Hooray for open shoving

It seems everyone seems to be doing it recently, and its obviously profitable as I am the idiot that keeps calling them! I have had 2 nights like that in the last week, so note to self don’t call!

Having said that I did have a profitable Friday night, helped by Welchy, as he recommended I joined a table with spewtastic player in the name of “candlestich”. Whilst the hands below aren’t all that fascinating it kind of shows he was just either betting, betting, betting or calling, calling, calling. Whilst I was there he released himself of 7 buyins, and as G1lly was sat there with $200+ I’m gueesing he did at least 10 buyins.

I  got a double up and a bit extra off him but would have been nice to be G1lly as he ran like god against him which was unfortunate for me :P !

***** Hand History for Game 1530695599 ***** (PKR)

$25.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, November 26, 11:19:41 ET 2010

Table Late Store 2 (Real Money)

Seat 4 is the button

Seat 1: illcrashu ( $59.61 USD )

Seat 2: podtav ( $26.68 USD )

Seat 3: candlestich ( $47.49 USD )

Seat 4: MeneGeneOkerland ( $25.00 USD )

Seat 5: welchy ( $34.24 USD )

Seat 6: G1LLY ( $139.23 USD )

welchy posts small blind [$0.10 USD].

G1LLY posts big blind [$0.25 USD].

Dealt to MeneGeneOkerland [  Ah Qc ]

illcrashu folds

podtav folds

candlestich raises [$0.75 USD]

MeneGeneOkerland raises [$2.30 USD]

welchy folds

G1LLY folds

candlestich calls [$1.55 USD]

** Dealing Flop ** [ 2c, Ts, 4h ]

candlestich checks

MeneGeneOkerland bets [$3.40 USD]

candlestich calls [$3.40 USD]

** Dealing Turn ** [ Td ]

candlestich checks

MeneGeneOkerland checks

** Dealing River ** [ 8s ]

candlestich bets [$8.81 USD]

MeneGeneOkerland calls [$8.81 USD]

candlestich shows [Qs, 8c ]

candlestich wins $27.91 USD from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 1530711891 ***** (PKR)

$25.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, November 26, 11:35:41 ET 2010

Table Late Store 2 (Real Money)

Seat 2 is the button

Seat 1: illcrashu ( $58.91 USD )

Seat 2: podtav ( $24.58 USD )

Seat 3: candlestich ( $28.42 USD )

Seat 4: MeneGeneOkerland ( $23.20 USD )

Seat 5: welchy ( $37.08 USD )

Seat 6: G1LLY ( $213.09 USD )

candlestich posts small blind [$0.10 USD].

MeneGeneOkerland posts big blind [$0.25 USD].

Dealt to MeneGeneOkerland [  4s 2s ]

welchy raises [$1.00 USD]

G1LLY folds

podtav folds

candlestich calls [$0.90 USD]

MeneGeneOkerland calls [$0.75 USD]

** Dealing Flop ** [ 4d, 9h, Kc ]

candlestich checks

MeneGeneOkerland checks

welchy checks

** Dealing Turn ** [ 2h ]

candlestich bets [$2.25 USD]

MeneGeneOkerland raises [$6.00 USD]

welchy folds

candlestich calls [$3.75 USD]

** Dealing River ** [ Ad ]

candlestich checks

MeneGeneOkerland bets [$8.00 USD]

candlestich calls [$8.00 USD]

MeneGeneOkerland shows [4s, 2s ]

candlestich shows [9s, 5c ]

MeneGeneOkerland wins $29.45 USD from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 1530719907 ***** (PKR)

$25.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, November 26, 11:43:09 ET 2010

Table Late Store 2 (Real Money)

Seat 3 is the button

Seat 1: illcrashu ( $57.94 USD )

Seat 2: podtav ( $23.23 USD )

Seat 3: candlestich ( $27.46 USD )

Seat 4: MeneGeneOkerland ( $37.05 USD )

Seat 5: Zdravka ( $25.00 USD )

Seat 6: G1LLY ( $221.27 USD )

MeneGeneOkerland posts small blind [$0.10 USD].

Zdravka posts big blind [$0.25 USD].

Dealt to MeneGeneOkerland [  Kc Ks ]

G1LLY folds

illcrashu folds

podtav raises [$0.75 USD]

candlestich raises [$1.25 USD]

MeneGeneOkerland raises [$3.10 USD]

Zdravka folds

podtav folds

candlestich calls [$1.95 USD]

** Dealing Flop ** [ 8d, 2h, Td ]

MeneGeneOkerland bets [$5.00 USD]

candlestich calls [$5.00 USD]

** Dealing Turn ** [ 5s ]

MeneGeneOkerland bets [$14.00 USD]

candlestich calls [$14.00 USD]

** Dealing River ** [ 3c ]

MeneGeneOkerland bets [$6.00 USD]

candlestich folds

MeneGeneOkerland wins $43.13 USD from main pot

MeneGeneOkerland wins $6.00 USD

The reason for the mention of Welchy is that he one of only a couple of players that I respect at NL25. The other being Kickmypuppy who has also dropped back down to NL25, although thankfully I don't think he'll be down here for long!

Also played a Stage 1 Masters last week and now have a Stage 3 so may give that a whirl this week to try and qualify for only my 2^nd Masters. I don’t remember the 1^st as I was too drunk playing it.

Talking of satellites, ,y thought process for them is very wrong, as they are 1 in 6 qualify it would annoy me if it took 6 attempts, as you may as well have just bought in direct. I know its not how i should look at it but it is, which is why if I try I always start at the low stage 1

Away from poker, well I say away, went out Saturday to watch the England rugby team lose to South Africa, which was unfortunate but the South Africans were brutal! I then ended up playing with a couple of friends, that I wasn’t overly excited at playing against as I normally make a drunken spazout, costing me money I’m trying to save, but thankfully it was one of the other 2 that did it this week.

And a great draw in the 1^st Test of The Ashes, especially given our position at the end of day 3. Although didn’t get to watch any of it due to having no Sky and ungodly hours that its on.

Strange Day

After a day of the most boring courses on Earth, Financial Reporting update and a Charities accounts and audit refresher course. /yawn. It didn’t help that i was knackered from the night before playing till 1.30am playing a bit of PLO50, managed to double my buy in, and its always fun playing it

Anyway started for an evening of poker and after an hour of NL25 found myself up $83. This was mainly down to some crazies playing, like open shoving and raising like 10BB each time. Anyway I then proceeded for the couple of hours to dwindle it down, then lost a 175BB pot, that I didn’t play well, so at this point was $20 but managed to grind it back to a $5 profit for like 3-4 hours play, lol wooo hoo!

Kept having breaks through this to replenish the wine and catch a bit of Children in Need. Terry Wogan is mental, thank god Tess Daly was there, otherwise I don’t think I could have put up with it.

There was also some joy outside of poker, in that a good friend from work had a baby little girl albeit 6 weeks early but obviously I wish all the best to the new and happy family.

November has been a frustrating month. I have played a load as I have gone for my highest re-load bonus yet, but after around 8,000 hands of NL25 I am down $42 but running 7 buyins below EV. My profit overall is at $340 due to me taking a couple of drunken shots at NL100.

Thinking of December goals are that I will clear my bonus (49% cleared already) and slowly move up to NL50.

Am also going to try and hit 100,000 hands for the year. I am at 80,000 but with me trying to clear my bonus @NL25 and the Christmas period coming up I think 20,000 is achievable. 

Me and the year so far

So as it seems every high stakes player and his mother are doing blogs I thought it was about time a small stakes fish also had a go at blogging.

A little bit about my poker and PKR, joined PKR in Jan 2008 and played solely tournaments for just over a year learning and pretty much sucking at them. I then started to learn a couple of key points being BRM and position etc and that middle pair with an Ace kicker can actually be beaten!

Anyway moved over to ring games and mainly played them since Feb 2009, and been tracking on HEM since around July 2009.

My graph for 2010 and last month are below, (there are a couple of swings for drunken  shots at the higher stakes in the yearly one, but majority are at NL25 and a quarter at NL50.)



Anyway I intend to blog about the fun at NL25 posting some fun hands that I have viewed or been involved in and keep track of my monthly wins/losses

I may well also have a few sessions in the near future at NL50 but probably not until around Christmas time when I have more free time.