Table Captain

In my last post I was writing about how frustrating the game can be when I work my way up the wobbly way, only to be knocked right back down again by players who cheekily nab their outers on the river. Well, it doesn't happen very often but this evening I managed to reverse my fortune and was sitting at the table with over $500 in front of me - not a massive achievement for the pros out there but a satisfying, albeit rare, occurence indeed for me at the online game nevertheless. The interesting thing is how quickly this sort of thing can happen. I plonked down my $200 and then 15 hands later I had spun it up to this:

One for the album, for sure.

A Frustrating Second Half Of The Month

First off, I'm WELL under the weather at the moment with the most shockingly bad cold I've had in years. I'm thinking of heading for a day off work tomorrow but I'm not sure. I'll see how I am in the morning.

No doubt about it, the second part to March has just been very frustrating. I'm at about break-even since the middle of the month at the online game and a lot of this, once again, has been down to opponents hitting their bleedin' outers on the river. In the last hand on Sunday, for instance, I held an ace with a 44AA board only for my opponent to spike his 1-outer (the 4) on the river! Big ouch!! Big loss of monies!!!

Then yesterday, I end up with this little beauty:

Flush draw, under the gun, now let me see...

 

Yep, there was a touch of desperation in the call on the flop but I felt it was worth a pop at the time. As it was, the hand meant a loss of just $25 as I collected from Mr Big Stack. Still, I could have done without seeing that full house on the river as it woulda given me a good boost. Anyway...

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KEEP ON CHUGGING EH?

Pay Attention!

As I'm winding down this month, I'm not always entering tables with a full stack. But not entering with a full-stack shouldn't mean that I should do needlessly nitty thngs like fold A6 in mid-position on a 6-max table! I think I deserved to get punished for this one:

You know what's coming next. In the words of Jim Bowen from the quiz show, Bullseye: just take a look at what you woulda won:

Bosh. I think I coulda won a few bob there.

Did I Leave My Chips At The Table!?

Ok, now I'm wondering if I actually cashed out my chips from The Fox when I left on Saturday night. I've been thinking about this. I know I'd had a few but I really can't understand how I was down £200 when I'd hardly played any hands! I really think I just left without cashing out whatever chips I left on the table. I've messaged a few of the PKR players who were sitting at the table and I'll see what they say. Funny.

P.S. It's now the next day and I'm at work. It was too late to phone The Fox yesterday when I started doubting that I had actually lost £200 and I'm at work now. I really don't fancy phoning a poker club from the staff room or English Office and asking if I left chips on the table. I think I'll give the club a ring tonight and find out. I wonder what the ruling would be if I had actually left them there after all?

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P.S. Mystery solved: Ok, a few of the PKR players got back to me: I definitely did cashout around £100 in chips on Saturday night which means I definitely was down £200. Drunk poker - don't do it kids!

Let's Have A Round-Up

I know I've resolved to do an update at the end of each month but I'm feeling a bit bored so I'm just going to do a quick review of how my month has gone so far:

Online Poker Round-Up
With just 2.5K hands being played so far this month, it's not exactly been a heavy time on the online poker front. However, as readers of my blog will know, March is generally going very well for me and at the time of writing I'm looking at a £715 profit in my PKR account. I know I was on this when I was blowing my trumpet 10 days ago but that's because I've just been breaking even since then. When April arrives I want to be at least £500 up for March so I've given myself a stop-loss figure where I will stop playing for the month should I lose £215 from now until 31st March. At the moment I am £255 up in the online game for the year - not really that good when you think about it.

Live Poker Round-Up 
Thanks largely to a £300 drop during the PKR Social (although I'm questioning why the hell I'm down £200 when I hardly played any hands - damn beer!), I'm down £230 this month at the live game and as I'm not likely to play any more live sessions over the coming days this will be the total for the month. This means it'll be my first losing month at the live game this year. Thankfully, as I stormed the live tables over January and February, I'm still up to the tune of £1470 for the year. The grand total then is £1725 which, I suppose, is not bad at all.