Punterz Poker

I need to learn some manners...

2009-08-16T04:56:00.000+01:00

Rushed out tonight and missed BBQ, anyways go to few bars in essex. End up with some girl, then she says lets go to sleep...i say no i want to go home and eat some chicken. How rude am i, chicken tastes good tho

Come On Tiger Woods....

2009-08-15T04:54:00.000+01:00

One off random post, been so busy lately. Sick 50,000 profit last week which pays for my upcoming holiday! Anyways basically currently have £8000 on Tiger Woods to win, he is 1.30 at the moment and I can lay for huge profit but sod it I want a sweat and he is playing solid. Ty woods for free cash, all of you who have any spare cash it is not too late, even 1.30 is good value.

We love you Roddick...

2009-07-06T02:58:00.002+01:00

Right, lately I have been doing great on poker and bad on horses etc. So I have decided to quit all gambling bar poker. However Wimbledon Semi finals we had roddick versus the MORON murray. So I placed a fair sized bet and roddick won. So I decided in the final of Wimbledon I would back roddick again and thought he was hugely overpriced. Here are my bets on Roddick for the final...

2009-07-04
03:05 The Final Roddick v Federer / Match Odds / Andy Roddick
Back 8.00 200.00 Lost (200.00)

2009-07-04
14:33 The Final Roddick v Federer / Match Odds / Andy Roddick
Back 8.80 100.00 Lost (100.00)

2009-07-05
14:13 The Final Roddick v Federer / Match Odds / Andy Roddick
Back 8.00 300.00 Lost (300.00)

2009-07-05
14:22 The Final Roddick v Federer / Match Odds / Andy Roddick
Back 7.60 500.00 Lost (500.00)

2009-07-05
14:23 The Final Roddick v Federer / Match Odds / Andy Roddick
Back 7.60 400.00 Lost (400.00)

2009-07-05
14:43 The Final Roddick v Federer / Match Odds / Andy Roddick
Back 8.62 300.00 Lost (300.00)

2009-07-05
14:43 The Final Roddick v Federer / Match Odds / Andy Roddick
Back 9.20 200.00 Lost (200.00)

2009-07-05
16:21 The Final Roddick v Federer / Match Odds / Andy Roddick
Back 14.00 100.00 Lost (100.00)

As you can see I absolutely went to town on Roddick to win. After the first set he was down to 3.6 and I laid a lot of my bet off. Around a dozen times during the match he was shorter than even money, so even though he did not win for all familiar with betting in running on betfair you will know if you back someone at 8-1 who ends up going less then even money before eventually losing it is virtually impossible to lose. I don't want to post my exact winnings here, but needless to say it was a nice profit. It would have been much more if Roddick had of won!

Wimbledon 2/2. Now I will wait until Wimbledon 2010 before my next bet...or will I!

Lucky weekend...?

2009-06-29T03:42:00.002+01:00

Well I did not go to Las Vegas cancelling at last minute, then in last 48 hours including lots of time out at restraunts pubs and clubs I still find time to win £8,000 on poker. Obviously if I went to Vegas I would not have won £8,000.....however my dream was right it was going to be a lucky few days. Perhaps if I went to Vegas I would not have won £8,000 but instead won huge in a tournament for a few hundred grand or so. I will never know....

Vegas Cancelled....

2009-06-24T04:29:00.002+01:00

Had sick day, done loads on horses so not in right frame of mind for Vegas, even though I got my ticket less than 24 hours ago for £1800 and booked hotel. Turning point 5 furlong race 'pick up sticks', huge bet on at 8-1 cruised all way went to 2.16 in running but didn't get up. HUGE mega bet! Well fuck the flight and hotel, can't be fuckedddd.

Off To Vegas....?

2009-06-23T00:48:00.002+01:00

Possibly off to vegas this weekend. Lots on in Uk so cant go for too long plus ibiza coming up in a few weeks. Definitely play either Saturday or Monday $1500 nlhe tournament. I will consider offers of staking just for the fun of it. If I do it is $400 per 25%. However I will not take a penny of any cash under $10,000. Over $10,000 its 50/50. I have plenty of cash as it is and $1500 buy in is nothing, however it may be fun for a few people to have a sweat. Once again I would not dream of taking a penny of any small cash ($10,000 or less) Anyone interested can contact me easily enough, there will be a restriction tho of one 25% unit per person. I have enough cash and condifence in myself to not even give people this chance but as I said its for the fun element. At this short notice the flights alone are over £1000 for direct and the hotels around $400 a night. However I want some fun this weekend. I will post tomorrow 100% if I am going or not.

CASH REWARD....

2009-06-19T01:14:00.002+01:00

Quick post tonight, everyone knows I am a man of my word and very generous. Basically I would like somebody to give me the name and address of a person who plays on betfair as 'Heatheli'. Simply give me his name and address and your stars/fulltilt account and I will send you a nice bounty. Simple as that. Somebody out there who plays on betfair will know him, in fact a few people will so if you do you may as well at least be the one to get the reward as someone will get it.

We are going to IBIZA....NOTTTT

2009-06-18T13:50:00.002+01:00

Have a few beers last night (quite a few) and decide to go to Ibiza. Get to the airport carry on drinking then realise I have left my passport in the car. No big deal can get cab to drop it off, friend checks his passport and realises it has expired. Great, trying to think who elses passport we can use but realise nobodies because white people don't all look the same (there is my first controversial remark to get a few people going!!!). Phone a cab to leave the airport and my friend says to me 'I can't fucking believe that'. Lady who looks like a crackhead gets out of a car and walks towards the aiport as my friend says that and she says 'you shouldn't swear in public I work here and your lucky I don't call the police'. WOW what the fuck is this bullshit? It's 2am your outside the terminal with nobody in site but a crackhead and you can't swear? Well I say call the police you crackhead. Next minute cab is there and as we walk towards it some fat prick in a hi vis vest comes walking towards me all fast. I ask if I can help him? He says you are leaving now so it is ok. I say pardon me? He asks for my passport number, of course I will give it to him..... 'You have no authority kid, all you have is a fat belly and a bright top on and a walky talky in your hand probably to check the toilets are clean so sure I will give you my passport number.....it is STICK THAT NOTEBOOK UP YOUR FUCKING ASS YOU MUG'. With that we get in the cab and drive back to sunny London.......

O YEA STILL STEAMING OVER YESTERDAY, TEN FUCKING GRAND ON STUPID DONKEYS WITH MUG JOCKEYS.

IBIZA HERE WE COME.....NOT.....

2009-06-18T04:10:00.001+01:00

SO FUCKING ANGRY..... will post tomorrow, motherfuckingtrampwhores

Betfair Bastards,,,,

2009-03-31T12:14:00.003+01:00

Have betfair righted their wrong yet? Of course not, retards. When Betfair removed leaderboards before many left the site and liquidity was so bad. However I have always said that for me winning leaderboards is often something I don't go for it just comes with success. However with the rules being bended now it is bullshit. Why on earth would I want to be forcibly contributing to a prizepool which it is virtually impossible to win? If I don't cash in a heads up game I lose 60 points, if somebody does not cash in a 6pak they lose just 20 points. Sure it is harder to beat 5 others than 1 other but that is why 6pak winners get 350 points. O yea and heads up win first reduced from 200 points to 175 and now to 100 a week later. So like fuck will I be playing in volume so that others can get rich from me.

Retards at betfair obviously don't care about things such as which players have always used the site. When leaderboards were removed, during times when people left because of prop players, during times of bad connections etc etc very few of us stayed. So why alienate these players also, because it is all part of Bruce Stubbs plan.... run betfair poker into the ground then stage a management buy out of it. Lets all get a shit poker site relatively cheap as it only ever has around 2000 seated players then turn it into a world beater and have access to millions of players who use the sports book. Wait, it i snot even as if they will buy the poker software. No it is just the betfair customers they want, nobody in their right mind would use the bug ridden ancient software in place at the moment. The Betfair brand name and customer database is what is wanted, and Betfair appear to allow a snake right into the heart of their operation.

Betfair Poker do it again.....

2009-03-30T13:50:00.004+01:00

Just when it seems like Betfair Poker cannot do any worse they manage to once again screw up again in a major way. There are so many monumental errors that I can only think it is being done on purpose. I have several theories and basically they all point to illegal activity from within betfair. Personally I still believe Bruce Stubbs is purposely harming betfair poker for his own gain. Since he took over it goes from bad to worse. Obviously Bruce has his own reasons, perhaps he really thinks if he damages betfair poker enough then he can lead a buy out of the poker side of betfair. We all know he has a few quid and the contacts within the industry to be able to head a buy out.

The reason for my latest complaint is the new leaderboard scoring system. For some time heads up players have benefited from the formula. Betfair do get the most rake from heads up players, the fees may be reduced but the games are much quicker and also when the end of the week approaches the action is manic whilst people battle for the leaderboards. Last week saw the points for a win in a heads up game reduced by 12.5%. Fair enough make it more balanced, then this week sees something absolutely ludicrous. A new scoring system is put in place where it makes it physically impossible for a heads up player to win a leaderboard. Under the old scoring system I would bet anyone any amount of money that I could win without playing one heads up game. Under the new system I would bet anyone any amount of money in my pocket nobody could win one playing heads up only. Here is an example of how fucked up the scoring is:

Heads up - 1st place= 100 points, 2nd place = -60;
D2N 6-seater SNGs 1st - 3rd = 150 points, 4th - 6th = -30.

So playing 100 heads up games cashing in half would see somebody score 2000 points. Yet for cashing in the same amount of games in D2N which is the worst form of poker available a player would get 6000 points. So D2N which was not even considered worthy of being included on leaderboards in the past is now included and in effect scores treble the points of heads up. Heads up poker is the most skillful form of poker, anybody who knows about poker is aware of this. So for what reason could anybody penalise the most skillful form of poker and reward the least skillful form of poker. Betfair poker appears to be trying to make all SNG players switch to turbo D2N games. I repeat from rightfully not being included in the leaderboard to being given treble the points of heads up is ridiculous.

The statement released today said 'You spoke, we listened'. From what I can see not ONE person has yet spoken in favour of the new scoring system. I will probably update this post later. But for now congratulations Bruce Stubbs on getting a step closer to destroying Betfair Poker, you crook. The final summary is a game which was not deemed worthy of inclusing on a leaderboard and also notorious for cheats now benefits. Stars and fulltilt didn't get so big by turning there sites into double your money turbo SNG sites. Betfair should realise even when they did scrap leaderboards certain players stuck around, so why now reward the ex-props who are complaining. When they stopped getting 100%+ rakeback most of them instantly left betfair.

Beggar Peasant Tramp....

2009-03-15T01:50:00.003Z

Right, my new way of thinking means that I do not waste time on wankers. Yet for a few minutes I shall be weak. Some stupid tramp who has not got a pot to piss in apparently challenges me to a ten grand bet. Obviously I would literally bite his hand off for such a bet. He would never have the money so thats that. One thing for these fools to bear in mind is that I am mentally unstable and if caught at the wrong time I would just pay someone £2000 to break your legs for pissing me off. Just a random comment but in life think before you act, I really am that fucked in the head and know that many crazies where I would randomly pay to see you feel pain. I guess I shouldn't even post this, fuck it who cares though. If O.J. can get not guilty anyone can.

As for any tramp challenging me to a 10k bet bring it on, you can have 2/1. Just show the cash you good for nothing beggar peasant tramp cunts whose mothers whored themselves with ten yardies at the notting hill carnival just to put a stale loaf of bread on the table.

I think that pretty much sums everything up, good luck on the table. For those who have no sense, try to be a man and actually show the colour of your money and not be a mouthy shit without a pot to piss in trying to draw attention to yourself by using the name of a true baller.

The plan...

2009-03-04T23:59:00.003Z

I have a very good plan to get myself out of the current situation I am in. However I won't reveal the plan or the situation just yet. My blog entries are likely to dry up for a while but I shall make up for it in the future with plenty more stories and abuse. Good luck....

p.s. can anybody tell me why lots of people and plenty of them from america suddenly viewed my blog entry 'deadly river'.

mid afternoon madness....

2009-02-25T14:15:00.002Z

Who are all these mental mid afternoon players. Surely they are not drunk at such an early hour? Nah, they must just have some retardia issues. Firstly we have some absolute mug spastic who stalks my games and I get him up to $200s in the end, I don't think I won a single one though! Most of the super bad beats I didn't save but then after having so many I saved a few to look at again. The first hand is how I lost three or four times against her/him/transgender weirdo. Basically the mug floats the flop with nothing and ends up making runner runner. Amazing how someone can keep getting there money in as a 25% shot at best yet still keep coming back for more. Obviously long term its good for me, but today he can go and fuck himself.

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 487476264 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $50 Buy-in + $2.25 Entry Fee, Level:4 Blinds(50/100-(no ante)) - Wednesday, February 25, 13:44:36 GMT 2009
$50+$2.25 Super Turbo NL Hold'em #2707470
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( 1,035 )
Seat 2: SHJ ( 965 )
Tourney Level:4 Blinds(50/100-(no ante))
Punterz08 posts small blind [50]
SHJ posts big blind [100]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Kc, Kh ]
Punterz08 raises to [200]
SHJ calls [100]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Jh, Ts, 6c ]
SHJ checks
Punterz08 bets [200]
SHJ calls [200]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Js ]
SHJ checks
Punterz08 bets [600]
SHJ calls [565]
SHJ goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [35] to Punterz08
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ Kc, Kh ]
SHJ shows [ Ks, 7s ]
** Dealing River ** [ Qs ]
** Hand Conclusion **
SHJ wins 1,930 from main pot with a Flush
************ Game 487476264 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 487483413 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $200 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:3 Blinds(25/50-(no ante)) - Wednesday, February 25, 14:05:29 GMT 2009
$200+$10 NL Hold'em #2707948
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: SHJ ( 1,335 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,665 )
Tourney Level:3 Blinds(25/50-(no ante))
SHJ posts small blind [25]
Punterz08 posts big blind [50]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Qc, Ac ]
SHJ raises to [150]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Punterz08 raises to [1,665]
SHJ calls [1,185]
SHJ goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [330] to Punterz08
** Showdown **
SHJ shows [ Ah, 9h ]
Punterz08 shows [ Qc, Ac ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4h, 5h, 3h ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qh ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7c ]
** Hand Conclusion **
SHJ wins 2,670 from main pot with a Flush
************ Game 487483413 ends ************

Then we have one of my favourite fish of them all, hitandrun. He complains when I win a 40/60% yet the game before he got his money in so so so bad and didn't say a word. Stupid mug, how ugly is his play....

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 487474718 *****
PL Omaha $100 Buy-in + $5 Entry Fee, Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante)) - Wednesday, February 25, 13:40:00 GMT 2009
$100+$5 PL Omaha #2708058
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Hitandrun ( 1,340 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,660 )
Tourney Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante))
Punterz08 posts small blind [15]
Hitandrun posts big blind [30]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 8d, 5s, 9s, Qc ]
Punterz08 raises to [60]
Hitandrun raises to [180]
Punterz08 calls [120]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qs, 5c, Th ]
Hitandrun bets [360]
Punterz08 raises to [1,440]
Hitandrun calls [800]
Hitandrun goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [280] to Punterz08
** Showdown **
Hitandrun shows [ Kc, 7s, 7d, Ts ]
Punterz08 shows [ 8d, 5s, 9s, Qc ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Jc ]
** Dealing River ** [ 9h ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Hitandrun wins 2,680 from main pot with a straight, King to Nine
************ Game 487474718 ends ************

Only around £200 down today, yet sharkscope shows the figure as £1000. How many games do they miss out on betfair? It must be over 10%. I shall quickly get back the £200 then go to the gym and play again tonight. Fucking retarded lunatics

Seven Heaven...

2009-02-19T11:07:00.002Z

Can't be bothered to go into too much detail but ended up down $500 in Las Vegas. Before the last day I was up $14,700 and in effect lost the lost when I had 20 versus 7 on blackjack and the dealer turns 7 7 for 21. Anyways 7 is my lucky number at the moment....NOT..

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 484577361 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Thursday, February 19, 09:07:19 GMT 2009
Table Boron 11 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Grinson9 ( $2,049 )
Seat 3: zabri ( $1,040 )
Seat 4: Punterz08 ( $2,310 )
Seat 5: Goosey82 ( $2,000 )
Punterz08 posts small blind [$10]
Grinson9 posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Kh, 6s ]
Punterz08 raises to [$60]
Grinson9 calls [$40]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ts, 6h, Kc ]
Grinson9 checks
Punterz08 bets [$90]
Grinson9 calls [$90]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 8d ]
Grinson9 checks
Punterz08 bets [$300]
Grinson9 raises to [$900]
Punterz08 raises to [$1,500]
Grinson9 calls [$600]
** Dealing River ** [ 7h ]
Grinson9 goes all-in
Grinson9 bets [$399]
Punterz08 calls [$399]
** Showdown **
Grinson9 shows [ 7s, 7c ] three of a kind, Sevens
Punterz08 shows [ Kh, 6s ] two pair, Kings and Sixes
** Hand Conclusion **
Grinson9 wins $4,097 from main pot with three of a kind, Sevens
************ Game 484577361 ends ************

That 777 set me off and instead of being £1500 up I go kinda cranky and lose £7700. Not without having some bad luck though...

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 484582029 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Thursday, February 19, 09:41:13 GMT 2009
Table Boron 07 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 4
Seat 2: zabri ( $2,334.50 )
Seat 3: Goosey82 ( $1,980 )
Seat 4: Punterz08 ( $3,811.81 )
Seat 5: SkyLopez ( $2,238 )
Seat 6: El Pato ( $2,000 )
Goosey82 posts small blind [$10]
Punterz08 posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 3d, Td ]
SkyLopez folds
zabri raises to [$52.50]
Goosey82 folds
Punterz08 calls [$32.50]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8s, Kc, 3h ]
Punterz08 checks
zabri checks
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ts ]
Punterz08 bets [$115]
zabri calls [$115]
** Dealing River ** [ Qs ]
Punterz08 checks
zabri bets [$258.75]
Punterz08 calls [$258.75]
** Showdown **
zabri shows [ Tc, Qd ] two pair, Queens and Tens
Punterz08 mucks [ 3d, Td ]
** Hand Conclusion **
zabri wins $860.50 from main pot with two pair, Queens and Tens
************ Game 484582029 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 484591428 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Thursday, February 19, 10:28:45 GMT 2009
Table Boron 07 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 6
Seat 1: junkstar ( $1,970 )
Seat 2: zabri ( $5,318.02 )
Seat 3: Doobs ( $1,385 )
Seat 4: Punterz08 ( $6,087.41 )
Seat 5: Levjevski ( $2,148.50 )
Seat 6: Foldy Moldy ( $2,007 )
zabri posts small blind [$10]
Doobs posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 7c, 6s ]
Punterz08 raises to [$70]
Levjevski folds
Foldy Moldy calls [$70]
junkstar folds
zabri folds
Doobs folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6d, 7h, Js ]
Punterz08 bets [$170]
Foldy Moldy calls [$170]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2h ]
Punterz08 checks
Foldy Moldy bets [$350]
Punterz08 raises to [$1,700]
Foldy Moldy goes all-in
Foldy Moldy raises to [$1,767]
Punterz08 calls [$67]
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ 7c, 6s ]
Foldy Moldy shows [ 6h, 6c ]
** Dealing River ** [ 4d ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Foldy Moldy wins $4,041 from main pot with three of a kind, Sixes
************ Game 484591428 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 484595679 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Thursday, February 19, 10:50:09 GMT 2009
Table Boron 07 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of active players : 5
Seat 2: harwell ( $1,234.50 )
Seat 3: DeJeVU ( $1,953.50 )
Seat 4: Punterz08 ( $4,760.91 )
Seat 5: Levjevski ( $2,087 )
Seat 6: Foldy Moldy ( $3,345 )
Levjevski posts small blind [$10]
Foldy Moldy posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Qd, Kc ]
harwell raises to [$70]
DeJeVU folds
Punterz08 calls [$70]
Levjevski folds
Foldy Moldy folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qs, 9s, Kd ]
harwell bets [$127.50]
Punterz08 raises to [$440]
harwell goes all-in
harwell raises to [$1,164.50]
Punterz08 calls [$724.50]
** Showdown **
harwell shows [ Ts, Jd ]
Punterz08 shows [ Qd, Kc ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Js ]
** Dealing River ** [ 6s ]
** Hand Conclusion **
harwell wins $2,496 from main pot with a Flush
************ Game 484595679 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 484596949 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Thursday, February 19, 10:56:35 GMT 2009
Table Boron 07 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of active players : 5
Seat 1: MrBarolo59 ( $1,940 )
Seat 2: harwell ( $3,267.50 )
Seat 3: DeJeVU ( $2,257 )
Seat 4: Punterz08 ( $3,363.41 )
Seat 6: Foldy Moldy ( $2,822 )
Foldy Moldy posts small blind [$10]
MrBarolo59 posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Ah, Ac ]
harwell folds
DeJeVU folds
Punterz08 raises to [$70]
Foldy Moldy calls [$60]
MrBarolo59 folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4d, 9c, Jh ]
Foldy Moldy checks
Punterz08 bets [$160]
Foldy Moldy calls [$160]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Jc ]
Foldy Moldy checks
Punterz08 checks
** Dealing River ** [ 7h ]
Foldy Moldy bets [$360]
Punterz08 calls [$360]
** Showdown **
Foldy Moldy shows [ Jd, Kd ] three of a kind, Jacks
Punterz08 mucks [ Ah, Ac ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Foldy Moldy wins $1,197 from main pot with three of a kind, Jacks
************ Game 484596949 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 484598378 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Thursday, February 19, 11:02:54 GMT 2009
Table Boron 07 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 5
Seat 1: MrBarolo59 ( $2,499 )
Seat 2: harwell ( $3,404.50 )
Seat 3: DeJeVU ( $2,177 )
Seat 4: Punterz08 ( $2,612.41 )
Seat 6: Foldy Moldy ( $2,936 )
DeJeVU posts small blind [$10]
Punterz08 posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 7h, 8h ]
Foldy Moldy folds
MrBarolo59 raises to [$60]
harwell folds
DeJeVU folds
Punterz08 calls [$40]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7c, 8d, 9d ]
Punterz08 checks
MrBarolo59 bets [$97.50]
Punterz08 raises to [$450]
MrBarolo59 calls [$352.50]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9c ]
Punterz08 bets [$1,100]
MrBarolo59 goes all-in
MrBarolo59 raises to [$1,989]
Punterz08 calls [$889]
** Showdown **
MrBarolo59 shows [ Ah, As ]
Punterz08 shows [ 7h, 8h ]
** Dealing River ** [ Th ]
** Hand Conclusion **
MrBarolo59 wins $5,005 from main pot with two pair, Aces and Nines
************ Game 484598378 ends ************

Absolutely endless bad beats and coolers for two hours...also some bad play by me! Everything that can go wrong has for a quick $10,000 loss. Lately too much is changing on the turn of one card, I need to change a few things so that variance does not come into play so much. O well that is me playing for a whole week just to get evens I guess, no big deal! Maybe by April I can make profit!

Back to work......

Las Vegas Uncovered...

2009-02-19T06:15:00.001Z

Woke up at 5a.m., 9pm Las Vegas time. Decided to blog about my recent Vegas trip but changed my mind ten seconds ago! In the middle of booking another trip to Vegas in March at the moment. I definitely go back on April 16th with two friends so perhaps should wait until then. No energy at the moment to make any long posts so good luck and goodnight...

Back From Vegas....

2009-02-17T23:57:00.002Z

Back today, don't know if I should reveal pictures and stories etc. Do people really want to hear stories of me pulling two 25 year old babes on my first night and waking up to physiopherapist sports massages from them? Still it was funny ringing friends in London working in the rain when I am with two babes and the girls are asking why they are not here! I should post the stories probably because a few people such as my good friend the leopard are interested. I will see how I feel when I wake up, I had one big arguement in Las Vegas this trip also. I lost $15,000 on the turn of one card in black jack. I still missed catching up with my future wife, surely it is only a matter of time before we meet again! O yea, I never met up with the Canadian girl as she was stuck in Miami...good choice! Vegas was not so hot! Well whatever etc anyways blah blah back soon no doubt...

quick break needed...

2009-02-10T00:25:00.003Z

Right over the last week or so people may assume I was stressing over £11,000 owed. I actually was not, it was simply the final straw. During the last week I am almost £20,000 down. I have started doing sports bets again, here is an example of one bet:

2009-02-07
19:31 7168445128 2009-02-07
19:23 Fixtures 07 February Portsmouth v Liverpool / Match Odds / Liverpool
Lay 8.00 30.00 Lost (210.00) 3,967.24
2009-02-07
19:31 7168422830 2009-02-07
19:21 Fixtures 07 February Portsmouth v Liverpool / Match Odds / Liverpool
Lay 7.00 40.00 Lost (240.00) 4,177.24
2009-02-07
19:31 7168389088 2009-02-07
19:18 Fixtures 07 February Portsmouth v Liverpool / Match Odds / Liverpool
Lay 4.72 700.00 Lost (2,603.31) 4,417.24
2009-02-07
19:31 7168384047 2009-02-07
19:17 Fixtures 07 February Portsmouth v Liverpool / Match Odds / Liverpool
Lay 4.82 1,500.00 Lost (5,733.89) 7,020.55
2009-02-07
19:31 7168355669 2009-02-07
19:14 Fixtures 07 February Portsmouth v Liverpool / Match Odds / Liverpool
Back 36.00 100.00 Won 3,500.00 12,754.44
2009-02-07
19:31 7168330617 2009-02-07
19:12 Fixtures 07 February Portsmouth v Liverpool / Match Odds / Liverpool
Back 24.00 200.00 Won 4,600.00 9,254.44
2009-02-07
19:31 7168327085 2009-02-07
19:11 Fixtures 07 February Portsmouth v Liverpool / Match Odds / Liverpool
Back 22.00 200.00 Won 4,200.00 4,654.44
2009-02-07
19:31 7168321203 2009-02-07
19:11 Fixtures 07 February Portsmouth v Liverpool / Match Odds / Liverpool
Lay 25.93 300.00 Lost (7,478.88) 454.44
2009-02-07
19:31 7168241172 2009-02-07
19:03 Fixtures 07 February Portsmouth v Liverpool / Match Odds / Liverpool
Lay 2.80 500.00 Lost (900.00) 7,933.32
2009-02-07
19:31 7168157971 2009-02-07
18:55 Fixtures 07 February Portsmouth v Liverpool / Match Odds / Liverpool
Back 7.20 500.01 Won 3,100.06 8,833.32
2009-02-07
19:31 7166968941 2009-02-07
17:10 Fixtures 07 February Portsmouth v Liverpool / Match Odds / Liverpool
Back 2.02 2,000.00 Won 2,040.00 5,733.26

Its silly to sports bet when you play poker. Now added to this something has happened that has seen me so close to going to prison, it is still ongoing which scares me as my life is too good to go inside for a year or two. But at the same time I doubt I can ever tame my savage instinct which I have. It has taken me years and years to control yet every now and then something comes up which brings the worst out in me and I just know I will get into big trouble. Anyways having come so close on Saturday to doing something silly I got lucky and escaped. But this weekend I know I will feel the same and probably end up doing what I almost done last weekend, so today I found a compromise, go away to Vegas for the weekend! I am arriving In vegas on thursday with $30,000 and having a crazy weekend! On friday until sunday an absolutely beautiful girl I know from canada is staying with me also, then on Monday I fly back to London hopefully richer and much happier! Either way I avoid London and a likely prison sentence this weekend! So wish me luck in vegas, god i do love poker, america and life in general! Whatever happens generally we are in control!

Repaid Loan....

2009-02-07T13:38:00.004Z

It always feels like a victory when I am paid back what is mine, weird! Well here is a reply made on this loan from the borrower. Only fair I publish both peoples versions of events. After I will make a brief summary.

ThebigD 06 Feb 16:42

Message from Duffs

It’s been very interesting reading the forum the last few days and seeing what people have to say and finding out who your friends are and who likes to stir. I don’t think I have been wicked to people in the past and have always strived to do my best. There are some facts here and some that are complete rubbish but I will attempt to explain and you can draw your own conclusions.

A lot of people slate off Punterz but I always got on OK with him and met him at Wembley and Singapore where apart from talking at 100 mph he was OK. Dealem then asked me if I wanted to do his mortgage for him which I ended up doing and as it wasn’t the easiest mortgage in the world and ended up making a loss if you take into account my time but that’s really not an issue. After that we had numerous chats regarding poker and I stuck by him and never ever said a bad word about him on the forums and relayed my feelings on various posts that I felt he was cheated in the stax promotion.. So I thought we had a reasonable friendship going.

About 4 or 5 months ago there was a deal open to me which I was a few grand short in cash of completing so I asked him if he fancied earning a few hundred quid for a short period of time. He did this and this was repaid a couple of days late due to me not having his bank account details but he was well compensated in ways of the extra interest he got back. I apologised at the time that it was a couple of days late but he said no problems at all.

Just after Christmas I had a very dear friend who was in danger of losing everything and I offered to help them out. A lot of my money is tied up in investments so as the markets are sitting at an all time low asked Punterz if he could help out with 10k and I would pay him 11k back at the end of January. He said no problems and then duly transferred the money.

Now sometimes in life you get hit for six on things and this happened to me at the beginning of January. You will notice that I stopped blogging and was no longer on msn. I went through a period I guess of depression and had my head up my backside.

The days click by without you really noticing and then it was the end of the month. The end of the month fell at the weekend and on Monday I was completely snowed in and actually managed to spend some time with my boys and took them sledging.

On Tuesday I had a vile E Mail from Punterz and then saw the forum where he had posted on his blog that I was a crook and a man with no morals along with my bank account. Now to set the record straight on this one – I know I should have contacted him before but as I have said it was a traumatic time for me and was the end of the month before I knew it and I can only apologise for that. However I did not have ONE single E Mail from him and yet he has my work E Mail AND my msn email. I did not have his mobile phone number as my phone had been wiped after being in for repair. I now know his number and indeed there was a few missed calls from someones mobile which now turns out it was his but he did not leave a single message on my phone. I have an answerphone he could have left a message and he also has my work number where I have voicemail and a secretary and no messages were left. I am also pretty sure he has my home phone number.

So after being 1 day late and making no attempt to contact me ( I know he phoned but as I said made no effort to just say hi its punterz can u give me a buzz) for a reason only known to him he has set out to destroy my reputation. I was in the wrong for letting it slip past the end of the month but there were some very personal reasons that I really don’t want to go into and don’t feel I have to but as I have said it was the end of the month before I knew it.

I have repaid him £10,000 now and will do the other £1,000 tomorrow as my bank only allows a limit of £10k per day.

Make of this what you will but every word I have said here is the truth and I truly will remember all the kind comments on this post and will also remember those that love a little stir.

To the day I die I will never understand why Punterz felt the need to post this in a public domain when all I had done him in the past was favours. He mentions that other people owe him £40k so where is the dirt on them? I really don’t know what I ever did to hurt him and if he had left me one single message at all then I would have replied immediately. Incidentally I have been in communication with him via his threatening E Mails all week and haven’t ignored him since this post.

This is my very last post on this matter and hopefully this can now be put to bed.

PS – No I don’t have any financial difficulties and no I would not gamble with 10k and can assure you I make a profit with my poker and not a loss but thanks for all your concerns

Now personally I think Duffs appears to be a very good father to his kids and a good husband to his wife. This is the main thing in life so if you are not so successful in other areas it is not a bad thing. I will add when it comes to mortgages he definitely knows his stuff there also and I still highly recommend him. One thing I must question is if he has ever made an apology in his entire life? Some people may be nearly always right, but nobody is ever 100% right. Now he has said something to me about the last month which I can relate to and see why he is stressed, yet all he needed to do was tell me a few weeks before and I would never have said anything.

Before anyone asks for loans like I am some kind of loan shark don't bother! £1,000 interest on a £10,000 loan for 6-7 weeks when the money is instantly available to you is not a lot. I absolutely did not do it for the money but as a favour, with a previous loan to duffs I actually asked and accepted for a reduced amount of money than was offered to me. Previously as stated he repaid a week late and I was fine with that, why he can't see things are totally different this time christ only knows.

I will not point out lots of contradictions between what has been said over the last seven weeks as I hope duffs sorts his current problem out fairly quickly, however if months down the line when he is fighting fit and stress free he wishes to add anything so be it. The final thing I will add is that to ask to borrow money to complete a deal when in fact it is to loan to a friend means the whole thing started off with dishonesty. Well I hope duffs sorts everything out and then in a few months time can see things in a different light, if I see him at a live event I will still let him buy me a drink.

Everybody can learn a lesson from this, sometimes both people in a dispute can make mistakes and be wrong on some things. There is nothing wrong with compromise and accepting some fault. I am sure duffs will have a great home game as usual this year, and if anything will get even more entrants due to this bit of publicity!

Deleted post....

2009-02-04T23:50:00.004Z

The last post is deleted temporarily. Hopefully the debt is paid in the very near future or I shall just put it back up, well an upgraded/updated version. As I have said before if you loan money the best thing that can happen is you get paid back. There are just two parts I will post for now...

Basically I need 10k to complete a deal for about 6 weeks and I will give you back 11k by the end of January. It might be earlier than the end of January but that will be the latest date.

as I have said I will assure you 11k will be back with you by the end of Jan.

