More live poker

Last week i decided to nip down to blackpool for the day, my mate from blondepoker booder made the money in the £150 nlhe rebuy so i decided to get on the train and rail booder and play in that evenings £300 pot-limit freez. Booder did extremely well and went from short stack to gain an excellent 2nd place for £9500. Well done that man.

In the £300 comp i played well throughout day one making a few nice moves to keep my stack on the increase. I made the money (last 18 with 58,500) which was exactly average. The blinds were 2,000/4,000. When i returned on day2 i had a tussle with Ash Hussian, the current leader of the european rankings. All passed round to me in the sb and i looked at my 1st card Ad and decided to raise and made it 6k more to ash. Now in hindsight i should have raised more as he is priced in to call here with any two.

so... he calls and the flop shits 3 diamonds in the shape of 7Q3 so i bet the pot 20k and he re-raises and i am forced to call the 20k i have back, he turns over Qs8d and his hand holds.

I played the £150pl rebuy pissed which is never a good idea, but went out for a few beers in walkabout with stu rutter and managed to charm a bird into submission and back to my B&B.

played the £500 double chance on thursday and was completely card dead and busted pretty early. So decided to do one.

This week i am flying to dublin on friday to play the greenpokerjoker 1000 euro main event which is 15k chips and an hour clock and will be a great comp.

May try to nip down to walsall on wednesday night for the £300 double chance but it all depends on if i can scab a lift down or not so we'll see.

choi for now

20k and on for double?

ship that 20k 1st prize clamwards!!!!!

got a stack in 15k as we speak with 27 left i got 97k, lets have a double.

in 20k i made one big error 4 handed when i tried to get a guy off his hand, but he had it. Apart from that i didnt put a foot wrong. No outdraws and no suckouts is a rareity but nice when it happens.

rick

quote of the day from finalist who i took out with my AT v his Q9 "ffs, taken out by the worst player on the table" loooooool, ship

Ireland and ca$h games

Had a very pleasant trip to dublin last weekend with the england team to take on Scotland wales and ireland. i managed to get to the quarter finals, however once i got there i was well and truly taken to school by a member of our team the lovely jen mason. I really enjoyed meeting jen and she has one hell of a game, for my money she is better that 95% of the players whom she reports on week in week out.

I also met pab, (pirate-pab, pab09, paulo69, leadboots) in person for the 1st time. Pab is a very reserved level headed guy, surprising for a guy who has won about $500k in mtt's this year, but not surprising from a yorkshireman.

After saturday nights drinking session, i got to bed at about 6;00am next to my room-mate rod paradise from blondepoker, very nice chap, however his incessant snoring lead for me to stay awake until 11:00am. Not the ideal preperation for the E250 freezout that we were planning the next day.

Needless to say it was rather difficult for the lads to drag my lazy arse out of bed, however booders persistance managed to pay off as i joined kev, pab and flushy in the taxi to drogheda for mike laceys extremely well structured comp.

So 7 hours later i managed to get a quite unlucky 3rd for E1500 and a ticket to the main event there later this month worth E1000. I will be meeting booder there, and it will be an excellent tournament, 15,000 chips and an hour clock with 300 runners expected is not that bad for a bag of sand.

Since ive got back online, ive been playing on 5/10nl quite a bit with very good results so far, even with the 6k pot i lost with kk v AA. I know what you are thinking, but it was 4 handed and i flat called his re-raise pre-flop to disguise my hand and when the flop was 7 3 2 and he led out for the pot i had no chioce but to push. I have laid KK down many times pre-flop in cash... seriously.

As i write this i have a nice $3100 stack on a 5/10 ring game and im in the last 40 of the 5k garanteed so hopefully it will end in a decent night profit wise.
Im only home now because the nightlife in my town is so awful.
wow this is a long post for me, lets wrap it up.
no-space claimer x