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Beofre i forget lol,

Matt Perrins (pez) former HUnl nemisis and good friend of mine http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=102699

currently 4/16 in the EPT grand final, with a coooool 1.7M euros ftw.

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follow him in action here http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/tournaments/ept/season-6/monte-carlo-1/, and when he is on TV soon here http://www.pokerstars.tv/poker-channel-18-ept.html

so sick if he ships it, so sick

glgl

My Stats online so far 2010

http://i933.photobucket.com/albums/ad171/lildavefish/POKER%20GRAPHS/yeARSSTATISTICS.jpg?t=1272551200

Pretty Sigh. $11,818.27 that I dont deserve.

however, trying to remember that the glass is half full NOT half empty, I can use these figures to my advantge

HU PLO FTOPS tonight, first place likely to equal $56,000 with a $322 buyin. So I reckon i should win this tournament 1/512 times, so when i ship tonight il have run about $52k above EV for the day which will put me $41k up on EV for the year and a healthy $52.k online profit for the year.

wiiiiiiiiii cant wait  -  starts at 11.00pm tonight and im ridiculously excited, gna play some plo SnGs tonight in readiness!

1time mee

Had a pretty fucking mental week.

To be honest, i cant even remember the last time I blogged and what i said in it, so either gonna miss some chunks out, or repeat everything either way you’ll all get super bored by re-reading everything i already driveled on about, or you’ll actually not read anything remotely interesting in this blog lol – ITS GONNA BE A GOOD ONE FOLKS

played a ton of live pokers last week and did pretty good, had a really sigh start to the week played in a terrible game all night grinding out about £250 profit, that was until Faz turned up and ade it interesting, so interesting in fact that i left with a £600 loss, LOL ground it all back during the week, then decided to dip my toes in the napoleons pool on the friday night, was going ok i was in for £1k and sat about £1.5k deep when this hand occured…

SB straddled to £10 BB limps i raise UTG QQ to £40, 2 callers back to the SB who makes it £150. I call, Faz calls playing about £1200.

Flops Q65. SBShoves for £550, i call, Faz calls. Turn 2 I shove for £600 faz calls. River 3, Faz reveals the 45o. VERY SIGH and GG £3k lol.

So Saturday went out, and i mean REALLY REALLY went out lol me and rob went out about 10ish and met Andy J/Salfi in Revs. After getting pretty pissed we met up with TommyC and his GUUURRRLFWEND Lorna, from revs we went on to Hifi, where Andy for some fucking reaons tried to get in holding a half full (notice how it isnt half empty lol) pint glass of stella, GOOD GAME sir. As soon as we got into hifi we absolutely destroyed it and before too long joe stevenson had met up with us and the rest of the night as you’ll imagine was fairly hazy in memory, fairly sure it was incredible tho.

Sunday night booked a really nice £1k win down at gala, played incredibley well i think, and played right through until 3pm when i was HU and stacked him. Sometimes with live poker I just get the drive to go and go and go and usually when that happens its either cos im enjoying the game, or cos im loosing loads lol. Another mental night out last tuesday, followed by two days of recovery, another winning night live onthursday night @ gala, so all in all pretty good. Played through untill gone 11am again on friday morning, and then striaght home to play online, man I was SO ill friday/saturday as a result I was sweating, had a headache, stomach ache, even started halucinating, going to take this as a lesson to try keep a more balanced sleep schedule, trying to keep clear of the illness im going to call “LIVEPOKER-ITIS” man its seriously fucking brutal. grrrrr

Decided to crank up the volumes in online hands last week as well and set myself the target of 12,500 hands, which as long as i play some non HU is fairly attainable if you “go for it”. I played about 7k hands of 9max NLHE (great way to just shovel volume in without really needing to think too much) a bit on HU nlhe and some more HUplo. I dunno why but i am running shockingly badly in PLO this year, i reached $10,000 under my Exepected Return last week and its just really frustrating, It’s kinda demoralising when i really want to motor on but just so disheartened with online poker because this year has been so brutal to me. I doze off sometimes and think about how bad i’ve run online this year and feel all desperate about it – but this is really bad for you mentally and I quickly try to just move on stay positive, it’s hard but if you cant do that then high volume poker will send you mental.

Results from online been ok-ish actually had a bad session on sunday which sent me to near break even for the week online, im about $1,300 under EV but im not devestated with break even tbh cos on reflection not sure I’ve even played that well, been making some pretty silly mistakes 3/4 times a session and they expensive! So will be spending tomorrow going over those hands and trying to plug some pretty evident leaks so hopefully this weeks target hand  of 8,000 will show me a couple of thousand bucks profit, might even run hot? WHO KNOWS!?!

I’ve been re-creating some cool live hands in my handreplayer and saving some internet hands so I think I might post a ton of hands in my next blog.

Congrats to JACK ELLWOOD jammy mrthrFKr goes about casually winning his SECOND, yes SECOND FTOPS last sunday, shipping the $500 HU Event #8 for $89,000. Well played sit, seriously well played.

Ash has been running pretty hot lately as well and got pretty unlucky HU not to win the $162 6max on pokerstars last sunday, and very UL to Mr. John Eames, who lost a really brutal pot on the FT of FTOPS 9 finishing 8th for $20k, when pez won the sunday brawl back last year, i shipped him $6.49 with 15 ppl left, i did the same to Johne but didnt work, sigh.

Thats about all from me, grinding hard and trying to get Vegas moneys together although finding it kind of hard at the moment. Would hate to miss out, so going to really really grind out this next three weeks.

See ya later everyone, GLGL

lilD

Oi oi! First blog should be fun.

So I’m relatively new to the poker scene, only 7 months old and 1 month professionally but id like to think im fairly well educated for my poker age. Some would say I rushed into playing poker professionally after quitting my 9 till 5 in a kitchen & on a bad day I would agree, but hell for the most part of it, its AWESOME! I’m not going to lie though there is a little man on my shoulder telling me to get a part time job at least for now in case things go tits up. When I first got embarked on the road of a poker pro I got myself some pretty cool mentors, Jamie “TheGrooouuuch” Sykes and Ash “Il0v£mymummy” Mason. Little did I know that was only the start, I was quickly introduced to some of the best online players in the whole entire world! My network then included the EPT Deauville winner Jake “neverbluff67″ Cody, top 100 ranked player of pocket fives Tom “hitthehole” Middleton and Leggo Poker pro Rob “patonius2000″ Woodcock alongside an assortment of other ridiculous players.

For all the people that are reading this that are seriously considering going down the line of playing poker properly here are some lessons from me. They might sound silly but at the time it seems like a good idea. Mistake number one, after I binked the 42K GTD on Full Tilt for $8K I decided to have a $3k roll and withdraw the rest, at this point in my career that’s not such a bad move considering I was playing solely on Full Tilt . The bad choice was buying a 2k laptop with the money I withdrew leaving me with a couple of hundred to love on. There was me thinking well if I can bink this ill bink everything consistently, how Naïve was I to think that, sure id win the odd tournament live for a couple of hundred quid to keep me afloat, it just wasn’t enough for the comfortable “do what I wanna do” lifestyle I was after. After this bink I then went on a down-swing and with no liquid real life cash, I found myself struggling to do things but still managing to spend what money I had on nights out and trips around the country to do silly things to an extent. My second mistake was TAKING SHOTS! As fun as it sounds to enter a tourney with like 10% of your bankroll to hope you bink and get an instant bankroll it isn’t fun when you bust and realise that your bankroll is dwindling at an alarming rate, its much better to stay fluid for a longer period of time because when you go busto your fucked. Bankroll Management is so important and it is stressed to me all the time, and believe me, I have been punched in the neck for going outside of the guidelines, cheers Jamie.

OK so here’s the results for the prop bet running from the 1st of April until the 20th.

	Me	Murf12309
Games Played	558	802
Wins	0	0
Final Tables	10	8
Cashes	95 (36+59)	111 (77+34)
ROI %	28%	15%
ITM % Full TIlt	16%	13%
ITM% Stars	18%	16%

Let’s have a look at these stats, the one the jumps out the most to me is 10/8 finals and 0 wins. We must really suck. I can’t speak for murf but I know that I’ve had a real hard time HU, resulting in 5 2nds, which really does suck. I feel I’ve played well for the best part, and run below expectation but I know that two of them were at the end of heavy sessions, and I definitely just got it in and gambled. The latest one was the most brutal as the prize jump was $7000, and I had the guy in for the win AJ<KQ and A7<Jt. He kept falling into my traps and shoving it in but luckily for him he just kept getting there.

I’m ahead in ROI, but I am potentially a lot further ahead because my stars account is doomswitched at the minute, and is currently rocking a  -29% ROI. One decent result on there and I will scream into the lead.

