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Erimus:
The G delivers again tonight, managed to chop 4 ways tonight"s tournament for £195 each, got to be happy with that, was down to 6 bigs on the bubble, when I limp with AA from the cut off, the big blind picked up a flush draw, but I managed to hold for a full double to about 16 bigs, bubble bursts, I jam KQ into A Q, Kingball cheers dealer, we have a about 95k now with blinds at 3k/6k, there are only 450k chips in play and a quick count indicates we all have similar stacks, so we agreed a 4 way chop, was just shove or fold at this point so we agree to chop it up.
Chipstack was up and down tonight, scooped a big one with k9 dd after I 3 bet 2 limpers from the button, original limper jams 88, post flop, second limper has A 5 dd, 2 diamonds on the flop, turn and river bring 99.
I lose the minimum with KK, on a paired, straight, flushy board, he turned trips, and rivered the straight, so back to 30 bigs on the ft.
Utg raises 2.5 xI decide to flat 10 10 in the small blind, flop comes down 8 high, I check he leads out, , I click it back and he jams it all in, I tank and fold my 10 10, put him on JJ+, he showed pocket 8 for a set on the flop, good fold then although got the cards wrong I was pretty sure I was beat.
Had a really good day in York with Phil and a few others on Saturday, the place was heaving but the atmosphere was great not a hint of trouble any where, first time in a while I have had a good drink, felt a bit flat on Sunday for some reason and nearly didn"t bother with the G but glad I did.
Managed to late reg the online champs on my return, lost a few with AK on. K J x board the j giving villain a set, get back into it but then get it in good with QQ v AK for a decent stack, k on the flop sealed my fate, tbh I don"t think I would have lasted till the end of the tourney as I was cream crackered.
Full Tilt has started poorly, only one final table so far, variance giving me a quick reminder that poker can be a pretty brutal game, one minute you can do nothing wrong the next you are the biggest donk on the planet.
I have transferred some cash from that stake over to Dtd to play a few sats for their Golden chips and summer series events, probably start playing a few of those this week.
We had a bit of a scene at the ft tonight, I was not involved, old guy bets out when a 3rd club got there on the river against some who has bet all the way, who decided to call the old guy, a lucky b******d, which is out of order, old guy throws his cards towards the muck and the old guy was really upset, quite understandable tbh, management got involved and the cards were allowed to be turned over, the flush had got there so was awarded the pot, although the young guy insisted they were in the muck, he eventually said he would concede the pot as an apology, actually the flush won any way, he did apologise but it left a pretty sour atmosphere for a while.
The young guy involved I had given him a bad beat on Tuesday with QQ v KK, and was seated to my left on the first table tonight and he started the evening by complaining to me how lucky I was last week, really !!!, time to get over it, let it go and move on.
run good , be lucky stay healthy.
pokerpops:
Have to wonder whether Mr BadBeat is cut out for this game. If he was a little more pleasant I might take him to one side and explain stuff to him, but I find it hard to like him.
Always pleased to see him at the table though...
Good luck in the DTD satellites - try and avoid taking my chips though. Please.
Erimus:
2 posts in a week but got to post the negatives as well as the positives, although it does end well.
After Sundays cash I popped along to The deepstack on Monday, 20k in chips to start and around 30 runners, the table was great, ie if I get a hand or two will be up to 60 k within the hour, alas it wasn"t to be and was down to 15k at the break.
Dr Donk has returned, you may remember him from previous ramblings he managed to dust off 40k before the break to the rest of the table, I can understand if they were coolers but the hands which I saw he went to showdown with were just bizarre, any way it"s a bit of fun on a Monday night.
To cut a long story short got my chips in good with JJ v AK v A3, after the break and I was left with a bowl after the k hit the flop.
Tuesday was the £2k gtee which would be interesting to see what numbers this got as Gala were having a £2k5 gtee on the same night £60 buy in as opposed to Gs £30/£30.
It got about 28 runners and there was another £500 ish overlay the 3 rd in 3 weeks, all the 2 casinos doing is spitting the already small player pool and giving away free money, long may this continue.
I managed to get to 25k before the add on period and with 40 bigs after the break didn"t bother with the add on, it"s only a 20 min clock after the break and I try and change gears after the break to get enough chips to get to the final table and am quite comfy with 40 bigs.
