Robs Poker Blog

Cooling Down

2009-08-23T20:37:00.003+01:00

The title refers to my legs,as I've had a little bit of sun burn,well quite a lot really after havng got back from visiting my mate and his wife who live in Spain. I managed to play some golf on a cracking course over there,however it was 31deg on a cloudless day and no wind...........in shorts and T shirt,OOPS. Travelled with Ryanair(think Dick Turpin of the in flight food world) out to Spain and flew back with Jet2(Dick Turpin with a conscience.just) Managing my diabetes quite well and getting my head round twice daily insulin injections,oh and the eyesght seems to have settled down and can see pretty much as well as before,if not better. On the poker front I played a $1 WCOOP sat on stars, and made it to the next round and won some cash too.now that I have better vision will now get back to donating at an online poker site with more regularity.

Finally a new post

2009-08-02T11:20:00.004+01:00

Well its been a while............Have finally got round to putting a new post together,basically I haven't played too much poker apart from the odd cash game and the odd tournament because I haven't had the inclination and after recently being diagnosed with type1 diabetes my eyes are shot to shit and couldn't see to bloody play,oh that and feeling like shit is not really condusive to playing. any way,on an upnote now that i can see to play I have qualified for the 100k freeroll on stars so a bubble finish is on the cards then lol,will post my success or otherwise as soon as. Am hoping to get back in the poker groove soon and playing more.

Another Freeroll.............Another No Cigar

2009-05-14T01:12:00.003+01:00

Well I suppose 29th ain't that bad from a field of 710, some good play too, not the usual donkfests that freerolls usually are

April 09

2009-05-01T00:03:00.003+01:00

Well here is my final cash graph for the last month on Virgin, I think I may do this on a monthly basis

April...........so far

2009-04-26T15:44:00.006+01:00

so here we are and coming to the end of another month,and to be honest have played little poker of late. Although Ive not had too bad a month, I would have liked to have qualified for the monthly 10k freeroll but cant see that happening. now that I am sort of getting to grips with pokertracker above is my graph for the current month of April on cash on Virgin, I know its not massive figures but I dont play some of the higher stakes like some...........anyway I hope it continues lol.

V Points Sat

2009-04-21T23:38:00.004+01:00

Hmmmm..........I just cant understand whats going on, I seem to be doin ok at poker. Now I know this will be a kiss of death, but I'm also enjoying my poker too, maybe its because I had a nice long break. Long may it continue is what I say. Anyway, Played the V Points sat tonight and finished 4th, so entry into the 100k V Points final and 2700 points 4 me

Easter

2009-04-13T18:47:00.002+01:00

Hope everyone took advantage of the cracking weather and had a great Easter, Managed a half decent round of Golf, although I'm thinking its only a temporary abberration until the shank monster and topping fairy get back from their Easter break. Playing in the AWOP VIP silver sats tonight, other than that not played too much poker of late apart from some low buy in MTTs and cashed for small money, but hey profit is profit.

Close but no cigar

2009-04-10T03:03:00.003+01:00

Tried to win a seat to the Manchester GUKPT event via the pokerplayer freeroll on Bluesquare, well I was close, just hope I didnt look too much of a donk to any of the railers. Will have to try and win a seat to the Blackpool leg as I have a satellite ticket for my 3rd place finish.

Tweaking

2009-04-08T01:58:00.002+01:00

Well, not being a computer Whizz.........well I can build em and do some things I decided to play with the HTML code of this blog, just so it fits better on the page.............hope it worked, any feed back greatly appreciated. Now to the poker, I need to improve my game but I have one big problem, my ambition is miles ahead of my ability, and no matter what I read and information I try to absorb I still make stupid mistakes???. I have thought of signing up to some poker tuition sites but I cannot justify the monthly cost of these from my poker winnings,not at the moment anyway,even tho most have a free sign up period. My game needs something, I know that much!!

Wow.........A new post

2009-04-07T01:54:00.002+01:00

Well its been a while..................and not much to report on the poker front as Ive not played any,apart from 2 0r 3 games in the last 6 weeks,due to in part it battering my head. have got the AWOP silver sat to look forward to and am slowly getting back into cash games albeit low stakes again. I think I may concentrate on some low buy in sats to bigger comps as I deffo need more Live experience. Away from poker,my golf game is still shite,lol, not that it was anything other than shite...still if at first and all that bollocks. oh and the campaign to save the Vulcan managed to raise the money, so she lives to fly another day.

