Justin Thorne - 24000
Ricky - 17000
Dave C - 15000
Whipp - 13000
Alan Mason - 10000
Sox - 9000
Nigel - 7000
Gordon - 7000
Roger - 2000
Sunday, 22 August 2010
Friday, 6 August 2010
FULL TILT LEAGUE
Here's how things stand for the final play off in a few weeks (still two chances to win a place)
AnteVirus Thorne - 15,000 chips
Ricky - 10,000 chips
Dave C - 9000 chips
Whipp - 8000 chips
Nigel - 7ooo chips
Alan - 5000 chips
Soxy - 3000 chips
Roger - 2000 chips
Danny 5 Dicks - 1000 chips
AnteVirus Thorne - 15,000 chips
Ricky - 10,000 chips
Dave C - 9000 chips
Whipp - 8000 chips
Nigel - 7ooo chips
Alan - 5000 chips
Soxy - 3000 chips
Roger - 2000 chips
Danny 5 Dicks - 1000 chips
Sunday, 18 July 2010
FULL TILT MADRID LEAGUE
Every Friday in July through August, we are running heats to win a trip to play in the Full Tilt Espana Series. The winner will be off to Madrid and the CASINO GRAN to play in the 1500 buy-in tournament.
So far the final table looks like this:
Justin Thorne - 8000 chips
Alan Mason - 5000 chips
Nigel Holliday - 4000 chips
Dave Corbel - 4000 chips
Gary Whipp - 4000 chips
Roger - 2000 chips
Soxy - 2000 chips
Ricky - 1000 chips
Still 4 heats left, so plenty of time to pick up points and make it onto the final table. We pay 5 points for a win, down to 1 point for 5th.
We multiply players' points by 1000 for starting stacks on the final table/s and any player with 2000 chips qualifies to take part, not just the top ten!
See you at the tables...
jT
So far the final table looks like this:
Justin Thorne - 8000 chips
Alan Mason - 5000 chips
Nigel Holliday - 4000 chips
Dave Corbel - 4000 chips
Gary Whipp - 4000 chips
Roger - 2000 chips
Soxy - 2000 chips
Ricky - 1000 chips
Still 4 heats left, so plenty of time to pick up points and make it onto the final table. We pay 5 points for a win, down to 1 point for 5th.
We multiply players' points by 1000 for starting stacks on the final table/s and any player with 2000 chips qualifies to take part, not just the top ten!
See you at the tables...
jT
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
New Poker Room in Jersey!
Always happy to see new homes for poker popping-up in Jersey so I was delighted to see Park View Poker Club opening its doors recently.
I particularly like it when a club is dedicated to poker and not just a large space filled with poker tables dragged up from a basement.
Park View is for cash games only and is open to the public 5 nights a week, usually from 7:30pm until the wee hours of the next morning, and sometimes, right through to the following night!
My mate, Dan the Dragon is running things and as a player first, he has converted the room into a state of the art den for the serious player, and has even had a table custom built.
Dan likes to do things a little bit differently and likes to pay attention to the detail and is offering free food (he is an amazing chef and used to run one of the premiere Chinese restaurant kitchens over here) hot drinks and soft drinks all night and even offers a free pick-up and drop-off service after 1am.
There is always a dealer when the poker room is open and there is a separate area for smokers, which is good news for me as I couldn't stand the days of smoky poker dives!
Another nice little touch, is the free Internet Area and the club will soon be offering e-Gaming with a live dealer - I have no idea how that works but I am intrigued and will check it out.
So, get yourself to the Park View Poker Club and check it out, you don't even have to play, just let Dan know you are coming, pop in and have a look around and if you are lucky, you may even get some grub!
CLICK HERE for more info...
This Friday at Club 72, we're running the May Madness £20 Re-Buy Tournament with Jackpot first hand! Cards in the air at 7PM SHARP!
See you at the tables...
jT
I particularly like it when a club is dedicated to poker and not just a large space filled with poker tables dragged up from a basement.
