Live Omaha ! Love it...........

...................but I'm still a DONK !

we had the first local Omaha tourney last night. It was NL, because PL would be too hard ! LOL

£10 with £5 rebuys and unsurprisingly it was rebuy crazy.
I doubled up first hand when I called an all-in with top two pair and nut flush draw, just to see him playing a lower two pair. He-he. After the rebuy , the standard just improved a little, not a lot, just a little. I got up to almost a quarter of chips in play with 5 left when I made a move I didn't need too. Playing against the chip leaders 4xBB raise, who was playing tight,I called in position with AKQ6 hoping to hit and take him off it. Flop came down J,10,2 (2 clubs) and when he checked I moved in with what i beleived to be 13 outs and confident of him passing.He shrugged his shoulders and said "I call". "OK" I thought, but he flipped over a Monster in AAQ9 with 2 clubs....He had an Overpair, upndown straight and nut flush draws. Suddenly my 13 outs was reduced to 6 and with him having extra outs too. Probably down to 15% for me.
It was the right move in a normal tourney, but I was well in control here and didn't need to take on the only one who could hurt me like that. Daft play, but great fun tourney hope they have one again soon.

Anyway just to brighten up my gloom, played one gane tonight and made it through a $32 qualifier for Sundays $250,00 gtee on ipoker.



Roll on Sunday---------Im due A big CASH !!

More Value

Just thought I would add this. On Classic I got an email offering me money back if i entered sat for tomorrows £40k with an old alias I had forgotten all about. So i joined 82 others for £5 and hit one of the top 10 spots and a £120 seat tomorrow. About 8th time i have satellited into this weekly Sunday game in 2008.....Yet to cash in it though. LOL

I am AKAKAman

Got a problem now , because this clashes with the Omaha tourney (v good value imo) and also a possible drink with mates watching the Euro Final. mmmmmmmmmmmm decisions

Blackpool Fiasco

I went to the Grosvenor at Blackpool last night to take part in the £150 link game Grosvenor had planned across the North of England. What a disaster they simply haven't promoted it at all or run sats and the numbers were embarassing. 24 @ B'pool but none of the the other 7 casinos could manage more than 6!! EVENT CANCELLED

At almost 10pm, we eventually got a game going of £75 (+ 1 r-buy or add-on). I quite enjoyed the game and steadily built my stack inc. a large number (for me) of steals at pots people didn't want. Didn't bother with an add-on and when I got QQ twice and both times it managed to dodge an ace v AQ & AJ I was onto the final table in 3rd place. 8 handed though I managed to pick up AA and when I was re-popped by KK it looked like I would have almost half the chips in play. However the poker gods threw in a King on the turn, leaving me short and I donked out pushing with Ace-rag into a pair of 8s.

I picked up £200 in 6th place for a small profit , but came away really having enjoyed myself. I played well, the standard was good too for a change (cant really remember a play I thought was poor by anyone) and I spent a lot of the evening with Howard Plant on my table. The guy is one of those guys who just cant be quiet with non-stop jokes and one-liners all night, not everyones cup of tea, but I like him and he makes the evening entertaining. Thought about posting a few of his gags here, but its the sort of thing where "you need to be there".

Not played much online recently as I have fulfilled the months bonus requirements, although I have provisionally signed up at Badbeat.com. Not too sure about it, but will write more about that and the APAT forum challenge in the next post. Also a very boring Accounts for June post soon too.

Due a Bad Beat ...or ten

I've not updated for a week, so you might have guessed things haven't really gone my way. Cash Im down a little , due to a little bad luck and some poor plays. On the tournament side though , I have been playing well but getting well and truly smacked with the devils luck baton.
I had a few close sats the other day came 7th in the GUKPT with 2 seats and then on Thursday came 11th with 6 seats up for grabs in the Virgin festival sat. In both, I went out on coin flips that would have put me in the top 2.
I then got a few bad beats always arriving on the river and then tonight, I have realised it is Blue Square holding a grudge, when after 10 min in the league $40PL game, it gave me KK and I duly got it all-in pre-flop to see my opponent flip over Queens. Board xxx, x , and yes....Queen on the river.
So a few minutes later I am in the $109 GUKPT sat. 1st hand utg goes all-in and plenty of piss taking in the chat box, "one move, 75xBB, nice play" and so on. Very next hand of the tourney I get AA, so decide from utg to go all-in. Before I get any snide comments I get a call. "Oh Yes Happy days!" I think as he flips over AK of clubs. Board comes low, but two clubs and then the mighty poker lord teases me by turning a blank before dropping the cruel club on the River.
"mmmmmm never put you on AA" says the luckbox.
"I know , you muppet" I think.
"Re-buy for $100" asks the dealer
"Dont think I will bother."


END OF POST, TILT IS SETTING IN

New Month...new start

So June is here and I am starting afresh.

New league on BlueSquare and main bonus will be at Littlewoods this month.

Blue Square has started brightly. First 2 tournaments have been 3rd ($150) and then out on the bubble (6th) when my AA was a victim of a horrible runner runner flush. Still two final tables and a good 16 points for the league.

Littlewoods are offering a special $400 bonus for 1500MPPs or less than 4MPPs per 1$. I also get 30% rakeback here too, so good deal all round.

Got the $40 Pot Limit League game tonight and the GUKPT Luton Sat that I got 2x$109 tickets for still.

All is not Gold

Just when I seemed to be doing no wrong, last few posts have all been success, then nothing goes right.
The 2 ECOOP games just never went anywhere.
In the Omaha I was chip leader after 4 hands, but that was as good as it got. 2 hours later I was just another also ran. Maybe should have pushed a little earlier, I had a chance and played pussy poker. Got to be more assertive in these bigger slower tourneys, hard to come back from a small stack as they are so much deeper.

Tonight in the NLHE got back above starting stack after 2 hours and then got re-raised 3 hands running, couldn't call any of them. Again a bit pussy like poker I folded AK twice. I think a more LAG approach might suit me better in these games. Although to be fair I was fairly card quiet and never hit big with any speculative hand. In the end tried to re-shove a LAG with 66 and he called with AJand hit them both on flop. Only 2nd time i had pushed and first i was called. If I had of won I guess I would have been upto average....they say you got to win the 50:50s. So I wasn't unhappy with the move , but "one Time" would have been nice.

Also lost $175 on Full Tilt in about 30 minutes last night....should see the luck chart !!

Back to Littlwoods for this June as they have a nice £300 special bonus on.