Thursday, October 20, 2005

Alright, Calm Down, Calm Down !

Sorry about delay in new blog entry, but I've just about returned to sobriety !

Was in Liverpool last weekend for a friends Stag weekend. Pints in the City centre were £1.19 each .... need I say more? So a £10 note gets you just about 9 pints !
Well, talk about favourable pot odds !!!
Nightlife is great as well, just shows you how badly we're being ripped off here.
Got tickets from touts for Liverpool game, all the lads support them. Match was shite, and was not impressed by Anfield at all really, City Ground Nottingham is a far nicer ground.
Hotel was nice, staff were Nazi's, Fire Alarm went off at 4.30am, good job we were still up ...lol ... what a weekend !!

Very little live poker so far this month, although when I play it's still going quite well.

4 Live tourneys this month so far. Friday 7th was in the AUL, which has now ceased it's tourneys, 22 runners, I was 4th for £100. Pushed with 10 10 and called by chip leaders A 7, he spiked an Ace on the river. Pity, the double up would have given me a nice base to make a claim on first place for a 3 in a row at the AUL.

Then on the following Sunday, played Oscars €30 tourney for the first time, very good value. Got shite cards for an hour and a half, but the 12 seater tables, and relaxed blind structure meant time was on my hands. Starting getting some cards and worked my starting stack of 4000 up to about 5500, when I got busted.
Dealt AA in SB, folded around to me, I raised 3*BB (3*400=1200) and The Snapper in the BB called me.
Flop K 7 4 ... I led out with a bet of 1500, The Snapper re-raises me all-in. I couldn't put him on any 2 pair, as he wouldn't have called the raise, as he would have given me credit for a decent hand.
The set of 7's or 4's crossed my mind, but I felt the most probable scenario was, he had AK, and thought that I had raised with AK, AQ, AJ or QQ, JJ etc...
I felt I was in trouble here, as The Snapper is a good tourney player, but I had 2700 of my 5500 chips in the middle, and having 2800 left if I folded was going to leave me very shortstacked, so I called hoping to see that he had pushed thinking the King put him ahead. Alas he had 44 so a set of 4's put me out.

Went Upstairs and played the freeroll, which I won, so I've now €350 credit in the Fitz, so I'll play the €270 game this month.

Only other game was in Drogheda, where a lot of Dublin based boardsters made the trip, and were duly sent home by the locals.
I finished on the bubble in 10th, again had poor cards, and got as far as I felt I could. Maybe should have pushed one orbit earlier but had 2 all-ins before me, and thought I was behind, which did prove to be the case.

Think I'll take trip up to Drogheda again this evening for Shortstack's Tourney.

Forest up to 8th now, so hope the run continues.

Monday, October 03, 2005

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Can we do September Again?

Well, this is primarily a Poker Blog, and what a month September was for me.

As you know, I withdrew some money from my on-line bankroll to give live poker a fair go.

After a fairly slow start and some incredible bad beats, I've been on an amazing run. Of my last 10 live tournaments, I've made 9 final tables !

Last Sunday I was down home and made the final table in a pub tourney in Kitimagh, playing with Louis Walsh's brother on my table most of the night. Lost a huge pot on the second last table so limped onto final table very low stacked but managed to win a free ticket for the next time I'm down ... 8th out of 46 runners.

Thursday, I was in town in the afternoon and decided to play the Fitz freeroll, the €270 game was taking place afterwards, I won a ticket there at the freeroll, so very happy, however decided to leave it in credit and play it next month (October) as I was feeling a little tired and wanted to get home to some nice home made food....by me, Lasagne, my favourite! Kinaldo from Boards also won a ticket, and Doc Farrell went out around 11th or 12th.
And last Friday night, to top it all off, I won again at the AUL taking home €800. There's talk of moving from the AUL due to poor taxi access, but I can't complain about the place. Played 2, Won 2 ! Big Dragon from Boards was 3rd, I'm afraid I took him out, but put his chips to good use. Heads Up I was 3/1 down starting off, but after 10 mins or so, I felt I had the upper hand, and just ground my opponent down with constant pressure. I felt I had a good read on him as well, so I knew when to drop the cards when he came back at me.

The heads up was very enjoyable and took about 30 mins before my A9 beat his Q6 when he made his deperate last attempt to double up.

All in all for the month of September, I cleared over €3300 profit which is just brilliant.

However, Ollie Boy makes that look like peanuts ! Ollie won the Speed Poker open in the UK for STG £50000 ! He qualified through a $4 satellite, won his heat and semi final and obviously the final as well. He said he will give me a DVD of the series, as I have NTL and not Sky so I don't have the Poker Channel. what a result !

Another lad from Boards.ie, Imposter won a trip to Vegas !

The guys on Boards are going to be serious players in the future !

Forest seemed to have turned the corner at long last, and are looking like they should be there or there abouts at the end of the season pushing for promotion. I'll keep my feet on the ground for a while yet, but it makes a change to have some sort of promise at last.

Next weekend Sherwin is off on a hen weekend to London, I'm going to Liverpool to the stag the weekend afterwards, so busy time ahead.

I think I'll play the Sunday €30 fFreezeout for the first time when Sherwin is away , as well as my Friday AUL game, if it's still going ahead there. Rounders123 won that a couple of weeks ago, and it is supposed to be a great tourney.

Playing a wee bit of on-line poker again, Betfair STT's, going to be disciplined and try and work up a nice big wad of money to have a great blow out of a Christmas! No Messing about, I'm on a mission !

Radio Campaign starts tomorrow on Newstalk , so here we go with Magazines365.com, it's time to tell the public !