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amcgrath1uk:
APAT Glasgow is a certainty now. Time booked off work and the hotel is booked and paid for. Certainly looking forward to a Friday night led by Grant, Chas and Jamie.
Work has slightly calmed down now, after a very tough month, I probably have 2 weeks before it starts to get busy. Getting a lil bit of time back from work, so am in the middle of 2 days off, 3 days in, then a very rare long weekend off. As it"s payday on Friday, I"ll more than likely play Friday through Sunday night live as I know through the rest of the month I don"t have many opportunities to go.
Tonight however is online, I have nothing on apart from having to be somewhere at 1pm tomorrow, so I"m hitting it hard. Got 9 tables going at the mo, with 3 more in 5 mins time :o eek!!!
amcgrath1uk:
Finally had a full weekend off for the first time in 2 months, so I"ve got a few things sorted.
Friday night
Played the £10 + £10 at the G, and despite it now being dealer dealt, it was mega quiet. Or it might just be I went out in storming fashion. Dropped from 5k to 2k missing my straight flush draw, take the rebuy. 3 hands later get QQ in early position and raise, bb 3bets and I flat. Flop is Ah Qh 6h and I just open shove. He tanks for 2 mins and calls with Kh Ks. No need to mention the river.
Get home nice n early and start up with my Xbox for the 1st time in 3 months, straight onto COD and like I"d never been away. Next thing it"s 3am and time for bed!
Saturday
Chill watching the cricket, golf and F1 most of the day, then head off to the G for the £30 f/out with 8k starting chips.
2nd hand get dealt AA and someone has raised to 500 and 50/100, I repop to 1700 and he calls. Flop is 983 I bet, he calls, 8 on the turn I shove he calls with 33. Sigh. He"d lost 1200 first hand so that"s what I had. Shove the sb next hand, get a caller. Typically I have KK ( I did look) and double up. Build back up to 7k and still in level 2. Facing a raise to 600, I have ad1 Qd on the bb, and repop to 1500. He calls, flop 2d 4d Jh. I bet, he shoves I call. He has Kd Jd. Brick brick. GG me.
Sunday
Spent the morning in bed, and the afternoon at a relatives. A cousin had been away for a year in Japan, and came back on Sunday, his b/day on Monday so a good surprise party was to be had. Got home at 7 so went for the £25 deepstack with 20k starting. Some might have seen this hand on facebook so bear with me.
I"d built up to 28k when this happened. A multi limped pot, and I"m one of them with 9d Jd. Flop Qs 10s 8h was lovely, especially as the bb bet into it. Knowing the player plays and calls any 2, I repop, he shoves, I snap. He shows Qh 3h.
Turn 8
River Q
Was enjoyable losing 18k that way!!!!!!!
Get the last 10k in in a 3 way pot last hand, as Simon Trumper was on the table on his way back from Bolton, shoving blind every hand. The same bloke shoved his now 50k stack, Simon called blind, I"m not folding anything remotely decent, and I have 10 10. Up against QJ and Simon"s J4, Q on the river.
A marv weekend then!!! I"d quite like the poker gods to smile upon me rather than taking me roughly from behind as they are at the moment. It"s kind of a good job I"m now busy for the next 3 weeks at the weekend, and at the moment, I can"t play midweek. I"m obviously hoping a break is good for me. I am looking forward to the next few weeks though. On the 11th August I"ll be playing 18 holes of golf for the first time ever, and I actually haven"t swung a club in over 20 years, and being left handed, getting clubs will be interesting!!
amcgrath1uk:
The good news for me is that advance train tickets for my return from Glasgow aren"t actually released until next week :)
Looks like it"s a bit of reconnaissance for me too, as I"m up Glasgow way tomorrow as one of the stores up there need an expert ( for some reason the DM thought me), so trekking up tomorrow morning, staying and back on Thursday afternoon. I highly doubt I"ll have the opportunity to play poker but I think I"ll give it a crack if possible!
amcgrath1uk:
Managed to sort out my Glasgow tickets, so all is good there.
I"m struggling with my game in specific spots at the moment. I"m having no issues with bubble play, or with the start of tournies. My struggles seem to be in the middle.
The examples I will give are:
APAT Manchester, up to 40k in no time. Then proceed to go nowhere for 4 hours till I get knocked out. Same sort of thing in Cardiff. On Sunday I played the £25 20k f/out in Manchester. Within 45 minutes, I"ve got under 60k. I"ve picked perfect spots, I"ve applied pressure and made cracking reads. As soon as I hear "the blinds are up to ........." my game disappears completely.
Any suggestions?
Fatcatstu:
Try playing a bit more? I would assume (after playing in vegas together a bit) that you kind of blinded away a bit?
Perhaps putting yourself in a position to win more pots would help?
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