Playing a cash game in an hour with 5premiership footballers and one division two loanee.
GOGOGO

Before I even managed to get my winnings from Prague offline I lost £7.5k playing 4 sessions of live dealers choice cash. What the fuck am I doing? That £8900 would have set me up nicely to play low-medium MTTs for the foreseeable future but instead I am now circling the drain again. I am going to start applying for staking for mtt's. I have a very low post count on twoplustwo so if any one has suggestions for elsewhere or knows someone who's looking to back I'm open to all tips. I really hope this is the last time I fuck it up.

As a general idea of what I'm looking for/ can offer my most recent schedule consisted of 30-40mtt's per day ranging from $2r upto $11r/$33 freezeouts which was approx $700/day all on pokerstars. I can comfortably put in 20 of those 14hr sessions per month so 600-800mtts per month. Obviously id like to play higher but I think I have better chances of finding a long term stake with lower buyins...
Approx 250k cashes 100k profit over stars/FTP/ ongame screennames

That would be I poker live which happened last weekend.
88 online qualifiers and 14 buyins for €700+70 I was one of the lucky 88
I came third for €10584.

When I got to Prague I found out the tournament was 30k starting stack and 30min blinds... Read that it was 50k and 1hr online oh well... Fortunately the standard was so awful that structure was good enough to be very comfortably chipped for the first 16 levels. After my second table got broke I had ~100k on 300/600 and got moved to what was easily the toughest table out of the 8 remaining and looked like it wouldn't get broken until the final which ended up being the case.

3 to my right was a young German guy with 100k and 3 to my left was some young (dunno what nationality) guy wearing a Titan sponsored pro logo with 100k. Anyway this Titan pro was pretty nitty and probably just a bum hunter as he never really did anything out of line and made an awful bet call with a low flush vs the German kid.

Down to the last two tables I passed up what I felt what a pretty huge spot, but my friend who is a pretty huge live tournament beast says otherwise... German raises to 2x from utg+1 I call QJo from btn as the big blind was pretty fishy and would 100% defend and after an initial raising war myself and the German had a sort of silent understanding not to go into mutually assured destruction with one another as we were clearly the best two players on the table/in the tournament.

The flop comes 888 the bb checks the German makes it 16k (2/4k) I flat the bb raises to 50k leaving 110k behind the German flats...

The German hasn't played with the bb before but on my second table his standard open was 3x (sign of a bad player IMO) and hIs cbets were too large aswell, I also saw him call a 22k shove with a flush draw on 200/400 so he's pretty spewy.

Now I think the bb never has the 8 here and the German probably feels like this is the case and is floating to reasses on the turn. If the bb does have an 8 (p<0.05) and calls my shove here I still have 135k left. I feel that if I do shove the German gives me credit for 99+ and folds as neither of us have committed chips without a hand for the last 6 hours. He obviously could have an 8 and I'm dead as he has me covered by 160k but that makes up such a small part of possible holdings I think it's less likely than the bb having it.

I tank for at least 90 seconds before deciding to wait for a better spot because I have a big edge on the remaining field. 12 ppl get paid 1.9k minimum and I'm skint. If I was rolled I think I take this spot as I'm aiming to end the day on at least final table average of 300k, there's two levels left and I want to abuse the bubble.

The bb shoves the turn the Germans head explodes and is talking like he has ak which he does and calls the 110k to be disgusted by the BBs 66's which hold.

With 16 left and 1 level remaining we all agree to play down to the money or another 3 levels. I lose a few pots and finally get moved to the soft table (bink) with 12bb's so can't really do anything other than wait for a spot.

I'm have immediate position on the chip leader who is also pretty bad based on his play on my second table so I'm pretty confident of a double up being imminent.

After two rounds I open ATss utg+1 and the bb defends 10k out his 140 with J9o flop comes 966ss and he shoves I call and a spade hits the river. That was the first time I'd been at risk all tournament.

