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Re: Pokerpops ponders poker
« Reply #330 on: December 28, 2012, 10:42:11 AM »
Firstly - woop woop I"ve been selected to play for APAT in the Team Poker event at Luton.

I"m looking forward to this in a massive way. I"ve never played in a team format before and it will be really interesting to see how that impacts on the game flow and dynamics especially as we get towards the end of the tournament.

Secondly, these were my stated aims for 2013 on the poker front

Run seriously deep in a DTD Deepstack
Play some of the other tour events - GPS, GUKPT, UKIPT - and make the money so my Hendon Mob has an entry without the letters DTD on it
Play more APAT events
Continue to enjoy myself at the poker table

and finally, with an eye to the thought that lightning rarely strikes twice, let alone thrice and beyond...

Run deep (FT) any GP that DTD may run (hopefully there will be a Golden Chip reward attached again)


I"m adding two more to that list

To keep a more accurate record of my poker spend and winnings. I"m pretty sure that I was a net winner last year (with c£18k from the two GPs it"s likely), but how did I do in other games?
I don"t have a specific poker roll and play when and what I fancy. I won, or cashed in, some local games and had some decent sessions on the cash tables but in 2013 I want to know more precisely how I"ve done. Anyone know of a decent app to help with this?

The second is a biggie, and less likely to be achieved, but "ooooh Vegas Baby!" "WSOP ME Baby"

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Re: Pokerpops ponders poker
« Reply #331 on: December 28, 2012, 12:41:09 PM »



The second is a biggie, and less likely to be achieved, but "ooooh Vegas Baby!" "WSOP ME Baby"




This is a must David!!.. I can"t begin to describe the atmosphere this event throws up.. I was lucky to experience this first hand ( small brag).. To this day I often have re- occurring flashbacks in my sleep, on so many memorable hands and how I should of played them etc.. The noise alone is something to behold chip rippling constant from start to finish etc.. This must go on every poker players bucket list!!

I think your best way to achieve this goal is to grind the step tournaments on Stars.. To give yourself maximum chance, my advice would be to have at least four or five levels going at the same time, say get to step 3, stop start another get to step 3 on that stop, start another so on.. Get four at same level and go from there.. Will keep you more focused, and if you go on a bad run you will still probably have a couple on the higher steps, go on a heater then maybe just maybe you will bink a seat.. Good luck on your quest I hope that you make it.. Would love to have a stake in this   ;D
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Re: Pokerpops ponders poker
« Reply #332 on: January 05, 2013, 08:08:51 AM »
DTD today for the £300 deepstack.

My updates will be few and far between - I realised whilst I was on St Kitts that my focus at the table is poor when I have my phone or iPad on the go. A lack of wifi in the card room out there meant I had no option and it seems pretty obvious really... Can"t understand why it took so long

So I will limit myself to an occasional tweet at the break and hope to be playing well enough to catch the attention of the updaters.

I"m looking forward to this. I was looking forward to it when it looked like being c500 runners, the fact that it is likely to be nearer 700 makes it even better.
There were 289 yesterday apparently, and I wouldn"t be at all surprised if they got 400 today.

Doors open at 1.30 and the tournament starts at 2... seems likely there will be a big queue at the desk. I am already registered and sorted which removes that issue and anticipate sitting two or three handed for the first 10 minutes again.

DTD for a Deepstack, it doesn"t get much better than this.
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Re: Pokerpops ponders poker
« Reply #333 on: January 05, 2013, 08:43:40 AM »
GL today pops. You are due a deep run in one of these :p x
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Re: Pokerpops ponders poker
« Reply #334 on: January 07, 2013, 10:30:19 AM »
Sigh

I"ve stuck some kind of report and a few hands in the staking thread.

Saturday just wasn"t my day - a misread or two, a lack of spots, a lack of mental alertness maybe.

Maybe I didn"t adjust my game sufficiently to suit the opposition. Whatever the cause, I failed to get even close to making Day2.

The place was buzzing though - the queues to buy in were immense and the field exceeded everyone"s expectations. It"s such a great place to be on weekends like that.

