Pokerchamps Referral

Could any of the guys who have clicked on my referral buttons for Pokerchamps let me know their nicknames on there as at the moment noone is showing up on my account. I can also arrange for some free cash to be put into your account (only $10 mind you, but its free money).

For anyone else who hasnt signed up yet, then when you do (through my banners of course), also let me know and I will sort you out with the free $10 also.

Apparently you also have to make your account a real one and not just a fun one***

End of Month, and I'm back

Totally forgot the end of month account, but then again I havent been playing so it didnt really matter. A couple of posts ago I said that I was runnng a bit rough and didnt seem to be playing well. Thats about right too as I had my third only losing month to the tune of £2.29. Not a big loss I know but I did have a decent size mtt cash at the start of the month. That said the bank is still healthy at just under 1.7k.

Just finished 20th in the betfair 4k in my first mtt back after been away for about £30 profit, which is a nice way back in.

Keep clicking on those pokerchamps banners by the way!

Update: Also finished 5th in a 180 runner $10 mtt for $80 tonight. I am officially back.

Pokerchamps, its the future, apparently.

Running Rough

Not been running well for a few days, I have now gone about 10 straight stts without a place. Very poor. Its a good job I managed a second in the flashmob game on Sunday night. Its not helped by a really dodgy connection, which doesnt totally disconnect - its just makes the table not respond and then you have missed a hand or have auto folded a good one. I think I will give it a miss until the weekend when its better at home. Then in two weeks I will be moving house and will be back to normal domestic operations hopefully.

End of Month Accounts

The end of the month will be here in about 15 minutes so I might as well do the accounts thing now. I am still playing in the Mansion Triple Chance thing with redcar playing as Host Portugal, get me on his table!!!!!

Okay, down to business. Its been a good month. I am £255.08 up on the month, from which I bought the most expensive pair of shoes I have every bought at £90. So the overall bank is now up to £1698.32. I have been running very well on betfair inparticular which is where I have played the vast majority of my poker this month.

Next month on betfair they are running a sort of leaderboard thing for stt's so I am going to be continuing to play mostly on there.

Ruru has kindly put me into the pokerchamps asian poker tour final in three weeks time, which is a $150+$10 buy in, but the prize is an $8k package to the live game out in singapore with a total prize pool of £2 million. Game on! Looking forward to it, but it is the night before the removals turn up to take our stuff up to norfolk, great timing.

A Quick HH and some Omaha Action

Pick the bones outta this:

------HAND 3------
Game #2827076464: Hold'em NL (50/100) - 2006/06/27 - 23:21:30 (GMT)
Table "STT1 2928620 - 1" Seat 4 is the button.
Seat 2: lukey2344 (990 in chips)
Seat 3: BishNuts (1493 in chips)
Seat 4: Slothful (770 in chips)
Seat 5: abetorr (2873 in chips)
Seat 6: Alforno (1658 in chips)
Seat 7: Cyrax (850 in chips)
Seat 8: ajcairns (1366 in chips)
abetorr: posts small blind 50
Alforno: posts big blind 100
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to ajcairns [Ah Ac]
Cyrax: folds
ajcairns: calls 100
lukey2344: folds
BishNuts: folds
Slothful: raises to 300
abetorr: raises to 2873 and is all-in
Alforno: folds
ajcairns: is all-in 1266
Slothful: is all-in 470
Returned uncalled bets 1,507 to abetorr
----- FLOP ----- [Ts Qd 6c]
----- TURN ----- [Ts Qd 6c][Jh]
----- RIVER ----- [Ts Qd 6c Jh][9d]
----- SHOW DOWN -----
abetorr: shows [Qs Qc] (Three of a kind, Queens, Jack high)
ajcairns: shows [Ah Ac] (A Pair of Aces, Queen high)
Slothful: shows [As Ad] (A Pair of Aces, Queen high)
abetorr collects 1192 from Side pot #1
abetorr collects 2410 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot 3602 Main pot 2410 Side pot #1 1192 | Rake 0
Board [Ts Qd 6c Jh 9d]
Seat 2: lukey2344 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: BishNuts folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Slothful (button) showed [As Ad] and lost
Seat 5: abetorr (small blind) showed [Qs Qc] and won (3602) with Three of a kind, Queens, Jack high
Seat 6: Alforno (big blind) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Cyrax folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: ajcairns showed [Ah Ac] and lost

Not to worry eh?

Played a bit of PL Omaha tonight too, and managed to turn $25 into about $40 and was a nice refreshing change. Played 3 £5 holdem stts, winning 1 and coming nowhere in the other two.

