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I had a profitable night at the felt last night,winning nearly $400 and it felt good!
I played two sets of six sng’s,mixing $6.50 + $12 45 player turbo’s and 1300 hands of Rush poker ( mainly at $100nl).I managed to win another $6.50 game in my first set of six turbo’s and cashed in a $12 in the other set to leave me scratching my head and wondering why I’ve never given these soft games more of a chance in the past.I recall playing about twenty 180 player $12 games ages ago without a single cash and being put off by that.I’ve always preferred the cashing more often for less approach offered by single table sit and go’s as regular cashes help keep my poker psyche happy!
I’m definitely still getting to grips with differing payout structures and a few bubble and 9th place ( top 7 pay in 45 player games) finishes make me wonder if I’m pushing a little too hard for the win as I don’t play to min cash in these games.The blinds get so high at the final tables that a couple of uncalled shoves with weak hands can quickly move me up a few positions and can give me the momentum to go on and take the game down.( or I look like an idiot for shoving J8!)
After a brief Modern Warfare interlude I hit the Rush tables,starting with 100 hands at $25nl and eventually racking up 450 at $50nl and 730 at $100nl.( all 6 max) I’m not going to count my FT roll as part of my bankroll as I’m far too nitty to take any shots with the rest of my bankroll.
Anyway for once I was the guy with AA v KK and the one busting big hands when I hit flops hard.It wasn’t all plain sailing, but poker never is and I was enjoying myself so much I almost had to drag myself to bed just after 5am.
Here’s one of my favourite hands of the night ( played at 4.41am so excuse my weird line in the hand!)and a a lesson in how not to play KK.Maybe it’s just me but the raising/reraising here is just donktastic!
More COD planned for today before the Bloggerment and probably some more multi-table sng’s later…
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Playing a ton of Modern Warfare 2 has seen the poker take a back seat again over the last few days.In Playstation land there’s no money at stake so multi-accounting is quite acceptable and I’ve now racked up a decent rank as both Stinkyp1nky and GusterBonad.Feel free to drop me a friend request on the PS3 if you’re up for some Team Death Matches…
On Thursday after physio I was over visiting my folks and having been bitten by the multi-table sng bug,I encouraged my Mum to get into them and managed to help her to a win at a wee $3.40 ,45 player game.She still wants to play too many easily dominated hands ( like KJ) early in the game, but her game has certainly improved!
Last night after more COD ( Call of Duty) I decided to play a set of six games.Five $6.50’s and a $12 game,all 45 player turbo’s.I’ve played thousands of 18 player games, but I’m just starting on the 45/180 player ones and want to get a handle on exactly how they play before playing them for slightly higher stakes.
Anyway in the $12 game I shoved my 5.5k stack in the middle with AJ from the cut-off +1 at 300/600 blinds and a shortstack on the button made a standard call with 66.As the table popped up I noticed the shortstack was US blogger Change100.It was late,I could barely focus on the screen and when I won the coin flip I quickly typed ” ul gg” and added ” I was pot commited!”.I was very wasted and it seemed quite amusing to reference her blog,( called “pot committed”) despite me not even being able to spell “committed” by this point!
I can’t remember if Change replied “classy” before or after I made the excuse that I was too stoned to spell, but I do recall wishing I’d just said “Hi” and I do hope Change didn’t think I was trying to gloat as that’s just not the way I roll at the tables or in life.
I only cashed in the $12 game,broke even on the set and hit up the Rush poker tables for a while before bed.Kat’s Mammoth rebuy blogger game was tempting however I think I was going to have a whitey if I’d stayed up any longer!
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The s-man was over the other night when the Playstation network was down.With no Modern Warfare on offer we watched a couple of movies and even had to make conversation at times…
The first one we watched was a Chanwook Park film, “Oldboy“.I was expecting a Liam Neeson “Taken” type film and didn’t even realise it was going to be subtitled until it began.It was nothing like “Taken” or any Hollywood movie I’ve seen and I’d highly recommend it.For a complete change of pace we watched “Bruno” next and although I didn’t think it would be much good,it was actually very funny and at times it was hard to spot what was real and what was staged.
“Clock end to return to Arsenal” was one of the sports headlines yesterday as they plan on bringing the old Highbury clock to the Gooners new stadium.I had to laugh at one of the Rangers message boards suggesting a similar “Bell end returns to Spurs” headline when Keanes loan spell at the midden.
Also like this one from the Herald diary:
A reader tells us: “I was driving past Celtic Park this morning and I saw nine season ticket books nailed to the gates and I thought, ‘I’m having them’.
“You can never have enough nails.”
On the poker front I’ve come up with another top excuse as to why I’ve not put in much volume recently.I seem to spend most of the week waiting for a call from my manager at work.Sometimes she is returning my call and at other times I’m simply waiting for her weekly call to check on my progress.I do not want to be in the middle of a set of sng’s when the phone rings as it would just be burning money.
I did play some more $6.50,45 player games last night and this time I took a couple down and managed to get my 45 player stats into profit after a horrible run at them during the RaisetheRiver challenge.I was only 4 tabling as I was also watching Scotland win 1-0 v the Czechs in Craig Leveins first game in charge.The $6.50’s are incredibly soft and I’ll be adding a few more $12’s to the mix in my attempt to finally give multi-table sng’s a real go.
Just back from physio and it went well with a few more new exercises to keep me stretching the right muscles.Time to hit the COD before Nacho and I head over to visit my folks later.
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I was at the Docs again on Monday and have another three week sick line.I’ve been doing my exercises and my right hand side feels far better.It was heaven to be able to go to sleep on that side again for the first time in months.My back is still sore but I think this will be my last 3 weeks off before looking at some kind of back to work plan.I’ve been doing my sums and I reckon I can just about afford to cut back to working 4 days per week if my bosses agree to it.
I’ll also almost certainly be withdrawing about $2.5k from my poker roll over the next few months to cover the usual football season ticket,Council tax for the year,factor bill,car insurance and MOT+ car servicing.As it stands I’ll still be left with around $3k online and that would be enough to pay all next years bigger bills, hopefully with plenty additional poker profit too.I may be a lazy git but part of my in-built work ethic is telling me to stop being so ridiculous,get back to the 5 day grind and be done with it.
Another part of me says that life is too short to spend most of it doing a job I don’t enjoy and cutting down on my hours would make it far more tolerable.Of course the poker playing part of me says I should take the years salary on offer and give the poker a real go,however I’m not sure I have the discipline or temperament to play fulltime.I’ve been off for months now and have hit the felt less often than I usually do, although being on painkillers and feeling low have probably contributed to that lack of volume.Possibly knowing for sure that I had no monthly salary to fall back on would spur me on to grind out the hours but I don’t know that for sure.
Anyways that wasn’t what this post was supposed to be about! I’ve been bored out my head over the last few months and decided at the last minute tonight to head out to the local poker club and pay their £20 freezeout tourney.There were only 12 starters and I got off to whatever the opposite of a flyer is when I overplayed AJs on the first hand.We were shorthanded and after I settled down I found that playing live isn’t quite as alien as it used to be for me.Online I always feel I have a handle on the usual pokery stuff like hand ranges,bet sizing,position etc but when playing live it was as as if it was all pure guesswork.
This time I was able to see bets which didn’t make sense more easily and to be relaxed enough to take in more info and work through it to come to the right conclusion.
I don’t recall many hands.The top 4 paid and when the 4th placed guy went out there was me,the other solid player and a guy who had hit two outers three times to amass a huge stack.I chipped up a little before we took a break at 11.45pm and when the bigstack offered an even 3 way chop me and the other guy were happy to take it and I walked away with £75 profit for my first ever live cash.( from a handful of games over the last few years)
Not much of a game report but that’s all I’ve got for now.Back soon…
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The post title is taken from the banner displayed in the Rangers end after Maurice Edu’s injury time winner gave us a ten point lead in the title race.( we still have a game in hand too)
It’s just a shame the self named “greatest fans in the world” couldn’t resist wrecking the minutes silence for a former Rangers player who died last week or stop themselves from waving Argentina tops and chanting “Argentina” at Falklands veteran Simon Weston when he made a half-time appearance.
After the game I played some more Modern Warfare 2 online and hit the poker tables.I played 15 $6.50 45 player turbo’s for a Raisetheriver forum challenge last week and despite running horribly and not cashing once, I could see how juicy the games were.
I’ve only ever played 18 player or 9 player turbo sng’s until now but I picked up on a couple of things over the last few days we which have helped open my mind to multi-table sng’s.The first inspiration was a Nick Rainey blog post giving the stats of the best low stakes 180 turbo players in the world over their last 5000 games.In some cases they’ve made over $30k profit from 5000 games at less than $20 stakes!
As I’ve rarely played 45/180 player games I didn’t realise until last night just how easy it is to multi-table 6 games as they are almost all full 9 seat tables until the final table.When I eventually get round to sorting out table ninja and if I can stand the variance, I reckon I can play at least 8 tables.
I may have to play more poker as I see a bug has hit the Playstation 3 network!Grrr!
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Started physio yesterday and it went well.I’ve got a load of exercises to do and have been given some good advice on controlling the pain and reducing the lump on my back.I’ve got the Docs on Monday,more physio on Thursday and the small matter of a Rangers v celtc game at Ibrox before that at lunchtime tomorrow.
The hype has been building all week for the worlds biggest football derby and as is usually the case when celtc are behind in the league, they have been blaming the referee’s.Unbelievably celtc fc have never been fairly beaten since they were formed back in 1888.Sarcasm aside, their permanent victim mentality when the majority of the Scottish media pander to their every whimper is quite pathetic and I hope we crush them tomorrow.For anyone wondering why I refer to them as celtc, it’s in tribute to the celtic fans who made a banner in support of their team and were too thick to spell their own club’s name correctly.
I caught up with Al Eleven ( aka the Miami Trout/San Jose Salmon/Connecticut Cod) late last night and hats off to both him and his Mrs for planning to get up to watch the game at 6am in the US.We also played a couple of games of poker and Al was on top form ,taking down the $16 ,18 player game.He’s also back in Glasgow in a couple of weeks and I’m looking forward to catching up properly.
I also finally got round to watching “Harold and Maude” ( a cult classic film from 1971) and although the pace was a little slow at times,I stuck with it and I’m glad I did as it has some of the funniest and most poignant scenes I’ve seen in a long time.I’ve still got “Oldboy” and “Sexy Beast” to watch on dvd and I’ve a feeling they might be a slightly different kettle of fish.
There was a story in my local paper about a drugs bust which made me smile this week at the defence agents comments.The police raided a house at 8am and a man and his girlfriend were arrested.The man was done for supplying drugs and his lady for resisting arrest.Her “agent” said in court that she was a first offender.”When the officers entered the house she was sleeping on the couch partially clothed.She was very surprised and upset and had behaved inappropriately by struggling with officers.She conceded she could have dealt with the situation in a better manner”.Of course her agent is obviously going to imply that the poor girl leapt up in shock,clasped her hands together and declared “Oh my,this is a surprise”.
Reading on though, it transpires that as a result of her struggle a woman police officer fell through a glass coffee table.I’d venture that the truth is that our poor surprised female defendant went completely ballistic,shouting,screaming and hitting out as she fought with the police and injured the lady officer.
Her man got 32 months and the Sheriff only fined the girlfriend £450 as he “accepted what had been said on her behalf and that she was a first offender”! She’s pictured in the paper actually wearing a police hat too.Perhaps they should go back and do her for impersonating a police officer…
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Congrats to Juice for taking down The Bloggerment on Sunday and and congrats to the double glazing company Mr Cloud may have to employ to re glaze his home after he knocked Rosie out with Ace rag!
My short term memory is terrible, but I’m pretty sure I crashed out first and will have to spend the rest of the week trying to stop Nacho from eating the monkey!
Once again I’ve played far more Modern Warfare 2 than poker over the last few days and it was great to hook up with Everton Yorkie and kick some ass.( though I got mine handed to me when he was in the other team!)
The poker I have played has gone reasonably well despite the usual suckouts.It’s funny how I write sensible stuff about variance,know that it’s a game of small edges and yet still have to fight the nagging feeling that nobody else has my bad luck at the felt.Fight it I do because one of the secrets to winning at poker having a realistic view of luck and how it works.
I played just three sng’s the other night and banked a 1st, a 2nd and a 3rd place finish, giving me a profit of about $140 for 1/2 hours work.Three games at a decent 10% roi would be a profit of nearer $7 and yet I was still thinking about how that 3rd place could have been a win if I’d won with my AJ v 52 o/s and what could have happened if my Aces hadn’t been cracked by 77 in the 2nd place game.I suppose I just hate losing and part of the secret to keeping your sanity in poker is appreciating just how often you will lose hands/sessions even if you are winning overall.
I’ve deleted a few blogs I used to link to as they have been dead for a while.If I’ve removed yours by mistake or you make a comeback then let me know and I’ll be happy to add your blog to my roll again.I’m also happy to swap links with any genuine blog so drop me a comment or email if you want to take me up on that.
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As the s-man is coming over tonight I got stuck into the poker last night and managed four wins and several cashes from 12 sng’s.
I really needed a good night at the felt after attending the hospital for my 4pm physio appointment, only to be told they had me down for 2pm and couldn’t fit me in again until next Friday.I had stayed off the painkillers for the appointment and was close to tears of frustration afterwards.I’m hoping they’ll call me if there are any cancellations and I can start working on getting fully fit again.
I wish I had more to say about running well and having a very profitable evening of poker.There always seems to be far more to witter on about after a bad night.I suppose I can say that whilst it brightened my mood a bit, it’s probably better not to be too emotional either way after a big winning or losing session.
Ahh well todays post was mainly just an excuse to pimp the Bloggerment.Back soon…
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I was still awake at 3am last night and decided to play in The Mookie.For anyone unfamiliar, The Mookie is the main weekly US/Canadian blogger tourney.I thought I’d use this blog post to give a fascinating insight into every hand I played in it including my reasoning,thoughts and feelings.Settle back,grab a very small amount of popcorn and read on…
First hand: I’m dealt the hammer and reraise from the blinds,lead out on the flop…..and have to fold to a reraise.
Second hand: Same player raises preflop and this time I have JJ.I make the same reraise as before,another player still to act shoves all in ( 3000 chips),the original bettor folds,I call and lose a flip to AQ.Nite all,gg!
More like “Both Hands Revealed” rather than Gus Hansen’s excellent “Every Hand Revealed”.Mine would be more of a leaflet than a book…
It was probably for the best as winning that flip and playing a standard non turbo game with 20 bloggers could have lasted until after the sun had come up.
Greg ( seo1990) left a comment on my last post which got me thinking.He wrote that he gets too easily distracted when only playing 2-3 tables and prefers around 8.I realised that perhaps I mainly only play 3 tables at a time in order that I can also be watching tv or be surfing the net.With the help of my HUD and knowledge of who the regulars are,it’s only really the latter part of sng’s I give my full attention.
I did also try to download an autohotkey script thing again and once again I got completely lost with it and gave up.Thanks to Burnley Mik for offering to help with that.I’ll be in touch soon!
Righty,back to Modern Warfare 2 and perhaps some poker….
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There doesn’t seem much to write about at the moment.I’ve been trying to step up my poker grinding over the last few days and haven’t really made much progress as far as profits go.I’m still up at Rush poker on Full Tilt, but have taken a beating there recently too.I’ve had Aces 49 times now ( 12k hands) and although I’ve won 87% of the time,I’ve still managed to lose $4.79 overall with ‘em.The exact opposite of my “lose small,win big” plan!
I’ve been thinking about my poor multi-tabling skills and part of the problem I have is getting into a funk when I have a tough decision at one table and the rest are demanding action too.Do any of my well informed readers know if Table Ninja or the Party equivalent can be easily programmed to start the timebank automatically? I’ve never looked too closely at that kind of software as even setting up hotkeys looks beyond my very basic computing abilities.If the people behind these hot key sites offered to remotely set it up ( even for a small fee)I think more pc illiterate donks like me would jump at the chance to give it a go.
I’ve just finished my phone interview with a level 2 manager at work.She was very nice and not heavy handed at all.I know I was lucky not to get killed in the accident, but the constant back/leg pain is grinding me down a bit and I’m hoping the physio on Friday can help.
Of course once I’m better physically I can then see about therapy for my growing getonmyhorse addiction.Sweet lemonade,Oooh sweet lemonade!
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