April Online Results

Massive Fail!! 

The first 3 days of April were really good profiting about $4k in 3 days then I set off to play my live events. So after live proing for 2 weeks I got back to the online grind and hit a pretty frustrating down swing, the only decent score I had was winning a Bulgaria main event Seat for 1.1k euro's. 

I realised that I probably wasn't playing my best due to bad game selection and schedule playing some bad value mtts as well as not enough 180s which help reduce variance massively. 

Shark Scope Results for April: 

Total Games: 842

Total Profit: -$366

Total Hours: 60

Avg Hourly: -$6.10

Total VPPs: 6,800

Total FPPs: 23,800

April was one of my worst ever months I think my first loosing month with this much volume (not including FPPs)!! Lets hope for a better May I have two Live trips planned in May the first being UKIPT Dublin and then Eureka Poker Tour Bulgaria the first week of June. 

April Live Trip Part 2

UKIPT Nottingham 

 

Next Stop was UKIPT Nottinham, we went straight from Belgium to Nottingham we were staying in the Poker stars Hotel in the City Centre which was a decent hotel (ty stars). I had a decent live schedule that I wanted to play here;

Nottingham planned Schedule:

12th Main Event day 1b £770

14th NL Holdem £330

15th NL Turbo deepstack £168

16th NL 6 Max £112

So it came to day 1b I got sat down on my table at Dusk till Dawn poker club which was incredibly busy as they smashed the £1 million gtd they ended up getting 1,625 runners!! making the first prize to be £210,400 WD stars and Duck till Dawn... As for my table draw I thought it was pretty decent didn't last long enough to be able to make solid reads but there was one obvious good Scottish lad who I later met called Robbie Bull (adreny) on my table and maybe 1/2 who were pretty solid but nitty.... I lost several big pots where in one case  I made a very well disguised trips on the river and I led the river and some random Eastern European guy 4x my river bet, there were a couple of missed flush and straight draws (even though the board was paired) I tank called and he had the nuts (obv) tens full... A couple of orbits after that I open QQ with aprox 30 bbs and get 3 bet from the btn so I 4 bet called off and lost to AK.. gg my main event in the second level.

The next day I regged the £330 side which was really good value, my starting table was not great though as I had one of my mates on my direct left Ashton Clayton (wd on your main cash bro) there was also Kev Asquith  (Asquith31) and later on Robbie Bull appeared on my direct right... I managed to get a stack going staying above avg most of the tournament and made day 2 with around avg. Joel Beverley Ashton Clayton and Callum Stewart also made day 2 where we also had a bet to see who could get the biggest stack going into day 2 which Calum won. However we were all to be short lived with me lasting the longest finishing 2/3 off the money running AKs into a set of fives where I think I priced myself into calling off on a Q high flop.
After Tilting from bubbling the £330 we went for a Nando's and all regged the £168 turbo deepstack This field was total lolaments had a very soft starting table crushing like I do in turbo s. In this mtt there was £6,700 up top and 17 paid, me and Callum both made the money but by this point the avg stack was something like 6/7 bbs and we finished 12th and 13th respectively for £450, would of been nice to make back to back turbo FT's at UKIPT side events with this cash im currently 22nd on the UKIPT leader board.

Next event was the £112 6 Max The field for this event was pretty small as It was a Monday and most people had left Nottingham, It was alongside the FT of the Main Event where one of my mates was sitting in good position so I was also railing Nick Woodward and hoping he was going to take down the Main...
So my table for the 6 max was pretty tough imo as I had Tom Hall (jabracade) on my right and another Canadian reg on my left... this was short lived as I picked up AK and 4 bet called and lost to QQ Second level again... Also in this event was Joel Beverley (jbeverley) who was looking like he was going to have his first live cash all to end in disaster as his top pair could not hold against a flush draw he was to bust 2 off the money gg Joel...
Meanwhile Nick had just busted in 6th place loosing a huge flip with JJ<AQo  for £45,500 well done Nick on that huge score!! The pokerstars were upset when he busted as he had about 80% of the rail rooting for him....

