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My quest to turn £51 into £1,051 on Sky Poker____ **** latest balance COMPLETED ****

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  • Dudeskin8Dudeskin8 Member Posts: 6,228
    edited April 2012
    Yeah I've been playing these low-BI BH's for a little while now and the stack off ranges have to be so low, even like this example where you only have TPTK facing a bet and a raise which in normal circumstances (against good players) means you're probably dead or facing some massive combo draw where it's like 52-48 for the other guy, here it's usually always worse. 

    It sucks when you lose but getting your money in here as an 85% fave (or similar) every time means you print chips longterm and personally I find that a lot better than playing rocks who need 2pair+ to stack off lol. 


  • GaryQQQGaryQQQ Member Posts: 6,804
    edited April 2012
    Day 98 – April 15th 2012

    Closing balance £307.53

    No joy for me at the tables again. There were a lot of awful weekend players in the tournaments playing bingo poker again today but unfortunately I was unable to string together enough 80/20 and 70/30 holds to negotiate the minefields. Building a good stack only to lose it to a sick outdraw was the order of the day.

    Pocket KK continues to be bar far the unluckiest of hole cards for me, they never ever seem to win at showdown. If I’d taken a strategy of always folding KK preflop recently my results would have been much better. The hand below is taken from the bubble of a Bounty Hunter today, at the time there were 9 entrants left with 8 to be paid.

    April poker points 326

    6180956 15-Apr-12 17:02 NL Holdem £216/48-£1.366183867 15-Apr-12 16:27 NL Holdem £12/2-£1.056183746 15-Apr-12 16:21 NL Holdem £11/2£0.956178163 15-Apr-12 16:14 PL Omaha £0344/530£06180225 15-Apr-12 15:00 NL Holdem £29/59-£0.386180866 15-Apr-12 13:44 NL Holdem £510/40-£5.756180224 15-Apr-12 13:21 NL Holdem £331/63-£3.306182892 15-Apr-12 12:42 NL Holdem £12/2-£1.056182314 15-Apr-12 12:34 NL Holdem (Sat) £2.205/15-£2.406179896 15-Apr-12 12:16 NL Holdem £322/51-£1.046182313 15-Apr-12 12:08 NL Holdem (Sat) £2.2012/20-£2.40          

    MTT bubble hand;

    PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalanceP83 Small blind  200.00 200.00 15972.50 pigglywink Big blind  400.00 600.00 20537.50  Your hole cards K K    bendini All-in  17290.00 17890.00 0.00 GaryQQQ All-in  10865.00 28755.00 0.00 P83 Fold     pigglywink Fold     bendini Unmatched bet  6425.00 22330.00 6425.00 bendini Show 4 4    GaryQQQ Show K K    Flop  10 10 2    Turn  4    River  4    bendini Win Four 4s 22330.00  28755.00



    I threw in the towel after this hand in a HU match;

    PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalance
    GaryQQQ Small blind  10.00 10.00 530.00
    chubbchase Big blind  20.00 30.00 1440.00
     Your hole cards
    • A
    • 6
       
    GaryQQQ Raise  30.00 60.00 500.00
    chubbchase Call  20.00 80.00 1420.00
    Flop
      
    • 8
    • 9
    • 8
       
    chubbchase Bet  80.00 160.00 1340.00
    GaryQQQ Call  80.00 240.00 420.00
    Turn
      
    • A
       
    chubbchase Bet  240.00 480.00 1100.00
    GaryQQQ All-in  420.00 900.00 0.00
    chubbchase Call  180.00 1080.00 920.00
    GaryQQQ Show
    • A
    • 6
       
    chubbchase Show
    • 3
    • 9
       
    River
      
    • 9
       
    chubbchase Win Full House, 9s and 8s 1080.00  2000.00
  • Dudeskin8Dudeskin8 Member Posts: 6,228
    edited April 2012
    LOL the ol' 43bb open shove UTG w/44, defo abusing that bubble ;)
  • GaryQQQGaryQQQ Member Posts: 6,804
    edited April 2012
    Day 99 – April 16th 2012

    Closing balance £333.64

    As usual my busy Monday schedule did leave much time for poker. I did manage a fun bink in a £2.30 Bounty Hunter despite giving much of the tournament minimal attention while I doing my weekly business paperwork. At the hour break I was 22nd/22 left from 42 starters. With only 12BB left I wouldn’t dream of raise/folding so I was looking for a good shove spot happy to take my chances and either double or bust. When I picked up 66 UTG I took my chance and open jammed, when the SB and BB both called and my chances looked grim, but I binked a 6 on the flop to make a set and treble up against their AT and AJ. Very next hand I jammed my stack over 3 limpers with TT and took out a short stack, in the space of 2 hands I’d suddenly jumped from 22nd to 4th.

