These are how I bust the 750K 6x There' s a considerable lack of 2/3outers compared to the rest of the month

Just realised theres no results so rather than converting all HH's again just typed them in.

The 750K
#1 On the turn I know im good. I raised small to entice a reraise, didnt think he had a FD as outs though. spikes an OC anway.
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saw flop | saw showdown

MP2 (t5435)
MP3 (t10363)
CO (t2523)
Button (t2805)
SB (t16548)
Hero (BB) (t15200)
UTG (t7609)
UTG+1 (t10520)
MP1 (t4565)

Hero's M: 20.68

Preflop: Hero is BB with 6, 3
1 fold, UTG+1 bets t695, 6 folds, Hero calls t355

Flop: (t1785) 9, 3, 2 (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG+1 checks

Turn: (t1785) 2 (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG+1 bets t800, Hero raises to t1920, UTG+1 raises to t9800 (All-In), Hero calls t7880

River: (t21385) 10 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: t21385
Main pot: t21385 between Hero and UTG+1, won by UTG+1

Results:
Hero had 6, 3 (two pair, threes and twos).
UTG+1 had J, 10 (two pair, tens and twos).
Outcome: UTG+1 won t21385

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saw flop

BB (t2483)
UTG (t5948)
UTG+1 (t6505)
MP1 (t10269)
MP2 (t19468)
Hero (MP3) (t9175)
CO (t11178)
Button (t6157)
SB (t16536)

Hero's M: 7.65

Preflop: Hero is MP3 with K, A
UTG bets t2000, 3 folds, Hero raises to t9125 (All-In), 3 folds, BB calls t1933 (All-In), UTG calls t3898 (All-In)

Flop: (t14929) 5, 4, 5 (3 players, 3 all-in)

Turn: (t14929) Q (3 players, 3 all-in)

River: (t14929) 7 (3 players, 3 all-in)

Total pot: t14929

UTG QJo
BB T4hh

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saw flop

CO (t13840)
Button (t25648)
SB (t5355)
BB (t10404)
UTG (t20468)
Hero (UTG+1) (t3127)
MP1 (t11028)
MP2 (t6007)
MP3 (t16136)

Hero's M: 2.61

Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with 10, A
1 fold, Hero bets t3000, 4 folds, Button calls t3000, 2 folds

Flop: (t7200) J, 7, 4 (2 players)
Hero checks, Button checks

Turn: (t7200) 3 (2 players)
Hero checks, Button checks

River: (t7200) 8 (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets t500, Hero calls t77 (All-In)

Total pot: t7354

KTdd

#2
Turn is irrelevent to hand as I thouhgt he was trying to take me off a weak T. Im check shoving with just the T on any blank turn
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saw flop

SB (t5581)
Hero (BB) (t5030)
UTG (t16130)
UTG+1 (t7985)
MP1 (t6430)
MP2 (t19085)
MP3 (t5290)
CO (t5205)
Button (t4760)

Hero's M: 20.96

Preflop: Hero is BB with K, 10
2 folds, MP1 bets t320, 4 folds, SB calls t240, Hero calls t160

Flop: (t960) 7, 10, 4 (3 players)
SB checks, Hero bets t365, MP1 raises to t1120, 1 fold, Hero calls t755

Turn: (t3200) K (2 players)
Hero checks, MP1 bets t3200, Hero raises to t3590 (All-In), MP1 calls t390

River: (t10380) J (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: t10380

AQcc

#3
Im looking up everyplayer on OPR to get a sense of their PF ranges and this guy was hidden so assumed he wouldnt be playing 87 from UTG+1 to an UTG raise. So when he pots river I felt like it was 87 but didnt think he'd be playing it and theres was a lot of missed draws, and that my turn chk didnt look like a big enough hand to call a PSB on the river.
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saw flop

UTG+1 (t7245)
MP1 (t5340)
MP2 (t4770)
MP3 (t4725)
CO (t4625)
Button (t3850)
SB (t8905)
BB (t5545)
Hero (UTG) (t4610)

Hero's M: 61.47

Preflop: Hero is UTG with A, A
Hero bets t150, UTG+1 calls t150, MP1 calls t150, 6 folds