Yesterday they had four comps running simultaneously with buy ins from £10 to £300 and cash tables from .50/£1 to £5/£5 with stacks from £20 to who knows what...

I doubt I"ll be there again before March, but that"s a definite commitment since I"m told that the next Grand Prix will happen mid-March.
I understand there will be Golden Chips or similar again, and my breath is bated in anticipation of the official announcement as to buy in, structure and added value...

If you haven"t played a GP before, don"t bother, they are awful. Full of pub poker standard players who can"t fold and have bad personal hygiene. Best avoided IMO   ;)
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Re: Pokerpops ponders poker
« Reply #335 on: January 14, 2013, 11:56:26 AM »
First up - big hugs and loves for Stu. These are tough times for him at the moment and I hope his love of poker helps him to find a space where the worries and concerns about his dad can be set aside for a while. We need an escape valve and poker provides an environment where we can cocoon ourselves in thoughts of pott odds, 3bet ranges and whether our bets tell a sufficiently strong story to get our opponent to make the fold or call as appropriate. The mental strength needed as he helps to care for his dad will need to be replenished and I hope the love he gets from the Nobbers helps with that.

So - after last week"s trip to DTD I wasn"t full of confidence or enthusiasm for poker, but I ventured out to the local pub game with Lucy and made a predictably early exit.
I wasn"t the only one there with a decent DTD result this week, one the final table from the £300 was also there. He"s a mate and fellow off-shore worker with Chris Wood who is himself a local poker hero and has taken to travelling with Chris. To say that his achievement was surprising would be something of an understatement. Suffice to say, I know that running good is a key factor in winning tournaments and that on our day we"re all capable of a decent result. The top guys make more days into their days than the rest of us though. They take the run of offsuit 4 9 and turn them into winning hands. They pick off the bluffs better than us and they extract more value from the marginal hands than we do.

I left after my restart stack of 1500 chips had been doubled and then doubled again before succumbing to the inevitable loss with AQ<88 and headed to G.
No game when I got there and eventually we sat 3handed in hope of attracting others once they could see there was a game on. I won 75% of the pots 3handed, mostly for small amounts but chipped up to around £130 from my £100 sit down and then we got to be 6 handed for a while. Flopping a set of threes and turning a full house helped to boost that to the £185 I cashed out.

Thursday"s home game was fun - I inadvertently value bet bottom pair vs PhilTC and got called by J high which for some reason he thought might be good vs me, but then lost my first stack when one of our newer members decided to complete from the small blind without looking at his cards. I raised, but obviously not enough to make him look. He flopped two pair with the Thursday night auto-fold hand Q4 and managed to take all my chips with it. Cue horror from the rest of the table and a lot of insults. We have few principles, but not playing Q4 is strongly held and the last time I won a hand with it in similar circumstances (I raised blind) I declared my hand dead and returned the chips.
I bust eventually and migrated to the cash table to book a small loss

Saturday was the monthly £100 at G which I swerved in favour of going to see Les Mis the Movie with Anita. I have no regrets about that choice. We weren"t sure about this but some excellent reviews and the fact that we"ve seen th stage show in both professional and youth productions and enjoyed it a lot took us along to the cinema.
Recommend it to anyone, whether you"ve seen the stage show or not. The film tells the story with more clarity than the show, the music is stirring and some of the performances are outstanding. Ann Hathaway owns I Dreamed a Dream in a way that SuBo can only fantasise about and although Russell Crowe"s singing voice is short on quality his acting gets him through to a very moving final scene. It"s almost guaranteed that the stage show gets a standing ovation at the finale, and it would be no surprise if a full cinema didn"t burst into applause at the concluding scene which owes a big nod to the stage show.

Back to poker on Sunday and finally a proper result in the G £15+£15. I managed to dust off my first entry inside the first two levels (a misguided raise with J5 and calling a shove from Dr Donk on AJxhh for the first 5k, and 3betting AQhh vs someone I had thought to be competent led to me being allin on a 763hh flop vs his 77, brick brick)

I re-enter and refocus and get to the Final Table of 10 with double average and pick up big pots in the first two hands to go to around 140k of the 515k in play.
HU I have a small chip lead and we agree to chop with me taking £335 him £330.
It"s been a while since I had a decent cash in this game and ultimately it"s down to my not having been taking it seriously enough (and running bad in some spots). I played somewhere close to my best last night, and ran pretty good too.
I got active once I had a stack and picked up a lot of pots without showdown, and some that I should have lost.

