New Team being assembled

New Team being assembled

Beginning of September and after a few discussions with others we decided enough was enough from certain members and layed down that a post a month on blog was minimum criteria to remain on the "Team".

With 3 members who have NEVER posted this was putting the team at the option of removing certain members and recruiting new blood. The new blood was no problem but felt it only fair to give the original members the opportunity to stay involved.

Times up Im afraid and from the 3 members in question then only Vegas Dave Harris has responded and as such from 1st October Beastie & Matto are given the boot and within the next few days the new additions will be revealed.

We have also decided to INCREASE the members to 10 in order to satisfy the majority of team events.

September Month End Figures

Online = £300 profit

Online other = $5000 CPC Cruise Package

Live = £200 profit

Live other = £495 sponsored input less £220 return (50%) = £275 loss

OMG Teamdobb to sponsored pros rescue!

OMG Teamdobb to sponsored pros rescue!

As you can see from last post Spillas month of paid in games is over and I think he has done himself proud with some sterling performances. I have also been well pleased at how Spilla has thrown himself into the whole aspect of the thing and even hows he promoted stuff.

As such how could I not return the favour so when he got on the telephone to me today asking what I was doing as I was at work I replied whats up?

Gotta go to work he says and last 30 odd of 180 seater on stars. Nee probs I say Ill play rest of game for ya.

2 fkn hours later and Teamdobb takes it down for him and $216 weeeeeeee.

Sponsor rewards the sponsored wow what a cheek!!!!!


Lol at this--- Aspers £20 Freeze Out other night and the one n only Joey Barton with bouncer in toe takes down the tournie.
Shouts at end when he wins - " Get in there, 1st win bonus of this year" True Story!

Sponsorship Deal ends with a little flourish

Sponsorship Deal ends with a little flourish

Sunday saw the end of my sponsorship deal with Teamdobb, and I finally managed to cash in the Sunday game at Aspers. No real hands to write about, but I did enjoy the game and I cant remember being all-in until the final table, even though I was never really well stacked at any point.
Disappointing turnout out for the 3rd sunday running and I think that players who turned up were of the feeling that there is no value in the pot anymore, so unless numbers randomly increase significantly I can see Aspers needing to change the game. But I just cant see numbers for this game getting any better as people are skint, recession fears and also the standard of PokerStars Sunday evening schedule.

I would like to thank TD for staking me throughout the month and I have enjoyed representing him.

The final financial position for september was: outgoings £495. Winnins £440, which meant on the whole i wasnt too much down, but unfortunately TD lost 275 on the deal.

All in all september was a pretty hectic month; starting work Monday-Friday and playing poker all weekend, so during October I will be taking a bit of a step back from poker and spending more time looking for a job more suited to my long term ambitions (as my first shot at being a sponsored pro died in the water a little - haha)

All aboard please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All aboard please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

With so many near misses in this tournament my 4th Final had me in determined mood despite a couple of very unlucky beats over weekend in other games, none more so than the Gala $1475 package I bubbled on to runner runner flush.

Not bore you with detailed hand stuff but just to say a couple of big folds at vital times and patience paid off. Couple of races held up and big hands held for a change so when 6/7 left my stack was used well imo to keep the pressure on others.
One scarey moment when 6 left saw me with AA on the BB and an utg raise to 7200 for then the only person at table who had more chips than me call the 7200. I could see the perfect set up hand coming with the big stacks here AA v KK and the magic K appearing but fk it in they all went. Thankfully they both folded and tbh after that it was cruise control into the Caribbean baby!!!!!

Nice room with meal packages and some spendies as well. Taking the missus and son Scott and it will be his 1st experience of a major overseas event.



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Whats the point in playing good poker?

Whats the point in playing good poker?

Yesterday was ridiculous, and has made me really down about poker fullstop. The cardguard kid will probably not be too happy with what iu'm about to blog given his recent run of badbeats but i am actually going to bemoan my own GOOD luck.
early on in the tournament i get Q 10 on s..b couple of limpers i make it up, flop comes Qh 3h Qs, i check and late position bets 500 into a 200 pot. I basically think is there any way i can make it look like im on a flush draw? so i grimace a little and call. The turn is a 10 giving me the nuts so i check and the lad bets 500 again, i call. River is 5h and i check hopin that he was actually on a flush draw and he MOVES ALL IN for 6300 and i have him covered, i dont even think, i know that i cant be beaten and i call, he says "i think you got me" i replied "yeah i think i have" he shows K 8, a stone cold bluff, i get an early gift and pretty much a double up.
Down to the last 3 tables i have A J on the button a few limpers i limp: flop is J 9 2 rainbow checks to my right where guy has 3 times the average chips he bets outs i raise 40% of my stack and the bb moves all-in. guy to my right folds giving me a decision. i think and i think, he is making this move with Q 10, 10 8, K J, Q J, 9 2, J 9, 2 2. he wouldve raised pre with J J, 99 maybe even A J. he seemed like quite an aggressive player didnt really know him that well, anyways i call saying "i think you could be doing it with a draw or K J, if you got it fair play to you" and i ask him what he got he says "Jack" so i flip my hand, and he puts his cards on the table with just the jack showing and as the dealer is dealing the turn he reveals a 9 aswell, so he slow-rolled it a little, which annoyed me. the turn was 2 and the lad to his right says i passed and ace, bang A on the river, crazy suckout! Normarily i would be a little embarrassed by this, i called when i was behind etc but after he slow-rolled his hand i was more than happy to hit my two-outer. What follwed from him was a barrage of abuse about me making a bad call and that i was too young to understand the game of poker and a few tuts, usual stuff where nothing has been said when ive turned my cards over but when he gets beaten it becomes a bad call, he was crippled by my awful play and didnt last much longer (what a shame).
i stay fairly evenish for a while then and it gets down to 11 players, where as is typical with apsers, a bubble "prize" of £50 was agreed to "speed up the bubble" now i didnt agree with this but everybody else did, so to not be awkward i reluctantly agreed, and also my table had the 5 lowest stacks in the tourney so i could have easily gone out on bubble. 1st hand of the bubble im s.b. fold round i see 66 and shove, low and behold bb has 10 10, i have him just about covered, turn 6, i hit a 2 outer again and get to the final table.
1st hand of ft blinds 1500-3000, utg QQ raise to 13k shove mid position from a tight player for 18k, i know im behind, just know it i have to call onb the off chance im racing and even ama getting value if she does have AA or KK coz its only 5k more, she has AA, turn Q, two two-outers in two hands either side of the bubble, sick! i hate winning hands this way and this series of hands has made me down on the game. i ended up coming 4th but given the top heavy prize structure i walked away with £170.
My point about this luck is, CGK has been playin his poker well, getting his money in ahead and gettin a horrible run of beats, i have got my money in behind 3 times yesterday with only two outs in each instance at very important points in the tournament and hit. my best result so far in the sponsorship deal and its the game that i have enjoyed, by far, the least.
Its the last game of it today and in october i only plan to play once, that being the forum championships, maybe twice if knighty does actually want me to play his PokerStars syndicate game, but i just need a break for a while to refresh my enjoyment for the game coz this last month has been a real grind and if i continue to play regularly i will start to hate the game that i have spent the last 3 years loving

3rd Time lucky please

3rd Time lucky please

Popped over to Grosvenor for their £500 Freeroll and tbh cudnt believe the shocking turnout of only 40 players. The place has had so much stick lately about its reg fees n sarnie prices yet they put a freebie like this on and the turnout is nothing more than crap.

Grinded hard to get chips but always struggled and my top hand I was getting seemed to be AQ but unable to turn it into chips. Blinds began to kick in and with 16 left I made up the 4 way pot in the sb with 85. On a flop of K67 I made the bad mistake of checking - why I dont know with what I had left and shudda pushed at the flop and the button eventually bet enough to put me all in. I duly obliged and he made the commnet " Think you got me at it" when he flipped JQ. Not quite and no help with all me outs and bye bye.
Well done Grosvenor on this one just a pity the turnout let them down. Mind you they were competing with Newcastle United v Blackburn - omg least said the better.

Had 2 games online I had been looking forward to tonight even though they were clashing with the X Factor 0:)
1st game was the Gala Saturday Final for packages into their Teeside Event. Its a slow slog this one and get down to last 3 with virtually 2 X $1475 Packages up for grabs and Im 6k adrift of 2nd place with AdJh in sb so put my raise in and get re popped so considering situation its gamble time as far as Im concerned so push to insat call. Its my AJ v QQ and I hit my Ace to the flop. Turn brings 3 hearts to the board and fk hes got the Qh. Bang there it is and another heart on the river takes me down and all that grind for f.a.
During this Im also in the Main Sat into tomorrows CPC Final and hey ho its 5 seats on there and bubble time. Lose important hand and become low stacker but AhKh gets tangled up with AA and Im through to the final. After last weeks cock up I know the shuffle up n deal time without doubt is 18.00 and I wont be late this week. Hoping this week is 3rd time lucky for me.

Just cant get past post

Just cant get past post

Back trouble has had me in pain all week and had to put my fitness regime on slight hold till pain goes. Think I did it getting tiles at B&Q on Sunday.

Tuesday its the Circus £30 Double Chance and not much to report actually. Played OK and back after break with average chips. Started to get bored and drift away and constant laps of shite saw me get excited when I see AdKd and with one limper I BBx4 bet it to which the blinds fold but the limper calls. Flop comes QQ3 and from his check I push for my last 2.5k and insta called by KQ off.

Played like a total donk in CPC satellite when cruising and virtually guaranteed a seat into next stage by getting involved with the big bully big stack who called my top pair down all the way to make his straight at the river and crippled me eventually going out 2 off a seat - what a fkn donkey play by me. Followed this with a freeroll with 5 seats for grabs into next stage of Gala game and just miss out getting outdrawn with my QQ to the monsta A2 caller and nearly 3 hours play.

Thursday and Aspers and the £50 Freeze Out. Double up early doors when my JJ makes nice top set on a J 10 5 flop and when guy raises my bet all in hes drawing very very thin with his J 10.
Steady away from there and although lose race with my 10 10 v AK for big pot at vital stage get to final table although 4th lowest stack.
Nice double through with QQ making house and called by 10 10 with Q & A on board and then my raise with 10 10 is called by BB to a 568 flop. I push on his check and after tanking for while he calls showing As7s but no help.
Decent stack now and after 3 shoves in a row by Rob Richardson from cut off Im expecting it maybe again when Im sitting with QQ but its the button push this time holding 88 and Q89 flop gets me home and 2nd in chips.
Down to 4 and after folding winning hand to river bluff by chip leader I pick up KK and single raise into Robs BB hoping for push judging by his chip stack. Get what I wanted when he pushes to my insta call and he flips A 10 but the river god shines down on him bringing him the Ace in.
2 hands later I push my last 20k in with AQ for monsta stack leader BB to make call holding 82 off. Thats poker when he makes straight to the 10 and Im gone in 4th.

Just cant seem to get to that winning post at the mo whichever way I play it and vital hands just not holding out when in front at critical stages of games. Big difference in prize money here as well between top 2 which is also disappointing in the finish position although the return should ensure I have profitable month. Would be nice for Spilla to take one down this weekend or even go deep.

Deffo going out for CPC in Novemeber and booked some great flights with BA. More details on this laters.