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Re: Pokerpops ponders poker
« Reply #90 on: May 02, 2012, 12:26:20 PM »
Really enjoying this, looking forward to the rest of it  :)
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Re: Pokerpops ponders poker
« Reply #91 on: May 02, 2012, 12:36:08 PM »
A quick online hand history.. how to jump from mid field to 2/65 in one easy hand

this is from a $4 rb $3000 gtd, Prize Pool actually $4000

BB shows as sitting out which may make my raise look a little like a steal, IF they are paying attention..

http://www.holdemmanager.net
NL Holdem $1,200(BB) Pacific Game#375407202

flynnied ($33,114)
sperle333 ($39,869)
mrosenfi ($9,640)
lloydbr4un ($49,720)
pokerpops ($48,723)
stumpybill ($12,202)
diego_1987 ($15,890)
river_queen9 ($37,452)

river_queen9 antes $120
flynnied antes $120
pokerpops antes $120
stumpybill antes $120
lloydbr4un antes $120
mrosenfi antes $120
diego_1987 antes $120
sperle333 antes $120
flynnied posts (SB) $600
sperle333 posts (BB) $1,200

Dealt to pokerpops Qs  As  
fold, fold,
pokerpops raises to $2,580
fold, fold,
river_queen9 calls $2,580
flynnied raises to $7,640
fold,
pokerpops calls $5,060
river_queen9 calls $5,060
FLOP ($25,080) Ah  Qh  7d  
flynnied bets $25,354 (AI)
pokerpops raises to $40,963 (AI)
river_queen9 calls $29,692 (AI)
TURN ($109,818) Ah  Qh  7d  9s  
RIVER ($109,818) Ah  Qh  7d  9s  8s  
river_queen9 shows Ad  6c  
(Pre 22%, Flop 0.6%, Turn 0.0%)

flynnied shows Qc  Kd  
(Pre 24%, Flop 2.1%, Turn 0.0%)

pokerpops shows Qs  As  
(Pre 54%, Flop 97.3%, Turn 100.0%)

pokerpops wins $109,818
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Re: Pokerpops ponders poker
« Reply #92 on: May 02, 2012, 22:39:46 PM »


Built up a bit, lost a chunk on the last hand before the break but stil had a decent stack when I decided to outplay one of the youngsters - "cos I"m the Pokerpops, the old bloke with the moves. d"ohhhh

I raise ep with 9 10 and he 3 bets me. Now he"s capable of doing this with a lot. He got it in over the Fossil"s 3bet earlier with A10 and rivered an A to beat Bri"s QQ, so I instacall in a casual way.
I lead on the Q610 flop and he raises. I instacall
I check call the turn
I check jam the A on the river with some speech play about only QQ or AA beating me....

He calls with QQ - that went well...




the "i folded 6"s" comment you passsed afterwards which every one (barring me, as my singgering might have given away) believed was quality work.

This man is running like God at the minute, smashed the blackjack to bits, then did well on the cash table too, could have been even better if he didnt lose a few races against a dribbler who insisted on letting himself get uber short stack before doubling up to where he started time and time again.

Dont use his headphones though, they are cursed. Had nothing at all to do with me playing ****.
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Re: Pokerpops ponders poker
« Reply #93 on: May 03, 2012, 00:16:14 AM »
I really must return to the NE - this is my kind of game

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Re: Pokerpops ponders poker
« Reply #94 on: May 03, 2012, 13:47:20 PM »
DTD Grand Prix VI - Final Table

I"m still waiting to see the replay of this, and  I know a few of you may have been watching it on the stream, but I want to get some of my thoughts down before it all fades from the memory. At my age shortterm memory is an issue.
I"d reached this stage of the tournament with a quite unbelievable level of rungood. I"ve been thinking back and I can"t remember losing a flip throughout the entire 3 days.
44>AK, AQ>88, QQ>AJ (despite the AKJ flop), A8>KK etc
I was getting value from my hands too, and making
some decent laydowns and I felt very comfortable
with where I was.
So we broke to a table of 9 with one more elimination needed before the Golden Chips became
of value and we move to the feature table.
9 soon became 8 when James "raggy" Clarke"s AK crushed the 99 of an all in player running out with a full house on the river.

I started the final 8 with the chip lead

1         Dale Parry        5,580,000
2         Jack Fairman    580,000
3         David Amos      8,545,000
4         Michael Wright  4,100,000
5         Simon Brown    2,485,000
6         John Sadler      1,160,000
7         Peter Evans      4,270,000
8         James Clarke    8,125,000

Blinds were 60000/120000/20000 and it soon became apparent that Raggy was going to be a tough guy to play against. He opened just about any pot he had the chance to. Not with nice easy to call/3bet raises either. His standard raise was to 520000, with the occasional foray up to 620000. Ultimate pressure on the shortstacks, but risky if either I or Peter Evans wakes up with a hand but I certainly didn"t.
I had very little that was playable and every and any attempt to play back at him met with a flat call at best.
C-bets were called too and given his reputation (they don"t call him raggy for nothing) it was hard to put him on a hand and to know whether a second bullet would be effective so I tended to give up on the turn since I didn"t seem able to
hit a flop whatever I held.

