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.

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 !

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.