Wednesday, 29 April 2009

guess not - pt 1

wecome back, gentle reader

so you wanna jam .... against me ????.... running through the streets ....

Omaha Hi/Lo Pot Limit ($0.01/$0.02) - 2009/04/29 17:58:41 ET

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to ResdentEvil [5c 2h Ad 8s]

*** FLOP *** [3s 6c 7h]

ResdentEvil: bets $0.08
Knolli77: raises $0.16 to $0.24
ResdentEvil: raises $0.16 to $0.40
Knolli77: raises $0.88 to $1.28

ResdentEvil said, "sigh"

ResdentEvil: raises $0.88 to $2.16
Knolli77: raises $0.37 to $2.53 and is all-in
ResdentEvil: calls $0.37

*** TURN *** [3s 6c 7h] [5d]
*** RIVER *** [3s 6c 7h 5d] [4c]

*** SHOW DOWN ***
Knolli77: shows [4d Ac 5s Jh] (HI: a straight, Three to Seven; LO: 6,5,4,3,A)
ResdentEvil: shows [5c 2h Ad 8s] (HI: a straight, Four to Eight; LO: 5,4,3,2,A)
ResdentEvil collected $2.45 from pot
ResdentEvil collected $2.44 from pot

dost thou not know I worship The Church of Dyson

Monday, 27 April 2009

littleAcornMan bad beat movie ????

welcome back, gentle reader

this is fucking hilarious, its on here for me .... every beat i take, i will click the link .... you cant stay on tilt after this ! brilliant !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5__zd7opRY

wow .... is it really you acorn ????

Sunday, 26 April 2009

ahh ffs

welcome back, gentle reader

just played my first britblogger for donks .... as in ages !

smokkee on my left and bayne on tha table too :) played it tight. then dealt the hammer and min raise and smokkee calls. flop x27 .... wheee .... small bet and he calls, same on turn and river, he folds on river .... i wait to proudly show .... cards disappear .... automuck is on .... aaaaarrgghhh.

should have sat out there and then.

then gott JJ and one caller (bayne u bastard !! ) to a small raise. flop was ten high rainbow, i bet he raises i call and same thing on turn and river .... he has 33 and the 3 on the flop ffs, and thats me crippled. very next hand QQ and i am all-in against AK .... the Q on the flop gets me back to t570.

then i get AJ and push .... smokkee calls with AK .... gg me .... bollox, oot in thirty something, bollox to nlhe !

Thursday, 16 April 2009

wherefor art thou, dudley ?

welcome back, gentle reader.

where indeed, eh ?

lol nice to see some people still stop by :) cmon. own up, how many thought i'd taken one shot to many and gone completely busto ? and how many filed a missing persons report ?

of course i have not actually been anywhere as such. quite simply being doing the same old same old with one slight difference. been playing on my laptop, no biggie, but i have been playing in the living room, wow, in the company of the real people who make up my family :)

bloody hell its a hard fucking grind !

never realised how much concentration 4-card bingo takes ! what with the tv droning in the background, the mrs wittering on about such and such, the two year old wanting to know what "daddy-fish" is doing ( kid you not, thats what she shouts when the laptop appears ! ) its a wonder in itself that i aint busto.

as you know if you follow along here at all, i have been grinding the 4-card bingo on stars lowest limits 1c/2c pl08b with not bad results, getting past the 100 then 200 and finally 300 ....

then i returned to the land of the living :(

i know you should not set monetary goals and i dont as such. all i have been doing is trying to break through the next $100 barrier. no time limit so no pressure really. i almost posted a few weeks back about busting the 400 but didn't quite get around to it .... thats when i hit a downswing and dropped to 380 and have been stuck there for a couple of weeks ! the only real reason i dropped so much was an insane impulse dial-a-shot at 1/2 limit :(

and thats as much ball busting bankroll breaking as i can take, what a fucking woose, huh ?

you know, i read somewhere that the sign of a good player is not how much he wins, but how much he does NOT lose. ( played for 2 weeeks and won fuck all but lost fuck all, how can i not subscribe ) and i firmly agree with that one. now i may not be the greatest player but i do think i am better than average, maybe even capable of getting into that top 10% who actually make money. thats the idea of the grind and the bankroll management, get enough to progress to the next level.

