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« Reply #15 on: March 21, 2017, 11:45:34 AM »

Didn't get to play much poker yesterday, had uni during the day and various chores to do and by the time I sat down to play in the evening my head was whizzing a bit too much. I fired up a couple of tourneys and made early exits. With my head not in the correct place I for once made a wise decision and instead of playing more just retired to bed and caught up with 'The Walking Dead' and watched some stuff on Netflix.

I did come across some very interesting 'trades-persons' yesterday!

I was walking to the chippy with a mate at lunchtime when 'out of nowhere' we were sprayed with a stinking watery liquid. Wondered if it was due to a leaky drain above or someone chucking something unpleasant out of a window. I looked around and seen some 'trades-persons' spraying a big outside wall with this stuff...



Apparently the "silicone micro emulsion effectively penetrates below the surface of porous materials carrying waterproofing resins deep into the pores of the substrate". Quite handy that although to be honest it didn't taste or smell overly appealing. I am also not sure what effect it will have on my mates jacket which took a moderate sprinkling of the stuff.

Then I noticed that due to the stiff breeze the 'trades-persons' were missing the wall with quite a lot of this stuff! What seemed like the majority of said liquid was being blown into the adjacent street where a brand new one of these was sitting...



In fact said liquid and shiny new car were sharing one and the same path. The car was utterly drenched in the stuff, bumper, windscreen, bonnet, sunroof, the whole 9 yards. I would speculate there might be as much of the said liquid on the car as there was on the wall.

What looked like the head 'trades-person' wandered around. I thought maybe I should mention something so that evasive procedures could be taken. I don't know, maybe they might want to spray from a different angle, put a sheet up to stop the leakage or even locate the oblivious motorist and see if they were happy that their new motor had been completely varnished? If not maybe they could work towards a solution or something.

I therefore decided to politely inform the trades-person that the car was getting completely drenched in One Coat Weather Seal. She replied "Oh", "okay". Then shuffled round the corner to talk the matter over with her colleague. I was happily eating my chippy at this point and quite curious what novel solution they would come up with. About 90 seconds later the machine starts up again. The solution they had came up with... 'Just ignore it and carry on regardless'!

I am curious as to how they arrived at this conclusion. Did they decide the motorist would probably be grateful that his car was varnished? Or that it was better to make sure the car had 2 coats?
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« Reply #16 on: March 21, 2017, 11:54:10 AM »

Like tikay, I'm too strong and healthy to bother with healthy threads, hope you survive the next 4 weeks Smiley

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Cheers celtic!

Is your username to do with the football team or the "relating to the Celts or their languages, which constitute a branch of the Indo-European family and include Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Breton, Manx, Cornish, and several extinct pre-Roman languages such as Gaulish" thing?

I am a big celtic fan myself if we are talking football although not so good with the Gaelic speaking other thing.

Definitely the football, glad you are a fan too, as I donated a whopping £16 to
You on the cash table on sky the other night. Hope it helps get you to a bracelet, don't forget me if it does Smiley

Do You play live still?

Ah nice one Smiley

What was your username? I probably wasn't my usual cheery self, have been experimenting on a few cash tables trying to suss out ways which might be useful to make a challenge in the Sky 'Viva Las Vegas' rake races. Cash play is probably my weakest area though so I can be a bit erratic!

I don't play much live. Have made it over the last 2 years to WSOP events and am hoping to work something similar this year. With the studies finishing I want to start playing more live though and will be disappointed if I cannot play 5+ events at next years WSOP as being able to do stuff like that is why I went back to studying and am looking for a solid job in the background.

What about yourself, do you play much live? Are you also on the west coast of Scotland? (making assumptions here based on the football). I have been told to check out 'The Genting' in Glasgow. Will probably give that a try over the next few weeks.
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« Reply #17 on: March 21, 2017, 12:47:51 PM »

I've played Glasgow gentings and merchants city. Also the two casinos in Edinburgh. Never really played cash there but they get games going. Think alea in Glasgow have cash games going too. Some decent comps in Glasgow but not enough. I'm not there anymore, moved abroad, but if you're on fb there's pages on there for each casino and they advertise what's on.
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« Reply #18 on: March 21, 2017, 09:45:45 PM »

I just posted this hand history elsewhere and thought I may as well post it here too. Would be interested to hear the thoughts of anyone wishing to share them Smiley

"This is from the VLV 2nd chance freeroll on Sunday on Sky Poker (1st place wins a £4500 WSOP package & 2nd-32nd get between £50-£500 in a rather flat payout structure)

Most definitely not intended to be a bad beat story I am long over the hand. I was just surprised that after 10 years + playing poker such an apparently straightforward hand (A suited ace on the BTN) could have me so torn as to what to do at the time.

