Crap

Played the flashmob on Sunday and played it crap.
Loads of mistakes to many to remember them all, was dealt some decent hands but most of them I just played garbage.

Biggest mistake was being dealt KcJs in small blind. Limped in and got the almost perfect flop of AcQc5c. I was dominating the other 2 stacks and had to at least put in a pot sized bet here (600 in pot) or even go all-in. Checked like a complete gayer and then called the all-in by Geemac (eventual winner). Gay, gay, gay! Grow some balls Doob. He only had A8 (no clubs) and may have folded to an all-in.

Ended up going out as usual to the unbeatable AJCairns. And why the river, why get my hopes up only to drown them cruelly. I like a quick and painless death on the flop please!

Played a ridiculous £5 STT where some dumbfuck called me down all the way chasing a gutshot straight on the flop (I bet the pot with top pair) and outside straight on the turn. He hit it on the river giving him the stone cold nuts. SO HE JUST CALLS ME!!!!! Finished 3rd and dumbfuck went out in 9th so all was well.

I have noticed from my STT stats that I finish 4th 25% of the time. Rubbish. Utter garbage. One day I will learn how to play this game but until then my £5 is yours every Sunday!

Recording Results

Not played that much over the past 7 days but have recorded my record in low stake 9 Seater STTs at Blue Square. They are as follows...

1st - 5
2nd - 1
3rd - 2
4th - 4
5th - 5
6th - 1
7th - 2
8th - 1
9th - 0

All of these are $2 or $3 STTs
Average finishing position 3.81 (I think, maths is probably wrong).

So out of 21 STTs I have placed in 8 of them and won 5 and made a pretty mediocre profit but there are far to many 4th or 5th places. Definitely this is down to me not being agressive enough as these are pretty loose games. But I do enjoy playing them and just seem to play them better than Betfair STTs. God knows why.

Will carry on recording my 9 Seater STT record and see if I can get the average finishing position closer to 3. Back for the flashmob game on Sunday after missing the last one although this emzo appears a bit of a card shark to me!

Wish I knew nothing about this game again

Then I could just ignore pot odds and play freely without fear rather than always working out the odds in my head and then deciding.

Bring back the days when I used to call a massive overbet on the turn to try and hit my flush, the days when my AJ was a complete monster that I wasn't folding to any bet and the days when if I hit top pair low kicker (in fact I never knew what a kicker was) I would just chuck all my chips in.

Regarding the flashmob game 1 hour 40 minutes to finally go out in 8th out of 17th with 99 vs AK. I think 99 was the best starting hand I saw all game though. The reason it took so long is that there never seemed to be 2 big starting hands dealt at the same time and everyone is clever enough to raise when in position. Or maybe we are all just low stake rocks!!!!!

I'll keep the old car then :-)

Finished 6th in the Car game.
I was playing OK and didn't have to push with TT in the SB but was unfortunate to meet KK in the BB and bizarrely TT from the original raiser. Thought he could have got away from his hand though.

Thanks to dibble and redcar for your good wishes on the forum. Unable to post on there at the moment.

Still looking on the bright side at least the pubs are still open :-)

Game #1385838484: Hold'em NL (75/150) - 2006/01/13 - 21:06:43 (BST)
Table "LUCKY CAR...DS 1661365 - 1" Seat 4 is the button.
Seat 1: deejay (4960 in chips)
Seat 2: sleeper (2375 in chips)
Seat 3: paulio (2420 in chips)
Seat 4: LOVE2TILT (3350 in chips)
Seat 5: Doob (2315 in chips)
Seat 6: Poking (4580 in chips)
Doob: posts small blind 75
Poking: posts big blind 150
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to Doob [Td Th]
deejay: folds
sleeper: raises to 450
paulio: folds
LOVE2TILT: folds
Doob: raises to 2315 and is all-in
Poking: raises to 4180
sleeper: is all-in 1925
Returned uncalled bets 1,805 to Poking
----- FLOP ----- [9s Js Ad]
----- TURN ----- [9s Js Ad][5s]
----- RIVER ----- [9s Js Ad 5s][5c]
----- SHOW DOWN -----
Poking: shows [Kc Kh] (Two Pairs, Kings and Fives, Ace high)
sleeper: shows [Tc Ts] (Two Pairs, Tens and Fives, Ace high)
Doob: shows [Td Th] (Two Pairs, Tens and Fives, Ace high)
Poking collects 120 from Side pot #1
Poking collects 6945 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot 7065 Main pot 6945 Side pot #1 120 Rake 0
Board [9s Js Ad 5s 5c]
Seat 1: deejay folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: paulio folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: LOVE2TILT (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Doob (small blind) lost
Seat 6: Poking (big blind) showed [Kc Kh] and won (7065) with Two Pairs, Kings and Fives, Ace high

I like driving in my car...

....but it's a bit rubbish and I'd rather have a mini!

Actually my 6ft 3inch frame would never fit in it but I'm looking forward to the tournament on Friday at 8pm to try and win it. I qualified by answering a few questions on the forum so I have not deserved my place like others who must have played about 20 STTs a day to come 6th in the STT Leagues. But i'm in and will take my chance.

All of the players are very good (I know The House is currently in Oz) and experienced so I am under no illusions I will need luck to be on my side. Also don't really do sixpaks and not used to tournaments with 20 minute levels, starting with 2000 chips. If I am not going to win it though I want to go out early. The thought of coming 2nd is a bit sick.

