Seo1990's Poker Blog

MTT Score

2010-10-15T11:17:00.000-07:00

Been playing a few MTTs recently staked by NoCash on RTR, During the last session of games (ran 6) i had this very nice score (See Above)

Overall the stake made me and NoCash a shade under $400 each. A very good return IMO

Stake Paused

2010-08-26T12:06:00.001-07:00

Me and my staker have together decided to suspend my stake for the next 3 weeks, I just haven't had the time to put in the volume we'd both of liked so from now until 3 weeks time(the end of the cricket season) the stake is suspended.

When the stake restarts it'll be much better for me because i'll finally be able to play weekends and most week nights, At the mo Its cricket training Tue,Wed,Thur nights and then matches Sat,Sun All Day and what with playing Darts on Monday nights and enjoying a few beverages Fri,Sat,Sun nights i've just not had the time to grind. So giving it the break until i'm in a position to play a fair amount of games is probably a good decision for both of us.

During the next 3 weeks you may see me playing the odd Mtt here and the odd SNG here when i've got some free time but that will be off my own back and not very often.

Anyways will update when we resume the stake, Until then Ciao.

Just The Latest Numbers

2010-08-16T10:09:00.000-07:00

Not played that much since last update so just gonna post beofre i start playing tonight, Am gonna aim to get rest of the 200 games in within the next 10 days.

Played : 89
KO's : 89
BI : $293.70
Ret : $410.99
+/- : +$117.29

Delayed Update

2010-08-05T13:47:00.000-07:00

Sorry i haven't updated for a while guys, Have just got a new job and have been having to sort that out so haven't played as much as i'd of liked. Anyway still made a profit in the games i've played and thats always good.

So the numbers for my 2nd Set so far :

Played = 55
KO's = 65
BI = $181.50
Rets = $209.62
+/- = +$28.12

As for the job i started it on Monday, Its only a small company that makes Concrete items(Slabs etc) and Sheds, Fencepanels. Up to now am really liking it, All the staff are friendly and i've een given flexible hours so i can get my time in as and when i want.

GL all

Greg

First Set for Stake Finished

2010-07-22T14:54:00.000-07:00

I've just finished up my first 200 game stake, Finished with some very nice numbers :

$3.30 90 Mans

Played - 190
KO's - 209.5
Buy In's - $627
Returns - $931.63
Prof/Loss - +$304.63

Aside from these i played 10 MTTs as part of the stake, Sadly failed to cash, The buyins from these MTTs totalled $80.40 making my total profit from the first part of the stake $224.23.

Have spoken to my staker, we are going to run the exact same stake again, If i can keep up the results we'll move up after this set.

Signing off

A Happy Greg :D

EDIT - Also comments on the new blog set up ??

New Update

2010-07-17T17:42:00.001-07:00

Just a simple update on numbers from the stake for now. I'll do another update at 200 Games.

Played - 132
Buy Ins - $435.60
Returns - $616.50
P/L - +$180.90

Doing very well in these and keeping a steady profit moving.

Also played a total of 7 MTT's in the stake now, still haven't cashed 1 :/ Bubbled 2 by trying to build a stack to challenge for the win rather than limp into a min cash.

Buy In's for MTT's - $61.60

So Total Profits - $119.30

Staking Update.

2010-07-08T15:15:00.000-07:00

Having started off so well i'm currently in the middle of 50 odd games without a cash. Have just finished todays session, This was the final game i had running and this is on the bubble :

