'Proper' live poker duck finally broken... fake-SPT was awesome and very much look forward to the next. In a few more games time I might not spend most of my time paranoid about doing something wrong: acting our of turn, flicking in the wrong denomination chip, saying something when we're meant to be silent etc... am sure it gets even better when you can play as relaxed as when lounged out in an armchair with a computer on your lap! Still need to work on concentration too... one table and 20-odd hands an hour makes me feel like I have full blown ADHD... I find it tough enough to stay switched on for the rare times I make it into hour 2 or any of the Monday night DTD games Not the easiest of table spots... one guy two to my left was just battering me till the first break... he was clearly the best player at the table but I was totally oblivious until much later that Ian Simpson is actually top 100 on the UK all-time-money list... so again, probably ran good in giving up trying to play pots with him. Decent bloke as well, hope he carries on the good form... saw he's in the VLV final here so could be playing in Sky colours imminently! I figure to have made some horrifically bad plays, but thankfully run as golden live as a I do online... bar the first and last hands of the day... although the first was probably lucky that I played it so weakly? UTG raised... I joined in the callers with 88 (heart rate about 60bpm)... 5 of us see a T85 flop (heart rate about 90bpm).... utg c-bets, I'm the only caller T on the turn (heart rate about 120bpm).... utg bets again... I probably should flick a raise in here to build a pot(?) but call A on the river (heart - sank).... utg bets about 1/3 pot... I stare at ceiling and try to avoid cursing out loud... too much of a fish to fold a FH but had then punted off nearly half my stack in the first hand when the inevitable AA is shown I'm pretty sure live poker is rigged Was great to meet with the various Outlaws that were there, all as equally bonkers in real life as their online persona which was a bonus! Particular amused at witnessing Harry's life whizz before his eyes as a Sam-CraigCU torpedo flew towards him late on Saturday. True Outlaw professional though, managed to suffer the minimum beer-loss with superb pint control. Anyway... roll on the next fake-SPT/other live chances... now back to trying to bink a few quid at cash tables after coming home to a £3k invoice Posted by shakinaces
Wish I could remember this lol! Craig told me last night it was only his 'thick lenses' that saved him being blind for the night
Good to finally meet you, but you need a miracle to beat Hendrik in the CHIN FLUFF dept
Hey Mike Know you have mentioned p/ vpip a few times and their videos. Did they ever look at any of your play? Posted by LARSON7
Hi Kev - yep there is a half hour taken in late 2014... the quality was appalling on windows (video kept stopping and needs a LOT of patience to view) but works fine on mac
Hope to chuck another in to the mix shortly, when I find my cajones and take a proper shot at NL50 and see how well (or badly lol) the first 4-tabling effort goes.
In Response to Re: Further misadventures of a fish at the cash tables : Wish I could remember this lol! Craig told me last night it was only his 'thick lenses' that saved him being blind for the night Good to finally meet you, but you need a miracle to beat Hendrik in the CHIN FLUFF dept Posted by samantha25
lol I'm not even in the same ballpark as Jimmy... In fact I doubt I was even in the top 3 for facial fuzz this weekend... may be time to stop trying to copy my old man and get shorn.
And on a side note, don't forget to go and get Jimmy fully signed up to the Outlaws
After passing the year mark, figured I'd head back to the first post:
Base Targets next 12 months: Maintain sharkscope +ve Be in profit from cash! Earn a minimum of 500pts poker rewards from cash every month Have meaningful notes on 80% of players at NL8/10 Mix at least an hour of non-playing poker study in with every week of playing Seek a way to get more involved with better players that can drag my game on, be that formal coaching or ??? Not partaking in any other Sky Vegas-style gambling Update this thing at least once for every week I play... especially when I'm getting beaten up at the tables
Stretch Targets: Make at least £1k profit Earn at least 1k poker points from cash each month Win a main or mini (once bankroll gets big enough!) Have my toe dipped in the NL20 waters or above Getting a hand shown on ch861 where I pull off a ridic three-barrel bluff that somehow gets through Posted by shakinaces
Not the worst effort... only completely failed in the mains (from the 2 times I entered lol) and by the only hands that made it on to 861 (RIP) being those where I totally butchered a hand but luckboxed the win (standard luckbox Shaky play lol)
My MTT play remains particularly appalling so I don't envisage there will be much more ME playing (let alone cashing) in the year ahead either.
