Well another new year, thought I would have a nother crack at the blog thing.
I have had a hard year or two as I have just finished getting divorced and the blog has kind of been kicked to the kerb. I won't go on about the comings and goings of the last 18 months as it isn't really inspirational or even that interesting, but will move forward with the poker side of things.
I have found the game that I feel I am a sure winner at. My Omaha Hi/Lo stats (I will link/post them in a later blog) are pretty good at both SNGs and MTTs, so will be focusing online mainly at these. I think I am probably a winning player at NLHE MTTs, but havent had a top place success in that over the last year really.
So my main online games will be the $16 NLO8 (18 man SNGs on Stars) and I aim to play 300 of these a month. That will be my only target I think, not going to bother with win rates or a certain $profit, just to play a min of 300 SNGs a month.
I will however also play a fair few MTTs, either the N/PLO8 games or the evening thousand of entry NLHE games ( $3r, $40kgtee and sunday $1/4 Million) looking for a big win as these all pay 10k+ for first.
I will also of course play any +EV opportunities that arise in leagues or specials.
AS far as live goes, I am not travelling for any standard evening game. So looking mainly at the £100-£150 range or there abouts. I have thoughts about the PokerSatrs UK tour games @£500 a pop and try to get some staking, but getting out of work is just too awkward to make these realistic.
Will also play a local Wednesday league and run some of our local tour games too.
First post back and boring as hell, all about me...............nothing changes then !
Sunday, 2 January 2011
Friday, 8 January 2010
New Year = New Opportunities
No updates for a while, but got a few big issues going on at the moment. Some of you know what I am on about.
I will put up the monthly and yearly figures later, but nothing to write home about, pretty even in Nov and slight profit in Dec due to winning a local pub league comp.
The next live event on the calendar is the APAT UK Team Championships in Manchester on 23rd Jan. I have put the team together based on results, but every man and his horse wanted to play and have complained about this and that or suggested "better ways" to pick. Having said that, the way I chose probably isn't the best way of getting a team , but it is definitely a fair way of picking it as I have based it on our local Tour and league winners. I rest my case and if we come away from the w/end with more than hangovers it will have been more than worth it.
And the other exciting news is that I have put down a deposit for VEGAS baby!!! Next October for Salmon's 40th. As good as an excuse as any.
I will put up the monthly and yearly figures later, but nothing to write home about, pretty even in Nov and slight profit in Dec due to winning a local pub league comp.
The next live event on the calendar is the APAT UK Team Championships in Manchester on 23rd Jan. I have put the team together based on results, but every man and his horse wanted to play and have complained about this and that or suggested "better ways" to pick. Having said that, the way I chose probably isn't the best way of getting a team , but it is definitely a fair way of picking it as I have based it on our local Tour and league winners. I rest my case and if we come away from the w/end with more than hangovers it will have been more than worth it.
And the other exciting news is that I have put down a deposit for VEGAS baby!!! Next October for Salmon's 40th. As good as an excuse as any.
Sunday, 22 November 2009
My Mate can Play (2)
A couple of months ago I did a post when a mate of mine scooped the B'pool £100 for the lot http://bigdealinabox.blogspot.com/2009/07/my-mate-can-play.html
Well now my other mate ( I know, I know, I have 2 Mates !! )can play too as he phoned me from the BoylePoker "Sponsor a Pro" comp in Dublin last night trying to be cool.
Mate~ "oh I'm in Dublin"
Me~ "How d'ya get on?"
Mate~ "Oh yeh I won it"
AS cool as you like and very matter of fact. Then got all excited and asked me to stick it on the FurnessPoker forum.
Great Prize for Daz, a 10,000 Euro deal to play in any tourneys he likes I think. Wonder what he will play ???
Unfortunately being a Sponsored player does have it's downside. Look at this hoody he had to wear !!
Here is his story
Well now my other mate ( I know, I know, I have 2 Mates !! )can play too as he phoned me from the BoylePoker "Sponsor a Pro" comp in Dublin last night trying to be cool.
Mate~ "oh I'm in Dublin"
Me~ "How d'ya get on?"
Mate~ "Oh yeh I won it"
AS cool as you like and very matter of fact. Then got all excited and asked me to stick it on the FurnessPoker forum.
Great Prize for Daz, a 10,000 Euro deal to play in any tourneys he likes I think. Wonder what he will play ???
Unfortunately being a Sponsored player does have it's downside. Look at this hoody he had to wear !!
Here is his story
Saturday, 7 November 2009
October 'horror' Accounts
Accounts for September
PokerPlex : up $140
PokerStars: down $320
Bwinpoker: up $50
Playing live: down $640
In total for playing down $770
Bonus this month of $20 and pokerplex rakeback of $20.
So -$730 for the month.
and +$3760 for the year.
PokerPlex : up $140
PokerStars: down $320
Bwinpoker: up $50
Playing live: down $640
In total for playing down $770
Bonus this month of $20 and pokerplex rakeback of $20.
So -$730 for the month.
and +$3760 for the year.
Friday, 30 October 2009
CHAMPAGNE SUPERNOVA...............
..........In the words of Liam.
And also in the words of Pokerstars support who sent me a email letting me know I have finally got there. Not that it means much except I get 5 little red stars next to my icon and I earn FPP's (rakeback equivalent) 50% quicker. Having seen my form there in cash recently though might not be worth having after all....probably even detrimental.
Still got 3 freerolls at Stars this Saturday, the $100k, $75k & $30k, although it will be Robo who is playing them for 50% as I swoop out and take on the B'pool £100 monthly game. Let's hope it is no horrow show for me at the tables this Halloween ~ GOD my blog is lame.
Live hand history or two I promise next post.
Try and get lucky guys, JON
And also in the words of Pokerstars support who sent me a email letting me know I have finally got there. Not that it means much except I get 5 little red stars next to my icon and I earn FPP's (rakeback equivalent) 50% quicker. Having seen my form there in cash recently though might not be worth having after all....probably even detrimental.
Still got 3 freerolls at Stars this Saturday, the $100k, $75k & $30k, although it will be Robo who is playing them for 50% as I swoop out and take on the B'pool £100 monthly game. Let's hope it is no horrow show for me at the tables this Halloween ~ GOD my blog is lame.
Live hand history or two I promise next post.
Try and get lucky guys, JON
Sunday, 25 October 2009
Runner, Runner , Quads !! Nice...........NOT
Been running like a dog recently and this hand sums it up.
Also have played the comp in Ireland and the APAT, but unlikely to report much on them as they have been pretty dull without any hands of great interest and sadly no success to report either. Although Ireland was a great, if expensive w/end.
Also have played the comp in Ireland and the APAT, but unlikely to report much on them as they have been pretty dull without any hands of great interest and sadly no success to report either. Although Ireland was a great, if expensive w/end.
Thursday, 15 October 2009
September Accounts
Accounts for September
PokerPlex : up $140
PokerStars: down $650
Boylepoker: up $40
Playing live: down $50
In total for playing down $520
Bonus this month of $30 and pokerplex rakeback of $30, also $100 bonus at Stars
So -$360 for the month.
and +$4490 for the year.
2 Months running Losses .....First time ever I think. Have been playing well though, especially live so not overly concerned and still think I have a big payday coming soon LOL!
Could be this weeend too as I'm off to Dublin for the IPO with HoneyM, Sneaks,Trainglot and the monster that is Devileperch. Should be good and we might even win a buck or two!! Full report promised for next write-up.
Hoping to be lucky, very very lucky Jon.
PokerPlex : up $140
PokerStars: down $650
Boylepoker: up $40
Playing live: down $50
In total for playing down $520
Bonus this month of $30 and pokerplex rakeback of $30, also $100 bonus at Stars
So -$360 for the month.
and +$4490 for the year.
2 Months running Losses .....First time ever I think. Have been playing well though, especially live so not overly concerned and still think I have a big payday coming soon LOL!
Could be this weeend too as I'm off to Dublin for the IPO with HoneyM, Sneaks,Trainglot and the monster that is Devileperch. Should be good and we might even win a buck or two!! Full report promised for next write-up.
Hoping to be lucky, very very lucky Jon.
Sunday, 27 September 2009
The Yo-Yo run continues
Been a while since the last update and it has been a mixed one on the real and virtual felt with some long nights.
First off, I had the 2 WCOOP games lined up. Unfortunately had to withdraw from the $320 PLO8 as I was just too knackered from work and couldn't really even start let alone last the near 14 hours that the tourney actually lasted.
Lesson learnt so went to bed early and had the alarm blast me into action at 1am for the $215 NLO8 game. I started slow but after the second break started to make a move up the leaderboard, only to get it all-in with AA23 and get called by some donkey with KKJ9 who flopped a King and even scooped when the board paired and was Hi only ~ 5 hours for nowt !
Next day I was free so popped away for the w/end starting with a trip to the new G at Coventry. What a wonderful Casino - like a small Vegas Casino on the inside and situated so close to the M6 and inside the Ricoh Stadium itself - it is sure to become a very popular venue for big festivals/games. So it was a shock to realise that they had only 8 turn up for the £200 game that I fancied and 4 of them had satellited in ! Anyway they delayed it a little and eventuall we got going with 14 players. It was great to play so deep (15k stack, 25/50 start, 30 min clock) with only 7 at the table. Usually the only time you get to play short handed is at the business end of a tourney when there is so little play left. The standard of play was appalling, especially for a £200 game, and I mean "really, really bad" so I fancied a good cash. Everything was going OKish, a few bad beats by shortstacks but on course and then I got AA when 6 handed and managed to get it all in against JJ and QQ.........happy days or so I thought.
The Board came
2
3
2
6
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J
D'oh. top 3 paid and I lose on such a sucker river card for best part of half the chips in play. So with the previous night's bad beat and a tragic week on cash at Stars I was feeling as though my poker bankroll was doomed to dwindle away on DONK beat after beat. Anyway enough of the loser talk and stick with getting your chips in with the best of it.
This has taken me a while , I will save the rest ( and better stuff) for next post soon.
Stay lucky
First off, I had the 2 WCOOP games lined up. Unfortunately had to withdraw from the $320 PLO8 as I was just too knackered from work and couldn't really even start let alone last the near 14 hours that the tourney actually lasted.
Lesson learnt so went to bed early and had the alarm blast me into action at 1am for the $215 NLO8 game. I started slow but after the second break started to make a move up the leaderboard, only to get it all-in with AA23 and get called by some donkey with KKJ9 who flopped a King and even scooped when the board paired and was Hi only ~ 5 hours for nowt !