€1000 Bonus plus V-Points

Got a result in the €1000 Bonus on Betfair this afternoon, I think there was 75 runners and only really entered while I watched the footy. Finished 8th for €100 (just under £70) for a €20 (£15ish) buy in. I have started to rebuild my Betfair bank to decent levels after winning and placing well in some £5 and £10 stts. Played a couple of 5 seaters on Sporting Odds and one one of them. Also played in the V-Points freeroll on Virgin tonight and finished 2nd for another 20,000 points/air miles. Total up to about 76k now.

Happy with the way I am playing at the moment.

BFWCOP Accom

I have now booked a twin for the friday and saturday for BFWCOP. MiltonBadley has preivously agreed to share. Milts, let me know if the plan changes.

And no Bum Love jokes from anyone okay!

No 8

I have sounded out Dests as the No 8 for the Team at BFWCOPII, she has supported the flashmob games in recents times and might add a bit of "balance" to the team.

Anyone got any major objections?

BFWCOP Details

Need to tie up a few details.

Firstly, team members.

Me
Snap
Boro-fc
Doob
Smart Money
MiltonBadley
Dibble

Plus one more. Now it the plus one more that we need to sort. I was thinking of a few players that have supported the flashmob games in the past and at the moment, plus a few players that would play for us and/or have declared an interst in playing.

So what do you guys think, and any suggestions you may have will be helpful. I wont put up my list yet so as not to influence what anyone else thinks.

Secondly, accommodation. Who is sorted and who isnt? Doob kind of put me in touch with canary boy but I havent had much to do with him so not really sure if I then want to shack up with him and would prefer to share with one of the flashmob crew. What's everyone else doing?

Finally, once again a massive thanks to Smart Money again for sorting the shirts.

A Good Weekend

Less was more this weekend.

Friday
Got my 25% £4.81 rakeback from Betfair
Made £1.53 profit playing Turbo Exchange Games
Lost 2 x £5.50 stt
Lost 1 x £2.25 mtt
£6.91 Loss

Saturday
Got £10 bonus for playing Turbo Exchange Games
Lost £2 on the Derby
Won 2 x £5.50 stts (£19.50 profit each)
Lost £3.60 stt
£43.40 Profit

Sunday
3rd in the €50 bonus for £13.77 profit
2nd in the Flashmob game for £38.90 profit
£52.67 Profit

and that was it!

£89.16 Profit Overall

Pokerstars Blogger Freeroll

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.

Registration code: 8273918

Monthly Acounts are in...

And its a good month, in fact the second best month since records began.

Up £233.80, increasing the bank to £1563.24 overall.

Soon be time to spend some of it, but havent got a clue what on.

Twwwwwwat.

Approaching the bubble in a $10 buy in $3k gtd on betfair, just how was I suppose to put his one down?

Game #1984760523: Hold'em NL (300/600) - 2006/05/30 - 00:46:06 (GMT)
Table "Special $3000 GTD 2710362 - 4" Seat 3 is the button.
Seat 1: fanwink (10010 in chips)
Seat 2: sl_river (21708.04 in chips)
Seat 3: Hargie1 (17635 in chips)
Seat 4: Rooneybea (22825 in chips)
Seat 5: ajcairns (10312.50 in chips)
Seat 6: Chappe001 (14997.50 in chips)
Seat 7: rodizzle (20860 in chips)
Seat 9: Affmaheed (8247.50 in chips)
Seat 10: jobbe6 (10297.50 in chips)
Rooneybea: posts the ante 75
ajcairns: posts the ante 75
Chappe001: posts the ante 75
rodizzle: posts the ante 75
Affmaheed: posts the ante 75
jobbe6: posts the ante 75
fanwink: posts the ante 75
sl_river: posts the ante 75
Hargie1: posts the ante 75
Rooneybea: posts small blind 300
ajcairns: posts big blind 600
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to ajcairns [3c 4s]
Chappe001: folds
rodizzle: calls 600
Affmaheed: folds
jobbe6: folds
fanwink: calls 600
sl_river: folds
Hargie1: calls 600
Rooneybea: calls 300
ajcairns: checks
----- FLOP ----- [6d 4c 3h]
Rooneybea: bets 600
ajcairns: raises to 2400
rodizzle: folds
fanwink: folds
Hargie1: calls 2400
Rooneybea: raises to 5400
ajcairns: raises to 9637.50 and is all-in
Hargie1: folds
Rooneybea: calls 4237.50
----- TURN ----- [6d 4c 3h][Jc]
----- RIVER ----- [6d 4c 3h Jc][Th]
----- SHOW DOWN -----
ajcairns: shows [3c 4s] (Two Pairs, Fours and Threes, Jack high)
Rooneybea: shows [5c 7s] (A Straight, Seven high)
Rooneybea collects 25350 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot 25350 Main pot 25350 Rake 0
Board [6d 4c 3h Jc Th]
Seat 1: fanwink folded on the Flop
Seat 2: sl_river folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: Hargie1 (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 4: Rooneybea (small blind) showed [5c 7s] and won (25350) with A Straight, Seven high
Seat 5: ajcairns (big blind) showed [3c 4s] and lost
Seat 6: Chappe001 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: rodizzle folded on the Flop
Seat 9: Affmaheed folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 10: jobbe6 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Ups and Downs

