I am running hotter than Usain Bolt at the moment. Luckily my NYE plans fell through the roof yesterday so i decided to take advantage of the huge overlays on stars. Shipped the $8 w/rebuys on stars for $6k, also decided to play live last night and won £850 playing £1/3 NL.
Makes up for sunday where I lost like $700, bubbling the warmup, mill and $109 that I played.
The only sour note is that it looks like I'm just going to miss out on the tbl t100 by only a few hundred points.
Ah well, still on a $10k heater over the last 3 weeks.
xxx
Wednesday 31 December 2008
Sunday 28 December 2008
Good night yet again
Hey kids, feeling pretty decent as I just came 3rd in the $16.50 Turbo on stars for $2.9k, making my heater in the last 2 weeks now somewhere in the region of $5.5k. Obviously i'm disappointed I didn't win but it's nice to be winning a really decent amount over a short space of time.
Don't really have too much else to say today, was thinking of hitting up GUKPT Brighton from 12th Jan, seems like a pretty neat idea; even if I just play the prelims.
Tomorrow is obviously a huge day so i'll give you guys a proper blog then.
Until then:
There was a flasher who was thinking about retiring, but he decided to stick it out for another year.
xx
Don't really have too much else to say today, was thinking of hitting up GUKPT Brighton from 12th Jan, seems like a pretty neat idea; even if I just play the prelims.
Tomorrow is obviously a huge day so i'll give you guys a proper blog then.
Until then:
There was a flasher who was thinking about retiring, but he decided to stick it out for another year.
xx
Wednesday 24 December 2008
36 hours in 3 days in front of a computer screen
And it's time for a break!
Ive spent roughly 12 hours each of the last 3 days playing a ton on stars, probably averaging 40 MTTs per night. Although I obviously feel really drained from all the hard work, i'm winning about $3300 in the last 10 days so I'm satisfied. I came 2nd in the $11 PLO w/rebuys, losing a huge flip for the win with AJQx to TT98 on a JJ7 board, but luckily for me (this time anyway) it was quite a smooth payout at the top. I also came 10th in the $22 Freezeout, blowing a really strong 2nd in chips running a 3 barrel on the FT bubble. He called me super light but I think i'm happy with the bluff in general, unfortunately my HeM is being a nightmare and i didn't pokerhand it so I can't throw it up. I also ran super good in some PLO100 while I was waiting for my last MTT to finish (and I didn't feel like loading more 180 mans).
I'm breaking from poker until the 28th, in which I suspect i'll be playing the whole hog. I've spent this afternoon helping my family prepare Christmas dinner which has royally got me in a the mood to relax with loved ones. My Gran has come to stay too, and it's the first time i've seen her since my Grandfather's funeral so i've got a lot of catching up to do.
I hope all of you have a very happy Christmas and please think of those who are all alone during this time. Love each other.
xxx
Ive spent roughly 12 hours each of the last 3 days playing a ton on stars, probably averaging 40 MTTs per night. Although I obviously feel really drained from all the hard work, i'm winning about $3300 in the last 10 days so I'm satisfied. I came 2nd in the $11 PLO w/rebuys, losing a huge flip for the win with AJQx to TT98 on a JJ7 board, but luckily for me (this time anyway) it was quite a smooth payout at the top. I also came 10th in the $22 Freezeout, blowing a really strong 2nd in chips running a 3 barrel on the FT bubble. He called me super light but I think i'm happy with the bluff in general, unfortunately my HeM is being a nightmare and i didn't pokerhand it so I can't throw it up. I also ran super good in some PLO100 while I was waiting for my last MTT to finish (and I didn't feel like loading more 180 mans).
I'm breaking from poker until the 28th, in which I suspect i'll be playing the whole hog. I've spent this afternoon helping my family prepare Christmas dinner which has royally got me in a the mood to relax with loved ones. My Gran has come to stay too, and it's the first time i've seen her since my Grandfather's funeral so i've got a lot of catching up to do.
I hope all of you have a very happy Christmas and please think of those who are all alone during this time. Love each other.
xxx
Tuesday 23 December 2008
Mini heater continues...kinda
Just finished a very weird night and a weird 48 hours. I ran so so bad at MTTs this weekend that I think I dropped nearly $2k into the MTT community on stars. However, i've won 2 $12/180 mans, 3 $12/45 mans, made multiple FT's in other $12/180s ect ect, and I also won a very tilt induced $225 STT. Which actually makes me winning a small amount of the weekend! Horay!
Sunday was a nightmare, lost loads of deep flips/semi deep flips for all the tea. Had KK vsAA in about 4 different comps, QQ losing to AK in the mill blah blah blah, but running like god himself in the 180 mans made me feel much better about myself.
There are 2 hands of note that I want to discuss here. I must apologize that my hyperlinks dont seem to be working tonight (or im just a spazz), so you'll have to copy/paste them to Pokerhand. Firstly;
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3620657
Obviously my line is ultra spewy, and looking back on it I just feel that he was the kind of player that rarely showed up with a flushdraw that I actually beat, so I was beating maybe 77/99 if he went abit crazy. I'd really like some thoughts on this. It seems to me that bet/folding is really leaky.
