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« Reply #75 on: December 21, 2014, 01:25:12 PM »

Just pulled off a 12 hour shift where the phone rang exactly once. Midnight to midday, and about 30 seconds of work done. Nice when it happens, and I consider this karma for the shambles that was Thursday night in St Albans where clients fell asleep in a hotel car park because they were too drunk to figure out whos taxi was whos. No more until Boxing day. Shame really, it's double time for Christmas day and there hasn't been a call on Christmas Day in 3 years.

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Not heading down to Genting for the DC comp this afternoon. It's been a staple of my weekend for a while, but I'm just not feeling it today. Taxi to Bedford train station, train to Luton, taxi from Luton station to Genting - That's about £25-£30 before I even get in the door. Then depending on how late I'm there it's another £20 to get home. Seems a bit pointless to enter a comp that costs less than the amount it will cost to get to the casino. Need to get like 5th to break even on the day. Expenses to play in the G were about a £10-£15 a trip, little easier to make that back on cash with a couple of small pots rather than having to double through a shorter stack to pay off my transportation costs for Gentings. When I can get on more of a full time grind it will be exclusively in the G because of the costs involved with getting to Genting. Not to good to have to write off 40bb at £1/£1 before you even start.

I usually couple it with the Sunday night holdem comp they have down there, but considering the hefty losses for this week it seems more worthwhile to have a bash online today and at least try and satellite into some of their bigger comps.

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I need to work on knowing when to leave the table in cash games when I am winning. I will stay until the last person leaves or the staff have had enough and want to go home. I used to think it was some awesome degen badge of honor to be on a 20 hour live grind and being the first one in and the last one out, but my mental state will suffer for days afterwards. I won't be able to think of anything else but poker, I won't be able to sleep because I will constantly see hands and flops in my mind.

It's apparently pretty normal after a lot of repetitive actions, called the Tetris Effect, but all too frequently I will be booking a winner and my stack will slowly dwindle because I've stayed too long. I've started cash at 1pm, played a comp from 4pm-2am, and then back on cash until 9am. I've been up 4 or 5 buyins and left 7 hours later +£20, and stayed well past the point I should have and ended up in a reg fest long after the last fun player has gone home.

That's going to be my biggest leak when I transition to full time live cash. I in no way intend to just lock it up after a couple of good pots and jump on the next train home, but I want to know when to recognise that tipping point and be able to leave as soon as it starts to slide. I'd much rather be able to just sit down in the main bar and wait half an hour before leaving to cool down rather than just playing "one more orbit" to pass the time. Because that one orbit turns into two, and then it's 6am and I've ran it down to a breakeven session rather than a winner. I've probably lost the most money just outstaying my welcome rather than spewing.

I'd want to get on the £1/£2 as soon as possible down the G. I'll probably give it a couple of weeks of .50/£1 just to try and run up a little bit of shot taking money and have a bit of a scout of any £1/£2 regs seeing as £1/£2 NLH was rare when I was playing before my self exclusion. No idea if it's a straight 100-200bb buy in or one of those £1/£2 games with double straddles galore and about £6000 on the table.

As long as Anik is still open raising to £70 at .50/£1, it should be a fun venture. Shame every time I've been in a pot with him he's always got there. Beat me with K4 once vs AA for a chunky pot. They call it the Luton Nuts for a reason.
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« Reply #76 on: December 26, 2014, 12:58:50 AM »

Evening Blonde!

I hope you've all had a lovely Christmas, and that your brandy induced headache tomorrow morning subsides quickly so you can get stuck in to the Boxing Day tradition of turkey sandwiches, turkey soup, turkey curry, turkey on toast and Kentucky Fried Turkey.

I've always been a bit of a curmudgeon on Christmas Day. I enjoy the build up to Christmas, but the actual event puts me in a bit of a mood. All the pressure comes to a head and I find I can't enjoy it because I'm too aware of the constant facade of smiles and the feigned surprise when you open your 3rd Lynx Africa boxset. But this year I've had a nice time. It's felt a lot like Christmases from my childhood. I can't really explain why, so I'll just put it down to some magic Santa sprinkled on me while I was sleeping.

Best gift award goes to my sister - Moorman's Book of Poker, and a Christmas card that says "Happy Christmas you fun player". Me and my sister have a tradition of writing jokey poker related messages in our Christmas cards, and it will come to a head where one of us crosses the line and upsets the other at some point. Maybe I will get one in 2018 that will say "Merry Christmas, remember when you sat £5/£10 live with your whole £3k tourney bink which was 80% of your whole bankroll and 5 bet shoved QQ into AA and lost it all". Still a bit salty about that, and she knows it. Mine was a slightly less interesting  - "Merry Christmas, 3 to 5bet more".

