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pokerpops:
--- Quote from: david3103 on September 16, 2012, 07:52:26 AM ---
Saturday 15 September £100 FO at G Stockton
Bleurgh
Yuk
Ewwwww
Move on folks, nothing to see here.
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Sufficient time has passed to dull the pain
I had a great table - a mix of locals and some lads who had travelled down from Newcastle and who were more than willing to get some action going on the table.
I had an absolute rush of cards and couldn"t get decent value from any of them. Yet Micky the regular two seats to my left was getting absolutely gifted chips by people with a desire to play a 22k stack, 30 minute clock using the GUKPT structure as though it was the Wednesday fiver rb.
I had two horrible hands - one with Q10 where I should have just taken it down on the KJx flop, and one with AA which I"ve posted in the strategy thread. No spoilers here, suffice to say that I"m really unsure about my play in it.
After that hand I lost my way a little and played less well than I can. It didn"t help that my run of cards not only ended, but balanced the books by becoming a run of hands which featured too many twos and threes and often accompanied them with sixes and sevens, and lower. Eventually I shipped fives from utg+1 over an utg raiser with whom I had history - he"d only seen QQ+ from my 3bets against him to this point. It folded to him and he snapped me off with tens as he should. Tens held, with not even a sweat.
I"d busted way too early and sat around for a while before having a horrible session on the cash table where all my thin value bets got called by people who had either caught the better hand on the river, or had outplayed me with top pair better kicker. Indeed, one old guy who was the table irritant managed to call me with third pair, better kicker :(
Luckily, just before midnight the fire alarm went off and we all had to leave the building. I chose to take that as a message to "just go home before they work out that the fire alarm was triggered by me setting fire to my money".
I returned to the fray last night in the £15+15 which got 33 entries for a £990 pot.
I played better (in a softer field), and ran about right. Failed to beat shortstacks Q7 shove with AK aipf, but then had 99>10 10 vs the same opponent about three hands later to get the chips back with a small bonus added.
The usual suspects wanted to negotiate a bubble payment when we got to 6 handed, I felt that paying 5 places from a field of 33 (actually 28+5 re-entries) was enough.
There was talk of a four-way chop too, but that didn"t happen either.
Sadly, the biggest whinger got lucky at the right moment and when I left he looked likely to win the damned thing. No justice!
Next post - my take on Kategate.
AMRN:
--- Quote from: david3103 on September 17, 2012, 11:03:45 AM ---
Next post - my take on Kate"s gate.
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...and I thought it was just a topless photo :)
[ok some poetic license taken when quoting OP]
pokerpops:
--- Quote from: AMRN on September 17, 2012, 11:19:27 AM ---
--- Quote from: david3103 on September 17, 2012, 11:03:45 AM ---
Next post - my take on Kate"s gate.
--- End quote ---
...and I thought it was just a topless photo :)
[ok some poetic license taken when quoting OP]
--- End quote ---
pokerpops:
Just a quickie on Kate Middleton "fnar "fnar
The Daily Telegraph features a minimum of three pictures of our Future Queen every day, somedays it"s a lot more. Seriously, there are more Kate pics in there than there are references to immigrants in the Mail.
But do they post the ones of of her with her top off? Do they "eck!
I don"t only just see why Wills is making a fuss about this - after all most blokes of his age (and looks) would be proud to let the world know that their fit Mrs gets her top off before rubbing sun oil on his back.
Editors note: the views expressed may not be firmly held and may indeed be somewhat tongue in cheek
pokerpops:
Sometimes we have to make tough decisions.
I had to make one today. I also made a very easy one.
The easy one was confirming that my +1 for the trip to St Kitts is Lucy. Flight booked, room sorted, transfer from DTD to Gatwick sorted.
All we need now is some dollars, some travel insurance and some rungood.
Now, the tough one.
I love live comedy - one of the fixed points in my year is a trip to Edinburgh to see as much of the Fringe as can be packed into three and a bit days (26 shows this year) and recently one of the highlights of the Fringe has been Pappy"s a sketch show who got great reviews this year and deservedly so.
They are touring now and arriving at The Arc, in Stockton on October 4th.
I can play poker most nights
I can play poker with the Massive most weeks
I may not get the opportunity to play an invading army of APATers for a while
but it"s Pappy"s
and the last time they played locally the publicity was so poor that there were only around 14 people in the audience. Yet they performed as though the room was not only full, but was a much larger room. They gave every ounce of effort and commitment that they"d have given were they ever unfortunate enough to play the O2 (note to all - stadia are not suitable venues for comedy)
I"ve chatted with these guys in the Pleasance Courtyard. Been in the audience with them as they watched other comedy acts. I actually asked them to come back to Stockton and give us another chance (I doubt my words were in any way influential, but I did ask)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWQ06bYG0eA[/youtube]
So - I will be absent from the Thursday Home Game on October 4th. I"ll miss the banter and the drunkenness (well, I"ll miss the banter) and I"ll miss the chance to be the only sober man in the room.
This leaves a vacancy for someone else to be the oldest there - any takers?
Just been looking at the DTD offerings for that first weekend in October too. Satellites permitting I"ll play the £500 with an hour clock.
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