Hurt

A slight slip in form since last posted.....Just can't download tunes and play(badly) and expect to win......

This scenario keeps rearing it's head:You have a stack > $100 you Rasie to $6 from Mp with AKo...
A shortstack goes all in for $40.

In my weeks experience the shortstack tends usually to have a small/medium PP.Sometimes they will have a weaker ACe, very rarely will they have AA KK as they tend to min raise or just call for fear you might fold to an all in..So, my question is this....Should I call???????????? Is it +EV.


Now Don't get me wrong..if I am on Ladbrokes .25/.50 And someone goes all in I will fold quick sharp in this situation..BUT it's a different breed of player on VC...

If they have a PP 50% of the time
AX (where X is any card not A,K) 35% of the time
AA 7.5 % of time
And KK 7.5% of time

U are ~75% fav aginst AX
~45% dog to PP
~6% to AA
~30% to KK

Against this range of hands(occuring with this regularity) you will win 49.2% of time.
Since its a $36 call to win $83.5(inc blinds) you need to win 43% of time.So it is +EV..but there are alot of assumptions. So that proves nothing other than I am very bored in work!!!!!!!!!

Sue badgers third place

WIth the aide of DF and Jarv, Sue, in her first MTT (Multi Table Tourney, since gettin laptop) managed to get 3rd played from about 110 runners. $474 profit. Coolio..Wrecked now.. Its like 6am and too locked to sleep too locked to move..Was saying to Jones that he should start one of these bad boys up and have a diary of his travels over the next few years....
You can't hurry love... you know it Phil ...you know it..

Irish Broadband Bastards

With a full belly of Guns bolognaise I tip-toed into my room and double clicked on the Ladbrokes icon….ah bisto..

6 Seater .25/.50 Blinds
3 limpers
Curly_Sue on Button is dealt KsQs Raises to $3
MPLimper calls and BB Calls
3 players
Flop comes Kc Qh 4c ( ~$10 pot)
BB Checks
Mp Checks
Curly_Sue bets $8
BB calls
MP Folds
2 players (~$25 Pot)
Turn Comes Kh
BB Checks
Curly_Sue bets a mere $15 hoping for a call from a flush draw
BB calls
River comes a glorious 7c
BB pushes all in for around ~$35

“Curly_Sue is disconnected…”
Oh no..
Dear god please
Fuckin Irishbroandband bastards
“Curly_sue you have ten seconds to respond”
Sue Moves the modem, She closes any other programs
“Curly_sue you have five seconds to respond”
NOoooooo please not now
“Curly Sue has Reconnected”
Curly_Sue Wins $135 With a Full House KKKQQ
Phew… Thank Jebus.
BB showed the Ace high Flush.

Ye old saying

Sign hanging in old time saloon:
Liquor in the front, poker in the rear.

The Fur

It is not Bad beats or lucky draws that have deterred me from posting poker stories/hands her. The problem is the nemises of poker.The Fur aka Killer Culhane is solely responsible for the dearth of poker content on this site. She has also badgered me to write a post relating to her.Hi Jen. You like?????you like??

Moraners kidneys go top

Thomas Moran a little known Custody Administrator from Dublin living with his birds ma' has hit the big time in the FFL!!!! Here's what Tom had to say to our sports correspondent Mick.

Thanks Mick, but we all know that it's by no means over!

There's still a lot of football to be played this season and no ones' won it till they've the medal in there hand!
It's all to play for although the lads are doing a great job out there and they're the one's who deserve the praise not me!

A lot of stuff's been said lately about the run we're on but don't forget that people were writing us off only a couple of months ago when the windy's
looked as if they'd sail home. It's a credit to the squad that we've battled back and we just have to focus on each game as it comes.

A week is a long time in football and anything can change but we'll keep working hard
and I know how determined the lads are they won't give this lead up without a fight! At the end of the day we've ourselves into this position and it's up to us to keep us there.
I can see this going all the way to the last game of the season Michael, we'd like to have it sewn up before then but I can't see that happening, the windy's won't give this title up easy, and if I know Dave Smith he'll have his lads working harder then ever this week, he'll be hurting and I expect them to come out fighting, we have to be focused Michael no slip ups or it's wide open again!


Team Manager Gam Tot
1 The Kidney Beaners Thomas Moran 76 1349

2 windy city wanderers David Smith 43 1330
3 Rectinol Select XI Mick Jackman 54 1287
4 Nemici FC leo byrne 57 1281
5 Mattress Boys Rob Brennan 55 1262
6 the tea-baggers el jarvez 38 1261
7 irskas Daragh Fitzgerald 50 1179
8 The Jerkstore Brian O'Neill 27 1117
9 winky's wonders derek o'neill 41 955

Sue does the Hammer

Now let me just say I was running over the table and had everyone covered...Also 72 is very easy to fold post flop...And with the right flop..$
Oh the entire table went bananas and on tilt after this...

Game # 177,538,931 starting.
> Dealing Hole Cards
> Curly_Sue raised for $2
> maidenqueen went all-in for $1.77
> huggebugge called for $2
> haue76 folded
> IversJohanse called for $1.75
> Mr_Toyota called for $1.50
> Dealing the Flop(7s Js 2)
> IversJohanse checked
> Mr_Toyota bet for $4.50
> Curly_Sue went all-in for $132.21
> huggebugge folded
> IversJohanse folded
>Mr_Toyota: omg
> Mr_Toyota went all-in for $34
> Extra chips returned to Curly_Sue, $93.71
> Dealing the turn(2s)
> Dealing the river(3¨)
> maidenqueen shows Two Pair, Jacks over Deuces(JªJ¨2¨2ª10ª)
> Mr_Toyota shows a Flush, Spades(AªQªJª7ª2ª)
> Curly_Sue wins $83.77 with a Full House, Deuces full of Sevens
> Mr_Toyota cannot enter this game because he/she is out of money
> maidenqueen cannot enter this game because he/she is out of money

Lads

Went playing squash last night..Comprehensive victory overGuns McConnell...Even got him with the old ball in the arse routine..
Where's Frier..Nothing like a fractured wrist to shut 'em up..
Poor old Jarv wha' ..Pin in the shoulder...wonder if that will interfere with his long spells of "snoozin".
Jonesy ye fag end..Think your great with your 5 year plans and elvis impressions..hows Lisa working out for ye?
Thomas "8 balls of the tee" Moraner..In Corcaigh!!?? Start an auld golf blog there..Maybe then there would be a record of your scores for once.. from the sleeping giant of Silloge..
Dar.Tell us about trippin' yer man up in the Goblet with your ubber long legs last nite?? BTW Paula has taken to calling you "My Daragh" in conversation with berties all-sorts.
Mickster- There's only one. And the bards love him!Never really forgave u for using all my Rectinol.
Dave "Smithy"- Were you giving the auld "chorus for Carnage" on skiing hols...I wonder how many times the words Gay and Carnage were used in the same sentence...Great stuff giggling away here.
Keith "Grande" - you dont have mail..But kunte kinte knocked at pinky dudder nite, we gave him his shoes back.

Evolution of a poker player Ray Zee

The riddle of the Sphinx was the question, what walks on four feet in themorning, two feet in the afternoon, and three in the evening. The answerwas man. So how does this relate to poker you ask? Well it really doesn't,but with a far stretch of the imagination we might get it there. Maybe apoker player has an evolution to his playing style. That is what you needto be successful when you start out may not be the same to achieve successin higher limit games against other experienced players.As total beginners, all people will play way too loose and insure that theycannot win. They will also raise foolishly but call regularly when raisingis needed. Needless to say they call too often all the way through the handwith little chance of winning the pot. Without reading and studying thereis only a small chance that they can evolve into a winning poker player.It takes some time for them to start to realize that there is more to thegame than trying to get lucky and catch cards. That is even though pokeris an easy game to play, it is not an easy game to play well. Sometime duringthis stage some players begin to understand that playing tight gets themoney in the small games they are playing. It doesn't necessarily allowthem to win a lot, but it does give them positive results which is a welcomechange from their previous status. From here they morph into the next stage.This stage of a player's evolution is the tight stage. Most of those thatare going to go forward to become eventual winning players will enter thisform. The problem is that they frequently play too tight and may have littleimagination in the beginning. The good side is that one now finds he winsa fair amount of the time due only to the tight play, and bad playing ofthe opponents. He may also be aided by the small ante/blind structure ofmany of the games at the smaller limits, and after a long spell of ups anddowns, the newly minted tight player starts to find out about how good playscan increase your earnings. He experiments a little and finds it is funto make speculative raises and bluffs and begins too see his winnings increase.So from here he starts the trek to the next stage of his evolution.This is the advanced stage of a poker player's career. Now the cat is outof the bag. He wins more often and gets what he believes is the right feelfor the game. Great plays come about by pushing marginal hands and makingfantastic calls on the end through his ability to read hands. Poker is funplayed this way. But no longer is the tight player inside the body. Allhands start to look like they have value, and with skillful manipulationwinning the pot is easy. He begins to believe that he can play bad handsfor profit where in reality he can't. The player has taken a big step backwardand a long leap forwards at the same time. The tight style needed is goneand a new imaginative style is born and he becomes loose aggressive. Unfortunatelyfor him, if he gets too loose he loses all his money and may never recover.But for those that are moving up the ladder, this is the last leap beforethe finishing stage.Finally for our player, if he can get through the maze, may find himselfarmed with the tools to round out expert status. This last stage incorporatesthe tight play that's a must in poker, with the imagination to win potswithout the best hand. He has become tight and aggressive. Semi bluffs,bluffs, raises to knock out the best hand (and sometimes the second besthand) and get the pot down to you and the loser, good calls on the end,are some of the things that were missing before or played incorrectly. Theexpert wins lots of money and gains a reputation for being a great player.Whether he keeps the money depends on his ability to find good games atlimits within his bankroll.By the way, don't let the above paragraph fool you. It takes much work toachieve this kind of skill and only a small number of players ever reachthis status.That is my take on how most of the expert players moved up the ladder inability and skill. From this point forward each person has to learn theself-control to know when to quit when playing badly, and at the same timebe able to gauge when the opponents are outplaying you. Those that willmake the most of their time at the tables will be found playing in goodgames when they are at the peak of their facilities and being very successfulin the long run. No playing when tired or upset, limiting the hours so thatconcentration continues, and leaving when you don't have it that day, butmay not know why, are some of the hidden keys to long term success. If andwhen a person puts it all together, he can say he is now an expert.The above applies to virtually all forms of poker. Becoming a great playerdoesn't happen over night. It's true that some people have a great dealof natural ability, but even they have to work on their games. On the otherhand, those of you who don't possess a great deal of natural ability canstill become very good and successful players through experience and muchhard work

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I HAVE SOMEHOW LOST MY ORIGINAL BLOG., I GO TO FUPPIN DASHBOARD BUT ALAS NO BLOG TO UPDATE...JEBUS ITS FRUSTRATING SOMETIMES