Now I'm on 260ish and it's game on. I knock the same guy out a few hands later and were on the bubble. I open 88 and get shoved on by a pretty tight player who's the shortstack I opt to fold with 2-1 odds as I want to keep the bubble going. I open k9o utg vs the bb big stack who always defends, he chk calls two streets on 3379ddd board and puts in a big bet on the river, he's a pretty friendly guy and we've been conversing throughout the tournament so I ask him if he'll show me to try and get a read based off previous pots. The other table is now stood around watching as well as the tournament director, the bb hesitates and says yes but it was difficult to gauge his confidence so I say you're not gonna show me a bluff are you to make sure im right at which point the TD blurts out some comment like Huhuhuh come on now theres no cameras and I'm thinking dude wtf!? I call he shows me a missed Ad draw.

Unfortunately I lose 3 decent sized pots on the bubble and am down to 250k at the end of the day so prolonging the bubble backfired

the final table was just LOL I'll edit this later I've gotta shoot off

The police came round my house (unannounced) the day before I was supposed to answer bail. I was 5-0 on COD at the time (always play demolition) So that pissed me off, the time before I was playing mtt's and had to leave them! They returned my clothes and cleared me from this nonsense! Will be looking into compo now...

Myself and two friends are currently trying to book a chalet for the ski season.. We've found a pretty sick one in Morzine which is linked to 12 other resorts. The chalet has 6 seperate bedrooms so we need to fill at least 2 of the other double rooms to be able to pay upfront. There are a few details I need to hear back from the rental agent about, but as soon as everything has been clarified ill get the details on here and link the 2+2 thread if anyone sounds interested?

I'll be pumping all my life roll into this as were gonna buy a car and drive down to the Alps from the UK so once I've paid rent/skipass/travel things will be very tight for me and I need to step up from 20NL soon!

October's volume was very disappointing on 5k hands over 13 hours. I guess I did a lot of boozing last month and for the first half I was sorting out my house/tenants and the second half I have been moving to and from Swansea quite a lot.

I have done a lot of studying whilst on those trains though which may explain why im in profit for the first time playing 6max!! (Obv not in life) When I posted last I said I didn't want to brag because everytime I do on here it's like BOOM FU and F your results. Guess when I posted, like I was just winding down what was a +3BI session and this happened almost instantly both vs the same villan who's a pretty bad reg.

IPoker Network $20.00 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

MP: $6.08
CO: $21.57
BTN: $25.52
Hero (SB): $30.01
BB: $43.28
UTG: $20.00

Pre Flop: ($0.30) Hero is SB with 8 8
2 folds, CO raises to $0.80, BTN calls $0.80, Hero calls $0.70, 1 fold

Flop: ($2.60) 3 K 8 (3 players)
Hero bets $1.80, CO raises to $3.60, BTN raises to $9.20, Hero raises to $29.21, CO folds, BTN calls $15.52 all in

Turn: ($55.64) A (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: ($55.64) T (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $55.64
BTN shows 7 8
BTN wins $52.86
Hero wins $4.49
(Rake: $-1.71)


IPoker Network $20.00 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

CO: $9.75
BTN: $20.91
SB: $48.00
Hero (BB): $20.30
UTG: $43.02
MP: $23.97

Pre Flop: ($0.30) Hero is BB with K J
4 folds, SB raises to $0.60, Hero raises to $1.80, SB calls $1.20

Flop: ($3.60) 2 T 5 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $2.80, SB raises to $9, Hero raises to $18.50, SB calls $9.50

Turn: ($40.60) 6 (2 players)

River: ($40.60) 5 (2 players)

Final Pot: $40.60
SB shows 3 2
SB wins $38.57
(Rake: $2.03)

I know neither of these are awful on his part, in fact my KJ is pretty close I just thouhgt he had a gutshot/openender with his FD and that Khigh was winning it was just a very frustrating end to the session

Anyway this was the end result...

I know its a terrible sample size and $78 a month is a long way from where I want to be but its a start... At one point this month I was actually winning on 6max on this Ipoker account since I bought this desktop/laptop broke

I went on holiday to Turkey with my girlfriend at the end of September, had a great time except 2 of the tenants I had lined upto move in did no shows and one cancelled so that was a little stressful and had to spend a fair bit of time on a shitty internet conection trying to get new tenants in with no luck. When I got back I had to slash the prices down but at least its full now and the bills are gettting paid so I have no real outgoings for the time being.

I said to my housemate that he can take my room until he finds a job so I have moved back to my moms in the midlands for a bit, I hope he finds one soon because Vicky is about 4 hours away on trains so there gonna be a lot of travelling. I guess that means I can watch a lot of training vids though. Just hate the fact there's no direct transport route, have to get a bus to the train station and then change trains 2 or 3 times.

