Its tough trying to make a living at this game playing mainly tournys and STT. Last night was fairly typical for me. Played in £22 deepie,gotta support it coz its in danger! Only 10 runners but plodded away for a couple of hours to arrive at FT with about my starting stack. Realising I had to win it to make any worthwhile profit made a speculative (no stupid!) move and crashed...5th place is my money back. Only good news was I got through a £50 DYM comfortably while it was going on so I was in front. Played in open, but every time I built a decent stack I had a setback.Got to about 100 left towards bottom of field but with a workable stack. Time for gear change ! Two good hands and I will be up there! Unfortunately it was one bad hand and out. Managed to take down a £30 DYM while it was going though, so still heading in right direction. Dont like BHs much but went in £850 and ran well taking a few heads including a double of shorties with 9s. Arrived at final table short but fighting and laddered up to 4th, then my QQ shove was called and beat by AQ. So ended day £140 up. Not bad but not good enough if Im not working. If I could do it every night it would be okay but its not as easy as it used to be. Went to bed thinking should I buy some decent kit to seriously multitable, sharpen up my cash game and join the grinders ! Logged on this afternoon to read some forum comments, and spotted what looked a soft £30 DYM.Played tight as usual but when down to 4 players,button shoved with AK and found JJ. I hate starting any day with a loss ! ! No decent daytime tournys so thought I would have a look at cash tables. No easy 50nl about, some good names like Sam and Boonicon on every table with decent stacks. Played two tables for about half an hour and managed to isolate a couple of less known shortstacks to get my £30 back while avoiding the big boys. So its Primo for me tonight,gl guys. Just had phone call offering a few days work in Germany next Wednesday,think a break from the game will do me good.
i had an ok night i played in the £7 qualifyer into the primo and came 5th to win my seat and then managed to finish in 52nd to win around £70 a bit gutting as i should of gone deeper but i got to around 10 bb and was me and wot i thought was a tight player left so i shoved wiv a6 which is not something id norm do but that was the best id seen in awhile anyway he called with 67 and ill let u guess wot came on the turn but heyho thats poker
had good time in primo last,i gualified tru £1.50 sat and finished in 6th place winning £620 my best win on skypoker well chuffed and just like to say well done to evryone who cashed
Had a wonderful day at DTD. Slept for the first 8 Levels, then mangled a move as bad as it was possible to mangle it. Why did I give him a free card? I'd re-raised him Pre with K-4, but he was never passing his Tens on a Q-J-9 flop, whoops.
Then got moved to a Table with an obnoxious drunken sort - Jakally described him as AGAD.....
Grinded away, squeezed for England, & as I have such a nitty image, nobody ever called me.
188 runners, 18 got paid, but I busted 19th, hey-ho. I was thinking of waiting another orbit, by when the Bubble may have burst, but I decided to gamble, & in went my 2xBB. Reckless, or what?
A great day, played from 3pm until 1am, then had a meeting with Nick, who is Rob Yong's partner, to discuss some business.
Next Live Poker - Luton, next Sunday. All are welcome!
Tonight has been a total nightmare. Played 3 MTTs for combined playing time of about 30 minutes. I wont go through the bad beats and suck outs cos I know they happen to everyone but losing with KK three times gives a flavour (I folded one of them after the flopped A and massive reraise).
Exited VERY early in the Hold Em, trying to mop up chips, but I got mopped up myself.
Not much better in the Omaha, when I flopped a whopping draw & bet it hard, but my man - I think his name was Mr Limpet - refused to let go, so an embarrassing double early exit.
Spent the next hour or so Railing the Tables, huge fun, the TKO is a bit special. And we won......
Then Railed the TP-ers, before switching to "tikay1" & sitting down for a bit of relaxing Omaha cash before bed.
A Gentleman who I had not seen before arrived, with a most eccentric game. He clearly knew what he was doing, but was uber aggro & a super-Lag. He just kept his foot hard to the floor & bet everything, every street. So, how to catch him? Patience was the key, after Passing again & again, I managed to ramp my £50 into £150. That'll do for now.
