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Had a good lunch and a decent pint of HPA in the Lark in Studley only yesterday.
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When it comes to the bad beats don't dwell on them, onwards and upwards.
All the best with crushing:)
Spent my childhood living in Studley so nice to see someone representing the village so well.
Good luck in the future by the manner of your post you obviously have the right temperament and attitude to do well at this game.
Good luck continuing the upward trend and please keep posting!!
Also you mention you have a hearing problem and that is putting you off from playing live. There are many players who manage to play live with various disabilities and casinos are very accommodating these days, in fact they have to be. I know there are blind players who have someone at their side describing the action etc and I'm sure there are others with similar problems to yourself. Please don't let it put you off if you want to give it a go. Perhaps going in a group or with a friend would give you more condfidence.
Your a great contributor to TPT and we all hope you go from strength to strength
Are you aware of the UK Deaf Poker Tour?
They had a leg at my local casino and it was great craic, really great people
http://www.deafpoker.co.uk/
So tonight wasn't the best.
Main - Picked up an early head prize and got in 15bigs with AQ - Called by 88, couldn't hit. Standard.
Mini - Picked up an early head prize again, got 9bigs in blind on blind with J8 - Called by A4, he flopped flush. Standard.
9.30bh - No good. Flopped set of 9s on 89J 2 hearts, setup for a turn jam on a brick and got called by 6 10 - Rivers the 7.
I played the cheap 19:45 deep stack alongside the main, as whilst i have a bigger BR now i am yet to find a decent schedule for my MTTs, and this game usually contains alot of my teammates, and there is a lot of play in to keep myself occupied. I ended up coming 2nd which i wasn't too happy with really - had a decent edge on villain but he was just going big big big. Had a couple of good hands from that tournament though. I finally managed to find a hero on one of those big shove moments - normally a spot where i just hand it over and save the stack for better spots but as villain was doing it often, i thought this was a good board to catch him
PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalancex Small blind 150.00 150.00 8002.50 Matt237 Big blind 300.00 450.00 9025.00 Your hole cards 9 8 muffnit02 Fold loggsy Fold FlyingDagg Fold x Call 150.00 600.00 7852.50 Matt237 Check Flop 9 3 2 x Bet 300.00 900.00 7552.50 Matt237 Call 300.00 1200.00 8725.00 Turn 2 x Bet 300.00 1500.00 7252.50 Matt237 Call 300.00 1800.00 8425.00 River A x All-in 7252.50 9052.50 0.00 Matt237 Call 7252.50 16305.00 1172.50 x Show 6 5 Matt237 Show 9 8 Matt237 Win Two Pairs, 9s and 2s 16305.00 17477.50
Gave some cash a go again and it's fair to say it didn't go very well. This hand was the main source of the loss. I turned the world and if im honest i did not want to see that river card. I think its far too nitty to flat on the river as its difficult to credit the BD flush, especially as i also have the BD flush. Then again i'm not great with these cash situations, just think i have to get the lot in, and if i'm behind then so be it.
PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalanceSir-Gary Small blind £0.05 £0.05 £22.97 Rubbernix Big blind £0.10 £0.15 £9.90 Your hole cards Q 10 Matt237 Raise £0.30 £0.45 £18.43 PearllJosh Call £0.30 £0.75 £19.70 x Call £0.30 £1.05 £19.70 HOLLYWHIT Fold Sir-Gary Fold Rubbernix Fold Flop J K 4 Matt237 Bet £0.60 £1.65 £17.83 PearllJosh Fold x Call £0.60 £2.25 £19.10 Turn 9 Matt237 Bet £1.50 £3.75 £16.33 x Call £1.50 £5.25 £17.60 River 3 Matt237 Bet £3.85 £9.10 £12.48 x Raise £7.80 £16.90 £9.80 Matt237 All-in £12.48 £29.38 £0.00 x Call £8.53 £37.91 £1.27 Matt237 Show Q 10 x Show J A x Win Flush to the Ace £36.51 £37.78
1) what is he raising with? Air? flush? set? Now if he's raising with air no point to reraise as he's not calling, so if he's raising a flush, will he call your jam with let's say the J spades?
fwiw with no reads I flat the river.
Love this thread, Matt, "feel-good" threads are the greatest, I cba with all the moany-woany stuff these days.
I must say I had you pegged as MUCH older than 18. You write older, for sure.
see u at the tables.
Small lesson i learnt today, probably seems like quite an obvious one, is that people will call big jams with draws for bounties - even at level 2. Reason i jammed was because i knew i would get called in one spot - that flop has got to hit atleast one of the opponents' ranges. Think its a bit of a clever play but not sure how often it works overtime. Best way to play this out of my stack i believe - I'm not binning this pre flop because it will flop well multiway, and people will call a bit lighter considering my stack.
PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalanceLuckyDaveB Small blind 15.00 15.00 1980.00 LONGERS Big blind 30.00 45.00 2970.00 Your hole cards J K Matt237 Raise 90.00 135.00 1177.50 squeak13 Call 90.00 225.00 1802.50 xCall 90.00 315.00 1910.00 kikikolt2 Fold LuckyDaveB Fold LONGERS Call 60.00 375.00 2910.00 Flop 6 10 Q LONGERS Check Matt237 All-in 1177.50 1552.50 0.00 squeak13 Fold xAll-in 1910.00 3462.50 0.00 LONGERS Fold xUnmatched bet 732.50 2730.00 732.50 Matt237 Show J K xShow K J Turn A River 9 Matt237 Win Flush to the Ace 2730.00 2730.00
Exam #1 (Maths M2) out of the way this morning, and a 3 week gap until the next so i thought i'd completely relax today and have a poker day. No stress really, I'm good with numbers and maths is what i'm continuing at Uni so the exam went pretty well. Mechanics side can be tricky though. No play last night as i wanted to relax prior to my exam.
Anyway standard monday schedule minus the main/mini/mega tonight. I completely forgot about the mega and I also wanted to try out another site. Ended up spinning the $18 tournament tokens into $161 so i was pretty happy about that. Used the designated $7 tournament and entered a turbo - won for $145.
Back to sky the DTDs again did not go very well. Not sure what is with these tournaments, I always seem to struggle. Yet my exits/bad loss pots are standard stuff. Saying that they are extremely tough games to play because of the high quality field. 1 hand really stood out from these today though - And it's something i have never ever seen before. I lost a pot to a 4 high kicker. I had to laugh really, I know i played it badly so no need to comment on that :-)
- Its cheap
- Lower stakes so can capitalise on mistakes more
- Half the players dont rebuy/add-on
- Atleast £90 up top every night
Ended up coming 3rd for £34. Which for £4.40 and a very quick tournament can't complain really. Couple of lucky hands i got away with obviously it being a speed, and 1 tricky call i made for my life vs tight player on the bubble. Whilst it looks like an easy call, believe me i didn't love it. Usually like to make my own moves. :-)
So to sum up todays work.
- Exam 1/9 done.
- +£17 on Sky.
- +$150 elsewhere.
- Had a lotta fun.
Can't complain. Time to chill out and watch the UKPC re run @ 1am. Turboes and master cash tomorrow :-)
- Exited first hand of a £200 gtd set over set
- Turbo lost a massive flip around 200 left 22 vs 33
- Mini my Aces outdrawn by K6 on draw heavy flop so had to get it in. Happens. 2 heads so 2/3 of buy in back
- 20:05 BH lost QQ vs 9 5 os 6 off money. 4 heads for profit on buy in.
Cash was going ok - Then this happened as i clicked stand from all my tables..
Look forward to the rebuy tomorrow. Played it for the first time last week and loved it, not because i came 8th but the structure made it a really enjoyable experienece.