corkie123

wats new pussy cat

2008-06-28T08:10:00.000-07:00

well were do i start one of my best friends went out to vegas for 7 weeks but only lasted 3.5 weeks he really got some of the worst bad beats .
i have still some of his texts on my phone there is some good reading there haha felt really sry for him when things go wrong they really do .
collected him last monday and he went in to the macou tues night for the sat for big tourie in aug he won this last year . well first hd he gets AA and lose all his chips to some muppet with 4 7 who calls him down to river to get 2 pair on river .

another kind of friend of mine is over in vegas at moment he came 5th in one of the wsop touries congratsa to him . like the guy even if he tell mes he is going to thump me next time he meets me haha dont know were he get his army but like the cocky git .he does a vg blog which i like . he seems to be a honest guy wish him the best there . himse;lf and big al get on well haha .

well poker wise have not done a lot live lately went to tramore played like a muppet and was over run by the young guns there . never got going really and was on the back foot from the start . last night in went in to the macou for there monthly tourie played a lot better there still did not reach the money but when people call for middle pin and get it there nothing u can do . but i was a lot happier with my play and started to belive in my game again after a lot of shit play really from me .

will miss vegas this year pity really loved it there last year but no money no fun as they say .

wats new

2008-04-27T06:08:00.000-07:00

well been playing very little lately having getting such a bad beat online i started to think that the guy must be able to see my cards to make those calls on all streets .

i started to play a bit more live and enjoying it started with the league final for my buddy to win it big al with whom i had 15% of him nice even if he did knock me out .

i played this months 250 in the macou been short stacked all tourie i still made final table which was nice getting knocked first when my AJ S V 77 did not improved and able to give al back some of the 15% haha not at moch as wat he gave me but better than nothing i suppose .

on the online note i sometimes wonder how some of these people call with wat they have .is there really some thing that they use to see your cards ? or is it really just our sorry minds thinking up some excuse to there bad play ? really i love to know .i seen a lot of posts about this online so there must be some truth in it or is there ?

going to play the 500k on poker stars today for the first time in years hope for some result in this would do my bank roll good haha but like all these touries with 3k people playing u need a lot of luck .

poor old man lol me i love my life

2008-04-02T05:26:00.000-07:00

just put in a reply to friends blog for some ass hole to call me names next .lol will they ever get a life i wonder .
they say that i should get a life and stop trouling the web well they must be worse than me if everytime i write something they always leave a answer ?
now whos the ones that are trouling the web more me or them ?
would not mind it if they stood up and put there name befor it but i suppose they like to hide behind the anoumous name.

as for poker well played in the macou that last few nights even though i did not win anything i played well to be rivered 3 times with the winning hd everytime i got my money in .

for that alone im happy with my play and the outdraws will come my way soon

macou

2008-03-24T20:14:00.000-07:00

played in macou touries last few weeks but to no good .might be just me or is it im thinking to much for my other players .got the usual im behind but i got to call u stuff .pity some players cant lay hds down .on a other note a friend of mine was playing in dublin this weekend making a nice killing there in cash but a bit ul in touries . ppp poker had to put up 200k in the irish open i think its about time they readjust there buy ins they might get more players then and make there guartes on there touries .

been a while

2008-03-07T15:53:00.000-08:00

its been a while since i posted here but thought after looking at a few blogs tonight i need to add to my own .
well its been 8 mths since i came back from vegas feeling good about my game and started well on line . i was up each month till xmas which paid my bills and i have a few .

then the big busto came xmas week chasing losses and playing a game to big for my bank balance could afford . work then fizz out which did not help and i just stopped playing .

i played the macou end of month last weekend which turned into a crap shoot as they were having a sat the next day for the irish open . well i could not get over starting stack before the break and had to lay hds down to reraises .
after the break i got a few good hds and double up to 27k when a few hds later i get AK HEARTS and raised with same to be reraised allin from a player who just came to table with a huge stack and who i know would do same with a wide range of hds so i decided to go with my hd and would not be to far behind with him . it ended up his JJ V AK and a low board put me out of tourie but i felt to win this i had to gamble to get chips as the crap shoot it turned out to be .

im going to start back playing more live again as im finding online a bit of a donkey lately .it might be me but the hds people are calling with they must be looking over my shoulder seening my cards to call .

in good old ireland again

2007-07-22T09:35:00.000-07:00

well im back a full week now done nothing but play on paddy powers had a few good days and then lose again .good to see nothing change haha.but ended up2k plus for the week .

it took me the full week to get my body back to normal after 2 weeks of drinking in vegas as i dont go to our irish pubs a lot since the smoking ban here .as for my 2 weeks in vegas well what a experince it gave me more joy about my game than anything else .

it showed me that with a bit of luck i could play with the best there and i will be going back next year for more .i will be updating my blog on a less frequent as i did in vegas but i will after big touries i will play in this year .next one will be connies one in kerry .so gl to everyone who lookup my blog in your own poker play and hope to meet ye in some live game for a chat.

leaving vegas

2007-07-14T20:48:00.000-07:00

well i got only 14hrs to go before i go back to good old ireland and the nitty gritty of home but i think i will like to get back to the old firma tirma really while its been great been here i dont think i could live this life style for too long .

Been in vegas for the first time was great just living the dream of playing in the greatest tourie thats there was great and getting passed the first day even better but i think that once a year is enough to be here .u get pretty bored after to long unless u do other things than poker here

Which is why if i do come here next year i wil do things a bit different i think . there are plenty of shows to go to .grand canon to see and loads of other stuff u can find to do.

if some one does decide to come here for 2 to 4 weeks next year i do think u should make plans to try other things here otherwise u get fed up of it all quick . u can only play so much poker and u do need a break from it sometimes .

well i do hope to get back here next year and will be starting the build my vegas fund as soon as i go back .well this has been fun doing and i will be keeping this blog up .till the next post which will be from good old ireland gl in all your poker plays and may the cards be good to ye all

gone but happy

2007-07-11T18:38:00.000-07:00

well i did not last to long in day 2 . after getting up to 21k i pushed against the big blind only to find him with kk and i did not improve so there the end of my dream for 2007.

after leaving the tourie room i felt bad for losing so quick but on futher thought i am happy with myself with my total play over the whole week here inculding my winning the seat in sat the one and only one i played in .On refection I could not have played any better than i did .

i would like to have cashed as the cash would have been nice as i came over here with just enough to get by which is not enough really . i found the 2, 5 omaha game very soft here and will be coming back next year for that alone .but u must be well tanked to play the game rightly and be able to take the ups and downs .

i like to thank all my friends who phoned me wishing me well in tourie and those who sent me emails and hope to come back next year better for this trip here.

short stacked but still in

2007-07-10T18:38:00.000-07:00

well played my first day and got through with 15100 chips . well thats ok part one of my plan is done so now to part 2 which i think will be a lot harder but who cares i did what i wanted to do .

it was the best time of my poker life to play here and survive day one and it was a very long day starting at 12 noon and we finished at 3.30 am next day .

the whole day went ok for me untill the last hour when i reraised with QQ to be called . kt6 floped checked by both of us . 8 on turn i bet out to be called and when 9 came on river he went all in with me having to fold .

i kept plugging in there after that to finished the nights play .i asked him after what he had he said he floped small set and i was unlucky as he was not going to call my reraise at all but felt he was to short stacked and gambled .

having a rest day now and i will go out tonight for dinner and a few buds will have a early night and get rested for tomorrow .

how im going to play tomorrow i dont know yet as i will see what cards i get in first few hds .but i dont think i stay to long below 10k as i will try to double up soon or go bust.

waking up in vegas

2007-07-07T16:10:00.000-07:00

o well just spent friday here meeting the nice people from betfair and had dinner with estelle and glynn which was nice

then is was back to the drinking grind that goes on . the first day outs then start coming and we get there bad beat storys for the next few hrs .

we all keep looking out for our friends hoping we wont see them till the first day is over .but if they do come out we give them all our support that we can but most have just played in the biggest game of there life and really dont care win or lose .

play finished at 4 bells here thats some long day but for the lucky few who are still there it was worth it . another few beers then and its nearly bed time its 8 bells here now so i decided enough was enough and time for bed .

on the way back to my place i met mr parkinson wat a nice guy we had a good confer about the tourie and a few laughs about vegas and the life style here haha .

well good night everyone who read this i hope ye all enjoy as much of this blog as i have writing it

how to play poker well in vegas

2007-07-06T14:20:00.000-07:00

well just learned h ow to play poker well here in vegas .

u first go drinking with the great big al and then u get joined by nic nic and all his friends .then u carry on with kpnuts because he is more likely be the last one to finish .u look at your watch then to get the fright of your life its 9.30 am and the tourie starts at 12 am
so now its time to start drinking the cokes to sober up a bit for tourie no point going to bed now . then go down and invest 1080 dollars into tournie now u are half ways there up all night drunk and money invested .

now next thing to do is go down to were u are going to play and find were u are sitting before the tourie starts incase u lose your way later now remember this place u must get back here before the tourie starts very imporant thing this is .

now the tourie begings u play like a rock and only play premium hds that gives u a bit of a rock style look to other players they will lay down big hds to u . next u make a big call with a middle type hd against a player with a small stack whos been playing with any type hd mostly kt or kj type hds u must not put all your chips in but more than other people would call with u need a9 or a8 suited type hd for this .

now lady luck needs to be with u here but if she is u now have a good few chips , next wait for break and first hd or maybe 2nd or 3rd hd back make big raise with hd of tt or jj u will be called or put in for reraise here now they seen u played crap hd early on .they think u will lay a middle type hd down but this is the time u will double up or go bust

, if lady luck is in your favour u have now got enough chips to play only premium hds again .then its is up to the gods .

at this time u are looking at your chips and having seen thats there only 150 players left and u really can win here u sober up quick . u are playing the rush here u are not tired nomore and u play like a rock and only make moves when in position and with good premium hds .

well thats what i did now im playing in main event wat a way to go .if this helps anyone else then its been worth it i suppose no sleep for 2 days drinking for half that and main event ticket for biggest event in the world was worth it .

here in vegas

2007-07-06T14:06:00.000-07:00

i just started this blog to first try to tell someone how to be a nice person 1 year ago . but 1 year gone well no difference .so i think that some day he might yet grow up but whose to know he might not. well i do hope so because he is a nice person if u can get over his own self belive that he is someone thats better than everyone else . well we all wish him well

corkie123: witch hunting poker style

2006-05-25T13:37:00.000-07:00

corkie123: witch hunting poker style

witch hunting poker style

2006-04-21T16:10:00.000-07:00

having been playing poker for a few years now i come to find that been the nice guy does work and people who play poker should win and lose with style and not bitch when they lose to some bad beat by a inferior player that they think is below them they must remember that he still there and u are the railbird now . Playing in a cash game the other night after been put out on the bubble the talk was how bad the chip leader was and he never will win but i thought to myself i loved to be that bad with all those chips instead of listening to the witch hunting that was going on 6 to4 the bet was for him to win pity i had not a lot of money with me i have taken that bet as he went on to win and i would have won from our local pro who just become a poker genius since he won one big tourie haha hope he still has the money at the end of year then i give him the respect he wants but he must give the same to other players as well to earn that and not bitch about other players who he now thinks are below him