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Evening Blonde

Taking another dip into the live staking board, treading carefully with my LOL results so bear with me....my name is Chris Roberts or Rab90 Stars/Tilt for quick reference.

Tournament
Quoted from facebook so should be accurate, I mean when is anything ever untrue on facebook:

Genting Fountainpark SUMMER SIZZLER

£25000 Guarantee includes 5 x £600 packages to The Genting Poker Series Newcastle leg (23rd July to 27th July)

£100 + £50 Add on
£10 registration fee

DEALER DEALT

11th July – Day 1a Friday – 7pm start
12th July – Day 1b Saturday – 7pm start
13th July – Day 2 Sunday – 3pm start

15000 starting stack + 15000 addon

40 min blind levels throughout

The GPS seat would of course carry, can't guarantee I can play it, if I cannot, stakers will receive a proportion of what I get for it (we all know roughly what that is worth), I reserve the right to place a horse for us of similar ability (so pretty shit) to sweat on instead, which will be confirmed before the tournament.  We will be playing Friday night and be in from the start taking likely the whole stack depending on table and dynamic.


Why you should stake me?

- I have not cashed a live comp of any kind in 12 months, so am clearly due! (bar a GPS sat win, only played 9-10)
- I embrace the community spirit and have been staked and/or staked several blondes in the past
- I help old ladies across the street, clean up litter and generally help the outside community also
- I am probably not as bad as the worst players in the field and maybe even slightly better than the medium players.
- I have conducted several financial transactions on here without an issue (bar comedy cent grimming and slow paying camel $13)
- You will get updates and reports, including some likely comically flawed thinking which made sense at the time, always fun for PHA

Why you should not stake me?

- I have not cashed a live comp of any kind in 12 months, so may be shit
- You hate puppies, rainbows and unicorns

Why am I selling?

Going to Vegas in November and my Mrs has taken ownership of everything I earn and/or find in the street.  The releasing of funds is a 3 stage process involving forms, promises and blood.  I think the request for £160 for a poker tournament is not going to go down well....thankfully the return of your winnings will not be so challenging, alas I don't think I will see mine FML.  In addition I have lost most of my poker roll ($84.55) staking jokers like TomSom87 and BorntoBubble (best to alienate potential backers early in a proposal).

Hendon Mob

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=178987

Now shows some local Scottish flags just to show I once had a good week in October 2012.  I should reiterate I have not played much at all in the last 18 months, I am not THAT bad.

OPR

http://www.officialpokerrankings.com/pokerstars/Rab90/poker/results/DE73855261904DCDAB39932230BCBD63.html?t=
http://www.officialpokerrankings.com/fulltiltpoker/rab90/poker/results/3046A48999C54A6192C2113CB30C99E1.html?t=

I make money on stars somehow....

What I am Selling

I am selling 50% at spot which I think represents fair to moderate value (down graded from good last time) in an Edinburgh based competition.  I will wait list a further 10% as I may need to sell a little more depending on if my form is accepted.  You would have no share of my attempts to hit number 5 on the roulette wheel following the tournament.  Unless you expressly ask.

50% = £80
25% = £40
10% = £16
5% = £8

I really need bank transfer (nearer the time) as I dont think it will let me withdraw low amounts from stars and I will invariably punt it on stars!  If I bust comically early and nip like a pro, I may fire a second bullet, as it is not a huge amount, I will auto book everyone for this unless they confirm otherwise.

Flame away (or preferably just say a % and allow me to win us mad dimes)

Going to reserve 10% for RedFox as he always has a piece of my live action and is not on much

Rest please pm bank deets

Cheers mate, PM sent.  Booked as 40% pending Malcolm's confirmation.

Hi Chris

Thanks and yes 10% is good.

Cheers

Malcolm

I hate these threads.  W/l 10%

Tournament sounds banging. World Cup Final thoughhhhhhh!!!

lol me too, 10 ball. you said in the online stake that youd let us know first! :P

Scotty - what better place to watch a World Cup final but on the final table of a poker tournament.....