I've spent most of the day helping my sister with her 8 game grind on Stars. She's only playing 0.40/0.80 limit to get a feel for the mechanics of the game and the betting structure but she's quick to figure it out and is on 4 winning days out of 5 and is up something like 80 big bets overall which is good. She's playing because she actually enjoys the games and isn't fazed by the small stakes right now. I want to have her on the $1/$2 limit soon as there is a lot of easy money there. She's getting a bit fed up of constantly chopping pots in Stud/8 though. Limit holdem is the game she's struggling with right now, and truth is it's probably my worst game so I need some work on that before I can help her more there.

APAT WCOAP schedule came out today and I'm quite excited by it. I'm penciling myself in for the Stud, Razz, HORSE, Holdem Main Event, Heads Up and the High Roller but I'll need to see how many of those conflict because I plan on winning a bracelet there.

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In slightly less fun news - My best friend got called into the hospital on the 22nd for an emergency endoscopy. They found what he described as a "fuck off tumor" in his duodenum which is somewhere in the small intestine. It's rare for it to be cancerous apparently which is a good sign I guess, but if it is then it's a pretty grim outlook. 1 year survival rate is about 45% which drops significantly afterwards.

It's a flip. Hopefully he takes after me and flops metaphorical quads and has it drawing dead. GL GL mate.

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Until next time Blonde, have a good one and make some cake at the tables.
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« Reply #77 on: December 26, 2014, 09:14:34 AM »

Really enjoying this Diary, nice balance between poker & real-life Ransom, demands to be read.

Tough break for your friend, fingers crossed he wins the flip.

Truth it, "it is what it is".

I got in terrible trouble for saying "it is what it is" yesterday, after a dreadful & outrageous tragedy a few days ago (Sky Poker "crashed" for an hour), but, well that's pretty much the position.


Keep it coming.  
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« Reply #78 on: December 27, 2014, 02:23:19 AM »

Really enjoying this Diary, nice balance between poker & real-life Ransom, demands to be read.

Tough break for your friend, fingers crossed he wins the flip.

Truth it, "it is what it is".

I got in terrible trouble for saying "it is what it is" yesterday, after a dreadful & outrageous tragedy a few days ago (Sky Poker "crashed" for an hour), but, well that's pretty much the position.


Keep it coming.  

Thanks Tikay, much appreciated!

Been around Luton much? Surprised I've never seen you there given the amount of time I've spent in the G these past two years.
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« Reply #79 on: December 27, 2014, 03:09:59 AM »

Currently in the middle of a 12 hour shift. 8pm-8am, being paid double time and exactly 30 bookings on from now until New Years Day. A rare real life freeroll, and I am taking advantage of it massively by sampling all of the unopened Christmas chocolate and a sip from the various beverages Mum received for Christmas whilst she's asleep. She said I could help myself yesterday, I assume it carries over to the 27th as well. She didn't specify any terms and conditions, so more fool her.

There's a chap who runs incredibly bad lifetime with taxi bookings with one on tonight at 04:45. They either never turn up, or they take him to the wrong place. I am eagerly awaiting his wrath at 5am. If dealing with an angry corporate type is one thing, dealing with them at 5am when they have a flight to catch at 7am is another. He is prone to hanging up in anger and then not calling back which I suppose is a plus. I do just want to tell him to book it with someone else, we have about 20 different providers on his account for him to use but he insists on taking the same company who give him issues each time.

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Livestreams of poker on Twitch.tv are becoming increasingly popular. Fronted by the ever entertaining WSOP bracelet winner and host of 'RunItUp!' Jason "JCarver" Somerville, people from all over the world are now putting their sessions online in real time for our viewing pleasure.

At the time of writing this there is

-An American chap livestreaming PLO cash games
-A group of French lads playing an actual holdem home cash game complete with beer, cigarettes and comedy slowrolls.
-Someone on a manic 16 table grind to reach Supernova before the year is out.
-Various tourney grinds, with streamers talking through their processes in their native languages.

This is a great thing for poker in more than one way. The first would be the new wave of poker personalities emerging. It seemed like until recently if you wanted to become a well known poker player you'd have to have an almighty heater on the tourney scene, or go on an Isildur like run at the cash tables taking down all in your way until you reigned supreme. Now as long as you have a webcam and software to broadcast your computer screen, you can start showing your face to the world whilst on your grind. And as long as you have an engaging personality, you can pick up the viewers piece by piece until people recognise you by your screen name.

