blonde poker forum

I have decided to jump on the bandwagon, mostly i will be using it to talk about poker and help me focus my game a little more (i am lacking in motivation at the moment) and hopefully improve my results.

I had a blog many moons ago but i failed to keep it going because i tend to rely on feedback and that is minimal in a blog, so hopefully the great blonde mass can help me out!

Right now i am playing all the multi's on stars and later i will write up how it went (i really don't want it to be a BB thread!)

In the meantime though can anyone suggest things that you would want me to write about, cheers.

Learning to be a pilot, and being a pilot.

Your thoughts on life as a pro in general.

General analysis on your tourneys as a whole, just not the end/bad beat!

This is likely to be very interesting and i will read it.

Thoughts on the state of online poker in (a) 1 year, (b) 5 years and (c) 20 years. Regarding the games getting harder, winrates etc.

You will have to excuse me letting out a sigh at yet another diary from one of blondes best posters.

Nice, this should be a good diary.

Write about experiences Sports Betting & Big bets than you are having plz.

More fun & Degen than Poker.

i agree also throw in some of your fave prop bets youve taken part in

When you starting yours?

  next time he wins summat  probs be a while

Do you ever have down time where you just chill or is it all gogogogogogo?  

QFT.

Look forward to the read...do you miss the Tribeca days, there was just something good about that software!

Good god a collection of poker bad beats :) sounds like the worst read ever. Thread needs to be deleted ASAP

i agree

prop bets ftw

will deffo be reading this

Great idea flushy.

I'd like to know how you got involved in poker. Initial deposit etc and how you built it up.

Oh and who would you say is better? You or JP? And why?

good luck with the diary, i'm sure it will be a hit if you keep it updated.

Looking forward to this


How long do you expect to stay in poker full time? Do you ever feel you should/wish you use your qualifications? 

should be a cracking read, looking forward to the bad beat stories.

Flushy tell it all as you see it, rant & rave, don't hold back now!

also interested in your career as a Biggles aviator

You have put on a lot of weight lately..any plans to go on a diet ?

If the Flushy for mod campaign were to become successful, what major changes would you implement to the forum ?

Can you write part 2 of your final blog entry. I don't want to be the sole reason why that blog died :(

Piggy backing on this, after getting your qualification as a pilot, why did you walk away from this as a career?  Do you see being an online poker pro as a long term career?

Your thoughts on players in general..state of play in the UK and the players you  respect and the ones that you consider to be overrated.

Are you looking to ever retire from online poker after winning a certain amount.

If so, what are you planning to do afterwards?

A "bring back tribeca" post is deffo required Monsieur Flushmiester

Wow a lot of responses, i am going to get to all those questions over the next couple of days because right now i am so tired and steamy, lol.

I am still going in 2 comps, the 100 w 1 rebuy on FTP and accidentally reged for the 100 deepstack on stars which is taking an age!


Haven't played on a saturday for months but there was a good schedule today so decided to jump in, the highlights being:

Stars EPT sat
WCOOP 6 max + 2nd chance
FTP 200 PLO
Party 50k

And then all the normal comps, in all 19.

I started quite badly i wasn't playing very good and bust 2 on tilt early including the PLO it also didn't help that i was into the stars 100r for $900! I bust the 300 on stars semi deep same as the 100r the only runs i got on there were in the $800 EPT sat and the $50r.

EPT sat i was going great got an early start played 2 really bad hands with approx 25 left (5 seats) where i did 20k from my 30k stack without seeing a river! I managed to rally and made the final 5/9 so was fairly comfortable when i made a play i think is pretty standard but i could opt to fold. One of the CL's who was opening very frequently opened in E/M i found 99 next to him and with 35k @ 800-1600 decided to jam over the top, now he had approx 80k and was pretty much cert for a seat so i know he is going to call me very tight which is why i think its ok to make this "move" obviously i was wrong and he called with AK hit the A and i was gone! Money back at leas i suppose...

50r, one of my faveourite comps i managed to grind along without getting anything looking anything like a stack, a timely double on the bubble and a few re-steals later i was chipped up when i luckboxed KT vs AQ i found myself in 4th with 18 left. Now came a play i made that i think is a good move but something i don't do often i was comfortably stacked and decided to cold 4 bet 77 you can see the HH here (http://www.pokerhand.org/?3187253) no miracle and i was gone :(

Full Tilt was a complete blank tonight, i got deep in the 300f but no joy

The only other comp was the Party 300f which is so soft its amazing, i managed to pull together a stack with about 30 left and by the time we got to the bubble (20 paid) i had put together a good stack, i made the final 2nd in chips and by the time we were 8 handed i was CL. This however is when the wheels fell off, i found myself short with 5 left after a few cold decks but managed to take advantage of some truly awful play to re-take the CL with 4 left when this (http://www.pokerhand.org/?3187358) happened, the guy was pretty clueless and managed to then call of 2/3rd of his stack with a flush draw on the turn which he proceeded to hit vs my TPTK AK a few hands later, i finally got dispatched in this (http://www.pokerhand.org/?3187391) hand for 3rd place and $5.4 $10k less than the first i feel i really should have managed.

So although i came close to having 2 $15k score i broke pretty much level (buyins for the day $5,442, i have cashed for $6923.9 although i am still in the stars 100f the first is only 2k) these are the days that i really hate it feels like you have done well but when you count up it is just demoralising.

I didn't want to start this off as a moan thread but it seems i have already so i will finish by saying that my 'horse' (Rookie) is chipped up in the stars 50w1 with 28 left, COME ON ROOKIE!

Lolz, you pretty much insta bokked me with the QQ into AA. Tyvm.

Sigh ul mate

Looking forward to this thead, a good read so far.


Is $5k pretty standard for a days worth of MTT buy-ins?

Do you ever find yourself in a final table needing to win it to break even for the day?

I have to admit I have been a huge fan of the flushmeister since my first live game at a p4c event which you won many years ago.

I have tried to follow your encrypted (to me) codes and have tried very hard to improve my game over the years but to be honest I never found any of your posts helpful.

I just wondered if you realised the effect you have on the "aquarium" when you continually down every post on the PHA ...I gave up on there ages ago when you tore me to shreds...I happened to look on there a couple of days ago and no change I see.

So my questions is why do you do that? Also I would like to know how you first got into poker? Did you learn by the book and if so what book first inspired you.

 

Weekends are always more and especially so atm because of the WCOOP, usually i dont play comps like the 100r as the field is pretty clever, at weekends it becomes far more diluted, during the week i am usually in for anything between 2.5 and 4 depending on each days specials and the number of rebuys i have!


Yeah it does happen sometimes, luckily for me though most of the late comps i play all have 10k+ payouts so it easily gets me out.

I am still in this damn deepstack, playing like a loon and trying out some funky stuff though its good fun just 6 bet bluffed a guy post flop :D

Did you show? :)

If he did, he would have to show his big hands as well imo. To balance his 6bet range.

Still 4 of us this is ridic av stack is 100bb!


EDIT: We all saw sense and decided to go to bed, chopped up for $1400+ 7hrs of my life i wont be seeing again!

I can see this as being a must read if I want to improve my poker thinking, but I'm afraid of the cranial damage it'll cause.

So in between pokey stuff, some of the best things about Red's diary is the stuff about him, and his history.  And tikay loves talking about trains, obviously.

So more about Flushy the man, and where he came from, please. Kiddy memories etc.  Obv you were a pilot.  Was that something that just 'happened' or was it a long term dream ? Etc etc.










And ffs no trains, or I'm off.

Please be telling the story of the Bournemouth Roll hand between yourself and Matt Dale  ;) (may also need to explain what BR is!)

This is a tough one, poker online is getting harder people are playing pretty smart these days, even the bad players.

If it continued in this way then i can see the game getting very tough to beat for large ROI's, thankfully though i believe there is a chance of a reprieve of the US law (not as sure about that as i should be seeing as it affects my income) also hopefully and explosion of asian players will really help the game, my worry though is that they will still learn pretty damn fast and will be 4 betting me to death in the near future!

If it all gets to hard i will just have to play live instead, the standard live is just as bad as it was when i first started playing!

I do wonder though what it will be like in 20 years, will it still be so big then? I wonder if this fad has a shelf life?

Yeah i do take a lot of time away from poker (much to the mockery of Moorman) as i don't see the point of making decent money and having a free lifestyle if i am just going to play poker 5, 6 or 7 days a week! Some weeks i don't play at all, if anyone asks me to go do something instead of playing poker then i usually jump at the chance. Tomorrow for example a group of players from the Rendezvous cardroom and the cardroom staff have organised a go-karting trip so we will be doing that tomorrow afternoon followed by lots of drinking it should be a fun day :D

I will through in a good proportion of dog beats if it helps....

P.S. Why did we ever think betting with Channing was a good idea?

Thinly veiled 'I haven't been invited to be in the well yet' post imo

LOL defo +1

What online cash stakes do you play?

Yeah Tribeca is always going to be my home (although the first site i played on was Crypto) i do miss the comps on there i felt i was the daddy on there and would play with sick confidence every time i was on there. Jamie at blue square managed to get the sounds from Tribeca added to the blue square skin of iPoker which was pretty funny the first time i heard them!

I still have this funny pic from tribeca on my PC at the time this was the 'big sunday tournament' funny how poker has moved on since then. Blatant chip lead brag post though obv...

(http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd350/TheNorseHorse/final9.jpg)

Sussed it in one.

I'll delete the invite email I had(n't) got round to wrting

[X] Decide to jump on the diary bandwagon
[X] Hope to make it a big success
[X] Put lots of thought and effort into a thread that could go on for ages and become massive
[  ] Make sure you come up with a catchy thread title and spell it properly

This is something i am very proud of, and the fact i am a winner came about mostly out of luck.

I was one of the LNP generation, my brother father and myself always played card games and upon watching LNP we started playing holdem. We got more and more into it the three of us as did a friend of mine, Andy (it was he who found us Tribeca!) we would play home games all the time. My Father was a top notch Bridge player and his 'partner' was a very good friend of his, Monty is his name and they would spend a lot of time at each others houses one day when Monty's son was down the topic of poker came about and it turns out him and his girlfriend were semi-regulars in the Vic!

Naturally now the home game developed and i still remember one game where i moved in on Adam and he was thinking i piped up "what are you thinking about?" his reply "trying to work out if i have the odds to call" i actually laughed, i was confused surely you just put your chips in there isn't much thinking to this game!

About two weeks later i was in the states doing some flying i was out there for 6 weeks doing 'hour building' (i will talk about flying at some point) anyway there i was bored as hell and my brother told me was playing holdem online, i was very surprised, he somehow managed to win a few quid and booked himself on a flight to Florida to join me for my last 2 weeks.

When we returned i got straight onto this online poker lark, this was Feb 2003, i played for a bit i would put £30 in it would last me a few days then i would reboost for £30, after about 2 weeks i managed to ship the WillHill's Royal Flush bonus for £300 which was massive for me then and it kept me going for a bit, at the same time as all of this we were still playing poker at home and Adam was coming around a fair bit, one time he gave me a book, which i quickly chucked into a corner somewhere, how vital that book may have been....

