A blog by the best runbad SnG player alive.

Writing a book

2012-03-05T22:59:00.002Z

You read right, I'm thinking of writing a book called:

'ACE ON EVERY FUCKING RIVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER!'

Kind of rings a bell though, has someone else used a similar title?

Feb

2012-03-01T20:05:00.004Z

It's a shame there isn't one extra day in Feb as today I've pulled $500 back from the bad end to the month but still, this is how Feb looked. Lol volume as ever, sigh.

I do much prefer the look of the graph swtiched to buy-ins instead of $ though because yesterday I played a random set of 45/180's and got 2nd in a $3r.

LOL whatevs. See what March brings I guess.

UPDATE

2012-02-29T15:28:00.006Z

Running like a SPASTIC!!

/update

Oh and while I'm here, a quick word on gobby regs who think that blocking their stats will prevent me finding out their TOTALLY SHIT win rates. Namely buschapa and his retard brothers. According to him his brothers are timontana187 and ratataboom1. All 3 are meta-tards. In a skype group a while back, buschapa came traipsing in claiming he "pwns" me. LOL I quickly produced 3 or 4 hand histories in the group showing what a complete tool I, in fact, make of him. I know your win rates boys. Let's look at buschapa. He doesn't play below $30 as far as I'm aware. From over 50k games in 2011 he is at $1.41 a game...LOL. Timo is $1.87 from 2011. Me? Since I took up 18mans properly about 9 months ago: a mere $2.79/game ABI $19!!!! Still, I doubt that'll stop the gobshites spouting off more deluded verbal diarrhea. Poor lads

Can hardly play

2012-02-26T23:53:00.005Z

The forces have finally caught up with me. Yes, they have been way too kind as it is ALLOWING me to not run like a cunt for the most part of the last 6 months. They've gotten in a bit of a condundrum about it. "We've slightly lost control of the RNG" one cuntfaced human life controlling entity says to another. "What can we do about this?!?!?"
"I know!" exclaims another one excitedly. "Just as his 6 month rent in advance is due...when he needs his money the most...LET'S GIVE HIM SCIATICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

BRILLIANT. Couldn't have thought up a better one myself! While you're there boys, hows about I run 200k chips below ev in my pathetic amount of 137 18 man games in the past week!! To give you an idea of the virtual impossibility of this, I am one million chips UP on ev since October. In the space of 137 games a FIFTH of that has just whamboozled it's way back. I can do nothing about it. Sitting in the computer chair for longer than an hour is agony, sofa= agony, standing up= agony, bed= agony. BRILLIAANNNNNNNNNNNT!!! LIFE IS OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

She stank!

2012-02-18T01:54:00.002Z

Took my little girl to the cinema today to watch The Muppets new film. We're sat on the back row premium seats, no one else is on the row when 3 gothy looking types sit to my right. 2 girls one boy, bout, dunno 17-18. Well the girl that sat next to me fucking reeked!! I cannot describe what the smell was, it wasn't like b.o or any other human stench u can think of, it was just undescribable. Bout the closest I can get is some weird mustiness. Well the smell came n went through other odours like crisps, sweets, my actual decent smelling clothes etc etc but we've since gone home and the smell just won't gtfo out of my nose!! Like now I smell of it somehow but I obv can't do, it's like nose memory!! You know like that muscle memory stuff only for taste buds or something??!?!?! The brain thinks the smell is still there. Fucking skanky goths, ok look as black and pale as u want but what's with the whole NEVER WASH TRADITION?!?!?!

Barg!

2012-02-16T21:25:00.002Z

I have a barrrrg to post. I reviewed a few hh's for an old grinder mate, well basically he is someone who was at my 9man tables when I first got serious with them in 2009, maybe even earlier than that, maveriks777. Always found him quite respectful in the forums (unlike me :D) and seeing him do poorly for quite some time of late I offered to have a look. Despite the fact he's been with SnG Protege and getting coaching from the infamous Glitlr for sometime also, he hadn't seemed to show much improvement. Altho take nothing away from Protege, mavs admitted Matt had spotted the exact same problems in his game as I did, but he fuond it easier to understand through EMAIL than he did through verbal, as he was used to skyping for reviews. This is one reason I don't help anyone verbally. I'd be useless at it. I can put the thought process down much better on paper. That said, both Matt ansd sippin_criss are EXCELLENT verbal coaches, the very best. But mavs admits his verbal English isn't all that great, so having my reviews in text format to go over as often as you like is what I reckon got it to sink in better.

Anyways, last 6 months: Maveriks777 10,959 $0.32 $5 5% $3,544 - N/A PokerStars <6Mths

Since I reviewed: 680 $1.29 $4 31% $876 - N/A PokerStars 2/2/2012 2/18/2012

Only a 300% increase in $/game rate ;)

As for myself, have hardly played at all lately, but am still sitting reasonable on the SS tables. I've had my daughter since Monday so all I've been doing is setting up my horse bets to be automatically placed near the time of racing by a fantastic bot called BetAngel and well....they've been fluctuating like the wildest rollercoaster you can imagine!! Afer an initial 50% bank decrease, it has TRIPLED in the last 7 days by from that point to what is now a 50% increase on the starting bank. Still early days anyway and now that I have the bot sorted I can still grind as I was next week.

RANT ABOUT POKERsTAR(D)S

2012-02-10T03:07:00.003Z

So they've added a $300 18m game. My intial reaction?

Seriously what the effing eff???????? Oh, here's PS Walmsley's explanation!

"With regard to why we made a quick decision on the $300 18-man; that is a Sit & Go that will affect a very small proportion of the player pool and shouldn't affect the viability of any other Sit & Gos."

Oh I seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Yeah, that makes sense, well hold on then, I'm just going to add a $72 million 180 man because, well, it won't affect anything under it will it??

Give me strength!!! Firstly, the $200s already barely fill. Secondly, which regs actually asked for this buy-in?!?! Anybody asking for more than $200 is going to be wanting $500's minimum. Else it's just totally pointless.

OK so here's where I get out what I want to say to the 18m community, but mostly to Stars. The argument about the changing of the buy-ins post black friday is still very much on the cards imo. People still aren't satisfied but are just putting up with it for now. Basically, what is wrong with the buy-ins is the step ups between them. They're still disproportionate. Below is the old, new and my version of how the structure should be for THE MAXIMUM MAKING OF MANIES ALL ROUND FOR EVERYONE!!

OLD BUY-IN PRE BLACK FRIDAY

$6.50 to $16= a step up of $9.50
$16 to $27= +$11
$27 to $38= +$11 (the weirdest stage of them all)
$38 to $60 = +$22
$60 to $114= +$54
$114 to $235= +$121
$235 to $355= +$120???
355 to $555= +$200

CURRENT STYLE

$7 to $15= +$8
$15 to $30= +$15
$30 to $60= +$30
$60 to $100= +$40 (lol)
$100 to $200= +$100
$200 to $300= +$100 (even loller)

MY IDEA aka common sense/logic

$7 to $15= +$8
$15 to $25= +$10
$25 to $50= +$25
$50 to $90= +$40
$90 to $160= +$70
$160 to $275= +$115
$275 to $500= ++$225

So which numbers look more proportional?

OLD: 9.5, 11, 11, 22, 54, 121, 120, 200

NEW: 8, 15, 30, 40, 100, 100

IDEA: 8, 10, 25, 40, 70, 115, 225

It's a total no brainer! I mean the higher stakes don't have to be bang on those numbers, you could vary it a tad, but I think what the most important thing about the whole structure is having a buy-in as close to the DAUNTING THREE FIGURE NUMBER ($100) but keeping it to 2-figure. Anything from $80 to $90. And in order to do that we have to decrease the $60 a tad, then the $30, and I think those numbers are perfect because more fish will play them, lower stakers will move up quicker/take stabs sooner. I for one would be in a $80-$90 ALOT sooner than I dare venture into.....

I've sent most of the above text to pokerstars in an email which gets the usual "thankyou for your suggestions it has been passed on" response.....NUMEROUS TIMES. And I'm going to keep sending it 3 or 4 times every day. Already I've had a reply from the same person saying it's already in the queue so no need to send it again, so maybe I'll have to space it a bit more so it reaches another Stars donk, sorry "worker". I would urge all 18 manners to send a similar one in too. I mean if you disagree with $30 coming down to $25 and $60 to $50 then I think there's something wrong with you. $80-$90s would go off more, I think your overall VPP's would be attained just as quick. Let's so you load the $30, $60 and $100s solid until you have 16 games running. You're probably gonna have two $100s, six $60s and eight $30's. Totalling $800. With reduced stakes I think you'd have FOUR $90's, six $50's and six $25's or something. That's $810 lol still more though.

Some slight progress despite being a total loser

2012-02-09T19:21:00.002Z

Yesterday I played 2 short sessions, just 13 games in the morning winning almost $900! Dealt with my horses all thru the day, had an epic loss on those then had a 40+ game sess of poker again later and lost nearly all I'd won that morning...well afternoon. Today I haven't played poker yet, but have had another bad day with the horses (nothing major) so I've been my usual morbid self. Whatever happens in my jobs clearly plays a massive part as to WHO I AM for the rest of the day. And yet....AND YET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I still just forced myself out for a run :D Huge accomplishment, because I only feel like exercising when in a good mood but we all know it's best to do so when the going is rough as much as any other time because it refreshes your attitude and mindset. It's hard though, for me, a lazy Leo big lion who wants to laze in the sun under the tree all day. You more fortunate astrologically based people have no idea!!! So whilst 2 goals have failed massively of late, at least one has been achieved. Oh well 2 actually, am about to do chicken and veg for the 2nd consecutive day :-O Here's 2 a decent poker sesh later else I may consider lifting a dumbell/stroke smashing my keyboard to bits!!

depressing

2012-02-07T23:44:00.003Z

The last week, well actually last couple tbh, I've been doing ok. But have been experiencing yet another one of a billion variance variables. The one I've been on for the past 2 weeks is weird. Despite winning nicely, not one set has been enjoyable or felt satisfactory. Simple reason for it. I've hit about 3 of the last 3-4000 flops. The only way I've actually won anything is just by being ahead in showdowns...and neither of us hit. But in every single showdown I'm behind in I haven't hit a flop in a long looooooong long time. Ok maybe 1 or 2, but you get my reality, I'm talking about 5% or something. And these past few days it's all started again. Just the past few days I've not seen a board without a set, flush or straight on it in a single one of my AIPF's. So now the variance is swinging to the good old fashioned way once again. And to add insult to injury, I've just started up my old money making method which is laying horses to specific system rules. This is also another form of life that has MASSIVE GIGANTIC SUICIDE INDUCING VARIANCE aswell. I've not been in the game for some years now but decided to run it as a side venture. I get my selections from a pretty well trusted guy who has yearrrrrrrrrs of gambling experience and is in the 0.1% of all betfair exchangers who consistantly makes over £30k a year. But guess what, yep muggins here comes along and BANG all the systems take a massive dive in variance just when they've been running awesomely for the past 6 months. 40pts down in 4 days. What a fucking joke. The variance in both sports (for want of a better word) has taken a royal smashing at the same time. Headaches are back, depression is hovering like a vulture, and pretty much can't be cunted to do anything let alone play this piss boring shit game called poker. Hating it more each day.

the Brutalizer chronicles

2012-02-07T02:28:00.004Z

This guy is in my view, a bit of a tool. And he's in tons of the 18mans nowadays. I remember he was pretty much solely a mid-high stakes 9manner when suzzer used to post endless hands on him confused about everything he did. Those old suzzer posts, general defiance and just wanting to know wtf this guy bets his crazy assed bets with, was the reason I played this hand the way I did post flop.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 60 Tournament, 10/20 Blinds (9 handed)

MP1 (t1500)
Hero (MP2) (t1315)
MP3 (t1595)
CO (t1470)
Button (t1470)
SB (t1400)
BB (t1530)
UTG (t1530)
UTG+1 (BRUTALIZER20) (t1690)

Hero's M: 43.83

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with A, K
1 fold, UTG+1 bets t45, 1 fold, Hero raises to t125, 3 folds, SB calls t115, 1 fold, UTG+1 calls t80

Flop: (t395) Q, J, 8 (3 players)

SB checks, UTG+1 bets t316, Hero calls t316, 1 fold

Turn: (t1027) 7 (2 players)

UTG+1 checks, Hero bets t874 (All-In), UTG+1 calls t874

River: (t2775) K (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: t2775

Results:

UTG+1 had A, J (one pair, Jacks).

Hero had A, K (one pair, Kings).

Outcome: Hero won t2775

Honestly, donking pot sized with middle pair, and then calling my river shove with barely any history... atrocious!!! So in future I can forget playing fancy and just take him to value town with made hands.

Officially the best $30/18 player in the world :D

2012-02-03T02:32:00.005Z

Well actually I think I've been for a while. I'm talking in terms of ROI obv. Right now I'm sitting higher on SS table than some players who've played THREE times as many games as me!! There's 3 Stars players above me thru sheer volume only. altho I sound a bit braggy I do seriously expect the long term ROI to drop sooner or later. But whilst I'm here I'm going to savour the moment.

I've just started playing the $60's :-O It's true! So far 34 played at 32% ROI :D There's still plenty of fish up here, more so at the really quiet times but obv then only about 4 will run. Still, more than you can say for the 9mans. Why is that? I can't think what attracts fish to 18's more than 9's. Maybe it's that pure reason that they load faster. The fish have simply followed the trend of what loads fastest. But then why didn't fish keep the 9's loading in the first place then? Not a clue to be fair. Quite a mystery tbh. I mean FTP had 18 mans and the 9's crushed them in terms of volume at any stake at all. That speaks some pretty weird shit.

So I had almost half a grand losing first day of Feb, which was mostly down to the $60's intro. Then today went like this:

What I love about that graph is there's no 4ths. I DESPISE 4ths!! Most of it was just 1.8 hrs before Stars had yet another epic fail and SnG's were screwed for the rest of the day. Then I made another $180 tonight from 14 games or so thanks to a $60 win while most other games broke even.

JANUARY REVIEW!!

2012-01-31T17:57:00.003Z

My best month ever. Certainly not my most volume ever, as I've been promising myself every month for ever, but the best profit. Played a total of 99 hours equating to 1620 games. Things would have been +$360 even better off if I hadn't had a tiny spell faffing in some hypers and STT's.

I've got rakeback set to 30% in HEM but tbh I've not a flippin clue what it truly is. What I'll say is it's $5193 excluding rakeback and I took the 50k FPP $650 bonus this month. Add $440 in BOP bonuses to that and it's a total net figure of $6283 in the bank. Equating to $63/£40 an hour. I'd take that hourly forever more imo.

Hilarious

2012-01-31T17:42:00.003Z

After an awesome first set today amounting to $800+ over 2.2 hours I decided that'll do for the month, ending it on a high to publish the results. Only I noticed something.

269pts in Earth low orbit after just 6 games into the 3rd block! Ok, I'll load up just 14 $15's and see if I can't get an immense score. It's easy to see why low orbit is so damn fucking hard to pwn. Here's what happened next:

The session was 60k chips below EV without getting a single game past the bb200 level. Go figure.

Anyone had this happen before????

2012-01-30T16:01:00.001Z

So for my second session of the day something failed massively with Stars and I was sitting out a load of fucking tables without even knowing it!!!

Halfway through a set a message kept popping up "incorrect nickname, try again" or something similar. When carrying on playing it would disappear but came back again about 15 mins later. So I logged out and back in to find another fucking 8 tables have appeared!!!! They were mostly $30's too so bascially I got fucked over with my BOP momentum and lost about 10 consecutive $30's. I'm going to complain for a refund because it's fuck all to do with my system I know that for a fact!!

Welcome back

2012-01-30T08:25:00.000Z

Had a bit of a lay off recently. Been having a few personal problems which I won't go into.

So today I come back at 6am, having gone to sleep around midnight. I'll probably be nodding off again by 10 but whatevs.

What's the first thing I find? Something UNUSUAL. Simakos has not only woken up, but totally spazzed out vs me!!!

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 15 Tournament, 75/150 Blinds (5 handed)

Hero (SB) (t1930)
simadonk (t2675)
UTG (t3840)
MP (t1795)
Button (t4730)
Hero's M: 8.58

Preflop: Hero is SB with 9, 7

3 folds, Hero bets t375, simakos calls t225

Flop: (t750) 4, 4, K (2 players)

Hero checks, simakos checks

Turn: (t750) 10 (2 players)

Hero checks, simakos bets t300, Hero raises to t600, simakos calls t300

River: (t1950) 7 (2 players)

Hero bets t955 (All-In), simakos calls t955

Total pot: t3860

Results:

Hero had 9, 7 (two pair, sevens and fours).

BB had A, 2 (one pair, fours).

Outcome: Hero won t3860
simakos gayed out

Obv my shove was a total bluff, I wasn't expecting to get value from my triple merged doppleganger HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA!!

I clearly tilted the billion tabler. Later on the bubble of the same game...

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 15 Tournament, 400/800 Blinds 50 Ante (5 handed)

Hero (Button) (t8855)
simadoesntcareanymorekos (t3875)
BB (t2580)
UTG (t6780)
MP (t4910)
Hero's M: 6.11

Preflop: Hero is Button with 3, 7

2 folds, Hero bets t8805 (All-In), SB calls t3425 (All-In), 1 fold

Flop: (t8700) 8, 6, 10 (2 players, 2 all-in)

Turn: (t8700) 4 (2 players, 2 all-in)

River: (t8700) 5 (2 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: t8700

Results:

Hero had 3, 7 (straight, eight high).

SB had 2, 10 (one pair, tens).

Outcome: Hero won t8700

Dear Pokerstars, thankyou for my $400 BOP bonus today....

