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WSOP Event# 28 -$2,500 Pot Limit Omaha event.

Bloody hell - the results keep coming for the Brits.

Cor blimey Guvnor - and it's Eastenders Bepe that cops 3rd place for $ 129,691.

Fair play to Michael Greco .... one of the most improved poker players on the English scene.

I shared a table with him a couple of years back - he was a good laugh, and was desperate to learn.

He used to get mercilessly ribbed by the other players - and his nickname was Michael Fold (all you had to do was re-raise him, and he panicked like phuqq and mucked).

Great result for a man that watched, listened, and worked hard at 'stepping up' .... and eventually 'got' how to play the game above rudimentary (ABC) levels.

Wp sir.

 

WSOP Event# 28 -$1,500 No-Limit Hold’em event.

Here we go again ......

Mike Ellis a 45-year-old financial trader from London binks first place for $581,851.

The Yanks must be getting extremely pissed off - that's four World Titles taken down by the Brits (in fact, the English) ..... and $2.2 million heading back to Blighty, so far!

 

greetings omr - these english wins - anything to do with the yanks and their tax payments on winnings - doing deals or is it the yanks are just shyte at poker and been sussed like wfc were under AB?

Great time in Poland did uck all as stuck out in the countryside 60km from Ukraine 7 hours away from warsaw..
Off to the Mint tonight.:sign15:

How many season tickets wfc sold?

 

Glad you had a good holiday, Perry.

 

Thats good news then, does it mean england will qualify today and the septics uck off back to never never land?

 

So .... back to the UK scene.

The lengths I'll go to ..... to avoid playing the £30 Tuesday night Freakathon at HQ.

I noted there was a £100 tournament to start the GUKPT Summer Series Festival up in sunny Walsall advertised on t'net .... a 'ranking' comp that counts as good enough to qualify for recognition on the UK/European/World poker player databses.

So(d) off to Brum, it was.

A pleasant drive through 90 miles of roadworks - being waved at by gangs of cheap Eastern European labour, sunbathing behind their protective wall of cones - and the target was achieved .... Walsall in under three hours!

A quick chat with a pal from HQ (who's obviously suffering from sunstroke .... as he's elected to actually stay the week in the 'Jewel of the Midlands), and we were off.

I quickly lost half my stack - getting rivered twice whilst in possession of a nut A straight, and a full house, by the turn card..

Progress was then made and I managed to get to the break with my starting stack restored ...... which was quite an achievement with the locals opening pots @ 9 (plus) x the BB (because, "they didn't want a caller" with their shown KK/AA ..... bizarre!).

They soon decided to leave the 'Cockerneecoooont' alone as the chips started to mount ..... (pocket QQ back to back three times helped), and a Final Table stack was achieved with only half the field gone.

Also present was a young Chinese fellah who's been doing quite well recently at HQ .... poor sod was to my right, and every time he raised I had a Premium Hand (well most of the time ... a couple of 'steals' got through, due to my table image) and I re-raised him out of it (I fully expect powdered glass - or worse - in the House Special next time I pop in).

Down to twelve, and my pal's luck ran out .... all-in twice, running JJ into 88 (8 binked for his oppo) and then AK into the Boots (AA) ... ul fellah.

Managed to bink Trap 3 for 900 sovs against a table mostly full of locals (not averse to keeping their mates in it with some fairly blatant soft play, Brummie barstewards).

An enjoyable evening, and a rewarding (cash wise) night's work - and another entry on the databases for the 'Comps that (supposedly) Count'.

 

sounds like a decent comp omr - me and me bruv are thinking of a trip to nottingham for one or two of the tournies up there -

First night back at teh Mint - 30 runners - doing ok stack 9k got kk, 600/300 blinds.bet 4k one caller who went all in for 2900. he showed jj - flop q,j,10 - two low cards followed.

a couple of hands later got teh nuts flush on teh river against one other who had nothing but a high so he folded. Then got done on the river again so chip stack down to 3900 blinds 800/400 so got cheeky and tried it on against a sb who folded and the bb called -me q high was beaten by his k,2.

back to the sportsman tonight...