stars next level, out of my comfort zone and bankroll is a fairly hefty jump up to 10c/25c which is a fucking huge jump from 1c/2c and 2c/5c.
going from a $3 or $6 buyin to a $15 min buyin is a hell of a jump and potentially bankroll bursting frightener .... question is, what sort of roll are we looking at to play the 10c/25c ????

another wee thing i read which i now firmly subscribe to is the art of multi-tabling. over the months i have found that having to few tables open leaves one wide open to the fucking disaster of playing way to many hands and by the simple law of averages, playing to many hands means you must be playing some real crap starting hands .... bad enough at nlhe but what a real fucking train wreck at pl08b !!

and as my (winning) friend acorn has stated on more than one occaision, volume is key ! hence my push to multi-table. it really is the only way to get said volume in for cash players at any rate, especially 4-card bingo cash players, well, sometimes a table can run as low as 30 hands per hour ffs, yours truly slowing the action down when required :)

as billy connolly says, noo where wiz a .... ah yes ....

so got stuck short of the next 100 barrier and then two nights ago i played a blinder and on multiple tables no less. it is soooo goot to run volcanic after two weeks in the doldrums !

oh come on, making 1000 bb's in one session is not to be sniffed at !

sorry, but i cant sniff at it ! and for me it was prolly the biggest session i have ever put in, in a single sitting, getting on for, in fact over, 1000 hands ffs. think i was equally chuffed to break two barriers in the one go ! w00t !!!!

before i go, just in case you missed it, what sort of roll are we looking at to play the 10c/25c ????

so i have crashed the $400 barrier, as ever, lets keep it there :)

Friday, 13 March 2009

the darwin awards - pt1

welcome back, gentle reader.

question is, who wins the award ????

Thursday, 5 March 2009

the good, the bad and the ugly - pt1

welcome back, gentle reader

sorry in advance for typos, i detest doing this on a laptop :(

the ugly - the gers gettin fukkin rivered, at home, by the mighty cally .... seriously wtf

the bad - spending 40mins trying to get an Internet link to watch the game

the good - running my rivered boat into a flopped big boat, not good :( buy-in gone but clawed half back during the grind, good :)
flopping quads .... and getting paid by 3 players in the hand, good :)
hitting nut straight on the flop plus outs to nut low .... guy chases me to the river, hits a fukking boat, no low, not good .... the guys name ???? catch22, seriously wtf

btw broke through the 300 mark (302), dropped to 292 during last nights session, finished with 312, all good .... :)

ha ha ha thats shot to shit since i gotta play $5 HORSE tonight ....

Thursday, 19 February 2009

f.m.w.a.p.s. - pt 1 & pt 2

welcome back, gentle reader

after you've read this. i'm sure you'll say heard it, seen it, been there, got the t-shirt, video .... and the sore ar$e :)

pl08b micro stakes last night. limped into a multiway pot and flopped the nut flush and second nut low .... w00t .... an early position donk bets small and i pot it .... leaving him 8c to re-raise me with, which he duly does ....
at this point two things happen .... another window pops to the front AND my two year old decides its time for a swan dive off the sofa arm onto daddy .... apart from a near fucking heart attack i extricate enough of the wee one so i can see the screen, fold the current game window and click on the game where mrDonk has re-raised me .... remember, 8c re-raise .... one fucking microsecond before my finger hits the mouse button .... the game i am trying to reach pops to the front .... and i hit the gawd damn fucking fold button .... sigh .... bye bye buy-in

thats when i uttered the immortal words .... f.m.w.a.p.s

in phonetics as my wee one is at the serious parrot stage. and then there was a knock at the door .... a smartly dressed young american man bearing a pokerstars id stood there .... with his designer pointy stick .... "aw naw, nae loob" I muttered ....

