5 paid stts

I played a couple of these 10 player tourneys on laddies where the top 5 get paid and cashed in 5th in both of them. Its just a case of hoping to get a hand, get a few chips over the starting stack and then steal the blinds when they get big later on. Its fairly easy to cash unless you are unlucky and run into a big hand or get sucked out on. I only play them when I havent got time to play a decent game.

Challenge bankroll is up to $327.60

Been following the WSOPE main event updates on the web and man is that a tough tourney with all the big names...this is the top 15 as we speak....scary!

Justin 'BoostedJ' Smith.
Talal Shakerchi.
Daniel Negreanu.
Chris 'Moorman1' Moorman. Gooooo Moorman - he does an excellent blog and was no 1 in pocket 5s mtt tourney rankings which is some achievement!
Scott Fischman.
John Juanda.
Chris Elliott.
Andy Bloch.
Johnny Lodden.
Mike Matusow.
Peter Neff.
Jani Sointula.
Brian 'sbrugby' Townsend.
Bengt Sonnert.
Erik Seidel.

Further down the leaderboard there is Devilfish, Josh Arieh, Robin Keston, Mel Judah....

Another STT

I played another $5 stt on laddies and my usual patient game and never really got going. I didn't pick up any decent starting hands so crap like KQ, KJ, AJ was looking quite good! I lost about 1500 when I had KJ and he had AJ and we both hit 2 pair, his A coming on the river of course.

We were down to the last 5 quite quickly and I was pleased to double up in the last 4 when I had KQ ob. I raised to 800 and the big blind called. The flop was a lovely KK7 rainbow and I called his ai with Q8 and doubled up to 7.5k. LOL and he did make a comment about terrible timing in the chat box which it was.

In the final 3 I was the shorty with 7K vs 12k vs 20K so wasn't expecting much and was just hoping to get a double up to at least have a chance. Well the 2nd stack committed suicide with a bluff and that left me with 10k vs 30k heads up. We had a right old battle which was pretty good and I managed to get to 30K when I had AK and he re-raised me all in with his QQ and I hit trips on the river. But alas I just couldn't finish him off and we were both up and down like a see-saw. By the end it was a bit of a crap shoot as blinds were 2k/1k but still an enjoyable game and predictably my timing was off on the last hand when I pushed with AQ to find him insta-calling with AK lol.

Challenge bankroll is now $324.20

morons & retards and fish, oh my!!

I decided to play the $3 (2k guaranteed) freezeout on blonde this afternoon and got off to a good start when I had KK first hand. A retard who limped utg+1 and then called my 24o raise re-raised me all in on the 442 flop with 53 for an open ended straight draw. How i laughed when the turn bought me the K for a full house and even louder when the donk hit his A for a river straight looooooool. I mean it wasnt even a re-buy and to limp UTG+1 with 53 and then call a 240 raise.....what planet are these morons on and thank christ he got exactly what he deserved!

Dealer: Starting a new hand (#1755420993)
Dealer: minec posts Small Blind 10
Dealer: richmagpies1862 posts Big Blind 20
Dealer: Dealing cards
Dealer: Your cards Kh Kd
Dealer: TheScarmaker folds
Dealer: guile85 calls 20
Dealer: GoliathREB folds
Dealer: frenk58 calls 20
Dealer: kcsaba17 calls 20
Dealer: Marcel84 calls 20
Dealer: tabler666 folds
Dealer: mrmickemellt folds
Dealer: minec calls 10
Dealer: richmagpies1862 raises to 240
Dealer: guile85 folds
Dealer: frenk58 calls 220
Dealer: kcsaba17 folds
Dealer: Marcel84 folds
Dealer: minec folds
Dealer: Dealing Flop2s 4d 2c
Dealer: richmagpies1862 bets 560
Dealer: frenk58 raises to 1,260
Dealer: richmagpies1862 goes All-in 700
Dealer: Dealing Turn2s 4d 2c Ks
Dealer: Dealing River2s 4d 2c Ks Ad
Dealer: richmagpies1862 shows Full houseKh Kd
Dealer: frenk58 shows Straight5d 3d
Dealer: richmagpies1862 wins with Full house2s 2c Kd Kh Ks 3,080
Dealer: richmagpies1862 wins with Full house2s 2c Kd Kh Ks 3,080
Dealer: frenk58 has finished tournament in 652. place

