Congrats on the excellent A level results Matt. I'm sure Wolvs Uni is gonna be a great experience for you. Don't let the combo of studying and partying keep you away from the tables and the forum tho. Well done you!!
Well done Matt on your results; Kudos on your degree choice, although a maths teacher I knew once told me maths is easy as long as you follow the rules which was amusing as this fella broke them all outside the classroom, but that is a whole other story ;-)
I'm glad you will have support whilst you are there, especially if you are moving away from home and all things familiar.
Currently relaxing with relief and going over everything I need to do to make sure i'm 100% prepared for Uni. Tomorrow I am off on our 2nd away day this season to Bradford (Park Avenue). Last season this came was a cold monday night in January so hopefully I will enjoy this one a bit more. Getting there quite early although I don't really think there is much interesting to explore at Bradford. Looking forward to it, then a quiet sunday followed by DTD night monday. Have a good weekend everyone, and enjoy the start of the PL season!
Well done to Tommy/chicknMelt on cashing UKPC, keep it going chaps!
Never mind - got too excited and misread the start date hehe :-). Start in October as opposed to September which gives me a little more time to prepare but thanks for the posts guys. Posted by Matt237
Super stuff Matt. Congrats on the results and all the best for uni.
Cheers for the messages guys. Currently relaxing with relief and going over everything I need to do to make sure i'm 100% prepared for Uni. Tomorrow I am off on our 2nd away day this season to Bradford (Park Avenue). Last season this came was a cold monday night in January so hopefully I will enjoy this one a bit more. Getting there quite early although I don't really think there is much interesting to explore at Bradford. Looking forward to it, then a quiet sunday followed by DTD night monday. Have a good weekend everyone, and enjoy the start of the PL season! Well done to Tommy/chicknMelt on cashing UKPC, keep it going chaps! Posted by Matt237
TommyD Bust out off the UKPC this morning in 33rd place! Haven't a clue regarding Chickn's status!
Great to see chicknmelt on the UKPC Final table! Joesman1 too. Tommy did well seemingly to finish 33rd if he folded to 5bb on the bubble. Top performances.
Really enjoyed my day out at Bradford today, lovely people and the weather was good. Had several pints owed and i got in the game for free so all in all a quality day out watching my football team with 7 drinks costed me £3. We lost 2-1 but Bradford Park Avenue are a decent side so the result was sort of expected. Some cracking goals thrown in the mix too. Horsfall stadium is a funny place - I think it's an abandoned athletics stadium which has become the new home of this famous football side. There is one main stand but that's about it.
I am back properly tonight, having taken a decent break from the game in order to prepare for other things that will be happening. My Uni course has now been confirmed and accomodation is booked. Grants have all been sorted other than my DSA (Disabled students allowance) but that will be sorted soon so on Uni side of things I am all ready for October 6th start.
Went to Lowestoft yesterday for bank holiday monday football. Its supposed to be local fixtures on this day in non league but we are one of the nearer sides for them despite it being a 4 hour minibus trek. Really enjoyable day though, good pubs, lovely people, and we came away with a point against a good side so all in all it was well worth it. Strange little place though, north side seems to be more industrial/fishing port type place but there was a beach further down the coast.
Look forward to getting back in poker mood really. Good line-up for the show tonight too.
Well well well had good fun tonight. Some very bad outdraws but overall happy with my play and ended up a whopping £3.80.
Money came from the main event - Had to get my chips in first alot which I don't mind, steals are ok and I had a very nice table which included a few players raise folding at around 110 left when it was getting shallow. Managed to steal into the last 30, made a very very questionable peel when I should have either shoved or folded but I had a plan with it. Will post it before tomorrows session.
Other than that there was nothing to shout about. Got a set in vs overpair on flop only for the river to crush my heart 3 off the money in 200gtd for chip lead but it happens.
Highlight of my night was my first ever royal flush in said tournament above. My call can be ripped into but it was to induce v this villain in particular. Again, will post tomorrow.