not long after, with the wee one crashed flat out on the sofa, i returned to the virual felt. with the usual array of tables open i flat call a raise from the blinds .... the raiser is a solid regular and i love to catch these guys out, oh and raising from the blinds seems to happen all to often for my liking, so i flat call in early position with a s00ted A2xx .... four of us see the flop come down all low and two of my suit :) as expected, the raiser pots it and I flat call not wanting to scare off the two behind me and they duly flat call. the turn is another low giving me the nut low and , i guess, the solid regular raiser from the blinds the nut low as well .... again she pots and we all flat call. the river is a diamond, yes my diamond, my nut flush. she pots it and is all in .... another game window pops to the front and i quickly fold my hand .... except it was not another window that popped to the front, for some strange unknown reason i just thought it had, i just folded the nut nut hand .... sigh .... bye bye 3 buy-ins

thats when i uttered the immortal words .... f.m.w.a.p.s .... no phonetics

knock knock went the door, same young man with pokerstars id, same designer pointy stick, "aw naw, nae loob" I muttered .... again

apparently I will walk "properly" within a week, sitting down may take a wee bit longer.

scariest thought of all .... surely not the exact same pointy stick he visited littleAcornMan with the other week ? that is a truly disturbing vision ....

Saturday, 7 February 2009

He holds him with his glittering eye - pt 1

welcome back, gentle reader

two nights ago I "cruised" through the $200 landmark, finishing the night with $205.67 safely locked into my stars account. no big deal, except I had not realised how much it actually meant to me !
Four or five nights ago I got my balance up to 197, thinking I would easily crush that pesky 200 barrier, only a single buy-in at 1c/2c .... and the bubble burst, all the fucking way down to 180 (and not a dart in fucking sight) meh. lmfao b00m headsot indeed.

my doomswitch got well and truly flicked. or else it may have been ....

a series of bad beats .... read playing a lot of crap starting hands .... aka my fault
getting mightily rivered .... read going to showdown with way less than the nuts .... aka my fault
pre-flop raises getting called left, right and centre .... read unable to fold pre-flop monsters on a train wreck flop with 4+ donks in the hand .... aka my fault

anyway, i was about to say, you may or indeed may not remember, I have been grinding away at the pl08b microstakes for roughly the past 3 months. well, seriously grinding, bearing in mind i am a self confessed recreational player, so multi-tabling the old hi-lo 4 card bingo was a little daunting :)
but stars, god love 'em, have 1c/2c for starters, so where else could i go :)

the other reason for using stars is simply the software .... streets ahead of the competition for this simple reason. The table requiring action pops to the front ....

and it stays at the front until you make a choice.

All the other sites, bar none, bring the action window to the front, but, big but actually, they do not keep it at the front until you make your choice. As soon as another table requires a descision, it pops to the front, irrespective of whether you have made a descision on the previous table or not !

well thats the way they work on my systems, one running xp and the lappy running vista.

so back to the grinding. when i started this it was due to my fondness of pl08b and the fact i was sick to death of nlhe, i had more or less $100 on stars. it may only have been $50 but we'll give it the benefit of doubt.
so two nights ago i broke the $200 landmark, thanks to a third place in a limit 08b tourney and also to a nice wee hand which we will get to shortly. it was only a wee tourney, but hey, third is third, especially since most of the peeps are nlhe donkeys :) and you know how difficult it is to play against punters who basically have no clue :)

Dear ResdentEvil,
You finished the tournament in 3rd place. A $15.00 award .... :)

oh and that hand.
well one guy seemed to know what he was doing, but the guy doing the raising when the board paired, well .... as they say, you decide.

PokerStars Game #24666832808: Omaha Hi/Lo Limit ($0.25/$0.50) - 2009/02/06 18:56:56 ET
Table 'Bellona VIII' 10-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: tccrasher ($19.40 in chips)
Seat 3: adogzilla ($9.50 in chips)
Seat 4: jay_jaywalk ($10.85 in chips)
Seat 5: masher_05 ($8.25 in chips)
Seat 6: stapler19 ($14.65 in chips)
Seat 7: Bocman ($10.50 in chips)
Seat 8: poo500 ($5 in chips)
Seat 9: ResdentEvil ($10.05 in chips)
Seat 10: tharjus ($1.45 in chips)
Bocman: posts small blind $0.10 poo500: posts big blind $0.25

*** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to ResdentEvil [Ac 9d Ah 3d]

ResdentEvil: calls $0.25 masher_05: raises $0.25 to $0.50 Bocman: calls $0.40 ResdentEvil: calls $0.25

