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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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<3 PlusEv.net

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UK Gambling Forums, (the poker forum I hang out on) is running a little exclusive league where the overall winner gets to play a €250 heads-up match with Dave “Devilfish” Ulliot.

The league will consist of a bunch of small buy-in games w/ some cash added (+EV), and game 1 will be a €150 freeroll.. The league starts on Monday (16th April).. Visit UKGF If you wish to participate, altho obviously I’m gonna win and Pwn the Fish.

GLGL

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So I’ve been playing a lot of cash on boss media over the last few days, from €1/€2 to €5/10. I also raked like €2400 in 3 days which is good for getting me into an EPT San Remo Qualifier (Bad beat: there’s a real +EV 300quid buy-in deepstack here in southend on saturday, same day as the EPT qualifier, so I may have to get someone to play the qualifier for me.. meh..)

Anyway here’s some sick hands for y’all to lol at

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4040613 - offshore* won the Boss Media BadBeatJackpot, and is a walking ATM (moved from .25/.50 and now a regular at €5/€10… (yes, login, find-player->offshore*->profit). Always nice to take chips off this fish, and obviously I am LEAVING if the cortster joins the table…

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4040715 - I’m playing €5/€10 and I flop quads. weeeeee

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4042320 - guy calls all the way to the river for an £800 pot with kjo.. Sigh.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4042847 - The sickest hand I ever played. (this is a sterling table by the way). I knew matey was gonna reraise when I limped.. I knew he would reraise when I bet the flop, and so on. lots of meta-game stuff happening between us, and somehow I hold for a sick pot.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4042374 - This is a total setup. guy either has the nuts or air, or set, or overpair. can’t ever fold the turn here imo..

Lol @ these 2 hands vs same villain:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4053749 - he’s been 3betting hands like qto, so i know he will stack off w/ top pair..

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4053819 - oops matey, I have Aces again.

I followed him up to €2/€4 and sat on his 2 tables, but he obv knew I had his number and left

any comments /feedback on any of my posted hands? Always room to improve LDO.
gl on the tables

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I won the 40DS on boss again.. that’s 2 nights out of 3.
I would have tried to win it yesterday, but this hand cropped up and I just couldn’t find the fold button…

Cash was pretty sick yesterday.. I lost >1k sterling to the same lagtard..
1 of the hands (Sterling.. Phand screws the currency) : I meant to 4x his 3bet, but i was on a turbo table and multitabling so only managed a pathetic minraise. Eitherway, I was TOAST on the flop.

edit: Played some cash tonight too and grinded up a few Gees. (all hands are € not dolla)

Start of Session (€1/€2 6max):

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4033489 - I give matey a freecard and stack off with TPAK vs set oops. -€404 pot

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4033253 - Matey ships the river with air, Loltastic. €400 pot tyvm.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4033257 - i turn the nuts and donkey pays me his remaining stack. ~€270 pot.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4033306 - This guy is pretty aggro, I’m sure he has NFD and a pair.. god knows because I bink the boat on the river. I presume my 2p was prolly good anyway as he didn’t say anything in chat (and hey, I’m chatbanned… maybe he is too!?) ship the €452 pot this way.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4033390 - I get coolered by mateyboy from previous hand with boat Vs Boat . NH sir. -€427 pot.

I’m already up like 5 buyins and my image is lagtastic.. http://www.pokerhand.org/?4033489 - I’ll get paid off by this guy all day even on the drawiest board of doom. ship the €404 Euro directly imo.

Taking shots at €5/€10 (it felt like table was quite nitty and VERY positionally aware)..
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4033651 heart in my mouth but I have outs €612 pot

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4033653 Top 2 is good for €590

A nice spinup today!
Cash is king. GL on the tables.

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I won the €40 Deepstack on Boss Media again. This Donkament is the softest MTT on t’interwebz imho..

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This week:

Stars HeadsUp Cash: sick headsup downswings after moving up. will move down and grind some more. Such Herocallers killing me in big pots. Thankfully I made some withdrawals though

Boss Media ICOP Series: Grinded nice stack in event #1 (€100k Guaranteed) w/ 150 players left.. Also had 10% of 2 guys in top 10. so we’re looking pretty sweet for one of use getting final table (€25k for 1st).. The server connection died and booted everyone off. They cancel the tournament, we all get and ICM chop, which is disgusting but better than a refund, and I want to kill someone.

Other Boss Tournaments: 2nd in someting early in the week, a few ft bubbbles, and lost this sick pot in the 9:30 am rebuy when I was chipleader w/ 30 left. oops!

Boss Cash:
not really dabbled here in a while. however today I played a bunch of €2/€4 this morning as I had some good reads on some of the players (some ex $1/$2 players who had moved up, and some spewy lagtard) and was confident I wouldn’t get blasted off the table. Didn’t run particularly well and ended up down one buyin at the end, after swings of being up 4-5 buyi-ins

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3966264 - (euros currency tables.. pokerhand mangles it for some-reason)..I reraise with Aces and the board comes paired. When matey reraises I’m putting him on 2 spade overcards, overpair and maybe 2pair ace kicker.. he had been reasonably happy to fold to my 3bets before so I wasn’t expecting any 8’s to be in his range here. I just can’t fold the turn and I know the money is going in anyway, so I jam, and lose the pot : -€1,390.40 .

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3966458 - (euros currency tables.. pokerhand mangles it for some-reason).. I have 2 overs and fdraw vs a guy who plays pretty straightforward against me altho we have some “history” ahem. Anyway when he valuebets the river for this amount I’m sure I am ahead (altho in retrospect I have seen him valuebet the nuts quite weak too. oops!), so I assumed he had a set or a straight and put it in. He slowrolls me (apparently it was his laggy interenet connection.. hmm) and shows the nuts. I lose the pot of -€1,275.20.

thank god for rakeback

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