Golf ez game

So Spain was immense a bit hot for those of us who are tall pale white and carrying about 6 stone too many, ;-) But i finally found a resurgent golf game and started playing like a single figure golfer remaining undefeated for the entire holiday, both in fourballs with my dad as partner and in singles i thrashed the old man convincingly. The most notaable game wass a fourball bettefrball matchplay against 2 of our freinds who live out there 6 down after 7 no one would have bet on us winning on the 19th yep Spain was good, I even managed to play some poker at a club owned by an englishman and made a nice 800 euro profit on poker. Basically after this and my golfing exploits i ended upm having a free holiday coming back with 120£ more than i took and this covered my airfairs.

Just changed to Vc poker from Pokerstars the main reason being the 50% rakeback im now getting, val. Struggling a little though as the standard seems a lot higher on stars with far more regs who are easily spotable and grinding out a profit. But after 3 days play ive won a little after early losses and hopefully this rakeback will be a handy increase to my bamkroll. Planning to play the next deepstack weekend at dusk and a few trips away when Owe gets back and jeal sorts out his cashpout probs. Still gonna play a few tourneys on stars and i should really do something about my sharkscope on that site as its terrible lol so see you at the tables RockOfNorth is my name on all sites now.

Online Gold

I really cant be bothered to write much at the mo but ive been gold vip on stars for about 2 weeks now and im doing alrite online playing 1 2 holdem and PLO8 running fairly well and making a fairly decent profit despite not cashing in a sng or mtt for about 17 years. Off to Spain next week to work on my golf game the aim is to come back refreshed and win millions

Ship me the dollar

Cheers then Jeal youve effectivly killed me for 2 days finished the hundread with about an hour to spare but didnt cash in my last 15-20 sitngos just couldnt concentrate nemore so thats something i need to work on and also indentified a few gaping leaks in my game which im now going to attempt to address. So ship me the 400£ jeal cheers then

The Prob Bet

Boooooommmmmm!!!!!!!!!!
So got a prob bet with Jeal as ive now started playing online more frequent he has given me the bet that i cant play 100 sitngos in 16 hours at 8-1 well ive got 50£ on it so ill keep u posted

Min Val in mis reading in 1 way or another

So since my last post ive played very little live because well basically i dont want to because im that disgusted with my game. Been playing a little online over the last couple of days and ive switched from my main game being cash and im now concentrating on mtts and 180 man turbo sngs. Been breaking about level really cashed in a few tourneys but never too deep, until i played in the $5.50 rebuy $50,000 guaranteed. Played really quite well throughout the tourney and was reletivly tight only played 6 % of flops in around 6 hours of play. Was only in for 15$ so when i cashed at about 450 runners i was already in profit. Had a fair amount of chips all tourney and got my money in good most of the time winning every showdown. Went out on an interesting hand when the blinds were fairly big at 10 and 20 thousand the utg min raises my bb and i find AQ hh im never flat calling here its either all in or fold and as the player had been fairly active i decided on pushing after some thought. The utg player thinks and then calls with QQ and no miracle ace i came 36th for 107$ bit sick i made the wrong moe but it really was a 50 50 decision and with me playing these types of tourney more often now hopefully ill tighten some leaks in my game3 and start to grind.

I then played our customary 10 20p holdem game on monday night and was absolutley knakered was losing about £60 and not really playing my best I then call the small blind with what i believed was 6 8 the flop came A 10 8 and it checks round to dave the dip on the button who bet 1.10 i tanked for show and passed checking my cards after i had said fold and looked down at 88 happy days what a muppet i am and after the banter i left just too tired to play.

