Seeing as I haven't posted for a while, I thought I would just provide an update on my current status and note some recent events:
My personal objectives have changed slightly, but are still on track. I'm no longer playing cash as it is such a time consumer and takes my focus away from MTT's; also my finances are a little less fragile now so I don't need to sit up all night playing low stakes cash just to sustain myself lol...
I've been busy the last few months with Pokerisk and as a reward they want to make me a mentor, scoop! I think it is because; I have been running alright (6k, 6k and this month currently 4.5k, my biggest win in a single tournament is still only 3k$ tho), I'm over-active on the forum / been helping players with their HEM and generally have been involved with the Pokerisk community.
This is good opportunity for me, not only for the financial benefits but also to improve my own game and teach those that will be in my team; sounds fun and should be an interesting challenge!
Pokerisk said an area for me to focus is experience in higher value games, so I have been playing more 50 rebuys and 100 freezeouts this month and they upped my limit to $1500 a day accordingly...the variance obviously is exaggerated in these games, but I still play the small games and I've had some pretty near misses for epic payouts (sitting 1/5 in 50 rebuy, and lose all in TT vs 44 preflop arghhh..cudda been an 8k payday :( still got 1.5k for finishing 5th in the end though so can't complain)
Lately I've been going to a few live games, I won a satellite to the £150 game in Stoke (as you can see in my interview on nutz tv lol) and I also won a satellite to a £150 game last weekend in Birmingham...unfortunately I didn't cash either games, since I have been playing lots of games simultaenously online, I find it hard to concentrate in live games (1 game is just boring compared to 12, pretty sure I got ADHD lol!), especially if I have had a beer d'oh. For example, somehow I ended up all in with A7 vs JJ preflop in the Brum £150, despite having over 50 BB's...go figure
Anyway I'm going to be stereotypical and say that the standard in live games is very bad and predictable. Everyone appears so honest in the style that they play (they don't even disguise their emotions!), and lots of people make mistakes that they just consider coolers (flatting jacks in small blind in an already 3 bet pot, then running into aces on a 9 high flop, is not a cooler...thats bad play). I must commend their patience though ;)
I feel that the understanding of position is limited to only preflop actions at best, and that most players are overattached to an ace (even unsuited aces!). I can't imagine how a live player who, even if he played a tournament every night, can ever obtain as much experience as an online player, who can play up to 10 or 20 games as night, whilst also reading blogs/forums on poker and reviewing hands with HEM etc. Also, I'm not sure if live players realise how huge the element of "variance" really is in poker!
Safe poker (like it's the last tournament they will ever play) appears to be the norm, rarely making thin value bets on rivers or putting pressure on their opponents with (albeit sketchy lol) 3-bets, and they suggest that everyone should play in the same manor, likes its an honest game?!?! I expected the standard to be better in the games I saw, in fact I was quite disappointed - especially as I would consider £150 a lot of money.
ooo~shoutout to my brother Andy who came 14th for £550 in the Birmingham tournament, nice1 bro, especially as his usual game is very low stakes (10cent big blind) cash lol :)
Anyway I'm going to Clacton this weekend with Highlander (Ali Baba) and the newly romanced Dr Zoidberg (Izzard), hopefully I can get some good results/late finishes so that I sound less like a bitter mug in this blog post
I've stopped playing online for the rest of this month, as I'm feeling conservative and would like to ensure my paycheque to help towards paying my debt. Lots of stuff I need to catch up on anyway (e.g. updating my blog)
Below is a video I made on a 55e turbo about 2 months ago with another Pokerisk mentor (Nunny - PkrM4gic), we both comment on the game over skype and you can download it from this url:
http://cid-79c2fa6b03380853.office.live.com/self.aspx/.Documents/hopepkrmagic.rar
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