I am also not trying to be results orientated. Yes I would probably have quickly forgotten the hand had I won, but the hand seemed interesting as we have a range of options on how to proceed.

The hand: I have A6 suited on the button 6 handed @ 500-1000 blinds. It folds around to me and I have 26k. The SB has 20k and the BB 13k. So what do we do?

The situation: I have a fairly average image as I have only joined the table 2 orbits ago. I have opened 2 pots for between 2-2.5x and the player who is in the BB has instantly 3 bet shoved on me both times. He has been active apart from that too. The SB has been playing standard ABC poker. There are 38 players left and 32 get paid.

I remember being dealt the hand and deciding to fold. I thought the player in the BB was likely to shove on any opening raise (as that is what they had been doing). I also didn't like the calling ranges I may face (especially from the SB) if I was to open shove this many chips. Due to the set-up I didn't fancy getting half my stack in with such a marginal hand, the only hands I would be 'crushing' would be <A5 but many of these would result in split pots.

After I decided this as the cards were dealt, one of the early position players tanked and during that time I decided I wasn't folding an ace on the BTN to the BB who had 3bet shipped on my opening raises twice. I mean what am I waiting for if I fold again? So I open for 2k and as expected the BB ships on me and I snap call (when I decided to play into the player preflop I was never folding preflop to them) I only opened small as I was folding or 4 betting if the SB 3 bets.

Anyways the BB has Q4, hits the Q and my stack goes into the danger zone and I don't recover. Not important and am long over the hand as mentioned but what would you do in this spot?

I know exactly what I would do now after reflecting on the hand but will keep quiet about this and see if others wish to give their thoughts."
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« Reply #19 on: March 21, 2017, 10:01:08 PM »

I've played Glasgow gentings and merchants city. Also the two casinos in Edinburgh. Never really played cash there but they get games going. Think alea in Glasgow have cash games going too. Some decent comps in Glasgow but not enough. I'm not there anymore, moved abroad, but if you're on fb there's pages on there for each casino and they advertise what's on.

Thanks celtic! Will check out the FB pages and give them a whirl Smiley

Tried the Riverboat before and sneaked ITM but the structure was so bad I would have been as well going to the local Mecca bingo hall.
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« Reply #20 on: March 21, 2017, 10:38:12 PM »

I just posted this hand history elsewhere and thought I may as well post it here too. Would be interested to hear the thoughts of anyone wishing to share them Smiley

"This is from the VLV 2nd chance freeroll on Sunday on Sky Poker (1st place wins a £4500 WSOP package & 2nd-32nd get between £50-£500 in a rather flat payout structure)

Most definitely not intended to be a bad beat story I am long over the hand. I was just surprised that after 10 years + playing poker such an apparently straightforward hand (A suited ace on the BTN) could have me so torn as to what to do at the time.

I am also not trying to be results orientated. Yes I would probably have quickly forgotten the hand had I won, but the hand seemed interesting as we have a range of options on how to proceed.

The hand: I have A6 suited on the button 6 handed @ 500-1000 blinds. It folds around to me and I have 26k. The SB has 20k and the BB 13k. So what do we do?

The situation: I have a fairly average image as I have only joined the table 2 orbits ago. I have opened 2 pots for between 2-2.5x and the player who is in the BB has instantly 3 bet shoved on me both times. He has been active apart from that too. The SB has been playing standard ABC poker. There are 38 players left and 32 get paid.

I remember being dealt the hand and deciding to fold. I thought the player in the BB was likely to shove on any opening raise (as that is what they had been doing). I also didn't like the calling ranges I may face (especially from the SB) if I was to open shove this many chips. Due to the set-up I didn't fancy getting half my stack in with such a marginal hand, the only hands I would be 'crushing' would be <A5 but many of these would result in split pots.

After I decided this as the cards were dealt, one of the early position players tanked and during that time I decided I wasn't folding an ace on the BTN to the BB who had 3bet shipped on my opening raises twice. I mean what am I waiting for if I fold again? So I open for 2k and as expected the BB ships on me and I snap call (when I decided to play into the player preflop I was never folding preflop to them) I only opened small as I was folding or 4 betting if the SB 3 bets.