Full Tilt Poker Game #22175708600: $3 + $0.30 KO Sit & Go (171280167), Table 7 - 1200/2400 Ante 300 - No Limit Hold'em - 18:11:01 ET - 2010/07/08
Seat 1: Johnnyteveo (31,720)
Seat 2: pepe romario (16,736)
Seat 3: U52 (25,710)
Seat 4: gmc20015 (17,650)
Seat 7: Seo1990 (19,100)
Seat 9: anwi02 (27,416)
Johnnyteveo antes 300
pepe romario antes 300
U52 antes 300
gmc20015 antes 300
Seo1990 antes 300
anwi02 antes 300
pepe romario posts the small blind of 1,200
U52 posts the big blind of 2,400
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Seo1990 [Jh Ac]
gmc20015 folds
Seo1990 raises to 18,800, and is all in
anwi02 folds
Johnnyteveo folds
pepe romario folds
U52 calls 16,400
Seo1990 shows [Jh Ac]
U52 shows [Kd Jd]
*** FLOP *** [9s 4s Th]
*** TURN *** [9s 4s Th] [Qs]
*** RIVER *** [9s 4s Th Qs] [Tc]
Seo1990 shows a pair of Tens
U52 shows a straight, King high
U52 wins the pot (40,600) with a straight, King high
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 40,600 | Rake 0
Board: [9s 4s Th Qs Tc]
Seat 1: Johnnyteveo (button) folded before the Flop
Seat 2: pepe romario (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 3: U52 (big blind) showed [Kd Jd] and won (40,600) with a straight, King high
Seat 4: gmc20015 folded before the Flop
Seat 7: Seo1990 showed [Jh Ac] and lost with a pair of Tens
Seat 9: anwi02 folded before the Flop

Pretty much how i'm running at the moment. I know its standard varience but YUK.

Anyways Round up of so far :

Games Played : 78
Buy In's : $257.40
Returns : $366.62
Prof/Loss : +$109.22

Still not too shabby. Once i start running normally again i should continue to up the profits.

Also Played a $26 MTT and the Early Doubles 1 day with the blessing of my backer. Sadly no returns from these. So taking these off my numbers the total profit at this point in the stake is $71.22.

I'll update in a week or so.

Greg.

New Staking Deal

2010-06-30T14:15:00.001-07:00

So its been a while since my last post. Which has pretty much run concurrently with my lack of play at the virtual felt. Having a couple of weeks time out from the game has helped me i believe, Am now back and raring to go with my new stake.

The Stake is with a guy from 2+2 its for the $3.30 90 Man KO SNG's on FTP. I've agreed to play 200 of these straight out then me and the staker will evaluate and see if it'd be a good move to up the stakes and include some small stakes MTTs alongside.

The players in these games are terribad some of the plays just defy belief. ABC poker through the early, Mid stages should easily keep you around a playable stack for when the antes come in where you can then pressure the fish and induce some crazy spazz plays, Build the stack for the crunch time.

One another note the World Cup has been total tosh That is all.

Just A Short One From Me

2010-04-29T12:22:00.000-07:00

Kind of a help post (most of you bloggers out there will know why i'm doing this), Below are links to
videos that teah you How to play 8-Game Mix and How to play Badugi .

I personally have never tried Badugi but am going to give it a go as it is in the 8-Game mix which i'm hoping to play durig the SCOOP Festival of poker. I've given 7-Game a go before and am reasonablly comfortable with all of the other variants, So dust my Badugi skills up and i should be ready to rumble.

Anyone out there know what events they are playing during SCOOP yet ??

Crazy Heads Up Live

2010-04-06T07:50:00.000-07:00

At AOC a couple of weeks ago we played Omaha for the first time, i went out pretty early in the game with The Nut Flush draw and OESD vs Top Set which filled up on the turn so GG there. Anyways i got into a heads up side game. We had huge stacks of around 250BB's to start with but we were playing 3 variants (changing every hand). The Variants were NL Hold EM, NL Omaha (:o) and NL Razz (Crazy Crazy Shit playing this NL) and the blinds were going up on every 4th hand. Needless to say it didn't last long, suprisingly it all ended on a Hold Em hand. Anyways enough rambling on.

Online poker has been goin ok since i chopped the MTT, I've played around 44k hands of 0.05c/0.10c Rush PLO for around $30 profit but i've also started getting Rakeback on there so it's a very nice amount i've actually made. The swings in this game are crazy but theres enough players who don't really know basic PLO strategy to make the games juicy.

Over on PokerStars the SCOOP series is starting very soon (2nd May) I've got a couple of $11 tokens which i earned in the blogger tournaments and will use to play a SCOOP Poker Tournament

Anyways thats it for now so Good luck on the felt.

