Dagunman's Blog

The end has come!

2008-08-06T18:25:00.000-07:00

No I havent done by conkers and decided to prematurley end my life. The end has come for this blog. 2mor I leave for Chicago for a 1 month on a non poker holiday. Traveling from Chicago to NY hittin 5 of the top 10 party towns in America. When I return to Ireland will start another blog but it will be hosted on my co-owned site with some of my fellow creeps, bloggin on it too but thats for another day.
As you might see from the last entry someone got in to my blog. If anyone has it or knows how to get it could they send it on to me, sounded like it was funny stuff.
Havnt played the last few days just been chilling out, pretending I am on a j1. Hanging out with aload of Galway ppl. I can safely say if I wasnt from the southside of Dublin and had to choose somewhere else in Ireland to be from it would b Galway. Unlike Cork ppl there not horrible inbreed animals who suffer vicously from 2nd city syndrome (I do exclude my main man caoimbh down there in C4(aka rochestown) who by the way is my tip for the Macau festival) or arent like Limerick ppl who are basically the only ppl in Ireland below northsiders. Galwiegns are a lovely bunch and nearly get loike in to sentence as much as me. Now that were all best mates they were telling me they taught I was a bit of an arrogant prick at first. Bit harsh, or so I taught.When I taught about it I did genuienly think I was better than them as I do most ppl when being introduced. Dont have a dictionary handy but thats prob close enuf to a defintion of arrogance.

So here we are 7/12 of the way true the year and in poker terms I have exceeded my own personel expectation of what I hoped to achieve. Nothing drastic beyond expectations but I did set ambitious goals so to be ahead of them is quite good. My game has improved and quiting the job has certainly been a good decesion so far. Getting up 2 o clock to nockin about the pool in Cali is definitley more fun than wakin up at 7.30 a.m and lookin foward to a days work in the cracker factory(kpmg) with the grinders. The result in the wsop was defo the highlight of the years so far and I am hungry for another big tourney result/results. I hope to play 3/4 bigs one before christmas. I am lookin forward to a month chillin with full on hardcore normies and gettin bac and really rippin bac in to the poker.(I doubt a week has gone by in the 3 years where I havnt played poker so I know a breaks means only playen 5/10 hours a week, 2bh I rather die now than not play for a whole week, thats like 168 hrs) I hav a few things in the pipelines regarding poker and hope to get them sorted on my return to Ireland so exciting times ahead.
Ty to all who read the blog really enjoyed doin it and did help my game.
so wp,nh, gg,tyll,lol,gl

Basic Internet Security

2008-08-05T03:36:00.000-07:00

I must remember not to leave myself logged in on Blogger.

Same old same old

2008-08-03T17:40:00.000-07:00

I am sure this is gettin as boring for you to read as it is for me to write, but anyway. Came in last night slightly pissed and I spun 3.5k up into $23.5k odd. Did put a few beats on ppl but sure thats poker....... Really starting to think I shouldnt be playen unless I hav 2 bottles of vodka(1 in me and the other cocked and ready to go)Ended up gettin $35k profit for the week which eats nicely in to my $80k losses of last month. Drunk play now accounts for over 33% of my profit for the year. I am not quite sure how to interupt this.

I'll flip you for it

2008-07-31T19:30:00.000-07:00

Rory's girl friend and some of here mates arrived in the commerce last night. They wanted to go out in Hollywood. Got an hour in on the threadmill before we headed out, which I was very happy with. Had a plan to take it easy on the booze. The girls wanted to go to a night club that the lads in the TV program "The Hills" go to. We get there and theres like no fricking hope of 8 of us gettin in. I had feeling a quick $20 bribe wasnt goin work here. Anyway so I am there creepin at the back of the heard spying on the redic hot burds goin in when were usherd in. Word filters back that we bought a table for $xxx. Wtf that amount to get in to a night club. We got 2 bottles of vodka aswel with it. I decided I was goin get my moneys worth. Next thing I know I am back in the hotel room deciding I am goin giv the tables a spin. Get in to a 10/20 with $3k and am up to $3,500. I am talken the best game in the world and recking every one's head. When the local chinese pro goes,
China man "You think your a hot shot"
dagunman "obv"
China man "what u got in front of u"
dagunman "3,500"
China man "i flick you for it"
dagunman I was like ah bollix I am found out know, ah fuck it sure will giv him a spin
So we run a holdem hand blind for $3,500 each! Flop aq742, I look down j5. I announced u got me j hi, he goes j hi aswel, i tell him ya got me so I hav 2nd nut low jack. Hes starts goin mad just the j3 for me. I start goin nuts doin the whole hevad khan monkey dance. When a man is down u gotta kick him again so I offer to go double or quits knowing theres no way he could. Then start hammerin with abuse and demanding that he refers to me as hot shot. I am now in full swing screaming abuse at every one at the table. I am hittin cards aswel so am up to $17k before ya know it. I am binning chips like a mother fucker. Have $9k back in my pocket on the sly.
Eventually they cop on and are like you have taken about $3k off the table.
"Oh ur not allowed do that,you are in Ireland, I taught you could do it here, I am such a spa sorry lads" "Well then put it bac on". "tbh lads it is more like $9k and its not goin bac on the table and if you hav a problem I'll leave the game with all your money". Eventually get out of the game winnin $11k which puts me up $9k for the commerce.
On a serious note I try my balls off for 2 days trying to grind profit. Then arrived pissed and scoop the loot. No juatice in life.

Commerce casino rocking my world

2008-07-30T14:50:00.000-07:00

The title was meant quite literally. We had an earthquake here yesterday. She gave us a half decent rattle. It was actually very enjoyable as I was still in bed. It was a 5.8 on the wrister scale, would have liked to got in to the 6's, mayb even a small 7. Commerce casino is in Inglewood so would of had a gud view of looting if any of the lads decide to kicked off, but wasnt to be. On the poker front played 4 sessions in the commerce and am down $2,400. Games r soft but I ain't makin hands. Been down $2,400 isnt too bad as am playen 10/20 blinds. Games are good enuf but not as soft as I hoped. Chub played a 15/16 hr session yesterday. He was in a 5/10 max buyin $400 game for 6 buyins ($2,400) and was down to $150, eventually got it all back.
Eoghan O' Dea made it through his heat in the poker million. We spent a week in the hotel room in santa b telling him how he was goin b an embrassment on TV. That Tony G was goin shread him and how embrassing it would b to be beaten by girl. However he walloped the lot of them out the poker and hes in the Ladbrooks poker million semi final.
Also a gud lol ran in to 2 irish guy's in the poker room in Commerce.

Not makin happy readin

2008-07-28T04:11:00.000-07:00

Basically finished playing on line til my return to Ireland which is the 8 th of September. Off to the Commerce Casino in LA tomorrow where I'll try grind out some profit for the next 10 days r so. Then I leave for Chicago where I am hooking up with a few normies for a poker free holiday. I think I won $70k in vegas as a result of my result(was up $100k after it). Just lookin over my online figures now and by golly I did my stones online for the holiday. My records while not 100% accurate indicate I did between $45/$50k online for the trip. Still winnin $20k which is ok/fair but I have done $75/$80k in the last month and a half. Kinda scary when I think, fuck I have just dropped $80k and this is the first time I taught fuck theres sumtin wrong with that. Or is there? Poker is a game where variance plays a massive factor and you basically have to embrace it. For sure there is a few spots where I could have avoided loosin some of the $80k,but hey you live and learn.On the flip side theres plenty of spots where I would have went I shouldnt have played that game if I lost but I won so its all gud. No point in using hind sight to beat your self up. But I am on a truly awful run, where I just put my money in and wait for my enemy to hit(I am on a scary run of floppin da nuts). All in all I am reasonably happy with where I am for the year.

Lol was just goin through my accounts(keep a book with weekly figures, year figure toataled and finally a note which will contain my taughts on my games progress, leaks i need to address, things I do right, things I do bad etc) on the 22nd of june I had reached my yearly target. A note with some nice back slapping and basically how evertin was rosey in the garden and that world domination was max a year away but we could be running things by Christmas. Now the 28 th of july and $80k less and I am not allowed to wear a belt or shoe laces, have to eat my dinner with a plastic spoon and am not allowed in any 2nd floor room with a window.Oh wat a difference a month makes.

Running like lead

2008-07-25T13:30:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the lack of up dates but it was a technical issue out of my control. Well since I posted last I hav gone on a serious down swing. Evertin was going well up until last thursday. Was up $15k for the day when bang i lost 3 $10k pots and a $15k in plo to go from up $15k to down $5k.
I like to play my poker hard and fast, all well and gud when your winnin but can b a bit of a problem when the cars in reverse. I have slapped another $17k of loses on top of the $5k and am now down $28k since I set my new goal. I was up $11k at one stage in it so by my estimates thats a $40k down swing. Not playen my greatest but not playen badly eithier, its just variance.
Left santa b and in Newport now, was playen on goin to the commerce casino but were goin hav to leave it til next week.