Now no matter what anyone says it is important to remember that if you agree a deal and give assurances you must honour them. If you feel as though you cannot you should approach the other party as soon as possible. Why should the other party have to go even a day past the promised date without any contact. Maybe they feel as though they have important issues on which are higher priority. Bottom line is it is a fair amount of money and a priority to me. This is without even going into the you avoided me....o no I never arguement. Totally irelevent, a deal was broken without any explanation being given and still no money repaid with the borrower accusing the lender of being stitched up. Now I can assure people I would not lend out £10,000 in the hope the borrower did not pay up so I could publicly humiliate them. I could easily make a character assassination but have so far kept it all at the minimum level of fuss possible. If the original deal was not broken none of this would have happened....and whose fault is this?

Hopefully within the next few days I am repaid and then I will not make any other comment on the matter other than to say it has been repaid. Obviously this will change if the borrower makes false allegations. I am sure everyone will agree that the borrower broke the deal and by not making contact before the deadline is being unreasonable. Even if it is one minute or one day or one week late it still is not acceptable. Why does the person loaning almost always have to chase back their own money? It is ridiculous and a reflection of modern society.

Ridiculously Stupid....

2009-02-01T07:49:00.001Z

8a.m. and just got home. Made a rare trip to a casino last night. Guessing I won around £60,000. Too smashed to count it at the moment. Do I sleep or do I play poker to retain my unbeaten title......

Let Your Play Do Your Talking....

2009-01-31T13:39:00.002Z

Playing some awful fish today who couldn't stop running his mouth off. Definitely one of the worst I have ever played, calling all in with the liks of J4o then laughing when he sucked out. Anyways after yet another bad call by him I left him with the minimum amount of chips possible...

Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( 1,999.99 )
Seat 2: p0k3rK1nG ( 0.01 )
Tourney Level:3 Blinds(25/50-(no ante))
p0k3rK1nG posts small blind [0.01]

Arbboy CHEAT...

2009-01-31T02:34:00.001Z

Been out all night whilst a certain person is still playing a 14+ hour session. Arbboy is an absolutely retarded cheat, if you are going to cheat do it but don't draw attention to yourself like a retard! Any site other than betfair his account would have been closed long ago! Well whatever he cheats and wins, £5000 a month well done, I would flip a coin for his yearly profit/ net worth any day of the week the retarded cheating peasant lol. Sleep for me, nite!

£20,000 reached...

2009-01-29T13:49:00.002Z

As of five minutes ago my total profit since my big loss almost three weeks ago has hit £20,200. I just won two virtually back to back pots of $4000+ on plo cash. I wish I had of not had any alcoholic drinks in the last three weeks as it would have been very satisfying to have reached my goal and then gone for a nice pint of beer! With rakeback to come I will actually end the month in profit which is quite good. Hopefully I can make an easy £20,000+ next month without having any big losses. My goal for next month is to scoop in some of the money owed to me, it currently stands at around £40,000 with the two biggest debts not even answering or returning calls! In January I managed to collect just £3000 of money owed to me yet someone still loaned out money, i am a sucker! In the current economical climate it is adviseable to lend absolutely nobody money as lots of loans will be written off in the future. Banks are taking an absolute pounding at the moment yet I am still confident Barclays shares will pass £1.50 in the next 2 weeks. They are currently £1.10.

Had an email from Betfair asking questions about customer service, here are there two questions and my reply:

1) Thinking about your most recent contact with the Betfair Helpdesk:
How satisfied are you with the way in which your query was handled by our representative?

2) If you were to recommend a gambling company to a friend or family member; how likely would you be to recommend Betfair?

Please indicate your likelihood to recommend Betfair on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is not at all likely and 10 is very likely

You can of course give any score in between.

reply:

betfair customer service are a nightmare fullstop, why even ask for customers opinions when you really listen. support is an absolute joke.

Why do they keep spending money on useless surveys? They rarely listen as it is. Finally a big thanks to West Ham United last night for crushing Hull City and winning me a nice few ££££!

Almost there....

2009-01-28T01:48:00.002Z

Didn't play too much today yet still made £2600, £1000 of that replaces the loss at the end of last night unfortunately.

Punterz08 85 £32 £118 26% £2,724 WWWLWWLL Betfair <12Hours

So current running total is on £17,700. With a bit of luck I can reach £20,000 before my rakeback is paid in and use my rakeback for a drunken weekend away. I haven't been playing well since around July of last year. I have just the one fault in my game, obviously I cannot tell people what it is however I just can't seem to get rid of it. I played a few exceptionally good hands today, including bluffing for virtually the game in a $1000 omaha game on the river with 8 hi and in a $1000 holdem game making a big call with second pair when correctly suspecting a missed draw. So some hints that I am on the track back to playing as well as I was a year ago. I really do have a nagging feeling that I am going to have to wait until the start of next year before I am playing as well as I know I can. Thankfully so many rubbish players that even when I am by my standards playing average I still make a decent amount. Time shall tell...

Running total £17,700.

Mixed Day....

2009-01-27T00:46:00.002Z

Involves decent profit, the canadian mafia, betfair paying up and stocks and shares!

Lets start with the shares. I have been following developments with Barclays Bank share prices for the last seven days. I knew they were a bit of a gamble but just couldn't see how they would go under. The closing price of 50p last Friday was definitely the rock bottom in my opinion. I encouraged many people over the weekend to get on them as soon as trading started today, they opened up at 62p. Naturally me being stupid I didn't wake up until they had hit 72p where I made my order. They finished the day on 88p a day rise of around 75%. I shall hold on to them for at least the next month and then decide what to do. The world is in an absolutely financial crisis at the moment and many still don't realise how bad it is. Below are two links which are quite interesting:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ccJp6C1xdZ8

http://cynicuseconomicus.blogspot.com/

Now for the Canadian Mafia, I thought I had an agreement with them yesterday but it turns out I have not. I am guessing they are on late at night high on drugs and drunk and forget things. Well I don't mind so much as only one of them has an edge on me in SNG and the others I am better than. The guy who is better than me I shall make a few adjustments and soon beat him. Well they pissed me off so I played them at cash and won quite a bit from them. I sat with $1000 against the underboss (idontfold) and won $1500 before quitting when I noticed the boss (Flavorflav) was out and I took him for a quick $5000. With the strong dollar versus the pound it worked out around £5000 for around ten minutes.

Seat 1: idontfold ( $1,624.50 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( $1,722 )
Punterz08 posts small blind [$10]
idontfold posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ ? ? ]
Punterz08 raises to [$45]
idontfold raises to [$144]
Punterz08 calls [$99]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4d, 5s, Ad ]
idontfold bets [$216]
Punterz08 calls [$216]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ah ]
idontfold bets [$420]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Punterz08 raises to [$1,362]
idontfold folds
Returning uncalled bet [$942] to Punterz08
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins $1,559 from main pot
************ Game 472876265 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 472879349 *****
NL $50/$100 Texas Hold'em - Monday, January 26, 11:50:35 GMT 2009
Table London 117 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( $5,998 )
Seat 2: FlavorFlav ( $7,050.64 )
FlavorFlav posts small blind [$50]
Punterz08 posts big blind [$100]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 8s, Jd ]
FlavorFlav raises to [$300]
Punterz08 calls [$200]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Th, 6s, 7c ]
Punterz08 checks
FlavorFlav bets [$410]
Punterz08 calls [$410]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9c ]
Punterz08 checks
FlavorFlav bets [$1,200]
Punterz08 raises to [$3,765]
FlavorFlav raises to [$6,330]
Punterz08 calls [$1,523]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [$1,042] to FlavorFlav
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ 8s, Jd ]
FlavorFlav shows [ 8d, As ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7d ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins $11,995 from main pot with a straight, Jack to Seven
************ Game 472879349 ends ************

Having spoken to idontfold after it appears he is not the bad guy, flavorflav clearly cannot control his ego. I disliked them both equally until recently, now the difference is huge. If I ever see idontfold at a wsop or something I would happily buy him a beer. If I ever bumped into flavorflav I would kick him in his head then punch him until I cracked a few of his ribs. People never realise how serious you are until they feel the first punch hit or hear the sound of the first bone break. O well, R.I.P. Canadian Mafia.

Now on to betfair they finally paid up the outstanding leaderboards monies of £1000 plus back to normal with a prompt payment for last week of £2400. Having lost on tournaments my days poker profits stood at £5500 including leaderboard cashes.

The current profit is £16,000 on the way towards £20,000 with rakeback I had virtually achieved it. Not bad for 17 days work. However since I came in I have lost £1500 back. Had some horrendous bad beats including this one here for $1000...

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 473254425 *****
PL Omaha $500 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante)) - Tuesday, January 27, 00:19:32 GMT 2009
$500+$10 PL Omaha #2600220
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( 2,480 )
Seat 2: COBRA69 ( 1,520 )
Tourney Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante))
COBRA69 posts small blind [10]
Punterz08 posts big blind [20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Ad, Ah, 7c, 9c ]
COBRA69 calls [10]
Punterz08 raises to [60]
COBRA69 raises to [180]
Punterz08 raises to [540]
COBRA69 goes all-in
COBRA69 raises to [1,520]
Punterz08 calls [980]
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ Ad, Ah, 7c, 9c ]
COBRA69 shows [ Kh, Qh, As, 9d ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6d, 3s, Th ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Jc ]
** Dealing River ** [ Qs ]
** Hand Conclusion **
COBRA69 wins 3,040 from main pot with a straight, Ace to Ten
************ Game 473254425 ends ************

No big deal, you win some you lose some. I was 75% preflop and 85% on the flop! I will keep my current running total as £16000 as I am still playing, any profit or loss tonight I shall roll over to my next session. Back to the tables more work to be done! Good luck to the rest of you, except for the Canadian Mafia, may you lose your homes in a game of poker or in a tornado.

Canadian Poker Mafia/Arbboydonkey....

2009-01-26T01:03:00.002Z

Several things on the agenda today. Firstly the poker mafias! Over the years the scandi players were the first to make it big online. The way Gus Hansen had huge success with his hyper aggressive style winning several wpt events virtually as soon as he hit the live tournament scene fellow scandinavians were doing the same in the biggest online cash games. They made close alliances via msn and live tournaments etc and beat virtually everyone online. They would often share accounts and pool money together in syndicates hence the nickame 'Scandi Mafia'. The money to be made is huge and it is only a matter of time before other people adapt and learn new styles of play. Many of the Scandinavians made millions, some invested well and others still have hardly a dollar to there name.

Well at least on betfair poker the tide has turned. The scandinavians no longer run the big games. One of the biggest players is deadly007 who is from London/England and very few will play him....however there are not so many like him in the UK. The scandinavians who were formerly fearless now have game selection which they used to be too arrogant to even consider. In my opinion at the moment those doing the best on betfair are the canadians. There are not so many of them but the biggest winners are well represented by Canada. This 'Canadian mafia' and here are several of the members...

Boss of all bosses (I cannot say who this is as I am not deep enough into them yet)

Boss - Flavorflav

Underboss - idontfold

Consigliere - Sky Lopez

Soldiers - T Pain and Souljaboy

Obviously there are many more members of the Canadian poker mafia but I shall not put too many members names down. Just beware if you see them at the tables as they can seriously damage your bankroll. I have long been in dispute with the Boss and the Underboss but today I think a ceasefire was negiotated. Once again the fearless Punterz comes through the storm with his sail intact. I am sure I shall be mentioning the Canadian Poker Mafia in the future. Now onto something else...

Well it is Sunday which means leaderboard judgement day. The 16th week they have run now and successfully won the middleweight leaderboard for the 16th time to go 16/16. Also another comfortable win on the heavyweight to make it 12/16 there. The four times I came second where when twice I had a rest and let a friend win, once when I had a break for the New Years holidays and the other time when for three days Betfairs scoring system was down so it was hard to work out where you were at.

The beneficiary of this was an idiot called arbboy who cannot play poker and was on a heater. The guy comes out with such retarded comments one must only wonder how his mother didn't give him away as a child...well maybe she did. He keeps saying how great he is yet he is a fairly big loser. Recently he decided he would account share. There are many tell tale signs of this:

1) from having an roi over the last few years consistently at -10% overnight he went on a three week run of approx +15% roi.

2) the play on the account has during this period increased between 300-400%

3) one player will play a session of around six hours and show absolutely every single good hand and also everytime folded to him in the big blind show his hand. one of the other players will have an entire session without showing one hand.

There are a few more signs but that is enough for now. Well here is just one game against him today, it is not any game in particular. Just one game where I decided to take down all the hand histories as I was not in too many games at the time. It is totally standard of his heads up play and a fair assessment of his play will follow.

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 472470417 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $100 Buy-in + $5 Entry Fee, Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante)) - Sunday, January 25, 14:38:22 GMT 2009
$100+$5 NL Hold'em #2594621
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: arbboy ( 1,500 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,500 )
Tourney Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante))
arbboy posts small blind [10]
Punterz08 posts big blind [20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 9d, 7c ]
arbboy goes all-in
arbboy raises to [1,500]
Punterz08 folds
Returning uncalled bet [1,480] to arbboy
** Hand Conclusion **
arbboy wins 40 from main pot
************ Game 472470417 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 472473907 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $100 Buy-in + $5 Entry Fee, Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante)) - Sunday, January 25, 14:42:16 GMT 2009
$100+$5 NL Hold'em #2594621
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: arbboy ( 1,510 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,490 )
Tourney Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante))
arbboy posts small blind [10]
Punterz08 posts big blind [20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 4d, Ks ]
arbboy goes all-in
arbboy raises to [1,510]
Punterz08 folds
Returning uncalled bet [1,490] to arbboy
** Hand Conclusion **
arbboy wins 40 from main pot
************ Game 472473907 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 472473977 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $100 Buy-in + $5 Entry Fee, Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante)) - Sunday, January 25, 14:42:27 GMT 2009
$100+$5 NL Hold'em #2594621
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: arbboy ( 1,530 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,470 )
Tourney Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante))
Punterz08 posts small blind [10]
arbboy posts big blind [20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Td, 7d ]
Punterz08 calls [10]
arbboy checks
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2c, 5h, Ts ]
arbboy checks
Punterz08 bets [40]
arbboy calls [40]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qc ]
arbboy checks
Punterz08 bets [120]
arbboy calls [120]
** Dealing River ** [ Th ]
arbboy checks
Punterz08 bets [360]
arbboy calls [360]
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ Td, 7d ] three of a kind, Tens
arbboy mucks [ 7s, 5c ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins 1,080 from main pot with three of a kind, Tens
************ Game 472473977 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 472474360 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $100 Buy-in + $5 Entry Fee, Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante)) - Sunday, January 25, 14:43:29 GMT 2009
$100+$5 NL Hold'em #2594621
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: arbboy ( 1,025 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,975 )
Tourney Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante))
arbboy posts small blind [15]
Punterz08 posts big blind [30]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 9s, 6h ]
arbboy goes all-in
arbboy raises to [1,025]
Punterz08 folds
Returning uncalled bet [995] to arbboy
** Hand Conclusion **
arbboy wins 60 from main pot
************ Game 472474360 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 472476035 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $100 Buy-in + $5 Entry Fee, Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante)) - Sunday, January 25, 14:48:02 GMT 2009
$100+$5 NL Hold'em #2594621
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: arbboy ( 1,025 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,975 )
Tourney Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante))
arbboy posts small blind [15]
Punterz08 posts big blind [30]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Kd, 3h ]
arbboy goes all-in
arbboy raises to [1,025]
Punterz08 folds
Returning uncalled bet [995] to arbboy
** Hand Conclusion **
arbboy wins 60 from main pot
************ Game 472476035 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 472476103 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $100 Buy-in + $5 Entry Fee, Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante)) - Sunday, January 25, 14:48:13 GMT 2009
$100+$5 NL Hold'em #2594621
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: arbboy ( 1,055 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,945 )
Tourney Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante))
Punterz08 posts small blind [15]
arbboy posts big blind [30]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 6c, 4c ]
Punterz08 calls [15]
arbboy goes all-in
arbboy raises to [1,055]
Punterz08 folds
Returning uncalled bet [1,025] to arbboy
** Hand Conclusion **
arbboy wins 60 from main pot
************ Game 472476103 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 472477514 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $100 Buy-in + $5 Entry Fee, Level:3 Blinds(25/50-(no ante)) - Sunday, January 25, 14:51:49 GMT 2009
$100+$5 NL Hold'em #2594621
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: arbboy ( 1,085 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,915 )
Tourney Level:3 Blinds(25/50-(no ante))
arbboy posts small blind [25]
Punterz08 posts big blind [50]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 5s, 6c ]
arbboy goes all-in
arbboy raises to [1,085]
Punterz08 folds
Returning uncalled bet [1,035] to arbboy
** Hand Conclusion **
arbboy wins 100 from main pot
************ Game 472477514 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 472478148 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $100 Buy-in + $5 Entry Fee, Level:4 Blinds(50/100-(no ante)) - Sunday, January 25, 14:53:28 GMT 2009
$100+$5 NL Hold'em #2594621
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: arbboy ( 1,235 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,765 )
Tourney Level:4 Blinds(50/100-(no ante))
arbboy posts small blind [50]
Punterz08 posts big blind [100]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 2d, 5d ]
arbboy goes all-in
arbboy raises to [1,235]
Punterz08 folds
Returning uncalled bet [1,135] to arbboy
** Hand Conclusion **
arbboy wins 200 from main pot
************ Game 472478148 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 472478205 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $100 Buy-in + $5 Entry Fee, Level:4 Blinds(50/100-(no ante)) - Sunday, January 25, 14:53:38 GMT 2009
$100+$5 NL Hold'em #2594621
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: arbboy ( 1,335 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,665 )
Tourney Level:4 Blinds(50/100-(no ante))
Punterz08 posts small blind [50]
arbboy posts big blind [100]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Js, 9s ]
Punterz08 calls [50]
arbboy goes all-in
arbboy raises to [1,335]
Punterz08 folds
Returning uncalled bet [1,235] to arbboy
** Hand Conclusion **
arbboy wins 200 from main pot
************ Game 472478205 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 472478276 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $100 Buy-in + $5 Entry Fee, Level:4 Blinds(50/100-(no ante)) - Sunday, January 25, 14:53:49 GMT 2009
$100+$5 NL Hold'em #2594621
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: arbboy ( 1,435 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,565 )
Tourney Level:4 Blinds(50/100-(no ante))
arbboy posts small blind [50]
Punterz08 posts big blind [100]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 9s, 2h ]
arbboy goes all-in
arbboy raises to [1,435]
Punterz08 folds
Returning uncalled bet [1,335] to arbboy
** Hand Conclusion **
arbboy wins 200 from main pot
************ Game 472478276 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 472478506 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $100 Buy-in + $5 Entry Fee, Level:4 Blinds(50/100-(no ante)) - Sunday, January 25, 14:54:27 GMT 2009
$100+$5 NL Hold'em #2594621
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: arbboy ( 1,785 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,215 )
Tourney Level:4 Blinds(50/100-(no ante))
Punterz08 posts small blind [50]
arbboy posts big blind [100]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 5d, 5c ]
Punterz08 calls [50]
arbboy goes all-in
arbboy raises to [1,785]
Punterz08 folds
Returning uncalled bet [1,685] to arbboy
** Hand Conclusion **
arbboy wins 200 from main pot
************ Game 472478506 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 472478731 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $100 Buy-in + $5 Entry Fee, Level:4 Blinds(50/100-(no ante)) - Sunday, January 25, 14:55:02 GMT 2009
$100+$5 NL Hold'em #2594621
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: arbboy ( 1,585 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,415 )
Tourney Level:4 Blinds(50/100-(no ante))
Punterz08 posts small blind [50]
arbboy posts big blind [100]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Ad, Kd ]
Punterz08 calls [50]
arbboy checks
** Dealing Flop ** [ Td, Jc, 4d ]
arbboy checks
Punterz08 bets [100]
arbboy goes all-in
arbboy raises to [1,485]
Punterz08 calls [1,215]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [170] to arbboy
** Showdown **
arbboy shows [ 9c, Qs ]
Punterz08 shows [ Ad, Kd ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ah ]
** Dealing River ** [ 4h ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins 2,830 from main pot with two pair, Aces and Fours
************ Game 472478731 ends ************

As you can see he is virtually all in every other hand. His preflop play is absolutely awful, when he occasionally plays post flop just as bad. He finally gets his money in with a 23% chance of winning against my 77%. Now this was just an average game against him, he really does always play this bad, the only strange thing is that the game lasted for as long as it did. Just for good measure a few more awful hands from him from several other games.

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 472505367 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $100 Buy-in + $8 Entry Fee, Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante)) - Sunday, January 25, 15:54:20 GMT 2009
$100+$8 Turbo NL Hold'em #2594463
Table 1 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 6
Seat 1: michaelg2 ( 1,750 )
Seat 2: arbboy ( 1,440 )
Seat 3: santtu123 ( 1,480 )
Seat 4: Punterz08 ( 1,860 )
Seat 5: VaRiAnCe ( 1,470 )
Seat 6: JJ14 ( 1,000 )
Tourney Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante))
santtu123 posts small blind [10]
Punterz08 posts big blind [20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 6c, Kc ]
VaRiAnCe folds
JJ14 calls [20]
michaelg2 calls [20]
arbboy calls [20]
santtu123 folds
Punterz08 checks
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qc, Tc, 2c ]
Punterz08 bets [90]
JJ14 folds
michaelg2 calls [90]
arbboy calls [90]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Th ]
Punterz08 bets [360]
michaelg2 folds
arbboy calls [360]
** Dealing River ** [ 7c ]
Punterz08 checks
arbboy goes all-in
arbboy bets [970]
Punterz08 calls [970]
** Showdown **
arbboy shows [ As, Jc ] a Flush
Punterz08 shows [ 6c, Kc ] a Flush
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins 3,020 from main pot with a Flush
************ Game 472505367 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 472737871 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $100 Buy-in + $5 Entry Fee, Level:5 Blinds(75/150-(no ante)) - Sunday, January 25, 22:59:58 GMT 2009
$100+$5 NL Hold'em #2596486
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: arbboy ( 970 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 2,030 )
Tourney Level:5 Blinds(75/150-(no ante))
Punterz08 posts small blind [75]
arbboy posts big blind [150]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Jd, Js ]
Punterz08 calls [75]
arbboy goes all-in
arbboy raises to [970]
Punterz08 calls [820]
** Showdown **
arbboy shows [ 8s, 6h ]
Punterz08 shows [ Jd, Js ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ad, 8d, Qh ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5c ]
** Dealing River ** [ 2c ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins 1,940 from main pot with a pair of Jacks
************ Game 472737871 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 472740720 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $100 Buy-in + $5 Entry Fee, Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante)) - Sunday, January 25, 23:05:45 GMT 2009
$100+$5 NL Hold'em #2596578
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: arbboy ( 1,530 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,470 )
Tourney Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante))
Punterz08 posts small blind [10]
arbboy posts big blind [20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Jc, Jd ]
Punterz08 calls [10]
arbboy goes all-in
arbboy raises to [1,530]
Punterz08 calls [1,450]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [60] to arbboy
** Showdown **
arbboy shows [ Qc, Th ]
Punterz08 shows [ Jc, Jd ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2h, Ah, Tc ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5h ]
** Dealing River ** [ Td ]
** Hand Conclusion **
arbboy wins 2,940 from main pot with three of a kind, Tens
************ Game 472740720 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 472748152 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $100 Buy-in + $5 Entry Fee, Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante)) - Sunday, January 25, 23:21:04 GMT 2009
$100+$5 NL Hold'em #2596599
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( 1,280 )
Seat 2: arbboy ( 1,720 )
Tourney Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante))
arbboy posts small blind [15]
Punterz08 posts big blind [30]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Qh, Qd ]
arbboy calls [15]
Punterz08 raises to [90]
arbboy calls [60]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4c, Ts, 8c ]
Punterz08 bets [180]
arbboy goes all-in
arbboy raises to [1,630]
Punterz08 calls [1,010]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [440] to arbboy
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ Qh, Qd ]
arbboy shows [ 7c, 8d ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2d ]
** Dealing River ** [ 9h ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins 2,560 from main pot with a pair of Queens
************ Game 472748152 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 472749394 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $100 Buy-in + $5 Entry Fee, Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante)) - Sunday, January 25, 23:23:42 GMT 2009
$100+$5 NL Hold'em #2596599
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( 2,180 )
Seat 2: arbboy ( 820 )
Tourney Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante))
Punterz08 posts small blind [15]
arbboy posts big blind [30]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ As, Jd ]
Punterz08 calls [15]
arbboy checks
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7d, 6d, 4h ]
arbboy checks
Punterz08 checks
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ah ]
arbboy bets [60]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Punterz08 raises to [2,150]
arbboy calls [730]
arbboy goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [1,360] to Punterz08
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ As, Jd ]
arbboy shows [ 8h, 2h ]
** Dealing River ** [ Qh ]
** Hand Conclusion **
arbboy wins 1,640 from main pot with a Flush
************ Game 472749394 ends ************

The guy is so bad and I would rarely show hand histories and make comments on one individual player. However seeing as he keeps saying how great he is etc he is fair game. I pity absolutely anybody who knows this retarded loser.

Not the best of weekends but made £500 profit to push the current total to £10,500. Still awaiting £1000 from last weeks leaderboards due to betfair incompetence and if they try the same again this week there will be uproar. Come next week £20,000 target should be reached so virtually breaking evens for the month is great considering one session was a £27,000 losing one. Alarm is set for 08:30a.m. as I am having a bet this morning. I shall post details of it tomorrow. It is a longterm bet (hopefully!) which should give a huge return on my investment. Well another week as the champion of hu sng has come and gone, good luck to my friends and to my enemies 'your mother is on the road'.

I hate Tottenham....

2009-01-25T12:08:00.002Z

I really do, I used to live close to there and never did like passing through there etc. Horrid place, absolutely repulsive at best. Now the local team there is Tottenham Hotspurs (some of the overseas readers may not be familiar with London/England geography). The team is one of the most hated in the country alongsides probably Manchester United. Now one of the reasons many people don't like Manchester United is because they have generally been a very successful club. It is rare for the English to like a winner, back the underdog mentality. Fine the English were huge underdogs against the Germans in two world wars. However without the help of Russia, Canada, Australia and the United States...(EVENTUALLY)we would have had no chance. So stop with the backing the underdog mentality. I am starting to digress back to why I hate Tottenham....

I haven't really had many bets over the last few years as I am fully aware how easy it is to chase a loss. When I wake up on a Sunday morning after a Saturday night out I think two things:

1) I don't want to play today
2) I want to get back the money I spent last night.

Last Saturday I didn't spend particularly too much, around £600. On Sunday I wake up too late for the West Ham United game and they were easy 3-1 winners. So I put £1000 on Tottenham to win at home against Portsmouth. Portsmouth's manager Tony Adams is an absolute fruit bat as of late but Tottenham are bottom of the league for a reason I guess. So Spurs are all over Pompey, yet concede a goal. They equalise and the match is at 1-1 on a knife edge, seconds to go and one of spurs most expensive players at over ten million pounds misses an absolutely easy chance. Disgrace, I have lost £1000 on you pieces of shit.

Now a week later and it is f.a. cup day, Manchester United are at home against Tottenham Hotspurs. The two most hated teams in the country, one because they are so good and the other because they are just horrible. Manchester are top of the table and Spurs are bottom. I turn the game on after ten minutes and see that against the odds Spurs have scored a lucky goal and now Manchester have gone from odds of 1.30 to odds of 1.98. What a gift, I am more likely to have gay sex with a dog than Manchester not to score. The only problem is I have a dinner reservation at six. I figure that I have around twenty minutes spare and Manchester are all over Spurs like flies around a piece of shit. It is a question of when not if they will score. I borrow a friends account and get £2000 on at roughly even money with the intention of trading when they score. Chance after chance, then the crossbar thwarts Tevez....I am running out of time. I have to go for dinner so I trade out my bet for roughly the same as my inital stake. Within TWO seconds of me laying the bet off manchester score. If I had of been two seconds later the bet would not have been matched and I would have been able to lay off for a £1500 profit no matter what the outcome. Everything associated with spurs just always turns to shit.

Apparently betfair are increasing rakeback for those who apply from 1st February. Why keep appealing to new customers and at the same time upsetting existing ones who then leave the site?

lowest raking day ever?

2009-01-24T02:51:00.002Z

Betfair earned the great some of $130 from me in fees today. Probably the least they have earned from me in two years. Still awaiting leaderboard payments from them, mrkangaroo has emailed in saying he doesn't want to ever be included in any leaderboards. So baffling why betfair keep upsetting players and changing promotions etc. I have so many stories of betfair cheating people, robbing them and even information about betfair being hacked and cash players being refunded hundreds of thousands of pounds each. The day I leave betfair I shall post all of this and the 500 or so people who read my blog each week will be amazed and hopefully spread the word. The readers of my blog are truly global, from australia to new zealand to russia to italy to america to sweden to france to england. If betfair continue to upset people everyone deserves all the information about there many security breaches and other cover ups. For some reason they think they are invincible. The day they realise they are not will be so so painful for them.

Anyways played very little today but made £1000 profit.

Current profit is £10,000 (half way there in two weeks)

Are Betfair scared of the Italian Mafia?...

2009-01-23T12:19:00.002Z

For several years many players have complained about a player called Giorgio56 and betfair poker have done absolutely nothing about this. Now here are the guys statistics for the last ten months:

Giorgio56 255 -$246 $784 -28% -$62,801 LLLWLLWW Betfair

Wow what a big loser people think. He actually used to play a lot more pre 2008. Now here are his losses and records against three opponents

Username Games Played Total Profit (including rake)
Pllncino 41 -$44,756
sparalesto1 13 -$13,130
soleny 15 -$10,489

The above games account for more than his $62,000 sharkscope loss. Of the 69 games above he has lost ALL 69. All four players are located in Italy. This is absolute cheating and money laundering. Betfair refuse to do anything. Are they scared of the spaghetti heads?

why why why Betfair....

2009-01-22T11:52:00.006Z

Why are they such a poorly run pokersite? The mistakes are endless and the treatment of players often disgusting. They often change the rules midway through promotions amd have been known to do things such as trying to illegally deposit money from peoples accounts back to them (after the SNG sting). For fifteen weeks they have run a new SNG leaderboard. I have won one of two a week for the entire promotion, obviously they won't like this. When a fat bald foreigner won every week they loved it and sponsored Buzzer. Some days I have played several hundred games, in fact the most I played in one day was 371.

Now we have last week, a player who plays under the alias arbboy emailed betfair saying I was punterz08 and mrkangaroo. I use the mrkangaroo account to forum post and many people know who it is, it most certainly is not me. I came second on the leaderboard to mrkangaroo and still hadn't been paid three days later so I phoned them. Now the irony here is that arbboy has cheated betfair out of thousands of pounds of commission. He openly posted on forums how he let people use his account for poker to get his commission % on the lowest possible rate. This has no doubt cost betfair thousands of pounds in lost fees from commission on their sportsbook. As usual the guilty are the first ones to point fingers.

Here is my email from betfair:

Dear Lee,

Following an investigation into your account’s activity we have reason to believe that your account (Punterz08) was accessed from the same machine as account Mr.Kangaroo. In some instances these logins are only seconds apart and since the two accounts occupied the top spots in the week’s leaderboard, the matter was brought to our attention.

Whilst this might be purely coincidental an/or justifiable, it is in everyone’s interest to defend the integrity of the game. In view of this it would be excellent if you could provide is with an explanation of why and/or how this might have happened in order for us to be to conclude our investigation. In addition, please be advised that the leaderboard prize payout has been put on hold pending the conclusion of this investigation.

Please also be advised that our Helpdesk will not be able to assist you with any enquiries. Any correspondence should be forwarded to verification@betfair.com.

Kind Regards,

Verification Team

verification@betfair.com
www.betfair.com
Helpdesk Tel: 0844 871 0000

Now if you have any problems with mrkangaroo contact him not me, if you don't want to pay him first spot promote me from second place to first and pay me even more. My account makes me in excess of £100,000 a year and turns over over a million pounds a year paying over £100,000 in fees. Why on earth can't betfair see commonsense and realise a few hundred pounds is not something that would bother me. It seems as though betfair poker since taken over by Bruce Stubbs wants to alienate every single big player they have. The likes of duffs, mandylou,deejay, shaa etc etc were betfair diehards and now they hate betfair. It really is surely a matter of time before something big, ugly and embarrassing happens to betfair poker. People keep saying to me why do you still mainly play there. The figures I mention at the start of this paragraph are the reason why.

As for people multi accounting (I have one) if betfair were really bothered why not do something about it. On all pokersites you are allowed only one account except for betfair. They let people have master accounts for sportsbook enabling them to have up to five poker accounts. You are then allowed another account via badbeat if you wish. At the highest stakes people are combining bankrolls and letting five or more people use the account. A player called Giorgio56 has been subject to many complaints from betfair players yet is still allowed to operate. One must assume that he bets a lot on the sportsbook. He has played another player in around forty $1000 games and lost every single one. To lose 40/40 is virtually impossible and we all know something is not right yet betfair do nothing about him.

So will betfair do anything about the multi accounts? After all Sorrell Mizzi famous multi accounting cheat got a sponsorship deal with betfair when they had the knowledge in the past he had been banned for cheating and multiaccounting. I think they will do nothing, but because I post on somebody elses forum account they will happily use this as an excuse to withhold £1000 from me pending an investigation. Just another case of betfair poker trying to lose another well known player.I shall not even log into the kangaroo account to use the chat again, so when week after week we get 1st and 2nd what will the excuse be then? Between us we pay £20,000 a month in fees to poker sites. What a joke of a site it is becoming. Literally a matter of time before something big legally or financially happens to them.

Finally one last thing betfair could have looked at before all of this nonsense..

