You could not play for another 10 years and still have an edge on the tourney Good to have you back!

Let's hope you put in a better performance at Hampden than some recent visitors there...

Good luck

Thanks lads

Here is my field report from the days action. WARNING wall of text coming up.

I got to Hampden Park at about 3.40pm and the action was due to start at 4pm. Got registered pretty quick, had to sign up for an account because I hadnt played at Nottingham - Dusk Till Dawn Casino. That took 5 mins then I was through to the lounge and found out my table number and seat number.

Looked like there was a lot of people from all over the UK and a few from Europe. A lot of people in the tournament already knew each other from the Live circuit. There was 4 or 5 people at my table who were on first name terms with each other and seemed like at least semi pros.

There was 213 people in my Day 1 pool.

Played pretty solid and tight. Although I did see a fair bit of limping these players seemed like semi-fish and still knew how to play a little.

For most of the day I was sitting just above average stack size. Won a few straight forward pots, stole the blinds when appropriate etc. There was antes every hand from about level 3 onwards.

Fast Forward and 7 hours later at the tournament we are down to about 40 left from 213 and we are now on level 12 with high antes and blinds. My stack was dwindling by this stage down to 30 and maybe 20 big blinds at one stage.

One of the fishier players opens from MP and then one caller. I only have like 20 bb left at this stage so I jam in the Cutoff with AJo there is decent money in the middle by the time you add in the antes.

Girl in the big blind calls my jam and puts her last 17 or so bb. Everyone else gets out the way. She turns over A3o and I have AJo, so got her dominated. Boards runs out TJQ TurnBlank K on river and we both chop with a straight. Can confirm that not everyone loves a chop pot.

Shortly after I get my best holecards of the day and pick up KK UTG. I min open and it folds round, BB calls and we go HU to the flop.

Board comes something drawy like T79 monotone diamonds, I have no diamond. I figure if he has any sort of draw he isnt going anywhere. I overbet to around 2x the flop and jam all in. Villain quickly calls and turns over the Qd flush draw. My KK hold out and I double up to around 50bb or so.

Shortwhile after Female Fish (seen her open limp previously) with a big stack
of around 150bb min opens from UTG+2. Folds round to me in the CO where I have 99, I three bet to 8bb. She flats and we go heads up to the flop.

Flop comes KQ9 rainbow and I have bottom set.

I knew she could easily have hit the K or Q and I dont want her going anywhere and I know she is aggro. I cbet around 1/3 pot and before I can even look over she has raised pretty big on the flop.

I counted my chips even though I knew I was jamming, I didnt have that much left anyway after I covered her raise. I jammed all in, she calls without hesitation and flips over K6o top pair.

I show the set of 99s and the whole table seem impressed.

Turn comes a K and I boat up and the fish makes Trip Kings.

Then after 7 hours play the River comes down a 6 and she runner runners me and makes a better boat. Was easily the biggest cooler of the day at my table and almost everyone was in shock on the river and offered their condolences. Fish looked embarrassed and apologized. I said gl to everyone picked up my bag and left. On to the next one I guess..

Ouch, runner runner was gross. Main question is though was she attractive?

Haha no, looks department we are talking Whale. However, there were a few hot dealers during this tourney. Massage girls had great racks and asses that were POW.

And Im pretty sure I recognised one of the girls that get paid to just walk round the room in a fit dress looking hot. Actress, prob does modelling too. We are Facebook friends ill pm her 2m. I met her about 18 months ago, and she invited me to come see her play at the theatre. We did share a glass of Champagne after it too of course she has a bf though.

Btw you up for hitting any live MTT events in Scotland in future? Its prob only worthwhile if the prizepool is big. Ill shoot you a msg next time if you are up for it.

I don't think I've got the patience for live poker. I played a bit in Vegas, cash games though, and I find myself getting restless and wanting to play some really crappy hands just for the sake of doing something.

Understandable and I completely agree. I think for it to be worthwhile there has to be a massive prizepool for it with like 50 or 100k for 1st.

I was thinking of trying a live cash game at some point in Glasgow just to see what the standard is like and how much I could potentially make. But playing live is so slow and not sure how profitable it will be 1 tabling at the stakes available. It might just be another distraction and I could end up wasting a couple of months of Friday and Saturday nights only to discover that I would be more +EV just playing on Stars.

I've got a membership for a couple of casinos in Glasgow but I usually just play a bit of roulette before heading out on the town for a session. I actually joined a poker club a few years ago but never actually played at it. Can't remember what it was called and I'm pretty sure it shut down. It was on the same street as the O2 Academy.

Was having a look over the old poker spreadsheet today. Learned a few new Excel skills whilst I was indulging in DFS so started using them on the Poker spreadsheet.

Anyway, I believe I was murdering people in Unopened pots in the SB @ 25NL and then when I made the move up to 50NL+ I was the one getting butchered from this spot.

Had a look at this today and looks like things are improving.

SB Unopened Pots

Havent looked at any overall results since end of January so had a look, kinda wish I hadnt now and just continued on playing but never mind. Nearly fell out my seat when I seen how far the green line is above the orange line

Giraffe of last 40k hands, ~90% volume on Stars and ~90% @ 50NL.


Moving forward we are still working on:
Improve and review:
[] SB vs 1 Raiser on Btn
[] BB vs 1 Raiser in MP
[] BB vs 1 Raiser in CO
(BB vs 1 Raiser in general in fact)

Main Leak Focus:
[] Work on and improve winrate for "vs 1 Limper Pots"
and
[] Work on and improve winrate for "vs 2 Limper Pots"

Lets goooo

Gl with all your goals man. I noticed at the start of the thread you had some fitness goals.. You still hitting the gym?

Great graph dev! Don't worry about being over EV, regs are allowed to have extended periods of "get there" as well! You seems like you're playing great and plugging leaks, gj!

Thanks mate, dont remember what the fitness goals were. For most of the last year I have been working full time and trying to make Supernova in the evenings so I havent had time to hit the gym for a few hours a day, a few times a week.

Instead I have a weight bench in my flat and some free weights that I use about 3 times a week and I just do like a 15-20 minute session so that I am not too tired to play poker after it and it doesnt take up too much time. Also use a sit-up app a few times per week and the weather has been better lately so went out for a jog a few times. Whats your routine like?

Thanks Bro, I think the Poker Gods heard the word on the street that I had been flirting with DFS lately so they have decided to throw some love my way to lure me back in. Its only a 40k hand sample though I know how this works by now the doom switch could be flicked at any minute. If I can keep that giraffe going the same way for 100k hands I will defo bang it on display under a fridge magnet in my Kitchen

Ahhh cmon everyone ... lets not be too nice to Dev.

Hes been slacking for a good while now and needs to sort it out asap.

Fear not .... im going to be on his case for the rest of the year.

Haha listen to King Slacker himself, you were just worried in case I took your crown there for a while

The people know I have still been hustling round the clock. I just had to widen my horizons for a while and start a DFS apprenticeship in case the good-ship internet pokers goes down like the Titanic.

I am gonna get you into DFS Soccer next season anyway, you will be hooked after your first slate mate.

Was looking back at this hand from yday. Hero opens, fish flats, Reg squeezes.

I get to HU on the River with the Fish and bink the boat. I think we both started with 200bb and there is around 76bb in the pot. My first instincts were to jam the river and I dont think he can fold a J if he has one.

I then level myself into thinking I am still losing to QT straights, JK, J9.. monsters under the bed syndrome. I then felt betting Pot would get calls more often from a K so I chicken out and bet the river for pot.

Was the correct play to Jam the river and get the remaining stacks in? Fish was 42/3

I had a quick look at combos in Flopzilla, I feel I should have jammed the river here.

Dont worry I did realise at the time my boat wasent losing to any straights.

I hope.

Not sure if these hands from yday are bad play or coolers. Felt bad about them at the time but will need to read over again with a clearer mind at some point.

vs Reg.
Flat pre was to allow the fish limper into the pot




vs 42/6 Fish
Felt his Turn donk increases the likelihood of him holding a Q so went for the Jam on river.



Looking at them now I dont feel half as bad about them anymore. I can defo get called by worse hands in both scenarios.

Yeah a fish is going to have a stray J way more than a bigger boat, some fish will call with a K and obviously the str8 too. Missed value there, I do the same thing when I'm having a period of constantly running into it, as stupid as it is, it's just natural not to want to pull the trigger sometimes.

Yeah agreed, runbad can play a lot of mental tricks on the brain and you can get scared to get it in fearing the villain has the absolute nuts all the time.

I think lately I have been trying too hard to find leaks and mistakes which leads me down the path of seeing mistakes even when they are not there. Easy to get in the habit of blaming yourself for 'bad play' every time you lose a stack.

Went out for the Champions League final on Sat so not played much last 2 days. Will finish off the month then have a look at results.

Last day of the month so I am gonna check results just now for an update on how things are going. Last 75k Hands:

50NL Easy Game


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By position, yep still useless in the Big Blind

Boomswitch engaged. Helluva nice month, was it all FR?

Whyyyy FR?

Yeah it was all FR, although I should mention I didnt play all them 75k hands in May some were from previous month. My Poker volume wasnt great last few months cos of playing DFS too much so just lumped all my recent action into that graph.

99.9% of my poker hands have been played at FR. It is just what I started playing and feels normal to me. Played a little 6max for a while but didnt go great so defo feel I am more +EV at the FR tables.

Oh I thought you were playing zoom. Which I didn't think ran past 50. Gl man, good to see you with some nice results