In search of double run good....

[OverTheBorder]

Sunday schedule, bricked pretty bad, need to assess play as I was just bad, proper bad!

Accounting needs updated:

Online Poker
Deposits:   -£166
Balance:     £0
Net:          -£166


Live Poker
Buy ins:     -£821
Returns:     £1,685
Net:          £864

Going to sort a spreadsheet pretty soon as the maths are pretty hard this way and I need to keep track!

Cliffs on this month:

Escaped Nottingham, was such a random experience, budgeted for train home and did not take a penny more than needed so I didnt degen off as I have a habit of doing at DTD, then forgot train prices double on the day and didnt have enough cash to get home, the bank of mum was out of town on her Ruby anniversary weekend and we be screwed! Decided to just spend the train money on drink and turn it into Monday's problem, went on a one man mission round the pub of Beeston, sold advertising space on myself for poker tournaments, sold a winning coupon at the bar, kept the fruit machine market going all day, countless people sent me £20 when required and woke up on Monday on the floor of my room with £20 in change on the floor owing a lot more than it would have cost me to just pay for the expensive train! I have this unfortunate issue of being Bi-Polar, it means life is either 1000 miles an hour or 0, which is why I will always be stop and start on blogging! what comes up must come down unfortunately.

Played 2 tournaments at casino....one of them was a bounty hunter, player shoved a 9 high HHH board for 6,000 into a 500 pot! I shoved with  and was also called by another played with a gut shot straight draw and the  !!!! you could not make this up! As expected my 9 was ahead, as double expected, player B turned his straight and they both rivered the flush! I laughed and walked out! Second tournament, got a stack, both my phones died, had been drinking all day and donked off as I was bored without music/distractions! Won pub poker for £25 though lol #insearchofmylevel

Very very very disappointed to miss the Grand Prix, had two golden chips and was travelling down Thursday to play two live days! My travelling partners uncle took very unwell and obviously family came first so I played two online legs trying to bink Sunday but structure did not suit my game, did make 37th with 18th going through on attempt two but alas not to be!  Not impact on stats as already accounted for!

Main issue of the month is utterly done the lot on various -ve games! Have a non gambling wager on for the whole of April from now, if I gamble on anything other than poker for the month I have to buy my mate into GPS Edinburgh and vice versa, excited about this, interesting to prove if I am an addict or not! I really do not know!  Was out for drinks with a girl on Thursday (thin) and I am brutally honest about all my failings and she said "so basically, your life plan is, someday your ship will come in" and I said "yeah, pretty much" and she said "what happens if it doesnt?" I paused looked to the left, turned back and said "but it will" suppose that is the gamblers mentality! but all being said, that ship is comming

Today we have the SPS £250+£25, won my seat and super excited! 1 hour clock 30k chips, 40k guarantee with 60+ satted in should smash that! two day 1s, should be epic.  Last nights £50+£20 got 130 runners, so the volume is there!  Fingers crossed! I can see that ship on the horizon

[OverTheBorder]

Sigh, got from 20k to 50k+ in 3 levels, then raised button to 700 at 150/300 sb shoves for 8k I call with aq of parsley, he has j6 off , flop comes q 66 wp lol very next hand I raise 700 with kj d and bb 3b, I assume he tags tilt and flat in position, j high flop and I scoop 10k pot to recoup after barreling a check. Then very next hand get aks 3bet an open and get cold 4 from sb who is reraiser last hand, 4b is 6k, in game it looks like tilt and I could be weak here so I end up 5b shoving into aces to lose 26k had more than I thought, will post hand as sizings all bad and wanna know line! 23k so still in but need regroup

[OverTheBorder]

Played like a donkey, got down to 9k, got to 24k without showdown but bled down to 18k coming back for 400/800/100 with 3 levels remaining, bulmers count at 9 so ideal spin levels!!!! One time

[OverTheBorder]

Will report this tomorrow, but somehow bagged up 120.5k with a 90k average, 120 players, £30,000 in the pot with a day to go! Going back to 800/1600/200

Never touched roulette/black jack, caned the free buffet and drank bulmers like a pro! Good day!

[celtic]

glgl for day 2

[OverTheBorder]

Chip counts are up, so 12/36 from day 1A which is pretty good position.  Excellent early news is that day 2 and day 3 fall on weekday bar pricing, a saving of £1.50 per bottle of bulmers is practically a locked min cash saving ha ha

Such a great structured tournament but following on from my earlier entry, nothing was going right and I played in all honesty atrocious for a level, I did say it was like somewhat had painted a masterpiece and I decided to sh1t all over it playing like death.  Think this sums it up, early position raise at 300/600 to 1400, sb calls, I have   and 14,000 in BB and decide to go fishing (truly awful), get a   flop, this is where it gets worse, I have 12,600 or something left, I check he bets 2600, sb folds and I....wait for it.....this is pretty horrendous, flat!!!!! I mean WTF, my confidence is so battered I can't pull the trigger and want to see the heart, I have made a horrendous peel got the flop I wanted and committed a 5th of my chips cheaply, blank turn, check check, so I know he has no King, river is another blank, I should shove here, almost pot sized and he never calls, and again, trigger finger broken, it check checks and he shows   for a hand I could have got rid of on any street! I was horrified with myself and had a proper good talking to myself!

Then, I went on a run, playing proper poker, managed to get up to 24k without showdown, picked some nice spots, exploited the mid stacks that did not want to take the hit, pushed in +ve spots and did pretty much everything right, then table gets broken, I am at 20k ish after a shoveless orbit.

I get sat next to utter maniac, got 130k, can hardly see as he is that drunk and 5-6x pre every single hand, so double ups should not be hard, plus when he is bluffing constantly he keeps high showing me his cards, which I did warn him against, as when I do make my move do not want to think I cheated to get it.  Lose another orbit picking my spot, then fold to button who flats, maniac just makes up which is pretty suprising, I take my option, blank flop, check check check, turn is a 5, I have   , maniac bets 2600, I just flat, reason being I want to know buttons folding before I commit them all which I have every intention of doing with 3rd pair! he folds, river is a 10, now meaning I have 4th pair, he bets enough to leave me 2,200, like 10-12k from memory, I decide to just call, reason being, I only beat a bluff, and if I am wrong, I still have 4 blinds to spin so whats the point! and he does indeed have 9 6 for no pair no draw!

Up to 28k I then have to raise/fold   to a 3 bet with maniac out pot it seems pointless when double up so easy to get next door.  Then disaster, maniac loses 3 pots in a row and is out like that! all of a sudden, table is not leaking chips, his losing hands are so LOL, I had to walk away, 5b shoving   into bullets, and 4b shoving into a house on a        with   !!!!

After this I have about 20k ish, early position raise to 2000 at 1000/2000/200 button calls, I have   and think the raiser is aggro and both stacks have difficulty calling this shove due to sizings, get original raiser to fold, button finds the call with   , 2 spade flop but we fold to get to over 40k.  Then 2 hands later, caller in last hand shoves for 6-7k, I have   and shove to ISO (not sure if thats needed but think flatting is pretty bad), and SB wakes up with   ....WOOPS! shover has   but we spike the aces and are all of a sudden from 10k to 90k in a level! Played very solid after this, had a regular to my left who was tilting bad which threatened to upset things, at one point I had a word with him about something that had happened a few weeks earlier when he was drunk and how bad it was for his game, he went into his shell and rode out the last level as well, he came up to me after the game, and said I know what you did there, and thanked me! To be honest I did it for me too, as him on tilt in position would narrow my play range but also he is a good guy and it wasn't nice to see the spew.

Only one hand after this I didn't like pulled max value everywhere.  I raise with   and get a call from luck box who tilted guy above and button 3b, button is very aggro reg on second bullet who has let himself blind of 30k by playing cash for 3 hours and not appearing post break! so clearly on the spin, but he still has 60k and I just do not want to commit half my stack in a spot where I will never be crushing, he is more likely to have   than a hand, but even if he does, I am not crushing and we still have a station to get through, pretty sure I was bluffed but only lost a standard open and better spots to be found.

All and all, loved the game, hated my play at times, really need to find a way of keeping focused for the whole period, I have too many bad patches when I get involved.  Didn't help that wifi didn't work in the room I played in for most of the day, worked everywhere else in casino, very odd!

Looking forward to Sunday and off to pub as bookies is banned for the month

[OverTheBorder]

Been to most of the pubs that Edinburgh have to offer, got home and decided to do a small micro $40 schedule tonight just to keep the mind interested, will post sweats, but will probably throw up bricks (confidence)

[OverTheBorder]

Could post a million of these thus far, but Saturday nights seem so much more mental than others at the low levels:

