Two hands of mention in main KK bested by some wizard playing 23 and hitting two pair (probably could get away from it... maybe)... and AA<JJ AIP
GG.
Ok mini will be better. Naaa lets give him AK<AQ then give him a weird spot where some guy donk shoves like 7x pot when im holding TPGK on wettish board. Ok he has second nuts. GG.
Not to worry. I'm in a £11 BH and the Deepstack.
Whats that? Lets give gazza loads of premiums in the £11 BH and give him no action... then give him the nut flush draw + two overs and gutshot and get it in v middle pair + gutshot and miss.
I've still got the deepstack though so not to worry and I did get lucky on one hand 88 v AA so my luck must be turning... I'll just trap the shorty (stack size) Matt Bates, by over limping my JJ to get him to shove light. Oh good he does shove and has A2o. Whats that board? 222222222222222. Lets also lose most of our stack against wizards playing Q9 like the nuts and hitting trips.
GG Deepstack.
Well done poker. You've really done a number on me this past week or so... but ive had enough.
Just stumbed upon this diary after browsing through the forum for the first time in a long time.
Really enjoyed reading through it, so thanks for putting in the time and effort. Also congrats on your score in Jan, very nicely done! Reading this is giving me a craving for MTT action, so maybe see you on the tables soon.
Looking forward to keeping up with your updates, best of luck
Hi Gazza, Just stumbed upon this diary after browsing through the forum for the first time in a long time. Really enjoyed reading through it, so thanks for putting in the time and effort. Also congrats on your score in Jan, very nicely done! Reading this is giving me a craving for MTT action, so maybe see you on the tables soon. Looking forward to keeping up with your updates, best of luck Thoich Posted by Thoich
Hi Thoich,
Always nice to get a comment from a new reader... even if i am suprised ive given you a craving for MTT action considering 90% of what I say is moan related!
Thanks for the kind words. You cant have read all of it... can you?
I would love to say it can only get better. And fortunately, I can.
Poker is harsh.
Ignore the kind of people who love nothing better than to see someone struggling. They wait to see you have a bad patch and then make a rare "motivational" post on your diary. Not on about Thoich obviously. Thought that was a nice post.
You're having a bad spell, but you've had them before and come through them, You're a very good player mate and will be getting the lot again in no time.
In Response to Re: The ramblings of a young man (gazza127 diary) : Hi Thoich, Always nice to get a comment from a new reader... even if i am suprised ive given you a craving for MTT action considering 90% of what I say is moan related! Thanks for the kind words. You cant have read all of it... can you? No doubt I'll see you on the tables sometime Posted by gazza127
Lol I didn't quite manage all of it, skipped some of the middle stuff, maybe I missed out most the moaning bits!
I guess that is the nature of the beast though, 90% of disapointment and moaning well worth it when you finally bink that big score
lol gazza your diary does make me laugh. One week your on about how great poker is when you're up 20 BI's on cash. The next day poker is the worst thing ever and you can't take beats anymore. Anyone would think you'd only been playing poker for a month and never heard of variance before!!
Wouldn't surprise me if you took down the main tonight!! Then again this is the first time I'll be playing the tuesday main in a while and you can't win it because it's mine for the taking. But I'll let you get second :P
lol gazza your diary does make me laugh. One week your on about how great poker is when you're up 20 BI's on cash. The next day poker is the worst thing ever and you can't take beats anymore. Anyone would think you'd only been playing poker for a month and never heard of variance before!! Wouldn't surprise me if you took down the main tonight!! Then again this is the first time I'll be playing the tuesday main in a while and you can't win it because it's mine for the taking. But I'll let you get second :P Posted by F_Ivanovic
Yeah it is a bit cringe reading some of it back. But I document it how I see it at the time and dont really hold back. Diary would be a bit boring if all my updates were 'played x... won/loss x'.