2012-01-24T00:50:00.002Z

...but honestly, no no I insist... HAVE IT ALL FUCKING BACK!!!!!!!!! (with extra)

misclick

2012-01-19T22:30:00.003Z

Horrible :(

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 30 Tournament, 150/300 Blinds 25 Ante (7 handed)

BB (t2139)
UTG (t5328)
Hero (MP1) (t4084)
MP2 (t5337)
CO (t4695)
Button (t868)
SB (t4549)
Hero's M: 6.53

Preflop: Hero is MP1 with 4, A

1 fold, Hero bets t4059 (All-In), 1 fold, CO raises to t4670 (All-In), 2 folds, BB calls t1814 (All-In)

Flop: (t10557) 8, K, 8 (3 players, 3 all-in)

Turn: (t10557) J (3 players, 3 all-in)

River: (t10557) J (3 players, 3 all-in)

Total pot: t10557

Results:

BB had 10, 10 (two pair, Jacks and tens).

Hero had 4, A (two pair, Jacks and eights).

CO had A, K (two pair, Kings and Jacks).

Outcome: CO won t10557

I was clicking the side button on my mouse for a shove on one table when my finger just spaz double clicked all by itself!! Quite gutting cause I was sitting ok with 7 left on a soft table. Still ended up $420 up in the $30's. I'm doing aboslutely shite in the $15's all year for some reason :/

Oh and I completely forgot to reg the first TCOOP game for $22!! It's already finished after 5hr 40mins, top place took $76k from 45k entrants!!!!!! DOH!

Moaning pays off, best day record broken again

2012-01-17T22:53:00.009Z

That's the way it seems lately. So my blog being more up and down emotionally than a crack whore on heat might not be such a bad thing :D

Had my best ever, EVER day once again today. All 18-mans. 38 $30's and 28 $15's. I'm actually playing more $30's than $15's lately. I load up both all the way to about 10-12 then load mostly just $30's after that, but I don't continuous for that long, really.

So it was only a half day but there was no way I was going to carry on and risk ruining it!! A slightly annoying factor is BOP. I fell ONE game short of completing the next 20 block and the current score will go top, but it would have been almost guaranteed first place by the end of the week if my finish distribution had been better. In the last sesh it was 10 games and I got three 3rds and two 1sts which amounts to $800 won there. If I'd made the same amount of money with four 1sts instead, still amounting to $800, it would have accumulated 58 MORE points, which is massive in low orbit!!! Guess I'm never happy eh lol. 486 points won it last week, I have 487 with 1 game left to go lol. Would be quite miraculous if I finished itm in that first game..maybe I should one table?? :D

So anyway today's little stint takes me to 9th in the $16-$35 league but 4th place from Pokerstars only. Gonna capture it cause it might be the furthest I get lol

Talking of sharkscope, I really don't like the new layout much at all. But anyway I sent an email sugggestion to them, getting a response from the usual "Isabelle", I sweatr she runs it single handedly, sent loads of mails in the past and she's the only person ever to respond. I asked about having a league filter option for ROI instead of profit. But to combat the problem of players having only played like 2 games ever for 5000% ROI, to qualify, a player needs to have averaged so many games. I said call it 50 games per day as an example. It would kinda mean that by the end of the year if you'd played 18250 games then you'd make it on the ROI board but if you'd only played 18249 you wouldn't. So that seems a bit off but I can't really think of another way of doing it so that sample sizes are fair from the beginning of the year. I get the feeling the leagues would look COMPLETELY different so there would be two sets of leagues for people to brag about.

EIDT: I one tabled the last game whilst watching tv and ran TT into QQ,@ bb150 yawn. Still, me n Brendon are sitting on Neptune's throne...which is a bit of a coincidence :D

EDIT2: Me and sippin have both dropped to 3rd since, which is a big Ahole considering my score beat last week's 1st. FML

UPDATE...

2012-01-16T20:26:00.001Z

NOT won a flip in 4 days.

THE FUCKING END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

edit: I did 7 hours today, no mean feat it's true, but actually my longest day of the year so far LOL!! Sadly I may aswell have spent it fucking my own arse with a cactus for all the good it did. #everactuallygrindedforlongandcomeoutontop?no

Goal pondering

2012-01-13T04:21:00.003Z

Tbh I don't have any rigid poker goals for 2012. Other than to really just play MORE than I did last year...by quite a huge amount I admit it should be. I'd probably be reasonably happy with double the amount of games. My HEM tells me I played about 16k games in 2011 so double sounds about right. If I could maintain the $3.50 per game I've made since the last stint of coaching then that would certainly mount up to some serious wedge! But I 100% feel I won't be able to keep that figure up for the life of me. I'd say it's reasonable to expect $2.50 per game depending on whether I make it to the $60 games at any point this year. Obviously expect much more if I managed to jack in the $15's altogether for $30's and $60's only!! But being such a BR nit and hoping to spend a fair bit of money on motorbiking this year, I doubt that's likely. Other than that, the only other goal is obviously supernova, which I've never been - much to most grinders' surprise.

Already there are sick grinders in every single game for what seems like 24hrs a day!!! It's quite annoying actually. Seems like these people never fucking sleep!! I'm considering going back to dodgy hours of like 4am til midday or something to lessen chances of seeing the same faces in every game, thus maximising ROI.

I just read jasonkobe's goals for this year. He wants to do SNE TWICE over LOL!! He's in Thailand having left a wife and 2 kids at home in US somewhere, playing 10hrs a day solid, every day, no days off. Personally I find that sickening and it doesn't impress me much at all. I find it quite sad, no life at all. GO AND SPEND YOUR FUCKING MONEY YOU TIGHTWAD!!!!

Today was shit! Was up to $450 at one stage (which was yesterday's final total) but then lost the lot in the next 2 hour stint. So BE for the day. Very boring.

A Royal today

2012-01-11T21:27:00.006Z

Really am not kidding here, not even exaggerating the tiniest bit. I cba to trawl thru HEM but I'm fairly certain that we're talking well over 30-40 consecutive pre flop sized 3bets with KK that have been flatted to see an Ace on the flop in the last month or something. Odds of that? Must be a good few billion or trillion to one I reckon.

Something else that's pissing me right off, the times when two people are all-in ahead of you and you've got like KTs or something, but they're both in for a few bb's each and basically it's a really borderline decision. So you decide to call and it's the hero call of all hero calls, player 1 has K9, player 2 has QTs. Sorted, smashing them to pieces. I never, ever, ever win those, ever. Ok when I have JJ+ yes I win a good amount of them but ffs.

Anyway can't complain overall too much, it's very swingy so far this year but a bad day is followed by a good one in general instead of the old 289 consecutive bad days. Let's hope they stay away forever!!

Oh and binked a lovely royal today, the 9th or 10th (forget now) in I think about 2.2 years. as I pointed out in my little braggy pic I posted on fb, I've never once had a winning session when a royal flush occured and today was no exception!

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The $1 3x turbo rebuy

2012-01-08T16:14:00.002Z

If none of you play this game, you seriously should! It has to be THE best value tourney on the entire site. With a $30k guarantee the prize pool usually TRIPLES that. I've played a few times and rarely ever fail to make it to the 90 minute mark where the add on is like 30k!! lol.

I happened to be browsing the lobby last night when there was 5 left at the FT so decided to wwatch for a while. CL was a reg called fourty14, the rest were awful fish. He had 140 million chips lmao! But what was really weird was that no one had less than 50bbs apart rom one guy on 20bb. 50bbs minimum on a TURBO FT?!??!?!?! With blinds at 2m hahahahaha. Crazy shit right there!

Anyway the play was absolute atrocious and I watched with utter envy as fourty14 took it down a piece of piss for the top spot of $13k. Each fish was just straight shoving 50 and even 100bbs to min raise opens. I was in chat creasing my pants off. Fourty recognised me asking if I still play 9-mans. See I'm famous really ;)

In one hand bvb a fish shoved 40bbs into fourty14 and he called holding QQ. Fish had 44 and binked!! Shoving 40bbs with 44 LOL! Then when they got heads up over 100bb deep the remaining fish just kept shoving over an open when there's like TONSSSSSSSS of play left. I mean HU isn't so bad because usually when you both have playable hands like say KQs vs A7o or whatever it's always going to be +cev just getting it in with any amount of blinds. It just seems a shame some impatient idiot forces the game to end in that way. If it went 3b/4b/5b shove then fair enough.

So 7hrs work for a few $ buy-in for $13k! Ok there was 13k entrants in total so it's still one hell of a lottery but if you get a huge stack and get down to the last few thousand where people are dropping like flies, you can really own your table.

Every night at 19:15 GMT.

calmer

2012-01-08T00:31:00.003Z

I really spazzed out in Firday's post. I mean it was only one day's play, not like a massive swing, but as I said it was just the simple fact my prediction came true. It can probably be blamed purely on negative thinking and expectation but that will never change about me. I've always been a pessimist and have a glass that is well and truly empty with a couple of greenies in the bottom :D Well we can't all be bright n breezy yankee/canardassian players who's over optimism is enough to make one hurl!!

Anyway before sleeping last night I set myself volume goals. Don't even think about the profit/loss, whatever happens just breeeeeeeeeeeeaaathe through it and concentrate on reaching the goal of X amount of games. Simple as that. It's obviously something allllllll grinders do, I mean it's ABC stuff I know that, but it's the fact I need to repeat it to myself over and over, actually saying it out loud, sometimes shouting it out like a fucking schizo...."DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT JUST LOAD ANOTHER...CALLLLM RATIONAL, DON'T TILT CARRY ON AND REACH THAT NUMBER OF GAMES..." As I've said before I'm certain my neighbours think I'm insane.

So for now I've set 100 games a day as I seem to be able to manage that with relative ease before major boredom and loss of concentration starts seeping in. The more I play this game the more I realise why there are excpetional ROI's out there and bad ones but with both extremes knowing how to play almost optimally. Because there's so much other stuff that contributes to ROI fail. Mostly it's too many tables. I used to think mehhhhhh my game is the same whether I'm playing 12 or 22 tables, but now I know it's not even close. Perhaps it USED to be and maybe I was right back then, but it's not now, ever since Stars increased the speed of processing the games; deals, moving chips to winner, dealing the boards etc etc. I time out way more than I used to because of a combination of that speed increase plus requiring more thinking time because I just want to resteal every single damn open on every table!! :-/

Today I made some dough back.

Which took the first week of 2012's earnings to about $800.

LOL

2012-01-06T01:31:00.003Z

Deary deary dearrrrrrry me. I mean, anyone who's read any post of this blog over the last year or so knows I of all people know all about the most disgusting, bewildering and downright gobsmackingly shocking impossibility of online RNG's. But today, my friends...today I have witnessed things I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy!!! Ok then perhaps quadchrazs ;) joke.

Lost count of AA and KK "flash-ups". I call them flash ups now, may aswell give them a name as it's going to be used a fucking helluva lot over the next few months you can betcha bottom dorrar on that kids!! A "flashup" is that seriously annoying, tilt inducing almost to the point of mass homicide occurance when the table you've just bust FLASHES up over everything else. And yes I know you can switch Stars to insta close bust tables so that it doesn't happen (I think) but I don't want to do that because I always look at the instant hh to see what went wrong. I know it's time consuming and probably stops me from playing a ton more tables, but personally I think it's crucial to see as many showdowns as possible to see what villains are doing.

So when a flash up occurs for a split second you see what villain was holding. So todays there has been one hundred biiiiiiiiiiiillion AA/KK flash ups. To the point where my guts are in my mouth and I've honestly never come so close to just smashing everything within my vicinity to pieces! Just saying 'what the hell let's smash every fucking thing up despite still having 12 games left.' Flushes, straights, cooler after cooler, EVERY showdown, EVERY one...EVVVVVVVRRRRRRRRY SINGLE ONE.

I dabbled in a few hypers today. Now that there's been ample time since they were introduced on Stars to be gathering some ROI information I had a little scout about. One guy has 7% over a 10k sample at the $30's!! Like, wut?!?!?! Really never thought they'd be THAT profitable!! So here's my little introduction to them. I've got a little name for the intro. I've called it "A REAL SMASH IN THE CUNTING FACE!!!!!!!!!!!!"

One of the worst poker days of my entire life today.

2011 REVIEW (possibly tl;mrib (might read if bored))

2011-12-31T13:43:00.009Z

Hmmm how long could this post be? I really don't know as I begin. I might end up rambling on and on but then I think I'm going to stop myself, because tbh I could reveal a few tips n tricks for SnG's which I'd rather keep to myself in all honesty (unlike bigbluff who wants to educate the planet!) Hi bbz :D

The year started out fucking terribly for me. Actually I'm quite paranoid about the start of 2012 in light of that. I know the RNG is gonig to switch massively for everyone and as I've had a very decent final quarter, it feels fitting that my doomswitch is going to be activated bang on midnight on Jan 1st!!!

Well I say it started out bad, initially the first couple weeks was good. Anyone on my fb might remember this picture after 2 weeks LOL!!!!

I was going for top STTer on FTP as I was now getting 27% rb in the form of their new cashback scheme for non rb qualifiers. Here's those first 2 weeks.

12% across the board which broken down saw a nice start to the $24's with 10% over a few hundred with EV bang on course. Seemed about right to me.

But then disaster struck!

ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY!!! fucking buy-ins down :(( EV line didn't even look all that great but I guarantee that was down to the ridiculous amount of coolers I was being served up. Can't stress how many shoves were met with top ends of ranges on a permanent basis. I do feel confident today though that playing the way I do now would have seen a slight decrease in that bad swing, but probably not a whole lot.

Thankfully the losses were relieved by the RNG being a tad kinder in 45's and 90's.

It's all mostly a bit LOL-SAMPLE but regardless of that, 170bis in STT's over 1500 games is pretty darn brutal and affected me in a huge way mentally.

Over the same period leading up to BF I did ok on Stars. Again all mostly no voluming at all though.

In June I decided to dump the 9 mans for a bit as all the latest American communist developments meant that volume dropped in them hugely, so I noticed 6-mans were loading up real fast and gave them a go. This was where my decision to meta it up big time came about. Player stats in 6m were always bound to be alot laggier and indeed it proved to make for some pretty spewy stuff! But I like to think it paid off. Over 800 games in June I ran at 13%, although red line was 7% :-/

In July I hit a bad patch in them and decided to give up and move onto 18-mans. Now I already had 18m experience up until then in the shape of 1300 games at 16% ROI. They were games I would play randomly on and off. I remember always enjoying them more than any other format but never had really made them my main game through basically the fear of so many regs. But this was to prove to be a very misguided fear! Firstly, they really weren't as reg infested as the forums always liked to make out. Sure you saw more regs in one game than you did in a 9m but there was double the opponents! $15-9's got to the stage where at least 6-7 regs of varying skills were guaranteed. Well that's 60-80% of the field. 18's might have had 9 or 10 regs in but that was only 50% of the field and most of the time it was more like 6-8 regs anyway!! Gigantic difference.

So anyway from this point on things looked up. I studied ICM spots 3-5 handed alot more closely and realised some things that I hadn't really realised even whilst achieving 16% of 1.3k sample! Did this mean I was going to get even better in them???

Apparently so. My $15 ROI definitely upped, but unfortunately due to a small bad patch from the end of Septmeber until the last week in October (albeit only a 550 sample) the ROI was brought to an average of 13%. Which is still almost top of the league BUT...exclude that little bad patch and I was 15% in the 1.2k games up to it, and have been 19% in the 1.5k games after it. Again not big samples but enough to give you an idea on things.

As for the $30's, well.... 23% ROI over 550 so a nice start to them.

Overall I made enough to live over the year on average, but once again volume was very poor. What I am very proud of is the year's graph ending in a peak! Not sure how many grinders can say that right now!

2012 HAS to be the one! There's no excuses to be made. I feel this year is pretty much online poker's last year in business before everyone is royally screwed over with so many player pools being segregated in disgusting communist fashion, with no fucker being able to do anything about it. I mean how there can't be multiple people in power that don't have some understanding and passion towards the game and realisation that it's affecting people's livelihoods is totally beyond me!!

So 2012 is probably my last chance to make a go at $100k year and then hopefully have a roll that enables me to switch to what is likely going to have to be much higher stakes (and probably cash games) due to volume being unattainable and if not that then possibly becoming a live pro! Which I'm far too lazy for!!

GL FOR 2012 GUUIIIIIIIIIZE!!!!

Who likes this bubble hand?

2011-12-28T17:34:00.003Z

Just experienced one of the worst bubbles of my life. You know the ones, reg infested with annoying as fuck (usually me but not on this occasion) chip leader pwning the balls out of everyone.

Table consists of talentaki, latenthreat, supertight31 (not many hands on) and polish tard DeadMan_PL. Both deadman and latenthreat are REALLY annoying regs who try and fail to pwn me meta wise. As an exmple of this, here's a hand from earlier before the bubble. latenthreat is the button. So much meta going on with this punk that I just sodded it and didn't believe the flop min3b. Phewf!

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 30 Tournament, 100/200 Blinds 25 Ante (7 handed)

SB (t2260)
Hero (BB) (t5380)
UTG (t2320)
MP1 (t2337)
MP2 (t5578)
CO (t2657)
Button (t6468)

Hero's M: 11.33

Preflop: Hero is BB with K, A
4 folds, Button bets t400, 1 fold, Hero raises to t877, Button calls t477

Flop: (t2029) 2, 6, 8 (2 players)

Hero bets t999, Button raises to t1998, Hero raises to t4478 (All-In), 1 fold

Total pot: t6025

Results:

Hero didn't show K, A.

Outcome: Hero won t6025

Now considering the amount this guy metas it up, he's only 6% in the $15's since he reset in April, that's over 5k games. I guess these guys just do it too often or what, I don't know. Or maybe their meta play is winning big time but their ICM is horrendous. I never used to get involved in meta stuff, usually I would just fold or let them walk into the nuts, and that's profitable enough vs guys who try it on too often...but now I do that PLUS pwn their arses whilst holding nothing.

