Poker Highs and Lows of 2007

Flushdraw

So looking back on 2007, whats your poker high and low points from the last year?

I didnt do anything out of this world in 2007 pokerwise. Managed to get over to Vegas twice. First time with Halfbaked and Ianmc38 and then with Babymaker6. Didnt make mountains of money either time but was enjoyable and a great experience. No major scores in big tournies so hoping for a couple this year.

Poker low was losing a huge cash game hand in vegas by misreading my handing and losing a 4 figure pot to Q high and also my exit from the BigSlicks €500 main event when i fancied myself for a FT spot and 10k+ payday.

Aside from myself..good to see local players like BCB, Halfbaked, Fox and nicnicnic put themselves on the map with big results in Irish Open. Hali getting a few nice results and delighted for Jayminator and what he's achieved over the last 12 months. Happy for NFR and Ldog also picking up some nice tournie results over the year.

I have to learn to stack my chips like this!! happy 2008 to everyone and way it be successful for us all

58o

Poker high: Winning loads of money

Poker low: Losing loads of money

Real world high/low : (not quite sure which it is really) ; being too burnt out from christmas festivities to go out new years eve

Macspower

2007 has been an interesting year for me...

Highs...... managed to loose over 8 stone in weight and starting back tomorrow to loose another few all going well...

Managed to make a successfull move to online poker and not go busto..... yet!

Lows...... Not being able to move up levels successfully..... everytime I'm rolled for 400nl i hit a horrible run......

No real result in anything tourney wise.... then again I didn't try much

NickyOD

Jerry Yang winning the WSOP probably on if the poker lows of all time, not just this year. Fairly bad year for poker overall really with the on-line gaming laws.

Mine was very much year of two halves. First half brutal, second half pretty good.

bottom feeder

well one of my highs is that ive improved my game immensely

one of my lows is that it was a very expensive lesson

still a lot of work to be done so bring on 2008 - im expecting a big tourny result this year so watch this space boardsters

Glowingmind

Highs:

Making a good living from poker related stuff (not from playing). Poker getting me my current job. No huge scores but had a winning year and have definitely improved my game (my tournament game has been pretty stagnant, but i'm much happier with my cash game)



Lows:
Pissing away too much money with bad spewy tilty play.
KarlH leaving PPP (yes, i'm gay for karlh, but who can blame me, especially considering his replacement was BCB)
Me having to leave PPP

LuckyLloyd

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ditpoker

poker high: taking a month off and then deciding i was the irish roland de wolfe and won 2 tourneys in 2 nights back to back without seeing a premium hand but playing like a maniac.

poker low: not getting past the first 2 levels of ANY tournament for a month following the 2 wins mentioned above! pretty frustrating!

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

Poker Low - Loosing Jan 07 to June 07
Poker High - Winning July 07 to Dec 07

cooker3

Axl Crashing Rump wrote: »

Poker Low - Loosing Jan 07 to June 07
Poker High - Winning July 07 to Dec 07

So it was a year of 2 halves but you feel like you've turned the corner.

cooker3

For me
Low is hmmmn not really had any. I suppose going on 13 buyin downswing in August is biggest

High: Moving up to and so far beating 200nl comfortably

AKQJ10

Lows - Bubbled two big satellites to bad beats, going skint a fair few times.

Highs - Improved in cash games and realising tourney's are a waste of time for me

Jayminator

Highs: Profits 9 /12 months

Lows: No profits for October, November & December due to playing that silly bad pot limit game in the Emporium and getting dragged down by bad play and allowing it effect my game.. Oh yeah and that mental 7 2 game. Class game but silly really

Norwich Fan Rob

highs: surviving first full year as a pro, chopping SE 1k main event, getting to play an ept, a few WSOP games inc main event, almost topping irish rankings, and getting to see a lot of countries, Austria/Latvia/Estonia/Czech Republic/Vegas/France/UK several times and generally having a good time.

lows: not doing as well as 06 despite excellent January. generally running bad most of the year, not playing as many online hands as i should, spending too much on trips and big buy in events, losing with KK vs KJ when chip leader and 12 left in stars 500 buy in million gtd, for 1/4 chips in play with 246k for the winner, bubbling 15k wpt sat with AA beat by KK 3 handed, bubbling ept sat next day with KK beaten to another 2 outer, blowing 50k stack on day 1 on wsop main event, losing 58k pot in ept when avg was 22k and was cruising to another 2 outer.

nicnicnic

Highs, IO and the time I spent in Vegas, sleeping as long as I wanted, making a nice profit.

Lows, regret the way I played a couple of crucial hands over the year.

ianmc38

Highs - Pretty much everything since I lost my job at the end of March.
Lows - Losing 12k in 2 days in September. Losing money in some of the worst standard cash games of all time in London.

Goodluck2me

Highs: Vegas when I was winning, playing full-time there. Staying with the lads in Vegas was great too.
Winning Irish Open ticket in front of home crowd!
Learning that cash games are where its at, and how to play well in them.
Waterford Festival playing really well for the first time.
Bluffing Brindley off a big pot with 9 high with a 3-bet on the turn.
Not playing in Dec.
Getting inside the head of Nicnicnic.
Derek paying $200 more than i expected in Vegas when i lost the flipz was pretty nice too!


Lows: Every Tourney in Vegas, and slowly realising how sh1t they are. Not Winning in Vegas because of them.
Losing interest in poker in Nov/Dec and realising its really not that great.
Playing the Irish Open.
The last two hands I played in Waterford. AA v QQ (v99) losing a 4x average stack in Day two.
The AA v J9 losing on a A94 flop in first hand in 250 game the following day.

YULETIRED

HIGHS....Making final table in 60% of EUR200+ games I entered. Live Cash games in general were a high. Realising that my incredibile bad beats were in fact standard, and not a result of some deity punishing me for my crazy life in the 90s. (no more self harm to my hair) , Hearing Bob Battersby tell me I was doing his head in. (Great success), the waitresses and female dealersin the casinos in Dublin. (always a high)., Realising how much I still have to learn and Identifying areas for improvement in 2008 . Buying a new Gibson guitar out of my poker winnings (*see lows)



LOWs: Played my 1st 1k event and ran into a donkey who was playing like it was it was a 50 euro rebuy. Playing badly in some tournaments, forgetting my own rule of never calling when you KNOW you are beat. Not being able to 100% control myself when getting dogged by poker playing idiots....some improvment though.
Still not ruthless enough in cash games. (not wanting to put the knife in when certain people are playing) . * Smashing my new Gibson by falling ass first on it during failed v. drunken attempt at russian cussack dance and returning forlornly to my washburn....:-(

connie147

Highs--Not many. Played in all the major tourneys in Ireland during the year by winning my entry through Sattellites,No big live result worth bragging about but cashed enough to mean the year was not a losing one on the live scene for me.
Trip to vegas was brill.

Lows--Fire in the club that saw us closed for 3 months. Placed a poker ban on myself(live and online) until the club reopened. Followed my own rules but still havent gone back to playing online since in any serious way. Have to change that this year.
Going out just before the FT in the big slick 500 game in Waterford and bubbling the Maccau Xmas festival main event.
Playing 3,000 hands during my 9 days in vegas and not dealt KK or AA once. Fcuking sick.

Anyway,heres to a prosperous New Year not only for me,but for all boardies.

5starpool

Highs: Being in Vegas for the WSOP, although I didn't get to play the ME.
Lows: The whole year from a poker point of view was pretty much a disaster from start to finish.

TommyGunne

Highs: I went from a moderate to poor live player, with very little understanding of the game, to beating .5/1 online. This included a few 1k plus paydays in live cash.

