September Review

Nothing of interest on the tourneys today, only a few played and was never really up for it while suffering one of my lovely hangovers (cheers Wayne for the shots i shouldnt have gone onto). Anyway on to the monthly review instead.

Its been a strange month, seems to have gone very quickly for me anyway. Another CPC package is the obvious highlight and achievement. As i went last year and cashed 13th/252 i know what to expect this time. I am really looking forward to returning to St Kitts with another all inclusive package and ill make sure i enjoy it to the max regardless of how the poker goes. As a poker package goes its easily the best one ive won or have wanted to win. The surroundings are very nice and there is the option of playing as little or as much poker as i want to out there. It will be nice to play in the same big event 2 years running as well although i must not put daft high expectations on myself given my result last year. As most of you know i was very unlucky to finish 13th with some nasty beats and i know i cannot play the tournament much better than i did last year.

Final profit for the month finished at £528 which im happy enough with when i have the $9500 of package as well. I played too many cash games and not enough tournaments within the month and i will change this approach next month. My patience wasnt great later in the month and thats why i just didnt enter many tournaments, saying that i could have played better cash games and the patience factor probably cost me a bit there too. Recurring illnesses did not help and i found myself quite bored a lot of the time because of this.

The other success for the month was my horse getting me some prize money in the region of £300 which will also almost certainly increase its sale value in the next month or two. I believe i will receive the money along with the sale money once its sold and to date i dont know exactly when this will be. It will be a nice addition to a future months profit/bankroll anyway.

October expectations ? Well i dont normally set any but i will be making sure i play more tournaments for starters. Apart from that i will just be trying to regain some focus and hopefully get a bit fitter as well. I did lose some weight last month but im only a tiny bit fitter and (provided i dont get ill again) i will attempt to reverse this in October. Yeh stop laughing :))

Mood Swings

The last 2 or 3 days i really just have not been in the mood to play poker, i think the fact ive been playing small bits every day for ages and not having any complete days off has probably led to me losing interest in the game. Ive experienced this before so i know its temporary and i know my interest and excitement comes back after a few days with little or no play. With a CPC seat (including some cash) ive not really got any goals for the rest of the month and am almost looking forward to the start a fresh new month feeling. Im still somewhere around the £500 profit + $9500 CPC package so no change really in that since the first week of September.

Anyway i only played tonight from 9:20pm:

Holdem Blackjack $20 for fun and practise for CPC sub ones at weekend. finished 6th/30ish (pays to 3) , tiny bit of luck more and i win or cash easily in that but not to be.

£27 10k 380ish entrants, finished 11th after nursing a short stack well around the bubble only to get as high as 6/18. Key pot was AJstd vs KK pot odds which failed to hit. This pot would have put me on 50k in 4/12 but instead i was 8/13 on 30k. Blinds were still low but with a couple more flops missed i went down to 18k before pushing with A8 only to run into a loose caller with A10, out in 11th. Annoying, but all this result does is remind me to play this ridiculously bad standard of a tournament and also to rock it a lot as the standard is so poor.

Only other tournament was $100 28 player one which i finished 8th in (pays to 6th). This one had its moments. I called my 3200 stack all in on my bb with K4off from the sbs push when the blinds were only 400. He had done it way too often and i was waiting for any callable hand. It held against 72off as it was !!! Unfortunately the tournament eventually became a crapshoot and my 68std push in the sb ran into JJ and i was crippled. I doubled again K10 vs rags only for 55 to lose against A10std for a pot that would have put me top 3, but still level stacks with most of the table as they were spread evenly.

So level on the night basically but close to a few results. Probably whole day off tommorrow as out on the piss which will suit me fine before the last day of the months play.

Cash Games Blog

It just dont seem as interesting blogging about cash games as you never have the depth of a multi where the first prize is appealing. When you win on a cash table , its like oh i should stay now and use my big stack, where to draw the line and stop and call it very successful, massively successful or just a good session.

Anyway my few tournaments tonight were total non starters, busting out early in all of them, though not through bad play. So i played cash either side of the tournaments and more than covered the buyins, in fact i was probably a good $300 up on the night (after the tourney buy ins) so its a good day but i dunno, it didnt feel as exciting really.

Late Sunday Report

Nothing big won unfortuately. Closest i got was playing the CPC shootout $154 where i played well and got some nice cards to make the final table only to finish 10th. I wasnt too annoyed as i should have lost an extra 1000 chips when outflushed but the guy played it as bad as its possible. The just as i think im freerolling the 1175 left as i should have been on 200 give or take a few my 1010 runs into AA behind when im all in because there were 2 limpers making the all in a must with my stack at 25,50. I will try some more of these as the chance of $11300 cash for a seat is too much value to pass up.

Party never got going and after getting back to my starting stack i just missed flops and finished somewhere in the 4000s/8000.

I finished the night off on 1,2$ NL 2 tables and have to mention this hand as its a classic, probably the biggest stitch up hand ive ever had in cash , luckily i was on the right side of it :)

I flat call $2 in mid with 9h8h, there are 5 of us in at a $10 in pot flop.
Flop is a juicy 7h6h3h and all check.
Turn is a even better 5h giving me the straight flush. Im hoping the 4h is out there or at least the ace. Anyway guy before me bets 5$ which i call and others fold.
River is a meaningless 10 and he fires $20 into the $20 pot. I immediately go all in and he instantly calls with 8d4h.
Pot was $546 in total so that was a huge bonus given you only buy in at this table with maximum $200.

Gotta feel sorry for him but i dont, we all get on the wrong side of these situations at some point, nasty one that though.

I maybe levelled for the day but im not really sure as i lost a wad on interpoker only to win on other software, certainly wouldnt have been down too much anyway.

Mid Sunday Report

In the hope i will want to play some decent games later ill blog the afternoon away and try and start a fresh if i ccan be bothered.

22euro 90ish players AJstd vs 66 (backwards dummy) preflop on pot to go 1st with huge stack out of maybe 15 players roughly.

£22 140 players, got decent stack early in this only to get another backwards dummy flat calling 200 utg+1 behind another caller with KQoff only to call his whole 5k stack off preflop when i went all in with 88 on the button. Pot was to go 5/29. Instead i was left on 70-90 chips at blinds of 100,200. Ironically i got back into it with luck for the small pots, pushed well when weak only to exit on pot to have gone 6/11, 1010 vs K10std. Crazy game but i got a gay £30 return LOL.

No luck on cash so far, everyone seems to be hitting there draws against me but no serious damage yet. Also got nowhere in a 50k sub.

Party poker started very bad missing everything but im now back to 5k starting stack on 100,200 blinds after flopping a straight with 96off in the small blind.

Later