*** FLOP *** [6h As Kc]

Bocman: checks ResdentEvil: checks masher_05: bets $0.25 Bocman: calls $0.25 ResdentEvil: raises $0.25 to $0.50masher_05: calls $0.25 Bocman: calls $0.25

*** TURN *** [6h As Kc] [6s]

Bocman: checks ResdentEvil: bets $0.50 masher_05: calls $0.50 Bocman: raises $0.50 to $1
ResdentEvil: raises $0.50 to $1.50 masher_05: raises $0.50 to $2
Betting is capped
Bocman: calls $1 ResdentEvil: calls $0.50

*** RIVER *** [6h As Kc 6s] [Tc]

Bocman: checks ResdentEvil: bets $0.50 masher_05: raises $0.50 to $1 Bocman: calls $1 ResdentEvil: calls $0.50

*** SHOW DOWN ***

masher_05: shows [4c Td Ts 3c] (HI: a full house, Tens full of Sixes)
Bocman: mucks hand mucked [Ad 4s 6d 5s]
ResdentEvil: shows [Ac 9d Ah 3d] (HI: a full house, Aces full of Sixes)
ResdentEvil collected $11.85 from pot
No low hand qualified
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $12.25 Rake $0.40

It may only be "limit" but fuck me, almost doubling your buy-in in a single hand ....

so that was the 200 well and truly crushed :) by a whopping 5 bucks .... but last night i wanted to play in a $5 tourney .... which dropped me right on 200 .... oh oh ....
but, thankfully i blagged first in the wee mtt


PokerStars Tournament #139154084, HORSE
Buy-In: $5.00/$0.50
14players
Total Prize Pool: $70.00
Dear ResdentEvil,
You finished the tournament in 1st place. A $35.00 award .... :)

and, I say, and, I picked up a few more schekkels at the cash tables. So thats 200 out of the way, right ? sitting at 237 so as long as I dont go playing to many tourneys ....

thinking about it my balance should have been higher by $6 or so. I had a great table at 2c/5c managing to double my buy-in .... but I donked, and I mean donked, off two buy-ins at 1c/2c .... sigh .... honestly, what a fucking donk I am sometimes.

and finally ....

pt omaha stats :)

1c/2c 9604 hands +$59.64 (pl08b)
2c/5c 3732 hands +$26.19 (pl08b)
5c/10c 190 hands -$2.81 (limit 08b)
10c/20c 383 hands +$3.75 (limit 08b)
10c/25c 23 hands +$0.25 (no limit 08b)
10c/25c 764 hands +$10.65 (pl08b)
25c/50c 513 hands +$36.35 (limit 08b)

the above stats are all from sessions played on my laptop and very pleasant reading they make. The following stats are from the pc and although they show an overall profit, there are some train wreck stats in there too.

1c/2c 6893 hands +$31.25 (pl08b)
2c/5c 3292 hands +$65.17 (pl08b)
5c/10c 643 hands -$0.19 (limit 08b)
10c/20c 932 hands +$0.07 (limit 08b)
10c/25c 353 hands -$1.65 (no limit 08b)
10c/25c 403 hands -$22.10 (pl08b)
25c/50c 157 hands -$3.65 (limit 08b)

25c/50c 75 hands -$19.65 (no limit 08b)
25c/50c 47 hands +$5.10 (pl08b)

lmfao, not at the time obviously, but how many fucking beers did I have during the no-limit 25/50 session ? Must have been sitting in the pub with Sir Al Cant Hang ....

Friday, 6 February 2009

the Glaswegian - pt 1

i usually let these things pass straight to the recycle bin. every now and then one makes me smile :)



" Spotted this cheeky little gift set in Haddows, Copland Road , Govan last night - the guy at the counter says they sell like hot cakes !

A bottle of Buckfast, 20 Mayfair and a packet of skins - you couldn't make it up !