PokerStars Hand #96408883824: Tournament #708199710, $2.00+$0.20 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XI (125/250) - 2013/03/30 22:12:42 WET [2013/03/30 18:12:42 ET]
Table '708199710 209' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Argyle_DK (12080 in chips)
Seat 2: conteiner78 (14723 in chips)
Seat 3: ursobolav (2580 in chips)
Seat 4: YouRush25 (6799 in chips)
Seat 5: mijarilopez (27171 in chips)
Seat 6: Czechnemec (12662 in chips)
Seat 7: RafiLaFigue (8117 in chips)
Seat 8: Thommiloser (11553 in chips)
Seat 9: Rab90 (12270 in chips)
Argyle_DK: posts the ante 30
conteiner78: posts the ante 30
ursobolav: posts the ante 30
YouRush25: posts the ante 30
mijarilopez: posts the ante 30
Czechnemec: posts the ante 30
RafiLaFigue: posts the ante 30
Thommiloser: posts the ante 30
Rab90: posts the ante 30
conteiner78: posts small blind 125
ursobolav: posts big blind 250
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Rab90 [ Ah]
YouRush25: folds
mijarilopez: folds
Czechnemec: folds
RafiLaFigue: folds
Thommiloser: calls 250
Rab90: raises 1250 to 1500
Argyle_DK: folds
conteiner78: folds
ursobolav: folds
Thommiloser: calls 1250
*** FLOP *** [ ]
Thommiloser: bets 250
Rab90: raises 1750 to 2000
Thommiloser: calls 1750
*** TURN *** [ ] []
Thommiloser: checks
Rab90: bets 8740 and is all-in
Thommiloser: calls 8023 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (717) returned to Rab90
*** RIVER *** [ ] []
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Thommiloser: shows [ ] (a pair of Jacks)
Rab90: shows [ Ah] (a pair of Queens)
Rab90 collected 23691 from pot
Thommiloser finished the tournament in 1165th place
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 23691 | Rake 0
Board [ ]
Seat 1: Argyle_DK (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: conteiner78 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: ursobolav (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: YouRush25 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: mijarilopez folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: Czechnemec folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: RafiLaFigue folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Thommiloser showed [ ] and lost with a pair of Jacks
Seat 9: Rab90 showed [ Ah] and won (23691) with a pair of Queens

[OverTheBorder]

I guess he has an awful tag on me....

PokerStars Hand #96411428123: Tournament #708199732, $2.00+$0.20 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XX (700/1400) - 2013/03/30 23:06:37 WET [2013/03/30 19:06:37 ET]
Table '708199732 138' 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: FAPTOBblN (50572 in chips)
Seat 2: Rab90 (31134 in chips)
Seat 3: buracapower (11900 in chips)
Seat 4: HelgeESC85 (31739 in chips)
Seat 5: Graversen90 (6114 in chips)
Seat 6: Maxim Moscow (38650 in chips)
FAPTOBblN: posts the ante 175
Rab90: posts the ante 175
buracapower: posts the ante 175
HelgeESC85: posts the ante 175
Graversen90: posts the ante 175
Maxim Moscow: posts the ante 175
Graversen90: posts small blind 700
Maxim Moscow: posts big blind 1400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Rab90 [ ]
FAPTOBblN: folds
Rab90: raises 1400 to 2800
buracapower: folds
HelgeESC85: calls 2800
Graversen90: folds
Maxim Moscow: folds
*** FLOP *** [ ]
Rab90: bets 1400
HelgeESC85: calls 1400
*** TURN *** [ ] []
Rab90: bets 2800
HelgeESC85: calls 2800
*** RIVER *** [ ] []
Rab90: bets 23959 and is all-in
HelgeESC85: calls 23959
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Rab90: shows [ ] (a straight, Nine to King)
HelgeESC85: shows [ ] (a pair of Jacks)
Rab90 collected 65068 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 65068 | Rake 0
Board [ ]
Seat 1: FAPTOBblN folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: Rab90 showed [ ] and won (65068) with a straight, Nine to King
Seat 3: buracapower folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: HelgeESC85 (button) showed [ ] and lost with a pair of Jacks
Seat 5: Graversen90 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: Maxim Moscow (big blind) folded before Flop

[OverTheBorder]

and again............

PokerStars Hand #96411616360: Tournament #708199732, $2.00+$0.20 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XXI (800/1600) - 2013/03/30 23:10:39 WET [2013/03/30 19:10:39 ET]
Table '708199732 138' 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: FAPTOBblN (52622 in chips)
Seat 2: Rab90 (63693 in chips)
Seat 3: buracapower (8550 in chips)
Seat 4: igrok$148 (11456 in chips) out of hand (moved from another table into small blind)
Seat 5: Graversen90 (14008 in chips)
Seat 6: Maxim Moscow (31236 in chips)
FAPTOBblN: posts the ante 200
Rab90: posts the ante 200
buracapower: posts the ante 200
Graversen90: posts the ante 200
Maxim Moscow: posts the ante 200
Graversen90: posts small blind 800
Maxim Moscow: posts big blind 1600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Rab90 [ ]
FAPTOBblN: raises 1600 to 3200
Rab90: raises 4800 to 8000
buracapower: folds
Graversen90: folds
Maxim Moscow: folds
FAPTOBblN: calls 4800
*** FLOP *** [ ]
FAPTOBblN: checks
Rab90: bets 9600
FAPTOBblN: raises 34822 to 44422 and is all-in
Rab90: calls 34822
*** TURN *** [ ] []
*** RIVER *** [ ] [As]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
FAPTOBblN: shows [ ] (a pair of Nines)
Rab90: shows [ ] (a pair of Queens)
Rab90 collected 108244 from pot
FAPTOBblN finished the tournament in 338th place and received $4.92.
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 108244 | Rake 0
Board [ As]
Seat 1: FAPTOBblN showed [ ] and lost with a pair of Nines
Seat 2: Rab90 showed [ ] and won (108244) with a pair of Queens
Seat 3: buracapower (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Graversen90 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: Maxim Moscow (big blind) folded before Flop

[RedFox]

Chip counts are up, so 12/36 from day 1A which is pretty good position.  Excellent early news is that day 2 and day 3 fall on weekday bar pricing, a saving of £1.50 per bottle of bulmers is practically a locked min cash saving ha ha

Such a great structured tournament but following on from my earlier entry, nothing was going right and I played in all honesty atrocious for a level, I did say it was like somewhat had painted a masterpiece and I decided to sh1t all over it playing like death.  Think this sums it up, early position raise at 300/600 to 1400, sb calls, I have   and 14,000 in BB and decide to go fishing (truly awful), get a   flop, this is where it gets worse, I have 12,600 or something left, I check he bets 2600, sb folds and I....wait for it.....this is pretty horrendous, flat!!!!! I mean WTF, my confidence is so battered I can't pull the trigger and want to see the heart, I have made a horrendous peel got the flop I wanted and committed a 5th of my chips cheaply, blank turn, check check, so I know he has no King, river is another blank, I should shove here, almost pot sized and he never calls, and again, trigger finger broken, it check checks and he shows   for a hand I could have got rid of on any street! I was horrified with myself and had a proper good talking to myself!

Then, I went on a run, playing proper poker, managed to get up to 24k without showdown, picked some nice spots, exploited the mid stacks that did not want to take the hit, pushed in +ve spots and did pretty much everything right, then table gets broken, I am at 20k ish after a shoveless orbit.

I get sat next to utter maniac, got 130k, can hardly see as he is that drunk and 5-6x pre every single hand, so double ups should not be hard, plus when he is bluffing constantly he keeps high showing me his cards, which I did warn him against, as when I do make my move do not want to think I cheated to get it.  Lose another orbit picking my spot, then fold to button who flats, maniac just makes up which is pretty suprising, I take my option, blank flop, check check check, turn is a 5, I have   , maniac bets 2600, I just flat, reason being I want to know buttons folding before I commit them all which I have every intention of doing with 3rd pair! he folds, river is a 10, now meaning I have 4th pair, he bets enough to leave me 2,200, like 10-12k from memory, I decide to just call, reason being, I only beat a bluff, and if I am wrong, I still have 4 blinds to spin so whats the point! and he does indeed have 9 6 for no pair no draw!

Up to 28k I then have to raise/fold   to a 3 bet with maniac out pot it seems pointless when double up so easy to get next door.  Then disaster, maniac loses 3 pots in a row and is out like that! all of a sudden, table is not leaking chips, his losing hands are so LOL, I had to walk away, 5b shoving   into bullets, and 4b shoving into a house on a        with   !!!!

After this I have about 20k ish, early position raise to 2000 at 1000/2000/200 button calls, I have   and think the raiser is aggro and both stacks have difficulty calling this shove due to sizings, get original raiser to fold, button finds the call with   , 2 spade flop but we fold to get to over 40k.  Then 2 hands later, caller in last hand shoves for 6-7k, I have   and shove to ISO (not sure if thats needed but think flatting is pretty bad), and SB wakes up with   ....WOOPS! shover has   but we spike the aces and are all of a sudden from 10k to 90k in a level! Played very solid after this, had a regular to my left who was tilting bad which threatened to upset things, at one point I had a word with him about something that had happened a few weeks earlier when he was drunk and how bad it was for his game, he went into his shell and rode out the last level as well, he came up to me after the game, and said I know what you did there, and thanked me! To be honest I did it for me too, as him on tilt in position would narrow my play range but also he is a good guy and it wasn't nice to see the spew.

Only one hand after this I didn't like pulled max value everywhere.  I raise with   and get a call from luck box who tilted guy above and button 3b, button is very aggro reg on second bullet who has let himself blind of 30k by playing cash for 3 hours and not appearing post break! so clearly on the spin, but he still has 60k and I just do not want to commit half my stack in a spot where I will never be crushing, he is more likely to have   than a hand, but even if he does, I am not crushing and we still have a station to get through, pretty sure I was bluffed but only lost a standard open and better spots to be found.

All and all, loved the game, hated my play at times, really need to find a way of keeping focused for the whole period, I have too many bad patches when I get involved.  Didn't help that wifi didn't work in the room I played in for most of the day, worked everywhere else in casino, very odd!

Looking forward to Sunday and off to pub as bookies is banned for the month

been reading these blogs and came across this

good luck days 2/3

[OverTheBorder]

Cheers vinny and red fox.

Yesterday's small $ schedule ended about even, min cashed all over the place and got pretty deep in a $2 turbo so will leave me some for another day.  Did not deserve a win as I was just clicking buttons, was watching boxing and not concentrating, probably need to forget everything that happened there for today.

Seat plan is up for today:

Table 1
 65,600 1 1 Johnstone, John
 141,300 1 2 Mcneill, Gareth
 225,300 1 3 Donoghue, Peter
 38,900 1 4 Larrainzar, Julian
 184,500 1 5 Cummings, Bob
 54,800 1 6 Johnstone, Brian
 69,700 1 7 Wallace, John
 82,000 1 8 Millar, John
 
Table 2
 151,600 2 1 Appleby, Simon
 53,100 2 2 Paxton, Will
 44,700 2 3 Milne, Chris
 100,600 2 4 Pilkington, Graham
 120,500 2 5 Roberts, Chris
 99,200 2 6 Harris, Gordon
 33,300 2 7 Wilson, Chris
 51,300 2 8 Hutchison, Dean
 
Table 3
 99,000 3 1 Mackenzie, Andrew
 23,800 3 2 Gray, Val
 46,400 3 3 Sneddon, Neil
 19,400 3 4 Wilkie, Norman
 87,800 3 5 Snow, Raymond
 135,000 3 6 Thomson, Jim
 158,000 3 7 Starrs, Phil
 236,600 3 8 Bangham, Steve
 
Table 4
 83,900 4 1 Shearer, Daryll
 61,700 4 2 Burns, Sally
 207,700 4 3 Feenan, Andrew
 86,300 4 4 Campbell, Robert
 233,200 4 5 Bull, Robbie
 80,100 4 6 Elliot, William
 77,700 4 7 Davidson, Andrew
 165,400 4 8 Duffy, Jamie
 
Table 5
 54,000 5 1 Hansen, Craig
 92,600 5 2 Brown, Martyn
 54,100 5 3 Grey, David
 120,700 5 4 Dziurdzia, Robert
 163,900 5 5 Mcconaghy, Colin
 80,100 5 6 Bertram, Gary
 109,600 5 7 Yuill, Ricky
 43,700 5 8 Leckie, Wullie
 
Table 6
 117,000 6 1 Campbell, Gary
 68,000 6 2 Nicol, Davie
 63,500 6 3 Sharkey, Chris
 79,400 6 4 Alavizadeh, Cameron
 123,100 6 5 Ofarrell, Gerry
 35,500 6 6 Wright, Ian
 83,500 6 7 Clarkson, Graham
 83,900 6 8 Rehilhu, Sunny
 
Table 7
 212,800 7 1 Kerr, Mitchell
127,900 7 2 Wessels, Johan
 49,400 7 3 Convery, Steven
 65,600 7 4 Stewart, Dean
 215,000 7 5 Parton, Andrew
 63,200 7 6 Leishman, Marc
 66,900 7 7 Grant, Andy

Playing 8 handed all day, absolute hate my table draw, got two of the better players, both of which have a habbit of puting me off my game.  Will have the ear phones at the ready as the verbals will not take long.  Disappointing day 1b turnout but payouts still looks as follows:


1st £14500
 2nd £9400
 3rd £5650
 4th £4100
 5th £2750
 6th £2000
 7th £1350
 8th £1000
 9th - 12th £700
 13th - 16th £550

Paying less than 10% which is odd, queue a 18th finish ha ha play down to an 8 handed final table which is on tomorrow so fingers are firmly crossed.

Think I have also worked out picture uploader so here it goes...

[OverTheBorder]

#Fail

If anyone can explain how to get an image from photo bucket to here without an iPhone App, I would be eternally grateful

[Nicksnuts]

Gordon Harris will talk your ears off as well! Good luck

[ForthThistle]

Get them in good and Hold.....
Easy game.

Good luck.