If you based your results on ev instead of $$ you might get less tilted by situations like that....just a thought

Haha yeah I saw that on Facebook. It's pretty insane how nuts people are going for this but actually really cool to see people going out into the real world and doing meet ups, striking up convos with strangers who are also playing and everything! Appreciate the follow too

Hey man, appreciate the suggestion and I might give that a try

I'm pleased to say I actually didn't tilt at all after that one yesterday. I'd actually say I'm not too bad at controlling tilt overall and don't spew off buy ins very often.

The money doesn't bother me at all but it's just hard on my confidence when I'm unable to book a win at 10nl lol. Know it's a small sample and I'm a decent winner there overall though so just need to ride it out. Don't want to jinx it either but had a bit of a comeback over the past week or so. Still down for the month but ev is positive so it's all good

Hey guys!

Been way too long since I updated this! I've been insanely busy with various life things so I'll try and get a full update up going over that and a review of the month and hands and stuff on Sunday but still grinding away.

Month has still been poor results wise but genuinely really happy with my play for the most part. At the risk of jinxing myself I've had 5 or 6 winning days in a row which is good for both confidence and the bankroll. Finally cleared the first 25% of the summer of grind promo so can add an extra $150 onto the graph too.



Glgl!

Graph for July:



Meh, poor results overall but not too disappointed.

I ran really badly for first 2-3 weeks. Not just in terms of bad beats but a fair few KK v AA and set over set type coolers. Obviously pretty standard playing zoom though so while slightly frustrating I'm fine with it. Last week-10 days results have picked up a bit and confidence has come back which is nice.

Cleared the first $150 in Party's Summer of Grind promo and working towards hitting the 60k reward which will be my last one. Cleared either 1 or 2 sections of the first deposit bonus for $22 each as well so after factoring in rakeback I think I won a small amount. Would rate overall play for the month at about a B. Happy with it for the most part but definitely still making mistakes and had one session where I tilted badly.

Was out for a friend from poker's birthday on Saturday which inevitably ended up at the casino haha. Went to the pub for drinks and were going to go late reg the donkament but missed it by 3 minutes so just ended up having a few more drinks and playing £1/£1 cash.

Was a very dull session tbh, did get it all in pre w/ black AA... and was up against red AA lol. Won a pot with QQ in an awesome squeeze spot after an open and 4 callers (lol live poker) where I was praying somebody thought “aye right” and went for the 4bet but no dice. Think the 3rd best hand I saw in an approx 3.5 hour session was KTo. Did pass up a few spots to 3bet light and stuff that I'd have taken online but gather people don't like folding live so meh.



Stack doesn't deserve a picture but meh, pics make things more interesting so here's a random shot of my stack at some point. Cashed out +£65 which I suppose is not bad considering lack of hands and being pretty drunk by the end.

Away from poker I've had a lot going on. Was in a head on car crash a couple of weeks back... Guy turning right onto the main road I was on and clearly just didn't look before going. Luckily nobody was hurt and he admitted full liability so didn't cost me any £ or no claim bonus but still annoying and time consuming to deal with.






After the crash ^

Even more tilting thing is that resulted in this...


Despite being a relatively small/minor crash the insurers said that my car wasn't economical to fix so is gonna be a category D write off. Got it brand new 7 years ago and it's barely needed anything done, never broken down or anything so and was basically super reliable so I was proper gutted! Got a pretty decent price for it though so if anybody has recommendations for similar cars then shoot them at me!

Got my knee operation for my ACL tomorrow. Hospital is ~90 minute drive away and I've to be there at 7.30am so staying in the hotel next door free of charge tonight which is pretty cool. All going well I'll get to go home tomorrow which is cool though. Never had surgery before so not entirely sure what to expect and feeling the nerves a bit now, sure that's natural though and here's hoping it'll all be fine!

Big news is that this also happened at the end of holiday:




GF is a maaaassive Harry potter fan/nerd so waited for others to leave our cabin and then popped the question on the Hogwarts Express at Universal in Florida.

I asked the morning that we were going home so for the whole holiday I knew it was a while away and felt surprisingly relaxed about it all... then it got to the last day and the fear smashed me haha. Luckily it all worked out and she said yes!

