A diary about poker and other stuff, but mostly poker

[Rookie (Rodney)]

Decided to take a night of the net last night and play the first event in the Rendezvous festival, a £100f

So there are 10 left with 475k in play i had 180k.....mbn and all that.

I turn down the saver for the bubble, all the short stacks hatch a plan to lynch me and all that jazz, anyway my good mucker Grant is on the final as well and we so nearly got the deserved HU game but the 3rd act in the party decided to just bink 3 outters for fun and so i came 3rd and Grant 2nd, sigh i was soooo looking forward to smashing the mug up!!

The worst thing of it all was the midday appointment, ffs i am going back to bed.

What a waste of time imo, live poker is for losers

You ain't wrong!!

Osteopaths orders though, fml

I have been needing to see an osteopath for a while now.

Can I put this on makeup? Or is there a medical scheme in my contract somewhere ?

Pls advise, k thx.

[AndrewT]

Decided to take a night of the net last night and play the first event in the Rendezvous festival, a £100f

So there are 10 left with 475k in play i had 180k.....mbn and all that.

I turn down the saver for the bubble, all the short stacks hatch a plan to lynch me and all that jazz, anyway my good mucker Grant is on the final as well and we so nearly got the deserved HU game but the 3rd act in the party decided to just bink 3 outters for fun and so i came 3rd and Grant 2nd, sigh i was soooo looking forward to smashing the mug up!!

The worst thing of it all was the midday appointment, ffs i am going back to bed.

What a waste of time imo, live poker is for losers

You ain't wrong!!

Osteopaths orders though, fml

I have been needing to see an osteopath for a while now.

Can I put this on makeup? Or is there a medical scheme in my contract somewhere ?

Pls advise, k thx.

Flushy's leaving himself open to having his horses poached by other stables who offer BUPA membership.

[Royal Flush]

One of the sickest hands i have seen, notice 4 of us to the flop.


PokerStars Game #24345254818: Tournament #136340889, $100+$9 Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2009/01/28 1:10:07 GMT [2009/01/27 20:10:07 ET]
Table '136340889 44' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: MKKMOO (3025 in chips)
Seat 2: TJ22FTLR (8955 in chips)
Seat 3: Anbessa9 (2065 in chips)
Seat 4: CBion3 (3830 in chips)
Seat 5: annachung (5580 in chips)
Seat 6: germain133 (7845 in chips)
Seat 7: PMJackson21 (11955 in chips)
Seat 8: ben1914 (4410 in chips)
Seat 9: mdlbkhd (3335 in chips)
MKKMOO: posts small blind 75
TJ22FTLR: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to MKKMOO [ ]
Anbessa9: folds
CBion3: folds
annachung: folds
germain133: folds
PMJackson21: folds
ben1914: calls 150
mdlbkhd: calls 150
MKKMOO: calls 75
TJ22FTLR: checks
*** FLOP *** [ ]
MKKMOO: checks
TJ22FTLR: bets 300
ben1914: raises 300 to 600
mdlbkhd: calls 600
MKKMOO: raises 2275 to 2875 and is all-in
TJ22FTLR: calls 2575
ben1914: raises 1385 to 4260 and is all-in
mdlbkhd: calls 2585 and is all-in
TJ22FTLR: calls 1385
*** TURN *** [ ] []
*** RIVER *** [ ] []
*** SHOW DOWN ***
TJ22FTLR: shows [ ] (a flush, Ace high)
ben1914: shows [ ] (a flush, Ace high - Jack higher)
ben1914 collected 2150 from side pot-2
mdlbkhd: shows [ ] (a flush, Ace high - King higher)
mdlbkhd collected 930 from side pot-1
MKKMOO: shows [ ] (a straight flush, Ace to Five)
MKKMOO collected 12100 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 15180 Main pot 12100. Side pot-1 930. Side pot-2 2150. | Rake 0
Board [ ]
Seat 1: MKKMOO (small blind) showed [ ] and won (12100) with a straight flush, Ace to Five
Seat 2: TJ22FTLR (big blind) showed [ ] and lost with a flush, Ace high
Seat 3: Anbessa9 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: CBion3 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: annachung folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: germain133 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: PMJackson21 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: ben1914 showed [ ] and won (2150) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 9: mdlbkhd (button) showed [ ] and won (930) with a flush, Ace high

[gatso]

blimey. hand could only really be improved by a  river for the full set

[totalise]

One of the sickest hands i have seen, notice 4 of us to the flop.


