Not going to focus on the cash tables, had an appalling start dropping about £30 at 10nl last night. Resorted back to MTT's and played £500 BH at 7.45pm and the £1k BH at 8.15pm. Finished 4th in the £500 getting QQ in v AK for 40k chips for the flop to come AK* and then a K on the turn. TY and good night. Posted below, my exit hand in the £1k where I finished 19th out of 138. Not sure whether I should be getting it in here or not. Going to focus mainly on MTT's for a while as my cash game seems to have gone to pieces and I can't just keep topping up. Currently I have an IPhone 4S and get an upgrade in the next couple of weeks. Thinking of getting one of the following and wondered if anyone with any of them had any feedback. IPhone 5S, Galaxy S5, HTC One(M8) or the cheapest option HTC One.
Bankroll £138.42 Profit -£311.58 Cash for Points 102
MTT's Played 23 MTT Profit -£77.66 MTT ROI -45.97% ITM 17.39%
meerkat141400001£101.50 + £69.79 Head Prizes7£21.19JIM198402£66.50 + £43.65 Head Prizes7 porter198903£41.12 + £13.59 Head Prizes3 68Trebor04£33.25 + £19.04 Head Prizes4
68Trebor2160001£75.47 + £48.93 Head Prizes10£14.09mondo198502£46.03 + £6.43 Head Prizes2 TONY15803£28.35 + £11.25 Head Prizes5 nccc104£22.82 + £17.41 Head Prizes6 darryn197305£19.44 + £1.88 Head Prizes1
Here is a hand from one of the BH's I played this afternoon. At the time I was torn between calling and folding. As it turned out it worked out OK, but is this the correct lay down long term. The hand occurred on what was a long drawn out cash bubble and the villain had already done this to me twice. Thoughts appreciated.
meerkat14
Small blind
200.00
200.00
14207.46
RossMc
Big blind
400.00
600.00
2047.50
Your hole cards
Q
K
akkers61
Fold
68Trebor
Raise
800.00
1400.00
7590.00
porter1989
All-in
15732.54
17132.54
0.00
meerkat14
Fold
RossMc
Fold
68Trebor
Fold
porter1989
Muck
porter1989
Win
2200.00
2200.00
porter1989
Return
14932.54
This evening I am just going to play the 18:45 £750 Bounty Hunter and will be watching the football, hopefully at the same time, if I haven't already bust out. Had the following bets for the game tonight.
£6 England to win @23/20. £2 Lamps to score first @10/1. £2 Lamps to score anytime @7/2.
Also placed the following bets for the World Cup.
£10 EW Lukaku Top Scorer @25/1, 1/4odds 1-2-3-4. Plus the firm I have bet with will give you a £5 Free Bet every time he scores.
£2 Accum, 50p 5-folds. Brazil Top Scorer Neymar 1/1. Holland Top Scorer Van Persie 6/5. Uruguay Top Scorer Suarez 13/8. England Top Scorer Sturridge 11/4. Bosnia Top Scorer Dzeko 13/8. Belgium Top Scorer Lukaku 2/1.
Only played a few MTT's since last update as been my weekend in at work and also had a visit form the Regional Manager on Saturday morning so was all hands to the pump on Thursday and Friday. Then a late shift on Saturday and working Sunday. Not much to report really having just played the 3 tournies and claimed one bounty. Will be back to play a bit more tomorrow night. Really looking forward to the World Cup now but don't rate England's chances at all, if we get out of the group that will be a bonus. Have now placed all my ante-post bets and these are all shown below. Gone big on Argentina as really think they have the fire-power are playing it in their back yard and the fact they appear to have an easy run to the semis where they will probably meet Spain.
£10 EW Lukaku Top Scorer @25/1, 1/4odds 1-2-3-4. Plus the firm I have bet with will give you a £5 Free Bet every time he scores.
£10 EW Messi Top Scorer @7/1, 1/4odds 1-2-3-4. Plus the firm I have bet with will give you a £5 Free Bet every time he scores.
£15 Argentina Outright 4/1.
£7 Argentina to Win & Messi Top Scorer 14/1.
£6 Brazil v Argentina Final 8/1.
£2 Accum, 50p 5-folds. Brazil Top Scorer Neymar 1/1. Holland Top Scorer Van Persie 6/5. Uruguay Top Scorer Suarez 13/8. England Top Scorer Sturridge 11/4. Bosnia Top Scorer Dzeko 13/8. Belgium Top Scorer Lukaku 2/1.
£5 Free Bet on Opening Game. £5 Brazil-1 H'cap 10/11.
£2 Free Bet on Opening Game. £2 Neymar First Goal 7/2.
Bankroll £229.85 Profit -£220.15 Cash for Points 249
MTT's Played 40 MTT Profit £9.51 MTT ROI 2.97% ITM 20.00%
Played a £6.60 sat into tonight's main in which I successfully qualified. Played the Main, getting 3 heads but no cash and also played the Mini. Was going really well in the Main until the following hand. Wasn't sure what to do but decided that I would go for it as winning this hand would give me chip lead and a real chance of reaching final table. Having been bought up on the ethos of going for the top 3 in MTT's it seemed the right move to make. Thoughts?
Player
Action
Cards
Amount
Pot
Balance
JOXER1968
Small blind
125.00
125.00
15701.75
68Trebor
Big blind
250.00
375.00
14736.25
Your hole cards
Q
J
Gerrard87
Raise
500.00
875.00
10000.00
alfarch30
Fold
luckymuzzy
Fold
adair333
Fold
JOXER1968
Call
375.00
1250.00
15326.75
68Trebor
Call
250.00
1500.00
14486.25
Flop
9
Q
10
JOXER1968
Bet
750.00
2250.00
14576.75
68Trebor
Call
750.00
3000.00
13736.25
Gerrard87
Raise
4500.00
7500.00
5500.00
JOXER1968
Fold
68Trebor
All-in
13736.25
21236.25
0.00
Gerrard87
All-in
5500.00
26736.25
0.00
68Trebor
Unmatched bet
4486.25
22250.00
4486.25
68Trebor
Show
Q
J
Gerrard87
Show
K
K
Turn
4
River
9
Gerrard87
Win
Two Pairs, Kings and 9s
22250.00
Bankroll £266.84 Profit -£183.16 Cash for Points 290
MTT's Played 43 MTT Profit £39.00 MTT ROI 10.67% ITM 20.93%
I probably fold, likely to be behind in the spot, and if not they're gunna have a massive combo draw at worst i think. Something like AKdd, UTG raise remember.
A very quick update as not much to report. Played a few MTT's including Main and Mini, then played an hour on mastercash making about £5. Did manage to make £400 today though. How I hear you ask. Basically got my renewal letter through for my buildings and contents insurance. Have been with the same major supermarket (claims to sell a Basic range but really is quite expensive) and paid monthly Direct Debit for a couple of years. Standard letter, here's your premium do nothing and just carry on with your direct debit and all will be well. Sooo easy just to sit back and watch the money come out month after month. Decided to do a bit of shopping about and ended up using another supermarket insurance with increased cover, less excess and for over £400 a year less. It definitely pays to shop around! A couple of decent signings for Villa in the last week. Despite numerous so called Villa fans moaning about Senderos and Cole not being good enough, over the hill etc, etc, I think they are the sort of players that will only benefit our squad in terms of helping out the youngsters. Gone are the days, for now, of Villa being able to go out and buy the upper echelons of available players and Villa fans need to wake up and smell the coffee. Both of these players will enhance our squad and add the depth we haven't had since O'Neill's days. Villa also released their new kit this week and I have to say it is the best home and away shirt we have had for a long time. Defo buying the new away shirt, very similar to the famous shirt we wore on the night of European Cup glory.