BUCKY GIFT PACK ONLY £9.08 "

Monday, 26 January 2009

please mind the step

correct, i am away on another works overnighter. back in good old alnwick, just the one night though, and its a silent "L" and silent "W" just in case you were wondering ....

nice hotel with a great power shower. as i stepped out the bathroom i stumbled and thought "where the fuck did that step come from ?" i turned and looked at the bathroom door .... thats when i noticed the sign .... sigh :)
been working in Newark these past couple weeks so been with the family most nights and weekends .... zagga, nip round and see if my ek house is still standing, please :)

of course family and poker do not mix well at all.
telling her to go see to the screaming kid because i am involved in a 73c life or death draw just dont seem to cut it .... no idea why !

as you can tell i am still micro stake grinding the pl08b on stars .... which is going not to bad .... but a win rate of 20bb per hour hell, even 50bb per hour takes a fucking long time to increase the old roll by anything vaguely interesting.

i did have one interesting hand last night and thank your lucky stars the hh is on the home machine !! so from memory ....

quite literally just sat down with my usual $3 ....

dealt A2xx suited and i min raise from early .... gets reraised and then reraised again .... i'm thinking wtf ? as they aint normally so aggro pre at this level on stars .... lol i gotta call

4 see the flop flop leaves me the nut low draw and the nut flush draw ....

i potted it for a buck and fuck me the other three called ....

turn gives me nut low and nut flush .... fuck it, all-in for me ....

and fuck me i get three callers (one guy was a shortie)

river .... and the board paired, shit

really thought i'd lost the high and was getting quartered on the low ....

then one by one .... they mucked their hands .... honestly wtf ?

so i scoop high and low for a truly mammoth $9.73 .... 480 odd bb .... seriously. wtf ?

now, if i could get that kinda "luck" at $1/$2 .... hell, even 10c/25c

oh-quad-goddesses-of-poker, Amen

Saturday, 3 January 2009

the three amigos

and a Happy New Year to you all :)

its not often that you get 3 crakkers at the one table. these guys were going at it when i stumbled onto the table, so not entirely sure what the hell was going on.
we have all seen there type but the only time i have run into them is at a tourney table .... cash pl08b madness anyone ?
anyway, i sat down at this 1c/2c pl08b table with my usual $3, unaware of the asylum i had entered ....

Seat 1: getterdone36 ($1.90 in chips)
Seat 2: ResdentEvil ($3 in chips)
Seat 3: maxie08 ($2.97 in chips)
Seat 4: lewisrowl ($10.19 in chips)
Seat 5: -AAO- ($32.23 in chips)
Seat 6: HU4Rollz IMO ($9.51 in chips)
Seat 8: Da_FoRcE16 ($1 in chips)
Seat 9: DAYTOP ($10.23 in chips)

the very first hand preflop action

-AAO-: raises $0.07 to $0.09
HU4Rollz IMO: raises $0.23 to $0.32
getterdone36: raises $0.77 to $1.09
-AAO-: raises $2.54 to $3.63
HU4Rollz IMO: raises $5.88 to $9.51 and is all-in
getterdone36: calls $0.81 and is all-in
-AAO-: calls $5.88

i waited with baited breath to see the sterling hands which rated so much preflop action ....

-AAO-: shows [Kd 5d Jh Jc]
HU4Rollz IMO: shows [Qc 5s 9c 3d]
getterdone36 mucked [4d 9h 6d Ts]

thats when i realised something was slightly amiss.

and thats how it went for the next 20 minutes. all-in preflop. every. single. fucking. hand.

madness.

i resisted for a whole 6 minutes before i too, got caught up ....

Dealt to ResdentEvil [5s Ad 4d 2d] .... gotta be worth a shot ???? right ????

ResdentEvil: shows [5s Ad 4d 2d] (HI: a straight, Three to Seven; LO: 6,4,3,2,A)
ResdentEvil collected $2.83 from side pot-1
ResdentEvil collected $2.83 from side pot-1
ResdentEvil collected $1.92 from main pot
ResdentEvil collected $1.91 from main pot

Seat 2: ResdentEvil ($9.49 in chips) .... whew :)

didn't last long, this type of insanity is catching .... sigh, all in preflop, again

Dealt to ResdentEvil [5h Qd Ad 3h]

-AAO-: shows [5c Jh 2s 2d] (HI: two pair, Queens and Deuces)
getterdone36: shows [Ks 6d 4d 4c] (HI: a flush, Ten high)
getterdone36 collected $31.84 from side pot-2
ResdentEvil: shows [5h Qd Ad 3h] (HI: a flush, Ace high)
ResdentEvil collected $10.21 from side pot-1
HU4Rollz IMO: mucks hand
ResdentEvil collected $19.03 from main pot
No low hand qualified

still cant believe i actually did that ....