Nice Little Score

2010-03-20T19:14:00.000-07:00

Just chopped a $3.30 Mtt on Full Tilt for a lovely $700. At one point on the FT it wasn't looking good, I was down to 1 BB after losing A9 vs A3 AIPF (Stacks were very shallow btw) and somehow made a comeback and made a nice profit for my work.

Questioning a SNG Situation

2010-03-04T12:25:00.000-08:00

Ok the situation is thus. Your playing a HU Sng vs some unkonown player who shoves every hand. You Raise xbb he shoves, When he is in the SB he Openshoves. The problem we face here is what range of hands to get it in with. Do we go by equity or do we wait for hands like A9+ , 66+ and KQ etc. Played a super turbo kinda thing on Party, This situation arose.

The problem had me thinking and still does to a degree, Is this kind of play exploitable from the off or do you need expand your ranges based on stacks (hence every BB you drop, so 1 in BB, 0.5 in SB).

Ended up calling with KQs vs 84o, Won the flip (pretty early on so just picked off the last couple of BB's, I'd like peoples thoughts on this please. How you'd go about it etc.

Problems like this arise in different areas of differents variants, Forms of the game which is why playing poker is clearly a game of skill.

The Phenom Returns

2010-02-17T06:30:00.000-08:00

Yes finally Isildur1 is back and boy is he causing a stir again. He's widely rumoured to be Viktor Blom from Sweden, With this play : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyMYMI2tDUk#t=8m02s it's very believeable that this Blom character is indeed Isildur.

Since he returned to the Full Tilt virtual Felt on the 3rd of February Isildur has risen through the stakes exactly as he did on his last run. His first session of note on the comback trail was a mammoth 7700 hand session at $25/$50 NLH vs KOSTYA_Spb in which Isi lost $25k. The following day the two of them were back at it with 1702 hands being played and Isildur crushing KOSTYA for $69k in the session.

In the couple of days that followed Isildur1 lost $160k at various Stakes/Games against various players. Then between 8th February and 12th of February Isildur wasn't seen online and the talk was that he bust his account again.

Then on the 13th Feb He returned again. His first session back was a 1011 hand session vs URnotINdanger2 at $50/$100 NLH in which Isi lost $30k. The 2 then upped the stakes and they played 525 hands at $100/$200 NLH in Which Isildur won $45.5k.

Feb 14th and Isildur sits in on 4 of the $200/$400 CAP PLO 6-Max game's that are running. The players at these games included Urindanger, Gus Hansen, POKERBLUFFS, PostFlopAction and David Benefield just to name a few. Isildur posted 276 hands in a 2 hour period at these tables raking in a $82.5k profit.

15th Feb 2010 is the day Isildur1 was officially back with the Big Guns. He started the day again at the CAP PLO ring-game, he played 2 sessions in the morning tabling 1456 Hands and making a very healthy profit of $238.5k. Then in the evening he had 2 monster head's up NLH games. First of all he played 2102 hands at the $100/$200 stakes with Issac"LuvtheWNBA"Haxton. Early in the session Isildur was over $100k up but ended the session $90k down to Haxton.

15 Minutes Later Isildur sat down at the $200/$400 tables with Justin"ZeeJustin"Bonomo. This session lasted 1944 Hands and Isildur crushed ZeeJustin for a mammoth profit of $567k. Later on that night Isil once again sat in at the CAP PLO and came out 153 hands later $64k richer.
A huge day in which Isildur made $780k.

Isildur was at the Highstakes tables once again yesterday. Making $75k at the CAP PLO tables. He then had a 448 hand session at $100/$200 Head's Up PLO vs the Finnish sensation Ziigmund. Isildur came out of this battle $49k to the good. They then upped the stakes to $200/$400 where Isildur took $117k off Ziggy in 625 hands, While reportedly busting Ziigmunds Full Tilt roll. In the afternoon Isildur sat down at the $300/$600 6-Max PLO tables. Although the majority of the time at these tables Isil was just Heads Up with fellow superstar Tom"Durrrr"Dwan. Isil played 635 hands over the 3 tables he was on and once again made a tidy profit amounting to $232k.

Then Yesterday Night Isildur sat down with nemesis Brian"Stinger"Hastings. Who took $4m off Isildur in one session at the end of Isildurs last run. Hastings has since admitted that he had a database of hands played by Isildur which he and fellow Cardrunners members shared with each other and discussed. Brian Townsend lost his Red Pro status on Full Tilt for 1 month in the aftermath of this previous meeting.

This time though it would be Isildur who left the tables Victorious. The 2 Racked up 926 Hands at the $300/$600 PLO tables in the end Isildur left with a monster profit to the tune of $505k, Isildur still has a fair way to go to regain what he lost but boy has he made a splash and the big boys now know he's back and means business.

Am personally hoping this is the start of things and that Isildur1 is going to go on a massive run and play some long sessions with Durrrr, Phil Ivey and Patrik Antonious aswell as the cardrunners guys.

WBCOOP Wrap Up

2010-02-02T05:09:00.000-08:00

Really enjoyed participating in the WBCOOP. Everyone seemed to be friendly at the tables and were enjoying themselves while playing some good poker.

Throughout the series i was hanging around on Daleroxxu's Blog : http://daleroxxu.blogspot.com/ chating on there, watching the live stream, listening to some music.

Played every event except the Main Event(I reg'ed but ended up blinding out) The large session in the pub Sunday put to bed the chance of me playing this, As i stumbled in at 1am monday morning loaded up Stars and sadly i was gone.

Gained 2 $11 SCOOP tickets and had some fun. So thanks Pokerstars for a nice little series.

WBCOOP Event 2

2010-01-26T17:11:00.000-08:00

Just finished 118th in the Event 2 PLO. Got a $11 SCOOP ticket for my troubles.

Also min-cashed in Both the Early Doubles on Full Tilt so i'll get a bonus for that.

All in all a good night.

Off to bed now night all.

WBCOOP

2010-01-07T10:35:00.001-08:00

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! This PokerStars tournament is a No Limit Texas Hold’em event exclusive to Bloggers, you too can take part by registering on WBCOOP

Registration code: 614497

Stopped The 6 Max already !

2009-12-16T09:36:00.000-08:00

Right well after 3 days of playing the 6 max i realised playing cash without a HUD was a totally different ball game to playing SnGs without one. So after jamming in 7k hands i 3 days i decided to stop. After christmas i'll have my new setup sorted and will get either HEM or PT3 back(used to have PT3 on my old Desktop till it died), since i've been on the lappy and haven't had either.

So once christmas has come and gone, I'll set myself a target again, With PT3 i'll have a much bigger edge. Over the 7k hands i was about $15 up. But didn't think i was playing as well as i could, missing out on some spots.

On the Staking front on the 27 mans i've hit a bit of a downswing, I'm not too disheartened though as i know its all part and parcel in the game of poker. And i'm confident i'll come out the other side soon and start running good.

For now. Goodbye.

Dabbling at 6-Max Cash

2009-12-01T09:30:00.000-08:00

Ok so i have decided my goal for December is to start becoming more competant at Cash Games. In the past i have dabbled here and there playing a few K hands but nothing like properly grinding for weeks on end etc.

At the end of every week(maybe 2) i'll be posting up on here as to how many hands i've played and my Profits/Losses. Maybe gonna set myself a target of around 40k hands for the month or somewhere near that figure.

To start with i'll be playing 10NL. I'm a little overolled for this but as i'm just gonna start taking cash games seriously and getting into them i feel this will be the best place to start, Then i can move up as and when i feel ready.

PTR has me down $123 in just over 10k hands. I ain't gonna read into this too much as when i first started online i used to just play cash with whatever i deposited and have no hold on BRM. But now i feel with proper BRM skills and having proper concentration i should be able to make a nice little profit from cash games.

Also since my last proper post i haven't played many SnG's from the staking deal just haven't had time really, But will be firing a few up tonight and be getting back into the flow of things.

For Now

Au Revoir.

New Pic for all the haters of the Sunglasses !

2009-11-29T15:43:00.000-08:00

Pretty much as my title says, Shot through photos of me on Facebook and found a better one.

O Yeah FK the haters :p

Greg.

(Right hand side under pic of me)

WEEEEE I Love turning FTP's into cash !

2009-11-24T14:16:00.001-08:00

Well i been runing bad on FTP last couple of days. So today i decided to enter a 1.8kFTP tourney (9 Man SnG with top 3 getting $24+2 Tokens). I Ship that and then use the Token to buy into this SnG :

Add to the $351 another $40 for 10 KO's and i've made myself a tidy little profit for points which i would usually buy another hat or shirt with to go with the ones i have ! So am very happy :D

New update on the staking deal + The cheating Frogs

2009-11-19T06:29:00.000-08:00

After the success in the $2.25 and $6.50 27 Mans, My Staker BurnleyMik decided we should have a blast at the $12's . Yesterday i finished the first set of these and the results were as follows :

Buyins : $300
Returns : $409.86
Profits : $109.86

With this being my first go at the $12's i'm very happy with the results. The last 8 games in this set of 25 i ran real bad, all the profits had come in the first 17 games so thats a little disappointing but hey profits are profits and thats why we play poker.

Right after watching the French (Namely Thierry Henry) Rob the Irish last night it got me thinking. Well i ain't gonna say i'm a big fan of the Irish because i'd be fibbing. But anyone who follows English football will know Michel Platini(President of FIFA) hates us. Mainly because our Big 4(Man.U, Arsenal, Chelsea, *cough**cough*(not for long) Liverpool) have got money to spend to make their squads bigger and better by buying quality players from around the globe, But the club sides in his native France just haven't got the money to do it and are therefore being left behind when it comes to the big European competions.

Anyway my thoughts on the matter are as follows, Platini will do Jack Shit about peoples complaints and so on about the Gallas *goal*(Oh he was offside earlier in the move aswell FWIW) but had it of been the opposite way around i.e anyone doing it against the French there would of been uproar and FIFA would be ready for a massive shake up. But now this will most probably be swept under the table and forgotten about. Which i don't think is fair but is there anything we can do about it ... No. Platini will be sat eating Frogs legs, Pissing himself at the fact his country have cheated their way through to the World Cup.

Anyway Rant Over, I'm outta here.

Update on The Staking Deal

2009-10-26T07:41:00.000-07:00

Hi All, Have played 2 more sets of the $6.50 27 mans since the last post with mixed results.
Set 5 didn't go too well it was my first losing session at the $6.50's i ended up being down $55.58 for the set. I didn't think i played too badly in the set just had variance against me. Losing races at vital times and 3,2 outers hitting against me but thats poker and theirs nothing you can do about it.

As i'm writing this i've just finished set 6 and its my best set yet. Through the 25 games in this set i've made $118.57 profit. Best i've played for a while and i even won some races. All in all very very happy with this set and hope for more of the same in the future.

Totals After 6 Sets :

Buyins - $975
Returns - $1217.97
Prof/Loss - +$242.97

Not the biggest update but not really had much going on rather than playing a few of these.

My First Ever Post. In My First Ever Blog

2009-10-16T13:21:00.000-07:00

Hello to all the bloggers out there. My name is Greg Searston and this is my first ever blog. I have decided to make this blog as i am a member at Raise The River poker forums and most of the guys that post on there have one. I will use this blog of kind of diary of my thoughts and all things about poker.

A little bit about me. I'm 19 years old and live in a small village called Creswell. I usually play live poker on a friday night down at the Ace Of Clubs at the Rose and Crown in Creswell. I play most of my online poker at Full Tilt.

As i write this post i'm in the middle of a staking deal in which i'm playing $6.50 Turbo 27 manners on Full Tilt staked by BurnleyMik from RTR. Up to now i have played 100 of these for a tidy profit of $206.98.

Anyways thats all from me Over and Out.