Plasma

I bought myself a Christmas present - a 42" Samsung plasma TV :-)

It was thanks to my success at poker over the last couple of months or so and good saving that allowed me to not only clear my £1000 overdraft, but also be able to afford this TV. I got it for £660 online which is £240 cheaper than Currys are offering for the same model. Only thing is I had to pay £49 to guarantee getting it delivered before Christmas! It would have been free if I was prepared to wait up to 10 working days, but I must have it on the 27th because that is when I am getting my PS3 and I have been looking forward to it for ages, so I paid up. Buying that coupled with buying endless Christmas and birthday presents means I'm pretty broke for the next month, but I'm sure I will cope and will hopefully be able to win a bit at poker to help.

On the poker side, I have hardly been playing recently, and when I have played I have had a couple of hair raising sessions which only serve to remind me why I am currently in a poker lull. Last weekend I deposited £100, lost it, then £25, lost it, the £75, lost it then finally £100 again. This went down to £40 and I couldn't believe I was on the brink of losing £300 in a short space of time through sick sick coolers and of course a little tilt, I wasn't playing badly though. I knuckled down and played HU and 6-max and managed to somehow make the money back over a couple of days plus about £18 or something. Once I had got back to over £300 I withdrew £250 and had a roll of £68, I lost this however, so in all I lost £50 - not great but it felt like a win after being on the brink of losing £300.

Then the other night I decided to play again. I deposited £40, played a £20 tournament in which I failed to cash, and lost the rest in a cash game. I then moved to HU and someone with £20 managed to stack me a few times when I was buying in for £40 etc. This guy was a complete fishy moron though and so I just had to keep playing him to get my money back. I sat with what was gonna be my last £40 and shortly doubled up with KK when he called my all in with middle pair on the flop. Then I doubled through again with QQ when he raised me on the flop with nothing, called my re raise, then called my all in on the turn which had given him a flush draw - he had 10,2h or something, like I said he was useless. He left immediately after this hand so I couldn't berate him which was somewhat annoying cos he was being a fucking twat to me the whole time we were playing. This left me with about £120 from the £180 deposited. I then sat in 6 max £1/£2 with £100 and only 1 person playing. We played HU for a while and I was down to £80, but more people joined the table and he soon doubled me up when I called a raise from him in position with KJ and the flop came J high, I called his continuation bet and the turn was a K, he bet about £35 and it was a no brainer push. He calls and flips Q10, aggressive bastard! No 9 or A for him on the river and I double through, my aim was to get to £160 in this room then I was gonna withdraw everything, and this is exactly what I did. I withdrew £182 for a £2 profit!! Get in!

So the moral of the story is to sort of not play for a while, because I have proven to myself how easily I can throw away a few hundred quid. I have been lucky to have only lost £48 in total in recent weeks, it could have been far worse. I will soon have other Saturday afternoon entertainment however in the form of high-definition gaming on a 42" plasma, happy days :-)

Can't get rolling

On Saturday I deposited £135 onto Interpoker because that was the amount needed to gain a £400 bonus when you earn enough points. I immediately withdrew £35 and played with the £100. It wasn't long before this was down to £25. I went and had dinner then came back and won all my money back plus an additional £22. I withdrew the £100 and went out. Next day I played and got up to £40 before losing it all on the worst play ever which can only be described as boredom.

Last night I deposited £100, won £55, withdrew £105, then lost the £50 pretty quickly in £0.25/£0.50 in a sick manner. Final hand I make it £2.50 with QQ. 2 callers cos of my image, flop is 5 5 7 with 2 hearts, I bet £5, next person raises me all in, back to me I obviously call. He has 67 no heart, turn 4h river 8h, nice runner runner straight for him and of course I don't have the Qh.

So I keep winning a bit then withdrawing my deposit to make sure I'm not wasting money, then failing to spin up! At this rate I will never get enough points for my £400 bonus either, at least I am getting rake back though.

Not in the mood...

It's been 2 weeks now since I played poker. Here is a brief account of what's happened since and why I'm not playing.

Well, on Tuesday the 13th and going into Wednesday the 14th which was my birthday I lost the roll I had on PKR, I wasn't particularly bothered because I had withdrawn more than that in previous weeks and I knew it wouldn't last forever, especially with the way I was playing that night lol. It was fun tho, I was playing so loose, this one guy and me were berating each other and I went down to $13 at one point before getting back up to $60 somehow. Then I get dealt KK and want my image to pay off so push all in, no one calls. Very next hand I get AA and raise big, stupid guy calls, flop is J J 8 I think, I bet big he calls, turn is a rag, I push he calls with Q9s lololololol, THEN starts laying into me about how lucky I am etc, when he makes that call with Q high and a gutshot on a paired board, LOL.

Anyway, I turned 24 which sucks cos I'm getting old and still in a shittly paid job. Had a great birthday tho, went to London then out at the weekend and saw people I hadn't seen in a while. Anyway, on the Friday, I took my car in for its MOT. It failed, but when I had to pay for the MOT test the transaction had to be authorised by phone and the woman told me my card had been blocked! wtf?! I was feeling pissed off that they were quoting me £400 on the work plus this, (incidentally I took my car elsewhere and got it got half that - rip off merchants!) Anyway I ring the fraud hotline and it appears someone had cloned my card and used it in a cash point in Australia!!! So it was blocked and it took till the following Tuesday till I got a replacement card, hence no poker that weekend.

However even when I got my card I didn't feel like playing, I have done so well in saving recently that I managed to clear my overdraft and still have more in my bank than I think ever, poker wins helped me achieve this. Also I want to buy a 42" Samsung Plasma to go with the PS3 I'm getting which is about £680. That with all the expenses of my car, birthdays and xmas has made me think twice about playing even a $10 game. I don't want to try and deposit myself a mini roll, say £50, then lose it, cos money is important right now.

Maybe I am seeing sense I dunno, but I do know that I have been almost too scared to play, one tilty session could see me lose a couple of hundred quid, something which would just piss me off so much right now! I might wait till after I have paid for all my things and my TV before playing again, and to be honest I haven't even really been in the mood, and like I said a little scared of what could happen if I lose. I could really do with some poker winnings right now though...

I'm not sure when I will play again and therefore update this blog again, but when it happens as I'm sure it will I will update again to keep my loyal maybe 3 readers of my blog interested, lol, laters.

Play. Win. Withdraw. Repeat.

I have been playing PKR over the weekend, 1 table of $0.50/$1 sitting with a full buy in with a $200 roll. Every time I finish a session and have over $250 I withdraw whatever I have over $200. I did this over the weekend and withdrew $20.16 (before my over £250 rule came in), $85, $75, $86.10 and $89.71 for a total of $355.97 won and withdrawn since Friday night, not bad. The play is generally weak on this site, with people unable to fold JJ to me pre flop against my KK and AA for example. It's also a lot of fun to play and not stressful as I am rubbish at multi tabling anyway.

I also played a $10 sit and go and lost all in pre flop with KK against QQ and AA! I don't think I have ever seen these three hands against each other in one hand and whats even stranger is that the AA held up, wonders never cease.

I qualified for the $20,000 guaranteed in a 1 handed satellite for $3! Everyone is automatically all in and my K4d made a flush on the turn, whoop. Only problem was the site fucked up and the tournament was cancelled, oh well I hope to get a refund of the full $30.

I am going to continue to make regular withdrawals when I win because I need the money at the moment, my car is having its MOT this Friday and I am praying that it is not going to cost too much. It's also my birthday on Wednesday and I will probably be spending a lot in London. I have Wednesday and Thursday off work, yippee!

About bloody time!!!

