Variance! ARGHGHGHGH

Ok here pictured isnt my real poker grapher, but probably isnt too far off right now.










After my week break from poker i was desperate to get home to play some HU, which i did.

I played for 6 hours straight earning myself a tasty $5000 playing 500 and 1000 Hu's. I then see the donk at the 2000 game that i had been crushing earlier, well i dunno but i got beat twice. I think i decided to play really poorly all of a sudden. Im pretty fuming right now and i am trying to decide wether to play another when i get a call from my mate asking me if i want to go down the pub WOOHOO! 3 hours later we stagger home and i go against the 10th poker commandment.

Thou shall not drink excessively and play online poker.

Ok well my mate was watching me and i decided to play 2x $500 matches, which i won both SOMEHOW. Anyhow i brag to my friend saying how easy this game is and that i just won an easy $1000 when he points out to me that i played 2x$2000 games. Well i guess im not going to turn on the pc if im this drunk because i couldnt even play the right bloody game. LOL Mis-clickaments!

So thats all good, im up $5000 on 1 night but it unfortunatly goes downhill the next day. I bloody suck right now and cannot beat what i like to call the "deceptive player". You get a lot of them at mid-high stake HU games and i saw a lot of them at barcelona. If you do not treat these players correctly they will sting you. If they have nothing they bet, and often mix up their bet sizes, if they have a big hand they check. Of course if you are not playing well this can get very frustrating as it seems they are getting a lot of good cards.

Well after 3 days of stupid poker i am level, which isnt the end of the world after winning a lot but i might add that i decided to play 5/10nl too.

I built to a stack of 2k when someone didnt believe me when i flopped top set with QQ.

Ok so then i raise with J10 on the button and get a caller from the BB with a big stack.

The flop is a 69Q so i continuate with a $40 bet into $60 which gets raised from $40 to $110. I then call. The turn is a king which brings two spades and two hearts. He checks and i bet $200 when he raises allin for about $1600. Pretty MASSIVE raise but i was loving it.

The river paired the king and he turned 66 which was when i turned my stomache. FACK!

Ok, not much going on in my poker life for the next 10 days or so, but will keep updated on anything interesting (or not so) in my poker life.

Thanks,

Dan

Online suckage

As soon as i got back from barcelona i played a lot of HU online. I played a lot better than before and this is probably down to confidence.


Infact from June 1st-6th i won abut $20k playing HU (Just $500 and $1000 sng's). I spent the last 3 days giving $6k of this back, so its time for a break from HU online.

Sometimes when i am running well for a month or so i get really bored, since everything is so repetetive! When im bored i play really bad poker, so, for now im going to play lower stakes until i can care about poker.

Im currently sitting at a $4/$8 limit table (full!) to hopefully minimise any losses. Hope all goes well...

Dan

£1000 main event- i got sicked.

Ok so this £1000 main event is a 15000 chip double chance, lovely this is very deep.

At first i looked at my table and thought it would be tough- was i wrong, with blinds of 25/50 the standard preflop raise was 600-950, crazy eh?

Anyway the only hand i picked up was JJ and i managed to flop the nuts, but the chap wasnt interested. I bluffed off 10k of chips towards the end of the second level and was left woth 5k chips.

On one hand i limped with 99 UTG for 200, after another limper a new player to the table makes it 700, about 4 people call including me.

The flop was 368 with two hearts and everyone checked. The turn brought a 6 which was a second club, i bet 1500 which got raised to 4500 by the original raiser. I must have thought for 5 minutes because i couldnt figure out what was going on; well i figured i was pretty short and had to make a stand which i did, i only had 1600 more than the 4500 raise so i went allin, the original raiser then froze and i smiled. So basically i know he has nothing, infact, the crazy thing is- he folded! WOW how stupid lol.

So i pretty much doulbe up there when i raise in middle position with aces, it comes back to the chap who limped UTG and he re-raised me. This young player is a very good player and i thought he had AK or KK, in which case i just call.

The flop comes 1087 with two diamonds and he announces allin. I INSTANTLY call. He turns over J10 of diamonds, yikes! He is a 60% favourite but i somehow managed to miss all those bullets and doubled up again, this time i have over the average of 21k, i have about 24k.

Anyhow i look over my shoulder and i see a player who is kind of well known with an absoloute monsterous stack, this player is pretty terrible too, but still he had 175k in chips when the average is about 25k. I said to the table that it would be a dream to be moved to the right of him, about 10 seconds later the card room manager announces that the big blind at the table is to be moved, thats me, and its also to the right of this player. UNBELIEVABLE!

