And a well deserved boooom.

WD and WP m8

Congrats Doobs...wp

hennigan

WP sir! this is excellent news and looking at the amount of replies you have had since your last post I would suggest this couldn't have happened to a more popular, charismatic and modest guy then yourself. Sad to hear that your "new contract" means you will not be able to spend your evenings being a massive success at poker as well as being a fantastic family man, how do you manage to balance the 2 as well as hold up a highly successful career with all that time you must spend in front of the computer?? you are a true inspiration and someone who should be looked upon as a role model to all youngsters wanting to get ahead in life and be happy as well as being selfless and making all around them happy aswell. Please keep the updates coming despite your changes in circumstances and also let us all know how the new contract is going, should be very interesting. Thankyou once again and goodluck. LEGEND! x

while since I posted

I really haven't played much.  Kids and job got in the way.  Youngest has been on and off sick for the last month (nothing serious), but too many middle of the night wake ups and too many early starts mean I haven't played online in a month.

Anyway, tick these off first 

Aims

Run good and win at poker tick
Cash in an event with buy in of more than £1k tick
Don't start the year with a £15k downswing! tick

I went to vegas, and played 5 WSOPs and 1 Venetian.

The first two I didn't play that well, did 1200 first hand I played in the first event (aces busted); second one flopped top 2 in the BB in an unraised pot first hand of the day and did about 1500.  Lost both flips to go out, but both were flips back to near starting stack, and not sure I deserved to cash anyway.

Played really well in the $2.5k.  It probably looked a bad draw (I was sat between Moorman1 and Kevin Saul).  But I have played them quite a bit online, so knew their games.  I don't think either knew who I was, so that levelled it a bit.  Still glad Moorman was on my right.  Despite this, I still managed to play (and win) a big pot OOP against Moorman and ran the stack up from 7.5k to 16k on that table.

Got moved to a much softer table and busted in not much more than an hour.  I did 5k Qs vs AK and another 9k (AQs vs 88), eventually got the last 4k in with Q9s vs JJ late on.

My plo8 table was terribly soft, and I bossed it all day.  Unfortunately every time I ran up the stack I got scooped in a race.  I also got halved in one where I was 90% with 1 card to come.  Eventually ran into AA2x when I near shoved my 5 BBs from the button (you can't shove it is plo8, but potted, he reraised and had to call).  I am absolutely going to try and play it again in future and am told the $3k is nearly as soft.

The antes only comp was a proper crapshoot, but was an absolute ball (started with 4500 chips and 25 compulsory ante for everyone, so was effectively 75/150 blinds at the start).  Everyone just making up the strategy as they went along.  Played with Phil Helmuth, who didn't get it, and Greg Raymer, who was a handful 2 to my left.  Also played with a couple of internet superstars.  All tables were pretty friendly, way more so than the normal hold em tables. 

I don't think I played as well as the two previous tournaments but still limped in the cash for my first live cash in a £1000 tourney, which gets a monkey off my back.  I needed to win a flip to get there when awful short).  Right on the bubble I got dealt 66 and AQ off and folded both which I think must be right even when ultra short?

I also had 1/6th of sky poker's finest in the PLO8 and he took it all the way to 12th, which was another nice bink.

Threw away $600 in a venetain omaha tourney. 

Total to date as taken a hit since the last post, was down about $3k in vegas, I have probably done at least as much staking (despite the tikay bink), and haven't had a decent day online since the last post (probably barely played 10 days total online in the last 3 months or so)

Am currently on +£18.5k + 2 GUKPT seats. 

I am probably going to start playing more again in a week or so.  The current contract ends, and barring the olympics should get some free time and kip at last.

Quiz of the day.

Player opposite raised it to 100 in the first hand of the antes only, player on my left bumped it to 300, player opposite 4 bet to 900.  Player on my left called.

Flop came down 356 rainbow.  4 better checks, player on my left bet like 1200, 4 better shoved, player on my left called.  What were the hands?

you'd be better off writing a blog 'cos there's no-one here to read this

(and no, I didn't read it either)

Best of luck Doobs.

Cheers for the good wishes.  Unfortunately I didn't see them until I was out.  I didn't get back from day 1 until about 4am and my youngest was sick, so didn't get to sleep until 6am.  My eldest was then up before 8. I'd like to blame the lack of sleep for my exit, but would probably still have massacred the hand I did, and would still have lost that flip that resulted in my exit.  Finished about 7 off the money.  There is a 200 pound sky 6 max event at DTD in about 4 weeks and I may give that a go. 

I have been playing well live this year.  I also made day 2 in GUKPT Cov, and didn't cash that either, but if you get in decent posistions it will come good eventually.  I am playing GUKPT London this week, so maybe that is the one where I run good on day 2.

