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Well a big fat merry Christmas to everyone.
I just wanted to make a note about links to the right. If i have recently been in contact with you or you have a new blog and it should be updated please be patient. I have just attempted to change these things 3, yes 3, times and each time they have not saved. The third one is in fact still "saving" although i expect that is a computer generated lie.
Fear not Compadres this will all be rectified in due course. I might ship the whole thing to this other blogging network as it looks much nicer and as we all know its all about looks. We are discouraged from supporting this claim but we all secretly know it to be true. Much like when Chandler made the claim "smoking's cool and you know it!" he was right, and they did all know it as they all smoke like dirty chimneys in their real lives. However post smoking ban, smoking is not cool. However, it does remain all about looks.
Came 4th in a 180 last night when the big stack hit everything. his Q7 vs QJ, flop QT4..river 7 his J7 vs KQ. Flop 77K turn Q. His A3 vs A7, his 55 shove caught by great little short stack player's JJ....river 5, etc etc. Fuck him. The good thing about this was i was 12th on the final table bubble and people with chips were suggesting i calmed down the raises and shoves. I was playing tight and positional to be honest and it wasn't long before i was 4th. For the first time in one of these when i have been behind, i have realised that the people with chips are definitely not better players than me, in fact they are much worse, this allowed me to continue as i was, knowing that more often than not i would be up against them with the best of it.
Now i just need to hope that my recent downswing - huge - eek - has been a rough side of variance, something i don't believe in at these limits - lol, and that i can bag a few wins and some Christmas cash.
All the best
Showing posts with label Poker. Show all posts
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Party Joker(s)
Hey up
Today i opened me email (no postal strike there) to find 10 dollars from the people at party poker. Last time i was there was about a year ago where i rolled up 25 dolls into a thousand before losing a few hundred, getting scared and fleeing with the money. Today i have been at the site for about an hour and sitting with $10 at the 10-25c - 6 max tables, turned it into $75. Holy shit it was easy! I did hit some cards and catch some flops but i was folding a lot and people just didn't seem to fold when i was deciding to play. Great for me, bad for them.
Now i don't know what to do. Its 30 quid for free. Not really enough to withdraw, but times are very hard these days. A job?? yes i should get a job. Very clever. But lets not talk about that for a moment. I think i should just try and roll this up as best i can and make smaller withdrawals as and when i can. If i run like i just did (which is impossible) i will be rich be Monday. Woo
I realised something today. That is that i really don't play session poker. I tend to sit down for an hour or 3 and play. I have never (unlike Brian Townsend) sat down for 14-16 hours and played all day. I wonder what would happen. Rags or riches? i wonder....hmmm. Free tomorrow?? Of course. Play all day? Maybe i will.
After my brothers recommendation i have just bought a Tiger Woods golf game for my PS2. Its ace and may well keep me off the pokes when i should be trying to earn some money. I got a really old version from Game or somewhere for £4. Apparently the new one is just out but i thought I'd spend this little bit of money to see if i liked it first.
Today i actually had the intention of watching a load of poker x factor videos but i can't remember my password. At about 11am i requested the reminder thingy and sat with my email open doing other things. Nothing. I requested it again and again. Nothing. It is now 5.30pm. Personally i think that is very bad. I am a dissatisfied customer.
Good luck at the tables. Lets hope there are 12 tonnes of fishies logged in tomorrow. We are going to war. (Not really war - obviously - just watching 300 on DVD and getting a bit feisty)
Oh yeah. As you may remember (probably not) i went for a part a while ago for a pilot episode for a TV show. I got the part and met my band members. We have recorded our first single and the video and from the 18th of this month we are shooting the pilot. Read the script the other day. Very funny. Keeping the old fingers crossed that it turns out well.
Good luck my little lamb chops
Today i opened me email (no postal strike there) to find 10 dollars from the people at party poker. Last time i was there was about a year ago where i rolled up 25 dolls into a thousand before losing a few hundred, getting scared and fleeing with the money. Today i have been at the site for about an hour and sitting with $10 at the 10-25c - 6 max tables, turned it into $75. Holy shit it was easy! I did hit some cards and catch some flops but i was folding a lot and people just didn't seem to fold when i was deciding to play. Great for me, bad for them.