Secondly;
a href="http://www.pokerhand.org/?3620246
I'm pretty happy with the way i've played this hand on every street. There is an argument for checking behind on the flop, but I feel since I'm an EP caller to an UTG+1 raise, hes giving me credit for a real enough hand to probably C/f JJ/AK here.
Obviously the turn plays itself, since JJ was the main hand I put him on, I don't especially know why I didn't bet more. I suppose I was thinking that if he did have a non believing hand (Like he did), then I might get another caller.
I think the river is pretty standard too. It's abit of a horrid bluff on his part as I'm never folding anything really. When he made it I was really taking aback, but it should be fairly obviously that he basically never has a flush here, QQ/TT never c/c's two streets and I feel I can obviously dismiss KJ/J8. Having said that, it didn't seem there was too much I could get value from, so smoothing the river seemed best. Thoughts on this are welcome too =)
I'm probably going to play on tomorrow then take a break until Sunday night (the big 28th!!!!). I've been deliberately playing a lot just before Christmas, so I can have some nice family time in the next few days.
Outside of poker, everything has been rather peachy. I enjoyed a very nice birthday in which the family and I went to a super night Japanese restaurant and then me, Helen, Chris and Becky went for cocktails in a salsa bar which was sweet. I've managed to put off finishing my Christmas shopping again, so the 4/5 last things i need to buy will need to be taken care of tomorrow before I play.
Rightio kids, I fear im going to get to bed as soon as i've finished consoling Amy for being a big fat silly head =) xx
Sunday was a nightmare, lost loads of deep flips/semi deep flips for all the tea. Had KK vsAA in about 4 different comps, QQ losing to AK in the mill blah blah blah, but running like god himself in the 180 mans made me feel much better about myself.
There are 2 hands of note that I want to discuss here. I must apologize that my hyperlinks dont seem to be working tonight (or im just a spazz), so you'll have to copy/paste them to Pokerhand. Firstly;
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3620657
Obviously my line is ultra spewy, and looking back on it I just feel that he was the kind of player that rarely showed up with a flushdraw that I actually beat, so I was beating maybe 77/99 if he went abit crazy. I'd really like some thoughts on this. It seems to me that bet/folding is really leaky.
Secondly;
a href="http://www.pokerhand.org/?3620246
I'm pretty happy with the way i've played this hand on every street. There is an argument for checking behind on the flop, but I feel since I'm an EP caller to an UTG+1 raise, hes giving me credit for a real enough hand to probably C/f JJ/AK here.
Obviously the turn plays itself, since JJ was the main hand I put him on, I don't especially know why I didn't bet more. I suppose I was thinking that if he did have a non believing hand (Like he did), then I might get another caller.
I think the river is pretty standard too. It's abit of a horrid bluff on his part as I'm never folding anything really. When he made it I was really taking aback, but it should be fairly obviously that he basically never has a flush here, QQ/TT never c/c's two streets and I feel I can obviously dismiss KJ/J8. Having said that, it didn't seem there was too much I could get value from, so smoothing the river seemed best. Thoughts on this are welcome too =)
I'm probably going to play on tomorrow then take a break until Sunday night (the big 28th!!!!). I've been deliberately playing a lot just before Christmas, so I can have some nice family time in the next few days.
Outside of poker, everything has been rather peachy. I enjoyed a very nice birthday in which the family and I went to a super night Japanese restaurant and then me, Helen, Chris and Becky went for cocktails in a salsa bar which was sweet. I've managed to put off finishing my Christmas shopping again, so the 4/5 last things i need to buy will need to be taken care of tomorrow before I play.
Rightio kids, I fear im going to get to bed as soon as i've finished consoling Amy for being a big fat silly head =) xx
Thursday 18 December 2008
Well I heard there was a secret chord
Before I start this blog, please please please everyone load up their itunes and purchase Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah, it'll only cost you £0.79 (and most of you are very baller). It's our one and only chance to have the second best song ever recorded as Christmas no#1. It's currently #2 on the itunes 'top songs', lets get it to #1.
Just got back from the Goscars; thats the Gutshot Oscars (NOT the gay Oscars thank you very much Ken), which turned out to be a really fun night. Was great seeing all the old crew again, especially playing a great RoE100 game with PaulSS/Marcus/Minh and for a short while Howard. I think that its the perfect sized game as we were all getting progressively drunk, I managed to spew off a buyin over a few hours and decided not to reload...good shout joejoe.
The tournament was surprisingly good, £60 Tag team. My partner played extremely well, unlike me in my drunken stupor. Only really had time to play 1 or 2 big hands, managed to double up some fish who defended 10% of his stack with KJo from my EP raise, we both flopped a pair, money went in ect ect ect, yawn.
My mini heater seems to be going on, since this time last week im winning about $3k in live/online combined. Came 5th in the $16.50 turbo on stars for $1.6k, was abit dissapointed as I had a c/l for almost the whole FT until i busted.
I'll probably put in some volume tomorrow and sunday, don't wanna work too hard on my birthday weekend
xxxx
Just got back from the Goscars; thats the Gutshot Oscars (NOT the gay Oscars thank you very much Ken), which turned out to be a really fun night. Was great seeing all the old crew again, especially playing a great RoE100 game with PaulSS/Marcus/Minh and for a short while Howard. I think that its the perfect sized game as we were all getting progressively drunk, I managed to spew off a buyin over a few hours and decided not to reload...good shout joejoe.
