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Hi Guys,

I was going to post this earlier in the week - but didn't get around to it - then i fell short of my barrier again! But today i got back over.

I finally hit the 3K mark! ahaha what a huge barrier that has been. Hopefully i can stay above it and stick to 50NL.

EDIT: Wanted to mention my lowest BR was 13 dollars and i haven't deposited since it was 13. So i am quite proud of this - even though the progress has been incredibly slow!

I see heaps of comments about 50NL being a terrible limit and that people should skip it and go str8 to 100NL. I tell ya what i am so tempted! I hate 50NL. They are massive nits that put me on tilt.

I got to 3080 earlier in the week and now i am on about 3030.

Btw i play on Interpoker. They offer monthly reload bonus' plus 30% rakeback. The only problem is not many tables. I can easily play 4+ tables of 6 max 50++ but there is very rarely a FR table of 50NL. So this is a drawback. I have "reloaded" for bonus all my money from other sites over the last 2 months. So this will be my last bonus to clear. Then I think i might move back to FTP for a while - i seriously think that site is rigged but at least i can find a table that i want to play.

I might put some on pokerstars for the 150 bonus too (i have 150 on there at the moment).

Anyway - i'm off for a chinese (beat) birthday dinner with my wifes family. So have a good one kiddies.

EDIT: Oh and btw - i bought Dauts FR video from cardrunners last night - very good video. I wish i could think on that level (consistently and ALL THE TIME)

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My mum on MSN just now...

Al's Mum says:
last night was watching poker and there was a swedish bloke bullying the table and doyle brunson got really pissed off with him. so when this bloke called all in brunson called because he was short staked. brunson had 33 bloke had A2. when brunson made the call and the other bloke saw what he had he just kept saying why would you call with that hand. Anyway brunson won and doubled up to chip leade
Al's Mum says:
leader with full house and the bloke went mad and said again why would you call with that hand
Al / Verbloten says:
haha
Al / Verbloten says:
wow
Al's Mum says:
brunson said why would you bet with that hand its poker not solitaire
Al's Mum says:
was so funny
Al / Verbloten says:
ahaha
Al's Mum says:
loved the line

I'll do a blog post again soon. Heaps to say as usual but no fucking TUIT.

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HO HO HO

I just joined a 25NL table on Interpoker. Sat down it was 4 handed and there was a guy sitting there with 99 dollars. That's pretty awsome on a 25NL table....

So i very very quickly notice that this guy is a maniac donkey and think to myself what idiots came here and paid this guy off... now i think he probably just got lucky!

First hand we played against each other i check in the BB with A5 and play HU against big stack donkey guy. Flop checked through. Turn is Ace. He bets just over pot. I call. Check through river. He has Q high with 3 kicker!

Very next hand

So must admit i was quite happy to see such a huge pre flop raise when i had AA What he is thinking playing TT like that i have NO FUCKING CLUE!!

About 15 hands later

Then over the course of the next 16 hands dealt, he raises preflop and doesn't get any callers, takes down the pot, 13 times. I'm thinking to myself - i bet he thinks he is good because he is winning so many pots - maybe he doesn't realise winning 10 30c pots in a row is less than winning a small pot that sees a flop!

So then this hand

Game #3413905283: Hold'em NL ($0.15/$0.25) - 2007/03/10 - 03:55:43 (BST)
Table "Arneb" Seat 3 is the button.
Seat 1: Welshy100 ($17.33 in chips)
Seat 2: paistikas ($46.01 in chips)
Seat 3: Mar230337 ($67.92 in chips)
Seat 6: netolbrev ($55.15 in chips)
netolbrev: posts small blind $0.15
Welshy100: posts big blind $0.25
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to netolbrev
paistikas: folds
Mar230337: raises to $0.50
netolbrev: raises to $1.25
Welshy100: folds
Mar230337: raises to $67.92 and is all-in
netolbrev: is all-in $53.90
Returned uncalled bets $12.77 to Mar230337

The software shows his cards:

This is good yes?

----- FLOP -----
----- TURN -----

This is bad yes?
ONE TIME??? ONE TIME??? !!!!!!!!!!!!!

----- RIVER ----- --->>><<<----

----- SHOW DOWN -----
Mar230337: shows (A Straight, Queen high)
netolbrev: shows (A Straight, Ace high)
netolbrev collected $108.55 from Main pot

Very next hand he pushes with 55 for his last $12.
I instacall with 88.

Ship it! Stack goes from 25 to $120 in less than 10 minutes

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Hi Guys,

Been playing some BW again recently - great fun - and makes a great break from bloody poker! When i play a session or two of poker after a couple of days break in between i play much better. I can't be bothered much with Poker at the moment for some reason. Most of last week the thought of loading up a poker table was almost repulsive!

Anyway - i'm going to continue to donk up some BW with Kantoiki, Karma and some of my old BW mates and play a session or two of poker when i feel like it... I got FTP rakeback the other day - i cashed out almost a month ago. So i got $27. I decided to see how much i can make this grow to (ie; never deposit on FTP again and see how i go).

