Saturday 30 May 2009

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

Friday 29 May 2009

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

Tuesday 26 May 2009

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

Sunday 24 May 2009

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

Sunday 3 May 2009

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

Friday 1 May 2009

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