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I thought I would post and correct the Blondepoker sight. My name is Anthony Martin and I played the recent DTD £300 Feb' tournament having finished 12th in the January tournament. At the beggining of level 8 I was sat with 40000 chips which was about average as the blinds were 500-1000. Alan Stearn was sat to my left in the BB as I was in the SB. There was a MP flat caller and as I looked at my cards I saw A9o, I called as well. Alan Stearn raised to 3000. Both the caller and myself called the raise.
Now the flop came A, 9, 3.. perfect for a check which I did Alan Stearn bet 3000 the other player called and I went AI. Now after great deliberation Alan after telling himself I had two pair called the AI for his tourney life. The other player folded. As I turned over my two pair he groaned and showed AJo. Now to me this is an apalling call, how he thought he was in front to make the call is beyond me. If he thought I was putting my tournament life on the line with anything less than two pair well forgive me but I am not having it. His reaction when the Jack hit the turn was equally bad shouting 'yes' and thumping the table.
Blonde poker reported this in their live reporting as though we both got it in on an equal basis as such. No, he made a terrible call and got rewarded for his bad play. He then went on to finish in 4th place and collected £10,000, probably forgetting his bad play and sportsmanship. Just to put the record straight

50p?

50p

you beat me TL

Regards

M

Maybe more than a 50p equity beat, but it will never catch on round here.  ;)

It's poker, it happens I am afraid cracksniper

I reported correctly that he got A-J in v A-9 on A-9-3 and hit a Jack. I think I typoed a J on the river too

Did he Fastroll his AJ?

I mean honestly what do you want people to say to this really?

I would like to thank you for pointing out not every live update is accurate. (This ok?!?)

Wp and Ul

Cool story

Update looks pretty accurate to me :dontask:

Fold pre but, as played, 9975/call on flop.

Welcome to blonde.

Deffo fold pre

Terrible play cruelly punished ?

This is just being results oriented imo

was u more upset about him celebrating

or him calling with aj  and him sucking out

Sounds like he's more upset about how blonde reported it on the update (although not sure why, as it was reported accurately from what I can see).

these are the posts ive missed!

Seems to me you played the hand bad pre, got rewarded for bad play, then got given a big slap by the justice ball.

Unfortunately, people don't always understand that celebrating in poker is bad etiquette. Some people just love the game a little too much and can't contain their excitement. IMO, take these things with a pinch of salt and laugh them off. They're actually quite funny when you look back

What are you playing at cracksniper? We're sitting there with a nice average stack, everything cool, and then we decide to over limp with the A9o? Not only that but when we flop a miracle we check shove 40k over a 3k bet giving our oppo a big dilemma with his better Ace. Lucky for us our terrible play gets ultra rewarded when our opponent calls for his tournament life. Don't worry about the updates, they prob didn't focus on a bad call by Alan Stearn as it's not particularly newsworthy.

Threadsaver if I ever saw one. Tho I absolutely <3 Alan

This guy ran ultra deep in January so let's give him a break please

LOL Stearnaments

Some of Alan's dummy spitting moments are the amongst my highlights at Dtd. Had the hands been reversed he would have blown. As Glen says he ran deep this weekend and is a character so good luck to him.

That's just poker sniper. Welcome to blonde and just laugh it off

I liked the bit about ultra rewarding

Such an open goal for your first post.  Welcome to Blonde.

MBN to flop two pair and get someone to go all in for their tournament life with one pair.

Welcome to blonde.

A9 plays pretty shitty oop multi way but you write nicely.

Diary please.

paragraphs?

(thats for the ginja ninja)

Sniper, nothing to be gained from getting wound up with situations like this. I'm pretty sure you'll win more than you lose in similar future spots, keep getting your money in ahead! Winning and losing with grace doesn't come naturally to everyone, particularly on a poker table. At the same time, if someone shows bad etiquette don't let yourself get dragged down to the same level ;)

oi

This is the sort of story you here someone telling his poor mate in the break (who's still in, and clearly just wants to get a drink at the bar).

