Novice49 on the Loose

888.com UK open Final 2007

noreply@blogger.com (noviceNOmore) — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:41:00 +0000

My friend Christian Zetzsche will be appearing on TV tonight in the final of the 888.com UK open and I will be watching. I already know where he finished but I now get to watch him and see how many times he pulls off a successful bluff. I was actually at a table with him last night, playing in a private game at carbonpoker.com. He is definately a potential WSOP contender and is still only yooung.Christian is from Germany and I first met him at a table at poker.com. We are good friends and I am hoping to meet up with him at a live game in February 2008.

I watched him in the semi final last night and he was awesome. He played some beautiful poker. Christian played very tight but aggressively and it paid off. From a table of 7, 2 went on to the final and christian came in in 2nd place to secute his seat.

So after over 3 weeks, 104 poker players has become 6. The remaining players are:

Gideon Barnett (recreational player)350k

Luke Patten (professional player)

Andrew Feldman (Economics student)

Thomas Kvejborg (888 online qualifier)

Richard Ashby (professional player)Chip Leader

Christian Zetzche (888 online qualifier)

Ashby has around 450k in chips with Zetzche on 250k and the other 4 all around 350k but we all know how things can change.

Some Personal Bests

noreply@blogger.com (noviceNOmore) — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:00:00 +0000

Well I am having a great week pokerwise.......Best run I have had in over 10 months. I've been playing a lot more ring games for the last couple of weeks so I can get my points for my reload bonus (halfway there) so I thought as I have the points I might as well play the freerolls this week. The 1K monday to Friday, 2k on Saturday and the 10k on a Sunday, Accept on the last Sunday of the month when its the BIGGIE.....the 50k Freeroll. Well I did great in the 1k a few nights back, Thursday to be precise. I had a real slow game and played very few hands. I was card dead for most of the game but when i ddi have the odd hand here and there i took down some nice sized pots and that helped me to scrape onto the FT....................OMG I made the FT of the 1k. I don't think I had ever made it into the top 50 before in that event so the FT was fantastic for me. $30 richer and feeling a lot more positive about my play.

Well I was already in 2 games when the 50k started last night and i was finding it really hard to keep up with 3 tables going so after hitting a real nice hand in the 50k and getting up to 5.5k I donked out of my other 2 games so I could concentrate fully on the 50k. Well we don't wait all month for this game to come around just to go out early because we are too busy with other things do we??? Well I don't. Anyway I am sat on between 4.5 and 5.5k for the next christ knows how many hands. The cards were awful and I was playing tighter then a ducks a*se. Late position and I get dealt 99 and the flop comes 99? I slow play and a guy hits a flush on the river and goes allin with just over 3k so I end up taking down a big pot and im now sitting on 10k in chips.I went card dead again and never managed to get my chip stack past the 20k mark but.......To cut a long story short I ended up finishing 94th and bagging myself $100. YAY ME.

So last night I get ready to play the 1k but I forget its earlier tonight and I am caught doing doing when it starts so I get my son to play for me so i can get the dinner done adn tehn take over again..............Well that was the plan but he was doing so well I let him continue to play it for me while I sat wiith him, watching his every move. I got him o get a little more aggressive at times and make some allin moves which he did after I started yelling at him, Don't limp in, push. Well he did push, more then once and he made it to the FT and ended up coming 3rd and bagging mum another $100. WTG son.

3 Wins Today

noreply@blogger.com (noviceNOmore) — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:17:00 +0000

WOWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

What a good day I am having. I have played 3 games today at carbon and triumphed in 2 and finshed 2nd in the other 1. I have been bubbling for days and now I seem to be getting past that. I have been playing some good solid poker and I have now started to win a few games.

noreply@blogger.com (noviceNOmore) — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:45:00 +0000

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Freerolls

noreply@blogger.com (noviceNOmore) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:44:00 +0000

I played a freeroll at a site called Poker Host last night. I had never been on the site before and it took a little getting used too.

Anyway here is a live report from the game courtesy of my buddy Ed. TY hun

"well i dont know who played in this except for Novi and myself. the event started off with 276 players and top 70 cash. currently there are 98 players left and our chip counts are as follows

Novi $11,377.50 in chips
Me $6,742.50 in chips

will post another update soon

ok update....

both of us are in the money (not much since its a $100 Freeroll)64 players remaining

chip counts

Novi $23,355
Me $7,642.50

well we are down to the final 33 players in this event and both novi and me are still in it. a bad read a big bet on my part hurt my chip stack but your not out until all your chips are gone

chip counts -

Novi $34,760.33
Me $505

more to follow.......

yet another update.....

well i ended up pushing allin for my last 505 chips with AA and had 3 other players in the hand. I ended up losing the and to A4 and busted in 29th place for a big $0.55, Novi is still in it 7th place with $46,225.33 in chips

more to come......

Novi is still in the fight, they are down to the final 14 players and she is sitting at $70,875.66 in chips and that has her sitting in 5th place on the leaderboard

Novi makes the final table of the LSP freeroll. will put one more update at end of tournament. she is sitting in 3rd place with $94,070.04 in chips
Please note, although no boardcode and smiley buttons are shown, they are still useable
Armyssg

well i know i said i was going to post again at end of tournament but its a break in action. they are down to the final 7 and Novi is still letting them know who PMNZ is. she pushed allin with A8 had one caller with KJ, and the best hand held up.

chip count

Novi $52,193.30
Me Finished in 29th

more to come at end of event

well PMNZ made a very good showing today with only 2 players playing in the LSP $100 Freeroll. Like i said in the first post there were 276 players that started. I ended up busting out in 29th place when i had AA and short stack and cashed for a whole $0.55, Novi played a excellent game and went on to finish in 3rd place when here JQ lost to J10. She ended up cashing for $9.25 and earned a seat in the November $2500 Championship. Well done Novi on a great game."
Thank you for that Ed. Oh and here is a screen shot too...

