While logging in to VC not long ago late at night, the only games still running were turbo double or nothing 6handed sngs, so i decided to play 5 as i was bored. I won all 5, by running pretty good but i did see some terrible stuff, so i decided to play them properly to see if they were profitable. Tonight was the first night of the grind. They are $50 + 5 buyins and top 3 get $100. So bearing in mind that every 20 you play you have spent $1100 inc rake, you need to win 11 to break even. Tonight I played two batches of 20. The first finished 11-9 to the good so i broke even. The second finished 13-7 to the good so i finished $200 up. It was a successful night. I was effectively $400 up, but paid $200 in rake. However due to my VIP deal, i will get $120 back at the end of the month. I worked out that if i played 40 a night for 15 nights a month, i would rake $3k a month, of which i would get $1800 back. So if i can play these and average an 11-9 result for each batch of 20, breaking even effectively, i'd get $1800 a month which is a massive bankroll booster each month. So that is the new plan. It takes a couple of hours to play 20, and 40 a night for 15 nights a month should be acheivable, with some discipline. I just hope i can maintain an 11-9 result in the long run, and hopefully i'll be able to make some money come the end of the month. I'll still play the odd tourn but will concentrate on these for a while.
Not much in other news, we lost 9-1 tonight in our table tennis match, but we were playing a team that should be 2 leagues above us and i got the only victory so i was quite pleased to win. My form playing live is still ridiculously enviable, having now won the last 14 times i have played cash at the poker club. Long may it continue. Starting to look forward to Spain now on friday week. Gonna be great fun. If anyone fancies a bet on me, go to the link below. I'm currently 16/1. Each way is available. That's all for now folks, take care,
Rich x
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Monday, 16 November 2009
Friday, 13 November 2009
You've got to enjoy yourself
The whole weekend I was away in Nottingham was superb, the tournament was pretty gutting (report below) but it was great see some old friends, and we had a good time. We spent all of friday in Rileys playing pool. The first taxi me, nathan and keysie shared we spoofed for it and Keysie lost for £6. He was fuming lol, so much so that he refused to spoof for the second taxi as he was convinced that i've never lost at it. So we played a game of 5s instead to be fair on everyone. Keysie lost again :))))))))). But at least me and nathan didn't take the piss out of him too much ;) The night we went out was also hilarious. It was me, nath, keysie, ptevey, paul and Cman and we headed to Revs in Nottingham centre. It's a bar/club and as usual we bought rounds. Most were Jagerbombs with shots of something, but Keysie managed to come back from the bar with 2 bottles of Dom Perignon, 6 glasses, and 6 shots of Sambuca. Standard i guess. We were all pretty drunk, as were the table of girls nearby who came over and joined us for some champagne. There was plenty of banter, and some hilarious dance floor encounters, before we were kicked out for some of us being too drunk.
We went bowling on Sunday night, which was excellent fun, despite the fact that i managed to clutch defeat from the jaws of victory :( Afterwards we went to the Mandarin restaurant and proceeded to have 5 courses of superb food and plenty of drinks. Which was all fine until someone suggested we play Credit Card roulette for the bill. Fuck it, everyone else was in so of course i agreed. I had a bit of a sweat on as i didn't really fancy paying £200 for dinner, but luckily i was second one out after ptevey. This left Paul and Keysie heads up. For once Keysie won heads up, and Paul footed the bill. My joy for getting a free dinner was however short lived as my car was clamped and had a £120 release fee. Fml. Cman who was parked in the same car park as me obv had no clamp. Some people run too good. So I sadly coughed up the money (with an appreciated £40 donation from Keysie) and headed to Birmingham to visit Nathan.
We decided to head straight out to Rileys, 5 minutes after i had spent half an hour parking in the world's smallest parling space. Fml. So i then spent another half an hour getting out of the space, and we headed off. We played snooker and pool for about 6 hours while catching up, val in 24hr Rileys, then went home and proceeded to win millions online for a few hours. On tuesday we went to the cinema to see Jennifer's Body, a pretty poor film but it had its enjoyable moments. We did see the new extended trailer for Avatar before the fim which looks abslutely amazing, can't wait for that to come out in December. Then headed to Rileys again and played another 6 hours of snooker and pool lol.
I got home on wednesday, absolutely knackered, having averaged about 2 hours sleep a night for 5 nights but it was a quality trip. Since being back we played 2 table tennis matches drawing 5-5 and losing 7-3. The draw we could have won as we were 5-4 up with one match to play and the last match was winnable with the right tactics, but sadly we lost it. The 7-3 result i was very pleased with as we were playing a very good team and were 7-2 down going into the final game which was one of my singles games. I won it 3-1 securing us a league point losing 7-3 overall. There are 4 points up for grabs each match, if the Result is 10-0, 9-1 or 8-2, points are awarded 4 to 0, if 7-3 or 6-4 points are awarded 3 to 1, if 5-5 then 2 points each. So we've got 3 points in 2 days and are no longer bottom of the league :)))))))))
This weekend will be busy as there is a table tennis exhibition tomorrow i'm going to, then the £50 deepstacked freezeout at NPC on sunday, plus Toby is back in town so i'll meet up with him. Next week we have 3 table tennis matches which will be pretty sick, and next weekend i might be going to Bristol. The weekend after that is Spain, so the rest of this month is looking pretty busy already, so i doubt i'll be playing online much. Still, hopefully i'll have time to win the odd tourn or two. Run good everyone,
Rich x
We went bowling on Sunday night, which was excellent fun, despite the fact that i managed to clutch defeat from the jaws of victory :( Afterwards we went to the Mandarin restaurant and proceeded to have 5 courses of superb food and plenty of drinks. Which was all fine until someone suggested we play Credit Card roulette for the bill. Fuck it, everyone else was in so of course i agreed. I had a bit of a sweat on as i didn't really fancy paying £200 for dinner, but luckily i was second one out after ptevey. This left Paul and Keysie heads up. For once Keysie won heads up, and Paul footed the bill. My joy for getting a free dinner was however short lived as my car was clamped and had a £120 release fee. Fml. Cman who was parked in the same car park as me obv had no clamp. Some people run too good. So I sadly coughed up the money (with an appreciated £40 donation from Keysie) and headed to Birmingham to visit Nathan.
We decided to head straight out to Rileys, 5 minutes after i had spent half an hour parking in the world's smallest parling space. Fml. So i then spent another half an hour getting out of the space, and we headed off. We played snooker and pool for about 6 hours while catching up, val in 24hr Rileys, then went home and proceeded to win millions online for a few hours. On tuesday we went to the cinema to see Jennifer's Body, a pretty poor film but it had its enjoyable moments. We did see the new extended trailer for Avatar before the fim which looks abslutely amazing, can't wait for that to come out in December. Then headed to Rileys again and played another 6 hours of snooker and pool lol.
I got home on wednesday, absolutely knackered, having averaged about 2 hours sleep a night for 5 nights but it was a quality trip. Since being back we played 2 table tennis matches drawing 5-5 and losing 7-3. The draw we could have won as we were 5-4 up with one match to play and the last match was winnable with the right tactics, but sadly we lost it. The 7-3 result i was very pleased with as we were playing a very good team and were 7-2 down going into the final game which was one of my singles games. I won it 3-1 securing us a league point losing 7-3 overall. There are 4 points up for grabs each match, if the Result is 10-0, 9-1 or 8-2, points are awarded 4 to 0, if 7-3 or 6-4 points are awarded 3 to 1, if 5-5 then 2 points each. So we've got 3 points in 2 days and are no longer bottom of the league :)))))))))
This weekend will be busy as there is a table tennis exhibition tomorrow i'm going to, then the £50 deepstacked freezeout at NPC on sunday, plus Toby is back in town so i'll meet up with him. Next week we have 3 table tennis matches which will be pretty sick, and next weekend i might be going to Bristol. The weekend after that is Spain, so the rest of this month is looking pretty busy already, so i doubt i'll be playing online much. Still, hopefully i'll have time to win the odd tourn or two. Run good everyone,
Rich x
Nottingham Tourney Report
I was fully staked in the £336 freezeout 2-day event this month. Thanks to all my backers for their confidence. I was gutted that I couldn't reward their faith by cashing. Annoyingly the cards were against me all day. I sat down on table 3 which i was pleased about because i knew that my table wouldn't break as they break tables down by number at dusk. Immediately on my right was an old friend of mine called Hamid who is a regular in the Newcastle tourney scene and who i used to play cash with most nights when i lived up north. Although he is a decent player I know his game fairly well so was pleased to have him on my table. The others were all unknown to me. You start the tourn with 10k chips, 280 people started. In the first 2 hours everyone played pretty snug but i flopped a flush and got paid off by KK to put me on about 14k at the first break.
At 75/150 i made it 350 UTG with QQ and the button called. Flop came T34ss, i bet 400, he raised to 1100, i called. Turn came another 3, i checked and he bet 2500. I called. River came a 9c. I bet 4k and gave off a few reverse tells that i was weak, hoping he would put me on a missed flush draw. He called and mucked. I was fairly confident where i was in this hand throughout and i think i probably made the most i could out of it. So that put me on about 20k. An hour later I raised from mid position with AA to 400, and got 2 callers. Flop came T24 I bet 700 and got 1 caller. The way the guy called on the flop i knew he had a ten. The second he called i put him on TJ/Q/K/A. I was planning to check the turn as though i was giving up on the c-bet, then tank and call as though i had a marginal hand, then either bet or check small raise the river depending on what happened on the turn to get max val. But the turn came another ten. I checked and the guy bet 1100. I folded, very confident AA was behind, the guy seemed very happy on the turn. I'm sure i lost the minimum in this hand, I could have called him down and lost 3k or so if he had a ten, but i was happy enough i was behind to just fold. Hopefully right now he isn't writing in his blog about how he called a flop bet with second pair then bet when the ten paired and gave off some reverse tells that he was strong and got AA to fold :(
So after the second break i had about 18k i think, still above average and playing well. At 100/200/25 I raised to 650 with JJ and a short stack shoved all-in for 5k. I called and he had AQo. The flop came A high and i doubled him up annoyingly, leaving me on about 14k. A few rounds later an early posiiton raiser made it 600, and i made it 1900 with KK. The button then flat called, and the raiser called. The flop came 973r, pretty perfect flop tbh. The opener led out for 1500, i raised to 5200, the button who cold called preflop then shoved for his 7k total. The raiser passed and i obv had to call, fearing he had AA. He turns over 77 (Sicko, gross call pre for 20% of his stack with the possibility of being reraised out of it anyway by the opener). Somehow I missed and was down to 5k. I hit the 3rd break with 6k, average was about 20k, but blinds were still small enough so i knew i could get back in it.
We came back for level 7 which was 200/400/50 and i went card dead, which was very bad timing as i would have loved a double up. I did raise the button to 3k after 4 limpers for 400 each with KJhh and it got home, earning me about 2.5k. It was half my stack so i wasnt going to fold to a shove but i thought that raising to half my stack would look stronger than a push, which would look like a steal. I survived for about an hour with no cards then got KK in late position and made it 1200, 3 times the big blind to look like a blind steal. The BB was a serial non-believer and often defended. But obviously everyone insta folded lol. I had two nice hands late in level 8, Hamid opened both times and folded 99 face up when i shoved with JJ, then folded 88 face up when i shoved with AKhh. I showed both the JJ and the AKhh to try and keep my tight table image as i knew the next two levels when the blinds went up would be highly profitable if i could steal effectively. I had 10k at the 4th break, average would have been about 25k, there were about 120 players left.
Level 9 was 400/800/100, so with 2k in the pot every hand winning pots preflop was a tempting proposition. I managed to take the blinds more than once a round and got up to around 15k. I made up from the small blind with KQhh after 2 limpers. BB checked flop came K74 and was checked all the way round. Turn came an 8 i bet 2100 and got called from the BB and from Hamid on the button. River came an A, i checked BB checked and Hamid bet 6200. the ace didn't really seem to change much and i thought the only hand i could lose to was A8, which Hamid would have limped the button with and called on the turn with so it did make perfect sense but i also knew that he could bet any missed draw on the river knowing the ace was a bad card. So i figured all i could lose to was A8 and called. BB passed. Hamid had 85cc for an 8 and a missed gutshot and i took the pot to put me on 25k.
