Shame Sky Poker has no Omaha... Omaha HiLo is probably my favourite game - it's a bit tough on the brain sometimes but it is funner than holdem. Currently I get my fix at Party Poker. Tonight I sat down at a $1 table and turned $100 into $236 in three minutes, thanks to rivering the wheel on my first hand.
I've just had a pint of IPA but the guy who just pushed all-in with nothing, allowing me to win with just a pair of kings, what's he been drinking? Or smoking? So now I'm on over $300 should I quit, or take a chance that the table is going to carry on being this easy?
Sunday 30 December 2007
Second best of a bad bunch
Sunday Showdown final tonight. Not much surprise that Ed Giddins outlasted Sean Boyce and Richard Orford to become the new champion, but winning by coming 282nd is probably not his proudest achievement! All three would've come higher by sitting in the green room sipping champagne.
Anyway, I shouldn't be carping, I came 283rd. (Bad beat, yada yada yada...)
Anyway, I shouldn't be carping, I came 283rd. (Bad beat, yada yada yada...)
Saturday 29 December 2007
Spooked
Last thing last night I sat down for an hour at 50p table "Sandown". It was all pretty normal until suddenly things started to go weird. I flopped a straight draw (89TJ), bet, and two guys called. I made the straight on 4th street, checked, the two guys went all-in and I won a £116 pot. In the chat box someone comments "thunderous applause" and I thank them, only for another two guys to send the same comment. These guys had been quite normal for almost an hour, and now they suddenly get the macro bug, posting various other cut-and-paste comments over the next few minutes. Odd, but what spooked me was the way my cards suddenly started coming out...
Next hand, I raise with 99, and the callers all fold when I bet again on an AJ4 flop. The hand after that, I have Q9 and the flop comes KJT! And the very next hand, I get JT again and I hit the straight on 4th street.
What with getting three almost identical winning straights in four hands, and the weird insta-messaging of the other players, by now I was convinced I was actually sitting at some kind of bot table, designed to make me feel good...
Next hand? AQ. I quit after that.
Next hand, I raise with 99, and the callers all fold when I bet again on an AJ4 flop. The hand after that, I have Q9 and the flop comes KJT! And the very next hand, I get JT again and I hit the straight on 4th street.
What with getting three almost identical winning straights in four hands, and the weird insta-messaging of the other players, by now I was convinced I was actually sitting at some kind of bot table, designed to make me feel good...
Next hand? AQ. I quit after that.
Friday 28 December 2007
Down and up again
Primo night, and early on I flopped a king-high straight (I had T9). I raised, was reraised, and though I smelt a rat, I raised all-in. Of course the other guy had AT...
Moved on to cash, spent half an hour turning £77 into £15, then spent half an hour turning £15 into £80. Meanwhile, I'd signed up for Velocity and was chip leader, so I quit the cash and concentrated on the tourney, whose first prize is £500+. I did finish in the top thirty, but the prize for that was only £15, so maybe I shouldn't have bothered.
Tournaments are exciting though, and the Primo is down to 11 players as I write, all looking to scoop the first prize of over £7,000.
Moved on to cash, spent half an hour turning £77 into £15, then spent half an hour turning £15 into £80. Meanwhile, I'd signed up for Velocity and was chip leader, so I quit the cash and concentrated on the tourney, whose first prize is £500+. I did finish in the top thirty, but the prize for that was only £15, so maybe I shouldn't have bothered.
Tournaments are exciting though, and the Primo is down to 11 players as I write, all looking to scoop the first prize of over £7,000.
Friday 21 December 2007
Irrelevant, repetitive and nonsensical
On Wednesday I got an email from Blogger - they were suspending this blog while they checked it wasn't a "spam blog". They say spam blogs "can be recognized by their irrelevant, repetitive, or nonsensical text"...
Any road up, I didn't play in the Open yesterday, but Wednesday and tonight I came in the money, so I'm pretty happy with my tourney play - I think I'll try and hit the casino next week. But I lost twice as much as I won 'cause I lost every penny I put onto a couple of cash tables. The first time that was all my fault - bad misreads. But tonight I was unlucky - first PP called my all-in with bottom pair and caught trips. Then he called all-in and caught his straight against my two pair. So I'm smiling 'cause it was only luck that beat me.