Seat 2: ResdentEvil ($29.24 in chips)

getterdone36 was the biggest winner, buggering off with close to $49, lol jammy git ! and me ? i managed to escape the asylum with $29 .... an incredible 1300 bb thank you very much.

it seems that these guys are all from the same asylum :)

HU4Rollz IMO said, "me aao getter and one or two other 2+2rs were shoving pf at plo8 the other day at 1c/2c... i ended up losing 300 bucks"
HU4Rollz IMO said, "aao had about 220 at one point"

ResdentEvil said, "lol thats gambling"

Sunday, 14 December 2008

fuel55's gold - pt4

welcome back, gentle reader

and another tale from the dark side, enjoy, i did :)

PokerStars Game #22889136826:
Omaha Hi/Lo Pot Limit ($0.01/$0.02) - 2008/12/13 17:32:17
Seat 1: ttr61009112 ($1.83 in chips)
Seat 2: Major Julli ($6.08 in chips)
Seat 3: Rosi27 ($4.03 in chips)
Seat 4: WherezMy$$$ ($1.19 in chips)
Seat 5: outplayingU ($1.57 in chips)
Seat 6: ResdentEvil ($2.73 in chips)
Seat 7: Cards01352 ($1.32 in chips)
Seat 8: Bruntus ($0.59 in chips)
Seat 9: john1984 ($2.69 in chips)

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to ResdentEvil [5c 4d 5h Ah]

ResdentEvil: calls $0.02
john1984: calls $0.02
WherezMy$$$: calls $0.01
outplayingU: checks

*** FLOP *** [3c 5s Jc]

WherezMy$$$: bets $0.02
outplayingU: calls $0.02
ResdentEvil: raises $0.06 to $0.08
john1984: raises $0.18 to $0.26
WherezMy$$$: calls $0.24
outplayingU: calls $0.24
ResdentEvil: calls $0.18 ....... lets not get too cocky

*** TURN *** [3c 5s Jc] [5d]

WherezMy$$$: checks
outplayingU: checks
ResdentEvil: bets $0.08
john1984: raises $0.46 to $0.54
WherezMy$$$: folds
outplayingU: calls $0.54
ResdentEvil: raises $0.48 to $1.02
john1984: calls $0.48
outplayingU: raises $0.27 to $1.29 and is all-in
ResdentEvil: calls $0.27
john1984: calls $0.27

*** RIVER *** [3c 5s Jc 5d] [9s]

ResdentEvil: bets $0.64
john1984: calls $0.64

*** SHOW DOWN ***
ResdentEvil: shows [5c 4d 5h Ah] (HI: four of a kind, Fives)
john1984: mucks hand
ResdentEvil collected $1.18 from side pot
outplayingU: mucks hand
Cards01352 said, "V N H"
ResdentEvil collected $4.79 from main pot
No low hand qualified
outplayingU leaves the table
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $6.27
Main pot $4.79.
Side pot $1.18.

Board [3c 5s Jc 5d 9s]

Seat 5: outplayingU (big blind) mucked [Qc Td Ad 2d] ....... amazing
Seat 6: ResdentEvil showed [5c 4d 5h Ah] and won ($5.97) with HI: four of a kind, Fives
Seat 9: john1984 mucked [3d Jd Ac Js] ....... ouch

dont they know .... i do not bluff .... much :)

Thursday, 11 December 2008

jones-U-cunt

welcome back, gentle reader

jonesUcunt .... keep blogging ffs

remember .... humour .... :)

Wednesday, 5 November 2008

a game of skill, right ? - pt 5

welcome back, gentle reader

well well, less prolific than the other two ?? wow better get the finger out :) of course to be prolific, you need time ... and something to say ... not sure which of those two i am most short of !!

anyway, i only mention this because my exit hand was just spectacular ... the mistiming, on my part was hard to believe ... a real omfg and almost rotfl moment ... made me smile :)

