Cash games in Sheffield area tonight??

[pleno1]

Gl th your new diary met

[LB44]

I had no problems with how the game was run, friendly reception staff showed me to the poker area, pit my name on a list for 1/2 and 1/1. Sat down on 1/1 within about 20 mins 4 handed with 2 chavy lads and a nice chatty elderly guy. Then we're joined by 4 Chinese guys. Dealer was pretty slow, but meh It wasn't too bad. The card quality wasn't very good but again I'm nit picking.

Seat on 1/2 came soon after and the table had a shuffle machine like dtd. This is brand new I was told. Dealers seemed like they knew what they were doing. One young lad exposed the bottom card a couple of times by accident and some of the regs were abit harsh on him, which flustered him abit, so he didn't rake a pot for about half an hour.

As for the rake in general. I thought it was very reasonable... Capped at £5, and 5% of any pot below £100.

Players sat with between 100-400. standard is weak. Straddle every hand almost and i regularly raised from late pos over a heap of limpers to pick up pots uncontested regularly.
I saw more donk bets into pre flop raisers in that one session than I can remember seeing anywhere else by a long way, quite lol at times as it seemed like I was back playing in 2006.

Was sat with £380 feeling pretty tired so wasn't going to hang around for much longer when we found Q5dd in mid pos on a straddle pot. We have 1 limper, who earlier put in 1/2 his stack with K8 off, hit a King to double up to £120...he said he would have folded if he didn't hit...ok cool.
I decide to call the £4 too as I was trying to usher a waitress over, folds round to straddle who checks. So we're 3 way and see flop of Qs5h4h. Nice flop... Straddle leads for £8, other guy calls, I make it £22. Straddle calls and the other guy moves all in for £90 something. I call and straddle folds.

The guy asks me do you need another heart fella? What do you have? I say nah I got top 2 and turn over my Q5 as I'm pretty chilled out guy at the table, I know I'm ahead so put him out his misery not knowing if I had a flush draw, so I say what you got then seen as I've turned my hand over, he said your winning. I said ahh come on its a friendly game...just sits there doesn't say anything...okayyy.
Turn is another Qx giving me full house.
I say I guess it's all over now then? He doesn't say anything.
River Ax.
He doesn't flip his cards and I presume I win quite comfortably... I look at the dealer as if to say pass the chips over and the guy says you think you win? I say errm yeah...he says I wasn't pushing all my chips in with shit was I. So I say well turn your cards over then, what you have that beats me? He says to dealer do I have to show, dealer is just sat there... Another player says come on is this some sick slow roll or what, I say just turn the hand over and lets move on. He says I'm just gonna take this money right now....errm not unless you turn your hand over. Almost a minute has passed since the ace was rivered and he turns over an Ace then turns over a Queen.
WTF...see I told you I wasn't pushing on the flop with shit!
I tell him what a tw@t he is and leave the casino.

Valets are crap, food is crap. Soft games though.
Andy the card room guy was alright.
If I'm back in Sheffield I will be playing in Genting. Rake free cash games in October.

[sovietsong]

Gl th your new diary met

THIS

great to see you blogging again.

I miss the old "PROFFESIONAL INTERNET POKER PLAYERS GRIND IN MTTS AND STTS"

[smashedagain]

Oh please teller Trigg has a blog. Get me a link and I can serialise it on here.

[The Lad]

Oh please teller Trigg has a blog. Get me a link and I can serialise it on here.

http://ricktrigg.blogspot.co.uk/

[smashedagain]

Oh please teller Trigg has a blog. Get me a link and I can serialise it on here.

http://ricktrigg.blogspot.co.uk/

cheers. Will catch up on it later. Sort of hoped there was a hand I played against him in Blackpool in there but he had stopped blogging by then it looks like

[aeinstein199]

Played at G last night, still two full tables till the tourney started then dropped to one, but only for bout 45 mins.

I had tried Genting but it was just too slow. I would rather pay the rake and get a few hands in. The 1/2 table is so much better with the new card shuffler, they should get one for the 1/1 also.

I have eaten there a quite a few times and to be fair it is a burger, its better than a football stadium but it isn't michelin star, I am there to play not to critique the food. At least they don't run out of half the bar stock, I had to drink bottled beer at £3.80 a throw in Genting on Monday night. I get about 300-400 points a visit usually, so at least my food and drink is paid for if I don't cash much.

Hopefully Naps and G will start throwing some more money in the pot now Genting is here, been playing more cash as the value had really dropped out the tourney games.

Still some student fish came along and ruined my night!.....

1: picked up kk on the button, raise from utg 4xbb. 2 callers. i pushed all in. 2 callers. ak v aa v my bloody kk.

2: aqs. Raised preflop. Called,  Low flop. I bet out. He calls saying "i shouldnt do this but..." Bet out again, got pushed. had to fold it. The stupid idiot had bottom pair.

3: ak v 66. Raise pre flop. flop : ak2 Pushed all in. Turn was a 10. river was a bloody six.

[LB44]

1. Somebody raised to £8, 2 callers and you pushed all in? How much were you playing?

2. You raised with AQ, c bet low flop he called, you bet the turn and he shoved all in and you folded. Wp him.

3. You lost a flip? Sigh.

[aeinstein199]

Only been playing about a year more seriously, was a lot of pub league stuff before that.

I got lucky last night though.

Playing £1/2 no limit- I raise preflop to £20 with and one guy calls. He's been playing bad and showing a lot of bluffs, so I figure I should be able to take some chips from him if I get a decent flop. Flop comes    I bet out £40, he raises me £40 more. I put him on either top pair or some kind of straight/flush draw-so I make a bad move and push in my last £150. He thinks forever, tells me he has 23 but feels he's beat. Finally, he mucks his hand face up and asks if I had his straight beat. I was laughing on the inside b/c I couldn't believe he called my raise with 23 and then mucked when he flopped a straight with it. I told the guy good laydown and wondered how he could possibly think I raised £20 with 37 or 78- the only two hands that beat him!

[youthnkzR]

Only been playing about a year more seriously, was a lot of pub league stuff before that.

I got lucky last night though.

Playing £1/2 no limit- I raise preflop to £20 with and one guy calls. He's been playing bad and showing a lot of bluffs, so I figure I should be able to take some chips from him if I get a decent flop. Flop comes    I bet out £40, he raises me £40 more. I put him on either top pair or some kind of straight/flush draw-so I make a bad move and push in my last £150. He thinks forever, tells me he has 23 but feels he's beat. Finally, he mucks his hand face up and asks if I had his straight beat. I was laughing on the inside b/c I couldn't believe he called my raise with 23 and then mucked when he flopped a straight with it. I told the guy good laydown and wondered how he could possibly think I raised £20 with 37 or 78- the only two hands that beat him!

surely this is bait!?!

[action man]

they let people buy into the £1/2 game for £20 plays really shallow with usually one kid with £500 who wants to move table when anyone wants to cover him at the table. So sick in englands 4th biggest city that we cant get one decent £2/5 game or some deep £1/2 games running

[aaron1867]

they let people buy into the £1/2 game for £20 plays really shallow with usually one kid with £500 who wants to move table when anyone wants to cover him at the table. So sick in englands 4th biggest city that we cant get one decent £2/5 game or some deep £1/2 games running

It's a £50 sit down at 1/2. £20 at 1/1.

If you can get some punters in for a 2/5 at Gentings, then I will also join.

[youthnkzR]

they let people buy into the £1/2 game for £20 plays really shallow with usually one kid with £500 who wants to move table when anyone wants to cover him at the table. So sick in englands 4th biggest city that we cant get one decent £2/5 game or some deep £1/2 games running

its because ive got no $$ trigg, as soon as i do the sheffield sharks come! hahahahaha

[BorntoBubble]

they let people buy into the £1/2 game for £20 plays really shallow with usually one kid with £500 who wants to move table when anyone wants to cover him at the table. So sick in englands 4th biggest city that we cant get one decent £2/5 game or some deep £1/2 games running

its because ive got no $$ trigg, as soon as i do the sheffield sharks come! hahahahaha

follow the fish

And trigg where were you at snooker time this year that the only time we can get a 2/5 table going and tbh the snooker players had none of it. Although i prefer it to be deep 1/2 then 2/5 as i cant afford to sit deep on 2/5. To be fair to andy the game was only going 3 hours or so but got plenty of food and drink for free during that time so cannot complain!


Seemed to work this year when they opened a 1/2 game later in the night inside the card room. Think its better for the snooker lads when its inside less bother for them