So I have moved home with the intention of sitting in my room and becoming a hermet playing 6max.
I'm unsure how to accomplish this if I'm going to spend the best part of 2 days travelling down to and another 2 days at Vicky's

5 guys went up to the GUKPT in Coventry a few weekends ago and one of them gave me a lift home as my house is like 30mins away. He picked me up late and says he's not gonna have time to drive me home now ill have to come to the casino with him and hell stake me into a cash game. He then rang up everyone else and told them I was coming and can they all chip in for a buyin into the main event.

EZ game. LOL

Anyway the main was a shambles just barely won a pot and grinded 6 levels before getting it in for just over average and busted. The exit hand was frustrating. It was my second hand on the table and a guy 3x UTG to 1800 and I had AhQs and made it 3750 from UTG+1 with 8K back. he peels OOP with KJo. flop comes Kxx all spades and he chks to me I shove. dont know why I didnt chk back, he deliberated for ever preflop so i thought he basically had AT,AJ,QT-QK.

he calls my all in and says do you have aces?
I say no. Then the is turn one, I think I'm home and dry and a fucking K drops on the river UGH.

Ah well it was a complete freeroll so I cant complain. Two of the guys made the final but I think they bust 8th and 7th in the end.

That leg was friday night. I went out wed and had an all dayer starting about 2pm thursday, I cant believe I played so solid considering how knackered/hungover I was,

Left the casino after having a few drinks and went to check into the hotel... What a shithole it was, we got there the elevator buttons were all hanging off walked into the room we were supposed to be in and the was a woman in the bed LOL! then the night porter was like well sorry boys your rooms gone b/c you didn't check in by 12am. Why give us the key and then send us up then you DICK!

The next day we woke up at 9am to watch Wales v France in the rugby and I started beveraging at 9.30, saturday got out of hand but this entry is getting long so i'll leave that for now.

With regards to sitting in my room grinding 6max; I want to play 5 1hour sessions a day 20/21 days a month 4 tabling for now so I can focus on opponents/decisions although whilst table selecting I oftern find that number creeping up to 6-8 tables. The software on Ipoker is SO tilting tables keep bumping up all over the place, there not much room for player notes and you cant tile the tables accross multiple monitors.

This months volume has been pretty awful because I haven't really had much chance to get my head down and play. I've played 3.8k hands over 10.5hours its early days and I aways seem to jinx myself so I'll post my results at a later date.. Im on 20NL at the moment.

I go to post bail on tuesday so going to have a mad one the night before as its halloween

[x] won £9.30 on euro millions
[x] bluffed off bankroll
[ ] good day

It arrived early this afternoon with a guy from the casino walking into my bedroom and waking me up...
Rob you've gotta get up you're in the evening post! You're wanted for SEXUAL ASSAULT!

Im like fuck off what are you here for really?

No seriously on my kids lives pull it up online now!

http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/he...ail/story.html

There it is page 5 clear as day!!!!

After seeing this I look at my phone and have 13missed calls from variuos people who've obviously seen it and are trying to warn me before the 5-0 come and kick my door in and arrest me clueless as to what the fuck is gong on.

I rang the number in the article and the conversation went something like this

HI, Im ringing about the article in the paper,
which ones that then?
The sexual asault, theres a photo of me
Oh right whos that in the photo then?
Its me, Ive got nothing to do do with it get it out NOW! someone might beat the shit outa me if they see that!
Then he says hold on ill get my collegue whos investigating...
I hear him say whos incharge of the sexual assult on whatever street,I've got the lad involved on the phone..
WHAT!?! Im not fucking involved!

They rang me back asked me to get my clothes from the night and bring them down the station. I said I have to show someone round my house between 4-7pm. They came and arrested me locked me up for a couple of hours until legal aid arrived... suprised it came tonight tbh. Interviewed me sent my clothes off for dna analysis and Im out on bail unti 1st november. All because I was walking home alone from the casino around the time this girl was attacked (by two men) who were seen on cctv footage that is far less clear one who was wearing a light hoodie and dark jeans.

