my blog has now relocated to my new sponsors website.
ive just done an extensive update with news from galway, killarney, brighton and online play.
please follow the following link:
http://www.greenjokerpoker.com/robtaylor.html
Monday, January 21, 2008
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
2nd of Jan : more cash play
Tough day at the office, so to speak, got stuck early on, battled away and never felt like i was running well. Again found the tables nice on ipoker and building up a big database of stats on the opposition now, which i do find really helpful. In my first hours play this morning, i ran into 4 sets when i when overpairs or top pair, uggg, and at one point, i was stuck 2k, and it could of been more. However, stuck at it, and battled back slowly, doubling up late on with aces vs a guy making a move with 43. All in all played 712 hands for $794 profit. Delighted to end ahead on a tough day to be honest, and its as encouraging as yesterday , in a different way.
Also played the 12.5k gtd tourney, didnt win a hand, lol.
Year to date figures: online cash +$6,067 ; online tourneys -$109.
Heading to galway lunchtime tomorrow, should be playing live most of the weekend, but good wifi in the hotel, so might get a few hands in online also.
Also played the 12.5k gtd tourney, didnt win a hand, lol.
Year to date figures: online cash +$6,067 ; online tourneys -$109.
Heading to galway lunchtime tomorrow, should be playing live most of the weekend, but good wifi in the hotel, so might get a few hands in online also.
Jan 01 2008 - cash challenge started
With the new year started, and as per my resolutions, ive started my cash challenge, put in some decent hours playing, and am updating this yoke hopefully daily from now on.
Played 796 hands on green joker 5/10 and 3/6 yesterday, it had been a while since ive played cash here, and im very happy to report that there were plenty of fish about. The site seemed softer than i remember it to be honest, maybe thats down to more professional table selection on my part, but at least 4 or 5 people got themselves buddy listed.
I ran reasonably, with my own brand of quite laggy cash play. 6 handed i tend to see a lot more flops than most people, profile individual players , and play a lot post flop to their weaknesses. My vp$ip is very high compared to most good players, but i think i made decent post flop decisions and like getting in pots with the poorer players.
A couple of setbacks, as is to be expected over 796 hands, my 3 biggest losing hands were as follows:
i limp on button with 76 suited after 2 limpers including one very poor player. The flop comes 89T rainbow, first guy leads for 30 pot, 2nd guy flat calls, i make it 100, 2nd guy (fish playing 32/4) flat calls, turn is a blank, he check, i jam he calls for his last 270 with JQ.
2nd one, different fish limps, i make up small blind with K8 of spades, bb checks, flop comes K85 with 2 clubs, fish bets 30, i make it 110, he jams for another 300, i call, he has aces and the 5 pairs on the river.
3rd one was with kings, where a guy opens to 40, another calls, i repop to 155, 2nd guy calls, flop shows AQx, i bet 2/3rds pot, get called, and fold to his 450 river bet.
Apart from those, it was good.
Won a nice pot of $1041 with JT suited after guy min raised pre flop with aces, i called pot bet on J high flop, T on turn and we got it all in.
Won another 1k pot with ATs, where i make up small blind , 3 to the flop, flop comes K high with 2 hearts, i bet pot, 1 guy calls, another makes it 160, a very solid player, we both flat call, turn is a blank, we both check, river is a heart for the nuts, i lead out, get put in by the middle guy, who has K6 of hearts. How he didnt re pump the flop with tp and 2nd nut fd i dont know.
Anyway, all in all a great day, a confidence booster and a sweet start to 2008.
796 hands played and an overall profit of $5,273.45.
Id like to graph profits year to date etc from poker tracker and post it in here, but im not sure how to do this, so if anyone knows, let me know !
On other matters, booked the hotel for Galway, heading down around lunchtime tomorrow, to be in plenty of time for the super sat on thurs night. They expect 400 runners, and a 2k each, thats a decent prize pool. I am 80/1 for this event on paddy powers.
We are booked into the best western, its 1/3rd the price of the Radisson, we got it for 100 quid each for 4 nights inc breakfast, and apparently its only around the corner.
As usual Ken will be coming down with me, and our scottish mate, Graham Clarkson is also coming over to play, so nice to catch up with him.
Played 796 hands on green joker 5/10 and 3/6 yesterday, it had been a while since ive played cash here, and im very happy to report that there were plenty of fish about. The site seemed softer than i remember it to be honest, maybe thats down to more professional table selection on my part, but at least 4 or 5 people got themselves buddy listed.
I ran reasonably, with my own brand of quite laggy cash play. 6 handed i tend to see a lot more flops than most people, profile individual players , and play a lot post flop to their weaknesses. My vp$ip is very high compared to most good players, but i think i made decent post flop decisions and like getting in pots with the poorer players.