 :hello: Welcome to blonde

Sniper - whilst I love the title of your Fred      .....      I'd like to point out it is the Mission Statement of the Luton G cardroom. and subject to copyright law.

Expect legal proceedings to start forthwith!

You will be contacted by our solicitors - Mssrs Vin, Sent, Cal & Enti - in due course.



 

If only I was ultra rewarded for reading OP ;reallyamsorry;

Word of advice - don't ever play online if this kind if thing upsets you, your lap top wont last a week.

P.s. pretty sure I read somewhere the best starting hand doesn't always win

but the best starting hand (that we know of) did win..

all so if you have less then 4 outs you will allways hit

s'alright sniper I justice busted him with AQ when he spannered his 11 big blinds in on the final with 55, just a pair of fives 4 handed IDK how these people make it this far but nice to see them punished from time to time.

Justice will be served.

I was on this table and watched this hand. Reporting was fine other than it wasnt runner runner Jack, just jack on turn. No change there then.
Its always hard in a biggie to watch someone make a call from behind to your shove and then hit. Alan did react a little excitedly and could tell this didnt go down well. But as all have said this is poker. And Alan had chips and top pair. No ones play was particularly out of line imo.

I am never folding A9 in SB when I'm getting nearly 5-1 pot odds after a raise and a call, learn to play who critisised this. I spiked two pair just what I wanted against a raiser if I just hit top pair then I check - fold/call adjust to the bets. He on the other hand made a garbage call it would have been just as bad if he had AK as both hands AJ and AK play the same. Fair play to the kid who knocked him out nice post. He did'nt deserve to get there in the first place.

Some very good players said they'd fold pre. No possibility they might be right?

Hope all this doesn't hurt Alan's feelings.

In before 'bloody hell it is cliquey on this forum'

Check.....!!! ;tightend;

Are you in the "This forum is cliquey" clique?

Welcome to Blonde....

 ;welcome;

hey cracksniper hope you are well,

you was behind,

you went ahead,

you ended up back to square one.

The BB's fist banging and shouting "yes" a little out of order from a experienced player.

If you can not become a good loser, you have little chance of becoming a winner.

Best of luck in future :)

If you win the hand, do you come on blonde to make a post about his garbage call? Just lol at getting upset when someone gets it in behind against you! I would have LOVED IT.

where is peoples etiquette. Alan is a renowned moaner but never seen him banging tables ???

Sounds like you'd enjoy my diary, sniper

Not so much me, but this is true of alot of people that have taken the time to reply

Don't understand the mentality on the flop. If you're so shocked that he called your shove, then isn't it a lot better to flat-call instead?

Was at this table at the time, the way you reacted was comfortably worse than the way he did.

Alan Stearn is a great player, there is no shame losing to him, you should hold your head up high

Impartial take on how it played out, Stato?

Lol.

So much win in this thread.

Told Alan about this thread today. He burst out laughing.

site

Snitch!

Think OP is a smoker and not a sniper :)

It might be hard, but you'll help yourself in the long run accepting that the people who told you that playing the A9 was the biggest mistake are right.

Seriously though, if you react this badly to something that happens in a game life is gonna be tough...

Welcome to Blonde and best of luck in the future  :)up

took a while to sink in lol.  Crack smoker pmsl

This

You shove for value, then hate it when he makes the call???

Well no come on he loves the call he wants the call just doset like it when your man gets there

limp limp limp

interesting

call call call

interesting

ok, i call ya mate.

Sounds more like justice than a terrible play IMO

This actually feels more like a level then a legit thread

It's a rough old game, we all have our own way of trying to escape the pain. Given the tone of this thread I think he should find a better source though :D

Confirmed level

Of course i wanted the call but only a bad player would make it and those of you backing the caller are as bad a player as him.

dont think anyone has said alan played the hand well
but i do know he does love the game

Who backed the caller? 