Decided to go over to ultimate Bet and play a freeroll. I just entered the next 1 started and had no idea what the prize was. 1668 players started out with the top 30 going through to $1000 freeroll(I think). It was a slow start with me just folding every hand I got and then I managaed to take down a nice hand and double up. I then get up to about 5k and I am playing good poker. Tight but aggressive. I then lost all my stack bar 100 chips with the blinds at 100\200. Really early on actually. I go allin next hand with 99 and take down the pot and now have 600 chips. KK next hand so I go allin again and get 4 callers. and I hit trip Kings on the river and I am now up to 24K. I am also whilst playing having to babysit my grandaughter while my daughter went to the hospital (nothing serious). I sat on about 24k for what seemed like an eternity then I got 77 and raise it to 1600 to play.....................and then this happened

Pre-flop:
novi49 raises to 1600.
Diesel30 folds. 8118 folds.
grmpyolmn calls. sleep187 goes all-in for 19305.
sandsled goes all-in for 17880. pember folds.
brb1814 folds. samspad folds. COBRA63 folds.
novi49 folds. grmpyolmn folds. sleep187 is returned
1425 (uncalled).

Tournament all-in showdown -- players show:
sleep187 shows 4h Jh.
sandsled shows 3c 4c.

Flop (board: 6c Qd 7h):

(no action in this round)

Turn (board: 6c Qd 7h Qc):

(no action in this round)

River (board: 6c Qd 7h Qc 2d):

(no action in this round)

OMG they both went all in with that crap and I folded the winning hand grrrrrrrr. Oh well onwards and upwards as they say. I continue to be distracted and continue getting crap but I was also watching the numbers left in drop and I knew I could just get another hand I would be ok.Then its starting to get colse to the bubble. I so wanna make tht top 30 after being down to 100 chips earlier on. There are now 31 players left and there are 31 players for what seems a lifetime. I am laying 30th and just hoping and praying that someone else is going to get taken out. If noone goes out I am gonna have to make a move while I still hve the chips to make it worth while. I look down and see I have KK.............A guy on the other table is now down to 8k and I have to make a really tough decision, Do I fold my KK and hope that the short stack goes out or Do i go for it?......

tibur is at seat 0 with 306290.
COBRA63 is at seat 1 with 89300.
novi49 is at seat 2 with 24475.I was so short stacked
Diesel30 is at seat 3 with 170530.
8118 is at seat 4 with 43330.
ASSO1986 is at seat 7 with 27050.
samspad is at seat 8 with 115390.
brb1814 is at seat 9 with 127745.
The button is at seat 7.

tibur posts ante (200).
COBRA63 posts ante (200).
novi49 posts ante (200).
Diesel30 posts ante (200).
8118 posts ante (200).
ASSO1986 posts ante (200).
samspad posts ante (200).
brb1814 posts ante (200).
brb1814 posts the small blind of 1200.
tibur posts the big blind of 2400.

tibur: -- --
COBRA63: -- --
novi49: Kd Ks
Diesel30: -- --
8118: -- --
ASSO1986: -- --
samspad: -- --
brb1814: -- --

Pre-flop:

COBRA63 calls. novi49 raises to 12400. Diesel30
folds. 8118 folds. ASSO1986 folds. samspad calls.
brb1814 folds. tibur folds. COBRA63 calls.

Flop (board: Qh 8c 2s):

COBRA63 checks. novi49 goes all-in for 11875.
samspad calls. COBRA63 folds.

Tournament all-in showdown -- players show:

novi49 shows Kd Ks.
samspad shows 7s 7h.

Turn (board: Qh 8c 2s Th):

(no action in this round)

River (board: Qh 8c 2s Th Kc):

(no action in this round)

Showdown:

novi49 has Kd Ks Qh Th Kc: three kings.
samspad has 7s 7h Qh Th Kc: a pair of sevens.

It paid off I now have over 40K and I am going to make the top 30.
Well to finish it off I manage to hold on for the FT and I finish 9th winning $2 and entry to the Ultimate bet weekly freeroll. After nearly 5hrs play I need a cup of tea

What a Weekend

noreply@blogger.com (noviceNOmore) — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:44:00 +0000

Well what have I been up too over the last couple of weeks

Meeting some of my best "online" poker friends. Woohoo I met Mousy at long, long last. It ws so great to see him in the flesh, with clothes on LOL.

I knew he was coming to see me on the Wednesday before we all headed off for the Wass Live Weekend in Stoke. Pajasen was also coming and was flying in from Sweden especially for the weekends poker. DM went to meet him at the airport and they decided to drop by and see me on the way through to Oxford and Scotladys\Jax international Hotel. They arrived at mine and I was so excited to see Pierre\ Pajasen again and to meet Mousy for the first time, that I ran out the front door and nearly took Pierre out with a full body blow. I then rush round to the other side of the car to bearhug DM. Oh My God it was awesome. They come in and I make us all a nice cuppa. Well Pierre was in England (again) now. We were having a good old chin wag when Jax gets me on MSN. "Have they arrived yet". Poor thing was so nervous. I siad they had arrived and would be heading to hers shortly. Well 2hrs at least just flew by and before I knew it they were heading to Jax. They head off after me giving them more bearhugs. Damn it was only Wednesday. It was gonna be Friday before I would se them again.

OIOIMALLOY, calls my mobile, "alrite Jo. Im in Stevenage but I can't find ya" Woohoo Hi Nick lol. I try and give him directions to my house, after I eventually establish where he is. He finds me and we chuck my suitcase on the backseat and head for Jax. She (apparently) having a nightmare with her hair, going through the colours of the rainbow before evenetually finding 1 she liked LMAO........... LICKS Jax. When we eventually get to Jax, sure enough she is a complete bag of nerves. We go in and there is Mousy, Pierre and a MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSE in the HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSE. Leafy68 had flown in from Canada for this weekends poker. Talk about world wide. It was awesome. Kelly was a laugh a minute and her accent is just the greatest. Full English\Scottish Brekkie later we are ready to leave for Stoke. Yeeeeehaaaaaaa here we go guys and gals.