And you don't even need to be good at poker! Some of you might be familiar with the name StickyRice1. StickyRice1 (real name unknown) is apparently a professional CounterStrike player - a competitive Army vs Terrorists team based shooter game for those who aren't familiar. About 2 weeks ago he decided to have a punt on Bovada, and deposited $2000. Ignoring conventional bankroll management, he jumped right into $10/$20 no limit holdem.

What happened will probably go down in history until the next time someone does it. He managed an against all odds run, winning every 80/20, every 60/40 and every flip to take his initial deposit of $2000 to $38,000 in around 36 hours - all whilst knowing bugger all about poker except that two pairs is better than one pair. He live streamed every minute of his sessions, and the internet was abuzz with the name StickyRice1 and stories of his antics. Who is the man behind the name? Just some obnoxious lad in his early 20s in his bedroom who's probably never held poker chips before and probably thinks VPIP and PFR are a European dance music duo.

Sadly yesterday he punted his the last $1200 in his account live on Twitch.tv, put his head to his desk for a few seconds and ended the stream. We've all had feelings like that before, but I could tell this was the first time poker had really kicked him in the gut and that this clueless-ness wasn't an act for the camera. You never forget the first time you go busto. Unfortunately I feel that winning $38,000 in just over a day will be the worst thing that ever happened to him. The pain of the monetary loss will subside at some point, but the feeling of turning low 4 figures into a decent 5 figure score in a day with just blind luck will never leave him. If I could I would tell him to never play again, because he will forever be chasing that high, and grinding .25/.50 will never satisfy him.

For a week he was the most talked about poker player in the world. He has a thread on 2+2 which is into the hundreds of pages, and he doesn't even know it exists. He didn't beat Phil Ivey for seven figures, he didn't win a bracelet or an EPT. He just had a webcam and was in the right place in the right time.

Right place at the right time. I find that strangely apt for a poker player.



 
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« Reply #80 on: January 01, 2015, 11:03:47 PM »

Happy New Year Blonde!

A funny thing happened when I woke up. I had zero desire to play poker at all. Not live or online, not even heads up dealers choice on the living room floor with my sister. I thought I may have had an aneurysm or something during the night that rewired my brain, but after several cheap Londis energy drinks I am wired and ready to get back on the horse for a profitable 2015.

I didn't go out for New Years. I never have actually. I refuse to pay a tenner to get into a pub that's free for the other 364 days of the year, so I stayed in and decided to bet my sister I could win a $1.10 5 Card Draw tourney on Pokerstars. Got 6th out of 110 in the end, but a final table is a final table and that $8.50 win should hopefully kickstart the year off right. 5 Card Draw is a boring format in my opinion, it seems that you just need to be on the right side of coolers and just get dealt full houses at the right time. You can also just bluff your nuts off as well.

Me and my sister have been playing a game we learned called 'Sviten Special'. Originating in the Sviten Club in Sweden, it's a cross between 5 card draw and 5 card Omaha. Split pot between the best 5 card draw hand and the best Omaha hand. Rules can be found here - http://www.pagat.com/poker/variants/sviten.html - mental action game, get this on the DC paddle so we can all go broke.

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I feel like starting a livestream of my sessions on Twitch.tv - It will probably be mixed games, and I can't imagine I will get much of an audience but it might be the thing I need to keep me motivated and on the grind. I have a ton of experience with things like this from my time doing Youtube, so I should be able to produce an entertaining channel.

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I'm giving myself a checklist for this year and I want to use this diary to keep track of it. Below are my goals for 2015

Poker related -

- Supernova on Pokerstars at least once.
- £15,000 in cash game profit between live and online.
- Visit DTD at least once this year.
- Get reinstated at Grovesnor (still waiting for a response!!) so I can play cash at the Luton G and The Vic.
- APAT Bracelet in a limit event
- Play one UKIPT
- Play the GUKPT Luton Main Event
- Stop levelling myself in small cash games. The 70 year old with £50 behind isn't bluff raising the flop.
- Help my sister get to $2/$4 in mixed games online through rigorous coaching and gestapo-like scrutiny.

Life related -

- Go to the doctor and get anxiety medication or at least get checked out for it.
- Stop eating so much shit and do a few pull ups or something.
- At least one holiday with friends somewhere away from poker.

Funny how my life goals are so thin compared to my poker ones. I guess that says a lot. I'll probably add more as this diary progresses. Maybe a couple of easy ones to give myself a false sense of progression.

