Injured again. Same knee, though just stretched ligaments (self diagnosis) I can't be arsed going to hospital, i'll just repeat the rehab process as before. Worst thing is being off work, No work, no money. Every day i'm not there I lose £50, not good. Hate being immobile. Bastard fucking shit.
Well, it could be worse. I could have AIDS, or be a vegetarian, or something else unpleasant. Rant rant rant rant rant rant.......
Sunday, 31 August 2008
Sunday, 24 August 2008
Plodding along.
Just a quick update, minimal change really. Went to another live tournament a week ago and ran KK into AA first hand so that was quite fun. Work is sweatier than ever though I managed to get a wee rise to a truly colossal 7.14/h. Only 3 weeks left of work now and another £1k to be paid into the old account, something which will be very very welcome indeed.
I also got an email off the full tilt support team telling me I am now eligible for rakeback on my account which is beautiful. So once work is done I'll begin the grind (for about the 4th time). But this time try not to withdraw and really try and hit the 1k mark. See y'all soon. x
I also got an email off the full tilt support team telling me I am now eligible for rakeback on my account which is beautiful. So once work is done I'll begin the grind (for about the 4th time). But this time try not to withdraw and really try and hit the 1k mark. See y'all soon. x
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Thou shalt not gamble
Just got back from the sweatshop. It's getting worse, mainly because of the sheer amount of stuff that gets put on my machine. Last week I had 437,000+ envelopes to do (to give you an idea, each wad you pick up, straighten out, squash, check, replace crap envelopes, then pack, consists of 200 envelopes). It took a VERY long time. This week I have an order for 1.5 million. Who actually needs 1.5 million envelopes? Is it a ratio of one pixel per envelope or something? Gah. I don't mind hard work either, but this just so dull. Yet necessary I suppose.
You know when you're daydreaming, images float into your head, be it a naked woman or a dead vegetarian. Mine are envelopes. Conveyor belts of envelopes. I have also found out that whenever I get post, I'm more interested in the envelope rather than the contents, examining it and thinking to myself "Is this packable?." Haha, god someone help me.
Finance is getting better, obviously still in debt due to this bastard rent, but better nonetheless. I decided to take out my stars winnings which were small ($112.78) as wasn't getting many hands in due to tiredness/gym/ wife. Yesterday though me and a couple of friends were driving around and one suggested we pay a visit to the casino as he wanted to join to get a free tenner bet. There wasn't any poker on so I told myself I wasn't going to play ( I don't play roulette or blackjack) and then while they were having fun on the roulette tables, I sat down next to a guy who I'd played football with for about 7 years. Fancy that. He was pissing around on the brag tables so I thought fuck it and got 20 quids worth of chips. I then hit a straight flush, and a few straights to leave me at £115 profit at the end of the night. I ran stupidly well, almost Isaac like (but not quite :p). For minimum stakes that wasn't bad, but Everyone else around was dropping hundreds and I just thought to myself don't dare come back for more as I'll swing harder than Klitschko. I vow never to play that game again, but being drunk or something similiar it probably won't happen.
Next debt to pay off= College bill.
You know when you're daydreaming, images float into your head, be it a naked woman or a dead vegetarian. Mine are envelopes. Conveyor belts of envelopes. I have also found out that whenever I get post, I'm more interested in the envelope rather than the contents, examining it and thinking to myself "Is this packable?." Haha, god someone help me.
Finance is getting better, obviously still in debt due to this bastard rent, but better nonetheless. I decided to take out my stars winnings which were small ($112.78) as wasn't getting many hands in due to tiredness/gym/ wife. Yesterday though me and a couple of friends were driving around and one suggested we pay a visit to the casino as he wanted to join to get a free tenner bet. There wasn't any poker on so I told myself I wasn't going to play ( I don't play roulette or blackjack) and then while they were having fun on the roulette tables, I sat down next to a guy who I'd played football with for about 7 years. Fancy that. He was pissing around on the brag tables so I thought fuck it and got 20 quids worth of chips. I then hit a straight flush, and a few straights to leave me at £115 profit at the end of the night. I ran stupidly well, almost Isaac like (but not quite :p). For minimum stakes that wasn't bad, but Everyone else around was dropping hundreds and I just thought to myself don't dare come back for more as I'll swing harder than Klitschko. I vow never to play that game again, but being drunk or something similiar it probably won't happen.
Next debt to pay off= College bill.
Monday, 4 August 2008
Potential. But frustrating.
Well, I've played a lot of poker over the past few days. Went to two live tournaments at the weekend and final tabled both earning me a total of £130- ok, but it could have been a lot lot more.
Friday was moron night at napoleons, a (wait for it) £10 pot limit tournament with unlimited rebuys for 2 hours, starting chipstack 1k, with blinds at 100/100 for the duration of the rebuy period. Basically, If you hit your hand, you will get paid unless someone outdraws you. Cut a long story short, ended 6th after I ran AQs into 77 twice in two consecutive hands.
Saturday however was possibly the best tournament poker I've played, against people who know how to play. To make things even more interesting, there were 4 quads that night, two of them on my table., including a hand going thus..
First to act raises with 77, gets called by 88 and JJ. Flop comes 784. All in. Turn. 7.chip
And this one.
UTG raises with A3s, Kylan reraises with AA, mini stack pushes with 85o for some value. Flop xx3 Turn: 3. River. 3.
I was picking some nice spots to raise on shit, and later on, there was a 3 way monster pot which I managed to win become chip leader.
UTG raises with 99, really stupid woman player (who incidentally MIN raised my big blind a few times and put me on epic tilt) calls this large raise with A10, and I move in with AKclubs. Flop came two clubs and managed to hit on the river, though it must be said I did have a vast amount of outs on the turn through a straight draw too. I was seriously stacked up now and increased it further when I stacked another two people (small and medium stacked respectively). And then all of a sudden I went card dead on the final table, I couldn't really bully too much either, as I wasn't getting even speculative hands, it was 9 max, and there were two others not too far away in their respective chipstacks. Blinds became incredibly large to the point where most people were on 8-10 BB. The one hand I did raise (AQ) under the gun met a reraise all in, and after thinking (hoping) he wouldn't do that with AJ, I made a fold as I decided he must have 1010+. I layed it down face up, the bloke said good fold and showed AK. That made me happy.
After another while I pushed K5s from the SB into tens which pissed me off epicly. I keep telling myself it was unlucky as I had him covered (not by much) and that he would only call on perhaps the top 20-25% of hands at best. Needless to say I went out for a pathetic 50 quid.
Jokerstars has been going ok, roll stands at $101 but I must confess I have been playing 10c/25c, but playing steadily if I say so myself. Just hope it continues. Hope everyone is going ok. x
Friday was moron night at napoleons, a (wait for it) £10 pot limit tournament with unlimited rebuys for 2 hours, starting chipstack 1k, with blinds at 100/100 for the duration of the rebuy period. Basically, If you hit your hand, you will get paid unless someone outdraws you. Cut a long story short, ended 6th after I ran AQs into 77 twice in two consecutive hands.
Saturday however was possibly the best tournament poker I've played, against people who know how to play. To make things even more interesting, there were 4 quads that night, two of them on my table., including a hand going thus..
First to act raises with 77, gets called by 88 and JJ. Flop comes 784. All in. Turn. 7.chip
And this one.
UTG raises with A3s, Kylan reraises with AA, mini stack pushes with 85o for some value. Flop xx3 Turn: 3. River. 3.
I was picking some nice spots to raise on shit, and later on, there was a 3 way monster pot which I managed to win become chip leader.
UTG raises with 99, really stupid woman player (who incidentally MIN raised my big blind a few times and put me on epic tilt) calls this large raise with A10, and I move in with AKclubs. Flop came two clubs and managed to hit on the river, though it must be said I did have a vast amount of outs on the turn through a straight draw too. I was seriously stacked up now and increased it further when I stacked another two people (small and medium stacked respectively). And then all of a sudden I went card dead on the final table, I couldn't really bully too much either, as I wasn't getting even speculative hands, it was 9 max, and there were two others not too far away in their respective chipstacks. Blinds became incredibly large to the point where most people were on 8-10 BB. The one hand I did raise (AQ) under the gun met a reraise all in, and after thinking (hoping) he wouldn't do that with AJ, I made a fold as I decided he must have 1010+. I layed it down face up, the bloke said good fold and showed AK. That made me happy.
After another while I pushed K5s from the SB into tens which pissed me off epicly. I keep telling myself it was unlucky as I had him covered (not by much) and that he would only call on perhaps the top 20-25% of hands at best. Needless to say I went out for a pathetic 50 quid.
Jokerstars has been going ok, roll stands at $101 but I must confess I have been playing 10c/25c, but playing steadily if I say so myself. Just hope it continues. Hope everyone is going ok. x
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
Update.
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
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
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
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