I took advantage of the Full Tilt Multi Entry Double Gtd week last night.
I entered 4 times into the $26 $84k and cashed twice. It saw 4,904 players and I finished 96th for $124 and 10th for $777. I'm both please and gutted. Gutted mainly because there was $20k up top and I had a fairly decent stack the whole way through, on the FT bubble I was playing $600k and 3 bet a guy allin with 77, he calls with AQ and binks a Q :( would have been up over a million chips had that held but hey, still a decent run.
It was a long old slog, starting at 7pm (after waking up at 7am that day and doing a full days work finished at 5.30pm) and I didn't bust until 3am, 4 hours sleep and then up at 7am again for work today :)
Taking the night off tonight to catch up on some sleep, playing squash later then will hit the sack and play a decent schedule tomorrow evening.
I've started mixing up some cash into my schedule, mainly $0.50/$1 6-Max due to the Stars hand promotion. Once April hits I'll be going all out to at least push for GoldStar on Stars, this will set me up for 100% FPPs in May where I'll be playing numerous SCOOPs including the $2k event which gives out about 550 FPPs (1,100 FPPs with GoldStar) alone.
Also have Vegas next month so will be hitting up some WSOPC events. Overall it's been a very good month for a part-time $22 MTT grinder, I'll do a month overview post once April hits.
Also next week I have the £100 PokerPlayer UK Tour Event in Bristol which will be a bit of fun. I haven't played live since the UKIPT at Dusk Till Dawn so this should sharpen my live ability just before Vegas :)
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Final Table - $27.50 Big A (5/367)
Another session last night and another final table.
Very annoyed with my exit as I had a very commanding chip lead with 18 left. I lost a few small pots at the final table and got down to about 17 bigs. Folded to the c/o who opens which is obv pretty standard, I ship it in from the bb with A6s and he snaps with AQ. Busted in 5th for $520.
During the same session I went deep yet again in the $44 4-Max. I busted 7th for $290. I love this tourney and seem to always do/play well in it. I feel my game coupled with the skill level of the players in this tourney makes it great value for me. People can't quite seem to adjust to 4 handed play. They either become far too aggressive and spew or far too tight and can be taken advantage of. I think the most important factors in 4-Max tourneys are to open endless pots so you get an uber aggro image, therefore getting paid off when you have a hand and also being able to assign ranges, therefore getting value from you 2nd pairs and weaker hands.
I'm currently in the process of setting aside useful hand histories during my 4-handed tourney and will put together a blog post on 4-handed strategy at some point in the future.
I'm taking a few days off from poker, I'm heading to London tomorrow with some mates to visit another mate who's living over there. So I'm going to just chill this weekend and either hit up some poker upon my return on Sunday evening or leave it until Monday.
Final Table screenshot...
Very annoyed with my exit as I had a very commanding chip lead with 18 left. I lost a few small pots at the final table and got down to about 17 bigs. Folded to the c/o who opens which is obv pretty standard, I ship it in from the bb with A6s and he snaps with AQ. Busted in 5th for $520.
During the same session I went deep yet again in the $44 4-Max. I busted 7th for $290. I love this tourney and seem to always do/play well in it. I feel my game coupled with the skill level of the players in this tourney makes it great value for me. People can't quite seem to adjust to 4 handed play. They either become far too aggressive and spew or far too tight and can be taken advantage of. I think the most important factors in 4-Max tourneys are to open endless pots so you get an uber aggro image, therefore getting paid off when you have a hand and also being able to assign ranges, therefore getting value from you 2nd pairs and weaker hands.
I'm currently in the process of setting aside useful hand histories during my 4-handed tourney and will put together a blog post on 4-handed strategy at some point in the future.
I'm taking a few days off from poker, I'm heading to London tomorrow with some mates to visit another mate who's living over there. So I'm going to just chill this weekend and either hit up some poker upon my return on Sunday evening or leave it until Monday.
Final Table screenshot...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Final Table - $44 4-Max (3/207)
Another final table last night and another 3rd place finish :( I played very well all tourney and upped the aggression when we got down to the final 20. Got to the 4-handed final table 2nd in chips. With one bust out I'm in the bb with AK, button raises, sb shoves which is pretty standard. It's 80% of my stack to call but his range is huge so I make the call. Button folds and sb shoves TT and I don't improve :(
Next hand I shove K7s into AK and I'm gone. Slightly gutting as I made very few mistakes throughout the whole tourney and I feel that hand was just a cooler in that spot.
Picked up about $750 so a nice return all the same...
Next hand I shove K7s into AK and I'm gone. Slightly gutting as I made very few mistakes throughout the whole tourney and I feel that hand was just a cooler in that spot.
