Better

Bombed out the 4k gtd on betfair earlier on but the stt's have gone pretty well.

Friday results:
5 STTs
1 1st
2 2nd
2 Unplaced
+£27.50

Overall
30 STTs
5 1sts
5 2nds
3 3rds
17 Unplaced
+£60.00

As it turns out I have been quite happy with these last 5 nights of STTs, £60 up is a good return for me. I have been in the money just over 40% of the time which must be fairly good, and to win 16% is pleasing. Not to have a losing night out of 5 is another plus point.

Getting Tedious

STT mania continues with slow results. I will give it one more night then sack it if I feel like this still. Not losing but only making very slow progress.

Thursday results:
5 STTs
1 1st
1 2nd
3 Unplaced
+£12.50

Overall
25 STTs
4 1sts
3 2nds
3 3rds
15 Unplaced
+£32.50

Concentrating on the Job is Key

Continued my STT fest tonight, but was initially distracted by doing a couple of other things online. Bad move as I didnt place in any of them.

Stopped everything else and pulled it all back by winning one and coming second in the other.

Wednesdays results:
7 STTs
1 1st
1 2nd
5 Unplaced
+£2

Overall
20 STTs
3 1sts
2 2nds
3 3rds
12 Unplaced
+£20

STT Mania Update

Second night of my STT fest, not as good as last night, one win got me out the sheeite.

Tuesdays results:
4 STTs
1 1st
3 Unplaced
+£3

Overall
13 STTs
2 1sts
1 2nds
3 3rds
7 Unplaced
+£18

Back on the STT Gravy Train

MTTs weren't really doing it for me, even though I had four really good cashes in Multis, which has more than doubled my betfair bankroll in the last week and a half. I feel like I should be playing STTs, I dont know why and I cant explain it, I cant even back it up with results. I will give it a week or so, and play the odd 4K gtd on betfair, and the odd wild two quidder, but that will be it and I will see how I get on just playing £5 (or occasionally £10) STTs .

Mondays results:
9 STTs
1 1sts
1 2nds
3 3rds
4 Unplaced
+£15

Its all over

Crashed out the 4k on betfair tonight in 180th ish. Thats it, my run is over, it was the 4th time I had entered it and the first time I have not cashed, I am absolutely gutted. :)

Played two STTs on Virgin and cashed in both, but won neither.

The run goes on

Had a go at the £4k on betfair again tonight and finished 8th, for £104 and change.

In a remarkable turn of form, thats about 400 quid up in as many days, happy days.

BTW, if any Punterloungers are reading, sorry for the alleged spam post to Masterplan, no malice intended.

AlexthebossRoss excepted as you are now officially banned from this blog, you grass.

Half Decent Weekend

Had a very good weekend on Betfair and Mansion.

Mansion, played 3 x small stakes stt's and cashed in all three.

As for betfair, phew what a scorcher!

Friday night - entered 2 mtts, the 4k and another $10 entry, finished 20th in the 4k for £40 and 5th in the $10 for another £46, nice return to the game after a couple of weeks off.

Saturday, 1 x stt and finished 3rd

Sunday, enter the flashmob game and cam 3rd for £18 and than randomly entered the 10:45pm £2 thunder and managed to luck in with a win for the princely sum of £217.92 !!!

So £300 or so up over the weekend, very happy, a good start to the month.

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