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If Carlsberg did dull poker blogs, they'd do this one
monkeyman:
My cash table holiday continues and tonight I sat down for 888"s $33 Friday Challenge. I didn"t cash (282nd out of 846) but was staggered at how bad the standard of play was for the buy-in. There is a temptation to say to hell with bankroll control,forget cash play, play only once a week and play this all the time as I"m 99.9% certain I"d make a good profit in it. I won"t do that though. Oh, no.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWbNRGV8jL0[/youtube]
monkeyman:
Time for a shot at the WSOP tonight courtesy of my friends at Betfair. Apparently I"ve got a ticket for a freeroll where the one and only prize is a $5700 side event package (I think its events 54 & 56). With only 2000 starting chips and 8 minute levels its probably going to be all-in or fold all the way, so I"ll probably get knocked out in time to have a crack at something else
monkeyman:
803 runners and after 1.75 hours I went out in 76th with my pocket tens being rivered by an AQ. Probably wouldn"t have been able to get the time off work anyway >:(
monkeyman:
Woo hoo, success at last. This little beauty was a mammoth £1.10 buy-in, £20 guaranteed tourney on Sky which netted me a £17.60 first prize. There"s no stopping me now.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbxcwPuYkkE [/youtube]
monkeyman:
No play tonight, but I feel a little bit better after catching JP Kelly play a hand in a very strange way in one of the SCOOP events last night. It was 6-handed and I believe was in the highest buy-in of the three tournaments. He raised UTG, was 3bet from later position and called the 3bet. The flop had two aces and he check called. I can"t remember how the action went on the turn, but when the river had been dealt, the board contained two aces,two fives and a possible flush. On the river he again check/called and lost the pot when his opponent turned over A 10. Aside from flat calling a 3 bet then check/calling the same opponent twice on such a scary board, I have absolutely no idea what he put his opponent on that made him think he was winning. It cost half his stack. Maybe as I"m only a humble amateur and he is a world class pro, maybe there is some genius-level thinking in his play that my poor little brain can"t handle, but if someone had done the same in a $10 tourney, I"d have been rolling around laughing.
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