Luky and Chip build a bankroll

[mal666]

Time to hit the $33`s ?  Get up to $990 profit that gives you 30 attempts. Win 2 and its happy days.

[lukybugur]

Where would one find such tourneys as I can"t see them in Tourney > Satellite > All?

[mal666]

Where would one find such tourneys as I can"t see them in Tourney > Satellite > All?

These are the DS`s to the $800 EPT qualifiers. Unregister for W$ obv. They are scheduled at the moment and i would expect them to become more frequent nearer to EPT time.
I plyd one last night starting table had 5 on.  (Turbo`s btw)

[mal666]

Had a look, tonight/tomorrow 0:00/0:40
Saturday afternoon   12:00/1:00/2:30/3:30   Might play all 4 of these myself.

[lukybugur]

Found them under Tourney > Satellite > Events. Will speak to Leigh about this - maybe play one / two as a "Treat"

[Chipaccrual]

First of all, a quick catch up on Edinburgh.

It was the first time for ages that be both played live in the same tournament.  Nothing major to report.  Neil made steady progress, whilst I played yoyo poker.  Up to 20k, down to 5k, up to 25k, eventually out.

The weekend was another fantastic success from a social point of view.  It started with meeting up with Kinboshi at the airport, then lunch with Neil, Derek, Rob and Laura.  Never let Neil organise a lunhc venue though.  It was closed after too long a walk, but we had passed another Italian on the way, which looked good and was good.

I think it was the Italian that Dan and my taxi driver had mentioned on the way from the airport.  On that subject, APAT has a lot to answer for.  Within 5 seconds of getting into the taxi, the driver was off moaning about the tournament.  It costs him £1.50 barrier charge at the airport and all morning he has been ferrying poeple from the ariport to the Gala.

Didn"t realise APAT tournaments had that much impact.  Oh, and of course, he played some poker, so cue badbeat stories.  Dan and I just sat in the back laughing.

After lunch, headed to the Gala Maybury and met up with lots of friends, old and new.  Played the usual game of they know me, please let me remember their name before it gets embarassing.

As mentioned, the tournament was nothing to right home about.  I felt I played well for most of it.  Neil, Dan , Rob and myself had all shared %"s and at about level 8/9, I think we were all still in.  It was looking good, but within an hour of each other, we were all railing.

The night ended with a Tighty Sit n Go, which unfortunately Neil and Derek were unable to participate in.  The least said about that, the better.

I would like to take full credit for my win, but if you jave played a Tighty Sit n Go before, skill is not always a requirement.  It was great fun though.  Richard is an absolute legend at these and it always reminds me of why we do these weekends.  It"s about the poker and everyone enjoying themselves.  If only some poeple were able to get that.

After breakfast on the Sunday, George and Kev popped over to drop their bags in our room.  George had made day two, and was one of the favourites to take it down.  He didn"t, but I think Kev must take some of the blame for this.  George was on megatilt about hotel rooms.  I will say no more, but read his blog when he"s updated.  It was very funny.

The Sunday comprised of my usual chipcounting.  Which reminds me, if I had had a pound for everyone on the Saturday who said "You still in, how"s Tighty coping ?", then I would be very rich indeed (Excuse the pun).

It was a great final table and a very worthy winner.  Derek played exremely consistent all weekend.  Had a good catch up in the bar afterwards with James "ThinkerJE" Edwards and Simon Auckland.  Their Vegas trip sounded superb and Rob was sat there also, clearly getting tips prior to his trip in November.  Everyone seems to be going, but more on that later.

I eventually get talked into playing cash by Daniel.  So the table conisted of Dan, Myself, Simon, James, Locals x3, John Murray and Colin O"Prey railing (although he kept getting dealt hands).

Managed to make some cash and we eventually left the casino aboutu 4:30am.

Hmmmmmmmmm, flight at 8:30am, back up at 6:30am.   This was bad planning, but a great weekend.

[Chipaccrual]

So, the double shootouts have been quiet lately.  With everything else going on, neither of us have had much time to play.

I managed to play two yesterday and won one seat, so happy with that and we are heading nicely towards our next milestone.

Luky has jetted off this morning to Vegas, via New York.  Spoke to him last night and he sounded like a kid on Christmas Eve.  I"ve taken 25% of his action on the trip, which bearing in mind it"s a family holiday, means he should stay focused for the limited time that he plays.

I"m sure they will have a great time and it just makes me think that I really have to find a way of getting out there and experiencing it for myself.

Maybe a chat to Des about Season 4 WCOAP in Vegas.  Now there"s an idea.


So, onwards and upwards with the Double Shootouts, with the obvious distractions of Glorious Goodwood this week.

Hopefully have a few seat wins to tell Neil about on his return.

[coprey]

I eventually get talked into playing cash by Daniel.  So the table conisted of Dan, Myself, Simon, James, Locals x3, John Murray and Colin O"Prey railing (although he kept getting dealt hands)

The reason I wasnt playing in that game was because the cash machine wouldnt give me cash on both my maestro card or my credit card. The bank must have realized:

1. I was in a casino

2. I was p**sed

3. I am a crap cash player

The next day Ray and myself managed to get lost on the way to the boat, ending up in a beautiful seaside area of Scotland (Largs, I think) where we couldnt do more than 25 mph for about 1.5 hours. We missed our boat but just managed to catch the slow ferry instead, so it all worked out in the end.

Great weekend as usual and looking forward to the next event.

[MintTrav]

I eventually get talked into playing cash by Daniel.  So the table conisted of Dan, Myself, Simon, James, Locals x3, John Murray and Colin O"Prey railing (although he kept getting dealt hands).

Locals if the local area includes London. I know it was late and we were all tired & emotional, but there is some difference between Edinburgh and London accents, Leigh. One of them is a TD in the Big Slick in Croydon. Very enjoyable cash game though (and APAT main event, and £10 rebuy, and Tighty SnG ...........)

[Chipaccrual]

I eventually get talked into playing cash by Daniel.  So the table conisted of Dan, Myself, Simon, James, Locals x3, John Murray and Colin O"Prey railing (although he kept getting dealt hands).

Locals if the local area includes London. I know it was late and we were all tired & emotional, but there is some difference between Edinburgh and London accents, Leigh. One of them is a TD in the Big Slick in Croydon. Very enjoyable cash game though (and APAT main event, and £10 rebuy, and Tighty SnG ...........)

The locals may have been there before you sat down John.  Definitely was one, at least.  Scottish accent, kept reminding us to tip the dealer.  Must have been Scottish.  

[lukybugur]

I"ll blog about my recent Vegas trip on this thread if it"s OK with y"all. Technically it doesn"t have anything to do with this Bankroll Challenge but hey ... it"s as good a place on APAT forum as any.

I arrived in Sin City last Thursday night after three long, exhausting sightseeing days in New York so was quite happy to follow through with my family-friendly-holiday plan of relaxing by the pool with a selection of poker and golf magazines for the first couple of days. It wasn"t until Sunday morning that I decided to sit at a poker table.

On walking back to our room after breakfast, I overheard a dealer explain the rules / betting for $3/$6 Limit Hold"Em. I wandered closer to the rail to take notes (peeking over shoulders was easy as Seats 1 and 8 were empty); there were two loud-ish women in Seats 2 and 3 who seemed to be conferring with each other (showing each other the hands they were folding etc.) and generally ruling the table chat. The two guys behind them were giving them and their bets too much respect (serial limp > folders). Two European gents in Seats 6 and 7 looked to be involved in every hand and constantly asking / being corrected about their bet sizing, and the older Asian man in Seat 9 seemed to be raising on every flop regardless of how many people were in the pot and taking a large majority of them down with ease. Seat 1 was starting to look very attractive ...

And it was! I don"t normally play Limit games but at 3/6, this just looked too good to miss. Within 30 mins (about 15 hands), I had spun $100 up to $232 and had almost single handedly taken out the two European guys and had seriously dented the stack of the Asian guy to my right by playing ultra-aggressive with complete air on all dry boards. Early on with 77 I was raising the arse out of the pot when I hit trips but only won around $30. The chat was friendly so I showed - and I"m sure this turned out to my best decision yet. My biggest wins were with AQo, AKs and 44, none of which hit in any way but which I bet to the hilt on each street, just as I had with the 7"s. It was a strangely awesome feeling to get such bets through. Being so used to No Limit I was betting and raising rivers thinking that these guys HAD to call $6 more (surely they"re priced in) ... but luckily for me, they were quite happy to fold top pair, weak kickers / 2nd top pair type hands to my relentless re-raises.

After almost two hours, still hovering around the $230 mark, I went on a run of coolers against a couple of the new faces at the table - I flopped top 2 pair v flopped trips, turned a straight only to be beaten by a rivered 8 high runner-runner flush (seriously!) and ran a Q high flush into a nut flush during a pretty bad period of tilt. All of these took care of the $130-odd profit quicker than I had made it. When Julia and Scott arrived on the rail I was happy to go with them to the Games Arcade having had my first "poker fix" of the holiday.


