Rocks or Loonies

Nothing in between, nobody attempting to play poker, too many people multi-tabling on cash, taking forever to decide whether to fold for 25p, never playing a hand for about 10 rounds, then raising, some muppet who hasn't been concentrating (no not me for a change) calls, hits top pair and then loses all his chips to AA.

I mean David Blunkett would have noticed that this guy was tighter than a ducks arse so why doesn't Kermit the Frog realise?

And then there is Daisy_D, calling for all her chips when she held 24 on a board that was showing QQ8 (no flush draw). It just annoys me, is she mentally ill? I don't like it, it's just wrong. After her 5th reload I had to leave, it was too painful. Still it was OK because according to her "at least she was pretty". Undoubtedly it was a bloke called Derek, a 20 stone IT Analyst from Reading who was subject to a care in the community order!

I have won over $400 dollars at cash poker since starting at Sun Poker but I hate it. I love tournies but I'm really unlucky at them and the 6 paks drive me insane!

I need a break from proper poker, bring on the 10pm Thunder :)

More Flashmob Woe

Hot on the heels of my 2 outer on the river last week I manage to capitulate after only 15 minutes again this week to go out in last place.

JJ beaten by 99 (Although I played it badly still hit on the turn)
AA beaten by 53 suited (Raised pre-flop UTG, got a call and knew I was beat, just knew it. Tilted my last few chips away when the flush hit on the river, although Nibbles had trip 3's on the turn)

It's frustrating because it's the only tournament my mates check. What is the point winning on cash, I want the glory, I just want a bit of fucking luck in a MTT so I can say I've won something. Cash continues to go well but so what, it's just money and to be fair to me means very little.

BFWCOP 2

Got to the hotel bar at about 4.30pm to meet all the Flashmobbers. Top blokes and blokettes all of them. Said hello to various other people who I hadn't seen for a year and got to Big Slick at about 7pm. Team game went off late.

Tight table consisting of Callarock, Fishrock, War Of Arock, Ovalrock, Doobrock, Dpommo, Hiwayrock and Toshirock. We were the last table to lose a player. Dpommo on my left however was getting restless (He had cash games to play) and for the 3rd time in a row he minimum raises blind UTG (I'm obviously in the BB). I crack, call all-in with QT and he has K9. I hit my straight and that was really it. No great play just decided my odds of a race against Dpommo was good odds. Probably didn't win another hand but finished 3rd, good game. Callataxi played his usual excellent game to win.

Had 2 cooked breakfasts in the morning at hotel and Fiveways greasy spoon and arrived at Big Slick at about 1.30. Knew it would start late.

My table consisted of ..... re-raise, hiwayman, jazzy jon, waheyyy, Estelle, manwell (Tighter than ajcairns and MC Roller combined, oh yes) and Wonky Jim. At various other times Doobs, kpnuts, Big Phil and dacdacdac (big man, bigger headphones) came along to generally outplay me.

For the 1st few hours I flop various flushes and straights and sets and get absolutely no action and then Manwell who had been folding for England for the past 2 hours minimum raises UTG (Just show that high pocket pair man), I have JJ on the button so for 400 it's worth seeing a flop and folding if it is no good. Flop is KJ9 of spades and I have a set but its not a flop to slow play, Estelle (BB in the pot for value) checks, manwell bets 500, I raise to 1500 and Estelle is gone and Manwell just calls. Surely he plays KK stronger than this? The turn is something low and red and manwell checks so I fire in my last 6000 chips. Manwell thinks for a minute, folds and shows AA (including a spade). Incredible, I couldn't have folded that but a good fold, I would just dream of my opponent having AK and call.

More cards were played, I was all-in a few more times without calls but was generally losing chips and I was left with a mere 8,000 chips (Blinds 1000/2000) at the end of the 2nd break. I wasn't looking good, 1st hand after break I get AQ in the Small Blind and despite Deejays raise they are all-in, Systems calls from the BB with KQ and Deejay shows 77. Four rags but an Ace on The River trebles me up.

3 tables left now and I have approx 30,000, UTG is all-in, he has me covered and I have AK on the Small Blind. Call, no idea what the community cards were but there wasn't a 9 and the bubble breaks soon after and I have 66,000 chips and 17 players left at 3rd break. Not a huge stack only 11 BB but I don't last much longer....

AQ on the BB, VeraPera raises from the button, it's me against her and I push, she may be trying it on, she may have ace rag. In fact she has 88 and calls, I miss and am out in 15th. £100 though, my 1st ever cash in a live MTT. Good stuff enjoyed the game immensely, no hardluck stories.

Played a £30 STT and won it, Ariston was on it being his normal self (good laugh, didn't mind him at all) and I got some nice hands when he was going all-in blind (along with Spudy and re-raise). Loved the time VeraPera raises, ariston re-raises and then as she is thinking about he shows her AA. Maybe I should play poker in a T-Shirt 2 sizes too small for me :) Didn't mind though, summed up the weekend, it's just a laugh, it's not the bloody world series.

Milton / Sean: I am really sorry I did not stay around until the end, it was really attritional poker and well played to you for having the stamina to play that way at 3am. I could not have done that. Well played to you, really well done.

I can't name everybody because I can't remember everybody, you know who you are, you are all bloody nice people.

FUCKING TOURNAMENT POKER!!!!!!

You know I read alot of other blogs, full of people bragging about winning all these STTs/MTTs claiming what great fucking players they are. Well let me tell you, I'm as good a fucking player as you, I play position well, I'm not afraid to get involved in a pot and I make a huge number of correct decisions.
But I'm forever being fucked over in STTs.

And on these other blogs you hear about people who doubled up, HOW THE FUCK DID YOU DO THIS? You must have won an all-in. What is this amazing fucking secret about being ahead when the chips all go in and winning. Because I seem incapable of it.

And another good one is "Raised a few pots with nothing, got a few bluffs through". How the fuck do you avoid AA, KK or AK? What is your fucking secret?

And the blinds get big, how the fuck do you stop yourself getting dealt 92, 84 or J3. What fucking amazing skill are you using to continuously get dealt pocket pairs/ AK/AQ????

And don't fucking patronise me by posting PMA, but a bunch of crap that is. Said by lucky people in my opinion!

Basically this rant is due to playing 6 $10 Sixpaks against some of the worst poker players ever. And I cashed in none, Came 3rd 4 times. Every single game played perfectly, no mistakes, just being continuously raped.

Cash is profitable but dull, I cannot play cash but I haven't won a STT in about 30 attempts! I'm just so fucking unlucky at it.

It hasn't changed my mood for BFWCOP, I'm really looking forward to it and it will be great. However I will bust out of both tournaments early because it's a complete waste of time even trying.

Pre BFWCOP Thoughts

Well apart from my 3rd in the flashmob game 2 weeks ago my MTT play is running as bad as it ever has. So I go into BFWCOP Team game feeling a bit of pressure because I don't want to let my team mates down. My lack of confidence in tournament poker is showing up in my play though so I'm afraid I probably will cock it up. Apologies in advance, I shall buy all the fine little flashmobbers (How patronising is that but everone says it) whatever drink they want as way of saying sorry.

And anyway they had their chance to get rid of me a few months ago when I went through a run similar to what dibble has gone through.

Main game on Saturday, anybody can win this inspite of what the "names" say. Only bet matched so far is £30 on the Field at 1.7. I think this is good value even though I wanted a bigger price.

Cash continues to go well though, mainly playing Omaha High and High/Low. Quite a few idiots at the low levels and for the moment they are not getting rewarded. I'm sure this will change soon though so I'm not moving up the limits just yet.

COME ON THE FLASHMOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!