 

It was a decent comp Perry - in a good(ish) standard week long Festival.

I couldn't be bothered with the drive yesterday (on Innerluuun duty, and all that) but my pal from HQ - Ian 'The Pisshead' Willmott - plundered 2nd spot in a £150 Freezeout for £2170.

Nottingham?

I presume you mean Dusk Till Dawn ..... the best poker (only) club in Europe, possibly the world.

You'll be gobsmacked at how bleeding good that venue is .... the Wemberleeee of the European Poker scene.

No-one does it better than DTD (shame it's in the phuqqin Midlands ..... I just wished they'd built it in the South).

http://www.dtdpoker.com/

Use their online site to see the Live Tournaments on offer at the club - left hand tab at the top 'Club'.

You can register online (best to) before you even go up there - then pick up your mem card when you produce your ID on arrival.

Click the 'tournaments' tab (in Club) to see the brilliant comps they've got on offer.

 

yeah DTD - at paddyngton there was a player who was an agency dealer - he deals up at DTD quite a lot and loves it. He said what a wonderful place it was.

Your luck changed during me holiday spell? My brotther is on a bit of a roll now after a baron spell. Quite amazing how the little bit of luck turns... into your favour or you just don't get the bad beats that takes you to the money.

 

I only bothered reporting the Walsall one ..... I'm on a roll at the moment.

Four Final Tables last week - 1st/2nd/6th and a seventh - in addition to some reasonable online cashes ..... kept the need to work, like The Great Unwashed, firmly at bay.

 

This is getting a bit monotonous.

Whereas our overpaid, SKY hyped, journeymen are struggling out in Sar Frafika .... the English Poker players are ripping the phuqqin place apart at the 41st World Series of Poker out in Vegas.

Event #41: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low

1 Steve Jelinek $245,871
2 John Gottlieb $151,884
7 Phil Hellmuth $30,633

One & two for the Three Lions ..... with the biggest p r i c k in poker back in 7th.

So there you have it, 5 bracelets in a variety of events, all taken down by well known pros on the UK circuit.

Dare we say there is still time for bracelet number 6?

 

I know this is small potatoes compared to your real life stuff but its fun anyway.

I just this lunchtime played a heads up 20$ game. Second hand i get AK and just a little raise is followed by raise after raise until i'm all in. He has AQ and i win. He has 40 chips left and goes all in with KQ.





I had AA.

Lovely when a plan comes together.


I did say sorry mate.

 

late kick off at the Mint last night with the footie being on but magaged to start the £50 f/o with two tables of 7.

Start stack 5k plus the option to buy 1k chips for £5 pre first hand that goes to the dealers.

Table one seat -

3rd hand in i think - BB50/sb 25.

fold,
bet 200
i raise to 1,200
fold
fold
SB fold
BB calls
200 bet calls...

Flop q,j,8 rainbow

all in
all in
I call

show in order
pocket J's
pocket a's
i show pocket q's

turn and river pull out 2 tens....

a great start for the bear....knocks two out and has 17k chips.. had the flop shown an a or k i owuld have folded the q's losing just the 1,200 as it was, the flop was excellent for me and the two all ins a great pot, had i lost from there so be it.


After two rounds of these blinds a fat canut, grumpy winker turns up who is such a miserable barsteward and moans most of the time about everything and anything good player tho..

He was asked to post 150 chips for the missed blinds and made a big fuss about it should only be 75, for a bit of fun i got involved and ended up in a lil verbal argument but was completely in control of what I was doing so as not to mess my good start up by going on tilt -actually was a bit of fun for me for a change from being quiet. OMR - what are the rules on sitting in late and having missed rounds of blinds in a freeze out? ( would like to know the actual rule, please if you know it).

Within a few hands fatboy grumpy was knocked out having played absolute shyte in the hand. In the meantime the total player count had rose to 20 with a prize pool of 900 for 1,2 and 3.

An agreed 1st/2nd place share finish and profit for the bear at 1am...

