I realise this blog is turning into more of a 'life' blog, and the life of me isn't that interesting, but sod it I'll share it all the same.
Right, into my fourth week of work now, and steadily clawing tooth and nail out of debt at last. Unfortunately the payrise isn't available due to the fact that the factory isn't that busy, which is a shame seeing as I apparently learnt "exceptionally quickly."
Went to blackpool at the weekend for the 3year anniversary with the wife, which was just immense. Not really romantic, but hell- It had beer, rollercoasters, and the Irish. This set me back a few bob, but then I got a ring off my housemate saying that the place was a shit tip and hadn't been furnished, so we got 2 weeks rent back which was a godsend, and paid for the weekend. I am now currently 800 into an 1000 overdraft after paying off a few debts, but this is forecast to improve dramatically over the next few weeks.
Other news in brief; I was forced to go watch the full monty MUSICAL (they must have put that blasphemous word in size 1.8 or something.) This was not set in Yorkshire as it was in the film. It had no humour in it, and 95% of the audience were women. I made a conscious effort to kiss my girlfriend in an open space so all the suspicions were put to the sword :p. After what seemed like a few ice ages, it ended with them getting into thongs, with the fat guy in particular not having a great time as his left strap got trapped in his tyre so you could see some sexy groin fat. It was tragic.
Right, poker news. Live tournaments- crap. Had a good run at one last week, but died running J2 from the SB into A10 at with about 8BB left. Pacific went pretty crap. I was swinging too much playing 10/25. At one point up to $80 on a table, but a combination of a few outdraws and
bad calls put me down about $40 overall. Nothing drastic. So 30 mins ago I decided to get back properly, so decided to put $40 back in Stars (lucky figure!) and grind at 2/5 like before until a proper deposit can be made. Up 10 or so at the mo. I remember this place. Time to check top pair then.
I maybe open to a few bets getting from $40 to $120 playing exclusively 2/5 within exactly 168 hours (a week), i'll see how I go tonight, let me know if you're interested. Hope all is well. x
Tuesday 29 July 2008
Thursday 17 July 2008
bleurgh...
Not a very informative title to be honest, but can't find a summing up word or phrase!
Got paid today. I am now out of obscene debt and into just debt. Seeing as I haven't been online these past few days, you would be correct in assuming the tournament didn't go well. It was easily my fault though so no excuses.
Basically I played loose early on to try and get a feel of the table, pissed away a BI very (too) quickly, resulting in an absolutely tragic image. I therefore rebought, and then got unlucky when my AKo was outdrawn by AJ with runner runner straight after the money went in on the turn. Serves me right for playing absolute village poker before. I had about 400 chips left, and folded every hand until the add-on period.
After the break I picked up AA and I creamed myself and was suddenly thankful for my image, but alas a raise sparked nothing but blinds. Picked up a few hands, and then one big one where I checked a flush draw to the river as I didn't fancy getting raised on the turn and practically giving away the fact I had a draw. Luckily someone rivered a straight and put me all in, getting me to about 10k. Blinds eventually came to 500/1000, and raised UTG to 3k with 1010. (was on about 13k), flop came J K A all d. LOL. had no diamond. After the next round, I had AJs in the SB, a shortstack pushed from UTG and I called and ran in to QQ. Fair enough. And that was that.
In other news, my friend kylan (great sit n go player) is basically giving me his pacific poker account to work off the bonus and hes staking me (I didn't ask this time! :D) so I might be getting back into it before long. It all depends on how knackered I am from work. By the way, pacific is UNBELEIVABLE. I saw kylan play his $30 sit n gos with relative ease, with some me-and-jv-style-idiocy rife from around the table. Isaac, If you want some crazy ass play and a lot of money....I think I could recommend that. Theres also a $400 sign up bonus with 25% deposited instantly (i.e. $100) If you have money to throw around, why not take a look.
From a health point of view, I 've finally hit the 16st mark which was a goal I set myself at the start of the hols (red meat and weights for the win) so at least some things are going well!
Much liebe to all.
Got paid today. I am now out of obscene debt and into just debt. Seeing as I haven't been online these past few days, you would be correct in assuming the tournament didn't go well. It was easily my fault though so no excuses.
