Had a very enjoyable weekend in Luton, I love playing Live and it was great to play in such a great card room, very well organised at Luton. Friday night I entered the £75 Freezeout, 99 runners and made the Final Table along with 3 other sky players - Gibb, sharksbite and glitterbabe. I managed to cash in 8th for £220, unfortunatley as everyone was talking of a split play continued because nothing was agreed, I look down and see 99, and decide to push my stack in the middle to only be called by JJ, after Im out a deal is made - ah well, was happy with the money and would hae taken that at the beginning of the evening. Thought I played well and got away from A10 early on against Ben aka nutterwhen the board read AQA K - only lost 500 chips in total, decided to fold and put Ben on QQ KK, thankfully he showed his QQ and that boosted my confidence!! It was a late night and didn't get to bed until 6am and was out of the hotel at 10am - not feeling great and having to play the Sky ME at 2pm - didn't go into this feeling great but played well early on, made a call for litreally my tournament life within the first 10 minutes when i had 7h 8h and board reading 858 9 10, made the right call thankfully and guy showed K5 - phew!! Got a few hands through without showing and was coasting well - that is until I moved tables and litreally couldn't make a hand - every play I made was counter acted by stacks who would push all in and my chips dwindlled - made a couple of wrong decisions in the end especially when I should have called a raise from SB to put me all in when I had 10 4 in the BB - would call that raise every day of the week with any two cards normally but I passed and I knew I wasn't in tune with the tournament after that and decided to get my moneyth 10 9 in the end against QQ, gg. Played some SNG's and loved it - met some really nice people through the event and also learned that Greghogg is a massive luckbox - he hit everything lol!! Managed to turn my Jh 5h into a flush against phil12uk's QQ - therefore I could go to bed happy Had a really great weekend but my body clock is all over the place now - but back online to play again tommorrow
Ok, last time i posted a balance for my TKO spin up it was £572.10 - Then in my last post i mentioned dropping £20 just before cashing out some of the balance to cover my daughters birthday. So before cash out my balance stood at £550.
Well all did not end there, i did indeed cash some off but left myself enough to play. I had an odd ball weekend really. I got a 13th in the Open, i got 4th in a £500 velocity, Qualified For Primo Through A Sat so all good MTT Results - Played some cash, Won Some, Lost Some, Balanced out really
Primo was a nightmare - Getting some nice cards, making some raises, hitting boards, Boards turning flushy and staighty, having to lay down to re-raises etc. Took a stand about the 4th time this happened, I raise with Queens - Board Flops something like 4 7 10 Diamonds, i bet get raised shove with my queens to force out the flush draw or give the wrong odds and low and behold he's holding j 9 of diamonds for the flopped flush with draw to straight flush - GREAT lol
Finished the weekend with a profit so the new total goes from £550 at last post to £640
I spent the evening railing Supernova in the Primo and got disconnected during the final table! I woke up this morning to discover that she had won it. Although I'm disappointed that I wasn't able to witness her hour of triumph, I can definitely say that it's given me more pleasure than any tournament that I have won myself.
In Response to Re: How was it for you, last night? : That's not bad Alan, but prepare to be astounded, I have found my level on Sky Poker... northstar1 21 1 £10.50 + 10 League Points Punna 0 2 £6.30 + 8 League Points Machka 0 3 £4.20 + 6 League Points Was it a Deep Stack? Double Stack? Bounty Hunter? Speed? Velocity? errr, no, £1.10 chip and a chair, lol. Posted by Machka
LOL....Nice one Aaron. I bet you had to grind that one out for hours!!
Played the primo last night cashed for 60 something but wanted to change gears but couldnt with 7-2 j-2 hands with others raising before i could make my moves with a ev- stack of 9 bbs not to worry maybe the cards and table position will work out next time not bad though coming in the top 10% of a trny 75% of the entries made so i,m happy and noticed a hole that can be adjusted. Good luck guys and gals!
pretty good day sunday started with a return to deepstack & won it then cashed in 1min roullette came 2nd in Omaha DYM then cashed in £120 speed and to round the day off came 6th & cashed in offordable dtw
Huge fun at Luton, in the £75 Freezeout, which had many of the Sky Poker players taking part. Made loads of new friends, peeps I only "knew" Online, & had a ball. Shared a Table with The Gibb, who is a top geezer.
Earlier, in Days Hotel, hooked up with a bunch of guys in the Days Inn Lounge - lJAMESl, Cottlad, Brownndog, Dylan12 etc, & we Railed the TP SNG. Once the SNG was finished, Ben, Dan, Naomi & sparce joined us, & we wandered across to the G.
A really enjoyable evening, I was utterly card-dead, but that did not detract from the fun. I think I exited about 40th or so.
I almost exited first hand. It was Raised up UTG - the very first hand of the Comp, so I had no take on the Raiser. I re-popped it hard to 550 with 10-10, & he flatted my Raise. Uh-oh, monsta?
It came 8 high, all diamonds, & he checked to me. My Tens were both black, but I bet out, & he re-raised BIG. Easy fold, but a bit surprised to see his hand - J-9 - of Diamonds! My quizzical look prompted him to say he only Called my re-Raise Pre because he wanted to bust me. Fair enuff......
Friday. Huge fun at Luton, in the £75 Freezeout, which had many of the Sky Poker players taking part. Made loads of new friends, peeps I only "knew" Online, & had a ball. Shared a Table with The Gibb, who is a top geezer. Earlier, in Days Hotel, hooked up with a bunch of guys in the Days Inn Lounge - lJAMESl, Cottlad, Brownndog, Dylan12 etc, & we Railed the TP SNG. Once the SNG was finished, Ben, Dan, Naomi & sparce joined us, & we wandered across to the G. A really enjoyable evening, I was utterly card-dead, but that did not detract from the fun. I think I exited about 40th or so. I almost exited first hand. It was Raised up UTG - the very first hand of the Comp, so I had no take on the Raiser. I re-popped it hard to 550 with 10-10, & he flatted my Raise. Uh-oh, monsta? It came 8 high, all diamonds, & he checked to me. My Tens were both black, but I bet out, & he re-raised BIG. Easy fold, but a bit surprised to see his hand - J-9 - of Diamonds! My quizzical look prompted him to say he only Called my re-Raise Pre because he wanted to bust me. Fair enuff...... Posted by Tikay10
Exact same hand busted me out in the first level of the primo, I unlike you didn't fold my PP on the all diamond flop and the guy that called my pre-flop raise held the J 9 .... I was sick but it was the previous hands that had got to me. I got some good cards and raised, hit the flops hard, the turns then sent the boards crazy with draws and i had to lay down. This happend 3 or 4 times before i decided my queens were taking a stand and i re-popped all in......GG & Good Night lol
It was 4am before I got back to the Hotel from Friday night, but I managed to put a little photo-Blog up, with photos from Friday night, before going to bed.
Started work at the G at about 11am, got the Tourney started, then at about 4pm, headed off to Feltham to do the Show, a drive of about 45 minutes.
The Show was quite difficult, technically, but with Rich in the driver's seat, we got through OK, then drive back to Luton.
Spent some time straight away with Sharky & GB, they were understandably disappointed, but not bitter, not at all. Those TP-ers are a great bunch the way they support each other.
The Tourney had ended by then, but we played a few Tighty SNG's & stuff, & just chilled.
"The boys" - Dan, Benn, Sparcey, Lewis etc were all having a fun SNG too, prop bets galore, & made so much noise the Management complained. But it was fun noise, laughing & whooping, they were just enjoying themselves, nothing wrong with that.
Was a bit tired, so had an easy day before starting PTP at 7pm.
The Show Producer wanted me to play some 50p-£1 & £1 £2 cash after 9pm, so they could show some cash-action, so I had no alternative, though it's not my game of choice, by a long way. I also did 2 Phone-Ins to the Live Show, which Rich & Trevor were hosting.
Ran good in Primo, after sitting pretty quietly for the first hour. Managed a very fortitious treble-up with KQ v JJ v AJ, & somehow bullet-dodged my way into a minor cash. I kept getting myself into odd "must call" spots on my BB against Shorties, & lost every one.
My A-Q ended up chopping v A-J, too, but I got another lucky 2xUp late on when I shoved for 9xBB on my Button with A-6 & got looked up, to my astonishment, by the BB who called all-in with A-5!
I was due to be on Site until Midnight, (we spend some time on the Forum now, as well as the Tables, on PTP-night), but I was not feeling at all well, & signed off at about 11pm & had an early night.
Two hands shaped my destiny when I was playing 50p-£1 Cash last night.