    When we reached the final table I soon moved into the chip lead, with 5 spots paid and a couple of short stacks at the table playing very tight it was a perfect bubble situation for me to bully my opponents, I made the most of the opportunity and my stack grew quite rapidly. Once we got down to 4-handed I had 2/3rds of the chips in play and could attack the shorties at will, in the space of just 8 hands I took out my 3 remaining opponents for the win. There was a very noticeable difference between this tournament and those I played at the weekend; today there was a much higher proportion of competent regulars in the field playing proper poker in and far fewer maniacs open shoving or calling a shove with any pair or any ace regardless of stack sizes.

    While I’m delighted to win any tournament I have to note that all my victories during this quest so far have been at micro-stakes, mainly £2.30 or £1.10. I’m now keen to win a tournament with a buy-in of £5.00+ and get my balance heading north at a faster rate.
     

    April poker points 332

    Recent Results Show Last 50 Results (1 Search)GameIDDate (UTC+0100)TypeEntryFeePositionProfit6185067 16-Apr-12 14:22 NL Holdem £21/42£27.566187131 16-Apr-12 12:36 NL Holdem (Sat) £2.2013/20-£2.406186624 16-Apr-12 02:24 NL Holdem  £11/2£0.95
  • GaryQQQGaryQQQ Member Posts: 6,804
    edited April 2012
    Day 100 – April 17th 2012

    Closing balance £326.46

    My first MTT today was a £3.30 Bounty Hunter, I recovered from a mid-stages short stack to make the bubble places but was unable to recover from a TT<QQ aipf cooler that crippled my stack and soon busted out on the final table bubble.

    In a lunchtime £5.75 Bounty Hunter I started well with an early double (flopped set>flopped TPTK), I then ran just about as badly as possible for the rest of the first hour; 3 times I had opponents all-in and well behind only to see them to hit miracle cards and win from behind. In one of those my QQ was cracked by AJ on the river with all the chips in the middle to deprive me of 2 head prizes and the tournament chip lead. As the second hour started it was my turn to get lucky with AQ>KK aipf to bust a fellow short stack (revenge, it was the AJ>QQ guy!) and finally take a head prize. I started to chip up and was moving up the field nicely until I took a sick beat with 88<66 aipf in a blind vs blind hand to bust just before the bubble. A hold there would have put me 3rd in chips with 13 remaining, a case of ‘what might have been’. One of these days I’ll run well and win a £5.75 game. The fields are no tougher than those at the £2.30 or £3.30 buy-ins, all I need is for my hands to hold up with a high enough frequency and I’ll get there. It’ll come.
     
    Another £5.75 Bounty Hunter saw me make an early exit when I found myself short and lost an AK<66 flip. Also I couldn’t find any joy in another couple of micros stakes MTTs. A few fun HU games to end the day returned a small profit.

    April poker points 363

    GameIDDate (UTC+0100)TypeEntryFeePositionProfit6190973 17-Apr-12 19:07 NL Holdem £234/80-£2.306190748 17-Apr-12 17:53 NL Holdem £534/41-£5.756193531 17-Apr-12 17:45 NL Holdem £11/2£0.956193518 17-Apr-12 17:37 NL Holdem £11/2£0.956190872 17-Apr-12 16:42 NL Holdem £217/35-£2.206189951 17-Apr-12 16:18 NL Holdem £513/75-£0.956193064 17-Apr-12 16:00 NL Holdem £11/2£0.956192916 17-Apr-12 15:30 NL Holdem £11/2£0.956192814 17-Apr-12 15:26 NL Holdem £32/2-£3.156192667 17-Apr-12 14:40 NL Holdem £11/2£0.956189629 17-Apr-12 13:12 NL Holdem £37/51£2.42
  • scotty77scotty77 Member Posts: 4,970
    edited April 2012
    nice going Gary last time I checked this thread you seemed to be hovering on like 150 or so!