For example, at 300/600 I open 4h 5h to 1550 from a stack of c50k in late position over a limper and get a call from the SB and the limper
Flop Ad 3d 6d and SB leads out for 1125 leaving himself with two 5k chips. Seat 9 calls as do I.
Turn is Ks and everyone checks
River is the 2s and SB bets out 5k
Seat 9 folds, I call declaring "straight"and he flips As Kd having played it about as badly as it would be possible to do.

Managed to fold AA on the river of 4xKQx having 3bet villain for the third or fourth time and run into a little more resistance than usual. He check called the flop, donked the turn for around 1/3 pot and shoved the river for just over the pot. He"d flopped a set of fours apparently. He gets more chips if he checks the river, and even Daniel Negreanu can probably find a fold often enough on that board to make the shove -EV bearing in mind that he has bottom set in a 3bet pot.

For those who have made it this far, thanks for reading.
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Re: Pokerpops ponders poker
« Reply #336 on: January 14, 2013, 16:31:06 PM »
Wp on the result last night, Would you like me to nod off before the game starts every Sunday ?  ::)

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Re: Pokerpops ponders poker
« Reply #337 on: January 14, 2013, 19:08:59 PM »

Wp on the result last night, Would you like me to nod off before the game starts every Sunday ?  ::)


Lol. Yes please, the last time we tangled you did a JP Kelly on me with KK
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Re: Pokerpops ponders poker
« Reply #338 on: January 15, 2013, 00:28:35 AM »

First up - big hugs and loves for Stu. These are tough times for him at the moment and I hope his love of poker helps him to find a space where the worries and concerns about his dad can be set aside for a while. We need an escape valve and poker provides an environment where we can cocoon ourselves in thoughts of pott odds, 3bet ranges and whether our bets tell a sufficiently strong story to get our opponent to make the fold or call as appropriate. The mental strength needed as he helps to care for his dad will need to be replenished and I hope the love he gets from the Nobbers helps with that.




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« Reply #339 on: January 18, 2013, 13:02:38 PM »
My approach to the Thursday night game has always been what some may call "Loose Aggresive" and others may call spewy. I play the game for fun take some "interesting" lines and often get called down light as seen last week when TC called my river bet with J high...
Last night I managed to lose two stacks in the first two levels having ...

taken a bet bet bet line with 78hh on a 975J8 board only to run into 98

attempted to get three streets of value with 47 on x77xx and ran into A7

Dusted off the last few chips from my first stack with the legendary Q6 and the bulk of the next stack with 9J on a J high board only to get called by QJ on the river

I took it poorly, lost the rest and stomped off to join the G"s latest innovation, a £10rb with £1k guaranteed. 2000 chips per rebuy and 5000 for a £10 add on.
When I joined there were only 16 runners and although that grew to 20 there was an eventual £250 overlay.
I was in for two double stacks by the break but had c 9.5k for my £40 and added the extra 5000 to have 14.5k at 200/400/25
Post break I played four hands till we reached the final table (won one of them, all in pre with AQ v 66 and binked a Q) and then started to pick up a few hands, and a few more, and then some more, and then a few spots that came well for me, and built a stack of chips to use to exert pressure and when we reached the bubble with nobody even hinting at a "saver" I was able to exploit the position really well.
Eventually I took out 5th, and suggested a deal 4-handed with me taking the £400 for 1st and the others taking £200 each but they decided to play on.

I took out the guy who had red-carded the deal in 4th, and 3-handed with 180k of 224k I made another offer "you can still do a deal guys but I want £450 now..."
They turned that down too :-)

Decent week this week - no spewy cash sessions because I"ve run deep in the two tourneys and £735 in winnings from £134  buyins. Let"s hope I can maintain my form through to Luton.
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Re: Pokerpops ponders poker
« Reply #340 on: January 23, 2013, 09:47:29 AM »
Three more sleeps till Luton

To say I am looking forward to this event would be a massive understatement. My fear is that I am looking forward to it too much and that my game will suffer as a result. To counter this I"ve offered Steve Roderick a last-longest wager with either a cash outcome or some form of forfeit. I"ve also offered to back Team APAT to outscore Team Blonde for similar stakes.

