Thursday, May 31, 2007

MAY POKER P&L

Much of a nothing month hitting a 2k high and never going below break even in the month.


6Pak-500
FL-415
H UP465
RAKE/BONUS883
Multi1386
WSOP-196
NL 60
TOTAL1683

HIGHLIGHT

I chopped the 6k gtd after qualifying via a £30 sat.

LOWLIGHT

1) Making loss on 6 paks after last months great run.
2) Volume of play is miles down as at work most nights till 7 or so and numerous business trips.
3) WSOP qualifying attempts have been poor

MAY SPORTS P AND L

4 figure loss - 1/2 what it had been at one stage but 3 days ago I was almost break even :(


CASINO100
F1-114
FOOTBALL-2178
HORSES1241
SNOOKER-40
TENNIS-55
TOTAL-1046

HIGHLIGHT

I have backed a lot of good price winners on the horses.

LOWLIGHT

2 biggest bets ever both losing on last day of season.

Have to take the rough with the smooth I guess

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

PHEW !!! Weekend Rescued

I played the 60$ qualifier for the 6kgtd 6 shooter and qualified including a good beat when Ace 2 di's beat Azimuts ace 8 with 4 left ( sorry mate).

This got me in the main event and I doubled up early and had chip lead most of way to fin tab. Lowest I dropped to was 4th and me and Slick dominated the final table. We had about 18k each heads up with very low blinds so I offered him a chop which he accepted. I like heads up but big gap 1st to 2nd and would probably have took forever.

1st was 3250$ 2nd 1950$ so we chopped for $2600 each. That about covers my weekend losses :(

Sunday, May 27, 2007

SOAP THE DOPE

Played like an absolute fish last 2 days when tired from Vegas. Should have been playing sharp sessions instead blew 1.5k. Fortunately I had good day on gee gees yesterday but to be honest I am embarrassed at myself.

LOWLIGHTS

1) blew 20 odd k stack in the 50k gtd tonight when was 11th of 30 odd left to finish out money. Lost a race for half chips then played shat and gave rest away.

2) Blew chip lead in wsop level 3 qualifyer - 3 left 2 seats gtd and i manage 3rd.

3) See my run or tournamants today shocking !!



BF6 Pak110LOST
BFSat102nd270
BFSat10LOST
BFMulti16LOST
BFSat10LOST
BF6 Pak110LOST
BFMulti55LOST
BFSat145th
BF6 Pak160LOST
BFMulti55LOST
BFMulti270LOST
BF6 Pak110LOST
IPflLOST-400
BFNLLOST-130
MANWSOP6LOST
BFSat22LOST
BFMulti55LOST
BF6 Pak110LOST
BFNLWON320
BFMulti160LOST
BFSat33LOST
BFMulti80LOST
BFWSOP40 in progress

Saturday, May 26, 2007

VEGAS PART 2 ( NON POKER)

OK - here is my best of everything else in Vegas.

GETTING THERE

Flew direct with Virgin from London - and have been non direct before - direct is a must ongoing much better.

HOTEL

We had a limited budget and wanted 3 beds so went for a low fashionable hotel but a suite rather than a room. Was only £70 a night for a suite at Imperial palace and the room and location centres strip was awesome. However, I dont think the basic instinct style mirrors above the bed and shower were meant for 3 blokes sharing :) !!!

BEST HOTEL

Ceasers Palace would top my list this time. Awesome card room great club and sports books and the pussycat dolls lounge !!

FOOD

At high end had a great meal at an upper class Mexican called Diegos in MGM and also had a very nice meal in the town square in Venettian.

SHOW

Went to see the Blue Man group at the Venettian - good show - very original but expensive at $120 and not a patch on Ka at MGM that I watched last year.

BAR

Went to Ghost Bar at the top of the Palms and this is my favourite bar in the world. Awesome set up and view off the strip - really trendy and a 10$ entry also got you into the Playboy lounge in the new tour and into Moon nightclub - awesome setting and excellent night.

I also really liked Rouge at MGM and Shadow looked good in Ceasers.

CLUBS

We went to 4 clubs but for me Pure at Ceasers stood out was awesome. About 3 floors / VIP areas 2 dj's- one outside overlooking the strip etc.

Marks out of 10

Pure at Ceasers 10
Drais at Bills ( after club club ) 7
Moon at Palms 8
Studio54 at MGM 5

GOLF

Im pretty shit at golf but had a great day at Angel Parks. This has a 12 hole par 3 course with par 3 replicas from around the world including Sawgrass Postage Stamp at Royal Troon St Andrews holes etc. Maximum length of a hole was 150 yards and was perfect for the likes of me. I went round in 47 which I was quite happy with but came 3rd of 3 only winning the 1st. We then played the 18 hole putting course with 100 ft plus holes which was awesome and I held my own at that. Recommended.

OVERALL

Superb holiday - usually ready for home after 7 days but deffo wasn't this time. Vegas I miss you already :)

Friday, May 25, 2007

VEGAS REPORT PART 1

Ok just back from a great Vegas vacation with 2 of my work mates Az and Ben.I will split review into 2 parts - 1 for poker and 1 for other stuff - since its a poker blog I will start with poker.

All in all I didn't really give it a big go with my biggest buy in was just a $170 event at the Hilton. Not sure why as I intended to play 1 big buy in but in the end never. They were some great tournaments in fantastic poker rooms like Ceasers and Venettian at around the $150 mark with good structures. However in other hotels such as Imperial Palace where I stayed the tourneys were all crap shoots.

