Playing these $200 and $500 SNG's and running pretty bad in them. However its a good lol because you can basically lose fuck all in them compared to playing PLO. Think I am doing $1,5k in them after a litany of bads beats, usually just takes one bad beat to do that much.
Boylepoker.com today announces the outright betting market for the International Poker Open 2009 with Marty Smyth heading the field for the second year in a row alongside Julian Gardner.
I've been fairly busy since my last update, but still not much success on the tournament front. I travelled to Galway to play a bounty tournament and cash game in the 4 Aces Club, then stopped off in Dublin on my way home for a charity tournament, before flying over to Nottingham the next day for the $1 million guaranteed English Poker Open. From Nottingham, I got the train to London for the WSOPE and now I'm at home for a few days rest before I go back to London for another two week stint for the EPT.
Five straight losing weeks in poker hasn't happened in quite sometime, it's been at least a year anyway. I think I lost about $40k over the 5 weeks, which isn't really that bad and if I could have engineered a dogging or two in London, it could have been a different story - but we are where we are.
and EPT London next week. As London swings to the beat of high-stakes poker games The Poker Show hosts a special Caesar's Cup night. Leading online poker radio show, The Poker Show, sponsored by Boylepoker.com, has been relishing the feast of poker on its doorstep this week with World Series of Poker Europe hopefuls Phil Hellmuth, Huck Seed, and Erik Seidel dropping in to the party.
Well I busted 5 off the money in the £5k WSOPE PLO. Don't think I have ever been as gutted after a tourney than I was yesterday - not just because I didn't make the money but because there were several times in the tournament where I was simply out classed.
Congratulations to Chris on winning last week's caption competition with the following entry:
"Now i know u got a nice shirt john but hold up, hold up..beyonce has the nicest shirts in the world."
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You may have noticed that for the past 14 months we have run a freeroll on a Friday night in association with the Daily Mirror. Every week we sent over an article from one of our sponsored pros and they printed the password to the freeroll at the bottom of the article, all complicated stuff!
So since I came back from Vegas I have been pretty much grinding online trying to pay for my rather expensive excursion. I've been running pretty good when I have been playing to be honest.
Paul had been on about a new challenge for me to do and he'd thought up of a few ideas but I didn't fancy the thoughts of going back to play $2 buy-in and 2c4c cash - I hope those days are long behind me. I then thought up this idea, so I can start at although still relative small scale stakes - still a somewhat meaningful amount of money at the beginning.
I am not sure if this refers to my life or my trip to London. I'm getting quite tempted to walk out in front of a bus. Got knocked out of the £2.5k round of each in a tourney that was pretty uneventful for me and exited in a pretty standard hand.
Hey guys, as usual it's been a while since my last post. So what's new? Well, since my last update the tennis season has come to a close, which is always welcome since I get quite sick of playing most days and am also liable to start picking up a few niggling injuries towards the end of the season.
My tournament earnings (from tennis) this season consisted of €75 for a quarter-final appearance in Bray and a €150 voucher for a relatively well known sports store in Dun Laoghaire. All in all a strong season for me, but the bank manager says keep at the poker...nit.
Didn't get a blog up on Friday as it was 10 in the morning before I was knocked out of the $2,100 WCOOP PLO 6 max in 22nd place and was in no mood to write.
Played the WCOOP main event last night, $5k NLHE. Durr knocked me out. Obviously I was ahead (marginally 56% v 44%), it's so sick how I run against that guy. The WCOOP was a mixed bag for me, I cashed in five events but probably still only broke even for the series, actually, could have even been a loser for the series.
As the UK begins a three-week long poker jamboree, leading online poker radio show The Poker Show will be chatting to some of the biggest names in the game live in London.
Lots of people like to watch a good train crash so it's not surprising that the YouTube hand where DeWolfe manages to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by mucking the winning hand in the showdown (actually only half a showdown) has been watched by zillions. It might only be millions because I know lots of people who are sick enough to watch this kind of thing several times.
Congratulations to Gutshot Kidd on winning last week's caption competition with the following entry:
"I told that O' Shea guy that I like to limp and the monster did this to me!"
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The last few days have been pretty hellish. After getting off to a good start and moving a few k ahead for the week, I hit a brick wall.
I'm quite enjoying this series of The Poker Show, but if Jesse makes one more comment about how it's a "disgrace" that there are no UK players in the Caesars Cup team, then I'll have to phone up and give him some GBH to the ear hole.
