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Re: If Chris Ferguson can do it, so can I
« Reply #705 on: May 09, 2010, 09:30:18 AM »
Right, lets think about this. What I"m looking for is a variant I can grind to produce a nice steady income stream so I can take a few stabs at glory in NLH tournaments. Maybe what I"ve been looking for is Omaha H/L limit rather than pot limit. Might be worth a try.
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Re: If Chris Ferguson can do it, so can I
« Reply #706 on: May 15, 2010, 09:36:31 AM »
Things finally seem to have turned the corner with a 3rd from 41 runners in a Mickey Mouse tournament on VCBet, cashing in one of those Pokerstars freerolls (for a whopping $0.12!),but best of all is the cash play is going really well. I had one pot limit hi/lo session last night when I managed to almost quadruple my buy-in within 30 minutes. Happy days.
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Re: If Chris Ferguson can do it, so can I
« Reply #707 on: May 15, 2010, 21:36:05 PM »
Anyone know when the season 3 medals are going to be sent out?
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Re: If Chris Ferguson can do it, so can I
« Reply #708 on: May 16, 2010, 23:03:23 PM »
It seems like the poker gods still regard me as their personal plaything; someone who can be brought out and kicked in the gonads for the amusement of all. Tonight"s entertainment was in the Pokerplayer freeroll, where in addition to the $500 dollars on offer, the final 28 players receive an invitation to the Loose Cannon on June 6 to take part in a 32 runner (4 players from the magazine itself) world cup-themed tournament with $3500 on offer.
  There were 249 competitors and in typical Partypoker style, I played little poker but went deep by shoving into unopened pots on a regular basis. With 46 runners left I was well inside the 28 player cut-off mark and may possibly have been in a position to fold into a place in the London event. However, I felt that to be certain, I either had to pick up a big hand or try to steal no more than one, or maybe two, pots. On the fateful hand, the action folded to me on the button where I was dealt AJ. In the small blind was a player with approximately double my stack and the big blind had half my holding. As picking up the blinds and antes would have increased my stack by 15-20%, I didn"t have to think twice before I shoved. Unfortunately, the small blind had AQ, the big blind AK and there was no miracle Jack on the board.
 I sometimes wonder why I f*****g bother. I"ve now had four consecutive months of being dumped upon at crucial moments in tournaments. Dear god, I never thought I"d see the day, but sometime soon I may, in a moment of weakness, resort to saying that most pointless of all poker phrases "One time". Maybe the poker gods are trying to send me a sign by ensuring that I never win a tournament again whilst I make hay on the cash tables. Yeah, right. Maybe they are just w*****s after all.  
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Re: If Chris Ferguson can do it, so can I
« Reply #709 on: May 17, 2010, 09:31:50 AM »

Anyone know when the season 3 medals are going to be sent out?

Patience, 8 months and waiting!  :D
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Re: If Chris Ferguson can do it, so can I
« Reply #710 on: May 17, 2010, 11:48:04 AM »
U should post every mtt bust-out hand for the next week into the apat academy section and see if you are making any fundamental errors.  It will be good for your game regardless.  Also, have a team-viewer/skype session with someone who"s opinion you value.  There is 100% no better way of learning than this!
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Re: If Chris Ferguson can do it, so can I
« Reply #711 on: May 17, 2010, 11:54:57 AM »

U should post every mtt bust-out hand for the next week into the apat academy section and see if you are making any fundamental errors.  It will be good for your game regardless.  Also, have a team-viewer/skype session with someone who"s opinion you value.  There is 100% no better way of learning than this!


The final bust out hand is rarely where the fundamental errors are made.....

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Re: If Chris Ferguson can do it, so can I
« Reply #712 on: May 17, 2010, 12:11:38 PM »
Valid.........just trying to get more hands in academy :)

Maybe pick 1 crucial hand from every mtt and post it!
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Re: If Chris Ferguson can do it, so can I
« Reply #713 on: May 17, 2010, 17:08:51 PM »


U should post every mtt bust-out hand for the next week into the apat academy section and see if you are making any fundamental errors.  It will be good for your game regardless.  Also, have a team-viewer/skype session with someone who"s opinion you value.  There is 100% no better way of learning than this!