We all arrive safely in Stoke and the first people I spot are Blueorchid and Salome. We head inside after parking up and we soon head to our rooms. I have a twin and I had asked for a double. Back to reception to complain. "No Problem" tehy say and give me a new room. MMMMMMMMMM marvellous, thats a lot better. I dump my suitcase and head back down stairs and to the bar. I go outside and find a mass of people all drinking, smoking and hving a great time in the warm sunshine. I sit down and start chatting to Maz\blueorchid. Times goes pretty fast adn it also turned pretty cold and windy so I head upstairs to take a shower and get ready for the nights poker game.
It was fantastic and so much fun. We got to the hotel and to make sure we had our priorities straight we checked out our rooms and then headed to the bar. A few drinks later and the place started to fill up with poker players. The sun disappeared and so did all of us to get tarted up for the evenings events.

The casino was only a short walk from the hotel but OMG the hill we had to go up and down was a killer. It was sooooooooo step. The Friday night game was due to start at 9pm but it eventually got underway at about 9.30pm.

69 players at 7 tables and its bounty night. £10 buyin and £10 in front of each player at the table. Starting chips were 3000 and it was going to be a long night. everyone was playing really tight at the start and it was a good while before the first few players were out. I am not getting any cards to call with and then I get Q9 in the sb. Everyone else had folded round to me accept UTG who had just flat called. I can see a cheap flop (75) so I decide to play my Q9. Flop comes down 9J10, I raise to 400 and UTG calls. Turn is 7. I make the call and an 8 hits the river. I have hit a straight and bet out enough to put UTG all in. UTG calls it and cards are turned over...................................OOPS ive cracked his AA and taken my first bounty of the evening. I am now classed as a fish but hey what the hell. I had outs and I take the gamble and it paid off. I then go back to being card dead and jsut keep folding. I am making a little progress but not enough and its getting to the stage where I need to start winning a few hands. The tables are slowing folding down to the last 20 players and yes both me and DM are still in but now we are both getting pretty short stacked. DM is to my immediate left and we are both just trying to hold on in there. I decide I need to make a push and with my little stack of 1300 chips (not even enough chips to sit and shuffle) I get 10Q and as I am gonna be blinded in fairly soon I decide to push allin UTG with it. 2 callers and the flop comes down 1010J, Oh my god yes yes yes, turn is a K and river A. I take down a pot and my little stack of 1300 is now 12k and I look up at the board to see there are 13 players left in. I am gonna make the FT now if I play wisely. I get 44 and push allin. 1 caller who is holding AQ. flop comes down 4Q7, turn 5 river Q.................FH thank you very much and I double up. The next hand Mousy announces all in and he also gets a caller. flop comes 458 turn ? river 5. He was holding 44 and takes down the pot with a FH. We just look at each other and laugh. ME and DM both make the FT.............................Woohoo to us.

So we move to the FT and the Chip leader is way out chip leader. She is so drunk though and can hardly see her cards or even sit up. It didnt matter what she called with she was hitting. I go to the FT with just a little under 6k after getting hit with the BB and SB just before the FT. (I had also misread a hand and had to put 1400 more chips in the pot to make the call). Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr I was pretty gutted I had made this mistake because after I had put in the other 1400 in Mousy then pushed allin and I had to fold. He took down the hand. Back to the FT and I am now really struggling to stay alive. I then get A5d and decide I have to push. I go allin and get 2 callers. Miss chip leader calls and so does Pastieman. Flop comes down 34K, turn ? river is a 2. I've hit a straight and take down the pot. By this time a lot of the other players are watching the FT and its down to the last 7 or so players. ( sorry so tired its hard to remember all the details accurately). I am still struggling to stay alive as the blinds are now 1000 and 2000. I have about 12K but its not enough and I know its not. I then get crap in BB and SB and know I need to make another move soon. I am gonna be blinded in very soon so I push allin with my remaining 5k. I have Q10o and I dont hit a thing and go out in 6th place. I leave the table happy proud and feeling good with my performance. DM went on to finish in 4th place but I wasn't close enough to the table to see what happened. He did great and we both left the casino after 7hrs of play feeling happy and pleased with the way we had played.

I eventually flopped into bed about 5am and as I did my mobile went off. It was Drummy calling me from Dublin airport. He was going to be in Stoke for day 2 and I couldn't wait to see him. He had been in Ireland for a funeral and I had asked him if he would please come to Stoke for day 2. Well he turned up about 9:30am and it was fantastic to see him. The DO NOT DISTURB sign was put on the door.......

Saturday nights game was due to start at 6pm and eventually got under way at about 6:30. 62 players started with me going out fairly early on. I was getting nothing and then got 56d in the sb. I flat called and the bb checks. Flop comes down A82d. OH yes oh yes oh yes Ive flopped the nuts. I push all in with just under 2k and bb calls. With their cards on their backs the table is all oooooooooooooooooooing at my flopped flush. BB shows A8o and hits an A on the river to take me out with her FH. I leave the table in disgust and don't acknowledge a single person. I go outside to have a ciggie and a good old swear and then return and find my opponant and congratulate her. I then head to the bar and shortly after I discover that DM is also out so we then both go outside for a special smoke and to compare notes. My man is also there after flying in from Ireland that morning and he is now flying at the tables and is soon the way out chip leader. He is not known by any of ther people there and he is playing a very clever game. When the break finally arrives and everyone has left the tables to get drink, food, have a smoke etc he is getting me to walk around the tables with him so I can put names and faces to the big stacks at each table. He was then making mental notes on each player that he felt he might encounter at the FT.

