£54

This is how much I am now up for the month. It was £1604, but I lost the £800 I had in my poker account then a further £750 from my bank account (I had withdrawn £804 in poker winnings this month). The £800 went to about £325 playing £1/£2 all day and not leaving when I started to play bad. The rest went trying to recuperate the losses in £2/£5. I had a couple of unlucky beats along the way; here are the most interesting hands and biggest pots.

All the following hands are in £pounds sterling not $dollars.

• In this hand I think my opponent must be psychic, I labeled him as a donk after this and I wanted revenge which partially explains the later AA hand against him.

• Here I get lucky but my opponent didn't raise enough pre flop.

• In this crazy hand I wish I had called but of course I couldn't. It's not that clear but the guy with A10c shoves pre flop for like £300+ so of course I can't call, some people r such morons, let me see a flop!

• An example of why fast playing is often profitable

• This hand was just sick. Against the same player as earlier, I wanted to bust him, but I genuinely hated that flop so bad and was 99% sure I was beat, I mean what else can he have here? But ego took over I guess and I bet the flop far too quickly without thinking then was priced in to call the raise in my opinion, this pissed me off so much though cos I played it so bad, knew exactly what he had, but went with the 1% that this is a donk AK or something, sigh.

• Here my opponent shows me no respect whatsoever, I thought I was ahead on the flop if I'm honest as this guy was very aggressive and the turn just sealed the deal I was obv only folding if a heart came out, this guy went crazy aggro after this hand 3 betting me so often and I didn't keep the stack for long :-(

• Onto the £2/£5 and this seemed like a great spot to get a triple up, I put one of these guys on a set to be honest, didn't really like what I saw, one time I didn't wanna make my flush! Luckily I double sucked out anyway :-)

• This hand was just brutal, I think I make a good flop call here, these people either just want to give me money or have no respect for me at all (I believe its the latter) anyway if my hand had held here I would have got out of the room, withdrawn the £750 back and had a £600 roll again, how much can change on the turn of a card!

• Last but not least, people again wanna give me money the villain here actually typed into the chat box "Please suck out, pleeease" whilst the cards were dropping which I found to be very low and not what I needed as the river fell, maybe he really hates me or maybe he's just a prick? I think the latter again! Never recovered from this.

Its funny I was very high on life when I was winning this month, I had given up drinking for a while in a bid to be more healthy, hitting the gym more and I felt good. After this loss I slacked off the gym for 2 days and went out and got pissed on vodka! How quickly life can change, all at the turn of a card.

Nevertheless, I am still up for the month even if it is just £54, so I really can't complain it could be much worse, being up is being up! Plus I have rakeback coming in a couple of days which should be around £250, so that will be £300 profit from poker for the month, so it's good to look on the bright side! I hope my 2 or 3 readers enjoyed the hands I posted, let me know what you think in the comments section!

Oh well here's to repeating it all again next month, can't fucking wait! (drinking vodka again ;-).

Phew!

My roll has been up and down like a tart's knickers all weekend. At peak it was about £1200 with money still in play in 3 rooms. I have been playing a quite a bit of £1/£2 10 seaters with mostly success. I played on a mate's laptop the other day and I am now thinking of investing in one, playing poker on the settee in front of the telly was pretty fun! I also withdrew a further £102.64.

My roll dipped to just £150 a few hours ago.... I sat with £250 in 2 £2/£5 rooms and lost in both, leaving me with £150 (roll was £650 before that). So I put in the rest and managed to get up to £900! I fluctuated around here for a while before counting my blessings and getting the hell out of there. This was the biggest pot I won on my comeback - note the table was in £ not $ but this thing only seems to show it in dollars for some reason. This hand replayer thing is good I think I will use it more often in future cos there are often crazy hands I want to share. If anyone knows of one that shows the correct currency I would love to know thanks. Also how is my play here? Fishy and lucky? Probably right! But these tables are often very aggressive you can't wait for aces you have to be creative, mix up your game and be a step ahead against these very astute players in my opinion. An example of how aggressive they are (and in my opinion mental!) - I guess they are deeply rolled for the level and a grand £ pot ain't that much for them, crazy.

I was playing a £20 multi earlier then this hand happened for the monster chip lead and we were down to about 17 players and £375 for 1st, grr opponent. I was first or second in chips at the time, why this guy wanted to get so involved with the one person who could bust him is beyond me, does he really think I am running a bluff here against such a big stacked opponent? Meh.

Went to see the new Indiana Jones film last night and I thought it was crap! What the hell is that ending all about?! Anyway I'm currently riding well in the £7K on crypto, good luck all.