The final bust out hand is rarely where the fundamental errors are made.....


A very good point indeed. Its normally the case that someone who consistenly falls short of big wins is doing something wrong much earlier in the tournament, generally by playing too passively. However, it is also true that its next to impossible to win a tournament without emerging victorius in a coinflip or two or hitting any monster hands.
  Take all the foul language out of my recent entries on this blog and there is a real frustration at how things have gone for me so far this year. I had one or two decent results in January but from the middle of that month onwards absolutely nothing has gone my way. Thankfully, my cash play has gone really well recently and somehow despite being a self-confessed awful Omaha Hi player, I"m consistently making money playing Omaha Hi/Lo.
  I think my main saving grace is that, as the name of this blog indicates, I am operating to strict bankroll management guidelines. After nearly five years of playing, I also recently opened a bank account to allow me to separate my poker money from everything else. Its not that I"m a losing player, far from it, my poker winnings have always been absorbed into other areas. Since I started keeping a profit and loss for my play I"ve been in the black for 2 years and my only annual loss was in the region of $150.  I suppose part of the frustration comes from playing way below what I regard as a level I am capable of playing at. Yes, i think I"m competive in $50 tournaments (Certainly in the ones that have been on Blue Square over the last couple of years!), but if I"m to stay within my own bankroll rules, that isn"t an option yet. Maybe, without those rules, I"d have had to take a break from the game. 
 Chris Ferguson took several months to move out of the freeroll and microstakes games he started at in his challenge and I suppose I could just be impatient. However, the next time I play in one of those micro stakes tournaments on Pokerstars with 5500 runners and get down to the final 200, that coinflip that could put me in the top 10 if it goes my way will be welcome. I fully expect to move up a buy-in level or two on the cash tables sometime soon, although I don"t want to rush things as I"m playing a variant I"m very new to, so recognise I have one or two deficincies to iron out.
  I"ve never been a fan of posting exit hands. Its partly because, as Steve so rightly said, doing so only gives a very small part of the overall picture. The cards and chipstacks are only part of the equation; how did you think your opponents would react to how you played the hand in question? Why did you think they would react that way? Have you watched every single hand at your table in the tournament? Have you been watching repeats of "Top Gear" on Dave and/or trying to chat-up some very attractive woman from work on Facebook whilst playing? Without knowing all the thought process of the player in question and without seeing every hand played, exit hands only tell part of the story.
 In terms of evaluating hands and tournaments, I"m fortunate in that almost all of my large family play the game to a reasonable standard, including one brother-in-law with a record of 2 cashes from 3 appearances in APAT live nationals. If there is a specific situation that I need to discuss, I"ve got someone on hand to run through things in some depth.
 I suppose what this all boils down to is that since being a bit stricter with myself, I"ve not yet changed my mentality from that of the tournament player looking for one big hit to someone happy with building things gradually. At least I"m still in profit. I just need that little piece of luck to go my way at a crucial moment. Onetime!          
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« Reply #714 on: May 18, 2010, 12:43:20 PM »
.....and the point I managed to miss from yesterday"s post is that one of the reasons for maintaining a certain amount of discipline and trying to build gradually is that part of my funds are already earmarked. My bankroll is only in three-figures, but I"ve decided that I want to play in the GUKPT "Club" event at Great Yarmouth in October, so although my bank account says one thing, I treat it as reading a couple of hundred quid less. I"m not sure what the standard of play will be like at this event, but financially it makes far more sense to play a £200 tournament 20 miles from home than to travel across the country, or abroad, for something costing £75 to buy into.  
 So much for not going for one big hit
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« Reply #715 on: May 21, 2010, 20:31:08 PM »
Despite posting on here a couple of days ago that I wasn"t going to post any hand details, sod its my blog, I"ll do what I want, so for your perusal is a hand taken from a $3 tourney on Pokerstars. My departure hand was KJ v pockets twos with the pair holding, but shortly before came a hand that crippled me.
  About 40 minutes in and I"ve increased my 3000 chip starting stack to loose change over 4000. I"ve not had any big confrontations, but played solid positional poker, reraising a couple of times and generally easing a few chips off the weaker players. On the hand in question UGT limped as did the player two or three to his left. I was dealt Ak suited in late position so made a standard raise. The blinds both folded, the first limper called and the second limper also folded. The flop came A46 with the four and six of the same suit. The Villain put in a bet marginally under half the pot, so on with the thinking cap. My gut instinct was that I was ahead. In those low value tournaments players often can"t get away from any pair or ace so I put my opponent on a very wide range. In a better quality tournament I may have taken a player who limped UTG, called a raise then put in a low C-bet to be extremely strong. However, at this level I felt that I could just as easily have been up against a pair of some description or a weaker ace so I shoved. To my surprise, he turned over 4 6 offsuit for a flopped two pair and I failed to improve.
   If anyone has any comments apart from " What was that dozy pillock doing limping UTG then calling a raise with 4/6" feel free to post your observations however criticial.    
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« Reply #716 on: May 21, 2010, 22:50:46 PM »
And here"s another one. Pokerstars again, this time the buy-in is $2 and there are 5000 runners.
    UTG Limps with the bet being about 1/14 of his stack. I"m in late position with about 7.5 x the BB and I"ve got AQ suited so in it goes. Limp-boy calls, flips over K2 and it goes without saying that he hits a 2 on the river. What sort of c*** limps UTG with K2 then calls a shove? I"ve had four whole months of getting turned over by these w*****s and frankly I haven"t got a f*****g clue why I bother.
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Re: If Chris Ferguson can do it, so can I
« Reply #717 on: May 25, 2010, 13:21:07 PM »
variance is a big kick in the guts, i also have no results to be proud of due to being in theory "unlucky" but sometimes trying to win races just dont go your way whether you have the pair or the overcards pre, the deck can be cursed, just keep grinding the hi/lo tables and possibly play less tourneys. cant wait till october either, i will bring the value with me to yarmouth. what is the date of the club event?
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Re: If Chris Ferguson can do it, so can I
« Reply #718 on: May 25, 2010, 22:39:54 PM »