Save the Vulcan

2009-03-02T22:12:00.001Z

I know its not poker related, but its a good cause so if you can please help http://www.vulcantothesky.org/default.asp

Frack

2009-02-13T23:53:00.002Z

Not updated of late as I haven't really played too much poker,and what poker I have played has been crap,and am having a slight crisis of confidence........nothing new there then.it just tends to be the same old story,play like a donk......lose,play good poker and lose.......to donks,Aint poker great. Anyhow,Played the AWOP VIP CLUB silver sat and finished 6th,more from luck than judgement.Well played to all that took part and the winners of each sat. The AWOP league is back and up and running,so plenty of chances to suckout and donk my way up the leaderboard and try to win a festival seat in Newcastle.

Running Bad

2009-01-26T00:51:00.002Z

I have to say that this is the worst weekend I have ever had, not only by my bad calls with AA and KK and donating big style,but some of the donk play of others. I started the weekend playing .12c/25c and ended at .5c/.10c and got creamed at that too. as per below Hand #1426835525 begins at 2009/01/26 Dealing down cards Dealt to bobbino [Jd Th] turla posts the small blind of $0.05 wallerobot posts the big blind of $0.10 Allisnice folds. rawi84 folds. steph44 calls $0.10. neyzan folds. bobbino raises to $0.40. PingStar folds. snoofie1 folds. turla calls $0.35. wallerobot folds. steph44 calls $0.30. Dealing Flop [6d Jh Ah] turla checks. steph44 checks. bobbino bets $1.30. turla folds. steph44 calls $1.30. Dealing Turn [Td] steph44 checks. bobbino bets $2.77, and is all-in.steph44 calls $2.77. Dealing River [8h] steph44 shows [7s 9h]steph44 has Straight, Jack High bobbino shows [Jd Th]bobbino has Two Pair, Jacks and Tens steph44 wins $8.97

Worse day

2009-01-21T20:16:00.002Z

Well after posting about being like an ATM apparently I am one, as some thieving c@nt has cloned my bank card and made off with a sizeable wedge of cash, so am now going through the labourious process of getting my cash back,after having cancelled my cards..........fookin nightmare. hope they die horribly. still at last the poker seeems to be getting better despite the poor frame of mind at the moment,hope it continues..................as I could do with the cash lmao.

Grind,Grind and Grind some more

2009-01-16T22:15:00.002Z

Still grinding at the lower levels with the odd foray up a level when I think my state of mind warrants it,which is not often after some of the horrendous calls and miracle outdraws of late. Anyway, enough bleating...........for now. Managed to qualify for the Silver play-off for a £500 live buy in event through the AWOP VIP club through playing raked hands,so fingers crossed for that. Also managed the final of the V points final after finishing 3rd in the satellite and winning 3000 V points.....get in. Oh and off topic...City may be buying Kaka for £107 million,and if the press and everyone is to be believed,ruining football ha ha ha,how short a memory do people have err Chelski anyone or united a la ince and Veron.

Bad Day

2009-01-04T16:48:00.002Z

There really are times when you should just switch off your computer and not attempt to rival the exploits of a barclays ATM,and give out cash when requested. After suffering one too many miracle outs appearing on the river for my opponents, like calling an all in on turn with 2nd pair against my straight to hit higher straight, I proceeded headlong into tilt central. Its not a great place to be and managed to undo any gains I made in the first days of the New Year,today however with a better frame of mind things have gone slightly better and am clawing it back. Oh and City were knocked out of the F.A. Cup by Forest, I should have gone to the match in hindsight............as it would have only cost me about £40 but the feeling of despair and loss would still be the same. Oh well,least I've got the milllion on Stars tonight to look forward to.

Happy New Year

2009-01-01T16:04:00.004Z

Just to wish everyone a happy and poker prosperous New Year. I ended the final day of December 2008 with a nice little profit,and hope this continues in 2009, we will see.

Pokerstars Sunday Million

2008-12-23T23:44:00.002Z

Well looks like I will be playing this,as I won the ticket through the Blogger event, Was hoping to reg and then cash it out but wont let me 8(

WBCOOP 2008

2008-12-22T02:06:00.005Z

Played this final event after the freeroll qualifier and won a $215 tournament buy in This is the extract from the official Pokerstars blog 7:33pm--Fubsy63 falls in 19th place With less than seven big blinds remaining, Fubsy63 pushed all in for 41,645 from under the gun. Tiibo moved all in behind him for a bit over 84,000 and the rest of the table folded. It was a race situation, Tiibo with 8d-8c for the pair and Fubsy63 with Ah-Ks for the overcards. The board ran out Qc-7c-7h-9h-9c and Fubsy couldn't improve, hitting the rail in 19th place. With 18 players remaining, we've moved up a pay level-- everyone is now guaranteed at least a $320 tourney buy-in. Now some people may think that I was silly to play here and I have posted the Hand below PokerStars Game #23135847945: Tournament #170000000, Freeroll Hold'em No Limit - Level XXV (3000/6000) - 2008/12/21 19:32:55 ETTable '170000000 4' 9-max Seat #3 is the button Seat 2: Tiibo (85216 in chips) Seat 3: blahdy (131591 in chips) Seat 4: Lesage88 (77229 in chips) Seat 5: justalady42 (7346 in chips) Seat 6: Fubsy63 (42395 in chips) Seat 9: Olimpinho (326884 in chips) Tiibo: posts the ante 750 blahdy: posts the ante 750 Lesage88: posts the ante 750 justalady42: posts the ante 750 Fubsy63: posts the ante 750O limpinho: posts the ante 750 Lesage88: posts small blind 3000 justalady42: posts big blind 6000 *** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to Fubsy63 [Ks Ah] Fubsy63: raises 35645 to 41645 and is all-in Olimpinho: folds Tiibo: raises 42821 to 84466 and is all-in blahdy: folds Lesage88: folds justalady42: folds Uncalled bet (42821) returned to Tiibo *** FLOP *** [7c 7h Qc] *** TURN *** [7c 7h Qc] [9h] *** RIVER *** [7c 7h Qc 9h] [9c] *** SHOW DOWN ***Fubsy63: shows [Ks Ah] (two pair, Nines and Sevens) Tiibo: shows [8d 8c] (two pair, Nines and Eights) Tiibo collected 96790 from pot *** SUMMARY ***Total pot 96790 Rake 0 Board [7c 7h Qc 9h 9c]Seat 2: Tiibo showed [8d 8c] and won (96790) with two pair, Nines and EightsSeat 3: blahdy (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)Seat 4: Lesage88 (small blind) folded before FlopSeat 5: justalady42 (big blind) folded before FlopSeat 6: Fubsy63 showed [Ks Ah] and lost with two pair, Nines and SevensSeat 9: Olimpinho folded before Flop (didn't bet) Ok here goes......I could have folded and possibly moved up another prize level,but my thinking was I'm in it to win it and AK at that stage was good enough any comments greatly appreciated

Premature Evaluation

2008-12-20T00:06:00.002Z

I know I'm probably tempting the wrath of the poker gods........again,but here goes. Despite all attempts at donking my cash away its been a reasonable poker year, I'm not in the same league in terms of poker skill or limits that I play at compared to a lot of players but Ive had a reasonably profitable year. My poker tracker results for Cash are not as good as I thought they were, but they can only improve now that Im getting to grips with the info and stats, my tournament results are not too bad with some good cashes. So as we hurtle towards 2009 my poker goals will be: Fully understand Pokertracker Play more live Qualify for a major event.......oh and win it lmao be more profitable Learn more about this,the most annoying,frustrating oh and enjoyable awesome game that is poker.

WBCOOP satellite

2008-12-19T01:58:00.003Z

Played in the blogger sat on stars which I noticed on No Cash's blog (many thanks) and qualified for the final,along with fellow Awoppers Teamdobbs and Gimac. Also played in the Bronze Awop VIP tourney,busted out when my 77 ran into 88......oh well,still its cracking value as its freeroll into a £300,£500 or £1000 live event through the AWOP VIP club in association with Virgin.

My head hurts

2008-12-12T22:27:00.002Z

.........trying to get my head around the stats in Pokertracker 3!!!, don't get me wrong I think its a cracking tool and will help my cash game (god knows it needs it),and have used the trial versions of PT2 and PT3 so I should have a little idea of what I'm doing, it will be well worth the $89.99 when I fully get to grips with it and fully understand where my game needs tweaking to make me a more profitable player and plug some of the leaks in my game.

€100k final

2008-12-07T18:32:00.002Z

well it looks like I'm never destined to win a big tourny...........had QQ run in to AA........which was nice,which crippled me to just over 1BB and the pushed it in with 45os against 66 flop A45,turn a Q and BINGO river an Ace.........BOOM. oh well,now have qualifying for the Virgin festival at Aspers (again) to look forward to.

Another bloody month!!!!

2008-12-04T23:44:00.002Z

What I would like to know is where has this year gone!. Poker has been ok this year,Still got the €100k Final on Virgin to play and have managed to cash out a few quid,which is nice. City are still in Europe............but crap in the league,couldn't beat the rags but thats cos we were shite and it was only 1-0,but hey,on the plus side tranaldo got red carded hee hee.

