Weekend Poker and the Usual Value Footy Tip

Already bombed out the $1750gtd on betfair, having laid down QQ pre flop (to be fair there were 3 all ins before me!), I was all proud of myself and thought I had built a clever image at the table. Raise a hand x3 BBs (how else?) holding AT sooted and get one caller, floppage arrives as A 7 3 which looks good, I check (with the intention of check raising to increase the "clever" image further. So t'other fella duly raises, I reraised him to about 450, but bugger me he reraises me all in. I aint having any of the shite, I am the man and call, he flips AJ... Ahhhhhhh, I'm out and look like a numpty instead of a well placed clever player who should be feared. So its $10 STTs mostly for me for the rest of the night/weekend.

Now, regular readers will have noticed I am on a bit of a streak as far as the footy bets are concerned, with some great value tips over the last few weeks. This week is a toughy with a distinct lack of a standout value bet for you. Portsmouth (@3.15 on betfair) may do well at home to Liverpool who have bigger fish to fry. Leeds (1.81) go into a must win game against Ipswich who have nothing to play for, but backing Leeds at any odds these days is a sure fire path to the poorhouse. Into League One and Yeovil (1.77) who are usually good at home are a good bet to consolidate their play off position against an average Donny side who also have nowt to play for, although they aint too bad on the travels, a trip down to the south west is a different proposition. In the basement, Accrington Stanley (2.2, exactly) could be a value bet but both them and Macc Town have it all to play for and the Ince factor, and the fact he may actually lead them ON the field may be a danger.

Sooooooo, I have gone for Bournemouth (2.00) at home to Gillingham as theeee value bet of the weekend. Bournemouth need a result to finally confirm that they will be playing league one footy again next season and welcome back sick note Anderton to add a little class to their midfield. Add to this a poor away performing Gills side with nothing to play for, this stands out as about the only obvious choice of the weekend. Get on early before the price plummets!

Quick Challenge Update

Great footy tip at the weekend again eh?

Anyway, quick game on crapto tonight and managed to get a 2nd

Game 34 - 2nd - +£1.80

Bank now at £9.20, the big comeback begins.

Weekend Value Footy Bet and The Plan

QPR, no more to be said. I am on at 2.3 on betfair, not sure why they are that long. Cardiff aint good away and QPR are pretty good at home. Anyway, there is the value, get on.

I have also done a Liverpool, Man U, Preston, Yeovil and Swansea multi, but it aint that great value and I am only on for interest.

The Plan for the weekend goes something like this:

Play Poker, drink Red Wine, Sleep, Poker, Sleep, Poker. Straightforward.

Update:

Just lost headsup in the Betfair $1750gtd and collected $350 which is nice, last hand was a bit of sickener as usual:

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 200080937 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $10 Buy-in + $1 Entry Fee, Level:15 Blinds(2,000/4,000-200 ante) - Friday, April 20, 23:05:40 GMT 2007
$1750 GTD Regular $10+$1 NLH #68182
Table 1 9-max (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 4: ajcairns ( 116,511.50 )
Seat 7: villa23 ( 171,488.50 )
Tourney Level:15 Blinds(2,000/4,000-200 ante)
ajcairns posts ante [200]
villa23 posts ante [200]
ajcairns posts small blind [2,000]
villa23 posts big blind [4,000]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to ajcairns [ 2h, 3d ]
ajcairns calls [2,000]
villa23 raises to [8,000]
ajcairns calls [4,000]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qd, 4c, 3s ]
villa23 bets [10,000]
ajcairns calls [10,000]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2c ]
villa23 bets [20,000]
ajcairns goes all-in
ajcairns raises to [98,311.50]
villa23 calls [78,311.50]
** Showdown **
ajcairns shows [ 2h, 3d ]
villa23 shows [ Ac, Qs ]
** Dealing River ** [ Ad ]
** Hand Conclusion **
villa23 wins 233,023 from main pot with two pair, Aces and Queens

I dodge that A and he is left with only 20k in chips and game over, instead I'm gone. Not too pissed off with it though as I had had AA three (lol) times on the ft and got paid everytime. Form is Good at the moment.

MTT Win, 2nd and more on the STT Challenge

Running Goood at the mo, Won Betfair MTT (90 runners) earlier in the week and last night lost headsup in the MKOP Royal Rumble on Betfair, both paying out $100+, and the MKOP qualifying me for the end of month final. My loss headsup was a blow at the time, but not being a tilter, these things dont affect me too much long term. The last 3 hands played out like this:

Easy chip leader 70k v 30k ish, and check raise t'other bloke all in with top pair, he calls with an up and down str8 draw which hits on the turn. Next hand nothing unusual, then next hand check raise him all in again with top pair (me this time all in), and this time he calls with Ace high which lands on the river. Hey Ho!

