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Re: If Carlsberg did dull poker blogs, they'd do this one
« Reply #885 on: May 19, 2011, 22:57:22 PM »
4th break and the last hour has gone well. I"m currently 398th of 1431 with 27455 chips (average 21755)
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Re: If Carlsberg did dull poker blogs, they'd do this one
« Reply #886 on: May 19, 2011, 23:45:56 PM »
FFS. Out in 1010th place. At around the 4.5 hour mark I moved tables, played one hand like a muppet then got outdrawn on the river 2 more times. Finding myself shortstacked I went all in with AA72, got called by QQ92 and needless to say I was leading to the river when a third queen put in an appearance. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :"(  
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Re: If Carlsberg did dull poker blogs, they'd do this one
« Reply #887 on: May 20, 2011, 01:07:52 AM »
I"m still in this, did exactly the same as you and used my token

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Re: If Carlsberg did dull poker blogs, they'd do this one
« Reply #888 on: May 20, 2011, 01:17:11 AM »

I"m still in this, did exactly the same as you and used my token


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Re: If Carlsberg did dull poker blogs, they'd do this one
« Reply #889 on: May 20, 2011, 07:34:12 AM »
Don"t know about you guys, but I the standard of play in this was terrible
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Re: If Carlsberg did dull poker blogs, they'd do this one
« Reply #890 on: May 20, 2011, 10:17:44 AM »

Don"t know about you guys, but I the standard of play in this was terrible


I late regged and just sat there patiently, the general standard seems poor, but then I am not great I am just patient.
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Re: If Carlsberg did dull poker blogs, they'd do this one
« Reply #891 on: May 21, 2011, 21:49:19 PM »


Don"t know about you guys, but I the standard of play in this was terrible


I late regged and just sat there patiently, the general standard seems poor, but then I am not great I am just patient.


Not a bad idea at all. I"ll definitely be keeping my eye on low value hi/lo events in the next series Pokerstars do as so few people seemed to know the basics of how to play the game.I"m no great shakes at them either, but there is definitely an opportunity for some serious money in one of these due to the amount of dead wood
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Re: If Carlsberg did dull poker blogs, they'd do this one
« Reply #892 on: June 01, 2011, 14:10:26 PM »
My PC issues are still present, I still can"t use holdem manager but frankly I"m beyond caring. Over the past month I played considerably less than I have for some time and upped the percentage of my playing hours devoted to tournament play. I"m running appallingly at the moment; I seem to forever get to just outside the money then run a big pair into a slightly bigger pair. Cash play is going well and I"ve had one of my all too regular changes of direction. I had a few quid on Sky and as that site hardly ever has any traffic on full ring tables I"ve been forced to play short-handed. It may just be that I pay attention when I"m involved more, but I haven"t been making some of the stupid mistakes that have blighted my game for the rest of the year.
   In 3 weeks I will probably be making one of my rarer-than-a-straight-bloke-who-doesn"t-fancy-Pippa-Middleton forays into live poker. As mentioned previously on this blog, I am heading to Cardiff on Saturday 25th June for the Speedway Grandprix. As I"ve got the preceding week off work, I"m going to make the journey in stages. On that friday, I will be in the Somerset/Severn Bridge area and on the thursday I should be paying a visit to the Grosvenor at Walsall. I admit its my least favourite Grosvenor that I"ve been to (TheVic,Coventry,Luton,Cardiff,Bolton,Walsall - Great yarmouth doesn"t really count as it feels more like a big private home than a casino), but their schedule currently shows a 8000 chip,£25 freezeout on thursday afternoon at 4.30pm and that looks like a pretty decent reason to stop off en route. Shame they haven"t got something like that at Coventry the same afternoon/evening.    
   
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Re: If Carlsberg did dull poker blogs, they'd do this one
« Reply #893 on: June 05, 2011, 16:33:12 PM »
Still with the cash grinding and on the whole its going well, although Betfair has seen fit to kick me in the nuts a couple of times today.  
   I"m getting dead excited as tonight I"m off to see this lot play their first gig in five years

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Re: If Carlsberg did dull poker blogs, they'd do this one
« Reply #894 on: June 12, 2011, 10:15:24 AM »
At bleeding last! I had the call I"d been waiting for yesterday; my brother-in-law said he"d managed to coax PC number one out of its nervous  breakdown and almost all my files have been recovered. The only exception was the database containing the tens of thousands of hands I"d racked-up in Hold'em manager  in the first half of this year, so its back to square one on that score.
   Its not all bad news though as my cash play seems healthier now than it ever has been, so maybe my system problems have been a blessing in disguise. Over the past couple of weeks I"ve been concentrating on Betfair"s 5-handed tables and its been quite a revelation. Over the past few months I"ve had far more profitable than loss making cash sessions, but when I"m bad,I"m really bad.  I can honestly say I"ve not made any glaring errors since my recent attempt to play the smaller tables started and all the schoolboy errors I was making in full-ring games (playing for too long,playing when tired,not getting away from big starting hands,tilting too easily) seem to have disappeared for now. Playing 2 five-handed tables for short,sharp sessions seems to be much more me than spending hours in front of 3 ten player tables.

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Re: If Carlsberg did dull poker blogs, they'd do this one
« Reply #895 on: June 13, 2011, 12:05:20 PM »
Praise be! I"ve actually managed to cash in a tournament. I had 2 attempts yesterday and the first was in an $11 "deepstack" (3000 chips is deep is it?) shorthanded affair on Betfair. I had the right side of a set-on-set confrontation in the first hour, but otherwise had to rely on scraps and eventually went out in around 80th place, about 20 places outside the money.
   Tourney number 2 was a 5 euro deepstack on Ladbrokes at 7.30pm. I"ve not played in it for a while and its a curious beast. Not only is it 8-handed, but the, normally several hundred, players can be divided into 2 camps; two-thirds are utterly incompetent and will happily go all-in during the first level (250xbb starting stack) with either flopped top pair or any pocket pair. Negotiate the first hour, preferably with a double-up and things settle down a bit. If you get to the last 80 or so players the tournament changes character completely, as by that stage most players know what they are doing and the standard of play is worthy of a higher buy-in. I managed to double-up on the second hand of the first level, although as if to illustrate my point about the volatile nature of the early stages, I was only in eighth place when I did! I eventually departed in 23rd place (from 291 starters). With around 12-13 x bb I shoved with pocket jacks, got a caller (pocket sixes) and flopped a full house to put me into 10th place. The next hand I was in the big blind with pocket queens, the action folded to the tournament leader on the button who raised,I shoved he called with aces and it was all over. For around 3.75 hours play I made a profit of 9 euros.
  I think both tournaments suggested to me that my tournament play is as healthy as its ever been and there"s a sizeable win waiting just around the corner. World domination could yet be mine. Hmm, maybe.      
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Re: If Carlsberg did dull poker blogs, they'd do this one
« Reply #896 on: June 16, 2011, 22:49:59 PM »
Tonight"s action was from the same Ladbrokes deepstack event I cashed in on my last attempt a few days ago. Try using your psychic powers to work out how this hand finished.........
   258 players started and the payout went to 32nd place. There are 33 players left, I have approximately 26000 chips, blinds are 500/1000 with a 100 ante and I am in 18th/19th place. The action folds to me in the cut-off where I make a standard raise with pocket queens. The only other action is from the small blind, who has double my stack and goes all-in. I look at the list of remaining players and see that in last place is someone with a mere 2890 chips, but I make the call. My opponent has AK. The question is what happened next (answer below)





















There was an ace on the river meaning I was eliminated on the bubble whereas winning the hand would have put me comfortably in the top 10. Sigh............   One time.     :"(
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Re: If Carlsberg did dull poker blogs, they'd do this one
« Reply #897 on: June 17, 2011, 23:35:11 PM »
It looks like I"m becoming obsessed with one particular tournament and with good reason. Once again I"ve played the 5.5 euro 8 seater deepstack on ladbrokes and again I"ve just sneaked into the money, this time with precious little assistance from the dealer. I swear if I played it every night for a month I would take it down at least once. Top prize was tonight was 415.59 euro and of the 315 entrants, probably 200-240 were utterly clueless. That just has to be good value. Its got my name on it sometime soon.

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Re: If Carlsberg did dull poker blogs, they'd do this one
« Reply #898 on: June 21, 2011, 17:03:20 PM »
Well I don"t know, I turn my back for a couple of days and Betfair try and confuse me by changing their short-handed tables from 5 to 6 players. To be fair to them though, they did compensate for the confusion by allowing me to win a threeway all-in with my AK prevailing against QQ and KQ. How very kind of them.
   Its now only 48 hours until I play my first live poker since last November at Coventry. Walsall on thursday afternoon is the place and much as I disliked the venue on my only previous visit, I"m really looking forward to it. I am currently toying with the idea of getting my specially commisioned, bright yellow "Idrivetractors" t-shirt out of storage to mark the occasion,but I suspect that plan will go the same way as the one regarding the wearing of a Norwich City shirt in Cardiff on saturday; into the folder marked "Not the best idea you"ve ever had"  
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Re: If Carlsberg did dull poker blogs, they'd do this one
« Reply #899 on: June 21, 2011, 17:31:56 PM »
Good luck in Walsall  ;)
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