Yes, I only sing when I'm winning! Something I'm going to correct actually. If I go back to having a shocker next time, I'll look to post about it. Good luck everyone with hitting any targets you've given yourself this year. Posted by RICHORFORD
Ha im glad you noticed this Orf before I got the chance to call you a chip chirper! Your graph is a bit erratic, you going for the Yoyo effect?
Nice work tho Rich I wish id known id have railed, gonna practice any cash for the 100 challenge? lol I know you don't wanna lose to Fowls
In Response to Re: (The Imaginatively Titled) Orford Poker Journal 2015 : Ha im glad you noticed this Orf before I got the chance to call you a chip chirper! Your graph is a bit erratic, you going for the Yoyo effect? Nice work tho Rich I wish id known id have railed, gonna practice any cash for the 100 challenge? lol I know you don't wanna lose to Fowls Posted by Janana
Cheers Janana- don't think i'm going to practice cash for the 100 challenge. Just going to leave it in the hands of the poker gods. Might have to do what Anna did in the last five minutes and shove it all in to double up...or bust.
Haven't updated for a while, so thought I'd post... NOW THAT I WON TONIGHT'S 10.30PM SPEED BOUNTY HUNTER ;-) Yes, this week's session ended rather nicely. No joy in the main and mini plus the other big BHs, although I ran quite deep in most. But everything came together for the final game of the night. £55 buy-in, playing against the big hitters, the TommyDs, MattBates, Andrew1947s of the world. And a magic combination of not putting a foot wrong, hitting some ridiculous outdraws, running like god and having a few extended sequences of being a total card rack culminated in a big win for me. Having not cashed for a little while, this result puts me back to just off my career best. £111 in profit in total on Sky for MTTs over the course of 6 years and £1,099 up in 2015. Here's the latest Sharkscope.. Yes, I only sing when I'm winning! Something I'm going to correct actually. If I go back to having a shocker next time, I'll look to post about it. Good luck everyone with hitting any targets you've given yourself this year. Posted by RICHORFORD
Good evening Mr Orford. My target for this year is to have Mr Orford and Mr Moorman play the £2.20 @2.20 deepstack. All the best. Rainman397
At the halfway point in the year now and feeling pretty good about my poker overall in the first 6 months.
Last night though, in front of tens of thousands...not so good.
In case you missed it, I took the 100 Challenge and went out after just 36 minutes putting me bottom of the leaderboard, whilst James Akenhead showed me up and made about £200 in profit and went straight to the top.
So, after such public humiliation, what's the best thing you can do? That's right, get straight back on those tables!
Back in my comfort zone tonight playing MTTs and Bounty Hunters, hoping to build on last Wednesday's success story (see above) and chase those last night blues away.
Will definitely play the 8pm main, 8.30pm mini, 9pm Bounty Hunter and probably the 10.30pm Speed Bounty Hunter. And a few others besides. See you at the tables- my alias is ricorford.
Good luck tonight, Rich. At least you know it can't get any worse than last night. Stick to tournaments, I don't think cash is your strong suit. Posted by 4EVERGREEN
Cheers mate. I think you just made the understatement of 2015!
So, I felt pretty good going into this week's session.
I'm in the middle of doing lots of commentary with Sam Grafton for the UKPC which will be airing on Sky Sports in the next few weeks and watching all these top players non-stop for hours on end and listening to Sam must have rubbed off, because I felt confident and for the first half of the night played extremely well.
A few mistakes crept in during the second half, but I still managed to go mega deep in both the main and the 9pm Bounty Hunter.
8th in the main, 7th in the BH.
Or, to put it another way, 2 off the final table in the main; and the bubble boy in the BH!
Luckily because they were bounty hunters I'd taken a few heads along the way so I ran out the night about £80 up.
I'm happy about that, but frustrated that I came so close to a combined total of about £3000 in prize money had I won both, and more realistically, a profit of a good few hundred pounds, maybe a grand if I'd finished 3 or 4 spots higher in each game.
C'est la vie. Think that takes my Sharkscope to around about the zero mark again having dipped again into overall loss in the last couple of weeks. So that's something I guess.
So, I felt pretty good going into this week's session. I'm in the middle of doing lots of commentary with Sam Grafton for the UKPC which will be airing on Sky Sports in the next few weeks and watching all these top players non-stop for hours on end and listening to Sam must have rubbed off, because I felt confident and for the first half of the night played extremely well. A few mistakes crept in during the second half, but I still managed to go mega deep in both the main and the 9pm Bounty Hunter. 8th in the main, 7th in the BH. Or, to put it another way, 2 off the final table in the main; and the bubble boy in the BH! Luckily because they were bounty hunters I'd taken a few heads along the way so I ran out the night about £80 up. I'm happy about that, but frustrated that I came so close to a combined total of about £3000 in prize money had I won both, and more realistically, a profit of a good few hundred pounds, maybe a grand if I'd finished 3 or 4 spots higher in each game. C'est la vie. Think that takes my Sharkscope to around about the zero mark again having dipped again into overall loss in the last couple of weeks. So that's something I guess. Posted by RICHORFORD
Can you do me a list of the top players going to DTD Rich please, so know who i'm up against.........lmao
Well played last night and where did all those chips come from! 97k wasn't it on one of them..........