I manage to chip up until I raise AK utg get flatted by q8 in the big blind, flop comes AQ8, I lead get called , check check, I bet small on the river, a blocker bet as this particular person will never check raise unless she has it, she min clicks it back and I pay her off, 2 pair is good.
Eventually jam 66 with 12 bigs, AQ tank calls, ffs get it in man, I lose and I A high flop sees my demise.
I normally don"t play cash but with the £30 in my pocket there was a spare seat next to Dave, I sat with £30 and indicated I won"t be reloading just doubling or going, get it all in with AK v KJ, 4 card straight hits, Betty gets me again 2 nights running, still not a fan of cash, although seeing the spurious plays down there it would be profitable in the long run I would imagine, just can"t be bothered to grind it back if I lost a few coolers plus I don"t have a live bankroll to play properly and am not comfortable losing a few hundred in a night or two so will continue to swerve unless I am feeling in the mood.
I get home about 12 and late reg the $3k rebuy on tilt, and at about 3:45am go to bed $ 640 to the good, finished 2/166, needed that result as confidence was a bit low as I was down about $400 the previous week.
Even though I say I was down $400 i am not I am still $4k5 up since January, so I unless I lose $4k6 I am not actually losing, this highlights how this game messes with your head thinking you are losing when you are actually winning.
Played the $5k superstack yesterday and finished 13/566 for $45 which is frustrating after 6 hours play, I ran QQ into KK into 88, cooler really all about 25 bigs deep, the 8 scooped the lot, I was always behind the KK so not a bad beat as such, would of had a moan if I held the KK though, lol.
Played a few golden chip sats on Dtd made 3 fts but havent won one tbh not sure whether I will bother with them, they are as frustrating as the $2.50 180 manners on Stars, may put the cash back on Tilt will let all stakees know what I am doing with them in next few days.
Saturday brings the £100 monthly at the G, because of last Sundays cash I can play this and probably will but it means my profit from that game has been wiped out and would of had a break even week which is ok with me.
May treat myself to the new I pad, buy now pay when the stake ends, thanks for reading run good, be lucky stay healthy.
Chipaccrual:
I get as frustrated as you do with the DTD Golden Chip satellites. There is a minimal skill element due to the structure and fact that it"s a 1 in 12 shot at a GC.
I"m also convinced with the number of familiar faces playing these on a regular basis that there is plenty of soft play going on. It"s fairly obvious, yet would never be proved.
I"ve got 2 chips so far, but am pretty much breakeven across the satellites I have played. One player has 7 chips, that is some serious run good going on there.
If you are definitely planning on playing the Grand Prix, then I would persevere with them, as with the new merged stacks rule, if you can get through on the back of a GC early on, then there is a lot to be said for playing a reasonable amount of extra day 1"s, looking to get that stack increased prior to the Day 2.
pokerpops:
--- Quote from: Chipaccrual on July 11, 2013, 12:34:32 PM ---
I get as frustrated as you do with the DTD Golden Chip satellites. There is a minimal skill element due to the structure and fact that it"s a 1 in 12 shot at a GC.
I"m also convinced with the number of familiar faces playing these on a regular basis that there is plenty of soft play going on. It"s fairly obvious, yet would never be proved.
I"ve got 2 chips so far, but am pretty much breakeven across the satellites I have played. One player has 7 chips, that is some serious run good going on there.
If you are definitely planning on playing the Grand Prix, then I would persevere with them, as with the new merged stacks rule, if you can get through on the back of a GC early on, then there is a lot to be said for playing a reasonable amount of extra day 1"s, looking to get that stack increased prior to the Day 2.
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The guy with 7 chips appears to be playing every game that runs including the £1 feeders. There are a bunch of regulars on these and that has been the case for most of the GPs, but I don"t think I"ve seen anything too OOL in terms of collusion.
To merge, or not to merge? I"m aiming for 3 or 4 Golden Chips and if I make Day 2 with the first then I will be forced to play the rest and hope to merge, but I don"t think I"d spend cash on merging if I made Day 2 on the 4th.
Being top 10% is hard to do once....
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