Silence is probably golden

Grrr,last night I spilled some green tea on my laptop keyboard.Unfortunately the tea had failed to "refresh and invigorate" as described on the box and has left me without the use of about 4-5 letters.I've impressed myself by managing to ( after 3 months) renew the IP address on my old Lappy and I'm hoping the keys may still dry out and spring back to life on the newer one!Just aswell for the onscreen keyboard or I'd have been locked out completely.

The ex ended up keeping Nacho last night and I headed over to the s-mans about 8-ish.He was engrossed in Call of Duty 4 and after nipping outside for a smoke,I hit the RTR league game about 20 mins late.Between chatting to the s-man,bombs going off in COD4 and the terrible clunky software of the poker site,I'm amazed I scraped 3rd place.It was very frustrating not being able to chat properly!

The s-man and I watched the new Rambo film and I felt old Stallone carried off the role quite well.It did cross my mind that surely an army of fit bad guys should be able to catch a man in his 60's fairly easily in a foot race but then he is Rambo.

I made it home in time for Kats Donkament and was once again frustrated by not being able to cht prply! 2Blackaces was rebuying after almost every hand and by the time the rebuy period was over the blinds still seemed tiny in comparison with stack sizes.Good to see Tan at my table although I think he realised just how long it could go on for and eventually shoved light just to get out and to bed! I couldn't repeat last weeks win but I did manage 3rd for a small payout.

Ok,don't forget Britbloggerment 50 begins at 9pm Uk Time/5pm dst on Stars.Password is donkament,it's $5.50 and open to all bloggers,readers and password blaggers!
Find it under the "Private" tab...

Monthly stats + Bloggerment 48

Pokerstars $3684 ( + $942) ,Party $1664 ( + $80),Bet 365 $671 ( + $91),Full Tilt $503 ( + $26) ,Ladbrokes $593 ( =, although $1k cashed out on 23/2),Pokerroom $36 ( =).
Total $7151. ( + $1139 for month)

Total profit since Oct 31st $3331.( after first 3rd of my 4th year of online poker)

After a poor start to the month of Feb I'm really pleased I managed to turn it around and win over $1k.Most of that has come from turbos sngs at Stars.I played 238 according to sharkscope and made $1039.

I cashed out $1k from Ladbrokes as I don't play there much these days and that has just about cleared my credit card balance.

I'm still very much a hobby player but I would like to continue to make enough to cover my council tax bill ( £775),Rangers season ticket ( £460),Car Insurance £500 and my car Mot and service in July ( £400).Those are just aprox figures and will require about $4200 from my roll.

I've also got 9 days off work coming up after next week and I was considering a trip to the Dam.I'm going to wait though and go with my cousin around May/June time when the weather is better.Sitting having a wee smoke in the sunshine beside a canal whilst watching the world go by is something I can't wait to do again!

Last night I was over at the s-mans and enjoyed some Call of Duty 4 and the Will Smith film " I am Legend" before returning home just in time for Katitudes Friday night rebuy donkament on Full Tilt.I was in the mood for messing around and Kats tourney is just the place to donk it up and make plays I'd never consider in a normal game.I did play like a donkey and have hazy memories of crashing out not long after the rebuy period ended.Nice way to blow off some steam though!

Picked my boy up on the way home from watching us beat Aberdeen 3-1 at Ibrox to keep us top of the league and now it's time for burgers n chips n poker.....

What would you like to hear again?

This will be the bloggerment banner from now on so feel free to steal it and pimp the game!

I headed over to the s-mans last night for plenty of Call of Duty 4 and even a little poker.Blizzards were forecast so I headed home just as it looked like it was about to start.

It turned out the only storm brewing was for me at the tables when I hit 'em up.I'm not in the habit of posting a list of unlucky hands as I know they make peoples eyes glaze over, but after dropping $90 last night I need to get these out of my system.Looking back now in the cold light of day,I actually feel quite reassured that my decisions were mostly good and as a poker player that's all I can control, so I can't be too unhappy.These were all $16 ,18 player turbos and my net loss was $90 for the night.