The Blonde team is pretty high-powered and loaded with Hendon Mob Flags with George2Loose as it"s captain following an impressive campaign to be selected for the task. I"m wondering if my bravado might have been a touch foolish, but as long as I outlast Rod I"m free-rolling the team bit of the bet  :P
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« Reply #341 on: January 25, 2013, 13:00:25 PM »
Home game last night, followed by a very last minute entry into the G £10rb. I shoved KJs from utg and Lucy made a decent call with A6hh and hit her A.
I registered for the rb with a matter of seconds left on the break and sat with 9000 chips at 100/200/25 for my £30. They need to rethink the chips in this tournament I think, the game nearly didn"t start at all because at 8pm there were only 6 registered. This for a game with a £1k guaranteed prize pool.The decision to cancel the game was made at 8.10 but that was just too hasty with a handful of players turning up minutes later. Eventually the casino bowed to the pressure of players wanting it to start but restricted the guarantee to £750 saying that if the pool made that amount they would go to the full £1k.
My entry took the pot to £770...
I chipped up to 18k pretty quickly and then had to raise-fold a couple of times when my button, cut-off and hijack raises ran into hands behind me. Trivial folds every one of them, and just one, two or three of those things, but expensive in total.
There were a few ransoms at the table who seemed pretty resistant to folding preflop and whilst I picked up chips in a few hands I lost a chunk when one of the them check shoved a KQxhh flop having called my raise with K9o and my Qh Jh didn"t improve. The rest went in later with QQ and couldn"t hold vs AK.

I switched to the cash table for a brief session which I cut short due to it being one of the most boring tables I can remember having sat at for quite some time. I was I in danger of getting too spewy and for once I recognised the potential for it and got up and left just a few ££ down.
One amusing moment occurred when I opened from utg+2 to £3 and saw one of the regular serial callers 3bet to £6 and then a cold 4bet from the BB to £18.
I laughed and folded and once Ray had folded too I offered the BB £5 if he could show me a hand that was less than KK. He didn"t claim the money....

Tomorrow I set off for Luton and a chance to play a tournament with a great structure and in some great company. I"m planning on having a beer or two tomorrow, I very rarely do this because a) I tend to be the designated driver; b) casinos tend not to serve traditional ales and c) I always felt that somehow, having a drink would reduce my capacity to play the game at my best.
Tomorrow, we can get a taxi, I"m lowering my sights to drink some form of bottled beer, probably Bud or similar and c) The constant stream of Carib which found it"s way to my table in St Kitts didn"t seem to affect me that much :)

I am, officially, really looking forward to this
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« Reply #342 on: January 25, 2013, 13:14:09 PM »

Home game last night, followed by a very last minute entry into the G £10rb. I shoved KJs from utg and Lucy made a decent call with A6hh and hit her A.
I registered for the rb with a matter of seconds left on the break and sat with 9000 chips at 100/200/25 for my £30. They need to rethink the chips in this tournament I think, the game nearly didn"t start at all because at 8pm there were only 6 registered. This for a game with a £1k guaranteed prize pool.The decision to cancel the game was made at 8.10 but that was just too hasty with a handful of players turning up minutes later. Eventually the casino bowed to the pressure of players wanting it to start but restricted the guarantee to £750 saying that if the pool made that amount they would go to the full £1k.
My entry took the pot to £770...
I chipped up to 18k pretty quickly and then had to raise-fold a couple of times when my button, cut-off and hijack raises ran into hands behind me. Trivial folds every one of them, and just one, two or three of those things, but expensive in total.
There were a few ransoms at the table who seemed pretty resistant to folding preflop and whilst I picked up chips in a few hands I lost a chunk when one of the them check shoved a KQxhh flop having called my raise with K9o and my Qh Jh didn"t improve. The rest went in later with QQ and couldn"t hold vs AK.

