Just thought I should clarify something regarding the title of the thread. It was never my intention to mislead anyone in any way.
'Old' man, came about due to a couple of things that happened one day shortly before I started the thread,
I was watching a match on tv and a player my age (36) at the time was described as a veteran. Later that night I was at DTD and I made a call against a young lad, who clearly wasn't impressed. He said only someone old who didn't understand poker coud make the call.
Hence the title.
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Oh, I see no one has questioned the first part of the title!
I guess the 'rambling' bit was pretty accurate then!
Lost interest a bit in the Dym's at the moment. Playing really badly in them and so have started to dabble in cash a bit online.
It's not normally for me, prefer live, but have enjoyed it recently.
Play 10/20 and 15/30 and have turned over a small profit.
Pretty gross at one stage tonight where I turned a flush 3 out of 3 times in about 5 minutes. Had to throw 2 away and the one I called with k high flush, lost to DTM's straight flush. That guy always has it, one day I'll believe him. He owns me every time we're sat on the same table.
Had a decent pot at 15/30 against dohhhh where he was really unlucky that I had about the only hand that could call his shove on the river.
Played a hand with Rancid about as bad as it was possible to play it. Just flatted his 3 bet with QQ, first mistake, and then paid off his value bet on river, second mistake.
I should probably stick to live cash. I'm average at best against a lot of the regs on here.
Played a speed £2.20 rebuy which was fun. Came 5th for £27
Golf at Uttoxeter tomorrow. Been to range earlier tonight. Gonna take a lot of balls!
Great night watching Justin Rose win the Us Open. Held his nerve fantastically and stunning shot into 18.
Played my 3rd sat for DTD tonight and missed out again. Made a bad play when i shoved before i needed to, which was disappointing. Really hoping direct buy in will become available. Obviously i enjoyed the last one but it wasn't just that i had a result. The whole experience was brilliant and it was good to meet all the forum regs. I've got the bug now.
I normally have to work Saturdays and won't be able to make all of them. I'm on leave when Nottingham comes arounand it's only 30 mins away for me, so really want to play.
Irritated by a thread earlier criticising the show tonight. Met Yiannis at Birmingham and he is a top bloke. He really wants to learn about poker and is really enthusiastic. He knows that he makes a few mistakes at the moment regarding things like poker lingo. But, so what? Only done a few shows, people should give him a chance first before coming to conclusions. (rant over)
Got to apologise to Liamboi. I just run ridiculously well against him. Had a pot earlier when i should never have been in the pot. Turned an up and down straight draw and flush draw and got there on the river. The river gave him a set of Kings and so he couldn't get away.
Booked go karting for my nephews birthday. He's keen, although i think i'm more excited than him. Really looking forward to it.
Had my usual pre season bet with a guy in the pub last night who is a Newcastle supporter. This time we're going for who will finish higher in our respective leagues. Surely not going to lose this one!
Lost interest a bit in the Dym's at the moment. Playing really badly in them and so have started to dabble in cash a bit online. It's not normally for me, prefer live, but have enjoyed it recently. Play 10/20 and 15/30 and have turned over a small profit. Pretty gross at one stage tonight where I turned a flush 3 out of 3 times in about 5 minutes. Had to throw 2 away and the one I called with k high flush, lost to DTM's straight flush. That guy always has it, one day I'll believe him. He owns me every time we're sat on the same table. Had a decent pot at 15/30 against dohhhh where he was really unlucky that I had about the only hand that could call his shove on the river. Played a hand with Rancid about as bad as it was possible to play it. Just flatted his 3 bet with QQ, first mistake, and then paid off his value bet on river, second mistake. I should probably stick to live cash. I'm average at best against a lot of the regs on here. Played a speed £2.20 rebuy which was fun. Came 5th for £27 Golf at Uttoxeter tomorrow. Been to range earlier tonight. Gonna take a lot of balls! Posted by Jac35
The old 'double float to try and take the guy off top set' move, when will I learn? haha.
In all fairness my line was pretty poor against any thinking player. I was rather tilted at that point in that particular session. I reviewed the whole session with a few friends on Saturday afternoon, and it was really really painful.
