This is too sick to miss – double guaranteed prizepools on all GTD’d mtts for a whole week.
sign up now and also get $600 bonus and 27% rakeback. Winner Winner Chicken Dinner.
that is all, no whine, no bad beat stories. What’s the point 
fuck MTTS, fuck poker.. fuck losing when you’re 90%+ to win a hand and it costs u $10k in $ev….
I can’t win, period:
Pocket Kings:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?5108161
http://www.pokerhand.org/?5108026
Pocket Aces
http://www.pokerhand.org/?5096927 for $126,115 and a certain 9k Euros cash
http://www.pokerhand.org/?5069992 for $462,488 Pot
http://www.pokerhand.org/?5107586 Even spastics [who][are][20k][down] calling 40bb shoves in deepstack w/ 20 left tilting my life away.
I’m sick of getting 5%ered for 10k wins every other day. I’m dusting off my CV and I’m gonna get a job as poker is just too easy to play, and I always get assraped when it matters.
We had some good times pokerblog. maybe someone will post here offering to stake me (haha right!), but I’m pretty tempted to ban myself from stars/ftp etc but I guess I’ll sleep on it. ZZZzzzzzzzzz
deep runs in lots of stuff, then some really sick coolers but came 2nd in the $12,000 Guaranteed $20rebuy for on full tilt poker, Winning 2500$ on sun night/ monday morning
The exit hand.. AA Obviously.
It’s funny how many random expressions you hear can relate to poker. I was visiting my family in Ireland for a week, and was chatting to my mother briefly about some final tables I had made in the last 2 days (2nd place and like 6th) on bossmedia (where I used to make a decent living back in 2008 grinding Midstakes Mtts). I told her that I have given up on the big moneypit sites (Stars and FTP), with massive fields and the huge variance that they bring. and that I’m going back to basics to grind up a 30-50k roll on small euro sites ASAP.. Yes, I’m back on Boss-Media.
good stuff she said,
It’s better to be a big fish in a little pond than a little fish in a big pond
That’s true I said, but then I actually tried in my mind to quantify how right she was, and in which respects.. here’s my shortlist:
Why play poker on a small eurodonk network:
- Given the smaller fields, the variance is hell-a-smaller. Winner. No more waiting a week for a final table in something.. constant performance feedback via more cashes keeps you motivated, and slowly but surely booking ok wins which can add up to 10-15k a month if you run good, and maybe 5-8k if u just play good.
- u get to know the regulars and build up a great set of notes due to constant observation … Very +EV
- small networks have smallish buy-in donkaments = weak players. do the math.
- game selection: u gotta know what’s worth playing. On Boss it’s the 40ds, 20ds, early 10r and the 3r. Anything else is crapshooty and really not worth bothering with imo. (The 100k was sick structure for a week or 2 but now it’s meh, but I guess they added some extra levels which is nice)
- strategically impaired players adding dead money: The smallest rebuys are even worth playing, as most players don’t understand that they should double rebuy and gamble to get a stack. they are too tight and inevitably even a half decent player has a massive edge meaning an easy 500-900 euro from a 3euro rebuy.. easy to run deep/final table these and omg raping the bubble is like taking candy from a dead baby.
- Rakeback, nearly forgot. 30% rakeback on pokerheaven (boss media) is the nizzles. I play on pokerheaven now since Celeb Moved to iPoker (bye bye to my golden nhggfu screenname sigh), so for now I am playing on PH. Rb = at least 1-2k a month just from MTTs.
In summary, Game selection, constant drool-worthy and mental state propping performance feedback, and reads / notes on everyone, makes being a big fish in a small pond profitable FTW. I’ll add graphs later as I want this post to encourage me not to go spazzing my roll or playing 25/50.
gl on tables
Look o
1890 players, 15 left, 10k for 1st, i get dealt red Aces.
you know the rest.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?5028294
Fuck you full tilt, and fuck you villain.
Not updated this in ages, but generally I am thinking screw poker right now.. running real bad and I am consistently losing 80/20′s, 70/30s when it matters over what feels like a big sample. I can win mtts, just not on my own accounts.. hmmm.
typical stuff I am whining about:
For top 5 w/ 33 left in the 100k on boss only 22k for 1st, obv I can’t hold when I am a sick favorite.
