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
Wednesday, 12 August 2009
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.
Monday, 13 July 2009
2nd tour game and a win at LAST !
Played a few tourneys yesterday and went OK , but only managed a cash in one...but what a cash...1st at last in a proper MTT only my 3rd ever in 300+ tourneys.
Wasn't actually for $1600+ as we did a deal 4 handed with me taking $1000 and then played on for an hour later for the $200 left over. Thought I played it well, although as you have to in PLO8 tourneys I got lucky a couple of times. Still another nice little bankroll boost.
It also pushes my rankings right up on OPR and that could well come in handy if I try to look for some staking later in the year , especially for the GUKPT PLO8 at the Vic in Nov/Dec.
The 2nd tour game wnet well, and you wouldn't Adam 'n' Eve it but I only nailed the correct number of entrants again. Remember in the last entry I put 64 as my guess and spot on I was. So Robo is going to have to cough up and get me another Bottle of Red to make up for the one I left in the bar on Saturday LOL.
Game wasn't as smooth as Dalton CC just because it was harder to get around and see everyone, plus no screen for players to see clock which makes a big difference. However it all finished a little earlier after a big heads-up duel between Daz Naylor and young Callum Stewart ended with Daz as the bridesmaid again. Have to say though Callum really impressed me and seems like a quality player, will have to see if he fancies coming down to Blackpool for the £100 on Saturday 25th this month.
There was a problem though as a geezer from the Gambling commission had phoned to see what was going on, after being passed around to several people who didn't have my number, Chris Salmon talked to him and got the OK for that game on the promise that I will ring him during the week. Too busy today at work, but will do tomorrow..............will be a real shame if he says it cant go on anymore as they have been such good events with 100 people having a great night out without losing much and feeling everything was fair. Will report back once I've found out exactly where we lie.
3 possible outcomes I think:
1. He says what we are doing is fine and a real credit to things being done well, carry on. This is what I would most like.
2. He says I cant do this and that, but got to do this and offer that etc. then you can carry on, although it might reduce how many want to be involved if it is too restrictive. This is the mostly outcome I reckon.
3. He says "No Way" and either completely bans them all and/or throws me in the slammer for 10 years ! This is not really my favourite....gulp !
Oh yeh forgot about the car crash, oh well maybe next time............stay lucky freaks.
Wasn't actually for $1600+ as we did a deal 4 handed with me taking $1000 and then played on for an hour later for the $200 left over. Thought I played it well, although as you have to in PLO8 tourneys I got lucky a couple of times. Still another nice little bankroll boost.
It also pushes my rankings right up on OPR and that could well come in handy if I try to look for some staking later in the year , especially for the GUKPT PLO8 at the Vic in Nov/Dec.
The 2nd tour game wnet well, and you wouldn't Adam 'n' Eve it but I only nailed the correct number of entrants again. Remember in the last entry I put 64 as my guess and spot on I was. So Robo is going to have to cough up and get me another Bottle of Red to make up for the one I left in the bar on Saturday LOL.
Game wasn't as smooth as Dalton CC just because it was harder to get around and see everyone, plus no screen for players to see clock which makes a big difference. However it all finished a little earlier after a big heads-up duel between Daz Naylor and young Callum Stewart ended with Daz as the bridesmaid again. Have to say though Callum really impressed me and seems like a quality player, will have to see if he fancies coming down to Blackpool for the £100 on Saturday 25th this month.
There was a problem though as a geezer from the Gambling commission had phoned to see what was going on, after being passed around to several people who didn't have my number, Chris Salmon talked to him and got the OK for that game on the promise that I will ring him during the week. Too busy today at work, but will do tomorrow..............will be a real shame if he says it cant go on anymore as they have been such good events with 100 people having a great night out without losing much and feeling everything was fair. Will report back once I've found out exactly where we lie.
3 possible outcomes I think:
1. He says what we are doing is fine and a real credit to things being done well, carry on. This is what I would most like.
2. He says I cant do this and that, but got to do this and offer that etc. then you can carry on, although it might reduce how many want to be involved if it is too restrictive. This is the mostly outcome I reckon.
3. He says "No Way" and either completely bans them all and/or throws me in the slammer for 10 years ! This is not really my favourite....gulp !
Oh yeh forgot about the car crash, oh well maybe next time............stay lucky freaks.
Wednesday, 8 July 2009
June Account
Well lets make this quick, not a lot of action this month but what did happen was OKish.
Accounts for June
PokerPlex : up $90
PokerStars: up $190
Playing live: down $60
In total for playing up $220
Bonus this month of $40 and pokerplex rakeback of $30
So +$290 for the month.
and +$4160 for the year.
In brief played at Blackpool £100 and finished 38/167 after going card dead for the last 4 hours. A Barrow lad was playing his first game in a casino and did very well to finish 7th for £750, but was a bit drunk by the final table so let himself down a little or he felt he did. I was on his table for a few hours and he was pure entertainment, so lively and asking after every mucked hand " what d'ya have then??? " LOL Well played Ben.