Sometimes the double float/jam the 'scare card' & try to blast people off the pot works, I suspect you've seen it all before though and weren't going to fall for that with a lot of holdings, especially as it was the backdoor flush that came in.
"ok so I floated the flop, and he hasn't slowed down. I should just fold now. But that would be boring".
sighhh.
How do you win pots against liamboi btw? 3 yrs later and I still haven't managed to figure it out.
Hope to see you in more 30nl games! I want that buyin back!
yeah paul totally agree yiannis is a top bloke and people should give him a chance he wants to learn and improve his poker game overall, also want to make the shows enjoyable for us all but you are always going to get people that are never happy.
no need to apologise m8 i tried getting funky with my kk it backfired I really ain`t running as good as a have in the past really tilting at the moment everytime i get it in massively ahead i`m thinking how can i lose here and it comes lol bad way of thinking but it`s happening a lot last 7-8 days and DTM is crushing me i`m always 2nd best no matter what. I like the guy but just wish he did not sit any my tables for a few weeks lol.
also doh you used to own me in the past at 30nl mind that one hand we were 4/5betting pre flop and you called me off wae j high think it was and it was ahead of my 45 but i hit miracle 4 wow we both knew each other was at it I like games like that don`t get many games like that now.
but paul hope yer enjoying cash looks like you have been doing well keep it up m8
yeah paul totally agree yiannis is a top bloke and people should give him a chance he wants to learn and improve his poker game overall, also want to make the shows enjoyable for us all but you are always going to get people that are never happy. no need to apologise m8 i tried getting funky with my kk it backfired I really ain`t running as good as a have in the past really tilting at the moment everytime i get it in massively ahead i`m thinking how can i lose here and it comes lol bad way of thinking but it`s happening a lot last 7-8 days and DTM is crushing me i`m always 2nd best no matter what. I like the guy but just wish he did not sit any my tables for a few weeks lol. also doh you used to own me in the past at 30nl mind that one hand we were 4/5betting pre flop and you called me off wae j high think it was and it was ahead of my 45 but i hit miracle 4 wow we both knew each other was at it I like games like that don`t get many games like that now. but paul hope yer enjoying cash looks like you have been doing well keep it up m8 Posted by liamboi11
It rings a bell yea!
See the lengths I have to go to, and the hero plays I have to try and make to get it in good against you.
And I still can't win!!!!
fwiw that kinda hand is still quite standard on my tables!!!!
In Response to Re: Ramblings of an 'old' man : The old 'double float to try and take the guy off top set' move, when will I learn? haha. In all fairness my line was pretty poor against any thinking player. I was rather tilted at that point in that particular session. I reviewed the whole session with a few friends on Saturday afternoon, and it was really really painful. Sometimes the double float/jam the 'scare card' & try to blast people off the pot works, I suspect you've seen it all before though and weren't going to fall for that with a lot of holdings, especially as it was the backdoor flush that came in. "ok so I floated the flop, and he hasn't slowed down. I should just fold now. But that would be boring". sighhh. How do you win pots against liamboi btw? 3 yrs later and I still haven't managed to figure it out. Hope to see you in more 30nl games! I want that buyin back! Posted by DOHHHHHHH
Oh no!!!!
I read on AJ's diary next door that you had given some money away to 'bad regs' Wondered if you had me in mind. Confirmation - you would like me to join you again!
Yippee! Got my Hendon Mob flag sorted.They credited it to yet another Paul Jackson at first.
Not sure what to do tonight. Off tomorrow, so fancy some live poker.
Problems with this though are that the local casino has just lost the cardroom manager and the tourneys are dying. Not sure if they're even running the cheap one tonight. This means that although cash will still run, it will have more competent players who have turned up specifically for that. This, rather than the players who like to play the cheapest tournament of the week with the worst structure but are happy to then join the cash table and lose a couple of hundred.
Dtd closed
Alea Nottingham i went to the other week. Not keen at all. It was like going back in time to a cardroom where the regs ran it, rather than the staff. Swerving that.