Just as I was about to leave, one of our regular, & most successful Omaha players arrived, & HE is ultra aggro, too. So I stayed to watch the fireworks.
Mr Newbie hit EVERYTHING & it was a bloodbath. I left 20 minutes later, when Mr Newbie had turned his last Pull-Up (he'd had three) into over £400!
Had a night away from online and played a live tournament in local casino, nice to go home from home again after playing so much online!! I love playing online and I am glad that I signed up to sky poker, for obvious reasons lol!! But I am glad when I have a break and go and play live tourney's now and again - I love the challenge and a big strength of my game is instinct and I love chatting at tables with the others players!! Therefore it was a relief to play tonight and an even bigger relief to win the tourney and win £1.5k so I am over the moon, but back to the Omaha tables next week i think - would love to improve my game further in that discipline - therefore merenovice and tikay - I can see you licking your lips at the prospect of denting my bankroll again lol!!
Nice cash dylan, on a lesser scale i won a 212 runner £2 BH and won about £79 with bounties and was well chuffed.Onwards and upwards.... Be Lucky(haven't checked my euro lottery ticket yet,fingers crossed!)
Had a night away from online and played a live tournament in local casino, nice to go home from home again after playing so much online!! I love playing online and I am glad that I signed up to sky poker, for obvious reasons lol!! But I am glad when I have a break and go and play live tourney's now and again - I love the challenge and a big strength of my game is instinct and I love chatting at tables with the others players!! Therefore it was a relief to play tonight and an even bigger relief to win the tourney and win £1.5k so I am over the moon, but back to the Omaha tables next week i think - would love to improve my game further in that discipline - therefore merenovice and tikay - I can see you licking your lips at the prospect of denting my bankroll again lol!! Posted by dylan12
Nice binkage!
As to the virtues of Live Poker, you & me too - it's wonderful. Where was it? - Grosvenor Cardiff, Aspers Swansea?
I had a pleasant evening on the Omaha Cash Tables, & in the 8pm Main, nothing spectacular, lost about £8 I think. Not bad for 4 houirs entertainment.
No poker for me tonight, as I'm doing the two Live Shows, & tomorrow, I'm probably going to play at Luton, in their £100 Freezeout jobbie, which is a nice & relaxing Sunday evening Comp.
Well I had a pretty poor start to the evening, but ended up in profit.
Firstly I entered the 7pm orfordable and got knocked out in the second hour due to my very bad play, secondly I entered the 8pm double stack, well that went down like a lead balloon, AK third hand in, flop comes A9K, I dumped in a big raise only to be re-raised, so I shoved all-in, villain shows KQ, J on the turn, 10 on the river, villain wins straight to the ace.
Thirdly I entered the 8.18 deepy which is one of my favourites, but sadly I was ousted in the second hour. Well that just left the £1500 Bounty Hunter which I had satellited into earlier. I had taken this one down just over a week ago so I was full of confidence. Not much happened in the first hour but I was still in (which is always a good thing) second hour after a slow start, I went on a run of pocket Pairs, seamed I was getting one every other hand so I put them to good use. Finally after a long hard slog and a little bit of luck I was on the final table. I finished Fourth - Result below
I finished about evens last night, played a bit of omaha 2p/4p and played terrible to be honest, lost first bi pretty quickly and most of my 2nd bi as well when I elft the table had got upto about £6 so onlylost a couple of quid.
Then went onto to play holdem 5p/10p table brought £20 to the table lost most of that pretty quick had 78 i think on a a78 flop the guy called with aj trun j river a. I decided to quit the cash, I was playing bad and things just wanst going my way.
So i looked at the stt's and joined a £22 dym. I knocked someone out pretty quickly, to nicely double up, and then knocked the 2nd person out so had a big chip lead and was sitting comftable. The shorty was going all in everyhand and I ended up doubling him up twice but managed to get 2nd in the end and to win the money back I lost at cash.