I switched to the cash table for a brief session which I cut short due to it being one of the most boring tables I can remember having sat at for quite some time. I was I in danger of getting too spewy and for once I recognised the potential for it and got up and left just a few ££ down.
One amusing moment occurred when I opened from utg+2 to £3 and saw one of the regular serial callers 3bet to £6 and then a cold 4bet from the BB to £18.
I laughed and folded and once Ray had folded too I offered the BB £5 if he could show me a hand that was less than KK. He didn"t claim the money....

Tomorrow I set off for Luton and a chance to play a tournament with a great structure and in some great company. I"m planning on having a beer or two tomorrow, I very rarely do this because a) I tend to be the designated driver; b) casinos tend not to serve traditional ales and c) I always felt that somehow, having a drink would reduce my capacity to play the game at my best.
Tomorrow, we can get a taxi, I"m lowering my sights to drink some form of bottled beer, probably Bud or similar and c) The constant stream of Carib which found it"s way to my table in St Kitts didn"t seem to affect me that much :)

I am, officially, really looking forward to this


I will be joining you on table 2 tomorrow and i am also really looking forward to this!
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« Reply #343 on: January 30, 2013, 09:03:37 AM »
So, the APAT Team Poker Championship came and went with me not troubling the cashier. Nor, indeed having to worry about being in the G Casino Luton for a second day.
I"m not happy with the early exit, but not having to go back to the Casino was no hardship. I have to say I was disappointed with the venue. A shortage of serving staff when we first arrived and a shortage of dealers for cash games in the evening plus a pretty dodgy beef burger put me off.
The journey down was interesting.... It took three attempts to get my car off the drive at home and even the bus routes were tricky. Picked up Lucy and headed off to get Brian who had offered to walk from his house to the shops which meant we could stay on a bus route. A text arrived telling me he would be in the car park at the pub which must be a good mile from his house, followed shortly after by one telling me he had walked on and was waiting for us just off the A19. A total walk of getting on for two miles through snow. What a star he is.
We got to Luton with little drama found the hotel and bumped into a few of the other players. One of whom took a look at my pokerpops hoody and said "shame it"s been called off". :)

Met up with Carl and the rest of the team, proudly donned my Team APAT shirt and exchanged a few words with those of the opposition that I knew. Rodders and I confirmed our £10 last longest and eventually the tournament started.

I sat tight for the first few hands but it seemed to me that Glenn Laming was opening a lot and so, when he raised from utg on my SB I decided it was time to get involved and 3 bet with deuce four off suit :)
My c-bet on a Q66 flop was called so I checked the 3 turn with a view to folding to any bet. Glenn checked and the 5 on the turn allowed me to lead out for 1500 and unfortunately Glenn had AQ and pretty much had to call. Image blown...

The four seats to my left were all playing pretty snug and I opted to open from hijack, cut off and button and was chipping up nicely. One small setback arrived when I opened AK, got a small 3bet from Paulie, made the 4bet and foundmyself facing a 5 bet... Those of you who have played with Pauile before will know that I should almost certainly 4bet fold here, but the extra cost to see a flop seemed worth paying but a 234rb flop meant that I folded to his bet before being shown the obvious hand. I just went back to plan A and chipped back up. Had a few decent pots without showdown, flopping a set of eights on A8x and getting called on the flop but not the Q turn was frustrating. Raising Q6, c-betting second pair (the 6) on the flop, checking the A turn and getting paid off when the Q arrived on the river was a bonus. The unfortunate Tony Trippier had the A and opined  that I was a lucky so and so after that one.
Shortly after that I played the hand that features on the strategy board... Not proud of that hand, although the call with A8 on the river of that board is a losing call pretty often vs me and depended on a pretty accurate read by FatPants. Meh, move on.

Re build.

If only.

It was very shortly after that I got a table move and good luck anyone getting John Murray or Richard Baker to give up their blinds that easily. My first raise on the new table was with pocket tens, ah the irony of it, if only that had been my hand earlier... I c-bet the Q high flop and Curlage called, I checked the A turn and folded to his bet.

