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antthecat:
hi all, long time no talk. i have played a few tourneys but first of all a tip to all, dont get engaged, its too stressful, within one month of asking the question i have had to ring venue after venue to get wedding brochures, time wasted as i could be playing poker. on a serious note it is enjoyable but i have to nip things in the bud and one of them is poker, its not completely but im limited to the occassional home game and the sunday night league game at rileys.

enough of that business, its poker talk time, i did not qualify for the top three spots in the rileys league but there is two extra spots to win via a satellite tourney, this was the usual structure but i did feel a bit of pressure, only seven turned up so five to beat. i was so card dead (not even a suited connecter to play on the button) but i played survival poker until it was 3 handed, the sb shoved (he only had 200 extra chips than me) and i found  ac jh on the bb, as i was running cold i did not want to call and lose but that hand three way is a strong hand so i called and sb had  ad1 6h, no six or freaky straight and im almost qualified, it took 2 more hands to confirm my seat (8-5 suited and i flopped a full house) and a few quid in the bargain.

last sunday was a new start to the rileys league and i was off to a awful start, 10k starting stack was crippled to 3.5k when my top two pair was crippled when his up and down straight draw hit and i was oblivious that a jack was a scary card for me. i managed to get to the final table on life support but a steal when there was two limpers and i was on the bb so i had to give no-one a chance, then a double up, then i knocked out a player, somehow called an all-in with 4-3 offsuit preflop and catching a 3 on the flop(was playing my card rush, i always play my rushes) and somehow i won. RESULT.

with a little bit of profit and on a result high i played the regular tourney at rileys on the monday, my first table was a table with very good players so out came antthecat and the bluffing and three betting light just worked, rolled 5k to 15k without risking much of my stack at any point, i took two add-on"s(as i did not rebuy) so sat with 30k after the break, i decided to let anthony play and nurse the stack to the final table (which worked when my jack"s were good enough to burst the final table button). the final table was just shove or fold so i just picked my moments and when it was down to six players i got a card rush and within 20 minutes i was heads up, i started with 120k and opponent had 85k, blinds went back and forth but i will admit i made a monumental co** up when i called his all in with queen ten offsuit, the reason being is that if he has any ace (bar ace-queen or ace-10) then it is literally who hits the board but his ace is a small percentage favourite preflop, if he has a pair lower than tens then its a coinflip, the chances of him shoving with these combinations is 80% and he has the conkers on me is 20%, so for a pretty much even shot i have to make a call knowing 4 times out of five its a flip seems like a chance i will always take, cards on their backs he had pocket sevens, he criticised my call(which is why im questioning it but i think it was a pretty balanced call given the maths, btw the blinds were 5k-10k so i had no chance to play a flop) but i hit nothing. he cripples my stack and a few minutes later he hits the killer blow then he calls my all in when i had j3 off and he had q6 suited, queen high won.

hopefully the fiance will go out tomorrow night so i can play my friends home game, if i do i will report on the madness that is poker down geldeston.

KarmaDope:
Have you set a date yet mate?  If not, tell her to get the wedding brochures herself!!

antthecat:
an update, im doing well in rileys poker league, geldeston"s home games are always profitable even though i have not took one down in a while and my trip to dtd last weekend was a success.

i was at dtd to play the rileys quarterly national, the first table i was so comfy with as 7 out of 9 players were tight (i was one of the other two loose cannons) and i was bluffing, floating, drawing, hitting, and doing really well, moved to another table and everyone was loose, i tightened up and went card dead, i finally got it all in with queens and got called with ak suited(i had 13 bb but blinds and ante"s were getting high) and a ace came on the flop, i did not improve and i was out, i waited for 30 minutes before i went to play cash (something i always do, just enough time to clear my head ready for cash) and spun £95 into £170 with my usual playing skills, i bought in for the £40 freezeout, that lasted about an hour, usual 30 minute break in which i lost my remaining profit on the roulette wheel, sat with £100 and spun it up to £205, £5 tip to the dealer and i was going home with a few quid profit.

antthecat:
there has unfortunatley nothing too much to report in the way of tourney or cash results, just been trapped into monster hands (i turned a straight but lucky punk flopped a full house, sickener) or got really bad luck as such (i went all in with a pair of sixes, got called by a very drunk player who tabled king-six of diamonds, flop had one diamond, turn a diamond and you"ve guessed it river was a diamond) but im not bothered by it, i think im playing well (when i get the opportunity to play) but monday night i spotted/witnessed something that made me so angry and at the same time has tarnished the game for me, i could not believe my eyes and ears what i was witnessing, two players at my table were telling each other their hands and passing chips to one-an-other, two cheating b******s, but that does not bother me as such, where they done it bothers me, it was a £10 deepstack freezeout at the pub, the prizepool was only £120 and the max they could have won/shared between them was £80. WHY????? if they done it anywhere else they would be banned/had the crap kicked out of them but as they are well respected down the pub no-one would have believed me if i questioned their act. my suspicion first came when one did not want to show his hole cards at a showdown between them, i was only curious so i asked for the hand to be exposed, he did not show so i flipped his hand over(bad manners) and his exposed hand was the winning hand, he didnt even say thanks(he could have misread his hand and did not realise he won) as he grudgingly pulled in the pot. few minutes later i was involved in a pot with them both, first villan announced as he raised "Jay would raise with this" and his buddy-villan as he called said "im seeing kate", that conversation seemed odd, my mind recalled silly names for hands and "Jay" is Jack or Jacks and kate is king-eight(bit obvious realy), i played the pot with this info and my king-seven split the pot when i shovved on the river on a  kd 9s 4d 5s 5h as i knew it was a split pot, first villan folded but second villan called with king-eight, thinking he was clever first villan showed the jacks and said something about it was a good fold but he was pissed off that he could not pass the whole pot to his buddy. at that point i was so angry inside i just wanted to knock them both out or go out and as one set me all in pre i happily called called my whole stack off with  :3d: 4d, he had ak and i lost, i just wanted to get out. i went round my friends(whom a lot of them play at this pub) and warned them of what ive seen.

now im thinking about playing less poker, its a sad time when people want to cheat a £10 friendly card game and as im on limited funds i find it so annoying that its one less place to have a fun poker night.

antthecat:
just posting to say variance is a pain in the backside, no results due to always bubbling the money spots, i know what im doing wrong, shoving light to steal blinds as players "should" fold everything but the nuts pre and happily let me steal their blinds, nope im getting called super light and getting unlucky. time for a change, im coming back to online poker so everyone can win/take my money from me. i should be playing on betfair soon.

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