Woops, it has been over a week since I last posted. This has mainly been due to a lull in poker due to heavy workload but I have still managed to build my BlueSq deposit of $50 mid January up to over $200 now. A $60 win in a $5 30 man SNG last night helped after I had donked off $70 of the $180 I had up 'til yesterday on two $0.25/$0.50 games.
The trip to Paris is all booked! Accommodation not chosen yet but flights to play at Aviation Club de France are booked and paid for for early Friday 25th April out and late Saturday 26th April return. I cannot wait! The six going are Me, Jim Lang, Blair Kirkland, Joe Watson, Colin McAdam and Paul Callaghan and our schedule is likely to be;
Friday:
7am flight to Paris Beauvais (only £40 return!)
Check-in to Hotel, walk to ACF having a few drinks and giving us a chance to have a quick look at Paris
2:30pm - 50Euro Freezeout
Cash games
9pm - 50Euro 1 Re-Buy
Cash games
Bars / Clubs in Paris
Saturday:
10am - 50Euro Freezeout
2:30pm - 100Euro Freezeout
Dinner and Drinks
10pm - Flight home
Thursday, 28 February 2008
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
Congrats 'Pokerlass38'
Other than posting a copy of the screenshot below, I'd like to point you to http://pokerlass.ukpokerscene.co.uk to view a substantial win for Mary 'Pokerlass38' Martin on FT last night. MANY CONGRATS MARY! I look forward to reading details from the last 30 players onwards on your Blog. I'm sorry, I just HAD to go to bed.
As I try to do every week, I have avoided the tables on Monday and Tuesday to assess last week's play and my bankroll. Due to a heavy workload though I've not had a chance to do either. I'm on now though considering my options for the rest of the week. I don't play on FT very often but having never played in a Knockout tourney, I'll considering re-depositing there and giving them a bash.
As I try to do every week, I have avoided the tables on Monday and Tuesday to assess last week's play and my bankroll. Due to a heavy workload though I've not had a chance to do either. I'm on now though considering my options for the rest of the week. I don't play on FT very often but having never played in a Knockout tourney, I'll considering re-depositing there and giving them a bash.
Sunday, 17 February 2008
BritBloggerment
Having noticed a link on Mary Martin's Blog (xxMairxx) through the week, I decided to sample the $5 + $0.50 BritBloggerment on PokerStars last night (billed as 'a fun tournament with a great bunch') rather than play in the Sunday Hundred Grand this weekend. As I wanted a fairly early night (not that I've lasted any real length of time in the SHG in the past) I thought this would be a better, earlier option with only 27 runners compared to 20,000.
With some good fortune, (AA held up twice against lower pairs early on, AK cracked JJ and KK apparently and on the final hand my 33 held against AK) I took it down for $67.50 to take my PS Bankroll from around $30 to around $100.
With a healthy stack from early on and a fairly tight image (showing down only Premium Hands), my aggression was convincing. I don't remember feeling like I was putting chips in from behind other than on Blind Steals against short stacks at the final table where I would still have taken a chance with my Ax and 56s type hands if they'd shoved. In one hand, I called a pot sized bet with 99 on a KJx flop then folded on the turn (rag) when one of the more aggressive players at the table shoved. I think he was putting me on a drawing hand and I was putting him on KQ or pocket Qs ...
I was delighted to hear from Zanshin again this morning after an email I got at 22:15 last night. He took a bad beat in the WillHill $4500 fairly early on, was down to less than 300 chips and having to plan a short stack attack. He emailed me 3 hours later (when I was firmly tucked up) to tell me that he'd finished 9th - an amazing result, well done Derek! Whilst pleased for him I'm not surprised by this result. Having only sat at the same table as him on APAT Online events where he plays as 'Hoshe' and having railed him at Final Tables in APAT Regionals where he's impressed everyone there, this is one opponent whose game deserves respect! And he's a really good guy too ... !!
Congrats too to Jim Lang who I railed in the SHG last night. 995th of 20,000 for $40 sets a new marker for us to beat.
With some good fortune, (AA held up twice against lower pairs early on, AK cracked JJ and KK apparently and on the final hand my 33 held against AK) I took it down for $67.50 to take my PS Bankroll from around $30 to around $100.
With a healthy stack from early on and a fairly tight image (showing down only Premium Hands), my aggression was convincing. I don't remember feeling like I was putting chips in from behind other than on Blind Steals against short stacks at the final table where I would still have taken a chance with my Ax and 56s type hands if they'd shoved. In one hand, I called a pot sized bet with 99 on a KJx flop then folded on the turn (rag) when one of the more aggressive players at the table shoved. I think he was putting me on a drawing hand and I was putting him on KQ or pocket Qs ...
I was delighted to hear from Zanshin again this morning after an email I got at 22:15 last night. He took a bad beat in the WillHill $4500 fairly early on, was down to less than 300 chips and having to plan a short stack attack. He emailed me 3 hours later (when I was firmly tucked up) to tell me that he'd finished 9th - an amazing result, well done Derek! Whilst pleased for him I'm not surprised by this result. Having only sat at the same table as him on APAT Online events where he plays as 'Hoshe' and having railed him at Final Tables in APAT Regionals where he's impressed everyone there, this is one opponent whose game deserves respect! And he's a really good guy too ... !!
Congrats too to Jim Lang who I railed in the SHG last night. 995th of 20,000 for $40 sets a new marker for us to beat.
Saturday, 16 February 2008
APAT Norwegian Open
I've just finished playing in the above tourney - 49th. Card dead for the most part and I did maybe miss a few reasonable stealing opportunities post-flop but overall not too unhappy. On the last hand I got them in with the best of it again (43.7% fave) and lost ...
Now Julia wants to play a SNG on my account - it'll be great to spend some time with her again ;-)
Now Julia wants to play a SNG on my account - it'll be great to spend some time with her again ;-)
Friday, 15 February 2008
APAT Spanish Open
Played in the above last night on BlueSq. A good tourney to play in (as always) and I got off well again finding some premium hands early on. I feel I played them well against the new APATers / folk I don't play against very often but I'm not sure I got max value from each. Och well, I live I learn ...
I got up to around 7k at one point and into the top 10. With a few aggressive players at my table I wasn't really able to get involved in many pots where I was first in and putting on the pressure. I went out in 42nd, my final hand a bit of a sickener - medium stacked with KJo in late position with 4 (3 others) limping to the flop. Checks all round on flop, turn K, blinds check it to me, I bet out 800, sharkstopper with K9o on Button raises to 1600, I push 2k more, he calls. Then the 9 hit on the river. Hmmm ...
I got up to around 7k at one point and into the top 10. With a few aggressive players at my table I wasn't really able to get involved in many pots where I was first in and putting on the pressure. I went out in 42nd, my final hand a bit of a sickener - medium stacked with KJo in late position with 4 (3 others) limping to the flop. Checks all round on flop, turn K, blinds check it to me, I bet out 800, sharkstopper with K9o on Button raises to 1600, I push 2k more, he calls. Then the 9 hit on the river. Hmmm ...
Thursday, 14 February 2008
Re-deposited on Titan (70% Reload Bonus)
Last night I took advantage of Titan's generous 70% reload bonus by depositing $150. I assume such offers is why they're reviewed highly on lots of Poker sites.
We all know that tourneys are not the best games to play to release bonuses so, after a few weeks of SNGs only on BlueSq's and PS's, I'm back onto Titan's $0.25/$0.50 NL Cash Games too.
From the various emails I get from the MANY poker rooms I'm a member of, I have found what I deem to be a very good opportunity to get to the WSOP Main Event via a great value Satellite. I'm not going to make this public - readers of this Blog who are interested though, please feel free to contact me by leaving a comment or by PM'ing me through APAT Forum.
We all know that tourneys are not the best games to play to release bonuses so, after a few weeks of SNGs only on BlueSq's and PS's, I'm back onto Titan's $0.25/$0.50 NL Cash Games too.
From the various emails I get from the MANY poker rooms I'm a member of, I have found what I deem to be a very good opportunity to get to the WSOP Main Event via a great value Satellite. I'm not going to make this public - readers of this Blog who are interested though, please feel free to contact me by leaving a comment or by PM'ing me through APAT Forum.
Monday, 11 February 2008
FTOPS (Lindgren Win) / Weekend Play
Wow! I've just finished watching the FTOPS $300 Event #9 and WOW again! Erick Lindgren has just beaten 5,636 others in the Tourney he was asked to 'Host' taking down a $291k prize, but, after the chat boxes are full of talk of it being 'Fixed' for the FullTilt Sponsored Pro, the last two hands will no doubt be thought / talked about for a while to come!
The second last hand sees Kochan dealt AQ and with a flop of Q66 the chips go in. E-Dog calls and his K6 holds up to double up.
