Ladbrokes for me!

So i've decided after losing all my money on pokerstars that i will play on ladbrokes for a while as im making ok money on it. I've been playing every $10-$50 entry MTT possible and have cashed in about 85% of them which i think is a really good record. Iv had a few 1st and 2nd place finished too.

Just finished playing a $10 quick blinds tourney with 100 people in, we were down to the final 7 people with 200,000 chips in play and i had 120,000 of them!! I was litrally moving all-in 3 in 4 hands and managed to knock all the other players out, when we got to the last 2 i had 180k in chips vs 20k, lost the first hand and won the 2nd to take 1st place and $288! Also i came 4th in another $10 tourny with longer blinds just before and picked up $70.

Also just won a heads up MTT!! all i had to do was play aggresively though :<
Bankroll: $605

Hands in the $25 freezeout

Well i just buster out in 28th out of 140 losing going all-in with 88 to K9 making a higher straight.

When we were down to about 45 though is where i lost u huge chunk of my stack to somebody making a very strange play, here it goes;

http://www.pokerhand.org/?840906

So i raise before the flop and he calls with QQ. The flop comes K29 and i bet out $1000 into a pot of $1200, a decent sized bet, he calls. The turn comes an ace and i bet pot which is $3200, he raises another $900 into a $10,000 pot and i have to call with a straight draw for the $900 guessing he has an ace.
He shows QQ!!! Iv only had this happen once before where i had A high and he called my bet of about $50 in a cash game and raised all-in for about $4 more with an underpair. What i dont understand is what they are trying to do raising all-in? meh, guess he just couldnt get away from the QQ, its not like i made or showed any moves like that before.

*edit* Jay continued on in the tournament taking 3rd place for $400 :D

Bankroll: $740

Great tourney results!

So iv been playing over at Ladbrokes the past few days as i had some money in there and the cash games are pretty tame at lower limits.

Yesterday me and Jay were playing cash games and decided to both join a tourney. We entered a $10 shorthanded tourney and both cashed in the top 12 to double our money (out of about 100). I entered another tourney afterwards but he didnt join in time. Neway i went and got a takeaway just before it started and came back 15minutes into it having only lost a couple of blinds, raised with 99 and managed to double up.

After 5 mins of playing a had a good stack size and got to the final table on a small chip stack.
Played extremly tight, at one point folding SB when i only had about 2times the BB, managed to win when i pushed with the best hands and then we were down to about 5. I think i got about 5 huge hands in a row, going all-in each time. Got called down by A7 when i held AK and won, went all-in again with QQ and took out 2 players each holding big aces. Then we were heads up and i had such a huge chip lead i pushed every hand and won after 3 hands.
Took dwn the $220!

Today i decided to enter again and again became the chip leader after just a short while, doubling up pretty easily early on. Remained chip leader for the whole tournament (about 3 hours) having nearly double 2nd place at all times and only lost 1 huge hand when we were down to 4 when i turned a straight only for him to make a flush on the river :( Final 5 lasted for about an hour as blinds were pretty low with longish intervals. But still got about $180 for that!

And..... i just finished playing a $25 quick blinds tournet with 88 people in and became chip leader after about 45mins and kept it down to the last 2 tables. I played SUPER SUPER tight for the first hour or so playing just 5 hands!!! AA, which i doubled up on to TT then i called 2 shortstacks all-ins with 55 and it held up as the best hand! (made me a full house infact, but they both had A high :P) KK and AA again and i think i knocked another shortstack out with AJ from the BB. Got to the final table in that and got knocked out after pusking with top pair on the flop (QK) and getting called by AA :( Even so i made $150 for 4th place :]

So to round it up in the 4 tournaments iv played in 2 days i have cashed in all of them;

• 9th (+$20)
  
• 1st (+$220)
  
• 4th (+$180)
  
• 5th (+$150)
  

Bankroll: $500 ish i think?

To the donk tables!

So i lost a huge chunk of my bankroll again playing limits too high (pushing with the K high flush draw and top pair, missing & losing to aces) and so had to go down to micro to re-build. Gonna be playing REALLY small stakes uptill i get upto a resonable ammount now amd then move up slowly this time.

But when things like this happen i just wish i was back at 5/10 where it wouldnt in a million years.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?823716

I guess with 2 people all-in before him he knew his ace was good so had 3 outs, even though he was drawing dead to only a runner runner flush or straight (which he of course caught!) good call with 5% chance to win! Not that im complaining too much, he can do that all day, thats his 5% used up haha

Wait i changed my mind, STOP PLAYING BAD YOU FUCKING LOW LIMIT FISH, i love getting pushed all-in against when im holding KK, contemplating folding then deciding to call and losing to TT making a straight, joy!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?823769

Bankroll: $46

Playing vs fish

Again the 1st hand i play i double up in!!!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?820360

Love playing against fish like this.

Bankroll: $363

$60 -> $220 in 10mins :)

So i decided to sit down at a 6handed .50/1 table on stars with $60. First hand im BB and dealt 83h, theres a raise and 1 caller and i decide to call and hopefully see a nice flop. The flop was nice, 7 2 2 with 2 hearts so i call the 2/3rd's size bet and there comes the Jh :D I put in a bet hoping somebody had a J or a decent pair and they both fold, im upto $81

http://www.pokerhand.org/?820228

8 hands later i pick up JJ and call a large 5times raise and bingo i flop a J making a set! Another 2/3rd's size bet of $10 which is called by the other guy in the pot. It comes to me and i decide with the strong raise pre-flop that one of them has an overpair, or atleast the second guy might have AJ or JK so i pop it upto $30. The first guy goes all-in for $37 more and i think yes, he must have AA.
No scare cards hit and i pick up a pot of $160!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?820244

2 hands on now and im dealt QQ thinking wow i do get some nice hands! :) I make a standard raise and get 2 callers. Flop comes Q 6 K !!! Another set haha... so now to try and make money on it. Both others check round to me and i bet out $8, sometimes i would check this but when u start betting out on the turn its a bit more obvious i have a hand. Even if i didnt have a hand i would continuation bet here normally. I get 1 caller who, after the turn comes bets into me for $10, obviously thinking i was trying to steal the pot on the flop.
I decide to min-raise him and he puts me all-in, i guess thinking i was still making a move. I call and he shows QJ. Another pot of $105 to me =]

http://www.pokerhand.org/?820307

I played a total of 15 hands and went from $60 to just over $220, awesome!

Bankroll: $310

Calling down with A high!

Well the other day i made a great read in live poker and called my m8 joe down after he bet the turn and the river with just ace high, pleased me a lot. Before i wouldnt usually do that even if i knew they had nothing.

Anyway just now i did exactly the same playing 6 handed on pokerstars for ALL of my bankroll!!!

Heres the hand: http://www.pokerhand.org/?816251

Bankroll: $100

All going downhill

I seem to lose all my money in cash games to the most annoying things ever.

For example. I just lost a $90 pot when i was BB and called a 5x raise with 1 other called, there was betting on the flop (where i caught an Ace) and then i put another bet in on the turn, it was called. On the river i hit a K (top 2 pair with AK) and just checked it, he goes all-in for $30 more and i think for a while and call. He shows 63 of hearts for a runner runner backdoor flush (after calling all my bets down at every street, gj m8 :/)

I'v also lost 2 all-ins in the past few days after getting all the money in with a straight vs top 2 pair and then them pairing on the river, thats 8%!!!

So basically my bankroll is pretty much gone.

Solid Poker

Staying round my mates house in there front room for a while where all 5 of us are poker mad, we got a table in the front room with chips and play tournaments all the time for £5 / £10 or whatever we feel like.

Most days we all sit in a bedroom with our laptops and play in tourneys and freerolls together, its pretty fun. :)

Neway in put some money back into fulltilt as the cash games on stars wern't going too well and i still have bonus to collect there as well as rakeback deal.

Lost $30 straight away after deciding to push with AK and coming up against AA. Played pretty solid for a while as we were playing a live game at the same time, although i kept on timing out.
Doubled up on one hand where i called a pretty big raise pre-flop with 35d and flopped a straight! He had KK and pushed after my min-raise ofcourse. I feel this is the best way to make money atm, cracking AA and KK =]

Bankroll: $567

A few decent size pots

Was very up and down today, i've started playing a lot of NL $100 6-max tables playing very LAG style poker.

But yer there were only a few large pots that would determine if i was up or down $200 for the day. I did finish slightly up though, here you go;

http://www.pokerhand.org/?803834
http://www.pokerhand.org/?803837 (put him on 66 / 88 or similar, when he pushed the river i knew he either had nothing or quads hehe)

Bankroll: $576

An unlucky day for KK...

So we all went out in Manchester 2night, Joe drove back and we got in at about 5am. I decided i'd play a bit of .50/1 and 20mins in was $40 up.

Saw that the $100+$9 started in 40mins so decided i'd get to $100 profit and use it to play the tourney. Reached +$120 just before it started and sined up. Played my last few hands before shutting down 3 of the tables and left the last one as i had KK.

There were 2 calls and a raise infront of me so i raised it up big to let them know i had a hand. The raiser flat calls. Now theres about $65 in the pot with the flop coming A4K, i put in a tiny bet of $25 and get min-raised, so now i push and he shows AA :/ ...great.

So now were 1hour 30mins into the $100+$9 and iv got an average stack size, i pick up KK and think how im gonna play it. I decide to just push and get 1 caller who isolates. He shows JJ. The flop comes all blanks and the turn a J and im out in 113th after playing a perfect game.

Bankroll: $543

Went a bit crazy

Well earlier on i got a bit stupid and played quite a bit over my bankroll, i entered a $100 s&g and lost getting it in with the best (set losing to runner tunner straight) and also another smaller s&g.

Then i decided to enter the $200 late night tourney on stars with a prize pool of $168,000 and deep stacks. I didnt do that well coming in 414th out of about 900 and not cashing.

So after all this my bankroll was down to..... $200. As soon as i got home i hit 4 .25/.50 tables and was up about $100 after an hour, got rid of a couple and put up a .50/$1 instead and doubled up on that after about 20mins.

Bankroll: $471

8th in $30+$3 NLHE

So i just got knocked out in 8th place of the $30+$3 tourney on Stars.

I was top3 in chips right from the get go with people seeming to go all-in against me when im holding the nuts. There was a prize pool of $10,710 so i picked up $283 for 8th. Was forced to push all-in with K5 as i was getting blinded out with just over 2 BB's left although if i had folded the other shortstack who went all-in after me would have been bust out b4 and i woulda picked up an extra $120 but im still happy and its still a good results.

Throughout the tourney there were only really 2 hands where i lost a decent ammount of chips, sadly the 2nd one was at the start of the final table that put me from above average to a short stack.

About 2 hands after i was knocked out 2 stacks both went all-in and were called down by the chip leader, they both showed AA and the chipleader had 88. Guess what the river was? Yup an 8 :D

Bankroll: $628

This is why i hate lower limits

Because people make retarded calls like this and get lucky

http://www.pokerhand.org/?793042

There was $82 in the pot and i went all-in for $84. He had to assume i had a set so his 9 outs change to 7 as if the board pairs i make a full house.

So he has 14% to hit with 1 card to come so if he was playing correctly the max bet he should call there is $6. Of course he is justified in calling a $20 bet because you just do but calling an all-in with 7outs and only 1 card to come is how retarded some people at low limits are.

Stuff like this really isn't helping the bankroll.

Bankroll: $377

Cracking Aces

Well after watching this video i got into the mood to crack some aces, calling down some big re-raises in hopes to get lucky. Guess it pays of if you only win 1 out of every 5 or so pots. I won a lot more than that though :P



http://www.pokerhand.org/?788172
http://www.pokerhand.org/?788053
http://www.pokerhand.org/?788178 (ok so i got lucky vs a shortstack here)

*Edit* Got upto $600 on a single .50/1 table (max buy-in $100) busting people with the nuts left right and center.

Bankroll: $930

Losing money to donks.

So this guy comes to the table called sohosoho on pokerstars and his first hand goes a little something like this: http://www.pokerhand.org/?788109 Im thinking "what a lucky donk!" so the next hand i play with him i make sure i take advantage.

Im dealt 9J and just limp in. The flop comes 678 and i bet out, he calls. River is a 10! Now i have the nuts and check it. He bets out $50 into a pot of $9!! Im thinking.... ok... He must have a 9 and probably has a J too so i raise him all-in for $300 with the nuts.

He quickly calls with 94. Flop comes a J for a split pot and every1 calls him a donk. That river was just sick and cost me about $150 there, such bad play by him.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?788115

Bankroll: $526

Cant cope with these low limits

These people seem to litrally call any raise with any 2 cards.

so i raise it 4 times with AA from first position..... 6 callers.
Flop brings K69 with a flush draw, first person bets out under pot and i quickly raise it up and get re-raised all-in....

I make the call and he shows 69off for 2 pair, he pairs the 6 on the turn and pairs the 9 on the river. Thing is it really wouldnt suprise me if he had A9 or K4, there all so retarded.

Bankroll: $456