Flop: (t525) 5, 10, 9 (3 players)
Hero bets t450, UTG+1 calls t450, MP1 calls t450

Turn: (t1875) 4 (3 players)
Hero checks, UTG+1 checks, MP1 checks

River: (t1875) 6 (3 players)
Hero checks, UTG+1 bets t1875, 1 fold, Hero calls t1875

Total pot: t5625

87o

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saw flop

SB (t9585)
BB (t7290)
UTG (t5260)
UTG+1 (t6125)
MP1 (t4930)
MP2 (t3734)
MP3 (t8322)
CO (t7971)
Hero (Button) (t1097)

Hero's M: 6.09

Preflop: Hero is Button with A, K
4 folds, MP3 bets t313, CO calls t313, Hero raises to t1097 (All-In), SB raises to t4037, 1 fold, MP3 raises to t8322 (All-In), 1 fold, SB calls t4285

Flop: (t18174) 6, 3, J (3 players, 2 all-in)

Turn: (t18174) 9 (3 players, 2 all-in)

River: (t18174) 10 (3 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: t18174

AKcc from 4bettor
QQ from OR

#4
Schooled me. If i 3bet PF I lose it it all..
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saw flop

Button (t4927)
SB (t5205)
Hero (BB) (t5645)
UTG+1 (t8439)
MP1 (t4800)
MP2 (t5730)
MP3 (t6230)
CO (t9164)

Hero's M: 62.72

Preflop: Hero is BB with Q, Q
5 folds, Button bets t180, 1 fold, Hero calls t120

Flop: (t390) 3, 4, 8 (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets t275, Hero calls t275

Turn: (t940) 6 (2 players)
Hero bets t625, Button calls t625

River: (t2190) 9 (2 players)
Hero bets t1375, Button calls t1375

Total pot: t4940

KK

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saw flop

Button (t15487)
SB (t9124)
BB (t9565)...

So its the first Multi Entry Sunday on FTP this weekend (All Gtd's doubled) and Id' like to have a good crack at them after having several deep runs/near misses lately (Granted I butchered my exit hand last night ((VOMMIT)).

Sunday Brawl $256 x6
150K $163 x4
Double Deuce $22 x6
750K $216 x6
150K $163 x4
Fifty Fifty $55x4

Total $4488 for 30 entries
1:1.25 mark up $5610

1% $56
5% $280
10% $560

Looking to Sell 70% to play. Send to Robocow on FTP thanks.

I've checked out the times/blind levels ect and the only point where I my multitabling abilities might be pushed is when the 750K loads up 3hrs in. At that point the brawl will be @ BB250/500 and the 150K @ BB100/200 So I could potentially be playing 16tables and another 6 pop up for the 750K. If thats the case I guess I'll sit out on a few on the DD tables for a while, but I reckon its pretty unlikey that ill still have all 16tables going from the Brawl/150K/DD so shouldn't be an issue although It would be a nice problem to have.

OPR's:
36% ROI off 1126 comps ABI $39 (+189runners is 48%)
FTP

-28% ROI off 795 comps ABI $27
Stars

785% ROI off 469 comps ABI $25
Ongame

83% ROI off 297 comps ABI $19
Ongame

Also looking to play multientry FTOPS on 13th and 20th Feb and do similar sunday schedules to this one (with some modifications) once a month until I've finished uni then play more frequently afterwards. So if anyone would like to do more of a long term thing Im open to suggestions as it helps me out with the buyins and decreases your variance (I have already agreed to sell 40% once a month)

As its tommorrow I need to shift this quickly to play!

Iv had 3 mtt sessions over the last week. With the 'sunday schedule' I sold 50% of myself went deep on Ipoker $200 (21/850) 44K for 1st and cashed in two others one being the double deuce (~360/11k) sadly I lost about $41 per % so I think everyone pretty happy with that result! I know I am! J/k On the friday before I decided to ship another monitor so Iv now got two 24" bad boys setup which made a hell of a difference. ended up playing 37 comps that night and ran like aids. Blah blah blah barely won a race, would go deep and lose with overpairs to TP.