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Totally forgot the Genting Poker Link was tonight in Luton. Was keen to play that, but then seeing the same faces (while nice from a comfort point of view and knowing their tendencies) just makes me feel like I'm not progressing anywhere. Rome wasn't build in a day and all that, but playing the same comps in the same club week in week out makes me feel like I am just treading water. I've been playing in Luton for coming on 3 years, and it's time to step the grind up and swing for the fences.

I'm sure I'll change my tune after the first bad online session of the year and decide that online sucks and live cash is better.

GL GL all.


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« Reply #81 on: January 05, 2015, 02:00:39 PM »

Really enjoying this diary Ransom.  Read it with my morning coffee.  Keep up the good work!
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« Reply #82 on: January 05, 2015, 02:58:44 PM »

Enjoying too, can't think who you are. We must have played together?
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« Reply #83 on: January 07, 2015, 10:06:51 AM »

Enjoying too, can't think who you are. We must have played together?

We almost certainly have if you played much at the Luton G last year.

I'm pretty sure I look very similar to the majority of early-mid 20 year olds who play around Luton anyway. If you did a line up like on Buzzcocks and tried to guess which one I was, it'd be harder than you think.
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« Reply #84 on: January 07, 2015, 10:57:09 AM »

Hello Blonde!

I always laughed at the idea of the 'Doomswitch' on Pokerstars, but this morning I was convinced it was real. Sat down to play some mixed games early doors today and spotted a total random sitting at $5/$10 Razz. Usually it's just the same 8 people trading money back and forth, but I'd never seen this guy before. He was sat with something like $491.54 so I assumed he was in for his whole bankroll seeing as there is never usually heavy action on the stud games at 4am.

I snap sit down, and within 25 minutes his on the table bankroll is over four figures. Managed to drop about 50 big bets to him in the end, despite him constantly calling two cards behind. Miracle wheels and 64s all over the place, and I'm there with my pants down knowing that he's got there again and that I have to call another $10 with a 7643A that's no good.

He obviously locks up and sits out as soon as his run of cards starts to slow, leaving me $500 down before I've even had my toast.

Razz is a horrible game, but it's one of my favorites at the same time. In my opinion it has the softest player pool on Pokerstars - It's the easiest game to figure out the rules to, but people make the most insane mistakes constantly and there are constant waves of people hoping to spin it up all the way up to $3/$6 limit.

I've been taking my losing sessions really well lately. About 4 years go when I first started playing online seriously, I would tilt my beans off if someone binked an Ace on the river. Now not even a wave of anger or frustration. The other week where I amazingly punted £300 into a clearly made 6lo in Super Lowball with an 86 draw I was totally placid. Sometimes progress costs £300, however small of a step it is.

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In the few thousand hands of holdem I've played online this month, I have been relentless with 3betting my small/big blind to button steals, and 4 betting any two cards from a SB/BB resteal and it's finally got my 'won without showdown' line looking fairly respectable now. PokerTracker says I have 3bet 61% of the time to button steals, which I find hilarious. Only a matter of time before people with HUDs and a good sample on me cotton on and just 5 bet shove it in my eye, but for now it's bringing that winrate up. If anyone asked me what adjustment they can make to their cash game play, it would probably be that.

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Played my first live cash session at Aspers Stratford the other day (had an urge for an early morning cash game), and was really excited to play. Despite having to share the train to London with those business types who insist on having a laptop, iPad, blackberry and iPhone all out on the table as if it's some sort of dick swinging contest between them to show how much important 'business' they have to do.

In Aspers I met the embodiment of the stereotypical 'old man coffee' player. He had his coffee, he had his paper, and he had his £45 in red chips which he would protect with his life.

He managed to limp-reraise all in twice (showed AA once, mucked second time), complain about people raising too much, complained about the coffee, complained it was too cold in the poker room and complained about the dealer being too slow.

I guess stereotypes exist for a reason, and I was extremely happy to find Old Man Coffee out in the wild. Keep the grind up mate, someone will fall for your limp re-raise one day and call you off and then you can lock up that £90 until next time.

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I haven't had any interesting nights at work recently so I can't moan on here about the stupid things people ask me for, so It's been fairly heavy on the poker content. For the rest of the day I intend to lurk the Razz lobby on Pokerstars and hope that chap comes back so I can either chunk off another $500 or take it all back. Either that or finally give in to my sisters demands to play Isildur1 at $75/$150 Limit Omaha hi/lo because 'It'll be a good sweat' and 'You might beat him'.

Maybe he will run his luck up to $10/$20 limit so I can get him there. Luck is for losers anyway. 

See you soon!
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« Reply #85 on: January 07, 2015, 12:41:04 PM »



I snap sit down, and within 25 minutes his on the table bankroll is over four figures.


I'm trying to work out what the min amount for over four figures is.  Tongue
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« Reply #86 on: January 14, 2015, 07:03:44 AM »



I snap sit down, and within 25 minutes his on the table bankroll is over four figures.


I'm trying to work out what the min amount for over four figures is.  Tongue

He was sat with just over $1000 before he sat out. Haven't seen him since. If he's managed to do the smart thing and cash it off I don't really mind, though part of me feels he may have just punted it around Pokerstars.
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« Reply #87 on: January 14, 2015, 07:32:25 AM »



I snap sit down, and within 25 minutes his on the table bankroll is over four figures.


I'm trying to work out what the min amount for over four figures is.  Tongue

He was sat with just over $1000 before he sat out. Haven't seen him since. If he's managed to do the smart thing and cash it off I don't really mind, though part of me feels he may have just punted it around Pokerstars.

Tom (Red-Dog) is one of our resident comedians, & I think his point was "over four figures" means five figures......(by the same logic that $1,000 would be "over 3 figures").

He's a clever so & so, eh?

Enjoying the Diary Mr Ransom, nice balance to it, love the little anecdotal stuff.

Note that Red-dog is from Yorkshire, so some allowances must be made, they are strange folk up there.

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« Reply #88 on: January 14, 2015, 08:25:50 AM »

Good morning Blonde!

So I just booked a week in Vegas for the WSOP. Booked it to coincide with the $1500 Millionaire Maker which looks to be the third best value comp of the summer. 7500 starting stack too which is up from the usual T4500 of previous $1500 events. Nice big field, nice starting stack and structure, nice cool mill-ball for the winner. Only about 10,000 runners to navigate through for the gold. Stranger things have happened I suppose, I mean Jamie Gold won the main event didn't he?

Staying at Circus Circus and the grand total of the trip is £921. I don't really care where I stay as long as it's on the strip somewhere, it's just going to be a base for getting my head down for a few hours each night. The current plan is to take about $10,000 and have some left over to come home with. Being in the green for the trip would just be icing on the cake. I am going to be mainly playing either $1/$3 or $2/$5 cash along with the Millionaire Maker event. If I somehow swing it and luckbox a chunk of cash I might extend the trip for another week.

Excited is not the word for it.

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The Pokerstars run bad continues however. Weathering the storm though, though getting AA in vs AK and losing both runs has taken the wind out of my sales for the day. Turns a straight on the first run, flops trip kings on the second. I think it's revenge for the week I spent playing on 888 last month. Might have to email Lee Jones and ask him to kindly put my boomswitch back on.

LOL Variance, what can you do.

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I am a massive proponent for the use of electronic cigarettes. I started smoking when I was 18, which is a stupid age to start really. I manage to get through all of school without smoking, then on my 18th birthday I went and brought 20 Camel Lights from the all night garage because I was a proud 18 year old and I could. The fact that I had been able to buy fags throughout my school years when the legal age was 16 didn't really cross my mind. I was an adult (in official purposes anyway) and I was going to secretly chuff my lungs out all night in the garden so my mum didn't find out.

I "gave up" in November 2013. I use the term "gave up" loosely because I will still have the odd one when I am out or when I am caught short with no battery or juice for the electric one. I find I can't even finish a whole regular cigarette anymore without feeling sick.  

But with this comes with the debate - Should you be allowed to use them at the poker table?

Personally despite the obnoxious massive electric pipe I carry with me, I really try not to make a show of blowing massive clouds around. I'll blow the 'smoke' under the table or behind me out of the way of other players. Despite it only being water vapor and flavouring on the way out, I can understand why people wouldn't want it near them, and I have no problem not using it if someone asks me not to. Curious to hear other people's thought on the matter.

Given that 20 Marlboro are pushing £10 now, and a bottle of e-liquid can last you 5 days and can be bought online for as little as £1, I am honestly surprised at the amount of people that still smoke.

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Until next time!

Harry / Ransom - "Eagerly awaiting losing an all in flip in the first level of the Millionaire Maker"

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« Reply #89 on: January 14, 2015, 08:37:13 AM »

Enjoy Vegas! Sounds like a great trip. Have you been before? I like circus circus as I am like my casinos to look like 80s Vegas, although location wise it's a bit nippy.

Keeping up to date with this, always a good read.

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