Decided to resurrect this blog in the wake of UKIPT Killarney. Will be nice to write sometimes, and I'll try not let it die again. This post turned out to be a little longer than anticipated! Tl;dr obv.
Managed to bink a ticket for Killarney UKIPT a few weeks back, so headed down this weekendfor the event, and managed to get 9th in the event somehow.
I had nothing overly interesting in the whole tourney. Never at a tough table really, or if I was, it wasn't for long. The absence of all the top Irish players really helped in making the tourney soft.
Start day 1 with 15k. Lost 3 hands in the first 2 levels to put me down to 6-7k. First I 2 barrelled KK on a Qc5c5x9x3c board and c/f river vs a good english player. Second I flat IP with 9T vs a fish, raise a K9T flop bet turn, and check back K river to lose vs KQ. Tight older guy raises UTG, I flat AhQd in sb, flop is Ad9x4d, I c/c, turn is a Td, checked through, I lead Q river and get flatted by bottom set. Was folding to a shove anyway though. Stayed on 6-7 for an age, then got to 5b shove QQ for 50bbs over a cold 4b, villain tank folds AK, and I'm up to 11 or so. Down to 10 in the last couple levels of day 1, blinds 150/3 I think, fish joins table and donates a double up in a very very soft hand to get me over 20, then get a few streets of value from him to put me on 28. Then play a fun hand against him when he limps his button (he limps loads) and I check my option with 74o. Flop comes 459r, I c/c. Turn is an 8, I c/c an overbet. River is a 7 and I crai and he instasnaps with QQ. I was calling river anyway w/o the 7, so got v lucky. He was pretty angry at me too :o. Someone told me later that he was telling loads of people about the bad beat some fish with 74 put on his pocket queens. Oops.
That has me about 43 or so, but I lose a big flip for 20k or so with TT vs AK, when I flat an unknowns HJ raise OTB after v aggro CO flats too. Shorty small blind shoves, folded to me and I snap. Flop is KKT, turn A.
That has me on 37 or so, and lose a few small pots at the end of day to wander down to 30k.
Start day 2 by winning 3 of the first 5 pots, and in the 6th, bb has clicked sit out, young guy in the CO raises, I 3b my btn with QQ, he 4bs, I shove, he has AK. I lose and am down to 10bb. Next hand he raises and calls my shove with A5 which was behind my AJ, and stays there. Up to 16k. He raises again an orbit later on my btn, I shove 77 and hold vs his AK. Back over 30k at 3/6. Win a few more pots to get near 40, then raise AA from MP, SB 3bs, I flat. Flop is Axx with two diamonds, he crai with AQ and I'm up over 60k. Cooler for him, cos in fairness I was playing most pots.
Moved to a table with Liam Flood a few to my left so am forced to quieten down a little. Good english player raises UTG then with 20bb, and UTG+1 shoves for 10k, which was about 14bb IIRC. I flat with JJ UTG+2, everyone folds, including Liam Flood with AK, and I hold vs 77 to get over 80k. I flatted cos there was one other deepish and tightish guy behind me, and I thought it was better to flat and fold to his shove, while calling everyone elses. Lose a good few small pots then to put me back on 70.
Get moved to a much softer table then. Got two streets of value from a cork player on a scary board with AQ as TPTK after I flatted IP vs EP raise and we both check flop. I then just started running hot, but also destroying everyone. I ended up playing a crazy amount of pots for a long period of time, just 3betting everyone, and keeping stealing the blinds. Helped a lot cos we were getting closer and closer to the bubble. Got a few nice hands at the right time, to call an EP shove from Denise with AA, and then got 3b shoved on when I had TT. Both hold vs worse hands, but both only had 10bbs at the time. Got up to 250k mostly without showdown, but the AQ, TT and AA helped. Had an annoying but standard hand vs Aonghus O'Farrell just off the bubble. I've been very active, and raise MP with AhTd. He calls bb. Flop comes QJ8 with two hearts, giving me the double bellybuster, backdoor flushdraw and A high, so I check back. Turn is a bink of a diamond K. Get shoved on when I bet, obv snap to see top 2 with the flushdraw. House on river drops me down to 200 from the 250 I had to start the hand.
Cat O'Neill and Liam Flood then get moved to my right, which was obviously a little tougher. Couldn't play a pot with Liam Flood, despite him opening a load, and both of us being about 80bbs deep, and me having direct position cos I just never had a hand to play back with. Getting near the bubble two shortstacks on my left just started folding everything, so that got me a lot too. One of them told me later that he folded AK twice and AQ once to my BTN shoves into their <10bb stacks near bubble time. Must have been a serious case of squeaky bums!
Play one pot vs Cat O'Neill on the bubble. I've 200k and she has 130k. She raises btn to 7.5, I make it 19.4 on the BB with A2s. She calls. Flop comes K45 with my backdoor. I bet 20.5k, and she tanks and folds. Was shoving turn anyway. Think I could have got a fold from a lot of her range. She plays pretty solid in terms of opening from what I've seen anyway.
Bubble bursts shortly afterwards anyway, and day 2 finishes.