Now these reentries. They are awesome, basically gtd a deep run for 4x the buyin provided you can stand being fucked in the ass for the other 3! I dont know if people are just gambling more (probably) but some of the stuff Iv seen go down I so dirty.Iv come close to some big scores, (see railiing section) all in 26's 7/1150 9/5900 and 17/3600 unfortunately im just not winning the key pots. <- In that last one tonight: two of my other entries got crippled with AA vs QJ(squeezed) vs KK(woke up behind) AIPF and QJ spiked 2 pair (SIGH) and set vs set vs top pair, where TP made a backdoorflush. both for chiplead pots at the time so would be pretty sick to get 2 or even 3(touchwood) big stacks in the same tounament.

So this sunday there multiple entries into all the majors on FTP. I havent looked at how much it will cost to enter them but I definately cant afford to take all my action and I think id like 4 to 6 cracks at the brawl/750K/DD/ a few 26's andf the 50/50 if im going deep so If anyone would like to book some let me know how much. If someone would like to buy the whole shibang 70-80% at 1:1.25 or knows someone who would send them my way

I set a new PB 19 tabling earlier! WILD.

on my last updast was winning 3.9K in two nights (after giving 1.5K away) I think IJ might be right in sticking to live poker. I just cant seem to win online in 6max 100BB poker. Iv played 12K hands on 10NL (mostly trying my hardest) and am losing 11 BI's (-7 with rakeback). I dont care about losing $100. I do care about losing 1000BB's though. I'd like to say im gonna put more volume in at 10NL but the live games are so good at the moment I think i've gotta stick with them for the time being to get my roll up as high as possible then focus online for the long term once these new fish have gone busto.

Back to the casino:
next two nights I won £700 and £1250. The 1250 game was sick. first pot Im involved in with some middle aged guy who thought he was the nuts (read dickhead) and wants to 'bust some young punks' raises me on a board of J966hh and I hold AKx, I thought I was good so call with the intention of check calling most rivers. Tx and he tanks for ever and shoves I think for ever and fold b/c it completes so many strt draws and bare T's (which i think hes shoving as a bluff). So I try to get reads off him but still undecided so I opt to fold as I cant place him on many hands hes called my raise with PF. obv he flips over 45o like a hero. WP sir. sick if a 4or5 drops on the river cause I call him! Haha. After thinking about that hand I feel like I really should Bet3BetAI on the turn as hes probably calling with all his draws and it puts me in a tough spot on the river where I intend to chk/call any non heart which isnt a Q/T/8. In this case it does drive out all of his complete air but overall I think a shove is more profitable.

On the BB with A9s complete the straddle who makes it 10more, everyone calls. I decide A9 is ahead of the straddler and raise another 52. He snap shoved ~200 and im like wft! I thouhgt you didnt have a hand! Can I fold A9s here? Never! j/k but I call after a little deliberation he says tell me if you hit. I dont. Do you have A-high? you probably have me then. flashes me A6, mucks and leaves. No other 'regs' round the table and everyones like WTF was that? youre an idiot! HAHA

Eventually Im sat with 1500 and its 3 handed vs a drunk kid with 500 and a guy who bet 20 on a 2d3d4dAdx board then called another 101 with the Jd. whilst he was thinking about what to do I videod what he was saying b/c it fucking hilarious how he just wasnt ever going to fold and talked himself into it! (took inspiration of which ever one of you recorded that donk a few weeks ago!) Unfortunately its a shit video cause I didnt want to make it too obvious I was recording it.

This guy is sat with~1000 and suggests raising the blinds. not that it matters because they were both calling any raise up to 50 PF. Theres about 30 in the pot by the river and the action goes pissed kid 10 raise to20 pissed kid 70 rasie to150. 'Ah you fucker I thought you were bluffing' and flips over Q4 for air. the other guy says the same and flips over K6 for air. Soul reads!? I think not! The next hand It was straddled to 10 I limp QQ and the pissed kid looks at the other guy and says "call this" and shoves 440 into the pot. and shits himself when he realises im in and call. he had 88 so I run it twice. first card out is an 8 and he eventually manages to leave with his stack!