I 3-bet him once playing Qh6H which is the Stockton Massive nuts.He opened and I made 1,000,000 raise from the BB which he flat called and I think that hand was one where I should have c-bet since I picked up a flush draw on the flop but I didn"t have the cojones and since no heart fell on the turn or river and he led out way too much for a raise on the river to be in any way effective with no showdown value I had to let it go.

I wandered away from the table for a moment at one stage and came back to see all of Peter Evans chips being pushed towards Raggy. It seems Peter raised KK BvB and was called by Ah6h. C-bet, called, heart on turn, second barrel, called. Kh on river.... OUCH

I said I"d come back to the "always show a Jack" theme and it came in a hand vs Mike "flushthemout" Wright. We"d played together from a long way out and he"d shared the humour and the love. He"d benefitted from my folding JJ and thus starting the joke, and I"d benefitted massively from his folding QQ and we"d had some fun hands along the way. So
BvB I make a small raise with QJo and he calls.

Flop is J85 and I lead 400,000 which he raises to 1.2MM. Now, the only set he can feasibly have here is fives because for certain he 3bets JJ and 88, in fact BvB I"d be surprised if he doesn"t 3bet 55 too. He can, possibly have two pair, or
he can have QJ but again he definitely 3bets AJ, and almost certainly does the same with KJ so, I take some time and then reraise him another 2MM effectively asking him to fold, or shove.
He shoves and I call - he has.... 10 5, bottom pair and not much room to improve, which he doesn"t.
I"ve asked him about the hand and I understand that he thought I could fold to the raise on the flop, but to commit to the hand when I reraise?

Four handed the lad in Seat 1 whose blinds and button had been attacked relentlessly by Raggy finally gets a chance to be first to act in a pot without Raggy and open shoves about 2MM.
SB folds and I call from the BB with K8. It looks bad when he turns over A10 but I couldn"t put him on a hand that strong given the situation and position.
K high board and we"re down to three.

Still Raggy keeps raising and still I can"t find a way to play back at him but it"s not long before the third place is settled when Raggy"s K7 is too much for the 57 with which the ultimate ladderer eventually shoves. Not even with a 6 2 8 flop.

Headsup - 7MM v 27MM, all to do, nothing to lose.
the records will show that I continued to not have a hand here. I raised J8o, and shoved over the reraise for a morale booster - showed it too :) after Raggy had folded saying "I had an Ace" (I understand he actually held Q8...)
Got a double up when the first marginally connected paint card I"d had in eons looked good enough to have a go with - Q10>77 to get me to 14MM v 20MM

Started to believe for a while and then, shortly after that I get dealt AJ in the BB. It felt like Birthday and Christmas rolled into one.
Ace Jack sooooted too.
Raggy raises the button and I hollywood the consideration of what to do.

Eventually I 3bet hoping to get him to at least call, but preferably to raise/shove
He shoves! Happy days indeed. I snap call and he instantly says the last words you want to hear in these circumstances... "I"ve got Aces"

I needed help from the dealer for one last time.

I didn"t get any. But if you"re going to lose headsup then what better way to lose than on a hand that just played itself.

James was a worthy winner and I believe I was a worthy second. Only he and I played much on that final table. Peter had a go but having James to his left made it even harder for him.

I may never in my life have such a lengthy spell of rungood but I also doubt I have ever played quite so well. I won a lot of small pots through the days with a lot less than premium hands and I"m inordinately proud of the fact that I
survived Day 1. Old David wouldn"t have done that. Old David would have busted very mid-afternoon.

I"ll come back to the final table once the video has been posted and I can see how much I was outplayed and how much I was outdrawn. I"m hoping it"s not too morale-sapping to watch.


Disclaimer - some of this may be mildly inaccurate as to timings/bet sizes ect. As previously stated my memory"s not what it was
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Re: Pokerpops ponders poker
« Reply #95 on: May 03, 2012, 14:19:06 PM »
Thanks for sharing all of that with us Mr A and massive well done again.  :D
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Re: Pokerpops ponders poker
« Reply #96 on: May 03, 2012, 17:10:20 PM »
Great post - fun to read.

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Re: Pokerpops ponders poker
« Reply #97 on: May 04, 2012, 00:11:27 AM »

Great post - fun to read.



+1 Thanks for posting, VWP
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Re: Pokerpops ponders poker
« Reply #98 on: May 04, 2012, 09:30:20 AM »

Great post - fun to read.


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Re: Pokerpops ponders poker
« Reply #99 on: May 04, 2012, 10:05:10 AM »
Stockton Massive - G Casino

We"ve played as a group, at Rileys in Stockton for quite a while now. Two years at least and the stalwarts of the game like TC, Sti, Gary "Big Balls" Palmer, "Ace-rag" Motson, Bri "Fossil" Harland  and Fiddy McGowan have rarely missed more than a week at a time. Lucy plays often these days too and all of them were sending me good luck both directly and indirectly last weekend. So last night I moved the game to G at Stockton, booked dealers and bought a couple of rounds of drinks to say thanks for their support.

11 of us sat down and it wasn"t long before I was glad we"d changed the rules a while ago to make it a 1 re-entry tournament...

A raise  8d 9h from utg 6 handed got a call from Anth in the big blind.
Flop  9d 3s 3h
Anth checks and I bet
Anth calls
Turn  10c
Anth checks, I bet, Anth raises
I ship, Anth covers me, but not by much
Anth calls
Readers of a nervous disposition should maybe stop reading now...

and turns over  3c 6d

No 9 on the river and I cry "CHIPS PLEASE"

My second stack survived till just after the break when a newcomer to the game for this week raised UTG  and I decided that KJo was a decent hand to shove with over his raise
He insta-called with AK and the board ran out with an A and a 10 by the turn, at which point the dealer (a new zero hours lad with not a lot of experience) forgot to burn and turned over the Q to give me broadway. We pointed out the error and I called for another Q to no avail.

First out in my celebratory tournament
very much a case of "after the Lord Mayor"s Show"

leaving them to sort themselves out on the Final Table I ventured down to the mighty .25/.50 cash game and managed to get three streets of value from QQ from a guy holding JJ and a full £80 stack from someone holding 79 on a 789 flop when I had 88 - the 7 on the turn was a bonus, chips were in by then.
I even had a "RakeFree" voucher to use for the night - #irunsogood
Gave a bit back but not too much and ended up about £85 on a 2 hr session.

In other, non-poker news, it seems that the finest legal minds have concluded that the guy who was found locked into a holdall was probably killed and put there by someone else. Right! They thought maybe it was a very committed suicide?



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Re: Pokerpops ponders poker
« Reply #100 on: May 04, 2012, 11:43:58 AM »
Oh Hello der!

just popped into APAT and found you are here as well :D

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Re: Pokerpops ponders poker
« Reply #101 on: May 04, 2012, 11:44:29 AM »
Im impressed you never mentioned the 2 outer!!!
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Re: Pokerpops ponders poker
« Reply #102 on: May 04, 2012, 12:02:57 PM »

Oh Hello der!

just popped into APAT and found you are here as well :D


I get around...

Just watching the first few hands of the GP Stream - if only I could hear what the commentators are saying!

By the way - I should publicly acknowledge the support I got from Caroline over the two days. Her words of wisdom (and her rubs) helped to keep me going!

I have some game for an old bloke apparently...
« Last Edit: May 04, 2012, 12:19:36 PM by david3103 »
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Re: Pokerpops ponders poker
« Reply #103 on: May 04, 2012, 12:17:45 PM »

Im impressed you never mentioned the 2 outer!!!


meh - was hugely standard. I got it in bad with AQhh
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« Reply #104 on: May 07, 2012, 17:39:04 PM »
Saturday evening, no plans for the weekend and I"m reading the updates  on Blonde for the £500 Deepstack at DTD with a £200,000 gtee.
Overlay predicted and they"re running an extra set of online satellites so I register for a E20 feeder into the 8.10 5 seats guaranteed...
At 7.55 I have a seat into the satellite and we"re off.
Lots of re-entries means that the smal field covers the cost of the 5 seats with a little something looking likely for 6th.
10 left and I get it in over a limp and a call with 77
limp and call have QQ and Kk respectively
I river the straight...
7 left and the two shorties have just doubled up and now it"s me that"s short
Folds to me with Kh 8h on the button, easy shove to pick up the blinds and antes and besides K8 did me great service on the Final Table last week
BB wakes up with  Ah 10h and makes a dubious call when he could fold to the seat
No binkage and I"m left with the pure bubble zero and no trip to DTD for the first weekend in four weeks.

Instead I play the £15+£15 at G Stockton where I raise 88 and get one caller, flop is J8x and I lead out on flop and turn and check the river which brings a third club and an unlikely but possible straight. He bets a smallish amount on the river which I call because it doesn"t look like a flush or a straight only to be shown JJ for the flopped set over set..
A little later I shove AK into AA and the glory days seem to be behind me now.

I stayed at the table and dealt for the next couple of levels - lols aplenty as i watch a decently structured tourney turned into a crapshoot by people who fold their big blind leaving themselves 1.5BB behind and by people who raise fold from an 8 BB stack.
As I left they were still on the final table bubble with 11 left.
Average stack 44,000
Blinds about to go to 5,000/10,000

Poker? I don"t think so.

Play of the night contender...
As reported by the initial raiser...
"So, I open minraise  Qd 9d from the button at 3k/6k and the short stack"s in the SB and shoves 14k which the BB flats...
Flop is J high with one diamond and BB bets 20k which is half his stack so I fold and the board comes runner runner diamonds and BB shows AQ and loses to SB"s flopped set of Jacks and if he hadn"t bet into a dry sidepot and we"d checked it down I"d have made a flush and knocked him out instead of him trebling up...whinge whinge whinge"



Discussed the need for antes to be brought back in these tourneys to help winnow out the field much earlier, but I still have issues with antes in self-dealt tourneys. It slows the game so much that it almost counteracts the benefit they bring.
Views on this appreciated...


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