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thinsy147:
The Sky"s The Limit
You shouldn"t have favorites! All things should be equal! But....
Last night was my second night trying out my newly opened poker account on SkyPoker. The first night didn"t go well so I gave it a few weeks before trying again but nothing had changed.
My first failind last night was when I had AA in the BB. UTG+2 made a call (just like he has on virtually every hand so far!). Then the DB made a 3x raise, I 3x re-raise, UTG+2 calls as does the DB. Flop comes 6 5 3. I bet half the pot, UTG+2 min raises (as he has done previously only to get lucky on an all-in) DB folds. I decide this guy can"t keep getting lucky so shove all-in!! As it turned out, he already had!! It seems the way forward in online poker is to call a raise and a re-raise with 6 3 offsuit!!!
I then had four races: 88 v AKss, AQ v AJ, 99 v J9, 55 v A4..... Lost them all.
Finally trying to steal on the button with QJ the BB calls. Flop comes J high, rainbow flop, no conecting cards... Perfect. Bet half pot, get shoved on, call, BB shows AA!
Because of all this I will not stop playing on SkyPoker. However, I will stop playing on it because for some reason it seems to run slow on my laptop and often leaves me with very little time to act (it may be their fault, it may be my laptop but I don"t have a problem on other sites). Also, I just don"t feel comfortable playing on the site. Sorry Sky but for that reason I"m out!! (well, once I"ve donked off my remaining £14 bankroll)
thinsy147:
Jobs A Good"un
A few posts back I wrote about the good news of me becoming a dad....
Then, I mentioned the not so good news about becoming redundant.....
Now I can declare some more good news.......
I have a new job lined up...
My new boss likes poker, my new boss is giving me weekends off, and if I make lots of money for my new boss he will pay for me to play a few APAT events next year. My new boss is actually a member on here.... In fact, I can reveal my new boss is going to be ME
The opportunity came about during a party after a few ciders had been consumed! But having spent time researching I"ve decided it"s something I have to give a go....
thinsy147:
The preparations for my new job venture is going well. I"ve bought a van but unfortunately this means my previous mode of transport has to be sold:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.94701527198.89443.571347198&type=1&l=cb0e2ff1e7
Now which one of you guys want to buy the missus a nice Christmas present?
thinsy147:
Sky High
Went back to SkyPoker last night to give it another try:
Played their £11 Bounty Hunter which started at 9.30pm. Things went quietly for the first hour, won a little, lost a little and gradually built my 2K starting stack upto nearly 3K. I then lost about 1K with KJ v KQ on a K high flop. At this time I was expecting the usual shoving and losing routine, but it didn"t happen. I doubled up twice and had about 6K.
Soon after this I got moved to another table, and was reaquainted with a very loose/agressive player who got taken from our starting table earlier and he had a lot of chips!! I was the DB on his BB and thought I could get an easy double up when the right hand is dealt. So, I stole his BB a couple of times and eventually got my double up from him. He"d obviously been running over this table for a while and now I"d taken the wind out of his sails it was my turn to progress....
Before I knew it I had risen to 4th in chips with 3 tables left (18 players). This table was difficult though, six handed with the top two chip leaders and me! However, the chip leader began to take players out left and centre (not the right, that was me) including the 2nd chip leader with 55 v AQ on a 55A flop, followed by a Q on the turn!
Down to 2 tables I was 3rd in chips, but chip leader on my table with double the next player, so I bullied my way to the final table. The chipleader was still the same "Quad fives player" who immediately knocked out another player with Quad Queens I think. I then knocked a player out to go 2nd in chips. 4th place was eliminated by the 3rd place guy but was handsomely rewarded with chips from the chipleader too. This left me 3/3. I played fairly tight for three handed but felt the aggression from the other two would see me ladder to HU!
I went into Heads Up 8-1 behind in chips.. Managed to turn it round to a 8-1 chip advantage but couldn"t get the job finished. The last hand was when we were roughly even in chips, I called a small raise with T8 (spades) and the flop came 79T. He shoved, I called, he had TJ. No help.
I was happy with my game, happy with the result. Just over £350 for 2nd and just over £50 in bounties ;D
pables:
N1 Colin, keep it going :)
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