 

It can be 'different' dependant upon where you play, PYA.

There's a myriad of rules that alter venue by venue.

Essentially, 90% of good poker rooms would follow Grosvenor Casino rules ..... and an 'alternate' would have to post the sum total of the small and big blinds for being a late entrant.

This goes straight into the middle - and does not count as a call - and should he wish to defend his 'penalty', he has to do so from his remaining stack.

I have played at a couple of venues where if someone sits down in level 2 they are made to post 225 .... 25 + 50 (level 1 blinds) + 50 + 100 (level 2 blinds) .... which I think is even better - if they're late, phuqq 'em!

At HQ - fair play, they listened to the players - next month (for certain comps) they are going to give all players registered 15 minutes before the off an extra 1,500 chips for being prompt.

I congratulate them for this - a lot of players (purposely) wander in five minutes before the cut off at the end of level 2.

Their logic being; they can avoid 'mishaps' at the early stages, and go into level 3 with a starting stack for blinds @ 100/200 ..... they're often the 'One Trick Ponies' that wait for the premium hands to massively overbet pre-flop ..... (most are terrified to play 'small ball' poker, and hate seeing flops ..... because they're 'extremely uncomfortable'/useless at working out 'where they are' in a hand ..... they're commonly known as Yanks!) .... they don't make many Final Tables!

One of the reasons why the Brits have done so well at the WSOP in the last few years is that a lot of 'our lot' have a good grounding in pot limit games - they're used to seeing flops/building pots, so they're 'comfortable' with working out the nuances as the hand develops.

Why do you think that in the Idiot's Game (No Limit Hold 'em) Annette Oberstadt is considered, by some, a Poker Princess for her aggressive pre-flop play?

The people that 'big her up' are her fellow InternetFreaks - their complicated strategy consists of:- ..... push (go all in) before the flop ..... pray the oppo player doesn't call ..... if he does, further pray your 'bingo' hand hits ..... when it does, get acclaimed ..... get TV contract ..... go on Late Night Plankers/Ch 5 etc ..... get endorsed/sponsored by big online poker sites ..... have a nice easy life, after you've convinced the watching lemons that is how the game is played ..... avoid eye contact with the 'proper players' that know you're a jammy fraud!

Another fool is that 'Media Moth' Ian Frazer (Frazer the Raiser).

On those silly late night poker programmes he is worshipped by all for his aggression ..... when he comes to HQ for the GUKPT, he plays tighter than a duck's arse - if he pulled his TV 'stunts' up there, they'd rip him to shreds!

Many of the 'hallowed' regulars (not all - there are some fine players that, occasionally get an airing) on the Telly have only got good results ..... on the Telly!

Look at their Live Results and - considering they're shoved in to hundreds of top class live comps for phuqq all each year by their online sponsors ..... with the obligatory Full Tilt/Pokerstars caps/badges etc prominently displayed) - their 'returns' are truly pisspoor.

Rant over ....

 

early july the brighton festival is on again and me bruvver wants me to go to the rendezvous with him... he hated it last year (JD and his buddies running riot) but i think my bruv has got much more used to the moronic element of live play, now so isn't as affected and i think if JD was their again would be a great experience to play against - when or has us finished?. Lovely pair of t.its just walked past the window - hello summer:sign15:

When i spoke to this fat ucker about the late entry and blinds he said no club makes you pay for each missed round of blinds ( not levels) - anyway the canut was late and we also started 30 minutes late so uck the scum canut! I had issues at the sportsman pre holiday about late registrations - lucky i don't booze anymore and certainly at the table otherwise i'd get banned from most places... may have to give a tournie a drunken effort one time to see how it fits for me

 

WSOP event 43, $10,000 H.O.R.S.E

Congratulations to Richard Ashby - from Watford - who pushed hard on his final table, and fought back from the short stack of several occasions, but ultimately fell just short of his second bracelet of the series, as he exits in 2nd place for $378,027.

 

Despite warnings in this thread about the risks of early play online, I found myself all in in hand 1 of an 18 man tournament on Pokerstars last night.

I had KK so raised the BB a little, everyone folded apart from the BB who called. The flop was 4 7 10 unsuited, (is this what you mean by rainbow?), and my opponent went all in. I thought on it for a while, thinking the BB might have AA or a pair of 4's etc, I also considered the fact that this wasn't my usual $1 or $2 turbo game that I play when I have a spare hour or 2, (where the first few hands see all ins all over the shop), but decided to call anyway, hoping the BB had hit top pair.

He had 8 9 unsuited. The river gave him a lovely J, and I was first out of the tournament. If the same scenario happens again then I'll be folding all day long. I think the advice about missing the first level or 2 of online play is pretty good!

 

Online - I've seen AA (especially on Stars) get repeatedly cracked by 'connectors' hitting runner runner straights on countless occasions .... Random Number Generator ..... my phuqqin arse.

There's just too many 'action hands' ..... too bleedin' often - on the net - for it to be random!

 

WSOP Event #46: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-lo

UK legend Dave Ulliott has just bust out in 3rd place..

The Devilfish was at the top of the chip counts all tournament - and even sent Phil Hellmuth packing for his first big blow up of the Series (I bet that went down well).

Ulliott picks up $150,925 for his finish.

 

Oh dear .... why me?

The Poker Gods dealt Boggy a swift kick in the nuts on Saturday, at HQ (they must be angry with me).

Down to the last five in the £40 deepstack afternoon comp, with an reasonable stack, and with four getting paid .... some £s looked destined to end up in my bin.

Three boys from Watford in the last five - myself, a lad who can play a bit, and another lad who was obviously a bit of a novice (but was piling up the chips, through some good - and some very questionable play - to be the chip leader).

Having patiently waited for a 'good spot', second to act - Novice in BB - Boggy raises to 6.5k with the blinds @ 1/2k.

All fold round to Novice - who after asking how much - proceeds to make up the raise without verbally announcing, "call".

The lad showed his inexperience by chucking in 4 x 1k chips and a 5k chip by mistake (instead of the 500).

Going to take it back, the dealer (rightly) informed him that as he had not said call, he would have to 'make it up' to the min raise total .... 13k.

Novice duly completed the transaction .... plainly in a state of discomfort.

Well that soon turned to panic, as Boggy rammed what was left of his stack - 21.3k - over the line, all in ..... there were scorch marks upon the hallowed felt, they went over the line that quick!

Pained, the lad asked for a count .... dwelt .... and said, "I suppose I've got to call."

Yeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssss!

Over went my Pocket Aces .... he grimmaced.

Over went his 6 7 of spades .... I grimmaced.

"Just the two cards I'd rather not see", murmurred Boggy .... Novice looked confused.

Confusion turned to elation as he hit his straight by the turn, with a flush - and even a straight flush - re-draw.

Splattered ..... Boggy's claret dripped from the walls!

Worse ..... no deal was done for the Bubble (as is standard practice at HQ), so not even a 'saver' was going in the back pocket.

Review

After I'd finished gnashing my teeth - I reviewed my 'bad luck' ..... or was it?

The only 'mistake' the lad had made was to want to call my initial raise (personally, I'd have avoided a clash with a 'dangerous player' with 6 7 sooted, at that stage).

But hey ho, he did.

Then with a massive re-raise upon the chip mistake .... I would have deduced that I was up against a Monster - and would have to maybe ponder swallowing, and binning the cards pre-flop.

However the Maths (dunno if this really entered his head) were such - 27k, incl Small Bind, in the middle for a further 14.8k .... nearly 2/1 for your money - that the call was not 'outrageous', but (probably) 'good value'!

Further, if he had managed to just flat call - as he had originally wished - he was going nowhere on that flop.

Thus he was going to get all - or a large chunk - of my stack anyway.

I've listened to many 'bad beat' stories about the Aces getting cracked by 'rubbish' ..... many - like this one - don't stand up to that name if the player bothered reviewing the coup ...... most players don't - they just whine, and never learn!

(If I had gone all-in pre-flop, and then got called by 6 7 ...... I would be screeching - but that was not the case. I wanted the call .... it went **** up .... tough phuqqin luck).

So - well played young 'un!

 

One is tempted to say "that's the beauty of poker".

It's funny how often players complain about "luck" when so often it isn't luck at all but a bad decision on their own part of good ones from the opponent. I myself have been p!ssed off at losing to a "lesser" hand on the river when I could/should have muscled to opponent to fold earlier.

 

played like a canut last night in one hand which ultimatley saw nme get no where near the final table...

For some reason I was looking at the late comer, an older geezer who i i have palyed agianst before -rock type...

he raise the 400 BB by minimum after one player had caled, i was SB and hesitated about calling with my K suited, but thought I'd take a look thinking the ROCK had ace, q or J hoping not A,k... the other player also called...

flop K 7 5 rainbow ( includes one heart).. so down to me - what do i do? bolix - lets get these canuts out of here - all in - young lad folds - instant call by the ROCK - "thats me ****ed with your pockets a's innit", a wry smile and nod back... left me with 1200 chiops, which i got tebled up to 3900 with an a,q suited win all in pre flop.

Then a,10 suited - flat call, all in by low stack i called, flat caller instant call

flat caller pocketk's
first all inner a,8
me a,10 suited

k's held up adios..... had played damn well up to the all in error v the a's.... The stupidest thing was I noted how he was really trembling ( hands) when he raised and said P, don't get involved - but the hands have a kin mind of their own sometimes and wanted to protect the small blind of 200 - stupid winker paddy!....

bad luck up there OMR - but you' would want the same all in every time?

 

Last night I was in a 90 man tournament which paid the top 12. I don't know why I entered it as I was tired anyway. Got to around midnight and I was sitting 4th out of 14 left, and I just couldn't keep awake so I turned the laptop off and went to bed thinking I'd probably get a money spot and at least my stake back. I came 5th! Maybe I should do that more often!

I've found that the more relaxed I am the better I'll do. If I stay out of confrontations and battles that I don't need to be in then I'll succeed, but if I'm a little more aggressive then I always end up chasing a pot with nothing and inevitably lose the lot. I don't know how you pro's feel about your moods, but I'm getting to the point now where I know it's not worth having a game because I've had a cr4p day and I'm just going to throw my chips at the first idiot I find.

 

blinds 100/50

i bet 2nd with a,q unsuited 325.... two callers

flop
q, 8, 5 rainbow

i bet 825, one folds one calls ( the caller is a chancer, gambler and you are happy having him in bets with anything one card pictured on or off suit and would have raised with a pocket pair, but he is damn lucky)

turn
qs giving two spades showing

i hit trip q's with ace high, i check

dumb nuts goes all in as I wanted him to as i was 100% confident he didn't have pocket 5's or 8's (i had him covered by 1200) i call....

river 4s "FLUSH - thats how to play, god I'm good" he bellowed out -

I would play that hand a million times against him exactly the same way - i wonder what the win ratio would be overall....

got me chip stack back after a rebuy and was on final table with 15k -

didn't make much progress after an all inner who i called showed aj to my pocket 7's and hit the kin A.... left me far too short stacked and last train time looming loaded my chips in the pot with k,j suited to be called by the same guy who did my 7's, this time he had pocket k's adios...

 

OMR - thoughts on this hand please....

I was exactly equal chip stack with one opponent - ( last two of 15). like to play to win or lose but offered a shared pot whch would have been £280 each, instead of £219 and £341....

so we had got to that stage of equilibrium and both enjoying playing on...

I'm BB 2k he SB 1k ( 88k in play).

he calls - i raise 5k with A, 7 suited diamonds - he calls...

Flop = as, kh, 5c - i check on purpose rather tahn betting and maybe scaring him off wanting him to bet - he checked also -

turn 3c

i bet 5k to see what was what expecting him to fold.... he went all in - I didn't believe he had two pair nor an ace so calculated he was scaring me out for with n open ended run shot or possibly the flush draw - I called very much to his surprise - My plahad worked as I felt I was wining all the way to the turn card -

I quickly dispensed my a7 to his view and he hummed a little with a wry smile and slight shock showing 4,7 clubs...

