Hey guys thanks for the comments, fulsky and mrhappy thanks for the continued encouragement! Harley yes I need to set an amount to take with me to help me from spewing too many bi's away if I start playing poorly - but it's a finebalance between having a safety mechanism and having something that just limits your effectiveness (e.g. travel 1.5 hours lose 2bi's and not be able to continue) so am still trying to figure that out.
Weasel yes that was a dash not minus sign!
Lots to update today! I worked so hard this weekend... here is how it went.
When I woke up after my last post, I decided buy in wise I would take 4bi's with me I thought this would give me enough to not have to worry about running out, but still safeguard some as a kind of stop loss. So I left £500 in bank and took £800 with me.
I got to the casino about 9.30PM by 11PM I had lost 4 bi's. I have myself to blame totally. I played too loose, calling too light. Table was full of short stacks and I started calling their shoves with marginal hands e.g AT AJ etc. I usually was flipping and lost. I also tried a couple of bluffs that didn't work. As my play deteriorated I could feel the emotional side of me taking over, I was very annoyed to be losing money to people I regarded as fish (I have to change this mindset). So with 4bi's down I was left with £500 in bank (and I'd left card at home deliberately). I got train home, on way home I had a chance to think about the situation and once again swore to myself I must eradicate this C game from my play. I decided I would go home get my money from card and go back the same evening. I swore to myself I would play perfect poker and work hard and if I did I would get my 4bi's back + interest. This was a tall order, but I just told myself it's possible if I play well. So I did go home, by now trains had stopped (12am) so I got a taxi back to Casino. Got back in at about 12:45AM sunday morning. I played through from 12:45AM until 2.30PM today. I played very well and despite losing AK vs AQ on K73 flop, when villian spikes queen on turn, I managed to get myself into decent spots and make some good money, some very good money. The last cash table I played on I was on for about 3 hours, I created a loose image by entering alot of pots and being quite aggressive, when I picked up hands people gave me no credit and stacked off against me. I also won a big 3 way pot with QQ which I'll recap briefly now as it was the biggest pot of this OP.
Rich lady who pulls out money like it's printed in her handbag, and just like to gamble (in her own words) - raise my ep raise to 29, I had initally raised to 8 with QQ. Loose player who's deep and has been winning alot of hands with improbbable hands raises to 80. I decide I'm waaaaaaay ahead of both of them so reraise to 200. My idea here is rich lady only has another 130 behind, so I was intending for her to call and loose deep guy to fold and then I'm HU to to the flop with an overlay in the pot which seemed like an ideal scenario. What actually happened was rich lady called and loose deep stack flatted...
Now I have like 400 behind at the flop.
flop is J63 - and he bets 50. I decided I need to know where I'm at now before I put any more money in the pot (I'm putting him on AA, KK, QQ, JJ, AK) when he flatted my 200 raise. Just because it wouldn't suprise me if he tried to trap me.
so I reraised to 120. So I have like 280 behind now. He flats my reraise. Turn pairs the jack. so board reads J63J and he checks and I check. River is a blank and he leads out for 75. I call because of the price - and he mucks. I beat him, what's more I also beat rich lady... It was a huge pot worth about £600
I decided to come off the cash table after this as I know sometimes if I have a very deep stack I can start to spew chips. Instead I entered a 42 runner turbo sng £15 rebuy. I thought this would be a good way to end the epic 12 hour session... six hours later am still playing and cut a long story short I took it down for £500.
All in all with the combined profit from the mamoth session I played, the big pot hand, and the 1st place finish in donkamanet - bankroll is now at.... £2900 !
I think this is the day I can finally say I've made it. I don't see myself looking back after this result. I still have a lot to do, particularly focussing around my discipline in folding, and not bluffing. But my play so far is proving very profitable! I'm very close now to my target of 3k by end of month, would just need another 4 or so bi's and I'll be there which is great. I'm really pleased with the work I've put into my game so far and the hours upon hours I'm spending playing.
Thanks for the support! Hope you're all having a good weekend !
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