MY laptops hard drive has blown up and something not working on the PC router connection so been offline for a while ( 3 weeks!)
Hope to get sorted this next week and looking to get a new laptop and maybe go down the dongle route so can play anywhere.
As for live play, played the APAT PL Omaha tourney and after a good start, I got away cheaply from a couple of nut flops that would have turned into disaster and was quite pleased with myself. Then went card dead for a while and donkeded off a 3k bluff with nothing. Whilst not desperate, I was then down to 2/3 average and when with 6 limpers the board flopped 772 (2clubs) with me in BB with 10,8,7,3, I called aggresive button bet only to be check raised by another aggressive player from mid-position. I figured he had the 7 or a club draw, but felt he was likely to have nothing higher than a 10 with his 7, as he could be playing a hand like 5678 etc, if he had it at all. So I called getting about 2:1 for my money and he had QQ72 and with no help from the board I exited fairly early realy. A little dissapointed really as I had been looking forward to this game for a while and felt considerably better than most at the table where I had seen a lot of poor and questionable plays in just the 140 min I was in.
Went with Daz Naylor to the Gutshot after, to check it out and play their evening game. Very dissapointed with the place after all that I had heard~ quite grubby and small. The players were a strange bunch with plenty of characters and the standard of play wasn't bad. Got to the final 2 tables but never really got much above average and for what seems like the 10th tourney running, I get knocked out the first time I had all my chips in the middle and called.
Due a little bit of fortune me thinks....maybe today will be the day as I am playing the APAT World game at the Vic.
So till later, stay lucky !
Saturday 30 August 2008
Tuesday 5 August 2008
Will I ever learn ???
Went to Stoke to play their "Anniversary Cup" £100 (+£2000 added) comp on Sunday. It brought in a fantastic 158 runners and I have to say that I enjoyed the comp a lot. They run a £100(+£1000) every month and hope to play this when ever I get the chance with no work the following Monday~ that wont be often!.
My table was pretty tough, with a couple of guys i recognise from the TV, including Red Dog and some Greek dude, also was Michelle Shiels who I had played against at the APAT team game where she had impressed me and she was back from two chops at the Broadway Festival.
Lost 2000 chips fairly early with some missed flops and a 1k bluff, then managed to get back level thrigu small pot poker. After the break had a big pot where I knocked out Michelle when a continuation bet with KQ on a J,10,3 board was pushed back at me and I decided I had to make the pot sized call with all but my whole stack, figuring I likely needed any A,9,K or Q to win it ~ so 14 outs x2 . She had 22 , said she had "sensed" weakness, I hit a K on turn and that was it. Then took out a short stack and a lovely bluff on a co-ordinated board with diddly squat had me at 21k with average at about 12k. So looking good!
Then I went card dead for an hour or so and found myself back below average and the blinds and newly introduced antes beginning to bite. So when I looked down at 77 , I thought "this was it" and prepared to move all-in for about 8xBB. But, the chip monster on my right decided to raise first, "hey that is not in the plan" I think, but nevertheless move my chips all-in without more than 3 sec thought (remember my exit hand at APAT). He dwelled for about 30 sec, and I was thinking I had a fair chance of doubling up against a Ax or maybe even a smaller pair, before calling and flipping QQ.
Bit annoyed with myself, I had got to a state where I needed to make a move, but again I hadn't thought enough before throwing my chips in. And this wasn't really the case, I had hardly any fold equity, and I shouldn't be putting them in without it unless I have a Monster.
I will now write out lines as a punishment:
THINK, THINK, THINK.
THINK, THINK, THINK.
THINK, THINK, THINK.
THINK, THINK, THINK.
THINK, THINK, THINK.
THINK, THINK, THINK.
THINK, THINK, THINK.
THINK, THINK, THINK.
THINK, THINK, THINK.
THINK, THINK, THINK.
Defragmented the Laptop for the first time the other day and it has messed my PokerTracker up, so will blog up the techno section I promised when I got that back sorted.
Stay Lucky Guys
My table was pretty tough, with a couple of guys i recognise from the TV, including Red Dog and some Greek dude, also was Michelle Shiels who I had played against at the APAT team game where she had impressed me and she was back from two chops at the Broadway Festival.
Lost 2000 chips fairly early with some missed flops and a 1k bluff, then managed to get back level thrigu small pot poker. After the break had a big pot where I knocked out Michelle when a continuation bet with KQ on a J,10,3 board was pushed back at me and I decided I had to make the pot sized call with all but my whole stack, figuring I likely needed any A,9,K or Q to win it ~ so 14 outs x2 . She had 22 , said she had "sensed" weakness, I hit a K on turn and that was it. Then took out a short stack and a lovely bluff on a co-ordinated board with diddly squat had me at 21k with average at about 12k. So looking good!
Then I went card dead for an hour or so and found myself back below average and the blinds and newly introduced antes beginning to bite. So when I looked down at 77 , I thought "this was it" and prepared to move all-in for about 8xBB. But, the chip monster on my right decided to raise first, "hey that is not in the plan" I think, but nevertheless move my chips all-in without more than 3 sec thought (remember my exit hand at APAT). He dwelled for about 30 sec, and I was thinking I had a fair chance of doubling up against a Ax or maybe even a smaller pair, before calling and flipping QQ.
Bit annoyed with myself, I had got to a state where I needed to make a move, but again I hadn't thought enough before throwing my chips in. And this wasn't really the case, I had hardly any fold equity, and I shouldn't be putting them in without it unless I have a Monster.
I will now write out lines as a punishment:
THINK, THINK, THINK.
THINK, THINK, THINK.
THINK, THINK, THINK.
THINK, THINK, THINK.
THINK, THINK, THINK.
THINK, THINK, THINK.
THINK, THINK, THINK.
THINK, THINK, THINK.
THINK, THINK, THINK.
THINK, THINK, THINK.
Defragmented the Laptop for the first time the other day and it has messed my PokerTracker up, so will blog up the techno section I promised when I got that back sorted.
Stay Lucky Guys
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