The next month i started my 6 month "Airline Transportation Pilots Licence" training just around the corner from Tightend at Cranfield Uni. For the first week i was there i had no access to the uni and everyone else in my lectures commuted, i had the major poker bug but nothing i could do about it...until i remembered that book. It was titled "Winning low limit holdem" by the now famous Lee Jones, it told me that J7 was not a good hand etc and i learnt to play tight which was all you needed to do back in those days and it was the reason that Feb 2003 was my only losing month until Feb 2007!

Me or JP, ha you trying to make things difficult! I will answer that but not now as its 5-25 and i need to sort out tonight's schedule!

Same goes to all the other questions, i will answer them soon.

lol ty managed to change it.


Sigh i been caught.

Flushy.

Give three words on how others on the forum may percieve you.

I don't enjoy writing about nits who just seem to always have it, you are so granite it makes me sick.

like the small links to the hands...clever that...keeps a post nice a tidy.

who has got the most annoyed about something you have written about them on blonde?

Good grief. Just when most bloggers realised that `poker' versions of this timewasting excercise where the dullest
on the planet and started shelving them, another self absorbed, ego-maniac, mentally health plagued spiv with too much time on his hands pipes up.
Please stick to non poker material because like awful tv or junk food, I will not be able to resist reading it every few weeks.

SAVE THE GREEN

 rotflmfao rotflmfao

Gotta love him.

Spread the word. Pls.

I had a pretty quiet Sunday on the poker front, didn't do anything but managed to salvage the day by winning a WCOOP sat to the $5k.

Yesterday i went go-karting with 12 other poker players and a cardroom manager from the Rendezvous, i had never been karting before and was the only one to have not been before this somehow made me the target for the day! The problem with this is i am no writing this lying in my bed with bruised ribs and whiplash, between 14 of us we managed to break 2 go karts and set another on on fire!

A blonde day out go karting is a must imo

I have just read on the BBC website that the prelim inquiry into last months MD-82 crash in Madrid has been leaked the findings are summarised here:

The draft report of the investigating committee, leaked to Spanish newspapers, details how the aircraft crashed when it attempted to take off following a brief stop for technicians to correct a fault in a temperature gauge.

The pilots had detected the high temperature as they readied the plane for take-off, having already deployed the wing flaps, the plane's black box recorder showed. They aborted the take-off to get the temperature gauge looked at by technicians, the draft report says.

By the time the plane resumed its position on the runway, the flaps - which make it easier for aircraft to get off the ground at take-off speeds - had been retracted, data from the black box is said to show.

The MD-82 plane is equipped with sensors intended to warn pilots whether flaps are correctly deployed before take-off.

However, the draft report suggests no warning signal sounded in the cockpit before the pilots accelerated the plane down the runway for the ill-fated take-off attempt.

The draft report said that Spanair did not rigorously follow advice from the plane's manufacturers to check the flap deployment warning signal.

Following an MD-82 crash in the US city of Detroit in 1987, which killed 154 people, McDonnell-Douglas (now part of Boeing) advised that flap and slats indicator systems be checked before each flight.

However, Spanair only carried out checks on the system before the first flight of each day or when the pilot and co-pilot was changed, the draft report said.

The pair in control of the plane had already taken it from Barcelona to Madrid on the morning of the accident without incident, and were not under orders to check the systems before beginning their next flight, the draft report said.

Investigators have not released any official statement on the disaster, and Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba told Spanish TV the government would not comment until the investigation had been completed.


This seems to pin the blame on the airlines SOP for not checking the warning light, surely the more important SOP failure would somehow be the flightcrew's inability to go through the check list and deploy the flaps again....

Obviously this is all speculation and the investigation team have made no announcement but if it is the case then it really is a stupid reason to lose an aircraft, i really do hope if it is true it wasn't because the flight crew were cutting corners on pre-flights to catch up lost time from the earlier fault, all to often you hear about flight crews under time pressure from the airlines they work for because the industry is so damn completive, i am all for competitive marketplaces but perhaps in a market where safety should be the first consideration it may not be such a good thing.

I think the rest of this week will be taken up by the WCOOP and possibly at the weekend an appearance at blonde bash.

You have to make it, end off!

Would be good to see you there, glass of red maybe

and obviously more importantly 154 lives!!!

Good to see you've started a diary flushy.Depending on how much your going to give away this could well be the best diary on here poker-wise.I look forward to seeing how it develops.I guess i'll put a question in as well,what would you say are the 3 best tournaments to play on any network for anything upto $200?

You trying to get me banned?


Tough one, i think it calls for its own thread and perhaps a poll?


Thanks Uncle Marty, perhaps if i juiced it up with stories of you running around in a Nottingham hotel with a bra on your head?


Just had a 'light' session, 12 multi's, i was playing pretty bad tbh spewing quite a bit lost a big stack with 45 left in the stars 50r (19k ftw) and came 3rd when i had 1/2 the chips 8 handed in the party super, all though i didn't do much wrong in that. The good news is i was slightly up which means 3 winning days in a row, pretty decent for a mtt'er.

I have decided to take the rest of the week off and i think tomorrow i will invest in a wii, any suggestions of games to get?

The future of insurance giant AIG hangs in the balance as fears grow that it could be the next firm to fold in the wake of the credit crisis.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7620127.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7620127.stm)

Pretty staggering to think a company of that size can be at risk, as the article says they have ASSETS of more than a TRILLION dollars, that's pretty sick!

This hits home especially for me as my family is part of the 'AIG Family' my Father who passed away exactly a year ago was the head of "AIG Global Investment Corp" which he ran out of Chelsea Harbour in London, i do wonder what he would have made about all this credit crisis.

read this

http://peterbirks.livejournal.com/

Such was the superb branding power of AIG's sponsorship deal with Man Utd that, before this week, I thought AIG were a company making stuff like fridges and dishwashers.

Flushy,

If this is too personal, just ignore, but......

You mentioned your late father.

I recall being shocked down at Brighton one day last year when you told me you'd just been to his Memorial Service, (& were thus late for a Tourney at Rendezvous, so I think I bought you in) & we chatted about him a bit.

You never seem to mention him much, (though I know, this is a poker Forum), & there were no outward signs to the wide world that you'd lost your Dad.

Do you miss him?

Did you get on well?

Did/does it matter to you that he is or was proud of you?

What did he think of your "playboy" lifestyle?

These are genuine (if rather forward) questions, & I'll understand if you'd prefer not to respond in public.

I'm just curious about the way youngsters perceive their Parents. There's a reason for my curiosity, but that's another story.

Nice start to the Diary, by the way. Poker Blogs & run-of-the-mill Flop Stories bore me to tears, Hand Histories make my eyes glaze over, but I like to see pokerists "outside" of poker, so many of them are totally one (poker) dimensional & have no abilty to converse outside of poker.

which chat up line is better?

-'I'm an airline pilot'

-'I'm a poker player'

Double edged sword, that one...from a female point of view anyway.

Flushie,

I was at the Gutshot yesterday for the last ever £5 rebuy. It was great fun, as everyone went a bit mental over the rebuys. 

Reevio shortly before the tournament began:

"I'll be taking it easy. If everyone else is going all in every hand, I'll just wait for my spots and keep my rebuys to a minimum"

Reevio shortly after the rebuy period ended, when I asked him how many rebuys he had:

"about 23 or 24."

In all there were 180 runners there and the prize pool was £6,425 with first prize just under two grand.

But anyway, I digress, the reason for my post is tell you that there was a young guy (maybe 18 or 19) there who has exactly the same mannersims as you, also talks a good game and plays well, whom Reevio and I have nicknamed "Junior Flushie." I think his first name is Joe, but it was his uncanny resemblence to you that caught my attention. Beware, you have an imposter.

As long as he is good i don't mind, can just claim his results!

Yeah was thinking about coming up for that Jamie said Dubai was there being as quiet as ever! Do any good m8?

P.S. That is taking it easy for Jamie.

Pilot owns, has a ridic success rate, fun times living in Florida!

Not sure how to answer this post as i don't really want to post up all my personal feelings on an internet forum, i know some do but not really my thing.

I will give you some short answers though and i do not mind you asking, i would be more open in person.

Yes i do miss him, although in terms of him being a regular fixture in my life not really as the last few years the only times i heard from him were when he called me usually drunk leading to me usually trying to get off the phone!

Yeah we got on well, we were both very stubborn which obviously made things difficult at times however i still loved being around him, playing games, talking etc i had a happy upbringing and most of it was spent with my Dad who i greatly admired.

For someone who accomplished quite a lot in a short working career it always puzzled me why he seemed to not care too much about what myself and my brother wanted to do once we completed education. It's not to say he didn't care it was simply a lack of pressure, i think as long as we wanted to do what we were doing he would be happy. He was very supportive of me playing poker and would regularly ask how i got on, he himself started playing online a bit with bluesquare but stopped when they switched to iPoker as you can't play from Cyprus. I remember one time telling me he had won his first tournament i was very shocked given how he hadn't been playing long, he told me he had only played about 20! It was then that i realised he was talking about 6max STT's lol

It was a year ago yesterday that he died and he continues to be a paid in death with his estate still a long way from sorted!

OK so tonight is the last night of the WCOOP for me so might as well put in a proper session, tonight i will be playing most if not all of these:

STARS

7-30 WCOOP $530 shootout
8-00 $55f
8-15 $55r
8-30 $33r EPT SAT
9-30 WCOOP $530 FLO/9
10-00 $55f
10-15 $55w1
10-30 WCOOP 2nd chance $320 shootout
12-08 WCOOP $109f ME SAT
12-30 WCOOP 2nd chance $320 FLO/8
01-15 $33r EPT SAT

FTP

8-00 $163f
9-00 $75f
9-30 $33r
10-00 $129f KO
11-00 $216f TURBO
12-00 $75f
12-30 $109w1
01-00 $163f

LADS

8-00 $215w1

PARTY

8-00 $162f Super Thursday

BSQ

7-45 $55r
8-45 $215r

LOL sick

I bet you unregister from a good number of those.

LOL Agreed, good luck though, one (more) time and all that :)

If you had the choice who wud you choose?

Cat? or Rosie?

oh and wen will the kappagambe oceana incident be in the diary lol

Yeah decided to skip iPoker as i can't stand the size of the tables!


Lucy, ty.

Flushy why are you chasing the biggies these days. by that I mean the 1000+ fields on FTP/Stars. I have no doubt you are +ev in them, but you always in the past have shyed at the varience these fields produced.

Is this a product of a taking a shot. trying to be the next Moorman( slightly a piss take as i you 2 seem to be mates) and a purely +ev standpoint. Is cash games the future?

You have staked many ppl on blonde, what are you views on staking especially as an +ev prop. Fwiw now that im aware of the facts, i have shyed aware from staking.

u do any good tonight ?

Made the final of the ladbrokes $200w1 2nd/10 obviously bust 8th when i get 2 raises snapped off, lose a flip then run AK into a flopped flush on a K hi board. Just bubbled the hi lo 2nd chance and decided to try and win 1/4 flips vs DJK123 in the shootout 2nd chance.