No time for hands right now since I need to pack my stuff and head off to the hospital. Felt a bit ill for the past few days, nothing serious but just really tired and as a result haven't had much energy to grind but assuming I do get to go home tomorrow then considering I'll be on crutches and likely housebound, I'm gonna aim to get a few k hands in on Thursday and then get back into playing every day again from there.

In the mean time cheers for reading and GL!

Good luck man... You definitely kill NL10, forget about the variance stuff, you just need to be cool and confident. I'm a microstake zoom player too, understand the swings... been there. Hope you can crush in August, I'll try my best too. GL

engagement is -EV

Congrats on the engagement, well done!

GL at the tables in August, time to crush

[x] Casino win.
[x] Car crash.
[x] Engagement.
[x] Hospital visit.
[x] Housebound cripple.

Pretty good update. Congratudolences.

#prayforop

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Hope that didn't put anyone off their dinner Anyway that's me finally getting to go home now. Been a long ass day so can't wait to get home and murder either a pizza or a curry!

Pleasantly surprised how little it hurts but will see how it goes once the local anaesthetic wears off. Got a ****load of drugs and some shiny new crutches to take away with me!

Won't know how successful it's really been for a year or so but 80% success rate so basically just got to run good, maybe use a one time and hope to hold like AA v KK...

Yeah, variance is whatever. We can't control that but confidence is definitely a big part of poker imo. Wonder if we've played together if you're on Party? Anyway I appreciate the kind words and good luck to you in August sir!

Haha remains to be seen but here's hoping not! Cheers though man!

Thanks my fellow panda fan! Same to you and here's to a big month for both of us

Haha thanks man! Glad you liked it! Enjoyed the use of checkboxes too, very under rated! Somehow makes things sound more exciting than they maybe actually were! Good luck in August!

Appreciate all the responses!

Congrats on the engagement, a fine looking couple!

Too kind! Thanks my man! Also loving your amazing username/avatar combo!

Men that picture gives back Some memories. You got new knee LigAments. Shattered them in both my knees, had to recover 1 hear 2 times.


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Damn man that's brutal! Feel bad for you but hopefully you're all better now!?

Debating the idea of doing smaller daily updates rather than one bigger update every week or two. Not promising I'll stick to it and not sure what people prefer (if they even have a preference) but I'm tired, bored and cba playing right now so figured I'd post an update anyway.

Graph for the day:



Always nice to book a win but pretty disappointed to lose back a lot of the profit after such a good start.

Biggest win was early on in a standard spot, always nice to be on the right side of a cooler:



Unfortunately def messed up a couple of hands.




Planned to b/f the river then levelled myself into thinking he could jam bricked spades but I block a load of them with the Ks and think my line looks pretty strong and I can have all the nut flushes/99/TT/JJ so don't think it's a great spot for him to bluff tbh. Think it's an easy fold when he raises, especially not all in which feels "valuey".

This was the biggest loss:





Lol owned He snap checked turn and river so I really didn't have him even close to as strong as the hand he had. Really expected to get a fold and thought I could get him off a hand even as good as KQ with an overbet plus obviously he never has KK/QQ which I do. He tanked for a while before calling and I doubt he was ever raising but doubt he seriously considered folding either.


Extra bonus hand from a while ago that I came across today and forgot to post at the time.Think it's standard but open to any comments!





Just been for a 10 minute hobble out of my flat block and to the end of the street and back which is first time I've been out today lol. Pretty sure I'm gonna go mad from cabin faver before the weekend!

In. Great thread. Your RTA > My RTA.

Loving the directions on your leg (ACL this way, this leg). Breeds confidence.

Congrats on your engagement.

GL...following. FB54

Doubt KK river b/c nets us much, as you say this should be a value heavy sizing we're facing so happy to b/f.

AJ is spewy, don't really expect recreationals to fold Kx here, maaaybe when we overbet but I don't like it.

QJs could go either way ott, player dependent spot but I think at these stakes we should call more often than jamming just cus of the nittyness of the games. If you have other reads on the guy it's fine, but he has to be pretty LAG for us to expect much folds.

Yeah you really did. Not over the moon about the line/sizing either, but I guess with the K there are lots of options. I'm really struggling to see what worse hand calls on the river - AJ maybe with your sizing (but like AA/QQ, this prob 3bets pre) not much else, so I probably x/c river.

AJ

Yuk. You start of with a small flag that villain is rec and dig a big hole. Wrong spot. Fold flop.

QJc

meh...not sure I'd call it standard. You have very little fold equity against the overpair or better as 43% of the eff stack has gone in, so really you are probably just folding hands you already beat. You have the odds to just call the turn and therefore realise all of your equity, so I don't see much wrong with calling turn and playing river as it unfolds. That said, I don't hate it.

I had this happen to me a few years ago but as i liked the car so much i asked to keep it and repair it myself which they obliged with and took something off the insurance payout.

I got a mate to fix the car as most of it was superficial and was repaired without any issues.

The car was fine for a couple of years until another mad ******* drove head on into me and that was basically that for the car.

Your car does not look that damaged unless its damaged the inner structure so i would check first.

I have another mate who works at a garage and he buys cars from auction sites were your car will probably end up and fixes them and sells on for a tidy profit.

PS ... good luck with the recovery.

I doubt very much that these cars are write offs. It is illegal to sell on a write off in the UK, unless it is declared and registered as such, and has been for quite a few years. And nobody is making a "tidy profit" anymore from a registered write off.

When I was kid (which was a ****ing long time ago) it was a called a "cut n shut" and it was these cars falling apart which bought about the law change which is nowadays rigorously enforced.

http://www.lawgistics.co.uk/legal-ar...ritten-off-car

AJ just fold flop without the bdfd mw.
QJ turn is a call 100% of the time. Blow yourself off your equity by doing this.

Urmm no ... a class D insurance write off is nothing like a cut and shut job.

This is what a Class D means.

Where the vehicle is repairable salvage and the estimated full cost of necessary repair for known damage at current prevailing rates and prices is less than the market valuation as defined by the insurer/owner at the incident date. (No VIC check required).

Basically the insurance people will get estimates ( and we all know garages over-estimate the cost when it comes to a insurance job ) and if its over 50% of the value of the car then they will write it off as a Class D.

Apparently a Class D is not even a write off ... just not economically viable to repair or something to that effect.

If i was OP ... i would ask the insurance company what exactly is wrong with the car and whether there is a possibility of keeping the car ... some do and some dont

Thanks very much! Appreciate the kind words and glad to have you on board!

As for the drawings on my leg LOL I know and my thoughts exactly! Suppose rather that than them slicing open the wrong knee though!

Firstly, thanks for the recovery well wishes!

And yeah, as I learned a couple of weeks back there's basically category A,B,C and D write offs in the UK.

I can't remember the exact definitions but it's more or less something along the lines of:

A - Completely f'd - scrap everything

B - Badly f'd, crush the car but a few parts can maybe be salvaged

C - Fixable but would cost more than the car's value

D - Fixable but would cost a lot relative to car's current value.


Pretty sure cat's C and D can be resold as long as it's stated it's a write off so assuming this is what you meant before and def not illegal.

Anyway tldr but I actually did get the option to take the car and get it fixed up myself. Seriously thought about it but not knowing much/anything about cars, how long it would take to sort or exact costs and honestly a pretty decent £ value to just leave it to them it swayed me to just get a new one.

Regarding the hands from above def agree with the feedback so thanks guys.

Think c/c or b/f river with KK is much better than b/c

The AJ I thought I had (an obviously wrong) timing tell when he snap checked turn and river but really didn't think he had a flush and was sure he'd fold 1 pair hands so I'm actually ok with that but think folding flop when he donks multiway is just better than peeling.

Standard was maybe wrong word choice for QJcc hand. I meant as in "meh it's gotta be at worst close to ok getting it in with so much equity" but everyone's said just to call and especially at 10nl when I doubt he's ever folding KK+ and prob not double barelling worse then I 100% agree that call turn evaluate river is the optimal line.