Next day I was free so popped away for the w/end starting with a trip to the new G at Coventry. What a wonderful Casino - like a small Vegas Casino on the inside and situated so close to the M6 and inside the Ricoh Stadium itself - it is sure to become a very popular venue for big festivals/games. So it was a shock to realise that they had only 8 turn up for the £200 game that I fancied and 4 of them had satellited in ! Anyway they delayed it a little and eventuall we got going with 14 players. It was great to play so deep (15k stack, 25/50 start, 30 min clock) with only 7 at the table. Usually the only time you get to play short handed is at the business end of a tourney when there is so little play left. The standard of play was appalling, especially for a £200 game, and I mean "really, really bad" so I fancied a good cash. Everything was going OKish, a few bad beats by shortstacks but on course and then I got AA when 6 handed and managed to get it all in against JJ and QQ.........happy days or so I thought.
The Board came
2
3
2
6
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.
.
.
.
.
J
D'oh. top 3 paid and I lose on such a sucker river card for best part of half the chips in play. So with the previous night's bad beat and a tragic week on cash at Stars I was feeling as though my poker bankroll was doomed to dwindle away on DONK beat after beat. Anyway enough of the loser talk and stick with getting your chips in with the best of it.
This has taken me a while , I will save the rest ( and better stuff) for next post soon.
Stay lucky
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Long Live Keith Floyd
. Keith Floyd RIP
Just got home from work to find that Keith Floyd has died. I love charachters of life and he was certainly one. I have such vivid memories from uni days of watching his afternoon show and making whatever he was cooking with whatever we had in the house ( NOT MUCH ! ) whilst drinking as much wine, beer or anything else toxic we had lying around...........and the food always tasted great .......Great Days !
Oh and Patrick Swayze has also died , let me tell you how all the girls used to think I was just like him LOL !
Poker has been a bit crap recently, on Stars at least, so I will skip that until the next entry, when I should have a report or two on my big WCOOP games coming up and progress on the local Poker Tour.
Stay Lucky Geezers
Just got home from work to find that Keith Floyd has died. I love charachters of life and he was certainly one. I have such vivid memories from uni days of watching his afternoon show and making whatever he was cooking with whatever we had in the house ( NOT MUCH ! ) whilst drinking as much wine, beer or anything else toxic we had lying around...........and the food always tasted great .......Great Days !
Oh and Patrick Swayze has also died , let me tell you how all the girls used to think I was just like him LOL !
Poker has been a bit crap recently, on Stars at least, so I will skip that until the next entry, when I should have a report or two on my big WCOOP games coming up and progress on the local Poker Tour.
Stay Lucky Geezers
Saturday, 5 September 2009
WCOOP off and running
Pokerstars' World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) has started. It is the online equivalent of the World Series of Poker and has a bracelet for the winner of each event WSOP style.
As I have mentioned here previously, I had targeted 3 events and had already satellited into 2 of them. The 3rd one was starting at 1am last night so I entered a last minute 50 seat g'tee satellite. And hey presto I was in.......
So I had managed to sat into all 3 tourneys, $644 of entries, for less than $150. Now I had to cash !? Which wasn't going to be easy as many of the world's best live and online players are also in. In the later stages of this one I had previous WSOP Main Event winners Joe Hachem and Tom McEvoy at my table at the same time , and it was only a 6 seater table !!!!
Anyway I made the cash and then laddered myself up rather than really go for it and ended up 134th for $240.. ........................
............................................... so all-in-all a good start , here's hoping to stay Lucky for the next two.
As I have mentioned here previously, I had targeted 3 events and had already satellited into 2 of them. The 3rd one was starting at 1am last night so I entered a last minute 50 seat g'tee satellite. And hey presto I was in.......
So I had managed to sat into all 3 tourneys, $644 of entries, for less than $150. Now I had to cash !? Which wasn't going to be easy as many of the world's best live and online players are also in. In the later stages of this one I had previous WSOP Main Event winners Joe Hachem and Tom McEvoy at my table at the same time , and it was only a 6 seater table !!!!
Anyway I made the cash and then laddered myself up rather than really go for it and ended up 134th for $240.. ........................
............................................... so all-in-all a good start , here's hoping to stay Lucky for the next two.
Wednesday, 2 September 2009
August accounts
Accounts for August
PokerPlex : down $160
PokerStars: down $50
Boylepoker: up $90
Playing live: down $490
In total for playing down $610
Bonus this month of $40 and pokerplex rakeback of $50, also $200 bonus at Stars
So -$320 for the month.
and +$4850 for the year.
So not a good month, although I have qualified for $545 worth of Stars WCOOP entries, I don't count these as I can't liquidate them. Also have $400+ of FPPs too that if I do cash will include in Sept figures.
Right off to earn my extra chips on Boyle for the Irish IPO tourney. Stay Lucky guys !
PokerPlex : down $160
PokerStars: down $50
Boylepoker: up $90
Playing live: down $490
In total for playing down $610
Bonus this month of $40 and pokerplex rakeback of $50, also $200 bonus at Stars
So -$320 for the month.
and +$4850 for the year.
So not a good month, although I have qualified for $545 worth of Stars WCOOP entries, I don't count these as I can't liquidate them. Also have $400+ of FPPs too that if I do cash will include in Sept figures.
Right off to earn my extra chips on Boyle for the Irish IPO tourney. Stay Lucky guys !
Sunday, 30 August 2009
Live dive
So after the Omaha I had the APAT main event on Friday and The B'pool monthly £100er on Saturday. No good in either as far as cashing goes, but some good hands and I do feel I am becoming a better player at the moment, I can actually feel my NLHE live game changing and becoming more LAG and positional.
The APAT game had a mixed starting table with a very good young Irish lad that was raising in position 80% of the time and continuation betting almosty 100%. The table to his left were weak/tight and just folding him a big chip lead. He did venture out of position a couple of times to take me on and we had a few clashes including one where I 4-bet him all-in with just an overpair of JJ on a 3,6,10 board. I would never do that against anyone else when we are playing so deep and was very pleased with myself. Had to endure a 3 minute stare down though !
But the game was never going to be mine and I had my chips in on pre-flops all-ins 4 times and didn't win one of them. I lost with AK v A8, AQ v 99, AQ v J5 and also QQ v 77 when the flop came down 977 for quads. Still I had played fairly well and wasn't too unhappy.
Next day I drive up to Blackpool and arrive a few minutes later to find KK in my first hand. I limp in from mid-pos, it gets raised by guy to my left to 200 and 2 others call. For some reason I decide not to raise it up as I feel it still needs a bit of pot control here. Anyway the flop comes down A high and when the SB bets I can get away, which is just as well as it goes raise, re-raise , re-raise , all-in , call !!!! guy on my left had AA and SB had AK !! I had got away with KK v AK v AA on my first hand and only lost 200 chips..........Phil Helmuth or Phil Iver would have lost a lot more there me thinks. I was well chuffed with myself and then played nicely and got my stack upto 30k and thought I was in for a good run as the table was fairly weak, but a couple of mis-timed raises and then card dead for hours meant I left in about 50th/195, when I pushed in a BB v SB battle with KQ and he called with A4.
So my live casino record is now blank for 9 games and over £600 of entries. It also means I am probably going to have to post a loss for August as online has been a bit downhill the last 10 days or so.
Good news though is that I have qualified for the second of my 3 target games on Pokerstars WCOOP and that is the $320 PLO Hi/Lo, so just the $109 8-game to qualify for now. Looking forward to these.
Also was impressed with a packed DTD last week so Sneaks and I now considering going for the monthly £300 deepstack in October, should be good!
Stay Lucky Punks, I haven't been.
The APAT game had a mixed starting table with a very good young Irish lad that was raising in position 80% of the time and continuation betting almosty 100%. The table to his left were weak/tight and just folding him a big chip lead. He did venture out of position a couple of times to take me on and we had a few clashes including one where I 4-bet him all-in with just an overpair of JJ on a 3,6,10 board. I would never do that against anyone else when we are playing so deep and was very pleased with myself. Had to endure a 3 minute stare down though !
But the game was never going to be mine and I had my chips in on pre-flops all-ins 4 times and didn't win one of them. I lost with AK v A8, AQ v 99, AQ v J5 and also QQ v 77 when the flop came down 977 for quads. Still I had played fairly well and wasn't too unhappy.
Next day I drive up to Blackpool and arrive a few minutes later to find KK in my first hand. I limp in from mid-pos, it gets raised by guy to my left to 200 and 2 others call. For some reason I decide not to raise it up as I feel it still needs a bit of pot control here. Anyway the flop comes down A high and when the SB bets I can get away, which is just as well as it goes raise, re-raise , re-raise , all-in , call !!!! guy on my left had AA and SB had AK !! I had got away with KK v AK v AA on my first hand and only lost 200 chips..........Phil Helmuth or Phil Iver would have lost a lot more there me thinks. I was well chuffed with myself and then played nicely and got my stack upto 30k and thought I was in for a good run as the table was fairly weak, but a couple of mis-timed raises and then card dead for hours meant I left in about 50th/195, when I pushed in a BB v SB battle with KQ and he called with A4.
So my live casino record is now blank for 9 games and over £600 of entries. It also means I am probably going to have to post a loss for August as online has been a bit downhill the last 10 days or so.
Good news though is that I have qualified for the second of my 3 target games on Pokerstars WCOOP and that is the $320 PLO Hi/Lo, so just the $109 8-game to qualify for now. Looking forward to these.
Also was impressed with a packed DTD last week so Sneaks and I now considering going for the monthly £300 deepstack in October, should be good!
Stay Lucky Punks, I haven't been.
Friday, 28 August 2009
Omaha is a game for Luckboxes
Played the APAT Omaha champs last night at DTD and as you can probably tell from the title I didn't win. Quite enjoyed myself though, here are some of the highlights and my ultimate demise.
Arrived almost 2 hours late due to a delay in Barrow that I could do little about. Stack had whittled down to 8600 from the starting 10k, so not too much damage. I then get KK45 in mid position with 2 limpers, I elect to limp and we get 7 see the flop of 29K...BINGO, I bet the pot and some guy in late position says "where did he come from". I gave it the "got to get my chips" back line hoping he had a smaller set and would call, but they all folded and I was back to level after 1 hand. LOL
Cruise along to the break without much action, but I have clocked the Holdem players and tight players at the table. Then first hand after the break I get A J 10 10 (with the Ace suited in clubs and see an all club flop, giving me the nut straight. guy bets and I elect to call in position as does the SB, pot wasn't big enough to warrant repopping it and I wanted to stear clear of the FH arriving on the turn or river this early. Turn is a blank and same guy comes out betting 2100 so I choose to take the poyt down here and repop it putting me all-in, SB dwells and elects to call for value as he is short stacked, he has trips and blanks the river so I am up to 19k and looking good against what I consider a fairly poor table.
