Tales of the Honeybadger

[Honeybadg]

Cheers mate - back to the chip lead with 196 left ...

[Honeybadg]

Break

Back to 30th of 106 ... 41 BB ... will be needing some cards or to win some races soon ...

Got savaged TT vs 99 aipf ... flop 992 ...

[Swinebag]

Break

Back to 30th of 106 ... 41 BB ... will be needing some cards or to win some races soon ...

Got savaged TT vs 99 aipf ... flop 992 ...

railing - got there just in time to see that one - vul

[Honeybadg]

... yeah pretty savage way to lose an extra 25BB pot ...

[Honeybadg]

Break

15th of 52 ... 41BB

Was pegged back with JJ vs BB (AQ) into QQ8 ...

Went multiway with 54s ... flopped flush ... hated the paired board ... so won the min ... mmm ... still very in play ...

[Honeybadg]

Too painful ...

JJ into 993 ... turn a Q ... but vs 33 ...

44th of 8158 ... yawn ...

L

[Honeybadg]

... made a very quick visit to the Fox Poker Club last night ... played ten hands of £1/£1 ... made £10 profit ... playing every hand ... as poker should be ... well sort off ...

First hands for over a month face-2-face or online.

Good to be away from it - albeit in between the WSOP main event drifted past - my two friends who played out on Day 1 and 2 - usually they do better - next year.

Golf bets on - McDowell started very well - could be a nice 33/1 shot - money a bit better spread than is sometimes the case - also on Donald/Dustin J and Noren (at very long odds).

L

[Honeybadg]

Played the Fox £250 Superday Super - £250+20+10 : 20,000 chips - 30 minute clock.
Great structure to get things done in a long day - something like 98 runners with 13 re-entries.
Starting table including : James Akenhead (on my left) - Steve Watts (on my right) - through in Joe Beevers and Kirit Patel ... and probably the toughest table I have sat on ...

Records :

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=52296
http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=1
http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=118589
http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=95406

Amusing to have two Poker Million champions on the table ... also amusing to float and win vs Patel and Beevers early on ... quickly progressed to +50% of starting stack and picked up a straight up and down draw vs Watts and Patel for the probable chip lead but no help ... and back to starting stack ...

Part 2 in a moment ...

[Honeybadg]

Part II - Middle phase of the tournament - fairly frustratingly card dead - not a great spot to be in with James Akenhead playing the super aggressor ... but with about 45 left ... we are both at about half average and 20BB ... super bad news for the table as he triples up TT vs 77 vs 66 ... even worse to follow as he rivered a straight 66 vs AK whilst covered.

Meanwhile I was playing the super short stack going for hopefully live card shoves ... winning 75s vs AJ and KQ into AT (Akenhead) ... great timing ... but it cannot last forever ... Akenhead steamrolling now with an A2 vs AQ win ... followed up by a massive pot with the nut flush draw but no over cards vs a set on the flop ... it hit ... and with 15 left just about a quarter of the chips in play ... 12 paid ... I elect to fold 66 vs the shove with three to act after me ... it looks inspired with Akenhead 99 ... but flop brings a 6 and the turn another for the mythical quads when it would have mattered ... it"s all so super marginal as is my end ... on the bubble I re-shove with AT vs 88 ... but no help and the bubble is mine!

Banter was good on the table ... need to play a bit more ... missed a chance to shove earlier for what would have been a valued added race - it was a mirror head to the Akenhead re-shove - you need the overcards to make it a race - I smelled a rat that wasn"t there albeit I was behind and my foe was never folding.

Akenhead good to play against ... Watts unlucky making a great call but losing to a flush ... which chipped up a semi-calling station but the chips went elsewhere. Beevers made and died with a big move vs the overpair ... up and down with no help ... Kirit ran into AK with AT ...

Will track down the final result later ... gives me the taste again ... albeit not sure how much time I have for much more than 1 day events ...

L

[Honeybadg]

Absurdly hot in London - where is the happy medium of 25 degrees with a breeze??

Looking forward to playing a bit more face to face poker - albeit I think August 4th will next event - £250 1 day event at the Fox ... it has to be the way forward!

Looking forward to playing some bigger things later in the year - but really need to get head down first.

Good to play against "better" players - played some weird floaty hands - could have chosen earlier points to race.

In classic style - made the super correct - super marginal - fold that would have spiked - small margins.

James Akenhead enjoyed the maths of it ... I would have enjoyed his run of cards from 25k to 600k in about 2 hours ...
TT vs 77 vs 66 : 66 vs AK (Staight on the river to win) : A2 vs AQ win : AQs flush draw post flop war into 88x vs K8 - for massive double up with the 25% shot ...

Of course he would have preferred it in Vegas ... serial small (for him) cashes this year ...

[Honeybadg]

Time to start gambling a bit more ... (though also be more disciplined)

Bet 1 - Senegal to beat Team GB : 4.3/1

Took a bit of 5/1 on Adrian Lewis to win World Matchplay
Also a little on Uraquay to win the Olympics football ...

Let"s see how I run ...

[Honeybadg]

... Lewis gone ... but some mega trading has left me ... Terry Jenkins +£315 ... the Field -£5 ... played some great battling stuff ... can he reach the final ... and win a major final at his eighth attempt!?!

Looks like a NIL poker weekend ... with food, work and folly to accomodate!

L

[Honeybadg]

Watching the gymnastics ... (beam) ... train for 4 years ... fall three times in 1 minute ... (brutal) ... execution score 4.933 ... you get 0.000 if you "fall on your back" (in the vault) ... watching the final session of qualifiers this evening at the arena ... first Olympic attendence ... few more events dotted about over the next two weeks ... will be interesting to see how much value add, being at the event vs Armchair and TV!

It all plays havoc with playing any poker ...

I love the BBC commentators - why do they hire experts then insist on complementing this with idiots who have no knowledge on the sports they commentate ... no knowledge if a score is good or not ... you could be ahead of these lay commentators in about 60 mins on wikipedia ... do they add something else? Often they cannot even read the scoreboards as they appear before us ... oh well ...

[Honeybadg]

Back to The Fox for their Super Saturday 1 day event : £250+20+10 : 20,000 chips - 30 min clock - slow structure.

2pm start - I was knocked out racing on the bubble last time - at about 1am.

Could be a little earlier this week with a smaller field?? (Genting Stoke effect)

I think 98 runners plus 13 re-entries last time I played.

Hopefully a time to run good and find/bring A Game ...

[Honeybadg]

Chopped for the majority of a seat in the Super Saturday ... then ran card dead throughout ... standard ... finally re-raising all in with 55 vs 77 when hoping for the race if called ...

One day tournaments are the way forward!

And as it happens there is a £500+50 to play tomorrow.

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/festival.php?a=r&n=9554

Maximum capacity 70 - 20 online qualifiers : 20,000 chips -30 minute levels - very tempting.

L