April Review

April Live Trip Part 1

Spring Holdem Challenge in Belgium

Ok so I had a busy April for live events, First stop was The Spring Holdem Challenge in Belgium where I was playing the Main Event and some sides. I set off on the 6th April this trip I went on my own and was meeting Tim Davie (timmmy182) at the Aiport in Belgium. All was going well till I landed in the Airport and rang time and we both said we were waiting outside the arrivals gate...... With no sign of tim we realised that we were both at different airports :) Woooopss. So after a few hours travel etc we eventually met up in Brusscles where we had a short walk around and ended  up in the pub. A few pics of Brussels;

After a look around we headed off to Namur where we were staying in the Casino Hotel, we arrived that night and played some 1/2 cash games this is when we realised how soft it was going to be in Belgium everyone was just so passive and easily exploitable me and Tim were sat at the same table and pretty much cleared up.... I was up around 3 buy ins after maybe 3 hours play.
The next day we were playing the 1k Main event, This had a pretty good structure with a 25k starting stack and 45 minute clock (for the first day) I managed to double my stack in the first hour and halr and the moved table. The second half of the day was pretty slow not much happened till the last hour of the day, I lost JJ<a9 for a pretty big pot and had to grind the short stack for the last half hour. We both made day 2 I was set to start with around 13 bbs and Tim was above avg stack.
Day 2: First hand I picked up AKo and  3 bet shoved a mid position open I got re shipped on from the BB who had 1010 that was GG for me.So the rest of the day I spent playing Cash and I regged the 330 side event which again was super soft, Couldnt get much going and busted 99<AQo for around 50bb pot 4 hours in...
Later on into day 2 Tim was still nursing a decent stack so I railed him, After being at his table for only a few minutes I saw him make a sick call much to the disgust of the villian and his rail birds.... Tim was sat on the BB and the btn/cut off opened (std 2.2 ish raise) Tim flats, flop K74ss checks round turn 10s Tim leads villian calls river Q Tim checks and villians fires 3/4 pot tim tank calls and tables A9o villian mucks with a disgusting look... Tim was pretty much owning the table after that. He managed to Make the FT coming in 3/9 playing for 48k, he lost a pretty big flip early on for like half the chips in play JJ<AQ and a few players busted he got to 4 handed and had Q9 on a 1078 J J board he reluctantly called a all in shove on the river where the guy tabled J8 and Tim finishes 4th for 15k wp Tim not bad for his first ever live cash.

March overview

Ok so its been a while since I have updated so I will do a brief review of March results;

Sharkscope Results:

Total Games: 1,875

Total Profit: $6,820

Total Hours: 160

Avg Hourly: $40.62

Total VPPs: 10643.27

Total FPPs: 37251.45

So March was a pretty Decent Month I put pretty good volume in and had some decent results a lot of which coming from sats to live events I think I won 5 for UKIPT Nottingham and one for a 1k euros Main event in Belgium both of which I will be playing in April. I didnt play at all Live in March so I have no updates for live events April will be more live then online so lets hope for a good month. 

February Overview

Volume Fail!!

So its the end of Feb and it was a big fail for the online grind this month, mainly due to having a week holiday in France snowboarding and a week at UKIPT Galway. I did not play online once during these two weeks. I also having the slight problem of a broken wrist which stopped me from playing for long hours and reduced the table volume.
Results wise from what I did play was pretty good I won a local £50 freezeout tournament for £500 (small field obv) and online I won just short of $2k but with the lowest volume I think I have played for 3 years so winning $2k is pretty good I guess. I managed to book my UKIPT Nottingham seat which is in April and is expecting at least 1200 runner from what I hear. Obv I ran well in Galway winning the 110 euro turbo side event for 4,600 :) bricked all the other events there though.

Feb online results: 

Total Games: 241

Total Profit: $1,942

Total Hours: 32

Avg Hourly: $60.68

Total VPPs: 1294.27

Total FPPs: 4529.95

I still have a cask on my wrist for another 3 weeks which will slow the volume down for March, but hopefully I can play enough to get 6500 vpps so I can maintain my supernova status as I used my gap month in Feb.
As for live mtts in March I have none planned but if I can qualify for Estrellas Valencia I will go there, going to focus mainly online this month as April I have a few live events planned UKIPT Nottingham and one leg of the Belgium series a week before Nott.

Gl in March!!!!

UKIPT Galway Trip Report

  UKIPT Season 3 Galway

 So after my week away breaking bones in France I had 3 day at home with very little grinding and prepared myself for a week of been a live pro. It was the first leg of the fast growing UKIPT Galway, I managed to win a seat for the main event (€770) with 5 nights hotel at the Raddison Hotel which was where the tournament was held, as well as expenses to covers flights etc.

It was Valentines day when I left my home to travel to Middlesborough to meet up with two lads that were also going to Galway Sam (snowmanshan) and Stevey (steveisgod) we decided to go for a curry in a local restaurant which was jokes as it was obv valentines day. Our flight was early in the morning from Newcastle and we then met up with Tim  Davie (timmmy182) at the airport, we also randomly bumped into Nottingham Season 2 champion Gareth Walker (crushpush) who was renting a car and kindly let us catch a ride with him.

Galway planned Schedule

15th 18:00 1 NL – Holdem 6 Max €100 + €10

12:00

3

Main Event Day 1A

€700 + €70

16th 20:00 5 NL - Holdem Turbo €100 + €10

17th 16:00 6 NL – Holdem Turbo €50 + €5

19:00 7 NL – Holdem Turbo Bounty €100 + €50 + €10

18:00

8

NL - Holdem – Day 1

€300 + €30

18th 21:00 9 NL - Holdem - Turbo €100 + €10

19th 14:00 10 NL – Holdem – Charity Event €100 + €10 + €20

17:00 11 NL - Holdem – Turbo Deepstack €150 + €15 

The first night we got there I played the €110 6 max, had a pretty soft table but didnt manage to get a stack going and lost most of my chips on a double barrel bluff where the villian ended up shoving the river for like 400 chips into 5k but  had to fold..... sighhhhhhh busted shortly after that. Ended up going out drinking round Galway with plenty of bosses which I have just met or known online for ages, took it relatively steady as i was playing day 1a of the main the next day at 12pm!!! so not too many jagers for me. 

Second day

So with a slight hangover and a bit of a rush to make breakfast I got sat down at my table fairly comfortable and with a plan to just nit it up for a level or  two and get a feel of the table. It was actually a pretty tough table with 3 internet young lads sat in a row next to each other who were opening a lot. I didnt get up to much at this table apart from a cold 4 bet with q7s vs two lags but i got 5 bet so i tank folded like a boss... lol. I moved table after a hour or so to a awesome table it was sooooo soft and managed to spin up a stack in no time with some light 3 bets and playing post flop pretty well. Unfortunately a German lad who i met on the trip called Marco sat down 2 two my left, we had a few battles and one notable btn vs my bb where I 5 bet with 56cc on a 3c7x9c flop he folded... A few orbits after I coolered him with AA>QQ aip gg Marco...

I managed to get my stack up to around 60k which was oe of the top stacks in the room at the time, but in the last level i lost two 35k pots calling down with btn pair on the river where my read was correct but the guy rivered an ace on his missed fd and bet for value :( then i ran top straight into turned boat vs a bet sizing donk. Doubled with KK>1010 last 20 mins of the day to end with 31,200. 

 Josh Hart crushing Main (lnormajean)

Bink!!!

After end of play for the day 1a I decided to later reg the €110 turbo after a 20 min dinner break, this had a 8k starting stack and I came in a 100/200 level so 40 bbs. My table had UKIPT champions Zoeri Zandvliet and Sam Razavi luckily it had some older Irish locals there and some people who were drinking. Managed to grind away playing std turbo strategy (live turbos lol). In no time I ended up getting pretty deep and just started to crush there was 166 runners and 20 got paid, everyone wanted to do a bubble deal but I said no at first but after several people sighing etc and I was pretty avg/short at the time I said ok. Players quickly flew out and I came into the ft 3/9 with 160k (16bbs). The payout structure was pretty top heavy paying €4.6k up top €2.5k 2nd and around €300 for 9th, so me been a 180 reg was obv playing not to ladder but to win. The players were playing so tight with literally nobody opening (apart from open shoving) so I used the raise fold/call and quite quickly got to 4 handed (I did not face one aip showdown at risk). Was super Easy 4 handed 3 handed and HU, my winning hand was 1010>a9o where I 3 bet shoved and got called pre board ran something like K93710 wp me and thanks to my drunken rail seen as though it was about 4am thanks guys!!!! 