Rake for punterz08 since start:
January 09
£6,281.33

Last updated 22/01/09

The fees I have paid after three weeks of the month are equal or higher than any of the previous 6 months. If it was me playing both accounts then I would have raked way less on this account and have my average spread over the two accounts. Why are they so stupid. There is such a liquidity problem on betfair in January come the end of the month why would I have raked 50% more than usual!

winner winner chicken dinner....

2009-01-21T07:24:00.002Z

How much I hear you ask. FIFTEEN pounds haha. I could sense yesterday wasn't going to be a good day. I went behind early and said if I broke evens I would quit for the day. I managed to go £15 ahead so I just stopped. Naturally I went out and got pissed instead, this is something I really must stop doing as I say and do things I later regret! My solution is a couple of months out in Spain away from every day life in the sun. I know a great place out there near Barcelona and have a few friends living there and it is calming which is ideal for me right now. However I can't go as I have to wait until the end of February for my kitchen to be delivered, then I need to fit it, then I have to have the floor laid...then carpentry work done....before that I need electrics done, painting, bathroom fitted....it just doesn't end. All this time effort and money on a place I still may not even move into! I must be insane, who buys a perfectly liveable place and still manages to spend 40-50k doing it up. What a waste of money, who cares tho I guess it is only money.

I still can't get motivated which is annoying because as soon as I am motivated there is an easy £50,000 a month to be made. Decision between three girls to be made at the moment, all good looking and totally different but I can't make it. Not because it is a difficult choice but because my mind is elsewhere still. Vegas in April will fix me up I am sure, I will just focus for a few days and try and win a big tournament and take it from there. Maybe with a bit of luck the $25,000 WPT final! Fuck that would be nice, win a few million in a tournament then go live somewhere in the carribean for a couple of years. No computer or any phone, simply chill in a wonderful place in the sun for a couple of years. Why do I need a few million to do this? I can just go tomorrow, we only live once and not for so long. Yet most of us are too scared to make big decisions and instead get stuck in a mundane life. We convince ourselves that it is great when it isn't and brainwash ourselves. Within the next few years one way or another I shall live near that wonderful beach for a year +. It is so easy, just win money online and pay off all financial commitments over here then go. Why does anyone want to stay in cold, rainy London when they could go anywhere in the world they chose? It is insanity, maybe I can even get a few grand from the government by leaving London and making room for one more immigrant from a random poor country.

That is that sorted then, I feel as though any day I could just go. Couple of years away people wondering where the guy who takes all their money has gone. Then come back and do it all over again, the thing is if anyone managed to go away for a year or two you know in all reality you probably wouldn't come back. These ties to shitty places and often rubbish people are what makes the human life so random and fascinating. Talking of fascinating one of the only places I have ever been to that did fascinate me is Cuba. It will open up there soon, great beaches and weather and such nice people. My feedback from a few expats suggests within ten years the country will be out of the communism Castro thing. It is hard to buy things out there but I am pretty certain that one million pounds invested there this year would be worth at least ten million ten years from now. I have in my lifetime already seen people make absolutely huge amounts of money in South Africa after apatheid. Cuba would easily surpass these amounts as it doesn't have the crime and disease of Africa.

So after a few random thoughts I could now maybe end up in Cuba chilling on the beach most days having turned a small fortune into a huge fortune. Even the thought of this still doesn't motivate me, so five years from now I am still probably in rainy London just going away 6 times a year or so for some sunshine and then coming back to this shit. How crazy we can all have almost whatever we want except for the one thing we truly want. Then for the few of us who get the one thing we can't have once we have it we don't want it. Then we lose it and realise actually we did. Life is absolutely crazy, I mean if I wanted I could sit on the toilet take my laptop with me and on the outcome of a turn of a card win or lose more than many people make in a year. Or in the case of the third world what they would make in a lifetime.

Life is great, see you in Vegas, or Spain, or Havana....or more than likely in rainy old England.

Donkeys with 48...

2009-01-19T23:38:00.005Z

Lately I haven't been getting much action from the bad players, that all changed today there were so many absolute donkey players it was very satisfying to see. Unfortunately I only made a small profit, but there were some horrific beats and it is easy to see how a few hundred profit should be over a thousand. First out we had some donkey called chess1956, I played him in a few low stake games and comprehensively beat him. He moves up with his life savings and sits in a $300 game. Obviously I get the money in as an 80% favourite and lose to a miracle river. He ends up winning and in chat says how great he is and how he is up on the day, the bottom line is the day is young and noway can someone playing so bad end up in profit. Well here is how he ended up today:

chess1956 16 -£17 £88 -16% -£267 LLLLWWWL Betfair <12Hours

Well played that donk, here are a few disgusting hands involving him to get some kind of idea as to how bad he is...

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 469552174 *****
PL Omaha $100 Buy-in + $5 Entry Fee, Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante)) - Monday, January 19, 12:39:34 GMT 2009
$100+$5 PL Omaha #2573646
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( 1,725 )
Seat 2: chess1956 ( 1,275 )
Tourney Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante))
Punterz08 posts small blind [15]
chess1956 posts big blind [30]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 9c, Jc, 9h, 4d ]
Punterz08 raises to [60]
chess1956 raises to [180]
Punterz08 calls [120]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ah, 7h, 9d ]
chess1956 bets [320]
Punterz08 raises to [1,320]
chess1956 calls [775]
chess1956 goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [225] to Punterz08
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ 9c, Jc, 9h, 4d ]
chess1956 shows [ 6d, 6s, Jd, Js ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 8s ]
** Dealing River ** [ 8h ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins 2,550 from main pot with full house, Nines full of Eights
************ Game 469552174 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 469579795 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $300 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante)) - Monday, January 19, 14:01:26 GMT 2009
$300+$10 NL Hold'em #2573521
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: chess1956 ( 716 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 2,284 )
Tourney Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante))
Punterz08 posts small blind [10]
chess1956 posts big blind [20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Jh, Js ]
Punterz08 raises to [60]
chess1956 goes all-in
chess1956 raises to [716]
Punterz08 calls [656]
** Showdown **
chess1956 shows [ 8d, 4d ]
Punterz08 shows [ Jh, Js ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8s, 3s, Ah ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ks ]
** Dealing River ** [ 4h ]
** Hand Conclusion **
chess1956 wins 1,432 from main pot with two pair, Eights and Fours
************ Game 469579795 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 469582505 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $300 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:3 Blinds(25/50-(no ante)) - Monday, January 19, 14:09:44 GMT 2009
$300+$10 NL Hold'em #2573521
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: chess1956 ( 1,733 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,267 )
Tourney Level:3 Blinds(25/50-(no ante))
Punterz08 posts small blind [25]
chess1956 posts big blind [50]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Tc, 7c ]
Punterz08 calls [25]
chess1956 raises to [151]
Punterz08 calls [101]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6s, 3s, 8h ]
chess1956 checks
Punterz08 checks
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4s ]
chess1956 checks
Punterz08 checks
** Dealing River ** [ Ac ]
chess1956 checks
Punterz08 checks
** Showdown **
chess1956 shows [ 2s, 3c ] a pair of Threes
Punterz08 mucks [ Tc, 7c ]
** Hand Conclusion **
chess1956 wins 302 from main pot with a pair of Threes
************ Game 469582505 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 469583117 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $300 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:3 Blinds(25/50-(no ante)) - Monday, January 19, 14:11:37 GMT 2009
$300+$10 NL Hold'em #2573521
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: chess1956 ( 2,035 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 965 )
Tourney Level:3 Blinds(25/50-(no ante))
Punterz08 posts small blind [25]
chess1956 posts big blind [50]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Ah, 8h ]
Punterz08 raises to [100]
chess1956 calls [50]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6d, 8c, Ks ]
chess1956 bets [50]
Punterz08 calls [50]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4s ]
chess1956 bets [150]
Punterz08 calls [150]
** Dealing River ** [ Kh ]
chess1956 checks
Punterz08 bets [450]
chess1956 calls [450]
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ Ah, 8h ] two pair, Kings and Eights
chess1956 mucks [ 5h, 6c ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins 1,500 from main pot with two pair, Kings and Eights
************ Game 469583117 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 469691174 *****
PL Omaha $77 Buy-in + $3.25 Entry Fee, Level:3 Blinds(25/50-(no ante)) - Monday, January 19, 18:08:11 GMT 2009
$77+$3.25 Super Turbo PL Omaha #2574713
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: chess1956 ( 630 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,370 )
Tourney Level:3 Blinds(25/50-(no ante))
chess1956 posts small blind [25]
Punterz08 posts big blind [50]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Kd, Jd, 6c, 2h ]
chess1956 raises to [150]
Punterz08 calls [100]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8d, 8s, Kh ]
Punterz08 checks
chess1956 checks
** Dealing Turn ** [ 7s ]
Punterz08 bets [300]
chess1956 goes all-in
chess1956 raises to [480]
Punterz08 calls [180]
** Showdown **
chess1956 shows [ Th, 6h, 3d, Ts ]
Punterz08 shows [ Kd, Jd, 6c, 2h ]
** Dealing River ** [ 4h ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins 1,260 from main pot with two pair, Kings and Eights
************ Game 469691174 ends ************

Now a quick review of the hands above:

Hand one the blinds are low and he calls off with an underpair to the ace, in this spot it will be good maybe one in twenty times. Outrageous call.

Hand two from bad play he has wasted almost half his stack, again the blinds are low and he puts it all in with 8 hi preflop? Maybe the worst play of all time preflop.

Hand three raising preflop out of position with the nut low, two three offsuit. How can anyone even try and put into words how bad this is.

Hand four awful call.

Hand five, the flop is king hi and you cant fold a pair of tens in omaha? Only about twenty hands that beat you. Just so so so so so bad.

Well anyways end up around evens now at time of writing. However break even days are fine as even if I break evens from rakeback and bonuses etc I still get around £400 a day. If I played daily and broke evens that would be £100,000 on the year! Unlike the donks like Chess1956 who boast when they suckout in one game after going all in with 48! Still I don't mind who I win against and who I lose against so long as I end up in profit. A few more weird plays from donks today:

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 469583127 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $150 Buy-in + $7.50 Entry Fee, Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante)) - Monday, January 19, 14:11:38 GMT 2009
$150+$7.50 NL Hold'em #205319
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( 1,490 )
Seat 2: sebus ( 1,510 )
Tourney Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante))
sebus posts small blind [10]
Punterz08 posts big blind [20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Jd, Kh ]
sebus calls [10]
Punterz08 checks
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9s, Ks, 7d ]
Punterz08 bets [40]
sebus calls [40]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qs ]
Punterz08 bets [120]
sebus calls [120]
** Dealing River ** [ Qc ]
Punterz08 checks
sebus checks
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ Jd, Kh ] two pair, Kings and Queens
sebus mucks [ 2s, 5d ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins 360 from main pot with two pair, Kings and Queens
************ Game 469583127 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 469603174 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $150 Buy-in + $7.50 Entry Fee, Level:1 Blinds(15/30-(no ante)) - Monday, January 19, 15:00:31 GMT 2009
$150+$7.50 NL Hold'em #205320
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( 2,120 )
Seat 2: 7921 ( 880 )
Tourney Level:1 Blinds(15/30-(no ante))
7921 posts small blind [15]
Punterz08 posts big blind [30]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Qs, Qd ]
7921 calls [15]
Punterz08 raises to [102]
7921 calls [72]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9s, Kh, Js ]
Punterz08 checks
7921 bets [204]
Punterz08 raises to [816]
7921 calls [574]
7921 goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [38] to Punterz08
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ Qs, Qd ]
7921 shows [ 3d, 3s ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9c ]
** Dealing River ** [ Kc ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins 1,760 from main pot with two pair, Kings and Queens
************ Game 469603174 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 469678444 *****
PL Omaha $100 Buy-in + $5 Entry Fee, Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante)) - Monday, January 19, 17:43:41 GMT 2009
$100+$5 PL Omaha #2574536
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: vainer ( 1,500 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,500 )
Tourney Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante))
Punterz08 posts small blind [10]
vainer posts big blind [20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Td, Jh, Ks, 2s ]
Punterz08 calls [10]
vainer checks
** Dealing Flop ** [ Kc, 4s, 8d ]
vainer checks
Punterz08 bets [40]
vainer calls [40]
** Dealing Turn ** [ As ]
vainer checks
Punterz08 checks
** Dealing River ** [ Qh ]
vainer bets [40]
Punterz08 raises to [240]
vainer raises to [840]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Punterz08 raises to [1,440]
vainer calls [600]
vainer goes all-in
** Showdown **
vainer shows [ 9d, 9s, Kd, 9c ] a pair of Kings
Punterz08 shows [ Td, Jh, Ks, 2s ] a straight, Ace to Ten
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins 3,000 from main pot with a straight, Ace to Ten
************ Game 469678444 ends ************

Finally another person with 48 who has a miracle river!!

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 469607231 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $300 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante)) - Monday, January 19, 15:11:38 GMT 2009
$300+$10 NL Hold'em #2573927
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: ronaldogol ( 1,833 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,167 )
Tourney Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante))
ronaldogol posts small blind [15]
Punterz08 posts big blind [30]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 4s, Jd ]
ronaldogol calls [15]
Punterz08 checks
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4d, 4h, 6c ]
Punterz08 bets [60]
ronaldogol calls [60]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ks ]
Punterz08 bets [180]
ronaldogol raises to [360]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Punterz08 raises to [1,077]
ronaldogol calls [717]
** Showdown **
ronaldogol shows [ 4c, 8c ]
Punterz08 shows [ 4s, Jd ]
** Dealing River ** [ 8h ]
** Hand Conclusion **
ronaldogol wins 2,334 from main pot with full house, Fours full of Eights
************ Game 469607231 ends ************

Considering some of the bad beats a break even day is fine, let me add a funny screenshot from the donk of the day who bragged when he was up a few pennies and then ended up losing his life savings the peasant (click on image to enlarge and see idiots chat who was singing as he was up around £20 which didn't last too long!)...

Slight update before sleep got a few more games in and ended day up £800

Punterz08 117 £7 £58 3% £875 LWLWWLWL Betfair <16Hours

Current profit is now +£9000

Groundhog Sunday...

2009-01-19T00:17:00.002Z

So it is the same old story once again. Get home at around 6a.m. then wake up feeling rough only to see once again people are trying to wrestle the middleweight title from me. Well anyways I win it for what I believe is the fifteenth consecutive week. I add a respectable second in the heavyweight leaderboard won by my good friend MrKangaroo. Contrary to reports/rumours it is not me but is a friend of mine. Christ knows why people think it is me, well wait I guess it is because he wins. The fact he plays multies is a giveaway that it can't be me! I get bored by any poker game that lasts over a twenty minutes! The guy chasing me this week obviously didn't learn from his previous mistake. He done his brains a few weeks ago chasing me on the final day and he did again today. Here are his last day challenge stats from the two times he tried to challenge me:

pipperoo 85 -£4.42 £22 -19% -£376 LLLWLLWW Betfair <12Hours

pipperoo 109 -£3 £24 -9% -£290 WWWLLLWL Betfair <12Hours

I was doing fairly well in the low stake games before a mini slump

Punterz08 169 $1 $32 3% $161 LLWLWLWL Betfair <12Hours S30-50

Pretty much broke evens on the day, someone disconnected when I was almost dead and buried in a $500 game so that kind of evened me out for the day. Christ knows how much I have lost in disconnections but thats $500 +. I made one mistake today which was very dumb and out of character, I put £1000 on Tottenham to win in the hope I could get the money back I spent in the club last night. I guess they are bottom of the table for a reason, anyways they drew 1-1 at home so thats £1000 lost. Darren Bent missed when it was easier to score in the final moments. I won't chase that, I am going through money so quickly lately I have to try and slow down.

Had a tough workout in the gym on Friday and still feeling some pain! I am definitely going to have a few more heavy workouts this month and hopefully have less time and energy to keep getting wasted and spending money like it is going out of fashion. I might even stay in this Saturday night for only the second time in absolutely ages. Well it shall be a busy week ahead. I have to try and get £20,000 by the end of January and also have to try and find a new bathroom. There is so much to choose from its driving me insane, at least it isn't as bad as choosing a kitchen.

No play on Saturday and break evens today so stuck on +£8150

The end of the low stake games?

2009-01-16T02:53:00.002Z

Right enough is enough....or is it. I believe I am one of the only people online who plays tournaments from the lowest possible stakes to the maximum stakes. I play collosal amounts of games at all stakes. However it is just so hard for me to play well for stakes that don't mean nothing to me. I work out that I break evens at the low stakes but considering the time spent it actually means a loss. Here are my stats for $32 games:

Punterz08 5,859 -$1 $32 -2% -$4,149 LLWWLLWL Betfair S30-35 x

So over the last four months we are looking at 6000 games played for a loss of $4000. The one good thing is I can play 8 of these games a time and the average duration is around 4 minutes. The rakeback for these games is an additional $3000 so that makes the loss $1000 and having won the middleweight leaderboard 14 straight times that adds another 14@ $800 so $11,200. So basically I am around $10,000 up but I don't know if the time spent justifies the return. One good thing is that some players see me play loose/bad at the lower stakes and then jump into the higher stake games with me. This is something I definitely have to look into. Hopefully someone can beat me on the middleweight leaderboard soon because as long as I am undefeated I guess I can't just give it up. Whoever finally beats me to first will have to have earnt it. No matter what I will always play the odd game at low stakes though.

Right yesterday I had the day off but today got back on track, days profit £2200 so since Saturday the current profit is:

£8150

(I did something I said I wouldn't do again today I played two $1000 games but I won them both....I won't be fooled it is a jinx stake still!!!)

Tough Decisions

2009-01-14T04:41:00.002Z

Poker is easy, play and destroy. It is that simple, no mercy is the only way. I decided to have an early night tonight and was in bed at midnight, I wake up an hour later and then get back to sleep, then I wake up at 3a.m. and can't get back to sleep. If I think about things I can never sleep, some days it takes me hours to fall asleep even if I am exhausted. Lately I have so many decisions to make and I hate it, my decision making is getting so bad that sometimes if I go to the pub I will order three different drinks, I may not even drink some of them but I just cant make the choice initially! Now last year I gave my word on several things, well loads. I don't think I have ever broken my word over the last few years, this has cost me a lot of money!

Example 1:
Last year I am drunk in the pub and the barman Scott who is quite a cool dude brings out a sponsorship form for the London marathon. Now anyone who is willing to go through the pain of a first marathon deserves the utmost respect. The young kid is running for Great Ormond street hospice, a place very close to my heart. Now its not enough I randomly gave a £15,000 prize to this place and a few others a few months before I decide to sponsor him for double whatever everyone else gives him up to a maximum of £1000. I wake up the next day and remember, I guess I could have spoken to him and said let me change it to £100 but more fool me for being drunk maybe it will teach me a lesson! Anyways I end up paying the £1000 maximum, he puts it in the pub safe and some scumbag steals half of it. So so so scummy, may sound bad but I would love whoever stole it to have a kid at the hospital one day and suffer real guilt at being a scummy thief. Somebody else in the pub asked me for sponsorship recently when I was sober, I signed the form for £10 or £20... if I was drunk it would no doubt have been much more!

Example 2:
Last year I needed a flat so I purchased one the next day having looked at it for just 2 minutes. Well I agreed to the price £185,000, and seeing as it was part of a chain it took ages to go through. In the meantime a lot happened, I no longer wanted the flat and the credit crunch started in all earnesty. But hey I have given my word and still buy the place even though it was probably worth £10,000 less and if I waited a year it would be £20,000 less....and I didn't even want the place anymore.

Now through this drunken rambling I don't even know where this post is going (yes I cheated and drank before I reached the £20,000 target). Thats it, tough decisions...I am having so many lately. Here is one example, well it is not even a decision for me which is the problem. I tend to do the morally right thing instantly instead of perhaps choosing another option which is best for me. At the moment my finances are on around a minus £100,000 downswing. This is made up of £20,000 spent on a new kitchen, £30,000 poker loss last Friday and almost £50,000 owed to me. Wait starting to sober up a bit more now and I can't really post what I want due to a 100/1 shot that someone reads it who shouldn't and it causes any hurt. So the reason for this post and one of the reasons why I can't sleep and now I am not even going to post it. Sorry people for wasting five minutes of your life. I shall make up for it with some good posts and pictures when I come back from Las Vegas in April.

Funny hand from earlier....

Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: gamblin ( 1,970 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,030 )
Tourney Level:3 Blinds(25/50-(no ante))
gamblin posts small blind [25]
Punterz08 posts big blind [50]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Qc, Jc ]
gamblin calls [25]
Punterz08 raises to [150]
gamblin calls [100]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9c, Ac, Kc ]
Punterz08 bets [150]
gamblin raises to [300]
Punterz08 calls [150]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qd ]
Punterz08 bets [50]
gamblin raises to [100]
Punterz08 raises to [150]
gamblin raises to [200]
Punterz08 raises to [250]
gamblin raises to [300]
Punterz08 raises to [350]
gamblin raises to [400]
Punterz08 raises to [450]
gamblin raises to [500]
Punterz08 raises to [550]
gamblin raises to [600]
Punterz08 calls [30]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [20] to gamblin
** Showdown **
gamblin shows [ 2c, 7c ]
Punterz08 shows [ Qc, Jc ]
** Dealing River ** [ 8d ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins 2,060 from main pot with a Flush
************ Game 467105038 ends ************

Back to the £20,000 challenge, a good finish earlier and another £1000 since I woke up just now. All in all I have made £3500 today so total is now plus £5950. I wish I hadn't had a drink at all as it would have tasted so good to have a beer at the end of the challenge! This week I have a 35% share in somebody playing the £1000 GKUPT in Brighton. I have never seen a return on my numerous stakings of players in the past. This time though I feel as though I have as good a chance as ever of having a payday. The person has less of a reputation than most I have paid entry fees into world series events etc in the past but I think this is a good thing. Nowadays I would rather buy in a quiet unassuming player than somebody who just talks a good game. I just have to hope if he goes far he doesn't suffer from any pressure. Time will tell!

£20,000 running total..... +£5950

Race to £20,000......

2009-01-13T02:19:00.003Z

It is going great, down £2000 today but had £1000 leaderboard money paid in so a loss of £1000 on the day.

Quick example of how things are just not going right at the moment! First a $200sng I flop the nuts get it all in and lose to runner runner flush andwent on to lose, then two cash hands in 17 seconds which I get paid hardly anything for:

Table Amsterdam 08 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( $1,112.50 )
Seat 2: OPPONENT ( $1,873.50 )
OPPONENT posts small blind [$10]
Punterz08 posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Ad, Ah ]
OPPONENT raises to [$60]
Punterz08 raises to [$180]
OPPONENT calls [$120]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ac, 3c, 3d ]
Punterz08 bets [$80]
OPPONENT folds
Returning uncalled bet [$80] to Punterz08
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins $359 from main pot
************ Game 466661898 ends ************

Table Amsterdam 08 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( $1,291.50 )
Seat 2: OPPONENT ( $1,693.50 )
Punterz08 posts small blind [$10]
OPPONENT posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Kh, Ks ]
Punterz08 raises to [$60]
OPPONENT folds
Returning uncalled bet [$40] to Punterz08
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins $40 from main pot
************ Game 466661963 ends ************

Current total -£550

Lucky me, carried on and won £3000, current total + £2450. NO MORE CASH until I reach £20,000!

Betfair Shambles....

2009-01-12T15:01:00.003Z

Betfair poker was for a while the laughing stock of the online poker world, wait thinking about it it pretty much always has been. During 2007 the site started to improve, it then employs a certain Bruce Stubbs as head honcho and since then it pretty much has started to go downhill for the last twelve months or so.

Lets just go over a few things that have happened in recent months, for a Christmas promotion people all had individual targets and if reached were given a cash bonus. Half way through the promotion betfair noticed for some people the target was easily achievable so what did they do? They changed the targets half way through the promotion so that it was virtually impossible for most people to achieve!

Over the last few weeks many people have been suffering disconnections again, kinda reminiscent of the bad old days when games were forever crashing and being disrupted. Now finally this weeks fiasco. The weekly leaderboard would not update properly for the last four days of the week. Betfair had many emails, phonecalls and livechats with multiple people with regards to this. To date I have been the only person to be in contention for two different leaderboards in the same week. In fact I have actually won the top two leaderboards in the same week over 50% of the time. So if you are challenging for a leaderboard and cannot see where you are I guess you have to just keep on playing and winning. However with me if I see I am far ahead on the middleweight leaderboard I can focus on the heavyweight and vice versa. If I cannot view where I am I still have to play games at both stakes. So I am literally the only person on the site with this huge disadvantage as nobody else competes for two leaderboards. My final straw was when in livechat the person says to me there is a problem with points being scored being registered. Looking at the official final scores I really believe not all points were added to the end totals during the last day. Either way the outcome is I win the middleweight leaderboard once again and miss out on the heavyweight leaderboard by literally three more game wins. Having lost £27,000 on Friday night I really wasn't too bothered about chasing the leaderboard nor questioning betfairs scores. I even went out for two hours yesterday to meet up with friends when without question if I stayed in I could have gotten 650 more points. But on principle who wants to play a promotion when the scoring system can crash for a whole day and you don't know where you are at? If I stay in for poker and when the final scores are up I am second by a long way or first by a long way then I have cancelled seeing friends for absolutely no reason. Gone are the addict days when poker always came first and nowadays I know there will always be another day and at the end of the day its only money.

So a site like betfair which is worth billions of pounds can still have simple technical issues that are not resolved for four days. They could probably resolve it in minutes but they are simply too lazy half of the time. The sooner Bruce Stubbs is out of his position as boss of betfair poker the better. The guy is absolute dogshit with hidden agendas. If betfair sports book ever sold off its poker site to outsiders in the near future I swear I would see if bruce stubbs could go to prison, it seems so clear to most that he wants to run betfair poker into the ground. This could be to lower the value of it?

The £20,000 challenge, lost £700 yesterday so profits now stand at +£450

£20,000 challenge....

2009-01-11T03:21:00.002Z

After yesterdays loss which was probably the biggest single day loss ever I have had on poker, wait thinking about it I have had two similar before! Anyways having lost almost £30,000 I still had a good nights sleep and woke up fresh today. I won't pretend that losing £30,000 won't hit my every day finances but it won't drastically change my life in anyway whatsoever. Lately I have been spending quite a lot of money going out over the weekends, often I may spend £2000 in a night. I go out for a few quite beers then anything can end up happening. So now I have set myself a target of £20,000 profit before I allow myself to go out for an alcoholic drink of any description. At the moment it is the early hours of 11th January so I estimate this is achievable by the 1st or 2nd of February.

Hopefully my rakeback and leaderboards will be around £10,000 over the next three weeks. This leaves me needing just £10,000 from SNG tournaments. Now lately I haven't been playing so well, breaking evens in fact over my last 2000 games. Still I made around £6000 from rakeback and leaderboards during that period so it was ok. However now I am going to focus and play absolutely no cash poker, no tilt poker and no drunk poker. Early doors today I was up almost £2000 yet somehow managed to lose loads back around midnight to crazy drunks. I rallied and have finished the day £1150 in profit. (rakeback and leaderboards will add around £400 to this total). I actually stayed in on a Saturday night for the first time in months.Weird 3.30 a.m. and I would usually be staggering out of a nightclub somewhere!

Quite amazing how losing a fair bit of money may end up working out for the best long term. Well time to get a few hours sleep then hammer it some more tomorrow hopefully winning the two weekly leaderboards and adding some more to the £20,000 target.

Current profit £1150.

ooops....

2009-01-10T03:41:00.001Z

Some days nothing goes right, well thats that..

THE END

Lucky Night....

2009-01-10T01:36:00.002Z

Right we all have shit days, when we have these to deal with them in the best possible way we have to try and find some positives from them. So today I lose like £20,000, I am angry as nothing went my way. The last three thousand dollars I threw in wanting to lose so that I could go to the pub and drown my sorrows. Anyways the pub closes at one in the morning and I made it there at half past eleven. In the next 90 minutes I drink the equivalent of like twenty drinks. My first order is one pint, one vodka and orange, one jack daniels and coke and one bacardi and coke. My second order is two long island ice teas, (a shot of tequilla one shot of vodka one shot of bacardi and one shot of gin with some coke).

So I get hammered and drown the £20,000 loss, what positives can I take from this? None..... that is until I had a brainwave! If I don't drink another drop of alcohol for the rest of 2009 I will save more than £20,000 plus my body will be much healthier. So that is what I shall try and do (holidays not included). Absolutely livid and here is just one hand history showing how fucking bad my opponents were. Kinda sums my night up, disgusting play by the opponent. Still shocked at it...

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 465066326 *****
PL $10/$20 Omaha - Friday, January 09, 23:02:48 GMT 2009
Table Grand Canyon 05 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 6
Seat 1: ramwaswani ( $2,666.75 )
Seat 2: BARNEYKNOWS ( $7,073.86 )
Seat 3: hchinaski ( $1,980 )
Seat 4: Punterz08 ( $5,810.07 )
Seat 5: Doooom ( $3,686.50 )
Seat 6: pwwolfgan ( $3,211.46 )
hchinaski posts small blind [$10]
Punterz08 posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 9h, 7d, 6d, Ah ]
Doooom calls [$20]
pwwolfgan calls [$20]
ramwaswani raises to [$110]
BARNEYKNOWS folds
hchinaski folds
Punterz08 calls [$90]
Doooom calls [$90]
pwwolfgan calls [$90]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6h, 3d, 8s ]
Punterz08 checks
Doooom checks
pwwolfgan bets [$450]
ramwaswani folds
Punterz08 raises to [$1,800]
Doooom folds
pwwolfgan goes all-in
pwwolfgan raises to [$3,101.46]
Punterz08 calls [$1,301.46]
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ 9h, 7d, 6d, Ah ]
pwwolfgan shows [ 8d, Tc, 7h, Th ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Kd ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7c ]
** Hand Conclusion **
pwwolfgan wins $6,649.92 from main pot with two pair, Eights and Sevens

Vegas Booked......

2009-01-08T03:01:00.002Z

Booked up my first trip to Vegas of 2009, I leave 16th April and return 26th April. Myself and two friends are going but by the time April comes I expect at least 10 people I know to be going. Pokerwise it is a great time of year to go with many tournaments on and the $25,000 WPT final at the Bellagio. Weatherwise the weather should be in the late 80s or higher. I am staying at the Ventian which is always an amazing experience in itself. If anybody requires any information on Vegas at this time feel free to ask. O yea flights on Virgin are not even £400 at the moment, so cheap! Anyways goodnight, time for sleep.

Is London dead?

2009-01-07T04:51:00.002Z

From the age of 16 I spent most of my life in central London, in just a few years so much can change. I first started going to nightclubs around the age of 16 and in central London there were two huge nightclubs Equinox (approx 2500-3000 capacity) and The Hippodrome (approx 2000 capacity). People from all over the world came to London for holidays, mainly europe (especially scandinavia) and america. There were many amazing nights and then towards the end of the nineties the tourists simply stopped coming to London. I put it down to two things, firstly the pound was getting too strong and my second reason is quite controversial but I strongly believe it to be correct. Several wars across europe and the rest of the world along with the fall of eastern europe saw a huge influx of foreign immigrants arrive in London. Now good luck to them, if I lived in a wartorn country or an african shanty town of course I would do whatever I could to get out. Lots of the people who came to London had no family with them, were very young. Also most people would head straight to the bright lights of the capital to try and find work. In a short space of time the identity of London around Leicester Square was destroyed forever. The clubs and bars became full of barely english speaking young immigrants. Many english girls simply didn't like to go out in central London after work and instead went out locally. Then when the girls stop going out then the english guys didn't see the attraction of the west end. So pretty much the only people to benefit were the gay men. However have no fear there was a solution for some....

Just outside of the tourist trap that is Leicester Square you had lots of nighclubs opening up which were generally member only. Chinawhite is the most famous example. None of these clubs were really big but during the nineties/early 2000 a new scene was evolving. If you went out to one of these clubs on a Saturday night it was odds on you would see a dozen football players and a hollywood movie star. The crowds were always non aggressive and fun. During the week each night a different club had it's night. Chinawhites was a Wednesday which was busier than most clubs Saturdays. Where can all this go wrong?....

Central London in general is having old buildings torn down left right and centre for modern buildings, many of them are ugly glass buildings that won't last a hundred years unlike those before them. Many traditional shops have been replaced by the likes of mobile phone shops and coffee shops. At a rough guess I would say Oxford Street alone has 50+ more coffee shops/phone shops than 15 years ago. With the new buildings come new leases, many clubs could not get leases renewed. Also the London olympics is coming up so several prime locations are being converted to hotels.

One of the last surving places was Cafe Royal at Picadilly Circus. This block had five different bars/clubs. Including the world famous Chinawhite, Cheers which probably took more on the bar than almost anywhere else in London, Paper (formally known as Elysium) which the likes of P Diddy favoured over anywhere else when in London. That all came to an end December 2008 when the leases ended for all of these places in order for the building to be redeveloped. I actually regret not going to any of these places which I had been to over a 100 times during their final months. Walking past today seeing the insides being ripped apart and thrown into rubbish carts was depressing. Well unless something radical happens London nightlife won't ever be as good as it was during the 80s and 90s again. Pubs getting late night licenses allowing them to stay open much later than 11pm like they were restricted to a few years ago means the pubs will be a lot busier, but that won't ever replace the clubs. Well R.I.P. London, is there any english identity there anymore? Yes there is....very minimal though.

For some reason I went out with jeans and a shirt today and no jumper or jacket/coat. This may not sound strange, unless you are in London at the moment. Apparently it is the coldest it has been in ages, I didn't feel cold though. Surely I can't be 100% human? People everywhere were wrapped in scarves and coats. I guess I don't spend much time outdoors so don't get a chance to get cold. Now my main purpose for being in London, a toothbrush I want to buy is half price so it is now £70 instead of £140. After a couple of drinks with friends I decide to walk to boots and buy one. On the way I feel the cold a little bit so I try and find a coat on Bond Street. The problem with the stores at the moment is they are clearing all the old stock out and the new seasons clothes are not in yet. I can't find a coat/jacket that I like. Not to worry at least I find a nice scarf. I picked it up in Gucci and as always I don't look at the price tag, if I like something I will buy it if I don't I won't and therefor don't like my decisions to be anything to do with a pricetag. It is not being flash, it is simply making my decisions on liking or disliking something. Anyways I go to pay and it is £230, it cost me less for a shirt in the same shop last week! D&G earned a fair bit from me also, I didn't realise the price of cashmere was higher than that of gold nowadays!

I still don't have my toothbrush and I walk past Claridges so I pop in for a few cocktails, I guess I am not the quietest of people and notice a stunning 30ish year old looking over trying to make eye contact with me. In the upper market/hotel bars in London you get plenty of hookers so I don't make any eye contact with her as that isn't my thing. After about 15 minutes of sitting alone a 50ish year old lady walks over to her, she says 'hi mom' in an american accent. Basically she is an american on holiday in London staying in the hotel, wow bad read me! That combined with the fact a few tottenham hotspur supporting toffs (who thought they knew everything about football) hastened my departure. Finally I make it to Boots to get the toothbrush, surprise surprise it is £140. The guy working there says there were half price last week and are now back to normal price. O well I went out to save £70, I don't and end up spending over £1000 on the day. Things never go to plan....still at least I got plenty of boots points for a friend so not all is lost.

So that is that, another random day. Actually one of my favourite memories of the day is listening to my ipod....I have so many good tracks on it now including this song which I think is amazing....

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aluwpslpygQ

Enjoy and goodnight, hangover for me in the morning I guess!

Curse of the $1000 game......

2009-01-06T01:54:00.002Z

Right this is perhaps the only thing that has worried me ever since I started playing on Betfair. For around three years now I have done so bad on $1000 games yet very well on $750 games and $1500+. This will probably be the very last time I talk about $1000 games on betfair as I won't play them on there anymore. I shall continue to play $1000 games on ipoker network. Unfortunately sharkscope has only incorperated betfair for around 9 months so perhaps 25% of my games are recorded. Below are my stats for firstly $750 games, then $1000, then $1000-$10,000...

Punterz08 124 $63 $750 8% $7,790 WWWWWLLW Betfair S750-750

Punterz08 277 -$110 $1,000 -11% -$30,515 LLLLLLWW Betfair S1000-1000

Punterz08 74 $685 $2,169 11% $50,700 WWWWLWWW Betfair S1001-10000

So as you can see during the last 9 months I have made $7,790 on games just under $1,000 in value, $50,700 on games over $1,000 in value yet lost $30,515 on games at exactly $1000. This has pretty much been the pattern for the last three years. It baffles me and there is only so much before you have to just be cautious and stop playing them. I actually did do around a year ago. However lately there have been some bad players who will lose $100 then move to a $200 then $400 then $1,000 attempting to 'martingale' until they win one back. Surprise surprise I always end up losing the $1,000 game! I really do not play those games any differently. Today I lost four or five $1,000 games in a row versus pierfish who is absolutely awful. I drop down to $750 and win six out of six against me. Below is a typical hand from $1,000 game which is probably my last ever one on betfair...even if Stevie Wonder sits in I won't play $1000 game!

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 462933538 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $1,000 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante)) - Monday, January 05, 18:43:22 GMT 2009
$1,000+$10 NL Hold'em #2523312
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( 1,890 )
Seat 2: pierfish ( 2,110 )
Tourney Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante))
Punterz08 posts small blind [10]
pierfish posts big blind [20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 4c, 2s ]
Punterz08 raises to [40]
pierfish calls [20]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2h, 4s, 5s ]
pierfish checks
Punterz08 bets [80]
pierfish raises to [200]
Punterz08 calls [120]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 7d ]
pierfish bets [360]
Punterz08 raises to [1,100]
pierfish goes all-in
pierfish raises to [1,870]
Punterz08 calls [550]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [220] to pierfish
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ 4c, 2s ]
pierfish shows [ 5h, Ac ]
** Dealing River ** [ As ]
** Hand Conclusion **
pierfish wins 3,780 from main pot with two pair, Aces and Fives
************ Game 462933538 ends ************

It is level 1 and somehow he is calling off all of his chips on the turn with that trash? Obviously he hits. Below are the final hands of the last two $750s I played him which I won before he ran off. The guy is so bad, in the first hand he manages to get it all in on level one with me over 96% to win......

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 463163360 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $750 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante)) - Tuesday, January 06, 01:30:45 GMT 2009
$750+$10 NL Hold'em #2525199
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: pierfish ( 1,650 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 2,350 )
Tourney Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante))
pierfish posts small blind [10]
Punterz08 posts big blind [20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Jc, Ac ]
pierfish raises to [60]
Punterz08 raises to [180]
pierfish raises to [540]
Punterz08 calls [360]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7s, As, 6d ]
Punterz08 checks
pierfish goes all-in
pierfish bets [1,110]
Punterz08 calls [1,110]
** Showdown **
pierfish shows [ Kd, Jd ]
Punterz08 shows [ Jc, Ac ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ad ]
** Dealing River ** [ 2h ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins 3,300 from main pot with three of a kind, Aces
************ Game 463163360 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 463166831 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $750 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante)) - Tuesday, January 06, 01:42:14 GMT 2009
$750+$10 NL Hold'em #2525232
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: pierfish ( 1,198.75 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 2,801.25 )
Tourney Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante))
Punterz08 posts small blind [15]
pierfish posts big blind [30]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 8h, Kh ]
Punterz08 raises to [67.50]
pierfish calls [37.50]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ks, 6c, Jc ]
pierfish checks
Punterz08 bets [135]
pierfish raises to [440]
Punterz08 raises to [900]
pierfish goes all-in
pierfish raises to [1,131.25]
Punterz08 calls [231.25]
** Showdown **
pierfish shows [ 2c, 5c ]
Punterz08 shows [ 8h, Kh ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2d ]
** Dealing River ** [ Qh ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins 2,397.50 from main pot with a pair of Kings
************ Game 463166831 ends ************

Well now I won't play $1,000 games I fully expect to take pierfish to the cleaners for so long as he has money to lose. I generally ran bad today at one stage being £2,500 down but eventually losing around £500 to the sites charges. However I bankrolled somebody elsewhere and they won around $10,000 on a fifty fifty basis so I ended the day in profit. Here is one of my first games of the day where I am rivered for £300 and had a feeling it was not meant to be my day!...

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 462862764 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $200 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante)) - Monday, January 05, 16:22:50 GMT 2009
$200+$10 NL Hold'em #2522774
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: peajmaan ( 1,585 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,415 )
Tourney Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante))
peajmaan posts small blind [15]
Punterz08 posts big blind [30]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 9c, Jc ]
peajmaan calls [15]
Punterz08 checks
** Dealing Flop ** [ Js, 9d, 9s ]
Punterz08 bets [60]
peajmaan calls [60]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3h ]
Punterz08 bets [180]
peajmaan calls [180]
** Dealing River ** [ Kh ]
Punterz08 bets [540]
peajmaan goes all-in
peajmaan raises to [1,315]
Punterz08 calls [605]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [170] to peajmaan
** Showdown **
peajmaan shows [ Ks, Kd ] full house, Kings full of Nines
Punterz08 shows [ 9c, Jc ] full house, Nines full of Jacks
** Hand Conclusion **
peajmaan wins 2,830 from main pot with full house, Kings full of Nines

Everyone seemed to be hitting the river against me, soon after another loss on the final card for £300...

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 462895237 *****
PL Omaha $200 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante)) - Monday, January 05, 17:27:40 GMT 2009
$200+$10 PL Omaha #2522962
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( 1,740 )
Seat 2: aligator33 ( 1,260 )
Tourney Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante))
aligator33 posts small blind [15]
Punterz08 posts big blind [30]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Qh, 3c, 9s, 5s ]
aligator33 raises to [90]
Punterz08 calls [60]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6c, 4h, 2h ]
Punterz08 checks
aligator33 bets [135]
Punterz08 raises to [585]
aligator33 goes all-in
aligator33 raises to [1,170]
Punterz08 calls [585]
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ Qh, 3c, 9s, 5s ]
aligator33 shows [ 8s, Ah, As, 8h ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Jc ]
** Dealing River ** [ 6h ]
** Hand Conclusion **
aligator33 wins 2,520 from main pot with a Flush
************ Game 462895237 ends ************

Later on we had a new player bella bola in omaha games absolutely hitting and bad beating me left, right and centre before eventually going broke...

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 462998346 *****
PL Omaha $200 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante)) - Monday, January 05, 20:36:52 GMT 2009
$200+$10 PL Omaha #2523706
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: bella bola ( 1,353 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,647 )
Tourney Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante))
bella bola posts small blind [10]
Punterz08 posts big blind [20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Kd, 2d, 9s, Ks ]
bella bola raises to [60]
Punterz08 raises to [180]
bella bola calls [120]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2h, Kh, 6d ]
Punterz08 bets [270]
bella bola raises to [1,170]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Punterz08 raises to [1,467]
bella bola calls [3]
bella bola goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [294] to Punterz08
** Showdown **
bella bola shows [ 8s, 5h, 3s, 9h ]
Punterz08 shows [ Kd, 2d, 9s, Ks ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 8d ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7s ]
** Hand Conclusion **
bella bola wins 2,706 from main pot with a straight, Nine to Five

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 463036929 *****
PL Omaha $500 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante)) - Monday, January 05, 21:34:24 GMT 2009
$500+$10 PL Omaha #2524121
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( 2,160 )
Seat 2: bella bola ( 1,840 )
Tourney Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante))
bella bola posts small blind [15]
Punterz08 posts big blind [30]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 4h, As, Ts, 5h ]
bella bola raises to [90]
Punterz08 raises to [270]
bella bola calls [180]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9s, 2d, Ac ]
Punterz08 bets [405]
bella bola goes all-in
bella bola raises to [1,570]
Punterz08 calls [1,165]
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ 4h, As, Ts, 5h ]
bella bola shows [ Ah, 4c, 4s, 2h ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qs ]
** Dealing River ** [ Kh ]
** Hand Conclusion **
bella bola wins 3,680 from main pot with two pair, Aces and Deuces
************ Game 463036929 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 463041740 *****
PL Omaha $500 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante)) - Monday, January 05, 21:41:39 GMT 2009
$500+$10 PL Omaha #2524192
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: bella bola ( 1,976 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 2,024 )
Tourney Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante))
Punterz08 posts small blind [10]
bella bola posts big blind [20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Ad, Qc, As, 3s ]
Punterz08 raises to [60]
bella bola raises to [180]
Punterz08 raises to [540]
bella bola calls [360]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5s, 6c, Ks ]
bella bola checks
Punterz08 bets [810]
bella bola goes all-in
bella bola raises to [1,436]
Punterz08 calls [626]
** Showdown **
bella bola shows [ 5d, Jd, 5c, Ac ]
Punterz08 shows [ Ad, Qc, As, 3s ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Kh ]
** Dealing River ** [ Qs ]
** Hand Conclusion **
bella bola wins 3,952 from main pot with full house, Fives full of Kings
************ Game 463041740 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 463108627 *****
PL Omaha $200 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante)) - Monday, January 05, 23:26:23 GMT 2009
$200+$10 PL Omaha #2524656
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: bella bola ( 1,270 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,730 )
Tourney Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante))
Punterz08 posts small blind [10]
bella bola posts big blind [20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 7h, Ad, 9h, As ]
Punterz08 raises to [60]
bella bola raises to [180]
Punterz08 raises to [540]
bella bola raises to [900]
Punterz08 raises to [1,260]
bella bola goes all-in
bella bola raises to [1,270]
Punterz08 calls [10]
** Showdown **
bella bola shows [ Qh, Kc, Tc, Js ]
Punterz08 shows [ 7h, Ad, 9h, As ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4d, 2d, Qc ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5c ]
** Dealing River ** [ Kd ]
** Hand Conclusion **
bella bola wins 2,540 from main pot with two pair, Kings and Queens

O well that is poker, thems the breaks. Now I have had an awful day yet still ended up several thousand up so it is not that bad. The $1,000 game curse won't be beaten by me but I won't play them again. Usually I lose to Italian players in the $1,000 games. It is made stranger by the fact that six months ago a brand new account was made and playing me in $750 games. The person was from Italy and asked me to up stakes to $1,000. The difference between $750 and $1,000 is minimal and this seems like a weird request. Anyways I won 6-0 in $750s and lost 5-0 in $1,000s! One day I am sure something will happen to shed more light onto this as I am not the only person who has had this problem. Thats enough for now, off to squeeze a few more games in before bed.

Sick luck....

2009-01-05T00:10:00.003Z

Two days in a row I have gone down over £2000 in the first half an hour and then won it back during the course of the day. At the moment I am down £1000 today again, however literally one hand going my way in any one of twenty games and I am in profit. Playing someone called pierfish who has had disgusting luck. I join four of his games at once, $1000, $750, $500 and $400 and lose all four. I register for more $1000 games and he drops to $400 max. Later on he comes out and I register for four games at once again and win all four. The guy is awful, here are the hands he goes broke on in the four games I won.

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 462613805 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $300 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante)) - Sunday, January 04, 23:19:06 GMT 2009
$300+$10 NL Hold'em #2520441
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: pierfish ( 635 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 2,365 )
Tourney Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante))
pierfish posts small blind [15]
Punterz08 posts big blind [30]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Ts, Qc ]
pierfish raises to [90]
Punterz08 calls [60]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7c, 4c, 8c ]
Punterz08 checks
pierfish checks
** Dealing Turn ** [ Th ]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Punterz08 bets [2,275]
pierfish calls [545]
pierfish goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [1,730] to Punterz08
** Showdown **
pierfish shows [ Ad, 9h ]
Punterz08 shows [ Ts, Qc ]
** Dealing River ** [ Tc ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins 1,270 from main pot with a Flush
************ Game 462613805 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 462615972 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $750 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:3 Blinds(25/50-(no ante)) - Sunday, January 04, 23:23:14 GMT 2009
$750+$10 NL Hold'em #2519127
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( 2,310 )
Seat 2: pierfish ( 1,690 )
Tourney Level:3 Blinds(25/50-(no ante))
Punterz08 posts small blind [25]
pierfish posts big blind [50]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 8d, 7d ]
Punterz08 calls [25]
pierfish raises to [150]
Punterz08 calls [100]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7h, 4d, 6s ]
pierfish bets [300]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Punterz08 raises to [2,160]
pierfish calls [1,240]
pierfish goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [620] to Punterz08
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ 8d, 7d ]
pierfish shows [ Kd, 6h ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5s ]
** Dealing River ** [ Qd ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins 3,380 from main pot with a straight, Eight to Four
************ Game 462615972 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 462618480 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $500 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:4 Blinds(50/100-(no ante)) - Sunday, January 04, 23:27:58 GMT 2009
$500+$10 NL Hold'em #2520954
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( 2,055 )
Seat 2: pierfish ( 1,945 )
Tourney Level:4 Blinds(50/100-(no ante))
pierfish posts small blind [50]
Punterz08 posts big blind [100]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Ts, Td ]
pierfish calls [50]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Punterz08 raises to [2,055]
pierfish calls [1,845]
pierfish goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [110] to Punterz08
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ Ts, Td ]
pierfish shows [ 5h, 5d ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ As, 9s, Jh ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4s ]
** Dealing River ** [ Th ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins 3,890 from main pot with three of a kind, Tens
************ Game 462618480 ends ************

He is playing truly awful and its a miracle that I am losing to him. He then registers for a $1000 and $750 game, straight away I lose a 50 50 shot in the $1000 game. Usually I don't go all in but he is calling all the time and if he has a hand like AQ/AJ I feel he will call and I am around 80% to win the game. However I lose a race against him for like the 19th of 20 times...

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 462621021 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $1,000 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante)) - Sunday, January 04, 23:32:54 GMT 2009
$1,000+$10 NL Hold'em #2519126
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: pierfish ( 2,040 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,960 )
Tourney Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante))
pierfish posts small blind [10]
Punterz08 posts big blind [20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Ad, Kc ]
pierfish raises to [60]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Punterz08 raises to [1,960]
pierfish calls [1,900]
** Showdown **
pierfish shows [ Qh, Qs ]
Punterz08 shows [ Ad, Kc ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Js, 5h, 6s ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Tc ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7h ]
** Hand Conclusion **
pierfish wins 3,920 from main pot with a pair of Queens
************ Game 462621021 ends ************

That one fifty fifty shot is the difference between being down £1000 or up £400 on the day. On a side note I made £1000 from 1st and 2nd spots on the top two SNG leaderboards this week. I absolutely hammered it today to come from way off the pace. It was not a great time to play today as last night I stayed in the pub until it closed at 1a.m.....then I went to a bar that closed at 2a.m......then I went to O'Neils which closed at 3a.m....then I went to the warehouse which closed around 6a.m. That is the end of my Christmas/New Year madness period now. I shall be drinking a lot less again and generally playing poker in optimum conditions. I haven't been playing well for some time now, I have a few adjustments to make and hopefully they will work. Here are a few more hands from games I ended up losing versus the lucky donk pierfish, I always end up breaking these idiots who come along and think they are the greatest....

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 462397624 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $400 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante)) - Sunday, January 04, 17:09:46 GMT 2009
$400+$10 NL Hold'em #2519051
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( 1,840 )
Seat 2: pierfish ( 1,160 )
Tourney Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante))
Punterz08 posts small blind [10]
pierfish posts big blind [20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ As, Jd ]
Punterz08 raises to [60]
pierfish raises to [180]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Punterz08 raises to [1,840]
pierfish calls [980]
pierfish goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [680] to Punterz08
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ As, Jd ]
pierfish shows [ Qc, Kc ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qh, 6h, 3d ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 7h ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7d ]
** Hand Conclusion **
pierfish wins 2,320 from main pot with two pair, Queens and Sevens
************ Game 462397624 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 462399261 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $1,000 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante)) - Sunday, January 04, 17:13:01 GMT 2009
$1,000+$10 NL Hold'em #2518497
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( 1,930 )
Seat 2: pierfish ( 2,070 )
Tourney Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante))
pierfish posts small blind [15]
Punterz08 posts big blind [30]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 6d, 3d ]
pierfish raises to [67.50]
Punterz08 calls [37.50]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5c, 4h, Ks ]
Punterz08 checks
pierfish bets [101.25]
Punterz08 calls [101.25]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2c ]
Punterz08 checks
pierfish checks
** Dealing River ** [ Qc ]
Punterz08 bets [337.50]
pierfish raises to [1,012.50]
Punterz08 calls [675]
** Showdown **
pierfish shows [ 6c, Ac ] a Flush
Punterz08 mucks [ 6d, 3d ]
** Hand Conclusion **
pierfish wins 2,362.50 from main pot with a Flush
************ Game 462399261 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 462401894 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $750 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:3 Blinds(25/50-(no ante)) - Sunday, January 04, 17:18:26 GMT 2009
$750+$10 NL Hold'em #2514589
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: pierfish ( 2,410 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,590 )
Tourney Level:3 Blinds(25/50-(no ante))
Punterz08 posts small blind [25]
pierfish posts big blind [50]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 7c, Kc ]
Punterz08 calls [25]
pierfish raises to [100]
Punterz08 calls [50]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2c, 7s, Qc ]
pierfish bets [150]
Punterz08 raises to [500]
pierfish goes all-in
pierfish raises to [2,310]
Punterz08 calls [990]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [820] to pierfish
** Showdown **
pierfish shows [ 9d, Qd ]
Punterz08 shows [ 7c, Kc ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Th ]
** Dealing River ** [ 5s ]
** Hand Conclusion **
pierfish wins 3,180 from main pot with a pair of Queens
************ Game 462401894 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 462422738 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $500 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:4 Blinds(50/100-(no ante)) - Sunday, January 04, 17:58:47 GMT 2009
$500+$10 NL Hold'em #2519124
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: pierfish ( 2,695 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,305 )
Tourney Level:4 Blinds(50/100-(no ante))
pierfish posts small blind [50]
Punterz08 posts big blind [100]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Kc, Qc ]
pierfish calls [50]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Punterz08 raises to [1,305]
pierfish calls [1,205]
** Showdown **
pierfish shows [ 3s, Ah ]
Punterz08 shows [ Kc, Qc ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9h, 2c, 5c ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6h ]
** Dealing River ** [ Jh ]
** Hand Conclusion **
pierfish wins 2,610 from main pot with high card Ace
************ Game 462422738 ends ************

It is actually quite pleasing to be down so little when I have had absolutely no joy with fifty fifties. Anyways enough of all of this poker talk, I opened the paper today and noticed somebody I know was inside. It is absolutely sick luck and considering he loses lots playing poker its a loss to the poker community in general...

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/article116114.ece

So I guess it can always be worse! The guy goes to put his lottery numbers on and the machine breaks so he cannot put it on and the numbers come in costing him over a million pounds! This week I am going to try and play some more poker. I will not leave the leaderboards until the last few hours of the week as I have been doing lately, I hope to have them wrapped up before the last day. I have been easing off the gas so that on the last day quite a lot of people are close to the top, this way lots of money is paid to betfair in fees on the last day justifying the leaderboard cash prizes. However I want a few Sundays off this month so I shall just dominate for a while. Right thats that, time for 2009 to start I think! Hopefully I can reclaim my form from the start of 2008.

misclick....

2008-12-28T04:08:00.001Z

Ifs and buts post still to be put up, for now a misclick just now preflop in a $1000 game that turned out lucky! £700 ish in just a minute, my lucky streak still runs!!

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 1795619 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $1,000 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante)) - Sunday, December 28, 04:00:21 GMT 2008
$1,000+$10 NL Hold'em #2480316
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( 1,980 )
Seat 2: Find_C ( 2,020 )
Tourney Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante))
Punterz08 posts small blind [10]
Find_C posts big blind [20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 8s, Qs ]
Punterz08 raises to [60]
Find_C raises to [600]
Punterz08 calls [540]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qc, Js, 2h ]
Find_C checks
Punterz08 bets [800]
Find_C goes all-in
Find_C raises to [1,420]
Punterz08 calls [580]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [40] to Find_C
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ 8s, Qs ]
Find_C shows [ 6h, 6s ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 8d ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7c ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins 3,960 from main pot with two pair, Queens and Eights

ifs and buts....

2008-12-27T14:41:00.002Z

I feel sick at the moment so I won't post now but I promise the post that I write next all those who read that gamble will appreciate it.

Happy Christmas....

2008-12-25T03:04:00.002Z

Don't know what is so happy about it! I done most of my drinking on Monday and Tuesday night, my final drink on Tuesday was a bottle of champagne that I downed in fifteen seconds. Absolutely ruined me!! Haven't played hardly any poker during the last week, in fact during the last three days I have played around 30 minutes total. I was going home early then changed my mind and went back to one of my local pubs. It has two sides to it and one bar has probably around 30 regulars. They are people of all ages and from all walks of life, you can pretty much always go there and have random conversations over a few beers with any one of them. The more I think about it the greater a place it is, just because of the people who go there. I have been very drunk a few times recently and I haven't heard any bad stories of me upsetting anyone the next day but just in case I found out 14 staff are on the rota and I got each of them a christmas present for putting up with me! There were a few good looking ladies in the pub tonight, I would guess 200 people were in there. One lady was absolutely unbelievable, I couldn't bring it in me to speak to her though. Why you may ask, have I lost my bottle! Absolutely stunning girl looking amazing and I didn't try it on....you may have guessed it, it was my ex girlfriend. Damn she looked so good tonight! Obviously loads of regrets still but I wasn't too upset until they played 'Last Christmas', that was painful even though we were not together last Christmas. Still in the next few months I am sure we will become friends again, only so long she can be fooled by a cheating rat. Well back to the pub, I felt so bad from the night before I didn't drink too much by my standards but when I have a think off of the top of my head I drank the following:

2 pints of Stella
1 Double vodka and orange
2 pints of strongbow
1 bottle of cider
3 double vodka lime and sodas
1 pint of guiness

I always drink random and different drinks, I rarely stick to the same drink for an entire night. Maybe thats what makes me so drunk. In fact I was so drunk last night I dropped £240 in the taxi and did not realise. The guy came back to my house and gave the money! I called him back today and tried to give him some money but he refused anything! Maybe I dropped more and he kept some money!

I managed to get a teddy bear for free in Selfridges. I borrowed my friends son and gave a sob story how he was a poor orphan. I got the teddy bear and then passed my friends son back to him. I said there is your son back, the girl behind the chocolate counter said I am a bastard ooops. Funny time in Selfridges actually, a girl on the perfume stand was up her arse so I told her do you come from Southend by any chance. She was absolutely livid that I was calling her an Essex girl! Decided that the first person to serve us in the local would get the teddy bear, thankfully it was a girl and not a guy!

Anyways the good stories will be back around April when I go back to Vegas. Until then more crappy stories of low stake grinding. So happy christmas everyone, remember when you have a good person in your life never let them go....and if you find out someone is cheating on them don't tell them as they won't believe you!

Fuck it, its christmas and i am a bit drunk...let me sit on a 100/200 table with 20k and see what happens..........

I love Burberry....kind of!

2008-12-22T02:15:00.002Z

I have never liked the chav that is burberry. However that has changed this morning, I woke up with the smell of perfume from one of the girls from last night. It was made by burberry and it smelt amazing! I can't really say too much about last night as I have been sworn to secrecy. So now on to poker...

Betfair have been running three leaderboards per week for 11 weeks now and in the ten weeks prior to this one I had won the heavyweight and the middleweight leaderboard in the same week nine times the only week I never won them both I came 1st and 2nd. So this week having spent most of friday and saturday night in various pubs and clubs I had slipped behind a bit. Waking up with a hangover today the last thing I wanted to do was play. However with four hours left today I blitzed the tables and once again retained the two leaderboard titles for which I get in the region of £1300. The last few weeks I have been leaving it until the dying hours to take the lead which hasn't been a good idea as I have been drinking so much over the weekend. With Christmas and New Years Eve coming up I am not sure exactly how much I will play, we shall soon see.

Several people have asked me why I am not playing many high staked games at the moment. I did actually play two $10,000 games this month but in general am still playing mainly lower stakes as I had issues relating to my ex girlfriend. The good news is I feel I finally have some closure on this. Quite simply her boyfriend has seen a few girls behind her back, quite a few people know yet haven't told her. I didn't even tell her at first but one afternoon she was lecturing me and I snapped and told her. Naturally he lied about it and she chose to believe him. Since then we have argued a lot mainly due to her thinking I was lying and me getting frustrated at her not believing me and lots of her so called friends not telling her. Its all relative to poker as this has been causing so many swings with my bankroll. However the goods news for those who read this blog is that she won't be mentioned again here which means more crazy Vegas style stories and pictures. Too much has been said now so I don't even ever want to talk to her until she can apologise. Still she is a stubborn cow so I doubt that will happen, surely in the end the truth will come out but then I guess when it does I won't be bitter and try and rub it in saying I told you so. I hope that she copes through the inevitable fallout well and I guess I would be there for her anyways.

So now on to my targets for 2009, it shall be a busy year hopefully and I have a feeling it will be one of my best yet. I am absolutely determined to get back in shape. Whilst I doubt I will ever get back in the condition I was in during my late teens and early twenties I am sure I can come close. In the three weeks since I have come back from America I have lost ten pounds in weight, this is without much exercise and mainly down to cutting back on alcohol. I want to lose around 25lb more in weight and I hope to achieve that by May, then after that I can work on some toning. This has to be my main aim for the year. With poker I had kind of set some targets but I guess this will just take care of itself. So long as I avoid more than a few big losing sessions I will be fine no doubt. If I feel the property market has bottomed out towards the end of the year I will try and buy one of three houses that I have been looking at for over a year now! Two of them may be riculous money still, one definitely won't be. The rental for my flat will always easily cover the mortgage and it won't be hard to rent considering the refurb I have given it. Now the hardest change to make will be the Punterz/Me relationship. The two of us are very different, yet over the years many similarities are forming. Online I like to get under peoples skins, annoy them etc. I am not there to make friends, I am there to take your money as my main priority. However often away from poker I have started to get too flash at times and it really isn't cool, especially during the current recession when so many are struggling. So in 2009 I am going to generally try and be less extravagent and nicer to people in general. However in the poker world I will still be worse than ever as it is important to remember winning is the main priority and I will do that at any cost.

Anyways it has been a long and exhausting weekend and during the course of this post I had a minitilt and lost £1900 on $2/5 omaha 6 handed. I wish everyone a happy christmas and genuinelly hope you all have a good time. I only hate you guys on the table bar the odd few idiots. 2009 is going to be a tough year in general for the united kingdom so just don't lose focus and think positive and it should see you through.

Poker Students...

2008-12-18T09:52:00.002Z

Ok bear with me, absolutely wrecked from last night still! Basically put me near a poker cash table and I always end up absolutely drunk! Last night was a Wednesday... the only weekday I will drink alcohol! Ok from the beginingish...

The story just wouldn't be right at the moment if I didn't mention my ex! Well I go to the pub early evening and she is working....she doesn't even work Wednesdays!! Well she did last night, I stand back a few feet from the bar incase she tries to punch me. What is the world coming to, I am scared that the girl I love will punch me! Anyways a few double smirnoffs and I am off on one, surprisingly enough she is actually very nice to me and it felt like olden days! Then myself and my friend John and his son Brad are off to the city bunker. Its a bar/golf simulator place near canary wharf and they have poker tournaments there also, read on....

There is some kind of office christmas party in progress, lots of nice girls and also a £10 freezeout poker tournament. Well I take my seat at the table, as if I can play poker with all these nice girls here! So first hand I don't look at my cards and am all in, I am called. We flip the cards and I have J8s v 88 and I lose...just as I wanted to! Wait my friends are still playing poker so now I am by myself to work on the ladies! Not to worry Brad soon joins me. We get a couple of bottles of Lauren Perrier Rose and are soon on one. A cash table starts, the blinds are £1/£1 with a max buy in of £200. I always just mess around on these and I decided tonight I would train a couple of players, a quick crash course in poker! So I soon find the prettiest girl in the room, I think she was called Natasha but I am not sure. She was from Southend so i will call her miss Southend. Her friend soon sits also, so I basically give them a bit of advice and go to the bar. When I go to the bar it can take a minute or an hour! Not too sure how long I was there for but basically I came back and saw they were involved in a monster pot, the board was KKAT3 and I looked at their hole cards.....they had POCKET KINGS!!!! I just threw all the chips I could see in the middle and to which the dealer said too late the other two guys are already all in. So I said sorry gentlemen I don't know what you have but myself and the ladies have quad kings! The girls have gone from £200 to £500! They absolutely destroy this table, the guys are steaming. Pot after pot they win, I did not dare to play a hand as they were doing so well!

When we cashed out I think I gave them £70 and they wanted more the cheeky cows. They had gone from being too scared to lose money to absolute card sharks! Anyways great night, loads more happened that I don't even remember for sure! If you are near canary wharf give the city bunker a call and see if there is a card game on... especially around christmas as there are always loads of parties going on with all the office girlies from the city!

ex girlfriend AGAIN......ARGHHHHHH

2008-12-17T06:26:00.003Z

I really can't afford to have my ex girlfriend in my life as she really is the only thing I care about enough that when she is upset I lose my head and then in turn huge amounts of money. In a few minutes of rage it is not hard to lose £5000 online. By the time I calm down the damage is usually already done and the hole to deep to dig myself out.

So I decide enough is enough I have to totally just block her out. So I am playing away then 9pm text comes through from her and reads along the lines of:

'You fucking cunt, you have done something to piss me off again etc get out of my life'

Naturally I reply asking what I have done now. Then she says she found out I took another girls number from her workplace. We haven't gone out for ages and I took the girls number after we split up, it was about three months ago and nothing happens. Am I in the wrong? I don't think I have done too much wrong except perhaps be a bit insensitive. However she always talks to guys in front of me and has upset me before. Now it is not my fault if I am attracted to good looking girls! I am only human, the funny thing is in this case the girl is really fun and friendly.Because she is 19 or 20 my ex calls me a pervert, alcoholic drug addict! Nice! So naturally I tilt, it is time to hit the cash tables. Now absolutely anything can happen as there is quite a lot in my account at the moment. I start with the minimum $500 and immediately I tilt even MORE when it is folded to me in the blind with QQ...

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 456622184 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, December 17, 03:25:25 GMT 2008
Table Boron 04 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of active players : 6
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( $500 )
Seat 2: Barbapapa ( $3,888 )
Seat 3: al873mac ( $3,749 )
Seat 4: LazyEye ( $1,970 )
Seat 5: forbearing ( $1,725.64 )
Seat 6: M Corleone ( $1,991.50 )
M Corleone posts small blind [$10]
Punterz08 posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Qd, Qs ]
Barbapapa folds
al873mac folds
LazyEye folds
forbearing folds
M Corleone folds
Returning uncalled bet [$10] to Punterz08
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins $20 from main pot
************ Game 456622184 ends ************

So I decide as soon as the blind reaches me again I will leave the table so naturally on the last hand I get fucked over with a monster hand:

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 456622622 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, December 17, 03:28:47 GMT 2008
Table Boron 04 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of active players : 6
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( $500 )
Seat 2: Barbapapa ( $3,628 )
Seat 3: al873mac ( $3,709 )
Seat 4: LazyEye ( $1,940 )
Seat 5: forbearing ( $1,565.64 )
Seat 6: M Corleone ( $2,497 )
forbearing posts small blind [$10]
M Corleone posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Kc, Kd ]
Punterz08 raises to [$70]
Barbapapa folds
al873mac folds
LazyEye folds
forbearing raises to [$230]
M Corleone folds
Punterz08 goes all-in
Punterz08 raises to [$500]
forbearing calls [$270]
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ Kc, Kd ]
forbearing shows [ As, Ks ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qs, 4h, Ah ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ac ]
** Dealing River ** [ Ad ]
** Hand Conclusion **
forbearing wins $1,017 from main pot with four of a kind, Aces
************ Game 456622622 ends ************

Now it is going to go seriously wrong! Hand after hand I miss and the loss builds up. I play almost every two cards like a headless chicken and refuse to fold...

