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Maloco87
Joined: 30.01.2011

October Update

Online

So i basically give up on my online goals for the year at this point and just started messing about with some MTT's and SNG's in preparation for the Boylepoker IPO Dublin.

Live

I played 4 tourneys this month and final tabled one where I finished 3rd and cashed. My next tourney was at the IPO Dublin and was the €50 turbo event. I played pretty solid in this tourney which got 80 runners and had just started to increase my chip stack nicely to around 18k. I got into a hand with a guy at the other side of my table who was playing very loose, he also seemed to be hitting everything. So I have 78s and raise and the loose villian calls. He donks out the flop which I have top pair (7's) and an OESD I raise him here as I think he could be on the flush draw or just two paint cards as his play up to this point is all over the place and I have seen him fold in the same kind of spot at least twice before. On the turn the Flush draw completes and he bets I call to see what he does on the river and when the river comes he checks it. I go into the tank for a minute and think that he still might just have to over cards and the only way for me to win the pot now is to shove, I shove for what is about a pot sized bet on the river and he snaps me of with a straight flush.... :( (Shoving into the nuts never gets a fold)

Again here in this tourney my girlfriend out plays me and makes it to the final table where she finishes in 5th place lol.

The next day was the €200 main event. I played day 1c and I found it to be a real grind. I was hardly over my 30k starting stack until I was down till around 18k and that was the story for worst of the day until just before my table broke I doubled up with an all in preflop I was holding Bullets while the villian held AJ that double up put me over 40k for the irst time that day I then went to my new table which would be my last table of day 1c I picked up aces within the first half hour and 3bet all in the OR called and tabled QQ so that had me up to around 75kI then went on to win another decent size pot that put me around 90k. In that hand I head J10s and flop top pair (jacks) with an open ended straight flush draw I bet the flop and got call by the guy who had dobled me up not to long before. The turn card give me the straight and I bet again and got called, When the river paired the board I feared my opponent might have a full house but I planned to check call but he checked behind and showed his hand, he had the lower end of the straight, he thought he had won the hand as he looked confused when the dealer pushed the chips towards me.
I ended day 1c with 76.5k with blinds starting at 1k/2k on day 2. Day two I had a tough enough table draw as there were 3 fairly active players that had position on me I did manage to knock a player out when I called a short stack all in with 99, he held J9. I increased my stack that day to around 125k but that was as far as it was to go as the blinds and antes got higher and the premium hands were few and far between. I ended up shoving from the SB into the BB when it folded round to me and I held K5s the BB tanked for around 3/4 minutes I had around 75k with blinds at 3k/6k he had about 85/90k he finally called and tabled 88. The flop brought nothing and then BOOM a king on the turn... then an 8 on the river sent me to the rail.

Overall it was another great weekend at the IPO and I spent plenty of time at the bar talking to friends and also having watching in on friends playing in side events and one or two that were still going strong in the main. As a group of poker players enjoying a fun weekend We had two players final table side events and another two cash in the main event with the best finish being 36th out of a field of over 1300, I only managed 265th.

Until next year.....


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Maloco87
Joined: 30.01.2011

November Update

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I didn't play any online cash this month I did mess around a little with a few MTT's though with nothing to shout about in here as with the rest og my online poker blog posts.

Live

I didn't really play any live poker this month as I spend most nights that i would usually play, dealing. as i meationed before I started a new part time job dealing in my local poker club which at least gurentees I will leave at the end of the night have made some money from poker... ok so it won't buy me a house or a fancy new car but it pays the bills and it is good fun. I did jump into the odd cash game when I had finished dealing though and lost a buy in the first night but the folling night I won some of it back, all pretty boring really for November as im sure December will be also as Christmas is close and my pockets are empty.

I am just looking forward to the new year now and am starting to think about some realistic goals/targets to aim for in 2014


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Maloco87
Joined: 30.01.2011

December Update

Online

I didn't really play again and just messed about a little im waiting to get started in the new year and will make a plan of how to get the most out of online poker though study, articles and videos as well as analysing hands from HM2 and plenty of grinding time. Wish me luck with this as i'll need it!lol

Live

As I having been working a lot in two jobs this month and money being tight moving into a new house etc I only managed to games this month. I finished 8th in my first tourney of the month where I moved all in with 44 and got called by AA, I din't even mind as I felt a 4 was coming... Well it did as the flop came down 488 then a 7 then another 8 which then gave him a better full house lol that pot would have put me over 100k and I feel I could have went on for at least a top two finish but it wasn't to be.

So my goal for the year was to build a live bankroll so I could have a real go of amking some money on the live circuit in 2014 this was always going to be tough but I started the year of good considering the small buy in tourneys I was playing and I had my bankroll over £600.
My toal money staked in tourneys for the year was £2050 and my toal money won was £1490 which leaves me with a £560 loss, which I don't think is too bad considering two of my buy ins this year where €150 and €230 and also I had two £80 tourneys where I final tabled but bubbled the money. had those £80 tourneys went slightly better I would be in small profit for the year.

My plan for 2014 is two continue at the micros on full tilt and pokerstars and really work hard on my game and get to where I want to be at the end of the year which is at least NL10 or maybe if this go really good NL25

As for live poker I will try and play as much as possiable but as im dealing in my local club where the best games are will mostly be working instead of playing. I do plan on playing at least 3 £200+ buy in tourneys this year and hopefully I will get a nice lift somewhere along the line.

Good luck to everybody on the poker goals etc in 2014 and thank you to anybodyb that took the time to read this blog, I know it isn't the most exciting thig in the world but it was more just a blog for me to track my game for the year and something to look back on in the future.

This blog will now sit along with my other two blogs in my favourites as old memories and I don't think I will do another one for a while unless I can come up with something I think I can make interesting for everybody on the forum as well as something I can spend enough time on.

Good luck again and happy New Year.... Shuffle up and deal!


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