This means that unless i come up with some new super duper plan (unlikely) i'll be helping create more seats for Nottingham again. In a bit of a quandry regarding next SPT. I feel that with the higher buy in and capacity that direct buy in is quite likely. Determined to play and so will do this if i have to. While i feel like i have a reasonable chance of satting in, if i don't get in that way, it could end up costing me £300/400 for my seat. Makes me a little reluctant to play the £48 sats. Not sure if that makes much sense.
In Response to Re: Ramblings of an 'old' man : Oh no!!!! I read on AJ's diary next door that you had given some money away to 'bad regs' Wondered if you had me in mind. Confirmation - you would like me to join you again! I feel like one of the tourists in Rounders Posted by Jac35
Ha, even by my very poor volume standards, playing against someone once doesn't earn them a title, be it reg, fish or anywhere inbetween!
The damage was done long before the double float hand, think that was the 14th of 15 pots I lost that session above £15.
(The 15th was limp/3betting 72 and getting stacks in on 887. Yes, it got even worse! )
In Response to Re: Ramblings of an 'old' man : Ha, even by my very poor volume standards, playing against someone once doesn't earn them a title, be it reg, fish or anywhere inbetween! The damage was done long before the double float hand, think that was the 14th of 15 pots I lost that session above £15. (The 15th was limp/3betting 72 and getting stacks in on 887. Yes, it got even worse! ) Posted by DOHHHHHHH
Ouch!
Was that really the first time we've sat at same table?
Come to think of it, I didn't have any notes on you so you could be right.
Not sure what to do tonight. Off tomorrow, so fancy some live poker. Problems with this though are that the local casino has just lost the cardroom manager and the tourneys are dying. Not sure if they're even running the cheap one tonight. This means that although cash will still run, it will have more competent players who have turned up specifically for that. This, rather than the players who like to play the cheapest tournament of the week with the worst structure but are happy to then join the cash table and lose a couple of hundred. Dtd closed Alea Nottingham i went to the other week. Not keen at all. It was like going back in time to a cardroom where the regs ran it, rather than the staff. Swerving that. This means that unless i come up with some new super duper plan (unlikely) i'll be helping create more seats for Nottingham again. In a bit of a quandry regarding next SPT. I feel that with the higher buy in and capacity that direct buy in is quite likely. Determined to play and so will do this if i have to. While i feel like i have a reasonable chance of satting in, if i don't get in that way, it could end up costing me £300/400 for my seat. Makes me a little reluctant to play the £48 sats. Not sure if that makes much sense. Posted by Jac35
DTD night on the forum is OPEN though. See thread at top of page for all details if you have never played it before.
Sometimes it is just as important to have a night of FUN poker rather than serious all the time. DTD is just this, and with 3 MTT's for a fiver......anyone & everyone can join in.
Yeah......that direct buy in may wipe out your winnings from SPT Brum
In Response to Re: Ramblings of an 'old' man : DTD night on the forum is OPEN though. See thread at top of page for all details if you have never played it before. Sometimes it is just as important to have a night of FUN poker rather than serious all the time. DTD is just this, and with 3 MTT's for a fiver......anyone & everyone can join in. Yeah......that direct buy in may wipe out your winnings from SPT Brum Posted by MAXALLY
Yes, I have played the Dtd before and enjoyed it.
Totally agree on the having fun at poker thing.
That is what I do though. I wouldn't be going out to play live to have anything but fun. Have a few drinks, have a laugh with the players and if I win a few quid, even better.
Just seen this thread and its a great read. I see you won an spt so congratulations on that. I will keep an eye on this diary as I like the added sports moments, seeing as its not even pre season this will be the place to come when im missing the football at 3 on a Saturday.
