May Accounts

Accounts for May
PokerPlex : down $40
PokerStars: down $120
Full Tilt : up $80
Playing live: up $1360
In total for playing up $1280
Bonus this month of $100 and pokerplex rakeback of $70
So +$1450 for the month.

and +$3870 for the year.

Had a good little run at the end on Stars and finally got the 7500 VPPs I needed. I also took part in their two big monthly freerolls, the $100k and the $Million (with added Porsche), and although I am not driving a Porsche today I did pick up $30 and $160 after going fairly deep and losing coin flips for big pots to be eliminated.

Nice though earning money for nothing and pushed my figures for the month up a bit too. Im running about the level I was last year, but do feel I am playing well at moment, especially in the MTTs, and I also got an extra site now worth playing at all times with this SUPERNOVA push at Stars.

All is good, stay lucky.

The Grind is dead...Long live the Grind

As I have mentioned before this month has been an exercise in futility and super grind at PokerStars. I have been desperately trying to achieve their special 80,000 VPPs Bonus by getting 7,500+ this month. I am almost there now, but $315 poorer in the process. Details of the scheme are here. Being supernova does mean you can earn the pokerstars points quicker and also enter a few weekly/monthly freerolls and specials. Don't know why I am really going for it as PokerPlex offer me much better value through Rakeback and bonus. Bit of a status thing I think and also I can play at Stars any time of the day as they have so many games going on.

Will have to get another 12,000 VPPs over the next month or so to actually get the 100,000 needed for supernova status. So 9-tabling PLO8 games is my best way I think although I defo leak playing that many tables .....hence the $315 deficit this month.So the grind is far from over !

When I do finally get there will have 40k points and might well build on that over the following months. Don't quite know what is the best way to go with them, think I can get $160 cash for every 10k, but also beleive you can use them for live events (over$500) if you email them and ask for the concierge service ...oooh posh ! So enough for an event or two at the Blackpool GUKPT would be cool.
The other possibility is to use them on their ridiculously easy Sunday super-turbo sats which I have been doing and got a phenomenal good record in. You can withdraw but they pay T$ so not the best option.
Still feel committed to it now, so unless I spunk too much money will complete.

As for live play I pulled out of going to B'pool for the £100'er and spent much more wholesome activity time with the kids making the most of the hot weather and down the beach.

Did get out last night to the local Pub game, which went well with me taking it down for about $200 without hardly playing any hand of risk except for a lucky 3-bet raise when Heads-up at the end with 93 that hit a 3,3,6 board LOL

Tour idea is coming along nicely, first event going to be Dalton Cricket Club on Sun 14th June 7pm and the mass text message goes out tomorrow night.

Next post will be May accounts and should be fairly good reading due to the GUKPT success. Stay Lucky Folks !!

Tourney report

Here is a report from the other night. I will take it down and link it once it goes on the cumbriapoker.com website.

and here it is gukpt omaha report

Omaha Trophy and sleep ..... NOT !

So drove upto Newcastle last night to play the £250 PLO GUKPT Tournament, courtesy of a 100% sponsorship from Cumbriapoker.com. And look there was a trophy to be won

Along with a champion of champions seat. So with just 54 entrants, this was a really good chance to get a nice trophy, but alas it wasn't to be.
After a driving nightmare entering Newcastle and finding the Casino I ended up there 5 minutes before the start and had to settle for an alternate seat. Quite good they loaded up 7 tables with just 6 players , leaving plenty of room for alternates ( An idea I will use for the Poker Tour of Furness I think)
7 hours 15 minutes late I got dealt my last hand and crashed out in 4th £1350 richer, although got to give Cumbriapoker 35% back. Still it was a great night and I felt completely at home and very comfortable amongst the so called greats of British Poker.
I left the Grosvenor at 3:15am and arrived back less than 2 hours later at 5:10 am . Drifted off to sleep and got my daughter waking me upo jumping on my back saying " come on Daddy time to get up you'll be late for work" LOL love her !

Stars challenge has suffered and will need to hammer it this w/end to get back on track.

Stay Lucky Punks I'm doing alright!

Silence of the Box

Had the evening in last night watching Britains got Talent and Eurovision with my little daughter. She loves it and I'm beginning to get sadder by the day as I am starting to comment as if I like it a bit...........which of course I don't. But watching the crowd there in Moscow it is easy to see it has become a big "EURO thing", heaps of nubile young women dancing for their countries pride ( probably a few nubile men, but I seemed to miss them) and everybody, absolutely everybody was smiling. Jesus not one sad or even neutral face, it is like people are really having a good time there...SICK !

Not that I was paying attention but the British lass did fairly well too, despite a crap song, guess the touch of Andrew Lloyd Webber did the trick. She sang well though and is worth a pic :


The winner was some Norwegian young wanna be poker player who had a classic Euro style tune that ended up being the biggest winning margin ever and now will no doubt be played to death everywhere.


On the poker front played a local game Friday, where i was on fine Trash talking mode, before bowing out to two poor plays from oppos that got Lucky..Story of every poker players life LOL
During eurosingsalong and then afterwards when I watched the brilliant Mr Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs I Played the Full Tilt FTOPS PLOmaha game as practice for Wednesdays GUKPT PLO event and came a respectable 124th out of 2215 runners for only about $100 but nice to feel in form, although I chickenshited a clear continuation bet towards the end that I was kicking myself for afterwards.

Pokerstars challenge sits at 2000 VPPs, +$20/month. Need another 5500 VPPs or 367/day.

Interest grows in the Poker Tour of Furness (PTF) and I am really looking forward to running this. Dates still not finalised but closest thing I have at the moment is this

First game does look like the Sun 14th June at Dalton CC 7pm start. Hope to see you local suckers there....stay lucky.

Sunday drag again

Benn playing a fair bit online this week and got an exciting opportunity coming up next week.

First had two long tourneys yesterday, the Pokerstars $1/4 million where I got well stacked but then crashed out just into the money for hardly any profit. Second one was the weekly VIP $2.5k freeroll on Plex, which I have played about 6 or 7 times without success. Yesterday was chip leader for long periods but then crashed badly on the final table to take a paltry $50 when really should have been making a happy pay day for myself --> so left quite dissapointed.

So online cash has been ticking away on Plex for a slight profit and then crashed last night and lost all that I had made in the previous week, including putting it all-in to a $220 pot with the Nut lo and being a little worried about gettting quartered, but should have been more worried about playing the right game as it was PLO hi only and the pot when scooting acrosss the table to one of my opponents ............. D'OH !!

The other place I have been playing is on PokerStars, where they have a fantastic offer on for UK players only. Basically it is an upgrade on your VPPs, offering a chance to upgrade, including a chance to get 80k VPP bonus for earning 7500VPPs in May. This will then put me just a month or two from gaining supernova status and all the perks that go with that. I started well and was making a little profit as well as earning the VPPs,before I had another bad session and am now down a little. Will go for it as I think it is worth it, Stars is the one site where I seem able to multi-table much more effectively ( upto 9) but not going to go down more than $500 chasing it, although again that might be hard to stop if I am so close to it. On 800 VPPs at moment so about 300/day required .....1 hour/day if nine tabling !!

The other news is an exciting sponsor offer to play the Newcastle GUKPT £250 PLO leg. Tony at http://www.cumbriapoker.com/ has offered to pay me in for 35% returns and just on the ask that I write up a Tourney report afterwards which is something I will quite enjoy doing and gives me a chance to play a game that really is just out of my reach with sensible bankroll management. He has offered the B'pool leg too or just do the one £500 PLO Hi/Lo leg at the Vic in Dec, which is more my game of choice but cant gaurantee I will be able to get free from work for that one, so will play the two PLO instead.

Keep tuned geezers and stay lucky.

I hate crap players

Saturday saw the Monthly deepstack at the G again.
5 of us went down from Barrow and had a fairly good day. I started a little slower than the last few tourneys, but eventually got going after the break with a nice float/bluff play and then a massive hand with my top two pair v. top n bottom v. flush draw stayed clear of trouble and made me comfortable chip leader by the next break. I managed to maintain my stack but then got moved to a new table where all the big stack were. I still went well and was very unlucky when my AK got it all-in v a KQ push only for the board to come down A,2,3,4,5 for a split.
Then with just 15 players left I got AK utg+1, young scandie who i had had a few good clashes with raised utg so i pushed for a total of 80k, a shorter stack of about 60k in mid position dwelled up for a minute before calling and the scandie dwelled himself saying he had AK and surprisingly let it go, flipping it as he did. What did the
shorter stack have??? 9 , 9 !!!! WHY? How can you possibly call with that and think you are ahead?? And what did he say " I knew you two were on AK !!"........what a muppet how can you know that !!
Obviously I missed and then was desperately short , went out soon after and left the tourney hating poor players and feeling I was so close to another £1000+ cash.

As it was HoneyMonster was at his awesome best and went into the final table as chipmonster, but blew away a little and finished 6th , but not before he had landed himself a £1000 deal
I had 5% so eased the entry cost a little.

Interest in the local poker tour grows, so should have dates sealed, stamped and sorted very soon.

Also online I am chomping away on Plex but also a great offer from Pokerstars.......more of which next time.....stay lucky gimps.

Aprils accounts

Accounts for April
PokerPlex : up $110
PokerStars: down $40
Playing live: up $1410
In total for playing up $1480

Bonus this month of $160 and pokerplex rakeback of $130

So +$1770 for the month.

and +$2420 for the year.

BIT MORE LIKE IT ! Obviously helped by my £grand at the G, but ran well towards the end of the month on Plex too plus a few local cashes, made for my confidence returning a little.

Off for a local game tonight and then a Barrow squad are down at B'pool tomorrow for the £100er again.

Same as last month please....Stay lucky guys