running cold

hey everyone hope the world is treating u well, better than me anyway!!

been busy with work this last week so not much time to post my blog or catch up on everyones, hope to put that right soon.

poker wise after a great start on partypoker its going the other way now, big time!!

i cant hit any of my draws and am constantly being rivered!!

i have a pair and nut flush draw but he hits some crappy 2 pair!
i have nut flush and open ended str8 draw but still his 1 pair holds up
i have over pair with str8 draw but guy with nothing but runne runner flush hits it on turn and river

Aces and kings are being crack at will

when i have a good/strong hand i bet it hard and some guy lucks out,
so next time trying to preserve some cash i play it bit slower,
looks good on flop so i bet strong but not too much anyway of course the guy calls and hits some filth on river


one min i play too slow the next too fast and each time i just get busted!!

having one of those real crisis of confidence moments

u know where u just dont know what ur doing and it all just goes tits up!!

tried to build my small roll on stars and fulltilt, but same stories on those, playing tight and selectively when i do get some cards like AK or KK just not getting paid or getting lucked out on!!

PK69

$300K update

Well i am sure your all desperate to hear bout how i cracked the $300k!!

well it didn't quite go to plan, infact i did well to last past the first 10mins!!

I eventually left the game in 829th of 1373 after bout 1hr 30mins, so here's what happened

Sunday went by as usual, though as time went by i was getting more and more excited, the big tourny was coming up and i was ready, ready to make my big score or at least $215!!

The gf was very understanding, she had dinner all prepared so if need be she could dish up and give me a tray to eat while playing, all the house chours had been done early so if needed i could spend the 4-8 hrs at the pc!!

The tourny started at 5:45 so at 5:30 i turned on the pc and logged on to party, with 8 mins to start they started opening tables i clicked take my seat....... nothing 5 mins to start frantically i start looking to check my name is on list, yes there i am!
clicking take seat again...... still nothing tourny starts in under 1 min!!!!

no this cant be happening, the biggest day of my poker life so far and its going tits up b4 i even played a hand!!

i start looking through the list of 187 tables hoping by luck i might see the table i am sat at, the tourny is under way now and i have no idea where i am!!

finally my table opens up there i am with 4940chips, the blinds must have started with me and i have already lost the bb & sb!! still plenty of time i tell myself

i fold a few hands before i get AQ i raise only to see a reraise and a big re-reraise, not my hand i tell my self and fold

few hands later i get KJsuited i have position so i raise a few callers and we see a raggy flop with one or 2 of my suit, checked to me so i bet half the pot
get one or 2 callers
turn brings a 2nd suited card not my suit 1 fold, guy b4 me checks so i fire again and he calls
river brings the King but the 3rd suit not mine!!
guy bets bout 75% pot
not sure why but i just didnt think he had anything plus i just hit my king
so i call and win, he has AQ

YES!!! up to 5900

that was a high as i went

due to the following donkey play that i just couldnt fold

in early position i limp with89 suited
3 other limpers
flop comes J,10,9, none of my suit

so bottom pair but with open ended str8 draw, in hindsight now not a great hand!!

anyway at the time i was thinking that no one raise so pair mite be good but prob not, however if i can hit my str8 i thought i could win it

so i lead out at pot with a bet of 80 into 160

1 guy folds, 1 guy calls, last guy raises to 200

ok so maybe he doesn't believe me, maybe he got a J or 10..... but if hit str8 i tell myself so i call, other guy folds so its just us 2

Turn is a beautiful 7 giving me a str8!!
now i had thount the guy could have QJ or KQ but surely he would have raised pre flop???

so i check, guy bets bout 1200, this pot is getting big!!
i min reraise to 2400!!
guy calls

river is rag but a 3rd heart
guy pushes all in, i have him cover by just under 1k

i think.... could he have flush..... don't think so why push all in?? 2 pair or trips could be
KQ for nut str8????? could be???
as the clock ticks down i decide what if he doesnt have KQ i take a huge pot!!...... so i called!!

