is what i target every week

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definate chips day today.most of the games today i found out i was playing idiots within the first 5 hands,the reason being they would raise in the region of 4-5 bb preflop,and the when the winner is revealed he ends
up with hands like 89.
once you got this information,you get a warm glow,and the confidence oozes.and as soon as you get the big hand and you get raised,just move all in.
i got paid off so many times today i was getting bored.
so!!! passed the $500 mark on the week and feeing quite good about myself.
the only blip on the day was,i laid france @1.22 for £100,so i lost £22,but all in all very pleased

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bad day at the office yesterday,and a word of warning to every poker player,DONT PLAY WHEN VERY DRUNK,which i did last night.i normally play 20-40 dollar tables but last night it was a few 50s and a few 100s.i couldnt have played any worse.just checked my balance and it was down $297,so all that hard work and good play was dented badly last night by Stella:headbange

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not the best of luck yesterday down $60,but i did enter the $80000 guarenteed at a cost of $96.
i've now gone out of these big tourneys with the same hand 5 times in a row(pocket kings),and each time,either the ace comes out or someone gets trips,so that is my bogey hand

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biggest fish day of the year yesterday,so bad that i swiched to betfair poker(in which i hate but made a profit).
i wouuld raise subtantially with hage pairs only to get called with rag cards,and then get outdrawn.in one hand a 4567 come out and i had 89 and moved all in,only to get beaten with a 67 when another 6 come out.
so well done to the fish yesterday costing me$195

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i think this is going down to be the most draining week of poker that i have played.
on the way that i've played i should be up near 6-7 hundred dollars by now.
the number of times i've been in front on the turn,only to lose on the river is laughable,most of the time they got a 6% chance of hitting.
so the close of play today i am 115 dollars in profit,but still down on the week:cryer

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nice comeback yesterday with just about all the premium hands holding up,and a nice profit of $286,which puts me in front of around 140-150 dollars this week

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a day of "just played bad" all day yesterday.i was in the wrong frame of mind all day,not feeling too good,and got spanked.
the day cost me $180.
so today i,ll be out gunning. trust me!!!

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yes, back into the swing of it yesterday with a more focused approach to every hand.
most of the big hands holding up.a few fish who thought that cards like 4&7,3&8 etc were good enough to play got lucky.but a good day and a profit of$174

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yesterday was a huge fish day!!!!,and beginning to think,why did i start this thread?.since starting ive had 2 losing weeks(3 this year).must have lost 90% of all in calls with the best hand.so a bad day and a small loss on the week.
but the month is still goodish(up $900)

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good start to the new week,everything i played hit even when i was playing like a fish.so up $262 on the first day of the week.
lets keep it up:D

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down a very small amount yesterday.too many 10 on a table tourneys

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pretty good yesterday,cleared a ton,not too many bad beats,so going quite well this week:wiggle:

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another goodish day(up$82).it could have been more,but musnt grumble.
i got 2 scarey days ahead of me tomorrow and friday,job interviews both days:yikes:.
time to make a move now,been on the dole for 6 months and getting a bit podgy.only work i do now is on the pc,so i think i need a few months of hard graft,got to get back into my racing snake physique:D

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long tim since the last post.the dole forced me into work;fire
had to take a day off today with a trapped nerve in the back(the pain is unbelievable)but won a few good hundred since the last post:D,today i'm actualy earning more than the job pays(well its not hard to beat the minimum wage is it!!!)
so its a nice chips day today:thumbs

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biggest fish day that i have ever had:mad:.i must have lost 8 or 9 all in calls when i was 70%+,then i lost one hand when i called an all in on the turn when i was 95%,but have a look at the screenshots below. to lose on the flop when i was 99.4% to take the pot makes my::swear blood boil:headbange

[laffo16]

feel for ya their bud, thats one hek of a bad beat goddamn!. just a few questions for ya, do you use any software while you play (huds or calcs) or after your sessions such as poker tracker? do you multi-table if so how many tables? how long have you been playing for? those are some serious stakes your at, did you grind your way to that level? any advice for a novice player appreciated. i will be starting a new BR at party sometime soon, will be from the bottom 0.10/0.25 level.

[mathare]

those are some serious stakes your at, did you grind your way to that level?Is that not an SnG? The chip stacks total 15000 so I'd say it's more likely to be an SnG

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feel for ya their bud, thats one hek of a bad beat goddamn!. just a few questions for ya, do you use any software while you play (huds or calcs) or after your sessions such as poker tracker? do you multi-table if so how many tables? how long have you been playing for? those are some serious stakes your at, did you grind your way to that level? any advice for a novice player appreciated. i will be starting a new BR at party sometime soon, will be from the bottom 0.10/0.25 level.

no mate i dont use any software,i am a tight/agressive player,i only play one table at a time,i cant play multi-tables,there is too much going on at one time.
and yes matt this is a sit n go $20 buy in.i dont have the confidence to play big stakes for cash.
any advice for a novice player? yes be very selective with your starting hands,pairs and ace picture kicker,if you hit your trips you will win most of the time

[laffo16]

cheers, think i'll hit the sng's too, i find them more intresting then regular NL games as the blinds increase and preflop flop hand selections starts to loosen up, keeps me on my toes and more focused on the game.

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biggest fish week in 5 years of playing poker.when i got a 70%+ chance of winning a pot on the flop,my strike rate is around 20%,which is costing me dearly. got to be down in the region of $800 this week:yikes:
i must be on tilt,i think i'll take a few days off it :headbange

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one hell of a chips weekend winning almost everything.
its so nice when the huge hands hold up to fish callers.
i must have cleared $1500 this month which is very nice.
overall this year i cleared around $6k compared to around $18k last year,but i was on the dole for 6 months last year.

happy new year to all w2w members and hope we can all have a prosperous 2009

[John]

No idea how this thread's escaped me, but I've just read it from head to toe and must say very well played EP! Tell me to mind my own business, but are you playing poker full time again, or are you engaged in other things? Be nice to see you posting your results regularly since I enjoy reading about how others are getting on. Well done again fella. :)

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well john, i dont play full time but i probably get in about 30 hours a week in, playing in the evenings and weekend.
ive just started to up my tables to $50 max now(sit n go),where you dont get so many idiots outdrawing you with ridiculous odds!!!
so fingers crossed:thumbs

[John]

Nice one. :thumbs Hope things go well for you in the new year.

