OK, so basically i have no excuse for leaving this so long and actually have no idea why i have. Think the main reason i have left it so long is because after my good start to the WSOP it all went pear shaped so to speak. Was chip leader in the $3k Horse event approaching the money bubble when i lost 3 huge Stud 8 hands holding 4 to a low and 4 to a flush after 4 cards and not making either on any of the 3 occasions. Ended up with a min cash in that busting shortly after the bubble.
Didn't make a day 2 in any of the other side events but made day 3 in the main event holding an above average 150k stack. Was plain sailing up to day 3 just constantly accumulating and never really playing any huge pots but it wasn't to be ultimately. Playing 180k and 1200/2400 blinds i found a/k in a really good squeeze spot and when the original raiser put in a 4 bet i got it in unfortunatly against his a/a and couldn't get there.
Anyways theres gonna be too much to talk about for 1 blog post so will try to gradually get up to date in the next few days and start blogging again.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Quick WSOP Update
So far have played 4 wsop events and made 3 day 2's with 2 cashs. Going into day 2 of the 3k horse tomorrow with a slightly above average stack. Was a really long day today and not much fun for long periods. Made a lot of hands in the 1st 4 levels and ran pretty well to have a 22k stack going to the dinner break. But for the next 3 lvels, couldn't make a hand to save myself and dwindled all the way back down to 10k. Won a pretty big limit holdem hand though in the last level to get back up to 24,500 where i finished the day.
Min cashed my 1st event ($1500 nl) losing a race just into the money a/k vs 9/9 vs another shortstack at the time who later went onto final table the event. Best part of the event was coolering Pab a/a vs k/k in the 1st level. Crazy that the 2 of us were on the same starting table considering the size of the field.
Busted around 4.30pm and dave (sexygee) rung me to say he was coming in for the $2500 round of each (plh / plo) at 5pm. Wasn't that convinced on playing as my omaha game isn't the greatest and i was pretty tired after 2 days of playing the $1500 but with a few mins to go changed my mind and registered. Basically played pretty tight throughout the event as there was no antees involved and i had some super sick omaha players on my tables so i didn't really want to get involved with them with marginal hands. Went pretty deep though eventually busting 20th when playing a 50k stack at 2/4k plo i opened 4/5/6/7 double suited for pot and the bb basically set me in with k/k/9/7 1 suit. Flop came down a/q/7 but i turned a 4 for 2 pair but it gave him a flushdraw, anyways he hit a king on the river and i was gone. o yeah, guy who busted went on to win the event, so guess if i win bot of my busthands i have to bracelets now. Pretty happy with the result though and it was a solid start for the series, 2 for 2 in my 1st 2 events.
Next up was the 5k nl, 15k starting stacks but a pretty tough field. Got up to 28k after the 1st few levels but then bluffed off in a pretty bad spot to bring me back to starting stack. Basically blinded down to about 10k at 200/400 when the loosest guy at the table opened to 1200 utg, stationish player flats the button and i ship in my stack with 8/8. Button simply never has a big hand here and i expect to take the pot right there nearly all the time. Takes the utg player like 5 seconds to announce call and i'm just praying to see a/k and am pretty shocked when he turns over q/j off, whatever, queen on the flop and i'm gone.
Anyways, hopefully i can run good tomorrow in the horse and make another deep run, gl me, 1 time??
Min cashed my 1st event ($1500 nl) losing a race just into the money a/k vs 9/9 vs another shortstack at the time who later went onto final table the event. Best part of the event was coolering Pab a/a vs k/k in the 1st level. Crazy that the 2 of us were on the same starting table considering the size of the field.
Busted around 4.30pm and dave (sexygee) rung me to say he was coming in for the $2500 round of each (plh / plo) at 5pm. Wasn't that convinced on playing as my omaha game isn't the greatest and i was pretty tired after 2 days of playing the $1500 but with a few mins to go changed my mind and registered. Basically played pretty tight throughout the event as there was no antees involved and i had some super sick omaha players on my tables so i didn't really want to get involved with them with marginal hands. Went pretty deep though eventually busting 20th when playing a 50k stack at 2/4k plo i opened 4/5/6/7 double suited for pot and the bb basically set me in with k/k/9/7 1 suit. Flop came down a/q/7 but i turned a 4 for 2 pair but it gave him a flushdraw, anyways he hit a king on the river and i was gone. o yeah, guy who busted went on to win the event, so guess if i win bot of my busthands i have to bracelets now. Pretty happy with the result though and it was a solid start for the series, 2 for 2 in my 1st 2 events.
Next up was the 5k nl, 15k starting stacks but a pretty tough field. Got up to 28k after the 1st few levels but then bluffed off in a pretty bad spot to bring me back to starting stack. Basically blinded down to about 10k at 200/400 when the loosest guy at the table opened to 1200 utg, stationish player flats the button and i ship in my stack with 8/8. Button simply never has a big hand here and i expect to take the pot right there nearly all the time. Takes the utg player like 5 seconds to announce call and i'm just praying to see a/k and am pretty shocked when he turns over q/j off, whatever, queen on the flop and i'm gone.
Anyways, hopefully i can run good tomorrow in the horse and make another deep run, gl me, 1 time??
Monday, May 25, 2009
UFC
Went to the ufc saturday night which was good fun, as usual there was plenty of alcohol involved and it was a definatly a good night. We were betting on the fights among ourselfs which saw me coming out around a $600 winner, weeee. Still gonna be painful to pay out pab on the berbatov bet though when it becomes official after the champions league final on wednesday.
Pokerwise, not a lot been happening, been grinding 400nl 6 max most of the month and been winning at a descent rate but nothing too exciting. Centrebet have been having quite a few great promotions this month so have been trying to put in a lot of volume there to clear my bonuses and that. Been playing a few tournaments here and there as well and managed to luckbox a win in the stars 109 double chance last week for 9k.
WSOP starts this week as well so starting to get excited for that and will blog about all the events i play there too.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
You got knocked the fuck out
Got to vegas on thursday, but didn't get up to a lot until saturday night when me, pab and moorman went to see the Hatton fight. Atmosphere was electric and it was definatly a very enjoyable night. There were some pretty good fights on the undercard as well but it was obviously a little dissapointing to see ricky get smashed up so convincingly. But all credit to pacman, an absolutly amazing fighter and hope we can all get to see pacman vs mayweather in the near future which should be epic.
After the fight we all went to the nearest bar and started to get on it. Was a pretty messy night, with plenty of shots etc and needless to say come sunday morning nobody was feeling that healthy.
Managed to feel a little better around 6pm and decided to jump in a few of the late sunday tournaments. Got a huge stack in the sunday night horse on ftp but things didn't work out for me in the money and i busted a dissapointing 7th. Found myself itm in both of the big double tournaments when moorman told me if i managed a double final table i'd get 20% of the big double jackpot, and if i luckboxed 2 wins then i'd get 75% which was worth around 20k.
In the 1st one i lost a chiplead race on the final table bubble which left me super short but fortunatly another guy busted on the other table so i scraped out a 9th place finish. This left me in a strange situation as a shortstack with 11 left in the 2nd. A double final table was worth 5k wheras to win the tournament outright was only paying 2800. So obviously the aim was to try to make the final at all costs. So i basically hadda fold in quite a few spots where i'd be shoving or calling off with my <10bb stack. I managed to make the final with 1bb lol and busted shortly after. Was kinda tilted though when i noticed another guy had managed to double final as well so we had to split the bonus each getting 2500ish.
As this was going on i had also been building a stack in the 109 6 max also on ftp. Seemed to be 1 of them tournaments were everything was going right. Got the chiplead around the money bubble and cruised to the final still holding the lead. Got hu pretty even in chips and it was a pretty swingy battle but i felt i was in control of it all the whole way. Eventually won when my a/9 beat his k/k when he was short for $7,500. So was a pretty good sunday considering i only played a handful of tournaments.
Plan for the rest of the month is to play a few turnaments when i feel like it and some 6 max cash the rest of the time. HU cash tables have been really slow lately and i've started playing some 6 max instead and so far have been enjoying it.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Whats been happening
Basically the grind has not went as planned. Had a great start last month quickly showing 20k profit in the 1st week / 10 days but just spent the rest of the month giving it back. Ran really poorly though with holdem manager showing me running like 12k under ev for the month, but i definatly did let my bad run affect me and had a few tilt sessions coming up to the end of the month.
Still decided to go to dublin for the irish open with a few mates though which was good fun. Felt pretty good going into the tournament and had around a 18k stack going into the 1st level of antes and felt i had a descent feel for the table. 1st hand back after break i raised a/9 utg + 1 to 1050 @ 200/400 playing 7 handed. utg + 2 calls and we go hu and see a 9/5/3 flop. I cbet 1550 which he quickly min raises to 3100. At this point i was fairly confident he was bluffing from watching him play. Decided the best course of action was to just call and let him continue his bluff which he had been doing previously. Turn was a 10 and i check called his 4500 bet with the plan of calling all rivers. River 6 and i called his 6k bet only to be shown 6/6 for the rivered set. Bleh
Unfortunatly this left me with 3500 and i looked down at k/js utg next hand and quickly shipped it in. Got it through and won a flip with 6/6 in the bb next hand vs the sb's q/8s. Basically grinded the rest of the day never getting above 15k and finished the day on 12,300 with the average around 22k.
With blinds at 400/800 going into day 2 it was pretty obvous i would either double early or bust. Unfortunatly it was the latter when playing 11kish in the bb it folds around to the sb who limps. I'm shoving here normally pretty wide but can't belieeve my luck when i look down at a real hand in J/J and ship it in. The sb is a pro of some sorts whos been on tv and that b4 who tanks for litterally 5 mins whilst taking a moment or two here and there to give me a stare down b4 calling off 40% of his stack with a/6. Obv ace on the turn and gg me.
Been playing a few online donkaments recently as well prolly because of my lack of motivation for cash at the min. Managed a win in a Stars 109 for 10kish and a 2nd in the fulltilt 100r 6 max for 8500. Cashed for 10kish as well in the scoop $2500 hu busting 13th as well as an even chop in they're weekly sunday hu tournie for $13k last night.
Plan on getting back into the grind this week b4 we go to vegas next thursday for the ricky hatton fight, weeeeeeee. We'll be staying on in vegas after that with the wsop starting about 3 weeks after that, so should start blogging again more frequently when the wsop comes around.
Still decided to go to dublin for the irish open with a few mates though which was good fun. Felt pretty good going into the tournament and had around a 18k stack going into the 1st level of antes and felt i had a descent feel for the table. 1st hand back after break i raised a/9 utg + 1 to 1050 @ 200/400 playing 7 handed. utg + 2 calls and we go hu and see a 9/5/3 flop. I cbet 1550 which he quickly min raises to 3100. At this point i was fairly confident he was bluffing from watching him play. Decided the best course of action was to just call and let him continue his bluff which he had been doing previously. Turn was a 10 and i check called his 4500 bet with the plan of calling all rivers. River 6 and i called his 6k bet only to be shown 6/6 for the rivered set. Bleh
Unfortunatly this left me with 3500 and i looked down at k/js utg next hand and quickly shipped it in. Got it through and won a flip with 6/6 in the bb next hand vs the sb's q/8s. Basically grinded the rest of the day never getting above 15k and finished the day on 12,300 with the average around 22k.
With blinds at 400/800 going into day 2 it was pretty obvous i would either double early or bust. Unfortunatly it was the latter when playing 11kish in the bb it folds around to the sb who limps. I'm shoving here normally pretty wide but can't belieeve my luck when i look down at a real hand in J/J and ship it in. The sb is a pro of some sorts whos been on tv and that b4 who tanks for litterally 5 mins whilst taking a moment or two here and there to give me a stare down b4 calling off 40% of his stack with a/6. Obv ace on the turn and gg me.
Been playing a few online donkaments recently as well prolly because of my lack of motivation for cash at the min. Managed a win in a Stars 109 for 10kish and a 2nd in the fulltilt 100r 6 max for 8500. Cashed for 10kish as well in the scoop $2500 hu busting 13th as well as an even chop in they're weekly sunday hu tournie for $13k last night.
Plan on getting back into the grind this week b4 we go to vegas next thursday for the ricky hatton fight, weeeeeeee. We'll be staying on in vegas after that with the wsop starting about 3 weeks after that, so should start blogging again more frequently when the wsop comes around.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Grind
Been back from australia just over a week now and been back grinding. Want to try to make all my expenses and buyins for the wsop between now and may 01st when we fly out to vegas by grinding mainly 2/4 and 3/6. So far the resuts have been encouraging although i havn't been able to play on my usual ipoker skin because it keeps disconnecting me for some reason. Because of this i've been playing mainly on fulltilt the last few days.
Also, eventually got around to getting holdem manager installed and it seems like a fun toy although i don't really have a need for the hud for hu poker. So expect some graphs and that in the future.
Also, eventually got around to getting holdem manager installed and it seems like a fun toy although i don't really have a need for the hud for hu poker. So expect some graphs and that in the future.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Overdue Update
Not been playing anywhere near my usual volume since i've got to sydney and thats prolly the reason for the lack of updates. Still been winning though when i have played but on a smaller scale. For starters its really hard to get action here because of the time difference, so if i sit down at 1pm to play its 2am UK time when there isn't an awful lot of traffic on my usual sites.
Because of this and the fact i'm surrounded by a group of guys playing donkaments have found myself playing a few of these now and then. Last few weeks, i've managed a 4th in the $109 double chance turbo, 4th in the ftops horse $500, 7th in the sunday 100r turbo and a 5th in the Stars wednesday $300. So feels pretty good to have grinded out a bit of a profit from mtts again although i feel it coulda been a lot more if i ran a little better on the finals.
Congrats to the other guys in the house too who have all been crushing, Pab's shipped his 1st tripple crown since we been here, moorman has retook his no.1 ranking on P5'S and shipped his biggest score to date winning the Sunday 100r for 88k, mbn, and JP has shipped the UB $1K.
Weather in sydney has been absolutly horrible last week, with constant rain all week, although its picked up again the last few days and the 1st week we were here it was absolutly scorching. Have been and done a few things around sydney including the bridge climb and going to a 1 day cricket match which just seemed like an excuse for a day out drinking in the sun. Been plenty of drinking going on as well with a few memorable nights and quite a few horrible hangovers.
Should start updating more regularly again now as i expect to be going home in the next few weeks to get my grind on b4 vegas.
O yeah, we're going to vegas 3 weeks early too cause we've managed to get ricky hatton tickets, weeeee :)
Because of this and the fact i'm surrounded by a group of guys playing donkaments have found myself playing a few of these now and then. Last few weeks, i've managed a 4th in the $109 double chance turbo, 4th in the ftops horse $500, 7th in the sunday 100r turbo and a 5th in the Stars wednesday $300. So feels pretty good to have grinded out a bit of a profit from mtts again although i feel it coulda been a lot more if i ran a little better on the finals.
Congrats to the other guys in the house too who have all been crushing, Pab's shipped his 1st tripple crown since we been here, moorman has retook his no.1 ranking on P5'S and shipped his biggest score to date winning the Sunday 100r for 88k, mbn, and JP has shipped the UB $1K.
Weather in sydney has been absolutly horrible last week, with constant rain all week, although its picked up again the last few days and the 1st week we were here it was absolutly scorching. Have been and done a few things around sydney including the bridge climb and going to a 1 day cricket match which just seemed like an excuse for a day out drinking in the sun. Been plenty of drinking going on as well with a few memorable nights and quite a few horrible hangovers.
Should start updating more regularly again now as i expect to be going home in the next few weeks to get my grind on b4 vegas.
O yeah, we're going to vegas 3 weeks early too cause we've managed to get ricky hatton tickets, weeeee :)
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Aussie Millions
Siigh
Don't think in all the live tournaments i've played i have ever seen a weaker starting table, everybody was just really bad and limping along having a great time everyhand.
Got up to 25k pretty early when random australian limps utg + 1 i make it 725 from mid with a/k and he flats. Flop comes a/kh/4h and he check calls 1100, turn is an offsuit 5 and he check raises my 2200 to 5k, i flat and the rivers a uglyish queen of hearts, he bets 5k again and i just call, he proudly tables his a/10off like its the nuts.
Float between 30k - 40k for the next level when i raise a/kss utg to 850 at 150/300, get 3 callers b4 the bb ships his stack in for 9k, i ship in my 30k and the other 3 guys get out of the way and we're off to the races vs q/q. Flop comes a promising 10 high with two of my suit but i obv have too many outs and the inevitable running bricks come. To make matters worse as i'm counting out the chips to pay the guy he says "thanks for that m8" classy.
2 Hands later and down to 25k its folded to me in the sb and i take a peek at 8/8, with an absolute monkey in the bb i raise it up to 900, he pretty swiftly makes it 3k, have a quick look at his stack which looks around 14k total and ship it in, he insta calls and i think i'm in trouble till he flips a/qoff, he just flops an ace and when its counted out he actally had 17.5k. Shortstacked after that and pick up zero hands and get zero resteal opportunities and eventally shove 11bbs utg +1 with j/10 and get called by a/10 and fail to improve. Another fun live tournament.
Thank god i'm gonna be in australia for a while so i'm not tempted to play anymore stupid live donkaments.
Don't think in all the live tournaments i've played i have ever seen a weaker starting table, everybody was just really bad and limping along having a great time everyhand.
Got up to 25k pretty early when random australian limps utg + 1 i make it 725 from mid with a/k and he flats. Flop comes a/kh/4h and he check calls 1100, turn is an offsuit 5 and he check raises my 2200 to 5k, i flat and the rivers a uglyish queen of hearts, he bets 5k again and i just call, he proudly tables his a/10off like its the nuts.
Float between 30k - 40k for the next level when i raise a/kss utg to 850 at 150/300, get 3 callers b4 the bb ships his stack in for 9k, i ship in my 30k and the other 3 guys get out of the way and we're off to the races vs q/q. Flop comes a promising 10 high with two of my suit but i obv have too many outs and the inevitable running bricks come. To make matters worse as i'm counting out the chips to pay the guy he says "thanks for that m8" classy.
2 Hands later and down to 25k its folded to me in the sb and i take a peek at 8/8, with an absolute monkey in the bb i raise it up to 900, he pretty swiftly makes it 3k, have a quick look at his stack which looks around 14k total and ship it in, he insta calls and i think i'm in trouble till he flips a/qoff, he just flops an ace and when its counted out he actally had 17.5k. Shortstacked after that and pick up zero hands and get zero resteal opportunities and eventally shove 11bbs utg +1 with j/10 and get called by a/10 and fail to improve. Another fun live tournament.
Thank god i'm gonna be in australia for a while so i'm not tempted to play anymore stupid live donkaments.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
WHats been happening
Obviously i still have to finish my prague trip report, which i should get around to in the next few days. Had a pretty eventful christmas with plenty of drinking with friends etc.
December turned out to be a pretty good month at the cash tables even though i played relatively low volume with a week in prague and 10 days off for christmas i still managed to profit around £35k.
Left for the PCA in the bahamas on the 4th of January, played day 1a where i finished the day with 40,800 which was slightly below average. In between day 1a and day 2 i played "The world cup of poker" a pokerstars event with 9 teams from accross the world playing off to decide the "world champions". Think we probably had the strongest team in it and we were all a little dissapointed to bust 5th. Think i made a few marginal decisions when i played and was definatly quite nervous as i'd never played on a TV table before. But it was a pretty good experience anyways.
Day 2 of the pca just really sums up my year at live events. Grinded all day with a shortstack picking my spots really well to keep my stack above the danger zone, then with 202 left and 199 paid raise 10/10 utg when i havn't played a hand in forever, the bb who i had been chatting with a bit sets me in for around 25bbs. Meh its the bubble and he was a descent player with a bigish stack so he definatly doesn't need a huge hand to be doing this so i call and lose to a/j when he binks an ace on the river. Standard.
Flying back to london today, where i'm gonna crash with moorman for a few days before we both fly to australia on thursday for the aussie millions and then onto sydney after that to meet up with pab and a few other friends for a month or so, Should be fun.
December turned out to be a pretty good month at the cash tables even though i played relatively low volume with a week in prague and 10 days off for christmas i still managed to profit around £35k.
Left for the PCA in the bahamas on the 4th of January, played day 1a where i finished the day with 40,800 which was slightly below average. In between day 1a and day 2 i played "The world cup of poker" a pokerstars event with 9 teams from accross the world playing off to decide the "world champions". Think we probably had the strongest team in it and we were all a little dissapointed to bust 5th. Think i made a few marginal decisions when i played and was definatly quite nervous as i'd never played on a TV table before. But it was a pretty good experience anyways.
Day 2 of the pca just really sums up my year at live events. Grinded all day with a shortstack picking my spots really well to keep my stack above the danger zone, then with 202 left and 199 paid raise 10/10 utg when i havn't played a hand in forever, the bb who i had been chatting with a bit sets me in for around 25bbs. Meh its the bubble and he was a descent player with a bigish stack so he definatly doesn't need a huge hand to be doing this so i call and lose to a/j when he binks an ace on the river. Standard.
Flying back to london today, where i'm gonna crash with moorman for a few days before we both fly to australia on thursday for the aussie millions and then onto sydney after that to meet up with pab and a few other friends for a month or so, Should be fun.
Monday, December 22, 2008
EPT Prague
Got to my starting table and recognised nobody. Didn't play a hand for the 1st orbit but 1 guy had been playing every pot and splahing around quite a bit. Raised a/j from the cutoff to 150 and splasher reraised it to 450, i called. Flop came a/3/4 and he fired 700, i called, turn 2, check check, river repeated the 3 and he fired out a pretty big bet of 2400, couldn't really put him on a hand and it looked like he was just trying to buy the pot with a big bet so i called and he mucked k/q.
Few hands later the cutoff makes it 200 and i call on the button with k/q. Flop comes down k/x/x with 2 diamonds, he checks, i bet 300 and he check raises to 1100, i think a few seconds before making the call. turn is the 8 of diamonds, and he checks and i check behind, rivers a blank and he dwells before checking, i fire out 1600 and he calls and mucks.
Few hands later he raises again to 200 from utg, i call utg+1 with q/q and unfortunatly we go to the flop 6 way when splasher and his mates call as well. Flop comes down k/q/j and its checked around. Turn repeats the jack, and the sb leads for 350, bb folds and utg calls, i make it 1350 and its folded back to the sb who insta calls, and utg also calls after a think. Rivers a blank, and i bet 3400 and again sb snaps and utg folds. He tables a/10 and i'm off to a pretty good start. Maybe coulda got his stack if i bet the flop but don't think i played it that bad.
Table broke shortly after and not a lot happened for the next few levels. Stack fluctuated between 30 and 20k. Shortly after get moved to moormans table and just know theres gonna be fireworks. 1st few hands in i raise a/10 off from mid position to 850 at 150/300. Moorfish obv flicks it in on the button and we go hu to the flop. Comes down q/10/7 and i fire 1400ish and he calls. Turns a deuce or something and i check and he checks behind. River repeats the 7 and i "value bet" 2500ish, he slowrolls me for a minute before calling with q/9cc, wtf, your the best.
So with moorman to my left and blinds up to 200/400 i decide to sit tight for a bit with my 17k stack. Then the perfect situation comes up a few hands later, moorman raises utg to 1200, and its folded to me on the button, i look down at k/k on the button and just know hes never giving me credit for a hand and repop it to 3600. Obv he tanks for a few mins before setting me in. I call and am actually a little dissapointed to see he has an overcard with the a/5dd. Flop comes down 8/7/5 with 2 diamonds and i'm just about to go back up to the room and set fire to moormans clothes but miraculously it bricks out bring me back up to around 36k.
Don't play particularly well for the rest of the day and tried to much to steal blinds when i shouldn't with so many short stacks and wittle down to 25k again where i finsih the day.
Few hands later the cutoff makes it 200 and i call on the button with k/q. Flop comes down k/x/x with 2 diamonds, he checks, i bet 300 and he check raises to 1100, i think a few seconds before making the call. turn is the 8 of diamonds, and he checks and i check behind, rivers a blank and he dwells before checking, i fire out 1600 and he calls and mucks.
Few hands later he raises again to 200 from utg, i call utg+1 with q/q and unfortunatly we go to the flop 6 way when splasher and his mates call as well. Flop comes down k/q/j and its checked around. Turn repeats the jack, and the sb leads for 350, bb folds and utg calls, i make it 1350 and its folded back to the sb who insta calls, and utg also calls after a think. Rivers a blank, and i bet 3400 and again sb snaps and utg folds. He tables a/10 and i'm off to a pretty good start. Maybe coulda got his stack if i bet the flop but don't think i played it that bad.
Table broke shortly after and not a lot happened for the next few levels. Stack fluctuated between 30 and 20k. Shortly after get moved to moormans table and just know theres gonna be fireworks. 1st few hands in i raise a/10 off from mid position to 850 at 150/300. Moorfish obv flicks it in on the button and we go hu to the flop. Comes down q/10/7 and i fire 1400ish and he calls. Turns a deuce or something and i check and he checks behind. River repeats the 7 and i "value bet" 2500ish, he slowrolls me for a minute before calling with q/9cc, wtf, your the best.
So with moorman to my left and blinds up to 200/400 i decide to sit tight for a bit with my 17k stack. Then the perfect situation comes up a few hands later, moorman raises utg to 1200, and its folded to me on the button, i look down at k/k on the button and just know hes never giving me credit for a hand and repop it to 3600. Obv he tanks for a few mins before setting me in. I call and am actually a little dissapointed to see he has an overcard with the a/5dd. Flop comes down 8/7/5 with 2 diamonds and i'm just about to go back up to the room and set fire to moormans clothes but miraculously it bricks out bring me back up to around 36k.
Don't play particularly well for the rest of the day and tried to much to steal blinds when i shouldn't with so many short stacks and wittle down to 25k again where i finsih the day.
Monday, December 15, 2008
F Live Poker!!!!
Another EPT bubble , this is getting frustrating, must be 3 or 4 now with zero cashs lol, anyways, more detailed trip report to follow in next few days
Monday, December 8, 2008
Last minute trip to Prague
Currently sitting in Gatwick airport waiting for a flight. Had decided to skip the ept prague but late friday night moorman convinced me to come along.
Pretty good week in cash banking a £10k winning week even after a pretty bad/tilty day on friday. Just been playing for a half hour on stars while waiting to check in and won $2500 so should cover my expenses for the trip. Ship
Playing day 1b on wednesday so wish me luck!
Pretty good week in cash banking a £10k winning week even after a pretty bad/tilty day on friday. Just been playing for a half hour on stars while waiting to check in and won $2500 so should cover my expenses for the trip. Ship
Playing day 1b on wednesday so wish me luck!
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
GUKPT ( Pretty long)
Arrived in London on Tuesday expecting to play the £500 side event. Unfortunatly the event was sold out by the time we got there and with a 50 player strong alternate list me pab and the troid decided to have a few beers and watch the football instead. Obv we ended up drinking double JD's until 6am, and playing in a crazy self dealt £1 / 1 game where buyins were flying all over the place. Good fun.
Moorman, Gregior, Johne147 and Clarkatroid all played day 1a on Thursday and obv Moorman finished the day as chip leader.
Me and Pab played Friday and i don't think i got above my starting stack the whole day. Flucuated between 10k - 15k for the 1st 4 levels before going for dinner. Raised 7/8cc from mid position 1st hand back after dinner and bet folded a k/8/3 rainbow flop against the tightest women in the world who check raised. Was struggling after that and basically played push fold poker for the next 3 levels. Got my stack from 6k back up to around 14k when loose middle aged guy opens to 2400 @ 400/800 from the hijack, i ship my stack in from the button with a/qdd and he snaps me with 5/5. GG me. Pab finished the day with a huge stack just behind moorman.
Saturday, decided to go play some live cash and rail a bit of day 2. Played £5/10 for like 6 hours and finished + £50, basically made no hands the entire time and had no interesting situations. Meanwhile moorman maintained his impressive run of 9 consecutive day 2's with no cashs losing a 220k flip at 1.5/3k. Pab however managed to build a nice stack and maintain it all the way to the final table going in 5 of 9 i believe.
Unfortunatly on Sunday i was travelling home and was unable to rail Pab at the final table that was paying £180k ftw. Got home pretty tired from the early start and decided to try a few of the sunday donkaments. Started at 7pm and promptly unregistered from everything shortly after 8 cause i had no patience and was playing like a mug basically. Decided catching up on the weeks TV was a better option.
Obv after an epic to and fro hu battle Pab managed to ship the GUKPT final as well. Sick result and well deserved. The £140k not to shabby either. Think they agreed to flatten the payouts a little 4 handed.
Been back playing cash since. Booked a small win on monday and have been battling a bad reg yesterday and today. Was up £5k on him yesterday when he quit me but unfortunatly i donated £2,000 of it back just when i was about to call it a night and a couple of weak players sat at my tables.
Today the same guy i killed yesterday came back and sat on 4 of my tables. He plays pretty aggro but spewy imo and i managed to win another £3,500 from him. Played a pretty long session of about 5 hours straight and was 6 tabling for most of it. Managed to come out +£5,000 when all was said and done which i'm obv happy about.
Moorman, Gregior, Johne147 and Clarkatroid all played day 1a on Thursday and obv Moorman finished the day as chip leader.
Me and Pab played Friday and i don't think i got above my starting stack the whole day. Flucuated between 10k - 15k for the 1st 4 levels before going for dinner. Raised 7/8cc from mid position 1st hand back after dinner and bet folded a k/8/3 rainbow flop against the tightest women in the world who check raised. Was struggling after that and basically played push fold poker for the next 3 levels. Got my stack from 6k back up to around 14k when loose middle aged guy opens to 2400 @ 400/800 from the hijack, i ship my stack in from the button with a/qdd and he snaps me with 5/5. GG me. Pab finished the day with a huge stack just behind moorman.
Saturday, decided to go play some live cash and rail a bit of day 2. Played £5/10 for like 6 hours and finished + £50, basically made no hands the entire time and had no interesting situations. Meanwhile moorman maintained his impressive run of 9 consecutive day 2's with no cashs losing a 220k flip at 1.5/3k. Pab however managed to build a nice stack and maintain it all the way to the final table going in 5 of 9 i believe.
Unfortunatly on Sunday i was travelling home and was unable to rail Pab at the final table that was paying £180k ftw. Got home pretty tired from the early start and decided to try a few of the sunday donkaments. Started at 7pm and promptly unregistered from everything shortly after 8 cause i had no patience and was playing like a mug basically. Decided catching up on the weeks TV was a better option.
Obv after an epic to and fro hu battle Pab managed to ship the GUKPT final as well. Sick result and well deserved. The £140k not to shabby either. Think they agreed to flatten the payouts a little 4 handed.
Been back playing cash since. Booked a small win on monday and have been battling a bad reg yesterday and today. Was up £5k on him yesterday when he quit me but unfortunatly i donated £2,000 of it back just when i was about to call it a night and a couple of weak players sat at my tables.
Today the same guy i killed yesterday came back and sat on 4 of my tables. He plays pretty aggro but spewy imo and i managed to win another £3,500 from him. Played a pretty long session of about 5 hours straight and was 6 tabling for most of it. Managed to come out +£5,000 when all was said and done which i'm obv happy about.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Update
Cash still going pretty well. Heaters definatly over now and its been quite a bit of grinding, which isn't as much fun :(
Last week involved quite a few days of breaking even and think i finished the week a few k in profit.
Played donkaments on sunday with the usual heartbreak. Final tabled the weekly mixed holdem tournament on stars where a win would seen me breaking even for the day but busted 6th 4 betting all in on the turn with just a flushdraw against the bb's turned 2 pair.
Finished 10th in the ipoker Irish Open feeder which paid 4 seats and cash prizes to 7th. Shoved 10bbs from the cutoff with 6/6 and the bb called me with a/k, a rivered king putting the end to that tournament.
Had a few other cashs along the way including a run in the early ftops and the million and ub 200k, had stacks in all of them at one point or another but nothing matterialised busting them all for a small cash.
Just to top of the night i bubbled the 200r on stars finished 47th with 45 paying where i had a top 10 stack from the 2nd break. F Donkaments
This week has been a lot better though at the hu cash tables with me showing a £11.5k profit since monday, a lot of which came this evening on william hill. My opponent got pretty badly tilted early on in the match then joined another table and continued to spew for the next hour resulting in a £4,500 win for me.
Heading off to London on Tuesday to meet up with Pab, Moorman and Clarkatroid. We're all gonna play the GUKPT Main event and prolly the £500 side event on the tuesday night. Wish us luck, about time 1 of us did something at one of these.
Last week involved quite a few days of breaking even and think i finished the week a few k in profit.
Played donkaments on sunday with the usual heartbreak. Final tabled the weekly mixed holdem tournament on stars where a win would seen me breaking even for the day but busted 6th 4 betting all in on the turn with just a flushdraw against the bb's turned 2 pair.
Finished 10th in the ipoker Irish Open feeder which paid 4 seats and cash prizes to 7th. Shoved 10bbs from the cutoff with 6/6 and the bb called me with a/k, a rivered king putting the end to that tournament.
Had a few other cashs along the way including a run in the early ftops and the million and ub 200k, had stacks in all of them at one point or another but nothing matterialised busting them all for a small cash.
Just to top of the night i bubbled the 200r on stars finished 47th with 45 paying where i had a top 10 stack from the 2nd break. F Donkaments
This week has been a lot better though at the hu cash tables with me showing a £11.5k profit since monday, a lot of which came this evening on william hill. My opponent got pretty badly tilted early on in the match then joined another table and continued to spew for the next hour resulting in a £4,500 win for me.
Heading off to London on Tuesday to meet up with Pab, Moorman and Clarkatroid. We're all gonna play the GUKPT Main event and prolly the £500 side event on the tuesday night. Wish us luck, about time 1 of us did something at one of these.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Ship da monies
Best week by far at cash,
tuesday after i posted had a really good day on ipoker mostly at 3/6 and 2/4 with some 5/10 clearing just over 12k for the day.
Wednesday was a fun day, had a pretty swingy day on ipoker and was down most of the day b4 a late rally finishing up around $800. Just when i was about to finish up a poor player sat at both my 2/5 tables on cyrpto. I was beating him pretty bad and he asked if i wanted to play 5/10 instead, i agreed. Soon into the game he asked if i would play 4 tables instead of 2, again i obliged. A few hours later he quit me with me around £5,500 in profit.
Today i opened up a new ipoker account on a different skin where they've offered me a better deal. My account there is now in pounds so i deposited £5k to get me started and after a swingy 6 hour session was showing a £3,000 profit. Cyrpto i also had another good day. The guy from the night before sat at 1 of my £2/5 tables and dropped a few buyins. Played another opponent who was pretty good and won a 600bb pot where i'm not sure i played the hand well. Getting it in for that much isn't great but obv when i 4 bet the flop i'm committed. I obv get there anyways seeing how nobody runs better. http://www.pokerhand.org/?3414464
So finished the day + £4,000 on cyrpto.
In other news, going to see Kanye West in Belfast saturday so will prolly play some tomorrow and none over the weekend as i expect to be pretty hungover sunday. Big fight saturday night (Calzaghe vs Jones Jr.) as well, so expect to have a house full of drunkards come fight time early sunday morning.
tuesday after i posted had a really good day on ipoker mostly at 3/6 and 2/4 with some 5/10 clearing just over 12k for the day.
Wednesday was a fun day, had a pretty swingy day on ipoker and was down most of the day b4 a late rally finishing up around $800. Just when i was about to finish up a poor player sat at both my 2/5 tables on cyrpto. I was beating him pretty bad and he asked if i wanted to play 5/10 instead, i agreed. Soon into the game he asked if i would play 4 tables instead of 2, again i obliged. A few hours later he quit me with me around £5,500 in profit.
Today i opened up a new ipoker account on a different skin where they've offered me a better deal. My account there is now in pounds so i deposited £5k to get me started and after a swingy 6 hour session was showing a £3,000 profit. Cyrpto i also had another good day. The guy from the night before sat at 1 of my £2/5 tables and dropped a few buyins. Played another opponent who was pretty good and won a 600bb pot where i'm not sure i played the hand well. Getting it in for that much isn't great but obv when i 4 bet the flop i'm committed. I obv get there anyways seeing how nobody runs better. http://www.pokerhand.org/?3414464
So finished the day + £4,000 on cyrpto.
In other news, going to see Kanye West in Belfast saturday so will prolly play some tomorrow and none over the weekend as i expect to be pretty hungover sunday. Big fight saturday night (Calzaghe vs Jones Jr.) as well, so expect to have a house full of drunkards come fight time early sunday morning.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Rough Weekend
Not at the tables though. Friday i was at a wedding which was good crack and everybody ended up really drunk. Obviously we were all straight up the road again saturday morning and in the pub promptly for 11am. Full day drinking Jack and coke and i was home in the bed at 10pm. Managed to pay for the whole weekend though with a few lucky football bets including late Everton and Spurs winners.
Sunday was a complete write off and never even thought about playing any of the sunday majors. Monday i got up feeling not much better than sunday but decided to load up a few hu tables around 4 o'clock. Mind wasn't on it though and wasn't playing anywhere near my best. Stopped playing a few hours later after losing a few hundred.
Started feeling a little better around midnight and played a regular hu at 5/10 on crypto for a few hours. Won a 400bb 3bet pot when i called his crai on the turn with top pair and a gutshot vs his bottom pair and he tilted really badly after and i ended up taking around 7.5k off him b4 calling it a night.
Sunday was a complete write off and never even thought about playing any of the sunday majors. Monday i got up feeling not much better than sunday but decided to load up a few hu tables around 4 o'clock. Mind wasn't on it though and wasn't playing anywhere near my best. Stopped playing a few hours later after losing a few hundred.
Started feeling a little better around midnight and played a regular hu at 5/10 on crypto for a few hours. Won a 400bb 3bet pot when i called his crai on the turn with top pair and a gutshot vs his bottom pair and he tilted really badly after and i ended up taking around 7.5k off him b4 calling it a night.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Still running goot
Basically what it says on the title. + 13k today, 8k of which came on the hu tables on crypto where i recently deposited. Not an awful lot of traffic here but have been sitting at a few of they're $2/5 hu tables recently waiting on action whilst playing my regular ipoker games. Standard seems pretty poor in all and will definatly keep playing here and try to spin up a roll on this site as well and hopefully move up limits if i continue beeting the games.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Descent Sunday + running good at cash
Played all the usual Sunday donkaments. Went deep in quite a few. Finished a dissapointing 15th in the 100r on stars for 3kish when i was a bigstack from start to finish. 3 Bet folded my stack away in this and busted shipping in 15bbs after a raise and not getting there vs 3/3.
Bubbled the 50r in a pot for the chip lead getting k/k in vs a/q on a queen high board but busting when the river brought another queen.
Went deep in the million but busted around the 200 mark losing a standard flip.
Deep in the mulligan as well but donked off my stack in that and can't even remember how i busted around 30th.
Pulled out a win though in the ipoker 109 double stack for 8100. Got a stack around the bubble and just added to it steadily until the final table. Think i busted almost every person on the final table and had like 60% of the chips in play 4 handed.
So with my ipoker account at a new high, mixed in some 5/10 hu cash on monday with my regular 3/6 + 2/4 tables. Ran really well and managed to bank a + $10k day. Biggest winning day to date.
Tuesday was more of a slog playing the same. Quickly got stuck around 3/4k but put in a really long session to end the day + $2k around 8 hours later.
Today continued my running good and was quickly up around 7k. However played really sloppy towards the end of the session basically giving money away to finish the day +4k.
So far the standard at 5/10 is significantly higher than my regular 3/6 + 2/4 games. Only had 1 player sit with me who was noticeably bad compared to 2/4 where prolly half the players that sit arn't good. So will continue mixing in some 5/10 with the regular games and although its imposiible to continue at my current winrate, hopefully i can continue to beat the game.
Bubbled the 50r in a pot for the chip lead getting k/k in vs a/q on a queen high board but busting when the river brought another queen.
Went deep in the million but busted around the 200 mark losing a standard flip.
Deep in the mulligan as well but donked off my stack in that and can't even remember how i busted around 30th.
Pulled out a win though in the ipoker 109 double stack for 8100. Got a stack around the bubble and just added to it steadily until the final table. Think i busted almost every person on the final table and had like 60% of the chips in play 4 handed.
So with my ipoker account at a new high, mixed in some 5/10 hu cash on monday with my regular 3/6 + 2/4 tables. Ran really well and managed to bank a + $10k day. Biggest winning day to date.
Tuesday was more of a slog playing the same. Quickly got stuck around 3/4k but put in a really long session to end the day + $2k around 8 hours later.
Today continued my running good and was quickly up around 7k. However played really sloppy towards the end of the session basically giving money away to finish the day +4k.
So far the standard at 5/10 is significantly higher than my regular 3/6 + 2/4 games. Only had 1 player sit with me who was noticeably bad compared to 2/4 where prolly half the players that sit arn't good. So will continue mixing in some 5/10 with the regular games and although its imposiible to continue at my current winrate, hopefully i can continue to beat the game.
Friday, October 24, 2008
whats been happening
Since my last post, have hardly played any poker. Flew to london for ept london. Got there a few days b4 it kicked off and got to watch another moorman blowup in the wsope. Joking, but according to Mike "the mouth" Mattasow he coulda got away from his k/k vs Johnny Loddon on the bubble of a huge tournament.
EPT London started off pretty well and i was chipping up pretty nicely, got moved to Gus Hansen and cicky corens table and continued to add to my stack. On my 3rd table of the day though things went downhill, raised 9/7hh from mid position to 800 at 150/300 and the button flat called as did the bb. Flop came down a/k/9 and i shoulda jst check folded but fired around 1700 into a 3kish pot, button flat called and bb passed. Turn was a blank and i'm done with the hnad, but it goes check check. River brings a 7 giving me a shitty 2 pair. So he has around 7500 left with like 6400 in the pot. I tank for a little and set him in. Think i def get a call from worse but he quickly snapped me off with a slowplayed a/a. Was kinda short after that and busted shortly after getting it in with a flushdraw and missing. So that was that.
Me Pab and moorman decided a few days later that we could do with a break from online poker and decided to go to cyprus for a few weeks. Was a good break with plenty of alcohol fueled nights and good weather to boot. Me and Pab also had a 5k bet on Berbatov to score + 20 goals this season for utd in all competitions and think i have a pretty good edge here after he banged in 2 in the champions league the other night. Go Berba 1 time!!!
Got back home wednesday and just lay about but have had 2 pretty good days since winning
around 10 buyins on the hu cash tables.
EPT London started off pretty well and i was chipping up pretty nicely, got moved to Gus Hansen and cicky corens table and continued to add to my stack. On my 3rd table of the day though things went downhill, raised 9/7hh from mid position to 800 at 150/300 and the button flat called as did the bb. Flop came down a/k/9 and i shoulda jst check folded but fired around 1700 into a 3kish pot, button flat called and bb passed. Turn was a blank and i'm done with the hnad, but it goes check check. River brings a 7 giving me a shitty 2 pair. So he has around 7500 left with like 6400 in the pot. I tank for a little and set him in. Think i def get a call from worse but he quickly snapped me off with a slowplayed a/a. Was kinda short after that and busted shortly after getting it in with a flushdraw and missing. So that was that.
Me Pab and moorman decided a few days later that we could do with a break from online poker and decided to go to cyprus for a few weeks. Was a good break with plenty of alcohol fueled nights and good weather to boot. Me and Pab also had a 5k bet on Berbatov to score + 20 goals this season for utd in all competitions and think i have a pretty good edge here after he banged in 2 in the champions league the other night. Go Berba 1 time!!!
Got back home wednesday and just lay about but have had 2 pretty good days since winning
around 10 buyins on the hu cash tables.
Monday, September 29, 2008
WCOOP Update etc etc
WCOOP went dissapointingly to be honest, few deep runs and few cashs but prolly lost money in it. Don't think i'll play the mixed games to be honest next time around cause i'm mostly a huge fish in these and didn't muster a single cash in any non holdem events. Ended up missing the 5k main event when a group of us headed up to starbane saturday night for a MMA cage fighting night. Was pretty good with a few good fights. However since we were drinking vodka from 6pm, things quickly got messy. Most of the night is a blur after we got back into omagh, but sunday i was in no fit state to play, coupled with the fact tyrone was playing in the all ireland final i decided to skip it. Tir Eoghain Abu!!!
Cash last week was pretty meh. Monday went really well making 15 buyins promptly followed by losing back 10 the next day. Wednesday saw a small profit, and thursday / friday i don't think i coulda run any worse, resulting in my laptop getting smashed up friday afternoon.
Took saturday off and played donkaments sunday. Had to borrow my fathers laptop which isn't the greatest. Resulted in me playing solely on pokerstars as fulltilt kept freezing the laptop. Ran shitty in all the major tournaments, getting in 100bbs preflop vs an absolute idiot with a/k vs a/j in the $500. Also bubbled the early 100r for like the 5th sunday in a row.
As i was only playing stars, ended up playing a lot of the smaller tournaments i wouldn't play because of extra monitor space. Built a huge stack in the 20 1r/a but busted 18th 4 betting a/jdd into another aggressive big stack who called with 7/7. Finished 4th in the $88 4 max tournie losing 10/10 vs a/k for around 70% of the chips in play. Busted 18th in the $50 1r/a shipping 19bbs after a constant cutoff raiser with 5/5 from the button but running into the bbs k/k.
Was in and around the chiplead for most of the 50r. Got to moormans table and he was tilt shoving 50bbs every hand. Got my 40bbs in against his 8/4off with a/ks and managed to hold. Continued to build after that and had a 300k stack approaching the final 2 tables. Bluffed off half my stack with about 13 remaining but managed to double back up when my a/3 got the most rediculous hold ever vs k/qs.
Ended up with 1.2mill 3 handed against 2 good players. Raised 10/10 on the button to 75k at 15/30k and the bb playing 1.5mill repopped it to 300k. I got it in and he quickly called with k/q. Flop came down 10/9/2 and things were looking good till he caught a jack on the river. 12K for 3rd though giving me a winning sunday which is always nice.
Also covers my ept london buyin, flying to london tomorrow morning and meeting up with a pab, moorman, stevie444 etc, so hopefully 1 of us can run good and ship a major live tournie.
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Cash last week was pretty meh. Monday went really well making 15 buyins promptly followed by losing back 10 the next day. Wednesday saw a small profit, and thursday / friday i don't think i coulda run any worse, resulting in my laptop getting smashed up friday afternoon.
Took saturday off and played donkaments sunday. Had to borrow my fathers laptop which isn't the greatest. Resulted in me playing solely on pokerstars as fulltilt kept freezing the laptop. Ran shitty in all the major tournaments, getting in 100bbs preflop vs an absolute idiot with a/k vs a/j in the $500. Also bubbled the early 100r for like the 5th sunday in a row.
As i was only playing stars, ended up playing a lot of the smaller tournaments i wouldn't play because of extra monitor space. Built a huge stack in the 20 1r/a but busted 18th 4 betting a/jdd into another aggressive big stack who called with 7/7. Finished 4th in the $88 4 max tournie losing 10/10 vs a/k for around 70% of the chips in play. Busted 18th in the $50 1r/a shipping 19bbs after a constant cutoff raiser with 5/5 from the button but running into the bbs k/k.
Was in and around the chiplead for most of the 50r. Got to moormans table and he was tilt shoving 50bbs every hand. Got my 40bbs in against his 8/4off with a/ks and managed to hold. Continued to build after that and had a 300k stack approaching the final 2 tables. Bluffed off half my stack with about 13 remaining but managed to double back up when my a/3 got the most rediculous hold ever vs k/qs.
Ended up with 1.2mill 3 handed against 2 good players. Raised 10/10 on the button to 75k at 15/30k and the bb playing 1.5mill repopped it to 300k. I got it in and he quickly called with k/q. Flop came down 10/9/2 and things were looking good till he caught a jack on the river. 12K for 3rd though giving me a winning sunday which is always nice.
Also covers my ept london buyin, flying to london tomorrow morning and meeting up with a pab, moorman, stevie444 etc, so hopefully 1 of us can run good and ship a major live tournie.
1 Time!
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