A couple of setbacks, as is to be expected over 796 hands, my 3 biggest losing hands were as follows:
i limp on button with 76 suited after 2 limpers including one very poor player. The flop comes 89T rainbow, first guy leads for 30 pot, 2nd guy flat calls, i make it 100, 2nd guy (fish playing 32/4) flat calls, turn is a blank, he check, i jam he calls for his last 270 with JQ.
2nd one, different fish limps, i make up small blind with K8 of spades, bb checks, flop comes K85 with 2 clubs, fish bets 30, i make it 110, he jams for another 300, i call, he has aces and the 5 pairs on the river.
3rd one was with kings, where a guy opens to 40, another calls, i repop to 155, 2nd guy calls, flop shows AQx, i bet 2/3rds pot, get called, and fold to his 450 river bet.
Apart from those, it was good.
Won a nice pot of $1041 with JT suited after guy min raised pre flop with aces, i called pot bet on J high flop, T on turn and we got it all in.
Won another 1k pot with ATs, where i make up small blind , 3 to the flop, flop comes K high with 2 hearts, i bet pot, 1 guy calls, another makes it 160, a very solid player, we both flat call, turn is a blank, we both check, river is a heart for the nuts, i lead out, get put in by the middle guy, who has K6 of hearts. How he didnt re pump the flop with tp and 2nd nut fd i dont know.
Anyway, all in all a great day, a confidence booster and a sweet start to 2008.
796 hands played and an overall profit of $5,273.45.
Id like to graph profits year to date etc from poker tracker and post it in here, but im not sure how to do this, so if anyone knows, let me know !
On other matters, booked the hotel for Galway, heading down around lunchtime tomorrow, to be in plenty of time for the super sat on thurs night. They expect 400 runners, and a 2k each, thats a decent prize pool. I am 80/1 for this event on paddy powers.
We are booked into the best western, its 1/3rd the price of the Radisson, we got it for 100 quid each for 4 nights inc breakfast, and apparently its only around the corner.
As usual Ken will be coming down with me, and our scottish mate, Graham Clarkson is also coming over to play, so nice to catch up with him.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
some other tourneys
Since prague ive played 3 live tourneys, 500 game in drogheda where i came 12th, 100 freezeout in the sporting which i won, and 200 game i went to letterkenny for, in a bid to top the rankings, and i came a dissapointing 41st !!
Not running too well really, bar the SE game, seem to do well there.
Still not been playing a huge amount online, did run $1k up to 6k on gjp, only to tilt it all off in drogheda after being knocked out of that game.
So not a great year all in all, certainly not what i had hoped for for 2007, i will be back in 2008, with a new discipline, and im feeling confident it will be a big year indeed.
Im going to split my roll between live tourneys, live cash, online tourneys, and online cash, and will start my online challenge.
I will also be travelling a bit, plan to do a full month in Vegas WSOP time, i will be playing all events on the Grosvenor UK tour (10 tourneys), as well as all the major games in Ireland, such as the Irish Open, and starting with the big 2k game in Galway on the 3rd January.
My main goals are as follows:
To only play when fully focused, and not to tilt, get back to my A game, which ive lost somewhat lately.
To record a big final table, and try and win a leg of the UK tour.
To better my Vegas cash of 2006.
To put in more hours, and more hands online, and grind out a monthly profit to enable me to play live when and where i want.
To update this blog more often, and keep detailed notes of wins/losses.
(i will be moving this blog shortly, in conjunction with a sponsorship deal that i will also be discussing once its all being finalised , but its an exciting chance for me, details to follow).
Not running too well really, bar the SE game, seem to do well there.
Still not been playing a huge amount online, did run $1k up to 6k on gjp, only to tilt it all off in drogheda after being knocked out of that game.
So not a great year all in all, certainly not what i had hoped for for 2007, i will be back in 2008, with a new discipline, and im feeling confident it will be a big year indeed.
Im going to split my roll between live tourneys, live cash, online tourneys, and online cash, and will start my online challenge.
I will also be travelling a bit, plan to do a full month in Vegas WSOP time, i will be playing all events on the Grosvenor UK tour (10 tourneys), as well as all the major games in Ireland, such as the Irish Open, and starting with the big 2k game in Galway on the 3rd January.
My main goals are as follows:
To only play when fully focused, and not to tilt, get back to my A game, which ive lost somewhat lately.
To record a big final table, and try and win a leg of the UK tour.
To better my Vegas cash of 2006.
To put in more hours, and more hands online, and grind out a monthly profit to enable me to play live when and where i want.
