Does the vic still use the ridiculously small cards?

Umm it's the only place where 1/3 and 2/5 runs on a fairly regular basis (Empire action in this area has been picking up from what I've seen but yeah). Basically able to test myself in bigger games which inherently have more difficult line ups. Vic 1/2 is still soft as expected, and fairly deep.

Nope, a few months ago they changed to the jumbo size KEM cards.

Decided to fire some tourneys yday and came 6th in the Sunday Marathon for $3.4k and made Day 2 of the WCOOP Sunday Kickoff with about 60 left, sleep is a bit scattered because the marathon ofc took ages but we'll try our best to get the wages today! $52k up top! Starts in less than four hours :s

Sick stuff, glgl

Very shortlived, cashed for 680.

ah was told you made day 2 of some wcoop. sad to see youve busted

Yeah sad times but can't really complain, have to run v good to get to these spots in fields anyway so I'm at peace with it.

I told a mtt friend after this all that I'm not going to catch the mtt bug and I'll be going back to cash right away in order to not dump my precious dolla back to the mtt community. Few hours later I message him and say "Ah I might just play the upcoming Sundays cus it's WCOOP and all"

"That's how I started too" he replied

In other news basically going to the vic most days to play cash, went last night but games were semi bowl so went home early. Already qualified for the race which takes place in early Oct after nottingham so looking forward to that. Likely going to do my nut in the 1k event and get extra bullets ready since it seems different ****ing class.

Won some 5.3k pot at Vic 2/5 which was an absolute car crash of a hand which I'm still unsure whether to share, I know posting this is likely gonna make people be like "cmon y u not post it after saying that" but game was probs best game in Europe at the time and some hands I don't think I should share

Have a more lighthearted pot which I'm sure a lot of live grinder/cash players in general can relate too.

Vic 2/5

We open AK to 15 UTG and super high vpip american woman calls UTG1, rest fold.

(37) A75

I bet 25 she snaps

(87) J

I bet 55 she snaps

(197) Q

I bet 125 and she gets a stack of blues and puts them over the line I think to myself is this a call but then she starts cutting out a raise to 275 #murica, apparently this is allowed but they also let this woman talk on the phone whilst playing so I think they made allowances for her cus I'm pretty sure you can't cut out raising chips in the vic normally.

Anyway back to the hand, so she's raised 275 and I've played with this woman a lot, I think she'll always raise 2p+ on turn but reality is she still has a lot of hands like AQ QJ KTcc which we just lose to, vs 99% of population my hand is already in the dustbin as soon as the raise is announced but idk I just had a weird feeling this time. Granted this weird feeling has led me to likely do my bollocks in these spots and I think everyone in live poker is still a lifetime loser vs calling river raises. She played such a mergy weird all over the place style that I just wanted to see her hand. I call and she meekly says "ace" and winces when I show her AK and we scoop

lol, I wonder wtf is going in those people's heads when they min-raise a tp no kicker OTR, it's such a sick spot for us that I prefer x/c river in that runnout, letting them bluff their draws/spazz with random hands, specially with this combo.

btw, you're not posting the 5k pot because it's so abysmal that it may attract more regs to the game? Sick to see a 1000bb pot lol.

People station way too hard in live and generally make way more mistakes calling than betting themselves. Think I have to triple this vs any stationy player type.

Made day 2 of the 55 WCOOP Main tomorrow alongside fellow rofler GazzyB. Not a bad sweat.

19/13/7.... what a nit

Definitely not betting either, and probably considering a x/fold unless I had massive reads. Although x/calling is totally fine too here. Snap folding vs river raise unless I had massive reads. And If were to bet I would just toss out the same amount as OTT which was 55.

She's basically playing a style of poker that equates to 5x5=55 - This is the equivalent of "monkey button clicking" in online poker.

Now you have the read, this woman is the ATM of all ATM's

I was gonna try the “nahhh I was actually pretty card dead fwiw, couldn’t get much going” but reality is I’m a binman

rip dreams

what position did you come ?

seems like wcoop treated you well

gl gl

Errr can't remember exact position but cashed for around 400 usd, yeah was generally decent. Reg'd pretty hard during the week but still a nice bit of profit overall.

And yeah the woman was the atm of all atms, don't think she's coming much anymore.

The Nottingham Trip



Have to start this trip report with the obligatory shoe picture whilst waiting in a pret for a coach up to Nottingham with friends. Generally coach trips just put me on tilt, I remember I took one from Dorset to London Victoria and had to then lug a suitcase on district line rush hour and I told myself never again. However this was a bit different for two reasons. One, I had good company, and two, the journey cost two quid, whoever decided to run this service took loss leading to a whole new level, coach company must’ve taken under fifty quid on the entire route. On the coach morale was high, jokes were being cracked and we all said that we were going to get the wages in the tournament, expect the one guy in our group who only plays cash zzz



Thought I would give a quick shoutout to the RIP Stars rucksack, thought it would be appropriate at a party pok-

“BuT LaBaX YoU pLaY oN sTaRs ThO uR jUsT sUpPoRtInG aMaYa IdIoT bAd ReG wAnNa-“

Yeye classic imma say **** stars and still play on the site. I actually watched that Rob Young podcast and he was like people will just keep playing stars and not sacrifice short term ev in order to generate legitimate competition in the online spectrum. Like I’d like to give party fast fold a try but I’ve heard multiple sources that it’s just littered with bots and not much is really being done. If I started hearing and seeing changes in this area I would be more willing to actively support the site. Amaya can still go **** themselves regardless of that.

Anyway I’ll continue from where I left off. After 3 surprisingly quick hours we got off the coach, I immediately lost the first Uber flip of the trip and we got to our place. Shoutout to Asian jason for finding a decent place, can easily rekt on the Airbnb streets so ye vwp.

It was like 8-9pm at this point, and we went to grab some food and jump in the Friday night cash games.



Quick spoiler alert, for the large majority of the time the cash games were beyond dead. Never in my life have I seen so many bottles and pints of water in a poker room. The whole place was just littered with regs and the remainder of the people looked (and in some cases were) asleep. I think the attitude the northern and notts regs had was even worse than the attitude of most London regs (didn’t think this was possible). Yeah okay people know each other, fine, I’m good friends with a few regs in London but I try to hold back the bs poker talk like “yeah I’m mainly playing online rn oh I made x last month”, especially when there’s stars on the table. Got one reg playing ppp on his phone whilst grinding and chatting to the clueless rec about how his months going Poker wise. Anyway tldr games were beatable but just sad to be in. No one wanted to have any banter it was all far far too serious.

Had one rofl hand in the only good game I saw. Oh yeah also before I forget...

Me: Hi there, is it possible to get on the transfer list for the other 1/2 de-
Floor: we don’t actually have a list so when you see a free seat just take it.

It doesn’t take a genius to realise that this is a horrible and ridiculously predatory way to run a room. I had a picture in my mind of ten people trying to throw chips from different corners of the room to lock the seat for the best game in the room. Lucky most regs are god awful at game selection and I got the seat to the only good game. Legit had to scout it and sit at a table nearby for a good 5-10 minutes, like it’s really sad that this is the case but ev is ev :/

Anyway rofl hand time (at said table)

1/2/5/10

Good friend opens Utg to 45 (with a couple absolute celebrities in MP and LP) we flat AA UTG2, one of the celebs calls and the other makes it 100, a central reg and one of the few guys with a good heart in the SB jams 900, our good friend tank folds and we rejam for 1.5k with one star covering. Both of these comedians fold and the reg has AKhh. He asks twice and I decline, I already bricked day 1A of the 1k earlier (more on that later) and I say nah once, normally I don’t really care but just wanted to put the gambol hat on. Immediately two hearts were dealt and he smiled at me, somehow we faded and won a decent pot.

So yeah I know I’ve been pretty negative of the quality of games but this 1k tournament was out of this ****ing world, I’ve played a fair few 1ks and this was hands down the softest. Yeah there was the occasional moorman or German boss firing for lols but this tournament seemed to bring out a different league of idiot, some of the hand histories I received from friends and saw myself made me realise that tournament poker isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.

Had one semi std hand vs fish but was legit so card dead thought I’d include.

6k/12k/12k

Folds to us in sb we open to 30k with ThTc, nitty rec in bb calls. Tbh I think I should just 4x in the sb in these spots but whatever what’s done is done

(72k) 773ssd

We bet 30k he quickly makes it 80k we peel

(232k) 2d

I check he checks back quickly

(232k) 9s

We decide to v bet 100k and he makes a frustrated call and we’re good.

Think when he checks back turn quickly his range is pretty made hand heavy. Think we can’t really go any bigger than this and this might’ve even been too big but we got paid so yeah.

Aside from that nothing really happened in both of my two bullets. Won a few pots here and there, squeezed AQo and then I just lost 66<AQ rejamming bb vs co for 20 bigs and then in the second flight I jammed 66 in co for 18bbs and sb has AK, he goes “I’m not good at these” I reply “me neither”, K on flop and Gg no re.

After I busted my friend who just went to play cash was just sighing at how bad the games were, we went for a depressing meal and then had a beer and played pool, I swear I used to be good at pool in my teens but I am beyond terrible now, sad times . We headed to where we stayed and watched some hilarious stuff on tv.

He already booked a train back to London because cash games there has allegedly been amazing. I decided to just flick in the train too, let’s just say if I had to take trains often wouldn’t be long till I’d be broke. From a high morale coach journey to an average sausage roll on a platform at Peterborough at 6am followed by sitting on the floor of a commuter train for an hour till we arrived at Kings Cross. Once I was home all I could could muster up the strength to do was this...



Part of me wished I stayed and the other part of me is just glad to be home. This 5k looks like it’s going to have a monumental overlay and I’m sure many are getting in for peanuts as a result.

I’ve basically been in London for the past year without venturing much outside it. It’s easy to take it for granted but I guess going away reminded myself how much I love it here. It’s a chilly morning and I plan to walk to a great cafe near me and have a nice breakfast. I lost money on the trip (nothing massive. Around 1.5k), but I still felt a mixture of pride and gratitude for still after all this time being able to continue to play poker for a living.

thx for the update.

Strong update man! Nottingham games have been like that for years. Gl

Nice update! London is an awesome place man! Chilly early mornings were made for reflections, and soul searching!
How is the cash grind going in London?
GL at the tables!

Npnp, gl on both the grinds

Thanks boss, inspiring to see you deal with a sizeable downswing in the way that you are.

Thank you and they most definitely are. Cash game grind is going decent, I had a vv good August and grinded pretty hard ever since June so didn't play as hard in Sept as I have in prev months. Managed to qualify for the Vic race this Sunday so maybe I'll see you there. Lost a bit in live, won in online tourneys and cash so not a bad month all in all. I've been playing a lot of 100zoom in stars as of late and it's going well, been working hard on my game so just plan to keep on putting in the volume and seeing how it goes. Maybe at the end of the year I'll give a recap of how things have been etc.

Glgl

Glgl out there man, been lurking for a little while. What Uni in London do you go to? UEL?

QMUL and thanks

How many hours do you have to play to make the rake races tourneys across London?

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Yeah i feel like in live poker if ppl are drunk as **** they will do this stuff w/o further info tho