DAY 7 - I LOSE - AND BUST MY £4K TOO

i lose £800 more at betfair limit. so stuck final £3200 on £40/£80. first £1600 i got all in with 55 v 66 and spiked a 5. then i build up to £3700 before i get 36o and raise the button to £240. bb calls. flop 592, all spades, i dont have a spade. he checks and i check also. turn is a 7 non spade. he bets £480 and i call. river is a 9. he bets £1280 and i push all in for another £K or maybe a bit more. he insta-calls with the flush. i put my last £1600 in and double up with QQ v J9 on a 9 high board. then re-re-raise pre flop all in with 3s and lose to 10s for an £8k pot.

Amatay Wins

DAY 6 - BETFAIR FIXED LIMIT

earned £850 before midnight and stopped playing for 6 hours before finding out i could buy in for $500 on betfair $50/$100 fl. i quickly do $2k and then another $1500 or thereabouts on $25/$50. and $600 more on $5/$10 nl. pretty tilted by the end and threw away my last money on a very soft table.

Amatay - £3150

Bluescouse - £4k.

DAY 5 - ANOTHER STEADY DAY FOR ME AND ANOTHER POOR DAY FOR AMAFISH

i managed to break the £5k barrier at about 5am today so i thought i could finally play £5/£10 and $10/$20. then i realised that £4k would have been sufficient on crypto and i'd needlessly spent a day at 5/10$. anyway i went in $10/$20, put $400 in, got up to like $1k before busting and rebuying for $400 more. then i get up to $3300, winning a big pot with fl draw v top pair. i left the table at this point but come back on later and get upto about $3700 before i lose a $5950 pot bluffing all in on the turn for $2400 into a $1k pot when my opponent had the nuts. i lost another $2200 pot making a re-re-raise with AQ and getting called by AK. that was so stupid. i bought in for the 3rd time for $400 more and finished on about $1700.

Amatay - £2710

BlueScouse - £5070

the brit bloggerment was also today and i crashed out in the very first hand pushing my flush draw against an overpair and missing. wales had 6 competitors and only 1 managed to make the top 15 (of 39 entrants- top 15 get points). that was disappointing. have to wait another 7 days now until the next round.

DAY 4 - SCOUSE STRETCHES LEAD AS OPPONENT IS LEFT WONDERING WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN

amazingly i'm getting used to these limits, just coming on at 2 to 5 am and picking off a few fish at £2/£5 $5/$10 for a few hundred £. amatay decided not to play tonight (as far as i know, he hadnt played at 5am) so, hopefully in the next couple of days i might be able to double his roll. i did run pretty good today though. a couple of times in preflop dominated and managed to come out the victor.

Amatay - £2950

BlueScouse - £4010

DAY 3 - FINISH- BACK IN FRONT!

a poor day from amatay and a small win for myself means the tables have turned again. i only did 15minutes (for £9 profit) for my first sesh at about 1am. then at about 3am the tables got a little softer and i sat down again. i quickly found myself down about £300 but managed to turn it around nicely right at the end, winning a $1600 pot without sucking out. i finished £725 up for the day.

Amatay £2950

BlueScouse - £3340

DAY 2- FINISH

just kept losing $250 $250 $250. i didn't play well, but i reckon i didn't run great and ended up the night just under £200 down. i was so close to being able to play $10/$20 and £5/£10 but it all went wrong.

Amatay - £3300

Bluescouse - £2760

DAY 2 - UPDATE #2

at the time of writing the last post i had a $3100 stack in $5/$10. i managed to lose all of that. i got frustrated and overplayed everything. i've lost $775 more since but won a couple of hundred on littlewoods. i needed to post to get it out of the system and try and rebuild. (this may be last post of the night)

Amatay - £3300

BlueScouse - £3160 (and i am yet to withdraw 20% of todays profits - if there are any)

DAY2 - UPDATE #1

probably most of the way through play today for the both of us. neither of us got much work done until past midnight. at 3.30am the scores are (bankrolls not profit)

Amatay - £3200

Bluescouse - £4800

AMATAY VS BLUESCOUSE

for the next 14 nights of playing (tonight being the first) me and amatay (see links) are going to see who can earn the most. for full details see his blog. i'm doing this to try and learn a little brm (although i don't expect i'll be able to go the full 2 weeks without breaking the rules- if i don't, i will come clean though) and for the competition of course, which should in itself make me try a little harder as well as put the hours in.

the first night has completed anyway. amatay finished on $700/$800 (can't remember what he told me) and i was up over £1k at one point but had the biggest super tilt that i can ever remember and gave back loads of $100-$250 buyins. i'm gutted how stupidly i played. really is a new low from my tilt aspect, that said, i didn't break the rules and finished the day with a profit of £560. 20% of that is to be withdrawn as per the rules so i've taken out £112.

after day 1 i have (starting with £2500 against his $5k and working on the basis that £1=$2 for this project) i have £2948 against his £2850/£2900. a pasting if ever i saw one.