As expected, I’m getting my head kicked in in terms of volume, but fear not, this was my plan all along. I haven’t played any sit n go’s yet, so my plan is to spam $12 180 man sng’s in the last week during the day to catch up with volume and hopefully increase my Stars ROI a bit.

As far as cashes go, it’s pretty close and could be anyones game I feel, and I’m not sure how much the ITM% stats will change.

I know that Murf is having a rough time of it as well, so we’ve both chosen a pretty sketchy month to do this it would appear, but we’re both going to just keep on going and try to get some solid results in. I’m not going to work out how much I’m ahead by in terms of money, because it’ll just tilt me too much if I end up losing. That being said I’m happy to be ahead at all considering up until this sunday I’ve been slowly but surely knocking it in despite countless deep runs and finals. It appears I just couldn’t win the big EV flips deep in tourneys, but hopefully my recent 2nd in the $75 on sunday for $12k is a start of a delicious upswing.

Keep following (if anybody actually is), I’ll make sure to post the final update on May 1st.

Stay classy internet.

HERRRO EVERYONE

 

This year I have been playing poker as my only source of income, “professionally” if you will..

I’ve been playing mostly online and multi table tournaments (MTTs) only, but with a few decent buy-in live tourneys here and there too.

The start of January went well with a win or two in the bag to get things rolling.  But alas, as comes with the territory of playing large amounts of MTTs regularly, a downswing was imminent. As I’m sure you are all aware, in the short term, poker is a game of chance. And, no matter what equity advantage (%) I had when I went all-in in a tourney, I was consistently on the wrong end of the game of chance and it was very hard to cope with. I remember a couple of instances in Sunday majors where I got all my money in as a huge favourite and was spectacularly outdrawn.

                      – 66 vs J9 on a flop of 26J for a monster pot in one tourney | and A2 vs KQ on a flop of A23 with 30 people remaining out of a few thousand runners and $50k for the win . Runner runners were dealt both times to crack my 95% chance of winning and needless to say it was very tilting.

 

Anyway, the story goes that this sort of shit just would not let up for over 2 months, at the cost of about $25k to me. I was not playing perfectly during this time, but i was certainly playing a style which beats online MTTs so profit would be expected.

I talked to people who had been in similar situations and had similar swings in the past. The advice i was given was to just keep playing and keep playing well and it would pass. And it did. Towards the end of march my bad luck ceased and indeed good fortune kicked in for me to win a tourney. This filled me with confidence and was the start of a string of good scores which is still going on now and hopefully will continue.

Although it wasn’t the most pleasant of experiences at the time, I am REALLY REALLY glad that this period of playing well yet losing happened to me. It might sound strange but it really helped me improve my game and look at things in a much more positive light.

Which brings me onto the point of this blog really..  Whether you play recreationlyor are aspiring, as i am, to become a top pro, you should be looking to improve your game and stop making mistakes. When you get it all-in with aces, you should be happy whether you win or lose. There’s nothing more you can do than get it in good. Whether it be with aces or whatever manner you get your money in and lose, it really doesn’t matter as long as you’ve made the correct play given the table dynamic and your opponent and all the rest of it.

It has taken me a couple of months of misfortune and replaying the what ifs in my head to realise that getting a bad beat or running bad is no reason to tilt.

Busting out of a tourney, or losing a buy-in in cash games is no reason to get frustrated. If you plan to play poker regularly then its not going to do you any good and your not going to enjoy the game. Instead, get angry, get really angry when you make mistakes in the game. Tilt your tits off. This will help you remember what your mistakes were and help you to avoid them in the future.

If anyone reading this plans to play poker at all regularly in the future, whether that be at the nutz, online, dtd, vegas, home-games whatever, I URGUE YOU to think of  poker as a game where you need to make the fewest mistakes possible. Don’t worry about whether your winning or not at that particular time. Play well and enjoy. The rest will follow.

 

Good luck all. Ash Mason  – il0v£mYmUmMy (pokerstars)  |  Ashthedonkey (fulltilt)

hello evvverrrrrybody!

