Mtt's

Firstly i played on the cash games tables yest and started on about £2.40 playing 0.05/0.10p NL on Whill's. You may be wondering why im playing so low.....and no im not that broke lol! Basically had that figure sitting in my hills account so decided to see if i could spin it up into some big cash money. I got it up to about £32 happy days!!!
I was also playing on an MTT on fulltilt a measley $2+0.25, i ended up coming 35th out of 298 players, not too bad but could of done a whole lot better, of course the prize money was astronomical $3. Played a PLO $5 tourny on hills as well and came 1st (cha-ching) which payed out top 3 and i ended up with $65 ish, i am really happy with the way i played this one as i was in the top 3, mostly chip leader from the 2nd half of the tourny and maintained it which i normally bleed chips.
Moving on to today and i played a £2+0.25p Headhunter on hills which i just finished a little while ago and ended up coming 3rd out of 248 for £37.42, maybe im just running well, or has the Full ring cash ive been playing also helped me play the MTT's differently, i havent quite figured it out, but ill take it and move up the MTT buyins hopefully properly instead of just plonking and going for the $100+ buyins lol! Heres the hand history below i went out on i no it was bad but how bad was it....any ideas on what i should of done differently???



Game #7215299234: Head Hunter £2 (ID7273307) £2+£0.25 - Hold'em NL (2000/4000) - 2008/05/25 - 15:03:47 (UK)
Table "7273307 - 1" Seat 7 is the button.
Seat 5: Sandpig2 (47140 in chips)
Seat 6: Cbo516 (178764 in chips)
Seat 10: Venom_g (146096 in chips)
Venom_g: posts the ante 500
Sandpig2: posts the ante 500
Cbo516: posts the ante 500
Venom_g: posts small blind 2000
Sandpig2: posts big blind 4000
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to Venom_g [9s 9c]
Cbo516: raises to 8000
Venom_g: calls 6000
Sandpig2: calls 4000
----- FLOP ----- [7d 8s 7c]
Venom_g: checks
Sandpig2: checks
Cbo516: bets 16000
Venom_g: raises to 32000
Sandpig2: folds
Cbo516: raises to 170264 and is all-in
Venom_g: is all-in 105596
Returned uncalled bets 32,668 to Cbo516
----- TURN ----- [7d 8s 7c][6h]
----- RIVER ----- [7d 8s 7c 6h][6d]
----- SHOW DOWN -----
Cbo516: shows [Qs Qc] (Two Pairs, Queens and Sevens, Eight high)
Venom_g: shows [9s 9c] (Two Pairs, Nines and Sevens, Eight high)
Cbo516 collected 300692 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot 300692 Main pot 300692 Rake 0
Board [7d 8s 7c 6h 6d]
Seat 5: Sandpig2 (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 6: Cbo516 showed [Qs Qc] and won (300692) with Two Pairs, Queens and Sevens, Eight high
Seat 10: Venom_g (small blind) showed [9s 9c] and lost with Two Pairs, Nines and Sevens, Eight high


EDIT:- I just got knocked out of a $10+1 HH on hills......got 1 head lol! No cards at all, hardly any pairs or high cards or anything, ahhh well.....Got 14th out of 212 and a huge $13.75 for my efforts!!!!

Full ring

Ive reverted back to full ring play as i cant take the swings on 6 max anymore, i think this is my game, seem too easy lol!, only been trying 1/2, and a bit of 2/4NL and i think it suits my game a whole lot better. I never really gave it much of a go before, but recently have read a number of blogs who play full ring, which i thought hey if they can make a consistent profit month in month out then surely so can i haha. Other than that not really played too much, been too busy trying to get a new job with better salary. Made $280 today, so not bad, will try to keep this up....oh yeh and post a bit more....

Went for it...