Nobodys backing the call by Alan. Not one person has said it was a good call (unless they were being sarcastic).

What we are all saying is that sometimes, you have to take a look at what you did wrong in a hand. Yes he made a terrible call, but you made a bad peel pre and the shove is also ridic. The biggest way to improve in poker is not to look at "OMG HE HIT A JACK FFS", but "what did I do wrong in this hand". You gain nothing from complaining, but everything from self analysis

Good post #1horse

Good post...

Gonna spend your £70 on a soapbox and post it to you ;)

This is by far the most constructive post in this thread but I fear it may have been a waste of a few minutes of your life.

Your play in this hand is far worse than Mr AJ, if you take stock of that and try and figure out why you will have a chance to improve, if you continue to just moan and complain about how others play you will continue to be a losing player.

This is 100% level.... In the words of Paddy McGuimess, Single Leveller, reveal yourself

one of the best posts I have seen on blonde.


staw poll how many people would call pre

I for one would say no

I'd fold pre too

Unlucky cracksniper, you played it great and that nasty man went and hit his three outer. Such a horrible call, you should be the one with the ten bags not him.

Mods:  I think we can lock the thread now someone has told him what he wanted to hear.

I for one wish Alan hadn't called. Would have prevented this thread. If only we had an Austrian bodybuilder...

this thread has been top 5 this week, what you talking about

Initial call isn't terrible but calling a bb raise to play a pot oop is never going to make money.

Definite fold pre for me.

If your not trolling your one of my poker Heros

I see it differently and don't think Alans call was that bad due to the pre-flop play.

You are out of position in the SB and flat a mp opening call.
Your range imo is small pair or connectors - not a 'good' ace or any ace for that matter, as you raise pre here.  
You confirm the range by flatting Alans (good), pre-flop raise.
You then shove an A 9 3 board after check raising - fair enough, but you were almost inducing a call here with an over shove.

You played weak out of position pre, then induced a call.
For these reasons, I can't blame Alan.

Range this range that what bs. And for him who said the all in was ridic your a donk. The pot was over 15000 id taken a bit of a gamble pre yes because of the value to call.  And id like to play any of you who would put their tourney life on the line with one pair facing an all in. He was gutted when he saw what he,d done to himself and then hit a 3 outer ffs. Any1 who thinks he,s in front with AJo facing this bet must be mad. He even told himself what i had and still made the call. Thats fin ridic.

I have taken time out from my holiday to catch up on this thread.  Was worth it.  Tks

LOL - you have overtaken me in the madness level of your mind, therefore I am happy and declare myself out.

What a funny old game, with funny people.

I call this bluff.

100% a level now, last post comfims it.

 rotflmfao

yeh def level.

No, its not a level.

Anthony, this level of anger a week after the event is going to make poker a really unenjoyable game for you I think. Please let it go!

If it's not a level and this guy really wants to argue against so many better players who are telling him his play was bad, I'm sure many of them will be happy to play him at some heads up cash. I'll certainly be in that queue.

Just drop it man, you are coming across really poorly on here. Someone has already said your reaction to the beat was terrible which indicates that you aren't taking things in the right spirit and perhaps deserve to be outdrawn. Maybe that's harsh but I believe in Karma and one of my poker hates is people who are sore losers and berate others at the table.

If it means so much to you that it makes you want to go on a tirade like that, either stop playing or play lower where it doesn't hurt as much.

Agreed, a 3-outer is not even so bad cracksniper. You have plenty of bigger and better kicks in the bollocks to look forward to than that on your poker journey.

wise words once more Greek one.

Anthony 90% of people walked away from this deepstack scratching their arses muttering "I had top pair. Just a cooler". Alan would have been doing the same had he not hit a jack.

Life's too short man. Blonde is a great place to come and learn and have fun too. The advice is good advice, you just need to get back on the horse and ride again. Good luck in the next comp

But if he gets good luck then we won't get another thread like this :(

we could have a whole thread of "crack sniper took me out with a 20% shot or less".