He had to hit a club or a two or six to win.

so the %'s thus far according to the checker were:
pre flop = me 69, him 28 draw 3
flop = me 91 him 9
turn - me 66 him 34

A fairly nice position to be in on the fianl card of a tournament, nearly 3-1 on....

Not only did the 2 come out, the 2 of uckin clubs at that - he ht the staright and the flush.....

One guy who was watching and is a good player ( one of the noted good players at the Mint) said i should have bet bigger pre flop and made him fold - I said the 5k was to create a possible hand to play. Then my check after the flop was to see if he had hit which he hadn't as he would have bet ( he had been playing with raises and bets if hiting) - the turn card bet was to keep him in and I certainly wasn't expecting the all in by him, but was happy to call - I did ponder for a few seconds but not too long... I feel I gave myself the best chance of winning, whilst ultimately falling even tho odds on with one card to go... that is the beauty of poker

How would you and others have played it?

still a £160 profit from the night and a very very nice evening of socialable poker was had....

 

Mmmmmmmmm - it can be argued both ways .... maybe you've tried to be just a 'bit too clever'.

You've hit your flop - you've got 16k in the middle .... why put the brakes on by checking?

Then your 5k bet - into a 16k pot - may have been interpreted as 'weak' by your oppo, bearing in mind he has 15 'good' outs (9 x clubs, 3 x 2, 3 x 6 .... plus 6 more 3 x 4, 3 x 7 if he thinks you've totally missed) .... hence the re-raise.

You were favourite throughout .... a shade unlucky ..... but as the Old Boys say," Play it hard .... never give 'em a (free) card!"

Maybe you tried to be a little too 'sophisticated'.

 

Sophisticated and paddy on the same post - wow - a learning curve for sure, against a different player I would have bet on the flop.

Agreed to the extent of letting him have a free card - the hand was played against the player more than anything else, i wanted him to think i missed everything and i wanted him to bet - my misread was the replied check on the flop cards, i thought he would bet to try and get me out the hand even when i checked, I wanted him to feel in control - I didn't go home beating myself up about how unlucky blah blah blah - i was aware of my play of not betting the flop and it let him in big time as it turns out - it has its risks I agree..

Brave bet by him also on the turn with just outs and a 7 high in his hand( he knew he was behind even if he thought by higher card) so all in was a massive plunge - i think we saw the hand as the final stand once we had bet the pre flop - neither wanted to let go even though it was not too significant- the upper hand would still have been won.. I did really enjoy the hand..

your comments are completely taken in and in line with one or two others. I await my next test

looks likely a trip to Rendezvous Brighton maybe Friday or saturday... Their fest is on...

 

The Saturday Afterlunch Tourny @ HQ ............ Decisions, Decisions, and a Dastardly Dilemma.

A strong field of Regulars was supplemented by a horde of Pub League Freaks - due to HQ hosting an England Poker League Final alongside one of our scheduled tournaments.

Now whenever these Pub/Fun Leagues are in town the bring with them a multitude of fans/fools that couldn't qualify etc.

When they discover there's a 'real' poker tournament running alongside their DonkFest they invariably enter, most truly thinking that their weekly meet at the local will stand them in good stead in a proper comp.

They are invariably disappointed ...... they are invariably the 'dead money'!

On a nearby table young Claire was rinsing the Dog & Duck's Finest, and had a Final Table stack half way through the 25/50 level ..... abley assisted by - not so young - Tracey, who needed two cushions on her seat to see over her wall of chips, as the Pub League poker 'afficionados' failed miserably as they tried to bully the 'dopey burds' (not realising that at HQ those with bumps are some of the best female players in the country).

At my table the Pubbies chips were gorged upon by the Regulars - their one dimensional play frankly an open book to the vastly more experienced vultures circling overhead.

I called one Pubbie all the way down, then thieved it on the river with a huge bet ..... one of the Regs mischievously started singing "Float On" as those 'aware' merely smiled at the play, as the blissfully unaware lad folded.

My table was truly complete once the tardy Snatty had completed the food shopping at M & S, and the fun really began ..... Glen plugged himself into ipodland, as the banter about his 'European ******* Points' sent him reeling - to seek the solace of 'Tiger Feet' by Mud on his earphones.

All good things have to come to an end, and our table was finally broken.

Onto Table Deux, to espy Muchenhausen Syndrome Doc burbling bollox behind a pile of chips that would've kept Canute's tootsies drier than an Ian Hislop quip ..... time (was of the essence, as you shall see) for Boggy to get in and get dirty!

Sniping like an Apache up in them thar hills, a very acceptable pile of about 30k was gathered in (but the clock was ticking away furiously), before Dilemma Time was reached.

As the Town Crier announced seven o'clock, your author was scanning the room ...... three bloody tables left - the 'schedule' was in tatters!

Having limped in with 5 5, I was more than happy to call SB's 3k - flatted by BB - on a A 2 5 flop.

Turn was a 7 - SB goes All-in, nasty BB calls like a shot ...... Boggy ain't Larfing.

Dilemma, dilemma, sodding dilemma - I know the BB has the straight, and the SB has Ace +, but I also know that the National League F/O on Blue Square starts in an hour ....... into the tank.

Three tables left, decent first prize money - behind to one hand with only seven 'safe' outs' to win a pot that would be Final Table 'contender' chipstack ....... against, getting back to the PC to prevent the two ahead of me - Robert Topp, and Dave Johnson - scooping valuable points, as the League enters it's latter stages ...... with prizes of a £2.5k seat in the GUKPT Grand Final at The Vic for the top four in the League, an additional prize of a seat in the £150k Champion of Champions Event to the winner, plus any top ten League finisher gains entry to an exclusive comp of only 39 runners with the 9th getting a 'booby prize' of only a GUKPT 2011 Main Event seat worth a £1,000, and the winner getting a GUKPT 2011 Full Package (entry to every Main Event on the tour) worth £11,000 – includes Grand Final and Champion of Champions seats.

So no competition then - phuqq the maths, who cares about this smallish comp?

"Call, pair that board" ...... cue disbelief that I didn't 'suss out there was a straight out there' written all over the faces of some at the table ("pair that board" - obviously whooooooshed right over their bonces).

The monogamous nature of the board after said river meant it was off to PC World to do cyber battle with the Topp Boy in Brighton, and Dirty Dave.

Home, Computiker whirring into action, Bl Square loaded ...... oh phuqq!

Only nine players registered - minimum ten required for point binkage - with two minutes till kick off ..... cat sensing impending doom, scurries off to Brent Council and applies for asylum.

Nooooooooooooooooooo .......

With seconds to spare, a Good Samaritan makes up the numbers and Boggy is saved the cost of a Counselling session ...... fifty quid on double scotches down the local pube!

Three hours later, second spot for Boggy (10 points), and the two guys that mine the National League with all the verve of Rio Tinto Zinc, are consigned to the nil points bin.

Was it worth it?

I think so!

 

WSOP Main Event - entry $10k NHLE

In 24 hours time we will know who has made it to the Holy Grail known as the November Nine. A few years ago it was all about the bracelet but with the addition of the 3 month final table delay the nine players who find themselves at the main event final table enjoy endorsements and attention that can potentially set them up for life no matter who wins the title.

We are down to 27 in the main event and the year of the Brits is still going strong as we have a player still in the mix. Redmond Lee has been up with the bigger stacks for the last few days but right now he is one of the shorter stacks with 3.3 million.

A virtual 'unknown' on the UK circuit - he is already guaranteed $317,161 ......... but one thing is for sure we will know a hell of a lot more about him by tomorrow should he make the final.

 

Hooooooooooraaaaaayyyyyyy - the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour arrives at HQ this weekend, and the gloves will be off for 'our leg' of the nation's finest poker competitions.

