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Welcome to yet another blog........
This one won"t be all about poker though. It"ll be all about the exciting boring bits on the days when if anything good (or bad, or funny) ever happens!!
So, let me start by telling you a little about myself:
- I was born in Liverpool but never lived there.
- I spent the first 3 months of my life in Alder Hey Hospital. Alder Hey was retaining patients organs without parental consent between 1988-1995, which was brought to light during a public inquiry in 1999. Although my father is pretty convinced they removed a brain somewhere between June and September of 1971.
- I moved to Norfolk in 1977/8 with my parents due to my fathers new job!
- I raced motorbikes from the age of 9-13
- I"ve worked in the same job for the last 18 years!
- I have the occasional OCD moment!
My main interests besides poker are snooker, pool, going out and drinking. The majority of my posts on this blog will include these subjects. Here"s a quick summary of my success/failures so far:
Poker
Been playing for at least 8 years!
Played in 3 APAT events so far:
LUTON 2009 - finished 26th
NOTTINGHAM 2009 - finished badly
LUTON 2010 - finished 3rd
Snooker
Been playing for 25 years (coaching 10 years):
Highest Break - 136
Norfolk Singles - Runner-up in 1997/8
POOL
This is really just an opportunity to go out drinking with the lads! However I have managed to win the league singles competition a couple of times.
GOING OUT
Our local pub has regular bands playing and you can"t beat live music. This is also a good chance to partake in my next subject too.....
DRINKING
Cider/Vodka "n" lemonade
More to follow.......
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;D I was in a karaoke "band" in the 90"s called "Norfolk n Good" that
ruined horribly songs and brought terror joy to the masses around Stockton .. good times :)
Good luck with the blog look forward to reading.
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good start with the blog
whilst you are correct that calling off your stack on the bubble is bad, limping in pre is even worse. Just fold there, doesn"t matter that the short stack only has <2BB. You are easily exploited by the large stack when you limp.
shoving is better than limping here.
keep up the good work with the blog
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In this situation, with a guy with last than 2xBB, I"m insta folding TJo in this spot. In fact I fold it so vehemently, I"m in danger of putting my forefinger right through the top of my mouse!
Even shoving in this spot is really bad - if we assume the big stack folds, the shortstack has to call his last 100 chips, and we are going to win the hand 55% of the time (TJo vs random hand). For the 45% of the time that we lose, we double him up and close the gap between us as shortstacks, and are in the BB next hand. If the BB wakes up with a hand, and calls anything in the top 15% of his range, the shorty rubs his hands in glee and folds, and we are a 30% dog to bust out.
With such a shortstack in play, there is very little point us entering the hand with anything worse than top 5% - we risk our entire tournament equity, when it"s highly likely that folding here will get us into the money. If the shorty happens to double up, or the BB gives him a walk, we still have distance between our stack and the short stack.
If our seat positions were different, and we had the big stack on our right, we can shove over the shorty SB v BB every time..... but it just isn"t worth taking the risk of shoving through the big stack here. If our stack and the short stack are closer, or if we have fold equity over the shortstack (ie he has enough chips to fold), then shoving here is ok - but definitely not in the specific example.
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Thanks for your thoughts on this situation. My thinking is that if both the bigger stacks check it down then both have a better chance of securing the money spots (two chances of him getting beat)! But it seems not everyone is as nice as me and willing to check it down.
Derren Brown Review to follow................. SOON!!!!!!!
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I think if you are a big stack and your hand has any value, then checking down is a major leak - so as a mid stack, I would not be expecting any favours from the nig stack
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Oi stop this blog immediately. its already about a thousand times more interesting than my dredge through tedious stats and iffy heavy metal videos. This county is only big enough for one blog ::)
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GOING OUT
DERREN BROWN - 13/4/2011
It seems that there are two types of people. Ones who say Who"s he? and the others who say Oh, wow... He"s amazing! Well, I am definately one of the latter but, you watch his shows on TV (at least I do!) and think "Yeah, BUT" And you could convince yourself that with all the editing possibilities these days you can make the show look good.... Let me tell you, his show lasted about 2 1/2 hours and everything was perfect. I don"t care whether he does it through cheating, lying, mind control or whatever... the bloke is a GENIUS!
I would love to tell you all what happened but Derren demanded that we don"t and, to be honest, seeing what he IS capable of I daren"t tell you!!!! HE WOULD KNOW!! ;D
All I would say is:
If he"s coming to a theatre near you.... GO AND SEE HIM!
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Been to see him and he is awesome. But he also ordered a camcorder from my web site which unfortunately was out of stock........ you"d have thought he"d have known! :)
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Been to see him and he is awesome. But he also ordered a camcorder from my web site which unfortunately was out of stock........ you"d have thought he"d have known! :)
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this made me LOL hard.
There are no such things as psychics but there are people who are experts in the human mind and the way they display these skills would make for a great show, I"d imagine.
I may even go myself if I get the chance.
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I can"t imagine anyone on this site not enjoying an evening with Derren Brown.
Mind games, body language, mis-direction, deception..... Sounds very similar to a game of poker doesn"t it? ;D
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I am a big Derren Brown fan.
Seen him live twice, read the book, watched the TV series etc etc.
The thing is I know how to do most of the stuff he does, what makes him so entertaining is that he executes it perfectly and also mixes many different techniques into one. Sometimes when he is doing something you think is amazing mind control its actually a really simple trick. Other times you think hes doing something simple and its taken years of dedicated practice to perfect.
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Snooker
Tomorrow is the start of the 2011 Bedfred.com World Snooker Championship in Sheffield. The 17 day event will start, as always, with the defending champion"s opening match. So Neil Robertson, the "Thunder from Down Under" will begin at 10am on Saturday.
Throughout the tournament I will be making my predictions and sharing my thoughts for each round:
Round 1
Neil Robertson v Judd Trump
This is a tasty start to the championship, the defending champion up against the winner of the previous tournament (China Open). I think this could go either way but I"m going for Neil to win although it will probably be a close scoreline (10-8)
Jamie Cope v Andrew Pagett
Jamie isn"t having the best of seasons so this is probably the best draw he could have wished for. Andrew is a good player but it is his first televised appearance and, of course, his first time at the Crucible so nerves will play a big part (as it does with most first time appearancees). Jamie to win (10-4)
Ali Carter v Dave Harrold
Dave is a hardened and experienced match player but I think Ali is good at taking it in his stride and will be a reasonably comfortable winner. Ali to win (10-5)
Mark Williams v Ryan Day
Another exciting match this. Mark has recently found form and dragged his ranking up from around 40 two years ago to a comfortable top 4 spot. Saying that, Ryan performed fantastically well against Ronnie O"Sullivan earlier in the season and showed some real promise. A close match I think with Mark coming out a close winner. Mark to win (10-9)
Shaun Murphy v Marcus Campbell
Shaun always comes out to win. It"s what you turn up for! I can"t see Marcus creating too much trouble here. Shaun to win (10-4)
Ding JunHui v Jamie Burnett
Ding is a strong contender for the title and usually performs a good solid performance, so another convincing win here I feel. Ding to win (10-3)
Stephen Hendry v Joe Perry
I see this as the first non-seeded player to take a victory. Stephen is struggling with consistency and this competition is all about consistency. Joe to win (10-7)
Stephen Maguire v Barry Hawkins
This is likely to be a fairly agressive match but I can only see one winner. Stephen to win (10-7)
Ronnie O"Sullivan v Dominic Dale
How can I predict this? Not even Ronnie can predict which "Ronnie" will turn up!! However, the only way I can see Dominic winning is if Ronnie doesn"t turn up at all. I"m going to hope a good Ronnie arrives and produces a speedy win. Ronnie to win (10-2)
Peter Ebdon v Stuart Bingham
My second prediction of a seeded player upset is in this match. Don"t think it will be exciting though! Stuart to win (10-8)
Marco Fu v Martin Gould
Martin had a wonderful time at the Crucible last year (until he let a 11-5 lead slip and eventually lose to Neil Robertson 13-12. These scars may hinder his performance. Marco to win (10-6)
Ricky Walden v Rory McLeod
Rory is a solid and steady "journey man" player and it will all come down to how much Ricky wants to win... He usually does want to! Ricky to win (10-8)
Graeme Dott v Mark King
Graeme has had a tough season where as Mark is producing good results. I think it"s Graemes match to lose... And he will! Mark to win (10-6)
Mark Allen v Matthew Stevens
Mark is another player who is having an uneventful season. Matthew on the other hand is on the same path as his fellow countryman (Mark Williams) and self confidence will be high. Matthew to win (10-8)
John Higgins v Stephen Lee
This match should be a good one. Both players are showing great form and determination. But the best man will win! John to win (10-6)
Mark Selby v Jimmy Robertson
Along with Andrew Pagett, Jimmy is entering new and undiscovered territory. Unfortunately for him he"s got one of the toughest match players around today and will be punished if he lets the gaze of the lights shine too long! Mark to win (10-3)
Now lets wait and see if I"m good at this prediction thing!! ;D
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Snooker
Thanks for the huge response to my snooker predictions!!!! ::)
I guess there"s not too many snooker fans here... Well, I"ll carry on regardless :P
So, we"re half way through the first round and I have successfully predicted five winners out of the eight matches played, although I haven"t predicted a correct scoreline (I did get one scoreline right, just the wrong winner!).
Results so far:
Judd Trump beat Neil Robertson (10-8)
Jamie Cope beat Andrew Pagett (10-7)
Ali Carter beat Dave Harrold (10-3)
Mark Williams beat Ryan Day (10-5)
Shaun Murphy beat Marcus Campbell (10-1)
Ding Junhui beat Jamie Burnett (10-2)
Stephen Hendry beat Joe Perry (10-9)
Barry Hawkins beat Stephen Maguire (10-9)
More to follow............................ (sorry)
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Snooker
If anyone has followed my predictions for the first round they would have noticed I got a couple right. Wish I had made that trip to the bookies now!! I also had a couple of close ones and a couple of correct scores but just picked the wrong winners! With the start of the second round matches today, I"ve prepared my predictions:
M. Williams v J. Cope (13-8)
J. Trump v M. Gould (13-7)
G. Dott v A. Carter (10-13)
M. Allen v B. Hawkins (13-8)
S. Murphy v R. O"Sullivan (10-13)
S. Hendry v M. Selby (9-13) *assuming Mark Selby wins his first round match (currently 8-1)
D. Junhui v S. Bingham (13-6)
R. McLeod v J. Higgins (7-13) *assuming John Higgins wins his first round match (currently 6-3)
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Snooker
If anyone has followed my predictions for the first round they would have noticed I got a couple right. Wish I had made that trip to the bookies now!! I also had a couple of close ones and a couple of correct scores but just picked the wrong winners! With the start of the second round matches today, I"ve prepared my predictions:
M. Williams v J. Cope (13-8)
J. Trump v M. Gould (13-7)
G. Dott v A. Carter (10-13)
M. Allen v B. Hawkins (13-8)
S. Murphy v R. O"Sullivan (10-13)
S. Hendry v M. Selby (9-13) *assuming Mark Selby wins his first round match (currently 8-1)
D. Junhui v S. Bingham (13-6)
R. McLeod v J. Higgins (7-13) *assuming John Higgins wins his first round match (currently 6-3)
yep u"ve had at least 1 look :)
agree with the above [for likely winner,not the frames] accept for Dotty, he gave Del Hill a visit before the crucible and the once-over it seems has produced some good form... Dotty with confidence is a tough nut to crack, so i think/hope that he"ll squeak through by the odd frame versus the Captain...
obv would luv to see ronn win the whole thing and if not Dotty or MJ Laid back Williams... but alas it would seem Higgins is the man to beat...
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Snooker
Ok. So I got all but one winner right, predicted the correct score for the John Higgins match and got within one frame of a couple of others!! Here comes my Quarter Final predictions:
J. Trump v G. Dott (13-9)
M. Williams v M. Allen (13-11)
D. Junhui v M. Selby (10-13)
R. O"Sullivan v J. Higgins (13-12)
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SNOOKER EXTRA
The Norwich & District Snooker League Singles Tournament - Semi-finals (27th April 2011)
Table One was a one sided display of excellent snooker with Jamie Edwards winning 4-0 with help from a couple of 50+ breaks and a maximum attempt in the final frame eventually missing the 13th red on 96.
