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To conclude to my previous post even further ash goes on to win that 109 freezeout lol wpwp

As i published my last blog. I mentioned a $109 f/out on stars.

guy raising 36% makes it 400 from a 2.6k stack @ 75/150 i make it 845 with AA, he peels flops comes 2 5 10, he checks I shove he tanks forever calls with A9…..9…..9

its all over lol

Yay Ash Mason is well and truly back! strolls back and wins lots of money like he has never been away….Nice Life!

Jamie borrows my account and spins $0 into $13k.

Well done to both these guys its awesome that 2/3 of the magic tripod are back in action!!! jamie in particular demonstrating once again the benefit to hard work, more hours you put in the more the get out…wp Jamie N1 (also if tht fails dissapear for a few months then mysteriously re-apear and start final tabling everything! – whichever works

Me…well its not been going so good! hence why no blog for a bit iv been sulking! So its going to depress me too much tlking about poker here…so il sum up my last 2/3 weeks in a simple paragraph.

1) Have made $0 online. £0 live. With the exception of a FT in blackpool for a little over £1k

2) Have been shafted deep in 2 tournaments with a £4k+ top prize.

3) Have lost an average of 3/4 of a BB at EV over my last 8,000 hands,

4) have started to play quite tilty and like a spanner

5) Basically VARIENCE is a C*** (insert letters as viewed appropiate)

Aside from this have some interesting news on the horizon, am hopefully going to invest some of my hard fought £££ into a restaurant in leeds. This would affectivly empty mylife money so would be a nice pleasant change from the depressive, obsessed world of constant gambling…cant say too much more on the subject atm because i dont wanna jynx it plus dont know 100% mysself.

Had a reaonably comedy moment the other day, after a hectic loosing sesh online I have not quit for 2 mins when my home phone rings…i answer it (no1 ever rings my house phone either i dont even know the number!) who is it but an automated answer say “Well Done, You are a Winner…” FML i fought the tears back!

So im down on poker but significantly up on life as i recently bought the  new footy manager game. Ihave a long history with this game strecthing back to the 98/99 version where the love began…since then I have had every version and som emega teams….the highlight was probably the 2000/2001 game (the red cover) where i took my newcastle team on an 8 season unbeaten run to the 2029 season…notice a trend in my ealry teens of obbsessing over specific computer activity….sure has changed!

So been grinding a ton of footy manager, wanted to try play 15k hands online in the next two weeks but sigh at it now feel too depressed about poker :’(   (violins pls) gonna give it a few days, maybes tool about with som eMTTs online and chill out for a bit!

Wat a dull blog….wp to anyone who made it this far!

im chilling in a 109 freezeout on pstars aswek spk so with any luck we’ll win this and then life will be fucking amazing!

will probs go out and grind som elive cash tonight at the old gala…so glgl everyone!

Also a special wp to mr Peter Lee with a great day 2 effort in the blackpool GUKPT, also sigh for Trigg one of the infamous “shrewdies” who came 12th for an upsettingly not 80k £2,900…gg tho!

GL everyone see you about will make a trip over to the nutz soon hopefully, maybe even this sunday seems an excellent alternative to loosing $2k on the sunday majors!

ello. made my triumphant return to the world of pokers. in short, ive been playing on stars, and in the last week hav done a “sykes” and made 4 final tables. getting a 1st, 4th, 6th and 9th. along with one final table bubble for 10th, a 24th in a large field tourney and ive owned a few souls along the way. weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. im very hungover from celebrating last night. details and interesting spots to follow. weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. nite x

