Thurs - Friday

Badly stung last night when I got disconnected. I was playing the 7.5k guaranteed on Virgin and had around 11k in chips (blinds 500-1000). 40 got paid $39.50 upwards and 48 left in I was in 42nd. I picked up KK in 1st position and decided to limp as it was a very aggressive table, and I knew I would be doubled, trebled or out. No sooner had I called for 1000 I lost my connection! By the time I rebooted I had lost the 1000, and another 1000 for BB and 500 for SB and the antes so had just over 8000 left. What made it all the worse was 2 others had all inned and a 25k pot had been won on pp 77. So instead of being on around 34-5k ish and a comfortable 20th or so, I had 8k and was stone last......thank you Kingston Communications!!!!
Made a push from cut off position all had folded round to me as blinds went 1250-2500 with 10-J and was called by AK by SB,.....A on the flop...goodnight!

The worst time I lost connection was on PKR a coupla years ago. With 12 left I was in 2nd place and cutting up my table of 6, then i lost connection for 15 minutes!!! By the time i came back I was on the FT, with 2/3rds of my stack gone, and 8 left in, and was forced to push almost straight away. Finished 4th in the end for $660 but top prize was 3k or so and although a good score I felt I could have won it.



Mostly being playing Heads Up NL  games recently, and decided to play a few tonight on Virgin and mix them up with full table coolers to up my rake and V points, as its doubled on a friday. Started pretty badly, losing with KK twice in one heads up game, the lucky git spiking the river twice, once with an A and another when way behind he spiked a 2 outer 7 for trips. Lost around 3 games in a row, before I hit a purple patch and won around 6 or 7 on the bounce. This was the last game of the night HU, I checked the flop and the guy pushed all in....cheers mate!!

New To Blogging Thought I'd Have A go!

Decided to have a go at this blogging lark, everyone seems to be at it! I've been playing online since Feb 2005 starting off on the ongame network on PokerRoom. I started with play money online and freerolls until I was winning real cash in the freerolls. Back in the day, PR used to have 2 $1,000 freerolls daily, capped at 2400 players. Anyway, within a few months I had come 2nd twice for $50 each time and I had my first bankroll, and was truly hooked on No Limit texas holdem. I've played cards since I was a kid of around 7, with family and relatives etc, but mostly 5 card draw, 7 card Stud and 3 card Brag. No Limit was a whole new ball game!

I feel I've improved quite a bit as a player in the last couple of years, but I know I still have a lot to learn and some gaps to bridge. My live play has got better, and I try to satellite in to live tournies when I can. Although I play mostly online, I do prefer the live game for the banter and its a totally different game to online.

Played a number of festivals in the last couple of years, and I learnt a lot playing against some of the top players around the country. My best live cash is at the Virgin Festival May 09 where I came 6th for £2k, after being 3rd after day 1. It meant a lot to get a decent cash live, and although luck is involved as in all tournies I was pretty happy with the way I played there. The Virgin Festivals are always good fun, and bring together some great players, mostly from the online forums, with a sprinkling of celebs and poker magazine guys and gals.

I remember at the London Loose Cannon Festival, I had Lucy Rokache on my left, then this guy sits down late to the table and its none other than Brian Townsend! Always a good time at the Virgin Festivals win or lose, it tends to be a fun event with some decent prizes, so its very popular!! I've already bagged a seat to the next event, so hoping Ollie will be sorting the next one out soon!

My next live event is a £300 sit down 80k event at DTD on November 7th, courtesy of A World Of Poker Forum who run great comps for their regular players. Really looking forward to that one, and will post a report on that, even if I go out with AA on the 1st hand lol!

Some previous results online

Sept 09 - V Roll Final

June 09 - Leeds Gala Tour Package

May 09 - Edinburgh Gala Tour Package

 22-09-08  Ladbrokes Killarney Package

 

10-09-08 Gala Liverpool Package

31-08-08 Stars - Close call 4th for an EPT seat but a nice cash anyway!

27-02-08 Virgin

This was a nice little crimbo pressie 24/12/07

Online Poker 2007-8

OPR Ratings In 2008

Upped my play in 2008 and got some decent results on the ongame network. Mostly playing large field MTT's I Had a good few cashes and had a respectable ITM finishes of 19%

 12-10-07 Came pretty close to winning a Master Classics Package, sadly not to be but a decent cash