Monday 29 October 2007

MTT's

Been playing quite a few MTT's recently, only success coming in a headhunter tourny where i came 2nd for £126 for a £5 buyin. I think my overall play has improved vastly in tournments, but one thing i keep doing is going out near the bubble alot, after hours of play its quite frustrating. Maybe im not playing agressively enough during the bubble time, and leaking chips on hands such as QJo which i dnt really need to play when ive got an above average chip lead, as a few hundred here and there wasting chips on these type hands leak the chips for when the double hand comes up, and therefore dont have as much as i should. I have also been calling raises from the button raiser, then 3/4 betting pot on a untextured flop, e.g 553.

Cash games ive been very medicore, no major wins and no major losses. I guess i wont be making back my huge losses this month, noway near to be honest lol! My aim however is to do it by the end of 2007. Theres a carribean poker classic final satalite on William Hill ive bought into for 20,000 MPP's. I figured i just had the points sitting there gathering dust and really werent using them for anything, so hey why not! Theres 70 packages in total i believe with 1-20 places getting full package and 21-70 getting the lite package. I guess ill be happy with any package! hahaha........Wish me luck Nov 8th.

Thursday 18 October 2007

Joined PKR and Deposited on Pokerroom.com.

A quick little post while at work, I went rileys on tuesday night and came 4th for a magnificient £32....lol haha wp me! I think i played probably my best live game ive ever played, good timing, good folds, and getting paid on my big hands. I went out with A3o when i raised 3x blind only to be re-raised all-in.....i called and he flipped AA. I guess that was a bad move from my part but i was playing for 1st place and didnt wana just hang around trying to stay in for a higher money finish. Only 5k thousand more and ill be back where i was when playing well and making a profit every month. This will no doubt be a major losing month for me, and no matter how much i was screwing and down about it, i am set now for a major comeback and will grind it out at the 0.50/1 and 1/2 NL tables until i make back with more on top of the money i lost. I was playing out of my league and i know this and was really stupid.

Other things are i joined the video game style software of PKR and depositied $100. I went with $20 onto a 0.50/1 NL table and got up to $106 and left. I duno whether it was just the players i played or whether they are consistently that bad, but ill definitely be playing there a lot more from now on methinks! The graphics and format of site are all good, which i why i think the players play so bad as there just luving the playing with chips or taunting the opponents buttons etc. Also made a deposit of $50 on pokerroom.com while at work, but did not allow me to play real money games as the java version was old and would not update :( . So yes what else would i do but go home and play with it lol!! So went onto a 0.50/1 NL with $50 and got out at $212. My bad run changing??.....dam i hope so.

Oh yeh i know this was ment to be a short post....shit sorry 4got...bored at work...!!

Sunday 14 October 2007

2 hands....1 well played, and 1 got done on river, please leave any comments

Heres the one i lost, for fuck sake........

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 262632111 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Sunday, October 14, 13:31:29 GMT 2007
Table Boron 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of active players : 6
Seat 1: rlester ( $2,000 )
Seat 2: LeonieS ( $6,435.50 )
Seat 3: Crucial ( $2,904.50 )
Seat 4: VENOM_G ( $1,622.10 )
Seat 5: theKEYMAKER ( $2,259 )
Seat 6: Jiimmyjacko ( $1,456 )
Jiimmyjacko posts small blind [$10]
rlester posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to VENOM_G [ 8s, 9s ]
LeonieS raises to [$70]
Crucial folds
VENOM_G calls [$70]
theKEYMAKER folds
Jiimmyjacko folds
rlester calls [$50]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6d, 5d, 7s ]
rlester bets [$220]
LeonieS calls [$220]
VENOM_G calls [$220]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Kh ]
rlester bets [$880]
LeonieS raises to [$3,520]
VENOM_G calls [$1,332.10]
VENOM_G goes all-in
rlester calls [$830]
rlester goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [$1,810] to LeonieS
** Showdown **
rlester shows [ 7h, 6c ]
LeonieS shows [ 7d, 9c ]
VENOM_G shows [ 8s, 9s ]
** Dealing River ** [ 6h ]
** Hand Conclusion **
rlester wins $755.80 from side pot #1 with full house, Sixes full of Sevens
rlester wins $4,873.30 from main pot with full house, Sixes full of Sevens

And this one i think i played this like a pro lol.......

