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Poker Forum => General Discussion => Member Blogs => Topic started by: pokerpops on February 23, 2012, 10:03:10 AM
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Yes, it"s another blog!
Somewhere to share my thoughts and experiences of poker. I"m a recreational poker player with a moderate amount of ability and a reasonably balanced view of how the game works. I try to improve and to increase my understanding of the techincalities of the game and I love live poker.
I posted this elsewhere, but having thought about a blog here for quite a while I decided to share it as my first substantive post.
I had a meeting in Newcastle yesterday that ended just after 2 so, having never played at Aspers Newcastle before I thought I"d give the 3pm tournament a whirl.
£10+£2 with one re-entry allowed, £500 guaranteed and when I joined it there were 19 runners - I"m thinking Top 3 paid and maybe £250 for 1st here...
By the time the second level ended there were about 30 entrants and with the re-entries added there were 47 stacks in play. OK, minimal overlay, but still, Top 4 paid, maybe Top 5, still a decent amount up top
Imagine my surprise when I saw the Prize Distribution on the screen and it showed prizes down to 10th
10th! and the prize for 10th? In a £10+£2 tournament in which over half the field had a re-entry?
£10
Same for 9th too
1st was now £170 - 34% of the pot in a 30 runner tournament...
Want to know what capped off my bemusement?
When we got to the final table bubble, with 10th place being worth £10 remember, there was a clamour from most of the players for a "saver"...
Snap refused to even consider it, despite the whining from the other table about "how much quicker we"ll get to the final table"
Then!!!
The top prize was reduced by another £20 "for the valets". Now they"d been pretty good, and I never begrudge a tip to those who get paid minimum wage and work hard, but we were coerced into this and that never sits well. I suggested that 9th and 10th place should pay the tip but that didn"t seem a popular idea with Mr Whineabout the bubble payment so went along with the "off the top" suggestion.
What makes this all even more amusing/bemusing is that even with a payout structure that paid £10 for 10th and £40 for 4th people were openly laddering (or really not very aware of how to play poker...)
Limping in utg at 1500/3000 from a 10k stack and then folding to a raise was a favourite move
Limping utg at 800/1600 with A6 off and calling a raise to 3400 from a 20k stack then jamming a flop which was AK5 two spades... yes, he won that pot vs my A4ss but he got it in with a 22% chance of that and virtually no equity against my range to call. (50p set aside for this)
That hand, plus a couple of compulsory calls of shortstack shoves that didn"t work out led to my falling from chipleader (+25% of chips in play at the start of the FT, slightly more at the start of the hand) to an exit in 4th, for the lifechanging sum of £40
I queried the payouts with the cardroom staff and apparently they are as they are because when they were set at 10% of the field +1 the regulars complained and the game got less runners...
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Hello David
This is a typical recreational game and should be treated as such. It costs a tenner as you say, so people could be there for the first time to learn the game after watching poker on telly for example, or they could be simply choosing to play instead of going to the boozer or bookies on a wednesday afternoon.
If you are there to try and win and make money (and so you should) then your approach needs to be different than if you were sitting down at a £100+ buy-in.
Your opponent"s general play which you describe are to be expected, this is what the poker coaches describe as Level 1 thinking, which is basically playing the strength of their own cards. You recognise the fundamental mistakes and I would presume you to be Level 2 / Level 3 thinking.
Instead of being critical of your opponent"s play, adjust your strategy
A standard 2 1/2bb - 3bb raise at this type of game could often get four or five callers (fish) with any two cards , so make them pay for attempting the badbeat and raise 4X or 5X. Level 1 thinkers don"t recognise this as abnormal.
Also tighten up your starting hand range. At this standard of tourney you can sit there for half an hour without playing a hand and suddenly raise in EP. Players won"t label you as tight or LAG so you don"t have that constant battle at the table as to what image you have, adjusting to their perception of you etc. etc. as is normal in the higher stakes tournaments.
Be a Fish! (this doesn"t sound like professional advice :) )
What I am really saying is that you have big implied odds at this level. Bet sizing is a common mistake at lower limit buy-ins. Take advantage of this when an opponent min raises with his premium hand. It is common to see very small initial bets on the flop and turn compared to the pot size. Take advantage of this, you could hit your miracle gutshot to the nuts cheap, and these same players will call massive overbets on the river.
Novice players find it hard to lay down AA , KK for example.
Position is just as important as always.
The above advice if applied to a standard £100 buy-in event is nonsense. If you are up against thinking players then standard raises generally mean what they say. Also The metagame becomes important
When someone is starting out it is easy to pick up bad habits playing in these types of games and moving up to a standard game with a bigger buy-in is often difficult at first.
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Be a Fish! (this doesn"t sound like professional advice :) )
Please don"t encourage him ;)
Nice to see the starting up a blog Dave... will see you later this evening although we maybe slightly inebriated by then x
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Be a Fish! (this doesn"t sound like professional advice :) )
Please don"t encourage him ;)
Nice to see the starting up a blog Dave... will see you later this evening although we maybe slightly inebriated by then x
I"m swerving the mayhem tonight Phil - I"ll read about it in Stu"s blog first thing Friday ;)
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Sorry for getting carried away with my long winded reply :-[ My passion for poker runs away with me sometimes.
Great to see your Blog start. It is good to read experiences Dave
And Phil we have something in common I am meeting a couple of mates this afternoon and there is a strong possibility of ending up slightly inebriated :)
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Zozzy, thanks for reading and for the advice.
My main thrust in creating and posting a pretty toned down version of the rant that occurred in my inner monologue was the extended payout list, the fact that there was a constant whine about the bubble payment until I burst it with the mighty 10h 8h >> Ah Jh ;D oh and the £20 for the valets which should have come from the bottom of the prize list not the top.
I mega-adjusted towards the fishy end of the spectrum earlier and managed to lose my first stack through a raise from ep with Jd 3d, got two callers and my c-bet on Js 5s 4d flop met with not one, but two all-ins.
Placing them firmly in the flush draw and straight draw camps I called confidently like a fule to see Ac Jc and 4s 5c tabled
"CHIPS PLEASE!"
The play I mentioned was at the Final Table where one would hope the standard might just have improved a little...
I don"t mind it, indeed I don"t, but I swear if the guy that kept limp folding from his 4BB stack had done it once more I"d have slapped him.
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I"m swerving the mayhem tonight Phil - I"ll read about it in Stu"s blog first thing Friday ;)
Probably a wise move... btw played the cash game at G after passing you on the way out. Sat down (wrongly) with only £40 into the BB. Get dealt pocket aces. UTG limps 50p.. small blind makes up. I raise to £5.50. UTG and SB call. FML.
UTG has 9/10 off calls my bets all the way down to the river to finally hit a straight. GG me. Was told after that I should of raised more pre. Seeing the play I don"t think it would of made any difference.. think if we end up there later it will be shove or fold mode for me :(
Zozzy.. good man :) beer is always the answer
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I"m swerving the mayhem tonight Phil - I"ll read about it in Stu"s blog first thing Friday ;)
Probably a wise move... btw played the cash game at G after passing you on the way out. Sat down (wrongly) with only £40 into the BB. Get dealt pocket aces. UTG limps 50p.. small blind makes up. I raise to £5.50. UTG and SB call. FML.
UTG has 9/10 off calls my bets all the way down to the river to finally hit a straight. GG me. Was told after that I should of raised more pre. Seeing the play I don"t think it would of made any difference.. think if we end up there later it will be shove or fold mode for me :(
Zozzy.. good man :) beer is always the answer
Bet £15-£18 on any board that isn"t paired and get the rest in on a safe looking turn. You may still get called, but if you started with £40 you shouldn"t have anything left to bet on the river...
This is why sitting with £40 is an issue.
I had disappointing news at G on Tuesday. They"ve been letting me convert my "PlayPoints" at 100=£1 and use them as buyin for tournaments. Great value given that 100=50p in food and drink.
They"ve now realised that I should only be using them for Reg Fees... sigh
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Can"t resist posting this...
Freeroll on DTD for the Devilfish satellites - if you don"t already know, they are running an 8-man £1,000 buy in SnG at DTD this saturday featurin Devilfish, Rob Yong, Simon Trumper and five satellite qualifiers.
I"ve been survivng on crumbs for a while - lost A10
then this happens...
http://www.holdemmanager.net
NL Holdem $800(BB) Boss Game#2834783139
mack28 ($7,661)
david ($7,658)
ziuga ($11,624)
noggin111 ($13,269)
Top4Aces ($17,788)
Top4Aces antes $100
mack28 antes $100
david antes $100
ziuga antes $100
noggin111 antes $100
mack28 posts (SB) $400
david posts (BB) $800
Dealt to david 9c 8s
fold,
noggin111 raises to $3,200
fold, fold,
david raises to $7,558 (AI)
noggin111 calls $4,358
FLOP ($16,016) 3c 3s Th
TURN ($16,016) 3c 3s Th Qd
RIVER ($16,016) 3c 3s Th Qd 9d
david shows 9c 8s
(Pre 63%, Flop 4.0%, Turn 9.1%)
noggin111 shows 3d 6d
(Pre 37%, Flop 96.0%, Turn 90.9%)
noggin111 wins $16,016
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i dont get it??
you lost an allin when a marginal favourite
ul??
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i dont get it??
you lost an allin when a marginal favourite
ul??
Thanks for dropping by, don"t let the door hit you on the way out.
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i dont get it??
you lost an allin when a marginal favourite
ul??
Thanks for dropping by, don"t let the door hit you on the way out.
hahaha
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My maternal Grandmother was a wise woman. She was born around 1900 and lived through two world wars a depression and all the rest in between. She had a shop, and sold pretty much anything and everything. To everyone.
Like most small shopkeepers of the day she had a little brown book to record purchases on credit, or "tick". She knew everyone in the area, and knew their stories. She knew their good points and their bad.
But she never ever uttered a word against anyone. Her mantra was " if you can"t say something positive, say nothing".
Now, that may not be a fashionable stance these days, but it"s one that I"ve tried to follow. The world would maybe be a better, friendlier place if others took the same approach.
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this is just from reading this thats all just reading it ....I think divad is in a very bad mood cus some plunker called his rase with .....waiter for it//////63 yes u heard it rite 63 and they where DIMONDS/must have been a WOMEN cos dimonds r a girls best friend///o i for got did i tell u she won with 6 3 OF DIMONDS YEHA YES YES YES GET IN THERE
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this is just from reading this thats all just reading it ....I think divad is in a very bad mood cus some plunker called his rase with .....waiter for it//////63 yes u heard it rite 63 and they where DIMONDS/must have been a WOMEN cos dimonds r a girls best friend///o i for got did i tell u she won with 6 3 OF DIMONDS YEHA YES YES YES GET IN THERE
thanks Samuel - although to be honest, my mood was at worst sanguine about the the hand I posted. It amused me firstly because when I shoved I was expecting to have "live cards" and maybe a 40% chance of the pot, and not the 60% I saw I had when the cards were revealed. My amusement increased when the threes arrived.
I try not to get into bad moods about poker beats. I give them out, I suffer them. They are what they are and that is a part of poker.
Ah well, another day another 50p.
Tonight is the Stockton Home Game - tenner in (x2 if you bust in the first hour as I often do) and played for Sh**s n Giggles. I"m looking forward to the craic and the banter and a chance to reassert my dominance at a game of true skill.
(http://www.mastersgames.com/images/tablefootball/foosball-g500-GAR-206.jpg)
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If you don"t win at the table football Pops, you might as well give up! I beat Fiddy last time we were there, and I"ve got the reflexes of a dead Sloth! ;D
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If you don"t win at the table football Pops, you might as well give up! I beat Fiddy last time we were there, and I"ve got the reflexes of a dead Sloth! ;D
sigh
Thanks Gary
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My maternal Grandmother was a wise woman. She was born around 1900 and lived through two world wars a depression and all the rest in between. She had a shop, and sold pretty much anything and everything. To everyone.
Like most small shopkeepers of the day she had a little brown book to record purchases on credit, or "tick". She knew everyone in the area, and knew their stories. She knew their good points and their bad.
But she never ever uttered a word against anyone. Her mantra was " if you can"t say something positive, say nothing".
Now, that may not be a fashionable stance these days, but it"s one that I"ve tried to follow. The world would maybe be a better, friendlier place if others took the same approach.
donkey.
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donkey.
Love you too PokerSon x
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Decided to play some Pokerstars tourneys last night, not something I do on a regular basis, but I was at home on my own and it seemed a good idea to get reacquainted with the site in readiness for the online season. It"s a while since I played much on there and I"d mostly played the smaller SnGs before.
Reg"d for a couple, using the iPad and it was so easy playing two that I soon topped up to play four and kept half an eye on the tv. Had a min(ish) cash in one tourney with around 1300 runners and exited another and decided to maybe try one more, and some 90seaters
So, at somewhere around 8.30 ish, I registered for something called "The Big $4.40"
It had around 350 when I entered. Late reg went on for something like two hours and by the time registration closed it had accumulated just short of 7000 runners
Ticking along quite nicely with around 2.5x avge stack with around 700 left then maybe made a mistake with JJ when we got it in on a "safe" flop but had run into KK... rebuilt for a while, but it"s now past 3am, and then ran my KQ into short(ish) stacks QJ and guess how that goes... rebuild again before finally exitiing in 288th for $22.24
A small + for the night and I"ll be happy to play on Stars using the laptop, the iPad or the phone. Really comfortable playing four tables on the iPad. Found it easier than the same on the laptop tbh.
Can"t get Holdem Manager working right on Stars at the moment. Nor have I worked out how to get Player Notes on the iPad/Phone apps. I see there"s an iPad app for HEM, but that requires making, and paying for, the upgrade. Probably have to do that if I play much more on Stars.
Tonight I may venture out to the local G in the hope of a midweek game that ends before 2am. Mixed feelings about the place at the moment. It"s a much better venue than Gala, but they really need to do something to get the numbers up.
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Slipped off to Newcastle to try the Gentings afternoon game yesterday. £3 reg fee for 3000 chips with £10 rebuy and add-on each for 5000.
71 runners and £950 prize pool
As is my usual I built a stack early. Had a couple of mishaps close to the break/end of rebuy period and stuck the £20 in for the extra chips.
Picked up a fair few chips without showdown till we we"re down to two tables then had AA v AK aipf, and 66 which turned a set and where I"m sure my image got me a call for an extra 25000 on the river. Had a couple of nasty tangles with one guy where I had to bet fold on the flop or turn. Nothing too bad, just boards where I have to c-bet and he found a raise, or a call and then a bet on the turn. I"m 100% he"s not doing this with air so fold is irritating but no more.
Final table was on the feature table which apparently may have been streamed with a 15 min delay. Regulars reckoned they have been able to view this, in the club, or even at the final table... I said nothing at the time but, really?
I picked up a few chips and the final table had maybe 4 stacks of 100k with 585 in play
I get a few hands and accumulate a few chips before I find the value bet button on a hand where I"d opted to flat call the button with Jd 10d behind one limper and get to see a flop four ways in position.
Flop brought 2 diamonds and it"s checked round to me. I check behind.
Blinds were 3000/6000 so there"s 24,000 in the pot when the turn makes a pair on the board and there"s a bet of 6,000 from BB. Limper folds, I flat call, as does the SB. Pretty sure he doesn"t bet a house here.
Pot is now 42,000 and the diamond on the river also completes a straight draw.
BB leads for 6,000 (his bet-sizing was like this in every hand he got involved in..)
I contemplate flatting but I"ve been working on my value betting and remembered a few PHA threads where bet"fold is vaunted as being a better option than just calling in spots like this.
He calls with worse and pretty much only shoves the absolute nuts, so I raise to 31,000. SB folds, BB tanks and as soon as it takes him more than 20seconds I know I want a call. Which I get :)
So now I have c200,000 chips and the lead.
Then I made a rather horrible mistake vs the same guy
At the same 3000/6000 I open raise to 14000 with 44 from the button. sb folds, my man, in BB calls.
Flop 88T, he checks, I bet he shoves...
I level myself into thinking he"s doing it with overs and flush draw... And I tell myself I still have 100k if I"m wrong, or if I"m right and he gets there..
He has JJ
Hello 4 on the turn :-)
After that, I have 50%+ of the chips and I pick off chips and players and win without ever really being in trouble.
The final was played on the live stream table. Apparently, had I so wished, I could have been watching the stream at the table on a 15 minute delay. As it happened, one of the others logged on and it wasn"t working, but even so... it must change the whole dynamic of the table if holecard information is available so quickly. It must also slow the game if they put it on the tv screen above the table (as I believe they have been known to do)
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Well done Dave.... more rebuy for tonight? ;) x
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Boooooommmm!!!
Nice win- top v betting on river in JT hand!!
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Poker karma...
Tonight"s home game highlight
Mr Stuart Ward, former APAT European Champion raises (a not uncommon occurrence)
I call with Qh Jh
Flop is Jxx
Young Mr Ward ships
I find a call with top pair Q kicker and it"s a good call
A very good call in fact
FatCatStu has a 7 & a deuce
But all is not done, the turn and river card are both spades
as were two of the flop
and my PokerSon"s deuce....
#lovethegame
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Don"t worry Dave.... I got revenge later and put him in his usual "i"m not going to play poker ever again" "can"t win when I"m ahead...can"t win when I"m behind" "don"t know why I bother" etc etc...
My epic J/10o > Fiddys AK > Stu"s pocket 2"s. My push.... Stu"s all in... then Fiddy calls us both.
Ace and a Jack on the flop... Jack on the turn... binkety bink :) x
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you are all fish
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Week One of the Online League...
KQ is rarely better than AA, but how is it that oppo has AA when he"s down to 3 or 4 big blinds and I"ve committed myself with a distracted raise...
88 starts better than AK and when no A and no K arrive it hurts a little more to lose, but that rivered straight did for me in 170th
I was playing on the iPad whislt also playing a small tourney at G in Stockton. The new Cardroom Manager, Mike, had organised an unscheduled tournament because there were players in the Casino looking for a game.
£15+£15 (5,000 for first lot, 10,000 for rebuy/addon)
I joined midway through Level 1 and was the 10th entrant. Eventually we got to 13 runners. I done a win for £190 which was rather nice :-)
That makes my recent record in tournaments (excluding the Thursday night game)...
Thursday 19th - Gala Teesside. 10th of 50 or so in the £10+£10+£10 Had a big stack close to the bubble then lost a chunk with Q10 on a Q10x flop getting it all in vs 88... 9 turn, J river. Two hands later I get it in again vs same oppo with my KQ having hit a 10Jx flop pretty hard, but not as hard as his JJ. Final table and I"m shortstacked and get 33 in vs QQ. Min cash for £30
Sunday 22nd - Gala Teesside £75 FO + £25 bounty. A typical up and down run. Built a decent enough stack but busted in 12th of 40ish. No real tales from this - I"d secured one Bounty chip so it wasn"t a total wipe, and I felt as though I played well enough to have gone deeper but it wasn"t to be.
Tuesday 24th - Gala Teesside £30FO. 80+ runners. Go to final table with chip lead and insta-reduce field to 8 and increase chip lead to have something like 35% of chips in play. Lose chunk getting all in pre with 99 vs 88. Hit set on flop, runner runner straight reduces my lead as do a few positional raises running into shoves and reshoves. Then A10s on the button runs into KK and 6th for £150
Wednesday 1 Feb - Aspers Northampton £20FO, Antes only tournament. Interesting experience this. I don"t think anyone in the tournament had played the format before and it took some adjusting to the idea that we would be playing a lot of flops 8-handed or more. No major highlights, other than the deal three ways where we split the prize fund leaving a chunk for 1st which meant that my win was worth more than the original top prize. Only £240, but a win"s a win.
Saturday 4th Feb - DTD £500 Deepstack. I satellited into this from a E4.40 feeder. Started badly with a misjudged bluff on the river of an AxxAx board. I only get called by someone with an A, but it should have been obvious that that was exactly what the lady in question had. Rebuilt the stack to something above average chips and felt fairly at home. Sadly I ran into a rivered full house where the river card completed my straight and instead of flat calling the river bet I opted to raise and then to call his reraise. A few hands later I played a hand that I"m still kind of unsure about, but suffice to say that my turn shove got called and although I wasn"t drawing dead on the river I didn"t hit either of my overcards and was out.
Saturday 4th Feb - DTD £50FO. I was out of the deepstack just in time to register for the SuperFifty with around 10 mins to spare. Apart from being totally owned by Tina Bandyle at the final table I had a good run and finished 5th for £660. The atmosphere in DTD that night was amazing - it was the snowy weekend and the team there just did everything they could for people. Lots were stuck there - no taxis running at all and hard for the locals even to drive away. So they put on an extra midnight tourney for those who didn"t want to play cash.
Sunday 5th Feb. DTD £150FO - two entries. The first ended early in a funky hand where three of us got all in on the low flop with JJ (shoved first), KK (me) and AA (winner). The second? Meh, I"ve erased all memory of it. I just donked it off I think.
Sunday 5th Feb DTD £15FO - had a proper stack pretty early on then lost a chunk with KK vs QJs (he 4bet shoved because "it"s the best hand I"ve seen since we sat down" and obv rivered the straight). Moved tables shortly after and ran into someone who couldn"t fold his big blind to the "new guy at the table" and flopped two pair with J2off.
had a little break for a week after the DTD trip
Tuesday 14th Feb - G Stockton £10+£10+£10 2nd to the Stockton Fossil. £120 i think. No major highlights other than a flopped set in the BB vs an aggressive SB which gave me a very useful double-up 4 handed with three paid.
Wednesday 22nd Aspers Newcastle £10 i re-entry (taken) - this was the tournament that finally started this blog. 4th for a massive £40.
Sunday 26th Feb Gala Teesside £75 +£25. Roller coaster ride which went up with 77 all in pre vs 66 and down (and out) with AK vs 10 10 (in the hands of a serial raiser - why do they always seem to have it when I shove...)
Wednesday 7th March - Gentings Newcastle £0+£10+£10. Winner £280
Sunday 11th March - G Casino Stockton. £15+£15. 1st for £190. Only 13 runners but a win"s a win. Got a touch lucky midway through to get a dominant stack and from there on in it was pretty much plain sailing.
So - buyin < =£50 I"m doing pretty well
buyin £75+... not so good
Have I found my level, or am I just running better in the smaller comps? Why couldn"t I have had all the rungood that I have undoubtedly had in making these results in the DTD £500?
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The winning streak obviously had to end.
Tuesday night"s tournament at G in Stockton is a £10+£10+£10 and is scheduled to start at 8pm.
The new Cardroom Manager is full of keen and has introduced a 1000 chip addition for registering pre start.
The place will take a lot to get it buzzing properly, but last night there were, for a change, enough players to start on time. Did we?
No - we waited because although we had 10 runners, we thought another two might arrive soon and that way we could start with two tables of six rather than break up a table of ten.
So an 8pm start turned into 8.45 and everybody, including the two we"d waited for got the extra chip...
Add on a break that is scheduled as 20minutes and turned into something well over 30 and nearly an hour has been added onto what should have been no more than a four hour tournament. (It lasted longer, mainly because people tank for ages over simple decisions and self-dealt tables that aren"t dealt by me are sooo slow)
I"m a recreational player, with a job to go to in the morning. I don"t play a lot of midweek tournaments because the size of field and the structure seem designed to produce a late finish. The lack of runners at G is one of it"s attractions for me because it will finish at a time I can handle. The delays began to frustrate me...
All this leads to excuse #1 for donking off my chips at the end. Which I did in spectacular style with a cut-off raise with 95off and a turn shove over a bet where I had virtually zero chance of getting a fold and a one in six chance of making a winning hand.
To be honest, I lost the mood for that tournament last night. I started out ok, but, (and here"s a trend, maybe a leak that needs addressing) I don"t cope well when having built a stack early on I lose a chunk of it being outdrawn. I"m fine when I lose some through my aggression running into legitimate hands. That"s the way it is sometimes. But when I get outdrawn by someone having sucked them into a hand with them having the worst of it... that seems to knock me off my game.
I was dealing too, which is fine when things are going along nicely, but it does mean that I can"t adopt one of my coping strategies for such situations which is to put the headphones on and listen to some music. I have loads on my ipod, and some more on my phone, but for poker I pretty much only listen to Arcade Fire with occasional bursts of The Hurts, Florence & the Machine and, when I"m just using the music to drown out the drivel The Stones.
So - a loss last night, but maybe a lesson learnt. There will always be losses, but I don"t need to make them happen!
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So it turns out that winning the Wednesday afternoon game at Gentings qualified me to play in the League Final with £2,000 added on Saturday last.
Same structure, 3,000 starting stack with 2 x £10 rebuy/addons (5,000 each) which can be taken whenever you choose up to the first break (end of level 4)
I travelled with some confidence given my recent run and had a whirlwind start.
Hand 2, blinds 25/50, I"m utg+1 and have AhAd
I raise to 200 over a limper
utg+2 3bets to 400
fold, fold, fold and cut off, a very nice lady of around my age looks at me, looks at the 3better and goes all in.
I"m not sure she even does that with KK, so I call, as does utg+2 - he has KK and we avoid all the nasty boards to split the pot.
Hand 4 - I have QQ in the big blind, 4 limpers so I raise to 275 and only the sb calls.
Flop K high with two hearts he check/calls 425
Turn blank chk/chk
River blank - no flush no reasonable chance of a straight and he shoves the last 1050 of his first stack...
I call and am good
Hand 6 - I raise J9o from the button and get one caller
I bet the J high flop he calls
I bet the blank turn, he calls
I bet the river he folds
The table consensus is that I have to have two pair or a set. I say nothing.
Within an orbit I"ve built my 3k into 8k+.
It goes wrong for a while - a touch of misfortune mainly. Nothing much I think I need to change, and nothing that changing my play would have avoided and my first stack goes all in with a flopped two pair and gutshot vs a flopped straight. No help on turn or river and I invest the £20 on a fresh 10k stack.
Approaching the break and I"m down to about 7k when three hands in succession seal my fate..
I raise A10 suited from utg, two callers and the flop is KQJ
I bet, utg+1 (still the same guy who had KK in the second hand) shoves...
the other caller agonises and folds, I call and hold aganist his 9 10 and now have 18k...
I then have a hand which I"m not convinced I played well and will post on the Academy for the usual abuse which results in me shoving JJ from the SB over an early raiser and not holding v KQ...
ah well - it was fun though.
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How to butcher a hand and be eliminated from a Tournament in two easy steps...
This is the hand that I asked for comments on in the Strategy Board.
Casino League Final £0+£10+£10 - £2,000 added. 60 runners
Level 4 150/300
Three limpers to my BB I raise QQ to 1050
Two callers inc SB
Stacks
MP - 7k. He"s been at the table from the start. Passive, called two streets and folded river a few times...
SB - 15k. Youngish female, joined the game late and sat down with the full 13k stack. No reads really other than she"s a regular...
Me - 18k. I"m probably the most active player on the table
Flop 764hh
sb checks
I have a moment of folly, prompted by the sudden feeling that, having just picked up a bundle of chips flopping broadway vs the lower straight (and having dodged a huge bullet by the other player in that hand having folded KJ for a flopped 2pair which would have filled up on the turn...)
I look at the flop and just dump 7x1,000 chips into the middle. Don"t ask what I was thinking because I truly have no idea.
I compound the error when the SB jams
First, I"ve started the hand with a misread of her stack - I had her on around 9k when in reality she has two 5,000 chips at the bottom of her stack not the one I thought she had
Second, I don"t pause to think - I just snap call, after all, I"ve got QQ, how can I be behind?
Obviously she has a set and obviously I don"t hit a saving Queen.
Such a huge wakeup call. I lost concentration for a moment when I needed it most. I paid the maximum price for that lapse.
As it happens, if I play the hand better I probably still lose a chunk, just not quite such a big chunk. The JJ in the next hand then costs me another chunk and maybe I leave the tournament bemoaning my luck and not my appalling play.
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Failed in another tourney on Tuesday, although not so badly as the Saturday.
Final Table at the £10+£10+£10 started with me as CL having c 26k of the 160k in play.
99then 66Both against shortstacks so I still have 20k when I manage to run AJ into the AA of one of the most irritatingly bad players I"ve come up against and exit on the bubble.
Felt I"d played well all evening and won a lot of pots without showdown and some big pots with sound reads and value bets. Made one hero call with bottom pair vs a pre flop aggressor. He minraised at 600/1200 on my BB and then bet 1200 on a raggy Khigh flop. I"d hit bottom pair and called with a view to seeing what happened and maybe taking it away on a scary turn. Turn was a brick so I checked and he checked behind, river another brick and I check again expecting him to check back and show me a smallish pair but instead he bets out 3/4 pot.
It just made no sense that he would check the turn and then bet the river.
If I was really good I guess I"d have managed to raise the river, but I was very pleased with my thought process which put him on A 10, AJ, AQ
I was wrong about his range, he had A9, but the logic was good as was my bottom pair.
I"m having a proper run at the satellites for both the UKIPT and the Stockton leg of the GUKPT over the weekend. I know they are both on at the same time but the UKIPT is at DTD and has a £1,000,000 Guarantee and if I can play it I will. If not, or if I play the wednesday at DTD and don"t make day2 then a seat for the GUKPT starting on The Friday won"t be too shabby as an alternative game for the weekend.
There will be some live satellites at the local G next weekend and apparently Sharky will be in attendance to dish out a few extra prizes. No doubt a few of the Gala regulars will overcome their issues with the G to turn up for some of this, maybe they"ll find it to their liking and the card room will start to see an upturn in numbers.
(http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=grosvenor+sharky&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&tbo=d&biw=1024&bih=690&tbm=isch&tbs=simg:CAESEglkVFOl1damliFnebVqBFOTqA)
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Another bubble...
I"m beginning to think that my cavalier approach to the bubble, and my disinclination to ladder is maybe not such a good thing.
On the one hand, I can pick up chips as others take a cautious approach
on the other hand, I seem to be bubbling a lot lately, both live and online
Take last night... FT of 10 in a 25runner live £15+£15. I have c 48k with average being 32k. 4 places paid.
I am active and winning my share of pots but the problem with this is that when you get resistance you know you"re behind...
Last night, I"ve had a couple of walks in the BB and I suggest to the SB that another would be welcome. He minraises me to 4,000. I have A s 7h and 3bet to 10,000. He tank calls and the checks the Ah Jd 9c flop.
I lead for 12,500 he tank raises to 25,000....
(http://www.giladorigami.com/P_ButterflyFish_Redpaper.JPG)
Eventually I"m down to around 9 BB at 1500/3000 with maybe one hand before it goes to 2000/4000 and it"s folded to my button.
I jam, both blinds call
board runs out Kc Qc 4c 6c 8s
BB flips his pocket nines
I have Qh 7d
SB slowly reveals a rivered set of eights
Maybe I have to think about my late game strategy and tighten up a little.
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I"ve been having a shot at the UKIPT satellites, mostly on DTD where the fields tend to be a little smaller in the feeders. Had a fair run at it on Saturday and made the full satellite via a E2.20 mini-feeder but didn"t get close to a seat.
Sunday, I couldn"t get past the feeders, tried a few minis and a feeder but then decided to go and play some live poker at the local G and take the ipad to play the League game as well.
I reg"d late for both the live and the online game and had the usual swingy spell. At the break (live) the guy who was dealing announced that he wanted to stop and since I was in Seat 10...
so now I"m not only playing two games, I"m dealing one of them. Luckily the guy who got put into Seat 10 kept an eye on the ipad for me and eventually I went out in 40th. No hands of note, no suckouts no bad beats just the usual "they alwyas get there/hold against me"... There were a few odd moments like the open raise from ep to 2000 when the blinds were 100/200 but that"s standard I guess.
So - back to the UKIPT satellite trail. I won a feeder into last night"s 3 seat guaranteed satellite and to cut a long story short (too late!) I won a seat ;D ;D ;D ;D
Folded lots, avoided playing for big pots as much as I could for as long as I could.
Went down to 6650 at 150/300
picked up some then lost some, picked some up and lost some
got to final table in moderate shape and was chip leader with 8 left but a combination of being card and spot dead reduced me to shortstack at 4000/8000/400 and then I got lucky...
6 handed I open shoved deuces from utg with 5BBs and binked a 2 to beat QQ to take me to 88k
beyond that, and in less than 10 minutes it"s over
AJ shoved uncalled to get to 100k
AK>K9 reduces the table to 5 with 3seats and some cash for 4th and I now have 170k
By the time we"re 4 handed I have just under 300k with the other three having 185, 93 and 80 and I"m feeling confident enough to call with JJ over a cut off shove. He has QJo, JJ holds
I know the 22>QQ looks like I had some last night, but I just got my rungood at a better time than I got my runbad. Old David would n"t have survived long enough to get that bit of luck. Old David would have donked it off well before then.
I have no illusions about my ability to run deep in the UKIPT - that would take some exceptional good fortune. But I love the atmosphere at DTD on big days and I"m really lookin forward to being part of that.
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Fantastic Dave WP! Well chuffed for you x
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vwp I look forward to your victory blog :D
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Great result! VWP
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vwp I look forward to your victory blog :D
Don"t hold your breath :) us satellite folks are the value for the pros
All other considerations aside it"s a week and a half away
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Get some inside tips from Rupinder Bedi, he"ll put you on the right track.
Most pros sat in in any case...... Why pay full price?
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vwp on getting a seat.
My only advice is this:
Do not think at any point that you are there to make up the numbers. I expect you to be shocked at the standard of some of the play earlier in the tourney. Just play your A game. That will be enough. the rest is down to a bit of run good.
GL
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vwp on getting a seat.
My only advice is this:
Do not think at any point that you are there to make up the numbers. I expect you to be shocked at the standard of some of the play earlier in the tourney. Just play your A game. That will be enough. the rest is down to a bit of run good.
GL
Thanks for this. You"re ok for a City fan.
I need to remember it"s an hour clock and a three day tournament. My A game isn"t used to such luxury
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So - if Monday was a high day for my poker life, Tuesday was definitely a low
I was in Northampton to visit my Dad and sonly duties done I nipped off to Aspers to play the £20FO
All was going well enough, I"d won a few chips including a rather disappointingly uncalled river bet where the villain folded and then spent the next five minutes telling me that he "definitely had the best hand" - which was unlikely on a 10d 10c 10h 5s 5h board where I had ad1 10s
But "old Dave" then popped into the game. At 100/200 after a prolonged spell of being card and spot dead it was folded round to me in the hijack and I decided to raise 7c 3s to 525 from around 5,500
One caller and a flop of 6h 8d 2s
Villain checks and I c-bet 800
he calls, which most definitely was NOT in the plan. Looks like he may not believe I"ve hit that flop...
Turn is 9s and again he checks. Now, I think there"s a lot of turn cards I can represent and get a second bet through with, but this one gives me an OESD and I should maybe take a free card. Sensible satellite winning dave does that, but not Old Dave...
Old Dave bets out a Des - 2200 and villain starts to talk.. "I don"t think you"ve hit that" he says, and of course he"s right. "I think you"ve got AK or AQ" he says, and how wrong could he be?
I say "Nope, not AK, not AQ, nor even Ace Jack or Ace Ten"
He thinks a little harder and then, just when I think I"m getting the pot he takes a deep breath and says "I"m all in"
Satellite winning Dave tanki folds here. Satellite winning Dave says something along the lines of "I think you"re hollywooding a set and I"m going to fold what may well be the best hand" and leaves them thinking he had a medium overpair like 10 10 or JJ
Not the Dave that played on Tuesday night though. He calls
and misses
So, tourney over I sit to play some cash. £1/£1. Start with £100 and pretty soon it"s turned into around £170 and I"ve barely had to show down a hand. It does help when you can check raise the river with the stonecold nuts :)
Then I 3bet £32 over a £6 raise and a call from the button with Qh Qd and call a shove from SB. He started talking as soon as it came to him and telling me I was just squeezing and I "had to call" and in the end I decided that I was ahead of enough of his "gobby range" to be right.
Board comes Qs 7s 6c 3s and he snap turns over A s Js
sigh
I reload and rebuild and at one point late on I had a small (£9) profit on the night.
That was time to go really, but there were people on the table who still looked like they had more to give so I stuck around. Mistake.
A misplaced bluff against someone who disguised their flopped set so well that I check raised them with bottom pair and a gutshot was expensive
Seeing a flop in a minrasied pot (minraised utg btw) from the button with Ks 7h and receiving a flop of Kh 4d 7c I prepared to receive donations.
Somehow or other we manage to get it all in and he obviously has Kd Kc and I"m praying for a 7 to get £100 out of the bad beat fund.
I <3 live cash
onwards and upwards - the Thursday game with the Stockton Massive awaits this evening and maybe a live satellite for the GUKPT on Sunday. If when If I bust the UKIPT on Wednesday at least that would give me something for the weekend.
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OK Mrs Variance - you win.
Thursday"s home game with the Massive turned into a 2 table job with 11 runners. I got the joys of the Cock, the Rock and the Fossil plus Gary "luckbox" Motson and Fiddy McGowan. All went well initially. I got my raising boots on early and accumulated a big stack of chips (mostly 25s and 100s)
Just before the break I lose a chunk when Stu"s raise with 4 6 off stumbles onto a flop of 2 3 5. I check raise him on the river and call his reraise... :-[
I spend the first few minutes of the break asserting my dominance in the Fussball - a 9-2 victory.
Then, for the second time in the week my I flop top pair with a King in my hand and discover that my opponent has the rest of the Kings allowed in a standard deck... This was made even harder to bear due to the fact that it was the first time all night that Stu, the Former European Champion had actually had a hand to raise with...
It"s still early so I pop over to the G to see if there"s a cash game on. There is, and a seat available. (5 seats available when I sit tbh)
It"s a steady sort of game - .25/.50 with only one straddle allowed. I sit with £100 and enjoy the banter for a while. Calls are looser at this level and all sorts of hands can develop. It"s fun. Until....
The table now has 9 players, the straddle is on and one of the tourney regulars raises to £3.25 from the BB. I call from utg+1 with 8c 10c and we"re heads up to a flop of 10 8 7. He bets £6, I raise to £18, he calls.
Turn is a 2, he shoves.
I call, he flips QQ and rivers a Jack....
Next hand, I straddle and the guy in the seat next to me asks, having called the £1, how the straddle works..
I look down at A s Ad and say, "It lets me act last preflop and means I can raise now" and make it £6 to play.
We get it all in on a 9 8 5 flop and of course he has 55..... :"(
SO, Mrs Variance, welcome to my home and do stick around for a while making sure that you give me the upside of some of these when it matters. Wednesday April 11th; Saturday April 14th; Sunday April 15th and especially on Monday April 16th.
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How in the name of all that is Holy does this happen?
Istana is from Madagascar btw, if that helps...
http://www.holdemmanager.net
NL Holdem $300(BB) Pacific Game#366473070
flores1982 ($8,294)
ozzteam ($27,748)
chinesin ($14,652)
edgeahead ($14,565)
pokerpops ($9,060)
shmalan456 ($19,637)
ynvjonesy88 ($24,888)
maksimushka ($19,010)
lstana ($43,922)
maksimushka antes $30
lstana antes $30
ozzteam antes $30
pokerpops antes $30
chinesin antes $30
shmalan456 antes $30
flores1982 antes $30
ynvjonesy88 antes $30
edgeahead antes $30
flores1982 posts (SB) $150
ozzteam posts (BB) $300
Dealt to pokerpops 7d 6c
fold, fold, fold, fold, fold,
maksimushka calls $300
lstana raises to $1,215 fair enough I guess
fold, fold,
maksimushka calls $915
FLOP ($3,150) 3c 3d 8h
maksimushka bets $2,362
lstana calls $2,362 floating?
TURN ($7,874) 3c 3d 8h 5d
maksimushka bets $5,905
lstana calls $5,905 still floating??
RIVER ($19,684) 3c 3d 8h 5d 4s must be nice
maksimushka bets $7,123
lstana raises to $14,246
maksimushka calls $2,375 (AI)
lstana shows 7h 6h
(Pre 38%, Flop 8.4%, Turn 18.2%)
maksimushka shows Ts 8s
(Pre 62%, Flop 91.6%, Turn 81.8%)
lstana wins $38,680
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Did a win last night in the £10+£10+£10 last night at G :) - only 11 runners, but still, a win"s a win.
To be strictly accurate I chopped it heads up with a guy that the Poker Room staff have christened Dr Donk. His assortment of moves includes open shoving 15BB utg with 10 5 off because "I wanted to either double up or take a rebuy" and 3 betting Q10 vs a tight open and snap calling the inevitable shove. Neither of those moves (in previous games) had worked out well for him, but last night he managed to shove J3 for his last 7BB well before the end of the rebuy period and river a straight. A little later he raised KJ 3 handed to 4100 out of a stack of 20k, called the 3bet to 9500 and shoved the K turn with KJ... his opponent obviously had AA, the K obviously came on the river...
