Chompy's Recidivist 2010 G Luton League/Scrabble thread

[celtic]

Is it finished already?

[KarmaDope]

Is it finished already?

Was down to 2 tables when I left exactly 1hr ago, so I doubt it!

[tikay]

Is it finished already?

As good as!

[tikay]

Final.103 runners tonight (approx).

[Sighmuns]

Oh well, did my best tonight, no opportunities to chip up really. I'd built a nice image but then Lionel got moved to the table and kind of took over the action . He had a story or two on him though! Facinating guy.


I'll forget to do this if I don't do it now, so here goes. A reminder that for most of you this will certainly be tl;etc, but I'm writing it so the backers will have some idea of the tourn.

Saturday:

Tournament one started OK, I was playing good balanced poker, not getting involved out of position, keeping the pots small. It's quite a good structure really, I just took my time and chipped up quite nicely; I had my old mate James Miller to my left which I wasn't really looking forward to poker wise, but I'm pretty sure he was completely card dead, and when he did get a few cards he seemed to limp or just flat, so I didn't have to tighten up too much. I don't really remember many specific hands from the first stage of the tournament, though i must have won some medium ones. There was one hand I led into a pot with a flush draw and bottom pair, got two callers, hit the flush on the turn and checked, with two checks behind me. The board paired on the river, but I value bet about 2/3 of the pot and got two callers, taking it down. I tend to dwell a lot more on the hands I lose in my mind, unless I make a mistake in one that I win.

Eventually my first table broke and the tournament went down to two tables. I had a healthy stack of 20-25k, above average at the time I think. My first hand at the new table I sat down under the gun and found   and 3x'd. Graham Rogers was sitting directly to my left and had a dwell up. We had been on the same table before and i'd raised him a couple of times and he'd dwelt up every time, so I gave him a bit of banter, playing up to me 'raising him a lot' on the other table. G-Man eventually reluctanctly folded and it folded around to the button, pretty much the only man on the table who covered me, and he shoved! I actually went into the tank for a little while before calling; I was looking for any reason to fold and preserve my tournament, but realised i'd never played with the guy before, so the hero fold wasn't really an option. I called and was shown    . Unfortunately the board came something like 34567 for the straight on the board and we chopped it. A couple of days before, in the Thursday tournament, I got some chips and was able to dominate my tables, I would have been hopeful of doing the same if I won that pot, but it wasn't to be.

After that pot my cards dried up completely. I still had my concentration, I was constantly looking for spots to pick up chips. If I am going to put chips into a pot I, as most of you suspect, don't need a premium hand. I was looking out for people who gave up their blinds easily or people who seemed to be raising a bit too much, but didnt find many spots at all. If I find a suitable situation then i'll check my cards and decide; if I'm very sure about my read and think that it's very likely a person will fold, literally any two cards will do. Unfortunately you don't find many of these situations, and I give myself a card requirement of at least reasonably connected for the 'might be a good spot' reads. All I was finding on that table were basically, 'don't really like this' spots, and I must have picked up Q2 10 times, so I found myself blinding down slightly. More accurately, I stayed at the same stack, as I got moved an hour or two later to the other table, and I still had 20-22k.

I started picking up cards immediately on the other table, but the blinds were now 800/1600, so I didn't have many options available. I won a hand (with AJ i think?) shoving pre, bringing me up to about 25-27k then lost one, in which I raised from EP with AJ, got two callers and didn't follow through on a reasonably dangerous flop. Thinking back I think shoving pre might have been the best option, but at the time it seemed quite a lot having been grinding 20k for so long. A few orbits later I was back down to 20k, and shoved UTG+1 with   , was called by AK and didn't bink. The table was 7 handed at the time, so i had 5 people to get through with the shove, but I thought quite a lot about it afterwards and think I should have folded. It's right on the line imo, AQ i definately shove, AJ-A10 I'm not so sure. Anyway, a disappointing 13th, and straight into another tournament.

[Sighmuns]

Saturday x2:

I really never got going in this tournament. I was tired and a bit annoyed from getting so close in the first one, but was determined to get a good start and try and build up as many chips as I could. We were using the old school plastic chips which brought back good memories, and I had my old drinking buddy Ian Wilmott to my right, which is always fun. Unfortunately once again I couldn't drink, as I was driving, as drinking might have helped ease the pain. The first time I entered a pot was to raise it up in position. There had been 3 limpers at 25/50, so I made it 300 from the button. Under the gun folded to my raise, then UTG+1 minraised. Then UTG+2 re-minned. I folded, they checked it down and showed A4 and Q9 (i think).

