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Erimus:
Manchester came and went, lasted longer than last year but after peaking at 30k, didn"t win a significant hand in level 3,4 and 5, AK was my down fall had said hand 3 x played them all 3 ways, 3 bet, limped, called lost all of them, then jammed 88 (17 bigs) into AK, lost the flip, fun game though.

Had to laugh when someone gets 65 bigs in with K7 diamonds v AA, ofc he gets there hitting 2 pair on the river, excuse was boredom, this was in the 2cd level, 45 mins in.

Had a tilt issue on Sunday for the first time in ages, I was playing a few games online and just went off it for some reason and started ranting and raving, apologised to the missus for ranting and raving like a lunatic went for a walk and decided to play the Sky bounty hunter at 8pm, laptop almost went through the wall as second hand got AA all in v JJ on a 10 high flop, turn was a Jack but got lucky and rivered an Ace.

I went on to direct bubble this one running AQ into AK finishing 34th, 33 paid, made money with bounties though so pays for a few more of these during the week, didn"t tilt accepted it like the grown adult I am.

A few years ago would of played safe and limped into the cash but game has changed a bit, gotta go for the win.

The local schedule has changed from next week and last night was the final Deepstack turbo, start with 25k chips, ( people started moaning for the extra 10% bonus chips), how many chips do people want, 25k more than enough, but we start with 27.5k.

Mondays is going to be Omaha from now on, perhaps a time to learn a new game, we shall see.

Overlay tonight as only 16 runners, luckily didn"t have to re enter when I wasn"t shoved on by a slow played full house, I had made 888 and luckily for me villain only decided to call my river bet, she turned over 77 for a turned house, obviously I could of had quads, can"t be too careful v me as I nearly always have it, allegedly.

Reach break with 20 bigs, no thought poker now, chip up easily as people just do not call unless they have premiums and reach the final table.

Again get shoves through and finally get to a point were I can raise, fold, only 3 paid so need to chip up though, get a decent stack shoving 77 into AK and AQ, 7 first in the window, no sweats, easy game.

We get to 4 handed and a bubble is discussed, but decided to chop it 4 ways, not normally a fan of this but other villains are all decent regs down there and no doubt will see them on a final table again so hopefully this will be reciprocated in future outings, I was chip leader but wasn"t going to moan on for an extra £50/£100, if it was the other 3 non regs left just would of played on for the win.

Fun times at the Riverside on Saturday, it was the best we had played for ages tbh and AKs comments after the game were a bit strange, the atmosphere in the ground was quite good, and the supporters were just encouraging team on, survival is main aim this season but if we go down so be it, tbh rather be in top 6 fighting for promotion than bottom 6 of prem, much more enjoyable, if we do manage to stay up then hopefully kick on next year, get relegated, go again.

Unfortunately can"t make Edinburgh, family do on the Sunday, could just come up and donate on the Saturday but I don"t think that"s the point of poker not a plus ev move, I should be able to make at least 1 game in Manchester probably the £200 not because I am a baller or anything like that it just fits into my schedule, still plenty of time to make a decision on that one.

It"s been a good start to the year, above what I want to earn through poker but with a week to go it may go back down to my average returns.

Fatcatstu:
Oooooooh Omaha you say?

Erimus:
Ok so the run bad was bound to happen after a fairly good Nov, Dec and January, I wasn"t going to post but just thought I would share this little gem, but before that the first 10 days of FEB have been urgh only to be capped off with tonights effort, more of which later.

Local games are gong to be less frequent as Mondays is now PLO as wanted by the local poker community, both games so far have overlayed quite heavily so can see them being canned quite quickly.

Tuesdays I will continue to play and Fridays even though it"s the biggest game of the week I don"t like the whole vibe and atmosphere of the game, can"t put my finger on why but I just don"t enjoy it.

Been playing mostly Party, and sats to Dtd £220 game, no cashes anywhere other than a successful gaining of a $275 seat for this weekends £100K guarentee.

Here is the fun part, not wanting to bother with the live game at G, it"s fecking freezing outside and see above paragraph, l regged the online leg tonight and was online when the afore mentioned game popped up alongside the one I was playing.

Only 11 runners seemed a bit odd, it was only a feckin one handed flip game, wtf, I could of drove down to Dtd to play live either on the Friday, Saturday or even the turbo on Sunday Mornin, but no I had to endure this crap.

To make matters worse I get dealt AA but wasn"t confident with a 10 handed flip and they didn"t hold.

I know I should of checked the lobby so it was my own fault, probably spent £75 getting the ticket, a few £11 and one direct $55, future plans will be play 1 $55 the night before, if successful play, if not either buy in or wait till the following month.

Heed my warning always check the lobby, luckily I didn"t buy in direct tonight otherwise I would of been seething more than I was.

The above has put the cherry on the run bad cake, 2 entries last Friday, both times exited when I flopped 2 pair against a flopped set and rinse and repeat on Tuesday, KQ v 33 on KQ3 flop, can I and should I get away from these in the local donkfests, probably not so pointless going on about it.

Everton at home tomorrow, not very confident of a result, hope we do but I am mentally preparing for the drop, I hope we stay up but realistically we are just not good enough, the players brought in at the start of the season didn"t improve on what we already had, in the end don"t really care that much will still renew season ticket next year, given the choice I would rather watch a winning team in the championship than a losing one continually fighting relegation in the premier league.

Genting have a mini next week at Newcastle, will probably play that one but got to get my head right first as I am starting to tilt very easily at the minute.

Usual thing will post anything of interest but poker motivation is probably at its lowest point for a while, run good, be lucky stay healthy.

Erimus:
Ok, Hands up I am an idiot, apparently I had entered a holding tank for a live Day 1, found out just too late to get down after the match so going to pop down in the morning for the turbo, at least I know were I stand, either in or out of Day 2 by 3pm, Stuart will be joining me for the journey so gl to both of us.

Boro gave cause for a bit of optimism today obviously still can"t score for toffee but performance wise it was quite encouraging especially as rather others below us lost.

Erimus:
Before the weekly moan, re the above game, made Day 2 from the 6 max turbo, but got knocked out early 2cd level of Day 2, at least I didn"t have to drive down for Day 2, quite enjoyed the 6 max game and may take advantage of that format in future games, think it got nearly 100 runners which was quite an impressive turnout, turn away now if you don"t like moaning poker player talk, promise no bad beats or hand histories, enjoy.

February continues to disappoint on the poker front, nothing, nada nowt except for a few min cashes here and there online but nothing significant.

Most of January"s profit has gone but, got to put it in context to Nov/Decembers run good, luckily January"s money went on the usual, drugs, alcohol and women, no point wasting it.

I played the GPS up at Newcastle but bust that in the last level trying to accumulate a stack for Day 2, got it in good but when it"s not your day it"s tough.

Actually played a sat for the above game as well but didn"t get in via that, plus to make matters worse I got a bus lane summons for driving in a bus lane at 2am after being knocked out of the sat so that was another £30 up the Swanee.

To make things worse i have also just realised that after Day 1 of the GPS I know for a fact that I used the same bus lane after my Knockout at 2:30 on the Thursday so I am expecting another ticket in the post.

Speaking to a few people I know up there apparently it"s a total cash cow for the council as there are no signs up indicating it"s a bus lane until it says bus lane as you are entering the side road, I read the blurb regarding an appeal but tbh cannot be pestered, Guilty as charged,waiting for the second summons, at least I know now, if I get caught a 3rd time that would be really silly.

I could understand it in busy times during the day and early evening when there is a possibility of a bus but the feckers don"t run after midnight so why have a bus lane when there is little chance of seeing a feckin bus, rant over.

And relax, won a $55 seat from a $2.20 ticket tonight for Dtds £220 game, will be using that tonight to see if I can get to Nottingham on Saturday, there is a small possibility of me going down anyway as Susans other carer is round all day Saturday, that will be weather and mood dependant.

The magic of the cup is still resonating around the Boro, got lucky v Oxford in the end but a win is a win, next is Man City or Huddersfield, unfortunately we are the early kick off on the Saturday which I hate because, you can"t get to the pub before hand as easily, atmosphere is usually subdued and we usually play even worse kicking off at 12:30, at least it"s over on the day extra time then penalties, as for the other thing "Relegation", that is still very much a possibility but we could just bore teams into submission and scrape into 16th or 17th.

Palace on Saturday is massive, the proverbial 6 pointer, I will do my best to avoid watching or listening as l get too wound up to enjoy, fingers crossed for a win though.

I could do with a confidence boost re the poker, winning a flip would be a start and after winning that flip a seat to Nottingham and a shiny trophy on Sunday night would be a nice end to February, if that doesn"t happen, we go again, run good, be lucky stay healthy, and keep out if Bus lanes if you want to keep your cash.

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