PokerStars Game #24345254818: Tournament #136340889, $100+$9 Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2009/01/28 1:10:07 GMT [2009/01/27 20:10:07 ET]
Table '136340889 44' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: MKKMOO (3025 in chips)
Seat 2: TJ22FTLR (8955 in chips)
Seat 3: Anbessa9 (2065 in chips)
Seat 4: CBion3 (3830 in chips)
Seat 5: annachung (5580 in chips)
Seat 6: germain133 (7845 in chips)
Seat 7: PMJackson21 (11955 in chips)
Seat 8: ben1914 (4410 in chips)
Seat 9: mdlbkhd (3335 in chips)
MKKMOO: posts small blind 75
TJ22FTLR: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to MKKMOO [ ]
Anbessa9: folds
CBion3: folds
annachung: folds
germain133: folds
PMJackson21: folds
ben1914: calls 150
mdlbkhd: calls 150
MKKMOO: calls 75
TJ22FTLR: checks
*** FLOP *** [ ]
MKKMOO: checks
TJ22FTLR: bets 300
ben1914: raises 300 to 600
mdlbkhd: calls 600
MKKMOO: raises 2275 to 2875 and is all-in
TJ22FTLR: calls 2575
ben1914: raises 1385 to 4260 and is all-in
mdlbkhd: calls 2585 and is all-in
TJ22FTLR: calls 1385
*** TURN *** [ ] []
*** RIVER *** [ ] []
*** SHOW DOWN ***
TJ22FTLR: shows [ ] (a flush, Ace high)
ben1914: shows [ ] (a flush, Ace high - Jack higher)
ben1914 collected 2150 from side pot-2
mdlbkhd: shows [ ] (a flush, Ace high - King higher)
mdlbkhd collected 930 from side pot-1
MKKMOO: shows [ ] (a straight flush, Ace to Five)
MKKMOO collected 12100 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 15180 Main pot 12100. Side pot-1 930. Side pot-2 2150. | Rake 0
Board [ ]
Seat 1: MKKMOO (small blind) showed [ ] and won (12100) with a straight flush, Ace to Five
Seat 2: TJ22FTLR (big blind) showed [ ] and lost with a flush, Ace high
Seat 3: Anbessa9 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: CBion3 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: annachung folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: germain133 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: PMJackson21 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: ben1914 showed [ ] and won (2150) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 9: mdlbkhd (button) showed [ ] and won (930) with a flush, Ace high

how quick did you go from MSN moaning to deleting said moan once that dirty turn rolled off?

"how bad do i ru...."
*holds down delete for 10 seconds*
"life is good"

[thetank]

proof that online is rigged imo

[Colchester Kev]

proof that Flushy is a luckbox

FYP

[Royal Flush]

Congrats to the moomin for retaking 1st spot on p5's!!

[vegaslover]

Flushy I assume that most of your stable plays the mid-stakes tournies and upwards. Is there a level that is too low for you to bother with staking to make it worthwhile?

[George2Loose]

Hi Flushy- enjoy reading your diary. Few questions if you don't mind answering them:

1) It was revealed that AJKHoosier is backed. Why would he need backing with such a ridic roi- and what sort of deal do you think he would get?
2) How many of the top 100 on pocketfives do you think would be backed? How many do you think are backed by bax/sheets?
3) When you first started playing were u ever backed?

[dino1980]

Hi Flushy- enjoy reading your diary. Few questions if you don't mind answering them:

1) It was revealed that AJKHoosier is backed. Why would he need backing with such a ridic roi- and what sort of deal do you think he would get?
2) How many of the top 100 on pocketfives do you think would be backed? How many do you think are backed by bax/sheets?
3) When you first started playing were u ever backed?

Good current discussion about online high stakes mtt's that goes into why top players feel the need for backing here: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/87/high-stakes-mtt/feasibility-playing-online-hsmtts-living-391798/

[MC]

Lol that hand is so sick...

[Royal Flush]

PMSL this might just make Dubai the greatest

I played tournaments for years, but my career ended abruptly one night in August 2006, when I came up against a player called Dave Shallow. The entry fee for the tournament was £500, which I’d won in a smaller game; Shallow, a high roller with a notorious contempt for money, had bought in for the fun of it. He sat on my left, stared me in the face and held a handful of chips over the table whenever I looked as if I might bet, and speculated constantly, with unnerving accuracy, about the cards I was holding. The experience was crushing: I couldn’t think clearly, and in the end lost the capacity to make decisions of any kind; after just two hours of a tournament scheduled to last three days, Shallow had taken away my dignity, my will to survive in the game, and every chip I had. Usually, losing is a sickening feeling; that night, it was a merciful release.


http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n02/myer01_.html

[kukushkin88]

That's pretty much what I thought when I read it, certainly one of the greatest. Mind you anybody who's read his and DPommo's blogs from start to finish already knew he was right up there.

[GreekStein]

Hi Flushy,

Could you tell those of us like myself who don't know much about Dubai, who he is, why he's so sick etc..