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jump on the rail gang!

So quick update from London been a pretty sick couple of days lol

so thursday morning rolls around and i decide that asi have to go to knaresborough to drop my car off anyway i may aswel go to london and grind at the vic for a few days as jamie is going down plus a ton of my mates will be down anyways would be fun.

So we head off from knaresborough station and meet Jack Ellwood on the train at york and head for the capital with dreams of returning vastly wealthy (or in jacks case with “a few more quid” lol) get to london at about 7pm and go to check in at the hotel, im staying with Jack in the THISTLE hotel which iv never heard of but as we get there it has two massive bronze lions outside so immeadiately my hopes are high.

at the check – in we get a little foriegn man who starts reeling off upgrades that we could buy and sigh and life being as it is we end up from a standard room to an EXECUTIVE TWIN for about £50 a night more – must get much more for your money you say? well probably but when you spend the entire trip sleeping/drinking/in a casino tbf u could stay in a shelter and it wuldnt matter but whatever the executive twin it was! Room itself was a tad dissapointing i thought it would be huge, but was in truth pretty average first sigh of the weekend. First move of london is to find out where everyone else is and it seems only a few people played the main day1a and they bust already so me jamie and jack headed for dinner then meet everyone @ 9 in the vic…we got told reliably at the concierge that there was a street called JAMES STREET with tons of nice restaurants on it so we headed there only to discover that the guys term NICE wasnt really up to much places with billboard dipicting the food outside places with really scruffy canopys not really what we were looking for – i got a tip abotu a lebonese cafe which was nice but jamie insisted he wanted michelan star so with the help pf our trusty friend google maps we found a place ten minutes walk away called RHODES, michelan rated and run by Mr GAry Rhodes – sounds sick.

obv we get kinda lost/misguided by google maps and face a very tilting 15 min walk through london espcially nerve racking for me with about £2,500 in cash on me being a nervous little northern boy assumed every other person would either be mugging me or kidnapping me….luckily managed to fade the mugging and we ended up in a swanky little hotel bar drinking Raspberry Mules surrounded by people in suits and talking to other people in suits about something businessey whilst showing each other graphs – very cool imo! we finally got to Rhodes and it was sick the place was gourgous i had truffled macaroni to start followed by the steak (obv) and something caramelly for desert – washed down with a nice 2006 Rioja from somehwere in spain – we did a nearest to the bill flip where we each lock in our guess for the bill total and the furthest away picks up the tab…had a horror sweat when i plumped for £152 jack went for £151.50 and jamie took £146 – so anything under £149 and im scooped Jack of course finds himself freerolling so its on him to casually peel off the £155.60 total and i fade another decent sized dinner bill PHEW!

Next stop is off to the vic where a very special team is waiting, pez, tom mac, cody, james mitchell, john eames, nik persaud and assorted other degens – after brief conflab we decide bowling is bar far the best idea and that playing poker is not a gd idea LOL so we up and leave for the bowling alley only to be told NO lanes so we stay eat and drink and play the notorious LODDEN THINKS whilst waiting for a lane – pretty cool game lodden thinks multi way we played 7 handed, one person is slected as the brain and everyone elseplays for £50 a man, only thing is if 5 people take the under and ou have the over then your facing potentially getting scooped and forking out £300…luckily i scooped everyone first go and freerolled the rest of the evening from that wiiiii! Managed to fade another £250 debit card roulette which would have sucked to loose becase i only had 2 beers was down to 3 handed with me tmac and cody aswel so didnt fancy my chances but my pick and i casually selected my card and phew another hold!

next up is a trip to the empire for a round of BOCCE a game james mitchell was ralying for – and he is a bit of a shark i lost £20  playing and this tilted my to get it back at roullette, £20 on black – RED £40 on black – RED, £80 on black – RED, £160 on black – RED £320 on black RED – £580 on black (all i had left lol) BLACK phewwwwwwwwwwww

comedy stroy from the empire aswel, Jamie, Mitchell, Cody and Jack Ellwood all stood around the machine and a stranger barges past them and says “hang on,  arent yo jamie sykes? I saw you on the final table in bolton nice to see you” and walks off, leaving multiple GUKPT finalist (+second in the World HU champs) james, UKIPT runner up + FTOPS ME winner ellwood andEPT champ cody without even looking – spose it just really is that good being JAMIE SYKES

