Blog Title: Flashbadgers Poker Blog

Prop bets, an annoying frog and cash games

What have I been up to, well all of the above + some Betfair betting and a minuscule amount of online.

Prop Bets
This comes under 2 categories, 1 weight loss and 2 Tennis.

Weight loss is very poor as we have a 1100 to 750 bet that a guy from the maybury cant lose 3st in 3 months. He only has 10lbs to go in 5 weeks!
Tennis looks much better as I beat Ben (b2bullets) in a £200 match giving him 2/1 (he has been getting allot of lessons) immediately after we decided to have an even money £500 bet in 1 months time and he is allowed to have his coach present. The match happens in 2 hours and another £500 has been added plus £1000 or so side bets - should be fun. I am very confident but oddly enough so is he!

Ireland
I briefly mentioned I was in Ireland a month ago for some festival or other. I went over with Dean (deanosupremo on stars) hes a maniac and will almost certainly upset someone at the poker table into punching them at some point but he amuses me. Highlight was probably playing 200/400 HORSE in the room, think i was in for 10% and dean had never played the games before lol. He won as he runs like god.

Live tournaments went pretty bad - main event - cant remember but i think i tried a move on a horrific calling station..... details are all gone now!

Middle tourney was a 500 freezout - lol just checked on hendon mob it was a 200rebuy! - played this one well and after doubling up with 99 v AQ on from dean on a table he was controlling I had a big stack with about 50 left.

Strolled to the last 2 tables where there was 16 or something getting paid. I was lying about 3rd in chips and there are 5 stacks under 3 BB's when some kerfuffle happened at the other table it meant a 20 minute break but we had to stay at the same table, the outcome of this was that everyone wanted to do a saver blinds 4/8 i have 130k lying 3rd and there are 5 stacks of 20k or less........ seriously do you think i am doing a saver... everyone else agreed and i had to veto it - flipper also backed me up but after I had to veto it on my own - so I look like the bad guy.

Anyway we start back and with my table having 3 stacks of less than 15k now I raise again on the cutoff. The BB with a 33k stack moves all in for 13k extra with the monstrous A9 off obviously it beats my AA but its really irrelevant what I had its such a bad play! i mean the jump from 17th to 16th was 1200 or so! incredible... anyway , and the whole point of posting that sorry bad beat story is that just after that lovely bad beat I get Pascal Peraut (sic) playing his appalling weak/tight game come over to me and say "zat is what zhu get when zhu donut agree to za deeel" LOL I mean LOL are you serious? You are a professional and you cant understand why a big stack doesn't want to do a saver and prolong the bubble.... I didnt event say anything back as i was open mouthed incredulous from my bad beat and his crazy bad chat!

Anyway I made FT and came 7th or something when I pushed 12bb from UTG+2 with 88 and was called on the SB but the same AJ clown with A10 and he obviously hit! I don't mind losing to this guy as he was just a local young guy with no clue enjoying himself - appalling play but its his cash and it is to be excpected but I was raging all night at perraut's comments - what a clown and it was embarrassing to watch him fold his way down to 1m (1 orbits blinds) 3 times and call bets then!! lol u are a real star!

anyway will make this post a 2 parter as off to play tennis..

Still alive

Just to say I am still alive..

will do a proper post this week sometime. i was in ireland last weekend for the paddy power festival so will update on that.

in the meantime..... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/porsche-in-20bn-sting-976896.html how funny..... I find economics interesting and wondered excatly that - why didnt someone just buy up a bank at 9 billion and get it right up the short sellers - thats what a great poker player would do... it seems Porshe are the best poker players out there..... so funny!

Bad week

Firstly lets do the end of the hand....... obv I win as I probably wouldn't post it if I spunked away £1450 on 1 hand! I called and opponent tabled AAQQ82 double suited including both the black suits! Turn comes a red 5 to give me about 13 outs and i collect on the river of 4c.

I ran the hand above past a few people. The consensus was that my hand would be about 42-48% against AAxxxx hands. Also B is pushing all in on any flop so i then get to chuck my hand on the few occasions I know its drawing dead. All in all I don't think the play is too bad if even - EV at all.. However I give the fact that it is high variance as Tillerman said while we had dinner!

So that was my 1 piece of good fortune this week.

The rest of the week was bad. Tuesday/Wednesday I played well at the tournament and lost all races however well tilted in my favour they were. I also dropped 800 at the cash game playing well on Tuesday and was in for £1000 playing a £1350 stack when I ran the nuts flush into a straight flush when a spade hit the river! So lost £1000 then. At least I was playing well though.

However all that changed on Thursday when I played the £500 event and played appallingly throughout. Funnily enough I put people on the correct hands all evening and made stupid plays which rightly didn't work all day! Anyway £1000 event tonight and I have had a day break and feel like playing well!!

