Ramblings of an old man

MP33

In Response to Re: Ramblings of a New Daddy:

Yippee! I have a PS4. As usual, no skill on my part. Got lucky to double up and then got gifted another double when someone 3bet all in with zero fold equity against me with JQ. I had KK and fortunately there was little drama as I hit set on the flop. Was pretty much able to fold my way through from there. I'm actually going to keep it. I think most people have or will sell their's. The way I see it, at 2.00 I didn't have a PS4 and now I do. I wouldn't actually buy one but as a free gift I'll take it. Harry might even think I'm cool in a few years when he sees a Daddy has a nice console. I have a PS3 with a few games. I'm just gonna chuck that in Ebay and happily take anything I get for it. Quite chuffed with my afternoons work after having about 1.30 sleep in the last 2 days.
Posted by Jac35

Well done mate. In a few years it will be the PS11 or something everyone is after though
Not sure what Sky were thinking really. giving away a load of PS4,s . Instead of spending hours playing poker evryone will be on their PS4,s
Not really a gamer myself but Fifa14 is addictive if you like footy games
EDIT: Or if you don,t want to pay £40 for  game you can pick Fifa13 up for about £6 or £7 in second hand shops

hhyftrftdr

I already think you're cool, Jac.

Jac35

In Response to Re: Ramblings of a New Daddy:

I already think you're cool, Jac.
Posted by hhyftrftdr

Very good

(From now on, you're 'FRED' to avoid any confusion)

Jac35

Not getting the chance to play much poker at the minute. As a result when I do play, I'm really enjoying it.

Played the main and the mini tonight plus the priority freeroll. Forgotten how I went out in the main. The priority game I just gave away my chips with a silly move. 

The mini went better. As Day4eire will testify I ran pretty well for a good part of it, knocking him out along the way when I won a flip. Busted 13th for about £20 in total. Seems a bit rubbish when you think that there we 585 runners. Not to worry though, enjoyed the game. Played a few Dyms as well and made about £40 on the night. I'd take that happily every day.

...

Great win for Derby on Minday night. Didn't play exceptionally well but who cares about that. For once we defended well and although I think it will end up with the play offs, you never know.

....

Did a nice thing today which is quite unusual for me. Was going to flog my PS3 on Ebay but decided to give it to my cousin instead. She's a single Mum and does a great job. Things are a bit tight for her right now so I thought it would be a nice idea. Thought I better buy a couple of games for the PS4 and so in the end, winning it the freeroll has kind of cost me £90. Not really the plan at the outset.

unknown_username

wot games did you huy Paul

day4eire76

Hey pal good sharing a table with you.
I haven't played many of the minis but it was good fun.
It was a decent table for us as there was still limping at that stage and blinds where there for the taking.
Unluckily for me, you had a hand when I pushed in early pos.
Couldn't stay much longer to rail as early start today.

Run Good pal

Jac35

@stoke

Standard buys from me. Keep saying  I won't buy these 2 anymore but couldn't resist. COD and Fifa. Get Killzone with it so it's a decent start. Managed to get them both off Ebay so it cost me £75 for the two.

@day4eire76

Similar for me. I rarely play tourneys on here. Really enjoyed it. Certainly was a turbo. Comfortable stack suddenly becomes all in or fold. Keep saying it but I should play more tourneys on here.

DOHHHHHHH

In Response to Re: Ramblings of a New Daddy:

Not getting the chance to play much poker at the minute. As a result when I do play, I'm really enjoying it. Played the main and the mini tonight plus the priority freeroll. Forgotten how I went out in the main. The priority game I just gave away my chips with a silly move.  The mini went better. As Day4eire will testify I ran pretty well for a good part of it, knocking him out along the way when I won a flip. Busted 13th for about £20 in total. Seems a bit rubbish when you think that there we 585 runners. Not to worry though, enjoyed the game. Played a few Dyms as well and made about £40 on the night. I'd take that happily every day. ... Great win for Derby on Minday night. Didn't play exceptionally well but who cares about that. For once we defended well and although I think it will end up with the play offs, you never know. .... Did a nice thing today which is quite unusual for me. Was going to flog my PS3 on Ebay but decided to give it to my cousin instead. She's a single Mum and does a great job. Things are a bit tight for her right now so I thought it would be a nice idea. Thought I better buy a couple of games for the PS4 and so in the end, winning it the freeroll has kind of cost me £90. Not really the plan at the outset.
Posted by Jac35

I know the football fan rules state you aren't allowed to be optimistic, but as a neutral I think you should be (and probably are).

QPR have been unconvincing all season, results wise and also performance wise when Ive seen them on TV (lots).

I thought Burnley would fall away, but I think they're stronger than QPR! Harry hasn't got them to pick up at all, and his January signings were unconvincing.

I think 2nd place is there for the taking! (dnt ban me from the thread, but I fancy Forest to get it)

Going to be a great end to the season.

Jac35

In Response to Re: Ramblings of a New Daddy:

In Response to Re: Ramblings of a New Daddy : I know the football fan rules state you aren't allowed to be optimistic, but as a neutral I think you should be (and probably are). QPR have been unconvincing all season, results wise and also performance wise when Ive seen them on TV (lots). I thought Burnley would fall away, but I think they're stronger than QPR! Harry hasn't got them to pick up at all, and his January signings were unconvincing. I think 2nd place is there for the taking! (dnt ban me from the thread, but I fancy Forest to get it) Going to be a great end to the season.
Posted by DOHHHHHHH

Red card. Get out!

Seriously though. Not too sure about Forest. That horrific little mans teams tend to fall away towards the latter part of seasons. He'll probably have a rant about the Chairman do his usual thing, try and get himself the sack and a pay off.

I still think QPR have the strongest looking team and squad, despite what Rednapp claims.

Burnley have kept on going. I think if they lose Ings they'd be in trouble. Having said that, the same would be true for us if Martin was out for any length of time.

Going to Burnley beginning of March and gonna meet up  with the Bromleys there. Could be painful. We never get anything at Turf Moor.

You're right, it's building up to be a great end to the season.
Derby v Forest at Wembley would be carnage.(bit like my poker tonight)

Jac35

Don't worry. Not a pokers rigged rant. Just time to switch off for the night.
Sometimes you do feel that you just can't win!

Dyms
Played 3 lost 3
Tourneys
Played 2 lost 1 (soon to lose other one)

Just funny how it goes. Think the Dyms were standard.

First tourney. Set of Aces on flop v set of 2's. All in for chip lead. Quads on turn for my friend. Next hand 3 limps and jam my last 1000 from small with Ace9. Called by j10. Flop the Ace and lose.

Mini rebuy. Keep getting 2nd best hand. Costs lots of chips. Every time I raise with junk I'm 3bet. QQ back to back. Snap folds all round. Next hand 99. Yippee, 2 callers. Flop AQ9. Perfect, one of them will have an Ace. Oh balls, they've folded.
One tabling it like a king. After the big withdrawal a while back. I left myself with a very small amount in my account. Withdrawn back down to that every time I've won. This means that I presently have 0.12 in my account and I promised myself I wouldn't reload this month. Hate to break my promise, wish me luck.

(Know it's stupid to make these withdrawals when I've been running well. I should be playing the 22's when I'm playing well and I'm costing myself money. Just something I do. Silly because I should obviously have a playable bankroll)

...

Hold the press!!
Just 3bet all in from the big with AQ and the button called it off with KQ.



I did a win ☺

44/68 now. I have a dream

Jac35

Well moaned it in a little. Balance now £99.83.

Came 7th in the mini rebuy. Grim exit but had a couple of lucky rivers earlier on and so no complaints.

Just can't quite get it done in the tourneys. Pleased with the deep runs last couple of nights but rightly so the proper money is at the top. Happy though. 4 tourneys, 2 nowhere's and a 7th and 13th.

Just a bit disappointed that I can't do a Gazza. When he has a rant, his next post is normally to tell us he's just won a tourney and won loadsamoney. My thrilling tale is to tell you I had a 7th. Not quite the same wow factor!

Want to play more tourneys. Got the opportunity this month as I'm on paternity leave. No bankroll at moment though. The little one has to come first I guess.

Need to try and sell myself to some daft b.ugger who might fancy a punt.

Let's see.

Pretty rubbish old guy seeks funds to allow him to play pokes. He seeks an investment to allow him to play some of the higher buy in comps on here. As stated, he's pretty c,rap, however, runs dead good and has a decent sharkscope from a ludicrously small tourney sample size. As demand is likely to be super high, old guy reserves the right to negotiate an awesome deal for himself.

