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Scousebill:
I was going to try and filter out all the Las Vegas posts but realised I would not have anything to read as there were so many.... Jealous is not the word...
Well done to Tod Wood for his cash in The Millionaire Maker. Well done to Ger for winning his tourney at The Golden Nugget... I believe Brian Yates got a good cash also... APAT, LPPL & BCPC appear to be having a good time in Las Vegas..

Main reason for this post..........

I think I have been given the green light for Luton... Find out tomorrow when I let Lynne know that the Easy Hotel is £47 for the Saturday night.... Can"t afford the Friday also unless somebody can let me share a room for a few pints....

Luton, here I come.............

Scousebill:
Countdown to Luton.............

Very tired today as was up earlier than normal. National walkout in jails around the country and I"m the Union Chairman. Went okay, had a good turnout and we stuck to our side of the bargain by only being out for one hour.
Tomorrow I hope everything goes just as smooth but would be looking to last longer than an hour...

Scousebill:
Luton... Horrendous journey, roadworks down to less than 40 mph and rain cutting visibility down so only doing 65 - 70 for out an hour.
Sat at a nice table, as it turns out the winner came from this table. This was probably one of the best games I have played for long time. Picked my spots and didn"t lose any big hands. Got paid when I hoped to also.
Had Aces in one hand and had two callers... Flop gives possible flush and straight draws. I bet and they both call. Next card improves the straight chances and the river gives me the nut flush. Very lucky as they both hit the straight and I get paid.
Have a pair of queens later and manage to hit another queen on the river with 44 also on the board. Raised the bet to 4k and couldn"t get the guy to call.
Flop a flush and manage to end up calling a roughly 15K all-in from the lad to my right. He has two pair and as he turns them over he says "You got the flush?"..... I did and managed to avoid one of his cards for a nice double up. Collecting chips nicely now and by the dinner break I am round 40K.
We lose one as the tables go nine handed and then we lose two very quick. A few minutes later we gain three. Craig Dawson, Steve Rodders and Rich Baker back again change the dynamics of the table massively. Sat for a while folding and bet one or two hands to fold on the turn or river so my chips a slowly whittling away..
Find KK and raise to 1200, folds to Craig who calls and others fold. Flop comes up something like 3 7 8 so I check and so does Craig. Turn is another 8.... I bet 4K and Craig raises to 13K. I sit for a bit and for some strange reason I shove all-in. This is for about 33-35K. Craig snap calls and shows an 8. King doesn"t come on the river and I am out.
Annoyed with myself as a bigger open bet would probably have got the fold. Maybe even a large bet on the flop might have got Craig to fold top pair. It is just that the 13K bet and how I know Craig plays he was almost telling me he had the set of eights. The only poor decision I made all day cost me the lot. Even a fold and I would have still had enough chips to play with, any amount of chips is better than none isn"t it. Always room to learn in this game.

Scousebill:
Signed in for the European Online last week and was playing well for a while. Got a nice few chips building until I had two nice hands absolutely hammered by two better hands. Can"t recall what they were but I lost the lot within 3 hands....
Had a right face on myself and reluctantly signed into the Vegas sat at full price. It wasn"t until I started playing that I thought I had made a mistake paying the full amount as my credit card bill is due and using the £82 to play cards instead of withdrawing it to pay the bill was annoying me a bit.
Anyway, long story shortish.... After Craig taking some of my chips I fought back and got a nice hand from him with just a pair of KK when the board looked as if I might of had more and I think we checked a good down with Ace high and my kicker was better. The table split and I found myself with Issy, Craig, Graeme from LPPL and for a short while Paul Haycock...
To say the cards were good to me that day was an understatement... I lost count of the amount of times I had AA, and won with it every time. Sometimes small but once or twice very well paid..
Just on 3 hours or so later I find myself 4 handed with 72K, Graeme and Issy with 22K and the fourth place who went out a few hands later with about 5K... Three handed I just raised to 6K each time for about 4 hands, AA once and AK also didn"t get any callers. I then won a bit off Issy before Graeme knocked her out. I think Graeme raised All-in first hand of heads up while the chips were about 25K to 78K.. I didn"t want to let him chip away at me so when a hand or two later I looked at 99 and he went All-in again I had to call. The nines held up and I"m going to Vegas again....
It"s not often that you get games where the cards do all the work for you but what a time to get that game....
Many thanks to the usual APAT team and Grosvenor for the prize..

Scousebill:
Slowly getting back on the poker train. Noticed a strange thing about this blog and on some other peoples, there are blank posts. I know mine weren"t blank and I"m sure that other peoples weren"t. Maybe the admins aren"t aware of this oddity. If I post regular on here again I will keep an eye on it and report if needed.
APAT Team event last night was going fine after I was able to get onto the Grosvenor site. Some people are having horrendous problems logging on lately but I appear to have had only a few issues.
Team Effort fielded a full four man team and three of us scored points. Unfortunately I was the one who never scored any.
I had "sleeves" to my right, and I think it was "XTRIPPSX" Tony Trippier to my left. Played okay at the start and took a fair few chips off "sleeves" early on, just couldn"t get him to call my large raise, probably too large when I had a full house.
Ticking along nicely until I look at  Kd Ks. Raise to 900 and get four callers. Bigger raise here maybe gets me through and collect the initial raise and the blinds. Flop comes down Q high with two diamonds. I shove just over 4K and get three folds around to "sleeves" who has me covered but still took his time to call. He shows two mid diamonds. Not looking good but still have a chance if I can avoid the single diamond, two would be nice for me. Only one on 4th and no help with the river.
Went out in 69th so no points scored but still enjoyed the game up until that point.
Team Effort scored okay, 14th place with 75.4 and looking forward to next weeks game.

Vegas next year and I think I have booked the last few days of May and the first week or so of June. I am off work at the moment so can"t check until I get back in next week but I should be able to change if I need to.

Been doing something very enjoyable lately. I have been following a Non-League football team called City of Liverpool FC and have been having a ball. They play in the North West Counties Division One, which is what is known as Step 6 in the football pyramid. If anybody knows anything about this level of football they will understand why this level can be enjoyable. It is only a fiver to get in. You can drink while you are watching the match. And not many people go to watch so nobody is in your way. Well, not many go to watch unless City of Liverpool FC are involved. We had a home game in the FA Vase against local rivals Litherland REMYCA and 711 turned up. REMYCA won, but in the next round at their place they had a gate of 47. Over 350 have turned up to each of CoLFC"s home games and four of our five away games have been that teams highest crowd of the season so far. Obviously it helps that the team are also battling it out at the top of the league so maybe we will have something to shout about come the end of the season.

Thanks for reading, if anybody does and good luck at the tables.

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