Martin Devlin

Summary:
If we deduct the £3,500 percentage received off Nick in June, my total profit from playing poker excluding any expenses of Hotels, Travelling, Eating & Drinking etc... totals £1,605.80, not too clever really and November didn't help taking a £1,500 loss! I didn't cash in any ranked games that I played and I honestly can say that I didn't play particularly badly, I just didn't get the heater that you need to win these games. I played a lot of poker in 2009 and I plan to play even more in 2010. Happy Days it's the AWOP Christmas charity game on Saturday so I'm gonna have to shippp it eh.

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Well, it's nearly Christmas, I've no real plans now to play any 'serious' poker until the APAT team event at the end of January. I played the 6-max World Amateur Online Poker Championship Sunday night on Blue Square, I finished in 14th or so but my good friend Bruce managed to get 3rd place and an APAT Bronze medal, well done that man, 2009 has been far the best year to date for Mr Lea and deservedly so. A big win isn't too far away, watch this space.


We've booked Vegas for next year, so far there are 4 of us flying out direct from Manchester on the 23rd of June for 2 weeks. We'll play the Venetian Deepstack, Binions Classic and of course satellites for the Main Event. We'll get to watch England out there in the World Cup. I'm not too happy about the 6:00am and 10:30am games though, they're gonna be heavy days on the pop! (being 10 hours behind in SA).


Other news, Blue Square are not gonna be the flagship sponsors of the GUKPT next year, G casino are taking over so I wonder where that's gonna go? Pokertars are running the UKIPT which I'm sure will be a great circuit. We have pencilled in Februarys leg as it's in Manchester, hopefully see some of you there?

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After last Tuesdays enormous win, I cant win fuck all, I keep getting shafted left right and centre. I played Thursday night in the £40 Triple chance, I lost my first lot of chips on a flush draw, but check this out, the flop read 239, 2 hearts, I was holding J6h, I set a guy ALL-IN for about 4,000 and he called with 56 no hearts, his 6 is pretty much dead, he needs a 5 for a pair or a 4 to make the fucking GUTSHOT! and guess what? he hit the fuckin 4 outer for the straight! FML!

That was my 1st and 2nd stacks combined and gone. My exit hand, I'm holding AK in MP, I raise with 2 callers. Flop is QJ7 2 clubs, player A (in the blinds) pushes for 1,800, I re-raise to isolate as I don't wanna play 3 handed with my draw so I make it 4,000. The bell end on the button says "OK, lets gamble, how much do you have left?" "2,600!", "I'll put you ALL-IN!" [sigh] FFS! "OK, I can't pass, CALL!" I've got to be behind here for sure but to my amazement I was ahead! AHEAD OF BOTH PLAYERS! Player A is holding KT for the U&D straight draw, Player B (ok lets gamble) has 69 of clubs for the flush draw. First card out is a 9! How the fuck does a 9 come out? the river is a brick and misses everyone. Player A only had about enough chips to buy a meat pie but he won the main pot with the straight, Player B beat me by pairing up the 9 on the turn, A FUCKING 3 OUTER! He didn't even hit a club for a flush which would probably been easier to swallow. OMFG!

I played Friday night in the Castle, I hate the castle (which is now called the Stanley Circus, Blackpool). I got caught with my fingers in the till and left the casino £200 out of pocket.


Saturday was the £100 deepstack, if Stevie Wonder had of played for me, He'd of seen more cards than what I did. I had fuck all, all day, my Daughter was at home due to a change of plans so I thought 'Fuck this' I'd rather be at home with her than sitting and playing suffering at the table. I'm getting bad beat stories from both my left and right and I didn't even know the fuckers! GET ME OUT OF HERE! The best thing about the table was a hand that Chris Para played. There was a series of betting and re-raising between Chris and this cockney geezer, the board read K689, the river was a 5, Para checked and the CG bet 5,000 into a pot of about 15,000. After a minute or so, Chris said I don't believe you; and leaving himself with about 750 chips behind, he made the call. Cockney geezer turns over AJd and my hero of the day made a fantastic call and what a great read to show 35. He took a tasty pot down, well played that man. I shoved with KJc and bumped into KK with a K on the flop, good timing.

I played the night game and managed to get it all in on the button with QQ v AQ, as I stood up and put my chair under the table, the Ace flopped. Beautiful. I'm having some time off now and gonna try and qualify for the Monte Carlo in 2 weeks.

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This post is gonna be short and not so sweet.