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duke3016:

--- Quote from: Erimus on September 27, 2013, 03:48:41 AM ---
I was also called crazy tonight, which is not a word which often describes my poker playing skills, he pushed with 33 (8 bigs) , I isolated on the button with KQ suited, and we have totally standard flip at this stage, I picked up a flush draw on the flop so I am now a slight favourite, I river the Queen, and say unlucky to the villain who says "you make some crazy calls", and off he pops.

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Erimus:
Played Galas £40er on Friday but didn"t make an impact, we lost the dealer to the cash game so I volunteered and dealt for an hour, quite enjoy dealing once in a while.

Enjoyed the first table, one guy was giving it verbals, nothing nasty was quite fun listening to him, and he actually managed to triple up because of his speech play, got a few players to spew off to him, don"t think I can add this to my game it just wouldn"t suit, although I do engage with the other players a lot more than I used to.
One thing I did disagree to was his giving advice to help other players, lets not tap the tank, tbh they wouldn"t act on any advice given.

He had just apparently qualified for the Ept in London and was telling me his total buy ins last year was £150k, he may be exaggerating but I have no reason to disbelieve him, must be odd going from £5k buy ins to the old £40er at Gala.

Made the break with 12k but didn"t improve on this, we were down to 2 tables, and I called the shorties shoves with marginal hands, raggy aces etc, was ahead in all 3 encounters but by the river was second best, wanted to get chips rather than just creep to a final table in need of help.

I finally had a win on Full Tilt on Friday as well, you may have seen on the staking thread, $1k3 from a $26 mtt, it"s odd when you get to a Final table on Tilt, the chat box starts to get busy, not from the other players the cyber beggars appear, people wishing you well and saying they have been following you and hope you win  and could you spare a few $$$.

Susan and I were supposed to be going out on Friday but as I got deeper I managed to get her to change her mind about going out and our trip to the coast was postponed.

We got to 3 handed and the discuss deal box was ticked by the other 2 players, I had about 100 bigs compared to the 15 and 20 of the other 2 so chose to ignore it, diff was about $500 for second place but I wanted to win it outright which I did finally with j9 v k 10, JJ on the turn and river, was nice to have the best hands hold on a Final table for a change, apart from the last one of course, we all need that little bit of luck.

When I got back from Gala I couldn"t sleep so later regged the $10 rebuy $3k gtee which I managed to final table, finished 7th for $131, AK < JJ in a standard spot, but was a bit more annoying because of the limpers had made it a 100k pot and would of been for chip lead, oh well, can"t win em all.

Been a few posts this month, I think I keep it pretty balanced and inform both wins and losses, hope it doesn"t come across as a sing when I am winning blog, I would like to put a bit more stuff in but tbh there is not a lot worth writing about and it"s a blog about poker so unless anything major happens keep it poker related.

The league at the G starts on Monday and all comps are getting a guarentee whether this is enough to get me to play more I am not sure, if you play the full schedule it would incur a total buy in of about £200 per week if you took add ons, rebuys etc, Do I really want to, and could I afford to pay £200 a week to play poker, I don"t think so, the only game with a decent first prize is the Tuesday game, happy with my current schedule of Sunday, Tuesday and if I have won anything the Friday game, rambled on enough, run good, be lucky stay healthy.

Erimus:
The G continues to astound me with the standard of play, almost called the td over to check for possible chip dumping, final table (that makes it 5/5), alas another near miss, really need to close these things out got £20 back finishing 7th ran into Ak with 84 suited got a flush but villain rivered a full house.

Button raises, bb flats, flop K high, bb donks 15k, dealer jams for 18k, bb mucks instantly, this looks like an obvious chip dump, if these were 2 randoms I would of definitely got the td over but they are regs and I am certain they aren"t in collusion as I have never seen them together or even speak to each other, I just think the player in the big blind is so bad he never even realised, all he had to do was ask for a count and he would of had to call.

Before play I had decided that any hand I was involved in I had to raise or reraise and it worked out in the main, I tilted one guy who had limped utg with K 10, it got the obligatory 4 limpers and I get AJ in the big blind, which I 3 bet with, he insta jams moaning about being raised all the time, I called it  off, the King hit the flop but I turned an Ace, so won a few chips of him.

Crucial hand on the ft I had around 30 bigs, utg min raises I 3 bet 99 from the cut off, he insta jams, not happy really here and I dwell fold, Ak would be the best I could hope to be against, but more than likely JJ+, AK.

Happy with the fold,but the better spot never materialised and as said finished 7th.

Last ever Breaking Bad in the morning, if you haven"t watched it, and have Netflix it"s all on there so no need to buy the box sets, even if you just take the one months free trial it"s worth it for that alone, get it watched, think it"s my favourite ever TV show, just pipping The Sopranos.

Erimus:
Binked a seat to Dtds £300 at the weekend, decision now live or online, preference would be live, anyone fancy looking after the missus, she doesn"t bite.

Erimus:
Run of final tables came to abrupt halt tonight, although I did get rather unlucky, 3 bet k 10, flatted by 88 on button, flop 10 high, I lead out he repops, I flat, turn 10 which gives me trips and second nut flush draw, I lead out 8k, he flats leaving himself 6k behind 8 on the river, obviously all goes in, sigh, oh well that"s poker, the rest goes in kq v aq which I lose.

Decided to play the live leg at Nottingham on Friday evening, although the online leg makes more sense prefer the live game, if I make day 2 got 24 hours to get Susan sorted, be good to start a run of final tables on Sunday, one time.

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