He"s a constant drone at the table with his justification for his play and his post-hand analysis of everyone else"s play. He"s so good that he thinks I"m one of the tighter players in the game...
But it was 12.30, I was losing the will to live, and although I had a 60:40 advantage I just couldn"t be bothered to play on. Effectvely I gifted him £40, but I believe my sanity was worth the price.
Couple of highlights from the night,
Getting all in on the flop with Ac 7c on a 8c 6h 5c flop to see Brian"s 8d 8s
Made the flush on the turn - but with the 6c :-(
Took the second two bullets and moved on
Couple of good hero calls with bottom pair and a finely judged value raise of Dr Donk on the river when he had raised pre and my call with A10 flopped two pair and turned a house. Chk chk, chk chk, chk bet raise and I collected a 30k pot
Had c33% of chips when we got down to 10 players from the 11 that started and never had much of a problem with it after that.
Really felt for the Fossil - his night ended in two hands v Dr D - both times he was ahead and all in pre, both times Dr D had lived up to his name. Brian has a properly good game and is due a score soon. I hope it comes this weekend at DTD.
There"s one other hand that I will try and write up for the Analysis board... wish I had Bedi"s memory for stacks etc, maybe I should make notes at the table
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my very first UKIPT adventure...
Day 1a
Interesting table - a couple of names that Brian "The Fossil" Harland sent me a text about to say they had decent results in the past, plus Mitch Johnson DTD Cash legend, and a young lad called Anthony German who is currently a Brentford FC footballer and a regular cash game player at The Vic apparently (seems he spends a lot of time on the injured list...)
I played very tight initially, mainly because I had a lot of hands with twos in them, but also because I had set my stall out to avoid getting too active. Got a walk from Mitch at 25/50.. picked up KK and open-raised button only for both blinds to fold.
Raised QQ and got a call from young Mr German who had been accumulating chips at an alarming rate with some remarkable skill in hitting flops, or turns, or rivers...
on a 266 flop he check raised my c-bet and I reluctantly folded (a 6 very likely to be in his range to call a raise) with the thought that my time would come.
It did - he eventually doubled me up when he called my shove and my QQ held against his JJ.
Had a sense of deja vue when I managed to limp the cut off and see a flop four handed with 22 - flopped a set, checked the flop and then bet 500 into 800 on the turn which was a Q and brought a second spade on the board. The young lad in the BB then raised me to 3,000 out of a stack of 8ish
and folded to my shove..
The table broke around the 8th level and I found myself directly to the left of Jamie Dale, and two to the left of a former GUKPT winner whose name escapes me for the moment.
I built a stack on this table flatting a 3bet from Jamie Dale with QQ and check calling three streets on a J high board. Not sure what he had, but certainly didn"t have the confidence to check raise at any stage - I"ll learn that later.
Called a shorter stacks all in with QQ and held v 10 10 and hit level 10 with around 1.5x average stack. Sadly I spewed some chasing the NFD in a 3handed pot where a heart on turn or river would have given me a monster stack. Moved again having picked up a few more chips and managed to pay off two good value bets to the same villain.
Hand 1 - I open raise pre, he flops a set with 22 and I flop Top Pair, flush and straight draws. He check calls flop and leads river and I should know better than to call
Hand 2 - he open raises and I call with K10ss and the board is 10 high.. bet/call flop, chk/chk turn, he bets river, I call to be shown KK
Last hand of Day One when we"re all agreed that noones going crazy it"s folded to me in the cut-off and I have Ac Kc, I raise and my nemesis who is in the BB calls...
he check calls my c-bet and we check it down after that and AK is good which means I bag up 34,100 to return to for Day 2.
next post will bring mention of my meetings with two female Pokerstars Pros, and a comedy genius, my early double up and my eventual fall a little short of the money.
Don"t miss the exit hand, it"s a car crash!
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Raised QQ and got a call from young Mr German who had been accumulating chips at an alarming rate with some remarkable skill in hitting flops, or turns, or rivers...
on a 266 flop he check raised my c-bet and I reluctantly folded (a 6 very likely to be in his range to call a raise)
Obviously wasn"t at the table so cannot compensate for live reads but this is a car crash!
Pictures with Pokerstars team pro"s pleease..looking forward to exit hand now!
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Raised QQ and got a call from young Mr German who had been accumulating chips at an alarming rate with some remarkable skill in hitting flops, or turns, or rivers...
on a 266 flop he check raised my c-bet and I reluctantly folded (a 6 very likely to be in his range to call a raise)
Obviously wasn"t at the table so cannot compensate for live reads but this is a car crash!
Given the player, the situation, the nature of the tournament (hour clock, plenty of room to play) and the fact that when I say a 6 is very likely to be in his calling range I am pretty certain he has it then I"m not sure why this is a car crash? Had I reported calling here and a big loss of chips I could understand, but I am as sure as can be that this was a good fold.
Pictures with Pokerstars team pro"s pleease..
as soon as I can work out how to post pics here - I have problems with such things
looking forward to exit hand now!
Ghoul!
Day two report later
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my very first UKIPT adventure...
Day 2
I was up early and had a look at the DTD site to see that the seating was up for Day 2.
Table 14, seat 5 - Me
Table 14, seat 4 - Olivia Boeree
I"m not a huge Liv fan, she stole on Goldenballs, has a rather sulky demeanour at the table and apart from a rather pretty face her aesthetic appeal is rather limited for me. I"d have been bouncing round like tigger had it been Vicky Coren but sadly she didn"t make Day 2. However, I know that many of my poker buddies will be envious if they know, so I pop a status update on facebook and set off for Nottingham.
34,100 chips at 800/1600/200 just gives me room to raise AhQh and then find a fold on a nasty raggy all black cards flop. Two hands later I get JJ all in vs an ep raiser who calls me with 77 and glory be I have 60k+ - I raise and take down blinds and antes and then it"s folded to Liv in the small blind.
She announces all in for just over 20k and I know her range here is huge so I"m ready to call fairly wide. As it happens I have AJoff and figure that"s a comfy call. I announce my call and flip the cards and Liv says "that"s not good for me" as she turns over J9.
I hold and with a couple of pots after that I reach c140,000 with blinds at 1200/2400/300
I feel comfortable, and confident in my game. We"re approaching the money bubble, but I honestly have no interest now in just "making the money". I want to go deep.
So when I find Ah Kh in late position vs a raiser I 3bet and snap his 48k shove.
His 44 holds.. ok, no matter, I still have 90k left.
And now,
watch your speed, (http://thecontaminated.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/dangerous-roads-14.jpg)
All three players start the hand with very similar stack sizes
Villain 1 raises from utg+1 to 5100
Villain 2 calls from hijack,
I"m BB with 68off and call... (http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/mariusz_prusaczyk/mariusz_prusaczyk1103/mariusz_prusaczyk110300011/8973387-3d-error-alert-crossword-on-white-background.jpg)
Flop is 4 8 6 dd - -(http://www.archersafetysigns.co.uk/images/p/P0513%20DOUBLE%20BEND%20LG.gif)
I check, Villain 1 bets 18300
Villain 2 tank folds
I understand it"s all about his range, but whatever he"s raised with here it"s surely safe to assume i"m ahead
I shove.... (http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/68951/68951,1166701420,3/stock-photo-fasten-seat-belts-sign-2360514.jpg)
Villain 1 snap calls - I guess he"s been thinking about this while Villain 2 tanked, and I didn"t rush my chips over the line either so he"s had some time to consider his responses.
He has JJ which suggests that he thinks I"m shoving a drawing hand rather than the two pair/set hands I can easily have here.
Villain 2 announces that he folded JJ
I"m 3:1 to pick up a pot that will take me to double average stack and room to exploit the bubble and the stepped payouts.
Turn 3 and I"m 5:1 favourite
River 3 and I"m out of the tournament
(http://static2.bigstockphoto.com/thumbs/6/1/1/large2/11649974.jpg)
The sense of disbelief can"t be described - I felt physically ill in a way that no other poker hand before has made me feel.
The slow realisation that I had caused the problem with one, horribly leaky, loose call makes me feel better rather than worse. I can learn from this and improve further.
I posted the hand on Blonde and got universal "fold-pre" responses. I also had a good chat with George2Loose and it"s history now. Had the 3 not rolled off on the river who knows what might have happened, but it did.
Losing to that last card in those circumstances was unlucky for me. But I put myself in a position to get that unlucky by making a bad call preflop.
Next time I"m in a £1,000,000 guaranteed tourney I"ll avoid that mistake (but reserve the right to make a different one...)
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Sigh, UL, thats a nasty one, nice to knock Liv out though.
On the 266 board he can raise super wide here. A lot of the time he is likely to think your C betting two overs so can raise a large range - small pairs, suited connectors, etc as a semi bluff. I would call flop raise and a turn bet on all non ace turns and evaluate river. Not sure what 6 he is calling with out of position..
Great write up.
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Sigh, UL, thats a nasty one, nice to knock Liv out though.
On the 266 board he can raise super wide here. A lot of the time he is likely to think your C betting two overs so can raise a large range - small pairs, suited connectors, etc as a semi bluff. I would call flop raise and a turn bet on all non ace turns and evaluate river. Not sure what 6 he is calling with out of position..
Great write up.
oh he was calling with 46, 56, 67, 68, A6 and a probably a few others beside...
thanks
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Villain 1 raises from utg+1 to 5100
Villain 2 calls from hijack,
I"m BB with 68off and call...
If its any consolation Dave I"d probably be calling here as well*... and the rest plays itself mate x
*if it was our home game on Thursday ;) x
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Villain 1 raises from utg+1 to 5100
Villain 2 calls from hijack,
I"m BB with 68off and call...
If its any consolation Dave I"d probably be calling here as well*... and the rest plays itself mate x
*if it was our home game on Thursday ;) x
No consolation at all Phil. Not even a tiny one.
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I wrote a few weeks ago about how I seemed to be able to run deep and even win low buyin tournaments, but not the big ones. I wondered if it was possible to make the transition.
A decent run in the UKIPT has reassured me a little, but the story of Robert Baguley, the eventual winner of that tournament has reassured me a lot.
http://www.pokernewsreport.com/robert-baguley-takes-down-ukipt-nottingham-main-event-8348
In a nutshell, he"s a regular in the nightly £15FO at DTD and came through a 1625 field to pick up £210,400 having satellited in.
I was at the same table as Baguley at the start of day2 and from my shortish spell at the table with him he played a very solid game and seemed to have a very good idea of where he was in every hand he played. (Now there"s a skill that we"d all love to have!)
Nice guy too - passed his Trebor Extra Strongs round the table :-)
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Villain 1 raises from utg+1 to 5100
Villain 2 calls from hijack,
I"m BB with 68off and call...
If its any consolation Dave I"d probably be calling here as well*... and the rest plays itself mate x
*if it was our home game on Thursday ;) x
No consolation at all Phil. Not even a tiny one.
i"d be raising :)
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Great TR - told you you had nothing to worry about in this comp.
A few points.
I don"t mind your fold with QQ on the 266 board. This villain probably loves stacking nits who can"t fold overpairs, and tou avoided a big pot against a tricky opponent. However, I would probably call the c/r and evaluate turn as there are plenty of hands in his range that you beat as well as all the 6s.
The exit hand - yes it"s a fold or 3 bet pre but flatting isn"t overly terrible. As played you nearly doubled up and with a bit more luck would have, so it"s just a bad beat, not a car crash.
Liv - she does seem a bit of a misery on the table and she slaughtered my play on tele (correctly I may add) but you can"t condemn the "steal" on goldenballs. Everyone knows that "steal" is the +EV option here. That"s why the show was canned!!
Wp on running deepish and gutted you couldn"t make a cash for a nice return on your satellite entry.
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Cheers Rob. The Liv stole at Goldenballs was Tongue in Cheek.
Since writing that I"ve seen her extolled on Negreanu"s v-blog as one of the top female poker players along with some video of her guitar playing and booty-shaking which are very impressive
The exit hand? I posted it on the PHA board on Blonde and the universal response was fold pre. Discussed it with George at the event and we agreed that most of us will occasionally "flick it in" but that it is still a mistake because we can half hit so many boards and be put in a position to make further mistakes. What to do on a 7 9 A flop for instance.
Moving on, tonight the Stockton Massive Thursday Home Game is entertaining The Duke. Should be interesting :)
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Great tourney read Dave, and unlucky, easy to get sucked into that call, and it nearly paid off!
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Dave, I was 15th last night in sky"s main event got 6 8 suited in small blind shoved the lot in 13 bigs, it didn"t work last night either, got called by q7.
Do you think if you just jammed the lot in the JJ would of folded being so close to the cash ?, have to agree with the general consensus fold pre but on another day you get the lot ul and well played, see you later.
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Dave, I was 15th last night in sky"s main event got 6 8 suited in small blind shoved the lot in 13 bigs, it didn"t work last night either, got called by q7.
Do you think if you just jammed the lot in the JJ would of folded being so close to the cash ?, have to agree with the general consensus fold pre but on another day you get the lot ul and well played, see you later.
I thought about open jamming the flop but figured I was so big vs the other two in the hand that shoving ran the risk of not getting full value....
/endtopic
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Moving on, tonight the Stockton Massive Thursday Home Game is entertaining The Duke. Should be interesting :)
Loved the company and the craic........
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Floor!!! FLOOR!!!
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Another day another trip to DTD.
I"m playing Day 1a of their Grand Prix VI - E100,000 guaranteed for a E50 buy in has to be attempted. I managed to pick up a Golden Chip too, played the first two satellites and binked the second. This means that making the final table would get me a package to play in the DTD Caribbean Poker Party... worth about £6000.
Every journey begins with a single step and today"s aim is to survive through to Day 2 next Saturday, with a playable stack. DTD now play the same structure for all of their comps with the adjustment being the clock. It"s such an obvious idea and I hope others will catch on to it. They"ve put in pretty much every level you can imagine playing, and a couple you couldn"t and they are using it for tourneys from £20 to £1000. The difference being that at £20 you get a 15minute clock, and at £1000 you"ll get 2 hrs. Today we have 30 minutes which at DTD standard dealing means we"ll get at least an orbit and a half at each level.
Today I"m accompanied by my Heads Up nemesis Lucy. Father"s shouldn"t beat their daughters should they? This father can"t even when he tries, which is all the time. I can take her chips in normal play, sometimes. But Heads Up? Not a prayer. We travel to Festivals a lot (Leeds, Glastonbury, Wychwood) and have always taken cards and chips for the occasional game and I just can"t win. We got to HU in a tourney one night at Rileys and everyone expected us to snap split it... not a chance, Lucy doesn"t do deals HU against anyone, and even if she did she wouldn"t do it against me. About eight hands later she"d shown why. She has some form at DTD too having come 4th in a £25 the first time she played there.
I"m also taking a DTD virgin. Martin plays at Gala and G locally but has never played a tourney above 80 runners. His aggressive style may see fireworks early...
Oh, and for the first time ever I"m NOT the driver.
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Dusk Till Dawn Grand Prix VI Day 1a..
Never, in the course of poker conflict, was so much won with so little.
Never give in, never give in; never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except when your read tells you that you are almost certainly drawing dead and your opponent isn"t about to fold.
I rewrote the records for my longest period of being card and spot dead yesterday. In seven and a half hours I had no pair greater than nines, only had AK once (late on) and generally had nothing better than AQ (mostly AQoff) and a table made up of people who just loved to see flops.
Raising AQ/AJ/A10/KQ led, inevitably to a nine high flop which equally inevitably either paired on the turn or completed every straight or flush draw possible.
It was an interesting experience on Table 32, where I remained, in seat 5 all day. The guy in seat 4 sat with me throughout and the rest of the table came and went and brought lesser and greater amounts of amusement. Take the guy who started in Seat One.
Easily seduced he saw every pair of hole cards as "the one". This was the hand that was going to build his stack. Whatever the cost he wanted to see the Flop.
Every flop brought further possibilities and it seemed he was prepared to pay again to just see that turn card.
Ohh, sweet lord, that turn card looks so good and all he needs now, to fulfil his dream of domination is to see the river card. "What"s that? I have to call another bet? Oh yes please"
But then, like the guy on Chicks"r"us.com he"d discover it was all false promises. The hot 23yr old contortionist with morals looser than her joints who lives in YOUR postcode turned out to be a 53yr old 23st trucker with hygiene issues from Cleethorpes called Frank, and the Jack of Hearts/seven of diamonds/three of clubs he was praying for wouldn"t arrive and another dream was shattered.
In this company - where raises were frequently excessive and calls were loose I opted to sit and watch a lot. Eventually I found a few spots where my button raise could be confidently c-bet and elicit a fold or two. I managed to catch top pair second nut flush draw on one flop and get a little value when the flush card came. Made a hero call vs the guy in seat two who wanted so much to be table captain but just couldn"t manage it. I think my call inspired the young lad in seat six to hero call the same guy later with 44 on a board with five overcards... he was right too.
A few significant hands all from late on,
level 13 I think. I raise AK and am in position to the one caller
Flop J 10 8, he checks, I bet, he calls.
Turn 10, he checks, I check behind
a rivered Q gives me broadway on a paired three diamonds board, he checks
I bet
he raises...
I have the Ad and think that reduces the likelihood of him check raising a flush, I can"t see him playing J10/Q10/108 this way and opt to call. He turns over Q9 for the flopped straight...
I 3-bet Seat9 with Ad 9d because her physical tells said that her raise wasn"t with a big hand. She flats and a 688 flop has only one diamond, she looks more relaxed now so I check. Her bet on the turn looks very confident and I hollywood for maybe 20 seconds and fold. She shows 66 for the flopped boat.
Last level of the day, 1000/2000/300 and I"m down to 18300.
Serial raiser in Seat One min raises to 4000, folds to me and I have 44 - easy shove. Youngster in the seat next to me also shoves for slightly less and original raiser finds a fold.
44 vs AK - we"re off to the races and I hold :-)
Shortly after the new occupant of seat nine limps utg, folded to seat 4 who makes it 6,000 and I squeeze a glimpse of AQ.
44000 chips slide over the line and it folds to seat nine who has 100k+ at this stage. He tanks and calls and my longterm neighbour folds
and it"s AQ vs 88 - we"re off to the races again.
Ace on the flop and Q on the river and I have over average chips for the first time all day. Seat 4 apparently folded AK there...
Ten minutes later it"s the end of the day. 88 players have survived. I bagged up 89000 exactly which, given the day, given the run of cards, I am pretty happy with.
Big Martin had his run of cards early and was on 50-60k at the first break. Eventually he lost two or three flips in a row and exited in level 10 or 11. He loved the experience and is keen to return. I"ve often said it, but DTD does spoil you for playing poker elsewhere.
Sadly, Lucy3103"s also tournament went badly - she called a preflop raise with AJ and flopped top two pair vs a stubborn preflop raiser who got it all in in the first orbit with KK and rivered a king...
Brutal!
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Well done Dave :) and you"ve got one of those willy wonker golden ticket things as well? happy days :) x
Sorry to hear about Lucy and big Martin though
p.s. just to get this right... the guy who flopped the straight...
1. Check calls the flop
2. Checks the turn
3. Then check raises once the boards paired and has 3 suited cards on it?
???
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Well done Dave :) and you"ve got one of those willy wonker golden ticket things as well? happy days :) x
Sorry to hear about Lucy and big Martin though
p.s. just to get this right... the guy who flopped the straight...
1. Check calls the flop - correct
2. Checks the turn - correct
3. Then check raises once the boards paired and has 3 suited cards on it? - correct
???
that was far from the worst play of the day...
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well done on making day 2 Dave. I will also see you there again on the saturday after bagging up 77800 myself.
I had done half my stack after the first level but got lucky (obv) in a few spots to get back in it. Was on 130K by level 12 but had a wretched time in the last 3 levels. I was probably desperately trying to be table captain like the guy on your table and like him, failed.
I was staggered at the standard of play in this tourney, it did defy belief.
Hand of the day was: 250/500/50
fold to me in MP with AQ, raise to 1100, both blinds call. flop J52 rainbow
SB donk leads 1500, BB raises to 4K. Does anyone care what I may have?? no?? Ok I fold. SB calls.
turn is a K and SB donk leads again for 7K and gets raised to 17K. SB tanks. He has 14K left. He calls leaving himself 4K and a 45K pot
river is a 3. SB checks. BB puts him in and SB snap folds TQo face up, saying "I was drawing!!". BB had a set of Jacks.
Have to agree that the structure was awesome for a 30min clock.
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I decided that attempting to be Table Captain without an absolute rush of cards beyond all reason would be a bit like trying to Captain these
(http://www.jacobus-photography.com/gallery/archive/Wild%20Donkeys%20%28Hawaii%29.jpg)
and turn them into these
(http://simplymarvelous.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/spanish-riding-school-2.jpg)
I doubt that even
(http://static.moviefanatic.com/images/gallery/the-horse-whisperer-movie-poster.jpg)
could manage that
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quality!!
The lesson has been learnt
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quality!!
The lesson has been learnt
Glad to have helped...
shame the football results went as they did, although Lolpool losing to Woy"s new team took some of my disappointment away
see you at the weekend
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quality!!
The lesson has been learnt
Glad to have helped...
shame the football results went as they did, although Lolpool losing to Woy"s new team took some of my disappointment away
see you at the weekend
[ ] sure was gutted as well about the results
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quality!!
The lesson has been learnt
Glad to have helped...
shame the football results went as they did, although Lolpool losing to Woy"s new team took some of my disappointment away
see you at the weekend
[ ] sure was gutted as well about the results
LOL - I see it running out like this
MCFC holding 10c 10d
MUFC holding A s Ks
flop 10s 10d 2c
turn Js
river.......... Qs
that"s the heart"s view, but sadly, in my head I see that Q being clubs and of no value versus the quads
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p.s. just to get this right... the guy who flopped the straight...
1. Check calls the flop
2. Checks the turn
3. Then check raises once the boards paired and has 3 suited cards on it?
???
Isn"t the run in more like this ::) .... Man U flop the straight and thinks it happy days... but gets rivered after thinking they played it brilliantly and everyone points and giggles a bit at the end? ;) x
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Ventured out to G Tuesday night for the £10+£10+£10. Got 20 runners and started pretty much on time which meant that I took my seat late which excused me from my usual role as dealer. Mistake!
The Barca/Chelsea game was on and with this added distraction we played around 10 hands in the first 30 minute level...
I made the break and took my addon (having taken my rebuy earlier when Q10 wasn"t good vs A10 on a 10 high flop. Young lad in cap and shades who loves to see flops and takes some bizarre lines jammed the flop having raised pre and it felt so much like AK/AQ that I called instantly... oh well.
Shortly after the break a commotion broke out on the other table - it seems that one of the less experienced players, facing a bet of 1000 had picked up a stack of 1000 chips and said, as he dropped five of them one by one to the table "I bet 5,000"
Instantly the original raiser accused him of string betting and a cacophony of voices filled the room with bull****.
Players on our table who had had their back to the action joined in with their view of events and the CRM was called. His ruling was that since the bet had been made in one move, ie the chips had been placed without the hand having to go back to the better"s stack, it was not a string bet and the raise stood.
Ruling called for and given but the noise continued. The original raiser lost the pot and stormed out of the room. The innocent, not understanding the fuss, "not a string better", victim of the aggravation said "I"ll just not bother coming back".
My own view, FWIW, is that people cry "string bet" way too easily and always when they don"t want to be raised. The angle-shooters pick up on the slightest error and use it to their advantage, one chip from maybe 8 slips from the hand en route to being placed as a bet and hey presto "STRING BET!"
We had an example in the GP on Sunday. Seat 9 picked up four chips to re-raise Seat 2"s raise. In making the bet, one of the larger chips hit part of her original bet and bounced back towards her so she pushed it back in. Now, Seat 2 didn"t see the bounce back, but he instantly cried the cry and attempted to escape the raise. Luckily, others at the table had seen what happened and we were at DTD where the dealers are alert and in control.
Obvious string bets just don"t happen, and have you ever seen someone cry "String Bet" and then fold to the smaller bet?
Eventually it calmed down and we continued and I won a pot where I had a better idea of my opponents cards than he did...
I raised the button 5 handed with Ks 10d
on a K J 7flop with 2 spades villain led out for 1500 into 4000 and called my raise to 5500
we checked a blank turn and he led 8000 on the 3s river
Now I was sure he didn"t have the flush - he"d made some strange plays all night and I was sure my pair of Kings was good and if I was wrong then so be it. So I pushed for about 5000 more and he snap called and turned over his cards really quickly and confidently.
So confidently that I had to look at them for a long time to see that all he had was a pair of jacks.
I pointed to my king and said "mine I believe" and he confessed that he"d thought he had the flush...
#lovetheidiots
I bust out shortly after when having raised Ad Qd and shoving an 8d 5d 5s flop
I was called by 10 10 and the 5 on the turn finished me off as Seat 7 bemoaned having folded J5 to my preflop raise
#lovetheidiots
Off to DTD for Day 2 of GP VI on Saturday. Really looking forward to that.
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Shortly after the break a commotion broke out on the other table - it seems that one of the less experienced players, facing a bet of 1000 had picked up a stack of 1000 chips and said, as he dropped five of them one by one to the table "I bet 5,000"
Instantly the original raiser accused him of string betting and a cacophony of voices filled the room with bull****.
Players on our table who had had their back to the action joined in with their view of events and the CRM was called. His ruling was that since the bet had been made in one move, ie the chips had been placed without the hand having to go back to the better"s stack, it was not a string bet and the raise stood.
Correct ruling, according to Grosvenor"s new rule, ie that you can place the chips that are in your hand one-by-one. Much more sensible.
My own view, FWIW, is that people cry "string bet" way too easily and always when they don"t want to be raised. The angle-shooters pick up on the slightest error and use it to their advantage, one chip from maybe 8 slips from the hand en route to being placed as a bet and hey presto "STRING BET!"
Totally agree. The whole string bet thing should be done away with imo. The only justification is supposed to be that someone can gain an advantage by judging another player"s reaction as they gradually put in more chips, which is nonsense. How many of us are that good that we can distinguish whether another player is pleased or disappointed to see the bet increasing? Most players don"t pick up on much more obvious tells so how are they going to pick up on something significant in that couple of seconds and then interpret correctly anything they do see? No-one string bets (which may be because there is the rule) but you hear objections and people made to take bets back, partly because people slavishly follow a rule they don"t understand and partly because someone wants to see the next card cheaply. This person is the angle-shooter, not the one who has made the so-called string bet.
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Good to see that someone from the Stockton massive can actually play ;D
Dave has made day three of the DTD grand prix. There are 25 left from 2300+ starters and he is right up there with the chipleaders.
He won"t mind me mentioning that he also has a golden chip, that will be worth 6k if he makes the final.
I for one will be following his progress on blonde.
Glglgl
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Good to see that someone from the Stockton massive can actually play ;D
+100000 ;D
GLGL Dave massively deserved if binked x
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Boooom!!
Pops makes the final. That"s his golden chip cashed in for a 6k package.
Now do a win for the 20k first.
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Go pokerpops
(http://mellywilliams.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/keep-calm-jfdi.jpg)
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Good to see that someone from the Stockton massive can actually play ;D
Bit harsh ;D Gl Gl Dave take it down.
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Playing well, looking good (except when Caroline talks to him, to be fair she would scare most people) :)
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Best home game around. Well done Dave, we are all proud of ya.
Beers on you on Thursday!!!
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Beers on you on Thursday!!!
(http://blondepoker.com/forum/Smileys/default/PickMe.gif)
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Daves heads up!!
Where"s the dancing icon thingy....
This will have to do... after all he"s off to the Caribbean :)
(http://www.animated-smileys.com/smileys/dancing/animated-smileys-dancing-016.gif)
xx
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Beers on you on Thursday!!!
(http://blondepoker.com/forum/Smileys/default/PickMe.gif)
surely we are due another Duke visit?? Seems so long since the last one!
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Well done Dave! 2nd and 12K AND a 6K holiday package on top :) Top man over the moon for you mate x
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DTD Grand Prix Days 2 and 3
Before I start - I"ve not been able to access this forum for a few days so missed the good luck messages. Thanks to all for their support.
So, this is a tricky report to write because it"s going to be hard to avoid sounding somewhat full of myself. It"s also going to be tricky because for a lot of the time it felt as if I was playing on some form of auto-pilot. But, here goes.
Set off from Stockton with Lucy along for the ride and to support me. We stopped at Woodall Services on the M1 for my customary "en route to DTD Starbucks Pike Place Coffee".
Walking back to the car I bumped into Rob Swindell and we exchanged good luck wishes, one of the good guys Rob, although tonight I"ll be wishing him a lot of pain since he"s a City fan and I was born in Northampton and thus support Manchester United... :-) (edit - this was written in notepad this morning, I suspect the only pain City fans will have in the nest few days will be hangovers.)
Arrived at DTD with time enough to acclimatise and be ready for the 2pm start. My table had none of the bigger stacks, and my 89000 was only covered in one spot with two or three stacks around half that.
Shortly after the start I picked up pocket queens, raised, got a shove from one of the shorties and called.
His AJ met a flop of AKJ, which felt marvellous so early in.
The K on the turn didn"t help, but it ain"t over till it"s over and the beautiful lady on the river pushed me up to c135000 chips and I breathed a huge sigh of relief.
20 minutes later, it folds to the button who shoves for not very much and I find a really easy call with AK and hold vs QJ.
AA beats A8 and AA beats QQ (A on the flop) and by around 5.30 I"m on 300k and now I get moved to Table 12 where I"ll stay until we"re down to 9. Unfortunately I"m in seat 1 which I"ve never been a fan of due to the limited view of seats 8 and 9, but I"m happy to be somewhere with no risk of having to learn another tablefull of players.
I pick up chips in a variety of pots, I"m the most active player on the table and it seems my reads and decisions are on a higher level that I"m accustomed to and which I didn"t believe I had.
I win a significant pot when my raise with 88 is met by an allin and I find a call vs K10
10 on the flop looks bad
8 on the turn looks beautiful and I"m up to 1.5MM and around 50% above average stack.
Eventually I bag up 2.13MM and head for some sleep.
Sunday morning I wake earlier than is needed and decide to pull my jeans on and go in search of orange juice and a newspaper. I"ve taken to staying in the travelodge at Donnington Services when I play at DTD. It"s significantly cheaper than the Nottingham rooms and has significantly better views (seriously - the rooms mostly look out over the rolling countryside). So, I"m in M&S paying for my OJ and a youngish lad carrying a petrol can is in conversation with one of the staff about getting a taxi or some other way to get back to his car which is on the A42 where he ran out of petrol.
I have nothing better to do at that time so I offer him a lift and refuse his proffered "tenner for petrol" on the basis that I"d prefer the karmic rewards.
So - Lucy and I set off for Nottingham in plenty of time for a breakfast at ASDA, £4.75 for the full monty, why pay more, and arrive at DTD in good time again.
I felt utterly calm and in control of what was happening. I was in a 25 man MTT with a bonus chipstack and I know I can play through a field of 25 to a final table and better.
Hands of significance? Well, I folded JJ from the SB when utg raised and mid position 3bet with an obvious readiness to call an all in. The 3 better was Mike Wright, aka "flushthemout" and he and I had been tangling occasionally to this point with him having 3bet me with air at least once. This time I felt he had something and that jacks could be in poor shape vs him, or the original raiser.
He had 88 which held vs AQ.
As Jacks would have too.
I sighed and moved on.
I raised the next hand with AJ and got through, showed the jack and said "It seems customary to show an ace when you make that raise and get the folds. I"m going to show the Jack"
From then on I raised often with a J. QJ, J10, J9 all raised, most won pots pre or on the flop and every time I showed the Jack. Even when I had to fold I"d make the same reveal. (there"s a call back to this issue much later, probably in a seperate Final Table post).
We were down to two tables when one of the more experienced players on the table committed a major error by revealing his hand with action to come. With an allin and a call in front of him he shoves, and flips his KK into the middle of the table.
This brings a number of penalties. Firstly it gets folds from two players holding underpairs from whom he would have won a sizeable sidepot when his KK is beaten by AQ with the ace falling, Barry Greenstein like, on the river.
Secondly he gets a one orbit penalty for exposing his cards which decimates his stack. First hand back he shoves Qh 9h and I call from the big blind with Qs 10h and flop two pair to eliminate him.
It seemed most uncharacteristic of him but he took it all well and some time later he and his partner joined Lucy on the rail for me. (it was rumoured that he"d registered for the Super50 post exit and had proceeded to lose two big pots with AA and KK, I guess that if it"s not your day...)
So - the hand that took me to St Kitts.
Blinds I think, were 50/100 I"m playing around 5MM and am UTG with AA. Happy days. I raise to 220000 keeping it consistent.
UTG+1 pushes his 2.3MM
UTG+2 folds quickly
Button folds very slowly
SB shoves his 2.1MM quickly
BB dwells long and hard. "I was going to shove if it came round to me with no action beforehand" he declares. He has less than me, but still somewhere around 4MM. He agonises and I sit as still as I can, maintaining my standard pose for such situations as best I can.
Still he dwells and I sit. My daughter is on the phone to FatCatStu who sends me a one word text "fold!" (which I don"t read till later and which I"m obviously going to ignore)
Eventually he passes and I can announce my call and turn over my cards.
These were the hands dealt - live, to six players
Me - AA
UTG+1 99 - allin 2.3MM
UTG+2 72o (for balance) - folded
Button JJ - folded
SB KK - allin 2.1MM
BB QQ - folded
and the board ran out with a Jack on the flop and Queens on both turn and river...
Understandably Mike Wright having made a superb fold with QQ wasn"t happy, but he overcame the pain to make the final eight regardless.
Was it to be my "One Time" - well, that was certainly a hand that I don"t think I"ll ever come close to having again. To have the two pairs that would have beaten me fold and the two that I eventually beat call was perhaps the karmic return for my errand of mercy earlier. Or just pure good fortune.
Whichever it was, it took me onwards to the final table as Chip Leader with 8.5MM of the 34MM in play.
Final Eight report to follow.
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to clarify....
i sent the fold text before the AA hand had been delivered, Pops is just old and thinks phones are witchcraft :p
secondly, good call :p
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to clarify....
i sent the fold text before the AA hand had been delivered, Pops is just old and thinks phones are witchcraft :p
secondly, good call :p
To be fair, if I treat the Golden Chip as though this is a satellite to St Kitts fold could possibly be appropriate if any of the callers covered me, or came very close to it.
Plus Stu didn"t know what I had...
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Nice write up Dave.. look forward to next part
p.s.
Before I start - I"ve not been able to access this forum for a few days so missed the good luck messages. Thanks to all for their support.
http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=11060.msg177468#new (http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=11060.msg177468#new)
Just in case you havent spotted it x
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A brief detour to normality at G last night.
Good to see Stu and Bri who had been enthusiastic and supportive railers, with Stu in particular having given Lucy great support in her role.
I bought Lucy into the tournament on our usual 70/30 deal and both of us soon had the first rebuy as a top-up. Not sure how her chips got depleted, mine went with a foolhardy raise pre, bet flop, bet turn, check raise which met a shove on the river...
Built up a bit, lost a chunk on the last hand before the break but stil had a decent stack when I decided to outplay one of the youngsters - "cos I"m the Pokerpops, the old bloke with the moves. d"ohhhh
I raise ep with 9 10 and he 3 bets me. Now he"s capable of doing this with a lot. He got it in over the Fossil"s 3bet earlier with A10 and rivered an A to beat Bri"s QQ, so I instacall in a casual way.
I lead on the Q610 flop and he raises. I instacall
I check call the turn
I check jam the A on the river with some speech play about only QQ or AA beating me....
He calls with QQ - that went well...
The night was fun though and improved a lot by Lucy securing 2nd place (no shame in coming second) for a small profit on the night and a huge amount of pride in my #1Railbird.
GP Final Table observations after I"ve watched it
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Really enjoying this, looking forward to the rest of it :)
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A quick online hand history.. how to jump from mid field to 2/65 in one easy hand
this is from a $4 rb $3000 gtd, Prize Pool actually $4000
BB shows as sitting out which may make my raise look a little like a steal, IF they are paying attention..
http://www.holdemmanager.net
NL Holdem $1,200(BB) Pacific Game#375407202
flynnied ($33,114)
sperle333 ($39,869)
mrosenfi ($9,640)
lloydbr4un ($49,720)
pokerpops ($48,723)
stumpybill ($12,202)
diego_1987 ($15,890)
river_queen9 ($37,452)
river_queen9 antes $120
flynnied antes $120
pokerpops antes $120
stumpybill antes $120
lloydbr4un antes $120
mrosenfi antes $120
diego_1987 antes $120
sperle333 antes $120
flynnied posts (SB) $600
sperle333 posts (BB) $1,200
Dealt to pokerpops Qs As
fold, fold,
pokerpops raises to $2,580
fold, fold,
river_queen9 calls $2,580
flynnied raises to $7,640
fold,
pokerpops calls $5,060
river_queen9 calls $5,060
FLOP ($25,080) Ah Qh 7d
flynnied bets $25,354 (AI)
pokerpops raises to $40,963 (AI)
river_queen9 calls $29,692 (AI)
TURN ($109,818) Ah Qh 7d 9s
RIVER ($109,818) Ah Qh 7d 9s 8s
river_queen9 shows Ad 6c
(Pre 22%, Flop 0.6%, Turn 0.0%)
flynnied shows Qc Kd
(Pre 24%, Flop 2.1%, Turn 0.0%)
pokerpops shows Qs As
(Pre 54%, Flop 97.3%, Turn 100.0%)
pokerpops wins $109,818
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Built up a bit, lost a chunk on the last hand before the break but stil had a decent stack when I decided to outplay one of the youngsters - "cos I"m the Pokerpops, the old bloke with the moves. d"ohhhh
I raise ep with 9 10 and he 3 bets me. Now he"s capable of doing this with a lot. He got it in over the Fossil"s 3bet earlier with A10 and rivered an A to beat Bri"s QQ, so I instacall in a casual way.
I lead on the Q610 flop and he raises. I instacall
I check call the turn
I check jam the A on the river with some speech play about only QQ or AA beating me....
He calls with QQ - that went well...
the "i folded 6"s" comment you passsed afterwards which every one (barring me, as my singgering might have given away) believed was quality work.
This man is running like God at the minute, smashed the blackjack to bits, then did well on the cash table too, could have been even better if he didnt lose a few races against a dribbler who insisted on letting himself get uber short stack before doubling up to where he started time and time again.
Dont use his headphones though, they are cursed. Had nothing at all to do with me playing ****.
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I really must return to the NE - this is my kind of game
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DTD Grand Prix VI - Final Table
I"m still waiting to see the replay of this, and I know a few of you may have been watching it on the stream, but I want to get some of my thoughts down before it all fades from the memory. At my age shortterm memory is an issue.
I"d reached this stage of the tournament with a quite unbelievable level of rungood. I"ve been thinking back and I can"t remember losing a flip throughout the entire 3 days.
44>AK, AQ>88, QQ>AJ (despite the AKJ flop), A8>KK etc
I was getting value from my hands too, and making
some decent laydowns and I felt very comfortable
with where I was.
So we broke to a table of 9 with one more elimination needed before the Golden Chips became
of value and we move to the feature table.
9 soon became 8 when James "raggy" Clarke"s AK crushed the 99 of an all in player running out with a full house on the river.
I started the final 8 with the chip lead
1 Dale Parry 5,580,000
2 Jack Fairman 580,000
3 David Amos 8,545,000
4 Michael Wright 4,100,000
5 Simon Brown 2,485,000
6 John Sadler 1,160,000
7 Peter Evans 4,270,000
8 James Clarke 8,125,000
Blinds were 60000/120000/20000 and it soon became apparent that Raggy was going to be a tough guy to play against. He opened just about any pot he had the chance to. Not with nice easy to call/3bet raises either. His standard raise was to 520000, with the occasional foray up to 620000. Ultimate pressure on the shortstacks, but risky if either I or Peter Evans wakes up with a hand but I certainly didn"t.
I had very little that was playable and every and any attempt to play back at him met with a flat call at best.
C-bets were called too and given his reputation (they don"t call him raggy for nothing) it was hard to put him on a hand and to know whether a second bullet would be effective so I tended to give up on the turn since I didn"t seem able to
hit a flop whatever I held.
I 3-bet him once playing Qh6H which is the Stockton Massive nuts.He opened and I made 1,000,000 raise from the BB which he flat called and I think that hand was one where I should have c-bet since I picked up a flush draw on the flop but I didn"t have the cojones and since no heart fell on the turn or river and he led out way too much for a raise on the river to be in any way effective with no showdown value I had to let it go.
I wandered away from the table for a moment at one stage and came back to see all of Peter Evans chips being pushed towards Raggy. It seems Peter raised KK BvB and was called by Ah6h. C-bet, called, heart on turn, second barrel, called. Kh on river.... OUCH
I said I"d come back to the "always show a Jack" theme and it came in a hand vs Mike "flushthemout" Wright. We"d played together from a long way out and he"d shared the humour and the love. He"d benefitted from my folding JJ and thus starting the joke, and I"d benefitted massively from his folding QQ and we"d had some fun hands along the way. So
BvB I make a small raise with QJo and he calls.