He gets to the FT as chip leader but then becomes card dead. He waits to make a move and in the meantime he watches a few of the short stackes get eliminated and is now in the last 5. He pushes allin UTG and takes the blinds, which at this stage are pretty high. He is down to 14k in chips and doubles through a few hands later and then he watches as the new chip leader starts taking out the smaller stacks. Drummy (my guy) is now un the last 3 and is sitting with a better looking stack then he was a few hands previous. He now HU with chumley and its all to play for. Drummy asks for a chip count while he has a bathroom break and the whole place is like HUH????

He is quite within his rights to ask for a chip count and even asks chumley if its ok with him if he has a bathroom break. He was actually playing a mind game with chumley and it was starting to show. chumley was looking a little on edge even though he had the chip lead. The chip count was done and it revealed that chumley had 96k and drummy had 90k. There was all to play for but to have watched drummy lose his stac and then get it back the way he did was awesome and it was a great HU. Drummy then gets A10o and pushes allin and gets called by chumley who was holding QJo. Flop no help to either player but then a J hits the turn and its all over with chumley winning and my drummy getting 2nd place. He took a prize pool of £250 and if it had been bounty night he would have also have taken the most bountys. I think he took out about 14 players along the way and he just played like a pro. I was told by quite a few players that Drummy was by far the best player at the FT if not the whole tournament and it really showed. He played a mind game, he played the way a big stack shouold play and he also played with confidence and pure style.

All in all it was a fantastic weekend and I met some great people too.

Roll on the next live event.

a few picturs of some of the guys at the event

Photo 1...DM and Pierre behind him
Photo 2... Drummy and Pastieman at FT. Drummy in the blue top
Photos 3 and 4...Me at the tables

I love 7 Card Stud

noreply@blogger.com (noviceNOmore) — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:14:00 +0000

After returning from a fantastic weekend of live poker I was still buzzing and it kinda showed yesterday during the 7 card stud MTT at carbopn poker. I was laying in 4th place with 4 left and really thought I was going to bubble as I was down to 388chips with the bringin at 200 plus the ante every hand. Well I came back from the dead to win it

2nd today in the 7 card stud MTT. I knew the guy was bluffing a lot but I just didnt have anything to call him with and as i had half the stack he had I had to play with good starting cards only and no chasing. I get dealt, Well see for yourselves how unlucky i got

I take 2nd place and am slightly disappointed but I know I played a great game and I also know that I will get this MR BLUFFER when he least expects it. Watch out boyyo, Novi is gonna getcha...

2nd birthday and 2nd silver for me

noreply@blogger.com (noviceNOmore) — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:32:00 +0000

Well another birthday in the family and another silver trophy for me.

Happy Birthday to my wonderful sister Penny.Some of you may know her as novssis at carbon poker. Well she turned the big 40 today and is so happy to have reached this milestone in her life. So Big hugs to you sis and love you loads.

The $2PL 7 card stud was played by yours truly again today and I managed 2nd place after a lot 1 sided HU and the eventual winner just hitting everything.

Playing with My Bestest Buddies is Great Fun

noreply@blogger.com (noviceNOmore) — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:55:00 +0000

Well I wanna start by saying

KIA ORA!!!!!!!

I have been playing some real great small private buying games for the last couple of weeks with my Kiwi and Ozy mates. Cool bunch of guys and gals. I can even feel me kiwi accent starting to take a grip on me. These buyin games are attracting a field of about 16-20 players daily and they are tough games. The rivalry between the Aussies and the Kiwis is great and just so funny. The games are being broadcast live by Masala at PokerMatesNZ and also by Ozypoker and gimmecards over at Ozyradio. Its all going pretty well for the guys and its such great fun to play with these guys. Im loving it, when I don't have connection problems and logging in to the site problems.

Anyway today I played in the OzyRadio buyin with $15 bonus to the winner. I had a real bad start losing a 1\3 of my chips fisrt hand after being dealt AKc and ending up folding at the river (don,t ask it was ugly. I ended up folding the next christ knows how many hands and I was bottom of the pile for quite a time. I then managed to take down a nice hand with K8o in the BB. flop brought my K and I took it with pr of Kings after 2 callers all the way to the river. Took 1 out i think. Managed to climb the leader board and was sat in about 4-5th place for a while. My great mates ssgarmy, masalaNZ, nzealand were in the last 5 with me so it was a real PokerMatesNZ FT and what a great game. ssgarmy had been chip leader for a while during the game and poor old Masala had been getting nothing for so long it was sad to witness LOL...ssgarmy ended up getting busted out in 5th place so now it was just the 4 of us and with badboydan way out chip leader it kinda turned into a "lets all just go allin preflop everyhand and steal each others blinds"

We lost nzealand next GG hun and it was just me Masala and badboydan, Who had come back from the dead to be the way out chip leader. Masala was next to go out and it seemed dan couldnt put a foot wrong. HU now for me and shocked as hell i've made it this far. I was so shortstacked compared to dan and after going all in with my 1.6K stack V his 20k plus stack, I managed top double up to just over 3k and with the blinds at 1200\600 i was in deep doodoos so to speak. I get AKd so I am allin again and he calls again and this time his trash beat my AK and it was goodnight Novi

Hey Im not complaining 2nd was fantastic finish for me.

Follows my 1st place in DangerMouse420's poker.com forum game last night. I've either forgotten to reg for it or just not been online to play it so far so last i made sure I was regged nice and early for it. Only 13 in it, but what a tough field it was. All great players and fellow poker.com forum leaguers. I started of real slow and was again the bottom of the pile for most of the game. I was now in the top 5 and was still struggling to get a hand or even steal a pot or 2. I was then in last 4, somehow and I told DM that I thought I would now bubble.......

Sorry DM for making you the bubble boy......my bad.

