The Soldier - UK Grind for life?

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some dude with a Grosvenor patch


That was quite possibly Jeff Kimber, who is a fulltime Freddie on blonde, where he posts as Jaffa Cake. Decent sort, despite being a Geordie.


http://www.gukpt.com/kimber-wins-pkr-live/

[The Soldier]

Tell us more about the CPR story.

An elderly gentleman collapsed (I suspect from a heart attack although I couldn't say for sure) at the Hippo one night I was playing there. A lady working security and I did what we could until the paramedics arrived, but sadly he passed away.

Garth fan?

Haha not really I just got brain washed whilst staying in the Encore one year as his poster was literally EVERYWHERE. It tilted me that I had no fking idea who this cowboy was! It became a bit of a joke with my group of friends.

some dude with a Grosvenor patch


That was quite possibly Jeff Kimber, who is a fulltime Freddie on blonde, where he posts as Jaffa Cake. Decent sort, despite being a Geordie.


http://www.gukpt.com/kimber-wins-pkr-live/

Yep, that's the one

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Thought so. He won it, too.

[The Soldier]

Summary:
I win the “Yellow Jersey,” which is rake free play for 24 hours at 'The Hippodrome'
I play a 19 hour session
I make the biggest bluff of my life
I nearly get into a fight
Man sits down at a 1/2 deepstack with more than £30,000
I see an actual fight

Part 1
I ran a bit of a marathon last weekend, which was a mistake as I hate marathons and I’m whack at them!

Fri night I played a VERY nice 1/3 game at the Vic. I couldn’t help but have a few drinks with one of the rec players and it worked in my favour as he played very softly against me! A little oiled, I managed to goad Rick the Rock into a drink – a mistake as it cost me a pony side bet!  

The rock bet me a pony that he’d put his £700 stack all in during the next 2 orbits. The only rule I added was that he had to be shoving on at least one player that had him covered (this was a deep game and most players did have him covered). So, with 2 hands left to go, I raise 4x in early position with 55 (stack 1200) and Rick calls from the CO. The flop comes 6 4 A. I bet 4x and the Rock shoves. GG (he had A10). Still, at least it loosened the game up! I finished the session at about 0130 hrs down £150.

The next day, I wake up fresh and head back to the Vic at about midday. The 1-2 game has just started and is full! Doh. Not fancying the wait, I decide to give the Hippo a go.

I sit at a short stacked 1-2 with 400. In one of my first hands, I raise from early position with 67 suited. A young guy on the Btn flats and the blinds fold. The flop comes something like KQ10 so I decide to check/fold right away. The kid turns over 6 2 off suit after betting the flop - and the rest of the table shower him with praise like he’s a total bad ass. I just sit quietly and pretend that I don’t speak English.

Not long afterwards, I’m in the big blind with J8 suited and some young Irish bloke raises 3x from early position. After 4 people call, I call 2x from the BB. I flop the nuts and the flush draw. I check to Irish guy and he C-bets. Two others call and I raise small – 3x his bet. Irish guy and 1 other calls. The turn blanks and just as I’m about to bet, Irish guy says ”I’ll call whatever you bet” - I bet 40% pot, basically committing Irish guy to go all in. He gives a long speech and I sit there silently. He goes on and on and on and I say nothing. Eventually they both fold and I muck. He seems pissed off about the hand, so I let him boil.

The very next hand is 1-2-100 as Irish guy goes all in. This worked out for him as he had KK and somebody called with AK. After about 10 mins listening to the Irish guy gobbing off about what a genius he is (now happy as Larry of course), I decide I’ve had enough and request a table change from the short stacked table of wizards to a deeper game. When asked by the table why I’m leaving, I reply with “because you’re all too good for me on this table.”

Not much happens on the next table, but I win the “yellow jersey” and now am playing rake free for the next 24 hours (hence the marathon session). I end up playing from 1300 hrs on Sat afternoon to 0800 hrs on Sun morning. This was one of the most bizarre sessions I’ve ever played! A lot happens in a poker room over the space of a day…

[The Soldier]

Part 2 (of 3)

The 'Yellow Jersey' is meant to be worth over £200 if you play a long session.  Some argue more. To settle this, I'll try and play a 24 hour session when I next win it and record all of my savings!

I grind during the day on a great table and hover around even. I then get into a £1,000 pot (all in on the flop) against a maniac as a 60/40 favourite. He connects with his straight and I lose.  I reload to £1k to cover the maniac and carry on…

I make friends with a real nice bloke sitting to my right who buys me a steak and lobster dinner after feeling sorry for me losing the pot. I tell him not to but he insists! What a legend. I can’t remember your name sir, but on the off chance you read this then the next steak is on me!

A really really grumpy American feller sits down and instantly pisses half the table off by moaning at everyone and everything. My new friend is taking the majority of this abuse and starts to kick back. I didn’t get involved, however, not long afterwards I win a £900 pot off Mr Grumpy and I can see the joy on my new friend's face. I buy some drinks to thank him for the dinner.