Had a really interesting last week. In fact, it hasn’t been that interesting at all, and that in essence is why it’s been interesting lol

So last week I had big plans for week, wanted to play 3 sessions at Gala cos the games had been sick good, wanted to play UKIPT coventry, had a haircut booked for thursday, hadnt done any washing for about 3 weeks so needed to sort my life out there as well. Now irritatingly, as all my plans seem to do I hit a couple of stumbling blocks, firstly the games at Gala were  not good, they were actually terrible, as a result I lost because I am such a whale in really tight, short nitty games – well I’m fine as long as nobody else makes too much of a hand at any point lol

As a result of this, I elect to tilt off $2300 at dominoes, return to the stupid nitty gala game where i LOST more money, stayed there all night as a result missed my haircut, and overslept thus couldn’t get to coventry in time, meaning that I had to stay in Leeds, play more at gala, loose more and wake up the following day to find my washing machine is broken…

So despite my best intentions, I had achieved zero and reduced my wealth by over £1000! but not at all disheartened by this I went to bed early on friday (albeit by accident – I had intended to out drinking lol) and woke up on Saturday bright and breezy as I had a “business meeting” at 11am. I got there looking fresh, feeling super awake and rearing to go! felt incredible

So decided that as I was feeling so good, wasting it by playing poker would be criminal, phonecall from Franky who had been playing in coventry courtesy of dominoes winnings – only to get schooled by Marc Goodwin of all the embarrassing people to get schooled by! He said he was on route home for a night out so crazy times lets gogogogo. Me, Franky and Salfi went for steaks at River Plate then went out drinking and I still for the life of me cant remember where the hell we went throughout the whole night lol only thing i remember is drinking everything and salfi loosing every flip that it got to the point where I was embarrassed to win!

So 4am we find ourselves in the casino where I REFUSE to gamble (new responsible David) luckily no shortage of potential entertainment as a cash game including AJAY RAMESH was brewing so I figured what could be more fun than anti-railing AJAY agressivley for the remainder of the evening! FUN TIMES!

/sidenote/ VERY FUNNY STORY, railing roulette, franky anounces before the spin he feels 16 is coming in, 2 guys playing both cleary doing their bollocks in have +£1k on the wheel but nothing touching 16…franky calls for 16, 16 comes in and Franky FISTPUMPS and celebrates. very funny. very very funny

Leaving the casino we find ourselves in a tesco’s at 7am, and despite the intial plan to buy some red wine, we decided that it would be an incredibly shrewd idea to buy £300 worth of scratch cards! we get home, and it seems we have turned our £300 into £72 and flip to see who has to return to our friendly shop assistant Becky and get another £72 worth of scratch cards! I loose and on my trip back to tesco i figured id use my manly charms and the fact i have £300 of scratch cards to try and seduce Becky into accepting a date with me…

I really turned on the charms, and here is a snippet of the conversation

Me: “How much would I have to win for you to go out with me?”

HER: “errrm, £10,o00,000″

Me: “Really, I have £8,000,000 is that enough?”

HER: “no”

sigh, gg

as im walking home in my slightly wobbly morning state when i come across a grooup of people, who asked me why i had all my scratchcards, I responded in saying that I wanted them…then me and 2 women ended up wrestling over a handful of scratch cards on a bridge over the river, I lost 2-5 cards, but escaped un harmed and without any sexual assault taking place (kinda sigh) so I merrily classed that as a victory and moved on happily!

After another session of frantic scratching, we had £60 to collect, and Franky lost the flip and off he went, as we were waiting I cracked open a bottle of wine and Schooled AJAY pretty hard on a game of “world record lines” simply the game is, Martin (Merrion Centre cardroom manager) reads out a world record, whilst me and Ajay take it in turns to set lines on the record. playing £20 a time I spun up to +£240 and then well and truly took leveled everyone at rock,paper,scissors…

Leveled AJAY hard new he was going rock, so took a £20 evens bet with Martin that the first spin would be a push, first up both go rock, then he switches to scissors and I stick….OOOWWWWNNNAAAAGGGGEE

So i woke up on sunday feeling 1) very hungover, 2) very hungry and 3) surrounded by used scratchcards, good times!

After a really nice roast dinner in the town centre, which of course i loose the flip for me and Franky return to my flat for a sunday of grinding, we played a ton of 3/6 full ring NLHE and all the big online MTTs. the MTTS all went terribly and we ended up with zero cashes, but luckily we won about $3500 playing full ring so finished the day with a healthy profit ! wiiiiiiiiiiiiii a profitable sunday doubt that ever happens! some really cool hands from our 3/6 full ring sessions. (playing as Matfrankland)

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/1781493 ULTIMATE FREEROLL

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/1781492 absolute madness this hand!

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/1781490 – ship it with 6high LOL

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/1781495 – like the line, just sigh at this hand

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/1781496 – tough cooler, but loose from him imo

Following this session went to play live at gala and had a pretty sigh evening again another – £600, got into an interesting debate about “young vs old” – this is a pretty common debate in the world of pokers these days, for those who are interested allow me to shed my thoughts on the matter….