Didn't exactly excel in some bits either which is a bit disappointing... I mean, I finally found a team on Sky that seemed like a good idea to join, and it has been, whatever negative nonsense and snidey comments others may post, OUTLAWS FTW, pokerz have been way more fun since joining... but not sure they are exactly the high quality 'better players' I initially meant when I first posted this
Oddly would be most proud that I may finally be besting the degen gambling. Not that I haven't donked off way too much over the year 75 days and counting since the last donk though... hopefully this is now the 'One Time'.
Just need another 9-10 future years winning as much at poker as I have in the last 12 months in order to have (give or take) off-set the degen losses of the previous 9-10 years.
Must be a slowish work day. Thought I'd add some more junk to the boards to waste a few minutes.
In Response to Re: a fish en route to NL20: Forest will either storm the Championship or utterly self-implode this season. I guess either way it's going to be exciting!! May break the habit of a lifetime and actually have a cheeky ante post punt on us winning the title / Assombalonga for top scorer... Posted by shakinaces
I guess I got that bit right back in August then The Assombalonga bet was looking alright even as we started to nosedive, but my habit of boking any striker I back to top score appears to still exist. I know not to even consider backing any of our players next season.
Not that we'll have many players next year anyway. Stupid financial fair play nonsense. Will be a reasonable job just to bounce along mid-table and clear of relegation.
In Response to Re: a fish en route to NL20: 1st day of the season is always so good, every fan in the country can harbour some degree of positive expectation while they are joint top of the table. Except maybe Swindon fans. They much prefer year-round pessimism. Looked at the odds this morning. Genuinely surprised that Derby are priced up as favourites. I hope they will be there or thereabouts, albeit behind Forest, but that does seem an odd choice by the bookies. Still, what do I know. Posted by shakinaces
At least I got that bit right... well done Brentford
And I get to glory chase over the next couple of weeks as a part-time Swindon fan. Unlike Forest they actually have an OK play-off record, so hopefully I watch us hammer Son of Clough's lot next Monday. The current side should appreciate the big Wembley pitch and I'm certain they'll do better than the last two trips there.
TBF I don't recall posting words to that effect, but I didn't run great through April. Well overdue.
MrsDuck forced me to ignore nittiness and play my first ever £33BH game at the weekend.
I may be missing something, but I thought the standard was pretty weak... but maybe limping in tournaments is much more of a 'thing' these days?
Didn't really matter though, was sailing along nicely only to run KK into AA then four hands later run KK into AA, before being incapable of spinning up the 1BB I was left with.
If the limping isn't a 'thing' though, I think I could grow to do OK in those games if my head's right.
It's been less poker/couching/take-aways (because the 5 min window is way too small to cook, but just right to pay a pizza delivery guy)
More gym / cooking healthy grub.
I'm pretty sure I'd overtaken the previous incumbent to possess the largest moob cup size in the Outlaw team and that isn't a record I want.
Think I finally have the willpower that has been lacking since the endless football-related injuries. I'm about 4st heavier than when I used to run a bit more competitively alongside the football.
Should get rid of at least 1/4 of that excess bulk before MK fake-SPT. Get myself returned to no bigger than an A-cup.
Pretty sure my poker will improve as well. Healthy body, healthy mind and all that.
A fair assertion after putting the poker + 5 minute window to cook to the test last night.
30 mins was closer to the truth. Totally missed donking Giant out of DTD, didn't even see the names at my table to be honest, just shoved whenever I saw decent cards.
Still can't shake off the poker gremlins. Probably mucking about with my way of playing too much to over-compensate, but hard to keep doing the same old things when all the big pots are heading the other way, even if the same old things are the correct way to play hands. Stupid game anyway.
Not as stupid as football though.
I didn't think I'd see a game as daft as the Forest v Yeovil 2nd leg play-off game from a few years back, but Swindon blew that away with their 5-5 last night. I was only there as a total glory chaser but the atmosphere, WOW. Normally feels like I'm just punishing myself at Town games but the place was insane yesterday. If tickets were always that cheap and the entertainment so good then I'd probably go more than I do to Forest.
Looking forward to a bit more glory chasing and all day liver-bashing at Wembley in a week and a bit
Hopefully the luck returns imminently. If I ever get back from the gym in time I want to play more of the big boy's (and girl's) BH games. Never seems much point jumping in 45-60 mins into late reg... I'm an underdog from the start, it'll be even worse if I'm starting as the shorty that everyone is targeting!
