Tales of the Honeybadger

[Honeybadg]

All pokered out at the moment ... had enough mental juice for a last spin at some bigger tournaments but the play well get bad beat/coolered ... followed by play average and get slaughtered cycle has taken it"s toll ...

I will return ...

L

[hi_am_chris]

Didn"t think it was the same guy despite the name?

[AAroddersAA]

really? well thats a huge coincidence!!! i take it back. work harder on this blog :p

The fact that they have different names sort of gives it away Stu :-)

One even has the same name as you.

[Honeybadg]

What am I missing?

Whilst in a trance the other I played some APAT satellite the other night ... lost two races ... both to straights ... as you do!

L

[Honeybadg]

Two months - no hands - all work - very little thought of playing poker ...

I think since I switched my twitter to poker following my desire to play has evaporated ... long hours to get mangled in flips and coolers ... I hope I start to see this in a brighter light ...

The Empire has a massive bad beat jackpot to win ... and I am still tempted to play the Genting Main Event ... but it is on a super volatility all eggs in one basket sense ... maybe that is the best sense to play ... it"s just a lump of money that has been aggregating over the year due to my c5 nights out in the last 6 months!

We shall see ...

SCOTLAND FTW in Stoke ...

L

[Honeybadg]

Played the Genting main event ...

Raced up to 40k from 30k with no starting hands in the first hour.
Then cut in half turning the staight vs the over pair to the board - who then riverred the full house ...

Villain of the peace - Wayne Eustace - who hit 7 sets/trips in about 3 hours - cannot play against that.

Rebuilt stack a little - but totally card dead - beyond endless drawing starting ends - I played most of them ...

End hand T9o into AT9 ... money in the middle for 85BBs ... vs AQ ... A on the turn ... super yawn ...

Dodged some bullets nicely to stay alive - but need to win your 71/29% shots!

L

[Honeybadg]

Watching the final table now ... Chaz Chattha must be licking his lips at the final table play ...

The standard commentary is "I cannot believe he did that" ... it"s all pretty dire ...

Albeit last few eliminations standard ...

Dan Hardy out in 7th ... was on my table yesterday ... good player ... 44 vs AK

Also left Stefan Wittmoss left in (again on my table yesterday) ... made a massive incorrect fold on day 1 vs David La Ronde (one of the few interesting hands) ... but then came back very well ... now at the final table called off under no pressure with AT vs QQ ... and then very lucky to get a 22 short stack shove to fold 77 (so bad) ... but still alive (albeit short) ...

So many good players eliminated earlier ... so it"s a big draw to play more ... but need to have the scope to play lots to iron out the volatility ...

Not sure what is next??

L

[Honeybadg]

Is it really only 9 days since I played ... seems like a super long time ago ...

Break 3 in the Sunday Warm Up ...

Just about average - having (for the second tournament running) turned a straight and lost the min to the rivered full house.

Being dealt lots of KK"s tonight which is novelty ... was in great nick until the hand above.

L

[Honeybadg]

Effective Exit hand  ...

KK vs TT vs 77 ... T on the river ... to return to 75BB

Then

KTo into AA for 5BB

Too dull ...

[Honeybadg]

Darts is always the answer to get me betting ...

Beaton has the dodgiest record ever at the PDC World Championship ... scrapes the 1st set with the throw vs rank outsider who is now 8/1 to come back and win ... odds against for sure ... but 8/1 is massive ...

See how we run ...

[Honeybadg]

... we run bad ... Beaton finding some annoyingly good scoring to couple with appalling finishing ... his opponents has darts for both the first two sets ... but ultimately provided no effective pressure ... value bet dies ...

Outright Prices are amazing too ...

Raymond Van B 8.6/1 following a 108.31 average ... tempting ...
Gary Anderson 13/1 - fells pretty spicy too ...
Robert Thornton 54/1 - value

Feeling like I should have an economy 2013 ... out with a bang??

[Honeybadg]

Lost some money on Thornton ... Taylor is there for the taking ... albeit he hit the doubles well the other night ...

Back to the poker table tonight with a 96th of 1267 in the Big $109 on Pokerstars ... exit hand 66 vs AK ... standard/hard to complain ... won a race earlier ... long series of random numbers ... need 1111000 and not 10101010 ... as often said before ...

L

[Honeybadg]

Sunday Warm Up - 97th of 3446 - Was running pretty good - got to 2nd of 687 - was down to 21st of 97 - but still 40BB ... Big stack makes a standard late position raise ... short stack shoves for c12BB ... I shove all in with AQs ... straight into the Big Stack KK and short stack JJ ... needing to be (hyper) passive to avoid this smash up ... was running for the win ... won 2 from 3 of my value added races earleir ... was looking for another ... would have been a great time to find a savage Ace for the chip lead ... by the river I also have a 4 for the straight ... but no joy ... if I had lost the straight race then 28 BB ... earlier the Big Stack got going with a KTo 4 bet (all in) which was called by 99 ... flop KKx ...

Annoying way to go ... but much better than a drift to middle of the pack ...

Last poker of the year!

I think I will play the Betfair Live in London - $650 - guess 300 runners over two day 1"s - Jan 25-27th at the Aspers casino ...

See what other savage gardens I can find??

L

[Honeybadg]

Aspers Casino ... managed to play about ten hands of £1/1 before getting bored ... easy table but patience required ... armed with an absurdly strong gin I wondered off to play Blackjack ... got to about +£300 ... before edging back to +£150 ... wandered off to play Roulette ... downwards initially ... but hit two 8/1 shots in a row to peak at +£1150 for the night ... starting playing £25 on single numbers (no joy) before tapping out at +£900 on the night ... net of the taxi home for a plus £855 ... and some ammo for tonight.

Targets : $320 Super-Saturday Knockout & Big $109 - 6pm kick offs ... Time to win!

L

[Pears27]

You missed "oh and by the way, got engaged"...