I would love to say it can only get better. And fortunately, I can. Poker is harsh. Ignore the kind of people who love nothing better than to see someone struggling. They wait to see you have a bad patch and then make a rare "motivational" post on your diary. Not on about Thoich obviously. Thought that was a nice post. You're having a bad spell, but you've had them before and come through them, You're a very good player mate and will be getting the lot again in no time. Posted by Jac35
Nothing going MTT wise apart from a min cash in the mini, but I decided to 5 table 50nl last night for a couple of hours and get a couple of people who werent playing to watch my play through joinme and comment on hands afterwards. I just wanted to check I wasnt just playing awful and losing all this money so asked a few people to confirm I was just running bad.
Well I dont know if knowing people were watching me made a difference to my play, or if I just ran better (I definitely ran better) but I HAD A WINNING NIGHT LAST NIGHT.
My hands just seemed to hold... it was a strange feeling seeing your JJ up against 63 on a 54x board only to see them miss their outs.
Either way, the 14 BI downswing is now back to 8BI in the red.... something im genuinely really pleased about. I'm not saying something has clicked and suddenly I love poker again.... oh no. Its just nice to have a winning session.
Call me a fish... call me a donkey. Call me what you like, but one thing you can't call me with any kind of accuracy, is boring (on the tables at least).
I just played 5 tables of 50nl.
Lets just say I didnt get off to the best start.
1 BI down quickly became two.... then three, four and eventually stumbled on 5 BI's down. Was I running bad? No not really. I had my set of twos rivered by the flush but apart from that the other 4 BI's were mostly just me being rubbish and not getting away from my Aces or Kings when it was pretty clear I was beat.
Had a little talking to myself after the 5th BI went. It went a bit like... 'Gaz... you are playing like a total £*&!. Please stop playing like a total £%*!... i'd quite like to have a BR by the end of this session. Try folding for once.'
So... I tried this folding malarky and stopped spewing my chips all over the place and got cracking on getting my money back.
Soon 5 BI down became four.... then three, two.... one...........break even........................+1 BI.
if ur looking to fund ur poker be a rent boy u get shafted at that and u get shafted at poker, these things happen suck it up n push thru u seem like u know the game well gd luck, been reading posts an been as if I ws with u evry hand. been a gd read!
if ur looking to fund ur poker be a rent boy u get shafted at that and u get shafted at poker, these things happen suck it up n push thru u seem like u know the game well gd luck, been reading posts an been as if I ws with u evry hand. been a gd read! Posted by Clackett
if ur looking to fund ur poker be a rent boy u get shafted at that and u get shafted at poker, these things happen suck it up n push thru u seem like u know the game well gd luck, been reading posts an been as if I ws with u evry hand. been a gd read! Posted by Clackett
Lol. Thank you for this. Always pleasant to find I have more people reading than it appears (0 normally).
Well I hit a pretty massive low Friday. I played another few tables of 50nl and after a couple of hours I was 7 BI's down.
7.
In one session. How yuk is that? Definitely could have avoided one or two but a lot of it was just disgusting. I was so down at the end of the session i withdrew most of my roll to stop me doing anything stupid. Really contemplated just swearing off poker for a good few weeks there and then as the past couple of weeks/month has been pretty bad overall.
Having a winning session these days, no matter how small is proving a struggle and is nowhere near covering the loses of the losing sessions. Its just one of those times I think though. It all evens itself out in the long run blabla. I need to just suck it up and continue.
So with that in mind I played a few tables tonight after redepositing most of my roll. Obviously confidence was very low but thought id try and push through and see what happened. I only played about an hour as my laptop started doing weird things.
