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Its nice to get a 1st and a decent 2nd in two days. Lots and lots of deep runs so playing pretty consistently. Its just transferring those deep runs into final tables/wins. But as has been said... poker does involve a fair deal of luck so sometimes theres just nothing you can do.
So I was pretty irritated I managed to spew about 120 quid away on MTTs today. Decided not to enter the middnight or 12:30 and play a bit of cash instead.
Decided to play some 50nl. Yeah. I know. Dont even say it. I know I shouldnt have even gotten involved at that level.
I bought in for £25 planning to play for about 20-30 mins before bed. Ended up playing for about an hour. Why?
£128 profit in an hour. Not bad eh? I remember one hand where I lost like £30 when I had TPTK and guy had flush draw which he hit on river (also my third Ace). However apart from that i'm struggling to think of any hands I lost. I felt untouchable.
Biggest wins of the session:
Maybe I should play cash more often.
Exit hands are relatively standard. JJ<AQ and 1010<AK.
So making steady progress with my BR between a bit of cash and MTTs.
Havent played much this weekend all in all however. The weather has been too good. Played a bit of tennis, football, had a BBQ, went to a beer festival, got a new dog! Its been quite a busy weekend and poker has definitely been on the back-burner. I love the game but when the suns out and I have opportunities to see friends and do things i'd much rather take that option. Its easy to get addicted to poker and let other things dwindle on the side. Life is not sitting on your laptop playing poker. Theres a whole lot more to it than that.
I'm off to Lanzarote with a few mates on Thursday. Looking forward to getting a break from work. I've been given a lot of responsibility by my boss as its quite a small company. Im happy to take up the challenge - id much rather have a job which I liked AND challenged me - otherwise work can become monotonous and boring. Still, it is one of my first full time jobs so im a bit wary of cocking up big time.
Done with poker today. I'll take my little profit from today and go watch some American Dad.
*Must remember to book hotel room for SPT Nottingham...*
What i didnt mention was that about 3 hands earlier he had seen me 5 bet from the sb with A7s just like this. Then get lucky in a split pot straight v QQ after I jammed a 456 flop.
So clearly he thought I was up to something! Table image played a big part I reckon.
Question.... i've seen some people sit down on cash tables with more than the max buy in.... how?!
should you leave a table with over the max buyin and try to sit down again at the same table within 30 mins then you must buyin with what you left with.
Entered all the DTD today and the mini (4 tournaments in total). DTD 2 was going really well. I was chip leader with 12 left. Then got KK... three bet big and got called. Ace on the flop. I c-bet and a shove from oppo with no draws clearly showed i was crushed. I ended up finishing 10th... not ideal but it covered my entries for all the dtds.
Came 2nd in the mini. Pretty annoyed at myself right now. HU it was quite evident that i was outplaying him down the streets.... so he started open jamming pots.... I picked up A7 and he shoved dry. I definitely should be folding as we were quite deep but I just thought its probably a flip of some sort... I may even be ahead. He showed 66. I whiff. Game over.
Sigh.
Now wondering why i didnt enter the main either.
must.focus.on.positives.
Hey GAz,
Well done last night doing so well in the mini, 500 plus runners. Very well done indeed.
When's Nottingham?
3rd and 5th achieved. if it werent for a loose call or two it would have been better. MTTs going well at the minute. Cash on the other hand - disaster. Should stay away. BR has taken a hit. It didnt help that three times i had AA... inflated the pot pre and got outdrawn on the board, and my internet went just after I four-bet my kings.... to find out that two other players got to showdown QQ and QJ. I would have had both their stacks. So i was a bit tilty to say the least. Best stay away from cash until i lump my BR up to where it was.
Nottingham is next weekend mate. Dont suppose youre going?
No lol
Going to go to Newcastle, as local as I will get for a SPT lol Shame they done away with the Glasgow one.
Looking forward to it, will be a good day out.
GL Next Weekend when it comes, I hope you bring it down!
And good luck or the SPT
Its been about 10 days since I last posted. Since then ive been to Lanzarote for a week and played in the DTD SPT.
Holiday was very good. A good mix of going out, relaxing whilst also finding the time to go camel riding, snorkelling and visiting volcanoes. The ideal holiday really.
I got back the Friday morning at 2:30am because of a delayed flight, slept for a few hours then drove up to nottingham to play the side event on the friday night. I entered the £25 freezeout - my first ever live tournament. Needless to say I hadnt a clue what I was doing, making errors here, there and everywhere and as I was playing against some young locals who even though they limped in every hand, they knew I was there for the taking. Went down to 15bb not long into the tournament... picked up 1010 and ran them straight into JJ. Not a good night, however taught me a whole lot on the do's and don'ts of live poker.
After busting I played on blackjack for a couple of hours winning about £60 and met youngun. Nice chap and was the first sky player I met over the weekend. He was still in the side when I left so maybe hes sitting on a final table right now.
Saturday came quick enough. I was a little nervous as its my first proper live tournament, and I was anxious to meet some forum regs and put some faces to names. My table was a good laugh from the beginning with a range of characters - bromley04 was on my right... another top bloke. The whole atmosphere was quite light-hearted. Nothing was too serious which made me settle down right away. I picked up aces 3 times in the first orbit... thought this live thing was a doddle after picking up about 10k. Lost it again however on an outkicked 10. K10<A10. Hands of note in the first day include:
I have Q8s on the button. Its folded to me. I raise into the blinds. SB folds. BB raises 2.5x my bet. I call in position looking to see a flop. Flop J109 (2 spades). Bam. Flopped the straight. He bets and then I reraise. He tanks for a very long time - clock gets called by another player. He eventually folds and shows KK. Unbelievable. Dont think I can fold Kings in that position being that deep.
