Running like the sun...

Been on fire over the past week or so finalling a bunch of stuff on ipoker, and most notably taking down the $33r on sunday (always a brag to do it on a sunday)

This, accompanied with the $30r win have turned my 8 wins into 10 for the blonde mtt challenge and i've somehow shipped that home! So the DTD £300 that i was off to next week will now be free, ship it.

Put in a pretty epic session today playing from 2-10:30 starts, then played all the 12-1.30's as i was'nt tired. Went pretty tez and i spewed about £1K during today and yest.

Have managed to play 3 of the 5 ecoops so far (2 i didnt play were PLO). Big ty to Middy (hitthehole) today for putting up 50% of my buy in as im too big a nit to pull up $800. He went on to go pretty deep in it, aswell as shipping a $10K wsop package and 5th in the stars 50r so he'l live with me spewing his $400. All 3 of them have gone very badly so far, but i have high hopes for 2mo's $215 6max, should be pretty sweet. Oneeeee time.

The BR is looking as healthy as its ever been atm (except when it was £1K bigger 2 days ago) so all content on that front, would be great to keep running super hot though.

In other news, my sweet ass monitor came through last wednesday, and had paid for itself a fair few times over on sunday, ship it holla etc.

Blonde Bash 6...

Had been looking forward to this for ages and was eager to get down to notts early and start drinking. As usual we fail at being early and Brent is driving through from tad with Gib and Steele who take forever so me and Rich decide to bomb into Headingley and ship a subway. We just get bk to the flat before them and we'r ready to go, at the new start time of 5:30 rather than 3:00.

The drive is a breeze and i don't think we have any near collisions like we usually do. And after getting abuse for driving 50mph all the way through that 'av speed' zone (which you obv have to) we were in nottingham, Steele had shotgun and begin beeping the horn to every car which put me on ridic tilt especially after he did it to this dodgy looking guy at some traffic lights! Nowhere to run vs dodgy guy in nottingham = imminent shooting ldo. We somehow got to the holiday inn alive and saw Kev in front of the hotel, somehow every blondebash its always Kev we see first. We meet Mayhew in the lobby and check in.

We go up to don some ballin' shirts and i pwn Mayhews soul at high card, you're not playing with amateurs here son, i've not lost a flip for years. So a bevvy in the hotel bar with floppy, dunk and crew and we were off into town. Met claimer and fran at walkabout and about 25 mins later taxi#2 met up with us, gatso's crew stole our 2nd taxi so by the time we met Brent etc we were in the 2nd bar of the night. A tonne of beers and a banging rendition of Busted's 'what i go to school for' by myself, claimer and gib on the kareoke and we were on our way. I was pretty wasted by this point and remember going to 2 more bars, then hitting dtd. Managed 1 beer in dtd then was cut off after trying to order a glass or merlot with Nick Hicks.

Me and dunk begin betting on random shit and i own him relatively hard, but spew that back and then some in a £20 sit and go. Where gatso cripples me AJs < AQ then bust to Benjo the French Antonio Esfandiari A7 into QQ. Mayhew ships in a McD's from the DriveThru only place despite every1 saying we had no chance.

I get up at some ridic time like 9am as Mayhew and Gib are getting up to go to footy, i cdnt be arsed playing as usual but didnt mind being awake as SoccerAM was on followed by the Palace vs Bristol City game. Gib came back after numerous hours of me falling in and out of sleep still fucked from the night before and we get ready to hit dtd and win bb6.

I start on the cokes as im still hammered and defo cdnt even think about facing food. The tourney gets off after the announcements and awards etc. I've got JC to my left who i hadn't played with before but knew out of all the ppl it could have been, he wasn't the best to have there, sigh. Got off to a pretty quiet start but the table was gonna be pretty easy. Popped it in the c/o with 86c and lead at a 457r flop 4 ways but everyone turbo folded, JC claims to have soulread me and mucked 77.

I just keep playing small pots before finding AA and a 5.5K stack in the bb @ 150/300/25. Its folded to the button, delboy who pops it to 900. I think about flat calling but decide to just try get it in, i make it 2775 and he shoves for 3200ish. Obv i snap and he tables 55 which insta gets there. This was pretty huge to lose as we were at the stage where i could open it up and feast on passive players ante's but being knocked down to 2.3K was a huge beat and meant i had to grind ridic hard.