If you read my last post you’ll know that I had no money online because my account was/is banned, and that I was once again playing on lildavefish, off a borrowed $300 that i turned into $2k. Well, I continued the grind, same levels except throwing in a few $75 shots just to see if I could turn this essentially “freeroll” money into something substantial, and I got a little bit of a break. Sunday came around and I qualified for the FTOPS Main Event and some other tournies inc. a $163 150k gtd. My first deep run came in the latter tournament, but got coolered deep and ended up only cashing for around $45o, but I still had 6 tournies or so running, so all was not lost. I then finished 2nd in a $26 PLHA mtt for $800, and min cashed the ME for $800 also. I was left in one tournament, a $75 that I’d built a big stack in and was confident vs the field. Got to the final table 3/9 with $20k up top, but the stacks were really close, everyone had around 35/40 bigs. Got the chip lead and lost it twice, lost two flips vs shorties for the KO twice in one orbit so went into 4 handed struggling. There has been alot of 3betting etc. (mainly on my part) and I got into a messy pot vs a really strange kinda donkeyish player with AsTs. he raises the sb, I 3bet him to 120k he peels. there’s now 250k in the pot and i have 500k behind. flop is 9h 6h 2h, and he donk leads 100k. He’s been doing this a lot over the last few hours and usually folds to raises or shuts down to peels and stuff, so I figured this is his weak attempt at stealing the pot, so stuck my 500k in his eye. However, he quickly tables Ah 9h having me drawing dead, and that’s that. Took home $7.4k for my efforts boosting the “freeroll”  roll to $10k for 9 days work. Then yesterday played again and final tabled another $75, 6max this time and finished second for $3.9k. The rest of the session sucked though so only $3.4k was profit, but still.

So to summarise, had no money online and no account, borrowed $300 and an account, made it into $13.4k in 10 days, over 350 games or so.

Because I figured this was quite the accomplishment, I decided to treat myself today so went tot eh shop, bought some vintage Rioja, some steak and some potatoes and am going to cok a delicious meal before my 5 o clock grinding session today. AND should be getting thegrooouuuch back today/tomorrow, so I can get some results in my own name lol, I’ll update in the next few days probs.

Thanks for stopping by San Diego.

As most of you may or may not know, two of the biggest authorities on online grinding are Shaun (tedsfishfry, shaundeeb) Deeb, and Dan (imabigkidnow, DJK123) Kelly. These guys are insane, millions of $ in online MTT net profit, and both are under 25…. ridiculous really, but my point is that they are both renowned for doing two things respectively; Shaun Deeb is known for playing ridiculously huge volume, literally every tournament registering for a 24 hour period, and DJK is known for playing completely mathematically which means having little to no regard for tournament life in some spots and just shipping 15-20 bigs in slightly +EV spots…. Other pros talk about this int heir vids, referring to either as “DJK’ing it” when you just open ship 15 bigs, and Deeb’ing it when playing ridiculous volume sessions.

Last week I decided to do some proper Deebesque grinding (although a watered down version, because I’m no where near good enough to play 30+ tables at once) so I played every satellite and tournament under $26 (unless I qualified for any bigger obv.) on full tilt, using lildavefish as my account (thegrooouuuch) is locked down atm… stupid ftp. Unfortunately since I wasn’t on my own account I had NO money online, so I borrowed $300 from a friend (chrispoker23) and planned to play until it was all gone, or span up, all profits went back into more grinding until I decided to stop. Thought it’d be interesting to show you my results, which aren’t as good as I wanted really but hey ho:

ITM 46/239 (19%), Av. buyin $27, $7′775.20 prizes, $1′892.20 net profit with an average Return On Investment of 24.34%.

Not so bad, but I wanted to make $3k+, just have to try harder next week. Also, I do feel like I ran horribly in some huge $$ spots, E.G.

5 handed in a $26 mtt with a $9.3k top prize, I’m chip leader with 1.7M chips@ 12k/24k/2k, a shorty shoves utg for 200k, I flat KK with 3 to act, and the BB 2nd in chips flats too. Qh 6c 8s flop the BB check with an effective stack of 1.2M i lead 200K into a 600k pot and he makes it 666K… I think about his range for a few seconds then decide he has KQ/AQ and shove, he calls AQ… shorty flips AJ, brick turn, Ah river. Sigh. The same guy then coolers me 99<TT and it’s all over. He takes an ICM deal next hand for $8.2K lol. Such Sklansky bucks there.

NVM, next time.

Peace out everyone, glatt.

this has just come to my attention from a tournament i played in many moons ago.

its getting to the later stages of a tourney, people are very tight because your playing live and your approaching the money. a  tight player has gone all in and another has called him. your in the big blind with queen 3 offsuit.

a poor hand you might, rightly, say.

however.. consider this. imagine if you call the allin also, (only 20% of your stack) and then win the hand. - maybe the board will read 333xx or q33xx… even qqqxx ? – then imagine all the chips you would have then. and you ll get the added ego  boost of having knocked somebody out and sent their dreams crashing to the ground. forget equity, thats all numbers and figures.. and where did they get us.. thats right A RECESSION! all you need to win at poker is imagination. just imagine if you call and win. how many chips would u have then? if the answer is “LOTS” then i advocate a call.

