Belated 'Trick or Treat' & Huge Cooler Pot Thoughts

Few Pics From the cardroom on Halloween

06/11/11 - Tough Grinding Session
I slowly turned £40 into £259 over the space of 3-4 hours then this hand took place:

All table limps I’m utg with TT 10 handed.
Flop comes:
Td-8c-6d
I check call £7 after asking this guy how much he was playing(£224).
My thinking is he has either air/straight draw or flush draw. Villan is Chinese player who can play good but will commit to a made hand not thinking of folding. Eg limped pot 10 handed, he would stack off with 2s3s fairly deep on Xs-Xs-Xs-Xc-Xd.

We go to the turn heads up and the turn is 8s giving us:
Td-8c-6d-8s
Check, Check.

River is the 4d giving is a final board of:
Td-8c-6d-8s-4d
I lead for £27, a slight overbet into the pot. My thinking here is he ships higher flush draw and raises other hands as a bluff a a small % of the time.
I get raised £58 a bet of £85 total on the river. I think a very small % of the time he has Quads and here his range is:
T8/68/84/66/44/79/57 and all the flushes.
88.
I can narrow the range down somewhat as he is raising a diamond. So now we put the range down to:
T8/68/66/44/AdXd/KdXd (Ahead of).
88(Behind).
So we beat maybe 6 hands that raise but defiantly 5 hands with the action on this hand up until the river lead by me. Were behind one hand which is very rare to see in this spot.

08/11/11 - Tesco Fuel Station
I filled my car up today after driving around on almost fumes for a few days. My car holds about 60-65 litres of fuel from a bone dry tank. I fuelled up 59.63 Litres of Diesel @ 137.9p Per Litre for £82.23p.
I had a coupon for 5p off a litre, so I saved £2.95p bringing my fuel bill down to £79.28p. Not much change from a ton.

I’m saving up for a smaller more economical car, at the moment I’m driving a 1905cc Turbo Diesel. Thinking of a Citroën C1. Bog standard I think the front of the car looks nice but the rear looks awful. I really don’t care anyway, but just to show you, the appearance of anything can be changed.

Degenerate or Machine?

Thursday night/Friday morning 10 hour session at the card room, 3 hours sleep, work then travel to Oxford, get four hours of patchy sleep. Wake up and travel to London Saturday for a wedding which surprisingly I enjoyed, helped being with a really beautiful girl though. I travel back to Oxford at night and get 6 hours of sleep. Sunday I knocked in an 11 hour sleep session : )
Monday travel back from Oxford to Derbyshire, home at 2:30pm, clean car, eat, shower then head to the card room for a 16 hour session. Get home at 12:30pm, smash two burgers down the hatch then sleep for 2 hours. Wake up then off to work, sleep for 1 hour.

Hello my name is Mat and I am a degenerate, or is that a machine ; )

Mark Williams spotting at the G Casino's Sheffield Card Room

I only saw Mark so cannot confirm the others, but was told Stephen Hendry and another player who I didn’t know were there too.

In Sheffield there is an International Snooker Development Centre(or something similar, I can’t quite remember), that’s why all these high profile snooker professionals are knocking around the casino card room.

I promise next time I see anyone I will get a live picture and post to the blog. I can never be bothered to ask, but realise it would make a much better ‘Spotting’ blog.

GG FTP

I would like to think that this will stop everybody dead, dreaming that one day FullTiltPoker might be up and running again. But it is kind of like why poker is profitable for a skilled intelligent player, dumb people are never far from your table!

Today's Video Pick

Pretty crazy overtaking manoeuvre!

Ken Doherty spotting at the G Casino's Sheffield Card Room

So I was playing in the card room last night/this morning, tired out of my mind and I keep looking at this guy. I'm thinking I know you! It’s only Ken Doherty! This is what I want to know, Is he married because he goes home early doors and I know cash flows not the problem : )

If any of you fan boys want an autograph, come down to the G Casino Card Room in Sheffield, England. He will be in there later too.

£1/£1 Back Room Game,Ruling Please

Re-Post from a post I made at twoplustwo.com

Hi people, thought I would ask a question for the more experienced live
pros:

About me. I used to play online as a $400nl pro for 5 years,
2005-2010 and I have maybe around 100-150 hours at live cash lifetime, so I have
experience but wouldn’t say I’m an experienced live player by any
means.

