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  • craigcu12craigcu12
    edited June 2016
    The day of MTT began by making entry into the main event from the semi. The main event itself was going to be my main focus but I still played in DTDs and freerolls for fun as well as giving the mini a try for that leicester city style hope of jackpot pot.
    DTD3 had a very early exit and DTD 1 was a mid stage exit but DTD 2 was looking to be a cash prize when a bad beat came, 107s had called pre then min bet called 3/4 pot on flop AQ10 then min bet called pot size AI on turn 4. The only way to go ahead on the river was trips or 2 pair and 2 pair was just what he got.
    The majority of my attention was set on the main event and doing this allowed me to make a few disaplined folds. I finished the MTT 40th place with a £14.06 head prize.
    The mini event was a early exit but got 1 head prize of £2.34 and when added along side the £2 made in freeroll my overall total is 70p profit

    tuesday I was intending to have a number of cash games but other things got in my way. I did get the master cash live game and made £6.84.
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  • aussie09aussie09
    edited June 2016

    hi craig,

    i think you have taken over from tommyd as tv tart.

    and i dont think you played a hand.

    ;-)





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  • craigcu12craigcu12
    edited June 2016
    In Response to Re: craigcu12 diary new month new game:
    hi craig, i think you have taken over from tommyd as tv tart. and i dont think you played a hand. ;-)
    Posted by aussie09
    being the sort of player who might chase a bad start, I can see the sort of pressure the rec and pro are under during that 45 min master cash live. Last week I did play a selection of handsbut not all were shown on TV. At the very start I took down a pot against ian simpson who ch the turn I was holding Kq at the time and saw his ch as a great sign of him being uncofident, if he didn't fold the turn he'd probably fold an AI if the river came blank as it was still very early. I did then have a hand mid way through holding trips against the rec but this hand didn't get shown, then at the very end of the master cash game I held TP mid kicker against the rec, he was doing bets and I just called my way down knowing he's got the leading chip already and is unlikely to be giving much away at such a late stage.

    I wasn't intending to play tonight but have changed my mind because that master cash table will have much easier chance of money than a nl10. I've had a session on them which I found quite poor, The very loose callers were away on spin up tables or watching football. therefore a small pot was the general win, big pots would be coolers which didn't happen instead I was against. i've ended up over £22 down
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  • aussie09aussie09
    edited June 2016

    deja vu.  watching you right now.

    gl craig



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  • craigcu12craigcu12
    edited June 2016
    In Response to Re: craigcu12 diary new month new game:
    deja vu.  watching you right now. gl craig
    Posted by aussie09
    The sort of entertainment this table gets, it's hard not to resist playing and what is more fun than a final hand like tonight's. williams announces holding a poor hand live i have confidence in 4betting deeming it more like a general 3bet and see the open raiser go all in. I go on to fold and see the most humorous of boards come. it's hard not to feel sorry for ian simpson.
    HOLLYWHIT
      Small blind   £0.10 £0.10 £47.81
    craigcu12 Big blind   £0.20 £0.30 £43.13
      Your hole cards
    • 9
    • 9
    		     
    IanSimpson Fold        
    Boxster Raise   £0.80 £1.10 £38.12
    S_Williams Raise   £1.40 £2.50 £46.97
    dandama162 Fold        
    HOLLYWHIT Fold        
    craigcu12 Raise   £2.80 £5.30 £40.33
    x All-in   £38.12 £43.42 £0.00
    S_Williams All-in   £46.97 £90.39 £0.00
    craigcu12 Fold        
    S_Williams Unmatched bet   £9.45 £80.94 £9.45
    x Show
    • 6
    • 6
    		     