Laters

Crazy cash hand (live)

hey

Challenge is still sitting in the background... I haven't been playing on ipoker this last 2 weeks though as wasn't playing well at sng's and I am off to the states in a few weeks where I cant get ipoker so might as well wait until after that. Anyway I had $6000 sitting in my crypto account so I decided to play some omaha. I dont have the new poker tracker installed so I don't have any details on BB rate but I have been running crazy good and am up to $19,000 in the account so its all good. I will continue to play on that account for a while until after America (what are the odds on me going to vegas while I am there!)

Anyway reason for this post at 4am is that i am just back from the Maybury where this crazy 6 card Omaha hand went down.
it is 3 handed and the players are as follows.
Me - Square for the night sitting on £1430 stack
B - up about £1000 on the night playing a good aggressive solid game as usual he has me covered.
S - Through from GLW for the festival and playing his usual good solid game. He is buying in for £200 a time like most and only has £200 on front after losing 2 buy ins.

I am BB - I am dealt 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (Triple suited)

2 limps to me and I raise the pot £15. S calls £15 and B then sets off with a reraise of £60. I am happy to play this hand for £60. so I call.

However S now raises all in to £200. B calls and reraises £500.
What do you do with my hand? 5678910 (triple suited)

Anyway wouldn't be a very good story if I folded - I take a while and call after counting how much I have behind. (£730)

Flop comes a confusing 2s, Js, 3c

B looks at his cards and pushes £1000 in.

I have 6s8s 5x 7c 9x 10c.

Do you call for £730?

Answers please

Update - Congrats Rob

Congrats to Irrish Robbie who just took down the Cork main Event for what must be approaching $80k.... at least it will stop him moaning about bad beats on msn!

Me - I have been grinding away... challenge on hold as I am not in stt frame of mind. Have been playing 2/5 omah on crypto and its all been going well.... i usually post some hands at the end of the session so use this link if u are interested... I will probbly only keep posting when I am winning though ;-) http://www.pokerhand.org/index.php?page=list&user=flashbadger

Also been grinding away on betfair olympics. Winning a few grand so all good and the rot has been stopped..

ps cant beleive no comments on the owls - they are great!

You Can't Fool Owls - Weebl Toon

You Can't Fool Owls - Weebl Toon

Fuck me an Update

Hello my small dwindling band of readers.

With only cash in my Crypto account and no real passion for playing poker I have mainly been playing a great wee online game called settlers (www.jsettlers.com ).

However after having a look at my finances (which are dwindling (that really is a great word) as quickly as blog readers) I decided to set myself a challenge and pull the finger out.

The "you are meant to be a poker pro and your quite good at sng's so play them you lazy bastard" Challenge....... Starts today

With the $2107 in my Ipoker account I intend to get up to $30,000 using decent BRM playing only sng's (20 buy ins or more) and mtt's where I have 100 buy ins. But mainly SNG's.

I will be graphing my progress here and I will offer you a chance to win $100 if you guess the date I make the 30k landmark on... lets hope for about 2 months time.

feel free to guess here... bang on wins $100 if no one gets it I will give it to my girlfriend to give to some horse charity or something!

Cheers and GL me.

Update

People keep moaning about me not updating so here goes... The last month since vegas....

Grind grind grind........ win a bit on betfair on horses (£7K) blah blah blah...... massive tilt on horses lose 10k... grind grind grind small golf win.... grind.. 11 buy in at 3/6 in 2 hours upswing... cue another tilt at horses and other -EV things on BF..... blah blah poker dribbles down from 10k to 7k.... brittish open up at least 5k on all runners going into last day... only win 5k... gutted... massive tilt on ipoker - wipe out whole 7k account... blah blah play some live poker cash games.. run bad - still win v small.... blah blah - bored of poker so not playing....

thats the last month... so its all bad!!

anyway I know how most of you hate HH but I dont care!

here are some from a 5/10 game I played agaionst fishy mcfisherson earlier this morning after coming in from the maybury! The guy next door was a bit mad... played v strangely! oh well.. hopefully I see him again... How can he not lay down aces!!!



Game #6271660503: Omaha PL ($5/$10) - 2008/07/29 - 00:55:55 (DST)
Table "Clairetribert" Seat 5 is the button.
Seat 1: F-Badger ($1401 in chips)
Seat 5: guynexdor ($1196 in chips)
guynexdor: posts small blind $5
F-Badger: posts big blind $10
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to F-Badger [5s 6s Ac 9s]
guynexdor: raises to $20
F-Badger: calls $10
----- FLOP ----- [Ad 5h Ah]
F-Badger: checks
guynexdor: bets $20
F-Badger: raises to $100
guynexdor: raises to $340
F-Badger: raises to $1060
guynexdor: raises to $1176 and is all-in
F-Badger: calls $116
----- TURN ----- [Ad 5h Ah][4s]
----- RIVER ----- [Ad 5h Ah 4s][8c]
----- SHOW DOWN -----
guynexdor: shows [7h As Qh 8h] (A Full House, Aces full of Eights)
F-Badger: shows [5s 6s Ac 9s] (A Full House, Aces full of Fives)
guynexdor collected $2391 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot $2392 Main pot $2391 Rake $1
Board [Ad 5h Ah 4s 8c]
Seat 1: F-Badger (big blind) showed [5s 6s Ac 9s] and lost with A Full House, Aces full of Fives
Seat 5: guynexdor (small blind) showed [7h As Qh 8h] and won ($2391) with A Full House, Aces full of Eights


Game #6271661143: Omaha PL ($5/$10) - 2008/07/29 - 01:11:30 (DST)
Table "Clairetribert" Seat 1 is the button.
Seat 1: F-Badger ($1444 in chips)
Seat 5: guynexdor ($1125 in chips)
F-Badger: posts small blind $5
guynexdor: posts big blind $10
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to F-Badger [Tc 4c 7d 3d]
F-Badger: raises to $30
guynexdor: raises to $90
F-Badger: calls $60
----- FLOP ----- [8d 4d 9s]
guynexdor: bets $180
F-Badger: raises to $720
guynexdor: raises to $1035 and is all-in
F-Badger: calls $315
----- TURN ----- [8d 4d 9s][6d]
----- RIVER ----- [8d 4d 9s 6d][Ad]
----- SHOW DOWN -----
guynexdor: shows [Ah 4s Jh As] (Three of a kind, Aces, Nine high)
F-Badger: shows [Tc 4c 7d 3d] (A Flush, Ace high)
F-Badger collected $2249 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot $2250 Main pot $2249 Rake $1
Board [8d 4d 9s 6d Ad]
Seat 1: F-Badger (small blind) showed [Tc 4c 7d 3d] and won ($2249) with A Flush, Ace high
Seat 5: guynexdor (big blind) showed [Ah 4s Jh As] and lost with Three of a kind, Aces, Nine high


Game #6271662963: Omaha PL ($5/$10) - 2008/07/29 - 01:50:35 (DST)
Table "Clairetribert" Seat 2 is the button.
Seat 1: F-Badger ($934 in chips)
Seat 2: MADPUNTER ($1185 in chips)
MADPUNTER: posts small blind $5
F-Badger: posts big blind $10
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to F-Badger [8d 7c Qs 8h]
MADPUNTER: raises to $30
F-Badger: calls $20
----- FLOP ----- [8c Qd 6h]
F-Badger: checks
MADPUNTER: bets $50
F-Badger: raises to $210
MADPUNTER: calls $160
----- TURN ----- [8c Qd 6h][Ac]
F-Badger: bets $480
MADPUNTER: raises to $945 and is all-in
F-Badger: is all-in $214
Returned uncalled bets $251 to MADPUNTER
----- RIVER ----- [8c Qd 6h Ac][Kh]
----- SHOW DOWN -----
MADPUNTER: shows [5d Ah Qc 7d] (Two Pairs, Aces and Queens, King high)
F-Badger: shows [8d 7c Qs 8h] (Three of a kind, Eights, Ace high)
F-Badger collected $1867 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot $1868 Main pot $1867 Rake $1
Board [8c Qd 6h Ac Kh]
Seat 1: F-Badger (big blind) showed [8d 7c Qs 8h] and won ($1867) with Three of a kind, Eights, Ace high
Seat 2: MADPUNTER (small blind) showed [5d Ah Qc 7d] and lost with Two Pairs, Aces and Queens, King high

Long time no speak

Hi Guys

I haven't really played any poker since I got back up until this week.

I have a few things worth saying but in the meantime I will leave you with the transcript of my friend paul who qualified for the main event with my backing!! (with his permission) I have my own opinions on his play but I will open it up for comments. I was a bit gutted my 35% which was at one point worth about $10,000 came to nothing but hey ho - it was expected given my luck in Vegas..

here it is... comments are appreciated by Paul and myself.

Cheers

my tale of day 2. Comments welcome.
Gary says:
Unlucky mate, level 10 not bad though is it? What happened?

TeePee says:
pisse doff

Gary says:
how come?

TeePee says:
Just had no luck whatsoever - i have just detailed a couple of hands to Jamie - I will copy and put them into an e-mail so you can read them

TeePee says:
I started at 26,100 - Had 68,000 by end of level 1

TeePee says:
69,300 end of level 2

Gary says:
wow, that was sitting pretty

!TeePee says:
down to 33,000 or something by dinner breakTeePee says:
do you have time and i'll run you through the key hands /

Gary says:
yes i have time

TeePee says:
coo
lTeePee says:
well level one - i have folded a bit, raised a couple with decent hands and missed so folded again, and I am playing around 20,000 after about 45 minutes

TeePee says:
I find JJ UTG

TeePee says:
I had found it UTG the previous round and a K had flopped and 3 to the flush hit the turn, so i had just let it go

TeePee says:
this time make it 3xTeePee says:
caller from late and from BB - (BTW Howard Lederer is two to my left, and the guy to my Right is John Bellande - he was mega active - raised every pot that came to him unopened, taking a lot of play away from me)

TeePee says:
any way

TeePee says:
flop J 8 6(bingo)

TeePee says:
check, check, check

TeePee says:
turn 6

Gary says:
I saw Lederer was out when i checked last night, u mustve still been inGary says:
nice turn!