LOLwittybanterAMENTS!

you stay classy nutzers

(obv a joke -dont take seriously ffs)

http://www.facebook.com/ash.mason1?ref=ts

The once blogger, once grinder, still friend Ash seems to have gone missing!? Facebook tells tales of extravagant nights out, but he won’t contact anyone…. or respond to any efforts of contact from anyone in Yorkshire. Strange ey?

If you’re reading this; come back Ash!

It’s 2.36am Tuesday the 3rd of November, and I open my hazy eyes to find myself not in Yorkshire, not even in Valencia, but somewhere in between. I’m in what can only be described as some kind of transport-limbo, Stanstead after hours. This is entirely down to my easy-going nature, and lack of attention to important facts, such as my flight time, and everything associated with. “Have you booked your flight Jamie? Booked your trains Jamie?” The parents would badger, and be swiftly met with a lethargic, and highly sarcastic ”Yes, MUM.” So when I finally did book my flights, (the night before I was supposed to board, naturally) I quickly discovered the advantages of early booking, because the only available flights out of season are at 6am sharp, and considering the trains from leeds-London start at 6am, it doesn’t take a dummy to work out that I found myself in quite the pickle. This moment of clarity happens at somewhere near 7pm, the last train to make it to the last Stansted train being at 8.09PM from York. Fun times ey? Some swift packing, train napping, anf fare dodging later, here I am. Before I go into poker, I just want to describe this place for you. Everybody is trying to sleep except me, I’m just wandering around, drinking red bull, looking for a plug for my laptop, but some selfless souls thought it was cool to take up 5 seats each by lying down, so the “streets” are litered with people. Mostly adolescents, coevered in blankets, using bags as pillow trying to get some shut eye before the 6am flights start up again. It does make me wonder however, why are they here? Surely there can’t be an airport full of people who are as unorganised as me? Surely not. Or maybe they CHOSE this, as an alternative to getting a hotel for the night (which are conveniently at the end of the airport), could it be a matter of money? Whatever it is, it baffles me how someone would enter this twlight world of whirring airport machines and Burger King lights out of choice.

I guess I should briefly mention poker since this IS a poker blog predominantly, but I am going to be brief since it hasn’t played much of a part in my life in the last 3 weeks, something that’s felt pretty good tbh. Don’t get me wrong, I love the game, but being back in the UK, seeing my friends, playing a little but not worrying about variance, graphs, EV etc. has given me a little bit of perspective. This was never the plan, and I don’t intend for it to stay the plan, I want to put my money and energy into something cool, something solid and respectable that I love just as much as poker…. The only problem is, as is everything that I pine after it seems, it doesn’t exist. For now anyway, more like I haven’t discovered it yet. So for now, I’m just going to try and be the best I can be, get ranked, and get my name around a bit, but to do this I need to play higher volume. After going through my Hold ‘Em Manager in some of my spare time here in limbo, it appears that I am under-rolled for the huuuuuuge schedules I was playing. SO, the only choice is to get some backing from someone who can handle the swings. This just gives me a bit more security, and means I don’t have to dip into savings to fund poker, I want to keep that for some kind of non-poker related venture in teh future. I’m not going to mention names for obvious reasons, but I’ve asked a few people, and there is one source that seems to be pretty positive and has set me some parameters that meet my needs, just a case of “getting approved by the board” whoever the hell they are. I’ll let you know how that goes.

So yeah, on my way back to Valencia after a pretty pleasant 2.5 weeks in blighty, saw some old friends down in Nottingham which was refreshing (Will B being a highlight) and got the flu from Jonni B…. Fun fun fun yeah? Time to go home, home to a 20 degree+ november.

Just want to apologise for the lack of blogging lately, I’ve got loads of out-dated drafts, that there’s no point in publishing, so I’ll jsut have to make up for it with future posts.

Peace. Jamie.

P.S. Me and Ave. Dave are doing a little bit of business together, so I’ll be updating on his behalf on here too, hopefully when he binks every major PLO MTT on the net. Wheee.