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As you may know my form's been great. February 2006 has been my best ever month both online but particularly Live.

 Figures are immaterial but its been a huge confidence booster as I have worked hard at my game, very hard and put in the hours both playing and studying to improve from a decent part time player into, I hope, a consistently profitable full time player. Confidence is especially important to me because, unlike in a lot of other areas, I do lack a bit of natuaral confidence in my poker game.

This study and aim to improve is partly out of necessity and partly because whenever in life I do something I do it to the full. My bookshelves are full of manuals and texts on a variety of subjects and are testament to the fact that when I have a hobby or pastime, I get to know it well!

Anyway, I wanted to play my rush and wanted a game last night.

I had heard of a good freezeout at The Sportsman Casino near Marble Arch in London which had been attracting some of the Luton crowd.

The Sportsman is a smart upper end London Clubs casino, with a gaming floor and a 60 seater poker room below next to a restaurant. What an experience! A fully comped two course meal for all poker players and staff that pulled out all the stops to make the customer feel wanted.

As I sat eating my Lamb Rogan Josh my spirits rather fell as in trooped a succession of Poker's great and good that were going to be my opposition for the night....

Willie Tann...uh huh. Bambos Xanthos...uh huh....Neil Channing...uh huh....Carlo Citrone....uh huh....Racing Ronnie....uh huh...Ian Woodley....uh huh....Steve Bovis...uh huh.....and on and on it went.

At 8pm 63 of us sat down to the comp, 30 minute clock, 4000 chips and by 2am I was in the final....37k chips against 25k average and still feeling slightly overawed.....

Seven left and a key hand occurs

A player with 30k chips raises to 9k (blinds 1500-3000) and the Small blind goes all in from the Small blind for 18000

I look down at QQ in the BB. Over the top, all in

The original raiser calls. Eek

and we go to the flop with the following hands

 Qh Qd

 6h 6d (raiser)

 8s 8h (small blind)

Get in there


only for me to see an 8 hit the turn and a 6 hit the river

blimey! I was crestfallen and was left with 9k with blnds of 1500-3000 and clearly the shortstack

This is where temperament comes in. A quick count to 20, think of something else, refocus, and carry on. Patience, no chucking it in unneccesarily and recover

To cut a long story short, one double up with Kings and hitting a draw against a pair later I was four handed, and went on to win the tournament. Again, I am not quoting money, suffice to say it mattered!

What got me, and really made me believe that I might have something to offer this game, was when one of the players above, a big name legend, who I shall leave nameless came up to me afterwards.

He had been watching the final table from start to finish as it had a protege of his on it. He asked me my name and said to me

"it was terrific to see you knuckle down and carry on after the bad beat. Many players would have just thrown their chips in on a gamble and gone out next. It was great to watch"

I literally floated home up the M1

Well Done Mr End, the good form continues, long may it do so.  :)up

aye :)   well done babe x

Nice one mate, never mind the modesty though ... have a proper chirp and tell us how much cash you took home :)

Well played m8 coming out 3rd best in that hand would have finished the tournament for me. You are right to be proud. :respect:

GREAT result Tighty. BE PROUD!

The "count to 20, don't throw it in with rubbish" is interesting to me.

I have a good temprement for the game, & don't do tilt after beats, I re-gather & re-assess where I am carefuly & dont do anything rash after a big setback.

But......

In the £300 Final at Walsall last week I took a hell of an ugly beat on a 6 handed table, & was left with 60k, blinds 6k-12k, & the BB due in 2 hands, &, of course, the Button whizzes round 6 handed.

After the Blinds I would be down to 42k max, so I decided to do a Thewy & move in on the first "vacant spot". I did, & I busted out, my Q-7 in horrible shape against AQ.

With hindsight, I wish I'd done my normal waiting trick, especially as 2 of the players were going on & on about a deal. I future, I thnk I will do what you did, & wait a little longer. Thewy seems to have a gut instinct in these situations, & I, very much, do not.

Fair play to you my friend, we are all delighted for you, the wait makes it all worthwhile. I imagine......

Keep it going rich, you're on a roll

Next time you go there they will be looking at you and saying "Oh no, not him, he won it last time he was here"

Nice one TightEnd, well played.

Well done chicken.

T
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Ok, so you've disposed of the "b-team" of poker - but have you got what it takes to defeat the "a-team" at the blonde bash??

Nice job sir  ;applause;

Babe and Chicken !!!!    see what a few cashes in comps does for you, all the women start sending you kisses ....   :)

it was going to take something like that....

Welldone Rich, i hope March is even better 8) 8)

 :respect: now  ;slavedriver;

Woo Hoo!! Well Done TightEnd! You really are doing well at the moment... keep it up, and good luck for future comps!

Poppet x

some line up - well done  :respect: ;applause;

I have just heard that the girlies heads up team at the bash are going to be changing their name to ... "Tightend's Groupies" :D

Great post, good result ...... xxx

Well done mate. It is nice to see a blonde doing so well  :)up

Nice one:)

Nice result there Mr End.

In not too long we can expect to see other un and comers posting stuff like.

"I get sat down and I'm nervous as hell. I don't see anyone  I recognise and start to relax but the seat to my left is ominously empty. I see Tightend walking towards the table smiling.... crap, why couldn't it be Phil."

So any plans to play EPT / WSOP / WPT type events ?

a) Satellites only this year

b) All being well win more on the UK circuit

c) long term, yes want to play these..£ and family commitments permitting

You're just jealous darlin!


T
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Never mind all that Tighty...

TELL US WHAT THE PAYOUT STRUCTURE WAS!!!! :)

Seriously well done though.

The Sportsman is a nice little place - must have been a tight squeeze with the 63 of you.

N1 Tighty good to here one of own doing well keep it up (in a none sexual way)  ;tightend; ;tightend; ;tightend;

Wow - another good result!  Pity this run of form coincides with your absence from Cheesey!

Nice going!

Sheriff

well played fella, and dont dis yourself, when I played in Luton I looked around and thought **** Richard is here, this could be tough.

Well done Tight End, what was the buyin there on a Monday night?

£250. £500 on the first Monday of each month

see here

http://www.thesportsmancasino.com/sportsman_poker.html

Cheers mate.  Is it in the congestion zone?

Fantastic Tighty, Well done mate, good to see you came back after that horrific beat. Now when are you gonna win it again?

yes.....add £8 to your expenses for the night

valets?.....yum!

any other questions?  8)

next Monday of course

If anyone is planning to go, get there early...it sells out by about 7.15pm

Tighty,

If you know the peeps at The Sportsman, can you ask thrm to send us their results, & we will Upload them into the Rsults section. Then we will find out how much you won, as you seem so coy........

 rotflmfao. Will do

about £5000 seeing as you ask.

   Well played m8, nice to see you doing so well. May all your rivers be good ones.


          Best of Luck

VERY nice.

We had to prise it out of him, but nice draw fella.

Approximate payout structure

63 runners

8 paid

33%
23%
16%
11%
7%
5%
3%
2%

percentages may be a bit out, but it was flatter than normal and staff there help negotiate the deals and pay it out direct to players I am told...none of this players having to give other players money after the end of the comp

Gr8 stuff, Tighty.

Keep it up.

That's an order.

If players can't maintain their discipline at the table, then they're always going to find this game an uphill struggle.

Very Very well done fella,

This is some rush you're on, glad to see your hard workin trying to better your game is paying off.

Hope it continues for a long time yet (but im winning the bash tourney 8))


Jim.

great job tighty  ;applause; ;applause;

Tighty- you should be well proud of yourself mate, and all your blonde mates certainly are. Your a classy player, and being full of confidence can only help, keep improving, keep pushing and keep on winning... All the best mate, Matt. 8) 8) 8)

nice work tighty and a great story

Nice going Tighty, sounds like you have a key part of the game mastered there to me.  I struggle very much with it and go from one extreme to the other but one day I'll reach that level :)

Great result on the win, long may it continue.

This is not at the same level but......

I just played a $10 STT on BlueSq and 2 hands in my Kings get crushed by a 2 outer on the river (called me down with middle pair and hit a set on river which i paid off),

Was really angry when i thought to myself "remember Tighty"!!!, so i waited a round and a half and get a double up with my QQ's.......needless to say i went on to win it.

Just wanted to say thankyou for reminding me to be more patiant  :)up

And i hope i will take this post with me into every tourney i play!!

Jim

nice one jim. you may have started a 'saying' i think ill do a tighty.

well done tightend. your king of the hill! hope you keep on winning

mad

I hoped you weren't going to mention me in this tale......but I thought a congratulatory word was due.....

Well done again Richard    :D

gratuitous editing Dingdell.  :D

It was certainly nice to take a certain gentleman's chips with me to the final table   rotflmfao

Well done Mr End, well played and good post.  ;applause;

I was absolutley chuffed to bits for you at Walsall the other day mate, genuinely pleased such a good guy can get what he deserved.
Now i'm just bloody jealous!!

You're absolutely on fire. Hope you can keep the good run going  ;applause;

Well done mate.  Its good to see someone who puts so much thought and effort into their game getting the rewards so consistantly.   Very good recovery from that awful beat, as you say most people would be chucking their chips in with anything after that.   Well I would.....until now!!

Another great result Richard, I'm pleased for you as I know how hard you had to battle through the bad(beat) times.

Keep on truckin' buddy  :)up

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Blimey Rich,

That's the last time I criticise you for playing roullette in the breaks.  :D

It doesn't take a genius to work out that you are seriously switched on when it comes to making decisions of a sporting nature. Your NFL strategy and success is testament to that.

So it comes as no surprise that you are starting to cash in at the poker tables.

Well played,
Mike

nice one tightend.  :)up
I'm now glad you chose to be in my Blonde heads up team.  ;D

 Amazing what a good Curry pre flop can do :)up............great play,great result ;applause;