Back from Vegas, will do a write up later. In the meantime, lemme test this little banner thing for work.

*update*
Fuck wordpress and it’s lack of div support. I’ll shove it in the sidebar and see what happens.

Here’s the code.

<div style=”width: 125px; background-color: #fff; font-family: tahoma; font-size: 10px; text-align: center;”>
<div style=”border: 1px solid #05afc0;”>
<div style=”display: block; height: 24px; font-size: 0px; background-image: url(‘http://www.lolcatpics.com/images/dp/betfair.gif’)”></div>
<div style=”color:#000; height: 90px; overflow: hidden;”>
<div style=”padding: 3px 0px 0px 5px;”>
Qualify for the <a href=”http://wsope.betfair.com/”>WSOPE world series poker europe</a>
and <a href=”http://www.betfairpoker.com” target=”_blank”>Play Online Poker</a> or <a href=”http://www.betfair.com” target=”_blank”>Bet Online</a>.<br />
</div></div>
<div style=”overflow: hidden; font-size: 10px; height: 39px; background-image: url(http://www.lolcatpics.com/images/dp/betfair2.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat;”>
<div style=”padding: 5px 0px; text-align: center;”>
Betfair is the only place to qualify for the <a href=”http://wsope.betfair.com”>WSOP Europe</a></div></div></div></div>

All I’m going to do is throw the keyword God of Poker SEO into this post a few time. Focus on making sure there’s the keywords broken apart into sentences, so throw the words God of Poker and the explain to all you folks at home that I am in the SEO industry and my new bosses boss knows about SEO. I think his decision to tell us he ranks number one for God of Poker SEO is probably a poor example as I doubt there’s any competing traffic.

It is possible that getting to rank for this deity term is quite difficult, so I’ll throw in a few objects like using Google Sets which gives some humorous linked words for the term God and Poker.

I don’t know if this will end up as a red card to Google or not but if nothing else it is a good test of my onpage search engine optimisation.

I might now empahasise the words rabbits and cards for no other reason than it appeared in the sets. SEM is also in there as a synonym.

In this last sentence I’ll add the term God of Poker SEO one last time and then sort out my meta tags and title, etc.

*UPDATE* Heh, heh. Been rumbled. Managed to get 3rd having practically forgotten about doing this, lol.

I’ve now spoken to him and he does actually know what he’s talking about and I’m not just saying that cos I’ve been busted.

For the real Poker God of SEO check out his site and I’d like to thank him for increasing my user base on this blog by 33%. Expect spammy email marketing coming your way soon

Very clever idea and something a bit different.

Might see if I can blag a free memebership somehow and watch a lot more

So, going to do low stakes tourneys, HU and MTTs as well as the odd satellite. To that end I played a WSOP step 1 and got horribly beaten with shit calls. So I decided to go to Stoxpoker and watch a video there on doing steps by Colin Moshman.

Video training sites are awesome for advancing your game. To watch and learn how other people think really stimulates your own game.

So I played another one and did okay coming in 3rd, which gets me nothing but I followed the play laid out by Colin and eventually had to shove with Q6 and lost to A4, only had 2BB left so was going with anything.

I’ll try one more because $7.50 isa bit steep out of my now $120 bankroll and I’ll take on some low stakes MTTs later.

Anyway, went on tilt this morning and lost 2 buy ins. Made it back in heads up STTs and then played a $3 + $0.30 MTT. 1,554 entrants and I finished 101st but wasn’t too happy about how I went out.

Blinds 300/600, I had 20k-ish, on the button with AQh, 1 limper and I raise to 4xBB. Limper calls. Flop Q5J and he pushes all in for about 11k more. I call, not scared of anything there and he shows J8 and then the standard J on the turn comes, sigh.

Claw back up double to about 12k-ish through no hands in particular. Blinds are 500-1000 with 100 antes now and make a move with 44 get raised all in from the SB, hope it’s a race and call but he has JJ. Brief respite on the flop with a 4 but river J and I’m out

Played pretty well I cracked Aces with KJ early doors for 400 chips, but it wasn’t a terrible play, wasn’t great but for 400 chips didn’t make that much of a difference either way.

Anyway, finished for the day now and have $124 odds so about $25-$30 up. Going to do some more MTTs over the bank holiday and hopefully take down one or two.

Here’s some SharkScope stats. Ignore the crossed out bit, I put $25 or $50 into Stars before and spunked it rapid.

Also got a prop bet with Scott starting Monday about who can lose the most weight in a month. £75 on it, but I’m absolutely going to cane him. BRING IT!

Read his blog at The Scoop Troop 

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.

2 tournaments played, 2 tournaments won.

The irony is not lost on me.

Boohoo

Decided just to play poker instead.