I probably played 8 multis all together and was disappointed to only cash once. Fortunately the 1 cash was winning a multi at Harrahs ( 90$ entry ) so this covered the other buy ins that I had. I made a huge call with 6 left in this with 44 on a board of 6678 when I was sure opponent had AK when pushed - they never they had Ace 9 but it held up. I then had a huge chip lead and cruised home. However, the rest of the games were disappointing and I was twice 1st out. Once when some coco called up with up and down straight draw for all chips and hit and once when I limped with AK and board came AKJ but I ran into KK.

I also played 1 single table game at MGM for 60$ and won that however I was very disappointed that they take 100$ of the 600$ for the house this would be half this online but I guess you dont get free beer then. I was disappointed with my cash game and I think this needs a lot of work which I already knew. I only played 1 2 NL and won 500 in 1st 2 sessions but probably lost this back over the next 3 sessions where I got shat after shat and made a few bad plays.

We played poker in Ceasers, Venettian, Imperial Palace, Sahara, MGM, Luxor, Excalibur, Harrahs and Tropicano. My friend Ben got the luxury of a final table at Ceasers where they get moved to a table that has tv and everything but he went out 1st hand at fin tab. Az never cashed in a multi and did not do the default of talking the ride on top of the stratosphere - I will remind him next time.

Some good tourneys for anyone going soon who likes MTT.

Harrahs daily 90-100$ 11am 3pm 1130pm
Cesasers noon 7pm and 11pm all good structures 70$-200$
Venettian noon and 8pm - never played this but looked great.
Sahara $40 + 20$ rebuy with over 100 runners and good structure 7pm.

My favourite poker room was the Venettian only let down by waitress service which was infrequent. MGM and Ceasers were also very large and very nice. Imperial Palace was probably the best to play cash as had some bad players but I also think MGM / Venttian etc all had there share ( probably including me).

Cash game help needed any volunteers apply below !!!!!?

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

AND POKER FORM SUCKS .......!!

Dropped almost 1k in poker in 3 days also - was £1800 in front for month now £800.

Cant win a a race / loads of bad beats with 3 left in stt's and finishing close to bubble in multis ( 30th 20 oddth in the 100+ runner 50k and 16k last night ).

Lets hope Vegas gives me a change in fortunes - 36 hrs to go :)

Sunday, May 13, 2007

WORST BETTING DAY EVER CONFIRMED

- £1800

Avoiding poker except some limit poker and the 50k I have qualified for to avoid TILT.

IN BIG TROUBLE !!

Took a huge view on the football today and Im currentlt in the crap. Have my biggets bet ever on Man u v West Ham at 10-11 and they are 1 0 down at HT. Also have a huge bet on Chelsea at 8-11 and they are only drawing at half time.

If none of the above turn round in 2nd half it will be my worst ever days punting.

I have qualifed for the 50k on betfair tonight and may need a fin tab justto get anyway near level on the day.

Yours in HOPE !! - soap

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

3 WRONGS MAKE A RIGHT

I had a shocking day on STT's - all th beats came flooding back ( to be honest I have had my share of good luck in last 4 weeks ).

This is my record today truly shocking.


BF
Multi
12
LOST
BF
Sat
12
LOST
BF
6 Pak
105
LOST
BF
6 Pak
75
WON
BF
6 Pak
105
LOST
BF
NL
LOST
BF
6 Pak
105
LOST
BF
6 Pak
160
LOST
BF
6 Pak
105
LOST
BF
6 Pak
80
2nd
BF
6 Pak
80
LOST
BF
Multi
80
LOST
BF
NL
WON
BF
6 Pak
105
LOST
BF
6 Pak
80
LOST
BF
Sat
33
LOST
BF
Multi
55
LOST
BF
Multi
30
LOST
BF
6 Pak
105
LOST

Played 18 won 2 2nd 1 unplaced 15 - truly shocking.

WRONG 1 - Had some sick beats all day.

WRONG 2 - in reaciton to them I started to play like a useless tw@t

WRONG 3 - In desperation to save the day I bought into the 6k high roller 6 shooter for 530$.

Fortunately that made a right as I just won it for 3000$ which puts me slightly up on day so delighted as I have truly played crap.

I love this 6 pak multis and wish they were more on betfair.

Im on Selby in the snooker and hes back to 14 13 but looks like 15 13 soon so might play the 5k gtd while watching the end.

Sunday, May 06, 2007

RAKEBACK GIVEN BACK AND MULTI FORM CONTINUES

Hi all

Back from a long hard week - so knackered with a weeks really hard work and no poker - I was up on pc till 1am and 2am but doing e mail and work rather than poker :( !!!!

Anyway so 1st games of month today - I got 750 quid rakeback and had lost that in 1 day by 10pm - not good.

However my multi form continued I was 2d in the 6k GTD for 1800$ - I made a poor call heads up though - but I have just won the eyes wide shut 5k GTD 100 runner tourny for the first time. I absolutely destroyed the final table and got to heads up with a 140k 30k chiplead. I did get a nice piece of fortune about midway through when my ace 9 sooted was all in v KK but a nive flop of aa9 save me. At final table I got a bad beat but quickly recoverd the lead and in the end a runaway victory - some nice mtt leaderboard points but since Im in Vegas this month this will be of no use but the 1800$ prize will be :)

On a sour note went to see the shower of shite that is Newcastle United today - delighted its the last game of the season because they are total crap and the matches are shit boring. Big changes need to happen in the summer and I really hope we get Big Sam to kick some of the reputations up the arse - a huge clearout is needed starting with the manager and then many of the players should be pedalled also. No doubt I will buy my ticket for next year but will have to think about it as I have not seen a home goal since Jan which is a joke.