My second venture to the tables was to play the 7pm $150 Bounty Game at Treasure Island as recommended by The Duke. I arrived to see three cash-game tables up and running and around 6 others loitering, registering / waiting for the tourney to start. Or so I assumed. The "tourney" ran with only 7 (yeah, seven) players. Needless to say I was less than impressed. On AllVegasPoker.com they state that this game attracts an average of 35 players and with it being a Sunday night, I expected it to get fairly close to that - the cardroom manager appeared to too. I didn"t particularly want to be pulling a late-nighter but I didn"t want to be home before 11pm either. With a fair mix of standards but with 5 "regulars", I had a loose idiot regular to my left in Seat 7, a regular who called all Seat 7"s donkiness in Seat 1 knowing that K high was good enough 80% of the time, two tight aggressive players in seats 2 and 3, and two floaters / calling stations in Seats 4 and 5.

Predictably Seat 7 left us first after limping into a pot from UTG holding J2s. His stack of 15BBs goes in on the J high flop and Seat 4 holding JKo calls to rake them in. I couldn"t get going and finished in 5th after having only seen around a dozen flops in total. Overall I was disappointed to find myself in a $150 SnG - not even a full one at that.

On Tuesday I met up with Kenny at the cardroom at MGM for a walk down to Caesars for their Noon, $85 + $15 game. With only a dozen or so players in the room at 11:30, we decided to walk the extra in the 116degree sunshine to The Venetian which we both knew to be busier and more popular. Their Noon, $150, $7k starting stack game ran with 71 players, with Kenny and I going out within 10 mins of each other (me first around 40th during Level 6). Neither of us could get it going, my best hand in the first three levels being A8o. Kenny got AKo on his first hand and "absolute ****e" from then on.

My table was rife with older generation "regulars" and drunk holiday-maker Americans who clearly hadn"t played much before their trip. With the loose idiots on my left I took the tight trappy approach and against the limp>foldy Americans on my right I stepped up the aggression. In one hand early on, having flopped the nut flush with K9s on the button and with 6 players having limped into the pot, I called the 3/4 pot bet of the 60+yo lady in middle position. BB also called (check>called). A brick on the turn, BB checks, Mrs Doubtfire bets out 800 (around half-pot this time), I re-raise to 1800, BB folds and she calls the 1000 more. River bricks again and she checks it to me. If she has a hand worth calling me with on the flop, she"s surely gonna call around 2200 more but, feeling as transparent as I was, I tried to give the impression I was uncomfortable pushing my 2.5k value bet over the line. She insta-calls and looks genuinely surprised that her 95spades has been beaten, saying, "I thought you just had an Ace". Cue a few funny looks and sly sniggering. Cue my disbelief that $150 tourneys in The Venetian are really attracting players who limp and are willing to go (nearly) broke with 95s.

After a few failed steal attempts with TJo, KJo and 55 from late positions - having folded to All-In shoves from the two players to my immediate left - my exit hand was with around 5k and blinds at 200/400/25 - a pretty standard JJ v KK.

On the way home I get to thinking; although NY and Vegas was an enjoyable enough family holiday, I would really only look forward to returning to Vegas if it was for a poker holiday first and foremost. There are so many things that are good and bad about Vegas and it"s mainly because everything is taken to the extreme. It sounds weird I know, but it"s great that it"s a busy place but it"s just bonkers busy at weekends. The strip is 11 lanes wide but the traffic is stand-still at the weekends. Casinos are great but the constant ding-dinging of slot machines drive me daft pretty quickly. The heat is great (116degrees is actually surprisingly bearable / enjoyable / theraputic even) but ... well, it"s still 116!

I arrived back home on Thursday morning with a couple of work issues to sort out and to a day or two of jet-lag. I had suspected I was over it but a sleepless night last night and still being wide awake at 22:30 tonight might prove me wrong.

More than ever, I"m really looking forward to the four days of Poker at DTD at the end of August.

[duke3016]

My second venture to the tables was to play the 7pm $150 Bounty Game at Treasure Island as recommended by The Duke. I arrived to see three cash-game tables up and running and around 6 others loitering, registering / waiting for the tourney to start. Or so I assumed. The "tourney" ran with only 7 (yeah, seven) players.

That is strange - although I had put the word out that you were attending

[lukybugur]

My second venture to the tables was to play the 7pm $150 Bounty Game at Treasure Island as recommended by The Duke. I arrived to see three cash-game tables up and running and around 6 others loitering, registering / waiting for the tourney to start. Or so I assumed. The "tourney" ran with only 7 (yeah, seven) players.

That is strange - although I had put the word out that you were attending

The guys with the fishing rods in the corner ... friends of yours were they ... ?

[duke3016]

I taught them all they know

[Chipaccrual]

I"m just posting, so I don"t forget.  Half the chips in play, final table, 6 players left.  2 seats up for grabs.

AQ <<<<< A7
AQ <<<<< K5
AJ <<<<< 74
KQ <<<<< QT

All In preflop each time.  Out in 5th.

I"m glad Neil witnessed it, otherwise I would not have believed it myself.