Prose from a Poshboy

[cambridgealex]

came 4th in hiroller for 2.3k and am 11/62 in big162 with 25k ftw.

mostly thanks to this hand

PokerStars Hand #88852816802: Tournament #655011252, $150+$12 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XXI (800/1600) - 2012/11/07 0:44:43 WET [2012/11/06 19:44:43 ET]
Table '655011252 40' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: 20alex430 (24739 in chips)
Seat 2: punisher03 (74068 in chips)
Seat 3: Pestilential (69500 in chips)
Seat 4: Schappuscha (89106 in chips)
Seat 5: TheBigViking (28038 in chips)
Seat 6: ELRicardo14 (22501 in chips)
Seat 8: ciulbuonelis (58823 in chips)
Seat 9: Wing-Tsun (40322 in chips)
20alex430: posts the ante 200
punisher03: posts the ante 200
Pestilential: posts the ante 200
Schappuscha: posts the ante 200
TheBigViking: posts the ante 200
ELRicardo14: posts the ante 200
ciulbuonelis: posts the ante 200
Wing-Tsun: posts the ante 200
punisher03: posts small blind 800
Pestilential: posts big blind 1600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to 20alex430 [ ]
Schappuscha: folds
TheBigViking: folds
ELRicardo14: folds
ciulbuonelis: folds
Wing-Tsun: folds
20alex430: raises 22939 to 24539 and is all-in
punisher03: raises 49329 to 73868 and is all-in
Pestilential: calls 67700 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (4568) returned to punisher03
*** FLOP *** [ ]
*** TURN *** [ ] []
*** RIVER *** [ ] []
*** SHOW DOWN ***
punisher03: shows [ As] (a pair of Aces)
Pestilential: shows [Ah ] (a pair of Aces)
punisher03 collected 44761 from side pot
Pestilential collected 44761 from side pot
20alex430: shows [ ] (a straight, Nine to King)
20alex430 collected 75217 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 164739 Main pot 75217. Side pot 89522. | Rake 0
Board [ ]
Seat 1: 20alex430 (button) showed [ ] and won (75217) with a straight, Nine to King
Seat 2: punisher03 (small blind) showed [ As] and won (44761) with a pair of Aces
Seat 3: Pestilential (big blind) showed [Ah ] and won (44761) with a pair of Aces
Seat 4: Schappuscha folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: TheBigViking folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: ELRicardo14 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: ciulbuonelis folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: Wing-Tsun folded before Flop (didn't bet)

[cambridgealex]

You could wrote a 1000 word essay on John blacks database.

Lol please!

[cambridgealex]

No point punishing yourself now that it's done. It won't help one bit.

Also having to play bowl comps or small stakes is just insane. You're effectively punishing yourself by going to work for less money. That's ridiculous.

If I were you I'd make it a proper punishment but it only kicks in if you do it again. You need a deterrent to stop you doing it again not a slap on the wrist for something that happened in the past.

Gotta thank you for this Matt. Was gonna take the night off, or just play small, defo wasn't gonna play Hiroller, but flicked it in because of what you said and came 4th for 2.3k so thank you very much

[cambridgealex]

sigh 28th in big162, AT<KQ for 150k avg 80, xxxxQ, nasty

[EvilPie]

No point punishing yourself now that it's done. It won't help one bit.

Also having to play bowl comps or small stakes is just insane. You're effectively punishing yourself by going to work for less money. That's ridiculous.

If I were you I'd make it a proper punishment but it only kicks in if you do it again. You need a deterrent to stop you doing it again not a slap on the wrist for something that happened in the past.

Gotta thank you for this Matt. Was gonna take the night off, or just play small, defo wasn't gonna play Hiroller, but flicked it in because of what you said and came 4th for 2.3k so thank you very much

Fosters in case you were wondering.

[SuuPRlim]

If you did under $1k it's hardly that big of a deal! You're EV was prolly only slightly negative so it's basically exactly the same as playing blackjack and as you've already said there is nothong wrong with wanting a punt on BJ!

Obv pretty needless but happens to the best of us!

[PizzicatoXev]

Clean the oven imo

[TightEnd]

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New trophy cabinet Alex?

[Tal]

Missing Karl Power IMO

[cambridgealex]

in b4 waterboy

[smashedagain]

Stato lost some weight? What happened to the 100m 400m 800m challenge thing?

[jgcblack]

You could wrote a 1000 word essay on John blacks database.

you what?

Just because I'm less active when away... doesn't mean any besmirching my name is acceptable!

My name gets taken a little too lightly imo.



Also - absolutely love the game, when I'm winning, losing and breaking even - I absolutely infatically love the 'game' of poker, and at the moment specifically the variation of Texas Hold'em No Limit

[cambridgealex]

If you wake up this morning and have already read Sean's blog reporting tonights cash game, you may be feeling a little glum. His words sometimes drain the soul out of me too. Somebody today told him he was always looking so cheerful. He didn't know what to say either.

So to add some cheer to your morning, I have happy stories, happy hands, happy sets, flushes and straights. Business as usual, I guess.

I think it's good gamble as much as possible in every area of life you can, that way it's very hard to run bad in all of them all at once. That's one skewered way of looking at it anyway. So when staking is going bad, maybe MTTs are going well. Or when MTTs are going shit, maybe cash is going well. Of course sometimes they all go shit, but the more you GAMBLE, the more likely it is than you will run good in at least one of them.

So did some good old running good in an organised £1/2 game (sigh that it's come to that on a Friday night)- got it in bad and won, got it good and held, won a couple of flips, a big bluff worked (was particularly pleased with this), made a couple of big, correct, folds and just generally played well, ran better, and won a lot in a small game. Yay.

MTTs need to improve and my stable is in all-time high makeup - sigh. But like I said, running good in cash games is helping the downswing a bit, and we might be off somewhere chilly to visit a new friend again soon So things are looking good.

 

[smashedagain]

Lol. Thought it was lildave posting when reading the "I think its good to gamble in every area of life you can", then justifying it.

[millidonk]

Playing the condom/no condom game in a foreign land. Now that's what I call a gamble!