Any road up, I didn't play in the Open yesterday, but Wednesday and tonight I came in the money, so I'm pretty happy with my tourney play - I think I'll try and hit the casino next week. But I lost twice as much as I won 'cause I lost every penny I put onto a couple of cash tables. The first time that was all my fault - bad misreads. But tonight I was unlucky - first PP called my all-in with bottom pair and caught trips. Then he called all-in and caught his straight against my two pair. So I'm smiling 'cause it was only luck that beat me.
Wednesday 19 December 2007
Zzz...
Signed up for Velocity Live, fell asleep, went out after 44 minutes. Let's see if can do better than 44 minutes when I'm awake!
Tuesday 18 December 2007
The Downs and Ups
As regulars will know, the Sky Poker platform has been a bit flaky of late, and when I lost my connection fifteen minutes into tonight's Bounty Hunter I was ready to get mad with them. Especially as I'd won seven of the first thirteen hands!
But this time it was Virgin's fault. Literally. Quite a surprise, really - I don't remember there being a break in service for several months. But still very frustrating. It was ten past ten by the time I got back online, by which time my 6,000 chips had shrivelled away to 300.
An hour later I made the decision that since I'd been playing well, I ought to sit down at a cash table for a while. I was a little bit on tilt so I sat down with £77 at a £1 table (I usually play the 20p and 50p tables) and "got busy". There were a couple of guys on the table with £150 but my first three hands were KT, AQ and KK so I was able to come out all guns blazing and quickly get myself a good table image. A few hands later I got AKs in early position and surprised myself by opting to limp. A good move - a couple of guys raised, so I raised them all-in, they folded and I took an easy £13 (nett).
Then I got 55 twice in a row. The first time the flop was Q43 so I fancied my chances, but I was pleased to only lose £5 to the guy with the Q. The second time I flopped a set and check-raised.
My next four hands were AQ, 77, J9, 99. Obviously I lost £11 with the pairs, won £20 with the ace, and won £90 with the jack. That's poker. The board was JT3JK and the guy went all-in. The way he bet, he could've had Q9, so I used the full time before calling. I wonder what he did have?? Bloody Sky Poker doesn't reveal the losing cards in that situation...
Sitting on my left at the table was an aggressive player called Godson. I think I prefer having an aggressive player on my left rather than on my right. It makes me less likely to limp or call with rubbish, but at least gives me the option to bet. Anyway, Godson went on tilt at just the right moment. A guy nicked half his stack by catching an ace on the river. So Godson went all-in with 55 on a 682 flop, and I had 99 and an easy call to win £100.
£200 up in 30 minutes - not the usual!
But this time it was Virgin's fault. Literally. Quite a surprise, really - I don't remember there being a break in service for several months. But still very frustrating. It was ten past ten by the time I got back online, by which time my 6,000 chips had shrivelled away to 300.
An hour later I made the decision that since I'd been playing well, I ought to sit down at a cash table for a while. I was a little bit on tilt so I sat down with £77 at a £1 table (I usually play the 20p and 50p tables) and "got busy". There were a couple of guys on the table with £150 but my first three hands were KT, AQ and KK so I was able to come out all guns blazing and quickly get myself a good table image. A few hands later I got AKs in early position and surprised myself by opting to limp. A good move - a couple of guys raised, so I raised them all-in, they folded and I took an easy £13 (nett).
Then I got 55 twice in a row. The first time the flop was Q43 so I fancied my chances, but I was pleased to only lose £5 to the guy with the Q. The second time I flopped a set and check-raised.
My next four hands were AQ, 77, J9, 99. Obviously I lost £11 with the pairs, won £20 with the ace, and won £90 with the jack. That's poker. The board was JT3JK and the guy went all-in. The way he bet, he could've had Q9, so I used the full time before calling. I wonder what he did have?? Bloody Sky Poker doesn't reveal the losing cards in that situation...
Sitting on my left at the table was an aggressive player called Godson. I think I prefer having an aggressive player on my left rather than on my right. It makes me less likely to limp or call with rubbish, but at least gives me the option to bet. Anyway, Godson went on tilt at just the right moment. A guy nicked half his stack by catching an ace on the river. So Godson went all-in with 55 on a 682 flop, and I had 99 and an easy call to win £100.
£200 up in 30 minutes - not the usual!
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