Don't Know What to Do

Well bollox

Today is the 4th of January, the day I was supposed to start work at Aviva but haven't heard anything. Thinking about it, it does really interest me working there either. I could phone a competitor of where i used to work but that doesn't really interest me either. So i'm a bit stuck in a rut. Nothing interests me at all so I sit on my arse all day doing fuck all. I feel like going back to Spain and working in a bar again, however i'm looking at that thinking it wouldn't be good money and i wouldn't be able to save for a house but I don't know if I want that anymore.

I would like to play poker for a living but I doubt that will happen. It's always in the back of my mind when i'm playing which makes me tilt more when someone calls with 85 and beats my AA (see hand history in last post). It feels like everything is against me sometimes. I feel I know the game well enough to win consistantly, but when you need to win 6/10 to profit and you get the beats I got in the first 3 games then it's actually impossible to win 6/10 and profit.

I'm not sure what games pro players play to be profitable but it can't be double or nothing games such as HU SNG or coolers it really can't. I think i'd be better at 30 or 45 man SNG but on boss the player traffic is too low and I can't add money to another accont, so I might just play MTT or try and break even at HU SNG and put in volume for rakeback.

QWEFKP jqwefhqfhq1wqwepf

qwerij hwehdfqwfhqehufqweufqiwughefpq wfq

Its fucking impossible to win money at this game

Three double or nothing, these three hands make me lose first 3 played so am 3 down

It's impossible to win fucking money

***** Hand 1952262669 *****
150.00/300.00 Texas Hold'em (No Limit) - 03 January 2010 19:58:30
Cooler (Real/Tournament)
Seat 1: United113 (1100.00)
Seat 2: zimoun (3320.00)
Seat 3: KMartynas (1035.00)
Seat 4: lomurrid10 (1950.00)
Seat 5: Adziol24 (880.00)
Seat 6: zorrodu92 (1140.00)
Seat 7: DUURRR (2405.00)
Seat 8: Julia1990 (1220.00)
Seat 9: SPIRE888 (1950.00)
Seat 10: Unknown (0.00)
zorrodu92 post SB 150.00
DUURRR post BB 300.00
** Deal **
United113 [Qc, Ac]
zimoun [N/A, N/A]
KMartynas [N/A, N/A]
lomurrid10 [N/A, N/A]
Adziol24 [N/A, N/A]
zorrodu92 [N/A, N/A]
DUURRR [N/A, N/A]
Julia1990 [N/A, N/A]
SPIRE888 [N/A, N/A]
*** Bet Round 1 ***
Julia1990 Raise to 600.00
SPIRE888 Fold
United113 All-in 1100.00
zimoun Fold
KMartynas Fold
lomurrid10 Fold
Adziol24 Fold
zorrodu92 Fold
DUURRR Fold
Julia1990 Call 1100.00
*** Flop(Board): *** : [3s, Jh, 4c]
*** Turn(Board): *** : [3s, Jh, 4c, Qh]
*** River(Board): *** : [3s, Jh, 4c, Qh, Kd]
*** Showdown *** : Rake: 0.00 Total Pot: 2650.00
United113 [Qc, Ac] Pair of queens Win: 0.00
zimoun Fold Win: 0.00
KMartynas Fold Win: 0.00
lomurrid10 Fold Win: 0.00
Adziol24 Fold Win: 0.00
zorrodu92 Fold Win: 0.00
DUURRR Fold Win: 0.00
Julia1990 [Kc, Jc] Two pair kings and jacks Win: 2650.00
SPIRE888 Fold Win: 0.00

***** Hand 1952222317 *****
25.00/50.00 Texas Hold'em (No Limit) - 03 January 2010 19:43:49
Cooler (Real/Tournament)
Seat 1: Adziol24 (1425.00)
Seat 2: lomurrid10 (1395.00)
Seat 3: Unknown (0.00)
Seat 4: rouzic (1165.00)
Seat 5: United113 (727.00)
Seat 6: DUURRR (2115.00)
Seat 7: Meesdorf (1455.00)
Seat 8: vidia94 (1373.00)
Seat 9: Nokkerosen (3470.00)
Seat 10: bfgp (1875.00)
Nokkerosen post SB 25.00
bfgp post BB 50.00
** Deal **
Adziol24 [N/A, N/A]
lomurrid10 [N/A, N/A]
rouzic [N/A, N/A]
United113 [As, Ad]
DUURRR [N/A, N/A]
Meesdorf [N/A, N/A]
vidia94 [N/A, N/A]
Nokkerosen [N/A, N/A]
bfgp [N/A, N/A]
*** Bet Round 1 ***
Adziol24 Fold
lomurrid10 Fold
rouzic Call 50.00
United113 Raise to 181.00
DUURRR Fold
Meesdorf Fold
vidia94 Call 181.00
Nokkerosen Call 181.00
bfgp Fold
rouzic Fold
*** Flop(Board): *** : [7h, 4d, 8h]
*** Bet Round 2 ***
Nokkerosen Check
United113 All-in 546.00
vidia94 Call 546.00
Nokkerosen Fold
*** Turn(Board): *** : [7h, 4d, 8h, 2h]
*** River(Board): *** : [7h, 4d, 8h, 2h, 8c]
*** Showdown *** : Rake: 0.00 Total Pot: 1735.00
Adziol24 Fold Win: 0.00
lomurrid10 Fold Win: 0.00
rouzic Fold Win: 0.00
United113 [As, Ad] Two pair aces and eights Win: 0.00
DUURRR Fold Win: 0.00
Meesdorf Fold Win: 0.00
vidia94 [8s, 5s] Three of a kind, eights Win: 1735.00
Nokkerosen Fold Win: 0.00
bfgp Fold Win: 0.00

***** Hand 1952277068 *****
100.00/200.00 Texas Hold'em (No Limit) - 03 January 2010 20:04:12
Cooler (Real/Tournament)
Seat 1: Braniac (2120.00)
Seat 2: Meesdorf (1180.00)
Seat 3: United113 (1650.00)
Seat 4: mastrs (1615.00)
Seat 5: Unknown (0.00)
Seat 6: iraocusai (3510.00)
Seat 7: bfgp (1450.00)
Seat 8: LadaDaal (2425.00)
Seat 9: Unknown (0.00)
Seat 10: Adziol24 (1050.00)
Meesdorf post SB 100.00
United113 post BB 200.00
** Deal **
Braniac [N/A, N/A]
Meesdorf [N/A, N/A]
United113 [Qd, As]
mastrs [N/A, N/A]
iraocusai [N/A, N/A]
bfgp [N/A, N/A]
LadaDaal [N/A, N/A]
Adziol24 [N/A, N/A]
*** Bet Round 1 ***
mastrs Fold
iraocusai Fold
bfgp Fold
LadaDaal Fold
Adziol24 Fold
Braniac Fold
Meesdorf All-in 1180.00
United113 Call 1180.00
*** Flop(Board): *** : [10h, 5s, 9h]
*** Turn(Board): *** : [10h, 5s, 9h, Js]
*** River(Board): *** : [10h, 5s, 9h, Js, 10d]
*** Showdown *** : Rake: 0.00 Total Pot: 2360.00
Braniac Fold Win: 0.00
Meesdorf [Jh, 10s] Full house Win: 2360.00
United113 [Qd, As] Pair of tens Win: 0.00
mastrs Fold Win: 0.00
iraocusai Fold Win: 0.00
bfgp Fold Win: 0.00
LadaDaal Fold Win: 0.00
Adziol24 Fold Win: 0.0

It';s fucking impossible

CUNTS

TILLLLLLT

Did ok in the coolers (double or nothing) yesterday winning 10 and losing 5.

Today it's been ridiculous, AA beaten by KK all in pre TWICE and 2 outered 3 times so have won 5 and lost 7.

So totals:

Played - 27
Won - 15
Lost - 12

Total entry £297
Total Winnings - £300

So £3 profit.... wow..

Thats not the best but should have generated £8.10 in rakeback as well.

I always do this, win a bit then have a shit day and play something different. I'm really going to try and stick to these games and play 400 this month and really see what the results are like.

I'm Curfewed

So many texts off mates today saying things like:

"Where are you going tonight?" To which I reply "I'm curfewed i'm not allowed out past 19.15".

And "Are you allowed out on NYE?"

Err no...

"What will happen if you break your curfew for a night?" Errr it depends on the circumstances but If it was to go and get pissed for New Years eve in thepub i think i'd be taken straight to jail without passing go....

So i think i'll stay in!!!

I've been trying to put more volume in and have been playing double or nothing 10Man SNG, which are piss easy. I reckon I should be able to win over the long run 7 out of 10 and am playing 4 to 5 at the same time.

Entry for 10 would be £110 and winnings for 7/10 would be £140 so if i can play 30 a day entry would be £330 and winnings of £420 giving a £90 a day profit from £10 entry SNG. I'd then also generate £270 in monthly rakeback..

Can you live on that? £90 a day x 6 = £540 a week??

No sex please we're british...

Grrrrrr. All my thoughts at the moment are based on sleeping with someone,... anyone...

I'm not sure i've actually had sex THIS YEAR... I was seeing a girl at the end of last year and we split up in the new year so i don't think I slept with her after new year. I suppose i could see it as a good thing that I have slept with anyone this year as I was in prison for 6 months and if i'd slept with someone in jail it would have meant a quite severe change of lifestyle..!

What i've found myself doing now is giving girls I see starting hands in No limit hold em. Take Sarah Harding from girls aloud for example would be pocket aces that you would play no matter what situation. Susan Boyle on the other hand would be 72off that no matter what situation, you wouldn't go anywhere near. As i have been card dead for so long I am starting to look at hands like 34suited and A5off thinking they look appealing.... I hope it doesnt get to the stage when i'm shoving all in with a 63...