MiniFtops 6max. w/ these stacks and w/ 46k for 1st, this is just sick.
another Miniftops donkament yawn.
always the same shit, minicashes or ridic suckouts. I’ve whiffed some 32k and 30k scores on ftp/stars and just can’t seem to final table anything on there.. plenty of final 30s, last 50′s in the brawl etc, but never winning the final flips while deep.. So I’m moving down to low stakes mtts on European sites for a bit till I build my roll..
Queue up the self-bans from the two highest variance MTT money pits. I know over xmas I will get boozed up and try to play the 109s etc on ftp/stars, so this is a good idea:
Dear player,
You have requested to partake in PokerStars Responsible Gaming Self-Exclusion. Your exclusion period will start once you exit all tables.
Your ability to make deposits and participate in any PokerStars gaming activity has now been closed for 30 days. You will be able to regain access after 2010/01/14 2:07 CET.
8<----------------------------------
Dear player,
Your request to exclude yourself from playing on our website has now been processed. As of 2009-12-14 20:06:13, you will be able to log onto your Full Tilt Poker account, but will not be allowed to sit at any of our real money (and/or play money tables).
In addition, you will not be able to deposit money into your player account or participate in any player-to-player transfers during your exclusion.
Your exclusion will end at 2009-12-28 20:06:13
I'll be back in Jan ftw.. 50euro mtts or less (and the boss 100k w/ sicko structure obv) until then..
Tiny Brag / EDIT: Obviously since I decided to grind smaller stuff, I created a PKR account with rakeback since my pokerbuddy benjones keeps telling me how soft it is. I played 2 mtts (5$ and 25$ 6max) to try the site out, and while the software is tilting, the players are ABC/Nits/Terribad, so I came 2nd in the 25$ 6max for 546$ (I lose 88 < ajo all in pre for a gazillion chips vs a regular heads-up) , so a good start to the grind on the eurodonk sites. Here’s my stats page on PKR.. I’ll try to get it up to 15-20k by end of Feb hopefully.
I logged in to bossmedia after cashing out the other day (as I don’t play there much anymore since they fucked up the structures and payouts of every mtt). I had $100 rakeback as it was the start of the month, so rather than deposit, I ran it up to over €1500 by bumhunting low stakes while doing some other stuff.
It seemed logical to go out on the sauce on friday night and to sit down and €1000 nl cash tables while drunk for a little spin up.
Some fun hands (I’m not posting my screenname, as I don’t want people to google me and find out that I can actually play.. amazing how many people you can google and see how they play from their pokerhand account or weaktight etc.. silly people giving away EV imo..):
[hands][are][in][€,][not][$]
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4749063 – somehow I run-good and hit the nuts.over a G..
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4750333 – Villain spazzes out with tp ok kicker on a double flush board., ship the pot to me.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4750392 – again, I have 2p on a sick draw board but villain stacks off.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4750427 – I overbet river and get paid with the nuts for €2044
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4750454 – Somehow I hit my draw for €1700
and finally, this was a nice hand to end the night on, +€6500 in less than 24 hours, not bad for a predominantly tournament player.
Hand 1798886711
€5.00/€10.00 Texas Hold’em (No Limit) – 03 October 2009 06:52:25
Table TH 7350 (Real/Cash Game)
Seat 1: IUS90 (774.75)
Seat 2: bonkd (2367.62)
Seat 4: MADPUNTER (1661.00)
Seat 5: HERO (3889.16)
Seat 3: A’Princess (735.70)
MADPUNTER post SB 5.00
HERO post BB 10.00
Deal
IUS90 N/A N/A
bonkd N/A N/A
MADPUNTER N/A N/A
HERO 
A’Princess N/A N/A
Bet Round 1
IUS90 Fold
bonkd Fold
A’Princess Fold
MADPUNTER Raise to 30.00
HERO Raise to 80.00
MADPUNTER Raise to 240.00
HERO Call 240.00
FLOP:RIVER:
Bet Round 2
MADPUNTER Bet 290.00
HERO Call 290.00
TURN:RIVER:
Bet Round 3
MADPUNTER Bet 420.00
HERO Raise to 2210.00
MADPUNTER All-in 1131.00
RIVER:
SHOW DOWN :
Rake: 3.00 Total Pot: 3319.00
IUS90 Fold Win: 0.00
bonkd Fold Win: 0.00
MADPUNTER Fold Win: 0.00
HERO Two pair kings and threes Win: €3319.00
A’Princess Fold Win: 0.00
CASH IS KING! 