I pretty much maintain my stack shoving and getting it through and was just waiting til i got called. JC made that a reality when i shoved the button and he called the in the sb tabling A7c. I sweat mine and find 2 none accross's, oh great, needs to be AA or 23 or im dead. Boom, i peel the 23 over but a 2c in the window peels, i tell him not to worry as he has made a fd with one card. Another 2 on the flop seals it pretty hard tho. weeeeeee. Me and him could've both probs mowed this table except we could never get any chips together when needing to hold in a showdown.

I get up to like 10Kish after busting theduke and shipping his £50 bounty, it was a massive sweat though, never easy. I shoved in E-MP with KQo and he gambles with T9s. It comes a flush draw and a gutter and 2 live cards for him to hit on the end but a perfect bricks ships it hard and trumper came and sent the bounty over, ship the red note ldo.

At this point our 5man crew round our end of the table began to disperse. Delboy and JC bit the dust, JC ran bad again and was crippled JJ < AA. I get to double up with QQ into the sb re-steal with 9T and im up to 24K. We decided to chop the 26man last longer for £65 each and i busto 2 mins later shoving K6h into an ITB crew members AKo. Sick timing to chop it. Shippp.

After busting (had started drinking at this point, come to think of it, thats probs the point the poker went downhill) i went and got a dtd burger, as they are defo ftw. Then we proceeded to sit at the table in front of the bar for hours drinking and betting on pretty much anything. Brent decided he would take any bet on the US racing then started sweating when Rod Paradise had £4 on a 60/1 shot. Flushy and Gareth came over and then the sick shit really kicked in. Flushy started being a ridic degen laying £60 vs £50 cf's and eventually a couple of £300 cf's! He got stuck like £500 but managed to spin it all back up somehow, he runs good. Mayhew was trying to spin the fk out of whatever he could and went busto once, but bet his cigs vs flushys fiver to get back in the game. oiiiiii oiiiii.

Jen somehow took it down and i went to congratulate/tell her she must be more golden than god at the bar. As i came over i was offered a 'mini guinness' or some shit, a shot that looked like a guinness and an excited laxie and her husband we're telling me i had to do it. So after 2 of those i was fked again and looked over to the computers to see everyone starting another trademark 'Horneris' Penis' thread. I had a genius idea of every1 getting on a differant comp and making one at the same time. Needless to say well all got a 12 hour ban. Finally i got banned! ship!

We got back to the hotel late again and tried to order room service but the phone was busto, so we 3 way flipped for who goes down stair to order it. I lost, which was pretty devastating. I went down and ordered 3 chicken curry, rice and naan's which would be up in 20-25 mins apparently. Well, i'm still waiting for it mate! The next thing i know its 11am and im lay on top of my covers fully clothed still. Must've passed out waiting for it. I go back to bed til 1 and get ready to go pwn the HU tourn.

We somehow get a bye through round 1 so our £100 team buy in is worth £175 already, senddddd the free money. We get Jen and floppys team in the round of 8 and i crush floppys soul by flipping like a machine after getting down to a 800 < 4200 chip deficit. In round 2 its at 2-2 and all riding on Brent vs George2Loose and a flip ftw. Brent has KQc and Rupinder has A6. It comes out xxK and we go crazy, a 6 on the turn followed by another on the end crushes our final dreams. We chop 3rd place money with Sharpleas team as half of them are in the PLO still and its a bit harsh making them come grind the HU for just £56 lol.

We say our goodbyes and head to pizza hut where we fume as theres no large bases left so we cant have a cheesey bites pizza. So ridic brudel. We hit home at 9:30pm ish and i just lie in bed all night not going to sleep til like 4am. Degen sleeping pattern is back so hopefully i can grind like a ninja for a few weeks and carry the form on that i left with.

May >> April

April ended a complete write off. Stuck -£2.85K online and £330 live (playing all of 1 tourney). It was looking up towards the end though, i won a small donkament for like $1.3K and playing less volume was defo helping.

This form has continued into May and how i'm running is sick different! Won 2 donkaments in 2 days.

Firstly the $25r 6max on ipoker for $3.3K on sunday for the 2nd time this year. Played pretty well in this and pretty much mowed the final after the big stack made a spaz call with KTo and doubled me up with my AK. I got HU with said opponent and lolowned him pretty easily.

