Thought I’d post a poker video – here’s my 2nd place in the €25+rebuy on old faithful, Boss media – where I play on Pokerheaven as upaymyweed.
Thought I’d post a poker video – here’s my 2nd place in the €25+rebuy on old faithful, Boss media – where I play on Pokerheaven as upaymyweed. Comments/criticism always welcome. Yes I know. I am a fish.
€25 Rebuy 2nd place – Poker Video
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I’m back baby
Thought I’d blog up my poker progress recently since it’s been quite a long time since I’ve had time to blog. Overall I’ve had a good month so far on my latest BossMedia Account (old one was retired due to Celeb moving to iPoker).
I’m playing good and patiently for the most part in late-game, closing a lot (inspired by hearing shaun fking deeb’s sick stat of winning >60% of games he final tables.)
Obv I’ve been running okay too – and crushing the nits on tables of boss media. I’m game selecting the best MTTs (€25rebuy €40 deepstack and the €50k) or playing everything (costs ~€300 in buyins for an evening of grinding like 14 mtts- so you just need to final table/win one to breakeven for the evening – but just forget doing anything else if you’re doing this on a laptop with touchpad hehehe. I usually just play 3 or 4..)
Since putting in some solid grind this month, I now have a decent 41% ROI on Boss. Obligatory sharkscope screenshot (Obviously had to take screengrab before i get a grimstarr graph )
My next goal (I guess) is 70% ROI, then it’s time to find a site with bigger buyins, maybe a backer – and a solid rakeback deal.
I had some decent scores this month – a $15,000, a €2.5k, €1k and some other assorted little ones.
I also binked a $15,000 win 2nd in a $109+r on a site which shall remain nameless. wiii.
Transactions on boss last 14 days – more out than in = winning. Not spewing it all at 400nl = also winning.
Although I am doing well again, I’m not tempted to play full-time again. What an antisocial grind that would be. I love life /work / ballin’ too much to be locked in from of a pc from 9am ’till 2am every night!
Boss Media Bugs – rebuy killers and other fails
I love boss media. It’s soft, the software is okay, fields are small, and I don’t pay tax on winnings.
The site has some pretty ridiculous game-killer bugs. I just re-discovered one that has been in their software for years:
Boss Media Rebuy Killer Bug:If you lose your stack during rebuy period in a MTT AND if the server decides to move you to a new table (table balancing) – the software moves you to another table before letting you rebuy – so it kicks you out.
I had to request a refund tonight because of this issue.
Please oh please – fix your servers Boss Media. Oh and while you are at it, can you fix the following too? :
Other Boss Media tournament bugs
- Allow instant rebuy in a rebuy tournament (HELLO??!!)
- Allow Double Rebuys
- Allow auto add-on (I mean players currently 5 seconds for an addon.. WTF. Make it last as long as the break period – 5 minutes.)
- Get your hand history viewer to work with CHROME (13% market share)- not just Firefox (which is losing market share). .
I’m sure I left out a load of bugs. I know the cashgame players would love an instant topup option too.
Everleaf Poker – how a poker network is killing itself
I started playing some cashgames on Meteor poker (a poker site on the Everleaf network). The software is pretty horrendous (notes features are bad, in-game hand-history is poor) – but the games are easy to beat, and different player types are easy to identify (with players tending to be one of three types: either regulars, rocks (tight, nitty players) or spewmonkeys (fish!) – all of which are easy to spot). the site has very little traffic/game selection. I soon realised why…
The network has a FUNDAMENTAL FLAW which is counter-productive and actually costing the skins and network money. The Problem? Player retention is nearly impossible – whether you are a pro or an amateur – you will probably want to leave the site. Yes.. Really…
Everleaf Gaming (ELG) Traffic Stats
According to PokerScout.com, everleaf is ranked #27 in terms of traffic, with an average of a measly 400 players online.