I am now calling in position against raisers as they are all raising with big hands only and I'm looking to take them down, I don't hit anything else but do push a number of players off pots, some are real weak and playing Omaha without a clue really. I'm feeling comfortable, but then run trips into a guy who slowplayed the top set very well and also one hand where i bet the Nut flush draw on the flop only to get re-raised by a short stack that has me priced in to call and I blank out the turn/river leaving me back to my original 10k stack size.
So two hours of picking my spots, people folding way too much to pre-flop raises and although I don't connect with any flops I am holding steady. However when the blinds go to 600-1200 I have to start making a move and yo-yo a bit but never get above 16k. Then with 11k behind this hand comes up where I sense a moment to steal from a limper and he was a nice guy ( ended up 3rd too ) and said I am putting you all-in just hoping to get lucky. I replied "I raised hoping to get lucky", but when he turned them over I could see I was in good shape.
The flop brought him an 8 but also me a Q so it looked real good with me over 80% favourite.
The turn was a blank and left me in great shape now, just got to dodge a J or an 8.
You know what happened next, I can't post it cause it is sick (and hendon mob calc won't let me put up the river). Yep BOOM 8 of hearts, groans and sighs all round "unlucky", "well played mate" etc. But instead of sitting there with above average in a field I really fancied playing against I was on my toes and going home.
Oh well today brings the NLHE main event, so lets hop I am back Sunday for the final. Probably popping to Blackpool for the monthly £100er on Saturday too....MAD FOR IT !!
By the way Barrow Rugby playing at home on Sunday just a point needed to secure the title , hope they have the trophy up ready. 15 years going to almost every home game and we are now going to win something.
Arrived almost 2 hours late due to a delay in Barrow that I could do little about. Stack had whittled down to 8600 from the starting 10k, so not too much damage. I then get KK45 in mid position with 2 limpers, I elect to limp and we get 7 see the flop of 29K...BINGO, I bet the pot and some guy in late position says "where did he come from". I gave it the "got to get my chips" back line hoping he had a smaller set and would call, but they all folded and I was back to level after 1 hand. LOL
Cruise along to the break without much action, but I have clocked the Holdem players and tight players at the table. Then first hand after the break I get A J 10 10 (with the Ace suited in clubs and see an all club flop, giving me the nut straight. guy bets and I elect to call in position as does the SB, pot wasn't big enough to warrant repopping it and I wanted to stear clear of the FH arriving on the turn or river this early. Turn is a blank and same guy comes out betting 2100 so I choose to take the poyt down here and repop it putting me all-in, SB dwells and elects to call for value as he is short stacked, he has trips and blanks the river so I am up to 19k and looking good against what I consider a fairly poor table.
I am now calling in position against raisers as they are all raising with big hands only and I'm looking to take them down, I don't hit anything else but do push a number of players off pots, some are real weak and playing Omaha without a clue really. I'm feeling comfortable, but then run trips into a guy who slowplayed the top set very well and also one hand where i bet the Nut flush draw on the flop only to get re-raised by a short stack that has me priced in to call and I blank out the turn/river leaving me back to my original 10k stack size.
So two hours of picking my spots, people folding way too much to pre-flop raises and although I don't connect with any flops I am holding steady. However when the blinds go to 600-1200 I have to start making a move and yo-yo a bit but never get above 16k. Then with 11k behind this hand comes up where I sense a moment to steal from a limper and he was a nice guy ( ended up 3rd too ) and said I am putting you all-in just hoping to get lucky. I replied "I raised hoping to get lucky", but when he turned them over I could see I was in good shape.
The flop brought him an 8 but also me a Q so it looked real good with me over 80% favourite.
The turn was a blank and left me in great shape now, just got to dodge a J or an 8.
You know what happened next, I can't post it cause it is sick (and hendon mob calc won't let me put up the river). Yep BOOM 8 of hearts, groans and sighs all round "unlucky", "well played mate" etc. But instead of sitting there with above average in a field I really fancied playing against I was on my toes and going home.
Oh well today brings the NLHE main event, so lets hop I am back Sunday for the final. Probably popping to Blackpool for the monthly £100er on Saturday too....MAD FOR IT !!
By the way Barrow Rugby playing at home on Sunday just a point needed to secure the title , hope they have the trophy up ready. 15 years going to almost every home game and we are now going to win something.
Monday, 17 August 2009
WCOOP, GUKPT and APAT
Full of acronyms and all poker !!
First of have noticed that Pokerstars have their annual World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) coming up and has 45 events in total all at highish buy-ins.
Well the main event is a bit out of my price range @ $5200 with a $10 MILLION g'tee ! However there are 3 events that I like the look of. The $109 8-game (event 5), the $320 PLO Hi/Lo (event35) and the $215 NLO Hi/Lo (event40).
Well I played a couple of satellites today. One was an impulsive mad $2 rebuy to the $215 RAZZ event and bloody bubbled, but then went and played a $39 sat to the NLO8 game and BINGO
so in one of them now, will try a few more at the other two. Fingers crossed.
Also Blue Square now have a betting market up for the APAT World champs @ DTD on bank hol w/end and I have been priced at 150-1, and although I feel I am probably way above average in this field, there are going to be 300+ runners so not great value, but feel free to have a punt here if you like.