I recorded my third losing poker week in a row. Chilled out, played golf and went on the piss over the weekend. I'm looking forward to getting back into it today.
The world's leading online poker radio show, The Poker Show, sponsored by Boylepoker.com this week invites world record heads up marathon challenger Paul Zimbler into the guest hot seat to discuss his ambitious record attempt.
Presenters Jesse May and Matt Broughton will broadcast live from the £1 million guaranteed English Poker Open in Nottingham and reach heady heights with Poker in the Sky direct from Copenhagen. Author and former European Poker Tour champ Vicky Coren will drop by to discuss her new poker memoir and the boys will chat to UK hotshot Chris Moorman.
Congratulations to Andy on winning last week's caption competition with the following entry:
"Tobey Maguire has taken method acting to a new level by growing an extra arm for his role in Spiderman."
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My online effort over the last two months can best be described as "half-hearted". Still, if you put the two months together it pretty much amounts to one decent month, in terms of volume anyway. Nothing much happened in the way of results and I ended up making about $3K. It's funny how that's pretty much an after-tax wage for a lot of people, but in our world it's just a bit of random noise.
Well, we're down to the last five and seating and chip stacks are as follows - young aggressive northy kid in seat two on 400k, rock with some moves in seat four on 280k, Knuckles, the chip leader, on 1.4 million, me in seat nine on 700k and old rock with 250k. Knuckles is using his big stack to get chips and I want to get some soon before it's too late.
I started writing my last blog with the intentions of writing about my Late Night Poker heat in Cardiff, but as I said at the end, there wasn't much of any interest to report. It was a pretty tough heat with Tony G, Soren Kongsgaard, Andreas Hoivold, Joe Beevers, Roberto Romanello, and an internet qualifier from Slovenia who was a full time online pro.
Pretty annoyed with how I played last week, other than winning big in an ill advised drunken spin, I would've done my bollix in. In an effort to refocus myself, I took a fair bit offline. I generally play better when I can't piss buy-ins away.
People complain a lot about how unlucky they are. This is normally pretty good news as it's way better to have them spending their time doing this rather than trying to work out what really happened. It's good for the game. Having said that, sometimes people do become victims of things that are way beyond their control.
About 20 years ago, The Pink Elephant night club was a regular haunt of many Irish poker players. It was open late and for some reason or other, we used to get in for free. I was in there one night having a quiet gallon with Micky McGuinness (an apt surname!) when a few lads on steroids asked us to move to make room for some special customers.
Headed out for Chub's going away dinner on Wednesday, had a few pints and then on to D2. It was a student night in D2 but in our defense, we were two students in our mitts. We wandered into the queue which was quite crowded, but that's par for the course on 'Fresher's Week'.
Congratulations to charliebuket on winning last week's caption competition with the following entry:
"Nobody move or the idiot gets it."
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My game has felt out of synch since coming back from Vegas - it's hard to explain but it's just a sense that I'm doing things that worked (enough of the time) a year ago, but now they don't. Too often I make a play, then when it's on my opponent I immediately think "this isn't going to work", and it doesn't.
The remaining 4 hands of my review of the Irish Poker Classic come from the final table. The first two occurred in the early and middle stages of the final table.
I arrived at the final table with 650k of the 3 million chips in play. Here's a quick bit of history. I had been very active at the 2nd last table and chipping up nicely. I had position on Peter "Knuckles" Higgins two tables out. He is pretty aggressive as well and is in trap 7 with me positioned in trap 9. He had been opening a lot so I tried the old 3 bet which was about as good an idea as buying a dildo for your granny at Christmas. I got quickly 4 betted. I changed tacked and started peeling behind him. This was working very well and was getting Knuckles a little annoyed, it also calmed the frequency with which he opened pots, hence allowing me to take down more hands pre-flop.
I've played a lot of 6-seater TV tournaments now, but this is the first time that I'd had the pleasure of being invited to Late Night Poker. Everyone's familiar with the poker boom that was created when unknown everyman Chris Moneymaker fluked his way through a couple of online satellites and then 839 players in the 2003 WSOP main event to win $2,500,000. (no offense meant - I know he's improved a lot since then and is now a decent player). However for me, Late Night Poker, with their introduction of under the table cameras, was just as important a part of Poker's history as the so-called 'Moneymaker' effect.
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