Really enjoyed you talking about the cup final preparations they used to do. At the age of 20 I am constantly hearing from older people about how its not the same and the pre match would start at 8 in the morning and last all day. Gutted it doesn't have the same buzz now and the money of the champions league has taken over....also the f.a. cup final is a 5 30 kick off now isn't it? some things are tradition and should NEVER be changed. The reason it was changed it once again money which is a shame. The song you mentioned btw is "ossies going to Wembley his knees have gone all trembly come on you spurs! come on you spurs!", unfortunately F.a. cup wise I havnt seen us get very far, 3 semis, 1 when I was young that we lost 2-1 (I wont mention the team we lost too) where GARY DOCHERTY ( the ginger pele) put us 1-0 up. Lost to already relegated Portsmouth 2-0 (which I was lucky enough to go too......) and more recently a lose to another team we don't like to mention, the score line was a joke so ill leave that out aswell. I do have pictures to remind me of what I missed in my room, ricky villa dumming a few players and scoring against man city. And my favourite a paul Gascoigne free kick against the Woolwich lot (could talk for hours about the sad life his had after football but that a different matter)
anyway got carried away there, but will definatly be keeping an eye on this, GL!
Ahhh hopefullyI earnt some 'note equity' for my £40 at least Posted by DOHHHHHHH
In all seriousness, i didn't need notes to know that you're a good player.
I thought about that hand quite a lot. I assume that you would give me credit for being a player who could fire 3 barrells with air. You said before that i would still have snapped with most holdings. Not totally sure about this, probably, is all i can say. I quite liked the line you took. In my opinion the only problem with it was I sized the river bet so that even if i wasn't so strong i would probably have had to sigh call. Just don't think with stacks sizes you could make it big enough for me to be able to fold there. I did consider that if you thought i was at it whether you could just call on river as you now had showdown. But i think you knew that i was ahead of that and so to win you had to make me fold.
Just seen this thread and its a great read. I see you won an spt so congratulations on that. I will keep an eye on this diary as I like the added sports moments, seeing as its not even pre season this will be the place to come when im missing the football at 3 on a Saturday. Really enjoyed you talking about the cup final preparations they used to do. At the age of 20 I am constantly hearing from older people about how its not the same and the pre match would start at 8 in the morning and last all day. Gutted it doesn't have the same buzz now and the money of the champions league has taken over....also the f.a. cup final is a 5 30 kick off now isn't it? some things are tradition and should NEVER be changed. The reason it was changed it once again money which is a shame. The song you mentioned btw is "ossies going to Wembley his knees have gone all trembly come on you spurs! come on you spurs!", unfortunately F.a. cup wise I havnt seen us get very far, 3 semis, 1 when I was young that we lost 2-1 (I wont mention the team we lost too) where GARY DOCHERTY ( the ginger pele) put us 1-0 up. Lost to already relegated Portsmouth 2-0 (which I was lucky enough to go too......) and more recently a lose to another team we don't like to mention, the score line was a joke so ill leave that out aswell. I do have pictures to remind me of what I missed in my room, ricky villa dumming a few players and scoring against man city. And my favourite a paul Gascoigne free kick against the Woolwich lot (could talk for hours about the sad life his had after football but that a different matter) anyway got carried away there, but will definatly be keeping an eye on this, GL! Posted by robbie1992
Hi Robbie
Yeah, not just poker here, i ramble on about all sorts of random rubbish.
Gascoigne is the best English player i've even seen. The last season at Spurs he was incredible. Still had a great career but he could have been one the best ever in my opinion.
Your lot are doing pretty well right now though, just need to keep hold of Bale. Only been to White Hart Lane once. We actually had a half decent team then. (not the 11 point clowns of a few seasons ago) We lost 2-0, i remember Steve Sedgley was one of the scorers.
Didn't get the chance to see him play...so gutted I read his biography and his just a legend, such a shame his gotten into the states he has of recent times. His lucky to be alive really.
Yeah I think he will give it one more season and if we don't get in the champions league he will leave... I really hope he doesn't give us 200million and I still wouldn't sell him, there's very few players that can do exceptional things like him now. So true how do you blow a 13 point lead, that team had no fight. Its funny people still class modric as "world class", the man is a good player no more , 30 million was brilliant business. Its van der vaart that we miss, I loved him just for scoring against arsenal every game. Haha, steve sedgley... that's years ago.... abit of an old man arnt you :P
When the SPT at Nottingham comes around I won't be staying in Nottingham on the Friday night. Seems a little pointless as I'm only 30 mins away and Mrs J has confirmed she will act as chauffeur. This means I will be drinking again. However, not sure i'll get away with still being there at 4am like Birmingham.