Then I won the $20K on crypto the next day for $5.8K. Ran great from 20 til the final going from like 16K @ 800/1600 to 70K. Even though i went on lifetilt as i get dc'd on blonde while deepish in the $109 fo then them locking my account so it took me 15mins to get it sorted to carry on playing! I got to the final 2/10 but started getting 3bet shipped on and was soon bk in the pack with like 10bb's. I shoved in EP with 33 and got snapped by MP2's 99. But peeled a 3 ball of with ease. I then got to see a K6x flop with K6o and got dbled through by KQ. At this point i had like 200K vs 5 ppl with 70-100K each, i busted another guy with AQ > AK (i run good) and there was no looking back.

I had another potential great day today finalling the pty $10r and the tilt 20r. But came like 7th in both for about $650 in total. Then went pretty deep in the ipoker $55r but busted with AT <>

Looking forward to blondebash this weekend going down with Horneris, ChipRich, Steelio and TheGib. Probs get hammered and spend loads but itl be worth it.

Dropping down :(

Been playing pretty high lately for such a bankroll nit, and been investing like $1.5K-$2K a day on torns.

I'd love to stay up there and kick it for a while, but im stuck ~$4K in April so far so i'm gonna drop down and grind hard for a while before moving back up.

Dropping down will involve a schedule of $10-$55's and $3-22r's rather than $22-$109's and $10-33r's. Its a bit of a sigh tht i could'nt get off to a sick start @ the higher stuff and i was only a flip or 2 away from a big score coming between 10-18th in the tilt 109 3 times in 4 attempts was a massive beat, especially the time i ran KK < AA for a sick pot with 11 left.

In other news, i shipped an iPod touch in, its absolutely crucial and will hopefully make live poker less tedious.


Edit: Will be on a hiatus from stars and tilt for a while and will be grinding everything on blonde, party and dtd. PS, brag: posted this edit on my iPod touch!

DTD £330...

Was pretty excited to play this tourney, with 10K and 45 min levels inc every level under the sun + antes it was going to be a sick structure.

Too bad i suck and misplayed 2 hands pretty hard costing myself a tonne of chips i could've saved.

Got of to a decent start getting paid off by Ali Mallu with AQ > AJ on a AKxxx board. Was up to 13k by the end of level one, then get QQ utg and pop it to 300 @ 50/100, mp calls and the button makes it 1300, he was pretty terrible @ poker and i take a flop off, it comes out 7 high rainbow. I check and he fires 1300 again, i felt this was pretty weak, so took another card of to eval. The turn bricked and he made it 2500, i should obv just fold to this bet but like i said, i suck @ poker so i call. The river brings K and i check, he checks behind with AA wtf?

After that hand i was down to like 8K, but still a tonne of play. After the second break i grinded from 7800 to 8250, and call an utg raise to 800 and mp flat with 99 from the sb. It come 9c 8c 2h. I check, utg leads 1100 and mp makes it 3100. I think for about 30 seconds, shrud and ship my 7500 into the middle, utg folds and mp dwells before calling with QQ. I hold and i'm up to 20K. This is where PeteL really turns it up a notch and start raising and c-betting every hand, to which ppl are spewing off tonnes of chips to him. I just decide to stay out his way as he's awesome and can probs read my soul.

Then comes another spew hand for me, i pop it utg with AJo to 1075 @ 200/400, utg+1 flats as does PeteL in LP. It comes down JTx with 2 spades, i lead 2025 and utg+1 calls (hes just been moved here fwiw). The turn bring the Kc and i check as i'm not deep enough to fire again. He insta bets 3200. This confused me and i took a card off. The river bricked and i checked again (debated putting a blocker in) He thought then bet 5K. I had 13.5K back and i think he has to have a set or a busted flush draw (he 3bet a OR before with AJo so i think he 3bets AQ pre so tht was probs out the question). I doubt its a thin v-bet with a K and a set probs raises me on the flop with PeteL to act after him and JsTs on the board. I decided to look him up and he flips TT. wp Dave.

Now i'm down to 7500 and in the bb. MP limps (he had been every hand) Pete made it 1500 and the sb called it (as he did every hand) i'm ready to shove pretty light and hope MP didnt limp too strong. As Petes range is massive and sb is 99% passing. It made shoving pretty easy when i looked down @ AQc. MP folded and Pete dwelled before calling with a 9To, the sb folded and it was on there backs. I decided to lose despite it coming Jc 7c but a 9h sent me to the rail.