Now for some recent stupidity

I drop 850 playing DC like an idiot after I busted 3 reentries in the tournament within 20hands, went home because I was playing so badly. I then went back to the casino with the intention of gambling with 250 and play like a dick! decide its a losse game and reload a few times.

Eventually did some revision for my exam on saturday evening for monday afternoon. I nail it, well it went about as good as it could have for the ammount of work iv done. But ill be shocked if its not 2.2 standard after the results I got last year had even less quotes/references in and I averaged a low 2.2 (51%) but we shall see.

I come home pissed and load up every 7/10 game on FTP upto 2/4. I recall managing not to sit on 15/30 which I suppose I should be happy about. Think I made about 15bucks?

I come home after my exam on monday (woke up at 6am with 4hrs sleep) half cut and enter every tournament in sight about 2am. I went mental in a $10 turbo satalitle into the 1K tuesday (was in for ~350?) and i bubble KK vs AT. YUK then first orbit in 50/50 on FTP I open to 75 with KK get 3bet to 280 so I shove and AQ sends me to the rail.
Im in for about 500 on stars and 150 on FTP. and get down to the final table outa ~1150 runners where I get it in with AA v KK v QQ and a Q binks. 7th for ~800$ 6K woulda been nice but I guess I should be happy to recoup from spazzing out in the qualifier.

Last night I butchered a hand. basically flopped setoverset and we both slow played, which ive never done and let a back door gutshot take it. 3476 and he leads for £35 I flat call b/c I know he hasnt got the 5 and the guy behind tanks for ages before calling. river 8. he checks and I bet 82 for value b/c I think he'll call that as he just wont believe I have him beat. the guy behind ships for another 40. Im certain hes got 9T so I lose like 200 instead of getting it all in for another 400 on the flop and winning a 900 pot. ARRRGHH! IDIOT!

This sunday Im playing 28comps. at a mark up of 1:1.25 still got a little action which id like to sell my ROI on FTP is 42% over 1050 comps. on stars its -20% over 770 comps but I think that skewed as it drops to -4% w/o rebuys?
$54 per % heres the link to what Im playing http://www.leggopoker.com/blogs/king...ment-9302.html

I just won £1150 playing 1/2 live. £300minimum sitdown 3 handed for few hours then 4 handed. I ran well and played very well. Then as Im cashing out my 1450 I look at the normal 1/1 table and see a guy whos a donator is chipped up, along with a few other unknowns. I sit with 175, eventually being in for 575. Basically everyone is 200-600BB deep which is just beautiful. trying not to sound arrogant these guys didnt have a chance. At somepoint im gonna hit my backdoor draw and get massively paid. So I pull out my fishing rod. any two suited or slightly connected cards preflop and if I flop 3 to a straight and/or 3 to a flush or any pair with backdoor draw im pretty much peeling any pot sized bets.

Then this pot happens. opened to £8 (its a loose game my standard raise is 14 on that 1/1 table) and a few callers. I call with 32o from SB. flop 4c5s6s. I check to raiser who bets £40. I call as do 2 others. Turn a beautiful brick Qh. I check, check, shove for £167. Re shove for ~580, I have him covered. Its a lot of money to me so I took a while to call after thinking it through and decided that if hes got 73/78 (he had raised 83s the hand before) then I've just gotta chalk it down as a cooler. So theres £500 in the main and another 400 on the side before I call. then the guy behind me sticks in his 200 aswell!

first shove = 666 (apparently but didnt show)
overshove = 64
over call = As7s for NFD and OESD.

River = BRICK and im being shipped over a 1.8K pot on 1/1 blinds.

tonight I made 2.4K twinned with the 2.7 I cashed out playing dealers choice on thursday, unfortunately I went halvers with someone in the dc because it was going to be a big game and I wanted to be able to reload. but still 3.6K in two sessions Is pretty sweet.

It also appears that my new comp has in fact NOT being boomswitched as Iv dropped like 10 buyins on 10NL. WTF? 4 of those were pure spew and some down to 12 tabling nonsense but I did receive a few standard suckouts and coolers.