Lows: Somehow spending most of the loot and having to move down to 0.10/0.20...

semibluff

highs - started year with deep run in IPC side event 750. bubbled with QQ V AK
Qualifying for Irish Open
Winning a few online tournies
Eventually start to win consistenly in cash
Ran well from Jan/Feb and Nov/Dec of this year
Improved my game atleast by 100%
Seeing boardsters go deep in big tournies all year long - fair play all

Lows - Not playing well in IO, mainly due to being dealt many marginal hands and getting myself in trouble too early
Not being able to control tilt online
Not being able to get off my ass and dowload PT and PAHUD (what i retard - i know!!)
Taking drunken stabs (worse being shortstacked on the 25/50 table
Playin live poker drunk - why or why do i bother!
Devaluing money - spending too much on things i cant even remember.
Not learning omaha properly
Realising there's more to life than poker - trying to re-focus on other ideas

RasTa

Highs -

Finally after 3 years, understanding the game and switching from a staunch NIT/TAG to a LAG/TAG and boy was it hard
Winning a 4 figure sum in a live poker tourney

Lows -

Droping out of college with 1 semester left(going back to finish this year)
Not getting anywhere with the GJP sponsorship

Goodluck2me

semibluff wrote: »

highs - started year with deep run in IPC side event 750. bubbled with QQ V AK

Lows - Not playing well in IO, mainly due to being dealt many marginal hands and getting myself in trouble too early
Realising there's more to life than poker - trying to re-focus on other ideas

The high was really good, remember that, sweey deal you made too!
Can relate to your lows, although I think the latter is more a positive than a negative, amazing how much poker can suck you in!

Russh

Highs....
Playing as much live poker as I did....

Lows....
Getting two outered as much as I did.....

cooker3

Russh wrote: »

Lows....
Getting two outered as much as I did.....

Yeah sorry about that

smurph

Highs: getting to final table in the Poker Events game in January 7th for €14K sweet.

Going deep in the Waterford Main Event, S.E. €1K event, and quite a few other deep stack tournaments....

Lows:
Playing soooo badly in the Irish Open,
Running Kings into Aces in the Poker Events game in January.....
Throwing a few hissy fits at tables.....
Reading some silly stuff on Boards...
Not learning from mistakes..

KevIRL

Highs :

- Starting to play poker after a few years of watching it on TV and reading forums etc
- Turning a decent profit from online MTT's
- Cashing in my first ever live MTT
- The Winterfest in the Woodlands in general, railing all day on the Sat then playing the 150. Really enjoyed it and wanna take part in a lot more of these events in 2008
- Still enjoying the game

Lows :

- Still making some stupid donky bets.
- Not listening to my own advice and entering some online MTT's even though I know I dont have the time/willingness to be bothered with them
- donking off all my chips to kakak in the IPC qualifier v embarressing
- Missing the IO supersat that time when I was playing in the Woodlands, have a feeling I woulda qualified lol

Hoki

Highs : Qualifying for the Irish Open - my first time playing a >€500 event , Qualiying for the IPC in the 1st satellite i played , Improving on a monthly basis in Mtts on stars ( bar November :mad: ) , Improving a lot at omaha & now making a nice few pound playing omaha cash games on stars

Lows : November - ran sososo badly on stars - bad beat after bad beat , not being able to resist playing live cash games when horribly drunk , playing too much online poker when i should be out playing soccer!

30something

Highs:-

-3 Consecutive PStars Million Cashes.
-Chopping one of JPs €250 games.
-FTabling the one and only SE €200 EOM game I played.
-FTabling 50% of CHL €100 F/O Friday games I played.
-Winning a drunken iPoker $7 rebuy tourney for a total cost of $7.70.

Lows:-

-Cash table variance.
-Being k/o'd out of the one and only SE €200 EOM game I played (KK v 99 no good for chip lead with 4 left).
- Getting to last 2 tables of PStars $55k g'teed at 4am when wife wakes up and berates my gambling addiction (well, I did have work the next day ) leading to tilting off whole stack so as to rescue marriage.
-Not succeeding in making the transition from NIT/TAG to TAG/LAG.
- Lack of live play (although happily due to arrival of 3rd kid).

Good luck to all in 2008 -

eddiehead

Highs - turning 10euro into 10000euro via making day 3 of the irish open,
rediculous hot streak that lasted Dec'06-April.......

Lows - my last hand of the open being 3-3!!!:mad:
rediculous cold streak that lasted from April-...it hasnt stopped actually!!:(