So then comes the bubble hand. I think the limp is pretty good because if I raise then deadman shoves atc every time and latenthreat probably folds. This way if I just limp then the chances latenthreat gets the last half of his stack in not knowing if I'm going to call or fold increases ten fold imo. That said, I do think he would get it in regardless but I had to be sure. Obviously I fold if he did fold his BB.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 30 Tournament, 400/800 Blinds 50 Ante (5 handed)
UTG (t2442)
Hero (MP) (t5642)
Button (t7006)
SB (t10234)
BB (t1676)
Hero's M: 3.89

Preflop: Hero is MP with J, K

1 fold, Hero calls t800, 1 fold, SB bets t10184 (All-In), BB calls t826 (All-In), Hero calls t4792 (All-In)

Flop: (t13060) 10, 3, 9 (3 players, 3 all-in)

Turn: (t13060) 4 (3 players, 3 all-in)

River: (t13060) 5 (3 players, 3 all-in)

Total pot: t13060

Results:

SB had 8, 2 (high card, ten).

BB had 4, 2 (one pair, fours).

Hero had J, K (high card, King).

Outcome: BB won t5128, Hero won t7932

So I wanted to run the hand afterwards and for some reason ICM explorer fucks up because it says I need the same amount of equity whether BB folds or not LULZ! So I tried to simulate it in wiz making me the BB, deadman has shoved button and latenthreat calls all-in from SB and the range for me to call with deadman on atc is 77+,AT+,A9s+,KTs+. So that pretty much rules KJo in in my book. Looks like I got it absolutely bang on. Dont tink....FEEEEEEEEEEEL!

Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly gloryyy

2011-12-22T20:25:00.006Z

I don't post on 2+2 these days as I've been banned (pretty sure I've mentioned that before) but I often read STTF. And it's welcoming to see the amount of crap that gets spouted off in there lately. There's a couple of long time regs in STTF, and I won't mention any names, who give the most detailed theoretical responses to just about every hand posted, yet they don't even fucking play!!! I've been taking some guy's word to be the nuts and then find he posts some random hand himself in like a $1 game, stating something like "first game I've played in long because I run so bad I gave up for a year" or some shit like that. So I'm like omg, I'm NEVER listening to you again!! TBH I never really listened in the first place. The ones who reel of mathematical equation after the other are rarely the crushers of the game. Which makes little sense really because it is a maths game. But the thing is the math is totally basic. Complicated shit isn't required. I'm the dumbest maths bum on earth and I challenge to be as good as anyone in the games I play. Although I do feel I'm a bit of a Phil Ivey of the SnG world. Yes, yes I know you've just shatterd your monitors with the pressure of the air wave that just exploded from your lungs, but it's true :D He doesn't sit there using numbers, his brain automatically converts the numbers into "feeeeeeeeeel", and I feel my instinct is often right in just the same way.

As the great master of not just his pursuit, but also an absolute crusher of life once said...."don't tink....FEEEEEEEEEL"

Massive complaint about KK

2011-12-19T09:39:00.000Z

I don't exaggerate in the tiniest bit when I say I seriously cannot remember the last time some fuck faced moron flatted my KK 3bet getting aboslutely no odds at all with about 4bbs behind holding A2o and DIDN'T FLOP AN ACE!!! Or when a bit deeper stacked. Basically I take the same line almost every time. The sigh check-fuck this-call line which I actually think is profitable enough as plenty have bluffed turns/rivers without it. Still, the riggedness is so damn boring, I could actually die of "predictable stars RNG syndrome".

Oh and the other one. Very rarely do you get some prick 4b all-in with utter junk, but the reason that is is because there's very few people who have access to knowing what cards are coming on the flop (obviously it's a secret society that only Mr Pokerstars and maybe a few relatives know about).

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 15 Tournament, 15/30 Blinds (9 handed)

MP2 (t2131)
Hero (MP3) (t1095)
CO (t1490)
Button (t2000)
SB (t1410)
BB (t929)
UTG (t1430)
UTG+1 (t1480)
MP1 (t1535)

Hero's M: 24.33

Preflop: Hero is MP3 with K, K
3 folds, MP2 bets t90, Hero raises to t225, CO raises to t1490 (All-In), 4 folds, Hero calls t870 (All-In)

Flop: (t2325) 7, 10, 8

Results:

Hero had K, K (two pair, Kings and eights).

CO had 6, 9 (straight, ten high).

Outcome: CO won t2325

Oh yeah forgot to mention the Anniversary Million. My highest ever buy-in is $60 so suddenly buying for $215 was something very new to me. Though it didn't deter my game whatsoever. In fact I decided if we're going to get anywhere in this 60,000 player field then we're going to have to get very active, very early. And this worked out to begin with. I got upto 360bbs by around 30/60 or so. Then much later with around 24bbs or so I decided to shove AQs on an EP opener. Everyone was opening wide as fuck because it hardly ever got to LP unopened so I felt AQs was good enough. Problem was I wanted to build up a 3b image with sized 3bets only but felt I didn't want to get flatted so just shoved it all in. Well EPR had QQ but I flopped an Ace and turned flush lol. So escaped that one then eventually had about 18k at about 400/800 with 99 on the button facing a UTG open. Hmmm, villain's been opening 14% from UTG, right it's going in then. Snap calls AKs, King flop, game over.

I mean there's just no way on earth you're even going to get to 20000th (which was the point when Stars decided they'd ALLOW us to see chip counts and prize pool) without winning at least a few 50-50 AIPF's. I did try chipping up and being captain table but the fish were so fuckin awful that you just couldn't get anyone off anything on any street. Then you have to resort to "oh well fold til I get a hand then".

I've just this minute finished catching the last of the Million. They chopped it at 6 players and one of them was moaning he wasn't getting enough. So it ended up the 2 CL's donated him a bit extra which meant as the shortest stack he was getting more than the 2nd shortest. Well anyway they cut the deal and played on to win an extra $200k. The guy who got stiffed ended up taking 2nd which would have been for $1m...except he settled for $580k.... OOOOFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!

DOUBLE BOP [ ] mmm makes any difference LOL

2011-12-13T05:05:00.000Z
This week is double points for Battle Of The Planets. Someone in the forums seems to think as a result average scores will rise and top scores will be tougher. I've a couple of short words to say to him, well a 2 letter word that you repeat next to each other..."HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA". Silly twat. That's like saying that because the Lotto has rolled over 95 times and the prize is 85 squillion then there's going to be more winners!! Er nooooooooo, absolutely nothing can affect the outcome of what is essentially A LEAGUE OF PURE LUCK.

Goes without saying I've used up my 1st 100 games in both earth and neptune and gotten absolutely nowhere in the low orbit, whilst luck sacks like n0bigdeal, having not seen him at the tables for well over a week, think they can pop along and just leisurely cruise straight to the fucking top of the league with a score that probably won't be beat!! Sickens me. Oh well GL him, seems a nice guy.

But despite not getting any BOP score, the last few days have been pretty good even though I have still felt like I've run pretty bad. The reason I've felt hard done by despite making $100/hr for the past 15hrs is because the first half hour of every session has been torture. But then I've managed a couple wins rightr at the end to kinda dig my way out of it. Still, I supposed I'd take that over starting off really well then getting terrible at the end to just break even.

Dec so far:

And here's my graph since receiving coaching from one of the world's probably top 3 or 4 18-human players. Editing in here that since said coaching I have run extremely well in comparison with earlier in the year so it's hard to tell how much can be attributed to a couple of new skills aka spews.

Oh the consistancy boggles

2011-12-09T10:19:00.001Z
It's a well known fact that only blessed perma boomswitch players like sippin_criss, glitlr and such like are the ones who run anywhere close to stable. Stable is the key word here. Running TO expectation isn't something online RNG's are capable of simulating. It's not an opinion. It's not up for debate. It's not arugable. It's just plain and simple- FACT!

You've probably guessed I'm back to running like a bag o' shite again...you would be correct. I'm not too bothered by it (other than screaming the walls down, neighbours will wonder just wtf the loner next door gets up!), as I'm very much expecting it after the last few K games of run REASONABLE...yeh not rungood, but runREASONABLE. But what gets me so fuckin angry is the unrealistic bullshit of it all. Yes I admit my good runs are as pathetically impossibly unrealistic as my bad ones, it's not all one sided. But a day hardly ever ever ever ends on break even EV. Well it should. It should more often than it shouldn't.

Also, it's even more to be expected because I've even dared to venture into a couple of $60's :-O shock horror!! As one can imagine I had this one game per set off to the side to pay more attention, and what I noticed was whilst on all my other tables my stats were all like 35/24, on the $60 tables they were 0/0 lol, that's how card dead $60 RNG decided I was going to be. Then in the 4th attempt at one I got itm as 2nd in chips, me n CL quite far ahead of other's, yet I go out in 4th. What I also noticed were the fish in them are worse than any fucking micro stakes fish you'll find!! There is always 1 or 2 tards with 65% VPIP's in them who annoy you to death! Just a shame there isn't enough of them. Am totally rolled to play them but probs won't make them regular just yet.

Bit embarrassed.... Nov review

2011-12-01T04:58:00.000Z
I say embarrassed because after flip knows how many years of posting the same shit on here about promising to volume more....I STILL HAVEN'T! However Novemeber was probably my best running month of my entire poker existance!! I managed around $100 an hour all month...only I totalled not even a proper WEEK'S work at just 36 hours lol.

That's 367 $15's @ 21% ROI and 181 $30's at 43% ROI lol. Really don't know what I'm going to do for December, whether it be try n volume some or just fuck it and wait til the new year and go for it properly...you know just like last year! :/

Can somenoe let me know if clicking on the image enlargens it as I'm finding on other people's blogs clicking on the image does nothing?

ZOMG 2nd BEST DAY OF YEAR!!!

2011-11-02T22:18:00.000Z
Do not adjust your set, and do not insta phone emergency services complaining of acute hallucinosis, WHAT YOU SEE IS REAL!!!

The question is, could it have been an even bigger day, or would carrying on have made it not so good? It only actually took 18 games to achieve LOL but a further session to make 81 games in total upped the score to $885 for the day. The reason I haven't "carried on" isn't because of my usual excuse of being lazy, but that I received some bad news in another area of life and it's put me off playing anymore for the day.

It was the $30's which I've recently started playing that were to account for most of the winnings, and even more remarkable is that this is straight after a pretty heft cashout I made yesterday!!

October review

2011-11-01T20:44:00.001Z
Well I finally got in more volume than any other month this year, albeit still not quite 2k games. From 1953 games I made $1656 before rakeback for a pathetic 6% ROI. This was basically due to the sick run bad for the first 900 games of the month. The last 1k games is a solid 12% ROI.

The most impressive thing for the month was my 45-180 stints.

Here's what ruined everything though. The first 19 days of 18's looked like this:

But the 2nd half looked like this:

I also took out some rakeback this month for 50k fpps irrc but averaging out the SUPPOSED rakeback that we get then in total it was about $1 per game all in. Effing shite but whatever.

STOP PRESS!! 3RD BEST DAY OF YEAR ZOMG!!!!!!!!

2011-10-28T02:12:00.000+01:00
No your pc isn't about to crash and implode, you did indeed read correctly! Best day since 28th March of this year! It has been extremely eventful with simply too many hands to go into, but this was the best of them all.

Villain was 18m reg jcar9271. When I bet the flop I hadn't even noticed he was villain, in fact I thought I was betting into BB becuase I had a lot of tables popping up with sick 3-5 handed spots. Then I notice it's him on the turn and think hmmmmmm, he must have AA, what else? OH HAIIIIII RIVER QUAD

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 15 Tournament, 150/300 Blinds 25 Ante (5 handed)

SB (t8670)
BB (t5715)
Hero (UTG) (t6050)
MP (t4770)
Button (t1795)

Hero's M: 10.52

Preflop: Hero is UTG with A, 6

Hero bets t630, MP calls t630, 3 folds

Flop: (t1835) 6, 7, A (2 players)

Hero bets t777, MP calls t777

Turn: (t3389) 6 (2 players)

Hero checks, MP checks

River: (t3389) 6 (2 players)

Hero bets t1999, MP raises to t3338 (All-In), Hero calls t1339

Total pot: t10065

Results:

Hero had A, 6 (four of a kind, sixes).

MP had A, A (full house, Aces over sixes).

Outcome: Hero won t10065

+$650 total.

another day another gift to rigdom

2011-10-26T23:00:00.000+01:00
I'm wondering just how many years I'm going to have to wait til I get a break! Ya see, whenever I run good it's when I'm not on the serious grind. Past 10 days or so I've really tried to play a minimum of 100 games a day, which to some of you might seem like a walk in the park, but 100 is still better than average. But it's during these times that I never, ever do any good. The last time I had a cracking day from a long proper grind was back in the days of Full Tilt and the 4hr long stints I spent in the 90-mans. It's totally impossible for ANYONE to not have a good day on a tough long grind...except for me. My best day this month was the 11th winning $320 from 102 games. That is simply shit. 12 days this month have been 100+ games and that's the best I can do? I should have had a +$1k yearrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrs ago man!!!!!

tyjdtgbsryjr

2011-10-24T03:21:00.000+01:00
Since my last post I've played 260 games at 15.7% ROI. Yesterday I played some 45's and had the most hilarious win in a $15, my first in yearrrrrrrrrrrs it feels like. Early/mid game I doubled up when needing to, first QQ > KK then later T7s > AQo. So we gets to the FT and the usual bullshit is happening, like every single all-in player never loses as Stars absolutely refuses to allow bubbles to burst for at least 3000 all-in showdowns (yet another well noticed rig pattern). So anyways I had 2.5bbs UTG at the bubble (which I obv folded). When I made it HU I had ONE BB left. One in and one behind and villain fucking folded HAHAHAHAHAHA. He then folded next hand to my tiny shove and it just went on from there. Doubled, doubled again then finished it with a mr with KK and he shoves over (probably shaking with rage at this point, I know how he feels it's usually me it happens to) with K6s and his 95% shot of hitting twelve sixes just never occured!! Literally my miracle game of the entire year, and probably for many a decade to come.

Today was a bit of a landmark also. I don't usually play weekends at all but felt in the mood to take advantage of weekend fish. I've been toying with an idea the past couple of days that would just be a hell of an achievement if I was to manage it, but it's just too unlikely. It's just a joke idea really, but it's probably just about possible for someone like me who's not within a mile of any SS leaderboard, to play enough games before 2012 to rise up through the $15 9-man ranks and knock sippin_criss off of top spot. I mean it's a fuckin travesty as it is that he's likely to be winning a leaderboard that he gave up on 5 months into the year!!! But the problem with doing that is simply volume. The games hardly run now! So I just did a mini trial and I think it was roughly at peak time too. I got 22-23 tables running but just couldn't keep it there. You bust faster than they can load so I was down to like 14 and then 10 at one point despite continuously loading! I figured that to make enough money at them (roughly $15k!) at the rate I've been making on them since BF ($1.50/game) it would take at least 250 games a day if I worked 5 days a week....LULLLLLLZ!! So I really don't think that's even possible unless I was to up tables to a ridiculous amount like over 30 and then I'd obviously lose money, probably run bad etc etc, but it was a nice thought anyway. Certainly a DIFFERENT kinda goal anybody else has tween now n Jan.

So I tried out some volume and managed to continuous for 3.2 hours. With the higher number of tables than usual of over 20, I was simply unable to watch too many showdowns and as table after table FLASHED up before me (indicating you've bust), I just concentrated on staying relaxed, ignoring it and keeping focus. As a result I seemed to zone in more and more and it felt like I could actually add tables, despite it being f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-fooooooooold at a million miles an hour, constantly, no let up (how people 40 table is just fkn ridiculous).

I'll try it out again tomorrow with what regs there are in the $15-9's out and about and see just how many tables can be maintained and for how long.

Hand of the day (18m). This guy's a reg. So he flats me with shit then proceeds to SNAP super fast call every street like I never have JJ+ here. We don't even have any history. SILLY PRICK! Still, it worked out perfectly because I came right back to win it and did precisely the same move a few hands later with AA and got my chips back off the bellend.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 15 Tournament, 100/200 Blinds 25 Ante (6 handed)

SB (t1816)
Hero (BB) (t9499)
UTG (t2939)
MP (t2232)
CO (t5910)
Button (t4604)

Hero's M: 21.11

Preflop: Hero is BB with 3, 9

2 folds, CO bets t400, 2 folds, Hero raises to t888, CO calls t488

Flop: (t2026) 3, 5, 10 (2 players)

Hero bets t999, CO calls t999

Turn: (t4024) 2 (2 players)

Hero bets t7587 (All-In), CO calls t3998 (All-In)

River: (t12020) A (2 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: t12020

Results:

Hero had 3, 9 (one pair, threes).

CO had Q, 10 (one pair, tens).

Outcome: CO won t12020

18th

2011-10-19T00:52:00.001+01:00
Although finishing $100 in profit it's been another fucking awful soul crushing day. I'm into 1500 games break even now, ya know, just to combat the 6k games BE I've already had this year. That's fair isn't it?!?!?!?!?!??!??!?!?!?!? It's mostly been 9 mans again today with a few 18's thrown in, and as that's all i've been doing with the 18's lately I only just noticed today I've min cashed in 3 out of the last 55 of them. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED.

Manage 3hrs til suicide prevents more

2011-10-17T16:40:00.000+01:00
Not played all weekend and after the first 3hrs of today, I am talking to you from the grave. What has occured in today's games cannot, as usual, be put into words. I actually made the money in 33.3% of 18 180mans, achieved 60% ROI and ran like a fucking paraplegic in a gymnastics contest. There's absolutely no doubt had I won 5% of my 80-20s (that's all my AA vs every under pair flips) I would have made thousands!! This sheer hell just will not stop. 7 3/4 long years.

14th completed

2011-10-15T02:10:00.000+01:00
I've actually played 125 games today but it doesn't feel like it. It SHOULD feel like it, in fact it SHOULD feel like I've played 1250 games because the usual outcome has been....HEEEEELLLLLLLLL!!!! Another $100 spunked to the fish. So glad I picked a career that brings such fucking happiness.