So back to the STT challenge for a bit:

Game 31 - 5th -£1.20
Game 32 - 4th -£1.20
Game 33 - 5th -£1.20

loads of bollocks tbh, bank at £7.40, soon be over

Sunday Sunday

Great footy tips for you all again this weekend, making money on footy bets now as opposed to poker which historically $been the opposite way round.

Going to try and advance this STT challenge as I am stagnating and going nowhere fast, making a massive £3.80 so far (not including rakeback lol)

Sunday Night updates here:

Game 27 - 4th -£1.20
Gamw 28 - 4th -£1.20 lol
Game 29 - 3rd +£0.80
Game 30 - 10th -£1.20

So close and yet so far tonight, apart from the last game of course (QJ eventually all in on a flop of AQQ, called by AA!) -£2.80 for the night. Bank at £11.00, wow up a whole buck. The next game is crucial, god this is tedious.

Saturday Tips and an STT Update

Footy Tips, Reading (1.94) and Portsmouth (2.18) for me at decent prices as singles and rolled up with Man U (1.28) for a treble. Value as ever.

As for the national, well I have looked long and hard and cant for the life of me narrow it down to less than about 8. Everytime I look I see benefits in backing others so I am for the first time ever I think I am not going to back anything!

Good luck with your selections.

Saturday afternoon STT results in the £10 to £100 challenge are here:

Game 17 - 3rd +£0.80
Game 18 - 1st +£3.80
Game 19 - 4th -£1.20
Game 20 - 2nd +£1.80
Game 21 - 5th -£1.20

So not a bad afternoon, +£4.00, Bank at £14.80. Need to get to £20 then I will get on the £3 games as I am going nowhere fast.

Saturday Evening:

Game 22 - 5th -£1.20
Game 23 - 4th -£1.20 2nd in chips and trying to bully the little stacks push with AQ only for the big stack to call with T8 and hits on the river.
Game 24 - 6th -£1.20
Game 25 - 1st +£3.80
Game 26 - 6th -£1.20

Had enough for the day, -£1.00 for the session bank at £13.80, going nowhere fast.

£10 to £100 STT Challenge Update

Had the night off last night for a home game with the lads (and lasses) from work which was good, apart from a small loss on the night. Plenty of Red wine and good banter more than made up for it though.

Here are the latest STT results in my £10 to £100 challenge with dibble:

Just on the £1ers at the mo

Game 2 - 10th -£1.20
Game 3 - 3rd +£0.80
Game 4 - 1st +£3.80
Game 5 - 8th -£1.20
Game 6 - 3rd +£0.80

So +£3.00 for the session. £16.80 total bank after 6 games. Aint so bad.

Thursday Update, no need for a new post everyday:

Game 7 - 5th -£1.20
Game 8 - 8th -£1.20
Game 9 - 2nd +£1.80
Game 10 - 6th -£1.20
Game 11 - 9th -£1.20

So -£3 for the night, which is a bit of a blow. Bank is now atr £13.80. Five more games tomorrow.

Friday:

Game 12 - 5th -£1.20
Game 13 - 2nd +1.80
Game 14 - 4th -£1.20 (all in with TT when comfortable 2nd in chips on a 852 flop big stack calls with K2, King on the river, twat)
Game 15 - 7th -£1.20 AA beaten all in pre, by Q9
Game 16 - 5th -£1.20

So more of the same tonight, but aided and abbeted by a bottle or so of red, it looks like Dibbs has the edge so far. Bank at £10.80.

£10 to £100 Challenge

Was a having a chat with bad boy dibble on msn tonight and was talking about not having an aim in my poker life, so he suggested we have a little challenge. £10 to £100 by playing no higher than £3 stts. 1st one to do it wins a tenner. Game on then dibble, good luck, and I will post my progress on here.

Starting Bank is £10.

Update. 1st game 1st Win. lol I love this challenge already!

Buy In £1 + £0.20 Returns £5 Profit £3.80
Bank = £13.80

Nearly there!

Weekend Footy Bets

After last weekends fantastic tips, I have thought long and hard about this weekend games and have come up with the following:

Sheff Utd @ 2.50
Ipswich @ 2.00
Bournemouth @ 2.08

Get On !

On the poker front I have had an up and down a couple of days, won a few stts and a had a couple of winning cash sessions, but I have deffo spotted a leak in my game and it is the cash side of it. If I don't start well, I spiral away in the session and basically play until the buy in has gone, which quite often makes me chase on other tables to make up for it. I reckon I will have to jack in cash games, I have said it often enough but never done it. We will see.

And come on, someone try the Full Tilt link so I know its working!

Update on the footy bets - robbed in injury time of a profit, bugger. More value bets to come soon though!

Bits and Bobs

Just a few minor points for the blog.