    S_Williams Show
    • 10
    • 2
    		     
    Flop
       
    • 4
    • 8
    • 9
    		     
    Turn
       
    • 4
    		     
    River
       
    • 10
    		     
    S_Williams Win Two Pairs, 10s and 4s £79.14   £88.59
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  • craigcu12craigcu12
    edited June 2016
    August is the start of rio Olympics and the events are likely to be in the evening so I won't be on the table that month and come the start of next season newcastle could be having a few tuesday night games so I might not be on table those games
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  • unknown_usernameunknown_username
    edited June 2016
    In Response to Re: craigcu12 diary new month new game:
    In Response to Re: craigcu12 diary new month new game : The sort of entertainment this table gets, it's hard not to resist playing and what is more fun than a final hand like tonight's. williams announces holding a poor hand live i have confidence in 4betting deeming it more like a general 3bet and see the open raiser go all in. I go on to fold and see the most humorous of boards come. it's hard not to feel sorry for ian simpson. HOLLYWHIT       

    Yes I am x ,,, but quite easy to see as you forgot to give me an 'x' label on my initial raise

    Nice fold of your nines #notuwudhavewon and he did say he had a bad hand LOL

    Sigh SKY river .,,,, fun hand #givehimthewin
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  • craigcu12craigcu12
    edited June 2016
    In Response to Re: craigcu12 diary new month new game:
    Thats the outcome of a hand that gets players posting and moaning. In this instance we know the reason.In all the others though.........spooky. I admire you for putting your self in the spotlight each week.Takes balls......or the like.
    Posted by chilling
    revealing my play is one thing but having a very enjoyable time is another only thing missing is anna fowler herself and perhaps borinloner, those live master cash tables were astonishing. general cash games don't have the same enjoyment and I can't see this type of game working on a general cash table it's specially designed to work on tables containing two players battling to see who can get more cash.

    I'll be away in augest so dandama162 will be the man and can't see mself free every tuesday once the championship starts. Go team GB and Newcastle united
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  • craigcu12craigcu12
    edited June 2016
    In Response to Re: craigcu12 diary new month new game:
    In Response to Re: craigcu12 diary new month new game :
    In Response to Re: craigcu12 diary new month new game : The sort of entertainment this table gets, it's hard not to resist playing and what is more fun than a final hand like tonight's. williams announces holding a poor hand live i have confidence in 4betting deeming it more like a general 3bet and see the open raiser go all in. I go on to fold and see the most humorous of boards come. it's hard not to feel sorry for ian simpson. HOLLYWHIT        Yes I am x ,,, but quite easy to see as you forgot to give me an 'x' label on my initial raise Nice fold of your nines #notuwudhavewon and he did say he had a bad hand LOL Sigh SKY river .,,,, fun hand #givehimthewin
    Posted by Boxster

    it was like a bet for protection more than anything defend against your broadways. nice jam.
     VUL river, worse hand always wins
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  • craigcu12craigcu12
    edited June 2016
    Today i've had a selection of cash sessions along side another period of main event play via entry from the semi, The main event itself lasted just an hour, my hands were poor for the majority of the tournament until the very end when I did a 3bet and saw 2 previous callers now go all in, I had confidence in neither of them holding AA KK or QQ making my hand itself get the odds needed to call decent odds holding a likely flip, tha flip didn't come my way and I was soon out.

    In cash I started off around 1pm, The majority of the time I was sharing with a good number of regs and I soon decided to leave thinking it will be best to have a break rather than try and attapt to the current table dynamic. I returned to the table at 4pm and was intending to leaved if anything went wrong. i managed to get a good run going in this session and played for just over an hour before taking a break for tea. The semi was played after tea and I also had a selection of cash games up as well. Most of my focus during this time was set on the semi and it didn't take long before I sat out of te cash to put up he final 6 tables as part of analsis of how close i am to entry.

    £4.65 was lost in session 1, £28.40 was won in session 2 whilst session 3 had a loss of £6.47

    Overall I'm £10.08
    cash £17.28
    MTT -£7.20
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  • craigcu12craigcu12
    edited June 2016
    Today I've just had one very long session of poker beginning with an attempt to get into the main even through the semi.  This event had got off to a decent start but that earl chip prize soon vanished when I called 1500 holding AQ at 100/200 blind level. Not long after that loss I made the chips back up and from this point on i was looking a potential entry until right a the very end when my chip stack was >3bb deep, my chipstack was 2nd shortest overall and looked to see me go through but the shortest stack managed to double up at the very point when I was due to be in the BB, my choice now was either call the all in done by the SB whilst holding Q2o or give it a chanc and see what I could get dealt, I decided to go with the option of folding Q2 and went AI with 104s when sitting in SB and went on to exit.

