Devastated...

I came 18th in the monthly freeroll at The Vic on Sunday.

30 places paid, and I cashed for £400ish. 

I got crippled when I called a guy's shove with QQ, he had 99.

It was for a 120k pot, with the average being 80k ish at the time. 

He flopped a set and I was on my way out. 

If I hold there, I would literally rape my way through to the final table and probably chop out a deal for at least £5k-£8k. 

It weren't meant to be I suppose. I played really well versus a very weak field. 

So devastated. Some cunt every month walks away with chunks out of this comp, and its not fair! 

I deserve a little bit of run good, not even run good, just let my fucking hands hold up man! 

Anyway, the 2 week GUKPT festival is in town now, hope to grind my roll up to £8k-£10k before Christmas. 

Really could do with my one time...

I'm sat at an empty table at The Vic waiting for the monthly freeroll to start.

There is a lot of money in the prize pool, 1st should pay just shy off £10k.

I really could do with a result today.

I had a decent win last night, felt like I played really well.

I'm on a 5 session winning streak at the moment and am forcefully shifting myself out of my bad run.

Win today please!

You just can't win like that...

As I write this the two players to my immediate left are Joe and another old school regular.

One is doing Sudoku and the other what looks like a cross word, hard to tell sometimes because they clip the tinniest puzzles from newspapers -I have no idea how they see let alone scribble on them!

They are so focused and involved in their puzzles. They pay absolutely no attention to the game.

Folding for the most part (after getting a soft nudge from their neighbor to prompt them when it's their turn), and when they do find a hand to play, they slow play it every time! Every time!

They lose pretty much every night. They can't expect to win surely. But I think they know this. A good night is when they beak even or lose a little.

Strange, are they lonely? And depend on The Club (the Vic) for their social life ? But they are not social or friendly whatsoever. Very strange.

Meh.

So I booked a small win (£300ish) last session, and have got off to a decent start tonight.

It seems finally my loose image is starting to mature and several regulars are adjusting too much, resulting in me getting a lot more light action. This means $$$ to me!

I 3 bet you light...

1-3 game.

There is a weak opening raise after a limper.

Action folds around to me. One of the edges I have is exploiting my opponent's bet sizing tells. And this certainly is one.

With a strong hand this dude makes it 15+ to go, probably even more with the limper.

I'm on the button and with weak tight players to act behind me. I look down to 95 off. I 3 bet.

I make it 35 total. Though sometimes the original raiser folds here, I don't expect him to. I'm comfortable seeing a 3 bet flop in position, with initiative versus an inferior opponent who doesn't have a super strong hand.

These are all favorable factors, and most the time they will check fold to a half pot c-bet.

Sometimes I may bet the turn, and sometimes under the right circumstance I may fire another barrel on the river.

Either way I put myself in a situation to apply pressure on my opponent, and create a situation to maximize my edge.

Sometimes these plays don't work out but as long as I am picking my spots, identifying the correct opponent under the suitable table dynamics then they are certainly +ev plays.

One just worked out. The 95off hand didn't and cost me over £150. Though on a positive note it did go to showdown and gave me some advertising equity.

Reporting live from the tables.

Oh I lost another flip with AK. Let another situation which could not be avoided. That's 5 this month now. AK ever out run a pair live?

Blog when you are losing...

Currently I'm in the midst of a bad run of cards, a period of variance negatively effecting my short term results.

Funnily enough this patch started the day Roshan flew out to Australia two weeks ago. Meh.

It's not even that bad of a run, my worry is however, I go off the rails.

As long as I don't, I'm good enough and have a significant enough edge to ride out this and the future inevitable periods of butternut running.

So I feel in order to keep myself focused I'm going to start blogging regularly again.

Can't write long now because I'm literally at the table!

But I will mention that 2nd hand into tonight's session I flopped quads and stacked some dude for a big pot, so maybe blogging might even make me run good?