The table switches to insane mode at around midnight – very deep and very aggressive. I get involved in a big pot with a flush and luckily manage to find the fold button. I’m SB with  . It gets limped around by roughly 3 players in a straddled pot and the BB raises big – everyone calls. The flop comes  (roughly). I check, BB C-bets big into 5 players – the Btn and I call. The turn comes  . I check, BB bets pot, Btn under raises (reasonably quickly) and I tank fold. The BB calls and the river blanks. BB has the nuts.

Not long afterwards, I’m on the Btn with  and a stack of 1.5k. In a straddled pot, there are 3 limpers and I make it 30. The straddler (Villain) makes it 75 and the limpers fold. I call. I don’t have much info on Villain, but he looks like a rec player and has 1.1k in chips. He has deep pockets as he bought in for £500 and reloaded for £1k after losing his first bullet. He thinks that I'm a nit after I revealed the flush I had folded previously. Just a reminder, this is a 1-2 deep stack (straddle = 5)

The flop - £168 –      . Villain C-bets 55 and Hero calls.

The Turn - £278 –       . Villain bets 100 and Hero raises to 300 – Villain looks in serious pain and calls after some thought.

The River - £878 –         . Villain checks and Hero shoves - £670 for Villain to call. Villain thinks for 2 mins in serious pain again. It looks as if he changes his mind 3 times, playing with his cards, then his chips and then his cards again. I feel pretty relaxed as I've had one or two beers. He looks at his girl friend (who is sitting behind her), puts his jacket on, stands up and calls. He shows Q6 off suit. GG.

[Pinchop73]

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[The Soldier]

Thank you for your inspirational and witty reply.

[The Soldier]

Part 3 (of 3)

It felt like a bad beat when he called the bluff, but the game was so good that I couldn’t let it bother me. I reloaded to £2k (to cover the fish) and continued.

Not long afterwards, the young gobby Irish bloke I mentioned in part 1 stumbled into the card room, but now he was pissed as a fart (from this point onwards he is known as The Bell End). I invited him to join us and he told me to “fu** off” (obviously I had left an impression). My steak buddy jumped to my defence and The Bell End started gobbing off at him. I said “You’re welcome to play at this table anytime.” He lost it then and wanted to “take me outside.” The floor came over to calm him down and he was led to another table. Bell Boy must be a regular because if he was a rando then I’m sure he would have been kicked out. That was the last I heard from him that night, but I’m sure we’ll meet again some day.

Sadly, the sick game we were playing came to an end at around 0400 hrs and I had failed to get out of the £1,000 hole I was in. I moved to another table after a number of deeply stacked pros joined ours. I managed to get all in pretty quickly preflop with AA for a £2,000 pot. GG, the other player also had AA!

Shortly afterwards, a young guy I recognised from the Empire sat down with 2.5k. I believe he’s a pro. I can’t confirm this, but all I remember is that he’s very laggro – he is Villain for the hand below and this is one of his first hands.

A loose goose opened UTG to 12, I 3-bet in MP to 35 (with   ) and the Villain 4-bet to 95 from the Btn. UTG folds and I flat.

Flop - (£205) -   7 8. I check and Villain checks.

Turn – (£205) –   7 8  . I bet £100 and Villain raises to £250. I call.

River – (£705) – 7 8   A. I check and Villain bets £500. I fold. Villain said he had a high pocket pair.

Villain leaves not long afterwards and I’m about to call it a day. Until…. Tall, thin Max arrives pissed and sits down with £35k. Pissed Max playing poker is notorious around London. He lives up to his reputation and goes all in every hand for the next 30 mins - bearing in mind, the average stack at this table is £800. In his first hand, he went all in and showed 6 2 afterwards. The next hand he went all in again and the tightest player on the table called off his £1,000 stack. Max had QQ and stacked him! This continued for about 5 more hands until the bloke sitting next to Max stands up, walks around behind him and gets Max in a aggressive headlock, pulling him backwards off his chair. There are some fierce words exchanged before security come and throw them both out. I remember the bloke saying “You’re lucky someone doesn’t kill you if you keep calling people cun*s at the poker table.” When security arrives the man claims he was “teaching Max a lesson.” There must be some history between the two of them. All very strange…

Anyway that marked the end of my session and I finish the day in a £1,300 hole .

Lessons Learned:
1. The floor really does earn their money. If this had all happened in some dodgy club somewhere then I really don’t know what could have escalated during this session. It was like the Jeremy Kyle show meets Eastenders.
2. Don’t bluff unknowns, they are probably idiots.
3. Don’t play marathon sessions – you suck at them!