Everleaf is Stupid – Why they have no Traffic:
Why is there no game selection or meaningful traffic levels on Everleaf network? WELL… the Eveleaf network people seemingly ignorant of how the poker eco-system works, and oblivious of the fact that people do not want to knowingly play against good players / sharks/ pro’s – whatever you like to call them. To the recreational player, it very quickly seems like the tables are full of sharks, and that they try to avoid each other and concentrate on milking the fish dry…
So how do players know you’re a good player on Everleaf ? Well, sigh. players rate you (right click on avatar-> click rate player-> good/bad/excellent) and then EVERYONE can see your rating, and you cannot remove it!!!!
I found this out to my horror, because after 2 days of winning, I ended up with 5 stars (and a healthy bankroll), but I found it nearly impossible to get much action in heads-up cash-games from players with lesser ratings… Big sigh!
Multi-accounting (playing on multiple accounts on different skins/sites on the network) is not really an option either, as the network payment processor stores your card/bank details, in order to minimise skin-hopping I guess….
Way to ruin your own network everleaf. This feature is very silly and should at least have an OPT-OUT. So what do the fish (bad players) do? they leave – because they are surrounded by sharks and 5 star dudes.
How Everleaf can FIX the problem, and retain players
Everleaf have a number of options:
- Anonymous Tables – Players could play on special tables which don’t display screennames – this is possible on some Microgaming Skins
- User could have the option to toggle the visibility of their own star rating – Instant panacea.
- Remove Star Ratings altogether – another quick fix, requires some coding and a poker client update
- Allow Screenname Changing after a week / month (just as you can do on Cake poker Network)
My sources tell me that Everleaf has a tactical business reason for these ratings – so I doubt they will change the way things are for at least a little while….
What are your thoughts on this, as a player, affiliate or poker site/skin owner?
If you are a decent player, you will be happy to know that full ring, 4 max and 6max is awash with easy cash and tilty fish. just avoid the d00dz w/ the five stars unless you are competent, and enjoy the free cash IMO, and the 40% weekly rakeback.
109+rebuy on stars = rigged! – no americans
so there’s no yanks on stars/ftp /ub since the FBI seized their US facing domain names, so i thought the $109rebuy on stars tonjight might be soft. turned out to be EXPENSIVE instead. FML
maybe stars have rigged the RNG to rape everyone a bit more during rebuy periods in order to get more rebuys to compensate for the missing americans 
prolly not, but who knows !
PokerStars Game #60956854377: Tournament #416010507, $100+$9 USD Hold’em No Limit – Level I (20/40) – 2011/04/17 19:00:59 WET [2011/04/17][14:00:59][ET]
Table ’416010507 43′ 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: TIPCHIK321 (2060 in chips)
Seat 2: Andre_Hansen (1980 in chips)
Seat 3: Andrey VNIIM (3960 in chips)
Seat 4: joscha45 (2000 in chips)
Seat 5: alexrossUKGF (4000 in chips)
Seat 6: willhelmx (2000 in chips)
Seat 7: snoopy7171 (2000 in chips)
Seat 8: achen (4000 in chips)
Seat 9: dUT73 (4000 in chips)
Andrey VNIIM: posts small blind 20
joscha45: posts big blind 40
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to alexrossUKGF 
alexrossUKGF: raises 80 to 120
willhelmx: folds
snoopy7171: raises 80 to 200
achen: folds
dUT73: folds
TIPCHIK321: folds
Andre_Hansen: calls 200
Andrey VNIIM: folds
joscha45: folds
alexrossUKGF: raises 3800 to 4000 and is all-in
snoopy7171: folds
Andre_Hansen: calls 1780 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (2020) returned to alexrossUKGF
*** FLOP *** 
*** TURN *** 
*** RIVER *** 
*** SHOW DOWN ***
alexrossUKGF: shows (high card Ace)
Andre_Hansen: shows 
(three of a kind, Queens)
