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Swinebag:
great write up. Like the play on the KK hands too. Gl on sunday

Erimus:
Poker in August.

Online, mainly Stars only played 58 games lowest total since November, losing  the love ?, had a losing month probably around $400, no biggie but disappointing, don"t know the exact figure Hem gone down again.
I hadn"t played on Stars the last week until last night when I had to get 100vpps to keep the silver star status, turned out an expensive night to get there, finished 5 off the cash in a $55 tournament, pushed q 10 into 97, 12 bigs, drawing dead on the flop, villain flopped a straight, typical the way his month has gone.

I played the knockout cup on Apat and we reached the quarter finals, I played ok throughout made final table in each game winning one out right and a 4th,so that effectively gave me a freeroll into Apat Nottingham.

This brings me onto Live stuff which has been my saviour this month with a successful run at the local G, all stuff has been previously written about and about £1200 profit through that. I didn"t play well in the main event and ran QQ into KK and got too excited at a 7 high flop, I bloated the pot too much and was committed by the river even though I probably knew I was beat, at least I learnt from that mistake and made good decisions at Dtd with my Overpairs to the board, gotta learn from previous mistakes.

Obviously thoughts now are all about tomorrow, I have 30 bigs going back to Dtd, would be nice to have a premium hold at one stage, it looks great when I can analyse a hand and deduce the correct course of action and make a correct fold, but for once or twice tomorrow lets get it in 80/20 + and hold, also no sweats would be nice although that"s asking too much.

An ideal situation would be a Stockton massive heads up confrontation on the final table that would be my wish, it"s a long shot but you never know.

Susan will be staying at the care home on Sunday, this gives me peace of mind as I know if something did happen there are qualified nurses and assistants around to get her sorted if required and I don"t have to worry about a random phone call in Nottingham from home.

The kitchen gets a refit on Monday so we can see some benefit from my hours at the tables, an extra expense occurred yesterday as well,the washing machine decided to give up the ghost, got a friend round who condemned it saying cost of repair is not far of the cost of a new one so that"s next on the shopping list. Thanks for reading, Run good, be lucky stay healthy.

Erimus:
Quick report from dtd £500 ak raise,couldn"t call on a low all back flop, blinds too big for any fancy stuff, no thinking now 10 10 all in, called by AQ an ace on the flop sealed my fate, funking for Dave now.
It"s been a good experience love to do it again sometime.

Erimus:
After yesterday"s efforts  just a few afterthoughts about the deepstack.

When I first started playing live Poker, it was just £30 freeze outs and even this was thought as an expensive tournament, I never dreamt I would be playing in a £500 deepstack, I know I got in via a sat but again the sat was a 50/50/50 I did get in for the minimum  but was prepared to take the 3 buy ins if I felt I needed it.

When I went back with 30 bigs I was thinking, I have a bit of time to get a hand but with the blinds and antes so big I didn"t really have much wiggle room,looking back at the AK hand utg,I thought I had enough were if I missed the flop I could fold and wait a bit more, I think this showed my lack of experience at this sort of level, I had 25 bigs and min raised and folded on a very unhelpful board, a shove pre would possibly of won me at least one more round to get a hand or get a aq KQ or a small pair to call and take the flip at that point.

I eventually shoved 18bigs with 10 10 against AQ, in ahead pre when the chips are in is all you can ask at this point, i lost the race, standard stuff, the thing is if I ever get into these sort of games again I have to learn from this experience and take any of the stuff I have learnt with me.

I will be definitely adding a satellite or 2 into my games especially for the games at Dtd which are an absolute must play if you can get in.

I never felt out of my comfort zone at any time and thought I playe d really well, it is just the AK hand which still niggles a little bit, but I might of lost that flip as well, it"s a well worn record now on this blog gotta win those flips deep to get deeper.

I am going to get to November when this blog will be a year old and then contemplate continuing with it or not,as doing a read back it seems to be a moaning whine when I lose,and a gloaty bink when I have won, I have tried to be as honest as possible when writing these things and hope it has entertained those who have been on the journey from Vegas to mediocrity. thanks for reading Run good, be lucky, stay healthy.
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Erimus:
Forgot about this from yesterday, after my knockout was sat with a few people from Teesside, I don"t know them well but am aware of them, devil fish wanders over and sits down and starts talking about Saturday nights exploits, he has been in a club supping champagne and gets a cab from said club.

the cabbie asks him if he has had a good night, devilish replies yes but not a lot of women about tonight,
Cabbie says "that wil be because it"s a Gay Bar", true or not it came across as good laugh, he then gets his guitar out and starts a Johhny Cash session, got good guitar skills but can"t sing.

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