Overall a poor night, sigh.



I very rarely play the 1000+ runner comps, most are i the 200-500 range, they are a killer for variance and i don't think i have ever won a comp with more than 500 runners!!


Moorman has deffo shaped my current playing patterns, he was right about my lack of volume and so now i try to play as many tables as i can when i am playing multi's volume is the king!


I do most of my staking off forum and it can be profitable as well as rewarding, there are of course downsides especially if you don't trust the person you stake on a long term deal.

In terms of best profit buying shares of winning players @ 1-1 is the best way, no work for you and a g'td long term return!

Which has the softest games in Brighton, the Grosvenor or Rendezvous?

even i can answer that and its the grosvenor by far but its such a shit hole and there isnt a lot to win there so its not worth going down there

The softest game in brighton overall is probably the Mint casino! they do a £20r on a tuesday(NO REG FEE!!!!!!!!!!) they get 30 odd runners and if u know the difference between a straight and a flush ur pretty much guarunteed the final with £600 to the winner... they have some policies that i dont agree with tho

Which are?

They dont allow headphones... not even in the cardroom and when u c the people there u need them

ur also allowed to tell people what hand you have so makes it easier for people to collude or whatever

also the guy who works there isnt really that bothered and cant wait to get out of there... usually he is at the grosvenor or randezvous before me wen ive played at the mint

I've never played in the mint before however as Khalid says the Grov is probably softer but it is lower stakes than the Rendezvous.

I play pretty much exclusively at the Rendezvous because the comps are bigger, the cash is much bigger and the atmosphere/surroundings are 10x better.

Khalid did you know Nick, Rod and my m8 Ed from school are getting a flat on Preston street, maybe the odd trip to the mint will be on the cards!

Thanks for that. It answers a lot of questions.

I was aware that it was about a year since he passed away, but I'm sorry the timing of my question was so awful.

This wiiiiiiiiiiii goes out to anyone else with money in the markets:

FTSE 100 5299.00 up 419.00    8.59%

I just hope it recovers enough for you to be loose and drunk in the dealers game at the weekend!

Should have a few grand on me to donate :D

ya u sed last week id be up for going for a laugh, is that the ed that i met during the man U barca game where u ripped it out of me for driving to the pub?

;nipnip; ;nipnip;

a few questions for the flushmeister plz

1) who do you rate out of the "circuit pros", how many would be long term winners in MTT's online?
2) what gets your heart pumping more? sex or making a massive bluff?
3) if worst comes to worse who are the 3 players from the uk circuit who you wouldnt want to play for your wages?
4) 1st hand of the sunday million you are UTG with AJo do you raise?
5) how many tournes behind me were you on tribeca?

and would you prefer doing 2 on 1 or 2 on 3? (massive bluff that is obviously not the other).

Cheers for the reply, haven't ever been to the Grosvenor, used to go to Rendezvous as easier to get to, and easy parking. Haven't been for a couple of years though. The standard at the Rendezvous wasn't very good then, so if Grosvenor softer it must be bad!!

Aside from money do you have any poker ambitions?

Nice thread, good read!  :)up

Which top pro do you most/least admire?

Please can you post a hand analysis here of a hand were you are a lag doing typical lag moves?

What transient factor has the greatest -ve influence on your game: tilt, boredom, tiredness, other?

1) What are your biggest weaknesses in poker? How can you improve these elements of your game?

2) Have Uncle Ben's approached you with regard to sponsorship yet based on your winning the bowl of rice champion three years running?

3) Did you really grow up in "the hood" as you often claim? Does drive-by "cow-tipping" every friday night make a man of you?

*It never sticks.

What's the largest number of Mojito's you have drunk in one night? :cheers:

Flushy seems like an eternity since I last saw you


About the well, all you need to do is ask! (Although floppy kinda asked me once;))


Do you see you playing donkaments mainly for the timebeing?
Where do you see the most money to be made in the poker world?

do you think you should rename this thread 'In the Well'?

Firstly quick props to flushy, Some1 i have known since i first started making a little name for myself in the poker world on tribeca. Always a good laugh, up for a drink at live events and generally good guy

My Q : How do you defend your blinds vs agreesive players in the mid-late stages of live tournaments???????



DJK  in your eye imo

1) I assume you mean UK circuit players then i would have to go for the likes of El Blondie, Neil Channing, Thewy, John Kabbaj, Ram and many more.

2) Massive bluff obv

3) Wouldn't want to play any of those in answer 1 for wages.

4) Yep!

5) lolz keep dreaming kid

Well neither are good!

I suppose i would love to win a major event like an EPT also get recognition from the top online players, other than that its mostly money for me i am afraid!

Gus Hansen, the guy is a legend and so damn funny.

I will try to make a totally spewy move tonight just for you!

Boredom deffo!

1) I am a massive calling station, i never believe people have it and i also underrate a lot of my opponents, this basically leads to me playing incorrectly!

2) Better than the grain of rice championship, SON!

3) Until you have cow-tipped you are not a man imo

I dread to think! It's probably around 20!

My fault for asking for questions! Don't worry though diary stuff coming up again soon.

I tend to just flat call then get it in if i flop a pair :D

P.S. LOL at a nit calling himself aggressive.

RE: DJK, sigh.

This do?

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3229755 (http://www.pokerhand.org/?3229755)

god i am a nit

[ x ] Enjoying the thread.

Evening Flushy; you say money is paramount but do you see yourself doing this for the rest of your life?? any other lifetime ambitions??

Totally agree, very interesting thread Flushy.

Many happy returns flushy.

Have a good day.

+1

 :birthday:

OK how about this?

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3230972 (http://www.pokerhand.org/?3230972)

happy bday yo, winnign the tilt 100r wouldnt be a bad start imo

good bokk sir chip leader whole comp then bubble


He gave me sick rubdown after hand

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3231057 (http://www.pokerhand.org/?3231057)

LOL Nice one! KK? AA?  rotflmfao rotflmfao >>>>>>>>>>>>>'KK? AA? 10 High?'

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

I nearly shoved on him! lol

Well i have had a shitty day at the tables, i will post my raw results so you can all see:

99/130 0-44 162 pty
295/446 1-18 163 ftp
130/192 1-40 320 lads

101/438 2-45 155 bsq
120/221 1-55 309 bsq
68/306 2-52 355 stars

199/321 1-13 129 ftp
20/161 4-00 409 ftp
370/634 1-26 75 ftp

15/272 3-57 93 ftp 215.4
264/576 1-37 109 stars
51/252 3-31 155 stars

47/574 3-58 163 ftp 258.3
8/194 4-55 309 ftp 1290.6


Reading from left to right is postion/runners duration buyin site  prize


Things started well with bubbling that FTP 100r when first was around 15k i think, cheers for that one! Similar time the 30r fell apart and i bust 1th with 6k ftw.

They let me play for another 5hrs to bust deep in the 150 with 21k ftw and then let me come 8th in the 100w1 on tilt when i was massive stacked all the way through only to run bad with 2 tables left.

Thankfully i won about 1600 @ cash so i am up $500 on the day but trust me it feels like a big loser!





ty for the birthday wishes, my birthday marks a near full week of no poker, wiiiiiiiii

 belated happy bday m8. see you in BL!

Happy Birthday!!!!

happy birthday hun xxxxxxx

Happy Birthday  :birthday:

Happy Birthday

Many happy returns James, or as they say in Andalucia "salut y fuerce a tu canuto"  ;charmaine;

never mind that, karabiner you are cool.

What sort of ratio cash / tournaments do you play ?

Is the return on tourneys worth all that effort, rather than grinding out a few hours on the cash tables ?

TBH I've always thought of people as being either cash or tourney type players, not both.  Is that outmoded thinking, or are you pretty unique ?  ( there's probably a gag there I missed, isn't there  ;carlocitrone; )

+1 to both the happy birthday and the legend bit

Good thread! Another one I'll have to read. *sigh*

Flushy, at what level and below can you not take comps seriously and treat them as a bit of fun?  EG, £50 and below?

At what buy-in, if there is 1, do you start feeling a little too out of your depth?

At what point are you going to realise you are a net loser at poker if it wasnt for luckbox staking?

p.s are you gonna buy me into ept london on a (generous) 50:50 deal? 

Live anything under £1k i find hard to play full on, that's usually the case because if its less than 1k its probably in Brighton so i am playing it more for social reasons. I still want to win it mind. In terms of total messing around i suppose sub £300.

Online i never play for fun really so even though nearly every comp is below £300 i take them seriously.

As for being out of my depth i don't think there is any buyin that does that too me, there have been a couple of times i have felt out of my depth though and that is usually down to the lineup i am facing, it's happened twice this year both times online. The stupid thing is i may even over correct and play to confident in higher buyins live.

No you are useless and what happens in Bratislava stays in Bratislava and that includes my honest admissions about my poker talent!

LOL I look forward to my next chat with Alex, as my mentor he has to tell me everything.

Did Alex drink on friday then just sleep the rest of the weekend ?

name 1 quality that you believe all the great players share....

It's been a very busy few days for someone who is usually a lazy bum, on Wednesday i celebrated my birthday which involved a night of heavy eating and drinking resulting in some rather comical pictures/videos (i am building a great collection of pictures to blackmail moomin with) it also led to a conversation between myself and moomin which resulted in a MTT prop bet that hopefully will take place next month (he is only number 2 now what chance does he stand?)

Somehow i never got to bed till 1pm which was a bit stupid seeing as i had booked a hotel room in Stanstead for a early Friday flight to Bratislava for Reevio's stag do! Despite the bizarre sleep timings i managed to get to Stanstead and be up ready for the flight on Friday morning.

Now obviously there are strict rules on what i can talk about in relation to the aforementioned stag do! Those in attendance who might be known to the forum included Alex Martin, Jon Raab (my 2 luxury accommodation room mates) Mike Butlin and Simon Wolf. I think Alex is of the same opinion as me, we now understand why there are so many Slovakian's living in England, the place is an absolute hole! A throw back to the soviet republic there is very little visible change i imagine to how it was 20 years ago, our hotel was an 'authentic Communist hotel' and was slightly odd the kinda decor that you would be familar with if you have seen movies made about the USSR, it is also fair to say that although one might imagine Slovakian women to be very good looking we in the UK have been blessed with the migration of the slightly more attractive section of society and the standards do not hold in mother Slovakia!!!

As to the stag do well it was a lot of fun, we all got involved in shooting hand guns, not something i have done before so that was fun, i also learned a lot about dolphins.....

Although i have played no poker since Tuesday i have been on somewhat of a heater, i managed to purchase 16% of blonde's own Dave Penly (RiverDave) in the £5000 PLO event at the Empire where he managed an extremely impressive 6th place finish for over £40,000!