The tournament was surprisingly good, £60 Tag team. My partner played extremely well, unlike me in my drunken stupor. Only really had time to play 1 or 2 big hands, managed to double up some fish who defended 10% of his stack with KJo from my EP raise, we both flopped a pair, money went in ect ect ect, yawn.
My mini heater seems to be going on, since this time last week im winning about $3k in live/online combined. Came 5th in the $16.50 turbo on stars for $1.6k, was abit dissapointed as I had a c/l for almost the whole FT until i busted.
I'll probably put in some volume tomorrow and sunday, don't wanna work too hard on my birthday weekend
xxxx
Friday 12 December 2008
Back in London, back at the Shot
Blah, just woke up after a I received a horrible text after 4 hours of sleep and couldn't roll back. You know who you are and my lord you'll pay.
Last nights action at the International great, I ended up playing the £55 tournament because there were no Omaha games going at 7:30; in which I came 3rd for £435. It was very tilting not to win, but at 5 handed play we all had <10 bbs so I guess I ran about standard. Afterwards I played £1/2 PLO and won about a buyin, making me winning about £600 for the night which was cool. It was almost all on the hand I want to talk about (please bear with my live HH, i'll try and make it as clear as possible).
I'm in the sb with K6JTddxx and 2 players limp, and I complete and the bb checks. We're all at least 200bbs deep. (£8)
Flop; 9s Jh 4d
I bet £8, bb calls, 2 folds. Probably a spot for me to check fold, but I thought my hand might have been good enough to win there. (£24)
Turn; 3d
I bet £21, bb raises to £63, I raise to £221, bb calls (leaving about £200 behind).
River; 9h
I move in for the effective £200ish, bb folds
Obviously the turn is a thin semi bluff, but considering the player I thought it was pretty decent. He was a decent thinking player (who may have been on slight calling mode due to him being losing slightly and at the end of the night, but he had a decent stack I felt he wouldn't want to get in too light). His line really made no sense, its highly unlikely that if he had a set which wasn't JJ then he wouldn't call then raise the turn, and even if he did then he was likely to fold to my threeb. One of the hands that made sense was was a wrap that picked up a flushdraw, but I felt he was a good enough player to jam KQTx on the flop, so he'd probably fold a lot of bad wraps to me on the turn.
Ed and I discussed the river, and in our 5AM drivel discussion decided that check/snapping the river would have been the sickest line ever. At the time it seemed like shoving would fold ties, AJ, maybe 33/44 if he was horribly spewy. I miss the opportunity to pick off a buyin sized bluff, but it would have been a horrible crying call.
So yeah, any feedback on the hand would be really neat, i've tried to formulate my thoughts as well as possibly, but doubtlessly i've missed something important lol.
I'll hopefully be playing a lot online/live in the next few weeks so i'll be able to blog regularly
Still miss people in Leicester loads, hopefully i'll see you all soon.
Last nights action at the International great, I ended up playing the £55 tournament because there were no Omaha games going at 7:30; in which I came 3rd for £435. It was very tilting not to win, but at 5 handed play we all had <10 bbs so I guess I ran about standard. Afterwards I played £1/2 PLO and won about a buyin, making me winning about £600 for the night which was cool. It was almost all on the hand I want to talk about (please bear with my live HH, i'll try and make it as clear as possible).
I'm in the sb with K6JTddxx and 2 players limp, and I complete and the bb checks. We're all at least 200bbs deep. (£8)
Flop; 9s Jh 4d
I bet £8, bb calls, 2 folds. Probably a spot for me to check fold, but I thought my hand might have been good enough to win there. (£24)
Turn; 3d
I bet £21, bb raises to £63, I raise to £221, bb calls (leaving about £200 behind).
River; 9h
I move in for the effective £200ish, bb folds
Obviously the turn is a thin semi bluff, but considering the player I thought it was pretty decent. He was a decent thinking player (who may have been on slight calling mode due to him being losing slightly and at the end of the night, but he had a decent stack I felt he wouldn't want to get in too light). His line really made no sense, its highly unlikely that if he had a set which wasn't JJ then he wouldn't call then raise the turn, and even if he did then he was likely to fold to my threeb. One of the hands that made sense was was a wrap that picked up a flushdraw, but I felt he was a good enough player to jam KQTx on the flop, so he'd probably fold a lot of bad wraps to me on the turn.
Ed and I discussed the river, and in our 5AM drivel discussion decided that check/snapping the river would have been the sickest line ever. At the time it seemed like shoving would fold ties, AJ, maybe 33/44 if he was horribly spewy. I miss the opportunity to pick off a buyin sized bluff, but it would have been a horrible crying call.
So yeah, any feedback on the hand would be really neat, i've tried to formulate my thoughts as well as possibly, but doubtlessly i've missed something important lol.
I'll hopefully be playing a lot online/live in the next few weeks so i'll be able to blog regularly
Still miss people in Leicester loads, hopefully i'll see you all soon.
Thursday 11 December 2008
Back with the family
I just got caught in a line in HMV behind a middle aged couple arguing about which Cliff Richard calendar to buy. I'm in hell.
