Well like i said, not much online Poker been going on since last post.
Wednesday was my day off work this week so i planned a morning raid on Hall Green Dogs and the afternoon was set fair for a rare Live game of Poker.
3 runners at HG yielded two 3rds and a 5th. Only had 2 bets all morning, unfortunately both losers.
Onto the Casino in West Bromwich for the Live Comp. 3.30pm start £10 entry , £10 buy ins and add ons. Nice afternoon comp which attracted 30 runners with 1000 starting chips.
Kicks off on a table where i only knew a couple of faces. Plays tight until i got dealt 45 hearts, small raise so i called to see the flop. 4 way flop 36K, everyone checks, turn 7 checked round to me until i put a small bet in, instantly raised for the rest of my 600 chips. He had slow played his K and was drawing dead on the river. Nice start for me first hand played and more than doubled up.
We had a lunatic on our table who decided to sponsor the comp by having 12 buy ins, which meant there were plenty of chips on our table.
Not wanting to gamble to much i sat pretty tight, playing only about 7 flops in total until the buy ins ended. KO poker starts and people start taking less gambles. Then the Blinds go up and the shortstacks start pushing. Soon we were down to the last 12/13 and thinking of a FT.
FT made pretty comfortably with 6200 chips, not lots but a managable stack. Still work to be done as only top 5 make the money and blinds set at 300/600.
Early doors on FT i raise the pot with 99 and everyone folds so i take the blinds.
Waiting for my moment to make a move, with 8 left i get dealt JJ on SB. With 3 flat callers i push for all my chips, only 1 caller who turns over KQ. JJ holds up to take a nice pot :)
Quickly we make it to the final 5 and we're in the money. Shortstack soon goes so 4 left.
Guaranteed £100 now and not having had a buy in things were going well.
Played 4 handed for a while totally card dead blinds started to take its toll. 2 players had big stacks, the lady and i had much less. I see my first Ace for ages and decide to push, Lady calls other 2 fold. With me All In and she only having 500 chips left after calling me it would be curtains for one of us. She turns over JJ v my A7 luckily for me the Ace came on the turn and she was crippled.
Down to the final 3 and i am still very much short on chips.
Waiting to pick my moment the other 2 get involved in a couple of pots, winning one each.
Blinds now at 800/1600 me SB. Button calls (very strange call as he either passes or raises) i make it up and BB checks.
I have K10
Flop 10,7,2.
I check as does BB , button bets 2000, i think for a while (thinking of his strange call preflop) i reraise another 5000 BB gets out and the button sets me in. I have top pair decent kicker and no draws out on the flop i am convinced he has a big pair !!!!!! After taking my time i reluctantly pass, he doesn't show just takes the chips. I have left myself damaged with 7000 chips left and Blinds sky high.
A few rounds of Blind stealing by all followed until i get QQ in BB. SB raises 2k with 2k, i raise again he calls. I have only 2300 chips left ( i count them out as the flop is dealt) not even looking at the flop i say All In, i look up and see Q,5,4 on the flop he calls with 87, the Gutshot doesn't come and i double up.
Very next hand i get KK on the button and raise the pot SB passes and BB reraises me, i push for the lot again,he takes a while to think, then he says hes got a small pair and passes, he doesn't show. One more hand is played and after a quick chat we decide to chop it up as there is only 4K difference in chips between all 3 of us.
Not a bad afternoons work as i take home £265 :)
Grand National tomorrow so a busy day at work for me, for what its worth i shall be backing Simon, Monkerhostin,Longshanks and Bother Na
I have a few quid to play with because Russ did us a good turn tonight by winning his 6th race for us @ 4/1 , his first at A3 level :) :)
Finally i hope to be back on the tables on Sat + Sun, in the meantime be lucky
Neil
Saturday 14 April 2007
Monday 9 April 2007
So Far So Good
So far April's poker has been very good.
I am well on my way to achieving my monthly goal of 2 wins and 15 FTs.
With 2 wins already in the bag, win 1 a $5 mtt and win 2 a $10 mtt and 7 FTs things are going pretty well.
Would like to win a biggy though, think i will play a lot more satellites to try and qualify for the bigger events.
One thing i must remember to do is not to overplay AK (copy 100 times)
Things will probably slow down a bit over the next week as work will unfortunately get in the way :(
Our 3 runners at Hall Green came 2nd, 4th and 6th (sounds better than last) , Charlies 2nd was a pleasing result because it was her first run back after injury. Only bet was Russ who came 4th.
Birthday greetings to my son Simon who will be celebrating his 21st on Monday.
Tommorow is also the Irish Grand National and i will have a little interest in Kings Advocate.
The house hunting looks finally over, we have put in an offer and it was accepted. Probably be a while before we move in as you know what its like with all the rigmarole and everthing.
One last note - a special mention for Chalfontfan. Nick played tonight for his seat at the WSOP and he played a very solid game. Only 1 seat was up for grabs and he finished in a very respectable 4th place getting a decent cash in the process . Well Done Chal
Good luck as always to you all
Neil
I am well on my way to achieving my monthly goal of 2 wins and 15 FTs.
With 2 wins already in the bag, win 1 a $5 mtt and win 2 a $10 mtt and 7 FTs things are going pretty well.
Would like to win a biggy though, think i will play a lot more satellites to try and qualify for the bigger events.
One thing i must remember to do is not to overplay AK (copy 100 times)
Things will probably slow down a bit over the next week as work will unfortunately get in the way :(
Our 3 runners at Hall Green came 2nd, 4th and 6th (sounds better than last) , Charlies 2nd was a pleasing result because it was her first run back after injury. Only bet was Russ who came 4th.
Birthday greetings to my son Simon who will be celebrating his 21st on Monday.
Tommorow is also the Irish Grand National and i will have a little interest in Kings Advocate.
The house hunting looks finally over, we have put in an offer and it was accepted. Probably be a while before we move in as you know what its like with all the rigmarole and everthing.
One last note - a special mention for Chalfontfan. Nick played tonight for his seat at the WSOP and he played a very solid game. Only 1 seat was up for grabs and he finished in a very respectable 4th place getting a decent cash in the process . Well Done Chal
Good luck as always to you all
Neil
Thursday 5 April 2007
April and evening openings
Well April's here and what a great month it is !!!!!!!!!
My Birthday to celebrate , my sons 21st Birthday to celebrate, Aintree and the Grand National, the Masters, NFL Draft, FA Cup Semi Finals and the Promotion/Relegation encounters etc , etc
But there is a downside to April ......Evening racing starts !!!!!!!
Even though the British meetings don't start until mid April, the betting industry decide in their wisdom (greedy fat cats imvho) to extend trading hours commencing the 2nd April.
Today was the first time i was down for the 'late' shift, not only the 'late' shift but the powers of be also introduced an earlier start time for many of our shops !!!!!!!
We now trade from 8.30am till 9.30pm , with setting up and closing down you are looking at a 14 hour day (8am-10pm) not allowing for travelling.
Today i copped for the lot, with the joys of Aussie horses + dogs this morning, then the normal programme from 10am of dogs, numbers, virtual, horses and more canine action to the delights of more Virtual, American Horses and the BEGS service later on, Oh yes and the near fight in the shop as to which Sky Channel was being shown- Man Utd, Chelsea or England v Sri Lanka !!!
On a brighter note, today was a decent day, we had two runners on the Bags at Hall Green and they managed a First @ 3/1 and a third.
Archies win was his first for us on his seventh attempt - well done Son :)
Onto the Poker and after my win on the opening day it seemed that the Poker Gods had turned against me. Having managed to get a couple of days holiday from work i decided i would play a lot, i stayed on the Betfair site having recently gone back to them. Betfair seems to have solved most of the problems they had since leaving 'crypto' and the Guarantees are very good value at times.
Playing various MTTs from a Buy In of $5 - $40 i couldn't do anything right, missing out on the money four times by the odd place here and there. A couple of ill timed gambles, stupid calls with a middle Ace and of course the odd outdraw.
A couple of hours off did me good when me and the missus went house hunting, having accepted an offer on our house it was time to get our fingers out !!!!!!!
Back at the tables in the evening i entered four MTTs making three Finals :)
I played really solid and i fancied i could win another one. Not to be though i finished 4th, 5th and 9th.
The $800 GTD i finished 4th in was the one that really got away. I had a decent Chip Lead on the FT and when we were 6 handed 3 times my AK, AQ and JJ all ran into monsters and were beaten. Then with four left i got dealt K9 on sb (other 2 had passed) i raise 3xBB and BB calls.
Flop K82 i bet the pot out, he min raises, i push with the rest 40k in total, he pauses for ages..... his stack just about covers me.......just as the timer reaches the end he calls and flips over K10 aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh turn and river no help and gone.
He soon polishes off the other two short stacks for the win.
Off to Ludlow Races tomorrow (working) then Good Friday (day off) then three runners at Hall Green on Saturday night plus more house hunting no doubt i will be fairly busy in the coming days. I will try and sneak in the odd Multi in between :-)
Best of luck to you all
Neil
My Birthday to celebrate , my sons 21st Birthday to celebrate, Aintree and the Grand National, the Masters, NFL Draft, FA Cup Semi Finals and the Promotion/Relegation encounters etc , etc
But there is a downside to April ......Evening racing starts !!!!!!!
Even though the British meetings don't start until mid April, the betting industry decide in their wisdom (greedy fat cats imvho) to extend trading hours commencing the 2nd April.
Today was the first time i was down for the 'late' shift, not only the 'late' shift but the powers of be also introduced an earlier start time for many of our shops !!!!!!!
We now trade from 8.30am till 9.30pm , with setting up and closing down you are looking at a 14 hour day (8am-10pm) not allowing for travelling.
Today i copped for the lot, with the joys of Aussie horses + dogs this morning, then the normal programme from 10am of dogs, numbers, virtual, horses and more canine action to the delights of more Virtual, American Horses and the BEGS service later on, Oh yes and the near fight in the shop as to which Sky Channel was being shown- Man Utd, Chelsea or England v Sri Lanka !!!
On a brighter note, today was a decent day, we had two runners on the Bags at Hall Green and they managed a First @ 3/1 and a third.
Archies win was his first for us on his seventh attempt - well done Son :)
Onto the Poker and after my win on the opening day it seemed that the Poker Gods had turned against me. Having managed to get a couple of days holiday from work i decided i would play a lot, i stayed on the Betfair site having recently gone back to them. Betfair seems to have solved most of the problems they had since leaving 'crypto' and the Guarantees are very good value at times.
Playing various MTTs from a Buy In of $5 - $40 i couldn't do anything right, missing out on the money four times by the odd place here and there. A couple of ill timed gambles, stupid calls with a middle Ace and of course the odd outdraw.
A couple of hours off did me good when me and the missus went house hunting, having accepted an offer on our house it was time to get our fingers out !!!!!!!
Back at the tables in the evening i entered four MTTs making three Finals :)
I played really solid and i fancied i could win another one. Not to be though i finished 4th, 5th and 9th.
The $800 GTD i finished 4th in was the one that really got away. I had a decent Chip Lead on the FT and when we were 6 handed 3 times my AK, AQ and JJ all ran into monsters and were beaten. Then with four left i got dealt K9 on sb (other 2 had passed) i raise 3xBB and BB calls.
Flop K82 i bet the pot out, he min raises, i push with the rest 40k in total, he pauses for ages..... his stack just about covers me.......just as the timer reaches the end he calls and flips over K10 aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh turn and river no help and gone.
He soon polishes off the other two short stacks for the win.
Off to Ludlow Races tomorrow (working) then Good Friday (day off) then three runners at Hall Green on Saturday night plus more house hunting no doubt i will be fairly busy in the coming days. I will try and sneak in the odd Multi in between :-)
Best of luck to you all
Neil
Tuesday 3 April 2007
Welcome, and a BIG hello to you ALL
Hiya
Gonna give this Blog thingy a bash, been meaning to do it for a while.
I have read a few of these in the past and i find them most enjoyable :)
Can't promise to be funny but i will tell you a few tales from the Tables (Good and Bad) with a mix of Greyhound, sports and work (the joys of being a Betting shop manager) thrown in as well.
Some of you may know me as i post regularly on the £2 (and slightly above) thread , (special mention for Mr Gatsby who takes a lot of time and effort to keep the tables updated ;) on the Betfair Forum.I am not a big stakes player i generally stick to the smaller Buy in Tournys.
My greatest Poker claims to fame (so far) are Winning the Flashmob League last year and picking up a few $$$ after winning a few MTTs, $440 being my biggest return :)
Hoping to keep my good run of form this year (3 wins and 25 FT) until the end of March up i started off April in flying style by winning a 78 runner $5 MTT on the first day :)
Thanks for taking the time to look me up and i will try to post on here regularly , but for now a big GL to you all
Gonna give this Blog thingy a bash, been meaning to do it for a while.
I have read a few of these in the past and i find them most enjoyable :)
Can't promise to be funny but i will tell you a few tales from the Tables (Good and Bad) with a mix of Greyhound, sports and work (the joys of being a Betting shop manager) thrown in as well.
Some of you may know me as i post regularly on the £2 (and slightly above) thread , (special mention for Mr Gatsby who takes a lot of time and effort to keep the tables updated ;) on the Betfair Forum.I am not a big stakes player i generally stick to the smaller Buy in Tournys.
My greatest Poker claims to fame (so far) are Winning the Flashmob League last year and picking up a few $$$ after winning a few MTTs, $440 being my biggest return :)
Hoping to keep my good run of form this year (3 wins and 25 FT) until the end of March up i started off April in flying style by winning a 78 runner $5 MTT on the first day :)
Thanks for taking the time to look me up and i will try to post on here regularly , but for now a big GL to you all
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