To update this blog more often, and keep detailed notes of wins/losses.
(i will be moving this blog shortly, in conjunction with a sponsorship deal that i will also be discussing once its all being finalised , but its an exciting chance for me, details to follow).
Prague trip report
We arrived on the sunday, ended up staying in a nice hotel, but it was about 15 quid away from the hilton in a taxi, but was a really nice place, cheap, decent pool, nice rooms, restaurant, internet etc. Was rooming with kp as usual and conor broomfield was also staying in our hotel.
Nice set up in the hilton, several cash tables going at all times, the play was in local currency, kroons. Games were effectively €4/8 minimum, up to high levels, and a lot of the locals were adding a fair bit of value.
A good gang of irish over there, although , in the end, no one really did that well.
Some english i knew also, and all in all good craic.
Prague is a lovely city, tons of interesting architecture, and some good places to go, things to see.
It was nippy enough, i had to purchase a wholly hat, but nice place to walk around, we saw the clock tower in wencheslas square, and we also sampled a number of well priced and good quality restaurants.
One evening we decided instead of a taxi, to see more of the city, we would get a tram into town.
Not wanting to do anything dodgy, we made sure we got tickets at the hotel, and jumped on a tram into town, ken knew where to get off, as he was in prague years earlier and hes good when it comes to directions, unlike me. We bumped into a couple of locals coppers, who singled us out. We happily showed them our tickets, and they said we were supposed to validate them in some machine. We claimed ignorance, but at one point it looked like we might be carted off to a slammer til ken produced his passport, which helped somewhat, and we were hit with a 40 quid fine. I had heard the police were a bit corrupt over there, not a nice incident really.
i started the main event on day 1a, had a reasonable table, with no idea who i knew particularly well, but i made a nice steady start, and slowly and steadily gathered chips over the first few levels. Felt very comfortable and relaxed at the table, and was extremely confident of a decent result. Was on about 18k, when i got AA vs QQ and after this, i was in great shape, on about 27k, from 10k starting, with 90 minutes left on day 1. There were 550 runners overall in the tourney, over 2 days, there were 99 players left on day 1A when i had an incident that defined my week.
I had a decent image at the table, and was more than happy to finish in or around 30k overnight, but, with a lot of chips on my table, i knew something big might happen.
A loosish player , opens to 1200, (200/400), the button, playing the same sized stack as me, was reasonably tight and solid, he seemed focused on the hand, checking his cards, and fires out a bet of 3k. Im 90% sure he has KK or AA before i even look at my cards, im just as sure the first raiser has Ax, or KQ or similar, i look down at JJ on the big blind. I decide if i call 3k here, out of my 27k stack, and hit, i will most likely double up, and i genuinely was happy enough with my read to get away from it if i dont hit hard, so i flat call, and the original raiser flats also.
So about 10k in the pot already. I feel my heart race as the flop comes JTT, giving me the house, and i know im ahead. The button confidently bets the pot and now i know im a 2 outer away from a double up, and 56k stack with average 22k as we near the end of the day . Its a dream situation. I pray for a deuce, a king hits, i dont like it, but at this stage, the rest of my stack has to go in, i know as soon as he calls he has KK, and all of a sudden its a nightmare, and im in shock. Dream over.
I played a fair bit of cash over the week, was doing well, the games were soft, theres a lot to be said i think about doing the ept circuit, maybe just trying the super sat for the main event, and playing cash side games for the week. Theres money to be made. I was making 1k-1500 a night without putting in huge hours, kp was crushing the omaha , it was all good.
I also played the 500 rebuy tourney, i had a really tough table, played with some top norweigans, had rolf slotboom beside me with large stack, also had dario minieri at my table early on. However, played real solid, and got down to about 45 out of 300 , with 27 paid, when i was under average, and jammed A9s from the cut off, ran into QQ, but flop came AAx to give me a rush, and think im going to be in decent shape, til the Q hits the turn.............had some chips left as QQ guy was uber shorty, jammed with AJ, same guy calls with A9 and takes me out.
On the wednesday, the lads went to the Slavia Prague vs Sevilla champions league game, i played the 2k tourney. Totally card dead throughout, doubled up with 77, by calling scandie on all street with 3 over cards and being good. Was getting into it, but then flopped a big draw and played in like a muppet, this upset my focus and i felt tilty as i excited.
Jumped into a bigger cash game, €8/16, bought in for €2k, about 10 hands in, i flop a set, on an ultra aggressive table, and lose to a bigger set, then i go on tilt and basically do in the 6k i was up in cash games earlier on the week in about 2 hours !!!...........not so good.
Kp also had a mare on that night, so after this we write off the poker and spent the last night and a half partying and checking out the delights of prague with Marty and Conor.