Im going to try to knock poker on the head til my exams are over, but Im playing so well live its gonna be a struggle. It feels so good and empowering and confidence boosting to keep making the right decisions, the right folds, the right bet sizes, the super thin value bets and super light calls.

Its not just the decisions that im making in the hands either. I've really been thinking a lot about game selection recently, and I was wining £500 in a 300 sit down on new years day and the two guys to my left were the other strong players at the table and both had me covered. the other 3 guys only had like 200 each. I was tired and card dead. I thought about leaving but stayed and did my stack in two hands. Its a lesson I should have learned 1000 times before, but this time it sunk in. I recognised that I wasnt playing well and wasnt in a good spot and should have that extra 800 to my name but I dont. I've played another 4 sessions live since then and have left one game because I was making the wrong desicions and playing badly even though it was as soft table with a lot of money on and I've stayed in another when I was supertired and wanted to go but I stayed because I was making the right decisions.

Game selection is not about looking down the lobby list at the %age of players per flop or average potsize. Its about recognising (and being honest enough) to know when you are playing badly or your oppenents are playing well. Watching a video or going through hh's is far more productive than playing anything other than your A game, no matter how good you are or how big your edge is over the game. Sure theres always a game you can win in playing your C game, but taking that lower winrate over studying and improving your overall winrate for all future games seems pretty retarded to me... I wish I'd spent more time studying instead of playing sub-standard poker.

Its a strange thing being away from the internet for a couple of weeks.

I went to see deadmau5 which was a wicked night, the entire floor of our hotel went to the gig so it got well messy. I've had a pretty beans xmas/ new year seeing a lot of friends and family, having a lot of good food and a hell of a lotta drinks. Everyones getting on well with their lives which pleases me, some of my friends have got themselves sick jobs. Hopefully by this time next year ill be able to happily say the same about myself.

2010 in general was a pretty shitty year. Looking back on the goals I made are just LOL ridiculous. I'd already paid to go to vegas then pulled out. Think I went for two, yes two runs all year so getting fitter also went down the pan. In general I was just very lazy and bumbled through my degree making these next 6 months one hell of a mission. I didnt go skiing and its the one activity I love equally to poker, possibly a liitle bit more but its damn close. I also didnt buy a car, but I did go to the Irish open. I also cant believe I didnt blog one the nights out I had (Ill do that later)

For pretty much the whole of 2010 I just felt busto, It was horrible. I had a $6K cash in Feb and a 3K cash in march (I think) and blew the lot at the Irish open. Im unhappy about busting the main so early and even unhappier about creating the most ridiculous 2/5nlh table in the room, if not the whole of europe. Then after loosening everyone up I just ran like aids and dropped 3K sterling. When I came back one of my tenants had done a runner (still oweing me rent) and because I thought he was a trustworthy mate I didnt make him sign a contract so I got taken for a ride.

So I found myself with a crippled bankroll, 2 less tenants than I needed and everytime I made money it got shipped out to pay bills for 5-6 months. Eventually bad variance caught me in the middrift and I didnt win a meanful pot for months. Im glad my housemate was there to witness this, because it really was unbelievable. It was sick. I dislike moaning about it so I dont think I really brought it up much but I definately owe slav and appology for being a whining bitch at times so Ill leave it at this.. It was just sickening. Looking back it was probably no more than 20K hands which can be cruised over online but live its like 6hrs a night 5 nights a week for 5months, and when Its my only source of income and I have bills to pay its fucking rough. I mean live cash was my bread and butter in '09, Id be very suprised if I wasnt the bigget winner the casino (on nlh). Adam might have made more than me but its tough to know. Actually Songbo has definately won more than both of us.

Online I broke even. My HEM died (good ridance) with my laptop but I finished down in cash and up in mtts. Live I finished down about £1500 a lot of which was due to going away and donking a lot of money. Ill be cutting that out this year. I grinded the micros for a few weeks but blew it once I became frustrated trying to bink an mtt.