Thoroughly enjoyed the structure and the fields so soft, just a bitch tht i had Pete 3 to my left all day. And we didn't break the table til after i busto'd. I'll probs be back next month.

In online news at the end of March i scored a $4K cash for 3rd in the $50K which sent the month into the green for about $2K, wiiiiii etc. And last night i cashed for $1.5K in the 30r on iPoker, this aswell as $1.2K in cashes on thursday night (taking down the $10r 6max and coming 5th in the $5r for about $550 a piece) means April is only $500 in the red so far.

Being a laze...

I'm back hardly playing solid sessions at the mo, about a day after the last post i took down the $33 $10K on stars for $2.8K which got me back to like $700 stuck for the month. Since then i've spewed another $800 in half sessions. So stuck like $1.5K with 3 days to go in March, hopefully will get another 2 massive sessions in on sunday and monday. 1time get in the green!

The DTD team event was absolutely comedy we set off at about 10:30 and got to notts in v good time it was all going well until the satnav bird told us to drive through a massive metal fence which was gonna be pretty tough. So we got Fran on the phone to direct us to her house! She pulled out some ballin' t-shirts she'd had done for team 'imo' and we got a taxi to dtd.

Probs wasnt the best idea to start necking pints @ 1pm and after a dtd burger we were off. I never got started in the tourney after spewing like 2K with AA in hand 5. There were 2 limpers for 50 and the sb completed, so i popped it to 250 total in the bb with AA. The utg limper flatted and we were head up to the QTX flop. I lead 300 which he snap minraised to 600, i took a card off which came another T. I checked, and he checked behind. At this point hes usually got a QJ or some other livedonk hand. The river bricked and i v-betted 1K, which he dwell called with JT, wtf? So yeah tht was me down to 975 and push/folding for the rest. Eventually the same guy limped utg on my bb again and i shoved with A8o, he called with AJo, sigh. I busted in level 3 but was the 3rd person in the team to bust, so it was looking great. Maria busted a while later and it was all down to Fran. We were all sat behind here having some banter and when she got it in with AT vs 99 we wer all stood up. A ten peeled in the window and chants of ''yesssss, thts how we roll'' were echoing round the room but a 9 ball followed it quickly. kill us plz.

I played the £55 fo a while later and was pretty tired by this point and after spinning to 13K by the break with KK>KK (apologies for being that golden). I got moved to sledge and dan's table which proved to be comedy and i valuetowned some guy with my KJ on a JJXKX board vs his AK. Then i played a pretty weird hand. I popped it with KJ utg+2 to 1650 (300/600/50) and the new guy called with a big stack. The flop came KTX with 2 spades, i lead for 2200 which he flatted. The turn came another brick bringing a second club on board, i think for a while and am pretty sure he has some sort of combo spade/straight draw, so i just move in for like 10K. He absolutely snapped it i was like fk my life why do i always do this when ppl flat me in pos with sets. Turns out he had Tc6c for a pair and a fd. Some how the river bricked and i was up to like 30k. After this i just kept popping it and getting 3bet shoved a lot. And eventually busted 14th after 3bet shoving a terrible player with ATo, he had AJ. sigh.

Should be successfully switching uni courses this week so il be free til october, ship it massively. The course im currently on has a placement year for its 2nd year which would be such a beat i cnt face doing it. And the new course will finish @ the same time i would do anyway.

Sickest sunday ever...

This weeks blonde sunday thread was probs the most depressing of all time. I think we were all bringing each other down, not even the golden one (moorman1) could get anything going.

I played 5 majors; Stars million and warm up, Tilt brawl, Party 300K and Blonde 200K. I ran ok in the brawl and warm up for a while but busted my stack off in these 2 hands in the warm up:

sb shove #1
sb shove #2

I tilted off pretty hard in the brawl when i popped it in the cut off with A6h and the sb 3bet shoved and i snap tilt called it, his AKs held ldo, i was then down to like 3k @ 250/500 and found AA utg+1 and shoved then held vs AQ. Back to 6800 and 3bet shoved over a lp 1250 open and a flat caller with ATo, the OR re-shoved with KQo and i somehow held so i got back in it with 15K. I got 3bet shoved on a few times and was back to 10K and shoved over a serial limper @ 500/1000 with QJd, he called with 56c and won.