Aside from the min and re-min weirdo twins I had a young guy who had decided that I was the loosest player in the casino and decided to call every one of my raises. He'd done this about 3 times (I think every time I'd raised), with me winning 2 and him 1 as I remember, when I raised   into his big blind. He called, obv, and the flop came down   . I fired a continuation bet and he called, which I couldn't take much from as he'd been calling me so liberally.   on the turn was a complete blank, so when he checked to me I fired a second bullet, leaving myself a nice 3/4 of the potential river pot in my stack to shove on the river; if he called I had to assume he had a jack. Something like a   hit, I put my last 800 in. He called hesitantly. And showed   . Yep, that's good mate. Rebuy please.

Saturday's x2 tournament is a £30 entry with 1 £10 add on and 1 £10 rebuy. Once I'd taken the rebuy I tightened up immensely- I had no desire to bust before the break- I needed that add on to be competitive. I ate some food and chilled out, made the break with around my starting stack of 3000. Soon after the break I got moved to another table, managed to reshove twice and started getting into the tournament. Unfortunately, 20 mins or so after I joined the new table it got broken, and I was right back at my first table. Sigh. Soon after joining it I got involved in a big hand with the 95 guy: I think I defended his raise from the BB, and the board came down 567. I led into it (with 10J i think), and he called. I assumed at the time that he had overcards and was calling to catch one, so the 8 on the turn looked like a very good card for me. I check raised him all in and he snapped me off with A9. Shite end to my second-least favourite tournament of the week.

Which leads me to the most disappointing tournament of the week, Sunday.

 

[77dave]

Pls dont tell me you believed Lioniels stories

[Sighmuns]

I had very high hopes going into Sunday's tournament- I had a whole week of poker behind me, so there were no lack-of-practice excuses anymore, the starting stack was generous and structure was excellent. All in all if I didn't get unlucky I felt like I should have been final tabling. So what went wrong...

It's actually quite hard to write about it, I was furious with myself afterwards. While the Sunday structure does, in my opinion, leave quite a bit of room for some fishing near the start, I had learnt through the week that it's important for my game to be at least at starting stack reaching the break. A lot of my chip accumulation comes from having room to manouver, so having people covered is optimal. The massive implied odds of entering pots with unexpected hands like low suited connectors/small pairs really comes into effect when everyone has 10k stacks.

The earliest pot that I remember clearly was raising it up to 150 at 25/50 with 78 from the cutoff and getting calls from the Blinds. The flop came down J10x, and was checked to me. I fired something like 375, the SB folded and the BB shoved. Yep, he shoved 10k into a 825 pot. If I had just ONETIME been raising with the J10 instead of the 78... sigh. I looked so shocked that Mr BB felt the need to show me AJ when I folded, like it was some kind of an explanation. "I knew that I was winning now, so I didn't want you drawing", was the classic line offered. The guy in question began limp-calling every pot, so I made up my mind to isolate him with a wider range than usual, seeing the potential for winning a monster pot against him. At one stage I lost a few K to him when I'd iso'd him pre, CB on an AJ high flop and fired a second bullet on the turn. I decided to hold fire on the river, realising I'd seen nothing up to this point in his game that suggested he was capable of folding ace rag to a three barrel, and he showed me J10, for second pair that picked up a flush draw on the turn. Maybe it would have got through, but I still doubt it.

The next memorable hand was re-raising Sir Donkey's EP raise with a low pair where I should have flatted. I remember that I was about to flat, then decided that raising was better than calling- unfortunately I failed to make any kind of plan to back my raise up with- I hadnt worked out what Dean was small-raising with yet (he'd done it a few times), and literally once my CB had been called on a Q high board I was lost at what to do. I folded the turn, kicking myself and leaving myself with about 4.5k, a terrible start.

After that I decided to tighten up and only play premiums for a while, just hoping for a nice spot to find a double up. I guess I got impatient after a level or two, and picked a shitty one. The first premium hand I found after I got short was the   . Limp call man limped, I 4x'd, Dean called from the button and Limp call man called. The flop came down 688 (I think...something equivilant anyway), LC guy checked, I decided I couldnt afford to raise-fold, so checked over to Dean, who bet about 2/3 pot. LC man folded, and I made some kind of spewtard insta-decision and shoved, Dean snapped with a trickily-played KK, and I was gone. A few things make this terrible from me. At the poker table I think it's very important to have a plan during hands- sure you can change any plan you have, but if you do, there has to be solid reasoning behind it. There wasn't in this case. It was more frustration at how things had gone than actual judgement; I guess the limited thinking was that Dean doesn't often have a 6 or an 8 as I've been tight for so long, but he 100% would call with pretty much all pairs, and I don't think I'd convince him that I'd checked-shoved a high pair myself, so i'm pretty sure he's calling a lot.


ANYWAY. This is the end of the 10 tournament mini-marathon. It's been fun getting back to the G, playing lots of live poker and seeing you guys and the G dealers again. I appreciate the faith you backers had in buying into the package, and I'm sorry I didn't turn a profit for you. I think all-in-all I ran a bit under EV, but I definately could have played better, at least in a couple of tournaments. I'm going to sit down tomorrow or the next day and look into how much of your money you guys are due and i'll be in touch about getting it back to you. There are a couple of quite big tourns coming up in Malta which I was looking to play, so there may be an opportunity to re-invest it in search of a bigger payout, or of course i'll ship straight back to anyone wants it.

[Claw75]

Ship the Tossers Tuesday points to claw, luther  and ManBag please.

nice try Grandad.  Tikay busted the final table short of the cash.  I managed 3rd biggest tit, Loofah 4th

[GMan]

Bink me a seat for the £150 at cicrus.

No seat for USA managed to bad beat him yes me after he didnt want to to a bubble saver////.....

[Claw75]

Bink me a seat for the £150 at cicrus.

No seat for USA managed to bad beat him yes me after he didnt want to to a bubble saver////.....

did you fist-pump, whoop and do a little dance?

[Snatiramas]

Bink me a seat for the £150 at cicrus.

No seat for USA managed to bad beat him yes me after he didnt want to to a bubble saver////.....

did you fist-pump, whoop and do a little dance?

whilst screaming one time like a lunatic and hollering Yeah!!! at the top of your voice. More importantly what were you thinking when you got up from the table???

[Chompy]

Name                 Played Won  2nd  3rd  Other   Pts      Score
Greg Sighmuns        20     4    0    1    2       95       4.75
Tightend             28     3    2    3    3       113      4.04
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Celtic               42     5    1    1    6       154      3.67
Sir Donksalot        51     4    3    2    7       184      3.61
G-Rodge              56     7    1    2    11      187      3.34
Tikay                34     3    1    3    2       101      2.97
Claw                 50     4    2    3    3       144      2.88
Boer Wars            106    10   2    6    13      294      2.77
Winkie               20     1    0    1    4       54       2.70
Chompy               58     3    4    1    7       140      2.41
Jonnyplum            78     4    3    1    10      187      2.40
Evil Edna            120    8    3    4    11      285      2.38
Simon G              14     0    1    1    2       33       2.36
China Mug            124    3    4    4    21      277      2.23
Unimaginative        33     2    1    1    3       72       2.18
British Gas          51     1    4    0    4       111      2.18
Rockstar             103    4    4    2    14      224      2.17
LittleRedRidingHood  39     1    1    2    6       84       2.15
Xpressman            79     2    2    4    6       159      2.01
Luther               123    3    1    3    18      225      1.83
Snatiramas           14     1    0    0    1       25       1.79
Pizzled              78     2    3    4    4       136      1.74
Drain Alien          45     1    1    0    7       69       1.53
Alex                 12     0    0    1    1       18       1.50
Handsome Paul        35     2    0    0    2       50       1.43
Lucky                57     3    1    0    4       78       1.368
----------------------------------------------------------------
Nirvana              82     2    1    2    6       112      1.366
Dingdell             32     1    1    0    1       41       1.28

Updated up to and including Tue 21 September

September table
Name                 Won  2nd  3rd  Other   Pts
Celtic               2    1    1    0       57
G-Rodge              1    0    0    2       30
Lucky                1    0    0    1       24
Sir Donksalot        0    0    0    3       20
Claw                 0    0    1    1       20
Tighty               1    0    0    0       18
Greg                 1    0    0    0       15
Evil                 1    0    0    0       15
Xpressman            0    0    0    1       13
Jonnyplum            0    1    0    0       12
Pizzled              0    0    1    0       12
Tikay                0    0    1    0       9
Chompy               0    0    0    1       7
Luther               0    0    0    1       7

Previous monthly winners...
January        Luther
February       Boer Wars
March          China Mug
April          Celtic
May            China Mug
June           Rockstar
July           Evil Edna
August         Xpressman

Scrabble League
Name           Played Won    Lost   Bonus  Pts    +/-     Score
Chompy         27     18     9      9      59     +1204   2.19
TightEnd       10     7      3      1      21     +156    2.10
Clawbird       2      1      1      0      2      +21     1.00
Lucky          2      1      1      0      2      -14     1.00
Evil Edna      14     5      9      0      10     -330    0.71
Nirvana        4      0      4      0      0      -116    0
Sir Donksalot  1      0      1      0      0      -161    0
Holdyfoldy     2      0      2      0      0      -211    0
Dingdell       4      0      4      0      0      -701    0

Wow! Tits wherever you turned last night. More than you could shake a stick at. In fact, 38 of them, all away from the milk bottle tops for a few hours and present'n'correct for Tit Tuesday.
Gregory, sporting his midweek scarf and known for the night as Crested Tit, didn't get very far after enjoying the fantastical stories of Lionel Lake, aka The Flaumster, aka Long-Taled Tit.
TV'S Tony Kendall thought he had it sewn up but crashed and burned before the money, leaving Luther to come home fourth, one place behind Clairebear.
No sign of Bearded Tit, who was busy watching the mighty Posh get pushed around by Swansea, Muscley Tit or Scotch Tit.

Don't forget, the below tournament, at Circus Circus, will be counting in the league, as there's nothing on at The G

Thursday 23rd September 2010 7pm Start

Winner Guaranteed £1000 Minimum
( No changes to advertized Percentage payouts, Money added to top prize if guarantee not made )

£50 No Limit Holdem Freezeout
8,000 Starting Chips
25 Min Clock
Dealer Dealt

[ruholding]

oh yessssssssssss

one time scott shelley one time

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[tikay]

Most amiable atmo there last night, very relaxing.

The Tuesday Comp plays most oddly - 1,500 chips x 3, with the need to lose half the 1,500 before the next tranche can be taken.

My Table included Lionel & Snati - try getting either off any hand! - & a lovely, really lovely, Indian lady in full traditional dress.

I don't think she'd ever played Live Poker before, & it showed, but she never stopped smiling, despite knowing she had made a bit of a fool of herself with the plays she attempted to make. She laughed at herself, & smiled non-stop. She lasted about 20 minutes, all three tranches of chips had gone by then, & exited with great dignity, then railed her Hubby (or Son) for the next 4 hours. So nice to see people enjoying their poker that much, & knowing they are hopeless, but still enjoying it. She'll always be a winner.

She tried to make it 200, but made it 1,100 by mistake, & Luther was on it like a shot, & shoved for 1,400 or whatever. Now she dwelled, admitting she'd made a mistake, & seemed to be considering a fold. None of us could say a word, but we are all thinking - "you HAVE to call!". Eventually, she dos, gets beat, & still smiled wonderfully.

The table dynamic took some getting used to. Level 1, my BB, EIGHT Limpers, so I shoved for the full 1,500. Almost predictably, Lionel snap-called, so eagerly in fact that he did so out of turn, & proudly tabled his A-6. My 8-5 got there though, to much bemusement.

And so it continued, poker as I've never known it.

I got moved to genuinely THE easiest Table I have ever sat on, & stole completely at will, aided by Aces x 4, & Kings x 1, in less than 2 orbits.

Damon D'Cruz (sp) was a most welcome returnee, accompanied by a splendidly handsome young chap, very well-mannered - perhaps his son? I made him welcome by busting his Aces, & someone's A-Q (he hit trips) in a 3 way coup by turning a straight with my crushed A-K. Welcome back Damon!

I sat next to a Gent who I have vaguely known for years, who turned out to be a long time blonde lurker, & now Poster - "Eso Kral".

The name "Eso Kral" derives from the Slovakian for Ace (Eso) & King (Kral). There, a little knowledge for Tighty to absorb. Anyway, Mr Eso Kral is a terrific bloke, & a very tidy player indeed, who knows his way round a poker table pretty well.

The Final started at about Midnight I think, with the Average Stack 8.5 BB's, soon to be 6 x BB, so it was a shove-a-fest. Despite 5 short stacks, I just decided to keep shoving, but Claire Great Tit (singular, take note), to my left, caught me good & proper.

Good fun, & I may try again this evening.

I have Badged Tourneys in my name on SP 4 nights a week with a sort of semi-obligation to try & play all of them, in addition to my other responsibilities at SP, but I need to try & balance things up a bit, so tonight is a very tempting possibility.

Even more tempting, Chomps has just texted me suggesting I play tonight's £500 at the Vic, but I have already got a horse in that, albeit a complete no-hoper.

Decisions, decisions.