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 262627598 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Sunday, October 14, 13:17:09 GMT 2007
Table Boron 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of active players : 5
Seat 1: Papa Noel ( $4,166 )
Seat 2: LeonieS ( $4,936.50 )
Seat 3: Crucial ( $2,010 )
Seat 4: VENOM_G ( $1,028.10 )
Seat 5: theKEYMAKER ( $3,027 )
Seat 6: Jiimmyjacko ( $0 )
VENOM_G posts small blind [$10]
theKEYMAKER posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to VENOM_G [ 6h, As ]
Papa Noel folds
LeonieS folds
Crucial folds
VENOM_G raises to [$60]
theKEYMAKER raises to [$230]
VENOM_G calls [$170]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8d, 8c, 2h ]
VENOM_G checks
theKEYMAKER bets [$250]
VENOM_G goes all-in
VENOM_G raises to [$798.10]
theKEYMAKER folds
Returning uncalled bet [$548.10] to VENOM_G
** Hand Conclusion **
VENOM_G wins $957 from main pot

Apart from that i still got the mountain to climb and cos of that pot above where i lost its got back down after having a few good days.....wish me luck.

Thursday 11 October 2007

TILT!!!!! on day off

Ahhhhhhh man i hate my day off during the week, my worst lost for a very long time, i just played bad and player higher up when i said to myself i wudnt do so, i'm so fucked off right now its unreal cos i know its my fault for losing more than i should of and just playing like a right tit on 5/10 and 10/20 NL and PL omaha. For fuck sake, i deposited £4k in total today and i now have $1.6k in funds. I feel sick as fuck, on top of that i wiped the $1k that was already in there.........................................
I do so well and just one day sumthin happens and fucks me rite up, so ive decided this is it, i'm gonna remove my card details from betfair so i cant deposit any more and treat this as my last money ever to play poker with and see wot happens........
Why oh why did i ring betfair and attach new card details, if only i didnt ...dammmmmmm FFS!!!!

Wednesday 10 October 2007

Slow comeback on the cards??

Rileys was cancelled this week due to no key to the cuboard where the chips are held! lol! I mean WTF is this, its just becoming a shithole since the manager got sacked for taking money out the till for his gambling habits and using it to pay for his own private games hahahaha......then got sprung by his regional manager. Its now run like a shithole where no one knows what there doing, i think ill be turning to the western club from now on.

Now on to the online front, was playing 1/2 NL before i went rileys for a profit of $190 for the session. Then when i came home i played another session and made $206, so total of +$396 for yesterday. Its not that much of a great day i suppose but ive decided to play longer sessions multi tabling of 2-4 tables at this level from now on to make back what ive lost this month, as im fairly confident of beating it quite easily and without the swings of 2/5 and 5/10NL.

I also played a $30 27 player tourny on stars placing 5th for $66. I raised 3x blind with 88 and he re-raised just under my all-in, I thought for a bit and went all-in which i obviously regret as i knew he had an over pair and i didnt need to get involved as i still had enough chips sitting in 3rd in chips. I have decided to really concentrate on my MTT play from now on as i think im soooo weak compared to my cash game play. Maybe i dont play enough STT's or MTT's i dont know, but my next goal in that department is to qualify for the live events of carribean poker classic or the aussie millions in Jan 08'. Its been a long time since i qualified for a live event (my only live event lol) WSOP 2006 main event which was probably a fluke.

Thursday 4 October 2007

I hate poker........!!!!!!

A disappointing post.......I know i said i would post results from the month of september but as i'm at work its going to have to wait till my next post from home. I'll start off with rileys tournie, where i've been doing badly past 2 times, early exits probly due to the 'cant be bothered' attitude and poor run of cards. I had K8s clubs in big blind and 2100 chips, blinds 300/600. The small blind calls , i go all-in he calls with Q9 instantly....he hits 2 pair and thats the end of me. Oh yeh i go home and lost $1k.
Now to yesterday night I had a terrible session with overall ending down $2.6 k, played generally bad and most of the money was lost when i lost a big pot of $4kish with AA Other player had 88, it went all-in on flop of 258. Ah well it happens. So now im down overall for the month of October $1.6k roughly. Thats the way shit goes i guess.
Ive also joined card runners few days ago and the videos are really good and give an informative view on how the high stakes players actually think when playing mind boggling stakes online, some of the plays are quite sick i have to say!