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Watched some superb Darts on the TV all weekend and decided for a bit of fun and a laugh to take part in the 7pm Sunday Freeroll and i nearly won a free entry in Thursday Night's 12k Bounty Hunter as i got busted out in 9th overall out of 1000+ runners but some of the outdraws i produced was side spliting stuff on my part and the abuse i got from the chancers i busted out was pathetic and immature on their part but i just laughed it off as you just have rise above it.
I love this Thread, young as it is, & what a story by AceAceBaby.
I said I'd return to it today, as things were a bit hot last night, & they'd be calmer this morning......;)
So, to my humiliation & shame last night. No, not THAT Thread.
I'd left London after Saturday's two Shows & gone home to see Angell, & sort some stuff, then drove back to London yesterday afternoon. Nightmare, BIG crash on the M1, & it took nearly 6 hours. (The middle of the night drive home took 2.5 hours).
So maybe my mind was wrong, but I exited FIRST in the Primo in a truly awful play. It was my J-J v K-K, what was I thinking? Especially embarrassing in that I was in my PTP (& thus Sky-Funded) Account. Bleurgh.
I was in 2 other Comps. In one, with 10 x BB left, I Raised it up with A-J & Mr Goose shoved on me. It was an easy fold, but for some reason......Taxi.
I was going great in the third, & popped it up with A-A, flop was distinctly wet-looking J-T-3, two Clubs, & my man had K-J of Clubs. An optimistic call pre, maybe, but he's never going away on that flop. I had the A of clubs, too. Anyway, he hit, & I never.
So, 2 unforced errors - my unforced error rate in poker is about 2 per year, as I'm so risk-averse - & one "played-itself-er".
The Omaha was not good, either. Sat with £20, soon had £65, soon had zilch. Mostly just typical Omaha situations, but one bad play, too.
At about 00.15, I logged off from my PTP Account & switched to tikay1 (after telling my 2 Omaha Tables what & why), & I felt a bit freer to dance a bit now, as it's my own money. But still I could not make anything happen, & I just drifted 10% + or _ my pull-ups for an hour, then decided to give best.
I had 2 Last-Longers with Anj1970, & amazingly, ended up sat next to her - with Position - in one of them. I ran good, she ran bad, so I won that L-L, but the other one was in the Primo.......
The rest of the evening was, you know, those Threads. I thought young Blackfish got a rough ride to be honest. He's a young man, & Forum mood & tone is something that takes time to learn. He seemed to take it well - very well I thought - & we exchanged some PM's which I hope helped.
I think I'll decline to further discuss the other thread. Bleurgh........
Keep your "Last night" stories coming please, this thread could be a corker. Does not have to be just poker, either......
PS - Getting some stick from Mother Hen & Lord Duffness today, too - something to do with discussing the homosexual tendancies of mallards on a poker show.....Meanwhile, Orford is announcing Live on air that John Terry scored again on Saturday, but as usual, failed to keep a clean sheet.....
More tomorrow.
1/2 BI for 200 and quickly get it upto 500. then i lose bits here and there in small pots.
have 350 in front.
UTG (has 100 in play and tilting) makes it 12...MP (has 400, decent player) makes it 40....I have AKhh in the SB and make it 125.....BB thinkgs for a couple of mins and folds....UTG calls....MP says have you got AA then moves in...I call.
he had KK.
flop Q 4 4 with 2 hearts...so I now have 12 outs weeeeeeeee....and I miss
BB claims he folded QQ.
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rebuy for another 200 and quickly get upto 350 again. raise to 11 PF and I call MP with 66. 3 other calls.
flop K 6 3...original PF raiser bets 40. I make it 107. he moves in for 250. I call
he has AK.
turn 3...river K so rigged so bad....98.5% favourite on the flop
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i have 100 left and then get it on in a small pot with T8 on a K 9 2 7 board. get called by K7 and I don't hit my OESD.
I think ok ill reload again but think better of it and decide to go see some mates.
Was going well, steadily chipping up, no real risks! at 12.00 and im in the money 279 left. Im about 60th in chip counts, so in a good position!
About 10 mins after the cash bubble, im dealt AA in the bb. folded round to the sb, insta shoves for 25k! i have 35k and snap!
He shows jj, the inevitable j hits and im down to 10k, about 10 bb at this stage.
Same orbit, i find jj in the hole and its an auto shove. bb dwells and calls. shows 77. great stuff im back in it! 7 binks the river and thats the end of me!
Absolutley no complaints though, went in ahead, thought i played very well and was patient for my spots. Thats just the way the cookie crumbles sometimes!
So the $90,000 for first place will have to wait for now, and ill take the $400ish i got for my finish. Still a good return for 5 odd hours work, so no complaints from me! Onto the next one!!
To top it off I then got a really bad head and was sweating like a pig all night despite it being -5.
Think I am over the worst of it though now and in the words of Fergie "I got a feeling, tonights gonna be a good night!"