Bankroll £242.24 Profit -£207.76 Cash for Points 338
MTT's Played 47 MTT Profit £11.90 MTT ROI 2.98% ITM 19.15%
So it is finally here. The waiting is over, the big day has arrived and guess what, your's truly is on a late shift so will miss the opening ceremony and the opening game, will get to listen to second half on the way home in the car. Luckily I am off this weekend so will be able to watch the England game in the pub with a few sherberts. All my pre tournament bets are down, see above. Sky Super6 predictions entered. Sun Dream Team picked and leagues joined. So it is now time to grab the remote, sit back and relax. World Cup, I love it.
On the poker front have played a fair few more MTT's without any luck. As I am on lates today I have had an hour back on the cash tables this morning, two tables of 10nl and one of 8nl. Played pretty well I thought and ended up with a profit of £18. Think I may spend a bit of time back on the cash tables over the next few days and see how I do.
Bankroll £220.09 Profit -£229.91 Cash for Points 397
MTT's Played 51 MTT Profit-£6.77 MTT ROI-1.61% ITM 18.00%
Got off work early so was able to watch opening game. Having watched Brazil's rather dodgy performance I am even more convinced that they won't be winning this World Cup. Thought Oscar had a good game but apart from him and Neymar, in bursts, wasn't over impressed by Brazil at all. Croatia look lively going forward and if Brazil hadn't had 12 players think they would of got at least a point from the encounter. Hope the sight of managers and players waving imaginary cards will not become the lasting image of the World Cup. Really like the spraying of the white line for free kick walls, sometimes the simplest ideas are the best.
So 1 game in, 2 bets made, 2 bets won. World cup profit £11.55.
Bets for tomorrow
£4 Mexico 13/10. £2 Hernandez 1st Score 5/1. £5.55 Spain v Holland Both Teams to Score 6/5.
5 mins into the Chile game decided it would be wise to invest in Sanchez to score 1st goal, so duly had £2.41 at 4/1. If the Aussies hadn't scored would of been a bumper return but still a good result. World Cup profit now at £35.05, this doesn't include my ante-post bets listed earlier which I will take into account once they are settled. Plan for today is to play a bit of poker here and there, watch episodes 3&4 of Broadchurch with my daughter, as promised to her, watch the 5pm game at home and then head off to the pub to watch the 8pm game and the England game. I do love watching England games at the pub rather than at home, as long as the pub is a decent one and not full of 19yr olds downing Jaegers and believing that the England game is an excuse to behave like utter morons. Will post later my bets for the day and an update on my poker.
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Not going to focus on the cash tables, had an appalling start dropping about £30 at 10nl last night. Resorted back to MTT's and played £500 BH at 7.45pm and the £1k BH at 8.15pm.
Finished 4th in the £500 getting QQ in v AK for 40k chips for the flop to come AK* and then a K on the turn. TY and good night.
Posted below, my exit hand in the £1k where I finished 19th out of 138.
Not sure whether I should be getting it in here or not.
Going to focus mainly on MTT's for a while as my cash game seems to have gone to pieces and I can't just keep topping up.
Currently I have an IPhone 4S and get an upgrade in the next couple of weeks. Thinking of getting one of the following and wondered if anyone with any of them had any feedback. IPhone 5S, Galaxy S5, HTC One(M8) or the cheapest option HTC One.
Bankroll £138.42
Profit -£311.58
Cash for Points 102
MTT's Played 23
MTT Profit -£77.66
MTT ROI -45.97%
ITM 17.39%
That hand, thoughts please.
BOOM!
meerkat141400001£101.50 + £69.79 Head Prizes7£21.19JIM198402£66.50 + £43.65 Head Prizes7 porter198903£41.12 + £13.59 Head Prizes3 68Trebor04£33.25 + £19.04 Head Prizes4
BOOM!
68Trebor2160001£75.47 + £48.93 Head Prizes10£14.09mondo198502£46.03 + £6.43 Head Prizes2 TONY15803£28.35 + £11.25 Head Prizes5 nccc104£22.82 + £17.41 Head Prizes6 darryn197305£19.44 + £1.88 Head Prizes1
Not a bad afternoon.
£300 BH - 1st
£400 BH - 4th
Surely this qualifies for the afternoon jackpot!
Bankroll £291.15
Profit -£158.85
Cash for Points 155
MTT's Played 29
MTT Profit £75.07
MTT ROI 33.48%
ITM 24.14%
Here is a hand from one of the BH's I played this afternoon.
At the time I was torn between calling and folding.
As it turned out it worked out OK, but is this the correct lay down long term.
The hand occurred on what was a long drawn out cash bubble and the villain had already done this to me twice.
Thoughts appreciated.
Had the following bets for the game tonight.
£6 England to win @23/20.
£2 Lamps to score first @10/1.
£2 Lamps to score anytime @7/2.
Also placed the following bets for the World Cup.
£10 EW Lukaku Top Scorer @25/1, 1/4odds 1-2-3-4. Plus the firm I have bet with will give you a £5 Free Bet every time he scores.
£2 Accum, 50p 5-folds.
Brazil Top Scorer Neymar 1/1.
Holland Top Scorer Van Persie 6/5.
Uruguay Top Scorer Suarez 13/8.
England Top Scorer Sturridge 11/4.
Bosnia Top Scorer Dzeko 13/8.
Belgium Top Scorer Lukaku 2/1.
don't know if this will work, but I think this is the link to dohhhhhh's micro cash
Links here:
Beating Small Stakes Cash Games - Part 1
Beating Small Stakes Cash Games - Part 2
Beating Small Stakes Cash Games - Part 3
yep it worked lol
regards Alan
Only played a few MTT's since last update as been my weekend in at work and also had a visit form the Regional Manager on Saturday morning so was all hands to the pump on Thursday and Friday. Then a late shift on Saturday and working Sunday. Not much to report really having just played the 3 tournies and claimed one bounty. Will be back to play a bit more tomorrow night.
Really looking forward to the World Cup now but don't rate England's chances at all, if we get out of the group that will be a bonus.
Have now placed all my ante-post bets and these are all shown below. Gone big on Argentina as really think they have the fire-power are playing it in their back yard and the fact they appear to have an easy run to the semis where they will probably meet Spain.
£10 EW Lukaku Top Scorer @25/1, 1/4odds 1-2-3-4. Plus the firm I have bet with will give you a £5 Free Bet every time he scores.
£10 EW Messi Top Scorer @7/1, 1/4odds 1-2-3-4. Plus the firm I have bet with will give you a £5 Free Bet every time he scores.
£15 Argentina Outright 4/1.
£7 Argentina to Win & Messi Top Scorer 14/1.
£6 Brazil v Argentina Final 8/1.
£2 Accum, 50p 5-folds.
Brazil Top Scorer Neymar 1/1.
Holland Top Scorer Van Persie 6/5.
Uruguay Top Scorer Suarez 13/8.
England Top Scorer Sturridge 11/4.
Bosnia Top Scorer Dzeko 13/8.
Belgium Top Scorer Lukaku 2/1.
£5 Free Bet on Opening Game.
£5 Brazil-1 H'cap 10/11.
£2 Free Bet on Opening Game.
£2 Neymar First Goal 7/2.
Bankroll £229.85
Profit -£220.15
Cash for Points 249
MTT's Played 40
MTT Profit £9.51
MTT ROI 2.97%
ITM 20.00%
Played a £6.60 sat into tonight's main in which I successfully qualified.
Played the Main, getting 3 heads but no cash and also played the Mini.
Was going really well in the Main until the following hand. Wasn't sure what to do but decided that I would go for it as winning this hand would give me chip lead and a real chance of reaching final table. Having been bought up on the ethos of going for the top 3 in MTT's it seemed the right move to make.
Thoughts?
Bankroll £266.84
Profit -£183.16
Cash for Points 290
MTT's Played 43
MTT Profit £39.00
MTT ROI 10.67%
ITM 20.93%
A very quick update as not much to report.
Played a few MTT's including Main and Mini, then played an hour on mastercash making about £5.
Did manage to make £400 today though.
How I hear you ask.
Basically got my renewal letter through for my buildings and contents insurance. Have been with the same major supermarket (claims to sell a Basic range but really is quite expensive) and paid monthly Direct Debit for a couple of years. Standard letter, here's your premium do nothing and just carry on with your direct debit and all will be well. Sooo easy just to sit back and watch the money come out month after month. Decided to do a bit of shopping about and ended up using another supermarket insurance with increased cover, less excess and for over £400 a year less. It definitely pays to shop around!
A couple of decent signings for Villa in the last week. Despite numerous so called Villa fans moaning about Senderos and Cole not being good enough, over the hill etc, etc, I think they are the sort of players that will only benefit our squad in terms of helping out the youngsters. Gone are the days, for now, of Villa being able to go out and buy the upper echelons of available players and Villa fans need to wake up and smell the coffee. Both of these players will enhance our squad and add the depth we haven't had since O'Neill's days.
Villa also released their new kit this week and I have to say it is the best home and away shirt we have had for a long time. Defo buying the new away shirt, very similar to the famous shirt we wore on the night of European Cup glory.
Bankroll £242.24
Profit -£207.76
Cash for Points 338
MTT's Played 47
MTT Profit £11.90
MTT ROI 2.98%
ITM 19.15%
So it is finally here.
The waiting is over, the big day has arrived and guess what, your's truly is on a late shift so will miss the opening ceremony and the opening game, will get to listen to second half on the way home in the car.
Luckily I am off this weekend so will be able to watch the England game in the pub with a few sherberts.
All my pre tournament bets are down, see above.
Sky Super6 predictions entered.
Sun Dream Team picked and leagues joined.
So it is now time to grab the remote, sit back and relax.
World Cup, I love it.
On the poker front have played a fair few more MTT's without any luck.
As I am on lates today I have had an hour back on the cash tables this morning, two tables of 10nl and one of 8nl. Played pretty well I thought and ended up with a profit of £18. Think I may spend a bit of time back on the cash tables over the next few days and see how I do.
Bankroll £220.09
Profit -£229.91
Cash for Points 397
MTT's Played 51
MTT Profit -£6.77
MTT ROI -1.61%
ITM 18.00%
Got off work early so was able to watch opening game. Having watched Brazil's rather dodgy performance I am even more convinced that they won't be winning this World Cup. Thought Oscar had a good game but apart from him and Neymar, in bursts, wasn't over impressed by Brazil at all. Croatia look lively going forward and if Brazil hadn't had 12 players think they would of got at least a point from the encounter. Hope the sight of managers and players waving imaginary cards will not become the lasting image of the World Cup. Really like the spraying of the white line for free kick walls, sometimes the simplest ideas are the best.
So 1 game in, 2 bets made, 2 bets won. World cup profit £11.55.
Bets for tomorrow
£4 Mexico 13/10.
£2 Hernandez 1st Score 5/1.
£5.55 Spain v Holland Both Teams to Score 6/5.
Another couple of games, another couple of winners.
3 games in, 5 bets made, 4 bets win, 1 bet refunded. World cup profit £23.41.
Cheeky few bets on Chile v Aystralia tonight.
£1 Sanchez 1st scorer Chile 2-0 20/1.
£1 Sanchez 1st scorer Chile 3-0 30/1.
£5 Chile -1 on H'cap 6/5.
£1 Chile 2-0 11/2.
£1 Chile 3-0 9/1.
5 mins into the Chile game decided it would be wise to invest in Sanchez to score 1st goal, so duly had £2.41 at 4/1.
If the Aussies hadn't scored would of been a bumper return but still a good result.
World Cup profit now at £35.05, this doesn't include my ante-post bets listed earlier which I will take into account once they are settled.
Plan for today is to play a bit of poker here and there, watch episodes 3&4 of Broadchurch with my daughter, as promised to her, watch the 5pm game at home and then head off to the pub to watch the 8pm game and the England game. I do love watching England games at the pub rather than at home, as long as the pub is a decent one and not full of 19yr olds downing Jaegers and believing that the England game is an excuse to behave like utter morons. Will post later my bets for the day and an update on my poker.