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Jeff "Jaffa Cake" Kimber is a Ladbrokes sponsored Poker Pro, achieved following a sustained run of online success notably on Laddies

Here's the blondepedia entry http://blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=195

His track record since includes

Winner of the 2007 World Heads Up Chamipionship

Winner of the GUKPT Walsall 2008

Over thirty final tables in events worldwide since 2005 including in WPTs, Asian Poker Tour event, Amsterdam Master Classics,  in Hold Em and Pot Limit Omaha competitions

Worldwide live winnings of over $800,000

you can see the list here http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=43205

A sports journalist by trade too

A globe-trotting party animal, or so it appears to me!

Jeff will be around to answer questions for the next week or so, and thanks to him for agreeing to go in the well

Have you got over the fact that 'Dan is the man'?

how did it feel gettin owned by paul parker in champion of champions?

did you know u can play poker for real money on your mobile phone? if not james browning will show you

What an honour to be In The Well, esp following in the footsteps of the previous rabble lol. And a marvellous first question….

I have indeed got over it. I often wish my name rhymed with something cool, I think it helps in life, especially helping lazy journalists write headlines.

Newcastle used to a have a goalkeeper called Mike Hooper. He was a big lazy ginger lummox who was hopeless, but as his name rhymed with super dooper, the crowd would sing Soooooper Dooooooper Hoooooper every time he played, I’m sure it helped prolong his career.

what games do you play online? cash/comps? what levels?

In your live game, where are your priorities? You seem to go here, there and everywhere.......

can u tell us that dont know how u got or came up with the nockname "jaffa cake" please

Lol which time? He called my raise with 68 sooooted for 15% of his stack and flopped a flush against my AK, or the time when he couldn‘t pass J9 in the bb because my raise to 4300 at 800 1600 was far too small. Who said he was a rock ffs? Manages to hit flops orite tho.

I did observe from afar, I do need to fill in the gap in poker when I'm not playing online or live (ie the walk to the casino)so maybe u could set me up a tutorial. I'll make sure you're booked in just before me tho, woudn't want to push in and cud see you itchin to get involved

What you think about this from McCool's blog?

As for Jeff Kimber getting my chips, well he was probably the only player left l wouldn't want to see my chips going too so that was a bitter pill to swallow. I think Jeff can play a bit, of that l have no doubt, but he is just a bit up his own ass if you get my drift!

Are you up ypur own ass?

Can you play a bit?

Do you get his drift?

have you got a good enough credit yet to get a laptop dongle or do you still have to use flushy's.

do you spend more on tournies or at the bar / clubs on the piss ups ?

LOL Quality well so far, looking forward to seeing all these answered :D

How long after starting to play did it take you to FT the Laddies daily biggy?

Who would you rather face HU for your BR, Decision or Strummer?

Online I generally stick to PLO cash, around the 5/10 levels altho, I play as low as 2/4 and have been known to give the 200/400 a spin…lol great bankroll management.  I’m playin a bit of limit PLO8 and limit hold em too, anywhere between 30/60 and 100/200, those games are more a break for me though when I’m bored of other forms of poker. Am also playing a bit of HORSE, the standard seems so bad even in the big games.

If I’m at home I’ll generally have a few days off then play some nightly tournies, the $100r on Laddies, sometimes the 100r on Stars, whatever the comp on Blue Sq is too. Any big fessies that are on, the LEOCOP, ECOOP etc, I’ll generally get involved with, plus I’ve always done pretty well in sats so anything Ladbrokes don’t put me in, I try and qualify online for....the PCA, other EPTs etc. The Latin America Poker Tour could be the next target, I went to Rio last year for a break and loved South America.


First of all I go where Ladbrokes send me…then I fill in the gaps around them. So all the UK Poker tour events, then the important EPTs to Ladbrokes, which are London and Copenhagen. Add in the Irish Open, World HU, the Poker Million, take out 5 or 6 weeks for Vegas in the summer and maybe a couple of holidays to get away from poker and there’s not that much time left. I basically either go where there’s massive value in great comps, or somewhere nice and hot and exotic where the poker and holiday go hand in hand. I like the travelling bit, so things like Singapore and Turks and Caicos seemed like opportunities to go somewhere I would never go unless I was playing poker.

