A trainer and a train driver now!!!

A trainer and a train driver now!!!

Alreet stumpy here,

Following on from my 9th place in miniftops plo for $1600ish I take down the $10 Superstack on Fulltilt for just over $2k. Spoona was at my house grinding mtts for the day and when I had scooped he dropped me off at Circus where Mrs Stumpy and Young Stumpy had left earlier to play the £20+£20. They had bought me in and I didnt get there till midnite and only had 3k left but managed to sneak onto ft but bow out in 10th place. Mrs Stumpy continued her good run with another ft finally losing race to finish in 5th place.

Wake up the next day and I get a text off Spoona who played a few mtts when he got home and finished 1st in $10ko for just over $1k his biggest online bink so far and many more to come imo.

Last week was the NPF 2nd birthday game which was a great night had a good laugh and a few drinks and got to know a lot of the new forum members and catching up with others. In the game itself I had above average chips until pretty deep then went card dead and being on a pretty aggro table could never get my chips in, eventually getting them in with 22 v aa wp me.

Mrs Stumpy picked up most improved player of the year and I was so proud as she has went from not even knowing the hand rankings 2 years ago,to cashing regulary whenever she plays live,I also picked up the live player of the year award.

Saturday I did my 1st sngo training day,I had 5 members from the NPF at bannisters hq to teach them my strategy of winning at sngos and on the day the 5 players seemed to pick up and understand the strategy quite well with 2 breaking even and the other 3 making a nice profit. Alot more work to do but now they have a basic understanding of the strategy and with a little more help via the internet or maybe another live day Im sure they will be making a nice profit.I have another 8 players who have applied so will deffo be doing another day soon.

I would like to thank Teamdobb for letting me use bannisters hq,Dreamdobb,Spoona and Samj as I couldnt of done this day without them. Also the players who turned up who were a pleasure to work with.

keep on smiling stumpy

Thursdays are still nice.

Thursdays are still nice.

Hi all.

Just a quick update again.

I mentioned in my last post about me not playing much other than Thursdays and seem to be playing a lot better for it. Well,,,,Thursday still seems to be my lucky day to play.

I played the NPF Birthday game last Saturday and thoroughly enjoyed it again. I got to meet more of the lads from the forum and the craic was good allround. 85 runners and was reasonably happy with making the final 2 tables considering I had to pinch all the chips I had all day as I never seemed to pick up any sort of premium hands. I then take a blow when I run into Mr McGoogles monsterous QJ with 99 leaving me short then run a K9 desperation shove into eventual winner Smoggies AA. Played cash till around 6am and don't know how the fuck I made a little profit as I was pissed as a fart by that time and played awful.

Anyway, back to freaky Thursdays.

I regged for 6 mtts last night on Ub.

2 x $11 freezeouts. Out pretty early in both, set over set in one and KK into AA in the other after only 4 hands.

$20+2 2k guaranteed f/out 103 runners placed 12th just missing ft after huge suckout for $30.90.

$40+4 f/out, 102 runners and placed 6th for $244.80. Defining hand, AK V A6 and the clown hits his 6.

$50+5 8k guaranteed, 156 runners, placed 6th for $480. Defining hand QQ gets snap called by Q7 for his tourney life and obv he makes a straight. I'd made a lot of mistakes in this tourney but managed to make the ft so overall I guess a bad one was coming and can't grumble too much.

$2 rebuy. 441 runners, 4th for $220.08. Cant even remember what I went out with but I had been very patient in this for a lot of the time well below average chips and thought I was going to bink it but it wasn't to be.

So, as stated before I'm not sure if I am playing better because I'm not playing as much, or whether Im just on a sick Thursday heater but I'm certainly not gonna change the tactic or the schedule just yet.

I've managed to increase my ROI on UB/AP CEREUS network to close to 90% so I'm happy with the way things are going at the moment.

Maybe anyone who plays regularly and is having a hard time might find that less is more by playing less often and seeign if anything impoves, whether it be their results or passion for playing.

Dave.

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday

Quick update post to follow on from previous.
Happy 2nd birthday NPF and 85 runners took their seats which considering how many regular forum members were unavailable to make it was superb taking everything into consideration.

Played in the upstairs cardroom I get excellent table which included Cardguard, Spoona, Mr Entertainment, Mono. Mr Nice Guy, Gary Wilson Junior and S2C.
The game played itself for me tbh and after losing 2k bluffing from a 7.5k stack with a missed up n down draw I didnt leave myself much room for error. This was made worse when calling my initial raised bet with KQss to Cardguards low stack ship to find he has AA and then soon after that win a race with CG when my AK made Ace on river to his QQ.
Dont know how tbh but make final table eventually going out 9th shoving JQcc from button in unopened pot to be looked up by Mulhuzz with A8 and dont hit. 2 pairs in over 10 hours 33 n 77 and AK twice n AQ once tells ya what total crap I had. KQ was my most often dealt hand I was getting and is my new utg mover lol!!!!!

All in all an excellent day and once again alot of very positives to be taken.



Big well done to Dave "Smoggie" Grayson in taking it down with the added bonus of a £300 GUKPT Main event Summer series seat and I know how much the win meant to him especially being his 1st Live Game win and for S2C for finishing in 6th place after being down to just over 300 chips in level 3. NPF full report here

Tuesday sees the Circus £500 added £50 monthly and 120 runner field will probaly contain yours truely.

Until then everyone be happy and run good

Back......hopefully with a bang

Back......hopefully with a bang

Hi blogger world,

Been off the scene for over 6 weeks now so thought Id give you lot quick update as to why

1: Poker simply wasnt doing it for me so decided to force myself to take a break instead of playing for playing sake around the local scene. That had got pretty stale to be honest with very few games that were attractive and fields so small the time and effort hardly seemed worth it. I mainly play for the social aspect of the game and even this seemed to have changed and as such my enjoyment levels were at their lowest.
Its been 6 weeks since Ive played apart from one game midweek at Circus and today I make my return for the coveted NPF 2nd Annual Birthday/Awards bash at Grosvenor Newcastle and am looking forward to seeing their new cardroom layout. Hope theres a good crowd there, the cards are kind and most importantly for me I get a good table with some good crack on it.

2: Been busy on the work front with some new investment into a totally new computor network system being the brainchild of my son Scott with the intention to make our jobs at work easier, better and more efficient and to progress the business the direction he sees it going. Been away abroad visiting some new suppliers and also meeting some present suppliers which was interesting and fun and alot of benefit should come from that. Still very tough times ahead and whatever business youre in, it will have suffered lately not helped by the crazy taxation laws this country have which give no real incentive for people to work hard as your taxed for breathing too loud it seems these days.

3; Big upheaval at home featured giving into my wifes requests of wanting a new kitchen.



Not the simple job obviously as her idea of a new kitchen meant a total house change with basically the back of the house removed, changing the back door position to install special folding doors to bring the garden into the kitchen with a wall of glass and removing walls from the kitchen to the seperate dining room to create a large open plan kitchen dining room with a hihg tec, high spec gleaming white new singing and dancing room. Alot of research, alot of trying to find the right people to do the jobs and alot of money spent but the end result is BINGO and a total dogs bollocks job completed.









All in all a nice break and looking forward to the next few weeks/month with some interesting stuff.

Booked hotel for WSOP/Vegas trip in June and have sorted the games Im playing in which feature starting with the Seniors event at The Golden Nuggett followed by the WSOP Seniors Event at the Rio a few days later sanwiched in between a few hotel MTTs. Got a brilliant deal imo at the Aria. This is the new complex that opened beginning of the year slap bang in the middle of the strip next to The Bellagio and opposite Paris which we really fancied staying at. I have been holding back on booking and keeping a close eye on their prices and when searching the other day it popped up on a site I often use at the unreal price of £625 for 10 nights for the room (cheaper than a fkn Travel Lodge here ) Booked paid and happy and now I see that price was only ever available for 2 or 3 days weeeeeee!!!

Vegas should be really good this year in the fact theres a really good crowd going over from the NPF and a big variety of ages and games there playing should make it a very interesting trip.
Think Ill play the Coral Masters game at Leeds on the weekend before we leave which is the 2nd leg of a very attractive tour I hope to play most legs of.

Reet gotta wash me hair and make myself smell nice for hopefully a deep deep run at todays game.

Laters all and glad to be back............................. for now and hopefully back with a bang!!!!!

Fresh and back in form!!!!

Fresh and back in form!!!!

Hi bloggers.

It's been a while since I last posted on here but thought it was time to put up a post of how I've been recently and how I've been getting on.

Last post I think I was going to start a grind from scratch on FTP but as always, I got bored played too much too soon and got fuckng bored with it to be honest and spewed what little cash I had on there.

About 10 weeks ago I decided to have a full break from poker and anything poker related for a few weeks. I refrained from playing, I didn't post here or the forum much at all in those 4 weeks and felt that the time I took reflect on what I want out of the game etc has done me good.

About 6 weeks ago I decided to reload on UB (something I said I'd never do on UB, and didn't)

so I logged on, looked at account and noticed I had the grand sum of $4 in my account. "I'll fuck about with this and see if I can spin it up first" I said to myself. BAM! 1st session, roll was upto around $100 playing sngs.

Next night, played a few mtts for $2-$5 and a few sngs and had a decnt session so decided to play a $10 mtt. 4 hours later I'd run through 199 runners and binked $537.30 for my troubles.

Since then, I've stuck to only playing on a Thursday and the odd Friday nights and have been doing well. The fact that all my time isn't being consumed by poker has kept me fresh, interested and hungry to win and increase the roll.

Fast forward to today it's been up and down, I've been playing above my roll but Thursday nights seem to be my lucky night and have improved the roll, banked a few quid (I'm not one for building and building a roll, I like to withdraw and enjoy the cash to make it seem worthwile) and having fun at the moment and most of all enjoying playing.

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Recent results suggest to me that the limited time I'm allowing myself to play is infact beneficial to the way I'm playing (I think!)

A good session last night (suckouts aside) have had me regain my shark status on sharkscope for mtts on Cereus and upping my ROI on there back to around 80%.

Sharkscope haven't been recording stats on Cereus for that long, the sample size on there is very small but at the micro-small stakes it can be a slow and steady increase on anyones roll if you can take the ridiculous beats from really bad plays by some. (As McGoogle has recently shown in last months $500-$1500 challenge.)

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I know a lot of the bloggers and forum lads say volume is the key to making money but in my opinion I feel less is definately more in my current situation and state of mind. My mindset in these last 6 weeks hasn't been about making money but just playing and enjoying a session when I WANT to play.

All in all, I've had a good a good few weeks, I'm enjoying my Thursday nights, feel I'm playing well and looking forward to the NPF Birthday game this Saturday on the back of a decent bit of form. See you all there and don't say I didn't warn you if I take it down, crowbarring Stumpy out of his seat on the way.

Just have to now convince myself it's a Thursday and not a Saturday though.

Cow....

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