Grimmed, Karma and Sunday Million final table.................

Few bits to catch up on.... I'll come to my tourney report on the Sunday Million but a few bits first!

Ginger Watch

A fun segment which I'll be updating on a ad hoc basis. Shelley treated herself to a cut and colour on Saturday so not much ginger in sight atm.

Rest of the family are good. Ace has had a bit of a bug and a cold but he's getting better thankfully. Still not sleeping through and he's gonna be 9 months this Friday (incidentally the 13th- Ace was born on Friday the 13th!) It's been really tough on us, especially Shelley. The first 3 all slept through from six weeks so it's quite a culture shock!

Rio is behaving better though which is a Godsend! Something which I believed has helped is banning him from all video games. Yes we were probably naive letting him play them as young as 4- I really thought it was some sort of fable/old wives tale that computer games can have an effect on a childs behaviour! But it isn't! They turn into little terrors! Lock away your Nintendo Ds's!!! Instead have been taking him and the kids to do more outdoor activities- swimming, running, the park, footie. Poker can sometimes consume your life- I have to remember why I'm making money- for my family. What's the point of doing that if I'm not enjoying them? That's why Shelley's so good for me- she keeps me grounded when I get carried sometimes......

Kieran has his first girlfriend! At the tender age of 11 he asked out a girl called Ellie in his class. I'm dead proud of him cos this is something I never had the courage to do until I was 19 lol! I was a little different back then. Very shy and not confident at all- at some point I'll put up some piccies.

Grimmed

Sunday was quite an eventful day for me in more ways than one. I'd qualified for the ipoker 2.5mill guaranteed for 200 bucks (1700$ buy in) which started at 7pm so had to miss the DTD 300 which was a bit annoying. I'll also be missing it in April due to APAT Cardiff which myself Neil (Blatchley) and Kev Smith (bag man) will be attending.

I decided to approach the tournament seriously as it was a huge pay day and the field wasn't too huge to conquer considering the pay day (500k for first, 1300 runners). I woke up with the kids Sunday and then went back to bed at 11am. I decided that for the first time in ages I'd use a significant portion of my roll to take a shot and play a big Sunday schedule which included:

Stars:
Sunday Warm Up 215$
Sunday Million 215$
Sunday Second Chance 215$
Couple of 100$ f/outs

Full Tilt:
750k guarantee 215$
Mulligan 215$
Brawl 256$
50k guaranree 163$

Laddies:

Skalie Deepstack 109$
Dream Team Vegas Satty 100$ with EIGHT 5k Vegas packages ADDED!

One problem- I had no dough on full tilt. There's an official person to person transfer thread on blonde and I had about 3k on stars so I put up a message asking for 600$ on tilt for stars then went to sleep......

I wake up at 3.30 (Skalie deepstack starts at 4pm) getting ready for a big day- log onto blonde and have received the following message from what I believe to be Le Knave (Dave Jones):

Hi mate, its Le Knave I can sort you out $200 on tiltShip to THE_KING_JEW on stars and ill ship once received, lets win it allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

Now I want to blame the fact that I'd just woken up on the fact that I shipped it without too much thinking. I did wonder why Dave would play under the name as THE KING JEW as I'm sure he played as Le Knave pretty much everywhere but I dismissed this and just shipped the dough. Many little things pointed to the fact this was not Dave:

1) His name was Le Knave. Dave is LeKnave no spaces.

2) Le Knave had 0 posts. Dave has 3524.

3) He had no contact details MSN etc and no tag line (www.weregettingpaid.com) although he had cunningly copied Le Knave's pic

4) He said in his message- "Hi it's Le Knave." COURSE IT'S LE KNAVE- it's a pm from him! Actually it's NOT! Hence why he' saying "Hi it's Le Knave!"

5) The most active thread on blonde that day was titled "Grimmer?"

Anyway I'm waiting and waiting.... and waiting and waiting. Keep checking my full tilt account- no 200$. I finally get around to reading the thread on blonde and own up to being the dullard I am- get some rightful abuse and some not justified from Richard Kellet and one of his minnions.

Now I have nothing against Richard Kellet. I have actually never shared a poker table with the guy and I'm sure he has a fairly decent game as he gets a lot of backing. He tried to angle shoot Neil in a big pot at DTD which is not on imo if you have an ounce of integrity but it happens, people do it, poker's about a game of edge's and he tried to use one.

Me and Kellet clashed when I made I comment at an omaha table where he was playing (and getting owned) by Dave Penly. I made a comment about Kellett knowing when he's beat= no malice intended but I just didn't understand why he would want to play someone heads up where he has little/no edge when there must be TONS of bad omaha players out there. It's like me asking Tom Dwan if he wants a quick heads up session! Kellet then made a racist comment whcih obv shows his age- I seriously hope that he said this in the heat of the moment cos he was losing $$$. If he wants to apologise I will gladly accept- anyone who knows me knows I don't hold grudges and I'm basically a nice guy.

ANYWAY, I'm digressing but there is a purpose. Kellett and his minnion (can't remember his name, not important enough) start talking to me about karma and the fact that I DESERVED my grimming for accusing Kellet of the same (big thread on blonde, won't go into it lol)- I said if there's any karma hopefully it'll be delievered tonight by the poker Gods.