14th Oct 1st sesh

2011-10-14T16:32:00.000+01:00
Just completed 2.5hrs and 53 games of mostly $15-9's with some 180's mixed in at the start. Managed to FT an $8 180 (the only buy-in I can seem to get anywhere close in lately) and naturally got coolered to absolute fuck for a pathetic 7th. With ten mins left I was half a grand down for a 40 bi losing 2.5hr session, utterly outrageous. It was brought back to just a 25bi loss. More of the same impossibleness...

Got to just ignore it and carry on, something previously I've failed at miserably 1000% of the time. Will get some lunch then I suggest anyone reading this gets in my games ASAP and shoves and calls ATC if seeing me on their table because the chips are just there to win with your 2-98% dogs.

12th Oct

2011-10-12T23:10:00.001+01:00
HELL HELL HEEEEEEEEEEELL HELL HELL HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELL...

is one way of describing the day. This is the state of my PFAI's every single day.

I KNEW this would happen when my earnings become so much more crucial, I mean my life is literally on the line now. I will be fuckiing homeless if this carries on, it's totally disgusting how rigged online poker is.

11th Oct

2011-10-11T02:52:00.000+01:00
And the 11th consecutive day of absolute suicide inducing hell! If any of you are familiar with the OMG cat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_S5cXbXe-4
well that's me all day every day watching this total lying illegal rigged bullshit unfold before my very eyes.

It's blatantly obvious what's happening here. Now that I'm alot more responsible having my own place I am obviously going to go on another record shattering bad run, you know, just to make up for all the run good I've had in the past )HAHAHAHAHAFUKCINHAHAHAHAHAHAFUCKINCUNTINHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA) so that come February when 3 grand is due for the next 6 months rent, I'll be 1234145235724r51234536456245762456234562457346 buy-ins down, skint, starving, FUCKING DEAD!¬!!! UNLUCKIEST PLAYER IN THE WORLD BAR NONE!!!!!!!

Made first MTT FT in decades

2011-10-09T18:35:00.000+01:00
Just to clarify about my prediction, hell-runnings have carried on as per the norm, 50bis down in 18's for the month, not that I've played that many.

So today I accumulated 1 mirrion in chips on Stars since I really don't know how long, years. Whilst playing some 18's I played a couple MTT's and got deep in a $4.40 Turbo $5k guarantee. 1st spot was only $1.6k so pretty lame from over 2600 runners. The good thing is I definitely felt I got there by opening up alot more since some coaching I've had recently. Not going to mention any names as the fewer amount of people he coaches, the better imo, but he's one of best players around. Which with me being 34 and him being a girly 21 or something, absolutely sickens me but w/e.

So yeah I felt some of his preaching helped me get there for sure. I was scraping along getting close to elimination when this hand popped up.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 4.4 Tournament, 17500/35000 Blinds 4375 Ante (8 handed)

UTG (t993673)
UTG+1 (t168976)
MP1 (t327281)
MP2 (t531058)
CO (t341201)
Button (t698630)
Hero (SB) (t345240)
BB (t782174)

Hero's M: 3.95

Preflop: Hero is SB with A, Q

UTG bets t105000, 5 folds,

he's 3x'd it, hmmm. He was opening 10% from EP over 79 hands I had on him total. It's either the bigger Ace or the smaller Ace, was pretty much my train of thought, highly technical I know LMAO!! I'd almost time banked when I just said FUCK IT JAAAAAAAM and fortunately it was a smaller Ace, but MIRACULOUSLY I held too.

Hero raises to t340865 (All-In), 1 fold, UTG calls t235865

Flop: (t751730) 8, 6, 5 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Turn: (t751730) 2 (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: (t751730) 4 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: t751730

Results:

Hero had A, Q (high card, Ace).

UTG had J, A (high card, Ace).

Outcome: Hero won t751730

I was soon upto 1.2 mil after another miracle happend. AK held vs a guy shoving KTs. Couldn't believe it, fancy my 1% shot coming in like that.

But never fear, from this point on it was back to SHEER HELL.

1st this hand which spikes it's river gutshot, sigh! But getting 10/1 on a call i obv had to even though I was beating nothing but a pure bluff which is like probs 1% of the time lol.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 4.4 Tournament, 20000/40000 Blinds 5000 Ante (7 handed)

Button (t810933)
SB (t112101)
BB (t344183)
UTG (t329326)
MP1 (t1411010)
Hero (MP2) (t1137548)
CO (t43132)
Hero's M: 11.97

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with 7, 7

2 folds, Hero bets t80000, CO calls t38132 (All-In), Button calls t80000, 2 folds

Flop: (t293132) 8, Q, 6 (3 players, 1 all-in)

Hero bets t100000, Button calls t100000

Turn: (t493132) 6 (3 players, 1 all-in)

Hero bets t125000, Button calls t125000

River: (t743132) 10 (3 players, 1 all-in)

Hero checks, Button bets t80000, Hero calls t80000

Total pot: t903132

Results:

Button had J, 9 (straight, Queen high).

Hero mucked 7, 7 (two pair, sevens and sixes).

CO mucked Q, 8 (two pair, Queens and eights).

Outcome: Button won t903132

A guy then shoves 2bb with 87s which beats my 77, not a huge loss but would have been a nice big gain. Then when down to 8bbs I get absolutely no action with KK even though my min's were being flatted 125% of the time.

Then I make FT, shove QQ with 5bbs and committed BB wins with J9o. I'm left with 4bb and have to shove UTG with a monster K4s and my only challenger binks a set that he needed so bad with his 55 and game over.

CONCLUSION: Losing flips vs guys commited with 1-3bbs is WAYYYYYYY huger than people realise. CUNTS!

LOL

2011-10-02T02:01:00.000+01:00
So it's a full gone conclusion now I'm back in the pits of hell. The question is how long is this one going to last? I'd estimate at least the rest of the year regardless of whether I play 11 games or 11 million.

These 2 hands happened simultaneous of each other. Let's just flat the AA and hope for some action behind, oh look, perfect result on both tables. Ooh what will happen I wonder. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 15 Tournament, 25/50 Blinds (9 handed)

UTG+1 (t1375)
Hero (MP1) (t2130)
MP2 (t1255)
MP3 (t2290)
CO (t1190)
Button (t1415)
SB (t880)
BB (t1530)
UTG (t1435)
Hero's M: 28.40
Preflop: Hero is MP1 with A, A
UTG bets t150, 1 fold, Hero calls t150, 2 folds, CO raises to t1190 (All-In), 3 folds, UTG raises to t1435 (All-In), Hero calls t1285
Flop: (t4135) 2, 2, K (3 players, 2 all-in)
Turn: (t4135) J (3 players, 2 all-in)
River: (t4135) 8 (3 players, 2 all-in)
Results:
UTG had K, K (full house, Kings over twos).

Hero had A, A (two pair, Aces and twos).

CO had 10, A (one pair, twos).

Outcome: UTG won t4135

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 15 Tournament, 25/50 Blinds (9 handed)

Hero (MP1) (t1560)
MP2 (t1430)
MP3 (t485)
CO (t2815)
Button (t1195)
SB (t1095)
BB (t1180)
UTG (t985)
UTG+1 (t2755)
Hero's M: 20.80
Preflop: Hero is MP1 with A, A
1 fold, UTG+1 bets t250, Hero calls t250, 1 fold, MP3 raises to t485 (All-In), 4 folds, UTG+1 raises to t2755 (All-In), Hero calls t1310 (All-In)
Flop: (t3680) 7, 3, 8 (3 players, 3 all-in)

Turn: (t3680) 10 (3 players, 3 all-in)

River: (t3680) K (3 players, 3 all-in)

Total pot: t3680

Results:

UTG+1 had A, 5 (flush, Ace high).

Hero had A, A (one pair, Aces).

MP3 had Q, K (one pair, Kings).

Outcome: UTG+1 won t3680

Along with many many MANY more unbelievable pattern style predictable RNG bullshit river flushes n 2 outers.

Imagine this shit could happen IRL (which it absolutely cannot), with the amount of hands we play online never possibly being matched IRL, there'd be people out there who would never win a fuckin cent their whole lives. Yeh, imagine if IRL was rigged too. Jesus fuckin atich!

HELL! HELL! UTTER FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE HELL!!!!!

2011-09-30T01:54:00.001+01:00
Alas, the usual hell returneth, well as kinda mentioned in las post, but it has continued in the usual bullshit pattern in which the BULLSHIT RNG runs. Did I mention BULLSHIT?!?!??!?!?!

The pattern is so fucking forseeable and predictable that I seriously think someone with a bit of genius would actually be able to know when and when not to play to avoid it. Because it is all about timing. It has fuck all to do with volume. Variance is about time, if you play during a black-hole-RNG-pattern-period (BHRNGPP) you will die. But let a few days or weeks pass and it may have cleared up.

In one day I have never run into AA and seen so many sets binked vs my overpairs in my entire life. Hundreds and hundreds of the bastards. I couldnt win a flip with AA vs 72o once if we tossed for it 1000 times. Fact!

What's so fucking sick about this totally rigged BULLSHIT is that the rungood is never, ever, EVER EVEN CLOSSSSSSSSSE to as good as the run bad is bad. When running good it's, oh winning 6 flips from 10 TOPS!! Running bad it's losing every single thing miraculously for an infinite amount of time. HELL HELL HELL HELL HELL HELL HELL HELL HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!

1st proper session attempt, lol pathetic

2011-09-26T22:50:00.000+01:00
A bit of a coincidence has occured since I got my old pc up n running. Even though I've thrown the old hard drive away and replaced it with a brand new SSD (which I might add is thus far freakin awesome!), since I started playing poker on it again things have gone back to PRECISELY how they were when I last played on it quite some months ago now. FUCKING AWFUL!! Those horrendous ten in a row Ax beating AX scenarios have returned along with river after river of losing standard A5 vs K7 flips right til that last card, not forgetting a stupid amount of flushes. I'd actually, in the past couple months, been somehow not experiencing this on such the massive scale that I had been, thus resulting in me having a past couple of fairly decent month, but alas that shit has returned with a huge vengeance. And so, typically as I decide after eating my dinner I'm going to continuously grind solid from 8pm til 12am, I lasted all of............. 1hr 40 mins LMAOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

Seriously how I'm going to do this I don't know. There are some amazing suicidal players out there that grind through this shit for hours on end whereas I end up almost having a heart attack and have to stop. Gonna take some practice this is.

GL all

The new me starts here. Gulp! (+ August review)

2011-09-03T13:39:00.000+01:00

Already the title of this post mounts huge pressure LOL!

So I just got my very own place for the first time in my life career. AS was foresen in my last post, it has indeed taken HALF of my entire roll :(( But it had to be done, I really had absolutely no other choice. So far I'm not regretting it. I haven't fully moved in yet but I should be done so by the end of this coming Wednesday. Internet isn't due to be installed until the 13th but my dongle seems to work ok there with a good phone signal in the place so hopefully I will still be able to mass table, though I expect I won't be doing too much grinding in the first week anyway.

I've to buy a grinding chair and am not looking forward to it tbh. The chair I get HAS to be 100% perfect for long, looooooong hours of comfort so it's gonna be pretty much hit and hope in terms of the selection process because I really doubt we can have trial periods of like a week to test a chair out etc. Until then though it'll be the laptop on the sofa or bed still lol.

Equally as crucial is going to be setting a STRICT schedule. See I don't need to waste $ on no Jared Tendler book preaching to me what is ultimately just total common sense, no, I can figure it all out for myself, as should any other competent poker player that has been sucked in by the book. FOOOOOOOOOOOLS!!

So I'm still unsure of the hours I plan to grind, yet. Am really considering something like 11pm to 11am my time. All through the early hours is when the least regs are around, but obviously games take alot longer to fill. So the idea would be to play totally continuous to make up for that game filling time. I know for a fact my ROI will suffer a fair bit because my ability to keep opening new tables for hours on end and be at my peak of concentration to handle 20 tables for so long is going to be limited. But that's all part and parcel of what makes one high volume reg better than another, so it's another skill I need to hone.

Then there's going to be the whole workout routine I CRUCIALLY need to incorporate. So it may have to be P90x that I take up a little bit of to begin with. As I don't have equipment like benches etc so I need something that requires as little equipment as posible, and _90x comes pretty close to fitting that. I won't follow it to the absolute letter, no way! Have heard from alot of people that to do that is too much hard work. No, I will just use what I feel is enough to get me reasonable fit and stronger, pick and choose which parts I want. The hardest part of all of it is the food side of it. I think of all the structures I need in my life, a rigid eating one is going to be the hardest to implement. I am literally going to have to write it all down so I don't have to THINK.

Back to the poker. August was indeed the best month in long, but once again volume was prety lame with around 1300 games. Mostly 18-mans with a few hundred 9's and a few 180's.

Huge dilemma on finding place to live, advise plz

2011-08-08T15:55:00.000+01:00
So I have to be out of my current dwelling by the end of September. I am looking at the usual houseshares but am more interested in finally getting my own gaff! Problem is I can't prove my income as it's not taxable. I've been telling agetns I'm self employed but don't earn taxable income which gets them raising their eyebrows straight off. So one guy asked my actual job title, I just said "I'm an online equity analyst but such are the ins and outs of it that I don't pay tax!" Just sounds so shady! I'm not sure if just coming clean and saying I'm a poker player would actually hinder or help my cause??! I really don't think it would help. So anyways all I need is to find a guarantor who earns 3x the annual rent I need to pay, only I have NO ONE! There's my step dad and he has just moved into his own 1 bed house and needed a gurantor himself so how could he be mine?!?!? The latest agent I saw when viewing a place said there might be the option of paying 6 months up front on a 6 month contract, which I am seriously considering! This one place is £450 so 6 months PLUS £700 deposit PLUS £130 admin fees would total £3530!! That is pretty much a 3rd of my current role and would leave me with roughly a $6k role and zero in the bank. That's before I've paid council tax and bills so really we're talking roughly a $5k roll left. Should I take that risk or is there another way????

A bit more on that lifetime summary

2011-08-08T04:56:00.000+01:00
After doing much filtering to try and find the best results, I can take quite a bit of pride in posting the following facts. Filtered from January 1st 2010 for $6-$30 90-180 mans, so that's Stars 180's and FTP 90's. It's only 1.8k games but I think it's fairly solid sample, especially bearing in mind no session was any less than 16 tabling.

Nearly $5 a game $10 ABI. I'd like to see anyone who can better it. Imagine if I actually ran anywhere close to expectation then?!? Like I said, the best runbad SnG player alive :)

Had a good day today. ALMOST shipped back to back (as good as) 180's but for losing the $15 HU with a fucking 4 to 1 chip lead. First hand I shoved Q6o when he had 50k at BB8000 and he SNAPPED QJo. Quite surprised as I'd been an absolute rock all FT. Very next hand I min-raise QQ he snap shoves AJ and binks the Ace on the turn. NExt hand he shoves I call with QJo he has TT, gg. Was really annoyed cause I'd gotten SOOOO lucky to get HU and thought it wasn't fair as I was to get shit on in the end. When I say I got really lucky what I meant was I held in every showdown I was ahead in, and that was all of them. Was my 2nd biggest day of the year which might have been THE biggest with that extra $350 or so for first!

Didn't realise

2011-08-06T20:18:00.000+01:00
After doing some obsessive sharkscope filtering the other night frantically trying to get figures to corroborate with HEM, I stumbled upon the fact that on all accounts ever I've played almost 40k tournies :-O I so didn't realise that, I thought it was 25k tops.

Anyways, some day I might post a big dissection of all games but right now all my concentration is going into 18-mans. They are arguably the most technical of the SnG choice from 6-180 man. They arguably offer the widest spectrum in which players can make fairly critical ICM mistakes imo, and along with it's flat payout structure which I love, I think they're the possible reasons for ROI's to be not as far apart as they should be from their brothers 45 and 180-fellow. Ok I guess MOST regs in them these days are about 7-9% when a couple years back 11-12% was the norm. 18's are the new 9-mans now, even in terms of ROI ffs!! So it shows things are slowly getting worse. SnG's solid, everyone dead.

Anywayyyyyyyy, onto my bit of analysis. I was having problems corroborating SS twith my HEM but filtering better seems to even it out somewhat. But how swingy does this sound?

In my last 100 games I'm -5% ROI.
Last 200= 8%
Last 300= 16%
Last 400= 14%
Last 500= 8% LAMO!
Last 750= 4% oh bejeeezuns!
Last 1000= 10%!!! EH?!?! LOLZICLES!
And 1226 seems to be all I've played lol. That is 7%!!

Overall my 9-man stats are higher than that, or about the same, but 1226 games is obv lol sample. I am going to persist with these for a bit and study more spots, especially 4 handed, one of the toughest set ups to master I think in these games is 4 and obviously 5 handed. Rarely do I get to pwn as CL at bubble stage but when I do the blinds wake up with TT+ so damn often, I think I'm just gonna stop doing it. Lost count of the games I've gone from huge CL to bubble in, definitely more than finishing in top 3 that's for sure. Results orineted? Well like, duh, obviously!! What do we base all life strategies on if it isn't results? Do we not bother to look before we cross the road because statistics say a tiny % of people get ran over?? No we look because when we don't some lunatic races rond the corner as a 100 to 1 shot, only he does it 99 times out of 100. Funny that hey!! Results oriented preachers GFY's :)

When you don't hear from me it's because...

2011-08-04T23:55:00.000+01:00
...either I've actually DIED from perma hell in the life of poker (I feel that's coming soon), I just ain't been playing, or I'm actually running ok and winning some money. Lately, it's because I've had a little run in the 18-mans. This is from July up until a few days ago. Not many games but w/e.

But you've probably guessed why I'm back. Yes, that massive humoungous lifelong really really unfair on everybody else in the poker world HEATER....is done and dusted, as quick as they usually are. In 2 hours today I've fucked nearly half of that profit away.

Yeh ok, it's pretty standard. But shall I tell you WHYYYYYY the hell has returned so soon? For the same reasons it does EVERY SINGLE TIME. 1: I cashed out some yesterday for the first time in what feels like a decade. And 2: today I did the "making conscious effort to grind and put in serious volume" whilst the decent 18-man run was just playing when I felt like it. For the year now in chip ev I'm up 700k. Luck adjusted is 2 million. Sigh.

EVERY!
TIME!
GUARAN!!
FUCKING!!
TEEEEEEEEEED!!

And to top all that shit off, I've been given 2 months notice to vacate where I live having only moved in 6 months ago. As usual the landlady turned out to be a 1st class PRICK. Hence the reason for cashing some out and deciding to grind properly. Just CANNOT win in anyway shape or form in this fucking life.

Live poker

2011-07-28T15:29:00.000+01:00
My usual weekly league ended a few weeks back. CBA to look back to see if I posted about the £50 league final game but basically I got it in good with JJ vs TT nearing the FT and self-dealt villain his fuckin Ten on the turn.... as per blah blaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh boring blah. Anyway it usually goes a couple weeks before the next 25 week league restarts but this time it hasn't. What has happened is the Weds night game has carried on but the buy-in has doubled to £20. And that's fine by most of us. Numbers have dropped from an average 28-35 to about 20-25 and I believe that is more due to it not being a league at the moment than it being caused from the buy-in increase.

But besides all that, I am getting annoyed with the cash game that gets started from all the early bustoutees. I played last night, £20 min buy-in, 20p/40p blinds. 3 or 4 bought in for £40, another 3 of us for 20. As you can imagine the game is fishy as fuck, every hand raised with 3 callers min, and usually 5x raises. And I just feel I have no clue how to play a 30-40-50bb stack. What I can flat with, when I can 3-bet knowing I'll get flatted nearly 100% meaning can I c-bet a missed flop with so many BB's left...all this caper. So I'm looking for a coach tbh. There are plenty of cash specialists on the 2+2 coaching forums but they charge the absolute earth. Be nice to find someone who's a bit cheaper. I was totally card dead last night but then I'd get 77 UTG with 18bbs left and wonder wtf to do. I have no probs in tournament, but cash I'm clueless. I'd prob make it £1.20, get 2 callers then check-fold every damn board that didn't give me my set. Just feels so weak! Anyone know of good 20-80bb cash players with a reasonable coach rate?

Absolutely no change, hell is hell, no end.

2011-07-23T16:56:00.000+01:00
I'cve managed to get in a tad more games lately but still no great deal. Still no sign of any let up in this seriously rigged game. I cannot bink a single over card, flip after flip, game after game. Ok I must be winning around 15% of my overs vs pp flips and 15% of my pp vs overs flips. And as you know the coolers are thick and fast. On average I'd say at least 70% of my exits are huge QQ-AA coolers if not bigger Ace v smaller Ace waker uppers.

This sort of shit continuous, hand after hand after hand. 7 and a half lonnnnnng years.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 15 Tournament, 400/800 Blinds 50 Ante (4 handed)

Button (t7450)
SB (t8810)
BB (t3860)
Hero (UTG) (t6880)

Hero's M: 4.91

Preflop: Hero is UTG with J, A
Hero bets t6830 (All-In), 2 folds, BB calls t3010 (All-In)

Flop: (t8220) 3, J, 4 (2 players, 2 all-in)
Turn: (t8220) 9 (2 players, 2 all-in)
River: (t8220) 2 (2 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: t8220

Results:

BB had 5, A (straight, five high).

Hero had J, A (one pair, Jacks).

Outcome: BB won t8220

I'm down $70 this month after 1k games. Lol volume. Lol fuckin life!!

Today

2011-07-13T01:36:00.000+01:00
Another 6 hours, another shit day. 37 45mans played, I reached THIRTEEN final tables!! 13! Pretty good going. Profit??? A gigantic, bank breaking, 7 years of running like a cunt rectifying....$100!! :| 2nd, 3rd, 3rd, 4th, 4th, 4th, 5th, 6th, 6th, 6th, 6th, 7th and a 9th (no money). Fucking shit! And believe me when I say nearly all my exits were horrendous bad beats. The card distribution rig ups today were amazing! Nearly all my busts were as a stack in the top 3 running stuff into the next biggest stack with stuff like a standard KQ shove into AK, or AK being done by AQ a million times over. So onto the 180's. From 13 I got ITM in 4. Was big CL in 3 of them, 2 I busted in 12th being huge CL with 12 left and on the one final table I got bad beat horrendously again to get an earth shattering 9th!!! Ok so it's a step up from the usual bricking 100 in a row, but these FT's were fucking disgusting. A fucking TWO DOLLAR 180man was at 1500/3000 with 13 players left!! A $2 game!!!! Absolutely disgusting stuff. Really flabbergasted by it.

not important, just a self therapeutic post

2011-07-11T23:08:00.000+01:00
*puffs out cheeks in a long, drawn out sigh* What a year. Already half way through and what a fucking year! If it wasn't for the fact I claim benefits I seriously think I wouldn't be far from busto. But I think my trouble is I'm scared of change. I get stuck in my ways and stubbornly won't change. I mean I've changed in so much as trying different games, but I know there are people out there grinding crappy euro site cash games (SnG's would be pointless), perhaps only 2 tabling tops as some of the sites are so bad software wise it's all they can do. I know there's people losing at the high stakes but still making $150k a year in rakeback on sites other than pokerstars. I could even go down the route of joining blackbelt poker and grind relentlessly there upto blue belt and then receive $1500 a month in live buy-ins. In fact the system there works out to better than 60% rakeback!! But I just don't seem to have the guts to play slightly higher buy-ins or higher risk cash games. Sod's law says I'd probably piss it and be making a mint within a year but that's just while I do nothing about it. If I DID do that then obviously it would fail. Bad attitude? Maybe, but also FACTUAL. Results oriented? (orientated? don't think anyone knows which is the correct word!!) Yes results orientatatatated! But like DURRRRRRRR what the fuck do we base ANYTHING on in life if it isn't results??????? "Oh you have to shove atc in that spot, you can't be results orientated". O'RLY?? Why because the fact they're looking me up with the top 10% of hands 80% of the time just isn't going to keep happening? Oh riiiight. So it's just happened for nearly 8 years straight but heyyyyyyyy maths says it shouldn't so maths should be correct yes?? FUCKING NO!! Maths ISN'T correct. RESULTS are correct. My results are that I get shat on so therefore I need to play the most OPTIMAL way possible that avoids coinflips and all-in showdowns until the point of absolute desperation!! So then I have to decide just at which point am I absolutely desperate? I'd say we still have reasonable FE with 6bbs. But w/e, I'm rambling.

Like I said, I could go down some different avenues, but I guess what keeps me going down the same road is the absolute refusal to believe results are so bad because of anything other than flat awful, victimised, discriminated luck! Oh and rigged accounts. That said, I've just completed a 2 hour session of 45/180s again which was actually successful for a change. +$212, whoopy fuckin do considering I FT'd a $15 and $8 180 man and shit out in 5th and 6th having been huge CL in them both just before the FT. The reason I didn't finish so well was because they were both FULL of regs. I'd never heard of any of them or had many hands on them so how did I know? Because they were all taking almost their whole timebanks to play every single fucking hand! THAT'S why I shit out. Fish being at the table makes a difference in more than just one way. In many, MANY ways do they make a massive difference to our overall winrates. It really sickens and saddens me to see the state of 45 and 180 man FT's these days. Even right up until FTP's demise you could guarantee a number of fish on a 90 man FT, alot of the time all of them being fish. I truly believe SnG's at least on pokerstars are well on their way to being almost impossible to win. Not quite yet they're not, but they will be in another year or so if something dramatic doesn't change regarding the law.

I've been umming and arring about going down to Brighton this week. It's the UKIPT down there and obviously most peoplego down for the main which is a £500 buy-in. Last year it was £1000, not sure why it's halved but no doubt it will attract more players. I have a friend who is going down on his lonesome, well he will probably meet up with a few Blackbelt Poker boys that he's been to meet before. He was originally going to try and satty into the main in a £75 sat that is being played on Weds but now he tells me he might just "fuck it" and buy-in and try to hit the big time in one fell swoop! So I was thinking of going down to take advantage of the side events as they've added a bunch of £50 turbos at fairly regular intervals. It seems the busiest days will be thurs and fri but as I have my daughter this weekend then the only day I could do is thurs. There's a £100 freezeout and a few of the £50 turbos as well. I guess I could drive down thurs and meet up with my friend. I dunno. Depressed.

yep

2011-07-08T00:56:00.000+01:00
Just popping in on a 45/180 man break. 21 played 21 bricked. Earlier I played 3 or 40 sets of 6 mans. Had a record breaking losing first set, then made it all back in the next, then another record shattering losing set straight after that cashing I think once in 16 games. It's every day I play. Every day. 20 played, 20 bricked, the same thing I type. That happens to most STT players probably once a month. Every day for me pretty much. Every day I play. It's all I have EVER blogged since the day I started blogging on the Grinderschool forum 75 years ago. It's all I'd ever say there too, how bad I ran, when I first started out. I mean, how is this possible? Just how???? Really mentally tortured, I've aged ten years, people are remarking how fat and unwell I look and it's these illegally set up rigged pokersites that's doing this to me. MUST FIND A WAY OF PROVING THE TRUTH!

JUST WHY WHY WHY????????????????

2011-07-05T15:31:00.001+01:00
Looks like my 6 max heater has come to a VIOLENT and totally predictable end!! Why why whyyyyyyy when red line catches up with green does it have to be both lines plummeting to fucking earth?????? It makes sense that your green should drop a touch and the red should rise a bit so that real ROI evens out. But noooooooooooooooo. Cooler after cooler after AA in every fuckin bb you shove into EVERY TIME occurs at an unbelievable rate so your red line which you thought was pretty good now plummets to 2% making you now think you're TOTALLY SHIT AT POKER!!! And why why whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy does it happen every time I make a conscious effort to volume!! Throughout all of June when I ran well in the 6 man games I wasn't voluming. I was leisurely getting in 3 or 4 sets a day max. That is the ONLY time I will ever run ok. The second I try to take advantage then that's it! The forces decide we can't be fucking having that and BLAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM they shit in my mouth!!!! 7 and a half pushing for 8 years will not stop.

Jack of all trades

2011-07-04T04:24:00.001+01:00
That's what I seem to be in the world of poker. Well NLHE anyways. I can't play the other games well at all. I mean in terms of the different kinds of SnG's there are. Since I started taking the game more seriously a few years ago I've always been on top of what the best achievable ROI's are in almost every field, who is the best (or biggest luckbox as it transpires) and have always used their figures to decide which game I should play. And yet a few years down the line I'm still not specialising FULLY in any one kind, which most grinders out there do. Most of them stick rigidily with their 9/18/45 or 180 man games, but I am permanently all over the place. Although it has to be said I've played more 9 mans than anything else, and ran considerably less HORRENDOUS in them than anything else, on Stars anyway. It was the opposite on FTP...WAS being the operative word there! RIP FTP :( I hope they come back actually cos I liked their MTT SnG set up alot.

So right now I've just spent a few moments researching ROI's from the latest hyper turbo grinders. The $30 games have only just started so no solid figures can be found on those but I've got some on a couple of the $7 guys. I've found a few who have played over 15k games in the past few months, and most of them are a pathetic 1 or 2%!! 1-2% in $7 games is outrageous!! And certainly not worth the huge voluming effort they've put in for sure. If I'm going to volume like a psycho I'd rather do it in 180 mans and actually be able to afford a fuckin tin of beans! But hopefully those players I checked out are just crap and I guess I have to get my own sample if I'm to truly find out what's possible. Well I have played about 80 with my red line on 12% but I've read from a few peeps that the red line is innaccurate with these games for some reason and is yet to be fixed.

Siiiiiiiiigh, tbh I just don't know where I'm headed at the moment. Suppose the main thing is to actually volume SOMETHING as voluming is never something I've been too good at. So for now I'll probs stick with the 6 man turbos and see if I can keep my EV ahead of itself. As soon as those lines meet up then I might try being a hyper turbo loony for a bit.

Just will not stop

2011-07-01T18:07:00.000+01:00
Once again, for the billionth day of the year, ANY SLIGHT chance of grinding an ample amount of games is CRUSHED VIOLENTLY in the most agonising possible form!!! 40 played, 40 solidly BRICKED!! Including fuck knows how many smack on 8th place 45 man bubbles!!!! How long can this fucking shit go on for??? I'm more and more flabbergasted into a violent winded feeling each and every day. To think I thought what was happening in 2009 was almost impossible! COME BACK 2009 ALL IS FOR-CUNTING-GIVEN!!!!!!!! I've cashed 10 times (mostly min) in 186 180 mans LMAO!!!!!!!!

Posting less frequently

2011-06-30T17:26:00.000+01:00
Mostly due to just hardly playing, really. I've also had a few women issues lately that often get in the way of having a focused mind on the job...poker that is. Fckin women, I tell ya they're all nutjobs, I will never understand them!

Anyways, what little playing I have done has been, well, interesting but very, VERY predictable. It's been a case of little by little in the $15/6's, still maintaining an above expectation graph which is absolutely miraculous for me, although it is starting to slow down there now. And then I've been dipping into 45/180's on and off for the odd session to just go and fuck it all back to the community again! To add to all my record smashing 3 figure buy-in downswings which no winning player in the world can match, I discovered recently that putting all my 45 mans together, and it is over a long period of time because I play them every now and again, I'm on a 250ish bi downswing in my last 1000+ games. Thing is, alot of regs who can no longer make money in the $15/9's have gone over to the 45/180's desperately trying to make more money, and most are succeeding, so the want to join them is there but the way I run obviously crushes any hopes and motivation of doing well at them. But that said, the more regs choose these games as their last fucking resort, the worse they will get also, and I really can't see it lasting much longer before mnost areas of online poker are altogether not worth wasting your time trying to make a living from!! Scary times indeed. As everyone knows Full Tilt have been booted out of the market for whatever reason, I myself had a few $k in there so am not best chuffed about that but I really can't see them keeping BILLIONS of player's money, I mean anyone associated with them, especially well known celebrities, will be hunted down and fucking killed if people don't get their money back so their lives are going to be ruined also. What a fucking mess! These law breakers deserve a damn good kick in!!!

Collecting data

2011-06-15T00:43:00.000+01:00
Just 6 months to go now until I break into my 8th (EIGHTH) consecutive year of running 190 billion dollars below ev. I've absolutely no question it's a world record unbeaten by anybody on earth, not the slightest doubt of that at all. I have had a bit of run good this month as it happens. Since I made a move to 6 max I've ran above the red line for about 500 games. However I've dabbled a bit in the 45 and 180 mans and just seen the usual utterly impossible shit, constantly hand after hand after hand. It suddenly struck me that I hadn't checked on my 180 man graph for a while and I discovered I've cashed 6 times (mostly min) from my last 130, and 18 times (mostly min) in a total of 240 45/180's for yet another 120 bi downswing. So that is another separate 100+ bi downswing this year, on top of the 4,560,345,323 I've had already. I'm steadily collating (oh hang on I'm just witnessing my very last table busting out with AQo vs Qh6h board is running out h,h,h,h,h,h,h,h,h,h,h,h,, yeah couple hearts there, pretty odds on really) all the evidence in my HEM and am getting excited about presenting it to some lawyers/mathematicians. Cannot wait to have pokerstars up in court for blatant cheating. I'll be set for a nice lump sum compensation, I feel.

Raw raw sensationalistic hystericism to the point of utter utter bafflement

2011-06-06T22:15:00.000+01:00
I've had to come straight here after my first session back at the 9-mans in about a week. Simply unbelievable, utterly impossible shit. This shit has opened my eyes now as to how my accountt is rigged. During the whole week, 300 games of 6 max, not once, NOT FUCKING ONCE have I ran a shove into AA or KK. NOT ONCE!!! So I reg for some 9 mans and after I've got 20 up and already busted 5, I notice the next bunch regging have absolutely no regs in at all so decide I HAVE to take advantage of this as it's so rare and get up to 25 games. Well, after a count I shoved into AA six times and KK three times HAVING NOT DONE THIS ONCE IN 300 GAMES OF SIX CUNTING MAX YOU UNDERSTAND??????????????????? Flushes, every single AX v Ax lost, every single BB I shove into rigged up with a domainating hand, just utterly gobsmacking stuff. I am stunned, shocked, quivering in trauma. The RNG is COMPLETELY different in the two separate game types. It is now clear that my account has been deliberatley rigged to run specific card distribution in 9 mans. If I'm not at your table then things will run as normal for you, but if you find me at any of your tables then prepare for rig ups you've never seen in your life. You will win and you should get it in vs me atc every time I raise, serious. So I think it's best I go back to the 6 mans and carry on there until a pokerstars staff member realises what's going on and then rigs up my distribution for that game type too. I AM DEADLY SERIOUS THIS IS NOT IRONY. CUNTS!!!!!!!!!!

Month ended ok, shock horror

2011-06-02T02:44:00.001+01:00
I had a good day yesterday, the best of the entire month with a +$700 day. It consisted of around 60 $15/9's with a few 6 max's thrown into the mix to increase load up time late at night. Never really played 6 max before and found it rather stressful as tables popped up doubley fast, especially as they were full of fish too. Found them rather interesting though. Bubble situations are very different and with just 3 players left you feel you have to call bvb shoves just as wide as you would if it was ITM in a 9 man. I haven't actually done any wizzing on them yet, but I do already know that calling lighter is in fact the case from a few 6 max wiz hands I've seen posted on 2+2, just like calling slightly wider is also the case in 18 mans. So it's pretty effing weird on how equity works, 9 man is uber tight stuff, but go down OR up, 6 or 18 man, and it's still tight but not quite as tight. WEIRRRRRRRD!!!

Anyways that was only half of it, I also had a 19 game session on FTP which saw about 4 ROD SnG's played all told alongside the usual bunch of 45/90's. I managed a 4th from a 300+ entrant ROD, but sadly it was only a $4 game for about $115 or so, and actually WON a $26/45, they pay just over $400. It certainly brought my awful 100+ BI losing month to just a 30 BI losing one.

YEST

I lost $325 total for the month of May.

June has started out ok, I took down my live league night again, which was nice having back to back bubbled it the past 2 weeks. £140 was for 1st. Kind of regretting having missed a few weeks now cos pretty sure I'd be rapin the league if I hadn't, but am pretty sure league prizes ain't gonna be much anyway. Hopefully if they introduce my idea next season then league place prizes will be really good, like £800 for 1st or something.

so....

2011-05-31T03:19:00.001+01:00
More of the same shit today (and for the past days I haven't posted, incidentally) More unbelievable bullshit that is impossible in the real world of non rigged cards. I was recently in the HEM forums if there's anyway to get stats on how often opponents hit their sets, how often AX loses to Ax etc etc and there actually is no way. He suggested I suggest it in the suggestions thread. Like um no! Just get it the fuck in there!!! That kind of thing should be bog the fuck standard in software like that! If I were able to access that data I'm pretty sure it would go AX beat by Ax 80%, big PP beat by small pp 60%, KK/QQ/JJ beat by Ax 80%, and AA beat by KK 60%. I'm about 5k games break even now and was reading puyan's blog today to see he's been on a stretch close to 10k games. So I've got exactly the same amount to look forward to al over again before it gets better. I mean this just confirms it now. As far as sample sizes go I just aint interested in anything less than 100k games to show about 10% of a true ROI imo. So basically no one really knows who's best cos it's all rigged. No way of knowing. Just copy that guy who coaches and makes videos cos he runs hot his whole fucking life n we take his word for it on how to play. ok then. GAME OF CHANCE. simple as.

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2011-05-30T22:40:00.000+01:00
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Surely he can't post a "it's getting worse" post can he??

2011-05-27T12:55:00.000+01:00
Bet ya fucking arse I can!! I've always done well in the old quarter million new sunday storm old 280fpp new 235fpp 6 man hyper turbo satties. Over a period of 90 games I've made over $400 totalling an equivalent of around $0.018 per FPP which is way better than the highest cash reward bonus which works out to $0.016/fpp. But I've never mass tabled them. I've literally only ever played about 6 at a time and then wandered off back to normal cash. I don't use all my FPP's at once just some here and there. So today I decided to keep playing until ALL my FPP's are used up. So for the one and only simple fact that I'm properly playing them now over a period of time, I've been getting totally raped to oblivion! It's for that sole reason that the cunty forces have decided, oh I must be such a greedy person I must be punished for this! Literally 5 out 7 flips flopped sets against me, literally an Ace on EVERY flop, yes EVERY SINGLE FLOP....except when I'm the one with the Ace. Today my head is fucking killing me. Taking loads of painkillers every time I play now. Somebody, just.... SOMEBODY! when will it stop?? :''((((((

Even liveaments are bad now

2011-05-26T03:36:00.000+01:00
I've actually managed to back to back bubble my local mid-week club game. Not sure if anyone's EVER achieved that. I know only 2 guys have ever achieved back to back wins in the 4 or 5 years the game has been played there. And what's really funny is each time I've been dramatically short stacked very early on. Like today, I had 1.5k left at the break when resuming blinds start at 300/600. I got one shove through uncontested then doubled up shoving 45s into 88 and binked 2 pair. Later I made more chips with a few uncontested shoves and was then sitting pretty when the final table began. But then my fuckin nemesis arrived at my table who had been on my first table when I'd had o luck whatsoever. This guy is a proper tard when it comes to poker. H'es usually first out and once every 10 weeks or so he'll be a giant chip leader at the final table where his awful play has gotten lucky. Well we're down to 6 and 5 pay. I shove QTo otb for 5bbs and he spite calls me with 86o then I cleverly deal him the 6 and I don't hit. Seriously felt like smashing the bastard's face in! As it was I riffed the deck in his face, threw him my chips and bowled all his stack across the table. Always gracious in defeat. Please fuck off forces that are bullying me, please just fuck off. Or at least give me a sign as to what it is you want me to do to generate good karma cos I'd love to know wtf I've done to u!!!

entry

2011-05-25T01:40:00.000+01:00
Another abysmal day, like I need to post it, it's a given. $300 lost today. Ran into AA what must have been between 20-30 times from 100 games. Am fucking sick of it why won't it stop???? WHY?!?!??!!?!?!?!??!!?!?!?

Oh this is funny

2011-05-24T01:10:00.000+01:00
Having just ended my session of 28 games, I'm messing with some boring paperwork crap when I hear the FTP "ding" noise when it's your turn to act. wtf? It's a frickin $26 90 man that I'd regged for at the very start of my session 3.5 hours ago!! They don't normally take that long to reg but hey've obviously died off even more! So just 3 minutes in here's what's happened.

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, 26 Tournament, 15/30 Blinds (9 handed)

SB (t3000)

BB (t3000)

UTG (t3000)

UTG+1 (t3000)

MP1 (t3000)

MP2 (t3000)

MP3 (t3000)

Hero (CO) (t3000)

Button (t3000)

Hero's M: 66.67

Preflop: Hero is CO with A, Q

3 folds, MP2 calls t30, 1 fold, Hero bets t120, 3 folds, MP2 calls t90

Flop: (t285) K, 8, 2 (2 players)

MP2 checks, Hero bets t195, MP2 calls t195

Turn: (t675) 6 (2 players)

MP2 bets t2685 (All-In), Hero calls t2685 (All-In)

River: (t6045) J (2 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: t6045

Results:

MP2 had A, 8 (one pair, eights).

Hero had A, Q (flush, Ace high).

Outcome: Hero won t6045

And then this lol. I'm so glad I limped utg here as I'd usually just fold, only did it cos I'm now 1 tabling.

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, 26 Tournament, 15/30 Blinds (8 handed) - Full Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

MP1 (t2985)

MP2 (t2955)

CO (t2925)

Button (t3180)

SB (t2970)

BB (t2970)

Hero (UTG) (t6015)

UTG+1 (t3000)

Hero's M: 133.67

Preflop: Hero is UTG with 10, Q

Hero calls t30, UTG+1 calls t30, 3 folds, Button calls t30, SB calls t15, BB checks

Flop: (t150) 10, Q, 10 (5 players)

SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets t90, UTG+1 calls t90, 3 folds

Turn: (t330) 10 (2 players)

Hero checks, UTG+1 checks

River: (t330) K (2 players)

Hero bets t900, UTG+1 raises to t2880 (All-In), Hero calls t1980

Total pot: t6090

Results:

Hero had 10, Q (four of a kind, tens).

UTG+1 had K, 9 (full house, tens over Kings).

Outcome: Hero won t6090

CL by a country mile within a few hands. Now there's a reason for this happening. Knowing that it's unlikely I'll be playing anymore, it has done this to keep me in the game as long as possible wasting my time and will 100% stitch me up, if not bang on then very near the bubble. Watch this space...

1 hour 30 mins later:

I should be a fucking psychic. Indeed bubbled, well 12th place, 3 from the money. Utter fucking bullshit. I stayed on around 12k throughout until this bullshit hand.

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, 26 Tournament, 250/500 Blinds 50 Ante (7 handed)
UTG (t6718)

MP1 (t9340)

MP2 (t5845)

Hero (CO) (t12340)

Button (t9267)

SB (t3876)

BB (t8320)

Hero's M: 11.22

Preflop: Hero is CO with 9, 9

3 folds, Hero bets t1125, 1 fold, SB raises to t3826 (All-In), 1 fold, Hero calls t2701

Flop: (t8502) 6, 3, 10 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Turn: (t8502) 5 (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: (t8502) K (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: t8502

Results:

SB had K, 2 (one pair, Kings).

Hero had 9, 9 (one pair, nines).

Outcome: SB won t8502

^ Did the guyt actually think he had fold equity? Weirdo! And to rub it in the whole fuckin client just froze before the river was dealt and unfroze like 30 seconds later, ya know like that cunt who's haunting me is literally sitting on my shoulder pissing his arse off laughing whilst controlling all this amazingness.

Nothing more happens til the final two tables and I'm virutally last so decide to just gamble with 77 here.

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, 26 Tournament, 600/1200 Blinds 150 Ante (7 handed)
CO (t25572)

Hero (Button) (t10614)

SB (t18460)

BB (t32228)

UTG (t17754)

MP1 (t11416)

MP2 (t24786)

Hero's M: 3.72

Preflop: Hero is Button with 7, 7

2 folds, MP2 bets t2699, 1 fold, Hero raises to t10464 (All-In), 1 fold, BB raises to t32078 (All-In), MP2 calls t21937 (All-In)

Flop: (t61386) 10, 2, 5 (3 players, 3 all-in)

Turn: (t61386) 2 (3 players, 3 all-in)

River: (t61386) J (3 players, 3 all-in)

Total pot: t61386

Results:

Hero had 7, 7 (two pair, sevens and twos).

BB had K, A (one pair, twos).

MP2 had K, A (one pair, twos).

Outcome: Hero won t33042, BB won t14172, MP2 won t14172

How they missed I'll know never know. Oh wait but I DO know why. Cos it wasn't quite close enough to bubble yet and I was bein gset up massive RIGGED style for this hand. 2nd in fucking chips I could have opted for a raise-fold as BB was tight but it's 15bbs with ante for crying out loud a shove is fine!

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, 26 Tournament, 800/1600 Blinds 200 Ante (7 handed)

CO (t18584)

Hero (Button) (t29454)

SB (t11660)

BB (t26414)

UTG (t18714)

MP1 (t21732)

MP2 (t14272)

Hero's M: 7.75

Preflop: Hero is Button with 8, 8

4 folds, Hero bets t29254 (All-In), 1 fold, BB calls t24614 (All-In)

Flop: (t54628) 4, A, 3 (2 players, 2 all-in)

Turn: (t54628) 9 (2 players, 2 all-in)

River: (t54628) 6 (2 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: t54628

Results:

Hero had 8, 8 (one pair, eights).

BB had Q, Q (one pair, Queens).

Outcome: BB won t54628

Still look as though I could make a miracle comeback tho.

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, 26 Tournament, 800/1600 Blinds 200 Ante (7 handed)
UTG (t17984)

Hero (MP1) (t2640)

MP2 (t10260)

CO (t53428)

Button (t15714)

SB (t19532)

BB (t21272)

Hero's M: 0.69

Preflop: Hero is MP1 with 4, J

1 fold, Hero bets t2440 (All-In), MP2 raises to t10060 (All-In), 2 folds, SB raises to t19332 (All-In), 1 fold

Flop: (t25560) K, 10, 8 (3 players, 3 all-in)

Turn: (t25560) 4 (3 players, 3 all-in)

River: (t25560) 3 (3 players, 3 all-in)

Total pot: t25560

Results:

SB had 9, A (flush, King high).

Hero had 4, J (flush, King high).

MP2 had A, 8 (one pair, eights).

Outcome: SB won t15240, Hero won t10320

Who am I fucking kiddding though?? All is looking good by the turn, then the miracle river hits once again.

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, 26 Tournament, 800/1600 Blinds 200 Ante (6 handed)
CO (t35968)

Hero (Button) (t7320)

SB (t51028)

BB (t18514)

UTG (t6328)

MP (t21672)

Hero's M: 2.03

Preflop: Hero is Button with 7, 7

1 fold, MP bets t3699, 1 fold, Hero raises to t7120 (All-In), 1 fold, BB raises to t18314 (All-In), MP calls t14615

Flop: (t45748) 8, 6, 9 (3 players, 2 all-in)

Turn: (t45748) 10 (3 players, 2 all-in)

River: (t45748) 8 (3 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: t45748

Results:

Hero had 7, 7 (straight, ten high).

BB had 9, 9 (full house, nines over eights).

MP had K, K (two pair, Kings and eights).

Outcome: BB won t45748

FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!!!

The difference

2011-05-23T21:58:00.000+01:00
What's different with this cunt-awful-worse-runbad-ever bad run is that I find no solace anywhere. By that I mean it is both Stars AND Full Tilt where the beats come so thick and fast you actually wouldn't believe your peeepers were u to watch me play. During my 330 bi swong on Stars it was FTP that saved my knackers. Not this time. First I've had pretty lame break even day as on Stars, I have my dinner, and with refrshed nothing will beat me attitude I decide on a FTP MTT SnG evening. First confrontation. The very first, then proceeded by hundreds more one after the other. Seriously not sure how much more of this shit I can take. Both sites, won't stop.
Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, 26 Tournament, 15/30 Blinds (8 handed)

MP2 (t1485)

CO (t1455)

Button (t1455)

SB (t2865)

Hero (BB) (t2925)

UTG (t525)

UTG+1 (t1290)

MP1 (t1500)

Hero's M: 65.00

Preflop: Hero is BB with 8, 8

4 folds, CO bets t90, 1 fold, SB calls t75, Hero calls t60

Flop: (t270) 7, Q, 8 (3 players)

SB checks, Hero checks, CO bets t120, SB raises to t630, Hero raises to t2835 (All-In), 1 fold, SB calls t2145 (All-In)

Turn: (t5940) Q (2 players, 2 all-in)

River: (t5940) 4 (2 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: t5940

Results:

SB had 8, Q (full house, Queens over eights).

Hero had 8, 8 (full house, eights over Queens).

Outcome: SB won t5940

EDIT: So I've just finished my FTP session. Did ok and made $300 despite the usual crap. One game was a $5 turbo MTT that ended up with 357 entrants after late reg. 1st prize was $500. I got t0 the final table in great shape until this hand. The table was fucking crazy and the erik guy was a complete tard that had luckboxed his way to that stack. So I just decided to open shove AK. Soon as I saw his diamonds I knew I was a gajillion to 1 dog. FUCK OFFF!!!!!!!!!!
Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em Tournament, 2000/4000 Blinds 500 Ante (7 handed)

Button (t64381)

SB (t62149)

BB (t166919)

Hero (UTG) (t70331)

MP1 (t45974)

MP2 (t115507)

CO (t188739)

Hero's M: 7.40

Preflop: Hero is UTG with A, K

Hero bets t69831 (All-In), 2 folds, CO raises to t188239 (All-In), 3 folds

Flop: (t149162) 4, Q, 3 (2 players, 2 all-in)

Turn: (t149162) 4 (2 players, 2 all-in)

River: (t149162) 10 (2 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: t149162

Results:

Hero had A, K (one pair, fours).

CO had A, K (flush, Ace high).

Outcome: CO won t149162

The one game I got heads up in, a $10 45 man, I got 2nd YET AGAIN! I just checked my HEM and I'm about 80% 2nd in heads ups. That's a TON of money difference. I just offered this one fish a chop, he declined so I made a point to tell him "DOES HE KNOW WHO THE FUCK I AM??? I OFFER YOU THE NOOB A CHOP AND U THINK UR BETTER THAN ME??????" Oh wait, you've obviously heard as it's common knowledge world wide now isn't it. ATC and you'll win. gg sir.

Who can guess how my Monday start has gone?

2011-05-23T15:15:00.001+01:00
Wasn't hard was it, let's face it. 18 played, 17 bricked.

Highlight hand amongst another ton of impossiblities was....

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 15 Tournament, 150/300 Blinds 25 Ante (8 handed)

MP1 (t2655)

MP2 (t4080)

CO (t3015)

Button (t4230)

SB (t3890)

Hero (BB) (t1890)

UTG (t4440)

UTG+1 (t2800)

Hero's M: 2.91

Preflop: Hero is BB with J, J

UTG bets t900, 6 folds, Hero raises to t1865 (All-In), UTG calls t965

Flop: (t4080) 6, 2, 2 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Turn: (t4080) 2 (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: (t4080) 2 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: t4080

Results:

Hero had J, J (four of a kind, twos).

UTG had 9, A (four of a kind, twos).

Outcome: UTG won t4080

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (deranged-insane-about-to-go-postal before-popping-own-clogs style laughter) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Utter, utter sensationalistic incredibalism

2011-05-22T01:57:00.000+01:00
Took the day off today, being a Saturday and all. So after a relaxing-ish day shopping, noshing down a Frankie N Benny's burger special and watching Blitz at the cinema (in which, I hasten to add, I ninja spotted some sick movie mistakes), I came home and fired up 20 18 mans. $7 and $15 mostly but also for the first time EVER on Stars I ventured to the next level and regged 2 $30 games...ZOMG. Here's what ensued.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 7 Tournament, 25/50 Blinds (7 handed)

UTG (t180)

MP1 (t3420)

MP2 (t1630)

Hero (CO) (t1435)

Button (t3695)

SB (t1370)

BB (t3735)

Hero's M: 19.13

Preflop: Hero is CO with K, J

3 folds, Hero bets t125, Button calls t125, 1 fold, BB calls t75

Flop: (t400) Q, 10, 9 (3 players)

BB checks, Hero bets t299, 1 fold, BB raises to t598, Hero raises to t1310 (All-In), BB calls t712

Turn: (t3020) J (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: (t3020) 6 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: t3020

Results:

BB had K, J (flush, King high).

Hero had K, J (straight, King high).

Outcome: BB won t3020

Check this one. Fucking amazing. This is one of the most fucking incredible hands I've ever seen. The cunt's calling the raise then flop with that shit and binks his 10 to 1 shot. Of course my 4 to 1 chance on the river was in reality more like 40 to 1.
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 15 Tournament, 25/50 Blinds (7 handed)

UTG (t3825)

MP1 (t1505)

MP2 (t1485)

CO (t1320)

Hero (Button) (t1435)

SB (t1360)

BB (t4120)

Hero's M: 19.13

Preflop: Hero is Button with 5, 5

4 folds, Hero bets t125, 1 fold, BB calls t75

Flop: (t275) 8, A, 6 (2 players)

BB checks, Hero bets t150, BB calls t150

Turn: (t575) 5 (2 players)

BB checks, Hero checks

River: (t575) 2 (2 players)

BB bets t550, Hero raises to t1160 (All-In), BB calls t610

Total pot: t2895

Results:

Hero had 5, 5 (three of a kind, fives).

