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Erimus:
Posts are becoming a bit irregular now but for balance have to report the downs as well as the ups, and there is not gong to be a pot of gold at the end of this brief post as we are heading firmly in a downward trajectory.

Mid January was the last post and I was breaking evenish with a couple of small cashes but since the last post it's been downhill all the way, no cashes live, any small cashes online usually lost the following few days, volume tiny so it's pretty irrelevant.

Feb has the potential to be my biggest losing month for a while, a couple of bullets in the mini Gps in Newcastle fired into the ether, both games never got above starting stack, annoying but that's the way it goes sometimes, the local games again never got into the games at all, just folding, the odd 3 bet gets 6+ callers, miss,fold, then jam 15 bigs usually into QQ+ in the later stages, rinse and repeat.

We have a 25/25 in Stockton next week and as it's local will be 2 bullets if required, there is a sat on Tuesday so will try for a cheap seat, if not try and get to Day 2 on the one bullet.

I can't even have a whinge about bad beats because I haven't seen enough hands to get given them so at least that spares the bad beat tin filling up.

One good thing though is that I have another opportunity to play the £1k  Gukpt in Manchester at the start of March, don't worry I have not suddenly become the massive degen or anything like that, l am still the same sensible old git I have always been, hence my pretty average poker journey, which by the way I have no complaints about, it has given me more positives than negatives, although I could do with getting out of this downswing.

On my last outing to the G I decided that the optimal play would be to join in with the others and limp every hand and hit 2 pair minimum, jam and win the pot, I reached the break with a stack of 9k from 21k having not made a single winning hand, I am not going to try this strat again as it wasn't fun and it didn't work, I don't have Betty's mad skills at this part of the game.

It will be another trip to Manchester  for at least the Main event with Apat, I will try and fit at least one more game in but circumstances will dictate that one.

Hope to be able to post a report within the next few weeks of a major bink, if not whatever will be will be, thanks for reading.

Erimus:
Defo moaned this one in, missed theFriday game due to me falling asleep early evening and actually sleeping right through not something I do a lot of these days bit of an insomniac tbh, hence these ramblings at daft o clock.

Anyway some ridiculous happenings in this game, so thought I would fill you in, celebrating 150k views,  think there 50 ish runners starts, grinded my way to the final table as per nothing spectacular in the build up and we have 25 bigs, always nice to flop a house with AA and have 2 people betting into you.

8 paid, someone suggests a 10 way chop so we can all get away early, don't know wether he was being serious but the couple of short stacks seemed interested, I laughed it off and we started.

Called blind a utg 4 bb shove and 10 3 off was better than 99, lost half my stack to J5 off v 10 10 and now in in shove mode. Got moaned at by saying how can you call with that re the 10 3 hand, it was suited I replied, got short shrift from villain.

A few knockouts later and 5th prize was £115 and I was less than 10 bigs was offered £150 and the rest of them would split it, laughed that one off, I said wait for me to go then you can chop it.

I jam 33 utg, big blind open folds Jacks, put me on Queens, he says, (my image is ridiculous). If he believes I have Queens plus, it was a good fold, always go with your read that's what I say eventually knock this guy out when he shoved 4bigs A3 into my 89 suited, obviously I get there, he still insisted I had Queens, I said he was right and it was a good fold.

Any way I lose in a blind on blind spot and am left with 7k, blinds are 20/10k and I am all in in the small blind I can hear the mental arithmetic going off in the other 3 peoples heads, 350 each and a pic on Facebook, lol, utg limps, button 3 bets obviously I am all in an bb folds original limper folds and I win the hand, cannot remember details but we now have 1.5 bigs ,the 3 bettor gets berated by the others for not letting it go multi way where I would of lost.

 I win the next hand and this is were it goes daft, i know these prize  pools aren't massive but I still like to play as correctly as possible, anyway a 3 way all in occurred so I folded my big blind, even though I was told it was too much value for me to fold by the resident expert who does vey well down there tbh can't argue with his results but he does run pretty golden, my thoughts were the big stack wins I get a £185 pay jump we have KQ v 66 v A 10, flop was Q 6 10, the resident golden runner obviously hits a set , Q, turn Q river, big stack makes quads, he knocks 2 people out and I have laddered from £115 to guaranteed £300, lol, skill game.