Now GUKPT have added a late mini-date to their schedule and it is at there new Coventry casino and has just a £300 entry. It is on the Saturday after APAT and I might get tempted down to that, it will all hang on if they are using their main event schedule or something similar. I am not getting temoted into a crapshoot like the Manchester £100er.
So updating like mad and giving all you readers some great value the last couple of weeks. The general grind has been a general grind. Gone about 10 tourneys without a cash until the sat win and the cash graph has done all the usual yo-yo stuff as I burn my way to Supernova. No hands saved to pick on, will try and find a juicy one or two for next time.
Stay Lucky.
First of have noticed that Pokerstars have their annual World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) coming up and has 45 events in total all at highish buy-ins.
Well the main event is a bit out of my price range @ $5200 with a $10 MILLION g'tee ! However there are 3 events that I like the look of. The $109 8-game (event 5), the $320 PLO Hi/Lo (event35) and the $215 NLO Hi/Lo (event40).
Well I played a couple of satellites today. One was an impulsive mad $2 rebuy to the $215 RAZZ event and bloody bubbled, but then went and played a $39 sat to the NLO8 game and BINGO
so in one of them now, will try a few more at the other two. Fingers crossed.
Also Blue Square now have a betting market up for the APAT World champs @ DTD on bank hol w/end and I have been priced at 150-1, and although I feel I am probably way above average in this field, there are going to be 300+ runners so not great value, but feel free to have a punt here if you like.
Now GUKPT have added a late mini-date to their schedule and it is at there new Coventry casino and has just a £300 entry. It is on the Saturday after APAT and I might get tempted down to that, it will all hang on if they are using their main event schedule or something similar. I am not getting temoted into a crapshoot like the Manchester £100er.
So updating like mad and giving all you readers some great value the last couple of weeks. The general grind has been a general grind. Gone about 10 tourneys without a cash until the sat win and the cash graph has done all the usual yo-yo stuff as I burn my way to Supernova. No hands saved to pick on, will try and find a juicy one or two for next time.
Stay Lucky.
Friday, 14 August 2009
Had to change....another MTT in the bag
Just finished a 204 runner MTT as top dog again, no deals this time just straight take down.
It is a strange one as it is $5 entry and rebuy (1k chips)and then $25 for an add-on (5k chips). I had entry and add-on for $30 so $680 profit and always nice to actually win them. I knew I was due one and feel there is more to come !
Not much else to report, apart from Barrow rugby's marvellous win against Widnes last night, live on SKY too. Puts them top of the table now with 3 games left. C'mon the Raiders !! Sad I Know , but do love watching it.
Stay lucky like me guys.
It is a strange one as it is $5 entry and rebuy (1k chips)and then $25 for an add-on (5k chips). I had entry and add-on for $30 so $680 profit and always nice to actually win them. I knew I was due one and feel there is more to come !
Not much else to report, apart from Barrow rugby's marvellous win against Widnes last night, live on SKY too. Puts them top of the table now with 3 games left. C'mon the Raiders !! Sad I Know , but do love watching it.
Stay lucky like me guys.
Thursday, 13 August 2009
Hand replayer trial
Ok Robo sent me this link to replay hands , so posting up a hand (very boring hand at that) just to see if it works.
here goes
Oh that is beautiful !!!!
get ready for death by PLO8 hand analysis.
here goes
Oh that is beautiful !!!!
get ready for death by PLO8 hand analysis.
Wednesday, 12 August 2009
Tourney downswing
Poker is such a game of variance. I have done OK in tourneys this year and played a fair few online and live. However the last few weeks I have been getting deepish but just not cashing deep, either just falling short of the bubble or busting out early into the cash places, not cashed in a live (local or casino game for last 14 times!). In basics this post is just a moan at 'my bad luck' that I seem to be getting in tourneys at the moment. I say 'bad luck' because I do think that I am running bad in the later stages of tourneys and it isn't just poor play/strategy from me. I feel as though I am playing well but just not getting the rub of the green, a big one is due !!
Anyway enough of the whinging, onto when I am going to get another nice score. I have a few things lined up including getting a seat for the PLO at the APAT festival at the end of the month at DTD. I was in for the main event on the Friday 28th and now have got a seat in the PLO on the Thursday, thru just catching a guy selling his seat on Blonde at the right time. He also has a HORSE seat available for the Sunday which I would love to play too, but not sure if I can blag time off for that one as well.
Playing a lot of cash at Pokerstars, trying to get those points for Supernova status. About 7,000 to go now and also taking advantage of a rare Pokerstars bonus of $300. Most games have been Omaha Hi/Lo but mainly No Limit as opposed to my usual Pot Limit stuff. This is the normal game spread at Stars these days and I think is the only site that really does it, but it does mean there is a lot of chance to push on boards where you think you can 3/4 someone. I have been using the Hendon Mob calculator to work out and annalyse these situations afterwards and thin I have a bit of work to do there, but potentially a very profitable game if I can get my head round it properly as I'm sure many players are making -EV calls or folds when faced with such a big bet relative to the pot. I will try and get some examples up for next time.
Could do with someway to display hands well in this blog. Ideally be able to put the Pokerstars replayer or similar into the post, but no idea how. If anyone has some good suggestions how to display hands more visually please get in touch or leave a comment down below.