In Response to Re: (The Imaginatively Titled) Orford Poker Journal 2015 : Can you do me a list of the top players going to DTD Rich please, so know who i'm up against.........lmao Well played last night and where did all those chips come from! 97k wasn't it on one of them.......... Posted by Darkangel7
I don't know who's going to the next one yet in August, mate. But you'll soon find out if you're playing in it! I expect the usual top player suspects will be there- Neil Channing, Tom Middleton, Sam Trickett, Paul Jackson, James Akenhead etc etc. And Tikay will also be there. ;-)
Yeah, my laptop had never seen the figure 97,000 chips on it before- and almost spontaneously combusted.
Really quite disappointed about last night- think I dropped the ball and lost out on about a grand. Sigh.
Don't be too disappointed, Rich, at least you made some profit. An awful lot of players will be wishing they'd done as well last night although it seemed to go pear-shaped in the main when you turned the chat back on briefly.
In Response to Re: (The Imaginatively Titled) Orford Poker Journal 2015 : I don't know who's going to the next one yet in August, mate. But you'll soon find out if you're playing in it! I expect the usual top player suspects will be there- Neil Channing, Tom Middleton, Sam Trickett, Paul Jackson, James Akenhead etc etc. And Tikay will also be there. ;-) Yeah, my laptop had never seen the figure 97,000 chips on it before- and almost spontaneously combusted. Really quite disappointed about last night- think I dropped the ball and lost out on about a grand. Sigh. Posted by RICHORFORD
Rich I am playing in it!!! lol That's why I asked!! Ul last night but a cash is a cash. Sure you will do better next time.
In Response to Re: (The Imaginatively Titled) Orford Poker Journal 2015 : Rich I am playing in it!!! lol That's why I asked!! Ul last night but a cash is a cash. Sure you will do better next time. olive Posted by Darkangel7
Sorry Olive- forgot you'd already qualified! Not long to go now, make sure you let me know how you got on. Unless you final-table it of course, in which case you won't need to, I'll see the footage!
Don't be too disappointed, Rich, at least you made some profit. An awful lot of players will be wishing they'd done as well last night although it seemed to go pear-shaped in the main when you turned the chat back on briefly. Anyway, best of luck for your next session. Posted by 4EVERGREEN
Thanks mate. And you do have a point- it does go south for me whenever I turn the chatbox on. Problem is, people playing on here know me from the tv show, so I don't like sitting silently on a table 'ignoring' everyone because I don't even know they're talking to me.
It's fine if I'm with regulars, but if a newbie gets drawn on the same table as me in an MTT for the first time ever and starts asking me about the show and site etc, then it's just comes across as extremely rude if I don't talk back.
But yes, I definitely lose my concentration the moment I start doing anyting other than focus on the tabes, esp now that I've finally reached the level of multi-tabling four tables. Woo hoo! Get me. only took me 8 years to manage that.
How these young whipper-snappers manage 16 tables, chatboxes, Window messenger, twitter, tv's on in the background and music playing whilst being on the phone is beyond me. Be interesting to see how many of those players are actually profitable and how many of those would make more money if they switched everything else off.
Couple of decent results in this week's session...
14th out of 239 in tonight's 8pm main event
And 8th out of 186 in tonight's 8.30pm mini event.
Made a small loss on the night overall, but I'm on a good run of knocking on the door of the final tables in these events at the moment. Hopefully if I keep at it and keep improving my game I'll land a big result soon.
Well done, Rich. I thought for a while you were going all the way in the mini but your final hand was a bit of a cooler, wasn't it? Ran QQ into AA if I remember correctly, not much you can do about those. Better luck next time.
Well done, Rich. I thought for a while you were going all the way in the mini but your final hand was a bit of a cooler, wasn't it? Ran QQ into AA if I remember correctly, not much you can do about those. Better luck next time. Posted by 4EVERGREEN
Ty mate. Yeah, that's the way it goes. Was on the right side of some of those outdraws along the way to get there though, so can't complain.
I was juggling top 20 in both the main and mini at one stage and starting to wonder if I could pull off something special and final table both. Close but no cigar.
Decent result tonight- played the main, mini and a few bounty hunters.
Came 3rd out of 65 in the 9pm £2,500 GD Bounty Hunter...
Players Remaining: 2 / 65
CharlieF29
212032
£158.66 Head Prizes
6
£77.87
Phil1812
112968
£157.91 Head Prizes
5
£77.63
RicOrford
0
3
£195 + £128.40 Head Prizes
5
Was chip leader on the final table for ages, but things turn around fast in a couple of hands when you're down to 3 players and eventually I came a cropper to the cards.
Would like to have won and believe I was good value for the win, but third place is not to be sniffed at. It gave me an overall profit of £141 on the night.
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Sigh, Hartigan still unavailable then.
Nice work tho Rich I wish id known id have railed, gonna practice any cash for the 100 challenge? lol I know you don't wanna lose to Fowls
My target for this year is to have Mr Orford and Mr Moorman play the £2.20 @2.20 deepstack.
All the best.
Rainman397
Well played last night and where did all those chips come from! 97k wasn't it on one of them..........
olive
Players Remaining: 2 / 65