Start day 3 with just shy of 250k and just inside the money. Drop down to 60k or so within the first level though. One of the first hands I flat an aggroish (hadn't played with him, but had heard he was semi-aggro) scottish guy's raise from MP with AQo in the bb. Didn't really want to 3b and get in AQ for 80bbs there. Flop comes 854, I check/call. Turn is an A. I check call again. River is a J. I check/call once more to be shown A8. Shove AQ over Aonghus's UTG raise when he has 15bbs, he tanks a little and calls AK and he holds. Get that 60k back up a little by getting a few 3bet shoves through (blinds are 1.5/3 now). Got to shove TT from SB into Aonghus's AQ and I hold to get back to 130 or so. Pretty lucky I actually had a hand when I needed to that time.
I raise MP with A5o then, and Tamu Kero, who's a Finnish pro that I've played with previously flats his BB. He has about 90k. Flop comes K57r. Checked to me and I bet 8k, he raises to 22k, I shove and he folds. :).
Then raise AhTs in MP when I'm up to 150k or so. Scottish guy flats from SB. Flop comes J54 with one heart and 2 clubs. He c/calls half pot. 9h on the turn is checked through. Pot is about 50k now. River is the Qh. He checks to me again and I fire 95k. He tanks and folds a J. That may have been pretty bad, but I really don't think he turns up with two pairs there too often, and may actually fold 2 pairs that aren't QJ. Fun hand either way.
Then raise QJ from MP, get 2 callers, one the scottish guy on the btn, and Owen Robinson from the SB. He's a tag, and seems quite good. Bink a QJJ flop. Bet flop and the scottish guy calls. Turn is a Q, and I crai, which I think is truly awful. He folds anyway, and i'm back up to 250 or so.
Stay extremely quiet for an age then. Stay at the same stack for ages until we're down to the final two tables. Peter Barrable shoves his 20bb stack UTG with 77 at 3k/6k, and I snap my AK, and somehow don't find a way on a QQJ flop. That left me with 130 or so. I shove that in multiple times to get it back up a bit, and open a few pots too to put me about 240k at 3/6. About 14 people left, and my table kept folding, so was opening a lot. Owen Robinson was the only guy I was really wary of. I knew he was gonna 3b me sooner or later, and he already had a couple times earlier. I raise my CO with KK, he 3bs to 50k or so from his 150k stack, I shove and he has 99. The way I'd been playing, I got extremely lucky to have a hand again. Bit of a cooler for him. Put me on 390 or so though at 4/8.
Femi then moves to my direct right with his monster tank. I try and play a few pots with him with position and 50bbs, but nothing much happens till he raises SB to 22k and I call QTo. Flop comes 77J, I c/c 35k. Turn is a 8, giving me a gutshot. He checks, I bet 42k and he calls. River is the K, so I bet 110k into 230k when checked to. He tanks for an age and folds 66. I actually don't like my bluff at all. Wouldn't do it again anyway. That puts me over 500.
Keep winning small pots to get the stack up to about 550. I raise 44 from MP, and a pretty tight guy shoves 12bb from the BTN. I really think I should have folded against him, but I didn't. He had QQ. Either he was acting or he actually didn't enjoy putting his money in there, but that was somewhat a factor. I think he was defo getting in AJ anyway, so my call can't be too bad. He got AQ in in a similar spot a little earlier, and I'd been a crazed loon, whereas that guy had been tightish.
Then play a pretty memorable pot vs Peter Barrable. I'd stolen a bit from him, but he'd played back a small bit too. I raise my SB with J7s to 28k at 5/10. He calls his BB with just over 300k. Flop comes 552. I lead 29k, he snap makes it 85k. I tank a short while and shove the tank in. He obv has A5. Looks a little crazy, but at that stage we were on the final table bubble. He had been playing back a little at me already, so I knew he could be light. I also thought from previous play and conversation that he would raise 66+ against me there anyway, along with some bluffs. I didn't think there were many 5s in his range either. I also thought he would flat 5s sometimes (not all the time), and flat 22 almost always, especially vs me. So I think I can force a fold sometimes from 66-99 which he had flatted pre, fold the bluffs and the 34. I wouldn't expect 99 to fold much tbh, but I definitely would 66, and a sliding scale between those hands.
Pokerstars blog posted that hand too. Whoever the blogger was said in other words that I was obv a fool that needed "reading lessons" cos it was immensly obvious to everyone else around that he had a monster from his shaking hands. Smart people obv. I'm pretty happy that my reads were better than anyone elses (bar Nick Newport who plays loads live) in the last 10, and pay loads of attention to details. Perhaps they missed a hand a little before where Femi raised, he looked at his cards and his hands started shaking badly. He eyed up his stack, got it into a heap, tanked a little while and folded. According to stars blog he obv folded the boots there. I will defer to there judgement, as it is clearly far superior to mine. I emailed them about the report, and they haven't deigned to treat me to a reply yet. Obv not worthy. Maybe they'll deem it fit to stoop to the menial task of replying to an email. Looking forward to the reply anyway.
That hand left me with 57k at 5/10. I shove my BTN with QT, Peter Barrable folds A6 :0! Up to 75k. Shove K7o the next hand, and Mike Hill calls with AT. I find a K and am up to 150k. Stay there for a few orbits until Mike Hill makes it 30k UTG, Femi tanks a little and makes it 100k. I find KK on the BTN and ship it in. Mike folds and Femi calls with AQ. Mike says he had an ace too, but nevertheless one of the other aces finds its way to the river. Busto in 9th for 5600. So close but yet so far!
Hugely enjoyable event, and fair play to Connie et al who put on a great show and gave us a fantastic structure. Great atmosphere as well.
Played some cash after that, after a few pints. Got AK in vs AQ pre on one of my first hands. Lose for a buyin. Then get 9TJQss in 4way vs bare kings, a random bag of spanners and KQT3 no suits. KQT3 obv flops the nuts. Nice. Another buyin! Get AQ in vs Ax for 175bb vs a farmer on a A86 board. That was nice. Then get moved to a table with Gerrard Harraghy, and carnage ensued. One of the first hands we play, I raise my HJ with Q6s in 1/2/5, he 3bs, and I shove it in. He snaps it off. Board comes TT467 to give him a straight with 85s! Few hands later I manage to get 150bbs in with T7s on a 689J board vs 88 and lose. Played one of my favourite hands ever a little later. I manage to 6b shove for 150bbs over a cold 5b with 5 high and get a fold. Fun times. Dropped 3buyins in cash, but I was monstrously below EV. Good fun though.
Sports haven't gone too well over the last little while too, but am still up good in the last month. Here's to the Argies not winning the World Cup and all will be well!
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
IO
Busted out on day two at the 800/1600 level. Chipped up pretty well in the first couple of levels to 65k from my 35k starting stack, mostly without showdown. Got one really nice VB through on Juha Helpii which I was pretty happy with. Folded to him in the SB and he completes, I check my BB with A6o. Pot is around 1400. Flop is AJ4 with two clubs. He checks, I think and fire 1100. He calls after a bit of thought. Turn is a K. He checks, I check back. River is the 7 of clubs completing the flush. He checks again, and I think for a bit and make it 3200. He calls after a bit of thought again. I show and he mucks. Really happy with how that hand played out. Really like my betsizing and line in it.
I have like 67k when 600/1200 level is halfway through, and I'm at a new table with Jimmy McSweeney, Roy Brindley, Graham Masters, Andrew Pantling, and another good Canadian kid. The three seats to my left are Pantling, then McSweeney, then Brindley, so I'm in a horrible horrible spot! I end up folding for like an hour and a half straight due to being card dead and not having any good spots to do anything. I'll give a bit of history about my exit hand before I post it. Villain is French. He's taken about 5 minutes to call a shove previously with bottom set on a 7TJ board, then another 5 minutes to call a shove with K7 on a KT7 board against Jimmy McSweeney when McSweeney was clearly tilting a bit. He's also limpraised UTG with AA. So obv he looks quite bad and a bit reluctant to get his chips in the middle. Finally, at 800/1600, I make it 4200 to go with 9dTd. Villain is the only caller from the SB. I have 60k and he covers by like 2 or 3 thousand. Flop is 8h6d4h. He checks, I bet 6700 into 10800, and he calls after a bit of thought. Turn is the K of hearts. He checks, I fire 13000, and villain calls after a bit of thought again. River is the Qs. He checks, I ship 29k in. He sits there for about 5 minutes, I call the clock, and he calls with about 15 seconds left with AQ with the Ace of hearts. Sigh. I actually really like how I played the hand, but thats life. His river call is pretty standard I imagine, but I think his flop and turn combo is horrific. Oh well.
Ran pretty good in the cash games. Monday, myself and the two other Swedish guys from Cardoza were playing at the same game pretty deep, and we busted pretty much everybody. It was a fun few hours! Really good fun weekend, and it was pretty cool to put a few faces to names as well. I'll definitely be looking to play a few more festivals cos they're huge craic, and they are ridiculously soft. I thought the standard was pretty poor in pretty much every game I played, and from what I hear the higher levels were soft too. Standard of play in the tourney was pretty poor too. I'm gonna ship one of these sometime soon!
Anyways, I better get back to potting, so gl.
I have like 67k when 600/1200 level is halfway through, and I'm at a new table with Jimmy McSweeney, Roy Brindley, Graham Masters, Andrew Pantling, and another good Canadian kid. The three seats to my left are Pantling, then McSweeney, then Brindley, so I'm in a horrible horrible spot! I end up folding for like an hour and a half straight due to being card dead and not having any good spots to do anything. I'll give a bit of history about my exit hand before I post it. Villain is French. He's taken about 5 minutes to call a shove previously with bottom set on a 7TJ board, then another 5 minutes to call a shove with K7 on a KT7 board against Jimmy McSweeney when McSweeney was clearly tilting a bit. He's also limpraised UTG with AA. So obv he looks quite bad and a bit reluctant to get his chips in the middle. Finally, at 800/1600, I make it 4200 to go with 9dTd. Villain is the only caller from the SB. I have 60k and he covers by like 2 or 3 thousand. Flop is 8h6d4h. He checks, I bet 6700 into 10800, and he calls after a bit of thought. Turn is the K of hearts. He checks, I fire 13000, and villain calls after a bit of thought again. River is the Qs. He checks, I ship 29k in. He sits there for about 5 minutes, I call the clock, and he calls with about 15 seconds left with AQ with the Ace of hearts. Sigh. I actually really like how I played the hand, but thats life. His river call is pretty standard I imagine, but I think his flop and turn combo is horrific. Oh well.
Ran pretty good in the cash games. Monday, myself and the two other Swedish guys from Cardoza were playing at the same game pretty deep, and we busted pretty much everybody. It was a fun few hours! Really good fun weekend, and it was pretty cool to put a few faces to names as well. I'll definitely be looking to play a few more festivals cos they're huge craic, and they are ridiculously soft. I thought the standard was pretty poor in pretty much every game I played, and from what I hear the higher levels were soft too. Standard of play in the tourney was pretty poor too. I'm gonna ship one of these sometime soon!
Anyways, I better get back to potting, so gl.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
IO Day One
Still running. Finished up the day with 36500 when the average is around 22000 or so. Could be a bit more, but my table for the last few hours was quite tough. No real soft spots for the last couple hours but I'm still going. Not gonna post much cos I'm really tired and I need sleep, but I played well. Hopefully get a better table tomorrow.
Only showed down three hands all day, and two were when the turn and river were checked down with minimal action elsewhere. Other hand was where I got all in pre with AK vs some girls AJ for 5k at 75/150. Just took down a few good pots without showdown. Everyone somehow thought I was a nit at my table today, despite me raising more pots than most anyone else. Fair play to them. Jimmy McSweeney must have layed down about 5 hands against me. Fair play to him again.
The brother busted in a 43k pot with 66 vs 89 on a 4569 board. Sigh. 5% down the drain.
Anyways I need to sleep so good luck me tomorrow!
Only showed down three hands all day, and two were when the turn and river were checked down with minimal action elsewhere. Other hand was where I got all in pre with AK vs some girls AJ for 5k at 75/150. Just took down a few good pots without showdown. Everyone somehow thought I was a nit at my table today, despite me raising more pots than most anyone else. Fair play to them. Jimmy McSweeney must have layed down about 5 hands against me. Fair play to him again.
The brother busted in a 43k pot with 66 vs 89 on a 4569 board. Sigh. 5% down the drain.
Anyways I need to sleep so good luck me tomorrow!
Friday, March 13, 2009
Update....
Still running pretty well. Up about another $800 or so since the last post including a few really gay hands. Played a pretty terrible session the other day as well so was disappointed with that. Still playing well overall though.
Left work at half 6 yesterday and had a huge yen to play live poker. Was gonna head up tol the Fitz and just pot it all night, but Zuutroy from boards.ie posted and said he was gonna head into the Jackpot for the 20 game. Not a huge fan of tourneys and can never take small buyin ones seriously, but said I would head in for a while anyway! Hopefully have a chat with the guy cos I haven't really talked to him before.
Bout 3 hands in I raise Q8s to 125 in the CO. Guy that I've played against a little in busto stakes tourneys calls from the SB. Flop comes A34 he donks for 250 and I shove. He has AK. GG wp. That was quick lol. Was gonna hang around and see if a cash game opens up, but there was nobody round for it cos I'd bustoed so early, so I just made an early retirement from the Jacks and headed up to the fitz. Was up about 450 early doors due to AK on a K high board and the nut flush. Had a few pretty gay hands, and had a ridiculous amount of gay spots where I could only fold for ages.
AA no good against a FD cost me a bit, but then I played a cool hand vs Leon (Smiley).
Uberfish limps UTG, Chinese Alan limps, Leon limps, I limp 7c4c playing 350 in the HJ, when most of the table (and all the really bad players) cover. 3 more limps and the BB raises to 12. Hes playing bout 250, raises widish for value pf and is pretty bad. Uberfish calls, alan folds, Leon calls, I call, one fold BTN calls, one fold.
Flop comes 3c4s5s. OR bets 10, uberfish calls, Leon insta makes it 100. I think for a sec and shove. OR folds, uberfish thinks for ages and folds. Leon then thinks for about 10 seconds and calls. He has 68 and the board bricks. I hand read well, ship ship etc.
Stay on that for a while until I make it 10 pre with AK in the CO. Loadsa calls. Checked to me and I make it 45 on a K35dd board. 2 callers, solidish guy (but not great) on the BTN and uberfish oop. Turn is the 8s, putting 2 spades up there too. Checked to me, I bet 135. BTN thinks for a while, grimaces, and puts his last 130 in. Uberfish snap calls. Turn is the 9d, and uberfish instaturns his hand over. He has 67s, and we have about 400 behind. I lol and check back and muck. Other guy said later he had 2s4s. Sigh.
Ended up even for the night after some guy calls a shove in a really weird spot on a 4 straight board with TP. He was obv good. I played the hand really badly though.
Ah well, back to potting for me!
Left work at half 6 yesterday and had a huge yen to play live poker. Was gonna head up tol the Fitz and just pot it all night, but Zuutroy from boards.ie posted and said he was gonna head into the Jackpot for the 20 game. Not a huge fan of tourneys and can never take small buyin ones seriously, but said I would head in for a while anyway! Hopefully have a chat with the guy cos I haven't really talked to him before.
Bout 3 hands in I raise Q8s to 125 in the CO. Guy that I've played against a little in busto stakes tourneys calls from the SB. Flop comes A34 he donks for 250 and I shove. He has AK. GG wp. That was quick lol. Was gonna hang around and see if a cash game opens up, but there was nobody round for it cos I'd bustoed so early, so I just made an early retirement from the Jacks and headed up to the fitz. Was up about 450 early doors due to AK on a K high board and the nut flush. Had a few pretty gay hands, and had a ridiculous amount of gay spots where I could only fold for ages.
AA no good against a FD cost me a bit, but then I played a cool hand vs Leon (Smiley).
Uberfish limps UTG, Chinese Alan limps, Leon limps, I limp 7c4c playing 350 in the HJ, when most of the table (and all the really bad players) cover. 3 more limps and the BB raises to 12. Hes playing bout 250, raises widish for value pf and is pretty bad. Uberfish calls, alan folds, Leon calls, I call, one fold BTN calls, one fold.
Flop comes 3c4s5s. OR bets 10, uberfish calls, Leon insta makes it 100. I think for a sec and shove. OR folds, uberfish thinks for ages and folds. Leon then thinks for about 10 seconds and calls. He has 68 and the board bricks. I hand read well, ship ship etc.
Stay on that for a while until I make it 10 pre with AK in the CO. Loadsa calls. Checked to me and I make it 45 on a K35dd board. 2 callers, solidish guy (but not great) on the BTN and uberfish oop. Turn is the 8s, putting 2 spades up there too. Checked to me, I bet 135. BTN thinks for a while, grimaces, and puts his last 130 in. Uberfish snap calls. Turn is the 9d, and uberfish instaturns his hand over. He has 67s, and we have about 400 behind. I lol and check back and muck. Other guy said later he had 2s4s. Sigh.
Ended up even for the night after some guy calls a shove in a really weird spot on a 4 straight board with TP. He was obv good. I played the hand really badly though.
Ah well, back to potting for me!
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Cliff notes
Wow, just read the last post (well actually just skimmed over cos couldn't be bothered reading it) and its ridiculously long.
Cliff notes: Have work experience, enjoying it even though its tough. Feel balla cos now I have real monies again compared to the fake internet $$$$. Went skiing. Was messy. Won IO ticket. I'm a luckbox. Very excited about IO. Playing very little but doing well. Up 2k in the last 15k hands, mostly 100NL, but some 200NL. Thats over a month and a half though :(. Used the word "stoked" in last blog post. Pretty much it.
Played a few more hands since the last post. Up another 600 or so but thats included in the 2k. I'm mixing in a good bit of 1/2 as well now that I'm getting the roll back after skiing. I have absolutely no fear of 1/2, and am pretty definite I'm a winner there, as I have been in the past. Just getting back to it now again, but it hasn't got harder anyways.
For some reason, iPoker seems to be full of my buddy list at the moment. Also seems very easy to get on to tables with them too. Either people aren't looking out for them, or nobody has noticed my favourite fish!
These two are particularly awesome guys:
$1/$2 No Limit Holdem
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com
Stacks:
Pre-flop: ($3, 6 players) Hero is SB
1 fold, UTG+1 raises to $8, 2 folds, Hero calls $7, 1 fold
Flop:
($18, 2 players)
Hero checks, UTG+1 bets $6, Hero raises to $20, UTG+1 calls $14
Turn:
($58, 2 players)
Hero checks, UTG+1 bets $20, Hero raises to $59, UTG+1 calls $39
River:
($176, 2 players)
Hero bets $44, UTG+1 calls $15.08
Final Pot: $235.08
UTG+1 shows:
Hero wins $232.08 ( won +$101.08 )
UTG+1 lost -$102.08
$1/$2 No Limit Holdem
5 players
Converted at weaktight.com
Stacks:
Pre-flop: ($3, 5 players) Hero is CO
1 fold, Hero raises to $7, BTN calls $7, 1 fold, BB calls $5
Flop:
($22, 3 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $16, BTN folds, BB raises to $32, Hero calls $16
Turn:
($86, 2 players)
BB bets $43, Hero calls $43
River:
($172, 2 players)
BB bets $118, Hero calls $118
Final Pot: $408
BB shows:
Hero wins $405 ( won +$205 )
BTN lost -$7
BB lost -$200
My betsizing in hand 1 sucks pretty bad, but its a funny hand.
Anyways, I'll leave it at that!
Cliff notes: Have work experience, enjoying it even though its tough. Feel balla cos now I have real monies again compared to the fake internet $$$$. Went skiing. Was messy. Won IO ticket. I'm a luckbox. Very excited about IO. Playing very little but doing well. Up 2k in the last 15k hands, mostly 100NL, but some 200NL. Thats over a month and a half though :(. Used the word "stoked" in last blog post. Pretty much it.
Played a few more hands since the last post. Up another 600 or so but thats included in the 2k. I'm mixing in a good bit of 1/2 as well now that I'm getting the roll back after skiing. I have absolutely no fear of 1/2, and am pretty definite I'm a winner there, as I have been in the past. Just getting back to it now again, but it hasn't got harder anyways.
For some reason, iPoker seems to be full of my buddy list at the moment. Also seems very easy to get on to tables with them too. Either people aren't looking out for them, or nobody has noticed my favourite fish!
These two are particularly awesome guys:
$1/$2 No Limit Holdem
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com
Stacks:
| UTG | ($42.50) | ||
| UTG+1 | ($102.08) | ||
| CO | ($227.00) | ||
| BTN | ($208.00) | ||
| Hero (SB) | ($259.70) | ||
| BB | ($416.32) |
Pre-flop: ($3, 6 players) Hero is SB
1 fold, UTG+1 raises to $8, 2 folds, Hero calls $7, 1 fold
Flop:
($18, 2 players)Hero checks, UTG+1 bets $6, Hero raises to $20, UTG+1 calls $14
Turn:
($58, 2 players)Hero checks, UTG+1 bets $20, Hero raises to $59, UTG+1 calls $39
River:
($176, 2 players)Hero bets $44, UTG+1 calls $15.08
Final Pot: $235.08
UTG+1 shows:
Hero wins $232.08 ( won +$101.08 )
UTG+1 lost -$102.08
$1/$2 No Limit Holdem
5 players
Converted at weaktight.com
Stacks:
| UTG | ($204.10) | ||
| Hero (CO) | ($459.58) | ||
| BTN | ($215.00) | ||
| SB | ($162.00) | ||
| BB | ($200.00) |
Pre-flop: ($3, 5 players) Hero is CO
1 fold, Hero raises to $7, BTN calls $7, 1 fold, BB calls $5
Flop:
($22, 3 players)BB checks, Hero bets $16, BTN folds, BB raises to $32, Hero calls $16
Turn:
($86, 2 players)BB bets $43, Hero calls $43
River:
($172, 2 players)BB bets $118, Hero calls $118
Final Pot: $408
BB shows:
Hero wins $405 ( won +$205 )
BTN lost -$7
BB lost -$200
My betsizing in hand 1 sucks pretty bad, but its a funny hand.
Anyways, I'll leave it at that!
Friday, February 20, 2009
IO, Swongs, Life, Work, Skiing
So I haven't posted in an age so I said I'd stick an update up anyways.
Haven't been playing a hell of a lot. Started work experience in January, so thats been taking up a lot of my time, between work itself, being tired from work, and learning stuff related to my work. Basically been thrown relatively in at the deep end, and am still a little weak at a lot of the stuff I'm expected to do, but I'm enjoying it anyways. In the final stages of implementing a programme I wrote for a branch of the place I work in, and the girl that manages that department said she was "delighted with it." Really makes a difference in terms of happiness levels! Compared to some of the other people in my course, I'm pretty lucky in terms of the work I do. Two of the smartest people in my course (imo) have ended up doing shitty stuff like photocopying, and one of them didn't even have a computer for the first 5 weeks of his job, so they're getting done pretty hard. Might be harsh but it makes me feel happier where I am!
Enjoying it anyways, bit of a sense of achievement, and gives you the idea that you're heading in the right direction. I feel that I can actually make a positive contribution in relation to my wages, even though I'm relatively new at this, so thats pretty cool I suppose. I really would not like to do anything poker related with my life anyways, but it still takes up a huge portion of my interest, so it is most definitely remaining as somethign important in my life.
Having the real monies makes a huge difference too. I'm so used to being cash busto through being way too lazy to withdraw and being left scrounging for a few days at a time.
Went skiing with the lads in France at the beginning of Jan too. That was a week of mayhem for sure. I've always had problems with my achilles, and they started to play up again over there, resulting in me being in extreme pain for a few days, so missed a bit of skiing which was hugely gay, but I just ended up drinking all day, and getting even messier at night with the lads so it was all good. Something about the air up there keeps you hangover free so it was just days on end of the stuff. BTW, if you're ever offered Chartreuse say no. That stuff is nasty. Nothing monumentous happened over there that I recall, lots of messiness, but the only bits of interest are banned from being told by the lads! No mentions here then obv! Didn't do anything that I mind being said though so I'm guilt free!
Pub crawl one of the first nights. We assumed that everyone would be a bit tipsy before they headed out, so we lashed into the beers the second we got off the slopes in preparation for heading out.... It appears English people don't really do this. First pub was an Irish bar, and we obv just headed straight for the Guinness. Look around at all the English people on the crawl getting stuck into their half-pints and shandies. Pretty bad condemnation of their nation imo. Just spurred us on to greater heights to show them how to do it. Converted a few properly, but we bumped into a few Cork lads on the trip from the first bar to the second, when we were trying to figure out a good place to piss that the gendarmes couldn't see us. You'd be surprised at the spirit of cameraderie that imbues lol. Obv we gave up on the conversions and just stayed with them for a few pubs and that was the beginning of the end. Competitions in each pub, one of the lads won a competition involving his arse being slapped. Not really sure of how it worked though. Put us in good spirits and when one of the lads in the next bar entered a drinking one we lifted the roof off the place chanting Irish stuff to the stage where first the barmaid had to come over and tell us that the people a few doors down were complaining about the noise. This being a nightclub type place just made us proud. They couldn't even get the competition started for ages cos they couldn't explain the rules cos nobody could hear them. We were just giving good support imo. When my mate took it down we just went nuts. The english people started giving us weird looks after a bit of this, especially after the Cork lads started singing IRA songs. Not really sure how well that went down. Next pub was some sort of karaoke thing, so after a couple of girls sang some pop song we went up and said we'd sing Bryan Adams. They kick in the music and we just belt into The Fields of Athenry. They immediately switched off the music, took away the mic and try to get us to stop but we actually persuade one of the English reps to join in, so there was no stopping us. 12 of us end up dancing on a rickitty table still going with Irish songs, while all the English guys are still on their half pints lol. We got some weird looks but there was a good bit of banter so it was all good. Any of the english guys and gals we got talking to seemed pretty sound and they were all taking it as banter so it was all good. The reps loved us as well for some reason despite the mayhem. Antics just got worse the more pubs we went to, but everyone loved us for some reason! Ended up staying in some disco place till we were kicked out. Half the lads had gone home at that stage. Weak imo. One of the lads had an absolute fail with some really hot French bird coming on to him really strong in the last place at around 3 in the morning and him doing nothing bout it, so we were giving him fair stick for it. Absolute mayhem and everyone loved us for the rest of the week. Not really sure why. I just thought we were causing mayhem, but all the reps and the people there loved us. Really not sure how that happened though. Lots of hazy stuff!
Poker is going mediocrely. Went through a 10 bi downswing over the course of about 5k hands where nothing went right, and I spewed a couple bi as well. Recovered from that by playing pretty well and getting back even pretty fast, but then lost 7 bi to the same guy in 3 hours. He was ridiculously bad, and insanely spewy even though he was playing something like 27/23. Had 99 vs J8 in with him pf, AA vs 55, a few other big hands vs draws on the flop, got QJ in vs A8 on a Q83r board. Just a crazy session.... Should have ended up a good bit up but lost a lot in spots where I got it in ahead. Love to play the guy some more but haven't seen him since. He was just insanely badly spewy. I had pretty much no history of bluffing the guy cos he loved to stick it in so much, but he still was. Sigh, wish all the regs would be like him.
Have been grinding it out though between .50/1 and 1/2 and I'm up a good bit since the last post. Still recovering from decimating my roll while skiing though lol.
Took down an IO package which I'm pretty delighted with as well. Played a 5er rebuy one night when I was feeling sick cos I wasn't gonna play my normal games, and ended up getting a ticket from that for $10 for a $40r which I was probably gonna play anyways. Played really well, got pretty much everything in ahead and stayed ahead so I guess I ran good in terms of that. Built up a pretty huge stack straight after the first break. Was chip leader of the tourney from about 10 mins after the 1st break till the end of the tourney really. Pretty big chip lead for most of it too IIRC. Was playing really well, and ran really well in terms of getting to SD when I did have good hands, and my hands holding up when I get them in. Won a few 65/35s or so to give me a huge one, and I was stealing a good bit in good spots as well cos there was a lot of guys being ridiculously weak. Once I picked up the stack I bullied my way through most of it. Just stealing constantly. I think I judged the amount I stole quite well though. Only hands I got it in behind with during the whole tourney were for 0.4BB more with 54 from the BB which I won, and with bottom set vs top set on the FT which I obv lost. Was for a smallish pot relative to my stack though cos I had a pretty big one. Just stole through the FT as well into a ticket. A couple of boards guys railed it and commented on my aggressiveness. Kinda true though. I was stealing like a madman cos people were being pussies. Only one guy I thought was good throughout the whole tourney, and he ended up bubbling the package. Girlfriend decided to watch me play the sat and she nearly had a heart attack so many times cos she couldn't believe I was raising when I didn't have the nuts. She got really mad at me for being too aggressive and went off to sleep in a huff. Shows her.
Pretty stoked with the whole thing. It'd be pretty cool to cash the IO, and I'm definitely aiming for it. I've no qualms going up against the field. I'm sure I will be in the top half in terms of ability anyways, as would anyone semi-competent, and with a bit of luck, hopefully I can take down something. It'll be a great experience anyways.
Gonna room with my brother for it anyways. He's taught me pretty much all the poker I know, so maybe he'll be a good influence on me, but somehow I doubt he will, the degen! He's making vids for pokerswat now, so any of ye that have access should check out VanDice on it. Shameless plug, but his thought process is really clear and concise, and I would well reccommend anything he churns out.
Anyways, I'll try keep this updated, but I don't have much time for pokers these days, so there may be a lot of life crap posted here. Hopefully some poker though, and roll on the IO!
EDIT: I'd reccommend reading Holllllaments blog, its quality stuff!
Haven't been playing a hell of a lot. Started work experience in January, so thats been taking up a lot of my time, between work itself, being tired from work, and learning stuff related to my work. Basically been thrown relatively in at the deep end, and am still a little weak at a lot of the stuff I'm expected to do, but I'm enjoying it anyways. In the final stages of implementing a programme I wrote for a branch of the place I work in, and the girl that manages that department said she was "delighted with it." Really makes a difference in terms of happiness levels! Compared to some of the other people in my course, I'm pretty lucky in terms of the work I do. Two of the smartest people in my course (imo) have ended up doing shitty stuff like photocopying, and one of them didn't even have a computer for the first 5 weeks of his job, so they're getting done pretty hard. Might be harsh but it makes me feel happier where I am!
Enjoying it anyways, bit of a sense of achievement, and gives you the idea that you're heading in the right direction. I feel that I can actually make a positive contribution in relation to my wages, even though I'm relatively new at this, so thats pretty cool I suppose. I really would not like to do anything poker related with my life anyways, but it still takes up a huge portion of my interest, so it is most definitely remaining as somethign important in my life.
Having the real monies makes a huge difference too. I'm so used to being cash busto through being way too lazy to withdraw and being left scrounging for a few days at a time.
Went skiing with the lads in France at the beginning of Jan too. That was a week of mayhem for sure. I've always had problems with my achilles, and they started to play up again over there, resulting in me being in extreme pain for a few days, so missed a bit of skiing which was hugely gay, but I just ended up drinking all day, and getting even messier at night with the lads so it was all good. Something about the air up there keeps you hangover free so it was just days on end of the stuff. BTW, if you're ever offered Chartreuse say no. That stuff is nasty. Nothing monumentous happened over there that I recall, lots of messiness, but the only bits of interest are banned from being told by the lads! No mentions here then obv! Didn't do anything that I mind being said though so I'm guilt free!
Pub crawl one of the first nights. We assumed that everyone would be a bit tipsy before they headed out, so we lashed into the beers the second we got off the slopes in preparation for heading out.... It appears English people don't really do this. First pub was an Irish bar, and we obv just headed straight for the Guinness. Look around at all the English people on the crawl getting stuck into their half-pints and shandies. Pretty bad condemnation of their nation imo. Just spurred us on to greater heights to show them how to do it. Converted a few properly, but we bumped into a few Cork lads on the trip from the first bar to the second, when we were trying to figure out a good place to piss that the gendarmes couldn't see us. You'd be surprised at the spirit of cameraderie that imbues lol. Obv we gave up on the conversions and just stayed with them for a few pubs and that was the beginning of the end. Competitions in each pub, one of the lads won a competition involving his arse being slapped. Not really sure of how it worked though. Put us in good spirits and when one of the lads in the next bar entered a drinking one we lifted the roof off the place chanting Irish stuff to the stage where first the barmaid had to come over and tell us that the people a few doors down were complaining about the noise. This being a nightclub type place just made us proud. They couldn't even get the competition started for ages cos they couldn't explain the rules cos nobody could hear them. We were just giving good support imo. When my mate took it down we just went nuts. The english people started giving us weird looks after a bit of this, especially after the Cork lads started singing IRA songs. Not really sure how well that went down. Next pub was some sort of karaoke thing, so after a couple of girls sang some pop song we went up and said we'd sing Bryan Adams. They kick in the music and we just belt into The Fields of Athenry. They immediately switched off the music, took away the mic and try to get us to stop but we actually persuade one of the English reps to join in, so there was no stopping us. 12 of us end up dancing on a rickitty table still going with Irish songs, while all the English guys are still on their half pints lol. We got some weird looks but there was a good bit of banter so it was all good. Any of the english guys and gals we got talking to seemed pretty sound and they were all taking it as banter so it was all good. The reps loved us as well for some reason despite the mayhem. Antics just got worse the more pubs we went to, but everyone loved us for some reason! Ended up staying in some disco place till we were kicked out. Half the lads had gone home at that stage. Weak imo. One of the lads had an absolute fail with some really hot French bird coming on to him really strong in the last place at around 3 in the morning and him doing nothing bout it, so we were giving him fair stick for it. Absolute mayhem and everyone loved us for the rest of the week. Not really sure why. I just thought we were causing mayhem, but all the reps and the people there loved us. Really not sure how that happened though. Lots of hazy stuff!
Poker is going mediocrely. Went through a 10 bi downswing over the course of about 5k hands where nothing went right, and I spewed a couple bi as well. Recovered from that by playing pretty well and getting back even pretty fast, but then lost 7 bi to the same guy in 3 hours. He was ridiculously bad, and insanely spewy even though he was playing something like 27/23. Had 99 vs J8 in with him pf, AA vs 55, a few other big hands vs draws on the flop, got QJ in vs A8 on a Q83r board. Just a crazy session.... Should have ended up a good bit up but lost a lot in spots where I got it in ahead. Love to play the guy some more but haven't seen him since. He was just insanely badly spewy. I had pretty much no history of bluffing the guy cos he loved to stick it in so much, but he still was. Sigh, wish all the regs would be like him.
Have been grinding it out though between .50/1 and 1/2 and I'm up a good bit since the last post. Still recovering from decimating my roll while skiing though lol.
Took down an IO package which I'm pretty delighted with as well. Played a 5er rebuy one night when I was feeling sick cos I wasn't gonna play my normal games, and ended up getting a ticket from that for $10 for a $40r which I was probably gonna play anyways. Played really well, got pretty much everything in ahead and stayed ahead so I guess I ran good in terms of that. Built up a pretty huge stack straight after the first break. Was chip leader of the tourney from about 10 mins after the 1st break till the end of the tourney really. Pretty big chip lead for most of it too IIRC. Was playing really well, and ran really well in terms of getting to SD when I did have good hands, and my hands holding up when I get them in. Won a few 65/35s or so to give me a huge one, and I was stealing a good bit in good spots as well cos there was a lot of guys being ridiculously weak. Once I picked up the stack I bullied my way through most of it. Just stealing constantly. I think I judged the amount I stole quite well though. Only hands I got it in behind with during the whole tourney were for 0.4BB more with 54 from the BB which I won, and with bottom set vs top set on the FT which I obv lost. Was for a smallish pot relative to my stack though cos I had a pretty big one. Just stole through the FT as well into a ticket. A couple of boards guys railed it and commented on my aggressiveness. Kinda true though. I was stealing like a madman cos people were being pussies. Only one guy I thought was good throughout the whole tourney, and he ended up bubbling the package. Girlfriend decided to watch me play the sat and she nearly had a heart attack so many times cos she couldn't believe I was raising when I didn't have the nuts. She got really mad at me for being too aggressive and went off to sleep in a huff. Shows her.
Pretty stoked with the whole thing. It'd be pretty cool to cash the IO, and I'm definitely aiming for it. I've no qualms going up against the field. I'm sure I will be in the top half in terms of ability anyways, as would anyone semi-competent, and with a bit of luck, hopefully I can take down something. It'll be a great experience anyways.
Gonna room with my brother for it anyways. He's taught me pretty much all the poker I know, so maybe he'll be a good influence on me, but somehow I doubt he will, the degen! He's making vids for pokerswat now, so any of ye that have access should check out VanDice on it. Shameless plug, but his thought process is really clear and concise, and I would well reccommend anything he churns out.
Anyways, I'll try keep this updated, but I don't have much time for pokers these days, so there may be a lot of life crap posted here. Hopefully some poker though, and roll on the IO!
EDIT: I'd reccommend reading Holllllaments blog, its quality stuff!
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