I split a local tourney a few days later and then last night got my first few bad beats for a while live, but not too much damage done.
Got Poker Tour game no. 2 coming up on Friday @ The Ambrose and it will be interesting to see how many we get. Ive gone for a slight drop at 64, Robo has gone for 73......we will wait and see, but do feel I will be getting my second bottle of red coming soon :)
Till later, stay lucky punks !!
Accounts for June
PokerPlex : up $90
PokerStars: up $190
Playing live: down $60
In total for playing up $220
Bonus this month of $40 and pokerplex rakeback of $30
So +$290 for the month.
and +$4160 for the year.
In brief played at Blackpool £100 and finished 38/167 after going card dead for the last 4 hours. A Barrow lad was playing his first game in a casino and did very well to finish 7th for £750, but was a bit drunk by the final table so let himself down a little or he felt he did. I was on his table for a few hours and he was pure entertainment, so lively and asking after every mucked hand " what d'ya have then??? " LOL Well played Ben.
I split a local tourney a few days later and then last night got my first few bad beats for a while live, but not too much damage done.
Got Poker Tour game no. 2 coming up on Friday @ The Ambrose and it will be interesting to see how many we get. Ive gone for a slight drop at 64, Robo has gone for 73......we will wait and see, but do feel I will be getting my second bottle of red coming soon :)
Till later, stay lucky punks !!
Friday, 19 June 2009
Tour Game Proves a Hit
Well the First Event of the Poker Tour went ahead as planned and was a fairly good success. We got 69 runners in the end which was exactly the number of players I had bet on with Paul Robo, he had gone for 64, so I'm looking forward to a nice bottle of red for that LOL
There is a report of the comp on this page HERE and thr tour itself with results and future events HERE
Getting all the names in and registering everyone went fairly smoothly but took a bit longer than i had planned for. So we didn't start till 8:10, not that anyone seemed bothered, but it did mean we didn't finish till almost 2:30am which was a bit late really. Get the signup sheet ready with names in alphabetical order next time should do the trick.
Enjoyed the night, people were asking why I wasn't playing, but to be honest wasn't too bothered. It did everything I had wanted and even got a bit of a clap for the little intro i did at the beginning and a fair few came over to say thanks. Didn't get any negative comments at all, which is quite an acheivement at a local game I think. Running the tourney once in play was fairly easy and once I know a few more names will be even easier. Had one guy who pulled a couple of strokes 1. betting all-in out of turn and 2. exposing his cards when facing an all-in, warned him on the first one and let the cards play, 2nd one was just a bit daft really as he only had J8 and was never calling so didn't bother making a judgement.
Anyway got 5 thru to the grand final and if we get similar numbers for the next one on FRI 10th July at the Ambrose 7pm start I will be able to increase and confirm the prizes..........more of that next time when I have worked it out properly.
As for my playing - nothing to report really as I have been too busy with work kids and life to play that much and what I have played online has been neither up or down. Do hope to get out next Saturday to B'pool G for the monthly £100 deepstack tho.
I'll leave you with a few more pics from the tour game, saty lucky guys !!
SNEAKS 'n' DAZ having a good time.....happy geezers ! ! !
SNAPPER living the life of a pro....sad sponsor shirt and shades ! ! !
Kev Buckley and eventual winner John Richardson
There is a report of the comp on this page HERE and thr tour itself with results and future events HERE
Getting all the names in and registering everyone went fairly smoothly but took a bit longer than i had planned for. So we didn't start till 8:10, not that anyone seemed bothered, but it did mean we didn't finish till almost 2:30am which was a bit late really. Get the signup sheet ready with names in alphabetical order next time should do the trick.
Enjoyed the night, people were asking why I wasn't playing, but to be honest wasn't too bothered. It did everything I had wanted and even got a bit of a clap for the little intro i did at the beginning and a fair few came over to say thanks. Didn't get any negative comments at all, which is quite an acheivement at a local game I think. Running the tourney once in play was fairly easy and once I know a few more names will be even easier. Had one guy who pulled a couple of strokes 1. betting all-in out of turn and 2. exposing his cards when facing an all-in, warned him on the first one and let the cards play, 2nd one was just a bit daft really as he only had J8 and was never calling so didn't bother making a judgement.
Anyway got 5 thru to the grand final and if we get similar numbers for the next one on FRI 10th July at the Ambrose 7pm start I will be able to increase and confirm the prizes..........more of that next time when I have worked it out properly.
As for my playing - nothing to report really as I have been too busy with work kids and life to play that much and what I have played online has been neither up or down. Do hope to get out next Saturday to B'pool G for the monthly £100 deepstack tho.
I'll leave you with a few more pics from the tour game, saty lucky guys !!
SNEAKS 'n' DAZ having a good time.....happy geezers ! ! !
SNAPPER living the life of a pro....sad sponsor shirt and shades ! ! !
Kev Buckley and eventual winner John Richardson
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