I might actually give the offer some serious consideration. Would be fun to get back on the noob cs streets.

fun fact I once had a kill:death ratio > 1 for more than 20minutes

yeah it'd be great to play with friends instead of lone wolf russians who refuse to eco.

boss.

Went to see some friends yesterday who i've not seen in a while. Always nice to see some old faces.
Did go in to Hippo and wait listed the 2/5 but really did not feel like playing so ended up having a drink or 2.
Whenever i have a bad session, the very next day i'm usually motivated to play and get out of it but yesterday i just needed a break from it and have a hard reset till the new year.

2016 Year in Review:
- Ran really bad at 1/2
- Ran good at 2/5+
- Moved to London
- Made some new poker fweends

GOALS GOALS GOALS for 2017
Poker Goals:
[ ] Play 1700 hours
[ ] Play at least 500 hours at 2/5+
[ ] Get a hendon mob/ship a timbey, would like to play more timbeys but i won't really travel around the country for this. Will the ones mainly running in London/Bham and the occasional visit to DTD(probs won't even make it past 5 for the whole entire year)
[ ] Try keep the run good going for life?
[ ] maybe venture out of LSQ to down the road
[ ] Put some studying in at least 2 hours a week

CS Goals: (for the fans)
[ ] Stop being a noob

Life Goals:
[ ] Do more travelling
[ ] I do photography as a hobby atm but would like to put more time in to this and hopefully make my own website and upload a portfolio there.
[ ] Zen mode


Can't seem to think of any more goals but yeah that's all for now.

GL everyone and Happy New Year! Bring on 2017!!

Mate quit while you're ahead with cs, I've invested far too much time into that damn game. GL next year, I might begin to dabble with live a little, so our paths may cross

Can I suggest one more CS goal?

-learn the Crosshair placement. They don't pop out the floor.



Best of luck in 2017 for us all.

Ha, i won't invest that much time in it. I just like the strategic aspect of it compared to COD

Come back to me when you've done 1000 hours in a year.

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First session of the new year didn't go too well. Downswongz continues!

Got rekt in this hand though.

I open A7 from UTG+2 to £15, folds to BB who calls.

Flop: K74
BB checks, i cbet £12, BB calls
Turn: 7
BB checks, i bet £35, BB calls
River: A
BB checks, i bet £100, BB calls QQ

Was good action all night but couldn't get anything to save my life.

Met up with Birdayy, GazzyB and Bena so at least i was in good company.



Started to listen to this podcast

https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/my...rno/episode_1/

Absolutely hilarious, recommend all to give it a listen.

If you're looking for easy listening comedy podcasts then "no such thing as a fish" is pretty good. either way gl for the year fella!

Cheers! I'll give it a listen once i've managed to finish MDWAP. Hope the grind is going well for you.

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Met up with Bena, Birdayy, Gazzy and Smitdude again today. We all rocked up to the casino together and 4 of us wanted to play 2/5. Unfortunately they have a rule where only two friends are only allowed on the same table zzzz. I came last on this flip so didn't get to play the 2/5 til about 3.30am.

Was on the 1/2 tables, told gazzy to come join my table and we get in this hand together:

Gazzy straddles, fun player1 limps, i raise to £20 with QQ, funplayer 2 calls, Gazzy squeezes to £65, fun player1 folds, i call and fun player 2 folds.
Flop: 954
Gazzy cbets £75, i call.
Turn: 8
Gazzy bets £120, we tank fold.

Fairly annoying spot.


Other interesting hand.

Funplayer limps, We iso QT to £10, a eastern european reg 3bets to £25, folds to us and we call.
Flop: 567
Hero checks, reg checks back.
Turn: 8
Hero leads turn for £25, reg calls.
River: 2
Hero bets £50, reg raises to £150.

Really wanted to 3bet jam this river as i block T9 but just don't think people are bluffing enough live, plus it's a very odd line to take where he shouldn't ever really have 9x but probs will turn up with it more often than him spazzing out.
Reg also has £150 behind, had a chat with a friend and he said he prefers that the reg has £150 behind rather than £200+.

Volume is going strong but the run good is not. I don't feel too affected just yet by this downswing, couple of months ago i'd probably be having a breakdown and moving back down to 1/2 to ease the pain of the downswing. I'm feeling good about the grind despite the brutal run bad and that i'm playing fairly well.

I have been broken!!!!! Lost bags and bags again today in what was an insane 2/5 game, I've not seen a game like this in ages.

HH1:
3 limps, unicorn thing raises to £25, i 3bet to £75 with KQ (probs should 3bet bigger given how deep i was, i think it should be at least £100), first limper cold calls and the other two limpers call along. Original whale raiser folds.
Flop: Q93
First limper checks, second limper leads £65, third limper folds, i raise to £200, first limper folds and second limper jams for ~£680, i sigh snap.
Turn: T
River: 2

Villain shows 33.