BB had 4, 7 (straight, eight high).

Outcome: BB won t2895

Very next hand. Stannurt obv.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 7 Tournament, 15/30 Blinds (8 handed)

SB (t2905)

Hero (BB) (t1490)

UTG (t1470)

UTG+1 (t1840)

MP1 (t1340)

MP2 (t1450)

CO (t1620)

Button (t1385)

Hero's M: 33.11

Preflop: Hero is BB with 9, 9

3 folds, MP2 calls t30, CO calls t30, 1 fold, SB calls t15, Hero checks

Flop: (t120) 8, 6, 9 (4 players)

SB checks, Hero bets t120, 2 folds, SB calls t120

Turn: (t360) 6 (2 players)

SB checks, Hero checks

River: (t360) 5 (2 players)

SB bets t2755 (All-In), Hero calls t1340 (All-In)

Total pot: t3040

Results:

SB had 10, 7 (straight flush, ten high).

Hero had 9, 9 (full house, nines over sixes).

Outcome: SB won t3040

Now for the big buy-ins. I didn't believe this guy's 3-bet for one second so elected to flat it.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 30 Tournament, 25/50 Blinds (6 handed)

Button (t4580)

Hero (SB) (t1330)

BB (t1600)

UTG (t3045)

MP (t1465)

CO (t1480)

Hero's M: 17.73

Preflop: Hero is SB with 9, Q

4 folds, Hero bets t125, BB raises to t300, Hero calls t175

Flop: (t600) J, 5, Q (2 players)

Hero checks, BB bets t303, Hero raises to t1030 (All-In), BB calls t727

Turn: (t2660) 8 (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: (t2660) K (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: t2660

Results:

Hero had 9, Q (one pair, Queens).

BB had K, J (two pair, Kings and Jacks).

Outcome: BB won t2660

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 7 Tournament, 75/150 Blinds (6 handed)

Button (t935)

Hero (SB) (t1470)

BB (t2450)

UTG (t1510)

MP (t1490)

CO (t1390)

Hero's M: 6.53

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q, K

3 folds, Button bets t935 (All-In), Hero raises to t1470 (All-In), 1 fold

Flop: (t2020) Q, K, 4 (2 players, 2 all-in)

Turn: (t2020) 9 (2 players, 2 all-in)

River: (t2020) 8 (2 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: t2020

Results:

Button had J, 10 (straight, King high).

Hero had Q, K (two pair, Kings and Queens).

Outcome: Button won t2020

After ^ that hand I managed to claw my way back to go out like this. Nice turn reduces his outs from 6 to 4. In other realistic words, I'm a 10 to 1 dog against him hitting. Incidentally my call is possibly -ev but vs a range of excluding top hands I'd say it's 99+ or something.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 7 Tournament, 150/300 Blinds 25 Ante (6 handed)

UTG (t2280)

MP (t3560)

CO (t5445)

Button (t3845)

Hero (SB) (t2565)

BB (t9305)

Hero's M: 4.28

Preflop: Hero is SB with 9, 9

2 folds, CO bets t5420 (All-In), 1 fold, Hero calls t2390 (All-In), 1 fold

Flop: (t5530) 5, Q, 8 (2 players, 2 all-in)

Turn: (t5530) 4 (2 players, 2 all-in)

River: (t5530) J (2 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: t5530

Results:

Hero had 9, 9 (one pair, nines).

CO had J, A (one pair, Jacks).

Outcome: CO won t5530

Conclusion: 20 played, 17 bricked. Fortunately got 2nd in the other $30 to ease the pain. NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED NOT RIGGED

Dear diary

2011-05-21T02:28:00.001+01:00
Today saw my first decent start in what feels like 124.65 years, in the new $15 9's.

I managed to get in the first lot before any regs noticed they existed, but then soon after you couldn't find one with less than 6 regs for hours on end.

Then later on which included a few of the new $7 hypers...

Straight back to boring bullshit. I've been stalking these hypers trying to seee how many regs are playing the crap out of them and tbh there really aren't many names you see regged in tons of games. There does seem to be a ton of fish. Well, fish as in unknowns, I mean these days there's no such things as fuckin fish cos every c^%t knows how to play!!

Just made more history

2011-05-20T13:21:00.001+01:00
I just became the first ever played to register for the new $15 9-mans on Stars. Fortunately it was marked with a winning session and shock massive horror the green line went over the red one.

Hi

2011-05-19T22:58:00.000+01:00
Another abysmal day on Stars down 30 bis....

...to make it a cool 125 bis in total for the month.

INTERESTING FACT: Once upon a time a guy invented MATHEMATICS. Then someone invented NLHE poker. Then someone out there worked out the maths and decided that if a player has a pocket pair then he will hit one of the other 2 of that very same card out of 3 cards dealt in the middle of the table known as "the flop" once in roughly 7.5 occasions. I challenge this logical mathematical theory and say OI! YOU! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! It is in fact 1 out of every TWO occasions my opponent will flop their set. FACT. Will the variance iron itself out and some day my opponent will only flop his set once from 75 occasions to make up for it? NO. FACT. VARIANCE ONLY GOES ONE WAY, AND THAT'S DOWN SO FUCK YOU EINSTEIN YOU KNOW FUCK ALL!!!!

On a plus note (first one in centuries) I made $80 on Full Tilt. Played 20 45/90s/couple ROD's. Bricked 18 of them but amazingly the FT's I reached were $26 ones, out of only 3 regged. A 90 and a 45 man. I got the 90 man FT as short stack and managed to get 4th thanks to most of the players being total moronic noobs allowing me to sit back and watch the fireworks. Then a 3rd in a 45 man which saw this cracker as my exiting hand.

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, 26 Tournament, 600/1200 Blinds (3 handed)

Button (t31987)

Hero (SB) (t12683)

BB (t22830)

Hero's M: 7.05

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q, A

1 fold, Hero bets t2400, BB calls t1200

Flop: (t4800) Q, 10, 8 (2 players)

Hero bets t1200, BB raises to t20430 (All-In), Hero calls t9083 (All-In)

Turn: (t25366) 5 (2 players, 2 all-in)

River: (t25366) J (2 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: t25366

Results:

Hero had Q, A (one pair, Queens).

BB had J, 8 (two pair, Jacks and eights).

Outcome: BB won t25366

Soon as I saw his hand I knew I was a 10000 to 1 dog and instantly shut my laptop before seeing the turn or river.

Avatar huge failure

2011-05-19T13:16:00.000+01:00
Well I tried, it hasn't worked. It's a pic of one of my idols Bruce Lee and I made sure it was a smiling pic to try and encourage nice runnings. No such luck. Fired up 4 $20's mixed with the $10 9 mans. 4 minutes, 4 flips, 4 overpairs, 4 80% favourites, 4 sets bink. Simply could not write it. GL everyone else, here's to another catastrophic day my end.

Today was...

2011-05-19T02:32:00.001+01:00
FUCKING SHIT!! More relentless shockingly unbelievable beats aaaaaaaaaall dayyyyyyyyyyy loooooooooooong for the 6th consectuve massive losing day and hitting a 100 buy-in downswing for the WEEK!! I've had more 100+ buy-in swings than anyone on earth INCLUDING break even players who haven't got a clue AINEC!!! Going to the doctor's tomorrow for anti-depressants.

Avatar declined

2011-05-18T16:28:00.000+01:00
And the FMLness continues in many, many small forms. Apparently my avatar might offend people. It was Dirty Harry pointing a gun. Now I've seen many images of people with guns so wtf is this, more discrimination much in the style of their rigged RNG???

A last ditch idea. It's my only remaining hope

2011-05-17T22:04:00.000+01:00
Well, short of going to Africa and rescuing some orphans, that is. Had another abysmal day so far, which amongst 6 hours of play featured two 18-man 20 game sessions which saw one totally bricked, so 0 for 20, and my last one 3/20, so those two combined 3/40 LMAO!! More impossible amounts of river sets hand after hand occuring and impossible amounts of flushes.

EDIT: And I finally finish a 9 hour day with a 3 for 20 and they were min cashes too making hose 3 combined 6 from 60 HAHAHAAHAHAHAHA IT NEVERRRRRR ENNNNNNDS. Today's chip ev was ACTUAL: -$45k ADJUSTED: +$32k. MY overall graph is showing a 4k game break even stretch. FML

So my idea is pretty simple. Find an avatar. Some regs say not to have an avatar so as people don't remember you so easily but fact is all the best winning regs who don't have a clue what the fuk a downswing is ie sippin_criss, glitlr, epitomised, entim, spacegravy, mi_turtle and many, many more (hi guise) all have avatars iirc. I don't have player images showing during my gameplay so am not entirely sure if you can have an avatar if u don't have images displayed, think u can.

So the question is, wtf do I use that isn't going to jinx th crap out of me further? I'll go search google images.

OMG !

2011-05-16T18:45:00.000+01:00
Can it get any worse? I'm trying to think of what could happen next, preferably struck by lightning and killed to end this hell I@m living in! I was just 20+ tabling 45s and 180's, running like hell as usual, but sitting pretty almost CL in 2 $3r 180's not too far away from the FT's. Also sitting 1st with 10 left in a $10 45 hopefully I was going to bring the session back to at least break even when.........

MY FUCKING 2 MONTH OLD LAPTOP BLOWS UP!!!! Well I'm not sure what it did. It started making a weird noise that I can only describe as sounding something like an elecrtical short, really loud "electrocution" type sound. Then came the blue screen of death and on trying to reboot it said insert boot cd. So I try again and this time get to the log in stage but then the screen just goes white. So I shut it down and rush it back to the shop and the fucking thing starts up fine!!!! I've emailed Stars requesting a refund and they replied saying request again once all games have finished as I was still in 2 of them apparently, hopefully they'll sort me out as they sort everyone else out who have problems. I believe I read somewhere a guy got refunded his buy-ins after he was urgently evacuated from his house during play because a WW2 bomb had been found next door LMAO!!!

A quick word on the Pokerstars calamity of errors scene. They're faffing about changing buy-ins nearly every day now and it's getting beyond a joke. Right now the 45s are $3.50, $10 and $30. The gaps between each level are huge and I really don't know wtf they expect to gain out of it. No matter how they arrange things we'e still going to be playing the same amount of games paying the same rake one way or another. The 180's they've currently got at $2.50, $8, $15 and $35, again not great. Whatever the buy-ins, they've still got the rake way too high and at the end of the day THAT'S the only thing that'll change volume in anyway. Dippy twats.

A post

2011-05-16T15:46:00.000+01:00
The fact I've come back to post should mean I'm doing ok now according to the last words I typed. Sadly, it's not the case, I'm just missing whining so damn much.

We're just over half way through the month now and here's a comparison with the first 4 awful run bad months of the year. It's worse LOL! Can it get any worse? Apparently so, in the sense that I'm not even making any money.

First 15 days in Jan looked like this. 13 days played, 9 days won.

First 15 days in Feb. 13 days played, 9 days won again.

First 15 days in March. 11 days played, 8 won.

First 15 days in April. 12 days played, 8 won.

And now May. 12 days played, 5 won! And not only that but also my 2nd, 3rd and 4th biggest losing days of the year in one fucking week!! The worst day being a $800 losing day in Jan.

It just won't stop.

Today, post black friday and more record shattering

2011-05-10T02:32:00.000+01:00
Another half grand losing day today. That's 2 this month already, an absolute record SMASHER! I've had my 2nd and 3rd biggest losing days of the year in the first 10 days of this month. Today my chip loss was 1/4 of a million chips with ev adjusted being PLUS 1/4 of a million. Hyseria at it's most hysterical. I'm $500 down since black friday over 100 hours of play. And a really fucking annoying thing about HEM is you can't get the sort of stats one would like to get from it. Such as how often did I hit my overcard with 2 overs vs a pair. And how many times did my pkt pair hold up to 2 overs. Because if I could show that stat I could show everyone it is indeed ZERO % I hit and 100% they hit every single day of my life, in photographic evidence format.

From what I've seen in the past 36 months minimum, I can confidently say I truly, truly believe someone is control of the cards. I firmly believe my accounts are rigged, all of them. Whether it's because I have mailed all sites I play on at some time or another over the years with some horrific abuse and it is then that switches have been flicked, or if it's something else, I can't be sure. I play live every week, sometimes twice a week, and although there is the fair share of mircale boards come out, things don't get even close to the absolute impossible sick style of card distribution that I see online every single day. The amount of straights, flushes, miracle rivers, coolers, BB sitting on a hand one up from mine 99% of every bvb shove I do, and countless other rigged bs, simply isn't possible. I can literally call out what is going to land 80% of the time at least. Say I get it in bad with J9 vs AK, the 3rd card of the flop will be a J or 9 like once out of 30-40 times (when it should be 1 in 3 HA!! massive joke that is), and of those 1 in 30 times the turn card puts villain back in the lead 90% of the time, like there's some cunt there controlling it laughing his head off. It might not be anything to do with Pokerstars physically, it could be a spirit from another dimension, but whatever it is, SOMETHING is in control of this, victimising me. I could scour the internet reading every single poker blog I can find and I won't find anything as negative and whingey as mine, simply because no one else on earth runs this bad.

On that sour note, to which I'm sure has many of u rolling your eyes in boredom of reading the same old shit in this blog, I am going to go into indefinite retirement in temrs of blogging. I am not going to post again until I have had enough run good that can be written home about, which basically means this blog has probably finished. I'm almost in tears at the moment and as mentioned in previous posts my this is deteriorating my health rapidly, I can't carry on like it. I'd rather get a labour job and bust my back every day than put my brain/heart though this torture.

So for now, and potentially forever, goodbye.

Who wants to swap?

2011-05-08T19:39:00.000+01:00
Seriously I cannot take much more of this. After a couple days lay off I've just come home to fire up a bunch of 18/45/180's to really test how these new structures are going. Only it's not even 1% close to a fair test is it? Because SATAN HIMSELF is sat on the doomswitch for every single fucking hand I play. I had 7 river sets hit vs me in the first 7 flips, I shit you not. I'm gonna post a bunch of hands soon as I've finally found out a way of posting READABLE hands on these blogs, so sorry if it'll be all TL;DR etc but it will help me to vent a ton!

RIP the $16's. At an all time low mentally.

2011-05-06T18:19:00.000+01:00
It may soon be time to bail. It's probably coupled with the fact that I'm running so fuckin bad every day of my life at poker, with today being no exception (lost count of the pocket pairs one higher than mine I've run into in just 50 games today, down 70 bis in 3 days), but basically Pokerstars have released their changes into the client. And to be quite frank, they're fuking shit!! After months of promises to cut rake, they've actually gone and put it the fuck up!! Right now, I would rather be an American who'd made alot of money so has a 6 figure sum to kick back on and actually not be able to play, than deal with my situation. RIP the $16's you were as close to gold dust as it got for those years u were around. Miss u already < 3 xxx

Annnnnd upto 60 bricks from 64

2011-05-05T23:33:00.000+01:00
Yep, that's right, record breaking carries on through the day. You know, that stuff NONE of you experience ever. Only me (slight tongue in cheek but borderline serious). Well except for record breaking run hot days you seem to have every other week.

4 cashes from 64 games, that's the initial 43 18 mans and the rest over to FTP on the 45/90s for just over half a grand loss. But it's not rigged is it men, no not rigged not rigged not rigged not rigged not rigged.

I CHALLENGE ANYONE!

2011-05-05T17:31:00.000+01:00
YET ANOTHER run bad record has just been shattered by myself. I've just lost 43, yes that's FOURTY THREE 18mans in a row. NOt a single cash. I challenge anyone whoever reads this (not many people but w/e) to beat that EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER!!! NOBODY RUNS AS BAD AS ME NOBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!

One day all you fkn run good bastards out there are going to realise U AINT GOOD U JUST RUN IT!!!

April results

2011-05-04T03:34:00.001+01:00
I really cba to post graphs this month. But suffice to say I ran below for the *insert infinity number here* month in a row by a couple %. I played more games than I realised, though. Over 1700 games in all. Including FTP rakeback I made $1600 over 106 hours, so a pathetic $15 an hour. Works out I made £240 a week, pretty much over an average 25 hour week. Over the 18 weeks we've had of 2011 now I've made an average of £280/$465 which is none too shabby, especially considering my red line tells me I shold have earned £360/$600 per week over 25 hour average weeks. All that's left to conclude from all that is the fact I need to put in twice as much volume to go from a stable-ish sort of person to a well off one. And being as I can't get any credit anywhere to fund the toys I want to buy (bikes/cars)then voluming and paying for things out right is the only way I can achieve my dreams. Ho hum. Here's hoping for a record month in May. Am up $400 so far and.

Oh and today I spunked most of my 50,000 odd FTP points on tourney tickets to no avail! First I bought 4 $26 ones to buy-in 4 times to a multi-entry $26 MTT. I was doing pretty well with my one remaining entry sitting on around $18k at bb340 when I go busto with QQ on a Jxxr flop. Average stat guy had raised UTG to about 720 so I 3-bet to 1999 and he flatted with JJ and binked the set. Not sure if his flat is good or what really. It's something I've been doing alot more of lately in SnG's. It's obv more viable in MTT's with better implied odds and all that but lately in STT's I've been so sick of wondering whether to fold or not when I raise at bb30 to 90 and get 3-bet to 150 that I've just been flatting and set mining without the odds so to speak. I've acutally found it works out really well in multi-way pots because sometimes a fish who came along will do some donk leading and if I get a surprise fold from a reg original raiser then I know I'm good to ship it in. So basically learning that it's not just set mining odds to take into consideration when getting 3-bet with shallow stacks. I've been flatting small 3-bets like 2.3x or something in LP with stuff like AJo just for the principal that I ain't letting guys keep taking me off my raises, and sometimes it works out as they've done it with some random crap hand. It's probably a long term slight chip loser but meh, I think it's worth it sometimes. So some more FTP points also went on a $75 buy-in with just a few hunnit players, but a super stack game with early antes. Unfortunately I played like a tool with my 250bbs as there was a total spastic at the table running 90% vpip flatting any sized raise with Q2o etc. I crashed out of that game in no time, mainly due to my own impatience like a fkn idiot. I think the best strategy for ticket games is to make the money as obviously we're treating them as further ways to increase our rakeback so even a min cash is a great result.