Very proud of Penny. As I've mentioned before she has MS and she deals with it with little complaint, She holds down a very responsible job, she's a Sonographer, and although she's shattered at the end of every day, she rarely has any time off. Her walking has got worse over the last couple of years and so if we do go anywhere she will normally be in her wheelchair. Please say Hello to her if you see us. (I've told her everyone is really nice). Probably the one thing that upsets her the most is that people talk to me rather than her. She sometimes feels invisible in her chair. We went to buy her a dress the other day and at the checkout it was as if the dress for me. (Maybe I just look like a cross dresser)
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Great to see England get to the ICC final. Just wish it was an English team. I will never understand how, for example an Irishman who has played for Ireland can suddenly be able to play for England!
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I have played awfully at poker this last week. Been very fortunate to get out of it when I've just been on the right side of two big hands. Won a bounty hunter this morning. Not saying I was a nit but heads up was my first bounty. Would have had one more but I won a hand which left the other guy with 67 chips. Pity as he had a decent bounty on him. Final hand I made quad 6's, bit better than Q4!
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Played my 3rd sat for DTD tonight and missed out again. Made a bad play when i shoved before i needed to, which was disappointing. Really hoping direct buy in will become available. Obviously i enjoyed the last one but it wasn't just that i had a result. The whole experience was brilliant and it was good to meet all the forum regs. I've got the bug now.
I normally have to work Saturdays and won't be able to make all of them. I'm on leave when Nottingham comes arounand it's only 30 mins away for me, so really want to play.
Irritated by a thread earlier criticising the show tonight.
Met Yiannis at Birmingham and he is a top bloke. He really wants to learn about poker and is really enthusiastic. He knows that he makes a few mistakes at the moment regarding things like poker lingo. But, so what? Only done a few shows, people should give him a chance first before coming to conclusions. (rant over)
Got to apologise to Liamboi. I just run ridiculously well against him. Had a pot earlier when i should never have been in the pot. Turned an up and down straight draw and flush draw and got there on the river. The river gave him a set of Kings and so he couldn't get away.
Booked go karting for my nephews birthday. He's keen, although i think i'm more excited than him. Really looking forward to it.
Had my usual pre season bet with a guy in the pub last night who is a Newcastle supporter. This time we're going for who will finish higher in our respective leagues. Surely not going to lose this one!
In all fairness my line was pretty poor against any thinking player. I was rather tilted at that point in that particular session. I reviewed the whole session with a few friends on Saturday afternoon, and it was really really painful.
Sometimes the double float/jam the 'scare card' & try to blast people off the pot works, I suspect you've seen it all before though and weren't going to fall for that with a lot of holdings, especially as it was the backdoor flush that came in.
"ok so I floated the flop, and he hasn't slowed down. I should just fold now. But that would be boring".
sighhh.
How do you win pots against liamboi btw? 3 yrs later and I still haven't managed to figure it out.
Hope to see you in more 30nl games! I want that buyin back!
See the lengths I have to go to, and the hero plays I have to try and make to get it in good against you.
And I still can't win!!!!
fwiw that kinda hand is still quite standard on my tables!!!!
I read on AJ's diary next door that you had given some money away to 'bad regs'
Wondered if you had me in mind.
Confirmation - you would like me to join you again!
I feel like one of the tourists in Rounders
Yippee! Got my Hendon Mob flag sorted.They credited it to yet another Paul Jackson at first.
Not sure what to do tonight. Off tomorrow, so fancy some live poker.
Problems with this though are that the local casino has just lost the cardroom manager and the tourneys are dying.
Not sure if they're even running the cheap one tonight. This means that although cash will still run, it will have more competent players who have turned up specifically for that. This, rather than the players who like to play the cheapest tournament of the week with the worst structure but are happy to then join the cash table and lose a couple of hundred.
Dtd closed
Alea Nottingham i went to the other week. Not keen at all. It was like going back in time to a cardroom where the regs ran it, rather than the staff. Swerving that.
This means that unless i come up with some new super duper plan (unlikely) i'll be helping create more seats for Nottingham again.
