So its 5am and I'm sitting in an Internet cafe on tottenham court road having just finished work. Had to sort out my new online banking account and thought that seeing as i have 51 minutes of free time left that i would just do a short blog before bed to get a few things out.
First i'm ill! missed 3 days off work this week and i don't feel much better now. I hope that its just a really chesty cough but am a bit worried it might be an infection which would suck. I'm gonna stick on the over the counter medicine for a while and hope that it clears itself up but the most annoying thing is that it has ruined my swimming routine. I was up to 80 lengths (15m pool) a day but haven't been able to swim for the last week which has annoyed me big time!
The new flat is awesome, i love my room, i love the lounge, i love the whole fucking complex. It really is so much better than the old place and we are planning on moving a friend of ours (Mike 'N-dog' alp) into the lounge so it will be exactly the same price as the old place. Only put in 1 gym session thus far but when i'm feeling better hope to go a few times a week and swim most days. I'm also loving the ping pong table can't wait to gamble it up on there.
So on to good old poker, the internet has not been installed yet (should be about 10 days) so have had limited opportunity to play since my last blog. Up about $1500 from a tidy little online session at gutshot and also won £400 playing live but in general not been putting the hours i would like in. Think i'm gonna play at gutshot the next two nights and will mix it between live and online and hope to win another $1K or so and make sure april wasn't a complete waste of time.
Still not sure when i'm going to leave the casino and go back to full time. I have a good idea of the kind of money i'm gonna need for living expenses and the separate poker bankroll i would like but i'm not in a massive rush. Plus when i leave i plan on giving this a real shot so i'm gonna try and write some poker/lifestyle rules that i will hope to stick to, yes i will post these at some point.
With poker out the door been gambling far to much on pro evo 2008. Down about £500 on the month (£170 in 1 night) but i love it and have no desire to stop. Also had a few cheeky 10p/20p games at the flat which have been as fun as ever, usual sick game with great banter and still amazing how much money swings in this game. My proudest hand was last night when i played the whole hand blind and won a £100 when i flipped KK at the end. WHAMMY!
Not much else to mention really, looking forward to playing some poker over the next few days and am so happy that winter is finally behind us. Going to Newquay again this year on June 8th with summer break and i can't wait. Thousands of students, great clubs, great beach and some top quality lads so bring on the bottle of red wine at 2pm in the swimming pool! good times x
Thursday, 24 April 2008
Friday, 28 March 2008
new pad/six figures/t.v/future plans.
Been quite a lot going on since my last blog as the multi-title above would suggest. The first piece of news is that Antony and i signed the contract on our new flat in East London. We're moving in on April 5th with a good friend of ours liam 'the big guy' Kelly and am very excited about the whole thing. This place is the definition of pad, the 3 double bedrooms are a very nice size and the lounge is cool but the best things are the extra features that are included in the price; gym, swimming pool, sauna, hot tub, pool table, snooker table and ping pong! so sick! The area also seems really nice which makes a nice change from camberwell and when we signed the contract we also got to have dinner in the local rstaurant which was expensive but well worth it. Think i'm gonna be paying about £120ish more a month total but i really don't care cause it is soooooooooo worth it, can't wait to move!
Very good news for me as a poker player, my winnings on pary has hit the six figure (usd) mark in just under 18 months of mtt's. This wasn't a specific aim of myn but am very happy about it obviously, all the results are on opr.com but the main stats are: total winnings $101,541. total profit $52,032 and RoI 105%. My current rank on party is 48th but these are only on the last 120 days and get changed a lot so although i would like to hit the top 10 someday its not my number 1 priority. It would be really nice to have really accurate stats on my stt's and cash game reults over the last 18 months as well but although i do believe both would be pfofitable i doubt the stats would be as impressive. One thing that does worry me is the amount of money i spend on total crap! I wish i had more to show for my hard work than hundreds of drunken memories and an ever increasing belly, fuelled by pizza and chinese food, i just hope the new gym being a 30 second walk will encourage me to get in decent shape.
Since my last blog am up about $7000 which is contributing to an ever increasing bankroll. Have won about $2000 playing $100+9 stts running quite steady which is what you want as a poker player. The Mtt result which brought up the six figure mark came last night in the 11pm $109 $20K gtd. I wasn't really planning on saving many hand but got a few in:
Think in this hand there were about 30 left and this got me the kind of stack i need to do the damage:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2343943
All donations are welcome sir! This next hand is a pretty good example of how i've been running over the last month:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2343957
As you can see the stack sizes were quite even and at 3000/6000 there wasn't much play. I put the guy on a hand but i can't fold 1010 for one bet here and when i see that flop ithink the shove is the only option imo. This was oneof the first hands on the final table so if i lose its 10th for $350 and if i win its the chiplead, atleast i had 6 0uts instead of 2 lol. After this hand i ran over the table for a while but i lost 3 or 4 showdons in a row and kept doubling up shortstacks 6 and 7 handed which was quite annoying.
Back to what i'm good at:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2343987
This got me the chips back and managed to use them to get heads up with 250,000 v 500K. At this point we did a chop with me getting $5.2K and him getting $6.05K which was fine with me.
Just a quick word on the good old television. The WSOPE is on pokertube which is cool, episode 1 is phil hellmuth at his very best,i couldn't stop laughing the whole way through and am really looking forward to see the final table cause watching the whole thing live i thought the standard was amazing and most of the time i was struggling to put the players on hands. Also good to see the Apprentice is back,one of the best shows on t.v. Glad they kicked out the guy they did cause he was such a prick! Such an arrogant toff and he wouldn't shutup about how clever he waseven though he was unable to correctly price fish, despite being given the wholesale prices and being surrounded by competitors MORON!
Just one final note on my plans for the future. Think i'm going to go back fulltime at the end of July and have a few live tournies i have my eye on for August and the rest of 2008. I'm going to make sure i have the cash to do so and am certainly not going to take this decision lightly.
Very good news for me as a poker player, my winnings on pary has hit the six figure (usd) mark in just under 18 months of mtt's. This wasn't a specific aim of myn but am very happy about it obviously, all the results are on opr.com but the main stats are: total winnings $101,541. total profit $52,032 and RoI 105%. My current rank on party is 48th but these are only on the last 120 days and get changed a lot so although i would like to hit the top 10 someday its not my number 1 priority. It would be really nice to have really accurate stats on my stt's and cash game reults over the last 18 months as well but although i do believe both would be pfofitable i doubt the stats would be as impressive. One thing that does worry me is the amount of money i spend on total crap! I wish i had more to show for my hard work than hundreds of drunken memories and an ever increasing belly, fuelled by pizza and chinese food, i just hope the new gym being a 30 second walk will encourage me to get in decent shape.
Since my last blog am up about $7000 which is contributing to an ever increasing bankroll. Have won about $2000 playing $100+9 stts running quite steady which is what you want as a poker player. The Mtt result which brought up the six figure mark came last night in the 11pm $109 $20K gtd. I wasn't really planning on saving many hand but got a few in:
Think in this hand there were about 30 left and this got me the kind of stack i need to do the damage:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2343943
All donations are welcome sir! This next hand is a pretty good example of how i've been running over the last month:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2343957
As you can see the stack sizes were quite even and at 3000/6000 there wasn't much play. I put the guy on a hand but i can't fold 1010 for one bet here and when i see that flop ithink the shove is the only option imo. This was oneof the first hands on the final table so if i lose its 10th for $350 and if i win its the chiplead, atleast i had 6 0uts instead of 2 lol. After this hand i ran over the table for a while but i lost 3 or 4 showdons in a row and kept doubling up shortstacks 6 and 7 handed which was quite annoying.
Back to what i'm good at:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2343987
This got me the chips back and managed to use them to get heads up with 250,000 v 500K. At this point we did a chop with me getting $5.2K and him getting $6.05K which was fine with me.
Just a quick word on the good old television. The WSOPE is on pokertube which is cool, episode 1 is phil hellmuth at his very best,i couldn't stop laughing the whole way through and am really looking forward to see the final table cause watching the whole thing live i thought the standard was amazing and most of the time i was struggling to put the players on hands. Also good to see the Apprentice is back,one of the best shows on t.v. Glad they kicked out the guy they did cause he was such a prick! Such an arrogant toff and he wouldn't shutup about how clever he waseven though he was unable to correctly price fish, despite being given the wholesale prices and being surrounded by competitors MORON!
Just one final note on my plans for the future. Think i'm going to go back fulltime at the end of July and have a few live tournies i have my eye on for August and the rest of 2008. I'm going to make sure i have the cash to do so and am certainly not going to take this decision lightly.
Saturday, 15 March 2008
Running like God, playing like Jesus.
As you can imagine this blog is going to be mostly about what a sick luckbox/genius i am. Having taken down the $33 rebuy on wednesday for a cool $3500 i havn't really left this sofa (i'm still lying on it as i write this). I've had to get up to piss and get food and drink and stuff but apart from that its just been me and my new best friend, hey when the doctor says rest who am i to argue? My sleeping pattern is a bit fucked up cause i keep sleeping for a couple of hours then waking up but apart from that i'm very happy. The television hasn't let me down (mostly paramount and mtv) and the poker gods have certainly looked after wendyx25 over the last couple of days.
Since the rebuy played another 6 tournaments on party and managed to cash big in two of these. First nice reult was in the super thursday which is a $150 buy-in comp. A few hands from this one:
The usual sick start:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2272356
This might look like a stupid overbet on the river but my read was that he had a 4 and the average player isn't good enough to pass so not suprised it worked.
Since the early double up had been grinding away waiting for a good spot and man did it find one!:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2272352
When your running well this kind of thing just happens i guess, cashy was on the table (we also had 10% swap) and he was giving me some stick about what a luckbox i am, think he has a point.
Managed to make the final table when this hand came up early on:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2272346
I have 0 fold equity in this spot so to move in i must think i have the best hand. It was really marginal because i can't put him on an overpair and thought that if he had J10 - A10 he would flat call to see what i did on the turn but maybe not, in retrospect think i got bluffed but i could have 2 outs so its not a terrible pass.
Didn't really get any good spots to steal and didn't find a hand for a while but a few palyers were knocked out so that was cool. LUCKBOX SHOVE:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2272340
This was the last piece of luck for me in the comp, ran AQ into AK soon after and ended up 5th for $1.4K. Played a good comp and was card dead for long periods so no complaints from me, it was good to be back on the final table so soon.
A couple of power naps, lots of television and a takeaway later the cards were back in the virtual air and i was off and running in the $20K gtd last night. After the standard donkey double up early on played this hand soooooooo bad:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2272324
To all the kids out there this is not how to play AA, at the time the 2 guys behind were playing quite loose so was preying having gone raise, call it might go raise call again and i can jam it but as it turned out this was wishful thinking. Make a standard fold on the river but if i play the hand like i should i get it all in pre v KK and win a huge pot at that stage.
This sucks:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2272320
Awesome turn card for my hand so of course we get it in, i hadn't done much swearing until then but i took off after that river.
Won a couple of flips after the bad beat which got me back on track then i had enough chips to show off:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2272315
Do i have to move in here?:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2272312
Not sure about this one, knew the min bet was weak but i think with the players behind i should just call, lucky i'm running like god or i might have been worried when he flipped AQ.
Onto the final table now:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2272310
How dare he raise my big blind! Even though i started the final as chip leader it was a shit start and i thought it was just gonna be one of those bad days when this yukky one happened:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2272306
Another dream spot:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2272302
Shame about the result, 2outs and he hits them both which was nice.
Won a massive coinflip to make it 3 handed but then lost a huge one with AQ V 33 to give mr quads a big chiplead. The standard of poker was relly high 3 handed with loads of stealing and re-stealing going on and thought that the skill level was about even. Darkhand won a couple of massive hands against ripcurl and either side of those i gambled it up and of course came out on top:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2272279
After this darhand took out ripcurl and we had the same chips so was more than happy to deal and take $5300 to round up a couple of great nights for me online. 3 Final tables from 8 comps is awseome and have ended up winning about $10K in 3 days which is about as good as it gets. Been running great obviously but more than happy with my game and amazingly havn't tilted much at all.
My mate Alec 'the boy' howard was watching the final table from his uni house in Norwich and we were having some good banter over the phone which was cool. After the final we had a look for a juicy cash game to muff around in, omg did we find one! $1/2 6 max game, average pot$180! Basically just this one belgian dude who was one of the biggest donkeys i've ever seen. He was making it like $75 pre, then he would limp, betting $2 into a $100 pot then $150 into a $5, calling bets with jack high on the river, oh it was sweet!! wish i had saved some hands but me and A lec were to busy weeting ourselves at his antics. At 1 point he started getting lucky and got up to $1900 but soon spazed it off! The thing is with players like this you need to make some hands cause bluffing is not an option. Lucky for me i did we got it all in pre with me AK v 33, AA v AK and JJ v kk so the one time he had me crushed i still won, so sick! ended up winning $900 net profit which was cool and he spewed $2000 ish all over the table, the waiting list got up to 5 but he left after an hour and of couse i left the hand after, well done to Alec for a good spot! And well done to the poker gods for making me an absolute Luckbox! time for a power nap.
Since the rebuy played another 6 tournaments on party and managed to cash big in two of these. First nice reult was in the super thursday which is a $150 buy-in comp. A few hands from this one:
The usual sick start:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2272356
This might look like a stupid overbet on the river but my read was that he had a 4 and the average player isn't good enough to pass so not suprised it worked.
Since the early double up had been grinding away waiting for a good spot and man did it find one!:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2272352
When your running well this kind of thing just happens i guess, cashy was on the table (we also had 10% swap) and he was giving me some stick about what a luckbox i am, think he has a point.
Managed to make the final table when this hand came up early on:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2272346
I have 0 fold equity in this spot so to move in i must think i have the best hand. It was really marginal because i can't put him on an overpair and thought that if he had J10 - A10 he would flat call to see what i did on the turn but maybe not, in retrospect think i got bluffed but i could have 2 outs so its not a terrible pass.
Didn't really get any good spots to steal and didn't find a hand for a while but a few palyers were knocked out so that was cool. LUCKBOX SHOVE:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2272340
This was the last piece of luck for me in the comp, ran AQ into AK soon after and ended up 5th for $1.4K. Played a good comp and was card dead for long periods so no complaints from me, it was good to be back on the final table so soon.
A couple of power naps, lots of television and a takeaway later the cards were back in the virtual air and i was off and running in the $20K gtd last night. After the standard donkey double up early on played this hand soooooooo bad:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2272324
To all the kids out there this is not how to play AA, at the time the 2 guys behind were playing quite loose so was preying having gone raise, call it might go raise call again and i can jam it but as it turned out this was wishful thinking. Make a standard fold on the river but if i play the hand like i should i get it all in pre v KK and win a huge pot at that stage.
This sucks:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2272320
Awesome turn card for my hand so of course we get it in, i hadn't done much swearing until then but i took off after that river.
Won a couple of flips after the bad beat which got me back on track then i had enough chips to show off:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2272315
Do i have to move in here?:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2272312
Not sure about this one, knew the min bet was weak but i think with the players behind i should just call, lucky i'm running like god or i might have been worried when he flipped AQ.
Onto the final table now:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2272310
How dare he raise my big blind! Even though i started the final as chip leader it was a shit start and i thought it was just gonna be one of those bad days when this yukky one happened:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2272306
Another dream spot:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2272302
Shame about the result, 2outs and he hits them both which was nice.
Won a massive coinflip to make it 3 handed but then lost a huge one with AQ V 33 to give mr quads a big chiplead. The standard of poker was relly high 3 handed with loads of stealing and re-stealing going on and thought that the skill level was about even. Darkhand won a couple of massive hands against ripcurl and either side of those i gambled it up and of course came out on top:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2272279
After this darhand took out ripcurl and we had the same chips so was more than happy to deal and take $5300 to round up a couple of great nights for me online. 3 Final tables from 8 comps is awseome and have ended up winning about $10K in 3 days which is about as good as it gets. Been running great obviously but more than happy with my game and amazingly havn't tilted much at all.
My mate Alec 'the boy' howard was watching the final table from his uni house in Norwich and we were having some good banter over the phone which was cool. After the final we had a look for a juicy cash game to muff around in, omg did we find one! $1/2 6 max game, average pot$180! Basically just this one belgian dude who was one of the biggest donkeys i've ever seen. He was making it like $75 pre, then he would limp, betting $2 into a $100 pot then $150 into a $5, calling bets with jack high on the river, oh it was sweet!! wish i had saved some hands but me and A lec were to busy weeting ourselves at his antics. At 1 point he started getting lucky and got up to $1900 but soon spazed it off! The thing is with players like this you need to make some hands cause bluffing is not an option. Lucky for me i did we got it all in pre with me AK v 33, AA v AK and JJ v kk so the one time he had me crushed i still won, so sick! ended up winning $900 net profit which was cool and he spewed $2000 ish all over the table, the waiting list got up to 5 but he left after an hour and of couse i left the hand after, well done to Alec for a good spot! And well done to the poker gods for making me an absolute Luckbox! time for a power nap.
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
injured victory
Had an operation on my in-grown toenail this morning which was about as fun as it sounds. The doctor started by injecting a massive needle into both sides of the toe which hurt like hell and then once it was numb bassically hacked half the nail out. It was quite sick to actually watch it but he seemed to think that it went well; will find out for sure when i go back tommorrow to have the bandages removed. The doc said that the recovery time is about 4 weeks and to rest it as much as possible, he also said to try and wear flip flops which as most of you know will certainly not be a problem for me. I don't think working on my feet will help with the recovery time but am just gonna have to wait and see.
Between my last blog and tonight poker had been quite slow, a few minor cashes online but nothing serious. Once again went quite deep in the 500K gtd on stars and was in a massive pot for a top 5 chip position with 300 left. Wasn't to be though as i continue to run bad in the weekly major online comps. Think i may also be guilty of spending to much time looking at the lobby with the realisation that i have to beat 2000 + players having an adverse effect on my game.
Anyway given strict instuctions to rest i certainly wasn't going to being doing anything productive tonight so i fired up the laptop and decided to play 3 of my favourite nightly comps on party: $55 18K gtd FO, $33 10k gtd RB and the $109 20k gtd FO. Was playing these comps about 3 times a week last year but with a lot less time on my hands these days havn't been able to put in the hours.
Between 8pm-10.30pm the poker was on autopilot as i watched the mighty spurs take on PSV. Was very dissapointing to get knocked out on pens and over the two legs i think spurs were the slightly better side, think i'm more annoyed however with the shit rule that when u finish 3rd in your champions league group you get a place in the UEFA cup, it makes the competion a joke and should be scrapped. Great goal by Berbatov by the way, he is truely world class and hope we can keep hold of him for next season so i can stick £200 on us finishing in the top 4!
Anyway was unable to make the money in the $109 and $55 freezeouts. Played fine in both and just wasn't to be; things in the rebuy however (as the title of the blog suggests) went slightly better. I rebought right at the start to increase my stack to 6K and was pretty quiet for the first 50 mins until i managed to win a massive 3 way all in with JJ v 1010 v A7 for a 20K pot and when i took the add on had myself a very nice 25K stack having spent a total of $93 playing 150/300 blinds. For the next 2 hours thing went along very smoothly indeed, saw a lot of hands and was never all in myself whilst busting short stacks all over the place. At 200/400 donk shoves all in UTG for 10K! I insta call with KK v AQ and the donations kept coming.
By the time i decided to start saving hands there were only 15 left and i was 2nd in chips when this happened:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2260479
This was a fucking dream spot for me, The only palyer who could double me up in the whole comp and it was very nice of him to do so (think i fold JJ in his spot).
Revenge is sweet:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2260484
This hand was the first piece of bad luck for me in the whole comp and for some reason it tilted me for about 5 mins. I started slagging him in the chat for calling with the jacks and tbh i thought he seemed like a dangerous player so it was a shit time to take a shocker.
Great start to the final table:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2260493
All in on the flop when he is dead, sick turn card but its no fun unless its a sweat lol. This got me back in the zone.
I just like to gamble sometimes:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2260500
wooooooooooooooooops, well i could afford it and once i flopped the flush draw i was shocked that i missed!
sick:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2260508
This hand is soooooooo sick! At the time i was pretty sure that when the guy flat called the raise he would lead the flop cause he seemed like a strong player. I call the flop hoping to hit obvioulsy for cheap or more likely bet when he checks the turn. When the scariest card in the deck hits the turn and he leads out i straight away thought bluff. 2 pair is a no no cause he wasn't calling raises out of position an i think a set would check flop like 90% of the time. Obviously even if he is massive i still have a fuck load of outs and i think i would normally shove here. I call with position just to see the river and hope that he wills hove into my made straight or flush. So when i miss and he shoves i guess i have to fold? NO WAY! 4th gets $900 and 1st gets £3.5K great bet by him considering stacks and the other two chip positions but i make what i believe to be a truely world class call. Looking back at the hand i think i should shove the turn but so happy i went with my gut and made a massive call that i'm so so proud of.
Bit of a wobble:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2260518
Was quite a tight player but i don't see how i can pass, his play = terrible!
Get all the chips:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2260525
Was 100% sure he had a 10 and a was shit river. lucky he is a shit player as well, awful river bet from him but making quads and geting paid is always cool.
Had a 6/1 chiplead Hu and soon finished it with K4 v J8 for his last 6 bb's. Took $3.5K for first which is very nice. Moving out of camberwell soon so had to cash $1800 just to pay for some shit and to make sure i stay well out of he overdraft. Have $5K in my party account now and am not planning to cash any out for a while so hope to build up in the next few months.
Just a quick note on my stt results, had a look on sharkscope.com using a free search and the results aren't accurate at all. They said i was up like $7K in total but had me down as having played 190 stt's when in reality i would say its more like 1000. From the 80 games i recorded i was up $1500 so they are defo a wortwhile investment i just don't enjoy them as much as mtt's so am only gonna play about 10 a week or so safe in the knowledge that i'm making money in the long run.
Anyway its now 4am and i have another appointment with the doc at 1.30pm so gonna get some rest. Think i'll play a few more comps online over the next few nights and might hit the gutshot on saturday for the £150, last time i played that got called for my whole 5K stack playing 400/800 by J2! i I only had K8 but still it was like 60% of his stack so i know there is plenty of value in that comp also like the structure.
Between my last blog and tonight poker had been quite slow, a few minor cashes online but nothing serious. Once again went quite deep in the 500K gtd on stars and was in a massive pot for a top 5 chip position with 300 left. Wasn't to be though as i continue to run bad in the weekly major online comps. Think i may also be guilty of spending to much time looking at the lobby with the realisation that i have to beat 2000 + players having an adverse effect on my game.
Anyway given strict instuctions to rest i certainly wasn't going to being doing anything productive tonight so i fired up the laptop and decided to play 3 of my favourite nightly comps on party: $55 18K gtd FO, $33 10k gtd RB and the $109 20k gtd FO. Was playing these comps about 3 times a week last year but with a lot less time on my hands these days havn't been able to put in the hours.
Between 8pm-10.30pm the poker was on autopilot as i watched the mighty spurs take on PSV. Was very dissapointing to get knocked out on pens and over the two legs i think spurs were the slightly better side, think i'm more annoyed however with the shit rule that when u finish 3rd in your champions league group you get a place in the UEFA cup, it makes the competion a joke and should be scrapped. Great goal by Berbatov by the way, he is truely world class and hope we can keep hold of him for next season so i can stick £200 on us finishing in the top 4!
Anyway was unable to make the money in the $109 and $55 freezeouts. Played fine in both and just wasn't to be; things in the rebuy however (as the title of the blog suggests) went slightly better. I rebought right at the start to increase my stack to 6K and was pretty quiet for the first 50 mins until i managed to win a massive 3 way all in with JJ v 1010 v A7 for a 20K pot and when i took the add on had myself a very nice 25K stack having spent a total of $93 playing 150/300 blinds. For the next 2 hours thing went along very smoothly indeed, saw a lot of hands and was never all in myself whilst busting short stacks all over the place. At 200/400 donk shoves all in UTG for 10K! I insta call with KK v AQ and the donations kept coming.
By the time i decided to start saving hands there were only 15 left and i was 2nd in chips when this happened:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2260479
This was a fucking dream spot for me, The only palyer who could double me up in the whole comp and it was very nice of him to do so (think i fold JJ in his spot).
Revenge is sweet:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2260484
This hand was the first piece of bad luck for me in the whole comp and for some reason it tilted me for about 5 mins. I started slagging him in the chat for calling with the jacks and tbh i thought he seemed like a dangerous player so it was a shit time to take a shocker.
Great start to the final table:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2260493
All in on the flop when he is dead, sick turn card but its no fun unless its a sweat lol. This got me back in the zone.
I just like to gamble sometimes:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2260500
wooooooooooooooooops, well i could afford it and once i flopped the flush draw i was shocked that i missed!
sick:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2260508
This hand is soooooooo sick! At the time i was pretty sure that when the guy flat called the raise he would lead the flop cause he seemed like a strong player. I call the flop hoping to hit obvioulsy for cheap or more likely bet when he checks the turn. When the scariest card in the deck hits the turn and he leads out i straight away thought bluff. 2 pair is a no no cause he wasn't calling raises out of position an i think a set would check flop like 90% of the time. Obviously even if he is massive i still have a fuck load of outs and i think i would normally shove here. I call with position just to see the river and hope that he wills hove into my made straight or flush. So when i miss and he shoves i guess i have to fold? NO WAY! 4th gets $900 and 1st gets £3.5K great bet by him considering stacks and the other two chip positions but i make what i believe to be a truely world class call. Looking back at the hand i think i should shove the turn but so happy i went with my gut and made a massive call that i'm so so proud of.
Bit of a wobble:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2260518
Was quite a tight player but i don't see how i can pass, his play = terrible!
Get all the chips:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2260525
Was 100% sure he had a 10 and a was shit river. lucky he is a shit player as well, awful river bet from him but making quads and geting paid is always cool.
Had a 6/1 chiplead Hu and soon finished it with K4 v J8 for his last 6 bb's. Took $3.5K for first which is very nice. Moving out of camberwell soon so had to cash $1800 just to pay for some shit and to make sure i stay well out of he overdraft. Have $5K in my party account now and am not planning to cash any out for a while so hope to build up in the next few months.
Just a quick note on my stt results, had a look on sharkscope.com using a free search and the results aren't accurate at all. They said i was up like $7K in total but had me down as having played 190 stt's when in reality i would say its more like 1000. From the 80 games i recorded i was up $1500 so they are defo a wortwhile investment i just don't enjoy them as much as mtt's so am only gonna play about 10 a week or so safe in the knowledge that i'm making money in the long run.
Anyway its now 4am and i have another appointment with the doc at 1.30pm so gonna get some rest. Think i'll play a few more comps online over the next few nights and might hit the gutshot on saturday for the £150, last time i played that got called for my whole 5K stack playing 400/800 by J2! i I only had K8 but still it was like 60% of his stack so i know there is plenty of value in that comp also like the structure.
Tuesday, 26 February 2008
Hot Streak
In my last blog i posted my schedule of the tournements i planned to play over the last few weeks. To a large extent i was able to stick to this whilst managing to avoid to many cash game sessions at the same time. I also wrote that i would hope to either win money or learn a lot and thankfully both of these expectations came true.
ONLINE REPORT:
Very happy to tell everyone that i have had a fair bit of success in online mtt's over the last week or so. I played 7 tournements, had 2 minor cashes and 1 big pay day in the super thursday on the 14th of march. On the link below it says that i came 2nd for $4.5K but in reality it was a 3 way chop and i took home another $300 on top of this: http://www.officialpokerrankings.com/partypoker/Wendyx25/poker/results/F4DE92F9A291412A8156389C9FD4E9B4.html?t=2
The first time we discussed a deal i was actually chip leader and would have made $6K but one of the other players refused. The very next hand he gets his 10 bb's in the middle with 9 2 V my A5 and of course hits the 9 on the river to stay alive and by the time we dealt 10 minutes later we had the same size stacks which was a little frustrating.
I've saved a lot of hands from all the tournements using pokerhand.org and plan on going through them all and blogging the best/most intresting ones in the near future. I've also stuck to my plan of playing a lot of $55 turbo stt's and plan on getting to 100 and then putting the results up. At the moment i'm up a bit but running very badly in crucial coinfilps and general showdowns, i'mtrying hard to concentrate on them by not playing to many at the same time cause i really want to find out how much money i can make from sit and goes. I would certainly say that i don't enjoy them in the way that i enjoy mtt's but i think i have a long term edge and i need to see the kind of financiel return that brings.
LIVE REPORT:
Now we get to the fun stuff the good old live poker action!! I got to play all 5 of the live tournements that i was planing on participating in and i think its only fair to go through them in the correct order. First up was the £75 FO at the gutshot last wednesday. Starting stack was 4000 and i had built my stack painfully slowly to 7300 when this rather sick situation came up. Blinds were 300/600 when its folded to me in mp. The bb has a totalof 2000 chips and has told the table he is going to be all in this hand. The co and button both have 4000ish and the only player that has me covered is the sb with 10K. So anyway i look down at AQ and make it 1300 to play with the following logic, if the Co or button move in i call. If the sb moves in i cry and in an ideal world they all fold to the bb and i'm in 1 4K showdown with what will 9 times out of 10 be the best hand. Also made it 1300 so if the sb calls and the bb moves in i can re-raise isolate. Co folds, button folds, sb calls and bb CALLS! Leaving himself 700. Flop 7 5 2 with two clubs and they both fucking check! WTF! So 3900 in the pot and i have 6K left what the hell do i do? After a while i think about the sb's range and decide to shove. After about 2 minutes he calls with A8 of clubs and the bb calls with K9 so i'm in an 18K showdown with ace high and i'm in front! obviously the club hits and i go busto but even now i'm still confused by the hand. My bet pre flop is weak but i think the logic is there and my shove onthe flop is ballsy but its hard to put the sb on a hand he can call with and ace high is probs good against the bb. Any advice on this hand would be welcome and it was certainly nice for me to play a hand in tournement that could cause such confusion.
Anyway the next day i jumped on a train to Reading for the second annual Reading series of poker. Met the boys at the union about 2ish for a few games of pool before event 1 the £20 PLO, lost about £40 playing pool which is pretty standard for me tbh but the beer was flowing and we were all excited about the w/e and the inevitable stupid side bets that would follow. Event 1 was a bit dissapointing as we only managed 10 players for the PLO. Think quite a few of the guys this year are just holdem players and the people from other uni's were gonna focus on the main event. Despite some nice deep stacks it was an early exit for me with a very dissapointing 9th. Played like a drain and was feeling quite sick with the combination of beer and whisky along with the drugs i had been taking for my in-grown toenail. Made 1 very nice fold with middle set but couldn't ever make a hand when i needed to and made a shit play when i got busted bluffing into top set wooooooooops!
Thankfully was feeling much better the next day. Mike, cashy and ben decided to go and gamble it up on the golf course but Ant and i thought we would just hang out and relax in the 4 star hotel. Had a swim, sauna and a steam so by the time the next comp started at 6pm felt more than ready to defend my iho championship against a slightly larger field of 21. Despite a nice early double up witgh AK v KK all in pre flop in holdem against cashy (lol) i once again was unable to make the final table.My timing was off and even though i really wated to win i just kept getting caught bluffing and made 1 or 2 shit calls. Also i thik it's time to give some credit to a few of the boys from last year who have improved a lot. I thik a number of them have got a lot better and as much as it pains me to say it sometimes i had no idea what they had. Josh Igoe was really aggressive and even though i think he can give away a lot of info with his speech during a hand thought he palyed very well and his mate Martin has got a lot of game these days.
So it was not a good to start to the RSOP for me. I was down £30 on poker and about £80 ish on side bets. Six of us also decided to put £10 into a bet on overall player of the series with double points for the main event, I only had 4 points after two events and Ant was winning with 12 so was gonna have to get the best result of the six in the main event and hope Ant had a shocker to have a chance (thankfully this had a very good chance of happening).
Day 1 of the main event was another big dissapointment for me. I had quite a tough table draw and lost 2 big hands early with JJ v AA and then 44 having to fold on the turn on a board of 4 5 6 8. So in the 100/200 level when i finally got my last 2700 in pot with K6 v AK i thought that a very dissapointing RSOP was over for me and i could concentrate on the far more important issue of getting drunk. Six on the turn and i'm back in bussiness. Lose most of it back again over the next hour before finding myself all in again with AQ v KK for my last 3000 chips. Once again i suckout and its happy days. Finally play a hand well by trapping my opponent and getting him to bluff his stack off to me with king high against my top 2 and end the day with average stack of 18,500 with 42 of the 80 starters left to come back the next day. Saturday night was an absolute classic! About 20 people from last year were out in the union and everyone was having a good time. Drank far to much including 4 aftershocks in a row which was not a good idea. Hangover of the century and wasn't expecting a great result the next morning but things actually went very very well for me as my outrageous luck continued. First was all in with 77 v J10, i won. Then i find KK on the button and find a re-steal from the sb with Q 10 and before i know it am up to 40,000, still hungover but feeling a lot better. By the time the bubble came round was in full steamroller mode and had 120,000 playing 1000/2000 blinds. Was chipleader on the final table with 200K playing 3000/6000 blinds thanks to a lot of aggression and winning two more coinflips against shorter stacks. Was certainly nice to see 7 from Reading on the final table and by the time we were down to 5 it was just Readig left. Ended up splitting it 3 way for 900 each and playing for 100 and the title. Only managed to finish second but by the time the chop was sorted we all relaxed and started calling all in with utter filth, well done to Paul for finishing third and Steve Windsor for winning. Think they both played well all tourney and even though i feel i had a decent edge 3 handed think the cash was a big deal for them both so was more than happy to chop. Overall was very happy with the weekend, the hotel was great value and the piss up on saturday was legendary. My poker wasn't great the first 3 days but i played one hell of a final day and won a lot of big showdowns at the right time.
By the time i got back on sunday was totally exhaused and had the best sleep of my life. I was tempted to skip the the £100 at the gutshot last night but felt like i would go for one more big win. Only 23 runners but i managed to chop HU for £700, very nice!!!!!!!
Wow that is a very long blog! long story short, I LOVE POKER! Up about £4000 over the last 10 days which is way above expectation. I'm going to take a few days off poker now until sunday when will play some of the big online comps. As far as going back to being a full time poker player goes i'm doing some thinking at the moment. Certainly made a lot more money in the last 4 months playing than working but is very nice to have a guaranteed income and working at the casino is still ok. Think the best thing to do is work till the summer and then make sure i have a big enough roll not to have to worry about living expenses and rent and can focus on playing and staying fresh.
ONLINE REPORT:
Very happy to tell everyone that i have had a fair bit of success in online mtt's over the last week or so. I played 7 tournements, had 2 minor cashes and 1 big pay day in the super thursday on the 14th of march. On the link below it says that i came 2nd for $4.5K but in reality it was a 3 way chop and i took home another $300 on top of this: http://www.officialpokerrankings.com/partypoker/Wendyx25/poker/results/F4DE92F9A291412A8156389C9FD4E9B4.html?t=2
The first time we discussed a deal i was actually chip leader and would have made $6K but one of the other players refused. The very next hand he gets his 10 bb's in the middle with 9 2 V my A5 and of course hits the 9 on the river to stay alive and by the time we dealt 10 minutes later we had the same size stacks which was a little frustrating.
I've saved a lot of hands from all the tournements using pokerhand.org and plan on going through them all and blogging the best/most intresting ones in the near future. I've also stuck to my plan of playing a lot of $55 turbo stt's and plan on getting to 100 and then putting the results up. At the moment i'm up a bit but running very badly in crucial coinfilps and general showdowns, i'mtrying hard to concentrate on them by not playing to many at the same time cause i really want to find out how much money i can make from sit and goes. I would certainly say that i don't enjoy them in the way that i enjoy mtt's but i think i have a long term edge and i need to see the kind of financiel return that brings.
LIVE REPORT:
Now we get to the fun stuff the good old live poker action!! I got to play all 5 of the live tournements that i was planing on participating in and i think its only fair to go through them in the correct order. First up was the £75 FO at the gutshot last wednesday. Starting stack was 4000 and i had built my stack painfully slowly to 7300 when this rather sick situation came up. Blinds were 300/600 when its folded to me in mp. The bb has a totalof 2000 chips and has told the table he is going to be all in this hand. The co and button both have 4000ish and the only player that has me covered is the sb with 10K. So anyway i look down at AQ and make it 1300 to play with the following logic, if the Co or button move in i call. If the sb moves in i cry and in an ideal world they all fold to the bb and i'm in 1 4K showdown with what will 9 times out of 10 be the best hand. Also made it 1300 so if the sb calls and the bb moves in i can re-raise isolate. Co folds, button folds, sb calls and bb CALLS! Leaving himself 700. Flop 7 5 2 with two clubs and they both fucking check! WTF! So 3900 in the pot and i have 6K left what the hell do i do? After a while i think about the sb's range and decide to shove. After about 2 minutes he calls with A8 of clubs and the bb calls with K9 so i'm in an 18K showdown with ace high and i'm in front! obviously the club hits and i go busto but even now i'm still confused by the hand. My bet pre flop is weak but i think the logic is there and my shove onthe flop is ballsy but its hard to put the sb on a hand he can call with and ace high is probs good against the bb. Any advice on this hand would be welcome and it was certainly nice for me to play a hand in tournement that could cause such confusion.
Anyway the next day i jumped on a train to Reading for the second annual Reading series of poker. Met the boys at the union about 2ish for a few games of pool before event 1 the £20 PLO, lost about £40 playing pool which is pretty standard for me tbh but the beer was flowing and we were all excited about the w/e and the inevitable stupid side bets that would follow. Event 1 was a bit dissapointing as we only managed 10 players for the PLO. Think quite a few of the guys this year are just holdem players and the people from other uni's were gonna focus on the main event. Despite some nice deep stacks it was an early exit for me with a very dissapointing 9th. Played like a drain and was feeling quite sick with the combination of beer and whisky along with the drugs i had been taking for my in-grown toenail. Made 1 very nice fold with middle set but couldn't ever make a hand when i needed to and made a shit play when i got busted bluffing into top set wooooooooops!
Thankfully was feeling much better the next day. Mike, cashy and ben decided to go and gamble it up on the golf course but Ant and i thought we would just hang out and relax in the 4 star hotel. Had a swim, sauna and a steam so by the time the next comp started at 6pm felt more than ready to defend my iho championship against a slightly larger field of 21. Despite a nice early double up witgh AK v KK all in pre flop in holdem against cashy (lol) i once again was unable to make the final table.My timing was off and even though i really wated to win i just kept getting caught bluffing and made 1 or 2 shit calls. Also i thik it's time to give some credit to a few of the boys from last year who have improved a lot. I thik a number of them have got a lot better and as much as it pains me to say it sometimes i had no idea what they had. Josh Igoe was really aggressive and even though i think he can give away a lot of info with his speech during a hand thought he palyed very well and his mate Martin has got a lot of game these days.
So it was not a good to start to the RSOP for me. I was down £30 on poker and about £80 ish on side bets. Six of us also decided to put £10 into a bet on overall player of the series with double points for the main event, I only had 4 points after two events and Ant was winning with 12 so was gonna have to get the best result of the six in the main event and hope Ant had a shocker to have a chance (thankfully this had a very good chance of happening).
Day 1 of the main event was another big dissapointment for me. I had quite a tough table draw and lost 2 big hands early with JJ v AA and then 44 having to fold on the turn on a board of 4 5 6 8. So in the 100/200 level when i finally got my last 2700 in pot with K6 v AK i thought that a very dissapointing RSOP was over for me and i could concentrate on the far more important issue of getting drunk. Six on the turn and i'm back in bussiness. Lose most of it back again over the next hour before finding myself all in again with AQ v KK for my last 3000 chips. Once again i suckout and its happy days. Finally play a hand well by trapping my opponent and getting him to bluff his stack off to me with king high against my top 2 and end the day with average stack of 18,500 with 42 of the 80 starters left to come back the next day. Saturday night was an absolute classic! About 20 people from last year were out in the union and everyone was having a good time. Drank far to much including 4 aftershocks in a row which was not a good idea. Hangover of the century and wasn't expecting a great result the next morning but things actually went very very well for me as my outrageous luck continued. First was all in with 77 v J10, i won. Then i find KK on the button and find a re-steal from the sb with Q 10 and before i know it am up to 40,000, still hungover but feeling a lot better. By the time the bubble came round was in full steamroller mode and had 120,000 playing 1000/2000 blinds. Was chipleader on the final table with 200K playing 3000/6000 blinds thanks to a lot of aggression and winning two more coinflips against shorter stacks. Was certainly nice to see 7 from Reading on the final table and by the time we were down to 5 it was just Readig left. Ended up splitting it 3 way for 900 each and playing for 100 and the title. Only managed to finish second but by the time the chop was sorted we all relaxed and started calling all in with utter filth, well done to Paul for finishing third and Steve Windsor for winning. Think they both played well all tourney and even though i feel i had a decent edge 3 handed think the cash was a big deal for them both so was more than happy to chop. Overall was very happy with the weekend, the hotel was great value and the piss up on saturday was legendary. My poker wasn't great the first 3 days but i played one hell of a final day and won a lot of big showdowns at the right time.
By the time i got back on sunday was totally exhaused and had the best sleep of my life. I was tempted to skip the the £100 at the gutshot last night but felt like i would go for one more big win. Only 23 runners but i managed to chop HU for £700, very nice!!!!!!!
Wow that is a very long blog! long story short, I LOVE POKER! Up about £4000 over the last 10 days which is way above expectation. I'm going to take a few days off poker now until sunday when will play some of the big online comps. As far as going back to being a full time poker player goes i'm doing some thinking at the moment. Certainly made a lot more money in the last 4 months playing than working but is very nice to have a guaranteed income and working at the casino is still ok. Think the best thing to do is work till the summer and then make sure i have a big enough roll not to have to worry about living expenses and rent and can focus on playing and staying fresh.
Wednesday, 13 February 2008
downswing/schedule
Things have been pretty slow on the poker front of late. Been mixing up my game selection between live 10 handed cash games and online tournies with a little bit of six max thrown in for good measure.
Down about £1000 in live cash games over the last month which is quite painful to actually write. Lost a £600 pot at the empire on sunday night with 64 V AA against some American twat on a board of 9 6 4 all in on the flop, turn 3 river 3 OUCH! Lost another £300 at the gutshot last night with a very sick run of cards, played about 5 big-ish hands and lost everyone. Looked back at the hands on the way home and am pretty sure that all the hands were played correctly, just a sick run of cards i guess.
If anything online has been more frustrating than live. Been going quite deep in a number of tournies but just can't make the big money. Lost a couple of big coin flips at the wrong times and taken some ugly beats which have cost me some serious $. As far as my game goes think that i have been a little bit tilty at times and maybe been pushing a little to hard at the wrong times. Also starting to think a few of the regular players on party have started to work out my game a little bit so it could be time to make a few minor adjustments to my game.
So poker has been a bit shit and think i'm gonna give the cash games a bit of a break and try and concentrate on my tournament play for a while. Got quite a bit of time off work coming up so decided to make a poker schedule and keep track of my play/results with the aim of blogging the damage when i'm through.
Poker schedule feb 2008: wed 13th - live- £75+5 Fo at the gutshot 8pm.
online- 5 $55 turbo stt's. $109 FO 12am?
thurs 14th - online - 8pm $162 Fo. 10.30pm $33 RB.
12am $109 FO. 5 $55 stt's.
fri 15th - online - 5 $55 turbo stt's. work.
sat 16th - work.
sun 17th - work.
mon 18th - work.
tue 19th - $33 RB 3.30pm. $162 FO 8pm.
wed 20th - online - 5 $55 turbo stt's.
live - cheeky 10/20p cash game?
thurs 21st - live - RSOP event 1 £20 PLO. followed by piss up.
fri 22nd - hangover? piss up? silly gambling?
sat 23rd - live - RSOP main event £50 FO day 1.
sun 24th - live - RSOP main event day 2? (£500 for cash games
and silly side bets).
mon 25th - live - £100 FO at the gutshoy 8pm.
online- $109 FO 12am?
tue 26th - online - $33 RB 3.30pm. $162 FO 8pm. $109 FO 12am
5 $55 stt's turbo.
So thats the plan for the next few weeks and as you can see its pretty much all poker. Will record all my results and plan to blog at the end of feb. I'm sure i will either win money or learn a lot, i hope to god its the former.
Down about £1000 in live cash games over the last month which is quite painful to actually write. Lost a £600 pot at the empire on sunday night with 64 V AA against some American twat on a board of 9 6 4 all in on the flop, turn 3 river 3 OUCH! Lost another £300 at the gutshot last night with a very sick run of cards, played about 5 big-ish hands and lost everyone. Looked back at the hands on the way home and am pretty sure that all the hands were played correctly, just a sick run of cards i guess.
If anything online has been more frustrating than live. Been going quite deep in a number of tournies but just can't make the big money. Lost a couple of big coin flips at the wrong times and taken some ugly beats which have cost me some serious $. As far as my game goes think that i have been a little bit tilty at times and maybe been pushing a little to hard at the wrong times. Also starting to think a few of the regular players on party have started to work out my game a little bit so it could be time to make a few minor adjustments to my game.
So poker has been a bit shit and think i'm gonna give the cash games a bit of a break and try and concentrate on my tournament play for a while. Got quite a bit of time off work coming up so decided to make a poker schedule and keep track of my play/results with the aim of blogging the damage when i'm through.
Poker schedule feb 2008: wed 13th - live- £75+5 Fo at the gutshot 8pm.
online- 5 $55 turbo stt's. $109 FO 12am?
thurs 14th - online - 8pm $162 Fo. 10.30pm $33 RB.
12am $109 FO. 5 $55 stt's.
fri 15th - online - 5 $55 turbo stt's. work.
sat 16th - work.
sun 17th - work.
mon 18th - work.
tue 19th - $33 RB 3.30pm. $162 FO 8pm.
wed 20th - online - 5 $55 turbo stt's.
live - cheeky 10/20p cash game?
thurs 21st - live - RSOP event 1 £20 PLO. followed by piss up.
fri 22nd - hangover? piss up? silly gambling?
sat 23rd - live - RSOP main event £50 FO day 1.
sun 24th - live - RSOP main event day 2? (£500 for cash games
and silly side bets).
mon 25th - live - £100 FO at the gutshoy 8pm.
online- $109 FO 12am?
tue 26th - online - $33 RB 3.30pm. $162 FO 8pm. $109 FO 12am
5 $55 stt's turbo.
So thats the plan for the next few weeks and as you can see its pretty much all poker. Will record all my results and plan to blog at the end of feb. I'm sure i will either win money or learn a lot, i hope to god its the former.
Monday, 28 January 2008
Heavy weekend
Just got through a pretty massive weekend and a very enjoyable one at that. The fun started at myn on friday night with a 10p/20p cash game at the flat with 7 players. Amazingly i managed to lose 32o pounds in the game playing very badly indeed. From around 9pm to 6am was actually up around 50 quid and playing well, lots of action and was winning a lot of pots with a combination of strong bluffs and made hands.
In the space of 2 hands however things took a turn for the much, much worse. First lost a 120 pot against blubbs with 97 V 1010 on a board of 6 7 10 7 all in on the turn. He played the hand very niceley and i had to make a decision on the turn to raise him all in or fold, i made the wrong one. I had been up since 11am friday morning so the fact it was 6am on saturday didn't help my thought process. I get away from the hand quite easily if anything but a 7 comes on the turn and it was a bit of a cold deck but not to worry. The next hand i played was one i will not live down for a very, very long time indeed. Just a bit of a backround on ben 'big cheese' warwick': i've been friends with ben since the first year of university and lived with him for all 3 years. He learnt to play poker in the first year and fell in love with the game early, adopting a tight stratergy with the ability to pull a big bluff atthe right time. He plays for very low stakes online and has always made money but could have made a lot more $ if he was playing at the level he should be. Anyway ben raises to 80p in ep and cashpoint calls on the co. I lookdown at AJ sooooted in the sb and make it 2.6 total only for ben to re-raise to 6 poundish and cashy to fold. I should fold here and would have if the hand before i hadn't lost a big pot. So i say outloud that i think he has KK, make the call and check in the dark. Flop comes JJ3! BOOOOOM! To my suprise ben checks behind but despite this i still read him for an overpair. We both have over 100 infront of us and i think he wants to half disguise his hand and half keep the pot small. I hit the ace on the turn to make a full house and bet 10, ben thinks for 3 secs then calls. A king hits the river and for some reason i bet 20 quid, Ben raises to 60 and i pretty much insta fold face up sayingthat he has KK or AA. Ben flips Q6 and i can't believe it! The problem was i made up my mind what he had way to early, Ben also likes to make his moves on the turn or river and not pre flop. For this reason when he 4-bet i just pressumed it was a big pair (making my call even worse). Anyway the hand bought a lot of laughter from all the boys and i had to take a lot of banter then and no doubt in the future will have to take a lot more. For Ben's take on the hand check his blog http://www.benwarwick.blogspot.com/, well played sir!!!!!!!
After this hand went on mad major monkey tilt and lost another 220 in about an hour, with 10p/20p blinds that is quite impressive. Was just playing awful and i made sure that Ant won all his money back by trying lots of dumb dumb bluffs. Then i lost 100 quid on a game of pro evo going down 6-3 with Bayern Munich V Bayern Munich. Despite the tilt and the money was still in a good mood and having a good laugh. We went for breakfast at the local cafe then came back via the bookies (-50) for a cheeky pro evo tourney that i did not win (-5). So i was stuck an impressive 475 quid on the weekend that i managed to win back in about an hour online. Ran really well winning $800 at $2/$4 nlh then another $200 at$0.5/1 PLO , poker is such a great game.
At 1pm on saturday Mike, Ant and i headed off to Reading for an all day piss up with a load of the other guys from uni (still no sleep). Got to the hotel at about 3pm, checked in and went srtaight back out again on a pub crawl that ended up at the union. Was tottally shatterd but got through the day somehow and had a great laugh. Four of the lads are going travelling for a year so was good to give them a good send off and by the time we got back to the hotel at 1.30am on Sunday was out on my feet.
Am working the next three nights and thursday day but Alec is coming up friday so gonna hit the tables on friday and saturday which should be fun and hope to make some more money then.
In the space of 2 hands however things took a turn for the much, much worse. First lost a 120 pot against blubbs with 97 V 1010 on a board of 6 7 10 7 all in on the turn. He played the hand very niceley and i had to make a decision on the turn to raise him all in or fold, i made the wrong one. I had been up since 11am friday morning so the fact it was 6am on saturday didn't help my thought process. I get away from the hand quite easily if anything but a 7 comes on the turn and it was a bit of a cold deck but not to worry. The next hand i played was one i will not live down for a very, very long time indeed. Just a bit of a backround on ben 'big cheese' warwick': i've been friends with ben since the first year of university and lived with him for all 3 years. He learnt to play poker in the first year and fell in love with the game early, adopting a tight stratergy with the ability to pull a big bluff atthe right time. He plays for very low stakes online and has always made money but could have made a lot more $ if he was playing at the level he should be. Anyway ben raises to 80p in ep and cashpoint calls on the co. I lookdown at AJ sooooted in the sb and make it 2.6 total only for ben to re-raise to 6 poundish and cashy to fold. I should fold here and would have if the hand before i hadn't lost a big pot. So i say outloud that i think he has KK, make the call and check in the dark. Flop comes JJ3! BOOOOOM! To my suprise ben checks behind but despite this i still read him for an overpair. We both have over 100 infront of us and i think he wants to half disguise his hand and half keep the pot small. I hit the ace on the turn to make a full house and bet 10, ben thinks for 3 secs then calls. A king hits the river and for some reason i bet 20 quid, Ben raises to 60 and i pretty much insta fold face up sayingthat he has KK or AA. Ben flips Q6 and i can't believe it! The problem was i made up my mind what he had way to early, Ben also likes to make his moves on the turn or river and not pre flop. For this reason when he 4-bet i just pressumed it was a big pair (making my call even worse). Anyway the hand bought a lot of laughter from all the boys and i had to take a lot of banter then and no doubt in the future will have to take a lot more. For Ben's take on the hand check his blog http://www.benwarwick.blogspot.com/, well played sir!!!!!!!
After this hand went on mad major monkey tilt and lost another 220 in about an hour, with 10p/20p blinds that is quite impressive. Was just playing awful and i made sure that Ant won all his money back by trying lots of dumb dumb bluffs. Then i lost 100 quid on a game of pro evo going down 6-3 with Bayern Munich V Bayern Munich. Despite the tilt and the money was still in a good mood and having a good laugh. We went for breakfast at the local cafe then came back via the bookies (-50) for a cheeky pro evo tourney that i did not win (-5). So i was stuck an impressive 475 quid on the weekend that i managed to win back in about an hour online. Ran really well winning $800 at $2/$4 nlh then another $200 at$0.5/1 PLO , poker is such a great game.
At 1pm on saturday Mike, Ant and i headed off to Reading for an all day piss up with a load of the other guys from uni (still no sleep). Got to the hotel at about 3pm, checked in and went srtaight back out again on a pub crawl that ended up at the union. Was tottally shatterd but got through the day somehow and had a great laugh. Four of the lads are going travelling for a year so was good to give them a good send off and by the time we got back to the hotel at 1.30am on Sunday was out on my feet.
Am working the next three nights and thursday day but Alec is coming up friday so gonna hit the tables on friday and saturday which should be fun and hope to make some more money then.
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