Flop is J85 and I lead 400,000 which he raises to 1.2MM. Now, the only set he can feasibly have here is fives because for certain he 3bets JJ and 88, in fact BvB I"d be surprised if he doesn"t 3bet 55 too. He can, possibly have two pair, or
he can have QJ but again he definitely 3bets AJ, and almost certainly does the same with KJ so, I take some time and then reraise him another 2MM effectively asking him to fold, or shove.
He shoves and I call - he has.... 10 5, bottom pair and not much room to improve, which he doesn"t.
I"ve asked him about the hand and I understand that he thought I could fold to the raise on the flop, but to commit to the hand when I reraise?
Four handed the lad in Seat 1 whose blinds and button had been attacked relentlessly by Raggy finally gets a chance to be first to act in a pot without Raggy and open shoves about 2MM.
SB folds and I call from the BB with K8. It looks bad when he turns over A10 but I couldn"t put him on a hand that strong given the situation and position.
K high board and we"re down to three.
Still Raggy keeps raising and still I can"t find a way to play back at him but it"s not long before the third place is settled when Raggy"s K7 is too much for the 57 with which the ultimate ladderer eventually shoves. Not even with a 6 2 8 flop.
Headsup - 7MM v 27MM, all to do, nothing to lose.
the records will show that I continued to not have a hand here. I raised J8o, and shoved over the reraise for a morale booster - showed it too :) after Raggy had folded saying "I had an Ace" (I understand he actually held Q8...)
Got a double up when the first marginally connected paint card I"d had in eons looked good enough to have a go with - Q10>77 to get me to 14MM v 20MM
Started to believe for a while and then, shortly after that I get dealt AJ in the BB. It felt like Birthday and Christmas rolled into one.
Ace Jack sooooted too.
Raggy raises the button and I hollywood the consideration of what to do.
Eventually I 3bet hoping to get him to at least call, but preferably to raise/shove
He shoves! Happy days indeed. I snap call and he instantly says the last words you want to hear in these circumstances... "I"ve got Aces"
I needed help from the dealer for one last time.
I didn"t get any. But if you"re going to lose headsup then what better way to lose than on a hand that just played itself.
James was a worthy winner and I believe I was a worthy second. Only he and I played much on that final table. Peter had a go but having James to his left made it even harder for him.
I may never in my life have such a lengthy spell of rungood but I also doubt I have ever played quite so well. I won a lot of small pots through the days with a lot less than premium hands and I"m inordinately proud of the fact that I
survived Day 1. Old David wouldn"t have done that. Old David would have busted very mid-afternoon.
I"ll come back to the final table once the video has been posted and I can see how much I was outplayed and how much I was outdrawn. I"m hoping it"s not too morale-sapping to watch.
Disclaimer - some of this may be mildly inaccurate as to timings/bet sizes ect. As previously stated my memory"s not what it was
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Thanks for sharing all of that with us Mr A and massive well done again. :D
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Great post - fun to read.
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Great post - fun to read.
+1 Thanks for posting, VWP
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Great post - fun to read.
+2 VVWP
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Stockton Massive - G Casino
We"ve played as a group, at Rileys in Stockton for quite a while now. Two years at least and the stalwarts of the game like TC, Sti, Gary "Big Balls" Palmer, "Ace-rag" Motson, Bri "Fossil" Harland and Fiddy McGowan have rarely missed more than a week at a time. Lucy plays often these days too and all of them were sending me good luck both directly and indirectly last weekend. So last night I moved the game to G at Stockton, booked dealers and bought a couple of rounds of drinks to say thanks for their support.
11 of us sat down and it wasn"t long before I was glad we"d changed the rules a while ago to make it a 1 re-entry tournament...
A raise 8d 9h from utg 6 handed got a call from Anth in the big blind.
Flop 9d 3s 3h
Anth checks and I bet
Anth calls
Turn 10c
Anth checks, I bet, Anth raises
I ship, Anth covers me, but not by much
Anth calls
Readers of a nervous disposition should maybe stop reading now...
and turns over 3c 6d
No 9 on the river and I cry "CHIPS PLEASE"
My second stack survived till just after the break when a newcomer to the game for this week raised UTG and I decided that KJo was a decent hand to shove with over his raise
He insta-called with AK and the board ran out with an A and a 10 by the turn, at which point the dealer (a new zero hours lad with not a lot of experience) forgot to burn and turned over the Q to give me broadway. We pointed out the error and I called for another Q to no avail.
First out in my celebratory tournament
very much a case of "after the Lord Mayor"s Show"
leaving them to sort themselves out on the Final Table I ventured down to the mighty .25/.50 cash game and managed to get three streets of value from QQ from a guy holding JJ and a full £80 stack from someone holding 79 on a 789 flop when I had 88 - the 7 on the turn was a bonus, chips were in by then.
I even had a "RakeFree" voucher to use for the night - #irunsogood
Gave a bit back but not too much and ended up about £85 on a 2 hr session.
In other, non-poker news, it seems that the finest legal minds have concluded that the guy who was found locked into a holdall was probably killed and put there by someone else. Right! They thought maybe it was a very committed suicide?
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexdraco/3062709011/)
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Oh Hello der!
just popped into APAT and found you are here as well :D
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Im impressed you never mentioned the 2 outer!!!
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Oh Hello der!
just popped into APAT and found you are here as well :D
I get around...
Just watching the first few hands of the GP Stream - if only I could hear what the commentators are saying!
By the way - I should publicly acknowledge the support I got from Caroline over the two days. Her words of wisdom (and her rubs) helped to keep me going!
I have some game for an old bloke apparently...
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Im impressed you never mentioned the 2 outer!!!
meh - was hugely standard. I got it in bad with AQhh
#irunsobad ;D
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Saturday evening, no plans for the weekend and I"m reading the updates on Blonde for the £500 Deepstack at DTD with a £200,000 gtee.
Overlay predicted and they"re running an extra set of online satellites so I register for a E20 feeder into the 8.10 5 seats guaranteed...
At 7.55 I have a seat into the satellite and we"re off.
Lots of re-entries means that the smal field covers the cost of the 5 seats with a little something looking likely for 6th.
10 left and I get it in over a limp and a call with 77
limp and call have QQ and Kk respectively
I river the straight...
7 left and the two shorties have just doubled up and now it"s me that"s short
Folds to me with Kh 8h on the button, easy shove to pick up the blinds and antes and besides K8 did me great service on the Final Table last week
BB wakes up with Ah 10h and makes a dubious call when he could fold to the seat
No binkage and I"m left with the pure bubble zero and no trip to DTD for the first weekend in four weeks.
Instead I play the £15+£15 at G Stockton where I raise 88 and get one caller, flop is J8x and I lead out on flop and turn and check the river which brings a third club and an unlikely but possible straight. He bets a smallish amount on the river which I call because it doesn"t look like a flush or a straight only to be shown JJ for the flopped set over set..
A little later I shove AK into AA and the glory days seem to be behind me now.
I stayed at the table and dealt for the next couple of levels - lols aplenty as i watch a decently structured tourney turned into a crapshoot by people who fold their big blind leaving themselves 1.5BB behind and by people who raise fold from an 8 BB stack.
As I left they were still on the final table bubble with 11 left.
Average stack 44,000
Blinds about to go to 5,000/10,000
Poker? I don"t think so.
Play of the night contender...
As reported by the initial raiser...
"So, I open minraise Qd 9d from the button at 3k/6k and the short stack"s in the SB and shoves 14k which the BB flats...
Flop is J high with one diamond and BB bets 20k which is half his stack so I fold and the board comes runner runner diamonds and BB shows AQ and loses to SB"s flopped set of Jacks and if he hadn"t bet into a dry sidepot and we"d checked it down I"d have made a flush and knocked him out instead of him trebling up...whinge whinge whinge"
Discussed the need for antes to be brought back in these tourneys to help winnow out the field much earlier, but I still have issues with antes in self-dealt tourneys. It slows the game so much that it almost counteracts the benefit they bring.
Views on this appreciated...
DTD Grand Prix VII satellites start today... I will be there, I will be there with a Golden Chip
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Secured my entry for GP VII yesterday on the fourth bullet - so E22 invested in a E120 entry comp and a chance (slim in the extreme) of a second CPP package.
I"ll be playing Day 1a again and hope to see plenty of APAT members there.
Last nights Stockton Massive Home Game had just seven of us playing. Amongst the highlights for me was a hand vs FatBoyCatStu.
At 50/100 I raised QQ to 275 from cutoff into his BB
Stu called and the check raised my cBet on an 4K7 flop
I called and he led out on the A turn for just over half his stack
Now... that looks like a K on the flop, but what K is he leading with when the A comes? AK? No chance he doesn"t 3bet that pre. So, to my mind he has either a set, or two pair type hand or nothing/very little. I opted for very little and shoved.
He called with 84 and failed to improve...
"CHIPS PLEASE"
I know I can be wrong here, he can have 74 and K4 and K7 as well as 44 and 77 (if you doubt me, remember he did have 84) but I"m working hard on going with my instinct in these spots and Stu does rhyme with spew...
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I know I can be wrong here, he can have 74 and K4 and K7 as well as 44 and 77 (if you doubt me, remember he did have 84) but I"m working hard on going with my instinct hero calling in these spots and Stu does rhyme with spew...
FYP
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I know I can be wrong here, he can have 74 and K4 and K7 as well as 44 and 77 (if you doubt me, remember he did have 84) but I"m working hard on going with my instinct hero calling shoving in these spots and Stu does rhyme with spew...
FYP
FYP
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Stu does rhyme with spew...
Giggle ;D
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Stu does rhyme with spew...
Giggle ;D
As if you ever need an excuse to get them in v stu, you now have a "not ever folding" mantra
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OK, enough is enough.
This is just plain old-fashioned wrong.
£500,000 for a dog act?
What is wrong with this country?
I don"t watch "talent" shows to any detail but the daughter"s both do and I"m kind of forced to take an interest of sorts by Lucy showing me and her mum the clips of the better acts as the series progresses.
So I was familiar with the athleticisism of the syncronised swimmers, the togetherness of the boys choir and indeed the freakishness of the big girl and the even bigger lad who seemed to sing their socks off every week.
The choir or the freakily talented twosome seeemed to be the obvious choice. True talent being shown there.
But no, that part of the Great British Public that chooses to vote in these things thought not. The lobotomised masses decided that the toothygirl with the cute doggie were the peak of talentedness in 2012.
I am, officially, depressed by this.
Meantime the local G is running a 2day event next weekend. £100 buy in, 45 minute clock, GUKPT structure with 20000 stack. Sadly, it"s had little or no publicity, has no guaranteed prize pool and is shceduled for the week before a £200 similar structure event at Gala.
I"m tempted, but only if it"s going to get 50+ runners.
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Got to agree, the dog act very cute first time, boring second time third time oh the same thing again, will she be doing a nationwide tour filling arenas, don"t think so then again she has half a million in the bank, as an aside good luck to her nice payday.
Regarding the G again stupid timing, no guarantee no publicity, although manager says a few from Newcastle may be down, why wasn"t it publicised 2/3 months ago, have weekly sats get afew more in, it"s easily the best card room to play in out of the 2 in the area, it needs to do something more positive to get the players in, it has improved from when it first opened but it still needs work.
Also for an extra £50 plus a bit of fuel the always superb Dtd has a 50k gteed on each weekend this month I think, G pull your fingers out.
I unfortunately can"t play (pretty stupid rant above then), my other carer can"t look after Susan on Saturday so unless a cure for MS is found in the next 7 days I won"t be there.
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Lots of online satellites for DTD too...
Although the G field will be somewhat softer a satellite seat would mean effectively freerolling hotel and fuel costs so the major difference is sleeping in your own bed and being able to just go home when you bust out
No decision yet, may just late reg at G next weekend if they get a decent size field, or save it for the WSOP Weekend at DTD
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£500,000 for a dog act?
Out last night. Avoided the news. Driving home this morning, hear they"re going to talk about Britains got talent, switch off radio. Decide that APAT forum should be safe... oh Dave"s updated his blog, great :)
FFS. Recorded show to watch later now ruined :-\
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£500,000 for a dog act?
Out last night. Avoided the news. Driving home this morning, hear they"re going to talk about Britains got talent, switch off radio. Decide that APAT forum should be safe... oh Dave"s updated his blog, great :)
FFS. Recorded show to watch later now ruined :-\
Seriously?
Please, tell me no
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Seriously?
Please, tell me no
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ld681iiD4p1qa0uujo1_500.jpg)
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p.s. just to get this right... the guy who flopped the straight...
1. Check calls the flop
2. Checks the turn
3. Then check raises once the boards paired and has 3 suited cards on it?
???
Isn"t the run in more like this ::) .... Man U flop the straight and thinks it happy days... but gets rivered after thinking they played it brilliantly and everyone points and giggles a bit at the end? ;) x
p.s. giggle ;) x
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Isn"t the run in more like this ::) .... Man U flop the straight and thinks it happy days... but gets rivered after thinking they played it brilliantly and everyone points and giggles a bit at the end? ;) x
had to laugh out loud ;D
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Football eh? Bloody he"ll.
Thus spoke SAF after the treble was secured through two injury time goals in 1999. A season in which late goals had been a matter of routine for United.
Today, sigh, late goals killed us. Not just the two from City today, but the four they notched against us at OT, and the two from Everton in the 4-4.
The fates conspired today Barton"s sending off meant that the game at the Etihad was still playing when the Stoke Bolton game had finished and QPR knew they were safe whatever happened after the equaliser.
Don"t get me wrong, City deserved the title. It just played out perfectly for them.
Sigh...
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Had a run at the DTD WSOP weekend satellites last night and tonight. The feeders and indeed the mini-feeders make it really cheap to have a shot at some decent prize pools, but both nights I"ve suffered from a combination of bad play, bad timing and some bad beats.
One from memory, for some reason HEM misses some hands on DTD - I 3bet Ah Kh and got flat called. I opted to check behind on a Jxxhh flop and then over shoved his lead on the Qs turn.
Obviously he has QQ and I miss. I think if I"m shoving this hand I should do it on the flop. Regardless of his hand I get best value from the shove since it"s unlkely i get a call on a heart turn.
One from HEM - this was the £150 mega sat with 6 seats on offer.
http://www.holdemmanager.net
NL Holdem $200(BB) Boss Game#2883279006
specman ($12,544)
dunk5 ($8,488)
scipete ($10,912)
smurfff ($9,525)
BOZ29 ($8,225)
HFLUSH1 ($20,368)
racesnake2 ($8,215)
david ($9,773)
peanutman ($11,975)
specman posts (SB) $100
dunk5 posts (BB) $200
Dealt to david As Td
fold, fold, fold, fold, fold,
david raises to $450
fold,
specman calls $350
dunk5 calls $250
FLOP ($1,350) 5c Th 9d
specman checks
dunk5 checks
david bets $675
specman calls $675
dunk5 folds
TURN ($2,700) 5c Th 9d 4s
specman checks
david bets $1,350
specman calls $1,350
RIVER ($5,400) 5c Th 9d 4s 8d
specman checks
david bets $2,600
specman calls $2,600
david shows As Td
(Pre 60%, Flop 79.7%, Turn 81.8%)
specman shows If you can name his hand I"ll buy you a drink, if you get the suits too I"ll buy you two
(Pre 40%, Flop 20.3%, Turn 18.2%)
specman wins $10,600
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I"ll go 67o (same suits as you)
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5h 8h
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Ac ad1
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One from HEM - this was the £150 mega sat with 6 seats on offer.
http://www.holdemmanager.net
NL Holdem $200(BB) Boss Game#2883279006
specman ($12,544)
dunk5 ($8,488)
scipete ($10,912)
smurfff ($9,525)
BOZ29 ($8,225)
HFLUSH1 ($20,368)
racesnake2 ($8,215)
david ($9,773)
peanutman ($11,975)
specman posts (SB) $100
dunk5 posts (BB) $200
Dealt to david As Td
fold, fold, fold, fold, fold,
david raises to $450
fold,
specman calls $350
dunk5 calls $250
FLOP ($1,350) 5c Th 9d
specman checks
dunk5 checks
david bets $675
specman calls $675
dunk5 folds
TURN ($2,700) 5c Th 9d 4s
specman checks
david bets $1,350
specman calls $1,350
RIVER ($5,400) 5c Th 9d 4s 8d
specman checks
david bets $2,600
specman calls $2,600
david shows As Td
(Pre 60%, Flop 79.7%, Turn 81.8%)
specman shows If you can name his hand I"ll buy you a drink, if you get the suits too I"ll buy you two
(Pre 40%, Flop 20.3%, Turn 18.2%)
specman wins $10,600
The winner is Swinebag - must be the week for City fans :-( But it"s just the one drink. GPVII Rob?
specman had 6s 7s
two outstanding calls... and then, when he hits gin on the river, and I"m still betting into him... he flat calls because, no doubt, he"s concerned that I have what?
Oh well.
As an amusing aside I picked this link up over at blonde - it"s one to bookmark and keep up with
lifewithfacecards.tumblr.com/
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How to play Jacks...
http://www.holdemmanager.net
NL Holdem $150(BB) Pacific Game#380310905
gimmel24 ($836)
renos888 ($1,650)
pokerpops ($2,450)
vasilij18 ($2,853)
petrimaria ($13,859)
gobblin14 ($2,000)
carlo1974 ($3,975)
montee99 ($6,241)
mot4u ($1,075)
gimmel24 posts (SB) $75
renos888 posts (BB) $150
Dealt to pokerpops Jh Js
pokerpops raises to $300
vasilij18 calls $300
petrimaria calls $300
gobblin14 calls $300
fold, fold,
mot4u raises to $1,075 (AI)
gimmel24 calls $761 (AI)
fold,
pokerpops raises to $2,450 (AI)
vasilij18 raises to $2,853 (AI)
fold,
gobblin14 calls $1,700 (AI)
FLOP ($9,261) 8h 6d 8c
TURN ($9,261) 8h 6d 8c Td
RIVER ($9,261) 8h 6d 8c Td Th
vasilij18 shows Kh Jd
(Pre 23%, Flop 12.1%, Turn 7.9%)
gobblin14 shows Ad Qs
(Pre 25%, Flop 19.0%, Turn 13.2%)
mot4u shows 4c 7d
(Pre 18%, Flop 21.1%, Turn 21.1%)
gimmel24 shows 2s Ac
(Pre 9%, Flop 1.2%, Turn 0.0%)
pokerpops shows Jh Js
(Pre 25%, Flop 46.6%, Turn 57.9%)
pokerpops wins $9,261
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I cheated!!
Pokerstove is my friend. Thanks to the percentages you left in the HH. You can still get them in for my amazing initiative! :)
GP is looking unlikely, but have an outside chance of the WSOP weekend.
Looks like I"ll collect at ECOAP. Phil owes me a pint or 2 as well as well as Andy O and Ger.
I may leave my wallet at home :)
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I cheated!!
Pokerstove is my friend. Thanks to the percentages you left in the HH. You can still get them in for my amazing initiative! :)
GP is looking unlikely, but have an outside chance of the WSOP weekend.
Looks like I"ll collect at ECOAP. Phil owes me a pint or 2 as well as well as Andy O and Ger.
I may leave my wallet at home :)
I"m doing my utmost to spend all my GP VI winnings on satelliting into the WSOP Weekend. It"s not going well...
Won"t be there unless I win at least one seat. Megasats are my friend though.
ECOAP clashes with Leeds Festival and means that while I can still walk unaided I won"t be sampling the APAT August Bank Holiday offering.
Camping in a muddy field and stewarding hordes of drunken 16yr olds is one of my annual duties for Oxfam. Getting to camp in a relatively spacious area and being very close to the "right" end of the arena is a good reward for my shifts as a steward. Foo Fighters live > Poker
If all else fails I"ll send it via Phil. Even though you did use resources not available to all (bit like Etihad Rovers really)
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Phil owes me a pint or 2
I have to have a drink down there? I run so bad ;)
Dave.. I have researched your foo fighters banter and apparently you"re wrong
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1502509 clearly states that "I want them hated, unpredictable, volatile, dangerous -that"s what makes them become a force, not a wet fart in the wind. Yawn off Dave Grohl, you are boring & so is your boring band."
Poker wins > Wet farts anyday
Plus you can"t miss the best APAT festival in 2012 yet again. Its simply not allowed.
Anyway with you being a major DTD celeb nowadays have a word with Rob Yong and i"m sure he"ll clear some room next your table and get them to play a tune or two on your behalf... didnt they do the right song for you.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_a_Call (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_a_Call) ;) x
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So we"re taking life advice from a spotty oik called axlgod now?
I don"t think so!
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Seat won for the WSOP weekend at DTD.
Another would be handy, either for a second bullet, or a shot at the Vegas satellites.
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APAT Member sucks out on Pokerpops
2 Golden Chips to play for...
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NL Holdem $4,000(BB) Boss Game#2886760535
xFingersx ($30,418)
david ($58,878)
BOZ29 ($115,783)
curlarge1 ($39,921)
curlarge1 antes $400
xFingersx antes $400
david antes $400
BOZ29 antes $400
xFingersx posts (SB) $2,000
david posts (BB) $4,000
Dealt to david Ad Ac
fold,
curlarge1 raises to $39,521 (AI)
fold,
david calls $35,521
FLOP ($82,642) 2h Kc Jd
TURN ($82,642) 2h Kc Jd Jh
RIVER ($82,642) 2h Kc Jd Jh Ks
curlarge1 shows Kh 6h
(Pre 17%, Flop 22.8%, Turn 22.7%)
david shows Ad Ac
(Pre 83%, Flop 77.2%, Turn 77.3%)
curlarge1 wins $82,642
will deposit 50p in a charity box somewhere
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getting sucked out on by the "unluckiest man in poker" is certainly a new low ;D ;D ;D
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Fold pre ;D
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run better
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Played the £10+£10+£10 at G last night.
Cruising along with FatTightStu and Brian "Fossil" Harland at my table till the break.
Lovely moment when I called pre, called xxxcc flop and xxxxcc turn against one of the Gala regs with no pair no draw and then didn"t even need to raise the river when the club fell because he check folded...
Got moved after the break and ran AJ into KQ all in pre...
Happily The Fossil made it to the point where the final three chopped the pot.
Unhappily FatTightStu didn"t.
Shifted to the cash table which was great fun. The .25/.50 game at G is, shall we say, mostly unsophisticated.
I"m not a great cash player, but versus most of this table I feel like Tom Dwan. Postflop is so easy and seeing a flop generally pretty cheap so calling pre oop and raising in position with virtually atc becomes profitable. It becomes exceptionally profitable when you run like a god :-)
Even more unhappily Stu played cash and despite an inspired donk bet on an x KQ flop with 99 which got me to fold JJ he ended up passing his money on to less deserving souls.
A few hands in particular shone out...
The first where I raised 3c 5s from the cut off - they are almost suited after all
Flopped a gutshot, turned the straight and got paid on the river
The second, two hands later when I raised 3d 5c from MP and as the rest of the table considered their options I said "There"s only a slim likelihood that it"s 3 5 again". Oh how they laughed.
They were still laughing when the flop came 4 6 7..........
Still got enough of them to call flop, and one to call the turn, sadly she folded on the river having missed whatever draw she was chasing.
I limped EP with 10s 6s telling the young lad who had straddled that I wasn"t raising because that was his job, but I would call if he did raise.
Someone else raised to £4 from £12.25 and sure enough straddler makes it £16 from around £75 and I make the call as does the OR who is now all in.
Flop is 5s 5c 10c and straddle moves all in for c £60.
I gave some thought to the situation and came up with a recollection of his shoving 88 on a 10 high board on Sunday, and his slowplaying big hands vs me in other pots. So, overpairs and sets unlikely, flush draw maybe, underpair likely.
He didn"t seem happy to see my cards when I claimed the pot, but he"ll be back. He"s one of the better players there.
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Played the £10+£10+£10 at G last night.
Cruising along with FatTightStu and Brian "Fossil" Harland at my table till the break.
LOL
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Played the £10+£10+£10 at G last night.
Cruising along with FatTightStu and Brian "Fossil" Harland at my table till the break.
LOL
Giggle ;D
I should of come down Dave, popped through to see Mark at the three horseshoes instead. He must of heard I was going as he didnt turn up, then I remembered he had told me he wasnt going and I"d forgot :-\ Had to make do with the pork belly chunks, cheese savory sarnies and sausage rolls at half time which were a treat and then beating "blue" heads up for a massive errrm £30 ;D
Might have a pop through next week though as a certain JP mentioned he might be popping up for a beer or two x happy days x
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I should of come down Dave, popped through to see Mark at the three horseshoes instead. He must of heard I was going as he didnt turn up, then I remembered he had told me he wasnt going and I"d forgot :-\ Had to make do with the pork belly chunks, cheese savory sarnies and sausage rolls at half time which were a treat and then beating "blue" heads up for a massive errrm £30 ;D
Might have a pop through next week though as a certain JP mentioned he might be popping up for a beer or two x happy days x
Feck...I need to visit one day. If only it wasn"t so far away.
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Feck...I need to visit one day. If only it wasn"t so far away.
More than welcome Paulie, plenty of room / beer / port at mine anytime mate
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Feck...I need to visit one day. If only it wasn"t so far away.
More than welcome Paulie, plenty of room / beer / port at mine anytime mate
I"d love to mate. It"s on my "To Do" list
Let me get Chezger out of the way first. ;D
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Played the £10+£10+£10 at G last night.
Cruising along with FatTightStu and Brian "Fossil" Harland at my table till the break.
LOL
Giggle ;D
I should of come down Dave, popped through to see Mark at the three horseshoes instead. He must of heard I was going as he didnt turn up, then I remembered he had told me he wasnt going and I"d forgot :-\ Had to make do with the pork belly chunks, cheese savory sarnies and sausage rolls at half time which were a treat and then beating "blue" heads up for a massive errrm £30 ;D
Might have a pop through next week though as a certain JP mentioned he might be popping up for a beer or two x happy days x
The food at the "shoes is amazing - worth going just for that. Love it when the regulars sit at a cash table in the casino.
Blue moved on to the G - he managed to avoid running into any of my God-mode hands, but he seemed to enjoy watching them. Plus he was quite amenable to limp-calling my preflop raise and folding to the c-bet :-)
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More than welcome Paulie, plenty of room / beer / port at mine anytime mate
FYP
Might have a pop through next week though as a certain JP mentioned he might be popping up for a beer or two x happy days x
Give me a date and I will be there as well......
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More than welcome Paulie, plenty of room / beer / port at mine anytime mate
FYP
Might have a pop through next week though as a certain JP mentioned he might be popping up for a beer or two x happy days x
Give me a date and I will be there as well......
Indeed..name the date...long weekend coming up don"t you know!?
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More than welcome Paulie, plenty of room / beer / port at mine anytime mate
FYP
Might have a pop through next week though as a certain JP mentioned he might be popping up for a beer or two x happy days x
Give me a date and I will be there as well......
Indeed..name the date...long weekend coming up don"t you know!?
Just checked text messages... 29th (Tuesday) was the plan for JP (he"s up this way at a trade show up near Durham)... if you can"t make that then next Thursday home game is open invitation, I"m sure the rest of the gang would love it (after clarifying the rules around the playing of Q4) x
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Just checked text messages... 29th (Tuesday) was the plan for JP (he"s up this way at a trade show up near Durham)... if you can"t make that then next Thursday home game is open invitation, I"m sure the rest of the gang would love it (after clarifying the rules around the playing of Q4) x
OK Travel Tuesday back Friday is a possibility. And tell dem fish Q4 is the nutx (on a K44 flop) :)
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More than welcome Paulie, plenty of room / beer / port at mine anytime mate
FYP
Might have a pop through next week though as a certain JP mentioned he might be popping up for a beer or two x happy days x
Give me a date and I will be there as well......
Indeed..name the date...long weekend coming up don"t you know!?
Just checked text messages... 29th (Tuesday) was the plan for JP (he"s up this way at a trade show up near Durham)... if you can"t make that then next Thursday home game is open invitation, I"m sure the rest of the gang would love it (after clarifying the rules around the playing of Q4) x
Unfortunately that"s a no go for me. I"m in Cardiff this weekend and the rest of my "team" are out of the office for a couple of weeks...no time off for Paulie.
Next time.
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You will be more than welcome any time you can make it, we are a hospitable bunch up here :)
I am liking this trend of people coming to visit though :)
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I love it when I hear people say "I hate Aces", but my experience of them over the current month of playing DTD satellites makes me wonder...
Although it does confirm the wisdom of Doyle - "Win a small pot, lose a big one"
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Missed you last night... Mr Ger is here next week so don"t be missing :-*
Aces.... played the "blinds game" with Stu last night at the home game, checked all the way as you do down to the river. I flip an Ace (crowd goes oooooooh), Stu flips a Queen (which matches one on the flop... more ooooohhhs), then flips a 5 to match another on the turn... then I flip my second Ace to much merriment as stu pulls in the blinds... stupid game ;D
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Missed you last night... Mr Ger is here next week so don"t be missing :-*
Aces.... played the "blinds game" with Stu last night at the home game, checked all the way as you do down to the river. I flip an Ace (crowd goes oooooooh), Stu flips a Queen (which matches one on the flop... more ooooohhhs), then flips a 5 to match another on the turn... then I flip my second Ace to much merriment as stu pulls in the blinds... stupid game ;D
OY - you missed the last two weeks so don"t be having a go at me Sir!
I"ll be doing my best not to miss a night with Ger!
"Blinds game" is confirmed -EV, +craic
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I"ll be doing my best not to miss a night with Ger!
Ger... and another special guest in the shape of Mr Worldwide... James Barber as well ;D
Going to be fun / epic / I think I"m going to need extra beer buying in for the fridge....
ps... did Lucy tell you about luckbox mr fish last night? a phrase I thought I"d never use for our beloved fossil :-\
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KK hasn"t been too kind to me either...
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ps... did Lucy tell you about luckbox mr fish last night? a phrase I thought I"d never use for our beloved fossil :-\
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All lies I was getting the odds plus I had a six.
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ps... did Lucy tell you about luckbox mr fish last night? a phrase I thought I"d never use for our beloved fossil :-\
All lies I was getting the odds plus I had a six.
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Ohhh she told me. On Friday and Saturday.
Reputation lost for ever Bri.
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Decided to skip the G last night and have a quiet evening in. Played a feeder for the DTD 500 and won one of two seats into the 10sts Guaranteed Satellite.
Whilst playing that I made a very happy discovery. I now know how to play both AA and JJ..
sadly, my HEM appears to have missed the hand so I"ll have to recreate it for you...
Around 16 left, 10 seats g"td and I shove KQo with something under 10BB
Two calls
Board runs out xxKxQ
and that, my friends, is how to play AA and JJ - let someone else have them :-)
I now have a second bullet for the upcoming WSOP Stylee weekend at DTD.
Freezeout with £150,000 guaranteed or £500rb for one of 10 WSOP Main Event packages?
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On a non-poker note
Why were England wearing this on Saturday?
(http://i3.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article849230.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/England%27s+Ashley+Young+shoots+to+score+against+Norway)
Playing against a team wearing red shirts, surely there was no need to wear anything other than the traditional white shirt, blue shorts?
Aside from any other issue, such as tradition, the blue kit looks awful.
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FML#1
25 yrs ago the school at which my wife works was formally opened by Estelle Morris the then Secretary of State for Education. In celebration they are having a few events, including, tomorrow night, a Caelidh.
Which I am to attend, thus removing my opportunity to play with The Duke and JB
eightsome reel anyone?
FML#2
G last night - ran 44 into JJ and 55 into 10 10 in the early stages of the final table
FML#3
G cash last night - epic misread of female player
on a KK10 flop I bet 3/4 pot and get what looked like a reluctant call
on a 9 river I repeat the dose for £24 and have to fold to the shove
I call small preflop raise with KQ, call K high flop, bet the turn when OR checks and flip my hand on the river to be shown AK (I guess I got off light really there)
Then I raise a 743 flop with 88 and get two callers
Check the K turn
and call the bet on the 3 river for what was left of my chips to be shown A3...
FML
Still, it"s not all bad. My flight to St Kitts is booked and paid for and I had an awful run in the week leading up to the GP too...
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On a non-poker note
Why were England wearing this on Saturday?
(http://i3.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article849230.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/England%27s+Ashley+Young+shoots+to+score+against+Norway)
Playing against a team wearing red shirts, surely there was no need to wear anything other than the traditional white shirt, blue shorts?
Aside from any other issue, such as tradition, the blue kit looks awful.
I actually like the blue kit, but not as an England kit. Agree they should have been in their normal white for this game, and that red should always be their change colour. Jeez 1966 people - red is the colour!
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FML#1
25 yrs ago the school at which my wife works was formally opened by Estelle Morris the then Secretary of State for Education.
FYL#4
Your memory is going - the Conservatives were in power then.
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Don"t know who the bigger eejit is - you for knowing that or me for looking it up just in case, me probably............ ::)
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FML#1
25 yrs ago the school at which my wife works was formally opened by Estelle Morris the then Secretary of State for Education.
FYL#4
Your memory is going - the Conservatives were in power then.
John, your pedantry knows no bounds, WP sir :P
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FML#1
25 yrs ago the school at which my wife works was formally opened by Estelle Morris the then Secretary of State for Education.
FYL#4
Your memory is going - the Conservatives were in power then.
The plaque in reception certainly says Estelle Morris and that stuck because wife worked with her briefly in her pre- politico days. I think my error is that the celebrations are for 15 yrs, not 25. FML#5 I"m missing the Ger/JB game for a fifteen year celebration! ****ing crystal!
Daren"t ask wife "cos I"m supposed to know these things....
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HU in my latest attempt to win my second Golden Chip for GP VI
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NL Holdem $2,000(BB) Replayer Game#2891180431
david ($70,551)
Mathetwat ($59,449)
david antes $200
Mathetwat antes $200
david posts (BB) $2,000
Mathetwat posts (SB) $1,000
Dealt to david 2d 2h
Mathetwat calls $1,000
david checks
FLOP ($4,400) Ah 2c 9d
david checks
Mathetwat bets $2,000
david calls $2,000
TURN ($8,400) Ah 2c 9d Jh
david checks
Mathetwat bets $8,400
david raises to $16,800
Mathetwat raises to $25,200
david raises to $66,351 (AI)
Mathetwat calls $30,049 (AI)
RIVER ($118,898) Ah 2c 9d Jh 4s
david shows 2d 2h
Mathetwat shows Ad As
Mathetwat wins $118,898
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for the few that are interested in my progress this weekend I now have a tw*tter account
amospokerpops
I am somewhat ashamed of myself tbh since this is one of my favourite t-shirts
(http://www.meatandcheese.co.uk/acatalog/twatter_navy_BUP.jpg)
I"ll be wearing it at some stage this weekend and reminding myself of that strapline
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a dull day"s poker
Not a lot happened - a succession of small pots won and slightly larger pots lost - my tens beaten on the river by Captain Calling Station who rivered a jack having limped in with J7.
This was the third hand in a row where I had had a hand worthy of a raise, the two previous had resulted in small wins AQ and JJ both winning the pot with a c-bet. Tens utg and I opted to limp with the intention of 3betting most raises. None came, my bad.
My stack dwindled down to under 20,000 when I picked up fours in mid position and called a small raise.
Q 2 4 rainbow flop is bet by the original raiser, I flat as does one other. 4 on turn - happy days - bet again, I flat and the other player folds
8 river, I push my stack over the line and he snap calls - he declared a set, which seems likely to have been twos...
I go back to being card dead until the Captain raises again and I find Ks Js and 3 bet. he flats.
Flop 6 8 10 two spades, I lead, he raises, I shove and he calls with A s 2s... A on turn and I"m dead to a non spade Q which fails to arrive and I"m off to arrange to use my second satellite win for a re-entry.
The pattern is repeated, I don"t feel as though I played particularly well for long spells of this - too much calling of raises pre and folding on flop or, worse, calling flop and folding turn/river
I get fours again and again the flop is Q 2 4 this time with two hearts. I lead for 3/4 pot and get one caller.
Turn is another heart which we both check and I find myself calling a river bet just knowing that I"m behind 8 or 9 times out of 10. This was one of those times
Eventually I get a table move and am two seats to the left of cambridgeAlex of Blonde fame. Alex Goulder, winner of the Monte Carlo last year and a good winning cash and tourney player.
I love the chance to tangle with these guys and he"s raising my big blind pretty much 100% when it"s folded to him.
Eventually I make a stand and 3bet (with 3c 5s), he flats. that wasn"t in the plan.
Flop is 3d 6s 8h and I bet 4800 into c 6000. he calls. That definitely wasn"t in the plan.
Turn is 10d and I bet 10000. He deliberates for a while and eventually folds. That was in the plan, although I think I was probably ahead.
My stack is pretty static, I win a pot or two, give up my blinds win a pot, lose a pot, it"s just nothingness.
I 3bet Ah Jh and donk shove a 9 high flop to get me back up to around 2/3 average stack and c 25BB and then...
My big blind again.
Alex raises again - to 2500 at 600/1200/200
I make it 6500 with 10s 10d
he shoves, covering me, and I call
he holds 7d 7h
The board runs out with four hearts to give him the flush....
somedays you hold, other days you don"t
this was an "other" day
Overall, I played below my standard today. Lost far too many chips unnecessarily, failed to press home the advantage too often. I felt less than confident and less than capable. I wish I knew why - there were spots throughout the day where I know that on a better day I"d have taken the pot with a confident second barrel, but today wasn"t a better day.
I will return. Better for the experience. I take heart from the fact that I got it in with very much the best of it. But I really need to not dribble chips away in bad spots.
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I had a week off poker following the DTD trip - partly through feeling not right for the game but mostly because I was going to be away last weekend at Wychwood Festival - four days of wind, rain, sunshine, camping and music. Surrounded by my immediate family. Wife; two daughters; one son-in-law; one granddaughter; four grandsons.
It was marvellous. Once we"d got through the worst of the weather on Thursday / Friday it got a lot easier and by Sunday the sun was shining and we were able to pack away the tents totally dry and ready for their next outing.
Wychwood is very much a family festival - lots of activities for the youngsters and music for those old enough to be parents, or indeed grandparents. Main Stage acts included James, Hawkwind, The Saw Doctors and Dr & The Medics.
The latter put on a tremendous high energy set filled with cover versions of everything from I Fought the Law, through Proud Mary to Spirit in the Sky. Showmen, every last one of them.
I returned to the felt last night in the G £10+£10+£10.
A young lad, student type, never seen him before tooke the first two pots and showed his bluff on both occasions
he won the first sizable pot of the night too with a river check raise all in vs the pre flop aggressor who had flopped a flush draw, turned the OESD and bricked the river. I wondered at the time if this was a sick read or just spew
Turned out it was spew - he raise folded a lot after that and opted not to take his rebuys when he bust out. It"s a sign that I"m not in the best of form that despite my winning significant chunks of his chips, and administering the coup de grace I can"t recall a single hand vs him.
I chipped up ok and then got stuck with FatBoyStu to my left - this generally doesn"t bother me but last night he was an utter cardrack for the duration of his stay at my table. Hoovering up chips from all and sundry.
I bust out with a moment of pure "Old David" spew that I am still cringing about. I raised A3ss from UTG and got two callers. When the flop came J high and the BB checked I open shipped my last 11000 and was called by AJ and JJ...
I can usually take some solace from the cash table at G but even that was denied me last night.
KK in the straddle was enough to repop the opening raise of £3.50 to £11.50.
1 caller and a 10 high flop I bet £15 and get a call
Blank turn, I bet £25 and get another call. There are two spades on the board now and I am resolved to ship the last £50 on any non spade, non ace river.
FML - Ace on the river - my opponent pretty much always has an ace here and I check wondering how much it might cost me to confirm that belief.
he checks behind and turns over AK to claim the pot...
I should leave at that point but stubborn belief in something kept me at the table until I"d donked the rest of the stack into the same guy"s pockets when he limp reraised from EP with AA for the second time in under an hour...
I may take a short break from live poker - the G game finishes late and even the Sunday tournament which starts at 6pm seems to go on forever. Mainly due to the continued propensity of people to fold their big blind with 3 BB left.
Antes needed I think.
A run at the DTD satellites calls, and a look at the UKIPT Newcastle satellites on Stars.
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So, my short break from live poker didn"t last long... last night I was to be found at the G playing the £15+£15. In my defence I played mostly because my daughter wanted to play.
I arrived late having watched the Olympic Torch as it passed through Stockton. If you have the chance, do get along and see it. It"s over very quickly after a long build up, a bit like ...
Anyway - A few hands into the tournament and I decide to raise from mid-position with Qh Jd (virtually suited). We were playing with the away strip chips due to the 2day £100 tourney still being in play and I mistakenly raised to 1025 (note to self - verbalise raises!)