    I think I predicted mid june?  

    Ship it!
  • rancidrancid Member Posts: 5,947
    edited April 2012
    Good going, why not try the mini primo and £250 GTD at 9pm
    Nice ones for £5
  • GaryQQQGaryQQQ Member Posts: 6,804
    edited April 2012
    In Response to Re: My quest to turn £51 into £1,051 on Sky Poker____ **** latest balance £326.46 ****:
    Good going, why not try the mini primo and £250 GTD at 9pm Nice ones for £5
    Posted by rancid
    Thanks, they sound great, however I'm unable play in the evening due to my work shifts.
  • GaryQQQGaryQQQ Member Posts: 6,804
    edited April 2012
    In Response to Re: My quest to turn £51 into £1,051 on Sky Poker____ **** latest balance £326.46 ****:
    nice going Gary last time I checked this thread you seemed to be hovering on like 150 or so! I think I predicted mid june?   Ship it!
    Posted by scotty77
    Thank-you. I got stuck on a plateau at around £130 for around 5 weeks. I'm hoping the current £320ish plateau doesn't last quite so long!
  • rancidrancid Member Posts: 5,947
    edited April 2012
    In Response to Re: My quest to turn £51 into £1,051 on Sky Poker____ **** latest balance £326.46 ****:
    In Response to Re: My quest to turn £51 into £1,051 on Sky Poker____ **** latest balance £326.46 **** : Thanks, they sound great, however I'm unable play in the evening due to my work shifts.
    Posted by GaryQQQ
    O right, nevermind - there are £250 GTD during the day (2pmish) but don't know how soft they are - 9pm one is very soft :)
  • GaryQQQGaryQQQ Member Posts: 6,804
    edited April 2012
    Day 101 – April 18th 2012

    Closing balance £310.65

    I couldn’t get anything going in MTTs today and failed to cash in everything. I’m happy with how I played, it was just one of those days where the cards weren’t falling my way and I couldn’t win the flips. There was another promising run in a £5.75 game, though just like yesterday I was destined to crash n’ burn just short of the bubble prizes. As a consolation my 3 bounties returned a small profit on the buy-in. I played a number of STTs through the day for a small gain.

    My poker points are mounting up nicely at the moment and I’m hoping to make 700 by the end of the month to qualify for the 25% bonus I was offered by e-mail. 
     

    April poker points 411

    GameIDDate (UTC+0100)TypeEntryFeePositionProfit6194988 18-Apr-12 16:23 NL Holdem £515/76£1.746198010 18-Apr-12 16:09 NL Holdem £31/2£2.856192213 18-Apr-12 14:50 NL Holdem £0289/296£06195792 18-Apr-12 14:46 NL Holdem £520/27-£5.756194678 18-Apr-12 14:03 NL Holdem £326/65-£3.306196929 18-Apr-12 13:37 NL Holdem (Sat) £2.2011/21-£2.406197529 18-Apr-12 13:33 NL Holdem £32/2-£3.156197464 18-Apr-12 13:24 NL Holdem £12/2-£1.056194293 18-Apr-12 13:04 NL Holdem £367/76-£3.306197417 18-Apr-12 13:00 NL Holdem £11/2£0.956194581 18-Apr-12 12:32 NL Holdem £530/37-£5.756197257 18-Apr-12 11:53 NL Holdem £11/2£0.956197078 18-Apr-12 10:57 NL Holdem £12/2-£1.056197009 18-Apr-12 10:28 NL Holdem £11/2£0.956197002 18-Apr-12 10:19 NL Holdem £11/2£0.956196941 18-Apr-12 10:11 NL Holdem £11/2£0.956196827 18-Apr-12 10:08 NL Holdem £22/2-£2.106196462 18-Apr-12 02:20 NL Holdem  £11/2£0.95
  • GaryQQQGaryQQQ Member Posts: 6,804
    edited April 2012
    Day 102 – April 19th 2012

    Closing balance £304.55

    Highlight of my session today was getting second in the inaugural HU Shuffle Freeroll. This test tournament was great fun and I’m hoping Sky use the format again in the future. I came within an inch of winning with 2 left; if my AKs could have held against K9s aipf victory would have been mine.
     
    I won a seat into the 2-00pm £500 gtd Bounty Hunter via a satellite but got no joy whatsoever. My starting table was very soft with serial limpers and calling stations in attendance, unfortunately I couldn’t capitalise as I didn’t pick up any playable cards and couldn’t hit a single flop for a full 45 minutes. Getting short I open jammed the best hole cards I was dealt in the entire tournament into an even shorter stack on the BB, but I couldn’t win the flip with my 77<AQ. Very next hand I was out after jamming AT into AJ. I’m keen to get to the point where I’m rolled to buy into this tournament directly, my BRM rules require a balance of £440 so it’s quite a way off at the moment.

    I’m still running badly in those crucial MTT flips; I bubbled a £5.50 freezeout after 3-bet jamming my QQ and failing to hold against AKo. Another promising run in a £5.75 Bounty Hunter was wrecked when I 4-bet shoved my 66 into KK in the second hour. On reflection it was a very poor play on my part, I should have respected my opponents 3-bet and folded, he hadn’t been seen to 3-bet light and my 66 was always going to be well behind his range.

    It’s beginning to look like I’ve reached another plateau; I’ve been hovering in the £300 to £330 range for a fortnight now. I’m hoping this one won’t last as long as my five week plateau at the £100 mark. Despite disappointing results over the last fortnight I’m still fully confident in my game, I can’t keep losing all the big flips and being out drawn in crucial spots forever. As long as I stick to my A game the results will follow.

    April poker points 442

    6200910 19-Apr-12 18:24 NL Holdem £520/60-£5.756203671 19-Apr-12 17:44 NL Holdem £11/2£0.956203620 19-Apr-12 17:28 NL Holdem £12/2-£1.056203493 19-Apr-12 17:15 NL Holdem £12/2-£1.056201071 19-Apr-12 17:14 NL Holdem £58/32-£5.506200247 19-Apr-12 16:57 NL Holdem £1045/92-£116201949 19-Apr-12 14:08 NL Holdem £02/124£7.856201881 19-Apr-12 12:39 NL Holdem (Sat) £2.203/17£8.606202204 19-Apr-12 11:57 NL Holdem £11/2£0.956202161 19-Apr-12 11:48 NL Holdem £12/2-£1.056201359 19-Apr-12 02:15 NL Holdem £11/2£0.95
  • GaryQQQGaryQQQ Member Posts: 6,804
    edited April 2012
    Day 103 – April 20th 2012

    Closing balance £293.09

    Again I just couldn’t get anything going in MTTs.

    You know it’s not going to be your day when you 3x open from UTG with TT in level 1 of a £5.75 Bounty Hunter, get 3 flat callers, flop the world with TA3 rainbow, only to then lose more than half your stack vs Q9o. That was the fate of my only set of the session.

    Once again I lost every flip and my made hands couldn’t hold up against draws.
    I decided to quit playing 3 hours earlier than planned; poker is no fun when nothing is going your way. I’ll be back to try again tomorrow.

    April poker points 466

    6205309 20-Apr-12 15:43 NL Holdem £519/62-£3.416204708 20-Apr-12 14:32 NL Holdem £210/46-£1.556207336 20-Apr-12 13:33 NL Holdem (Sat) £2.2024/30-£2.406204941 20-Apr-12 13:15 NL Holdem £323/59-£3.306207334 20-Apr-12 12:32 NL Holdem (Sat) £2.2011/17-£2.406207553 20-Apr-12 12:00 NL Holdem £31/2£2.856207576 20-Apr-12 11:52 NL Holdem £32/2-£3.156207184 20-Apr-12 10:33 NL Holdem £11/2£0.956206554 20-Apr-12 02:12 NL Holdem £11/2£0.95
  • GlenelgGlenelg Member Posts: 6,627
    edited April 2012
    In Response to Re: My quest to turn £51 into £1,051 on Sky Poker____ **** latest balance £293.09 ****:
    . Once again I lost every flip and my made hands couldn’t hold up against draws. I decided to quit playing 3 hours earlier than planned; poker is no fun when nothing   is going your way. I’ll be back to try again tomorrow. April poker points 466 (results to follow)
    Posted by GaryQQQ
    I'm no where near as experienced as you but even I've noticed that the cards can run good or bad.  I've been playing a LOT of v. fast poker on another site and have disciplined myself to stand if the cards aren't/stop  "running".  I've found that even a 5 min break can work wonders!
    Hope your run-good returns soon!
  • GaryQQQGaryQQQ Member Posts: 6,804
    edited April 2012
    Day 104 – April 21st 2012