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 456622754 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, December 17, 03:29:49 GMT 2008
Table Boron 04 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of active players : 6
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( $510 )
Seat 2: Barbapapa ( $3,628 )
Seat 3: al873mac ( $3,709 )
Seat 4: LazyEye ( $1,940 )
Seat 5: forbearing ( $2,082.64 )
Seat 6: M Corleone ( $2,467 )
Punterz08 posts small blind [$10]
Barbapapa posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 7d, 5d ]
al873mac folds
LazyEye raises to [$70]
forbearing folds
M Corleone folds
Punterz08 calls [$60]
Barbapapa folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5c, 3d, 4s ]
Punterz08 checks
LazyEye bets [$100]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Punterz08 raises to [$440]
LazyEye calls [$340]
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ 7d, 5d ]
LazyEye shows [ Ts, Tc ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3c ]
** Dealing River ** [ Ac ]
** Hand Conclusion **
LazyEye wins $1,037 from main pot with two pair, Tens and Threes
************ Game 456622754 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 456622912 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, December 17, 03:30:56 GMT 2008
Table Boron 04 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 6
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( $1,000 )
Seat 2: Barbapapa ( $3,598 )
Seat 3: al873mac ( $3,936 )
Seat 4: LazyEye ( $2,467 )
Seat 5: forbearing ( $1,862.64 )
Seat 6: M Corleone ( $2,467 )
al873mac posts small blind [$10]
LazyEye posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Kh, Th ]
forbearing raises to [$70]
M Corleone folds
Punterz08 calls [$70]
Barbapapa folds
al873mac folds
LazyEye calls [$50]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9s, 9c, 6s ]
LazyEye checks
forbearing checks
Punterz08 bets [$140]
LazyEye folds
forbearing calls [$140]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2h ]
forbearing checks
Punterz08 bets [$375]
forbearing goes all-in
forbearing raises to [$1,652.64]
Punterz08 folds
Returning uncalled bet [$1,277.64] to forbearing
** Hand Conclusion **
forbearing wins $1,247 from main pot
************ Game 456622912 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 456623425 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, December 17, 03:34:44 GMT 2008
Table Boron 04 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 6
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( $2,040 )
Seat 2: Barbapapa ( $3,752 )
Seat 3: al873mac ( $4,040 )
Seat 4: LazyEye ( $2,377 )
Seat 5: forbearing ( $2,454.64 )
Seat 6: M Corleone ( $2,417 )
al873mac posts small blind [$10]
LazyEye posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 2c, Td ]
forbearing folds
M Corleone raises to [$70]
Punterz08 raises to [$180]
Barbapapa folds
al873mac folds
LazyEye folds
M Corleone folds
Returning uncalled bet [$110] to Punterz08
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins $170 from main pot
************ Game 456623425 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 456623670 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, December 17, 03:36:33 GMT 2008
Table Boron 04 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of active players : 6
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( $2,237 )
Seat 2: Barbapapa ( $3,752 )
Seat 3: al873mac ( $3,960 )
Seat 4: LazyEye ( $2,347 )
Seat 5: forbearing ( $2,424.64 )
Seat 6: M Corleone ( $2,357 )
M Corleone posts small blind [$10]
Punterz08 posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Kd, 4d ]
Barbapapa folds
al873mac folds
LazyEye raises to [$70]
forbearing folds
M Corleone folds
Punterz08 calls [$50]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ac, Qd, 8d ]
Punterz08 checks
LazyEye bets [$100]
Punterz08 calls [$100]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4h ]
Punterz08 checks
LazyEye bets [$220]
Punterz08 calls [$220]
** Dealing River ** [ 2c ]
Punterz08 checks
LazyEye checks
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ Kd, 4d ] a pair of Fours
LazyEye shows [ 5s, As ] a pair of Aces
** Hand Conclusion **
LazyEye wins $787 from main pot with a pair of Aces
************ Game 456623670 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 456624752 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, December 17, 03:45:18 GMT 2008
Table Boron 04 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of active players : 5
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( $2,000 )
Seat 2: Barbapapa ( $4,190.50 )
Seat 3: al873mac ( $3,780 )
Seat 4: LazyEye ( $2,571 )
Seat 5: forbearing ( $2,384.64 )
Seat 6: M Corleone ( $2,394 )
M Corleone posts small blind [$10]
Punterz08 posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 5c, 7s ]
Barbapapa folds
al873mac folds
LazyEye folds
M Corleone raises to [$60]
Punterz08 calls [$40]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4s, 6h, 2h ]
M Corleone bets [$90]
Punterz08 calls [$90]
** Dealing Turn ** [ As ]
M Corleone bets [$225]
Punterz08 calls [$225]
** Dealing River ** [ Ad ]
M Corleone checks
Punterz08 bets [$480]
M Corleone folds
Returning uncalled bet [$480] to Punterz08
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins $747 from main pot
************ Game 456624752 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 456624840 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, December 17, 03:46:06 GMT 2008
Table Boron 04 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of active players : 5
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( $2,372 )
Seat 2: Barbapapa ( $4,190.50 )
Seat 3: al873mac ( $3,780 )
Seat 4: LazyEye ( $2,571 )
Seat 5: forbearing ( $2,384.64 )
Seat 6: M Corleone ( $2,019 )
Punterz08 posts small blind [$10]
Barbapapa posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 6s, 6h ]
al873mac folds
LazyEye raises to [$70]
M Corleone folds
Punterz08 calls [$60]
Barbapapa folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4h, As, Kd ]
Punterz08 checks
LazyEye bets [$100]
Punterz08 calls [$100]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Jd ]
Punterz08 checks
LazyEye checks
** Dealing River ** [ 9c ]
Punterz08 bets [$360]
LazyEye folds
Returning uncalled bet [$360] to Punterz08
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins $357 from main pot
************ Game 456624840 ends ************

I continue to play bad and bluff lots (luckily most uncalled) and then the pace steps up, I know the guy has an overpair like QQ/JJ but I just want a chance to hit a draw as I haven't hit any yet and then leave evens:

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 456625567 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, December 17, 03:52:19 GMT 2008
Table Boron 04 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 6
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( $2,518 )
Seat 2: Barbapapa ( $4,215.50 )
Seat 3: al873mac ( $3,590 )
Seat 4: LazyEye ( $2,271 )
Seat 5: MintSodas ( $1,940 )
Seat 6: M Corleone ( $2,383 )
al873mac posts small blind [$10]
LazyEye posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Jc, Tc ]
MintSodas raises to [$70]
M Corleone folds
Punterz08 raises to [$200]
Barbapapa calls [$200]
al873mac folds
LazyEye folds
MintSodas calls [$130]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2d, 4c, 6c ]
MintSodas checks
Punterz08 goes all-in
Punterz08 bets [$2,318]
Barbapapa calls [$2,318]
MintSodas folds
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ Jc, Tc ]
Barbapapa shows [ Ks, Kh ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qs ]
** Dealing River ** [ 6s ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Barbapapa wins $5,263 from main pot with two pair, Kings and Sixes
************ Game 456625567 ends ************

It is a miss and now I am down $5000/£3500. The aggression must continue:

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 456626526 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, December 17, 04:00:31 GMT 2008
Table Boron 04 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of active players : 6
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( $2,355.37 )
Seat 2: Barbapapa ( $7,027.50 )
Seat 3: al873mac ( $3,594.50 )
Seat 4: LazyEye ( $1,980 )
Seat 5: MintSodas ( $2,197 )
Seat 6: M Corleone ( $2,280 )
LazyEye posts small blind [$10]
MintSodas posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 5d, 6d ]
M Corleone raises to [$70]
Punterz08 raises to [$200]
Barbapapa folds
al873mac folds
LazyEye folds
MintSodas folds
M Corleone folds
Returning uncalled bet [$130] to Punterz08
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins $170 from main pot
************ Game 456626526 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 456626641 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, December 17, 04:01:36 GMT 2008
Table Boron 04 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of active players : 6
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( $2,305.37 )
Seat 2: Barbapapa ( $7,027.50 )
Seat 3: al873mac ( $3,711.50 )
Seat 4: LazyEye ( $1,970 )
Seat 5: MintSodas ( $2,167 )
Seat 6: M Corleone ( $2,247 )
Punterz08 posts small blind [$10]
Barbapapa posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 6s, 9d ]
al873mac folds
LazyEye folds
MintSodas folds
M Corleone raises to [$70]
Punterz08 raises to [$230]
Barbapapa folds
M Corleone folds
Returning uncalled bet [$160] to Punterz08
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins $160 from main pot
************ Game 456626641 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 456626695 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, December 17, 04:02:15 GMT 2008
Table Boron 04 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 6
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( $2,395.37 )
Seat 2: Barbapapa ( $6,997.50 )
Seat 3: al873mac ( $3,691.50 )
Seat 4: LazyEye ( $2,000 )
Seat 5: MintSodas ( $2,167 )
Seat 6: M Corleone ( $2,177 )
al873mac posts small blind [$10]
LazyEye posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 7c, 6s ]
MintSodas raises to [$70]
M Corleone folds
Punterz08 calls [$70]
Barbapapa folds
al873mac folds
LazyEye folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4h, 4d, Jd ]
MintSodas bets [$127.50]
Punterz08 raises to [$320]
MintSodas calls [$192.50]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3d ]
MintSodas checks
Punterz08 bets [$607.50]
MintSodas folds
Returning uncalled bet [$607.50] to Punterz08
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins $807 from main pot
************ Game 456626695 ends ************

I am now down £4000 but have a $3000 stack so a chance to get a few big pots. Then I lose the lot in hands too embarrassing to show so now its £6000 down! Well if you are still reading this post you may as well see some good news and a few hands from the miraculous recovery!!!

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 456628172 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, December 17, 04:17:00 GMT 2008
Table Boron 04 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 5
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( $1,940 )
Seat 2: Barbapapa ( $7,234.50 )
Seat 3: Bz10 ( $2,000 )
Seat 4: LazyEye ( $4,562 )
Seat 5: MintSodas ( $2,064 )
Seat 6: M Corleone ( $2,030 )
LazyEye posts small blind [$10]
MintSodas posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Ac, 2c ]
M Corleone folds
Punterz08 calls [$20]
Barbapapa raises to [$90]
LazyEye folds
MintSodas folds
Punterz08 calls [$70]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3h, 4s, Jd ]
Punterz08 checks
Barbapapa bets [$144]
Punterz08 calls [$144]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5c ]
Punterz08 checks
Barbapapa bets [$444]
Punterz08 raises to [$900]
Barbapapa goes all-in
Barbapapa raises to [$7,000.50]
Punterz08 calls [$806]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [$5,294.50] to Barbapapa
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ Ac, 2c ]
Barbapapa shows [ Ks, Js ]
** Dealing River ** [ Qs ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins $3,907 from main pot with a straight, Five to Ace
************ Game 456628172 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 456628371 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, December 17, 04:19:02 GMT 2008
Table Boron 04 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of active players : 5
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( $4,206 )
Seat 2: Barbapapa ( $5,294.50 )
Seat 3: Bz10 ( $2,000 )
Seat 4: LazyEye ( $4,552 )
Seat 5: MintSodas ( $1,762 )
Seat 6: M Corleone ( $2,010 )
M Corleone posts small blind [$10]
Punterz08 posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Ah, As ]
Barbapapa folds
LazyEye folds
MintSodas raises to [$52.50]
M Corleone folds
Punterz08 raises to [$190]
MintSodas calls [$137.50]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qd, 3s, 5h ]
Punterz08 bets [$360]
MintSodas calls [$360]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 7s ]
Punterz08 bets [$1,110]
MintSodas goes all-in
MintSodas raises to [$1,212]
Punterz08 calls [$102]
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ Ah, As ]
MintSodas shows [ Qc, 9c ]
** Dealing River ** [ 5s ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins $3,531 from main pot with two pair, Aces and Fives
************ Game 456628371 ends ************

For a while the table changed with a lot of raising and reraising preflop then folds, it seemed as though some players were dumping to others in order to have me covered so with 5 of the 6 players now playing 300bb+ it was too deep especially if some were playing together to continue so I started on a new table and had more success instantly!

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 456629863 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, December 17, 04:36:47 GMT 2008
Table Boron 05 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of active players : 6
Seat 1: Bz10 ( $2,000 )
Seat 2: Barbapapa ( $8,181.50 )
Seat 3: junkstar ( $1,440 )
Seat 4: danylaroo ( $3,548.75 )
Seat 5: Punterz08 ( $2,168 )
Seat 6: WillyWonky ( $3,252.75 )
Punterz08 posts small blind [$10]
WillyWonky posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Kh, Kd ]
Bz10 raises to [$70]
Barbapapa folds
junkstar folds
danylaroo raises to [$260]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Punterz08 raises to [$2,168]
WillyWonky folds
Bz10 folds
danylaroo calls [$1,908]
** Showdown **
danylaroo shows [ Ac, Kc ]
Punterz08 shows [ Kh, Kd ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6h, 9c, Qd ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Jh ]
** Dealing River ** [ 5c ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins $4,423 from main pot with a pair of Kings
************ Game 456629863 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 456629954 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, December 17, 04:38:12 GMT 2008
Table Boron 05 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 6
Seat 1: Bz10 ( $1,970 )
Seat 2: Barbapapa ( $8,121.50 )
Seat 3: junkstar ( $2,000 )
Seat 4: danylaroo ( $1,380.75 )
Seat 5: Punterz08 ( $4,353 )
Seat 6: WillyWonky ( $3,389.75 )
Barbapapa posts small blind [$10]
junkstar posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 3h, 3d ]
danylaroo folds
Punterz08 raises to [$70]
WillyWonky folds
Bz10 calls [$70]
Barbapapa calls [$60]
junkstar calls [$50]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6h, 5s, 3s ]
Barbapapa bets [$199]
junkstar calls [$199]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Punterz08 raises to [$4,283]
Bz10 folds
Barbapapa folds
junkstar calls [$1,731]
junkstar goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [$2,353] to Punterz08
** Showdown **
junkstar shows [ 4h, 5c ]
Punterz08 shows [ 3h, 3d ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9h ]
** Dealing River ** [ 5d ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins $4,336 from main pot with full house, Threes full of Fives
************ Game 456629954 ends ************

Suddenly from being around £6000 down i am £2000 up and then somehow fold this hand and then decide to quit:

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 456630030 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, December 17, 04:39:35 GMT 2008
Table Boron 05 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 5
Seat 1: Bz10 ( $1,930 )
Seat 2: Barbapapa ( $7,852.50 )
Seat 3: junkstar ( $0 )
Seat 4: danylaroo ( $1,380.75 )
Seat 5: Punterz08 ( $6,689 )
Seat 6: WillyWonky ( $3,389.75 )
danylaroo posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Jd, Jh ]
Punterz08 raises to [$60]
WillyWonky folds
Bz10 raises to [$200]
Barbapapa folds
danylaroo goes all-in
danylaroo raises to [$1,380.75]
Punterz08 folds
Bz10 folds
Returning uncalled bet [$1,180.75] to danylaroo
** Hand Conclusion **
danylaroo wins $460 from main pot
************ Game 456630030 ends ************

Somehow I have escaped a mad tilt session for the second night in a row. I no it is a matter of time before i have a minus £20-30,000 session. Thankfully it has not happened yet. One concern to me at the moment is the amount of times betfair has crashed the last few days, after the cash tables I was playing a $500 and a $750 heads up game and having had several bad beats the site went down for me. The blinds were high and by the time I got back it was game over so thats almost £1000 lost instead of £1000 gained in cold blood. My sng stats have been bad for the last few weeks and I have to fix that. I am losing over the last 1000 games I have played for the first time in ages

Punterz08 1,000 -£1.57 £48 -4%-£1,572LLLWWWWWBetfair Last1000 x

That said I am up in the region of £30,000 this month somehow so if the ex girlfriend just stops starting arguements with me it may just manage to be a happy christmas after all!

ex-girlfriend...ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH

2008-12-16T00:38:00.003Z

When it comes to poker I am like a machine, I can mentally switch off usually and focus on simply winning. I have strong mental reserves and can play 40 hour sessions if required, I can play high stake games or very low stake games. One minute I can focus on a $10,000 game and then the next game play for $32 and still focus regardless of if I won or lost the high staked game prior. However there is something now that makes my game weak at times...read on.....

My ex girlfriend! I have never known anything like it, sure she is absolutely amazing in so many different ways but how can I let her affect me so much! I have several huge losses, well huge for me 10-20k after having argued with her. Now we are not on speaking terms again....until tonight. I have played a little today and am playing well, then I notice on msn she has just signed in online. I start talking and we are getting on fine then every other minute she just rages at me! I am playing some $300 SNG and I am taking my anger out on them...only it costs me money! I am going all in and calling all ins level one with jack high and queen high! During the msn 'conversation' which did not last so long I lose a couple of thousand in no time at all. Then as soon as she goes offline I manage to focus and get some back. Hopefully by the end of the session I can get evens. Time to go into robot mode and crush. How daft what should have been a £2000-3000 profit day I will now be happy to break evens! Sure it would be easier to just ignore my ex girlfriend but I find it impossible to! My mental strength in poker I can't seem to use when it comes to her, is she THAT amazing!?

WOW my luck is down, playing well again have $2000 back and connection goes when a $750 and $500 game starts! I log into my usually reliable neighbours wireless and that is down also! I feel a tilt coming along! Someone logs into my account for me and loses the $750 game to a bad beat, nice.

Well thats it steaming now, even though I have won most of the money back! Going to have to just try and get the ex out of the system, went out with a friend on Friday and he took me to some girls house where it was just us two, four girls and one gay guy then on Saturday we end up in some village somewhere with 9 girls we met at a club in London! Yet I still can't stop thinking of her! So so so so so frustrating, sorry if this post rambles but I am kinda muddled up at the moment! Here are a few songs I have recently downloaded to my ipod which kinda sums things up.... (promise to have some more exciting stories in the new year!)

The three videos are not uploaded properly, I shall have to ask Azimut how to do it tomorrow!

The lucky streak ends.....?

2008-12-08T00:31:00.003Z

I go to the pub today to meet a few friends and get some dinner and decide to see if my lucky streak is still running. I put a few pounds in the fruit machine and for the 4th or 5th time in a row now it gave me the mega streak and £45. Then a football match starts, I don't bet so much nowadays but to have an interest I put £100 on. My friend assures me it will be Everton 2-2 Aston Villa. Aston Villa are leading 2-1 when in the last minute of the game Everton score to make it 2-2. My friend jumps in the air, but wait....with a few seconds of the game left Aston Villa break away and win the game 3-2. Was that the end of my lucky streak? HELL NO, I had backed Villa to win. UNBELIEVABLE!

I use the word luck often yet I don't really believe in it, most of the things that happen in life are because we make them. Sure you can be unlucky and be in a car crash, but if you never chose to go in the car it would not have happened. Everything that happens is part of a chain of events. In poker you may lose AA v 27o but if you actually play good you will realise it is just variance and not bad luck. AA can't win everytime. Luck is something that losers rely on to occasionally be a winner.

Just to extend my now renamed 'hot streak' (seeing as the word luck is now erased)... my ex girlfriend is kind of speaking to me now. It is a long and difficult path but at least some progress is being made. Do I wan't to go out with her again? I don't really know, I just know she is very special to me so I have to at least get rid of some ill feeling which was created by other people intefering.

I come home with a few hours left on the weekly leaderboards and sure as night follows day I record another success to make it 9/9 weeks. I even almost managed to check raise somebody on the flop, turn and river earlier. It is very hard to do this in poker, most of all because if you have check raised somebody on the flop and turn you won't usually check the river as it is most likely they check back and you have missed a value bet. In this instance I knew my opponent pretty well and correctly assumed that if I checked the river he would fire. It's just a shame he did not bet less so that I could reraise...

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 452460894 *****
PL Omaha $100 Buy-in + $5 Entry Fee, Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante)) - Monday, December 08, 00:25:37 GMT 2008
$100+$5 PL Omaha #2421268
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( 1,420 )
Seat 2: knockuout ( 1,580 )
Tourney Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante))
knockuout posts small blind [10]
Punterz08 posts big blind [20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Jd, 7s, 6d, Qh ]
knockuout raises to [40]
Punterz08 calls [20]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8h, 4d, 5s ]
Punterz08 checks
knockuout bets [20]
Punterz08 raises to [140]
knockuout calls [120]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6s ]
Punterz08 checks
knockuout bets [20]
Punterz08 raises to [420]
knockuout calls [400]
** Dealing River ** [ 2c ]
Punterz08 checks
knockuout goes all-in
knockuout bets [980]
Punterz08 calls [820]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [160] to knockuout
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ Jd, 7s, 6d, Qh ] a straight, Eight to Four
knockuout shows [ Qc, Ks, 7c, Kd ] a pair of Kings
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins 2,840 from main pot with a straight, Eight to Four
************ Game 452460894 ends ************

My aims for this week are to win the top two leaderboards to make it ten in a row, lose 4lbs in weight, go to the gym at least three times and most importantly of all make some progress in rebuilding relations with my special girl. Talking of girls, more mystery was put on me today with regards to the absolutely stunning girl in Las Vegas. She had just vanished when I went back to Las Vegas and I could not work it out. I left a door open by speaking to a man in Vegas who can do things and two weeks later today i recieve an email:

Lee,Its Rudy in Las Vegas. I met you at the taxi line at ######## Hotel and Casino. I just wanted to follow up with you on the status of Corina the ###### Dealer. I haven’t been able to locate her. I have spoken to almost all the other #####dealers, some know her but haven’t seen her. I checked all the work schedules and there is only one Corina and she is on a LOA ( Leave Of Absence). I will continue to check for you and if I do find her I will let you know. Please let me know if you get this message. Thank you

Some words have been blanked out for obvious reasons. So I meet an absolutely stunning girl who invites me to go out for ice cream with her and a week later she has simply vanished. Very weird and hopefully someday I get to the bottom of this! What a year first I mess up with the world's most amazing girl, and then I mess up with the world's most beautiful girl! Time for some sleep goodnight people and remember life is about making good decisions and not getting lucky.

Mr Lucky....

2008-12-07T01:35:00.002Z

Lately everything I touch turns to gold. The last four visits to the pub I have won the jackpot in the fruit machine for just a few pounds, if I put a bet on a horse it wins, if I back a football team one goal down in running they will win. One of my friends said today you are so lucky with money but unlucky in love. I agreed but then when I got home I thought about it, it is not luck...it is what you make of a situation. When you mess up putting it down to bad luck is the easy option, I am so lucky in love. I met the dream girl but I did not make the most of it and I MESSED it up, nothing to do with luck. I am confident that I can rectify the situation also as it is not down to luck. Whatever I say she won't believe now but the bottom line is her new guy is seeing other girls behind her back, kinda funny as she is so beautiful and he is hardly the best looking guy in the world. I may make mistake of saying and doing silly things but I would never be stupid enough to two time, especially if my girlfriend was so amazing and beautiful anyways! Well anyways I will take a back seat now and hopefully she finds out sooner rather than later what he is really like. Now onto poker...

Cutting back on alcohol lately as I do so many silly things when drunk. So I have just three drinks in the pub watching the football today and go home early, I see mr NORI in a $10,000 SNG and insta join. If I win I double my average weeks profits and if I lose i lose a weeks money. For this reason I decide to sell 50% of the game to somebody else. I am confident my edge is so big over the guy I generally don't want to be getting chips in unless I am 80%+ to win. After all its $20,000/£14,000 for the winner. For this reason I end up going low in chips yet I eventually won. Here are several interesting hands where I fold top pair and keep the pot small with a set plus the obligatary bad beat!:

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 451884178 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $10,000 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante)) - Saturday, December 06, 20:07:06 GMT 2008
$10,000+$10 NL Hold'em #2413329
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( 2,488 )
Seat 2: NORI ( 1,512 )
Tourney Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante))
Punterz08 posts small blind [15]
NORI posts big blind [30]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Qh, Kc ]
Punterz08 calls [15]
NORI raises to [90]
Punterz08 calls [60]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Js, 4s, Kd ]
NORI bets [90]
Punterz08 calls [90]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6c ]
NORI bets [360]
Punterz08 folds
Returning uncalled bet [360] to NORI
** Hand Conclusion **
NORI wins 360 from main pot
************ Game 451884178 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 451888147 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $10,000 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:4 Blinds(50/100-(no ante)) - Saturday, December 06, 20:16:32 GMT 2008
$10,000+$10 NL Hold'em #2413329
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( 1,896 )
Seat 2: NORI ( 2,104 )
Tourney Level:4 Blinds(50/100-(no ante))
Punterz08 posts small blind [50]
NORI posts big blind [100]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 2d, 2h ]
Punterz08 calls [50]
NORI checks
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4c, 9s, 8s ]
NORI checks
Punterz08 checks
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2s ]
NORI bets [100]
Punterz08 calls [100]
** Dealing River ** [ Ts ]
NORI bets [200]
Punterz08 folds
Returning uncalled bet [200] to NORI
** Hand Conclusion **
NORI wins 400 from main pot
************ Game 451888147 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 451890160 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $10,000 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:5 Blinds(75/150-(no ante)) - Saturday, December 06, 20:21:12 GMT 2008
$10,000+$10 NL Hold'em #2413329
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( 3,392 )
Seat 2: NORI ( 608 )
Tourney Level:5 Blinds(75/150-(no ante))
NORI posts small blind [75]
Punterz08 posts big blind [150]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Ac, Kd ]
NORI raises to [300]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Punterz08 raises to [3,392]
NORI calls [308]
NORI goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [2,784] to Punterz08
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ Ac, Kd ]
NORI shows [ 4d, As ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Kc, 3d, 4h ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4s ]
** Dealing River ** [ 2h ]
** Hand Conclusion **
NORI wins 1,216 from main pot with three of a kind, Fours

Well if I played those hands well or poorly irelevent now as I won the $20,000. Another success at the highest of stakes!

Now for the leaderboards, they have run for 8 weeks and I have won the top two all 8 of those weeks. One day to go this week and I am second on both. Usually I would sit in the games of the leaders and crush them but this week one is a friend and the other is a decent guy so I will do it the harder way and just hammer the tables for a few hours! The guy on the second leaderboard is really going for it, poor git hasn't a chance yet like the others he still tries. I am holding so much back in reserve at the moment and simply doing the bare minimum to win the leaderboards and get the $2000 a week bonus. I was actually thinking about not winning them this week but then decided seeing as I have won them every week since they started I may as well keep it up.

Several posts back I posted some new year resolutions, one was to make £250,000 in 2009. Well I have scrapped all plans now and made new ones. Money means fuck all in life, I can be self centered and I wish to change that. So my main priority in 2009 is to be more thoughful and hopefully make amends with my ex girlfriend and be there for her when she finds out her new guy is a cheating rat.

Now I have just remembered the reason I made the initial title 'Mr Lucky'. Leaving the pub after the football when I bumped into a guy I know. I know him through friends and his wife, she died recently from cancer...she was only in her forties. Lovely lady who died so young and left behind a man with children again so young yet lost his loved one. Unless your life is utter shit it is such a stroke of luck simply being alive, everytime I feel sorry for myself I see something that makes me realise how lucky I am. Today it was the reminder of such a nice lady dying so young from cancer, in Las Vegas it was seeing the person with one leg. I must remember to stop complaining when things go wrong. I am so lucky in so many ways. 2009 will be a great year I can feel it, to do my bit I am going to make the effort and try to become a better person generally. Hopefully by the end of 2009 I am back with the lovely Scarlett and sod the money it means nothing! Either way I will be a better person. On a side note, new diet is going well. First week and I have lost 5 pound. Simply by only drinking at the pub three days a week! Well on target to lose 2 stone by easter and get that 6-pack back! Life is great, poker is great, god bless England!

37 offsuit for $20,000???

2008-12-05T02:23:00.002Z

Bit of an up and down day, winning $2000 pretty fast on $10/20 6 handed omaha but not being on top of my game today soon losing the money plus some more on tournaments, then pulled it back again so sitting couple of thousand dollars up when a player who is not so great is spotted in a $10,000 tournament. Get an early chip lead then have this beauty of a hand...

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 451210776 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $10,000 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:4 Blinds(50/100-(no ante)) - Friday, December 05, 01:43:05 GMT 2008
$10,000+$10 NL Hold'em #2383038
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: NORI ( 1,129 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 2,871 )
Tourney Level:4 Blinds(50/100-(no ante))
NORI posts small blind [50]
Punterz08 posts big blind [100]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Ks, Ah ]
NORI calls [50]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Punterz08 raises to [2,871]
NORI calls [1,029]
NORI goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [1,742] to Punterz08
** Showdown **
NORI shows [ 7h, 3s ]
Punterz08 shows [ Ks, Ah ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Jc, 3d, 5s ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 8h ]
** Dealing River ** [ 4s ]
** Hand Conclusion **
NORI wins 2,258 from main pot with a pair of Threes
************ Game 451210776 ends ************

Can I have been called by the worst possible hand in poker and end up missing out on $20,000? Nah of course not, I come back from there and go on to win! So the day is saved. Nothing too exciting to talk about, so back off for some tournaments now...

Time for a break....

2008-12-01T00:25:00.002Z

December is here and the countdown to Christmas is on.The last two months has been a bit draining physically and mentally. It looks like I have won the heavyweight and middleweight leaderboards on betfair for the 8th time (every week since they started) and I don't know if they will run them in the future. Either way it was a nice £10,000 bonus over two months. Only one week was there any danger of anyone beating me but i pulled through.

Now this year has been very eventful and I am going to try and have a quite finish to the year without much drama. Pokerwise my game improved but I had around 10 £10,000-£20,000 losing sessions. In the last few months I have avoided any of these and my bankroll is now at its highest ever. If I can continue to eliminate big losing sessions I am guessing that in 2009 I will make in the region of £250,000 so that is my aim pokerwise in 2009. I rarely actually tilt for poker related reasons, the one that gets me a lot is women! I have previously posted about how in Las Vegas I met the world's most beautiful woman. Also in 2008 I dated the world's most amazing woman for around 5 months (how can anyone put up with me for that long!). I actually had the five week holiday in America to try and clear my head and it worked, until I saw her again! Big mistake me letting her go and i am guessing I have lost around £50,000 on poker because of it! Still maybe she will take me back one day, who knows! If I ever had the choice between the world's most beautiful girl and the world's most amazing girl I would definitely be choosing Scarlett every time as no matter what I do to try and escape her powers I end up loving her more than ever. Still chances of that are slim and in 2009 I may try and avoid having any relationships. Spent a couple of hundred grand on a flat 2 minutes from ex girlfriends home and workplace, then break up before I even move in.....6 months later the flat is still empty. I must sort it out, still that is typical of me...the biggest investment I have ever made and it doesn't bother me at all. I am never motivated by money, well that is a lie as we all are at times. Other things drive me on though and in poker the money is just a byproduct of the things motivating me.

Talking of motivation outside of poker I have been letting myself down for the last few years, I rejoined a gym a few months ago and have hardly been there since. By mid 2009 I WILL have my weight back down from 14.5 stone to under 13 stone. This is the time for me to focus on something other than poker and have less time to think about the amazing girl I let go. I cannot let poker drain as much of my resources in the future as it has done in the last few years. Things like taking a laptop on holiday (it was the first time I had ever done that) I will end. I am in Cancun with an amazing girl yet every day I slipped off for a few hours to play poker. In two weeks I made £20,000 yet now I would pay double that to have the missing hours back to spend the time with her. So basically 2009 will see me making more money than ever due to eliminating tilt sessions yet at the same time I will not play as much as this year. Come 2010 I will hit poker hard and enter quite a lot of big live tournaments.

My new lifestyle is going to see me cutting back on drinking alcohol also, at most now I will go out and have a drink twice a week. Going out getting drunk won't ever help me get my amazing girl back, being sensible and getting in shape and being motivated will.

I won't be updating this blog for a while as my life is going to be pretty dull for a few months. I may be a bit crazy around New Years Eve so possibly then. So wishing everybody a happy christmas and good new year. Remember to stay focused on what really matters, if you have a great girlfriend/boyfriend don't let them go. Do whatever it takes to keep them as if you don't you will regret it later.

back in blighty....

2008-11-29T01:59:00.003Z

Last post I was flying home in a few hours yet had lost my passport. Surprise surprise called a local bar up and it was in there! Flight home as ever was a pleasure on Virgin Atlantic. They are far superior to any other airline I have ever used and I am guessing I have used 20+.

First day back I decided to try some omaha cash, immediately I made a profit then lost this hand to go $2000 in profit in 5 minutes, i eventually left the table $100 up.

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 448112652 *****
PL $5/$10 Omaha - Friday, November 28, 14:33:13 GMT 2008
Table San Fernando 06 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of active players : 4
Seat 1: wgarvin ( $3,027.31 )
Seat 3: Bambino87 ( $781 )
Seat 4: rarseclark ( $221.82 )
Seat 5: Punterz08 ( $948 )
rarseclark posts small blind [$5]
wgarvin posts small blind [$5]
Bambino87 posts big blind [$10]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 2h, 9s, Ad, 8s ]
rarseclark calls [$5]
Punterz08 calls [$10]
wgarvin folds
Bambino87 checks
** Dealing Flop ** [ Js, Ts, 7c ]
Bambino87 bets [$35]
rarseclark calls [$35]
Punterz08 raises to [$175]
Bambino87 raises to [$595]
rarseclark calls [$176.82]
Punterz08 raises to [$938]
Bambino87 calls [$176]
Bambino87 shows [ 4s, 7s, 7d, As ]
rarseclark shows [ 5s, Qd, 9c, 6h ]
Punterz08 shows [ 2h, 9s, Ad, 8s ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Tc ]
** Dealing River ** [ Kc ]
Bambino87 wins $1,118.36 from side pot #1 with full house, Sevens full of Tens
Bambino87 wins $668.46 from main pot with full house, Sevens full of Tens
************ Game 448112652 ends ************

This hand pretty much sums up how easy it is to make money on omaha cash if you play solid. When the flop pairs it definitely is not good to call bets let alone reraise or chase with draws. The really bad players even call with non nut flush/straight draws when they could be drawing dead.

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 448118622 *****
PL $5/$10 Omaha - Friday, November 28, 14:46:48 GMT 2008
Table San Fernando 06 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 3
Seat 1: wgarvin ( $2,994.43 )
Seat 3: Bambino87 ( $1,299.82 )
Seat 5: Punterz08 ( $2,073.13 )
Bambino87 posts small blind [$5]
Punterz08 posts big blind [$10]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Kd, Jd, 7d, 2s ]
wgarvin raises to [$35]
Bambino87 raises to [$115]
Punterz08 folds
wgarvin calls [$80]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9d, 9s, Ts ]
Bambino87 bets [$140]
wgarvin raises to [$350]
Bambino87 goes all-in
Bambino87 raises to [$1,184.82]
wgarvin calls [$834.82]
** Showdown **
wgarvin shows [ Ac, Td, 9c, Ks ]
Bambino87 shows [ 6h, Js, 8h, As ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Th ]
** Dealing River ** [ Jc ]
** Hand Conclusion **
wgarvin wins $2,607.64 from main pot with full house, Tens full of Nines
************ Game 448118622 ends ************

Next I catch a fish and win 2/2 $200 hu omaha SNG during the second he asks me to play him 5/10 plo cash. He is sat with $480 and usually I would not sit in as it looks like it is the last money in his account and if so the potential loss outweighs the potential win. I am losing around $6000 and pull back some and am sitting with $2500, this is too deepstacked for the cypriot fish luckbox who leaves and I am minus £2500 to him. At the last check I have pulled back around £1500 of the £2500 loss and am currently down £1000 today. So no big deal, longterm I will make plenty versus the omaha fish.

Now to try and get a few more dolla before I go to sleep.....

Cambodian families go hungry tonight :(

2008-11-26T15:03:00.004Z

(click on image to enlarge)

Playing a few single table tournaments for medium stakes as I am not so much in a poker mood today when a strange thing happened. My old friend Doobs registered for one of my heads up omaha games, you may think why is this strange? Well here are three reasons:

1) I generally don't join my friends games
2) He is awful at heads up
3) He barely knows the rules of Omaha (in fact last time we spoke he was calling it nomaha!)

Well anyways as you can see he lost (after several suck outs when he was all in eventually skillz came through!). Now I have a predicament, I know he supports members of his wifes family in Cambodia financially. Several people lately have told me due to the weakened sterling he is struggling to support them. So perhaps this suggests his tilt and playing me on heads up omaha? I would refund him the money but he must learn his lesson, so here is what I propose. I am going to send the money to a charity that helps poor Cambodian people, so this way at least as intended the money ends up with poor Cambodians. Here is a link for anyone else wanting to help the poor of Cambodia.

http://www.cambodianchildrensfund.org/

On another note, meant to fly home today but lost my passport. Oops!! Good luck all, and remember to help the poor Cambodians if you can. To my american readers happy thanksgiving tomorrow!

Yet again another ugly side of online poker shows its face....

2008-11-24T18:46:00.003Z

People constantly change accounts and play other peoples. Often I bust people so bad that they literally beg me not to play them heads up. At first they will say I get lucky, then in end they just admit defeat and generally I will avoid their games. I have lots of money and am not desperate for a few dollars. Over the last few weeks a new account has popped up called lisa8, generally playing $40 games which are of no interest to me. Occasionally popping up to a $200 game winning one then running back to $40 games. It is well known I don't really play games under $400 or so seriously, however as soon as I notice a player joining my games a few times thinking they can beat me I just play better and always end up in profit against them. This lisa8 is ranting and raving about how much better than me HE is. Today someone tells me it is homeboy8, some low stake loser who has played pretty much 2000 SNG for virtually no profit.

Now the irony is that homeboy8 was actually on my msn, having won around five straight games he begs me not to join his games. So I am generous enough to leave him be. Now what makes someone make a new account join my games, berate me and tell me how much better they are than me when I have won $40,000 on omaha SNG during the same period they have made $1000. To play someone with a different account and not tell them is pretty low. Obviously the first few games anyone plays against me they have more of a chance than say after we have played 10-20. I almost always end up working anyones game out which is why over a large sample of games only two or three players are in profit over me.

So now this homeboy8/lisa8 idiot who begs me not to play them and then tries to play me on a different account is fucked. I will target the idiot now and send him back to $10 games. In addition I will get the decent lower stakes players to target him. He is just a weasel so if ever I did see him I would likely just flush his head down a toilet. What a stupid stupid stupid degenerate loser. You can't play online poker successfully for many years without realising slippery tricks that some whores will try.

Punterz meets Nelly....

2008-11-24T02:00:00.003Z

No tequilla or anything, just a quick photo with Mr Nelly. I was not trying to make any pose I was pointing how to use the camera as the picture was taken. No need to pretend me and Mr Nelly were balling, that only happened with NFL players and beautiful women. The rappers haven't invited me for patron yet! I think I have just won the betfair Heavyweight and Middleweight leaderboards for the seventh week in a row, so thats seven weeks the promotion runs and seven weeks I have won the top two of the three leaderboards...perhaps the easiest £7500 I have made in a long while! A few more days in florida to try and do some random things yet I doubt I will leave the villa much, Vegas takes a lot out of me each time.

Just decided to try $2000 buying in short on a six handed game and lasted around one minute, nice....

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 446246913 *****
NL $25/$50 Texas Hold'em - Monday, November 24, 04:07:29 GMT 2008
Table Beryllium 24 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of active players : 5
Seat 1: Bygdedyret ( $20,349.33 )
Seat 2: richestboy ( $3,495.05 )
Seat 3: Punterz08 ( $2,175 )
Seat 4: IRagen ( $10,427.78 )
Seat 6: stephank ( $5,575 )
IRagen posts small blind [$25]
stephank posts big blind [$50]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 9h, Qs ]
Bygdedyret folds
richestboy folds
Punterz08 raises to [$175]
IRagen folds
stephank calls [$125]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Kc, Td, Jc ]
stephank checks
Punterz08 bets [$375]
stephank raises to [$900]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Punterz08 raises to [$2,000]
stephank calls [$1,100]
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ 9h, Qs ]
stephank shows [ 4c, Ac ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4s ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7c ]
** Hand Conclusion **
stephank wins $4,372 from main pot with a Flush
************ Game 446246913 ends ************

Good luck on the tables...

Good luck at the tables all...

forty-one dollars

2008-11-23T12:15:00.002Z

A nice surprise as I was checking out of the Venetian Resort, two nights room minibar and internet charges costing just over $1000 was covered by the casino. To my knowledge I did not play anything other than poker so christ knows why I was comped so much. I must have made friends with someone within the casino with some authority when I was drunk. I am curious to know why I was comped but did not want to ask incase it cost me $1000!

I have enough cash for cab to airport and a burger king meal. The burger tasted good, bar some sushi the night before I had not eaten in two days. Now there is two hours before my flight and I really fancy a pint of cold beer, however I have a dollar left. I play some poker online and disconnect several times costing me a few hundred dollars. This last month it has cost me $2000-3000 from disconnectins, its part of the game online though and often I have benefited from others disconnecting. A long time ago I realised that when your opponent disconnected never play slow or refund them as there will be times when this happens to you. Last Thursday I was in three heads up SNG with 5-1 chip advantages when the internet crashed, one scandi tramp 'Fish Fair' even found me later and laughed saying thanks for the money, at the time of disconnection I had 2700 v 300 chips. Still lets hope something nasty happens to him in the near future, perhaps he can catch an STD the next time he is in Thailand screwing ladyboys. No more digressing, back to myself and my dollar. I really want a beer, I feel hungry. All this is because I know I have no money, two drunken nights surely I have money somewhere. I check a small pocket in my shorts and sure enough there is $41 in there! I feel like the richest man in the world, or the man lost in the desert who finds water. Off to the bar where I had one of the most enjoyable pints of beer in my entire life. There is still change for a few drinks and sandwich on the flight back to Florida.

Less than a week until I am back in England, I doubt much will happen before then as I intend to stay in most of the time and take it easy....although in my life random things on a daily basis almost are standard. Bye for now....

Last night in Vegas.....EVER???

2008-11-22T15:36:00.002Z

WOW, how disgusting. Can I ever come back to Las Vegas? Surely not. It is now four in the afternoon in England or 8 a.m. Vegas time. I flew around 2500 miles to go for ice cream with a girl who was not there. This is enough for life tilt, now I have all the toppings to go with. I go to Vegas armed with a one way ticket and $2000 and my bank card (unlimited funds!). I spend the day goofing around on a 1/2 table (if I play 6 hours my room is $150 instead of $450). First few minutes I lose $300, dont run 8 hi into pocket aces I guess! I then slow down and break evens over the next three hours. Actually a good table, even though all my opponents are american! One shout out to Mike who is just Mr Smooth with the ladies (so obvious) and another shout to the Italian section (they are more american). So thats the 1/2 boring cash stuff out of the way lets move on...

I am off to meet her from work, this is the biggest day of my life. Played world series main events, dated girls from ten different countries, been in boxing matches, been to court with the threat of years in jail, none of these things put me under the pressure I felt last night. No matter what happens in life I can take it, except for a date with the most beautiful girl in the world. I have dated some of the most beautiful girls in the world, but this is THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN THE WORLD. Must stay sober before then, had just one drink all day. I turn up she is not there, 2500 miles to get stood up!? WOW now the night just has to get messy, I am hoping its a $2000 nite and not $50,0000. I go back to the Venetian, I know a few cash players and they want me to get on the tequilla (apparently the last hand I played the day before I was all in blind for $600 and lost 57 v JJ). I am so angry still I don't want to give them any money just yet. I head to a bar and have around ten 'any cocktails', that is where the barman gives me any drink he chooses. I meet four american guys and then we are off to the most expensive sushi restaurant in town. I recall ordering the most expensive sake in the place then downgrading to $900 bottle and getting two of those. Next minute I am in a shop trying shirts on with the manager of the restaurant as I had gotten food on my sleeve. Thinking about it she was even in the changing rooms with me, now I go to pay and can't find my card so I pay in cash, around $400 I believe. ALARM BELLS I HAVE LOST MY BANKCARD... hardly I am drunk and on life tilt so don't care. I have the girls number and she asks me to meet her in a few hours when she finishes work.....

Then I wake up 6 hours later in my room with no money and no bank card, so no girl yesterday and no money now. I need to play like one hour more on 1/2 cash and my room is $700 less over two days. But I can't! I still have to go back to florida and now have no money or access to money. I wish i did not spend $300 on the shirt, I have spent half as much for better shirts in London. In fact I think I have the same shirt for $50. Oops that reminds me I am sure that I left my cufflinks in the store, even more lost. The cost of the night is thankfully very cheap for me considering, $2200 on alcohol, $300 shirt and $500 lost cufflinks.

I am generally so lucky and run good, I earn more money than I deserve simply playing online poker. Doctors, soldiers, cops all work harder than me for nowhere near as much. Yet just one time I needed to run good and did not, you can have one dollar or a million dollars and never ever meet your dream girl. I met her, went back and she was not there. I would have paid $20,000, make that $100,000 for the weekend to have gone well. The last two nights have cost me around $7000 and now i am in Vegas with no girl, no ice cream and no money. Still at least I have a ridiculously overpriced shirt, I am too scared to even look at it. Will this nightmare stop me doing crazy and random things, I think not. This is what makes life so good, the unpredictablity and highs and lows. As for Carina....I will be back and find her and marry her. This will happen and then last night will all be forgotten. So for now I shall have to live off of roadkill and grass for the next week or so until I can go back to London and get some money and a new card. I can't even book a flight home earlier with no card, I can't believe how much I rely on my debit card.

NO GIRL AND NO ICECREAM, life can be cruel. Now it is lifetilt unless I turn into the amazing poker player that I am and use the mental strength. I will turn this around and get the girl and the ice cream....wait I will get my own icecream factory! Sorry to the girl I stood up last night as I know how it feels...

Punterz 1-1 Beautiful girls of Las Vegas.

Also how can sake cost almost $1000 a bottle, it tastes awful. If a few bottles helps you get a date with a nice girl then fine...BUT dont go back to room and fall asleep! Right thats it, I am heading out of Vegas and I will never come back unless it is to see my dream girl. Too depressed to even stay and watch the Hatton fight today, that reminds me I have booked two rooms at another hotel for three days and not cancelled, O well it is only money. I am going to be busting players left right and centre online during December, christmas will be ruined for so many but I don't care as I did not get my ice cream....... (off to hitch hike back to London)

HAHAHAHA

2008-11-21T13:35:00.001Z

Some peasant just slow rolled me and typed HAHA in the chat before calling, who laughs
last dirty peasant mutha fker...

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 444995456 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $32 Buy-in + $1.50 Entry Fee, Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante)) - Friday, November 21, 13:34:06 GMT 2008
$32+$1.50 Super Turbo NL Hold'em #2368023
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: wallace123 ( 1,000 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,000 )
Tourney Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante))
Punterz08 posts small blind [10]
wallace123 posts big blind [20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Ah, Ad ]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Punterz08 raises to [1,000]
wallace123 calls [980]
wallace123 goes all-in
** Showdown **
wallace123 shows [ Qh, Qc ]
Punterz08 shows [ Ah, Ad ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6s, 8h, Jh ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3h ]
** Dealing River ** [ 3c ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins 2,000 from main pot with two pair, Aces and Threes
************ Game 444995456 ends ************

Back in Vegas.......

2008-11-21T12:55:00.000Z

Fuck life, fuck it all.

Phew.....

2008-11-19T12:07:00.003Z

Having been £7000 up in three days I managed to lose it all back plus £2000 more the next three days, the seventh day saw me save the week and end up a small winner.

Punterz08 931 £0.81 £102 3% £751 LLLLWLWL Betfair <1Wk x

What should have been a 10k+ week has ended up being a slog to make barely more than I would in a sweat shop in india. Could have been worse I guess, I don't think I will ever beat the new account curse. For a long time these new accounts pop up in $1000 games win loads then simply vanish a month or two later. If I was winning lots I would stick with the account/site and not vanish. Some day in the future I am sure I will learn more about this. Anyways for one week my stats read almost 1000 games but taking out the super turbo games which take an average of five minutes I have played under 500. Better not take away the super turbos actually as without them I would not have made a profit other than rakeback and leaderboard cash!

Punterz08 526 £1.32 £34 2% £694 LLLWLLLL Betfair<1Wk Spd=T

Back to Vegas tomorrow, it could be for one day or one week or longer who knows. It all depends on my progress with the world's most beautiful lady. Talking of her I managed to mess up when sending flowers to her last week. Here is an extract from the delivery drivers email:

We went through the shift schedules and the dealer name lists to locate the person and the closest we found was two women, one by the name of Coreena, and one by the name of Carina. Both sounded very much alike and I wasn't able to make an educated decision on who the recipient was. Both girls had a similar-sounding name, they both worked at the same section, and they both worked that evening around 9 p.m.

Just my luck, no point resending this week as she is not at work until when I am in Vegas anyways. Kind of funny and sums my week up. If the next seven days are opposite from the last then I will come back from Vegas rich and married! May I run good tomorrow and may I find a wife in vegas....or can only my good friend 'doobs' find a wife in Vegas. We shall see!

http://punterzpoker.blogspot.com/2008/11/small-world.html

I shall be back in a few days with a tale to tell no doubt. Hopefully good news. I can't afford to tilt in Las Vegas so lets hope I don't get blown out! I am even going to try an all honest approach without even one white lie. Can 100% honesty really work? I shall see! Good luck and stay tuned as next week will have some action around here.

De Ja Vu II

2008-11-17T04:31:00.002Z

Loss again double yesterdays, unbelievable how bad I ran but we don't cry because we are men. Here is the last loss just for the sake of it. $2000 when flopping the nuts in holdem!!!

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 443001451 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $1,000 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante)) - Monday, November 17, 01:00:51 GMT 2008
$1,000+$10 NL Hold'em #2353897
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( 1,875 )
Seat 2: Guan ( 2,125 )
Tourney Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante))
Punterz08 posts small blind [10]
Guan posts big blind [20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Jh, 9h ]
Punterz08 raises to [60]
Guan calls [40]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Th, 8c, 7c ]
Guan checks
Punterz08 bets [120]
Guan raises to [360]
Punterz08 raises to [720]
Guan goes all-in
Guan raises to [2,065]
Punterz08 calls [1,095]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [250] to Guan
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ Jh, 9h ]
Guan shows [ 8d, Tc ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4d ]
** Dealing River ** [ Ts ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Guan wins 3,750 from main pot with full house, Tens full of Eights
************ Game 443001451 ends ************

Brand new player at betfair, plays high stakes and sucks out over and over, seen it all before. My bad for still playing high stakes when clearly something doesn't add up. Other losses included all in on AK8 flop with A8 v A5, thats life! I won;t lose sleep over it, I made £6000 in two days then lost it back the last two, no big deal. I made a small profit on the Cowboys tonight, whoop whoop! My man Keith Davis is 1/1 so far, in the third quarter he made an absolutely crunching tackle on a guy twice his size. I shall email him my gratitude in the morning.

Good luck all, and remember at times on some sites it IS FUCKING RIGGED TO FUCK. SUPERUSERS RULE

Can't always win...

2008-11-16T02:05:00.002Z

Ooops last check down £3500 on the day, was £5000. Been unlucky to start with then played bad combined spells disaster.

Punterz08 85 -£28.25 £197 -9% -£2,402 WWWLWWLLBetfair <16Hours x

Plus £1000 on hu cash having been £1000 up. Honestly can't remember the last time i ran so bad, played so bad and opponents sucked out so much. Amazing really that I can have such a nightmare day yet have decent sng stats over the last seven days still.

Punterz08 671 £4.8 £89 7% £3,218 LWWWLWWL Betfair <1Wk x

O well it is only money, £3200 profit for seven days plus £1300 ish for leaderboards and £1000 rakeback it pays the bills. Next week is a new week and I am sure I will run well, especially on my date with the babe in Las Vegas later in the week! It is a long flight for just one date but it will be worth it I am sure. What is the point of living life if you don't do crazy things from time to time. Added that she is the best looking girl in the world, I would put her picture here but there are a few too many crazies around.

On a side note Keith assures me that the cowboys are a certainty against the redskins in the sunday night game so fill your boots people. Good luck on the tables and good luck me on friday night...

Drunken mess....

2008-11-15T05:22:00.002Z

HAHAHA someone called me a drunken mess but I didn't publish the post as it also had a racial comment. Anyways yes I was a bit drunk and messy but so long as the ladies don't mind that night;)....

NFL FEVER

2008-11-14T06:31:00.004Z

So many more people outside of north america are starting to follow NFL, myself included. On my last trip to Vegas I was watching the Joe Calzaghe v Roy Jones 'fight' when I noticed a player who I recognised as a member of the Miami Dolphins...or so I thought! He has since moved to the Dallas Cowboys I now know. I drank a few tequillas with him and spoke a bit about poker, american football and Vegas etc. The outcome now I have tickets for cowboy games if I am in Texas and now if I am having a bet and not quite sure which way to go I will ask him for his advice!

For those not familiar with the Cowboys safety here is a link with his picture:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/players/profile?playerId=4373

What the hell i have posted a picture after many tequillas at the Hawaiian tropics bar and also a picture of one of our lovely waitresses:

Vegas Taxi cons.....

2008-11-13T08:05:00.002Z

In Las Vegas the taxi drivers often try cheap tricks. Do not fall for them, if they tell you that they don't have change for your bill tell them they must find it or take less. Anyways leaving Venetian going to airport and its 6a.m the guy says do I want to go the fast way or normal way. It is 6a.m. and zero traffic, I say just take me to airport. Anyways he starts saying he loves London and his brother moved there from Somalia and he moved to america from there and they both got lucky chances. We arrive at airport and meter is on $32, I have been vegas ten+ times and knew he took me a long route. The fare should be around $15, now it is not the money as I have been winning loads and am happy as I have met the most beautiful girl in the world in the last week. However i am an east london boy and won't be ripped off. I see he understands arabic so I call him a dirty cheating dog in his native lingo and throw $20 in his face as I get out the cab. I said you are a disgrace and should still be living in a mudhut in Somalia, you have had a lucky break and are abusing it. We are British, a proud nation that has achieved so much. Don't keep being shy and hiding in the shadows, if you think something is not right say so. You have a thousand years of success and glory simply being British. Rant over, I hope his mudhut collapses in torrential rain.

Small World.....

2008-11-12T04:15:00.003Z

On my recent visit to Las Vegas I visited the world famous Rio seafood buffet and the most amazing thing happened. When my server came over I said wow you served me two years ago, she said no that is not possible as she had worked there for just four months. However she said I have a twin sister who used to work here, she added she had met an english poker player during a wsop and married him and moved to England. She then asks me where I am from, am I australian and I say no I am from London England. I had mentioned I played a few previous wsop and she said well my sisters husband is from London also maybe you know him 'David Barraclough'. Me and a few other poker players just looked at eachother in shock, like 'WOW what a small world'. Previously I have thought of David Barraclough aka doobs as an idiot and sad loser who most people find so irritating. Now I realise he may actually be partly decent as 'Mao' told me he sent financial aid to her parents and four brothers and seven sisters still in Cambodia, wow what a decent guy he can be at times.

Leaving Las Vegas...

2008-11-12T01:37:00.002Z

This vegas trip is over for me now but there are several good stories. Coming soon I have some pictures and videos, including one amazing story about bumping into relatives of the sideburn freak who plays as doobs on betfair and actually thinks he is a world beater. Added features I will post include a bit about poker rooms in Las Vegas. Cheating taxi driver stories also will be featured. This blog will be back with a bang so all sit back and get ready for the posts of the next few days.

Whats it like to cash for a million pounds?

2008-11-07T16:16:00.002Z

Just realised I have cashed for 1.1 million pounds in SNG on betfair over the last 6 months. I clicked miscellaneous data on sharkscope and apparently I have cashed for over a million pounds, before I get too excited the profit was just £50,000 of that. Still its kind of neat to be the first player to cash for over a million on SNG since betfair data was incorporated on sharkscope. Apparently I have raked £44,000 also so thats over £10,000 more what with the leaderboard money etc like £5000 in october alone from them thats around £100,000. Where does all this money go? Definitely not in my bank! I guess spearmint rhino and caesars palace got some of it the other day. Note to myself when in vegas STOP putting money on red14.

Vegas was full of donks as ever. $550 tournament 6000 chips and I crash level 2. Standard of play worst I have played since a pub £20 rebuy. Three hands I lose on where bb 100 utg all in 3000 I call Ak in sb lose to A8, then i miss overcard nut straight and nut flush draw finally bb 100 still I have 27 in bb unraised 5 limpers flop comes K57 I check raise a 400 bet and caller all in like 2800 and end up getting rivered by KQ for 9000 pot. Such such bad play in vegas, after that I upset loads of people on a cash table whilst at same time having half table laughin until they cried with blind calls, reraises blind and loads of crazy plays yet I still made a few hundred. One hand that was funny was me losing a hand where I miss flush and straight draws, I have 200 in my hand to throw in pot on river with 6 hi bluff yet somehow animal leads out with a bet so i show I only had 6 hi anyways and he turned over a 5 hi bluff! My 6 played and it was funniest cash hand I have ever played. I shall get the lazy jew to put it on his blog. www.pokeranimal.blogspot.com

Anyways hungover as fk so quick swim in pool to freshen me up then more poker and drink I guess. Time to plan an actual poker profit of £1,000,000 from SNG!

Deadly River......but not for me!

2008-10-31T16:28:00.002Z

Poker is not all bad beats so now for a lucky hand history. Came in drunk and sat in a game and played wreckless....do not try this at home!:

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 434284384 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $10,000 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante)) - Wednesday, October 29, 04:26:24 GMT 2008
$10000+$10 NL Holdem #2290144
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Deadly007 ( 1,576 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,424 )
Tourney Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante))
Deadly007 posts small blind [15]
Punterz08 posts big blind [30]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Ah, Jc ]
Deadly007 raises to [78]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Punterz08 raises to [1,424]
Deadly007 calls [1,346]
** Showdown **
Deadly007 shows [ Qh, Qc ]
Punterz08 shows [ Ah, Jc ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6h, 6c, 9h ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Kc ]
** Dealing River ** [ Ac ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Punterz08 wins 2,848 from main pot with two pair, Aces and Sixes
************ Game 434284384 ends ************

Silly of me to play drunk and some great players play on the deadly007 account. One of the users of that account is Andrew Feldman and even though he is very young in his early twenties he has already worth a few million pound from poker. Another user of the account is Luke Schwartz, I don't know too much about his poker game but he too is quite young and has made a fair bit from poker....still no matter how much money he makes he will remain an ugly, rude, hated, obnoxious fool who doesn't even realise what race he is. I heard there crew named as 'Team Wiggers' by a few players due to these young white kids trying there best to act like members of the bloods or cripps....until confronted then they run away like the little girls that they are.

Upping the ante....

2008-10-27T05:17:00.002Z

Messing around playing a few $50 games and i see a player in a $5000 game that I beat for the same stake several weeks ago. He is not so good so I am in the game in a flash. Here is todays sickener...

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 433249600 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $5,000 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante)) - Sunday, October 26, 22:09:26 GMT 2008
$5000+$10 NL Holdem #2277187
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Punterz08 ( 1,688 )
Seat 2: rocknrolla ( 1,312 )
Tourney Level:2 Blinds(15/30-(no ante))
Punterz08 posts small blind [15]
rocknrolla posts big blind [30]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Jc, Jd ]
Punterz08 raises to [90]
rocknrolla raises to [150]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Punterz08 raises to [1,688]
rocknrolla calls [1,162]
rocknrolla goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [376] to Punterz08
** Showdown **
Punterz08 shows [ Jc, Jd ]
rocknrolla shows [ 8d, 8c ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5h, 8h, Ks ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Td ]
** Dealing River ** [ 4s ]
** Hand Conclusion **
rocknrolla wins 2,624 from main pot with three of a kind, Eights
************ Game 433249600 ends ************

I almost get back in the game but lose a 1000 pot all in on the flop with top pair and straight draw. O well, cant regret taking the shot and getting my money in as 80% favourite. I can just hope next time the cards hold! £1000 down before the game started, £3250 more loss on the game yet rally to end day £1000 down. My good friend Guidoch (guidiot) whom many will be familiar with lost $2000 to me on $500 omaha games. How I love this italian fish! He bad beat me a few times, but then I got him back nicely in one game!!!:

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 433311142 *****
PL Omaha $500 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:3 Blinds(25/50-(no ante)) - Monday, October 27, 00:25:49 GMT 2008
$500+$10 PL Omaha #2287096
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: GUIDOCH ( 660.40 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 2,339.60 )
Tourney Level:3 Blinds(25/50-(no ante))
GUIDOCH posts small blind [25]
Punterz08 posts big blind [50]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Ac, 7c, 7h, As ]
GUIDOCH raises to [140]
Punterz08 raises to [420]
GUIDOCH goes all-in
GUIDOCH raises to [660.40]
Punterz08 calls [240.40]
** Showdown **
GUIDOCH shows [ 3h, Kh, Ah, 9s ]
Punterz08 shows [ Ac, 7c, 7h, As ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2d, 9d, 3d ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qd ]
** Dealing River ** [ 8d ]
** Hand Conclusion **
GUIDOCH wins 1,320.80 from main pot with two pair, Nines and Threes
************ Game 433311142 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 433311399 *****
PL Omaha $500 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:3 Blinds(25/50-(no ante)) - Monday, October 27, 00:26:34 GMT 2008
$500+$10 PL Omaha #2287096
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: GUIDOCH ( 1,320.80 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,679.20 )
Tourney Level:3 Blinds(25/50-(no ante))
Punterz08 posts small blind [25]
GUIDOCH posts big blind [50]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Qs, 6s, 6d, Qc ]
Punterz08 calls [25]
GUIDOCH raises to [140]
Punterz08 calls [90]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8s, Kd, Qh ]
GUIDOCH bets [120]
Punterz08 raises to [480]
GUIDOCH calls [360]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 7d ]
GUIDOCH checks
Punterz08 goes all-in
Punterz08 bets [1,059.20]
GUIDOCH calls [700.80]
GUIDOCH goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [358.40] to Punterz08
** Showdown **
GUIDOCH shows [ Qd, Jd, 3c, 9d ]
Punterz08 shows [ Qs, 6s, 6d, Qc ]
** Dealing River ** [ Td ]
** Hand Conclusion **
GUIDOCH wins 2,641.60 from main pot with a Flush
************ Game 433311399 ends ************

Oops lost the hand when I got lucky, basically on a flop of A49 I held 44A+ v 99++ and it all went in the turn coming A giving me the win!

Last week was the third of the four one week leaderboard promotion on betfair and i made it 3/3 weeks of taking the top two leaderboards. A few days until this promotion is over and I have every confidence of making it four from four.

Poker can be boring perhaps I should put posts up of how I tried to chat up a group of girls in a bar last night only to realise their mother was with them, or how a cold burger almost got me in a whole lot of trouble! Ok bed time goodnight....

retard of the day....

2008-10-20T23:08:00.002+01:00

No its not the guys who lost like $10,000 on 2/5 and 5/10 hu plo to me today, its the scandi donk who got rewarded for endless retarded calls on hu 2/5 holdem against me. I didn't lose too much, maybe $1600 in the end but it was truly horrific luck as you will see examples of:

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 430475782 *****
NL $2.50/$5 Texas Hold'em - Monday, October 20, 21:26:41 GMT 2008
Table Berlin 06 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: IamGreat ( $711.14 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( $374 )
IamGreat posts small blind [$2.50]
Punterz08 posts big blind [$5]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ As, Ah ]
IamGreat raises to [$15]
Punterz08 raises to [$45]
IamGreat calls [$30]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3s, 2c, 7d ]
Punterz08 bets [$67.50]
IamGreat calls [$67.50]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6c ]
Punterz08 bets [$225]
IamGreat raises to [$450]
Punterz08 calls [$36.50]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [$188.50] to IamGreat
** Showdown **
IamGreat shows [ 4d, 6d ]
Punterz08 shows [ As, Ah ]
** Dealing River ** [ 5s ]
** Hand Conclusion **
IamGreat wins $747 from main pot with a straight, Seven to Three
************ Game 430475782 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 430481100 *****
NL $2.50/$5 Texas Hold'em - Monday, October 20, 21:34:49 GMT 2008
Table Berlin 06 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: IamGreat ( $718.72 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( $850.92 )
Punterz08 posts small blind [$2.50]
IamGreat posts big blind [$5]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ 6s, 9h ]
Punterz08 raises to [$10]
IamGreat raises to [$35]
Punterz08 calls [$25]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4h, 9c, Jd ]
IamGreat bets [$52.50]
Punterz08 calls [$52.50]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6c ]
IamGreat bets [$131.25]
Punterz08 raises to [$568.75]
IamGreat goes all-in
IamGreat raises to [$631.22]
Punterz08 calls [$62.47]
** Showdown **
IamGreat shows [ Js, Kc ]
Punterz08 shows [ 6s, 9h ]
** Dealing River ** [ 4s ]
** Hand Conclusion **
IamGreat wins $1,436.44 from main pot with two pair, Jacks and Fours
************ Game 430481100 ends ************

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 430489383 *****
NL $2.50/$5 Texas Hold'em - Monday, October 20, 21:47:28 GMT 2008
Table Berlin 06 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: IamGreat ( $1,576.74 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( $850.50 )
Punterz08 posts small blind [$2.50]
IamGreat posts big blind [$5]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ As, Ts ]
Punterz08 raises to [$15]
IamGreat raises to [$45]
Punterz08 calls [$30]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2h, 8s, Qs ]
IamGreat checks
Punterz08 checks
** Dealing Turn ** [ Jh ]
IamGreat bets [$56]
Punterz08 calls [$56]
** Dealing River ** [ 3d ]
IamGreat checks
Punterz08 checks
** Showdown **
IamGreat shows [ Th, Tc ] a pair of Tens
Punterz08 mucks [ As, Ts ]
** Hand Conclusion **
IamGreat wins $201 from main pot with a pair of Tens
************ Game 430489383 ends ************

I shall be getting the dirty mutha fker back in the very near future and then we will get the last laugh over the donk. I cannot believe how bad the winning heads up cash players are and I shall definitely be spending more time on this in the coming weeks. In hand two in effect he is calling a reraise of almost 100 more bb with top pair, what a moronic DONKKKK. There is always a danger though that your opponent is just drunk so when you track them down in the future do not assume that they will play as bad.