Basically I played loose early on to try and get a feel of the table, pissed away a BI very (too) quickly, resulting in an absolutely tragic image. I therefore rebought, and then got unlucky when my AKo was outdrawn by AJ with runner runner straight after the money went in on the turn. Serves me right for playing absolute village poker before. I had about 400 chips left, and folded every hand until the add-on period.
After the break I picked up AA and I creamed myself and was suddenly thankful for my image, but alas a raise sparked nothing but blinds. Picked up a few hands, and then one big one where I checked a flush draw to the river as I didn't fancy getting raised on the turn and practically giving away the fact I had a draw. Luckily someone rivered a straight and put me all in, getting me to about 10k. Blinds eventually came to 500/1000, and raised UTG to 3k with 1010. (was on about 13k), flop came J K A all d. LOL. had no diamond. After the next round, I had AJs in the SB, a shortstack pushed from UTG and I called and ran in to QQ. Fair enough. And that was that.
In other news, my friend kylan (great sit n go player) is basically giving me his pacific poker account to work off the bonus and hes staking me (I didn't ask this time! :D) so I might be getting back into it before long. It all depends on how knackered I am from work. By the way, pacific is UNBELEIVABLE. I saw kylan play his $30 sit n gos with relative ease, with some me-and-jv-style-idiocy rife from around the table. Isaac, If you want some crazy ass play and a lot of money....I think I could recommend that. Theres also a $400 sign up bonus with 25% deposited instantly (i.e. $100) If you have money to throw around, why not take a look.
From a health point of view, I 've finally hit the 16st mark which was a goal I set myself at the start of the hols (red meat and weights for the win) so at least some things are going well!
Much liebe to all.
Saturday 12 July 2008
Feeling much better.
Just finished my first week of work. It is nice knowing you are owed £270.
I was still apprehensive before work started, not particularly about the idea of work, just if I was completely hopeless at what I was instructed to do, or if the factory blows up, or something happening basically resulting in me not getting paid. I'll tell you something though, it is very hard work. Put a long story short, I was thrown in at the deep end with all sorts of complicated paperwork and fast machinery pumping out an envelope every .25 of a second. (actual figure) You're on your feet in the same place for 8 hours, and have to find someone to take over if you need the bog. Hectic shit.
The saving grace is the people. They are fucking brilliant. There is not one sentence that is said where you don't hear 'fuck', 'cunt' or 'bastard'. When I came I had the 'so, you a student?' question along with few dirty looks, but I slotted right in after being myself (swearing, then) and not quitting after day 1 which is what they said they expected many people to do. So yeah, that is good.
Poker wise, still quite miserable online-wise, but went last saturday to a tournament at a different casino, and it was brilliant. Came 7th out of 40 so no cashes which was a shame, but it was poker. Actual poker. It was £10 entry, one rebuy one addon within an hour which was perfect in my opinion. starting stack 3k with blinds of 50/100.
The first table was quite good. Had a guy to my right whose name I remember Ftbling every time when I checked online, and who won some event in Edinburgh he was saying. The guy two to my right satellited into a UK poker tour event, but looked shit tbh, and the bloke 3 to my right who was a fat guy with a lot of jewellery and a lot to say, was again quite good, reciting his various favourite pots etc...the Sam Wong of the table shall we say :). Why they were in a £10 rebuy at a bradford casino I'll never know. Probably something to do with the league. He was quite offensive though, as I bluffed a few small pots off him and he started railing my play after I showed a few to see if he was tilty. So Earlier on I was chatting to a guy who plays 25NL on party who said he won 8k on a bad beat jackpot (cunt!) and then said that he plays really tight (no, actually), and then God put him to my left. Raisy Raisy.
Anyways, stayed on 3k for the first hour, and there was one good pot where I felt I was in the zone. Blinds 100/200. Fat guy limps UTG, I raise to 700 with AKo, and then another absolute rock raised to 2100. Fat guy folds. I said to the fat guy, 'you have tens or something,' and then said to the other lad 'I think the best I'm hoping for is a race, are you gonna show me Kings?' I then folded face up, and yep, they both showed melons and Kings, which got me a lot of respect and the good guy to my left said, 'you're dangerous.' :D.
It must be just that the Durham guys are that good ;) , beacause I can never bloody repeat that up there!! And Matt stop getting an erection after reading that. Hehe, joking. So yeah, stayed on 6 K for the next hour or so, I got blinded down to about 6 BB and pushed with 44 after a guy raised with A10, and luckily I held up. An hour on the blinds were huge and I found myself with about the same amount of blinds, and called on 88 on the BB and ran into JJ, lost and then managed to win with A high, and then top pair on the next two all ins to put me back where I was. On the Ft pushed with k6s on the button into k 10 and I was out. Great time though, and managed to outlast the three 'pros' to my left which was nice. Off again tonight, ill post it up if there is anything interesting.
Hope all is well. xxxxxxxxx
I was still apprehensive before work started, not particularly about the idea of work, just if I was completely hopeless at what I was instructed to do, or if the factory blows up, or something happening basically resulting in me not getting paid. I'll tell you something though, it is very hard work. Put a long story short, I was thrown in at the deep end with all sorts of complicated paperwork and fast machinery pumping out an envelope every .25 of a second. (actual figure) You're on your feet in the same place for 8 hours, and have to find someone to take over if you need the bog. Hectic shit.
The saving grace is the people. They are fucking brilliant. There is not one sentence that is said where you don't hear 'fuck', 'cunt' or 'bastard'. When I came I had the 'so, you a student?' question along with few dirty looks, but I slotted right in after being myself (swearing, then) and not quitting after day 1 which is what they said they expected many people to do. So yeah, that is good.
Poker wise, still quite miserable online-wise, but went last saturday to a tournament at a different casino, and it was brilliant. Came 7th out of 40 so no cashes which was a shame, but it was poker. Actual poker. It was £10 entry, one rebuy one addon within an hour which was perfect in my opinion. starting stack 3k with blinds of 50/100.
The first table was quite good. Had a guy to my right whose name I remember Ftbling every time when I checked online, and who won some event in Edinburgh he was saying. The guy two to my right satellited into a UK poker tour event, but looked shit tbh, and the bloke 3 to my right who was a fat guy with a lot of jewellery and a lot to say, was again quite good, reciting his various favourite pots etc...the Sam Wong of the table shall we say :). Why they were in a £10 rebuy at a bradford casino I'll never know. Probably something to do with the league. He was quite offensive though, as I bluffed a few small pots off him and he started railing my play after I showed a few to see if he was tilty. So Earlier on I was chatting to a guy who plays 25NL on party who said he won 8k on a bad beat jackpot (cunt!) and then said that he plays really tight (no, actually), and then God put him to my left. Raisy Raisy.
Anyways, stayed on 3k for the first hour, and there was one good pot where I felt I was in the zone. Blinds 100/200. Fat guy limps UTG, I raise to 700 with AKo, and then another absolute rock raised to 2100. Fat guy folds. I said to the fat guy, 'you have tens or something,' and then said to the other lad 'I think the best I'm hoping for is a race, are you gonna show me Kings?' I then folded face up, and yep, they both showed melons and Kings, which got me a lot of respect and the good guy to my left said, 'you're dangerous.' :D.
It must be just that the Durham guys are that good ;) , beacause I can never bloody repeat that up there!! And Matt stop getting an erection after reading that. Hehe, joking. So yeah, stayed on 6 K for the next hour or so, I got blinded down to about 6 BB and pushed with 44 after a guy raised with A10, and luckily I held up. An hour on the blinds were huge and I found myself with about the same amount of blinds, and called on 88 on the BB and ran into JJ, lost and then managed to win with A high, and then top pair on the next two all ins to put me back where I was. On the Ft pushed with k6s on the button into k 10 and I was out. Great time though, and managed to outlast the three 'pros' to my left which was nice. Off again tonight, ill post it up if there is anything interesting.
Hope all is well. xxxxxxxxx
Saturday 5 July 2008
I wanna play pokerrr!
I can't really be bothered to structure this post properly, so bare with me.
I am skint. Very skint. Probably have about £50 in my bank account (including overdraft). Thankfully I start work on monday, but my first cheque for £275 won't come in for another week which is crap with that week in hand method.
