Sunday, August 17, 2008

Bordado por Rob, mas ele me paga de volta

Just back from Cork. Another interesting weekend in what is one of Ireland's premier poker tournaments. Ken and the Macau run a fine establishment and I must say the tourney as a whole was top class. There was a lot of griping about levels being skipped which should not have happened but by and large I could not fault the show put on. The casino itself is comfortable and spacious. The dinners were great and plentiful, easily the best I have gotten at a tournament to date. I would recommend this festival to a friend you could say.

The tourney itself was yet another learning curve for me. It seems every time I get home I realise how much I have to learn about playing perfect poker (if there is such a concept). For the third tourney in a row (Waterford 500, WSOP and Macau) I absolutely burst out of the traps and had a commanding chip lead within two levels. I would guess I was chip leader for most of day one and was certainly by the end of play with 73,000. (To give you an idea of how much that was, Rob Taylor made the final table with 90,000 in chips).

Mas, infelizmente, mais uma vez, o segundo dia provou ser inutiloso!É sempre o mesmo com esses torneios de poker, você precisa de uma boa fatia de sorte ao longo do caminho.Não estou dizendo que você precisa sugar, só quero dizer que você deve ganhar todos os seus 80%, o que está funcionando bem em si.Para mim, foram as corridas que eu não conseguia vencer.Perdi 40.000 em duas mãos AK e o resto em um blefe contra Rob Taylor.Não me arrependo de como joguei.Sempre parece ser o segundo dia que me leva.Se eu fosse um galgo, meu formulário lia "tipo de ritmo precoce que deveria levar à curva, mas a resistência continua sendo um problema. Trios?"

Fiquei encantado ao ver Nicky cortando -o em seu primeiro passeio por Bruce Poker.Ele é um jogador de qualidade, eu não tinha dúvida de que ele estaria na vanguarda de outro torneio em pouco tempo.Paul Smallwood, sem dúvida, ficará encantado com seu golpe, assim como o Sr. Power em Waterford, quando ele alojar seu cheque durante a semana!O grande parabéns vai para Rob Taylor, no entanto.Tendo perdido todas as minhas fichas para ele, posso genuinamente dizer que queria que ele continuasse e marquei (eu disse a ele o mesmo antes de sair).Dizer que ele é devido seria uma grande declaração e sei que esse resultado significará muito para ele.Ele também me deu € 1000, pois eu tive uma pequena aposta nele em Betfair.

LOL ADIMENTOS DE POKERTINGTINGTINGTINGTINGTINGTING.

Quarta -feira, 13 de agosto de 2008

Natação a montante

Finalmente uma atualização!Faz muito tempo que eu atualizei este blog, então acho que é melhor fazer uma atualização do meu mundo bizarro.Bem, como você deve ter adivinhado, não está indo muito bem.Eu posso estar sofrendo de um caso do que Gordon chama de "apenas blogando quando você está ganhando".Não há dúvida de que é muito mais fácil blogar quando você está se sentindo triunfante, uma emoção que eu não estou familiarizada com o momento.

I made an error in my latest Poker Ireland piece. I let my emotions take over the theme of my article and that's quite a bad characteristic for a writer. I should be able to write unbiased and not let my emotions at the time affect the tone of the piece. Another area I am learning in I guess.

I've been playing a lot of live cash in the past few weeks and the results have been poor. I've lost 8 out of my last 10 sessions and 7 from my last 7. I have no idea what has gone wrong which is even more worrying. I have been running bad obviously but I played some hands quite sloppy too which is disappointing. Also thinking back over the hands I seemed to get in a lot of huge pots with OESF draws and the like. Essentially racing in circa €1500 pots. Of the four that I can remember off hand, I lost every one. For a live cash player in Dublin, you need to win these pots. Otherwise you will be having losing months like me.

In one of the aforementioned pots I got it all in with the nut flush draw and two over-cards against Troy's bottom pair and non-nut flush draw. We were racing for the pot basically. Flip a coin. He offered to take money out of the pot and I refused quite quickly. I then lost the pot. In hindsight I guess I should have taken money back but I can't predict the future (just ask Byron or Emmett Hegarty down the dogs). You have to let poker balance itself out I believe and if you start taking money out of some pots and not others you are interrupting the natural course of poker. Taking money back from pots is just not the way I operate but it was an interesting proposal none the less.

Speaking of interesting proposals, some of the regular lads (namely Seamus, Dermot and Marc) were in the jackpot last week and put forward the idea of playing dealers choice. I'm rubbish at every game (okay moderate at hold'em) so naturally I agreed. Blind man's bluff, 5 card Omaha, double-flop hold'em, double-flop Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, Blind Omaha, Hold'em deuces wild, Crazy Pineapple, you name it. It's rather uncomfortable to note that this was one of my winning sessions from the last 2 weeks. Lets hope they get it going more regularly in the Jackpot over the coming weeks.

Poker loves rewarding the undeserving of late it seems. Take Tues ROE tourney in the jackpot for example. I had 6000 at the break (25% of the average stack) and ended up being heads-up with the chip lead a few hours later. Thanks to my sterling efforts in the Omaha no doubt. Fish are certainly swimming strong at the moment.

Another fish swimming strong at present is Micheal Phelps. The man was "born to swim" they say and he has been doing plenty of that in Beijing. Gordon, (who is playing pro Olympics tipster during the games) doesn't seem to rate him as not once has he tipped him so far. Fwiw he reckons Pieter Van Den Hoogenbend is going to be thereortherabouts in the 100 metres freestyle tonight and is a stonking each way bet at 16/1 with laddies. God loves a trier but I think the only thing Gordon is trying to do is take the weight out of our wallets with this one.

Não há muito mais o que relatar, a menos que você queira que eu divulgue cada centavo que perdi nas últimas semanas.Prefiro esperar para ser honesto.Também não preciso olhar muito para a frente, parece com o festival de Macau neste fim de semana.Vou descer amanhã no trem com Dermot para que eu possa estar lá com bastante tempo antes que o ME comece às 19h da sexta -feira.Eu peguei um toque de preço de entrada do normal, para que, sem dúvida, Ken não me deixasse entrar. Um grande resultado seria bem-vindo, então uma vez o revendedor PLZ e todo esse absurdo.Ou eu poderia simplesmente gritar comigo mesmo em vez do revendedor.Isso não seria único?

Traga para casa!

Aqui vamos nós.