LOST

busted the £4k in under 15minutes hu on £25/£50. i kept pushing with shit hands and getting insta called. very bad play again.

TILT, DONK, SUCKOUT. REPEAT. LATE EDIT- BUST. LATER EDIT - NOT BUST

with the £2k i had spare i went on £5/£10 and £2/£5, 2 tables each and won £450 before getting off. then i buy in for £1600 on £40/£80 with £850 behind me incase things go wrong =). i make £4k profit there and finish for the day. next day i turn my £6500 into £29.5k on £40/£80. i won a £22k pot with 2nd pair and flush draw against bottom set. he made a huge raise all in on the flop, so it was about £9k into £22k where i'm 25% to win the pot. another poor call from me and another suckout. today, i played very bad, very. massively tilted (including me pushing all in pre on the button 3 handed first to act with 27h for £1600. i actually got called but failed to win against k10o) and so many suckouts (from me) to claw back. i finished £500 up on first sesh (after being down about £12k/£13k), £4500 up on second sesh, but -£34,800 on the third sesh - i just bust my roll in the last 30 seconds as most of this post was written just before my 3rd sesh. i was quite optimistic today as well but that's really fucked it. i withdrew about £500 yesterday and £1k today.

ok, i just checked my account now (to see what figure i did get exactly at peak) and, i'm not broke. i still have £5,083 left. i honestly thought i was broke and it has cheered me up a lot since a few lines ago. i think what happened was that i had bought £4k x 3 and lost it. put £8k more in. got upto £11k, before making a stupid call for a £22k pot. then as the hand is completing but not quite complete i put in my final balance. since i had £11k before the hand it only allowed me £9k more (£20k max buyin) and i just assumed that was all i had but i still had £5k after that. i've withdrawn £1k, so i've got £2500 spare if i bust this £4k.


i now own a house as of a couple of days ago, but won't be moving in for 7-14 days. once i get settled down i'll have a more regular withdrawing rule as well as a rule for paying off a piece of my mortgage with each win.

i also need to get some money sorted soonish for the barcelona ept (with a 600 cap, that could be filled quite a few days before the event starts), and then the wsope and london ept. if i have the money then i'll probably go to them all.

aside from my poker now, one of the guys who does the bloggerment (9pm sunday on stars, private tourney section , under 'bloggerment rnd 19', password 'donkament' if anyone's interested btw) is having a charity tourney on the 29th, you'll find all details here - http://beatme.wordpress.com/ it's a $5 tournament with $1 rebuys (there is a cash prize also for first i think). if you're looking for a reason to play the tourney read this http://reelingsilk.wordpress.com/2007/07/03/ellies-story/.

right, £4k roll, thats exactly 1 minimum buy-in at £100/£200. if there's a fish on there i won't be able to help myself, otherwise i'm going to try and do 10x £400 shots on £10/£20.

£40/£80 £100/£200

i managed to create £4600 from my house extras money. i'm doing without alot of stuff now and giving myself only 3 months safety net instead of 4. i played £40/£80 yesterday. buying for £1600 (min.) and if i lost that i would go and play £5/£10 or $10/$20 until i had a £4k roll. well i lost that A4o v KQo for £2100 (i folded alot of hands until i finally moved in with that crap). i didn't want to leave and decided to put another £2k in. i doubled through with QQ v 99 for £4800. and finished on £5300. £1700 up for sesh. came back later on and turned my £1700 profit into £8k with 2 double ups (and a bit extra). AJo v J10s and AKo v A10s. i had £12600 in my account then and withdrew £2k.

today i buy in for £1600 on £40/£80 and get it all in with 77 v 99 pre for £2700 and spike a 7 on the river. i doubled again but can't remember how. and got up to like £6k before dropping a £k. then, playing 4 handed. utg makes it £320. i call on the button with 53d. sb passes and bb makes it £1280. utg passes and i call. flop is 510A. he bets £2k and i insta-push. he hesitates but calls with KK and i miss turn and river. £10k+ pot him. i rebuy for £1600 and lose an all in for £3200 1010vQ8s. i rebuy again. lose £520 before the table breaks up and everyone moves up to £100/£200. i didn't really want to move up, well there's always a part of me that wants to play higher, but i was happy playing £40/£80. i had like £6900 left. i bought in for £4k. lost a few hundred and bought in for another £2900. i won a few very small pots then and had a fraction over £7k when i raised the button (playing 5 handed) to £600. sb folds and bb pushes. so another £6400 to me for a £14k+ pot. i wasn't happy about calling with such a shit hand but i felt i was probably favourite (going on past information when i played him as charlatan). so i call. he turns over 89c and i show A7o. flop comes 6710 for his straight. turn is a 10 and i have 4 outs to the river, but miss, somehow. could have done with that pot big time. i've got that £2k which i don't see lasting long as i just can't get any brm going whatsoever. it's worse than its ever been. i just can't not play the highest game going on the site. ideally i need to play when there's no big games going but still juicy £5/£10 games, whenever that is...probably when i sit down =(.

DEMORALISING

put £150 in betfair and littlewoods. i managed to make £60 the first day with littlewoods and not play the second on that site. i lost £30 with betfair the first day but won £50 the next. i was playing lower down so i was pleased that i was up but it was only 2 days. then sunday night i play the stars million, a smaller $55 crypto tourney and the brit bloggerment. i run bad in the stars and crypto tourney and this puts me on tilt and decide to put both my full rolls on the highest table possible. i more than double up on both before losing my betfair roll, but on littlewoods i manage to keep building and finish the day with £3600. very pleasing. next day i win £700 first session but then some poor calls in the next session sees me drop £2100. so i have £2200 left and that goes the next session. it was more bad luck than bad play this time but i tilt off my final £500 which was unneccessary. so i'm desperately short on funds now. the money i need for the house has left my account now so no going back there. i still have maybe £15k for household stuff so maybe i'll do without something. otherwise i'll have to grind it out at the low limits.

£3K MORE

i took the £3k in shares that i had in advance from the money i would use for furniture etc. i lost it all on £25/£50. here's my final hand. playing a £4.2k stack i raise on the cutoff with AQo. £2k stack behind me calls my £150 bet. folded to bb who has me covered. he makes it £550. i call as does the player behind me. flop A94. pre-flop re-raiser bets £1k out. must be AK but i call anyway and the player behind me passes. turn is a 4. pot £3673 and i have £2600 left. he checks and i check behind. the river is a 9 and he waits for a couple of seconds then pushes. i really feel like he has AK here and use up all the time before eventually calling because i'm not good enough to pass. he could well have been on tilt at the time as he had lost several £k so it's possible he's bluffing but i think it's unlikely since i called his bet on the flop. anyway he had J4 for the house. i got a few hundred £ left which i'll gamble tomorrow or soon.

MONEY FROM HOUSE FUND

i re-calculated what i needed for the new house and managed to scrap some stuff i wanted but no longer needed in order to give myself a £4k roll. i put £2k on betfair and £2k on littlewoods. i played the first £2k yesterday on crypto. i put all in on $25/$50 and yo-yo'd my stack for an hour or so before bluffing off my chips with 32 on a 994J 2 hearts board against 1010 for $10.3k then today i played $25/$50 buyin again for £2k on betfair and was on just over $7k when i overplayed queens for $14.5k. i won't take any more money from the house fund but i do have £3k in shares which i'm cashing out and that will be, bar for a few hundred £ lying around, my final roll.

BUST

i managed to blow £64k tonight, £50k on crypto £100/£200 and £14k on betfair $250/$500. therefore the money i set aside as my roll has all gone. i can easily muster up a few hundred or maybe a couple of thousand but it's gonna be a big knock down to my confidence and happiness playing £10/£20 and lower.

i should mention a few pots but i don't feel overly enthuastic. there was one decent pot. i think it was £52k and my final hand on the crypto table. i had K6o and called a £600 raise from the button. the flop came K10x with 2 diamonds. i check called a £1000 bet. the turn was the 6d. he bet £3200 into the pot of £3298. i made it £9000 and he quickly called. the river was a 9 not a diamond. completing the QJ straight if he had that. i pushed in for whatever i had left, £15k maybe and he called with 97d for the flush. i still fully intend on getting the house. i'm disappointed of course atm but i don't feel terrible, i knew this was a possibility and i've got ages to build back up again.

£40/£80 then $250/$500

i played 2 tables of £40/£80 buying in for £3200 on each, then another 2 more buyins for £12,800 total. i made some very profitable bluffs as well as turning a full house against my opponents straight and straight flush draw (would have been royal draw also expect i had the A of that suit) and took that £20k or so pot. at one point i was up around £20k but a serious of bad bluffs and not passing against a set when i defo should have, meant i finished the session £300 down. i was pretty tilted and put my entire crypto roll on £100/£200 (£19,700). no-one came though for the first few minutes. so i opened up betfair and put my entire betfair roll $45k on $250/$500. i couldn't afford to lose both if i wanted to get the house i'm looking at so whichever table started first i would close the other. a player on betfair joins me after awhile so i close down crypto. he buys in for $50k. first hand i raise pre and he calls. i bet flop and he check raises me. i call him down on flop turn and river when he pushes with K high and my top pair which i made on the turn was good for a $90k pot. he still has a few $k left over from the $50k and that goes shortly. he buys back for $20k and a couple of hands later i re-raise to $4500 pre with ak and he calls. the flop comes 6810. not a great flop but i commit myself by betting $7k/$8k of his $14k and change (pot $9k). he moves in instantly. i call. turn Q river A. he shows Q9 and i win the $38k pot. he leaves. i almost went back to £100/£200 as there was a player waiting but before i decided to go back he sat out and then left. +£35k for that betfair session. since i'm trying to keep most of my roll safe for the new house my roll is just £64k. if i do bust off that £64k i'll still get the house hopefully as i'm keeping 4 months of bills/interest re-payments safe.