Now lets see if this online grind is as easy as jeal makes it look

Can Someone pass me a red hot poker please

So basically this post will be fairly short. Im playing like a cunt at the moment after talking to some freinds it was decided i needed more aggression pre flop and in trying to do that Ive lost the ability to play cards at all. So despite some fairly good sessions there have been some very bad sessions noticibly dusk last wednesday when up around 400 early doors i managed to lose over a monkey playing like a blind retard. So a break from live poker looks likely ive recently dipped online for the first time in a while and after winning 140$ on cash i decided to lose with AA vs 77 KKvs 77 QQvs77 and 1010vs 88 and some other fruity hands. Ive now lost 11 50 50 s in a row online and feel like im running really well.
Ih well onwards and upwards and remind me never to mess with a game that has been fairly profitable for quite a while its justr greedy next time im just gonna try and tighten up some leaks. And the next person who berates me for limping AK AQ AJ my original view on this hand stands its not a made hand so go Fuck Yourselves

Run good 1 time or Not

So there was a £10 rebuy at norwich poker club guaranteed £2000 1st place last night. And I thought given my recent tournament results I had a fairly good chance of cashing well if not winning it. 2 1 hour rebuy levels and I was off 2 a good start fleecing squirrel of a pony before the tourney started, unfortunatly that was the high point for a while. With only 1000 chips it was basically all in or fold and i missed out on a few pots by folding KQ and KJ. I then have QQ AA and JJ and lose with all fairly standard considering i lost to K7 24 and 10 10 HAPPY DAYS.
However I did manage using my great powers of running good to find AA QQ and 99 in about 15 hands and won them all cheers then and after a double top up of 5000 chips I was in a fairly strong position of 13000 with average at 8500. Lost a few pots that were fairly marginal decided to put pressure on the 2 short stacks and it didnt go so well. Two pots followed that were fairly cold. I get A5 dd on the button and decide to limp in after 2 limpers as the blinds were fairly passive and the pot was worth taking down with a continuation bet. flop 5 5 10 happy days its checked to me and i fire 1200 into about 3000 get raised to 3 total (hmm interesting ) i decide to flat call hoping to extract further value on the turn. Turn 10 terrible caqrd especially as he insta ships for 14500 i dilma then pass convinced he had a 10. Few hands later its limped to me in the big blind where i find Q2 flop comes Q 9 4 rainbow mid position leads for 1250 into about 2500 i have him covered as he only has 5000 back i move all in and he takes an age to call and finally calls with J 10 turn is a beau tifull 8 cya double him up and im suddenly short stack with about 5500 left.

Now this isnt disastrous as with the antes in there was nearly 2000 in the pot before a card is dealt. I dont show a hand for about the next hour taking down about 1 in 4 pots with all in moves val in uber tight image. Got doubled up with AK against Q7 cheers then. Before I knew it we were on the bubble of 17 players only 5 on our table and somehow from nowhere im chip leader on my table with the terrible but i cant miss player in second. I continue my all in moves it was working well and there was 14000 in blinds and antes. I find A 10 ss and move all in and the second in chips makes a stand on the big blind with A 5 on the bubble ?????? he has plenty of chips hence why i was moving on his blinds. Predictably the flop comes down with a juicy 5 on it no spades and no miracle 10 on the turn or river so i just lost a pot for 112000 chips on the bubble happy days predictably the bubble burst next hand meaning I had cashed (now 6 for 6). Well my stack was now seriously short but not the shortest and 3 more people went out before I made my stand with A J I had 16000 and the pot was 23000 in just blinds but the big blind finds AK and calls the extra 6000 and cya cya bye tourney over.

Played cash for a bit and was winning until ran AK into a set of Jacks on an A J 3 rainbow board oh well run good. But had been concentrating on the tourn really and cash was a bit of a sideline as couldnt get on the table with all the money on.

