Bridesmaid

Played a small MTT schedule last night, for a change and things ended up going pretty well. Ended up playing 9 tourneys in all, min cashed in 3 and had a deep run in the $20k on stars.

Played really well throughout the tourney, including eliminating most of the players on the final table, but then tilted HU when my oppening hit a gutterball on the river when I had him all in for the tourney. Either way I didn;t play well HU and a combination of constantly whiffing and my opponent never folding when i was making moves, meant I started to become frustrated, eventually pushing it in with A9o when I knew he had a big hand and he did he had AQ, but I didn;t manage to get there.

Had some awesome railage from Amatay and from Marky147, so cheers fellas, although Amatay did vanish when Marky put him onto a new pornstar... loilololol. Probably wanked himself to a frazzle by now :)

Anyways, $2.8k is not to be sniffed at, but couldn;t get in the binkage thread.

Vote Of No Confidence

***WARNING POLITICAL POST****

Are you, like me, completely dismayed with how the ConDems are destroying and privatising the country?

I am not gonna rant on about the specifics I am sure we all have our own thoughts/ideas, but get yourself over here and add your vote. Not sure what good it will actually do, but it;s better than doing sweet fuck all.



Get these tossers out. The rich are getting richer, the poor are affected quite a bit, but the folks in the middle are getting crushed to shit.

decisions...

Dilemma 1:

APAT Worlds

or

GUKPT Goliath?

(I can't play both because of work, would only get enough time off for one or the other.)

Dilemma 2:

Grind Tonight

or

FM2011?

 

Dilemma 3:

Brunettes

or

Blondes

Decisions, decisions, decisions....

lol donkaments

With the last 4 days off work I was looking forward to grinding MTT's for the next few nights, unfortunately things didn;t quite go as planned....

The first night I was too fucked after the back-to-back at work and then the stag do, I could probably count on my fingers and toes the total amount of hours sleep I had over the last week and it all caught up with me. I basically got in, had a brew watched a bit of shitty TV, shower and bed, so bang one night gone.

Second night I registered for  a few MTT's across Laddies, 888poker and some Sats on Genting (also bumping into AwesomeHutch the fish!!), I think it was only about 6 total, unfortunately it all went to rat shit and I basically couldn't get a hand to hold. So frustrating when the first time you put your entire stack on the line after 5 hours of an MTT your AK loses to AQ when you get it all in pre. Fucking donkaments. Basically nothing went my way and frustration got the better of me and I think I ended up with 2 shitty min cashes.

Third night, I really couldn't be arsed, I registered with good intentions, then unregged again and just played a super turbo satellite to Megastack event in either Blackpool or Manchester, obv I run like a dogs dick again the satty and no way my AK can beat KQ and then 77 to beat A5s at the vital part. Didn;t even rebuy for 3k when the blinds were 200/400. Ended up dragging the Strongbow out and getting Football Manager 2011 on the go, whilst watching season 2 of Rescue Me.

Last night - Chilled, played a little more FM2011, knocked the back out of the wife and slept like a log, until that bastard alarm went off at 6am for work.

back at work for the next three days, so definately not enough time to play any MTT's, although I do play to play the Poker Player Magazine Grand Prix thingy and prolly a few small satty's and finally bink a seat, because none of those take too long or take that much concentration.

Finally anyone not a member of Raisetheriver, then get your ass over and join, the non poker chat alone is worth it.

Spunkmoneys

With working my back-to-back this weekend, I am not getting much time in the evenings to play poker, but I needed my fix, so I decided to grind some SnG's on 888poker. I haven;t played SnG's for ages, but I still remember a huge amount about push/fold spots and ranges to shove and calling ranges etc, so i felt fairly confident.

I decided to just straight into the fire and play some $20 games, mainly the 6-max turbo games and a few 20-man Nitro's thrown in for good measure.

I was blown away! I have never seemn anything as bad as these fucking morons I will just list a few of the things I saw:

1. Limping in with 3 BB's
2. Calling off with any ace on the bubble of a game.
3. Limping with less than 10 BB's on the bubble and folding to a push.
4. Limp calling any raise size
5. Chasing gutters all the way to the river
6. As above but with flush draws and for large protions of their stack.
7. I 4-bet shoved one guy and he insta snapped me off with A7o vs my KK and we were the top two stacks in a nitro at that point.(obv flopped an ace)

It was absolutely mucking fental! TBH I didn't adapt well at all, I was still shoving what should be normal ranges, but it doesn;t work when these mugs are calling so wide and I didn;t tighten up approriately.

I ended up 7 buy-ins down and steam pouring out of my ears. In reality though I think it has to be a goldmine, yes it will be high in variance given the standard of play, but surely very exploiutable if you can adapt better than me. I also didn;t notice many regs, in all the games I have played I can only think of one guy I came across a few times.

I am going back for more punishment tonight and just gonna make the neccessary changes. Fingers crossed, mixed in with a little run good I can smash it up.

On a none poker front, I am on a stag do tomorrow. Haydock Park in the day and then Chester for the night out, I can see it being carnage already. 8.30a,m meet for breakfast.... I'll be lucky to see Sunday!

laters

Wp Bullyfish

you lucky bastard!

2nd in the APAT Team championships Individual event, picking up a few quid and a silver medal for that and a gold medal for his team winning the team event itself!!!

Always good to see a mate doing well. Followed his progress from Day 1, where he got into one of the top 5 in chips and pretty much stayed there for the rest of the tourney. Definately his best live score to date and I am pretty sure it will have given him the poker bug back. n1 mate.

here is the jizzmeister in action:

Obviously this has now given me a taste to play some live poker, something I rarely get to do with my daft work shifts and the young family, so I have been looking around for events.

Definately gonna try and play the APAT Main Event at DTD in August, also looking at the Gala casino one over in Leeds in July and might have a gander around for a few more. I fancy UKIPT TBH, but  with it being in Brighton next it's a bit unfair to fuck off for a full weekend and leave the Mrs with the liitle ones.

Gonna have to venture to either Manchester or Blackpool for a few local games, probably the week after next as it's a stag do this weekend, which will definately get messy.

reet oh, congrats to Bully and Kronsdat (he was team captain)!

laters

Bubble Boy

I did manage to play some more MTT's on Tuesday night, but tbh it was a washout, including being the bubble boy in the 3k GTD I had won the night before when my AJ was no match for K6 AIPF :)

I also played a few on 888poker and was the bubble boy again in another of those. I think I only managed one min cash out of the 7 tourneys I played, which I felt was poor, but tbh I wasn;t playing very well.

This was the first time I had played on 888poker and it took a lot of getting used to. I am still undecided if I like the software or not, it feels very 'clunky' on first impressions and I timed out numerous times, which pissed me off, especially as one time I had Aces fairly deep into one oif the rebuy tourneys.

The schedule looks ok, much better than Microgaming if I am honest, a few games ranging from $5-$50, which is what I am looking at in NLHE and starting betweeen 7pm-9pm, which is usualluy the time I register for the games so that none of them finish too late into the morning.

In work today on overtime, so hopefully should be able to play a few tonight and see how I get on.

On the downside I ended up having a go on their live casino and blew ~$300 through chasing my early losses, sigh, I really piss myself off sometimes.

Right, better get some work done.