Went on to play 50l Omaha cash, went okay ended up around £40 up in the end. It's an experience playing omaha, Im really enjoying the game and there are some really good players there and I am constantly learning whilst playing with people likr tikay at the tables. Perhaps I am playing above my level at the 50l at the moment because I am no expert but I am holding my own and each mistake I make makes me stronger and I am improving I believe, well that is my 50 cents from last night
Dylan
I Played like a male hen! Good fun, though.
I doubled up very early in the 7.15 Deepie in excruciatingly embarrassing style. I'd been busy, found J-J, & popped it, & was acommodated in two spots.
Flop 8-8-5, nice, I bet out, Mr Goose moves all-in!
Well, he clearly has quads or no hand, so I snap. He has Q-Q. Well played Sir, you trapped me proper good. Except the Turn came a binky Jack.
"Sorry bud". He was as good as gold about it, "it happens" he typed.
Later, I elevate it with A-K suited, & get looked up by the BB. 9-5-3 rainbow, he checks, let's not mess about, "ALL-IN", try calling THAT Mister. He called in a zillionth of a nanasecond with his pocket (& now set of) Nines. As you do.
Deep now, & Short, I decided to go for it with K-J, walked into Q-Q & A-K. That's called "drawing thin" I think.
In the BH, I went well until about half-way, when I made a move with A-9 on the Button, & Mr BB looked me up. Flop was A high, he checks, I shove, he snaps with nicely played A-Q.....
7.30 Deepie? More of the same, & a shameful 16th of 19. I'd had an accident earlier - a trifle unfortunate that one, when my Aces got torpedoed - so was in shove mode, looking for a 2xup. The very impressive Uzi-Lover button-limped on my Big, I shoved with A-K suited, & he snapped with 3-3. No improvement, taxi 4 tikay.
Omaha cash then. Sat with Dylan (VERY good table company), Mere, Eire (I asked EIRE what his ROI was.....), & a few others, was 2-Tabling. Went well until almost my last hand of the night, when I did a full pull-up in one of those typical Omaha spots.
Apart from that, it all went rather well.....
There was a Player on the Omaha I've not seen before, his alias was "John Banks". Does anyone remember the "real" & infamous John Banks?
He was a bookie, back in the 70's, & he was in bed (metaphorically speaking) with John Francombe, who was the best Jumps Jockey of his era. (And arguable many eras). John rode for the legendary Fred Winter.
Anyway, some jiggery-pokery goes off, & it's alleged that Banks slipped Francombe a brown envelope for inside info about a highly fancied & heavily backed Chaser at Newbury in 1978 which Francombe had the leg up on. It all comes out on top, & Banks gets "warned off" for 3 years, & Francombe gets a 6 month Ban.
The name of the horse? "Stopped". You could not make it up.
John Banks, a Scot, with an office in Sauecihall St, Glasgow, died 6 or 7 years ago, & was an awesome character. He had a string of betting shops - "money factories" he called them, which he sold for over a million quid in 1971, & he drove round in a bright yellow Rolls-Royce. He pretty much invented "novelty bets", on things such as "Come Dancing", & he pioneered handicap betting on Football.
He had a lifelong battle of wits with a certain well-known Bookmaker, headed in those days by Cyril Stein, & he "put it in Cyril's eye" every time.
Given time, I could tell you a hundred John Banks stories, but I fear you'd all be asleep before paragraph 2. But they'd be fun to write.
PS - See you Saturday.
I bet someone a quid I could tease you onto the Forum. And here you are....
Welcome aboard, & I'll see you on the Omaha Tables later.
Pretty Bad to be honest, I turned up expecting to win a few games, after the first hour I had lost three games, second hour I managed to get two back but by the end of the night I was 6-2 down.
Who'd be a Darts Captain Eh! wish I'd stopped in and played poker instead.
I deposited £20 last night intending to play the double stack @ 8. Around 7 my fingers started twitching, I saw orfords post on the forum and decided to go play some cash. Thought id play for an hour hopfully have £11 left by the end of it to play the doubelstack.
First hand I get kq suited raise to a quid, Orford calls flop J** I bet 4 quid he goes all in, and thats a fiver gone first hand, not a good start when ive only got £20 to play with. Had better fortune after that andleft just before 8 with just over £33
Played the doublestack, was donig ok at first break i was 7th out of 200+ but didnt have an easy table was only 3rd in chips, I always seem to find this when im donig well in a tournament. I became card dead and 10 minutes before the 2nd break i lost my connection. Took around 9 minutes to get the table back up, at this point it was the last hand before the break and i was now down to 9 big blinds. Had AJ so went all in, got called by kings and that was the end of that finished 61st. i was dissapointed but happy enough with the way I played. I checked my hadn history after i was out and didnt really miss a hand during the boot.
I then played a £2 heads up mtt, that was fast and furious and id beaten 3 people in around 6 minutes but unfortunately once again didnt cash.
Was going to go bed then with the £20 i started with but decided to play a little omaha. I didnt expect to do very well playing against the likes of tikay mere and dylanto name a few but after an hour of playing turned £20 into £63 so was happy with that. Still got a lot to learn about omaha so my appologies if i called in situations i shouldnt have. I did get one wow after I called, it was only a small pot and I won it but dont think my opponent was very impressed!!
Gareth