Christmas was alright as all my family were here. HAd a huge argument with a woman and her daughter who live round the corner earlier. They've basically stolen one of my mums cats that cost a fortune and she put it through quarantine which also costs a fortune. We know where the cat is and have asked them to stop feeding it and letting it in but they keep doing that so it basically lives there now. We have had it back here, but it's cruel to keep a cat locked in and everytine it leaves it goes back to their house so we don't know what to do. Today they came round saying it need to go to the vet. I said that it was nice you've basically had the cat as your own but come to us when it needs the vet. She started saying she was going to call the RSPCA to which i replied "Why because you stole our cat?" and she got arsy so i ended up saying "piss off you miserable old cow.."

The nerve of some people!!!

More hands needed

Even though my last post says about not playing cash games, I need to play about 400more raked hands to qualify for the 10,000 euro freerole in a few days. Yesterday I fired up 4 tables of micro limit 0.02/0.04 cash tables and sat down with 4euro on each. I played about 100 hands between them and came of 18euros up which was alright. I had friends round last night so didn't play in any of my usual tournaments.

Today i sat at a 0.05/0.10 table for about an hour and played a 5seater 5euro SNG. I won the SNG for 12.50 profit and was 3euro up on the cash table. I currently 20/43 in a MTT with the top 15 paid so hopefully can do well.

I've realised I need to do far more volume when playing. Not more hours but more multi tabling. I fould 4 tabling last night alright and it might have helped. I really will try to play more tables at the same time. It went alright today with cash, SNG and MTT.

My brothers coming down with his wife and her sister tonight so it'll be a houseful as my sister and her mate are already here. It'll be nice to all be together at christmas for the first time in years anyway.

So i hope you all have a good day tommorrow anyway.

Merry Christmas

Reindeer Bounty

Entered a reindeer bounty on Boss which was a 5euro tourney with 1000 guaranteed and 503 runners. They added a 50euro bounty on Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen if you knocked them out.

I was sat next to Donner have a good crack about santa and was double average stack size. Donner went all in UTG and of course every fucker called. I had QdJd so called too and won!!!! So thats 50euro anyway!! and or course won a huge pot so am now chip leader.. x

Raise the River

Well i think i might start all my posts with the french model from the marks and spencer advert...

hmmmmm

anyway....

I joined raise the river and have posted on there and have got some really good feedback and advice from people on there.

I played two tourneys tonight for a total of 9euro buy in. I tried being a bit more aggresive and was stupid to be honest. I busted out of both when i had healthy chip stacks. I need to try and be more aggresive in latter stages and not early stages..

I amup about 15euro for the day after sitting for 2o minutes at a NL20 table. The button had just passed and i was bored so i paid the big blind which i never do but couldn't be arsed to wait for the BB. I got dealt 88 and made a set on the flop and doubled up which was nice.

Am not going to play anymore tonight. In a few days Boss hold a 10,000 Euro freeroll for players who have played 1500 raked hands over the last 30 days. On average boss only has about 10,000 players logged in during busy times and when you discount the tournament players and free play players, I'm not sure how many people will play in this?! They do get 5,000 playing free rolls but hopefully there won't be many and I can do well.

I still haven't heard about this job at Aviva. They want stupid amounts of info in a pre employment check such as passport, bank statements, P45's, Criminal Record Check, Credit Check. Hopefully i'll hear soon and start in the new year..

Top 40

I've had don't stop believing by Journey on a CD in my car for about a year. I'm listening to the charts for the first time in years to hopefully hear that Rage against the machine are christmas number one and Journey are number 9!! I think this is because a little gay man sang it on X Factor...

I really hope rage against the machine are number one. All these songs in the charts are such manufactured shite. Cheryl Cole, Rihanna, Black Eyed Peas they all sound the same. It'll be good to stick it to the X factor shite...

Have played a load of MTT for about 9 hours today and haven't done exceptionally well... Final tabled in 1 and went out 11th in another which was annoying. I'm registered for a 1euro rebuy and the 3euro and 6 euro between 1900 and 2000 and including those buy ins i'm about even for the day so hopefully can go deep.

I need to go into Norwich tomorrow to pick up some stuff from Marks and Spencer for my mum and i have to get the bus... I haven't got on a bus in years.. Hopefully though in Marks and Spencer i'll see who i think is the most beautiful women in the world, even though she is french..

Enjoy

EDIT - frustrating evening again.. just busted 11th out of 540 odd in the 3euro for a pointless cash and finished 70 odd out of 700ish in the rebuy for again a small cash.. I think i'll be about 20euro up for the day.. rubbish....

J3?? Come on really?!?!

Well in the 3euro tonight, hit trip 6's on a Jack high flop and re raised someone with average chips and get called by J3

Turn 3
River J

What is it with french players? there are loads of the fuckers on boss and they are all fucking useless. Who calls with J3?? French retards thats who...

What levels do people stop making these calls on?

Aces Cracked Again

Well since the 4th in the 3euro MTT the other night, i final tabled the 6euro MTT the night before last but only finished 9th for a small cash. Last night i final tabled the same tourney and was chip leader with 5 remaining and lookinjg for the win. I got dealt AA and had that lovely feeling when someone goes all in before you. I call and he flips Kc9c and hits the flush. Even then i had about 5bb left over and got it all in with AJ against 44 and lost that flip too. Really frustrated.

I was having a look at my sharkscope MTT stats yesterday. What are good MTT sharkcope stats?? My name has a little shark next to it which I take as a good thing?

Username	Games Played	Av. Profit	Av. Stake	Av. ROI	Total Profit	Form	Ability /100	Network	Filter
United113	109	$7	$7	121%	$744	-	76	IPN	Sch. Only

Doing things wrong

Well i realised a few things last night. I recovered from that hit in my last post to finish 4th in the tourney and ship 105euros which is both good and annoying at the same time. My problems at the moment seem to be tilting too much.

i read an interesting post at littleacornmans blog http://littleacornpoker.blogspot.com/ that made me think. I'm not really in a good place in my head at the moment in life in general. My attitude is then being transferred onto the Poker tables so i'm tilting too easily. My bankroll is now about 365 Euros so i'm going to play the 3euro tournament and try and build that up. I'm going to avoid the cash tables and higher buy in tourneys atm till i feel confident.

From amatays comment the other day I have also joined raise the river. From just reading peoples comments to other posts has helped me a lot, and i'll start posting there soon. My first posts are going to be things like:

1. To play only MTT, what percentage would you be looking at to win?
2. How many MTT would someone who wants to do it for a living play? (not that I can do it for a living, its just I have the time to TRY and do it as i'm not working)
3. How to build chipstack midway through the tournament in a low level entry/high idiot content with people calling a lot with trash. (I have been waiting for hands to double up/get paid highly however when you get sucked out you're out, rather than winning a lot of smaller pots.

I'm also going to try and learn more. Through reading books/blogs and posts on RTR.

Honestly it's beyond a joke

**** Hand 1922541997 *****
400.00/800.00 Texas Hold'em (No Limit) - 16 December 2009 21:50:28
€1,000 GUARANTEED (Real/Tournament)
Seat 1: -Latin- (18670.00)
Seat 5: United113 (23063.00)
Seat 2: fifa1 (8430.00)
Seat 3: stocky86 (4530.00)
Seat 4: danimelo15 (4200.00)
Seat 6: spikey1982 (3715.00)
Seat 7: Aztec Man (17392.00)
Seat 8: RobertoFTC (14735.00)
Seat 9: IMBELENATO (10215.00)
Seat 10: Woyta1 (4600.00)
-Latin- post SB 400.00
fifa1 post BB 800.00
** Deal **
-Latin- [N/A, N/A]
United113 [3s, 3d]
fifa1 [N/A, N/A]
stocky86 [N/A, N/A]
danimelo15 [N/A, N/A]
spikey1982 [N/A, N/A]
Aztec Man [N/A, N/A]
RobertoFTC [N/A, N/A]
IMBELENATO [N/A, N/A]
Woyta1 [N/A, N/A]
*** Bet Round 1 ***
stocky86 Fold
danimelo15 Fold
United113 Call 800.00
spikey1982 Call 800.00
Aztec Man Fold
RobertoFTC Call 800.00
IMBELENATO Fold
Woyta1 Fold
-Latin- Call 800.00
fifa1 Check
*** Flop(Board): *** : [5d, 3h, 7c]
*** Bet Round 2 ***
-Latin- Check
fifa1 Check
United113 Bet 3562.00
spikey1982 Fold
RobertoFTC All-in 13860.00
-Latin- Fold
fifa1 Fold
United113 Call 13860.00
*** Turn(Board): *** : [5d, 3h, 7c, 9h]
*** River(Board): *** : [5d, 3h, 7c, 9h, 10c]
*** Showdown *** : Rake: 0.00 Total Pot: 32470.00
-Latin- Fold Win: 0.00
United113 [3s, 3d] Three of a kind, threes Win: 0.00
fifa1 Fold Win: 0.00
stocky86 Fold Win: 0.00
danimelo15 Fold Win: 0.00
spikey1982 Fold Win: 0.00
Aztec Man Fold Win: 0.00
RobertoFTC [9c, 9s] Three of a kind, nines Win: 32470.00
IMBELENATO Fold Win: 0.00
Woyta1 Fold Win: 0.00

Says it all

honestly its so sick.......

AA

Board of 7d 5h 2c.

When all the money goes in

against 5d 6d and still manage to lose

***** Hand 1921814959 *****
0.02/0.04 Texas Hold'em (No Limit) - 16 December 2009 16:17:57
TH Micro 4 (Real/Cash Game)
Seat 1: United113 (3.84)
Seat 2: Brevball (1.79)
Seat 3: .:Macha:.. (1.30)
Seat 5: Tommyczech (1.49)
United113 post SB 0.02
Brevball post BB 0.04
** Deal **
United113 [Ad, As]
Brevball [N/A, N/A]
.:Macha:.. [N/A, N/A]
Tommyczech [N/A, N/A]
*** Bet Round 1 ***
.:Macha:.. Call 0.04
Tommyczech Fold
United113 Raise to 0.13
Brevball Call 0.13
.:Macha:.. Call 0.13
*** Flop(Board): *** : [7d, 5h, 2c]
*** Bet Round 2 ***
United113 Bet 0.39
Brevball All-in 1.66
.:Macha:.. All-in 1.17
United113 Call 1.66
*** Turn(Board): *** : [7d, 5h, 2c, 10d]
*** River(Board): *** : [7d, 5h, 2c, 10d, Jd]
*** Showdown *** : Rake: 0.48 Total Pot: 4.40
United113 Fold Win: 0.00
Brevball [5d, 6d] Flush to the jack Win: 4.40
.:Macha:.. Fold Win: 0.00
Tommyczech Fold Win: 0.00

AA v 82 off

All in pre flop AA has been beaten by 82 off

Seriously does this happen to everyone else?!?!