Fold button broken

2011-05-03T21:42:00.000+01:00
From the 1200 hands I've played this week I reckon I've folded 94% of them. I'm not card dead no, I'm card 35 years underground completely and utterly decomposed!!!! And today, at the start of my evening session loading everything I can on FTP, I must have had AA and KK about 12 times in 3 mins with at least 5 massive pkt pairs on tables simultaneously, and yes, of course, all but 2 of them were totally busted. Of those 1200 hands+ this week, EVERY SINGLE spastic cunt who's flatted a fuckin massive 3 bet from me has hit the world on the flop ie KJo raises utg, I 3bet 5x with KK he flats flop comes JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ and obv it all goes in. Not one single raise with KK, QQ, JJ has not been flatted by a retard and seen a flop with no overs, then I've check in fear or to induce bluffs, it gets to the river and I call some sick bet to be shown the fuckin nuts every time. The 7 year long trend is not stopping and tbh I don't think it ever will. If I'm fortunate (or fkn cursed) enough for online poker to still be a viable income in 25 years, you will still see this blog running and I'll be waffling the same old shit, you'll be able to trawl through the archives and not find one day in 25 years where I'll be reporting some sick run good.

April review to follow...

Annnnnd normal service resumed!!

2011-04-29T23:34:00.000+01:00
Obviously had my one time bink of the millennium last night. This evening I've fired up a few of the same games, 45/90s etc. Cooler after cooler after cooler after cooler as per usual. Ran into AA 9 times in 18 games LMAO! Check these cunts for hands out. Both 45 man bubbles I reached as CL and bubble both the fuckers!

Button raises up and has the slight edge on me chip wise but I still have a ton of fold equity. My 1st thought is 3xing button is hardly ever a giant and more of a steal. The stats I have on him say it's only gotten to him unopened once on the button and he raised so that was enough for me. So I jam and get coolered for the billionth time.

Full Tilt Poker Game $10 + $1 Sit & Go

400/800

Seat 1: Bullets1972 (4,709)
Seat 3: Sandokann (4,720)
Seat 4: cocicoli (14,558)
Seat 6: Debinh (10,288)
Seat 7: xPrincessE (6,614)
Seat 8: 1967MAX (BUTTON) (14,482)
Seat 9: RichesToRagz (12,129)
RichesToRagz posts the small blind of 400
Bullets1972 posts the big blind of 800

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RichesToRagz [8h 8s]
Sandokann folds
cocicoli folds
Debinh folds
xPrincessE folds
1967MAX raises to 2,400
RichesToRagz has 15 seconds left to act
RichesToRagz has requested TIME
RichesToRagz raises to 12,129, and is all in
Bullets1972 folds
1967MAX calls 9,729
RichesToRagz shows [8h 8s]
1967MAX shows [Kd Kc]

Next this one happens. I have a ton of FE over BB it's defo a hugely +ev shove there's no doubt about it. Another massive cooler. They just won't stop. SEVEN LONNNNNG YEARS

Full Tilt Poker Game $5 + $0.50 Sit & Go

600/1200

Seat 2: MrMarne (20,592)
Seat 3: RichesToRagz (11,178)
Seat 4: Ruslah shum (1,094)
Seat 5: pyablondu (4,020)
Seat 7: Oneuro (4,800)
Seat 8: martenmania (15,488)
Seat 9: pirat191 (10,328)
Oneuro posts the small blind of 600
martenmania posts the big blind of 1,200
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RichesToRagz [9c 8c]
pirat191 folds
MrMarne folds
RichesToRagz has 15 seconds left to act
RichesToRagz has requested TIME
RichesToRagz raises to 11,178, and is all in
Ruslah shum folds
pyablondu folds
Oneuro folds
martenmania calls 9,978
RichesToRagz shows [9c 8c]
martenmania shows [Ah Ac]

MTT slight success

2011-04-29T01:25:00.001+01:00
Well my day of running awful was capped off with a nice win. Having finished playing SnG's after 8 hours I had one MTT remaining, a $3 multi-entry. I bought in for the full 4 entries, needless to say I had one remaining after about an hour. I then spent the next 5 hours one tabling this game not wanting to fire up any side games because I've been starving the whole night aniticpating busting out any minute now, any minute now, SHOVE, oops doubled up bollox, and so on. This brought the day to 12 hours in total, a record for me that probably won't be matched for a long time.

Lemme tell ya now, I've no idea how the eff I got there. I was in the bottom 10 for literally the last 100 players the whole way down to the FT. I was on one specific table for hours and hours totally stone cold card dead, then got moved to another table when there were 3 tables left and then got dealt monsters 4 hands in succession then BANG back to sweet fa again. Was such a weird pattern going on. And the payouts were terrible, really top heavy paying 20% to 1st from 1800 entrants! Maybe that has something to do with it being multi-entry, I'm not sure. If you finished 20th you got $20! From 1800 entries that's pretty shit. If you got 12th you got $40 lol. 9th got $65, 5th $300 and 1st was just over $1k. So I gets to the FT and within the first few hands I get this: Hmmm, pretty much a standard shove I suppose, can't raise fold that's for sure.

So in it goes and sbrankovic INSTA SNAPPED! Whilst everyone else spent 6 weeks folding I was pretty sure I knew what was waiting for me...........................................................

Yep, BOLLOX! Oh well GG me, I've just spent 5 hours making $65. Great.

Not a very helpful board.

but then....

BANG, OOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

Well hy's abyte yer!! A miracle for like the first time in months for me.

So then on we go still playing TAG etc and what struck me about this FT was that despite it being just a $3 bi there were no awful fish here at all!! Everyone seemed to know what they were doing. Shoving every chance they got, basically. It was this reason that when we got to 5 handed and stacks were all pretty even that most of us decided to chop. Ok probably not the best idea as I defo had the edge but another factor for it was the prizes being so top heavy. A split would work out just as well as what 1st place probably would have over a normal payout field ie 12-15% for 1st. Now all we had to do was try to explain to this non English speaking Russian guy what the fuck to do. That took minutes of faffin around copy and pasting from google translates which was hilarious, then we discover that the last person to tick the deal box is the guy with control over the payouts. Like W...T...F??? Didn't matter he was quick to click ICM and we all accepted. So I got $650 or so which is no great achievement, but the way I got there was totally incredible. As I said I was stone cold card dead throughout and simply either got shoves through when needed or doubled up when called (rarely). I was definitely folding my button with 5bbs with hands all the lagtard shove-bot regs would never have folded but when you have no FE there's no point shoving Q6o OTB.

7 looooooooong years

2011-04-28T15:56:00.000+01:00
I'm just popping in on a 5 minute break from FTP. YEs, that's right, I'm playing on there and going for some big hours, but it's already failing big time. Constant cooler after cooler, 70-30 big Ace v small ace losing every single, and I mean EVERY time (bout 15 in all in 2.5 hours), it just won't stop. THe misery just will not fuckin end. It's relentless, I'm getting to my wit's end, really, really don't know what to do. If ANY competent player reads this and seriously thinks I just play bad thn please take a look and review some of my shyt because I'm seriously starting to doubt my ability to even play this cunt for a game. SEVEN LOONNNNNG YEARRRRRRRRRRS

LATER EDIT: 8 hours non stop today so far. For the first time realised you can actually play more than 16 tables on FTP, the 16 is limited to SnG's only it seems as you can load up as many MTT's alongside them as you like. So along with every 18/45/90 man I could get loaded up I went for every viable MTT too. Cashed a total of 5 from 50 and that included 11 18 mans LMFAO!!!!

Here is my chip winnings for the year alongside what I SHOULD have won in chips. As you can see I should have won MORE than double.

And now the same for hands where I was all-in. 1.1 million chips down. Great life.

Bollox I've got a bonus to earn!

2011-04-25T17:29:00.000+01:00
Well thanks very much and everything to FTP for giving me a $750 bonus for nothing, but it means I'm gonna have to lose $5 million to fucking get it!!! Great! Have already played 100 Stt's at break even. It's a pretty tight one I think. 21 days to earn it means I have to play...erm, alot. Playing there is hard enough as it is but now I'm going to have to double my co-codomol dose just to get my head through it PHYSICALLY let alone emotionally! Sigh.

2011 so far

2011-04-22T04:27:00.000+01:00
This is not a safe occupation. I've just started my post with a conclusion. OK we understand we're not supposed to profit every month, and every couple years you might even have a losing quarter. But to suffer with this misery for seven long years is just too tough to handle. I'm getting pretty regular chest pains now and having breathing difficulties. I'm waking up in the night gasping for air where for some reason my system's decided to just stop breathing. This is what this cunt for a job is doing to me. Why doesn't it do this to me? I hear you ask yourself. Because my friends, you are a normal person who obviously wasn't s mass raping murderer in a past life getting punished for it. I will post monthly graphs for both Stars and Full Tilt combined with the red line. Obv the red line only caters for the STT's but it's still pretty descriptive of what I'm dealing with my entire life.

JANUARY: Red line is 3.4%

FEBRUARY: Red line is 14%!

MARCH: Red line is 20%!!!!!

APRIL SO FAR: Red line is 6%

TOTAL FOUR MONTHS OF CUNTER, SORRY POECKAR. RED LINE IS 10%!!!!

I should have nearly DOUBLE the earnings!! And if I could be arsed to upload the last half of 2010 as well it's all the same. I might be making money, but not half as much as I should. And the only reason I'm not actually losing tons of money is because...well you already know why, I'm the best cursed player in the world.

Calmer

2011-04-20T01:39:00.000+01:00
I've effed Stars off the last two days and done well for it! I still find it utterly incredible that my losing streaks in MTT SnG's are a quarter the size of the STT versions. Really weird. Today I settled down determined to keep regging and regging no matter what on FTP. I actually lasted through 3 breaks (3.5 hours in total). I didn't register a thing after the 2nd break which is obviously a good sign that I went deep in alot. The exception of tonight's games were that I added the normal speed 45s to increase fill up time. I haven't played any of those things in almost a year,and the number I notched up saw awful results. However, tonight I blitzed em! Not sure if it's cos I've adopted a slightly different attitude in them, and that's to REALLY nit it up. Regged 6 in all, 4 $10 and 2 $24, got 3 2nds and a 3rd :-OO Still feel really unlucky because of all the damn 2nds I keep getting heads up. I've got wayyyy more 2nds than I have wins, maybe I should start just going for the chop every time? The 3rd place was one of the $24 games at least. These normal speed 45 mans are very different to 90 mans. The final tables last for absolutely aaaaaaaages and can take soooo many hands til the bubble bursts. I did come across a few spots on the bubble where I was totally unsure what to do without the ante I'm so used to so just took the nit route and folded. Stuff like 11 bigs on the button with QTo with guys shorter than me around but the blinds nicely stacked. Snap shoves in ante games, not so here. Not only are we always picking up a hell of a lot less chips with no antes but what is also important to take into account in these games is that we're not losing chips by folding either. We can last many more orbits without antes, and I'm sure nitting it up got me all those 2nds and 3rds (which should have been 1sts obv). Along with those 6 were 16 90s. I got to 3 $12 FT's and went very much against my usual trend of making the top 4 nearly every time I final table, by getting 2 9ths and a 7th! Horrible. Also got a 7th but a 3rd in two £6's and gratefully got a 3rd in a £26 to hike the score right up.

What use are soft games when u run like a c***

2011-04-18T02:46:00.000+01:00
Chinese water torture. Oh hi there. Yes I was just saying what I would rahter indulge in than play this stupid fucking game!!! From what I can make out indeed games are soft as shite. The biggest adjustment required is now we're possibly not having to fold so tight to 3-bets as I've seen A2o and K7s show up from 3-betttors in the $16s today. Makes no odds to me either way, I simpy do not win when 185% favourite. An Ace has hit the flop, not the board, the FLOP one hundred % of the time today vs anything I've had. No not selective memory, not really 50%, not really 80%, ONE HUNDRED PERFUCKINGCENT. The best way I can compare the games now is to say they're like the $6 games. I played a few thousand $6 games in my time and couldn't even get CLOSE to my $16 ROI. No not from coincidence, from the pure fact I couldn't get folds. Being ahead in every showdown is no good to a 90% flip loser like myself, I NEED FOLDS!!!! So now that I can't get folds I'm fucked. And what's worse is I can't even switch sites to FTP now cos the games just don't go off!! There hasn't been more than 6 $6 90 mans running at any one time since the Fucking Bastard Imbeciles (FBI) screwed everyone over. "Oh don't worry it evens out long term" I hear that fuckin annoying voice of no experience telling me. No, maths does not exist, it is a myth, IT DOES NOT EVEN OUT. My long bad runs last for ever and ever and ever and my good runs last like 2 fuckin days MAXIMUM. I just don't know what to do. Really depressed.

Still not stopping....

2011-04-17T21:59:00.001+01:00
donating $60 an hour busting at a rate of 1 table every 2 mins, cashed 3 in 55, will soon be busto on the most incredible load of bullshit run ever known to mankind

Not stopping

2011-04-17T17:00:00.000+01:00
Upto 65 bis down in 5 hours. 7 cashes from 95 games. Compute that will you people. Actually fucking ccomprehend that!!!!!!

Oh I cashed out, that'll explain it!!!!

2011-04-16T22:15:00.000+01:00
WORDS CANNOT DESCERRRRRIIIIIIIIIBE how bad I'm running, never seen anything like it!! Yes that's right, once again we go one higher, this is just utter utter utter bullshit!! If anything the fuckin FBI should be investigating fraud concerning the RNGs of these sites more than anything else. No exaggeration I've lost 15 dominating Ace flips in a row!!! FUICKING FIFTEEN!!! All cos I fuckin cashed the fuck out!!! 58 games played 45 bricked HAHAHAHAHAHAHA UTTER IMPOSSIBILITY!!!!

EDIT: A few hours later. I AM HYPERVENTILATING!!! This is amazing, I simply cannot find the words for this. Another 21 games, AND TWO FUCKING CASHES!! 9 and 18 mans and one fucking cash again. We're talking what must be over 50 dominating Aces losing consecutively now for the day over 90+ games. The games are soft as fuck but slow to fill,so I just included some 18s along side the 9s and threw in a $27 one of each. Trebled my stack in both the $27 games easily then got fuckin killed by the sick RNG once again. The fish are out there, the game there to be killed and I've never run so bad in all my 7years of running perm bad, I mean actually HOW DOES IT GET WORSE EVERY SINGLE FUCKING TIME??? I'm on the verge of having a heart attack, my chest is tight, breathing is hard, NO ONE I MEAN NO ONE ON EARTH KNOWS WOT THIS IS LIKE SEVEN FUCKING YEARRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!

This has to be the hand of the day. It had gone limp then overlimp by AQ guy and I shoved. I mean OVERLIMPING AQ??? STUPID FUCKING PRICK!!!!!!!!!

So to recap; Stars announce Americans can't play anymore. Games become unexpectedly softer but with slower filling times. RESULT? RagzToRiches smashes all records with a 50 bi downswing in 3.5 hours and 67 games (not the whole day obv, first set was winning). I CHALLENGE ANYONE TO BEAT THIS, SERIOUS. $20 for first person to beat this.

...followed by the biggest BRICK of my entire career!!

2011-04-16T17:34:00.000+01:00
Last session, 23 $16/9s fired up, 21 bricked, two 3rds. FUCK THIS CUNT HOLE FOR A SITUATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TITANIC FOR ONLINE POHCAR

2011-04-16T15:57:00.000+01:00
So....I'm sure you've all heard by now and if you haven't then I suggest pulling your faces out of Thailand ladyboy's cracks and get wi da program! Top 3 sites seized by FBI blah etc, no one reading won't already know so I won't go into detail.

I cannot really give any insight as to what is going to happen. What is my prediction? Well that's probably not even close to an EDUCATED a guess as most of the brain boxes on 2+2, and tbh I haven't got a frickin clue! All I know is I insta withdrew 62.5% of my roll from Tilt and Stars and have had confirmation emails from Tilt but only one email from Stars when there's usually 2 or 3. Apparently anybody not in the US isn't supposed to worry but I'm not listening to that! There's every chance the entire company/s could go completely bust so it's best imo to get most of your maynies out now. I've still left in a few K to keep playing. People like brendon_criss who apparently only keep $800 in their accounts will be ok. I find that hard to believe myself, he 25 tables so $800 is enough for just TWO SETS! We know he runs so damn good that he probably still never has to redeposit but come on, TWO SETS WORTH??? Pull the other one!

So basically in my estimation, like most others ae saying, poker may become regulated in the US. Or maybe they'll just bollock the guys they want to bollock after investigating and normal practice will resume. After all what connection do the FBI actually have with politics? What I don't get is why has it taken so long for this to happen? Every policemann, FBI agent and his dog have obviously known since the day the UIGEA or whatever it's called came into play that US residents continued to play online, yet only now decide to do something. Maybe they were just waiting until they knew there'd been enough transactions made to be able to make the goverment a shit load of money for themselves. Yeah that's probably it.

So with no Yanks around I decided to see if fields were any softer and played a $16/9 session just. There were some donating fish no problem there. Alot of people are saying they thinkgames will be softer but I'm not convinced of that. I'm just hoping that the UK government don't start doing some bullshit regulating else we're well and truly stuffed!!