5th for some change.. should have done a stop and go.. a7 < ako for 25bb meh.
also played some cash afterwards and won another 2k..
last hand of the night http://www.pokerhand.org/?4741074 ship the 900euro pot directly.
I started playing a bit on pokerstars this week as I am in Stockholm, sweden and can’t install my usual boss-media shit on my work laptop.
Stockholm.. Niiiice place, niiiiiiiiiiiiiiice ladies.
So I played the $50 buy-in $80,000 guaranteed, and managed to hack my way thru the (uber soft) field. 3 handed I had 3.5mill to 2 mill to like 700k (retard), then retard runs good (total herocalling station with no fold button btw) and I end up headsup with the idiot. Of course he doesn’t ever fold so my usual headsup strategy of pot control and postional play is useless. Minring in position is just a waste too and cbetting is a no-no as he calls everything, seriously. So anyway he chips me down a bit, then I get rivered in the most ridiculous hand ever.
I had some cool railers from 2p2 MTT community (<3), my forum (ukgf) and some of my msn poker buddies which is always fun when you final table a biggie.
The Exit hand,
PokerStars Game #32064186672: Tournament #188959606, $50+$5 USD Hold’em No Limit – Level XXIX (20000/40000) – 2009/08/25 23:01:32 ET
Table ’188959606 149′ 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: alexrossUKGF (1484600 in chips)
Seat 7: wess3030 (4599400 in chips)
alexrossUKGF: posts the ante 4000
wess3030: posts the ante 4000
alexrossUKGF: posts small blind 20000
wess3030: posts big blind 40000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to alexrossUKGF 
alexrossUKGF: calls 20000
wess3030: checks
*** FLOP *** 
wess3030: checks
alexrossUKGF: bets 80000
wess3030: calls 80000
*** TURN *** 
wess3030: checks
alexrossUKGF: bets 200000
wess3030: calls 200000
*** RIVER *** 
wess3030: checks
alexrossUKGF: bets 1160600 and is all-in
wess3030: calls 1160600
*** SHOW DOWN ***
alexrossUKGF: shows (three of a kind, Queens)
wess3030: shows 
(a flush, King high)
wess3030 collected 2969200 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2969200 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 2: alexrossUKGF (button) (small blind) showed and lost with three of a kind, Queens
Seat 7: wess3030 (big blind) showed and won (2969200) with a flush, King high
ship the $12,168 directly .
Also last week played a bit on my new bossmedia account and finally won something:
Poker is such fun when the regulars don’t know you b/c of new screenname but you know their games inside out hah. Small edges FTW.
I am done with Celebpoker on boss since they are moving to ipoker.
Here’s my last 2 hands:
Cash : http://www.pokerhand.org/?4562804
Tourney: http://www.pokerhand.org/?4561943
filth!
We had some good times CelebPoker.. At least now i get legit 30% iPoker Rakeback on Celeb thanks to account grandfathering.
So REAL quick report of the last month:
1- moved to London for sicko job / networking and to be near the big poker games. winner.
2- started sicko job (SEO chillax job)
3- Got out of work for a bit of a skive while the Unibet Open was on in the vic in london, ended up working there interviewing players, doing live webcast and stuff and commentating on the feature table on day 2 right down to the final table for live stream and DVD which I guess might make it onto pokertube too. I interviewed Mike McDonald Timex (holla), Lucy Rockach (fail interview srlsy – I was talking about a different hand than she rambles on about I swear..), james sudworth, michael greco (still high off his $250k win at WSOP) and some others, some of the vids are on http://youtube.com/unibetopen, some are still in the digital ether for now. I was amazed at how irish I sound despite 10 years living in Scotland. ach well Oh I also Interviewed miss belgium 2008. no Idea where the interview went, this sure isn’t it. BTW the unibet open had sickest struct ever 10k stack, 60 min levels and a managable 2.5k buyin iirc. Next event in Prague, I’ll try to get a seat sorted I think.
4- some good spinups at poker and the usual carnage KKK no good etc. – thx @ betfair who gave me a free $100 to come back to play on their “interesting” poker client. anyway I managed to spin that up headsup 100nl to 650$ last night in <1 hr. such fun.
5- oh yeh just heard today my old chums at CelebPoker are moving to iPoker, so looks like I will have to find a new boss skin to play on.