Played the $100k on betfair and nope done nothing at all went out quite early and played terrible, i dont think i will buy in to these large mtt's anymore and keep the $100 the max from now on i reckon. Also my aim is to get a wsop seat this coming month and im going to be playing alot of satallites and freerolls! Other plans is to maintain playing $2/5 and keep working on my game as i knw i can beat this level, i made a measley $183 yest lol! Still profits profit and im not gonna complain i just plan to make my next few month profitable for my own confidence, then switch it up a gear and try to get some discipline going and stop playing higher and on tilt which i do so much which really fuks my bankroll like a bitch.....
On to vegas holiday with mates which should be booked this weds!!! Still deciding where to stay but i think it maybe travelodge which is closer to the casinos than the one we first chose which was circus circus, all in all should be around the £650 mark for 7 nights with direct flights from virgin. Cant wait to rob all them fishess out there with some venomous bite...haha.
Ok off for some pasta and doughballs yum yum, then where else but the grind of online poker.....GLGL.

Nice MTT result...just not 1st.

Played the Daily $16k on betfair which ive played once or twice before which is a $109 buyin i came 4th!!happy days.! I think i played so well and should of gone and won it, ahh well i think ill play it more often. I never hardly played a hand for the 1st hour as i wasnt getting jack shit, then i started stealing and re-stealing which seemed to work as i got respect. Also i tried isolating the original raiser quite a lot which i never used to do and used to jus flat call there raise with hands like 44 lol. I cant fully rememba the hand i went out on but basically i had AQs, low stack raises to 8k, chip leader calls, and i raise to 30k....bad move i knw i should of pushed cos it gave the chip leader good odds i had....fuk fuk fuk lol. flop came somthing like 789 and i had fk all jus ace high and i called the all-in cos i was pretty much committed, he had and 8 and that sent me packing.
Apart from that cash games has been jus evens stevens, think im $55 up from last post frm them just playing 1/2.

PROFIT..

Well...its been a while ppl dunno if anyone actually reads this dam blog but anyway if u do things have started to look up. So far im up $3.6k for the month and gosh im playing so much better, playing 2/5 and 5/10 with abit of 1/2 chucked in there as well lol! Ive been hitting them draws, catching them sets and overpairs holding up, i nearly forgot wot it was like to stack someone it had been so bludy long. but to be fair this is fukin due to me after hw ive been past few months. More importantly confidence is back and with this confidence i logged into stars and tried there steps thingy for LAPT and WSOP, started on the $27 buyin ( fink its step 2) and got my up to the last step which is a $2000 buyin stt with the winner gettin a package. Naturally yep.....i went out 1st lol. I had QQ which i overplayed on a low board with all spades and i had the Q of spades. He had a set and that was that. I no i no i coul dof played it differently and lost less and tried to control the pot a bit better, but yeh ahh well ill start back at the $27 level i guess and do it again. Also got to the last step for the LAPT for rio but flunked that too coming 8th, where i flopped a set of 666 but he had JJJ......fkin gr8 stuff where top 4 get a package.
I think this steps thing has made me realise i might not be as shit as i thought with STT's as i once thought, duno fk knws maybe ive just improved recently on them or maybe it was a fluke, but neway im gona give it a good go probly on the $30 ish dollar buyin mark and see how it goes .
Other than that vegas should be booked end of the month for october, cnt wait. Anyone know where to get good deals let us knw....cheers....

Back again....

Landed yesterday from luton airport to find it bludy freezin and a temperature of 1 degree! FFS! Was around 25 degrees in marbella. Had a brilliant time out there, went to a few bars got a tan, and just generally relaxed. Done alot of thinking about life really while i was chillin on the sun lounger lol. A new job is for a starters, build some of that motivation which has been lacking recently, also on the poker front really concentrate on it and take it seriously enough where each decision is thought through. Will post when ive played my next session, which will definitely be a profitable one, i aint gona take no shit no more and im gona stop blaming variance and bad beats etc etc. I'm losing far too much when on these downswings than i should be which keep piling on top of each other......anyway watch next post.

GL

Off to SPAIN!

I know i hardly post lately but ive hardly been playing and if i have its been low levels most of the time, btw which i still cnt fukin win to save my life...same ole bullshit which i wont bore you lot with the details. Basically going on holiday with the bird to dads apartment in marbella. Gonna take this time to relax and it will probably be the only full week i will not be touching poker lol! The obvious aim is come back with a clean head and buss up the tables, and concentrate fully at all times....i no i no eaasier said than done. Another aim this year is to go vegas in october time to vegas with some work mates which would be kool.......GLGLGLGL.