I went back to Vic , grinded some cash lost a bit and went home very dull!

next day i wake feeling pretty good. decide toplay the MAIN vent the £1,500 buyin and thought chances are il probably win. Kinda a shot tbh but was feeling really good about poker + on a semi heater thought id carry it through to the TOURNAMENT world, sold 30% to pez to lighten the burden abit and off i went. Got seated a a VERY VERY tough table, with 4 very gd pros including Pez/John Eames and this guy i dont know who was very good, soon me had Jack Powell (highly regarded online pro) and Stu Rutter to add to the table – LOVELY! the tourney started out really cool and i put a few chips together, then a few tricky spots and a coulpe of annoying hands later im in 20bb territory where i stayed happily for over 4 hours lol. problem is the main advantage a good player has with a 20bb stack is you can really take huge advantages if other players who have incorrect calling/folding/shoving ranges – as a rule in live pokers people fold far to much and occasionally call terribly aswel – now on this table altho i was on the better side of the sickos its impossible for me to do anything – as no-one calls or folds bad so really all i could do was hope that good spots came up and that i held when they did! As it came about very few good spots did come up, and the one that did was KJspades vs A8o btn vs BB and i failed to win. £1,000 poorly spent all in all but i played pretty good and actually enjoyed myself so all gooooooooooooood!

SICK BRAG/     spoke to chris moorman (online MTT hero “MoormanI” if you’ve never heard of him just a little google search) this was the convo….

Moorman “What’s you name on Full tilt?”

ME “lildavefish”

Moorman “O ye i think i’ve heard of you”

/END BRAG

Was on the train home from london when i started this blog getting ready for a night out with Jamie/Ash/Simon/TommyC/Rob/Will/Rich was going to be awesome – was my best mates lil brothers 18th aswel so we dragged him out and treated him to a pretty crazy night out which comprised mostly of jagerbombs, women, copius drinking followed by a stripclub where at mine and rob s expense owen got some things that he might not even know existed rubbed all over him ! wiiii @ being 18… gd times

Was a really really good night but unfortunatly i decided to start my pacman bet with Rich Hawes the following day…£500 acc. scores over 25 games with a 5k points per game handicap for me. 8 games in im in such bad shape that iv bought out for £400.sigh thinking of a cool dbl or nothing bet cant stand the thought of loosing I HAVE TO GET OUT.

n.b Rich Hawes is amazing at pacman. I am a very slighty above average pacman player….silly bet….sigh

Nothing pokerwise to report really, been running pretty hot of late in the live games round leeds this last 10days had some huge sessions. Played 3 15hr+ sessions and had some big wins…had a great line up the other day which involved Faz/Chinese Dominic/Mr Ali, all players who create boatloads of action. Faz in particular is so much fun to play with, he forces people to gamble and you need to put all your cohones on the line in every pot with him! I love watching faz play nits cos he just smashes them so hard! Anyways ran good, played good and managed to book +£5k for the week which after the horror runs of feb and jan is useful!

Seems my new positive mindset is leading to much better results, March is looking like it will end up as one of my best ever months! lil-live-fish IS BACK wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Round at mine now watching simon/Ash/Jamie play (idiots) TOOOUUURRRNNNAAAMMMMEEENNNNTS on the internet, duurrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Thats all from me gl guys catch you all later – wont be able to make an appearance at the club for a bit as i dont have a car and gonna be doing it in on taxis over the next 2 weeks sigh

(finally getting my 3% paid on the white rose centre yay!     /end brag)

SEE YA x

Wassup! WARNING VERY LONG BLOG AHEAD!

OK. so had a bit of a self examination couple of days – comedy really how when you do nothing and hardly sleep you become very insightfull and actually a little bit deranged lol

Wanted to brace a subject mega to poker – VARIANCE. its a pretty huge word in the life of a poker player, its something that everyone experiences, from heavy volume players to casual 3 times a month £5 freezeout players.  I myself have berated varience a ton lately and equated poor results to a bad dose of this varience stuff – but what exactly is varience? basically varience IS what makes poker well, POKER lol

Iv done a lot of thinking of late, read some seriously good articles and blogs and chatted a lot to really clever friends of mine and and feeling good with the conclusions that i always knew, but now finally feel like I am starting to understand! My 2010 results have been dissapointing cant deny that, you ask me how its going and i’ll tell you i’m running awful. easy, that is what is happening, Im just not running good enough to win so i go to bed thinking that soon il run good and i’ll win ! yay easy no need to worry then. YES WORRY WORRY WORRY! the thing i have realised this year is that running rad doesnt happen – in fact it doesn’t EVEN exist. The dangerous thing here is that you will then fall into the trap i have fallen into, feel that because you have run so bad the poker universe owes you some run good – or as ROB put it “a deluded feeling of entitlement” very apt. If you’re going to attribute losses to VARIANCE, then you need to understand exactly what it is.

Spose the first aspect to truly understanding varience is to understand exactly what your doing when you play poker. YOU’RE GAMBLING. Lots of people say “poker isnt gambling” “its a skill game – the best players always win” “its not gambling like going to the bookies…” well all WRONG. poker is gambling and its a form of gambling no different to any other form of gambling, betting on horses, betting on blackjack, betting your mate £20 you can throw chalk into a cup from across the bar (rolf @ drunken games of “chalkie-cuppy” a highly sophisticated game the rules of which i dont want to divulge here for fear of ruining the book launch…) but yes its true – dont tell my mum and dad lol but poker is just as much gambling as anything else. FACT

so we’re all screwed then, the lucky people will win and the unlucky ones wont, this means we may as well flip 4ROLLZ? WELL NO because the thing about gambling is that there is always an edge – in practically every gamble there is an edge to find somewhere – very few gambles are complety neautral and most that seem to be often arent but are neatralised by the fact that no-one knows where the edge is, often in this case the gamble is whether or not its a good gamble for you or not and less on the actual outcome. a good example of this I bet steve collins that he could eat an entire lemon with the skin on in under 1min40. now i obv have no clue exactly what sort of time steve could eat a lemon in, so i took a gamble that @ 1min40 i had a slight edge, and steve in turn took the gamble that he was capable of doing it and the bet was at even money, as it happened he did it in 25seconds lol so i lost – that right there is a gd example of varience – steve thought he probably could eat it in that time, i thought he probably cudnt. Obvisouly being being results orientated this is a terrible bet for me as he clearly coudl have eaten 4 lemons in that time, but i remember how sure i was in my bet at the time so i dont feel bad about taking it, just have to accept that without 100% of the information im going to make mistakes reasonably frequently.

Other gambles are different, where someone thinks they have an edge and try to exploit it as much as possible, lets take the best gamblers in the world as an example – BOOKIES. The bookmakers are the cleverest gamblers anywhere – they use the fact they have more information, the fact they can offset their looses with other liability’s on the same event and they use maths to create such an edge over their opponents that they build up such an edge vs so many different people they are virtually unbeatable. So why on earth would we ever bet against them? because we believe that on the occasion we are taking them on we can make ourselves an edge and with a little kindly varience we can win – and sometimes, but only often enough to make us keep believing lol, it comes in. However its important to remember that the bookies, they are still gambling – they are be no means 100% to make money on one race/event or another – they have to deal with variance as well, like the time when diamond redbridge played weymouth and the local bookies got stuffed for £1m because 3hrs before KO the weymouth senior players went on strike for not having medical insurance. word got out and hords of locals went in and online to cash in on their information, weymouth fielded a team with a average age of 17 and they lost 9-0. All the bookies edge, their increased information, their shared liability, there mathematically astute odds-making went against them and they got stuffed. But they did the did the right thing though yes? they set the right odds with the info they had? NOPE they played bad, once you have an edge you need to work so hard on maintaining it and they didn’t – they let their opponents get more information than them and they paid the price,so this isnt variance. THIS IS BAD PLAY FROM THE BOOKMAKERS.

right babbling away lets apply this to poker. The other night I lost a pot playing live, i have AJss and the flop comes J 3 7. I bet chinese man calls. turn J. I bet chinese man calls. river 5. I bet chinese man bets pot i call he turns over 64 for the straight. Now easy thing to do here is berate my bad fortune –  I MEAN HE CALLED ON A GUTSHOT right? how unlucky that he got there, and lets face it I’m hardly likey to put him on 46 am i? well the simple truth behind this hand is that on the flop i wasnt 100% to win, on the turn i wasnt 100% to win – so lets not be too suprised that I lost this hand. I didnt have to call him on the river, I made a decision that proved to be wrong, I am however satisfied that with the information I had available to me it was a good decision just so happens I GOT IT WRONG, this hand is NOT VARIENCE this hand is me making a good decision – the variece here is that on this occasion it turned out to not be a good decision at the same time that when he turns over 9T its a good decision. CONFUSED? let me put an IRL example out there…

A man cant decide whether he should go to the pictures or not, his friend wants him to go as its her birthday and he promised 100% he would go to wacth alice in wonderland at 8.45 tonight… HOWEVER its the final of hells kitchen (thank god im not the only person sad anough to watch it!) and he is desperate to stay in. He rings his friend says his mum is ill he needs to go see her, she understands he settles down to watch hells kitchen. HOWEVER he feels really bad he lied to his friend, broke a promise and let her down. He regrets what he did and goes to bed disspaointed that Kevin didnt win Hells kitchen and really feeling bad that about not going to the pictures. Next day he gets up still feeling bad and turns the TV on HEADLINE LOCAL news last night at 9.15 last night the roof of the cinema fell in and 42 people died. WOW HE thinks what a great desicion not to go to the cinema last night he’d have probably died.

WRONG! still a terrible desicion, just so happens on this occasion was the right desicion – THATS VARIANCE.

N.B this reminds me of a funny hand a few nights ago, a stupid little nit folds QQ pre-flop when he should have fistpump got his money in. turns out to be against AK/A6/97 and the flop comes Q high. he punches the table and berates his TERRIBLE fold. rolls of  J T and AK makes the nutz his fistpumps and says “what a fold, great fold” – dont need to explain the backward moronicness of this tale im sure.

Variance is the part of poker that makes people play. if the chinese man’s gutshot didnt have 10% chance on the flop then he wouldnt have put £130 into the pot with 6high prior to him getting there, if the house didnt loose £20,000 to the rich businessman who plays blackajck with more money than i care to think bout at risk 2 times a week he’d probably stop playing. As poker players we should use varience as our tool, to entice people who probably wont beat us to try anyway, play our best, use our edge to the maximum and if we win we win if we loose we loose – thats gambling!

Just remember what your doing when you play poker your taking a risk and the risk is specific to a few factors, how you play, how your opponent plays and how varience influences both your good and bad desicions.  THE CRUCIAL thing to always bear in mind is that varience is by its very nature completly random, and no-one is entitled to win a 60/40 60 times in a 100, in fact your not even entitled to win a 60/40 1 time in 100 – you could go through life and have every good desicion you make turn out badly and whereas that is a bit unlucky, that is just part and parcel of playing poker, you could have had every decision good and bad turn out well – you could have won that 60/40 100 times of 100. Varience is the glue of the poker world, real life doesnt have anywhere near as much of it so its the one thing we all share regarless of how well/how high/what you play we all experiance it, we are all affected by it and as long as you play poker you’re sucess will always be in some way determined by it.

WHAT IM SAYING IS – dont complain about variance, because without it poker isn’t poker!

RUN BETTER GUYS

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other news

Lecture over thank god i’ll give you a quick update into progress this week. once again you wont have seen me on the virtual felts this last week or so played a lot live and things are going great! winrate has been very pleasing, helped out by the fact that I am catching cards in superb spots atm… heres a great example,

66 2 limps i limp behind goes raise from faz and min 3bet from nit (im sat about £600 deep nit has £300 faz covers) another solid guy sat £1k deep calls I call faz calls. 4 to the flop with £180 in the middle. flop comes 369. i check faz checks nit bets £150 i call faz calls turn is a 5 i check faz bets £250 nit calls himself allin i shove faz folds (rofl) nit has AA obv faz said he had J4 and i totally believe him LOL.

lost a very annoying hand where i had 89 and the flop comes 7TJ i was more than obliging in putting my £1,600 into the middle to find that he had JT and made a boat. pretty sigh but as i have had people point out to me on a few occasions according to the poker hand rankings a full house is actually a better hand than a 5card run thanks guys after a small amount of research seems this is the case il stop badgering the poor man for my £3.2k now.

played a very long session the other night nearly 14 hours and it was very strange, firstly i got into a cash game for one of the largest amounts iv ever been in for (nearly £2,300) and espically rolfing at it being a 50p/£1 game lol everyone had +£1k was absolutly massive. i was loosing nearly £2,000 at one point (played a few BIG hands kinda bad plus had above very sigh hand) then I got super lucky to draw out on faz 99 vs AA aipf fml @ this hand faz opens blind 4bets blind looks at his hand and shoves with AA – WTF, i had 99 and was fistpumping whilst getting it in and fairly devestated to see him flip AA…not a problem though as we introduced him to a little 9 in his spine in the door card – PHEW!

we then got 4handed and thanks to my 9s hand had a bit of momentum and everyone else seemed kinda tired i really stepped up the play 4handed and started to win virtually everyhand for an hour and was playing really really good, combine this with a  couple of nice cards in gd spots i managed to recoup £900 and finsihed about £400 or so down. I felt really good about the session because of how well i played and how little i tilted – seems my new found mental stability might be paying off but hey it is me so TIME WILL TELL!

going to continue to play live i think for a bit games are great Im playing really well, catching cards and actualy kinda enjoying it- LIVE POKER aswel wow.

In other news iv managed to myself into a totally retarded prop bet – rich hawes who if you dont know of him is a online SnG pro and a sick one at that is awesome at PACMAN, im average to good at PACMAN and have for some reason locked in an EVEN money 25 game combined score £500 PACMAN prop bet. sigh.

been practising tons hopefully will win but in all seriousness probably wont LOL still it is a huge challenge and if there is one thing i like its a huge challenge and a gamble so maybe JUST maybe il win. which if i do will be awesome!

Night out plans are on hold to this saturday night when its my best mate from real lifes littles brothers 18th. Iv known owen since he was about 5 so its pretty cool he is 18, unfortunatley for him his brother is now boring – but LUCKILY for him i am more than qualifed in the business of going out and having mad times so got all my regular physcopaths lined up and hopefully we wont kill him!

anyone else if you wanna come see the madness first hand gimme a call you are ALL WELCOME!

Thats about all from me hope your not all ridic bored of me dont blame anyone for skipping to this part lol – will update with pacman progress/night out calamities/live poker crush mission on the weekend!

GL to all the guys playing the GUKPT London leg this week Jake/Jamie/Pez/Cody/Sunny/Mike/Middy etc hope someone wins! UL to rob who just bustoed the EPT snowfest had a pretty sigh inducing day by all accounts looks the big tourney score is gonna have to be in WSOP now rob ul.

its obv important to gl ppl pre-big tourneys in your blog cos it gives you nip credability post big score

Now im off for dinner then a few hours sleep pre GALA grinding…See ya! IN FACT if i want to i might even trek to hgate for the £10 dbl tonight…

HELLO NUTZERS!

guys sorry i been out of touch so long, it has been one VERY VERY CRAZY MONTH!

This blogs title is a quote by Thomas Jefferson, and im sure you’re all intelligant to figure out its meaning lol – basically if you see someone do something stupid take it as a lesson not to do the same thing, sounds pretty simple i spose….well not for me sigh

i reached a conclusion earlier this month. I seem to spend so much time of late feeling bad about my horrible degenerate vastly unhealthy lifestyle that whats happened is i stopped enjoying it – and tht is NO FUN!

so i went back to old, reckless, carefree david and found i have had an incredibly good month…

Started out to rebuild on the internet still going stop start but was making some steady but shrewd progress. However then had the great idea of a joint session with the NUTZ’s VERY OWN Tom “tomc1912″ Underwood. for any of you who dont know Tom he is a sicko and makes shitloads of monies from all forms of pokers…HU / 6max / PLO / NLHE he is awesome. we sweated each other and feel like my game improved for it…unfortunatley we both ran like shit and as a result lost a horribly large amount of money between us but hey HI HO VARIENCE, played a 6000 session hand included 2k hands 4table vs one decent guy from finland which was a very very gd match. ALAS depsite being 8 buyins winner at one point it all went wrong with a rele rough period before we quit and i ended up loosing a couple of hundred but played REALLY REALLY good in that session…that has been it for online played a decent more on cake and stars than FTP if ur wondering why i havent been about on tilt for a little bit, cake is moving to MERGE NETWORK soon which is extremely good news as i have a sick deal on carbon with RAKEBACK + BONUSES but just not enough poor end traffic to justify any real volume and i cant afford to have too much money sat around idle in accounts atm so wont play too much more online until April 16th when that goes live i dont think

LIVE POKERS! yes! my old friend LIVE POKER has been back with a bang this month i played tons of hours live. The NAPOLEONS £5/£5 DC game has been in full swing of late and the game has been incredible. couple of weeks back played for hours 4handed Me, Gosney, George and Tony Milan and the game was tons and tons of fun. Cant remember the last time i enjoyed a session of live poker quite that much. I really like playing with those guys because they are all competant, Laurence espcially is fun to play cos he has all sorts of moves and shakes to his game and they are pretty classy guys and its a very classy game – you see no “cant believe you called that” or “you fucking idiot” kinda attitudes here people play poker and they play pretty fast and for quite a lot of moneys – I LOVE IT!

So far in the Dealer Choice game since i started at naps i think im winning about £3k, probs run a bit better than i should and could defo have played a lot better. Im still learning Paduki really and im a bit out of my depth vs these guys in all truth but thankfully George/Laurence seem to be happy to answer or advise me as it is nessercary which is very nice of them considering we’re in the same game so hopefully il get better – its a pretty cool game but man u need a set of bollocks to play it cos it gets pretty big! Mostly iv been selected 4-6 card PLO as its my main game, I feel like a have an edge in any LIVE plo game iv played so many hands now that i just feel so comfortable. Also been a bit of super stud played and i have mixed feeling on it – i used to play a decent amount of stud games but i seem to have lost in super stud games there so far – mind you it doesnt get played much and i havnt gotten many hands there so we’ll see we’ll see! Also dabbled a bit in the £2/£5 PLHE game but tbh iv been playing NLHE over at gala – iv found if u get there for 2am+ and sit in deep there is decent monies to make. like £200-£500 a night is doable with a bit of patience and focus so put in some decent volume there.

OK no more pokers – back to being reckless. As u know i have had a jaded history with sports bettng lifetime, and by jaded i mean, EXPENSIVE lol but i got a tip earlier this month from Chris Walker a friend of mine who does betting in running as a job and is keen on horses…so i stick £200 on it why not and boom in it comes @ 11/4 netting me a nice little £500 lovely. if only it had lost LOL

next tip was a dead cert starting out at 16/1 – INCREDIBLE its a handicap race so a defo EW bet. £400 each way and in it sticks in 4th place and because i used a stupid high street bookie GRRR only paid top 3 if id have used betfair woulf have come in and got on it at 12s SIGH £2k down the drain NEVER EVER USING A high street bookmaker ever again. PERIOD.

Along comes cheltnam and we are GOING FOR IT! had some hig points, £50 ew on weapons amnesty which came in for me @ 11s WIIIII, had a £200 ew dbl on Kalahri King and Quantitiveesing which came in aswel for £850… so we should have booked a decent win i spose?

nah the policy of “going for it” contradicted the poicy of “making money” and we finished stuck pretty huge SIGH o well all fun

also managed to tilt do £700 at roulette waiting for a table

and significantly more on two stripclub visits after full days binging

reckless perhaps not FTW…

IN OTHER news it seems i AM LEAVING THE WORLD of proffesional gambling! yay!

hopefully altho not by any means confirmed i have a deal in place to work with a fantastic guy STEVE BOLTON introduced me too called Chris Sullivan who is incredibly clever and very gd at making money – cant release too much in the way of detail here cos i dont rele have them but I think i have a great business idea, and hopefully we can make something work out of it (and YES it DOES involve fish and chips WIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!)

Ok il finish with a challenge. which i put out to the whole world

THE CHALLENGE : EAT 3 EXTRA HOT pepperami’s in UNDER 52 seconds. (51.99 seconds = win 52 seconds  = loose)

NO DINKING – YOU MUST EAT THEM seperatley and you ARE ALLOWED to unwrap before you start.

price 3-2 maximum wager £500

GL guys speak laters!