I played about $2K worth of donkaments and cashed for about $100 lol, luckily i had satted into all 5 of the majors i played, so it was only a -$1K day. Next time i go for it on a sunday im certainly cutting out a tonne of small donkaments, no good can come from playing tht amount of volume, i cdnt concentrate at all with like 15 tables on the go.

Got a shed load of live stuff coming up:

DTD team event on sat 22nd and will play the £55 later that night.
DTD £300 on April 5/6th with sledge, hotel booked etc. 1time live poker.
bB6 @ DTD on May 10th
APAT Ireland in June

Dropping back to $55fo's and $25r's for the remainder of March to see if i can get out of my $3K hole!

loldonkaments

Feb round up...

I'm so fkin lazy now. I'm pretty sure its all due to that retarded prop bet. Ever since then i've put in maybe 1 decent session. I had been putting in half sessions and just playing ftp and stars. Had a bit of success in the 15K on ftp coming 2nd for $2.3K, but lost to the worlds worst player HU.

In my one full session i managed to final the 20K $30r on iPoker, it was crapshootish as usual and i decided it would be good to run like death, i ran QQ into AKs and JJ and lost a monster 320K pot with 7 left to go 1/5, the board ran out 6789T so i was left with half of the 140K side pot. Down to 70K with blinds at 5/10K. I shoved the next hand with A2s > QJo and was back to 140Kish. I then proceed to get into another massive pot with the JJ guy from before with AQ vs AJ and it fired out XXXXJ, LOL donkaments imo. So i busted 5th for $1K, sigh 1st for $5.4K would've been ok.

Despite being a lazy unfocused month feb still brought £3,128.58 profit. £510 of that was live poker wins, which is now in the green for 2008.

Planning a weekend trip to dtd for the £300er in April as sledge won the blonde league and shipped the seat. Hopefully itl be a fail safe way to blow £440 + hotel/petrol costs, ship it.

So, March is on its way and im going to get back playing a tonne, even though i got lolowned in March last year and this year is following a similar pattern!

Its official, I am a sick degen

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=31293.0

Just over 26 hours, of which mainly consisted of 10-18 tabling $4/$12/$22 180's with no breaks. It was sick to say the least.

I woke up at 4am to get ready for the 5am start. Showered, made sandwiches and checked the drink was stocked with enough lucozades, redbulls and bottled water to see me through. Come 5am i reg'd for every 180 going and was soon 10 tabling. From here i tried to consistently 18 table throughout the day. And during i just chilled listening to music and trying my best to lifetilt Rich and Brent into making mistakes. It worked pretty well on Rich who was fuming and refused to speak for about 3 hours.

The results were pretty bad, which should've probably been expected playing so many tables. 6-8 tabling then i believe i could be pretty profitable. I got through 307 tournies in the period, cashing in 41. Winning 2 of those 41. Overall i lost $385 LOL. But shipped the $400 sidebet monies so totalled out with a +$15 day! Any sunday in the green is ok in my book!

The final leaderboard looked like this:

1. LeKnave - 5134.40

2. Horneris - 5047.55

3. ChipRich - 3627.95

The bet probs saved me $1K (sunday donkaments ldo), but may have taken a few weeks off the back end of my life.

Really cba to play online atm after tht day. Slept for 12 hours after it, so probs go for another few now and maybe il be back to the grindstone.

The DTD trip was good even tho i was ridic hungover from James' bday partying in blue cayote til 5am. Managed to fall asleep and throw up directly on my laptop in my sleep, which then busto'd and i shipped a new 1 lol. I wasn't even gonna go to dtd after the way i felt waking up, then Brent came over and somehow got me to come. Was probs a good thing as i came 4th for £470. Not really much to tell about the tourney, i doubled pretty early with 99 > AA on a QQ9 flop and then went rly dead and was just picking spots to get by. Finally one of my sqeezes got called and i was 73d > A9o to get to 10K, then i got an absolute gift from some douche who stacked off with Q9 on a K5Q5X board to my KK. Made the final around 2nd/3rd in chips and just popped it as much as i could while staying away from a solid lag guy from leeds. I was pretty sure i could have took it down if i ran good vs him, the other ppl were pretty weak passive. But i got crippled in a cooler 4 handed where i reshoved the button with QQ and the bb found KK and the button snapped with AQd. Clearly i didn't hit the 1 out ball and was down to nothing and ran A4 into 55 and busted. As is usually raved about the quality of the staff running the tourney was 2nd to none.

