So the weekend started with us getting to the pkr party at about half 9 friday night where I met loadz ppl who Id played online with. Plus also some ppl who Id met b4. The place was pretty cool, with 5 bowling lanes, a games room, table tennis, karaoke room and most importantly...... a free bar!
Id decided before I went that I was going to completely abuse the free bar. I mean not to the extent that I would feel like death the following day, after all it was a big tourney for me. However that kinda went out the window pretty quick. After they chucked us out (at midnight! WTF) a few of us got a taxi to the empire casino. I actually felt like such a fish in this taxi as I shared it with some huge names from PKR;
pokey85 - High stakes player and a PKR team pro
dappadan - plays 5/10+ and finished 2nd in stars million this yr (i think)
Beyne - A russian guy who's won over 400k in tourneys this yr
1kevboy - Literally the best player on PKR, plays 25/50-100-200
kingand77 - meh
Some fat swedish guy - no idea who he was but seemed like a nice guy
Regular followers of this blog will know that me and casino's dont mix to well, especially whilst hammered and friday was no different. I dropped about 1k after losing 6 flips in a row on roulette. So after this I went to the bar and ended up talking to 1kevboy for about an hour about poker and other stuff. He's seriously one of the nicest guys Iv ever met. A lot of ppl who've have that kinda wealth/success when still young are complete wankers.
We left the casino at about 2am and I had no money at this point as id done it all at casino and id exceeded my daily limit plus I was wasted, so I just wanted to go back to the hotel and sleeeeep. But kevboy persuaded me to stay out so me andy, beyne and kev went to some club in Leicester square, in which kev spent about £350 getting us all in and into the VIP area, which tbh was pretty shitty. I hated the club, it was just full of eyes and teeth if you catch my drift. I felt like I was gona get stabbed.
So after about 5 hrs drunken sleep we headed to loose cannon to play some pokers. A few cans of red bull and some pro plus perked me up for a few hrs but half way through the day I just wanted to sleep. If it wasnt for ppl having a % of me id have just played super agro to either get a huge stack, or bust out and go back to the hotel. Anyway despite not doing alot I managed to find myself in a good position with 25 people left. There was 20 places paid so I decided to try and take advantage of all the short stacks who just wanted to make the money. However they kept picking up hands vs me and after doubling a couple up I found myself nursing a short stack.
With 21 ppl left I shoved 7 big-blinds with AK utg and got snapped by my mate Jason (piratenation) with QQ. As soon as the bubble burst the days play would be over. It was like 1am and we'd been playing since 1pm so everyone in the room wanted me to bust so they could go home. Plus everyone still in wanted to make the money. Anyway the board ran out x x x x...........K! I fist pumped the King whilst everyone else groaned pmsl :)
The very next hand Jason opened the cut-off and I shoved from the BB with QQ. He insta-called me and I shit myself. I felt sure I was in trouble until he flipped JJ. I held and eventually made it through to day 2 with the chip-lead.
I started day 2 completely owning all the shorties. I played so fucking well imo. There was one bit of controversy when I knocked maur1ce out. He wasnt very happy with me. It had folded round to me on the button. I had a huge stack and had najammq (16bb's ish) in the sb and maur1ce (20 bb's ish) in the bb. It's such a great spot to open here, my hand doesnt even matter. Naj is capable of shoving pretty light in that spot if he had maybe less than 12bb's, and maur1ce was just a nitty old guy. So when its folded I open for just over a min-raise without looking at my cards. Maur1ce calls (with 99) and the flops 432. He now open shoves and im like 'i guess I should look at my cards now'. I look down and 42o and snap call, and take the nit's stack. That always makes me very happy :)
I made it to the final table as 2nd in chips. The chip leader was badboy579 and he sat across from me so I was happy he wasnt on my left. However the 3 players on my left bust pretty quick and this made it hard for me. badboy was able to take advantage of the shorties alot more than me as they were on his left and my right. Also, now he had position on me he was able to play back at me. I think I played the FT pretty well, maybe I could have opened a bit more but Im still happy. I ended up busting 3rd for 14.7k after I shove A4 from the button with 11bb/s and get snapped by AJ. I wanted badboy to go on and win as I think he played v well and was the best of my opponents on the final. Although I was very impressed with Vaswini as well. vd12345 ended up winning it so congrats to him. He was a really nice guy.