The final hand, more controversially - QQ v JJd with E-Dog the underdog - the flop comes Ad3cQd leaving Lindgren to catch only JJ or runner-runner diamonds to win - and so it happens, 6 diamonds, K diamonds!!!
And onto my own recent play ...
I didn't play much at all this weekend due to a Stag day on Saturday, by working most of Sunday and then the one tourney I had entered, the Sunday Hundred Grand on PS, they cancelled!
Our Man 'munter99' took his seat in our Syndicate's first monthly attempt at the PokerStars.com Sunday Million and I'm sad to report that it was an unsuccessful one ... no money returned. It didn't help that he had 'Sitting Out' next to his name for most of the 2nd hour after suffering connection difficulties. Jim (CELTICRIVER) is up next in March ...
Some of my pals from APAT are planning a Poker trip to Aviation Club de France (ACF) in Paris for Friday 25th April (for a small group initially to try it out). The schedule for a Friday is as follows;
7am flights from Prestwick with RyanAir for less than £40 return
30Euro tourney at 10am
50Euro tourney at 2:30pm
50Euro, Rebuys 1hr, 1 Add On, tourney at 7pm (so 100Euros)
ACF's open late so no plans for booking accommodation - all we need to do is leave around 5am for our 7am flights back on the Saturday.
Total cost will hopefully be around £200.
The second last hand sees Kochan dealt AQ and with a flop of Q66 the chips go in. E-Dog calls and his K6 holds up to double up.
The final hand, more controversially - QQ v JJd with E-Dog the underdog - the flop comes Ad3cQd leaving Lindgren to catch only JJ or runner-runner diamonds to win - and so it happens, 6 diamonds, K diamonds!!!
And onto my own recent play ...
I didn't play much at all this weekend due to a Stag day on Saturday, by working most of Sunday and then the one tourney I had entered, the Sunday Hundred Grand on PS, they cancelled!
Our Man 'munter99' took his seat in our Syndicate's first monthly attempt at the PokerStars.com Sunday Million and I'm sad to report that it was an unsuccessful one ... no money returned. It didn't help that he had 'Sitting Out' next to his name for most of the 2nd hour after suffering connection difficulties. Jim (CELTICRIVER) is up next in March ...
Some of my pals from APAT are planning a Poker trip to Aviation Club de France (ACF) in Paris for Friday 25th April (for a small group initially to try it out). The schedule for a Friday is as follows;
7am flights from Prestwick with RyanAir for less than £40 return
30Euro tourney at 10am
50Euro tourney at 2:30pm
50Euro, Rebuys 1hr, 1 Add On, tourney at 7pm (so 100Euros)
ACF's open late so no plans for booking accommodation - all we need to do is leave around 5am for our 7am flights back on the Saturday.
Total cost will hopefully be around £200.
Friday, 8 February 2008
Luck Giveth ... Luck Taketh ...
I'll get straight to it - the past 12 hours of poker on BlueSq have been BIZARRE!
In the InsidePoker GUKPT Freeroll last night I was riding my luck BIG TIME ...
As it ended up I was card-dead before and after these hands which all happened within around 15 hands. The 44, having got all apw68's chips, propelled me to top of the Leaderboard ...
I finished 16th of 500 runners for no cash, no prize, nowt. I have no complaints ...
I do have complaints about these though from a SitNGo this morning (these were just the ones that were shown down) ...
I guess this is what they mean by Luck Giveth, Luck Taketh ... hmmm ...
In the InsidePoker GUKPT Freeroll last night I was riding my luck BIG TIME ...
As it ended up I was card-dead before and after these hands which all happened within around 15 hands. The 44, having got all apw68's chips, propelled me to top of the Leaderboard ...
I finished 16th of 500 runners for no cash, no prize, nowt. I have no complaints ...
I do have complaints about these though from a SitNGo this morning (these were just the ones that were shown down) ...
I guess this is what they mean by Luck Giveth, Luck Taketh ... hmmm ...
Sunday, 3 February 2008
APAT European / Sunday $100k
I'm lookin forward to the two events I've entered tonight - the $30+$3 APAT Satellite for the European Championship in Vienna, Austria and the Sunday Hundred Grand on PokerStars. Having had only 4 hours sleep last night though and having spent most of today (a Sunday) working, I'm not too sure how long mentally I'll last in both. We're sitting at 38 players for the APAT Sat with only two more entrants needed to take us to $1,200 of a prize pool and two packages being offered. See APAT chat at http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?topic=1099.0;topicseen
I was gutted to miss the APAT event last night but a visit to my sister's and a 60th birthday party had to take priority. It has got me brownie points for playing into the wee small hours if I need to tonight. I just hope I can cash in both and outlast Jim on SHG again to have next week's entry paid for.
