Gutshot Results

Oddly it seems that mostly if I make the money at the Gutshot at all then I win. Mind you the 1st places in the freeroll sats stopped playing when we got to the money and all get called 1st. I really need to play more games that aren't sats to bigger games at the club.

Look Both Ways

Gutshot £100+10 freeze out, Sat 25th Nov.

Another game where table position and poor cards combined to reduce playable opportunities. The eventual winner "Roni" was on my left and came back over the top of two of my position raises and called two others. Once he led out on the flop and the second time he check raised me all in. All four times I had no hand and no draw and was only playing position. I can only assume he had a hella read on me, although he claimed later he had "a hand every time". Yeah right.

I had 5 pocket pairs in the entire game. Eights that made a set on an Ace high all clubs board. I had raised from late position pre flop and got a call from the big blind. With 500 in the pot I put in 500 to make the draw prohibitively expensive and took it down.

Twos got let in cheap in the big blind and flopped bottom (could hardly be top now could it?) set. Checked to see if anyone fancied it and a slightly tilting Miriam pushed in from the button with top pair. She had just taken a couple of beats and was down to 1200 chips with blinds at 100/200. There was something like 800 or 1000 in the pot already and it was an easy call.

Jacks I pushed all in after a limp and a raise. A slightly dangerous move but by then I was getting short and they were the best hand I had seen all night. Got no callers and took it down.

Twos passed to a limp and a raise.

Tens in middle position with the blinds at 350/700 I have 5000 in chips. Second to act moves all in for 4600 and I need to have a think. I was planning to push with these tens until he did that and now they didn't feel so good. I was reminded of the tens I laid down on Thursday that were way ahead of the all in I faced but didn't want that to colour my decision. I had a look at him and decided he was a bit uncomfortable under my scrutiny so I made the call.

Unfortunately I hadn't looked behind me or I may have noticed Marina silently screaming for me to make the call. She was also short stacked at around 3000 and called very quickly. It was QK for the first push (good read I thought) versus my tens versus Marina's kings. I didn't get the miracle suckout.

Profit -£110
Total = £1225

More Bingo

Gutshot Friday £10 re-buy bingo 24th November.

Back to the bingo.

Great start, tripled up on my first hand when I limped with QT clubs from late position then called a raise from the BB as did the button.

Flop comes T85 the BB checks, I chuck all in for the last 300, they both call.

BB shows KQ, button shows 9T. Neither improve, ship it!

From there it was all downhill. My draws missed my pairs hit 2 pair and my AK missed or I got no callers when it did.

At the last 4 hands I had 800 chips and went all in blind 4 times doubled once but mostly no callers. I went to the break with 1725.

From there on it was short stack poker all the way. From the break onwards I didn't make a bet that wasn't all in. Remarkably I made it down to the last 15.

In that time of all in moves I didn't see a pair once, I didn't see an Ace bigger than AT and I still managed to double up a couple of times.

It had to come to an end eventually and I was hoping for a big hand that nobody would give me credit for. As it was with blinds of 800/1600 and 4700 in chips I pushed with 78 of spades second to act at a 6 handed table.

The short blind stated that "I think you are at it" - of course I am fucking at it I have an M of 2! - before calling with A7 of hearts.

There was one moment in the game I was proud of. I had been all in a couple of times already that revolution from the Button and the Cut Off (K5 spades and 76 diamonds) I had doubled up with the K5 and took the blinds with the 76 to give me 5500 in chips. The blinds were 500/1000 and I was now in the big blind.

The small blind has moved in on me from this position before and cheekily showed his 42 off suit. He is fiddling with chips and looking like he is going to push again when I interrupt him and say "It was four two last time what is it now?" He stops and looks a bit sheepish, pauses and throws in 500 chips.

I move in quickly and he mutters "you had king five last time" before passing.

I honestly think that If I had said nothing to him and not interrupted his train of though he would have pushed and I would have had to fold my 83 off suit.

Profit -£40
Running Total £1335

The Nifty

Gutshot £50+5 Thursday 23rd Nov 2006

Didn't ever get out of the blocks in this one. Had the biggest LAG I have ever seen on my left. Very first hand he has the BB (25/50) there is a raise from early position to 225 and he re-raises to 750.

I cant remember the details of the hand but what I do remember is at the showdown where he turned over KJ off suit! He continued in this vain raising and re-raising with any two and miraculously building a stack. Mainly due to him once having QQ and obviously nobody gave him credit for it.

With that much action on the table I should have just sat and waited for a big pair to lump it in with but decided to play my AK of hearts and AQ of spades only to get pushed of the pot after the flop when I missed. After that it was rapidly short stack poker.

The biggest mistake of the night was when I had TT in the big blind. I am not so short stacked yet but I could do with chips.

The maniac folds and there is a limp from second position. 4th to act goes all in for about 1/3 of my stack and its passed to me. I read the limper for having a hand as he has hardly played much all night. I make what I think at that second to be a disciplined fold.

The limper calls the bet and turns over A4 suited! Then to add insult to injury the all in player turns over 66! A ten on the flop makes me feel sick as..

That was the only pair I would see and with no room to move in it gets to me UTG with 1100 chips and blinds of 150/300. I look down at 85 of clubs and take a second to consider. If I pass this I will be all in next hand no matter what and no doubt with callers. If I move in here I will get callers too but the BB wont be mine so there is more money in the pot for me.

I decide to push and get a rub down from Ade who tells me that "its OK to bluff but don't think about it because it makes you look weak"

ffs. bluffing doesnt come into it, I fully expect a caller and was just hoping my cards were live. Ade is going on about how I "need to take it out of my game" while a guy across the table is calling. Then says "I would have called you with this" and shows J6 off.

Great! I want you to call me with that. If you call me with that I have a decent chance to double up! Fucking arrogant cunt that he is.

Anyway the caller has Q9 and I don't improve.

To be fair though Ade is right in some way. If I have just insta pushed I might have stolen the blinds, but that was not really on my agenda there. I needed to double up or go home, and go home it was.

Profit -£55
Running Total = £1375

Beginner's Night

Ah the Tuesday £5 re-buy. I have a soft spot for it seeing as it's where I started. Frankly I was only playing because I wanted the Team Gutshot chips but I managed to turn a profit.

Nothing too much to report, a fairly straight forward solid game. No major steals. No major bluffs. No really big hands, well except for kings that had 3 all ins to them and held up. And no really big suckouts.

Basically I won races where it mattered and ended up heads up with a 2:1 disadvantage. Luckily my opponent was not very experienced and I quickly got up to even chips. At one point I got him to lay down pocket queens on a K high board after he just called my 2.5*BB raise pre flop and checked it to the turn that showed a Jack. I had something like 9T, don't actually remember as it was after the game that he told me he passed the queens.

At this point it was 2am and although I was in control there was very little play in it with each of us having 80k in chips with blinds of 5k/10k and 4 minutes left at this level. I could see that this could really go either way regardless of skill. Add to this I really needed to get home to sleep so I proposed the chop and agreed to cut cards to see who ranked as first. His J beat my 6.

Profit +£325
Running Total = +£1420