NHGGFU: Poker Blog

This week, Pete “the professor” Singleton won the the Bournemouth £500+£50 Main Event in The Great British Poker Tour (GBPT) hosted by Gala Casinos, earning him £20,000. Well done Pete!

Congratulations to Pete who is sponsored by Poker.co.uk (One of the best poker rooms I have ever played on - They REALLY look after their players)

So - what has this got to do with “Disgraceful and underhanded marketing” you might wonder. Well…

let’s play a game - Spot the Difference (both photographs were taken within minutes of each other)

Pic 1- A proud Pete Singleton - Sponsored by Poker.co.uk

pic 2

- Nice shirt Pete - did you run into the toilets to change?

Hmm. Sending out press releases with these doctored pics debases the whole sponsorship idea - and personally it makes my stomach churn. An isolated incident? guess again…

What do you think? Should Gala casinos edit these pictures? Is it more of a sin than photoshopping Cindy Crawford’s famous Mole from a photo?

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My poker news this week is minimal.. I have been playing well all week, and getting my money in when I am ahead - but mega busts have meant a general lack of interet (and fat profit) in poker this week. .However I decided to play a few hundred hands before bed, and karma has decided to even things out, all in the space of 60 mins.

#1: Sick [A][nice][cold][deck][to][start][proceedings..][I][nearly][felt][sorry][for][MrluckyDevil]

POKERSTARS GAME #10291844943: HOLD’EM NO LIMIT ($1/$2) - 2007/06/05 - 21:18:59 (ET)
Table ‘Pyxis V’ 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: knish566 ($111 in chips)
Seat 2: coba54 ($247.95 in chips)
Seat 3: bennyturt123 ($199.75 in chips)
Seat 4: alexrossUKGF ($330.15 in chips)
Seat 5: stalker33 ($140.35 in chips)
Seat 6: MRLuckyDevil ($202.65 in chips)
knish566: posts small blind $1
coba54: posts big blind $2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to alexrossUKGF
bennyturt123: folds
alexrossUKGF: raises $6 to $8
stalker33: folds
MRLuckyDevil: raises $20 to $28
knish566: folds
coba54: folds
alexrossUKGF: raises $302.15 to $330.15 and is all-in
MRLuckyDevil: calls $174.65 and is all-in
*** FLOP ***
*** TURN ***
*** RIVER ***
*** SHOW DOWN ***
alexrossUKGF: shows (a pair of Aces)
MRLuckyDevil: mucks hand
alexrossUKGF collected $405.30 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $408.30 | Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: knish566 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: coba54 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: bennyturt123 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 4: alexrossUKGF showed and won ($405.30) with a pair of Aces
Seat 5: stalker33 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 6: MRLuckyDevil (button) mucked

#2 [I][flop][a][set,][and][milk][it.POKERSTARS][GAME][#10290724385:][][HOLD'EM][NO][LIMIT][($1/$2)][-][2007/06/05][-][20:09:04][(ET)Table]['Philia][IV'][6-max][Seat][#4][is][the][buttonSeat][1:][oaktoon][($135.35][in][chips)Seat][2:][alexrossUKGF][($197.20][in][chips)Seat][3:][el_pedrin0][($509.10][in][chips)Seat][4:][ANGEL2326][($75][in][chips)Seat][5:][twelver1232][($297.60][in][chips)Seat][6:][agstremist][($202][in][chips)twelver1232:][posts][small][blind][$1agstremist:][posts][big][blind][$2***][HOLE][CARDS][***Dealt][to][alexrossUKGF][
oaktoon: folds
alexrossUKGF: raises $4 to $6
el_pedrin0: folds
ANGEL2326: folds
twelver1232: calls $5
agstremist: folds
*** FLOP ***
twelver1232: checks
alexrossUKGF: checks
*** TURN ***
twelver1232: bets $10
alexrossUKGF: calls $10
*** RIVER ***
twelver1232: bets $25
alexrossUKGF: raises $156.20 to $181.20 and is all-in
twelver1232: calls $156.20
*** SHOW DOWN ***
alexrossUKGF: shows (three of a kind, Sixes)
twelver1232: mucks hand
alexrossUKGF collected $393.40 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $396.40 | Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: oaktoon folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 2: alexrossUKGF showed and won ($393.40) with three of a kind, Sixes
Seat 3: el_pedrin0 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 4: ANGEL2326 (button) folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 5: twelver1232 (small blind) mucked
Seat 6: agstremist (big blind) folded before Flop

I can assure my readers that I am not a “set flopping machine” - I have even analysed my PokerTracker logs to find out using an amusing tool called the setometer -(Click here to check it out - *note Requires the .net framework)

Here’s my stats for flopping sets, according to my PT logs - image courtesy of the Setometer.

I love PokerStars again.

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