Firstly before I say anything controversial a good point to remember, which i do agree with, is one my old pal Garry Fitzpatrick who i play with on a very regular basis made, he says that to be “successful” at poker the only test that defines this is TIME, some incredibly good players who made tons of money (Jake Cody, Matt Perrins, Rob Woodcock) all really good mates of mine – but like he says “If they still winning in 25 years time then they are successful” and fair enough @ this point. Also I have a lot of respect for the “old school guys” who have made tons of money and are still going now, Garry, Goerge Wynberg, Chris Johnson all super nice guys who I play with often and I have a LOT OF TIME for – they might have made most of their money in a different time but they still here making it today. So really there is success as a poker player right there.

In my opinion though, most of the “old school” guys have really had their day – not because they aren’t good at poker, but because poker has changed and they haven’t been prepared to change with it. There are exceptions to this rule and they come mainly in the form of the SUPER high stakes tournaments (WPTs and $10ks etc, where I think the standard was always exceptional and everything else has now caught up!)

For example, last 2 years we have had a MAIN EVENT winner under 23.  there have been 14 EPT winners under the age of 25, James Mitchell just won the irish open, 20yrs old, Pez, the only Englishman to win an IPT at 21, John Eames ranked 2 in europe last year 21yrs old. Now obviously plently of “old schoolers” are still winning, Barry Shulman vs Negraenu HU for WSOPE last year (a final that inlcuded Akenhead, Saout and Mercier mind you) Joe Grech Just finalled the UKIPT conventry, Colin Young seems to win the DTD £300 every other month and players like Ali Mallu who still crush live tournaments on a regular basis (well played to Mr Mallu as well for just winning another 2 GUKPT side events, he is hurtling up the leader board now! gogogo MALLU!) but a lot of older player who still call them selves professionals, even though they seem to have lost enthusiasm to beat the game, and are not even making any money continue to be dead money in both tourneys and cash games, and I for one hope their sponsorship deals don’t expire any time soon

On that note as well, well playeds to my good friend Dave “leKnave” Jones who took second in UKIPT coventry last week for a healthy £29,000 ! veeerrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyy nice hand sir my favourite part of the final table reported by team pokerstars outstandingly

“Paul Rigg opened to 67,000 from the hijack and Jones flicked in the extra 37,000 from the big blind.”

epic.!

Well thats pretty much all form me, another week of underachievements but had a ton of fun so once again find myself lying in bed, eating 16hour old dominoes pizza reporting in my blog of all that didnt happen, and wondering where to eat tonight as I watch the people of Leeds going about thier business from the 6th floor heaven! arrrrrr its ok really

Plans for this week dont really involve too much pokers meeting an old friend tonight for dinner, then got business stuff to do tomorrow, might sneak a few online sessions in thursday/friday before I have more IRL stuff to do this saturday, followed I imagine by a night out on saturday, then -$2,000 trying to win it all on sunday cooooomooooon WORLD!

Thats all from me guys GL see you about !

lilD

fml

actually fml

DOMINOES HOLE becomes $2,395

here is an example. franky opens with dbl zero

i have no zeros and draw 8 extras trying to hit it.

these include the 6/6 the 5/6 5/5 the 6/4 and just about every dominoe over 6….

+77.

DIE

DIE

DIE

Just finished a dominoes Session with franky which started at 20cents a spot and ended in me $600 down FML

I ran about as terribly as anyone could run at dominoes as well, was 38-2 then he pulls two incrdible scoops on me and wins it 101-38 at $5 a spot that is like a $495 swing in 2 games absolutlely  golden. After getting scooped for 71 he opens with the dbl 4 and obv i have no 4s and snap draw 5 new dominoes.

FUCK

MY

LIFE

About time i gave up stupid gambling!  Gonna go get a subway and tilt my face off on the pacman machine at elbow rooms

Forgot to mention.

WELL PLAYED. NICE HAND. GOOD GAME Mr. James Mitchell, pround owner of the irish open trophy but more importantly 600,000 euros…

Incredible life, well played mate really really sick performance – THE YOUNG UK TEAM ARE ROCKING 2010! wiiiiiiiiiiii

and more importantly NEWCASTLE ARE BACK IN THE PREM!!!! TOON TOON TOON!

sigh at going back to loosing every weekend though! but still wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii