Today I’ve decided to create a poker clothing brand 72 BLUFF which will provide the world’s finest attire for poker players and the gambler.
The logo will have the 7s 2h in homage to Tom Dwan’s (Durrrr) epic bluff against Sammy “Any two” George
Initial brainstorm below…journey starts Monday first thing….
I sat at a table with Mohammed Suhail who chats as much as Will Kassouf there was some action early on, raises were 6x with 3 callers. I kept out of harms way and chipped up steadily finding good spots. I raised JcKc from UTG for 500 with blinds 100/200 25 ante and got 4 callers. The flop came 9c 10c 4h and I bet 1,200 and got 3 folds and one caller, the turn was an Ad and I raised 2,800 and the villain still called. The river was a Qh and I bet 10,000 and then put my head down and stared at the table. After much thought the villain called and I showed my runner runner straight to take a handsome pot.
” I had 2 pair on the river” he said
“My bet was either the nuts or nothing, I’d have called with two pair. It is a good call, I have a lot of bluffs there” I told him.
I was up to 47K and feeling in the zone, the average stack was 31K when the last hand before the break was dealt.
I raised 1,100 UTG Ac9c and got 6 callers, the flop came 9h 9d 2d. The Small Blind and Big Blind checked and I raised 3,000, UTG+1 Mohammed Suhail called and the Big Blind min raised to 6,500. I am losing to only 9 2 or a pair of twos and decide I’m ahead and it is best to shove. If he has a 9 I don’t want a diamond to come and kill my action and if he’s on a diamond draw I want to deny him the odds to draw out on me. UTG+1 folds and after much deliberation the big blind decided to call for his tournament life with Kd 6d.
“I folded Ace Queen of diamonds” Mohammed Suhail from UTG+1 chirped.
The turn was a blank and the river brought the dreaded diamond and I went from 47K to 9K in one hand, 2 hrs of chipping up ruined in one hand.
“I put you on aces” Said the Kid
“I fold aces to your bet without hesitation” I tell him. “I’m either marginally ahead or in terrible shape, as a good player I find better spots”
Mohammed Suhail pulled his AdQd from the muck to prove he wasn’t lying.
After the break I shoved on an 8 8 3 board with 9BB with 3 5 from the BB and ran into trips with 8 9 and it was all over. Killed by one hand, the kid who took my chips had blown the 85 K stack he had won on the river. He had been a calling station and I’m sure he didn’t have long left as he was down to 15BB when I left.
I feel OK I played great poker just got unlucky in a hand where the villain should have folded.
Spent the day watching the WSOP £10K heads up on YouTube and then the Colossus. I’m currently reading Johnathan Little on No Limit Cash Games volume 2 The Practice I’ve also ordered his Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker Workbook . I played 2 x $22 tournaments, in one I folded Kings pre-flop to a raise from the monster stack, I thought I had enough chips to make the top 10 but fell short coming 12th. A poor decision, I figured he’d call any shove and I may find he had 30% equity with an ace, winning the hand would have 100% guaranteed my win. I played another $22 tournament and made the cut coming 7th for a $109 Golden chip ticket. All set for tomorrow when I’ll play the £110 888 series with £28,000 guaranteed at Aspers Casino Stratford, my game is tight. I’ve installed Poker Hacker on my phone, it seems to be a good application for reviewing shove table situations.
I’ve bought some new poker gear online for the Dusk Till Dawn Grand Prix going for the distinctive look
To be a winning poker player takes a range of skills and a lot of dedication. The poker table’s biggest winner is often the game’s biggest loser due to the fact that they would often have had greater success applying their skills to other areas of life.
All their hours spent at the table and studying the game could have perhaps reaped greater rewards elsewhere, this is certainly true in my case.
As you can see even great players struggle to get in the money, poker is a hard game.
Attempts before cashing in the WSOP Main Event and Hendon Mob winnings
8 Tony Gregg Winnings $11,807,533
8 Tom Marchese Winnings $13,889,777
5 Dan Coleman Winnings $26,039,557
Played the Victoria Casino on Sunday afternoon 3 pm. I was at a table with Albert Sapiano a known regular, he busted 3 times before the re-buy period was over. He called a flop shove with bottom pair holding 4 6 and faced a pair of aces, he felted the guy when the 6 hit the river. He over bets pots and plays any two, a waking ATM unless he felts you, he’s won $359,541 but I think it cost him $2 million in buy ins.
The level of play was awful and I busted when with binds at 300/600 I opened UTG with As9s. I got called in 4 places, the flop came King high with two spades and I over bet shoved for 7,500 only to be called in two places by K9 and a lower spade flush draw. “I know I’m behind, but I have to call” she said as she put her tournament life at risk with top pair weak kicker. Awful play by her and worse by me. I’m not playing there again, it is always a miserable experience, some locations just don’t work for you. I’ve never got over busting on the bubble one night, I just missed the last tube and had to spend £55 on a taxi home. The chips are good and apparently they have some new cards with large numbers waiting to be used once their old stock are used up, much to Albert’s annoyance.
There are 4 reasons for betting :
I see people bet at the table and achieve none of the above. When 5 people limp into a pot a min raise from the big blind will just get 5 callers and a bigger pot, it is just horrible play.
Raise 3x and add one x for each caller, if you are 3 betting make it at least 2.5 x the original raise in position and 3.5x out of position. You always want to raise more out of position as 2 out of 3 times you will miss the flop and it compensates for the positional disadvantage you will face.
Even Daniel Negreanu get’s it wrong sometimes, his bet on the turn is just horrible.
Check Doug Polk’s videos on YouTube his hand analysis is spot on.
Some more analysis from Doug Polk, notice that even Fedor can’t bluff a guy off an ace!
Never check your cards until it is your turn to act, watch the other players check theirs and see if you can pick up reads. There is always information to be had by doing this, it is crazy how many players lack this basic discipline to their game.
Check your cards when it is YOUR TURN to act and MEMORISE then.
There should be no need to re-check your cards to see if you have a flush card or verify you’ve made your straight…this is just bad, bad play. You can do this for deception to sometimes make your set look like a draw.
Even the greats sometimes misread their cards, it cost Eric Siebel the Aussie Millions title in 2008 when he thought he had a nut flush draw and went all in giving Alex Kostritsyn the win.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZplz2lRmQM
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