Andre_Hansen collected 4220 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 4220 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: TIPCHIK321 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 2: Andre_Hansen (button) showed and won (4220) with three of a kind, Queens
Seat 3: Andrey VNIIM (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: joscha45 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: alexrossUKGF showed and lost with high card Ace
Seat 6: willhelmx folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 7: snoopy7171 folded before Flop
Seat 8: achen folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 9: dUT73 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
PokerStars Game #60958134036: Tournament #416010507, $100+$9 USD Hold’em No Limit – Level II (30/60) – 2011/04/17 19:24:14 WET [2011/04/17][14:24:14][ET]
Table ’416010507 43′ 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: TIPCHIK321 (1660 in chips)
Seat 2: Andre_Hansen (8469 in chips)
Seat 3: Andrey VNIIM (3470 in chips)
Seat 4: joscha45 (3190 in chips)
Seat 5: alexrossUKGF (3681 in chips)
Seat 6: willhelmx (2195 in chips)
Seat 7: 99Jam.Mr (2510 in chips)
Seat 8: achen (3850 in chips)
Seat 9: dUT73 (2195 in chips)
Andrey VNIIM: posts small blind 30
joscha45: posts big blind 60
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to alexrossUKGF 
alexrossUKGF: raises 130 to 190
willhelmx: raises 317 to 507
99Jam.Mr: folds
achen: folds
dUT73: folds
TIPCHIK321: folds
Andre_Hansen: folds
Andrey VNIIM: folds
joscha45: folds
alexrossUKGF: calls 317
*** FLOP *** 
alexrossUKGF: checks
willhelmx: bets 651
alexrossUKGF: raises 2229 to 2880
willhelmx: calls 1037 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (1192) returned to alexrossUKGF
*** TURN *** 
*** RIVER *** 
*** SHOW DOWN ***
alexrossUKGF: shows (a pair of Jacks)
willhelmx: shows 
(a pair of Queens)
willhelmx collected 4480 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 4480 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: TIPCHIK321 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 2: Andre_Hansen (button) folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 3: Andrey VNIIM (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: joscha45 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: alexrossUKGF showed and lost with a pair of Jacks
Seat 6: willhelmx showed and won (4480) with a pair of Queens
Seat 7: 99Jam.Mr folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 8: achen folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 9: dUT73 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
(fishy, but it’s rebuy period and he has 1 BI)
PokerStars Game #60958491330: Tournament #416010507, $100+$9 USD Hold’em No Limit – Level III (40/80) – 2011/04/17 19:30:52 WET [2011/04/17][14:30:52][ET]
Table ’416010507 43′ 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: TIPCHIK321 (1660 in chips)
Seat 2: Andre_Hansen (8231 in chips)
Seat 3: Andrey VNIIM (3440 in chips)
Seat 4: joscha45 (2982 in chips)
Seat 5: alexrossUKGF (3900 in chips)
Seat 6: willhelmx (3910 in chips)
Seat 7: 99Jam.Mr (2780 in chips)
Seat 8: achen (4182 in chips)
Seat 9: dUT73 (2135 in chips)
dUT73: posts small blind 40
TIPCHIK321: posts big blind 80
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to alexrossUKGF 
Andre_Hansen: folds
Andrey VNIIM: folds
joscha45: folds
alexrossUKGF: raises 160 to 240
willhelmx: folds
99Jam.Mr: calls 240
achen: folds
dUT73: folds
TIPCHIK321: folds
*** FLOP *** 
alexrossUKGF: checks
99Jam.Mr: bets 400
alexrossUKGF: raises 640 to 1040
99Jam.Mr: raises 1500 to 2540 and is all-in
alexrossUKGF: calls 1500
*** TURN *** 
*** RIVER *** 
*** SHOW DOWN ***
alexrossUKGF: shows (two pair, Aces and Kings)
99Jam.Mr: shows 
(a straight, Nine to King)
99Jam.Mr collected 5680 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 5680 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: TIPCHIK321 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: Andre_Hansen folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 3: Andrey VNIIM folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 4: joscha45 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 5: alexrossUKGF showed and lost with two pair, Aces and Kings