Ah yeh normal enuf

2008-07-15T12:22:00.000-07:00

Yesterday chiled out for most of the day,but did a quick $2k before I headed out. As predicted when 4 degenerate life washouts goin on the piss its bound to be a messy one. Anyway standard enuf carnage until we got bac to the room. One of the lads got an old chickeroo bac to the room. Obv filling here in that were the online names. So when I got back she was quickly cross checking the stroy. Still reckoning we were "d4 silver spoon kids" living off the old fellas loot, I lashed open the safe and gave here a gud paddling with a stack of $100. Was quickly told by the lads 2 pipe down dads not sending anymore money over for 2 days and that $$$ has to last. Still not buying the story we booted up the lappers. I quickly scoop $1k, still not convinced me and one of the lads chop the action in the 25/50 on stars. Spinning $3k in to $20k,(she fell asleep after we got to $8k). I jumpd in to another game after and ended up scoopin $14k total for the night. Gud lol wiped out my $11k down swing. She wakes up and was enquiring how we did last night. Ah yeh scooped jusy under $25k between us. She like wtf thats what I earn a year(some cork burd workin some down beat accounting traineeship in KPMG or sumtin). Quickly tellin her its only dols and its no biggy. Avoiding to mention that were doin our absloute concers up till now.

Pain in Paridise

2008-07-14T13:47:00.000-07:00

Well we took full advantage of the gud wireless yesterday and spent from sun up til sun down in the hotel potting. Thats not one word of a lie we all played for over 10 hours straight. I did my absolute bollix. So much for just trying to grind out my new goal. Quickly goin $9.5k behind. The others all went deep in one stars tourney or another. Chub came 13th in the $100k $50 fo and 8th in the 4500 runner 10er rebuy. He won $2k but could have been oh so much more. Reesy was deep and had a massive stack in the second chance but clashed with another monster and finished in the last 30. Od was deep in the H.OR.S.E but again no cigar. So to heal the depression we orderd half the menu. Double choclate fudge cake and vanilla ice yum yum. Weather savage today so just been pooling it up and goin prob play some tennis and gymage. My cousin informs me Monday night is the night to hit State Street. So I think a mad one is on the cards tonight.

Free from vegas and ballering in Santa B

2008-07-13T01:17:00.000-07:00

Left Vegas this morning on the second attempt to get out of Sin City. Think I won $70k there but lost nearly $20k online. Happy enuf with the end result but a small kick in the nuts considering I did $50k back total. Still its July and I am 80% of the way towards my year profit goal.
This happened last year after 4 months, made 80/90% of my profit goal and pissed about for the rest of the year as I lost my focus. So I am setting a new goal for the next 5 months. I am cutting my role and dropping back limits. Dropping back limits is something I do regulary when I feel my game is not at 100%. Its much easier to iron out problems at lower levels.
Me od chub and reesy decided we needed a break after vegas. So we rented this pretty savage hotel in Santa Barbara. Gud lol 1 nite cost more than a whole week in the gold coast.Has the legit tennis courts, pool, gym and obv unreal wireless. You no when your with some pack of creeps, when you walk into a savage hotel room over lookin santa b bay and the first you hear is "great there are 4 sockets right by the table, ideal!!!" . Then someone threw a spanner in works when questioning will it fit all 4 with adapters, treasure hunt back on, in the end we hunt down 12 with 2 in the jacks. Which really is ideal. Our plans are to chill out here for the week. Try regain some of our physical and mental health after a month in vegas. Needless to say wil spend most of the week on the lappers. Then a night out on State Street thursday, head out to I.V on friday and tell every were on a j1 up from San d for the weekend. Should be a gud lol.
We arrived in late so didnt get out till dinner til after 11p.m. Drove down State Street on the way home. The place was banging and OMG, the talent was unreal. Lookin forward to getting tormented on Thursday night.

I want out!!!

2008-07-10T10:35:00.000-07:00

I have had enuf of vegas and wil leave 2mor. I played the $1500 satty in bellagio last night and no good but after I just siad to myself I am done with this live poker tourney thing(for a few weeks). Vegas has finally worn me down. It only hit me today when I took a peak at the date that its the 10th of july. I am in Sin City 1 month today bar a 5 day spell in Newport.
I am not sic of poker. Far from it. In fact all I want to do is get out of vegas and play online somewhere. The plans is to kick it somewhere along the californian coast where the climate is milder. Where its possible to leave the shade before 5 p.m.
I leave vegas with fuller pockets than I came in to town with which is not easy to do. I also learned alot about my game and the game in general. I am not as complete a player as I hoped I am. I have been exposed to some some of the best players in the world and have used this trip as a learning expirence as much as anything. Like most things in life but more so in poker most ppl rush to give you there 2 cent's worth. Again like most things alot off ppl dont hav a fucking clue what there on about. However from time to time someone will offer you some advice thats just worth bottling up and keeping. A few occasions on this trip I have gotten that info. I have lived life in the fast lane the last few weeks and the next few weeks and am lookin forward to chillin out.
The above is just a mich mash of taughts. Prob has 3/4 seperate things which I will go thru in the next few days.

koed and carnage

2008-07-07T15:57:00.000-07:00

Got nocked out of main event, which coinsided with one of my mates flying in from New York for the weekend for 3 nites. That was thurdays nite and I woke up and Sunday morning. Vegas was hit hard. Chub and od still in main event me and reesy gone. Back to work now till we leave vegas. Goin try grind out some cash action.

Wat a nite!!!

2008-07-02T21:12:00.000-07:00

Spun up $10k online then did $11k back. Won $6k playen cash games in the rio. Played 25/50 and got it in with aa for the $12k pot, gettin the nice hold in.
Marty Smyth won the $10k plo event last nite. Unreal achievement by him not only last nite but over the past 18 months. When he got to the final 5 there was about 30 of us railing him. Atmosphere was unreal. Need less to say a massive piss up followed, which obv lead to some degenerate gamblin. All round was an unreal nite.
Ended up havin $5k on a hand of black jack which I won so won a few k on table games. Got the old j8 od diamonds and deallers busts. When the jack of diamonds winked at me I new the dealer was busting.
Main event 2mor. Sure wil c how that goes.

Durr ur a fish

2008-06-30T11:23:00.000-07:00

Got busted by Durr in the $10k plo yesterday, when he cracked my top set on a 60/40. Durr is the top internet plo kid in the world right now winning a few million this year. I suppose if ur goin be beaten may aswel be by the best. Really happy I played the 10k plo I defo had a clear edge in it and would play it again today if it was on, theres so much dead money in the field. Playen a $1,500 event today. When I bust from this I will be $17,500 behind for vegas II.

$10k PLO LUNACY

2008-06-29T11:17:00.000-07:00

Goin play the $10k plo today. While plo is my beat game this will be the hardest field I have played in. I prob have no edge in the field if I am being honest and if I do its very small. For this reason it is sheer lunacy playen this event. But feck it, ur only young once and this a tourney I really wanna play and may not be in the position to play it again. I am goin need to run like god to do well in this tourney but we all now I am capeable of that. I defo feel out of my comfort zone playen this, but 2 b honest I luv that feeling. The butterflies are already goin. My head is tellin me to save my $10k but sure its only $10k and I have laods of them.

1k binions plo tourney

2008-06-27T21:48:00.000-07:00

Played the 1k plo in binions today. 124 runners came 28th with 12 for the money. Played pretty well. Still not sure if i am goin play $10k plo on Sunday. While I may have a small edge not sure if its enough 2 justify putting $10k up for it. Wont mind playing and selling some of myself. So if anyone wants a piece of me email r txted me. If I do play I'll prob sell 40% of myself. If any one has any interest in buyin some giv us a txt. Goin take 2mor off and just chillax by the pool.

cant stickin up the dilema the person involved wont allow it and I can c why.

$5k wsop 6 handed

2008-06-26T16:30:00.000-07:00

Played the 6 handed there, lasted 3hrs before busting. Got it in with jj v ak for the 17k pot. Couple of aces on the flop and a k on the river was more than enuf to send me home. Was pretty card dead for the first few levels and my starting stack of 10k was down to 8k so was moving time. The 6 handed event is super aggro and 40% of the field was gone before I made my exit.
Might play a mega satty tonite and the omaha in binions casino 2mor, there both $1k events.
Played some cash last nite. Played a 10/25/50 plo. Was a soft enough game but only got out winning $100 so was virtually a non event considering I risked $10k.
Got taken out for dinner on a kinda poker business related dinner last nite. Anyway me and chub were sittin oppsite a model and a pornstar(both females with MASSIVE implants). The pornstar had the biggest ballons ever. After about 20 mins of stareing at them I turn to chub and inquired had a motor boat crossed his mind. He insto errupts laughin, he had been think the same thing as me for about the last 20 mins odd also. I rekon I could hav broken all pervious motar boating speeds ever recorded with my expirnece and her jet engines. From the meal it was on to the playboy lounge in the Palms. Savage club that over looks the strips and is full of hot bunnies. Had the tourney the next day so decide to get an early nite.
My sickeness got the better of me and I said I will play cash for an hour before bedy bies. That was 1' oc and it was well after 6a.m before I got home. Thats when the real fun started, when I was confronted with the funniest dilema/sight of my enitire life. I hav 2 ok it with the person involved if I can write about it, but if he agrees it will be up 2mor.

The 2nd coming

2008-06-25T12:51:00.000-07:00

Arrived back in vegas last night. Had a good day in 6 flags yetserday. Just sayen to chub and he agreed that it felt like a month since we were in vegas,so the purpose of the trip was served. Back fresh and ready to rock and roll and heres the plan.
The plans for the next fews day are:
1. Thur 27th $5k 6 handed event
2. Sunday 31st $10k plo- not sure if I will defo play this
3. Thurdays 3rd $10k nlh Main Event
Will also play a few mega satties which are $1k a pop. Also take some % of chub in the main event. So my out lay for this part of the trip wil be between $35k-$40k. So if I get no cashs it will be a significant kick in the crown jules.
Did the $9k bac I won pissed. Got my money in gud in 5 big pots and lost all. The last was a $9k
pot in 25/50 got it in 60/40.(Playen on cake)
I usually dont freq with bog men but whenever I do I hav to say I hav a fondness for there descriptions of things. Been in the company of Donal Norton for the last few days (muck savage from tipp). Anyway heres his discription of a person after we used the standard expression in describing some as a string of piss.
Norton: No no I tell wat he is like, you no when a new born calf does a shit!
He goes on to tell us how its all yellow and runny and other gr8 descriptions about it. I mean every should hav a token bogger mate.

Newport and some quality sickness

2008-06-23T04:00:00.000-07:00

Comeing to the end of our stay in newport. Has been gr8. 3 solid nites of gettin absloute banna's. Also got a quality amout of gamblin in. Between me chub Norton and Rory we have gambled the GDP of a small Africian country on paper rock siscors. Think I am up small. Were stayen with Rorys college mates who are your typical students(skinty) just gettin enuf money to eat cheap noodles and get $14 for a crate of natural ice(dutch gold of america). Came in hammerd the other nite and they wanted to see the king(me) in action. Booted up the machine and logged in to $25-$50 plo and quickly spun up a $9k profit, might put up some of the hands, was gettin sick bluffs in. Also they are quite amazed at our unwillingness to breath unless we hav some sort of bet on that equates to an amount they could live on for a week. However we have been crupting these normies slowy and got a few of them 2 open up poker acc's. Sayen wil stake them in. Feel like a drug dealer, givin the first 1 free. They also think it the best thing ever as they have seen us clear about $20k in the 3 days we hav been in there gaff.
Took the nite off boozin and played tournies on stars, putting some nice last longer bets on the side with the lads. Ends up chub and norton fting seperate tournies for a $3k pay day for each of the them. Fallon also got a $3/4k scoop there last nite so a decent few days for irish kids on stars.
Played in a casino in LA there, did a nice $1600, also did $4k back online of the $9k I won, really have to stop playing sober. Wil head bac towards vegas shortly. Break has been real gud. We hav plans of goin 2 six flags 2mor but its 3 in the mornig now and no signs of the gambling stopping.

End of part 1

2008-06-19T17:57:00.000-07:00

Played the $1500 today, last 30 mins or so. The jack of diamonds arrives on the river to makes my opponents gutter. Fair play to the jack of diamonds, kinda wanted to get out of vegas anyway. Sittin in the airport now, on the way to Newport beach. Goin smash it up there for the weekend with out the risk of doin my tits on black jack and fake tits. Bac in vegas on wed or thur of next week. Might play a bit in the commerce over the weekend but r&r wil be the order of the day.

100k feels nice

2008-06-18T23:58:00.000-07:00

Where to start. Well best score of my life and all said and done a $100k is some chunk of change to bank. It was a long but very enjoyable tourney. Due to the fact it was 6 handed meant one was constantly involved. I have never really gone in to much depth about hands in this blog and dont really intend on starting now. However to go that far I obv put some sick 1's on ppl, the jack of diamonds was my friend and he popped his head up twice when he was required to get me out of 10% underdog situations. For that the Jack of diamonds will always be my friend. I pulled several wild bluffs which served me well but alas it was 2 b my downfall. I came across some unreal players and learned a lot. Played with ept,wsop and wpt winners.
DAY OF FINAL EVENT
Couldn't sleep the night before, got 3 hours sleep from 3a.m til 6.am. Woke up and dicked around for an hour, couldn't get backed to sleep. Went down to the gym and churned out 5k on the thread mill, then protein shake and a bagel. Could barely eat, felt like throwing up. Nerves or excitement I dunno but managed to force the bagel in. Went back and got 2 or 3 hours sleep. Before the cards were in the air and I reckon I had spent about 3 hours going over the final table, how I want to play it, how I taught the rest would play it. It was a tough final table. Due to the fact it was 6 handed fish were exposed and expelled from the tournament much more quickly than in a 9 handed tourney. Final tabled panned out just as I had taught it might however all I was seeing was j2 37 off etc. I'd like to thank Micheal Trimby for the helpful advice he offered me. He turned up at the start of the final table and offered me some v sound advice and also at the break. Hes an experience tournament player and was in this position before. With the cost of an orbit being 50k, 350k was the amount I decided to draw the line in the sand at. I made my move and it wasn't to be.
I said regardless of wat happened I would just b happy even if I got done on 1 outer. To play in the final table of a wsop event is a dream come true and 1 will hope to replicate. In poker terms I am only a kid and am just going to use this as another building block in the development of my game.
I'd like to thank all those who wished me good luck on boards and in texts. It did mean a lot and defo gave me a confidence boost. Good lol walking around with $100k in stacks of $5k made up of $100 bills. For those of you wondering what it feels like, its feels real good. Wired the shit home so wont b doin it in house games.
Highlight of the tourney was sittin beside some ginger lad. Player busts I say were all gettin $20k. Havin not said a word he announces "This has been hard work, defo rewarding myself with a hooker when its done", gingers are just so cute.

hard work but no payday

2008-06-16T09:37:00.000-07:00

Played the $3k yesterday. Got an ok stack early went from 6k starting stack up to 16k after 2hrs. First table was soft but got broken 3hrs in and got moved to a much harder one. Was card dead and just sat there being sooooo patient. Anyway there wasnt any really interesting hands bar shoving with 62 on a k103 board and getting told nice hand by some old yank who obv had some of it as took ages to fold. Showed the nut low and made him correct his comment to nice move. Ended up busting with 66 v A10 for a 20k pot in 150 place, with 73 for the money, annoying to make it thru 80% of the field and get no joy. Off to play the $2,500 6 max now.

Some joy

2008-06-15T10:31:00.000-07:00

Played the mega satty last nite for the second time. Its $1k in and and I chopped it for $8,6k. Played some unreal stuff. Need it to b honest and gets me pretty much back level for vegas. Me and chub did a deal, so he eventually got something from sawping action with me. So I will be putting him in to the $2,5k event 2mor for 40% of the action. I am off to play a $3k event now.
In terms of online I recored my 4th losing week, did $9k.

Home from Home

2008-06-12T18:30:00.000-07:00

Got to vegas. Went on the absolute rip last night with chub and my school mates who are in vegas at the mo.
Played the round of each there lasted 50mins. Its a 5k starting stack blinds 50/75 in the holdem and 25/50 in the plo so its a fast movin tourney. Got crippled early on with ak. Raised it up and called by a decent player behind. Flop a62 i lead 300 into 550 r so. Turn a 6. Which imo is a gud card. I check he bets 800 I call. River a 3, i check and he bets 1500 I call and he has 222. Like he eithier has 222 or ak/aq/aj there. Not sure if goin broke would hav been the right play. Played a hand nicely got backed up to 4,500. Said to chub not calling any one light today. Obv didnt stick 2 my plan and ran into the nuts with a light call. Lokin bac on the hand it was unreal bad play by me(was in plo). Was 1200 on the river about 30% of my stack.

Exit hand
Hand: 3k chips a875 nut hearts . I am in the bb and call a raise to 2oo so 150 more. Flop k42 with hearsts. Nut hearts and gutter. Checked around. Turn a 7 making me double gutted with 1 pair and nut hearts. I semibluff and bet pot 1050 thinkin no 1 behind can have a set as not checkin on a drawy board and its unlikely a set of 777's is out there given my holding. Anyway some ginger duth fucker, (same bollox who got me with the 222) was slow playen the kkk behind. He sticks me in, and I call off my last 1600. I am a 2/1 dog and a blank falls on the river.
Frist wsop event and its over in 50 mins. Annoyed about the call i made but other than that it was all standard stuff. Ur so shallow u lose one biggish pot and ur on a life support machine.

Funny story
Got the old shits from the dehydration. Had a few nervous moments, we were close to poopy in the pants time. Really adds to the excitment, it basically means i am part taking is some sort of gambling the whole time and some times several forms. To add to the excitment it can be hard to hunt down a toilet in these mazy casino's. Anyway just as I nearly soilded my self as I rushed from the bj table it reminded me of Irish college about 10 years ago. Me and Mc Shane were in a house full of bogers who didnt really like us for some reason. We used to play poker in the house where me and Mc Staz would relieve them of the hard earned money they got from there poor farming parents. One day a big pot developed when I had the best of it. I was dieing for a wee wee but if I left the table my hand was dead. Anyway your man was taking an age to call off his money, he also knew I was in bad need of the bathroom . Eventually he calls and I bolt out the door to the toilet. In the process the dam bursts and I drench myself. I am seen and there are 20 rowdy lads banging the door of the toilet as i am sittin in there wondering would should I have bet move on the river.

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2008-06-11T05:43:00.000-07:00

Played a very small bit last night before leaving, dropped a quick $5k in 25/50 plo. Was in about 5 2/3k pots and lost them all but on average I was prob 40% dog so clear to see I wasnt playen great but wasnt playing badly eithier, just literally nothing went for me. This puts me right on track for my 4th losing week. Think vegas has come at the right time as looking forward to getting away from the machine.
After spending 4 hrs on the runway our connection flight form JFK to las vegas it was canceled because of bad weather. The flight was only 5hrs 50 mins. One of my mates lives in Manhattan so just chillin in his gaff now, do a bit of shopping and were booked on an evening flight. Cant complain to much, theres a lot worse things than be stuck in the heart of New York City. A few school mates are in lv at the mo for a few nights. Was more annoyed about missin what would have been a very rowdy night of black jack/1/2 nlh with buck loads of abuse for the ppl in the game and then some slick las vegas night club. Goin head out 2nite instead if our flight gets there. Round of each doesnt start til 5 p.m on thurs.
On a side note its great to be back in the land of the fake breast, they really do make for sooo much more interesting viewing while just living your life. Hopefully they will become like air bags where they will no longer be an extra but a standard feature.

100 and 1 things to do

2008-06-09T06:21:00.000-07:00

Leaving for Vegas 2mor and I am busy little bee. Have to do a rake of things but no raking. (Laceys greedy little ears wont like to hear that) Got the hair styled this morning already, have to get the $'s wired over, i.p changer sorted, book internal flights in us and other stuff like packing. I like leaving packing til about 30 mins before you have to go. Your defo forgeting sumtin no matter how long you spend at it so when you arrive and have no pants you have the legit excuse. Laptop/charger,credit card and passport are the only 3 things you really need anyway.Recorded my 3rd straight losing week. Lost $3k online and €1k live. Raked 20k gjp points again on Saturday. My rake back for last week would be close to $2k which covers some of the loses. Had a terrible run at the end of Saturday in sng's doing about $6k, bubbled a rake of them. I was at the end of a sick 2 days of poker and wasnt playing my best stuff, but i'd more point to variance. Went out on Saturday night as was in need of a break, hangin yesterday so went to dub's match and then chilled with the lads pretending to be normal watchin a dvd before I launch into the creepist month of my life. God I cant wait.
I'll prob do a quick summary of the year for me so far and a summary of my expectations and plans for the wsop while stuck in JFK tomorrow afternoon.

Raking Like mad

2008-06-07T04:33:00.000-07:00

Raked 20k gjp points yesterday playing sitting and goes. Thats $1200 for mike lacey from in one day.(I hope the c*nt chokes on all my money). Won about $5k over the course of the day aswel which was nice. Won about $4k in sng's on Wednesday but did it in 50/100 plo. Lost a race where it was all in preflop, I was a small bit behind like 28% in a 3 waay pot. So I am $5k up for the week, no doubt I will be doin this in plo.
Just in case any one is wondering I just past Rob Taylor out on sharkscope. He claims sharkscope doesnt post all his winnings but its a pathetic excuse imo. So just check out irishrobbie and cashrichboy on sharkscope if you get a chance.
Planen on raking 20k points again today, will see how it goes as it is alot of hours.
Played the sports last night, gg but lost about €1k in the game, it was just one of those nights. As ever when in the sports nl game a very interesting hand developed between myself Kevin and Adam. Given the holding and the competencies of the players it made for a very interesting post mortem. Adam ended up scoopin the €1600 + pot.
Also pulled off 2 sick rolls. In one hand I bet hard on the river very Rory truing to repersent a missed draw when I had top pair. He makes the hero call with ak and I annonced missed heart draw, he quickly table ak for a hi, he starting to get some back slaps for a gr8 call before I table a pair. Lol.

All very very boring

2008-06-04T11:19:00.000-07:00

Havnt posted in a while because I am basically sitting on my arse counting down the days to vegas. 1 week now. Lost $10k last week which is two decent losing weeks in a row. I am in a worse position than I taught regarding the rake I need so it all sng's for the next week. I am winning a decent amount at them. Running pretty bad at plo. Won about $15k in Sng's which has all been lost in 5/10 and 25/50 plo. Did have a small winning session in 50/100 plo yesterday. Wiring money to vegas is proving to be a real pain in the arse. If anyone is selling dols over there let me know.

I lied

2008-05-31T11:34:00.000-07:00

Said I was finished at stt's, I lied. Basically didnt really played since tues til fri so I need to get raking asap. Played a shite load of stt's yesterday and won about $5,5k in them. Won $3.5k in plo 25/50. Got it off the fish who did me in 50/100 so got some cash back off him. So scopped $9k for the day. Played sports last night, some good banter. Playen a few stt's now then out for some r&r. Then the Ecoop 2mor which I am fting. I'll report on how I fted on monday.

Ouch!

2008-05-27T17:38:00.000-07:00

Just after doin a fair bit in the 50/100, lost $14k in the game. Was playen a guy heads up. Was actually really happy with how I played. Didn't really get the breaks in the big pots. Was a strong favourite in 2 $11k pots but no good in eithier. Well ya cant run good all the time and I knew there was going be days like this after how good I ran.
I am pretty sick of the sit and go's so going to go back to plo. Really enjoyed them for the 3 or 4 days I played them, think I got through about 120+ in that time which is good work. Made more money than I hoped and raked what I wanted.Playen a fair few tournies at the mo with the ecoop on but cannt really seem to catch a break at the important times. The acc is cleaned so will lodge $3k on 2mor and get grinding 2/4. Doing $11k for the week, aim is to get it back to a 4 figure sum for the week.
In other news I got an Albatross when I played golf on Monday. Thats right pinged it in from 150 meters out on a par 5. We wont mention the rest of the round.

WP to the lads

2008-05-26T02:53:00.000-07:00

Well my own weekend was boring enough, grinded a few more stt's. Saw big Al in 25/50 so decided to jump in and give the man a spin(it was a full ring game). We played a monster pot in the end,got it all in on the turn, my set was ahead v his j hi but I was drawing so thin. Think he the biggest st8 draw I hav seen. All the same defo enjoyed getting one over him.
The main excitment of the night came first in the Ladbrooks Million Satteilte where Od and Noel Hayes made the final six. Od has been HU for this package twice before and got unlucky both times. Noel was sent to the rail with 5 left when aa was no good v qj. It was 3rd time lucky for Od who took down the very hard to come by Ladbrooks million ticket.
Next up was chub in the ECOOP event 3. Me and him did a deal if one of us fted we'd give the other 10% and 20% if one of us won it. Chub was flying in it form a mile out, but with 25 left he ran ak into aa for a monster pot. However he stuck to the task and made the final with an ok stack. He was so card for the final table but managed to hang in to come 6th for $20k for nice pay.
I ended up doin $9k for the week. May stick at the stt's but already starting to kinda get sick of them.

STT'S

2008-05-24T02:08:00.000-07:00

Well played about 90 sst's in 3 days. Was goin badly enough in them at the start so I moved up levels. At the start it was a mixture of $50 and $100, then on to $100 and $200 and now I am playen $200 and $500. At the start I was playen mostly turbo's(4 min blinds) and super turbo's (1 mins blinds) as was just looking to get rake and had no interest in usin my brain. The super turbo's have a little more skill than roullete. In the $500 I am playen the 10 mins blinds and its no surprise thats where I have had most of my success. So after 3 days I am ahead about $3,5k and raked a monster amount. I'll take to day off today and be back at them 2mor. I'll prob stick them out for a few more days as I am still enjoying playing them and am doing alright at them.

Rag2cheater

2008-05-22T07:56:00.000-07:00

Played 9 more $200 sst's last night while the match was on, bubbled 6 of them and no good in the other 3 so lost $2k got fairly ul. Headed out last night. Very creepy Harcourt street. Ran in to Mark McD. Then meet reesy and od and hit the chipper. Thats where the real fun started. Garry Clarke was in there. Chanted various tunes to the beat of "Cheating Scum Cheating Scum" at him for literally 20 mins. In between reesy filled him in on his delighted that Garry wouldnt be playen the WSOP (he obv didnt no the broadies helped stick him in) as the greatest poker tourny in the world didnt need to be graced by a dirty cheat. Have a Gaa match tonight wont play much today and to hanging to play now.

Garry isnt a cheat its just a joke in case any one was wondering.

Spanked red raw in 100/200

2008-05-21T09:53:00.000-07:00

As the title suggests I took a shot at 100/200 plo and got spanked to the tune of $12k. The reason I took the shot is because theres a major fish going around those levels.(I had just won $3k off him in 50/100 that morning and $10k off him in 50/100 a few days ago) He had $40k and I had good seating position on him in the game. I defo forced my normal game and didnt play up to par which was a bit disapointing. However I dont think I have brought my A game any time I am playing my first game at a higher level. There are major differences even from 50/100 and I will learn form the mistakes I made. When you put it in the context that $12k is just over half a buyin it really is easier to understand how quick it would go, if I was playen 1/2 it would have been a $120 loss. Do not know if that makes it easier to understand but it certainly helps me sleep at night.
So that puts me $15k behind for the week and the account was at 0. Reloaded for $3k which is my max deposit. I new I wouldnt be mentally right to got back grinding 2/4 and 3/6 plo. I decided I play stt's for a few days for a few reasons. 1)I need to rake a fuck loads for the rest of the month and the rake on these things is unreal. Thankfully for me Green Joker Poker have and excellent rewards scheme for their players so it actually works out quite good for me palying them. 2) I am not playing cash so I am not thinking this call is dick all compared to the stakes I was playing, I am more concentrating is this a profitable call or not. 3) Prepares me for Vegas where I will prob play a few stt's satteilites. I am down a few 400 in them and palyed 42 over about a 5 hr period which is about 9 an hour which isnt bad going. The plan is to keep going at them until I win $2k from them and I reckon this will also get me $1k in rb. I am playen mostly $100 one's but also some $200 aswel.

Back to normality

2008-05-20T06:32:00.000-07:00

Started off yesterday continueing to run like the man above and was nearly $5k ahead. Most of this came from 25/50. In my post yesterday I said I was going to grind it about in lower limits, as soon as I clicked sumbit I was in 2 25/50 games but to be fair there was decent value. As we all now value is basically a poker players God. Ended up doin some back and ended the afternoon session up $2k.
Played again in the evening and was still up smallish like under 1k for the day. Then got in to a 25/50 game lost 2 biggish pots margingal farourite in the $5.5k and marginal dog in the $3.5k. Did $5k in the game(25/50 can be costly when your not winning ever pot). All so lost a pot in 5/10, so was down down just under $6k for the day. Decided it was a good time to hit the hay.
Twice yetserday lost pots to Irish lads in 25/50 and 5/10, as soon it was shipped to them, they were loling goin you cant afford it, bit annoying but suppose I can.
Did an unreal slow role on some lad in the 25/50 yesterday. I flop nut flush. He had about $450 left and pots $500 so I bet $50 and he ships. I type in chat "lol I have the bare ace" "your a brave man" let the clock wind down and then call him with the stones, hes drawing nicely dead with the q hi flush. LOLERS.
He writes this on 2 + 2

from 2+2
God im such a fkn degen. Wake up really motivated to play well and put lots of hands in obv drop 6 buyins in 500 hands get 2-6 outered a bunch no big deal. Decide to play 25-50 PLO as always when tilting hard, Drop anonther 5k at plo only 2k left in account obv put some sick beats on people + work that 2k up to 15k keep telling my self to quit but obv cant cuz im a degen lose 5k back now
now only stuck 1k but left feeling like a huge degen + got slowrolled by cashrichboy in the last pot. weeeee
Looks like he enjoyed it as much as me. God I love slow rolling.

Ship it Holla Bitch

2008-05-19T03:34:00.000-07:00

Well last week was an unreal week. Played 5 days won 5 days. The wrost day of the week was a $5k winning day, only ran good that day. I had $10k winning sessions in 50/100 and 25/50 but the hi-light of the week was winning 10 buyins in 10/20 and just sitting there with a $22k stack loling at the lads I had just destroyed by hitting the river every time.
I am now much more comfortable in 25/50 but I am still very careful of whats game I get into avoiding the big names unless there are 2 major fish in the game. With the week over I have cleared just under $65k. This by far in away the greatest week I have ever had. As I was already comfortable with the role I had I have withdraw all the profit and will invest it in non poker interests.
Keeping bumping in to Gavin Kelly on nights out. Anyway was tellin him I am tinking of movin down levels as I know my lucks going to change. He quickly informed me this is the dumbest thing he has ever heard, which is a very fair point but I still think I will as I need to increase by rake to achieve a deal of have been on which is worth a fair bit to me in terms of vegas buyins. Obv if I see a gg at 25/50 I'll be in there but defo wanna play more hands this week.

New highs

2008-05-16T11:43:00.000-07:00

Well yesterday I had my joint best day ever and as a result I am now having my best week ever. Most of my winnings came from a 10/20 game where I won 10 buyins. Won one $8k pot where I was 46% other than that I was basically getting it in ahead on holding. I did some amount of holding it has to be said. In total I won $23k for the day.
Played a small bit today won 4 buyins in 10/20 but lost a $4k buyin in 25/50. I lost the $8k pot. I am not sure how badly I played it or even if I played it badly. So ahead about $4k today. Plan on putting in some more hours tonight.
Planning on running the Dublin marathon again next year. Last year I ran it with 2 months training and got a time of 4hrs 30 mins. This year hopeing to break 4hrs. So I have decided to start doing a small bit early. Ran 10k today with the lads got 52mins which wasnt too bad. No point trying to start in America cause I no I just wont so I reckon if I get lift off in Ireland it will be easier just to keep it up in America.

Ah yeh 1 outers

2008-05-14T12:33:00.001-07:00

Another good day in the office, which involved hitting a one outer in a $6,5k pot after being set over set in a blind on blind situation. I hit jjj v kkk but quickly making quads on the turn. Within the next few hands I win the $13,5k pot thankfully this time I need no help except to avoid a one outer on the river. Only played for 40 mins won $9.5k in 25/50 and $1.5k in 10/20.
I really need to play more but the weather is too good. Someone should event a laptop that can be used in the sun.

Marching on

2008-05-13T13:25:00.000-07:00

Had another good at day 25/50 yesterday and won $7k. Today instead of hitting the gym went for a hike in the mountains and a swim in a lake it. It was the coldist lake ever. Put some time into my vegas timetable. At the mo the plan is to play the $2,5k roe, $3k nlh and $2,5k 6 handed nlh between the 12th-18th of june. That will burn $8k of the $25k worth of tourney buyins I have planned for. Then return to vegas on the 27th I think and play the $1k plo tourney in Binions which is 20k starting stack. This leaves me with $16k left for the $10k plo and nlh so if I have not cashed from my first 4 tournies I am going to have to satty in to 1 of them are settle for one of the $10k events prob nlh and a smaller event.
Been playen a bit of 50/100 plo today as the game looked vg. Bought in for $6k got out when I had $16k stack. Game was v juicy but 3 ppl had me coverd and had no real interest in playen the $35k pot. So ahead $10k or so today so far.

Taking it easy

2008-05-12T16:17:00.000-07:00

Have not really been palyen a huge amount. Played very very little last week, but I was playen hi stakes and won some really big pots in 25/50 so finished the week $11k ahead or so. To be honest I am not grinding enough, but I am not in the mood to and theres no point if your not in the zone as you just wont play well. Goin try get a few more hours in this week.
I am runnin seriously well. I am holdin in so many pots. As a result I have had 3 5 figure winning weeks in a row.

Heater

2008-05-10T09:46:00.000-07:00

Been on a serious heater for the last 24 hrs or so. Won in the regoin of slightly over $15k. Playen 5/10, 10/20 and 25/50 plo and 10/20 and 25/50 nlh. Got most of success thankfully in the 25/50. Got some nice holds.
Won the $10k in nlh 25/50 on a flop of j109 rainbow get it all in with 99 (setter) v 1010. Thankfully I hold. All so scooped a $12k pot in 25/50 plo. I was actually a small dog in this pot, I was 44% but there was $2k in the middle from pre flop action. Won most on my money on gjp where the games were well mental.
Taken the night off, well not entirely hoping to be playen some credit card roullete later, so hopefully I can extract some +ev in that.

On the way back

2008-05-09T06:20:00.000-07:00

Have played very little but got about $3k back, so down about $4k for the week now. Planning on putting in a some hours tonight. To be honest very little else going on.

Nipping in and out

2008-05-07T13:38:00.000-07:00

Potted for about 22 mins today. Enjoyed the weather got into the gym twice for two quick sessions. Did a driving lesson, which is always fun listening to just how dangerous you are behind a wheel.
First 7 mins session came just before I was about to go for doctors appointment (looking into gettin a third arm put on so I can control 3 mouses instead of just 2, I hear it can be serious + ev with 3 arms I could play 75,000 tables at .10/.20 break evening but making €600 on rake back a week, Yes that is an un sly dig at all you pathetic .5/1 grinders) and was going to shut down my laptop. See a good 2 handed 25/50 table.
Creepie John: will I jump in?
Normie John : ah john you cant your already late
Creepie John: Yeh you might be late but theres value and rember, value> than everything
Won $1,400 in 7 mins and off I went.
Giving my parents a lift somewhere in the evening, so went to turn off lapper, not even a value player sitting in the 10/20 but I needed a gamble. Played for 15 mins and lost $800.
Glad I am not in the mood for playen to much at the mo cause games are v bad.

Burned outed

2008-05-06T15:48:00.000-07:00

Defo need a small break. Didnt play yesterday. Have played about 1 hr total today. Was winning $2k from 2 15 mins session. Just did $9k there in about 40 mins so just goin not play anymore. Didnt play that badly but I didnt play well. $9k might seem alot but it was only 2 and a bit $3k buyins at 25/50 and 2 $1k buyins in at 5/10.
I have cut my acc's so just goin grind low stakes this week when I do play. Going to take advanteage of the good waether and play some golf this week all so have loads jobs to get done before vegas so going to use this week to get them done.
I put in a sick amount of hours last week and think I won $26k which is prob my profitable week as a poker player ever. If I can grind some of the $7k I am down this week as a result of the last hour I will be happy.
Looking at my last post there, was obv drinking when I made it. Bit cringy and prob a bit too honest, taught about taking it down but I decided not to as ppl prob have copied and pasted it and will just email everest with it and I will get done for my wsop ticket(private joke so if you dont no what I am talken about forget it). While there was defo want of a better word in some places it did kinda some up my annoyance with myself.
Oh finally good old lol in Galway, Introduced credit card rouelette to the normies when it came to paying for the meal on the last night. Credit card roulette is where when the bill comes you all put your cards in a hat, pick out 1 and that person pays. Needless to say they loved it. 2 of the lads have the same first name, obv one of them came out. So when the waiter said Niall, we got a solid drum roll in as the lads cautiously beckoned him to announce the surname.

Sickness

2008-05-04T12:31:00.000-07:00

Did the sickest piece of degeneracy I have prob ever done last night. Came home fairly pissed last night. Got in to a 10/20 plo on cake. Up 1500 or so and I get a sick cooler in a $6.5k pot. Go on to play badly and do $6k in the game before the games breaks. Steaming pissed and steaming on tilt I go in to 50/100 nlh. Down to $6k from my $10k buyin I decide if I am goin down it will be on a sick bluff. Before I no it I am on $17k connecting with dick all flops. I have the guy on the ropes but reality is kickin in. I AM PLAYIN 50/100 NLH. So I decide not to get greedy and sit out up 1k. As soon as I wake up check the acc to make sure it wasnt a dream. Played v little today went to the beach etc and other such activities that normies do. Headin out again and goin hide my laptop although I am up $10k for the week playen under the inlfuence.

All jokin aside, discipline is something I have worked on and now pride myself upon. Since I have gone full time I have reduced leaks close to zero. I am out of my natural envoirment(in galway) and as a result I played drunk. This could have cost me $15k. Luckily I won $1k but if I had done my money it would have taken me along time to get over both financially and mentally. I am running v well and feel like un beatable at the mo, mix this with drink and you have a super cocky oshy on your hands. Keeping your feet on the ground can be hard when your dealing with the kind of money that I am winning at the mo, but I have to rember I am on a heater and tougher times await. Even tough I won $1k last night I am very disapointed with my behaviour.

You snooze you lose

2008-05-03T02:53:00.000-07:00

After I finished my blog yesterday was about to go fo dinner with the lads in the hotel when I see a good 25/50 plo gameon GJP. Get stacked for $3k when I am a 70% favourite. Tell the lads to order me a burger and rebuy for $5k. They ring me to tell me its ready. Games still really juicy. I leg it down grab the burger and leg it back to the room, obv lads are like wtf can you not even leave it alone to eat for 5 mins(normies dont understand value and there is no value in us creeps trying to explain it to them). By the time they make it back I have won $7k. Scooped the $10k pot getting some fish to do all his money on the river. The pot was $600 on the river and we play the $10k pot, pretty much unheard of at 25/50 unless you have a major fish on your rod.
I am now on cake and its quite fishy. So decided to play some 25/50 nlh as was told there are some decent spots hu. Buy in for $3k, first hand all in pre with ak v a10 and I hold. wp sir. He rebuys for $5k and we play the $10k pot as follows.
I am button and pop it to 15o with 46 suited.
RR to 500 by him and I call.
Flop 578 rainbow, normal enough flop.
He leads for 900. Smoothing him nicecly.
Turn 10 and he leads for 2k and I shove for 3600.
Call with kk. Drawing dead.
He actually tightended up and started playen decent after that so I legged it plus $9k.
Just a little over $23k ahead for the week now, although I wouldn't bat an eye lid if I ended the week level as I am very swingy the last few days but $30k would be a nice week.

Takin a break, ah yeah

2008-05-02T11:34:00.000-07:00

Well down in Galway all I have done since arived is potted, finished now(unless theres no gg's and there obv will be cause its fri). Sick hand in the 25/5o since I arrived here. I misread my hand and get it all in on the flop for the $6.5k pot. However by mis reading my hand I am 71% favourite instead of 67% verus the villian if I had the hand I taught. But the out I taught I had hits the turn and I miss all draws on river. Obv better the way it worked out in terms of poker equity bull shit....... But where the fecks my $6.5k pot. Played yesterday did well. Not quite sure how much I won. This week has been a mess as I have been in sooooooo many big pots. Defo the biggest week of poker life in terms of amounts betted.
As it stands I am up $9k fot the week.
Not goin bother playing the wsop tourney in Galway tonight. To often in the past I have streched myself to thin and fallin between two stools. If I played and missed a ticket and a night out I would be majorly pissed. With that hanging over I dont think I would be properly mentally preped for a reasonable buyin. Instead I will prob head in there after for some drunken plo. Hear there are so gg's in there sometimes.

OUT OF A VERY BIG HOLE & STANDING ON A HILL

2008-04-30T19:32:00.000-07:00

Well since I did my last blog entry36 hrs ago I have gone to the gym sleeped and potted. In that order I reckon my last 36 hours breaks down, gym 6hrs, sleeping 8hrs, potting 20hrs and misc 2hrs. Woke up yesterday did my blog, then did $8,5k playing really badly. Hit the gym came back did $3k more. So now I am $11.5k behind and on a $21.5k downswing. The last $5k was the softest I have given away all year. Was going to hit the hay when I decide to have one more session before the closing bell. Got $5k back to end the day down down $6.5k.

Decided I hit the gym first this morning clear my head. By 2 p.m I was bac on the machine. Decide to grind 3/6 on gpj as the games were good. In a 7 hr period I won $7k on the 2 tables, but did money on cake. Put $13k in and had it as low as $3k. Got it bac to $7k then went for a bit of 5 aside. Came back and won $14.5k on cake and $1k on gjp. So from being behind $16.5k for the week I am now $7.5k ahead or so. Fairly burn out but will go hard at it again 2mor as am taken the weekend semi off as goin to Galway with the lads(obv I made sure the we got a hotel with wireless). Had planned on playing the WSOP game there on Friday night but wont now as a night out cant come quick enough.

10k swing, but in the bad way

2008-04-29T05:40:00.000-07:00

Played a load yesterday, 5/10 10/20 25/50 plo. Hovered around winning $2k losing $2k all day and went into my evening session level. Setup my cake acc and was playing away there last night all so. Anyway up about $1,5 and was about to hit the hay(4a.m ish), when I got a tug on my line. I was sitting in the 10/20 on gpj on my own and some fish decided to give me their custom. Quickly stacked him for $2k when I got dealt aakk but only 1 suit, not to worry K hi flop. He leaves and another fish insto takes his place. Get $1k off him and I am now winning about $5k. He reloads for $2k and I am thinking lovely take this $2k and go to bed plus $7k. Anyway 40 mins later I have lost the $6k, $5k, $5k and a few $2k to shorties who have joined the table and am losin $5k for the day. At this stage the table has filled up and its a very fishy line up, but I just had to go to bed I was losing it mentally and feared tilt might not be soon off. Although I lost $5k I was very happy with how I played and managed not to tilt dispite losin 5 fairly big pots in a row never being less than 40% when the money went in and usually being a 60% or more favourite. I am playen at a higher level in the last few weeks and these kind of swings are common at this level. They still make me fill ill when they happen.

Blame Lacey

2008-04-28T05:24:00.000-07:00

Havnt updated in a good while because Lacey fecked up something with the blog and I could not put up any updates. Anyway the holdem went badly 2 weeks ago and was down about $6k from it, so had to jump in to some 25/50 plo on Sunday night and get $5k back to end the week down $1k. Last week was very good. Played 5/10 10/20 and 25/50 plo all week. Only had 1 losing day 5 winning and 1 break even. This left me $17k ahead or so, all so got €1k out of sports. The hlh game in the sports in turning into a really good game. Last Thursday the avg stack was €1500 by the end of the night. Another week of grinding this week. Am in Galway next weekend for the long weekend, so might play the wsop satty there.

No Limit Holdem Meh

2008-04-17T07:19:00.000-07:00

Well still hamering away at the holdem playen 3/6 and 5/10. Got out of my hole but quickly got back in to it. Doin $3k in it the holdem for the week. Defo playen much better now than I was at the start. Think I will make a return to omaha tonight. Also planning on puttin some time in, in the emporioum this weekend. Will play there €500 game on Saturday and hope to get in for some cash action tonight and maybe Friday aswel.

Not much to say

2008-04-15T07:47:00.000-07:00

Gone back playen nlh as am a bit bored of plo and need a break. Playen 3/6 and 5/10 nlh and am down about $3k for the last 2 days. I am paying off way too much on the river. Its good to sharpen up my all around holdem game before vegas as online is a much stiffer test than the cash games in the sports. I had $6k in the acc at the start of the week, down to over $3k at the mo but it will be over $10k by Sunday from nlh.
I have booked Vegas and plan to arrive on the 10th of june and am planning to play the round of each on the 12th.

WSOP Satties

2008-04-14T05:27:00.000-07:00

Just played the ftp and stars wsop satties last night.Was goin very well in ftp and was never outside the top 10 with 9 tickets from the start. 3K starting stack, was up to 26k with 50 left when I lost 2 flips back to back. Lost with ak suity to 33 for 20k pot and then 10k pot with a8 v 22. If I win the the first flip i am 4/6 to scoop a package. Stars got done with aa v ak off suit. I knew I was toast when there was 2 hearts on the flop. Standard beat really on stars. Obv running hearts. Back to grinding today, might play holdem for a change.

Good sports in the Emporium

2008-04-13T09:24:00.000-07:00

Went back into the sports last night. Going grand up a few 100 when another classic live hand develops. I raise button to €30 with kq after a limper, bb who I know well raises to €120, limper (fish) calls. I know bb has a premium hand, jj and up. I am about to fold but decided to take a flop I am gettin 3/1 on my money prers and there both playen €800 behind. I will be last to act on the flop so I will re asses my position then. Flop qq3 rainbow, oh lordy. Initial raiser leads for €300 (ty), limper calls. I just decide to flat call, hopeing bb might lead again for his last €500 with his over pair but to be fair I know he's better than that, but may aswel give the lad a chance. I assume the fish has a q and I have him out kicked so the money is goin in on the turn regardless.
Turn is a 6 bb checks, fish shoves for €400 I call and bb folds AA. I ask him does he have a q, nope, 33?. Are you mad. He proudly flips over 75 off for the turned gutter. I am in disbelief and just go oh the gutter. Hes like yep as if he has me pretty much drawin dead. I suprisingly hold. Its pretty sick he turns outs as he obv shoving anyway. I'd love to hear his taught process for the hand afterwards. Obv I got lucky in the hand to get infront of the AA.

Playing awfully

2008-04-12T05:46:00.000-07:00

Played yesterday for about 4 hours straight. Was winning $4.5k at one stage in the session. Took a shot at 25/50 only buying in for $1200 got done on a 5 outer for the $3k pot reloaded for another $1200 and got it up to $3k which was a result given the beat I took. Mid way through the session I started to play like a complete donk and turned $4,5k stack in the 5/10 in to zero which was sick enough. Got out winning $1k. Hit the gym came back and played for 30 mins before I headed out. Played 2 10/20 tables did $2,5k so ended up losing $1.5k after being up $4.5k.
I played badly as a result of playing too much. So I am taking today off online prob play live tonight.Obv have to re visit the sports after Thursday nights antic's. Then back online for the Sunday tourneys.

It could have been worse

2008-04-11T06:08:00.000-07:00

Started off yesterday 2 tabling 25/50 buying in to both for $3k as there was a massive fish in the game. Got out level after he left. Then went down to 5/10 and proceed to do my conkers. Think I did 6 $1k buyins in 5/10 through the course of the day. I'd be lieing if I said I was happy with how I played. In any case I decide to leave online alone for the night after losing $6k and went into the Sporting Emporium to try grind back some of the loses.
Started of playen the 1/2 plh game, was winning a few €100 but the really value is in the no limit game. It was a great line up but not a huge amount of cash on the table. One of the fish goes down stairs to play roullete, his main reason was to get some more booze which is only served on the gaming floor. He returns 20 mins later with €1600. He put €100 on black taught he lost so left to play blackjack, returns 5 mins later and puts another €100 on black and the dealer asks his does he want to let his €1600 ride again. He actually won the first spin and didnt collect so his money had been riding, and black goes on to win 3 more times. He returns to the gaming floor delighted with himself. He and 6 mates had traveled up from Kildare for the game. He quickly puts the €1600 on the table to make his stack €1800. I quickly peel off a monkey note from my back pocket to cover him. The next 10 mins involves him fireing his chip about, out draws me in one hand but then tries a terrible bluff in another which I obv call. Then this happens. Its €5 to go, its made €20 by a good player, I am on the button and look down at the ladies (qq) I pop it to €75. Call by the roullete king and raiser. Flop 932 2 spades. Roullete king open shoves for €1800 into €230 Lolers. Other player folds, I think for a min and then call. j9 no fd, for him and I hold. Ship it. Got out win €2,050 which goes some way to covering my online loses.

Swinging higher

2008-04-10T05:44:00.000-07:00

Had a very swingy session yesterday but that was to be expected given the limits I played. I played everything from 2/4 to 25/50 but mostly 1o/20 and 25/50 where I had some nice results. 25/50 is a really tough game to beat but if you can the rewards are huge. There are a lot of fish on ipoker who play 25/50 but its hard to get more than 1 or 2 of them in a game. Yesterday on 3 occasions I got 3 of them in a 25/50 game. The first time I won $5.5k, second time I broke even and the third I broke even. The third was by far the best game. At this stage I was up $11.5k for the day so I decided to jump in. Couldn't win a pot and found myself down $8k through playing perfect and just getting no luck. Feeling the game was good I reload to $3k, if I lost that I woulda gone from $11.5k winning day to up $500. Any way about 30 mins later I turned that $3k in to $11,150 and left the game with a $150 profit.
I feel I making some small head way on my goal to become a comfortable winning 25/50 player. I still find it sick paying $800 odd to see a flop with the bag but I am now doing it which you have to. Game selection will be very important as the top names at 25/50 would have off me.
Having quite the week so far a wsop ticket would really top it off.

Grinding

2008-04-09T05:15:00.000-07:00

Played a fair bit yesterday as promised. Played from 2/4 to 10/20 in plo cash, all so played 5 tournies on gjp. Won about $1800 in cash. Invested about $800 in tournies, no good in 4 but did manage to win an ECOOP ticket which are worth $1500, so showed $700 profit from tournies. Playing as we speak but will be taken it easy today. Prob head out so no evening session.

Bouncing back

2008-04-08T03:43:00.000-07:00

Well the intentions for this week were to grind small and recover some of the loses from last week. Gettin half back would be a result. So I decided to grind the smaller games, lower variance and much higher chance of comeing out on Sunday with a green figure for the week. Put in a fair few hours yesterday in 2/4 3/6 and 5/10 plo on Green Joker Poker (ipoker). I hit cards, held and got lucky, all which are required to win $10k at these levels. It was nice to get nearly all of last week loses back in one go. The same grinding lies in store today.
In other news well done to Gary on picking up a WSOP package. I am baffled by ppl's opinions on boards regarding online ettequette. It would certainly be the norm and not the exception that I would have other players around me when playing online. You tilt much less and it always nice to get a second opinion.

3 outers

2008-04-07T06:52:00.000-07:00

Spent about $2k on tournies last night. No good in any, despite getting my money in good nearly everytime. A few time a cruel 3 outers fell. The wrost was in a $2k step 6 on stars all in with ak v a2. Ah yeh 2 on river. Think I did close to $13k online this week, not good. A week of grinding in store this week.
Well done to reesy who won a wsop ticket on Green Joker Poker last nite.
Depressing to be back to Irish weather.

Playing good running bad

2008-04-05T05:43:00.000-07:00

Well played the 2k event yesterday. Everytime I see Italians play it amazes me how bad they play. I lost an 8k pot to one with ak v j9 allin pre, obv jjx flop. I was down to 15k odd when I raise with j10 suited puppy feet (clubs) I get rr by lagy player in cut off. I call, flop q 10 2 rainbow I check raise his 2,500 bet allin for 12k, he calls with ak(which is the hand I put him on), blank turn, j on river for yet another beat. I am playen so well in these tournies and making sick calls for all my stack and then just gettin done.
Came home and had a nap, got up and booted up the machine. Playen pretty well and am up over $4k before I know it and down $1k online for the trip. All my games break so I decide to take a shot at a soft 25/50 game. Lose a $9k allin 3 way pot with a set, all of us were 33% give or take. Relaod for $4k and do that. In the space of an hour end up doing $9k through no fault of my own.
As we stand I am down $10k online for the trip.
Up €3,5k in live cash.
Down €3k in tournies entry as I played the €2k+200 and and am playing the €700+70 today.
Reesy was sickend badly in the tourney aswel, but he is doing v well online at the mo. Some Italian raises his 600 bet to allin for 20k which reesy calls with aq and your man tables 62 off, obv 6 flops. Ah yeah quite normal.

€2k event today

2008-04-04T03:15:00.000-07:00

Played live and online yesterday. Played the best I have played all year live and won €1,100, but for some reason played the worst I have played all year online and lost about $1,5. So I wont be playing online today. I feel I am due a run in a tourney or at least a day 2.

Quick update

2008-04-03T04:52:00.000-07:00

I did spend an hour on my whole EPT expirence, but the Internet is dodge here and it didnt submit it. It was painful ennough the first time so there wont be a second time. The bottom line is I was out after 3.30 mins after playing 7.5/10.
The trip so far sees me down $3k online, up €2.5k live.
Might play a €500 event today, but am already regged for the €2k event 2mor.
Playing loads online and put in a decent live session. Games are unreal but rake is 2.5% uncapped which makes them hard to be very good.
Weather is nice so trying to escape from the hotel room/casino but it is proving hard than I first taught.

EPT Debute

2008-04-01T05:25:00.000-07:00

Less than an hour to my first EPT. San Remo is a real nice place and the weather is quality. Played some online last night online with Reesy in the room. He cleaned up and I broke level while playing quite bad.(Bad beat some guy in a $4k pot) Going to go back to 2/4 3/6 plo till I am happy with my game.
Went for a run and gym session with Reesy this morning and then a swim. My head is clear and I am fully focused for this event. Be back in a few hours to fill you in on the sick beat.

San Remo here I come

2008-03-30T17:30:00.000-07:00

Played about 6 hours over Saturday and Sunday. Broke pretty much level for the weekend. Glad I am off to San Remo as I need a break from the machine. I have been putting in a lot of hours 4 tabling plo which is like 6 tabling nlh in my opinion. I am burned out at the mo and my game is suffering. I have the main event and there is all so a €2k event which I will prob play in. I will play these 2 tourneys and take time to chill out. San Remo is a really nice place I am told, so I hope to see more than the inside of my hotel room and the inside of a casino. Not sure what the story is with the Internet in San Remo but I will try and keep you updated on how I exit the main event.

Down swing

2008-03-28T10:29:00.000-07:00

Suffering a bit of a down swing at the mo. Had nearly 2 weeks online without a losing day running up winnings of $35k. I had spun $5k in to $40k across 2 sites(gjp and ftp). However in the last 24 hours I dropped $5k of this back and it was as high as $7k/$8k at one stage. I put $3k on to ftp and had it up to $11k but its now back to $4k. For some reason my ftp is very laggy and I time out the odd time, its not my Internet as my gjp tables I have running at the same time are perfect. This defo tilts me so going to have to avoid tilt (excuse the double meaning) until I sort the problem.
Played fitz last night was defo a good run out before San Remo. Made a few mistakes which I noted and will correct. Made some nice reads and plays and ran up a decent stack before clashing with another decent stack and rightfully exciting.
Going to head out tonight as I am defo burned out. Have my graduation from DCU tomorrow and then dinner with the family etc. GAA match on Sunday so wont pack a huge amount of poker in before I set sail for San Remo. Will look to get one session in on Saturday, probably in the night with drunken fish about. Will also play the Sunday tourneys obv.

Total sickness

2008-03-27T08:57:00.000-07:00

Just after putting in a sick amount of poker in the last 28 hrs.
Played from 8am-1pm then hit the gym and sorted a few things.
Played from 6pm-9pm last night, was pretty tired so went to bed. Woke up at 1.30 and couldnt get back to sleep.
Played from 1.30am-4am. Backed to bed but made sure my lapper was beside my bed so I could get pottin asap upon wakeing up. Woke up at 11.30.
Played from 11.30am-4pm.
I didnt eat for at least 24hrs of this session except for a little bit of mars easter egg.
Won about $7.5k on Full Tilt but lost just under $7k on Green Joker Poker. With rake back I reckon I am $1k ahead. I think I learned a lot about my game in those 15hrs I played. I was 4 tabling for a large amount of the 15 hrs. So I prob played more hands than most live players would play in a month. I was playing plo and the limits were 2/4 3/6 5/10 and 10/20.
Going to hit the gym now. Going to play the fitz eom tomnight which is a €270 buyin. This is a great tourney with plenty of value. I am going to use this as a warm to the Italin EPT which I am playing on day 1a next Tuesday. I'd be lying if I said I am not hopeful of getting a 2hr session in between gym and fitz.

Back on the horsey

2008-03-26T01:44:00.000-07:00

After the disaster in City West it was a case of getting straight back on the horse. Logged on to my gjp acc and saw a good 25/50 game and jumped in. Had 2 $3k buyins after getting the nuts busted for my first buyin. Got out winning $3K. Played some 5/10 and 10/20 later in the day and broke level. So ended up winning $3k for the day.
Got tired towards the end of the day and lost $2k as a result of playing tired. Hit the hay for 12.
I have a bunch of stuff I need to do today so not sure how many hours I will get in.

2 HUGE Pots

2008-03-25T09:25:00.000-07:00

Played 2 massive pots yesterday. 1 live 1 online. Made marginal enough calls pre flop both times, but the hands played themselves after the flop as I made top 2 both times.
There was €12k in the live pot which I lost.
There was $12k in the online pot which I won.
I won $12k online playing 10/20 and 5/10 plo.
However I lost €6,800 live, which means I pretty much broke even for the day.
Playen pretty big at the mo taken shots at 25/50 both live and online so those kinda swings are normal. The live game had some real value in it.

So close yet so far.

2008-03-24T11:41:00.000-07:00

Chub finished 13th in the IO for €24k, which is nice money but considering the position he was in with 14 or so left it is very dissapointing. It wasn't a blunder or blow or a blow up which cost him, just bad luck. However there is no doubt Chub will have his day in a big tourney, lets just hope I have more than 10% next time.
I did no good in the plo tourney but was in for €400 which was a result in itself. Picked up €3.5k in cash games which was nice. Got €3k in a 5/10 nlh game and €500 in 5/10 plo game.
Might head back out to City West tonight. Having a losing online session as we speak.

Not much to report

2008-03-23T06:38:00.000-07:00

Played some online holdem in the morning and won $1.5k.
Played 2 5/10's and 1 10/20.
Played the E1,5k side event but no luck. Built a stack but ran qq in to aa and got my last 7k in with a7 suited but that was no good verus kj. Going to play the omaha 400 rb today.

Chub is still in the main event. Hes short stacked but hopefully the cards will be good to him.

Cash action

2008-03-22T05:33:00.000-07:00

Played both online and live yesterday.
Won about €7.5k live.
Played the 10/20 live omaha game and a 5/10 out in City West, actions very good.
Won $5k online.
4k of the 5k was won at 25/50 which I was very happy about as its a level I have always struggled to beat.

Going to play the €1.5k tourney today.
Chub, Fallon and Od all return for day 2 of the main event.

Eaten by the wolfe

2008-03-21T07:08:00.000-07:00

And so the it was this time of year again, IO 2008. Really had built myself up for this event. In terms of horse racing this is a grade 1 event. I will prob play a min of 5 grade 1's through out the year but the IO has something about it.
Got up at 9.30 ish and hit the gym with Birdy (one of my mates).
Came home and packed. Rang OD and they were running late as Reesy had slept it out. So jumped in to a 5/10 PLO and won $2.5k in the 30 odd mins. Nice start to the day.
Arrived at my table in the IO with 8 players seated I had a very nice line up. Mark Goodwin fills the final spot. Hes a sponsored pro and was 3rd in Monte Carlo million 2 years ago. I had played with him in Walsall last month and played very averagely I taught. It was quite obvious from early on he didnt have much interest and his stack was in constant decline and excited after 4 hours.
I saw a load of small pocket pairs early on what is what u want to get. Which was even better is I seemed to be gettin them when others had premium. However I never setted up once with them. The 6 hours of play I was in the tourney consisted of my stack yo yoing between 7k-11k. I was tryin crack big pairs to double up and when that failed I would rebulit my stack and take another craic. The dynamic of the table changed 2 hours in when Roland de Wolfe was moved to my table. I say my table as I felt I was in full control at this stage and felt it was a matter of time before I would pick up and hands and with them chips.
When Roland first arrived he was disinterested and his stack was dwindling from 10k down to 5k. He was play quite poor and more enjoying convo with Goodwin at our table and P. Parkinson and John Kabbaj on the table behind. However it once there table broke and Goodwin got koed he started to pay attention. With his 5,5k stack he played this hand. It was quite clear it was double up or go home time now for him and I dont think he cared eithier way.
Key pot
Roland limps for 200 and player 2 his left pops it to 1k folded around and Roland calls. Flop QT2 check check. turn 9 roland bets 1,1k which is called. Rivers a 7 Roland checks and your man bets 3k and Roland has 3,3k but makes the call with 55 which is a winner against AJ.
He then goes on to run up a 40k stack making a couple of nut flush draws versus sets etc.

Roland is now in full flight after the dinner break nd runnin the table and making ppl gamble for their tournament life. I decide to slow down a bit and wait for the premium I deserve and look to pick off pots Roland stays out of. I raise a pot up with AT to 1050 and Roland makes it 4,400 to so I release.

Exit hand:
I make it 1k to go with A4 off and Roland decides to play with me from the blinds which ate 150/300 with a 25 ante, Roland was sb. Flop comes AdQdTs, Roland checks and I make it 1,200 to go. He instancelymakes it 6,300. I dwell up for a while and decide he on a draw and stick him in for 9k total. He has 65 of diamonds so i am a 63% favourite here. Chub comes over and gives me congrats on my call, which i quickly inform him is a bad call as Roland runs to good. Like clock work a diamond falls on river and I am busted.

Did €2k in cash then aswell running quite badly.
Won $1,300 online this morning playing 25/50.
Gonna play €1,5k tourney tomorrow.

Reesy KO'd from main event today aswell.
Chub finished 12th on 47k after day one and O'Dea survived on 8k.
Fallon just started today.

A good day in the office

2008-03-19T15:26:00.000-07:00

Have a bit of a flu, so stayed in the house all day. Played 3 short sessions putting in about 8 hrs of play.

1st session
Played a 2/4 and 2 3/6 and took about $3k.

2nd session
Played a 5/10 and 2 3/6 took about $2k.

3rd session
Played a 10/20 (which was v soft) a 3/6 and a 2/4 and won $4k.

I obv ran v hot to find myself up $9k a combo of good cards and good luck but I was all so v happy with how I played.
I hope this flu clears up, I may try change my starting day in the open if it doesnt. I dont fancy having to play 12 hours of poker if I am not at 100% . Goin hit the hay early and try get to the gym before the open kicks off.

And so it all begins

2008-03-19T08:27:00.000-07:00

Finished work in KPMG on Friday after 5 months in there. I have decide to go full time at the poker for at least the next year and revaluate then. I hope to keep this blog update a minimum of once a week.

Heres a quick overview of the year so far:
January was a great month staked fallon in Kilarney for a healty €8k profit. Also did v well with online cash and tournies. Won the 200 rb for $8k, 2nd in the 300 deepstack for $5,5k, won my 2nd package to io which I got $8,5k for, all so won tickets to GUPKT Wallsall and GJP deep stack main event. Ended the month up in the region of $50k.

February started badly. I took a shoot at the 25/50 and went halfs with reesy in taken a shot at the 50/100. Which cost me close to $15k, also faired v badly in 10/2o. Did no good in Drogheda or Wallsall. Did well with online tournies again. Won a package to ept italy and managed to win the 50 and 100 rb on ipoker in the same night returning $11,500 and $13,500 respectivley. I still lost $25k for the month.

March has been quite-ish so far. Not much cash action. Did bubble my 4th ept of the year. This time it was a $20k package to monte carlo gettin it in on a q88 board with q4 v jj only for a j 2 pop up on the turn, nearly got sic as it was essentially a $20k and biggest pot i was ever in. Picked up my 3rd ticket to the io in sports.

Irish Open
I am playen on day 1a of the open tomorrow. Very excited about it. I feel my tourney game is in good shape at the mo. Certainly alot stronger than it was last year. All so i am much better mentally prepared and have a better idea how do approach this event. I will prob pop out to city west tonight and may even play the super sat.