Wednesday was not a great night for me but it wasn't particulary a bad one either. Not much to report, a final table in the 200 gtd @ 21:05 finishing 4th place with a set over set exit for £22. Cut the night loss down to £6. Set over sets are such a painful exit, especially at the levels I play when 99% of the time they turn up with an overplayed top pair or pair or something.
Have one interesting river discussion here, think the hand is WP but any comments appreciated on check calling or bet folding. (This is final table in the money, v an Unknown). Spots like these are quite tricky, never putting him on the flush or straight, its when you bet out and some players at these levels are capable of jamming Kx hands on the river and I have no idea where I am in the hand. Can have some counterfeighted 2 pairs but unlikely I think. Think its the best way to get value from worse?
Personally i would be leading at that river big (3.5kish) the flop flush draw missed so its easy to get a call from a 7,8,10 or the bare king, i think too often he is gonna check behind with a middle pair and you lose value,.. obviously by check calling you allow him to bluff, but there is very little to represent the way the board ran out. I think once you turn the nuts you have to go for stacks as much as possible when you only started the hand with 30bbs, so id lead out and call off a shove even though a small percentage of the time we are behind
Cheers Jordz for the input. Did feel it was a little tight looking at it after the session, but at the time seemed the best way to get action from worse. Think against many players bet/call is good but readless here I felt more comfortable inducing.
A pretty low volume evening. Not a big fan of thursdays in general with the bounty hunter focus and a few of the regular low stake MTTs missing.
Played the 2 £200 gtd tournaments at 19:30 and 21:05 and finished 10th and last respectively. The 21:05 game was a disaster, Accidently limped pre after clicking the 3bb raise button and then it all went downhill, flopped a huge draw and turned an even bigger one, thought I may have fold equity to check/jam turn but I bricked, wanted to play the flop aggressive aswell but after limping pre it would have looked bizarre and felt the turn smashed my range nicely to jam on. (Hope you went deep with my chips Pat!)
Decided to finish with 2 £5 DYMs and managed to cash them both without really doing anything. Folded down to 900 chips in one of the games because there was a very strange dynamic at one of the tables and someone busted a 4k stack which was a guarenteed cash. Very unusual play but I came out of tonight with a £2 loss which is meh but atleast it was enjoyable. Will have a little break until Sunday with tomorrow night being Leeds v St Helens in the rugby and football on Saturday as we play Colwyn Bay at home. Run good everyone, back on the seats on Sunday. :-)
Back for poker today but my word what a bad week-end of sport for me.
The Rugby was all going well until the officials decided to make some very dubious calls. You'd think with the technology available in Rugby League that they would at least get the important/obvious calls correctly but very disappointing. United v Burnley? Only watched the first half and the last 15 minute but again, dreadful. Then to top it all off, my team Leamington lost a 'home banker' 3-0 to a team tipped for relegation. Non league day next saturday and a trip up north to Stalybridge beckons. Classic non league ground in a decent location, look forward to it.
As for poker, undecided whether to attempt to get into the roller or just stick to normal sunday MTT schedule and play some DYMs throughout the day. Probably the latter, had a late night last night for multiple reasons and don't fancy a 3am day if I happen to deep the roller (Which is unlikely anyway but you never know)
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Wednesday was not a great night for me but it wasn't particulary a bad one either. Not much to report, a final table in the 200 gtd @ 21:05 finishing 4th place with a set over set exit for £22. Cut the night loss down to £6. Set over sets are such a painful exit, especially at the levels I play when 99% of the time they turn up with an overplayed top pair or pair or something.
Have one interesting river discussion here, think the hand is WP but any comments appreciated on check calling or bet folding. (This is final table in the money, v an Unknown). Spots like these are quite tricky, never putting him on the flush or straight, its when you bet out and some players at these levels are capable of jamming Kx hands on the river and I have no idea where I am in the hand. Can have some counterfeighted 2 pairs but unlikely I think. Think its the best way to get value from worse?