Its 1:32 am and I'm very happy! I have just made the best comeback of my poker life no doubt taking first place in the PKR $1500 guaranteed and $750 along with it, despite being down to 350 chips at one stage with blinds at 75/150! :-)

Quick update. Lost the $100 on stars, no surprises there. Very nearly span up £1.80 to £28 on crypto but lost the pot on the river. Put £50 onto Betfred, went up and down, withdrew £20, lost the final £30. So tonight I was not going out, loaded up PKR again cos I remembered the $55 tournament that I came 3rd in last time.

Well I played the same again tonight, its $1500 guaranteed and this time there were slightly more runners, 50 in total, but still a small field. So I deposited the $55 and got off to an OK start, then I had KK and made it 240 with blinds at 30/60, one caller flop 678, he check raises all in I call he has 77, ouch, still leaves me with 1300 however. Shortly after with blinds at 50/100 UTG pushes for 600, I have 1100 left and call with 33, tiltily. He has AK and wins that one. Left with 500, this soon becomes 350 after the blinds. This was the lowest my stack got, but with blinds at 75/150, I find 99 in early position and push for 350, get 3 callers and somehow manage to quadruple up despite a 10 and a Q coming out. Very next hand I get JJ and limp UTG. Couple of callers to an 8 high flop. SB bets, I push, everyone else folds he calls with A8, I double again.

From there on in I played the tightest game probably ever, was just trying to make the money for a while, played solidly and was on the final table in about 5th place. Top 8 got paid and it took forever for the bubble to burst. However I played my tight A game and took that puppy down, took 4 hours and it wasn't easy but I'm very pleased right now, it's one of my biggest tournament wins, in the top 5 I think (best being $5000 for 5th out of 1250ish in the Betfair $100,000 freeroll). Have just withdrawn $550 to cover the buy in, the £30 lost on Betfred and a couple hundred for my bank account. Have $200 on PKR now but I doubt it will stay there for long because I will withdraw it most likely. Now very tired and off to bed because i have work in 7 hours, about time I took down a multi though!

Fuck you poker, fuck you!

I'm pissed off right now. Just busted out of the $25K on Stars. Card dead all game, get dealt A9s on the button with blinds at 300/600 and my stack a little over 4K. Total donkfest, people all in every other hand and sucking out everywhere. So someone whose stack has been going up and down like a tart's knickers pushes his last 5K from early position, he doesn't need a hand to do this. I call as quick as I can and so does the BB....uh oh. They both show AQoff, not good for me but whats this the flop brings 2 spades and better yet the turn brings a 9, however, against all the odds, despite them both holding AQ, a Q falls on the river just when my hopes were high of winning the 15K pot. Why does this fucking game do this to me!!!!

Better yet, I sit in a $1/$2 cash game at the same time, was so card dead in the tourney, and within the first 10 minutes I have been dealt JJ, QQ and AA. Shortly followed by 1010, KK, 1010 again, 88, 88. In my tourney nothing but rags. Sounds good for the cash? Well no, my JJ loses to 89 despite me raising to $12 pre flop because of the limpers and a harmless looking 8 9 3 flop. Luckily he only had $60 behind. All the other cards win either the blinds or get outflopped.

I decided I can't take this anymore. I had $601 after starting the evening on $700 cos I cashed out $57 yesterday. So I did the most sensible thing I have done in fucking ages, I withdrew most of my winnings, yes I took $500 out before the inevitable happens and I lose it all again. I am good at building from nothing so I am going to leave myself $100 to do this with. How many times have I built up a 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 hundred pound/dollar roll then lost it all with nothing to show? Well now I am going to withdraw that damn money and start again, and repeat this pattern until I'm the richest man in the world. So fuck you poker, I won!

$850+

Roll over $850 now, it was over $900 at one point tho. I withdrew $100 also, so I have basically made back all I lost on Betfred. Loving the 9 seater $1/$2 game on PokerStars, plenty of bad players who have been paying off my big hands. Keep playing turbo tournaments and not winning, really shouldn't they lower my bankroll.

Going well tho hope it can continue.