Tomsom87 - you just hover my threads until they are sold out and then snap w/l knowing nobody would ever drop out such a strong EV proposition....ha ha

Verndog - I kind of treat the online ones a bit differently done 4-5 live packs and never returned anything.  Malcolm has also taken bits off blonde privately cause he witnessed first hand how good I can be for an hour.  Tony missed my last one on the waitlist and missed the chance to lose money spectacularly.  There is something online brewing, which I will give you notice on, I just need to do a form to the Mrs to confirm I require some of my own free time, they work just as badly as the I need money forms!

If Mr Sommerville agrees you boys can have a 5 ball each and I will stick at 40%.  That would involve comedy shipping me £8.

Ha it's ok, just nice to have a sweat when am not playing! Plus your due! I'm sure tom won't mind

He has a few days to confirm, down in London from Thursday to Sunday with likely zero wifi, phone is gambling blocked on 3G so can't view Blonde much (damn child lock), will PM details next week if we are on!

leggo

Details sent by PM

Received from Malcolm and Tony!

sent 5% worth from me. can send from dumshite too if he wants, as i know hes busy. if he doesnt want it, ill take it

Send for me chief, I'll sort you out at the weekend.

Cool, will do tonight. Did you receive the first lot Chris?

I did indeed, cheers mate

Sweet, sending toms 5 in a bit

All received!

For clarity "I won" * a satellite last night but this will not impact the stake, although it does slightly increase the possibility of a second bullet.  Still unlikely though as I plan to win with the first one!

* I sent my mate to play it who won it for me lol

Kick of 7pm tonight, we will be there from the opening bell...updates to follow

And we are in...

Lost first hand...standard! Taken add on as half table already had, can't see many difficult spots, queue level 1 bust!

Bad start. Lose a big one trips into rivered flush. Crying called river lead.  Got 12k moving on to 100/200

3 levels to rebuy, if the worst happens, any objections to a second bullet? Speak now of forever hold your peace. Clearly with that anti bok we won't need it

Lol we insta double kk>AK back to 22k, anti bok works :)

Just got lol slow rolled <3 live poker

Called a river with A on jjqqx as odd action, he shows ace, pauses then q! Hero!!! Was AKvsAQ pre lost minimum not 3b as awkward out of sb with stacks!

Resisting urge to stick in his eye! 23,800 at 150/300/50

3b KK pre, get two streets of value, miss extra street when flush hits. We win, back above starting 35k

Whilst rutter is taking the main event we are terrible and bullet 2 is in play! Very sorry! Literally joke spot! If we don't make day 2, bullet 2 is free! Since I spun it on roulette anyway...like a pro! Will summary this tomorrow, back to 30k at 300/600/100

Out! A10<KQ aipf, balls! Report tomorrow

roulette ? fishy fishy fishhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Sorry guys, was not about to do a report yesterday, I promised you flawed logic so here we go....

Bullet 1

Table was pretty good, 1 rock, 3 players who were just bad, 1 pretty good player, and a few who the jury was out on, and errrmmm me....

We dripped chips away making the worst hand, not really playing high variance, will note the key hands.

Hand 1 - Joke Dealing

We call from mid position with  Aspades x, flop comes down ssx all low cards, we peel the continuation bet, looking to rep the flush.  Dealer puts down the  7s before third player gets time to call the original bet.  So we deal out river and it is shuffled back in.  The player calls and she deals the new turn, which is the  7s again LOL, then after it goes check check I go to bet 1100, I have the chips in my hand, and she exposes the  8s river, I said I was about to bet, it was clear.  Then the other players say its fine we would have folded.  Now if I get the floor, it probably also gets shuffled back, and my bet can stand, but then whats the odds of me actually making my hand, so I can get the floor, or lock the 2k or whatever pot.  So frustrating as this probably puts my hand face up.  If the hand plays out correctly, they most likely call my turn bet, and then will also likely cry call a river value bet.

Hand 2 - Trips vs flush

We call a min bet from BB with 67, flop comes down 368 cc, we call the continuation bet as does the good player, turn is a 6, original raiser checks, good player bets, we call for pot control with the plan of raising river bet on a non club river, as we have position.  We get the club river and sigh call river biggish river bet to Ace flush.  I think I should fold here, I am repping flush probably and he leads big, although as it was a house board, seemed a bit odd.