Since the last post I got up to +£25K for the year, but the last 2 or 3 weeks have been expensive.  WCOOP is running on stars, so my daily schedule has got a lot more expensive.  I have had a few near misses (10th in the 50r on stars, 7th in the big 109 and 40th in a $200 rebuy WCOOP), but all before the really big money started.  Hence my profit total is down to +£19k for the year.

I guess the fact that I am playing in the GUKPT and have already won a seat should mean this weeks rate of bleeding isn't going to be nearly as bad. I have just noticed that there is a 500 euro and 300 euro event tomorrow on stars.fr, so that isn't going to help any.  At least I am not tempted to give the $2100 a go on stars that is on the same time as the million or tomorrow could be horrificly expensive.  Could do without spending £2k on buyins and getting $200 back, which is close to what has happened last two days I have played.... or it would have been if betfair didn't cancel my $200 win and refund me my $100 buy in back instead. 

It never rains..

Hopefully next time I post I'll have binked something big.

Alreet Doobs,

Good to see you still at it lol.

Seen you on Sky TV sometimes on the Mastercash tables :)

What's the score with Tikay, how did you get a piece of him?

Well done Doobs!! Great 2nd in GSOP PLO!!


:-)

well played Doobs congrats for the $12k

GSOP went OK in the end.  I finished 2nd in the plo8, 12th and 15th in the standard plo events and a 60th in the main.  All this was good enough for 6th in the GSOP leaderboard and that gets me a seat in the 1 in 9 qualifier for the $5k event tomorrow.

Aside from that, things have run pretty bad.  It is probably a comination of things, but I think tiredness definitely played a part.  Once I realised I was on for a possible leaderboard win, I played every night and 10 days of 2 or 3am finishes and 7/8am starts (when the young one wakes up) takes its toll.  I may have got a couple of nights of earlier finishes, but sure can't remember them now.  I think every leaderboard/rake race I have ever done has ended similarly.  I think I'd have been better off just buying in for $5k.

I have run particularly bad on the French sites, now down on both, which is terrible considering how soft they are.  Embrace the variance.

I also got to discover that stars and stars.fr have a combined max deposit limit.  Now I can start depositting again, which probably isn't a good thing!

Finally the youngest bought home a lovely stomach bug from nursery thsi week, so after a planned 2 day rest, I have been out of action for the last 3 days.  Am starting properly tomorrow, but will probably just play the sat and a handful of others, so am not knacked for Sunday.

Need to start repairing.

YTD +£9K

Final update.

After my last post I carried on downswinging until the end of November.

I played well in November, but lost over £4k.  Just got a seemingly never ending series of 7ths, 9ths and 12ths, including a get out opportunity at the FT of the Sunday Supersonic.  I could have made a fair few posts in the bad beat thread in November.  The one in the supersonic crippled me and I ended up 9th.  I also did AA < AK all in pre deep in two tournaments on one night..

Fortunately the year doesn't end in November, or I would have finished +£2.5k.

December was way different.

I was 2nd in the big $162 midweek on stars, won a handful of smaller tournaments, then finished the month with a 7th in the stars million and a win in a decent sized Sunday Highroller on one of the french sites.

I took a beat in a $100k pot at the final table of the million, so think that would win the bad beat thread and be a tough old target for me ever to match.  But I am not going to dwell on it, as 2 tables out I managed a JJ>QQ and also did an ATs > QQ before that when I was really short.  Both were all in pre.

So finished the year +£45K, booking my best month ever, both on stars and overall.  It is 3 years since I have beaten this figure, so maybe there is still profit to be made in online poker.  Overall I managed 4 big Sunday final tables (6th, 7th, 8th and 9th).  If I do another 4 in 2013, it would be pretty hard to run as bad at the final tables again, but wlll probably not run good enough to final table 4 again either!

A lot of last month's result was probably down to run good, but I also finally reinstalled hold'em manager on my main PC.  Not sure why it took so long, playing without it for so long now seems idiotic. 

Also my internet seems to have got fixed now.  Rather than daily multiple disconnections, I had only one while playing last month.  I assume somebody must have fixed something somewhere down the track after somebody else complained.  This is after months of the ****s at Post Office internet telling me there was no issue on the line.  "Could you please try switching it off and switching it back on again?" 

In the last couple of months, that has probably saved thousands from disconnections and the inevitable rapidly following tilt/spew.

2013 has stared badly, -£3k already, but maybe I can fix that in the DTD deepstack at the weekend. 

There won't be another thread this year.  Nobody reads the forum anymore, and those that do don't want to read about beats or join the thread.

Good luck all.