HH2:
Unicorn limps BTN for £5, i call SB with K3, BB checks.
Flop: K3J
I check, BB checks, unicorn bets £10, I check raise to £40, BB folds, unicorn 3bets to £110, i tank call.
Turn: 8
I check, unicorn bets £200, i jam for ~£1.1k and unicorn sigh snap calls off.
River: 6
I show and the unicorn shows QTo and mucks.

HH3:
UTG limps, unicorn goes AI for £51, i 3b to £125 with AQ, chinese whale cold calls out the BB and UTG calls.
unicorn accidentally tables AQ
Flop: Q75
Chinese whale checks, UTG checks and i bet £125, chinese whale calls, UTG folds.
Turn: 3
Chinese whale checks, i put him ai for ~£280 and he calls off.
River: 8

I show and chinese whale tables 78.


HH4:
EE whale opens to £40, unicorn makes it £80, i cold 4b to £250 with KK, EE whale calls and unicorn calls.
Flop: K83
EE whale checks, unicorn jams for ~£1k, i go ai and EE whale snap folds.
Turn: Q
River: 4

Unicorn shows J2



I was so mad after the AQvs78s hand and after HH4 i just snap quit as i knew i couldn't mentally handle the session any more.

Feeling fine now though, i'm hopeful that things will turn around.

Pretty nuts. Must sting a bunch. That 78 hand :s

On the bright side you quit which is more then many would do in that spot.

This if anything highlights the variance of live. Running good/bad in these amazing games can really skew a w/r.

Gl

UL man - respect for quitting when you recognise you're on tilt, though.

Seems like you were playing well up to your last hand and you're asking the right questions about whether you could have played the hands better (rather than if you could have not lost them) so I'm sure you'll get past this downswing.

Sorry to hear it didn't go well against the reincarnated version of Hunter H Thomas/Protagonist of Black Mirror Ep 2/take your pic, was obv rooting for you to clean. The above hands are absolute filth.

FWIW I was pretty battered, I had a coat key from ages ago, and couldnt find the one I deposited on that evening. I'm a difficult person to understand enough sober, let alone after 4 corona's and a flute of champagne trying to explain to the floor staff the situation, sure the downswing will end soon bud.

Also whos/whats a unicorn lmao, also what a jokes game was begging to stay.

yeah most of last year when i got in to these games i've been on the bad side of it. Was even in a 4.3k hole in a 1/2 deep stack game... Fun times ha.

Thanks man! That unicorn ended up stacking off pre with A5s for about 2.6k in to another whales AA lolol.

You win some, you lose some. Thanks pete

A unicorn is a mythical creature bigger than a whale. They make whales look like good players

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Today was swingy af, actually it started all downhill then it went uphill lol.

HH1:
UTG limps, UTG+1 calls, CO raises to £12, BTN calls, I call from the BB with 22, UTG calls and UTG+1 calls.
Flop: J 2 4
flop checks round
Turn: A
i check intending to x/r but no it gets checked around.
River: 3
i lead for £35, UTG goes AI for £33, folds to the BTN who now makes it £70 and we fold.

UTG shows 33 and BTN shows 55.

HH2:
I open 22 to £8 UTG, MP 3bets to £16, i call.
Flop: 2 J T
I check, MP bets £30, i check jam for £80 more and he snaps
Turn: T
River: T

Lose to KK.


Alright the moans are out of the way, time for more of the interesting 2/5 spots. Unicorn came back today.

HH3:
HJ opens to £20, i flat in the CO with A 2, SB calls and Unicorn calls from the BB.
Flop: Q 3 8
Checks to me and i bet £50, fold, Unicorn calls and HJ folds.
Turn: 5
Unicorn checks, We bet £170, Unicorn check raises to £400 and we call



River: 5
Unicorn checks and i snap check back
He shows Q2o and wins.

Here's a gift and a half
HH4:
CO opens to £20, i flat BTN with JT, fish calls in the BB.
Flop: J A T
Checks to me and i bet £40, BB check calls, CO folds.
Turn: 6
BB checks, I bet £125, BB calls.
River: T
BB leads £280 leaving £20 behind, i put him in for the rest and he snaps with 88.

Tl;dr Did off bags and bags at the start and found a small solid win.

vamoooooooooooooooooooooooo

Nothing too special today, just this one.

Straddle, I open KK in the HJ, Reg 3b me to £130, Fish cold calls out the BB, i make it £300, reg flats the 300, fish goes AI for £618, i rejam for £1.5k and reg folds.

Board: 75AA9

fish shows 77.

Something was different about today, i kinda just accepted that i loss the hand and was not too bothered about losing the hand. Yes it hurts but it's just variance.
Watched a biases video earlier and it corrected my thinking of constantly wanting to bring up all my badbeats/coolers and i just simply shrugged it off. I didn't want to rant about it, just posted the HH to friends and moved on.

It's nice to have a few of the london regs tell me to keep pushing throw and saying unlucky etc. as they know how bad this week has gone for me so thank you guys! It's really appreciated.

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Gl man, like your hand descriptions and the use of unicorn thingy lol. Will be following along for sure

Do you make more money playing live? Ive tried couple of times and yes games are super soft but man... playing 40 hands per hour really sucks.