As for poker been playing a lot of $0.15/$0.25 Omaha High. Sit tight, don't raise to much pre-flop and wait for that monster which someone always seems to pay you off with (Or river the miracle card to make Quads). And when you have the nuts, bet the pot. NEVER EVER SLOW PLAY ANYTHING EXCEPT QUADS OR RUNNING FLUSHES. Anything else is vulnerable.

Goldfish Memory

Forgot that I had applied for the Blue Square Bubble Freeroll tonight. Managed to finish 25th of 90 without playing a hand though so better than usual and 2 places ahead of AJ (Wonder if he forgot about it as well). Missing out on a $1000 Dollar freeroll is a bit dumb though!

Played 2 games of poker today both on Betfair which I reinstalled this morning. 50 Euro bonus I was quickly knocked back to 800 chips when my 2 pair lost to a flush but hung around, got up to 3000 at one stage, don't remember any bad beats but finally had to move all in post flop on a flush draw, was called by 66 and I could not improve (13th of 35).

Flashmob game at 8:30 only had 12 runners but I played it OK and I think this is a very good game. You will not find a better quality £5 Tournament anywhere on the internet IMO. Kept on being continuously rivered by OCTOBER and Markzz and had to lay down a few steals as my hands were bobbins. Was basically in a race with Stevie to see who would bubble and he was unluckily rivered by Markzz. Markzz took me out when despite me making 2 pair with J7 he hit his flush on the turn with 44 and I was out in 3rd. Probably for the best as I can't play Forum tourney tomorrow anyway. GG all, wp.

IMPORTANTLY THOUGH I ENJOYED BOTH GAMES AND AM ENJOYING MY POKER AGAIN BECAUSE I AM NOT PLAYING IT THAT MUCH.

Flashmobbed

Didn't mean to play any poker yesterday but got back at about 11:00pm and noticed Dibble was trying to start a $10 game. No Betfair at the moment so I registered as "Network" on my Littlewoods account. Meant to keep quiet about it but Stevie sussed out who I was.

Good game and as it was my only game yesterday I thought I would log it on here. Limped in with 66 in early position and hit a set but didn't like the 2 hearts on show and being first to act made a token bet of 60 and got 2 callers. Reckoned the turn was no help but thinking the other 2 were drawing I bet out 300 and Dibble called. The river was a heart and even though I was 98% sure I was beat I bet out 150 (Helps to stop bluffing I reckon) and Dibble minimum raised me. Knew I was beat but the raise was perfect as I would have folded an all-in. Dibble was also on a straight draw as well as a flush draw so had plenty of outs.

dealt to Network [6c 6h]
Network: calls 15
Buffett: folds
ajcairns: folds
MM29: raises to 30
Trekkkkie: calls 30
tc34: calls 30
shalimah: folds
jack high: folds
snap: folds
Network: calls 15
----- FLOP ----- [6d Kh Th]
Network: bets 60
MM29: calls 60
Trekkkkie: folds
tc34: calls 60
----- TURN ----- [6d Kh Th][8s]
Network: bets 300
MM29: folds
tc34: calls 300
----- RIVER ----- [6d Kh Th 8s][3h]
Network: bets 150
tc34: raises to 300
Network: calls 150
----- SHOW DOWN -----
tc34: shows [Qh Jh] (A Flush, King high)
Network: shows [6c 6h] (Three of a kind, Sixes, King high)
tc34 collects 1522 from Main pot

I then doubled up to 600 when my AK hit on the river to beat Shalimahs QQ and doubled up again when my flush and straight draw hit on the turn to beat Treks top pair Ace Kicker.

Then nothing, hardly any playable hand whatsoever until I had A5s on the button and raised for 50% of my chips, 1 caller (which I didn't want) and flop was awful so folded.

dealt to Network [5s As]
jack high: folds
snap: folds
Network: raises to 650
MM29: calls 550
tc34: folds
----- FLOP ----- [Th Kh Qd]
MM29: checks
Network: checks
----- TURN ----- [Th Kh Qd][7d]
MM29: bets 926 and is all-in
Network: folds
Returned uncalled bets 926 to MM29
MM29: doesn't show hand
MM29 collects 1500 from Main pot

Was out a few hands later when I moved all in UTG with A4s (blinds were about to cripple me and ran headfirst into AK suited. Good game all.

dealt to Network [4d Ad]
Network: raises to 654 and is all-in
MM29: folds
tc34: folds
jack high: raises to 3180 and is all-in
snap: folds
Returned uncalled bets 2,526 to jack high
----- FLOP ----- [Tc 9h 7c]
----- TURN ----- [Tc 9h 7c][3s]
----- RIVER ----- [Tc 9h 7c 3s][8d]
----- SHOW DOWN -----
jack high: shows [Ks As] (High Card Ace)
Network: shows [4d Ad] (High Card Ace)
jack high collects 1508 from Main pot

I shall be back as Doob for the Flashmob game on Sunday evening.

All In......and All Out!

OK so the bad beats are still happening. Am now playing very small stakes and it isn't actually bothering me to much. I am really confident that this will change and therefore will carry on playing $2/$3 STTs on Blue Square and £1 STTs on Littlewoods until this changes. You've heard the so called bad beats before but I'm having so much trouble with AK/AQ against Ace Rag that I'm totally unmoved when the rag hits the flop.

But maybe I am doing something wrong. I'm quite a tight player but very aggressive when I think I have the best hand. So I maybe need to stop playing AK/AQ so aggressively, when I have the nuts no need to raise all-in? Let's have a look at the river card first. Is it dangerous? Maybe these players who have a great record in MTTs get that record by hardly ever going all-in in the 1st few hours, so that they can take the odd bad beat but still come through and cash.

It may not just be bad luck, maybe I have to change my game?