steady does it

Played one 5 seat STT on Poker 770 and won it - have I mentioned I like that site ? I guess I ought to spend all evening on there sometime but I am scared of breaking the spell !

Played two MTTs - wasting an opportunity in the bankroll booster on Blue Square and coming 6th in the $1 challenge on Sporting Odds, which is used as the monthly League on Punters Lounge. Came 6th in the league overall too, so out of that money but entry to a $2500 freeroll on Sunday as compensation.

Going to finish the month tomorrow in profit for the fifth consecutive month and with my third best score. The slight worry is that my best monthly results are the 'even' months so need to improve that in September ........

oh, quiet .....

Played the $5k freeroll on Bet365 and finished in the 7000's out of a number in the 9000's.

Played in the Blue Square Bankroll Booster freeroll and finished 3rd of over 300. Can't say I didn't get lucky on a few hands but I should really have won. Huge chip lead when down to last half dozen but spent too much time trying to put out the guy who had really got lucky to still be there, that I went in third and he won !

I am playing in a Heads Up Tournament on Punters Lounge which is on a knockout basis. After two wins I am down to the last 16. The games are on Betfred which has been a lucky site for me in the past and with 5000 starting chips there is plenty of time to get into each game. Tonight's game was nip and tuck and after 55 minutes we were each within 40 chips of where we had started ! The blinds were then 100-200 and the game in a way only started then and luckily that was when my luck held up.

Then again - perhaps I am .......

Strip Poker

Congratulations to 'Swampster' from Punters Lounge for eventually 'showing them' at the World Record Strip Poker event recently organised by Paddy Power.

video link : http://strippoker.paddypower.com/

I thought I'd be able to post the video itself but I guess I'm not that clever after all !

somebody

- thought this would make a change ! - enjoy

I recently discovered YouTube and was keen to see if I could get a video to work on here. One of my favourite songs and in my view one half of the best 'double A side' single ever released - with Blasphemous Rumours on the other side (it's Depeche Mode by the way in case you don't recognise it).

Same old Same old

Rather than a new post just re-read 28th July and 8th August because the same applied tonight.

Don't know what I would do without Poker770. Don't play there every night and perhaps that's why it remains my oasis when I am wading through desert !

My better half won her first multi table poker tournament tonight. Very well done AvonGirl. I guess I need to watch out although I'm not worried just yet about giving up my title of the best poker player in our house .........

Mansion

In conjunction with Inside Edge magazine Mansion have a 'Poker God' promotion which is a weekly league that is going to last longer than Maxim's King of Poker tournament on VC, but is at least only one game a week rather than two a day !

Finished 13th in the qualifier tonight so no money (top 9) but scored some points in the overall league (top 27).

Goes on until January, by which time Maxim will have started up again so expect to be completely bored by both in due course !

Ticking along

Not a great deal to report this week so far. No progress on any of the Sporting Odds leagues and only money which has come my way was for fourth in the 1c entry $500 added MTT on Mansion tonight. Actually, tell a lie, I won $1.74 in the same tournament yesterday so that's now my favourite !

Am back on PuntersLounge which is good, I think.

untitled

Played in the PokerRoom / Poker Player Team Challenge on Wednesday and made my second final table in the last three tournaments, improving this time to 5th from 10th two games ago (nowhere inbetween). The winner of each tournament gets to represent PokerRoom in a live game against a team of Norwegian players - plus there is a $1000 prize fund in each qualifier (freerolls).

Scored my first points in the August Champions League on Sporting Odds on Thursday and Today - 13th and 3rd - but got a lot of ground to make up if I'm going to get into the money in the overall table at the end of the month.

Made a call during Thursday's game which I did not deserve to win but I got lucky. Called with one-third of my chips pre-flop with K 10 clubs to see a flop of AQA, including the A of clubs. My opponent then put me all-in, and I decided to call. I had outs (ok not many !) and I was going well in a freeroll on Stan James at the same time so if I lost I could concentrate on that. Already said I got lucky, with a J on the turn to give me a straight. My opponent was obviously not impressed (he held A4 os) but apparently considers it the 'worst call in history, this side of Neville Southall' (who made a call on telly that he could not possibly win) - which it might be although I find it hard to believe - and my problem is that whilst I might not make the same call next time that situation arises, I will make it at some point ! I am not considering giving up playing but I am considering 'resigning' from PuntersLounge as it was against a player on there and I wouldn't want to be an embarrassment to the forum !

We sold a three year old filly at Doncaster Sales on Thursday - for the minimum bid so nothing like any profit involved. She has at least been bought by a small trainer so she will hopefully be well looked after and end up racing over jumps which is what she was bred to do.

I still love Poker 770

Nothing very exciting to report for the last two nights (nothing new there then) other than Poker 770 continues to be my light at the end of the tunnel.

Cannot remember the last time I did not win money there overall in a single session and although not winning fortunes because mostly stick to the $5 + 50c five seat STTs it is a real confidence boost each time.

The once a month PokerRoom Team Challenge is on tomorrow which I have really enjoyed playing the last twice so I hope for more of the same tomorrow.

Gripe of the day is people interrupting my play in the Mansion Dome freerolls to ask me for a password to a completely different tournament on the same site. Not that I have any intention of giving out the password anyway but who is mad enough to think I am going to just type it in the chat window !

Disappointing

The live poker in Birmingham on Saturday with Punters Lounge did not exactly go as planned :-

The main event MTT - out first having played two hands (with a lot of folds inbetween). Dealt AJos the very first hand and I raised pre-flop and called a raise after the flop but had to fold after turn. Final hand I bet 200 with 44 and was called from the BB (which was 50) with 67os and he flopped two pair so called my 500 bet by putting me all-in. Think I said on here only yesterday that 44 were going on my banned list !

First STT - played cautiously and folded every hand until getting KK. my raise was called by the big chip leader and I should have folded as soon as the A appeared on the flop, but he checked, I bet, he reraised, and I went all-in to be beaten by his AQ.

Second STT - played cautiously but lasted until the bubble so played more hands, but my A5d (which made its flush on the river) was beaten by 33 making a full house on the flop.

Was a good night though if not at all profitable.

Was back in time this afternoon to play in the Bubble Freeroll on Blue Square and I finished in the money in 15th but could/should have done better as I was a big chip leader after the first few levels because I was at the one table with all sitouts apart from me ! Will be looking to get back into this next month because there is good money to be won.

Tonight was the Aruba Classic qualifier on UltimatePoker and after being short stack early on (24 players) I made it into the top 6 and was lying top 10 when made a stand with 88 and came up against KK. A real disappoinment because these opportunities are few and far between.

knew August would be better !

Finished in the money in the $2k added Poker Night Live MTT on Spin Palace tonight but for the second time in three weeks it was at the minimum level, although still a profit of 50% on my money.

I am adding another hand to those that I am going to stop playing as 44 put a big dent in my chips early on and was the hand I was knocked out with a lot later too. At worst I was down to 175 chips having lost to AA and QQ in quick succession but A rag (paired the A against 77), K 10 (flopped A high straight) and AA v KK put me right back in the top 10. Then had AQ and thought was going to hit the top 5 but A 10 made a set ! Last week I finished out of the money altogether so I'll settle for tonight and hope to get further into the money next Friday.

Last night I had my best return for more than a month when finishing 5th in the $2.5k freeroll on Sporting Odds for $200. So I am happy to see the back of July.

Tomorrow I journey to Birmingham to play in a private tournament arranged by Punters Lounge so really looking forward to it and testing my skills live again.