Monday 30th

3 words ! I AM KNACKERED !!

Friday night.. played online and entered a comp at about 9pm.. 1107 runners and i place 109th ( in the money) get to bed about 3:30 am..

Awake at 9:30 and do a load of running about ..

5:30 off to DTD for the virgin festival ( didn't have a seat but thought we would go and play the £50)

After a semi bad beat on a guy on the 1st hand

http://www.aworldofpoker.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12720

i double up and then really just grind into the final and finish 8th for £201

get in at 5:30am and get up at 12:45 ish. potter about the house and then decide to go to the £10 rebuy at Owlerton.

Great start and after the rebuy period i've got 13.5k and no rebuys ( had a top up cause it was 2k in chips)

3 tables left and i've got 35k ish.. total chips in play is 296k so wit 12% of the chips i sit back and play big hands only..... and as normal.. when you don't really need to get involved they come in abundance i pass more A 10's A J's than i've ever done before .. even to small raises where i would re raise and push them off the pots.

only hand i played was against the biggest chips on the table beside me ( but i do cover him with about 22k !! ) i raise with AK and he flat calls.

now the pot it 5k and he has about 10k left i'm first to act and i tell him before the flop is dealt that my bet is 12k ( enough to cover him) he looks at me puzzled so i say " well even if you push i'm sure i'm ahead ) he incorrectly reads me for AA and passes.

Thats the only read bullying move i made.

anyhow final table comes and people fall but the strangest thing i see is a guy passing ( short stack) for 1.5k when he only has 1k left. he passes to 2 calls and the bb left to act. How much value does he really want for his 1k... This is all pre flop btw

well i end up chopping the pool 4 handed for £380 it's only a little comp but a nice one on a sunday afternoon.

got home at 12:00 midnight and now at work ....

GOD I'M TIRED

Last night

Only really played for an hour.. and beside from sticking my entire stack in on a mis read hand and losing $50 on Hi Low ( god i've got to clean my glasses.) the only other notable hand was this one

http://www.badbeat.com:8080/static/gameReplay.swf?gameID=1044067444

so that even though i was a complete prat on hi low ( i did reload and manage to get quite a bit back !) that put me in profit for the night

To night is grinding night.... Kids are at my mums and the mrs is out to get drunk

See you at the tables

Mark

Last night

Well what can i say... flop the complete nutz on about hand 2.. don't really get paid for it..

then manage to get outdrawn more times than a blind gunslinger

thats it.. no more .... be aware .. if you've got a draw... your gonna pay to hit it !!!

Wednesday

http://www.badbeat.com:8080/static/gameReplay.swf?gameID=1042740290

Oh what a smashing hand

And that was that ...

Later on !

a couple more hands

http://www.badbeat.com:8080/static/gameReplay.swf?gameID=1041528698

Why oh why didn't he call..... answers on a postcard what he called the previous bet with please !

http://www.badbeat.com:8080/static/gameReplay.swf?gameID=1040617137

Got it wrong but how can you shove for everything with 77 ? to a re raise... i don't do that personally

Well after yesterdays -$68 i'm back to a postive figure of about + $15

tomorrows another day..

p.s. Rhino lady.. if your reading this .. let me know how you got on in the freeroll

Tueday Night games.

Going to update as i go along and try and put some hands in here

First one tonight i'm proud of

http://www.badbeat.com:8080/static/gameReplay.swf?gameID=1041211813

just enough on the river i thought to make him think i wanted a call

Then yesterday i couldn't flop a set with a pocket pair and then today this happen

http://www.badbeat.com:8080/static/gameReplay.swf?gameID=1041186437

Smashing ...

http://www.badbeat.com:8080/static/gameReplay.swf?gameID=1041239694

Time for Dinner !!

Tuesday 24th June

Well thats the first day done with.. i'd love to tell you i sat down with my entire bankroll and blastered the 5/10 tables and made $10k..

Alas as i went back to ipoker from crypto i sat on .25/.50 NLH to re discover the players again

Played 2 tables for about 3 hours each last night.. with an ending profit of ..... -$62.00 ish.

The amount of crap hands i picked up was amazing and it looks like ipoker's not changed since the last time i played it. out of 360 ish odd hands i picked up about 25 pocket pairs..

AA 3 times and a 100% record !! twice picking up the blinds and then once making $25 total pot !

the rest of the pockets pairs lost... KK lost to Ace rag ! with a limp UTG and a re raise to a serial raiser of course he hits his ace on the flop.... but he's only got $5 left in his hand so i take the chance for 2/1

the only real hand i hit was calling what i was 99% certain was a bluff. i had 77 on a 4 4 8 board, I pressed with a bet and he reraises me all in , at this point i'm sure he's not hit the flop and has AQ or AK.. i call and sure enough he's got AK and misses.

well thats about it.. a bit none descript none event full day but it's the first day over and i'll get my account topped back up to $500 today.

and i thought you were supposed to hit trips about 1 in every 5 pocket pairs .. Can someone let ipoker know that cause i think they have forgot ;)

Mark

Oh a quick side note..

Well done to Frazer .. Who on his 2nd attempt and beating back the rushing people firstly managed to grab a seat at the STT table and then went on to win his seat for the virgin festival

Monday 23rd June

Well..

After an event filled weekend i managed to bust out of the virgin festival Sat with 9 places to go to the seats. I've always said that Sattalite play is different to anything else. to me it's a matter of just getting to the seats. So with this i played uber tight and managed to pick up kings in late position. The blinds are 75/150 and there has been a couple of flat callers. I raise to 725 and get 1 caller. Now the guy who calls has been playing a lot of hands. i normally can put someone on a range of hands but this guy was impossible to do it with.

Board comes K 10 8 2 diamonds. Now i've flopped top trips, but to be honest i'm scared of what he could be holding, Theres a chance he could have JQ,9J or even Ace rag of diamonds. he pops a bet of 400 into the pot and i instantly move all in.. I think if he's got AK he calls. If he's got any drawing hand i think he folds. he has been muttering about " pot odds to call" " i've got value" ( the latter i cannot stand and the reason why later)

anyhow... he ain't got AK cause he thinks for a minute and folds.. i show KK for trips and he taps the table all good.. i don't want anyone drawing to knock me out

So the chips are passed to me and i get a funny luck from a friend of mine.. " What you playing at" he says " Top trips? All in ????" yeah i agree in normal tourny or cash play it's not the best move.. but Sat play i think it's different. ( i'd enjoy your comments on this if anyones reading"

So taking the comments on board we get down to about 31 player with 22 seats available. i've got about 7.5k in chips with the avg being about 6.5k. I pick up pocket 7's in late pos and i call a raise of about 5xbb. Big blind also calls and we see a flop.

K 7 3 rainbow . Again i've flopped 2nd trips. now after taking on board ( rightly or wrongly ) what was said to me by my friend i check the trips after the initial raiser checks. BB pops a bet in of 1000. inital raise folds and i call slow playing the trip 7's

turn come Q spades which now gives 2 spades on the board. i check and the BB bets 1k again. i move all in for about 4.5k ish, he calls instantly with K2 spades top pair and flush draw. The spade comes on the river and i'm to the rails.

Now it ain't a bad beat, i know that, but personally i think if i push on the flop i take it down then. Just like i did with the kings . i wouldn't have been massive in chips but about 10k with quite a few short stacks on the table

I drove home not very happy with my play.

Well other than that todays the day.. E says my account should be credited by 12 so i'll be on later playing for www.badbeat.com

i'll try and post later to let you know how i'm doing but who's knows whats going to happen.

Laters all

Mark

Sunday Morning 7am.

Morning all...

Well standard time to wake.. 7am ! and since everyone else is in bed ( except Beth who's as bad as me ) and still sleeping i thought i'd take the time to do what i said i'd do, Yeah create a blog for my Bad beat experiance.

Well everything is sorted. Pokermon installed and working ( tried some fun hands on Grandslam poker) skype password found ! Mentor added. MSN all tickery boo.

So now it's just a waiting game. Spoke to E at Bad Beat, Money will be in my new account on Grandslam by 12pm tomorrow.

I will not be playing under my normal poker names. as you prolly know i've used "Brother Love" "Bro Love" and other variations.

Well thats about it ! Oh i am playing the Virgin festival sats later at DTD. it's gonna be a squeeze with 30 seats available and 4 of us going down down for it.. and meeting another mate there Lets just hope that well all get a seat

Good luck Andy,Frazer,Jon,Nigel... hopefully they will wish me good luck back

Well till tomorrow

Check you all later