The guy probably outchips me by 3 to 1 and we are playing 30k/60k, obviously need to get lucky but this guy limps every hand so see flops and pretty soon we are even stacked, no mention of deals for a change nice to play heads up although not deep, last hand he limps 45 I have 9 10, flop 678, wonder what happpens next, oh yes off to the cash desk to collect £470 first prize.

I would like to say it was skill and cunning which helped win this but it was one of those games were I got so lucky and the players on the final table were so bad it all worked in my favour.

So, recovered the Gps buy ins, and now onto the 25/25s, sat tonight live, will be playing Day 1 Thursday, with an option of Friday and Saturday, hopefully won't need them extra days.

patrickc:
Well done Brian keep up the good work.

Erimus:
Short update, cruised through the sat on Tuesday night, never had so many premium hands and they all held even when I got it in with 99 v 66, I actually called in the 6 for the villain as he had doubled me up previously, it did actually arrive, odd when you call your own in it doesn't turn up, mind you it did get a bit squeaky bum time as the bubble arrived but 15 bigs at this stage was massive, eventually the 1 big blind clashed the the 2 big blind and we binked a seat to the 25/25.

Played a few games on Party and the total opposite to the above occurred, ahhh variance, got to 1.5 million with 20 left and AA loses to 88 aipf, 88 flop kills me, for massive chip lead, min cashed that one, meh whatever.

Felt a cold coming on but decided to play last nights leg, and successfully made Day 2 with 60k, 30 bigs is good enough for me, my last 2 decent scores I came back with 15 and 20 bigs respectively, will see what happens.

Played really well last night, not paying people off with river bets when I know I am beat even though a chop was available, saved myself 10k in that spot, was shown one of the hands which I put her on, she was obviously dominated pre, but no one folds these days except me.

Had a hand with Dave were I could of busted either way but being the super nit I am managed to lose only my big blind, he limps utg, ( suspicious straight away), 2 Callers I have J 10 off, flop J 10 8, I check intending to check call and providing the board doesn't pair get it all in and crack his QQ plus range here, don't think he has AK here either, Dave bets out, guy in cut off reraises, knowing this guy very well could conceivably have an overpair to the board or 2 pair which I beat obviously or set withw JJ or 10 10 unlikely as I block them or 88, I reluctantly fold only because I know the said player, if it was a random tourney somewhere else I perhaps get it in here, Dave reluctantly Jams, villain has 88 for a flopped set, 33 completed the board so would of lost the pot slow playing 2 pair but went with my read and lost the minimum.

Crucial hand in last level, I have QQ, decide just to jam 15 bigs, if I min raise it looks suspiciously strong and Queens are vulnerable, anyway get called by K 10 off, very surprised to see that, a Q on the flop gave a comfortable runout and he was drawing dead on the turn, bagged 59,200.  approx 30 bigs.

One funny moment before the Queens, there had been a lot of action pre, and for some reason I just decided  to go to sleep and sat with my cards in front of me for what seemed like an age, some one coughed and realised it was on me, they started taking the mick assuming I was tanking for a Day 2 position, but I literally was away with the fairies, one of my  pet hates in poker is the tanking and I keep asking for a shot clock down there as it makes it a much quicker game, anyway thats the latest efforts on the poker front, happy not to utilise bullets 2 and 3 and we are almost breaking even.

See what Sunday brings, and then it's onto the Gukpt Manchester, planning to play Day 1 on the Thursday, run good, be lucky stay healthy.

Erimus:
Day 2 didn't go to plan, still feeling pretty yuk but managed to get myself there for the start and manged  to get to 82k, it then went downhill from there, think I left my A game at home and played a few hands badly, 3 bet a few times but the original limp callers bet out massively, not even giving me a chance to c bet, exit hand A5 didn't beat 22 in a blind on blind spot for a 20 big blind pot, standard spot.

Didn't really feel it was going to happen today, but we move on to the next which will be Fridays game, unfortunately Boro are at home on Tuesday so won't be at the G on Tuesday, not really looking forward to the game but I haven't seen my mates and brother for ages, missed the last game hanging about for nurses and doctor for the missus who is not very well at the minute, I don't know how she puts up the crap she has too regarding her health.

Managed to win a seat to skys £100 tonight, flopped a set with 10 10, and we are all in v AA who binked an Ace on the river, the joys of reverse implied odds, never to worry.

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