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Re: If Chris Ferguson can do it, so can I
« Reply #675 on: February 14, 2010, 18:02:07 PM »
The session I"ve just completed sums it all up. After playing like an idiot on a stud hi/lo table I decided to switch to a hi only table where, about five minutes after joining, my full house ran into a royal flush.  :"(    
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Re: If Chris Ferguson can do it, so can I
« Reply #676 on: February 14, 2010, 18:48:19 PM »
bit unlucky, are you playing at rileys tonight?
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Re: If Chris Ferguson can do it, so can I
« Reply #677 on: February 15, 2010, 08:01:55 AM »
I missed out on my planned trip to Rileys as I lost my only car key. After turning my flat upside down and hunting round the communal car park I found absolutely nothing. In desparation I put a notice in the communal entrance to my block of flats and some kind soul left the key outside my front door sometime between 6.30 and 7.45 this morning.
  This is clearly a sign that my luck has changed, so tonight I am going to buy into the highest value tournament I can find as I am definitely going to luckbox my way to victory ;D
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Re: If Chris Ferguson can do it, so can I
« Reply #678 on: February 18, 2010, 21:20:40 PM »
No posts for a few days as my month gets worse. I hate reading bad beat stories, so as far as I"m concerned, if I haven"t got anything positive to say, I"ll try to say nothing.
   On to much nicer things and I have to say I"m gobsmacked at how good season 4 looks. On my initial read through it looks as though there is a little bit of something for everyone. Over the last 2 seasons I"ve done well in the online nationals, so I see no reason why I won"t have another crack at those and the non holdem live events look inviting as well. My two best non holdem variants are Stud and Razz. They"ve been scheduled for Luton and The Vic respectively which happen to be the two major venues easiest for me to get to. If things go well, the £250 professional tournaments are on my radar too. With that on top of the GUKPT club event being played at Great Yarmouth, it looks like most of my poker dreams have come true. Yeeeeeeeeeeeeee Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
 Des for Prime Minister anyone?    
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Re: If Chris Ferguson can do it, so can I
« Reply #679 on: February 20, 2010, 11:51:09 AM »
And this morning"s special is A 10 being crushed by the mighty 10 3. FFS when will this c**p end?
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Re: If Chris Ferguson can do it, so can I
« Reply #680 on: February 21, 2010, 08:45:16 AM »
Even if the entire online world is against me, today I"ve got relief in the the form of a deepstack event at Holt Football Club organised by Andy (Baldusnew) Cunningham-Brown. Surely I won"t be mistreated as badly live as I have been in the virtual world recently, will I?
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Re: If Chris Ferguson can do it, so can I
« Reply #681 on: February 21, 2010, 11:49:26 AM »
I think I"ve reached a new low now. After doing a bit of research for a job application and getting whatever household chores out of the way that I could be bothered to do, I found myself with a bit of spare time and decided to play a bit of poker. I enrolled in an SNG on Betfair and went out with a pair or queens. It didn"t enter my head that someone could limp then call a raise from early position with a hand as weak as A 3, so when the flop came 7 3 3 I was in a lot of trouble. Shortly after I joined a 0.02/0.04 cash table (I can"t believe I"m admitting to that). Surely flopping the nut flush would see a pot coming my way? No, not when your opponent has an ace in his hand, calls all your bets and hits runner/runner for a full house.
 I think I should just tear a page from my calender and pretend that February never happened. January was a very,very good month, but February has seen me enduring my longest ever run of bad luck. Thankfully, I"m still up for the year, its just that I"m not sure my sanity will last much longer.        
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Re: If Chris Ferguson can do it, so can I
« Reply #682 on: February 21, 2010, 23:26:31 PM »
Just got home from the afternoon/evening"s deepstack and you probably won"t be surprised to hear that with payouts to 4th I finished 5th. The consolation prize of a few bottles of lager will do for now though.
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Re: If Chris Ferguson can do it, so can I
« Reply #683 on: February 23, 2010, 19:51:35 PM »
At this stage it looks as though I"ll be giving this weekends online national a miss. I could afford to lose the money and there is more than sufficient to cover it within my profits from the year to date, but I"m trying to be dead sensible and $50 is a bigger proportion of my bankroll than I"m prepared to risk at this stage. I"ve been on enough online final tables over the last two years to know I can do the same again, but I"m trying to predict my potential expenditure for the months ahead and I"m looking in other directions. My main target later in the year is the GUKPT club event at Yarmouth and I definitely want to get involved in a number of the APAT live events. I had the Dusk Til Dawn week booked off work before the season 4 announcement. This together with the nationals at Luton and The Vic are very much on the agenda. I"ve still got to think about which events I play when I turn up, but I regard the various planned stud/razz/horse tournaments as being my best chance of a live win and certainly wouldn"t rule out having a go at one of the professional league tournaments either.      
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Re: If Chris Ferguson can do it, so can I
« Reply #684 on: February 23, 2010, 21:32:43 PM »
KK beaten by 99 tonight. F**k me I hate poker.
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Re: If Chris Ferguson can do it, so can I
« Reply #685 on: February 24, 2010, 22:37:42 PM »
Tonight it was Sky"s turn to dump on me from a great height. My shove with A K was called by J 5 and there was a Jack on the flop. I have nothing left to say
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Re: If Chris Ferguson can do it, so can I
« Reply #686 on: February 26, 2010, 19:08:12 PM »
I"ll give Sky another chance as I"ve just discovered a fish level buy-in 10 handed deep stack on that site. There is a god after all.