More some other time when something interesting happens!
quick update, it’s been ages..
grinded a sick stack in the $255 sunday brawl, was like 30/100 left so I swapped 10% with my mate tom (Polo Mint on PokerStars, who was also sick deep in the sunday warmup)
So I get dealt Ajs and I decide to put the pressure on another bigstack for the chiplead. He isn’t folding and i miss a gazillion outs and bust. On the flop I decided I wasn’t folding as I was a mega favorite against any hand with a gutshot royal fliush draw and nut flush draw and straight draw.
The turn is maybe a bit spewy, but I really thought I could get villain to fold the best hand, and I could still hit river anyway . No bink on river, . GG me, GG life, and GG 143K Pot.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4468152.. Would have been sick to win that as 1st place paid 80k. O well.
So I keep playing, then win the deepstack on bossmedia for another 1k.
Meanwhile Tom/Polo Mint chops the warmup for 80k , so i get 8k for that. (WP TOM!). Also won a few K on cash over the next few days for a nice little +$12K few days… Some Headsup players r so bad, ofc coolering people helps too:
[x] RUNS GOOD AT SWAPPING %AGES.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4473008
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4475386
Also moved to London for a year maybe, so been settling in, doing some networking and playing some poker in the Vic.. Good spot IMO.
Quick roundup
Mtts- crushing the deepstacks as usual, also playing the 50r on boss which is uber soft, but getting 2 outered for top 3 stacks with 16 left.. not good when 1st pays 9k and 80% of rest of the players are terrible.
Been grinding some cash too, tonight was quality:
I was playing 2/4 euros NLHE (and watching Terry Pratchett’s colour of magic), when I noticed a total fish (italian!) who i had a bunch of notes on making large spewy idiotic bets on my table. He was betting 2x pot with air etc and basically a target for anyone with a set of balls to call him.. he was in pots with 64o calling down to river on 4QJxx for like 200-400 euro. SPEWTARD!
so then we had some fun (hands are in euro btw, not USD..):
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4347385 - easy snapcall and fistpump vs this chap regardless of his holdings.. and hey, He’s Italian!
then he left, and i noticed him on 5/10 (out of my roll somewhat, but I am confident enough there).. so I followed him to 5/10 and told my pokerbuddy padster to join me cos this fish was giving it away baby!
Padster gets dealt 99 vs a reg on a low flop with sick results
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4347717. Lol at taking 1k flips with oesds.. and hitting. MUST BE NICE!
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4347698 - I win a €1600 pot against a guy who prolly has AA or KK .. oops! Pretty obv i had trips or overpair, yet matey whinged in chat like it was a setup.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4347804 - flopping the nuts was nice, but the spade on the turn made me sweat a bit. anyway the poker gods didn’t fk me over this time, and I raked in a SICK pot of €3,000 euro.
a nice >€3k profit for me tonight.
Amusingly, once I stacked the fish, all the regs sat out and we all left! haha. Just goes to show – If you don’t know who the fish on the table is, YOU ARE THE FISH.
Won the €25 Rebuy on boss media (€15k Guaranteed) for €4500, then fished on an aggro guy [check][out][his][flop][reraise][with][ducks] on cash table with a flushdraw and won a nice €1200 pot. A nice night’s work.
nice night’s shippage, and well overdue.
So it’s May
In short,
Lots of this:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4259181 (sick setup, guy expects me to bluff, and i expect him to RR w/any 2 on flop)
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4254931
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4245545
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4238497 (what the fuck?)
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4273911 (<3 boss media spastics, when they miss 
)
Don't get me wrong, there was also some of this, but never enough...
http://www.pokerhand.org/?426358
uneventful month overall.. came 3rd in the 15K Euros guaranteed 25euro rebuy on Celeb the other night for ~2k, , then 2nd in the 40DS for 750ish and 5th in the 3500 as well as for a few hundred. Also managed 12/1250 on fulltilt for a $250 minicash (yawn, always final 20, never 1st in those bigfield mtts on ftp Zzzz). .didn’t play more than 4-5 donkaments a night, so it’s all good. thank god for rakeback for an extra wad of free cash!
Shitty 3rd place screenshot (77 < KK 3 handed )
dunno about this poker blogging malarkey anymore since I’m not playing for a living anymore (by choice ) – will see what happens. does anyone still read this blog? lol.