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pokerpops:
Time you reported on your game on Tuesday I think Brian...  :)

Erimus:
Tuesday game report as requested

10 10 10 game at the G, started at the same table as Pokerpops and Stuart, I took my seat and proceeded to take my powernap, I am fairly inactive in the early levels so a sleep is most welcome.

Stuart was trying to outnit me and was fairly successful I think I played 2 hands to his 3.

I was fairly card dead but made a squeeze to the usual 6 limpers with A 10 in the big blind, Pokerpops calls but an ace high flop sees me take the pot.
I get to the add on stage with 8k and take the rebuy and add on so I have 16k after the break, this is where the trouble starts.

Just before the break in the last hand I get KsQs in the cut off I raise expecting folds  but get 1 caller, floptastic QdQh 5d I bet out I get called turn is 7c I bet another 2k, another call, river 9d I check villain then shoves the lot in, about 9k which if I called would leave me with 2k5ish after the break, being the total nit I am after a dwell, I fold and villain shows a total bluff, wp sir nh outplayed me move on (this will come back to haunt him later on).
I thought going back after the break with with 40bigs rather than 8 would be better for me as I believe I have an edge on this table.

After the break Pokerpops has been moved, Stuart is still on the table I start to become a bit more active, my table image is only ever plays AA so I get a few raises and c bets through.

Captain Birds eye turns up at the table he is a really bad reg, you can never put him on a hand because he limps every single hand he has from whatever position, whatever stack size, he limps utg gets 1 caller I have AK on the button I pump it up to 2k blinds 200/400, Captain calls leaving himself 3k behind, flop is AK7 I bet he shoves I call he shows QQ, this hand should of been all in pre but whatever, good result for me up to about 30k, same scenario last week  that time his QQ held   standard flipaments.

My next important hand utg limps at 300/600 Stuart calls in cut off I bump it up to 3k with A 10, utg  calls pricing Stuart in he calls flop comes Ace high 2 spades, Stuart checks I lead out utg folds Stuart shoves he has a flush draw, I fade the flush and win a nice pot, Stuart got his revenge at last nights home game beating me heads up AA v K6, and he calls me a luckbox, nh sir gg.

We get to 5 handed and decided to take 30 off for the bubble so a free game for whoever bubbles, I raise with AJ from cut off, mr bluffer from earlier calls, 2 to the flop, flop all low cards, I check he insta shoves, he has been donking every flop and has been in saying its hard for people to call if they haven"t hit I called and was good,faded his cards and off he trotted.

Sometimes a bad fold will help you cash in tournaments, trip queens easy lay down.

Stacks are now fairly equal so a chop is agreed with the 2 bigger stacks getting £145 each and I picked up £130, blinds would dictate an all in move for all stacks so a deal was agreed plus it was 2 30 am.

Online got a 9/455 in a six max for a $130, again losing a 60/40 at the business for a final table spot but that"s poker. I will be playing the £100 game at Galas mini festival tonight so hoping for some more run good.

Run good, be lucky stay healthy.

Erimus:
End of May passed with a whimper, I played the £100 game at Gala Teesside which turned into a damp squib, lost a biggish pot early on when I hit a straight on the turn but the flush arrived on the river and I folded like the big wimp I am when he shoved 8k into a pot of 3k, he might not of had it but blinds were 100/200 at the time and I thought I could find a better spot, it turns out I couldn"t and went out to  a standard flip my KQ v 33 not even a sweat as the door card was a 3 with no straight or flush draws I headed home.

The structure of the games at Gala are pretty poor and tbh I should of paid the extra and headed down to Dtd for their 150 game, we live and learn.

Bubbled the Local G game on Monday and Tuesday got my cash back in the Tuesday game, again at that stage of the game it"s which cards hold up as there is pretty much no play left at the business end, still getting there though,got to be in it to win it.

I finished May with a profit but was a fairly swingy month was down £200 ish for the first two weeks managed to get to £650 up before ending the month with a profit of about £450, this was eaten up though by the purchase of a new carpet as previously mentioned in an earlier post.

June had started ok with 5/5 cashes in $15 sngs 1 win,3 seconds and 1 third,but the profits from these disappeared in a couple of mtts which amounted to nothing.

Played a couple of stars mtts tonight including the league game in which I managed to make the final table to finish 6th, QQ < A9 board ran out 5687 but I was short stacked so it was a fairly standard raise, shove call situation.

The other game a 5k gteed went out on the stone cold bubble with QQ again, this time losing to AQ min cash was $22 , never folding in that spot just for the min cash, again it was a standard spot the villain had been playing like a total nutter think his vpp was about 65% but he was just smashing the deck every single time, gotta win those 70/30 "s.

It"s nice to see the holdem manager stats go into Green after tonight"s result, just hoping for some run good this month and keep the graph going in an upward direction.

Run good, be lucky, stay healthy.

Erimus:
Played 2 games at the local G this week, both are advertised as mtts but due to low numbers are basically sit n goes, both attracted 10 runners each, and total prize pool  of £300.

Mondays game is a 15k starting stack 20 min blinds this is my preffered  game as it gives you a chance to play a bit of poker ie being able to 3 or 4 bet without committing to a hand early on, the table on Monday had a few younger players out and listening to the chat most knew what they were doing.

Tuesdays game is a 10 10 10 4k chips start 4k 4k rebuy add on, Tuesday"s table is a bit softer than Mondays, a couple of decent players and a few weak regs.

The contrast between the 2 games were fairly extreme the only premium I picked up all night was JJ which I 3 bet an utg raise and the small blind folded QQ to my c bet on a K high board, obviously my reputation helps in these situations, the rest of the night consisted of smashing the flops with daft 2 pairs, flushes getting there and just getting paid off with daft holdings most of which I should not of been in the pot but because of weak passive play by opponents, to cut a long story short we chopped the £300 we both had 70k ish and it was late.

Tuesdays game I feel I played a lot better but I couldn"t hit a flop for love nor money, still managed to chip up to 35k when I limped QQ early position 10 bigs
Small blind makes it up flop comes 6 high, I check both players shove respective stacks easy call, fade a straight draw, back in it.

The next decisive hand was 5 handed I raise 2k5 (500/1k), k3 suited on the buttonCaptain Birds eye calls as he does every time flop 337, he shoves I call of course he has A3, we seem to tangle every time we play and he even gavle me a rub down earlier on in the game when I raised utg must be AA he said its the only thing he plays, if you are reading this it was 9 8 suited and  after double baralling the flop and turn on a 44 3 2 board managed to get 98 off suit to fold in the big blind.

Exited in 5th place A4< A10 blind on blind standard shove and call, although cashed in the first game I felt as though I played better poker in the second but didn"t get the rub of the green ie hitting flops and draws, standard variance I suppose but we carry on, this time next year Rodney.

Erimus:
The Stockton home game was cancelled this week due to lack of numbers, so had a night off and decided to play the G £20 double chance on the Friday, this seems to be the best attended comp of the week the last few weeks there has been 25 plus runners with a few re entries, making a decent prize pool of about £800ish.

A few of the regulars were there and a few regs from Gala had come over, the £10 rebuy at Gala on a Friday night can turn out to be a bit expensive with a fair bit of Gambling going on and if you are not careful it can turn out to be an expensive night  if you don"t catch the cards early on.

The first hand of any significance was as follows blinds are 100/200 utg limps ( never played this player before, he had bought in late and just sat down),
Utg +2 calls  gets to me in cut off I have JJ, I assume to have the best hand so pop it up to 800, it folds to original limpers who both call so pot is now 2700, flop is K22 rainbow, checked to me I bet 1200 utg 1 calls as does other player , probably going to shut down now on this flop turn is a blank utg goes all in player two calls, I fold at least one should have a king, cards turned over player A has 92off and player two has pocket Kings for a flopped house.

Apparently Guy  with 92 plays like that in the cash games and when he is in there is a clamour to get to his table, I don"t play much cash poker but I think if I see him sat down I may take a seat.

When our table was split myself and another guy got to our table and asked TD which seats we were assigned to, due to screens being bust he said flip a coin, I ended up on the dealer button and the other Guy got the other empty seat, this other guy proceeded to hit a massive heater and in about 15 hands had gone from 15k to about 80k so that was a nice flip for him to win, I dwindled down to about 15k and was just looking for a hand to shove with.

Got the elusive double up with JJ v J10 so had a playable stack.
To cut a long story short we were 5 handed it was 2:30am wife had just phoned to see were I was,the big stack pushed all in with A10 called by 88 (50k effective) I called with JJ (80k) so 240k  in the middle first card out was an ace, I didn"t hit my miracle 2 outer so took 4th place £120, bit annoying the last hand but was only 12 bigs so it was a standard spot I suppose.

Nothing much to report online, finished 13th or 14th in league game tonight AK < KK but had a  bit of luck to get as far as I did AQ> AK and AQ > KK earlier in the game, looking back at the hand history stacks dictated shoves and calls so all standard stuff.

One or two deepish runs in other mtts but no cashes of significance bankroll slightly reduced but had a decent run in sngs to pay for the mtts.

Run good, be lucky stay healthy.

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