    Closing balance £312.74

    My first game today produced a long overdue ‘in the money’ finish in a £5.75 Bounty Hunter, a small tournament with 32 runners. If it weren’t for a dose of misfortune 3-handed I probably would have been the winner; while second in chips in a blind v blind pot I min-raised QQ from the SB and snap called the chip-leaders shove with KJ. He got there with a king in the door to bust me in third place, a hold would have given me around 65% of the chips in play. While it was sickening to bust in such harsh fashion at least I’d managed to break my long series of bricks in these games.

    After drawing a blank in another Bounty Hunter and a couple of satellites I managed another run to final table in a £5.75 Bounty Hunter, this time with 64 runners. For most of the late stages I was in ‘short stack ninja’ mode. After busting a very short stack in fifth I was still fourth but only one double away from getting into contention. The very next hand I picked up pocket 44 on the button, with 13.5BB behind this is an easy open shove for me, happy to flip against any overcards. Unfortunately the SB woke up with 99, I couldn’t suck out and went out in fourth place.

    I know many of you would question my open shove there with 44, so I’ll justify it; I’m never raise/folding when I’m down to only 13.5BB. Only around 9% of the time will one of the blinds wake up with a pocket pair 55+, and even then I still have 20% suck-out equity. 91% of the time I will either pick up the blinds uncontested or flip against overcards as a slight favourite, sometimes I might even get lucky and find a caller with 22 or 33. If I pass this spot I might not pick up another shoveable hand for couple of orbits, with the blinds due to rise in 2 minutes I could have easily found myself down to a puny 9BB in 8 hands from now. I want to win the tournament, going all nitty and attempting to ladder to third doesn’t interest me, all the money is up top.

    The only game I entered in the evening was the mini Super Bounty Hunter. Until my exit I thoroughly enjoyed the tournament, I shared my tables with a number of skilled players and there was plenty of good poker being played. I thought it was going a bit too well having been well placed near the top of the field for much of the tournament without the need for a rebuy. As the bubble approached I 3-bet jammed my KK from the SB over a button 3x open. He snap called with AJ. I’ve mentioned before that KK is a very unlucky hand for me and the inevitable A in the door crippled my stack. I’d have been sitting pretty with a top 5 stack and taken my first head prize with a hold. Next hand I picked up TT on the SB and open shoved, the BB woke up with QQ and I was out.

    It was pleasing to break my poor run in £5.75 Bounty Hunters and record my first winning day since Monday, however I still feel I’m running badly in those key spots. The mini BH bad beat was particularly frustrating, a cruel end to my only evening tournament of the week, if I could final table or win a big tournament like this it would do wonders for my balance..

    April poker points 501

    6212127 22-Apr-12 01:00 NL Holdem £360/421-£3.306212224 21-Apr-12 19:05 NL Holdem £54/64£17.866211806 21-Apr-12 18:04 NL Holdem £528/64-£3.876214862 21-Apr-12 16:28 NL Holdem £11/2£0.956213419 21-Apr-12 15:50 NL Holdem (Sat) £0.9617/46-£1.056214627 21-Apr-12 15:33 NL Holdem £11/2£0.956214568 21-Apr-12 15:28 NL Holdem £11/2£0.956214501 21-Apr-12 15:26 NL Holdem £12/2-£1.056213565 21-Apr-12 15:24 NL Holdem (Sat) £2.206/8-£2.406211799 21-Apr-12 14:35 NL Holdem £53/32£8.716212664 21-Apr-12 02:20 NL Holdem £21/2£1.90

    I somehow made a profit despite these cruel tournament exits.

