Grinding..............
That's exactly what Ive been doing lately. However without much profit. Its funny how poker works. A year ago and I would of told you I was a cash game player, NLH was my best game and I'm a loser in tournaments. In fact I would of even gone as far as to say that i hated playing tournament poker, I didn't rate tournament players either. I was the usual mix of arrogance and ignorance that are most "cash game specialists"!
Well whats changed?
I think I now love tournaments because I've had success with them! There is no buzz in poker like going deep in a High Stakes MTT. I've only had fleeting experiences and can only image what its like to FT a WSOP, be HU in the poker million or IPC as some of my good friends have. Its like a drug and I crave more.
My cash game must have suffered. I have lost nearly all my live cash game sessions since January. Prob losing 10 out of 15ish. I have been winning at cash online but not alot as I'm not putting in the hours. I'll be trying to address this situation and get back to winning ways.
Since my last post I have played a good bit. I went to Dundalk for the BrucePOker game. Its a great game and every young/learning player should be playing these. 25k chips and half hour levels give you so much scope to play.........too much. I busted out in 11th after having over 12% of the chips in play with 25 left. It was a weird enough game. I caught some mulchie cheating. This guy had already got his re-buy for 15k chips and then at the break got his top up to for a further 15k. I noticed this but had my own demons to fight. This turnip plucker hadn't a scoobies of the game of poker. Every time the board came out he was constantly checking his cards against the board like he was matching symbols. I was directly to his right, It was clearly in my interest that he have 30+k instead of 8k! Seen as I'm such an honest decent bloke I informed Paul Smallwood of the cheating bastard. I was fairly diplomatic to be honest but when he starts going on "No one cares if I got extra chips, its only fun etc" I lost it with him. Needless to say after the IPC Im a little sore when it comes to cheating at the poker table!
Anyway, I ran riot for a few hours and once I scooped the 18man last longer for 1k I started to get busy and only had eyes on the 6k first prize, wasn't too upset being knocked out in 11th for €400 plus the last longer money meant I scooped more than 4th. Also it was 6.30am and Id been playing since 5pm!
Ok what next! Oh yeah Galway and the Eglinton Team Event. Prob the best weekend Ive had in Poker. Was tickled pink to be asked on Tilty Taylors team. Rob himself, Doke, Cat O neill, KP and Paul Coyle. Its always nice to be in such company and I just didn't want to let the team down. So much for that, BOOM I was gone in the first few levels. Wasn't the worst play in the world but when Im at my best I would of still been in the game after the hand. Instead I was lining up Jagerbombs with Flipper Walsh. Staggered into the bar at 5am and was delighted to find out that the team was cruising and that we would prob get second. Agh yeah, thanks lads!
We def would of won the award for the creepiest looking team. Doke had brought his pedophile shades and Tilty Taylor went for the beanie under the panama hat look. Albeit Cat brought some glamour to the team we were behind in the fashion stakes. Team Bundy had the legit hoodies on show. Saturday night was an epic piss up of all proportions. Flipper buying shots like no body's business, O Dea creeping out some girls. Noel Hayes dismantling TVs in the clubs and Fallon couldn't of been in anymore bits even if he tried.
We recovered the next day and watched the Scotland match. We watched Reesy play some PLO above.The Team had managed second and I was handed a nice wad of 50's (1200) for my couple hours play! Ah yeh normal stuff. Oh yeh O shea managed to get his monkey off his back and win a live tourney.
The highlight of the weekend was finding Donal Nortons finger. Those of you that don't know, Donal lost his finger in an accident involving Tony Cooneys eye. Anyway we found it in a club in Galway but it is happy with its new life driving rickshaws around Galway.
I won a GUKPT ticket the other night but can't make London as I have exams on this week. Pretty disppointed as I was really looking forward to it. Someday.
Over and Out!
That's exactly what Ive been doing lately. However without much profit. Its funny how poker works. A year ago and I would of told you I was a cash game player, NLH was my best game and I'm a loser in tournaments. In fact I would of even gone as far as to say that i hated playing tournament poker, I didn't rate tournament players either. I was the usual mix of arrogance and ignorance that are most "cash game specialists"!
Well whats changed?
I think I now love tournaments because I've had success with them! There is no buzz in poker like going deep in a High Stakes MTT. I've only had fleeting experiences and can only image what its like to FT a WSOP, be HU in the poker million or IPC as some of my good friends have. Its like a drug and I crave more.
My cash game must have suffered. I have lost nearly all my live cash game sessions since January. Prob losing 10 out of 15ish. I have been winning at cash online but not alot as I'm not putting in the hours. I'll be trying to address this situation and get back to winning ways.
Since my last post I have played a good bit. I went to Dundalk for the BrucePOker game. Its a great game and every young/learning player should be playing these. 25k chips and half hour levels give you so much scope to play.........too much. I busted out in 11th after having over 12% of the chips in play with 25 left. It was a weird enough game. I caught some mulchie cheating. This guy had already got his re-buy for 15k chips and then at the break got his top up to for a further 15k. I noticed this but had my own demons to fight. This turnip plucker hadn't a scoobies of the game of poker. Every time the board came out he was constantly checking his cards against the board like he was matching symbols. I was directly to his right, It was clearly in my interest that he have 30+k instead of 8k! Seen as I'm such an honest decent bloke I informed Paul Smallwood of the cheating bastard. I was fairly diplomatic to be honest but when he starts going on "No one cares if I got extra chips, its only fun etc" I lost it with him. Needless to say after the IPC Im a little sore when it comes to cheating at the poker table!
Anyway, I ran riot for a few hours and once I scooped the 18man last longer for 1k I started to get busy and only had eyes on the 6k first prize, wasn't too upset being knocked out in 11th for €400 plus the last longer money meant I scooped more than 4th. Also it was 6.30am and Id been playing since 5pm!
Ok what next! Oh yeah Galway and the Eglinton Team Event. Prob the best weekend Ive had in Poker. Was tickled pink to be asked on Tilty Taylors team. Rob himself, Doke, Cat O neill, KP and Paul Coyle. Its always nice to be in such company and I just didn't want to let the team down. So much for that, BOOM I was gone in the first few levels. Wasn't the worst play in the world but when Im at my best I would of still been in the game after the hand. Instead I was lining up Jagerbombs with Flipper Walsh. Staggered into the bar at 5am and was delighted to find out that the team was cruising and that we would prob get second. Agh yeah, thanks lads!
We def would of won the award for the creepiest looking team. Doke had brought his pedophile shades and Tilty Taylor went for the beanie under the panama hat look. Albeit Cat brought some glamour to the team we were behind in the fashion stakes. Team Bundy had the legit hoodies on show. Saturday night was an epic piss up of all proportions. Flipper buying shots like no body's business, O Dea creeping out some girls. Noel Hayes dismantling TVs in the clubs and Fallon couldn't of been in anymore bits even if he tried.
We recovered the next day and watched the Scotland match. We watched Reesy play some PLO above.The Team had managed second and I was handed a nice wad of 50's (1200) for my couple hours play! Ah yeh normal stuff. Oh yeh O shea managed to get his monkey off his back and win a live tourney.
The highlight of the weekend was finding Donal Nortons finger. Those of you that don't know, Donal lost his finger in an accident involving Tony Cooneys eye. Anyway we found it in a club in Galway but it is happy with its new life driving rickshaws around Galway.
I won a GUKPT ticket the other night but can't make London as I have exams on this week. Pretty disppointed as I was really looking forward to it. Someday.
Over and Out!
1 comments:
Don't mean to offend but this is perhaps the most uninteresting, self indulgent drival of a blog Ive ever read.
It's only poker.
Wasted 8 minutes of my life reading this. Do I know you?
You're UNREAL
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