Gullanians Blog

2008-12-15T12:44:00.000-08:00

Back from Gutshot

2008-02-03T00:46:00.001-08:00

Decided to take my £100 poker profit down to Gutshot for one last swing, and ended leaving with a net profit of £200, (yes, that takes into account expenses like travelcards beer and breakfast!)

I don't think I'll do it again for a while, the journey home was a bit of a nightmare.

Anyway a couple of interesting hands:

I had 56, flop 56T
Lots of betting, I hate my hand I really hate it but I can't let go, so I call.
Turn is a J
Some dude goes all in, I shove over the top to deny anyone else entry into the pot and he flips over KT.
River is another J obviously, and he scoops a £100+ pot. That kinda sucks!

My favorite hand of the night, I decided to put a straddle down, ONLY ONCE for the whole night! And I was lucky enough to look down at AA. I couldn't beleive my luck. Anyway I got it all in PF and over doubled up. Pretty sweet.

Anyway, that's enough poker for a while, I'm just going to play for fun now! Thank you for reading.

Goodbye poker

2008-01-31T14:19:00.000-08:00

Dropped 3 buyins, nothing especially interesting.

However, this being a normal swing, I find it extremely hard to cope with, and for that reason I cashed out my entire BR, up £104 from my original stake. I've had enough. When poker starts affecting your relationships with people, then it's time to quit. I'm 21, and I'm sure happiness can be found down other routes instead of gambling.

2008-01-31T11:34:00.001-08:00

Sorry for no update over the last couple of weeks dear reader(s)!

It's been a bit of a rollercoaster. As you can see from my last post, I lost $200 very quickly of my $1,000 roll. I proceeded further to lose another $200-$300, and I got into a bit of a state. Losing £250 at NL25, a level I firmly beleived I should be crushing was emotionally draining and depressing. I had spent a huge amount of money on something that wasn't particularly fun, when I thought about the nice things I could of spent the money on, I got pretty upset with myself.

I called out for help on 2+2, and was actually overwhelmed with help and PMs from people, some I knew, some I didn't. Several people offered to sweat me, and I took two of them up on it. The first sweat session went well, he helped identify some giant leaks in my game, firstly I wasn't cbetting correctly or frequently enough, and I wasn't stealing and opening a wide enough range. After he left, I had a new confidence and went on a bit of a heater and made up $100 or so in one night. I thought my problems had been solved in one swoop! But nay, I lost more money, and dropped even lower.

Then I took another 2+2er up on the sweating offer, and he really really helped. He reiterated what the first sweater told me, and helped tighten up my game and plug my leaks. He spent a good amount of time with me, and it literally turned my game around.

Winning the money back was extremely hard, for several reasons:
1. When you're that low, it's hard to motivate yourself, there's a large mountain to climb
2. I was running extremely badly, my all in luck graph showed about 7 bis lost through sheer bad luck.
3. I had £110 of bonus to clear, in quite a short time. This kept me playing, which wasn't necesserially a good thing.

However, I am pleased to say, I made it back. My PTracker DB then corrupted, so I thought now would be a good time to start a new one, and hence I did! And in the last couple of days, I have been playing extremely well. Take a look at my graph and stats:

Much much nicer, thank goodness! I was incredibly grateful to everyone that helped me, I was actually incredibly suprised at the response I received from everyone.

I also was fortunate enough to catch a staking thread, and managed to grab a $109 stake along with about 5 other people, I did the best out of everyone and came 200th/600 I think, which I was quite pleased with, but like every online tournament it seemed to just turn into a 10bb crapshoot at the end.

In other news, my job as a data entry/bus pass person ended, it was a shame to go they were a great bunch of people. I'm excited about the future though, and am planning on going travelling very soon.

I've started running again as well, a run before a poker session really does help. When I was working I did about 10mile cycle a day, so I need to keep up the exercise.

A bit of trivia happened today, lol, Pokerstars phoned me and asked me to pull down a webpage I made as a joke, it looked like their rake webpage, but I changed it to be a joke, anyway they wern't best pleased! I thought it was amusing though. Since they asked nicely and were polite I pulled it down for them.

Deposited $1k, lost $200 in 2 hours.

2008-01-15T05:51:00.001-08:00

So I kept getting in marginal situations and not winning any of them. Lots and lots of coolers as well. Feeling pretty depressed at the moment, need to remember my bonus Party Poker gave me is worth £100 so if I clear that it will recover these losses. Just need to wait until the evening and start fresh again.

1 outer

2008-01-14T11:33:00.001-08:00

I'm getting ready to put a $1k roll on party tommorow night, finally my job has paid me! Start the grinding at NL25 and NL50. I've missed poker a lot, but am glad for the long break, it's enabled me to come back to it with fresh objectives and optimism.

Had a few hundred party points in my account left over from months ago so decided to play some of the party point tournaments, was trying to win a 300k seat and this hand came up:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1939134

Lol. Anyway I hope this is not what's to come, and more 'get the bad luck out the way'.

Edit: Looking back at that hand, it's the worst beat I've ever taken, I don't think I remember being 1 outed before. Only 100PPs though so I can just lol it off.

Currently playing the Players club $500 for fun, if anyone cares here are some fun hands:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1939385
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1939423
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1939435
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1939456

Chip leader at this point, 450/1,050 left.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1939504

Gosh darn AK

Ended up tilting away the rest, gg

Trip to Gutshot

2008-01-12T21:21:00.000-08:00

Just went to Gutshot tonight. Was great fun, I made some great plays, caught some good hands and made 1 disgusting fold.

Sat down with £50 at the £1-£1 PLHE table. Some hands of interest:

Everyone limps, I limp on the button with 23 of clubs. Flop comes: 6KT 1 club.
Checked around, and I check. Turn comes:
5 clubs.
Pretty nice card for me, checked around to someone who bets £3 into the £9 pot. I call. River is a 4, and I make my low end straight. It's nicely disguised though. Guy bets £5, I value raise to £15 and he calls.

Dealt 9T, lots of limping so I limp in late position. Flop comes out 946, and someone bets £3. I flat call, turn is a low blank. He bets £3 again, and I flat call. River is a Ten, and he bets £5. I raise it to £15, and he calls. He doesn't show, but I guess it was a strong 9 or something. Was slightly worried about a straight draw he could have that might of made it, which wouldn't of suprised me the way he was betting.

I have around £150 infront of me. UTG pots preflop. I look down and see AA, so repot it. Everyone folds and the pot is now around £35. The flop comes out Q57 rainbow, so a pretty nice board for my aces. He checks to me, so I bet around £25. He flat calls. Turn comes another Queen, he checks to me so I check. River is a blank, and he shoves all in, another £55. I think for a while and fold my aces, showing them faceup (lol?). Everyone berates me, the guy doesn't show and I feel like a bit of a muppet. I had to only call another £55 to win a pot around £190. I don't know why I folded, I think he makes that play with large pocket pairs there.

Then it started to go wrong, get KT, flop comes K46 with 2 hearts. Someone bets strong, I call. Turn is another heart, he bets strong again, I call with my Ten of hearts. River is an 8, he bets all in and I call. He flips up K8, and that drops me a lot.

It was however a good fun night! Shame luckyjimm couldn't find me though. In a PM he sent me he said he saw someone in a brown hoodie who could of been me but he had lots of moeny infront of him so he wasn't sure. lol :(

Good day at work

2008-01-09T09:35:00.000-08:00

Today was ok for once! Quite happy and relaxed today for some reason. Don't get me wrong, it's still not an interesting job.

At lunch break today I had 15 mins left and nothing to do because I had finished the consumption of my cheese and pickle sandwitches. So I thought I'd go and do a nice poo. So I went to the loo and sat down on it. Another patron entered the toilet and went into the cubicle next to me, he started to wee and as he was weeing he farted (obv straining a little bit, unhealthy?). I tried to stiffle my laughter, and he burst out laughing. Anyway we were both like "lol lol lol" and then he left.

I was taking my time, I'd rather sit on a toilet than go back to filing paper.

Then a minute later another man entered the loo. He started to pee and farted as well. I burst out laughing but there was no laughter from the other cubicle. A sort of eerie silence. My laughter quickly faded. I had to wait for him to leave obviously before showing my face incase he started punching me.

Anyway cycling home on the road, it was dark but I had flashing lights obv. Some man walking on the pavement shouted "IDIOT!" into my ear as I cycled past him. I don't know why, I had lights, maybe it was because I wasn't wearing a helmet? I'm not sure. I'll just forget about it, but it's just about once every 2 or 3 weeks someone sticks their finger to you or shouts at you on your journey home. I'm not sure why this is, I'm not as ugly as the elephant man or look particularly unusual. One day I will stop and enquire.

Another day

2008-01-08T09:35:00.000-08:00

Not much to report today really. Theres this big guy at work, I walked past him and nodded and said 'alright', he said "hello darling" back which I thought was fairly unusual.

Anyway was thinking about when I get paid next tuesday what % to use as a bankroll for poker, probably going to be in region of 75%.

Got home from work drinking some whiskey, it's bad I know but it relaxes me. I feel so stressed and get irritated easily nowadays and it does seem to help.

Looked at my bank balance today, it says 1p. It's actually -£1,599.99 but it shows as 1p.

That funny moment

2008-01-07T16:15:00.000-08:00

So I find at the moment it's easier to sleep when I have some whiskey before bed. I'm at that funny stage now where I should go to bed but I can't. And all the decisions you need to make before you go to bed.

Do I have a shower now? Or in the morning. Tbh I don't know. I mean I wont be arsed in the morning it's guaranteed. But I will. But I can't be arsed now. It's such a headache to work out in my head.

Also just to let you know me and my friends joke book is coming on nicely. It's about 20 pages I hope to complete it some time by summer. I was thinking of lots of jokes today at work.

At the moment in life im working a quite dull job, it pays ok though. It ends in 3 weeks so am currently debating whether to go to Zambia and help dying people or go to Vegas and take a shot at something cool. I'll probably go to Zambia in the end though because I get 2 months for my money instead of 2 weeks.

So I got a blog

2008-01-07T16:02:00.000-08:00

lol so this is my blog 1st post lool