See you at wemberleee then :-) Hoping for a similar defensive performance in the final Posted by Phantom66
Ha yeah I think this will be a goal-fest if Swindon are to stand a chance. I'd be willing to punt a good chunk of my poker monies that they won't keep a clean sheet.
Foderingham is a quality keeper mind, so if he is on form then maybe goals against can be limited to 2-3
Preston front 2 of Beckford and Garner is too good for league 1. Has Garner matured now and stopped getting booked every single game? If he could have kept his head screwed on he could have been a really decent player for Forest... the glimpses of genius and handful of wonder goals he scored made it so frustrating that he couldn't find it in him to knuckle down and play like that week in, week out.
In Response to Re: Further misadventures of a fish at the cash tables : Ha yeah I think this will be a goal-fest if Swindon are to stand a chance. I'd be willing to punt a good chunk of my poker monies that they won't keep a clean sheet. Foderingham is a quality keeper mind, so if he is on form then maybe goals against can be limited to 2-3 Preston front 2 of Beckford and Garner is too good for league 1. Has Garner matured now and stopped getting booked every single game? If he could have kept his head screwed on he could have been a really decent player for Forest... the glimpses of genius and handful of wonder goals he scored made it so frustrating that he couldn't find it in him to knuckle down and play like that week in, week out. Posted by shakinaces
Sounds like the Super Mario of the football league
Oooohhh Balotelli, he's a striker, good at darts......
In Response to Re: Further misadventures of a fish at the cash tables : Sounds like the Super Mario of the football league Oooohhh Balotelli, he's a striker, good at darts...... Posted by hhyftrftdr
Ha nobody can come close to Super Mario... the only disappointment while at Liverpool has been the lack of bizarre stories that we got treated to during his time at City! (because there has been no disappointment at all in seeing Liverpool bumble along all season and miss out on CL...)
Poker is just utterly miserable right now. Another night, another stream of bad beats. Sole reason for so little posts on here lately. It just seems impossible to get my money in the middle good and not end up losing at the moment.
I can't even luckbox in tournaments anymore lately. Not a single head or cash so far in any of the Mayhem games I've been able to play.
I might have to take inspiration from harry, withdraw all of what I have left on here, book a cheap flight to vegas and donate it all to strippers instead. Way more fun than poker.
Although in the short term, whisky and loud music will have to suffice.
Build the liver up ready to watch Town smash that Preston lot in a couple of days.
Poker is just utterly miserable right now. Another night, another stream of bad beats. Sole reason for so little posts on here lately. It just seems impossible to get my money in the middle good and not end up losing at the moment. I can't even luckbox in tournaments anymore lately. Not a single head or cash so far in any of the Mayhem games I've been able to play. I might have to take inspiration from harry, withdraw all of what I have left on here, book a cheap flight to vegas and donate it all to strippers instead. Way more fun than poker. Although in the short term, whisky and loud music will have to suffice. Build the liver up ready to watch Town smash that Preston lot in a couple of days. Happy weekend. Run golden. Posted by shakinaces
This is only a half truth, the flight was anything but cheap.
* Book a flight to vegas and donate it all to cheap strippers instead
Sorry, was a typo in the previous post.
Still seems like a better idea than poker. Will have to find some discipline and go back to NL4 for the next few days and see if I can recall what it's like to have a winning week again. Dunno how I have gotten so bad, so quickly.
Shame I took my run-bad with me to Wembley. Well done Preston and all, but what a miserable 90 minutes. 3 trips to the new stadium with Town, 3 defeats, 6 conceded, 0 scored. I'm no expert football manager, but having your shortest defender mark Jermaine Beckford never seemed like a great plan.
I think the highlight (if you weren't in the Preston end) was probably watching the fans fighting among themselves after the first goal went in. Lucky bar stewards missed the next 86 minutes after some UFC-built steward DDT-d them out of the stadium.
I started the year full of hope that I could keep the poker monies ticking over and pay for a holiday of some sort this year. I initially hoped that careful budgeting meant that could splash flights to Asia for £450 or so.
Turns out the plan now may just about cobble enough together by September to cover petrol to Scotland and spend a couple of nights living Bear Grylls-style in the middle of the Highlands.
Sorry about the result Shaki - I knew had been chatting to a Swindon fan on here but couldn't remember who!
After 9/9 playoff failures I can definitely empathise with your pain. It was incredible for us to not only win but do it relatively sweatless from a spectator point of view.
Garner is definitely still prone to a hot headed moment and does get booked fairly regularly (about 1 in 4 games). However quality player - albeit outshone in the playoffs by Beckford who really has found his old form again.
GL at the tables - hope you find some rungood - or even just avoid the runbad and I am sure you will be fine.
Hey shakin sorry hear your going through a bad patch on the cash tables we all go through it at times but i`m sure you will come through it buddy.
Things I would recommend if you haven`t done them already is
-Drop down a level,rebuild confidence in your game
-Reduce your tables and focus making right decisions regardless of results.
-Review HH`s on forum or even get a close friend watch your session to get a second opinion on how you are playing
-Just take some time off and do things outside of poker makes you happy because nothing worse than going into a session with no confidence thinking how will you lose.
Sorry about the result Shaki - I knew had been chatting to a Swindon fan on here but couldn't remember who! After 9/9 playoff failures I can definitely empathise with your pain. It was incredible for us to not only win but do it relatively sweatless from a spectator point of view. Garner is definitely still prone to a hot headed moment and does get booked fairly regularly (about 1 in 4 games). However quality player - albeit outshone in the playoffs by Beckford who really has found his old form again. GL at the tables - hope you find some rungood - or even just avoid the runbad and I am sure you will be fine. Posted by Phantom66
Yeah Preston definitely deserved their day in the sun after all the previous disappointments. As a Forest fan I'm 4/4 exits in the semis and that's bad enough!
Guaranteed that next season Garner will score at least one worldy vs us!
Hey shakin sorry hear your going through a bad patch on the cash tables we all go through it at times but i`m sure you will come through it buddy. Things I would recommend if you haven`t done them already is -Drop down a level,rebuild confidence in your game -Reduce your tables and focus making right decisions regardless of results. -Review HH`s on forum or even get a close friend watch your session to get a second opinion on how you are playing -Just take some time off and do things outside of poker makes you happy because nothing worse than going into a session with no confidence thinking how will you lose. Gl whatever you choose to do Posted by liamboi11
Cheers Liam.
Fair to say that I've played a lot less this month and not solely down to the increasingly attractive draw of the local beer gardens
I bit the bullet and hit the NL4 tables last night. Thankfully I can at least still win pots down there and actually logged off with a few BI profit for the first time in what seems like an age.
You are right that poker, like most things in life, is so much easier when your confidence levels are high. As per some of my recent poker clinic posts, I'm questioning my ability to even do the most basic of things at the moment... probably making the game way more complicated for myself than it ever should be.
In Response to Re: Further misadventures of a fish at the cash tables : Yeah Preston definitely deserved their day in the sun after all the previous disappointments. As a Forest fan I'm 4/4 exits in the semis and that's bad enough! Guaranteed that next season Garner will score at least one worldy vs us! Posted by shakinaces
Aha so you are a 2 team tart like me and Vespa?
Need to work on a Footy/Poker away day exchange scheme - are you up for a Deepdale/G-Blackpool I would certainly be up for a City Ground/DTD weekender if the fixture list is kind.
Ha yeah very much a two-team tart... been a Forest fan since I was a wee lad and get to a few games, but rarely with a big group of mates.
Living in Swindon and having a large number of Town supporters as friends I do very occasionally go along (normally when they do cheap tickets) mainly just as an excuse to spend a few hours on Saturday with a beer in hand... then 'glory' chasing (or rather, misery chasing) at the big games.
Could be worse on both accounts I suppose. My old man isn't a big footy fan but my folks both grew up in a Millwall area and only moved away just before I was born. Grandparents and uncles would have had me down the Den if my parents had decided not to move.
Would have been a pretty useless fan though. I'm too gangly to be good in a fight and not ignorant enough to be racist.
I still feel a bit ashamed from something that happened after the Millwall v Swindon playoff final a few years ago. There was 6 of us in our group and we'd planned to go out in central London after the game so as we left Wembley were on the tube with Millwall rather than Town fans. As we bundled on at Wembley Park the only other people in our carriage where an Asian family and they took all sorts of horrible verbals as they were forced to vacate their seats for some local hooligans. Our group all wanted to speak out, but didn't fancy the outcome of 6 vs 100+ fighting in a tube carriage so just kept schtum and avoided any eye contact.
Only plus side - I've done so much stupid stuff in life that I'm going to **** anyway when I die. One more negative thing makes little difference on that front. Still felt horrible that I was essentially condoning the racist behaviour though by staying quiet.
Two positive days in a row at poker. Nice, but I really hope that NL4 isn't my level. Hopefully I can get a few more wins and start heading back up the levels again.