Seat 6: willhelmx folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 7: 99Jam.Mr showed and won (5680) with a straight, Nine to King
Seat 8: achen (button) folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 9: dUT73 (small blind) folded before Flop
PokerStars Game #60959609864: Tournament #416010507, $100+$9 USD Hold’em No Limit – Level IV (50/100) – 2011/04/17 19:51:23 WET [2011/04/17][14:51:23][ET]
Table ’416010507 43′ 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: TIPCHIK321 (1757 in chips)
Seat 2: Andre_Hansen (7826 in chips)
Seat 3: Andrey VNIIM (3288 in chips)
Seat 4: joscha45 (2762 in chips)
Seat 5: alexrossUKGF (3225 in chips)
Seat 6: willhelmx (4093 in chips)
Seat 7: 99Jam.Mr (8998 in chips)
Seat 8: achen (8579 in chips)
Seat 9: dUT73 (2692 in chips)
joscha45: posts small blind 50
alexrossUKGF: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to alexrossUKGF 
willhelmx: folds
99Jam.Mr: folds
achen: folds
dUT73: raises 200 to 300
TIPCHIK321: raises 500 to 800
Andre_Hansen: folds
Andrey VNIIM: folds
joscha45: folds
alexrossUKGF: raises 2425 to 3225 and is all-in
dUT73: folds
TIPCHIK321: calls 957 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (1468) returned to alexrossUKGF
*** FLOP *** 
*** TURN ***
*** RIVER *** 
*** SHOW DOWN ***
alexrossUKGF: shows (high card Ace)
TIPCHIK321: shows (a pair of Queens)
alexrossUKGF said, “joke site”
TIPCHIK321 collected 3864 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3864 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: TIPCHIK321 showed and won (3864) with a pair of Queens
Seat 2: Andre_Hansen folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 3: Andrey VNIIM (button) folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 4: joscha45 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: alexrossUKGF (big blind) showed and lost with high card Ace
Seat 6: willhelmx folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 7: 99Jam.Mr folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 8: achen folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 9: dUT73 folded before Flop
Live poker @ Gukpt london 6max – 8th place
I’ve not played live poker in ages and was tempted by badpab on facebook to get on the tube to the Vic (30 mins away from where I live in Wimbledon) to play the GUKPT 6max event (he tweeted that was on the train on the way there…). 7:30pm – 2 day event. 6max. easy game!
so anyway, I went to the london victoria casino, registered (£275) , grinded day 1 managing not to go broke with aces and running over some donks happy to stack off with top pair ace kicker for 200bb pots. Busted some local pro ken wong I think (thanks to the dealer and other players saying his name, I could quickly look him up with my Android phone (yes, fuck the iphone) on the hendon mob database. He opened 6x utg, i jammed QQ, he snap called and I held. wii.
So anyway I got moved tables and ended up with pab on my right (his kk into TT pre. gg ul, enjoy your Amstel) – and table was pretty bad so I chipped up nicely from my 24 remaining BBs to end the day with a 42bb stack.
day 2 later on I moved tables and suckout on TT with my 15bb stack – the guy slowrolled me, so karma prevails. steamrolled table except for young TT guy from the day before who is aggro beyond his years (the new wave of young player .. sigh).
Got my stack up to 115K, then got caught in an obv squeeze spot. Matey raises, young asian chap 3bets in an any 2 spot, so I stick them all in and guy behind me snaps with KK.
Squeezer had ajo and sucks out on us both (I had tens). [] Nice way to lose a pot for 220k when theres only 900k in play.
Left with 2bb and with 11/99 players left and only 8 paid, I obv shortstack ninja’d my q2o’s and shit up to 40bb. lost a flip, busted 8th ITM for £650ish. 
1st was £8k. that’s all i can remember.
$10k profit tonight. weee
Tonight / this morning I won the $109 6max (1 rebuy 1 addon) on Full Tilt, and final tabled the $8k deepstack to lose with aces to quad 3′s or something ridic. Ran pretty hot in the $100cubed, so I don’t mind losing with the rockets too much.
the $100 cubed paid $9600 and 8th place or whatever in the other 1 paid like 450$ for a nice little $10k session. Thanks to my lucky railers Kennl and Amatay. <3.
50cubed win
PokerStars Tournament #325010706, No Limit Hold’em
Buy-In: $50.00/$5.00 USD
297 players
Total Prize Pool: $35800.00 USD
Tournament started 2010/08/14 22:15:00 WET [2010/08/14][17:15:00][ET]
Dear alexrossUKGF,
You finished the tournament in 1st place. A USD 7,339.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.
You earned 465.51 tournament leader points in this tournament. For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at bla bla bla..
So I just won the $50 1r/1a (aka $50 cubed). Sick tables at the end with breethe (who i beat headsup) and mement-mori as well as rdcrsn. anyway i run good and played well (or maybe it was my Lucky lolipop avatar). yay
ftops coolers ZZzzzzzzz
lol FTOPS.
I lasted a whole 9 mins in the 400k guaranteed 216$ 6max. http://www.pokerhand.org/?5617840. It’s better to get coolered early on rather thank on the bubble or later I guess. Obv i am putting villain on a really narrow range, like JJ,QQ,KK,AA the way the action went, maybe some nut flush draws with wheel combos, anyway when he rr’s me on flop I think its v unlikely he has top set. GG me.
Also my interesting fact of the week, facebook won’t allow me to post pokerhand urls, claiming it’s dubious content or some such. WTF Facebook – you guys should know about poker since Zynga poker is huuuuuuuuge.
maybe more ftopsing 2mor. gotta do some work too, so that should stop me spazzing out 
couldn’t win a raffle
So it’s my first day back playing on stars and FTP (aka the big money-pits), and obv i played the FTOPS 300k guaranteed $109+r and I got buh-donked on for a huge pot. http://www.pokerhand.org/?5606211 gg ftp
also I played 2 mtts on stars, losing with AA in both. http://www.pokerhand.org/?5605774
-~$500 in buyins. [] great.
Betfair moves to Ongame
This week Betfair has announced that they are moving from their own crappy software to onGame’s crappy software. OnGame has this week announced a new rake distribution scheme which will screw winning players in the ass and reward the fish who generate that ever important rake.
Seems like all of the small networks / independent sites are getting raped and that ftp/stars/party/og/cereus and ipoker are getting all of the significant traffic. PokerScout.com.
wsop2010 cheapo-style
I’ve been way too busy with life to play poker for months (I even missed the Irish Open this week despite being over in Ireland, sigh.. ), but since I was updating my rakeback site and after posting the WSOP schedule I thought I’d check for the most +EV ways to qualify. I think I’ll try to win a main event package (but not via Steps on PokerStars – I came 3rd in my only step6 last year ).
You can qualify for 2010 WSOP on FullTilt for $1 (beat 11999 fish), there’s some 81 player $215 double shootouts for $12K packages (gotta be +EV if you satellite into em) and some other big field donkament sats. Also of interest are the stars 33rs and steps, and possibly the UB/AP steps, not investigated if they are doing them this year. Obviously UB are honest to the core and you should give them all of your money.
I’m looking forward to a challenge, and what could be more challenging than winning a package for the biggest and possibly softest MTT of the year and going on the one live deep run that matters.
Busto on Boss
Just busted my roll on boss media HU tbls. ended up really deepstacked,with 7bi on 1 table and 6 on another and lost set v set, and blah blah blah. Variance.
I blame the PokerStars skin I put on it.
I have never run so bad headsup in my life ever.
Needless I will be removing the PokerStars skin ! wish i had some weed to forget about it – but hey ho – maybe I’ll buy some cannabis seeds and grow a crop for all these bad beats i keep getting.
hard work pays off.. heads up for rolls?
I am over in Ireland visiting family for a week or two as I have been getting into a bad routine over in London involving getting up, checking my search engine rankings (I own a bunch of websites, so this is part of the daily routine) and playing donkaments all day and boozing / playing pool / getting baked on weekends. The grinding MTTs was pretty soul destroying for a while as i ran superbad over a 2 month period (as I have whinged in previous posts) – so a holiday was definitely something I needed to regain my focus and my poker Mojo, if such a thing exists.
Back to basics.. back to heads-up for rolls!
I started grinding headsup on one of my boss media accounts, starting small (100nl) and moving up to 200nl once I had 10-15 Buyins. I had some notable, long and very fun and swingy duels with a guy called r1ckj4ames (we’ve duelled a few nights and I’m up over a few k hands), and some other bums. This change back to heads-up was really what I needed to focus the mind and soul on poker, and I thank god for the deucescracked videos I used to watch, they are priceless for what they taught me about aggression, hand-reading etc.
some fun hands, because a blogpost sucks with no fun hands! (hands are in Euro (€))
http://www.pokerhand.org/?5142202 – Coolered for €1k, but that’s poker, don’t forget it!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?5166187 – Aggro Swede loses to my draw on a ridic board.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?5167260 – Who doesn’t want to play this guy. Really! I’ve been playing pretty aggro and 3betting a massive % of button opens, so I guess w/ metagame this is prolly an ez jam for him.. but this gives u an idea of the aggression and tone of the games v this dude. High variance but high profit for sure.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?5167259 – my new buddy r1ck is so friggin aggro and he will call with bottom pair if your line is baffling. Top pair is the nizzles to this guy, 9x would win the hand prolly but yay for AA.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?5180533 – I decided to play some 5/10euro 6max after a night in the pub. I say “ORLY?” after the hand and obv matey says “headsup anytime…” hehe. w/evarrrrr.. Ship me the €2k pot.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?5180620 – I timebank herocalled this 1.. his line didn’t make much sense.. at lower stakes it’s a snapcall, but when you’re playing above where you should bankroll wise, u gotta think about folding here. go me!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?5183208 – I know if i limp or minr, matey is insta reraising w/ ATC so I reraise and flop gin, good for a €2165 pot
in short, cash is king!
Observations about playing HU/6max cash
- Short sessions for the win.
- if you’re playing, don’t play tired, don’t drink, don’t smokoe doobies
- Bumhunting rules – avoid the regs on 10 tables.. play the hungarian tiltmonkey instead!
- A chatban costs you EV. If you’re chatbanned, you can’t tell the fish that you want to play him on 4 tables, or move up limits. This is very very important!
I got Backed
I got backed on merge by one of the new skins hoping to build up a good team of poker players. I played a few MTTs on there and I have a 255% ROI in the mtts (yeh obv over a tiny sample, but zomg they are sooooft.).. I have yet to win a HU session but I’ve only played 2.. players are either rocks or nits from what I have seen, and there’s not enough traffic to make it your #1 site for now.. but there’s a merger happening soon w/ playersonly and sportsbook.com coming to merge, so that will bring in liquidity and good potential equity, so more on that soon.
GL on the tables, oh and Screw MTTs (well, apart from the 50r on boss!)
<3 bossmedia again
loads of 10rs added to the daily schedule on boss media should effectively mean that grinding all day is a freeroll.. all u gotta do is dodge the RNG.
I’m back on boss (was 10-12 tabling today, weee), came 2nd in the 4k last night, won the 6max today and just busted 5th in 1 of the 3k’s, guy won’t fold aqo for 30bb pre, oh well.
could be worth grinding the boss media MTT tournament leaderboard, as there’s a chance to win a 10k wsop package, and the games are soft. IF u have the time it’s +EV for sure.
oh yeh, since i am talking about 10k packages, well done to the cortster (an ex boss media regular) for a deep run in the 2010 Aussie Millions main event. ($40k). Check out his poker blog.