Stay Lucky Folks
Anyway enough of the whinging, onto when I am going to get another nice score. I have a few things lined up including getting a seat for the PLO at the APAT festival at the end of the month at DTD. I was in for the main event on the Friday 28th and now have got a seat in the PLO on the Thursday, thru just catching a guy selling his seat on Blonde at the right time. He also has a HORSE seat available for the Sunday which I would love to play too, but not sure if I can blag time off for that one as well.
Playing a lot of cash at Pokerstars, trying to get those points for Supernova status. About 7,000 to go now and also taking advantage of a rare Pokerstars bonus of $300. Most games have been Omaha Hi/Lo but mainly No Limit as opposed to my usual Pot Limit stuff. This is the normal game spread at Stars these days and I think is the only site that really does it, but it does mean there is a lot of chance to push on boards where you think you can 3/4 someone. I have been using the Hendon Mob calculator to work out and annalyse these situations afterwards and thin I have a bit of work to do there, but potentially a very profitable game if I can get my head round it properly as I'm sure many players are making -EV calls or folds when faced with such a big bet relative to the pot. I will try and get some examples up for next time.
Could do with someway to display hands well in this blog. Ideally be able to put the Pokerstars replayer or similar into the post, but no idea how. If anyone has some good suggestions how to display hands more visually please get in touch or leave a comment down below.
Stay Lucky Folks
Thursday, 6 August 2009
July accounts
Accounts for July
PokerPlex : up $320
PokerStars: up $850
Full Tilt : up $80
Playing live: down $330 (although this was saved big style by my mates 5% for $410)
In total for playing up $920
Bonus this month of $40 and pokerplex rakeback of $50
So +$1010 for the month.
and +$5170 for the year.
In short ~ a very good month online coupled with a disaster live (not one cash at all in 5 casino and 5 local events, plus a heavy drop on a dealers choice cash game).
Hoping to make August a month when I really hammer it online, would really like to get Supernova status and they have just brought in a bonus special this month to give me that little encouragement.
As for live I have registered for the APAT PLO game on the 27th, but unsure if I will be able to make that and similarly for the Blackpool £100 monthly. Hope to get a few other casino games in while I am off work though.
Also there are a few of us that have comitted to play the IPO in Dublin during October which is the biggest tourney in the world outside the USA. Flights , Hotels and Entry already booked, anyone want to come along as well look here for details.
Till next time, stay lucky !
PokerPlex : up $320
PokerStars: up $850
Full Tilt : up $80
Playing live: down $330 (although this was saved big style by my mates 5% for $410)
In total for playing up $920
Bonus this month of $40 and pokerplex rakeback of $50
So +$1010 for the month.
and +$5170 for the year.
In short ~ a very good month online coupled with a disaster live (not one cash at all in 5 casino and 5 local events, plus a heavy drop on a dealers choice cash game).
Hoping to make August a month when I really hammer it online, would really like to get Supernova status and they have just brought in a bonus special this month to give me that little encouragement.
As for live I have registered for the APAT PLO game on the 27th, but unsure if I will be able to make that and similarly for the Blackpool £100 monthly. Hope to get a few other casino games in while I am off work though.
Also there are a few of us that have comitted to play the IPO in Dublin during October which is the biggest tourney in the world outside the USA. Flights , Hotels and Entry already booked, anyone want to come along as well look here for details.
Till next time, stay lucky !
Wednesday, 29 July 2009
My Mate can Play !!!
It's true, my mate can play ! We (Me, Adam, Daz, HoneyMonster and my mate)went down to Blackpool for the monthly £100er which drew an amazing 185 runners.
And my mate came 1st for a cool £5490. No poxy deals but the outright winner at 6:10am !!
It was a good game as always and I hopped along nicely and moved upto almost 35k when the average was only 20k. So thought I was going to be in for a good one, but ran a couple of bluffs and raises that got picked off or pushed and I was back down to average. Did my usual creeping along for a while looking for a chance to move and then made a slightly rash move when I got dealt 10,10 under the gun and decided to push all 20k in, with blinds at 1600/800, and duly ran into a crap players Bullets and that was me out in 60th.
That was not the end of the fun though because we got a little dealers choice cash game going with Adam and Daz. About 8 in all including the never dull Howard Plant.
I do love dealer's choice and there was lots of loose money in this game, unfortunately some of it turned out to be mine. Still a +EV game without a doubt, just not on this occassion, and Daz's re-raise from the blinds in 6 card Omaha Hi/Lo didn't help.
I had A34568 double suited and had to call the £40 bet as did 6 others. The flop brought the 2 but also the Jc Kc. Daz is all-in next guy is all-in, next guy calls and I have £85 left so got to call and the pot ends up being around the £700 mark. Turn is a 6 so any low card will do, but it comes 9c and makes my flush, but I know it is too low and sure enough guy on my left flips the Nut flush. RELOAD Please!
So I ended up walknig away in the end £230 down from the cash, by biggest loss for a long time. But hey ho it didn't matter as we watched my mate storm it and my little 5% saver brought me in £275. Nice one and back in bed by 8am !
So live games haven't been too good for me this month, but off down to Bolton tonight I think for their £50 triple chance. Played it on the first of the month and crashed early, I'm due a good one....tonight is the night.
Online has been pretty good though so will have the figures up next time after the weekend for July. Might be the last post for a while as I have an important matter or two to deal with.
So enjoy and stay lucky chumps.
