Fantastic effort at the G last night. . . . . .

Decided to gift celtic my chips in a "if i take the chance and win ill win the tournament but i dont want to have to play at only 2 x the chip average" move or be here until 2 and bubble again.

  board - Celtic shoves his fishy Ace-King after the flop - I make the perfect call with  and am left with little remaining

I have never cashed when im due to fly out the next morning on the 0655 and the hour drive home usually means i start to get a bit stressed and take all draws on - guess the never cashing record i will keep now but i just hope those chips made the money after such a soft call.

Good week - Bad Play Night

Trying out the new name - seems to work - cheers celtic.....

lmao at a post tourney rub down chomps

BIG welcome to Mr Hellmuth!

PLEASE change your alias to "Hellmuth" - we've called you that (& far worse) for a long time. "Twerp" is a nick which is reserved for someone else, to be honest.

Good to see you here, & ul with that "Move of the Century" (the -9 v -Q affair) by Hameed.

Should you need advice on dancing & stuff, Chomps & Sicilidonk are your men. Advice on nursing 3 x BB & on cashing consistently, I'm your man.

Happy to change the name but is there a way to do that?? If so can someone send instructions?

That way you can all keep calling me Hellmuth.

As for the worse  - I bring it on myself somedays and have had it for some time :-)

Sigh, it was Level 19 stuff.

Rised with 78. Twerpers called in the BB.
Flop 3 10 Q. Check bet call.
Turn 5. Check bet call.
River 4. Check all-in. Call. With KQ!

KQ! The same hand TV's Tikay opened shoved 12x with at the final table. That's 12x, not 1.2x!

Tonight's much-in-demand £10 rebuy attracted a field of...

Any guesses?

This hand really helped my tourney :-)

Was in the BB and I think I should probably play this even out of position against the amount of Chompy raises i had observed in the last hour and how tight i was playing that night.

Q high and 2 clubs from what I remember, I thought it was a 6 and a 3 on the flop but really could be very wrong there

I was trying to control the pot and keep it small while out of posiiton so checked. You bet out what i though seemed to be a quite honest bet. So though my kicker was good but didnt want to go big with one pair against another large stack.

Turn brought the third club (10 i thought) which i though if i had just hit the flush i 60 % check here so that seemed correct. But with a redraw to the Queen flush and top pair it seemed i should still be good. I honestly was not sure you bet here - I thought you checked behind. but could also be wrong there

Then the river i thought was  a brick maybe the straight was possible but after i check i dont think you can shove the straight in case i have the flush - which is definately close to my possible hands.

That and the famous hellmuth read meant i had to call the shove. All that said it is probably chompy out of all the luton players i struggle most with when im not setting about blowing a huge stack by making slim calls with marginal hands (Just like the real Phil)

I dont think the play is bad by chompy though as i am unlikey to call off my tournament here and i have played the hand very passively. For myself I think the right river play following my earlier play is the check call.

Sadly did not make it up today as the rain was pouring when i was about to start the 40 mile drive - i decided to play maidenhead but that went quite well once i settled and played sensible in the cash.

But near cert for wednesday night

Hi All

Hellmuth Jr Jr here ;-) - Though i may lose that title one day if i start winning comps and playing \ll night with no headphones or sunglasses. . . . . .

Just wanted to say I really enjoyed playing last night - The vast majority of people in the luton cardroom are very funny people who enjoy playing poker and are capable of amusing conversation.

It was a very friendly evening apart from Nirvana's red ragging to start the car park wars. Which made our table very uncomfortable / entertaining for some time after.

Enjoyed it so much I may come play the tourney later tonight - rather than my usual monday games.

Was devestated by the AQ vs A9 - mainly cos i did consider folding but then i got the tell before he binked. Wasnt to be but id take the spot every time.

When i raised the legend "Player X" with the SF it was to around 14K after his 4K bet. But he told me i had the SF on the turn  then i laughed and he still bet in - lol - I will never min raise. Hellnuth Snr says not to.

And to Sicillian - That river bet was a value bet in my mind i was betting second pair as I felt i was ahead more than behind - Doh!!!

Anyway - If i make it tonight see yall there

Ok peeps

Firstly : Who is Sir donksalot?

Secondly : I was asked a question of my opioion of top 5 regular local players too which i came up with 8 because i think the caliber of the majority of players is very high.

And as asked regular players i have already posted to Mr G stating about tk tighty etc as they are great players who i have the utmost respect for and i hope vice versa and again as asked this is my opinion and mine alone.

I know feel i have offended the entire blondite luton community not meaning too and twerp, muppet whoever to point out to this player we spoke before final and ill agree with GW you played very well during the tournament my only criticism was the final and thats it plse read my response as i think youve missed a couple of my points.

If any other opinionated questions are asked i will respectfully decline answering.

not insulted or upset - as u say - i blew it last night - that im 100% agreement with

just thought id defend myself and correct the one hand that made it seem a worse call than it was.

while also pulling your leg about the name ;-)

but as i say - all you luton players can play.

Twerpers, are you the London-Newcastle fella what finished third in the end? If so, you is mis-named for sure. More Luton trips in the future please and help get that quality level back up.
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Indeed I am - I am reasonably new to luton - only 20 tournaments in - started there as for me - and i hate stroking your egos by saying this - its the best level of tournament poker of the casinos that i play (Int, Western, Reading, Vic, Reigate & Luton)

I really enjoyed last night - thought you were a quality oppenent chompy - didnt want to be in a hand with u all night.

Can you clarify the action?  First you say Lalit moved all in on the flop, then you talk about what to do on the turn?

Apologies - I believe he should smooth call my raise on the flop and then bet the turn if my obvious draws miss.

there was no turn action as thats when i hit the flush and straight.

Ok i got this wrong all money went in on flop no turn, this play i have not criticised because of your hand u got lky however i think any player does the same with your hand on that flop i admit i would too.

However my comment on twerp and i dont know your name or mean to offend you plse tell me next time you see me was after having and correct me if im wrong approx 450000 chips at final with the rest of us averaging 80000 ok you should be bullying us correct play but when you continuously raise in position we all know your at it and were all going to push back at some stage you blundered 3 big reriases which you should never have called or pushed back in and blew your stack.

I personally hate seeing players destroy that size stack through stupity and being honest with you thats what u did when we were 6 handed and that was your downfall of overplaying too much junk . I have played on your table and vice versa on numerous times at luton at the end of the day wre playing poker and you included out of the final 9 players at the final only 5 knew how to play but we dont need the commentary or my balls are bigger than yours you actually did offend a few players when down to last 12-14

To this the main thng i would say is you are correct I did blow it

I think calling the stand with KQ was not horrendous - but maybe against that strong a player i should have picked him for the ace he had and folded

and actually I was not at it all most of the night.

I genuinely picked up a lot of hands and am not an "at it" player

The reason for the talk was wanting everyone to believe i was at it and thus enduce the push backs.

Note
To any player I may have offended i do apologise. I did not intend to be insulting and I would not personally critisice a player.

Example for me why Graham is no1- last nights final 6 of us left all fairly equal in chips apart from muppet with 70ish percent of chips in play at that stage who ends up 3rd by the way.
Anyway graham raises UTG with aq to i think eleven five Paul Espreson folds, seat 1 with i think about one hundred thousand goes all in to a 20 k pot, pass from me pass from chip leader pass bb graham shows aq and mucks still 80=90 thousand left blinds 2-4. Fella who pushs shows aces were alll like really !!!!!! BELLEND play however my opinion of at least 60-80 per cent of luton players would call or repush and i have seen graham on numerous occasions be able to fold to positonal bets with a top hand and get away from it.

Maybe I should have called myself Muppet rather than twerp ;-)

the fold you point out was easy - the guy in question was 100% Aces or Kings - we had both (myself and the other graham sat on his starting table and he was an open book for big hands)

Having gone through my tournament today i know I made some mistakes. With two tables to go I controlled the tournament - you might not be calling me such a muppet if you saw how i played with 2 tables to go, biggest mistake was when we got to 3 runners i let you both get lucky and gave you races that you needed cos neither of you were gonna be able to get me otherwise.

I had been playing all day and just wanted to win quick :-(

Can you clarify the action?  First you say Lalit moved all in on the flop, then you talk about what to do on the turn?

Apologies - I believe he should smooth call my raise on the flop and then bet the turn if my obvious draws miss.

there was no turn action as thats when i hit the flush and straight.

Alex

Lalit had a set of against the twerp player whod maid a move with 10 clubs 7 clubs on 8 5 2 flop two clubs hits flsh on flop. Lalit gonna.

As the twerp in question id like to state that the board had an 862 and the play went like this.....

Pre Flp Smooth Call x 4 - Flop  862 - 2 clubs

I did indeed hold 10-7 of clubs

SB leads out for 2K - BB (lalit) smooth calls

I make raise to 10K

fold of second pot enterer - fold of SB - lalit moves all in

pot is 27K with around 10-15 to call (though think it was nearer 10)

I count 9+4 (definate outs + 3 Extra possible outs if against TPTK) - 13-16 outs = Either Way he should realise he cant push me off the pot and smooth call.

If the turn misses the draw i fold when he goes for 12K into a 25K pot.

The Twerp