[The Soldier]

999x seen offers to "take this outside" in a poker room
1st time I've seen unarmed combat in a poker room ^

[The Soldier]

A naughty midweek session on Stars

I’ve recently been playing the odd tournament on Stars to “test the waters” and see if I can maybe bink one of them. I ran deep in the ‘Big 109’ and ended up placing 13th for $800+. The prize up top was $22k. There were 4 hands worth mentioning that I can remember:

1. I 3-bet shove and double up with around 30 players left to 20bbs after my   >  

2. Whilst there are 15 players left, I lose/draw/win/whatever this hand with   for a “big” chip lead (so cruel):
http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/8380799_2D70DBDBA1

3. I have around 35bbs and I'm dealt   in SB - we are 7 handed and the table dynamic is fast and aggressive preflop. There is lots of opening and 3 betting by 5 of the players. The BB and I have been pretty card dead and have been tight up until this point. BB has 30BBs and Villain in MP has 20BBs.

Villain’s PFR %age is 20% and his fold to 3 bet %age is 0% over a sample of 75 hands. He is probably the 3rd laggiest preflop. Villain has about 100k winnings in total to his name, not sure of his profits %age.

He min raises and I flat as the stack sizes are awkward for a 3-bet. Thoughts on this? BB also calls and flop comes      . I check, BB checks and Villain bets 3bbs into 8. I call and BB folds. Turn -         - 14bbs in pot. I bet 7bbs and Villain shoves for 15 total - I call and he has   .

I guess preflop fold > call > 3-bet? Anyone play post flop differently assuming they call pre?

4. One orbit later, I have 12bbs in the SB and am dealt   . CO - with roughly 40bbs min raises. He is the laggiest player with a PRF %age of 30% over 75 hands - bearing in mind that many of those hands were whilst we were 8 + 9 handed so he is opening A LOT. CO has over 1 million cashes and I'm not sure about profit.

Btn - with roughly 35bbs 3-bets to 4bbs. He is the 2nd laggiest player with a PRF %age of 25% over 100 hands. His 3-bet %age is 10%, although in this spot it is likely to be quite high. Btn has over 5 million in cashes and I'm unsure of profit. He is obviously calling whatever I do - still shove with   ? I did by the way and he had   to knock me out.

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I wouldn't donk the turn with the KQ. Its quite hard to see the stack sizes and everything but it looks like just a check/shove when villain commits himself. Of course sometimes he checks back flush draws and gets there but by donking we really just prevent him from bluffing. AQ seens very standard. There would have to be a very weird dynamic or an icm spot to consider folding vs this villain imo. Enjoyed your live poker exploits, sounds like fun. The laggy villains claim of an overpair seems pretty fos though!



edit: Just seen your reaction to my .gif. I'm sorry it offended you so badly. I thought it fit in quite well with your story. You seem to have taken a strong dislike to me because I thought you'd wasted some time in the rainbow bristol thread. (cba to check but I think it was that). I don't really think I've done much to deserve your reactions but I'm quite happy to stay out of your way. Good luck.

[The Soldier]

I wouldn't donk the turn with the KQ. Its quite hard to see the stack sizes and everything but it looks like just a check/shove when villain commits himself. Of course sometimes he checks back flush draws and gets there but by donking we really just prevent him from bluffing. AQ seens very standard. There would have to be a very weird dynamic or an icm spot to consider folding vs this villain imo. Enjoyed your live poker exploits, sounds like fun. The laggy villains claim of an overpair seems pretty fos though!



edit: Just seen your reaction to my .gif. I'm sorry it offended you so badly. I thought it fit in quite well with your story. You seem to have taken a strong dislike to me because I thought you'd wasted some time in the rainbow bristol thread. (cba to check but I think it was that). I don't really think I've done much to deserve your reactions but I'm quite happy to stay out of your way. Good luck.

Maybe I misunderstood - but it didn't offend me, I just wanted to kick back. I have a tendency to over react on forums (with the aim of adding some humour but in a knee jerk like style) and I have no idea why. I'm pretty calm in person so it could be all those times I wanted to lash out (but didn't) just building up tension! Please don't take anything I say on here too seriously, it's all fun and games and I never judge people from their online exploits. I wasn't aware that you commented in the Rainbow Bristol thread at the time of posting and I'm not bothered that you did so no hard feelings towards you or anyone else, from me at least. Plus, the world I've been living in for the last 4 years is one where everyone just rips into each other constantly. Strangers would wonder how we are even friends the way we speak to one another. It's a sport  

I think you are right regarding the KQ hand. If he checks behind and a diamond or J/10 come on river, do you check/call there?

Regarding the over pair hand, seems strange to check the flop and get aggro on the A if he has an over pair. I didn't know what to make of that, I was just happy at folding the worst hand!

[The Soldier]

My performance at blogging has been poor recently, although the poker has been pretty good! Life is busy with work, poker, looking for a flat and Easter. My last few sessions:

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When things quieten down a little I should have more time to post HHs etc!

[The Soldier]

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