I had to work in a call centre for the summer and even then I was still struggling. Thank god the house is now full and my only outgoings are eating, vicky and getting paro the boys.

Im behind on uni work now this year and have 2 exams this month and a huge project due in for april 1st. A discitation is 15credits. this project is 45. I dont have a title yet.

Iv had a prety rough time with vicky lately as we have seen much of each other for the last few months so we decided to take a break then she changed her mind but the amout of time we spend together is only going to decrease iin the next 6months (if thats even possible), and then shes probably going to australia to go diving and Im planning on going to a live in a ski resort for a season and see if the novelty wares off or If my end plan of living in one will come to fruition in the future so we'll have to see how it plays out but hopefully we can make it work in the long term.

This is geting long so Ill round up with Iv just bought a new comp.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/225760 comp specs
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/174584 monitor..... one day I might take the time to make words into the links

Im pretty excited about getting on the grind, and a little birdy told me that my computers been boomswitched so thats good.

For the next 6 months I have 3 areas to focus on. These are HOUSE. UNIVERSITY. POKER.

I have a few things to fix in the house in the next month, find tenants, planning regs for a new staircase.

University I have to up my hourly attendance from about 4hrs a week (which was a massive improvement from last year) to at least 27hrs a week. Which is gonna be killer.

Poker I want to make online NLH my bread and butter for 2011 and onwards, Im planing on playing about 6 2hr sessions (1.5K hand/8 tabling) per week (until my degrees finished) and would be happy to acheive a 4bb/2BB winrate based on my track record in online cash games to date. Hopefully some of you guys could help me out or even just fire up a couple of the tables im on and donate to me. HAH.

I do enjoy playing mtts, really enjoy them but they are tough to play for living I prefere the idea of being able to put in little sessions and not have to commit to a 12(usually unsociable) hours.

I've gone through every tournament schedule on stars/F|TP/ipoker for the best value comps and Im aiming to do one sunday session per month of all the majors + some of the others mtt's that get sick numbers of runners. Ill be looking to sell about 75% of my action for these, and have a few guys who'll take 50% of my action between them. So if any of you are interested in taking a percentage then drop me a pm and we can discuss it further.

Im pretty detemined to make all of this work.

[ ] Get a degree (at least bink a 2:2)
[ ] Get the house finished to rent out properly
[ ] Beat the micros and get to SSNL

640.000 euros... so massive CONGRATS ROBERTO!

Im gonna do that sunday schedule from my previous blog post on 2nd Jan cause Ive been feeling knackered all week. Still looking for 25% in anyone wants action but probably only have 5% left so if you want some book it quick.

Didnt want to play a huge session tonight but I was bored and have no discipline and that 2day ftops looked so juicy so I bought in and it was probably the worst tournament I played this year. Lost everypot! HAH!

To round that off I ran TT into QQ 5handed to bubble to final table from 2650 runners in the 42K gtd which was pretty meh. 13K for 1st ...vommit

Probably be my last blog before christmas

So have a great holiday everyone

In the ftops schedule I played last month I cashed in 2/12 and didnt play a further 2 events. I returned 2.6K from a total of 5.4K buyins. I ran very badly (see reports in previous blogs). At least I won a flip in the main though!
Iv gone through all the mtts on stars/FTP/ipoker with decent gtd prizepools and big fields as my ROI on 189+ runners is a lot stronger than in smaller tournaments.

After speaking with my two main backers Im going to play the following 29 mtt's on sunday 19th December and agreed on the same mark up as before of 1:1.25 and looking to sell a maximum of another 35%

BUYIN/TIME/SITE (times are GMT)
109 6pm stars
215 6pm stars
105 6.15 stars
155 6.30 FTP
11 7pm stars
256 7pm FTP
320 7pm ipoker
75 7.15 FTP
163 8pm FTP
55 8pm stars
11 8.30 stars
109 8.45 ipoker
22 9.22 FTP
309 9.30 stars
215 9.30 stars
162 10pm stars
216 10pm FTP
17 10.35 FTP
409 11pm stars
215 11.30 stars
216 12am FTP
109 12am stars
309 12.30 FTP
163 1am FTP
162 2am stars
55 2.30am FTP
55 2.30am stars
155 3.30am FTP