I really really hate Christmas shopping, its very tilting and I wish I had done it all at least two weeks ago to save myself from the insane crowds and idiots that are Christmas shoppers. Ah well, the glazed raspberry filled Krispy Kreame made everything better...it makes everything better.
Havn't played poker in a while, so in celebration of being back home Ed and I are going to hit up the International tonight for pot limited omaha related fun. Might even play the £50 too if the structure isn't terrible and they've finally succumb to adding antes. Truth be told i'm quite excited about seeing the new club with all the old members, even though I still see people around, I miss the old gutshot vibe greatly.
That's about it for the blog, missing the Kent house massive greatly, hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and that it's not too long before I see you all again.
Toodles
I really really hate Christmas shopping, its very tilting and I wish I had done it all at least two weeks ago to save myself from the insane crowds and idiots that are Christmas shoppers. Ah well, the glazed raspberry filled Krispy Kreame made everything better...it makes everything better.
Havn't played poker in a while, so in celebration of being back home Ed and I are going to hit up the International tonight for pot limited omaha related fun. Might even play the £50 too if the structure isn't terrible and they've finally succumb to adding antes. Truth be told i'm quite excited about seeing the new club with all the old members, even though I still see people around, I miss the old gutshot vibe greatly.
That's about it for the blog, missing the Kent house massive greatly, hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and that it's not too long before I see you all again.
Toodles
Wednesday 10 December 2008
Hmm stars
I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!
This PokerStars tournament is a No Limit Texas Hold’em event exclusive to Bloggers.
Registration code: 671690
go nuts
Sunday 7 December 2008
Standing alone tonight....
Sorry for the morbid title kids, just chillaxing to abit of Above & Beyond. Just got back from the GMS Christmas ball at college. Had a great time; was a good laugh and I got a little bit drunk... HORAY
Been a very weird week in poker terms, started well at the Empire and PLO200/400 on Cake. Then I went to Dusk Till Dawn on Thurs to meet Ed who was playing in the £1k Freezeout there and somehow got talked into playing; underolled shots are apparently what life is all about.
The tournament was amazingly fun, it has the best structure of any i've ever played (mirroring the Main Event structure; 20k Chips, 120 minute levels), I had a really weak table with 2 absolute fishes on my left and lots of medium/strong players including John Kalmar. The tournament itself was quite hard to gain any steam, unable to win 2 big pots in a row and having between 15/10k for most of the time, until I lost 2 big pots about 6 hours in;
First was in a nutshell, I open for 2.6x in the CO pre antes and the BTN repops for about 23bbs total. This was obviously one of the absolute fishes, which made it much harder for me to stack off 23bbs, my eventual thought after a few minutes was that its probably a huge leak to ever open/pass AQ for 23 bbs so I called and got shown AK. Superb.
Second was a bvb hand, my sb opened 3x w/antes and i repopped for 22bbs with K7o. I simply thought he was opening widely enough for my shove to show profit, Ive since stoved it and it was much more marginal than I thought; leaning me more towards a fold because of the very smooth structure of the tournaments and chances to pick better spots. He sighed and called with AA...bastard.
So im feeling very broke at the moment after taking my underolled shot so I guess it means much more grinding and hopefully a nice 5 figure score will come soon.
Been a very weird week in poker terms, started well at the Empire and PLO200/400 on Cake. Then I went to Dusk Till Dawn on Thurs to meet Ed who was playing in the £1k Freezeout there and somehow got talked into playing; underolled shots are apparently what life is all about.
The tournament was amazingly fun, it has the best structure of any i've ever played (mirroring the Main Event structure; 20k Chips, 120 minute levels), I had a really weak table with 2 absolute fishes on my left and lots of medium/strong players including John Kalmar. The tournament itself was quite hard to gain any steam, unable to win 2 big pots in a row and having between 15/10k for most of the time, until I lost 2 big pots about 6 hours in;
First was in a nutshell, I open for 2.6x in the CO pre antes and the BTN repops for about 23bbs total. This was obviously one of the absolute fishes, which made it much harder for me to stack off 23bbs, my eventual thought after a few minutes was that its probably a huge leak to ever open/pass AQ for 23 bbs so I called and got shown AK. Superb.
Second was a bvb hand, my sb opened 3x w/antes and i repopped for 22bbs with K7o. I simply thought he was opening widely enough for my shove to show profit, Ive since stoved it and it was much more marginal than I thought; leaning me more towards a fold because of the very smooth structure of the tournaments and chances to pick better spots. He sighed and called with AA...bastard.
So im feeling very broke at the moment after taking my underolled shot so I guess it means much more grinding and hopefully a nice 5 figure score will come soon.
Wednesday 3 December 2008
Backstreets back, ALRIGHT!
Sorry for the lack of blog in the last few weeks guys, it's been a tough few weeks, my grandfather was ill in hospital in France and recently passed away. As i'm sure most of you know i'm not great at communicating actual human feelings normally so thanks to Jess and Amy specifically for lending an ear when I needed it.
Needless to say I havn't played much poker in that time, I think 3 or 4 nights in those 2/3 weeks. However, last night I was at home so I decided to head down to the Empire with my brother for the £20 w/rebuys which I took down for about 7hundo. I then played some NL200 (£) and won a few buyins, making it a +£1k night which felt good. It was a fun night in general, the NL table was spread with ex gutshotters, so we had a laugh to boot.
Can't think of any HH's to bore you with, especially as that would require me actually formulating live hands to paper. I remember having an argument with myself (I get very bored playing live MTTs) about the virtues of semi bluffing terribad live players (but not always stations) , but I can get into that one another day.
Today has just been travelling home, quickly losing $200 on stars playing HuNL, then playing PLO400 on cake; which im currently +2BI. In general its been a good few days from a monetary sense. Horay for positive variance!
On a slightly sour note, i'm not sure how much longer I am for university life, I'm finding it increasingly hard to motivate myself and get my head down. I guess I need to do some serious thinking over the forthcoming few weeks as to my future.
Needless to say I havn't played much poker in that time, I think 3 or 4 nights in those 2/3 weeks. However, last night I was at home so I decided to head down to the Empire with my brother for the £20 w/rebuys which I took down for about 7hundo. I then played some NL200 (£) and won a few buyins, making it a +£1k night which felt good. It was a fun night in general, the NL table was spread with ex gutshotters, so we had a laugh to boot.
Can't think of any HH's to bore you with, especially as that would require me actually formulating live hands to paper. I remember having an argument with myself (I get very bored playing live MTTs) about the virtues of semi bluffing terribad live players (but not always stations) , but I can get into that one another day.
Today has just been travelling home, quickly losing $200 on stars playing HuNL, then playing PLO400 on cake; which im currently +2BI. In general its been a good few days from a monetary sense. Horay for positive variance!
On a slightly sour note, i'm not sure how much longer I am for university life, I'm finding it increasingly hard to motivate myself and get my head down. I guess I need to do some serious thinking over the forthcoming few weeks as to my future.
Monday 17 November 2008
Sunday grind again
Hey kids, been a few days, just winding down from my mtt session with abit of PLO200. Been a cool week, handed in 3 essays, put in 3 nights of volume (except we're currently not talking about Saturday night lol) and went out on friday with Kristen/Hobie and the John Foster lot which was cool.
Tonight has been very weird; again I was deep in a few tournaments and didn't even make a 4 fig cash, but I was quite happy with the way I played. Went deep in the $11 Daily 30k Guaranteed, but had a chiplead to busto 5 mins and finished like 42nd. Also cashed in the mill with 2 very funny hands;
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3460143
And;
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3459992
It should be noted that the second hand was on the absolute bubble, hence the craziness. I don't really know why I went insane in the first one, just from the way he was playing I thought he'd be 3betting me light (oops lol). The funny part of the second one is that he slowrolled me, he actually used his timebank to call with KK, so its kinda cool that he got what was coming to him.
So ive roughly made $650 tonight, which isn't a terrible nights work or anything, its just the 5 figure score needs to come soon for confidence more than anything else. I'm generally very happy with the way i'm playing, i've been able to generally make correct decisions in all the tournaments i've played in the last few months (bar the first hand I just showed you and the occasional blip lol), obviously i'm still very young and have so much to learn about the game, but I feel I can hold my own in what i'm doing and make a decent $ while i'm at it.
Well I think that'll just about do it for the night, you guys just cost me $200 because in the PLO200 table im keeping up I just lost AA82DS vs AATTs allin pre. So much for winding down.
Gnight guys
Tonight has been very weird; again I was deep in a few tournaments and didn't even make a 4 fig cash, but I was quite happy with the way I played. Went deep in the $11 Daily 30k Guaranteed, but had a chiplead to busto 5 mins and finished like 42nd. Also cashed in the mill with 2 very funny hands;
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3460143
And;
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3459992
It should be noted that the second hand was on the absolute bubble, hence the craziness. I don't really know why I went insane in the first one, just from the way he was playing I thought he'd be 3betting me light (oops lol). The funny part of the second one is that he slowrolled me, he actually used his timebank to call with KK, so its kinda cool that he got what was coming to him.
So ive roughly made $650 tonight, which isn't a terrible nights work or anything, its just the 5 figure score needs to come soon for confidence more than anything else. I'm generally very happy with the way i'm playing, i've been able to generally make correct decisions in all the tournaments i've played in the last few months (bar the first hand I just showed you and the occasional blip lol), obviously i'm still very young and have so much to learn about the game, but I feel I can hold my own in what i'm doing and make a decent $ while i'm at it.
Well I think that'll just about do it for the night, you guys just cost me $200 because in the PLO200 table im keeping up I just lost AA82DS vs AATTs allin pre. So much for winding down.
Gnight guys
Friday 14 November 2008
Gutting
Just busted out of the stars $55 Daily 80k Guaranteed 18th, im obviously very disappointed. Was 4th in chips but then ran KK into AA with 22 players remaining crippling me, thats poker I guess?
Also just busted the $3+r rebuys about 40th in sickly fashion, some guy with 15bbs limp/called with Q6s, outdrawing my AXs to cripple me. Im not writing this to complain about my misfortune because I know everyone hates to hear bad beat stories, but I think its an accurate indicator to how devastated I feel right now, winning only $300 or so tonight when it should have been a $3k+ night. I also went deep in the $22 at 5PM and busted about 60th. The good news is that im feeling more and more upbeat about the way im playing, and I know the 5 fig score is coming soon.
Only hand of note was in the first hour of the stars $20Cubed, note its still in the rebuy period and therefore keeping a stack and remaining in the tournament to take the massively +EV addon.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3445320
Do you guys raise the river here for value/play any other street differently? In retrospect I should probably have bet more on the turn, but other than that im fairly happy with the way I played the hand.
I think im going to try and put in some volume in on Saturday as well as Sunday this week, I just feel like I should really be putting the hours in and i'll be rewarded for my good play and good volume.
Anyway, aside from poker it's been abit of a hectic week; had 3 different essays in for this week, hence the lack of poker nights. All 3 essays are done and dusted now, feel abit nervous about getting them back as I don't think I quite did my absolute best, but luckily it's only first year and I need but a pass for next year. Ive got 3 more essays in for the first week of December, and i'm definitely not going to leave them as late this time (not that it was my fault I left them late this time). I'm gunna get cracking on one this weekend/week and try and average out one per week till Christmas.
That should just about do it, thanks for reading as always. BIG UP THE KENT HOUSE MASSIVE
xx
Also just busted the $3+r rebuys about 40th in sickly fashion, some guy with 15bbs limp/called with Q6s, outdrawing my AXs to cripple me. Im not writing this to complain about my misfortune because I know everyone hates to hear bad beat stories, but I think its an accurate indicator to how devastated I feel right now, winning only $300 or so tonight when it should have been a $3k+ night. I also went deep in the $22 at 5PM and busted about 60th. The good news is that im feeling more and more upbeat about the way im playing, and I know the 5 fig score is coming soon.
Only hand of note was in the first hour of the stars $20Cubed, note its still in the rebuy period and therefore keeping a stack and remaining in the tournament to take the massively +EV addon.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3445320
Do you guys raise the river here for value/play any other street differently? In retrospect I should probably have bet more on the turn, but other than that im fairly happy with the way I played the hand.
I think im going to try and put in some volume in on Saturday as well as Sunday this week, I just feel like I should really be putting the hours in and i'll be rewarded for my good play and good volume.
Anyway, aside from poker it's been abit of a hectic week; had 3 different essays in for this week, hence the lack of poker nights. All 3 essays are done and dusted now, feel abit nervous about getting them back as I don't think I quite did my absolute best, but luckily it's only first year and I need but a pass for next year. Ive got 3 more essays in for the first week of December, and i'm definitely not going to leave them as late this time (not that it was my fault I left them late this time). I'm gunna get cracking on one this weekend/week and try and average out one per week till Christmas.
That should just about do it, thanks for reading as always. BIG UP THE KENT HOUSE MASSIVE
xx
Monday 10 November 2008
SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY
Hey kids, hows it hanging, i'm in a surprisingly good mood right now considering I just busted out of my last tournament of the night. Just got a nice email from mummy who very nicely just emailed me a proof read version of the essay that I finished last night, I'm just about to touch up the essay before I hand it in tomorrow. Other than that just had a nice chat with Kate for the first time in a month or so which was nice, catching up and all.
The dodgeball tournament was yesterday which was pretty cool, we qualified from our group joint top but then lost in the semi finals which was very disappointing as I didn't feel I played very well. On the flip side I was really impressed with how well every member of the team played. Without sugar coating it, I wasn't expecting much at all and everyone showed me that they have a lot of heart and a lot of game, so well done guys.
As for poker, like I said; there was unfortunately no 4/5 figure score today which is obviously very disappointing. I played in 15 MTTs, including the Mill, both $55s and the early $22 freeze. I went deep in the $22, busting out about 42nd, the hand that crippled me was of note, I actually didn't save it at the time as I was 9tabling and had a few hands going on but the gist of it was;
Active CO 2.5x
I pop with A3o from the BB for 17bb effective
He snaps with KK.
A lot of people don't like the resteals with weak aces, but I think in this situation it was correct. I feel that 17bb effective is just about the perfect restealing stack, so i'm liking doing it with a wide range of hands, and the fact that i've got any ace whatsoever gives me at least 25% equity when im called by any hand (bar AA). So yeah, despite not winning that im fairly happy with the resteal, just a shame I ran into a monster.
I also made the final 3 tables of the $11 PLO, can't really say much about that, zig-zagged up and down before eventually busting with aces on a dry board having put 1/3 of my stack in preflop. Can't really complain too much.
Overall, I think i'm pretty much exactly breaking even for the day, I bubbled in 3 tournaments (including the mill), so it could have been abit nicer, but I feel nice and upbeat about the way I played and hopefully i'll be able to put some volume in one night this week as well as the weekend.
Cheers guys, may you be on the right end of variance
Edit: How did I not mention the november 9 who i'm currently staying up to rail. 1 TIME DEMIDOV! I put small bets on both CraigMarq and Ivan, hopefully he can take this bad boy down one time.
The dodgeball tournament was yesterday which was pretty cool, we qualified from our group joint top but then lost in the semi finals which was very disappointing as I didn't feel I played very well. On the flip side I was really impressed with how well every member of the team played. Without sugar coating it, I wasn't expecting much at all and everyone showed me that they have a lot of heart and a lot of game, so well done guys.
As for poker, like I said; there was unfortunately no 4/5 figure score today which is obviously very disappointing. I played in 15 MTTs, including the Mill, both $55s and the early $22 freeze. I went deep in the $22, busting out about 42nd, the hand that crippled me was of note, I actually didn't save it at the time as I was 9tabling and had a few hands going on but the gist of it was;
Active CO 2.5x
I pop with A3o from the BB for 17bb effective
He snaps with KK.
A lot of people don't like the resteals with weak aces, but I think in this situation it was correct. I feel that 17bb effective is just about the perfect restealing stack, so i'm liking doing it with a wide range of hands, and the fact that i've got any ace whatsoever gives me at least 25% equity when im called by any hand (bar AA). So yeah, despite not winning that im fairly happy with the resteal, just a shame I ran into a monster.
I also made the final 3 tables of the $11 PLO, can't really say much about that, zig-zagged up and down before eventually busting with aces on a dry board having put 1/3 of my stack in preflop. Can't really complain too much.
Overall, I think i'm pretty much exactly breaking even for the day, I bubbled in 3 tournaments (including the mill), so it could have been abit nicer, but I feel nice and upbeat about the way I played and hopefully i'll be able to put some volume in one night this week as well as the weekend.
Cheers guys, may you be on the right end of variance
Edit: How did I not mention the november 9 who i'm currently staying up to rail. 1 TIME DEMIDOV! I put small bets on both CraigMarq and Ivan, hopefully he can take this bad boy down one time.
Friday 7 November 2008
Put in some volume tonight
Did it turn out well? No it did not.
What started off at the weekend of a little bit of running bad has started to turn into abit of a downswing which isn't nice for anyone involved. Tonight I played (on stars); both $55s, the $20 Cubed, Both $11 10 min levels, $3+r, $11+r, $5.50, $11 PLO and the early evening $109. Made t100 of the later $55 and the $11 at 8:15, but both had disappointing finishes.
There are a few hands from the $109 that I wanna talk about, both early on.
Firstly;
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3414297
Looking back on it, it looks like a pretty easy fold, at the time I remember agonizing over it. I dunno how my line is. I'm pretty happy with the preflop raise, and the check on the flop, I didn't really think I could possibly be ahead and I guess I wasn't. Maybe another nice MTTer could give me a line check cause it's always nice to et some feedback.
Secondly;
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3414748
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get away from this one, if i'm honest because i'd lost the AK hand a few earlier, and wasn't in the mood to lay down QQ preflop for a half stack. I dunno what else this guy really ever 4bet shoves with at 15/30 though. Abit spewy yucky yuck yuck
Most of the other tournaments were pretty standard, I ran shit into AA/KK so many times I was unlikely to go deep in too much. I'm fairly happy with the way I played, except this hand;
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3414832
I can honestly say that i'm embarrassed that I stacked off in this spot, I literally have no idea what I was thinking and i'm quite clearly nearly never good here, I just somehow managed to convince myself that he'd be shoving AQ since I checked the flop, so so stupid young Joejoe.
I guess to make matters worse I busto'd my online account because I took all bar 1k out because of the favorable stars exchange rate, my roll isn't hurt too bad, but its pretty demoralizing to keep on having to reload when I wanna put in a set of tournaments.
So yeah, this weekend will have to be different. I've got a 1500 word critical analysis to do on 'the effects of the north Atlantic slave trade on British industrialization' in for monday, but if I get that done hopefully I can get 2 nights of volume in (including sunday).
Other than that, going to the gym tomorrow which is good because I feel like such a fatass at the moment. Got the dodgeball tournament on saturday which will be fun im sure (would just be good to get a nice score first =D )
Thanks for listening to yet ANOTHER ramble, I feel I should tell a funny or something, urm I'm gunna win the mill on sunday. HORAY
What started off at the weekend of a little bit of running bad has started to turn into abit of a downswing which isn't nice for anyone involved. Tonight I played (on stars); both $55s, the $20 Cubed, Both $11 10 min levels, $3+r, $11+r, $5.50, $11 PLO and the early evening $109. Made t100 of the later $55 and the $11 at 8:15, but both had disappointing finishes.
There are a few hands from the $109 that I wanna talk about, both early on.
Firstly;
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3414297
Looking back on it, it looks like a pretty easy fold, at the time I remember agonizing over it. I dunno how my line is. I'm pretty happy with the preflop raise, and the check on the flop, I didn't really think I could possibly be ahead and I guess I wasn't. Maybe another nice MTTer could give me a line check cause it's always nice to et some feedback.
Secondly;
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3414748
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get away from this one, if i'm honest because i'd lost the AK hand a few earlier, and wasn't in the mood to lay down QQ preflop for a half stack. I dunno what else this guy really ever 4bet shoves with at 15/30 though. Abit spewy yucky yuck yuck
Most of the other tournaments were pretty standard, I ran shit into AA/KK so many times I was unlikely to go deep in too much. I'm fairly happy with the way I played, except this hand;
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3414832
I can honestly say that i'm embarrassed that I stacked off in this spot, I literally have no idea what I was thinking and i'm quite clearly nearly never good here, I just somehow managed to convince myself that he'd be shoving AQ since I checked the flop, so so stupid young Joejoe.
I guess to make matters worse I busto'd my online account because I took all bar 1k out because of the favorable stars exchange rate, my roll isn't hurt too bad, but its pretty demoralizing to keep on having to reload when I wanna put in a set of tournaments.
