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Re: Am I a fish? No I am not.
« Reply #510 on: February 02, 2009, 11:37:01 AM »
First league game last night and my impressions? Overall, I was a little disappointed. Yes, there was an incredible amount of banter and the number of times participants were eliminated by team mates blew apart any suggestions of soft playing (sorry Rubertoe, had to do it). However, it was all a bit too wham, bam, thank you mam for my liking. I don"t play many tournaments these days and when I do take part, I like to ensure its in a game where I can try and play some real poker as opposed to just shoving from the word go. Hopefully, adjustments will be made e.g. earlier starting time, bigger stacks, longer blinds, all of the above.  
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Re: Am I a fish? No I am not.
« Reply #511 on: February 02, 2009, 20:07:18 PM »
True Simon, had a similar experience. Got rivered with Broadway by a flush and didn"t really have time to recover so got caught pushing with A9 suited and ran into pocket AA lol

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« Reply #512 on: February 02, 2009, 21:01:04 PM »
See your guys have picked up loan deals for our Alan Gow and Celtic"s Chris Killen  8) Should do a decent job for you and get a few goals between them.
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Re: Am I a fish? No I am not.
« Reply #513 on: February 04, 2009, 18:33:50 PM »

See your guys have picked up loan deals for our Alan Gow and Celtic"s Chris Killen  8) Should do a decent job for you and get a few goals between them.


Yep, they"ve got to be better than the cack that"s already here. There"s a very strong scottish connection already. Bryan Gunn, who has just taken over as manager, was brought here as a player from Aberdeen, we purchased David Marshall from Celtic and the same club let us have the very impressive John Kennedy on loan earlier in the season.  We"ve also got Mark Fotheringham who I think also came to us from Rangers. I"m not surprised Gow has arrived as we"ve tried to get him before.    
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« Reply #514 on: February 04, 2009, 18:37:10 PM »
Its now less than 48 hours until my arrival in Walsall and tonight is deepstack tournament practise night. I"ve enrolled in the 22 euro 3.5k euro guaranteed on Virgin at 19.30. I"ve only played in this tournament once before and I seem to remember the standard of play being poor for the buy-in level. I vaguely remember bubbling the last time I played.  >:(
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Re: Am I a fish? No I am not.
« Reply #515 on: February 04, 2009, 19:08:58 PM »

Its now less than 48 hours until my arrival in Walsall and tonight is deepstack tournament practise night. I"ve enrolled in the 22 euro 3.5k euro guaranteed on Virgin at 19.30. I"ve only played in this tournament once before and I seem to remember the standard of play being poor for the buy-in level. I vaguely remember bubbling the last time I played.  >:(


I"ve played this a few times and am having a go tomorrow. The standard in the early stages is diabolical. Hands overplayed pre and post flop with draws chased at any price. When you get to the last 40 though the standard is actually very good. I suppose you could say all this for any MTT, but it seems to be more true for this tourney than most.
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« Reply #516 on: February 04, 2009, 21:39:51 PM »

Its now less than 48 hours until my arrival in Walsall and tonight is deepstack tournament practise night. I"ve enrolled in the 22 euro 3.5k euro guaranteed on Virgin at 19.30. I"ve only played in this tournament once before and I seem to remember the standard of play being poor for the buy-in level. I vaguely remember bubbling the last time I played.  >:(


What a complete and utter waste of time. I departed in 65th of 231 players by going all in from early position for 16xBB with QQ and had two bigger stacks calling me. One player had aces, the other had the remaining two queens. What I found really strange was the way almost every other player seemed happy to commit with any kind of draw or top pair. It didn"t play like a deepstack and felt like one of those 1500 chip/10 minute blind fishfests so prevalent on Ipoker. I should have stuck to the cash tables  
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« Reply #517 on: February 05, 2009, 22:52:18 PM »
1) Friday depart Norwich 10.00 ish, aim to arrive at Holiday Inn Walsall mid afternoon having sampled the culinary wonders of Little Chef/Mcdonalds en route
2) Spend a couple of hours absorbing the contents of the Racing Post ahead of (3)
3) 18.50 First race at Wolverhampton. 21.20 - laugh at bookie as 6th lot of winnings from six races are collected
4) Return to Holiday Inn, see if there are any familiar faces in the bar before retiring for the night.
5) Saturday am - breakfast then 9.00 decide to marvel in the cultural delights of Walsall. 9.05 decide to make use of available pre-tournament time to do homework for writing course
6) 13.30 to 14.00 make my way to casino
7) 14.30 Shuffle up and deal
8 ) 24.00 to 01.00 - finish for the night with huge chip lead
9) 14.30 sunday - Return to casino to mop up remaining short stacks
10) Finish job off, receive trophy, do interviews with Des and Sky tV
11) Decide to retire to Holiday Inn for a third night as too excited to drive home safely  
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Re: Am I a fish? No I am not.
« Reply #518 on: February 05, 2009, 23:07:43 PM »

1) Friday depart Norwich 10.00 ish, aim to arrive at Holiday Inn Walsall mid afternoon having sampled the culinary wonders of Little Chef/Mcdonalds en route
2) Spend a couple of hours absorbing the contents of the Racing Post ahead of (3)
3) 18.50 First race at Wolverhampton. 21.20 - laugh at bookie as 6th lot of winnings from six races are collected
4) Return to Holiday Inn, see if there are any familiar faces in the bar before retiring for the night.
5) Saturday am - breakfast then 9.00 decide to marvel in the cultural delights of Walsall. 9.05 decide to make use of available pre-tournament time to do homework for writing course
6) 13.30 to 14.00 make my way to casino
7) 14.30 Shuffle up and deal
8) 24.00 to 01.00 - finish for the night with huge chip lead
9) 14.30 sunday - Return to casino to mop up remaining short stacks
10) Finish job off, receive trophy, do interviews with Des and Sky tV
11) Decide to retire to Holiday Inn for a third night as too excited to drive home safely  


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Re: Am I a fish? No I am not.
« Reply #519 on: February 06, 2009, 21:46:40 PM »

1) Friday depart Norwich 10.00 ish, aim to arrive at Holiday Inn Walsall mid afternoon having sampled the culinary wonders of Little Chef/Mcdonalds en route
2) Spend a couple of hours absorbing the contents of the Racing Post ahead of (3)
3) 18.50 First race at Wolverhampton. 21.20 - laugh at bookie as 6th lot of winnings from six races are collected
4) Return to Holiday Inn, see if there are any familiar faces in the bar before retiring for the night.
5) Saturday am - breakfast then 9.00 decide to marvel in the cultural delights of Walsall. 9.05 decide to make use of available pre-tournament time to do homework for writing course
6) 13.30 to 14.00 make my way to casino
7) 14.30 Shuffle up and deal
8 ) 24.00 to 01.00 - finish for the night with huge chip lead
9) 14.30 sunday - Return to casino to mop up remaining short stacks
10) Finish job off, receive trophy, do interviews with Des and Sky tV
11) Decide to retire to Holiday Inn for a third night as too excited to drive home safely  


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« Reply #520 on: February 09, 2009, 08:51:05 AM »
Despite getting back to Norwich at midday yesterday, I couldn"t be bothered to blog. I remained watching the updates to the bitter end last night and awoke this morning after five hours sleep, so my review of the weekend will have to be in bullet-point form as my brain isn"t up to top speed yet.
  In no particular order, here are my good and bad points of the past few days starting with the negative:

1) The journey to Walsall was a pain in the backside. It wasn"t so much the driving in single file at reduced speeds that annoyed me, but that when I reached the junction of the A14 and A1, the police had blocked the former road heading west, meaning I had no option but to head north towards Peterborough. Rather than the automatic pilot trip I should have had, my journey from this point went A1,A47,A43, Market Harborough before rejoining my anticipated route at the point where the A14 and M6 join. This meant Norwich to Walsall took just over five hours going there as opposed to 2.75 hours coming back.
2) Much as I liked room 123 of the Holiday Inn, the view from the window across the car park of the Village Hotel failed to inspire any poetry, meaning I"ve still got a sonnet to write before my class tomorrow night.
3) For the fifth time I failed to make day two at a national. I had aces once which resulted in a few chips after I raised, saw a call and a reraise before I shoved forcing my opponents to back down and Kings once which yielded the blinds after my raise went unanswered. I was feeding on scraps apart from this and never went above 12000 chips.
4) My communication skills need improving upon. Two people tried to speak to me whilst I was seated at the table; Ant the Cat tried to tell me about his departure and Des tried to tell me of the conversation he and TK had had about my T-shirt. Both were met with little more than neanderthal grunts.  
 In addition, I think my poker etiquette needs a little work. The next time I bite the dust at a major event, I really should remember to say "Nice hand" or "Well played". Maybe, just maybe when Colin O"Prey stood up at the same time as me he was doing so in order to shake my hand rather than because he needed to stretch his legs. Note to self - acknowledge other people at the table when leaving. At least I didn"t drop the F-bomb upon departure, so maybe that"s a step in the right direction.  
  Now for the good stuff:

1) I"ve referred already to my paucity of playable hands, but I honestly believe I played by far my best poker at any national to date. Although my stack never rose above 12000, I got value from the day by clinging on to life support until about 10.20 pm. I didn"t go into the day with any gameplan, but found myself playing hands that Gus Hansen would have been proud of. I took down pots by raising with 10/3 off, 8/2 off, 7/3 off but my raise with 7/2 was called so I abandoned ship post flop. I"ve never done that sort of thing before and there"s no way I"d have gone beyond the meal break if I hadn"t. I must be getting better. Its just a shame that the abscence of tournament poker in the wilds of East Anglia means that my playing time will be exclusively PC based for a few months.
2) Despite feeling disappointed at my lack of a return, I must remember that for me it was a freeroll. Somewhere out there are twenty-one people who, for whatever reason, voted for this blog in the APAT end of year awards. Without them, I probably wouldn"t have had the opportunity to partake once more in the experience that is the APAT national.
3) I"d like to thank, Des, tighty, TK and anyone else involved in the organisational side of things for all their efforts. Without your hard work, my lifetime live poker experience would probably be condensed into two weeks in Vegas. Cheers guys, hopefully I"ll see you again in Nottingham                    
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« Reply #521 on: February 09, 2009, 13:57:44 PM »
dont worry about the grunt simon, i understand that we are both male and im pretty sure that men cant do more than one thing at a time. i know its bad to interupt someone when they are in a hand so i do appologise for the interuption.

how did andy and his partner(cant remember her name, im useless with names lol) got on, did they do well???
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« Reply #522 on: February 10, 2009, 21:47:19 PM »
How many of you are regulars on Betfair? If you are, do you understand how the calculations work for their prizefighterpoker promotion? Even if I don"t fully comprehend how the rankings are calculated, my vain side forced me to check my rating. On cash tables only, yesterday my ranking was 35th, today I"m up to 22nd. I know there isn"t always an enormous volume of cash traffic on this site, but on the face of it, a ranking of 22 sounds pretty good. Has anyone else been checking their progress under this promotion? If so, what is your rating?
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« Reply #524 on: February 11, 2009, 08:45:23 AM »
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