Road to MTT domination...

[youthnkzR]

SCOOP Results:

SCOOP 2 M - ($215 $1M GTD) - 19th for $3724 ($250K FTW)
SCOOP 18 L - (10 Max Shootout $100K GTD) - 916th for $70
SCOOP 22 M - ($215 $1M GTD) - 113th for $1362 ($250K FTW)
SCOOP 24 M - ($109 NLHE / PLO Mixed $100K GTD) - 88th for $322
SCOOP 31 M - ($215 Knockout $500K GTD) - 149th for $680
SCOOP 41 M - ($215 4Max $350K GTD) - 175th for $540
SCOOP 42 M - ($215 8Max $600K GTD) - 108th for $978 ($170K FTW)
SCOOP 43 L - ($109 Main Event $1M GTD) - 176th for $1083 ($230K FTW)
SCOOP 43 M - ($1050 Main Event $2M GTD) - 245th for $2625 ($635K FTW)

So... This years SCOOP has been a mix of emotions. On one hand, I feel I've played really well in my first ever SCOOP - the event structures were incredible and i ran pretty good. However it's been slightly frustrating going so deep in a lot of events only to bust close to the big scores. I guess i can only gain experience from the series though and can take comfort in the fact i can actually play poker to a decent standard when the structures are so slow - Just need to go one better in the WCOOP later this year and win at least one of the fkers!

Hope everyone else has done well this series!

[youthnkzR]

End May - Present (12 June 2013)

Well it's been an interesting few weeks - starting with the ISPT.

I had no intention what so ever of playing ISPT Day 1's - A lot of the time i wasn't regging MTTs when they were starting / If i was regging i already had too many clients up and the pc was lagging...etc so therefore made the decision not to play. A couple of days before i realised the overlay would be pretty massive therefore decided I'd buy in Direct (however i would flick in the last regular online Day 1). Sold a package for the Direct buy in and then ended up making it through the online Day 1 with 120k in chips (2.4x average stack of a DBI).

I traveled down to the ISPT with a friend (Scott Margereson / Aggro Santos on stars) and made it in good time even after all the messing around with the hotel / trying to find parking (nightmare). Starting table was absolutely incredible. We were playing 5 handed + 1 short stack sat out. 2 of the Guys were french / nobody really seemed to have a clue other then a guy who seemed competent to my direct left (however he bust pretty early on getting his chips in, in a pretty surprising spot vs top set). My table then got slightly tougher mid way through day1 when Jenbizzle (a guy who has previously backed me) got seated to my direct left along with Matt Perrins (i think). After 2 orbits I had already been cold 5'd by Jenbizzle. We both just burst out laughing because we knew each other was FOS, i folded and showed my 4 high and he showed a 9... marv. We then got a lot of chips via a woman who didn't really look too much of an experienced player with   vs   on   to take our chipcount up to 200k or so towards the dinner break. Went for dinner at a restaurant around the corner from Wembly stadium with Scott, Jenbizzle and Carpediem200 on stars (forgot his real name but a real nice guy). Flipped for it - which turned out to be pretty damn expensive and i held which is always nice!

After the dinner break i was moved table and was seated to the direct left of Peter Eastgate and on the same table as Tim Chung other then that a pretty dreamy table. Was pretty surprised to see Peter Eastgate 3x +ing (opening to 3700 @ 600/1200/200) as standard...etc. We only really played one pot where he fired 3 streets on   and i tanked the river for literally 5 minutes eventually called and was shown   . Suppose that's how u win the Main Event. (Gotta say to Eastgate's credit hes a nice guy - really down to earth and was chatting away). Oh and i managed to bluff Tim Chung a few times as well as playing one hand with     really strange where i open, get 2 callers (Tim Chung being on the button and other guy in BB -  i check call on flop and   turn and lead 2/3 pot on   where he tank folds. - Simon Deadman came up to me at the end of the day and said Tim Chung thought i had JJ so pretty close). Anyway we ended the day on 185k and went to the hotel (Scott unfortunately had bust and planned to leave in the morning).

Before going to Wembly for Day 3 I went to book a hotel room for the night with Jenbizzle seeing as Scott was leaving. We then headed to Wembly where again i had an amazing table. chipped up within the first 20 mins to about 210k then the hand happened. 385 left 380 paid. I open   to 3500 @ 800/1600/200 (was just opening everything on bubble) from the Low Jack. Get 3b from an aggro button to 9000. I decide to 4b to 24100 (this size on purpose so he has a decision on the bubble...etc). He flats - immediately think this is pretty strange and feel like he has AA / KK a fair % of the time here as he only looks to have 140k to start the hand. Flop   (pretty good for my hand) we lead for 17200 (to try induce a raise) which he obliges by making it 37k. We announce all in for ~200k and he calls within 5 seconds and all of a sudden appears to have 250k. He rolls over   and we don't improve to send me to the rail on the bubble for a pot for 6x average chips. Kinda felt like i got angled a little bit as the guy really wasn't displaying his big chips properly but i took it on the chin as its my responsibility to make sure how much he has. The tilting thing was I'd missed Scott leaving by about 45 minutes and therefore had to get the tube / train home which not only took ages cost a chunk as well (oh and I'd just paid for a hotel room).... grrrrr.

Anyway can't complain as it was an amazing experience and although it wasn't a true £3k field - i really felt that it was similar standard to the Big $55 or similar online.

Moving on..... PLO!

Recently I've started getting into PLO a fair bit. Around 5 days ago i decided to load some $25 PLO purely out of boredom. Soon had spun the initial $25 into $200 so decided to play some $200 Zoom PLO. By that night and from the initial $25 i had moved up through $400 ($2/$4) PLO and was playing $1k PLO ($5/$10) ..... not bad for an $25 Spin! The dream lasted for 3/4 days where at peak i was +$2.7k from the $25 start. My demise was actually pretty gross where i got it in for a ~$2.8k pot     vs   on and bricked everything. Board ran out     so pair of was good to lose the biggest pot I've ever played online. I then went on to lose the remaining $1k or so i was in profit. (Obviously to spin up like this i was so golden in the first place!).

Still over the 4/5 days i made near 10k VPPs to help me on the way to becoming supernova by the end of the year so it's not all bad. Also learned quite a lot about PLO and that I still have degen tendencies which i thought I had got rid of....

End June / July 2013.....

Ahh well even though i was gutted about my dream ending i still have some holidays to look forward too! Am going to Ayia Napa with 5 other lads on the 19th of June for two weeks so am pretty excited about that! We went to Napa last year and it was pretty amazing so my friends decided they wanted to go back. We'll be staying in the Tsokkos Apts (basically a hotel with massive pool parties everyday - looked amazing last year although doubt we'll be getting much sleep!)

Then, funnily enough 10 days after getting back I'm going to.... Ayia Napa again however only for 10 days this time with the girlfriend. The accomodation we've got it a bit 'nicer' then the place I'm staying in with my mates and cost a lot more.... grrrrr (i would have been happy with a nice standard hotel but i was nagged into booking this one)...

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So all in all the end of June / July should be a pretty good time! After i get back poker is getting my full attention for a while!

[youthnkzR]

Bringing diary back for the WCOOP run good. Will be posting sweats here. Hopefully will encourage and motivate me a little as my work ethic as of late has sucked.

[BorntoBubble]

Smash it lad

[tight4better]

Get the fkn lot plz.

[youthnkzR]

today has honestly been the most tilting day ive ever had playing poker. no specific reason im just getting ironed and either bubbling everything or getting owned near the scores.

on a brighter note am currently 14/41 in the $700 PCA sat with 12 paid and 3 $15k packages. only in for $10 so lets win that!

[youthnkzR]

Bust 25th or w/e.

lost A6 < K10 for a top 10 stack with 30 left. Made some back then got 20bbs in BVB with AQ < KK (lol he found kings what a life).

[youthnkzR]

Done chunks on the day. Just managed to bust big162 ~80th. Was 12/85 before these 3 hands:

AJ<K9
1010<AK (for top 5 stack)
99<KK

Worst / most tilting day of online poker in my life.

So much for re-opening diary for rungood! pfft

(Moaning it in!!!!)

[youthnkzR]

eweatherall: wow gaggleokings you can tell your an ace rag player
eweatherall: no skill at all
eweatherall: explains ur stats a lot
eweatherall: pokerstars needs donks like u

Seat 1: big_frae (1919 in chips)
Seat 2: GaggleoKings (7311 in chips)
Seat 3: eweatherall (6811 in chips)
Seat 4: drago1989 (2495 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 5: Dutch_Znix (6752 in chips)
Seat 6: gorgasm666 (4010 in chips)
Seat 7: mossberg1988 (5689 in chips)
Seat 8: benchmarking (2250 in chips)
Seat 9: luckybm2 (3901 in chips)
big_frae: posts the ante 50
GaggleoKings: posts the ante 50
eweatherall: posts the ante 50
drago1989: posts the ante 50
Dutch_Znix: posts the ante 50
gorgasm666: posts the ante 50
mossberg1988: posts the ante 50
benchmarking: posts the ante 50
luckybm2: posts the ante 50
GaggleoKings: posts small blind 200
eweatherall: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to GaggleoKings [ ]
drago1989: folds
Dutch_Znix: folds
gorgasm666: folds
mossberg1988: folds
benchmarking: folds
luckybm2: folds
big_frae: raises 1469 to 1869 and is all-in
GaggleoKings: raises 5392 to 7261 and is all-in
eweatherall: folds [As ]
Uncalled bet (5392) returned to GaggleoKings
*** FLOP *** [ ]
*** TURN *** [ ] []
*** RIVER *** [ ] []
*** SHOW DOWN ***
GaggleoKings: shows [ ] (a pair of Aces)
big_frae: shows [ ] (high card Ace)

think hes mad cos he folded a chop haha

[youthnkzR]

PokerStars Hand #104604508287: Tournament #790798338, $10+$1 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XIV (1500/3000) - 2013/09/25 11:38:52 WET [2013/09/25 6:38:52 ET]
Table '790798338 3' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: panettox (8998 in chips)
Seat 2: neesam1405 (19338 in chips)
Seat 3: flpro157 (37055 in chips)
Seat 5: Talerric (55113 in chips)
Seat 6: GaggleoKings (12026 in chips)
Seat 7: driss832 (10495 in chips)
Seat 8: Jed-Forest (5092 in chips)
Seat 9: Dollysz (16883 in chips)
panettox: posts the ante 300
neesam1405: posts the ante 300
flpro157: posts the ante 300
Talerric: posts the ante 300
GaggleoKings: posts the ante 300
driss832: posts the ante 300
Jed-Forest: posts the ante 300
Dollysz: posts the ante 300
Jed-Forest: posts small blind 1500
Dollysz: posts big blind 3000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to GaggleoKings [ ]
panettox: folds
neesam1405 has timed out
neesam1405: folds
neesam1405 is sitting out
flpro157: folds
Talerric: raises 51813 to 54813 and is all-in
neesam1405 has returned
GaggleoKings: folds
driss832: folds
Jed-Forest: calls 3292 and is all-in
Dollysz: calls 13583 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (38230) returned to Talerric
*** FLOP *** [ ]
*** TURN *** [ ] []
*** RIVER *** [ ] []
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Dollysz: shows [ Ah] (two pair, Aces and Sixes)
Talerric: shows [ ] (a pair of Sixes)
Dollysz collected 23582 from side pot
Jed-Forest: shows [ ] (two pair, Sixes and Fives)
Dollysz collected 16776 from main pot
Jed-Forest finished the tournament in 8th place
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 40358 Main pot 16776. Side pot 23582. | Rake 0
Board [ ]
Seat 1: panettox folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: neesam1405 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: flpro157 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Talerric showed [ ] and lost with a pair of Sixes
Seat 6: GaggleoKings folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: driss832 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Jed-Forest (small blind) showed [ ] and lost with two pair, Sixes and Fives
Seat 9: Dollysz (big blind) showed [ Ah] and won (40358) with two pair, Aces and Sixes


Wow direct bubble of WCOOP 52 sat.

[youthnkzR]

Yet again I find myself super pissed off after a session of online poker... Probably time to quit but I love the game too much!!

Today started out pretty well with a 4th in a $109 for ~$1k. Then managed to lose chunks all day long since then, until the $2.1k PLO sats started. I entered 2 sats and won a seat in the 33rebuy and came 4th with 3 seats GTD in the 11r (had already won entry so would have been $TD) still cashed for ~$550.

Just ended up busting the $2.1k PLO WCOOP in ~85th with 60 paid. Pretty annoyed as I feel I played pretty well for the most part (what makes it worse is that I 'own dimed' the sats (played them on my own money not on stake) and therefore woulda got the lot ($180k ftw woulda been noice - woulda settled for the $3.8k mincash ). Atleast it was an adventure.

Really hope I manage to sat into the main...

[youthnkzR]

The last two days have been days of mixed emotion tbh (in regards to poker atleast).

Came 2nd in the $109 $12.5k on stars for $2.5k after having a 9-1 chip lead and having the guy all in crushed 3 times (heads up). JJ < 1010 aipf / 56 < J5 on 5610 / A10< J10 aipf, also just managed a 6th in the Hot $33 for ~$2k (had AJ < AQ button vs BB for chip lead which had 8k ftw ).  However we had our 'soul crushed' a few times along the way. KK < AA aipf when 3/10 vs 1/10 in the 109 turbo (~6k ftw) and QQ < AA in with 15 left in the 33 turbo (~4k ftw). Also just had KK < AA in the $700 WCOOP Super Knockout. As for satellites we managed to make it into the $700 [2x chance] sat to the WCOOP main although we did have a brutal start to the day. Came 4th with 3 seats GTD to the $700 PLO HU WCOOP and 6th with 4 seats GTD to the same event. Both times I expected to have seats locked .     

Could really do with winning a main event seat here!

[youthnkzR]

busted 117th with 69 seats when    couldn't get there vs  . If we won the flip we would have been looking likely for a seat

[youthnkzR]

GaggleoKings: raises 18075 to 51193 and is all-in
mandza17: calls 18075
*** TURN *** [ ] [As]
*** RIVER *** [ As] []
*** SHOW DOWN ***
mandza17: shows [ ] (a flush, Ace high)
GaggleoKings: shows [ ] (three of a kind, Aces)
mandza17 collected 148676 from pot
GaggleoKings finished the tournament in 140th place and received $245.16.
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 148676 | Rake 0
Board [ As ]
Seat 1: mandza17 (big blind) showed [ ] and won (148676) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 2: Emilohlsson folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: A1701 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: cre0x folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: liadmo folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: Ric@rdo$V folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: GaggleoKings showed [ ] and lost with three of a kind, Aces
Seat 8: rkruok (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: Pokerro (small blind) folded before Flop

every time I go semi-deep in something with 10k+ ftw atm :@

[youthnkzR]

Wheyyy in the main from a $215 sat. lets win this and forget everything else for the minute!