Level 10 was 600/1200/200. It was folded round to Hamid in the SB who made up and i looked at ATo, i made it 3.4k more. he then limp raised to 11.4k. It was 8k more and i had 22k left. I tanked for a while here, i didn't want to go out of the tourn with ATo after being so patient but I know Hamid is a good enough player to resteal here with nothing, and i just had a feeling that i was ahead. So i shoved for 14k more, he showed an ace and folded. I was on 40k, and average was 36k lol, finally above average after 10 hours! Hamid went out a few rounds later, he was unlucky to be fair, and a new player got moved to his seat. The guy made up after it was folded to him and i checked the BB with 83hh. He checked a KT5 flop and i bet 2100. He called. The turn came a 6d putting 2 diamonds on board. he checked again and i bet 5200. he thought for ages and didn't seem happy, but called. The river came another 5, and he bet 4k which seemed very strange to me. I knew he didn't have a 5 because he would have folded the turn, plus the bet was too small for trips. And i didn't think he had a King or i think i would have found out earlier in the hand, plus he would have called the turn quicker. Two pair before the river seemed very unlikely as i'm sure he would have raised the flop or turn. So i assumed he had a ten or a weak king and put out a blocker bet to get a cheap showdown. So i raised to 23k, almost certain he was folding, and there was already 20k+ in the pot. He snap called me which was the last thing i was expecting. He showed 54dd for bottom pair/ turned flush draw/ rivered trips. This was such a gross hand, i mean he literally has the only hand that can call, and he's bet it in such a strange way, i mean 4k on the river wtf? He also has a hand that i cannot possibly put him on, it's so disguised. If he misses the river I am on 50k, but as it is i had 8k left. A few hands later an aggressive player raised to 4k and i shoved for my 8k, another very tight player then shoved for 30k, and the opener passed. It was about a 22k pot and would have got me back into it but my JJ couldnt hold against AKo on the last hand before the 5th break. The flop came a suspiciously perfect 442, then the K on the turn obv. And i finished 67th of 280.
The 54dd hand cost me the tourn really, as otherwise i would have reraised with JJ then folded to the shove and still had average stack. Obv i could have check/folded the hand and still been on average stack, but i don't think i did much wrong, i had a tight table image, hadn't been caught bluffing at all, and he folds 90% of turn cards and i win the 7k pot. And even when he hits a diamond and calls i still win 75% of river cards for an 18k pot. It was obviously very annoying to play very well for 10 hours of poker and then go out, but things were just against me most of the day sadly. KK losing to 77 was obviously a huge pot early on. having to fold AA is always a bad sign, and the 54dd was killer. It was frustrating to see so many players make so many mistakes and get away with them, and to play so well all day and lose a hand that not only hit the river against you, but you cant even put him on the hand that he has. Still, i'll be playing this tourn again, it's a lovely tournament with a lot of bad players in it and a brilliant structure.
Congrats to Stevie Liu a friend of mine, also from newcastle, who made the final table and finished 5th for £5k. You are the master ;)
Rich
At 75/150 i made it 350 UTG with QQ and the button called. Flop came T34ss, i bet 400, he raised to 1100, i called. Turn came another 3, i checked and he bet 2500. I called. River came a 9c. I bet 4k and gave off a few reverse tells that i was weak, hoping he would put me on a missed flush draw. He called and mucked. I was fairly confident where i was in this hand throughout and i think i probably made the most i could out of it. So that put me on about 20k. An hour later I raised from mid position with AA to 400, and got 2 callers. Flop came T24 I bet 700 and got 1 caller. The way the guy called on the flop i knew he had a ten. The second he called i put him on TJ/Q/K/A. I was planning to check the turn as though i was giving up on the c-bet, then tank and call as though i had a marginal hand, then either bet or check small raise the river depending on what happened on the turn to get max val. But the turn came another ten. I checked and the guy bet 1100. I folded, very confident AA was behind, the guy seemed very happy on the turn. I'm sure i lost the minimum in this hand, I could have called him down and lost 3k or so if he had a ten, but i was happy enough i was behind to just fold. Hopefully right now he isn't writing in his blog about how he called a flop bet with second pair then bet when the ten paired and gave off some reverse tells that he was strong and got AA to fold :(
So after the second break i had about 18k i think, still above average and playing well. At 100/200/25 I raised to 650 with JJ and a short stack shoved all-in for 5k. I called and he had AQo. The flop came A high and i doubled him up annoyingly, leaving me on about 14k. A few rounds later an early posiiton raiser made it 600, and i made it 1900 with KK. The button then flat called, and the raiser called. The flop came 973r, pretty perfect flop tbh. The opener led out for 1500, i raised to 5200, the button who cold called preflop then shoved for his 7k total. The raiser passed and i obv had to call, fearing he had AA. He turns over 77 (Sicko, gross call pre for 20% of his stack with the possibility of being reraised out of it anyway by the opener). Somehow I missed and was down to 5k. I hit the 3rd break with 6k, average was about 20k, but blinds were still small enough so i knew i could get back in it.
We came back for level 7 which was 200/400/50 and i went card dead, which was very bad timing as i would have loved a double up. I did raise the button to 3k after 4 limpers for 400 each with KJhh and it got home, earning me about 2.5k. It was half my stack so i wasnt going to fold to a shove but i thought that raising to half my stack would look stronger than a push, which would look like a steal. I survived for about an hour with no cards then got KK in late position and made it 1200, 3 times the big blind to look like a blind steal. The BB was a serial non-believer and often defended. But obviously everyone insta folded lol. I had two nice hands late in level 8, Hamid opened both times and folded 99 face up when i shoved with JJ, then folded 88 face up when i shoved with AKhh. I showed both the JJ and the AKhh to try and keep my tight table image as i knew the next two levels when the blinds went up would be highly profitable if i could steal effectively. I had 10k at the 4th break, average would have been about 25k, there were about 120 players left.
Level 9 was 400/800/100, so with 2k in the pot every hand winning pots preflop was a tempting proposition. I managed to take the blinds more than once a round and got up to around 15k. I made up from the small blind with KQhh after 2 limpers. BB checked flop came K74 and was checked all the way round. Turn came an 8 i bet 2100 and got called from the BB and from Hamid on the button. River came an A, i checked BB checked and Hamid bet 6200. the ace didn't really seem to change much and i thought the only hand i could lose to was A8, which Hamid would have limped the button with and called on the turn with so it did make perfect sense but i also knew that he could bet any missed draw on the river knowing the ace was a bad card. So i figured all i could lose to was A8 and called. BB passed. Hamid had 85cc for an 8 and a missed gutshot and i took the pot to put me on 25k.
Level 10 was 600/1200/200. It was folded round to Hamid in the SB who made up and i looked at ATo, i made it 3.4k more. he then limp raised to 11.4k. It was 8k more and i had 22k left. I tanked for a while here, i didn't want to go out of the tourn with ATo after being so patient but I know Hamid is a good enough player to resteal here with nothing, and i just had a feeling that i was ahead. So i shoved for 14k more, he showed an ace and folded. I was on 40k, and average was 36k lol, finally above average after 10 hours! Hamid went out a few rounds later, he was unlucky to be fair, and a new player got moved to his seat. The guy made up after it was folded to him and i checked the BB with 83hh. He checked a KT5 flop and i bet 2100. He called. The turn came a 6d putting 2 diamonds on board. he checked again and i bet 5200. he thought for ages and didn't seem happy, but called. The river came another 5, and he bet 4k which seemed very strange to me. I knew he didn't have a 5 because he would have folded the turn, plus the bet was too small for trips. And i didn't think he had a King or i think i would have found out earlier in the hand, plus he would have called the turn quicker. Two pair before the river seemed very unlikely as i'm sure he would have raised the flop or turn. So i assumed he had a ten or a weak king and put out a blocker bet to get a cheap showdown. So i raised to 23k, almost certain he was folding, and there was already 20k+ in the pot. He snap called me which was the last thing i was expecting. He showed 54dd for bottom pair/ turned flush draw/ rivered trips. This was such a gross hand, i mean he literally has the only hand that can call, and he's bet it in such a strange way, i mean 4k on the river wtf? He also has a hand that i cannot possibly put him on, it's so disguised. If he misses the river I am on 50k, but as it is i had 8k left. A few hands later an aggressive player raised to 4k and i shoved for my 8k, another very tight player then shoved for 30k, and the opener passed. It was about a 22k pot and would have got me back into it but my JJ couldnt hold against AKo on the last hand before the 5th break. The flop came a suspiciously perfect 442, then the K on the turn obv. And i finished 67th of 280.
The 54dd hand cost me the tourn really, as otherwise i would have reraised with JJ then folded to the shove and still had average stack. Obv i could have check/folded the hand and still been on average stack, but i don't think i did much wrong, i had a tight table image, hadn't been caught bluffing at all, and he folds 90% of turn cards and i win the 7k pot. And even when he hits a diamond and calls i still win 75% of river cards for an 18k pot. It was obviously very annoying to play very well for 10 hours of poker and then go out, but things were just against me most of the day sadly. KK losing to 77 was obviously a huge pot early on. having to fold AA is always a bad sign, and the 54dd was killer. It was frustrating to see so many players make so many mistakes and get away with them, and to play so well all day and lose a hand that not only hit the river against you, but you cant even put him on the hand that he has. Still, i'll be playing this tourn again, it's a lovely tournament with a lot of bad players in it and a brilliant structure.
Congrats to Stevie Liu a friend of mine, also from newcastle, who made the final table and finished 5th for £5k. You are the master ;)
Rich
Sunday, 1 November 2009
Close, but no cigar
I've been chilling out a bit recently, having a bit of a break from poker as i wanted. I've played 6 or 7 tourns online, but only ones i actually wanted to play, as opposed to grinding 15 tourns a night. I played the double stacked $50 freeze again, which i think is becoming my favourite nightly tourn. I was unlucky to finish 18th and win a bowl of rice when i squeeze played with A9ss from the BB, getting the cutoff (original raiser) and button to fold but finding a call from the SB with 77 which somehow held for a pot to put me on the final. Plus i also finished 16th in a $10r, which also paid rice, when i lost a slightly controversial hand, which was obviously my fault but i think it was a good play, just unlucky. I raised preflop from early position to 7k at 1300/2600/250 and got called from the small blind. I had 12k left, and there was already 18k in the pot. I had AQdd and the flop came A24r and i was checked to. I checked behind. Mainly because his preflop calling range has at most two or three outs on that flop, 3 if he has an ace, 2 if he has a pp, and none if he has 2 high cards. So i'm hoping to induce an allin on the turn by a pp if i check, or just give him a chance to bluff it. Average stack at the time was about 40k so i'm trying to win as many chips as possible in this hand. I'm not bothered if i do get outdrawn as i dont have a stack to protect and i want to gamble to double up here as that would give me enough to get on the final. The turn came a 7 and he checked again, this time i shoved and he snapped with 77 lol. I'm not sure how he plays the turn if he doesnt hit, maybe he is check folding the entire hand in which case my check on the flop is terrible, but most tourney players get greedy and if u show any weakness in a big pot late on they will try and take it, so perhaps my check was ok to try and double up.
I played the halloween tourn on vc for a bit fun, it was a $5 rebuy, and they added a $5 bounty to everyones head. It got 95 runners. There were also two vc players with $100 bounties on their heads, plus if u knocked them out, all your $5 bounties would be doubled. Obviously with 60 left, one of them gets moved directly to my right and is very short stacked lol. I'm freerolling at this point as i have won bounties to cover my buyins, and i have 12k. The $100 bounty has 1.5k, so i'm in every pot he's in. Noone else seems to playing for it they keep folding, but fair enough. I double him up twice but take some back so he's on 2k and i'm on about 10k. Then UTG raises to 800, and bounty shoves for 2k, now i have J8, and i make it 5k hoping UTG folds, but no he shoves for 7k total and obv i call. They each have AKs and ATs and I hit two pair and knock them both out, earning $110 in the process and i'm up to 20k. Lol. Then starts one of the funniest torrents of abuse i've ever had online from the guy with AK. I mean i don't see how i've done anything wrong, as first prize in the comp is $300, and 3rd prize is $100, and hes moaning at me for using my chips to try to win the $110 bounties and a 20k pot. I figure i'd have to get 2nd in the comp to get more than the bounty, and as I had average stack with 60 left that doesnt happen very often. I knew if i lost the hand i'd prob be out soon, but i knew if i won it then i'd have $110 in the bank, be on $10 knockouts from then on, and have double average stack with which i could go deep with. Surely, it's a +EV hand to play the J8 there. If i fold, i have average stack with 60 left, only 10 cash, and 3rd prize is only $100. Anyway, the AK guy didn't see the hand that way lol :S I might have ruined his christmas. It was quite humourous to listen to this guy go on and on, over a $5 rebuy with $300 first prize when there were still 60 left, i mean it was hardly a life changing bad beat was it? He didn't even know about the $100 bounty, which was prob why he was annoyed at the call. But he'll hopefully get over it after many hours of counselling. Sadly i got coolered late on and came 24th. But nevermind, i got more than 3rd prize anyway :D
Tonight I decided at the last minute to play the ipoker 250k gtd. because a friend was selling a seat cheaply and me and another friend of mine had shares. Somehow i was out within the first 45 minutes. On the third hand of the tourn i lost half of my 5k starting stack on a AJ2 flop with JJ, losing to A4 after he eventually hit a wheel. Then about a round later i called a raise with AJss and saw a lovely Jd2s3s flop against a short stack. We get it allin for the 1.2k that he has left and his KK holds. So i'm left with about 1.2k of the 5k stack. A few rounds later at 25/50, someone minraises to 100 and the SB calls, i shove from the BB for 1.2k total with Bristol, raiser folds and SB who has 2k total then calls the extra 1.1k with KQo. Lovely, what a great call. Obv i know i am drawing dead preflop. Good old Bristol! Ruins my life. So i'm out after about half an hour and in a state of shock. Better than bubbling i suppose, but a rather ridiculous tourney. I'm still not quite sure how i managed to lose all 3 of those hands.
I also played a couple of ridiculous tourns on full tilt tonight, while watching the X factor and CSI. One was a $5 freezeout 250k gtd. FTOPS warm up on full tilt, with 45,000 runners. I somehow came about 1,000th for $20 which was a pretty deep run i suppose but obviously i didn't have the massive amount of luck needed to get a nice draw out of it. The other was the $22 Double Deuce, 200k gtd. It got about 11,000 runners, and i came 180th which was a good effort again, but didn't earn me much, i got $100 i think. I lost a huuuuge pot with KK vs 66 allin on a 357 flop and he rivered his 6 outer after a brick on the turn, which left me short. It was pretty annoying as if i win that pot i have well over double average and prob make the top 60. And from there, anything can happen so it was a cold beat as 1st was $22.5k. But considering they were the only two tournaments i played on full tilt, and i made the top 2% in both, i should be pretty happy. Although i was playing for around 6 hours and only won a bowl of rice.
Played badminton again today, had a quality game. It'd been a couple of weeks since i last played but hopefully i'll start playing more regularly again as i love it, and its a great way to get poker out of your head. Also got 2 table tennis matches this week on weds and thurs, with more of a chance to win a game than against our last oponents lol. I doubt we will win on thurs but if we play well we have a chance of winning on weds so that should be fun. Weds is also our first home game and some friends are coming out so it should be great banter, and hopefully we can do well. Not much else to say except that i have now finished Transmetropolitan, a graphic novel i have been reading about a journalist in the future. It's soooooo good, absolutely brilliant. i'm gutted that there is no more to read. But i have all issues 1-10 so if anyone wants to borrow them let me know. It's very sick in places so dont read if you're easily offended but it is absolutely superb. Apologies that my last post was pretty bitter, thats just how i felt at the time, and i guess there's not much point in writing a blog if you're not gonna be honest. But i'm enjoying myself again, and i can't wait until Nottingham next weekend, as its turning out to be a bit of a durham poker reunion with the legendary Cman also making an appearance, alongside Ptevey, Nath, 147, and the very recent Baltic festival runner up keysie (50k euro's, you run far too good son :)
Rich x
I played the halloween tourn on vc for a bit fun, it was a $5 rebuy, and they added a $5 bounty to everyones head. It got 95 runners. There were also two vc players with $100 bounties on their heads, plus if u knocked them out, all your $5 bounties would be doubled. Obviously with 60 left, one of them gets moved directly to my right and is very short stacked lol. I'm freerolling at this point as i have won bounties to cover my buyins, and i have 12k. The $100 bounty has 1.5k, so i'm in every pot he's in. Noone else seems to playing for it they keep folding, but fair enough. I double him up twice but take some back so he's on 2k and i'm on about 10k. Then UTG raises to 800, and bounty shoves for 2k, now i have J8, and i make it 5k hoping UTG folds, but no he shoves for 7k total and obv i call. They each have AKs and ATs and I hit two pair and knock them both out, earning $110 in the process and i'm up to 20k. Lol. Then starts one of the funniest torrents of abuse i've ever had online from the guy with AK. I mean i don't see how i've done anything wrong, as first prize in the comp is $300, and 3rd prize is $100, and hes moaning at me for using my chips to try to win the $110 bounties and a 20k pot. I figure i'd have to get 2nd in the comp to get more than the bounty, and as I had average stack with 60 left that doesnt happen very often. I knew if i lost the hand i'd prob be out soon, but i knew if i won it then i'd have $110 in the bank, be on $10 knockouts from then on, and have double average stack with which i could go deep with. Surely, it's a +EV hand to play the J8 there. If i fold, i have average stack with 60 left, only 10 cash, and 3rd prize is only $100. Anyway, the AK guy didn't see the hand that way lol :S I might have ruined his christmas. It was quite humourous to listen to this guy go on and on, over a $5 rebuy with $300 first prize when there were still 60 left, i mean it was hardly a life changing bad beat was it? He didn't even know about the $100 bounty, which was prob why he was annoyed at the call. But he'll hopefully get over it after many hours of counselling. Sadly i got coolered late on and came 24th. But nevermind, i got more than 3rd prize anyway :D
Tonight I decided at the last minute to play the ipoker 250k gtd. because a friend was selling a seat cheaply and me and another friend of mine had shares. Somehow i was out within the first 45 minutes. On the third hand of the tourn i lost half of my 5k starting stack on a AJ2 flop with JJ, losing to A4 after he eventually hit a wheel. Then about a round later i called a raise with AJss and saw a lovely Jd2s3s flop against a short stack. We get it allin for the 1.2k that he has left and his KK holds. So i'm left with about 1.2k of the 5k stack. A few rounds later at 25/50, someone minraises to 100 and the SB calls, i shove from the BB for 1.2k total with Bristol, raiser folds and SB who has 2k total then calls the extra 1.1k with KQo. Lovely, what a great call. Obv i know i am drawing dead preflop. Good old Bristol! Ruins my life. So i'm out after about half an hour and in a state of shock. Better than bubbling i suppose, but a rather ridiculous tourney. I'm still not quite sure how i managed to lose all 3 of those hands.
I also played a couple of ridiculous tourns on full tilt tonight, while watching the X factor and CSI. One was a $5 freezeout 250k gtd. FTOPS warm up on full tilt, with 45,000 runners. I somehow came about 1,000th for $20 which was a pretty deep run i suppose but obviously i didn't have the massive amount of luck needed to get a nice draw out of it. The other was the $22 Double Deuce, 200k gtd. It got about 11,000 runners, and i came 180th which was a good effort again, but didn't earn me much, i got $100 i think. I lost a huuuuge pot with KK vs 66 allin on a 357 flop and he rivered his 6 outer after a brick on the turn, which left me short. It was pretty annoying as if i win that pot i have well over double average and prob make the top 60. And from there, anything can happen so it was a cold beat as 1st was $22.5k. But considering they were the only two tournaments i played on full tilt, and i made the top 2% in both, i should be pretty happy. Although i was playing for around 6 hours and only won a bowl of rice.
Played badminton again today, had a quality game. It'd been a couple of weeks since i last played but hopefully i'll start playing more regularly again as i love it, and its a great way to get poker out of your head. Also got 2 table tennis matches this week on weds and thurs, with more of a chance to win a game than against our last oponents lol. I doubt we will win on thurs but if we play well we have a chance of winning on weds so that should be fun. Weds is also our first home game and some friends are coming out so it should be great banter, and hopefully we can do well. Not much else to say except that i have now finished Transmetropolitan, a graphic novel i have been reading about a journalist in the future. It's soooooo good, absolutely brilliant. i'm gutted that there is no more to read. But i have all issues 1-10 so if anyone wants to borrow them let me know. It's very sick in places so dont read if you're easily offended but it is absolutely superb. Apologies that my last post was pretty bitter, thats just how i felt at the time, and i guess there's not much point in writing a blog if you're not gonna be honest. But i'm enjoying myself again, and i can't wait until Nottingham next weekend, as its turning out to be a bit of a durham poker reunion with the legendary Cman also making an appearance, alongside Ptevey, Nath, 147, and the very recent Baltic festival runner up keysie (50k euro's, you run far too good son :)
Rich x
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Warning: Blah alert! Only read if you can put up with some serious blahhhhing.
I was pretty pissed off when i got home last night, for many reasons. The night started well with our first table tennis league match, which although getting destroyed 10-0 by a bunch of 45 year olds was actually great fun and i'm looking forward to the rest of the season. To be fair, they are top of the league and had been in the league for 20 years lol, the team we are playing next week we should have more of a chance against. At least we can only improve :)
After that I went down the poker club. It was one of those frustrating nights when i could never really get anything going. I was playing a 50p dealers choice game which i havent played in years, but which we used to play 7 nights a week a couple of years ago, and it was a nice change to play some different games instead of just holdem but i was pretty card dead all night and was about even before the last hand when i lost it all. It didn't help that i got slowrolled massively by a friend of mine in a huge pot. He didn't look at all comfortable when he went allin on the river and i thought i had him beat, so after tanking for a little while i called him. "Yeah, I've got nothing" he says in a defeated tone. Happy days i think before he turns over his winning hand. He said he misread his hand and he thought he lost when i called, which is possible as it was obvious he was weak on the river, but whether intentional or not, it was pretty disgusting, and it put me in a pretty bad mood.
There were a few other things that annoyed me last night as well. Firstly two people were both supposed to bring me some money they owed me and neither showed up or called me, which is always annoying. Secondly, the girls running the club this week got annoyed at me for starting a dealers choice game, with a few other dealers players, as i wasn't in the mood for holdem. A couple of holdem cash regulars then wanted to play as well, and so they got arsey about me ruining their holdem cash game, which was just plain ridiculous. 3 of the people playing our dealers game would never have played holdem cash anyway and were about to go home before i suggested the dealers game, and there was a full table of holdem anyway. So instead of there being a full table of holdem and a wating list of 4 people, and them earning £27 an hour, there were two full cash tables and they were earning £41 an hour. They have no right to say how people gamble with their own money anyway, if they want to play dealers, they should let them, and given that i do plenty of favours for them, I was pretty anonyed to be treated as a second class citizen. It probably didn't help that i was in a bad mood anyway lol.
I've been running fairly bad online last few days, and not playing as well as i was last week either, playing a few hands terribly. I didn't have as much patience as i had the week before, and I was getting more and more annoyed by online poker. I've not lost much though to be honest, and my account is still on a healthy £1,900 from the £500 that i started on.
All of this resulted in me getting home last night thoroughly pissed off with everyone and everything, despite only losing £100 on the night. Which annoyed me even more because i hate being in a bad mood, and i dont like myself when i am because i overreact and am easily irritated, as you can probably tell from the above. I have a night like this every 6 months or so it seems and the cause and cure are always the same. The cause is always that i have been gambling too much, i have spent too much time with gamblers, and i haven't spent enough time away from gambling. And the cure is always to take some time off from gambling and to speak to my best friends, so that's what i'm gonna do. It's a real shame that I have 4 best friends that are brilliant people but none of them live in Norwich anymore so it gets pretty annoying when i cant see them for months at a time. It was 4am when i got in so i phoned the only one of them that would be awake lol and had some good banter.
I have been playing on average 12 hours of poker a day either live or online for the last two weeks solid which is far too much and it's finally done my head in. October 09 has been the fourth best month i've ever had since becoming a full time professional gambler 3 years ago, winning £1.5k plus a $5k prize package online, and over £3k playing live holdem cash, having won the last 9 times i have played. But i've played so much this month I feel like my brain is fried and i need a break from it to rejoin the real world, and become more relaxed. Like i say i hate it when i'm in a bad mood so i'm gonna chill out for a week or so and de-stress. So i'm not gonna gamble much until November 7th when i'm in nottingham for the deepstack weekend. I miss doing other things with my spare time other than gambling, and it is a necessary part of being a professional gambler, coz the gambling world can take over your life if you let it.
But don't worry, i'll hopefully be back to my good old self soon :) Apologies for the blahhh,
Rich x
After that I went down the poker club. It was one of those frustrating nights when i could never really get anything going. I was playing a 50p dealers choice game which i havent played in years, but which we used to play 7 nights a week a couple of years ago, and it was a nice change to play some different games instead of just holdem but i was pretty card dead all night and was about even before the last hand when i lost it all. It didn't help that i got slowrolled massively by a friend of mine in a huge pot. He didn't look at all comfortable when he went allin on the river and i thought i had him beat, so after tanking for a little while i called him. "Yeah, I've got nothing" he says in a defeated tone. Happy days i think before he turns over his winning hand. He said he misread his hand and he thought he lost when i called, which is possible as it was obvious he was weak on the river, but whether intentional or not, it was pretty disgusting, and it put me in a pretty bad mood.
There were a few other things that annoyed me last night as well. Firstly two people were both supposed to bring me some money they owed me and neither showed up or called me, which is always annoying. Secondly, the girls running the club this week got annoyed at me for starting a dealers choice game, with a few other dealers players, as i wasn't in the mood for holdem. A couple of holdem cash regulars then wanted to play as well, and so they got arsey about me ruining their holdem cash game, which was just plain ridiculous. 3 of the people playing our dealers game would never have played holdem cash anyway and were about to go home before i suggested the dealers game, and there was a full table of holdem anyway. So instead of there being a full table of holdem and a wating list of 4 people, and them earning £27 an hour, there were two full cash tables and they were earning £41 an hour. They have no right to say how people gamble with their own money anyway, if they want to play dealers, they should let them, and given that i do plenty of favours for them, I was pretty anonyed to be treated as a second class citizen. It probably didn't help that i was in a bad mood anyway lol.
I've been running fairly bad online last few days, and not playing as well as i was last week either, playing a few hands terribly. I didn't have as much patience as i had the week before, and I was getting more and more annoyed by online poker. I've not lost much though to be honest, and my account is still on a healthy £1,900 from the £500 that i started on.
All of this resulted in me getting home last night thoroughly pissed off with everyone and everything, despite only losing £100 on the night. Which annoyed me even more because i hate being in a bad mood, and i dont like myself when i am because i overreact and am easily irritated, as you can probably tell from the above. I have a night like this every 6 months or so it seems and the cause and cure are always the same. The cause is always that i have been gambling too much, i have spent too much time with gamblers, and i haven't spent enough time away from gambling. And the cure is always to take some time off from gambling and to speak to my best friends, so that's what i'm gonna do. It's a real shame that I have 4 best friends that are brilliant people but none of them live in Norwich anymore so it gets pretty annoying when i cant see them for months at a time. It was 4am when i got in so i phoned the only one of them that would be awake lol and had some good banter.
I have been playing on average 12 hours of poker a day either live or online for the last two weeks solid which is far too much and it's finally done my head in. October 09 has been the fourth best month i've ever had since becoming a full time professional gambler 3 years ago, winning £1.5k plus a $5k prize package online, and over £3k playing live holdem cash, having won the last 9 times i have played. But i've played so much this month I feel like my brain is fried and i need a break from it to rejoin the real world, and become more relaxed. Like i say i hate it when i'm in a bad mood so i'm gonna chill out for a week or so and de-stress. So i'm not gonna gamble much until November 7th when i'm in nottingham for the deepstack weekend. I miss doing other things with my spare time other than gambling, and it is a necessary part of being a professional gambler, coz the gambling world can take over your life if you let it.
But don't worry, i'll hopefully be back to my good old self soon :) Apologies for the blahhh,
Rich x
Friday, 23 October 2009
IRBB 8.5: Not good :(
Well, it's been another good week. I finished in the top 10 of the leaderboard again, scraping in it at 10th again lol, which means i get a $100 bonus but sadly no seat in the spain sng, it seems they won't let me win two seats :( But still, happy to finish in the top 10 again after playing 4 nights this week. Last night was very annoying, i lost two hands that on the scale of bad beats were both ranked somewhere between 8 and 9. For those of you unfamiliar with the international rankings of bad beats, the IRBB, number 8 is defined as: makes you throw your laptop through the wall, and number 9 is defined as: a genuine motive for suicide.
The first of these happened in the early $10r. 50 cashed out of about 450 runners. I had been largely card dead in this tournament but was on a nice table and people were folding to continuation bets on dry flops, and largely were too tight so i did manage to win a fair amount of chips and i had average stack with 21 left when the following happened. The blinds were 1k/2k/300 and i had 90k. SB had me covered with 125k. I raised from the hijack with A4o to 5,555 and the SB called. The flop came AK5, he checked and i bet 5,750 into 15k deliberately trying to look weak so that a K would look me up and i could get some chips out of him. He called. The turn was another 5, the perfect card for me really as if he has an ace we are now splitting it and if he has a king he cant hit two pair on me and has 2 outs. He checked again and i bet 8,450 into 26k, hoping to get a call from a king. He insta shoves me all-in lol which i wasnt expecting. I still had 70k or so back. I thought for about 0.2 seconds before instacalling. I really cant see how i'm behind here, i assume we are chopping it but it is a strange way to play anything, even an ace. I mean, why shove? i think he tries to get value if he has a 5, making a smaller raise and i think he calls me down with either an ace or king, so i had no idea what this guy had tbh but given how i had played the hand i knew he thought i was weak, so didn't hesitate in calling him. He shows 34o. Very humourous. Almost as humourous as the 2 on the river. Wp sir, nh, gl, gg. Lol, value in inducing a bluff for double average stack with 21 left then getting rivered to a 4 outer.
The second hand ranked even higher on the IRBB. We were on the final table of the $50 deepstacked freezeout. We are 5 handed. The stacks atm are 35k, 45k, 65k, 85k (me), 200k(guy on my left). The guy on my left thought he was good but he was never on my table until the final, and although he was good enough to bully other VC players, i knew i could take chips off him. The story begins with me UTG, after playing 5 handed for a little while. I raise to 7,250 at 1.5k/3k/400, the guy on my left UTG +1 calls. Everyone else passes and i bet 12,345 on an 8 high flop and he folds. Next hand he is UTG and he makes it 8k or so, folded to me in the BB and i call. I check raise him on a T high flop and he folds. Then next hand we are in the blinds, folded round to me blinds are up to 2k/4k/500, i make it 9,999 from the SB and he calls. Flop comes AT2 two spades, i bet 11,111 he calls me. Turn is the 3 of spades, i check, he bets 17,000 i go allin for 65k more, he folds. So now i am up to 130k, he has 150k and everyone else is where they were.
I am on the button next hand with 99 and it is folded round to me, i make it 9,999 again and this guy shoves from the SB for 150k. BB folds. Now obviously this guy is thoroughly pissed off with me, given that i have been owning him recently and i'm certain he doesn't have an overpair or he would want action. I'm worried that it is a race because i dont really want a race at this stage, but his overshove looks so weak i was convinced he had a smaller pocket pair than me. I knew he didnt want to see a flop with me given the last 3 hands. The payouts were roughly 600, 700, 850, 1.2k and 2.1k, so really you have to look at getting first prize. Having said that i was in a good position and i didn't want to come 5th. But i was so sure i had this guy crushed. I also realised that if i doubled up here i would win the tourn prob 90% of the time as i would have 275k, and everyone else would have 60k or less and all of a sudden they would all think 2nd prize was up for grabs, a nice $1.2k, so a ladderfest would begin where everyone would try and ladder as much as possible, waiting for other short stacks to go out. This means i would win about 65% of pots preflop and gradually accumulate all the chips in play while the others fought over 2nd place. So i called all-in. He had A7o. The board came 28T, T, A. Lovely lol, is that my $580? Val in 3 outers on the river costing me $1.5k. So sick lol, no justice in this game, the guy who i completely destroyed obv went on to win it. Fml.
Rich x
The first of these happened in the early $10r. 50 cashed out of about 450 runners. I had been largely card dead in this tournament but was on a nice table and people were folding to continuation bets on dry flops, and largely were too tight so i did manage to win a fair amount of chips and i had average stack with 21 left when the following happened. The blinds were 1k/2k/300 and i had 90k. SB had me covered with 125k. I raised from the hijack with A4o to 5,555 and the SB called. The flop came AK5, he checked and i bet 5,750 into 15k deliberately trying to look weak so that a K would look me up and i could get some chips out of him. He called. The turn was another 5, the perfect card for me really as if he has an ace we are now splitting it and if he has a king he cant hit two pair on me and has 2 outs. He checked again and i bet 8,450 into 26k, hoping to get a call from a king. He insta shoves me all-in lol which i wasnt expecting. I still had 70k or so back. I thought for about 0.2 seconds before instacalling. I really cant see how i'm behind here, i assume we are chopping it but it is a strange way to play anything, even an ace. I mean, why shove? i think he tries to get value if he has a 5, making a smaller raise and i think he calls me down with either an ace or king, so i had no idea what this guy had tbh but given how i had played the hand i knew he thought i was weak, so didn't hesitate in calling him. He shows 34o. Very humourous. Almost as humourous as the 2 on the river. Wp sir, nh, gl, gg. Lol, value in inducing a bluff for double average stack with 21 left then getting rivered to a 4 outer.
The second hand ranked even higher on the IRBB. We were on the final table of the $50 deepstacked freezeout. We are 5 handed. The stacks atm are 35k, 45k, 65k, 85k (me), 200k(guy on my left). The guy on my left thought he was good but he was never on my table until the final, and although he was good enough to bully other VC players, i knew i could take chips off him. The story begins with me UTG, after playing 5 handed for a little while. I raise to 7,250 at 1.5k/3k/400, the guy on my left UTG +1 calls. Everyone else passes and i bet 12,345 on an 8 high flop and he folds. Next hand he is UTG and he makes it 8k or so, folded to me in the BB and i call. I check raise him on a T high flop and he folds. Then next hand we are in the blinds, folded round to me blinds are up to 2k/4k/500, i make it 9,999 from the SB and he calls. Flop comes AT2 two spades, i bet 11,111 he calls me. Turn is the 3 of spades, i check, he bets 17,000 i go allin for 65k more, he folds. So now i am up to 130k, he has 150k and everyone else is where they were.
I am on the button next hand with 99 and it is folded round to me, i make it 9,999 again and this guy shoves from the SB for 150k. BB folds. Now obviously this guy is thoroughly pissed off with me, given that i have been owning him recently and i'm certain he doesn't have an overpair or he would want action. I'm worried that it is a race because i dont really want a race at this stage, but his overshove looks so weak i was convinced he had a smaller pocket pair than me. I knew he didnt want to see a flop with me given the last 3 hands. The payouts were roughly 600, 700, 850, 1.2k and 2.1k, so really you have to look at getting first prize. Having said that i was in a good position and i didn't want to come 5th. But i was so sure i had this guy crushed. I also realised that if i doubled up here i would win the tourn prob 90% of the time as i would have 275k, and everyone else would have 60k or less and all of a sudden they would all think 2nd prize was up for grabs, a nice $1.2k, so a ladderfest would begin where everyone would try and ladder as much as possible, waiting for other short stacks to go out. This means i would win about 65% of pots preflop and gradually accumulate all the chips in play while the others fought over 2nd place. So i called all-in. He had A7o. The board came 28T, T, A. Lovely lol, is that my $580? Val in 3 outers on the river costing me $1.5k. So sick lol, no justice in this game, the guy who i completely destroyed obv went on to win it. Fml.
Rich x
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Sit On My Poker Face :)))))))))))))))))))
Well, sorry it's been a few days since my last update but don't worry, it's not the usual reason for not blogging which is that i have lost more money than Matt on tilt, it is in fact the opposite: I've been extremely lucky. It started at the weekend when i won the sng to win the trip to Spain. Boom! Deal me in, can't wait to go :) I leave on friday the 27th November with Keysie and i think i come back on the monday. We have all flights and hotel accomodation paid for, plus i have a seat in the 30 player deepstack live tournament with a $100k prize pool, so effectively it is worth a $3.5k buyin. It is somewhere near Malaga but i haven't heard where exactly yet. I think the prize also includes some spending money. I managed to sell all 20% of my action that i wanted to sell within an hour of winning the seat so i have $700 in the bank guaranteed anyway even if i dont cash. But i guess the speed at which i sold action emphasises the point that i should have a decent edge in this kind of tournament and i will be gutted if i dont cash. The tournament will pay 5 prizes of $5k, $10k, $15k, $25k and $45k, with the winner then playing heads up against Victor Chandler for $55k, so could potentially be worth $100k if i were to win both. As everyone who qualified did so online i think at least half the field will be unexperienced live players, which will hopefully be to my advantage. Run good one time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have been running good again in other tournaments as well on VC, last night winning another, this time a $5 rebuy with 450 runners for $1.7k. In this tourn i was a massive card rack, having AA about 6 times i think and winning on every one of them, not to mention plenty of AKs. I also managed another final last night, this time in the late $10 rebuy which had about 150 runners, but i played the final poorly, making one raise in particular that was unnecessary, and it cost me. I came 8th in the end for $120. This means that i am currently 7th in this week's tourney leaderboard which hopefully i will sustain to get the bonus, although i assume i wont get a seat into the sng to qualify for Spain if i do stay in the top 10 as i already have my seat. As well as this good form online i backed a friend in the monthly £50 freezeout at Norwich Poker Club and he chopped it 4 handed for a monkey, which was very handy :)))))
In some non-poker news I also secured sponsorship today from Norwich Poker Club for our table tennis team, called The Gamblers :), with Rob paying our league fees and buying us some team shirts to wear to our matches which should be great fun. Cheers Rob :))))))))))
Rich x
PS - The Gamblers ftw!!
I have been running good again in other tournaments as well on VC, last night winning another, this time a $5 rebuy with 450 runners for $1.7k. In this tourn i was a massive card rack, having AA about 6 times i think and winning on every one of them, not to mention plenty of AKs. I also managed another final last night, this time in the late $10 rebuy which had about 150 runners, but i played the final poorly, making one raise in particular that was unnecessary, and it cost me. I came 8th in the end for $120. This means that i am currently 7th in this week's tourney leaderboard which hopefully i will sustain to get the bonus, although i assume i wont get a seat into the sng to qualify for Spain if i do stay in the top 10 as i already have my seat. As well as this good form online i backed a friend in the monthly £50 freezeout at Norwich Poker Club and he chopped it 4 handed for a monkey, which was very handy :)))))
In some non-poker news I also secured sponsorship today from Norwich Poker Club for our table tennis team, called The Gamblers :), with Rob paying our league fees and buying us some team shirts to wear to our matches which should be great fun. Cheers Rob :))))))))))
Rich x
PS - The Gamblers ftw!!
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