Good:

2nd in the $1000 added (from a 1 cent buy) on Mansion on Friday night for $200
1st in the €50 bonus on Betfair (€3 buy in) on Sunday morning for €67

Bad:

Missed the first 40 minutes of the flashmob game then only played 4 hands and went out in 27th out of 37.
Bombed out both of the Betfair Birthday freerolls very early.
Went out the Pokerchamps $10000GTD (bought in by Betfair for $110) in 32nd out of 64 after being in the top 10 for ages.

Well up for the weekend but not happy.

Fame at Last !

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Fantasy Flashmob

Metro Fantasy World Cup

Its Its all changed; the other one was carp so I have changed it to this one which is better I have sent invites via the site to the people who I know email addresses for. I have created a league entitled Fantasy Flashmob and the code to enter is as follows:

Code to join this league:97455-17484

If you join leave a message here so we know who is in. Good Luck and congratulations on 2nd place for someone!

The Lever

The lever took some hammer tonight. With some horrendous beats I somehow managed to get to the last three of the Flashmob tonight, facing up against MC and Sillyfish. Once there though the cards came and with some well applied aggression managed to take it down. Very happy with the way I played three handed.

First Flashmob win for about 3 months after a terrible run which included 3 bubble finishes. Thats my 4th win now, and although I am bound to play as many as most players, the next best is 2 wins, so I have now put a gap between me and the rest.

Virgin Poker

I always have liked Virgin Poker, so I thought I would add some banners ;o)



Not sure how to get them ony at the top and not after every post, but I'll work on it.

They also have a Bloggers Freeroll on Thursday which will be good, I think the 1st prize is a seat at one of the sub events at the WSOP. Edit: I didnt win the tournament so I have cut down the amount of banners, but thanks anyway.

Fellow Forumites + Big Slick Poker Club

Okay, had a great day/night out on Tuesday (/Wednesday, lol), visiting betfair towers and having a look at some new software they will be introducing at some point in the future. Not much I can say about the software itself, but the I can tell you what happened on the day and record it for posterity in blogland.

Arrived and the hotel (courtesy of betfair) just after lunch which was a bit early but it gave me the opportunity to get some well earned( and as it turned out, well advised) rest. Betfair had advance me some expenses which more than covered the travel into london and back which was also a bonus. Woke up rested and went down to the bar at about 3pm and soon met up with Mandylou, Duffs and Ewan. A few pints of Guinness later, Mavis, Ruru and then Zelda turned up, shortly followed by Ariston. Shaaboom turned up last as he had just come from the airport and there we all were the "Forum Council"

After a few more pints and a "short" walk to Betfair towers, we did what we went to do for an hour or so, with free nibbles and beers in the demo room of Betfair Poker. Then it was mount up in the Betfair provided taxis for a hectic trip through early evening traffic down to Croydon to visit a new poker room called Big Slick. Its a great club and I was thoroughly impressed with the whole evening there. We all registered for a £20 rebuy and then got stuck into the free bar (courtesy of Betfair), so had shed loads more Guinness. My table in the rebuy consisted of 3 x unknown, Ruru, Mavis, Ariston and Mandylou! Ariston decided he was going to be all in blindevery handd until he lost a hand from which point he "would play properly". He managed to bust Ruru a couple of time and Mavis the same. Eventually after he built a might stack of about 18k (started at 1500), he lost a hand and settled down. I then managed to doubled up against him and went on to build a stack of about 7k and the end of the rebuy period, after an add on.Eventually gott down to the last 9 buy was fairly short stacked so when a pair of 6s came along I stuck them in and got called by KQ who spiked a K on the flop. Out in 8th of about 24 for nothing. Mandylou bubbled which left on Duffs in the money and I think he came 4th.

I didnt bother play cash as 1.Its not my game and 2.I was not wanting to get into pots of about £70 to £140 on a regular basis. Sat between Ruru and Shaaboom, who obviously get on well but seemed to be having a few problems on the night, funny to watch though as they were like a pair of unruly kids in class. Mavis and Ewan were also playing on the same table and they were good to watch as both seem to be great cash players.

Eventually we left the club about 5 and got back to the hotel via Betfair funded mpvs, getting into the hotel for about 6. Got a couple of hours kip before catching the train home, getting in about 10am, very very very tired.

Great day for me, and great to meet a few other forum members who were all terrific people - all way above my level of poker - which was never and issue for them on the day. Very enjoyable and thanks betfair, we should do it again sometime!