I don't enjoy playing with other people's money, as I do as a PTP-er, so for that reason - I hate the thought of losing their money, plus it's not exactly "on message" to felt players - I play uber-conservatively as a PTP-er. The aim - my aim - as a PTP-er, over the long-term, is neither to win, or lose, any money. I have had my PTP Account almost 2 years now, it's never needed a top-up yet, & it's pretty much what I started with, plus a bit.
So an early loss of a full pull-up last night - £100 - got me off to a bad start.
I had popped it up with A-A & got looked up, quite reasonably, by a Gent with A-K.
The flop was a dangerous looking 8-9-T, rainbow. Why dangerous? Well it brings so many draws into play, but it's these draws - hopefully missed - that get us paid off.
So I bet out, & my man re-raised me! He HAD to be on the draw, if he'd flopped the str8, he'd play it slower. He could have a set, but my gut instinct said not. So I set him in, & after some dwellage, he CALLED, drawing almost dead, more likely to get a runner-runner chop than win.
He did better though, with perfect perfect J-Q giving him Broadway, & a £200 pot. No complaints from me, no crowing fom him, all good. Until another player on the Table who had not been in the hand, started trash-talking A-K man for his "shocking play", & punctuating the chat box with "what a donk", "ha ha ha" & similar nonsense.
This sort of stuff is so puerile, what gets in to people? Every poker player worth his salt should LOVE bad calls, but some guys want their cake & eat it - they like bad calls when they lose, & get all silly when they win. Bleurgh. The banter before that had been lovely, but this was like a wet blanket, & everyone stopped chatting, fearing that Moany-Woany Man would go off on one again.
Every bad-beat is offset by suckout though, & I seriously bad-beated a guy later on.
I had A-K, he had 8-7 of diamonds, & it came K-high, 2 diamonds. I wanted to let him catch up a bit, or bet out, & he did, I just smoothed it. The Turn was scary - the A of Diamonds, but I have top two now, & bet it strongly. He set me in (he now had the made flush), & I decided he never had the flush & called pretty quickly. Wrong! - he had it. And I rivered an A, for a perfect-perfect turned & rivered House, & a £220 pot.
Ugly stuff.
I ended up, including Primo, just over £100 ahead, so it all ended OK-ish I guess.
Last night won £1000 gtd bh after luckily managing to get the run of the cards heads up against a true top player mr penguin7 (unlucky mate),, won £147.15 and £71.63 in heads (8)
Also won £50 gtd scary bh for £51 inc heads
was 2nd earlier in £80 gtd
Entered 8.0pm bh tourney got kings cracked early on and out..
Entered about 4 other tourneys tonight but no cash.
About £200 up on the night,happy with that.
Have had a couple of good nights after a pretty lean spell.
Well last night was a complete write off. Made bad move after bad move, bad call after bad call, and even when i got it right i suffered bad beat after bad beat.
Elsa dog and i exited a tournament at the same time as he pushed his pocket 8 's short stacked, a guy that had just previously called an all in with 9 - 5 suited just calls and i come over the top with A K suited. The cards turn and the notoriously light caller is holding A 5. Flop comes down 5 K X, i am a happy bunny, Turn comes with the 5 for Mr light to trip up and send me and Elsa to the rail. Exited another tournament with 10 10 v's 2 2 and of course I see 2 as the first card out of the Deck and i is gone lol. I've never understood the 22 call for a significant portion of your stack... At what point does this call become profitable? Ah well considering the run i've been on i can't dwell on it too much.
Most of my night went like this apart from the cash games where i just willingly handed my money over. So now I'm going to impose a little break on myself and re-group
Out of the £640 High Point of my spin up challenge I have taken £520 off the site. So that is what I will declare as my finishing balance, The small amount now left in my account will allow me to play a few MTT's but short of a decent win in one of those i now declare my spin up over lol
I'm not a fan of Bad Beat Threads and i put the information above to even out the fact that i've spoken about my success on most of my posts so this is what they call balance lol
£0.15p Balance prior to the TKO - Span to a high point of £640 - £520 of the Queens Own Pounds in my Back Sky Rocket....................... This Poker Games Not So Bad Is It lol
Last night won £1000 gtd bh after luckily managing to get the run of the cards heads up against a true top player mr penguin7 (unlucky mate),, won £147.15 and £71.63 in heads (8) Also won £50 gtd scary bh for £51 inc heads was 2nd earlier in £80 gtd Entered 8.0pm bh tourney got kings cracked early on and out.. Entered about 4 other tourneys tonight but no cash. About £200 up on the night,happy with that. Have had a couple of good nights after a pretty lean spell. Posted by FINS
Thanks for kind words Fin, but you are wrong. You did not have run of the cards against me heads up, but outplayed me ! I was starting to get worried about all these runnerup spots, but then played the midnight 300Gtd and ended up on a great final table. Got my h/up game together and had an epic battle against Glynnebe and eventually came through. So a good night for me too.
