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Hi guys

I'm looking to spread the cost of some of the events in the upcoming busy London schedule. I've picked out 3 of the midstakes events I'd like to play which are

London GUKPT Main Event £1,070
UKIPT London Main Event £770
WPT-N London Main Event £1,650

I'm looking to sell up to 30% of each event as a package. All events are deep stacked with hour levels. GUKPT and WPT I believe are re-entry events but I will only be entering each once.

I've only sold once before on here which was in this thread http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=58007.0
I ran that as an auction mainly because I hadn't sold before on here and wanted to gauge interest and let the "market" determine what price I should sell at. The auction ended at 1.3 and so rather than run another auction I'm going to use this price. I cashed for $13,187 in the last package which was a loss on the $19,340 cost of the package. This was because there was 1 tournament ($10k PLO) for which the buyin was much larger than the others. Unfortunately not cashing in this event skewed the results but I did cash in 3 of the others to almost get us out and provide decent sweats

Relevant details:
- Name: Karl Mahrenholz
- Hendon Mob: http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=42072
- Worth noting that for the last 3 years I've only been playing semi-professionally and not travelling too much as a result of (1) Starting a business and (2) Buying a house, hence the drop in volume since I was playing full time

Relevant results: (UK midstakes events)
GUKPT Main Events: 1st (Cardiff) 2nd (Bolton) 4th (London) 8th (Thanet) 14th (Walsall)
GPS Main Events: 7th (Stoke) 24th (Birmingham)
UKIPT: Played 1, cashes 0
Other UK Festival events (£300-£1000 buyins): Multiple wins, finals and cashes (see Hendon Mob link below)

For those who haven't played with me my style is probably best described as the classic tight aggressive but with some appropriate curve balls thrown in. I still work on my game a lot despite not playing live as much as I have done previously. I've good access to a wide range of excellent players from whom I try to incorporate different bits of their  game into my own

Whilst I would be the 1st to admit I'm not the best player who's ever posted on here I do offer a very solid track record in these events  and am very confident in my ability to perform well. You also get someone with a spotless reputation built over 8-9 years in poker who is 100% trustworthy and reliable in all aspects. This can (hopefully) be vouched for by many senior/well established members of this forum. There may even be 1 or 2 who might have played with me who might have a good thing or 2 to say about how I play.

So enough ramble.

Total buyins including mark up = £4,537. Selling up to 30% (min piece 1%). 1% = £45.37, 5% = £226.85, 10%= £453.7 etc

Payment by bank transfer or on Encore/Genting much appreciated, if not can take Stars/Tilt

2% by Bank TX please Tall Bloke.

Booked, thanks Old Bloke.

5% please Karl.  Can you pm Bank details.

Booked - PM on way

Sent.

Received - many thanks

3% please.

Cannot send til early next week though.

If that's a problem I'm out.

I can vouch for this
:)

2% pls karl

bank details pls

Booked & No problem. 1st event not until next Friday

I heard they are looking for a replacement for Hilary DeVey - fancy it?

Booked, thanks. PM on way

5% please stars name or pm bank details

If I can nip a couple of million from you. I'm in.

PM me your Coutts bank account details and I'll ship Tuesday or Wednesday.

Thanks - will send PM now

Money and PM confirmation sent ...GLuck

Received, thanks

17% gone, 13% left (by my maths)

1% please m8, can send Stars or bank and my Encore is in £ unlike 99% of people unfortunately.

Bank would be great - I'll send you a pm

Most people with $ accounts have had them changed to £ now, so most accounts are in £ fyi

Thanks

Sent, good luck.

That's good to know about the accounts, thanks.

3pc plz

Booked, ty

Rest please Karl Mahrenlyholz :) 9%?

*disclaimer* only buying on the condition that full details of every curveball is reported.

Sigh, first reserve please

Booked!

Full disclosure of curved balls and associated equity graphs promised

Here he is! Wait longer after the post of "rest" is made for added effect imo

I swear just saw it, was scrolling down thinking i'll buy the rest meanwhilst lil Dave Dave marv. glglgl

never seen a curved ball graph before, needless to say im very excited about it.

Sent

 ;goodluck;

Paid today by Bank TX. Apologies for the delay.

Received. I owe you 26p - will add on to your returns, hopefully this won't make a significant difference!

Not sure I confirmed, but all received thanks

Have changed from day 1b to 1a for GUKPT which is today, amongst theories that it will be the softer of the 2 as travelling pros look to minimise hotel expenses. We'll see - will update on twitter and post here tonight

How did that work out for your table draw :)

All the more painful that I started on such a dream table and then drew the short straw when the late regging superstars needed some fresh meat to get their's going

Made day 2 with 30,500 - will write a mini report tomorrow

Lovely start, well done Karl.

Tough table at the end with that maniac on your left too?  ;)

any curveballs ?

75/150 I open QJo from MP playing 30k. Dan Sampson is the only caller from CO. We've played a few pots together and he's been saying how lucky I am etc, after I got there in a couple of small pots (that went check check on the turn). He then called me down on AKK9 for 2 streets with 33 vs my KJ (in a 4 way pot) and rivered a 3 but that one didn't get talked about for some reason

Anyway flop A42r I bet 400 and he raised to 1100. His style had mostly been calling a lot so a small raise like this seemed a bit odd. At best a weak ace trying to make life easier but more likely an airball than a set. I called and checked the 3 turn. Any 5 is a straight and there's now 2 spades. He bet 1500 pretty quickly. Any hand that's not A5 doesn't make too much sense. I check raised to 4k after a bit of a speech about "hope you haven't hit a 3 again" etc. He tanked for a long time. He clearly doesn't like to fold vs me but was convincing himself I had A5ss or set of 3s. He was trying to say he had a set of 2s but the way he said it wasn't very convincing. To my surprise he eventually called. Biggest moody ever or genuinely being stubborn with something. River was 8d and I bet 5,025. He thought for a long time again then folded

I'm not one for showing bluffs pretty much ever but this particular time really felt like if I did it would "liven up the game" in certain parts and Danny still had a good amount of chips. I wasn't planning on playing too crazy overall (on a tough table) so it seemed appropriate. Some people who had played with me a fair bit before were shocked lol

gowannnn the holzrenholz!!!

Ok quick report on how yesterday went. Started at a table with only 1 player I recognised. Everyone was limping about and having the time of their lives. I won about every pot I played (all small) and was patting myself on the back for a great choice of start day. 1 hour in "I need the big blind from table 5". Off I was to join the table of people joining late. It was ok though, because the Big Blind from table 4 was also coming which was great as I hadn't had a chance to catch up with Sam Grafton for a while...

Sam, Rhys, Mickey Peterson and Luke Schwartz were all lined up to my left and looking around the room it was hard not to feel a little hard done by. That said, this table actually started very well. I got up to 40k by the 1st break, finding a few nice hands and getting paid, knocking out a short stacked Barny Boatman and only putting a substantial amount of chips in with Q high once.

40k was to be my peak. It wasn't that much went wrong but that there was nothing really happening at all. This table eventually broke and while the next one was better I couldn't get going. The 1st time I put a chip in the pot was a 3b vs utg. The big blind found kings and I had to fold. The next time I raised was the last hand of the level. Everyone was getting up for break but fortunately the old guy in the 1st seat who hadn't moved a chip yet hung around long enough to move in and I had to fold again. I did pick up aces before this table broke and the 2 young guns at the other end had once again gone through their raise and 3b routine although neither were interested enough to give me a spin

With an hour or so left I moved tables again. The only playable hand I found was from UTG and I folded to a check raise on the flop. Chips were flying in all over the place but none that I could catch unfortunately.

Tad disappointing not to be able to kick on from a good start but I can't think of any spots I passed up on or what I could do differently. Blinds will be 500/1000 when we go back, prizepool looks like it will be big.

Chipped up to 50k or so (500/1000/100) Willie opens EP 2700, I call CO 22, big blind (old guy who has just sat down completes BB). 732r Willie bets 3,900 and gives me some verbal based on a hand before. Because of the history I had to raise (8,300) as I was pretty sure I would get on. Old guy now moves in for 50k

??

call :)

wiiiiiii QJo flaoting the CR like a geeeeee - a very curvey ball indeed!

Aren't you a little old for that type of play Karl?

What's he got?

Hes only repping 4 combo's and your getting a really good price at just under 2/1. I wouldn't hero fold sets readless in a live MTT, could easily show you JJ+ even A7. I also fold preflop i think.

45 ssssssuited  :)

He had the ak!

Busted unfortunately. Will post up TR tonight

Sorry for delay in posting this up

I started day 2 with 30bb. On the very 1st hand of the day I 3b the button vs a 25bb CO open. He called and donked a QT4cc flop and folded to my jam. (This is one for lil Dave's scrapbook).

Next significant hand I limped SB with QTcc (yay limping) vs what I suspected to be quite an aggressive hooded type. He raised quite small and I called. Flop ATx I check called a small bet, turn T check check, river 5 which completed back door diamonds. I bet and he raised an amount which looked like it was for value and given his turn check back it didn't seem like a bluff at all. Not really a lot I'm beating but I did end up calling and beat T7o

I called with 8s in a multiway pot and the flop came 963hh. Everyone checked to me on the button. I knew if I bet no-one would really believe me for a hand and that I'd have trouble continuing vs a check raise but I think I had to bet here. Everyone folded around to Willie (who was the last person to check to me). He put in a small ish check raise. He had made a few small raises/3bets since we started, most of which hadn't worked. His raise was 5k more and he had about 25k extra back. I was playing about 55k. This was a pretty close decision I think between folding and jamming as even sets I would think he'd bet given there was only 1 person left behind him on a board like this. I ended up folding but am not sure about this one.

A few hands later I call Willie's open with 2s (as described in previous post). I think fold pre may be right. I usually err on the side of calling if it's marginal either way and with 50k I think I can just about call 2700. 3 way to the flop of 732r and as I said before I raised Willie's Cbet and then the BB moved all in for 50k more having me covered. My 1st reaction was that I'm never folding but when I actually sat and thought about it I knew he was going to show me a set. If I had 3s I'd have called in a flash but apart from if he's defended 73 I can't see much else that an old guy new to the table wants to shove his 50bb in with facing an early position cbet and a raise in front of him. Sure some random old guys are going to overvalue 9s or something in this spot but this guy has only been sat down for 2 hands so I've no idea if he would. Most wouldn't, I'd think. Bottom line was 40bb were too valuable to me in this tournament to guess and call off here when my instinct told me I had 1 out most of the time.

I hadn't spoken to him when I made the original post in this thread but he did come up to me in the break to ask me what I had. He said he had 77 and had played it badly. No real reason why he would come up to me and not tell the truth but either way I think I'm happy with the fold

Later I called a raise with KTcc on the button after a raise and call. Flop was KT7hh and everyone checked to me. I bet and Wille was the only caller. Turn was a heart, check check and river was 2c. Willie lead very small and I felt I could still raise for value. This turned out to be a mistake as he had a flush :(

Blinds went up and I didn't find a hand for a few orbits (or there was significant action in front of me). On my final hand the SB (who was new to the table but was big stacked, and seemingly loose/bad) opened and I went with 33. He had ATcc and turned a ten.

Mostly frustrating day where big hands ended up second best. Could have saved some chips vs Willie but it wouldn't have been enough for me not to shove my last hand in any case and I doubt he is folding his AT so results likely the same

UKIPT next week - on to the next one and all that

Unlucky Karl

Thanks for the TR

UKIPT day 1B today

Did another day 2 - this time we're coming back with 41,500 from a starting stack of 15,000

Was a bit of a rollercoaster. I chipped up early and was picking good spots against the weaker players to climb to 50k which was 2.5x the average. I then decided to run a huge bluff against a super aggressive Russian guy which in hindsight was a mistake. He opened 100% of sb's to my bb and the button player was incredibly tight so over the course of the day (stayed on the same table the whole day) this was a significant number of times. I decided to play back once and this must have literally been the one time all day he had a hand and it cost me half my stack. Was probably a bad idea as I won almost 100% of the pots where I called him in position and played post flop. Lesson learned maybe.

Blinds will be 800/1600/200 when we go back so a little room to move although not much. The field is looking massive. I think 100ish got through from the 400 yesterday. Day 2 is Friday.

Good stuff Karl.

I WILL try & reply to that e-Mail today!

Gl Karl.

Busted 200/1100 unfortunately

HJ shoved 12k @ 800/1600/200 and I reshoved A9o which is probably the very weakest hand I'm going with here and lost to AJ

Blinds went to 1k/2k/200 folded to the button who opened to 4k (last unopened pot he raised the button with 52 and had since doubled up). I shoved 26k with KQo and lost to 5s

GL to Ryan who joined my table just before I busted

WPT next

The Italian guy with the 55 spun his stack to around 500k.

Then he decided to cold 4b/6bt jam over an UTG open/5bet with AJo from the BB into AA for a 700k pot at 3/6k.

Played WPT day 1A yesterday. 25k starting stack playing 8 1 hour levels on day 1. Made it through the day with 46,300 going back to blinds of 400/800/100

This day 1 fell into the pattern of both the previous 2. Great start and then unable to kick on towards the end of the day. I knocked out Steve Watts quite early making a light call down in a 3b pot and peaked at about 60k. I got moved table about 5 times during the day which didn't help too much but 58bb into day 2 is ok in my book. Day off today, back at them on Sunday.

Nice start,  ;goodluck; Sunday

Busted in 44th place with 27 paying :(

Got up to 65k quite early which was above average at the time. Then proceeded to lose with AK, 99 twice and KK. The kings were particularly frustrating because after 3 betting the button I knew I would get zero credit but had to fold the river in a spot where I'm never good

Got a few shoves through but busted at 1,000/2,000/300 shoving A8ss over the HJ open of the big stack/loose opener for 25bb. Not sure I'm thrilled with that but it's the absolute weakest hand I'd shove for the biggest amount I'd shove for. I'm not sure AJ would even be an easy call and so he folds a huge % of the time. Not gonna fold Aces though...

3 day 2s but no cashes :( Sorry guys, no one was trying harder

ul Karl...good effort on all .

What a load of rubbish.

Guy on my table yesterday actually 4 bet folded Kings.

Thought you could learn something from that.

My advice to him would be - don't tell anyone.