Prop bet time...

A new prop bet has been planned for this sunday, i will reveal all later in the post.

Had a pretty sick day on friday but no wins :-( 2nd in the $5K on party for $1.1K, 3rd in the DTD $13K for $1.3K and 3rd in the LOL stars $3r for $2.8K. The scores helped to turn around the -£1K into a +£2.7K, but over the weekend i ran/did pretty bad with no real cashes of note, and have spewed back about £1K of it. So Feb online profit is sat at +£1.7K.

I went to moortown last tuesday after being out drinking from 1-7 so that was pretty fun, after getting into a massive argument about whether i had to table my hand after being shown the winner, challenging 3 ppl hu4rollz and generally lolling @ how bad live donks are; i took it down for £240, not bad for an afternoon on the ale, and it swung my 2008 live profit into the green.

Off to DTD again on thurs with Horneris, ChipRich and king degen Oli will be meeting us there should be ballin' as per. See if we can run good this time.

On to the prop bet then:

Ingredients: 3 degens, 3 laptops, 3 extra monitors, 72 cans of redbull, 48 bottles of water, 48 bottles of lucozade and a takeaway menu.

Method: Attain as many TLB points from stars 180 man sng's ($4's, $12's and $22's) in 24 hours as possible.

Stakes: $200 each, $600 ftw.

Additional Items: An attitude ready to gogogo.

I went for a test run tonight to prepare myself for 20+ tabling again as i havn't done that for donks. And it was pretty tough, hit every $4, $12 and $22 180 from 4pm til 6pm. Got 29 in and hit 4 finals netting $470 profit LOL shibit. I was pretty comfortable 20 tabling, i need to make sure not to have msn open or browse blonde + 2p2 LOL. I think i have an edge in the bet, but the winner will just be whoever runs best. And as Horneris and ChipRich run perma-bad i fancy myself. We will make a thread on blonde throughout the 24 hours, which runs 5am on Sun til 5am on mon, so check in there to see how its going.

Lesson #1 imo...

dnt brag about winning it puts the doomswitch on.

stuck £1K in feb so far. sigh.

January round up...

January 2008 has been my most successful month of all time. I managed to donk my way to winning £9,108.01. The sickest part is the fact that i only made £8K in the whole of 2007! £9.2K was online and i lost £150 live. I only managed to get 3 live tourns in though.



I ended Jan this morning by taking down the $55 speed crapshoot on pty for $1.6K. Sick that it had 119 runners and the blonde mtt board is 120+ torns.

I put $600 on fulltilt a few days ago, and never got going and busto'd it within 2 sessions. The structures are soooo good on there compared to other sites. I will probs put some more on in a week to play the FTOPS as theres a few events i want to play.

Gonna kept grinding party, stars, dtd and blonde for february and will see how i run.

Closing one out...

The day after that last post i managed to win a tournament! It felt fkin awesome and proved that adding the $100 fo's to my schedule was a good idea. I ran good on the final going in 10/10 with 6bb's but only 1 suck out after i shoved over a 4K limper for 32K with KTc and the bb found AK and i flopped a 10. I've made £5.7K in January online, and lost £149.50 live, but only played 3 torns, lol donkaments.

In other news, I went down to the £55 FO at DTD with Horneris, ChipRich and Sledge. The place really is the shit. Excellent running of the tournament, the valets are great and service is very fast. The whole place just has a great atmosphere. I hope to make the trip at least once every fortnight and i'd encourage any one to go. It was easy to get there and back with the sat-nav. Even Horner had the boomswitch working in the internet terminals. Shipping a final in the $2K and getting deep in the 6max!

Winning without winning...

Doing amazingly well in January, currently sat at +£3200 for 2008.

Have only won about 3 donkaments outright. Today was another day of nearlys, i finalled the $20r on party early on and donked out in 4th with K9h < KQ on a KJX flop, this was good for $1300. Then had a final and a bunch of minor cashes on iPoker. Followed by coming 2nd in the $5K on dtd for $950. Finally i cashed for $1100 in the $55 6-max on stars. Ran bad at crucial times on the final, Ac6c < A4o all in on a AsKc9c flop, so fkin brutal the following hand i ran good with 66 > J7 all in on a 773 flop. Before running KK < A8 aipf. These scores accompanied by 2 $750+ cashes on sunday made for a good weekend.