OF COURSE he had KQ!!!!

i am down to 900 and its only 10 mins in!!

looking back i could or should have folded on turn, he raised my flop bet indicating some strength, he then raises big on turn again showing strength, so at that point my bottom end str8 looking bit weak!!

and even if i called there, when he pushes all in on river, if i fold i still have 2500 ish to play with!!

anyway so my schoolboy error basically ended my tourny in 10mins!!

i may never get a chance like this and i blew it!! froze in headlights!!

i played 4 hours of flawless poker to win this seat, 4 hours i not likely to have spare or allowed to have spare any time soon and in 10 mins i throw it away

annoyed with myself is an understatement!!!

so i thought lets see if i can get a lucky double up...
but i was getting crap cards, 49,Q2,K3 nothing i wanna push with

then with bout 600 left i get AA utg!! i limp another caller and then a reraise folded back to me i push and am called by the raiser

my aces are good and i up to 1200,.... maybe.......

i win a small pot and up to 1400.... i can do it i tell myself as i make it to the 1st break

soon after break we down to under 1000 runners now

i finally win a reasonable pot and get up to 2200.... maybe i can do it!!

but the cards just arent coming for me and soon i back to 1600 then 1200 and then 990

i looking for anything half reasonable to push with


i get A5 and decide this is it i push
one caller who has KQ, my bogey hand again it wood seem!!

flop 9,5,10!!

i have a pair i begin to hope again!!

Turn: J

no!! he has a str8 and i am drawing dead

river 10 so i finish with 2 pair and out in 829th!!

oh well not to be, i wonder what i could have done if i didnt i didnt give away all my chips in first 10 mins!!!

so that was the $300k for me

i guess i have to live to fight another day, was a good experience, interesting playing against the level of play

one time i raise 3xbb get a caller, flop 994, i check and he bets pot...... too big a bet to call so i fold my AQ

too often i found myself limping in pots and not hitting flop only to fold to pot size bets, course having so few chips didn't give me much room to play with

PK69

$300K guaranteed!!

well i had an email back from party explaining that i can not have a refund

so this sunday i am playing in the $300k!!

i never played a big tourny like this before so any tips would be appreciated!

any ideas how deep u need to go to reach money?
does the min payout cover entry fee?? if so so just making money and $215 would be good enough for me!

PK69

missed me??

well its been over 2 weeks since my last post, and seeing how i have been inundated with comments regarding my whereabouts... NOT!! it seems i am due an update

well i took my 2 exams, fingers crossed, one went ok the other was so so, but poker news

i set up a party poker account and its going great!!!!

i played a $3 rebuy and won a seat to the $300k on sunday yesterday, only thing is i would rather have the $215 in my account than prob play and get nothing!! after looking at the web site this doesn't seem possible, any suggestions??

i have emailed and asked if there is anything i can do, will let you know when i here something

PK69

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

wkend update

well i managed to get some more official poker time past the gf on sat,

so with things getting desperate on stars i needed a good one!!

well i started with a $1 45 man tourny, was planning to wait my time which went ok but eventually i went out in 31st!!

so what to do?? decided it was time for shit or bust!!

i played a $5 single table, and was awesome got heads up but couldn't seal the deal, but 2nd and $13.50 was just what i needed!!

i also played a $1.50 18 man tourny and came 3rd when it seemed i was destined for another heads up battle, here is the last hand
2nd in chips and i flop a gutshot str8 flush draw figured if i pushed had as much chance of hiting str8 or flush or str8 flush as not and given my chips he could fold, seems i was wrong!!

any thoughts??

also i been looking at some other sites as i dont think stars got many good daily tournys like 5k/10k guaranteed

any thoughts on these sites- partypoker,pacific/888, william hill & ladbrokes??

know where i can get a good rakeback on these sites??

PK69

quick test

ok this just a quick test to see if i got this hand history thing sorted now

this was one of those dream flops

now i wood have folded but i figured once there was another caller i must have been getting the odds to to call and see a flop
i figure i either hit it or i dont, and did i hit it this time!!

Quick thanks to Yorkshire Pud and 20k mission for there responses that helped me with this

more updates after wkend

PK69