Guess that should do it. Looking forward to the huge amount of PM's coming my way in the morning

gazza127

In Response to Re: Ramblings of a New Daddy:

Well moaned it in a little. Balance now £99.83. Came 7th in the mini rebuy. Grim exit but had a couple of lucky rivers earlier on and so no complaints. Just can't quite get it done in the tourneys. Pleased with the deep runs last couple of nights but rightly so the proper money is at the top. Happy though. 4 tourneys, 2 nowhere's and a 7th and 13th. Just a bit disappointed that I can't do a Gazza. When he has a rant, his next post is normally to tell us he's just won a tourney and won loadsamoney. My thrilling tale is to tell you I had a 7th. Not quite the same wow factor! Want to play more tourneys. Got the opportunity this month as I'm on paternity leave. No bankroll at moment though. The little one has to come first I guess. Need to try and sell myself to some daft b.ugger who might fancy a punt. Let's see. Pretty rubbish old guy seeks funds to allow him to play pokes. He seeks an investment to allow him to play some of the higher buy in comps on here. As stated, he's pretty c,rap, however, runs dead good and has a decent sharkscope from a ludicrously small tourney sample size. As demand is likely to be super high, old guy reserves the right to negotiate an awesome deal for himself. Guess that should do it. Looking forward to the huge amount of PM's coming my way in the morning
Posted by Jac35

Heyyyyy i've only done this once.

Ok... maybe twice.

Possibly 3 times.

But wheres my next big win eh??

Nice cash in the mini anyway

Jac35

I really am the most stupid Jac35 in the whole wide world

I have bad teeth.

Due to the badliness of my teeth, I became a project for some trainee dentist people and it now looks like I have good teeth. This is courtesy of 6 super duper veneers. However, I have really bad teeth.

Going through a rubbishy spell of losing fillings. Lifespan of filling according to dentist. Costing me loads.

Couple of weeks ago, I was offered a fun size wham bar. I used to love wham bars. I don't love wham bars anymore. I lost another bloody filling.

Oh well. Lesson learned.

Or so you would think. Today, my sister says "would you like a toffee, Paul?" My mum says "I wouldn't if I were you, Jac35"

I say "be alright, I won't chew it"

Two minutes later I have lost another filling.

Jac35

Booked a big win tonight  - £12.46

Didn't want to put those 3 pints and a packet of crisps  at risk and so stopped playing. As it seems to be another long night in store with Harry, I decided to rail some 2/4 or 400NL, whichever you prefer.

Something that's confused me for a while is the min raising in these games. Pretty much the whole table is sitting 200BB deep. This isn't a tourney where we're trying to steal blinds. We're presumably coming in with decent hands and looking to win big pots. Thought it may just be me and I've fallen way behind. However. Watched a bit of the show the other night and Alex Goulder also commented on the min raising.

Be really interested in anyones thoughts on this.

chicknMelt

In Response to Re: Ramblings of a New Daddy:

Booked a big win tonight  - £12.46 Didn't want to put those 3 pints and a packet of crisps  at risk and so stopped playing. As it seems to be another long night in store with Harry, I decided to rail some 2/4 or 400NL, whichever you prefer. Something that's confused me for a while is the min raising in these games. Pretty much the whole table is sitting 200BB deep. This isn't a tourney where we're trying to steal blinds. We're presumably coming in with decent hands and looking to win big pots. Thought it may just be me and I've fallen way behind. However. Watched a bit of the show the other night and Alex Goulder also commented on the min raising. Be really interested in anyones thoughts on this.
Posted by Jac35

didnt see the show, and dont play cash much online... but I presume the idea behind the min raising is you can open wider (and get called wider) with the betting lead. If your confident you have an edge postflop then you might win more playing like this because you have more options to get creative, or just take down more pots when your op misses. It also give you the option of calling 3bets with more speculative hands - suited connectors, small pairs etc and having better implied odds. You might also find that people dont adapt to your raise sizing well and call/3bet with the same hands they would with a 3x. 

personally, I dont think the raise size preflop makes a huge amount of difference in cash (within reason, say 2x - 4x), as long as you adapt your ranges accordingly.

what did alex say about it?

from what I've seen of nosebleed stakes that standard raise size varies from person to person, 2.25x is pretty standard. not seen 2x much.

congrats on becoming a dad btw - I just had a baby too (well, my wife did anyway - 2nd Feb). Its my first, and I never thought I would like it so much!

Jac35

In Response to Re: Ramblings of a New Daddy:

In Response to Re: Ramblings of a New Daddy : didnt see the show, and dont play cash much online... but I presume the idea behind the min raising is you can open wider (and get called wider) with the betting lead. If your confident you have an edge postflop then you might win more playing like this because you have more options to get creative, or just take down more pots when your op misses. It also give you the option of calling 3bets with more speculative hands - suited connectors, small pairs etc and having better implied odds. You might also find that people dont adapt to your raise sizing well and call/3bet with the same hands they would with a 3x.  personally, I dont think the raise size preflop makes a huge amount of difference in cash (within reason, say 2x - 4x), as long as you adapt your ranges accordingly. what did alex say about it? from what I've seen of nosebleed stakes that standard raise size varies from person to person, 2.25x is pretty standard. not seen 2x much. congrats on becoming a dad btw - I just had a baby too (well, my wife did anyway - 2nd Feb). Its my first, and I never thought I would like it so much!
Posted by chicknMelt

Congrats to you too

Have you been to sleep yet?

Regards

Jac35 (posting at 05.58)

Jac35

Just call me a Rakeback pro!

Not getting much sleep at night and so playing till all hours. No Dyms running during the early hours and so I've played plenty of 50nl. (Obv a great idea when, as I've mentioned before, I'm bloody awful at cash.)

The other night I got myself in a hole as usual. Clawed my way out and proudly informed TommyD that as I had got to the dizzy heights of £1.10 up, I was quitting. 22p an hour is not to be sniffed at! Add some Rakeback and I was prob close to a pint of Peroni up.

Tonight I got  myself in a hole as usual. Nearly clawed my way out. Had a pair of Kings where I lost a buy in that I didn't need to. I was beating absolutely nothing by the river and went to press fold. However, as I'm stupid, curiosity got the better of me and my finger rather annoyingly moved it's way across to the call button.

Played some of the 50nl capped games for a spell. You know, the ones that Bolly has such love for. Think that they could be quite profitable if you have a knowledge of ranges. Ran pretty rubbish for an hour or so. 

I can laugh now (well actually I can't, but it sounds better than venting) but I managed to get AK in four times v the same player preflop and he had AJ twice and AQ twice. Following those hands, I was four buy ins down and he was four buy ins up.

As I said, I got most back and after Rakeback ended up around £15 down on the night. Wait a minute that means I've lost over the two nights.

Umm, think I might need to revisit the Rakeback pro idea.

Jac35

Well, I've had worse nights. Who says men can't multitask?

Had the Priority freeroll to play. Thought I'd enter the Turbo as well.
Listened to the Mighty Rams on the radio and watched Man City v Barca on the TV.

Went pretty well.

Finished
5/505 in the Turbo for £277
4/67 in the freeroll for £200

Most importantly off all, Derby got a late winner. Up to 3rd now.

Going to bed happy.

☺

TeddyBloat

Cant keep a good man down.

Well done jac

nickd49931

WP jac very nice year so far on and off the tables

RICHORFORD

Good work Jac on your main event finish. It was good to tussle and chat with you for most of it!

Jac35

Thanks chaps.

Yep, good game Rich. 

Don't tell everyone how lucky I was!

All skill from me, honest.

.........

Who was I kidding?

Like I'm gonna get any sleep tonight. Harry kicking off again.

They tell me it gets better. Soon, please

LARSON7

Well done, nice cashes:)

Jac35

I've hardly played any poker over the last few days. A little tourney the other night, which was fun. Had a good chat with Samantha35., who was bossing the table. Got busted by newish forum poster Nick(loads of numbers)

Hit and run cash tonight. Played for 4 minutes, up £1.13 and stood. Was a bit bored.

I'm one of the lucky ones who hasn't seen 'Breaking Bad' yet. This means that I have a serious amount of hours to watch. Onto series 2 now and it really is as good as everyone says. No spoilers please

Big win for Derby today. Another late goal. Not playing too well at the moment but keep grinding out the wins.

Huge match next week. Burnley away. Got my ticket yesterday and looking forward to meeting up with the Bromleys at Turf Moor. Got a feeling that we'll get battered up there. We never get anything against Burnley.

Not got the PS4 yet which is a bit disappointing. I've managed to add a week onto my paternity leave and so was hoping to be able to get into it next week.

Was hoping to get across to DTD this week. The look I got from Mrs J informed me that going over would not be a good idea. Had managed to escape twice to play golf and so in fairness, it was a long shot.

I am horrible at golf. Should pack it up. Just got membership fees through. £1166. Urgh. Trouble is, it's the best game in the world, when you play well. At least I think it is. So long it is since i have played well.

cpfc_2010

Glad to see your still alive. Was gonna ask you about the PS4, nothing here yet either
Shame you werent online last nite, I wanted someone to brag to after I shipped the Primo.
Forget golf and get back to making money. Chat soon.

Jac35

In Response to Re: Ramblings of a New Daddy:

Glad to see your still alive. Was gonna ask you about the PS4, nothing here yet either Shame you werent online last nite, I wanted someone to brag to after I shipped the Primo. Forget golf and get back to making money. Chat soon.
Posted by cpfc_2010

Wow! Brilliant stuff mate. 

To put it in golfing terms, if I was an annoying American spectator, "You're the Man".

Shame I couldn't rail it. Have been watching a lot of the last stages of tourneys recently and that would have been great to see. Just looked at the final two tables and saw Dohhhhhh had a great run as well.

Internet played up for a lot of the night and I didn't dare play. Getting upgraded on Monday, so hopefully no more problems.

Good work in seeing it out. The difference in the last few places in tournaments is massive. I've had a few good runs recently and finished top 4 or 5 but the real money is at the very top.

I'm really going to have to find a way to start playing in the bigger games on here.

Jac35

Collusion 

How can we ever prove it? I've just read a very long thread on another forum regarding collusion in satellites.

What can be construed as collusion? And what is just standard satellite play?

I play very few sats. There was one a while ago for the roller that I played. 2 tables left, 12 players, 11 seats.

The table I was on, everybody had comfortable stacks. The other table had 2 or 3 short stacks. Most hands on my table. the big blind was given a walk. Is this wrong? From my perspective, I had a top 3 stack and had no real inclination to play another hand. Fortunately, I became card dead as well. (I'm bad enough to get involved even in this position with marginal hands sometimes)

There was one hand that I was a bit uncomfortable with. The small blind, who I knew a bit online, said he passed QQ against me. I had AK and as it folded round to him I was praying I got the walk. Wasn't sure what I would do. I think, I probably pass 95% of the time there. Lose the hand and I would have been down to about 8th or 9th. But, could there ever be an argument for collusion there? Him passing? Or me not calling if he shoves? I don't think so. It's just common sense for him to pass, or if he does shove, for me to pass.

jdsallstar

Collusion must be close to impossible to prove apart from blatant obvious things like raise folding for just small amounts. 

Funny you should bring this up though because over the past two nights I've been accused of collusion with a dym reg with his reason being we're never both AIPF against each other, we play loads of tables together and the best one - we're both in profit lol We obviously have clashed and knocked each other out many times but in the games he's seen we maybe haven't and with hand ranges, as you know, being very tight for calling shoves and reshoves in a dym you can imagine how he could come to this conclusion. We've possibly even put in chat that we folded some pretty big hands.

Ironic though that the player then went on to say he'd seen us playing many times together using his second account lol whoops!

Had to end up reporting him anyway for constantly calling me a cheat at every table we played at despite trying to explain to him he was barking up the wrong tree. I've a rep to keep after all lol

Jac35

Just had the variance thing.

It happens, no need to get too upset about it. Somehow scrambled a tiny profit at the end. Played a few sats, no good, played cash(why?) no good. Decided  to stop messing around and return to my normal games. Fired up a few £22's and £15's and proceeded to be bewildered as the short stack seemed to win every all in on the bubble. 

Lost AK v A6 on bubble 

Lost AQ v A9 on the bubble 

Lost set of J's to a straight for a lock to cash.

Lost KK v a speculative call 5 handed A2.

Befuddled. My account says I'm up a the goodly amount of £4.89 for the day. Can't be right. Tiredness means I'm not comprehending numbers properly. I've quickly withdrawn it before they realise a mistakes been made.

That'll do me for the month. 

Been so different to last month. In January, I made priority for the first time and won steadily through the month for a nice profit. This month, I've made a mighty 2756 points. Just not had time. Had a nightmare night when I lost £330 live an then gave away another £140 on the cash tables when I got home. Played as badly as it's possible to play that night.

Somehow it's turned out alright in the end. Won the PS4 (although beginning to think that I must have dreamed it up as it still hasn't arrived) 

Was a bit dymemed out and played a few tourneys. Had a good couple of days when I won £477 ion a couple of tourneys and won a few buy ins at 30nl. Plodded along playing a few Dyms most days. In the end, I've made just over 700 for the month and so I'm really pleased with that for a low volume month and a silly night. I do include last months Rakeback in that as the way I see it, if I didn't play, I wouldn't get Rakeback, so it's poker profits.

Luckily it has gone well. Golf club fees, car insurance, car tax, 2 new tyres all had to be paid for over the last couple of days.

Let's see what March brings

Gl all

VespaPX

Nice steady month Jac
Hope it continues for you and your family.
Best wishes
Mick