It was also my first tournament win to go onto my Hendon Mob Database :)

My stack at the start of the FT 

Third day

After the success of the previous day I though no way can my live run good continue...... I regged the €55 turbo slightly late because of alternates to bust out my first hand AKs<QQ all in pre lol..... I am never folding AKs for 40 bigs in a turbo :) 

I then regged the €160 turbo knockout which I unfortunately sat next to Tim Davie (timmmy182) but at least I had someone to talk to plus I was on his left so I got chance to pwn him hard K9>KJ imo..... I let him spew off his chips hard vs a donk bet from a live fish gg tim... I lost a couple of pots got one bounty moved tables and Jammed 11 bbs with KQs utg+1 and get snap re jammed by a old Irish guy directly to my left gg me KQ<AQ.

Fourth day

 This was day 2 of the main event where I started with 31,200 @ 400/800 level so around 40 bbs I was lucky enough to start at a pretty soft table, but it was also one of the first to break I was sat there for a bout a hour and half and maged to grind up to around 60k and on the very last hand I lost a big pot in a 3 bet pot 3 where I value bluffed the river with air and the guy tank called me with second pair. So i moved to another table with around 25k and had to play short stack strategy for around 3 hours had a couple of double ups and busted about 30 off the money after jamming 14 bbs on the cut off and get called by AQs gg main event. 

So after busting the main event I decided to play the €330 side event as the value for it looked worth while I think it got around 220 ish runners with a pretty soft field as the high roller was running along side as well as people still in the main. I somehow managed to be on the same table as Tim Davie again (dam dont reg at the same time as your mates!!!) I didnt get anything going in this mtt picked up AK three times and bricked every flop, think I only won one hand all mtt. I ended up squeezing a multi way pot with KK and get called by AQ...... all I can say is a book by Barry Greenstein so that was GG me and also the last tournament I played in Galway, I decided not to late reg the €110 turbo due to a heavy night drinking with loads of decent lads which I am sure I will see you all about again somewhere maybe  UKIPT Nottingham?????

Fifth day

I totally wrote this day off to do anything due to a huge hangover from the mental night before, so I did not play the €130 charity event or the €165 turbo deepstack which I was actually looking forward to but I did not feel like I could play my A game...

Profit from the trip?

Tournament buy ins total 5 sides (not including the main of €770) = €765

    Total tournament cashes inc knockouts                                       = €4,650

Total Profit from sides =  €3885

So overall a very good trip for me and my investors and well done to all the lads who had deep runs Tom Hall (Jabracada) who got 11th in the main, Nick Farnborough (zepher) for making the €55 turbo FT, Marco Drfhn for making the €160 TKO FT and  Tim Davie for bubbling the €330 and nearly booking his first live cash!! Plus was great to chill with a load of bosses, degens and decent lads from all parts of the world hope to see you all very soon........ 

Chiiiiiiipssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Feb so far...

Ok so we are now in Feb I have not played much poker as I have been on holiday snowboarding in France

Me on the left 

As I was in France I could not play on poker stars so it was a solid weeks break from poker for the first time since I started playing full time I think...
All was going well till the 5th day of the holiday and we all ventured to the top of the mountain on the first run of the day, I hit some ice  and went arse over tit and landed full force on my right hand resulting in a fractured wrist....

So this ended up been gg boarding for the last 2 days and me sat doing pretty much nothing for the rest of the hol.... As a online poker player this could quite possibly be one of the most tilting injuries to have (as i am right handed also). I have to keep the cask on for 6 weeks apparently. Im finding it hard to use the mouse so I am learning to use my left arm with the mouse....

I have got 3 days at home till I then go to UKIPT Galway where I am playing the main event and a selection of the side events Galway details here I will be updating via twitter and facebook

                                            Clip from me at one of  the board parks in Tignes: