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Say what? By Steve White 30/11/06 "You were dominated." Said by someone who just won a big pot after another player folded following a long dwell-up. It's real meaning is clearly "Phew, thank God you never called!" and by the way you were definitely NOT dominated. "Good fold." Also spoken by someone who just won a big pot after another player folded following a long dwell-up. If they don't show their cards it means you were winning by miles and they just got away with murder. It's also an insult. What the person is really saying is "Good fold you gutless coward, thanks for all your chips" "I know I'm behind but I'm going to call." There is no logic at all to this statement. If you know you're behind and don't have the outs or the pot odds you should fold. People only say this in order to try and deflect criticism away from a piss poor call. "I had the right Pot odds." Well yes maybe you did, but you are still gambling and I hope you die. More often than not the person saying this did not have the right pot odds but fancied a punt. Far better they say "Lets Gamble!" "I knew you had that." No you didn't. "I had position" Well bully for you. Just fold you biatch. "I have to call you" Either because they don't trust you, they hate you, they are compulsive gamblers or they have massive pot odds. It is only spoken to deflect attention from a bad call. "Now that flop's definitely a piece of me." Ah, now this one is a personal comment often heard at the Pockets cash game. It is spoken by Pete Doughty and refers to a low, unconnected and unsuited flop of complete garbage. It is "a piece of me" because Pete likes to play these kind of hands and very likely hit the flop. The main problem with this statement is; do you believe him? Sometimes he lies but often he just plain tells the truth as a kind of double bluff. Very good speech play. "Don't mess with the Poker!" Another personal comment but this time from the "Internationally recognised face of Underthegun.org.uk - POKER PETE!" Pete says when you're under the gun, come out with all guns blazing. - Ok Pete. Pete shouts out this comment when he wins a double-through late in the comp. More often than not he is ahead by 5% or so and it holds up. Pete likes to make all in last stands with pairs rather than AQ or AJ for example. Pete is rarely behind when all-in and when his hands hold up it's - "Don't mess with the Poker!" Recently "Poker" Pete almost become "Snooker" Pete due to playing too much snooker after some early exits in the poker. P.S. Pete f@cking loves playing poker. "Rob, Rob! Cup of tea over here!" Service please barman! Rob the barman at Pockets loves making tea in the early hours - not. October variance. 20/10/06 by Steve White Looking through my live game stats I noticed that October was full of ups and downs. October to date (20th) I'm +£368 but have been as low as -£292 and as high as +£648. Variance is a word that can strike fear into the heart of many a poker player. If you trawl through the net you can find all kinds of articles relating to variance and how to control it. Some advise that you must have "X" bank roll to play £1/£2 cash games equal to "X" times the Big Blind to combat the variance you will suffer. Advice which is very sensible and well intentioned but I imagine for most recreational players like me, completely pointless. I take what I earn in my Day job and "decide" to spend say £200 this month. Which is nothing and really only good enough to play a small 50p/£1 cash game. What I will do with that money however is invest it into a £10 rebuy tournament and hope to a God I don't believe in, that I can win it. If I make some money then voila! that's my new bank roll. I might also put £100 on the £1/£2 cash game. If I win then it's more money into the new monthly bankroll. The reality of a recreational players bank roll is very different to a pro or even a semi pro player. We survive day to day and balance our budgets with the household bills. We don't have a £20,000 bankroll to fall back on when the natural variance of the game takes hold. If we lose, we are out of the game for a while or in hock to friends, banks or credit cards. The reality for me is that my bank roll has fluctuated between -£400 (credit card) and +£1400. When I have a wedge indoors it inevitably gets spent on other things as well. It not used exclusively for Poker as my missus will testify. Variance in individual cash games is shocking. One night you might win £500 in 30 mins. The next night.... well -£400 has been my worst night. Here is an example from last night on how variance can screw you over - My AA was busted by a player with Jc3c who called for a Flush draw but hitt a runner runner J3. Does it matter he never had the pot odds to call? Nope. He was gambling and good luck to him. In the long run I will make money from these kind of plays but in the short term they can take you out of the game. Bite my tongue? I had to leave the room. I can take losing but urghhhh! That was a killer and I didn't want to criticise anybody's plays and create bad feeling, it's best to walk away. Don't educate the other players as well, let them call, bring 'em on. Live game stats - Monthly profit/loss June + £1813 July + £1412 Aug - £1290 Sept + £1695 Oct + £368 Total Buy ins - £10,436 Total Cash outs + £14,434 Total Profit + £3,998 Sessions played = 47 Profit per session + £88.40p Profit per hour aver 5 hours per session + £17.68p That more than I earn per hour in my day job. If only it was guaranteed income! The end of October should be good. The Pockets Mini Festival is happening (details below) and I have qualified through satellites for the Friday and Saturday game. a result in one of these game will send my October results into space! October MiniFest at Pocket Aces Poker Club, Pockets snooker club, Ware. Friday 27th Oct - NLHE £150 Freezout 7:30pm Saturday 28th Oct - NLHE £200 Freezeout 7:30pm Sunday 29th Oct - NLHE £250 Freezout 5pm |
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Lately I've been mostly.... oct 3rd '06 by Steve White Feeling Rather ill. I had the flu towards the end of sept which stopped me playing for a while. A shame really as my stats for September show a healthy profit on the month of £1695 made mostly from the cash games around town. If I hadn't been ill I could have made even more! I organised a Poker for Charity event (read about it to the right of this page) and raised a total of £876 for Whizz Kidz who provide wheelchairs for needy kids. I won a satelite into the pockets mini festival saturday 28th event £220 freezeout, which was nice! Unfortunatly I knocked out my mate Shane on the bubble because he went all with Ace rag while I had Tens in the hole. Sorry Shane! People also tell me I never write about loses on this website, only my wins and they would like to read about themselves in the hands that they beat me in. Well tough tittys, it's my site and I'll write what I want! Besides I have mentioned on here about August being a losing month for me. |
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Jack Kings end of season play-off report. 07/09/06. By Steve White. Last night saw 45 of the top Jack Kings Club league players come together for the end of season play-off and the chance to win a £3500 ticket to the European Championship at the Vic. Chip stacks were based on your accumulated points from the league which meant that the 45th placed person started with 2000 and for every point above him you got 100 extra chips. I finished 21st in the league and started on 4200 chips. The league leader was Tony Ringe who started on 11500! With only one prize and strictly no deals allowed there was no point in taking things too slowly. Most plays with big hands turned out to be all-in pre-flop affairs. Saying that it still took 30 minutes or so before we lost a player. My tourney got off to a great start when in mid position I looked down at Ace Ace on the 3rd hand dealt. Aly Leong raised under the gun from 50 to 300. I re-raised 300 + 800. Everyone folded to Aly who raised me back 2000 more, so of course I pushed in what remained of my 4200 stack into the middle. Aly called but said he thinks he's run into a monster. Showing KK and missing the flop Aly was down to 2000 chips and I had doubled through. Apparently I was the first all-in player to be called so risked being first out but with AA what else was I to do? Things never got any better for me though and despite hitting a few hands and making some steals I never got above 10000 chips. Due to time constraints the tourney clock was racing along and by the time we were down to 2 tables it was on 800/1600 and I only had 8100 chips. Chris Sandercombe moved all-in under the gun for 4000 chips. The table folds to my BB and I look down at AKo so call him. Chris shows KsJs - Great! I have him locked up! That is until he hits a Royal Flush. Yep that's right, a god damn Royal Bloody Flush. After posting the small blind I'm on 1700 chips and needing to find a hand before the blinds hit me again. Finding KhJh in Mid position is good enough so I make my stand and lose to a raggy Ace that hits. Never mind I can't complain really, I had one big hand stand up in the tourney and then went on to make £70 on the cash game afterwards! As I was playing the cash game I can't say too much about the hands seen on the final table although it was obvious that the blinds had done their job to ensure nearly every move was all-in. A shame really as there wasn't one person in the room who wouldn't have complained at increasing the levels and running the competition over two days. Maybe have the final on the Sunday? Something to think about for the future. I certainly don't think anyone wanted to see the event decided on lots of 50/50 gambles with hardly any play on the final table. So, onto the winner. Tony Ringe........was runner up! Who'd have thought! The golden river man of Jack Kings was finally beaten! His victor was Rob Jones who displayed plenty of good moves early on in the tournament to show he could put on a good display at the Vic. Jack Kings have got their man and Rob Jones will be wearing the Jack Kings T-shirt with pride in the European Championship. Good Luck from Riverstars Rob. P.S. Did I mention it was Rob Jones who knocked me out the comp? That's right, I could only be beaten by the overall winner. Oh and a Royal Flush! |
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Going to the Dogs #1 Mon 24th July by Steve White I managed to make the final table this particular Friday (10R) at Harlow Dogs and finished 4th for £150. I took my winnings and sat on the cash game at 2am. By 3am and after winning the last hand of the night I had £600. I’ve now cleared £2000 profit this month playing live cards and actually earned more at the table than I do in my day job (and that’s gross salary as well!). Even more amazing is I have "only" played for 3 nights a week. So only 11 more +£2000 months to go and I can give up work! Really though despite the good run I’m not naive enough to think I could support myself playing cards just yet. I have no bankroll at all; any money I make helps to pay off the overdraft or credit cards anyway. I figure I’d need £20k in the bank just to play without fear and I’m not going to have that anytime soon. In the meantime I will just carry on winning what I can and concentrate on qualifying for some big European festival games. The WSOP seems a world away for me right now but there are "big" games everywhere and it’s about time I got a piece of them. |
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Runner up at Pockets, July 6th 2006 by Steve White My now ridiculous good run continues and I finish runner up in the £10 re-buy at Pockets last night for £280. My statistics for the last 3 weeks look like this - Live tourneys played = 9xml:namespace prefix = o /> 2, three-way chops (£350 and £450) 1 runner up (£280) 2 bubbles (£0!) 4 Early baths (big fat £0) Total expenses = £380 Total Winnings = £1080 Total Tournament Profit = £700 Cash Games played = 4 2 winning sessions (£1085) 2 losing sessions (£210) Total cash-game Profit = £875 Total Profit £1575 Playing 3 evenings a week over 3 weeks. This is all well and good but now for the sting in the tail. What you might ask were my statistics for the rest of this year playing live? Well in short there are none. I never kept them because I lost of course. Never huge amounts and never in the cash game (i rarely played in it) but I would say a fair amount would be £100 a week for 20 weeks. It could be more but i really don't know. So right here and right now I make a line in the sand and start recording all live game results just like my online play (i don't play online much but for this year it's currently +$400 all from low limit cash). Using my conservative estimate for first half-yearly losses of £2000, I'm now £425 down for the year. Though I fear it's probably more than that I need to try to know where I stand. I will let you know how I get on. |
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A win at Jack Kings. Tournament Report, June 2006 By Steve White. As June comes to a close I can reflect back on a very nice month of live cards. In fact June saw me hit a positive ROI for the first time this year while playing live games over the course of a month. After chopping the £10 game at pockets last week for £350 (see the report "Sing when you chop") I played and won the £5 rebuy at Jack Kings Club (Jennings, Bishops Stortford) for £450. It was a 90-runner affair as well so no mean feat. So how did I do it? Well I arrived late for the game, which is becoming something of a lucky omen for me, and sat down on a table full of students. And I don't mean students of the game of Poker. These were real life, greasy, spotty, grungy, ipod wearing, skint University Students. The £5 game sure brings in the newbies and to be honest it's all the better for it. The Students brightened up my table no end. From the ipod wearing "dude" whom kept moaning at the dealer to the "President of the University Poker society" whom typed out every hand he played into his PDA. I had quite a laugh with these guys; their raw enthusiasm was infectious. They clearly all loved the game, which I’m sure they have been watching on TV, and decided to give live tournament poker a go. Playing in a £5 rebuy at Jack Kings is probably the best place to start and these guys where lapping up the experience. Being good students they seem to have read some poker books and were following them religiously, in fact a little too religiously. Good rebuy strategy sometimes calls for gambling and these guys either didn't have the nerve, bankroll or experience to follow it through. I don't think it matters to them though as they played good, solid, ABC poker and after a few more events will learn it's sometimes right to join a 6 way pot with 4s8s! I certainly look forward to playing with them again, no doubt in the next £5 night. After some shockingly bad luck (!) I finished the rebuy period on a measly 5k. I was dealt KK fairly quickly into the freezeout and was doubled up courtesy of the ipod student who (I hope) thought that my loose play in the rebuy was going to continue. He soon learned otherwise. Adaptation is the key in these fast structured games. Gamble when the time is right, play solid when you can, always be aggressive and change gears regularly. Soon afterward my table was broken and the student-related jokes had to end. It was a good-humoured affair though and I hoped to see them later on the final table! Not that much more happened to me until we got down to the final two tables. I had built my stack up to 30k-ish without really seeing any hands, the odd steal here and there you know. Then come the hand that set me up for the final table. I'm the only Limper from the SB with Qd6d, the BB checks to see the flop of Qc 3d 6d. I check top pair, 3rd flush draw and he moves 10k into the middle. Without hesitation I move all in for 30k and after a dwell-up he calls me with a low flush draw holding 4d 9d. I'm sure he read me for top pair but assumed my all in meant I didn't like the possible flush. Unfortunately for him he picked the wrong time to gamble. I made the final table with 85k, which was about 3rd in chips. Nothing to do now but fold and let the small stacks go out. I played KK (obviously) but only scooped the blinds with a 3xBB raise. Down to 5 players I have 90k, post the BB of 10k and look down at Ah Qh, *GULP!* it's one of those hands that can make or break your tournament. The table folds to the SB who is currently chip leader on 200k and he raises 30k more to me. I opt to just call. My reasoning here is that I'm happy to lay it down if I miss the flop as 50k is still more than 2 other players so feel I can recover. Besides I’m confident I can out-play him on the flop! Deep breath for the flop of Ac 9h 6h. That will do nicely! I have top pair, Queen kicker and the nut flush draw. He checks to me but with 60k already in the pot there’s no need to get fancy so my 50k goes all-in right now. He reluctantly called me and said it would be a battle of the kickers to which he shows As 4c! So I have him out-kickered and one of his 4's will make my flush. The poker gods do not smile down on him and I scoop a monster pot to become the new chip leader. We go down to 3 players and a deal is put forward by me and the other short stack. The current chip leader says no, he wants to play it out. The stacks were 110k (me) 130k and 240k. The very next hand I was dealt A6o so moved all-in on the chip leader who calls with KTo. I hit an Ace and doubled through. I immediately offered the same deal, a 3 way even chop for the money and a one-hand turn over for the points. This time it was accepted. We split £450 and I even won the last hand for maximum points! I figure if I can ask for a deal while short stacked, the least I can do as chip leader is offer the very same deal, it just seems fair. Did any of the students make the final table? Well, in a word, no. Back to school, boys! Lessons start again next Tuesday night! |
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Sing When You Chop. Tournament Report, June 2006 By Steve White. Pockets Snooker Club in Ware, Herts. Not exactly the Bellagio but a damn fine Poker Room for local reprobates like me. I play here when I can in the £10 rebuy nights on Thursdays. They normally have 40 runners and 1st prize is something like £500 - so not too shabby. It’s run by underthegun who do a damn fine job too. I normally always arrive for the start of the rebuy period (an hour and a half) but tonight I was running late. I missed the first 50 mins but found my stack had only been blinded down to 750chips. At this point I would like to tell a great rebuy fight-back story where I made it to 10k in 30mins but alas I hit nothing and finished the rebuy period losing the last hand and having to rebuy and add-on at the same time. I would be starting the freezeout with the minimum 3k. After a 15min break for the players to stock up on booze and free buffet (yummmmm free food!) the freezeout part of the game could commence. It's well worth mentioning that this game was richer for the addition of two Liability poker players attending for their first rebuy game in ages. Dave Pike and Dave Fish both decided to delve into the wonderful world of rebuys after spending the best part of this year only playing the Liabilities £20 freezeout and homegames. Both started the freezeout with bigish stacks of around 6k and didn't have to rebuy that much. Considering that pre-Xmas in Pockets were mad-as-hell, all-in blind, festivals of bad beats; they were both very impressed with how the rebuy game has developed now that it's a regular feature on the Ware Poker calendar. A warm welcome to the two Dave’s! So too business. With 4 tables left and 2700 chips I'm just waiting to double up. Blinds are 200/400 and I'm in late position. Not 1, not 2, not 3 but 4 people before me call an early position raise by Shane Dewsbury to 800. I have ATo. I could fold but *insert reasoned argument here*. Calling is a waste of time, if I miss the flop I'm down to 1900 chips. So I decide to move all-in into a now large pot (200+400+800+800+800+800=3800) in the hope of taking it down right now. Unfortunately Shane calls for an extra 1900 as does one of the others. The main pot I can win is now 9500! All I have to do is hit some tens because lets face it, the Ace must be duplicated, right? A low flop 972 has Shane raising all-in for 3k more. The other guy folds and Shane shows 66. Nothing on the Turn to save me but then, in true Riverstars style comes the Ten of spades! Shane is livid. Poor guy does take things a bit to heart when he gets out-drawn. He described my hand as a "toilet hand" to much laughter but are they laughing at the hand, Shane or me? Hmmm. My stack was blinded down to 7k and I made a stand, well ok then, a steal with KQo from UTG (UTG steals look stronger is my genius thinking here). The whole table folds apart from Dave Pike who reluctantly calls after a long dwell up and lots of posturing with KTo! Interesting. He obviously lost and I pick up 15k Pike is down to 2k. He later claimed this to be his favourite hand…. The guy who runs Pockets had built up a huge stack of something like 50k when the average was only 8ish. He raised to 5k with the blinds at 500/1000. I felt his raise was too big, almost like he didn’t want a caller so when I looked down at AKo I couldn’t resist putting in the whole 12k. He thought and thought and eventually called although he never looked happy. He showed AdJd, which must have looked pretty but was now dominated. He missed and I doubled through. Only a few hands later and I looked down at KK. Across the table the same guy as the hand before raises to 6k. Now he definitely doesn’t want a call! I push all in because if he’s called me once before with inferior cards he might just do it again. Sure enough he does with JJ. My Kings hold up and I’m on 40k! He looked pig sick the poor guy. AJ running into AK and JJ into KK for about 30k of his once massive stack. We were then broken down to two tables and my game went quiet. When I did have hands – QQ twice and JJ once all I did was steal the blinds. I was chip leader and just couldn’t get any action. I stole enough to remain on about 40k and even got up to 50k but just stayed out of trouble really. When it went hand-for-hand we only had to wait a few minutes for someone on the other table to get eliminated. However, it was at that moment Dave Fish raised all-in Vs my Big Blind. It was only 10k more to me and would still leave me with 40k but I didn’t see the need to take a 50/50 (at best) at that time. My hand was As8s, which could easily have been dominated by a bigger Ace. I also thought Dave wouldn’t want to bubble while playing a weak hand so I decided to fold face up. Dave obliged by showing A7o! I had him(!) but had let it go, oh well a nice all-in bet by Fish. So there you go I made a final table for the first time in ages. I had planned for this as well; I was going to fold and fold and fold until we’re down to 5 or 6 players. I was not going to give up a pay-out playing Ace bloody rag or a small pair. My patience was paying off as I watched 4 players go out of the tournament. Next out was Dave Fish in 5th place for £100. I’d been nipping away at his blinds for a while so was sorry to see him go! I dispatched 4th place when "The Cabbie" limped into my BB and my J7 hit a J on the flop. He moved all-in so I called with the top pair, he had Ace-rag, which missed the Ace on the turn and the river. To cut a long story short after about 20 minutes of play 3 handed we decided to do a 3-way even money chop for £350 each. It was the right time as we were about even in chips and had all taken turns as the short stack and chip leader. Congratulations to Charlie and Ben "The Estate Agent". A good final table appearance by myself, I got involved when I needed to and folded at the right times. I didn’t get any big hands on the final table but still maintained a healthy chip stack, I started with 50k, never went lower than 35k and was once as high as 130k. Still it’s easy to be happy and sing when you win. It’s worth remembering if I hadn’t hit the Ten on the River against Shane then the rest would not have followed, cheers Shane! |
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Adventures in rebuying. AKA Welcome to modern poker. June 2006 by Steve White. I have mentioned on Riverstars.com before that I have been playing NLHE at Jennings Poker in Bishops Stortford and Pockets Snooker Club in Ware a lot lately. Local poker clubs like these, in bars and private member clubs are offering a very real alternative to Casinos for thousands of players around the country. Most of these (very popular) tourneys are rebuy events for either £5 or £10. With 60 players in most of them the prize pools quickly reach £2000-£3000 after a flurry of rebuy madness. Why, you might ask, don't they just make the game a £50 freezeout? The games would be more "sensible"; there would be no more all-in fests and crazy all-in blind bets. Sound like the answer but this will never happen. This is local poker for local people. Cheap rebuys are here to stay. Part of the reason seems to be the state of mind of the players. Psychologically speaking a £10 rebuy tourney seems to be a cheaper night out for your average punter than a £50 freezeout. It doesn't matter that in the £10 rebuy you could easily spend £100. Your average, casual poker player just sees that it’s a £10 game so therefore a cheap game and a cheap night out. You also have to factor in ‘Er indoors. Imagine this kind of conversation with the wife - "I’m off out to play some cards!" "Oh really. How much is that then? The kids need clothes, shoes and food you useless great lump! Why are you gambling away our hard earned cash!" "But honey it's only a £10 game and 1st prize is £800!" "Well ok then my lover, go and have a good time etc etc love you." Would you get the same result with telling her it’s a £50 game? Doubtful, she could buy dinner for a week with that. Ego has a lot to do with it as well; everyone likes to think that they will be on 20,000 chips after the rebuy period ends. Well they do have a chance, there is always one or two lucky sods who end up winning nearly every pot in the rebuy period and we all like to think that tonight will be OUR night. The reality is, of course, that a £10 rebuy will cost you £30 on a good night and £100 on a bad one and that's IF you are playing a good game. Lose the plot, go on tilt and you'll be the nutter going all in blind, wondering how you just spent £200 and will need to finish at least 3rd to break even? However the cold hard facts are that the local (Essex/Herts) £50 freezeouts struggle to get 30 runners. £10 nights attract in 60+ runners and £5 nights (at Jennings for example) get 90+ eager beavers with newbies joining every week. The punters, it would seem, have spoken. They are happy to spend £50 in a £10 rebuy but not so happy to play a £50 freezeout. So, welcome to the future. Cheap rebuys with fast structures, lots of gambling and no serious cards played until the freezeout starts. So I guess now I should come clean. Despite the problems with cheap rebuy tournaments I love them. I absolutely adore the rebuy gamblathon! There is nothing better that watching the outcome of incredulous and bad calls with terrible hands. AA losing ALL THE TIME. 84o hitting 567 rainbow flops. TT Vs TT hitting a 4 card flush to win. You will witness it all and love the game even more. The happiness levels found at a rebuy table mean you can't fail to have a great night out. As no one cares about busting out in the rebuy period they relax and have some FUN. And having fun playing cards is what it’s all about for me. Of course once the rebuy madness is over its back to business. Not so much fun and serious faces all round. But who cares eh, you're the chip leader on 20k... |
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Jennings Poker Cash Game Hand May 2006 by Steve White - The Cash game at Bishops Stortford also provides much entertainment as well as an opportunity to win back all your tournament losses. I seem to have upset one or two players recently by calling with 82d and hitting the 8 vs AK and AQ a nice pot went my way and now I'm known as eight-duecey! The hand went like this - SB £1, BB £2, UTG (me) Live straddle £4, UTG+1 Call £4, UTG+2 raise £4+£10. Table folds to me, I call £10. UTG+1 goes all in for the £10 + £18. UTG+2 Calls £18. Back to me and there is £81 in the pot so I call the £18 with 82d! Bad move? Well yes! Flop was something like 2 6 8 which I check and so does UTG+2. We check down two more low cards and I figure I've lost but show the 8 and say "that can't be winning" Cue UTG+1 and UTG+2 launch into a verbal assault! "How can you have an 8!" "What's your other card!" It was clear by now that I had won (If they were slowrolling they were doing an Oscar winning performance as losers) so show my 2d and say something about pot odds etc etc and the fact that he never raised any street to which I would have folded to any bet higher than 1/2 the pot. They were NOT HAPPY. It was not even a huge Pot, we'd seen some £300+ pots earlier on. Oh well you gotta play your own game and have a bit of gamble in you, er right? They might even call me down when I have the nuts next time. |
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Taking money from friends. By Steve White 03/11/06 We have all been there. Sitting across the table from a friend. Be it a close friend from years ago (pre poker) or a poker buddy. How do we really feel taking cash in a hand of cards from our friends? This situation come up recently with me and a close friend (pre poker). In two hands I got KK and AA. Unfortunately my mate got 66 and AK. I raised and he fancied it so called me. The upshot is I wiped out all of his £150 profit and £100 buy in. Could he have folded? Well yes of course he could but at the time he felt he was ahead. The hands were not played that badly at all. Should I have soft played my mate? Well no, on principle (not to mention the rules) and no because it wasn't just him and me in the pot. I had to Consider the other players. No cheap flops with KK and AA thank you very much. The end result is that I took the cake and my mate went home pot-less. I spoke to him and he was happy with the hands and the poker played but feels sick losing to me as a friend. In his mind he would rather win and lose money from strangers. I can see his point but can't agree. Don't get me wrong I don't derive any extra pleasure when winning to friends. To me it's all about the situation, the cards and the cash. This made me think about how I feel losing to friends and it doesn't bother me one bit. If anything I would rather lose money to a mate as it will probably come back to me in another game on another day. To me it's much worse to lose cash to a stranger who you will never see again. That cash is gone forever and it wont enter the local circle of poker playing friends again. Would I be prepared to lose a friend over this? No. Maybe it's best not to sit at the same table if there will be a problem. Could I slow-play a friend? No. One of us should get up and leave the game. Emotions are best left away from the table. My mates, my Mum, my Brother and even my children (especially the 2 year old!) better watch out when in a cash game with me. It's MY money on that table, even if its in front of you right now. It's poker not tiddlywinks. |
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A good week. By Steve White 22/12/06 Saturday Online on Pokerstars. Finished $500 up. Had one moment of Pokerstars magic as well with a 4 of a kind on the flop. Hand history at the end of this article. Monday After winning nothing (live) for at least 2 months I finally turned the corner this Monday at Jack Kings £10 rebuy with a victory! In the best traditions of Riverstars and me only talking about my wins (who wants to read about me losing? I certainly don't want to write about it!) here we go. There were 70 something runners for this game and I was lucky enough to sit on the same table as my Riverstars partner in crime Matt Barley. This normally means we can have a laugh while we play, baiting each other and generally slagging off each others game play! Sometimes this winds up the opposition which is, of course, the whole point. If we can put someone on tilt so much the better for our chip stacks. A case in point was a little confrontation I had with Mary early on. I made some casual comment about a hand she won off me and she bit. I don't remember the conversation exactly but I must have said something about her making the wrong move or pot odds not justifying her call and she didn't much like it. Then all I had to do then was mention that "I was just trying to educate her" and that was it. Mary was all-in for the next 5 hands running! Now don't get me wrong, no malice was intended and it was never nasty. I'm only ever thinking about what can I say to put someone on tilt. Most of the time I don't even believe what I saying but will take a stance in order to provoke a reaction. Freezeout time come along with me taking no rebuys so even with the add-on it was just a £20 night. I stole some pots, had KK hold up vs. an all-in 99 and made the final table with 22k in chips. The Chip leader (Steve the vet) had 80K. The only hand of significance for me on the final table was my BB of 99. I was raised 20k (blinds 4k/8k) by the dealer button who had been making moves all night and showing various hands, some good but mostly bad. I moved all in for 37k and he really didn't want to call the final 17k but had to. His poorly timed steal with A7off suit missed and put me on 86k and into the final 3. We did a little deal for £450 each and played on with the remaining £100 for 1st and £36 for second. Harry went out 3rd and me and Steve the Vet played for heads up for about 10 mins before I hit trip kings vs. his turned two pair. Tuesday 10th in the Pockets £50 freezeout. Went in ahead what more can I do. AQd vs. T2off. Cash game finished £180 up. Thursday. 8th in the Pockets £10 rebuy. I got blinded away good game though. My A8off vs. A7off vs. Poker Pete's 36off. Pete caught a 6 on the river. I was too low stacked for Pete to fold. So not a bad week. 3 comps, 3 final tables, 1 win, around £900 up on the week and Christmas round the corner! That Pokerstars hand history - PokerStars Game #7480836025: Hold'em No Limit ($3/$6) - 2006/12/17 - 09:14:31 (ET) Table 'Sagitta' 9-max Seat #8 is the button Seat 1: adamx ($951.75 in chips) Seat 2: WrongButton ($600 in chips) Seat 3: usagas ($120.90 in chips) Seat 4: lucky karma ($1311.55 in chips) Seat 5: Lorddario ($137.55 in chips) Seat 6: Six Sticks ($561 in chips) Seat 7: baddassmofo ($244 in chips) Seat 8: GRINDER-HFX ($591 in chips) Seat 9: yt_sbw ($226.40 in chips) yt_sbw: posts small blind $3 adamx: posts big blind $6 *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to yt_sbw [5s 7s] WrongButton: folds usagas: calls $6 lucky karma: folds Lorddario: folds Six Sticks: folds baddassmofo: folds GRINDER-HFX: folds yt_sbw: calls $3 adamx: checks *** FLOP *** [5d 5c 5h] yt_sbw: checks adamx: checks usagas: checks *** TURN *** [5d 5c 5h] [9s] yt_sbw: checks adamx: bets $18 usagas: folds yt_sbw: calls $18 *** RIVER *** [5d 5c 5h 9s] [Ad] yt_sbw: bets $24 adamx: raises $48 to $72 yt_sbw: raises $130.40 to $202.40 and is all-in adamx: calls $130.40 *** SHOW DOWN *** yt_sbw: shows [5s 7s] (four of a kind, Fives) adamx: mucks hand yt_sbw collected $455.80 from pot *** SUMMARY *** Total pot $458.80 | Rake $3 Board [5d 5c 5h 9s Ad] Seat 1: adamx (big blind) mucked [9d Ah] Seat 2: WrongButton folded before Flop (didn't bet) Seat 3: usagas folded on the Turn Seat 4: lucky karma folded before Flop (didn't bet) Seat 5: Lorddario folded before Flop (didn't bet) Seat 6: Six Sticks folded before Flop (didn't bet) Seat 7: baddassmofo folded before Flop (didn't bet) Seat 8: GRINDER-HFX (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet) Seat 9: yt_sbw (small blind) showed [5s 7s] and won ($455.80) with four of a kind, Fives |
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TESCO Poker for Charity - Friday 29th Sept '06 By Steve White I organised a Poker for Charity event here was the report I sent to the players - Last night saw the inaugural Tesco Poker for Charity event, raising money for Whizz Kidz, take place at the Country Club. 38 runners played on 4 tables and it was well run by the boys at Jennings Poker School. Apart from raising money for Charity, the aim of the evening form my point of view was to introduce tournament poker to as many people as possible as a real alternative as a "good night out". Tournament structures allow for an entertaining evening without the need to spend a great deal of money and with a opportunity to witness and play in many hands of poker using nominal value chips. It's a good way to build your poker knowledge and experience without upsetting your bank manager or wife! The swings of who would win each hand based on the turn of the next card made for some very entertaining poker on the night I'm sure you would agree. I hope everyone learnt something and had fun (and wow, what a DVD!) Toby Topcott went to the final table as chip leader after demolishing many players two tables out. His systematic destruction of Stuart Joy's Chips was just masterful (Stu what were you thinking? He had to have the straight!). Toby's dominance was never in question as he took out one player after another, eventually beating Richard Parsons heads up to take the cake. Prize money was as follows. After costs total prize fund was £1460 50% for Whizz Kidz = £730 + Tesco add 20% (£146) so a total for charity of £876! 50% for Prizes = £730 1st place (after a final table deal) = £354 2nd place = £200 3rd place = £91 4th place = £62 5th place = £43 Everyone who made the top 18 received a box of Tesco Finest Belgium chocolates (thanks to Kim's Chocolates). First place also won a bottle of Champagne and 2nd to 4th took a bottle of wine each (thanks to Darren O'Keefe and the BWS team). The first player eliminated (I'm sure it was Martin Isaac) won a wooden spoon prize of a huge Tesco Xmas HO HO HO chocolate bar! Finishing positions of the top 18 were - 18 - Paul Redsull 17 - Gareth Wilcock 16 - Darren Wall 15 - Judith Webb 14 - Craig Breadmore 13 - Paul Beresford-Clarke 12 - Jane Potter 11 - David Croxson 10 - Stuart Joy 09 - ME! Steve White 08 - Scott Pearson 07 - Sarah Zickheim 06 - Richard Grouiet 05 - John Hale 04 - Darren Michaels 03 - Max Curtis 02 - Richard Parsons 01 - Toby Topcott Thanks to everyone for attending and making it a memorable night. I hope to run another night again soon, maybe at the end of November. Let me know if you would be interested. Some Random comments ...about the last 4 weeks sept 06 My stats I've actually lost a bit in the cash games. Tut tut! Stats for June Live games - Tourneys/Cash = £1813 Stats for July Live games - Tourneys/Cash = £1412 Stats for Aug (to date) Live games - Tourneys/Cash = -£180 Looking through the August stats I can see I went mad in two rebuys and wasted £370. Why? Boredom would be at the top of the list. I have only had one tournament result in August which was 1st in a £50 freezeout at Jack Kings for £404. I had 6 winning cash sessions and 4 losing sessions. Unfortunately the losing sessions more than wiped out the winning ones. I could dwell on these results and grip and moan about bad beats etc but the truth is that the tourneys have been boring me and in the cash games I've been playing too loose and chasing loses. I will take a leaf out of Poker Pete’s book from now on. If Pete senses it's not his night he walks. I've never seen him reload the cash game more than once. Respect to the discipline of Poker Pete (I'm learning a lot chatting to Pete let me tell you). Late nights Playing until 2 or 3 am is getting too much for me! I'm starting to envy those without jobs or at least job where they can have a lay in. Fruit ....Machine. Pockets has a £1000 Jackpot fruit machine! Wooooooweeeeeeee! Dodgy £20's I was paid out some dodgy £20's in error this month (splashed with security ink). I can let you all know now that I did the right thing........... And palmed them off through automated machines in shops!!!! Playoff The Jack Kings playoff is fast approaching. On the 6th of September, 45 of the top league players will take part in a tourney to win a £3500 ticket to the European poker championships at the Vic in London. People are talking about the game every day now and the tension is building. Odds have been put up by Jennings so you can back your favourite (or yourself!) I am 20-1, middle of the pack and about the right odds for my chip stack. Pete Doughty The owner of Pockets and a cash-game player of some talent. He has really impressed me lately with his plays. So why do I still call him???? aarghhhhh! Hud "The Bookie" I have never seen anyone get outdrawn so much in one game. I've seen Hud's flopped full house AAA55 lose to a turned better full house AAATT and some others that made that look tame. It will turn around Hud. Liabilities This bloody game pisses me off. It's just a £20 freezeout held every two weeks and carries league points. I shouldn't care about it but I do. I have never won a game there despite some final tables and a good set of stats. I get nervous playing there as well. Why? I never get nervous elsewhere. The players there are, in general, not as good as the regulars at Jack kings or Pockets....... but I just can't beat them! I will keep going back, even missing the Pockets £10 rebuy to play in it and I don't know why. Well yes I do. The people are warm, friendly and the rivalries that have built up are well worth the entrance fee alone. I really enjoy it and it carries the added bonus that I might knock out Dave Pike or Cathy!
Liabilitiespoker.co.uk tournament and more cash games at Pockets. July 13th 2006 by Steve White New season, new structure, new chips and nearly new tables! A much better game has been created at the liabilities poker club at the GSK social Club in Ware, Herts. Last night was the start of season 3 and they have introduced some changes that were recommended on the forum by others and myself. The result is more play for your money, a better quality and fairer game. I also love the changes to points awarded for finishing as well. Now 3 final tables will earn you slightly more than a first place, rewarding consistency more. In Liabilities season 1 I finished 4th overall and in the Champion of Champions game I finished runner-up. Season 2 I drew a blank and blamed the players, the structure and everything I could apart from myself. In retrospect I was gambling too much for a freezeout competition and quite rightly, lost every game. This season I'm determined to play well and prove to myself that I still know how to play small Freezeout games even though I've been playing nothing but rebuys this year. xml:namespace prefix = o /> xml:namespace prefix = o /> xml:namespace prefix = o /> xml:namespace prefix = o /> Despite my best intentions the night started badly though and my 2500 chips were soon 1500. Then I started to rush, hitting a AK full house and trip 8's, getting paid both times. I bet when my table checked to me and stole some massive pots (and in case my opponents are reading this - YES I did have the nuts and NO I was not stealing!). The final table was secured for some extra league points and although I was never above average chips I just had to fold my way into 6th place (£20). I made a stand with KQo and was called by QJo(?) and AJ (fair enough). QJ of course being the winner making a straight in the face of terrible odds. After I was eliminated (around 10:30pm) I said my goodbyes and made my way through Ware, dodging the teens on the corners and drunk couples wondering the streets, over to Pockets Snooker Club to join the cash game. My timing was impeccable as they were just cashing in the players who had been knocked out of the Pockets tourney early. Frank (3lionspoker) has asked me not to put this hand on here but quite honestly if he wants to "POT" pre-flop with 5c7c it deserves to be named and shamed on Riverstars.com! So Frank pots for £10odd, loads of callers, I have 99 so elect to only call. Flop 8c8h4c I led out and Frank went all in with the mighty Flush draw of 5c7c. Any "read" I may or may not think I have at this point is irrelevant. I have £50odd left to call into a £180odd pot and I hold an over-pair to the flop. Frank raised pre-flop so, yes I could be behind but am much more likely to be facing Ace anything. So I call and dodge the flush cards to win the pot. Tricky old Frank, eh, "POT" with 57o? Now that's Poker! The night gets immediately better as I squeeze AA the very next hand. Despite my first thought being "oh great, I’m going to lose my winnings straight away!" when Charlie raises the pot before me I can't resist putting in another pot sized bet. It's called by Pete the owner of Pockets, goes back to Charlie........who Pots it again! Marvellous! I'm all in! Pete gets out the way and Charlie calls. In these situations in a cash game you do not need to turn over your cards until the end of the hand when you can "show and take". I don't like this rule much, I'd rather show them "loud and proud" and if I get sucked-out so be it. My Aces go over but Charlie is holding on to his cards. After a low board he mucks them without showing and I scoop a £400+ pot. I've been playing 15 minutes.... I only played one more hand in the next hour, 33. I see a cheap flop of 3s Jc 6s and bet £25 (the pot). The Bookie calls and Frank raises. I call the raise figuring one of them for a flush draw and one of them for a Jack and quite honestly I'm counting my winnings already. The bookie then knocks me for six with a Pot sized re-re-re-raise of £210. Frank calls all-in, we have him well covered. To call this £210 leaves me £70 and a sick feeling in my stomach that he has 66. I think and think and based on nothing more than a feeling that I just can't lay down trips I do call. The turn is a 4c, which helps no one, but we still put in our last £70. The main pot is now £350 and the side pot is £550. The river is a 2d and Frank shows 9s5s for an unlikely runner-runner straight while he was fishing for a flush. He takes the main pot of £350. I flip over the 3's and The Bookie concedes his AJ. PHEW. That was it for me, far too much excitement for one night! Sweating the turn and river in cash games must be used in Hell as a form of torture and if it's not it bloody well should be. |
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Cash Game Wins. July 2006 By Steve White I've had some luck lately playing in the local Cash games that start up as the tournaments lose players. Both of the games at Pockets and Jack Kings are very similar; they are £1/£1 or £1/£2 blinds, pot limit hold 'em with a £50 min sit down and no max (I think). Most people sit down with £100 - £200 so as you can imagine £100 pots are a regular occurrence. By the end of the night if two big stacks with two big hands clash, it's not unheard of to see a £1000 pot (pre flop!). The style of play is, of course, completely different to a tournament. Here are just some of the dubious "features" you can expect to see if you decide to play - 1 - 9 players limping to see the flop. xml:namespace prefix = o /> xml:namespace prefix = o /> 2 - Calls of "POT! POT! POT!" 3 - People limping with any two cards. 4 - "Pot odds" being used to justify ANY call whether right or wrong. 5 - 9 players seeing the flop despite it being raised and re-raised. (See point 4) 6 - 10 handed games although 11 handed seem to have been stopped. 7 - People rolling into the venue too late for the tourney because they only want the loose cash game. 8 - Outdraws like you would not believe (the Internet is alive and well and dealing cards in Herts and Essex). 9 - People on tilt dropping 3 grand in a £1/£2 cash game in 3 hours. However, If you can keep your head and keep within a budget, it can be a very tasty little game as well as being hugely entertaining. Sometimes you will win big by playing rags. Other times you must know when to lay down big hands once you've seen the flop. And you definitely must defend your big hands pre-flop by betting the pot at every opportunity. Any other advice you will have to find in a book but be warned, none of these guys will care! Cash game at Pockets, Thu 29th June - Cashed in £90. Cashed Out £370 Some very brief reviews of hands I played - I limp with 63s (pot odds!). Flop A2Q Gemal pots it for £25, which I felt, was too much if he hit so I called him with the backdoor flush/straight. Turn was 5, Gem checks (big mistake) I check. I hit a 4 for the straight and all the money goes in. I'm now on £180 Raise re-raise pre-flop and I’m all-in with A9 for £90 (don’t ask why) Vs Gemal (oh that’s why!) He’s not showing his cards and nor am I. Flop gets turned, xx99x I show trips, Gem claims he had JJ but doesn’t show. By now Gem is fuming and with good reason, I never should have been in that one, oh well! I have AA so pot for £6. 4 callers, flop is QJ8. Russell "Spit" North pots for £24. I pot for £24+£72. The rest fold. Spit calls the £72. Turn is a T so now a possible straight is on board. Spit checks. I look at my stack and Spit says he has £101 left. I have him covered but he must have 2 pair to have called the £72...? I put in £101 anyway (I have Aces damn it!). He dwells for ages and says he thinks I have hit the straight. He still calls but doesn't show. I slap my Aces down on the table. Paul next to Spit says "you have two pair, you're winning". Spit is not saying anything; he's sweating the river. It's turned over and it’s an Ace! Spit mucks in disgust. I guess the best pre-flop hand held up. £418 pot. Cash game at Jack Kings, Mon 3rd July - Cashed in £100. Cashed out £925. At my highest point I had £1125! Some hands I won – 6s9s Flop 5c7cTs. xml:namespace prefix = st1 /> xml:namespace prefix = st1 /> xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Roy goes all-in with trip tens I hit the 8 for a straight £200 pot. A9 Vs A5 my kicker plays. £100 pot JJ flop 998 cautious betting by Dave so I keep calling every street. Turn Q River 4. Dave has TT. £180 pot I call £11 in LP with 2c5c. Flop 346! Aly plays a five for a straight draw, which misses. £200 pot. The big one. My KK Vs Aly’s 99 we both trip up. First card is a King the last card is a 9. £500 pot and it all went in pre-flop. Hands I lost – only the one. The last hand I played. My QT Vs Roy’s AQ flop QJ6 turn Q money goes in. £400 Pot. I won more that night playing Cash than the Tournament winner! See you at the next game? |
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WSOP LIVE GAME www.3Lionspoker.com arranged another WSOP game at Harlow Dogs on Saturday the 15th of July 5pm start £30 rebuy event. FYI I finished 15th after having back to back AA then KK then 33. The Aces won but the kings were beat by AK, two aces on the flop and 33 was beat by an all in with 6c4c who caught a 6 on the river. There were 62 runners and i left after being knocked out so can't tell you who won yet. I will up-date later but feel far too depressed too do so right now. No vegas for me this year! sniff sniff Vegas Baby. By Steve White The Date: Saturday the 3rd of June 2006. The Venue: Harlow Dogs Poker Room The Game: NLHE £50 Rebuy. The prize: One $16,000 package to the WSOP main event (seat guaranteed by www.3lionspoker.com). Now when I heard about this I couldn't wait. There was talk of pro players turning up and having 110 runners. Still I thought that even a 100 to 1 shot was worth 50 notes of my hard earned for the chance to go to Vegas and play "the big one"! Much to the relief of everyone who turned up there were only 38 runners. Poor old Frank Nilsen from 3lionspoker was made to sweat the cost of the prize package and pray he would get a rebuy frenzy! So somewhat unbelievably only 38 regular’s from the Essex/Herts area all sat down to try and make local history. The structure was generous with levels averaging 40 mins. The rebuy period lasted 1 hour and 45 mins and although a few players managed to spend close to a monkey most of us got by on £150. My game was uninteresting for the rebuy period, I had one upset running into slowplayed Aces so took 1 rebuy. I started the Freezeout period with the minimum 6000 chips (2000 starting and a 4000 double add on). There where some 30k stacks in the field by this time as well, most notably Ollie who failed to realise he had to be 21 to actually play in the WSOP. I think he was planning on selling the ticket! I doubled my stack again soon after by slowplaying aces from the small blind. The big blind hit a king on the flop and got him-self involved with me and ended up all-in. He was gutted and I had to think I was lucky to get away with it. Slowplaying Aces is not normally a good idea but when it pays off, wow it sure pays well. I don’t remember many hands after this; I will have to start taking notes at the table I think. Bottom line is I reached the final table with 40k in chips, just above average. Chip leader was Ollie on 70k. Some other notable stacks were Bullet on 50k, Dave Courtney on 40k and Anon on 15k. The short stacks went out fairly quickly except for Anon ho managed to double and double again. Down to 7 players and I looked down at AA. EP min raises to 6k and I raised to 12k total. All fold back to EP (Blue Square T-shirt, cant remember his name sorry) who folds! Arggghhhhh! Never mind I’m still alive. Down to 6 players and I’m short on 31k blinds were 3k/6k and I have TT. ALL IN! Bullet on the BB thinks and thinks for ages then calls with AT! Couldn’t be better for me really until the flop goes down JKA. No Queen or the case T to help me and I’m out. I can’t believe really that Bullet call me with AT I mean we were playing for a $19,000 prize but a gambler is a gambler and I WAS happy he called when I saw his poor hand. Next out was Dave Courtney losing with AJ vs Gem’s KK. Blue Square T-shirt followed and then Ollie went out 3rd. Heads up between Anon and Bullet didn’t take long. Anon had the chip lead and won the first all in. To say Anon was happy would be an understatement. He was shouting and hugging everyone in the room. "I’m going to VEGAS BABY!" he kept saying again and again. Frank from 3lionspoker seemed very happy with his new representative for the World Series. So from me it just goes to say thank you to Frank and www.3Lionspoker.com for fronting the ticket, http://www.harlowgreyhounds.co.uk/ for hosting the game and www.UndertheGun.org.uk for running the event. Also a quick thanks to Dave Courtney for putting it in perspective for me. I said to him after we’d busted out 6th and 5th that "I’ve never felt so bad playing Poker" He just replied - "Get used to it, that’s the game." So it is. And you know what, I love it. |
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May 2006 Poker Update in Herts/Essex by Steve White - I have been playing nearly every Monday and Tuesday at Jennings Poker in Bishops Stortford lately. Monday is their £10 rebuy and Tuesday is the £5 rebuy. Strangely I seem to do more money in the £5 game than the £10 Game! It really is Rebuy madness for a hour and a half. I have had one final table in about 8 attempts so not too great really. I have to work on my discipline, the rebuy period gets you in the mood to gamble and changing to a freezeout strategy quickly is paramount. I normally get down to the last 20 odd players (60 - 80 runners) but seem to be running card dead at crucial times. Never mind it's a great group of people playing there and I made some good friends (and enemies!). I can heartily recommend the cardroom. www.jenningspokerschool.com FYI Jennings is located at Bishops Stortford Football Club just off the M11. There is ample FREE parking. All tables have dealers. They can accommodate up to 180 players although the average is 60-80. The Bar is adequate though a bit expensive. Ham and Cheese rolls available all night! Tourneys start at 7:30pm. Doors close at 2am. Sit n goes from £20 to £50 go on all night as well as a cash game with £1/£2 blinds and a £50 min sit down. Mon - £10 Rebuy 7:30pm start Tue - £5 Rebuy 7:30pm start Wed - £20 Rebuy 7:30pm start Sun - £50 Freezeout 5pm start To book places on any of the evenings please call The Poker Hotline on 01992 577605. Other games near Harlow - www.underthegun.org.uk, - Games are happening at - Pockets Snooker Club, Ware, Herts and Harlow Greyhound Stadium Poker Room. See the site for more details or call - tel: 0845 8990 247 mob: 07961 485972 (Zia) mob: 07821 900921 (Ali) |
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