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Keep at it bro, nothing you can do when fish bink the odd two outer. Just save some of the unicorns for when i drop by London haha

Cheers!

Online is fairly tough now and i'm just not willing enough to put in all that work to rise to the top.
I don't see myself playing much poker, i think i'm in this for 2 years tops so i just want to find an easier way to make money.

Don't worry i've not cracked yet! and there will be plenty for you

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Played yesterday and made a solid win, nothing too special in the session.

Stayed at home today because of the tube strikes, did a cheeky shot at 100nl instead.


partypoker - $1 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 163.7 BB
Hero (SB): 103.63 BB
BB: 100 BB
UTG: 69.72 BB
MP: 106 BB
CO: 119.2 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has Q A

UTG raises to 2 BB, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 7 BB, fold, UTG calls 5 BB

Flop: (15 BB, 2 players) 5 7 7
Hero bets 4.7 BB, UTG calls 4.7 BB

Turn: (24.4 BB, 2 players) 3
Hero checks, UTG checks

River: (24.4 BB, 2 players) K
Hero bets 13.5 BB, UTG calls 13.5 BB

Hero shows Q A (One Pair, Sevens)
(Pre 59%, Flop 77%, Turn 86%)
UTG shows J K (Two Pair, Kings and Sevens)
(Pre 41%, Flop 23%, Turn 14%)
UTG wins 48.83 BB


partypoker - $1 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 283.29 BB
SB: 100 BB
BB: 12.28 BB
UTG: 104.73 BB
MP: 58.74 BB
Hero (CO): 100 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K Q

fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.5 BB, BTN raises to 8 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 5.5 BB

Flop: (17.5 BB, 2 players) T 9 J
Hero checks, BTN bets 10 BB, Hero raises to 29 BB, BTN calls 19 BB

Turn: (75.5 BB, 2 players) Q
Hero bets 63 BB and is all-in, BTN calls 63 BB

River: (201.5 BB, 2 players) 6

Hero shows K Q (Straight, King High)
(Pre 44%, Flop 65%, Turn 76%)
BTN shows T T (Three of a Kind, Tens)
(Pre 56%, Flop 35%, Turn 24%)
Hero wins 198.5 BB


partypoker - $1 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 184.27 BB
SB: 92.29 BB
BB: 54.88 BB
UTG: 117.75 BB
MP: 113.41 BB
CO: 128.99 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A Q

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.5 BB, SB calls 2 BB, BB calls 1.5 BB

Flop: (7.5 BB, 3 players) 6 A 7
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets 3.7 BB, SB calls 3.7 BB, fold

Turn: (14.9 BB, 2 players) J
SB checks, Hero bets 9.5 BB, SB calls 9.5 BB

River: (33.9 BB, 2 players) 9
SB checks, Hero bets 18.2 BB, SB calls 18.2 BB

Hero shows A Q (One Pair, Aces)
(Pre 74%, Flop 84%, Turn 93%)
SB mucks T A (One Pair, Aces)
(Pre 26%, Flop 16%, Turn 7%)
Hero wins 67.3 BB


partypoker - $1 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 66.13 BB
SB: 166.07 BB
BB: 100 BB
UTG: 50.77 BB
MP: 166.79 BB
Hero (CO): 190.8 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 5 5

fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.5 BB, fold, fold, BB calls 1.5 BB

Flop: (5.5 BB, 2 players) A 2 Q
BB checks, Hero bets 1.72 BB, BB calls 1.72 BB

Turn: (8.94 BB, 2 players) J
BB checks, Hero bets 6.63 BB, BB calls 6.63 BB

River: (22.2 BB, 2 players) J
BB checks, Hero bets 30.3 BB, BB raises to 89.15 BB and is all-in, fold

BB wins 138.65 BB


And shoutout to Smitdude who's at the Bahamas Championship. Hoping he ships the main as i have a piece

55 is very spewy. Just check the turn.


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i the 55, the gods line. wpwp

2/5 was pretty boring today, not much action just a couple of spots.

Had 1 interesting hand and 1 lololol hand.

We start hand ~1.4k effective
HH1:
"Reg" opens UTG to £15, Good regs 3bets to £55 from UTG+1, I cc BTN with AKo, "Reg" UTG calls.
Flop: K 2 4
"Reg" checks, GR cbets £60, I elect to call (i think should be raising sometimes), "Reg" folds.
Turn: 4
GR bets £350, i call
River: 6
GR checks


HH2:
Straddle, "Reg" opens to £30, fish calls BTN, i call SB with KJ, BB calls and straddler folds.
Flop: J62
i check, BB checks, "Reg" cbets £65, fold, i xc and BB folds
Turn: K
i check, "Reg" checks.
River: 2
i lead £275, "reg" raises to £650, i think for like 20 seconds and sigh call. "Reg" shows J2


Maa boy made day 3! So much fun sweating that.

w

why is it that everytime you post hh i can never figure out who it is...im desperate to know who this 'reg' is...