Mindset
I played abysmally in my first outing of 2009 (edit! 2010), ending with a £458 loss in the cash game and I probably deserved a four figure loss, but a late Omaha rally in the early hours saved my pods.…
Loose Cannon
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Carbon Copy
I went to the Loose Cannon last night for our private £100 tournament followed by cash, and it was an exact replica of last week. I bust out of the tournament in short order, before winning that money back and…
Minority Report
The future can be seen. The system is perfect. It's never wrong. Tuesday 31 March. 19:00 DASH AND ARTHUR: "The cash game at the Loose Cannon followed the usual pattern for me. A strong start, followed by a tailing off…
Volcano - The Movie!
I saw on a poker forum that someone had used extranormal.com to construct a scene where one player is complaining to another about a bad beat he received. For anyone not familiar, extranormal is a fun site that allows you…
A New Personal Best
It's always a credit to yourself when you beat a previous lifetime best, so last night I was delighted to break my longest urination record, behind Pret A Manger at Mansion House. The effort clocked in at 3 minutes 42…
Sporting Index Invitational
42 runners assembled at Loose Cannon for the Sporting Index invitational, which had an odd format. We were split into teams of 6, and 40% of the prize pool went to the winning team, with the rest paid to the…
Virtual Home Game
Last night saw a 7 hour cash Omaha session on Full Tilt, after sufficient numbers failed to materialise for a live game at Loose Cannon. Amusingly, for most of the night we had 5 Loose Cannon regulars on one table…
Turning Point?
Finally some good news to report on the poker front. Followers of this blog will know it's been a wretched start to the year for me, but last night saw me post a sizeable £1,050 cash win at the Loose…
Thousand big blind cash pot
We have started a new Tuesday night cash game down at the Loose Cannon, with 25p/50p blinds and a £100 max sit down. The core participants at the moment are myself, Dev, The Baron and Steve, a young player who…
TAGO!
I was introduced to a new game at Loose Cannon on Tuesday night - Tago - a new card game fresh in from Italy. As you'd expect, from a game devised by the Italians it has a fair amount of…
December Slumber
The Christmas season is traditionally a slow time for live poker, and this was evidenced at Loose Cannon last night. Only 6 hardy souls made the Thursday night pilgrimage as well as myself - Jody, Dev, Uncle Paulie, The Volcano,…
Kings Woe, Sick Bed and Steven Seagal
Time for an update - I've been laid low for the last five days with a nasty ear infection which spread to my glands resulting in one side of my face swelling up, leaving me with a passing resemblance to…
Winning run over
A slight setback last night - I rocked into Loose Cannon after works drinks to play the cash game and was pretty abysmal, losing £340. However, I also staked someone else who won £600, so that gave me £300 claw…
Ford Escort JJ3i (mk 3)
It's 1992 and my new car looked the nuts. £1420 well spent I reckon: £300 Racing Green Ford Escort 1.3 £400 Alloy wheels (x4) £100 Spoiler £150 Halogen spot lamps £200 Racing "bucket" seats £250 Stereo system £20 XR3i sticker…
Home Game - Jet Lagged
I feel totally spaced out after the mammoth home game I hosted this weekend, which has completely messed up my body clock. The tournaments started at 12pm on Saturday lunchtime, and the cash game ended at 3pm on Sunday afternoon…
10,000th Visitor Promotion
Looks like we are fast approaching 10,000 hits for the Magical Mystery Tour. At the moment I get about 350 visitors a week, so I imagine we'll cross the threshold in about 2/3 weeks. As a promotion to Loose Cannon…
Rikki B @ City100
I read a lot of poker blogs when I have the time, mostly to see how different styles of player approach different situations. The aspect I find most amusing, is the style of writing employed by young internet guys, and…
Good Goran, Bad Goran
1994 Wimbledon Final - Set 1 Goran Ivanisevic and Pete Sampras gingerly feel one another out. No one even comes close to breaking serve as both players are playing their "A" game, and it eventually goes to a tiebreak. Sampras…
Quarterly Review
I was bitten by a donkey on Sunday. This being a poker blog, I imagine you think I am talking about a poker analogy, but no, I was actually bitten by a real donkey. I was at a donkey sanctuary…
Losing Key Pots
A disappointing couple of the nights down at the Loose Cannon. I played in two tournaments, and felt like I was playing well in both, building a decent chip stack. However, when the crucial pots came I missed out -…
Refusing to do a "Moya"
Whilst having my tooth extracted on Saturday, I was mulling over the content of Fluke's recent blog post, where he talks about the striking difference between tournament play and cash play (http://extremepoker.co.uk/). He, in fact, suffers from the opposite problem…
Quarterly Review
Well, I guess to keep on top of your game you need to consistently evaluate how you've done, and set yourself goals for the future, so I thought this would be a good point to review progress. The Labour government…
Visiting The Inner Temple
Have spent the weekend working out what is going on in my head poker-wise......feel a bit refreshed. After all, if you'd given me this position at the start of January I'd have taken it with open arms. I'm really disappointed…
Arrived in Dublin
Well, we've arrived at the CityWest outside of Dublin. It's a huge mansion out in the hills and is a great venue, a big improvement on the Burlington, where the Irish Open was held last year. As usual, the event…
TAGing with the LAGs
In poker, it is imperative to alter your playing style according to various factors in the particular game you are playing. In tournaments these are the blind levels, your stack size, opponent's stack size, payout structure and the players themselves.…
The Hand of Apology
Sebastian Grosjean looks vexed. It's the Monte Carlo Masters 2006 and he's serving at 4-5 in the deciding set, and is match point down. He has already saved 3 crucial match points and has fought gamely to stay in this…
Dublin Warm Up
Not long till the Dublin trip now, so I've put together a schedule to get as much live tournament practice as possible before then: Monday 3rd: Gutshot £100 (40 runners) Tuesday 4th: BetterPoker £50 @ Loose Cannon (60 runners) Wednesday…
How Many Real "Pros" Are There?
How big a bankroll do you need to go pro? A huge amount in my opinion. I think there are lots of young guys who set themselves up as professionals with bankrolls that are about 10% of the size required.…
City 100, Episode 4
Another London blogger once wrote that he would "never go out of a tournament holding 7 2". Well folks, I clocked up my third career 7 2 exit offence last night, and it was still the correct play I think.…
Loose Cannon Sit and Go Night
Only 8 runners for a couple of SnGs at LC on Tuesday night. Regulars were myself, Shazbo, Rhys (the Welsh rock), Professor Geoff and the two uber-aggressive players Viv and Tony. Added to this, the dealer Honest Dave agreed to…
Loose Cannon Poker League + Arnie
Poker league finally off and running. I think if it hadn't started last night it would never have happened, but we got a field of 16 and most of those will return next week I think, plus a few others…
City 100, Loose Cannon
Another City 100 tournament at the Loose Cannon. Both the tournaments prior to this one have been big successes with 60+ fields and a good solid structure. The field was down to about 45 for the latest installment, but that…
2008 off and running
Blog is back folks. 2008 should be a promising year as a few of my non poker related issues should be resolved in the next month. My poker year will pretty much run from March 2008 to February 2009, as…