In a bit of a quandry regarding next SPT. I feel that with the higher buy in and capacity that direct buy in is quite likely. Determined to play and so will do this if i have to. While i feel like i have a reasonable chance of satting in, if i don't get in that way, it could end up costing me £300/400 for my seat. Makes me a little reluctant to play the £48 sats.
Not sure if that makes much sense.
The damage was done long before the double float hand, think that was the 14th of 15 pots I lost that session above £15.
(The 15th was limp/3betting 72 and getting stacks in on 887. Yes, it got even worse!
Really enjoyed you talking about the cup final preparations they used to do. At the age of 20 I am constantly hearing from older people about how its not the same and the pre match would start at 8 in the morning and last all day. Gutted it doesn't have the same buzz now and the money of the champions league has taken over....also the f.a. cup final is a 5 30 kick off now isn't it? some things are tradition and should NEVER be changed. The reason it was changed it once again money which is a shame. The song you mentioned btw is "ossies going to Wembley his knees have gone all trembly come on you spurs! come on you spurs!", unfortunately F.a. cup wise I havnt seen us get very far, 3 semis, 1 when I was young that we lost 2-1 (I wont mention the team we lost too) where GARY DOCHERTY ( the ginger pele) put us 1-0 up. Lost to already relegated Portsmouth 2-0 (which I was lucky enough to go too......) and more recently a lose to another team we don't like to mention, the score line was a joke so ill leave that out aswell. I do have pictures to remind me of what I missed in my room, ricky villa dumming a few players and scoring against man city. And my favourite a paul Gascoigne free kick against the Woolwich lot
anyway got carried away there, but will definatly be keeping an eye on this, GL!
I thought about that hand quite a lot.
I assume that you would give me credit for being a player who could fire 3 barrells with air.
You said before that i would still have snapped with most holdings.
Not totally sure about this, probably, is all i can say.
I quite liked the line you took. In my opinion the only problem with it was I sized the river bet so that even if i wasn't so strong i would probably have had to sigh call. Just don't think with stacks sizes you could make it big enough for me to be able to fold there.
I did consider that if you thought i was at it whether you could just call on river as you now had showdown. But i think you knew that i was ahead of that and so to win you had to make me fold.
Interesting hand for sure
Yeah, not just poker here, i ramble on about all sorts of random rubbish.
Gascoigne is the best English player i've even seen.
The last season at Spurs he was incredible.
Still had a great career but he could have been one the best ever in my opinion.
Your lot are doing pretty well right now though, just need to keep hold of Bale.
Only been to White Hart Lane once. We actually had a half decent team then. (not the 11 point clowns of a few seasons ago)
We lost 2-0, i remember Steve Sedgley was one of the scorers.
Yeah I think he will give it one more season and if we don't get in the champions league he will leave... I really hope he doesn't give us 200million and I still wouldn't sell him, there's very few players that can do exceptional things like him now. So true how do you blow a 13 point lead, that team had no fight. Its funny people still class modric as "world class", the man is a good player no more , 30 million was brilliant business. Its van der vaart that we miss, I loved him just for scoring against arsenal every game.
Haha, steve sedgley... that's years ago.... abit of an old man arnt you :P
Very proud of Penny. As I've mentioned before she has MS and she deals with it with little complaint, She holds down a very responsible job, she's a Sonographer, and although she's shattered at the end of every day, she rarely has any time off. Her walking has got worse over the last couple of years and so if we do go anywhere she will normally be in her wheelchair. Please say Hello to her if you see us. (I've told her everyone is really nice). Probably the one thing that upsets her the most is that people talk to me rather than her. She sometimes feels invisible in her chair. We went to buy her a dress the other day and at the checkout it was as if the dress for me. (Maybe I just look like a cross dresser)
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Great to see England get to the ICC final.
Just wish it was an English team. I will never understand how, for example an Irishman who has played for Ireland can suddenly be able to play for England!
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I have played awfully at poker this last week. Been very fortunate to get out of it when I've just been on the right side of two big hands. Won a bounty hunter this morning. Not saying I was a nit but heads up was my first bounty. Would have had one more but I won a hand which left the other guy with 67 chips. Pity as he had a decent bounty on him. Final hand I made quad 6's, bit better than Q4!