Month ends as it started

Month ends as it started

Glad to see the back of May and roll on June with lots of live action in store and hopefully a new run of cards that hold up.
Blackpool Team Event, Grosvenor Team Event, Vegas WSOP then Virgin festival at Nottingham brings a brilliant month of Poker for me, lets hope I can get a result somewhere along the line.

May has ended on low with bubble finish at Grosvenor Head Hunter after making good call on BB with AQ to a K7 stealer only for K to flop. Then home to 2 buy in dumps when KK is hit by flopped set of 9 and JJ into QQ on rag flop.
Not to worry can only get better I hope.

Funny situation in that game at Grosvenor. I was dealing and mid way through was 2 way pot on a A25 rainbow flop. Turn brought 10 and river the 3. 1st guy bets 1/2 pot and other guy single raises back to which he calls. Showdown and its Q4 to K4 for split pot but!!!! guy with K4 trys to claim pot saying;
"MY KICKER IS BIGGER THAN HIS! and he was deadly serious.

Was funny explaining to guy we hadnt invented 6 card Texas Holdem yet! and he eventually understood.

Mays figures as follows;

Live Games (which included 3 events at GUKPT)= £686 LOSS

Online (3rd place in 3k gtd saved me ) = £117 PROFIT + CPC Final Seat $275

1st losing month in last 6

Hooooooooray a change of luck!!!!!

Hooooooooray a change of luck!!!!!

At last after a run of horrors I decided after reading Soaps blog to give Will Hill a go and see what was on offer for the Caribbean Poker Classic which me & the missus enjoyed sooooo much last year.

Entered the $40 satellite to the final for next week and woooooo hoooooo take it down not so much the prize but to give me that very important thing we all need- CONFIDENCE!!!!

Roll on next week.

Welcome Newbies!!!

Welcome Newbies!!!

Alreet its Karen33000 writing here. Just a quick post as I have just got back from a long train journey back doon South. We have had three major abramovichesq signings over the last week. Yee probs seen them on the back page of the daily mirror but I will just clarify. We managed to poach a young and up and coming player ripping up the online world from the toon called Mr Entertainment. He is gonna be up there with Gyposdog after I caught a quick word with him in the Grov friday in which he was quick to say he will not be able to get to Osbournes until 5pm!! aint had a 5pm start for years!
Our other new signing is another local adopted Geordie lad but who comes with a flair background of all the diff cash games goin on around Yorkshire. He has done megga in the Grov comps when ever I go. I reckon he likes a drink so he shud be megga down Osbournes. He is similar to Matto and at times is very loosey goosey but brilliant with it.
Finally last but not least is Jimmy Chipmunk who betta have his taxi parked up on team event neet cos theres nee way hes ganna be able to drive.

Welcome to the team lads!!

Excellent day for the Card Guard Kid

Excellent day for the Card Guard Kid

Apart from disappointment of finishing 14th in the festival qualifier (all in with kk against 10 10 for a 16000 pot!! 10 on river) had yet another brilliant day on the Virgin poker site.
Won 3 10 euro 30 seat sit and gos, 5 15 euro 5 seat sit and gos, came 3rd in the stupid 5 euro turbo 100 starting chips, won $465 on $0.50/$1 omaha hi lo cash table, $378 on same stakes hold em and placed either 2nd or 3rd in another 7 sit and gos. Am up today an incredible £1365 today and my account balance from initial deposit of 50 pounds is now £1723, think I have found my perfect site and having played on many many online sites I can honestly say that so far this is by far the best for lack of bad beats, I can only recall 3 bad beats in 16 hours of play which in my book is fantastic.

All bodes well cos im a great believer in form in poker and at moment my form is cracking so roll on team event " go on the team dobbs ".

Mrs Card Guard has just reminded me she won a 20 euro sit and go and 2nd in a 15 euro sit and go and that I had to mention it which in fact reminds me we only argue now about who's go it is on the computer. What was life like before poker, someone help cos I cant remember.

Anyway will post any more successes or loses in due course but bye for now. TCGK

$10000.00 Challenge

$10000.00 Challenge

Check out the latest entry at http://brenospoker.blogspot.com/ for a very interesting article on a young guy on a mission to make $10k in a month.
Live web cam available on his quest and as such took the opportunity of some FREE advertising




To be honest really looks like Brenos from the back imo!!!

Many more options in Vegas

Many more options in Vegas

Not be long now before Im offskis for my 3rd visit to Vegas and my 3rd visit to the World Series of Poker. Last 2 years have been for the main event period of the series but this year its a different time for our visit. Have decided to go a month earlier and hopefully the weather will be at least a little bit less extreme than last year when to be honest the temperatures were just plain ridiculous. Just walking down the street was painful and like someone blasting a hot air blower direct into your face.Even just lying around the pool was painful and not recommended and its part of my holiday I really enjoy just crashing around the pool.

In the past Ill be honest in that Ive never given any thought as to what Im actually going to do or which tournaments Im going to play in. We just arrive and I meet up with some mates who are there and then just decide on a daily basis where n what we going to play.

This year Ive decided to have a different approach to it and try to put together some sort of schedule to enable me to plan my holiday and visit better and as such hopefully enjoy it better.

On trawling through the net I got some good info from Sunny Chatta and decided on these 5 venues to play some poker at and as such I enclose their Poker Schedules over the WSOP period of time for anyone else going out there. What I didnt realise is that places like Binnions & Golden Nugget actually do a near carbon copy of the WSOP schedule but at a fraction of the entry cost giving normal bankroll guys the opportunity to play in a similar structured competition and the opportunity to pick up a very nice pay day if lucky enough for a very moderate outlay. Hope its of interest.

Rio & the WSOP
http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com/registration/
Caesars Palace
http://www.lasvegasvegas.com/pokerblog/archives/006513.php

Venetian
http://venetian.com/venetianeng/assets/files/DSE_JJ.pdf

Binnions
http://www.binions.com/gaming/poker_classic.html

Golden Nugget
http://www.goldennugget.com/i/downloads/The_Grank_Poker_Series.pdf

Ill post my choices where Ive decided to play laters but do intend on playing at least once in each venue during my stay and my World series Choice will be event 42 Over 50s Bracelet Event over 3 days.

P.S. Tickets, passport, money!! especially passport as they may not believe that Im actually over 50!!!

AT LAST!

AT LAST!

Cant believe I let Foggo beat me to the punch but hey I have heard he is quick at everything.
Well invited into Teamdobbs, what can i say, an honour, priviledge, surprise, emotional- no - about time I say how many more hints could I have dropped. No seriously its an honour to be invited in and I hope I can contribute to the team in a positive way. First job i think is to get Foggo to loosen up a bit aces and kings dont come along too often!!!!!

Think most of you know me quite well and if I was to describe myself in a few words it would be a humerous idiot who can play a little bit. Been playing poker for 15 years and the game has totally changed since I started playing and that is one of the many aspects I love about the game, you always have to adapt and change your style to cope with these changes. Too many poker stories and bad beats in my career to bore anyone with them on here.

Been to Vegas a fair few times now and have to say once you get used to the American style of play I think its quite easy to win over there. Last Nov me and my wife Dawn went at same time as Mr and Mrs Foggo and we met up and had a fantastic time. Away from poker you are never quite sure if you will get on with someone but we had a blast and are returning this year for another jolly beano just to say Craig " i got ace king i got ace king".

Well must dash work to do but here is to my first post and many more to follow.

Roll on 14th June when Teamdobbs will aim to go one better than last year and take down the team crown