UKIPT

Saturday saw me down at DTD in Nottingham for the Pokerstars UKIPT and after 4 hours it was going steady and I was just starting to get busy with the 3-bet reraise. The last hand before the 2nd break and a lady raises in mid-late 550 with the blinds at 100/200, the button reraises to 1700 and I have AK suited in the sb and 16k ish. Upto this point the guy on the button has been having a bad time with me reraising him on a regular basis and is getting a bit annoyed. I'm thinking he just wants to win one hand before the break and he's on the button, so I repop it to 6k hoping to just put it to bed right there. It seems however he has different ideas and after the original raiser folds he ships it allin for 12k. I'm now kicking myself for reraising so much as it's 6k to me to win 18k and even if he has KK I have the right price to call. So I commit the rest leaving me very short at 3300 and he flips AA - DOH! Of course the board doesn't even give him a sweat and my stack gets decimated.

I come back after the break and my table has been broken, I find my new seat and sit down with my pittance. Two hands in and I get 99 in early so I raise to

950 with the blinds now at 150/300 hoping to just pick it up pre or ship it to a reraise. Thi

s guy in late flats it and the flop comes AJ6, we check to the river and I feel he has some of it, to which he shows KJ off. The blinds go through me and I'm now down to 1900, wh

en a guy in mid-late raises for 800 and I ship it with KQ off. He's th

e only caller and he shows 88 and then the dealer proceeds to put an 8 first card on the flop. 'That's no a great start' I say 'I'll get my coat' .....and that as they say was that.....I did get a free T-Shirt though LOL!

Oh well bring on Manchester next month where I will not be overplaying Anna Kournikova.....

Looks good wins Fuck All!

I went down to the G-Casino Sheffield last night to exorcise my demons and play the £50 rebuy, but this was full of donkeys calling every raise with Q6 and flopping QQA v my A9, so that was short lived.

I did however make a return to the dealers choice £5/£5 cash game where I sat with £140 and left with £750, hmmm nice......

Today's GET ON.....

15.50 @ catterick - Lennon 5/1

16.10 @ Wolves - Elijah Pepper 5/2

1pt singles and a 1pt double - GL Punters!!!

MADMAC's GET ON......

Sunday's poker was a near miss coming 14th, so close to another £1k+

On to today and I've been through the cards and come up with these two:

14.30 @ Lingfield - Tuxedo 5/1

16.00 @ Ludlow - Shadow Dancer 4/1

1pt singles and a 1pt double

GL Punters!!!

Last night's poker!

Firstly thank you Man.City for spoiling my win treble, you DONKEYS, after being 2-0 up aswell!

As predicted, another final table in last night's £15k gtd £30 rebuy at G-Casino Sheffield. Although I may of mentioned that I wasn't going to deal, I was very tired and was developing a headache. So we did a deal with 8 left for a nice lump. No deals on Sunday, I promise I'll just smash it!

It's looking like I'm hitting some form again just in time for the UKIPT Nottingham - I HOPE SO!

Nothing again on the horses, it all looks very boring.

MADMAC's GET ON......

£30 rebuy £15k gtd at the G-Casino Sheffield tonight, which of course I'm going to smash, so if you want to come and donate, please do!

In other news, I've looked through today's cards and nothing jumps out so I'm switching to the football and going 3pts on the Man.City, Spurs & Liverpool treble, which pays just under 7/1

GL Punters!!!

Back to Winning Ways...

Sunday night saw me back to winning ways in live poker tournament play. It was supposed to be the £100 rebuy at the G-Casino Sheffield, but due to the fact that only nine people including me had bought in, they changed it back to the normal Sunday £50 rebuy and put a guarantee of £7.5k on with 50 runners. The field amounted to 54 at the close of buyins so the guarantee was made, but the tournament actually made £8350.

I had a reasonable start with KK holding up in a 3-way allin and thought my plans to smash it were looking good when I slow played the ladies in early and the flop came Q94 with 2 diamonds. I get it allin on the flop 3-way against Q8 and A4 who hits runner diamond for a 4-card flush LOL! I then end up rebuying when my A5 is second best against 22 on an A52 flop. Luck is back on my side though when I get it allin pre 4-way with 78 suited and hit 2 pair, beating QQ and AT etc. So at the end of the rebuy I have 31k with the addon, a very healthy stack.

After the restart two hands take me to 110k. Firstly on the button, blinds 300/600, utg flats it and I raise 1800 with KcQc, the BB calls and so does the limper. The flop comes 975 all clubs, the BB bets min. 600 and utg flats, I make it 2250 the BB folds and then utg goes allin for about 20k. Of course I snap it and he shows Jc8s needing runner runner str8 flush to win - mmmmm nice! The 2nd hand I have AhKh utg and with the blinds now at 400/800 I make it 2400 which is called on the button and the BB. The flop comes AsTs8c and I lead out for 4k which is called by the mad Korean on the button and the BB folds. The turn comes 7d and now I decide a big bet is required to find out where I am and if he's flushing, to make him pay for it. I bet 15k and he flats it - WTF? The river comes 6c and I'm a little concerned as to what he's got so for a bit of pot control I check and he shoves allin for 27k. I have about 32k left so this hand is pretty much my tournament, deciding he's missed his flush I call and he insta-mucks - mmmm nice!

Anyway to cut a long story short I make the final table as chip leader but we end up doing a deal with 8 left and being 2nd in chips I get a deal which is only £100 less than the chip leader and gives me better than 3rd place.

Lets hope this is the start of a nice run of cashes!