Called it a night after that i'd only have gone to hgiher stakes and the way i was playing id have lost all my money.
In a skittles tournament tongiht at my local gonig pub at 6, I cant play when ive had a drink so if you see me online tonight do me a favour and tell me to go to bed (yeah right you'll take me for everytihng i got lol).
At last back to proper winning ways after a bad ish day on the cash tables luck still not great but hey started of really well in primo until..... qq utg raised 3 x bb the sb the shoves leaving me with very little so in it goes he shows A 8 O/S LOL sure enough regulation ace flopped and that was that so off to £1000BH chance my arm well long and short it was good and i WON it yes gg me lol 274 quid later happy bunny plus a 55 dym to boot a good day all in all
At last back to proper winning ways after a bad ish day on the cash tables luck still not great but hey started of really well in primo until..... qq utg raised 3 x bb the sb the shoves leaving me with very little so in it goes he shows A 8 O/S LOL sure enough regulation ace flopped and that was that so off to £1000BH chance my arm well long and short it was good and i WON it yes gg me lol 274 quid later happy bunny plus a 55 dym to boot a good day all in all Posted by mabsue
Nice 1 mabsue. I played velocity last night (not a game i normally play) and with lots and lots of luck managed to win it £278. Does feel good when you have been running bad for a while
In Response to Re: How was it for you, last night? : Nice 1 mabsue. I played velocity last night (not a game i normally play) and with lots and lots of luck managed to win it £278. Does feel good when you have been running bad for a while Posted by MADMOO
Had a good saturday.....got 4th outta 82 in the soccer sat MTT for £41.00. I also got 37th (my highest finish to date in the open so far) for £34.05.
Just got brought back down to earth though in tonight's 5.5k B/H. My KK busted by 66!!! finishing 166th. You play solid poker for over an hour then the poker gods fall out with you big time!!
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Managed to take down a £30 DYM while it was going though, so still heading in right direction.
Dont like BHs much but went in £850 and ran well taking a few heads including a double of shorties with 9s.
Arrived at final table short but fighting and laddered up to 4th, then my QQ shove was called and beat by AQ.
So ended day £140 up. Not bad but not good enough if Im not working. If I could do it every night it would be okay but its not as easy as it used to be.
Went to bed thinking should I buy some decent kit to seriously multitable, sharpen up my cash game and join the grinders !
Logged on this afternoon to read some forum comments, and spotted what looked a soft £30 DYM.Played tight as usual but when down to 4 players,button shoved with AK and found JJ. I hate starting any day with a loss ! !
No decent daytime tournys so thought I would have a look at cash tables. No easy 50nl about, some good names like Sam and Boonicon on every table with decent stacks. Played two tables for about half an hour and managed to isolate a couple of less known shortstacks to get my £30 back while avoiding the big boys.
So its Primo for me tonight,gl guys. Just had phone call offering a few days work in Germany next Wednesday,think a break from the game will do me good.
Nice result Kenny!
Had a wonderful day at DTD. Slept for the first 8 Levels, then mangled a move as bad as it was possible to mangle it. Why did I give him a free card? I'd re-raised him Pre with K-4, but he was never passing his Tens on a Q-J-9 flop, whoops.
Then got moved to a Table with an obnoxious drunken sort - Jakally described him as AGAD.....
Grinded away, squeezed for England, & as I have such a nitty image, nobody ever called me.
188 runners, 18 got paid, but I busted 19th, hey-ho. I was thinking of waiting another orbit, by when the Bubble may have burst, but I decided to gamble, & in went my 2xBB. Reckless, or what?
A great day, played from 3pm until 1am, then had a meeting with Nick, who is Rob Yong's partner, to discuss some business.
Next Live Poker - Luton, next Sunday. All are welcome!
Tuesday.
Exited VERY early in the Hold Em, trying to mop up chips, but I got mopped up myself.
Not much better in the Omaha, when I flopped a whopping draw & bet it hard, but my man - I think his name was Mr Limpet - refused to let go, so an embarrassing double early exit.
Spent the next hour or so Railing the Tables, huge fun, the TKO is a bit special. And we won......
Then Railed the TP-ers, before switching to "tikay1" & sitting down for a bit of relaxing Omaha cash before bed.
A Gentleman who I had not seen before arrived, with a most eccentric game. He clearly knew what he was doing, but was uber aggro & a super-Lag. He just kept his foot hard to the floor & bet everything, every street. So, how to catch him? Patience was the key, after Passing again & again, I managed to ramp my £50 into £150. That'll do for now.
Just as I was about to leave, one of our regular, & most successful Omaha players arrived, & HE is ultra aggro, too. So I stayed to watch the fireworks.
Mr Newbie hit EVERYTHING & it was a bloodbath. I left 20 minutes later, when Mr Newbie had turned his last Pull-Up (he'd had three) into over £400!
Welcome aboard, Sir!
As to the virtues of Live Poker, you & me too - it's wonderful. Where was it? - Grosvenor Cardiff, Aspers Swansea?
I had a pleasant evening on the Omaha Cash Tables, & in the 8pm Main, nothing spectacular, lost about £8 I think. Not bad for 4 houirs entertainment.
No poker for me tonight, as I'm doing the two Live Shows, & tomorrow, I'm probably going to play at Luton, in their £100 Freezeout jobbie, which is a nice & relaxing Sunday evening Comp.
See you again on Monday.
Firstly I entered the 7pm orfordable and got knocked out in the second hour due to my very bad play, secondly I entered the 8pm double stack, well that went down like a lead balloon, AK third hand in, flop comes A9K, I dumped in a big raise only to be re-raised, so I shoved all-in, villain shows KQ, J on the turn, 10 on the river, villain wins straight to the ace.
Thirdly I entered the 8.18 deepy which is one of my favourites, but sadly I was ousted in the second hour. Well that just left the £1500 Bounty Hunter which I had satellited into earlier. I had taken this one down just over a week ago so I was full of confidence. Not much happened in the first hour but I was still in (which is always a good thing) second hour after a slow start, I went on a run of pocket Pairs, seamed I was getting one every other hand so I put them to good use. Finally after a long hard slog and a little bit of luck I was on the final table. I finished Fourth - Result below
Then went onto to play holdem 5p/10p table brought £20 to the table lost most of that pretty quick had 78 i think on a a78 flop the guy called with aj trun j river a. I decided to quit the cash, I was playing bad and things just wanst going my way.
So i looked at the stt's and joined a £22 dym. I knocked someone out pretty quickly, to nicely double up, and then knocked the 2nd person out so had a big chip lead and was sitting comftable. The shorty was going all in everyhand and I ended up doubling him up twice but managed to get 2nd in the end and to win the money back I lost at cash.
Called it a night after that i'd only have gone to hgiher stakes and the way i was playing id have lost all my money.
In a skittles tournament tongiht at my local gonig pub at 6, I cant play when ive had a drink so if you see me online tonight do me a favour and tell me to go to bed (yeah right you'll take me for everytihng i got lol).
Gareth
At last back to proper winning ways after a bad ish day on the cash tables luck still not great but hey started of really well in primo until..... qq utg raised 3 x bb the sb the shoves leaving me with very little so in it goes he shows A 8 O/S LOL sure enough regulation ace flopped and that was that so off to £1000BH chance my arm well long and short it was good and i WON it yes gg me lol 274 quid later happy bunny plus a 55 dym to boot a good day all in all
Had a good saturday.....got 4th outta 82 in the soccer sat MTT for £41.00.
I also got 37th (my highest finish to date in the open so far) for £34.05.
Just got brought back down to earth though in tonight's 5.5k B/H. My KK busted by 66!!! finishing 166th. You play solid poker for over an hour then the poker gods fall out with you big time!!