TeePee says:
Bellande leads 3,000 from BB, I check my cards, and call after like 30 secsTeePee says:
other guy folds

TeePee says:
river 7

TeePee says:
Bellande bets 8.000 - I have 16,800 back

TeePee says:
I sat for a while then eventually go all in

TeePee says:
he starts quizing me for ages, then passes the 10.9 face up - cuntGary says:
lol
TeePee says:
he rivers the straight and won't pay off my last 8800 into 40k

Gary says:
u didnt show i take it?

TeePee says:
I did for some reason - wanted people to think i would only stick em all in with the nutsTeePee says:
, anyway very next hand I am BB
TeePee says:
250/500 with 50 ante
TeePee says:
EP raises to 1500, MP caller, then I call the K 10 diamonds in the BBTeePee says:
flop QJ 9
TeePee says:
rainboy
Gary says:
lol
TeePee says:
rainbow
TeePee says:
SWEET

TeePee says:
I check obv

TeePee says:
EP bets 3,000
TeePee says:
MP starts counting out chips for a raise - he makes it 13,000 to go

Gary says:
lol

TeePee says:
I push pretty quickly

TeePee says:
EP folds

TeePee says:
MP calls his last 12,000 or something off with AQ and I hold obv

Gary says:
nice
TeePee says:
so playing a rush

TeePee says:
next hand I am SB
Gary says:
did u think you were on for the $10m at that point?

TeePee says:
I check the hole and find LOL
next hand I find 10 10 in SB

TeePee says:
Bellande raies it up on button - I decided to flat him

TeePee says:
flop 6 32 rainbowTeePee says:
I lead out 3k - he callsTeePee says:
turn KTeePee says:
I check he bets 8kTeePee says:
what do you do ?

Gary says:
well he's aggres and just waiting for that turn so u defo coul push
TeePee says:
Yeah - I said raise after about a minute - and I could see he was giving up - just put like 5 5,000 chips in and he mucked it imediately
Gary says:
I just flopped AQ7 with AQ against 2 guys with AK,lololololol

TeePee says:
he said - you flop another set ?

TeePee says:
I said, no even better
TeePee says:
He's like you made the straight - I said yeah, just playing the rush with 5 4 off suit

Gary says:
lol
TeePee says:
cunt

TeePee says:
anyway

Gary says:
so u were up to 69k then?

TeePee says:
he keeps opening whenever it comes to him unraised, which puts me in a nasty spot

TeePee says:
if I have a hand, and flat call him, 2 or three others come along from late and the blinds, or squeeze from late position, and i am fucked

TeePee says:
if i reraise him, i squeeze out any later action, and he just mucks whatever junk he hasGary says:
yeah, tough

TeePee says:
i opted for the reraise option 4 times with JJ, QQ AK and AA, and he folded each time, as did the rest of the table

TeePee says:
anyway nothing much else happensTeePee says:
until level 3

TeePee says:
I am still playing 65,000 or soTeePee says:
I am BB

TeePee says:
Chinese kid UTG has $13,000 or so - he makes it 2,000 with 400/800 blinds and 100 ante

TeePee says:
folds round to me in the BB

TeePee says:
I have AQ off suit - What do you do ?

Gary says:
u cld call but he only has 13k so prob nearly comitted so reraise and have a race!

TeePee says:
I just looked at his stack, and just said reraise and put 4x $5000 chips in

Gary says:
depends how he's been playing also

TeePee says:
he snaps with AA - MAGIC

TeePee says:
flop came with an ace anyway, So prob same result anyway

Gary says:
yeah, hard to lay the AQ v short stack

TeePee says:
I figure even if he has KK or QQ I am in ok shape and the reraise is not that badTeePee says:
so down to 55,000

TeePee says:
Decide to call a raise from Bellande in position with A 8 of Hearts on the buttonTeePee says:
flop sorry - wrong order

TeePee says:
Bellande raises UTG and I call with 99

TeePee says:
flop QJ4 rainbow
TeePee says:
not great
TeePee says:
check check
TeePee says:
turn 7
TeePee says:
he bets 2,500
TeePee says:
I call

Gary says:
why he check 1st, dodgy

TeePee says:
river another Q
TeePee says:
He bets 5,900 and I make the steam call - camera's were on me, and my ego was too big

TeePee says:
knew he was betting for value with J, but couldn't let it go

TeePee says:
He had AJ diamonds

TeePee says:
I mucked

Gary says:
hmm,

TeePee says:
so another 10k or so gone

Gary says:
geting a bit loose now..

TeePee says:
to be fair, I had seen him keep betting a lot of similar situations to muck when he was called

TeePee says:
he was playing almost every pot mate

TeePee says:
anyway
Gary says:
fair enough, shouldbe reraised him all in then and either scooped or gone out in flames like a hero!

TeePee says:
worst stuff still to come

TeePee says:
I am on button iwth 5 6 of clubs

TeePee says:
Bellande opens to 2100 at 4/800

TeePee says:
I am defo looking to call, but BB has shown he can reraise if need be to take the dead money, and Chinese kid in SB has already protected his cards, and is counting his chips

TeePee says:
decide to let it go

TeePee says:
Chinese kid only calls, and BB folds

TeePee says:
flop Gary says:
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooTeePee says:
3 diamonds, 4 clubs, 7 clubsGary says:
ffs

TeePee says:
CUNT

TeePee says:
Bellande bets 3k

TeePee says:
kid calls

Gary says:
U mustve been really teaming there!

TeePee says:
ACE of FUCKING DIAMONDS

TeePee says:
Bellande bets 10k, kid calls

TeePee says:
river Q of fucking nothing

Gary says:
so a triple up was possibe?

TeePee says:
Bellande pushes - kid dwells for 5 minutes then folds

TeePee says:
I win a monster there

TeePee says:
next orbit I call a raise from bellande with A 8 hearts

TeePee says:
in position

TeePee says:
flop A J 9

TeePee says:
he bets 3k I call

TeePee says:
cameras come over again

TeePee says:
he bets 8k on a 4 turn

TeePee says:
I count out my cips - 33k I think

TeePee says:
I pass

TeePee says:
was close to pushing but did not want that cunt getting my stack

TeePee says:
if he had woke up with a monster

TeePee says:
anyway last hand of significance happens just before the table breaks - table donkey is inthe 1 seat - He has sucked out to stay in twice already

TeePee says:
Bellande opens again from late, I call QJ Hearts

TeePee says:
SB and BB come along for the ride

TeePee says:
flop Q 10 8 with 10 of hearts

TeePee says:
BB donkey leads 10k into about 14k

TeePee says:
with around 9k back

TeePee says:
Bellande folds

TeePee says:
I push, and SB folds

TeePee says:
BB says I don't have enough to fold - Magic

Gary says:
oh no

TeePee says:
he had table like 2nd pair and just 2 overcards the previous 2 times

TeePee says:
so I know I am in great shape

TeePee says:
he had Q 9 off suitTeePee says:
turn 8

TeePee says:
river Ace - CHOPPY FUCKING CHOPPY

TeePee says:
CUNT

Gary says:
sick
TeePee says:
so tables breaks

TeePee says:
I have around 30k or something, and proceed to move table 3 times in an hour, never once getting to play a hand

Gary says:
thats not good

TeePee says:
so down to 25k blinds 600/1200 and 200 ante - its 3600 every lap, so i am getting critical

TeePee says:
guy raise up front, I find 99 in late position, so shove em all in

TeePee says:
he dwells up and calls with AQ

TeePee says:
J86

TeePee says:
Q

TeePee says:
4

Gary says:
stinks

TeePee says:
Goodnight TP

Gary says:
Unlucky mate, sounds like you gave it a good bash!

TeePee says:
whole tourney I had my cards on their backs preflop 4 times 3 times I had opponent covered my AK v JJ, my KK v AA, and my AQ v AA - lost them all

TeePee says:
then when I am all in my 99 can't hold v AQ

TeePee says:
sick

TeePee says:
the 56 and QJ hands were the real sickeners, as I am back playing with no pressure, if I can win them

Gary says:yeah

My WSOP highlight

Happened this morning while I lazed in my bed in Edinburgh catching up with missed TV from my 3 weeks away. My mate Dave texted me last night to say Marty Smyth was at the final table of the $10,000 Omaha. I had a look at the chip counts and he was well placed in 4th, dropped him a GL text and then went to bed. He was even better placed as chip leader out of 5 when I woke up this morning at 6am and I have spent the last 3 hours on edge watching the players fall as Marty stayed in control. It ended with the hand below 5 mins ago.

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Marty Smyth Wins Event #50:
$10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship;
Pete Jetten Elimated in 2nd Place ($528,257)
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Peter Jetten has the button, and he limps in. Marty Smyth raises the pot, and Jetten comes along.
The flop shows up 10c, Qc 9h .

Smyth bets the pot, 600,000. Jetten announces, "I raise the pot." Before he even has the chips out of his stack, Smyth moves all in, and Jetten quickly calls.

When the stacks are counted down, it's Peter Jetten who is covered, and he is all in at risk of elimination. With a mountain of chips in the middle of the table, the hands are turned up:
Jetten: Ks, Jd, 2s, 3c
Smyth: Kc, Jc, Js, Qd

The showdown bring the entire crowd to their feet and cues a rowdy chorus of cheers from the two opposing sections of fans. Jetten and Smyth have both flopped their straight, but Smyth is freerolling with a redraw to a straight flush!

The suspense in the air is tangible, and the cheering becomes a wave of noise that engulfs the whole room. The Irish side of the room cheers, "Club, club, club!..." while the Canadians across the stage simultaneously chant, "Brick, brick, brick!"

With everyone still on their feet and the noise almost overwhelming, the dealer burns and turns fourth street: 7d

The Canadian section erupts even louder when they see that brick peel off. Their guy has to fade just one more card to chop the pot and go back to square one.

The crowd leans forward on their feet as the dealer knocks the table, burns and turns the final card:6c!

A huge roar follows from the entire room. Marty Smyth nails an incredibly profitable club on the river, making him the winning flush and earning him the title and the bracelet! We truly could not imagine a more thrilling finish to our event!

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Great news and couldnt have happened to a nicer bloke. I was out with these guys exactly a week ago for a meal, Marty, his GF his 2 mates Dave, Kp and Rob and he really is a top bloke. I know he was keen to get a good result for his new sponsors Boyle Sports and they really have hit the Jackpot with this result! Also I am sure he will treat Rob and KP to a free night at the strippers that they and their wallets so richly wish for....

I will try and blog something about myself soon. but don't hold your breath!

Back In Edinburgh

So I wont be selling any % of myself in the main event!

Enjoying being back! Winning online and generally enjoying myself!

will post properly soon

All bad

Everything bad!

Played like 1 tourney 200 plo at Cesar's - got all in 4 huge pot and beat.

busted my ankle badly 1 week ago - thought it was broken but its just a bad sprain so been walking round like a cripple for a week..... even funnier than my crippleishness is the fact that I did it playing golf on the driving range trying to hit a happy Gilmore type shot - me = spastic

Lost 2k on Romania - Holland are so incompetent - they deserve to get beat by Italy in semis as they should have carved the game.....

Lost 2k on my outright boom with Croatia +5k going out and Turkey (was +3k) laying them at 500/1 when behind to win 30!! LOL i AM HUGE FISH

Actually had a good time otherwise - been out twice had fun etc = its all good... in Pallazzo just now -- nice pace but moving to bling villa tomorrow.

laters

Out

Out - enough said - time to grind small buy in tourneys and cash games.

will update properly tomorrow

$2500 PLO/PLH Today

Playing this event in an hour. Should be fun as there are some dubios PLO players out here!

GL me

PS - Answer to the guys that have been asking I will defo be playing the main event if I am still here - the only way I wont is if this place gets to me and I just head home!

Hire Dwarfs - Hire Dwarfs - Hire Dwarfs - Dont Play Blackjack!

Played the WSOP $1500 PLO event yesterday. No Good. There really is no reason why you start with so few chips. If you were to start with 10k chips it would probably only last an extra

3-5 levels at the end. Anyway as you can guess it didnt go great.



Level 1

Lost 10% of my chips on hand 1. 757 flop - I have a weak 7 and wait until the turn to bet it. The river brings a flush and straight and I am no good.

The rest of the level went OK - I actually played well without hitting any flops whatsoever. I was quite happy with my table as they were playing quite predictable and very cagey. Ideal for me - I know you aint going to get anywhere laying scared at 30bb PLO! Finished Level on 3300.

Level 2
Table breaks and the whole of our table gets moved. There are 700 players left in the tournament at this point and 3 of our table gets moved to the same 9 man table........ wait a minute! 1/3 of their table is out and i haven't seen a pot over 2000 points! So there must be something or someone doing mad things on the table - but who? Well it wont be seat 3 he looks familiar with the words fish and devil on his knuckles!

So someones playing bad? or have the bad players been knocked out? Well before I have a chance to find out I raise with my best hand so far 67810 1 suit (I have had AAJJ but all unsuited). However devilfish reraises to 1000 just under 1/3 of my stack? Should I call? I guess he has AAxx and call. Flop - a horrible K92 2hearts (I have none). He goes all in and I have to fold. He shows AA.

Some hands happen in between - including a classic call for his whole 1200 stack with 8872 "its the 1st pair I have seen all day" DF AAxx loses to it when an 8 is the first card out. He takes it surprisingly well. - most f them show appalling play.

Then I get AAK10 1 suit - I am playing 1600 and can raise it to 500 by the time it get to my sb - should I? Anyway I do, 1 caller DF and see an OK rainbow flop of 4810. I get it in and DF calls saying you are in front at present. I am but his 89J5 has plenty outs. The next card out is my 2nd worse one a Q and I am drawing slim and miss.
Out.

Things I learned

Devilfish was actually well behaved and actually came accross as a decent guy - which I hear hes not! The standard of play at PLO was poor with players making many mistakes. I probably should have folded the 1st hand re devilfish as there were far more incompetent chumps to take chips from at that stage - however I dont think the call is very -ev.

Rest of the day

Wet shopping as I only packed a little clothes and will just buy them over here. That went well and I bust my previous sunglasses record by $50 paying $70 for a pair. garanteed they will be fucked in a week!

Got a cash xchange rate of 1.94 at luxor desk. The real international xchange rate is 1.95 so I am delighted with that. However I soon felt really bad when I spunked away $1200 at blackjack trying to win $100 back that I had lost on stupid fruit machines.

I really could have done allot with $1300 hence the title of the post. I would rather have hired a few little people and set up a wrestling match or something for that cash.... now that would have felt like money well spent.

Anyway watching Portugal v Czech here and have layed £300 on port as czechs look good (famous last words). Also had to play on crypto this morning as ipoker doesn't work here - Won $1000! at £50 sng's so back in a good mood.

Will have a few days of binions/venetian type events then maybe attack the $2000 PLH/PLO event.

In Vegas

Wow that flight was gruelling!

Well that what happens when you manage to get a flight to the other side of the world for £336! Stopped in Amsterdam for 1 hour and then Minneapolis for 6 hours - I have a friend there so we did beers. Arrived Vegas 20 hours after I set out!

Off to sleep now. May play the $1500 event on the 10/6 but will see how I feel when I wake up.

Laters

Good Practice!

Went to the maybury last night - decided I better have some practice on the tournament front so played the £30r as well as the cash game afterwards (probably the biggest reg £1/£2 game in Britain!)

Tourney went very bad at first having 3 rebuys for 1500 points - a surprisingly playable figure with blinds at 25/50 for the 1st 90 mins. I then had no further rebuys and finished on 1100 chips sort of giving in and waiting for the 3000 point top up. So approaching the start of the knockout stages I had only 1/2 average at 4100. With only 3 prizes and 3300 in the prize fund I didn't hold out much hope. However 3 hours later I did a 5 way deal as Chip leader and took £900 / $1800. Nice little bonus in front of wsop and pays my 1st entry fee on the 10/6!

Cash game - as mental as ever with 6k on the table on front of 7 people I managed to win £500 to add to my English notes fund for Vegas..... any decent ideas re exchanging to $$ would be welcome..

Also on a pleasing note - The guy that got shot on Tuesday actually came in last night to say hello to his mates who pay a cash game on a Thursday. Amazingly he looked fine with just a wee hole/nic behind his ear!

3 sleeps before vegas!

Talk of the town

Has been the shooting outside the local casino!

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/Edinburgh-casino-shooting-at-the.4148995.jp

Crazy I should have been in there last night playing cash games but I was tired after La Manga so didn't bother!


Anyway enough of that stuff - I have heard that you cannot use Ipoker over in America? Can anyone confirm this and also tell me the way round it. Also ditto re betfair.

Also lastly congratulations to James of the hitsquad in a massive result in wsop. Hopefully will have some words on it soon. http://pokerhitsquad.blogspot.com/

cheers

V Quick Update

Been on the go allot the last few weeks...

Was in Paris for Roland Garros last week and to lay some live poker. Roland Garros was good but it rained too much so we didn't catch as much tennis as hoped. Live poker was bad! I lost 2500 euros mainly in 1 hand where i was playing a 1600 stack with 260 in prelop the flop came 662 at 5 card omaha. The preflop raiser bets pot. what do I do with JJ679?

Was in La Manga last week for some golf/drinking. Was good fun and would go back again. Will maybe post some photos of us all dressed up when I download them.

Not really played any poker over the last wee while. Only raked $4000 last month as I just gave up after a $2500 first week! Made some money but not great amounts. I have played about 3 sng's this month of June and won a $500 one so about $2000 up! i only played it as I was £800 down on eng v Trinidad (How bad were they at defending!) but at least I won it!

Anyway - off to Vegas on Monday so will try to work out a schedule of what I will play. & when I do you guys will be the first to know!

Laters

Happy Birthday to me

I am now 30! Thats a bit scary but never mind I dont feel old at all. Had a great little party with loads of my friends on saturday so all in all times are good. My girlfriend Karyn as well as getting me a trip to Hong Kong she also managed to bake a massive (poker) cake and get it to the venue without me noticing - mighty impressive due to my flat only having 6 rooms.

Other things. I came home with 10500 euros from my trip to Paris 2 weeks ago went over with 2500.. Long story of how I got there, and the cards that happened but I started 3 times and never managed to finish it. sorry.

Played about 50 sng's in the ast 3 weeks! lol

Lost a few K online at omaha won a few k at sng's so been static for a while.

Played a few times live in edinburgh - basically broke even so no excitement there.

I am actually back in aris just now for 2 days for Roland Garros but its raining so thats not good. Also have a trip to La managa booked for thursay until Tuesday.

Then I am back for 1 week and its off to Vegas for 1 month. - Soap - I will be selling some shares. I will post details here but email me if you wish in meantime.

Anyway this is a quick update as in bed in paris

Night all.

in Paris (actually sitting at a cash table while typing)

More Postings!

People keep moaning at me to post more so here goes. This was before I had a picture of that bint from the apprentice on my top post so I think they really meant it.

Other than poker its been quite a good week. Played some golf, snooker and tennis as well as kicked about with some friends.

Poker
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Cash - hmmmm - Its all went a bit tits up recently. Had been winning well for the last while but the last 3 sessions have been bad. break even, -300 and -1000...... oh well you cant win them all! Played bad one day but the others i didn't catch cards....

SNG's - I got some bonuses from my site (about a grand) but apart from that I have played 160 sng's and as near as damn it broken even. This is really disappointing and the weeks graph shows the sublime to the ridiculous. Not Cashing in 16 in a row was a particular high point! Followed by the next night cashing in 8 out of 10! My play has been erratic and my effort levels very poor. The task continues and I am approaching my 1st target for a withdrawal so that's not too bad as my bank account could do with a boost.

Other poker stuff

TEEPEE
Massive congratulations to one of my best friends Paul (Teepee) Lindsay on winning a wsop $12500 package on sunpoker.
Teepee - (as well as being my old flatmate, and a man who chest I sat on just as he was waking and pinned his arms down and sang the theme tune to flipper while riding him like a dolphin! Did I mention that his girlfriend was next to him and that I was naked! ) is a talented poker player with a determined streak. However he is extremely stubborn and frequently turns determination into complete collapse.

examples -

• spent 6 months grinding literally freeroles on VC poker into $1000. Turns $1000 into 3000 in 2 days and then $3000 into zero in 1 hour!
• Got his stars account up from $100 to $5000 then blew it in 1 weekend while pissed.
• Is $6000 up from sng's on stars but wont play on a rakeback site and continues to play cash omaha because "I haven't got the patience for sng's!"
• etc etc

I often bail Teepee out but its no risk to me as he always pays me back asap and he actually puts in more hours than me grinding when he is in the mood.

Anyway after he had withdrawn $1500 from his $4000 roll at the turn of the year he managed to blow the rest as he was trying to get it back up to the post withdrawal amount without the patience. He borrows $400 from me. Pays me back in a few days and gets that past 2k (paul play on a rakeback site I say but he claims he doesn't like the graphics - he rakes about $4k a month!) then blows it again.

Anyway this happens a few times until he eventually busts and I don't have any stars cash. So 3 weeks ago he enters a few freeroles on his sunpoker account with pennies worth of FPP's. He gets up to over 1k twice but blows it. However rakeback saves him and he gets going again only to qualify for the fearsome foursome wsop on sunpoker. (the same one as I qualified for dortmund ept with the massive overlay!)

The wsop has an overlay 50% 40 players x $200 battle it out and teepee alerts me to the fact that my 25% is still in with 7 players left. He is lying 2nd but sweeps all players aside to cruise to the seat in 20 mins without outdrawing people (seriously Paul I need to teach you that trick).

I bought an extra part of him when he was heads up to even out the variance so now my biggest cash in May is due to taking a % in my mate Paul. Cheers Paul.

He is yet to decide if he is going to be able to make it as his GF is due in august. I will keep you all updated!

Paris
Looks like I am off to Paris this week for some poker - unless I have been the victim of an elaborate con for $300 - which would actually be funnier..... anyway will update you all tomorrow.

Cheers

pps - Just won 2 and came 2nd in 1 sng out of 4 - i am so good when single tabling!

Happy

Not about Poker - Break even from last Friday



Not about sports betting - spunked a fortune on horses last week and have now offered my brother £1000 if I place 1 bet on horses on my betfair account on the next 3 months.



Or about anything else in my personal life, which is all going fine.



But about the fact that I have just finished watching the apprentice and the most annoying cunt in the whole world just got sacked. I even did a wee fist pump when little AL sacked her.



Anyway - Jenny Celerier - You have a stupid name, you are very ugly, you are as thick as pigshit, you sound like (and look worse than) Janet street Porter,but most importantly you are a fucking cunt!



CUNT!







































PS - I have stopped putting my results on here for the sng's for various reasons but I am still hammering at them. I had a great 1st week winning allot more than I expected. If you are really interested feel free to look up 0flashbadger0 on sharkscope.
I am looking at trying to rake $20,000 this month but have been very lazy so far!

I will post with something more interesting later.

Cheers

Day 2 and 3

Day 2

Bad day, played OK in the morning and ran really badly. Did stuff in the afternoon and then played poker while doing horses and other stuff and played and ran v bad. Only played 20 sng's and had 2 cashes - both 2nds!

Hard Figures
Starting account balance - $7953
Days closing account balance - $5900

Performance
Days performance out of 10 - 3 Days Effort out of 10 - 1.5
Running good? out of 10 - 2

Other stuff
Won a small amount at maybury cash game dealers choice - great fun. Lost £150 to Mafews playing fifa 2008. Him Hearts me spurs + 3 goals. He pissed on me....... mind you I haven't played the game since it was fifa 99!

Day 3
Better Day Played 68

Hard Figures
Starting account balance - $5900
Days closing account balance - $9475 - sweet!

Performance
Days performance out of 10 - 7Days Effort out of 10 - 6.5
Running good? out of 10 - 6.5


Sharkscope (for the month) (account name 0flashbadger0 - ipoker )
Played - 159
Raked $1,800
Skarkscope monthly profit - $3875 (site went down so sharkscope missed some tourneys)
Sharkscope ROI - 15%

I am mainly playing 6 seater turbo and superturbo sng's just to clarify. These 1 minute level sng's are fantastic! :-)

www.sharkscope.com keeps missing the occasional sng but to be honest I am not bothered as the account balance is all that's important. I don't remember being able to buy consumer goods with a sharkscope gold star!

Went out for a meal at my favourite Edinburgh eatery Abstract with Karyn and also played snooker v my dad today so not too wasted a day

Laters