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Hello

My name is Anthony Gaughan, I am the writer of the thread "Diary of an MTT Grinder Wannabe" and i am looking to sell 25% of myself in the £1070 main event.

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Have been playing NLHE tournaments for the last 5 years as my only source of income and have seen dramatic improvements within the last year. Two weeks ago i came second in the $200k Party $215 for $26k and hopefully this is the start of more huge scores. Only in the last month have i been concentrating on playing as my only focus with university out of the way and in that time i have made the most i have ever made. I hope the trend continues and it could well do considering i have nothing else distracting me.

Below are my poker site names profits.

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Live i have had some decent success in the limited occasions i have played. I played the last £1070 GUKPT offered in Walsall and came 10th finding the field to be soft considering the buy in and enjoying myself in the process. This year i also won the old vic monthly £330 for £5k but they don't track the tourn on hendon, will ask eventually for them to put it up.

My hendonmob profile - http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=124220 (http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=124220)


I will be selling 25% at 1.23 mark up and consider this to be good value considering the good ROI i have proven online, plus this would come in handy to pay for train and hotel expenses as i live in London.

This equates to 5% = £65.80
                       10% = £131.60
                       15% = £197.40
                       20% = £263.20
                       25% = £329

Would have good references from all people i have dealt with on here in the past, f3nix35, pleno1, stuarthopkin, overtheborder, bobalike, greekstein and dubai

On the up at the moment with the nice padding my bankroll has received recently and am looking to take the confidence into crushing the field in Coventry, feedback welcome, cheers for reading.

10% taken via PM

That 10% was for me.

I initially decided against investing, as I'm getting stricter with myself as to value, having learned a great deal about perceived "value" thanks to the recent debates, but then I read the OP again, (which I think is excellent) & could not resist. I am such a wimp.

Good luck Ant, I loved those Online stats.

Paid by Bank Transfer.

5% pls.

PM bank details and I will wire.

Thx, Ed

How is your pokerstars.fr account doing?

ps.fr account - IrishTree Count: 1,264   Av Profit: -$6.42  Av Stake: $37.08   Av ROI: -0.8%   Total Profit: -$8,114   

ladbrokes account is MYYRRRR Count: 118   Av Profit: -$18.98   Av Stake: $56.02   Av ROI: -29.8%   Total Profit: -$2,239   

BarneyRIP on Merge is Count: 155   Av Profit: -$11.79   Av Stake: $47.97   Av ROI: -9.9%   Total Profit: -$1,828   Ability: 63   

Should have put these up granted, i did however fail to mention that these would have been more than made up for on the profits i made from the defunct cryptologic site had they tracked tourns, as i had played there for 3 solid years with will hill and was up $40k+ easily, and also i made a large chunk of profit on the ant040689 pacific account before they started tracking tournaments.

Also plainly forgot to add another ongame skin of:

MehAnt  Count: 477   Av Profit: $17    Av Stake: $42.1   Av ROI: 57.2%     Total Profit: $8,109   Ability: 89   
 

So from the tracked sites and new info there is a negative of about $4000 i failed to make clear upon. I also play on another network i am up around $4000 to negate that deficit but don't want to disclose my name or indeed the site.

If the stakers are peeved by this you can have your stake back, but hope this doesn't prove too much of a problem.

booked, pm sent.

10% left

Hi Ant,

Well yes, those omissions could definitely be construed as misleading, but overall, given your explanation, I'm still happy to proceed.

I don't believe I know you, but I read your Diary, so sort of have a view of you as a person, & I do not think the omission was intended to deceive.

For future reference, I think if any Sharkscope stats are used for reference, then it should include all of them.

Good luck, anyway, & I'm still on board.   

It was a mistake and cheers for the understanding.

Payment sent. VBOL Ant, win it all.

Ed

Thanks, still 10% left.

SOLD OUT, last 10% gone via pm.

Blinds 75/150, utg +1 raises 375, dealer +1 re pops to 600, I'm on dealer with JJ and repop to 1700, utg +1 folds, dealer +1 troops to 4000 and I call.

Flop q44

He bets 4k and I call

Turn x

He goes all in for about 12k into a 16k pot, my head said fold my heart/gut/intuition said he had AK but the reason why I folded is if I was calling the flop, how was 12k into about 16k going to deter me from calling the turn?

I folded and he showed AK and I learned to never go against your instinct ever, even if it is defying sensible logic.

I then got into 3 bet situations with 1010-88 and got 4bet and had to fold and generally kept missing flops until I only had 12bbs at 200/400. I was playing for about 2 hours with a short stack just waiting for a decent opportunity, but was card dead. Remember I use to play my trade with turbos so was very comfortable with a short stack.

Exit hand was me with 12bbs 8 handed in mid pos, James Mitchell utg and table captain raises to 850 at 200/400, my range on him here is any suited connectors 67 and above, j10+ really. I have A8 and reshove all in, folds back around and he calls with A8 diamonds and proceeds to flop the flush to see me out.

Lesson learnt today? Never go against your gut, however absurd.

Unlucky Anthony, standard stuff really I guess.

Dont think the JJ is standard. Don't like the 4 bet pre or the peel of the 5 bet

More info.  Fella on Anthony's right knows original utg+1 raiser.  He has just say down and said "tell me what a bluff is again" to his mate or similar.  Both young, I don't think the 4 bet with JJ was at all bad.

In game I had a pretty strong feeling ant's opponent had ak suited.  Turn was a 2nd diamond before he shoved.  Still folding JJ in play. 

I was referring to the situation, Geo, not the play of the hand.

no antes seems way better to just over-call pre-flop, think it's a slam dunk fold to the 5bet personally. unless we're trying to induce more action from the lighter hands in his range (basically we're just going to call it down on most run-outs try keep his "air" in the hand and betting) but realistically speaking its 75/150 in a deep structured live tournament pre-antes I find it ambitious to think he is actually 5betting without a premium hand here (actually not sure I like it with AKs tbh)

Calling to find out he prolly has KK+ at a later point in the hand and fold isn't the best strategy imo in a live comp where risky plays in the early stages really are too risky most of the time.

UL Ant, defo got a nice live score on it's way not too distant future! and wp on the party score, sick sick !

The 3 bet by villain would be done so light that it is pretty farcical so my 4 bet was fine. The call of the 5 bet was because he minned it and i just found that really odd from a player i perceived to be competant. If that guy had QQKKAA, he flats my 4 bet without making it blaringly obv he has a premium. The 5 bet to me polarised his hand to AK. Flop came down and he bet out quite small, i thought AK for sure seeing as i think he check raises a very dry board and can even get away with another check to induce on the turn with a premium.

The turn shove really confused me, as he didn't have enough to bet to bluff imo and if i am calling the flop i couldn't see how he thought he could get me off so i recalculated to think he had a premium, but i should have just stuck to my guns. Frustrating really because if i make the call i am making a run at the big monies and James Mithcell wouldn't have been left to have free reign domination rights of the table. He was pretty much taking the piss.

I think a lot of the logic is kinda counter intuitive, but I don't wanna de-rail the thread with stupid PHA :P

Rooting for you in the next one :)up

I was the OR in this hand, defo flat the click back. Cold 4 betting just makes the pot way too big, even with position its pretty hard to play JJ. Also you let me come along with my  Ac 2c :p. flop call is standard as played i guess just to peel one. Villian in this hand is pretty tight from my experience. Turn is a snap fold for me. Even though he showed up with AK this time i expect him to have KK+ like 95%+. I said after the hand i fold KK there which is what i thought you had.

My logic needs a massive work over.