I then went hours without playing a hand being so card dead. Dwindled down to 26k. Then picked up A5s UTG. I raise and get two callers. flop 234 (2 hearts). Guy donk leads. I reraise. Other player folds. Initial raiser shoves his stack in. I call. He has 105 of hearts and misses his split pot outs as well as the flush. Up to 60kish.
I have K5s on the BB. Guy UTG min raises. He gets 3 callers. I think ive got the odds to call so i stick in the extra BB. Flop K25 rainbow. Guy c-bets. Gets 1 caller. I flat. Turn 5. I check again. UTG checks. Other player checks. River 10. I bet 1/2 pot. UTG calls with a pair of 10s. Other guy folds. Up to 80kish.
Im in the small blind with 88. It gets folded around. Button raises. I flat. BB flats. Flop AA4. I check. BB checks. Button checks. Turn 8 - happy days. I check again for deception. BB bets. Button folds. I flat. River K. I check again hoping to get another bet out of him. He bets and I raise. He then asks me if I have a full house again. I laugh. He shoves. I insta call and I stack him. Up to 120k.
Picked up another 30k with two pair later on and knocked out 2 players A8 />KQ and KQs>A9 as well and was sitting as one of the chip leaders at about 10pm on around 220k.
Then runitsrann sits down on my table. First orbit he raises 3 times pre. I fold every time trying to suss him out and decide that he likes to bully the table a bit. I pick up 102s in the big blind - If you think you know where this is going, I would read on and see.... Runitsrann raises in the cut off. I decide im not going to let him boss my blinds every hand so I 3 bet. He tanked for a bit then made the call. Flop JJ7 (two diamonds). I bet.... he then thinks about it and calls. Turn is a 3 of diamonds (flush comes in). I check as I would do for hands like AK and even overpairs to keep the pot controllable as i would be worrying about a flush draw coming in or him holding a jack. He checks behind - Im thinking eh? Either he has like quad Js and is looking for another bet or hes holding a small PP or has complete air and was floating the flop. River K. Now as I three bet pre im thinking this is such a mega card to rep. I bet out for 60% pot. He thinks for what seems like an absoiute age. I look as calm as a cucumber giving nothing away. He eventually calls.... and flips over Ace high.... and I take an orbit off to run over how the hell he thought he was ahead. Down to 120k. The break couldnt come quick enough.
After the break I pick up AA again. I raise pre. Get called in the SB and the BB (runitsrann) makes up the amount. Flop 567(two hearts). Runitsrann donk leads. I think and decide to just flat. SB then raises. Runitsrann then reraises. Im sitting there bamboozled and im convinced im behind and fold. SB then shoves. Runitsrann calls. JJ<43 (runitsrann). If the jacks reraise pre then its me who takes his stack. Eurgh. Guess thats poker. Nothing else of note happened in day one and I finished the day with 111k - average 180k with 40 players left (33 cash).
Met up with the likes of tommyd, mattbates, macapaca, maxally, geldy, roguecell, the don and a bunch of others I fail to remember and had a good laugh until the wee hours - a quality bunch who bear no resemblance to what I thought any of them would look like/act - no idea if thats a good or bad thing!
Came back to day two with 20bb. Picked up 0 hands of note - dealt utter garbage but sneaked my way into the cash finishing 27th for a min cash of £400 - not bad for a £2 satellite (with a few rebuys). Exit hand - im in big blind with 43 suited with 11bb. Blinds are about to go up and antes are getting ridiculous. Its folded around to SB who limps. I shove from the BB knowing I have live cards. He calls and turns over QQ. Oops. Still... apart from one bluff that somehow got called I think I played quite well for my first live tournament. Met a quality bunch of people, had a good time and even managed to make some money. Happy days.
Things ive learnt this weekend:
I did tell ya... i've always got it in the big blind. Just leave it alone. Haha.
Nice to meet you too. I last saw you at the bar in the early hours of Sunday morning hitting a few shots... then you dissapeared... who knows where.
For a second live outing that's a fantastic result. It is really daunting at first when you play live but it seems that you had no trouble getting comfortable with it. It was a really strong field with the number of good DTD regs who played as well. Pity I didn't get to meet you. Well done!
Sounds like it was a great time as well! Outstanding
Too bad I didnt bump into you Jac. I was sat on the same table... in the same seat for a total of 13 of the 14 hours I played so didnt get to talk to as many people as I would have liked.
Think I was ok with live purely because I played on the friday night - otherwise I would have been all over the place. Definitely took a steep learning curve with the way I played on the Friday. Im really starting to see the appeal of live poker. You forget sometimes that there are people behind the usernames online and its nice to get out and meet new people and share stories etc. over a single tournament, especially with players who you've played with online.
I think I might have to go to another one now...
Gonna get round to doing one of my own tomorrow, the results won't be quite as positive but still had a great weekend.
Hopefully you'll try to get to another one soon cos didn't really get a chance to say hello properly.