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Re: The Saint, The Brewer & The River
« Reply #60 on: March 17, 2012, 12:57:49 PM »

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Re: The Saint, The Brewer & The River
« Reply #61 on: March 17, 2012, 14:32:16 PM »

Welcome to the aquarium, you can check out but you can never leave.......


I know I know.. just making some observations  ;D

So, onto the Rugby

Last week saw a very pleasant 2 from 2 for my teams with the unexpected result in Paris + Saints" SF win vs Scarlets who are always a threat and always play good rugby.

Same again please lads:
England will be slight favourites vs. Ireland but the Irish will be up for this, I think (hope) we will edge it.

Then tomorrow Saints play Leicester in the Final of the Anglo-Welsh cup. An east Midlands derby... in Worcester. Heart may be ruling head here but with the Six nations call ups I believe our squad is deeper than their squad and we will win by a nervy 5-points.

EDIT: Just seen the Leicester team and I am not so sure  ???
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Re: The Saint, The Brewer & The River
« Reply #62 on: June 01, 2012, 20:13:23 PM »
LUCKBOXING IN CARDIFF.

I have been keen to pick this blog up but a combination of workload and server issues have been stopping me. However, my good fortune last weekend compels me to write, not least before I forget all of my good luck and start to believe I can actually play the game ;)

I cut it fine to get to Cardiff but found the hotel right next to the casino and was in with a few minutes to spare for handshakes and various re-acquaintances.

By now I find my chances of being seated with friends in APAT events pretty high and this was no exception with Chen Tam on my table and James Barber was eventually seated to my immediate left, once he had dragged himself out of Dan Owston"s bed ;)

The early levels were largely uneventful and the theme seemed to be that I would increase my stack by about 2,500 over a number of hands. then give all that profit to Chen in one hand. This was repeated 2 maybe 3 times.

I was soon moved to the next table to find the players to my left in order were Rodders, Asa & Tony Richards. Tony Trip (quiet as ever) and SusiePea were also on this table. I got involved in a couple of hands with Tony R early doors winning one and losing one, then I 3-bet Tony T"s raise & Susie"s call with QQ to take down a small pot but after this I went incredibly card dead & couldn"t find any spots for what seemed like an eternity.

However then came the hand which changed my momentum.

A new player to the Table had brought a significant stack and he opened from the Hijack. I had 77 and flatted, Asa came along from the BB. The flop was Axx 2-diamonds and it was checked all round. The turn was a brick and this time the original raiser bet. I still like my hand and call, Asa gets out of the way. The river is 10d putting a possible flush out there and my opponent bets around 4.2k into a pot of around 12k. Now I"m quite confident he doesn"t have the A and if he had a 10 I"d expect him to check call so I like my hand. The flush is possible but the price made the call feel correct. I called and he mucked saying "Jack High".

Soon after I flatted in late position with AK (I had been bet off a couple of pots by the raiser so didn"t want to 3-bet) again Asa came along but this time a shorty shoved 11bbs. The original raiser folded, I called and Asa folded. Shorty has QQ so off we go; there"s an Ace in the window and I"ve gone from 18k to 40k plus in about 4 hands.

Not long after this the table was broken and I started to get a nice run of cards at my new table with a set of Queens for a modest pot and a set of 9s to knock a player out and chip up, plus a hand against Jason Kemp similar to the 77 hand above only this time I raised the button with 88, he 3-bet the BB and I called. He bet flop & river on a 10-J-3-4-6 board. I called and he had A-3 for bottom pair.


David Langley is out

AQ lost to 99

KK on a Q-J-9 lost to A-J, J on the river versus JP Round


Now I"m happy to be a luckbox but this is the one hand I where I want to set the record straight as it reads as though I got it in on the flop holding second pair whilst against KK. The 2 key inaccuracies are, the chips went in on the river and we never saw my opponent"s hand.

My opponent in this hand seems a really nice guy and despite never having met him before, he wished me good luck on day 2 both on my twitter account and in person. He was written on his own blog about having KK, however I will never believe he had KK in this hand.

I"ll report the facts hand as accurately as I can

The opponent opened from MP for a standard 2.5x I have AJ on the button and call (IIRC one of the blinds came along??)