Hand 3 - Slow Roll

We get slow rolled on a JJQQx board, we call AK pre from SB as out of position, we call the continuation bet on jjq, probably can just fold here on reflection.  He checks the Q turn, we check back and he leads for 1700 or something on river, looked like a split pot so we call, and he shows ace, pauses then shows queen, well played sir...guy next to me said "is he your friend" assuming it was banter between pals, and I said never met the guy, he seems great ha ha

At this point we have about 11000 at like 300/150/25

Hand 4 - Double

UTG raises to like 700, Button calls, we make it 1700 with KK, Original raiser folds, Button asks what we got left, not noticing the insane strength of my 3b from SB out of narrow stack and shoves, we insta call and hold versus AK to be back up to 24k

Hand 5 - Spewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Last hand before break 2, which is the last reenter point.  BB is terrible, he is 6xing pre, generally seems to want to be playing well but doing everything just horribly.  We get like 5 limpers (love Edinburgh) I have  Qd Td in SB, I make it up, not going to squeeze out of position, now BB makes it 6000, we have 24,000, now I think to myself, he probably assumes he should squeeze here, he has won a few pots and has his swag on, now he is never doing this with hands that crush us, I am thinking low pairs, and some broadway hands.  So take the very high variance line of sticking it in his eye.  Unfortunately he has JJ and we do not get the "justice" queen.

Now I decided this was way to high variance a line to be taking with other peoples money.  So we ask the boss for permission to rebuy, can't be bothered going to bank so try and spin the £30 in our pocket into £160, we do it with style, red, low, high and we are back in. As mentioned, I decided investors wont get charged unless we make day 2 for the reasons mentioned above.  Not sure your views on this line, but he was really bad, it made sense in my head.

Bullet 2

We get a shit table, and then it breaks after 1 hand, we fold A10 to a 3b as we dont know player and we dont want to bust twice in 10 minutes!  We then get moved back to our old table, 1 seat to the right of where we are.  Now this is ideal with the spew still in peoples mind, we like this, dynamic change slightly as aggro local has joined and young kid from Dundee who is borderline maniac, also pro local with a bowl.

Key Hand 1 - Sigh

We have been winning a lot of small pots, continuing every hand and getting folds.  BB in this hand is good local, he has looked more and more frustrated with the lack of resistance, we notice this.  We open K10 from late position, call from SB and BB.  We continue on a K93 board, and he check raises, now board is double spaded.  I fancy he can have a big draw here, maybe 33, or perhaps K9.  We call to assess.  He continues on the blank turn, we call.  Now river is A, he looks a bit nervous, probably AK is a possibility, but bets pretty big.  I can tell he is not loving life, do not think he liked the ace, now I think he can either have K9 or the bust draw.  The bet is like 10k, which is not a value bet, it is fairly chunky.  We tank, the ace means nothing to me, I am left between K9 and bust draw.  Now we only have 14k back so we cannot get him off K9, if we had more we could have heavily repped the  AK, he is good enough to fold for stacks I believe as played.  We decide to call, as we still have enough to get back.  He does indeed have the K9, not hating my train of thought, should maybe fold turn, but after calling, I think I have to call the river as he can have a Q10 J10 ss here, he did very similar in the AQ hand, getting aggressive with a draw.

Key Hand 2 - Shovity shove

We have about 16k, we see an open to 2000, and a caller, we have a broadway hand (I forget which one, wasnt great), now with the stacks, I think we can get a shove through here a lot, we shove, and both fold.  So we are back up to about 20k.

Key Hand 3 - *&**(*&&&*&^&&&&)"^^$**£

We open A10 from late position, player to our left shove for about 16k, now I know this guy pretty well and he will shove this very wide as I cannot call much of my range with stacks.  We are pretty sure we are in good shape, praying for A9, we think call and up against KQ of hearts.  We hate the 668 hh board, and hate the K turn more,  we have the Ace of hearts, so a heart turn would be greater appreciated!  Anyways no ace river.  We shove the fumes with K5 two hands later, antes are 100 and we only have 3k ish so I am not really for waiting long here, BB in 2 hands and we lose to 77, maybe can wait one more hand but I was pretty much done.  KQ ends the day 5th in chips and we are home :(

Thanks for the chance, edging towards the shit rather than due now!!!!!