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Aces and Agony - An APAT'ers blog of the highs and lows of poker ( and life!)
amcgrath1uk:
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--- Quote from: amcgrath1uk on June 22, 2012, 22:19:38 PM ---
Very little time to play and having to withdraw pretty much everything from my bankroll sucks.
Managed to play a lil bit during the week. Managed to win my 1st tourny of the year on Stars, however was the $3.30 Horse for a whopping $44.
Will update properly when I get time ( I think tomorrow afternoon as I"ve a few things I want to post!)
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That"s a great result though, I would be really happy to get $44 in a $3.30 tournament ROI ftw.
Also if you want a bigger BR why not sell some action. APAT has a staking board now. I would buy a piece and I would not be the only one I know.
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Cheers Rodders for the confidence :)
Just watching the rest of the footy, and if I don"t fall asleep after I"ll respond!
amcgrath1uk:
Stocktake is over and done with, and the important thing is the result was good meaning I can relax a little bit! Not much time to relax however. I"m off today, working late tomorrow and early, if for a short time on Friday. Then I have the weekend off, but starting Monday I have the joys of leading a team in moving our stock around to make room for new stock. It means a hell of a lot of work, both in terms of preparation and actual grafting. The full joy of this is the end date, 9th July, happens to be the start date of our seasonal promotion, basically means I"ll be putting really long shifts in combined with imaginitive time management!
What it does mean is that I have today off so am putting my meagre bankroll to the test on stars.
16 tournaments with a total buy in of $82. Playing all sorts, HORSE, Omaha, Hyper Turbo NL Holdem, Omaha Hi/Lo and the usual structure NL Holdem.
Have done fairly well in the Horse/8 games recently, last 4 I"ve played Ive won 1, finished 4th, finished 10th and bubbled. Seem to do particularly well in Razz and Triple Draw Lowball for some reason. ( No skill involved proberly)
The weekend off also means I get the opportunity to play live for the first time since Cardiff. Pretty certain to be playing Friday night and Sunday afternoon but will see how I am.
amcgrath1uk:
Also wanted to mention that I love how APAT has set up it"s Staking Board. It is something that I will be looking to use in the future, but not quite yet, purely as there are a couple of spots in my game I want to improve upon before I do. Also a couple of results would also help! Unfortunately, the lack of a stable rota at the moment means I never know too far in advance what I can play ( unless I book time off).
I"ve been staked in the past, and through it, ended up winning my biggest buy in tournament online, so I would quite enjoy doing so again!
Anyways, let"s see how today goes!
amcgrath1uk:
16 tournaments, just 1 cash, a frustrating 39th in the $11 turbo for $72, where I ran Ad 10d into the bb"s JJ.
amcgrath1uk:
Finished earlyish on Friday so played both Friday and Saturday night at the G in Manchester.
The last time I played the Friday, it was £10 for 5k chips, then £5 for a further 5k twice. This time, it was £10 for 5k chips, then £10 for 5k more chips. Not a problem either way in my eyes. The fact they moved the blind starting at 50/100 from 25/50 meant that by level 4, the ave bb was 20!
Anyway, managed to get up to 8.5k 1st hand with a flush over flush, then rivered twice, holding Q6 on a Q672 board, with some random French bloke deciding Q10 was good despite I"d reraised on the flop and reshoved all in on the turn. 10 on the river. Thanks dealer.
2 hands later, get it in on a 235J board with A4, called by 32, river 2.
I was only intending to play Friday night, but was at a loose end on Saturday so went and played the new £30 f/out with 8k chips. Again starting at 50/100 not exactly the greatest structure. Maybe that"s why it only got 27 runners? Or possibly something to do with the ridiculous traffic around Manchester thanks to a small concert going on!
Again, get up to 14k quickly, lose 3k with JJ v 10 9 on a 10 hi flop, then lose 7.5k KK v JJ, J on the flop. Nearly managed to check behind on the river but it wasn"t a scary board. So we get to 200/400 in level 4 and I have 3.2k. Shove with 9h 4h on the button, hit the 9 to double up 2 hands before the break.
Sit down in the sports lounge for 25 mins watching Murray then back to it. Get up to 9k again quickly, then call a min raise with JJ in the bb, QJx flop, and get a full double up from AQ. Play at the table was absolutely manic, we were down to 15 in no time at all, and before we get down to 10, win KK v AQ and then the vital hand. A raise from mid position and a caller, and with 4500 in the pot, I"m calling any 2 in my bb. I look down at Ah Kh. I have been pretty active and with both stacks having just less than me, I just open shove. Get a rather surprising call from A 10 os and a K on the flop makes me the big stack on the final.
I try not to play first hand on the final table, and I"m glad I didn"t! I had QJ suited after a limper, so fold, 2 shorties shove and the limper ( called 800) decided to call 15k off with 32os, and of course flops 2 pair. The same guy kept on making crazy plays and calls, and we"re on the bubble with 5 left at 600/1200! The mad drunk old guy is raising everything, so I just pick my spots and reraise strongly and he folds every time!
Crazy old guy continues his mayhem and knocks out the others so we"re heads up and he has a 6:1 chip advantage. Within 10 minutes, I"m level, as he calls me off with everything. Then the flip A8 vs QJ and he of course hits.
So 2nd for £270 which was decent enough. Go to take my wallet out at the cash desk, oh ****. Could I find it? Check everywhere I"d been in the casino, then talk to the manager on duty. She goes back to where I was sat in the sports lounge, there"s some random bloke sat where I had been, he gets up, he"s only sat on it! Nothing missing. Mega bonus!!
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