After I busted I got taken away by 2 models for a photo shoot then shoved in front of a tv camera and got interviewed by Ashley Hames. I wasnt really prepared for it so probably came across like a complete loser but w/e. Ill post some pics and the interview on here when it gets put up.
Hope your all running as well as me ;)
Jamie, aka bulletproofJ
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Sunday, 15 November 2009
No more moaning
The thing I hate most about talking to other poker players, is how much they moan about about everything (mentioning no names kingand77). They're either telling you about their latest 10 buy-in downswing or some bad beat they took vs some fish, and its so very fucking boring. Iv always told myself not to do these things because I realise that nobody, and I mean nobody, cares. Anyway Iv noticed that recently Iv let myself stoop to they're level and I hope I havnt bored you too much. If anyone still reads this then Im am very sorry. So from now on I will try to keep my moaning at a minimal, although as this is my poker blog I think Im entitled to inform you lovely people of certain changes in fortune they may occur in my poker life.
Anyway poker has actually been going quite well. Im up 2.1k in 8days which is always nice. I feel really good about my game, and have been grinding like a normal degenerate poker player. Well maybe not that much, but more than I usually do. Iv also been working on my game and been experimenting with a couple of things that I think can take my game to the next level and they have definitely been quite profitable so far. They're not exactly new concepts to me but are plays Iv never really used much before (at least for the correct reasons).
Finally got my holdem manager working again. Now, Im not exactly a computer genius, but nor am I a complete retard. I emailed their support and after about 15 emails back and forth (over the course of 3days) in which I tried doing a million things to my computer that they had told me to, it was still fucked, so I had a teamviewing session in which some guy half way across the world took control of my computer and fixed it. It took him less than 3 minutes and what he did had nothing to do with what they had been telling me to do. I mean wtf, it was so fucking simple, if they'd told me to do that in the first place it been so much easier.
Iv been watching the final table from the wsop main event. It does absolutely no justice for the 'poker is a game of skill not luck' argument when some retarded redneck can come runner up in the biggest poker tourney of the year. Congrats to Joe Cada though. He ran like god on the FT but I dont think he played that bad, as some people on the forums seem to think. He's surely a better ambassador for poker than Darvin 'ill go back to work even if I win $8.5 million' Moon. At least he'll donate some of it back to the poker economy.
Iv never understood why people who win loadz money like on the lottery or w/e go back to they're day job. It tilts the crap outa me when people say things like 'money cant buy you happiness' or 'money isnt everything' or 'Id get bored after a while if I had that much money'. If you ever say any of these things you should go die. You are a moron and have no friends. You need to get a fucking imagination.
Dont get me wrong, I agree that money ALONE will not bring you happiness, it will however give you freedom to do whatever the fuck you like which in turn should bring happiness (unless your the type of person who doesnt drink, gamble, smoke, eat junk food or get laid). There's so many awesome places you can go visit, and there's always some major sporting event to go to. And if sports not your thing then there's music gigs/festivals. There's always some amazing band playing in an amazing part of the world.
It's for the above reasons why I want to be able to make a decent living out of poker. Because I want the freedom to be able to do all of these things. So when I ship 40k at PKR live next week, me and Vikki are just gona go and travel the world.
Jamie
Wow this post makes me seem like a very angry person ha
Anyway poker has actually been going quite well. Im up 2.1k in 8days which is always nice. I feel really good about my game, and have been grinding like a normal degenerate poker player. Well maybe not that much, but more than I usually do. Iv also been working on my game and been experimenting with a couple of things that I think can take my game to the next level and they have definitely been quite profitable so far. They're not exactly new concepts to me but are plays Iv never really used much before (at least for the correct reasons).
Finally got my holdem manager working again. Now, Im not exactly a computer genius, but nor am I a complete retard. I emailed their support and after about 15 emails back and forth (over the course of 3days) in which I tried doing a million things to my computer that they had told me to, it was still fucked, so I had a teamviewing session in which some guy half way across the world took control of my computer and fixed it. It took him less than 3 minutes and what he did had nothing to do with what they had been telling me to do. I mean wtf, it was so fucking simple, if they'd told me to do that in the first place it been so much easier.
Iv been watching the final table from the wsop main event. It does absolutely no justice for the 'poker is a game of skill not luck' argument when some retarded redneck can come runner up in the biggest poker tourney of the year. Congrats to Joe Cada though. He ran like god on the FT but I dont think he played that bad, as some people on the forums seem to think. He's surely a better ambassador for poker than Darvin 'ill go back to work even if I win $8.5 million' Moon. At least he'll donate some of it back to the poker economy.
Iv never understood why people who win loadz money like on the lottery or w/e go back to they're day job. It tilts the crap outa me when people say things like 'money cant buy you happiness' or 'money isnt everything' or 'Id get bored after a while if I had that much money'. If you ever say any of these things you should go die. You are a moron and have no friends. You need to get a fucking imagination.
Dont get me wrong, I agree that money ALONE will not bring you happiness, it will however give you freedom to do whatever the fuck you like which in turn should bring happiness (unless your the type of person who doesnt drink, gamble, smoke, eat junk food or get laid). There's so many awesome places you can go visit, and there's always some major sporting event to go to. And if sports not your thing then there's music gigs/festivals. There's always some amazing band playing in an amazing part of the world.
It's for the above reasons why I want to be able to make a decent living out of poker. Because I want the freedom to be able to do all of these things. So when I ship 40k at PKR live next week, me and Vikki are just gona go and travel the world.
Jamie
Wow this post makes me seem like a very angry person ha
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Playing again
So after a couple of weeks of getting owned and donating about 2.7k to the poker community followed by a break I started playing again at the weekend. Pretty much broke even for a bit. I always find it takes me a few sessions to get back into it after not playing for a while. But the last couple of days have gone quite well and Im up about 1.5k ish. My holdem mangers fucked up for some reason so I dont know exact amounts.
Some of this money came from 1 fish who 5bet shoved with Q4 for 100bb's lol. Seriously what a donk. He's supposed to be a decent reg but wtf. I won with AK and owned him so obviously Im so much better than him. Haha Im only joking, he's actually one of the best regs on PKR but I know he reads this.
I got an email from PKR asking if I wanted to buy in direct to PKR live. Iv never been b4, but its supposed 2b pretty awesome so I decided Id go. But the $1000 buy-in's out of my comfort zone so Iv sold off some of my action. Im really looking forward to it, It'll be cool to actually meet people who Iv played 1000's hands with. And maybe ship the tourney for 40k as well :)
I took Vikki to London last week to see Oliver for her bday. It's the 1st west end show Iv been to and enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Still dunno if Id wana go to see another one though. We stayed in an easyhotel (like easyjet) and the room was 6ft by 7ft (including bathroom) and had bright orange doors and walls lol. Luckily Im a dwarf so the room size didnt bother me.
Jamie
Some of this money came from 1 fish who 5bet shoved with Q4 for 100bb's lol. Seriously what a donk. He's supposed to be a decent reg but wtf. I won with AK and owned him so obviously Im so much better than him. Haha Im only joking, he's actually one of the best regs on PKR but I know he reads this.
I got an email from PKR asking if I wanted to buy in direct to PKR live. Iv never been b4, but its supposed 2b pretty awesome so I decided Id go. But the $1000 buy-in's out of my comfort zone so Iv sold off some of my action. Im really looking forward to it, It'll be cool to actually meet people who Iv played 1000's hands with. And maybe ship the tourney for 40k as well :)
I took Vikki to London last week to see Oliver for her bday. It's the 1st west end show Iv been to and enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Still dunno if Id wana go to see another one though. We stayed in an easyhotel (like easyjet) and the room was 6ft by 7ft (including bathroom) and had bright orange doors and walls lol. Luckily Im a dwarf so the room size didnt bother me.
Jamie
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