Table Two wasn"t quite so one sided... It brought together the defending champion (and winner for the last three years) Nick Spelman, and the under 19"s champion for the last three years, Grant Miles (also my team-mate).
Frame 1: After an edgy start by both players Nick was first to settle making a clearance of 85 to take the frame. (1-0)
Frame 2: Grant had the first opportunity and settled his nerves with a nice 44 break, a good safety, then a steady 24 to secure the frame. (1-1)
Frame 3: Both Nick and Grant had chances spawned in the first half of the frame which seen Nick create a 24 point lead , but a quality 60 clearance from Grant saw him take the lead for the first time in the match. (1-2)
Frame 4: Theres usually always an uneventful frame in any match and this match was no exception. A scrappy frame with Grant eventually coming out the winner. (1-3)
Frame 5: Nick, now with his back against the wall and needing to win three frames in a row proved he was up for the challenge winning with a well constructed 53 break. (2-3)
Frame 6: Nick had entered "The Zone" and produced two very quick and confident 40+ breaks to force the decider. (3-3)
Frame 7: Having sat out for two frames the pressure was now on Grant, he needed to dig deep and find a little bit of magic which he did in the form of a match winning 77 break to reach his first ever final in this competition. (3-4)
Final to be played: 3rd May 2011 - Report to follow
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Snooker
So it"s Semi-finals time and I"d predicted two winners and got two wrong! It seems trying to predict the scores is impossible but I will still have a go:
Judd Trump v Ding Junhui (17-12)
Mark Williams v John Higgins (17-14)
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I spent the weekend moving. :o
I now have a live-in partner (technically my partner has a live-in me)!! It was a huge decision to make and took me probably a couple of months to come to the following conclusion:
shared bills & less overheads = BIGGER BANKROLL
Anyway, due to the house change I have been without internet and was unable to complete my predictions on the:
Snooker
So I"ll predict it now:
J. Higgins v J. Trump (18-15) 8)
Ok. maybe I"ve cheated a bit! To be honest I would have gone the other way and picked Judd to win just because he made the tournament that bit more exciting! What a great future this young lad has....
Judd has been likened to the next Alex Higgins, Jimmy White, Ronnie O"Sullivan but one of the amazing facts in our wonderful world where Derren Brown states "Nothing is Random":
Alex Higgins (would have been 63) was 14 years senior to Jimmy White (49)
Jimmy White (49) is 14 years senior to Ronnie O"Sullivan (35)
And guess what?
Ronnie O"Sullivan (35) is 14 years older than Judd Trump (21)
How Random is that? Or is it!!
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Snooker Extra
It was the final of the Norwich and District Snooker League last night but the match wasn"t that exciting so I will spare all the details!!
Jamie Edwards beat Grant Miles 5-1.
Judging by the mass of interest in my last few posts it seems snooker isn"t that popular amongst most of you so I sill swiftly move on to the great sport of Tiddly-Winks!! :o
Maybe not!!!
Instead here"s a link to the wonderful view I have from workplace every day. ;D
http://www.glavenvalley.co.uk/pages/else/webcam.php
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Unfortunately I still have nothing of any importance to report. Due to moving house I"ve managed to leave myself with no internet for about another week, therefore no online poker. (I tried playing poker in work once but always got a customer when I had a good hand!)
Anyway, after spending an hour or so moving boxes into the attic last night, I decided it was time for me and the missus to go to the pub! Wednesday"s are a good pub night due to the:
Live Music
The band was called Agent Orange and played songs such as:
99 Red balloons (that French girl!)
I am the one and only (Chesney Hawks)
They did also do some stuff from Queen, Green Day, Kings of Leon and, the cider and vodka (not together) flowed quite well so not a too bad night.
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Unfortunately I still have nothing of any importance to report.
Okay, I won"t bother reading the rest in that case.
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Unfortunately I still have nothing of any importance to report.
Okay, I won"t bother reading the rest in that case.
Sometimes what seems unimportant at the time can become one of the most important things in your life!! Always take note of small detail no matter how irrelivant it seems at the time ;)
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Ok everybody... Brace yourself!!! I"m actually going to comment about:
Poker
Last Tuesday was the first time i played poker of any kind (on-line/off-line) for about 3 weeks and had decided to invest my bankroll :o in the Tuesday £5 Re-Buy Donk-fest game @ Holt! :P
2500 chips for £5, 15 minute blinds: 25/50, 50/100, 75/150, 100/200 (+3 hands), [end of re-buys], 150/300, 200/400 etc etc...
After playing the first hand of AK quite strongly, re-raising a raiser (3 of us going to the flop) betting out on the 9 high flop, and eventually losing to the river"d Q against AQ I decided to play quite loose...... :P
A little later I had pocket 10"s, raised to 400 (blinds 50/100) and got called by a chap who didn"t seem too confident with his game. The flop came J 3 4, I decided to shove my remaining 1900 chips with the reasoning that if he has hit the Jack I can always have yet another Re-Buy! Anyway he calls, I say so you have a Jack, he says nothing and turns A 4, the A on the turn and blank on the river sealed the deal and sent me on another walk of shame to the Re-Buy table! I did get a little lucky after spending a total of £30 and finished up at the end of the Re-Buy period with about 8000 chips!
With the Re-Buys over I decided to play a little tighter but did lose some chips when I got caught "at it" trying to steal against pocket A"s ::)
I eventually went out with the blind"s at 200/400 and only holding 3900 chips, first to act I looked at pocket 8"s and shoved, got one caller..... And a Re-Raiser!! Which was also called. I laid down my 8"s, the caller laid down her A"s, and the Re-raiser laid down his J"s and was very happy when he river"d what was aparently the only remaining Jack in the pack :o
Fortunately, the early exits do tend to start up a "Dealers Choice" cash table which I invested £10 into and eventually finished the night cashing in £53. That"s a £13 profit on the night!! 8)
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Profit is profit ;D
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Profit is profit ;D
This is true ;)
And the entertainment value is............ Priceless :P
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Poker
It"s the day after another Tuesday £5 Re-Buy Donk-fest game @ Holt! :P
2500 chips for £5, 15 minute blinds: 25/50, 50/100, 75/150, 100/200 (+3 hands), [end of re-buys], 150/300, 200/400 etc etc...
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly!
Here"s a few hands that occurred:
The Good - It was still in the re-buy period and I had a stack of around 5000 with the blinds at 100/200. Whilst in the SB I have :as: ks and am considering a raise, UTG+1 flat calls, the cutt-off makes a raise to 600 (this player has been making regular pre-flop raises followed by checking to the river before betting out again so I am considering being able to either out-play him or see the whole board without too much more expense if I miss, depending on how I feel after the flop), I call, UTG+1 re-raises another 2000, cut-off calls, I see pot value :P so call too.......
Flop js 9s :3s:
First to act I shove (putting the others all-in), instant call from UTG+1, call from the cut-off!!
I show my AK flush
UTG+1 shows top set (3 jacks)
The very strange cut-off player shows Q6 off-suit (no spade)!!!!
Nice big pot in excess of 13000 ;D
The Bad - Involving the same three players blinds at 150/300 (buy-in period is over)!! This time I"m UTG+1 with qh :3c: and call (still with around 13000 chips), call from the player who previously had the trip jacks UTG+3 (about 9000 chips), the usual pre-flop raise (min raise) from the "strange" player who is SB (about 4000 chips) , we both call.
Flop jd ts 6d
As expected SB checks, I check, UTG+3 checks
Turn qc
SB checks, I check, UTG+3 checks
River :3h:
SB makes his usual river bet (500), I re-raise to 2000, UTG+3 re-raises all in, SB folds, I fold!!
The hands were declared afterwards out of interest:
SB only had a pocket pair of 7"s
I had 2 pair
UTG+3 had K9 for the straight!!
The Ugly - Blinds are 300/600. I"m on the final table in the BB (about 11000 chips) with a min raise UTG (20000 chips), and a call UTG+1 (20000 chips) and a call UTG+2 (5500 chips), I call with ks jc
Flop 8s 9c ts
I check, UTG checks, UTG+1 checks, UTG+2 goes All-in for 4300, I call, UTG says "well if your calling, I"m calling!", UTG+1 says "So will I then!"
Turn qh
I push my last 5500 hoping for more action and do from UTG, UTG+1 folds!
UTG+2 shows 2 pair Q 10 (for a side pot)
I show my straight to the King
UTG reveals AJ saying "I only need to hit a King"
And guess what the King came to give him the straight to the Ace and sent me out as bubble boy!! :"(
Anyway, just as last week I entered the cash game and managed to clear another huge £12.50 profit for the night! ;D
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Poker
At long last I have internet at home again! Decided to break myself in gently with a few sit & go"s. Can"t say it went too well. First game I think I was a little too eager (played too many hands)!! Then, I started to play better but managed to consistently get beat when all-in with the best of it.
I had pocket A"s up against 5 7 on a J 3 7 flop..... River"d 7
I had pocket Q"s up against pocket 8"s, flop comes 5 6 7.... turn 4
I had AK against AJ, all-in on a AKJ flop..... River"d J
Also lost a few 60-40 splits!
A couple of times I did get it in behind too, but I didn"t get any help!!
Overall finished about -$17 so isn"t too hurtful.
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Poker
Ok. Online poker is starting to annoy me....... Played a few more sit & go"s last night and yet again having no luck:
A 9 against J 9 on a flop J 9 x..... turn A..... River J
A 5 against A 5 (with the 5s ).... Two spades on the flop.... Another on the turn..... And, another on the river!!
Maybe I will just stick to MTT"s with deepstacks and good structures..... Less quantity, more quality!!
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Random
Two things amused me this morning:
1. Seeing the news-clip of Barak Obama"s armoured car
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIIh21F3qLU[/youtube]
2. Status Quo getting caught out miming on "Daybreak" (No footage available - Yet!!)
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APAT Poker
Unfortunately for me it seems APAT events may well pass me by this year! :(
I eagerly awaited the calendar release with the intention of playing as many as possible, but not much has gone right yet:
Coventry was one of the places I wanted to play but being the first event it was too short notice for me.
Newcastle, to be honest, wasn"t on my short list but my boss developed shingles and put paid to that anyway!
Cardiff was a close call, until I was informed of a Wedding reception.
Glasgow, like Newcastle is probably just a little too far.
Nottingham is the one I was "definately" going to play but I"ve agreed to do the Coventry Goliath that week and may not get a pass from "her indoors" for a whole week of poker (especially being a Bank Holiday) But there"s still hope. Maybe I"ll turn up for an alternates seat!
Cork, Vegas and Prague will also sadly be NO"s :"(
On the bright side I have been allowed out tonight to play at Norwich Poker Club. Report to follow.......
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Before part 2 here"s a little bad beat story from an online game last night:
Ok, so it was only using up some "Player Reward Points" but nether-the-less......
I"m playing tight, only played a couple of hands in half an hour, folded to aggression pre/post flop, I have won one small pot. The table now has quite a few large stacks who have been shoving with any two cards and getting lucky!
I"m down to 1275 (1500 starting stack), blinds at 50/100. Three limpers join in I have kc kh and shove...
I get one caller who reveals :2d: 4d
I"m an 80% favorite!
flop comes: :3d: ad1 5s
My outs are down to something like 2 %!!!!
I run like a one year old VW minibus!!
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Poker
For those who aren"t following me on twitter @McThinsy and don"t know: I"m very pleased to have won my seat into the Goliath in an online satellite last night. Qualified at my first attempt and the package includes expenses too. ;D
It wasn"t all plain sailing though... Found myself short-stacked on the bubble after being outplayed spewing chips from playing badly!
I was all-in with pocket 9"s against J"s - hit a 9 on the flop ;D
I called the then shortstack"s all-in with AK (diamonds) to find I was up against KK and become the shortstack again!! :o
Then an average stack raised, got called by the chip leader:
King high flop, all diamonds - average stack shoves with AK, chip leader calls with a flopped flush!! Bubble Gone! ;D
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You"ll be missing the Worlds at DTD if you play this :-\
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You"ll be missing the Worlds at DTD if you play this :-\
The Worlds is touch and go for me anyway, but I do have a plan...
Friday: Goliath Day 1C
Saturday: Day 2
Sunday: Final Day / APAT Worlds Day 1B
Monday: APAT Worlds Day 2
;)
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I"m unlikely to play either, but if I had the same dilemna I can think of around 25000 reasons why I"d head to Coventry rather than Nottingham
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Just taken the first step towards appearing on Derren Browns New Series
Brave or Stupid??
I know one thing.... If I get picked I"ll be excited
;D
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Poker
Played online last night in a $5 Re-buy/Add-on tournie last night and didn"t realise how eager people are to give away their dollar!!!
3rd hand in I"ve got pocket 8"s, some one has raised the big blind of 20 to 100 and had 4 callers. Not wanting to buy in too early I thought I"d see how my luck was running and called... I"m running ok! I hit trips on a J 8 5 flop. first to act shoves followed by call, fold, call, and of course a call from me too! All cards shown, I"m ahead, the next best hand was AK! Turn: another 8 for QUADS! I"ve quadrupled up!!
10 minutes later I"ve flopped the nut flush with people shoving before me... Happy days!
It took me about 20 minutes to amass a total of 20,000 chips which I hovered around until the rebuy period was over.
I had the 2,000 chip add-on and started after the break in 3rd place.
Unfortunately, I spent the next 3 hours either card dead or making plays at the wrong times and peaked at only 27,000 chips. Eventually losing out to the chip leader at the time with A8 v AK
Finished 130ish/750+
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I hereby formally apologise to all members I have involved in my current obsession with Photoshop....
I herby apologise to all who will be involved in my forthcomming projects!!!!!
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Online Poker with 888
So, whilst checking my phone yesterday afternoon I noticed Leigh's tweet highlighting the great chance that 888 Poker had supplied exclusively to APAT members....
The "freeroll" (almost)!!
Ok, we would end up having Buy-ins and Add-ons but I think with my quick calculations at the end of the Add-on period they were still providing around $150/$200 of Extra Value!!
The bonus for me was the extra $10 first time deposit I recieved (and duely spent in this tournament)
I ended up finishing 17th despite my router shutting down when I was short stacked.
I did end up winning my "free" $10 back with another $15 or so on top due to taking down three 2nd places in a row, whilst playing their $2.90 entry, 4 handed 20 seater things!!
Thankyou 888
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Poker in August
Having won my seat into the Goliath at Coventry, I will be playing in that on Friday 26th August but, in the unlikely event of me not cashing once out of that I am hoping to make it to Nottingham for the main event on either Saturday or Sunday. I may well try to satellite my way in, if not I will probably take the chance on an alternates seat!
All I have to do now is tell the missus I"m staying away all of the Bank Holiday Weekend!! ::)
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Permission granted for APAT Worlds Main Event :)
So all I have to do now is Satellite my way in tonight!! I have to win tonight because I"ve promised that I won"t play online for the rest of the week!! A small sacrifice to pay given I"ve secured my Coventry/Nottingham long weekend in August.
The way my game is running at the moment I should be "bubbleboy" tonight!
I"m not playing badly, getting paid big when I have the best then losing a little here and there with "beats". But I seem to be constantly finishing short of the money! It gets a bit frustrating constantly playing for 3-4 hours and falling 10 places or so from the money. I"m usually around the average chip stack (maybe playing too tight to get lucky). Over the last week or so I"ve had KK run into AA, AJ shove called by AQ!
Any tips from anyone would be appreciated ;)
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My tip would be to read The Poker Mindset. Think it is impossible to be a winning player without being honest with yourself about your own game. Lines like...
"I"m not playing badly, getting paid big when I have the best then losing a little here and there with "beats"."
...show some flawed thinking.
Also, if you do not use HEM or PT3, then you should start and review full sessions.
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ME satellite 18/7/2011
Well, I wasn"t far off my prediction.... Spent a lot of the time as chip leader in the ME satellite (got lucky hitting a full house on the river at one point). Made it to the final table then forgot to play a hand!!! For a fair while all the short stacks kept doubling up and by the time 10th place was gone it seemed the chipstacks were quite even. I made a good/lucky laydown of AQ early into the FT with my opponent showing AK. After that my cards were awful, I had a couple of hands that had shoveability (oooh, I like that word!) but other players beat me to it and I folded like a little girl origamist! I got one pocket pair on the FT and guess what? Just before I was due to act my router disconected!!!
Basically, I"m dissapointed that I let myself get blinded out of the game and finish 8th. It"s something I seem to be doing online a fair bit, yet when I play live I feel more comfortable and happy to take those chances!
To sum it up: I really need to get my online game sorted!
(thanks for your advice Marty, consider me "work in progress!")
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My tip would be to read The Poker Mindset. Think it is impossible to be a winning player without being honest with yourself about your own game. Lines like...
"I"m not playing badly, getting paid big when I have the best then losing a little here and there with "beats"."
...show some flawed thinking.
Also, if you do not use HEM or PT3, then you should start and review full sessions.
The Mental game game of poker (http://www.mentalgameofpoker.com/) is a superior read and not by a small bit imho
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Haven"t read it yet, but have read excellent reviews!
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I"m in the money...... I"m in the money!!
Played in the local Tuesday night donkafest/bingo/luckbox tournament and managed to finish 2nd.
(I was beat by a girl)
During the rebuy period our table seemed to have the rule that if any of the cards on the flop were close to yours you have to go all-in because you could hit a straight!!
Having just lost all my chips with an open ended straight and flush draw against trips and 2 pair I had my rebuy, sat down and shoved my 2500 chips in blind! (100/200 blinds). I got 2 callers, this put 2 of us all-in (again) so the cards were turned over by my opponents Q5 and J9... I turned my first card over K, got excited, I"m ahead. Then revealed another K. Happy Days!
Leading up to the final table I had 66 and 44 both flop trips and built a nice chip stack and started the FT (8 players) with about 40% of total chips in play!
Three way action involved me (100k), a lad called Tom (10k) and his girlfriend, a recently (and very welcome) newbie, (50k). Tom was soon taken out by me when he tried to steal the blinds with 67 suited. I called with K8.
With over a 2-1 chip lead (110k,50k -blinds 2k/4k) I refrained from offering a deal....
J9 v J8 (bb called,checked) - flop: QJ8, I bet and a call. turn:T, I shove and a call. river: 8 (55k,105k)
AK v JT (I raise and a call) - flop: KQT, check, I bet and a call. turn: J all-in and I call. river: 7 (105k,55k)
Then I got excited and decided to play "all-in poker" with A3. Was called with AJ. J on the flop! (40k,120k)
The last hand I raised with A4 and was called. flop: 567. She went all in and I decided to call with my open ended straight and an over card. Q5 shown. turn: Q. river: 9
So, 2nd place paid £80 (with 2 rebuys, my outlay was £15.50). £64.50 profit.
At the beginning of the year I decided to keep a profit/loss account of my "live" action... Of course, this duely mean"t a huge losing streak!!!
Last night actually got me back in the black.
Summary: 1st January - 19th July 2011
Buy-in outlay: £702.50 Winnings: £746.00 Profit: £43.50
Guess I shouldn"t give up my day job just yet!! ::) :P
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During the rebuy period our table seemed to have the rule that if any of the cards on the flop were close to yours you have to go all-in because you could hit a straight
Is that not everyone"s shortstacked rebuy strategy??
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During the rebuy period our table seemed to have the rule that if any of the cards on the flop were close to yours you have to go all-in because you could hit a straight
Is that not everyone"s shortstacked rebuy strategy??
I guess it is really, but we also have instances like:
Blinds 75/150: 15k stack shoves, called by a 20k stack KJ v 79 on a Q86 flop! (15k stack had to rebuy and start again with 2.5k chips)
Don"t get me wrong... I ain"t moaning, it"s a good night out :P
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Online with BlueSq
Played a couple of online tournaments last night, despite promising the girlfriend I wouldn"t play until Sunday, but she said she doesn"t mind if I play really!! As long as I"m not gambling what I can"t afford!!
The following conversation crossed my mind:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQHUcE9voWY[/youtube]
BUT, I didn"t!!
Anyway, Another deep run into the tournament with an above average stack then I get this:
QQ v 99 - flop: 568, turn: 7, river: 7
Now left a bit short I patiently wait (about 4 hands) for my shove and get called by the chip leader:
A8(spades) v A6(hearts) - flop: TT6 (can"t remember the turn/river but it didn"t help me)
One day I will run good!! :(
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"The Poker Tracker Era"
Yesterday was the start of my trial of PT3. I downloaded it and got everything set up (to default) and played two Tournaments ($1 and $5). I thought I"d use these to test the program!
I didn"t do very well, found myself concentrating on the figures rather than the tournament which is something I"ll have to stop doing. Checking all the facts and figures is a good thing I suppose to some extent but I don"t really know what they all mean yet!!
You wouldn"t buy a German newspaper if you couldn"t speak German would you ???
Oh well, investigate a little further tonight....
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The Poker Tracker (that doesn"t seem to work) Era
So, I get home, have tea, make the missus feel wanted, fire up the laptop, fire up BlueSq, fire up Poker Tracker, then enter the $10 MTT.
The game starts and after a few hand I expect the Heads Up Display to kick in.... But it doesn"t!!!
I mess about trying to get it to work but fail, endless times!
Nothing much happend for the first hour and a half, the 595 field gradually narrowed down to around 300 odd and I was towards the bottom of this having just used my shortsack to double up an even shorter shortstack!! I then managed to get some good hands which resulted in a triple-up and a couple of double-ups and leave me comfortably in the top half of the standings.
After a table move I find the chip leader to my left... Not the best seat in the house!! But patience paid off when my AA held up against his 99.
On the final table I again end up with the chip leader (300k) to my left (I"m sat with about 140k).
UTG the chip leader min raises, I"m on the big blind with JQ and see a flop...
flop: QK4, I bet about 3/4 of the pot and he calls....
turn: 9, I check and so does he....
river 6, I have come to the conclusion he hasn"t got a K so bet half the pot.... He re-raises all-in, I decide to stick with my gut feeling that he wouldn"t have checked the turn if he had a K and call.... He shows T6.
6 handed I"m 2nd in chips (290k) and UTG with KK (blinds: 3.5k/7k).
I raise to 21k (hoping to entice a shove from shorter stacks).
All fold round to the chip leader on the BB (470k) who calls...
flop: Q94, he checks, I bet about 3/4 pot, he min raises, I put him on a Q (maybe QT) and go all in...
He calls and shows Q9. No help and out in 6th.
QUESTION TIME:
Should I have played that differently?
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Re the HUD - on your Auto-Import screen, I presume that you have the "Start Automatically" box checked? It"s feasible that you may be importing hands but not have the HUD switched on.
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Re the HUD - on your Auto-Import screen, I presume that you have the "Start Automatically" box checked? It"s feasible that you may be importing hands but not have the HUD switched on.
I really don"t know what has happened... I stopped and restarted Auto Import, stopped and started HUD startup, still nothing!
Now found that the tournament stopped configuring hands at midnight... It continued recording all hands played after midnight but hasn"t associated them with the same tournament so I can"t get any imformation on my overall tournament performance!!
??? ???
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Re the HUD - on your Auto-Import screen, I presume that you have the "Start Automatically" box checked? It"s feasible that you may be importing hands but not have the HUD switched on.
I really don"t know what has happened... I stopped and restarted Auto Import, stopped and started HUD startup, still nothing!
Now found that the tournament stopped configuring hands at midnight... It continued recording all hands played after midnight but hasn"t associated them with the same tournament so I can"t get any imformation on my overall tournament performance!!
??? ???
Go to the Texas Holdem tab, then Tournaments tab, then click Settings.... change "My day starts at..." to something like 5am.... it"s probably set at midnight at the moment.
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Go to the Texas Holdem tab, then Tournaments tab, then click Settings.... change "My day starts at..." to something like 5am.... it"s probably set at midnight at the moment.
Yeah, I done that last night after the tournament had finished.
Will the two halves of this tournament match up eventually, or can I do it manually?
Don"t want to lose this info though!!
Thanks yet again for your help! You must be getting tired of my inability to work technology properly by now?!?!?!
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LOL not at all! :)
You can manually enter a result to overcome your issue here. Stop the importer first, then click \Tournaments\Enter Holdem Results.
You will be able to find your tourney in the list, and can then amend the result data shown on the right.
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AUGUST
BANK POKER HOLIDAY
Took the plunge last night and booked my seat into the WCOAP Main Event (day 2) at DTD Nottingham, despite the very big likelyhood that I will have made it to Day 3 of the Goliath in Coventry! ::)
So............. Probably see you at DTD then!!! :-[
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SHERINGHAM CARNIVAL, NORFOLK
So, Wednesday night is usually the highlight of the carnival. Bands playing outside at nearly every pub in the town with "The Crown" being the biggest draw. For first time in about 20 years they have decided to book a different band... Monkey Spanner, a Ska, 2-Tone & Reggae Big Band:
http://www.monkeyspanner.info/downloads.html (http://www.monkeyspanner.info/downloads.html)
They really know how to get everyone dancing............ Until the rain came anyway!
I seemed to be the only one of our group who didn"t predict the downpoor and got soaked (I blame the four ciders and two vodkas personally).
Fortunately we did have a "Des" in the group and I got a quick lift home, got changed, and returned just in time for the bands second attempt at entertaining.
A great night despite the shower? Yes........ Well, up until now!!
After the traditional Cheeseburger and Chips from the travelling fair Sarah, my partner, and a friend decided that the best way to end the night is to partake in the last ride of the sideways rotating fair attraction which resulted in the opening of her handbag and dispensing of purse, bankcards, mirror, lipstick, mobile phone, kitchen sink!
Unfortunately the phone was not recoverd so five months into a 2 year contract, without insurance cover, she is a Blackberry down!
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A year or so ago I had a really bad bout of sinitus in the air pockets above my upper teeth. A wait of 2 days to get an "emergency" appointment at the dentist was a bit annoying especially as the Pain had gone by then... But, the dentist told me that in the future if I get this and gums swell exetra a dose of antibiotics from the doctor will do the trick! Since then I have had a few small episodes that have cleared quickly and have been real cause for alarm... Sunday produced another episode, but it didn"t want to go and the swollen, and very sore, gums arrived. So, this morning I phoned in sick (4th day in 19 years) contacted the doctors and was informed of the call back system they use! 3pm I will get a call from the doctor... He called at 4pm and told me I shoul go to my Dentist!!
I made a few comments about me not being a doctor or dentist but I do contribute to both of you every month via my wage deductions and as i"m in pain I suggest he treats me!
I"m seeing him at 5.15 ;D
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Oops.... It seems that toothache in your upper back teeth is very similar to sinitus!!
Dentist at 12.20 today.
Hope everything gets sorted today........ I don"t like pain!
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i don.t have this problem..... but heres some theeth incase yours are pulled out ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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No teeth lost......... YET!!
Apparently I have an abscess, so it"s 7 days of antibiotics and painkillers!!
Now into my third day of antibiotics and the pain has definately eased, until I eat anyway....
I"m getting fed up of Tomato Soup!! :(
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Online Poker - Monday
Played in the PokerPlayerUK GP on bwin and was the 6th person out!!!!
An early position made a 3x raise (he had done this a few times already), I made a 3x re-raise with 66 and got a call.
Flop: 6 8 3; checked to me so I made a half pot bet which was called.
Turn: 8; oppo made a half pot bet so I shoved with my FH... Got called and he showed 99.
River: 9
Was left with about 120 chips which I didn"t recover from!!
Never mind that"s poker!!!
Time for Pokerstars......
Played in a $15, 180 Seater:
Early on I had a treble-up with AA v AK v AJ
Managed to make it to the Final Table in 8th position when again sitting with AA there was a raise totaling about a 1/3rd of my chips, followed by a re-raise totaling 2/3rds.... Needless to say I shoved and got two callers.
AA v AQ v AQ which held up
I managed to watch others fall and ended HU, but with only about 40K in chips against a 230K stack....
Fortunately AA came to my rescue again and I manage to get a double up.
So with 80K against 150K I faced a raise with 55 and shoved, got a call and he showed K5.... Needless to say a K on the turn and no help on the river meant I finished 2nd for $495 ;D
I wouldn"t have played this game if I was still in the other tournament so it just goes to show, being unlucky could end up being luckiest thing to happens to you that night!! No need for TILT :P
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Went into the library yesterday and asked the lady for books on suicide.
"Third row along, on the top shelf." she said.
After five minutes of searching I retuned to the lady and said "Excuse me, but there doesn"t seem to be any books there!!"
"I know" she said "No one ever seems to bring those ones back!!"
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With just a week and a day before I start the Goliath Tournament in Coventry (followed by APAT WCOAP ME if I don"t win the Goliath!) I thought I"d just watch a driving video to get me in the mood for the journey:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btViXvIDsi0[/youtube]
Sometimes driving looks fun ;D
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Online Poker
Had an awful session on the MTT"s last night. It seemed to be a night of Quads.....
At first it went my way. I called an aggro raising player pre flop with AK, flop came AAK, he shoved with JT! I called and hit the A on the turn (yeah, I know I didn"t need to. But it"s nice!)
From then on I lost 3 times to Quads (played about 8/9 turbo 180 seaters) having hit a FH every time!
The most memorable one being:
All-in with QQ v A9: Board Q99 x 9
Live Poker
On a more pleasant note (and in keeping with other blogs)......
3 sleeps till Coventry
5 sleeps till Nottingham
;D
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Obviously not confident of achieving anything at Coventry?
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Obviously not confident of achieving anything at Coventry?
I am planning on steam-rollering the Final Table at Goliath and then shooting across to DTD and turn whats left of my dwindled stack into another victory!! Simples ;D
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It"s at this point I had planned on writing up the great run"s I had in the Goliath and the APAT ME.... But unfortunatly my performances weren"t as successful as my dreams!
So, I could tell you how I was unlucky in the Goliath with my flopped two pair being beaten by a rivered better two pair, then flopped two pair beaten by a turned straight, and same situation but this time beaten with a rivered flush!!! But I wont....
Nor will I go on about running my pocket Queens into Aces to leave my stack pretty well crushed at Nottingham.
Why?
Because I"m not going to become a miserable old man who never gets lucky, I"m going to learn from my experiences..
Rather than thinking I was unlucky to get turned or rivered, I"m thinking if my betting patterns were too small and letting the guy in too cheaply or not big enough to scare him off!!
If I"m honest about my pocket Queens I should have got away from that situation too, but I didn"t so it wasn"t unlucky it was bad play by me...
I guess most people believe they are better than they are. For me, I know I need to improve...
Work in progress.
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Recieved my copy of "The Mental Game of Poker" a few days ago and it is confirming that I am starting to approach the game with the correct attitude, but also making me realise I still have a long way to go and a lot to learn.
Last night was a good start to my new found insight as I turned $2 into $22. Ok, it took me 3 hours to make this small profit but I felt I played well and only made 3-4 bad plays... Got lucky once when short stacked with 66 v AA making a set on the flop and quads on the river. Overall I felt I played well and was happy with my game.
Today is a different matter, I"ve played 4 MTT"s and have so far gone out about half way through the fields with the following hands:
AJ v J7 on a J high flop
AA v JJ AIPF
JJ v AK AIPF
99 v AK AIPF
Normally I would be going on "Injustice tilt" now but instead I am just thinking about how badly I"ve played other hands to leave me in these race situations! Don"t feel I"m playing well. Not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing yet but I"m sure it"s better that spewing buy-ins and shouting about how rigged online poker is!
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Since subscribing to Poker Player magazine a few months back I started playing in their Grand Prix 7 series.
Having missed the first two events I knew I needed to get some good results.....
I think I"ve worked out that with a 15th finish last month and an 8th finish last night I am bordering the Top 20 position needed to qualify for the Live Final (I"m guessing I"ll be positioned about 26th/27th)
All I need now is another good run next week! I hope I do because I"ve already booked the Saturday off work for the Live Event! :P
Also well done to AJDUK who had a good run too and is now, I believe, sitting at the top of the leaderboard
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Played in the PokerPlayer freeroll tonight with 5 seats into the Grand final.
Finished 13/150
Lost most of my chips on the BB when the SB shoved with 6 8. I called with my AK........ he flopped 2 pair!!!
Was all in next hand with K6. Called by 5 3. Turn brought him a straight obviously!
Saying that it was a bit of a shovefest. Played well though :)
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Played in the last event of the PokerPlayer Grand Prix 7 tonight. A finish around 35th place would have possibly been enough to qualify for the Final but, having laid down pocket 5"s to a big raise on the very first hand and my second hand of pocket jacks not getting paid off, I went pretty card dead and struggled through to 48th.
I"d let myself dwindle to about 4bb"s in the hope to see many players drop out but felt I had to call a raise (putting me all in) when I was dealt AK. My opponent had QQ. No help for me.
Should I have "sat out" and just hoped I"d outlast 10 more players?
Don"t think that would have happened, but had I doubled up I may have taken that chance from then on!
Any comments?
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Played in last nights local £5 rebuy tournament:
When playing in these you come to expect a few bad beats due to the wide range of hands most play and this I can cope with so when I hit top 2 pair (rebuy period was over so tournament lives were on the line) and an aggressive young lad leads out the betting I was happy to shove, putting him all-in, knowing I would be able to talk him into a call! So when he called and hit a runner runner straight draw, I took it on the chin. I made it to the final table, and into the money... Four of us left and I"ve got 6bb"s, I shove UTG with KQhh. Get called by KJo, the flop came 6 4 2, turn 3, river J!
Now, one bad beat (75% fav) is easy to take.... Two, (83% fav) well that"s just unlucky... But when it was the same player both times it hurts a little more!!
Did I mention how he took me out of the game two weeks ago (didn"t play last week) by hitting his ONE OUTER on the river?!?!
Some guys just run good I suppose!
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The Road to Improvement
In my attempt to improve my game both online and offline I decided to try the PokerTracker"s free trial software and invest in Jared Tendler"s "The Mental Game of Poker"
The PT software I felt a bit of a distraction! If I played endless amounts of cash tables I see the need, but as I only play tournaments the information wasn"t good enough. In tournaments people play different ways at different stages of the tournament depending on chipstacks and this cannot be worked out by some software! So I chose to delete it and take a new path to success involving only playing one tournament at a time and watching the whole tables play. Gosh, it turns out I"ve got a brain!
Now onto a completely different outcome - Jared Tendler"s book is a huge eye opener to not only poker, but life too!!
Going through this book is improving my game (pretty amazing considering there isn"t one paragraph that tell"s you how to play cards)!! One of my problems, particularly online, would be making snap decisions which ultimately turned out to be the wrong decision. Due to a slightly different way of thinking I am progressing further in tournaments and am (nearly) always happy with my actions! Work in progress.
Conclusion - Spend your money on a book.
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THE UP"S AND DOWN"S OF LIFE
The Number 12:
The number 12 is a special number:
It"s the number of months in a year.
It has it"s own little title: "A dozen".
It"s part of the festivities of Christmas: "The Twelve days of Christmas"
And now it has it"s very own part in my life.....
I have GOOD NEWS. Apparently 12 weeks ago during a night of passion with my partner one of my little fellows won a swimming race and was rewarded with the ultimate prize! YES, I"m going to be a DADDY for the first time!
Now for the NOT SO GOOD NEWS. Lets progress forward to 12 weeks in the future, Christmas come and gone, it"ll be the middle of January and I"ll be collecting my final pay cheque and redundency pay! YEP, jobless!
Fortunately, I am a positive thinker so this DADDY will be looking towards his new LIFE ADVENTURES, personal and career wise!
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Job/opportunity searching at the moment:
Advice from anyone on running a small/medium sized van (Peugeot Expert size or similar) would be appreciated.
Insurance costs, running costs, fuel consumption (urban driving)?
Any other advice for a "self employed van driver"?
Please and thank you.
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Do boring afternoons really come down to doing this?
https://www.facebook.com/pages/CTM-Poker-Staking/207397005938366?sk=info (https://www.facebook.com/pages/CTM-Poker-Staking/207397005938366?sk=info)
Can"t blame a man for trying!!
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How easy is arranging a Poker Tour?
I"ve had thought"s on arranging a local poker tour, we have a fair few players in surrounding area"s who play for the usual small stakes that the law allows pubs/clubs to play for, but I would like to bring all these places together for a bigger game. I was thinking of having buy-ins between £30-£50 and attract 40-50 players to play once a month at all the different venues. Then having a Grand Final with one or two DTD Deepstack packages or even APAT events up for grabs.
Does anyone know if there is or what licence is required to allow a club to have a £500-£1000 prizefund event?
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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)
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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....
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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?
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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
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N1 Colin, keep it going :)
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From The Sky Came a Star
Having won on SkyPoker, but still not totally convinced I like the site I decided to cash a chunk of cash out and reinvest it into PokerStars.
First tournament was a 500 chip/6 seat satellite (aprox. $19 entry with 2 seats Gtd) into their Monday Big $55 ($100K Gtd):
Very first hand I was dealt 44 so decided to see how my luck was.... Got called by 77.... Hit a 4
Then I just sat back and watched others knock each other out. Eventually I won my seat.
My game wasn"t good in the Big $55, within a few hands I was dealt KK and UTG had made a 3x raise, I reraised 3x, all folded round to the initial raiser who shoved. I knew he had AA, I got that "feeling", I told myself "If he re-re-raises he"ll have Aces". But of course, I couldn"t bring myself to fold, and there it was: KK v AA. The board ran out: JTx, 9, Q for a straight. I got lucky!
A few hands Later UTG had raised, I had AQ and decided to see a flop: Q high. UTG bets out as expected, I raise and he calls. Turn is a blank, he checks so I bet half the pot, he calls (I"m putting him on AT, AJ, AK now. Only a King on the river is a worry). Sure enough a K on thr river is dealt, he shoves (about 2/3rds of the pot), I should now realise he has AK and fold but I can"t help but call. He shows AK!
I"m now back to around the 3K starting stack. I get AA, raise, no callers!
I get too involved in a multi-way pot on a straight draw and lose chips.
I couldn"t release my chips with a flush/OE straight draw, only call and miss. If I"d have shoved I"m sure he"d have folded!
I raise with 77 and someone shoves over the top. I have him covered. I think he"s probably shoving with a high kicked Ace. I have him covered and call: 77 v KK: K on the flop and no help for me!
I"m down to sawdust now. 5bb"s. With the BB coming round I shove with K3 (any two cards!). Surprisingly, it folds round to the BB who calls me with QJ, we both miss the board and I have about 11bb"s.
Only a few hands later I am dealt AQ suited, There is a raise and a call before my shove, initial raiser calls and the caller folds. AQ v KJ: A on the flop and it holds.
Blinds go up and I still have 25bb"s.
I then lose a few blinds very quickly due to going through the BB/SB, getting moved to a new table and hitting the blinds again.
I then get dealt JJ. The BB is a huge chipstack so I overbet to about 4.5bb"s (I"m happy to call for all my chips if I have to). As I thought, the aggressive chipstacked player pushed me all-in. Time to race............. Or not! He shows QQ. No help for me and I go out in 575th place (2293 runners).
Although I really felt my game was bad, I managed to run through three quarters of the field. So, it was slightly pleasing to think what I might do if when I do play well?
I decided to have a "wind down" game: 180 man, $2.50 Turbo.
Nothing exciting to report but did manage a min-cash.
So:
Big $55 satellite: $19.00 SEAT WON
Big $55: $0.00 NO WIN
180 seat TURBO: $2.50 $ 4.90
-$17.60
However, cleverly Re-Loading my PokerStars account in 2 parts:
FREE $1 entry into their WORLD RECORD attempt.
FREE $10 when depositing $100 (Only have to earn 10VPP"s)
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It"s been a while since I posted anything here but to be honest you should all feel thankful... A human can only put up with so much grumpiness!!
Lucky for you, you"re getting it in summary form:
I"ll start with the job situation... I"m nearly done in my current job now and have been busy setting up my new venture. That"s been full of ups and downs. I needed a van, I bought a van, the van broke! I"ve got a new van! All worked out in the end but was very stressful.
Now fatherhood... Everything is going fine there, we"ve got our 20 week scan on Monday 19th December and, even though I get told not to find out, I want to know what the sex is. After all, I need to know whether the train set, remote control tank and racing car set needs to be in pink or not!
Looking forward to the new year and all the excitement, opportunities, good fortune and happiness it should bring me.
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In the first posted hand, what did you have that lost? :)
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The SundayStorm attracted about 116,000 players in the end, so I telephoned work to tell them I wont be in for 10 days! I lasted about 2 hours in the end. I was very pleased with how I played, I never really got fantastic hands (KK once and Ax here and there) but managed to gradually build up my 5k starting stack upto a high of about 10k.
Then..... I lost most of my chips like this:
I"m in the BB (150/300/30)
UTG+2: raises to 600
MP: calls
DB: raises to 1200
SB: calls
I re-raise to 3000
UTG+2: folds
MP: folds
DB: calls 1440 and is all-in
SB: calls 1800
FLOP: 7h 8s 6c
SB: bets 1640 and is all-in
I called
TURN: 3c
RIVER: Qc
Ooopsss..... Didn"t realise I forgot to put the hands in!
DB: AA
SB: QQ
ME: KK
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Who want"s to be a millionaire?
I do......
I had a good afternoon on PokerStars. I allowed myself $80 to try and satellite into tomorrows $10M anniversary event, I was playing the $8 buy in, 36 man 2x shootout qualifiers and eventually won my $215 entry having spent about $60 (won $20 on my very first game and won my seat at my 9th attempt)
So, all I have to do tomorrow now is play good, solid poker for about 15 hours!!
Chuffed to win my seat and am looking forward to Sunday
Also looking forward to Monday....... I will be getting something money can"t buy! I"ll get to know the sex of my unborn child.
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Someone Stole My $2Million
This is how I went out:
PokerStars Game #72397397464: Tournament #551020010, $200+$15 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XII (400/800) - 2011/12/18 22:51:28 WET [2011/12/18 17:51:28 ET]
Table "551020010 1038" 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: Pizdariki (25615 in chips)
Seat 2: Scott Fraza (27207 in chips)
Seat 3: Oleg002 (65562 in chips)
Seat 4: thinsy (21551 in chips)
Seat 5: Drogentester (22366 in chips)
Seat 6: o cruce (26966 in chips)
Seat 7: LeoFara (4450 in chips)
Seat 8: AApennoten (34340 in chips)
Seat 9: Mikhail_D (25958 in chips)
Pizdariki: posts the ante 80
Scott Fraza: posts the ante 80
Oleg002: posts the ante 80
thinsy: posts the ante 80
Drogentester: posts the ante 80
o cruce: posts the ante 80
LeoFara: posts the ante 80
AApennoten: posts the ante 80
Mikhail_D: posts the ante 80
LeoFara: posts small blind 400
AApennoten: posts big blind 800
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to thinsy [ Qc Qs ]
Mikhail_D: folds
Pizdariki: folds
Scott Fraza: folds
Oleg002: folds
thinsy: raises 1200 to 2000
Drogentester: raises 20286 to 22286 and is all-in
o cruce: folds
LeoFara: folds
AApennoten: folds
thinsy: calls 19471 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (815) returned to Drogentester
*** FLOP *** [ 6c Jc 4c ]
*** TURN *** [ 6c Jc 4c ] [ 5h ]
*** RIVER *** [ 6c Jc 4c 5h ] [ 10h ]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
thinsy: shows [ Qc Qs ] (a pair of Queens)
Drogentester: shows [ Jd 10d ] (two pair, Jacks and Tens)
Drogentester collected 44862 from pot
thinsy finished the tournament in 24974th place
On the plus side:
If I was still in and playing at half 9 in the morning when we are supposed to be heading for our 20 week scan I would have lost more than chips.... I think my "sausage" would have been in danger!!
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On the plus side:
If I was still in and playing at half 9 in the morning when we are supposed to be heading for our 20 week scan I would have lost more than chips.... I think my "sausage" would have been in danger!!
LOOOOOOL
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REQUEST: Can APAT have a ladies only tournament by the year 2030?
So, it turns out my winning little swimmer from 20 weeks ago was female... Yep, come May 2012 I"m gonna be outnumbered!! I"m going to be a daddy to a little girl.
For her 18th birthday I want to pay the buy-in of her first poker tournament. I wan"t it to be a ladies only APAT tournament so I can distant her from you lot... Will probably need to keep her away from Tighty"s camera too!! :P
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*~o~* MeRrY ChRiStMaS To AnYoNe WhO StiLL BoThErS To ReAd My BLoG *~o~*
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Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year Colin, all the best mate, hope you"re heading to Brighton in January 8)
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So, Christmas Day and Boxing Day has passed, plenty of food was eaten. In particular, too many sprouts!
Not a pleasant aroma!!
This evening I decided to have a little poker-time:
Played 3 PokerStars, 180 man $8 Turbos......
Game 1: $0
Game 2: $388
Game 3: $15
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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE
I have been reading other members goals for 2012 and have considered doing my own.
Unfortunately, due to this year being the year where I"m starting my own business and becoming a dad I"m not sure how successful I would be at reaching any poker goals. Having said that, I have made a couple!! :P
1. Use my online bankroll wisely and effectively. I often build it up steadily then go on a bankroll bender!
2. Qualify online for a DTD Deepstack or similar.
2 1/2. Play more APAT games (as long as I"m allowed out by the missus!)
GOOD LUCK ME! ;D
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A good start to the new year so far:
A short session playing MTT"s has seen a $123 increase in my bankroll
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Had another small profit online tonight. My bankroll is nearly sufficient enough to warrant the buy-ins I"m playing!!!
I"ve never been great at bankroll (I have mentioned it before in my blog) but I can"t bring myself to go down to a lesser buy-in. I"ve been fortunate so far this year and hope it continues just a little longer!
Forgot to mention my "Live" win last Monday too:
£20 deepstack (10,000 chips/20 minute blinds) plus £5 bounties....
18 players.
Finished 1st for £185 + £30 in bounties ;D
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I"m running good online at the moment. Had another nice cash this evening and finally managed to break the "100 buy-in" bankroll for the games I"m playing. Now it"s time to build up to a higher level.
Next week I think I"ll sign up to Genting and try some satellites for their 2012 tour!
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glk keep running hot
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Not so good running tonight... Played in a SkyPoker satellite for a seat at their Luton event. I think it started with 18 players which offered one seat and a 2nd prize of £176. Made it to the final table without really getting any big hands, although I did hit a few flops. When down to four players I had 15k of the 36k in chips but managed to finish 4th! :(
I had AJ on a AQx flop. Turn brought another Q to help my opponents KQ.
I called a shortstacks all-in shove with 66. he had K9... 9 on the river!
However, I did manage to turn £5.50 into a £55 satellite seat on Genting last night. So hopefully, I will soon be telling you all about how I won a seat on the 2012 Genting Tour! ;)
I also still have a PokerStars bankroll above 100BB of my usual buy-in (only just though).
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Tried to post my exit in the Genting satellite the other night but it seems the site was down...
Anyway the short story isthat I went out with 88 v KQ, a K came on the turn!!! Some online fish who goes by the name of:
Swinebag!! ;)
Hope you won a seat mate.
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It looks like my good run has well and truely ran out!!
I"ve now had two days playing with my PokerStars bankroll and not even got close to getting in the money.
I"ve been getting it in ahead, probably about 90% of the time, only to get beat!
Going to take a shot at the Sunday Storm tomorrow.... Hopefully I"ve saved two days of "run good" for that!
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Tried to post my exit in the Genting satellite the other night but it seems the site was down...
Anyway the short story isthat I went out with 88 v KQ, a K came on the turn!!! Some online fish who goes by the name of:
Swinebag!! ;)
Hope you won a seat mate.
I wasn"t going to waste your chips - seat is mine!!
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Tried to post my exit in the Genting satellite the other night but it seems the site was down...
Anyway the short story isthat I went out with 88 v KQ, a K came on the turn!!! Some online fish who goes by the name of:
Swinebag!! ;)
Hope you won a seat mate.
I wasn"t going to waste your chips - seat is mine!!
Well done... Did you manage to take the mouthy guy"s chips? :P
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Tried to post my exit in the Genting satellite the other night but it seems the site was down...
Anyway the short story isthat I went out with 88 v KQ, a K came on the turn!!! Some online fish who goes by the name of:
Swinebag!! ;)
Hope you won a seat mate.
I wasn"t going to waste your chips - seat is mine!!
Well done... Did you manage to take the mouthy guy"s chips? :P
LOL - which one? - I felt I was in a poker clinic with all the "advice" being given. Couldn"t knock them all out
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Tried to post my exit in the Genting satellite the other night but it seems the site was down...
Anyway the short story isthat I went out with 88 v KQ, a K came on the turn!!! Some online fish who goes by the name of:
Swinebag!! ;)
Hope you won a seat mate.
I wasn"t going to waste your chips - seat is mine!!
Well done... Did you manage to take the mouthy guy"s chips? :P
LOL - which one? - I felt I was in a poker clinic with all the "advice" being given. Couldn"t knock them all out
LOL. If you can remember, the one who couldn"t understand that your shove of 14K was only putting 4K at risk!!
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Tried to post my exit in the Genting satellite the other night but it seems the site was down...
Anyway the short story isthat I went out with 88 v KQ, a K came on the turn!!! Some online fish who goes by the name of:
Swinebag!! ;)
Hope you won a seat mate.
I wasn"t going to waste your chips - seat is mine!!
Well done... Did you manage to take the mouthy guy"s chips? :P
LOL - which one? - I felt I was in a poker clinic with all the "advice" being given. Couldn"t knock them all out
LOL. If you can remember, the one who couldn"t understand that your shove of 14K was only putting 4K at risk!!
oh, that idiot - yes, he got a seat - hope he"s on my table in stoke (can"t play any of these untill stoke)
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Sunday
Storm Slight Breeze
I entered the Storm again this week, Finished a fairly respectable 7191st out of 38,000+ players. Just short of the money though!
180 MTT"s
The 180 MTT"s are where I"ve managed to build my bankroll. Being "turbos" they do tend to be a bit of a shove or fold game if you"re average stacked. That"s fine, it is what it is and I do enjoy playing them. However, I don"t think they are helping my game when it comes to the likes of the Sunday Storm, my chipstack tends to be up and down due to me still being in a shove or fold attitude! Maybe I need to play less turbo"s!!
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Tried to post my exit in the Genting satellite the other night but it seems the site was down...
Anyway the short story isthat I went out with 88 v KQ, a K came on the turn!!! Some online fish who goes by the name of:
Swinebag!! ;)
Hope you won a seat mate.
I wasn"t going to waste your chips - seat is mine!!
Well done... Did you manage to take the mouthy guy"s chips? :P
LOL - which one? - I felt I was in a poker clinic with all the "advice" being given. Couldn"t knock them all out
LOL. If you can remember, the one who couldn"t understand that your shove of 14K was only putting 4K at risk!!
oh, that idiot - yes, he got a seat - hope he"s on my table in stoke (can"t play any of these untill stoke)
Shame he got a seat!
Good luck in Stoke. I"d be happy to sit at your table (It"ll mean I"ve managed to win a seat) ;D
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Poker Players Don"t work at Amazon!
Having just checked my emails I now know that poker players don"t work at Amazon...... Why?
I bought my "Mental Game of Poker" book via Amazon and they"ve sent me an email telling me that I can "trade it in" !!!!
I mean, what poker player would even allow that email to go out?
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Bankroll-ing down!
Having had a good run at the start of the year my bankroll has started to slowly shrink back down to about 60 Buy-ins!!
I have had a couple of shots at the Sunday Storm and one go at a UKIPT satellite which turned out to be more expensive than I expected!!
Looking forward to another shot at the Sunday Storm tomorrow today, and hope to rebuild the bankroll in that.
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I played in today"s Sunday Storm. Just missed out on a payday too:
5400 places paid........... I finished 5409th!
I didn"t get much in the way of hands but am pleased that I managed to protect what few chips I did win (I usually donk some off somewhere along the line!)
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Genting Poker Series satellite
£5.50 well spent tonight, managed to win a ticket for the £55 satellite. I would love to say that I played well but the truth is I couldn"t help but hit the flop!! At one point I had 31K in chips and 2nd place had only 9K. From then on I picked my spots to take some chips but mostly folded my way to a win!
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Genting Poker Series satellite
Didn"t have a great night in the £55 satellite tonight, I did manage to get as high as 4th when there was about 32 of the 40 entrants remaining but never really got an opportunity to put my chips to good use.
My second highest pocket pair dealt to me was TT, I got a caller, flop came with a K and J and I had to fold to a large bet. Opponent showed AK. This was much the same outcome for my 88, 55, 33 hands! I eventually went out in 23rd running my best hand of the night (JJ) into KK!
One day I WILL run good and win a seat!
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Are you playing Andy"s game at Holt on the 26th?
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Are you playing Andy"s game at Holt on the 26th?
Yes mate. Are you gonna play? I know we are easily over the 20 player mark, should be another good turnout ;)
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I haven"t managed to play any poker online this week yet due to an active social life, but tonight and tomorrow evening is looking good to go! :P
The most satisfying night out was Thursday.... Pool night. Not for the pool game, I played quite badly and lost my singles game (now have a record of 10 wins/3 loses this season), but i had a few games of snooker after the pool match and managed to secure my first century break of 2012. A nice little 135 total clearance. There"s life in the old dog yet! ;D
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Who needs the SundayStorm?
The missus decided to go for her afternoon nap at about 4.30pm so I decided to start up the old laptop earlier than usual. PokerStars "Bigger $8.80" with a $32K guarantee starts at 3.30pm but with 120 minutes of late registrations I chose to give it a go.....
I managed to double up my 3K starting chips quite quickly to put me on an average stack and in the thick of the game.
A couple of times I went on a run of hands, AK, AK, QQ was one lot. My raise was called for two out of these three hands and both times I hit and eliminated both players. The second run was 77, 77, KK and again chips were profited!
When the original field of 11,479 players was down to about 300 my BB was raised by the button so I shoved all my chips with QQ. The button instantly called with 10 10. I was relieved to see a Q appear on the turn!
This put me up to 12th in chips....
By the time 235 remained I had dropped to 18th.
I then played a hand really badly trying to scare a shortstack who, unfortunately, had AA!
This, and a few losses of blinds dropped me to 74/178.
A few more blinds later I am dealt AA. An aggressive large stack makes a 2.5x raise, I flat call and hopefully let him dig his own grave! Sure enough, he shoves all-in on a 10 9 2 flop. I call, he shows 10 9! I was releaved to see the river produce an A. This got me to 51/118.
Missing a flushdraw cost me a lot of chips and left me in virtually a "chip and a chair" situation, but I managed to win a few chips back on the very next hand shoving my floped middle pair and not getting called! Was now 81/100 and in need of a double up.
With 12bb left I shoved with 88 and was called by KK. No help came!
Finished 76/11479 for $128 (1st place paid $10,497)
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Are you playing Andy"s game at Holt on the 26th?
Yes mate. Are you gonna play? I know we are easily over the 20 player mark, should be another good turnout ;)
Certainly am and the bounty bonus of a Goliath seat is a huge attraction as I intend playing that this year anyway
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Another Sunday Grind...
I entered three tournaments on PokerStars tonight:
The Bigger $8.80:
Finished 4648/11912. Was running quite well until I got moved to a new table and watched a player with a short stack constantly shoving.... My first play against him was AJ v 56. He hit a 5! The very next hand A9 v KQ and he hit a Q! Was out shortly after that.
The Sunday Storm II:
Finished 10974/37144. Struggled to get going in this. Cant remember my exit hand!
The Sunday Storm:
Finished 3011/43066 for $25. Lost AJ v AK when down to 11 big blinds.
Buy-ins: $30.80
Winnings: $25.83
Profit: -$ 4.97
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Online Poker with PokerStars in 2012
I"m excited about the great work that Des (and anyone else who has been involved) in getting APAT on PokerStars. I was not a member of APAT nor a player on PokerStars when they were, as I am lead to believe, associated previously.
Everything has worked out perfect for me. I play online on PokerStars Sunday nights anyway and my "bankroll" is there too. So, I can include the league in my usual "grind time" and I don"t have to swap money around on different, and inferior, poker sites!
Now to find out who my "team mates" are.......
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Online Poker with PokerStars in 2012
I"m excited about the great work that Des (and anyone else who has been involved) in getting APAT on PokerStars. I was not a member of APAT nor a player on PokerStars when they were, as I am lead to believe, associated previously.
Everything has worked out perfect for me. I play online on PokerStars Sunday nights anyway and my "bankroll" is there too. So, I can include the league in my usual "grind time" and I don"t have to swap money around on different, and inferior, poker sites!
Now to find out who my "team mates" are.......
Thanks Colin. We"re all excited about going back.
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OMG OPR Statistics
It was only several hours before Chipaccrual posted on his blog about his OPR statistics that I was looking at mine too (probably more like "great nerds" as opposed to "great minds). Some of the figures tend to be a bit confusing. One in particular is the OPR rating and rank. Are these just "gimikey" or do they mean anything?
Does a rating of +90% mean your really good? Is being ranked in the top 6% of their ranking system mean you have a talent?
I"ve been playing on PokerStars since 2009 and have very varied results in this time. There is probably reasons for this due to work/social/married life, and I"ll break this down over the next few weeks (hopefully). Firstly I will post my overall results since I started in 2009. Feel free to comment on what standard of player you would consider me given the statistics available (don"t worry about offending me, I"m probably too thick to let it bother me):
My Results Standard
Early 10% (10%)
EM 23% (20%)
Mid. 37% (40%)
ML 21% (20%)
Late 9% (10%)
MTT ROI ITM ITM%
Multi Table 11-45 -15% 4/47 9%
Multi Table 46-180 7% 31/291 11%
Multi Table 181- -63% 10/75 13%
OVERALL -9% 45/413 11%
(You think these stats are bad? Wait until you see it broken down!)
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£5.50 feeder into a qualifier for a GPS Tour Seat:
So, I"m down to the final 5 with 3 seats up for grabs. I am chip leader with aprox 24K in chips (55K in play).
I"m dealt 88 and raise 3x to 1.5K, it folds round to the shortstack on the BB with about 7K who shoves. I call:
88 v J9: J on the flop
Now with about 17K I raise 3x again to 1.5K in the SB with AT (folded round to me) BB shoves with about 8K, I call:
AT v KQ: K on the flop
Now the short stack I shove with A2 and get called by the BB:
A2 v KJ: Flop 933, Turn 9, River K
The question is, should I have sat back and waited for two players to lose? Could I or should I have folded any of these hands? Or do I just put them down to variance?
(fortunately I bagged a £55 ticket the other night, so I still have a chance of winning a seat)
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this is pretty terrible sattelite play from you here col (apart from the last hand)
you have a seat locked up, so you should only really be targetting the midstacks, better still target no one and fold into the seats. You should not be risking anything where you are most likely flipping in the first hand.
make your opening raises smaller as well in the later stages. 2 - 2.5x will normally do the trick
If this was a normal tourney then all the hands are pretty standard (though I just shove the second one in the SB)
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Thanks for the reply Rob. It did cross my mind to do nothing but its difficult... Would you really fold 88?
I"m slowly learning, I think!
My online game seems to be coming on pretty good, I"m even having good runs in the huge field tournaments.
The feeders into satellites are generally going good too. I just hope I can turn one of these satellite games into a live seat one day soon.
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£5.50 feeder into a qualifier for a GPS Tour Seat:
So, I"m down to the final 5 with 3 seats up for grabs. I am chip leader with aprox 24K in chips (55K in play).
I"m dealt 88 and raise 3x to 1.5K, it folds round to the shortstack on the BB with about 7K who shoves. I call:
88 v J9: J on the flop
Now with about 17K I raise 3x again to 1.5K in the SB with AT (folded round to me) BB shoves with about 8K, I call:
AT v KQ: K on the flop
Now the short stack I shove with A2 and get called by the BB:
A2 v KJ: Flop 933, Turn 9, River K
The question is, should I have sat back and waited for two players to lose? Could I or should I have folded any of these hands? Or do I just put them down to variance?
(fortunately I bagged a £55 ticket the other night, so I still have a chance of winning a seat)
Stack sizes would help but it seems a great spot for you to bubble abuse the hell outta the other 4 players. No need to 3x raise though, I"d likely open min raise a wide range and expect to take down lots of pots preflop. The key to this strategy is to bet small and often but fold to a reraise with all but the strongest of hands.
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Would you really fold 88?
with a short stack in the BB, I would probably open fold (or maybe raise fold) and open fold a lot better at this stage.
I wouldn"t describe myself as an expert satty player but as the big stack if 5 with 3 seats, you have to view your position as "seat locked up" so therefore you can"t improve, you can only do worse. For this reason its probably correct to fold every hand (inc KK and AA)
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O.P.R. Rankings
Ok, back to my OPR stats which you were all keen to comment on ::)
I have broken down my results into seperate years to compare the ITM% and ROI% for each year:
2009: ITM 19% ROI -16% (my best year for ITM but made no profit. Is this due to bad BR management?)
2010: ITM 11% ROI -18% (pretty similar to 2009, I guess both these years can be classed as "Year of the Fish")
2011: ITM 9% ROI -2% (my worst ITM% but only a small loss made... Surely this means the BRM is under control)
2012: ITM 11% ROI 6% (looks like 2012 might be my year!)
Last 120 days: ITM 13% ROI 10% 8)
Is there anything I"m not considering that I should?
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Stack sizes would help but it seems a great spot for you to bubble abuse the hell outta the other 4 players. No need to 3x raise though, I"d likely open min raise a wide range and expect to take down lots of pots preflop. The key to this strategy is to bet small and often but fold to a reraise with all but the strongest of hands.
I managed to build my stack through agressive play, making 2x raises. It got to the point where my min-raises were getting called, I started to increase my raises to make calling a harder decision for them, and it was working!
Are you disagreeing with Rob"s strategy? (I"m not trying to start a fight! Lol)
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Would you really fold 88?
with a short stack in the BB, I would probably open fold (or maybe raise fold) and open fold a lot better at this stage.
I wouldn"t describe myself as an expert satty player but as the big stack if 5 with 3 seats, you have to view your position as "seat locked up" so therefore you can"t improve, you can only do worse. For this reason its probably correct to fold every hand (inc KK and AA)
I did try this once before at this stage but got caught out by losing too many blinds/antes, thus becoming an average stack and forced to play hands! I think it was just unfortunate that the short stack kept doubling up and no-one went out.
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Don"t think we disagree. I didn"t know the stack sizes. If you have a huge chip advantage then Brendans strat is partly correct. The trouble is, if you keep on raise folding then the table are going to pick up on this and your raises become pointless as villains know you aren"t going to stack off
If doubling up a short stack puts you back in midfield, then folding your entire range works too.
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Stack sizes would help but it seems a great spot for you to bubble abuse the hell outta the other 4 players. No need to 3x raise though, I"d likely open min raise a wide range and expect to take down lots of pots preflop. The key to this strategy is to bet small and often but fold to a reraise with all but the strongest of hands.
I managed to build my stack through agressive play, making 2x raises. It got to the point where my min-raises were getting called, I started to increase my raises to make calling a harder decision for them, and it was working!
Are you disagreeing with Rob"s strategy? (I"m not trying to start a fight! Lol)
I did mention that stack sizes would help and maybe I was wrong to assume that the precise scenario was one where you had 50% of the chips in play and the other 4 all had 15 bb stacks.
The strategy I proposed for that situation was predicated on the assumption that you had lots of FE when you min raise pre because the other 4 players should be in a folding war. You now add new info that suggests they are calling lite so it kinda renders that option incorrect.
Either way Rob makes a good point, because of the payout structure the chips you risk are far more valuable than the chips you gain. That is exactly why you should have buckets of fold equity because when the shorties get involved with you they risk lots of equity for very little gain, even doubling up will only show a small equity gain unless it is versus another shorty.
Folding everything into a ticket is defo +EV, exploiting players who fold too much is even more +EV and a lot of fun ;D ;D ;D, raising light versus players who call too much is not exploiting.
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Thanks for you input guys. Having thought about things a bit more I have come to the following conclusion:
Im still happy with my first play with 88. At the time I had about 48BB, losing the hand still left me with about 35BB and a very slight chip leader.
After this beat I think I should have sat back for a bit, my AT should have been a fold but because it was only a couple of hands later I was taking a risk to try and win my chiplead back! This was the mitake... If this hand was folded I wouldn"t have been in the A2 shove situation!
Hopefully I have learnt something tonight.
Thanks again.
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The Sunday Grind
Grind? Not exactly......
I had a difficult day today online. I played the following:
* The Bigger $5.50: Late reg"d and tried to get a double up quickly... It didn"t happen!
* The Bigger $8.80: Lost a fair few chips early on, won some back.... Then lost them all. A poor show really!
* The Sunday Storm: Raised with hand like AJ, AQ, AK etc only to either miss on the flop and having to fold or getting caught by a slightly better hand! Eventually busted QQ v AK, A on the turn.
* The Bigger £11: Much the same as the Storm, bad timing, bad beats! Busted TT v JJ.
Oh well, can"t run deep every week!
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With this weekend all but over I just thought I"d post the forcoming adventures next weekend:
Saturday Snooker
Saturday nights plans are to have an evening out and a game of snooker with some old boy who apparently used to be quite good....
The legend that is Mr Steve Davis is coming to our club.
I played Steve quite a few years back, it was just before the start of a new season so he informed us that he was going to "play properly", but he would give his opponents a 35 point head start! A few of us played him in best of 5 matches. He was awesome that night and I was happy to be the only player to take a frame off him. I managed to make a nice little 55 break which with the 35 head start secured the frame. Lets hope I can produce the goods again this time!
Sunday Poker
Sunday afternoon is another of North Norfolk"s Mega Deepstack Events. With a bounty prize of a Goliath Seat up for grabs too, it"s looking like being a good tournament. More than likely, I"ll be tweeting throughout the day!
Three APAT members will be competing in this:
thinsy147 (me)
monkeyman
Bauldus New
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Saturday Snooker
Saturday night at my regular snooker club saw eight hopefuls, including me, wanting to prove themselves against the six times World Champion Steve Davis. However, it was proven that you don"t become a multi-champion by being average and even in your later years you don"t completely lose "it". Like any great sportsman, Steve made his chosen sport look easy, the most outstanding thing for me was his super smooth cueing action.
Steve "interesting" Davis was portrayed as a boring snooker player in the 80"s because he was always winning. In my eyes he was the first true proffesional of the sport, in fact, Steve is a profesional in every way. When he plays a tournament he plays to win. When he arrives at a club to entertain thats exactly what he does.
Anyway, back to the night in question. He won every game.....
Unfortunately for myself and the two other members of the clubs "A" team, Steve had decided to pick on us!
He had a 92 break against me making comments like "By the time I"ve finished with you you"ll be in the "B" Team"
He had a 117 break whilst bragging that "I don"t normally make centuries against "A" Team players but...."
Our third player got away lightly because he only made a 56 break against him (he was going for a maximum though).
A very enjoyable night.
Sunday Poker
Sunday afternoon was our first North Norfolk Deepstack Championship of the year and saw 34 eager players all hoping to win a nice sum of money and maybe even a free entry into the 2012 Goliath event in Coventry.
Everyone started with a stack of 50,000 chips and a Bounty Token, blinds were scheduled to raise every 25 minutes, all for £35 (including buffet).
The player who wins the most Bounty Tokens was guaranteed a seat into the Goliath.
I decided to play quite loose early on, hoping that when I did tighten up later my opponents would still perceive me as being loose! In the first level I had lost 1K. By the end of level 2 I had only won three hands: I flopped a straight and made two bluffs that got through!
Just before the dinner break I managed to recoup all the chips I lost when I made a difficult, but correct, call with a set of A against a possible flush hand. He was trying to bluff me! I had 52K at the break.
After the break I had a little run good when my bluff with 72 gave me two pair on the river. Then I flopped a set and got paid. My stack had increased to 72K.
Shortly after I gained my first Bounty Token when my BB hand of T7 was limped round to me and I hit two pair. I called an all-in shove. He showed AT.
One big hand I managed to get away from was when I got dealt pocket 10"s. I raised, got an instant call, then a re-raise! I called the re-raise and the next player also called after deliberating re-re-raising! I didn"t hit the flop and easily folded. I had decided that i was up against AK and AA. I was close, it was AK v QQ. An A came on the flop, a Q came on the river!
When the blinds reached 1K/2K I had amassed 98K with the help of JJ v KQ and floping a third J. Gained another bounty token.
I was dealt KJ three times in a row, played all three and won all three! This got me upto 120K with blinds at 1.5K/3K.
By the time we reached 2K/4K blinds there were 17 players left and i had managed to lose a few chips. Down to 78K.
Fortunately it didn"t take long before I hit my third flopped set of the day to increase to 130K and gain another bounty token.
Eventually I reached the final table and watched a couple of people fall but eventually went out in 6th. I shoved my 225K when the blinds were 10K/20K and sitting with AJ on the dealer button on an un-entered pot. Unfortunately the SB woke up with KK.
I was happy with my days play, really enjoyed myself and also managed to pick up a small pofit!
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Sent to Coventry!
When dropping a few hints to the other half about a little weekend away playing poker in early April I wasn"t sent to Coventry but instead was given a pass to Coventry. So, my seat is booked and an unexpected outing to the first APAT event of season six is on the cards. Result.
Looking forward to hopefully meeting some of my East of England team members for the online league. It"s going to be my first season in this league and am expecting some beginners luck! Not sure who or how many of them are going, but if I don"t find them maybe they"ll try to find me.
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I was short stacked in the $0.55 Turbo game on PokerStars having lost a fair amount of chips when my KJ was beaten by KT. K on the flop, T on the river!
I went out on this hand:
ray myles: folds
v1per163: folds
Jiggy914: folds
IziCash: folds
jaro1231: raises 300 to 450
Heidi16: folds
Gansao: folds
bubo1111: folds
thinsy: raises 644 to 1094 and is all-in
jaro1231: calls 644
*** FLOP *** Js 10c Jd
*** TURN *** Ah
*** RIVER *** Kd
*** SHOW DOWN ***
thinsy: shows Kh Qs (a straight, Ten to Ace)
jaro1231: shows Jh Jc (four of a kind, Jacks)
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Sent to Coventry!
When dropping a few hints to the other half about a little weekend away playing poker in early April I wasn"t sent to Coventry but instead was given a pass to Coventry. So, my seat is booked and an unexpected outing to the first APAT event of season six is on the cards. Result.
Looking forward to hopefully meeting some of my East of England team members for the online league. It"s going to be my first season in this league and am expecting some beginners luck! Not sure who or how many of them are going, but if I don"t find them maybe they"ll try to find me.
Have a pass aswell, so will look out for you Sir.
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Have a pass aswell, so will look out for you Sir.
I will be with fellow EofE Team-mate "Baldus New".
Only 27 days to go (not that I"m counting!!)
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Want To Make A Profit At Online Poker? Then Go For The Win!
I"ve just been having a look at my OPR stats and have noticed, so far, my results for March 2012 show a healthy ITM of 31%
This sounds good but then I looked at my ROI which shows -37%
I guess min-cashing isn"t a worthwhile goal.
Homework for the rest of the month............. Work on my "Mid-to-Late" Tournament Strategy!
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Another Good Run....
Just had another deep(ish) run in a PokerStars event:
Finished 311/12612.
I won 4.45x my original buy-in.
Oh, nearly forgot to mention it was a whopping $0.55 buy-in? :P
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Not Another Min Cash!
So, I played Saturday"s "Big $4.40" and ran pretty good.
My first boost of chips came when my 88 v AJ v AK held up.
A bit later I called a raise with 77 against another big stack. I flopped a set, he paired the river, I got paid.
At one point I was aprox 40/3900ish.
Then I had three run-ins with the same player who was constantly making bad calls but sometimes getting lucky. And, according to O.P.R. he is a massively losing player:
AK v JJ: I hit a K on the flop, he rivered a flush.
88 v QT: He hit a T.
And he eventually knocked me out with:
JJ v KQ: The flop came QQx to give him a set.
I finished 896/9326 for $8.57
Maybe one day soon I will get my big win?!?!
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Omaha HL Novice
Decided to break away from the usual Hold-Em tournaments tonight and entered the MM-42, $5.50 Omaha HiLo on PokerStars.
I know how to play Omaha HL. Well, what I mean by that is I can work out what the best hand is at given points in a hand! I played fairly loose early on, got some chips, then gave them away and eventually won some back!
I finished 1209/6215 which wasn"t in the money but at least a $5.50 loss makes it a cheap night!
I did have a PokerStars Pro (Goral) on my table who played very few hands (about twelve in two hours) but he had a good stack of chips by the time I was out! However, another player was playing a lot more hands and getting a lot more chips so I"m still not sure whether tight or loose is the best way forward?!?!
Maybe I"ll play it again............. In about three months! :P
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Sometimes you run good...... Sometimes you don"t!!!!!
I was left short stacked after a horrible beat then had this when on the DB. It was folded round to me.
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to thinsy 9h Ks
Gusparo: folds
hamazriya: folds
TheReferent0: folds
realinc2011: folds
kashkarik22: folds
Nama*306: folds
thinsy: raises 1506 to 1626 and is all-in
Playboytommy: folds
NessV: calls 1506
*** FLOP *** 10s Qs Jh
*** TURN *** A s
*** RIVER *** Jd
*** SHOW DOWN ***
NessV: shows Ah Ac (a full house, Aces full of Jacks)
thinsy: shows 9h Ks (a straight, Ten to Ace)
NessV collected 3447 from pot
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*** BEWARE - TILT POST ***
I don"t often rage against the cards that are dealt but of late I seem to be getting the worst of it!
In the Online League I"m pretty confident that I have not gone out of one game from being behind!
Tonight"s exit was AA v TT with a T on the flop!
Ok. Fine... No need to panic I"m running pretty good in one of the SCOOP events, now I can concentrate on that. Right?
Sitting 806/12089 with about 41K I get 55 and run into JJ but manage to only lose about 9K.
Hold on all is fine my KJ has hit a J7x flop. An easy call against a short stack shove who has a 7, then comes the 7 on the turn!
The last hand I had AT sooted, I raise and get a call..... AKx flop, I"m all-in, K9 calls..... 9 on the turn!!
RANT OVER!!
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Yes very unlucky runnings. Not sure if i was the one who had the 10"s v your AA. I was defo sitting on your left when you departed.
With regards to the HiLo, playing fewer hands is defo for +ev. Especially in tourneys. It does seem very difficult when you have a few oppo"s who are relatively new to the game and call any bets pre flop. There as in any poker variant the more oppo"s you face a good chance you will get beat. This even moreso in Omaha variants as each player(with a good hand anyway), is actually playing 6 hands. so 3 oppo"s is like playing against 18 players at Hold'em. If you don"t have it, chances are somebody else will( Not a good bluffing spot).
Sorry if I"m teaching you to suck eggs, hope it helps some though. :)
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Yes it was you.... I hate you! Lol.
With regards to Omaha.... Any advice is welcome. I only play omaha in our local weekly cash game which is full of guys who call down everything! It seems that I"ve managed to pick a few bad habits up from them....
Have had time to think about my "unlucky" poker moments and managed to get over it!
I know my game isn"t perfect and even if I was "less unlucky" I would have probably made mistakes somewhere in the tournament. So, I won"t be blaming online poker sites for "rigging" games but will be playing a bit less for a while, spend some time analysing various situations and come back stronger....... Hopefully!
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Congratulations on the birth of your daughter Colin, Happy Days!!! :)
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Congratulations on the birth of your daughter Colin, Happy Days!!! :)
+1
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So it seems babycare is more demanding than I imagined!!
Hence the lack of blog input....
Despite this I still wouldn"t change fatherhood for world.
Alexis was 4 weeks old on Wednesday and doing great.
Now to the APAT Staking......
I"ve just applied for my "licence" and hope it won"t get refused!
I"m not sure when i"ll get round to posting but at least I"ve made the first step. Even if I don"t post anything or get any successful backers I couldn"t think of anywhere better than APAT to make a £10 donation.
Ulitimatelly my dream would be to get frequent backers for the bigger live tournaments to help reduce my own costs and expences but realise that won"t happen overnight, so i"ll start with a few small online MTTs. Then maybe a few smaller live events before making myself and my backers into millionaires!
Wish me luck...
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Half Price Sunday Million
Treated myself to the $107.50 buy-in today, it"s well above my bankroll but it is my very first "Fathers Day"
I had good run and bad run. So can"t complain really. Finished 3266/20216.
I"m in two minds of whether I should have hung out for the min cash or not but decided to keep playing as I would. Unfortunately, it didn"t pay off so my bankroll has took a bit of a dent!
Never mind. Hopefully I can find a few backers to join me in my bankroll building mission?
Keep an eye out in the "Staking Request" thread (in the words of Des) coming soon!
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I"ve never really been a cash player but thought I"d give Poker Stars Zoom Poker a go.
I"ve tried playing tight aggressive, loose aggressive, tight passive, loose passive, I even tried luckbox fishive!!
and it seems the most successful route is just by being plain old LUCKY!! (which unfortunately, I"m not)
I"ve had Aces cracked, trips beaten by runner runner, two pair beaten by runner runner, also had many more hands beaten on the river.
I think I"ll stick to getting badly beaten in tournaments!!
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Freeroll Freeloaders!
A couple of thoughts with reference to the Genting Freeroll for APAT members:
I noticed a couple of weeks ago a post asking for the password for the mentioned freeroll from a member who had amassed a grand total of one post! Okay, at least this person bothered to join but, if he had searched through the site a bit harder he could have found it anyway!
Tonight saw a lot of entries into this competition from all parts of the world, I"m guessing that many weren"t members.... How did they get the password? It was openly offered in the "Rail on Sunday" post!
One player on my opening table just kept shoving all-in every hand and goating people to call (fortunately he didn"t win when eventually called but still not very APAT like). I also read elsewhere of some "un-APAT" chat!
I"ve viewed various sections on the forum and also found the password for the recent National Online League... It was in a thread headed up as "password"!
I understand that all people involved in organising and running these events aren"t exactly doing it for the money but surely there must be a better way than publicly displaying it to anyone who visits the forum? How many unregistered players are likely to find their way into the up and coming Online Team Events?
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The Times They Are A"changing!
It"s been a while since I"ve posted anything about my life outside of poker, a lot has changed so I will try to keep it short!
Since being made redundant at the beginning of the year I ventured into self-employment. This started off very well, tailed off in the middle and the less said about the end the better! However, I have no regrets. I didn"t lose any money over it, I actually done okay from it for the first three months. So good that I was able to allow myself to work part time for about two and a half months which allowed me to enjoy the birth and the first two months of my daughter"s life.
(http://i1126.photobucket.com/albums/l605/thinsy/402045_406932579366936_282361073_n.jpg)
Alexis Alice McCarthy
Three weeks ago I managed to bag myself a job doing what I have done for the last 20 years, I"ve fallen back into it quite comfortably and am really enjoying it.
This time last year I was excited about going to play in the Goliath in Coventry and then travelling a short distance to Nottingham for the APAT event. Unfortunately, this year I am unable to do both. I"m a father now and have responsibilities! This means APAT will be missed this year. The Goliath has been chosen over APAT purely because about half a dozen others from our local Tuesday night game are also going.
Good luck to all playing at DTD and maybe see some of you who are also playing the Goliath.
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Has it really been that long since I posted on here?
Hello, remember me?
So, over 120 days since my last post... Where have I been? Well, nowhere really!
I have eased back on my poker playing over the last few months, I used to play the $11 Sunday games on PokerStars virtually every week but it has proved more difficult to do with my other commitments (baby feeding, nappy changing, baby sitting).
I haven"t really missed the endless hours of playing online, in fact I probably feel better about playing because I"m playing less! I may consider setting up a Staking Request sometime soon, probably just playing a few games on the APAT site. My online results don"t seem that great and probably wouldn"t be considered as a brilliant investment opportunity but I think thats more due to my bad bankroll management!
I really wish I could play more live games though, I play my local weekly £5 re-buy but that"s not quite APAT!
Here"s hoping I can find a way to sort this!
Looking forward to the upcoming National Online Cup.
See you all at the virtual tables soon.
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You know your luck"s in when....
Not sure how to transfer hand history from the APAT poker site to here but here"s a quick breakdown:
Blinds 100/200
UTG+1: 2580 chips (also ran)
UTG+3: 2462 chips (luckbox)
UTG+4: 4800 chips (me)
UTG+1 calls 200
UTG+3 calls 200
UTG+4 raises to 1000 with QQ
UTG+1 re-raises to 1800
UTG+3 calls
UTG+4 re-raises all-in (4800 chips)
UTG+1 calls (2580)
UTG+3 calls (2462)
UTG+1 shows AQos
UTG+3 shows 72os
UTG+4 shows QQ
FLOP: 8 5 4 rainbow
TURN: 6
RIVER: 3
At least I won the 236 chips in the side pot! ::) ;D
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BUMP
HaPpY BiRtHdAy To mE
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Many happy returns Colin.. That nipper keeping you on your toes?.. Nice to see your still lurking in the midst of things :)
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Thank you Carl.
Yes, little one is keeping me busy. Especially now she"s on her feet!
Had a bit of a rest from poker and hoping to return all refreshed and running lucky like..... Well, YOU :P
Currently struggling with my poor excuse of a laptop.... Is APAT poker site available on an android tablet yet?
Hope to play some live APAT this season too :)
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Nice positive approach Colin.
Hope all is well with you.
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Went to a mates 40th birthday party last night and got another mates wedding to go to today. Would still rather be at Coventry for poker though. GL to all.
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PokerStars Micromillions
I have played a few of these just to pass the evenings away really. Playing the turbo games as I don"t want to be up all night winning thousands of dollars:
#001 - $0.11+RB : Spent about $2 and finished 25000ish/62000ish
#002 - $1.00+RB : Only had 1 rebuy and nearly made money before running my flopped top pair (queens) into a slow
played pocket kings! 7796/43863
Tonight I played:
#022 - $11 superknockout : Didn"t run any good but did manage to take out 1 bounty to get $5 back.
#023 - $1.00+RB : Ran pretty good from the off in this and got away with only having to have the Add-on for $0.91 I
eventually ran my AQ into 88, flopped a flush/straight draw but still missed. Finished 1135/29500 for $32.22
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Thank you s4ooter
Thank you to Dann for retweeting a post by poker pro Ryan Laplante (@Protentialmn)
If Dann hadn"t had retweeted I wouldn"t have won a free 2 hour training session!
Now the question is how much can a fish learn in 2 hours?
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UKCOAP - DTD Nottingham
I"ve reserved my seat through the seat reservation page and I"m very excited :P
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Blackberry Expert?
Anyone out there an expert on Blackberry phones?
Last week my mobile phone contract came to an end. I decided I was happy(ish) with my Blackberry Torch and opted for the "sim only" contract. Eight days later I uninstalled an app that I didn"t want, my phone informed me to reboot so I did. That was the last time I seen it switched on!
Of course, because I"m on a "sim only" contract my phone has no warranty!
Any ideas how to revive it?
Anyone have a cheap iPhone for sale?
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Who needs a smartphone anyway?
So the Blackberry packed in, the old phone has been re-employed (even though I can"t connect to the internet with it!) but I dont care because ive just bought a Galaxy Tab2.
So far so good. Now to practice tweeting ready for next weekend ;D
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Wow, it"s been over a year since I"ve posted on here!
A lot can happen in a year, good and bad..........
2013 ended badly for me and my family, my father passed away on the 29th December having fought with leukemia for around six years.
Even when you know the time will come you"re still not ready for it!
Early 2014 didn"t start too well either when my brother-in-law had a bleed on the brain and ended up having a major operation days before my fathers funeral. But, the year is improving. Brother-in-law made great progress and is now back at work and enjoying life, my nephew got a 1st in his motorsport engineering degree and is starting his new job with Ford Motor Company tomorrow.
My mother, who doesn"t drive and is rubbish with modern technology, makes regular bus trips to visit us and friends. She can now work an ipad too!
And myself.......... I am still happily living in sin with Sarah and our beautiful little girl who is now in training for the roll of "big sister"
Yep, in March next year we will be awaiting the arrival of number two!
Oh, and I"m going to Luton for some poker game at the weekend. Last time I went to Luton I came home with a shiny medal.... Just saying!