‘Bangbus is not a clueless Twat’

I think I’ve had just about the most frustrating weekend of poker I’ve ever had, we had nothing planned for the weekend so I decided to catch up and play some hands. 5000 hands and £300,000 worth of pots later and I was £20 down on the BF account!

To be honest I’m relatively happy. There were some shocking suck outs and I still draw even so I can’t be playing that bad.. and I only tilted once (does not happen too often)

I’d been banging my head against a brick wall for a few hours when the following hand comes up..

dealt to DonkeyJim [6s 7s]
pescados: folds
PokaHunta: calls £5
Bangbus2: raises to £20
mag-c: folds
Isomerkii: folds
DonkeyJim: calls £15
PokaHunta: calls £15
----- FLOP ----- [6d 7h Ks]
DonkeyJim: checks
PokaHunta: checks
Bangbus2: checks
----- TURN ----- [6d 7h Ks][3s]
DonkeyJim: checks
PokaHunta: bets £50
Bangbus2: folds
DonkeyJim: raises to £216 and is all-in
PokaHunta: calls £166

He flips K5os!!!!

Of course the 4 gutshot rivers… well that was it! Bangbus2 makes some comment about ‘Should not have called the raise anyway’ …. I thought it was aimed at me and I went nuts… on reflection I think he was taking about Hunta, but I threw my toys big style. I told Bangbus I’d name this weeks blog entry ‘Bangbus is a clueless Twat’ …sorry Bangbus. It was a small pot as I’d not reloaded , but sometimes the pot does not matter.

Pot of the weekend was running AA into Mikka with KK…nice to see £1200 moving back in my direction. She seems to be bulldozing half the players on 2/5 5/10 at the moment.

With me now playing the on Betfair, the Mrs is using the Hills account, she’s got about £400 in there, so me nicking £110 to play the WillHill grand prix sat was out of the question. I could not be arsed trying to move money around so I decided to enter the poxy £13 sat and have it running in the background. 28 runners and 2 seats in the £110 entry sat on the sunday…. I get sucked out when someone catches a gutshot in 3rd place but still pick up £50 for the Mrs… I threw another tant and jumped back into the 22:15 £13 sat. This time it had 30 odd runners and an added seat… 4 go through and I win it easily. I’m starting to think that cash games are not my true calling.

Sunday night arrives and I make a cracking start in the £110 sat. Theres 2 x 6k seats up for grabs in the WH GrandPrix and the chance to make a total arse of yourself on the TV. I double up at the end of round 1 when some bets the flush draw into my 2pair and misses.

Level 3 and I’m sitting well on 5.5k I call a big raise with 99 in a 3 way pot. Flop comes

K 9 T ….

Lots of raising and re-raising and I’m all in heads up against another bigstack who I just have covered…. He flips AK os and I’m on my way to a final table with a big chip stack…. That is until the turn brings another Ten….and the river a King.

As you can imagine not impressed. I managed to spin a few hundred chips into 2k but was well behind the pace at that point. Running AQ into AA was a sorry end to the proceedings.

Needless to say the lucky sod (Jeff Kimber) who sucked out went onto win it… I checked him out on the hendon mob player database and he's had a few results .. hairy arms though! I told him that he had to tell the TV interview how fucking lucky he was in the sat and if it wasn’t for me he’d be BFH…wonder if he will??

Who needs to pay for a family holiday?

Well after the ear chewing I got from a few people at the Betfair forum game (hi to those who I met by the way) and a few comments on the blog I figured it was about time to update and try to keep regular updates coming, I'll try for 2-3 a month. If truth be known I've just been so bloody busy recently, playing poker for a living is all well and good until living gets in the way of playing poker. The baby makes it tough to get a 'decent session' in ... of poker that is! We've been away on holiday and we are currently in the process of moving house. All this puts the squeeze on the number of hands I can play in a month. From running at 30,000-40,000 hands a month I'm lucky if I can hit 15000 at the moment.

Things have been running ok. At the end of July I accidentally entered a sat for the CPC in St Kitts on Hills, I could have sworn it was an added package, but it turned out to be 1 package guaranteed. 40 players in there meant that there was little or no value what so ever... but that does not really matter if you win it does it? So come November its off to St Kitts with all the family tagging along for the ride. This also has the plus side of not having to pay out for a family hols that we were due, I asked Shell if I could add the 5K saved from the savings to my bank roll... needless to say, it's not going to happen ;)

Almost 100% of my play now is on the Betfair account, I put together a team for the BFAPT Team Rake promo and 'Team Singapore Schlong' (dont ask!) is currently winning by the narrowest of margins. Basically for every 19k we rake we get one $8k seat and travel to Singapore. 10k gets a travel package only and there's a 5k bonus for the team who rakes the most. At the moment it looks like we will hit the £100k rake mark (omg, thats a lot of rake!!) by the time the promo ends on Oct 21st. I'm currently a touch behind the curve in my rake target but one or two people who joined have donated their rake to me (they don't want to go and owed me one) so their rake should get me a package all being well.

The bank roll is recovering to a healthy state slowly but surely I'd still flag it as 'AMBER' but it's just about at a level where I can 3 table £2/5 NL again, but I still need to keep and eye on things. While the cash so far this year has not been the best (it's still +ive but those two shocking months put a big hole in my annual profit) I've been really pleased with the target to attend some big events, Tallin, Vegas (ok I cashed the ticket!) , St Kitts and maybe Singapore is a pretty decent return considering you can count the satalittes I've entered on two hands. Think the long/mid term plan is to stay working part time, keep the cash ticking over and look to hit a little luck in one of these big events and go deep. It may take 3 months or 10 years but as long as I can get into a few a year at no or little cost to the bank roll then I'm free rolling for an achievable (well i think so!) and significant payout.... as with most things poker, a little patience goes a long way.

Good Luck and take care..

Jim