The flop is QJ9 2 diamonds. Original raiser bets 4k and I call. Turn is a brick, another 4k and I call. River is a J, bingo, but it is the Jd I look at the opponent ready to make the call when he bets but when he shoves all in I wince. I winced "cause this guy had a massive stack not long ago and was CL with 140,000, however I hadn"t realised how much of his stack he"d lost and it"s around 25k to call. Once I realised the size of the bet I quickly called. He mucked stating, "It"s yours, you got it" and pushed his cards into the muck face down. When I turned my cards over he claimed to have had KK? Maybe I"m not at the right level but if I get called holding  KK on a Q high board, even if it"s a paired board with 3 diamonds I am not snap mucking face down?

Anyway this gets me to 130,000 (I never had the 180k reported on the updates. I stay out of trouble for the remainder of the day and I finish the day 2nd in chips with 118k

I"m in serious danger of a tl:dr so will leave this post here and come back for day 2
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Re: The Saint, The Brewer & The River
« Reply #63 on: June 04, 2012, 01:15:48 AM »
Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Just binked the APAT league game  ;D

Prior to tonight I had contributed NO POINTS to my new East Midlands team so they were due
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Re: The Saint, The Brewer & The River
« Reply #64 on: June 04, 2012, 09:52:07 AM »

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Just binked the APAT league game  ;D

Prior to tonight I had contributed NO POINTS to my new East Midlands team so they were due


LUCKBOXING IN CARDIFF ONLINE  ;D ;D ;D

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Re: The Saint, The Brewer & The River
« Reply #65 on: June 04, 2012, 12:04:28 PM »

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Just binked the APAT league game  ;D

Prior to tonight I had contributed NO POINTS to my new East Midlands team so they were due


WP!

This is purely down to your visit last week.. its the clean air up here clears the head, tunes the brian brain..  ;D
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Re: The Saint, The Brewer & The River
« Reply #66 on: June 04, 2012, 13:05:11 PM »
Fantastic poker week JP, very well played again mate  ;D
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Re: The Saint, The Brewer & The River
« Reply #67 on: June 04, 2012, 13:15:28 PM »
Nice one JP

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Re: The Saint, The Brewer & The River
« Reply #68 on: June 04, 2012, 13:35:06 PM »
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Re: The Saint, The Brewer & The River
« Reply #69 on: June 04, 2012, 13:44:37 PM »
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Re: The Saint, The Brewer & The River
« Reply #70 on: September 08, 2012, 10:42:02 AM »
A TRIP TO STOCKTON...

Again I have let this blog slip but what better inspiration to get going again than a trip to see APAT's very own Stockton Massive.

A couple of my clients are in the North and due to expanding my team recently at work I can spend more time with said clients. Given how busy we were in the first half of the year with Euro 2012, I also have a shed-load of holiday left to use by December so when the meeting was made for last Thursday I booked Friday off and made arrangements to kip at Phil"s.

On arrival at Phil"s around 4pm I had to finish off a little bit of work but was informed "Stu and Matt have ben in the pub for a while" We shortly joined them in The Eagle where it all started for the massive years ago (a good Carlsberg stockist too - well done lads). Any vague hopes of a quiet one were quashed when pint #4 came accompanied by a Jagerbomb.

The "home" game took place at the Stockon G with 13 or 14 runners; TC, Matt & Stu (obv) plus APAt bloggers Brian Harland & Dave Amos, Dave"s daughter Lucy, Gary Palmer and a handful of others including some poor lad called Fiddy who got dogs abuse from Stu all night, mainly "cause he has a nose like Christopher Moltisanti from The Sopranos... but he took it all well.

This is a £10 single re-buy and Stu kindly donated his first stack when an Ace on The River gave me a set (I was always ahead though obv). Most of the rest of the night is a lager induced blur of laughter and binkage highlighted by a 3-way all in with about 7 players left when I shoved AT, Dave re-shoved AQ and a third player re-re-shoved AK.

886 Flop "I"ll take a 6 for the chop" says I. The dealer obliges with a 6 on the turn... which i then followed up by a 10 on the River. BINK!