And then... BvB me v John Murray, I raised pre and fired three streets with an all in on the river on A2466. Can"t get him to fold much, and he"s definitely not folding 44 having flopped a set and rivered the full house :(

Note to all who have staked me in the past and may be considering staking me in future. I don"t spew often these days. But when I do, it"s a big one!! As it was, I got into a bad mindset. The team had little or zero chance of making the top three and I had little or no chance of cashing without getting aggro at this stage. APAT tourneys have a great structure for the buy in, but I had settled into my A for aggro game mood and on this day I couldn"t find it in me to switch to a shove/fold mentality.

I hung around in the casino in hopes of the offered 50/50 cash table opening. Eventually one of the locals volunteered to deal so that a second table could open and I sat to play some £1/£1. My heart wasn"t in it, nor my mind on it and I got up and left the casino before midnight.

Sunday"s PingPong tournament was great fun. Shame I"ve lost what small degree of ability I once had for the game. Three 2-0 defeats for me and a position propping up the rest of the group. It was a fun way to spend the Sunday morning and I do hope that this, or something similar happens at future APATs.

Huge respect to Matt for organising it and to Leigh for turning up to blog live reports on it. Very well done to Ryan too for winning it. Hope that trophy is displayed in a prominent position.

In other news - DTD are running an online Day1 for this weekend"s deepstack. There will be a staking proposition up shortly.
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« Reply #344 on: February 06, 2013, 14:56:45 PM »
I am officially not very good at poker right now.

The DTD online Day 1 was a frustrating experience with me being dealt lots of small to mid pairs, and missing flops every time bar one when I managed to leave a huge amount of value on the table.
Eventually I shoved BvB with AJ and lost to K9 which the villain then announced as his "favourite hand"... I picked up A2hh the next hand and ran into QQ

The online Day 1 is here to stay though and is, I think, another great innovation from DTD.

Locally live it feels like I"ve been owned by everyone in the tournaments over the last couple of weeks. I tilted big style on Sunday and busted out just after the break.
I"d dealt for the first three levels and had asked for someone else to take on the responsibility when we resumed. Returning to the table after the break our volunteer was nowhere to be seen so muggins dealt. A mis deal because I didn"t notice that there was a second player who hadn"t made it back. My frustration got the better of me and I"m ashamed to say that I spread the cards across the table and withdrew my labour.
Brian "erimus" took up the task and I took it upon myself to raise from early position with A4, "the ladyboy" (looks good at first glance). An Ace high flop looked ripe for a value c-bet but my one caller decided to raise. Easy fold you might think. Not for me in this mood. I shipped, he snapped, his flopped set saw me off with my tail between my legs.

Fortunately, the cash table opened shortly after and after a slow start I built my £100 up to around £180 before playing out a lovely hand vs two guys who really shouldn"t be allowed out.
Villain 1 sat with £40 and built that to around £200 in no time at all. First by calling a small raise pf with 10 6 and catching trips.
Second by calling £19 (on a .25/.50 table remember) with 9 4 off.
The flop was 345 and somehow he and the original raiser get it all in for another £80 or so. 8 turn, J river and the orig raiser shows 22, and that pair of fours is good.

Villain 2 has just chipped up with a set over a flopped two pair and a flush versus a flopped set. A flush that he called a large bet to hit on the turn... I sense value.

Now, I call a small pf raise from the BB with K9dd and the flop turn and river are dealt without further activity. There"s £15 in the pot and the board reads 8 9 J 10 Q..... :)
I lead for £15
Folds to Villain 1, he calls
Villain 2 makes it £30
I figure one or both may have the K, but it seems a shame to not ask the question in an appropriate way so I make it £75
Both call.
I win the lot. V1 had Q3, V2 didn"t show, but the dealer reckoned he saw a 10?

Somedays it"s better to be lucky than good.

Tomorrow sees a mini-invasion of Yarm and the home game. I"m looking forward to crossing swords with Ger again and to sharing the banter. I suspect I should also be looking forward to an early seat on the cash table.
Just an old bloke living the dream

Proud to be an APAT Forum Team member 2013
Prouder still of being part of the Raise for Jack team, Silver medalists 2019