2015 Diary- Family, Work, Poker and everything in-between

[celtic]

You can buy %'s of people if you have less than 300 posts.

[UgotNuts]

Now you tell me Vinny!

Thanks mate. I guess you just cant sell action unless you have 300 posts

[pokerplayingfarmer]

When do you think you will get to 300 posts? 

[UgotNuts]

Going on my current rate of 2.6 posts a day. In approx 1.5 days time! 😄

[UgotNuts]

All In all I have had a pretty week on both a personal front and poker. Made back to back final tables in a 5000+ and 800+ fields on Stars and and pretty much cashed every MTT i played on Saturday bar a couple. I have started reviewing/booming any interesting hands or hands I feel i played really badly/good and am talking about them to a few friends on Skype/Facebook that I really value their opinions. I find it really helps you to engrave it in my brain what I should be doing more of and what I should never do again. Reviewing this weeks sessions and comparing them to less successful weeks I find that my VPIP has dropped between 5-12% and my PFR has also decreased slightly at around 3%.

I have also cut down the amount I'm bluffing on turns and rivers. Even cutting down on my C-bets on wet boards and when the flop brings a 3 flush and I hold the ace of that suit, as people are more likely to pay off two streets when I hit and I can get away cheaply when I miss. Even the small percentage when I'm bluffing on the turn it seems to get way more respect than just punting in a C-bet which 95% of the poker world can play profitably against.

The only bad tournament I had was in the 5 Card PLO where I ran up a 35K stack in under an hour and then proceeded to "try and win the tournament" with 95% of the field in play. It was late in my session and I had two turbo's, two standard NLH, one 8 game and two PLO5 games going at the same time which was a bit of a brain wreak for me.

Heading to Birmingham on Tuesday evening for the week, so will take a nice earned break from the online world for a few days before returning for the Scoop Main event next Sunday.

Hope for some run good on my Birthday!

[RED-DOG]

Was it the 3 of hearts?

[UgotNuts]

  Correct! Well done Red-Dog. Thanks for playing! :-)

[UgotNuts]

I have been wanting to take the family aware for a long weekend for a little while now. Put us up in a nice hotel, with a pool, gym and breakfast included and perhaps a nice view of the city. Wanted it to be somewhere none of us have been, and somewhere I could run off and play some poker whilst the Mrs does some shopping.

Found Cardiff.

Found a good Deal on the Hilton In Cardiff. It ticks all the boxes, Pool, gym, massage room if required(Probably not as I'm not on a massive budget). Booked the family room with the view of the Castle, and it is right slap bang in the middle of the City and just over a mile to the local G casino which just so happens to be running their leg of the GUKPT that week! Result!



Brought into day 1B. If that doesn't go so well, hopefully the cash games will be good, or I could also buy into whatever comps will be running over the weekend. 100 quid on Saturday on the GUKPT weeks if memory serves me right. Will probably sell 20-30% of my action if anyone wants a sweat.

Any Blondes heading down for this? Anyone local?

[Ransom]

Can't post in the staking thread because of my measly 100 post total, but I'll have 5% of your GUKPT for £27.

For anyone considering buying a piece - I've done a ton of transactions with Shane for online comps and all payouts have been received very quickly. He's also on a heater having some really deep runs online, so here's hoping for a nice score in Cardiff.

[mikeymike]

S

are you playing dtd at all this week - as your in birmingham - also just looked at the cardiff event - what day you playing as i might be there as its only an 1 hour for me

M

[UgotNuts]

Hi mike,

Cant make DTD unfortunately. Will be playing day 1b which is next Friday if you fancied a game?

[mikeymike]

will let you know about cardiff

[UgotNuts]

Decided to take a break from online yesterday (Rather forced I must say) and head down to Luton for the Monday Madness £35 quid comp. I must admit putting my shoes on to leave I was already regretting it. 30K starting chips and only 1500 Guaranteed this was going to be a long night. I had to remind myself the only reason I was going was to try out a few things in a deepish stack comp, remind myself of all those live tells the not so experienced players give off and to pick off some of the more experienced players moves.

Got their almost bang on 19.30 got a drink and then headed down to the card room. Bumped into a few of the regulars had a chat, helped to register a friend into the Scoop PLO5 Hi/Lo rebuy. He wanted to play the M and the L (he though it was just a freeze out) when I reminded him it was a rebuy he settled the Low only. Not that he couldn't afford both, just he isn't that reckless!  

Got Drawn on the Luton Feature table with Will Kassouf, his partner and some regs who's name's escape me. The table was mental, everyone was taking advantage of the fact they are so deep and splashing around. Will had talked himself into a 400BB stack at one point. I just sat there called in a few spots and folded on the river when missed. Playing so much online I make almost all of my actions based on the amount of Big blinds I have. No point in playing ranges like J5 off. Just let the nutters knock themselves out and wait to pick up some hands, don't get married and overplay them and just watch the Chelsea Vs West brom game.

First hand I picked up which I had to think about   on the button at 75/150. Action had been Min raise UTG, call, call, call, raise (Cut off, to 500). I make it 2000 flat, BB flat calls everyone calls and then action was back on the Cuttoff  (ex G casino Dealer who's name escapes me) he tanks for a min and makes it 6500. If this was heads up I would really want to flat call this, but seeing if I flat call here everyone will be getting such a good price to call.  So I made it 13700, hoping this was enough to get all the overcallers to fold but not enough to get the cut off to. Everyone folded and I pick up 27K* pot preflop  .

 

[mikeymike]

Hi Shane

Played 3 times @DTD on thurs - the worst i have ever played - at one stage i had to go outside to see if i still had a pair of gonads.

Made a mental note of cardiff - if i am going will let you know - if not good luck and i hope you run well.

M

[UgotNuts]

Unlucky Mike. Any interesting hands to share?

I'm heading down to Cardiff on my own now. Cars turbo valve has gone and we can't get it in the garage until the first week of June. Had to cancel my Hilton reservation and book a B&B as I won't their for the most part and it was really only for the kids and the Mrs to enjoy more than me.

If you come down will you be playing?