Back to Sunday, I'm playing a few tourneys- get a couple of mini cashes but nothing massive. My attention soon turns to the Vegas package on Laddies. I'm deep and not really concentrating as well as I should on other tourneys including at this point the Sunday Million (I was card dead and was blinding away something cronic- think my stats at 200/400 were somethings like 5/2/NA lol!). There's 8 packages up for grabs and nine of us left. Folds to me in small blind. Me and the smaller stack we both have around 14k and the blinds are a hefty 2000/4000 and I shove Q5, he obv wakes up with AK and holds. I bubble the sat (although win 1500$) and am sick. Maybe that's karma after all......

I then bust the 50k deep with QQ vs KK. BS!!!! Im one tabling the Sunday million with hardly any chips. FML!!! Another shitty (and costly) Sunday. UM WRONG! I actually FINALLED the million and won 26k- my biggest online pay day. I have posted some hands and comments below. I have very mixed feelings about the final and think I played scared in one pot in particular- waiting to see the reply but I'm sure if I had the opportunity again I would re shove. Please see hands below for more.

Big Bink:

*********** # 91 **************PokerStars Game #25752970094: Tournament #144032321, $200+$15 Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (300/600) - 2009/03/08 18:58:40 ETTable '144032321 169' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: dirkyNL (37713 in chips)
Seat 2: Desert Horse (12515 in chips)
Seat 3: Tommy2tyme (10760 in chips)
Seat 4: Guerrouij (15537 in chips)
Seat 5: Tschan19 (7850 in chips)
Seat 6: George2Loose (6275 in chips)
Seat 7: jwalk007678 (16525 in chips)
Seat 8: jamal p (7175 in chips)
Seat 9: Bicman777 (65233 in chips)
George2Loose: posts small blind 300
jwalk007678: posts big blind 600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to George2Loose [Qc Td]
jamal p: calls 600
Bicman777: folds
dirkyNL: folds
Desert Horse: folds
Tommy2tyme: folds
Guerrouij: folds
Tschan19: folds
George2Loose: raises 5675 to 6275 and is all-in
jwalk007678: folds jamal p: calls 5675
*** FLOP *** [9h Kc Js]
*** TURN *** [9h Kc Js] [5d]
*** RIVER *** [9h Kc Js 5d] [2d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***George2Loose: shows [Qc Td] (a straight, Nine to King)jamal p: shows [Qd Qs] (a pair of Queens)George2Loose collected 13150 from pot*** SUMMARY ***Total pot 13150 Rake 0 Board [9h Kc Js 5d 2d]Seat 1: dirkyNL folded before Flop (didn't bet)Seat 2: Desert Horse folded before Flop (didn't bet)Seat 3: Tommy2tyme folded before Flop (didn't bet)Seat 4: Guerrouij folded before Flop (didn't bet)Seat 5: Tschan19 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)Seat 6: George2Loose (small blind) showed [Qc Td] and won (13150) with a straight, Nine to KingSeat 7: jwalk007678 (big blind) folded before FlopSeat 8: jamal p showed [Qd Qs] and lost with a pair of QueensSeat 9: Bicman777 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Now this might seem like a donkey move- and it pretty much is. But this is where multi tabling and having a HUD can fuck you up. I had the table minimised cos I was concentrating on Laddies tourney and the HUD covered up the UTG call so I thought I was shoving small to big. Yes- I'm a LUCKBOX!!!

TY Donkey:

*********** # 175 **************PokerStars Game #25755958806: Tournament #144032321, $200+$15 Hold'em No Limit - Level XI (750/1500) - 2009/03/08 20:21:34 ETTable '144032321 169' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: dirkyNL (12375 in chips)
Seat 2: Rightcurver (91939 in chips)
Seat 3: Tommy2tyme (44034 in chips)
Seat 4: Guerrouij (11952 in chips)
Seat 5: dp112 (35488 in chips)
Seat 6: George2Loose (27046 in chips)
Seat 7: jwalk007678 (31052 in chips)
Seat 8: kylmac85 (45335 in chips)
Seat 9: rotiv azar (29045 in chips)
dirkyNL: posts the ante 150
Rightcurver: posts the ante 150
Tommy2tyme: posts the ante 150
Guerrouij: posts the ante 150
dp112: posts the ante 150
George2Loose: posts the ante 150
jwalk007678: posts the ante 150
kylmac85: posts the ante 150
rotiv azar: posts the ante 150
Tommy2tyme: posts small blind 750
Guerrouij: posts big blind 1500
*** HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to George2Loose [Ad Qh]
dp112: raises 3000 to 4500
George2Loose: calls 4500
*** FLOP *** [As 9s 7c]
dp112: checks
George2Loose: bets 4500
dp112: calls 4500
*** TURN *** [As 9s 7c] [8h]
dp112: checks
George2Loose: bets 17896 and is all-in
dp112: calls 17896*** RIVER *** [As 9s 7c 8h] [6s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***dp112: shows [Ah 3h] (a pair of Aces)
George2Loose: shows [Ad Qh] (a pair of Aces - Queen kicker)George2Loose collected 57392 from pot

Do most call with AQ here 2nd to act? Is it too nitty to fold? He snapped the turn so obv I thought he had trapped me a treat- nope. He obv put me on A2

It's late and will post some more up later- pls leave some comments and I'll respond back

Thanks to everyone for the rail on stars, facebook, blonde. Threads on blonde, punters lounge and APAT. Oh and thanks to Dave Mfkin Jones for the grim. Karma indeed.