    Bounty Hunter final table 3-handed;

    PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalanceGaryQQQ Small blind  400.00 400.00 20120.00 bamo66 Big blind  800.00 1200.00 28317.50  Your hole cards Q Q    baldysteve Fold     GaryQQQ Raise  1200.00 2400.00 18920.00 bamo66 All-in  28317.50 30717.50 0.00 GaryQQQ All-in  18920.00 49637.50 0.00 bamo66 Unmatched bet  8597.50 41040.00 8597.50 GaryQQQ Show Q Q    bamo66 Show J K    Flop  K 6 3    Turn  4    River  8    bamo66 Win Pair of Kings 41040.00  49637.50


    Mini Bounty Hunter

    PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalanceGaryQQQ Small blind  400.00 400.00 20840.00 MITCH82 Big blind  800.00 1200.00 14637.50  Your hole cards K K    toonarch10 Fold     Woolsta82 Fold     vigornia11 Fold     chrisx2525 Raise  2400.00 3600.00 14150.00 GaryQQQ All-in  20840.00 24440.00 0.00 MITCH82 Fold     chrisx2525 All-in  14150.00 38590.00 0.00 GaryQQQ Unmatched bet  4690.00 33900.00 4690.00 GaryQQQ Show K K    chrisx2525 Show A J    Flop  A 7 2    Turn  10    River  5    chrisx2525 Win Pair of Aces 33900.00  33900.00



  • GlenelgGlenelg Member Posts: 6,627
    edited April 2012

     The very next hand I picked up pocket 44 on the button, with 13.5BB behind this is an easy open shove for me.....

    I'll read this again when I'm sober but WTF!.....44 is suddenly the dogz?? We need to talk!

  • DrSharpDrSharp Member Posts: 1,213
    edited April 2012
    Although i havent posted on this since my initial guess, its a great read. Keep it up, just slow down a bit until december will ya!
  • GaryQQQGaryQQQ Member Posts: 6,804
    edited April 2012
    Day 105 – April 22nd 2012

    Closing balance £305.93

    My luck continued where it left off last night; in an early £1 rebuy tournament level 2 I got my Q9 all-in on an AQQT board against AK and Q4 with over 300BB in the middle, the river card was a 4. I decided not to bother rebuying and registered for the 9-45am and 10-45am £150 gtd Bounty Hunters instead. In both games I donked off my stack while making terrible plays. I realised I was tilting and logged off the site for an hour to cool off.

    On my return I registered in a £500 Bounty Hunter satellite, and £2.30 and £5.75 Bounty Hunters. In the satellite I got busted with my AT<9T aipf approaching the bubble, I shoved, the 9T called from the BB, a hold would have almost certainly locked up a seat. Play in the £2.30 Bounty Hunter was absolutely ridiculous; my tables were filled with bingo players getting all-in preflop with mediocre hands, examples include AJo v J8s and A4o v QTo, both aipf levels 1 and 2. I managed an early double but was unable to survive the minefield and busted out after 40 minutes. Over 60% of the field had been eliminated before me, an illustration of how crazy the play had been. In the £5.75 game I was busted by a player who limp/called my 5x button raise OOP with 23o, he flopped trips on a 22K flop to crack my AK.

    Disillusioned I decided to quit MTTs for the rest of the day and fire up some STTs instead, although another £2.30 Bounty Hunter I’d already registered for had started up by then. Funnily enough I managed a run to final table and my only MTT cash of the day in that one. A fifth place finish at micro-stakes is nothing to get excited about but at least it restored a little pride.

    A fellow Team51 member made a very wise suggestion (thank-you SuperSnedd!); while there are a lot of weekend players recklessly throwing their chips around on the site it’s a good time play DYMs, you have a much better chance than usual of folding your way to the money while the rest go to war and eliminate each other. I fired a couple up and made a small profit, though to be honest I didn’t enjoy them, I’ve gone off DYMs these and preferred to finish my session with a few HU STTs.

    I’m aiming for 700 poker points in April, easy on the face of it with 8 days to go, though on Friday, Saturday and Sunday I’ll be away at SPT Cardiff. So I have 5 playing days to accumulate 161 points, that should be manageable at 32 points per day.