Picked up about $750 so a nice return all the same...
Monday, March 21, 2011
PokerPlayer UK Tour
PokerPlayer have announced a new UK tour consisting of 6 low buyin, low runner events. This was taken from their promo..."Our high-quality dealer-dealt £110 buy-in tournaments will take place at five fantastic Gala Casino venues across the UK from April, bringing the PokerPlayer community together under one roof for plenty of laughs, lots of action and thousands of pounds in prize money! Each event is capped at 120 runners and promises merchandise giveaways, PokerPlayer staff bounties, side events, a free buffet and much, much more."
Event 1 takes place in April, in non other than BRISTOL ! It'll be at Gala Harbourside and I'll be playing. I qualified last night in a satty that had an overlay of about $1.1k worth of seats.
PokerPlayer ran a number of gtd seat tourneys on Gala/Coral Poker. Last nights was a $33 with 12 seats Gtd. Therefore to meet the gtd they needed roughly 72 runner, the tourney only got 37 lol. So a silly overlay. Low and behold I took down a seat and am looking forward to playing the event.
It's a ranking event so a chance to pad out my Hendon Mob profile. It's a 7.5k starting stack on a 30min clock and capped at 120 players so a fast structure.
See you there.
PokerPlayer ran a number of gtd seat tourneys on Gala/Coral Poker. Last nights was a $33 with 12 seats Gtd. Therefore to meet the gtd they needed roughly 72 runner, the tourney only got 37 lol. So a silly overlay. Low and behold I took down a seat and am looking forward to playing the event.
It's a ranking event so a chance to pad out my Hendon Mob profile. It's a 7.5k starting stack on a 30min clock and capped at 120 players so a fast structure.
See you there.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Final Table - $22 Big A (3/360)
Just a quick update, I finaled the $22 Big Antes again last night. I've cashed in this one endless times, final tabled it 5 times and won it twice. Placed 3rd this time for $800.
I got a nice double up with about 20 left with AA, after a guy 3-bet shove preflop with AT. I then went pretty card dead although picked up some nice spots to get my chips in preflop which chipped me up pretty well.
Getting excited about Vegas which is next month, some good news is one of my mates is coming over with me. He text me one night just saying "Vegas flights booked" out of nowhere haha ! epic.
He plays a little poker so we'll be entering one or two WSOPC events together. Hes been to Vegas before and travelled America so not a bad guy to head over with for my first time in Vegas and the US.
Also the SCOOPs schedule has been announced. I've put in a request at work to have the Mon and Tue off following the first weekend of the SCOOPs so I'll be playing the $22, $215 and $2,100 (6-Max Events) for sure and then the $22 and $215 NLHE events and hopefully the $2k as well if I can satty in. My aim is to play all 6 of the opening events, they're all 2-Day events with amazing structures so fingers crossed for a deep run in one or two of them :D
Screen shot of my score from last night...
I got a nice double up with about 20 left with AA, after a guy 3-bet shove preflop with AT. I then went pretty card dead although picked up some nice spots to get my chips in preflop which chipped me up pretty well.
Getting excited about Vegas which is next month, some good news is one of my mates is coming over with me. He text me one night just saying "Vegas flights booked" out of nowhere haha ! epic.
He plays a little poker so we'll be entering one or two WSOPC events together. Hes been to Vegas before and travelled America so not a bad guy to head over with for my first time in Vegas and the US.
Also the SCOOPs schedule has been announced. I've put in a request at work to have the Mon and Tue off following the first weekend of the SCOOPs so I'll be playing the $22, $215 and $2,100 (6-Max Events) for sure and then the $22 and $215 NLHE events and hopefully the $2k as well if I can satty in. My aim is to play all 6 of the opening events, they're all 2-Day events with amazing structures so fingers crossed for a deep run in one or two of them :D
Screen shot of my score from last night...
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Barren Land
Not much to update pokerwise really. Over the last few weeks I've had a handful of cashes and even went on a 20 MTT run without a cash.
On the up side...
I'm heading to Vegas at the end of next month to play a few WSOPC events. I've also been playing a few steps on Stars and have 2 tickets banked thus far in anticipation of the SCOOPs. I've a $215 ticket and a $2,100 ticket. Hopefully I'll build up a couple more $215 tickets as I want to play a good few of the events this year. I'm not sure which I'll play yet, if theres a 4-Max or Big Antes then I'll probably opt for them. I wouldn't mind playing the 2-day events but all depends if I can get time off work.
I'm going away this weekend however will be playing a few MTTs tonight and hopefully Sunday night as well :D I'll hopefully have something positive to report come the end of March :)
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