Let Your Play Do Your Talking....

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...

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...

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....

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....

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....

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....

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?

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?...

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....

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....

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...

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...

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?

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

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......

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....

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....

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....

Some days nothing goes right, well thats that..

THE END

Lucky Night....

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......

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?

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......

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.