Shameless Self Promotion / Poker / Life

Hola Amigos!

Firstly, promotion. The society is taking part in the UK Student Poker Championships online, originally sponsored by Full Tilt, but now sponsored by Partypoker. The first 50 players who sign up through the link below

http://www.collegepokerlife.com/partypoker/party-poker-university-poker-championship-referral-registration.php?refr=UEAPokerSoc

get either a hat / cards or t-shirt when they next see me (first come first served on tees). Not only that, but if I am the first out of all the Uni reps to sign up 50 people, I will get a bonus. Ergo, you get a tournament with free stuff. REGISTER NOWWWW!!!

Poker

Went to Madrid and played a bit over the weekend with Owe and Jeal. Got stuck on dealers choice (Owe hit a gutshot on 7th in superstud for 25 euro pot, gg) for 20 euro on the first night, so things didnt look good.
Went to the casino on the first friday, played two 20 euro sit and go's. OH MY LORD. It was like playing at the zoo. The dealers couldnt deal, no-one knew the rules, and everyone we played was like umm poker is fun. Was awesome. Scenario: Blinds 50 100, utg limps and sb makes up, bb checks, pot 300. Board J 8 5. Sb ships in 650. BB folds, utg tanks. Am like oops, who's flatted with 99 and is now confused?! I was wrong, as he eventually called with K3o and my head exploded on the table.

Came 5th in the 1st when I lost two flips, and won the second for 100 euro. The old man i played HU was awesome. When we started I had 2.5k to his 12.5k, blinds 500 1000. I kept shipping atc, he kept folding, i was on 4k. Blinds got to 750 1500, and he was about to fold. Then he min raised to 3k! I was like LOL, and have Owe in my ear saying "he's so weak!" I have J5o, and am prob actually good here, and ship for 4k total. But i move all my 25 chips and 100 chips slowly forward. He asks the dealer how much, who replies (owe translating at this point) as: "All of it." LOL! and he folds getting ~7:1. haha! this put us at even stacks. I then got him down to 3.5k, and we got it in with my A7 against his KK (gg life), flop K high and river K for his quads. He shouted : HOLA! POKERRRR! to which im like...yeah..poker woo! Turns out Poker = Quads in spanish. haha! Ended up getting it in Q10 vs K4 ftw (he called saying he was tired, i was like ffs) and i rivered my gutty ftw. Hola, pokerrrr!

Played a 100 euro freeze the next day, 50:50 with Owe. Played some weird hands, fired two barrells once to get over starting stack against a guy who kept showing tight weak play, my read must have been good cos he folded top pair according to the bloke on my right who he showed his cards to, lol. WTF SPANISH PEOPLE.
Then lost a big pot with QQ vs AK, standard 4 flush for him, putting me down to 3k from my 5k starting. After the break (and the sick expensive buffet we had inc caviar) I had 7 BB's and shipped on the cutoff with 33. The button calls off 1/3rd of his stack with A10, hero, and i lose the flip. Meh.

Online has been going ok. Haven't played lots since Spain, only a couple of HU sngs, of which im 3/3. Have been a bit ill / super busy, so it cant be helped. Playing a mix of $10 and $20, but this time non-turbo, and wow can you see a difference in the play. There is a much bigger edge to be exploited in the normal structure, so playing those from now on. Will hopefully actually rake enough for RB this month, hehe! Rolls about 600. Am going to try and go to a talk about the game theory behind momentum in 1on1 sports, as I think alot of it can be applied to hu, but have been told its for mostly PhD students and lecturers. Will see though, as i think it could be interesting.


The UEA Poker Team (Me, Joe, Tidey, Wakes and Dave) are through to the final of the PokerPlayer/Bet365 student poker championships! SICK! It means an expenses paid trip to play 3 other finalist uni teams HU (I think LSE, Leeds and Reading) for cash monies. Either way we get a freetrip, $100 each, a chipset each and a big table to share, so i'm pretty stoked. Over 4 freerolls we came 2nd on the team points leaderboard, so wp wp team. Definately need to get some polo shirts made!

Life

Life is good. Mandarin is too hard and may cost me my first, but at least I took up a challenge. Hopefully people will see that. Have got two important meetings with people on Monday, then I can get underway with applying for MSc and PhD stuff. Got plans sorted for the 14th which should be good, hopefully my gf will think so! Run good.

Will update this as and when I play, prob not for another week. Hopefully by then i'll have some good news about venues etc for the bet365 thing!

Gl all and ty for reading,

-Adam