Now i don't know what to do. Its 30 quid for free. Not really enough to withdraw, but times are very hard these days. A job?? yes i should get a job. Very clever. But lets not talk about that for a moment. I think i should just try and roll this up as best i can and make smaller withdrawals as and when i can. If i run like i just did (which is impossible) i will be rich be Monday. Woo
I realised something today. That is that i really don't play session poker. I tend to sit down for an hour or 3 and play. I have never (unlike Brian Townsend) sat down for 14-16 hours and played all day. I wonder what would happen. Rags or riches? i wonder....hmmm. Free tomorrow?? Of course. Play all day? Maybe i will.
After my brothers recommendation i have just bought a Tiger Woods golf game for my PS2. Its ace and may well keep me off the pokes when i should be trying to earn some money. I got a really old version from Game or somewhere for £4. Apparently the new one is just out but i thought I'd spend this little bit of money to see if i liked it first.
Today i actually had the intention of watching a load of poker x factor videos but i can't remember my password. At about 11am i requested the reminder thingy and sat with my email open doing other things. Nothing. I requested it again and again. Nothing. It is now 5.30pm. Personally i think that is very bad. I am a dissatisfied customer.
Good luck at the tables. Lets hope there are 12 tonnes of fishies logged in tomorrow. We are going to war. (Not really war - obviously - just watching 300 on DVD and getting a bit feisty)
Oh yeah. As you may remember (probably not) i went for a part a while ago for a pilot episode for a TV show. I got the part and met my band members. We have recorded our first single and the video and from the 18th of this month we are shooting the pilot. Read the script the other day. Very funny. Keeping the old fingers crossed that it turns out well.
Good luck my little lamb chops
Friday, July 27, 2007
Cash
That was my impulse title for this post as i played a cash game last night. As soon as i wrote it i realised it is what i would have written if i had cashed in a tournament, which i haven't. Yet.
Last night i busted from the 6pm, $5, 5k guaranteed. This is a new regular fixture for me i decided. Not too crowded a field and still 3k in chips and 15 minute levels. Nice one. I don;t know how i went out but no doubt i was a huge favourite. Just kidding.
Later i busted in the midnight after 2 3/4 hours. I made a really dumb play. Basically i called a late position raise from an active player, i had QJ clubs (i fukin love clubs). The flop came K89 with 2 spades. Not a great flop although i do have a gutshot and there is only one over card. I check call a flop bet. Miss. Instead of stopping here i check call again. I hit a queen on the river so now have to call that. He has AK. I don't know why i do this. I need to just drill it into my head that i am calling a raise out of position to hit a flop hard. Not catch half of nothing and do a load of chips with it. Muppet.
Before this hand i had been moved to the right of a player with 24k in chips. He had his fat face as his avatar and was talking shit and playing any hand. I found kings and shoved early position he called with A7 off suit and i doubled. Later i shove QT suited and find myself in bad shape to his KQ and i'm gone.
I am wide awake so i jump to some cash tables. I decide to play a minimum buy in and see what happens. So i sit with $10 at 0.25/0.50. I lose it immediately with QJs vs KJs on a J high flop when i river 2 pr and he makes a straight. I lose another 10 fairly standard.
On the third $10, i call a raise on the button with 77. The pot is approx $5. The flop is an ugly KTx. He pauses and bets $1. This is a pathetic bet here - i call. The turn is a 7. Bingo. This does put 2 floosh draws out. He checks. Pussy. I bet $1, and laugh at my hilarious genius. He raises. I know he is weak so i shove. He calls with JJ.
I make may way to $30 and we are even in money. Until this happens.
I raise after it folds to me. I am in the cutoff with 96 diamonds. I am reraised quite strong from the bb. I call. The flop is Q94 - he bets - obviously - i call. Turn 6. I love it. I know i am ahead of his big pp. He bets strong i raise all in he calls. The river is a disaster. It's a 4. So he rivers a better 2 pair with his KK. Mother fucker. He then says thank you. Like he set me up. The fuckin plum. I was steamed and actually called him dumbo! God knows why. I am usually much more intelligently offensive in these situations. He was like, Doh what did you have. I didn't say that if you just thought for a minute there are only 2 hands that he couldn't beat til the river that were screwed by the river card. Them being Q9 and 96. Little bitch.
That did me in. Down to 2 dollars. I sorted that out to $10 and built that up to $40 and left the table eventually with $25.