Even though i am making decent scores, it is still very frustrating. Everybody knows all the money is on the first place in a donkament. And i can't help but feel i am losing money every time i fail to take one down. Hopefully i can keep putting myself in spots to take one down and it'l come. The variance is sick once down to 5 or so players though. Today 1st in the $20r and $55 6max were $5K and $2.7K respectively, but i only walked away with $1.3K and $1.1K in each. But i'll take being unhappy in this case than being unhappy at a major downswong any day!

Off to DTD on thursday, can't wait! Should be a good laugh with the team of wankers, Sledge, Horneris and ChipRich.

gl at the tables.

Dave.

January Joy...

Running sick good in the opening few days of Jan, and have already made just shy of £2K in 2008.

I have won 2 donkaments already, a small $20 $2K gtd for $650 on DTD and a bigger $55 $6K gtd on iPoker for $2.5K. This accompanied by 2 2nds in Party $10 rbys for $750 each as well as a handful of other finals.

In the $6K that i took down, i ran amazing HU winning 2 flips and then A9 > KK to finish him off. But it was a different story HU in the $10 rby: where i lost a huge pot with 99 < A3 and finally A8c < A2o. But on the bright side, i ran good HU in the tourn which we were playing for $1K, and bad in the one playing for $400. I didnt really care about the money, just wanted win number 2 for the blonde leaderboard, so fkin sick.

I'm still playing $55 max buy in's. I am considering starting to play some $109's as i am well rolled enough to do so, i'll probably play 1 a night for a few days, either the $12.5K $109 on iPoker, the $20K on Party or the $20K on DTD. And if they go poorly i'll consider leaving them out for a while. But i think the only way to get the stage of regularly playing the biggest online donkaments is to do it step by step, and the next step for me is $109 FO's so lets gogogo.

I've got of to a losing start on the live front. Venturing down to moortown for the £25 w/1rby and busto'ing 20th. Had a small return on a % swap with gibbo who came 4th, but a loss of £44.50 to start the year. The new schedule includes a £25 w/1rby on both fridays and sundays so i'm going to make an effort to get down once a week and qualify for the freeroll in March which will have a £4K prizepool. 1 time 50 points, should be easy to do as fri+sun are triple points nights.

My sleeping pattern is so fked atm, i'm sat here at 9:30 on sunday morning and been up since 6pm last night. I need to try go to bed to be up for some standard sunday shot taking later.

g'night.

2007 Roundup...

12 months playing a decent amount netted me an £8,070.22 profit. My target at the beginning of the year was to make £12K. But after a more relaxed second half of the year i am happy with my total.

Online:

For the past 12 months i have had 9 winning months and 3 losing. Varying from +£3,202.38 to £1,567.70. Online poker has really made me want to die at times this year, but im back in love with it after finding iPoker's mtt's.

Individual Sites Profit Breakdown:

1. DTD +£3,416.09
2. BPL +$2071.85
3. Party +$1567.55
4. Stars +$1100.00
5. BlueSQ +£400
6. Mansion +£366.29
7. Mermaid -£14.63
8. FTP -$2069.08

Total Online Profit : £5,518.44

Live:

I played 54 live tournaments in 2007. Cashing 16 times, I won 4 of them outright and chopped one. Making £2,528.56 from live donkaments.

I didn't get into much live cash game action in 2007. I sat 10 sessions winning 4 times, losing 6. Overall turning a profit of £2.00. I think exploiting cash at Moortown in 2008 needs to be done, but i usually tilt if playing after busting from a tournament, so maybe going down at 10:30ish and playing cash only.

I played 5 sng's live, winning £21.22. These are mainly from bb's and apat and usually just for comedy value.

Total Live Profit : £2,551.78

Goals for 2008:

• Make £15,000 profit
• Play at least 1 GUKPT leg
• Play 2 WCOOP Events
• Secure a job in a poker room for my placement year

Happy new year everyone, lets fucking goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. imo.

Actually an ok day...

Zomg, 4 final tables in one day. 2nd, 2nd, 3rd and 6th though, so brudel.

Started at like 5ish as Horneris was grinding and hit most torns on iPoker, DTD and Party. Went deep in the $10r with Horner, ended up busting in 6th for $250.