This was trumped however when i returned home by one of my 'perma' horses who managed to get deep in the Sunday Brawl on FTP, now i am suffering quite heavily from Man Flu and so was winding down in bed about to go to sleep when i saw he posted a hand which had a rather large pot attached to it, so curiosity got the better of me and i fired up FTP to see he was deep. I am so glad i did as i railed rookie along with a strong blonde contingent for hours as he quite literally battled his way through the field, he was extremely card dead and when he did finally find a hand he got done over!

After a while though he managed to secure a spot on the final not far short of average chips and again showed remarkable patience and resilience which paid off when he found a couple of hands in the space of an orbit to go from a very short 5th out of 5 to a big CL! Once CL it was pretty much game over for his opponents and not long after our hero captured the title and an impressive $73,000+

Congratulations RookieITB a top draw result and i think i am right in saying it means you now have 3 cashes bigger than my biggest ever cash!

I should also note that my share of his win is bigger than anything i have ever cashed for! I am very happy but also embarrassed by this so i am very much on a quest to resolve that stat as soon as possible!

P.S. I might tell you a funny story involving neo-nazi's a bit later...

One thing Alex did very little of was sleep!



Adaptability, there are tonnes of players that have done well in one sphere against static oppos or era defining strats, although most of these are good players they lack the ability to beat any game from any era.

Biggest cashes..

73k
33k
27.5k
24k

and you?

:D

meh my biggest was live for $31k then next also live for $24k

Online i have 6 results between $14k and $12k but that's as high as it goes, what can i say some of us run bad when the prizepool is decent!!

You didnt run bad in decent prizepool last night ;)

OMG, he's shot Flipper!

Hmmm i had been told Bratislava was an absolute hole before i went on a stag do earlier this year and thought it was ok. Stuck almost strictly to the old town though and a day trip to Vienna. The only scary bit was the "karaoke" place we went to which looked like a prison with guards outside.

 rotflmfao rotflmfao

I just realised that every one of my above cashes I had to give away a %!

It's been a quiet week for me, suffering from Man Flu but managed to get out to the Rendezvous on Tuesday where i took part in the £20 rebuy (£300f imo) where i obviously got nowhere i ventured into the cash game which had a stonking lineup, pulled up for 3k to try and induce the other to do the same but no joy. The game was pretty slow and i lost a couple of stupid pots with players drawing dead but hitting running str8's/2pairs in plo.

I didn't play long but it's always nice to catch up with the likes of Steve Lennon and Paul Parker, Paul managed to collar me for his EPT % which meant i was leaving the casino a good 1500 light. I wish i had some interesting hands to post up from the PLO but simply nothing happened, except the comedy hand where i fired into a KQT board with the only 3 people in the pot all holding AJxx!

I played online tonight for the first time since last Tuesday! Got the usual mauling so cut the session short, the new $100r on ftp was the icing where i managed to be in for $900 without really getting out of line, the only saving grace was the party super which i managed to bag, i was chip leader form level 2 and never lost it. The standard on there is pretty poor although i did have some fun with my HU opponent, i actually started feeling sorry for him because he just seemed lost after a while, this pot was quite com:

***** Hand History for Game 7422314051 *****
NL Texas Hold'em  Trny:42269369 Level:13  Blinds-Antes(2,000/4,000 -100) - Thursday, October 02, 19:30:31 ET 2008
Table Super Thursday (1531314) Table #1 (Real Money)
Seat 9 is the button
Total number of players : 2
Seat 5: abakusschwar ( 91,461 )
Seat 9: NORSE_HORSE ( 247,539 )
Trny:42269369 Level:13
Blinds-Antes(2,000/4,000 -100)
abakusschwar posts ante [100]
NORSE_HORSE posts ante [100]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to NORSE_HORSE [  Th 2h ]
NORSE_HORSE raises [7,000]
abakusschwar calls [5,000]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4s, 4h, Ac ]
abakusschwar checks
NORSE_HORSE bets [8,000]
abakusschwar raises [25,000]
NORSE_HORSE calls [17,000]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qs ]
abakusschwar checks
NORSE_HORSE bets [24,000]
abakusschwar folds
NORSE_HORSE does not show cards.
NORSE_HORSE wins 92,200 chips

For some reason there were only about 115 runners today meaning the prizepool was rather small and first paid $4750 after JP's 10% i am left with a $1700 win on the day, probably helps that i am not playing the later tournaments or i would just be break even!

The funniest video i think i have ever seen:

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zVCYdrw-1o

I was randomly watching u playing that fish HU actually and i remember that hand. It lloked like u were trapping the ace or even three 4's. Did you just know he had air and wanted to see what happened on the turn??

I could tell the guy was getting frustrated and he had started re-popping me pre but that hadn't slowed me down so i figured he would try something soon. When the flop came A44 i knew he would want to make a move, after all its the perfect board to do so. So given the stack size i didn't want to CB and let him jam so i CB'd quite small to allow for a smaller check raise, this would also leave him plenty back to fold and also allows me to flat the flop and take it on the turn rather than having to 3 bet jam the flop which would obviously cost a lot more chips if i was wrong.

Love it!! wp sir

 ;popcorn;

Having a horrible start tonight already out of 6 comps in horrible hands and the 100r has again cost me $900 got no stacks either.

am having the same sort of nite as u m8 kin grim,just on a different level

Made you $45 if that's any help?

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Well i played 12 comps between 8pm and 10pm starts, by 11pm i was 1 tabling....a true horror show of bad beats, good news is that 1 is still going am 1/39 so might be able to rescue the night its on full tilt if anyone wants to rail.

What trny is it? can't find you at the minute

cancel just found it

Nice stack !

I'm so lazy, what's Flushy's tilt name again?

the norse horse

ty ty

Thought you said he had a big stack?

lol he is chip leader by a fair bit !

Now i have some chips :D

1/18 with 270k average is 65k

Obviously its full tilt so as we approach the final i will start to run bad, lost JJ twice once into AA once into KQ on a 993 flop.....

gl sir

That was some pretty sick stuff headsup, he ran pretty much as good as anyone can run headsup.

Cheers to the rail, at least i am just out of it on the day! No more online poker for me now for a bit as the Brighton festival is on this week, wiii

Not on wed tho!!! u better not play then! wes and that are coming out too... and ofcourse the KAPPAGAMBE

Flushy, will it be ok to buy in for the Monday £100 tourney in the evening or is it likely to sell out prior to that?

It's usually quite popular to be sure of a seat i would suggest you get down there about 40 mins before the tournament.


obv should be a laugh!

ok cheers

The brighton festival has come and gone, to say i did a bit of money would be an understatement....

Not a single cash from me or the whole stable all week! This meant we did around £5000 in buyins and the cash was most uneventful, the highlight was the night where i cashed out £3,732 from the £2-£2 cash game for a profit of £12....

I had a run in a few of the comps but got shafted in most of them, the main event was a couple of cold decks with 2 tables left, fuck live poker imo. Somehow i managed to get out of it last night thanks to going 3 from 3 on the TV NFL games and also finding a nice 75-150 O/8 game on stars.

So short session online tonight just playing the 8pm's and i managed to ship the ipoker 50r for 13.5k wiiiii on top of that had a good win on "love forever" at Romford and our dog nebuchadnezzar managed to get through to fridays final at Romford, so it looks like this week will be a quick run over to Thanet on Thursday for the GUKPT, drive over to Romford at the end of the night crash at Dubai's then next day go to the dogs night out then back to Thanet on Saturday or more likely back to Brighton!

ty for stake bossman, cyu thanet.

Last night was a bit meh finalled the $100r on ftp but no joy, i played a little cash and these 2 comical hands came up:



Hand 1:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3323514 (http://www.pokerhand.org/?3323514)

Hand 2:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3323531 (http://www.pokerhand.org/?3323531)

Hand 1 tilted me so hard how can i bet $75 into a $1500 pot 5 way and get it through?

Hand 2 just goes to show the standard of these games!

I am not sure if i can be bothered to go now, obv i need to get money to you any chance of a tilt transfer?

Same goes for snoop's if ya reading bud.

Flushy i know you like the odd sports bet.

Biggest coup sports betting, sickest loss etc????? (no need to talk figures as such)

Biggest bets have all been dogs, had some sick ones on before mostly on my own dogs.

Couple of them super sick beats £1500 @ 6-1 on one of ours, he goes clear at the first but gets a knock shoots back through the field is going clear at the 2nd and the 1 dog decides to move off the rail and take him out, sigh.

Another good coup that went slightly wayward was a dog dubai dug out it was running at hove and listed @ 12's in the RP he reckons true price to be about 2's! We get to the track with the plan of lumping on and spot a certain Mr Channing who is running a book (obv in hindsight backing against Mr Channing in his current form is a bad idea) anyhow i managed to get just over 1k on @ av price of 9's it goes off at 2's falls out the traps 5 lengths behind and loses in a photo.....fml

Obv whenever we get £500 on a rick it comes in.....

Just remembered another good one on the debut of one of our dogs all piling on, i had £2k on it loses by a length to another dog on its first outing, obviously that dog was Shadayid talk about running bad.

Swerved Thanet in the end but nice to see my 2 shares are still in going into day 2, gl Alex and Snoopy! I stayed in and played online small loss in the end only thing i got deep in was the ladbrokes $200 with 1 rebuy/1 addon i was CL with 22 left and came 17th ran AQ into AK BoB i 3 bet had to fold to a cold 4 bet about 5 minutes later and then re-shoved AQ and lost the flip to JJ.

Still i got to look forward to a day off poker, i have just come back from Romford having watched Phil in a mini final where he ran a cracking race but ultimately still had a lot to do, he needed to break to get the win and he didn't break :( still Martin 'Save The Green' Green managed to pick out a nice 6-1 winner in the race after so was only down a little on the trip. Obviously i don't run that good in life so the trip can't have gone that smoothly, just before the Dartford Crossing i managed to get a flat tyre which was a right pain was we were having dinner before the race with Dubai.

We managed to limp around the local area though and found a garage and a rather helpful mechanic who sorted it out before the breakdown guy could get to us so one mini result there! Downside is my spare tyre is a crappy little one that is only suitable for speeds up to 50mph....fun drive back......mvls

Thx, I need it more than your other runner though. Uri Geller reckons that if you touch the screen and think positive thoughts, it'll bring me luck and I'll double through first hand. Either that, or your cutlery draw will melt.

Had a very rough poker night tonight, had a mate round (Grant) he wanted to rail me to watch how i play online which was quite good fun, unfortunately i didn't even make the break in my first 6 MTT's! The only thing i had a good start in was the $50r on Stars where i had 10k after hand 1, i then got in this highly comical pot for the CL http://www.pokerhand.org/?3339151 (http://www.pokerhand.org/?3339151) i had read the situation right that he was going to re-pop light and i think i managed to bet size the turn perfect for him to think he had fold equity, sigh.

That hand pretty much summed up the night, however, as i was 2 tabling for a while i was starting to get deep one was the $650f PCA sat on stars the other was the $50w1 the PCA sat had 2 seats and money back for 3-13th we got to 7 left and i lost these two hands:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3339661 (http://www.pokerhand.org/?3339661)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3339658 (http://www.pokerhand.org/?3339658)

If i had one the first one i am very confident i get a seat and if i win the second one i think i am right in with a chance as the opponents were very weak.

The $50w1 went in a similar fashion i built a big stack when with 36 left i flat called a raise from the UTG player after the button had called with 89h in the SB the flop came Q94 2 hearts i check raised the buttons 10k to 28k he shoved i called his AA held for 130k pot and the CL i took my 25k left and managed to get into a 90k flip AQ vs TT with 32 left but no joy.

All in all all a poor night where i never had anything go right, thankfully i won $800 playing hi lo and last night after writing my entry i won $2600 playing hi lo which means i am $80 up on the 24hrs after MTT buyins!

Now just sunday funday to look forward too, sigh

Did getting out for the day influence your decision to stop/carry-on?

I didn't know i was out of the day till i added it all up, i am afraid i am not one of those to chase daily loss/win targets, not much use as a MTT'er!

Didn't think so, just looked a bit odd.

So not a bad 7 days of poker, i kept getting deep in the 9pm rebuy on full tilt and finally got a very good score in it on Sunday when i came 2nd for $36.5k, i believe the word is wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

I am 'coaching' Grant online again tonight so should be fun, after that its no more poker for me for a while, going out Wednesday and Thursday nights with the animal that is Dubai then Friday with the missus, Jamie's wedding on Satuday which should be a cracking affair and then swiftly onto the Chargers/Saints game at Wembley!

Somehow though i have to take my car into the garage tomorrow morning!

Do you ever go to vegas flushy?if so how often. What do you think of the place?

I like the story of you playing limit poker with all your hands face up and a regular complaining about it to the cardroom manager.

What hotel was that at?

another sick score wp.

My few days off not going as planned, i played last night in the casino and did £5000 in the £2-£2 game, oops!

Followed up by a 3k loss in the 75-150 game on stars.

Thankfully Katja Thater was just playing it so i won 4k, quite amusing when she busted out of the game it insta broke!

lol  was just watching   obv she is the value

Katja Thater.   Sigh..........................

Decent read, not as funny as the fellowship though :)

What would be your favourite game to play?

Wedding trip report.  Come on...yer slacking a bit here!

What a great day, i got up nice and early because i am so slow at actually getting ready in the morning.

I arrived in Beconsfield at around midday and met Jamie (Reevio) the groom with his best man Nick they were already on vodka rebulls hardcore! Jamie was busy writing his speech.....great prep Mr Reeve.

From there we walked round to the town hall where i stumbled upon a certain Mr Butlin with his lovely girlfriend Jo, not long after we proceeded inside and before we knew it the ceremony had begun, Jo looking beautiful and Jamie looking for the nearest exit :D

The reception was great, at Jamie's cousins pub! Quite handy that, we were joined by the likes of GUKPT supremo Mr Raab and Blue Square's hardest worker (cough) Simon Wolf, this is the part of the day where memory begins to fade thanks to the copious amount of alcohol that was consumed but it was a great night and it was the perfect send off for Jo and Jamie into married life!

The next day i had to get up early and shoot down to Brighton which i managed by noon, a quick turn around and straight back up to London with Martin 'save the green' Green where we met up with my Brother and the one and only Dubai for the NFL London game. This was a a bit of nightmare given we had all smashed into San Diego (how can the Saints win without Bush?) a quick trip into London after the game and a very nice Indian later (the opposite the Sportsman, i have forgotten the name) which is highly recommended. The Gatwick express and a short taxi ride saw myself and the Green one back in Brighton at the end of a long weekend!

Of course it wasn't over as the latest addition to the 'Flushy Stable' was smashing up the £500fo in Teeside, unfortunately 'the Trigg' busted in 4th but still a tidy £9k will keep the wolf from the door.

This week i haven't done much went to the casino on Monday night messed around a bit in the £30r then watched the Colts/Titans game (FML obv) Tuesday i went up to Romford for dinner with Lucy's family and yesterday we ventured to the cinema to watch 'Ghost Town' please go watch the film, laugh out loud moments throughout.

This weekends plans to follow....

Onto this weekend then, myself and Lucy are off to Maidstone tomorrow to take advantage of the countryclub/hotel that 888 are putting us up in and then onto my heat the next afternoon, at the same time i have my 3 prime stallions running in Birmingham.

Rick 'silver shorts' Trigg
Ben 'i run so bad i have only won 70k this week' Turnstill
Nicky 'i swear its not a girls name' Evans

I think we should combine all our brains to produce some sort of forfeit for the first one out, come on the great people of blonde give me some ideas!

how about a reward for the last longest

Yeah, what do I get when I beat the other 2 mugs?

First one out has to agree to appear on Sky Poker and say 'Tikay is my mentor and my hero' (or something equally as difficult)...whilst wearing Trigg's shocking silver shorts.  Can only be done on a night when Tikay is there.  Should, by right, be done as the opening spot where it's usually Tikay doing something silly.  And said loser should be on one knee bowing to said hero while proclaiming their devotion.  That is all.

bollocks, forgot this was in maidstone, only 5 miles from me.

is it tickets only for spectators?

OK how about this hand from the Rendezvous £30r

Just after the break blinds are 100-200, there is a player on my right showing no aggression at any point in the game but he does limp a lot, as he does in this hand in the hijack i make it 700 from the C/O and then the button who seems to be pretty tight but obviously bad (his raise size shows what i mean) makes it 1500, all fold and i call to see the flop:

 Ahrt 8h 5d

I check he bets an 'un-confident' 2k i have a total of 6.4k and flat call, turn:

 2h

Check check

River  Jc

I bet 4k he tanks then calls.....

Guess the hands.

Mods, Crow has hijacked Flushy's account.

Oh Kings for villian, you probably had 9 high or something.

KT for you. TT for him

KT of di's tho for the backdoor obv.

defo looks like KK for the villain

AK for the villain, you obv had 3 4

Villain has AA you have KJ h

AJ villain 47hh you

FYP :)

FYP

Sigh. Some people.

Ty Andrew.

u have small flush he has Qxh

You had the bare 7?

;)

Well you could use Tikay or maybe Jason Barrasford

what an arse i am!! i get it now tho!!!!

sorry rooks / Andrew

QFT

OK he had KK, thinks its quite an obvious hand given the pre raise and the glaring tell post, along with the action.

What is there i can have that check calls 1/3rd of my stack on flop then shoves river?

AA imho

something stupid like J2s that you just wanted mess about with the guy postflop cos its a 30r, u were betting any river once he check the turn anyway but u get to valuetown ure runner runner

KT di obv

you have a set?

 7c 2c

How can he call?

They were soooooooooooooted   rotflmfao

PS  Say hi to Lucy for me.  She's a keeper for sure.

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45172000/jpg/_45172902_vote04_13.jpg)


What a great picture!

So Obama is HU with a big lead, will he hold?

Having read round the internet today, i don't see how Obama loses. He is going to have to lose a 7-8% lead in Pennsylvania or something equally disastrous but with recent US elections the result is always going to be in doubt.

Forgot to point out that photo is people waiting in line to vote today.

Not the staking queue?!

pmsl

Obviously flushy will have staked all of them already,he says the guy in the suit is a donk though

Charles Schumer - democratic senator of NY or NJ - total fish. Athough why he is stood with Brittany Spears is a better question.

High turnout favours Obama

Starbucks giving free coffee today to people who voted.

2008 Election rigged by a coffee shop imo.

:)

he may win the vote but will he be in the whitehouse for long? How many nutters are there in america? I remember eddie murphy once covering the fact jessie jackson may get elected president and he would have to give all his speaches running around from left to right to make himself a harder target to hit. Sad state of affairs but there are too many racists over there with guns and I reckon he is odds on to be the next JFK

I love Starbucks. The skinny cafe au lait is to die for.

Had a week of pure torment, can't bring myself to write it up, all i have to say is FU 888 and FU ladbrokes.

And so say all of us

Much needed bumpage

deffo

Well i not been playing much poker lately but here is something for you:

I lol'd hard

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7746174.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7746174.stm)

Sigh... If only my parents hadn't made me leave easterhouse when i was 10 i could have a life like theirs. FML!!!

The best bit is surely this:

All my pals are looking for work as well. But it's not that easy to get a job straightaway, you've got to write out your CV and everything and then hand it in to places.

the whole thing is just comical from start to finish.

Congrats to flushy who took down the $50r on stars for $10,900 last night, despite losing 7/9 all in coups preflop on the final. Quite an amazing display of pure agression. WDson, one for the stable

weeee, wp.

ship

wp

Nice one!

Skill game

Congrats ;applause;

nice touch James

Sweeet!

Lol.

+1

wp that man

Well done JD.

It pays for a week of Online Tourneys. Or a Thursday night meal & change.

You can't have had more more than 200 re-buys so that looks like profit, well done.

Congrats on the result

Ty all, yeah bit of a sick final Moomin and Wick were railing i somehow managed to win despite losing nearly every pre flop coup i played! I am going to try and get the HH on cardrunners/xfactor so people can watch it because i think i played near optimal on the final so could be useful to some people including myself!

Congrats on the result.

Re: the link above. Sounds like a few poker players, staying in all day and never getting out, just without the benefits...lol

plz

Had another fun one in the 50w1 last night as well where i got a big stack from the moomin but still finalled 9/9 super short but somehow managed to luckbox the win.

wp wp.

Tell us about the moomin clash plz

+1

Yes pls!!

WP Flushy, another great result ;applause;

would love to see the HH if you get time to sort it.

OK i don't have any of the training site things but going to get someone else to upload it when i get back from Bristol.

+1...amazing win...unless you staked yourself in which case you'd be your own horse and your horses run good :)

oops!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7772344.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7772344.stm)

So much for being the best of the best. Not sure how you'd manage, or what you'd be doing, to get into a flat spin over a residential area.

Excellent result, nice one.
The Sicilian also sends his congratulations but still wants a fight apparently.

OK sorted out getting the 50r into cardrunners replayer, you just need to sign up for the registered guest access to see it, so no need to subscribe if you don't want to.

http://www.cardrunners.com/members/replayer/replayer.php?session_id=77350 (http://www.cardrunners.com/members/replayer/replayer.php?session_id=77350)

547 hands long so might take a while but i hope some of you find the time to look through it and find it useful, i will obviously try and answer any questions anyone has about it.

Well, that's my weekend sorted then.

skimming thou it m8. looks like u ran golden to me :-) Hand 18 u open blast utg with ak and get a redic call from 97. Why do that? Because u dont wanna open raise and c bet fold? Hand 188 there a mp raise and shortie basically calls allin and u flat with qq why?? The bb goes all in and u win a nice pot v aj. If the AJ folds and u take the flip what plans do u have if an ace or king pops?

Oh just realised it was the rb period. forgot it was a rb

hand 260 u raise utg with aj and 1 caller and u check call a 9hi flop then it goes check check and u bet river???

hand 263 utg makes it 8k and u make it 20k with 78ss. how comes?

hand 346 u raise with J10 and call a rraise oop. what do u do if u flop tp?? Isnt this kinda spewy. sry about all the questions :-)

hand 363 looks spewy to me aswell?

hand 400 with kj. talk us through that one pls :-)

All done. wp sir

Ok the only guy at the table who covers me opens 4x, we are 2 of the tournament chip leaders so i am slight unsure about 3 betting as he probably folds out 95% of worse hands, by flatting i can get better action whilst keeping the pot small, this is further enforced when the 4k stack calls all in, now the CL is never going to 4b bluff me, throw into the mix now that if one of the blinds now finds a hand they are always going to jam given their stack sizes it makes calling the best play imo.

If i take a flop in a dry pot in this spot and CB's an A hi flop i probably just fold, if he bets K hi i probably make a small raise.



Yeah this hand i was opening a lot and now the button flats, everyone knows the button never has it so i check called the flop, probs a bit bad but i think i have the best hand. This is not good play, however it does look like i have a small/medium PP when the board reads 4567 by the river its very tough for him to call me with AQ or weak 1 pair hands, i got lucky in that a good spot came for me to bluff/stop him bluffing.



Yeah he is kinda week bad that guy, figured he will give up a lot of good hands if i re-pop his UTG open given our stack sizes obviously i got it a bit wrong and he decided to flat pre, maybe i should have made it 22-24k i havent played with the guy that much though so its hard to know how spewy he can be pre.

It is very common though now on stars and tilt for people to snap raise from UTG, if you actually choose a random decent sized MTT with semi competent players you will notice the number of hands raised UTG is not that far off the number of button raises, putting in 20k here to steal 14.9k it obviously doesn't have to get through that often to be profitable but in my experience it will get through a hell of a lot of the time.

It also helps when you flop OESD with FD and 2 overs :D




346: I was opening a shit loads of pots and i really didn't want people to start 3 betting me, if you notice i was 3 bet just a few hands earlier when i had AA and i just flat called, so i decided i could flat call here and it would have to make him slightly concerned, the call looks a bit spewy in isolation but if it now makes him think that whenever i get 3 bet i am going to take a flop it should pay for itself, JTs aint the worst hand to see a flop with anyway. If he checks the flop behind i am firing the turn, if i flop tp i probably do a chunk....

363: I didn't want to 3 bet this hand as i was winning a lot of small pots and wanted to keep doing so, they all seemed really uncomfortable playing flops, i decided to just flat when it came T62h i was check folding, however when he checks behind i thought i might be ahead, the paired 6 is a great card, reduces chance he has a 6, he cant have a T so i am worried about PP's and flopped flush, so i lead for 24k he called pretty quick, at this point i thought a scared mid range PP or 2 overs with a heart. The king is a horrible card on the river so i check and now he fires 38k, i like the bet size he makes here i decided to call because my line looks like air and so he can be bluffing but i didn't expect to win the pot too often however if he is bluffing just 1/3 times its +CEV and again there is some meta benefit to them thinking i am a calling station (as i am sure you noticed later on when they just rolled over)



My fave hand :D

I flat the flop 3 way because i thought my hand might still be the best but also because they will both assume i am on the flush draw if i do this, its what i would think if someone overcalled, when the turn brought the 3rd diamond i knew i could find out for a really small bet size if i could win the pot so i only bet 42.5 into 180k+ which is obviously never a bluff.....the river comes the 4th diamond and now i fire again, here i am even more confident i can get this through as his line makes it hard for him to have the Ad given he tanked before calling the turn, all i have to do is fire a milky looking bet and he can't call especially as its nearly half his stack.







I hope that has helped explain some of it, unfortunately i am not the best writer in the world this room so if there is still stuff that i can explain better ask me about the hand and i can wack it on PHA or on here in isolation as i can get my point across a lot better when i make lots of small posts, i dunno why.

nice one flushy, getting a cup of coffee and going to watch the lot.

wp

Hand 539 was a crucial pot and you got your opponent to overplay his hand badly. You seemed to target him more than the guy you ended up heads up with, often reraising his raises with ok hands - do you have history with him or was it just observation of his style? The two of you seemed to be vying for table captain and someone had to crack.

Really enjoyed the quick run throgh will watch in more detail later - cardrunners not something i've watched much before looks a good site.

great play and wd.

oh look - post number 500. Must get a blonde hat or something for that??

Yeah he was fairly decent but kinda predictable, i had 3 bet him a few times in last 10 minutes and i was pretty sure if i 3bet him again he would just jam because i had set it up with a 3bet fold before (although i did have AJ that time) so i was never 3 betting to fold this hand which was obviously a good idea given he snap 4 bet jammed J hi

Great stuff flushy thank you for doing this.

Cheers Flush, gd stuff m8

I lol'd

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7777086.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7777086.stm)

Obv been porking the props lady and then dumped her .... Columbo would have this solved in an hour episode no probs !"

What an idiot. Mind you, the director's an idiot too.

I work a lot with actors in stage fighting, usually dealing with swords rather than knives though. I know loads of directors who 'save money' by not employing a fight director or by not spending money on decent props. There's loads of accidents happen.

ever fly any small aircraft or just big jets?

my brother's just bought an antonov 2 which I'll hopefully have a go in soon, looking at some youtube vids they look a bit dodgy but they glide really well if the engine goes so should be fine

just watched this video. I always thought u were a net loser but you are actually pretty sick good.

p.s was JP playing on ur account?

good day for flushy and I yesterday.

i played 6 tourns

Tilt 4pm - 2nd $3300
Tilt 5pm-  meh
Tilt 6:30pm- 6th $1200
tilt 7:30pm 18th- $156
stars 2:00pm meh
stars 0:00 2nd $9.2k


weeeeee

 N1 Trigg  ;applause;

Geo

sweeeeeeeeet     n1 Rick

teach me to play hu nl plz m8.

np

Hand 306 was some inspired/sick call how did you read him?

Well done Trigger, was nice waking up to 13k :D

Good time for stable form imo

Fancy adding a donkey to the stable? :D

305 i assume you meant, it was a while ago now but i remember the guy was pretty bad, he raised pre so wide range the brick flop looked good for 22, then the check check line on the turn, now a good player would never bet the river in his shoes because i must have something, if i was gutshotting i got there or paired up and if i was already paired i was deffo calling a bet. Given he is bad though i knew a bluff was possible and his bet size was way out so it was a fairly easy call all things considered.

My afternoon sorted

Very well done mate congrats

Cracking results Claimer
Must be nice to be in a stable as golden as flushys

with the explanation an your read on him,I suppose this is what seperates the consistant winning players from the rest or is this just a standard play?

Keep it up Trigg, hopefully the rest of us can get some results before Brighton.

If your still looking for a decent game I got G1 Jockey for my christmas and have become addicted to it quality game had so much fun with it, Champion apprentice in my first year and Champion Jockey in year 2. 

I have learned so mch more about orse rding i reckon that even putting up 12st overweight on most horses i could ride better than  some of the jocks i back.

Steady ;)

They are huns anyway part of the great unwashed in E/Hoose.

WD Trigg. Form is gooooot i see.

[  ] I can see me winning at the mo.

Ahhh, the benefits of PHA....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7837920.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7837920.stm)

I lol'd hard

me too although i initially thought it was going to be the ex in the car

did he steer whilst he was mooooving?

ok ok dont milk it

obv ill have to try an udder 1

dair y nuff

v good give yrself a pat on the back

I would if I cud.

Don't heffer give up!

man ure            all crazy

Flushy thoughts on plane landing in the Hudson ?

Best run good ever?

Very amoosing

bet the smell in that car was arable

Yeah i think i am right in saying first successful ditching of an airliner??

Some feat, didn't think it could be done!

that's what I thought but not a single news report that I  saw mentioned that

bloke in the car looked tanned

Surprised he didn't get the cow to hide to save embarrassment

Geo

The guy obviously felt he deserved a holiday so he took a wee calf.

(Appologies to the limeys, pun works best in Scots).

Bet the poor cow was fresian with it's head out the window.

 ;applause; ;applause; ;applause;

At long last, the guy who drew the little graphics of the plane floating on the water on the safety instruction cards can sleep safe in the knowledge he wasn't wasting his time.

;thankyou;

Totals


Life's saved by lifejackets: 50?
Life's that would have been saved by smoke hoods: 5000

Yet we still have lifejackets!

I also found this:

Wonder how much that costs on each plane? Given the rate of successful ditchings, I'm amazed they bother, although I'm sure the passengers on this particular aircraft are quite pleased they did :).

wonder if any of them got to use their little whistles to attract attention

It was on Five Live, Bacon's show that hge had some expert on. In Japan or China, cant remember which, 1 passenger died. So Yes..

A plane landed in the Potomac last year, not sure how many died in that...

Some interesting pics here:

http://www.avweb.com/news/news/182363-1.html

hahahahahahhahhahahha

potomac incident was I believe a crash that ended with the plane in the river

looks like there've been 4 ditchings (on passenger flights) although 1 of those wasn't very successful (but to be fair it had been hijacked and had ran out of fuel)

http://www.airsafe.com/events/ditch.htm

[  ] 3 counts

The lifejackets arent standard all internal US flights, I dont know what the cabin crew do whilst on taxi.

The tail is the safest place to be if a plane breaks up when hitting water apparently, but having said that, I think I'd take my chances up top (or as far forward as I could afford) for the extra quiet and stability! If a plane I'm on is making a landing on water, I'll be sure to make peace with myself before it goes down.

I think its pretty poor how the captain is getting all the praise for this ditching, unless the FO completely froze it'll have been pretty essential team work that fluked the right circumstances for it not to break up, no?

You only need them when flying within 50 miles of water or something like that.

There was an episode of Quincy about this.

Quincy wanted lifejackets on the planes in case the planes in the internal flights in case the plane dropped into a lake.

quincy was an alcoholic racist.

He made a joke about sam at the end of an episode once about them getting chinese food instead of going to that bar they usually go to, i lost respect for the man after that.

[ ] His campaigning/preaching made for entertaining T.V.

Say what you want about Columbo, but don't be coming on this thread slagging Quincy!

Columbo >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Quincy

FACT

How come Quincy could go round sticking his nose in other people's business, he was a dentist right? Columbo was at least police. 

If we are doing down that route surely we have to start with Dr. Mark Sloan....

And Jessica Fletcher.  Nosy bitch.

ironside walks over columbo and quincy

Wheels surely ?

yes wheelie


and stop taking the piss out of my speach impediment

Without Quincy there'd be no CSI!!!

Diagnosis badshit

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IRWgZmfCQU0&feature=channel_page

That's true, but you could let it ride because you expect that sort of behaviour from old women. Father Dowling however? The guy had no jurisdiction at all. The only mystery was nobody told him to just GTFO with his questions.

i'd be interested to know about the stable and if you treat it very much as a business with everything documented, projected targets for horses, do you know your running roi and what is it, whats more profitable - you or your horses? Have you had to bin any horses yet, rejected anyone etc

obvioulsy its none of my business but if you feel like sharing i'd like to read.

I am quite lax on the horses tbh i don't really want to set goals for them and the only thing we track is makeup. That's enough to see who is doing well, the total profit doesn't bother me as i know it exists and that's all i need, i can always check their profits on OPR if need be, as it happens we are starting a reward league this month, it works a bit like P5's....

Players get ranked on their months ROI taken from OPR, their PLB's on pocket fives, a 'horses poll' where they rank eachother and then my poll, the idea is obv to have a low a score as possible and then the winner each month gets a seat in a GPT or DTD 3-2-1 depending on how well the stable as a whole has done that month.

I haven't really binned any horses but i have had to reject a boat load, for a variety of different reasons, including wanting to be staked to play higher than i can afford, being total degens to the point i can't trust them, being shit, me not liking them, etc.

You should get some t-shirts made with 'I am Flushy's pony' written on for them to wear at live events.

he was a medical examiner....

however thereal mystrey was how he pulled some young lady every episode  wtf

allez le stable

[  ] You will get the top vote in my poll

june. Better to be true to yourself than to lie to the world. Give your vote to whom you feel deserves it.

fwiw i think the leaugue should just be judged on ROI.

Says the man who has played 27 comps on stars and tilt so far this year, compared to Rookie's ~150!!!!

Surely profit is more important?

on any staking proposal, bottom line must be the only factor thats releveant. ROI is not worth a toss, its gross profit that is the measuring stick surely.

Yeah sorry, heavy one last night, Profit is king. I dont put in the mass volume of rooks and rich. I prefer to play the role of the praying mantis and strike when least expected.

lol you are buzzing son.


Kev profit is a byproduct of Volume and ROI, it's why Rooks still pwns all!!

on a side note, whilst im out tonight enjoying the fruits of my hard labour thus far this year, please all stable members win some comps cause id rather get the seat to walsall than the dtd 3-2-1. TY all and gl

Hold tight, Columbo WAS the man!!! FACT

he's got a 100% strike rate over likie 30 years, i dont know how the fuck he wasnt running the city with that record and what made me laugh was that even after he had gotten the last 500 cases right you'd still get some rookie tosser or supercilious captain doubting him, bastards!!! just let the man do his job!!! it was a liberty, the only time i ever saw him slip was in the one with faye dunnaway and he let her daughter go cos he wanted to give her one.

barring that singular slip how can you compare quincy to columbo, different league son!!

though i do feel we're all in agreement about diagnosis "not looking good for van dykes career" murder.

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!

I have a question about the stable "make up".
Is that your risk Flushy, or is it money owed back to you if the player doesnt do well and ends up leaving the stable either through his or your choice?

This is where trust comes in, there is nothing really to stop someone getting deep in MU then doing a runner other than loyalty and a baseball bat.

I would hope that if someone wanted out they would wait till they are clear of MU or arrange to pay it off.

Fair point and understood and if that is clear from the start then everyone knows where they stand then thats fine

I have to admit though that its not my understanding of staking. If I buy someone into an event or contribute to their buy in for a % then thats my risk, if they bust out then I have lost my money.

If you are staking them and taking a 50% of winnings but if they do badly and are down a few k and have to pay you back, then where is your risk?
(and I dont include the trust element in your risk as your selection process should rule that out).

I am not being critical I am just asking the question.

Wouldnt someone be better off getting a £5k bank loan for buy ins and be able to keep all the winnings?

What if they lose the 5k bank loan what then?

No worse off than losing £5k of flushys money and owing it to him

who knows what flushy may propose in lew of payment ::)

Offering to stake people is great but surely the staker has to carry some risk.

Or if they dont want any risk and any defecit would have to be paid back then thats fine too but surely in that instance the profit split should be more like 80 / 20 in favour of the player.

Anything that works for the players is great and I am really really not knocking it, i just dont get it

LoL, so "Flushy's bitches" takes on a whole new meaning

Some people can't get a £5k bank loan..

some people cant get £5 credit down the offlicence!

FFS, who told you about that?? I'll kill him...

Or some can end up a lot deeper in make up then 5k since variance can be a bitch

Yeah but you would have to be pretty tez to end up in more than $5k makeup... Wouldn't you?? ..

lol

The £5k bank loan thing was a hypothetical point, but if thats the case and a horse takes Flushy's staking offer on, then what would that horse then do if they got $5-10k deep into make up and had to call it a day?

Then where/how could the horse pay it back?

Once again, just to confirm I am not being critical, I think flushys stable is great and is doing brilliantly but it just seems odd that the staker is taking no risk

Why might we need to call it a day? I am sure if it were for very unforeseen circumstances then there might be a different view to paying back.

But if I was to turn around tomorrow and say, i dont wanna play on makeup now - i'm gonna play on my own money, i can't see how that is fair to the staker? He is putting his money in us long term, and we should be playing long term rather than quitting when deep in makeup no?

If we are absolutely tez and running up $13k makeup or something and Flushy feels we are not the player he thought then surely he would have to cut us off and write off the $13k no?

This is exactly my point. Yes as I understand staking, this would be Flushys risk, but in his reply to me on the previous page, Flushy said that he would expect a player in make up to pay back the debt if they quit or he booted them out. If they have to pay it back then flushy has no risk !!
It seems that your understanding is the same as mine, but it may not be Flushy's...... did you read the T's and C's !!!?

LOLOL, I obviously never! But I would expect that if I were to be booted that the debt is Flushy's or the same with any other backer! Either that or he can keep me on and hope I can play my way out (which he does anyway - atm!). IMO, if I was to walk to play from my own £, then I should make some sort of arrangement. But if I were to be sacked then it should be his loss to take?

I didn't see this comment you were on about before replying to your posts!

Flushy said "I would hope that if someone wanted out they would wait till they are clear of MU or arrange to pay it off."

That means if someone wants out, not if Flushy cuts the supply unless I read this wrong.

Will wait for the man himself to clarify !!

When I referred to a player wanting out, it was really on the basis of it not working out and it being a sensible decision for both parties. But it should be irrelevant if its the players decision that its not working out or if its flushys. If there is a $5k debt at quitting time, is there a debt, or is it stakers risk?

seem to remember a load of stuff about this being written when scott fischman pulled out of his deal with thunder keller i think

oooh lots going on, let me clarify

If i boot a player and they are in MU then ul me, if a player stops playing for me and has MU there is little i can do (i have a player who is in for just over £3k atm who hasnt played for 6months+ and has made no plans to play.....)

I tend to back people i know well and/or trust so say if they came into a lot of money in another way (say a big sports bet or whatever) and they wanted to play off their own roll then i am pretty sure all of them would either just buyout or play it out then go on their own way, i had one guy do this just 2 weeks ago, he decided to go his own way, cleared MU and away he went.

So as you say what is the risk for me? Well as you can see i am quite selective to reduce the risk to the point there isn't much at all, so why do i get rewards?

We all know MTT poker is ridic volatile and to be playing the comps my guys all play you need a ridic sized roll, none of the guys have a roll of this size so they have 2 options, either play smaller stakes and grind up, or take staking and lose 1/2 the profit. Now if they make 30k a year at the small stakes or 100k at the higher stakes where are they better off?

Think of it as a credit card with no credit check.

I also like to think they get something else out of it, we have a fun league going on and i help out the guys when i can be it lending them a few quid or giving them some general advice i have learnt off my own back (like when to take a break!!)

Oh and i do cashouts instantly not like them poker sites!!!

imo you should employ someone part-time to run the ins and outs and log everything/ sweep/payments etcetc. Would be less aggro for you and give a better indication of how profitable your investment is. Think it would be necessary if ur stable got any bigger.

How big is the stable flushy?

I think Nicky (Codmeharley) does the donkey work.

Given the diets and recent photos of the boy band.

My guess would be fking big.

:)

Already do m8, Kev is right Nick does the legwork for a fee.

Cheers for the explanation. All makes sense now.
Yes totally agree that they get more out of it and its totally worthwhile. Just wouldnt have made sense if a player had to pay back all make up amounts if it didnt work out.

very apt for nick to do the donkey work.

quite an important thing to trust him with....i wouldn't trust him to mind me fkin beer

What about your vodka redbull?

3k roll please

zomg plz tell me this isn't a level!!!

http://www.pokerlistings.com/tv/watch/liv-boeree-2009-aussie-millions-poker-championship-576 (http://www.pokerlistings.com/tv/watch/liv-boeree-2009-aussie-millions-poker-championship-576)

Deffo a level.

[  ] Liv is a good actress

I said tell me it isn't a level!!!

ok it isnt a level


ps i hate lying but you made me do it

Me too please, cheers

Flushy, I dont think you lack the self-confidence!  So can I ask why you dont use the money you use to stake others to move up to even higher levels, or do you feel your about as high as you can go in MTT's?

I lol'd

I thought flushy did play the highest ones

He may, i'm not 100%

terrible actor. she convinced me in the bedroom that one time though.

more likely convinced you she was going to the bedroom but went out for a beer while you waited for her there

Yeah i kinda already do i mean i play max volume online when i do so i don't see the need of adding the $1k's and anyway they are way to late for me as the best tournaments to play start from 8pm onwards (i prefer to target the Europeans than the Americans as they are so much weaker)

As for live it's just not cost effective to play anything but really big buyins as it takes days to play these £1k events when i spend £1k at 8pm every night!!! The EPT's would be good if it wasn't for the fact the fields in them are quite tough (excluding the ones in rich towns/citys) so there really isn't much of an option except for:

One off comps like the Partouche Poker Tour which despite its ridic juice is so +EV its crazy
TV Tournaments, the crap that's shown at 1am on TV is littered with clueless players and they only take a few hours to play so massive bonus there!

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Go watch it.

Just watched this too, excellent.

I know Marty who did the interview. It's a level.

Sigh, everyone knows its a level, since when did a bird who only got her deal because she gets photographed a lot ever complain about getting her photo taken, i was just wishing it was real!

Another awesome news piece:

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE50M4XT20090124 (http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE50M4XT20090124)

lol that story is brilliant!

Completely unrelated: do you play cash online flushy?

I dabble in and out, most recently has been FL Omaha hi lo on stars, the swings are incredible though and i don't really enjoy 10k losing days!

do you not think playing 1k or 2k nl you would still have a big edge and could make more year in year out than tournies?

fml, is it good?

i borrow 5 out of 7 dvds my pal baught off of some bird in the betting shop and that was the one i left out(also slum dog millionare)

that it hapends to all men and it's not really a problem?

Whole stable on the racecourse today, lets run gooooood.

Lets win it alllllll!

GLGLGL,about time you took down another major rooks how long has it been now tut tut

+1

Geez, any idea of best case scenario?

Good luck to 'em all.

Finish second to Moorman in them all ldo.

he loses $12K

glglglgl

lol cruel

Update?

Tez, i got a stack in WU ended up 99<<<<<<KK for massive pot, busto'd around 220th ish?

Then me and Flushy went deep in Party 300k, him 50th, me 44th, fk our lives.

Im sure everyone else will let you no how their tez days have gone.

This sums up tonight for me:

50/1414 4-17 215 pty 780
112/857 3-49 155 stars

7/1566 6-40 109 stars 5089.5
47/1169 4-49 163 438.38


Thats 50th/1414 in the party 200
112th/857 stars 50r, got 3 outed for a top 10 stack
7th in stars 100f with 1566 runners, just so cold on exit
47th tilt 150f out of 1169 lost a pot to go 13th/49 A2 vs 78....

FUCK SUNDAYS!

have you ever chopped someone off that you "know" can make money, but you just got sick of? be it attitude/over engaging confidence levels etc. i guess the Q is, does it ever come to be that personal standards are worth more than EV

sick. btw i bricked m8.

Last night was shite. Running worse than ever atm.

is an 8.30 post from rookie a very late night or a very early start?!

Flushy - dont know why you find that so odd - I've seen "someone" turn into a donkey right in front of my eyes...

Sigh, playing the marina tonight?

Mr Saint is loaded - he went through the Card at Hove Dogs yesterday. Cleared over £8.

haha, was a v early start as i had the dog trial to get to!

11th in Party $109, and 8th in Tilt $109 tonight. FML.

Decided to take a night of the net last night and play the first event in the Rendezvous festival, a £100f

So there are 10 left with 475k in play i had 180k.....mbn and all that.

I turn down the saver for the bubble, all the short stacks hatch a plan to lynch me and all that jazz, anyway my good mucker Grant is on the final as well and we so nearly got the deserved HU game but the 3rd act in the party decided to just bink 3 outters for fun and so i came 3rd and Grant 2nd, sigh i was soooo looking forward to smashing the mug up!!

The worst thing of it all was the midday appointment, ffs i am going back to bed.

What a waste of time imo, live poker is for losers

You ain't wrong!!

Osteopaths orders though, fml

I have been needing to see an osteopath for a while now.

Can I put this on makeup? Or is there a medical scheme in my contract somewhere ?

Pls advise, k thx.

Flushy's leaving himself open to having his horses poached by other stables who offer BUPA membership.

One of the sickest hands i have seen, notice 4 of us to the flop.


PokerStars Game #24345254818: Tournament #136340889, $100+$9 Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2009/01/28 1:10:07 GMT [2009/01/27 20:10:07 ET]
Table '136340889 44' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: MKKMOO (3025 in chips)
Seat 2: TJ22FTLR (8955 in chips)
Seat 3: Anbessa9 (2065 in chips)
Seat 4: CBion3 (3830 in chips)
Seat 5: annachung (5580 in chips)
Seat 6: germain133 (7845 in chips)
Seat 7: PMJackson21 (11955 in chips)
Seat 8: ben1914 (4410 in chips)
Seat 9: mdlbkhd (3335 in chips)
MKKMOO: posts small blind 75
TJ22FTLR: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to MKKMOO [5c Tc]
Anbessa9: folds
CBion3: folds
annachung: folds
germain133: folds
PMJackson21: folds
ben1914: calls 150
mdlbkhd: calls 150
MKKMOO: calls 75
TJ22FTLR: checks
*** FLOP *** [2c Ac 4c]
MKKMOO: checks
TJ22FTLR: bets 300
ben1914: raises 300 to 600
mdlbkhd: calls 600
MKKMOO: raises 2275 to 2875 and is all-in
TJ22FTLR: calls 2575
ben1914: raises 1385 to 4260 and is all-in
mdlbkhd: calls 2585 and is all-in
TJ22FTLR: calls 1385
*** TURN *** [2c Ac 4c] [3c]
*** RIVER *** [2c Ac 4c 3c] [8d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
TJ22FTLR: shows [7c 6c] (a flush, Ace high)
ben1914: shows [9c Jc] (a flush, Ace high - Jack higher)
ben1914 collected 2150 from side pot-2
mdlbkhd: shows [Kc 8c] (a flush, Ace high - King higher)
mdlbkhd collected 930 from side pot-1
MKKMOO: shows [5c Tc] (a straight flush, Ace to Five)
MKKMOO collected 12100 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 15180 Main pot 12100. Side pot-1 930. Side pot-2 2150. | Rake 0
Board [2c Ac 4c 3c 8d]
Seat 1: MKKMOO (small blind) showed [5c Tc] and won (12100) with a straight flush, Ace to Five
Seat 2: TJ22FTLR (big blind) showed [7c 6c] and lost with a flush, Ace high
Seat 3: Anbessa9 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: CBion3 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: annachung folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: germain133 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: PMJackson21 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: ben1914 showed [9c Jc] and won (2150) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 9: mdlbkhd (button) showed [Kc 8c] and won (930) with a flush, Ace high

blimey. hand could only really be improved by a  Qc river for the full set

how quick did you go from MSN moaning to deleting said moan once that dirty turn rolled off?

"how bad do i ru...."
*holds down delete for 10 seconds*
"life is good"

proof that online is rigged imo

FYP

Congrats to the moomin for retaking 1st spot on p5's!!

Flushy I assume that most of your stable plays the mid-stakes tournies and upwards. Is there a level that is too low for you to bother with staking to make it worthwhile?

Hi Flushy- enjoy reading your diary. Few questions if you don't mind answering them:

1) It was revealed that AJKHoosier is backed. Why would he need backing with such a ridic roi- and what sort of deal do you think he would get?
2) How many of the top 100 on pocketfives do you think would be backed? How many do you think are backed by bax/sheets?
3) When you first started playing were u ever backed?

Good current discussion about online high stakes mtt's that goes into why top players feel the need for backing here: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/87/high-stakes-mtt/feasibility-playing-online-hsmtts-living-391798/

Lol that hand is so sick...

PMSL this might just make Dubai the greatest

I played tournaments for years, but my career ended abruptly one night in August 2006, when I came up against a player called Dave Shallow. The entry fee for the tournament was £500, which I’d won in a smaller game; Shallow, a high roller with a notorious contempt for money, had bought in for the fun of it. He sat on my left, stared me in the face and held a handful of chips over the table whenever I looked as if I might bet, and speculated constantly, with unnerving accuracy, about the cards I was holding. The experience was crushing: I couldn’t think clearly, and in the end lost the capacity to make decisions of any kind; after just two hours of a tournament scheduled to last three days, Shallow had taken away my dignity, my will to survive in the game, and every chip I had. Usually, losing is a sickening feeling; that night, it was a merciful release.


http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n02/myer01_.html (http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n02/myer01_.html)

That's pretty much what I thought when I read it, certainly one of the greatest. Mind you anybody who's read his and DPommo's blogs from start to finish already knew he was right up there.

Hi Flushy,

Could you tell those of us like myself who don't know much about Dubai, who he is, why he's so sick etc..

lol thts so com.

abs pmsl @ "notorious contempt for money" so so so com

Tournament Preparation

As you know I have always admired your play and tactics, and I wanted to ask your advice about tournament preparation...

I have noticed that often before a main event you prepare yourself by entering the preceding days game and drinking copious quantities of alcoholic beverages with your gang and, after being inevitably knocked out, proceed to splatter money on cash games whilst topping up with increasing expensive tipples. You then turn up for the next days game, in what I can only describe as "a bit of a state", often late and blaming everyone for the previous night.

Given your great success at poker, I decided I had to follow your example - so at the recent rendezvous festival I entered into a round one night with ( names omitted to protect the guilty ) PP and L? during a midweek tournament. Having been knocked out I was "invited" to the cash table where I made appropriate contributions to Mr Barnes and Mr Grech. Somehow I got home, not sure how, but with an empty wallet.

I barely made it to the £300 f/o the next day, and having made a grovelling apology to the Pit Boss (whose bottom I had apparently commented on during the previous evening) and received an alcohol ban for the night and notice of casino ban on repeat offence, I sat down and suffered badly for endless hours sipping water to stay alive.

It was a surreal experience but the truth is your system worked and I made the next day of the tournament, which I seldom do nowadays.


I'd therefore like to know which are the essential elements of your preparation plan ?

(1) At my age the alcoholic intake is a bit of a risk so is there a way I can limit that and still achieve success ?
(2) Is it important to be loud and annoy people one day, in order to get their chips the next ?
(3) Are there reasons why being hungover increases poker performance ?
(4) Does the threat of a ban focus you on the game ?

 Please advise.

Brilliant! didn't realise i have always been following the "Flushy warm up routine" glad to see i have been doing something correctly  :D

FUCK MY LIFE!!!

That is all.

lol Tony just seen this i will come up with a formula to help you out!

flushy good luck tomorrow night mate. hoping to maybe get there with rooks but if not il be watching it on sky rooting for you! ;goodluck;

Cheers, would be good to see you down there, one thing is for sure, it will be loud!

FMP

When are they on Sky?

Good luck Flushy

They expect us to get on again when we are the ones who moved the price ante-post????

http://www.racingpost.com/greyhounds/home.sd?story=91269&ac=acts (http://www.racingpost.com/greyhounds/home.sd?story=91269&ac=acts)

Final is at 9-45

Will you be smashing it again if it goes even money ??

will you be lumping on a bit of evs on the track?

sigh, i thought about saying it at least 20 mins ago! i shouldnt have gone to the toilet first!

Yeah probs, just to make sure it's SP is odds on!!


On a more poker related topic, the Party Super 8pm comp, easiest 150f there is on a nightly basis.

Right so last night i am in it, looking forward to another easy run when i look at the rest of the table.

I am in seat 2, in seat 3 sits Eisenhower1, just bloody wonderful i thought how do i get a tough player on my left in the party fcking super!!!

I looked a bit further, seat 4 none other than a certain Moorman1, well this is just ridic, what are the chances of having 2 good players on my left.

What's this, in seat 5 none other than BustoSoon, fml this is taking the effing biscuit now, i have never seen anything like it on party before!!

So why not look to seat 6, oh what a fcking surprise it's Young mother fcking Supremacy!

Now the game i suggest from here to eternity is to find a tougher lineup of players on party poker....

Lol i just OPR'd those 4, they are only 400k up between them. Mugs the lot of them.

was it the 1 dog? no good?

it get trouble, anyone see it?

Fuck dog racing

Unlucky mate. I guess.

Shame I could only make it halfway to the track, FML!

Yeah 1 dog...

Didn't get out of the bins, slow up, slow down the back, slow to the pickup.

Basically, slow!

Still don't run as bad as rooks!

It's rigged I tell ya!

Did you get a raise through?!

No, sigh, so i just played like granite and got it in with AK vs Moomin, he had AQ, great game!

To be fair to Chris that does make it about 24-1 in AIPF pots we have played.

10k is average, this didnt hurt:

Pot to take me to 5x average in 100r
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3851230 (http://Pot to take me to 5x average in 100r
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3851230)







































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[ ] good link

[X] here is an easier one http://www.pokerhand.org/?3851230

wow that's fcking sick

New monitor?

Sick enough when I thought it was a 2 outer not a 1 outer, geez!

I've been 1 outer'd 3 times tonight!!  so close to smashing my lounge up

A bit like that 1-outer he hit for the straight flush when 4 flopped flushes a couple of weeks back!!      :D

Meh had many similar sick hands tonight but just got out of it with 2nd in the tilt 200 for 9k, only had the winner in 4 times as a 25% dog when 3 handed....

it's all good, wp

Congrats and good luck with your investment in blonde