I definitely had fun playing and if favourable situations had gone my way i would have finished on $70 with a $30 profit for a short session. Definitely beatable. I saw a lot of hands not folded when they should have been and hands like a flopped 2 pr getting paid off till the river by top pr. It was much fun and a while since i played this level. I am thinking about buying August off too and giving myself a small roll. This will be a roll to cover a small venture back into cash games as well as several tournaments a few times a week where my real aim is to make a significant tournament cash, to build on the roll by playing cash games and to be more disciplined as a player. It will probably be a more significant amount like 500 dollars. Eek!
Last night i busted from the 6pm, $5, 5k guaranteed. This is a new regular fixture for me i decided. Not too crowded a field and still 3k in chips and 15 minute levels. Nice one. I don;t know how i went out but no doubt i was a huge favourite. Just kidding.
Later i busted in the midnight after 2 3/4 hours. I made a really dumb play. Basically i called a late position raise from an active player, i had QJ clubs (i fukin love clubs). The flop came K89 with 2 spades. Not a great flop although i do have a gutshot and there is only one over card. I check call a flop bet. Miss. Instead of stopping here i check call again. I hit a queen on the river so now have to call that. He has AK. I don't know why i do this. I need to just drill it into my head that i am calling a raise out of position to hit a flop hard. Not catch half of nothing and do a load of chips with it. Muppet.
Before this hand i had been moved to the right of a player with 24k in chips. He had his fat face as his avatar and was talking shit and playing any hand. I found kings and shoved early position he called with A7 off suit and i doubled. Later i shove QT suited and find myself in bad shape to his KQ and i'm gone.
I am wide awake so i jump to some cash tables. I decide to play a minimum buy in and see what happens. So i sit with $10 at 0.25/0.50. I lose it immediately with QJs vs KJs on a J high flop when i river 2 pr and he makes a straight. I lose another 10 fairly standard.
On the third $10, i call a raise on the button with 77. The pot is approx $5. The flop is an ugly KTx. He pauses and bets $1. This is a pathetic bet here - i call. The turn is a 7. Bingo. This does put 2 floosh draws out. He checks. Pussy. I bet $1, and laugh at my hilarious genius. He raises. I know he is weak so i shove. He calls with JJ.
I make may way to $30 and we are even in money. Until this happens.
I raise after it folds to me. I am in the cutoff with 96 diamonds. I am reraised quite strong from the bb. I call. The flop is Q94 - he bets - obviously - i call. Turn 6. I love it. I know i am ahead of his big pp. He bets strong i raise all in he calls. The river is a disaster. It's a 4. So he rivers a better 2 pair with his KK. Mother fucker. He then says thank you. Like he set me up. The fuckin plum. I was steamed and actually called him dumbo! God knows why. I am usually much more intelligently offensive in these situations. He was like, Doh what did you have. I didn't say that if you just thought for a minute there are only 2 hands that he couldn't beat til the river that were screwed by the river card. Them being Q9 and 96. Little bitch.
That did me in. Down to 2 dollars. I sorted that out to $10 and built that up to $40 and left the table eventually with $25.
I definitely had fun playing and if favourable situations had gone my way i would have finished on $70 with a $30 profit for a short session. Definitely beatable. I saw a lot of hands not folded when they should have been and hands like a flopped 2 pr getting paid off till the river by top pr. It was much fun and a while since i played this level. I am thinking about buying August off too and giving myself a small roll. This will be a roll to cover a small venture back into cash games as well as several tournaments a few times a week where my real aim is to make a significant tournament cash, to build on the roll by playing cash games and to be more disciplined as a player. It will probably be a more significant amount like 500 dollars. Eek!
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Update
After pondering what to do with myself poker wise, as well as losing $10 from Ultimate Bet (AK vs AT - strong raising pre - all in on an ATx flop - cunt) and £20 from Will Hill, i have redeposited the minimum on PokerStars, $10. My mission now, shoud i choose to accept it (erm, already have) is to play 1 and 2 dollar games and roll it up until i can play other games. I consider this a good move for 2 reasons. Firstly, it is punishment for treating my new BR with no respect. Now i must grind something together from the lowest of the low. Secondly, i have to respect the game. I am playing like such a twat. I am playing too fast, not thinking things through and not giving people nearly enough credit. Are they clever enough to make big bluffs? Not that often. Are they in fact more likely to have made a big hand by playing rags out of position in a raised pot? Much more likely. Think about it!
So i just played my first. $1 - 45 man tourney. Came first for $14. The best start possible. It was great. I honestly feel like i've won something huge! it's fucking pathetic! But, my A10 beat 66 when i had a bigger stack, that was the only "all in" pre flop i got myself in before i had tonnes of chips. The rest was easy. I busted the huge chip leader in 2 hands and by the time we were 4 handed i think i had 40-50k to their 8k. Funny.
So we'll see what happens now.
I honestly thought that after the 3 wins last week and withdrawing $300, leaving $200 in i had turned a corner in my poker career. I am so gutted i can't believe it. Granted, its not of Blue Scouse proportions, but i was winning sng's, from single table turbo's to multi man long hauls, i did not need to spunk a load playing impatient and high variance cash games.
The upshot to this is that once again i am on the rebuild. I am playing better than i have before but now i just need to get some patience and consistent rational play in mind and i'll really be getting somewhere.
In other news i have just checked my share prices. I got a gift of £1000 in shares about 6 years ago. The price we paid was around 50p per share. Shortly after buying them they rocketed up to £6 odd. If we had sold then we would have made £12k, gutted! Since that point they dropped to an all time low in 2003 of about 25p. Selling then would have made a loss of £500, hilarious. Due to recent activities and contracts with apple and other mobile communications companies they are on a steady rise finishing the day on £1.56 - around £3k as for as i am concerned. All good and more to come apparently. Nice.
Oh yeah. A while ago i mentioned that i had some bizarre searches that had led to my blog. The latest is pretty sick but funny too. Someone has ended up here by searching "Just naked children". It's as if he (or she?) is tired of finding sites with just a few naked kids on, "Tut! too many naked adults". He has used an advanced search to get just exactly when s/he wants. You sick monkey! But hey, thanks for reading.
Goodnight
So i just played my first. $1 - 45 man tourney. Came first for $14. The best start possible. It was great. I honestly feel like i've won something huge! it's fucking pathetic! But, my A10 beat 66 when i had a bigger stack, that was the only "all in" pre flop i got myself in before i had tonnes of chips. The rest was easy. I busted the huge chip leader in 2 hands and by the time we were 4 handed i think i had 40-50k to their 8k. Funny.
So we'll see what happens now.
I honestly thought that after the 3 wins last week and withdrawing $300, leaving $200 in i had turned a corner in my poker career. I am so gutted i can't believe it. Granted, its not of Blue Scouse proportions, but i was winning sng's, from single table turbo's to multi man long hauls, i did not need to spunk a load playing impatient and high variance cash games.
The upshot to this is that once again i am on the rebuild. I am playing better than i have before but now i just need to get some patience and consistent rational play in mind and i'll really be getting somewhere.
In other news i have just checked my share prices. I got a gift of £1000 in shares about 6 years ago. The price we paid was around 50p per share. Shortly after buying them they rocketed up to £6 odd. If we had sold then we would have made £12k, gutted! Since that point they dropped to an all time low in 2003 of about 25p. Selling then would have made a loss of £500, hilarious. Due to recent activities and contracts with apple and other mobile communications companies they are on a steady rise finishing the day on £1.56 - around £3k as for as i am concerned. All good and more to come apparently. Nice.
Oh yeah. A while ago i mentioned that i had some bizarre searches that had led to my blog. The latest is pretty sick but funny too. Someone has ended up here by searching "Just naked children". It's as if he (or she?) is tired of finding sites with just a few naked kids on, "Tut! too many naked adults". He has used an advanced search to get just exactly when s/he wants. You sick monkey! But hey, thanks for reading.
Goodnight
Friday, July 13, 2007
Well, well, well...
Good evening troops.
Just sitting around playing 'da pokes' and seeing what happens. I have had an up and down few days. As i posted recently, i had a few wins and then spooonked half of it up the cash game wall. I recouped a few dollars at William Hill, cashing out 40 quid leaving 20 still in. I won a couple of sng's and then lost more. I was profitable though. I did sit at a $25 cash table while my house mate was watching. I played about 3 hands in an hour and left with $60. Very fishy indeed. I am not rolled to play at these games but the truth of the decision was 2 fold. 1, the stats window in the lobby; it was a very loose table and the average pot was high. I thought/knew/hoped that sitting tight would reap rewards. And 2, does anyone else play better when they have someone watching them? I tend to have to explain situations aloud and thus analyse my own play. Definitely good for someone who tends to get splashy in too many pots - like me.