Currently I owe Kessie £400 after he helped pay Spring terms college bill, Isaac £120 odd, St.Aidans College £250, and St.Aidans College Bum Club some sort of amount. Thats probably in the region of 900 quid I've got to fork out. Plus £300 rent at the start of next month. So make that £1200. And present for megan as it's 3 year anniversary time. And another £100 or so for a weekend away....fuck it just keeps coming. Right, so call that close to 1500 quid in extra-debt, which is just colossal (for a first year anyway). Whats worse is that I have been distinctly frugal when it comes to going out etc. (ok maybe a few to many Mr.Chois but the bloke is a god). Last summer without a proper job really did arse me.
Never mind. On the bright side me father randomly got me a laptop off ebay (Yorkshires discount online supermarket :D) for £199, 3.2Ghz, a gig RAM for all those who half understand computer blurb. Finally I can get rid off my 10 year old Hamster powered, toothpaste ridden bucket of spunk. Wahoo.
So, all this debt means I can't play poker. (online anyway). I was soo looking forward to complementing the job with a good few sessions but what can you do. Oh and the roll on UTD died a special death. Got up to just over £45 playing £2 sit n goes and 25/50 limit, took 20 out (needed to top up fone), and then played a £20 HU sit n go, don't ask me why. First Hand I have KK. He limps, I raise, he re-raises, all-in and yep, he has the chestnuts. LOL. the remaining 7quid went on Blackjack out of Tilt. I am discovering a trend in my game where I play ok (even well at times) and then just blow up. Randomly. Haha....what a bell.
So last Weds I went to the casino, to a new one called Napoleons. I looked online and it showed the results of the previous weeks tourny. I looked in astonishment at what I saw.
http://www.napoleons-casinos.co.uk/casinos/bradford/pokerresults/
The insane amount of rebuys led me to beleive that they were all morons, which was true but it also turned out that you started on 2k, with blinds starting at 100/200 and not going up till after the two hour rebuy period, which made more sense looking at the site. Now with bradford being bradford the vast majority there were Pakis, who were stoned off their tits, genuinely. The guy to my right, and left actually, were particluarly arsed in. 1 of them actually paid the guy 40 quid over the table for the weed I saw them exchange outside. It was fucking bizarre but hilarious.
Anyways I sat down, the announcer bloke on the tannoy gave the usual blurb of "enjoy yourselves, please keep conversation in english, and please refrain from splashing the pot."
"Ladies and Gentlemen, good luck"
And then a tidal wave of urdu covered the casino. And probably 2 in 3 pots were splashed. It was...a sight. I know I am a fucking gobshite at a table but this was insane. The dealers were all inept/scared and I'd realised I'd been put on the rowdiest table by far. The amazing thing was there were all ins every hand, but no, not on AK or 1010, but 10 6, 9 4 with the odd AQ thrown in there. The vast majority of the Pakis knew each other and instead of putting in the chips with a reasonable holding, UTG pushed blind every time and systematically got called by the rest who were getting better and better odds. I absolutely loved it, they were a top set of blokes and we were chatting and joking about. after about an hour the guy to my left had already rebought 7 times, when I woke up with KK in the BB.
It got limped round to me, amazingly, so I went all in for 1600 or so, and got 5 callers. Yes, 5. Miraculously my KK held up against shit like j6o to put me in the region of 8k. I then entered a pot on A4s with middle pair and a gutshot against the guy on 7 buyins. NAturally thinking I was good, The pot was about 2k on the turn, when I hit the bottom end of my str8, and the money went in. He had a higher one. Fair enough. Probably bad play on my part but He was so loose I thought I was good. So I was down to about 4k. I decided to add-on another 2k. I then waited and waited and waited (After a lot of shouting, near fights, and rebuys). The play tightened up slightly and I found QQ in the BB, another nice position to be in. He raised to 1k, and a went all in, he called with AQ and hit an A on the river. Shame. I was the first person to leave of the 40 people there.
Apologies for the epic, I was bored and wanted to share a ridiculous event. Hope everyone is running well. Paul you don't need to run well you cunt. Nice going mate.
I am skint. Very skint. Probably have about £50 in my bank account (including overdraft). Thankfully I start work on monday, but my first cheque for £275 won't come in for another week which is crap with that week in hand method.