Cheers then Tyler

Finally the tide seems to have turned

Happy days I seem to have finally began running like only a slightly sub-standard human being generally like one with one leg.
Well apart from losing 40 in our 10 20 home game and 200 in the 50 1 game at npc on monday on tuesday whilst being the most card dead person ever. Well ive took the step recently of not playing online and going back to grinding live tourneys (I know those of you who know me know i said never again and no fucking value ever) but ive rediscovered my love of tourneys even those really small ones at npc such as the 3 £ rebuy but then when ur in for 3£ and 1st is 280£ thats some value. So 5 cashes out of 5 not always running the best on the final table and coming up against the juggernaught that is Dani. Well played the 50 1 game last night again (it really is like a 1 2) and was clearly the tightest player by about 14 miles on what was a very laggy table with tim and baker on true re raise with air form. Did nice though won the first pot and took a couple of others down before a flurry of interesting hands. I get dealt tens in the cutoff and make it 6 50 to go after about 3 limpers predictably Tim calls but a 8 high rainbow board is just juicy enough for me to get it all in against Tim with a 9 and double up. Well the next pot i play is predictably AA from the button and Tim raises to 4.50 from mid pos, I raise to 13 and get just Tim for the ride, but then nightmare flop Kh Qs 10s and Tim leads for 25 i take the unusual step of making it 50 before Tim shoves for about 200 more. I had a think but then called with my remaining 125 why u ask well i think im still generally ahead of Tims range and he made a very similar move against me last week verbally claimimg the nuts when he had bottom pair and a gut shot. Lone behold I was in fornt and just for fun i stayed in front taking down a fair pot.
The next hand is one i dont think i played to the best of my ability. Farouk goes all in for 17 in a straddle pot under the gun plus 1, i find As Kd so continuing my passive pre flop play i flat call, Baker 2 positions to my left raises 50 more, at this point my stack was about 550 and I was fairly happy to peel off a flop thinking im probably ahead of both their ranges. The flop comes down Qs 10s 5s and i check Baker bets 50 more now here i should probably raise all in with 2 overs a gut shot and the nut flush draw but i opt for pot control flat calling thinking that must look terrifying and the brakes would come on. Turn 9h I again checked and Baker bets 103 all in so here I think are my errors I miscount Bakers stack thinking he has 260 back but i should raise the flop and see both my cards removing the dilemma from the turn aswell as putting Baker back under pressure well i squeezed a call out and the river bricked and Baker turns over AA, i missed but should probably against the player have seen all my cards when ive got the most outs (flop) Oh well.
Finished the session without much incident and cahsed out a profit of 300 (oh if not for that pot its more like 550). But moving on tonights tourney at npc is a 10£ rebuy with 2000 guaranteed first prize so doubtless youll be getting a post 2morow.

Cheers then Tyler

Home Games U gotta love them

So last night we head out for all you can eat chinse and the prospect of some 10p 20p nl holdem at jeals for laughs where the sidebets were gonna be more than the game itself.(how wrong we were) it was great fun and being the preverbial homegame king that I am I ran good. Got a few big hands payed off aswell as a few marginal calls that were good (jeal lol) and then managed to 3 out panda on the turn when i didnt believe he had a pair so 2nd pair made 2 pair and a nice pot. Result for the night was £120 profit with me and rich jones(world famous massive fish like the biggest fish ive ever met but hes still quite good) carving the table. To say the least I enjoyed myself and look forward as always to the next home game with excitment there just so funny.

Brighton the week before and the Aftermath

So anyone who knows me quite well knows i had been running dreadfully all year in pretty much all games except the 22 dealers game at dusk till dawn. A couple of sessions in feb winning 500 and then a 2 day trip in late feb led to a 2 grand profit shippit!!!!. Unfortunatly this was my last win over 100 till 18th April. The Norwegian poker championship came to dusk on a weekend when i was at a loose end and was puersuaded (against my better judgment) to go up on a sunday by 2 ppl whod never been so going against the advise of people i respect who reminded me that you need a huge bankroll to play against these people up we went. Thus ensued the worst running night of my life including having my aces cracked by a guy who called 150 pre flop 82 off happy days. Well that summed the night up and consequently i lost over a bag that night happy days. Well the student poker championship in Birmingham and once more i ran well especially on the cash table, by the way cheers to adam lattimer for calling down light to see where he was and then hitting his 2 outer to put me on tilt, and i tilt bad. So Birmimngham and another few bags lost. So heading to Brighton hoping my bad run will finally end, no such luck im afraid i managed to bubble in the 200 fo and the 50 rebuy round of each. I also typically ran bad at cash missing my wraps and flush draws and then having ppl hit theres aginst my sets i couldnt buy a 60 40 let alone win one. i did manage to sattalite into the main event for 30 quid. But that went well i had qq jj 3 times kk twice and aa once and won one of these hands (aa won the blinds). Althugh this blog is vague im a bit fed up of the grind at the mo and am, just playing for fun for a bit before settling down to the summer grind. More to follow


Tyler