Watching the first series of Late Night Poker me and my sisters were fascinated by poker and decided to play between ourselves. As all the players seemed to have alliterative nicknames, like Dave the Devilfish, Ulliott Peter the Poet Costa, Barmy Barny Boatman etc etc. When we got the cards out, my big sis gave us all stupid piss-name names, so I became Jeff the JaffaCake. Soon after I signed up for Pokerroom, was just about the only online site around at that time, when it asked for a poker nickname I didn’t know what that meant but put JaffaCake in, I never knew it would appear on the screen. Oops

What well know pro has impressed you the most/worst at the tables in tournaments/cash games?
Are you a big sports bettor any big touches?
How did your ladbrokes deal come about and how long are you signed with them?
Do you play live cash games? What games/limit/casino?
Whats your favourite Poker room?
What achievement are you most proud of in your poker career?
Whos opinion do you respect most in the uk poker?
Whats your most luxurious buy?

Thanks in advance

Yeah a few people pointed this out to me last week. I’m amazed how many people seem to read blogs of this sort, I mean I’ve read Brian Townsend’s when he was playing the big 200/400 and posting hands from that, and Negreanu’s on the odd occasion, but I don’t get why you would read this blog? What’s there to learn here?

I’ve never, or never realised, I had a problem with McCool, but obviously I have. I’d imagine if u think someone is up their ass, whatever that means, possibly writing about them and posting pics of them on your blog is not  the best way of changing that situation.

My first job as a journalist was on a basketball magazine, and if we were getting no post in for the letters page I wrote, we’d have to make something up. Generally we’d write something like ‘Michael Jordan is past his best, it’s time he gave up, he’s a waste of space these days….’ and wait for the outraged to write in and start an argument which we could print the next week. I imagine if you write a blog about poker but don’t really have any interesting stories and successes to write about yourself you perhaps have to inflate something yourself. I’m sure if he was getting the lot at 200/400 like Townsend or winning bracelets like Negreanu there wouldn’t be any need to have a go at someone who makes a standard call to send u spinning out of a side event.

I did look at it once it was pointed out, someone told me there was a reply saying just coz Jeff made a good call on you don’t be bitter, or words to that effect, to which he basically accuses this response to having come from me lol. Obv the only person who could possibly come to that conclusion would be me. He does reply that I snap called him with the pocket eights tho, which is hilarious he feels the need to lie to make his story sound better….I cut my stack down so many times and counted out what I would have left if I called and lost the hand I was boring myself...obv I felt it was a race and needed to decide if I needed to take a race on now.

So no, I don’t get him, yes I think I can play a bit, I’m not sure that involves anyone’s ass, so no I don’t get his drift, but I wouldn’t be the first to be confused by his ramblings….

I never tried to buy a dongle after that episode in Plymouth lol. I think there was a language barrier somewhere.

I aim to get Ladbrokes to pay for the tournies and Flushy to buy the drinks….therefore never having to get out of it….

Far too much ass talk so far so assuming you're not a raving shirt lifter...... actually no even if you are..... which GUKPT dealer has the best ass?

no need to ask its Deena, and i'll hear no arguments  ty ;tracet; ;nemesis; ;nemesis;

although her sister is better looking and has a nicer arse, but she aint a dealer.

Is a Jaffacake a cake or a biscuit?

lol so true, mind you who doesn't he slag off on his blog, serious issues alert.

Was challenging for the GUKPT POY award important to you, or was it a nice bonus?

Would you rather make the wsop final table or win the smallest bracelet event? (ie. is it about the money or winning a major title)

Do you think you could take the Devilfish in a fight? street rules, outside a casino, bottles may be used as weapons.

God look at this guy comparing himself to Michael Jordan, he is so far up his own arse....


Where do you see your life in 3yrs 5yrs and 10yrs time?

I’d probably say Allen Cunningham, I sat beside him on day 1 of the WSOP main event last year and it was like watching a finely tuned machine. Every now and then he’d get out of first gear and slap down any of these young kids who thought they were going to run over the table, then he’d smoothly drop down the gears and sit back again for a while. His stack was never in danger and he never looked like losing a pot.


Nope. I don’t get why poker players want to risk thousands on a game of footy which is so unpredictable. I’d imagine, having been a football journalist for years, I’d have a better knowledge, insight, contacts than most, but it’s just too random.
Having said that I’ll have an interest on anything I think the bookies have got horribly wrong, so just as the Celtics were signing Garnett and Allen last yr I backed them to win the NBA at 25/1, couple of days later they were like 4/1. And obv the £20 on Pab in London last week, as well as some others whose price was just wrong, Moorman, Flushy n Henning.

I’ve been playing on Laddies literally since the day they opened their poker room and having finalled their 2006 Cruise and won a few tournies on there, I became known as a Ladbrokes player without actually being sponsored by them. I then got offered a deal by another company, contacted Ladbrokes and said these guys have offered me a deal, I will be signing with them but I’d rather be with you….the next week Ladbrokes offered me a deal. Our deals are rolling and end at the end of the yr….fingers crossed for next yr!


As a rule no, I don’t like live cash, I get bored with the slowness and also get guilty feelings as the drunk idiot pulls up his last £500 when you know he can’t play. Having said that I played the big game in the Vic last week on the advice of Mr Channing, who said it was a line up he would have wet drams about and gave me a profile of every player. Sure enough I soon got my £5k up to close to £7k without any danger, just a load of nutcases playing. Then this hand comes up….I have QQ in mid but the maniac who raises every hand is on the button. I limp behind an UTG limper, another two limps then nutter makes it £75 to play. My plan to rr went out the window when the UTG limper rr to £275, so I call, and bring in one other as well as the nutter. The flop came 743 with 2 clubs, and the limp rr guy bet £1200.…I had like £6k behind but didn’t want to call and give others a chance to squeeze or call and hit, so had to make decision for the lot. With Channing’s dossier, and my read of the guy not looking too happy, I decide I was always ahead and raise to £3600.…it's folded back to him and when he dwells I’m now sure I was right, he has like TT or JJ. Eventually he sticks me in for the rest, obv I call. Comes 4, 9. He says, ‘Trips’. I think he means he flopped trips and has a house, say nice hand…he shows he A4...obv. I fall off my seat and realise how much more it hurts losing at live cash then online too!


I guess the Rio, the buzz of that room the first time you walk into it is like nothing else. I like playing in the Bellagio too, and the Golden Nugget, just coz that’s the first place I played live.

ActionJack…he’s the poker godfather.

Hmmm, I’m not sure, holidays I guess, replacing my fake Breitling bought my ex with a real one was sweet too lol.

I couldn't possibly comment on that, I have enough bokk dealers without upsetting some more. Leave the pervin to the pros Penly

she's a TD these days. btw...first rule of complimenting a bird...get her name right

second rule, stop perving on her lil sis

Lol a cake, for tax purposes….cakes go hard when they go off, biscuits go soft!

THAT MAKES ME A BISCUIT :)

facebook gallery ftw obv.

In your informed opinion how long til facebook perving becomes a criminal offence?

Nah, just a nice bonus. I think with any new award it doesn’t really feel that important til it has some history, and I didn’t really have a shout of winning it I didn’t think, just a shot to get up to second and win the £5k, so that was mission accomplished.

I guess being greedy I’d say make the WSOP final and back myself to win that one. If it’s just the final or the bracelet I’d say the bracelet, but I imagine if I already had one then I’d rather make the WSOP final than get bracelet two, three or four. We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it eh?

I’m a lover not a fighter. Plus he used to carry a gun.

Apart from me in Singapore, who is the person on the UK circuit who you least like on your starting table ?

Or comparing McCool to me when I used to make up letters? There’s a backhanded insult there somewhere.

I have no idea on the future, I don’t like to think about it too much…poker is very results dependent…run good I’ll be living in the sunshine somewhere doing fk all, run bad I’ll be carrying buckets of water on my head for £6 an hour at Mick McCool’s farm

depends how good u get at covrering your tracks dave. remember there's always a copper watching...

QFT

Lol I forgot about us being together in Singapore. I don’t really mind who’s on my starting table, it’s easy enough to cope with one or two good players anyway. There’s people I don’t particularly like as people I don’t like playing with but that doesn’t affect the poker. Hah, I just remembered, Fat Marra….the only time I sat with him we drank so much I barely remember getting knocked out. He had two waiters and was ordering double rounds with each…sigh

To final I dno, not too long....to win it took me ages. I'd won the daddy and the sunday lunch a few times but couldn't quite get there in the 100r

Not played either hu but purely for fun strummer, we would have a laugh and a good few beers...and i'd win obv

What did you do with your life before Facebook was invented?

What's the best bit of advice a fellow poker player has ever given you?

if you hypothetically had to, what would be your alcoholic intake limit before you ceased to operate on a human level?

Does that mean in a roundabout way you are saying McCool has his head up his own arse?

As a regular on the 'UK Circuit' who do you reckon are the most overrated and most underrated players?

Where do all the flies go in the winter?

Top 3 tips for playing heads up poker?  Always best to be the aggressor?

Avoid playing Dan the Man obv

whats the other 2 tips?!

Why do you play the 100r GUK sats on Bluesq I would have thought you had a seat for these events anyway? but if not does your roll not cover a direct buy in rather than the pain of these sats?

when you look at how your game has developed, what were the major changes you made to become a successful player?

How crucial is sponsorship to you? Are you at a financial stage now where would you play some circuit events without it?

What value do you think you provide as a sponsored player to your sponsor? Apart from playing the events that the sponsorship involves, what else does being sponsored obligate you to do? 

Just wanted to let you know Jeff and infact let the whole off blondepoker know that 'your my hero'. Peace

Having been successful online first and then in Live tournaments, what would say are the biggest differences between the two?

Do you find it easy to spot an 'internet' player at a live table and how would you approach them?

there was life before facebook? i'm sure if anyone knows it's u copper

Can’t really think of one bit of advice, but I definitely think that when I got to know the other Ladbrokes players in the early days (not pros, just regulars) , my game definitely improved through talking to the likes of ActionJack, Squelch, Iwan Jones, Micky147 etc etc, all of whom have varying styles which give good insight into how and why we play like we do. ActionJack will definitely be the one who gave me the best advice, the guy’s poker logic is second to none….he really should be winning more comps and getting the recognition he deserves. I don’t think it’s any coincidence that the best players seem to come from close groups, where they discuss hands, tactics and share info.

not half as much as it was in my student days…but still probably double yours :o)

Lol, I have no interest in McCool…safe to say I won’t be writing blogs on him and using pics of him on my work. That’s as diplomatic as I can be after an afternoon in the pub!

It depends what u mean by underrated and overrated, as in by who? Themselves? There’s loads of players who think they’re better than they are, who talk good games but don’t necessarily play them. Those that are underrated I guess are players I’d expect to have a big result at some point. James Akenhead was definitely top of that list a year ago, but I guess he’s broken through with some biggies in the past six months. Another Hit Squadder, Sunny Chattha, always impresses me when I play with him, and I guess he’s yet to have that breakthough result…but you couldn’t call him underrated as plenty of top players know he can play.

Flies dies in cold weather. When they sense the climate changing, they have a reproductive surge, with babies in dormant pupa stage though the winter. I have to admit I didn’t know the answer to this one so I text 6336 so as to not disappoint you Kal.

In general yeah, best to be aggressive in all poker, but that doesn’t mean mindlessly pushing chips forward every time it’s your go in baboon-like fashion. I mix up my play quite a lot and find playing small ball can frustrate opponents, especially these young whipper snappers. Heads-up tournies are very different to heads-up at the end of an MTT, when the blinds and stack sizes are much changed. In a heads-up tourney I mix in some limps and folds on the button too. Generally though, be the aggressor, don’t create massive pots unless you’re sure of taking it down, be patient, it’s a marathon not a sprint, chipping away before taking a shot if often best.

I only played him once, barely lost a hand and ended up world champ and with a comedy 100 grand cheque….I don’t have too bad a memories of that lol

I am paid into the GUKPTs by Ladbrokes yeah, so when I win sats I keep the cash. I can afford to buy into most events but doesn’t mean I wouldn’t rather win a satellite in. RiverDave tells me there’s a history of running good while being in the well….I told him I played one tourney yesterday, that 100r sat, and got check-raised all in by AK on an AJ9 flop with me holding 999. Running KK FTW. In the well bok is born.

I just think I learned more about the game, talking hands and tactics with other good players. I also made sure I won enough to take shots at satellites into big events, and managed to win a seat in the Ladbrokes Cruise main event in 2006 and spun that into $125k and a month later a seat in the WPT Shooting Stars in San Jose and brought home $110k. I felt I was ready to play bigger events and take on anyone…looking back I wasn’t half as good a player then as now, and while I don’t think I made any mistakes on the Cruise (basically lost AK v JJ four handed for the chip lead), I think if I had my time again I would play my exit hands differently in the WPT, and would definitely have made the TV final table and from there who knows.

I had a very well-paid job as a sports journalist, and giving that up without a deal would be a wrench. However, I’d had two years of earning more from poker than work, and when I was given the chance to sign with Laddies and basically secure myself financially, I couldn’t sign quick enough. With a bit of skilful manoeuvring I managed to get myself made redundant even after signing to play full time, so I left with a nice five-figure payoff too….run good. I could buy into most or all events, whether that’s a sensible thing to do is another matter.

You’d probably have to ask Ladbrokes that. I certainly think it’s harder to get a deal if all you offer is the ability to play poker well, rather than be some kind of glamour model who plays cards or a bored actor or retired footballer famous for something else and looking for a new hobby. Certainly being a former journalist helps me though….at least if Ladbrokes send me halfway round the world for a tourney and I go out first hand, I can give them some value in terms of content for their website and write for magazines. The role of a sponsored player is changing, the good old days are certainly behind us, but it’s up to us to change and give the sites what they want (or clear off).

lol tx

I think when I switched between online and offline, online tourneys were different (easier) than they are now. Having said that I think the ECOOP last week was my biggest ever online result so it's not like it's changed tooooo much. The biggest difference is definitely the preflop aggression online, esp on the American sites. At first I found concentration an issue offline, as when I play online I’m generally on a laptop curled up on a sofa watching Sky Sports, but I soon got used to that. The more I played live, the more I started to pick up on physical things that other players do, although I still find it hard to put 100% faith in these reads.



Yeah, they’re the ones with ipods, baseball caps and look young enough to be my son.  All sorts of things give away internet players, they’re inability to handle chips and cards, messy stacking of chips (Moorman lol) and generally their lack of comfort. I felt the need to wear shades when I first played live, as much for comfort of staring at others as to averting their gaze. You find a lot more physical tells on these players….I spotted a tell on you in that mammoth heads-up against Jeff (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=795) Duvall (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=795) which I pointed out to Trigg and seemed right every time we got to see you cards hehe. I’ll tell ya next time we meet up. Barny (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=41) Boatman (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=41) reckons we all have loads of tells and the only way to rectify them is watch yourself on TV. I watch myself and can’t spot anything, apart from that I’ve always got it :o)

BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!

who's the highest ranked copper out of you and karl? Pretty close call IMO LOL

Karl. Congratulations on your recent marriage btw

cheers probs see u in Bahamas u can congratulate us in person,looooooooooooooool

sigh, ill stop eating oreo's while im playing.....

I certainly think it’s harder to get a deal if all you offer is the ability to play poker well, rather than be some kind of glamour model who plays cards or a bored actor or retired footballer famous for something else and looking for a new hobby. Certainly being a former journalist helps me though….at least if Ladbrokes send me halfway round the world for a tourney and I go out first hand, I can give them some value in terms of content for their website and write for magazines. The role of a sponsored player is changing, the good old days are certainly behind us, but it’s up to us to change and give the sites what they want (or clear off).

Golden words.

The day when sponsored players were just freerolling to play poker are fast disappearing, & not before time, the real world awaits.

I think the Laddies sponsorship model is superb - everyone has to do more than just play poker, & that's how it should be.

A handful of guys have grasped this. You, Thewy, Karl, are three great examples, genuine Ambassadors, who handle themselves well, win & lose with dignity, & reflect well upon their Sponsors. - I'm sure there are many more.

Congrats to Ladbrokes, on having a top-notch Team, a great Site, & to you for bluffing 'em well enough get the deal. ;)

See you soon Jeff - & send that Skalie fella across to do "In the Well".

lol...or drinkin corona?

Very kind of u to say so gramps, rumours of your grumpiness are vastly exageratted ;D

I think when I was offered my deal I realised how lucky I was, looking around at great players  I was travelling with like Paul Jackson, Nick Gibson, Iwan Jones, so I think acting responsibley and representing the brand are the least any sponsored pro can do. I think the Ladbrokes team is especially representative of that, and the make up of the team reflects that. All of our pros are what I would term 'Ladbrokes players'....me n Skalie have played tournies there since the site launched, Nebuchad and Pokergirl have carved up the biggest cash games there for yrs.

If u look at a site like Betfair, they sponsor some very good players, but they're not 'Betfair players'. Annette and Sorel made their names on Stars, John was a Ladbrokes player (they even use his Laddies nick, Kunku_Wap)...I don't think that helps with a site's identity. Laddies players can look at our team and say I've played that guy every nite, I'm better than him, if I keep winnng I'll be sponsored too. I think that's how a sponsorship should be, it should be aspirational for the recreational player.

And btw it's an honour to be asked to do this, skalie posted on this thread and i'm sure he would do it as would many others, hope u find it worthwhile...

Jeff you are far too modest. Nobody utilises today's plethora of online networking tools to a level as high as your good self.

I would also like to add my congratulations to the latest facebook couple and will too see them on their honeymoon in Jan. MBSFN.

Hey mate, i could be mistaking but wasnt it you that was sat next to jennifer titty er i mean tilly in a poker million heat ?

a) u looked far from impressed with her rabble , are looks deceiving ?

b) is she as annoying in reality as she came acrosss on the tv that night ?

c) having got a close up on the breastage , can you confirm if she could breastfeed a creche ?

Thanks

(Ignore if i am mistaking you for someone else)

Hi,
    What kind of BR advice would you give for someone playing playing HU sngs?

     Also how often/would you advice shot taking?

     What do you prefer HU cash/SNGS?

     Who is the best/toughest player you have faced HU?
     
     Thanks!

Hehe, no that was me sad beside tilly. I wasn’t in the best of moods that day after some non-poker related stuff that week, and I have to say she is the most annoying person I’ve ever met. They didn’t show much of it on TV (probably so as to not piss off their audience), but she was singing, talking in baby voices, rabbiting on about nothing in between hands with noone responding to her, it was truly bizarre. When me met her at the hotel she was fine, dressed in jeans and t-shirt, seemed nice enough…as soon as we got to the studio she disappeared to squeeze into that basque thing and became a different person….I guess that’s actresses for you. And I tried not to notice…she wants to put them away.

Someone told me at the PM party that she’s retired from poker now, is that right? Maybe my stroppiness served a purpose lol

I wouldn’t take any bankroll advice from me, apart from the bankrolling sites like BadBeat seem to be a great idea for those of us too stupid to put our own rules in place. Ben Grundy seems to be getting the absolute cake with their help these days so if I was struggling BR wise I would use their services.

I think the important thing in shot taking is to be brave enough to move back down quickly if it’s either not going well or you’re out of your depth, if you do that u won’t go far wrong.

I mush prefer HU sngs, altho to be honest I don’t play that much of either. I go through stages of playing them tho.


The best player I faced live HU was probably Carlos Mortensen, who beat me HU to win the Johnny Chan Invitational in Turcs and Caicos….although it wasn’t a long HU as I limp-reraised him with AQ and got him to call all his chips with just AK, sigh. In the World HU my toughest match was against Oscar Blanco, who was a real tough cookie to crack, and also had a massive home support cheering him on. Online my heads up against Jesper Hougaard in the $1k PLO ECOOP last week lasted nearly two hours which was a real slog.

substance abuse ftw?

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things are never that bad mate. plus i'm too hungover for any of that after the poker million party

lol although it was a question regarding her behaviour.

lol

Thanks for the reply Jeff!

+1

Don't really have any questions, but just thought I'd say I'm enjoying reading the thread....

Do you think that is fair on low (life) stakes players like me, who are hoping to scrape a seat and then experience a big tourney like this and maybe get on the right side of variance to do well ;-) but then to get totally pwned in the sats by the mighty kimber that puts them on life tilt, kicking the dog, ignoring the missus, neglecting the kids etc etc ?

Or is it just TS?

When are you getting your company tattoo done?

(http://www.expressen.se/polopoly_fs/1.1401437!slot100slotWide75ArticleFull/3447786819.jpg)

tx james, very kind of u.....sure u can come up with one tho ;)

lol, understand your point but no don't agree, i think anyone should be able to play a sat if they want. I played a WSOP sat at the gutshot last yr when i knew laddies were already stickin me in tho and three handed with 2 seats i was almost happy to get two badbeats and lose, the other fellas were do desp to go and i knew i'd be there. in the cold light of day tho i lost $10k to horror beats and noone can afford that too often.

all i'd say is sats FTW, defo improved my game sneaking into big events cheap and doin well playing against good players, plus meeting and getting to know good players too, hope the same happens for u....

dno what TS is....am i showing my age?

lol, someone asked me and skalie about that at the PM party....all I can say is nebu must be pretty confident of getting his deal renewed when our contracts are up at the end of the year. Me n Skal said we might have to think twice about usin a permanent marker.

Sure this can't be true but....someone at the PM prty told me Jonas told his gf he decided the time had come for him to have a permanent reminder of the biggest influence in his life....his gf, tear in eye, asked what he meant, he said i've been to get a special tattoo somewere personal....then showed her the laddies tattoo on his ass lol.

Tough shit...

In Ms Tillys article in one of the poker mags she says that she's quitting and concentrating on her acting career



(lol)

she was pretty good in stuart little2

awesome :)

I want a Ladbrokes sponsorship deal.

That is all

Carry on.

get in the queue, please.

Carry on.

See that little speck in the distance ahead of you?

If they're being dished out, put me 3rd on the list please.  I made  final table yesterday if it helps

its not me I am talking about.

Oh, er, me neither.

3 quick questions Jeff.

favourite fruit? animal? female tennis player?

weirdest thing ever witnessed at a poker table?

Hottest woman in poker?

If you could choose a friend to play HU vs Phil Ivey to save your life who would you choose?

Good well btw. ty

how many mental fistpumps did you make after i gifted you my stack in wsop main? (85 vs 67/56 cant remember) start of day 2

Jeff,have you ever been in this position ?? When i started playing nl hold em i had a fair amount of success,but i only ever won a couple of tournys when i was totally happy with my game,now i think i know loads more about the game but i dont seem to be able to let go,i always seem to see the dangers...........should i revert back to my old ways.??......... i see players now risking all there chips in the first level, i never wont to play like that but should i play in between.
  cheers

LOL!

I know one you could strike off the list.....

YouTube: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=--Qap3VT_ZY

So cruel but still the best ever televised hand imo

yeah top stuff,comentary good too

This is why Sir Jackson is such a rock these days...tried one bluff in his life, and this happened. Sets only from now on...

As it happens i have tried at least 3 or 4 bluffs in the 3 years since that event and none of them have worked either. I hope to get one right in 2009.

gl in your bluff quest squire ;)

ah okay...yeah guess it's TS then really

lol good luck to her

lol think we all missed out when they were bein handed out, these days not so easy...but they're there if u bring something different and prove some value to sites i reckon...

tabatabtabtabi has a prop bet going in wich he has to win$100k in 2 months from $1k apparently hes on about $14k after month1.
wich side would you be betting on?
will you take the same bet?

Not really at the table, but some quite ridiculous musical walk-ons….a fella before me at the
Amsterdam Master Classics walked on to I’m Too Sexy by Right Said Fred….at the cruise final some teenage scandi strutted out to PIMP by 50 Cent, and Skalie nearly caused a riot coming out to some Sex Pistols song. At the table I try and just pretend like nothing’s happened when I see something ridic…memorise it and try and stack the mug at the first opportunity.

I take it we mean players, and as me n Tilly neve clicked...Shannon Elizabeth. I played the WPT Shooting Stars a few years ago having won a seat online and took my mate with me. I was well excited to be playing and told him to take loads of pics in case I didn’t last long. I ended up with one picture of me and about 50 of the lovely Shannon. To be fair the boy done good.

Lol still Jackson despite the other comments. The fact he’s tried it before helps, the fact he’s the best poker player I know would also sway the decision. The fact he had the balls to play like that against Ivey says a lot about Paul. The fact it didn’t work just shows that Ivey is basically not human.

Christopher Biggins, Sick Dog, Kournikova obv

lol i remember....was interesting table, very weak but with u, the young kid who won a bracelet in seat 10 and me trying to get through the madness. Was a very weird hand, esp the call I think, tho can't quite remember exact cards, and I only called the clock as we were well into the break and I was desp to join he scrum to take a piss.

not much of a fist pumper tho, too lazy

if gay was cool who would be the coolest on the uk circuit?

hmmm, i'm not sure if this is what you're askin, but I really think a players' development goes through cycles, and when we first start doing well we've probably had quite a bit of luck as we don't understand the game half as muc as when we've had a bit more exp.

I guess it's a combo of running good and not playing in an 'orthodox' way gets us so far, but to consistently win it's obv much better to be an experienced thinking cerebral player.

I don't think u should ever regress, but should always be looking to modify and improve, and if improving includes adding more gamble to your game, or changing gears more, or trying something new, like a super aggressive start to a tourney, then so be it.

I often try new things, styles, turning up late, play blind etc etc in gukpt side events to see if i sould be doin certain things differently....

lol class...how good is this hand tho....

hope it's on me...would love to snap u with q hi

look at the potsize and Iveys eyes AJ was playing beelzebub himself. Iveys signed his sole away.

yeah i been following it and i chat to john a lot. I'd back him in anything he does in poker, he's a great player when his mind is right, but when his head has gone he's dangerous to himself...or at least he was when he was younger. I've been close to john for 3 or 4 years and have helped him at times when he basically wanted to quit poker, he's a great talent and I think he has his head right these days too.

no i wouldn't, John is a much better cash player than me. Plus I don't have the patience...

dno, if you're interested probs best u work that out on ya own

your the worst comedy partner ever

jeff, what are your top 5 tournament tips that you think seperate you from the also-rans so often. give us the secrets.

It's important to have dreams and aspirations Paul.

well closes today, tyvm to Jeff for answering the questions

Watch out for another one soon!

sometimes you're only as good at the material you're given to work with...

:o) you know as well as I do there's no big secret to playin this game mate, just a battle to keep on finding bits of information that lead us to making correct decisions. I play poker the way I used to do well at school - I nck loads of other people's work, take what I think are the better bit and keep it for myself. Combine them all and you get bettr than any of the games you've pillaged!

For example, after a night out with Julian Gardner and  chat about how he seem to get stacks so early, I definitely try and find weak players and play pots with them early in tournaments, something I wasn't bothered about before...basically ignoring the cards.  I think I'd become lazy too, not concentrating on every hand, building profiles of players in my head, recalling how and why they played certain hands....it's easy to do, be more bothered about chattin to the dealer of your mates but really it's not the right thing to do if you want to take the game seriously. Now I hope I can recall almost anything that's happened.

You know what I'm saying tho, there's so many small elements that we can all add with a bit of effort that give us more info to make right decisions, and most of it stems from talking poker, watchin it, readin about it and sharing info to improve your own game....as long as u never think you've made it and u can't get any better, there's always scope to improve....

good post. can you dish the dirt on any tells you found on mates which you told them about and are now defunct?

Hi Jeff,

Great read.

Couple of questions,

1 - Do you use any tools for online poker, i.e Poker Tracker etc..
2 - What's now your bread and butter game?
3 - Do you miss doing as much as journalism as you used to?
4 - Kunku, hartwith and myself, vs You, Colclough and Actionjack  - who wins? lolol :d

Good to hear you're doing well.