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Djnuttie Poker Blog

At last its here, the djnuttie ‘all singing all dancing’ poker blog. Together we can share the highs, the lows and all the stuff that comes in between as we watch my poker career take off. Either that or I’ll fall flat on my face but at least we can have a laugh along the way.

Before I start with the ‘I bet this, he bet that’ type of posts, I thought I’d look back at my poker career to date.

History

I’ve always enjoyed a gamble and I’m good working with numbers so I guess it was only a matter of time before I stumbled into the world of Poker. After the Chris Moneymaker boom in 2003 I became aware of the Poker world. I watched the odd TV show and there were often poker related articles in the gambling magazine I subscribed too – Inside Edge (now renamed Inside Poker). At this point though I had no urge to venture into the online poker world.

November 2004

After watching Greg Raymer win the WSOP on TV towards the end of 2004 I logged onto Betfair one day and decided to click on the link ‘Download Poker software’. I knew how to play Texas Holdem but other than the basic rules I was basically an idiot. This cannot be demonstrated any better than when I tell you that after downloading the software I quickly scanned the lobby and decided my first online poker experience would be to sit down at a $1/$2 limit holdem cash table with $200 :roll: . Tut tut, or should it be tit tit!

About fifteen minutes later, I reloaded for another $200.

About twenty minutes after that I logged off and I wandered downstairs for something to eat thinking to myself ‘Jeez, I had a bad run of cards there.’

I think I chased every straight draw, every flush draw, and when I didn’t hit I bluffed at every pot on the river even though I was playing limit Holdem. what! :lol:

At this point in time I thought limit holdem cash games was the only show in town when it came to online poker. I didn’t realise you could play NL cash or NL MTTs.

November 2005

It was nearly a year later before I played online poker again. I wish I could say I’d spent the time in between like a character from a Rocky movie, training in the wilderness armed with a library of Poker books and Poker videos to prepare me for my comeback.

I was no better prepared than the first time. :roll:

I can’t remember why I returned, but I do remember it was about 8am on a weekday morning. I was staying at home all day and the Mrs was getting ready for work. I somehow managed to enter a small stakes MTT, even though I still didn’t know you could play an MTT online. So I’m thinking I’m playing cash limit holdem even though I’ve sat down at a MTT. :? Seriously you couldn’t make this up!

First hand, I’m on the button I get AK and its folded to me. Still not knowing its a tourney I think I can only raise to 40 so I hit raise. The SB folds and the BB goes all in. Now, imagine my confusion :? . Hes bet 1,500 and I’m under the impression you can only raise it 20 chips at a time. I’m staring at the screen thinking ‘1,500, what the hell does that mean?’. Whilst I’m trying to work out whats going on the machine starts beeping at me to make my play. I hit call. BB shows AA. I don’t improve and I’m out. To add to the confusion I’m left wandering why I haven’t been given the option to bring more cash to the table.

I spend 30 mins reading through the lobby and website before I realise whats going on. Confusion is suddenly replaced with excitement as I begin to realise that somehow its possible to play an online MTT, like the ones I’ve been watching on TV for the past couple of years. Wow! Not only that but they start every 10/15 minutes throughout the day! Holy shit! :shock: The Mrs left for work about 8.30am.

When the Mrs came home from work about 5pm I was playing in something like my 7th or 8th MTT of the day, unwashed, still in the same clothes as at 8.30am. The Mrs said ‘Have you been there all day?’.

‘Make me something to eat please, I’m staaaaaarrrrrrrving!’ I replied. I hadn’t even left the room for food! :lol:

From this day forward things would be very different.

December 2005 – June 2007

I started to pay more attention to the commentary when watching poker and I started reading poker articles in magazines. It soon became pretty clear that if I wanted to make money playing poker I needed to take the game seriously.

I bought a number of books, started taping poker TV shows and played online whenever I could.

The next 18 months saw me go through the same poker cycle several times. This would involve a period of total immersion in poker which could last anywhere from 4-8 weeks. Basically eat poker, sleep poker, dream poker 8-) . These spells would be followed by a complete break from Poker, this could last somewhere between 2-4 weeks.

I would enter each Poker period totally refreshed and ready to take on the world. I would often make a couple of decent cashes early in the period. But then through a combination of factors – terrible bankroll management, lack of ability, etc – I would lose my bankroll, become disheartened and take a break from the game.

Sometime around March 06 I came 3rd in a $20 or $25 Freezeout with $10K GTD and collected $1,100. At this point I was playing on a PC in the box room upstairs so I went out and treated myself to a smart black leather chair. :D

I also started to read up about Omaha Hi/Lo and in about June 06 I won the $10 Omaha Hi/Lo rebuy for about $750.

My game was improving but I was still losing money for most of 2006.

From early in 2007 I had about $200 in my Ladbrokes account and although I never went bust I just couldn’t build any kind of bankroll. This lasted for about 7 months and I guess looking back I’d managed to become a breakeven player. I kept striving to learn and felt that my time was coming.....

Friday 27 July 2007

What a great day! I came 2nd in the $20 rebuy on Ladbrokes and cashed for $2,100. 8-)

Here is a link to a thread where I discuss my play on the Final Table of this Tourney.

After this cash I was determined that I wasn’t going to give this money back as I had done previously. I was going to control my bankroll and carry on playing my normal game. To be honest, I don’t think I should’ve been playing in a $20 tourney, but it was Friday and I fancied a drink and a gamble! :D

Sept 2007

I managed to maintain my bankroll and at some point in Sept 2007 I won the $3 rebuy for $850. Hey I was starting to win!

Oct 07

I couldn’t get enough of poker but I was suffering from the age old problem - I had a real life too! It was a struggle to juggle (that rhymes! :D ) my poker life with my real life!

In an effort to find a balance I purchased a laptop which I set up to connect to the tinternet in the living room. I was getting a bit claustrophobic in that box room anyway – just me, a PC and a leather chair for hours on end.

Now I could get in some serious poker time with a little multitasking. ‘Poker’ me could play in an MTT whilst ‘real’ me could watch Girls of the Playboy mansion with the Mrs. Everyones a winner, loverly juberly.

Monday 5 Nov 2007

I won the $3 rebuy for the second time and collected $880.

At the end of the year I had managed to build my Laddies Bankroll to $3,260. 8-)

Looking back at my record for the year, I concluded that I’d been about a breakeven player for the first 6 months and then averaged a profit of $500 for each the last 6 months.

I was well happy with this!

2008 was going to be a great year, I could feel it in my bones :D




Editors Note - Poker winnings can go down as well as up :o

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Post by djshawk »

Nice post, I'd write mine out but I don't want to gatecrash, maybe start a new thread 'my history of poker' or something and everybody can write one in there.

We started playing pretty much the same time but I kept going while you had a year off after your bad luck playnig lhe :wink:

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2008

I decided I didn’t want to get to carried away with myself so I decided I would try to maintain an average of $500 profit for each of the first 6 months of 2008, playing in relatively low stakes tournies. I would review my record after June. I decided I would also keep a record of every tourney I entered to see if I could identify any areas of strength/weakness.

January 2008

A good start to the year. :D

I came 4th in a $5 freezeout for $240, this finish qualified me for a STT Freeroll. I won the STT for $250 and picked up a bounty for $100. I also started playing on Hills and had a 2nd and 3rd place in two Headhunter tournies for $245 and $355.

January Profit - $1,031 8-)

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January 2008 (13 nights)
              Type of MTT  Entry Fees      No of TournCashes    Stakes (incl feReturns      Profit

MTTsNL Holdem Rebuy        $20 and under             7         1         $65.10       $24.51      -40.59
              Freezeout    $20 and under             5                   $45.20        $0.00      -45.20
              Freezeout    Over $20                  1                   $78.00                   -78.00
              Headhunter   $20 and under            10         3        $132.00      $653.33      521.33
              Headhunter   Over $20                  1                   $44.00        $0.00      -44.00
              Turbo/QBs    $20 and under             2         1         $12.10      $238.80      226.70
              STT                                    1         1                     $350.00      350.00
    Omaha Hi/LRebuy        $20 and under             1         1         $61.00       $81.20       20.20
              Freezeout    $20 and under             1         1          $2.00       $10.56        8.56
                           TOTALS                   29         8        $439.40    $1,358.40      919.00

Cash$0.25/$0.51 Session                                                  $50.00      $162.38      112.38

                           TOTALS                                                               1,031.38
February 2008

A couple of good results in February. 3rd in a $25 freezeout for $437 and 3rd in an Omaha Hi/Lo for $400. :D

February profit - $362 :)

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February 2008 (11 nights)
              Type of MTT  Entry Fees      No of TournCashes/QuaStakes (incl feReturns      Profit

MTTsNL Holdem Rebuy        $20 and under            13         3        $374.00      $339.25      -34.75
              Rebuy        Over $20                  2         0        $210.00        $0.00     -210.00
              Freezeout    $20 and under             2         1         $44.00      $224.35      180.35
              Freezeout    Over $20                  2         1         $55.00      $437.00      382.00
              Headhunter   $20 and under             7         0        $127.60       $11.33     -116.27
              Headhunter   Over $20                  2         0         $88.00        $7.04      -80.96
              Satellites   $20 and under             6         2         $78.90        $0.00      -78.90
              FISO game                              2         2         $22.00       $32.00       10.00
    Omaha Hi/LRebuy        $20 and under             1         0         $41.00                   -41.00
              Rebuy        Over $20                  1         1         $37.50      $400.00      362.50
              Freezeout    $20 and under             1         0          $5.50                    -5.50
                           TOTALS                   39        10      $1,083.50    $1,450.97      367.47

Cash$0.15/$0.31 Session                                                  $30.00       $25.32       -4.68

                           TOTALS                                                                 362.79
March 2008

A losing month! :(

On the 30th of March I was showing a loss of $90. I wanted to avoid having a losing month on my record so I sat down at a cash table with $200 in an attempt to get myself into profit. :roll:

March loss - $200. :( What a numpty :D

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March 2008 (15 nights)
              Type of MTT  Entry Fees      No of TournCashes/QuaStakes (incl feReturns      Profit

MTTsNL Holdem Rebuy        $20 and under             3         0         $33.90        $0.00      -33.90
              Rebuy        Over $20
              Freezeout    $20 and under
              Freezeout    Over $20                  5         2        $141.00      $376.46      235.46
              Headhunter   $20 and under
              Headhunter   Over $20                  5         0        $137.50       $63.55      -73.95
              Satellites   $20 and under             2         0         $29.60        $0.00      -29.60
              Satellites   Over $20
              STTs         $20 and under             1         1          $5.50       $10.00        4.50
              STTs         Over $20                  1         1         $22.00       $40.00       18.00
              FISO game                              1         0         $11.00        $0.00      -11.00
    Omaha Hi/LRebuy        $20 and under             3         0         $93.00        $0.00      -93.00
              Rebuy        Over $20                  2         0        $105.00        $0.00     -105.00
              Freezeout    $20 and under
                           Over $20
                           TOTALS                   23         4        $578.50      $490.01      -88.49

Cash$1/$2     2 Session                                                 $200.00       $88.32     -111.68

                           TOTALS                                                                -200.17
A good solid start to the year.

Looking at it now what strikes me is that I played online poker on 39 nights out of a possible 91. Factor in nights when I couldn't play online because I was playing live poker, out drinking or working away from home and I really need to go out and buy the Mrs some flowers before its too late :shock:

On we go........

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So lets bring this up to date.

April 2008

12 April 2008 - I won the $20 rebuy on Laddies for $3,000! 8-)

This is my best result to date and just goes to show there is hope for all of us :D It was a good job I won this tourney because after that win I gave back about $700 during the rest of May. Most of this was from playing in the $20 rebuy which was costing me an average of $80/$100 to play in :shock: I decided I'd make my appearances in the $20 rebuy a little more infrequent.

April profit - $2,243 :D

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April 2008 (20 nights)
               Type of MTT  Entry Fees      No of TournCashes/QualStakes (incl feReturns      Profit

MTTsNL Holdem  Rebuy        $20 and under            17          4        $681.20    $3,306.00    2,624.80
               Rebuy        Over $20
               Freezeout    $20 and under            28          4        $370.40      $122.10     -248.30
               Freezeout    Over $20                  1          1         $27.50      $125.00       97.50
               Headhunter   $20 and under
               Headhunter   Over $20                                                                  0.00
               Satellites   $20 and under             1          0         $23.00        $0.00      -23.00
               Satellites   Over $20
               STTs         $20 and under             2          0         $22.00        $0.00      -22.00
               STTs         Over $20                                                                  0.00
               FISO game                              1          0         $11.00        $0.00      -11.00
    Omaha Hi/LoRebuy        $20 and under             5          2        $174.00      $232.90       58.90
               Rebuy        Over $20                  4          0        $210.00        $0.00     -210.00
               Freezeout    $20 and under
                            Over $20
                            TOTALS                   59         11      $1,519.10    $3,786.00    2,266.90

Cash$0.10/0.20 2 Session (x 4 tables)                                     $160.00      $136.58      -23.42

                            TOTALS                                                                2,243.48
May 2008

April was a new PB in terms of profit, but it wasn't going to last long as I had another excellent month in May. :shock:

7 May - won the $15 (£7.50) Wed Super Series tourney on Hills for just under $2K 8-)
25 May - won the $5 2nd chance on Laddies for $724 8-)
29 May - won the $10 Omaha Hi/Lo rebuy for $504 8-)

May profit $2,831 :o

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May 2008 (16 nights)
               Type of MTT  Entry Fees      No of TournCashes/QualStakes (incl feReturns      Profit

MTTsNL Holdem  Rebuy        $20 and under            18          5        $283.40      $833.40      550.00
               Rebuy        Over $20
               Freezeout    $20 and under            18          2        $258.50    $1,981.95    1,723.45
               Freezeout    Over $20
               Headhunter   $20 and under             1          0         $11.00        $0.00      -11.00
               Headhunter   Over $20
               Satellites   $20 and under
               Satellites   Over $20
               STTs         $20 and under
               STTs         Over $20
               FISO game
    Omaha Hi/LoRebuy        $20 and under             7          4        $247.00      $695.95      448.95
               Rebuy        Over $20                  3          1        $132.50      $248.42      115.92
               Freezeout    $20 and under             4          2         $22.00       $70.77       48.77
                            Over $20
                            TOTALS                   51         14        $954.40    $3,830.49    2,876.09

Cash$0.10/0.20 3 Sessions (x 4 tables)                                    $260.00      $214.97      -45.03

                            TOTALS                                                                2,831.06
So there you have it. What to do next? :?

I've been thinking of playing cash for a while but it would be stupid to walk away froom MTTs whilst they are going so well.

I think I'll carry on with the MTTs for the time being, maybe mixing it up a little on some of the huge fields on Pokerstars to see if I can hit an even bigger payday :D

This time next year Rodney....... :D
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I'll share this little tale.

Just over a week ago I was playing in my Nuts league game. We play £10 a man and when its finished there is usually a couple of side games of about 10 players for £10 each.

Now I like a drink when playing and there is one other who also has a few. We were starting the last game at 2am :shock: and me and this other guy, Ian, where having £10 side bets on which of us would last longer. I remember thinking 'hes bladdered, this is easy money' :D

The game was about to start and Ian and one other player were outside smoking so we started without them. First hand, blinds 25/50, starting stacks about 2K. About 5 limpers in the pot (this is normal for this game :roll: ) and I look down at A9. I shove all in, obviously feeling a tad too courageous after my ales. I'm thinking I'll take these 300 or so chips down right now.

One guy calls with AK :o . I dont improve :shock: I'm out :(

Ian walks in from his ciggie break having missed one hand. I pass him the £10 and say 'good game'

Taxi for Nuttie :D

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To be honest I wouldn't bother playing cash, to get $2k months you're looking at ~20k hands at 100nl or 10-15k hands 200nl. Thats assuming you beat the game at a good clip and don't run bad. Say you play 4 tables you're looking at around 300 hands/hour so it'll take you 30-35 hours to log 10k hands. It wouldn't take quite so long at 200nl just because you see less flops.

Difference between cash and mtt is you really need to conentrate when playing cash, you can't do it on a laptop while watching telly, you need to see each of the tables at the same time and pay attention to what is going on. When I play an mtt I'll often find myself doing something else too, and while this isn't great for your game you can get away with it to an extent.

The biggest reason against starting to play cash would be the swinginess of it all, if you can bring down $2k months staking only $1k then that's ace, keep doing it. The amount you put at stake over 10k hands at 100nl would probably be more like $25k, so your results are invariably gonna swing around all over the spot. Short term results really mess with your head, you can drop 5-10 buyins in like 2k hands, likewise you can go on sick heaters too, all the time you've got to step back and realise what happened over the last 2k hands, 10k hands, 25k hands etc means very little.

You need a bigger bankroll for cash than you do for mtt, I didn't feel comfortable at 100nl until I had about $4k. I played when I had $5-6k and it felt so voulnrable, next time I'd want more like 7-8k. General rule with mtts is 100x buyin so if you are playing $20s you only need 2k and looking at your results most of the time you buy in for less than that. So you could potentailly earn plenty more with just a 2k roll.

Of course cash does have it's plus points :lol: Being able to play short sessions when you want is great. Rakeback will become meaningful, if you play any kind of volume then you'll be generating $2k+ in rake each month and you can expect a big chunk of that paid back to you. This is so handy when growing your roll and helps you feel like you still achieved something if you lose or breakeven over the month. If you aspire to make a lot of money through poker then it's worth putting time into cash, I'm not saying you can't make a load at mtts, you can, I just don't know enough about them to say what the top guys are earning. If you play a good amount of 400nl then you can expect to pull down $10k months regularly. Basically there is no ceiling to how much you can make, which is pretty scary.

If I were you I'd keep doing what you're doing, maybe try to stick to $20-$40 buy in tournies ($10 for rebuys) and see where you are in 3 months. If you book 3 more solid months then you'll be able to say with a bit more confidence that your results are normal and not just running hot, and then you'll be able to decide if you want to stay where you are or try looking at cash. If you do have a few good months then you should be able to set aside say $3k and use that to have a go at 100nl somewhere, that would be much more rewarding than working through 20nl, 50nl etc, which is a bit of a chore.

That's all just my opinion of course, take it with a pinch of salt.

Re the huge Stars tournies, these things are such a luck fest that you're probably better of focusing on what's been working well for you. Sure play the $10s etc but to start investing in $50 1000 entry fields dreaming of a big score would probably slow you down more than if you upped your buyin in your normal games.

Anyway, good to see somebody doing well.

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Some impressive figures Dave. 8-)

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Thanks for the feedback djs, some good stuff in there. :D

I think the last two months have probably been at the top end of the returns I can expect at the level I'm playing. What I'm happy with is that I've consistently been winning for almost a year so I feel that I can rule out that I'm just running good.

One thing I've become better at in the last 12 months is controlling my bankroll. The tourneys I'm just starting to play on Stars will only be around $5/$10 buyins so I wont be risking serious money in huge fields. I just feel like challenging myself in the 1,000+ fileds and see how I go. I appreciate there is going to be a fair amount of luck involved in going deep in any of these but at the moment I'd rather play in these than in $50/$100 buyins elswhere, which is probably my other option to progress.

I will put cash games on hold for a while and try to continue what I've been doing on the MTTs whilst throwing in the odd big stakes tourney or huge field tourney on Stars.

Speaking of huge fields on Stars -

PokerStars Tournament #90369479, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $10.00/$1.00
18691 players
Total Prize Pool: $186910.00
Tournament started - 2008/06/08 - 15:30:00 (ET)

Dear Nutstar,

You finished the tournament in 1442nd place.
A $18.69 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 72.39 tournament leader points in this tournament
.


