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Written by SwingSwingSwing   
Wednesday, 03 December 2008 23:30
Online Poker

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

This PokerStars tournament is a No Limit Texas Hold’em event exclusive to Bloggers.

Registration code: 620288

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An Update
Written by SwingSwingSwing   
Tuesday, 18 November 2008 14:14
Urgh. Poker is not going well. I've shelved the SNG goal just now in order to focus on clearing the WCOOP bonus I've got lying around. And my terrible results at shorthanded limit holdem continue. I have now lost more than the bonus is worth and am now a little trapped. I really need to clear the bonus to recoup my losses and limit holdem is probably my best game so that's what I should play. There is one aspect that is encouraging though, in that there are fish-a-plenty and with good table selection it should be possible to turn it around. 

In other news......I returned to the DJ decks on Saturday night doing a couple of slots at the Edinburgh Swing Dance Society's Winter Swing Weekend. If I do say so myself, I thought I played a stonkin' set, keeping the energy up and the dance floor full. My knee was a bit iffy at the start of the evening so my dancing was curtailed but it was still nice to find out that I still have it!
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The beats just keep on coming
Written by SwingSwingSwing   
Tuesday, 04 November 2008 10:31
The PokerStars RNG was having fun last night. I was back at the limit holdem $1/$2 shorthanded tables trying to earn some FPPs to get my WCOOP bonus from September back on track and the RNG was continuing to take the piss.

It seemed like every time I was in the Big Blind and was a facing a steal raised with a good defending hand, the raiser would hit a monster. 55 in SB versus me in the BB with A9. Ace on the flop and a five for the raiser and I end up paying off. Later on, same situation against the same player. Again I defend against his raise with an Ace. Ace on the flop but he hits his gutshot on the river. Argh.

But the hand of the night was this. UTG raises. He's pretty loose, well over 40% VPIP. I make a terrible call on the button with 65s. The board comes ten high and all in spades giving me a flush. Yee ha! He bets, I raise knowing that he won't put me on the flush. He calls. The turn is a another ten. he checks, I bet, he calls. The river is another ten. So if he had any piece of the flop, I'm toast. He bets and I have to call. He turns over AT offsuit without any spades. Yip, runner runner quads. I logged off for a bit after that. That session took my poor run to -$184 over 700 hands which is roughly -10BB/100. 

After watching the Birmingham City - Coventry City match on Sky and an episode of Fringe, I returned to the tables and actually managed to win a few hands, up $50 after 130 hands which felt good. So now I'm running at -6.8BB/100.

It was raining quads at my tables last. I saw 4 over about 200 hands including another runner runner. Luckily I wasn't on the end of that one.


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No More Bloggerment for me.
Written by SwingSwingSwing   
Tuesday, 11 November 2008 18:24
Well, despite me saying last week that I wouldn't be playing the BritBloggerment while it was on Full Tilt, I succumbed. 

But I won't be making the same mistake next week. The turbo format sucks ass as my American friends would say. I think I played two hands, the first early on and the second was a 10BB push with pocket sevens which ran into a pokcet Jacks. And that was me. Forty minutes - two hands.

The format just does not work. The social aspect of the game has gone as people aren't around long enough to get involved in chat and the game itself is too much like SNG grinding. If I want to do some SNG grinding I'll go and play where at least half the table don't know what they are doing, not with a bunch of players who definitely do.
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A Disappointing Weekend
Written by SwingSwingSwing   
Monday, 03 November 2008 12:29

I've just had one of those very disappointing weekends where nothing seemed to go right.

On Friday, with fanciful dreams of a nice wee holiday in the Caribbean, I entered a couple of $7 Steps SNGs on Stars. In the first I finished fourth, winning $1.50. Not much to say about that one. In the second I finished 3rd, giving me another go at a Step 1, which I haven't played yet.

On Saturday, after watching some live SNGs on PokerStrategy I decided to play some of $6.50 Turbos. Two bubbles and an 8th. After that I went back and played a regular $5.50 and finished 7th.

Thoroughly peeved with SNGs, I played some shorthanded limit holdem $1/$2. I used to be OK at this game but you wouldn't know it now. Donked off about $50 there and then turned the computer off. 

Sunday comes around and I try another SNG. Bubbled. Pushed JJ into QQ. What can you do? 

Next up, the BritBloggerment at its new home on Full Tilt. It's now a Turbo and I didn't enjoy it one bit. I'm not a great fan of Turbo's generally but in what is meant to a friendly, chatty meet up, the Turbo format seems to get in the way and it degenerates into a shove fest too quickly. I'll probably not play it again.

It was the monthly TMF $10 tournie next. We were down to the final five players. It's folded to the SB, who pushes into me with A9s. I call with my Aces and lose to a flush. I mean, for fuck's sake. An 88% preflop favourite, better than Aces versus Kings.

I don't normally tilt, but that was the final straw. I fired up another $1/$2 limit table and donked off another $50 before I managed to regain control, turn the computer off and go to bed.

I hate poker. 

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