So the break soon commences and i have 30300 in chips which is about average, but still this is quite deep since we will be coming back to 400/800 blinds, my plan is to play lots of hands for cheap after this donkey.

FIRST hand back he raises to 2400 and i call with 67 of diamonds, not the strongest of hands but i can certainly crack a hand with this, everyone else folds.

The flop 3d 5d 6c. HOLY S***!

He bets out 5k and i go allin for my 28k, he pretty much instantly calls and flips over AcQh.

Well, i mean, if i want to get my chips in good this is the time, im infact a 89% favourite, also this goes to show what a complete and utter donkey this guy is.

The turn- Qc

The river- As.

Absoloute killer right there, i am absoloutly sickened and leave the casino in disgust. There was only an hour left of play for day 1, that was a good chance to get to a final table for my ranking points. A good finish would get me into the top 10 in europe, but for now i am going to have to settle with my 14th in europe and try again at my next live tourney- in the newcastle GPUKT.

Thanks for reading,

Dan

Midland masters. Day 1 & 2

Well back to my regular casino, walsall.

First tourney is a £200 freezeout and i am going to see if my new TAG approach is going to work.

To be honest i dont have much to say about the tourney, i picked up a set early on and picked up a lot of small pots to stay just above average for a long time, when the blinds started hitting the 600/1200 stage i was getting slightly short.

After 2 limpers from early position i shoved with 33 since i only had 11 big blinds, everyone passes.

I know have about 19k with 800/1600 blinds when a crazy hand occured.

UTG raises 3x to 4800, im next to act and i shove with AhQh.

The player to my immediate left who has about 30k chips says "call". Well i about crapped myself because this usually means aces lol.

Comes back to the chap UTG who passes quickly, so i turn to my right and say "have you got a pair mate?" He says "yep".

He then confidently flips 44. LOL! What the hell is he thinking, oh well race time.

I smile when the flop comes 89A.

Turn J.












River 4.

It was 20 minutes before the day was over, how painful, i finish 21st and storm out of the casino. Not happy!

Well day 2 is next, the £300 double chance freezeout, again i play pretty tight and after 2 hours i still have my starting stack which is fine. After some cool maneouvering i climb to about 20k in chips when i get AA UTG. Yep for once i decided to limp and the guy 3 seats after me says "All-in" Fine, but the blinds are 400/800 and he has 16000 chips. All pass to me and he flips AK. Im pretty sure he said Merry Christmas. My AA held up and i had quite a large stack.

Its getting late into the tourney and i have been with the same few people as when i started, including two tight players that give away what they have depending on their bet sizes preflop.

On one hand the chap to my right raised about 2.5BB so i just assumed he was weak, i was on the button so put in about 1/4 of my stack with 56. I was absoloutly confident he would fold right here, the blinds were high...any move meant all of your stack but he then announced a minimum raise. Oh god, its great relying on your reads isnt it. I spend a lot of time and announce to the table im laying down Queens (hehe).

Well the other player who i said makes his raises compared to his strength raises just 3xBB in early position (this player im even more sure) So i look down at 55 in the SB and push about 5x his bet, the blinds were super high and this was really worth it, also there is only about 30 minutes until the day is over so it would be really nice to take this down. He passes immediatly whilst flipping 99. Lovely :)

Well the first day of the double chance is over and with only 23 left, i have 60,900 chips and the average is about 31k so im doing good.

Final table here i come!

I hate stars

After playing a couple hands badly i get myself down to 70k or so in chips, a lucksack has raised about 3 hands in a row showing KK xx and K6. So on the fourth time he raises i triple his bet with 99.

He re-raises and i call, he has KK again!

His hand holds and i bubble. Top 270 paid and i come 273rd, nice!

Stars tourney going well!

