Busy

hello everyone hope you all had good wkends, well i been busy with not much time for poker
i got exams coming up first week of june so i been doing some revision and i went on a course last week on thur-sat so not much poker time.

if ur interested the course went quite well so hopeful for that exam, i got another course this thurs-sat which i not looking forward to, it not my best subject so should be hard!! fingers crossed!

the week after that i gonna have some study leave and then 1st wk of june i got my exams on 5th & 6th

so all work and no play makes me a dull boy, o when i off on study leave 30/5/07 - 4/06/07 i gonna try get one game of poker in each day sometime between my revising, so if anyone know's they going to be around on those dates let me know, maybe you could watch my game and offer some advice.. i now got a hotmail with messenger set up it think its pokeking69@hotmail.co.uk so either email me or add me to ur messenger

i did get a game in this morning b4 work, a $1 turbo on full tilt which i won!! solid play throughout and recovered after a big loss to take the heads up, so very pleased and $4.50 better off!!

stars though was just typical, i one a small pot early on and then this hand virtually killed me off
me in SB with bout 1800, i get AK
mid/late guy with less chips raises to 80 or 100
now my 1st thought was reraise but then i thought no, i am out of position, this guy could have a monster and there 2 others to call after me .... so i just called the raise as did the other 2 players
ok so flop
K36 or something like that, there was a K and the other 2 cards were both spades
great yes? top pair top kicker, so as i 1st i check with the intention of reraising anyone
next guy checks, as does the next, so back to original raiser now i was pretty sure he had to bet
and sure enough he bet 100..... great so how much to reraise? well think on flop pot was 4x80 + BB so bout 340-360 ish then the bet of 100 makes it 440-460 ish
so what now?? i reraise to 440 the next 2 fold and back to raiser
he reraises to 900 ish...... ok what u think he got??
surely if he has KK he just calls? so AA, prob same, so he got a king and surely not a 6 or 3 so a worse kicker than mine, maybe some of the flush draw?? well i gota be ahead so i reraise him all in which he didnt have much left behind anyway!!

so he calls
i have AK . pair kings ace kicker
he has K10, pair kings worse kicker and no flush draw!!

so looking good right?
any guesses what turn and river were??
turn 10
river K
he has full house , me trips!!
i had bout 500 left after that and never really got any cards, well when i had bout 450 left and blinds were bout to go up to 50/100 i pushed with Q10 hearts when flop was K109
the same guy calls, he has K7 so i need a Q or 10 or J to win
turn... 7
river crap
i was behind there but just painful that same guy did me!!

but its not all doom and gloom, i did get lucky on the full tilt game
i saw a cheap flop with 78 spades
flop comes 10,9x
one guy bets i reraise all in
he calls with 10,9 for 2 pair
turn Q
river J for my str8 and from there i went on to win!!

thanks to everyone for responses to my rake back, will check it out
in answer to some questions
no i dont get rakeback for stars, as far as i am aware they dont do it

so if party dont do rake back, any ideas on good bonus for sign up and download? bear in mind the low level i play at

oh yes i know i was tagged by kenn, i will get round to that soon.

PK69