Never The Bride...

I came across a cold deck early on in the bloggerment and lost a large proportion of my stack, heres the hand:

I had 55 in the BB and there are a few limpers from UTG and UTG+1. Flop comes 3-5-7 and i check raise a bet and a call. One player stuck around and called my turn bet. Then raised my river bet. I just called and he turned over 77! ouch. My stack after was not healthy (around 400 chips)

I managed to rebuild my stack well, i was patient and i knocked Burnleymik out with this hand:

I Limped in early with QQ as did a player to my left. A mid positioned players raises, button calls and burnley pushes the last of his stack in. I re raise all in and everyone else folds. Burnley had QJ and went out.

That hand put my stack over 1k again and now i had some chips to play with! I get lucky after limping into this pot and knocking out resident evil:

Amatay raises from early/mid position and i call with 44, there was another call from my left (resident evil). Flop comes 10-4-7 and it checked all around. Then an ace on the turn (my money card) and amatay checks and i bet half the pot, i get raised from resident and amatay folds. I re raise all in and get called by a drawing dead AK

I made it to the 1st break 2nd in chips with a 4.3k stack and looking good for final table as there was only one place left to go..

made the final table and didnt play many hands, then this hand comes along and i dont personally think i made a wrong decision to call, obviuosly in this situation i had the better hand, but there was a discussion as to how i could call with my hand.

Blinds 75/150 and it folds to SB who raises to 750. I re raise to 2.5k with 99, and the SB pushes for a further 2k+. I didnt think there was anything wrong with me calling here so i did. SB turns 88 and i knock out rosie.

It was 3 handed and i get this hand and knock another player out, hammerheid!

I get 99 in the BB and re raise his initial raise from the button, he pushes and i call. all in pre flop 99 vs AK and my 9's held

it then went to heads up play between me and spid, i thought he had played very well upto this point and i knew it was goin to be a tough heads up match.

In the last hand i caught two pair with a pair on the board after the turn and spid had higher two pair, even though i was pretty sure i was beat i pushed anyway, boredome and tiredness i think.

GG every1, congrats to spid, wp!

Tag Rugby Tournement

As part of a coaching/sport course i am doing I had to coach 7/8year olds how to play tag rugby. It was an inventful day, full of laughter and games and i enjoyed every second of it. It was the first time i had coached anyone, and they were kids that didn't listen, shouted alot and i was coaching them all on my own while other people on the course were teaching different schools! on my own! lol. We had some drills prepared beforehand but that quickly went out the window and i had to improvise....hmmm.....what would be fun for the kids to play???......it hit me.....'stuck in the mud', i loved playing this and the kids were really enthusiastic. By the times we finished and got some munch they had told me they had played stuck in the mud 5times previuos before...in the same day lmao.

After dinner we got back to the fields for our first game, didnt go well, although playing games and races with the children was much more exciting than sitting them down and teaching the rules, maybe a quick over run of the rules was the best option. They knew none! they were everywhere! ball was everywhere! forward passing got irritating but they had fun.

In between games i did go over the rules many many times as they did not listen. It was amazing how they got so attatched to me aswell, i had only knew them a few hours and they loved me! they looked upto me and followed me everywhere. The second game was much better, a slight understanding allowed us to score three try's without fowling. I didnt teach them but , at one point, a child from our side studded a player that was dominating us and had scored 2 try's for the opposing team, he didnt even have the ball! the child went off crying but was alright! good tactics i say! Big shoutout to caersws A team years 3/4.....wp, gg.

Poker- still running well. after my last post i played a 20 minute session on the 10c/25c and trippled my $10 buy in. Roll now stand at $112 because i lost $6 in a SnG.

A man and his wife go to their honeymoon place for their 25th anniversary. As the couple reflected on that magical evening 25 years ago, the wife asked the husband: "When you first saw my naked body in front of you, what was going through your mind?" The husband replied: "All I wanted to do was to fuck your brains out, and suck your tits dry." Then, as the wife undressed, she asked: "What are you thinking now?"He replied: "It looks like I did a pretty good job."

A Nice Run Of Success

Past few days now have looked more promising than the last weeks have. Made quite a bit of money in ring games of 10c/25c and had a nice cash last night in the $5 turbo tourney. I placed 25th/2027 for $45.

A quick session this morning landed me with another profit of $15 on the 10c/25c and now my bankroll stands at a healthy $99 compared to mondays roll of $9. That how you go from $9 to $99 in under 9 days!! =)

going to hit the tables for another quick session, and post again tomorrow, gl

I rose!! Rose with style!!

I said i would, bloggerment money that was lost.....has now been won back! woohoo!

played a few short sessions on 10c/25c and played excellently and trippled my $10 buy in, then doubled my $5 on another table straight after. This was before i tried to play a $3 SnG with amatay, but didnt manage to get on the same table because he's such a tit! lol. I played two of these SnG's and didnt cash =(. I played a sesh today, a short one that started well, again trippleing my $10 buy in when an interesting hand played out. but first i will tell you of my doings earlier on.

Firstly, i had re raised a 4xbb raise pre flop with one limper (6 handed) and they both folded and i showed them 95. This was a pre trap move, Next time i re raise in a similar position i would have a hand and was my set up for the hand i mentioned earlier. Then it comes, same position (SB) one limper UTG and a min raise from mid pos. I held AA and raise a similar amount but slightly bigger than previuos. Limper calls and original raiser calls (my trap was set). Flop is something like Q72, this flop does not seem threatening at all, i did think about check raising but they know im aggressive and are expecting a follow through bet (hand or not). So i overbet, make it look like im tryin to push anyone with a queen off. The UTG limper calls all in and original raiser calls. Pots getting big now (around $22) and the guy left in the pot only had another $5 or so. So..we see a turn come off which was a jack and i bet to push im all in, he calls and a side pot of $10 was created. River peels a blank and the showdown. Original raiser wins side pot of $10+ with JQ, two pairs (queens and jacks). Limper UTG wins main pot $20+ with QQ, (three queens). Portdeco20 with AA, devestated.

I finish the session with a small profit i think, but last 2 days have been quite good. Monday Roll- $9.....wednsday roll-$45

Don't Worry.....

Portdeco will rise to the occasion!

Winnings already turned to dust

Day after bloggerment (monday) i lost my winnings from coming 2nd ($33) with a mixture of bad runs and bad play.

Ive realised/noticed that BRM is not helping my roll at all. I used to play a game of whatever stake when i felt like it (within reason) and ive won quite a lot of money that way. Notice, the last few times ive giving myself a startin roll and tried to build it using BRM, it has dissapeared in quick succession. Im returning to playing the good old way, bit of risk, bit of gamble =)

Bloggerment Bridesmaid

I didn't plan on playing the bloggerment this week as it states in my previuos post, but i come back home earlier than expected. Normal play for me in the bloggerment is to start off extremely aggressive and play my hands fast...but, as my results state, it hasn't been working out for me at all. Two walks of shame and a nothing result out of three attempts. I have noticed that the bloggerment is rather aggressive and normally quite fast, so i adapted my play, and maintained a tight aggressive style. It worked out for me, despite putting all my money in with JJ vs QQ and getting lucky i feel i played very well. Took a few beats like my AA vs AK hand, but wasn't an awful lot of my stack. I made my first final table, coming into it second in chips to cloud. I carried through my tight play onto the final table and all the way through to heads up against weegem. It was getting rather late and i needed to be awake at 6:30am the next day. I gave a warning in chat...."bit slow"...i typed...just to suggest that m going to be more aggressive. The style didnt really work and i lost all focus, and lost 2nd pair to top pair on flop. I more than doubled my roll though =)

well played weegem, good game all, unlucky bluescouse! Points for Wales nevertheless, and my first 'point cash' and 'money cash' in the bloggerment.

lmao

There was a guy who was struggling to decide what to wear to go to a fancy costume party... Then he had a bright idea.When the host answered the door, he found the guy standing there with no shirt and no socks on."What the hell are you supposed to be?" asked the host."A premature ejaculation," said the man. "I just came in my pants!"

16 Hour Sleep

My 16 hour sleep last night was lush, aint had a sleep like that in years, only possible after a 1 hour sleep the night before. Feel refreshed today =) and so i put $20 into my stars account just for a bit of fun because i'm really missing playing poker now, i miss having $1000+ in my account to play around with and busting lol. This $20 is just a little bit to play around with until i make enough money from work that i can stick in and afford to lose. That will probably be $150+. All i want to be able to do is have a nice healthy roll and play at 0.25/0.50 or 0.50/1.0 and make a nice profit each day, but playing at micro i just get stupid!

Things going ok atm, i had a 30 min sesh just before goin out to the pub to play a bit of pool, made a few cents =) enough for a bag of porkies is all you need! sorry, going out to the pub so no bloggerment for me tonight, you will have to find someother fish to go out 1st!

Joke for today

There was this construction worker on the 3rd floor of this unfinished building. He needed a hand saw, but was too lazy to go down and get it himself, so he tried to call his fellow worker on the ground to get it for him, but this guy could not hear a word he said. So he started to give a sign so the guy on the ground could understand him. First he pointed at his eyes (meaning "I") then pointed at his knees (meaning "need), and moved his hand back and forth describing the movement of a hand saw. Finally, the guy on the ground started nodding his head like he understood and dropped his pants and started to jerk off. The guy on the 3rd floor got pissed-off and ran down to the ground and started yelling at this guy, "You idiot, I was trying to tell you I needed a hand saw." The other guy replied, "I know, I was trying to tell you that I was coming."

Poorer Posts

Everytime i post, my posts seem to get poorer and poorer. It seems impossible to write a half decent paragraph to me now! Not enjoyable to read! why do you read my blog?! haha!

Well nackered today, we played a live game last night as it was moz's last night round these parts. It was a good laugh, but i didnt get home till 6am and had to work at 8am, so feeling pretty bollocks today. £5 rebuy was the game we played, gravedigger the winner. he was 'the suck out' and sucked out on 3 of the 5 other players at the table. I was pretty card dead all night, until i get dealt aces and trap well imo, got him to put me all in on the turn with him needing just a diamond. Of course it comes! I can only say that i have had my fair share of suckouts on tom though lol.

Just a quick shout out to moz who is leaving us, good luck and all the best u 'hit and running' fish!

Im having one of those deep emotional times in my life lol, like asking all sorts of questions to myself e.g. 'what is the point in life?', why isnt everything free?' etc... DEEP STUFF! i think this is partly because i havent got anything to do with my life, im bored, im fustrated and females are not helping.

i may wait a while until i deposit, just until i have enough money out of my poker account so that i feel comfortable with the money im gambling with, wise thinking imo.

To make my blog more exciting, im going to write a new joke everyday at the end of each post for the shits and giggles, sorry if they are lame! here comes the 1st one........

A woman was shaking out a rug on the balcony of her 17th floor condominium when a sudden gust of wind blew her over the railing. "Damn, that was stupid," she thought as she fell. "What a way to die."As she passed the 14th floor, a man standing at his railing caught her in his arms. While she looked at him in disbelieving gratitude, he asked, "Do you suck?""No!" she shrieked, aghast.So, he dropped her. As she passed the 12th floor, another man reached out and caught her. "Do you screw?" he asked."Of course not!" she exclaimed before she could stop herself. He dropped her, too. The poor woman prayed to God for one more chance. As luck would have it, she was caught a third time, by a man on the eighth floor. "I suck! I screw!" she screamed in panic."Slut!" he said, and dropped her.

Thinking Of Starting A New Roll

Money isn't an issue with me at the moment, although i am working and i have the added factor of realising what i am losing, i think sometime soon is a good time to start a new roll. Having had a break from poker for quite a while now, having read a little of 'the complete guide to poker', having read differing comments on eds blog, I feel im ready for some poker action again. May put £100+ into my account soon hopefully, put some in full tilt and pokerstars and try and grind it out, although it hast give me much success recently i may return to how i started and built up my roll a few months ago.

Burnley, looool!!!

Gotta say mate, well done stickin it to the p***k 'ccc' on eds blog. he is no longer posting a comment (he claims), whooooo! funny as, read it if u aint seen it! On eds blog, the post is called 'busting borrowed money'

So So

Not been playin poker so an update on my life, got the job in supermarche, not really hard though because you dont need any qualifications lol, and i look like a total prick working there but i swallowed my pride and am making a bit of money to gamble with, therefore losses wont matter as much. Thats work life.

My back, still bad, work didnt help lifeting heavy stuff but i aint gunna say anything because i only been working for a day lol. Out of sport for a few weeks which has annoyed me, have been asked to play footy for a few teams and just not gunna happen for a while =(

would post on my love life but dont wana bore u, just aint goin well atm.

Good News?? I bust my roll.....again lol

played 3 mtts that added upto an entry fee of $80 and bust in everyone, but i went for a job interview today in the local supermarche and its looking good, im goin for an induction thingy tomorrow and i might get the job, therefore, more money to play =) and....at levels i wont get bored at so probably.....PROBABLY!......wont feel the need to play higher than my roll can afford but we'll see!

Less Poker More Profit!

as a result, i will be playing less poker than i currently am which im hoping will have a positive affect on my game as i wont get so fustrated and wont feel the need to keep winning so less pressure on the financial side. *fingers crossed* we'll see if i get the job and see how it goes from there.

Bloggerment=Donkament ;)

mmmmm......1st out again.......for making a good read! me and kenn started real aggressive, a cool hand was when we both held pocket aces and fought it out to the death, i was trying to slow play while he was on full aggresion and i definately thought i had the pot when it was all in..ah well!

few hands later and a raise from me and a re raise from kenn, i held 44 and flop was 2-6-8, i check raise him and he pushes all in, i call as i can honestly say that i did not think he had a hand, maybe QK at best, he had 45 and spikes a 5 on the river =(...bit dissapointed

Getting In Deep

played for 4 hours straight in a $1 tourney, played some excellent poker imo, some of the best for a while. 726 players enetered and i made the last 10, nearly final table =(

the hand i went out to: folded to me in SB with QKos and i raise to 5xBB = 20k (my stack 48k) blinds 2k/4k obv! and BB calls, flop is 8-9-x and i check raise his 12k bet all in and he calls with 10-7os (good call pre flop......not! call 35-40% of your stack with 10-7off) anyway its all in and he hits a 10 on the river and im out one place b4 final table and with a shit profit of $7 but i'll take it.

I get fustrated for the rest of the day if i go deep and hardly get rewarded so im expecting to donk off some money tonight lol

Injury Causes Concern

My normal day is pretty much occupied away from poker, so i only fit in a few games here and there, i try and play as much as i can. At the moment, im just playin $1 SnG's and micro cash, ive made $20 profit from the $100 i deposited maybe a week and a half ago so its steadily increasing.

Recently, i suffered and injury playing football. It fucking kills, its in my back, i felt it going in the middle of trainin but carried on, by the end i couldnt bend down to get my boots off and leaving the ground i could hardly walk. Walkin into town i fell onto rails and walls numerous times as the pain was so overwhelming. I managed to make it home in one peice, but collapsed twice. I sat down for a few hours, played poker but couldnt get up lol. Struggled to get to bed last night but ended u having the best sleep ive had for a while. After lying in bed for ages i thought fuck it and breached the pain barrier and stood up straight, once up straight it was easy to walk, so took a long walk and returned to the poker, quite fustrated in not being able to go far and stuck in my room most the day, i lost $9. so back to $111.

My backs getting slightly better but the worst is when i need a shit lool. sorry for lack of updates, but i cba most the time and i dont read many blog entries sorry guys, i'll get round to gettin updated though soon ;)

The Wales Crew- says it all really =)

Username Games Played Av. Profit Av. Stake Av. ROI Total Profit Form Network
BlueScouse 5 -$26 $25 -100% -$130 Tilt PokerStars
moz_1986 29 -$1 $2 -35% -$32 Super Tilt PokerStars
portdeco20 142 $0 $4 21% $41 - PokerStars
tomkendal 21 -$3 $5 -32% -$63 - PokerStars



I play more SnG's than most of the boys, they play more cash than me, but here are the SnG results, each one in the minus apart from the best one =), Av ROI -100% for scouse lol, super tilt for moz lol. Here are the results for full tilt, hellboy doesnt play stars and tom dont play full tilt i dont think, so here they are:


Username Games Played Av Profit Av Stake Av ROI Total Profit Form Network
Bluescouse1 10 $25 $6 240% $251 - Full Tilt
Hellboy65 22 $0 $2 -6% -$4 - Full Tilt
Moz12 30 $0 $2 18% $12 - Full Tilt
portdeco20 271 $1 $5 21% $437 - Full Tilt