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https://www.pokervip.com/en/coaching-videos/leak-finder-review-shakinaces--deepstack-10nl-to-30nl
Hope to chuck another in to the mix shortly, when I find my cajones and take a proper shot at NL50 and see how well (or badly lol) the first 4-tabling effort goes.
And on a side note, don't forget to go and get Jimmy fully signed up to the Outlaws
My MTT play remains particularly appalling so I don't envisage there will be much more ME playing (let alone cashing) in the year ahead either.
Didn't exactly excel in some bits either which is a bit disappointing... I mean, I finally found a team on Sky that seemed like a good idea to join, and it has been, whatever negative nonsense and snidey comments others may post, OUTLAWS FTW, pokerz have been way more fun since joining... but not sure they are exactly the high quality 'better players' I initially meant when I first posted this
Oddly would be most proud that I may finally be besting the degen gambling. Not that I haven't donked off way too much over the year
Just need another 9-10 future years winning as much at poker as I have in the last 12 months in order to have (give or take) off-set the degen losses of the previous 9-10 years.
In Response to Re: a fish en route to NL20:
Forest will either storm the Championship or utterly self-implode this season. I guess either way it's going to be exciting!! May break the habit of a lifetime and actually have a cheeky ante post punt on us winning the title / Assombalonga for top scorer...
Posted by shakinaces
I guess I got that bit right back in August then
Not that we'll have many players next year anyway. Stupid financial fair play nonsense. Will be a reasonable job just to bounce along mid-table and clear of relegation.
In Response to Re: a fish en route to NL20:
1st day of the season is always so good, every fan in the country can harbour some degree of positive expectation while they are joint top of the table. Except maybe Swindon fans. They much prefer year-round pessimism. Looked at the odds this morning. Genuinely surprised that Derby are priced up as favourites. I hope they will be there or thereabouts, albeit behind Forest, but that does seem an odd choice by the bookies. Still, what do I know.
Posted by shakinaces
At least I got that bit right... well done Brentford
And I get to glory chase over the next couple of weeks as a part-time Swindon fan. Unlike Forest they actually have an OK play-off record, so hopefully I watch us hammer Son of Clough's lot next Monday. The current side should appreciate the big Wembley pitch and I'm certain they'll do better than the last two trips there.
In Response to Re: a fish en route to NL20:
Poker is a ****
Posted by shakinaces
TBF I don't recall posting words to that effect, but I didn't run great through April. Well overdue.
MrsDuck forced me to ignore nittiness and play my first ever £33BH game at the weekend.
I may be missing something, but I thought the standard was pretty weak... but maybe limping in tournaments is much more of a 'thing' these days?
Didn't really matter though, was sailing along nicely only to run KK into AA then four hands later run KK into AA, before being incapable of spinning up the 1BB I was left with.
If the limping isn't a 'thing' though, I think I could grow to do OK in those games if my head's right.
In Response to Re: a fish en route to NL20:
Shakinaces is a fat ****
Posted by shakinaces
True
It's been less poker/couching/take-aways (because the 5 min window is way too small to cook, but just right to pay a pizza delivery guy)
More gym / cooking healthy grub.
I'm pretty sure I'd overtaken the previous incumbent to possess the largest moob cup size in the Outlaw team and that isn't a record I want.
Think I finally have the willpower that has been lacking since the endless football-related injuries. I'm about 4st heavier than when I used to run a bit more competitively alongside the football.
Should get rid of at least 1/4 of that excess bulk before MK fake-SPT. Get myself returned to no bigger than an A-cup.
Pretty sure my poker will improve as well. Healthy body, healthy mind and all that.
In Response to Re: a fish en route to NL20:
Shakinaces is a ****
Posted by shakinaces
A fair assertion after putting the poker + 5 minute window to cook to the test last night.
30 mins was closer to the truth. Totally missed donking Giant out of DTD, didn't even see the names at my table to be honest, just shoved whenever I saw decent cards.
Will have to stick to no poker to after 9ish...
Suppose I'd better go and do a bit more work now!
Not as stupid as football though.
I didn't think I'd see a game as daft as the Forest v Yeovil 2nd leg play-off game from a few years back, but Swindon blew that away with their 5-5 last night. I was only there as a total glory chaser but the atmosphere, WOW. Normally feels like I'm just punishing myself at Town games but the place was insane yesterday. If tickets were always that cheap and the entertainment so good then I'd probably go more than I do to Forest.
