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Erimus:
2 live games played this week, the G had a £500 added free roll on Saturday to celebrate there 1st birthday in Stockton.

As regular readers know if they read mine or Pokerpops blog the G struggles to get players for most of the tournaments at the minute (Sunays and Fridays seem to be picking up now),but with the added £500 92 players turned up and a £2k1 pot was created, goes to show add a bit of free money players will turn up.

Opening table was good fun and it was a good laugh, had my AA cracked early on by 67 in the big blind, seems to be a recurring theme early on here, I raised 2.5 from utg and the big blind had posted his big blind with a 1k chip, he couldn"t be bothered getting it changed so he elected to call the raise, the flop was 48k rainbow, I bet 3/4 pot, called turn Q, I bet again I have 10k behind, he calls the river is a 5, I check and he shoves all in, a straight gets there, a daft 2 pair or good 2 pair, I don"t think this particular player is getting lairy with a bluff or a 1 pair hand so with 30 bigs left I fold, he shows 67 for the rivered straight, nh move on, he apologised for a few minutes saying he only called because I was giving him the correct odds to call, I smiled and agreed, I played it pretty badly ;).

Got to the last 2 tables, was in shove or fold mode utg makes it 4x bb and I look down at 88 I reshoved hoping for a flip but he had JJ and it held so I was out in 17th place.

I checked the G schedules over the last 2 nights and surprise,surprise both tournaments cancelled, the Tuesday game is never going to compete with the £30 game at Gala so they really need to think a new strategy with this one, it"s pretty obvious no mtt currently on a Thursday so put the 10 10 10 on the Thursday and have the tuesday game as non game night pretty simple.

I went to play Gala last night, thought I was going to have to get the canoe out to get over there but it wasn"t too bad, it got 47 runners which is well below the norm, prob the weather put a few off, I managed to get a 5th place for £120, I will report one hand, I think Pokerpops game is starting to rub off on me a little bit.

My rep at Gala is ultra tight, so tight that I actually squeak when I make a move, blind are 300/600/50 I raise utg with 86 off just assuming to win blinds and antes, I had been card dead and needed to get up to at least average 68off utg is never in my range here, get 1 caller, flop comes down A57, obviously have to represent ace here plus with an up and down not getting away from this hand, I bet half pot, caller comes along, turn card 2, a brick really, happy to continue to rep the ace the caller may have an ace but is worried about his kicker, I bet half pot,again he calls, whatever the river card is its going in, it does help that the river is a 4 making my straight, it all goes in, villain folds showing an ace saying your kickers good. this gets me above average and the rest is pretty standard stuff, done a bit of laddering at the ft eventually getting it in good with AJ v K8 but the 8 on the flop killed it for me.

I had 2 of the better players at Gala saying they couldn"t believe the way my game has changed (so aggressive  :o),and complimented me on my play which was nice to hear.

Online got a 13th in the Ecop game were I made an awful play with 77 which has been discussed elsewhere, will have a few sessions on Stars over the next few days, will probably end up being a  break even slightly up month both live and online.

pokerpops:
wpsir :) not sure what you mean about my game rubbing off on you.

Names for the two "better players" at Gala please!!

I gather the table talk over there is interesting at the moment...

Erimus:
September spluttered to a halt poker wise, checked on opr and I only played 33 games for a small profit cashed in 9% of games but volume pretty low, made 1 final table but couldn"t convert it to a win.

Live poker again a small profit but it tends to be 2 steps forward 1 step back at the minute.

I played the 15/15 at G last night and was going quite well until I got it in bad with 444 against a full house,but still had enough to get back in it, blinds are 200/400 2 limpers one never folds whatever the reraise, I look down at AQ, shoving 20 bigs looks over the top but it might get him to fold, I repop it 2200, original limper folds serial caller calls as expected, flop k 10 2 rainbow, he leads out pretty obvious he has the king, but I was going with this hand whatever the flop, missed my draws and the over and his K5 was always going to win that.

As I was leaving the card room i got a call from the wife asking if I could get home as there was a problem there, strange how this world works, got Home got the wife sorted alls well that ends well.

There will be 4 of us trekking up to Glasgow in a few weeks for the Scottish champs looking forward to that one, was going to give the sats for Dtds £500 game a go but 2 successive poker weekends is stretching it a bit so I will leave them alone for this month.

I read that another member has told online poker to Gtfo and I must admit I have been feeling a little frustrated with the game of late, but I will probably just carry on, not trying to make a living out of it but a bit extra here and there helps out a bit, it"s a free roll after all , home news,kitchen should be fully finished by the end of the week just need to spruce up on my cookery skills to take advantage of the new surroundings.

Run good, be lucky stay healthy.

Erimus:
If this is how October is going to continue I think I will have the rest of the month off, Apat Glasgow excluded.
I have been on the wrong side of variance this week pretty much from the get go.

The home game on Thursday got 19 runners in total probs a record including the travellers, I managed to reraise Curlys raise with AQ and stacked my first buy in against Gers KK, and Curlys AA, great timing, by the turn a j would give me an improbable straight, didnt happen, Chips please.

We returned after the break and  a few hands in I get AK suited, I make my standard raise and Ger decides to reshove, he has been shoving fairly light all night, I mean who shoves KK into AA and AQ, l call, I have him covered by 2k or so, on there backs AK v AJ, pretty safe board until the river were the j decides to make an appearance 5 or 6 hands too late for me but hey ho that"s poker, eventually go out A2

pokerpops:
Variance sucks, but you will rise above it and return to winning ways Bri.

Marine tropicals eh? Just remember, "don"t tap the tank"  :)

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