Interesting day and night of poker, first of all I entered the 3pm tourney with mickjenn and managed to final table, got to HU and was looking forward to it because we were both deep in chips and there was plenty of play left - but unfortunatley the other guy was not interested in playing HU and instead his mode was to shove or fold - no problems, he paid for the tournament and can do whatever he likes, anyway came 2nd lol, the main hand was when I had A10 and he had AQ - best hand won - my exit hand was A8 and he called with K4 soooooted and took it down. No problems,, i really enjoyed it, had mickjenns table up as well because we both railing each other, wd mick on coming 7th!!
Entered the 8pm BH, now I HATE BH with a passion, but due to boredom i think I decided to play. Played really well and finally finished 15th - I was truely sick with my exit hand, I was in such a good position to final table at least if I had won that hand!! I have KK on the Button, it comes around to me - there is only the SB, BB and 1 limper to go through therefore 10K in the pot - I have 21K, easy decision - SHIP IT!! SB folds, BB folds and it gets to the limper who takes the timer right down before calling with Ks9s leaving themselves 9K behind!!!!!!! Anyway 2 spades on the flop, no spade on turn or river - GREAT - oh no, runner runner straight arghhhh!! Had to take several deep breaths before saying "nice hand" lol!! Thats poker and within 2 minutes i was fine again - had it not been so close to the FT it wouldn't have bothered me in the least and would have got over it in 5 seconds rather than 2 minutes.
Went then to play nl100 - lost a BI early doors, it was great to see the_gibb, chirpy chip and browndog there railing and playing 1 hand each lol!! Nice to catch up with cottlad after the weekend - and it was even nicer to get my BI back and also a little bit extra on top
A mixed night, it as my PTP sess, & I lost about £7.
I messed up the Main Event, playing A-Q too fast, too early, failing to mprove in a standard race. It was way too early to take a race, but I sensed I could get him off pre. Wrong, my bad.
The Omaha went up & down, I lost 3 full pull-ups by making badly judged Calls, & won two full pull-ups by getting outrageously lucky both times. Meh.
We had quite a party later on the Omaha Cash Tables, when we got invaded by a Super-Railing Gang, lJAMESl, GliterBabe, Gibbo, Dohhhhhh, Brownndog, Machka etc. Pretty tough to concentrate properly with that lot pinging one-liners around, but terrific fun.
lJAMESl, GliterBabe, Gibbo, Dohhhhhh, Brownndog, Machka etc. Pretty tough to concentrate properly with that lot pinging one-liners around, but terrific fun.
Pinging around one-liners, them, I find that very hard to beleive hehehehehe
A frustrating start and in a weird way a happy ending to the night.
Played in the Open - I am questioning whether to ever play this one again, always used to love this mtt but did not enjoy it at all - come on - how can someone call a raise with 72 - both my tables early on were shovefests and that I am afraid is not an enjoyable experience!! I just hope these players don't play the Double Stack!!
In my frustration I enterred the SPT semi final for Glasgow - why - i don't know!! I aint even going!! Anyway this one is a bit weird, I had Ad Kd, there is a raisee in front of me - i decide to re pop it to 680, I get a call - flop 9d 8d 3s - I shove - he calls - UGH!!!! He shows As4c???? And binks the 4 on the turn - aussie09 - you are such a luckbox lol (p.s. well done on qualifying mate)!!
Whilst all this was happening I was still in the £1000GTD, plugging along really. It was great fun whenI noticed that there were only 36 players left and TP_dantp was one of them - got his table up and we got chatting and spuring each other on, great craic - on the money bubble me and dan were 21st and 22nd out of 22!! Then dan the luckbox got a double up and left me on my own as 22/22!! I was then 21/21 and finally when down to 2BB I was 20/20 - made it - I wasn't bothered about the money really - it was just the challenge I was setting myself in order to be patient and make the money!! With 2BB left there was not much help - that is until I find J9 and double up, picked some other spots and got lucky and when I had a stack I picked my spots to steal blinds - and I made some massive laydowns pre flop as well!!!!! In the end dan finished 8th and I finished 1st - I was over the moon with this result and also I was really happy for dan because like me - he had to work hard in order to cash and work with no cards really, and he used the same tactic as me - patience WD m8!!