And my mate came 1st for a cool £5490. No poxy deals but the outright winner at 6:10am !!
It was a good game as always and I hopped along nicely and moved upto almost 35k when the average was only 20k. So thought I was going to be in for a good one, but ran a couple of bluffs and raises that got picked off or pushed and I was back down to average. Did my usual creeping along for a while looking for a chance to move and then made a slightly rash move when I got dealt 10,10 under the gun and decided to push all 20k in, with blinds at 1600/800, and duly ran into a crap players Bullets and that was me out in 60th.
That was not the end of the fun though because we got a little dealers choice cash game going with Adam and Daz. About 8 in all including the never dull Howard Plant.
I do love dealer's choice and there was lots of loose money in this game, unfortunately some of it turned out to be mine. Still a +EV game without a doubt, just not on this occassion, and Daz's re-raise from the blinds in 6 card Omaha Hi/Lo didn't help.
I had A34568 double suited and had to call the £40 bet as did 6 others. The flop brought the 2 but also the Jc Kc. Daz is all-in next guy is all-in, next guy calls and I have £85 left so got to call and the pot ends up being around the £700 mark. Turn is a 6 so any low card will do, but it comes 9c and makes my flush, but I know it is too low and sure enough guy on my left flips the Nut flush. RELOAD Please!
So I ended up walknig away in the end £230 down from the cash, by biggest loss for a long time. But hey ho it didn't matter as we watched my mate storm it and my little 5% saver brought me in £275. Nice one and back in bed by 8am !
So live games haven't been too good for me this month, but off down to Bolton tonight I think for their £50 triple chance. Played it on the first of the month and crashed early, I'm due a good one....tonight is the night.
Online has been pretty good though so will have the figures up next time after the weekend for July. Might be the last post for a while as I have an important matter or two to deal with.
So enjoy and stay lucky chumps.
Thursday, 23 July 2009
2000+ views and MTT frenzy
Since the last entry I have been hammering the online MTTs, mainly PLO Hi/Lo, but also a bit of Razz, Stud Hi/Lo, HORSE and the Stars 8Game tourneys ( involves, 2-7 triple draw, LHE, Omaha Hi/Lo, Razz, Stud, Stud Hi/Lo, NLHE, PLO) which are great fun.
Been going fairly deep in most but apart from a $260 PLO8 cash for 4/169 on PokerPlex, they have all been low cashes <$100 or busting just short of the cash.
Official Poker Rankings is a good site and has a comprehensive list of all my Pokerstars tourneys, worth a look here
In the money at 18% and a ROI of 35% is worthy of staking, so hoping to keep it up and get some staking for PLO Hi or Hi/Lo tourneys. Preferably live but maybe online as well.
Tried to ring the gambling comission guy about the tour games, but phone turned off all the time and no response to my texts so still up in the air a little.
Played a fair number of local live pub games as well with some success, but last night I made my first bad move for a while.
I was BB and looked down to see pockets 10's. HoneyMonster made a raise from early position....could mean anything....but I was well ahead of his range so was going to push it back over the top......then another Adam, a solid player, dwells in the small blind before pushing all-in himself, I snap called even though in my head I had already placed his range and only 88 & 99 were hands I was ahead of. D'OH sure enough HoneyM got out of the way and he flipped JJ. It was only a £10 pub crap shoot, but still bit miffed as it was a clear mistake and junior play to call just because I had already made my mind up prior to him acting.
However every cloud has a silver lining and it gave me time to play Athers at Snooker afterwards which I really enjoyed. I haven't played pool or snooker for about 10 years and I played a lot in my 'youth' # I could definitely get back into it.
Sneaks, HoneyM, DazN and maybe a couple of others going to Blackpool for the £100 deepstack this Saturday so winners tourney report coming up Sunday Morning ! LOL
Keep in touch with yourself lads n lasses and stay lucky.
Been going fairly deep in most but apart from a $260 PLO8 cash for 4/169 on PokerPlex, they have all been low cashes <$100 or busting just short of the cash.
Official Poker Rankings is a good site and has a comprehensive list of all my Pokerstars tourneys, worth a look here
In the money at 18% and a ROI of 35% is worthy of staking, so hoping to keep it up and get some staking for PLO Hi or Hi/Lo tourneys. Preferably live but maybe online as well.
Tried to ring the gambling comission guy about the tour games, but phone turned off all the time and no response to my texts so still up in the air a little.
Played a fair number of local live pub games as well with some success, but last night I made my first bad move for a while.
I was BB and looked down to see pockets 10's. HoneyMonster made a raise from early position....could mean anything....but I was well ahead of his range so was going to push it back over the top......then another Adam, a solid player, dwells in the small blind before pushing all-in himself, I snap called even though in my head I had already placed his range and only 88 & 99 were hands I was ahead of. D'OH sure enough HoneyM got out of the way and he flipped JJ. It was only a £10 pub crap shoot, but still bit miffed as it was a clear mistake and junior play to call just because I had already made my mind up prior to him acting.
However every cloud has a silver lining and it gave me time to play Athers at Snooker afterwards which I really enjoyed. I haven't played pool or snooker for about 10 years and I played a lot in my 'youth' # I could definitely get back into it.
Sneaks, HoneyM, DazN and maybe a couple of others going to Blackpool for the £100 deepstack this Saturday so winners tourney report coming up Sunday Morning ! LOL
Keep in touch with yourself lads n lasses and stay lucky.
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