I went on to win it out right after coming back from the dead.

SO thats been about it for me poker wise this weekend.

Also had my sons Birthday yesterday so just a quick Happy Birthday to you Chris and love you with all my heart.

Queen of 7 Card Stud

noreply@blogger.com (noviceNOmore) — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:44:00 +0000

Well after finishing 2nd 2 days in a row over the weekend in the $2PL 7 card stud MTT at carbon I managed to secure a win yesterday. YAY ME

A Little Bragging

noreply@blogger.com (noviceNOmore) — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 10:31:00 +0000

Sorry I have been a little quiet of late but I suddenly realised that other things in life have to come before Poker.......occassonallly, like decorating. I am off to Stoke soon for the Live Wass event and I am expecting a few friends to turn up just before hand so I am in the process of decorating my hall stairs and landing. The main reason for my sudden interest in decorating is that I also have a very special somebody coming over from the island of St Kitts to escort me to Stoke.

So in between brush strokes and my hair slowly turning white I have been playing a little poker. I havent played nearly half as much poker since the tourny schedule was totally changed over at poker.com\carbon. It has left me with hardly any games to play that I can actually afford to play so I am playing the $2PL 7 card stud MTT and that is about it. I have been struggling in this particular MTT of late but yesterday I managed 2nd place. I went into the HU with a huge chip disadvantage and it was so hard to try and fight back. 2nd I am happy with..........for now.I did actually win this MTT a few weeks back. I also played the $3 50 ppl max a few weeks back too, juist to give me a rest 7 card stud and I ahd a nice result. Well it wasnt 1st but it was last 3.Ive also been playing a few private forum games too and not been doing too badly in some of them. I will post the trophies so I can do a little bragging.

Winner of PokerMatesNZ freeroll

Winning the $2PL 7 card stud

3rd in Wass £50 freeroll

2nd in $2PL 7 card stud MTT

Oh well bragging over, Krettle boiled and paint pot and brushes are waiting for my attention. Catchya all next time.

Different Sites For Different Formats

noreply@blogger.com (noviceNOmore) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:55:00 +0000

I was given some advice at the biginning of this month and it is paying nicely for me so far. What do I mean so far LMAO, its going better then I could have hoped for. Not being a big money stakes player and not having ventured far from poker.com\carbonpoker.com since I started playing online poker, I am very happy with my performances on the other sites I have been playing. I am still playing at .com\carbon but not half as much as I was. I am playing a few MTTs there but no ring games or SNGs. I am having too much fun playing SNGs at bodog.com. I am cashing in most of the games im playing. I'd say 80%. I am mixing it up between the $2.20 beginners SNGs and the $4.40 beginners SNGs. I actually do better in the higher stakes games but I play the lower limit if I am feeling a little on tilt or a bit stressed, tired, any of the things you shouldn't be to play good poker. I am a very patient player so sitting and waiting it out in these SNGs isnt too difficult for me. I am having a problem with HU play though and I just can't seem to break it. I went from a 13k to 2k advantage a few days ago and I lost. I was pretty mad at myself, effing and jeffing as I logged out in temper.

I came 2nd in 3 SNGs on the trot at bodog on Wednesday and then crossed over to carbon poker to play the $2PL 7 card stud tournament. I played a good game and came back from being pretty low in chips to being runner-up. Yep another 2nd place but this was at a game I do not play that often.

I love to play 7 card stud and I think I am pretty good at it so far. I just popped over to sunpoker.com to play a few hands and found theirs 7 card stud rooms. It was a lot higher limit table then I am used too and I had to take $20 on with me. I hit a FH Kings over Twos first hand and took down a $15 pot. I played a few more hands and won another nice pot that took me to $41. NOt bad for 10 minutes work. I actually left with just over $35 after playing trip kings getting beaten by a str8. Still I am happy to have left $15 in profit.

I have been hitting a lot more FTs lately too in the MTTs I have been playing but still missing the top 3-5 more often then not. I feel I am playing pretty well and I have been pretty aggressive with my play again lately. Too aggressive today when I had KK in the $300gtd with addon over at carbon poker. I ran into trip Qs and had gone allin after the flop so it was a very early exit for me today.

Oh well catchya all again soon

What have I been up too of Late

noreply@blogger.com (noviceNOmore) — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:06:00 +0000

Well I have been playing different sites and having some fun along the way. Yes I have found the fun in playing again and even though I am not making a huge amount in winnings I am slowly getting deeper in tournys again and even reaching the odd FT. In fact I just finished 9th in the $300gtd with addon. Not great I know but my money back a couple of dollars profit.I have,through advice from some great poker buddies,been playing some $2.20 beginners SNGs at bodog and its been pretty good so far. I won my 1st bodog SNG a few days ago and it felt pretty good.
Hitting a straight flush along the way was pretty sweet too.I havent hit a stright flush for so long.
I also got to HU in another SNG after regging for a $4.40 game by mistake. Nice mistake LOL. I likethe format there. Starting with 1500chips and top 5 get paid. I have not played any MTTs or ring games there but I am happy to just play SNGs there and leave my tournament play to other sites for now.

Speaking of MTTs I have been playing in the CPC qualifiers at sunpoker and. I have for the first time qualified for a seat in the round that could see me make the finals leaderboard. I will be playing this round in 2 days time and I am really hoping to make it through or its back to the bottom of the ladder to try again. I took down a very nice hand along the way last night and then as I was getting to the point of going out just before the bubble I got a very nice walk which I believe got me through. Thank you to the dealer that hand for dealing everyone so much crap LOL.

