Saturday, 30 August 2008

£1060 GUKPT Seat Win

Won Gold in BlueSquare's Synchronised Winnings promotion with 9 s&g wins playing as the architect ;)


Little win - took down the Take Down Tourney on Littlewoods Poker last night:

Up and down in cash games, haven't really played as many hands as I wanted to. Next month maybe concentrate on NL 6max or PLO 6max.

Some other tournaments that I won in August: Event #57 in the Devilympics and the Whats Flappin in Ur Fishnets freezeout both on Devilfish Poker.


Tuesday, 26 August 2008

Playboy Strip Poker Event



PlayboyGaming and Playboy TV have joined focuses to offer you an incredible opportunity. 12 very lucky PlayboyGaming Players will be paired up with 12 stunning Playboy Girls to take part in our first televised Strip Poker event this November in London with a prize fund of almost £3,000. The winner walks away with £1k, trip to the Playboy Club and TV subscription!

This money can't buy event will have commentary from Grub Smith and reflect our "Live the Life" philosophy with pure indulgence and luxury from start to finish. The event will be take place early November in London (UK) with 2 tables of 6 leading to a final table.

Each Player will draw a girl at random from a hat as their "Lucky Bunny Partner". The girl will see the cards, but will not have the decision on what hands you decide to play and don't worry - only the Girls will strip.

How do I enter to qualify?

Only PlayboyGaming Players can enter and the top twelve MPP positioned players will win a place to the event. To register an account click here and download.

Player's must enter the bonus code STRIP into the Cashier. Only MPPs gained AFTER they have entered the bonus code will count towards the leader board.

Once you have entered you can view your position on the qualifying leader board.

Promotion dates = Tuesday 26th August (EST) - Midnight Sunday 19th October (EST)

Monday, 25 August 2008

All-in-pics Round-up


At the 32Red Poker Poker Olympics I won the Gold medal ($500) in Holdem and the Silver medal ($300) in Stud. Only 4th in Omaha.

In the last Stud game last night I could have won Gold but I decided to have one last attempt at improving on my 8 S&G wins in one hour for the BlueSquare Pokolympics Synchronised Winnings. Knowing the discards in Stud is key - no chance when multi-tabling 20s&g's+!

My own score that I was tring to beat was 8 wins which came in the following session:

PLAYED: 35
1ST: 8
2ND: 6
2RD: 5

In the last hour of the promotion I then played the following session:

PLAYED: 53 (1700+ hands!)
1ST: 9
2ND: 2
3RD: 7

The Gold medal winner of the Synchronised Winnings gets a GUKPT seat valued at £1000+£60. Update to follow...

Saturday, 16 August 2008

$5,000 PokerNews Cup Seat Win

Finally managed to close a deal. My secret? I put on Mama Said Knock You Out by LL Cool J :)


I went to the first PokerNews Cup in Australia last year so looking forward to visiting Melbourne again and playing at the Crown Casino.

Thursday, 14 August 2008

Class Fold

Don't try this at home:

Texas Hold'em No Limit 100,00/200,00 - Devilympics
Players:

Serminator (14 250,00 in seat 1)
BThafish (10 872,00 in seat 2)
Shivnarine (7 568,00 in seat 3)
YEYOtilt (45 289,00 in seat 4)
Cammykaze (7 390,00 in seat 5)
Delfinu (24 127,00 in seat 6)
MrVyts (5 250,00 in seat 7)
DMTRX (11 821,00 in seat 9)

Dealer: Cammykaze
Small Blind: Delfinu (100,00)
Big Blind: MrVyts (200,00)

DMTRX was dealt: 3c - 3s

DMTRX Call (200,00)
Serminator Fold
BThafish Fold
Shivnarine Raise (525,00)
YEYOtilt Call (525,00)
Cammykaze Fold
Delfinu Fold
MrVyts Fold
DMTRX Call (325,00)

Flop 3d - 8c - 5d

DMTRX Check
Shivnarine Bet (1 500,00)
YEYOtilt Raise (4 000,00)
DMTRX Fold

Shivnarine All-In (5 543,00)
YEYOtilt Call (3 043,00)

Turn 3d - 8c - 5d - 8h
River 3d - 8c - 5d - 8h - 4d


Shivnarine shows: 9d - Kd (a flush, king high)
YEYOtilt shows: 5s - 5c (a full house, fives full of eights)
YEYOtilt wins: 15 961,00 (with a full house, fives full of eights)

Wednesday, 13 August 2008

Poker All-in-pics

Currently the Top Tournament Olympian in the 32Red Poker Olympics. I am 1st in the Stud leaderboard, 2nd in Holdem and 6th in Omaha.

In the Devilfish Poker Devilympics I am currently 8th despite having some very bad luck and not winning any of the 20 events so far! Also, top of the Synchronised Winnings league in the BlueSquare Pokolympics with 5 10-man STT wins in one hour on my first attempt.

There are three 32Red Poker Olympic events and five Devilympics events tonight so all will change!

Tuesday, 5 August 2008

Below Da Curve

So I spent Monday, til after midnight, analysing some 3/6 and 5/10 NLHE games on 32RedPoker and at the end I was ready for a little session of $3/6 NLHE on Full Tilt Poker. That little session of 226 hands cost me $1540 and I ended up being, overall, a $1338 loser to: b9291974.

He started off by runner runnering me in a $192 pot. I kept check calling his 5-high bluffs and made 2 pair on the river. I just check called the river too because I was sure he was bluffing but he had rivered a runner runner straight.

I lost a $898 pot cold calling with AQ from the SB versus his open raise from the cut off (KK) on a Q72 rainbow flop, safe turn, safe river. I put him on KK as the only hand that beats me in his range when he called my check raise on the flop but his small turn and river bets but some doubt in my mind and so he milked me.

Lost $536 pot to same player when our hands were reversed. I 3-bet with KK from BB. He calls and I check the AQx suited flop, he checks also. I bet the turn and he calls, I put him on AJ/AQ as the only hand that beats me and check call the small river bet thinking he wouldn't have checked the suited flop with an ace and my river check could also have induced a bluff. He turns over AQ!

Final straw, same player, I lose a $1239 pot when I know I got him crushed to a 2 outer. I knew the Jack was coming too.

Seat 1: pmilanov ($630)
Seat 2: The Icemane ($692.30)
Seat 3: b9291974 ($3,055)
Seat 4: boh ($600)
Seat 5: DaMatrix ($609)
Seat 6: goodvibe ($829.35)
boh posts the small blind of $3
DaMatrix posts the big blind of $6
The button is in seat #3

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to DaMatrix [As Ah]

goodvibe raises to $21
pmilanov folds
The Icemane folds
b9291974 calls $21
boh adds $3
boh folds
DaMatrix raises to $88
goodvibe folds
b9291974 calls $67

*** FLOP *** [Qh Kh 4h]

DaMatrix bets $150
b9291974 raises to $650
DaMatrix calls $371, and is all in

b9291974 shows [Jh Jc]
DaMatrix shows [As Ah]

Uncalled bet of $129 returned to b9291974

*** TURN *** [Qh Kh 4h] [Js]

*** RIVER *** [Qh Kh 4h Js] [9d]

b9291974 shows three of a kind, Jacks
DaMatrix shows a pair of Aces
b9291974 wins the pot ($1,239) with three of a kind, Jacks

Many thanks to b9291974 who has confirmed how bad I am running at the moment. Down almost $2500 this month already.

My bankroll is now less than 25% of what it was before Las Vegas due to losses, expenses and withdrawals. In fact, I noticed my downswing start in late December 2007 where my bad beat quota went through the roof. I'm still up this year, but my total 2008 profit is almost less than my average monthly profit between Jan 2005 - Dec 2007!

Saturday, 2 August 2008

July Summary

In July I returned from Las Vegas and concentrated on online poker tournament play - cashing in 39 online ranking qualifying tournaments between the 15th and 31st of July. Being Italian, my aim was to get into the current sliding top 10 rankings for Italy on PocketFives.

I did that by just play low stakes tournaments as I wanted to get the maximum of 40 cashes that count for the rankings as soon as possible ans see how the rankings work. There is a limit of 24 max results from one site hence I decided to cash in all the sites that contribute to the score to see that the scores are uploading correctly and to give me alternative options.

I managed to get into the Top 10 just before the end of July and so now I can say "I'm in the Top 10 Italian online poker tournament players in the world!" hehe sounds good ;)

In August, I will be concentrating on online cash games. Didn't start too good yesterday though as I blew over $600 on tilt.

DaMatrix