In other news. I have just placed first in another 180 for another $216. Yeah, yeah, just another $216. Ha! Its great news 'cos as you may or may not know i don't work properly at the moment, so its all welcome. I said that i would not cash any out as i wanted to build my BR up, but i did just take out $180/ £90, leaving me with over $200. The reason for this is that whilst i really do want to build a roll, at the same time i need money and was so angry at myself for spunking money away the other day, i would rather withdraw it and "bank" it than risk it. I withdrew it this time but will definitely win more bankroll contributions soon! Watch this space.
So i worked last Saturday for £175, withdrew £150 poker profit this week and am getting £220 to work tomorrow. For being a Pirate! Arrrrrrrr! Not a bad week - £545. I don't need more than that in a week. That amount per week more regularly would be nice though!
Sometimes i think my life is so dull. Other times, like this week. I fookin' love it!
Currently;
reading - True and False - David Mamet (Book about being a better actor - work you see)
watching - Save the Green Planet - Steven Chow (also made the must see Kung Fu Hustle)
listening to - The Pussycat Dolls - (foxy bitches)
good luck everyone
Just sitting around playing 'da pokes' and seeing what happens. I have had an up and down few days. As i posted recently, i had a few wins and then spooonked half of it up the cash game wall. I recouped a few dollars at William Hill, cashing out 40 quid leaving 20 still in. I won a couple of sng's and then lost more. I was profitable though. I did sit at a $25 cash table while my house mate was watching. I played about 3 hands in an hour and left with $60. Very fishy indeed. I am not rolled to play at these games but the truth of the decision was 2 fold. 1, the stats window in the lobby; it was a very loose table and the average pot was high. I thought/knew/hoped that sitting tight would reap rewards. And 2, does anyone else play better when they have someone watching them? I tend to have to explain situations aloud and thus analyse my own play. Definitely good for someone who tends to get splashy in too many pots - like me.
In other news. I have just placed first in another 180 for another $216. Yeah, yeah, just another $216. Ha! Its great news 'cos as you may or may not know i don't work properly at the moment, so its all welcome. I said that i would not cash any out as i wanted to build my BR up, but i did just take out $180/ £90, leaving me with over $200. The reason for this is that whilst i really do want to build a roll, at the same time i need money and was so angry at myself for spunking money away the other day, i would rather withdraw it and "bank" it than risk it. I withdrew it this time but will definitely win more bankroll contributions soon! Watch this space.
So i worked last Saturday for £175, withdrew £150 poker profit this week and am getting £220 to work tomorrow. For being a Pirate! Arrrrrrrr! Not a bad week - £545. I don't need more than that in a week. That amount per week more regularly would be nice though!
Sometimes i think my life is so dull. Other times, like this week. I fookin' love it!
Currently;
reading - True and False - David Mamet (Book about being a better actor - work you see)
watching - Save the Green Planet - Steven Chow (also made the must see Kung Fu Hustle)
listening to - The Pussycat Dolls - (foxy bitches)
good luck everyone
Monday, July 02, 2007
ARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH
I have played at least 4 - 4.40 - 180's on stars the last 2 days and been first in 3 of them and then not even final tabled. Finishing 20th - not even cashing. 15th ish and 14th.
In the most recent we were still in the first level - blinds 10/20 and i had amassed 11,260 in chips, The average was 1901.
How i got there;
saw a raise all in from a short stack - called by someone else - i raise all in - the caller - surprisingly - calls - the cards are me AK - caller Q8 spades - raiser 96 off suit.
Called a raise and someone moved all in - raiser folds i call with AK - he shows AA and i win... never happened to me before with those hands clashing.
I called a small raise in the bb with 24 clubs - flop Q24 - i move all in - he calls with KK
For an hour after that i really didn't play any significant hands only picking up and losing blinds. Had no cards and what i had missed the flops.
By level 7 i had lost 2k and was hanging about 9k.
At that level i see a raised pot multiway with A6 spades. The flop is KJx with 2 spades. I decide we are playing and raise the raiser all in. He thinks for a month and calls with QQ. Crying call IMHO. Ace on the turn and its over for him.
I'm back to third.
Pick up AA and Mr Allin does his job. I just raise to isolate and take 4k off him.
I have 20k and the average is 10k.
I feel good when i fold A10 in first despite my stack only to see an all in, a call, a reraise all in and a call. God knows where i might have ended up in all that.
Not sure what happened next but i got reraised when i had 1010 - felt good about it and played it. happy to see an over played AJ off suit. Not happy to see JJ on the turn and river.
Last hand. I limp AA in first. Flop JJK - sb bets - i call - turn Q hrts - bets i call - river K - bets i call - like a cunt... i know.
And i'm fucked.
I am just an absolute plank who, in my opinion has thrown away a potential $600 in winnings and ended up with $8 because i fell 3 times at the final hurdle.
The only upside in all this "Swimmingpool" has just come on the telly. My god she is fit!
(For those of you who didn't click the link, i mean the girl not the old author woman!)
Good luck you lot
In the most recent we were still in the first level - blinds 10/20 and i had amassed 11,260 in chips, The average was 1901.
How i got there;
saw a raise all in from a short stack - called by someone else - i raise all in - the caller - surprisingly - calls - the cards are me AK - caller Q8 spades - raiser 96 off suit.
Called a raise and someone moved all in - raiser folds i call with AK - he shows AA and i win... never happened to me before with those hands clashing.
I called a small raise in the bb with 24 clubs - flop Q24 - i move all in - he calls with KK
For an hour after that i really didn't play any significant hands only picking up and losing blinds. Had no cards and what i had missed the flops.
By level 7 i had lost 2k and was hanging about 9k.
At that level i see a raised pot multiway with A6 spades. The flop is KJx with 2 spades. I decide we are playing and raise the raiser all in. He thinks for a month and calls with QQ. Crying call IMHO. Ace on the turn and its over for him.
I'm back to third.
Pick up AA and Mr Allin does his job. I just raise to isolate and take 4k off him.
I have 20k and the average is 10k.
I feel good when i fold A10 in first despite my stack only to see an all in, a call, a reraise all in and a call. God knows where i might have ended up in all that.
Not sure what happened next but i got reraised when i had 1010 - felt good about it and played it. happy to see an over played AJ off suit. Not happy to see JJ on the turn and river.
Last hand. I limp AA in first. Flop JJK - sb bets - i call - turn Q hrts - bets i call - river K - bets i call - like a cunt... i know.
And i'm fucked.
I am just an absolute plank who, in my opinion has thrown away a potential $600 in winnings and ended up with $8 because i fell 3 times at the final hurdle.
The only upside in all this "Swimmingpool" has just come on the telly. My god she is fit!
(For those of you who didn't click the link, i mean the girl not the old author woman!)
Good luck you lot
Saturday, June 02, 2007
Ok you little monkies.
My bankroll steadily rising we are now looking at a total of $73.88.
This is great news and very encouraging. I am winning the 6 handed tables (or at least cashing) more often than not. I spent about $15 the other night whilst tired playing multi table turbos. These for me represent way less value than the 6 seaters. In a 6 seater turbo i can sit and wait through the first few levels if i don't catch any cards. This allows the possibility of other players busting each other or enables me to catch people making mistakes. With the multi tables it just seems that my good hands have less chance of holding up in a full ring situation and other people seem to acquire much larger stacks faster, allowing them the "bully" moves.
I won that money back and a bit more coming 7th in a $4.40, 180 man tourney on Stars. I was very low at one point and tripled up when my shove from late position in an unopened pot was called and raised in the blinds. I was saying my goodbyes when i saw this action. I had Q7 of clubs, the sb had pocket 10's and the bb had AK spades. The flop came ace high with 2 clubs and i caught the third on the river. The very next hand i picked up aces and doubled up again to put me near the head of the field. Through good cards and funky moves i stayed there. I tangled with the chip leader who seemed to want to play every pot with me but i decimated his stack putting me in the lead. At the final table my 88 lost to 44 after he open shoved all in with a huge stack on the button. I knew it was a weak play and called - he flopped a 4. He made the same play again later and i called again with AQ spades and he showed pocket 9's. I was down to 10k. My final hand was against the most aggressive player at the table who had raised or was in almost every hand. Anyway i reraised all in with 99 and was called by his Kings which held.
Hey ho. I know that in normal circumstances i would have finished higher and was all in all very happy with my play.
Oh yeah. I was just thinking how i got short in the first place. I called a raise in the bb after the cutoff had raised and the button called w KJ diamonds. Flop all diamonds - 7 high. The original raiser moves all in the button calls - i move all in - he calls the tiny remainder. Turn 8 river 7. the original raiser mucks and the button shows 78 clubs for runner runner full house. Great play. I love the way these people can over value their flopped low pairs. He could be up against over prs, sets, straights and flushes but no! He thinks his 7, no kicker has got to be good.
Another thing i noticed was play by other big stacks. Say they raise a pot for 3 times the bb say to 1800 and a short stack moves all in for 8k, that is not, i don't think an auto call with any pair. 55 for example. I watched a guy in successive hands - raise call all in with 55 and lose to AK - raise and call an all in with AQ and lose to AK - raise - get reraised - then HE reraises - puts the other guy all in who eventually calls with 1010 - our guy loses with 66. stack?? decimated. I think someone said he lost 43k in those 3 hands. This is obviously an extreme example but some of the play was just hilarious.
I must admit it feels good to sit and laugh at this play aware of mistakes being made. I am basically sick of feeling knowledgeable about the game and not winning. I have taken measures to improve it and things are looking, and feeling pretty goooood
This is great news and very encouraging. I am winning the 6 handed tables (or at least cashing) more often than not. I spent about $15 the other night whilst tired playing multi table turbos. These for me represent way less value than the 6 seaters. In a 6 seater turbo i can sit and wait through the first few levels if i don't catch any cards. This allows the possibility of other players busting each other or enables me to catch people making mistakes. With the multi tables it just seems that my good hands have less chance of holding up in a full ring situation and other people seem to acquire much larger stacks faster, allowing them the "bully" moves.
I won that money back and a bit more coming 7th in a $4.40, 180 man tourney on Stars. I was very low at one point and tripled up when my shove from late position in an unopened pot was called and raised in the blinds. I was saying my goodbyes when i saw this action. I had Q7 of clubs, the sb had pocket 10's and the bb had AK spades. The flop came ace high with 2 clubs and i caught the third on the river. The very next hand i picked up aces and doubled up again to put me near the head of the field. Through good cards and funky moves i stayed there. I tangled with the chip leader who seemed to want to play every pot with me but i decimated his stack putting me in the lead. At the final table my 88 lost to 44 after he open shoved all in with a huge stack on the button. I knew it was a weak play and called - he flopped a 4. He made the same play again later and i called again with AQ spades and he showed pocket 9's. I was down to 10k. My final hand was against the most aggressive player at the table who had raised or was in almost every hand. Anyway i reraised all in with 99 and was called by his Kings which held.
Hey ho. I know that in normal circumstances i would have finished higher and was all in all very happy with my play.
Oh yeah. I was just thinking how i got short in the first place. I called a raise in the bb after the cutoff had raised and the button called w KJ diamonds. Flop all diamonds - 7 high. The original raiser moves all in the button calls - i move all in - he calls the tiny remainder. Turn 8 river 7. the original raiser mucks and the button shows 78 clubs for runner runner full house. Great play. I love the way these people can over value their flopped low pairs. He could be up against over prs, sets, straights and flushes but no! He thinks his 7, no kicker has got to be good.
Another thing i noticed was play by other big stacks. Say they raise a pot for 3 times the bb say to 1800 and a short stack moves all in for 8k, that is not, i don't think an auto call with any pair. 55 for example. I watched a guy in successive hands - raise call all in with 55 and lose to AK - raise and call an all in with AQ and lose to AK - raise - get reraised - then HE reraises - puts the other guy all in who eventually calls with 1010 - our guy loses with 66. stack?? decimated. I think someone said he lost 43k in those 3 hands. This is obviously an extreme example but some of the play was just hilarious.
I must admit it feels good to sit and laugh at this play aware of mistakes being made. I am basically sick of feeling knowledgeable about the game and not winning. I have taken measures to improve it and things are looking, and feeling pretty goooood
Thursday, May 24, 2007
The Descent into poker blogging
I have just watched the film The Descent http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435625/ . Holy Moly! Shocker! As i mentioned before, i don't really get scared by films. I think to a certain extent i have seen it all. However, what this film did do particularly well was utilise shock tactics to its best advantage. I was in by myself and was tensing up and jumping about like an epileptic at a disco. Along with the "boo factor" (which is what i think this should actually be called - "i give this a boo factor 9" etc) they showed some shocking stuff - not like a man stabbing a baby or anything like that, but rather surprise, shock elements that made you jump and feel disgusted at the same time. I don't know about you but there are certain things that can be shown on film that really get to me. One example - not from this film, ( no spoilers here!) is dentistry. Not general dentistry "ahhh yes Mr Smith , very good teeth - do keep them clean!". NO! I mean pulling teeth with rusty implements, stabbing the mouth, the end of American History X ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120586/ ), drilling, wrenching etc etc. Ohhherrr makes me cringe thinking about it. Point is, it makes me feel wrong inside and there were moments in this film which did that to me. The only reason i put it on the list and watched the film is cos Empire Magazine ( http://www.empireonline.com/put ) put it in their list of 201 greatest movies of all time at number 200. I transferred all films i hadn't seen to my list and will see them all in due course. For those of you who don't know, "the list" is the never ending list of films to rent from my online supplier Blockbuster http://www.blockbuster.co.uk/ . Cannot recommend them enough actually.
As for poker. My god this game is sick. I still get vexed and annoyed getting busted by the morons. I don't care if they will make me money in the long run. I may run out of money before my time comes! I'm not kidding. Twice i got my money in with flopped sets (Jacks both times) only to be runner runnered and beaten by a straight and a flush. These were not on as a straight draw when the money went in you understand. If i move all in with a set and someone calls with an overcards and a straight draw then fair play and good luck but this is madness. I made a play i never make today which worked out really well. Check it out...
I'm in the bb dealt AJ off. The guy (dumb looking photo on Pokerstars as his avatar - begs the question why do people who aren't good looking advertise the fact- anyway) he is one off the button - he raises. I figure positional raise and reraise just over 3 times his bet. This incidentally is the play i never make with a hand this weak. He ponders and calls. Flop J33 - "great flop" thinks i. A move i do like to make in this spot is the double bluff continuation bet. I want it to look like a standard continuation bet so they get involved, usually on a flop like this by raising - and lo and behold - he repops me from about 280 - to 700 -now i know he hasn't got an over pair or a 3 - if he has a J its not AJ - so i reraise all in - he calls with AK off - Interesting the board hits runner runner spades to put 4 spades out and give him what is more commonly known as the nut flush.
Bollocks.
Anyway - Poker faults of the day - 1) Emotional - get angry and want to beat certain individuals - 2) Impulsive - sometimes good but i often act and wish I'd just pondered the board/situation a little closer/longer- 3) Impatient - sometimes i sit like a rock playing 3 hands in 49 minutes and others i want to call any raise with any hand - I KNOW WHEN THEY HIT THEY HIT MASSIVE AND CANT BE SPOTTED BUT MORE OFTEN THAN NOT THEY DON'T SO JUST PUT IT ASIDE AND FOLD.
Enjoy your evening and remember its the way to bring a lemon do climax is to tickle the citerus
Night
As for poker. My god this game is sick. I still get vexed and annoyed getting busted by the morons. I don't care if they will make me money in the long run. I may run out of money before my time comes! I'm not kidding. Twice i got my money in with flopped sets (Jacks both times) only to be runner runnered and beaten by a straight and a flush. These were not on as a straight draw when the money went in you understand. If i move all in with a set and someone calls with an overcards and a straight draw then fair play and good luck but this is madness. I made a play i never make today which worked out really well. Check it out...
I'm in the bb dealt AJ off. The guy (dumb looking photo on Pokerstars as his avatar - begs the question why do people who aren't good looking advertise the fact- anyway) he is one off the button - he raises. I figure positional raise and reraise just over 3 times his bet. This incidentally is the play i never make with a hand this weak. He ponders and calls. Flop J33 - "great flop" thinks i. A move i do like to make in this spot is the double bluff continuation bet. I want it to look like a standard continuation bet so they get involved, usually on a flop like this by raising - and lo and behold - he repops me from about 280 - to 700 -now i know he hasn't got an over pair or a 3 - if he has a J its not AJ - so i reraise all in - he calls with AK off - Interesting the board hits runner runner spades to put 4 spades out and give him what is more commonly known as the nut flush.
Bollocks.
Anyway - Poker faults of the day - 1) Emotional - get angry and want to beat certain individuals - 2) Impulsive - sometimes good but i often act and wish I'd just pondered the board/situation a little closer/longer- 3) Impatient - sometimes i sit like a rock playing 3 hands in 49 minutes and others i want to call any raise with any hand - I KNOW WHEN THEY HIT THEY HIT MASSIVE AND CANT BE SPOTTED BUT MORE OFTEN THAN NOT THEY DON'T SO JUST PUT IT ASIDE AND FOLD.
Enjoy your evening and remember its the way to bring a lemon do climax is to tickle the citerus
Night
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