Then the 2nd lot of tourns around 11/12pm kicked off and i built stacks pretty deep in the $6K double stack and the $4.5K on iPoker, as well as the 2nd $10r on party. I finalled in all 3 of these, coming 3rd in the $6K for $950ish, 2nd in the $4.5K for $850ish and 2nd in the Party $10r for $750.

Ended up winning £1,100 for the day. And the BR looks a lot healthier going into 2008.

I will post on the 31st with my years round up.

Back playing...

Having got my essays out of the way i have had a few days to grind some tourns again.

I cashed $500 off stars and put £250 on DTD to play all the tourns throughout the day. Have won 2 mtt's since moving there. But only small ones for $750 and £200.

Had a potentially big sunday by qualifying for 3 of the biggies: Mansion 150K, DTD £40K and Tilt $750K. Ran bad in all 3 (mansion KK < AA. DTD AQ < KK and Tilt AA < 85c on a 889r flop)

November finished in the green, shiiiiiip. LOL +£94. Came 4th in the £55 at moortown on the last day of Nov to swing it into the green. Decided to run QQ into KK 4 handed for a decent pot but bricked the turn and river after a hopeful 9TJ flop. At least it ended the worst spell i've had in live poker, 11 tournaments without turning a profit!

Gonna keep grinding DTD and Tilt mtt's for as long as i can, but i think i might have to do some more work soon so it may have to take a backseat.

APAT Walsall, Winning a Donkament and Plans

APAT was a pretty hard failure. Beginning with the drive down, stuck in a traffic jam for 2 hours on the M5. But listening to the audio recording of Barry Greensteins 'Ace on the River' took the edge off.

After finally arriving at the end of level 1, i started to accumulate a few chips and was always gradually increasing them by every break. At the end of level 10, a pretty sick hand happened between myself and M3boy, and a massive thread on blonde was started about it, here.

Anyway i won that pot, then knocked off a shortie and was in good shape with around 35 left. Then i kept getting moved and sat down at a new table utg and folded, then in the big blind was dealt AJo. The cut off popped it up to 12K (he had a big stack and i could only guess his range was amazingly wide in that spot) so i moved in for like 33K more. He made the call with 44 and i lost the race. 29th place was good for £0. Can't be to unhappy to busto in that spot tho. 100K pot near enough.

The other night Horneris decided he couldn't play the $22 deepstack 6-max on stars any more as he had work in the morning and it was like 4am. So i took over for 20% thinking it nicely bubble it for him. But obv as im only playing for 20% i run good and pwn the whole thing taking down $1.7K total. Of which only $350 was mine. ffs stars let me run good when its all for me ldo. But at least it gave me the feeling of closing out a donkament again. Since that i don't think i've played a hand online. I had an exam for uni last monday, which went pretty well. Then as a reward for my hard work i was looking forward to grinding some torns so hard. But of course the internet decided it won't bother working any more, and the router blew out. ffs stars.

So hopefully that will be fixed soon. But poker will still be on the backseat as i have 2 essays to do, and 2 mates 21st's to celebrate. Involving trips to Newcastle and Liverpool. Thankfully the Newcastle trip (being Horneris's) will involve the £30 FO on saturday night at Aspers. Lets gogogo.

Busto in a month?

Sigh. Another month living in the flat, and another terrible month. I dropped £780 online, and another £160 live. So donking £1950 in August and September is not the greatest start, especially with the added living expenses i've taken on since moving in.

So as my rolls been pretty destroyed im back to grinding again. Playing tourneys from 6-1 every day was really hurting the roll. So its back to the grind. 10 tabling $16 sng's for November. Maybe not the whole of Nov but at least for a few weeks to build some scratch and hit the tourny's again.

Its sad as i really felt i was on the verge of a big win, been very close to some $4K-$10K wins but just that final hurdle goes wrong and i end up crashing out for $100-$900. So the big win will have to be put on hold.

Its not going to be easy and i'm probably going to nut a fair few objects throughout the mind numbing sng grind. But it'l all be worth it if i can build the roll back and be back smashing the mtt's.

As well as dropping the £1K in October it was probs one of the more expensive months with trips to Dublin and Cardiff throw in there. Making it hurt the finances even more!

Another trip is coming up tomorrow. With the English leg of the APAT Season 2 Tour. £75 FO with 10K and 40 mins clock with all the levels. Hopefully a score will be had. Me, ChipRich and Linux are going down. Should be a good laugh.