Currently I owe Kessie £400 after he helped pay Spring terms college bill, Isaac £120 odd, St.Aidans College £250, and St.Aidans College Bum Club some sort of amount. Thats probably in the region of 900 quid I've got to fork out. Plus £300 rent at the start of next month. So make that £1200. And present for megan as it's 3 year anniversary time. And another £100 or so for a weekend away....fuck it just keeps coming. Right, so call that close to 1500 quid in extra-debt, which is just colossal (for a first year anyway). Whats worse is that I have been distinctly frugal when it comes to going out etc. (ok maybe a few to many Mr.Chois but the bloke is a god). Last summer without a proper job really did arse me.
Never mind. On the bright side me father randomly got me a laptop off ebay (Yorkshires discount online supermarket :D) for £199, 3.2Ghz, a gig RAM for all those who half understand computer blurb. Finally I can get rid off my 10 year old Hamster powered, toothpaste ridden bucket of spunk. Wahoo.
So, all this debt means I can't play poker. (online anyway). I was soo looking forward to complementing the job with a good few sessions but what can you do. Oh and the roll on UTD died a special death. Got up to just over £45 playing £2 sit n goes and 25/50 limit, took 20 out (needed to top up fone), and then played a £20 HU sit n go, don't ask me why. First Hand I have KK. He limps, I raise, he re-raises, all-in and yep, he has the chestnuts. LOL. the remaining 7quid went on Blackjack out of Tilt. I am discovering a trend in my game where I play ok (even well at times) and then just blow up. Randomly. Haha....what a bell.
So last Weds I went to the casino, to a new one called Napoleons. I looked online and it showed the results of the previous weeks tourny. I looked in astonishment at what I saw.
http://www.napoleons-casinos.co.uk/casinos/bradford/pokerresults/
The insane amount of rebuys led me to beleive that they were all morons, which was true but it also turned out that you started on 2k, with blinds starting at 100/200 and not going up till after the two hour rebuy period, which made more sense looking at the site. Now with bradford being bradford the vast majority there were Pakis, who were stoned off their tits, genuinely. The guy to my right, and left actually, were particluarly arsed in. 1 of them actually paid the guy 40 quid over the table for the weed I saw them exchange outside. It was fucking bizarre but hilarious.
Anyways I sat down, the announcer bloke on the tannoy gave the usual blurb of "enjoy yourselves, please keep conversation in english, and please refrain from splashing the pot."
"Ladies and Gentlemen, good luck"
And then a tidal wave of urdu covered the casino. And probably 2 in 3 pots were splashed. It was...a sight. I know I am a fucking gobshite at a table but this was insane. The dealers were all inept/scared and I'd realised I'd been put on the rowdiest table by far. The amazing thing was there were all ins every hand, but no, not on AK or 1010, but 10 6, 9 4 with the odd AQ thrown in there. The vast majority of the Pakis knew each other and instead of putting in the chips with a reasonable holding, UTG pushed blind every time and systematically got called by the rest who were getting better and better odds. I absolutely loved it, they were a top set of blokes and we were chatting and joking about. after about an hour the guy to my left had already rebought 7 times, when I woke up with KK in the BB.
It got limped round to me, amazingly, so I went all in for 1600 or so, and got 5 callers. Yes, 5. Miraculously my KK held up against shit like j6o to put me in the region of 8k. I then entered a pot on A4s with middle pair and a gutshot against the guy on 7 buyins. NAturally thinking I was good, The pot was about 2k on the turn, when I hit the bottom end of my str8, and the money went in. He had a higher one. Fair enough. Probably bad play on my part but He was so loose I thought I was good. So I was down to about 4k. I decided to add-on another 2k. I then waited and waited and waited (After a lot of shouting, near fights, and rebuys). The play tightened up slightly and I found QQ in the BB, another nice position to be in. He raised to 1k, and a went all in, he called with AQ and hit an A on the river. Shame. I was the first person to leave of the 40 people there.
Apologies for the epic, I was bored and wanted to share a ridiculous event. Hope everyone is running well. Paul you don't need to run well you cunt. Nice going mate.
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