Rolling steady

I have played a fair bit of heads up play recently, mainly on £0.50/£1 but I dabbled in $2/$5 and £1/£2 winning in both my short sessions at these stakes. I actually bust my roll a couple of times and had to re deposit, £500 in total but I have since withdrawn this again; so is the nature of playing heads up under-rolled.

One particularly sick session was in the early hours of Sunday morning, I had managed to get my roll back up to £200 and it was all in one room, then this guy who is a weak player came along and sat with £40 and basically busted me.... so I deposited £100 and lost it! Deposited another £100, lost this too. Now I was really pissed off cos I know I am a better player than this guy, so I did another £100 and that's when I turned it around and took his whole £400+ stack off him and then he reloaded and I won that too. Took about 2 hours in all but it was a great fun session and I'll be clocking up loads of rakeback! I have had a few lengthy heads up sessions usually managing to bank a win with each.

Last night there was a maniac playing in a 6 seater £0.50/£1 room, he had a big stack, much of that thanks to me. He liked to open raise for £17/£35 etc pre flop, and bet £20+ on the flop into pots of £3. Call all ins with A8 high on the turn drawing dead against a set of QQQ for £200+ pot etc etc, that sort of player - the sort I love :-) He stacked me for a full buy in with one hand where I raised to £8 pre with AK (not something I would usually do of course) the flop came down 10A10 and I bet and he raised and this was not unusual for him so I pushed and he called with 10 2 off, nh! I was £170 down in this room but I got my own back on him and so did everyone else in the room it was just a matter of time, I left the room on £325ish, I hope he comes back again! Also played 10 seater £1/£2 for a bit and won £22ish.

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My current bank roll is £640 and my withdrawals have been £576. So I am up £1216 for the month which I guess is pretty good. I have yet to add this months rakeback to that and I still have a £50 monthly nuts bonus which is very nearly cleared. The month isn't over however so this number could go up or down quite a bit yet. Nevertheless £1216 so far this month is good stuff, I think I am playing very well at the moment, and loving the heads up cos without sounding too big headed, I feel I have an edge over some of the smaller stakes players there. Oh yeah I have 5 days off work starting Friday can't fucking wait!

Good night

Last night I was about to play the £7K tourny on crypto for £33 when I got a text from a poker-comedy duo named A-Game who said they were about to play a $20 multi on Stars and whether I wanted to join them. I of course jumped at the chance and the game of choice was a $20 45 man sit and go. It took ages to fill so I went ahead and played the £7K anyway, busting to AQ when some donk called my all in on the turn with AQ high only to river an A (I had KJ and top pair, he had no draw).

So anyway the Stars tourny was fun, I happened to be on the same table as A-Game but they busted in about 3 hands and I went on to win the damn thing, cheers for the invite! I got lucky early when I was all in as a short stack with KK against AA, rivered a K! When final table time came down I steamrolled my way to 5 handed, it was so easy just stealing blinds etc no one put up any opposition so I amassed a huge chip lead and also busted a couple of dweebs. 5 handed however pissed me off, now I am not one to say that online poker is rigged otherwise I wouldn't play it but what I saw last night was just unbelieveable. Again and again and again the short stack would double up with some outflop, suck out re re re suck out etc etc it seemed like whatever card they needed they hit no matter the outs. Then my aces got cracked by the 2nd in chips with K9c for a big pot. I was getting really pissed off!

One hand which sums up the sickness when the donk min raised the button and I re raised with A4, he called leaving himself 2k behind. Flop was 2 3 5 I put him in he calls with JQoff. Turn A river 4, fuck offfffffffff! Nevertheless I managed to battle through and take it down, despite being all in for the win with AA against 99 he spiked a 9 on the turn. The amount of set up hands was just crazy, never seen anything like it. Anyway ship the $280.

At the same time in this tourney I played a £0.50/£1 on crypto sitting with £70, left after not too long with £300, the table was crazy loose I loved it. So a £330 profit last night which means monthly winnings are nearly at £900 and I still have nuts bonus and rakeback to come, I will work it out later, long may the winning continue.

Oh yeah the laser cosmos arrived yesterday and it's great!

Profit

The last time I updated was when I was about to receive rakeback. Well this was to the tune of about £239 so I immediately withdrew £200 to cover my losses. I played with the rest won a bit and then withdrew £38 to cover another deposit I had made previously to play 2 tournaments. Now I went on to consistently win playing $0.50/$1 usually 2 tabling and buying in with $80 each time.