PokerStars Tournament #117555102, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $0.10
4648 players
$50.00 added to the prize pool by PokerStars.com
Total Prize Pool: $514.80 Tournament started - 2008/11/03 - 16:00:00 (ET)
Dear ResdentEvil,
You finished the tournament in 269th place.
A $0.42 award has been credited to your Real Money account

and the exit hand, sorry don't have the hh err to hand ....

i am down to less than 10bb and get dealt ... TT ... that'll do me, i thought :)
i push from early position, the guy 2 seats along thinks, calls
the guy on the button doesn't think and blasts his huge stack all-in ...
mr 2-seats-along thinks ... and pushes the remainder of his stack in ... oh oh

mr-two-seats-along flips over QQ ....... bugger
mr-on-the-button flips over ... AA ....... double bugger

do any of us get to crack those aces ?? did we buggery !

the funniest thing ? well mr-two-seats-along could have folded since he had only put about a third of his stack in to call my push ....

i wonder if ukgatsby will give me this months spectaculary mistimed pushes award ??

Friday, 17 October 2008

a game of skill, right ? - pt 4

welcome back, gentle reader

this "tournament" really was fucking hilarious ... honestly, they were dropping quicker than the ftse 100 ....

PokerStars Tournament #114301586, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $0.10
4078 players
$50.00 added to the prize pool by PokerStars.com
Total Prize Pool: $457.80 Tournament started - 2008/10/16 - 16:00:00 (ET)
Dear ResdentEvil,You finished the tournament in 792nd place.
A $0.13 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

what a h00t and one of the quickest mtt's i have ever played ... and a 33% profit .... outstanding :)

Wednesday, 8 October 2008

my buddy, Wil Wheaton - pt 2

welcome back, gentle reader

so how far can you get in a tourney when down to 4bb in the first 10 mins ??

well, you need some luck ....

with Qc 9s Jd Kc and only hitting a K on the flop i pushed, one caller who hit trips on the flop ... oops ... there was one club on the flop ... one on the turn .... river club completes my mammoth suckout .... gets me back to the hugely impressive t260 .... and all i could muster in the chat was "blimey" .... err sorry Sting11165

then, you need some dubious play by the opposition ....

dealt KTJJ rainbow i call a small raise .... flop J9K rainbow and i pot it, he raises me all-in and i call
*** RIVER *** [Js 9d Kc Qs] [4h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
S.t.B: shows [7s Ah 8c As] (a pair of Aces)
ResdentEvil: shows [Ks Tc Jh Jd] (a straight, Nine to King)
ResdentEvil collected 550 from pot

then you need the opposition to fold ....

limp with Js Kc Jd 2c ... bet pot on 3s Jc 8h flop ... they fold and i show top set

then, you need to fold .... a lot :)

then, you need to hit some sets ....

call a small raise 9s Jh Jd 9d .... flop Kc 9h 2s ... pot it for t300 hoping to avoid a set of kings .... all fold .... giving me t855 ... yeesh this is hard work.

jahs34 said, "set again"

then, don't get caught stealing ... i did, dropped to t555
then, you need the nutz .... turned the nut flush and leapt to t1055

then you need a little prophecy .... ResdentEvil said, "lol i will get bak in this game somehow :)"

or maybe not, lots of folding, again :(

then, you need your buddy to show up and give some moral support ....

Wil Wheaton said, "wheeee! =]"
BamBamCan said, "Wil Sir.... welcome"
ResdentEvil said, "well hello mr Wheaton ...... again :)"
Wil Wheaton said, "we have to stop meeting up like this"
ResdentEvil said, "lol i wont tell :)"

even with that stellar moral support .... lots more folding .......

then, you need the opposition to catch a hand, preferably ever so slightly worse than yours ....... especially when your stack has dwindled to t580 ....

Sting11165: shows [Th 4h Ad Td] (a flush, Ten high)
ResdentEvil: shows [Kh Jh Jd Kc] (a flush, King high)
ResdentEvil collected 1410 from pot

then, hang on for the first break ... blinds 50/100 aint exactly good for my stack

then, a gentle ribbing of the opposition pre-break .......

ResdentEvil said, "hey trane, can i have my chips back after the break :)"
Trane420 said, "no way"
BamBamCan said, "U can suck out!lol"

lol indeed, this programme will resume after the break .......