Monday, April 24, 2006

...They Say That Fortune Favours The Brave...

Ah well, AH WELL seems to have a nice ring to it? Or maybe it’s like that name you don’t like at first but eventually it grows on you. (Ah well) has been typed a lot by me of late alongside ‘mug’ and whatever derogatory comments I can make before chat is disabled on Betfair Poker as I see my measly AA busted by a four flush by the mighty K 9 off (AGAIN).

Don’t know what’s happened to me of late but I have become quite abusive online, a kind of keyboard warrior with a difference. This mouth wishes it was ‘live’ so he could leap over the table and strangle the Muppet that thinks my read and subsequent ‘push’ on a flop of 556 (I have 96 -Grimace-) should be called for all his stack (and mine) with Q 4 off suit. Obviously a Q pops up on the river I proceed to get my action man converted into a voodoo doll out ‘where are the fucking pins?’ and Villain types in chat LMFAO. By the time I respond raging the message ‘Observer chat is disabled while we try upgrading this shit site’ appears and my “you mutha fekker coca roach” disappears into the abyss of deleted text.

So I jump on the Betfair forum (Slightly Pished BTW) type something like (Betfair is a disgrace shite site) as a header and paste and post it about 20 x on the forum see how long it lasts……

Anyway, I’m banned off the forum for being a big baby basically, not that I really care most of the time it’s a load of bollox day in day out anyway. I browsed and posted basically because there are a few on the forum who enjoy a bit of banter otherwise I would have been long gone. The forum moderation is pathetic I’m getting nervous now even daring to think I can type pokerstars without it being published as ********** that’s how sad it gets. Maybe one day they’ll get contracts out on MS Word for typing I like ‘partypoker’ which I don’t btw its carp I mean crap (looks over shoulder again for the Betfair Police).

Playing other sites now more and more, Pokerstars & Full Tilt being the ones where I can get on with the software and don’t mind the interface. Stars has been mainly for practice with MTT’s and full tilt I have been playing the very VERY weak HU tournaments, very profitable and a good way to practice hand reading skills with the blinds at non crapshoot levels.

Six-pacs on Betfair I’m still playing plenty of them so even though I'm chat banned I’m allowed to pay rake LOL. The £300 from rake back has been up to 6k at one point now the account is at 4.6k with some real bad luck and CASH PLAY in the mix. I can take bad luck I just wish he’d dish it out a bit more evenly instead of all at once for a month then give me a day’s grace.

Normally as a cash player I would have 5k in my account to play the £5/10 NL on Betfair and (starting to reminisce now) when I got to 15k I would withdraw 10k and rebuild again to 15. Been a long while since I made a withdrawal but I feel my game has improved heaps and don’t think it’s many moons away now before I can continue playing for even more fun recreationally and earning a few quid in the meantime. Anyway talking about cash play I have popped back a couple of times over the last week or so with mixed results........................... - blushing here-

Here is a brutally honest account of my erratic play sometimes. Bring on the £5/10 6 seater Tables& RayVon is playing. Always a good aggressive action filled table when he’s about me thinks from past analysis. I’m in the small blind and limp to RayVon with AJ off he raises to £50 what do I do? Well I must think for a minute I’m not in the crapshoot stages of a Six-pack so call see a flop and see what happens from there but £50 bit of a raise here - he's teeving!!!??? I’ll put him to the test LMAO. I move All–in for 1k nick his blinds and tell him not to mess with me cos I’m back grrrrrr. He calls with KK [sigh] and takes my candy LOOOOOL what a mug I am. Well over the next 2 hours I knuckle down and play my ‘A’ game. Yes I have one sometimes! And manage to claw it all back with a few hundred on top.

Lesson learned – RayVon is playing some solid poker and he can play - don’t judge a book by its cover in future dogs arse!. Playing in the ‘NOW’ is fundamental and nearly; well did cost me! I don’t need telling it was bad/terrible/Muppet , play I am fully aware of that and anyone who’s followed my ‘Chronicles’ will know what play I’m capable of TY.

Right I’m finishing off by advocating Blondepoker.com as a great site to get excellent hand analysis from resident experts and Pro’s and here’s my last two cash hands and comments from one of the experts.

Playing £5/10 NL cash 6 seated on Crypto. Aggressive game and my opponent is loose/aggressive. The following hand occurs

Me:
I get deal As Js and make it £30 to go - Button (Aggressive) flat calls and we get to see a flop of 2s 3s 5d I’m first to act and I bet £40 which is instantly re-raised to £140. Ok here I think of the possible holdings of my opponent and my draw and I push all in for just over 1k which my opponent instantly calls and shows 10h 10c.My draw doesn’t connect and a couple of players LOL at my (loose play). I spoke to a few people about this hand and have their opinions as well as my own but as a new member to Blonde would like to here yours...

Totalise:
Push looks kind of drawy, but still, u are a likely favourite over his range, and you surely have some FE vs. the mid over pairs... I think for the benefit of deception you could make it £500... You still have odds to call on the turn if he calls flop and jams turn, it just makes his call a lot tougher if he has a medium pair, because it’s (probably) consistent with how you would play bigger pairs/sets... but that’s semantics. If you jam your big pairs/sets here as well as jamming your big draws, jamming is more then fine.

Me:
2nd hand that is here... Different player been LOL'ing at me I get Ad Kd and raise to £40 this time and see a flop of 5d 6d Jc I raise player re-raises and I push again, again I’m called and the player has Qh Qs turn brings another Qc river no help.Just unlucky or poor fish that needs therapy?

Me:
Thanks Totalise welcomed thoughts. The 2nd hand to be honest was Tilt induced but I still considered in hindsight that I was a slight favourite in both hands and the poker gods were not paying my draws. My thoughts were that in cash you need to take advantages of slight edges as you can always re-load not like in the tournament scenarios. However, definitely looks drawy and possibly the reason he called my all-in so in that case I should congratulate him. He wasn’t beating much IMO and on a different night I would hope to re-load and take it back somewhere along the line...

Totalise:
This is ok as well... you are getting a fantastic image as a result, and as long as you play sets/big made hands the same way, its going to be real hard for your opponents to beat you over the long term....the problems from this stem from you NOT playing the big hands the same way, as that is just throwing away the opportunity that your image has created.

Just a taster of some of the advice offered on here Quality IMO and I don’t intend on getting banned. Thought I was my normal polite self.

GL GG WP All the very best!

See you on the cash tables :)

Think my blog has gone a bit stale of late so any opinions would be appreciated you know a 'GOOD READ' here and there Mr KPNUTS !!!

Comments appreciated..

4 Comments:

Blogger Rob Sherwood said...

Sawee Dee Khaaaapppppp!!!!!

Here's a comment. Try winding up the Yanks on PokerStars with misguided statements about flush draws being favourite against top pair and so on. Or when you outdraw someone, typing "Phew, you nearly outdrew me there". Most of them bite. Hours of endless entertainment. Also get yourself a WSOP package won on there!!

And also I can't believe you have the temerity to have a pop at the Cryptological software?? It's industry leading stuff, surelyyyyy!!!!!!!

Good luck

Kop Khun Khapppppp.

8:54 am  
Blogger Rob Sherwood said...

Toshi,

Check out the 'Events' tab in the PokerStars lobby for details of WSOP satellites. Four Double Shootouts per day, defintley worth a stab.

Rob

7:21 am  
Blogger PillowTalkPoker said...

Good to see your back playing tosh.

Give Tribeca a shot the nl ring games are a cake walk

1:51 am  
Blogger Rob Sherwood said...

Don't waste any time do you, I spotted you won a WSOP package on PokerStars yesterday!

Good job, see you in Vegas!

4:06 am  

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