I finished in 1,442nd place and still made the money :lol:

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Yeah you obviously aren't just running good, your avg finish in that wsop league is testament to that.

Cash is just grind grind grind then get a bad beat to lose it all back again. A few weeks ago I decided I was gonna have a run at tournies but then started playing at lower stakes cash again and have stuck with that. 25nl at Stars is crazy soft, you can just run it over by betting and they all fold. I've been playing 50nl on iPoker too and it's just a huge dick waving contest, I really hate playing in those types of games but I think they suit me better because you can actually try to read people and know that they are going to react by 3 betting etc so you can play back at them more. Just played a 50nl session there and set up a perfect situation, there was a guy who I'd stolen from a couple of times, I stole again and he 3b me, I made a small 4b and he folded. It was obvious he'd given me credit 'one more time' and a couple of hands later I pick up aces utg, I bump it 4x and he comes up with a 3b. Knowing I'd get no respect so I make another small raise and he calls. Flop is AQT and I lead 2/3 expecting him to make a move, he obliges and I shove, by this time he's got no option but to call. In chat he says 'oops, I know I'm beaten but I've comitted myself'. He flips KQ but my 88% equity isn't good after he binks a J on the turn.

The rest of the session was full of people 3 betting because they could. I really don't think I enjoy playing those games where it goes fold fold fold raise fold 3b fold. Next hand. Fold fold raise 3b fold fold fold. Next hand. Fold call fold raise, fold fold fold. Etc. You can grind out a win just by staying aggressive and picking your spots to 4b, or call and make a move post flop, but then you get it in way ahead, lose and are down on the session. So gay.

Anyway, this is nutties poker blog and I'm hijacking it :lol:

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kizkiz wrote:Some impressive figures Dave. 8-)
Everything was going great, then in waltzes kiz and the wheels have come off :D

I'm stuck for $815 so far this month :shock: . Almost $500 of this was blown in an optimistic effort to qualify for Vegas :D Thank god for my great muffing effort in the FISO game last week or that figure would be closer to $900 :wink:

I've been having OK results but just haven't cashed for any significant amounts. Playing on Stars hasn't helped as the fields are so huge you could probably go months before a significant cash comes your way. Hopefully when it does it'll be enough to offset all my losses and then some.

I thought posting my miserable predicament here might give me a well needed kick up the arse!

Now stop faffing about Nuttie and pull your finger out :twisted:

11 days left to turn this month around, can it be done? Now, where did I put that link to the Rocky theme music?

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djnuttie wrote:Now stop faffing about Nuttie and pull your finger out :twisted:
is it out yet :?:

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As painful as it is, its about time I brought this up to speed.

June 2008

Total Staked (59 MTTs) $1,935.95

Total Cashed (14 cashes) $841.32

Net Loss - $1,094.63. :(

Not a good month. $479 was gambled on 2 expensive satellites to qualify for the WSOP and I did cash a respectable number of times so there was no immediate panic.

July 2008

In early July I lost my appetite for the game and didn't play much and stopped keeping record of my tourneys. My appetite well and truly returned after a weekends gambling in Blackpool. Upon checking my various poker balances at the end of the month I discovered -

Net Loss for July 2008 - $245.63 :evil:

August 2008 has continued the trend of the previous 2 months and so far I'm looking at a loss of $400 :evil:

Novern, in answer to your earlier question, no my finger is still well and truly stuck up my arse!

The funny thing is I know I'm playing much better poker now than I ever have, I'm just getting shafted 2 or 3 times a night, every night I play! :twisted:

I'm more determined than ever to turn this around. If I don't show a profit for August I'll have been consistently losing for a quarter of a year. what! The Mrs has even stopped asking me how I got on when I come to bed :roll: The other day she overheard me talking to someone about poker and she interrupted with 'thats coz your sh1t!' :shock: Thats the last time I'll be paying her Next bill out of my poker profits :twisted:

I'll be launching myself into a poker orgy over the coming weeks and will be winning some serious dough :twisted:

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djnuttie wrote:
The funny thing is I know I'm playing much better poker now than I ever have, I'm just getting shafted 2 or 3 times a night, every night I play! :twisted:
If you ever figure this part out, please pass on the secret :lol:

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djnuttie wrote:I'll be launching myself into a poker orgy over the coming weeks and will be winning some serious dough :twisted:
you know it,
i know it, we all do
and twill be fun to read about

mak sure i see you in the circus a few times do

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August - Net Loss - $192.69
September - Net Loss - $76.41


Thats 4 consecutive losing months! :mrgreen:

This is serious.

Seriously, where do I go from here? 4 months is a hell of a long time to bang your head against a wall.

I guess I'll just knuckle down and get on with it. When my 'one time' comes I'll be straight back in here to tell you about it - just don't hold your breath!

:|

PS Toward the end of Aug I did win the $3 rebuy on Laddies for $690, so chin up eh it could've been worse :D

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CHIN UP
chin up... :D
all will be in the black shortly
only one prob in your plan of a big comeback on the cards
that little/not so little thing in your lady's tummy

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I received a very pleasant Email this morning from my friends at Pokerstars -

PokerStars Tournament #112085995, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $3.00/$0.30
3762 players
Total Prize Pool: $41433.00
Tournament started - 2008/10/08 - 14:15:00 (ET)

Dear Nutstar,

You finished the tournament in 1st place.
A $5,593.46 award has been credited to your Real Money account.


8-)

To be fair we did a deal 4 handed and I got $3,100. After that we just shoved all in and I ended up finishing in '1st' position.

Still can't grumble at $3,100. Its a new PB cash for me and it also wipes out 4 months losses in one hit :mrgreen:

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8-)

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Well done sir 8-)

Out of interest how do you chop a game on line?

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Figures are discussed between the players and the Pokerstars admin and then all remaining players type in "I agree" in the chat box when happy

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Incredible Nutty - VWP. Out of curiosity do you know how many times you were all-in, and the percentages you had each time - I am always curious as to just how much luck one needs to win an event of that scale. Of course the rest is skill - very nice - what sort of chip-equity did you have when you made the cut.

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Nice one nuttie 8-)
Cornish Pasty wrote:Out of interest how do you chop a game on line?
Stars will facilitate the deal

You send a message to there support with Urgent in the title asking for a deal in tournament XYZ and they come to the table and pause it for discussions to take place - they'll even do a chip-count divvy up calculation for you which you can accept or just use as the basis for your own numbers. Once everyone is happy you all type "I agree" into the chat box and the tournament is then un-paused. (If anyone says "No" or "let's just play" etc they unpause it too)

The money differences are then transferred from the various accounts by Stars after the tourney has finished to reflect whatever deal was agreed to. (The message nuttie got is an automatic one)

That's how I believe it works anyway.

Good stuff again there nuttie :D

edit: missed Mike_'s reply :roll: - but will leave mine in as it says how you get it going in the first place. (note to self - read thread thoroughly before replying :wink: )

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Re the deal made here are the details -

The stacks where - Chippie had about 11.7m, me 3.9m Player C 3.4m and Player D 2.7m. Blinds were 105K/210K so it was becoming an allin or shove for 3 of us and the money was getting serious.

The top 4 should get - $5600, $4000, $2700 and $2100.

And the offer was - $5250, $3150, $3050 and $2900.

I've never done a deal before but I knew the figure were going to favour the bigstack and I was ready to argue my corner for a better chop. I wasn't in an ideal spot though it was 4.30am and I was due to leave for work at 7.30am :shock: Add to this we waited 20 mins for a Poker manager to appear so it was 4.50am when the offer was made. The other 3 agreed to the offer immediately and that just left me. I didn't want to hang around for 10 mins haggling with the possibilty that we might not agree and end up playing for another 1 or hour so I agreed to the deal.

From my limited knowledge I think the 3 shorties should've got the big stack to give up $600-$750ish and split it between the 3 of us.

At some point I'll analyse my allins throughout the tourney and post them in here - that might take a few days though.

:D

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Jammy git :wink:

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Wel done mate, very nice win 8-)

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After 4 miserable months it brings me great pleasure to update this thread.

October - +$3,272.00 8-)

About time too :D

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Things are well and truly back on track. :D

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Anyone have any thoughts on this -

I played a $10 rebuy, $35K GTD last night on Paddy Power. 1000 runners. Quite a bad structure as when we got to about 80 players average stack was about 10BBs :| Anyway winner gets $7K, top 7 get over $1K.

Down to 20. I have $110K. Blinds 15/30K. Average stack about $260K.

I'm first to act with Qs 8s. There is no way I'm letting these blinds run through me again so I shove allin UTG :D Mid pos calls with 10 10. And I hit a Q and double through. 8-)

Three hands later, the blinds have gone through me and I'm on the button. Blinds have gone up to 20/40K.

Its folded to me with A 3. There is 60K in blinds and there is no way on earth I'm leaving them there. Even though I'm close to average stack my 250K is only 6 BBs so I shove allin. SB takes an age then types something like 'I think I'm obligated to call' He calls and shows AK :roll: .

Obviously I hit a 3 and double through again and I'm now chip leader :lol:

At this point the chat box explodes. There are at least 4 people calling me every fish under the sun :shock: I know the Q8 was very aggressive but with 20 players left the money stayed the same until 10th place. There is no point me folding down to 2 BBs?

The A3 was a very easy shove for me. I mean with 6 BBs what are you suposed to do fold? min raise then fold? Behave!

I wish I'd copied the chat now. 'I hate it when bad play gets rewarded', 'At least we all know what he shove in with now', 'Yeah, Q8 and A3 the fish' etc etc etc :D

I went card dead for a few orbits and blinded some chips away. The table bigstack limps in from mid pos. The 2nd table bigstack is SB and completes. I'm BB and look down at 10 4 off. I have 300K behind, with 180K in the middle. I think 'hes not limping in with a hand that can stand a 300K raise' so I shove in :D . I thought 'if I get called here and suck out everyone at the table will be getting chat banned within minutes' :lol: . They both folded 8-)

I ended up busting in 10th for $350. Blinds were 40/80K and I shoved my last 320K in from the CO with 10 J, ran into QQ :(

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I hate knobs who dont understand the difference between shoving and calling your chips off.

My entry in to the chat box would have been "Yes I realise that in future I should only shove with AA. I apologise for not blinding out." Then said no more.

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You were active last night Nuttie was stalking you on Stars too :shock:

how can you be called a fish when you shove pre? A maniac yes 8-) but not a fish :? Might have laid down the A3 as the old one about being called by a better A comes into play. Guess it was first in vigourish time. He who dares Rodders 8-)

Nice P+L Nuttie 8-)

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Cornish Pasty wrote:You were active last night Nuttie was stalking you on Stars too :shock:

Me too, he's not very chatty is he :?

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Mike_ wrote:
Cornish Pasty wrote:You were active last night Nuttie was stalking you on Stars too :shock:

Me too, he's not very chatty is he :?
Its my new poker image :D

Whilst playing - No alcohol :shock: No surfing FISO :shock: Try not to watch the TV :? and try to not get involved in chat banter - with the idiots at the table. Obviously I'd say hello to you guys if I saw you :wink: . The problem is on Stars I tend to have the chat closed and display only the Tourney info box so I miss most of the chat anyway. I only look in after a significant hand just to see if anyone explodes because that can be funny :D

I've found that 4 tables when not drinking is no where near as difficult as I thought - hmmmm anyone for 5 :shock:

I played 4 MTTs on Sunday (admittedly I did have a few wines :D ) and cashed in 2.

Played 4 on Tuesday, cashed in 3.

Played 4 on Weds, cashed in 3.

8 out of 11 cashes, I'm running well at the moment. If I keep this up I may even show a profit for November 8-)

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