I really enjoyed the chat with Dave (Pokerpops) and we discovered quite a coincidence which you can read about on his blog.

Eventually I got Heads-Up with the Stockton Rock, a battle that lasted quiet some time:

Stuey really enjoyed the intricacies of our HU battle with lots of post flop creativity despite the shallow stacks [  ]
Stuey was reflective and appreciated the fact that the £30 difference in 1st & 2nd was really worth playing for [  ]
Stuey was massively tilted by the fact that we wouldn"t just ship it in with 5-high and get the game finished [ x ]

I won fwiw

On the way home I acquired by first ever Parmo (cariologists on standby) which was enjoyed with a Carlsberg back at Phil"s.

Great hospitality from Mr TC as ever. Can"t wait to go back.

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Re: The Saint, The Brewer & The River
« Reply #71 on: September 08, 2012, 12:09:52 PM »

A TRIP TO STOCKTON...

Great hospitality from Mr TC as ever. Can"t wait to go back.

NB - Bonnie is a Magnet #justsayin


Pleasure mate.. make it Thursday and Friday next time and we"ll properly do the liver some damage.

ps Bonnie now wondering why I"m taking her for walks down Yarm on an hourly basis  ;) x
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Re: The Saint, The Brewer & The River
« Reply #72 on: September 16, 2012, 21:53:43 PM »
Istanbul...

I"ve just got back from a week in Istanbul, a great city with loads of history. It has to be said that certain parts of the city are in a state of disrepair; Istanbul has been through many battles and sieges throughout the Ottoman Empire, the Roman Empire & WWI, however it is still Cleaning up after the visit of some Scousers in 2005.

I am not overly travelled but I have racked up a number of European cities and towns including Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, Milan, Budapest, Riga, Tallinn (oh my), Donetsk, Wroclaw & Copenhagen (obv) with Bratislava to be added the weekend after next.

I will not rush back to Istanbul because there are many other places I want to visit, but I would encourage a visit if big historical cities are your thing- its a very bizarre thing to change continents without leaving a city!

Where we stayed was touristy but without being overly westernised, with many traveller / backpacker types in the vicinity so every other building was a restaurant with the owner trying to pull you in off the street to get your money and every building in between was a carpet shop with the owner trying to pull you in off the street to get your money.

I loved the food there with the schoolboy snigger inducing "Testi Kebab" being the local delicacy. The other thing I would recommend for anyone who does go would be a trip to the Princes Islands about an hour away by ferry. The islands are a paradise of cafes and beaches. motorised transport is banned and tourists travel the island by pony & trap... Which is ironic because as a side effect this is exactly what the islands smell like!

Americans Abroad

Travelling Americans carry a certain reputation and in my experience I sincerely believe this to be harsh, having had many discussions with Americans where they have showed knowledge and intelligence... But there"s always the minority who let the side down, like the guy we heard in Florence one boxing day (and I swear this this true) saying to his wife "No Honey! I"m tellin ya! Those statues are not plastic! They"re marble!"

Well I"m afraid another one let the side down last week. Istanbul is the most Islamic city I have ever been to by a long way and around 4 times a day there there is a "call to prayer" over loud tannoys all over the city. The city doesn"t come to a standstill exactly but people head into the many Mosques, Musicians stop playing and whirling dervishes stop.......... well, whirling.

Now it"s not the most tuneful thing in the world but that"s hardly the point and I feel visitors should certainly respect it. However on one occasion we were passing an American couple as the 5pm call was ringing out, to which the male of the couple exclaimed loudly "I"ve had enough of that f****** noise! Enough already" followed by the incredible "can"t they just stop while we"re here?" (sigh). I really hope he asked some locals that question.
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Re: The Saint, The Brewer & The River
« Reply #73 on: September 17, 2012, 08:53:42 AM »
Ugh.  They"re the reason I wouldn"t dare travel to a Muslim area.  Pity, because I think it would be interesting, but it only takes a couple of ignorant Yanks to ruin it for the rest of us.

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« Reply #74 on: September 17, 2012, 09:45:27 AM »

Pity, because I think it would be interesting, but it only takes a couple of ignorant Yanks to ruin it for the rest of us.


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