Good luck at the tables, just try and be luckier than me on 2/5 holdem!!!! ;)

Egos in poker...

2008-10-17T10:45:00.002+01:00

This is a post that could go on for a long while but I will briefly speak about this then perhaps in the future go deeper into it. We are all guilty of having big egos sometimes, yet it costs a lot of money. I rarely get involved in ego wars and am confident when it comes to heads up SNG not one player I have ever faced to date has an edge on me. There are so many weak players that I generally don't sit against anyone I know makes a living from poker. There are two main reasons for this, firstly you will get an easier game versus a person who plays for fun as they simply don't expect to win as often as someone who does it for a living. Secondly I am simply not that greedy and don't feel the need to win money from someone trying to grind a living. Obviously if the weaker players ever did dry up I would have to start attacking some of the players who play for a living.

Now I notice certain players constantly want to try and beat me, here are a few examples. One player BEER333 was doing ok, every few weeks he sits in a few of my hu sng and I generally win and he goes away for a few weeks. Then he comes back and tries again, what is he trying to do? He thinks one day he will start beating me and then sit in all my games and win my money from me? I finally snapped and now any heads up game I see him in I will generally join and will go out of my way to crush him. Feel free to check his sharkscope and see how it has set him off on mad tilt and how he has lost almost his entire bankroll.

Another players is IAMMULC whom I first played almost a year ago in a few heads up plo games. I won 3/3 or 4/4 but admittedly each game the blinds did go very high so was a bit flippy. He realises there is no value so he stopped playing me and I did not sit in his games again. Now for some reason he decides to sit in one of my games this week. I was playing 4 tables at the time and it pissed me off so i jumped in his $200 and $300 game and won both. Now his ego takes over and he starts to sit in all my games, running bad and he wins around 7 in a row. Since then I have won quite a few from him and he is not one penny up against me, over the course of time I will be a big winner against him. People do not realise games under $500 I generally don't give a shit about and will 6-8 table heads up. I am happy to make a small profit whilst I wait for the big fish who i will play at any stake. Now if somebody wants to play me whilst I am 6 tabling and play just one table themselves trying their hardest to rob my hard earned money and I realise this I will crush them. I will come for you so hard, I will get other good players to target you also when I am not around. When people boast they beat me in a few $200s its laughable, challenge me direct and I will play $500-1000 games and just play one table a time and break you hard.

I have been successful at what I do for several years now and have seen many come and go. Another player called Heurbag10 had a sick run against me, in one month he made £8000 from poker but ran better than a wind assisted Asafa Powell on speed. He kept bad beating me and saying 'but i won' if i said anything. The last time i checked his sharkscope was minus $30,000. In poker your results will not count over a day a week or even a year, it is after many years that it counts. Playing with an ego will crush you. If you have a huge ego and make a million in a year without the ego it would probably be much more. The heurbags, beer333s, iammulcs of this world who feel the need to sit with me will lose money for doing so. What is wrong with just playing bad players and getting easy money. It is so good when you can make loads of money from playing fish and personally I wont ever play people who I dont have a huge edge over unless they piss me off then they will be hit hard and hopefully learn there lesson.

The current suckout king is NLALEXXMOHN. He has played 1500 games and has a total profit of £900, yet somehow I have played him 150 times and am losing £1500 to him. Again within a few months he will be running at a loss. He can sing now when he has been having miracle luck but variance always comes through in the end.

Ok boys and girls I shall go into this further another time, just remember egos cost money. Go for the easy money and you will have a better life, or if you have a deathwish come chase me.

No more sharkscope....

2008-10-16T02:23:00.003+01:00

Sharkscope bastards! Sure its a good site but its more trouble than its worth for me.I was killing a couple of fish regularly on $200-500 hu sng and noticed they did not join my games for a few days. Then one of them registered for a $200 hu omaha sng and i jumped in. In game chat the guy says 'shit i didnt want to play you, i just found a site called sharkscope and your ranked #2 for hu omaha sng online'. It proper tilted me, well it was the first step! Then today I ended up the day a £4000 loser, o well its only money! Tomorrow is another day, september-november is always a shitty time of year for me so next year if I can I will take three months off of poker and go on holiday for a few months. Right now for some more late night poker....

Leaderboards week 2.....

2008-10-14T23:56:00.004+01:00

De ja vu, won them both again but had a bit of bad luck the last few days. Summed up with this hand just before midnight at the end of the second week....

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 427855404 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $500 Buy-in + $10 Entry Fee, Level:3 Blinds(25/50-(no ante)) - Tuesday, October 14, 22:53:05 GMT 2008
$500+$10 NL Holdem #2246857
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Celebrity ( 1,852 )
Seat 2: Punterz08 ( 1,148 )
Tourney Level:3 Blinds(25/50-(no ante))
Celebrity posts small blind [25]
Punterz08 posts big blind [50]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Punterz08 [ Jc, Jd ]
Celebrity calls [25]
Punterz08 goes all-in
Punterz08 raises to [1,148]
Celebrity calls [1,098]
** Showdown **
Celebrity shows [ 9h, 9s ]
Punterz08 shows [ Jc, Jd ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6s, 7h, Jh ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5h ]
** Dealing River ** [ 3h ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Celebrity wins 2,296 from main pot with a Flush
************ Game 427855404 ends ************

That was a hand after I lost top pair v top pair when going to the river I had 15 outs to win the hand plus 6 to split the pot. I really think next week I will have a big week as surely I cannot run any worse! So the weeks profits (sng only) stand at:

Approx £1100 for two leaderboards

Approx £3100 from sng

(Punterz08 909 £3 £53 £3,177 LWWLLLLW Betfair <1Wk)
sharkscope stats

Approx £800 rakeback

So £5000 for the week from the sng side of things. Good to be getting some consistency going even though it is a bit of a slog. Still only a few weeks of this grind left and then back to some higher stakes and a bit more heads up cash!

My wsope 2008....

2008-10-12T07:53:00.002+01:00

I only played the £1500 nl event and was out ten minutes into level 2....nice! I know that purposely the lower buy in world series events are a lot faster than the more expensive ones yet I feel the structure was still awful. For several years now I have found that often in world series and other events they feel so pressured to ensure that everything stays on schedule that they rush things too much. I believe around 230 people played on day 1a with the aim of cutting it down to around 80 players before the day ended. So play starts at 1pm, half way through the day there is a ridiculous 2 hour lunch break then by midnight play stops for the day with 42 players left. Personally I think you could start play at midday, a one hour lunch break is more than enough midweek in Leicester Square, there are literally 100s of places to eat from. It is not like Las Vegas with a dozen outlets in the casino and a million fat americans in front of you ordering food as if their lives depended on it. I know the buy in is meant to reflect the amount of chips you have yet surely its time to change this instead of just ridiculously dragging days out with meaningless breaks and late starts.

We start with 6000 chips so come level 2 after one hours play I have around 6000 still which is just 60 bb at 50/100. The first hand of level 2 I have a pair of sixes and position on a raiser who makes it 300 so I call and the two blinds (aggressive donks) complete. The flop comes down 652 with two of a suit out, and its checked to initial raiser who puts in a weak 600 bet. I don't want to reraise as any flush draw with overs is likely to stick the lot it and with two cards to come have a fair chance of hitting so I flat call hoping one of the two blinds who checked see the weakness of the continuation bet and reraise letting me be the one to push all in but they both fold for the first time in their lives. The turn drops the 4 of the suit and the guy does something which makes me know instantly he has hit a flush and he bets around 1200 into the 2400 pot, the straight draw does not scare me as he isn't the kind of player who can have a 3 in his hand in this spot. Now I have to call and try and hit my full house so now the pot is 4800ish. River drops a meaningless Jack and he bets around 2200. I have lost 2400 of my 6000 stack and if I call and lose this hand its down to barely 1000 for me, I had a think for a few minutes as it was a hard fold on a 3 suit board, but then I told myself look you know he flushed on the turn and was calling hoping the board paired, it did not so give it up you know you were beat. So down to 3000 chips, a few hands later I have QQ in the bb and raise to 500 one of the limpers calls, flop comes down rag I lead out 1000 guy calls, turn blank i stick in like my last 1700 or so guy calls. He is impatient and asks what I have, I flip over my overpair QQ and he dwells for like 10 seconds before turning a 8 hi flush draw. Why ask what I have, I am hardly going to be behind to 8 hi. Anyways the river comes Ks, flush for donk goodbye for me. I say good luck to other players and leave, the guy from the hand just before said to me good fold before I did have the flush. His name is Joe, and he is something to do with badbeat and seems like a genuine enough chap. So even though I don't play much live poker this may change in the near future as I was simply noticing too many things about the other players at the table. My plan now is too try a few tournaments in Las Vegas soon and then hit a load of tournaments at world series 2009. That said I believe the tournaments at bellagio and venetian offer much more play still having big pay outs.

Well thats that, the only live tournament I played in 2008....it will be a different story in 2009.

leaderboards are back...

2008-10-08T02:55:00.002+01:00

Having decided to take a month away from betfair poker in September I was enticed back when I saw that all sng had rake capped at $10 per game. Playing $1000 games on most sites you pay approx $30 rake and on $500s around $20 so the savings to be made are huge. Also leaderboards are back at betfair for October at least. I pretty much worked out that if I won the top two of the three leaderboards I would get a $2000 bonus and with the reduced sng rake that I would be on over 100% rakeback. Well just like old times I have won the top two leaderboards with ease. I gave the other players hope by not firing on all cyl;inders until the last day on the middleweight leaderboard but the eventual result was never in doubt.

Once again Betfair poker make errors, they state leaderboards will be updated every four hours yet on some days they were not updated at all. Surely it can't be that hard to do. Still all of us who use betfair poker regularly are used to their incompetence.

Another reason for me going for the leaderboards was to calm down a bit. The last week of September saw me lose £30,000 with bad plays and crazy tilts. This is something I need to review. For now if I take it easy for a month I should be able to recoup at least £15,000.

So one week gone in October and current profit stands...

Approx £1100 for two leaderboard

Approx £ 3300 from sng

(Punterz08 896 £4 £60 £3,339 WWLWWLWL Betfair <1Wk) sharkscope stats

Approx £700 rakeback

Total £5000 from a week playing fairly low stakes so definitely not a bad result. I can't see myself having a £50,000+ month for the rest of 2008 as I am not mentally strong enough to be playing the bigger games at the moment. I rarely tilt yet over the last few months on many occasions I have been a tilt monkey. The only positive I can take from my tilt sessions is that it was non poker related issues that generally set me off.

Well week one and £5000 back. Lets hope in week two I can maintain the steady progress.

Hello everybody....

2008-09-30T13:14:00.002+01:00

If I can get some spare time in the future i will start to add some posts back here again. I have a few stories both poker related and non poker related which a few of you may find interesting/funny! In the meantime good luck on the tables.

Poker, Live or Online?

2007-12-17T00:09:00.000Z

I have just witnessed something very bizarre. Betfair ran a $150,000 gtd tournament today and had commentary on the final table. Two betfair sponsored pros were giving their opinions whilst hands were being played. For what its worth annette_15 and milkybarkid are both great people, both at poker and in the way they handle their fame and fortune. Full credit to betfair for trying to be creative but having outsiders speculating on what hands people could have during play would never be allowed in a live tournament so why allow it online? Yet another example on how online poker can be so different from live poker.

It was good to see betfair have a tournament with a fairly decent prizepool yet once again they displayed how far behind they are in relation to online pokers big players. The satellites were pretty awful with mainly $10 sats, 70 runners playing for 1 seat. Also the structure was awful with the final table lasting no longer than thirty minutes. To their credit though betfair did contribute a fair bit out of their own pocket to cover the guarantee. When was the last time anybody can remember pokerstars reaching into their own pockets to cover a guarantee!

Congratulations to all who cashed in it, Punterz08 was out level 3 AA v KK preflop and my friend Mr Silent also lost on level 3 KK v AQ PREFLOP for over 200 big blind pot. Long may the donkeys keep playing!

The Last Post...

2007-10-27T10:47:00.000+01:00

This is the last post for the forseeable future. The reason behind this is quite simple, some people use information from this blog and forward it onto various poker sites and get me grief. Recently I mentioned how I played on a friends account and won $25,000 on pokerstars, 40/3000 if I came first it was $1,400,000 and no doubt I could have lost this money if somebody complained it was a non account holder playing. More recently I have had an email from Betfair saying that they are aware my account is being used by multiple people. Any suggestion that I cannot rake enough by myself for the aussie millions powerplay promo or need assistance to win any leaderboard is ludicrous. The simple fact is a few games were played by somebody else on my account who could not use their own Betfair account due to Betfair Poker being hacked. I will not reveal the aliases and the vast sums of money involved in the scam but needless to say surely offering players protection from hackers should be a priority. At the same time though I have often complained about people constantly using other peoples accounts to get an edge on an opponent and nothing has been done, add to that the fact I know people with 4 or more ACTIVE Betfair accounts at anyone time and this is also ignored. People will often say why do you play Betfair poker with all the grief you get, it is simple it is very easy to make decent consistent money there with the system I use.

Some jealous people say I brag too much etc and they feel this gives them the right to try and report me to poker sites for any reason whether small or large, true of false. I take down many decent scores that people are not aware of unless they are close friends. When I won $25,000 on pokerstars it would not have been public knowledge had I not posted on Betfair poker forum the day before wishing everybody luck in it and mentioning the alias I was using. I deliberately keep most aliases from the various poker sites from the public domain as you will only get jealous people creating a hard time.

For people who think I am constantly trying to make myself look good, you haven't seen anything yet. Where do I need to start? The fact that I give a % of all monthly earnings to various charities? (obviously not nowhere near the Greenstein sums of money but I am sure it does some good). Or do I mention my previous voluntary unpaid work for cancer research? Or do I mention the nights out with the likes of David Beckham, Rio Ferdinand, Joe Cole, Frank Lampard, Ashley Cole etc etc etc. I deliberately try to wind up a few morons but what they think is a big thing is nothing in relation to some of the other stuff about me. Well you learn something new every day so now people are also aware of the fact that I have done voluntary charity work and also give a % of earnings to various charities. These are things nobody else knew about until now however now everybody does.

This blog was mainly intended for fun and the only time I was going to say exact figures won was when i hit $1,000,000. However all the stories and occasional poker advice will now end, sorry to the few people who read this blog but there really is no way I can post again as it can cost me a large amount of money and also even the charities I support would lose a few quid. The links on this blog cover a variety of poker players from addicts to professional high stake players to grinders to up and coming players, have a look at them you may like some of them. Good luck to all players on the tables and more importantly with life in general.

Finally to all the haters go and fuck yourselves, may karma bite you on the arse. You will never ever be a patch on me as a player or a human being in general.

THE END

Nandos Bitch

2007-10-24T10:21:00.000+01:00

Very rare I will use offensive language on this blog but I have to make an exception for this slag. Yesterday was an eventful day, lets start with the Nando's bitch....

Many of you will have eaten in Nandos before, several of you will know how much I am hooked on that place! For those who have never tried it check your nearest restaurant on the homepage and check it out http://www.nandos.co.uk/ . Just make sure if the nearest one is Enfield you go to the second closest one! I was a Nandos virgin until this year, the first ever Nandos I went to was Enfield and it was amazing. I have been a regular to Nandos since, yesterday I went with my friend and his children. His son who is 18 said don't go to Enfield as the staff are rubbish and it is dirty, I had never really noticed this. I guess when something is as good as Nandos if the first one you ever go to is the worst you will still think it is good. My friend orders his food for him, his wife and daughter. Part of the order is a bowl of olives, only green ones he requests (not too difficult) and the girl gives them to him. The other till opens and I order for myself and his son, I also request a bowl of olives only green ones. The manageress who is about 25 says I can't do that. Being somewhat of a Nandos veteran and in 30+ visits this has not been a problem I think she is joking, it is soon apparent that she is serious. I would have mentioned the girl next to her didn't have a problem doing it but I did not want some funny manageress giving her a hard time. So my friend puts on the charm offensive and still she won't budge, I said to him it is just a bowl of olives better to go without than to suck up to that miserable cow. At the end of the order I ask for a beer, she asks me for i.d. I am 29 and had not had a shave for two days, is she for real or just a freak? She clearly wanted some attention from two men but I would not oblige. For the other drink she hands a glass out that was so hot I almost dropped it. I ask if she has one that is not boiling hot and she says "thats how they come". I look at her confused and say
"Sure thats how they come when you take it straight from the dishwasher instead of off the shelf, the place is empty so its not as if you dont have glasses that have not just come from the dishwasher". In all restaurants I hate to complain before I get my food incase they do something to it so I was quite restrained. I finally complete my order and go upstairs to wait for my food, thats the end of that....or is it.......

Upstairs my friend goes to get a bottle of piri piri sauce when out of nowhere psycho bitch appears, she asks him if he got the bottle from upstairs or downstairs? He replies "upstairs". If she said it to me I would have lost it, what the fuck does it matter if the bottle was from upstairs or downstairs? It is free for people to use on their food. Absolute crazy girl. I still highly recommend Nandos to all, just avoid the Enfield branch. If anyone knows the girl please tell her to go and fuck herself, she is around 25 with black hair, glasses and pretty.....pretty fucking ugly!

Also during the eventful day yesterday my friend had one of his houses raided by the police on a drugs bust. He rented it out to a chinese restaurant owner who decided there was more money in skunk than chicken fried rice and noodles! The police found 700 skunk plants in the house and barn! Also they smashed the house to bits. From doing some research online it takes around 3 months to cultivate a plant ready to use to smoke. One kilo of skunk is approximately £3500, and one fully grown plant will yield a minimum of half a kilo. So over a 3 month cycle mr Chinaman would make 700 multiplied by £3500, that is over a million pounds!

The farm is actually fenced off yet someone trespassing reported to the Norwich Constabulary smelling a skunk smell coming from the house. All very strange, how did he know what it smells like! Obviously I have never seen a skunk factory but I find it strange that someone could smell it from half a mile off! Whilst it is good the guy was busted it is not convenient for my friend who barely covered the mortgage on the place with the rent money. Now he has to pay £1500 a month on a place that the police have smashed to bits until he can fix it up and make it habitable. I think he will probably sell it now. So all people who buy to let try to have properties closer to home and regularly check up. Do not let these triad mafia people stitch you up also.

Lastly a bit of a badbeat story, on Monday I placed a few £10 bets on Tottenham to win 4-3, 3-2, 2-1. On the rare occasion I have a bet nowadays I like to go for unlikely scores as the odds are big. On Betfair I found out I could not get around 100/1 which a bookmaker would give on 4-3 but instead any non specified score was set odds of around 11/1. So basically you are backing multiple results, as expected Tottenham rubbish lost (start with Bent??? Jol is out within weeks) Now for yesterday I called a friend who has a William Hill account and asked him to put £10 on Arsenal to win 2-0 and £10 on Arsenal to win 7-0. Now being a idiot Tottenham supporter he had lost all the money in his account the night before! I did not get the bet on and Arsenal won 7-0. Almost straight away I knew what was going to happen, my friends in the pub were also laughing as they also knew. Arsenal 6-0 up with around 20 minutes left, please score two more I ask. They will definitely score one so the sooner the better, typical they miss many easy chances and then with a two minutes left they score to make it 7-0. Amazing, moral of the story is don't have any friends who support Tottenham, its clear for all to see now why they are the most hated club in the world.

The Crippled Hustler.....

2007-10-23T09:05:00.000+01:00

When I am playing a poker tournament I generally let everyone do their own thing and don't nit pick on players errors often. Occasionally if I view something as blatant cheating I will make a complaint. Here is one such instance....

I was playing a forty runner tournament at Treasure Island in Las Vegas. On my table were a husband and wife, the wife had to be assisted into her chair from a wheelchair. She was a bit dribbly and all but seemed to know what she was doing, before long she had almost trebled her stack. Just before the break her husband busted out and within seconds she said she felt ill. She spoke to the cardroom manager and he asked us if we minded if she left? Basically we assumed he meant refund her money from the prizepool and we all said ok. Then her husband went to sit down and take her place, i said what the hell is going on here? Cardroom manager says do you object to her husband taking her place? This is Las Vegas the cardroom manager should never even have considered this option. I said of course I object he has been busted from a freezeout and can't come back in. I realised there was an outside chance she was genuinely ill and said seeing as you cant refund her entrance fee I will do so from my own pocket and she can just be anted off.

The lady after a bit of what I believed to be a bit of exaggerated dribbles and spasms decides to play on. Now several minutes after its the break, the lady had previously said she hadn't played before and was a beginner. I gave her a basic poker guide which I had picked up from the expo at the WSOP. As soon as the break was announced, she blew her cover! Her hand reached straight into her purse and she pulled out some money and asked for the add on. What novice player would be aware of an add on at the break before it was announced? Who feeling ill several minutes before would then try and purchase more chips? When she requested the add on a few of us smiled at eachother, clearly a hustle gone wrong for 'Team Cripple'.

The one other time in Las Vegas when I complained was during a small tournament at Planet Hollywood. Approximately 70 runners so it still paid a fair bit. The usual suspects animal, unstable, pirus, azimut had busted out early. Whenever my friends bust out early I will happily just throw my chips away and go to the next tournament. After all I am not in Las Vegas to play $100 tournaments, I am entering them for the social side of things. I announced to the table the group of donkeys in the corner were my friends who had already busted and I was going to either bust out or get a big stack and win. Around forty players were left when I made my first all in with a hand like T2o and everyone folded and I showed. Next I had J8s and went all in and beat AQ, then virtually every hand after I had a huge hand like AK KK AA AQ TT JJ and kept getting callers, I was now one of the chip leaders.....

Then this hand happened, utg raises and utg+1 smooth calls and I look down at QQ and move all in. It is folded to the initial raiser who asks the guy next to him if he is going to call me. I immediately objected and requested his hand to be dead, with the blinds and raiser and callers chips I was happy enough just to take the pot down there. When I complain the guy gets aggitated and starts saying I have not done anything wrong. The cardroom manager comes over and asks what was said, he immediately declares the raisers hand dead but the person after who said he was going to call did not have his hand killed. He called me with AQ and he was also on the rail. I now had plenty of chips and went on to make the final table.

Every single all in the short stack survived and before long the blinds were ridiculously high. I cannot remember my exact finish but it was around 5th after several outdraws. The one highlight of the tournament though was the lovely Kristy Arnett from cardplayer sitting next to me on the final table. Good looking and she can sure play a good game also!

So all players if ever you feel something shady has gone down on a table don't hesistate to ask for the tournament director to make a ruling. It can create a bit of a bad vibe on the table but at least you are still in the tournament and have not been cheated out of it.

I Have A Dream....

2007-10-22T04:16:00.000+01:00

Three early nights in a row for the first time in ages. Woke up earlier than expected though today due to a dream....

What is worse than dreaming you have won the lottery then waking up realising you haven't? Dreaming you have won it twice! Just dreamt that, now I will have to do with winning two $200 heads up games? Too pissed off to put any poker stories up today.

Here is a link for Absolute Poker's admission of a security lapse, note they still water down how much money people were actually swindled for!

http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/article/9959/absolute-poker-confirms-security-breach

The actual game which Absolute Poker admits was cheated is viewable at youtube. They failed to admit the 100s of thousands taken on the cash tables....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FczbS7FiWSM

Absolute Poker Scandal (update)

2007-10-20T15:34:00.000+01:00

Bit of a crazy weekend so far and ahead so not much time to post. So here is a quick update on the absolute poker scandal...

Having initially denied any possibility to cheating being possible via seeing opponents hole cards Absolute Poker were provided with overwhelming evidence suggesting it was not only possible but in fact happening and they STILL denied it had happened. For people to be betting $20,000 on a river with a 9 hi bluff and to get called by ten high simply would not happen. Finally due to possible legal action the full truth has come out. To save me typing it all here here is a link with pretty much the full details. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21381022/

From a personal viewpoint I said this was possible several years ago, my exact words being "If people can hack into the pentagon and NASA then online poker is definitely not 100% secure". People ridiculed what I suggested was possible and I would rather have never been proven correct. Absolute Poker as a brand name surely is ruined now and will never have much traffic again at the site. The great news for all players is that surely any problems on other sites will now not be swept under the carpet as if it does come out the company will be virtually ruined.

Good luck on the tables all and rememeber, if something does not feel right do not be afraid to speak out.

FINAL STRAW....

2007-10-19T11:57:00.001+01:00

After one bad beat too many I am finally giving up games from $300+ to $1000. With all the recent rumours about dodgy software it is only prudent for me to cap my games at $300, I shall review at the end of the week and perhaps step down to a maximum stake of $150-$200.

Fight them or join them?/ FullTiltPoker, Betfair Poker, Absolute Poker scams.

2007-10-19T02:01:00.000+01:00

Several things happened on the tables last night which I don't approve of. They are tactics that sometimes increase profits guaranteed. However even if it is online I believe that you should still show respect to a certain extent even if you will probably never ever meet your opponent for real. Last month there was the instance of where a guy I was playing frequently every day was sat out at the start of the game, he came in some time later and I had a lot of chips of his which I passed back. He says thankyou, then the tables are reversed a few days later and does he do the same back? No he says hahaha fuck you when I request he do for me as I did for him. (glad to see he has gone from playing $200 games to $10 games now!). Now for last night....

I had a few beers watching the football, then later on I had a few in the west end of london. I forgot I had had a few beers before and when I got home I wasn't entirely sober. I logged on and played cash $2.50/$5 and quickly went from $250 to $550. The table was manic and there was a chance of a big score, then I get KK and make a big reraise called by A6o flop is 662 I go broke. Now I go on mad drunk tilt and start throwing money away, I end up losing over $2000. During this time people would make a profit then leave and come back a few minutes later buying in for less I think this is cheap and wrong. Then some people would ask me to play heads up which again I think is wrong. I really do not like when someone is playing bad on a 6 seat table and another player tries to take them away to themselves. So i say ok but 25/50 nl......

The guy sits and I buy in for $2000 and first hand I raise with A * and flop a pair, the river is A and I bet $900 pot he thinks for a while and folds. I then sit out with $450 back from my $2000, it is a shame I did not get the extra $900. Also I noticed that someone would join table from Faroe Islands and then the next person to join was also from there. The whole island has a population of just over two people so what a coincidence that was! When I view cash tables I often notice that you get groups from a certain country sat on the same table, always spaced out a few players apart. No proof but I can only suspect sometimes there is teamwork going on.

I soon get back almost all of my losses playing heads up sit n go. Then a few more unsporting things started to happen. It was around 4a.m. and the site was pretty dead, I had played a bad player around ten times and won most. Another player was clearly watching the games and as soon as they entered he would try to jump into the next game the second the fish did, a few times he got into the games before me. I was pleased to see DJPONYTALE take most of his money on heads up cash after. Now the person I was playing at one stage in a $100 game was also registered in a $300 game, I said shall I join that also and he said yes. When the game started he said I don't want to play two tables at once can we sit out on one. I explained I do not want to sit out and later when we start playing the blinds will probably be sky high. I won the $100 and said don't worry I will give it back to you after. We then finished the $300 and I played a $100 game with him and sat out so he could get the win. Here is an example of how bad he was...

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 264143035 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $300 Buy-in + $15 Entry Fee, Level:1 Blinds(10/20-
(no ante)) - Thursday, October 18, 04:06:20 GMT 2007
$300+$15 NL Holdem #1184224
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: (alias deleted) ( 1,330 )
Seat 2: Mr Silent ( 1,670 )
Tourney Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante))
Mr Silent posts small blind [10]
(alias deleted) posts big blind [20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Mr Silent [ Ks, Ah ]
Mr Silent raises to [60]
(alias deleted) raises to [180]
Mr Silent goes all-in
Mr Silent raises to [1,670]
(alias deleted) calls [1,150]
(alias deleted) goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [340] to Mr Silent
** Showdown **
(alias deleted) shows [ 6d, Td ]
Mr Silent shows [ Ks, Ah ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Kh, Th, 6h ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qs ]
** Dealing River ** [ 9c ]
** Hand Conclusion **(alias deleted) wins 2,660 from main pot with two pair, Tens and Sixes

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 264141758 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $200 Buy-in + $8 Entry Fee, Level:1 Blinds(10/20-
(no ante)) - Thursday, October 18, 03:41:17 GMT 2007
$200+$8 NL Holdem #1184219
Table 1 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: Mr Silent ( 1,680 )
Seat 2: (alias deleted) ( 1,320 )
Tourney Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante))
Mr Silent posts small blind [10]
(alias deleted) posts big blind [20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Mr Silent [ Qc, Ad ]
Mr Silent raises to [60]
(alias deleted) raises to [100]
Mr Silent goes all-in
Mr Silent raises to [1,680]
(alias deleted) calls [1,220]
(alias deleted) goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [360] to Mr Silent
** Showdown ** Mr Silent shows [ Qc, Ad ]
(alias deleted) shows [ Jc, 7c ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ac, Jd, 9h ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2c ]
** Dealing River ** [ Jh ]
** Hand Conclusion **
(alias deleted) wins 2,640 from main pot with three of a kind, Jacks
************ Game 264141758 ends ************

I have deleted his name as I don't want everyone getting my fish for free! Basically any raise he would reraise and would then call any all in preflop if his two cards were suited. As he won a few games he would move up in stake, after bad beating me in a $500 game leaving me low in chips he said after this I will play two $750s and then go to bed. So i play him in a $750 determined to win as he is going soon, I win and he then jumps into a $100 with someone else. Loses and quits for the night. Now obviously he was playing with my money from the previous few games and was hoping he would win the $750 to then play me again. I hated the way he lied.

So basically from one nights poker the following things happened which i disagree with:

1) Hit and run
2) Possible collusion/playing same table with two different accounts
3) Jumping in peoples rematches as you know their opponent is bad
4) Playing in a ring game and trying to take a fish away from everyone else to get heads up
5) Speaking to somebody who is polite all night, refunds you a $100 entry fee when you play more tables than you can cope with and then telling lies. Clearly hoping to win at higher stake with their money and then getting a no lose rematch before quitting for the night.

Out of the top five things the only one I will ever consider is point # 2. However I would only use this versus somebody who has done the same to me. I could never imagine the likes of other good players such as hawko/dubai/benno doing the same. Some people wish to win by any means necessary, some of the means they will use I think are a form of cheating. Each to their own I guess, just never feel obliged to refund somebody who has disconnected as there is a huge likelyhood they will not do the same for you.

On the subject of cheating following the Absolute Poker and Fulltiltpoker scams of late claims have now come up that on Betfair poker that people have software to access opponents hole cards. I do not know if there is any truth that Betfair have refunded people large sums of money. The only thing for certain is that Betfair would act with integrity similar to fulltilt and unlike Absolute Poker cheats. Funnily enough I had seen a player on the cash tables spamming with the link for a trojan virus. Here is the email I sent betfair and what happened next:

(DO not click the link)

Dear Sir/Madam

Previously I have downloaded a virus from some bastard on a betfair forum. I know you are already aware of this problem but on the poker cash tables somebody by the alias ThXena is spamming this virus. On cash table Manila if you check the chat logs you should be able to see the link for http://www.betfairreport.com/ being spammed. I noticed the person sat down with $1000, a lot of people had to buy virus removers due to the forum posts and I would like to think that these people have all funds seized. I am sure betfair will take appropriate action.

My account is then locked and I recieve the following email....

Thank you for bringing this spamming to our attention.
You mentioned in your email that you had downloaded the virus. For your security, we have temporarily suspended your account. Please change your password and run antivirus, and when the virus has been removed from your computer, let us know and we will unsuspend your account.
Please be advised that we tried to contact you by telephone regarding this on 07801499532, but the number did not seem to work.We thank you once again for your co-operation.Kind regards,

After several phone calls my account is activated again and two days later the same person is spamming the same messages still on the cash tables! So people all beware of what you recieve in your email inbox and do not download anything unless you confirm with the site first via email to the advertised email address on their homepage or via phone. There is so much money in online poker and the mafias of this world are finally taking advantage in a big way. Be very cautious. That's all for now, good luck on the tables all.....

Multi Table Success...

2007-10-17T07:52:00.000+01:00

Online multi table tournaments (MTT) are currently an area of poker I loathe. You can play a tournament for hours then get an awful suckout just before the prize money gets big. Indeed in some of the bigger online tournaments you could be playing for anything up to twenty hours! I do not mind playing a twenty hour session online but every once in a while I like to take quick breaks. A MTT may give you a break at the end of each hour however if you are playing several tournaments at once these breaks will not all start at the same time so in effect for your session at best you can run off for a sixty second toilet break. Whatever discipline I am playing I like to stick to just one at a time. Some people may run cash and tournament tables together but you results will not be so good. Last night I played a £50 tournament but I only ended up in it by chance....

Betfair were running a cross forum poker challenge with pretty much one team from each discussion forum entering. I was registered for one of these teams and was determined to put a good effort in as I feel you must do when playing as part of a team or with someone elses money or if someone has a % in you. So to stop me straying off losing concentration in my usual games I entered Betfair's 16k guaranteed (gtd) which is the biggest daily tournament that they run. The prize money is nowhere near as much as that of sites such as Fulltiltpoker and pokerstars bigger daily tournaments but $5000+ for an entry fee of $100 is still pretty decent.

First up the cross forum challenge where I lasted a dissapointing half an hour, i make a huge check raise on the turn with the then nut straight and was called by a flush draw which hit on the river. There was quite a few chips in the middle and I was not going to fold my hand even though I knew there was a possibility that the opponent could have a flush. So sorry to the special bets forum team who all in all did not have the best of success, but like many of the other forums they all had a good time. Few quick thanks to Deejay, Mandylou (Ponte/Carl), UKgatsby for organising this event and misspoker for inviting me to play for the team. Lastly good work by Betfair and hopefully a few new faces turn up on the tables as a result of this tournament for some easy pickings in the future! Just as I was busting out the 16k gtd started and I had forgotten I had even entered it....