EDIT

2nd tournament 540 entrants 24 left with about 10BB, shove with A10 called by another short stack with KQ and of courde get beat... honestly every fucking time...

I hate my life

I am so bored at the moment. It's difficult not working and i don't know where my future lies. I would love to be able to play poker for a living. I think thats why i get so pissed off with the beats when they hit. I drift from game to game trying to find one that suits and all the while my bankroll is dropping and dropping.

I think i'm going to focus on playing PLO. I'm going to put a few thousand hands in over christmas and see how i get on..

I'm also going to play less over the next week or so before i start hitting the PLO tables and try and learn a bit more.

One thing that concerns me is this: In a previous job i needed to speak to 300 people a day to get a certain amount of sales. After doing it a while i got to the stage where i wasn't doing that and realised i'd gone too far to be able to do it so left. I hope it hasn't got to the stage with my poker that it's so ingrained in me to play the way i do, which blatantly isn't a winning play and that i can improve

Only time will tell i suppose

So Sick

I'm really starting to think that i'm just unlucky. I understand about variance etc etc but it seems i win coming from behind in the 1st hand of a rebut tournament when it really doesnt make much difference and get really unlucky when it counts.

I'm not sure how to rectify, please see the below hand histories and say what you would do differently?!? Maybe betting the flop on the AQ v A10 hand but have a look......

***** Hand 50000001856510622 *****
50.00/100.00 Texas Hold'em (No Limit) - 13 December 2009 20:13:53
€1,000 GUARANTEED (Real/Tournament)
Seat 1: coincoin81 (2732.00)
Seat 2: ReadElek (1385.00)
Seat 3: tüzi37 (5999.00)
Seat 4: Morris13 (4730.00)
Seat 5: xrisb (1720.00)
Seat 6: United113 (3142.00)
Seat 7: Tagakeno72 (6715.00)
Seat 8: --Bullet-- (2179.00)
Seat 9: JiriKnap (3440.00)
Seat 10: micky1955 (4202.00)
xrisb post SB 50.00
United113 post BB 100.00
** Deal **
coincoin81 [N/A, N/A]
ReadElek [N/A, N/A]
tüzi37 [N/A, N/A]
Morris13 [N/A, N/A]
xrisb [N/A, N/A]
United113 [Qh, Ad]
Tagakeno72 [N/A, N/A]
--Bullet-- [N/A, N/A]
JiriKnap [N/A, N/A]
micky1955 [N/A, N/A]
*** Bet Round 1 ***
Tagakeno72 Fold
--Bullet-- Fold
JiriKnap Fold
micky1955 Call 100.00
coincoin81 Fold
ReadElek Fold
tüzi37 Fold
Morris13 Fold
xrisb Fold
United113 Raise to 350.00
micky1955 Call 350.00
*** Flop(Board): *** : [5h, 6c, 9s]
*** Bet Round 2 ***
United113 Check
micky1955 Check
*** Turn(Board): *** : [5h, 6c, 9s, As]
*** Bet Round 3 ***
United113 Bet 375.00
micky1955 All-in 3852.00
United113 All-in 2792.00
*** River(Board): *** : [5h, 6c, 9s, As, 10c]
*** Showdown *** : Rake: 0.00 Total Pot: 6334.00
coincoin81 Fold Win: 0.00
ReadElek Fold Win: 0.00
tüzi37 Fold Win: 0.00
Morris13 Fold Win: 0.00
xrisb Fold Win: 0.00
United113 [Qh, Ad] Pair of aces Win: 0.00
Tagakeno72 Fold Win: 0.00
--Bullet-- Fold Win: 0.00
JiriKnap Fold Win: 0.00
micky1955 [10h, Ac] Two pair aces and tens Win: 6334.00

and

***** Hand 50000001856493538 *****
10.00/20.00 Texas Hold'em (No Limit) - 13 December 2009 20:07:10
Texas Holdem (Real/Tournament)
Seat 1: Tilllate (5200.00)
Seat 2: *UGE* (1390.00)
Seat 3: mabryma (3060.00)
Seat 4: United113 (1290.00)
Seat 5: mattitous (1790.00)
Seat 6: ispaien (1160.00)
Seat 7: Unknown (0.00)
Seat 8: olivier576 (1470.00)
Seat 9: -potoki21- (1280.00)
Seat 10: superpiel (1410.00)
-potoki21- post SB 10.00
superpiel post BB 20.00
** Deal **
Tilllate [N/A, N/A]
*UGE* [N/A, N/A]
mabryma [N/A, N/A]
United113 [Qh, Qc]
mattitous [N/A, N/A]
ispaien [N/A, N/A]
olivier576 [N/A, N/A]
-potoki21- [N/A, N/A]
superpiel [N/A, N/A]
*** Bet Round 1 ***
Tilllate Call 20.00
*UGE* Fold
mabryma Raise to 40.00
United113 Raise to 220.00
mattitous Fold
ispaien Fold
olivier576 Fold
-potoki21- Fold
superpiel Fold
Tilllate Fold
mabryma Raise to 400.00
United113 Call 400.00
*** Flop(Board): *** : [3s, 10c, 4s]
*** Bet Round 2 ***
mabryma All-in 2660.00
United113 All-in 890.00
*** Turn(Board): *** : [3s, 10c, 4s, 4d]
*** River(Board): *** : [3s, 10c, 4s, 4d, Kh]
*** Showdown *** : Rake: 0.00 Total Pot: 2630.00
Tilllate Fold Win: 0.00
*UGE* Fold Win: 0.00
mabryma [Ac, Ks] Two pair kings and fours Win: 2630.00
United113 [Qh, Qc] Two pair queens and fours Win: 0.00
mattitous Fold Win: 0.00
ispaien Fold Win: 0.00
olivier576 Fold Win: 0.00
-potoki21- Fold Win: 0.00
superpiel Fold Win: 0.00

So thats the 2 tournaments i play out of....

United are rubbish

Chelski drop points and united piss it up as usual......

Rubbish...

Not really played that much poker, I need a break to get my game back together, if i play too much i lose concentration and play bad...

I've realised i need to do the following:

1. Not play AQ
2. Focus on buliding my stack in MTT after the 4th level
3. Not call the blinds with nominal holdings..
4. Only playing premium hands in the first 3 levels.

Oh and not get tilted

and don't get tilted

and don't get tilted...

Or tilted...

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Aaaaaaaaarrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhh

That is all....

Take a break

I'm going to stop playing for a little while i think. I'm not enjoying it really at the moment and there is no point playing i don't think when you feel bad.

I seem to be getting dead angry with everything at the moment and i don't know why. I can seem to get motivated by anything and get bored doing whatever i'm doing really quickly. I'll go over to my sisters with my mum and get bored after two minutes and want to be back home and then come back home and have nothing to do here. My mum and sister are in London at the moment so i was at home on my own yesterday and did nothing. I played some poker but didn't enjoy it and keep getting so angry with the other players when they make stupid plays and get lucky. So i end up stressed and i don't know why. My roll is about 330 Euro now which is down from the other week but i still need to remember it all started from 13euros....

I had a few films on yesterday such as eagle eye, disturbia, GI Joe and District 9. They were all good and worth a watch, especially eagle eye

Interview

Well the interview surprisingly went ok. They need to do all the checks and if they come out ok then i'll start on the 4th January. The problem is that i told them everything that will come up on the checks but i doubt they'll hire me due to the bankruptcy.

On the poker front i'm playing so badly at the moment. i lose concentration and make stupid plays..

Am just going to play the 1euro rebuy and the 1000euro 3 euro entry tournament on boss at 7pm and 7.35 and play those till i increase my roll.

I really should start setting some targets. I want to try and win 2 tourneys a month and final table 6 times and try and cash in 40% of tourneys entered..

I really need to start keeping proper records as well..

Job interview

Well i've got an interview tomorrow at Arriva (Norwich Union). It's not the best job but at least its work. I'm dreading the interview I really am. Not the interview itself, i could do the job with my eyes closed it's just the amount of information they want. I can see the conversation going something like this:

So why did you leave your last job?

Well i was caught with £50,000 worth of cocaine and arrested in the company car so resigned before being sent to prison for six months, during that time I was declared bankrupt so will fail the credit check you're going to do on me for the FSA, but do i get free health care with this job?!

Am on to a winner i think.....

Same as yesterday

Same two tournaments

1st ran KK into AA

2nd ran QQ into KK

DIDN'T IMPROVE IN EITHER

So when others have it it holds up, when i have it i get beaten

Its a joke

FOR FUCKS SAKE

35 left out of 480 am running 25th. get dealt AA on the SB, folded to me i flat call, BB raises i push and he calls with A7... FUCKING A7 what goes through people fucking stupid cunting thick bastard heads... of course 2 sevens hit...

Cunt

am running 10th out of 67 in a rebuy atm see me get fucked out of that as well


35th.. out fucking AK v AQ all in pre flop and of COURSE a Queen hit.

FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK
FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK
FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK

Fucking useless fuckers on IPN there really are. Why can't i ever get any fucking luck like these retard fucking twats do

I fucking HATE poker

Fuck the Jacksons........

Non poker related rant coming up.......

I hate the fucking Jacksons. I think it's terrible... I've read a few books relating to the original Michael Jackson child molestation case against Jordie Chandler in 1993 and he is gulty as hell. Yet everyone loves him because he sang a few catchy songs.. What sort of World are we living in???

So when recently Evan Chandler, Jordie Chandlers father committed suicide do you here it on the news at all? No, but when the Molester dies you see nothing else on any news network apart from fucking retards crying with candles upset that a child molester has just died. So after Evan's death what does fucking freak Jermaine Jackson come out with?

"

Former Hollywood dentist Evan Chandler was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in his New Jersey home on Nov. 5. The elder Chandler was reportedly terminally ill, but Jermaine believes he killed himself because he felt guilty.

Speaking at a charity event at the Magic Johnson AMC theatre on Monday, the “Daddy’s Home” singer said: “All the things that we’ve been through as a family, the false allegations against my brother, from the 1993 case where they were accusing him of the most horrible things. This kid’s father has committed suicide because he just couldn’t take it and now the kid has come forward and said Michael never touched him.”

Michael always maintained his innocence, and eventually settled out of court with the Chandler family in January 1994 for $22 million. Jordan, 29, also had to sign a contract agreeing never to talk about the allegations.

HE KILLED HIMSELF BECAUSE HE FELT GUILTY???

How deranged and nasty can you be? But coming from the Jackson family it's probably par for the course.

Jacksons.... Fuck you all

Back on Stars

Well i realised the games i need to be playing are MTT of anything from 30 people up. Virgin don't have enough of these due to player traffic so set up an account in my mums name on pokerstars and deposited a tenner. The MTT on stars have daft guarantees for low stakes entry due to the amount of entries so i entered a $2 tournament with $1500 to the winner and 480 places paid and 4700 entrants. I ended up being donked out in 650th in a pot fof the chip lead when my aces got beaten all in after the flop of 9 6 2 rainbow by QQ when the queen hit the turn. AAAAAAARrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg

I was playing some low level cash games on virgin and was up 6 buy ins at a 10 euro table so quit that up. I need to try and rake a bit more in the last few days of november to get into the top 10 rakers for the 500 euro freerole they offer, i'm 101st at the moment.

So i'm going to really hit the depositor freerole tournaments on pokerstars this weekend and regulaly play the 10Euro 3500 guarantee on virgin and a regular daily tournament on Pokerstars in the evening too. I'll also try to play the quarter million on stars and see if i can get to the million in a satellite. Saying all that though i have $11 in stars and won't be able to add anymore.

Joppa - Hi mate are you ok? Can't seem to comment on your blog?!

Change of Play

I really took a look at my strategy at heads up tournaments yesterday and drastically changed a few things. It's amazing how changing a few parts of my games has changed my results. Out of the 12, 10Euro heads up games i played tonight i won 11 and lost 1 and that was when i was 75% to win the hand.

My roll has now breached the 600Euro mark so am going to take a shot at the 20Euro games tomorrow and see how i get on.

8 + ? = 8

Well job hunting is RIDICULOUS. I applied for a job with aviva (norwich union) and don't know wht i bothered. At the end it said it will do a credit check (will be very bad for me!) they will do a criminal record check (bad again) and they will check what you've been doing for the last 2 years (also bad). I then looked to get car insurance with aviva and they won't accept anyone with a criminal record for car insurance so i doubt they'll employ people with one. I had a meeting today with an agency that was supposed to help me find work. Instead they made me do a maths and english test and it was A JOKE. Questions like, what is the missing number. 8 + ? = 8 and what is half of 16? The english was just as bad, things like what word is spelt wrong? " I like this very mutch" It was a joke...

Am doing ok at poker. Have now turned the 13 euro i had into 515. I've been keeping more accurate records at Heads Up STT 10 Euro and am winning quite consistantly. I'm really going to give it a go at making proper money. I need to decide when to move up limits and also what MTT to play. There's no point winning 20 euro one day on STT and losing the same on tourney entries.

If i can (which i doubt) build my bankroll to 3-4k and consitantly win enough to get by then when my tag gets taken off in march i might just fuck off overseas and try and travel and win enough to take me on and on and on. That's the dream anyway. 500 Euro will probably be enough to get me to spain for a week so at least i have something to work from!!

Going Well

Well i can't find a job and the criminal record is a bit annoying!! My sisters back from Spain so am just spending time with her and my mum.

I have been playing quite a bit of poker. I had 13 euro in my Viegin account and have boosted that to just over 400. I'm doing really well in MTT at the moment. I won a 1euro rebuy and have 5 other final tables in about 20 tournaments, 2 seconds, 2 sixths and a tenth. I can't get on with heads up STT on virgin at the stakes i play i do better on pokerstars but cant get any money into there.

I was wondering, is it possible to play as a pro when all you do is play MTT??

His dad's dogs dead....

Well Hi!!!

As i say i was sentenced to 2 years at the Edinburgh Sherriff court and sent to HMP Edinburgh. I was sentenced with a guy I know so it wasn't too bad being shipped there as at least i knew someone who i could share a cell with. It really wasn't as bad as i expected. I took Rossi's advice and kept myself to myself for a bit to get the lay of the land and got a job in the prison gardens cutting grass and picking up litter which was alright as it got me outside.

I was located in an enhanced wing of the short termers hall which meant i was low category. I shared a cell with my co accused for about 6 weeks until i moved into a single cell which gave me my own space. The main thing was the boredom. I started really hitting the gym mainly for something to do but really got into it and played football alot as well that was kind of like mean machine!

There was a poker game going during the association time so i joined it nearly as soon as i got there. They were playing a tournament between 4 of us for a half ounce of tobacco (about £2.65). This was shit though as you only really got an hour and a half so what they did if the game wasn't finished was to do a best out of three hands so it turned to luck. They also had a stupid blind structure of 10 and 20 with 10,000 chips to start so after a few weeks i started to get them to change the game. What we ended up doing was giving the people playing 3000 chips to start with and called that a buy in. What happened then is that the game was never ending and people could come and go as they pleased, if you won a load of chips and someone didn't have any you would sell them 3000 for £1 and every week the plus and minuses were added up for items off the canteen sheet. There was the odd argument about end of day totals written down but at the start it went quite smoothly. i was on average around £15 a week up which was good as we only got paid £9 a week. It grew so we always had a table of 10 playing but people started not playing so we had a rule that you couldn't play until you paid the debts. We then got a load of young dickheads playing and it ended up with me being up £60 one week and only getting paid £4 so i set up a new game with the original people to make it go smoothly which really fucked off one guy that was there playing so i had a couple of run ins with him....

They were all shite though and to be honest didn't really know how to play. There were a load of arguments over hands (most people thought the rule was that the higher kicker automatically won irrelavant of what was on the board) with the most arguments being when someone had a low pair and the board came up for example 9988K and i would say that the A4 has beaten the pocket 55 and it became a running joke me saying "i've got 3 pairs!". Nobody would spot the flush when there were four of a suit on the board but it did get frustrating when someone hit a 2 outer when they didn't really know what they were doing.

One funny thing that happened away from poker was down to the language difference. People in Edinburgh don't say "do you know?" they just say "Ken" and they call people George "Dod" this young guy just walked up to me and said "Ken Dod?" so I just said "yeah his dads dogs dead"... he didn't know who Ken Dodd was though so thought i was mad...

During the Norway v Scotland game a guy came up to me and said "Scotlands problem is that they can't afford to buy any decent players"!!!! Idiot.... I just said "Who do you want them to buy a couple of brazilians?!?!"

So i'm out and looking for work which is hard. It'll take ages as nobody is touching me with a barge pole due to my record. I did find 13 euros in my Virgin Poker account... not sure where that came from but have turned it to 200 but am only really playing for something to do. All the bank accounts attached to that account have been cancelled in the bankruptsy so even if i win i have no idea how to get the money out!!

Hope you're all alright

Released

Well i'm out.

I was sentenced to 2 years in HMP Edinburgh which meant i had to serve 12 months. I served 6 months and am now serving 6 months on a home detention curfew or Tag. I'll update more in a couple of days when my heads together.

Court

Well i got a phone call last Thursday from my solicitor saying an indictment had been served and i needed to be in court on Tuesday 17th February so yesterday. Yesterday was also my 30th birthday which seemed fitting seeing how my life seems to be going at the moment.

My solicitor is useless. On the phone he told me to bring photocopies of the character references i've got. He asked me yesterday for the originals. You told me to bring photocopies i said.. Why would i do that are you stupid he replied which pissed me off straight away, so it ended up in an argument with me saying "If you asked me to bring originals, why would i not do that? Tell me why i wouldn't? Do you think i think this isn't important??". He then basically said that the social worker and probation office reports the judge will get and the character references will make no difference whatsoever so i have to be back in court on the 17th March for sentencing and that'll be me in prison for a while i expect.

i was booked in the insolvency court on the 25th March for the bankruptsy but i've had to bring that forward to the 24th February so i'll be declared bankrupt next Tuesday and have to sort all my stuff out and get it stored somewhere before being back in court in Edinburgh on the 17th.

On a much much lighter note, and i expect others have noticed this too, but on the Churchill advert on TV at the moment with Rolf Harris in it, has anyone else noticed Rolf's "cum face" in the last few seconds of the ad, when it seems by the look on his face he has just ejaculated all over his digery do??? Please watch the video on youtube below and let me know what you think?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-bOjU4w9q4

No poker

well am still here, no poker playe at all due to lack of funds and my computer exploding...

No news from court yet however i did get a letter from thames valley police doing me for "failing to stop after collision, failing to report a collision and driving without due care and attention" which i have no clue what they're talking about.. I also got a summons for non payment of council tax..

When will things start looking up?!?!

At least united are winning.. It makes me laugh, liverpool have been shit for weeks and when suddenly for once they MATCH united's result at the weekend suddenly THEY'RE BACK!! in the title race, how does that work??? We still have to play liverpool at old trafford and apart from the fact liverpool are shit, united should be 5 points clear and cruising. I think after 3 english teams in the champions league semi's last year was positive i think english clubs will stuggle this year, united should beat inter but will be interesting, and chelski arsenal and liverpool arn't playing fantastic football are they??

Given Up

I'm going to stop playing poker

It's supposed to be enjoyable but i end up feeling so angry and pissed off when you get fucked out of a tournament it's not fun anymore...

AK called an all in against 88

AK 7 flop and 8 on river and every tournament i enter i get knocked out with the best hand.