All in all a fun trip, very dissapointed with the tourneys, as in the main i felt i played well, and whilst i ended up losing about 6k on the trip in total in the live games, i feel theres potential for future epts.
Nice set up in the hilton, several cash tables going at all times, the play was in local currency, kroons. Games were effectively €4/8 minimum, up to high levels, and a lot of the locals were adding a fair bit of value.
A good gang of irish over there, although , in the end, no one really did that well.
Some english i knew also, and all in all good craic.
Prague is a lovely city, tons of interesting architecture, and some good places to go, things to see.
It was nippy enough, i had to purchase a wholly hat, but nice place to walk around, we saw the clock tower in wencheslas square, and we also sampled a number of well priced and good quality restaurants.
One evening we decided instead of a taxi, to see more of the city, we would get a tram into town.
Not wanting to do anything dodgy, we made sure we got tickets at the hotel, and jumped on a tram into town, ken knew where to get off, as he was in prague years earlier and hes good when it comes to directions, unlike me. We bumped into a couple of locals coppers, who singled us out. We happily showed them our tickets, and they said we were supposed to validate them in some machine. We claimed ignorance, but at one point it looked like we might be carted off to a slammer til ken produced his passport, which helped somewhat, and we were hit with a 40 quid fine. I had heard the police were a bit corrupt over there, not a nice incident really.
i started the main event on day 1a, had a reasonable table, with no idea who i knew particularly well, but i made a nice steady start, and slowly and steadily gathered chips over the first few levels. Felt very comfortable and relaxed at the table, and was extremely confident of a decent result. Was on about 18k, when i got AA vs QQ and after this, i was in great shape, on about 27k, from 10k starting, with 90 minutes left on day 1. There were 550 runners overall in the tourney, over 2 days, there were 99 players left on day 1A when i had an incident that defined my week.
I had a decent image at the table, and was more than happy to finish in or around 30k overnight, but, with a lot of chips on my table, i knew something big might happen.
A loosish player , opens to 1200, (200/400), the button, playing the same sized stack as me, was reasonably tight and solid, he seemed focused on the hand, checking his cards, and fires out a bet of 3k. Im 90% sure he has KK or AA before i even look at my cards, im just as sure the first raiser has Ax, or KQ or similar, i look down at JJ on the big blind. I decide if i call 3k here, out of my 27k stack, and hit, i will most likely double up, and i genuinely was happy enough with my read to get away from it if i dont hit hard, so i flat call, and the original raiser flats also.
So about 10k in the pot already. I feel my heart race as the flop comes JTT, giving me the house, and i know im ahead. The button confidently bets the pot and now i know im a 2 outer away from a double up, and 56k stack with average 22k as we near the end of the day . Its a dream situation. I pray for a deuce, a king hits, i dont like it, but at this stage, the rest of my stack has to go in, i know as soon as he calls he has KK, and all of a sudden its a nightmare, and im in shock. Dream over.
I played a fair bit of cash over the week, was doing well, the games were soft, theres a lot to be said i think about doing the ept circuit, maybe just trying the super sat for the main event, and playing cash side games for the week. Theres money to be made. I was making 1k-1500 a night without putting in huge hours, kp was crushing the omaha , it was all good.
I also played the 500 rebuy tourney, i had a really tough table, played with some top norweigans, had rolf slotboom beside me with large stack, also had dario minieri at my table early on. However, played real solid, and got down to about 45 out of 300 , with 27 paid, when i was under average, and jammed A9s from the cut off, ran into QQ, but flop came AAx to give me a rush, and think im going to be in decent shape, til the Q hits the turn.............had some chips left as QQ guy was uber shorty, jammed with AJ, same guy calls with A9 and takes me out.
On the wednesday, the lads went to the Slavia Prague vs Sevilla champions league game, i played the 2k tourney. Totally card dead throughout, doubled up with 77, by calling scandie on all street with 3 over cards and being good. Was getting into it, but then flopped a big draw and played in like a muppet, this upset my focus and i felt tilty as i excited.
Jumped into a bigger cash game, €8/16, bought in for €2k, about 10 hands in, i flop a set, on an ultra aggressive table, and lose to a bigger set, then i go on tilt and basically do in the 6k i was up in cash games earlier on the week in about 2 hours !!!...........not so good.
Kp also had a mare on that night, so after this we write off the poker and spent the last night and a half partying and checking out the delights of prague with Marty and Conor.
All in all a fun trip, very dissapointed with the tourneys, as in the main i felt i played well, and whilst i ended up losing about 6k on the trip in total in the live games, i feel theres potential for future epts.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)