GUKPT

Fri 6th Ten Seats Guaranteed Super Satellite for Main Event. £50 No Limit Hold'em Re-buy 3,000pt 7.30pm

Sat 7th £150 No Limit Hold'em Freezeout 7,500pt 7.30pm

Sun 8th £100 No Limit Hold'em Re-buy (Two Days) 3,000pt 7.30pm

Mon 9th £200 No Limit Hold'em Freezeout (Two Days) 7,500pt 7.30pm

Tues 10th £500 No Limit Hold'em Freezeout 10,000pt 7.30pm

Wed 11th £300 Pot Limit Omaha Double Chance Freezeout 2 x 5,000pt 6.00pm

£150 No Limit Hold'em Freezeout Super Satellite to Main Event 7,500pt 8.30pm

Thurs 12th Main Event Day 1A: £1,000 No Limit Hold'em Freezeout 15,000pt 2.00pm

£100 No Limit Hold'em Freezeout 7,500pt 7.30pm

Fri 13th Main Event Day 1B: £1,000 No Limit Hold'em Freezeout 15,000pt 2.00pm

£100 No Limit Hold'em Freezeout 7,500pt 7.30pm

Sat 14th Main Event: Day Two 2.00pm

£60 No Limit Hold'em Re-buy Super Satellite to Grand Final 2,000pt 2.30pm

£300 No Limit Hold'em Freezeout 10,000pt 7.30pm

Sun 15th Main Event Final 2.00pm

£250 No Limit Hold'em Bounty Freezeout 7.30pm

Boggy shall attempt to 'satellite' cheaply in to the £1k Main Event & the £500 Freezeout, as per usual - and join in the fun in some of the 'lesser' events ....... that's the whole of next week sorted, then!

 

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii - Boggy binks a Main Event seat!

I entered the 50 Euro (rebuy) satellite on the Dusk Till Dawn online poker site this evening ..... fantastic 'value' ..... 5 guaranteed seats for the Main Event at HQ (no minimum runner stipulation) ..... with only 24 entrants - (some of whom were appallingly bad) ...... very nice odds @ 4.8 to 1, especially with a large 'overlay' in this particular comp!

Well, I'm well pleased to have finished in the top five places - and won an entry (worth £1,070) to the Big 'Un at HQ later on this week for an outlay of a mere 150 Euros.

The M/Es on the GUKPT Tour are a thing of true (poker) beauty - one hour levels, 15k starting stack, some of the best players from around the UK/Europe/World to pit your wits against at the tables, big fields, good prize money (last year @ HQ there was 304 runners with a first prize of £88,850).

Get in there!

 

Go get em OMR - so your bad run a few weeks back sets you up nicely for your good run - just at the right time £88k - mines a guinness!...

I've started on the poxy online poker - only on betfair at the moment - just because i can't be ar$ed to take 2 hours to get home because the tournies start late at the Mint or Sportsman and they are both so uckin un organised.....

Good luck then OMR, keep us updated....:sign15:

Different game online and yeah - the hands seem made for big clashes.

 

Are you getting rakeback off Betfair, Paddy?

If not PM me and I'll sort you out.

 

How are you getting on though? Does having "real" game experience help online? Not tried Betfair poker yet, but on pokerstars the 4 of a kind seem to show themselves every evening now.

 

was doing fine til this weekend when i entered two $50 tournies as well as loads of others - was doing fine in both the $50, but got done in one hand and another just played uckin stupid not concentrating and poxy back ache - was really crap play by me against two other hands.. no chance when i look back...

I reckon my game will improve from the variant of on screen to round a table live..... as live you get to know players and sometimes that is a hinderance not help.

Still my loss in the two weeks is £150 and in my other poker outlets makes my 7 month loss just £159 compared to me footie outgoings - there's only one winner!

Had a logish ru off out of luck when needed - the double ups and treble ups, hit by the river card...

Onwards and upwards - we are cheering on OLDMANRAY this month..