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I made regular withdrawals because I wanted something to show for my winnings and these have totalled roughly £325. The bankroll currently stands at about £205 so this means I have made about £530 so far this month which is pleasing because I have not played very much at all and only at smallish stakes. I have the £100 'monthly nuts bonus' which I am currently working on as well which I should soon complete.

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I might stop withdrawing for a bit and try and focus on building the bank roll again but it does feel good to cash in regularly and with the money this month I have already spent £100 on protein shakes to aid my gym efforts and help me on my everlasting quest for supreme henchness, and also £100 on a laser cosmos! I know I'm a saddo but I have wanted to buy this for ages and it has great reviews and sounds wicked so I thought fuck it poker paid for it and bought it! I also have to pay a hundred and something £ for 6 months fucking car tax this month so that just about spends all my withdrawals, but at least I have something to show for winning this time.

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In regards to the last post with that £1/£2 HU hand, welllllll I was bad. I had a roll of £150 after all my withdrawals and I got this down to £75 so I thought I would go for all or nothing and sat in £1/£2 heads up with the lot. Now this fish came along and stacked me, so I deposited £40 cos this guy just sucked! However I lost that too...... hmmm just one more £100 I said, lost this too! How could it be this moron was beating me?! Cracking my KK with hands like 9 6 off suit despite making it £8 pre etc was how! I can beat this bastard I thought, "one more £100, fuck fuck fuck what am I doing?! I feel the tilt! I can't control myself I'm about to lose all my money!!" were thoughts I pushed to the back of my head and started to concentrate. I played with controlled aggression and got up to £150 odd then that quad 8's hand happened. Ahhhhhhhhh finally I got the bastard - felt good even though it was all my money haha. I took his last £15 then I left the room and told him to follow me, lol.

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I of course withdrew the £240 right away and sat in £0.50/£1 and proceeded to stack this guy a bit more, leaving me with £111, phew! I felt kind of bad cos this guy seemed like a nice bloke and didn't mind that I left the other room. He didn't even react badly when I berated him for cracking my kings and queens with filth etc etc. He just finished by saying "It's not my night I'm off to bed" or something like that. Still I hope I have the chance to play him again.

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So played last night for half an hour heads up again against another fish and won about £100. Playing heads up can be verrrrry profitable cos there are so many bad players and once you have a feel for the style they play it becomes very easy to exploit it and induce bluffs and know when they have the goods etc; sometimes it's worth a call just for information that pays dividends later.

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Oh yeah I am gonna have a crack at the WSOP step Sit and Go's on stars, seems like a piece of piss although it's probably not, its a crack at a seat for fuck all money nonetheless. Well I think I have rambled on enough for now, 5 week pay day tomorrow, woo! Who knows what will happen with this £200 roll, I would like to emulate royalfire's recent success, only time will tell.

This made me laugh...

This hand just happened so I thought I had to post it it's a classic! I will update more at a later date about what I have been up to recently and why it was I came to be playing £1/£2 heads up! For now though check out this little beauty, opponent is weak fish who has been cracking my kings queens etc with trash so I just can't wait to bust him...

Game #7083343684: Hold'em NL (£1/£2) - 2008/05/12 - 23:59:21 (UK)
Table "Zaragoza" Seat 1 is the button.
Seat 1: christus9 (£174.37 in chips)
Seat 2: ironmonk (£156.90 in chips)
christus9: posts small blind £1
ironmonk: posts big blind £2
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to ironmonk [As 8s]
christus9: raises to £4
ironmonk: calls £2
----- FLOP ----- [8c 8h 8d]
ironmonk: checks
christus9: bets £8
ironmonk: calls £8
----- TURN ----- [8c 8h 8d][4d]
ironmonk: checks
christus9: bets £8
ironmonk: raises to £26
christus9: calls £18
----- RIVER ----- [8c 8h 8d 4d][7s]
ironmonk: bets £118.90 and is all-in
christus9: calls £118.90
----- SHOW DOWN -----
ironmonk: shows [As 8s] (Four of a kind, Eights, Ace high)
christus9: shows [7c Ah] (A Full House, Eights full of Sevens)
ironmonk collected £312.80 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot £313.80 Main pot £312.80 Rake £1
Board [8c 8h 8d 4d 7s]
Seat 1: christus9 (small blind) showed [7c Ah] and lost with A Full House, Eights full of Sevens
Seat 2: ironmonk (big blind) showed [As 8s] and won (£312.80) with Four of a kind, Eights, Ace high