Park View is for cash games only and is open to the public 5 nights a week, usually from 7:30pm until the wee hours of the next morning, and sometimes, right through to the following night!
My mate, Dan the Dragon is running things and as a player first, he has converted the room into a state of the art den for the serious player, and has even had a table custom built.
Dan likes to do things a little bit differently and likes to pay attention to the detail and is offering free food (he is an amazing chef and used to run one of the premiere Chinese restaurant kitchens over here) hot drinks and soft drinks all night and even offers a free pick-up and drop-off service after 1am.
There is always a dealer when the poker room is open and there is a separate area for smokers, which is good news for me as I couldn't stand the days of smoky poker dives!
Another nice little touch, is the free Internet Area and the club will soon be offering e-Gaming with a live dealer - I have no idea how that works but I am intrigued and will check it out.
So, get yourself to the Park View Poker Club and check it out, you don't even have to play, just let Dan know you are coming, pop in and have a look around and if you are lucky, you may even get some grub!
CLICK HERE for more info...
This Friday at Club 72, we're running the May Madness £20 Re-Buy Tournament with Jackpot first hand! Cards in the air at 7PM SHARP!
See you at the tables...
jT
Sunday, 7 March 2010
Stats geek!
I'm running so bad at the moment in the cash game or at least it feels like I am... It actually highlights the importance of tracking your game if you want to take poker seriously. Nobody likes having a mirror held-up in front of them but in poker, you need to know if you are a winning player and if you aren't, you need to know where your holes are so you can fill them.
I track every game I play in and I mean every game. When I get home, no matter how late it is, I record my buy-in, what I have won or lost and I often take notes if I have made a bad play or picked up something on a player I play against regularly.
In live games, we don't have the benefit of Shark Scope or Poker Tracker so we don't have the luxury of knowing how we are doing and what hands are +EV or -EV. Imagine if you could access every hand you played in live games and then click a few buttons to find out how often Ace, 10 suited paid off for you?
It ain't gonna happen and of course in the live game, we have so many other inputs other than betting patterns, pot odds or the basic maths of our own hands. But it is important to decide what you want from poker... is it pure entertainment for you, does it boost your monthly income, or is it a business? It helps to be honest, but I am often amazed at how poker players simply refuse to even answer that question and they certainly don't or can't tell you if they are winning players.
I won't get into the cash value of the figures but this is how I have been doing the last few years:
2008
In the cash games, mostly the pomme and The Vic in London, I ended the year making 20% from the cash I put on the table. Even then, I didn't see many bank accounts offering that kind of return. I won (ended up with more money than I sat down with) 46% of the time. Biggest win was £1600 and biggest loss was £890.
In tournaments, I was down 27% but final tabled 57% of the time and cashed 24% of the time.
2009
In the cash games (and I broadened my playing everywhere from Vegas to the Caribbean) I made 37% on the money I put onto the tables. Owning a share in my own poker club meant I was playing up to 3 times a week so I am happy that my return increased year on year. I won 55% of the time, another trend I want to increase. My biggest win was £1405 and my biggest lost was easily over £2000 (in Bulgaria against the local mafia!)
In tournaments, I made 28%, which is almost the exact opposite of the previous year (where I lost 27% of my buy-in bankroll). That made me happy, as whilst tournaments are never going to earn as much as cash games unless you win a big one, I wanted to improve without effecting my cash game too much. I final tabled 72% of the time, cashed 38% of the time and won 11% of the tournaments I played in.
2010
So far this year, I have won 60% of the time in cash games, but I am down 12% due to a couple of big losses. Not a great start, but if I maintain my winning percentage, I know I can get back into the black.
In tournaments, I have final tabled 56% of the time and cashed 44% of the time. I've won 22% of the time, so that's not bad.
So am I really running bad at the moment? Not really... I am down and lost more than I would have liked in one sitting but the hands where I lost, I either had the best hand when the money went in, or gave a player a tough decision to make for all their chips with a semi-bluff or slightly worse hand at the time.
The cash game seems to be crazy wherever you go at the moment, with players in the hand purely because the pots are big.
Example.
I make it £17 to go with pocket Queens and get three callers before a fourth player raises it up to £50 (which is all his chips at the time.)
The pot is £107 when it gets back to me.
I make it an additional £150 on top of the £33 to call the re-raiser.
This puts £290 in the pot. Villain 1 tanks for 5 minutes and eventually throws his £60 or so into a side pot, boosting the pot to £350 or so.
Villain 2 announces that he now has to call as he is getting value... what? He has to call £183 to win £350, which ain't even 2 - 1 !!!
I show my Queens and this is what I am up against:
Villain 1 - K, 5 suited... yes, King, 5 suited!
Villain 2 who was calling for value - Ace, Jack offsuit
Re-Raiser shows pocket 10s.
I say out loud that I know my hand is doomed.
Flop:
10, 7, Ace
Turn
3
River
Jack
Brilliant, I have the third best hand and win a side pot of £4.
About three hands later I hit two pair with Jack, 10 against two King rags who flopped a King, with one card to come. Another King comes on the river and they share my chips.
The important thing is to look at the stats, note where mistakes were made and keep playing if financially feasible! I am lucky in that I can take a bit of a hit thanks to the bankroll I have built up over the last few years. Tilting... YES! Running bad... NO!!!
See you at the tables...
jT
I track every game I play in and I mean every game. When I get home, no matter how late it is, I record my buy-in, what I have won or lost and I often take notes if I have made a bad play or picked up something on a player I play against regularly.
In live games, we don't have the benefit of Shark Scope or Poker Tracker so we don't have the luxury of knowing how we are doing and what hands are +EV or -EV. Imagine if you could access every hand you played in live games and then click a few buttons to find out how often Ace, 10 suited paid off for you?
It ain't gonna happen and of course in the live game, we have so many other inputs other than betting patterns, pot odds or the basic maths of our own hands. But it is important to decide what you want from poker... is it pure entertainment for you, does it boost your monthly income, or is it a business? It helps to be honest, but I am often amazed at how poker players simply refuse to even answer that question and they certainly don't or can't tell you if they are winning players.
I won't get into the cash value of the figures but this is how I have been doing the last few years:
2008
In the cash games, mostly the pomme and The Vic in London, I ended the year making 20% from the cash I put on the table. Even then, I didn't see many bank accounts offering that kind of return. I won (ended up with more money than I sat down with) 46% of the time. Biggest win was £1600 and biggest loss was £890.
In tournaments, I was down 27% but final tabled 57% of the time and cashed 24% of the time.
2009
In the cash games (and I broadened my playing everywhere from Vegas to the Caribbean) I made 37% on the money I put onto the tables. Owning a share in my own poker club meant I was playing up to 3 times a week so I am happy that my return increased year on year. I won 55% of the time, another trend I want to increase. My biggest win was £1405 and my biggest lost was easily over £2000 (in Bulgaria against the local mafia!)
In tournaments, I made 28%, which is almost the exact opposite of the previous year (where I lost 27% of my buy-in bankroll). That made me happy, as whilst tournaments are never going to earn as much as cash games unless you win a big one, I wanted to improve without effecting my cash game too much. I final tabled 72% of the time, cashed 38% of the time and won 11% of the tournaments I played in.
2010
So far this year, I have won 60% of the time in cash games, but I am down 12% due to a couple of big losses. Not a great start, but if I maintain my winning percentage, I know I can get back into the black.
In tournaments, I have final tabled 56% of the time and cashed 44% of the time. I've won 22% of the time, so that's not bad.
So am I really running bad at the moment? Not really... I am down and lost more than I would have liked in one sitting but the hands where I lost, I either had the best hand when the money went in, or gave a player a tough decision to make for all their chips with a semi-bluff or slightly worse hand at the time.
The cash game seems to be crazy wherever you go at the moment, with players in the hand purely because the pots are big.
Example.
I make it £17 to go with pocket Queens and get three callers before a fourth player raises it up to £50 (which is all his chips at the time.)
The pot is £107 when it gets back to me.
I make it an additional £150 on top of the £33 to call the re-raiser.
This puts £290 in the pot. Villain 1 tanks for 5 minutes and eventually throws his £60 or so into a side pot, boosting the pot to £350 or so.
Villain 2 announces that he now has to call as he is getting value... what? He has to call £183 to win £350, which ain't even 2 - 1 !!!
I show my Queens and this is what I am up against:
Villain 1 - K, 5 suited... yes, King, 5 suited!
Villain 2 who was calling for value - Ace, Jack offsuit
Re-Raiser shows pocket 10s.
I say out loud that I know my hand is doomed.
Flop:
10, 7, Ace
Turn
3
River
Jack
Brilliant, I have the third best hand and win a side pot of £4.
About three hands later I hit two pair with Jack, 10 against two King rags who flopped a King, with one card to come. Another King comes on the river and they share my chips.
The important thing is to look at the stats, note where mistakes were made and keep playing if financially feasible! I am lucky in that I can take a bit of a hit thanks to the bankroll I have built up over the last few years. Tilting... YES! Running bad... NO!!!
See you at the tables...
jT
Sunday, 21 February 2010
FRIDAY FREEZEOUT
Congrats to Gazza for taking down the £50 Freezeout on Friday. We had 21 players contesting the £2K pot.
Kev took the challenge and made a showing, drawn out of retirement for a 'freezeout'. He got unlucky after limp shoving with AK when Nigel raised in the big blind. Unfortunately for Kev, Nigel was sitting on AA... must be nice!
I went out when my 99 hit Leigh's AA. Bullets flying all over the place!
This Friday we are running the super satellite to Sunday's £150 Deepstack Freezeout! The prizepool will be used to pay for seats to Sunday only and the club is also adding 4 extra seats.
Tuesday is cash game as normal.
See you at the tables...
jT
Kev took the challenge and made a showing, drawn out of retirement for a 'freezeout'. He got unlucky after limp shoving with AK when Nigel raised in the big blind. Unfortunately for Kev, Nigel was sitting on AA... must be nice!
I went out when my 99 hit Leigh's AA. Bullets flying all over the place!
This Friday we are running the super satellite to Sunday's £150 Deepstack Freezeout! The prizepool will be used to pay for seats to Sunday only and the club is also adding 4 extra seats.
Tuesday is cash game as normal.
See you at the tables...
jT
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
MIXING THINGS UP ON FRIDAYS AND INTRODUCING THE SUPER SATELLITE!!!
It's going to be a good year for tournament fans and cash game players alike.
We are going to keep running the monthly £150 DEEPSTACK FREEZEOUTS but only run one super satellite on the Friday before. This month's will be on a Sunday (see schedule >>>) but next month we are going to try a Saturday to see how that works.
We will mix things up on the other Fridays, sometimes running re-buys and sometimes £50 freezeouts and we will even put on some of the popular FISH HOOK POKER SERIES.
This Friday, we're running a £50 FREEZEOUT with optional £50 ADD-ON at the break. This means you have to last an hour in order to buy additional chips. 10,000 starting chips and an extra 10,000 at the break.
See you at the tables...
We are going to keep running the monthly £150 DEEPSTACK FREEZEOUTS but only run one super satellite on the Friday before. This month's will be on a Sunday (see schedule >>>) but next month we are going to try a Saturday to see how that works.
We will mix things up on the other Fridays, sometimes running re-buys and sometimes £50 freezeouts and we will even put on some of the popular FISH HOOK POKER SERIES.
This Friday, we're running a £50 FREEZEOUT with optional £50 ADD-ON at the break. This means you have to last an hour in order to buy additional chips. 10,000 starting chips and an extra 10,000 at the break.
See you at the tables...
Friday, 8 January 2010
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