We won the Cup !!!!!!

We won the Cup !!!!!!

Alreet Stumpy here,

After my op on Monday felt a bit under the weather so I thought I would stay off the drink while me and Mrs Stumpy played in the 1st Cardguardcup Team ame at the Grosvenor. We were playing for a combined Northenlights/ Dobba team consisting of Mr & Mrs Cardguard,Mr & Mrs E,Mags,the Geek,Xenocode,Sean Mcguigan and Mr and Mrs Stumpy. When we arrived had a bit crack with Mags,Fatpants, and the Geek and stayed away from the bar. Got seated and had a canny starting table notables Fatfish guesting for Radgies,Koyte,Portanus,Gaz Walker,valet came and auto asked for corona once I got 1st 5 doon was ok lol,
Sat tight early won small pot with KK and at break was starting stack enjoyed superb buffet by the G returned well fed and ready but lost 2 small pots straight away and now under pressure with 5k then after a Gaz Walker raise I ship with JJ and he makes reluctant call with 55 and the double up I needed. Then I get a few raises through and pick up blinds and antes and shortly after pick up QQ and put small raise in only for Looseman to ship his ss with 66 and now Im sitting on about 30k.Then utg ships Nemisis , I have 1010 and reship Xenocode whose on my team has a hard decision with AK, does he risk shipping and losing and we probably cant win teamgame or fold and hope to double up in better spot. He folds and I win with 1010 but Xenocode would of won with Ace on flop. Wasnt his day as later after building stack back up he lost QQ v Irishandys 87 aipf then Ace 10 v Gaz Walkers AK blind on blind on the bubble, ul Xenocode well played. On the run up to the ft I take ss Micheal 152 out then call a ship from PjbAces with 99 v K10 and I hold to knock radgie Phil out who again played a blinder for his team. So down to the ft and after Mrs Stumpy good 16th place Mags Sean and Xenocode going deep we have points in the bag but the Sensations have 4 left and look nailed on for winning the team game.

We need all the Sensations to bite the dust and then I had to go on and win it prolly a 2000-1 shot.So the final table looked like this

seat 1 sean kane koytes radgies 67k

seat 2 portanus loosemans radgies 73k

seat 3 irishandy sensations 30k

seat 4 stumpy northern dobbas 93k

seat 5 mark graham thomas wilson 60k

seat 6 stephen salter sensations 31k

seat 7 alison little irish paddy mcaree koytes radgies 56k

seat 8 karl webber jnr geordie poker 134k

seat 9 gaz walker sensations 40k

seat 10 omahaha sensations 23k

1st hand of ft and Webber jnr takes some chips off Portanus next hand its folded to Portanus who double raises from button and I reship from bb Portanus finds the call with A8 v my 88. Ace on the river and Im down to 38k,then we have the 1st Sensation down. Salter allin v Irish paddy AJ v 1010,then next 1 to go was Irish Andy. Portanus min raises to 12k Andy small blind ship for 13k I have 10 7 and peel a flop for 7k more. Flop is 10 8 2 and I ship allin to win a nice little pot and also take out another Sensation. Andy played well all day and enjoyed his company as usual, one day you will run good lol. Then Omahaha finally plays a hand nit A8 v K8 and holds up,then shortly after Omahaha ships again only to be called by Portanus and Mark Graham AK v J 10 v Q 10 flop J10 7 turn 5 rivr J and Portanus takes 2 out!Then Webber jnr AA v Gaz Walker Q 7 commited in bb and we lose Gaz who played a great game for his team so we now have a chance if I come 2nd its a tie and if I win we win the team game. Next we lose Sean who pushes A8 into Portanus who calls nd hits flush with 10d8d, then the 2 bigstacks clash Webber jnr raise Portanus reraise Webber calls. Flop A65 2 diamonds Karl goes allin and Portanus calls. Karl KdQd and Portanus AQ no diamond and Karls out in 4th. So 3 left and Portanus has 450k and I have 45k and Alison has 35k. Alison dups AJ v 42 of Portanus then I get walk Alison ships again Q9 and Portanus calls with K2 which holds and Alison is out after playing a great game. Its headsup Portanus 550k me 50k,I dup AJ v KJ, then Port ships I call me K 10 v Q2 flop A38 turn Q rvr J and right back in it. Then I bluff a few back and get it in again with K9 v QJ and hold,then raise wth 42 called flop AQ8 c bet called turn 5 ck ck river 5 I bet 25k and Port folds. Then i raise with K6 called flop K94 I bet Port ships I call he has K2 so looking like a chop but 3 on turn Q rvr and I take it down. Now me 500k Port 100k and last hand I ship Q 10 called by 74 no help and I win and Team Northern Dobbas win teamgame from the Sensations by 1 point.
I love these team games a great laugh a few drinks and the atmosphere with all the railers from each teams cheering there mates on you just cant beat it.Great work by Cardguard,all the staff at the G and all the teams who took part and a special mention to Geordie poker team what a bunch of nutters. You helped create a great atmosphere round the ft with the Sensations as usual. Thanks to all my teammates who played a blinder and kept me going with there support