    Now that I failed to make it into the main event I would turn my attention to cash poker. Whilst I had the odd chance to walk away a couple of pound ahead it was looking a fairly break even time in the majority of my night my cash session. Being  11:30pm I was beginning to call it a day but just before calling it a day I would get two great chunks along side a few smaller chunks thanks to a horrid cooler when I goes all in with quads against the very best full house and some loose aggressive players goes all in and runs into a number of my deceptive trapping hands.

    Overall £14.82
    nl10 £22.02
    MTT -£7.20

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  • craigcu12craigcu12
    edited June 2016
    This weekend I've lost £100 thanks  to more chasing. Saturday night was heading towards a loss of over £60 when I got over reactive to an opponent who had gone super aggressive with a straight draw turned flush draw yet weak passive with a full house. I was in line for a pot just under 300bb thanks getting all in with top set against a weaker set plus his draw, The disappointing thing was he rivered. A few minute later this player had limped in as i was in the BB I got to see a free flop and managed to hit a full house, i made a bet on both the turn and the river holding a full house and didn't really expect to see much it was hen I saw his full house in the hand history that I started to get frustrated thinking to myself what exactly are these people, have they hacked my PC or something. I took a short break before making a return to the tables. I was relaxed when I returned and made a little adjustment to my game, The tables themselves had loose callers on for a very long time and I did make a large chunk of my cash back meanig I finished that night  just one buy ins worth down.

    Tongiht I wasn't so lucky, the difference about tonight is that the calling stations weren't on for so late and a c game isn't so good against those who know what they doing. The issue all started when a player beat me (QQ) with Kj winning 60bb thanks to a 3bet AI pre. This action of his came out of nowhere, he'd been playing for a while now and i can't remember him having a bad beat in any of his recent hands so why he did it I don't know. I shuld have got up from the table and walked away that very minute because that KJ would start dominating my mind and mistakes would be coming in which they were, no every hand seem to be losing  and the small winnings or loss turned into a large one. I did walk away from the tables about an hour after that hand thinking the tables were now too tight and during the short break I did pull myself around allowing me to make a return tothe tables and this did prove good to start off with but hat wasn't going to last forever becase calling stations didn' stay on as long as they did saturday, hands were more difficult to play and if I started to get frustrated thinking every hand will lose.

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  • craigcu12craigcu12
    edited June 2016
    My frustation and tilt following last nights disgraceful england match I didn't have the chance to update my diary, I could well have updated the diary prior to the england game but was planning to have a final bit of play after the england match finished but knew right away my sheer frustration ould cause masses of mistakes. i might not have been able to play any evening cash but still got a decent amount of time fitted in during the noon with a two hour session from 1pm-3pm and a second 2.5 hour session from 5pm-7:30pm. Both session had managed to make a profit but the vast majority of it came in session one, that session had got off to a great start having won two full stacks very early on in a set over set cool and AKsv KK all in. Session 2 did get a very good early triple up itself when I got all in against both AQ and QQ preflop before hitting the A on the flop and remaining ahead the trouble was I also lost a pot having gone all in with flush+ straight draw which had went ahead on the turn but goes behind again on the river when a 4th spade come giving opponent a better straight. another big loss came when I 3bet AK preflop and call down a doker who pot size donked the flop. In most occassions I might have folded that AK on the flop or turn believing that a split pot is his probably his weakest hand having saw the flop come AQx but had part of my mind on the playing straigh+flush draw and that AK which would achieve the triple up. £26.12 was made (£20.16+£6).

    This tuesday nights master cash will be the last of my consistant master cash games because it doesn't actually start until after 11pm by which time I should be in bed. this week was an exception because tomorrow's volenteering work will be done at the site of the office itself therefore I won't miss the mini bus if I got there late (I will aim to get there on time). I made 33.22 in total from this master cash along side brief time on other cash tables and can't ask for a much better wat to see the final hand

    I folded that 99 and missed the set but this week I get to see the flop and it's set
    PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalance
    NChanningSmall blind £0.05£0.05£19.08
    dandama162Big blind £0.10£0.15£23.07
     Your hole cards
    • 4
    • 4
    		   
    gpc70Fold    
    Tony_CCall £0.10£0.25£27.01
    craigcu12Call £0.10£0.35£22.46
    NeuroticCall £0.10£0.45£9.40
    NChanningRaise £0.55£1.00£18.53
    dandama162Call £0.50£1.50£22.57
    Tony_CCall £0.50£2.00£26.51
    craigcu12Call £0.50£2.50£21.96
    NeuroticFold    
    Flop
      
    • 4
    • 6
    • 3
    		   
    NChanningBet £3.50£6.00£15.03
    dandama162Fold    
    Tony_CFold    
    craigcu12Call £3.50£9.50£18.46
    Turn
      
    • J
    		   
    NChanningAll-in £15.03£24.53£0.00
    craigcu12All-in £18.46£42.99£0.00
    craigcu12Unmatched bet £3.43£39.56£3.43
    NChanningShow
    • 7
    • 6
    		   
    craigcu12Show
    • 4
    • 4
    		   
    River
      
    • 2
    		   
    craigcu12WinThree 4s£38.16 £41.59

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  • craigcu12craigcu12
    edited July 2016
    In recent weeks I've been getting more active with MTTs mostly semis followed by entry into the main events. Tonight was going to be a MTT night for sure because even if I did miss entry into the main event "which I did only just" I still DTDs to play. The DTDs had a more unusal occurance today because rather than being early exited from DTD1 it was DTD2 which I normally do best in that had the early exit DTD 1 and 3 both saw me get to the very late stages, one thing that didn't change was the failing to cash out in DTD1 when I was consistantly seeing players fold round at times I goes all in but then comes a period where the button 3BB raised and I goes AI 7bb deep holding AJo. DTD 3 did manage to get me some cash having finished in 15th leaving with £4.32 and £10 from the freeroll means I finish MTT night £4.42 up.

    Cash poker is starting to become a more common occurance during the noon time because all this MTT time I have during the evening means I have less chance of playing cash. Today was a case of having a 2 hour session mid day and a s2 hour session early noon before getting tea and playing MTTs.  What I like about playing these cash sessions during the noon is they can win me the cash I need to keep my BR up after doing entry into the MTTs and what best about afternoon cash is i'll have low risk of chasing when LAG is all in. £17.78 cash was made today giving me a total winnings of £22.20

    MTT £4.42
    cash £17.78
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  • craigcu12craigcu12
    edited July 2016
    evening all.

    I've not ha much poker game in me over the course of july will probably continue throughtout augest. I may attempt to play a bit of live MS or the special freerolls which would get points via a few DYMs but nothing much else.

    A combination of visits to psycoloist, a mum with mental difficulties and hot evenings mean i'm never really in the right mood for poker.

    My mum has had a number of very long epileptic fits in recen months and has got a selection of mental problems too. My brother has had a good XP as a carer and  is working like her next akin so he'll be the one most updated. Whilst my brother is keeping up to date with things I work along side my sister in keeping a close eye on my mum because she lives in the very same street and we do. This is where the hot evenings are bad. I normally sleep best in the cooler evenings, when it's hot I will take longer time to relax and sometimes start thinking too heavily meaning I end up struggling to sleep altogether.

    After fighting for 6 years i've finally been able to start getting help from a psycologist ovdr my overly negative youth, being able to start think about positive things rather than negative things and learn how to control my temper. At the minute it's normally a more nevative speech i'll be giving out as I'm trying to explain how much negativity I have in me, this does mean i'm getting a more negitive image of myself in geeral but I do see a positive future.
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