I was gutted to miss the APAT event last night but a visit to my sister's and a 60th birthday party had to take priority. It has got me brownie points for playing into the wee small hours if I need to tonight. I just hope I can cash in both and outlast Jim on SHG again to have next week's entry paid for.
Friday, 1 February 2008
A fortnights worth ...
I've just realised that I've not posted for almost a fortnight now ...
Reading back I've been noting that I've been doin a bit of donking in certain accounts for the past 12 days or so. In a bid to help Jim Lang take advantage of a Refer-a-Friend offer, I signed up for a Ladbrokes account with a £52 deposit. Well, 6 days later, after only about 4 or 5 hours play and with only 580 Bonus points, I'm on the rail after a mix of reckless cash play at 25c/50c and some terrible beats. I'm still not sure I like the Ladbrokes / Mansion software - it's not as clear as iPoker, PS or FT.
I played in the APAT Italian Open last night and went out in a hand I shouldn't have been involved in. With ATdiamonds on BB I was raised in early position by chip leader 'hornibabe'. As this had been a standard and very regular bullying play for her with any A I shoved my remaining 4k only to be called by her AQo. Q flopped and I'm out around 73rd.
Well played to the new man-on-fire Telmison4 (BobbyMorton) for his 2nd win in a row and third final table in a row. I think the online points I have so far and those I'm left desperately chasing will have little significance if he continues in this vein of form.
My pal Charlie Curtis (janc) was going well again too. After a good run in Online APATs recently I wasn't surprised to see him up in the top 3 at the first break or around 5th at the second break - I didn't expect to see him out in 50-odd-th.
It was a good laugh at our table last night though. I was on the same table as CELTICRIVER so chat and side-bets were on! One of them, when we were both down at 3,800 just before the first break, we agreed that whoever went out first had to buy two EuroMillions tickets. It's not a great expense I know but when you get used to winning all the bets ...
Last week, in the Sunday Hundred Grand that Jim paid me into, we had a plan of slow and safely building chips. On the first hand though, having made a Full House with pocket 7s on a QcJc7c 8d 8c board, Jim got them All-In and was called by JJ for a higher Full House. That was the easiest $11 I've ever made.
And I'm sure this mornings emails to the Syndicate will be about our AA v AJ confrontation that happened last night ...
LOVELY! ;-)
Reading back I've been noting that I've been doin a bit of donking in certain accounts for the past 12 days or so. In a bid to help Jim Lang take advantage of a Refer-a-Friend offer, I signed up for a Ladbrokes account with a £52 deposit. Well, 6 days later, after only about 4 or 5 hours play and with only 580 Bonus points, I'm on the rail after a mix of reckless cash play at 25c/50c and some terrible beats. I'm still not sure I like the Ladbrokes / Mansion software - it's not as clear as iPoker, PS or FT.
I played in the APAT Italian Open last night and went out in a hand I shouldn't have been involved in. With ATdiamonds on BB I was raised in early position by chip leader 'hornibabe'. As this had been a standard and very regular bullying play for her with any A I shoved my remaining 4k only to be called by her AQo. Q flopped and I'm out around 73rd.
Well played to the new man-on-fire Telmison4 (BobbyMorton) for his 2nd win in a row and third final table in a row. I think the online points I have so far and those I'm left desperately chasing will have little significance if he continues in this vein of form.
My pal Charlie Curtis (janc) was going well again too. After a good run in Online APATs recently I wasn't surprised to see him up in the top 3 at the first break or around 5th at the second break - I didn't expect to see him out in 50-odd-th.
It was a good laugh at our table last night though. I was on the same table as CELTICRIVER so chat and side-bets were on! One of them, when we were both down at 3,800 just before the first break, we agreed that whoever went out first had to buy two EuroMillions tickets. It's not a great expense I know but when you get used to winning all the bets ...
Last week, in the Sunday Hundred Grand that Jim paid me into, we had a plan of slow and safely building chips. On the first hand though, having made a Full House with pocket 7s on a QcJc7c 8d 8c board, Jim got them All-In and was called by JJ for a higher Full House. That was the easiest $11 I've ever made.
And I'm sure this mornings emails to the Syndicate will be about our AA v AJ confrontation that happened last night ...
LOVELY! ;-)
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