Your current position is 5 out of 1045

I took down a huge pot with QQ. I thought there was a chance he had JJ too *phew*

PokerStars Game #10251016727: Tournament #51167608, $200+$15 Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (300/600) - 2007/06/03 - 14:19:36 (ET)
Table '51167608 148' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: danistheking (35670 in chips)
Seat 2: mrvogt (12950 in chips)
Seat 3: champQ (12355 in chips)
Seat 4: wild_man_187 (25725 in chips)
Seat 5: Mitchdubai (15975 in chips)
Seat 6: semifull (20325 in chips)
Seat 7: RAYNEE. (8575 in chips)
Seat 8: Akab (15700 in chips)
Seat 9: Golden_sun (20350 in chips)
Golden_sun: posts small blind 300
danistheking: posts big blind 600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to danistheking [Qs Qc]
mrvogt: folds
champQ: calls 600
wild_man_187: raises 1200 to 1800
Mitchdubai: folds
semifull: folds
RAYNEE.: folds
Akab: folds
Golden_sun: folds
danistheking: raises 3600 to 5400
champQ: folds
wild_man_187: calls 3600
*** FLOP *** [Jd 4s 6c]
danistheking: bets 6000
wild_man_187: raises 14325 to 20325 and is all-in
danistheking: calls 14325
*** TURN *** [Jd 4s 6c] [Qd]
*** RIVER *** [Jd 4s 6c Qd] [6h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
danistheking: shows [Qs Qc] (a full house, Queens full of Sixes)
wild_man_187: shows [Jh Ah] (two pair, Jacks and Sixes)
danistheking collected 52350 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 52350 | Rake 0
Board [Jd 4s 6c Qd 6h]
Seat 1: danistheking (big blind) showed [Qs Qc] and won (52350) with a full house, Queens full of Sixes
Seat 2: mrvogt folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: champQ folded before Flop
Seat 4: wild_man_187 showed [Jh Ah] and lost with two pair, Jacks and Sixes
Seat 5: Mitchdubai folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: semifull folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: RAYNEE. folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Akab (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: Golden_sun (small blind) folded before Flop

PHEW!!!!!!!!! I have a great stack now, im also plodding along with 11k chips, just above average in the party $300k tourney.

My new tighter approach is playing good, i dont know why i bother LAG at times.

The $480 tourney on poker.co.uk

Down to the last 5 and i came across this crucial hand when i was short stacked.


Seat 1: luc_scrote (2685.00)
Seat 3: Big Brad (9702.00)
Seat 4: ingevoldw (11941.00)
Seat 5: Golf_Flop (5761.00)
Seat 6: gtrebbi23 (2411.00)
luc_scrote post SB 75.00
Big Brad post BB 150.00
** Deal **
luc_scrote [Jd, Kd]
Big Brad [N/A, N/A]
ingevoldw [N/A, N/A]
Golf_Flop [N/A, N/A]
gtrebbi23 [N/A, N/A]
*** Bet Round 1 ***
ingevoldw Fold
Golf_Flop Fold
gtrebbi23 Fold
luc_scrote Raise to 450.00
Big Brad Call 450.00
*** Flop(Board): *** : [As, 10c, Ad]
*** Bet Round 2 ***
luc_scrote Check
Big Brad Bet 450.00
luc_scrote Call 450.00
*** Turn(Board): *** : [As, 10c, Ad, 8c]
*** Bet Round 3 ***
luc_scrote Check
Big Brad Check
*** River(Board): *** : [As, 10c, Ad, 8c, 4s]
*** Bet Round 4 ***
luc_scrote Check
Big Brad Bet 900.00
luc_scrote Call 900.00
*** Showdown *** : Rake: 0.00 Total Pot: 3600.00
luc_scrote [Jd, Kd] Pair of aces, king kicker Win: 3600.00
Big Brad [7d, 6d] Pair of aces Win: 0.00


Last 3: I am on 7000 chips compared to 12k and 13k, these two players are quite weak and i should be able to climb to 10k soon.

Big stacks went at it ALL-IN on a flop of 345 66vsJJ and JJ holds.

I finish 3rd for $1200. Lots of up and downs.

Next up, the party $215 and stars $215.

Sunday tourneys!

Well someone asked me to make a blog entry about me and my internet poker. So tonight i am going to enter a few tourneys such as the $480 tourney on poker.co.uk, $215 on party, $215 on stars and maybe a few others.

Ive already played two $500 heads up today and lost them both, the first was against a good player and the second was against a complete retard that nearly put me on tilt. Goddamnit, oh well i won about $7k last night at $500 and $1000 heads-ups.

Oh btw i hope you all like the new layout, its more clear and fits a lot more text on screen.

The $480 tourney on poker.co.uk is already down to the last 6 with last 3 getting paid, not a big tourney but ive played well so far, taking a very tight approach which has worked well, the standard of players is very low!

Ill update later on how i do.

Dan