Within the early stages the same situation appeared to arise that had just taken me out of the previous tournament, I call a bet on the flop with an open end straight draw. If i hit one of 8 cards I will have the best possible hand on the turn, bingo it hits on the turn and I have the nuts but there is also a flush draw now out. So once again I put in a big check raise on the turn and my opponent calls. Alarm bells are ringing but the river is a safe 2 red and I push all in and am quickly called by pocket Kings for an early double up. I was finding it hard to focus and kept slipping off to play some heads up and single table tournaments at the same time. Then when it got down to the last 50 of 157 participants I won a few pots and was up to around 8th place. I then decided to step up a gear and lost a few pots mainly to a player called shaunpaul which was entirely down to my own stupidity of playing out of position. In a multi tournament it is stupidity to play hands out of position unless you are playing a rush of good hands. I have now slipped down to around 12/40 and am in no mood to continue playing the tournament.....

Then suddenly my brain activates and says why waste two hours of your time online for nothing? I take a few steps that have helped me win MTTs in the past, I turn off msn and locate some good music to listen to. I win a few points and am focussing hard when the following hand came up to boost my confidence:

NL Texas Hold'em $100 Buy-in + $9 Entry Fee,
Level:7 Blinds(100/200-25 ante) - Tuesday,October 16, 21:05:01 GMT 2007
Daily $16k GTD #106194
Table 1 9-max (Real Money)
Seat 9 is the button
Total number of active players : 8
Seat 1: shaunpaul ( 6,920 )
Seat 2: jaymac ( 19,354 )
Seat 3: J.R ( 6,469 )
Seat 4: The Klup ( 4,596 )
Seat 6: benjyboyblu ( 4,909 )
Seat 7: Mr Silent ( 13,755 )
Seat 8: Thrappers ( 5,300 )
Seat 9: paymybeer ( 14,448 )
Tourney Level:7 Blinds(100/200-25 ante)
shaunpaul posts small blind [100]
jaymac posts big blind [200]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Mr Silent [ 4c, 4h ]
J.R folds
The Klup folds
benjyboyblu folds
Mr Silent calls [200]
Thrappers folds
paymybeer raises to [720]
shaunpaul folds
jaymac folds
Mr Silent calls [520]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ks, 4s, 6d ]
Mr Silent checks
paymybeer bets [1,000]
Mr Silent raises to [2,800]
paymybeer raises to [4,600]
Mr Silent goes all-in
Mr Silent raises to [13,010]
paymybeer calls [8,410]
** Showdown ** Mr Silent shows [ 4c, 4h ]
paymybeer shows [ Kc, Ac ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2c ]
** Dealing River ** [ Qc ]**
Hand Conclusion **Mr Silent wins 27,960 from main pot with three of a kind, Fours ************ Game 263624516 ends ************

With 11,000 in the middle I put my last 13,000 in which is almost the same as my opponents remaining chips and I think he should be folding here. A lot of people will call here but with a healthy position in the later stages of a tournament I think that it is a standard fold here with one pair even if you have top kicker. So now I am up with the chip leaders and in cruise control. I am also moved away from my nemisis shaunpaul who has been taking every pot from me. The only way I go down now is with a big hand or a bad beat. For some reason I keep getting huge hands with other people with big stacks, I take down several huge pots in a short period when opponents check raise me all in to see to their horror me instacall.....and them either drawing dead or to miracle miracle to survive. With 16 left I am a big chip leader and the stacks on my table are as follows...

Seat 1: shaunpaul ( 44,439 )
Seat 2: Pambo ( 27,813.50 )
Seat 3: Mr Silent ( 89,410 )
Seat 4: suddes ( 17,176 )
Seat 5: evo2 ( 29,952 )
Seat 6: Blackpool07 ( 18,199 )
Seat 7: Demol ( 25,260 )
Seat 8: UncleBak ( 6,390.50 )
Tourney Level:11 Blinds(600/1,200-75 ante)

I have 75 big blinds which is huge at this stage of the tournament and playing my rush I am pretty much raising with any two pretty cards. I raise up with QT suited and Blackpool07 reraises all in. I don't have the odds to call him, however I am playing a rush and also like to demonstrate that if I raise I will call a reraise from a shorter stack. He has AK and doubles up through me, now its time for me to change gear and shut up shop for a bit. Looking back I wish I never called as Blackpool07 and ICANTPLAY who are both decent enough players were crying when I was raising their blinds. One example is it is folded to me in the small blind where I look down at AT, ICANTPLAY is sitting in the big blind with ten big blinds left. My stack is huge and in this spot it is a standard all in. I am not going to raise to 3-4 times the big blind and fold to a reraise, I am not going to limp and let him flop two pair and me top pair. How he was being sarcastic about that push all in only he can know.

I started to lose concentration a bit and again was back to some sit and gos, which I soon finished and said I may as well focus on trying to get $5000 here. I have a big chip lead and it can all be over in just over an hour. So one last hour or so of concentration and I will make more than I would from a whole day of sit and go. Then down to the last 14 i suckout badly for the first time of the tournament, the hand and an explanation follow....

Seat 1: shaunpaul ( 56,314 )
Seat 2: Pambo ( 33,063.50 )
Seat 3: Mr Silent ( 68,361 )
Seat 4: suddes ( 13,751 )
Seat 5: evo2 ( 40,127 )
Seat 6: Blackpool07 ( 21,773 )
Seat 7: Demol ( 25,250.50 )
Tourney Level:12 Blinds(800/1,600-75 ante)
shaunpaul posts small blind [800]
Pambo posts big blind [1,600]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Mr Silent [ Qc, Qs ]Mr Silent calls [1,600]
suddes folds
evo2 raises to [7,800]
Blackpool07 folds
Demol foldsshaunpaul folds
Pambo folds
Mr Silent goes all-in
Mr Silent raises to [68,286]evo2 calls [32,252]
evo2 goes all-in
Returning uncalled bet [28,234] to Mr Silent
** Showdown **
Mr Silent shows [ Qc, Qs ]
evo2 shows [ Kc, Kd ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7d, 9s, 8s ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qh ]
** Dealing River ** [ Jc ]
** Hand Conclusion **Mr Silent wins 83,029 from main pot with three of a kind, Queens

Now with QQ in first position I do not like to get involved with many players, I have come unstuck so many times. I do not mind limping and then if there is a raise and reraiser I will fold with my current stack. I do not feel I am folding a big hand, i will feel that I am just losing one big blind. My stack is healthy to take on the shorter stacks no matter what they do, however worst case scenario is evo2 raises and shaunpaul reraises in which case i fold. Evo2 raises and the rest fold, he has a lot of fold equity and pretty much the only hand he has here that beats me is AA/KK although I did not feel aces. Many other hands he could have are AK/AQ/QQ/JJ and by reraising all in he is absolutely certain to fold any hand other than KK/AA. Unfortunately for him he has KK and gets a bad beat, thats poker though and I am sure of two things. Firstly he was happy to get that far in this tournament as he caught a few rivers against hands such as KK himself with AJ and secondly he will call and get beaten by a lot worse than QQ on a daily basis. He is a decent guy and I wish to pay for him to enter the tournament one night soon from the lucky money! If i did not get lucky that hand I am down to 36000 chips which would still have me in around 6/14.....

But i did get lucky and now we are down to unlucky number 13 players left....unlucky for shaunpaul as I now have huge stack and position over him...

Seat 1: shaunpaul ( 55,439 )
Seat 2: Pambo ( 31,388.50 )
Seat 3: Mr Silent ( 111,263 )
Seat 4: suddes ( 13,676 )
Seat 6: Blackpool07 ( 21,698 )
Seat 7: Demol ( 25,175.50 )

I pretty much terrorise him with raises and reraises, one hand suddes benefitted with over a treble up and shaunpaul's stack was damaged with me losing one big blind on the hand after the sidepot. After a while on the final table bubble we are down to the final 9 and I am in control. I have a huge amount of confidence any final table I make, I feel that having invested so much time I have to get first. As the money jumps every position any spot but first deeply dissapoints me. When I was frequently playing tournaments on the crypto (aka corrupto/crookto) network I once went through a stage where I won 15/20 final tables no matter if i started as the big stack or short stack. The final table start is as follows.....

Seat 1: shaunpaul ( 56,639 )
Seat 2: Pambo ( 39,811.50 )
Seat 3: Mr Silent ( 110,036 )
Seat 4: suddes ( 52,153.50 )
Seat 5: nivek987 ( 21,022 )
Seat 6: ICANTPLAY ( 24,518.50 )
Seat 7: COMMANDO ( 42,366 )
Seat 8: sammylee ( 24,232.50 )
Seat 9: PAYTOSEE ( 21,721 )
Tourney Level:13 Blinds(1,000/2,000-100 ante)

Of these players I don't want to see ICANTPLAY or COMMANDO get too many chips. I do not mind shaunpaul getting a few chips as I now have position on him and pretty much have his game beat. I play a few hands and we are soon down to seven with my stack size hugely increased and one of the better players out. I decide that my stack is too big to be getting involved with the smaller stacks as any raise I make on them I have to be prepared to call their reraise all in. So i step down a gear and let them fight it out, it seems every all in and call the shorter stacks win the race and pot.

Seat 1: shaunpaul ( 40,505 )
Seat 2: Pambo ( 29,961.50 )
Seat 3: Mr Silent ( 167,804.50 )
Seat 4: suddes ( 29,626 )
Seat 5: nivek987 ( 23,716 )
Seat 7: COMMANDO ( 63,845 )
Seat 9: PAYTOSEE ( 37,042 )
Tourney Level:14 Blinds(1,500/3,000-150 ante)

Two more players are out and now the prize money jumps a bit, so I was happy to be calling shorter stacks all ins so long as I had such a huge chip advantage. The only player I was avoiding was COMMANDO as he is a pest with his reraises etc and I do not want to chip him up as I am in control..

Seat 2: Pambo ( 23,061.50 )
Seat 3: Mr Silent ( 209,059.50 )
Seat 5: nivek987 ( 28,516 )
Seat 7: COMMANDO ( 100,721 )
Seat 9: PAYTOSEE ( 31,142 )
Tourney Level:15 Blinds(2,000/4,000-200 ante)

When a short stack is all in with AK i call with QJ and hit, then I take another out in similar fashion and we are down to the last 3. Personally I wish for COMMANDO to make heads up so that I can make a deal with him and let him take first as the multi table leaderboard points would push him up a lot higher and mean nothing to me as I do not play many. First spot being worth $3000 extra at the end of the month and a top 3 finish getting into the champion of champions game which i always get into via the sit and go leaderboard anyway. Pambo has played very clever to get to the last 3 where he suddenly hits the biggest card rush since Jamie Gold won the world series main event and COMMANDO is out in third. I was in a lucky position to have a big stack and recieve so many walks, Pambo was clever enough to realise I was not going to let him steal my blinds and kept folding his small blind. I soon one heads up and I feel that Pambo's second spot was perhaps a better performance than mine as I had such chip leads and he was often the short stack from a long way out. So my £50 nets me £2400 for a game that lasts 4 hours, will I now be playing more of these tournaments? No way they give me a headache every time, still at least it was over ten hours less in duration for me than the stars 5million$ guaranteed.

Well thats my first tournament first place in a while as I do not play many, I would like to mention a few more points on tournament play but there are a few people who will read this blog who are not worthy of improving their game at my expense. Hence no hand histories when I am reraising with 37 offsuit or the hands when I create a sidepot with ten hi. (soap liked that one! soap's poker ) Good luck to all and I am going to squeeze a few hours in before the football later (as part of the aussie millions powerplay promo), and then off to central London to meet Animal and a few others who are playing in the GKUPT London tournament. I wish them all well as I do all other players who play for a living...

For the gamblers......

2007-10-16T17:10:00.000+01:00

Most people who read this blog will be one or both of the following, a sports bettor whether small bets for fun or big bets for big wins/losses and also a bit of a know it all when it comes to sports. There is a new innotive way to test your sporting knowledge and have a bet at the same time. Basically for £10 you can enter a competition whereby you need to predict the winner of an upcoming sporting event, it covers many sports including football, tennis and rugby. Whoever is the last person still in wins, you get a wrong prediction and you are out! You can get an extra life for £2 or two extra lives for £3. I suggest people start with 3 lives for £13 unless you are Nostradamus! The link is below for this fun competion, it will only grow in size and in the future there will be some bigger prizes!

www.acepunter.com/competition

24 hours in Rhodes.....

2007-10-16T04:23:00.000+01:00

Long version or short version, hmmm......what the hell the short version.....

A few years back I flew out to the greek island of Rhodes on a one week ticket with a friend. There is one small casino on the island and within a few hours we found our way there, between us both we lost around £15,000 that night and were broke! The next day we went to a travel agency armed with our AMEX but it was closed for the afternoon siesta, so we went to the beech for a few hours. Came back booked a brand new ticket at an inflated price and then was back in London for around 11p.m. on a Saturday night.

So in a nutshell another holiday spoilt by a degenerate gambling attack! As ever there is always a twist at the end of the story. I left my case in the car and went straight to a nightclub in the west end, before I went inside I saw a really fit girl and her mate outside. Just my luck, the not so fit girl sticks her number in my phone. On and off I end up seeing her for a few years, I would have paid another £10,000 to have come back a day later and to have never met her!

So people remember when you go on holiday, always avoid any casinos! Also never forget a credit card for any emergencies!

For one day lets make a retard feel special....

2007-10-15T11:00:00.000+01:00

Average of 1 visit per day for builder86 the retard, lets let him seem popular for 1 day....

p.s. your comments to him don't have to be nice if you feel like myself that he is an absolute twat. Be careful tho as he is a hard as fuck derby county fc hooligan as you can see if you visit this webpage
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee46/urchinlfc/builder.jpg

(I have taken the link down, well done people for making a retard feel special. He recieved as many hits today as he has in the last two months, I hope that he will win a $5 sit and go soon so that he can once again share his poker stories with the rest of the world!)

24 Hours in Las Vegas....

2007-10-15T05:31:00.000+01:00

At last I have time for this post! It will take me a while to type but at 5 a.m. there is not much traffic on the site I am currently playing. I could play Pokerstars for a bit but I don't want to play much as I am not feeling A1. I woke up after just two hours sleep and wasn't able to get back to sleep. Probably a result of a crazy Saturday watching England triumph in the football and the rugby matches. Don't be surprised if England throw another upset in the final against South Africa! I was recently thinking of all the places I have spent just a day in, Paris (previous blog entry on this night), greek island of Rhodes, Beruit in Lebanon, Salzburg in Austria, Munich in Germany, Havana in Cuba just misses out as it was a 48 hour stay and one of the most eventful trips 24 hours in Las Vegas.......

A few years ago when I was in the habit of spending too much time and money in exclusive London nightspots I had one night where I met a beautiful girl and a whole chain of events started. When I was younger I never ever refused a last minute invitation to go out to a club. I had a theory that if I stayed in or went to a local place with friends the odds on anything life changing happening were very slim. However if you go out to the west end such is the traffic of new people there on any given day of the week you could meet hollywood film stars, your sporting idols, supermodels, princes, princesses, oil barons, many life changing experiences are possible. This night was one of those nights, my friend invited me to got to Chinawhite at the last minute. It was a midweek night and I had been getting ready for bed when I got ready and jumped in a cab. Wednesdays at Chinawhite used to be the best night out of the week at any central London nightspot.

Arriving at the club I bypass the usual several hour long queue (which for many still ended in getting turned away!). There were several of us in the club and we immediately hit the vodka! After a while I noticed a beautiful girl, I kept noticing her everywhere. After a few vodkas I was seeing double, wait a minute it is not the vodka.....its twins! A friend of mine informed me that they were pretty much regulars on the club scene and I wondered why I had not noticed them before, it turns out they were 19 so probably had not been regulars for that long. He introduced me to one of them and I instantly hit it off with her. We spoke for around an hour and then parted our own seperate ways, during the course of the night several times I would bump into her sister and go to speak to her before realising I had the 'wrong' one. The night flew past and before I knew it I was back at home dreaming about this beauty that I had met!

Several weeks later I was again in Chinawhites when someone kicked me from behind, it was not a hard kick and I turned around to see who it was.....lo and behold it was my 'beauty'. She says 'You bastard you said we should go out last time we met yet left without taking my number'. Bingo thats a great tell on her, if she is not keen then I don't know what keen means! I swap numbers with her and then done something I rarely do, I hit the dancefloor with her. Boy she could move that sweet booty! She was bumping and grinding so much so that when I left the club my linen trousers had brown streaks down them. I said NO way this fit girl cant have fucking shit down me, it then dawned on me that when I done the obligatory sniff and could not smell anything that it was fake tan. Some of it had clearly rubbed off onto my trousers, thanks god for that!

Now where does Las Vegas fit into all of this you may ask. On the first night she had mentioned it was her birthday coming up and I had been taling about a recent trip to Las Vegas, I was drunk and did not recall saying this but on hearing she had never been to america I said "For your birthday I will take you to Las Vegas". Thankfully back then I had a pretty sweet deal with a travel agent . I rang my man up on the Monday and booked two flights to Las Vegas. Unfortunately only non direct flights were available and they still cost just over £1000 each!

A week soon passed and then I was packed and ready to go to Las Vegas, before I leave my house I ring several times and get no answer! I know she is in London as she came down the night before. I am at Victoria station thinking great what a stupid drunken idea gone wrong. Then after several more attempts I get an answer. She had been clubbing the night before and had just woken up, she was staying in central London and within thirty minutes she was ready and at Victoria Station ready to get the express train to Gatwick airport. On the train her sister was sending several texts, of the two her sister was clearly the worst one. It suddenly dawned that we had only known eachother for a few hours and were about to go on holiday together. We had instantly connected though and got on so well, yet doubts started to creep in via messages from her sister. At the airport she comes out with " I don't thing I can go through with this, what if my sister is right and you are a murderer or something". I say fair enough I don't mind if you don't want to come, we can both get back on the train now and cancel the idea. Having already been delayed by her sleeping in time was now against me. I remained cool and calm then said one way or another you have around 60 seconds now to decide as if you don't the decision will not be needed as the boarding gate will have closed! It's a yes from her, I feel better than somebody who has just been given a yes by all the judges on pop idol!

On the plane she mentions a few more negative things from seeds sown into her mind by her sister. The trip out was an absolute disaster, it was with American Airways and never again! The flights were more expensive than usual due to last minute booking and they still charged $5 for each drink! Using my usual charm I was friendly to the trolly dolly and got many drinks for free. After several hours the girl asks are we nearly there, she nearly has a heart attack when she realises the flight is longer than a flight to Spain. The poor girl has never ever been away from her sister for a few hours, they even shared the same mobile phone. So thats twenty years of almost constant manipulation by her sister. When the flight is nearly over i feign sleep much to the disappointment of the steward who thought he was on to a sure winner by giving me so much alcohol! He felt pretty gutted!

The first transfer is a nightmare, security checks took so long that the two hour gap in flights nearly was not enough to make it in time to catch the connecting flight. Then there is a delay of several hours due to bad weather. Once we have boarded the plane once again there is a delay, we are forced to sit on the plane on the runway for over FIVE HOURS! During this time we are given just one glass of water, upon request for a blanket my girl is told we do not carry blankets for every passenger look in the above locker and if one is there it is, if it isn't it isn't. Is this the worst airline of all time or what? Charge you for drinks, charge you for headphones and now this. The heavy night out before has left her feeling rough and grouchy, add to that the delays and it being that time of the month and my nightmare is clearly just beginning!

We arrive in Las Vegas after a total travel time of 23 hours. Whilst waiting for luggage she reads more texts on my phone from her sister. Her sister is telling her not to forget that the next week somebody is taking them to the Monaco Grand prix in his own private jet and how great it will be. Suddenly things take a turn for the better, a guy is holding a card with my name on. It looks like the casino has sent a limo to pick me up, obviously due to spending a lot on the tables there in the past. We get to the casino and in my room a bucket of Corona on ice is waiting for me as well as a fruit basket and a box of chocolates. The girl is impressed and I am starting to think perhaps all the hassle so far was not in vain after all....

As soon as we wake up there are plenty of texts from her sister going on about the grand prix trip. She suggests to me that we cut the trip short by a few days, this is the final straw for me. I have had 23 hours of hassle getting out to Las Vegas with her, and now this before we have started. I say sure no problem I will shorten the trip now, I pick up the phone and ring the airline and change the flights to the NEXT day! American Airlines want $150 per person to change, are they for real i scream down the phone it has taken me 23 hours to get to Las Vegas. The lady agrees to waver the charge.

Bearing in mind that if I am in Las Vegas for a week it will no doubt cost me a small fortune, added to that some limitations due to her being 20 years of age. I just don't feel she is worth all the effort anymore, she looks at me in shock. I decide to make the most of the 24 hours though, one of the casino directors who I knew said I should just send her home the next day and stay out there. I am not that evil! In the next 24 hours we hang out at the pool in Caesar's and drink some amazing cocktails, the weather is great unlike back home! Next some shopping at the forum shops, truly amazing shops! We then take a helicopter trip to the grand canyon and land there, it really was an amazing experience for both of us. To top if off for dinner I ask what she would like and she says a steak, so we go to Delmonico Steakhouse at the Venetian. At the time it was constantly being voted as one of the best restaurants in Las Vegas and definitely the best steak restaurant. I go to the reception and find that it is fully booked yet I manage to blag a table. Wow none of the reviews mentioned that just for a steak its almost $200, great food but a bit steep! O, well.

After a great 24 hours in Las Vegas it is time to leave, teary eyed she says can't we stay a bit longer? I reply no. Then for another nightmare flight home, its de ja vu with delays and ATROCIOUS customer service. On the first plane when we go to sit down I am informed that it is not my seat. I say of course it is, I show my boarding pass. I am informed that we have been seperated due to the fact that a couple with a baby needed to sit together. Surely this is not my problem and they could and should have just moved a traveller flying alone. I complain and the stewardess says "If you really want to sit together you can....but you must get off of this flight and board the next". What ridiculous customer service, I am fuming. We have delays again and it takes 24 hours to get back into London. Finally back at Gatwick we get our luggage and she wants to use a payphone to call her sister or something as my mobile battery is flat. I say platform 1 or 2 for next train to London and walk off and jump on a train that was seconds away from departing. The last time I ever saw her other than on television a few times.

I have not mentioned the girls name due to the fact that I have been hearing some stories of weird stalkers lately online. I don't mind if anyone stalks me however it is not right for somebody else to be stalked by some nutter, especially not a pretty young lady. In fact some freak called thebuilder86 asked me to post some pictures of my girlfriends on my blog earlier, clearly he either wants to just knock one out or do some stalker type actions. You would think that all the effort and money spent made the trip a total disaster, well there is one plus point to the story. It did not cost me one penny, the only time I have ever left Las Vegas without doing my nuts! On the first day I placed $100 split on numbers 20 and 21 as it was her age and her birthday. It slammed into the number 20 and I picked up $1750 covering all expenses in Las Vegas. The room was free as a comp from the casino, and as for the rip off priced flights as I mentioned I used to have a good deal with a travel agent and they did not cost me a penny. I would advise all travellers from the UK that wherever possible use an English airline and not an american to fly overseas. Even if it costs more money you will get a better service, pay for less drink and avoid the culture clash. As much as I like america and people from there some americans are simply retarded. At all costs avoid American Airlines. I often wonder what the girl is up to nowadays, I regret storming off once we arrived home and wish her well. Her mum did phone me and thank me for looking after her daughter but I never spoke to her again. She was a nice girl just I feel confused at how to cope when her twin sister was not with her.

Next blog entry is 24 hours in Rhodes.......(probably)

WRECKED....

2007-10-14T16:42:00.000+01:00

Been a few crazy days hence lack of posts, balance is going up and down a few thousand at least twice a day also due to some crazy moods. Shall post proper entry by tomorrow, now off to play more poker with a half dead brain.

Hustle gone wrong!

2007-10-11T02:46:00.000+01:00

They say Christmas is a time of joy, celebrations and spending time with your friends and loved ones. For all the gamblers in the world it is a time to gamble more than ever! Card games with uncles and friends, excessive bets on Kempton on boxing day! Now a friend of ours would always hustle us, he would bet us £20 on one nfl team to beat another and take the team that was a few points behind. After he won the bet he would say "The main player, the quarterback on your pick got injured just before we made the bet. Endless hustle bets, never for much money but it was annoying! Everytime a bet seemed to be too good to be true it was and somehow we always lost!

Then one Christmas my friend and I had watched the end of the world's strongest man contest and saw who won. The next day we went to a friend's to play some cards and hustler was there! On the television we noticed the world's strongest man contest was on and noticed all the contestants were the same as the day before. Obviously it was a re-run and noticing after 4 events the eventual winner was was off the top we suggested a bet with the hustler. He had the leader and we had the guy in last place who we knew was the eventual winner and he also gave us 3/1.

We then watched the rest of the contest with a smile on our face waiting for the inevitable late surge of our pick. Our hustler friend had a smile as large as ours as surely he had a sure thing. The longer the contest went the less we were smiling as our man simply wasn't catching up, then it got to the stage where with a few events left it was not even possible to win if he won every single event left. It was then that it dawned upon us that the contest we watched the day before had been the one the year before the one that we were currently betting.

So we lost the bet and had to pay up, £20 only but it was the gutting feeling that once again he had gotten one over us. It wasn't all bad however, on the card tables he was an absolute fish and would always pay us off there!

A slight change of topic, its good to see that viewers of this blog are picking up a bit. Several people have posted comments which I have withheld due to the fact they are advertising products. I am not saying it is necessarily spam, however I don't want to have anything advertised via this page. Some poker products that have been good for me I will mention such as Barry Greenstein's "Ace on the river". Truly the best poker book I have ever read.

No more table chat!!!!

2007-10-10T01:03:00.000+01:00

A lot of people probably dont believe me/think its possible but I shall try to no longer 'speak' on online poker tables. Most things people type I have seen before and it doesn't affect me in anyway whatsoever. However over the last few weeks several things have happened which have made me decide that I really am better off not typing anything in the chat window or seeing what some people type.

I hold my hands up to the fact that when I first started playing online poker I often overstepped the line with what i said. However when I first started playing poker online I had never played live poker and wasn't so clued up with etiquette such as not mentioning folded hands etc. Also if people sucked out on me I wouldn't hesitate for a second before telling them to go and fuck themselves the lucky donkeys. I recieved several chat bans however I was never as bad as many who say things like i hope your mother dies of cancer. Surprisingly enough even tho I had cleaned my act up I have still managed to get two chat bans on betfair poker this year. The first one was for calling a player called fastfoot cheating scum. He had been blatantly cheating and even tho betfair investigated they could not prove it. The exact words of a betfair member of staff to me "You know and I know they have been cheating however unless there is 100% proof nothing can be done other than to monitor them until we have undeniable proof of wrongdoing". So naturally out of frustration at lack of protection from two cheats on the table I was playing I called one cheating scum. Fastfoot being the snake that he is naturally contacted betfair saying he felt deeply hurt at the accusation. I know that it was fastfoot as the email from betfair read an opponent you were playing has emailed in a complaint, considering the chat was from a heads up game it doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out who contacted betfair.

My most recent chat ban was for saying to somebody f urself after they slow rolled me. I personally find slow rolling more offensive than any swear word. Having had previous chat bans its a pretty much instant chat ban if anyone complains. So having had chat bans and campaigning to get a chat facility back it is now ironic that I am not fussed if I never have a chat facility again.

Reason 1 is abuse by somebody who plays under the alias slickqwik on betfair. Mr Silent is not my account but a friends. He was playing a heads up game against this person when over and over he typed cunt cunt cunt cunt in the chat window with lots of other abuse. My friend John is not too fussed about name calling yet in this instance his 13 year old daughter was watching him play. The very same person is reported to have been abusing somebodies family members during a game yesterday. Another time playing a 6pak game at 2 in the afternoon the same scumbag is again typing cunt cunt etc. If you do not like somebody for winning too much money from you do you think it is acceptable for four other opponents minding their own business to be forced into reading this kind of crap? Totally cowardly and unacceptable. Naturally these people try and justify there scummy actions by making lies up and trying to falsify a justifiable reason. Other than saying the likes of "what were you thinking", "donkey" "codface" and other mild jibes I challenge anybody to recall any recent (the last 12 months) examples of me either swearing or being deeply offensive to anybody. I have been busted out of some of the biggest poker tournaments in the world to bad beats and congratulated my opponent. When I get a bad beat in a $100 sit and go and call my opponent a fish it is just a bit of fun for me, it is not like I can truly be pissed off. I play 100 games a day sometimes I have recieved and dished out every bad beat possible many times. Even things like coming 40th in the main event on fulltilt so close to a first prize of 1.4 million I accept with the thought 'thats poker'. Sure I lost a race AQ v 99 to get eliminated, but I had plenty of luck to make the last 40 of 3000 in the first place.

(I have deleted a large section of this post which covered a situation with Azimut as it is of my opinion that even tho his recent actions are those of a Grade A1 cunt he used to be a good guy, however if any more funny stuff happens I shall stick it back up without hesitation)

Also I am going to quit posting on any forums that are not poker orientated. There simply is no value getting involved in arguements with people. It has taken me too long to realise this but better late than never! I was speaking to Heffernan earlier this year and he said how he often plays with his chat box closed as does Buzzer. These two players are Hans Vogl and Thomas Bihl who have both had huge success in online poker and with live poker so any advice from either of these only a fool would ignore. Hans explained how it takes one second to close a chat window and avoid all the shit people may say. You have nothing to lose doing this and you will make more money due to lack of distractions. The only negative point is that some people who are being polite may think you are ignoring them when they say nh gg etc. This is a small price to pay i feel for avoiding so much shit.

Lastly what finally annoyed me was chat in a 9 seat sit and go earlier. We had doubled our stack up when we raise a player (callataxi) from the button with 66, he goes all in and I decide I put him on AK. With chips I often fold here, however in this case I decided we have enough chips to chance a race and take out one of the better players. The extra value of eliminating a good player could mean that a race isn't 55% v 45% but in fact around 70% to your advantage if you get them out. Two minutes after the hand was over and he hit one of the overcards I predicted he had he made a comment. Along the lines of unlike you to call there. The guy has hit to stay in the tournament and then he wants to make a comment on my play? What on earth is the reasoning behind that? He should be grateful that he doubled up and not comment on this play. You get my chips and want to throw in a rubdown also?

So thats it a new leaf is turned, definitely no poker chat online again. There simply is more to be gained by having chat muted. I will simply have to find another way to avoid boredom during games. So with one simple decision I have now eliminated having to see chat that some scum type in, avoid people creating new aliases trying to wind me up and overall will be able to pay more attention to the tables = more profit.

I would like to add the exception to the rule will be some heads up tables where I know the opponent. Some people I have played over 1000 times and I am not about to just ignore them

The next post shall be more light hearted about a hustle gone wrong!

Making good money in poker....

2007-10-08T02:07:00.000+01:00

Basically you can choose cash tables, sit and go tournaments or multi table tournaments. I believe it is best to specialise in just one field. This doesn't by any means mean stick to just one of them, just only play a small percentage of your play on the other fields. Or if you feel you are on a bit of a bad run change discipline.

The biggest earners will always be cash table players as the stakes are highest and you get too play many more hands than any other areas of poker. Naturally the biggest cash winners will be those who play heads up, once again because they will be playing at least 5 times more hands over the same period of time that somebody will play in the ring games (6-9 seats). The downside is that if you struggle with money management you will find it difficult to succeed. One simple way to NEVER go broke on cash tables is never ever buy in with more than 5% of your bankroll, or 10% if you are a bit of a chancer. Such a simple but effective strategy yet lots of people who struggle with money management wont stick to it.

Multi table games are where people will easily get the highest returns for their investment (donation!). For example my friend qualified for a game last week for $30 where the entry fee was $2500. The final place was 40/3000 for $25000 and with a little more luck first place and $1,400,000 was possible (off the top of my head thats a return on investment of approx 46,000%). Also for those who are not good players or play for fun a multi tournament is there best chance of success. Some bad players often get lucky in these and take huge scores down. The disadvantage is if you are a fulltime poker player and rely on multi tables you may have some barren spells. One way to avoid this is to put a few hours a week aside to play another discipline to get some regular money in. Also this will boost up your rakeback for the month.

Sit and go tournaments are an area where I specialise in, 2/6/9 player games with regular/fast/super fast blind structures I feel that I am easily one of the best in the online world at. One of the reasons for this is the fact that so many people just have awful strategies in these. Many areas of the way I play are not mentioned in any book and I feel that players who follow advice from poker books on these will struggle to make much profit. For 6-9 seat games I am sure that my ROI (return on investment) is around 50%. This is an astronomically high figure and most people will be more than happy with a 20% ROI after fee paid to the poker site. The downside to these games are that most people simply don't have a good strategy and therefore unless at the highest stakes can never get a high enough ROI to make it pay playing sit and go.

Money management really is essential, if somebody has a good job and also makes good money in their spare time from poker be happy. If you feel that you will make more money by quitting work and playing poker fulltime remember there will be much more pressure involved as if you don't win you can't pay the bills. So really consider all possibilities before you take the leap. Also if you play fulltime it is a lot harder to play your best game which you will do much more if you are a recreational player. Be strict with your money or be broke. If you are losing at a game that you would usually beat the answer is not to move up in stake, but to continue playing the same game as it is just variance and all pretty much evens out long term.

That is all for now, just remember in poker money is your tool. Take good care of it and it will look after you.