I get one caller and a flop of Qd 10s 6c - I ship the rest of my stack c 4500 expecting to get a fold and instead I get a call from Ks Jc and daughter dear turns him a K. "CHIPS PLEASE"
From there to the final table I play snug and smart and we get to 10 handed with me as one of the 3 big stacks (all is relative, I had 45,000 at 800/1600).
AJ is good enough to make it 3700 pre from UTG+1, one caller and a shove from a shortstack with 6000.
I hadn"t noticed the call from one of the other big stacks and flat called the shove, as did the random...
Jack high flop, J53 to be precise - happy days - I announce all in and get a call from Mr Bink with 45.
4 on the turn
50p in the box
Luckily the cash table was more generous and included a flopped set from which I extracted good value vs one of the local "pros"
Comedic moment of the night was when one of the Gala regulars who had apparently sat at this 25p/50p table earlier with £600 and had left for a while to "blow it on roulette" returned to the table and emptied his cap of chips and announced he was playing £6500 - having £175 on a number at roulette can do that for you!
Off to London on wednesday for a day trip - if time permits I may have a look at the Vic just to see what it"s all about.
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So, I spent last Wednesday here
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xNaxr5oHX68/TMk2sz-3b4I/AAAAAAAAAAQ/Z35Zq0mTbG8/s1600/Royal-Hospital-Chelsea.jpg)
The Royal Chelsea Hospital, home of the famous Chelsea Pensioners
(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01370/royal-hospital-che_1370537c.jpg)
Dad"s 86 soon and having had a triple bypass op two years ago and recovered very well from it he decided that he wants to up sticks from his home town and spend the rest of his days as a Chelsea Pensioner.
It"s not a bad life, they get a room of their own; activities from bowls to courses on IT and more; three meals a day and the chance to attend all sorts of functions. From the Remembrance Service at The Albert Hall and the parade at The Cenotaph to a free trip to Ascot or the Cup Final. Wearing that famous Scarlet Coat they add something to whichever event they attend.
We"re waiting for the confirmation but it seems that he has secured his place.
I"ve recovered from the shock and having been down whilst he was on his Four Day Visit which is designed to establish both his suitaility and to allow him to be sure he"ll be happy there I"m convinced this is a good move for him.
All I have to do now is assist with the move and take charge of the clearance of his current bungalow. Anyone know of any charities in Northampton that would want secondhand furniture??
I made two other visits after I left him, one here
(http://photos.pokerplayer.co.uk/images/front_picture_library_UK/dir_25/total_gambler_12940_15.jpg)
The cardroom at The Vic.
This wasn"t a happy experience with my flopped two pair meeting a straight for most of a buy in and my AJhh not finding the fifth heart on a 33xhh flop for a chunk of the second bullet.
Happily my car turned the right way out of the station car park back in Northampton and the gods allowed me a parking space where I wanted one to encourage me to visit Aspers Northampton
(http://www.courtcatering.co.uk/images/uploads/Aspers_Northampton_Exterior.jpg)
where I enjoyed a 5 buy in profit at the rate of one an hour. Despite having my aces cracked by 84.
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Sunday Night at the G
£15 + 1rb/addon - the first £15 gets you 5,000 chips, the second gets you 10,000.
I registered in the second level and cruised to the end of the rebuy period with a steady accumulation of chips, assisted by one marginal spot where I made an error in c-betting a Q high flop holding AK. Facing an allin I made the call, cursing myself for having made the bet and putting my opponent on no better than a pair with a flush draw and figuring that as long as I wasn"t drawing dead I pretty much had no choice (in fact he had a pair and backdoor flush/straight draws) and hit the K on the river.
At the second break I had double the average chips and had it not been for the fact that the addon is double value and there was one player at the table who had a similar stack I might not have taken it.
It continued to go smoothly, with Dr Donk donating his stack to me by calling my preflop raise with 7h 2h and shoving the turn on 10h 2c 4s Jd when I held 10s Jc
And then...
From monster to out in three simple steps.
AK < JJ
AK < Q9
88 < AK
#embracethevariance
It"s a really good tournament this one - the structure allows for plenty of play right up to the final table and with the earlier start (6pm rather than midweek"s 8pm) I think it may be my only game most weeks because now that the midweek games get more runners a deep run means a 2am or later finish. I"m getting too old to do that and still get up at 7am.
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Seriously?
This in a $15 buyin game
50p doesn"t seem enough
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NL Holdem $250(BB) Pacific Game#396944446
nikkib8 ($8,489)
tpturner ($7,095)
theblackfox ($3,530)
itzpayday ($9,325)
pokerpops ($4,205)
dizzdd ($4,815)
kmacak ($8,398)
thesundancek ($5,283)
chatisoff ($12,530)
pokerpops antes $25
dizzdd antes $25
kmacak antes $25
thesundancek antes $25
chatisoff antes $25
nikkib8 antes $25
tpturner antes $25
theblackfox antes $25
itzpayday antes $25
nikkib8 posts (SB) $125
tpturner posts (BB) $250
Dealt to pokerpops Ks As
theblackfox raises to $500
fold,
pokerpops raises to $1,075
fold, fold, fold,
chatisoff calls $1,075
nikkib8 calls $950
fold,
theblackfox raises to $1,650
pokerpops raises to $4,180 (AI)
fold,
nikkib8 calls $3,105
theblackfox calls $1,855 (AI)
FLOP ($13,415) Th 3s 7h
TURN ($13,415) Th 3s 7h 6c
RIVER ($13,415) Th 3s 7h 6c 8d
pokerpops shows Ks As
(Pre 49%, Flop 24.7%, Turn 11.9%)
nikkib8 shows 8c Kc
(Pre 19%, Flop 4.3%, Turn 9.5%)
theblackfox shows Td Qc
(Pre 32%, Flop 71.0%, Turn 78.6%)
nikkib8 wins $1,350
theblackfox wins $12,065
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http://www.justgiving.com/50pence
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http://www.justgiving.com/50pence
I"m saving them up till I can donate a tenner... how much is this one worth would you think?
http://www.holdemmanager.net
NL Holdem $150(BB) Pacific Game#239349149
grek549 ($8,414)
kotofeyich ($1,070)
jaclucy ($7,775)
prb31 ($1,625)
spartanking5 ($4,386)
belle91 ($2,000)
voronezh_323 ($3,200)
pokerpops ($4,425)
matin3185 ($3,700)
grek549 posts (SB) $75
kotofeyich posts (BB) $150
Dealt to pokerpops As Ac
jaclucy raises to $300
fold, fold, fold,
voronezh_323 calls $300
pokerpops raises to $900
matin3185 raises to $3,700 (AI)
fold, fold,
jaclucy calls $3,400
voronezh_323 calls $2,900 (AI)
pokerpops raises to $4,425 (AI)
jaclucy calls $725
FLOP ($15,975) Jd Qs Ks
TURN ($15,975) Jd Qs Ks 3c
RIVER ($15,975) Jd Qs Ks 3c Ah
jaclucy shows Td Tc
(Pre 2%, Flop 7.9%, Turn 6.3%)
voronezh_323 shows Js 9s
(Pre 13%, Flop 36.8%, Turn 22.5%)
pokerpops shows As Ac
(Pre 82%, Flop 47.4%, Turn 65.0%)
matin3185 shows Th Ts
(Pre 2%, Flop 7.9%, Turn 6.3%)
jaclucy wins $8,713
matin3185 wins $7,262
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You should stop hitting sets, seem to recall some fish doing a similar thing Sunday night ;).
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You should stop hitting sets, seem to recall some fish doing a similar thing Sunday night ;).
lol - indeed
played last night, despite planning not to
entertaining in the extreme
Hand 2, young Luke raises pre, I small 3-bet with K 10o
flop 10 high two spades he bets, I shove
he calls with K6ss and obvioulsy gets there
CHIPS!
Hand 3 there"s a 3way allin (not involving me) and by hand 6 two of us have taken the rb and addon...
It calms down after that (well, calms down a little) and I have a run of cards KK twice, AA twice, AK a few times. I raise 26dd and flop is 345ssx :)
I get loads of raises and c-bets through and yet, somehow or other, I bubble
4th
FML
to be fair, I donked off a chunk in SB an unraised pot when my 103ss flopped a flush draw and BB shipped behind my check with bottom pair...
I can should fold here but it was 24k to call to burst the bubble, give me c50% of chips in play 3handed and I had 28k back - but there were so many potentially better spots to come where I could take his chips.
after that I went to shov/fold mode. chipped up a bit but eventually random guy (who had earlier 4bet shoved A4ss and cracked AA) called me with K4s - can"t really fault the call given my range, but his "I"ve folded this hand twice to your all in" suggests that he wasn"t putting me on a range....
flopped OESD and bricked
I could should have finished the job last night. I didn"t because I made an expensive mistake late on. That"s happening too often and I need to stop it!
This isn"t in crystal clear HD - but is nonetheless a classic
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYLMTvxOaeE[/youtube]
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Finally!!
Managed to finish the job in the £15+£15 at G last night.
Three very new players, one is a lifelong friend of Matt Frankland (yeah, I had to ask too, but he"s a big hitter online and has a decent set of live results too). Happily his talents haven"t rubbed off on his friend, his friend"s dad, or his friend"s dad"s mate. Unless his major talent is getting there in unusual ways and then overbetting the pot to let you know he has.
Got very lucky vs Brian "fossil" Harland aka Erimus. Called a small raise from a comfortable stack and picked up a baby flush draw and an OESD. We got it in with him having just the flush draw reducing me to just 6 outs. Happily one of them rolled off on the river.
Later I got even luckier. Although I got a teensy bit unlucky first having AK in late position when one of the youngsters who has only just doubled up to have 14bigs open shoves and flips over AA. No miracles, but it was a minor setback at that stage.
Youngster has lost a few and open shoves utg 6 handed for about 8BBs. UTG+1 overshoves for around 20BB, one fold and back to me with QQ
I call, and here"s the luck...
The player in the seat to my left, with a stack of around 15BB, decides that the action thus far suggests that he"s going to be behind. He folds KK...
On their backs and QQ>JJ>A7cc
Great fold fella
Got heads up pretty quick with a decent chiplead, around 170k - 100k. It evened out a little then I went back into a decent lead until he took a very strange line which ended with him all in on the river of a 4c 10s Js 9d Ac board
I rule out the Ace having paired him up, I"m pretty sure he raises any ace pre.
Two pair? Bets weren"t big enough to represent that, given that that would rule out a flush draw for him.
A jack or a ten? Maybe, but it felt like a missed flush draw so I made the call with Ks 9d. He instantly announced "good call" and showed 3h 5h for absolute air. Much respect to him, and maybe I"m just not good enough to understand what he was repping.
A win and now it"s a week till my Day1 of the DTD Grand Prix. Maybe I"m beginning a run of runnning good again?
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Rungood vanished on Sunday.
As did, it seems, my playing ability. I had a lot on my mind on the day having driven to Northampton to get the car loaded up with the stuff Dad wanted to take with him at the start of his new life.
No excuses though - I just played badly and ran into a lot of people making hands. I raise QQ get two callers and a 10 10 8 flop which one of the callers donks out on...
At the last hand before the first break utg raises and I have around 4000 left which I shove with 10h 3d, he calls with 99 and I bink a 10 first card out and hold.
After the break I am card and spot dead and eventually I get to shoving over an utg raise with ad1 5d and get snap called by the mighty Ac 9c which holds
So I fire a second bullet (did I mention I won three Golden Chips?) and try again. Re-entering late in level 5 I have some successes but eventually I find 4c 4s and shove over an ep raise
he snap calls with the mighty Ac 9c and obviously an Ace arrives on the turn. Ah well, it meant I was back at Dad"s by 1am and got a whole five and a half hours of sleep before driving to London and shifting all the stuff into his berth.
I decided to take my third and final attempt on Tuesday and it all went much better.
Ran golden - second or third hand I played having arrived about 5 minutes in I raise JJ and flop a set, I check, he bets, I call. Blank turn, I check, as does he, river is another blank and I pick up 2200 in chips but drop a single 100 momentarily before the other three chips. Nobbish opponent cries "string bet" and the ruling goes against me so he gets to call and see the total strength of my hand for just 100. Not happy with the ruling although he claimed he would have folded to the full 2200 so I made 100 extra..
Knocked him out a while later when I raised Qd Jd to 900 at 200/400/25 and he shoved for another 2225 with J 10,
the board ran out 4c 3h Kd 10d ad1 to give me my first live Royal Flush.
Raised AJ and saw a flop of JAJ vs someone who had KJ and paid me a full double up. Chk/chk flop, I led turn, he raised I 3bet he called and then called my river shove for about 60% pot.
Called a raise with 89 and flopped a pair, turned trips, rivered quads and having called a bet on the flop I led the turn and river and got paid
Have posted a hand on the analysis board from late on and will save stop with the boring stuff and cut to the end result
I survived to Day 2 as 5th stack from the night with 143000. Back on Saturday at 2500/5000/500
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1873 entries, probably c1500 players, 11 left...
3pm, my ante of 10,000 and big blind of 80,000 will leave me with 520,000
It"s all complicated by my view on the value of the Golden Chip and a reluctance generally to ladder.
I suspect that by 3.10 I"ll either be out, or have a more usable stack
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1873 entries, probably c1500 players, 11 left...
3pm, my ante of 10,000 and big blind of 80,000 will leave me with 520,000
It"s all complicated by my view on the value of the Golden Chip and a reluctance generally to ladder.
I suspect that by 3.10 I"ll either be out, or have a more usable stack
GL GL GL Today
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GL pops. Hope u make the 8. Back to back runs in these huge mine filled fields is already a great achievement.
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1873 entries, probably c1500 players, 11 left...
3pm, my ante of 10,000 and big blind of 80,000 will leave me with 520,000
It"s all complicated by my view on the value of the Golden Chip and a reluctance generally to ladder.
I suspect that by 3.10 I"ll either be out, or have a more usable stack
GL GL GL Today
+1 ^^^^
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GL pops. Hope u make the 8. Back to back runs in these huge mine filled fields is already a great achievement.
George, you can"t begin to imagine how much that comment means to me.
Thanks to Ger and fandango too, and all the Stockton Massive for their support throughout yesterday.
And of course, a big thanks to my No.1 Railer, Lucy xx
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Nice one Pops 2 FT"s - Legend
8 left now slap it into overdrive ;D
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Only just found out Pops - joined the live stream just in time to see you take down a hand with K3 :-)
Back to back final tables is epic Dave. Best of luck! x
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Uk poker achievement of the year to "back to back" final these with the huge fields.
Vwd Dave. Now shoot FTW.
Will be tough with Bedi and Rasta to his left...
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Uk poker achievement of the year to "back to back" final these with the huge fields.
Vwd Dave. Now shoot FTW.
Will be tough with Bedi and Rasta to his left...
Thanks Rob, and I"m obviously chuffed to bits with the run, but there were people on that FT that have better claims than I do. Rastafish for one. Winning DTD deepstacks takes a lot of doing, and to also survive the fish-infested waters of a GP Day1 and then run super-deep takes some adjustment.
Brief trip report of Days 2 and 3
I got lucky when it mattered.
Highlights
8s 2c blind on blind, called, maths-based, by 10s 3s and rivering a club flush
Qh 8c getting doubled up by 4c 6c
both of those turned my stack from being pretty much guaranteed a call to a stack that could get folds
Obviously the 8s 10s vs George"s AQ was major, and as I said to George at the time, I just wish it had been against someone else. There were two at the table in particular that I"d have preferred to runner-runner.
The exit hand was just one of those things. I"m not keen on having people screaming for their cards to come in, and Rasta is pretty loud when he"s all in, but he shook my hand and apologised for it saying "it"s just how I am man, you know". Hard to take offence with him, he seems a really good bloke.
Was less keen on the rail for the evntual winner who went some way over the top on more than one occasion against players who just had to sit and bear it. Having a bunch of drunks screaming for you to be beaten shouldn"t be part of the live poker experience. (all IMO of course)
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Hero, that is all wp again really enjoyed railing for the full 3 days.
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Watched a lot of the live stream and thought you played really really well.
Uk poker achievement of the year to "back to back" final these with the huge fields.
+1, A really outstanding achievement.
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Uk poker achievement of the year to "back to back" final these with the huge fields.
Vwd Dave. Now shoot FTW.
+1
vwp sir.
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Uk poker achievement of the year to "back to back" final these with the huge fields.
Vwd Dave. Now shoot FTW.
+1
vwp sir.
Thanks again, it took an awful lot of skill luck
- hold all thought of celebrating the double CPP Package win though. Apparently Terms & Conditions apply...
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Took a week off from poker after last Sunday"s excitement. An annual trip to Edinburgh for the first three and a half days of the Fringe.
We hit a new record of 26 shows seen this year, ranging from the sublime - Nick Mohammed as Mr Swallow, James Acaster, Simon Evans, Phil Jupitus, Lucy Porter, a couple of excellent sketch troupes Beasts and Pappy"s to the ridiculous "Boris & Sergey"s Vaudeville Adventure". Words can"t do justice to that last one, but it was classic fringe theatre and at one stage involved my wife sitting on a tiny folding stool and dealing a four-handed game of Hold Em in which Boris ( a 2" high puppet operated by a team of three) lost his soul.
I can"t recommend a trip to The Fringe enough - three days is about right and going at preview time allows us to see lots of shows at around £5 a ticket which is half price. The odd mistake in bookings is shrugged off and in 6 years we"ve walked away from no more than 4 or 5 shows wishing we hadn"t bothered.
So, a gentle train ride home on Saturday - First Class, booked online a while ago for the princely sum of £32.80 (for both of us). SO civilised having food and drinks delivered to you at your seat and with no extra cost :-)
Last night I returned to the G for the £15+£15 and was joined by PhilTC and Brian "Fossil" Harland. It"s a fun game with a halfway decent structure which allows some play into the later stages. The standard isn"t of the highest and TC and I ended up chopping 1st & 2nd for £265 each.
Run good much? Me?
Well, I flopped the nut flush with ad1 Jd on a Kd Qd 3d flop when my caller held 10d 7d. Thought the fourth diamond on the turn would kill my action but no - he wanted to donate.
On the bubble I min(ish) raised Ah 5h from the button and and got a call from the big blind who open shoved the Qd 5s 5d flop .... he muttered, stood up, walked the long way round the table to avoid me and left the building.
Three handed Sb completed, I shoved tens and ran into Kings - ten on the flop and it"s me with 330,000 vs TC with 68,000. Care to chop? says Phil...
We play a few hands and I get a duece in pretty much every one of them and then lose a flip.
Phil asks again for a chop and I say - if I get one more hand with a deuce...
Sure enough out comes the 2d 7d, it"s late... chopped!
One quality moment in this came when one of the local "experts" in the BB with a stack of 17000 flat called my utg+2 raise to 9500 behind one caller and then checked the very raggy flop and turn, before folding to my called bet on the turn. Folded his small blind too ... and he ran deep in the last two day £100 at the G...
I"ll be playing tomorrow and Thursday this week. The nobbers game is moving to G ton Thursday with dealers supplied to say thanks for the support at the GP. Maybe this week it"s my turn to win that. It"s been a while since I even got close to it.
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- hold all thought of celebrating the double CPP Package win though. Apparently Terms & Conditions apply...
Care to elaborate on this?....
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- hold all thought of celebrating the double CPP Package win though. Apparently Terms & Conditions apply...
Care to elaborate on this?....
The "This week at DTD" thread on there sponsored poker forum clarifies the position. All I will say publicly is that it"s a shame that they waited till now to be so clear.
Bloody good result last week Rob. Well played.
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Ty Dave
Seems a bit mean after your herculean effort, but there you go. Maybe you should get an upgrade when you go out. Honeymoon suite, flight upgrade + free drinks, food and girls should do!!
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- hold all thought of celebrating the double CPP Package win though. Apparently Terms & Conditions apply...
Care to elaborate on this?....
The "This week at DTD" thread on there sponsored poker forum clarifies the position. All I will say publicly is that it"s a shame that they waited till now to be so clear.
Bloody good result last week Rob. Well played.
To clarify... I"ve posted this on Blonde too.
I failed to comprehend the importance of the Terms&Conditions attached to the Grand Prix Golden Chips (as, I think, did a few others).
Specifically, the "no cash alternative, non-transferrable" bit.
So, you can imagine my disappointment when it became clear that making the final table two weeks ago didn"t entitle me to anything other than my share of the prize pool since I already had a trip to St Kitts booked.
I want to be clear - I was told that the seat was non-transferrable on Tuesday when I registered and could/should have checked this out. My bad.
But after swapping a few emails with Nick Whiten, DTD have very kindly offered me a seat for the £500 Mega DeepStack at the end of the month. It"s not quite the same value as I"d been hoping for, but maybe I can turn it into something more.
Thank you DTD.
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This still seems a bit "meh" to me though :-\
Hopefully join you at the £500 though.
Speedos are packed. For St Kitts of course. Not for DTD... although.. might get a few more to fold I guess, might be an idea.
ps looking forward to this evening
pps wont be wearing speedos x
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This still seems a bit "meh" to me though :-\
Hopefully join you at the £500 though.
Speedos are packed. For St Kitts of course. Not for DTD... although.. might get a few more to fold I guess, might be an idea.
ps looking forward to this evening
pps wont be wearing speedos x
Wear what you want tonight
xx
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This still seems a bit "meh" to me though :-\
Hopefully join you at the £500 though.
Speedos are packed. For St Kitts of course. Not for DTD... although.. might get a few more to fold I guess, might be an idea.
ps looking forward to this evening
pps wont be wearing speedos x
Wear what you want tonight
xx
Whats happening tonight?!?!
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Whats happening tonight?!?!
I thought it was Thursday 8)
Apparently its Wednesday. And this evening I will be wearing speedos.
So its all good x
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Thursday - G Casino Stockton - The Nobbers gather
[ ] went well
I exited just after the point at which we allow re-entry, played some 25p/50p cash, span up to around £160 profit
[ ] kept it
But it"s always fun to gather with the Nobbers aka the Stockton Massive.
Saturday - G Casino Stockton - £100 20,000 stack GUKPT structure. With an added 4,000 chips for registering before the scheduled start time.
Highlights
Watching guy to my right get it all in with 69 over a bet and a small stacked shove on a 10 7 J flop. To be fair he had a large stack at this point, but nonetheless this was pretty creative. Obviously the 8 fell on the river...
Raised 97dd in mid position two callers. c-bet an AK5 flop two folds including one who folds QQ face up
Flat a small raise with 33, flop a set on an all diamond board, he checks, I bet, called
diamond turn, he bets, about quarter pot, obviously he has the flush, but he"s shortish and I"m not and it"s early so I flat and hope for a paired board
River 3 to give me quads, he checks, I bet 3/4 pot, he calls
Raise 9Js utg, one caller, flop 10 8 7 - we"re all in on the Q turn vs 10 7 off which bricks
Complete sb with 24cc flop A 3 8 rb
Check to button who bets about 1/5 of pot, I call, BB calls
Turn 5 still rb
Get paid the full stack from button who seems likely to have had two pair
Lowlights
Pretty much the whole final table.
Having to raise fold too often.
Getting stubborn when my raise with Q8dd faced a 3 bet and then getting overly stubborn on an 8 high flop. Of course he had aces. I can be such a muppet!
Folding to Brian Fossil Harland"s 4bet shove and being shown tens.
Cashed for £260 in the end, but it felt like a loss considering I had over 200k of 960 at one stage.
Two non-poker events were the major highlights of the evening - Mo Farah"s Gold, and Tom daley"s Bronze. The entire room was cheering Mo on as he came off the final bend, and the entire room were experts on diving too ;-)
Good tournament though - the 30 minute clock worked well with that structure. Look forward to more and to getting more runners for it. The cardoom at Stockton G deserves support.
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Another nice write David.
Keep em coming and pls continue to run and play good :)
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To the happy hunting ground that is the G Stockton again last night.
The £10+10+10 managed to generate a prizepool of £350 from 9 individual entries. Quite a few re-entered, (including me, more of which later)
It"s a mystery to me why there were so few runners again, the cardroom is so much better than Gala in so many ways.
A dedicated valet all night, better cards (I dealt at Gala last week and the cards were so thin that the draft from the aircon flipped seat seven"s cards twice before we realised that was what was happening), better structure, an all round better atmosphere.
the regulars are a mix of
very social players who seem to view there entry cost as a ticket to an evening"s entertainent
those who want the casino poker experience as a step up from the pub games they started with
a few "kidz" who have some game
some like Brian and I and others of the Massive who want a game but would generally prefer a redhot poker up the rear entry to poker at Gala.
It"s a very friendly atmosphere at the table. When bad plays result in strange results there are no raised voices, although some of us may look at each other with raised eyebrows. Mistakes, like acting out of turn or "string betting" are corrected politely and with a view to the culprit learning the polite way.
The atmosphere is, I think, what makes people want to re-enter even though the prize pool doesn"t justify it at all. It was certainly my motivation.
To the tourney itself. I knew I was in for an interesting evening when I barreled all three streets with J9 on a 69A85 board only to be called with the words "I lose this pot so often, but I call".
I said "Any Ace is good" he showed the mighty A4..
"CHIPS!" - took my two extra loads of 4,000
A little later I made a dramatically bad read and got my stack in drawing totally dead to an utg limper who held A10 on an A 10 8 6 board.
"CHIPS!" I reentered and took the full 12,000 stack (before anyone jumps in and says "take the lot from the start" I"d say yes, in most comps I"d do that, but generally, unless there are others doing the same there feels little value in doing so.
From the outset in my new seat I accumulated steadily.
Something clicked, my reads were good and my value bets got paid. Found a fun spot very player specific and 4bet shoved with 99 vs The Fossil. He insta-folded claiming later to have 3bet me with AJ
Eventually I was HU with The Fossil who rather surprisingly hadn"t been in that position live before, save for the odd week in the Thursday Nobbers game.
I started with a 60/40 advantage and built on it until my KJ failed to improve v Brian"s KQ at which point, at about half one Brian suggested a chop.
I don"t often deal but the timing was right and we took £175 each.
That re-entry had paid off.
In other news
Why couldn"t the Olympics have lasted a whole month!? I miss it already.
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My higher buyin poker thus far has been courtesy of satellite wins ( DTD deepstack a few times, UKIPT Nottingham ) and that would still be my preferred route into these events. But most satellites are tourney entry only and a trip to DTD costs a minimum of £100 in fuel and travelogue room which isn"t much in the grand scheme of things but is a drain on the poker roll.
My recent scoops were both shipped into the joint account as pay back to the family for their support.
So I"ve paid my £10 via PayPal and am awaiting my APAT licence to offer staking opportunities. I have no clear plan for this as yet
I"m playing the DTD £500 the week after the APAT event there, I"d love to play the ECOAP but it clashes every year with Leeds Festival which is a must do for me. This year even more so since I"m there as a volunteer steward for Oxfam.
This rambling is leading to no particular conclusion other than a question, or questions for those who may be reading.
Should I be selling a piece of myself to fund expenses? Do others take this route? Maybe reserve staking requests for stuff like UKIPT/GUKPT where I fail on the satellites?
I believe I have the game to run deep in these even at the higher buyin. I went out very close to the money in the Nottingham UKIPT to a runner-runner and my last DTD £500 exit involved losing to a flush with tens v sevens allin pre very late on Day1.
Whatever happens on the staking front between now and November, I am planning on selling some of the side events in St Kitts, a track record beyond the GP binks would be handy before then.
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David,
You could just check out other staking forums or look as a good indicator at Dan Owstons staking request for the PS wcoop. A proven alcoholic selling out at 1.3 ............... A good tourney man (as he is) will get the backing and I"m sure you will too!
GL
Ian
ps I was speaking to Phil TC about the Leeds festival and he"s chuffed you"re there and not at your counting house ;D
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Staking to cover expenses is fine just don"t include it in the price.
E.g. It is bad form to put "playing £550 tourney with about £150 expenses = £700. Selling at 1:1 so 10% costs £70"
I"ll reserve 5% btw
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Are the places you play at self dealt?
Do you ever get frustrated with playing comps like a tenner cubed? Not knocking it- I sometimes venture down the local for a live smaller comp but usually ends up with my had exploding no matter how much I try and prepare myself for it!
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Staking to cover expenses is fine just don"t include it in the price.
E.g. It is bad form to put "playing £550 tourney with about £150 expenses = £700. Selling at 1:1 so 10% costs £70"
I"ll reserve 5% btw
I wouldn"t dream of it Rob, I"d just sell at 1.4 :)
(I won"t)
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Are the places you play at self dealt?
Do you ever get frustrated with playing comps like a tenner cubed? Not knocking it- I sometimes venture down the local for a live smaller comp but usually ends up with my had exploding no matter how much I try and prepare myself for it!
The thing is, the small fields at G keep it friendly. The bigger fields at Gala can make my head explode too. Last time there I had a blinding headache by the first break.
Sunday & Tuesday are self deal, but the few of us who offer to do it are capable. In the local comps acting as dealer is 0ev for me, it avoids boredom induced spew but can distract.
I play because I enjoy it. It"s social / recreational play and there can be a lot of chatter and banter. The "better" players debate plays and the "others" laugh along with us.
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Sunday at the G
Surprising amount of entries this week - the prize pool was over £1k and we had three tables for a lot of the evening. Some of the less irritating of the Gala crowd turned up and the game held it"s usual sociable appeal.
Hand 1
I"m small blind, big blind isn"t at the table
One of the active players raises to 125 and gets 4 callers
I squeeze to 950
two callers (orig raiser folds ldo)
Flop ad1 Kd 4d
I have Qd and bet 1800
One caller
Turn (ad1 Kd 4d ) Ac
I ship the rest of my 6k over the line
and am called by betty the lovely pensioner lady who has Qh Qs
River bricks
CHIPS!!!
A few short minutes later I 4bet QQ and call the 5bet shove
QQ
CHIPS!
No complaints - it was what it was.
I ran better on my re-entry chips and eventually went out on the FT bubble when I couldn"t find a way to beat 99 with KQ
Cash was fun though - made two full houses in three hands and got paid for both, plus I picked off a semi-bluff when the bearded expert raised my c-bet from £14 to £40 and called all in - not sure what he had, but he seemed to have hit the 7 high board in some way and seemed surprised that I had QQ.
Cashed out for a 1.25 buy in profit.
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Staking to cover expenses is fine just don"t include it in the price.
E.g. It is bad form to put "playing £550 tourney with about £150 expenses = £700. Selling at 1:1 so 10% costs £70"
I"ll reserve 5% btw
Plus one for me please pops.. 5% x
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Staking to cover expenses is fine just don"t include it in the price.
E.g. It is bad form to put "playing £550 tourney with about £150 expenses = £700. Selling at 1:1 so 10% costs £70"
I"ll reserve 5% btw
Plus one for me please pops.. 5% x
You"re both certifiable IMO - have you read my trip report for Sunday!
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Please do any staking issues in the Staker Exchange so there is a proper record.
That is all. :)
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You"re both certifiable IMO - have you read my trip report for Sunday!
You got owned by betty the lovely pensioner.. worth 5% of anyones money ;D
Please do any staking issues in the Staker Exchange so there is a proper record.
That is all. :)
Sorry Paulie.. slapped wrist.. think Dave was just floating the idea out there, dangling his maggot into the depths as it were seeing what approach to take.. and who"d fancy a nibble x
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Please do any staking issues in the Staker Exchange so there is a proper record.
That is all. :)
No worries Paulie. I"m not selling at this stage, just pondering. I"ll put up a proper thread in the proper place when I do, but will reserve for Rob n Phil when I do (if that"s ok?)*
* genuine question
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Raises hand for a piece of the chief grinder pls thkx
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Raises hand for a piece of the chief grinder pls thkx
Clear case of mistaken identity.
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Leeds Festival has a special place in my year. It was the first festival I camped at, and the festival that led me to Oxfam Stewarding and Glastonbury.
It has always been held on the August Bank Holiday Weekend, and I think it"s a damn shame that APAT & DTD can"t find s different week for the major event of the year.
:) :) :) :) :)
Sending huge run good wishes to all the Stockton Massive and expecting great things from them over the next few days.
Get it done guys
:) :-*
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Hope you are both having a good time Pops :)
You DID leave me your DTDrunlikegod token didnt you?
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Hope you are both having a good time Pops :)
You DID leave me your DTDrunlikegod token didnt you?
I was going to give it to Bri, but I guess you need it a lot more than him. Look after it, I need it back for the £500k next weekend x
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Cheeky!! Cheers mate, will try and do you proud!!
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Cheeky!! Cheers mate, will try and do you proud!!
It was DTDrunlikegod token, but I am getting reports you used it as a DTDrunklikenob token?
I hope it still works in it"s original form - I need it for Thursday
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I think that it has a lower ages limit set on it, so you have to be over 70 before teh run good kicks in to effect...
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I think that it has a lower ages limit set on it, so you have to be over 70 before teh run good kicks in to effect...
patently not true - you managed to bink quads on seventh street in the stud event I believe?
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Yeah thats true
[ ] getting paid 500 chips by a full house and the nut flush due to silly fecking cap"s on the betting impressed me greatly
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DTD £500 MegaStack Day 1a - The Freeroll :)
Travelled down to DTD with Brian and arrived in good time to wait in the car for 10 minutes or so before they opened the doors at 1.30 :-)
As ever the seat draw appeared on the screens with around 3 minutes to the start and we avoided each other and both had reasonable draws. Seat 7 would be my first choice for every tournament and table 35 was unlikely to break early. Bri was on 28 I think and again should stay there for quite a while.
At the allotted start time Seat 2 and I played a heads up pot. I limped in, he completed, we checked to the river and my Ace high took me above my starting stack and the average by 200 chips. Gave a few back on hand two and settled in for a long haul.
50,000 chips is a huge amount to have starting at 50/100 with a 40 minute clock and although I had a statistically unlikely number of hands with deuces in them, and won very few pots of significance, I managed to end the day with 150,500 and be one of the 55 from the day who will return on Sunday for Day 2.
Thinking back, I can only remember winning about half a dozen hands that involved more than a raise pre, or a raise and a c-bet.
J9 where I raised pre, checked the flop, bet the turn with an OESD and made the straight on the river of 5 8 4 10 7 but my gin card made three to the flush - I value bet with a plan to fold to any serious raise and got called by a very disappointed holder of JJ.
QQ where the station of the table called my raise pre to 750 at 150/300/25, called 1200 on the 10 high flop, 2400 on a blank turn and 5100 on a blank river. I flipped my hand the instant he called and he just looked blankly at them and folded.
K9hh which I raised pre from the button and again got HU with the station. I took a very similar line to the QQ hand which was still fresh in his memory and fired a bet on the river with my K high on a 10 Q x x 10 2hrts board. I figured he could only call with a 10 which he"d lead on the river...
AA - I 3bet a new arrival at the table and he check raised my 7.5k on a 10 5 5 flop to 15k.
I flatted and he bet 25k on an 8 turn.
I had around 35k at this stage and got it in - no fives in his hand unless he"s flopped quads, the only thing I really fear is pocket tens (or maybe eights) but that felt a lot less likely, and if he has either then sigh gg).
he proudly turned over Q 10 and looked pleased to see the Q on the river to give him two pair until we pointed out that my aces plus the two fives on the flop ...
I peaked at around 180k but a lack of cards and spots and a couple of minor errors left me where I am. Looking back, I had 89k at the start of Day2 of the April GP, and 134k in the July one. They both seemed to work out ok :)
We"re one level further in, but playing an hour not 40 minutes so roll on Sunday!
As ever I got loads of supportive texts from The Massive and I"m sure they already know this, but it is really really appreciated.
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Looks like you and Brian are in pretty decent shape for Sunday. Does it finish Sunday? Should I have the car ready for a zoom down the M1 Sunday evening? x
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Gl on sunday Dave
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Yes, good luck to you both
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Looks like you and Brian are in pretty decent shape for Sunday. Does it finish Sunday? Should I have the car ready for a zoom down the M1 Sunday evening? x
Three day event, finishes on Monday, be ready to take an afternoon off to rail Bri. I reckon swapping a small % with him could prove to be the shrewdest move I"ve made in ages.
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DTD Day 2
220 left, £500,000 to play for
A field with a lot of class acts remaining, Perrins, Devilfish, Goulder, Former UKIPT winner Gaz Walker, lil"dave Nicholson, and many others with some great results and skillz
Days like this are why we play this game.
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[youtube=425,350] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTT3ftIeTeU [/youtube]
More detailed report later, to include details of how I lost over 40% of my stack on the first hand of the day; how AQ accounted for two of the Kidz; and the inside track on how to play 8d3d.
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DTD £500k Guaranteed Day 2
Once again I travelled with Brian and, having paused at Woodall Services for the obligatory mug of Starbucks Pike Place coffee, and to the ASDA in South Woodford, we arrived at DTD pretty much on the dot of the doors opening at 1.30
Having checked the seat draw I was delighted with the prospect of having Dan Morgan and Sean Belton (Zerofive on Blonde) in the seats to my left.
It was also good to note that Marcin Milde was to my right with a well over double average stack !!
Hand one - My SB.
Two folds to Deborah Rawson, who shoves her 66,500 over the line. Folds to me and I peel back the cards to see two lovely ladies peering back at me. Only Dan to act, do I want him in or out? His stack is pretty much the same as mine and I decide to flat call the all in and to call Dan if he overshoves. He doesn"t and Deborah"s King Jack improves with a King on the turn to reduce my stack to around 15 bigs, an M of 5.
Great start to my proposed deep run :-(
15 minutes later, having pushed with JJ and got no callers I push again sb into big vs Dan Morgan with AQ (it was a bonus to have a hand as strong as this and to be at the top end of my range) - he calls with K9ss and I hold for a double up plus the antes and we"re off on the rollercoaster.
The entire tournament I"d been playing with a stack that ranged from 12 to 20 BBs, rarely above 3/4 of average stack for any length of time. It seemed that every time I got close to that position something would go awry.
I lost count of the times I raised AK, got a caller and a raggy flop and had to fold. Some were cheap, but some I folded to a check raise which put a bigger dent in the stack.
The deuces kept coming too, with their friends which all seemed to be under 9.
When my stack slipped lower I timed my pushes well and it seemed that I got folds when I needed them and calls likewise.
EVentually we got to be hand for hand and luckily this fell at a time when I wasn"t under pressure. 3/4 average still being playable.
I"d moved tables early in the day and escaped from a pretty active group to play on a table where the 3bet was a rarity and given more credit. This suits me and although I still couldn"t get the stack to grow significantly I stayed away from being in just shove/fold mode mostly.
Finally, with the bubble burst I was moved to Table 14 - imagine my joy at finding that I had Alex Goulder two to my rght :s
Picked up chips with an all in pre AK>AQ and then a few hands later
Alex shoved from EP and I made a simple call with AQ and held to beat his A5
Close to average at that point with 500k at 8k/16k/1k
I chipped up to 800 vs an average of 650 over the next hour and then, having lost a few came the hand of the day
A scene setter first. Mark Elliott in Seat 2 had peeled a lot of my raises and 3bets and a few hands before he"d raised, peeled my 3bet and we"d checked down a Q J 10 8 10 board until he bet around a third of the pot on the river to show A10. I folded but it was generally felt that I must have had AA from my reaction on seeing his A10. I felt then that the peel wasn"t great and that it was likely that he"d have folded to a c-bet on most boards and that I could reasonably 3bet him fairly light.
SPEW ALERT SPEW ALERT
So, he raises to 53k at 12/24/2 it"s folded to me (seat 6) and I 3bet to 92k from around 600k with 8d 3d
He peels........
Flop 9d 10d Jh, he checks, I bet he raises, I contemplate the situation for a moment, deciding if my flush outs are good, and the rest is history. (for new readers, he had AJo and I hit the 7h on the river)
I believe that a c-bet on any raggy low flop would secure the pot, and TPTK isn"t always the hand to call with here?
Regardless - reuslts ortiented thinking says Well Played Sir and I now have well over 1MM chips
Lee Taylor meanwhile in Seat 3 seemed to be getting my share of them Aces. He"d eliminated one player when his AA went all in pre vs QQ and held. He"d been active too, and had shown them again after a 3bet brought a fold from the original raiser.
He raises too 65k at 15/30/4, I 3bet to 110, he 4bets to 225... I"m not loving this, but KK is so far above the range he"s seen me 3bet with and surely he"s had his share of the rockets?
I look up at the dealer and announce all in. He calls before I can move my chips and sure enough, he"s got them again :(
An ace on the flop kills my hopes and I"m gone in 52nd position.
£1600 from a freeroll should be cause for celebration. It will be eventually.
One thing that was rather pleasing - during one of the breaks late on Sunday I introduced myself to Rob Yong. Once he"d worked out that I was "that guy" and was still in this tournament he told me that I "must have some game". I"m not so sure about that, three results isn"t much of a sample, but it was good to hear nonetheless.
What next?
UKIPT Newcastle online satellites appear to have finished but there is a live satellite at Aspers tomorrow. Five seats guaranteed in a £50+£50 format. If I fail to satellite I am contemplating selling some of my action. I"ve posted an interest thread .
DTD are announcing the next Grand Prix soon - that"s a must.
Satellites to the Monte Carlo will be announced soon too and that"s on the radar too.
In the immediate future though - Tuesday"s £10+£10+£10 at G gets sacrificed for the satellite and then so does the Thursday home game for the UKIPT if I play
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Was a pleasure to share the trip Dave, I know how disappointed you were with the last hand, and as discussed last night you are never only calling there with the possibility of folding when the ace hits, its just not you, me I fold pre flop lol, was good to hear you stuck it into the eyes with 10 10 as well, must of been a good coach to get that through ;D.
When the dust settles £1520 from a free roll is not a bad effort, now get that ukipt seat sorted one way or the other and get on the tele, (if it is televised not sure).
Hero !!!!.
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Great report Dave. Love the 83 hand as did everyone (bar one) on the updates.
Well done on a great string of live results
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Great report and loved the text updates over the weekend from you and Brian.
Really love the 83 even though initially I though you"d flopped the flush ;D
Going to proper hammer the grand prix qualifiers coming up.. will make the Caribbean if it kills me.. have mankini at the ready :)
ps Contemplating the £300 + £30 on the Saturday Dave.. if you go up tomorrow can you see if I need to pre reg or if I can just turn up on the night. Love you x
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I love your style of reporting David, your style of play and your totally unpretentious manner.
I don"t think I"ve met you in person, but I look forward to that occassion very much.
Keep playing and keep blogging.
Very well played
Ian
:)
ps Do you give lessons? .................... Phil TC was asking like!
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Thank you Ian
I give (and receive) lessons most Thursdays.
Generally at my expense rather than that of the others, I"m the value on Thursday nights.
Highest in VPIP%;PFR%;3bet%; re-entrys.
The re-entry option was only added because one tenner from me wasn"t enough for the rest of them. There"s even moves now to allow two re-entries so they can get £30 from me every week.
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4 September 2012 - Aspers Newcastle, 5 seats guaranteed Satellite to UKIPT Newcastle ME
I arrived to register around 15 minutes before the advertised start time and was #6 on the list. "We need 15 to run it" I"m told. "It should happen, but we can"t start without 15 in".
Eventually at around 8.20 we have 20 runners and we"re off, still 5 seats guaranteed and if only they"d taken my suggestion and locked the doors this might be a very different report.
The numbers continued to grow and by the end of the buyin period there were 43, no overlay and a 6th prize of £550.
I exited in 30th after an eventful night in what is possibly the poorest environment for poker that I have experienced to date. I know I"m spoilt at the moment. My recent long hours at the table have been at DTD which sets the bar pretty high for the rest; at G Stockton where the levels of service are great and the failings in organisation can be smiled off because of the personality and keenness of the staff; and at Rileys where the game is small, "ours", and not to be taken too seriously.
The buy in was £50+£5 with an option of one rebuy and an add-on. Starting stack and rebuy of 5k and an add-on of 8k meant that even for those who didn"t need a rebuy this was effectively a £100/£150 tournament.
Self-dealt.
That"s right folks,
Self-dealt.
My starting table would have sat through the first level with the cards till spread across the centre had I not volunteered. So away we go.
I lose a few chips, win a few chips and eventually, having raised 77 from the cut off and HU v button I check raised an A high flop. Led the turn and jammed the no flush no straight river - he called, for 2/3 his stack with the words "I can beat one pair but I"m out-kicked so often here..." A 7. Nice hand sir.
I take my rebuy. Chip up with three streets of small value with KJ on a K high board with a stubborn caller showing down K4, and again when my AQ outkicks A9 and then, last hand before the break, I make a dealer error. I fail to see that there is a third player in a hand that I thought was just me and one other... It gets messy and the story won"t be told here. Suffice to say it was my fault and it had an impact on me. Had I not already passed over my add-on money I probably wouldn"t have played on. Play on I did, however, but when one of the cardroom staff arrived asking for "Next big blind" I opted not to take "dealers privilege" and to move.
I was calming down now, someone else was dealing and I breathed deeply and settled in for the duration. Still 40 runners at this stage, so it was going to be a long haul, but I had an above average stack with plenty of playability.
Had little to work with on this table and resorted to some creative 3betting and opening. I was picking up chips but missed a tonne of value when 3betting Mr Tight with 5c 6c and seeing a flop of 3c 4d 7c. He checked, I bet (WHY WHY WHY?) he folded.
Ran into the most surprising set of Queens ever for around half my stack and finally jammed around 8 bigs with K 10 from cut off to be called by AJ. K on the flop, but the A on the river sent me home.
How did I feel about that I hear you ask...
In a word, relieved.
As I drove home I was, truly, relieved not to be faced with a noon start tomorrow and 12 x 1hr levels of deepstack poker. I know that were I playing I"d have looked for the zest and energy, and I"d have tried for the focus and the commitment. Especially had I played it on a staked basis. BUT, I don"t believe I"d have found that zest, nor would I have summoned up the focus. The last few weeks have been long and tiring and UKIPT Newcastle would have been a bridge too far.
So they will have to muddle on without my involvement. I"m sure that Liv, Vicky and the rest of the field will breathe a huge sigh of relief to hear that.
Looks like it"s a weekly donation to the "nobbers" then. Or a break for a few days to recharge the batteries.
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Ul Dave, one game too far possibly, pretty poor self deal in a £150 comp, found the book you asked about will bring tomorrow.
Similar situation at Gala last night regged late, got to table cards were being passed around as no one wanted to deal, offered to deal and pretty much forgot to play.
Eventually limped with K8 in small blind 200/400 as every one had limped k87 flop, get it all in v KJ, you can probably guess the turn and river, couldn"t be bothered to see if he covered me think he did.
Ran golden Monday, ran not soo Tuesday, that"s poker, see you tomorrow.
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Another Thursday night, another chance to play the nobbers.
This will be my first Thursday game for a while - I missed the last three at least. One for a funeral, one for Leeds Festival and one because I was playing elsewhere...
At one stage I had hoped to miss this one too, but now, having not made the UKIPT it will make a pleasant change to be back with the crowd that have been my constant playing partners over the last 6 years or so. I"m looking forward to meeting JP Round for a little longer than the brief chat we had at Coventry some time ago. He"s a fellow Northamptonian I believe so we can discuss the delights of Gallones IceCream and the joys of the pub crawl along the Wellingborough Road that has been attempted so often and rarely completed.
It will also be good to be at the table with TC again. Although it may not be for long given my record in these games. Much will depend on the state of the cash game around 9 o"clock.
TC is writing pen portraits of the gang promised to write pen portraits but has been too lazy to do it yet. But I think a word or two about our spiritual leader is appropriate.
Phil is, without question, the most genuinel likeable bloke I know. I use the word bloke advisedly because that"s him. A man"s man who will end every text or email he ever sends you with an x and never expect you to actually kiss him. A man who isn"t afraid to hug you but would never grab your bum or grind himself against your thigh. A man who will express his love for you verbally but never force his sweating body onto yours.
I, like many others, love Phil and the game is never ever quite the same when he isn"t there. His recent business success is proof that nice guys don"t have to finish last.
Love you fella xx
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Phil is, without question, the most genuinel likeable bloke I know. I use the word bloke advisedly because that"s him. A man"s man who will end every text or email he ever sends you with an x and never expect you to actually kiss him. A man who isn"t afraid to hug you but would never grab your bum or grind himself against your thigh. A man who will express his love for you verbally but never force his sweating body onto yours.
I, like many others, love Phil and the game is never ever quite the same when he isn"t there. His recent business success is proof that nice guys don"t have to finish last.
Someone should have told Jack this bit ;-)
I feel a TC appreciation facebook page coming on ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
It"s all true though ... one of the most likeable, genuine, respected blokes out there :-*
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Phil is, without question, the most genuinel likeable bloke I know. I use the word bloke advisedly because that"s him. A man"s man who will end every text or email he ever sends you with an x and never expect you to actually kiss him. A man who isn"t afraid to hug you but would never grab your bum or grind himself against your thigh. A man who will express his love for you verbally but never force his sweating body onto yours.
I, like many others, love Phil and the game is never ever quite the same when he isn"t there. His recent business success is proof that nice guys don"t have to finish last.
Love you fella xx
QFT
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TC is writing pen portraits of the gang promised to write pen portraits but has been too lazy to do it yet.
Its coming! Was going to wait just before the invasion.. so it was too late for people to cancel ;D
But I Love you fella xx
Love you too Dave. Don"t get me started.. almost felt myself welling up a little there :o
You know I honestly feel privileged to have such a fantastic set of friends, couldn"t want for a better set of people to call my mates. Both here and within the APAT community.
They say you can judge a man based on the company he keeps. The company I keep are kings (and queens Mich!) among men x
I feel a TC appreciation facebook page coming on ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Haha.. the last time I logged onto Facebook one of the massive was posting up "Phil midget lookalikeys".. almost the same as an appreciation page ;D .. I mean do I really look like this?
(http://i1.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article147507.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/karen-anderson-and-max-laird-pic-sm-719903603.jpg)
;D ... ok fair play.. haha xx
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Haha.. the last time I logged onto Facebook one of the massive was posting up "Phil midget lookalikeys".. almost the same as an appreciation page ;D .. I mean do I really look like this?
(http://i1.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article147507.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/karen-anderson-and-max-laird-pic-sm-719903603.jpg)
;D ... ok fair play.. haha xx
Now you know why I looked so scared when these were taken ;D
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although phil is constantly wanting kisses, feeling my arse and trying to hump my leg on a thursday night...
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although phil is constantly wanting kisses, feeling my **** and trying to hump my leg on a thursday night...
Now I feel rejected...
(http://i1.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article147507.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/karen-anderson-and-max-laird-pic-sm-719903603.jpg)
Is this why you went with the facial hair growth?
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Michelle...you don"t look scared...you look like you"ve found an extra hand where you weren"t expecting one
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It was a pleasure to play the Thursday home game last night in the company of pretty much the entire rollcall of players and our visitor.
Politeness dictated that we should go easy on JP and everyone seemed to do so. Stu gifted him a sizable chunk and then so did our dealer when he managed a threeway all in coup with A 10 - vs my AQ and Mr Motson"s AK the board rolled out 8686 ............. 10
I left around 1.20 with JP in Heads Up combat with the Rock - what time it finished I know not, but Stu"s post at 2.28 suggests it went on for a while...
A pleasure to meet you sir - even if you did deliver a crippling blow to my self-image with the seven words "You went to school with my Dad".
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heads up was possibly the most painful thing ever.*
the blinds got to 8000/16000 ffs!!!
*except my head this morning.
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Michelle...you don"t look scared...you look like you"ve found an extra hand where you weren"t expecting one
I read that as "head" ..... which also works for that sentence ;D
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Politeness dictated that we should go easy on JP ............so did our dealer when he managed a threeway all in coup with A 10 - vs my AQ and Mr Motson"s AK the board rolled out 8686 ............. 10
I was happy with the chop on the turn to be honest :)
A pleasure to meet you sir - even if you did deliver a crippling blow to my self-image with the seven words "You went to school with my Dad".
The pleasure was mine...
and for those reading, this was not some sick ageist insult designed to tilt or offend, I knew Dave had Northampton connections from the blog but hadn"t realised that it was his home town. We got chatting and established that yes, Dave was in fact at the same school and in the same year as my Dad.
NB - my Dad was only 18 when i was born so it could have been worse ;)
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Quick update - Sunday"s tournament at G was going ok until ...
SO... I took a seat at the cash table. 25/50p with a regular straddle. I sit with £100 which is the max and there is one other stack of similar size in front of a lady who I"ve never seen before, and most others are <£50.
First hand I river two pair and collect a small pot.
Second hand I check my £1 straddle with 6s 7c and see a flop of 8h 5s 4d
There"s a £5 bet on the flop which I"m happy to call with one other and three of us see the 8s turn.
I lead for £10, the other big stack raises to £25 and this brings a shove of £23 which is just small enough for me to be able to reshove, which obviously I have to.
I get a call from the lady and I"m wondering if I"ve run into a funky full house. River is a blank and I flip my cards declaring a straight. She shows 83o for turned trips with a three kicker and the third player in the pot mucks saying he wanted another spade...
Two hands later I complete from the sb with Kd 2d and hit a flop of 3d 4d 5c - I bet, get raised and reraise to get the lot in. Flush card arrives on the river and apparently I"ve beaten 6 7 for the flopped nut straight.
After that, having tripled my money it was two and a half hours of going down to c£250 and then up to £350 and eventually cashing out for £300 and having my hourly rate drop significantly.
It was fun though and all helps to build the image.
Tonight I"ll be hoping for sufficient runners at the G for the Tuesday game to start, or for enough to turn up to start a cash table. Failing which I may, just may, make a trip to the dark side and play some cash there...
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what time is kick off tonight dave? me and the rock will donate i think.
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Off to teh 3 horsepoo"s for old times sake :p
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I find it difficult to reconcile a view of someone as being a decent, winning, player with my view that anyone who can"t accept that outdraws and "bad beats" are any more likely online/on a specific site than they are live fails to appreciate the underlying role of variance in the game. After all, if it weren"t for luck, there would be no skill in poker.
Outdraws happen and thinking that somehow "it happens more often on xxx site" is, to my mind, counter-productive.
AA loses to QQ approximately once in five times, AK beats KK around once in three - it happens. More importantly, it happens just as often live as it does on Stars/FTP/DTD/888 et al. Runner runner, "one-outers", that "miracle card", none of them are ever less likely than a 46/1 shot. Contrast that with the chances of winning the lottery.
With two outs and one card to come the odds are better than those for the roulette ball landing on "lucky seven" on the next spin.
With two outs and two cards to come our opponents chance is about the same as the ball landing in one to six on that wheel.
Poker odds don"t run into the miracles area.
We learn this and we learn to live with it - we tell bad beat stories sometimes to help exorcise the demons, and we get back in the game and hope to be on the right side of some of the beats in statistical balance with those we lose.
I ran pretty bad last night in a mini satellite for this weekend"s £100+10 at G. All in and ahead vs a shortstack twice and both times he came from behind and beat me. Eventually Brian (as reported elsewhere) found AA and held vs a QQ raise, and my K9 steal attempt. This was one of the 7 out of 10 times that AA holds, but had it not done so I know that Brian"s toys would have remained firmly positioned in the pram :)
I ran good on blackjack though and having spun my £3 change from the reg fee into £45 before we started, I then span it further up to £220 giving me my buyin for Saturday (and change) via a different route :-)
Variance, it"s unavoidable. We deal with it.
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I find it difficult to reconcile a view of someone as being a decent, winning, player with my view that anyone who can"t accept that outdraws and "bad beats" are any more likely online/on a specific site than they are live fails to appreciate the underlying role of variance in the game. After all, if it weren"t for luck, there would be no skill in poker.
Outdraws happen and thinking that somehow "it happens more often on xxx site" is, to my mind, counter-productive.
AA loses to QQ approximately once in five times, AK beats KK around once in three - it happens. More importantly, it happens just as often live as it does on Stars/FTP/DTD/888 et al. Runner runner, "one-outers", that "miracle card", none of them are ever less likely than a 46/1 shot. Contrast that with the chances of winning the lottery.
With two outs and one card to come the odds are better than those for the roulette ball landing on "lucky seven" on the next spin.
With two outs and two cards to come our opponents chance is about the same as the ball landing in one to six on that wheel.
Poker odds don"t run into the miracles area.
We learn this and we learn to live with it - we tell bad beat stories sometimes to help exorcise the demons, and we get back in the game and hope to be on the right side of some of the beats in statistical balance with those we lose.
I ran pretty bad last night in a mini satellite for this weekend"s £100+10 at G. All in and ahead vs a shortstack twice and both times he came from behind and beat me. Eventually Brian (as reported elsewhere) found AA and held vs a QQ raise, and my K9 steal attempt. This was one of the 7 out of 10 times that AA holds, but had it not done so I know that Brian"s toys would have remained firmly positioned in the pram :)
I ran good on blackjack though and having spun my £3 change from the reg fee into £45 before we started, I then span it further up to £220 giving me my buyin for Saturday (and change) via a different route :-)
Variance, it"s unavoidable. We deal with it.
The Brightside. Gotta love it :-*
Nice one for Saturday as well Dave and to Brian.. might have a dabble myself.. oh actually its an early start isnt it? Big boo x
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Nice one for Saturday as well Dave and to Brian.. might have a dabble myself.. oh actually its an early start isnt it? Big boo x
Late registration till sometime around half five...
Think that"s 200/400/? So 20,000 chips is pretty playable
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Pretty much every Thursday night for the past three years or thereabouts The Nobbers have gathered to play poker.
The original nine has changed and the game now can have anything from six to fourteen players.
We play for fun and for competition and we play for a tenner each.
It"s a night for bluffs and levels. 3betting light and never playing Q4. A night for speech play and finding a big hand when you"ve just announced that you "have" to raise here to weed out the limpers. A night to enjoy.
My role in the game is to amass a stack and then donk it off in time to re-enter and boost the pot. I"m then usually out just after the break when some fancy 5bet triple-range merged move on the rivers picked off by someone who called my FOS raise with 68 or 34 or some such, or, and more likely, when I shove the river representing a big hand on the basis that "he can only call if he has the Ah when he obviously has the Ah.
But it"s FUN!
Last night I did something I can"t remember having done before. (my memory isn"t what it was so I may have just forgotten)
I won.
Cream rises
this is all
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Last night I did something I can"t remember having done before. (my memory isn"t what it was so I may have just forgotten)
I won.
Cream rises
this is all
Checked through the old website / league table / reports...
A Dave A win was last recorded in June 2010 ;)
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Thanks TC
When did we start btw?
Tried to call you back to watch the first hand after you left the cash table last night when I got dealt the mighty Queen Six
Not just any Queen Six either, these were a suited Queen and Six
of Diamonds
kerching!
a £70 pot shimmied my way with a 6 on the flop and a Queen on the river :)
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Thanks TC
When did we start btw?
October 2009 is the first recorded game we did on the Nobber 9 website.. but I think we"d been going before that hadn"t we before deciding that we should do a league and all malarkey ???
Tried to call you back to watch the first hand after you left the cash table last night when I got dealt the mighty Queen Six
Not just any Queen Six either, these were a suited Queen and Six
of Diamonds
kerching!
a £70 pot shimmied my way with a 6 on the flop and a Queen on the river :)
Ohhhhh and that would have been my Big Blind as well haha.. bad times that I missed it.. good times I wasnt on the end of it ;D
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Saturday 15 September £100 FO at G Stockton
Bleurgh
Yuk
Ewwwww
Move on folks, nothing to see here.
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Lol, to save readers of my blog wasting their time, see above for my report.
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Saturday 15 September £100 FO at G Stockton
Bleurgh
Yuk
Ewwwww
Move on folks, nothing to see here.
Sufficient time has passed to dull the pain
I had a great table - a mix of locals and some lads who had travelled down from Newcastle and who were more than willing to get some action going on the table.
I had an absolute rush of cards and couldn"t get decent value from any of them. Yet Micky the regular two seats to my left was getting absolutely gifted chips by people with a desire to play a 22k stack, 30 minute clock using the GUKPT structure as though it was the Wednesday fiver rb.
I had two horrible hands - one with Q10 where I should have just taken it down on the KJx flop, and one with AA which I"ve posted in the strategy thread. No spoilers here, suffice to say that I"m really unsure about my play in it.
After that hand I lost my way a little and played less well than I can. It didn"t help that my run of cards not only ended, but balanced the books by becoming a run of hands which featured too many twos and threes and often accompanied them with sixes and sevens, and lower. Eventually I shipped fives from utg+1 over an utg raiser with whom I had history - he"d only seen QQ+ from my 3bets against him to this point. It folded to him and he snapped me off with tens as he should. Tens held, with not even a sweat.
I"d busted way too early and sat around for a while before having a horrible session on the cash table where all my thin value bets got called by people who had either caught the better hand on the river, or had outplayed me with top pair better kicker. Indeed, one old guy who was the table irritant managed to call me with third pair, better kicker :(
Luckily, just before midnight the fire alarm went off and we all had to leave the building. I chose to take that as a message to "just go home before they work out that the fire alarm was triggered by me setting fire to my money".
I returned to the fray last night in the £15+15 which got 33 entries for a £990 pot.
I played better (in a softer field), and ran about right. Failed to beat shortstacks Q7 shove with AK aipf, but then had 99>10 10 vs the same opponent about three hands later to get the chips back with a small bonus added.
The usual suspects wanted to negotiate a bubble payment when we got to 6 handed, I felt that paying 5 places from a field of 33 (actually 28+5 re-entries) was enough.
There was talk of a four-way chop too, but that didn"t happen either.
Sadly, the biggest whinger got lucky at the right moment and when I left he looked likely to win the damned thing. No justice!
Next post - my take on Kategate.
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Next post - my take on Kate"s gate.
...and I thought it was just a topless photo :)
[ok some poetic license taken when quoting OP]
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Next post - my take on Kate"s gate.
...and I thought it was just a topless photo :)
[ok some poetic license taken when quoting OP]
(http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/qq165/junah42/Snark/applause.gif)
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Just a quickie on Kate Middleton "fnar "fnar
The Daily Telegraph features a minimum of three pictures of our Future Queen every day, somedays it"s a lot more. Seriously, there are more Kate pics in there than there are references to immigrants in the Mail.
But do they post the ones of of her with her top off? Do they "eck!
I don"t only just see why Wills is making a fuss about this - after all most blokes of his age (and looks) would be proud to let the world know that their fit Mrs gets her top off before rubbing sun oil on his back.
Editors note: the views expressed may not be firmly held and may indeed be somewhat tongue in cheek
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Sometimes we have to make tough decisions.
I had to make one today. I also made a very easy one.
The easy one was confirming that my +1 for the trip to St Kitts is Lucy. Flight booked, room sorted, transfer from DTD to Gatwick sorted.
All we need now is some dollars, some travel insurance and some rungood.
Now, the tough one.
I love live comedy - one of the fixed points in my year is a trip to Edinburgh to see as much of the Fringe as can be packed into three and a bit days (26 shows this year) and recently one of the highlights of the Fringe has been Pappy"s a sketch show who got great reviews this year and deservedly so.
They are touring now and arriving at The Arc, in Stockton on October 4th.
I can play poker most nights
I can play poker with the Massive most weeks
I may not get the opportunity to play an invading army of APATers for a while
but it"s Pappy"s
and the last time they played locally the publicity was so poor that there were only around 14 people in the audience. Yet they performed as though the room was not only full, but was a much larger room. They gave every ounce of effort and commitment that they"d have given were they ever unfortunate enough to play the O2 (note to all - stadia are not suitable venues for comedy)
I"ve chatted with these guys in the Pleasance Courtyard. Been in the audience with them as they watched other comedy acts. I actually asked them to come back to Stockton and give us another chance (I doubt my words were in any way influential, but I did ask)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWQ06bYG0eA[/youtube]
So - I will be absent from the Thursday Home Game on October 4th. I"ll miss the banter and the drunkenness (well, I"ll miss the banter) and I"ll miss the chance to be the only sober man in the room.
This leaves a vacancy for someone else to be the oldest there - any takers?
Just been looking at the DTD offerings for that first weekend in October too. Satellites permitting I"ll play the £500 with an hour clock.
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So - I will be absent from the Thursday Home Game on October 4th. I"ll miss the banter and the drunkenness (well, I"ll miss the banter) and I"ll miss the chance to be the only sober man in the room.
(http://speakfresh.com/wp-content/uploads/origin_Dazas-WTF-bildes-6.jpg)
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thanks for sharing, really funny. Reminds me of these guys....
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlYkIJVguCU&feature=related[/youtube]
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thanks for sharing, really funny. Reminds me of these guys....
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlYkIJVguCU&feature=related[/youtube]
If you liked those, you"ll probably also like these
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrFdOz1Mj8Q&list=PLA2C5D5358A0C5607&index=3&feature=plcp[/youtube]
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So - I will be absent from the Thursday Home Game on October 4th. I"ll miss the banter and the drunkenness (well, I"ll miss the banter) and I"ll miss the chance to be the only sober man in the room.
(http://speakfresh.com/wp-content/uploads/origin_Dazas-WTF-bildes-6.jpg)
yeah i know
but I know someone who once let down the Thursday Game because he was in a tent in the Lake District...
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Brief update on the pokers... made 3rd in the Sunday tournament last week for £180. There were 33 entries and a prize pool of £990. It seemed the game was getting popular.
Tuesday"s game at G didn"t happen. Again.
Played a brief session on the £1/£2 table at Gala the Casino I don"t want to name. They have some issues there at the moment with some of the senior players accusing the younger ones of collusion of some form. This has led to the introduction of a rule which makes it compulsory for all players to reveal their hands at showdown, and for cards to be tabled when players are all in.
There are rumours around too that suggest that some of the dealers have been involved in pots that were, shall we say, suspicious. I have no way of knowing if there is anything untoward occurring in either respect and will just revert to my policy of not playing there.
My session started well, then slipped into not so well and I ended it early for a small loss of £30. It was early enough to swing by the G and join a short-handed game there which more than recovered the loss :)
Getting AA when you"ve straddled and the other five have limped in is generally a good spot.
It"s even better when there"s an Ace on the flop and people flop two pair...
Thursday - no nobbers game due to al sorts of reasons, including the Chezger contingent wanting an early night so again I played the 25/50 at G. An interesting evening which came out around breakeven despite losing a £250 pot where my Ac Kc wasn"t enough to beat Ah 6d. We got it in on the turn when villain crai on Ks 9c 6h 6c
I"m calling £80 to win £150 which looks thin until you know the villain who has a fair amount of bluffs in his range for this move...
he was running good and playing some very thinking poker all night. The highlight being when he got it in, again on the turn, with a pair and a gutshot vs a flopped set of Kings and hit the 4-outer on the river. But, as he said, Kings was pretty much the only hand that can call the shove..
Sunday - watched the Liverpool - United game and had a small bet on United to win when Liverpool scored. That shifted the odds to 9/2 and the price didn"t last long so I"ll take that as my betting coup for the month year. I bet rarely on football, and even more rarely on games involving United.
Played the Sunday £15+£15 again at the G and unusually for me, accepted a 3-way chop. It was offered by the chipleader who had around 60% of the chips in play. £210 was much better than the £140 on offer for 3rd and marginally better than the £200 for 2nd.
A short spin on the cash tables for a doubling of my buyin and a decent week all round.
This week started badly on the life front though...
Lucy"s central heating wouldn"t light and she has a leaky roof which is now, under the weight of rainfall we"ve been getting, forcing us to have buckets and other containers catching the drips.
The plumber arrived yesterday and we know the issue and have the replacement part ready to be fitted.
The roofers all said - "can"t look in this weather, we"ll be in touch....."
sigh
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So - I will be absent from the Thursday Home Game on October 4th. I"ll miss the banter and the drunkenness (well, I"ll miss the banter) and I"ll miss the chance to be the only sober man in the room.
(http://speakfresh.com/wp-content/uploads/origin_Dazas-WTF-bildes-6.jpg)
Is that Mickey P?
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It"s been an interesting week so far..
The rains on Monday led to the watercourse at the bottom of Lucy"s street flooding and left over a foot and a half of water in her house.
Until you"ve been there you can"t begin to imagine how utterly depressing it is to walk into a flood-damaged house.
I barely have words to describe it.
The local council are still, two days after the event, contemplating their response...
On the plus side, the roofing problem seems likely to be less expensive than we"d feared and could be sorted this week.
Poker-wise, I had a fun session on the 25/50p table on Tuesday.
We started three handed, one of the locals who just loves to play and is a very easy read and a youngish lad I hadn"t played with before.
We played mostly small pots, it took a while for the rake to reach £5, but my stack was growing and theirs diminishing.
Eventually we got to a proper game when Dan, the villain from Thursday"s game, joined us along with a few others.
Dan is an online MTT grinder who enjoys his cash game. Active, thinking, and fun to have at the table.
He found a 5 bet jam with A5 vs my KK to donate his first buyin and all the big pots seemed to involve him and me.
Three stand out
1: I raise J 10 on the button to £3, he raises SB to £6 and I call in position.
Flop 10QJ, checked to me, I bet £8, he calls.
Turn 10, he checks, I bet £12, he raises to £32, I move all in and he tank folds g K 10 ...
2: I raised Qc Jc from BB to £3, he again raises to £6 and I call.
Flop Ac 4c 10c
I bet £9, he calls.
Turn Ad and he says, "that"s a bad card for me"...
I check call £18
River Kc - - - yes, i know, mbsfn, a second live Royal Flush in 4 months...
I check, there"s four clubs on the board and he folds pretty readily if he has no club and given his style I think he is likely to rep the flush or the A or the straight, or it"s even possible he actually has one of those hands or a full house with A10/AK...
Damn his eyes he checked behind and turned over A3. :(
I did get a letter from the card room manager giving me a free meal for two in the restaurant though :)
3: again me v Dan. We both called a small raise, me with A4, him with 78 and got it all in on the turn when the board read 6544.... The river bricked :(
Overall a winning night and I"m sure Dan and I have lots more pots to play in the weeks and months to come.
G looks likely to benefit from the fallout from Dealergate at Gala where there have been accusations and rumours floating around one of the long term dealers there. I"m repeating nothing until it"s been verified but if true, it"s pretty shocking stuff.
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Haven"t played live this week since Sunday due to wanting to play the satellites for DTD"s deepstack weekend.
I suffered a few nasty ones through the various feeders and satellites >:(
and inflicted a couple myself ;D
Eventually, on Tuesday night I was one of four left with three seats available... it ended badly :"(
Wednesday was last chance saloon for me since tonight I"m out at the Arts Centre for a spot of comedy and then off to join the "invaded" Home Game.
I built a stack in both the £150 and the £500 satellites but effectively bust the £500 when my pf raise of Kh Qh met a flop of Qs 5h 6s and it all went in vs 7s 8s - the 9s on the turn dealing a killer blow.
I did, however win a seat to the £150 which DTD will allow me to upgrade and I"m looking for stakers to cover 30% of the overall cost. Thread is up and running in the Staker Exchange.
Lifewise - it"s not great. Lucy"s house is going to be a long-running saga of meetings with insurance assessors and contractors and delays and hassle. I just messed up on a mobile phone exchange and may have lost the memory card with a lot of photos and I"m about to start attempting to get it back before Orange charge me £75 +VAT for recovery.
If ever I needed a decent structured poker tournament to focus on, it is now. And focus I shall, because poker i smy escape from reality; my chance to think of nothing but the game; to shut out all the "noise".
I can"t wait.
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The Invasion Game - My story
Lucy and I joined the game in level 5 and sat with 8000 chips at 150-300. I managed to get myself going pretty quickly and built to around 16k before blasting a bunch of them towards Phill "Birthday Boy" Fryer trying to get him off AQ preflop.
I added an extra tenner to the prize pool and managed to demonstrate the joys of Q6 soooooted to Paulie D whose AQ was no match for the power of the Nobbers Hand (sorry Paulie :-[ )
I dusted that stack of pretty fast too and enjoyed a splash on the cash table to recover the buyins. No highlights, other than the very drunk female whose sister was enjoying a run of exceptional good fortune on the blackjack bonus boxes. The poker playing sister made some pretty random moves and delayed every hand whilst she argued with the management about whether or not she should be allowed another vodka/redbull. G-Mac was the victim of one of her stranger moves when she raised, I put my stack over the line and he did likewise anticipating her calling and sending a sidepot his way. She folded the last £40 or so.
Lucy got HU with the birthday boy having had her way to that position eased by cracking Stu"s Kings with tens. he took that well I believe.....
No shame in being second Lucy - wp wp
It was great to be part of the welcoming party for the Invaders and good to meet Rich and Ger again, and to meet Paulie, G-Mac and Suzanne Michelle ;)
Hope to see you all again soon.
I"d have partaken of more of the visit had it not been for a planned trip to DTD for the £500. I"ll save the details of the weekend but suffice to say that a mincash in the £150 deepstack wasn"t what I set out for.
Oh well, no poker for me this week - three days of playing for 9hrs plus a day is enough for one week, even for me. I don"t think I can motivate myself for the .25/.50 at G and have no desire nor inclination to play at Gala so I"ll take a week off. Missing the Thursday game due to commitments elsewhere, so next live poker will probably be Sunday at G.
Flood issues continue, the insurance assessor sent someone to have a look and to start the costings process, hopefully there will be action this week.
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A quiet week on the poker front ended with me playing the monthly £100 one dayer at G Stockton.
20,000 chips and the GUKPT structure with a 30minute clock. Add on an extra 2000 chips for registering before the start and it"s hard to fault.
It"s played in a superb venue with a valet who is, beyond doubt, the finest for miles around.
Yet it only got 44 runners, of which 5 re-entered.
Contrast this with the £150 at the hellhole the previous weekend which got 90 runners in a venue with less atmosphere than the moon; where they couldn"t manage to supply sufficient dealers to cover every table; the cardroom was a valet-free zone for the first 90 minutes and you just wonder about the mentality of poker players.
Sadly, my tournament life was short with the damage being partly self-inflicted when two well-conceived and exectued bluffs got hero-called on the river. I maintain that if the first one gets through the second does too because the player in the second hand would generally fold one pair on a straighty, flushy board to the bet I made, but he was emboldened by seeing the earlier call and pretty much mimicked the speech made by Dom Mahoney as he called me on the first one.
sigh...
In other news.
Two items of family stuff.
When I cleared Dad"s house after his move to London I found a box that had been my Mother"s and which held a couple of packs of cards. It looked rather neat and I decided it was too good to go to the charity shop.
It was only a little after I got it home that I noticed the decoration on the lid...
here it is, in all it"s glory..
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One of Dad"s friends had written to Manchester United telling them what a good bloke he is and how he"s supported United since the fifties and was now going to be living in London. He asked what the chances were of getting tickets for games in the capital...
A letter came back saying that the ticket issue for away games was limited but that they would be delighted to invite Dad and a guest to Old Trafford to enjoy the game on a fully inclusive package...
(http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff442/pokerpops/20121008_085519.jpg)
Manchester United v Stoke City...
Car parking; champagne and canapies pre-match; free bar (wasted on my teetotal Dad and I"m driving...); four course meal; programme; top seats on the halfway line; post match food and drinks...
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A brief extract from the recently published International Federation of Poker Rulebook
72. BEHAVIOR AND ETIQUETTE: In order to maintain a congenial environment for all players, the TD may, at his or her sole discretion, penalise, suspend or disqualify a participant who acts in the following ways, but not limited to:
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q. Displaying signs of alcohol intoxication, drunkenness or use of other substances that jeopardises the smooth running of the tournament or causes disrespect to other competitors, staff or spectators.
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That"s Thursday"s game f***ed then
Although... last night we were short on numbers and the only way that Brian could play was to make it a true home game at his home.
Five of us assembled and a game was played in polite and fabulous spirit. I even managed to suffer being outdrawn by Lucy when her 77 went up against my KK on a "safe" flop only to see a 7 fall on the turn. Well played Daughter Dear - you used those chips well in your win.
Most enjoyable - thanks Brian, and thanks too to Susan for putting up with us, and for your contribution to the fun.
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Poker karma...
I"d joined the game just after the start and was in mid-position.
Blinds are 25/50 and there"s an utg raise to 150 called in one spot.
I make it 700 with JJ, original raiser folds but the caller decides to see a flop.
It"s 10 high and she leads out for 1400
I jam my full 4300 stack and get an instant call from Q 10
Happy days?
Not with that 10 on the turn...
Fast forward to somewhere close to the final table and my villainess 3bets over an early raise - he calls and they get it in on a 10 high flop
She has KK, he has A10
The turn card is, of course, a 10
She couldn"t understand why I laughed
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Brief notes on the trip to DTD...
Having run well on Tuesday at the pub and even better on Thursday in the Nobbers game I travelled with some confidence. Misplaced as it turned out.
£500 - had many hands with cards as high as a 4 or sometimes even 5. Got AQ and flopped TPTK vs an opponent with TP2ndK which would have been marvellous but for the K on the river. Made nothing much else and for the first 5 levels was on a table where people didn"t like to fold. Indeed some of them absolutely refused to do it.
150/300
5way limped pot is checked to the river by which time the board has 3 diamonds on it including the King
Colin Young in BB bets 1500 into 1800
UTG makes it 4000 with Qd for second nuts. Fair enough obviously
Folds to BB who makes it 18000
Now, if this guy doesn"t have the nut flush here I"d have walked round Nottingham with me dick out for the weekend.
I know it, the rest of the table know it, the valet delivering the drinks knows it, but he gets a call.
Anyway - I can"t find a hand to get paid on and eventualy I get a table move. Stuck in Seat One and with trouble all over the place. I misplay an OESD when I peel Marrcin Mildes pf raise with 57 and check raise a 64Q flop. He calls the c/r the turn misses me and he checks back. I think I should 100% bet here, or just give up on the hand but when I miss the river too I decide that a bet is my only chance of winning the pot and lead out for around 60% on a 64Q9J board. Marcin calls without hesitation and shows K6...
Eventually my A10 is beaten by JJ and I"m contemplating the £150...
Went well...
Had a few fun hands in the £150 though. One vs Chinese Frankie a DTD legend. Basically went with my read on his hand strength and repped a better hand throughout. He took a lot longer to fold than I wanted him to but got there eventually.
Had a small bonus on Sunday when I slipped on the freshly laundered joggers to nip down to get a newspaper. There was £40 in the back pocket that had survived the washing machine in very good shape!
Played the Super £50 - really shouldn"t have but "I was there" so...
That"s my last game of any significance till St Kitts I think. There"s a £100 one dayer at G this weekend but I doubt I"ll bother, Dad"s on tele in the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall on the evening and I think I should see it as it happens (it"s not actually shown live, but...)
Will play the Thursday nobbers games, and play the Sunday games at G but that"s likely to be it till I"m in the Caribbean.
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Another week goes by and we"re now a week away from setting off to St Kitts.
We"re driving to DTD next Monday evening to be ready to set off from there early on Tuesday.
To say that I am looking forward to the trip would be the understatement of the year.
Lucy"s excitement is equally high.
I"m not a list maker, and prepare for trips and events in a failry casual way. So, with one week to go I have no travel insurance, no idea of how much I need to pack, no real idea about whether we have a suitably sized suitcase and have just begun tho consider how best to take money with me.
To put this in context, my only trips of the past 10 years have been to Festivals, where my clothes go in a rucksack and the rest of my belongings go in plastic boxes; a four or five day trip to Edinburgh and occasional one or two day poker trips.
Whatever - I"ll jam a few t-shirts and some shorts in a case of some form. Throw in some pants and socks and some swimming shorts and maybe add a hoody in case the air-con is overpowering. Sure I"ll be fine.
On the poker front this week, I bubbled the pub game on Tuesday, there was no Thursday game because of some jolly jaunt to Portugal and in Sunday"s game at G I lost all bar 725 of my chips on the last hand before re-entries closed. This resulted in my shoving blind at 150/300 when it folded to the HJ and I was, deservedly bust when I turned over the dreaded Qd 4d needing a five for a chopped pot.
Switched to the .25/.50 game downstairs and managed to do some winning though. 3bet A s Jd and saw a flop 3way. Ks Qs 10s looked pretty good but local legend something Latif having flat called the 3bet from the BB open shoves for £99
We have history, I have the A s, he has the 2s 6s
Turn brick
River 7s
some wins are worth more than others :)
I win a few more pots vs another ex-Gala stalwart who has made a hobby out of picking off my river bets over the last few months and hasn"t yet noticed that I"ve stopped bluffing the river versus him and started just making bluffy looking value bets ;)
Have put a staking thread up for St Kitts - my life/poker roll isn"t equipped for much these days so the funds from the staking will be uised for playing a side event or two and will hopefully provide a sweat for those whose confidence in me remains strong.
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I"ve been following a thread on another poker forum which has so much good stuff in it from so many deep thinkers that it deserves a wider audience.
http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=59492.0
Hope the link is acceptable mods?
Some great stuff about the impact of variance on live MTT results and why they may never reflect a players" true abilities and then today, Richard "Action Man" Trigg posted this...
hhaha, this is an article i wrote on my blog over 6 years ago. still think its of use here.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2006
Have You Got Lucky?
it is important after a win in an Multi-tourney or Sit & go, to evealuate your game, and realise the pots which you won, could have gone the other way.
On very few occasions is it possible to win a, say 100 runner tourney without winning at least one coin flip (50-50) and a lot of the times you may be forced to put your chips in with say KQ v A10 where u are a 60/40 dog.
Often it can be easy after winning a tournament to feel like you have played very good poker and have deserved your win. At times like these you have to remember he times you have been lucky in a single pot and realise that this won"t happen in every tourney. My own opinion is that you have to have luck on your side to win a tourney. The differnce between the good players and just the average players is that the good players give themselves the best possibe chance to get lucky by only getting involved in very few showdowns per tournament, this way they may only have to win say 3 coinflips per tourney as opposed to other weaker players who may need to win a lot more, due to their inabilty to steal pots and become more aggressive in the latter stages. I have seen many players who at one time were winning tourneys left right and centre, and they were last seen entering $2 bonus freerolls.
It is very naive to disregard luck in poker. But for a good player the luck comes, in that they may be lucky not to get unlucky....
Ie they will go into a pot with AK v AQ in a showdown obviously the AK is about 73% favourite but if you are involved in 4 of these coups, you are favourite to lose your stack by the 4th time...
They say that good players don"t understand how much luck is in the game and bad players don"t realise how much skill is in he game. This is probably right, however bad players often endeavour to learn more about the skill in the game. It is also important for the good players to not learn but understand luck and don"t get blinkered into thinking you are invincible, and never forget the times when you get lucky as this will help you take the beats that other players inflict on you.... because as they say "what comes around, goes around".........
I think it"s safe to say that he "got it" a long time ago.
I knew I had "run good" in that first GP this year, and I managed to repeat that in July. I just hope that in both I managed to apply the second half of my mantra for wishing anyone well in a tournament
"run good, play better"
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So, today is my last day at work before I jet off to St Kitts tomorrow.
It all still feels unreal to me. I played the satellites for that Grand Prix back in March because it was a cheaper way to enter the tournament and had no thoughts of any "added value" when I did so.
I played the tournament with no sense of fear that busting close to the FT would be worse for me than for someone without a golden chip. The very idea of me winning a trip to the Caribbean barely entered my mind over that weekend. My focus was on winning the tournament, which I was getting into position to do when the poker Gods decided to deliver AA to my opponent when I held AJ.
I picked up some $$$ over the weekend, thought that would make it feel more real, but US$ look like Monopoly money and thus still unreal.
Maybe, by this time tomorrow when I"m at Gatwick it will all sink in.
Whatever else happens over the next 8 days I will expose my poker game to a serious level of scrutiny vs some of the best of the UK"s live tournament players. I"m really looking forward to that.
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So, today is my last day at work before I jet off to St Kitts tomorrow.
It all still feels unreal to me. I played the satellites for that Grand Prix back in March because it was a cheaper way to enter the tournament and had no thoughts of any "added value" when I did so.
I played the tournament with no sense of fear that busting close to the FT would be worse for me than for someone without a golden chip. The very idea of me winning a trip to the Caribbean barely entered my mind over that weekend. My focus was on winning the tournament, which I was getting into position to do when the poker Gods decided to deliver AA to my opponent when I held AJ.
I picked up some $$$ over the weekend, thought that would make it feel more real, but US$ look like Monopoly money and thus still unreal.
Maybe, by this time tomorrow when I"m at Gatwick it will all sink in.
Whatever else happens over the next 8 days I will expose my poker game to a serious level of scrutiny vs some of the best of the UK"s live tournament players. I"m really looking forward to that.
Hope the both of you have a great trip and a very successful one. Good luck ;D
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Hope the both of you have a great trip and a very successful one. Good luck ;D
+1 Dave hope you both have a fantastic time, look forward to hearing about all the success. But just enjoy it, soak it up, enjoy every single minute. Its been a long time coming x
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I"ve been following a thread on another poker forum which has so much good stuff in it from so many deep thinkers that it deserves a wider audience.
http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=59492.0
Great link. Everybody should read the above thread. There is some GOLD in it by some of the best in the country.
Still following it with interest. Reminds you that anybody who has done well in APAT events for example up until now may still be an expected loser against the field. It is so easy to think you have a big edge on the field (I will admit to having made this mistake a few times) then you get reminded that the reason you have done well is more down to luck (running good) than anything else. That"s the reason why I spend a fair bit of time reading Blonde it reminds you not to get above yourself and keeps you feet on the ground.
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The title of that thread sums up me at the minute. When I get in, I"m reading the whole thing to see of it can help!!
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The title of that thread sums up me at the minute. When I get in, I"m reading the whole thing to see of it can help!!
It"s interesting. Not sure if it"s specifically "helpful" other than as a reality check for those of us who have had moments of success.
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Hope it goes well David - I know you have the game to mix it up out there!! Hope you are able to keep your blog updated with progress - looking forward to reading it already!
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Glad to hear you are enjoying yourselves, give lucy a big hug from me :) xx
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Mini bink report
$200 Win the Button
Played as a warm up for tomorrow"s Day 1 and managed 8th for $630 :)
Happy Days
Not posting too many blinds because generally the two seats to my right were occupied by passive players helped, as did flopping a set with KK and turning one with 66 when the BB had flopped 2 pr but checked ...
Good fun tourney.
Tomorrow we have plans to go sightseeing in the morning and then chill ready for a 5pm start. Chilling here is so easy! :)
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Onwards and upwards - now for the big one ;D
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In the zone!!
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CPP MainEvent
Please excuse typos, I may have had a drink. Or two...
We played six 1 hr levels today and for five of the I was securely in the zone. None of the superstars to worry about and a couple of really good spots. The Brazilian satellite winner, opened lots of pots, folded to lots of 3 bets, or occasionally flatted them and then folded the flop. The guy sat to his right liked to flat the raise and would either lead out when he hit or fold to the c-bet.
They weren"t the only spots either.
My progress was assisted by having a few bits of run good. Here"s two...
We"d been joined at the table by Peter "The Bandit" Evans. He min raises utg at 150/300 and I and two others make the call, me from the BB with 33 A J high flop is checked round and a rather pleasant 3 arrives on the turn. I lead out for 1100 and my Brazilian friend calls.
He calls the river is another 3 and I get another 2850 :)
Two. -- I check my option in the BB with Q6 and we see a flop of Q3Q. It"s checked to Peter Evans who bets out for 600 which the SB and I both call.
The turn is a 6 - thank you lord and this gets checked round
River is a 10 and SB bets out, and calls my chunky raise with the other Q
So at the final break I have somewhere north of 60k and we"ve reached the heady heights of 200/400/50
And then the wheels fall off ...
I ended Day 1 with 31k and return Saturday at 250/500/50
It"s not bad, but could have been so much better
It"s coming up to 3am here and I need sleep now. I"m not as young as I was....
More when I"m refreshed!!
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Take it down David!! :)
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Two. -- I check my option in the BB with Q6 and we see a flop of Q3Q. It"s checked to Peter Evans who bets out for 600 which the SB and I both call.
The turn is a 6 - thank you lord and this gets checked round
River is a 10 and SB bets out, and calls my chunky raise with the other Q
When I cleared Dad"s house after his move to London I found a box that had been my Mother"s and which held a couple of packs of cards. It looked rather neat and I decided it was too good to go to the charity shop.
It was only a little after I got it home that I noticed the decoration on the lid...
here it is, in all it"s glory..
(http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff442/pokerpops/Queensixbox.jpg)
Big smile ;D The Teesside nuts comes good once again!
Keep going Dave.. enjoy and much love to you both, hope Lucy"s having a ball as well x
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Two. -- I check my option in the BB with Q6 and we see a flop of Q3Q. It"s checked to Peter Evans who bets out for 600 which the SB and I both call.
The turn is a 6 - thank you lord and this gets checked round
River is a 10 and SB bets out, and calls my chunky raise with the other Q
When I cleared Dad"s house after his move to London I found a box that had been my Mother"s and which held a couple of packs of cards. It looked rather neat and I decided it was too good to go to the charity shop.
It was only a little after I got it home that I noticed the decoration on the lid...
here it is, in all it"s glory..
(http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff442/pokerpops/Queensixbox.jpg)
Big smile ;D The Teesside nuts comes good once again!
Keep going Dave.. enjoy and much love to you both, hope Lucy"s having a ball as well x
Hmmm the Teesside Nuts let me down in the last level. I raised BvB with Qc 6c and call a smallish 3bet. Flop is 6d 5c 3h (disclaimer.. Flop cards may not be precisely right, but there was definitely a six and a club)
I Cbet and BB shoves. He started the hand with around 12k and I decide to call off v his last 8k ish putting AK/AQ firmly in his hand rather than the overpaid. He had JJ and I got no miracle two pair/trips help.
It was an awful piece of play by me and my only defence is that I had some history with him and being wrong would only dent me.
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So Matt got pissed, spent an obscene amount of cash and got the chiplead by playing, well, like Matt? ;)
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Made it through Day 2 :)
131k 1000/2000/300 next.
36 survive and tomorrow plays down to final table
What we"re playing for...
Prize pool $288,090
1st $85,600
2nd $50,700
3rd $33,100
4th $24,800
5th $18,700
6th $15,550
7th $12,700
8th $10,100
9th $7,800
10th $6,040
11th $5,750
12th $5,750
13th $5,750
14th $5,750
Will try and write up more tomorrow
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good job!!!
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Happy days Dave, see Matt D made it through as well.. TID please!
How did Lucy get on in the 200? x
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Happy days Dave, see Matt D made it through as well.. TID please!
How did Lucy get on in the 200? x
Lucy bust the $300 in eight which was short of the money. Lost a chunk when A6Flopped a straight :)
but still short she shoved J9s over three limpers and got called by A8.
She did good but the force wasn"t with her.
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Made it through Day 2 :)
131k 1000/2000/300 next.
36 survive and tomorrow plays down to final table
What we"re playing for...
Prize pool $288,090
1st $85,600
2nd $50,700
3rd $33,100
4th $24,800
5th $18,700
6th $15,550
7th $12,700
8th $10,100
9th $7,800
10th $6,040
11th $5,750
12th $5,750
13th $5,750
14th $5,750
Will try and write up more tomorrow
Excellent news.. Gl looks a great structure aswell still lots of play with 65 bigs..
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Luck plays it"s part in tournaments in so many ways. Having a hand when someone else has one that is close enough to call; having your opponents have no hand when you make a move; hitting the one-outer; getting a decent seat draw.
I feel like I"ve definitely been lucky in my seat draw in each day. Not being disrespectful to Devilfish, nor to Pete Evans, but I"ve played against Pete a couple of times now and had the benefit of watching the FT video from the GP and Devilfish was nowhere near as scary or aggressive as I had anticipated. Check called him on turn and river holding Ac 7c on a Qh 10d 4h 7d Jh he announced that I must be good if I was calling but was less than impressed by what I called with. "Stick around, I"ll have all your chips" ...
Picked up another chunk on the first hand on my table move, calling a raise again with A7 suited, diamonds this time and hitting an Axx dd flop I called a bet on the flop, allowed the turn to be checked round and led out 12000 on the diamond river. My opponent cursed his luck in Greek I think it was, but lucky definitely seemed the issue. I queried what had been said but apparently " if the diamond doesn"t come" I lose. Frankly, if the diamond doesn"t come I may lose, but I don"t lose the last 12000...
That last table of the night had two potential trouble spots in Peter Haslam and Stuart Kinghorn but we managed to avoid tangling with each other and just all focussed on the easier spots. Like Mario, a friend of the billionaire owner of the Marriott Hotel & Resprt St Kitts. Mario had a very wide calling range and an even wider shoving range it seems.
Bagged up 131 after losing a flip late on when KQhh<99. I raised 3.5k at 800/1600/200, he shoves for 24700 total. Anyone folding? Thought not.
Not too disappointed by today"s draw either. JP is obviously a threat as is Jules, but avoiding Rob for now, and some of the other big stacks feels like it"s a pretty good result.
Whatever happens tonight this place is so good and the experience so massive that I feel I"ve won already. Anything else is a bonus.
Once again, big shout out to Rob and the team. They have made this trip extra special.
By the way - we organised food so much better yesterday and I enjoyed a Shrimp Cocktail followed by surf n turf with one of the best bits of steak I have ever eaten, and a lobster tail.
Followed that with a coffee ice cream and got back to the table with 3 minutes to spare :)
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Marvellous tournament in a marvellous setting.
I played badly for a spell today but had recovered my mojo after two quick double ups. A9 all in pre over a JP raise held vs A8 hitting a 9 on the flop but ever a sweat with JP picking up an OESD on the turn
Then I raise BvB with Jc Jd and shove on a 4 2 2 cc flop. He snaps having called pre with 23 off
Turn and river are clubs to save me.
Exit hand..2500/500/500. I raise Ahrt Ad to 21k in mp with one limper, one caller to JP who makes it 52k
I shove for around 190 total, caller folds, JP calls from around 300 I think.
Q on the turn.
mbn
I don"t wish to sound bitter, and I know variance sucks and all, but I was surprised to see QQ when he called. I was pleased too...
In a sense I was on borrowed time after the JJ hand but this year I"ve exited four big tournaments on either a "bad beat" or a cooler. UKIPT runner runner to counterfeit my flopped 2pair. May DTD Deepstack tens
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Then JP finds AA and knocks out the remaining APAT guy.
JP Kelly knocks Llyr (Owen) Jones out. JP"s AA beat Jones" KK.
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It looks pretty awesome out there David. Hope you are enjoying.
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Enjoy the rest of the trip Dave and Lucy big hugs on the exit :-\ x
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Strange game poker, the hand with Devilfish if he calls you with 4th pair, he is a genius, you call correctly you are classed as a calling station or an easy mark which you are obviously not, some people have no class.
No need for a comment on the last hand,wp again another fantastic effort.
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I"ve settled down now. It"s a lot easier when you spend the day after being coolered for a top 3 stack just short of the money in a big tourney taking a ferry across the Caribbean to Nevis and then having a tour round seeing some fabulous scenery :)
Tonight I"m back on the Pony in the $300 tourney. I am aiming for a second St Kitts flag!!!
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I"ve settled down now. It"s a lot easier when you spend the day after being coolered for a top 3 stack just short of the money in a big tourney taking a ferry across the Caribbean to Nevis and then having a tour round seeing some fabulous scenery :)
Tonight I"m back on the Pony in the $300 tourney. I am aiming for a second St Kitts flag!!!
6th in the $300 turbo. 30k stack, 15 minute blinds. Fun stuff. Played the same structure as the ME and. We overtook their blinds sometime around midnight with less than half the chips in play
Two flags :)
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Well done Dave! Did Lucy have a dabble? Sounds like its been a really fun trip, look forward to the stories when you get back, safe trip home tomorrow x
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(http://i1305.photobucket.com/albums/s556/pokerpopscaribbean/CPP082.jpg)
Caribbean Sea to the left, Atlantic Ocean in the distance.
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Daughter Amos won 545 quid off 100 quid when staked into a cash table by Ger last night. Highlight hand was definately myself going all in pre for £43 against Ger and Lucy.
Lucy had JJ. Ger didn"t show. The turn was a 3, the river was a 3. I had 23cc. General disbelief from the locals with very few teeth in their head.
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Daughter Amos won 545 quid off 100 quid when staked into a cash table by Ger last night. Highlight hand was definately myself going all in pre for £43 against Ger and Lucy.
Lucy had JJ. Ger didn"t show. The turn was a 3, the river was a 3. I had 23cc. General disbelief from the locals with very few teeth in their head.
Tell Daughter Amos well done and to put aside enough to cover a new windsccreen :-)
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Sat and watched Lucy on the live stream from Stoke last evening and loved it. Her game has been a well kept secret for years with her "never show" policy strictly enforced.
She has, as they say, some game.
I slept at around half midnight and woke to a text confirming her win :)
Well played that girl.
Watch out world, Team Pony are coming to get you.
I understand she"s playing the ME today and will be avoiding running JJ into AA this time.
She"ll be in my three to Final Table
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After a week of living the dream it was back to earth with a bump last night at G
I"d chipped up very nicely by level 3 with 43000 chips at 100/200 when one of the more errrm creative players decided to blind raise utg to 1300 in an attempt to either bust and re-enter or chip up from his 3500 stack.
I have JJ utg+1 and in an attempt to isolate I grab a stack of yellow 1k chips and raise (to 21k as it happens)
utg+2 puts his 5k in, it folds to my nemesis, the delightful Betty, everyone"s favourite Granny who flat calls from a stack similar to mine.
For reasons I can"t explain the cards get turned over despite the fact that both Betty and I have chips behind and she has QQ - she just always has it vs me. The flop brings a J, and then a Queen...
I don"t know if the big raise is good or bad generally, but sertainly had the hand played out normally I would have done a lot bigger piece of my stack than I did since putting Betty on QQ would have been beyond most players. In all the months that I"ve played with her I can count the number of times she"s raised pre on one hand and the number of times she"s 3bet pre would be a definite zero...
Fast forward a little and after attempting to represent A10 on an A10 10 xx board vs someone who has A 10 I"m down to 10 BB when I ship with A10 over a min raise. he tank calls with 77 and to continue tonight"s theme of cheers and boos we see an x 10 7 flop and I"m gone.
On the positive side I dug myself out of a sizable hole on the cash table with one highlight being an A 10 x A x board and this time actually having the A 10 myself vs someone with AK.
Also positive was Brian getting a 4way chop.
Three weeks to Christmas and no presents brought yet - today is CyberShop Monday apparently, maybe I"ll find that perfect gift online.
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The Home Game last night was more fun than should be allowed at a poker table.
Phil describes it better than I could ever do.
I bust with 77<22 and handled the loss with dignity and composure (I"ve suffered worse recently...) and decided to pull up a chair at the .50/£1 table. I made it 6handed and picked up a decent pot first hand when I turned a pair, rivered a flush vs a young chinese lad who seemed to just keep reloading..
Snugged it up a bit since we had two of the local "regs" at the table.
One of them 3bets to £13 over my £3.50 button raise and with the cut off having limp-called the £13 I find a fold.
Flop is Ks Kh Kc and cut off sits up, chuckles a little chuckle and attempts to bet £5 out of turn.
PF 3better says "it"s on me" and makes it £20, which seemed a bit of a strange move given the monster tell from cut off and I begin to doubt my interpretation.
Until he raises to £40
One the original raiser has folded cutoff shows his KJ and my faith in the read was restored.
I pick up a couple of small pots and then open Qc 10c from the MP to £3.50 and one of the reggiest of the regs flats.
Flop is Jc 9d 2h and I lead out for £5 which reggiest reg calls.
Turn 5s and I bet £8 and call a raise to £23 - this opponent can be tricky and I"m suspecting he has the same hand as I do, or maybe 10 8
River is a rather pleasing 8d to give me the nut straight and I lead for £25 - I think it looks weak and very like a decent pair decent kicker sort of hand and it gives him plenty of room to play back at me with a mix of bluffs, and good second-best hands.
He raises to £88 and I move all in for a total of £140 and announce queen ten.
His set of deuces well beaten then :-)
This guy has troubled me on the cash tables in the past and to be fair, I got a touch fortunate probably on the river, but for once, having made the nand vs him I got properly paid.
Tomorrow should be the G £100 deepstack game, but apparently it"s the Gala league final freeroll and a lot of the value for the tournament will be absent. I may give it a miss.
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G Monthly £100
Should have missed it
Regged in Level 4 100/200 and found myself at a table of "can"t folds"
Did chip up pretty well when I 3bet the lad to my right with KK and he decided to 4bet and then 6 bet shove his QQ
Played a hand absolutely awful vs one of the better players at the table. In essence I made a bad call pre, caught a poor straight on turn on a paired board and he check shoved on me.
I tanked and talked myself into giving him the one hand I could beat rather than the three that were beating me. Obviously he had the house
Then I 3bet A s Qd to 1950 over an older Gala type players open to 700 at 100/200/25 with AQ
Flop is Kxx ccc, he checks I bet he calls very reluctantly and I decide that I"m shipping any non-club turn
Jd falls, he checks, I shove, he snaps with Qc 10c obviously.
I re-entered and made it to the last two tables but the structure+the players meant that avg stack was pretty close to 15BBs by then and I was below average. Folds to my SB and I ship into a decent players BB knowing he needs something decent to call with. He has something Kh Qc and holds vs my 9c 2c
I didn"t play well at all. I was distracted and irritated by lots of stuff that shouldn"t bother me. The slowwww dealer we had for one level (8 and a bit hands in 30 minutes - I deal a lot faster than that); the irritating tanks from one of the locals where you know he"s folding but he has to sit and stare a lot; I got irritated by my bad play being rewarded by loss of chips and others bad play being rewarded by winning chips which I thought was an attitude I had put behind me.
I carried this whole "not loving the game" feeling into the APAT online Championship and bust out pretty early with 77<99. I"d played pretty snug tbh, had a decent run of cards preflop but couldn"t hit a board to save my life and I was too vulnerable to the sense I had been outdrawn. It"s a valuable lesson though - I really was undecided about playing and the late decision left me unprepared for it. I should have swerved.
I"ll be back on the horse soon though and hopefully back to winning ways. I"m on the trail of a satellite seat for DTD"s January Deepstack and also looking at satellites for other events like UKIPT Edinburgh. Now would be a good time for APAT to run their satellite games again imo :)
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2012 went OK for me.
Sufered the biggest equity beat of my life in November, but had a ball getting to be in position to lose it and was in a great place to get over it.
2013 goals in formulation but one has to be a Herbieflag at a venue that isn"t DTD.
you cashed twice in st kitts does that not count or do you consider that as still dtd ?
I did didn"t I? :)
Still says DTD on the Hendon Mob Page though. Good to have a niche flag, but the fact remains that all of my results have been with DTD chips and on tables with DTD on them.
put your name down for apat blonde forum team you could have that one ticked off in january
Luton? That"s miles away!
You would like Luton.
Get your name on the list sir.
Why is your name still not on the list?
Do hurry up. :D
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2012 went OK for me.
Sufered the biggest equity beat of my life in November, but had a ball getting to be in position to lose it and was in a great place to get over it.
2013 goals in formulation but one has to be a Herbieflag at a venue that isn"t DTD.
you cashed twice in st kitts does that not count or do you consider that as still dtd ?
I did didn"t I? :)
Still says DTD on the Hendon Mob Page though. Good to have a niche flag, but the fact remains that all of my results have been with DTD chips and on tables with DTD on them.
put your name down for apat blonde forum team you could have that one ticked off in january
Luton? That"s miles away!
You would like Luton.
Get your name on the list sir.
Why is your name still not on the list?
Do hurry up. :D
what list?
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G £15+£15 got 39 runners last night and made £1140 which I think is best yet.
I played, though I say it myself, really well. Had a little verbal spat with Cliff the cabbie one of the irregulars who is one of the more irritating players I"ve encountered, and had constant levelling wars with his mate who is also irritating but in a more bearable way. They both open a lot and I opted to not go to war until I had weapons worthy of the battle.
Eventually I find AK in the big blind behind matey"s raise and Cliff"s shove. I feared giving either of them a 50k stack at 150/300 but found a call. Matey folded ( claimed QQ) and I hit a K on the turn and A on river to beat JJ. Cliff was out of his seat and out of the room before I"d gathered in the chips.
I have 85k at the break around 3x average.
Brian has mentioned the first hand after the break. Folds to him in SB he makes up and I peel back AA.
I"m raising here most of the time vs anyone, vs Brian it"s probably 95%. He knows this and I expect him to 3bet often.
So I min-raise and he 3bets. All nicely to plan so far.
Take that sir, I 4bet small and snap call his all in.
We"ve trapped each other perfectly with him holding KK v my AA.
K on the turn
I chipped back up and made the final table in good shape but kind of blew up with 22 when I misread the situation badly.
Survived the bubble with the help of Q6>22 aipf and bust when A6<88 for £90.
It"s rarely just one hand, generally it"s a sequence of decisions that costs you, but the odd poor decision early on is recoverable, one bad decision last night cost me my shot at winning outright. Other than that, I was really happy with my play all night.
Not much live poker now till January I suspect. With Christmas fast approaching and an invasion of children and grandchildren upcoming I"ll try to win a satellite for the DTD £300 and have a run at the Fandango Freeroll and maybe a few other online games but that"s about it.
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Just a word or two about Brian "The Fossil" Harland.
Brian lives in a world few of us could manage - his devotion to Susan is inspirational and I am proud to count him amongst my friends.
I love having him at the table - the dynamic between us in game is great and there"s nobody I"d rather have played that AAvKK hand with given the result.
His unprompted offer to return my buyin if he cashed was typical of the man and I am donating half of it to the Fandango Freeroll on his behalf. The other half will be going to an MS charity.
He"s still a fish and a luckbox, but he is a top top man.
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Firstly - woop woop I"ve been selected to play for APAT in the Team Poker event at Luton.
I"m looking forward to this in a massive way. I"ve never played in a team format before and it will be really interesting to see how that impacts on the game flow and dynamics especially as we get towards the end of the tournament.
Secondly, these were my stated aims for 2013 on the poker front
Run seriously deep in a DTD Deepstack
Play some of the other tour events - GPS, GUKPT, UKIPT - and make the money so my Hendon Mob has an entry without the letters DTD on it
Play more APAT events
Continue to enjoy myself at the poker table
and finally, with an eye to the thought that lightning rarely strikes twice, let alone thrice and beyond...
Run deep (FT) any GP that DTD may run (hopefully there will be a Golden Chip reward attached again)
I"m adding two more to that list
To keep a more accurate record of my poker spend and winnings. I"m pretty sure that I was a net winner last year (with c£18k from the two GPs it"s likely), but how did I do in other games?
I don"t have a specific poker roll and play when and what I fancy. I won, or cashed in, some local games and had some decent sessions on the cash tables but in 2013 I want to know more precisely how I"ve done. Anyone know of a decent app to help with this?
The second is a biggie, and less likely to be achieved, but "ooooh Vegas Baby!" "WSOP ME Baby"
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The second is a biggie, and less likely to be achieved, but "ooooh Vegas Baby!" "WSOP ME Baby"
This is a must David!!.. I can"t begin to describe the atmosphere this event throws up.. I was lucky to experience this first hand ( small brag).. To this day I often have re- occurring flashbacks in my sleep, on so many memorable hands and how I should of played them etc.. The noise alone is something to behold chip rippling constant from start to finish etc.. This must go on every poker players bucket list!!
I think your best way to achieve this goal is to grind the step tournaments on Stars.. To give yourself maximum chance, my advice would be to have at least four or five levels going at the same time, say get to step 3, stop start another get to step 3 on that stop, start another so on.. Get four at same level and go from there.. Will keep you more focused, and if you go on a bad run you will still probably have a couple on the higher steps, go on a heater then maybe just maybe you will bink a seat.. Good luck on your quest I hope that you make it.. Would love to have a stake in this ;D
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DTD today for the £300 deepstack.
My updates will be few and far between - I realised whilst I was on St Kitts that my focus at the table is poor when I have my phone or iPad on the go. A lack of wifi in the card room out there meant I had no option and it seems pretty obvious really... Can"t understand why it took so long
So I will limit myself to an occasional tweet at the break and hope to be playing well enough to catch the attention of the updaters.
I"m looking forward to this. I was looking forward to it when it looked like being c500 runners, the fact that it is likely to be nearer 700 makes it even better.
There were 289 yesterday apparently, and I wouldn"t be at all surprised if they got 400 today.
Doors open at 1.30 and the tournament starts at 2... seems likely there will be a big queue at the desk. I am already registered and sorted which removes that issue and anticipate sitting two or three handed for the first 10 minutes again.
DTD for a Deepstack, it doesn"t get much better than this.
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GL today pops. You are due a deep run in one of these :p x
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Sigh
I"ve stuck some kind of report and a few hands in the staking thread.
Saturday just wasn"t my day - a misread or two, a lack of spots, a lack of mental alertness maybe.
Maybe I didn"t adjust my game sufficiently to suit the opposition. Whatever the cause, I failed to get even close to making Day2.
The place was buzzing though - the queues to buy in were immense and the field exceeded everyone"s expectations. It"s such a great place to be on weekends like that.
Yesterday they had four comps running simultaneously with buy ins from £10 to £300 and cash tables from .50/£1 to £5/£5 with stacks from £20 to who knows what...
I doubt I"ll be there again before March, but that"s a definite commitment since I"m told that the next Grand Prix will happen mid-March.
I understand there will be Golden Chips or similar again, and my breath is bated in anticipation of the official announcement as to buy in, structure and added value...
If you haven"t played a GP before, don"t bother, they are awful. Full of pub poker standard players who can"t fold and have bad personal hygiene. Best avoided IMO ;)
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First up - big hugs and loves for Stu. These are tough times for him at the moment and I hope his love of poker helps him to find a space where the worries and concerns about his dad can be set aside for a while. We need an escape valve and poker provides an environment where we can cocoon ourselves in thoughts of pott odds, 3bet ranges and whether our bets tell a sufficiently strong story to get our opponent to make the fold or call as appropriate. The mental strength needed as he helps to care for his dad will need to be replenished and I hope the love he gets from the Nobbers helps with that.
So - after last week"s trip to DTD I wasn"t full of confidence or enthusiasm for poker, but I ventured out to the local pub game with Lucy and made a predictably early exit.
I wasn"t the only one there with a decent DTD result this week, one the final table from the £300 was also there. He"s a mate and fellow off-shore worker with Chris Wood who is himself a local poker hero and has taken to travelling with Chris. To say that his achievement was surprising would be something of an understatement. Suffice to say, I know that running good is a key factor in winning tournaments and that on our day we"re all capable of a decent result. The top guys make more days into their days than the rest of us though. They take the run of offsuit 4 9 and turn them into winning hands. They pick off the bluffs better than us and they extract more value from the marginal hands than we do.
I left after my restart stack of 1500 chips had been doubled and then doubled again before succumbing to the inevitable loss with AQ<88 and headed to G.
No game when I got there and eventually we sat 3handed in hope of attracting others once they could see there was a game on. I won 75% of the pots 3handed, mostly for small amounts but chipped up to around £130 from my £100 sit down and then we got to be 6 handed for a while. Flopping a set of threes and turning a full house helped to boost that to the £185 I cashed out.
Thursday"s home game was fun - I inadvertently value bet bottom pair vs PhilTC and got called by J high which for some reason he thought might be good vs me, but then lost my first stack when one of our newer members decided to complete from the small blind without looking at his cards. I raised, but obviously not enough to make him look. He flopped two pair with the Thursday night auto-fold hand Q4 and managed to take all my chips with it. Cue horror from the rest of the table and a lot of insults. We have few principles, but not playing Q4 is strongly held and the last time I won a hand with it in similar circumstances (I raised blind) I declared my hand dead and returned the chips.
I bust eventually and migrated to the cash table to book a small loss
Saturday was the monthly £100 at G which I swerved in favour of going to see Les Mis the Movie with Anita. I have no regrets about that choice. We weren"t sure about this but some excellent reviews and the fact that we"ve seen th stage show in both professional and youth productions and enjoyed it a lot took us along to the cinema.
Recommend it to anyone, whether you"ve seen the stage show or not. The film tells the story with more clarity than the show, the music is stirring and some of the performances are outstanding. Ann Hathaway owns I Dreamed a Dream in a way that SuBo can only fantasise about and although Russell Crowe"s singing voice is short on quality his acting gets him through to a very moving final scene. It"s almost guaranteed that the stage show gets a standing ovation at the finale, and it would be no surprise if a full cinema didn"t burst into applause at the concluding scene which owes a big nod to the stage show.
Back to poker on Sunday and finally a proper result in the G £15+£15. I managed to dust off my first entry inside the first two levels (a misguided raise with J5 and calling a shove from Dr Donk on AJxhh for the first 5k, and 3betting AQhh vs someone I had thought to be competent led to me being allin on a 763hh flop vs his 77, brick brick)
I re-enter and refocus and get to the Final Table of 10 with double average and pick up big pots in the first two hands to go to around 140k of the 515k in play.
HU I have a small chip lead and we agree to chop with me taking £335 him £330.
It"s been a while since I had a decent cash in this game and ultimately it"s down to my not having been taking it seriously enough (and running bad in some spots). I played somewhere close to my best last night, and ran pretty good too.
I got active once I had a stack and picked up a lot of pots without showdown, and some that I should have lost.
For example, at 300/600 I open 4h 5h to 1550 from a stack of c50k in late position over a limper and get a call from the SB and the limper
Flop Ad 3d 6d and SB leads out for 1125 leaving himself with two 5k chips. Seat 9 calls as do I.
Turn is Ks and everyone checks
River is the 2s and SB bets out 5k
Seat 9 folds, I call declaring "straight"and he flips As Kd having played it about as badly as it would be possible to do.
Managed to fold AA on the river of 4xKQx having 3bet villain for the third or fourth time and run into a little more resistance than usual. He check called the flop, donked the turn for around 1/3 pot and shoved the river for just over the pot. He"d flopped a set of fours apparently. He gets more chips if he checks the river, and even Daniel Negreanu can probably find a fold often enough on that board to make the shove -EV bearing in mind that he has bottom set in a 3bet pot.
For those who have made it this far, thanks for reading.
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Wp on the result last night, Would you like me to nod off before the game starts every Sunday ? ::)
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Wp on the result last night, Would you like me to nod off before the game starts every Sunday ? ::)
Lol. Yes please, the last time we tangled you did a JP Kelly on me with KK
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First up - big hugs and loves for Stu. These are tough times for him at the moment and I hope his love of poker helps him to find a space where the worries and concerns about his dad can be set aside for a while. We need an escape valve and poker provides an environment where we can cocoon ourselves in thoughts of pott odds, 3bet ranges and whether our bets tell a sufficiently strong story to get our opponent to make the fold or call as appropriate. The mental strength needed as he helps to care for his dad will need to be replenished and I hope the love he gets from the Nobbers helps with that.
xx :)
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My approach to the Thursday night game has always been what some may call "Loose Aggresive" and others may call spewy. I play the game for fun take some "interesting" lines and often get called down light as seen last week when TC called my river bet with J high...
Last night I managed to lose two stacks in the first two levels having ...
taken a bet bet bet line with 78hh on a 975J8 board only to run into 98
attempted to get three streets of value with 47 on x77xx and ran into A7
Dusted off the last few chips from my first stack with the legendary Q6 and the bulk of the next stack with 9J on a J high board only to get called by QJ on the river
I took it poorly, lost the rest and stomped off to join the G"s latest innovation, a £10rb with £1k guaranteed. 2000 chips per rebuy and 5000 for a £10 add on.
When I joined there were only 16 runners and although that grew to 20 there was an eventual £250 overlay.
I was in for two double stacks by the break but had c 9.5k for my £40 and added the extra 5000 to have 14.5k at 200/400/25
Post break I played four hands till we reached the final table (won one of them, all in pre with AQ v 66 and binked a Q) and then started to pick up a few hands, and a few more, and then some more, and then a few spots that came well for me, and built a stack of chips to use to exert pressure and when we reached the bubble with nobody even hinting at a "saver" I was able to exploit the position really well.
Eventually I took out 5th, and suggested a deal 4-handed with me taking the £400 for 1st and the others taking £200 each but they decided to play on.
I took out the guy who had red-carded the deal in 4th, and 3-handed with 180k of 224k I made another offer "you can still do a deal guys but I want £450 now..."
They turned that down too :-)
Decent week this week - no spewy cash sessions because I"ve run deep in the two tourneys and £735 in winnings from £134 buyins. Let"s hope I can maintain my form through to Luton.
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Three more sleeps till Luton
To say I am looking forward to this event would be a massive understatement. My fear is that I am looking forward to it too much and that my game will suffer as a result. To counter this I"ve offered Steve Roderick a last-longest wager with either a cash outcome or some form of forfeit. I"ve also offered to back Team APAT to outscore Team Blonde for similar stakes.
The Blonde team is pretty high-powered and loaded with Hendon Mob Flags with George2Loose as it"s captain following an impressive campaign to be selected for the task. I"m wondering if my bravado might have been a touch foolish, but as long as I outlast Rod I"m free-rolling the team bit of the bet :P
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Home game last night, followed by a very last minute entry into the G £10rb. I shoved KJs from utg and Lucy made a decent call with A6hh and hit her A.
I registered for the rb with a matter of seconds left on the break and sat with 9000 chips at 100/200/25 for my £30. They need to rethink the chips in this tournament I think, the game nearly didn"t start at all because at 8pm there were only 6 registered. This for a game with a £1k guaranteed prize pool.The decision to cancel the game was made at 8.10 but that was just too hasty with a handful of players turning up minutes later. Eventually the casino bowed to the pressure of players wanting it to start but restricted the guarantee to £750 saying that if the pool made that amount they would go to the full £1k.
My entry took the pot to £770...
I chipped up to 18k pretty quickly and then had to raise-fold a couple of times when my button, cut-off and hijack raises ran into hands behind me. Trivial folds every one of them, and just one, two or three of those things, but expensive in total.
There were a few ransoms at the table who seemed pretty resistant to folding preflop and whilst I picked up chips in a few hands I lost a chunk when one of the them check shoved a KQxhh flop having called my raise with K9o and my Qh Jh didn"t improve. The rest went in later with QQ and couldn"t hold vs AK.
I switched to the cash table for a brief session which I cut short due to it being one of the most boring tables I can remember having sat at for quite some time. I was I in danger of getting too spewy and for once I recognised the potential for it and got up and left just a few ££ down.
One amusing moment occurred when I opened from utg+2 to £3 and saw one of the regular serial callers 3bet to £6 and then a cold 4bet from the BB to £18.
I laughed and folded and once Ray had folded too I offered the BB £5 if he could show me a hand that was less than KK. He didn"t claim the money....
Tomorrow I set off for Luton and a chance to play a tournament with a great structure and in some great company. I"m planning on having a beer or two tomorrow, I very rarely do this because a) I tend to be the designated driver; b) casinos tend not to serve traditional ales and c) I always felt that somehow, having a drink would reduce my capacity to play the game at my best.
Tomorrow, we can get a taxi, I"m lowering my sights to drink some form of bottled beer, probably Bud or similar and c) The constant stream of Carib which found it"s way to my table in St Kitts didn"t seem to affect me that much :)
I am, officially, really looking forward to this
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Home game last night, followed by a very last minute entry into the G £10rb. I shoved KJs from utg and Lucy made a decent call with A6hh and hit her A.
I registered for the rb with a matter of seconds left on the break and sat with 9000 chips at 100/200/25 for my £30. They need to rethink the chips in this tournament I think, the game nearly didn"t start at all because at 8pm there were only 6 registered. This for a game with a £1k guaranteed prize pool.The decision to cancel the game was made at 8.10 but that was just too hasty with a handful of players turning up minutes later. Eventually the casino bowed to the pressure of players wanting it to start but restricted the guarantee to £750 saying that if the pool made that amount they would go to the full £1k.
My entry took the pot to £770...
I chipped up to 18k pretty quickly and then had to raise-fold a couple of times when my button, cut-off and hijack raises ran into hands behind me. Trivial folds every one of them, and just one, two or three of those things, but expensive in total.
There were a few ransoms at the table who seemed pretty resistant to folding preflop and whilst I picked up chips in a few hands I lost a chunk when one of the them check shoved a KQxhh flop having called my raise with K9o and my Qh Jh didn"t improve. The rest went in later with QQ and couldn"t hold vs AK.
I switched to the cash table for a brief session which I cut short due to it being one of the most boring tables I can remember having sat at for quite some time. I was I in danger of getting too spewy and for once I recognised the potential for it and got up and left just a few ££ down.
One amusing moment occurred when I opened from utg+2 to £3 and saw one of the regular serial callers 3bet to £6 and then a cold 4bet from the BB to £18.
I laughed and folded and once Ray had folded too I offered the BB £5 if he could show me a hand that was less than KK. He didn"t claim the money....
Tomorrow I set off for Luton and a chance to play a tournament with a great structure and in some great company. I"m planning on having a beer or two tomorrow, I very rarely do this because a) I tend to be the designated driver; b) casinos tend not to serve traditional ales and c) I always felt that somehow, having a drink would reduce my capacity to play the game at my best.
Tomorrow, we can get a taxi, I"m lowering my sights to drink some form of bottled beer, probably Bud or similar and c) The constant stream of Carib which found it"s way to my table in St Kitts didn"t seem to affect me that much :)
I am, officially, really looking forward to this
I will be joining you on table 2 tomorrow and i am also really looking forward to this!
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So, the APAT Team Poker Championship came and went with me not troubling the cashier. Nor, indeed having to worry about being in the G Casino Luton for a second day.
I"m not happy with the early exit, but not having to go back to the Casino was no hardship. I have to say I was disappointed with the venue. A shortage of serving staff when we first arrived and a shortage of dealers for cash games in the evening plus a pretty dodgy beef burger put me off.
The journey down was interesting.... It took three attempts to get my car off the drive at home and even the bus routes were tricky. Picked up Lucy and headed off to get Brian who had offered to walk from his house to the shops which meant we could stay on a bus route. A text arrived telling me he would be in the car park at the pub which must be a good mile from his house, followed shortly after by one telling me he had walked on and was waiting for us just off the A19. A total walk of getting on for two miles through snow. What a star he is.
We got to Luton with little drama found the hotel and bumped into a few of the other players. One of whom took a look at my pokerpops hoody and said "shame it"s been called off". :)
Met up with Carl and the rest of the team, proudly donned my Team APAT shirt and exchanged a few words with those of the opposition that I knew. Rodders and I confirmed our £10 last longest and eventually the tournament started.
I sat tight for the first few hands but it seemed to me that Glenn Laming was opening a lot and so, when he raised from utg on my SB I decided it was time to get involved and 3 bet with deuce four off suit :)
My c-bet on a Q66 flop was called so I checked the 3 turn with a view to folding to any bet. Glenn checked and the 5 on the turn allowed me to lead out for 1500 and unfortunately Glenn had AQ and pretty much had to call. Image blown...
The four seats to my left were all playing pretty snug and I opted to open from hijack, cut off and button and was chipping up nicely. One small setback arrived when I opened AK, got a small 3bet from Paulie, made the 4bet and foundmyself facing a 5 bet... Those of you who have played with Pauile before will know that I should almost certainly 4bet fold here, but the extra cost to see a flop seemed worth paying but a 234rb flop meant that I folded to his bet before being shown the obvious hand. I just went back to plan A and chipped back up. Had a few decent pots without showdown, flopping a set of eights on A8x and getting called on the flop but not the Q turn was frustrating. Raising Q6, c-betting second pair (the 6) on the flop, checking the A turn and getting paid off when the Q arrived on the river was a bonus. The unfortunate Tony Trippier had the A and opined that I was a lucky so and so after that one.
Shortly after that I played the hand that features on the strategy board... Not proud of that hand, although the call with A8 on the river of that board is a losing call pretty often vs me and depended on a pretty accurate read by FatPants. Meh, move on.
Re build.
If only.
It was very shortly after that I got a table move and good luck anyone getting John Murray or Richard Baker to give up their blinds that easily. My first raise on the new table was with pocket tens, ah the irony of it, if only that had been my hand earlier... I c-bet the Q high flop and Curlage called, I checked the A turn and folded to his bet.
And then... BvB me v John Murray, I raised pre and fired three streets with an all in on the river on A2466. Can"t get him to fold much, and he"s definitely not folding 44 having flopped a set and rivered the full house :(
Note to all who have staked me in the past and may be considering staking me in future. I don"t spew often these days. But when I do, it"s a big one!! As it was, I got into a bad mindset. The team had little or zero chance of making the top three and I had little or no chance of cashing without getting aggro at this stage. APAT tourneys have a great structure for the buy in, but I had settled into my A for aggro game mood and on this day I couldn"t find it in me to switch to a shove/fold mentality.
I hung around in the casino in hopes of the offered 50/50 cash table opening. Eventually one of the locals volunteered to deal so that a second table could open and I sat to play some £1/£1. My heart wasn"t in it, nor my mind on it and I got up and left the casino before midnight.
Sunday"s PingPong tournament was great fun. Shame I"ve lost what small degree of ability I once had for the game. Three 2-0 defeats for me and a position propping up the rest of the group. It was a fun way to spend the Sunday morning and I do hope that this, or something similar happens at future APATs.
Huge respect to Matt for organising it and to Leigh for turning up to blog live reports on it. Very well done to Ryan too for winning it. Hope that trophy is displayed in a prominent position.
In other news - DTD are running an online Day1 for this weekend"s deepstack. There will be a staking proposition up shortly.
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I am officially not very good at poker right now.
The DTD online Day 1 was a frustrating experience with me being dealt lots of small to mid pairs, and missing flops every time bar one when I managed to leave a huge amount of value on the table.
Eventually I shoved BvB with AJ and lost to K9 which the villain then announced as his "favourite hand"... I picked up A2hh the next hand and ran into QQ
The online Day 1 is here to stay though and is, I think, another great innovation from DTD.
Locally live it feels like I"ve been owned by everyone in the tournaments over the last couple of weeks. I tilted big style on Sunday and busted out just after the break.
I"d dealt for the first three levels and had asked for someone else to take on the responsibility when we resumed. Returning to the table after the break our volunteer was nowhere to be seen so muggins dealt. A mis deal because I didn"t notice that there was a second player who hadn"t made it back. My frustration got the better of me and I"m ashamed to say that I spread the cards across the table and withdrew my labour.
Brian "erimus" took up the task and I took it upon myself to raise from early position with A4, "the ladyboy" (looks good at first glance). An Ace high flop looked ripe for a value c-bet but my one caller decided to raise. Easy fold you might think. Not for me in this mood. I shipped, he snapped, his flopped set saw me off with my tail between my legs.
Fortunately, the cash table opened shortly after and after a slow start I built my £100 up to around £180 before playing out a lovely hand vs two guys who really shouldn"t be allowed out.
Villain 1 sat with £40 and built that to around £200 in no time at all. First by calling a small raise pf with 10 6 and catching trips.
Second by calling £19 (on a .25/.50 table remember) with 9 4 off.
The flop was 345 and somehow he and the original raiser get it all in for another £80 or so. 8 turn, J river and the orig raiser shows 22, and that pair of fours is good.
Villain 2 has just chipped up with a set over a flopped two pair and a flush versus a flopped set. A flush that he called a large bet to hit on the turn... I sense value.
Now, I call a small pf raise from the BB with K9dd and the flop turn and river are dealt without further activity. There"s £15 in the pot and the board reads 8 9 J 10 Q..... :)
I lead for £15
Folds to Villain 1, he calls
Villain 2 makes it £30
I figure one or both may have the K, but it seems a shame to not ask the question in an appropriate way so I make it £75
Both call.
I win the lot. V1 had Q3, V2 didn"t show, but the dealer reckoned he saw a 10?
Somedays it"s better to be lucky than good.
Tomorrow sees a mini-invasion of Yarm and the home game. I"m looking forward to crossing swords with Ger again and to sharing the banter. I suspect I should also be looking forward to an early seat on the cash table.
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My approach to the Thursday night game has always been what some may call "Loose Aggresive" and others may call spewy. I play the game for fun take some "interesting" lines and often get called down light
This should make for a very interesting first few levels.
I"m looking forward to crossing swords with Ger again and to sharing the banter.
See above ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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My approach to the Thursday night game has always been what some may call "Loose Aggresive" and others may call spewy. I play the game for fun take some "interesting" lines and often get called down light
This should make for a very interesting first few levels.
I"m looking forward to crossing swords with Ger again and to sharing the banter.
See above ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Bring it on big boy!!
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Poker sucks and Ger is a luckbox fish
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Yahhhhhhhhhh ;D
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Poker sucks and Ger is a luckbox fish
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I"m sorry, but if you expect us to follow this blog regularly, you"ll need to stop posting old news. :D
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Poker still sucks.
I received a picture message from young Stuart over the weekend. A photograph had been taken of his pint, the caption read Ger says you paid for this. Thanks.
Sigh
Poker since Thursday included the G £100 monthly in which I had a 100% record for flopping sets and getting a full double up when holding a pocket pair.
11 x 30 minute levels, one pair.
One x AK, I 3bet, he flats, we check down a horribly wet no A no K board and both turn over AK.
One x KQ flopped AJ10hh. I c-bet he folds.
Exited with a BvB shove of K9 where he has A10
Eventually I get a seat on the cash table and continue my flopping of sets and straights but with higher frequency and with better results and ended up £250
Sunday G £15+£15 I bust first bullet just before the break and re-enter. It"s all going rather well and my Hijack cut off and button raises are getting through or getting serious resistance until... I open J4hh and flop J94xxh. I get check called and decide to get in on the 7 flop.
villain has 44...
Eventually I get a seat on the cash table... Run golden in the extreme. It"s a .25/.50 table and seeing flops and playing post is huge fun some nights. Especially when you run like....
I call pre with J5ss and flop J55....
Won some proper pots too with proper hands including the very satisfying chunk from one of the old Gala regs whoever my 3bet with QJ and probably liked the look of the q1010 flop. But not as much as I did since I had QQ....
Lost a horrible one with QQ when I cold 4bet over a £3.50/£14 to £38. Was surprised to be flatted there from c£100, but we got it in on the AJx flop vs ..... AJ... He checked the flop and since he isn"t flatting AA pre I c-bet and called him off.
Meh
Ended up £220 from a peak of c£350 ip
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An interesting week
Didn"t play much poker till Thursday when I had a spin at the £10rb at G. It"s guaranteed at £1000 with a minimum of 8 runners and this week, with Thursday also being Valentines Day it got just 14. Between us we managed to put £560 in the pot with me contributing way too much of it at £70. I rationalised this on the basis that I would pay £70 to be part of a 14 runner tourney with £1000 in the pool. Probably not wise, but I thought I had a decent shot at the prizes given the field. Finished 7th so outside the money.
Had a trip to London to visit Dad on Saturday and spent some decent time with him. Taught him how to upload photos from his camera and hopefully how to email them once he"s got them on the pc.
Took a bus ride and had a walk and eventually got to my room at the Victory Services Club just off the Edgeware Road around 6.30. For those who don"t know of it, the VSC is run for serving and ex-military folks but members can book rooms for guests. It"s very near to Marble Arch and rather economical in terms of London prices. My single room with shared facilities was £59.50 for the Saturday at the start of half-term which seemed pretty good.
Being near Marble Arch, and just off the Edgeware Road means it"s also rather close to the home of British Poker,The Vic so it was inevitable that I should spend my Saturday night there.
The £50 FO went poorly - too many pairs and AK/AQ hands that missed flops totally and I was out before the break.
The £1/£1 cash table went better. I left at sometime around 0415 with an extra £330 in my pocket. A fun table with a lot of players who kept allowing me to "get there" and then paying me off on the river.
Had only one hand that meant I had to make a really tough decision and posted it over on Blonde - I"ll C&P it here for more views when this is complete.
Sunday Lunch at the Royal Chelsea Hospital and then the train home via a stop over in Peterborough to pick up my 12yr old Granddaughter (I know, hard to believe I"m old enough isn"t it?) and arrived home in time to pop to the G. It was too late for the Sunday tourney but the cash game opened not long after 8 this week and I was the benficiary of some random bluffs by a fella who sat with £100 and seemed intent on losing it.
I"d missed out on the other donor"s presence, he played two hands, the first where he 3bet Qh 4h and called a shove for £50 vs kings. Flop was 4d 8h 6h for a sweat for the lad who held the KK but our man reloaded and managed to double back up with his second £50 and then left.
The table had settled when Brian came down to say there was a £12 SnG being run with a seat to the Monthly £100 on offer. They were short of runners and I was eventually persuaded to join in and we played it as a £15 x 9handed with a seat for first and £25 for second.
Key hands en route to a win included outdrawing Brian (with KQ vs ?? i was too embarrassed to remember)
Winning a 3way all in where I shipped the button with A6 over a hijack raise with around 8 BBs and got there on the river to beat 88 and QQ
After that hand I had a proper stack and eventually three handed I had 65% of the chips and was shoving button and SB with pretty much any cards. Eventually I took out the second stack when he shipped A6 from the button into my AK and sealed the win with K2>>A2
A fun weekend of poker really, with the added joy of seeing Dad and getting some time with Granddaughter
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Irritating Tourney Exit #372
£10rb, 6 left, 4 prizes.
I"ve recovered from a moment of madness where I managed to reduce myself to just over 4bb with KQCurrently have 10bb at 1000/2000/250
Bearded theorist has a rather large stack for the game at c75k having recently called two shortish all-ins with Q10ss and flushed them out.
He opens to 4500 on button, I shove SB for 20350 K10dd
Folds to him and he opines "I have too much already in" 63dd....
15850 to win 28350 with the added downside that he doubles me up and has to play oop to me with a stack.
x6xxx and it"s done.
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In case you missed it - DTD have shifted to iPoker and are running the satellites to the upcoming Grand Prix on the new site.
Winning a satellite gets you a Golden Chip and the chance to take a trip with them to St Kitts. I did ok in these tournaments last year...
Oh, and yes, I have a Golden Chip!
But the format is slightly changed this year with online Day Ones as well as two live - 10% of the field go through to Day 2 which will play to the finish.
If you are part of the 10% but have only a bowl left you can choose to sacrifice those chips and have another go at a Day 1, so I"m in the hunt for more!
Second today for £48 which at least funds a few more goes.
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Binked a deepstack seat last night for the DTD £150k this weekend
My third attempt, but managed to get in each time for between £4.20 and £6.20 and one attempt didn"t cost extra because I"m an idiot.
I was out, waiting for a cash game to start at the G and having won a token for the satellite I decided to sit and play on the card table using my laptop.
Late regged and chipped up as we approached the add-on break I was rather pleased not to have needed the rb. Then, just as the three minute add-on break started my laptop screen went black because I hadn"t plugged the power supply in...
By the time I was back online the opportunity to add 10,000 chips had gone and I had dropped from a pretty comfortable spot to being in the mire.
Eventually exited when my, slightly tilty, UTG shove with AJ was called by AQ
One last try last night and after a pretty awful run of cards i clung on to my stack like it was golden and played literally two hands in two hours doubling up both times 77>A7 and QQ>99. The countdown was on and with 51 left a player on another table was all in for <1BB when I finally get AA utg.
What to do?
I can"t fold obviously, just in case the other guy survives, but I time banked then shoved and kept my eyes on the other table as the all in player was eliminated. The rest of my table folded anyway and voila, I have a seat.
Playing tonight online which is the only way I could fit the game in this weekend and will be putting up a cheeky staking thread shortly.
Brian is also in and we"ve swapped our usual and all being well will be travelling together on Sunday.
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About a year ago I was running pretty badly in local games, making some bad decisions and also running into some coolers and suck outs that were, to say the least, disappointing.
I"d suffered a nasty reverse in the UKIPT and been eliminated by runner runner threes.
Then, I played in the DTD Grand Prix...
This year I"m running badly. Take last night...
actually, don"t. suffice to say that I exited the home game when someone called my flop bet to hit his gutshot and raised when I bet my two pair on the river, and that was the least bad moment of a night where if the river hadn"t been dealt I"d be a fair few quid better off today
Nothing I could do on any of those hands either, just suck it up when the cards were turned over.
Next week, I"m playing in the DTD Grand Prix...
I was planning on just playing the last Day 1, live next Saturday, but having won two Golden Chips with a view to collecting the £60 for one it turns out that I can only do that if I qualify for Day Two before Saturday (it makes sense)
So at some stage this week I shall be playing an online Day 1 and endeavouring to outlast 90% of the field and to have something around the average stack of 200,000.
Looking back over the last two of these events, I"ve run very well in them.
Here"s hoping for more of the same
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Very best of luck with it! :)
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soooooooooo
Played the online Day 1 last night and since I was sitting with the laptop on and the poker client was open I opted to also play the DTD Blonde Poker League game. £5rb PLO. Not my usual game. By a long way.
Coming 2nd was a proper result!!
But - the more serious matter of the GP. I folded the first 13 hands, lost some chips on the 14th hand and then folded again for a while.
It was 45 minutes into the comp when I made my first move upwards on hand 31
***** Hand History for Game 1111111111 ***** (IPoker)
Tourney Hand NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, March 12, 09:17:54 ET 2013
Table Dusk GP Final Online Day 1c 801926787 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 1: Player1 ( 17502 ) - VPIP: 20, PFR: 14, 3B: 4, AF: 1.8, Hands: 44
Seat 2: Player2 ( 34283 ) - VPIP: 14, PFR: 8, 3B: 4, AF: 2.5, Hands: 111
Seat 3: Player3 ( 18065 ) - VPIP: 31, PFR: 19, 3B: 29, AF: 1.2, Hands: 36
Seat 4: Player4 ( 13460 ) - VPIP: 33, PFR: 20, 3B: 6, AF: 2.3, Hands: 49
Seat 5: Player5 ( 8860 ) - VPIP: 38, PFR: 12, 3B: 3, AF: 0.8, Hands: 90
Seat 6: Hero ( 14080 ) - VPIP: 17, PFR: 11, 3B: 6, AF: 2.0, Hands: 3496
Seat 8: Player8 ( 41175 ) - VPIP: 23, PFR: 14, 3B: 11, AF: 1.5, Hands: 92
Seat 9: Player9 ( 17230 ) - VPIP: 21, PFR: 16, 3B: 2, AF: 1.1, Hands: 117
Seat 10: Player10 ( 30370 ) - VPIP: 20, PFR: 14, 3B: 4, AF: 1.8, Hands: 44
Hero posts ante of [25].
Player8 posts ante of [25].
Player9 posts ante of [25].
Player10 posts ante of [25].
Player1 posts ante of [25].
Player2 posts ante of [25].
Player3 posts ante of [25].
Player4 posts ante of [25].
Player5 posts ante of [25].
Hero posts small blind [150].
Player8 posts big blind [300].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ Kc As ]
Player9 folds
Player10 folds
Player1 folds
Player2 folds
Player3 raises [685]
Player4 folds
Player5 calls [685]
Hero raises [1950]
Player8 folds
Player3 folds
Player5 calls [1415]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7c, 3h, Ad ]
Hero bets [2100]
Player5 calls [2100]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qh ]
Hero bets [9855]
Player5 calls [4635]
** Dealing River ** [ 5h ]
Hero wins 24100 from main pot
Player5 shows [Ac, 9c ]
which was nice
28 hands later..
***** Hand History for Game 1111111111 ***** (IPoker)
Tourney Hand NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, March 12, 09:48:37 ET 2013
Table Dusk GP Final Online Day 1c 801926787 (Real Money)
Seat 8 is the button
Seat 1: Player1 ( 16420 ) - VPIP: 23, PFR: 7, 3B: 4, AF: 3.0, Hands: 56
Seat 2: Player2 ( 35933 ) - VPIP: 14, PFR: 8, 3B: 4, AF: 2.5, Hands: 111
Seat 3: Player3 ( 74975 ) - VPIP: 24, PFR: 16, 3B: 10, AF: 4.0, Hands: 80
Seat 4: Player4 ( 29140 ) - VPIP: 33, PFR: 20, 3B: 6, AF: 2.3, Hands: 49
Seat 5: Player5 ( 39097 ) - VPIP: 18, PFR: 16, 3B: 0, AF: 0.0, Hands: 90
Seat 6: Hero ( 18600 ) - VPIP: 17, PFR: 11, 3B: 6, AF: 2.0, Hands: 3496
Seat 8: Player8 ( 71817 ) - VPIP: 23, PFR: 14, 3B: 11, AF: 1.5, Hands: 92
Seat 9: Player9 ( 28583 ) - VPIP: 21, PFR: 16, 3B: 2, AF: 1.1, Hands: 117
Seat 10: Player10 ( 11505 ) - VPIP: 23, PFR: 7, 3B: 4, AF: 3.0, Hands: 56
Player9 posts ante of [50].
Player10 posts ante of [50].
Player1 posts ante of [50].
Player2 posts ante of [50].
Player3 posts ante of [50].
Player4 posts ante of [50].
Player5 posts ante of [50].
Hero posts ante of [50].
Player8 posts ante of [50].
Player9 posts small blind [250].
Player10 posts big blind [500].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ Kh Kc ]
Player1 folds
Player2 folds
Player3 folds
Player4 folds
Player5 folds
Hero raises [1100]
Player8 raises [2300]
Player9 folds
Player10 folds
Hero raises [2900]
Player8 calls [1700]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Kd, Js, 7c ]
Hero checks
Player8 checks
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qh ]
Hero bets [3500]
Player8 raises [67767]
Hero calls [11050]
** Dealing River ** [ 8h ]
Hero wins 38300 from main pot
Player8 wins 53217 from main pot
Player8 shows [Ad, Qc ]
again, this was nice and does show that other players don"t take a lot of notice of our tendencies
This was less satisfactory...
***** Hand History for Game 1111111111 ***** (IPoker)
Tourney Hand NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, March 12, 11:05:52 ET 2013
Table Dusk GP Final Online Day 1c 801927327 (Real Money)
Seat 10 is the button
Seat 1: Player1 ( 10371 ) - VPIP: 13, PFR: 9, 3B: 0, AF: 0.7, Hands: 32
Seat 2: Player2 ( 36846 ) - VPIP: 30, PFR: 13, 3B: 5, AF: 2.5, Hands: 90
Seat 3: Hero ( 56083 ) - VPIP: 17, PFR: 11, 3B: 6, AF: 2.0, Hands: 3496
Seat 4: Player4 ( 39951 ) - VPIP: 7, PFR: 5, 3B: 3, AF: 0.0, Hands: 76
Seat 6: Player6 ( 67486 ) - VPIP: 12, PFR: 4, 3B: 0, AF: 0.0, Hands: 67
Seat 8: Player8 ( 31200 ) - VPIP: 15, PFR: 12, 3B: 8, AF: 0.0, Hands: 34
Seat 9: Player9 ( 34390 ) - VPIP: 24, PFR: 22, 3B: 13, AF: 2.0, Hands: 51
Seat 10: Player10 ( 49608 ) - VPIP: 13, PFR: 9, 3B: 0, AF: 0.7, Hands: 32
Player1 posts ante of [300].
Player2 posts ante of [300].
Hero posts ante of [300].
Player4 posts ante of [300].
Player6 posts ante of [300].
Player8 posts ante of [300].
Player9 posts ante of [300].
Player10 posts ante of [300].
Player1 posts small blind [1000].
Player2 posts big blind [2000].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ As Ks ]
Hero raises [4400]
Player4 folds
Player6 folds
Player8 folds
Player9 folds
Player10 folds
Player1 folds
Player2 calls [2400]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7c, Kd, 3d ]
Player2 checks
Hero bets [9150]
Player2 raises [32146]
Hero calls [22996]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2c ]
** Dealing River ** [ 5d ]
Player2 wins 76492 from main pot
Player2 shows [Qd, 8d ]
but I dug in and maintained focus and balance, won a few uncontested pots with raises/shoves/reshoves before this
***** Hand History for Game 1111111111 ***** (IPoker)
Tourney Hand NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, March 12, 11:21:51 ET 2013
Table Dusk GP Final Online Day 1c 801927327 (Real Money)
Seat 9 is the button
Seat 2: Player2 ( 121928 ) - VPIP: 30, PFR: 13, 3B: 5, AF: 2.5, Hands: 90
Seat 3: Hero ( 23737 ) - VPIP: 17, PFR: 11, 3B: 6, AF: 2.0, Hands: 3496
Seat 4: Player4 ( 64096 ) - VPIP: 26, PFR: 16, 3B: 10, AF: 1.2, Hands: 154
Seat 5: Player5 ( 99228 ) - VPIP: 17, PFR: 13, 3B: 11, AF: 0.0, Hands: 24
Seat 6: Player6 ( 51786 ) - VPIP: 12, PFR: 4, 3B: 0, AF: 0.0, Hands: 67
Seat 8: Player8 ( 29280 ) - VPIP: 7, PFR: 5, 3B: 3, AF: 0.0, Hands: 76
Seat 9: Player9 ( 41190 ) - VPIP: 24, PFR: 22, 3B: 13, AF: 2.0, Hands: 51
Player2 posts ante of [300].
Hero posts ante of [300].
Player4 posts ante of [300].
Player5 posts ante of [300].
Player6 posts ante of [300].
Player8 posts ante of [300].
Player9 posts ante of [300].
Player2 posts small blind [1200].
Hero posts big blind [2400].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ As 9d ]
Player4 folds
Player5 folds
Player6 folds
Player8 folds
Player9 raises [4800]
Player2 calls [3600]
Hero raises [21037]
Player9 folds
Player2 calls [18637]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7s, Ts, Qh ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ac ]
** Dealing River ** [ 8d ]
Hero wins 53774 from main pot
Player2 shows [5d, 5s ]
and this
***** Hand History for Game 1111111111 ***** (IPoker)
Tourney Hand NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, March 12, 11:39:29 ET 2013
Table Dusk GP Final Online Day 1c 801927327 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: Player1 ( 208596 ) - VPIP: 34, PFR: 34, 3B: 13, AF: 2.0, Hands: 53
Seat 2: Player2 ( 115000 ) - VPIP: 30, PFR: 13, 3B: 5, AF: 2.5, Hands: 90
Seat 3: Hero ( 55574 ) - VPIP: 17, PFR: 11, 3B: 6, AF: 2.0, Hands: 3496
Seat 5: Player5 ( 61283 ) - VPIP: 22, PFR: 22, 3B: 15, AF: 0.0, Hands: 23
Seat 6: Player6 ( 29686 ) - VPIP: 12, PFR: 4, 3B: 0, AF: 0.0, Hands: 67
Seat 8: Player8 ( 51260 ) - VPIP: 7, PFR: 5, 3B: 3, AF: 0.0, Hands: 76
Seat 9: Player9 ( 109621 ) - VPIP: 11, PFR: 3, 3B: 0, AF: 1.0, Hands: 36
Seat 10: Player10 ( 88487 ) - VPIP: 34, PFR: 34, 3B: 13, AF: 2.0, Hands: 53
Player2 posts ante of [500].
Hero posts ante of [500].
Player5 posts ante of [500].
Player6 posts ante of [500].
Player8 posts ante of [500].
Player9 posts ante of [500].
Player10 posts ante of [500].
Player1 posts ante of [500].
Player2 posts small blind [2000].
Hero posts big blind [4000].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ As Tc ]
Player5 folds
Player6 folds
Player8 folds
Player9 folds
Player10 folds
Player1 raises [8000]
Player2 folds
Hero raises [51074]
Player1 calls [47074]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qc, 3h, Qd ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5s ]
** Dealing River ** [ 2s ]
Hero wins 116148 from main pot
Player1 shows [7s, Ad ]
and then
with 20 left, 14 going through...
***** Hand History for Game 1111111111 ***** (IPoker)
Tourney Hand NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, March 13, 12:04:59 ET 2013
Table Dusk GP Final Online Day 1c 801927327 (Real Money)
Seat 8 is the button
Seat 1: Player1 ( 303509 ) - VPIP: 34, PFR: 34, 3B: 13, AF: 2.0, Hands: 53
Seat 2: Player2 ( 192500 ) - VPIP: 30, PFR: 13, 3B: 5, AF: 2.5, Hands: 90
Seat 3: Hero ( 120431 ) - VPIP: 17, PFR: 11, 3B: 6, AF: 2.0, Hands: 3496
Seat 5: Player5 ( 241611 ) - VPIP: 18, PFR: 16, 3B: 0, AF: 0.0, Hands: 90
Seat 6: Player6 ( 140284 ) - VPIP: 13, PFR: 4, 3B: 7, AF: 0.0, Hands: 24
Seat 8: Player8 ( 55946 ) - VPIP: 7, PFR: 5, 3B: 3, AF: 0.0, Hands: 76
Seat 9: Player9 ( 54066 ) - VPIP: 11, PFR: 3, 3B: 0, AF: 1.0, Hands: 36
Player9 posts ante of [500].
Player1 posts ante of [500].
Player2 posts ante of [500].
Hero posts ante of [500].
Player5 posts ante of [500].
Player6 posts ante of [500].
Player8 posts ante of [500].
Player9 posts small blind [2500].
Player1 posts big blind [5000].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ Kh Kc ]
Player2 folds
Hero raises [11000]
Player5 folds
Player6 raises [139784]
Player8 folds
Player9 folds
Player1 folds
Hero calls [108931]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8c, 9s, 5h ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2d ]
** Dealing River ** [ Ts ]
Player6 wins 270715 from main pot
Player6 shows [5s, 5c ]
oh well - I now find myself forced into playing another online Day 1 because I was one of the "rounded down" players and get a £60 token to use for a re-entry which, if unused before Saturday, is worthless.
I"m out to see David O"Doherty tonight so it looks like I"ll be playing in the last chance atmosphere of Thursday night
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghxnKDBadSk[/youtube]
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The Amos Family / Team Pony now has just one chance of securing a trip to the Caribbean from the current GP :(
I played online again last night and just never really got going. Picked off a shortish stack when we got it in pre with my AA holding vs his AhKh despite the fact that he had outs on the river. But after that, nothing. No spots. No callers when I had a hand. Too many callers at other times.
Eventually, with around 40 left utg+1 raised to 4x and I found JJ... He had AA and held.
It feels as though the KK<55 hand was my moment and that it has passed now.
I"d have preferred to play my second Golden Chip live, but the rules regarding the value of the £60 token for getting caught in the rounding down spots meant that it had zero value if unused when I could have used it. Oh well, I guess I wouldn"t be moaning about it if I was writing here about having 300k to take into Day 2.
So now, I"ll be playing Day1 live at DTD and obviously aiming for a deep run. If lightning strikes again and I make the final table without that Golden Chip I may look less happy than I should. Remind me, should that happen, that I should be celebrating!!
Good luck to all who are in already, or who are playing today or tomorrow.
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I am honoured and, in truth, slightly embarrassed today. To whoever it is that compiles shortlists for the APAT Awards, I just want to say...
(http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff442/pokerpops/thank_you_zpsd0e21500.jpg)
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So the Invaders arrived for the Thursday Home Game and JP didn"t need a 3-outer to relieve me of my first stack he just needed to call my (small) raise pre with Jd 8d (disclaimer, it may have been J something else, but they were both very definitely diamonds) and hit a flop of Qd Kd 6d (disclaimer, it may have been the six, but they were both very definitely all diamonds)
Me having QQ and flopping a set oop and he flatting flop and turn before raising the river to call for all my chips...
meh - reload and start again
[ ] went well second time
So..
I just deleted a lengthy section about how i lost £50 on the cash table with a significant chunk going on a 2-outer but it"s pointless and what I really want to do is to get you to read something far more worthy of reading, and far far better written by a hero of mine
(http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff442/pokerpops/2012-04-14173454_zpsfdd2a10c.jpg)
So go away and read this!!!
http://www.victoriacoren.com/main/blog/archive/an_ignominious_exit
and come back and comment
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I"d like to think that I would have dwelled on a hand for five minutes if I"d been at the table, irrelevant as to who the player was in need.
Sometimes poker players take things way too seriously and the humanity of the game disappears. Have seen many an instance in APAT online games where players have waited because someone has got disconnected, similar situation, and good to know we have a decent bunch of people in our community (Well, a few anyway ;) )
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One of the worst sights in live poker is to see someone being berated for their so-called bad play.
To have been guilty of such an act myself is just too embarrassing for words.
Sunday night - the G £15+£15 has already seen me dust off the first set of chips (both buy-ins) with my first exit from the tournament when I 3bet an APAT member"s EP open with 66 and jammed a 357 flop
He tanked before calling with QQ which I felt at the time might have been unduly cautious. The longer he thought the more convinced I became that my initial read that his range was more full of AK/AQ than pairs. When he finally called and rolled over those Queens I asked "what kept you?"
Regardless - I re-enter, play with maximum focus and go to the Final Table with a healthy stack (c20% of chips in play) which yo-yo"s a little as we reduce the field to 6 with 5 being paid.
The standard question is asked "Are we paying the bubble?"
I"m not the only dissenting voice but I"m tired of agreeing to this to keep people happy and say a definite no. I"ve worked hard to be in a good spot to play the bubble tonight and so we play on.
The embarrassment starts when I open shove 160k+ with 66 into Vicky who has around 60k at 5k/10k/1k and she goes deep into thought. She has the cards under her fingers a few time as if she"s ready to fold; counts her chips; fingers on cards again; and then she sighs and calls.
I flip my cards instantly and she turns over QQ
At which I say, and I regret having voiced it, "That"s twice I"ve been slowrolled with queens tonight"
It didn"t sit well with Vicky - she"s youngish (to me); pregnant; and the 5th place money may well mean more to her than to others at the table. She launches into me with a "if you"re so good you should be playing the World Series" tirade and it"s deserved.
I apologised but I don"t think it sat well.
The bubble burst shortly after when my JJ beat the shorty"s J10 and a few hands after that I open shove into Vicky with 33 and this time she snaps with AK and gets there, no doubt with greater satisfaction than she would have had normally.
Brian busts the next hand and the three left chop the remaining prizes two hands later.
I"ve learnt a lesson, I hope. Shtum!!
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It was a nitroll though. Surely she"s NEVER folding QQ there with 4 effective BBs. If she is thinking of folding her hand here then she"s making a huge mistake - but of course you shouldn"t berate her.
I usually say "you took our time!" when I see their hand in a situation like that, which is obviously a criticism but tends to be taken as less of a dig at them.
The fact she"s pregnant, young, etc., isn"t an excuse for contemplating folding her hand there though.
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In all honesty Dave, you have been a bit surly when you lOse hands recently, or at least I have noticed it.
It"s not like you at all, you are usually really level headed about it.
Good to see you recognise it tho.
(yes, I am fully aware of the irony of me saying these things)
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It was a nitroll though. Surely she"s NEVER folding QQ there with 4 effective BBs. If she is thinking of folding her hand here then she"s making a huge mistake - but of course you shouldn"t berate her.
I usually say "you took our time!" when I see their hand in a situation like that, which is obviously a criticism but tends to be taken as less of a dig at them.
The fact she"s pregnant, young, etc., isn"t an excuse for contemplating folding her hand there though.
Yes - nitroll is so much better as a description. When it had calmed down a little she passed comment on my shoving such a small pair and I asked her what she"d have done with a pair of nines in that spot. "I folded nines earlier when you shoved" was her proud reply...
In all honesty Dave, you have been a bit surly when you lOse hands recently, or at least I have noticed it.
It"s not like you at all, you are usually really level headed about it.
Good to see you recognise it tho.
(yes, I am fully aware of the irony of me saying these things)
I know Stu :( and I"ve been getting a huge amount of practice at losing hands too which is probably why it was starting to get to me.
I shall endeavour to return to getting it quiet and losing with grace, dignity, and a ready smile
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It was a nitroll though. Surely she"s NEVER folding QQ there with 4 effective BBs. If she is thinking of folding her hand here then she"s making a huge mistake - but of course you shouldn"t berate her.
I usually say "you took our time!" when I see their hand in a situation like that, which is obviously a criticism but tends to be taken as less of a dig at them.
The fact she"s pregnant, young, etc., isn"t an excuse for contemplating folding her hand there though.
Sorry, but yes Dan is 100% right, it is her who is out of line not you David, based on what you have written here. She has slow rolled you and you have commented on it (quite politely one at the end of the day, others may have been far more scathing). Now I agree it would be better not to make the comment but really she should have apologized for the slowroll which is MUCH worse than your comment. I rarely get annoyed at the poker table (if ever) and the slowroll would not have bothered me that much but if I made a small comment about it (which I probably wouldn"t tbf) and she came back with a tirade that might just have seen even me lose my cool and escalate the situation by coming back at her explaining how impolite slowrolling is. And yes it is absolutely a slowroll.
btw - nines are completely different, a tank call with nines is totally fine as would be a tank fold maybe. QQ? I don"t believe anybody is ever folding them there.
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yeah its a genuine nitroll, chuckle, mumble "outplayed again, sigh" and move on before constantly jamming into her blinds without looking.
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In all honesty Dave, you have been a bit surly when you lOse hands recently, or at least I have noticed it.
It"s not like you at all, you are usually really level headed about it.
Good to see you recognise it tho.
(yes, I am fully aware of the irony of me saying these things)
Alanis Morrisette is penning another tune for you now
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I dont think you berated her play, i dont think i helped by chirping in, i was actually aiming it at you rather than her but she took it as me having a go.
Have to agree with you Dave regarding keeping silent, i actually said "wow slowroll or what" and i got a bit of a volley as well. I did apologise but got short shrift, hey ho wont affect my life.
Quite ironic really when she said "you might call or go all in with q6 but i dont", i shove with Q6 blind v blind and get knocked out.
Agree with above, was a nitroll, will keep with the manntra never to make a comment on any hand at a poker table, usually causes grief.
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Thanks for all the comments on the "
slownitroll"
I"m rarely one for berating others play for two good reasons. 1) It"s not pleasant and I do my best to pleasant at the table and elsewhere in life, and 2) it can be the precursor to going on tilt
The specific circumstances surrounding that moment conspired to make me open my mouth, I regretted it at the time and still do.
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we still love you Pops :-*
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My love for DTD is well known and when Rob Yong and Simon Trumper ask folks to get involved in promoting the much-maligned ISPT (International Stadium Poker Tour) then I will do my best to do so.
I was a doubter, no, I was convinced that it couldn"t happen. I was right, in a way. The original concept was flawed in so many facets that it just could never have happened.
Even with the support of APAT I felt it was doomed to abject failure.
But it has evolved and now, with the total involvement of Rob, SImon and the team at DTD it"s going to happen.
I can"t play it - the dates for Wembley clash with Wychwood Festival and that"s just the way it is. But I still want it to happen now and in support of the people who provided me with the competition and venue that have given me my best days in poker I thought I"d help with spreading the word.
So I posted some information on another forum. The reaction was to criticise the layout of the posters with the satellite/tourney flow.
Granted, this one could be better, I found it first and used it
(http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/ispt/ispt-sat-tree3-top.jpg)
following that first critical post I found the later, and I thought much clearer version
(http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/ispt/ispt-sat-tree.png)
But, and I quote,
it still looks messy
Every time I read that poster I hate it a little more.....
no pleasing some folks eh?
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which forum?
let me at em.
link pls
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Unforgivably I have yet to pass comment on the flush of pride I felt when Lucy called me on Sunday afternoon to say that I had topped the poll for Performance of the Year.
I was stunned and humbled to say the least,
Thank you APAT Members.
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Thoroughly deserved. If poker in 2013 is half as good as 2012 was for you, then you"ve got loads to look forward to.
Lucy looked well chuffed to pick up the award on your behalf.
Great stuff.
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Thoroughly deserved. If poker in 2013 is half as good as 2012 was for you, then you"ve got loads to look forward to.
+1 and amen to that x
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Thoroughly deserved. If poker in 2013 is half as good as 2012 was for you, then you"ve got loads to look forward to.
Lucy looked well chuffed to pick up the award on your behalf.
Great stuff.
in a way i was actually pleased that Lucy got to collect it. Her railing support was a big part of it all
Thoroughly deserved. If poker in 2013 is half as good as 2012 was for you, then you"ve got loads to look forward to.
+1 and amen to that x
thanks Phil xx
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Ah, shucks, i do me best :$ xxx
well done pops, so so proud :) love you xxx
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I was going to pass on congratulations last night, but being as that was kaiboshed...
Well done mate, totally deserved :) x
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I was going to pass on congratulations last night, but being as that was kaiboshed...
Well done mate, totally deserved :) x
Thanks Stu
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Had a really fun £1/£1 session at The Vic on Tuesday night.
Started badly when I 3bet the button £4 raise to £20, he peeled and we both checked the QJ10cc flop
I bet £26 on the not a club 6 called his £68 total and rolled my cards over. He sighed then rolled his fast on the club river. His 97cc having got there.
Recovered those losses and more over the following hours and ended a £180 winner.
Why was I in London on a Tuesday night? Well, obviously to see Dad, but for the wrong reasons.
He has been diagnosed as having a tumour in his liver which seems pretty certain to be a secondary growth. He"s never drunk in his life and liver cancer is rare even amongst drinkers.
The resident GP spent some time with us and has explained that the most likely diagnosis is bowel cancer, with stomach cancer as another possibility. Treatment options are limited to chemo but given the fact that it has already spread to his liver it may already be well established.
I posted this on his "diary" over on blonde earlier. It"s a comfort to me...
When Dad first mentioned his thoughts on the move to the RHC one of the major benefits he saw was the fact that, were it to become necessary for him to move into some form of nursing or care home he would simply mover into the Infirmary.
None of us anticipated it would happen so quickly.
But he"s there now and I couldn"t ask for him to be anywhere else. The facilities and the care he"ll receive are excellent.
Here he is, in his new home
(http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff442/pokerpops/20130417_102454_zps27625030.jpg) (http://s1236.photobucket.com/user/pokerpops/media/20130417_102454_zps27625030.jpg.html)
the room from his bed
(http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff442/pokerpops/20130417_110852_zpsb719bc34.jpg) (http://s1236.photobucket.com/user/pokerpops/media/20130417_110852_zpsb719bc34.jpg.html)
The staff moved all his belongings for him and put his pictures on the wall.
he has a window looking out over the tennis courts and the park
(http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff442/pokerpops/20130417_110825_zpsead040b6.jpg)
Apparently the view will be of the toilet area for the Chelsea Flower Show soon, but I"m sure he can look over that and to the trees beyond for those few weeks.
Everyone I met down there over the last couple of days filled me with belief that whatever is coming will be handled well.
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He"s a fighter.. Fingers crossed for good news.
Thoughts are with you and family Amos Dave x
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Sending positive thoughts with every ounce of my soul Dave. Huge hugs when next we meet xx
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Also sending positive thoughts and hugs David ... he looks like he is in excellent hands. Much love xxxx
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Also sending positive thoughts and hugs David ... he looks like he is in excellent hands. Much love xxxx
+1 ^^^
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Thoughts with yourself and family David. Looks like your dad is in the best place for sure.
Congratulations on your award also, don"t believe I had said that yet.
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There"s so much going on in my life away from poker just now that it is in danger of becoming overwhelming.
I"m in London this week to meet Dad"s consultant to get the results of his tests. (CT scan, colonoscopy, gastroscopy and blood tests)
I"ve closed down my business, a victim of the recession essentially although doubtless there have been mistakes made by me that rendered it more susceptible to the damage.
I"m a fairly private person generally, it"s never been in my nature to share my deepest thoughts and I"m too old to change that now so I will move on and focus on the poker side of my life.
April was a decent month. Started with two good results in the £10rb dealing both weeks with me taking the bigger share the first week with a good chip lead and getting a very good deal the second week when I was shortstacked.
With a couple of good cash sessions and another cash in the Sunday £15+£15 it all added up to a good month.
I"ve been unlucky/unfortunate/outplayed in the satellites for the Stockton leg of the GUKPT but there is one good chance left in tomorrow"s 10 seat guaranteed game and failing that I will sell a larger chunk than has been my normal routine. The game will be too good to miss with so many of the locals having won seats and not used to playing anything longer than a 30 minute clock. No doubt the Newcastle crowd will turn out, and some from Leeds maybe, but I think most of the field will be local and although that will include some very good players it will bring few surprises.
I"m looking forward to it very much.
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Sorry to hear about your business closing, obviously aware of your Dads predicament and hope everything goes as best as it can in the circumstances, see you tomorrow at the G and hope we can both bag a seat.
In other news turbo snails weren"t turbo enough, mantis shrimp got two of em, nasty little get that one.
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A visit to see Dad provides an opportunity to visit the Vic and oh I want to move in there and have babies with the place.
Last night I had someone flat call a preflop raise with AKo, flop TPTK, turn two and yet still flat at all opportunities and then check behind on the river
Another, I think regular, reloaded for £50 (for the sixth time apparently), called £8 pre, £12 flop, £15 turn and folded for £15 on the river
And the guy who had sat snug and tight for 6hrs to my right suddenly went mental on a J9x9 board where the only hand I feared when I called his £75 pot sized shove was AJ which he clearly couldn"t have
+£420 :)
Dad is as well as can be expected. I"m returning next week to see the oncologist with him and all steps from there can be considered. Meantime I"m beginning the process of making sure he gets to the Isle of Wight later this month. Has anyone had any experience of getting assistance from Network Rail Station Staff?
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Those who know me, or who read my thread about Dad on Blonde will already know the reason for the hiatus on posting here.
For those who don"t, Dad passed away after a short and pain free illness on 30 May. His funeral at the Royal Hospital Chelsea was dignified and appropriate and attended by around 60 people. Some had travelled from Northampton and tomorrow at his home church there is to be a Memorial service which I suspect will be very full.
The love and support from those who knew him and the constant use of the word gentleman to describe him have been inspiring.
Poker has been my release over the last few weeks. I"m winning but have no sense of celebration over it other than the satisfaction of knowing that I can continue to fund "poker therapy" and escape to the felt.
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Having been there recently myself I know words don"t make things any easier, but you have the love and support of all your friends. Rest assured if you needed anything we"d be there like a shot x Hopefully see you soon for a hug mate x
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Having been there recently myself I know words don"t make things any easier, but you have the love and support of all your friends. Rest assured if you needed anything we"d be there like a shot x Hopefully see you soon for a hug mate x
+1
says it all really, massive thoughts and hugs with you all, just give me a shout if you need anything at all mate.
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@Phil & Stu
Thanks guys x love you both and just knowing that you are there is awesome xx
Poker...
Arrived with 5 minutes to spare for Sunday"s game and discovered I was just the second to register. Eventually started around 10 minutes late with 7 players which grew to 25.
I"d built a decent stack when, just before the first break I managed to get one of the lesser Gala regs to put it in with flopped trips vs my nut flush draw, the flush hit on the turn, the board paired on the river, sigh, move on.
The most notable part of that hand (and the reason why playing these games is such fun) was that he had called my preflop raise with A5hh, checked on a 558ccx flop and then raised my 1500 Cbet to 5000, from a stack of 7025...
Despite paying him off I still had comfortably above average and stayed that way right up to being 5handed and ITM. At which point, with average stack being <10bb it all got rather shove fold and I lost two hands in a row pairThe remaining four didn"t wait long before agreeing a deal, which is fine, although they could at least have waited till I left the table.
Thursday will be my last poker for a week or more as I"m off to Glastonbury on Saturday :)
Seems likely it will be the rb at G again, in search of beer money for the week
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Glastonbury is always a good week, but this year, with the added benefit of some sunshine and an absence of any mud it was exceptional.
Being part of the Oxfam team that stewards the arrival of workers means that our shifts are completed by Wednesday morning before the gates open to the public and despite being fostered for three night shifts I was up and raring to go on Thursday. The festival site feels so much bigger when the sun shines. It"s more spacious because there is, simply, more space for people to use. This makes for a much more relaxing time and it is so much easier to just wander through the areas up by the railway track and beyond.
Musical highlight was of course being in the front of the crowd for The Stones. If you watched their set on tv and thought it lacked something you"re right. It lacked the other hour and a half that they did. Trust me, from where I stood, they put on a fabulous show.
Poker? Didn"t play any for a fortnight. Not even a HU v Lucy. Which at least saved me another beating.
Returned to action at the G on the following Thursday and the break appears to have done me good. I"m playing a more disciplined style lately and it"s paying off. A succession of final tables and, i think because I am perceived as reluctant to deal, I"m getting some great deals in terms of equity.
Eg £10rb
Chopped 5ways - stacks 80, 60, 40, 40, and me with 24 . Deal done £230, £210, £190, £190, and I got £180. And they say I never deal..... :)
Missed out on the money on the £100 last weekend although I did get half my entry back from my 10% swap with Brian and managed to scoop a ridiculous pot on the cash table which more than covered my day.
My decent run in that tournament was derailed by Brian as reported in his Fossil"s Tales. Suffice to say that I took it quietly and shoving Q5ss the next hand wasn"t in any way indicative of me being tilted...
Another deal done on the FT of the Tuesday game where one of the regs who was second at that stage was so keen to deal that four ways he took £400 leaving £435 for two of us and £500 for the monstrous chip leader.
It can"t last forever but while it does I"m happy to keep losing myself in the poker...
This weekend I"m off to Sheffield to steward at Tramlines http://2013.tramlines.org.uk/ but will be driving over to Nottingham this evening to play a live Day1 for the last of the their Summer Deepstacks.
I played online on Monday and made the last 7 but couldn"t quite make the push to be one of the three to progress. I did get my entry refunded though under the 10% rounded down rule hence another shot tonight. I am, I think, much better love than I am online. Making Day 2 would guarantee £300 and give me a shot at £12500 so I"m looking to bring my A game to it tonight.
I"ve rambled on enough.
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Good luck tonight
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Crush it tonight please pops :) x
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Crush it tonight please pops :) x
No crushing occurred.
Managed to get myself to an above average stack when I limped in late position with 88 behind two others, cut off shoved and utg re shoved. I figured that cut off was making a move and that utg was more likely to have AK/AQ type hands and held vs Q7 and AKs flopped an 8 and dodged the inevitable flush draw for Mr AK.
Crippled when calling an allin with QQ vs AJ ( A on flop )
Blind all in next hand with my remaining 1600 and won with J9ss which flopped a flush vs 77
But out the hand after with K 10 inevitably less than A 10.
Had some fun times at G Sheffield on Saturday night though. Their £25 tourney has 20k stack and a steep structure. I late reg"d and picked up chips early with some raises and c-bets and some 3 betting before this happened.
Guy two to my right had just been bemoaning the fact that he"d had aces cracked by 63 the night before when I picked up 6d 3d and opted to open with it in mid-position. Two callers and a flop of 8d 10d 3c looked enough for me to c-bet confidently which prompted one caller to shove for 7400 and the other to call.
I re shoved for just shy of the caller and he eventually called too.
I was ahead, but only just because shortstack had 7s 9s and the other guy had Qd 7d so I needed to dodge around half the deck...
Happy days on two bricks and shortly after I get moved tables and have a young un to my left with a big stack and decide to take him on. I raise (cards immaterial) and he 3-bets, folds to me and I 4 bet and continue on 10 10 6
He calls, I bet again on the 8 turn and he calls, I jam on the K river and he snaps with 7 9 for the turned straight....
Yin and Yang, Yin and Effing Yang...
Made a quid or two on the £1/£1 table though despite a couple of coolers and the table being 50% occupied by people sitting with the minimum of £20..,
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Great run from Brian yesterday and although he fell late on I would back him to go really deep in something at this level before too long. I hope to emulate him later as I am off to DTD shortly for Day 2 of the £50 mini deepstack. I have c160k at 3000/6000/1000 which may or may not be enough given that this tournament allows players to merge stacks from multiple day ones. I know that Greek Jack has played more than one and suspect he will have merged and there are likely to be others.
On an "if you can"t beat them, join them" basis I did have a crack at a second day one myself but the 3 way all in with AAvA9vKK foundered on the xKx flop...
In general though, I don"t think the merged stacks idea is good for most of us. It was kind of ok when players had to make the last 10% of the field to make Day 2, and those who did it twice sacrificed their second share of the prize pool, but now it"s 14 levels it feels like there"s an advantage to players with deeper pockets...
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Aces busted in a Mini Deepstack Day 1, I can only imagine how that must feel :D
Good luck today sir, win the lot.
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Good luck today sir, win the lot.
+1 x
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Aces busted in a Mini Deepstack Day 1, I can only imagine how that must feel :D
Good luck today sir, win the lot.
Irony in the thread :)
Leigh raised utg I call from BB with Jh 9h and flop top pair on Jxx one heart, Leigh c-bets as i expect him to and i call, turn is a heart and I check call another bet, river is a third heart, I lead, Leigh calls...
As I said at the time, I didn"t think he was that strong!!
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If you don"t say anything I will, top form, well played.
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Reach the final table along with Dave ( who is running in God mode at the minute, no doubt he will add to his blog at a later date).
If you don"t say anything I will, top form, well played.
(http://likegif.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/tumbleweed-gif-2.gif)
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Reach the final table along with Dave ( who is running in God mode at the minute, no doubt he will add to his blog at a later date).
If you don"t say anything I will, top form, well played.
(http://likegif.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/tumbleweed-gif-2.gif)
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Modesty forbids, but can you smell burning plaice?
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Huge congratulations to Dave Amos, scoring on his international debut last night.
Modesty forbids him from mentioning it, but that won"t stop us from all sharing in his special moment.
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-3Q2zqxkbjOg/UgzgnAuL0jI/AAAAAAAAFEI/2GgkuiW6_aI/s624/DA20.jpg)
Great header Dave, looks like you need to work on that pre-season fitness though, based on how red your face looks :D
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Sorry Leigh, only just saw your post and I think you may need to explain it to me.
Meantime, it seems that the first week of September has been declared "Outdraw Pokerpops Week"**
QQ v KQ flop KKx
All in with two pair vs Top pair, no problem, the river will pair the turn.
All in with a flush vs a set, no worries, that board is going to pair.
All in pre with QQ and the board runs out xAKKQ did I just get lucky? Noooo he has AK.
**Defining it as Outdraw Pokerpops Week may be wishful thinking on my part... we shall see. I ran golden during much of August so it"s all gravy.
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I read this
If you don"t say anything I will, top form, well played.
Saw someone scored for England on their debut, assumed it must have been you.
Kind of misses the point two weeks later. Not actually sure it was ever funny, made me smile at the time though, which is not a bad thing.
Congratulations on whatever it was you did win. ;D
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I read this
If you don"t say anything I will, top form, well played.
Saw someone scored for England on their debut, assumed it must have been you.
Kind of misses the point two weeks later. Not actually sure it was ever funny, made me smile at the time though, which is not a bad thing.
Congratulations on whatever it was you did win. ;D
Aww man, all that photoshop effort and then I miss it. Sorry.
Brian was referring to my mini heater of the time. Just over min cash in the DTD Mini Deepstack, then FT the super fifty there and cashed Monday Tuesday and Wednesday at G. Five very different tourneys too with the G efforts being a £20 deepstack (20,000 stack on a school night!) a £30 +£30 where we did a chip deal 5 handed and a fiver rebuy where I was in for a total of £15 and chopped HU.
All a dim and distant memory now though. The poker gods have had their vengeance and my form has dipped too. Too many bad calls and mistimed plays.
Always another day though. I rather fancy a crack at the £300 deepie this weekend, satellites with 20 seats guaranteed are too good to refuse.
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Satellites to the DTD deepstack haven"t gone well.
Last night I was running along quite tidily and in decent shape as the 2255 break began but my wifi connection dropped off and when I attempted to log back in the auto fill of my password had vanished
No problem I just entered the password and
Incorrect username or password
Must have mistyped it
Incorrect username or password
Rinse and repeat a couple of times and then bite the bullet and ask for the new password
Mistype email address and get
Account blocked, contact customer services
Correct email address
New password sent to registered email
Not there
Refresh
Not there
Refresh
Not there
Hit contact customer services and wait
Wait
Wait
Eventually get contact and give them my ID email date of birth inside leg measurement and favourite colour
Email arrives with temporary password which I now have to change before I can log in
Ar last I"m in and still with 6BB which I get all in pre with Ac Qc over a min raise
He calls with 2h 2s
And the board runs out
7s Qs 8s Jd A s
marvellous
This weekend you will find me in Stockton G playing the £5k guaranteed £100FO.
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As some of you may know I opted to swerve the G and instead took a trip to DTD using recent G winnings and a 35% stake to fund my entry.
I had a blast and rekindle my love for the venue and it"s tournaments. Given that last year was exceptionally good for me there it felt odd to be feeling less than enthusiastic about the place lately, but a combination of poor results, and some of their recent innovations had left me at odds with it.
I don"t like the stack merge option. I understand why it"s been introduce and I understand that every player that attempts to do it adds EV to the overall tournament, but it still feels wrong.
I"m less than keen on the way this current GP has been set up too. The massive boost to the the prize pool for a winner who has made it through Day1 with a Golden Chip has skewed the field somewhat with some of the "pros" throwing a large amount of time and money at the satellites and securing multiple chips in the extreme. With stack merging available and no option but to play all the seats they"ve won some people are going to be playing 10+ Day1s and we could see some monster stacks at the start of Day 2.
I have two shots at it this time. I"ll be happy to make it through one, with two being an absolute bonus.
I suspect that stack merging is here to stay at DTD, and I will get used to the idea. As I say, my love for the place has been rekindled. Amazing what a winning trip can do for you.
I took the absolute budget option for this trip. This was my accommodation
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£9 a night, it may not be en suite, and it may lack a tv but given that I typically only spend less than 9 hours in any room I book for a DTD trip it was great.
The campsite at the National Watersports Centre is clean, flat and secure. Quiet too. I"ll be back there at the end of the month for what I hope will be a three night stay.
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It"s been a long time since I posted and it may be a long time before I post again but I want to thank those of you that used to read this and those of you that have staked me occasionally through the year for your support.
The poker gods smiled on me often in 2012 and it was a good year in other ways too, but 2013 has been pretty hard.
Losing Dad, losing the business and latterly coming close to losing so much more with everything coming to a head in the last few months has made me think hard about who I am and what I want. I"ve not reached a conclusion about my aims and hopes for 2014 and they may not include a poker element.
If poker continues to be a big part of my life it won"t include much in the way of APAT events. The continuing policy of scheduling events at School and Bank Holiday times makes me an unlikely runner whatever the future holds.
I"ll be reading and popping up here and there though.
May 2014 be the year that each of you hopes for.
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1000th post as well, hope next year is better for you in your personnel life, as for poker it"s just a game not that important in the great scheme of things, speak soon.
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It"s been a while...
I"ve blown the cobwebs off the locks and actually had to unlock the entire thread.
So, what"s been happening?
The last two years have seen my home life take priority over all sorts of things, not least Poker. None too soon really because the game had begun to dominate my existence it seemed.
My last trip to DTD was for the UKIPT 6Max which I think was around eighteen months ago.
I actually stopped playing live completely for the six months from September 2014, and my return to the local live scene has been very gradual and very unsuccessful to date. Six tourneys is no sort of sample and my last couple of outings have seen me build decent stacks only to blow them well short of the money. But I am beginning to recapture some of the fun of the game, mainly by avoiding some of the less fun local games.
Currently I"m playing online on Party with a view to getting involved in the Grand Prix Tour organised by DTD and Party. They"ve finally moved back to a format which more accurately reflects the original concept in my view and I am enthusiastic about it again.
BUT, as a pensioner my income is limited so I have opted to go for the cheap route. Playing the 1c games which offer 2 X $5.50 seats plus the weekly Bounty Freeroll which adds a $5.50 for the top 25 finishers. Playing mainly on the iPad which restricts me to single tabling so the volume is limited although there is always another game to register if you bust.
The aim is to take the $15 ish that I had on the account and turn it into as many $5.50s as I can.
I have four so far with a strike rate of about 5% so in theory my $15 should generate around 75 tickets. We"ll see.
It may be more if I can cash in the Bounty Freeroll occasionally. Since I started the challenge I am 100% on that front :)
The structure of these is very turbo, 5000 SS and 3 minute levels means that mostly it has to be played as a Shove/Fold game, happily not many of the regular players understand this and I"ve seen people limp fold from 5BB stacks to a shove. I"ve also seen some decent calls too but generally speaking I believe I am playing a +EV strategy.
One thing that amuses and amazes me is the fact that people actually make rebuys. It"s a 1c buy in, but rebuys for the same 5000 chips cost 50c. That"s 50 fresh attempts sacrificed in rebuying when you are generally getting just 8BB and will be shortstacked.
People take the 15000 add on too. Again that"s 50 new games given away when there"s a fresh tournament starting within 20 minutes.
Still, it"s good of these players to indicate who they are and where the value might be...
I"m currently avoiding the $5.50s other than the ones where the 1c game feeds directly into them. The structures are different and I want to focus on getting the maximum number of tickets before I get into them.
I will try to keep this thread up to date as the challenge continues.
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Great to see you back and posting mate, always enjoyed your blog :)
Will follow closely, good luck and smash them up!
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Good to see you posting David and good luck in your challenge.
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Balance $16.60
$5.50 Tickets - 5
$22 Tickets - 1 or 2. I thought I had one, but according to Party I have two. This may be right, but we"ll see.
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The local G has a Sunday Deepstack tournament, starts at 4pm and has a 40,000 SS. Yep, 40,000. If you register before 3.50 you get an extra 10%. That"s 4,000 chips, with blinds starting at 25/50 and four 30 minute levels, which would probably make a decent enough tournament in itself.
Anyway, they also have Sky so I decided to combine a game of poker with watching MUFC at Arsenal. Neither venture ended well.
Obviously the £25+£5 cost deters very few and the opening levels see more limping than you"d see in a room full of people with sprained ankles.
It"s fun though, the majority of players are pleasant and as long as you accept that there probably isn"t a pre flop raise to reduce 7limpers to one or maybe two callers.
I had a fairly card dead afternoon and although I won a few pots they were generally small and having value cut myself betting three streets with AQ on A4Qxx to be shown a set of fours by the lovely white haired Betty. Betty got me again a little later when she backed into a straight having called me all the way with second pair. She didn"t even realise what she had...
My exit came when I shipped 13BB wth KQ from the big blind over two limpers and the small having completed. Called by sixes which held. Not unhappy with his call because sixes are some way behind my range for the shove. (66+, KQs+, A10o+ feels about right?) any views appreciated.
That"s seven live tournaments in a row where I haven"t troubled the scorer, but I felt good about my game and my reads in general.
Online I now have
7 X $5.50
2 X $22
and somehow the roll is now up to $18 which I think is due to Party dealing with a mid-tournament crash by sharing out the notional $11 prize pool as cash.
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Think i would be pushing a bit wider than that to be honest, pretty much any pair, most suited connectors and alot of Ax"s.
Would just be expecting to see so many limp folds here.
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Think i would be pushing a bit wider than that to be honest, pretty much any pair, most suited connectors and alot of Ax"s.
Would just be expecting to see so many limp folds here.
Maybe online...
The population in this game doesn"t like folding when they already have chips in the pot. We"re still some way off the money at this stage so I was leaning toward the stronger range.
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Been a bit quiet on the poker front. Played very few of the centrolls with only small success, used a $5.50 on a 3 X $109 satellite. With 5 left and 3 seats plus $85 for fourth I ran AK(SB) into chip leader"s A5(BB)
Not at all sure what they were thinking when they called. If I hold he is reduced to shortest stack.
Oh well, never mind, onward we go.
Can"t play this weekend so this week"s traditional DTD generosity has to be passed by.
With 100 seat guarantees and the 32 seat flip centrolls it"s a shame to be missing out.
Oh well, never mind, onward we go.
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So...
Something to report finally.
Haven"t played much poker of any description over the past weeks. The DTD/Party cent rolls have become even more of a lottery with c80 runners competing for the one seat now. Seems a waste of time so unless I find myself with a lot of that I won"t be bothering. I have a few $5.50 and two $22 tickets we"ll see how they go.
I did play the APAT satellite two Thursday"s ago and managed to do a win without really ever being in trouble. Everything just fell into place for me throughout.
Which brings me to the weekend just gone and a trip to Aspers ink Newcastle for the UK Championship.
This was a fabulous event. Ignoring the late start everything was well organised and the dealers were outstandingly good. On a par with DTD IMHO. Valets were brilliant too - and appropriately dressed (take note Mr Yong, valets don"t have to flash legs and cleavage to keep customers happy. They just need to be around, take orders and bring the drinks/food to the table in a reasonable time)
We started a little late, which was quite good for me since I had only arrived with 15mins to spare due to my satnav and Newcastle"s one way system not fully understanding each other...
A few highlights
NB some bet sizes may not be 100% accurate, my memory isn"t what it was.
First hand, the very first hand, I get comfy in my seat, sort my stack and find two black aces. Visions of a very early exit cross my mind.
I"m seat 4 and the button is seat 9 I think. Anyway, seat 3 makes it 150, I pause and make it 425, seat 7 makes it 1200...
Oh my, what have got into here?
Folds back to me and I contemplate flatting for deception but decide that a raise is in order (obviously never folding). I make 3400 and seat 7 dwells up and folds KK face up.
I announce that "I hate jacks" but I don"t think anyone was convinced.
Had a great run of cards from there in. Raised 44 and made a house on the turn which I got paid for.
Had AA V KK BvB all in pre ( SB 4bet jammed about 15k at 100/200)
Made a rivered nut flush vs a big pair where I don"t think I should still have been in the hand by the river, but, hey ho, I won the pot :)
Got to the dinner break as chip leader with 105k and then had a steady decline in stack till close of play ending with 58k.
Day 2 to follow
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Day 2 to follow
Quickly then.
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Patience dear boy, patience.
You wouldn"t want me to rush it would you?
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Day two
The journey...
I set off at around 1030, giving myself plenty of time to get to Aspers by noon. Arrived in Newcastle a little after 1100 and was, according to my satnav, 1000yds from the carpark by 1110. At 1130 I was closer, 100yds closer, and not moving. Geordies love to shop, especially on a bumper bargain weekend.
I managed to get out of the gridlock and somehow found my way to Stowell Street, maybe 100yds from the side entrance to Aspers but once again I was stationary. By now it was 1153 and had it not been for the APAT Updaters Valet Parking Service I would have had no chance of taking my seat on time. Lucy came to the rescue and I was in time to open my bag and play some poker.
Day 2 started fairly slowly, I folded a lot of hands, including giving up my blinds. Eventually as the table settled down I found a few spots where I could open and pick up some uncontested pots, and a few where the board allowed me to win the pot on flop or turn. I took the chip lead for a while at one stage following a flurry of hands that were actually good enough to win at showdown.
AQ beat 33 with a Barry Greenstein Ace on the River to reduce us to 18 and two tables.
I had opened KJ utg+1 and bet every street from a K high flop with the guy two to my right check calling each time with, I believe, a smaller kicker. As I gathered in the chips from that pot I had to dig out my new hole cards
As an aside, the number of chips in any single pot was ridiculous. People were posting their blinds and antes in 100 chips, a practice that I would outlaw. However...
I dug my cards from under the weight of chips and found KK utg, obviously a raise was in order.
By the time it got back to me I was calling an all in and up against 66, I didn"t much like the 6 on the flop but the K on the turn got me out of trouble.
Things slowed again for a while but I maintained my stack pretty well with the usual mix of walks and steals and got to the final table with 250ish which was pretty much average.
Final Table
Hand 1 QJo utg, raise and take
Hand 2 QQ in BB, MP made a rather unorthodox raise to 12 X and called my shove with AQdd. A on the flop, that"s it then, eliminated on the first occasion throughout the tournament when I was all in and at risk. Such is poker.
I did a stint on the FT commentary with Lucy and enjoyed it. Would be good if we could do it a little further from the action to make it feasible to comment on the hands a bit more, but it was fun nonetheless.
Thursday sees the Stockton Massive gathering for a pre-Christmas game which will no doubt involve bramble brandy and shots, and an early exit for me. Other than that and the APAT onLine on Sunday my poker year is done.
Have a great Christmas all.
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Great to see you in Newcastle David and thanks for your stint on the commentary. Enjoyed the blogs too!
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It"s been a while...
Since my last post I"ve played the DTD/Party thing in Newcastle and a few of the new, improved Sunday game (4pm start, 25k, sensible structure to finish before 1am).
I have failed miserably in winning DTD seats, I seem fine converting $5.50 into $22 but couldn"t even get a seat in the 50gtd jobs. So, I deposited £70 and then discovered that wasn"t enough to get me $109, tricky this thing of living in a country which is proud of it"s own currency but being forced to buy into poker tournaments in foreign currency. I understand this when the tournament is pnline and has an international constituency, but the Grand Prix Poker Tour is all about the live games in "iconic" football grounds.
I played my Day One at Aspers and busted around the end of level 15 of 18. JJ
Sunday games have been kinder to me and in recent weeks I"ve had an outright win, a 3-way deal, a bubble payment and a 3rd place finish for a total of a touch over £900. The games have been fun too which adds to the pleasure.
I"m not likely to play the Leeds leg, no Casino Day Ones (G and Genting have no incentive to promote an opposition tour) and i just can"t get excited about playing at Elland Road.
I"m quite excited about DTD raising the prospect of another Caribbean Poker Party, as I understood their position in 2012 the issue with my second final table was the fact that I couldn"t transfer the CPP package, nor take a cash alternative. We"ll wait and see.
I"m obviously biased, but I do think the updates from WCOAP are good this year. Looking forward to keeping in touch with events there as the week goes on. Wish I could be there, but family first makes it difficult again this year.
I have managed to be in a position to squeeze in a shot at the North East version of the Grosvenor Easter Beast. Three local G"s, five day ones, £110 entry, £20k guarantee. I"m heading to Newcastle on Wednesday and aiming to return on Monday.
Enough rambling, hope to be back soon.
Run good, play well, win flips.
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About time you made another appearance!!
What is this sunday game you speak of?
Finally, are you playing on Thursday?
Miss you Pops x
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About time you made another appearance!!
What is this sunday game you speak of?
Finally, are you playing on Thursday?
Miss you Pops x
I know
G, 4pm start, 25,000 stack, £25+£6
No, it"s my birthday.
Miss you too X
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So, Newcastle Grosvenor for the Easter Beast. £110 buy in, 5 day ones with 2 re-entries allowed each day. £20k guarantee and with over 70 last night it will smash that.
Not that I will have any interest in it.
suffice to say that I called an all in on the turn in the belief that my opponent was drawing, I was right, he had a pair, a flush draw and a gutshot straight draw.
I dodged the spades and the ten but not the J which gave him two pair to beat my QQ.
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I may have a poke at that game, seems very reasonable!
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The Nobbers home game reconvened last Thursday. Seven of us made it and much fun ensued.
I bust first and took up dealing duties, it"s been a while but I was definitely faster than the newly trained pair who were following me from table to table at G on Sunday. I understand that they have to learn, and I offered them both encouragement and support, but with two tables left and blind levels of 20mins it became very frustrating.
I hope they both stick it out and improve.
Thursday"s game ended in a chop after I dealt 22 and JJ to the HU players. Stu took the x22xx board very well considering:)
A very late decision to play at G on Sunday paid off with a 3way chop.
My hand of the night came midway through the game
My Button and there are two limpers at 600/1200/100
I find 6c 3c and decide to squeeze (it rarely gets anyone to fold at this stage, but it felt like a fun thing to do)
Both blinds fold and UTG announces AllIn.... for a total of 4500!
The mid position lumper now tanks for a while and tbh I actually sort of hoped he"d shove so I could fold...but he folds leaving me to call 1400 to be HU for a pot of about 12800.
I say, "oops, I have to call, but I have six high"
"You"re ahead" says he "I have 45"
Best hand won too ;)
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I"m sure most APAT members will have seen Rob Yong"s latest blog. It included this sentence..
"At the moment MTTs are horribly sluggish, 80% of players don"t even bother to play from the start, MTTs finish so late that nobody who has to get to work in the morning can realistically play, all these bad changes have been made by operators to hit guarantees at all costs regardless of player experience."
Seriously?
I love DTD, have had lots of great experiences there. I"ve played tournaments way outside my bankroll through their outrageously good value satellite structure. Picked up a few flags there ;)
But they pioneered late registration and have stretched that period to the limits at times when guarantees look like being missed. They"ve even gone so far as to throw in extra Day 1s at the last minute.
I applaud the move to shorten late reg, and the move back toward genuine freezeout tournaments, but let"s not forget that this "problem" stems in part from DTD itself.
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I"m sure many would agree with that David, although I doubt many would actually say it.
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I"m sure many would agree with that David, although I doubt many would actually say it.
Indeed.
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Maybe post it on blonde where it might get seen.
I don"t think DTD started this- extended late reg was on stars long before it was anywhere live iirc
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Newcastle on Sunday for the English Championship. All being well I"m travelling up with The Fossil, aka Erimus, aka Brian. Considering how close we live it"s a shock to realise I haven"t seen him for six months. Back in the day we"d probably see each other two or three times a week but I"ve cut back on my poker a lot and he has better things to do on Sunday afternoons.
It will be good to catch up.
I"m looking forward to the game, I don"t get to play many decent structure 40 min clock events these days and it"s a bit of a treat to be honest. I am intent on making Day 2 so expect me to be nitting it up like a good un ;)
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Newcastle on Sunday for the English Championship. All being well I"m travelling up with The Fossil, aka Erimus, aka Brian. Considering how close we live it"s a shock to realise I haven"t seen him for six months. Back in the day we"d probably see each other two or three times a week but I"ve cut back on my poker a lot and he has better things to do on Sunday afternoons.
It will be good to catch up.
I"m looking forward to the game, I don"t get to play many decent structure 40 min clock events these days and it"s a bit of a treat to be honest. I am intent on making Day 2 so expect me to be nitting it up like a good un ;)
I am there as well mate! Be good to see you.
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Ditto, been a while, see you Saturday, whilst I am here pop to next door to read another exciting foray into the G poker room.
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I"ve been having a debate with Nick Whiten, the Operations Director at DTD lately. It revolves around the value of my Golden Chip FT in the two Grand Prix tournaments back in 2012.
I believe that I was misled and he thinks it was all dealt with at the time.
I won"t fill this post with the full story, but suffice to say that my most recent email in which I suggested that I should share the details with a wider audience seems to have upset him.
So upset was he that I have been removed and blocked from accessing the Facebook groups for DTD and Party Poker, and I have been banned from Blonde.
Watch this space.
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Setting aside any controversial issues...
Does anyone ever fold pre these days?
I played the Sunderland Day 1 of the Summer Sizzler last night. £110 buy in, £20k gtd.
it seems that limping in is the new raise
Limp calling is pretty popular too, and contagious.
Am I out of touch? Is this the new reality that we all see lots of flops and turns and rivers and hope we make the best hand?
Hope this doesn"t sound too bitter. I didn"t make day 2 obviously, although I kind of enjoyed my evening which could have ended a lot better than it did if I could a) avoid attempting to bluff someone off the second nut flush b) avoid people making runner runner straights and c) accept that KK is an Ace Magnet (seriously, Ace on flop, another on turn and both pre flop callers have one in their hand..)
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I"m in pondersome mode...
So, how many entries should anyone be allowed in a tournament?
Time was, it was one shot and that"s your lot.
Then we got one re-entry allowed.
Following on from that we had the situation where, with many of the bigger tournaments having multiple starting days we"re allowed to enter each of the starting days, and have two or more bullets each day.
Our local G, and I assume all local Gs, now allow two re-entries (albeit only in the first two hours)
Now, I know all the arguments about re-entries being good for the prize pool. That we just have to take advantage of the gamblers and pick up their chips when they decide to gamble because they can always have another bullet. But is that really the way it works?
As I see it, there is another factor in play. Bankroll capacity. The players with deeper pockets, or bigger staking deals, have an advantage. They aren"t playing in a freeze out, they are playing a Rebuy
Beyond that issue there"s another one raising it"s head. Direct buy in to Day 2 of an event.
Again this seems to be to the advantage of the same group of players.
Of course "recreational" players will still get results, but there have been a number of recent results in $109 buy in tournaments that suggest that the pro"s and the staked players are making use of their advantage.
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Agree, hate all the re entry and straight to day 2 nonsense. I can see why thy do it, in a world of people feeling entitled huge guarantees on tournaments, but it doesnt make it right IMO.
It will lead to those who can afford it ruining it for other people, who cant afford to just throw loads of dosh at something.
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Beyond that issue there"s another one raising it"s head. Direct buy in to Day 2 of an event.
Again this seems to be to the advantage of the same group of players.
Of course "recreational" players will still get results, but there have been a number of recent results in $109 buy in tournaments that suggest that the pro"s and the staked players are making use of their advantage.
Both of these points really worry me about the state of the big tournaments in the UK.
Doesn"t feel like a level playing field for the recreational player who rocks up for their one or two tourneys a month anymore.
Maybe it never was, but feels much more so now.
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Hate the way it"s going. But maybe that"s just me.
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Hate the way it"s going. But maybe that"s just me.
Nope, it"s not just you.
Many many other things may well be uniquely Ger, but not this one.
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Beyond that issue there"s another one raising it"s head. Direct buy in to Day 2 of an event.
Again this seems to be to the advantage of the same group of players.
Of course "recreational" players will still get results, but there have been a number of recent results in $109 buy in tournaments that suggest that the pro"s and the staked players are making use of their advantage.
Both of these points really worry me about the state of the big tournaments in the UK.
Doesn"t feel like a level playing field for the recreational player who rocks up for their one or two tourneys a month anymore.
Maybe it never was, but feels much more so now.
It may not have been level in terms of skills Leigh, but having multiple chances to utilise their skills definitely aids those who can fire multiple bullets.
In snooker and darts it is clearly the case that the longer the match the more likely the better player prevails as they have the chance to overcome short term misfortune. Multiple entries to the came tournament gives the same impact.
I"m not decrying the efforts of those who have prevailed in big tournaments.
See, Robert Baguley
http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=157893
some old fish
http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=210781&_ga=1.240688389.761401061.1455816979
But the fact is that these results are going to get rarer and rarer.
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Fun day Sunday at the G
My one regular tournament at the moment is the 4pm start at G.
25,000 chips, plus an extra 2,500 for regging by 3.45 and a structure that starts slow but gets pretty quick later. It"s major USP is that generally it ends on the same date that it started :)
Mostly it"s the usual story, 7 or 8 limpers reduced to 4 or 5 to the flop after a raise. Three bets are rarer than hen"s teeth, and tend to signify Aces, or occasionally Kings, but don"t expect people to fold.
Last night was a bit more fun...
Hand 1 50/100
I open QJ from the cut off to 250, Button raises to 700, I call. Flop is Qxx I check call 1050. Turn K, I check fold to a 2300 bet. Villain flips 42 off "like a boss". I pay no heed to it other than to ask "was that good?" in a bored tone.
Hand 2
6 to the flop I call A8dd all but completing the action after a small EP raise.
Flop A86 fd
I check call a c-bet, as do three others
Turn is a 2 making two flush draws on the board
I check raise and three of us see the very brick like J on the river
I lead and villain from hand 1 calls me with a J having missed his flush
He justified his call by saying that having bluffed me earlier he thought I was going for revenge :)
Pot size? Just over 20k.
Hand 3 100/200
My button, the two students to my left start to discuss how they will play BvB. It"s going to involve a raise, 3bet and a 4bet apparently.
I tell them it won"t be BvB because I will be raising if it folds to me.
Sure enough it does fold to me and I open ten deuce to 425
SB makes it 800
BB raises to 1550
I make it 4100, SB folds and BB looks affronted at the fact that I"m not sticking to the plan.
I say, "yeah, it was all a bit of fun, and I was going to raise any two here, but then I looked at my cards"
He had me dominated as it happens with Q2 , good job he folded :)
My evening ended early when having lost with AK v44 I then failed to outrun pocket sevens twice in three hands.
High hopes on the first run out where my K10 hit the 10 9 8 flop, but the inevitable 6 arrived on the turn.
KJ didn"t get even a look in
Must improve my flipping skills.
btw
Will Kassouf?
I know he"s a pain in the backside, I"ve been on a table with him in full flow, but I have to say that from what we"ve seen on the coverage from the WSOP he"s a substantially more attractive human being than the po-faced Josephy, Vayo, Hallaert et al.
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C"mon Qui Nguyen - stick it to the sanctimonious gets
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Kassouf was massively irritating, but no more irritating than the "y" needlessly stuck on the end of josephys last name.
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Kassouf was massively irritating, but no more irritating than the "y" needlessly stuck on the end of josephys last name.
WK was no more irritating than you son xx
Vayo and Mr Y are sanctimonious gits
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Kassouf was massively irritating, but no more irritating than the "y" needlessly stuck on the end of josephys last name.
WK was no more irritating than you son xx
Vayo and Mr Y are sanctimonious gits
It takes me at least 3 pints to get that annoying!
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Kassouf was massively irritating, but no more irritating than the "y" needlessly stuck on the end of josephys last name.
WK was no more irritating than you son xx
Vayo and Mr Y are sanctimonious gits
It takes me at least 3 pints to get that annoying!
I beg to differ... :)
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Kassouf was massively irritating, but no more irritating than the "y" needlessly stuck on the end of josephys last name.
WK was no more irritating than you son xx
Vayo and Mr Y are sanctimonious gits
It takes me at least 3 pints to get that annoying!
I beg to differ... :)
Hurtful *******
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Hand of the day from my evening at Genting Newcastle.
GPS
Lots of limping, and limp calling
6 limpers at 100/200
BB makes it 5200 and gets a call from the Grand Central Station in seat 2
Flop 876
Bet call 6000
Turn 9 (two spades on board)
BB all in for c12000
Called by A6
BB has AQ spades and misses on a non spade 8 on the river....
It was only £220 to enter so I guess we have to expect this to happen...
Did I take advantage? I wish!
A combination of poor starting hands, horrible run outs and some poor decisions left me to jam Jacks, which fell to A10.,,
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Morning all.
I'm here to see if moaning about my incredible recent bad run of cards makes a difference.
Will see some of you on Saturday 31st March, and hopefully some more on Days 2 and 3.
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Saturday 31st March will be my Birthday and I will be making my first entry into the WCOAP Main Event.
But I guess it's a young man's game these days, and 64 yr old blokes with seven grandchildren win nowt.
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We still can I'm 69 on the 30th & will be playing main event & champions of champions. Good luck
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Saturday 31st March will be my Birthday and I will be making my first entry into the WCOAP Main Event.
But I guess it's a young man's game these days, and 64 yr old blokes with seven grandchildren win nowt.
Good luck in WCOAP Main Event David. I am sure you will make it through to the later stages. Age is just a state of mind.
You are not old anyway, you are only a senior, not a super senior yet :)
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Day 1a WCOAP Main
Relaxed drive across the Pennines with The Fossil, pausing en route to get a cup of Starbucks Pike Place. A chance to see Lucy and Tom, and a quick chat with Ger before the game started.
The structure is amazingly good. Deep stacks and a 45 minute clock for a £110 buy in is what APAT is all about.
I started badly, an ill-advised bluff on the river got looked up with the words “curiosity kills you” and a sequence of unpleasant run outs and poor starting hands meant I had less than half my starting stack by the first break.
By the dinner break I had stopped losing chips, but was still marooned at just under the 10k mark.
Post-dinner I took advantage of the structure and worked extra hard on picking spots and managed to get a) above starting stack, and then b) to somewhere around 40k.
A misjudged call of a shove cost me just under half my stack** but I closed the day with 28,700 chips plus a chair to continue my quest for a good return for Raise for Jack, and a bracelet for me.
**
I opened AdQd from early position and got two callers. C-bet the KcXcX flop and got shoved on. I felt his shove was more weighted to having two clubs. He had KsQs and I really should have considered that he would stop and go with a lot of hands of that nature with a 10BB stack.
If he had jammed pre I would have called and lost, he gave me the chance to get away from it which I failed to take.
Ah well, back next Saturday with 18BB and a 60 minute clock. Easy decisions time.