Damnit, just posted a big post and my internet crapped out.

I was at City Bunker at Canary Wharf last night and now I’m aching. Played simulator golf and Wii bowling for 6 hours and my thighs are sore and my neck’s incredibly stiff and sore. I was there for Poker Player Magazine Grand Prix, sponsored by Betfair, with the first prize of a WSOP package. Well I say I was there for that but I was just there to drink and play games. It’s a really cool place and I’ll totally be going back.

Also organised a $525 + $25 seat to Betfair’s $125k GTD for Raise The River bloggers and started reading a few of their blogs, mostly very low limit players but enjoying it, so I thought I’d have a go again and do it seriously. It helped that I was playing $5/$10 limit on Adam’s account earlier.

Anyway, back on the poker proper although at uber low stakes. Deposited £50/$97.48 in Poker Stars and played a few warm up tourneys before going to the 1c/2c tables with $5. I was writing some notes so I’ll stick them up here. The graph at the bottom should pop into a bigger version.

$3.00 + $0.40 HORSE Turbo STT 8 Handed
- AK 3 of first 6 hands! 8 hands Hold ‘Em
- Gah, horrendous run heads up last three hands of holdem. 77 into AA, AJ beat by J6, K9 into AK. Finish 2nd.
- Win $7.20

$1.00 + $0.10 2-7 Triple Draw 6 Handed
- 4th, worst game evar, nothing nice, never got anything better than a 9. So many times drew to more pairs or the third of a kind.
- Lose $1.10

$1.00 + $0.10 NL Hold ‘Em 9 Handed
- AQd 1st hand. No good.
- Meh, got riv0red.
- 6th, AKs vs JJ. Cutoff had been raising a lot, I get AKs on the button, raise, he pushes I call. No help on board.
- Lose $1.10

$5 Buy in $0.01/$0.02 NLHE
- Got almost a double up with 67o, had the idiot end of a straight, which was enough. I raise as I was only seeing 13% of flops at the time and hadn’t raised for a while. 2 callers. Eventually got paid off.
- QQ two hands later on the BB. A on the flop, I bet it anyway. Players fold.
- 67o on SB, limp and ride my luck. Flop 588, I bet pot. 5 Turn, it’s over. Call for 1/5th. river three fold for 1/4 pot bet.
- Gone from 13% flops to 27% flops. Only 22 hands in so a few hands make big swings. Tighten up again anyway.
- Flop a set of 5′s. Not much action.
- 93 on the BB, flop A9x. Get a bit of action and takes me over the $10 for the first time. In 30% of pots after 30 hands. About right for this game.
- Hand 45 sees me flop a set of queens, house by the river. Stack a guy for $2. Up to $11.69.
- Coming in with a couple of low connectors. Difficult to play, 56, flop 588, cameout swinging, bet every street, flush possibility on river too and guy went all in for a $1 in a $0.80 pot. Folded. Lost about a $0.75.
- SB w/ Q9, Q high flop. Same guy involved. Get about $0.30 back.
- 54 hands in. Going to play 100 + my free hands and check out Poker Tracker 3.
- K9. Flop T95, same guy involved on BB. Get another $0.30 back.
- 99. I’ve been quite aggressive the last few hands and continue by raising this to 4xBB. Same guy calls from the button- Negrogaby69. Flop A high, bet it. get raised. Not much backdoor opportunities so fold.
- Not played a raggedy ace all night.
- AKs, pretty Raise to 5xBB. A high flop 2 diamonds. Bet about 65% pot. No more action.
- Meh, came in with A4d for a small raise. Nothing came down, got bet off it. Not seen anything for about 2
- Bet pot on turn with an u/d straight draw and A overcard. River the straight. Bet pot, no action.
- 33 on the button, 5xBB before me so I fold.
- A3s on the CO. Starting to get involved a bit much. 80 hands in and 25% hands seen. Got min raise from the blind and then bet off on the flop.Only hit an inside straight draw.
- AK next hand. Raise 4xBB. Button call. Bet 1/2 on flop, guy folded. Back to $11.67.
- 99 MP, raise 4xBB. No action. New high of $11.70, wooo.
- 89h, limped, min raised with 4 players in, called, no good.
- 89o, limped MP. 3 players. K79. Bet pot, no action.
- T7 BB, 3 players, 667 flop. bet pot, 1 caller. Turn Q. I bet about 40%, called. Q river. I bet about 1/3. He folds. Up to $11.86.
- Q9d SB. Fold. 96 hands in, going to play out free hands. Here’s where I lose my money.
- A8s on the button. Limp. K22, two spades. Checked round. Bet 60%. No action. $11.93 high.
- Finished on 105 hands.

And here’s the graph.