Was gonna play the wcoop tonight, was actually half way throuhg qualifiers when they came and arrested me, good of them to let me unregister from everythng else. (Yes I am pretty much busto atm but have a tale for another time about how im in these wcoops. Placed 72/7500 in the 6max on sunday for $2.4K and had a wild battle with one guy)

I’m having the most horrific time at the tables. It's just relentless. When will it end? It seems every time I blog about how things are going well the poker gods come around and give me a good assfucking for bragging or getting complacent

I've dropped the best part of Thirteen Thousand Pounds in just over a month, aka my roll.

I've had more than my fair share of horrific downswing’s/breakeven stretches but this has been by far the worst...

Almost every time I play I'm getting hammered for a lot of money, in the past I'm like meh this is just another string of bad beats it'll pass (5months later...)

This last month though oh my god. Its not even in the same league as been card dead/situation dead/ sucked out on repeatdily. Every time I bet a made hand or raise I get shoved on by better and have to fold if I'm not already all in. The game is just designed for me to lose atm, I have never experienced or seen anything like it!

I mean the majority of this has happened in a 1/1 live game £13K WTF!

I can't speak to my family about it because they just don't get it.£13.000 to them... they wouldn't speak to me again they'd just asume im an asshole and I've squandered it gambling. Well where the fuck do you think I've got that money from in the first place? I've told my girlfriend I'm taking one hell of a beating at the moment but she has never wanted to know about my wins/losses or how much I've bought in for.
*EDIT* Fair enough I have some debts that I created before I started winning, +I used to play house games frequently. But I''ve spent a lot on just living expenses and having a good time in the last ~5 years or so. I rarely stay in and cook.. I'm a fish for eating out, and I dont even want to think how much I've spent getting paro.

Twice in one night I ran the NUT HOUSE into quads, the second time I had QT on a QT88Q board and he donked £110 into me after I'd bet two streets and I could just feel that I was beat ad he had quads but how is it correct not to raise there? But I thought about it and I fucking knew it..

Fair enough I didn’t fold, I leant back on the excuse of this is incorrect to not raise. A lot of people wouldn’t even think about it though. I don't care how many times the correct play is raise that one time is a fold. It is incorrect to raise because I can feel it in my gut.. that river donk is trouble. And this is why I know I’m so much better than so many other players. Who gives a fuck if I can't beat 10NL? I have never applied myself to online because I feel like It's never where I want to be I give up such a massive edge in not being able to talk to people and observe their mannerisms whilst only playing 100bb stacks.

Live poker has beaten the fuck out of me lately. I must be sick in the head to keep going and going back for more> WTF is wrong with me? Like I'm just barely even winning any pots at all and I'm having so many big hands.

I cant recall how many Q+flushes I've had to bet fold or raise fold vs truly awful players. Sure I haven’t been playing my A game but there’s only a few pots where I can feel I'm beat but haven’t given them up. I should have gone busto a fair few sessions before now. I should also have a fair few sessions left in me where I've flipped off the last bits of what was my stack instead of leaving or not having found the fold.

I said I was a lock to win 5K why did I tempt fate? I can't stress how sick this has been...
I bought an Ipad2 (LOL @ blowing £500 half was through this downswing to get off life tilt) to watch training videos on whilst I grind live or travel. I have watched a decent amount but the plan of jumping into 100 or 200NL has been kissed good bye.

I've got a bit of money on stars, I've played 7500hands of 10NL 4 tabling so I can focus on each table/player and I’m running atrociously on there as well. I want to beat 6max so I can steadily build up a roll and then move to where the biggest live cash games are and crush them because my edge is so much more magnified than it is online. Im working hard again.

GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK!

Been meaning to post this for a while but been away...

Somehow I graduated with a high 2.2 (57%) I nailed all of my exams 60%+ even though I only started revising the day before each one, no thats a lie I startred two days before for one. My project also got 61% even though that was less than half of the minimum word count. If I'd put in just a little more effort I could have easily smashed a 2:1, oh well I thought there was a good chance I could have failed so I'm ecstactic with my result

In terms of poker I've had a gut full of mtt's. Ive ran awfully since novemeber something ridiculous over like 1600 of them now. Admitidly around that time I decided to start pushing +EV flips and played a lot more aggressivly than I used to. I used to be very conservative about taking flips as I perceived my edge to be greater than pushing a 5% edge vs a weak table and valued my tournament life so I waited for a better spot. I know pushing the edges is the corrrect way to play (online) as all the best mtt regs play that way but it has been UNBELIEVABLY frustrating. I have also been playing a lot more tables (Damn you multientry) which obvioussly affects my concentration levels for each comp.

I won't lie I've had some horrendous blow ups but overall I should have definately been making money when I'm consistantly keeping the chip lead from the 400 down to 100 in the bigger fields and 100-30th in the smaller ones but then I just dont hold in the key pots or get coolered just before or on the final.

Im a very positive person, It takes a lot to knock me back and I take everything in my stride. I know a lot of people cry about running bad so im not saying this lightly. Its just been complete bull shit. I came off a horredoues 5month live stretch just before this started happening and I'm feeling like I've paid my fucking dues, where the fuck Is my run good. Not even run good, just to have a set hold against a gutshot for double the average.

Anyway rant over enough of that negativity. Now that FTP's gone I've got even less inspiration to play them maybe theres some higher force telling me to finally apply myself to 6max. Now that my degree's over thats what I'm going to do. I have no excuse and can't feel guilty about spending hours studying instead of doing uni work (which I wasn't going to do until the last minute anyway). I suppose I should be happy that I can still play online.

I've budgeted living expenses for the next 6 months in the style I've become accoustomed to living in, just under 1500 a month without rent (which I dont pay because I have people paying my mortgage mwah mwah mwah) I have 3 months and a holiday saved for and Im playing 1/1 live (the only NLH game around here as 6card dealers choice is such high variance) until I've made another £10K which I'll deposit online for 200nl so like 50-70BI's depending on the table currency. I expect to lose at first so I should be comfortable enough with that amount to not have to drop down.

Im working my way through the verneer 2011/2010 threads as well as the mathmatics of poker.Following completion of these I want to grasp an understanding of stoxEV and start watching videos so any suggestions for a lifetime loser on all levels from 5nl-1knl would be appreciated. (notice I excluded 2k and 5knl as im a winner on those levels LOL :P)

I go on holiday on the 24th Sept which is just over 2months away, giving me 2 months to study and build up a roll far quicker than I would playing 50NL. I think im a lock to crush the live games for 5K by then.10k doesn't seem like too unrealistic an objective, provided I can cut out having heavy loses.

In one session I called my remaining £605 all in pre with KJo and was good. Id straddled to 32, completed the 64 straddle with the intention of calling what ever the kid did as I thought he was going to spew. Of course his all in for 900+ was more than id expected but I followed through and actually held vs 43o!

I've been meaning to post this for about 2weeks now, and since then I played UKIPT brighton and busted a 300 side event just short of the final table which was disapointing but I was pretty card dead and it was a long grind before some donk shoved 77 over my AK when Im clearly never folding and just have him covered. 1st was about 12k I cashed 800, went and played a cash game and won another 3K which has now covered my remaining living expenses for ~6months. So that went a considerable way to appeasing my bust out.

Eager to have more deep runs in live donkamnets I went to DTD this weekend for a 1k event (sold 35% no MU) and played ultra aggressive. busted near the bubble in a chip lead pot. dont really want to get into it. I made one bad bluff, and the last hand was pretty standardish, There is a good arguement for not putting my stack in but I wanted to get max value vs a pair+draw and was beating a lot of his combos. 1st was 77K (think I busted 32nd) I was on the live feed and have had it ripped out of me for the way I was playing but fuck that. If I get a 5bet wrong with T4o and drop from 160k down to 22K and bring it back upto 150K w/o showdown (which wasnt even on the feature table!) and peak at 380K Im doing something right.

There was a pretty juicy 5/10/25 game running but I only brought 2K with me in an attempt not to lose a crippling amount. I was winning about 3.5K on the weekend after all buyins but then lent most of it to a guy I went up with so ended up shortstacking the big game which was a poor decision as I always play better deep.

Anyway fair play If you read all of this...

During that trip to Nottingham I have been offered the buyins/expenses for 5 EPT's for the time being as well as buyins into big deep cash games (10K @10/25) by someone who believes in me and wants to help me acheive sucess. I AM MADE UP

http://www.pokerplayer.co.uk/news/la...suspended.html

Fortunately for me FTP has been rigged for the last 994 mtts ive played so I dont have a crippling amount of money on there... Sorry to those of you who do