I got to $54 last night but then lost a couple of 10NL buyins to bad beats at the end of the session (we talking 100 hand sessions here!).

I think i might play $2 sngs until i get to about 100 then 6.5s from there. When i get to 250 or so i will start playing 25NL and see how we go. Kinda stupid really since i am rolled on my other sites for 50 or 100NL but w/e i won't spend a lot of time on it and i couldn't be arsed with poker much now anyway as i said.

I think i realised in the next year or so it's unlikely i will ever get to making big money so i shouldn't take it so seriously. Plus i just got myself a new job which will involve longer hours and more travel which will barely leave me time to spend with my family let alone poker... My new job i realised after doing a little math pays almost $500 a day which is quite sick really (brag!).

I'm going to post pics of my kids later and google earth directions tomy house as i mentioned in my first blog entry.

GL HF and if any 80-120 APM BW newbs feel like a game sometime PM me with your msn...

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Hey guys

Bloody poms just beat us in the Com Bank Series Finals of the 1 Day international cricket.. quite sick really. i would call it a bit of a bad beat... but good on them i guess

For those that don't know - it's a series of three teams. NZ, AUS and ENGLAND and we got something like 30 points in the lead up games and NZ got 7 and ENGLAND got 9. That equates to AUS 8-1 (win vs loss) and the other guys about 2-7 each or something). so then we and England are in the finals and they played really well in the first and won. And tonight in the second of best of three finals we lost because we didn't play the best and rain interrupted so we lost cause of run rate etc etc... but they deserve the win for the finals - but quite sick that we lose after dominating the entire series except for two games... as i said - kinda like a runner runner flush when you flop AAA....

Anyways - back to poker....

I've taken a massive step backwards.

Played a 1.10 45 player last night.. semi drunk - won it.

Played 25NL FR (1 table) today while watching the cricket... about 2 hours... ended on 105ish. Played some other 10 minute sessions of 25NL SH and FR and left on about 30-40 each time. So happy to say i'm back on top a bit.

I consciously decided to take a step back. so i have been playing 25NL again and small stakes sngs... it's very encouraging to win some sessions doing this but depressing because i can't figure out why i can't at 50NL. I have played the same in both limits - though i guess i am less concerned about the money at 25 having like 80 buyins... (more)..

Anyway guys - thanks for reading - please look up this hand and let me know your thoughts i would appreciate some comments. this was the table i ended up with over 100 on... i think it was OK fold... i stacked him and the guy to his right on one hand later in the day.


possible weak tight gay play alert...

Next post - my family etc as promised in my first post... GG guys go hard. GL HF

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Well this would actually be my second post because i just wrote the most hilarious first post you would have ever read but then i accidentally clicked the back button on the side of my mouse and lost the whole fucking thing!

So in a nutshell here was my first post...

blah blah blah
BLAH i couldn't be arsed blah blah retyping it all
blah blah blah

So anyway - this is my first post, most will probably be like everyone else's IE: i will whine and carry on about how bad i run and boast about how well i am running (very very unlikely). I'll also post my BR amount and general progress. I doubt i will post a graph because that's so embarrassing lame.

I'll post a pic of my two boys and where i live soon too so you guys can learn a bit more about me. I'll post a google earth picture of my house - i've always wanted to do that.

And occasionally i will tell a little story.

I have a little story about a guy called RUSH from LP.NET. Long story short - we end up playing against each other on 25NL the other night and i don't know him from Adam, when all of a sudden he starts bad mouthing me. I google him and discover that he is micro player and member of lp.net. He was telling me i was massive fish and that he was (contrary to appearances) a massive whale from UB that plays 5K NL etc etc. It was confusing to read on LP in his blog post of 17 Jan 2007 that he was taking the step from 5NL to 25NL and hoped he went well but then to hear that he would play me for my BR on UB with his thousands of dollars...

So a hand comes up in the midst of our war of words. I have AA and he has QQ. He raises pre and i re raise him REALLY big while telling him that he is a big donkey fish (sucker!!). Anyway the flop comes out K x x. I push all in. He says "meh" and calls off the rest of his chips.

Turns bring the Queen.

River brings tirades of "ahaha i own you - outplayed you there sucker - fish" from our friend Rush. aaahh good times!

So not 10 minutes later we sit alone on 600NL on stars playing for our rolls! (well his anyway).

Fortunately the only damage done was a little rake given to Stars and this was after about 30-40 hands. I'm glad neither of us got hurt. I have no idea why i did it - i wasn't even drunk... I guess i never expected him to turn up at the table in the first place - i hate it when my bluffs get called! So we beat our chests for a while and i think we came out on reasonably good terms.

One of the hands

If you are reading Rush - Cheerio my new little donkey friend!

Anyway - more next time guys. GL on the tables.

BR: 1508 (Stars), 582 (Interpoker).
Bonuses: $150 on Interpoker - 22% complete.
Rakeback owed: $40
Net Position: $2280
Highest BR Ever: $2800ish

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