Anyways the BB has Q4, hits the Q and my stack goes into the danger zone and I don't recover. Not important and am long over the hand as mentioned but what would you do in this spot?

I know exactly what I would do now after reflecting on the hand but will keep quiet about this and see if others wish to give their thoughts."

I would jam or fold.- probably jam because I love it. I wouldn't want to open and call a jam with this hand even if I know I'm going to be ahead a lot of the time. nb, I know very little but I wanted to engage on your blog - its generally seen as a massive seal of approval for me to deign to get involved
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« Reply #21 on: March 22, 2017, 08:42:18 AM »

I just posted this hand history elsewhere and thought I may as well post it here too. Would be interested to hear the thoughts of anyone wishing to share them Smiley

"This is from the VLV 2nd chance freeroll on Sunday on Sky Poker (1st place wins a £4500 WSOP package & 2nd-32nd get between £50-£500 in a rather flat payout structure)

Most definitely not intended to be a bad beat story I am long over the hand. I was just surprised that after 10 years + playing poker such an apparently straightforward hand (A suited ace on the BTN) could have me so torn as to what to do at the time.

I am also not trying to be results orientated. Yes I would probably have quickly forgotten the hand had I won, but the hand seemed interesting as we have a range of options on how to proceed.

The hand: I have A6 suited on the button 6 handed @ 500-1000 blinds. It folds around to me and I have 26k. The SB has 20k and the BB 13k. So what do we do?

The situation: I have a fairly average image as I have only joined the table 2 orbits ago. I have opened 2 pots for between 2-2.5x and the player who is in the BB has instantly 3 bet shoved on me both times. He has been active apart from that too. The SB has been playing standard ABC poker. There are 38 players left and 32 get paid.

I remember being dealt the hand and deciding to fold. I thought the player in the BB was likely to shove on any opening raise (as that is what they had been doing). I also didn't like the calling ranges I may face (especially from the SB) if I was to open shove this many chips. Due to the set-up I didn't fancy getting half my stack in with such a marginal hand, the only hands I would be 'crushing' would be <A5 but many of these would result in split pots.

After I decided this as the cards were dealt, one of the early position players tanked and during that time I decided I wasn't folding an ace on the BTN to the BB who had 3bet shipped on my opening raises twice. I mean what am I waiting for if I fold again? So I open for 2k and as expected the BB ships on me and I snap call (when I decided to play into the player preflop I was never folding preflop to them) I only opened small as I was folding or 4 betting if the SB 3 bets.

Anyways the BB has Q4, hits the Q and my stack goes into the danger zone and I don't recover. Not important and am long over the hand as mentioned but what would you do in this spot?

I know exactly what I would do now after reflecting on the hand but will keep quiet about this and see if others wish to give their thoughts."

I'd say you played it correctly. You induced Mr Mad to get it in bad. Irrespective of the outcome, that has to be good I'd say.

Incidentally, you might get more feedback on Poker Strategy Questions on our Poker Hand Analysis Board, here....


http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?board=24.0

I'd be very surprised if a few Serious Heads don't reply.

blonde also has a few high level 08 players, so you might try a few O8 questions, too.
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« Reply #22 on: March 22, 2017, 09:12:51 AM »

I just posted this hand history elsewhere and thought I may as well post it here too. Would be interested to hear the thoughts of anyone wishing to share them Smiley

"This is from the VLV 2nd chance freeroll on Sunday on Sky Poker (1st place wins a £4500 WSOP package & 2nd-32nd get between £50-£500 in a rather flat payout structure)

Most definitely not intended to be a bad beat story I am long over the hand. I was just surprised that after 10 years + playing poker such an apparently straightforward hand (A suited ace on the BTN) could have me so torn as to what to do at the time.

I am also not trying to be results orientated. Yes I would probably have quickly forgotten the hand had I won, but the hand seemed interesting as we have a range of options on how to proceed.

The hand: I have A6 suited on the button 6 handed @ 500-1000 blinds. It folds around to me and I have 26k. The SB has 20k and the BB 13k. So what do we do?

The situation: I have a fairly average image as I have only joined the table 2 orbits ago. I have opened 2 pots for between 2-2.5x and the player who is in the BB has instantly 3 bet shoved on me both times. He has been active apart from that too. The SB has been playing standard ABC poker. There are 38 players left and 32 get paid.

I remember being dealt the hand and deciding to fold. I thought the player in the BB was likely to shove on any opening raise (as that is what they had been doing). I also didn't like the calling ranges I may face (especially from the SB) if I was to open shove this many chips. Due to the set-up I didn't fancy getting half my stack in with such a marginal hand, the only hands I would be 'crushing' would be <A5 but many of these would result in split pots.

After I decided this as the cards were dealt, one of the early position players tanked and during that time I decided I wasn't folding an ace on the BTN to the BB who had 3bet shipped on my opening raises twice. I mean what am I waiting for if I fold again? So I open for 2k and as expected the BB ships on me and I snap call (when I decided to play into the player preflop I was never folding preflop to them) I only opened small as I was folding or 4 betting if the SB 3 bets.

Anyways the BB has Q4, hits the Q and my stack goes into the danger zone and I don't recover. Not important and am long over the hand as mentioned but what would you do in this spot?

I know exactly what I would do now after reflecting on the hand but will keep quiet about this and see if others wish to give their thoughts."

I'd say you played it correctly. You induced Mr Mad to get it in bad. Irrespective of the outcome, that has to be good I'd say.

Incidentally, you might get more feedback on Poker Strategy Questions on our Poker Hand Analysis Board, here....


http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?board=24.0

I'd be very surprised if a few Serious Heads don't reply.

blonde also has a few high level 08 players, so you might try a few O8 questions, too.

I'd post on the poker hand analysis too.  I have push fold charts on my pc, but I don't have that.  I think A6 is borderline to push 20 bigs without antes. 

Suspect what you did isn't far off right depending how you read the players.  I am not sure I'd call off a jam from SB on Sky though.  3 bet ranges tend to be overtight there.  Barring the odd loon who will shove any old nonsense every tine and then spend half an hour telling you how bad you are in chat.

Suspect the big first prize means ICM isn't going to make a lot of difference. 

Anyway, post on PHA, Pleno will likely nail it.
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« Reply #23 on: March 22, 2017, 08:10:34 PM »

@nirvana... Many thanks  Cool

@doobs & Tikay... I will have a look around the strat threads and maybe get involved, thanks Smiley Will probably dig out a few more interesting hands to post though.

I posted a reply with my thoughts on the original place I posted the hand, I will add it here but hold off for a day or so in case anyone else wants to comment.
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« Reply #24 on: April 01, 2017, 05:06:37 PM »

Been a bit AWOL lately due to finishing all the uni stuff up so that I am then hopefully free to concentrate on the poker exploits.

No more classes to attend and handed my last assessment in on Friday. The last assessment was on the topic on 'binge drinking' which is a little ironic as I had a bottle and a half of Bailey's to celebrate finishing it and am a little rough today lol. Just 2 exams to do now on the 18th & 19th of April and I get my BA. What I will do with it is another matter entirely. I would like to think I could then control minds like Will Ferrell's love rival in Anchorman. I think the reality will probably be nearer being able to answer the odd question with some confidence on Yahoo Answers Smiley Time will tell...

On the poker front it has been very much a case of 2 steps forwards 1.99 steps backwards and any advances are minimal.

Have the £435 buy in qualifier for a £4k package to play on Sky on Sunday so in with a shot at least of getting things moving. I am usually quite confident playing these things but to be honest I am not really feeling it right now. My reads are a little off, confidence below average and just not firing on all cylinders. I do like that it is 6 handed and has a decent structure so who knows, will give it a shot!

I have noticed some $160 buy in WSOP side event qualifiers on 888 for an event that takes place on 1st-4th July and the Sky package is for the dates 10th-17th so I will give both a bash over the next few weeks and if I am lucky enough to bag both of them I can just stay in Vegas and save on an extra airfare, maybe do a trip to LA in the 6 day gap. We can dream Smiley I also have the added bonus of having $800 worth of money off coupons for American Airlines so if I donked my way to 2 packages and had zero airfares to pay it may give the bankroll a much needed boost.

Are any of you reading this going to be heading off to play any WSOP stuff?
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« Reply #25 on: April 01, 2017, 05:18:47 PM »

While I am at it, I posted this elsewhere and the more suggestions I can get on this the better so will post it here too...

"I remember Shaun Deeb doing an interview for a P5's podcast while he was playing 17 tables. My game on the other hand goes down the toilet if I am playing 2 or 3 tables and the phone rings...

I do have quite a busy house with my partner, my son, 2 dogs and 2 cats and it feels like an extreme challenge trying to concentrate at times. There always seems to be a phone ringing, dog wanting attention or someone chapping the front door to see if I would like to convert to being a Mormon or join the latest super duper electricity/gas tariff.

I do on occassion lock myself away upstairs in the bedroom and play and generally do a little better (that is the plan for tomorrow nights £4k package final). However if I am playing for 5 or 6 hours it feels a little anti-social and can be boring being locked away in another room so this is not ideal either.

So do distractions bother you? Can you offer any advice on dealing with them?"
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« Reply #26 on: April 11, 2017, 12:37:02 PM »

I will cheat a little, I have 2 diaries I loosely post in and just updated the other so I will copy/paste here. Yes a bit lazy I agree...

Well it has been a week and a bit since my last post so thought I would ramble a little on here while munching my Fruit 'N' Fiber.

The studying stuff is really drawing to a close (just 2 exams next week and I am completely done with uni). My attention has therefore been turning to other stuff I haven't had adequate time for (jobs, poker, health, family).

On that note I dusted the bicycle off, blew up the tyres (yes it had been that long the tyres were flat) and went a 11 mile cycle that took in Eglinton Country Park. On one of the country lanes there were fields either side with loads of horses. I decided I would be a kind chap and stop, pick some handfuls of long grass that the horses could not reach and give them a little treat. I selected some nice juicy green handfuls of grass and wandered calmly (so as not to spook the horses) over to the fence. The horses stopped in their tracks just out of reach around 2 feet from the fence. I though, aww, they are a little timid so I leaned on the fence so I could reach over and ZAP, I duely electrocuted myself. Yes, I guess I missed those 3" by 3" 'electric fence' signs. Quite a jolt they give you! I was also at such an angle I had no choice but to grab onto it again to haul myself up. I didn't get zapped the second time thankfully (I must have broken the circuit or something). No harm done apart from looking like a proper wally and feeling like I had been properly Tango'd. The penny started to drop as to why the horses pulled up 2 feet short of the fence! Horses 1 v Me 0.

On the pokering front I played the £435 VLV semi I mentioned previously. Started off okay and got the starting 5k stack up to around 18k with average stacks around 9k. I liked my table and was getting quite into the groove. Then Mr Matt Bates was moved to my table. He also had a similar stack and were was he placed? Directly on my left! I was by no means in any comfort zone in relation to snagging a £4k package (average stacks when those are dished out would be around 50k). So I had to keep working away. Well my timing was off, I made 3 or 4 plays, 2 were I had hands and 1 or 2 were I didn't. I guess through a mixture of Matt's proficiency and board texture he got away from the couple I hit and I lost more than I should in the ones I didn't hit. At least I offloaded to Matt, he is obviously an excellent player, didn't get to go last year and he put the chips to good use and didn't look back so WP that man!

In relation to the jobs front... I haven't looked much yet as I still am at uni till next week and I am not in a massive rush. I did put some feelers out though in some poker circles as I would love to work either within the gaming sector or in Education. I had the chance of a job in London. Doing almost exactly what I would like to do and with one of the bigger gaming companies. The salary however was just a bit short of what I would need to make a relocation to London work. If it had been local or even in 'middle England' it would have been happy days indeed. The search continues!

Well the Fruit 'N' Fiber is well and truly scoffed, I am sure I have sufficiently bored anyone reading and need to go get passport photos taken so I will relent for now Smiley

Hope you are all doing well on and off the tables!
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« Reply #27 on: April 11, 2017, 01:16:48 PM »

 Have you considered gaming opportunities in Malta ?
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« Reply #28 on: April 11, 2017, 02:46:24 PM »

Actually I haven't Tony but I am not sure why to be honest. I know a could of people working in the gaming industry and are living over in Malta. That is one to ponder and look into! Thanks for the heads up. I know there also used to be a lot of opportunities in Gibraltar so I guess that may be worth considering too.

With the studies just coming to a close I am kind of ruffling around on the dark trying to figure out what comes next. It could be a case of a job in the poker industry, job in education, continuing with existing jobs I am involved with, playing poker full time, returning to study after a year break or a mix of these. Hopefully all will become clear in time, just kind of hard seeing the wood for all those darn trees which are in the road at the moment Smiley
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« Reply #29 on: April 11, 2017, 07:17:56 PM »

I will be in Malta  Smiley

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