How can i pass?

i didnt he called my re-raise all in with AK and it was noooooo good on 88k now, lets see what happens

Missing in Action

have all the players listed below; gone broke?, moved sites, died in a plane crash.......... You get the picture, can anyone shed any light?

Jackjonnes---- won a fair few tournys last year and has vanished since

Edren--- imo a very good tourney player, solid

Fattermarra--decent player

Chris4673---- solid consistent money finisher in mtt's..


im sure there's many more... Where have they got to?

You Lucky Twat Rick!!

Got extremely lucky in some crucial pots throught this tourney one was turning over AQ and JK with A8 soooooted which hit the flush on the river.
I also got very lucky when i was heads up hitting an 8 to win with my K8 v KT, however i was quite far infront at the time...

Id like to thank Gaz15 for seating me on the final table, he will vouch for me getting very spawny...

Gaz15's brother Cobster3I5 got a 3rd in the 15k for $1.8k and portfolio also scooped a very nice $5k in the 15k which starts at 8:00pm...

Midway through this 5k tourney ive just won, i realised i was out of ciggies so took a taxi to the 24 hour garage... Im glad i did so now because my nails would have been chewed off my now.

This is probably 1st tourney ive won this month, and by my own admission i haven't been playing too well and spunking away big stacks.
Im sure ill get another one before the end of the month, hopefully in one of the $15k's which have proven so illusive recently.
cheers, rick

Have You Got Lucky?

it is important after a win in an Multi-tourney or Sit & go, to evealuate your game, and realise the pots which you won, could have gone the other way.
On very few occasions is it possible to win a, say 100 runner tourney without winning at least one coin flip (50-50) and a lot of the times you may be forced to put your chips in with say KQ v A10 where u are a 60/40 dog.
Often it can be easy after winning a tournament to feel like you have played very good poker and have deserved your win. At times like these you have to remember he times you have been lucky in a single pot and realise that this won't happen in every tourney. My own opinion is that you have to have luck on your side to win a tourney. The differnce between the good players and just the average players is that the good players give themselves the best possibe chance to get lucky by only getting involved in very few showdowns per tournament, this way they may only have to win say 3 coinflips per tourney as opposed to other weaker players who may need to win a lot more, due to their inabilty to steal pots and become more aggressive in the latter stages. I have seen many players who at one time were winning tourneys left right and centre, and they were last seen entering $2 bonus freerolls.

It is very naive to disregard luck in poker. But for a good player the luck comes, by why that they may be lucky not to get unlucky....

Ie they will go into a pot with AK v AQ in a showdown obviously the AK is about 73% favourite but if you are involved in 4 of these coups, you are favourite to lose your stack by the 4th time...

They say that good players don't understand how much luck is in the game and bad players don't realise how much skill is in he game. This is probably right, however bad players often endeavour to learn more about the skill in the game. It is also important for the good players to not learn but understand luck and don't get blinkered into thinking you are invincible, and never forget the times when you get lucky as this will help you take the beats that other players inflict on you.... because as they say "what comes around, goes around".........

is there a worse way to exit a comp

got a third in the $5,000 guaranteed freezout tonight for approx $750, i went out in a very cruel way, however im back playin my best game and look forward to tommorows mtt endeavours already....

Not much happening

for some strange reason, since the last time i posted, not much has happened by the way of mtt's, made about four final tables, invluding the final of last nights 15k put going out in 9th after running my 1010 into JJ and AQ when the table short stack.
Hopefully this posting will be the start of a revival in my tournament finishes, i have made a few fundamental errors throughot the week, and im working on improving this, the most frequent of these is getting too involved in pots i should just be folding pre flop.
best regards
tHe ClaIMeR

Don't Look back in anger!

On Thursday i had a tricky decision to make. It was either go to the oasis Concert at the sheffield arena, or play the 10 quid rebuy at the local casino. I didnt have a ticket for the concert so it was a case of buying one from a tout. I decided the best thing to do was to go to the casino, buy a ticket, then ring one of the lads to see if there were any tickets knocking about. I, however made the mistake of thinking that the casino would only let one person buy one ticket.

An hour later im told that i am 2 seats too late. Due to the asian clique buyng all there late friends a ticket... grrrrr. So I decided it was too late for the oasis concert, so decided to have a bit of snap in the casino restaurant.

4 courses later and a bottle of house white, i decide to go home, ( via doing 60 bones on the devil's wheel) and play vc. Finished the session in profit, which was soley down to stt's because i played like an absolute plonker in the 3 tourneys i played.

Ive seen oasis twice before, but all the lads ringing up telling me what a good night its been made me think i shudda fucked the poker off for the night and gon to the gig, oh we'll

The Ledgend of crazycrane

You may recognise the name crazycrane as a regular railird in the finals of any comps where myself chezzboy, or overcards are in. He likes dishing a bit of stick about so i thought id try and wind him up a little, by saying that i had 20 invites to a $50k freeroll on virgin poker and i would send him an application form in an e-mail. The kipper must have been rubbing his hands at not actually spending his money to lose his chips, when the email arrived.
Crane, its rick, please find enclosed as an attachment a copy of the registration form, but hurry there are only 3 spacs left.


Of course the attachment looked like this

2 nearly's

yesterday afternoon i finished 2nd and today 3rd in the 3500 gauranteed jobbie, its keeping my head above water for the week, im having an absolute mare in the 15k's at 8:00pm and 10:45pm, these tourneys are really worth winning but its jut not happening, i seem to be pissing my chips away in dribs and drabs, so ill try to adress it tonight if im not at the pub.

Is it a bad call or is it just me?

occasionaly, other players muppetry really gets my goat, this one did as i scrapped my way to final table of the 3500 guaranteed. i have approx 38k when a serial all-in merchant moves all-in for 43k (blinds 3k-6k) i have KK and call, in a flash

The player to my left then begins to dwell up, and decides to call with AK, now i thoght this was a bad call, obviously as the ace fell and i departed in 7th, but he has to be worried about my hand. He must think a pair is out and the other guy has either a pair or an ace(which would give him 1 less out)

he had 40k in chips, the original alliner had 99........ who calls with AK here???

one of those days

came 6th in the 5k freezout and 15th in the 5k rebuy, tommorow is gonna be better, trust me

Back Online!!!...... but back in bad form :(

after a lot of fukking about ringing aol about 23 times yesterday, finally obtained a aol 9.0 cd, from curry's and fired the old vcpoker up on my new laptop.

I was raring to go, but now at 00:53 ive had one of the most boring sessions of poker ever. never got close in 4 tourneys, never got into it, quite a few bad beats in the stt's played about 10 stt's today won 1 second once third twice, that is not good form for me, i maybe shudda got a couple more wins but a couple of outdraws, and suckouts put pay to that idea.

Gonna give the $5,000 guaranteed tourney a whiz in 4 mins time, to hopefully christen my new laptop with a victory, gonna be a long night thouh with only two ciggies left till i get to the shops.

im gonna set my stall out for victory in this tourney fom the start, i may be prepared to go for a few coin flips early on to get a stack together, otherwise its get focused time tommorow.