No more needs to be said. I seem to misplay every hand in tournaments lately, can't catch a big hand, and in cash games it is worse. I had all the tickets for a raffle lately but I still lost.
Wah, wah, bitch, moan, moan, etc.
I hope to update once I start playing a bit better, but I am taking a few days off from love poker, and since I have Broadband again (hooray!) I can do other things. I have learnt that I am still bad at online poker too though, but I am promising myself that I will play more STT's even though they bore the hell out of me, as I have done ok in the few that I have played.
Oh look, there is some paint drying, yes I know, more interesting than this isn't it? I'll put you out of your misery. Bye now.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Monday, September 04, 2006
September 4th
Since the last post I played in the PokerEvents team game, the Fitz end of month and a few other games too. The team event started off fairly quietly after a scare that the Laois team would get broken due to no shows, but the Offaly team was the one to miss out instead. We got 2 of their players including Rory Liffey, and that turned out to be very good for us. I ended up busting out in 180th place out of 310 runners with a probably misplayed QQ which was very disappointing, but after a long second day spectating things finally worked out well when Rory's 7th place, allied with strong performances from Rob Taylor and Brian Murphy gained us enough points to finish joint second with Tyrone and behind Leitrim for a total of 2375 each which was nice.
I enjoyed watching the second days play, but to be honest I can't say I found some of the PE staff to be polite or reasonable, and I had to fight back arguments quite a lot. This wasn't with dealers but with the floor staff who I felt showed a lack of respect at times to people who had paid a lot of money to enter the tournament. At times alright there was a need to try and get players back from the table, but the rigidity of it, the allowance of certain 'favoured' people to walk around unfettered, and the rudeness at times didn't endear them to me. I have since heard that Stephen and Donal have left PE so there will be some new people coming on board it seems.
The end of month tournie in the Fitz was one I got into cheaply again via the one handed Omaha sats, so that was good, but I busted out just before midnight, walking into Paddy Hicks' AA preflop. I'll say no more about it. Friday night scalps then seen me build a big stack by the break and I had 17k which was probably more than 3x the average at the time. After the break I went into static mode, mindful of my occasional tendency when well stacked to try and get too clever and throw it away, so I decided to play solidly which went fine until I ran into the biggest maniac I have ever seen. He would reraise with any two cards, and call a big all in with any 2 suited cards. I managed to get into a 26k pot preflop at 200/400 against him with TT vs his A3o, and of course he hit an A on the river to cripple me. I got my shortstack back to soemthing palyable but then tried a move to isolate a shortstacks all in that ran into KK when I had JTs. No miracle and off to an unsuccessful session at the cash games.
So far this year I have had 6 profitable months, and 2 unprofitable months, and I am up somewhat for the year, but not as much as I was hoping at the start of the year. Hopefully I can avaoid any disastrous periods for the rest of the year and hopefully get a few decent tournament results which I haven't done in the longest of time except in the small tournaments.
I enjoyed watching the second days play, but to be honest I can't say I found some of the PE staff to be polite or reasonable, and I had to fight back arguments quite a lot. This wasn't with dealers but with the floor staff who I felt showed a lack of respect at times to people who had paid a lot of money to enter the tournament. At times alright there was a need to try and get players back from the table, but the rigidity of it, the allowance of certain 'favoured' people to walk around unfettered, and the rudeness at times didn't endear them to me. I have since heard that Stephen and Donal have left PE so there will be some new people coming on board it seems.
The end of month tournie in the Fitz was one I got into cheaply again via the one handed Omaha sats, so that was good, but I busted out just before midnight, walking into Paddy Hicks' AA preflop. I'll say no more about it. Friday night scalps then seen me build a big stack by the break and I had 17k which was probably more than 3x the average at the time. After the break I went into static mode, mindful of my occasional tendency when well stacked to try and get too clever and throw it away, so I decided to play solidly which went fine until I ran into the biggest maniac I have ever seen. He would reraise with any two cards, and call a big all in with any 2 suited cards. I managed to get into a 26k pot preflop at 200/400 against him with TT vs his A3o, and of course he hit an A on the river to cripple me. I got my shortstack back to soemthing palyable but then tried a move to isolate a shortstacks all in that ran into KK when I had JTs. No miracle and off to an unsuccessful session at the cash games.
So far this year I have had 6 profitable months, and 2 unprofitable months, and I am up somewhat for the year, but not as much as I was hoping at the start of the year. Hopefully I can avaoid any disastrous periods for the rest of the year and hopefully get a few decent tournament results which I haven't done in the longest of time except in the small tournaments.
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