[counterfeit]

Like John - I missed this thread somehow. Just read it right through.

I'm not really sure why you were on the dole and they made you go to work. You weren't far off being able to play poker for a living. It was only a tiny step up from where you were.

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due to me being unemployed "again",i'll start my daily account from next week.an absolute fish day yesterday with me getting beaten by that::swear ace all in to big pp 7 or 8 times.i got a bit of my $200 back late last night and this morning,but ive got to get back into the mentality that i had when i was jobless last time.
fingers crossed

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not a good day really to start my life on the dole again.
had a lot of bad beats,the worste being my ace 5 against his kk when the flop comes up 55j.he gives me a cheap look and then moves all in on the flop,and what happens, spade,spade to give him a flush;fire how lucky is that.
i must have had the best hand 90% of the time yesterday at the time of shoving,only to get outdrawn.

so first day i lost $10 which is not too bad but other days it could had been up $200

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day 2 on the dole;
another fish day;fire
i just cant believe getting beaten with the best hand for most of the day against bad odds for the monkeys.
for example my kk vs a2 spades. blinds are 25/50 he raises to 100 i raise to 200,he calls. a rainbow hits with no big cards he raises big at me,so i push.he calls to no surprise(fish) spade spade.
another example when the blinds are 50/100.i catch 2 2s with a nothing hand but 2 clubs are on the flop.i bet 200 he calls knowing hes chasing a flush,so i push giving him an even money bet when he is a 3/1 shot, and surprise surprise jack of clubs;fire.
so day 2 $13 profit from 7 hours play.

bloody brilliant

[mathare]

Keep it up EP - one day all these plays will flip on their head and you'll end up on the right side of them all and make a killing.

It's about making the right decision not necessarily getting the right result

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cheers matt i won the first $20 triple up of today,playing my same way so up $38.50 so far.fingers crossed for the rest of the day

[John]

It's about making the right decision not necessarily getting the right result

Exactly. Something I learned WAY too late, that. If you play your hands well, and make correct moves, it doesn't really matter what happens. You know you did the right thing.

Keep it up EP - watching with a lot of interest as I'm currently "in-limbo" poker-wise at the moment... good luck fella you can beat 'em, you've proven that already. :)

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cheers john,the poker gods are clashing and the good is beating the bad.
im up over $100 today so far

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day 3 on the dole.
this was a game of 2, 4 hour sessions, or should i say a game of 2 halves.
the first session everything held up and won about $110. but in the second session my first game was a 10 man $30 sng.on the very first hand i was in early position with kk and decided that i would raise 200 and then push if no ace come out.so i gets one call of 200 and the flop comes out,4jq(rainbow),playing first i pushes and my caller has jj,so thats the end of that one.
then i play a few hours of $20 triple ups, losing more than i was winning, including getting aces busted,but the final staw was this,a 10 man $20 sng.i manages to make the final 3 so im guarenteed $40,the blinds are 300/600 so we are at the push or fold stage.what happens next only beggars belief.the guy is playing first and don’t raise so i see a full house on the flop.he then pushes and i get a warm feeling inside,thinking ace 6 or king anything.
anyway you just got to call that.
see the outcome below

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so day 3 i wins $83

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one message dont play poker when you're drunk!!!
i had a cracking 2 hours yesterday afternoon,winning $100.i then went out on the razz last night and when i came home i played like a super agressive idiot and lost $110.
so i'm not too happy this morning:ermmm

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a good day yesterday,when most big hands held up.
you just got to laugh sometimes.if you type something into the chatboard about how bad someone just played,you can guarentee that that person will raise you every time that you are big blind.they just want to punish you for any disrespect that you've shown,only to their own expense in the end.
so the end of the day i won $113

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first week on the dole,i won $220.not brill but profit.
sunday i lost $120 with cold decks all day.every time when i had good hands and i needed to double up,the fish would call my all in pushes only to catch that ::swear ace all the time. so a bad start to week 2

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a nothing day yesterday,only winning $11.
somedays you just cant win,whatever you got in your hand

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another fish day yesterday,the best one was an all in with 37 vs my kk,and as if by magic he catches 2 3s and a 7;fire.
so i lost $3 on the day

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a fairly good day when most of the big hands held up.i went out on the bubble 3 or 4 times to desperate fish,but hey :dung.
so all in all a nice profit of $181

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not too good a day yesterday.getting beaten at crucial points in a lot of sit n gos.had aces busted when there were 4 left. i also had trip 3 s busted to a flush fish.so another day of losing.
down $66:ermmm

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didnt play much yesterday,but it was a mixed bag.i got outdone by a lot of chancers but i still won $70.
not too happy last night though,i had a $10 & $20 sitngo running at the same time,and my isp went down for half an hour. by the time i got back on the tables the blinds were 100/200, and i got 800 left.at the same time i had ak and aq and moved all in on both tables only to get taken out by fish sharks with excellent 10j and k8;fire.
dont think i'll be playing much today as my step daugther is getting engaged tonight,and muggins and his missus has got to cook all the food :helper

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only 3 sit n gos today.out on the first hand in the first game with pocket 8s to an over agressive idiot with 66.flop comes out 478 by the time the turn come out i was 2 thirds of my stack comitted so i push and woow be tide a 5 on the river.i put him on a bigger pair or ak,so the shark done me good(well played).
then i played a $10 and a $20 sitngo,i won the $20 and came 3rd in the $10,so on the day i outlaid $55 and got back $120.
all in all a chips day

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not brilliant last night,being bubble boy 3 or 4 times,but won $40.
its nice to start the week with SOME profit!!!

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not too bad of a day,only winning $50 though.
i think now that i must go back to playing $20 triple ups.these 10 man sng's just take too long and today again im bubble boy on a lot of games, to fish who will bet anything and hope to hit and get you out.
$88 is not too bad a start for the week but when i was doing this 2 years ago i was making $3-400 average a week.
so i got to play in my comfort zone to what i know best, and that is 3 man tables.

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big tilt day yesterday,where the poker gods and the fish made a mockery of "odds".one game i was 88.6% on the turn where i had straight with 3 hearts on the straight(the board read10h,qh,as,jh) ,i got qc kh,going for a "royal".the shark decided to push with his ace queen with 2 pairs,not believing that i hit my straight,and surprise surprise,another ace (not the one for a royal)on the river;fire.
so down what i won sunday and monday.
back to square 1:anger

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after a shocking afternoon i ends the day exactly up what i lost the day before.

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yesterday,the poker gods were very good to me with all the monsters eating up all the fish.
up$184,not bad for 6 hours work:wiggle:





happy days.

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only played a few sit n gos yesterday for about 3 hours,and found it to be quite an enjoyable experience winning $107.its nice when the huge hands hold up.only once i got aces busted to a fish who went all in with his huge 7 10 suited,and hit his straight on the flop,but i still outplayed him and took his money off him:wiggle:
so ending the week on a high after a rocky start

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had a couple of hours playing on 2 sites last night.
i won $53 on pacific,but getting aces busted on the bubble to queens wasnt nice,especially when one guy was nearly out;fire.
and i won $85 on the bf poker site.
so not a bad start to the week.
i hope this week that i can win the $400 that i won last week

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another tough day yesterday,only winning $53.
its not good enough for 9 hours poker;fire

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another day of winning a small amount.i only won $30 on pacific,i got to say i lost my discipline on times.
but in one hour last night i was playing heads up sin n go on bf poker,and my balance went up £41.that must equate into about 50-55 dollars.
so all in all thats 11 out of the last 12 days of profit.:wiggle:

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absolutely savage!!!!. thats the only explanation that i can say for yesterday.
every huge hand got smashed,big time, including trip queens.
the final straw was the last game when i just pushed preflop with aces and gets called by a shark with an even better hand,cough,cough, king 10.to my utter amazement the flop was qqk.after the day that i had you just know that the other king will come out even though he's a 10% chance.and surprise surprise,the next card is a king;fire.
i just had to go to bed then having lost $162 on the day.
days like that are rare for me,you get one like that about 1 in 3-4 months.
i just got to brush myself down and get back in the ring.

[mathare]

i just got to brush myself down and get back in the ring.Quite right EP. You had a tough day but it sounds like you kept getting your money in good but just ended up on the wrong side of these hands. Poker is about making the right decisions each time even though luck means you may not always get the right result. Stick at it kid :thumbs

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Stick at it kid :thumbs

i stuck at it fow a few hours matt. i had jj beaten by 10 10.kk beaten by 59;fire.
at the moment i feel as though i cant play any more
down another $59:helper

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the bad beats roll on and on.
i wont go into too much detail,but someone is taking the piss out of odds at the moment.
end of day up $21

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i am officially now "on tilt".i have got to the point where i will call anything.
i have got to get the mentality back that has served me well.
so down $91 yesterday
and down $158 on the week.:anger

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feeling better yesterday.friday and saturday my head was not at the table.
i only won $40 but profit is profit

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a good profitible day today but the profits dont tell the story.
here is a list of knock out calls by fish
aa vs a10 8%;fire
ak vs a9 33%;fire
aj vs a 10 23%;fire
10 10 vs kq 43% ok fair enough
aq vs kq 25%;fire
77 vs a5 30%;fire

so after a 9 hour slog i won $140

[barrelmaniac]

if i finished the day up $140 i would be well happy, unfortunately I dont think that there would be enough hours in the day to do that on my 5/10c tables lol.

I know its been a bit of a rough ride lately but do you think that you are well on the way to making an income from poker? Out of interest what stake tables are you playing on at the moment? Are you still playing on the triple up tables?

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I know its been a bit of a rough ride lately but do you think that you are well on the way to making an income from poker? Out of interest what stake tables are you playing on at the moment? Are you still playing on the triple up tables?

im on the dole now mate so this is my income now.
i play more 10 man tables than triple ups,but triple ups is my love.its a totally different game to 10 man tables,its a game where i will call any raise in position to see the flop.i should get back onto them soon because it is more profitible.


anyway as for today its been a good day on the tables winning $107.
and also a good cheltenham,i had $20 on that Garde Champetre at 4/1,so happy days :wiggle:

[mathare]

Have you tried cash games EP? I can't remember if I have asked you this before, and of so what you said in reply.

Some players suit tourneys better than cash and some the other way round. Just wondering if you had played cash to see how your results there stack up.

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i've tried cash but its a different ball game alltogether
sit n go is my comfort zone matt,i usually know where i stand in tourneys.you need nerves of steel puting cash down per hand

[mathare]

i've tried cash but its a different ball game alltogether
sit n go is my comfort zone matt,i usually know where i stand in tourneys.you need nerves of steel puting cash down per handFair enough, worth me asking though. I know exactly what you mean too. I can happily play NLHE SnGs but found NLHE cash games really weren't my game. Limit cash games on the other hand, I do well at (apart from the other day when I suffered from serious brain freeze). As long as you know you're playing to your strengths that's the main thing

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not the best of days yesterday.
i met a lot of aces yesterday,and also when i had them,others were hitting trips.
so at the end of play i was $15 to the good.
cheltenham was kind to me again,netting a few winners and a £50 profit,so relatively happy

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a day of not paying attention due to cheltenham,and when i had big hands i lost to bigger ones.i lost with a full house 3 times yesterday,that is sheer bad luck.
so on the day i lost $30

on the horse front my betfair account is looking prosperous.i found a thread on this site this week displaying betfair market movers.all i've done is put a tenner on the horses whos prices are shrinking, and the strike rate has been excellent.
with these market movers and a good cheltenham i'm £200 to the good this week:wiggle:

[mathare]

i lost with a full house 3 times yesterday,that is sheer bad luck.You certainly seem to be getting the rough end of it recently.

with these market movers and a good cheltenham i'm £200 to the good this week:wiggle:Nice one :thumbs

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not too worried though matt,i know that big hands are profitible.
as for these market movers,i dont know if it is profitible over a period,so i am thinking of a staking plan.the strike rate for the last 3 days is about 50%.
obviously the best plan is 1-3% of a betting bank and adjust as the bank changes.
i'll keep you informed how they go

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another nothing day on the poker tables,losing $23 on pacific,and winning $50 on bf poker.
good news again on the horse front.
i had £4 win on the first winner at chelt @6/1,and the betfair market movers made a 3.5 point profit.it would have been 9.5 points if imperial skylight wasnt short headed;fire
so on the day, fairly happy :wiggle:

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a non gambling day yesterday due to the celebrations at the theatre of dreams:D.
gambling and drinking dont mix.
so up around $200 on the week.but my bf account shot up£300+

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a poor start to the week losing $51 getting nothing most of the time, and then when i have to push i usually got the best hand but end up on the wrong side.
so today i revert back to triple up.
also today i will put betfair market movers as a system. i will put a filter into them,the filter being,
1.biggest odds,5
2.must be in first 3 in betting
it made another 3.5 points profit yesterday.
so today its a £500 betting bank and i'll be betting 2% on every selection for that day and then adjust daily

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ive had a bad run for a while now,and it is still continuing.played a few triple ups yesterday, won the first 2.on the third game i gets a guy all in with qq i had kk, river card ::swear queen,the rest is history.i loses a few more triple ups and then my confidence is shattered.so i played a few 10 man $10 tables,and at the end of play i won a massive $16;fire.
on the horse front my bf market movers made a loss of £19 to £10 stakes.i missed out badly on cava bien.it moved in from 4.4 into 3.45 in the morning.i managed to get 3.6 but the damn thing drifted to 6.4 and won,and that would have put me in the black.
so not a good day yesterday

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a shocker again!!! after losing 8 $10 sin n gos on the trot,i manages to win 2 $20 triple ups,then a few misses and a third(or something like that).
on the day i won $26 whoooopeeee;fire

on a better note my bf market mover system is going really well.
on the day it made a 7.6 point profit,with that damn shillingstone short headed again.
in the 2 weeks that i have been doing these it has produced 44 selections with 22 winners and a profit of 18 points,so i am very upbeat about these selections.

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todays bf market mover system selections
2.20
Lindeman 1.61 in to 1.36
2.30
Obe Royal 7.80 in to 5.0
2.40
Mount Benger 1.86 in to 1.58
3.00
Head Down 3.75 in to 2.62
3.50
Craven 6.60 in to 4.70
4.10
Sir Liam 7.80 in to 4.70
7.50 Haashed 5.6 in to 3.6
8.20 Luberon 3.45 in to 3.05
8.50 Key Regard 3.6 in to 3
9.20 Leonaldo 4.8 in to 4.2
Caprio 4.9 in to 3.9

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no more posting system selections again,i knew i would give it the kiss of death,losing £70 of real money.
i'm torn now on what poker to play in the day time.
playing 10 man tables gives me time to get betting selections,spreadsheet them,and place them. i dont get that time playing triple ups as you have got to make a decision every 10 seconds or so.
but after yesterday id be better off not playing 10 man tables at all!!!.
i must have lost around $80 by around 5pm.
the beat of the day was my kk vs kj hearts.what made it worse i even hit a king,but mr fish hit 3 hearts;fire
i played 3 triple ups last night and won all 3.i could tell that most of them were drinking,you just get that feeling by their erratic play.
so the close of play yesterday i won $32 on poker and lost £70 on horses.
but the horse system is still over £100 up.just got to take the rough with the smooth i suppose.

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just cant win on these 10 man tables,its just a fish fest!!!
i ends up losing $30 on 888.
my luck changed on bf poker.i played a $1000 guarenteed multi table with a buy in of $22.it took an hour and a half and i came 4th with a prize of $122.
on the horse front i had a shocker of a start.in the first 5 selections i had 1 winner(odds on) and 4 seconds:yikes:.
i did manage to pull back a bit but still ended up on the wrong side,losing £16 :ermmm

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fan dabby bloody dozzzy!!!!!!!!!!!
one hour,just 1 hours play today,and i loses $11 on pacific, but played a $1200 guarenteed tourney on bf poker and only won it,ching ching!!!!.$388 prize money for coming first.
these tornament are all about bullying with large chip counts,and every time i did it i came up smelling of roses.
as for the horses i made a loss of around £40,but you cant win em all can you

[mathare]

Nice work EP :thumbs

Payback for all those hands when you got unluckily drawn out on

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cheers matt.got to say i rode my luck on times.and yes it does make up for all those bad beats.
you only want 2 of these a week and its happy days.but like we all know poker isnt always like that

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a quiet start to the new week with a small profit of $30.
the poker odds gods were not very kind to me with a few rag aces beating my picture pairs,you just got to grin and bear it when it happens and tell them "nice hand".

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a fish day yesterday at a cost of $19 to me

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not bad yesterday with a profit of around $100,but it should have been a lot more,having kings busted by 8s in a $1200 guarenteed tourney when there were 14 left and top 9 get paid.
i also gets aces busted by kings in another big tournament,so things didnt run very smooth again.

[Profit Seeker]

Something to praps help you through ur bad run. I'm currently on a 60 buy in downswing 12 tabling 45man turbos on Stars. Yesterday, once into push fold mode, not sure how many games I played maybe 30, a slow day, I ran into AA 12 times, got dealt AA 9 times received no action whatsoever on a single one of them, AK 13 times hit not a single flop with like 4 callers min to every massive preflop raise with them. These are the times our sanity is questioned!!!!

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yesterday the poker gods were having a few drinks and having a few laughs together and said to one another "give this guy big hands all day and make him lose everytime",and thats exactly what happened all day long.
i wont go into any detail,you've heard it all before.
its just so ::swear anoying.
on the day i lost $79;fire

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much better yesterday,or should i say much better playing the drunks last night.
i was struggling all day untl about 4pm then i wins 2 $10 tables.but then i played from 11 till 2am and won around $90.
so on the day i win $148 :wiggle:

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got into a few slagging matches today.one guy called me a fish when i halved his stack by calling his 200 bet raise when the blinds were 25/50.i had king 2 and the flop came out 227,three of us were all in,the other 2 hands were qq and ace 7.nothing else came out and at that point i become chipleader.
to me the secret of poker profits is to get your chips in when you are sure that you are ahead at that point.
the rest is history and i went on to take the crown.
on the day i only won $24,but i had 1 bet on the horses and that was a £10 win on the winner of the lincoln at odds of 4.6 so not too bad of a day.i got to say though my head is spinning at the poker table with some of the beats.one hand today i was all in with ak and got a call with kk.i hit my ace on the flop and he hits his king on the river,its just incredible,4 kings out ;fire

[sportingprofit]

got into a few slagging matches today.one guy called me a fish when i halved his stack by calling his 200 bet raise when the blinds were 25/50.i had king 2 and the flop came out 227,three of us were all in,the other 2 hands were qq and ace 7.nothing else came out and at that point i become chipleader.

he was right, that's a fishy preflop call :rolleyes:

i got to say though my head is spinning at the poker table with some of the beats.one hand today i was all in with ak and got a call with kk.i hit my ace on the flop and he hits his king on the river,its just incredible,4 kings out ;fire

that's not a beat, you had the worse hand :ermmm

good luck,

sp

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it might have been a fishy call,but what i didnt mention in my prevoius thread,i had the dealer button.
ok to call a raise is a bit of a gamble with king 2 but once you have hit in such a way,you have got to go for the jugular there and then.
i am no poker shark but i know the importace of position on the table,there is nothing better than watching everyone commit their chips and you are last to act with near nuts at that point.
as for the ak vs kk i know he had the best hand and he deserved it,but i was all in preflop and once that ace has hit he has vitually no chance of winning,its just one of those things

[sportingprofit]

it might have been a fishy call,but what i didnt mention in my prevoius thread,i had the dealer button.
ok to call a raise is a bit of a gamble with king 2 but once you have hit in such a way,you have got to go for the jugular there and then.


having the button is far less relevant when stack sizes are shallow and your just going to get yourself in trouble unless you make 2 pair or trips which is going to happen a very small % of the time. When you just flop a pair, you are going to be dominated when getting it all-in a very high % of the time.

-sp

[mathare]

Button or not, I can't see me ever calling a 4xBB bet with K2. I may raise with it although I'd usually fold it but I can't see any reason to call with it.

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i agree with you all,it was just a spur of the moment decision that paid off handsomely.
we all know that calling loosly on large tables is not profitible,but we all do it from time to time
i am generally a tight agressive player on the 10 man tables and generally call most raises on the triple up tables.
as for today i have lost just about every all in decision,ive played 8 $10 games and lost the lot with the best hand every time, the best being my kk vs 96,the shark hits his 9 and 6, and better still he calls me a fool :headbange

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a handsome profit of $41 for about 10 hours work,woo hoo!!!.
you just cant believe what they will call or push with just to get you out,for example,2 of us left,i got k 10 and he got j 8.the flop comes out 9 10 k.
hes only 28% but still moves all in,and you guessed it a queen on the river;fire.
so today i'll be determined for more.

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:ermmm another shocker going out in the very first hand with kings in one game then aces the next ;fire.we all want to win,but fish just dont care or understand odds.
on the day -$39 :headbange

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this game is just driving me insane at the moment.
had a small win of $35 for about 8-9 hours work. i went out on the bubble nearly every game in which i never cashed,that must have been 5 or 6 times so you can imagine it could have been $1-2 hundred on the day

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a tough week on the poker table again where the fish are getting the better of me again.wednesday or thursday i signed up to party poker.
it started off well for the first day with a 100% roi,but i found myself going out in 4th place quite a lot since then.but on the close of play last night i found myself up £35,and 60% of my first £20 bonus had been earned,so i am still upbeat on this site.
saturday was a good day for me on bf poker.i played one multi table tournament at a cost of $20 and came first for a prize of $240.the poker gods were good to me in that one when i really needed it.
so all in all i cleared over £200 on the week which is my target to get by every week

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an absolute shocker on pp yesterday,i just kept coming 4th,but what gets me is the fact that i got the best hand at the time of elimination just about every time ,eg ak vs a7 and the shark draws a 7;fire.
just got to hang in and hope the odds even out

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can someone PLEASE show me how to play poker;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire.
i cant take no more plese trust me.this is only in james bond films.
no no no please.
this is my last game tonight.
i got jk and my freind got aa.
the flop comes out kk7 no bet by either the turn comes out jack,so i got a full house and the shark moves all in.
im in tears here to what the river is .
please god eat me up.or should i say "join the ::swear 10% club"
::swear me an ace on the river.
please,give me some credit;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire

[Healio]

can someone PLEASE show me how to play poker;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire.
i cant take no more plese trust me.this is only in james bond films.
no no no please.
this is my last game tonight.
i got jk and my freind got aa.
the flop comes out kk7 no bet by either the turn comes out jack,so i got a full house and the shark moves all in.
im in tears here to what the river is .
please god eat me up.or should i say "join the ::swear 10% club"
::swear me an ace on the river.
please,give me some credit;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire;fire

You should have bet the flop at the very least.

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appologies for my drunken rant last night,but after a week of bad beats that was the icing on the cake.
even though i didnt win the last game last night i still managed to win about $60,but all in all a poor week

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fish day today,but won a bit but should have been over $100.
one instance was 3 of us left on a $20 10 man tourney,mr fish raises 3 times bb to 1200,i re raises all in and he got jq to my kk.jack on the flop and jack on the river;fire. i gets $40 and fish gets $100;fire
a game later, 2 of us left i hits top pair,and shark hits bottom pair,he moves all in and gets trips on the river;fire
it can be so annoying sometimes(sorry a lot of the time)

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enough is enough as donna summer once sang.
as most of you who have been following this thread know that i have made a good income over the years playing triple up sit n gos on pacific while being on the dole.
but last year i was given a good job and for some reason,i dont know why, changed back into the habit of playing 10 man sit n gos.
an to be honest you need to be lucky as well as skillful to make a profit overall on those.
but february this year i become a victim to the credit crunch and lost my job as storeman in a company that made washer systems for cars.
however i carried on playing these fish infested 10 man tables.
i have made a small profit and luckily had a spare grand floating in my account,in which i have withdrawn most of it.
so getting to the point of this post,im going back to triple ups as from now for business, and will still play the odd fish fests for entertainment but not many at all.
yesterday was a horrible time for me lost again with any 2 to sharks that are down thousands of $$$$ on the site.
but late last night i played 3 triple ups,and won 2 of them.and do you know what,IT FELT GOOD.
the bottom line is i want to see the flops,i want to play my hands,and if i think that i got you,i will take yer chips

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some result for me today,had a phone call to start work again tomorrow.
good shift as well to watch the horses, 6 till 2 ::hump.
now that beats a royal flush :D

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total fish weekend.at this point of time i have lost around 12 games on the bounce and a loss of $200 on the weekend.
the bottom line is,im getting beaten by luck,losing nearly all the all ins.
i'm getting soooo close to finishing people off and then they win 3 or 4 all ins on the bounce with absolute trash

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now that i'm back in work my poker activities has dropped from 50 hours a week down to about 15.sofrom now on i'll do a weekly report.
anyway,last week was a good week,winning around $250, winning most of it on the weekend.
its strange that somedays you cant win a bean with huge hands,and then another day you hit everything.
at the moment im mixing my games that i play.
sometimes its 10 man $10 sit n gos,and then it could be $20 triple ups,doing ok on both.

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got to post a mid week update.
just played a classic,i gets 44 and mr trout gets 78.the flop comes down 247 rainbow.
the blinds are 150 300 btw. trout bets 300 i raise to 900,trout moves all in and im 96% when i pushed
have i got to tell you what 2 magical cards come out?
its only 2 possibilities.
and the funny thing is he's up $10k on sharkscope

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a mixed week really,with a lot of 80% losses on the way.
yesterday was particularly bad, losing a load of 80%ers but still managed to win about $40.
on the week i won $240 which is not bad for about 18-20 hours of pleasure/torture :laugh

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one hell of a chips week,thats all i can say!!!.
ive spent all week working 12 hour shifts,so i have only spent 4 hours playing poker, one hour saturday morning and 3 hours saturday evening,but to win £170 in that time is something else, considering i lost my first 2 games of the day(10+20 man tables).the triple ups stood me in good stead,sitting there like a coiled snake waiting to pounce.the trick to winning these games is waiting until you can beat pocket aces,just let the others bet at you and then ask a serious question on the river.:wiggle:

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a week when the fish ate the chips.i lost more 80%ers preflop and postflop than i care about.
:dung but you just got to get on with it.
a week when i broke even just about

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this week is a bitter pill to swallow.
i am getting beaten almost every game by absolute monkeys.
as soon as the flop hits they are attacking me big time with any 2 and catching straights,2 pair flushes,you name it and they got it and you can guarentee ive got top pair or better.
i am down $170 as i speak this week :headbange.
trust me,i aint happy ::swear

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the less i say about the last week the better:helper
getting beaten by guys losing $k's game after game.
all in all i lost $260 on the week.
watch out this week i'm on a mission;fire

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a pretty good week all in all winning $150 but still getting outdrawn by monkeys more than i should have.the percentages are just not being fair at the moment::swear

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i should have copied and pasted the last post for this weeks results.
up $150 so i've got back the "bad week" that i encountered 2 weeks ago

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i was hoping to post another profit of $150,but a bad night on the razz cost me dearly.also had a few bad beats on the way.
so the weekly result is a small profit of $45

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Quite a good week overall,winning $240 with most of my profits occuring friday evening and saturday afternoon.
Just got to keep it up now

happy days

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absolute genius!!!!!
my midweek post showed a loss of 18 games on the bounce.how the::swear can you come back from that.well in a lot of games today i cast my rod with premium bait and got some huge bites.
i never thought i'd be writing a winning post but you got to give me credit where credit is due.ive played exactly the same way that i have played ever since i started to make a profit at this game,and today was the day. at this point of writing ive won $140 this week.
its funny though because this week ive hit more sets than ever and got murdered until today

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this is the end of the week for me.an up and down week to say the least, but i won $140,so not too bad a week.
anyway the reason its the end of the week is,today i'm off to a small town in idaho to get married.
why idaho?,well its where my future wife's sister lives and we are getting married in the same venue as where she got married,in a large field on a bandstand.
so i got 2 weeks to recharge the batteries and then come back with all guns blazing.
good luck all
ollie

[mathare]

Hope the wedding goes well mate - and congratulations :thumbs :)

[John]

Wow! Big Congrats! And hope you have an awesome time... :thumbs

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cheers guys its 9 am in salt lake city now,and were gonna have a look at the temple today,then move on to a place called palisades to see where my brother in law works,then move on to yellowstone for a few days before i get married.
its a hell of a long trip to get here,we had a 9 hour flight to mineapolis and then a 2 and a half hour flight to slc.all in all it took 24 hours to get from my front door to the hotel ,so im a bit cream crackered at the moment.
will try to update next week
all the best,and be lucky

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all in all it was one hell of a good trip.i've done yellowstone before,but it was just as good second time around.the scenery there is second to none.
ive uploaded a few pics from yellowstone,the first on is from jackson lake with the grand teton mountain range in the background.then we got the bison roaming around,(not to be messed around with),then we got the grand canyon of yellowstone.you have got to be there to really appreciate it.and the last one is of the hot mammoth springs.so if ever you fancy a trip to the states i would highly reccomend yellowstone and all the area around it.
as for the wedding it went really well,we had it in a park on a wooden gazebo,we all had a blast.
but coming back to the thread of poker,its been quite a shocker,a nice start by discovering i had a $95 bonus to add to my account.didnt really win or lose too much untill friday and saturday evening to the 25% sharks who would call all ins as long as the hit any card only to outdraw me.so at the end of the week ive lost that $95 plus $140 more::swear

[John]

That fourth shot is stunning - amazing colours and composition. What sort of camera have you used? Really glad the wedding went well and congrats again! :thumbs Sounds like you had an amazing time. Know what you mean about all in calls from people with only a handful of outs, they have hit me bad in the last week or so. Getting really tired of it! Good luck.

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cheers john.the camera i got is a canon digital ixus 75 its a very small camera with a big screen.the photos ive taken with them are really excellent,as soon as my mother saw mine she had to get one.
she is delighted with hers as well.if you are looking for a camera check out the ixus range,they are an impressive piece of kit:thumbs
this is the one that ive got my eye on now http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0015RXA1S/interactiveda3051-21

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only one thing to say to all the fish this week
well done

ive just about broken even after another torrid week

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its been another up and down week so far just about breaking even until tonight.
the mentality i took was not to allow fish into the pot whenever i had big pairs,but you cant keep a good fish down,i was getting paid off time after time.only once i got an all in call with my aa vs 10 6!!! and he hit 10 and 6 ;fire.
and then he called me cr@p.
i just replied that "you are too good for me" and got a sharp reply "i know";fire.
but we need fish in the game to make it pay long term.
so on the night ive made 90 odd $'s

[mathare]

I've probably asked this before and the answer may well be in this thread if I bothered to look but what type of game are you playing, to what stakes, how often and where?

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its one of 2 games matt.
either $10,10 man tables where its 50,30,20%,or triple up where winner takes all $10 or $20.
and i have realy got to get into the mentality that i had 2 years ago when i won $18k.
i play 10 man table so that i can browse the tinternet early on and then take notice when the blinds jump up.
triple ups is a specialist game just like heads up(more psychological).that is where i won the bucks playing those.
how about you matt are you still playing sit n gos,and what types?

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what i didnt mention matt,when i play 10 man tables i only play ak or pp early on.
no other ace unless i got the dealer button.
where as on triple ups i am the ultimate fish when in position and when i hit 2 pair its fireworks

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I came off the $10 STTs on PokerStars on Monday when I had a real stinker losing $120 not playing that badly. I had also reached a milestone I had set myself of 150 such events and wanted a slight change of scenery so switched to my former love of limit cash games. I am starting to regret that decision after the past couple of days though.

Poker is a full time thing for me now. I have the time and am trying to spend around 40 hours a week (at least) playing. I just need to find a game I am happy to play that much and that I can grind out a profit in but I am still struggling to handle downswings. I don't know if my recent results are just part of natural variance or whether my game has slipped so much I am a proper loser. I think from my records it's the former but confidence is a big part of my game and that is draining away with my bankroll.

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not a bad week all in all winning around $120.but yesterday was a real stinker when the river drowned me.
i had the nut flush in one hand on the turn only for someone to go all in with trips and then the board paired up to give him a full house(80%+ on the turn)
and then later i had 99 dealt,the hand went 150 call call preflop,,i got the dealer button,the flop comes out 349 rainbow,then it went 330 fold and at that point i had to let him know that he was in danger of getting busted out with a raise to 660.he must have been thinking "got him with my pocket queens",so he moves all in,so i automatically calls knowing that im 90%+ even if hes holding aces.then the devil poker gods moved in with a jack on the turn and a queen on the river;fire.
days like that are just soooooo frustrating so yesterday was a bad start to the week losing around $50

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i'm going through one of those hellish weeks again losing nearly all 60% chances when it gets down to heads up on the 10 man tables,but last night took the biscuit.i was playing triple ups losing just about every shove to piranah's.
in 4 games on the flop i was 90% and lost the lot,i was getting 2 pair just like my piranah friend only for him to hit the other one to give him a full house.
i know i play profitible poker,even sharkscope has put a shark next to my name,but that just dont matter when you get beaten by 8% shots.
its just so ::swear frustrating at the moment.
3 days into this week and i am down $150 and cant see me turning that around this week,but if this trend continues i can see me having to buy a new pc monitor.


these are not happy days on the poker table,but all this money that these fish have borrowed from me will be paying back soonwith interest

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first game tonight. trip 77 on the flop all in on the turn with only a diamond to hit and fish gets me (22%).
2nd game tonight trip 6s only to run into trip 8s::swear
3rd game tonight 3 left chipleader raises with pocket 5s i push jj,he hits 5.(19%)
jesus

lucky that i have won a game tonight and got a few places otherwise my screen may have gone;fire

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heres one that i just came off and i even posted into the chatboard that i had a 2 on the flop but like a pro he didnt believe me. i was 93.74% on the flop with 1 out for him,i love this game;fire

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this has got to be the toughest week of poker that i have ever encounterd.
i have never had as many sets beat in the last 2 years as i have this week,it is just demoralising.10% chances are just beating me all of the time.
but yesterday betfair phoned me up to do a survey and offered me a game of up to $55 on any table on bf poker and if i lose i would be refunded.
i played a $50+5, 6 man stt.i kept my cool during the whole game,never allowed any fish into the pot whenever i had a monster and won the tournament with a handsome payout of $180.
so that makes it a break even week,or there abouts.could be worste.
i am getting to the point now where i think that the game is getting to me and maybe take a few days off.we'll see how i feel tomorrow

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after the last week,or should i say the last month,i've decided that i have got to take a week off from this game.
i am now officially "on tilt".
saturday night just took the biscuit with fish calling huge preflop bets only to hit big,for example fish raises 2*bb with qt i reraise all in like i always do with aa only for the shark to hit qqt on the flop:headbange.
and just about every time someone got a pp they hit to make a set.
since ive come back from my wedding ive lost around $400.i'd have normally won around $4-6 hundred with my style of play,so this it a massive swing in the wrong direction.
i've always said that you need fish on the table to make money,but the fish that i have encountered lately have been piranahs:omg:

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since my last post,i've had to deposit $200 into my account.i think only my 3rd deposit into this site since i started on pacific,so i'm not very happy paying money to fish.
ive still had numerous beats when im 90%+ on the flop.but i just get on with it now.
my best hand of the week was when i was dealt 55 and got raised preflop by a shark with kj.the flop comes down 554:omg: quads!!!.the turn was jack and the river jack:wiggle:.the poor fish "got battered" ive got to say.that was a very nice hand to give my friend 2 free cards to make him feel unbeatable
but p/l since my last post is +$240 which is getting back on tracks

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i think the less i say about last week the better,as they say.
from sunday night until tuesday i played 28 stt's (10 man tables) and lost 27 of them:yikes:.and that is a personal record for me,and you can guarentee i was getting my chips in with the best hand 90% of the time only to lose out to those sharks again.quote of the week in the chatboard was when i pushed with my kk and lost to a shark with jq he called me an idiot;fire.
i pulled a bit back since tuesday but still lost in the region of $180(how embarassing).
i told myself from then 10 man stts are for fun and triple ups are for business.so from now on i am going back to business for 90% of the time and have a 10 man stt as a last game of the evening

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what the::swear have i been doing this year on the poker tables.
i tell everyone to avoid the 10 man stts,and what do i do?,i play them continuously day after day after day,hours on end.
over the years i have won somewhere in the region of $26k on pacific(888).and if i break down my winnings its in the region of
1 $18k on triple ups/heads up
2 $5k multi table tourneys(ultra tight play) aa or kk nothing less
3 $3k on 10 man stts.
the stats says it all,on the triple ups you get to see around 80-90% of flops which is what i want.i just love calling a preflop raise in position and hitting big and then let him fill the pot for you.
anyway back to results,this week i reverted back to triple ups on wednesday evening and won $200 up until now for the week.
i just feel mad with myself for changing my game for soooo long.
i feel as though ive thrown away $3-4k this year.
after the run that i have had since wednesday, i feel that i got the strong mentality back that i had 2 years ago.ive never had that playing 10 man stts

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after reverting to my triple up/heads up games i am glad to say a nice 3 figure profit for the week $220 mainly to $10 stakes,so getting back into it nicely

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an ok week for me for a change winning $150 or so.but some shockers along the way as per usual

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i've been with pacific 888 for a number of years now,but this week after an afternoon of disconnections and losing money without being able to defend myself ive decided to hang up my chips with this site and move on to a new site.
so ive checked out reviews of sites and decided to join full tilt.they offer a 100% sign up bonus of up to $600 and you have 90 days to accrue it.
so i joined up saturday morning depositing $300, and in the first 13 games that i have played i have an roi of 107%:yikes:. if only i could keep that up!!!
so this weekend up to now im up $152.
i am thinking of trying the multi tables though.these are games of patience with huge rewards for getting to the final tables

[mathare]

Nice work EP.

Remind me again what type of games you're playing? Is it $10 STTs?

And what do you think of the general standard of play on Full Tilt? It's probably the only network I haven't tried yet

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yes generally matt,$10 9 man tables.
but this morning i came second in a $10, 45 man tornament winning somewhere in the region of $112.
once i get upto around $500 if i do,i'll move up to $20 tables.
but these multi table tournaments at the moment have captured my imagination.
they are all $24 to enter and some of them have up to $8k for winning them

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and the standard play on this network is the same as every site.
$10 tables are fishfests:D

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after the first week on full tilt i have got to say that "i'm very happy".
ive played 56 games of $10 sit n gos and im up $275.by the way it took 56 games to get my first $20 bonus out of the $300 that i deposited.
the quickest way to get the bonus is to play heads up as they dont take long to complete.
my roi has dropped to 45% from the 107% that i achieved in the first 2 days,that is still good though.
as i mentioned last week i am very interested in multi tables.
ive played 5 or 6 $10,45 man tables and ive came second twice ($112) and a third ($72),so that is just about my total profit playing these.
as for the site,its the biggest and the best. you are guarenteed to play a game almost instantly at any time of the day,and they have tournaments running all the time with 1000+ entries with huge payouts. for a $10 entry into one of these you can win $3k.
love it:thumbs

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my roi is starting to get to more realistic figure now(42%).there is no way of keeping it at 60%+ without being lucky.
today was one of those unlucky days with kk losing 9j,qq losing to 55 and ak losing to 10 10 with all 3 hitting straights.
since i started im up $364.the games i play now are 45 man and 90 man sit n gos.it gives good entertainment value

[barrelmaniac]

what is ability /100 ? Im assuming it takes into account how good someone can relistically be with 100 being the maximum?

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its just a rating usually the good players get a rating of between 70-80.but i havnt seen anyone above 80 yet.
all the fish stay around the 50 mark.i dont think it drops below that.
but today i have been beaten in about 10-12 games continuously,with the last game i shoved on the bubble with ak suited and got called with aq os(river card q;fire).
so now my roi is down to 30%

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not a bad week all in all winning around 1-2 hundred after a poor week last week.i've been up since 3am with an infection in my back and a bad cough,so played a few multi's.i came 4th in one winning $45 and came second in a 90 man tourney winning $175,so it does benefit being ill sometimes:laugh.
sharkscope has put a little shark next to my username now which makes me a little big headed at the moment.but we all know what poker is like,it could all end up in:cryer next week,but at the moment i'm pretty happy

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had a week that id rather forget, losing in the region of $150,most of the time to all in calls to fish calling with any 2 and getting lucky.
the highlight of the week was wednesday night when i enterered a $10 multi table tourney.it stared at 6pm and at 2am it was still going with me leading the tourney with 20 left.the first prize was $5000 by the way.within 5 hands i was out losing with aa and kk,so the less said the better i think on that tourney,i had $70 for 8 hours :ermmm,but it does give you a buzz when you get so close.
next time maybe eh!!!

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another week for the fish,one that i'd like to forget about as quick as possible and move on to the next week and a fresh start.
it was one of those weeks when 80% preflop was not good enough and cost me over $100 or so on the week.
so the message for the fish this week is "have a lend of $100 but you won't like my interest rates";fire
i'll be back as arnie said

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ive been having a few shockers of late,getting involved with big hands and getting outdrawn hand after hand,but the icing on the cake came a few minutes to go when i was dealt jj,the board came up 28j82 but this fish got me with pocket 2s and what made it worst was what i typed into the chatboard "got you fish",only to get a barrage of abuse back;fire
this game can be soooo frustrating at times

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been on full tilt now for 3 months,and after a good start i find myself behind now.if it wer'nt for the bonus that i've accrued i think i may have pulled the plug by now.
yesterday was an an absolute :omg:,when any 2 got beaten every time i got my money in.
first instance my 89d vs qd kh with 3 diamonds on the flop i pushed only for a 7th diamond to hit the hand ;fire
second instance i moved to the rush poker tables,i got 66 and im against ah 9h and kk, the flop comes down 6h 7h tc, 2 players before me bets $1 so to protect my set i bets £13 only for another heart to hit the river;fire.
third instance was the icing on the cake and made me sick to the core.i got qq on the button when the blinds are 5c/10c.i bets 55c preflop and gets 2 callers,the flop comes down jqk and gets bet at,so quickly again i moves all in with a $10 bet to protect my set in case he has an ace or ten but no he calls with his jj.and what comes out next? another ::swear jack.so a 4% shot puts $10 in and takes the pot again;fire.
its days like that when you think is it worth it?
but overall ive made good profits, and this and the lottery is my only form of gambling these days,so i will be back to claim my money back from these fish who are down $'sssssssss on the site :ermmm

[mathare]

I had a rough day on Full Tilt yesterday too. It was obviously fish day but as you say, it's just money lent and it will be coming back with interest :thumbs

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im so::swear upset at this site tonight that i'm on the verge of pulling the plug altogether i just cant take anymore.
losing to 2 pair or more all night hurts sooooo much but the final straw came on my last game of heads up,i was dominating my trout friend 2 to one nothing came out on the flop and trout pushes with his 8s and i calls with my 9s of course.the next card was a::swear::swear 8.JESUS::swear CHRIST.
and the icing on the cake was the last hand ak versus jj,ok the flop was 10,jack 4 and trout fires all in.how can i put down the nuts.it pains me to tell you the next card a f::swearg q JESUS ::swear CHRIST ,is it bed time.i can put up with trouts hitting 2 pair on the flop but to hit a 5% shot twice is taking the::swear pi$$.
sorry about the language but upset would not describe how im feeling tonight