=$4373 * 1.25 = $5466

robocow on FTP 43%ROI off 1000 (+16.8k/55.6k)
robc1978 on stars -17%ROI off 700 (-2.8k/15.2k)

total works out at 25%ROI from 1700comps. 14K profit from 71K

I was ranked in the top 1% of mtters on FTP in 2009 and was in the top 1% this year until last month.
Unfortunately my ROI dropped considerably due to running 0/13 ftops M/E qualifiers and running pretty badly accross the 12 events I played last month (see previous posts).
As before if l feel like im burning out then I wont register for some of the later comps and will refund the buyins but tbh I play about 40mtts a night when I do have a proper session on a laptop/old monitor so volume/burnout shouldn't be an issue for 29mtts when my 24" arrives.

I feel a lot happier about playing one night of big buyin mtts than spreading it across a 2 week series such as the ftops. I plan on doing this once a month or maybe once every two months as I have a lot of uni commitments coming up. However depending on my results (as thats obviously what the majority or investors are interested in) I might step it up if im making final tables, escepially if mtt's are about to have to the playerpools/guarantees slashed by any new legislation.

My laptop is kaput
Think im gonna invest in a desktop even though this will have implict negative connotations on masturbating, but hey iv been known to take the odd gamble so we'll see how it pays off.
Basically I only want to spend about £300 for the time being and want a monitor that'll 9 table with no overlay what size is best? One of the biggest flaws in my lappy was that it would slow when I was running FTP.stars.ipoker.ongame.HEM.itunes.skype.internet so I need a processor thats gonna handle that without FTP stalling. My housemate says desktops are faster than laptops but idk..
I think thats pretty much all I want from a comp for the timebeing if anyone has any recomendations.

Also working on a sunday schedule as taking 2 weeks out to play ftops isnt going to happen again whilst im still studying. Probabaly do 1 sunday a month or bimonthly will post the schedule and percentage prices when iv discussed it with my main backers.

Thanks for any recomendations x

1st half of this is about football/boozing 2nd is the last ftops events TL;DR

After a night of heavy boozing a question was posed.. what are you too afraid to buy 20 doublecheeseburgers? The answer to that question was obviously no but only 16 were bought. This was excellent preparation for a massive football (soccer) match the following day.

Five years ago my housemates and myself established our football team Singleton Park Rangers. SPR. The main reason for this was because we wanted a team of our own to smash the opposition in the intramural league. The Uni league was full of dicks and you cant choose your own teams without players being poached by higher teams. For the last 2 years our football team has been ejected from the intramural cup for fielding illegiable players against our biggest rivals. (A load of C*nts). We wiped the floor with them in both games however it was just unfortuante that the illegiable players in question scored wonder goals in both games to secure the wins.

After leading the league for the whole of the last season we lost it on the final day to the prementioned rivals. This obviously increased the bad-blood between us. The first time we met in the league this year we fielded a weaker side due to missing players and got spanked 6-1. Our next game was vs the same team in the first round of the cup. Nothing other than a win will do. They hit the post 3 times in the first 15mins until our centreback played one hell of a ball to our striker who converted a complete beaut. After this goal we dominated the game. They refereed the 2nd half and really took the piss. a 45minute half turned into 56minutes but we held them off as we still looked for a 2nd. As the other games ended people walked over expecting to see sloth taking an easy victory into the next round after last weeks slaughter.

That was not the case, the whistle blew and everyone went clean off including people form other teams who were overjoyed to see those league nicking and default cup winning scumbags knocked out in the first round. The night that follwed was ridiculous. It ended with us being ejected from the club (suprisingly not from the vip part considering the carnage was caused) for standing in a line of pairs, interlinking arms and bouncing each other along the dancefloor. Once outside the bouncing resumed with the end of the line being a stinking (probable urine contaminated) fountain. The police then turned up to see naked people fleeing from the scene and my mate explaing that it was an accident to which the officer replied yes im sure it was an accident thats why hes taken his clothes off first...

In terms of poker that ftops schedule really took a lot of me. I was utterly exhausted after the end of it, And literally did nothing for 2weeks other than bust outa mtts. I dont know how these guys put in that amountt of volume week in week out especially when running bad.

124/5500 in the brawl for ~$850. Lost some very questionable spots (in terms of villans calls)
Early on I got lucky with AAh on a K94hhh flop v 99 to get chipped up.
Im shocked that with only 150 left theres still guys chasing a $40 bounty.,Im still shocked that there were 3 droolers on a 6max table that deep! SWEET!

The guy behind me had been playing shove/fold from having 40K on 800/1600. So this severly narrowed my opening range. My first open for 3 levels was from the BTN with AKdd he snap shoves 44 over me and I pick up a FD on the turn and brick. This drops me from 50K to 20K on 15/3000
After a few rounds I shove KQ form SB and BB tanks with K5 and gets a chop.. sigh.
UTG opens on 2k/4k to 9. I shove 29K. he snaps 9Ts leaving himslef 8k back? I hold. I btn shove 22 for 50K. the SB has 57K and the BB has 38K. These 4 hands are the only ones I played so BB obviously snaps with K8o. LOL/SIGH when 8 drops. Finally get it in with AQv QT and lose.
Early on I got lucky with AAh on a K94hhh flop v 99 to get chipped up.

The main - 612/5000 ~$900
I lost small pots with QQ/AK in the first few levels and eventually 4Bet it in with AQ v TT in a spot where I think its incorrect not to 4BAI based on dynamics of the previuos hand.
Im now on about 15K. LP opens and I flat call with AK from the SB.
a) I like to trap dominated hands as very few people flat call with AK in mtts.
b) I dont like escalating the pot when we're so deep and Im OOP.

Flop comes a dream AK5ss. I have the Ks as back up. I lead out for a PSB. he calls. A low spade drops on the turn and I ship. he tanks and AQ no spade and is drawing dead.

Now I have 33K and am crusing with about 1200/5000 left. On 500/1K EP has opened for 2399 and had 2 callers. both are aggressive good players and I believe that they are rasing premium hands for value. Instead 1st caller is utilising his position and the SB feels valued in. As I have only played AK I feel like this is a great spot to take the 11K down PF I make it 6250 with 84dd and get it through the OR after a tank fold. the 1st caller now tanks and calls. SB folds. AH well ill need some help on the flop. A84. I lead for 10.200 and he tank shove AQ, I hold and am in the top 50/1000.

This is the hand I regret not playing. If id had a good series I think I gamble here. but min cashing for 900 is a big chunk of peoples %ages back. I open AJcc to 2.4K (6/1200) and a shortstack shoves for 10K Im calling this as his shoving frequencies are too large and Im getting 2-1. The guy behind now shoves for 50K. I feel like hes gambling and isolating the shortstack with a medium strength hand I think JJ+ he flats or makes a smaller 4bet as with a bigger ace. His stats on OPR show hes a decent winning player and im the only other stack on the table. I see decent player isolating in these spots for such larger amounts which seems suicidal to me. Ie moorman ISO A5 from utg +1 to shortstack utg shove for an insane amount of M. Anyway I just feel like it a good spot for me and the extra 14K in the middle is inticing. Im pretty certain that If I hit I win. And I I hit I have 120K on 12/2400 and can really abuse the table with that stack for a superdeep run. I fold b/c 60K is plenty to continue with and Id hit the J v his 10's and SS's KT.

I misplay 88 OOP and make a bad river call for 3600 and blind down to 30K with 600 left.
Same opener as the 84dd hand MR my BB. I call with 99. 9K6dd. I need to get maximum value from this hand so I opt to check and let him cbet his entire range. On the turn (5x) I decide to check again (and if he checks back I checking the river). Hes seen me smash the pot with AK/84 which are the only two big pot I have played so I feel like he has to try to force me off on the turn. He drops into his timebank before setting me all in. he tables QTo and binks the J. BAH!

I have A LOT of work to catch up with at uni as its my final year so I dont think ill be playing much at the moment although saying that I can already feel the mtt bug back in me after those deep runs.