Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Lady Variance smiles at last!

After running deep, or reaching final tables even, in recent tournaments but not cashing; I was getting to a stage of disenchantment with poker. On 1st August I decided it was make-or-break time, clear the minus factor and get myself back to black and establish a healthy bankroll. I gave myself 30 days to meet this challenge.


With a rare 9-day-release-pass on my hands from 2nd August, I had several opportunities to play in the first week alone. I made it from -€630 odd to black by day 4 and had a wee profit to be proud of by the end of the first week!


On Saturday I decided to check out the €60 FO game in the new Blinkers Casino, City West, Susie Woosie came along for the spin. We arrived at 8:15pm, the place was empty bar the staff, the game finally hit off at 8:50pm with 10 players, with a 11th joining before end of 1st level just after one player was knocked out. It took almost 3 hours before the next player left... The longest SnG table ever!? I got so bored with the TAG game I started playing loose calling with cheeky hands: winning with 22 against another player all-in with AQs being the most memorable! I swung from chipleader to just-below-average stack back up to chipleader then down to shortest stack in the final 4, before finishing 2nd for €200. That gave me a wee profit of €120 after paying the buy-in and €20 membership. Lovely club, great staff, shame about the numbers... Susie did rather well on the Roulette table to win her buy-ins back!

Was asked to deal on Sunday at Dundalk 100 that put another €160 into the pot. Also meant I missed my favourite game in the Bell, so I toddled along to DPN's Hartstown €60 FO game on Monday instead. It's the same structure but a bigger field usually with a minimum of 3-4 full tables, the players are usually more serious and there's less banter. I had fine hands and ran like God to arrive on the final table with a 4-1 chiplead, then romped home with the €470 1st place!

On Wednesday, I went back to the Jackpot with Susie Woosie to check out the popular game, but exited just before the end of the 2nd level in 52nd place; with AK v 88 on a AK8 board. GG. I parked myself on the 'round of each' cash table and lost €100 in two sick Omaha hands, the last one I was all-in holding AJ7K on a J7Q flop: with two pair, flush & straight draw, I managed to miss all of my 18+ outs to lose to a player holding KK making his set with K on the river. Meh! Took a break for an hour to rail Susie Woosie who was still in the tournament, some of the players on her tabl were getting noticeably irate at us signing to each other (probably thinking I was assisting her... As if!) I joined the PL table with €50 and left with €200 just as Susie finished up in 8th place for €50 WP girl! So another nice night out that cost us nothing!

Had plans to play two other tournaments on Thursday & Friday but events elsewhere transpired against me... Saturday was the day of the flash floods, and the monthly Irish Deaf Poker game; only 9 of us made it so we held a simple €20 SnG game was held, I told it down for €125. Brought it to the Fitz cash game but didn't improve on it. Another 'cheap' night out... I met the usual suspects in for the cash league final game, Smurph, Martin and Teresa. All out early sitting at the cash tables with fine stacks starting up their hours for the next league final! Sticky (a regular from Bell/Hartstown) joined me on the cash table having crashed out in 20 odd place for €1k (nice one Sir!) and proceeded to play a huge bluff game pushing me off pots where I had the better hand! Finally owned me in the end when I called his raise when he DID have a hand! Grrrrr!

Didn't get far in the Bell or Hartstown games - was totally card dead, disappointing as I really need the league points - but still made a nice profit by taking down no less than 3 side cash games on both nights for a total of €290 (€120 profit). Good going!

4 comments:

Rounders123 said...

Great going and nice touch(s). Tilting someone with sign speech play may just be a first!. Next time try doing it intentionally for blog regalin purposes!.

QueenJ said...

That's not a bad idea! ;-D I'll try it next time....

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susiewoosie said...

Ye did great this week

Well done!