€100k sat

2008-11-03T00:29:00.002Z

Managed to play the 600 raked hands in 7days required to get into the €1ook freeroll sat,top 100 finishers move to the €100k final on 7th December with a total of 900 players in the final.Played relatively conservatively to finish 96th........was touch and go near the bubble but least I made it.

Month End

2008-11-01T00:26:00.002Z

well,another month draws to a close. Not been a bad month all in all,back playing regular donk poker and managing to win a bit,done bugger all in the tournaments I've played but made up fo it on cash on the few main sites I play. started to seriously read harrington on cash again so hope this helps. main goals for November will be to play more cash,try and get in one of the Awop VIP sats and actually bloody win one. Oh and for City to string some bloody wins together.................hey ho

Sunday Football

2008-10-28T00:24:00.002Z

No poker today,just footie,Set off from Sunny Blackpool on the 12:28 to Manchester Piccadily to that Mecca that is Middle eastlands, not a bad atmosphere but not as buzzing as usual..............still "we've got Robinho". Absolute quality game and a hatrick from the country's most expensive player (how weird is that in the same sentence as Manchester City)and it could have been more, though to be honest Stoke were not really at the game. Weather shite..........no surprise in Manchester then, and got piss wet through, still cracking result.

"I had a feeling"

2008-10-26T02:34:00.002Z

Down to just over $19.........because of this little gem and her comment above Hand #7487520705 begins at 2008/10/26 Dealing down cards Dealt to fubsy63 [Td 8d] Uwe73 posts the small blind of $0.02 Imagin333 posts the big blind of $0.04 meisterf folds.Svobodenho folds. partyjochen folds. Zemortas calls $0.04. debbs999 raises to $0.18. Zen32 folds. MachoMarocha folds.f ubsy63 calls $0.18. Uwe73 folds. Imagin333 folds. Zemortas calls $0.14. Dealing Flop [Ad 5c 4d] Zemortas checks. debbs999 bets $0.57. fubsy63 raises to $2.75, and is all-in. Zemortas folds. debbs999 calls $1.68, and is all-in. Dealing Turn [5h] Dealing River [7s] debbs999 shows [2h Kd]debbs999 has One Pair, Fives fubsy63 shows [Td 8d]fubsy63 has One Pair, Fives debbs999 wins $4.85

OK enough now..........

2008-10-25T23:23:00.002+01:00

I Knows its micro limit but...............What am doing wrong here,any constructive comments welcome? Hand #7486885336 begins at 2008/10/25 Dealing down cards Dealt to fubsy63 [8s 8d] kobson124 posts the small blind of $0.02 Svobodenho posts the big blind of $0.04 KoNNsEnSyS folds.ProudEagle_ calls $0.04. fubsy63 raises to $0.16. bosja4ka calls $0.16. kobson124 folds. Svobodenho folds. ProudEagle_ folds. Dealing Flop [9d 9h Th] fubsy63 bets $0.30. bosja4ka calls $0.30. Dealing Turn [6s] fubsy63 bets $0.72. bosja4ka raises to $1.88, and is all-in. fubsy63 calls $1.16. Dealing River [Tc] fubsy63 shows [8s 8d] fubsy63 has Two Pair, Tens and Nines bosja4ka shows [Js Ac] bosja4ka has Two Pair, Tens and Ninesbosja4ka wins $4.55

Party Poker Bonus

2008-10-25T17:46:00.003+01:00

Have had a Party poker account for ages, but not played much on there and bugger all cash, checked today and i got a $10 bonus........yippeeee. So in keeping with other bloggers I've seen am gonna try and run it up a little, hopefully up to a $1k, managed to get up to the heady heights of $23.30 at 02c/04c ha ha so a way to go. ***** Hand History for Game 7486052509 ***** $5 USD NL Texas Hold'em Saturday, October 25, 18:36:59 GMT 2008Table Table 127738 (Real Money) Seat 10 is the button Total number of players : 6 Seat 5: popilul ( $6.76 USD ) Seat 8: roland503 ( $5.68 USD ) Seat 10: aisaku ( $5 USD ) Seat 6: minfaster ( $1.92 USD ) Seat 2: fubsy63 ( $5.10 USD ) Seat 9: ESTK007 ( $2.19 USD ) fubsy63 posts small blind [$0.02 USD]. popilul posts big blind [$0.04 USD]. ** Dealing down cards ** Dealt to fubsy63 [ Ad Kd ] minfaster calls [$0.04 USD] roland503 folds ESTK007 calls [$0.04 USD] aisaku foldsfubsy63 calls [$0.02 USD] popilul checks ** Dealing Flop ** [ As, 2c, 3h ] fubsy63 bets [$0.12 USD] popilul folds minfaster folds ESTK007 calls [$0.12 USD] ** Dealing Turn ** [ Jh ] fubsy63 bets [$0.38 USD] ESTK007 calls [$0.38 USD] ** Dealing River ** [ 4h ] fubsy63 bets [$0.83 USD] ESTK007 is all-In [$1.65 USD] fubsy63 calls [$0.82 USD] fubsy63 shows [ Ad, Kd ]a pair of Aces. ESTK007 shows [ 5h, 6c ]a straight Two to Six.ESTK007 wins $4.24 USD from the main pot with a straight, Two to Six.