Am not going to play, not sure when i'll update again

Does anyone want to stake me on stars?

Well for obvious reasons as explained in previous posts i can't add to any poker account..

Does anyone want to stake me $200 on pokerstars??

Check my sharkscope ratings at $20 heads up STT which is what i'd play, below is my ratings:

Username
Games Played 933
Av. Profit $2
Av. Stake $20
Av. ROI 9%
Total Profit $2,093
United113
PokerStars

And at the top are my results at $20 Heads up STT. Not sure what the terms will be but we can discuss..

Let me know x x

Is everyone retarded?

well ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhh

Is it possible to win at micro stakes???

This is the best ever, i had 50% over average chips and had AA busted all in pre flop by 7 4 off...

I know i'm better than the players i'm playing against but what the fuck can you do??

Happy New Year and all the best in 2010

Fuck how i wish that was true and it was next year rather than this year...

Last year (2007) was a fucking bollox year for me with Kirsty leaving after 8 years together and trying and failing to adjust to life on my own. I remember thinking at this time last year that i hoped i would have a better year during 2008....

How wrong i was....

And next year is going to FAR FAR worse... That's not negative thinking that's just the reality with whats coming up for me.

2008 was a shit year, after spiralling out of control after Kirsty left i managed to get quite a serious drug addiction that has left me financially fucked now with bankruptsy procedings currently being finalised. In August i was arrested with shit loads of drugs and so finish the year on police bail pending court. Work found out what had happened so in October i was out of work, just about the time the global financial markets went batshit meaning it's hard trying to find work and slightly pointless with court coming up. No work means no money so the mortgage hasn't been paid in months and am living off £60 a week job seekers allowance...

So 2009 brings for me bankruptsy, along with this comes the repossesion of my house that Kirsty and I bought 5 years ago, court where my solicitor thinks i'll probably get between 2-5 years in prison, continued drug councelling, not being ever to find a job as good as the one i had (ever?).

So i hope everyone else has a good 2009, i'll hopefully have a good 2010...

Guinness World Records

This week pokerstars have their Guinness World Record week so i had a look at some of the current Guiness World Records, not poker related, and some are fucking funny...

It's daft really, I think that it's good to know who the Worlds tallest man is, but he hasn't actually done anything to acheive that whilst it must be quite difficult to eat a 12" Pizza in 1 minute 45.37 seconds like Josh Anderson, which i think is fucking ridiculous..

So here are some of the records i found:

Ken Edwards - Most Cockroaches Eaten

Ken Edwards of Glossop, Derbyshire, England ate 36 cockroaches in one minute on the set of The Big Breakfast, London, England on March 5, 2001.

Why the fuck would you do that????

Elaine Esposito - Longest Coma

37 years then died....

How is this a good thing??? I never saw her get an award on Record Breakers

Michele Santelia - Most Books Typed Backwards

Michele Santelia (Italy) typed backwards 64 books (3,361,851 words, 19,549,382 characters) in their original languages including The Odyssey, Macbeth, The Vulgate Bible and the Guinness World Records Book 2002. Michele put together a 3,78 m (12 ft 4 in) high tower of the books typed. He completed typing backwards the volumes of the Dead Sea scrolls in Ancient Hebrew on 26 July 2007.

Hebrew is written backwards so does this mean he wrote them normally?!?!

Striker - Fastest Car Window opened By a Dog

The fastest time a dog has unwound a non-electric car window is 11.34 seconds and was achieved by Striker, a border collie owned and trained by Francis V. Gadassi (Hungary). The record was set on September 1, 2004 in Quebéc City, Canada

I'm sure my ex mrs opened one faster

Robert Foster - Breath Held Voluntarily

The USA's Robert Foster held his breath for 13mins 42.5secs in 1959

VOLUNTARILY!!!! hahahahahahahahahahah I want to know the record for non-voluntary breath holding....

So i hope pokerstars will be proud to sit amongst the ranks of "biggest cookie ever baked" and "Most people to irish dance at the same time" They did for the accolade of course, it had absolutely nothing with trying to generate more rake....

United113 and Joppa Road Star in "The Curse of the United113 Pokerstars Account"

So last night i played in the Pokerstars sunday warm up with one of the tickets i won in the bloggers tournament.

5800 odd entered and with 2400 left (850 paid) I had around 18000 chips when this hand happened that has got me a bit wound up... I'll explain my thinking and please let me know what you think because it's really annoying me...

Blinds are 400/800 and it gets folded round to me on the small blind. I make up the big blind and the big blind thinks about it for a bit and raises to 2400. My thinking here is that the big blind thinks that i have made up the big blind as i already have 400 invested so if he raises he'll get me to fold. As he's done this i plan on making a play on the flop as i can discount him having a premium holding as i don't think he would raise pre flop in that situation with a premium hand. At this point it makes no difference to me what my cards are i'm playing what i think my opponant has but for your information i have 10 5 off.

They have me covered but only just

The flop comes A, 5, 3 Rainbow

They bet 4000 on the flop into a pot of 4400, which i expected them to do and confirmed to me what i thought they had done pre flop. If they had hit a premium hand such as trip aces then i would expect a check and slow play with only 2 left in the hand. Even though i had made 2nd pair it didn't really have a big effect on what i was going to do with the situation i thought i was in..

I pushed with my remaining 15,600 or so.

Now with a a, 5, 3 flop there are so many hands i think they have to fold now, as i said i'd taken into consideration that they would be virtually all in so it was a decision for their tournament. I think they have to fold JJ,QQ,KK even is this situation, although i didn't believe them to have that.

They CALL......

Now here if they flip 33 or 55 or AA or i've read it wrong and fucked up then fine, but when they turn over K3 off i really can't believe it. I should be happy as i'm ahead and the hand has been played exactly they way i thought it had and they should have folded to the push with me picking up a nice pot but no...

King falls on the river and i'm eliminated.

How can you look at king 3 with that push and think it's good? It really makes no sense to me at all. What can you think you are beating??? There are so many hands that you are losinbg to, there's not much that you think you can beat!!! The other things that amazes me is that this is a $215 entry tournament thats once a week. It's not some freerole or $1 MTT or STT you can join again if you make a mistake..

Seriously can someone please explain the K3 call to me???

I was pissed of after that so i contacted Joppa Road and asked if he wanted to play the Sunday Million last night on my account and split the winnings. Joppa then hit my curse of being the unluckiest person alive when he hit the nut straight on the turn only to get his all in called by another muppet wanting to hit a heart on the river which duly arrived knocking him out after he was threatening to cash...

I have some advice, if you are ever on pokerstars and see a player called United113 playing and he goes all in pre flop, call with any holding as that seems to be a sure fire way to win the hand...


EDIT - Just been knocked out of a $1 rebuy on Ipoker. 60 left out of 740 and i'm 4th in chips and get dealt KK, tournament leader who is hyper aggressive goes all in and i call to get beaten by J8off. What the fuck is going on??????? I win that hand i have double the next person in chips and am in a great position for the $630 1st prize. But no i get $9 for 3 hours work. What the fuck is going on seriously??? I'm not going to play poker anymore it's fucking bollocks, this happens EVERY time

Sunday Warm up

Well i'm using on of the $215 tournament entries i won in the blogger tournament in the sunday warm up at the moment... I do wish my luck would hold up sometimes....

I've just had QQ busted by 88 on a 6 high flop with an 8 on the turn, am now down to about 9,000 from a starting stack of 10,000.. average is 12257 and there are 4765 left out of 5836... Why do i always seem to lose these types of pots???

Will let you know how badly i do....


EDIT - hahahahaahahah Very next hand all in and my JJ beats QQ, should moan more often...

Joppa - United113 am currently on table 62


AAAAAAAAAAARrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh

FOR FUCKS SAKE

Is everyone a fucking idiot?!?!?!

How the fuck can he call that??? Lucky Lucky bastard...

(am out by the way...lol)

I like your blog....

Yipee Kiya Mother Fucker...

Well yesterday was rubbish. I somehow managed to watch 7 films... Bean, Shark Tale, Wallace and Gromit and The Curse of the Wererabbit, Transporter 3 and Die Hard 1, 2 and 3 back to back...

Today i went to the pub with my mate at 1 to watch the united v stoke game and stayed to watch soccer (friday) saturday and the arsenal villa game and then kind of stayed there till about half ten.. Whilst there a girl came in and said "happy Jesus Day" and continued to say that boxing day was special as it's the day jesus died... Now i'm not religious at all but had a good laugh at this girls expense...

Am a bit pissed now so AM NOT going to play any poker!!! I might watch die hard 4.0 though...

I hate christmas....

I'm not one for really celebrating christmas.... I haven't sent any cards, bought any presents and bollox to putting a tree or any decorations up. None of my family do really, my mum will probably come over christmas day and we'll have salmon for lunch like last year and be fuck bored all day... You can't get away from it, fucking Cliff Richard bastard songs being played in tesco and christmas shit everywhere... grrrrrr.... Christmas eve at the pub should be good, will get shitfaced and hopefully sleep through christmas, if santa visits my house he'll probably get smacked, me thinking that he is a debt collector from barclaycard coming to take stuff away....

Poker front got fucked out of the blogger final by a retard who should have been playing in the para olympic poker thats next week i think, or all the time apparantly on the Ipoker network... i HATE playing on there as i want to headbutt the wall whenever i play... Will probably play the sunday million this week and not cash as usual....

I've not got councelling for a few weeks and the courts are shut so i know i won't be in court till at least the end of january which is good, am kind of seeing my neighbour which is nice, especially good when you have no car it's not far to travel, not that thats why i'm seeing her of course she's lovely....

Apart from that nothing much going on, went to woolworths again and they had the pick and mix at half price... but as in the rest of the store, only the shit was left...

Blogger Final

Well the final of the blogger tournament starts in about an hour. There are 369 entrants and prizes for top 100 so hopefully i'll do well.

It's strange how i seem to get into a comfort zone of WHERE i feel ok playing. I'm staying at my brothers this weekend so will be playing on my mums laptop whilst sat with my brother, sister in law and mum. It was like this last night and couldn't really get into it. I did have Amatay on my table before i busted and it was a good crack.

Because of the whole comfort zone thing i decided not to play in the sunday warm up or Sunday million this week with the 2 x $215 tournament tickets i won on the blogger qualifier earlier in the week so i might have a pop at one or the other next week.

I'll let you know how i get on but qualification however unlikely for the PCA would be beautiful. I've been to the Atlantis resort on paradise island before with the ex misses and it's nice. To be honest it may bring back some bad memories so maybe an EPT entry would be better... Am not sure i'll be let in the bahamas, i don't think i'll be allowed to the states ever again....

Tonight's Qualifier

Well i spuuuuuunked out early tonight it was so frustrating.... I had around 6,000 chips with an average or 4,000 and there was a knobhead player at the table called Poker Magican who had been raising all in everyhand with premium holdings like 42off and 39sooooted. He had hit sooooo many flops so when i had AQ he raised as usual and i pushed and he called with 77 which held up.... I'm pissed off as i wouldnt have done that against anyone else and should have looked for a better opportunity and played the hand better......

Respect must go to Joppa Rd who finished 7th the other night in the NLHE qualifier out of 559 to win the same as me in a sunday gold package, he finished 16th out of 538 tonight for a step 3 ticket as well... good results...

The top ranking brits tonight were TheUKshark in 6th, PR)_rANDY in 9th and utdroad in tenth. utdroad had just said "it doesn't make a difference if you win does it?".. i was just responding "you want to finish in the top 9" when he busted... i didn't send it.....

Kenelis

Well i couldn't be arsed staying up to play the WBCOOP qualifier last night it wouldn't have finished till stupid times this morning and i had to be in Norwich for councelling at 12.30. I'll play the NLHE one tonight at 7.00.

I like the structure of these tournaments, i do much better in deep stack tournies for some reason and the 2500 starting chips and blind structures suit my play.

I've just found out that a girl i went to school with has got a download single out on itunes this week. They're trying to chart and the songs good... however due to shite factor you probably need "hallelujah" in the song title to chart this week, it's going to be in the chart 3 times with 3 peoples versions...

I had a bit of a result, my next door neighbour is moving away from her husband in January so i've said she can have all my furniture on kind of permanent loan which saves me putting it in storage whilst i'm inside.. as long as i get it back...

Anyway follow the link below for the single from my friend, what do you think??? If you like it download it from itunes, it's called "drained" and the band are Kenelis.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nn8fG7BjSyo

World Blogging Championship Of Online Poker

Well i ended up finishing 3rd out of 559 in the NLHE 2nd qualifier for the World Blogging Championship Of Online Poker last night and won a a "Sunday Majors Gold Package" Which consists of 2 x $215 tournament tickets.

I started off just wanting to qualify but as it got to the last 72 was in the top 10 in chips and was really pushing for the win. The final table started and to be honest i don't think i was playing very well till we got down a bit and then i started to be more aggressive and things started to happen. I ended up being knocked out when KK wasn't good enough against AQ all in pre flop but to be honest i'd hit a few flops earlier so was probably deserved.

This is what the pokerstars blog said of it:

One hundred and forty-two people now have their seats for Sunday's PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker Main Event thanks in part to Tuesday's Event #2.
The top 72 players in WBCOOP's second event earned their place in the Main Event. Tuesday's no-limit hold'em contest drew 559 of the world's poker playing bloggers. As we've mentioned, this year WBCOOP is made up of six preliminary qualifiers and one Main Event. Each of the qualifying events awards 72 final seats plus thousands off dollars in prizes.

Event #2 took more than five hours to play out and saw tons of familiar names from the blogging community. Notable poker bloggers Easycure, Rakewell1, NumbBono, gadzooks64, and Loretta8 all made it to the top 72 and earned their seats in the Main Event. Top honors, however, went to the United States' malice51 who not only made it to the final, but also picked up three $215 tournament tickets, one $530 tournament ticket and a $11 tournament ticket (aka, Sunday Majors Platinum Package).

Here's how the final table broke down.
1. malice51 (United States) -- Sunday Majors Platinum Package
2. Baba_Jin (Israel) -- Sunday Majors Gold Package
3. United113 (United Kingdom) -- Sunday Majors Gold Package
4. MemphisM0J0 (United States) -- Sunday Majors Gold Package
5. WMZeus (United States) -- Sunday Majors Gold Package
6. WILLdaHAMMER (Canada) -- Sunday Majors Gold Package
7. Joppa Rd (United Kingdom) -- Sunday Majors Gold Package
8. maka818 (Spain) -- Sunday Majors Gold Package
9. Would-Be83 (United Kingdom) -- Sunday Majors Gold Package

If you're an eligible blogger, you still have time to qualify for this weekend's Main Event. Top prizes include a full PokerStars Caribbean Adventure package and a chance to play on the European Poker Tour.

Here''s what the full Main Event prize pool looks like.

1st--PokerStars Caribbean Adventure prize package - worth $14,300
2nd--European Poker Tour prize package + SCOOP Main Event ticket + Step 6 ticket - worth $11,100
3rd--European Poker Tour prize package - worth $7,500
4th--SCOOP Main Event ticket + Step 6 ticket - worth $3,675
5th--Step 6 ticket - worth $2,100
6th--SCOOP Main Event ticket - worth $1,575
7th--$1,050 Tournament entry
8th--Step 5 ticket9th--$530 Tournament entry
10th-18th--$320 Tournament entry
19th-27th--$215 Tournament entry
28th-45th--$109 Tournament entry46th-100th--Step 3 ticket
Event #3 of WBCOOP kicks off later tonight. The 22:00ET event is an Omaha 8/b event and will award another 72 seats to the final.
Congrats to the first 142 Main Event players and good luck to everyone tonight

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/wbcoop/2008/


There was a good table crack as well. Thanks must go To Ukgatsby who was observing and chatting. It was his blog that made me aware of the WBCOOOP so i wouldn't have played in it if not for him so thanks. And if you've not read the blog you should..

http://ukgatsby.blogspot.com/

WBCOOP

Well i took my first punt at the World Blogger Championships of online poker yesterday playing the PLO qualifier. 450 entrants top 782 qualify for the final one 21st and top 45 or so get prizes. I was doing alright was above average with about 180 left running around 40th when i was dealt AAQQ clubs and diamonds. Flop came A 4 9 rainbow and i got the table big stack all in on the flop. He called with AKxx thinking he had aces witha king but ended up hitting runner runner for the flush. so many people playing hold em hands too strong in omaha.

I'm now an hour and a half into the 2nd qualifier (hold em). again top 72 qualify for the final and 45 get other prizes. Am 84th out of 251 with just above average stack..

Super Mario Bros

Well instead of playing poker i've found a great way of entertaining myself, type super mario bros into google and you can play mario 1, 2 and 3 from the old NES platform. How the hell i remember where all the warp zones and mushrooms are in beyond me seeing as the last time i played it was probably in 1990.

I watched Hancock and Batman Dark night recently which were both good, especially batman and went to see ocean colour scene that was a laugh. After oceon colour scene we ended up in Liquid a club in Norwich, fuck me it was funny... Now i'm not the greatest dancer but we were having a giggle at this bloke on the dancefloor and, i know this is wrong and you shouldn't laugh, but there was a women in a motorised wheel chair on the dancefloor and i'm sure the DJ put "spinning around" on on purpose... she was enjoying herself though which is the main thing but it was fucking funny...

I've registered for the pokerstars blogger tournament, i was useless in it last year but hopefully will do better this year, even though if i win i won't be able to go on the carribean adventure or an EPT but i could do with killing some time for 20 minutes before i get knocked out..

I was in town for councelling yesterday with my mum and she said "let's go to woolworths" as there's a big one in norwich at an out of town shopping centre. It was absolute chaos inside, and no wonder they're shutting down, everything in there is shit. I did check to see if the pick and mix was half price but it wasn't and they had hardly discounted the things you'd actually look for like DVD's, pick and mix, CD's, pick and Mix, PS3's and the pick and mix. My mum was going to buy some stationary but then saw the queue and though bollllllox to that.. I was going to ask someone if they had any jobs going but thought that would be mean

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

The WBCOOP is an online Poker tournament open to all Bloggers.

Registration code:

825941

xx

Bored Bored Bored

Well 've not updated for a bit, i've not really done anything of note to update about..

I've not heard anything new from court or my solicitor, i've not been able to find a job and it's getting to be a bad time of year to be looking. I have now been approved for job seekers allowance so £60.50 a week is now being paid directly into my mums account.

Am trying not to pay poker, my mates mansion account has dropped to about £70, some stupid beats and i think i'm playing so badly i just can't motivate myself to play.

I think i'm going to see Ocean Colour Scene at the UEA tonight which should be good!!

Apart from that just been sat at home doing nothing, i'm soooo bored... Right, its twenty past ten i think i'll eat some biscuits...

What a night....

Well i've just had a brilliant night. My friend Mike called me about five and said he'd managed to get 3 tickets for the Fratellis at the UEA for £20 and him and his brother Bobby would treat me. So of we went and had a storming night. I've not really been able to be myself since the arrest but i loved tonight, i was having a laugh with some girls stood around us before they started and was chatting indepth with a girl called Holly who i really liked and, not to sound to arrogant, i think liked me as i was really on form tonight. I didn't ask for her number or anything, to be honest i just felt good that i could have that conversation with someone as i haven't really been myself for a while.

Then the concert started....

So i am now sat just got home, my shirt is still on the stage at the UEA i think after some girl took it off and chucked it, i nearly got kicked out for crowd surfing, my shins have been kicked to shit and my jeans are ripped up the seam to me knee and i am slightly sweaty.... but it was a brilliant night, the concert was good but my good friends bobby and Mike helped me forget about everything thats going on, even if just for a night, and for that i am eternally gratefull x x

Plodding along

hahahahahhahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaa

Brilliant hand earlier on... There was this player critisizing everything (nice call etc etc) in a heads up game and i was playing hyper aggresive as usual.

I was dealt Kh Ah

Raise call

Flop - Ks 7s 2s

He bet and i pushed and he called with 4s 5s and he'd flopped the flush

"hahahahahahaha nice call iddiot" he was saying in the chat box
"reeetarrd hahahaha noob" he continued

Turn Kc

"nice play fissshhyy" he continued
"thanks for your$$$$$"

River Ac

MMMWWWWwwwwwaaaaaaaaaahahahahahah

I just sent - "Love you x x x x x x x x x"

And left

I've been doing alright today, mainly from being disciplined and concentrating (and a bit of luck as seen above). I've now played 31 $5 heads up STT and won 20 and lost 11 and won 2 out of 2 six seater $2 STT. I've stopped playing the double ups, in theory they're the same as heads up and i feel i can affect the outcome more obviously in the HU games and the 10 seaters take too long.

So I started with £100 of my mates money and now have £133 so £33 in 2 days i can live with. Statking is showing 4 hours of play at $5 HU STT with winnings of £26 (give or take you cant put in decimal places) at a winrate of £6.50 an hour.. However need far more sessions for an accurate summary

Anyway am off to watch united

Discipline

Well the last few days on my mates Mansion account i've been messing around getting used to the skin and joining games that i thought looked ok so today i decided to start recording my results again and to start having a bit more discipline and concentrating more.

I started a new database in Statking and decided to play an hour of $5 heads up sit and goes and record the total win loss and keep doing that over loads of sessions to start generating hourly win rate etc etc. I'm also going to do the same with 6 seater $5 sit and goes and probably $5 10 seater double ups and again record the results.

I managed to get 7 games in the hour and won 5 and lost 2 for an hourly profit of £8.79. I'm not sure if he has rake back set up i'll have to check as i would have paid $3.50 in rake as well.. I don't take anything from these results as it's early days. If i'd lost the last game the profit would have been nearly nothing so i need loads of sessions to see what an accurate win rate is..

How many is beyond me though i suppose it's a work in progress..

On other terms i heard from my solicitor today and not much has happened in my case. Some other people have been arrested so it must be quite a big ongoing investigation. Hopefully i won't get pulled in for questioning again but i'm not sure, there's nothing i can tell them anyway..

I did have a laugh at the Governments way of helping us all financially by cutting VAT to 15%.. Does Alistair Darling not live in the real world?!?!?!

If someone was going to buy a table for instance that was £30 before it means it will go down to £28.46 saving £1.54 whcih i can tell you is really really really going to help alot of people, those table manufactureres are going to have a brilliant sales year...

Bored

Well my sky has been cut off so i can no longer watch repeats of Top Gear on Dave :-((

My friend has said i can use his account on Mansion on the Ipoker network. I didn't like this platform at first but have adjusted it slightly and it's alright. Been playing $5 double up sit and goes mainly just for a bit of a laugh..

It's snowy in east anglia today so am snowed in... Who needs sky movies anyway when the empire strikes back is on ITV

*yawns*

xx

My Crime....

Well i've been talking about concequences of what i've done and the message i got from cashbiatch on my previous post tells me i should say what i've done and then it may give people a better idea of the situation i'm in. It's funny i'm really ashamed of what it is which is why i tend not to mention it to people, but here goes...

My life was going really well up until January 07. I had a good job working for an american corporation, new house with my partner Kirsty who i loved dearly, poker going well though that isn't important and then this happened:

(3rd post down "Change")

http://united113-pokerblog.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_archive.html

Everything went downhill for me there really and didn't really notice it happening. I started going out more and got in with the wrong crowd and got into drugs. Over a long period of time work was getting badly affected and i was spending stupid amounts of money and alienating friends and family. It got to the stage in august when i was arrested in edinburgh with a load of class A on me and am now on bail pending trial. I told work exactly what had happened and they let me resign before they sacked me. I'm now in so much debt that i will be made bankrupt in the next few months and lose my house. I'm in regular councelling sessions trying to get to the bottom of why this all happened.

It's strange really, the charge is serious but i'm getting good character references, as it IS out of character. Everyone is saying they can't believe how i managed to get myself into this, i can't either, but that doesn't stop me from feeling that i've let everyone down, it's hardly a conversation you want to have with your mum is it??

I told my ex before she emigrated to Australia with her new boyfriend who she met whilst we were still together and after 8 years together she is refusing to do a single A4 page character reference as is her family. I would understand if i'd done anything wrong but i didn't, she left me for someone else..

So i have no money at the moment, which is why i need work. I don't know when i'll be in court, They have a year to prosecute so anytime up to august. I wish it was tommorrow i just want it over and done with.

It's funny, i've been going over my archives, i went through a stage of not playing and now i can't win at $1 heads up sit and go's!! Have i got really bad? Has the standard improved? Or i just not in the right place at the moment to be playing? I expect the latter... these posts in my archive cheered me up a bit though, i could do with the same now!!

http://united113-pokerblog.blogspot.com/2006_11_01_archive.html

Top two posts here, didn't end up going to the WSOP just took the $4k.. should have done really i doubt they'll let me in the states now..

http://united113-pokerblog.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html

xx

I forgot this one.... !!

http://united113-pokerblog.blogspot.com/2006_11_01_archive.html

No Bankroll

Well i haven't a bank roll anymore... I don't like full tilt i've decided. Come to think of it i wish i had deposited onto Virgin, i feel more confortable there.I know in theory they're all the same but you do get attached to certain sites and i like Virgin. It's soon to be leaving boss for its own platform so it'll be interesting to see what it's like...

In personel terms, i signed on last week so am now getting £60 a week thats getting paid straight into my mums account as it'll be eaten up in mine. It's actually a sad state of affairs that i'm actually thinking about stacking shelves on a night shift in tesco when a month ago i was earning 36k with a brand new BMW company car, but I will get a high vis jacket at tesco..

I spoke to a couple of friends, one who owns a ham factory in Norwich that might have temporary work. I could have got a job with another friend who managers a branch of a finance office but you need to pass a credit check which i won't... I thought about getting bar work but my councellor said that wasn't a good idea..

I think my solicitor will call me tommorow, my mum called him for me to get him to call me as my phone's been cut off. He recently sent me a letter to sign saying i plead guilty so i need to know whether i still go to court to say i'm guilty or just for sentancing.. I also could do with knowing which prison i'll likely go to.. I'll be in court in edinburgh so probably there but hopefully i can get moved to Norwich...

I've been listening to loads of music lately so might sporadically post my top 10 songs at the moment, not neccasarily new songs just what i've been listening to:

1. Ash - Lose Control (B side not 1st track on 1977)
2. The Futureheads - Hounds of love
3. Enemy - Pressure
4. Wombats - Moving to New York
5. Journey - Don't stop believing
5. Black Kids - I'm Not going to teach your boyfriend how to dance
6. Ash - Kung Fu
7. Editors - Lights
8. Twang - Wideawake
9. Maximo Park - Books from Boxes
10. The Smiths - How soon is now

I Fucking hate poker...

There's no skill involved at poker at all it's all bollocks... Fucking bollocks game:

Last 2 games, heads up:

Dealt 88

Flop 33 7. check, betr raise all in knowing i'd trapped and he had A7

Turn - K
River - Ace

Last Game - Dealt KK
Flat call
Raise Push he turns over 99

happy days

10,10,9, 5, 9

so supposedly i'd trapped and outplayed but keep getting fucked, its all bolloxs. These were higher buy in games too so am now at $15 bankroll

Can't be arsed anymore its all shite

Grrrrrrrr

Well i sat down to play tonight and couldnt log onto my account.. weird... It turns out Full Tilt have cancelled my United113mark2 account as you can't have 2 accounts apparantly:

Hello, This message is to inform you that we have discovered a multiple account under the Player ID "United113mark2" which has now been closed. Your primary account, "United113", has been left open and you may continue using it to play as normal. For security reasons and per our site rules, we allow only one Full Tilt Poker account per player. Unfortunately, we cannot allow you to use any account other than your primary account. If you would like a full explanation of our site rules, please visit our website at: http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/siteRules.php Please email us from the email address registered with your closed account to let us know if you would like the remaining funds transferred to your primary account or withdrawn to your payment processor. We thank you for playing at Full Tilt Poker and appreciate your understanding. If there's anything else that we can do for you, please let us know. Regards,


AAAAAAAAAARrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I'm not using the United113 account as i can't add or take money off it...

I emailed them back saying:

Why do you close the account with money and FPP on it and keep open the account with nothing in it?!?!? Surely if only 1 account is allowed, close the one thats not being used (United113) and keep open the account that's got money in it and is still being used??? (United113mark2) MAkes sense to me...

It really does make sense as well doesn't it... ?!?! idiots

Better

Well i had councelling today in Norwich which was quite tough really, we got on to speaking about things that were difficult for me such as my dads death but i suppose it's all to help and it'll help in the long run...

It was hard as i was distant when i came out which i think might have upset my mum and my sister a little bit but they have been really good with everything thats happened so I think they don't like seeing me like that...

I still haven't got a character reference from my ex, it doesn't seem likely now either as it seems her dad was stalling for time when i asked him and she's now emigrated to spain with her new boyfriend....

I was looking through some of my old photos and this one made me laugh, i drove all the way from Banbury to central London with my car like this:

Thanks Tony and Jo for that one.....

I played some Poker tonight, and after blog chat with Marky ( http://pokerpains.blogspot.com/ ) i pplayed some more of the Full Tilt Matrix games and some more heads up. I think my problem is that the money is on my mind too much if i play higher limits and am worried too much about losing so dont play as aggresive as normal. I think because of this i need to build my bankroll so a loss at higher limits doesnt dent it so much. I cleared my first $5 bonus from Full Tilt so am now in profit again... just...

Roll - $53.47

Arrrrrrggggghhh....

Well after last night i calmed down and played a bit just now... It seems like Full Tilt reaches into you head and realises the mood you're in and decides to fuck you up even more... At one stage i really felt like i could hear the site laughing at me... So many well... outdraws is probably the technical term, but 3 times in 3 games having it all in by far the best of it and to be spppppankkkeed in everyone made my sick, to the point on the last one me throwing the coins i had in my hand against the wall... it's probably time to stop when that happens Mr.Tilt isn't it????

So with bankroll now standing at $23.04 i think i'll drop to $2 limits for a bit to boost it to $50 then the next step up is the $6 i've been playing.

It is sick though.. I was looking at my pokerstars sharkscope stats and it shows the following:

Games played Av Profit Av Stake Av R.O.I Total Profit
933 $2 $20 9% $2093

I looked at STT heads up $20 games on stars and won 273 and lost 174 which i didn't think was that bad?!?!

.....And now i'm getting spanked at $6 Heads up on Full Tilt...

I should clear the first $5 deposit bonus soon to add to the $23....

Will probably relax tonight, am quite tired as me my mum, sister and Suzy went on a boat trip to see the seals at Blakeney Point which was nice and i think my mum and sister will come over tonight for the united celtic game...

Am not going to play anymore tonight and will have to go to the job centre tommorrow and try and get a job, not sure what the prospects will be like though

xxxx

What a Dickhead

Well thge C.A.B today said bankruptsy was the only option...

My sister came round this afternoon as her friend ~Suzy from Wakefield was coming down to stay and they're both staying at mine so we went out and i met up with my next door neighbour. I met up with her the other night and one thing led to another but she's currently in divorce proceedings with her husband.. I've lived next to them for nearly 5 years.... fuck me matt what are you fucking doing at the moment????? Jesus... So i feel unconfortable at home now, the only place i really had left...

I played for a bit tonight a bit drunk, pissed off in the wrong mood and as usual moved up limits top $11 heads up and spunked a load... Need to be sensible in fucking more ways then one incluyding my bankroll management...

Roll: $33

Off to a good start

Well i managed to get some money from the car boot sale which i basically just handed straight back to my mum.. I created a Full tilt account in her name under the username United113mark2 and deposited $50 to have a punt.

I started playing some of the STT matrix tournaments which are a bit weird. 6 people join but you play the same 6 people on 4 different tables getting paid to finish in the top 2 of each table but you also get points for knocking players out and outlasting players. It seemed like a good idea but got all a bit too complicated really. I then started playing some heads up STT which is my preferred game at $6 limits and won a bit but then had aces cracked twice all in preflop so now have a bankroll of $53.43. So i'm $3 which is poor but still a profit.

I have a meeting with the C.A.B tommorrow to discuss my debt level and i'm expecting them to recommend bankruptsy. I know it probably seems strange talking about that and playing poker in the same post, but it's hard having no money and being at home all the time as you can't afford to do anything or have means of transport and there's only so much pottering about and watching telly you can do, so at least i can take my mind of things for a bit and play a bit of poker at small limits and hopefully win a timy bit.

Gone already

Well the 6 euro's didnt last long, i've now used up all my FPP and Full tilt points as well so am waing till payday to see if

1. I get paid any money
2. I can add money to an account before Halifax, Barclays, Barclaycard, Barclay Loans, Southern Electric, Marbles, American Express, Morgan Stanley, Capital One, The Council Tax people, Vodafone, Friends Provident and Sky take their bit...

Lol

x x x

Update

Well my life has been all over the place lately, my house is in norfolk but spend most of my time in banbury or fulham so haven't really played lately..

I can't bring myself to sit down for hours and play online at the moment.. I have played against freinds recently quite a lot and do really really well, they are all beginners so it is easy though..

I do enjoy that though so may start visiting local clubs for a bit of fun and see how i do xx

Glastonbury

Well not posted for a while and not really played any poker so i thought i'd write about glastonbury last week.

It was brilliant as always, starting the weekend watching dynamo's rythm aces doing covers of spice girls and the who on a double bass was brilliant...

Friday saw the enemy, editors and thought rather than watch the kings of lyon or panic at the disco went to watch the stanton warriors which was superb. Saturday saw Jay-Z and simian mobile disco however my festival was nearly ruined as i walked close the the pyramid stage and heard a small amount of beautiful by james blunt..

will post more soon

The Worst Fold I Have Ever Seen!!!

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

This bloke useless and been raising with nothing all game so i thought i was ahead, i actually thought he'd put me all in on the turn..........

PokerStars Game #15705466424: Tournament #79496494, $11.00+$0.50 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2008/03/03 - 05:29:46 (ET)Table '79496494 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button

Seat 1: United113 (1290 in chips)
Seat 2: wake me up75 (1710 in chips)
United113: posts small blind 10
wake me up75: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to United113 [8d Ah]
United113: calls 10
wake me up75: raises 40 to 60
United113: calls 40*** FLOP *** [Js As Td]
wake me up75: bets 200
United113: calls 200*** TURN *** [Js As Td] [9h]
wake me up75: bets 1020
United113: calls 1020*** RIVER *** [Js As Td 9h] [2c]
wake me up75: checks United113: bets 10 and is all-in
wake me up75: folds
United113 collected 2560 from potUnited113: doesn't show hand *** SUMMARY ***Total pot 2560 Rake 0 Board [Js As Td 9h 2c]Seat 1: United113 (button) (small blind) collected (2560)Seat 2: wake me up75 (big blind) folded on the River

2560 Pot and he folds on the river for 10!!!!! I knew he was bluffing of course or drawing with the big turn bet, but how on earth can he fold the river for an extra 10?!?!?

Shit at poker as always but better at life

Well a week makes a bit of a difference.. I had a great talk with my best mate and it really helped me to talk to someone. I haven't played poker in a while and to be honest i don't think i will to the new year. I think i've hit a plateau with the games i'm playing and will not get better. I need to evaluate my game as i play the heads up games in autopilot now which is bad.

I will go over my goals for 2007 that i posted in January so we can all have a laugh!! My life has turned upside down since then so it'll be funny to see what i was projecting to win!!

Still Shit at Poker... and Life

I always seem to do well playing $20 heads up on stars, won $60 tonight in about an hour.. My problem is i haven't been playing very much. Since splitting up with the ex in January i have lived on my own. I'm not very good at that so stay away at mates, or away with work or in Banbury where my office is based and this girl i am kind of seeing (not that she knows this i think lol)

I'm in a bad place in my life at the moment.. I have a few minor problems and 1 super huge massive problem that has huge problems attached to it. I think it is now at the stage where i am going to need some professional help, and i need to tell my mum which i am dreading, but it's one of those problems that is so seriuos you dread telling but they'll really help you. That doesn't stop me not wanting to tell her though.

I like this blog, it is a good way to write the things i think, no close friends read this or aliases so i can air my issues, in a way it's like text councelling...

I'll keep posting when i'm home, am now off to Big Macs anonymous...

Come on ricky hatton...

I'm shit at poker....

i get dillusions of grandure at poker and win a few quid and suddenly think i'm Phil Ivey and play £7 million billion pound limits and get stuffed... I have no money at the moment so am playing $20 heads up STT on stars and grinding out a $200 a month profit :-)

This time next year rodney...

I'd Cry if i want laughing so much.........

Just had the worst game i think of ALL TIME!!!! $50 turbo heads up on Pokerstars.. ALL of these are from the same game.. honestly.. how many times...

PokerStars Game #12993180709: Tournament #65940131, $55.00+$2.50 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level IV (50/100) - 2007/11/02 - 11:00:20 (ET)Table '65940131 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: United113 (2560 in chips)
Seat 2: Kip1972 (440 in chips)
United113: posts small blind 50
Kip1972: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to United113 [Ah 6h]
United113: raises 400 to 500
Kip1972: calls 340 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [2h As 8h]
*** TURN *** [2h As 8h] [Js]
*** RIVER *** [2h As 8h Js] [Ks]
*** SHOW DOWN ***Kip1972: shows [Qc Th] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
United113: shows [Ah 6h] (a pair of Aces)
Kip1972 collected 880 from pot*** SUMMARY ***Total pot 880
Rake 0 Board [2h As 8h Js Ks]
Seat 1: United113 (button) (small blind) showed [Ah 6h] and lost with a pair of AcesSeat 2: Kip1972 (big blind) showed [Qc Th] and won (880) with a straight, Ten to Ace

Honestly?!?!?!?!?!

PokerStars Game #12993192705: Tournament #65940131, $55.00+$2.50 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level IV (50/100) - 2007/11/02 - 11:01:19 (ET)Table '65940131 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: United113 (1970 in chips)
Seat 2: Kip1972 (1030 in chips)
Kip1972: posts small blind 50
United113: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to United113 [Ad 9d]
Kip1972: calls 50
United113: raises 1870 to 1970 and is all-in
Kip1972: calls 930 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [Ts Jc Th]
*** TURN *** [Ts Jc Th] [9c]
*** RIVER *** [Ts Jc Th 9c] [Qd]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
United113: shows [Ad 9d] (two pair, Tens and Nines)
Kip1972: shows [4d Kd] (a straight, Nine to King)
Kip1972 collected 2060 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***Total pot 2060 Rake 0
Board [Ts Jc Th 9c Qd]
Seat 1: United113 (big blind) showed [Ad 9d] and lost with two pair, Tens and NinesSeat 2: Kip1972 (button) (small blind) showed [4d Kd] and won (2060) with a straight, Nine to King

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PokerStars Game #12993208479: Tournament #65940131, $55.00+$2.50 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level V (75/150) - 2007/11/02 - 11:02:35 (ET)Table '65940131 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: United113 (765 in chips)
Seat 2: Kip1972 (2235 in chips)
United113: posts small blind 75Kip1972: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to United113 [5c Ah]
United113: raises 615 to 765 and is all-in
Kip1972: calls 615
*** FLOP *** [Qd Ks 7s]
*** TURN *** [Qd Ks 7s] [Qs]
*** RIVER *** [Qd Ks 7s Qs] [2s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Kip1972: shows [Jc Qc] (three of a kind, Queens)
United113: shows [5c Ah] (a pair of Queens)
Kip1972 collected 1530 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***Total pot 1530 Rake 0 Board [Qd Ks 7s Qs 2s]Seat 1: United113 (button) (small blind) showed [5c Ah] and lost with a pair of QueensSeat 2: Kip1972 (big blind) showed [Jc Qc] and won (1530) with three of a kind, Queens

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