Well that was about the highlight as I never got a hand after that but witnessed some truly awful play. The end came with the predictability of a something really predictable (can't think of an example lol) when I pushed with AQ on the button for about 2k which was about 6 big blinds after there was 1 limper utg. The blinds folded and of course mr. limper called for half his stack with the mighty A9 off so he was miles behind and deservedly so...I mean how can you not get away from A9 utg after limping...if your gonna play rubbish at least raise and try to win rather than playing like a complete weak fish...what a moron....howver the RNG saw fit to reward the retard with a 9 on the flop and I'm gone in 165th. But as someone once said these are the kind of morons you want to play against and I would take the call every time!

I hate to bubble...

I bubbled a $5 stt yesterday and the hand below was key to this. I was pissing around on facebook, laddies forum etc and not really paying attention and folded here in the small blind when if i had been looking at the chip stacks it would have been a insta call with any 2 even though the chip leader was still to act. Would have cost me an extra 570 to call with 1200 in the pot already and the chance to knock out the shorty.....sigh....of course the shorty won with his T4 instead of being knocked out by my pair of Kings. 3 uncontested all ins in a row and hes not the shorty anymore and of course when I'm the shorty I get them in ahead and get sucked out on lol....still at least I may pay more attention in the future....then again maybe not!


** Game ID 1049054238 starting - 2008-09-15 22:44:40
** $5 Super High Stack- 20 hand levels [Hold 'em] (800.001600.00 NL - STT) Real Money

BOD75 sitting in seat 1 with $9570.00

[Dealer]- reggy sitting in seat 2 with $1370.00
richmagpies1 sitting in seat 4 with $7477.50
moderdy sitting in seat 5 with $20382.50
reggy posted the small blind - $400.00
richmagpies1 posted the big blind - $800.00


** Dealing card to richmagpies1: K of h, 3 of c

moderdy called - $800.00
BOD75 foldedreggy went all-in - $1370.00
richmagpies1 folded
moderdy called - $1770.00

reggy shows: 10 of h, 4 of d
moderdy shows: 7 of c, 9 of h

** Dealing the flop: 2 of h, K of s, 4 of h
** Dealing the turn: Q of s
** Dealing the river: 5 of s


reggy wins $4340.00 from the main pot
End of game 1049054238

Challenge bankroll is now $323.30

Another 5$ stt

today on laddies which took about an hour to fill but cashed in 3rd for $8. On the last hand I raised from the big blind after the 2nd chip flat called in the small blind. I then pushed with my J5 after hitting a J on the QJ8 flop and was insta called by the 2nd chip leader who had flopped a straight with his T9 lol. I couldnt really wait any longer with less than 10 big blinds 3 handed.

Challenege bankroll is now $328.80

Loving the EPT Barcelona live stream on www.eptlive.com Great work PokerStars!

Most stts ive played for ages...

I played 3 stts today which is probably the most in a day for months! Unsurprisingly there was no traffic at my favoured stts until the evening so I had a look on stars....I came 5th in a $3 9 seater, then won a $1 9 seater and then came 2nd in a laddies $5 super deepstack so a few dollars up for the day. Would have won the $5 if I could only get a medium pocket pair to hold up against two overcards heads-up but at least I'm getting them in ahead!

Challenge bankroll is now at $326.30 but still no where near the $1k i was aiming for this time last year! Better than losing though!

Quick update

Not played much (again) recently and have only managed to squeeze in a few Laddies 5 pay equal stts. These are 10 hand levels and turn into a crap shoot pretty quickly so not my cup of tea. But managed to cash in those that I have played in and along with the STT win and some free cash from Pokertrillion a few weeks ago the bankroll is now up to $319.90.

I will start playing the $5 stts again but the deepstack games i prefer are few and far between with the traffic on laddies rapidly disappearing!