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.
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