Looking forward to a bit more glory chasing and all day liver-bashing at Wembley in a week and a bit
Hopefully the luck returns imminently. If I ever get back from the gym in time I want to play more of the big boy's (and girl's) BH games. Never seems much point jumping in 45-60 mins into late reg... I'm an underdog from the start, it'll be even worse if I'm starting as the shorty that everyone is targeting!
Foderingham is a quality keeper mind, so if he is on form then maybe goals against can be limited to 2-3
Preston front 2 of Beckford and Garner is too good for league 1. Has Garner matured now and stopped getting booked every single game? If he could have kept his head screwed on he could have been a really decent player for Forest... the glimpses of genius and handful of wonder goals he scored made it so frustrating that he couldn't find it in him to knuckle down and play like that week in, week out.
Oooohhh Balotelli, he's a striker, good at darts......
Sorry, was a typo in the previous post.
Still seems like a better idea than poker. Will have to find some discipline and go back to NL4 for the next few days and see if I can recall what it's like to have a winning week again. Dunno how I have gotten so bad, so quickly.
Shame I took my run-bad with me to Wembley. Well done Preston and all, but what a miserable 90 minutes. 3 trips to the new stadium with Town, 3 defeats, 6 conceded, 0 scored. I'm no expert football manager, but having your shortest defender mark Jermaine Beckford never seemed like a great plan.
I think the highlight (if you weren't in the Preston end) was probably watching the fans fighting among themselves after the first goal went in. Lucky bar stewards missed the next 86 minutes after some UFC-built steward DDT-d them out of the stadium.
I started the year full of hope that I could keep the poker monies ticking over and pay for a holiday of some sort this year. I initially hoped that careful budgeting meant that could splash flights to Asia for £450 or so.
Turns out the plan now may just about cobble enough together by September to cover petrol to Scotland and spend a couple of nights living Bear Grylls-style in the middle of the Highlands.
What's the worst that could happen?
After 9/9 playoff failures I can definitely empathise with your pain. It was incredible for us to not only win but do it relatively sweatless from a spectator point of view.
Garner is definitely still prone to a hot headed moment and does get booked fairly regularly (about 1 in 4 games). However quality player - albeit outshone in the playoffs by Beckford who really has found his old form again.
GL at the tables - hope you find some rungood - or even just avoid the runbad and I am sure you will be fine.
Guaranteed that next season Garner will score at least one worldy vs us!
Fair to say that I've played a lot less this month and not solely down to the increasingly attractive draw of the local beer gardens
I bit the bullet and hit the NL4 tables last night. Thankfully I can at least still win pots down there and actually logged off with a few BI profit for the first time in what seems like an age.
You are right that poker, like most things in life, is so much easier when your confidence levels are high. As per some of my recent poker clinic posts, I'm questioning my ability to even do the most basic of things at the moment... probably making the game way more complicated for myself than it ever should be.
Need to work on a Footy/Poker away day exchange scheme - are you up for a Deepdale/G-Blackpool I would certainly be up for a City Ground/DTD weekender if the fixture list is kind.
Living in Swindon and having a large number of Town supporters as friends I do very occasionally go along (normally when they do cheap tickets) mainly just as an excuse to spend a few hours on Saturday with a beer in hand... then 'glory' chasing (or rather, misery chasing) at the big games.
Could be worse on both accounts I suppose. My old man isn't a big footy fan but my folks both grew up in a Millwall area and only moved away just before I was born. Grandparents and uncles would have had me down the Den if my parents had decided not to move.
Would have been a pretty useless fan though. I'm too gangly to be good in a fight and not ignorant enough to be racist.
I still feel a bit ashamed from something that happened after the Millwall v Swindon playoff final a few years ago. There was 6 of us in our group and we'd planned to go out in central London after the game so as we left Wembley were on the tube with Millwall rather than Town fans. As we bundled on at Wembley Park the only other people in our carriage where an Asian family and they took all sorts of horrible verbals as they were forced to vacate their seats for some local hooligans. Our group all wanted to speak out, but didn't fancy the outcome of 6 vs 100+ fighting in a tube carriage so just kept schtum and avoided any eye contact.
Only plus side - I've done so much stupid stuff in life that I'm going to **** anyway when I die. One more negative thing makes little difference on that front. Still felt horrible that I was essentially condoning the racist behaviour though by staying quiet.
Two positive days in a row at poker. Nice, but I really hope that NL4 isn't my level. Hopefully I can get a few more wins and start heading back up the levels again.