I will keep playing different formats on different sites as it seems to be working pretty well for me lately.

noreply@blogger.com (noviceNOmore) — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:03:00 +0000

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A Poem for Maddie

noreply@blogger.com (noviceNOmore) — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:34:00 +0000

Ok so this is non poker related but still deserves a space on my blog. As many of you are aware a 4 year old called Maddie. Madeleine McCann has now been missing since 3rd May after being snatched from the apartment in Portugal where she was staying with her parents and younger twin brother and sister. It has been 2 months now since she disappeared and our thoughts and prayers are still with her family. They are not ready to come home without their Maddie and as a parent myself I totally understand that.

The news coverage is starting to become less now but that is not to say that the authorities are not doing their jobs properly.A man and a woman arrested in southern Spain are being investigated over an attempt to extort money from the family of Madeleine McCann.

A senior Spanish police source said the man, who is Italian, and his Portuguese girlfriend are being questioned over an alleged approach to the McCanns to exchange information they claimed to have regarding Madeleine's whereabouts for cash.http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1272677,00.html

My son wrote a poem last night for Maddie and her family and I wanted to share it with you.

Find Maddie

Friends and family heartbroken
In the hearts of others their words are spoken
Not knowing if she is dead or alive
Dad praying hard and trying to survive
Mum asked the pope to say a little prayer
After 2 months no one knows if she is here or there
Don't be selfish or cold hearted
Do all you can to help the campaign thats been started
I hope this poem brought a tear to your eye
Everyone prays that Maddie doesnt die

written by Chris age 14

Our thoughts are with you all

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noreply@blogger.com (noviceNOmore) — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:13:00 +0000

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1st 2nd and 10th Oh My

noreply@blogger.com (noviceNOmore) — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:10:00 +0000

Well I thought I better come and do some more posting and bragging. I have had a pretty good run just of late. Taking down my 7th MTT and getting a 2nd place just before hand. I am really not sure how I manged to do so well in both but I did and my bank balance doesnt look quite so anorexic now. I had my best day moneywise yesterday I think and nearly banked myself a cool $100. Yep you could say I am a pretty happy camper right now. Ive heard the saying lucky at cards unlucky in love. Well if I could have days like this more often then I would happily stay single. Anyway here are my bragging rights for this week. Oh to just round the day off nicely I also took 10th in another tournament and also left the ring tables about $12 up.

What A Great Day My Birthday Was

noreply@blogger.com (noviceNOmore) — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:17:00 +0000

Well it ws my birthday a few days ago, 31st may, to be precise and I had been looking forward to my birthday tournament over at Poker.com\Carbonpoker.com for a whole month. Well the day finally arrived and I was having a nice quiet relaxing day at home, I'm getting old now, quiet is good.......anyway I decided to play the $100gtd with rebuys. I don't normally play this tournament but thought oh sod it why not. anyway the outcome was a nice 2nd place and $25 thank you very much and happy birthday me LOL.

I then decided to play another tournament that I only play occassionally but have won twice before and I felt good from the start. I'm not sure if it was my relaxed mood that really helped but I played good solid steady poker and it really paid off.

So then it was time for the tournament I had been looking forward to for so long with all my bestest buddies from poker being there. I'd just like to say that I am sorry my sister had to miss it but she is still without any internet after moving house 2 months ago. i love you tones sis xxx. I had 3 bountys who were
Carz990\ Darren....DangerMouse420\Neil and of course myself. Both Neil and Darren were taken out pretty early on and I managed to hold on until 11th place. I was so hoping to make it to the FT so that I could say hi to more people but ALAS!! it was not to be. Anyway my friend and fellow 5th street forum buddy Neo went on to win after a great HU against Skunkr

1st Bounty went to Neo for taking carz
2nd went to Jono for DangerMouse
3rd went to fiona26 for Jo
All 3 players generously donated their bountys to the cause.
$15 was donated to Make a Wish and I have also matched that amount and donated it to
http://www.sirskinski.com/

Thank You all for making my birthday so special.

$300gtd with addon

noreply@blogger.com (noviceNOmore) — Mon, 28 May 2007 14:41:00 +0000

I just played the $300gtd with addon at Carbonpoker.com and after a few sticky moments I managed top make the FT. I took the addon earlier on when I was sitting on about 3.5k and then had a string of PPs on the FT. Seriously everytime I looked at my hand i had a PP. I had JJ,AA,66 then 32 then 99,38,77,66,4Q,2Q,66,23,49, 44 and hit a lovely FH 4over A. Then I had 4 more hands of rags followed by JJ and then 55. I didnt actually win many of those hands but i did win a few of them. It took me to 11k and chip leader but then it died. I think I had all my luck in a very short space of time. I was doing great and sitting tight and now in 3rd place but still feeling good. I then look down to find I have KK.He had gone all in preflop so I felt pretty confident..........

I just knew that 3 was coming on the turn. I even said to my son watch a 3 come down now. But to then put a K on the river really was adding salt to the wound.I lost half my stack to him and then it was just a case of either getting some cards to push with or get blinded in so I opted for choice 1 and ended up going out in 3rd place. This tournament still alludes me but I will win it 1 of these days.

$3 50 ppl Max

noreply@blogger.com (noviceNOmore) — Sat, 12 May 2007 12:43:00 +0000

Well I did it again. I won the $3 50ppl Max over at poker.com and after the weekend of crap I had had it felt good to win. I kinda felt like a rebel and it was a 2 fingered salute to a few (un-named) people. anyway I had played the $200gtd freezeout earlier in the day and had finished 7th with my pal Mortas finishing in 6th place. a few bucks won, well enough to pay for me to play the $3 50 ppl max, which I haven't played for weeks and as I am not doing anything in the tournaments I like to play reguarly, I thought i'd play this insted. I've won this particular MTT before and I was in the right frame of mind to play and win it again. I started off ok and played good steady poker. I didn't go wating my chips and then before I knew it I was getting short stacked but still felt ok. I made the FT in 9th or 8th place so I had to play aggressively when I decided to play a hand. It was down to 5 of us before too long and then I got 4 PP on the trot. All mid PP but 2 hands held up. Gettng AA in the space of 11 hands helped to give me a real nice chip lead and by the time there were just 3 of us left I had a 20K lead and had no intention of losing it. I took the short stack out AQ v AJ and HU battle proceeded I played aggressivelyand it gave me the victory I played so hard and well to get.

$200 Guaranteed at Carbonpoker.com

noreply@blogger.com (noviceNOmore) — Thu, 03 May 2007 13:09:00 +0000

I played the $200gtd today at Carbonpoker.com and came away victorious. After folding Quads the very first hand of the tournament I went on to win after playing a very patient but aggressive game. Folding QQ was also wise in hind sight as I dont think I would have even made the money if I had not folded them after seeing the flop AAK.

Playing tight aggressive but patient poker has paid off today for me and I now have 4 MTT wins to my name.

3 FTs and 3 sets of Quads all in 1 evening

noreply@blogger.com (noviceNOmore) — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:13:00 +0000

Well here I am again. What a great day I had yesterday. I decided that instead of playing lots of poker yesterday I would just play a couple of tournaments. I had my league game due to start in a couple of hours and then the 5th street buyin later that night. I have been on a real bad run lately and after getting down to single figures in my account I ws getting to the point of thinking "What's the point?" "Why Am I putting myself through this all the time?"
I have been listening to Rounders radio while I play and yesterday I was listenin whilst I worked on my forum. I have some forum tournaments starting next week and I have been busy getting things sorted out for the 1st game.
Anyway back to yesterday and my poker play.
The leage game started and it was 36 players on 3 8 seater tables to start. I was on with my team buddy tba123 (Tom) and it was diffcult with him being directly to my right. I got 88 first hand and ended up hitting a set on the flop and a FH by the river. Poor old Marjan had trip A's and ended up going out first hand to my FH. I have doubled up to 2000 on hand 1 and I am feeling bad for takng Marjan out 1st hand but it is a team league and I am in it to win like everyone else so why was I feeling so bad?
I then had KK and tba raised UTG, I was next to act and I should have folded my KK as its team play and Tom had already raised but I didn't and I ended up taking 400 of is chips. I again started to feel bad and I told him later, when he was out, that I was really sorry and he, being the kind hearted wonderful man that he is told me it was ok and that I was to now go on and win it for the team. What with bluelips and Amica both sitting on about 5k by this point and me still not really making much headway was hoping to at least make FT and as long as I stayed in longer then the Mad Jokers ladies I knew we could take enough points to go above them in the league. I managed to take 5th place and some well deserved points for my team.

Woohoo Cracked Aces.
I then entered the $250gtd freezeout at Carbonpoker.com and after a playing a great game I made FT as chip leader. I was feeling a little nervous and my son(15) was saying he would stay with me whilst I played and try and keep me calm and focused. I was on 46k and then lost a the 16k lead I had on a hand and it really evened things up and opened it up. I sat tight and was still on 30k when I managed to double up and get bak into the lead. I was now sitting pretty with 60k and with only 5 of us left I ws in a commmanding lead. It wasn't too long before I was HU and I was now really nervous. Shaking so much I couldn't pick up my cup of tea. I played a couple of hands really poorly and I knew I had to now try an get back into it. Unfortunately I didn't ave my hand history set to save it so I am trying to do this from memeory and Ive slept snce then LOL. the final result was I ended up going all in and losing eventually to take 2nd place

I then went on to play in the 5th street buyin game as with only a smal field of 7 I knew it ws going to be a good game with some great players. I started off quite aggressively but not in a bullying way and I was really enjoying being on the table with some great friends from 5th street. I played steadily and solidly and evnetually ended up Heads Up with my bestest .com buddy Dangermouse420. We have known each other since the early days of playing online poker on the play money tables and we have both left the rest of our old gang still playing 10\25c money tables while we have both moved on to more competitive, well played and better standards of play and people. I have always wanted to get HU with DM as I have so much respect for him as a player and as my friend.

He is a fantastic player and this is a situation I have wanted to be in with him for as long as I can remember and it was now happeing. We wished each other good luck and battle commenced. It was a slow start with both of us playing a lot aggressively then we had been. All in every hand before the HU and now we were both raising each others BB and it just too and froed like that for a few hands. The Mouse then decided to make his move and I felt him move it upo a gear or 2 and the battle was now on. It was pretty evenly matched chip wise and then I played a really bad hand and took it down. I felt it was getting to the point of now or never and I knew if I didnt start taking some chances and getting aggressive I was going to lose. I had J4 and decided to try and steal another pot but Mousy called me with an allin and I had to decide whether to fold it or go with it and I decided that if I didnt go with it I would have lost that pot and potentially the game as it would have left me in a position where I couldnt really be threatening enough so I went with it and I am sure Mousy had K10. I hit a J on the flop and then a 4 on the river for 2pr and the title.

Well to finish off my Great day I also hit Quads 3 times in during these games. Twice in the $250tgtd and then again during the 5th street game

AWWWWWWWWW

noreply@blogger.com (noviceNOmore) — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:40:00 +0000

Just a quickie for you. So close yet so far away from a beautiful looking royal flush.

Ups and Downs of poker

noreply@blogger.com (noviceNOmore) — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:46:00 +0000

Hi again peeps
Well its been a funny kind of week with some weird and not that often seen bad beats and suckouts. Well I don't see them that often. I have been playing less and concentrating more on 1 tournament at a time. I am trying to play a little less tight too right now and i've been calling a few hands I wouldn't normally call and maybe it's helping my game a little more.
I have come 3rd in 3 tournys in the last 2 days and Ive also bubbled too. Ive had some good hands beaten with not so good hands and it still sucks...
But i'm getting deeper in tournys again now and colour of the FT is so soothing to look at. Well I played the $3 50 people max over at Poker.com yesterday and was also in the 300 gtd w/addon at the same time. I know I shouldn't but sometimes I reg for tournys without thinking about whether they clash or not. So anyway I am doing ok in the $3max, plodding along nicely and I am also doing nicely in the 300teed. I get a nasty beat in the 300teed and Im less then happy but "thats Poker" as they say.
Thats poker....yeah ok. The guy hits runner runner and I am left with about 25 chips.