    April poker points 539

    GameIDDate (UTC+0100)TypeEntryFeePositionProfit6221333 22-Apr-12 19:32 NL Holdem £11/2£0.956221164 22-Apr-12 19:26 NL Holdem £12/2-£1.056221173 22-Apr-12 19:14 NL Holdem £11/2£0.956220472 22-Apr-12 17:02 NL Holdem £11/2£0.956216675 22-Apr-12 16:39 NL Holdem £570/81-£5.756216773 22-Apr-12 16:29 NL Holdem £25/76£6.746216362 22-Apr-12 15:45 NL Holdem £223/64-£1.556219721 22-Apr-12 15:00 NL Holdem £51/6£4.506219617 22-Apr-12 14:34 NL Holdem £34/6-£3.306216361 22-Apr-12 13:41 NL Holdem £329/57-£3.306218747 22-Apr-12 13:37 NL Holdem (Sat) £2.2016/45-£2.406215994 22-Apr-12 12:38 NL Holdem £316/60-£3.306217671 22-Apr-12 11:54 NL Holdem £128/30-£1.106218708 22-Apr-12 09:41 NL Holdem £11/2£0.956218580 22-Apr-12 08:59 NL Holdem £12/2-£1.056218571 22-Apr-12 08:56 NL Holdem  £11/2£0.95



    Sunday Bounty Hunter bingo fun. Good luck to you if you find yourself in a tournament with these guys;

    PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalanceGaryQQQ Small blind  20.00 20.00 4842.50 midgley85 Big blind  40.00 60.00 1970.00  Your hole cards 2 7    kai5 Call  40.00 100.00 3323.75 0skaway Call  40.00 140.00 4017.50 l All-in  1646.25 1786.25 0.00 GaryQQQ Fold     m Call  1606.25 3392.50 363.75 kai5 Fold     0skaway Fold     m Show A 4    l Show Q 10    Flop  9 J 5    Turn  5    River  A    m Win Two Pairs, Aces and 5s 3392.50  3756.25
  • GaryQQQGaryQQQ Member Posts: 6,804
    edited April 2012
    Day 106 – April 23rd2012

    Closing balance £323.49

    My usual busy Monday routine didn’t leave much time for poker. There was no joy in a £500 Bounty Hunter satellite or a £5.75 Bounty Hunter (in which I took on a maniac with TT but was unable to hold against A8 aipf).

    Things went better in a £2.30 Bounty Hunter with 57 runners. To my relief the standard of play was back to normal after yesterday’s madness, I managed to build a stack and negotiate the bubble playing small ball poker. I’ve moaned about bad luck in this diary before, so it’s only fair that I mention a big stroke of luck that went in my favour. While 5-handed at the final table I 3-bet jammed my 15BB re-shove stack with pocket 99 over a min-raiser who had me covered. She called with AA, I binked to double. Soon after a another double-up propelled me into the chip lead; I min-raised KK from UTG and induced a 3-bet shove from the SB with AQ, for once I dodged an ace and my KK held.

    Once we were 3-handed I pretty much had licence to run over my two opponents. They were both playing too tightly in my opinion and I was able to make frequent steals with standard pre-flop raises and c-bets. I doubled both of them once while going for the kill, each time I soon rebuilt my stack and regained a commanding lead. Heads-up I lost with AQ<KT aipf for the win and temporarily fell behind in chips. It didn’t take long to go back into the lead and the winning hand was AJ>J7 aipf. I’m delighted to win any MTT, though given the choice I’d rather have taken my run-good in the £5.75 game.

    I’ve bought a seat in the main event at SPT Cardiff today. I funded it from another source, not my online Sky Poker balance. So win or lose it will not affect this quest, it also means I won’t be playing online for three days over this weekend. SPT live tournaments are a wonderful experience and I can’t recommend them highly enough to those of you who haven’t been to one before. If it weren’t for work and family commitments I’d go to them all.  

    April poker points 554

    GameIDDate (UTC+0100)TypeEntryFeePositionProfit6225121 23-Apr-12 16:35 NL Holdem £11/2£0.956222212 23-Apr-12 16:10 NL Holdem £547/67-£5.756221649 23-Apr-12 15:22 NL Holdem £21/57£25.816223969 23-Apr-12 12:31 NL Holdem (Sat) £2.2012/15-£2.406223394 23-Apr-12 02:21 NL Holdem £12/2-£1.05

    The suck-out which set me up for my first win in a while;

    PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalanceGaryQQQ Small blind  500.00 500.00 15001.25 9se7enTr3y Big blind  1000.00 1500.00 26198.75  Your hole cards 9 9    mackayla12 Call  1000.00 2500.00 29975.00 lea116311 Raise  2000.00 4500.00 17875.00 MICKAA Fold     GaryQQQ All-in  15001.25 19501.25 0.00 9se7enTr3y Fold     mackayla12 Fold     lea116311 Call  13501.25 33002.50 4373.75 GaryQQQ Show 9 9    lea116311 Show A A    Flop  K J 9    Turn  7    River  K    GaryQQQ Win Full House, 9s and Kings 33002.50  33002.50
  • GaryQQQGaryQQQ Member Posts: 6,804
    edited April 2012
    Day 107 – April 24th 2012

    Closing balance £316.75

    Didn’t fare too well today though a third place finish in a £2.30 Bounty Hunter helped minimise losses. Yet again a promising run in a £5.75 Bounty Hunter went pear-shaped close to the bubble. HU SnG results were poor, I think I played OK, it was just one of those days where I was the wrong side of the coolers and flips. I even managed to double an opponent when my flopped set of aces was outdrawn by his 87o.

    In that £2.30 tourney a sneaky tactic temporarily dented my chances in the late stages. The player to my direct had been sitting out for at least 15 minutes, his stack gradually blinding down from chip leader to below average. There were 7 players remaining and I was the biggest stack at a 4-handed table, the other 2 players were both short with around 10BB each in the blinds. I’d been playing very aggressively and decided to open jam when I picked up pocket JJ hoping to get paid off by my laggy image. Suddenly the ‘away’ player sat back in and insta-called, unsurprisingly he had AA. This tactic was fairly common when I used to play DYMs, though this was the first time I’d seen it used in an MTT. Always be wary of an away player with a green time bar, I knew there was a risk he might sit back in,  but all things considered I don’t regret the way I played the hand. Away players with a red time bar are not a danger, red is an indication that they are genuinely disconnected. Anyhow, I had the last laugh; 5 minutes later I got my chips back with interest and a head prize when I busted the AA player.

    April poker points 589

    GameIDDate (UTC+0100)TypeEntryFeePositionProfit6230997 24-Apr-12 18:23 NL Holdem £11/2£0.956227859 24-Apr-12 18:20 NL Holdem £511/60-£1.996230722 24-Apr-12 17:35 NL Holdem £31/2£2.856230644 24-Apr-12 17:28 NL Holdem £32/2-£3.156227713 24-Apr-12 17:26 NL Holdem £218/38-£2.306230674 24-Apr-12 17:25 NL Holdem £12/2-£1.056230637 24-Apr-12 17:17 NL Holdem £12/2-£1.056230619 24-Apr-12 17:07 NL Holdem £12/2-£1.056230555 24-Apr-12 17:04 NL Holdem £12/2-£1.056229986 24-Apr-12 15:11 NL Holdem £12/2-£1.056226476 24-Apr-12 15:07 NL Holdem £23/57£11.126226703 24-Apr-12 13:18 NL Holdem £322/58-£2.176228853 24-Apr-12 12:33 NL Holdem (Sat) £2.2010/11-£2.406229255 24-Apr-12 12:21 NL Holdem £11/2£0.956229215 24-Apr-12 12:15 NL Holdem £52/2-£5.256228937 24-Apr-12 12:04 NL Holdem £12/2-£1.056228263 24-Apr-12 02:18 NL Holdem £11/2£0.95

    A player who has been 'away' for 15+ minutes springs his trap;

    PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalancephilrafs Small blind  400.00 400.00 9645.00 CUJimmi Big blind  800.00 1200.00 7480.00  Your hole cards J J    GaryQQQ All-in  27546.25 28746.25 0.00 away All-in  10805.00 39551.25 0.00 philrafs Fold     CUJimmi Fold     GaryQQQ Unmatched bet  16741.25 22810.00 16741.25 GaryQQQ Show J J    away Show A A    Flop  3 6 5    Turn  5    River  Q    away Win Two Pairs, Aces and 5s 22810.00  22810.00

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