Saturday, July 07, 2007

Can't happen again? Right?

Wrong.
Please turn off my fucking doom switch, PLEASE!!!!!!!

794357036 Start Date
2007-07-07 05:28:43.0
End Date 2007-07-07 05:29:44.0
Pot Size $18.02
Rake $0.05
Game Type Hold'Em
Play Mode Real
Table Name Albuquerque
Structure NL Table Stakes
Inforcor
1
$56.59/$56.59
$0.00
$0.00

shtnaces
5
3 K
$6.31/$10.63
$6.31
$4.32

mundigity
6
$7.27/$6.52
$0.75
$-0.75

Mias_Dad
7
A A
$18.88/$12.57
$6.31
$-6.31

dmen
9
3 K
$4.70/$7.40
$4.70
$2.70

Mias_Dad
Raise
$ 0.65

05:29:12
dmen
Call
$ 0.65

05:29:15
shtnaces
Call
$ 0.45

05:29:17
mundigity
Call
$ 0.45

05:29:18

Card dealt to table
K 7 7

05:29:18
mundigity
Check

05:29:20
Mias_Dad
Bet
$ 2.45

05:29:29
dmen
All-in
$ 3.95

05:29:33
shtnaces
All-in
$ 5.56

05:29:35
mundigity
Fold
$ 0.00

05:29:35
Mias_Dad
Call
$ 3.11
05:29:37

Card dealt to table
8
05:29:39

Card dealt to table
K
05:29:41


Betting round completed
Last active pot = $-0.01 Side pot 9 = $14.81Side pot 5 = $3.22
05:29:43
Mias_Dad
Showdown
Show card: Two PairA A K K 8
05:29:43
shtnaces
Showdown
Show card: Full HouseK K K 7 7
05:29:43
dmen showdown
Show card: Full HouseK K K 7 7
05:29:44
shtnaces
Hand result
$ 10.63
05:29:44
dmen
Hand result
$ 7.40
05:29:44

Friday, July 06, 2007

99.2% favourite......

Seems even this isn't enough online:.

Hand Number 793309989
Start Date 2007-07-06 17:28:16.0
End Date 2007-07-06 17:28:46.0
Pot Size $7,005.00
Rake $0.00
Game Type Hold'Em
Play Mode Real
Table Name $3,000 Guaranteed
Structure NL
Community Cards
Hand Number
793309989

Mias_Dad
1
A A

chalis
6
A K

Mias_Dad
Raise
$ 480.00
17:28:23

chalis
All-in
$ 3,390.00
17:28:33
Mias_Dad
Call
$ 2,910.00
17:28:38

Card dealt to table
8 5 7
17:28:40

Card dealt to table
K
17:28:42

Card dealt to table
K
17:28:44

Betting round completed
Last active pot = $0.00 Side pot 6 = $7,005.00
17:28:46
Mias_Dad
Showdown
Show card: Two PairA A K K 8
17:28:46
chalis
Showdown
Show card: Three of a KindK K K A 8
17:28:46
chalis
Hand result
$ 7,005.00
17:28:46

Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Save The Exile!!

I recently met 'Exile57' over at Cell's blog, and just read that she is stopping her blog!!

Maybe if we all stop by and leave her a few words of support and encouragement - she'll reconsider. Although I have only just started reading her blog, I enjoy reading various different takes on the game and how to play it - and it saddens me that someone thinks they aren't noticed! I don't always leave comments on blogs, but that doesn't mean I'm not reading them!!

Hope you don't mind this Exile - I have the best of intentions - and I wish you the best for the future (but how will we know how things are going if you're not blogging?!).

Do you realise that you will need something else to fill the void of not blogging and will either:

Start eating loads of chocolate and other comfort food put on loads of weight, making you depressed and generally unwell until you become an old spinster with lots of cats and a faint smell of wee.

Maybe you'll start talking to the walls as a release of the feelings you used to get rid of by blogging, and the lack of this anger release will make you become embittered. Before you know it, your employer has sacked you, your friends have disowned you and without the funds to pay your mortgage, you'll quickly descend into a state of total madness and end up living in a cardboard box outside Bloggers HQ - shouting obscenities at the employees as they pass until the police move you on.

Maybe you'll take up another hobby like smoking or drinking and end up being a social outcast as more and more of these types of activities are being banned by our government.

Or, worse case scenario - you get taken in by the Google Hairy Gymnast Cult!!!

All because you stopped blogging.......

:-)

Monday, July 02, 2007

It's a Cat!

“Your Joy is your sorrow unmasked. When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.”

Poker continues to frustrate, but I’m trying to maintain a positive mental attitude as I fight the fishes at the low limit tables on the IPoker Network.
Really am not sure what’s happened to me or my game over the last few months. Played for a while last night and eventually turned the tables off and spent an hour or so going through my hand history looking for faults.
When 80% of your losses come from:
AA v KK (twice)
My JJ v villains KK on a J high flop (he rivered another K)
Getting frustrated as my AK v 67 on a KK6 flop lost to runner runner flush in a 10$ SNG on the bubble
The final straw was my AK v K8 on a 226 flop, and when he called with K8 – there was utter frustration as the 8 hit the turn and I bubbled another 10$ SNG

So, I’m not sure where or what I can do to change my current form. All these hands were just damn unlucky, I know. But there have been so many I’m getting real depressed with playing – as you will probably have guessed from recent posts.

Sorry for the depressing tone, I do try and keep it upbeat usually – but I guess it is eroding my confidence and desire and I really feel I will benefit from not playing for a while.
Having said this, I love the game, and playing and I guess the losses are bedfellows with the wins – as the Kahlil Gibran quote above so eloquently puts it.
I am cutting right back on my online play, to the point where it may well not play a part in my future poker play. I have cut back my accounts and will not play another hand at Joker Stars again after suffering in the blogger tourney where yet more 2 outers hit the river in the only 2 hands I played a flop with. I have £50 left on the Crypto network and this will be my only BR for the foreseeable future.

On a positive note, I have bought a few poker books to read and look forward to tucking into Harrington and Gordon. I’ve found out that my local Rileys Snooker Club have branched into Poker and are licensed to run tournaments and have a growing base of members. There is a beginners Tournament night on Sunday so I have booked myself in and will try out the small SNG type format and see how it plays. Although I am no beginner, I am relatively inexperienced in live play, having played only a dozen or so home games with friends.

The weather added to my woes over the weekend, and as it’s my main time with Mia, it’s tough sometimes to be stuck in the house with no park or outdoor activities possible. We had some fun drawing – she is getting really good at doing pictures of Mummy and Daddy and Grandma and Grandad – and her colouring in is getting closer and closer to the lines! She is also really into her Playdoh – though Daddy is not very artistic and the cat I made for her promptly had her running round the table doing cow impressions.

‘It’s a cat, Mia – they go ‘miaaaooowww’ I said.
‘Silly Daddy’ she replies

She is still insisting on sleeping on the floor, but has allowed a blanket and cushion – so at least is more comfortable. I finally got out of her that she thinks her bed is ‘broken’ – not sure how she has come to this – but made an effort to dismantle parts of the bed and rebuilt it showing her it can take Daddy’s weight (just!) and said ‘Daddy fixed it’ a lot. Didn’t work last night, but will keep trying.

Anyway, good luck at the tables – apologies for the downbeat nature – hoping that normal service will be resumed shortly :-)