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Erimus:
Its almost the end of the month then and in Poker terms can pretty much right it off, down on both Stars and tilt haven"t got the exact figures to hand but on both sites I am down about $150, plenty of time to redeem this situation.
I had a quick scan through my hand histories and apart from a few spewey moments I am quite happy with most of my play, no final tables made but was close on a few occasions, including a couple of bubbles and losing big flips for a chance to get a decent score, these have been documented earlier so won"t bother going through them again
Live poker again has run pretty much the same as online, not getting the rub of the green at the business end of games and I have made a slight loss, again the stakes I am playing it"s not a worry, I play what I can afford if I can"t afford it I won"t play.
The team event weekend started with the local G game on the Friday night bubbled the final table on that one, again going for the win when I could of played a bit tighter to make ft, 6 places were paid but I want to win these things not sit for 6 hours for a min cash, lost a flip AQ v 55, then my A 10 couldn"t hold against J 10 to get me back in the game.
On leaving the casino the snow had been falling quite heavy and I was hoping it wouldn"t cause to many problems for the following days activities.
The next morning got a text from Dave saying he would pick me up around 8 at my my home but to save him driving onto the estate I made my way to the end of the estate, then a mile or so extra and then to the slip road of the A19, felt like Scott of the Antarctic, too much exercise that early.
The tournament started off well, 3 bet some one with AQ, he flats flop QQK, this could be a short game if he has KQ, the board eventually ran out QQKAQ,
Praying for him to have AA KK or AK, but my bet on the river got nothing, he had pocket 10 s and as he said he couldn"t see a hand he was beating so folded, sigh.
I got up to 30 k after I got some chips of rodders who had been really unlucky in 3 or 4 hands with KK, QQ when despite his betting the final boards were so ugly, flushes, straight draws he could only call or fold and I think this led to a bit of frustration in his last hand against me, he is a good player and understands this stupid game we play.
At 30 k raised utg with AK off to 525 got shoved on for 11 bigs from utg2 gets to me assuming we are flipping call and it"s 8c9c, he flops massive including top pair I hit the K on the river but it gives him a flush, pretty standard had 60% equity pre instead of the assumed 50 ish so can"t complain.
I exited in about 122cd I think , I raise JJ utg from a 22 big blind stack and utg plus 2 min reraises me, this stinks of AA KK, but I had decided if I was 3 bet I was shoving, should of went with my gut instinct as I was right AA v JJ, I didn"t bink.
I would like to thank Carl for the opportunity to play and hope you are feeling better as I know you weren"t feeling too good and no doubt we will meet again.
The table tennis the following day went as expected, badly,played 3 games lost the first 2, 2-0, but got a little pride back with a 1 - 1 draw in the last game.
Finally a big thanks to Dave and Lucy who were my travelling companions for the weekend and as always was a pleasure.
Off to Scarborough at the weekend for a stag do, not sure what to expect in Scarbororugh on a cold weekend in January but we shall see.
Run good, be lucky stay healthy.
nosey-p:
That was me with the 8 9C, was getting frustrated with the hands I was getting and since I hardly played a hand since sitting down I thought I would get some respect. With AKs it was a no brainer for you, I got lucky, the last time I got lucky was in 2009 :D
Erimus:
One week into February and began the month with positive thoughts and dreams of winning big, still waiting,3 weeks to go so plenty of time.
On to the action, online first,Stars decided to give me some run good in two mtts earlier in the week flopping sets, straights etc, AK holding in a few spots v smaller aces and was in a good position in 2 mtts but both failing in the last furlong for cashes totalling around $120 enough to splash around in a few more games, but as is the case a few hours of run good turns back to a few days of run bad so breaking even on Stars.
Onto Full tilt, we have a little bit of good news, not in the money department but in the self belief department, actually made a Final table tonight,losing the Inevitable shove with AQ where villain has the obligatory AK,apparently it"s law if I have AQ, AK is always out, flop gave me hope in that a king would give me a straight but it didn"t arrive so busted in 8th for $58 I think, so clawing back a bit, been getting deep in a few just need that bit of luck at the end.
Onto live stuff, joined Dave at the G on Sunday you may of read his report, the self deal aspect of the game is so frustrating in the fact that it"s the same people who deal all the time, when we returned from the break the person who offered to deal didn"t bother turning back up and when Dave returned to his own seat the other players cowered away from the cards in case they had to deal. I took on the mantle, don"t mind dealing,actually saves me looking at my cards, keeps me more interested.
The game itself was nothing special,didn"t trouble the cashiers when I shoved KQ into KK gg me, earlier in the game when my AA lost to 53 off got ribbed by a reg indicating I should of raised more with my Aces pre and I might not of lost the hand, I was quite happy being called by 53 off and will take it every day of the week thanks, didn"t lose the lot as the board had 4 to a straight and flush possibilities so lost the minimum.
Tuesday saw me return to Gala, I know I shouldn"t but I did, Susan had friends round so it was the only game on.
Got registered 1 min after closing so didn"t get the extra 1k sat down first hand KK, raise by me, re raise by villain, re re raise by me, insta shove by villain, I have never seen him before and went with my read and folded , good read then, not, he showed QQ, first time I have folded KK pre live.
I think I have ran into AA so often lately that it was in the back of my head I was behind so i just re enforced my position down there as being a nit, not a bad thing to be honest.
I eventually make the final table, see sometimes bad folds work out,i was the shortstack and eventually pushed 66 into 77 to finish 6th for £120.
Home game tonight and the G have their monthly £100 game on Saturday which I hope to play, sorry for going on a bit, run good, be lucky, stay healthy.
duke3016:
--- Quote from: Erimus on February 07, 2013, 01:43:11 AM ---
Home game tonight
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pokerpops:
Hah - so you fold to some unknown when he 5bet jams vs your Kings but you wouldn"t fold to me!
First hand or not, unless someone turns over his cards and shows me AA I"m not folding Kings preflop. As you well know, even if your opponent has Aces you can always hit a King...
Home game tonight - and are you playing Saturday?
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