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AceOnTheRiver:
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--- Quote from: david3103 on September 21, 2012, 12:59:35 PM ---
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.
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Is that Mickey P?
pokerpops:
It"s been an interesting week so far..
The rains on Monday led to the watercourse at the bottom of Lucy"s street flooding and left over a foot and a half of water in her house.
Until you"ve been there you can"t begin to imagine how utterly depressing it is to walk into a flood-damaged house.
I barely have words to describe it.
The local council are still, two days after the event, contemplating their response...
On the plus side, the roofing problem seems likely to be less expensive than we"d feared and could be sorted this week.
Poker-wise, I had a fun session on the 25/50p table on Tuesday.
We started three handed, one of the locals who just loves to play and is a very easy read and a youngish lad I hadn"t played with before.
We played mostly small pots, it took a while for the rake to reach £5, but my stack was growing and theirs diminishing.
Eventually we got to a proper game when Dan, the villain from Thursday"s game, joined us along with a few others.
Dan is an online MTT grinder who enjoys his cash game. Active, thinking, and fun to have at the table.
He found a 5 bet jam with A5 vs my KK to donate his first buyin and all the big pots seemed to involve him and me.
Three stand out
1: I raise J 10 on the button to £3, he raises SB to £6 and I call in position.
Flop 10QJ, checked to me, I bet £8, he calls.
Turn 10, he checks, I bet £12, he raises to £32, I move all in and he tank folds g K 10 ...
2: I raised Qc Jc from BB to £3, he again raises to £6 and I call.
Flop Ac 4c 10c
I bet £9, he calls.
Turn Ad and he says, "that"s a bad card for me"...
I check call £18
River Kc - - - yes, i know, mbsfn, a second live Royal Flush in 4 months...
I check, there"s four clubs on the board and he folds pretty readily if he has no club and given his style I think he is likely to rep the flush or the A or the straight, or it"s even possible he actually has one of those hands or a full house with A10/AK...
Damn his eyes he checked behind and turned over A3. :(
I did get a letter from the card room manager giving me a free meal for two in the restaurant though :)
3: again me v Dan. We both called a small raise, me with A4, him with 78 and got it all in on the turn when the board read 6544.... The river bricked :(
Overall a winning night and I"m sure Dan and I have lots more pots to play in the weeks and months to come.
G looks likely to benefit from the fallout from Dealergate at Gala where there have been accusations and rumours floating around one of the long term dealers there. I"m repeating nothing until it"s been verified but if true, it"s pretty shocking stuff.
pokerpops:
Haven"t played live this week since Sunday due to wanting to play the satellites for DTD"s deepstack weekend.
I suffered a few nasty ones through the various feeders and satellites >:(
and inflicted a couple myself ;D
Eventually, on Tuesday night I was one of four left with three seats available... it ended badly :"(
Wednesday was last chance saloon for me since tonight I"m out at the Arts Centre for a spot of comedy and then off to join the "invaded" Home Game.
I built a stack in both the £150 and the £500 satellites but effectively bust the £500 when my pf raise of Kh Qh met a flop of Qs 5h 6s and it all went in vs 7s 8s - the 9s on the turn dealing a killer blow.
I did, however win a seat to the £150 which DTD will allow me to upgrade and I"m looking for stakers to cover 30% of the overall cost. Thread is up and running in the Staker Exchange.
Lifewise - it"s not great. Lucy"s house is going to be a long-running saga of meetings with insurance assessors and contractors and delays and hassle. I just messed up on a mobile phone exchange and may have lost the memory card with a lot of photos and I"m about to start attempting to get it back before Orange charge me £75 +VAT for recovery.
If ever I needed a decent structured poker tournament to focus on, it is now. And focus I shall, because poker i smy escape from reality; my chance to think of nothing but the game; to shut out all the "noise".
I can"t wait.
pokerpops:
The Invasion Game - My story
Lucy and I joined the game in level 5 and sat with 8000 chips at 150-300. I managed to get myself going pretty quickly and built to around 16k before blasting a bunch of them towards Phill "Birthday Boy" Fryer trying to get him off AQ preflop.
I added an extra tenner to the prize pool and managed to demonstrate the joys of Q6 soooooted to Paulie D whose AQ was no match for the power of the Nobbers Hand (sorry Paulie :-[ )
I dusted that stack of pretty fast too and enjoyed a splash on the cash table to recover the buyins. No highlights, other than the very drunk female whose sister was enjoying a run of exceptional good fortune on the blackjack bonus boxes. The poker playing sister made some pretty random moves and delayed every hand whilst she argued with the management about whether or not she should be allowed another vodka/redbull. G-Mac was the victim of one of her stranger moves when she raised, I put my stack over the line and he did likewise anticipating her calling and sending a sidepot his way. She folded the last £40 or so.
Lucy got HU with the birthday boy having had her way to that position eased by cracking Stu"s Kings with tens. he took that well I believe.....
No shame in being second Lucy - wp wp
It was great to be part of the welcoming party for the Invaders and good to meet Rich and Ger again, and to meet Paulie, G-Mac and Suzanne Michelle ;)
Hope to see you all again soon.
I"d have partaken of more of the visit had it not been for a planned trip to DTD for the £500. I"ll save the details of the weekend but suffice to say that a mincash in the £150 deepstack wasn"t what I set out for.
Oh well, no poker for me this week - three days of playing for 9hrs plus a day is enough for one week, even for me. I don"t think I can motivate myself for the .25/.50 at G and have no desire nor inclination to play at Gala so I"ll take a week off. Missing the Thursday game due to commitments elsewhere, so next live poker will probably be Sunday at G.
Flood issues continue, the insurance assessor sent someone to have a look and to start the costings process, hopefully there will be action this week.
pokerpops:
A quiet week on the poker front ended with me playing the monthly £100 one dayer at G Stockton.
20,000 chips and the GUKPT structure with a 30minute clock. Add on an extra 2000 chips for registering before the start and it"s hard to fault.
It"s played in a superb venue with a valet who is, beyond doubt, the finest for miles around.
Yet it only got 44 runners, of which 5 re-entered.
Contrast this with the £150 at the hellhole the previous weekend which got 90 runners in a venue with less atmosphere than the moon; where they couldn"t manage to supply sufficient dealers to cover every table; the cardroom was a valet-free zone for the first 90 minutes and you just wonder about the mentality of poker players.
Sadly, my tournament life was short with the damage being partly self-inflicted when two well-conceived and exectued bluffs got hero-called on the river. I maintain that if the first one gets through the second does too because the player in the second hand would generally fold one pair on a straighty, flushy board to the bet I made, but he was emboldened by seeing the earlier call and pretty much mimicked the speech made by Dom Mahoney as he called me on the first one.
sigh...
In other news.
Two items of family stuff.
When I cleared Dad"s house after his move to London I found a box that had been my Mother"s and which held a couple of packs of cards. It looked rather neat and I decided it was too good to go to the charity shop.
It was only a little after I got it home that I noticed the decoration on the lid...
here it is, in all it"s glory..
One of Dad"s friends had written to Manchester United telling them what a good bloke he is and how he"s supported United since the fifties and was now going to be living in London. He asked what the chances were of getting tickets for games in the capital...
A letter came back saying that the ticket issue for away games was limited but that they would be delighted to invite Dad and a guest to Old Trafford to enjoy the game on a fully inclusive package...
Manchester United v Stoke City...
Car parking; champagne and canapies pre-match; free bar (wasted on my teetotal Dad and I"m driving...); four course meal; programme; top seats on the halfway line; post match food and drinks...
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