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Re: If Chris Ferguson can do it, so can I
« Reply #687 on: February 26, 2010, 21:41:37 PM »

I"ll give Sky another chance as I"ve just discovered a fish level buy-in 10 handed deep stack on that site. There is a god after all.


Nope, no good in that either. At least this time it was only my first called shove getting turned over with my pocket eights losing to AQ suited which became a flush.
 This blog is going on holiday for a few days for a couple of reasons. I hate bad beat stories and that"s all I"ve been telling recently, so its time for a breather. I"m also spending a couple of days in London next week. I"m there mainly for the England v Egypt game, but I"m in a hotel slightly north of Hyde Park, so I may pop into The Vic to try and get my enthusiasm for the game back. Who knows, I may begin to give a toss about online poker again by the time I return next thursday.      
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Re: If Chris Ferguson can do it, so can I
« Reply #688 on: February 27, 2010, 18:32:03 PM »
Luckily my Betfair account is doing rather better for me than my poker is at the moment. Today I backed a winner at Chepstow at 8-1 following on from a 9-1 winner at Haydock last saturday. I"ve also got a very healthy looking football bet ongoing. As a Norwich City fan, before the season started I backed them to win league one. We lost our first game of the season 7-1 at home to Colchester. I can"t remember whether it was 4-0 or 5-0 at the time, but between the start of the game and half time, our price to win the title doubled on Betfair. Sensing a bit of value, I had another bet and of course now we are running away with it.  ;D. The sums involved aren"t huge, but any winnings will go straight into my poker bankroll. The only question is do I go for the big one and try a decent tournament or two, or investigate the reputedly juicy cash games available locally? Hmmm, decisions,decisions.
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« Reply #689 on: March 04, 2010, 23:19:45 PM »
I am officially an idiot. When I booked my hotel for this week"s trip to London, I looked at a map and found it was near Lancaster Gate tube station. As it was a few minutes walk from The Vic, I tried to work out whether I would be able to find time for a bit of cash action. However, when I walked into the Oxford Hotel the receptionist said I didn"t have a reservation. After a swift phonecall she confirmed that I did have a reservation, but I had reserved a room at the Oxford Hotel near Earls Court, not the one north of Hyde Park. Doh! After a swift exit and a prayer that no-one would ever find out (you won"t tell anyone will you? No? Thank you) I headed off to my base for the next two nights.
  My main reason for the trip was to visit Wembley for the England v Egypt game on wednesday. I arrived on tuesday and my brother-in-law, who is currently working in London, sent me a text to confirm that he wasn"t able to meet that evening for a beer as planned, so I had the rest of the day to myself. I"ve only been to London for more than 24 hours once before and that was for the season 2 world championships at The Vic. Unfortunately, I spent most of that week suffering asthma problems, which meant that most of the time I wasn"t at the casino, I was laying down in my hotel room. Therefore, the plan became to explore by foot for a few hours before, hopefully, making a few quid later in the day.
  From my hotel I passed the Natural History and Science museums, walked east inside the southern edge of Hyde Park then carried on along Picadilly, did a quick circuit of the Shaftesbury Avenue/Leicester Square area, turned north up Wardour Street, left onto Oxford Street then Marble Arch and finally onto Edgware Road. After deftly sidestepping a baby-carrying beggar just outside the main entrance, I was at my ultimate destination. I arrived between 17.30 and 18.00 with the plan on playing poker for a couple of hours before quitting to settle down with a meal and a beer to watch the Brazil v Ireland game. Deep down, I knew I was not giving myself the best possible opportunity of making money as I wanted to sit down in the £1/£1 with £120 whereas the maximum buy-in is £200. However, my priorities were to occupy myself for a couple of hours, enjoy the surroundings and learn from the experience. Making a profit would have been a bonus. As I approached the poker desk there were 5 names on the waiting list for the £1/£1 game, one of which was Willie Tann. He was already in action at another table, but just to make sure I didn"t have to lock horns with him, I revised my schedule so i had my meal first, then played. Thankfully when my name was called, I didn"t recognise anyone at my table, although Mr Tann and Robin Keston weren"t far away. I played for about 2.5 hours and retired on a £22 loss. There was one hand where the player to my right raised to £7 and I reraised him to £16 with AQ of spades followed by everyone except the raiser folding. The player concerned had folded a £7 raise to a reraise to £15 on the previous circuit, but after asking the dealer how much I had behind, he 4-bet me to £66. I considered the possibility that he may have either been tilting slightly because he"d been bullied off a pot a few hands before and I"d seen him lose a few big hands, but I had a decision to make. Calling another £50 to leave £40 behind wasn"t an option, so it was all in or fold. I didn"t feel that AQ was a hand I wanted to commit my stack with as there was no way he was going to fold to a 5-bet all-in and I felt all his likely holdings (big pairs or AK) would have been ahead. Reluctantly I folded. I quit in time to be able to sip a pint whilst watching the final 30 minutes of the Brazil game then walked back to my accomodation via Bayswayer Road and through the middle of Hyde Park.
  Wednesday morning was filled by a visit to the Science Museum before another long ramble around town. I met my brother-in-law at the Hole In The Pound pub next to the Bond Street tube station before getting on the Jubilee line for the trip to Wembley Park. Such was the perfect timing of the consumption of my second pint that we arrived in our seats exactly 2 minutes before the game kicked-off.
  I really must head to the capital again sometime soon. Next time, I think I"ll book a hotel that doesn"t have a namesake in town.      
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