So last night I had been playing live at my local casino in a GBP
£1/£1 game. After 11 hours the table broke and we moved into the back room where
a self dealt game continued. One person who was not playing dealt the game, on
the 7th hand this occurred:

I raise UTG to £4, four handed with AQ and
BTTN and SB call.
Flop is:

9d-5c-7h (Pot £13)

We all check and
the turn comes:

9d-5c-7h-6d (Pot £13)

Checked to the BTTN who bets
£7, SB calls and I muck. Turn comes:

9d-5c-7h-6d-7d (Pot £27)

SB
bets £15.
After about 30 seconds, BTTN announces, “I don’t care if you have
the straight I’m all in for £22”

Dealer says £7 more to call, SB then
tables over his hand:

9c-9s

Then confidently announces full house.
Dealer says you need to put in £7 more.
About 30 seconds later the BTTN
tables his hand:

Ac7c

Slamming it down and negatively announcing,
“fuking trips” Then he goes into a rage about how it’s his pot as the SB didn’t
call the last £7 so he is taking the pot.

After a brief stating of
somewhat ruling(which I didn’t agree with), SB’s hand is declared dead and the
pot is awarded to the BTTN.

I don’t know this guy, he got unlucky all
night and played good and spoke broken English. I think he was Austrian. I’m
feeling a bit in disbelief about the ruling on the hand and how horrible it was
to have squabbling in a pot without a house dealer.
Floor re-affirms the
ruling given and the pot is awarded to the BTTN. I quit the game and state I
don’t wish to play in a game with such shaky rulings and squabbling at the
table.
After the table breaks.

My thoughts are, who doesn’t call 3rd
nuts for 7 BB’s more into a 64 BB pot! The guy confidently announced his hand
with authority, I thought he was a live noob and just thought he didn’t need to
put the last £7 in as the pot was his, and he didn’t even get more than a minute
to put his 7 blind in.
To me he called when announcing his hand and any
decent floor person would make that decision, but what do I know….as said and I
washed up online pro with not much live experience.

Sorry for such a long
winded post and good luck to you all.

Today's Video Pick

So I subscribed to this user a while back after stumbling onto her videos. Hope you like : )

Full Tilt Poker's Secondary Client Provider Authorization application

Hope you are all educated enough to know of the AP & UB scandals under the KGC, do you really think your safe playing under regulation of the the Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC), as FTP’s secondary CPA. That was of course a rhetorical question.

The Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) has already stated all funds are locked, pending the US DOJ Office’s investigation in relation to the four company’s, Vantage Ltd, Oxalic Ltd, Filco Ltd and Orinic Ltd, collectively trading as FULL TILT POKER.

I don’t think this will change the operational status of FTP, maybe they have found some shady loop hole(highly doubt it though).

Government Announce UK Gambling Reform Plan

Just caught this at Pokernews.

Link to article


Realise this is a lame blog post,this is a picture to make it for that. Enjoy!

GUKPT - G Casino Sheffield

I have had a super busy last few days!
Thursday I started working in a School one day a week to mentor young people, Friday I got another job in Derbyshire County Council as a Residential Child Care Worker, I’m already employed as a Youth Worker for D.C.C and have been for almost 4 years now, so I’m really happy I can continue to progress my career with D.C.C.
Earlier on in the week I had been checking out the GUKPT Sheffield leg and decided that I may take a shot at the ME £500+£50. I decided to play a super satellite first in the £35+£5 re-buy on Friday to see if I could luckbox a cheap seat. After I registered I ended up playing a cash game whilst the 5 of us who registered for the super satellite were hanging around waiting for another 5 players to register(they wouldn’t start a table without at least 10 players).
Friday was the first live poker session I’d played in ages! I was so card dead! The big pots I played I lost, TPGK to 5 outta all in on flop, then later on I made a fold in a tricky spot where I was wrong. I ended up making a little money, but basically for the 8 hour session I played, my results were pretty hilarious! I played last night and this morning too.
I met a local lad on the first nights session, who I ended up giving a lift home. He was on his birthday celebration, playing the session with one friend who ended up going home at 12pm. After learning that he lived on the way I would be travelling back home, I offered to take him back as he wanted to continue his session.
So me and this guy have been playing sessions at the card room in at the G- Casino at Sheffield since Friday. So far in total we have put in about 30-32 hours of play. Pretty crazy long sessions! I’m shocked at my ability to maintain patience and discipline for these prolonged periods of time in a live card room enviroment! It gave me an idea, which is to try to play a huge session of 48 hours or more in a live card room, trying to beat my longest session record which was set online.

What is your longest session everybody? Mine is just shy of 48 hours online(with food, toilet & shower breaks),then for a live card room enviroment just the 8 hours so far.

Think we may be frequenting the G- Casino’s card room this evening too, full of energy after watching this advert: