Dublin Poker

As per the title...

Got home from work there, and as I do every other day, I jumped onto PPP. I noticed the $20 4 table freezeout was starting. This is a new game on PPP and it seems to be the exact game I'm looking for. Decent buy in and won't last till 2 or 3 in the morning!

I played this last night aswell, and was unlucky to get knocked out when my JJ was cracked by J 10d. He runner runner flushed me, but it was probably my own fault. I doubled him up a few hands previously after he made a terrible call on a rag flop with AQ and rivered an ace to crack my kings. I gave him a bit of abuse in the chat box and goaded him into calling for all his chips with J 10. Unfortunately I forgot I was online...

Anyway, back to tonights game. I had made a great start and was table chip leader soon enough. Willzer was at the table too. I was sitting in an STT at the same time and I was CL with 4 left, when suddenly the door flew open and in runs my friend to say he's smacked his car into a kerb around the corner from my house and needs a hand moving it!

I give my laptop to my bro, and ask him to play on (he doesn't play much poker but he knows the basics!). I run out to sort out his car and arrive back a while later to find my bro on the final table of the $20 game (only 3 tables started). He hands it over to me and he's doing nicely, 2nd in chips with 7 left. Top 4 get paid with $147 for 1st, so Im sitting pretty. He warns me about the chip leader 'Deasun' who apparently kept on sucking out on people, ill have to ask Will how bad he was!

I noticed I was out of the STT, to which my bro informed me he got QQ cracked by 33 all in preflop, and he rivered the 3. Yep thats online bro... So unlucky to bubble the STT, still going strong in the MTT...

Or so I thought. I called a shortstacks all in with A9s, to which Deasun also called. Checked to the river and I find that my A9 has been cracked by shortys Q9 with not one, but two queens on the flop...

Ah well still got 6K, average is about 5K. Donkey 'Deasun' is still CL, just about when I pick up AA (I know..). I just knew it was going to go pear shaped, so when Deasun raised it up to 600, I made it 1600 (I HAVE ACES OK!). The flop came 8 9 10, I pushed to scare out the donkey... he called in a shot with KJ offsuit. Not only did he hit one queen, he hit two of them.... what do you do? Will went on to get 3rd so fair play... somehow the donkey didn't even win it, he got 4th after having half the chips in play when I left! if anyone sees him online tell him I'm going to eat his children...

Slightly annoyed now, I take a break an drop my friend home, as he had to 'abandon' his car in my place until he can get it fixed. I returned with a fresh head waiting for all the positive variance to come my way!

I sat into a 50c/$1 game with $30 and soon had it up to $50, when this happened... I hate posting up hand histories but for some reason I couldnt get a screenshot. Did I play this badly? I actually thought when he called he must have trips... but no...its online...

[May 18 19:54:27] : Hand Start.
[May 18 19:54:27] : Seat 1 : iharding has $100
[May 18 19:54:27] : Seat 2 : roryc has $48.83
[May 18 19:54:27] : Seat 3 : pokerjo90 has $52
[May 18 19:54:27] : Seat 4 : stop'n'go has $161.25
[May 18 19:54:27] : Seat 5 : and then he has $197.13
[May 18 19:54:27] : Seat 6 : AtoMcPlaboy has $7.50
[May 18 19:54:27] : and then he is the dealer.
[May 18 19:54:27] : AtoMcPlaboy posted small blind.
[May 18 19:54:28] : iharding posted big blind.
[May 18 19:54:28] : Game [56082] started with 6 players.
[May 18 19:54:28] : Dealing Hole Cards.

[May 18 19:54:28] : Seat 2 : roryc has Ah 9h
[May 18 19:54:38] : roryc called $1
[May 18 19:54:43] : pokerjo90 called $1
[May 18 19:54:45] : stop'n'go called $1
[May 18 19:54:46] : and then he folded.
[May 18 19:54:51] : AtoMcPlaboy called $0.50
[May 18 19:54:52] : iharding checked.

[May 18 19:54:52] : Dealing flop.
[May 18 19:54:52] : Board cards [6c 9d 3h]

[May 18 19:54:54] : AtoMcPlaboy checked.
[May 18 19:54:57] : iharding checked.
[May 18 19:55:02] : roryc bet $4
[May 18 19:55:05] : pokerjo90 called $4
[May 18 19:55:09] : stop'n'go called $4 and raised $4
[May 18 19:55:09] : AtoMcPlaboy folded.
[May 18 19:55:10] : iharding folded.
[May 18 19:55:14] : roryc called $4
[May 18 19:55:19] : pokerjo90 called $4

[May 18 19:55:19] : Dealing turn.
[May 18 19:55:19] : Board cards [6c 9d 3h Ad]

[May 18 19:55:21] : roryc checked.
[May 18 19:55:28] : pokerjo90 bet $8
[May 18 19:55:40] : stop'n'go folded.
[May 18 19:55:44] : roryc called $8 and raised $31.83 and is All-in
[May 18 19:55:49] : pokerjo90 called $31.83

[May 18 19:55:49] : Showdown!

[May 18 19:55:49] : Seat 2 : roryc has Ah 9h
[May 18 19:55:51] : Seat 2 : roryc has Ah 9h

[May 18 19:55:51] : Seat 3 : pokerjo90 has Qc As

[May 18 19:55:56] : Board cards [6c 9d 3h Ad Qd]

[May 18 19:55:56] : Seat 2 : roryc has Ah 9h
[May 18 19:55:56] : roryc has Two Pair: Aces and 9s
[May 18 19:55:56] : Seat 3 : pokerjo90 has Qc As
[May 18 19:55:56] : pokerjo90 has Two Pair: Aces and Queens
[May 18 19:55:56] : pokerjo90 wins $105.66 with Two Pair: Aces and Queens
[May 18 19:56:02] : stop'n'go : i had Q9!!
[May 18 19:56:03] : roryc : ???


A9 vs AQ vs Q9... I can't ask for much more coming up to the river than that! Theres only two cards in the whole deck that can cripple me, and of course, one pops out! You have to question the skill level of these players. I mean, stop 'n' go min raised my flop bet with top pair queen kicker. pokerjo called the bet AND the raise with AQ, no draw, just ace high...

When I did hit my hand on the turn I check raised him, knowing from earlier play that he is not good enough to spot that this obviously signifies a monster. I got all his chips in, exactly as I wanted, and of course he hits! It is absolutely sickening! I have now played sixteen pots of over $100 on Paddy Power, and I have won zero... thats right, still never won a pot of over $100 online. I have gone into 14 of them a mile ahead, the other two being AA vs KK. How can you be robbed so much EVERY time? Its ridiculous!!

As if losing the $100+ pot on two outer wasn't bad enough, I had joined the $30 4 table freezeout on PPP. Was only playing a few hands and had built up to about 2500, when I picked up the monster that is Q7. I flop came Q7A, and when another Queen came on the turn I was sitting there thinking "finally... ill recoup my losses!"...emm nope! I got the chip leaders money in on the turn, he flipped A7... not another two outer...


[May 18 20:09:57] : Board cards [Qs 7d Ah Qd Ac]
[May 18 20:09:57] : Seat 6 : angelsight has 7c Ad
[May 18 20:09:57] : angelsight has Full House : Aces full of Queens
[May 18 20:09:57] : Seat 8 : roryc has 7h Qh
[May 18 20:09:57] : roryc has Full House : Queens full of Aces
[May 18 20:09:57] : angelsight wins 5,000 with Full House : Aces full of Queens
[May 18 20:10:06] : Hand is over.


Fair enough I was behind up until the turn but ffs...

I give up... no matter how hard you look at it, its never ever going to be poker...

Current BR $0


Anyway enough of that bad beat moaning, I picked up a few books during the week with my winnings from the Anglers game. I have both of Mike Caro's books already (signed of course!), but to join them i now have...

Hold 'em Poker by Sklansky
Harrington on Hold 'em by Dan Harrington
Bad Beats and Lucky Draws by Phil Helmuth (I know...)
Dirty Poker by Richard Marcus
Breaking Vegas by Ben Mezrich

I hope to use the first two to improve my game, the last three are just for a good read!

good luck...and stay away from Paddy Power Poker!


EDIT: Looks like I'm not the only one who had a bad night at the tables... Paul and Ian are steaming aswell!