1) AK lost all in preflop to QK sooooted
2) With four left I called a shove with A10 and lost to A4.
3) 1010 V AQ : rivered Ace
4) Shoved AJ,called 55 ,lost.
5) 99 v KJ,Jack on turn.
6) Limped 66,folded to raise and reraise.They had AA and AK. Flop K 6 6 .....nooooooo!
7) KK beaten by AQ rivering a straight.
8) 99 v A9 ,Ace on flop.
9) HU:Shoved K5 ,called by Q10 and came 2nd in that game
10) JJ V A10,I hit a set on the flop...but he makes a straight on the river.
11) Last hand of the night.I shoved 66,run into KK which flops quad cowboys.

These are all fairly standard stuff in turbos and it only required one or two of those hands to hold up to have made a decent profit overall.That didn't stop me wanting to put my fist through the laptop after the last hand!

Ok,I'm off to pick up Nacho as soon as I stop finding classic old Skool hardcore tunes on youtube to listen to!

Terrible Pokerstars Customer Service

The Sunday Bloggerment game has now been running for 35 weeks on Pokerstars and we usually attract between 15-40 players.Every week many of us give Stars plenty of free advertising as we pimp the tourney and never once have we contacted Stars looking for any additional cash/prizes for our troubles.In fact Pokerstars supposedly prides itself on treating bloggers well and even runs an annual blogger freeroll.

I woke up today to the email below telling me they have cancelled the Bloggerment due to my blog url and the raisetheriver.com url being mentioned in the tourney message area and I'm not a happy bunny at all.

I have set it up again.Password is DONKAMENT ( in upper case) and I'll be contacting BM soon re using an alternative site in future.

Hello Zagga,

This is to inform you that we have cancelled your private tournaments
due
to violations of our rules regarding the creation of private events.

Specifically, the violations were:


URL in lobby or title :
"See raisetheriver.com or littleacornpoker.blogspot.com for details"
(T #67999309)

Mark,
As a regular Stars player I'm not impressed at all by your decision to cancel our Private tournament on the day of the event.My fellow bloggers and I will carefully consider using another site for our widely advertised game and I'll also be blogging about your decision today and will be posting about it on various forums.

I didn't realise I was breaching a petty rule and as the tournament has been promoted that way over the last 35 weeks,I think cancelling it was a step too far.

Thankyou for attempting to screw up our Sunday game.It won't be forgotten.

Regards,
Zagga( littleacornpoker.blogspot.com)

Friday night was spent at the s-mans playing Call of Duty 4 and watching Renegade Justice.I drove home at 2am in a near blizzard and won 2/2 $16 turbos before going to bed.

Yesterday I watched the Gers beat Falkirk 3-1 before picking up Nacho,walking him and coming home to play a ton of poker.I bought directly into the $55 ,$50k gtd on PCSS ( poor customer service site!)and played quite poorly,eventually crashing out when I checked a set of Aces on the flop and allowed the villain to hit his flush.My reasoning was that the actual chances of the two callers having two spades was quite low and as they would probably have folded because of the scary Ace on the flop,I wanted to let them catch up a little.

After that I got stuck into the $16,18 player turbos and began four tabling.I was running horribly and even some of my opponents were typing "unreal" in the chatbox after some of the suckouts I endured.I usually remain quite calm re bad beats but at one point I was battering my cushions in sheer frustration at the seemingly unending nature of it.I could give a dozen examples but it wouldn't serve any point as those games are over now.I can honestly say I've never ever berated a villain in a poker chat box but last night after one guy crippled my stack by calling with A2 v my QQ,I nearly lost it.The villain then typed "if you can't beat them ( join them)" as some kind of justification of his donkaments but jeeeeez!

Over the last 38 games ( 1 week filter on sharkscope) I've won $257 at these $16's and these battles with variance just have to be accepted as part of the game.I did keep calm for the most part and did finish slightly ahead but what a rollercoaster it is when four tabling turbos!

I finished by dropping $25 at a Laddies 6 max $200 nl table and went to bed around 5am totally shattered!

Just about to pick up Step A and drop her off along with Nacho.Looking forward to playing tonights Bloggerment ( despite the problems setting it up) and also the DTD freeroll game for the last place in the live game.

Back soon...