The table was like "NH" and I from the sidelines(in my normal, YOUR A DONK\FISH\IDIOT additude) kinda told the whole table that I thought it was a bit much saying nice hand to a guy who had chased and hit runner runner.
I was still in the $3 50ppl max and and was kinda getting short stacked when I tripled up and was now sitting on 4k with with about 17ppl left and I could see the FT in my sights. I bubbled in the same tournament only 24hrs earlier so I was determined that if I made the FT today then I was gonna go for it as there was no way I was bubbling again. I made the FT and I was sitting in a good position. I was 6th going onto the FT I think and I was hoping that a couple Small Stacks were either gonna battle it out or a Big Stack was gonna take out a SS. I got my wish and the next thing I knew I was in the top 5. I had managed to avoid the bubble WOOHOO.
The final out come was I got up to 13k and was in 2nd place hoping to get HU. 4 left and I get AdKs UTG. I raise to 3k. Dealer calls me and shows Ac10h. As6h10s on flop Kc on turn 7d on river. Now down to 3 of us and I have 12k in chips. next hand I get KK and......

So I managed to survive another 7 hands before I was out in 3rd place. It was a great tourny and I feel I played well and just got a little unlucky with my cowboys.
Posting has been a bit on the quiet side again this month and I know I really gotta start working a bit more and a bit harder oln my blog too.
Well Its been a real up and down month and in short not too profitable. I was down to $11 yesterday morning and decided that I would use 2 of those 11 bucks to play a tournament.
Wow am i pleased I decided to play it. I then played a freeroll over at Third bullet and finished about 1\3 way up the table. I have been palying a daily freeroll there and the site is pretty good too. I then went back to Poker.coma dn decided I would play a sng as I havent played any for a while and I also decided to play another cheap buyin. I won the sng so another $10 thank you very much.

I thought I better check how many points I needed for the Freeroll and realised I only needed bout 160 but with only 25 mins til it started it meant either multi tabbing while I played a tournament or miss it and concentrate on the tournament. I decided as the tournament wasnt going great that I would go and get the points I needed. I hit 3 tables, taking $5 to each from my well earnt winings from earlier. I was a little worried that I was going to lose some cash chasing the points but I also decided that I would just sit and fold unless I had a decent hand. I got the points I needed in time and went and registered. I left the 3 tables up in cash, a loat up in cash for me. I left 1 table about $1.50 down, 1 about $4 up and the other over $10 up.
I have been donked, fished and bluffed out of some good hands with good cards all because my confidence was low and my aggression not at its best but I have managed to salvage what was left of my bank roll and have a little fun donking the donks along the way.

WIN WIN WIN

noreply@blogger.com (noviceNOmore) — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:01:00 +0000

Well a quick update for you all. I have been going through a real bad slump of late and I was getting more and more frustrated and on tilt and I could see it getting worse before it got better. I asked my friends for advice and I got given some great advice too. I stopped playing so much and just played the odd tourny for a few days. My agrression was gone, I was too scared to call but now im BACK

I played 3 5th street games and came out on top in 2. I entered the charity ball (un-sheduled) as always and I was hoping to do well this month but alas it was not to be. So I waited for the INVITATIONAL, that Cerberi organised, to start and then the weekly buyin game, later that evening. The Invitational was mine from the start.....sorry but thats how I felt. Brad had been tearing up the tables too so was pretty excited about maybe getting him HU. Well that didnt happen but me winning did.

Only 4 entered the weekly buy in. Maybe it was a low turn out because of the charity ball and the Invitational. Anyway there was myself, Hacksaw, Scotlady, and Neo and I did end up HU with Brad and this time I got him. Thanks for a great game guys

It feels great to be winning again no matter how small the field is. It has boosted my confidence no end and I am back to being a great trainee shark. I Have been winning a little bit here and there but nothing to really boost my flagging bank account.

I decided to play the $1 guaranteed with rebuys today, a tournament I never usually play. I started off pretty slow and just waited for some cards. Then I got dealt 99 in early position. I flopped the nuts and checked my quads hoping to trap a couple of limpers. The A with the 99 was the best bit because I ended up trapping 2 players into going all in and took down a lovely pot.

WOW SWEET AS

I then got rags after rags so just kept foldin hoping the cards would come. I made it to the break with about 2k in chips and not really making much progress. I was hoping to make it to the FT and then hope that a few of the others went into battle early on and maybe took each other out. I made it to the FT in 10th place and was pretty short stacked compared to the rest of the table. I had to play sensible, aggressive but good solid poker to make the money. Only top 5 were getting paid out and I didnt want to bubble after all my efforts to reach FT. I also knew that I didnt have long to try and win a pot and then I managed to double up. I was now on 5k and sitting 6 out of 7. The chip leader was on about 25k. 1 other short stack on about 3.5k and the other 4 all had between 9 to 17k. I waited and then decided to take a gamble and started getting aggressive. I got 1010 and threw half my stack in the pot. I took the hand down and now had about 10k. I was concentrating so hard a lot of the hands are a blur to me. All I can really say is that I played the right hands in the right manor at the right time and it resulted in me getting HU with the guy who had been chip leader most of the time. I was now about even with him in chips and i had the impression he was felling jaded and unsure. He was easy to steal from and I took advantage of that and slowly crept more and more in front of him. I then decided to finish it off. I got dealt AKc in SB and raised it up to 7.5k and he pushed all in with AJo.

YEP I WON AN MTT WOOHOO