So yeah, this weekend will have to be different. I've got a 1500 word critical analysis to do on 'the effects of the north Atlantic slave trade on British industrialization' in for monday, but if I get that done hopefully I can get 2 nights of volume in (including sunday).
Other than that, going to the gym tomorrow which is good because I feel like such a fatass at the moment. Got the dodgeball tournament on saturday which will be fun im sure (would just be good to get a nice score first =D )
Thanks for listening to yet ANOTHER ramble, I feel I should tell a funny or something, urm I'm gunna win the mill on sunday. HORAY
Thursday 6 November 2008
New blog ahoy/tough live weekend
Hey kids, joejoe signing in with the new blog for poker and general life things. Thought i'd be a pretty decent way to self assess as well as keeping all my friends updated with whats happening.
Just got back from Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham from a weekend of extremely grueling live poker. As most of you know I really really hate having to single table and play about 11 hands an hour whilst simultaneously being abused, bored and condescended to by your standard idiotic, arrogant and foul smelling atypical live poker player. There were a few instances of this over the weekend, firstly in the £330 freezeout after I ran a bluff and got called, the small blind from the hand (who had folded preflop) decided that he wanted the dealer to expose my cards to the table. At first I looked at him in a "wtf?! are you smoking something?" kinda way, and asked if he was serious. Apparently he was and does infact not care about etiquette or the fact he is basically insinuating that i'm a cheat.
Another incident was in the £1/2 deep NL/PLO cashgame after the tournament, I repeatedly got into hands with what I can only assume was a drunk biggot, who repeatedly asked me if I am gay in a very aggressive manner, after the first time he asked me, I asked him if he was coming onto me...lol. It all kind of blew up in a PLO hand, in which I potted from the SB with AA34ddcc for £26 through several limpers, and he was the only caller from MP. The board came KdQc9s and before I could bet he moved in for roughly 3/4 of the pot, i dwelt up and eventually called (which is a terrible, money burning call by me, by the way) and he had some shit like KQ62 or something, which i proceeded to suck out catching running fives on the turn or some such. After the hand, for the first time that night I honestly felt like I could have been in some kind of danger, so Ed and swiftly made our exit.
While those 2 incidents were abit ridiculous, the weekend of live poker was dull as expected but the standard was so very very poor, I fear it shan't be my last voyage to Nottingham for poker purposes. Aside from the actual poker, Ed and I had a great weekend chillin' like villains, we created a new game named; 'what would you do to sleep with vicky coren', to which i think we're both a bit disgusted.
In other news im completely snowed under with essays at the moment, got 2 1500 word bad boys due in a noon on monday, which may interfere with my standard sunday night poker tournaments (the only night in which I really get to put any volume in), but hopefully it'll all be done and dusted by then.
Oh, and i'm gunna need your virtual sweats in the dodgeball tournament that me and a few housemates have entered in on Saturday, i recently joined the dodgeball club at college at im having such a fun time playing it, should be pretty gangsta imo
Anyway, first rant/ramblings over i'll write something of substance in a few days
Just got back from Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham from a weekend of extremely grueling live poker. As most of you know I really really hate having to single table and play about 11 hands an hour whilst simultaneously being abused, bored and condescended to by your standard idiotic, arrogant and foul smelling atypical live poker player. There were a few instances of this over the weekend, firstly in the £330 freezeout after I ran a bluff and got called, the small blind from the hand (who had folded preflop) decided that he wanted the dealer to expose my cards to the table. At first I looked at him in a "wtf?! are you smoking something?" kinda way, and asked if he was serious. Apparently he was and does infact not care about etiquette or the fact he is basically insinuating that i'm a cheat.
Another incident was in the £1/2 deep NL/PLO cashgame after the tournament, I repeatedly got into hands with what I can only assume was a drunk biggot, who repeatedly asked me if I am gay in a very aggressive manner, after the first time he asked me, I asked him if he was coming onto me...lol. It all kind of blew up in a PLO hand, in which I potted from the SB with AA34ddcc for £26 through several limpers, and he was the only caller from MP. The board came KdQc9s and before I could bet he moved in for roughly 3/4 of the pot, i dwelt up and eventually called (which is a terrible, money burning call by me, by the way) and he had some shit like KQ62 or something, which i proceeded to suck out catching running fives on the turn or some such. After the hand, for the first time that night I honestly felt like I could have been in some kind of danger, so Ed and swiftly made our exit.
While those 2 incidents were abit ridiculous, the weekend of live poker was dull as expected but the standard was so very very poor, I fear it shan't be my last voyage to Nottingham for poker purposes. Aside from the actual poker, Ed and I had a great weekend chillin' like villains, we created a new game named; 'what would you do to sleep with vicky coren', to which i think we're both a bit disgusted.
In other news im completely snowed under with essays at the moment, got 2 1500 word bad boys due in a noon on monday, which may interfere with my standard sunday night poker tournaments (the only night in which I really get to put any volume in), but hopefully it'll all be done and dusted by then.
Oh, and i'm gunna need your virtual sweats in the dodgeball tournament that me and a few housemates have entered in on Saturday, i recently joined the dodgeball club at college at im having such a fun time playing it, should be pretty gangsta imo
Anyway, first rant/ramblings over i'll write something of substance in a few days
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