Coach Driver Stumpy

Coach Driver Stumpy

Alreet stumpy here,
Had my knee op today. Went well and Doc said there maybe no need for 2nd op so fingers crossed and hope to get back to work in 4-6 weeks, especially cos Im on half pay haha.
On Saturday was flying in $10 rebuy Miniftops PLO on Tilt and bigstacks in $10rebuy, and $20rebuy on Stars then the curse of this year struck again in $10 rebuy. I reship a raise nd flatter with AK just b4 money only for flatter to call with 88 for his tourney life 80k pot wen av 20k and I brick,then itm in 20 aipf AQ v A5 and 5 on rivr for $150ish in the middle of all this I had 80k stack in PLO Ftops when avg was 18k. Im bb with AA double sooted small blind raises I reraise and he calls flop 10 4 3 cbet he calls turn 3 ck ck river 10 he shows 10 for his 2 outer,thing is he was terrible nd if I bet turn he calls for sure,then 1 round later bb AA double sooted again and small blind donk raises I reraise and he calls obv flop 963 I bet he calls turn 10h giving me nut fd he bets min I call rvr brick and he pots it cant beat nothing so fold,down to 18kish then cling on till in the money,then the next 5 hands go from 8k to 112k,tripled up then rased KKQJ 1 caller flop K66 ck ck turn A ck ck rvr Q I ship rvr he calls with 10 J weeee,then limp in AAKQ ds get raised and shortish stak goes allin I reship and get to 112k and back above avg,then cant remember how many left round about 50 out of 4600 runnrs I think when I get KKxx double suited I raise and get reraised by active player so call 2 ship flop,flop AKx I ship he calls with AA! rvr K wow and right back in it, down to 16 players and shipped with nothing about 5 times to stay init and scrape to ft with 600k when blinds were 100k -200k and Im utg with 2345 so ship it in get 2 callers flop KJ5 all diamonds 1 guy ships with top 2 no diamond turn 5 weeeeeee rvr he hits str8 oh well $1604 for 9th was 31k up top 1 day 1 day.

Mentioned in the last post about training Spoona ,Samj and now Sensh on sngos, all young lads off the NPF these are the sharkscopes since I started helping,still some work to do but doing well.

keep on smiling

Stumpy

Alreet Stumpy here,

A few years back I trained my mate who had never played poker before on how to play sngos. It took about 2 months and he was winning player.So when Spoona said to me I just cant win at online poker I thought it was a good opportunity to try it again.

Strangley it has took a bit longer to train Spoona up as he has a good understanding for the game and some of the strategy in sngos goes against the grain i.e im never folding AQ pre when its passed to me in the cutoff wtf.Spoona has been passing on his training to Samj so Ive started helping Sam.

Last week we decide to have a live session at my house Spoona playing 9 mans and 45s and Sam 45s and me just watching them play, and from time to time they would ask for advice or verification on correct play.Spoona made a nice profit and Sam had a small loss but tbf he ran really bad.

Both are now winning sngo players but with a few more live sessions and if they can iron out their leaks they will crush.Since the 1st live session and sitting watching them play it has refocussed me and since then I have played about 10 sessions myself and had only 1 losing session and that was only -$20.Live I have played about 7mtts with 2 fts for a small loss but have made a nice profit on 6 live cash sessions.

Online mtts have been very frustrating lately getting bigstacks then either blowing them with bad moves or getting some terrible beats.I did get 1 ft on a £5k freeroll on interpoker finishing 5th for £375 freemoney is always nice haha.

When I played rugby me and my mate Adam would play tricks on each other, my fav was when I let my toenails grow and after the game would peel off my bigtoenail and put it in his bottle of bud. Later in the nite when we were pissed he took a drink and it perched lovely onto his top lip everybody was pissing themselves,then I went to the toilet and came back and finished my bud off a lot of the woman were nearly spewing as I necked my bud "whats up" I say, Adam just pissed in ya bottle of bud.thats y I drink corona now!.

keep on smiling

Stumpy

Hi Dobba Watchers,

Been a tough time since my last post / blog not a happy bunny and it showed, shit job nee prospects and borderline depressed, dropped from APAT Team game and it hurt, always been a honest bloke and always let my feelings known had to hide my dissapointment at being dropped, at the time was realy pissed off I mean come on me ? mentaly not right ?.
as it happens its your friends who notice the differences in your personality and on reflection the right decision was made ( but you might of won had i played ).

But this year has seen a total new outlook and job thanks to our very own NPF Newsman, Steve came to me at the end of last year looking for someone with experience in his field to work alongside him, so realy pleased to say I,m now working with the Cardguard yep ANT N DEC are together and so far so good and for the first time in donkies I actualy look forward to going to work, CHEERS GAFFA if your reading.

On to the poker well not been out a great deal what with new position and being a miserable twat before but played the first tuesday game at circus and cashed however its a very long night great game but i left at 4.30am and there were still 6 left,
played the sky poker tour at aspers bought in direct on their website after a decent run online however the structure was awful antes coming in a level 5 as they wanted a quick finnish spoilt the game in my opinion, made it untill after dinner break went back with 16500 in chips ave was 19.500 and card dead finally shoving with 7 bbs on my bb with k q suited and ran into a k good night.

was having a canny run on stars won back to back smoggies wednesday league then went on to play 25 - 50 cash and was running mint then as always bad beat after bad beat dumped me lot so back trying to build it up again.

Forum has a new home page / web and for me much better like the idea and a lot easier to find what you want to read without trawling through pages and pages of shite. (nee offence )

And finally got me self a new grand son and Dean has realy put a grin on my face, daughter named him after my brother who passed away aged 5 and have to say very emotional but those of you who know me I am emotional, mother and baby are fine and so am I,
Appologies to anyone who I may have been short with or shunned through my ignorance but im back and ready to go NPF Team Challenge coming soon
DOBBAS FOREVER NO MATTER WHAT !!!!

And Mr Wills - CARDGUARD KID - NEWSMAN - ANT OR DEC THANKS MATE
TA VERY MUCH .

Quiet start to year

Quiet start to year

Been a while simply coz I aint played much other than online,played GUKPT m/e in Bolton and in 10 hours I was dealt, AA, JJ , 10-10, 77 AND AQ, pretty unreal and as I suffered my usual bad beat with AA I knew it was gonna be a long hard grind. Anyway ended up gambling at end of day which didn,t work out. Think I made 1 mistake in the whole game but getting dealt hands and having them hold is becoming a big problem.
My only other game was Aspers where I went out just before FT when I flop a set and get done by bigger set after all the chips fly on the flop,wasn,t suprised tbh coz opponent was running like god.

Anyway online, 888 is simply dying a death, so Ive been playing a bit on stars, wow the standard is the worst I have ever come across on any site where I have grinded,however I have dropped levels so maybe its that, but it certainly aint any easier beating the retards.

Was gonna try for superova but cant do required volume unless I move up levels but im enjoying stress free poker for now and Ive been doing ok and got myself a shinny star on sharkscope leaderboards for this year ,so Ill see how I feel in a couple of months.If things dont improve on 888 may move to stars full time.

Anyway thats all except to say good luck to Cardgaurdkid in his up coming $500 to $1500 challenge, see you at the tables hopefully.

41 and grinding again at work

41 and grinding again at work

thought it about time i contributed to the blog - unlike some of the members can i add!!!!!!

ok since last post poker has kind of become secondary for me. Big changes at work have seen me buy my partner out and become sole owner of my company. Financially it was not the best move for me as it swallowed up most of my ' rainy day ' fund - but as a business decision it was a very sensible thing to do as my relationship with my partner had deteriorated and my business would have only carried on with just one of us at the helm. Am pleased to say so far its all going well, new staff on board - including fellow blogger and dobba Mr E, new processess and generally a whole new way of working has seen a new enthusiasm in me and as such for last 5-6 weeks i have been working 70+ hours a week, which has impacted on my social activities so not much poker played.

On the poker front i am particularly looking forward to seeing the new grosvenor friday game take off and provide us players with 3k - 5k pots on a friday night - well worth cashing in. Also hoping the circus £75 gets enough runners to continue as its by far the best structured game of the month(and i hve split last 3),

As for my recent poker playing not much to report - finished 35th in the apat uk forum team championships getting 5 points for the team, proud to finish in the points for the 2nd year running especially as for 1st 7 levels i never played one hand, then got a rush and won 6 hands out of 9, then never played another hand till my exit - total card dead all tourney except for 6 hands, and never could find a spot to ' steal some ' chips. Big big credit to sean Mcguigan who finished 13th for some more much needed points - but the spoils to chipmunk who dug in for 2 days, came back from 8k left after beibg sucked oot on and ending up finishing 2nd and securing us 3rd place in the team event. very enjoyable event to play in - but 1st May will see our own team championships and that will be an event not to be missed. have already decided not to play for the dobbas in that event as i think teamdobb and s2c would prefer me to MC the event and make it unforgettable for eveyone who attends and plays so i have decided to do that.

Played the 2 new grosvenor games last week enjoyed them both - bubbled both but made up for that on the cash tables on saturday - £50 sit down and cashed oot for £400 90 mins later - mainly thanks to a drunk guy who played 2 hands with me totally blind for £140 per hand after i flop top pair both times.

Surprisingly on line has been good to me since November - noteably winning a $10 omaha hi lo tourney for $1200 on tilt, playing a block of 30 $12 90 man sit n goes and cashing in 24 of them, winning 4 and 2nd or 3rd on 10 occasions, final tabling $80k guarenteed eventually finishing 7th for $2980($24 buy in) and coming 2nd twice in the only 2 $48 90 man sng's i have played. All in all from a £100 deposit i have a roll of $800 still and have cashed out for £5k - happy days

Reet one last thing - saw the gyposdog today and have convinced him to play for the dobbas in the team game so weeeeeeeee. great to see him again and he is a great lad

reet time to get ready for the G attack

laters


cgk

Take me to the Circus!!!

Take me to the Circus!!!

Alreet Stumpy here,

Only played two live games since Sky poker. 1st one was Circus £20£20 Tuesday game about 41 runners got to ft with 12k in chips after losing AK v 66 just b4 ft so was just looking to get em in blinds 1k-2k I had 7.5k left when I raised to 6k utg with Q9 and everyone passed as they thought I had monster because I hadnt went allin,twice Ive done this and its worked both times lol.Then this hand happened utg raised to 6k utg+1 flats ss goes allin 9k and I have 1010 and I go allin 10.5k other 2 call flop AKJ utg ch utg +1 bets nd utg folds on ya backs utg+1 22 allin 99 weeeeeeeeee 1010 wins and quadruple up then a few gets knocked out 6 left and I have 33 raise and PJB Aces ships I call he has AK K on flop and Im out in 6th for £105.

Next game was Sunday Circus £20£20 game 50ish runners and key hands were raise JJ flop 764 I cbet villian raises I tank fold he shows 44 then ak flop k83 he bets into me I call turn 8 he bets again I call rvr Q he bets again but only 1200 into 3k so call he shows 33. Break comes and I have 6k from 7k ss so not to bad considering those hands addon to 12k.After break it doesnt get much better raise fold AJ, then KK raise nd Sugar calls flop a74 he donk bets and I fold showing KK he shows AK ffs.Down to 6k get 1010 raise and villain who has tripped up on me twice says how much u got behind I say 6.3k total he bets 6.3k total lol taking no consideration of the 3 players behind him they fold and he shows AQ mmmmm wp not. Anyhows ob A rvr gnite.So I join the 25-50 cash table sit with 100 and notable hands were called raise with 5s3s flop J87 2 spades raiser makes weak bet so I reraise shorty goes allin and raiser goes alin for not much more turn 3 rvr 2 and my 3 is good lol then had KK and villain rase to £6 pre so I flat to trap but 2 more callers im like shit flop Q73 2 spades raiser bets pot Im in two minds now AA or QQ deffo in his range so just call and reasses after turn boom K comes he bets £55 I ship he calls AA weee.Then I get KK again after limpers I make it £6 on button sb ships for £20 and gets 2 callers I reship they both call one has £40 other has £60 flop K turn K scoooop.

Mrs Stumpy takes 9th in mtt for £55 and I win £260 in cash.

Keep on smiling Stumpy.