WOW I love this game.............I think

2008-10-24T18:06:00.003+01:00

***** Hand 1291113213 ***** 0.05/0.10 Texas Hold'em (No Limit ) - Friday, October 24, 2008 6:02:23 PM Turbo TH 85 (Real /Cash Game ) Seat 1: kozlík (0.54) Seat 2: dubomary (9.21) Seat 4: lestatt (3.50) Seat 5: bobbino (1.98) lestatt post BB 0.10 ** Deal ** kozlík [N/A, N/A] dubomary [N/A, N/A] lestatt [N/A, N/A] bobbino [5s, 5c] *** Bet Round 1 *** bobbino All-in 1.98 kozlík Fold dubomary Fold lestatt Call 1.98 *** Flop(Board): *** : [Qh, 7h, Kh] *** Turn(Board): *** : [Qh, 7h, Kh, 10h] *** River(Board): *** : [Qh, 7h, Kh, 10h, Ah] *** Showdown *** : Rake: 0.19 Total Pot: 3.77 kozlík Fold Win: 0.00 dubomary Fold Win: 0.00 lestatt [Jh, As] Royal straight flush Win: 3.77 bobbino [5s, 5c] Ace high flush Win: 0.00

Poker Sabbatical

2008-10-24T03:03:00.003+01:00

Seems ages since I updated this on-line ramble, and seeing that there seems to be a few more bloggers (and frankly a damn site more interesting) on A world of poker,I thought I would update it Well I sort of took a poker sabbatical, not played much just tho odd game here and there but am firmly back. I felt, for what ever reason that my confidence had gone and so my game would suffer, and it did.......not greatly but enough that I needed to stop and re group my thoughts. I'm currently back with the bottom feeders of .5c/10c cash tables, just trying to qualify for the 100k sat and the 25k freeroll, only 500 and 1500 raked hands needed!!!!.

€3k guaranteed

2008-04-30T00:29:00.002+01:00

Played a few of these lately on Virgin,had just go knocked out early of the €6+60c mtt and thought would have another crack at this, played tightish early on and loosened in the later stages.......some of the play is quite poor even later on too. well I made the final table and played ok until i got 55, and to be honest got too attached to it,up against JJ......and ended up going out in 3rd for a cool €446.20.

Final Table

2008-04-25T02:23:00.002+01:00

Played a 3K guaranteed tourney on Virgin and managed to FT,ended up 5th for just shy of 200 euros,not bad for a 10euro buy in

Virgin Festival

2008-04-24T01:21:00.002+01:00

An amazing 2 days of poker,my first major live event and what a buzz. Quite a daunting thing but thoroughly enjoyed it despite not finishing anywhere in the main event or the £30 terminator on Sunday

2008-03-27T04:47:00.003Z

Well another post,and the poker gods seem to be smiling on me, I've made 4 final tables in the last 4 MTT that I've entered, so a good profit for not much outlay. The Newcastle Virgin Festival gets ever closer........and I cant wait.

Virgin Festival

2008-03-09T21:19:00.002Z

Yippeeeee...........managed to qualify for the 2nd Virgin Festival at Aspers casino in Newcastle, Am really lookin forward to this as it's my first real major tournament

Finally..........A new post

2008-02-03T02:47:00.000Z

A New Year, and a new post........Poker doing ok with only the oddest of blips. cashing out more so makin some money back......not before time. been playing more on Virgin, usually the .12/.25c NL Level which seems to suit my play,and will move up when my bankroll determines it

A new month begins

2007-05-01T15:14:00.000+01:00

Well its been a lean time on the poker front as variance rears its ugly head above the parapet. Up on some cash sites and down on others, and tournaments dont seem to fair any better with unreal bad beats. Still, it's a new month and am slowly increasing the stakes I play with what I hope is good bankroll management.

1st Post

2007-04-14T15:40:00.000+01:00

Welcome to my first posting,it seems strange putting my thoughts down that people from across the world will see. Mainly these posts will contain my inane ramblings about poker, how bad I am at it,my successes...........If any and of course those Bad beats, which we all love to hear about