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Had a very enjoyable weekend in Luton, I love playing Live and it was great to play in such a great card room, very well organised at Luton. Friday night I entered the £75 Freezeout, 99 runners and made the Final Table along with 3 other sky players - Gibb, sharksbite and glitterbabe. I managed to cash in 8th for £220, unfortunatley as everyone was talking of a split play continued because nothing was agreed, I look down and see 99, and decide to push my stack in the middle to only be called by JJ, after Im out a deal is made - ah well, was happy with the money and would hae taken that at the beginning of the evening. Thought I played well and got away from A10 early on against Ben aka nutterwhen the board read AQA K - only lost 500 chips in total, decided to fold and put Ben on QQ KK, thankfully he showed his QQ and that boosted my confidence!!
It was a late night and didn't get to bed until 6am and was out of the hotel at 10am - not feeling great and having to play the Sky ME at 2pm - didn't go into this feeling great but played well early on, made a call for litreally my tournament life within the first 10 minutes when i had 7h 8h and board reading 858 9 10, made the right call thankfully and guy showed K5 - phew!! Got a few hands through without showing and was coasting well - that is until I moved tables and litreally couldn't make a hand - every play I made was counter acted by stacks who would push all in and my chips dwindlled - made a couple of wrong decisions in the end especially when I should have called a raise from SB to put me all in when I had 10 4 in the BB - would call that raise every day of the week with any two cards normally but I passed and I knew I wasn't in tune with the tournament after that and decided to get my moneyth 10 9 in the end against QQ, gg. Played some SNG's and loved it - met some really nice people through the event and also learned that Greghogg is a massive luckbox - he hit everything lol!! Managed to turn my Jh 5h into a flush against phil12uk's QQ - therefore I could go to bed happy
Well all did not end there, i did indeed cash some off but left myself enough to play. I had an odd ball weekend really. I got a 13th in the Open, i got 4th in a £500 velocity, Qualified For Primo Through A Sat so all good MTT Results - Played some cash, Won Some, Lost Some, Balanced out really
Primo was a nightmare - Getting some nice cards, making some raises, hitting boards, Boards turning flushy and staighty, having to lay down to re-raises etc. Took a stand about the 4th time this happened, I raise with Queens - Board Flops something like 4 7 10 Diamonds, i bet get raised shove with my queens to force out the flush draw or give the wrong odds and low and behold he's holding j 9 of diamonds for the flopped flush with draw to straight flush - GREAT lol
Finished the weekend with a profit so the new total goes from £550 at last post to £640
I woke up this morning to discover that she had won it.
Although I'm disappointed that I wasn't able to witness her hour of triumph, I can definitely say that it's given me more pleasure than any tournament that I have won myself.
pretty good day sunday started with a return to deepstack & won it then cashed in 1min roullette came 2nd in Omaha DYM then cashed in £120 speed and to round the day off came 6th & cashed in offordable dtw
Friday
Huge fun at Luton, in the £75 Freezeout, which had many of the Sky Poker players taking part. Made loads of new friends, peeps I only "knew" Online, & had a ball. Shared a Table with The Gibb, who is a top geezer.
Earlier, in Days Hotel, hooked up with a bunch of guys in the Days Inn Lounge - lJAMESl, Cottlad, Brownndog, Dylan12 etc, & we Railed the TP SNG. Once the SNG was finished, Ben, Dan, Naomi & sparce joined us, & we wandered across to the G.
A really enjoyable evening, I was utterly card-dead, but that did not detract from the fun. I think I exited about 40th or so.
I almost exited first hand. It was Raised up UTG - the very first hand of the Comp, so I had no take on the Raiser. I re-popped it hard to 550 with 10-10, & he flatted my Raise. Uh-oh, monsta?
It came 8 high, all diamonds, & he checked to me. My Tens were both black, but I bet out, & he re-raised BIG. Easy fold, but a bit surprised to see his hand - J-9 - of Diamonds! My quizzical look prompted him to say he only Called my re-Raise Pre because he wanted to bust me. Fair enuff......
Saturday
It was 4am before I got back to the Hotel from Friday night, but I managed to put a little photo-Blog up, with photos from Friday night, before going to bed.
Started work at the G at about 11am, got the Tourney started, then at about 4pm, headed off to Feltham to do the Show, a drive of about 45 minutes.
The Show was quite difficult, technically, but with Rich in the driver's seat, we got through OK, then drive back to Luton.
Spent some time straight away with Sharky & GB, they were understandably disappointed, but not bitter, not at all. Those TP-ers are a great bunch the way they support each other.
The Tourney had ended by then, but we played a few Tighty SNG's & stuff, & just chilled.
"The boys" - Dan, Benn, Sparcey, Lewis etc were all having a fun SNG too, prop bets galore, & made so much noise the Management complained. But it was fun noise, laughing & whooping, they were just enjoying themselves, nothing wrong with that.
Great never-to-be-forgotten memories.
Sunday
Was a bit tired, so had an easy day before starting PTP at 7pm.
The Show Producer wanted me to play some 50p-£1 & £1 £2 cash after 9pm, so they could show some cash-action, so I had no alternative, though it's not my game of choice, by a long way. I also did 2 Phone-Ins to the Live Show, which Rich & Trevor were hosting.
Ran good in Primo, after sitting pretty quietly for the first hour. Managed a very fortitious treble-up with KQ v JJ v AJ, & somehow bullet-dodged my way into a minor cash. I kept getting myself into odd "must call" spots on my BB against Shorties, & lost every one.
My A-Q ended up chopping v A-J, too, but I got another lucky 2xUp late on when I shoved for 9xBB on my Button with A-6 & got looked up, to my astonishment, by the BB who called all-in with A-5!
I was due to be on Site until Midnight, (we spend some time on the Forum now, as well as the Tables, on PTP-night), but I was not feeling at all well, & signed off at about 11pm & had an early night.
Two hands shaped my destiny when I was playing 50p-£1 Cash last night.
I don't enjoy playing with other people's money, as I do as a PTP-er, so for that reason - I hate the thought of losing their money, plus it's not exactly "on message" to felt players - I play uber-conservatively as a PTP-er. The aim - my aim - as a PTP-er, over the long-term, is neither to win, or lose, any money. I have had my PTP Account almost 2 years now, it's never needed a top-up yet, & it's pretty much what I started with, plus a bit.
So an early loss of a full pull-up last night - £100 - got me off to a bad start.
I had popped it up with A-A & got looked up, quite reasonably, by a Gent with A-K.
The flop was a dangerous looking 8-9-T, rainbow. Why dangerous? Well it brings so many draws into play, but it's these draws - hopefully missed - that get us paid off.
So I bet out, & my man re-raised me! He HAD to be on the draw, if he'd flopped the str8, he'd play it slower. He could have a set, but my gut instinct said not. So I set him in, & after some dwellage, he CALLED, drawing almost dead, more likely to get a runner-runner chop than win.
He did better though, with perfect perfect J-Q giving him Broadway, & a £200 pot. No complaints from me, no crowing fom him, all good. Until another player on the Table who had not been in the hand, started trash-talking A-K man for his "shocking play", & punctuating the chat box with "what a donk", "ha ha ha" & similar nonsense.
This sort of stuff is so puerile, what gets in to people? Every poker player worth his salt should LOVE bad calls, but some guys want their cake & eat it - they like bad calls when they lose, & get all silly when they win. Bleurgh. The banter before that had been lovely, but this was like a wet blanket, & everyone stopped chatting, fearing that Moany-Woany Man would go off on one again.
Every bad-beat is offset by suckout though, & I seriously bad-beated a guy later on.
I had A-K, he had 8-7 of diamonds, & it came K-high, 2 diamonds. I wanted to let him catch up a bit, or bet out, & he did, I just smoothed it. The Turn was scary - the A of Diamonds, but I have top two now, & bet it strongly. He set me in (he now had the made flush), & I decided he never had the flush & called pretty quickly. Wrong! - he had it. And I rivered an A, for a perfect-perfect turned & rivered House, & a £220 pot.
Ugly stuff.
I ended up, including Primo, just over £100 ahead, so it all ended OK-ish I guess.
Well last night was a complete write off. Made bad move after bad move, bad call after bad call, and even when i got it right i suffered bad beat after bad beat.
Elsa dog and i exited a tournament at the same time as he pushed his pocket 8 's short stacked, a guy that had just previously called an all in with 9 - 5 suited just calls and i come over the top with A K suited. The cards turn and the notoriously light caller is holding A 5. Flop comes down 5 K X, i am a happy bunny, Turn comes with the 5 for Mr light to trip up and send me and Elsa to the rail. Exited another tournament with 10 10 v's 2 2 and of course I see 2 as the first card out of the Deck and i is gone lol. I've never understood the 22 call for a significant portion of your stack... At what point does this call become profitable? Ah well considering the run i've been on i can't dwell on it too much.
Most of my night went like this apart from the cash games where i just willingly handed my money over. So now I'm going to impose a little break on myself and re-group
Out of the £640 High Point of my spin up challenge I have taken £520 off the site. So that is what I will declare as my finishing balance, The small amount now left in my account will allow me to play a few MTT's but short of a decent win in one of those i now declare my spin up over lol
I'm not a fan of Bad Beat Threads and i put the information above to even out the fact that i've spoken about my success on most of my posts so this is what they call balance lol
£0.15p Balance prior to the TKO - Span to a high point of £640 - £520 of the Queens Own Pounds in my Back Sky Rocket....................... This Poker Games Not So Bad Is It lol
Entered the 8pm BH, now I HATE BH with a passion, but due to boredom i think I decided to play. Played really well and finally finished 15th - I was truely sick with my exit hand, I was in such a good position to final table at least if I had won that hand!! I have KK on the Button, it comes around to me - there is only the SB, BB and 1 limper to go through therefore 10K in the pot - I have 21K, easy decision - SHIP IT!! SB folds, BB folds and it gets to the limper who takes the timer right down before calling with Ks9s leaving themselves 9K behind!!!!!!! Anyway 2 spades on the flop, no spade on turn or river - GREAT - oh no, runner runner straight arghhhh!! Had to take several deep breaths before saying "nice hand" lol!! Thats poker and within 2 minutes i was fine again - had it not been so close to the FT it wouldn't have bothered me in the least and would have got over it in 5 seconds rather than 2 minutes.
Went then to play nl100 - lost a BI early doors, it was great to see the_gibb, chirpy chip and browndog there railing and playing 1 hand each lol!! Nice to catch up with cottlad after the weekend - and it was even nicer to get my BI back and also a little bit extra on top
A mixed night, it as my PTP sess, & I lost about £7.
I messed up the Main Event, playing A-Q too fast, too early, failing to mprove in a standard race. It was way too early to take a race, but I sensed I could get him off pre. Wrong, my bad.
The Omaha went up & down, I lost 3 full pull-ups by making badly judged Calls, & won two full pull-ups by getting outrageously lucky both times. Meh.
We had quite a party later on the Omaha Cash Tables, when we got invaded by a Super-Railing Gang, lJAMESl, GliterBabe, Gibbo, Dohhhhhh, Brownndog, Machka etc. Pretty tough to concentrate properly with that lot pinging one-liners around, but terrific fun.
Pinging around one-liners, them, I find that very hard to beleive hehehehehe
Played in the Open - I am questioning whether to ever play this one again, always used to love this mtt but did not enjoy it at all - come on - how can someone call a raise with 72 - both my tables early on were shovefests and that I am afraid is not an enjoyable experience!! I just hope these players don't play the Double Stack!!
In my frustration I enterred the SPT semi final for Glasgow - why - i don't know!! I aint even going!! Anyway this one is a bit weird, I had Ad Kd, there is a raisee in front of me - i decide to re pop it to 680, I get a call - flop 9d 8d 3s - I shove - he calls - UGH!!!! He shows As4c???? And binks the 4 on the turn - aussie09 - you are such a luckbox lol (p.s. well done on qualifying mate)!!
Whilst all this was happening I was still in the £1000GTD, plugging along really. It was great fun when I noticed that there were only 36 players left and TP_dantp was one of them - got his table up and we got chatting and spuring each other on, great craic - on the money bubble me and dan were 21st and 22nd out of 22!! Then dan the luckbox got a double up and left me on my own as 22/22!! I was then 21/21 and finally when down to 2BB I was 20/20 - made it - I wasn't bothered about the money really - it was just the challenge I was setting myself in order to be patient and make the money!! With 2BB left there was not much help - that is until I find J9 and double up, picked some other spots and got lucky and when I had a stack I picked my spots to steal blinds - and I made some massive laydowns pre flop as well!!!!! In the end dan finished 8th and I finished 1st - I was over the moon with this result and also I was really happy for dan because like me - he had to work hard in order to cash and work with no cards really, and he used the same tactic as me - patience