variance is a big kick in the guts, i also have no results to be proud of due to being in theory "unlucky" but sometimes trying to win races just dont go your way whether you have the pair or the overcards pre, the deck can be cursed, just keep grinding the hi/lo tables and possibly play less tourneys. cant wait till october either, i will bring the value with me to yarmouth. what is the date of the club event?


The GUKPT club event at Yarmouth is on October 16th and it has my name on it

Yep, variance is a sod and it sure as hell hasn"t evened itself out over the course of the year so far. I"m actually enjoying cash play far more than tournaments at the moment, so that"s what I"ll be doing for the next few days. There will however be a couple of tweaks to my playing plans from the start of June:

1) I will only play one table at a time. I have successfully multitabled Omaha hi/lo on a number of occasions, but the instances of me losing a complete buy-in have tended to be when I"ve been doing this. I"m really happy with my "A" game, but my "B" game sucks, so giving my full attention to one table only will prevent losses.
2) I"m going to change the tournaments I focus on. I"ll forget about those cheap buy-in/huge field tourneys on Pokerstars, as whilst they would boost bank my bankroll enormously when I actually take one down, I"m looking for consistent growth rather than one big hit. With that in mind, I"ll play a few more low-value deepstacks on Ladbrokes as my returns are good on those, I"ll play a few non-turbo events on Betfair as I do well on there as well and I will also return to playing stud tournaments on Partypoker. Yes, the buy-ins will still be tiny, but there are certain sites I seem to make steady rather than spectacular progress on, so that"s where I will concentrate.
3) I"m in London for a couple of days in June, but I will not be visiting The Vic. From my previous visits, the £1/£1 cash game looks to be of an absolutely shocking standard and I can"t wait to get stuck into it, but the Max buy-in is £200 and my current "roll doesn"t allow me to stick that amount in the middle on a single hand as I would like to be able to. Slightly further down the line, live cash play definitely forms part of my profit making plan, I just haven"t the resources to do that just yet.      
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Re: If Chris Ferguson can do it, so can I
« Reply #719 on: May 26, 2010, 19:20:52 PM »
So Sky Poker now has Omaha Hi/Lo. Yeeeeeee Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. What will I spent my profits on?
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