If Carlsberg did dull poker blogs, they'd do this one

[antthecat]

dont talk to me about ak, i should stop betting on the dogs, always pick the losers

[monkeyman]

I think its about time for another of my regular changes of direction. My stud play hasn"t been going at all well recently and my profit/loss has only been kept on the positive side over the last couple of weeks by throwing a few sit and gos into the mix. I"ve just had my worst three day spell since I started keep financial notes so I thought it might be sensible to concentrate on SNGs for a bit, as that is where my cash is currently being generated. I tend to play six handed holdem on Betfair and, I believe, I am currently on a run of nineteen cashes from my last twenty-five of these. My quest for world stud domination will have to be put on hold for a while.
  On a completely different tack, a colleague has today asked me if I can recommend where she can buy a poker table for her boyfriend for christmas. I"m not sure at this stage whether she wants something that can be placed on top of an existing surface or if she wants a free-standing table, but if anyone has got any suggetsions then please let me know.    

[monkeyman]

Make that twenty out of twenty-six

[antthecat]

i got a poker table top of ebay for a tenner plus £15 postage, fits 8 people easily and has been in use since feburary and only the betting line has slightly worn.

[monkeyman]

I"ve had the mother of all s**t days at work, so how am I going to cheer myself up? With a holdem tournament of course! Full Tilt, don"t let me down.

[monkeyman]

That was a complete waste of time. I was ticking over quite nicely then suffered two stupid rivered bad beats to the same player in the space of ten minutes.
   Full Tilt sucks more than Devine Brown

[monkeyman]

......although Betfair"s six handed SNGs are still being extremely supportive. Four wins from the last six played

[monkeyman]

......although Betfair"s six handed SNGs are still being extremely supportive. Four wins from the last six played

Make that six wins from nine

[antthecat]

at least you are hitting the sng"s hard, just lost 5 in a row, having a quick break and losing more money

[monkeyman]

Over the past week I seem to have hit a rich vein of form on SNGs. I"m sure Sharkscope hasn"t recorded all my games (and it certainly hasn"t got any of my Betfair information from last year), but if my memory serves me well, up to yesterday, I was on a run of twenty-two or twenty-three cashes from the last thirty played. I"ve started today with three failures on Betfair before a win on Pokerstars. I had been thinking of playing in the six handed $25k guaranteed on PKR tonight, but as this week hasn"t started as well as last week finished, I"ll probably reconsider. Other than that, its SNGs all the way for the rest of the week.        
  Season three, in the words of Saint Delia The Devine "Let"s be having you"

[monkeyman]

Warning - blatant brag post ahead!
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Betfair"s dealers seem to be trying to get their own back on me. Ignoring my second place in an omaha game, I"m on a sequence of four non-cashes in SNGs. However, with Pokerstars, I"ve won five on the trot.
  This time next year I"ll be a millionaire!    

[monkeyman]

Yee Haaaaaa. Make that six wins in a row. This is my best ever sequence and it feels all the better because is came on Pokerstars which I usually regard as one of the more difficult sites to make money on. I think I"ve earned a beer!

[monkeyman]

It seems as though both Betfair and Pokerstars have read my previous boasts and decided to do something about it. On "stars I"ve gone from winning six consecutive SNGs on the spin to three consecutive losses. On Betfair my record is four losses and one second place from the last five. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

[lukybugur]

, I love a good self-bok tale.

[monkeyman]

I think I"ll probably stop referring to the sites I play on by name. Glutton for punishment that I am, I decided to try another SNG as I thought that I can"t really complete a sequence of ten six-handed games without winning one can I?
  I was back on one of the sites mentioned in my most recent post; of the two, it was the one which doesn"t sponsor the majority of the world series final table. To make this interesting, I"ll describe the betting on the key hand and will post the hole cards of one of my opponents lower down this page. We"re in the first level of the game (10/20) and no one has moved more than 100 chips from their starting stack of 1500. UTG limps, I have Ace/Queen offsuit which leads me to raise to 60 and am called by the button, the big blind and the limper. The flop is four/Queen/Queen and the big button fires 150 into a 240 chip pot. The limper folds, I raise to 500, the button goes all-in, big button folds and I call.  Now comes the question: Can you guess the hole cards dealt to the guy on the button? (Answer below)
















Yes, you"ve guessed it, he was dealt pocket fours which means he flopped a full house to my trips, the w*****.