Infact sod it i might even put on a dog collar and open up a thread called "The Confessional" where you can come and post the hands you got lucky in. Would be a whole lot more fun and good for morale

This

 ;D

I finally find a good post in me and its wasted. Next time I have inspiration to help a randomer, I think Im just gonna have a lie down lol

If ever there was a time to sitback have a beer and not to bother posting on a forum about something, this was the time. Online aint for everyone folks.

Think this thread is just a thinly veiled brag about coming 12th in Jan dtd deepstack tbh. And how has it got this many replies. Madness!

To quote the updates thread hero went out said deepstack with a "Martin shoves blind 9-2 off" if that had hit into A9 (3 outer), and went on to win ten bags, would that have been a terrible play being ultra rewarded?

OP should've folded the river, obvious he had A9 beat

Alan said he has been running really bad lately..only on Thursday he had to replace the tyres on his Ferrari.

He deserved to hit the Jack in my opinion as he was well ahead when he raised preflop.

Do it Jase, I've got one to add from yesterday.

No reason to expect you would play any of the following differently pre-flop, but how would you play these on the A 9 3 flop?

A 10, A 8, A 7, A6.

lol not a level, wow then.

Listen buddy, you'll never learn how to win at gambling unless you learn how to lose - temprament, focus and discipline are three factors as, if not more important than actual poker ability and if taking such a beat (horrible, but not out of the ordinary) is going to throw your emotions so off kilt you have no chance. Poor/Average poker players with exceptional emotional control CAN win, great players with none CANNOT win, it's as simple as that really.

I know you've taken none of the advice ITT on board so far and there is no reason for you to listen to me either, the call pre-flop is defo a mistake, against a tight player like Alan squeezing preflop like that A9o will ALWAYS be in trouble(he never has KQo or A8 for eg), I know you're getting 5-1 but you have "reverse implied" odds to consider as well, which is the amount you could potentially LOSE if you flop a dominated hand - I know you're going to say you'd potentially chk.fold on AT5 or 943 but you're still putting your self in a venrable position playing a hand that is very likely dominated, OOP.

A lot of the people who have posted to you here people would (and do) pay actual money to hear their opinions on poker. Just bear that in mind before dismissing them.

It's only a game!

First rule for poker rookies to learn... No such thing as value calling with rag Aces op in the sb
Second rule for poker rookies... Don't be results orientainted.. Realise you made a terrible call first

Until this is rectified you will never win anything

Clearly this whole post has been about OP realising his ambition of 300 min posts for staking, whilst cunningly selling his investment appeal. 'Sold out' to follow...

I folded a J......   ;)

Sick I was on the table to and foled the other J so it's even worse that he hit a one outter

Story checks out.

oh yeh, us rookies should'nt do what you tell us to do. I mean it's not worth a gamble to see a flop..never, lets just play safe at all costs, I mean  you've got the 'range' havn't you? You know exactly what the other player has got? Right? Well us poor players like to get other the likes of Alan Stearn AI for their tourney lifes when they have got nearly no chance of winning. This will be my last post on this matter, I have said what i have believed is the right thing to do. Alan banged his fist down and shouted 'yes' when he hit. If you back that up then get on with it. Over and out.

But he did win so his chances must of been ok!!

He had top pair on the flop - worth a gamble if you ask me.

Did you stop around and see how the tournament panned out?

Oh that's not fun now is it. Stay, hang about. It's nice to see what you want to say as you dig your self the nice hole your working on

So..... Asked the blind and ignorant man.... Why is the world against me ?

The alias "cracksniper" is worrying me....I have images of him with one of those rifles with the sights that mean you can pick of an enemey from 200 miles; think we should all think about how we play the the next DTD deepstack if we face this villain.

PS - please say it was all a level now

lol I first read the name and thought it was cracksniffer.

Awesome 3000th post

End the thread now...lol can't get any better than this post... Think a bit of wee came out ....

Mr Sniper

Don't think this lot are unfriendly or cliquey as they are not. There are many ways to play this game and its up to to find your own style. Many players would not play this hand even at odds of 5/1 pre because its a reversed implied odds situation. You will usually win a smallish pot even with this dream flop. Or you can lose the lot as you did even though you played post flop like Phil Ivey.

You also say he said you had 2 pair and still called with a guy to act afterwards. I noticed this at dtd last time I played where people were saying all sorts of shit before folding/calling in multiway pots.

Is this a dtd thing or can you say what you like? I raised on a flop in position and a guy basically stated that he was folding middle pair with one guy to act. Should I have said something or is that all cool?

There is none so blind as them what won't listen.

I think we need a pic of Alan stern itt

sod that, we need a pic of cracksniper!

Page 24 of day 2 new year deep stack updates......

This has gone on long enough

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9 pages of levelling.

What's a level?

The 9 levels of power

Is this a level?

This is a level

This is one way of checking if the floors level.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgou17SVTYc

Story checks out. Guy scores first Herbiemob flag in January deepstack and expects one every month now.

I blame Goulder and Thew for making it look easier than it is

As if the Tony Martin reference has yet to be hailed.  Pretty funny thread all-round. 

fyp

ha ha. Coming from Mr. Golden Chip

ho ho from Mr Marrakech

What about limping A9 then back raising. Increddd!!!! AJ would be in an absolute coffin!

Blown. Away. Still got so much to learn <sigh>.

ha ha. Here we go. Another one of the tossers making live poker look ridic easy :)

I can't wait for my broadband to be installed, so I can hopefully see some of my terrible play 'ultra rewarded' :)

Squid on another fkn level

best post ive ever read about poker

i remember when i found blond poker i couldent stop reading all the post and my head was like a huge sponge soaking all the helpfull info / feedback  // lessons .remember we are allways learning more

Kind of playing devils advocate but i don't think his preflop play is particularly bad, given there are antes and ppl who aren't going to play perfectly postflop.

news just in:

Poker stars are chainging their FPP programme now to ULTRA REWARDS

This happened to me 5 times a night for 2 weeks in Vegas last year.

I snap  call all in with AJ.

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I just saw this on FB and thought of this thread.

Courtesy of poker stars blog


2.10pm: Alexander Rhys-Davies eliminated in sixth place (€10,510)
It had been a good orbit for Alexander Rhys-Davies, he'd got a walk and shoved twice (showing A♦K♥ on one occasion) to increase his stack to almost 400,000.
However it all unravelled on the last hand before the break. He moved all-in and this time he got a taker, in the shape of Fridjon Thordarson.
Rhys-Davies: A♣9♥
Thordarson: J♣J♥
A 9♠4♦8♠ flop gave him some hope, but it came 2♦Q♦ to eliminate him from the tournament in sixth place. The five remaining players are now on a 15 minute break. -- NW

A9 the new jacks?

Please, Please.
Someone direct me to a thread as funny as this !
I must read it.........

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=60272.0

Haha,
Even Better 

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=12519.0

The greatest opening post. I really hope a diary is made.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=56559.0

wp

Shoulda gone to specsavers Tighty!

Great bump, thread delivers on so many levels!!!

Nh

haha @ me

Twelve pages of joy from the humble beginnings of a standard DTD hand. My side's hurt :)

This is why I love this forum. I never post but this thread has inspired me to start.

I was on a final table online last night (/brag) and my A9 shove lost to KQ. Villain then went on to win the tournament.

FML

Probably worthy of its own thread.

I like to think so as I didn't play my A9 anywhere near as badly!

Could I come in as a late entry with a whinge?

Played Stoke GPS at the weekend.

Watched a guy limp in every hand on day two and calll every raise, regardless of 3/4/5 bet action before him. As each player made a raise he would pick up the correct chips to call before next to act had done anything, then if they raised again he simply picked up more chips.

Most of his calling range seemed to involve a duece, or at least cards lower than a  5.

Beat my pocket tens with Q6 off, after flopping two pair. Cracked aces with A2. Beat Dan Trett's pocket Queens with K7 off. These are just a few examples.

My exit hand involved him calling my raise with 53 off and flopping two pair, sending me home in 32nd place (thin brag inserted there obv)

His reward was fnishing second for 18K.

I bet 10£ on what I thought was 28/29 but it was 25/26

And 25 came in


Terrible play ultra rewarded

:-) this appeals to the degen in me. wpwp

By far and beyond the funniest thread on Blonde

I thought I would post and correct the Blondepoker sight. My name is Anthony Martin and I played the recent DTD £300 Feb' tournament having finished 12th in the January tournament. At the beggining of level 8 I was sat with 40000 chips which was about average as the blinds were 500-1000. Alan Stearn was sat to my left in the BB as I was in the SB. There was a MP flat caller and as I looked at my cards I saw A9o, I called as well. Alan Stearn raised to 3000. Both the caller and myself called the raise.
Now the flop came A, 9, 3.. perfect for a check which I did Alan Stearn bet 3000 the other player called and I went AI. Now after great deliberation Alan after telling himself I had two pair called the AI for his tourney life. The other player folded. As I turned over my two pair he groaned and showed AJo. Now to me this is an apalling call, how he thought he was in front to make the call is beyond me. If he thought I was putting my tournament life on the line with anything less than two pair well forgive me but I am not having it. His reaction when the Jack hit the turn was equally bad shouting 'yes' and thumping the table.
Blonde poker reported this in their live reporting as though we both got it in on an equal basis as such. No, he made a terrible call and got rewarded for his bad play. He then went on to finish in 4th place and collected £10,000, probably forgetting his bad play and sportsmanship. Just to put the record straight


One lazy call created one epic thread :)

YES PAUL!!!

Coming up the 18th yesterday my golf game was all square. Under pressure I hit a 6-iron approach when it was a clear 7. Going to pieces now I leaked it high and left. The ball clattered into the trees behind the green much to the delight of my competetive friend. His smile disappeared when the ball bounced back onto the green and rolled to within 2 feet of the cup. Easy roll in to win the match. Terrible play ultra rewarded.

Mantis where the hell have you been? I've been missing you :-(

lol? hand is played perfectly (if you could see his hole cards). Only bit that is remotely bad is shouting "yes". Should be pretty happy with yourself.

lol@folding pre

Recently my time has been exhausted with new job, moving house, demanding women.

Will be back soon tho mate!!

Wait until you're less busy before you demand any more women.

I called a raise with  6d 4d in the deepstack
That's terrible play

Ultra rewarded with a flop of

 5d 7d 8d

Huh, 6d 4d is the near nuts, great hand for calling in position.  If your oppo's don't flop a straight or ace high flush you have every right to feel hard done by in my view.

Over pair  flopped nut straight & nut flush (; 

nothing wrong with that hand...certainly not awful play...I love those hands   ;sark;

Played v bad ran like god

Good for 9k :)

Oi Oi

wug?

Probably on about Arsenal winning, pleno

Finding myself googling acronyms more and more these days...!!

le tapis wugwug?

 ;frustrated; ;frustrated;

Best bump of the year though... Love the way this thread starts...

Learn French with Pleno is not available in any shops

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/9718122_EC31FBF460

huh?  It is just a bit odd, and you are racing.  If you planned to limp this and shove the BB raise it isn't the first time I have seen the move.

Perhaps an explanation would help - I planned to fold, then missed the appropriate button. Instantly thought of this thread.

Rubbish bump.

terrible posting [ ] ultra rewarded :)

I've put on weight, alright. Deal with it.

Ha!

fyp

Terrible bump, ultra rewarded... oh for mr snipes to grace thread
with his measured words!