End of the month accounts are done and March was another losing month I'm afraid, but for only £43, which is an improvement on the last couple of months. For the forthcoming month I need to plug the leaks further and turn a profit. I need to focus on the games I am playing, dont play when tired, dont play when time is short, and all will be good.

I have also added an affiliate link to Full Tilt where I have been playing quite a bit recently. I need someone to sign up t it and test it now pleaseeeeeeeee.

And hey, how good were those footy bets!

A few quick footy bets for you

After last weeks success with the yeovil bet, I best put up this weeks in advance:

Liverpool @ 2.32 v Arsenal
Blackpool @ 1.88 v Crewe
Rochdale @ 2.50 v Lincoln

Dont say I didnt tell you.

Poker will be mostly played this weekend after a hectic week of work and piss ups.

10 8 is the new Rockets

10 8, preferably not sooted seems to be the hot hand of the moment. Just been busted out of a multi on crapto by this monster of hand beating me TWICE. First hand v my AA and the massive 10 8 hit a fh to put me down to 100 chips. Managed to double up a couple of times to 400 and then got dealt AJ (allegedly snaps favourite hand by the way as it reminds him if his hero), stick em in and am called by errm yes, 10 fecking 8. The straight is made on the river and I am crying all the way to bustsville.

Further my post about how shite tiscali is/was, they have only gone and done me over with a duff MAC so my migration to a new ISP is now stalled. Fookers.

I need a challenge in my (poker) life

Sorry about the lack of updates recently, poor connectivity to the net due to Tiscali and extreme overload at work have led to a lack of poker and even more of a lack of updates to this blog.

Firstly, Tiscali, if anyone is think of ever signing up to this ISP then please do not! I have been a loyal customer for many years and everything was fine and dandy up until about the start of December. All of a sudden i was unable to connect to some poker clients from about 7 until 9:30ish. All web surfing was a normal but no poker (at least not betfair, any of the playtech skins) etc. Apparently they have installed some kind of traffic management on their system which happens to affect some applications. They assured me that they would seek a resolution straight away but nothing was forthcoming. Then during the xmas and new year break everything was back to normal - suggesting that it was a capacity problem. 3 January comes and back to the bad ways again, but since then it has been slightly worse being off from about 5pm until 11 everyday. Now the obvious thing to do would be to change isps, but as I was away with work for a few weeks I couldnt really do this and when I got back Tiscali announced they had fond a solution and all would be sorted within a matter of days, so I hung on for a bit longer. Every time I decided to move isps Tiscali would pronounce on their forums that they expected to sort it all out in the next few day etc. Anyway, enough is enough and I am off, and all should be back to normal very soon. God I sound like tiscali!

On the poker front I have managed 5 final tables so far on gats' thread this month which is rather nice. Most of them have been on betfair but not until either late at night or early morning, so hopefully with a better net connection i can get into some better timed mtt (ie early evening) on betfair.

I have lost some direction to my poker and I really do need some kind of challenge so will be on the look out for one over the next weeks, and I there are any readers left on this blog then please feel free to suggest one.

See you all at the tables, soon!

Saturday Night £2 MTT Mayhem

Right listen up fools, I am going to play every £2 MTT on crypto from 7pm through to the Thunnnnnder game at 10pm, which means 6 games. I have already two Final Tables this weekend and I aint gonna stop here.

My progress/results:

7pm - 281 Runners - 103rd
8pm - 359 Runners - 164th
8:30pm - 242 Runners - 62nd
9pm - 301 Runners - 262nd
9:30pm - 235 Runners - 80th
10pm - 312 Runners -92nd

utter shite

Suppose I should be Arsed

As this Blog got a mention in betfairpokers "The Deal" I suppose I ought to try and think of something (and I quote) "interesting"

We shall see.

Long Time No Blog

Cant be arsed really, nuff said.

What a shocker of a day

Right I have played 11 STTs today and cashed in just the 1. I mentioned in my new year blog that I was going to keep more details records, well this has included a short resume of the crucial hands in STTs that either help me (not too many of them) or kill me off. Here are the 11 short comments from todays games:

AK caught by quad 6s early on for half starting stack, waiting for a spot and went with A4 in co, called by KK, no help

Folded JJ to massive pressure early on, they flip over TT and K9 not matching the Q high flop at all. Later, all in with KK called by AQ, A on the river

Going mostly well, down to 4 in 2/3rd hit top pair on KJ8 board all in, called by AJ, 2nd J on the turn

Going well again despite being ss when down to 5, last 4 push on a KJ8 board with J9 called by J4, turn a blank, 4 on the river and I'm done.

Played alright, mostly got to blinds 500/1000 so bit of an all in fest, but happy to cash after 5 without success

V quiet most of the game, eventually all in with AJ sooted, called by KK

Doubled up early. Comfortable late on 3rd in chips, took on 2nd after hitting top pair with no kicker, he flips better kicker - Bad play

OTT all in pre with AK he flips over J9 sooted and hits his flush by the turn. Recovered a bit, then all in with A8 called by T8 by bs

Got short stacked, eventually went all in with AT called by 2 and one of them hit a str8

Always + chips after a good start however one of two shorter stacks with 5 left blinds 200/400 1200 left, me bb other ss on sb goes all in I have A7 so calls, he flips over K8, and an K comes on turn.

FFS! Out on 4th hand, limped with A6 flop comes down A A 8. Lots of mini bets, turn comes down a 6, bingo, I raise, get re raised all in, easy call for me, he flips over A8.


Best I jack it in for the day, now a couple of the plays were bad from me, but some of the outdraws, bad timing and beats have done my head in today.

Jump Back to 06

Forgot to put up the financial report for Dec and for 2006 as a whole, so here you are:

Dec 06, hmmmmmm the worst month since records began by a very long way too. -£272.86 was the figure, not helped by a losing cricket bet of £118, but even if you took this away its still the worst month ever ever ever.

December does have to be balanced off against the rest of the year however, and looking on the bright side I started the year with a bank of £914.36. The final figure was £2057.89 having also withdrawn £490 over the course of the year. Best month by a long way was August with a £700+ boost (December obviously being the worst). Only 3 losing months in the year was also a positive. Happy with last year and positive about this one already and by using my Quality over Quantity adage I have cash (but not won) in 3 out of 4 STTs played so far this year.

...and for 2007

So onto the new year then. I have been thinking about doing some resolutions for 2007 and they are, in no particular order:

Make a profit at poker for the year.
Speak my mind a bit more on here and on the Betfair forum.
Lose a bit of weight.
Qualify for a live event through a satelitte.
Get good at Darts.
Update this Blog more often.
Have less Poker snacks.
Keep even more detailed records of my Poker.
Do less Sports Betting.
Walk to work more often.
Quality not Quantity Poker.
Go to bed earlier.
Play more Golf.
Cut down protion sizes.
Cut the grass regularly.
Buy a PS3.
Go to (or at least arrange to go to) Las Vegas
Be more patient with the kids.
Spend some of my Poker profits on good stuff.
Reduce the amount of Poker clients on the laptop from 22.

Okay thats just about it, lets see how I get on.

Bloggage Review of the Year

I have just had the misfortune to re-read my blog for the past year and thought I would do a TV stylee review of the year so here goes:

Jan
Gave up Cash poker after losing $46 on betfair over 2 days.
Gatsby banned for life from the Betfair Forum.
Decided to play Cash on Sporting Odds instead, and won $47 in one session.
Lost headsup 3 times in a row in Flashmob games.
Broke through the £1000 bankroll barrier.

Feb
Lost $25 in one sitting playing cash on Sporting Odds.
Won $320, winning a 99 runner mtt on Blue Square.
Left home to work away during the week for 5 months.
Dibble joined the world of Blog.
Won a Flashmob MTT.

Mar
No Winners at the Cheltenham Festival, but loads of high priced places.
Team Flashmob is born.

Apr
Apparently nothing interesting happened in Apr.

May
Visited Betfair HQ to look at some "new" software.
Went to the Big Slick with Betfair and a corporate credit card.
Won a Flashmob MTT.
Betfair Forumite Focus.
2nd in a 1 cent buy in MTT on Mansion for $200.
Broke through the £1500 bankroll barrier.

Jun
Dests joined Team Flashmob.
Smart Money sponsored Team Flashmob with personalised shirts.
Increased Virgin Airmiles Bank to 76000 miles.
Played (and won) at Omaha Cash.

Jul
Blog interest at an all time low of 2 posts, neither of which merit a mention here.

Aug
Won £2 Thunder MTT for £200 and change.
8th in the £4k gtd for just over £100.
Doubled Betfair Bankroll in just over a week.
6th in the £4k gtd for £200.
Played live at Norwich Poker Club.

Sep
Away with work for most of the month.

Oct
Broke the £2.5k Bankroll barrier.
8 STTs without a cash.
Gats wins 4th Flashmob MTT and joins one of the most exclusive clubs on earth.
500 STTs on Betfair.

Nov
Won 10pm £2 thunder on UK Betting for £155.
3rd in Pokerplayer Magazine Open live at the Loose Cannon Poker Club, London for £440.

Dec
Lost a packet beting on the Cricket.
A bad month on Betfair STTs.

So there you go, hope you enjoyed that. It has been a good year for me personally and on the poker front (December excepted), I didnt set any goals for 2006 but I have a few in mind for 2007 so will put them up in aseperate post tomorrow.

Happy New Year to all.