Although the one big hand of the session went like this:
azza127
Small blind
£0.25
£0.25
£99.95
Ludacris
Big blind
£0.50
£0.75
£82.12
LORDOFWAR
Sit out
Your hole cards
5
4
Die_hard
Fold
gibbmole
Call
£0.50
£1.25
£31.18
gazza127
Raise
£1.75
£3.00
£98.20
Ludacris
Call
£1.50
£4.50
£80.62
gibbmole
Call
£1.50
£6.00
£29.68
Flop
J
2
3
gazza127
Bet
£4.00
£10.00
£94.20
Ludacris
Call
£4.00
£14.00
£76.62
gibbmole
Fold
Turn
6
gazza127
Bet
£9.00
£23.00
£85.20
Ludacris
Call
£9.00
£32.00
£67.62
River
J
gazza127
Bet
£34.50
£66.50
£50.70
Ludacris
All-in
£67.62
£134.12
£0.00
gazza127
Call
£33.12
£167.24
£17.58
gazza127
Show
5
4
Ludacris
Show
K
Q
gazza127
Win
Straight Flush to the 6
£165.44
£183.02
More like this please... and I can start cutting into those losses.
Looking forward to getting £75 for the promo tomorrow as well. I should get another £75 for it at the end of the month and hopefully will be making priority should I keep playing at the same rate.
Rewards + promos this month I should be looking at boosting my roll by £400 anyway... so maybe this little swing isnt a game changer.
I logged on this afternoon intending to play some 50nl as usual. There are two tables going, both full with someone on the waiting list. I tried to start one but noone came to play me. It seems everyone has migrated to the capped tables... or elsewhere. I dunno. All i know is that there were two tables of 50nl and four of capped.
I just wanted to play some poker
So I look at 100nl.
Not one normal table running. 3 capped tables running and two mastercash... but not one normal. Beggers belief. Where has everyone gone??
Either way I talked myself into one tabling the 100nl MC table and making sure I didnt do anything silly.
Things didnt start well. I levelled myself into calling here. It just looked so much like a flush draw after the turn bet i felt I was ahead enough here to call. It was a draw... but just top pair to go with it.
gazza127
Small blind
£0.50
£0.50
£200.40
butt55y
Big blind
£1.00
£1.50
£197.43
Your hole cards
A
Q
launder
Fold
dogsonacid
Fold
badger94
Fold
AB0151
Raise
£2.00
£3.50
£337.08
gazza127
Raise
£6.50
£10.00
£193.90
butt55y
Call
£6.00
£16.00
£191.43
AB0151
Call
£5.00
£21.00
£332.08
Flop
2
6
K
gazza127
Bet
£11.00
£32.00
£182.90
butt55y
Call
£11.00
£43.00
£180.43
AB0151
Call
£11.00
£54.00
£321.08
Turn
3
gazza127
Check
butt55y
Bet
£14.00
£68.00
£166.43
AB0151
Fold
gazza127
Call
£14.00
£82.00
£168.90
River
6
gazza127
Check
butt55y
Bet
£41.00
£123.00
£125.43
gazza127
Call
£41.00
£164.00
£127.90
butt55y
Show
Q
K
gazza127
Muck
A
Q
butt55y
Win
Two Pairs, Kings and 6s
£162.20
£287.63
Probably lolbad... thoughts would be nice though.
Either way I managed to get my money back (and a bit more) very soon after.
butt55y
Small blind
£0.50
£0.50
£287.13
launder
Big blind
£1.00
£1.50
£138.01
Your hole cards
7
7
dogsonacid
Fold
badger94
Fold
AB0151
Raise
£4.00
£5.50
£317.08
gazza127
Call
£4.00
£9.50
£123.90
butt55y
Fold
launder
Fold
Flop
7
2
J
AB0151
Bet
£4.75
£14.25
£312.33
gazza127
Call
£4.75
£19.00
£119.15
Turn
K
AB0151
Bet
£9.50
£28.50
£302.83
gazza127
Raise
£31.00
£59.50
£88.15
AB0151
Call
£21.50
£81.00
£281.33
River
A
AB0151
All-in
£281.33
£362.33
£0.00
gazza127
All-in
£88.15
£450.48
£0.00
AB0151
Unmatched bet
£193.18
£257.30
£193.18
AB0151
Show
K
A
gazza127
Show
7
7
gazza127
Win
Three 7s
£255.50
£255.50
Then however... after my A10 (top top) gets runner runnered by a flush... and then my AA (top set) gets runner runnered by a Q6 flush I was not feeling too happy.
So why do I feel bad? Well... you see, when things arent going your way you get more speculative. You dont want to show weakness. You want to prove to those on your table that a few hits to your stack isnt going to deter you from floating and making moves in the right spots. I will not suddenly try and nut peddle. Its not in my nature. I simply cant do it.
So when this hand rocks around I feel like I can happily call in position with my 66. A lot of the time I think I am good against openers range... and a good % of the time I can take it off him down the streets depending on what the action is.
Then 3rd guy min raises and the other guy calls. OK... im crushed. Its unlikely they both have draws and its hugely unlikely I can rep something strong enough to take BOTH of them out the hand. But (and this is why i feel bad) I didnt want to fold for such a small amount basically telling Sikas I was floating with rubbish... so I called just so I could fold the turn with dignity and kablamo!
still plent of play left and i usually wouldnt get it in this light even heads up but i was pretty sure i had the best hand when you 4 bet shoved, in no u have game and i new you were capable of shoving worse so take it as a complement that you got called.
Not going to lie Rock... I was mega suprised you called it off with A7o. So many hands I do this with crush your range. Meh... I suppose you cant win them all. WP anyway. I'll just have to win it next week
Yes I am dissapointed about last nights near miss... but it has to be looked at from all perspectives.
Last nights main started well. Infact I was chip leader from about 40mins in... and stayed there or there abouts until right around the bubble.
Then my 100k stack to a tumble as I ran JJ into KK.... had to call off a flip with A10 v a shorty and ran into quad 2s with toppair + flush draw.
Before I knew it... with about 20 odd left (in the money) I had 4bb and looked destined to go out very quickly. But a quick spin which involved picking up a few uncontested pots and a won flip or two, I was back into the centre of pack with about 10 left.
Having Mattbates on my table for the last couple of tables was fun as ever. Boy doesnt that kid run good? ;P
Either way I managed to FT alongside a number of decent players and worked myself back into first place. After a bit of too-ing and fro-ing I had knocked Matt out in 3rd and was HU against Rock. He had the chip lead by about 25k i believe.
Then the KJ hand happened and all was over! Pretty meh finish. There was so much play left and I think I didnt do myself justice just by taking the huge gamble I did.
Side note... deep run in mini, but it wasnt to be when I ran KQ into A10 in the last 35ish players. I had a hand earlier on where I opened AKs UTG and got 3 bet on the button. Then what? Oh... the download crashes! Oh what could have been eh?
If you don't expect some light calls I don't get why you shoved. Its really deep so we can just peel IP with a very tasty hand HU. If he's never calling light then we're just turning a reallllly strong hand HU into a pure bluff.
Wp though. Ivan was almost right about you losing then going and winning a ME lol. Pokerz innit
Thanks JD. Not going to lie Rock... I was mega suprised you called it off with A7o. So many hands I do this with crush your range. Meh... I suppose you cant win them all. WP anyway. I'll just have to win it next week Posted by gazza127
the shove just didnt look strong to me, i 3 -bet a fair bit heads up as did you so i just felt if i was in ur spot and i was strong i would be looking to induce by clicking it back or making it 2.5x or something cos we were still fairly deep. ( maybe i watch to many decues cracked videos :-) ) wp anyway.
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Was only worried about AA.... but couldnt fold as id underrepped my hand so much.
Just stone cold bored.
Two hands of mention in main KK bested by some wizard playing 23 and hitting two pair (probably could get away from it... maybe)... and AA<JJ AIP
GG.
Ok mini will be better. Naaa lets give him AK<AQ then give him a weird spot where some guy donk shoves like 7x pot when im holding TPGK on wettish board. Ok he has second nuts. GG.
Not to worry. I'm in a £11 BH and the Deepstack.
Whats that? Lets give gazza loads of premiums in the £11 BH and give him no action... then give him the nut flush draw + two overs and gutshot and get it in v middle pair + gutshot and miss.
I've still got the deepstack though so not to worry and I did get lucky on one hand 88 v AA so my luck must be turning... I'll just trap the shorty (stack size) Matt Bates, by over limping my JJ to get him to shove light. Oh good he does shove and has A2o. Whats that board? 222222222222222. Lets also lose most of our stack against wizards playing Q9 like the nuts and hitting trips.
GG Deepstack.
Well done poker. You've really done a number on me this past week or so... but ive had enough.
Could you kindly stop being a total £*@!$
Its really starting to mess with my head.
Poker can go away.
POKER IS HARSH
^The sound made by someone who finished two off the money in both the main and the mini.
AEORUHAPEIUHAE:JKAEF:JF:OAEJF
^ The typing of a man who has undergone this bad beat in said position in the main.
if ur looking to fund ur poker be a rent boy u get shafted at that and u get shafted at poker, these things happen suck it up n push thru u seem like u know the game well gd luck, been reading posts an been as if I ws with u evry hand. been a gd read!
Well I hit a pretty massive low Friday. I played another few tables of 50nl and after a couple of hours I was 7 BI's down.
7.
In one session. How yuk is that? Definitely could have avoided one or two but a lot of it was just disgusting. I was so down at the end of the session i withdrew most of my roll to stop me doing anything stupid. Really contemplated just swearing off poker for a good few weeks there and then as the past couple of weeks/month has been pretty bad overall.
Having a winning session these days, no matter how small is proving a struggle and is nowhere near covering the loses of the losing sessions. Its just one of those times I think though. It all evens itself out in the long run blabla. I need to just suck it up and continue.
So with that in mind I played a few tables tonight after redepositing most of my roll. Obviously confidence was very low but thought id try and push through and see what happened. I only played about an hour as my laptop started doing weird things.
Although the one big hand of the session went like this:
Looking forward to getting £75 for the promo tomorrow as well. I should get another £75 for it at the end of the month and hopefully will be making priority should I keep playing at the same rate.
Rewards + promos this month I should be looking at boosting my roll by £400 anyway... so maybe this little swing isnt a game changer.
Everyones entilted to an opinion.
No offence taken intended or not
(straight flushes are really nice)
I logged on this afternoon intending to play some 50nl as usual. There are two tables going, both full with someone on the waiting list. I tried to start one but noone came to play me. It seems everyone has migrated to the capped tables... or elsewhere. I dunno. All i know is that there were two tables of 50nl and four of capped.
I just wanted to play some poker
So I look at 100nl.
Not one normal table running. 3 capped tables running and two mastercash... but not one normal. Beggers belief. Where has everyone gone??
Either way I talked myself into one tabling the 100nl MC table and making sure I didnt do anything silly.
Things didnt start well. I levelled myself into calling here. It just looked so much like a flush draw after the turn bet i felt I was ahead enough here to call. It was a draw... but just top pair to go with it.
Either way I managed to get my money back (and a bit more) very soon after.
So why do I feel bad? Well... you see, when things arent going your way you get more speculative. You dont want to show weakness. You want to prove to those on your table that a few hits to your stack isnt going to deter you from floating and making moves in the right spots. I will not suddenly try and nut peddle. Its not in my nature. I simply cant do it.
So when this hand rocks around I feel like I can happily call in position with my 66. A lot of the time I think I am good against openers range... and a good % of the time I can take it off him down the streets depending on what the action is.
Then 3rd guy min raises and the other guy calls. OK... im crushed. Its unlikely they both have draws and its hugely unlikely I can rep something strong enough to take BOTH of them out the hand. But (and this is why i feel bad) I didnt want to fold for such a small amount basically telling Sikas I was floating with rubbish... so I called just so I could fold the turn with dignity and kablamo!
Car crash.
Apologies sir. I am indeed a massive fish.
Just came 2nd in main. Should be happy... and im sure I will be tomorrow, but cant help but feel a bit gutted at the minute.
Final hand was this:
Might do a proper update tomorrow but just left a bit mift after that.