Waterford Open Hand (input from boardsies who played against John Ward appreciated!)

earthworms

no its not sligo john its a different john.

John Ward makes a lot of money in Galway and as the chopper says these are the kinda players that constantly win in the west. He's not a good poker player, he will literally gamble his whole stack at any given stage in a tournament with any kind of draw. He gets very very lucky and its paying off for him at the moment.

He's probably been the most talked about player in Galway over the past couple of months and he is a spot on guy. I just worry for him when his luck runs out

LuckyLloyd

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fabsoul

LuckyLloyd wrote:

So this Dude is the Galway version of the Chief then?

No he not that bad!!!!!

Hoki

Id play with John in the Westwood every wednesday , absolute sound lad and the biggest card rack ever !
Was on his table for the whole of last wednesday and almost from the start he was accumulating chips . Nearly every hand he had was a pair - no exaggeration , iv never seen anyone flop as many sets , at the break he was chip leader and with about 12 people left he had way over 110,000 in chips with the average being 40k.
I tried to avoid being in pots with him as i know how loose and hard to shake off a pot he is , doubled up off him once with 6 6 but in the end he knocked me in 12th . I raised it up to 6K UTG with 9 9 (blinds 800/1500) , folded round to john who goes all in , i kicked myself and dwelled up for a while trying to figure out what he had , in the end i called for all my chips (15K) , he turned over KK and i banged my head off the steering wheel the whole way home. He ended up finishing 2nd for close to 2 grand which im sure covered for his weekend where he made a lot more than that!

RichieLawlor

I was on Johns immediate right from the start (table 5 seat 2) and after on 2 orbits i had him down as the person i was getting a lot of chips from. We had a bit of a war of words early as i was constantly dumbfounded by the monkey plays he was making. ex. limping under the gun then calling a raise with 10 7 off and calling all the way with 2nd pair only to make a str8 n the river.

Well midway thru level 5 (150-300) i raise to 1000 from utg and john immeaditly pushes all in for 50k??? WTF. Sylvester lays down Ah Qh and John McGill passes Q Q. and i call quickly with J J certain that im ahead and he tables 10 10 and im up to 30k. I was sure i was getting the rest soon.

But anyway ill put up a full report later but my overall opinion of john ward was he was an uber lag who got very lucky but i did get on very well with him after the early spat and he seems like a very nice guy and was running hotter than the sun.

His style will either see him with a lot of chips early (and in fairness he is very hard to deal with whwn he has) or at the bar with mike lacey:D

smurph

LuckyLloyd wrote:

So this Dude is the Galway version of the Chief then? And just like the Chief for an extended period of about 10 months, he can do no wrong at present as he runs good.

The Chief ain't winning at the moment...

..... thought he was top of the Tournament leader board in the S.E.? and is top of the new list aswell??

kingpin55

Ive played with John a good number of times, and he is very tricky to play against, super aggressive and hard to shake him off on a flop, his flat calling strategy can slow a player down no end and put spiking doubts into their heads about what he is actually holding!

I talked to John last wednesday before waterford, he told me he was gonna try out a new gameplan in waterford, and test run it that night in the westwood...now considering he came 2nd that night and won the 500 in waterford two days later id say this gameplan is working for him.
Alot of people say hes jus lucky and what not and makes terrible calls, however if the tables are turned and John is put in for most of/whole of his stack he is very capable of folding(even a large draw), i have witnessed it.

Im never to pleased when hes on my table cos hes extremely difficult to play against, and to have this trait automatically makes him a quality poker player.

That being said hes an absolute howl at the table and now an absolute legend!

Lazare

Seems like a really sound guy, and an addition to the many characters on the Irish poker scene.


Great report Brian.

strewelpeter

smurph wrote:

..... thought he was top of the Tournament leader board in the S.E.? and is top of the new list aswell??

I thought that was for hours played :eek:

pppspecial

didnt get to play on the same table as you john but 1 things for certain...i aint looking forward to it.
you should frequent this board more often maybe set up an account and post a few hands... john ward aka "FISH WITH CHIPS".
good luck and see you in drogheda.

smurph

strewelpeter wrote:

I thought that was for hours played :eek:

Sorry I think your right, Im getting it mixed up with the tournmanet league where you get points for Tournament wins, placings etc.,

Flushdraw

smurph wrote:

Sorry I think your right, Im getting it mixed up with the tournmanet league where you get points for Tournament wins, placings etc.,

No youre right. Himself and Mickste are top of the tournament league

Flushdraw

Daithio wrote:

Anyway the next hand I played against him is a battle of the blinds, I'm on 80k, he's got about a billion in front of him, average is about 110k, and blinds are still 2k/4k. I'm a bit on tilt after the previous hand against him. He limps from the SB, I check behind with K9. Flop Qd9d2x. He checks, I bet 5k, he makes it 15k and starts his speechplaying routine. I decide that from hearing about how he has been playing that I'm good here enough of the time to warrant a push, especially considering it's such a draw heavy board. I thought it was very likely he could have a weaker 9 also and I might even get a call from him in that spot. Opinions on this? I'm not particularly proud of how I played it, he'd definitely gotten inside my head, and from the previous hand against him I definitely wasn't thinking very straight.

I wouldnt be mad about the push in that spot Dave. A better player would fold a bad queen to you, but seems as he'd probably call with Q3, i'd wait for a better spot