Update for Sundays tourneys

Bonus completed for Feb. and also managed to qualify for the Crypto £40k again on Sunday, 5th time out of 7 now, although yet to cash. And of course dont forget there is the WSOP freeroll too on Sunday Night. Could be writing an interesting post Monday, check back to see if I did it !

End of Feb....Accounts

So another Month shudders to a stop. I have spent the last two days losing $270 first day and grinding it back and more yesterday, which is pleasing, but cant help thinking why did I have such a bad day online Wednesday. Don't think I played badly, just variance I am telling myself, and I think I am accepting this as yesterday I put it down to winning so much thru variance too.
Wednesday also saw me crash out of the Blue Sq. league play-off in 5th place when my AJ re-raise was called by A4 and the big stack fish hit.

Got a 100 or so MPP's stiil to complete my $500 bonus for Feb, but will do my end of month accounts now assuming I stay level for the day.

So for January
Poker Plex : up $460
PokerStars: down $120
Blue Square: up $275
Playing Live: up $880 (£440)

In total for playing up $1495

Bonus of $500 and rakeback in region of $300

So +$2295 for the month.

and +$3665 for the year so far.

This is a big improvement on January stats, although significantly boosted by my success at Walsall GUKPT.

Most pleasing has been my improvement at Crypto on the Omaha8 $2/$4 tables. After 10 days I was gimping away and about $200 down and have since finished the month +$400 on these, running at almost +4BB/100 hands over the last 2500 hands. I have noticed some adjustments I have been making to my play here and hope this means I can continue in March along with the same sort of form.

A couple of Pokerplex freerolls coming up:
1st~ the £40k freeroll tonight(just 8 in at time of writing for 5 seats!!)
2nd~ A WSOP ($13k) freeroll on Sunday for Plex members who have earnt over 1500MPPs in Feb. At time of writing just 26 entered in other words $500 worth of value !!

With these freerolls for regular players, and the great bonus and rakeback deals, Pokerplex is definitely one of the best places for me to grind away at. Anyone who is reading and interested, let me know because I think you can get the same deal thru an affiliate sign -up, and we can split the extra.

grind , grind, grind

Nothing really of interest to write about. Have been winning non-stop on the Crypto cash games , without the usual yo-yo losing session in between. So that has been good , probably in the region of $400-500 up last week.

The Blue Square league has fizzled out for me, and didn't even play the last couple as had no chance of making the top 4 prize places and had my place in the top 20 play-off already locked up. Came 11th in the end and top 9 got GUKPT points, not bad as I only played 10 of the 15 games, but still made $309 profit . Play-off is tonight , so maybe will make it all worthwhile if i can pick off the $1600 seat in that. I will give it another good blast next month too.

Vegas could well be 24-28 May, wher I can get Imperial Palace for £588, which seems a fair deal. Prices do seem to be getting cheaper for last minute departures too. So you never know my next blog entry could be from Sin city itself !

Im a fool !

This Post is like a Catholic sinners 'Hail Mary'.
Got to get it off my chest, but I made a bad play last night and it is haunting me.
Blue Square League game, $25 PL f/out (+$300). Ive been in the top 3 all the way from mid stages and we are on the bubble, 4 left, payouts are $5oo,$300 & $200. utg is short stacked and moves all-in with just over 2 BBs. I am SB and decide to push my 7xBB with AQ of hearts into the chip leaders BB. He folds, short stack flips AA and survives while knocking me back. The BB then asks why? and says he had 23 which would have hit 2 pair on the river. Correct play here should have been to call and check it down. Cant beleive I didn't and serves me right when I was out on the bubble. Mistake cost me minimum of $200 and has got to me. I had so many chances to cash and win this too.
Anyway off my chest now, must move on, 3 Blue Square games tonight:League $10PL Omaha rebuy, GUKPT $1 satellite exclusive to those who went to Walsall and their "once in a blue moon" game tonight only $5 but lots of added money. Report tomorrow on all 3.

Which first ..... Good News or Bad?

Of Course it has to be the good news as the bad news isn't really bad just problems to overcome.
Good news is that I have now got the all clear to go to Vegas later in the year , Thats right at last a trip to my spiritual HOME !!
Now the bad news:
1. Its costing me a w/end of babysitting while wifey hops to Spain on a Hen night.

2. Wont be able to swing it while Im still off work so limited to school hols. Already had a little look at this and prices are not in the cheap range that i was seeing before xmas. Cheapest I could find was £610 for a hotel package off the strip.

3. Need to get my bankroll up enough to justify going. Reckon i need a min. of $4000. Which breaks down as $1000 for flight and hotel and I need at least $3000 to have available, no point going that far and being too limited. Of course I hope not to spend the whole $3000. Ive got over $4000 at the moment , but in case of a wipeout situation I want to be able to come back to a bit of a bankroll here. So think I need to get my roll up towards the $8k+ range.

4. Dont know who else will want/be able to make it. There is already a trip planned for Oct ( school term time) and a few others have their trips planned too. Sneaks has his baby due in August , so really needs to get a trip in before his life is altered forever, so I think he is up for it. I could go to Vegas on my own and still have a great time, but always better with one or two others.


Other News :~ Last two nights I have fallen to sleep reading Morgan her bedtime story ( well watching 'The Simpsons' with her) and woken at 9:45 both nights.
Mon night dashed back down to see there were 14 left in the Blondepoker league night and to see I went out 15th !
Tuesday Night I found myself in the Blue Square league game with 560 left and blinds at 150/300. Got AK pushed and got called , first double up. Next hand go in over the top with AQ and double up again. one round later end up all-in 4 handed with AQ v AKv JJ v crap and hit a full House. From zero to 3rd in 10 minutes after sitting out for an hour and a half. hehehehe. Ended up coming 3rd and could easily have won it if my KQ had hit against JJ near the end. Still another $200 and more points towards the league and an outside chance of a cash placing with 3 games left.

GUKPT

Sneaks made it to the Final table of the Main event
at the Walsall GUKPT.
Managed to persuade the Missus to let me go down and watch, so @1:30pm I got in the car and flew down. I also decided to play the £200 side event too. When I got there the Final table had already started , but i needn't have worried , because it was a cagey start and nobody exited the tourney for the first 2 hours. Strange these main event finals , sometimes they seem to be a very cautious affair and last for ages or at other times it will be train collisions right from the off as people decide to go for it. 7 of the 9 players had never really cashed big before , so probably explains the steady play.
It was great to see Sneaks do so well and he looked really confident , all the way really until he busted in 5th with a river bluff on a 4 heart board. Still a pay day of £18k for him and I'm sure he will be wanting to repeat this very quickly.
As for me , found myself in between Lucy Roakash and James Browning in the £200 jobby. Got a Nut flush to hit on the turn and paid off fairly well and then played well thru to the final table. Started off on the final table well and built my stack up to just above average at one stage, but then I started to play weak and got pushed off two pots when on reflection I should have called or pushed, and really let myself get anted away too much. I have to feel dissapointed with my play at the end. Still ended up 5th for £640 and even got myself some GUKPT ranking points.
I'll be playing the Blue Square league games this week as it is final week and want to ensure a top 20 play-off place even if the top spots are too far ahead now.

Quad 8s.....consider yourself Lucky....

Apologiesto all the thousands who read this, but to be honest there has been nothing to write about for the last week. No great days of triumphs and no awesome hands to speak of. A week of slight losses and bonus point gathering.

Until yesterday that is. And then this Om8 $2/$4 hand livened up the day.
#5426240643: Omaha H/L FL ($2/$4) - 2008/02/15 - 11:38:03 (GMT)
Table "Deerfield" Seat 9 is the button. Seat 1: 7878 ($27 in chips)Seat 2: therev ($79 in chips)Seat 3: carfund ($125.63 in chips)Seat 4: Rigged001 ($111.62 in chips)Seat 5: sallymslb ($86.50 in chips)Seat 6: RFlush36 ($137 in chips)Seat 7: Thetart ($70 in chips)Seat 8: vona62 ($93.25 in chips)Seat 9: MATHGUY1 ($31 in chips)Seat 10: Jam110648 ($72 in chips)
Jam110648: posts small blind $17878: posts big blind $2
----- HOLE CARDS -----dealt to carfund [Jh 9h 2s As]
therev: calls $2carfund: calls $2Rigged001: calls $2sallymslb: foldsRFlush36: foldsThetart: foldsvona62: foldsMATHGUY1: foldsJam110648: calls $17878: checks
----- FLOP ----- [9d Th 8h]Jam110648: checks7878: checkstherev: checkscarfund: bets $2Rigged001: calls $2Jam110648: folds7878: calls $2therev: calls $2
----- TURN ----- [9d Th 8h][8d]7878: checkstherev: checkscarfund: bets $4Rigged001: calls $47878: raises $8therev: foldscarfund: calls $4Rigged001: calls $4
----- RIVER ----- [9d Th 8h 8d][Qh]7878: bets $4carfund: raises $8Rigged001: folds7878: raises $8carfund: raises $87878: is all-in $3Returned uncalled bets $1 to carfund
----- SHOW DOWN -----carfund: shows [Jh 9h 2s As] (HI: Straight Flush, Queen high)7878: shows [8c 8s 9c Qc] (HI: Four of a kind, Eights, Queen high)carfund collected $69 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----Total pot $72 Main pot $69 Rake $3Board [9d Th 8h 8d Qh]Seat 1: 7878 (big blind) showed [8c 8s 9c Qc] and lost with Four of a kind, Eights, Queen highSeat 2: therev folded on the TurnSeat 3: carfund showed [Jh 9h 2s As] and won ($69) with HI: Straight Flush, Queen highSeat 4: Rigged001 folded on the RiverSeat 5: sallymslb folded before Flop (didn't bet)Seat 6: RFlush36 folded before Flop (didn't bet)Seat 7: Thetart folded before Flop (didn't bet)Seat 8: vona62 folded before Flop (didn't bet)Seat 9: MATHGUY1 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)Seat 10: Jam110648 (small blind) folded on the Flop
****HAND ENDS****
The guy continued to hassle and abuse me in the chat box for 15 minutes after. In the end I just said " consider yourself Lucky...." , ".....if it had been PL you would have lost the lot". As it happened he had lost the lot anyway, but it served to wreck him even further. Fair enough to say he was on Tilt from that point forward.

Other news , was of a great home game night , won by the Greatest fish of all "devilperch" real name Chris Salmon. In fact he won both tourneys, and it was a night of laughs, with a 42 offsuit knockdown of KK being the highlight, or at least Jez's reaction was.
Sneaks is down at the Wallsall GUKPT , cashed for £540 in the side event Thursday and after the first day of the main event is sitting comfortable on 38k. Good Luck to him. Catch a little TV interview of him @ http://www.thenutz.tv/videodetail.php?video_id=66298

Hope to update sooner next time as that will mean some success or excitement at last. Deal 'em faster !

Quick Update~ Night time session

MORE SUCCESS, for the 3rd time in 4 weeks , I managed to satellite my way into the Crypto £40k on Sunday, courtesy of Pokerplex Freeroll. 11 first week, 22 in last night , so getting harder each time. In fact the only time I haven't qualified was when PsychoDave played it for me....there that should get a comment response.
Also played a lot of Omaha8 $2/$4 yesterday, ending about $50 down for the day. That deficit was reduced by some guy who turned up on the table at 12:30 , just when i was thinking of closing down for some ZZZZZ's, and began to play as though he didnt know the rules or was smashed out of his head. So I thought I would stick with it and see how long he lasted, soon it was just me and him heads-up. The last guy to leave the table left a message " carfund ..ENJOY". Well I didn't enjoy it really. He Bought in 4 times for a total of $200, but kept getting beats on me and winning the big pots, so I couldn't finish him off until well after 3am. In the end, of his $200, I had a $68 profit. That is the rake on the table for that 2 hours+ was $132 (later checked on PokerTracker and it had down $149.50 as rake for heads-up play).
These sites make a killing, no wonder they can afford to give me 31% back and a bonus each month.
Tonight is the satellite for entry into a special $300k tourney they have in May that will only have about 250 entrants and top 25 each win a $12k WSOP package. 1 in 10 win seats tonight. So here is hoping.

Off and running in 'League

Well here i am posting again ! Must have had a bit of success to write about ?

No great win, but good points for the Blue Square GUKPT league.
It was the PL Omaha rebuy, my fave game of the league and one i have an outstanding record in. Anyway was low chips for a long way including 4rebuys/add-ons, but as we got to final table slowly chipped back into contention. Very slow game but eventually I got to heads-up with "reputo" who had a 10:1 chip advantage over me. However I was sure I was going to win it and soon doubled thru a couple of times till I was only 3:1 down. But then I took my foot off the gas a little and fell away to come 2nd for about $400 and 12 points in the league.
I'm 7th in league now , really need another couple of good results to get properly in contention. Check it out here and click February standings http://www.bluesq.com/bluesquare/bspoker/bluesquarepokerleague.shtml

Not much on the horizon , tourney wise apart from the freeroll for Sunday £40k tonight ( just 19 reg for 5 seats at time of writing). So I will be mainly just plugging away at the cash games and bonus whoring at PokerPlex.

The League has begun

So Monday, I log in for the Blue Square GUKPT league game. I am chip leader after 5 min and stay in top 5 for 2 hours.....the new league is all going to plan. Suddenly I push in twice against short stacks who really are not priced to call, yet donk their chips in with total filth and hit. Then take on the chip leader with A , J on a push of 4BB and he calls with 8 , 3. I dont need to explain what happens next. So I crash out 15/111 for a little over my cash back and 1 poxy point in the league.

Tuesday and it is the rebuy, I start well and am 2nd for a while and stay in and around the top 10 till after the break. 'Im gonna get points every day' I think. Go a bit card dead, so raise to 4BB on a large stack limper from late position with AJ. BB calls as does limper. "Whoops, do I push?", well flop makes up my mind as it is J , 8 , 3 . Perfect ! BB checks, Limper bets 3k , I move in for the rest and a nice position back in the top 5. But things dont go to plan , Mr. Large Stack calls and flips over 8 , 8 for Trips. FFS exits 30 something.

Tonight it was the $25 PL game.....I like Pot Limit and think I have an edge here. But I get very little or rather make very little despite getting AA twice , but I then bounce back with a river saver and am looking nicely placed. But my JJ runs into QQ on the final table bubble and Im out for another poxy single point.
So 3 games played , 2 Points and $37 down. GREAT VALUE THIS LEAGUE ! ....oooh did i forget to mention........ if your winning?

Still not giving up and will be back playing my fave tomorrow , the $10 PL Omaha rebuy. Must have won this comp about 6 times in the past, so deal em up cause tomorrow is when I begin my push for the league title. LOL

Feb plan

So this Feb, Im gonna try and keep away from general tourneys and only play those with added value~ ie those with added money , gaurantees that dont reach, freerolls (worth playing), and other promotional tourneys.

One Im definitely going to aim for is the Blue Square League this time around, It is basically for 3 weeks with the following added money tourneys ~
"Monday 8.15pm$20 NL Hold’em Freezeout $200 Added
Tuesday 8.15pm$10 NL Hold’em Rebuy $100 Added
Wednesday 8.15pm$25 PL Hold’em Freezeout $300 Added
Thursday 8.15pm$10 PL Omaha Rebuy $100 Added
Sunday 8.15pm$30 NL Holdem $500 Added"
so 15 tourneys in total, about $400 in buy-ins for the month inc. rebuys. Winner of the league gets a seat to the GUKPT champion of champions final in Dec and there are some online GUKPT tokens for 2nd-4th, also top 20 play off for a special 10k tourney @ Vic in March.
All in all great value !
Think I will also play the Will Hill added money games on Mon, Wed and Friday and going to play the APAT tourneys on Blue Square just cause I want one of those medals !!
Other than that it will be cash games.

Monthly accounts

Before I do these a quick congrats for Sneaks who qualified for the Walsall GUKPT last night, he has had a fair few near misses online, so will be glad to get this one landed. Good Luck mate

So for January
Poker Plex : up $20 for 9,000 hands played !!
PokerStars: up $240
Classicpoker: up $130
Blue Square: down $180
Playing Live: up $360 (£180)

In total for playing up $570

Bonus of $500 and rakeback in region of $300

So +$1370 for the month. Hardly the riches I am hoping for and Ive spent more than that as I took £900 out for decorating this month, so my bankroll has actually depleted some.

Still a good month online or a biggish cash in one of the comps might get my bankroll up towards the $10k+, that I would feel more comfortable with.

On one of the PL Omaha tables yesterday was an intersting player, he was sitting with over $700 in front of him and remember it is just a $50 max bring-in to the table, so he had aquired more than 14 buy-ins off people. The remarkable thing was that he was playing 96.9% of flops and raising on 76% of them and still winning with an enormous stack in front of him!

I sat down and decided I would short stack play him. So sure enough he raised and i folded until I got a hand, when i would then flat call and then push on any part of the flop. He sucked out on me twice like this, including where I had KKQ10 on a K33 flop. check raised him only for him to push again and put me all-in. "Lovely jubbly" I thought until he flipped 3369 for quads !!
Well I guess that wasnt a suck out and he was a chatty guy, said he was just relaxing from his normal $5/10 NL games. "This is fun" he said as he raised the pot for the 15th time in a row !
For the record I did get back at him and eventually left the table with about $100.
No real changes of plan this month yet, so Deal em up in Feb