Well I finally broke my bounty hunter duck! I took three heads in the 73 runner £1,200 event, quite early on actually. In fact, I was leading it for a while and in the top three for longer, but I let the aggression slip and it was goodnight sweetheart. It cost me £22 to enter… and I walked away from it with my £22.50 of bounties, so I bought myself a Bounty this morning – irony, eh?
I spent £55 in the Main Event – one rebuy out of frustration (actually, maybe two), and one because I got it all in with aces against two others, who I guess decided to call for the value. I was against pocket fours and something even less desirable than that. A four flops and I go to zero instead of hero.
Elsewhere, a (potentially) loose three-bet call by me pre-flop with AJ saw the flop come down A J 10, so after the inevitable (rather large) continuation bet I raised all-in, thinking it’s too dangerous a board to flat, especially considering his three bet pre. He calls and flips KQ. I’m not sure what happened after that because I threw my laptop out the window… but upon retrieving it I noticed I had very few chips, so I’m guessing I lost that hand.
I skipped the Main and Mini on Thursday - instead choosing to read a little and basically just relax for the evening and not direct too much attention to anything... but I did boot up a £5.75 bounty hunter in the early evening and managed to bag 48th place from 110 runners with an all-too-common number of head prizes.
I also loaded a 10p/20p Mastercash table and really did my best to lose the £20 I stuck on there, but by the time I decided to go to bed (after five hours of only really looking at the table when it was my turn to act), I stood up with £26... so a whopping profit for the night of 25p!
As for Friday and Saturday nights - well, they are now reserved for cash at the casino...
Hey Slip The prose pro:P Mashing up Granite City cash games. I'm going to be playing more MTT's this year, maybe see you at the tables! Gl with the diary and poker this year. Posted by LARSON7
Cheers mate.
There's certainly value in the casinos if you get the chance to do it. Just stay tight and play a thinking man's game and you'll clean up
In Response to Re: Life's A Flop... : Cheers mate. There's certainly value in the casinos if you get the chance to do it. Just stay tight and play a thinking man's game and you'll clean up Good luck this year. Posted by Slipwater
tight and larson doesn`t sound right in same sentence
Some of you may have missed me; others, not so much.
It seems I chose a horrible time to start a diary/challenge thread, as it became apparent shortly after I did that my first exam was on February 4th – ie, tomorrow. Financial Services, Regulations, and Ethics.
Yes, it truly is as interesting as it sounds
Anyway, this is just a quick note to say that whatever happens tomorrow, I’ll be back on the horse shortly thereafter.
I was shaken awake this morning at about 3 - not by a cute redhead lying next to me, I hasten to add. There was a beep beep beep somewhere in the house. An alarm. It wasn't my watch, or the clock on the bedside cabinet. What on earth was it? I went from room to room looking for this mysterious sound. Just when I decided that it was in my head and not in the real world, I went to the toilet...
...and there was the culprit.
It was a mirror! Yeah, that's right. What the ****? Staring at my reflection I even managed to catch how daft I thought that was.
I was given a fog free shaving mirror for Christmas. Great and long overdue. But, question: why in the name of all that is sensible do I need an alarm on my **** bathroom mirror? That is where guys shave these days, isn't it? Am I shaving too long? Is it in case I forget to get out of the shower when I'm done? Am I falling asleep on the pot without my knowledge? If I am then yeah, maybe I do want an alarm next to the loo roll, but otherwise, no. Let me shave in peace, please.
Failed. 100 questions. 63%. Pass percentage was 70.
But I had my writer's hat on, and there were a fair number of questions that were worded quite poorly, thus throwing me off the scent.
I'll take the weekend off and then book it in for a couple of weeks time I reckon. No, wait... that's the UKPC. I'll wait until after I take that one down
UL Slippy, better luck next time. And next time, make sure you take double the time of the forum to revise Posted by samantha25
Er, yeah... that did cross my mind
In other news, I have booked ten nights accommodation in Nottingham for the UKPC - Feb 20 - Mar 1 - and bought in to the Mini Event on the 21st. Fingers crossed I place in the top fifty and bag myself a seat to the big one.
I've decided that I need to keep my 'live play head' on, so I'm probably not going to play on Sky (or on any other site as it happens) before the UKPC.
I've had a good run playing cash at the weekends. In fact, I've actually made more money (just) on Friday and Saturday nights these last two months than I have done in my regular day job - scary thought - and I've never really thought of myself as a cash game player.
Having said that, last night the poker gods decided to put me on the canvas for a while. I was dealt aces twice in half an hour. I lost £60 the first time when J 8 decides to call and turn a straight; and £90 when J 10 turned two pair. It happens, eh? Yeah, it does. But twice in such a short space of time was tough to take.
Anyway, I'll be driving down to Nottingham on Friday evening and I'm playing the £110 Mini Event on Saturday afternoon. Apart from that, I'll just be taking things as they come, but hopefully I'll get a few cash sessions in and maybe bink a seat to the Big One as well
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Well I finally broke my bounty hunter duck! I took three heads in the 73 runner £1,200 event, quite early on actually. In fact, I was leading it for a while and in the top three for longer, but I let the aggression slip and it was goodnight sweetheart. It cost me £22 to enter… and I walked away from it with my £22.50 of bounties, so I bought myself a Bounty this morning – irony, eh?
I spent £55 in the Main Event – one rebuy out of frustration (actually, maybe two), and one because I got it all in with aces against two others, who I guess decided to call for the value. I was against pocket fours and something even less desirable than that. A four flops and I go to zero instead of hero.
Elsewhere, a (potentially) loose three-bet call by me pre-flop with AJ saw the flop come down A J 10, so after the inevitable (rather large) continuation bet I raised all-in, thinking it’s too dangerous a board to flat, especially considering his three bet pre. He calls and flips KQ. I’m not sure what happened after that because I threw my laptop out the window… but upon retrieving it I noticed I had very few chips, so I’m guessing I lost that hand.I also loaded a 10p/20p Mastercash table and really did my best to lose the £20 I stuck on there, but by the time I decided to go to bed (after five hours of only really looking at the table when it was my turn to act), I stood up with £26... so a whopping profit for the night of 25p!
As for Friday and Saturday nights - well, they are now reserved for cash at the casino...
Balance £2841
The prose pro:P Mashing up Granite City cash games.
I'm going to be playing more MTT's this year, maybe see you at the tables!
Gl with the diary and poker this year.
Some of you may have missed me; others, not so much.
It seems I chose a horrible time to start a diary/challenge thread, as it became apparent shortly after I did that my first exam was on February 4th – ie, tomorrow. Financial Services, Regulations, and Ethics.
Yes, it truly is as interesting as it sounds
Anyway, this is just a quick note to say that whatever happens tomorrow, I’ll be back on the horse shortly thereafter.
Run well and flop better.
...and there was the culprit.
It was a mirror! Yeah, that's right. What the ****? Staring at my reflection I even managed to catch how daft I thought that was.
I was given a fog free shaving mirror for Christmas. Great and long overdue. But, question: why in the name of all that is sensible do I need an alarm on my **** bathroom mirror? That is where guys shave these days, isn't it? Am I shaving too long? Is it in case I forget to get out of the shower when I'm done? Am I falling asleep on the pot without my knowledge? If I am then yeah, maybe I do want an alarm next to the loo roll, but otherwise, no. Let me shave in peace, please.
Gl with the exam tomor
I've had a good run playing cash at the weekends. In fact, I've actually made more money (just) on Friday and Saturday nights these last two months than I have done in my regular day job - scary thought - and I've never really thought of myself as a cash game player.
Having said that, last night the poker gods decided to put me on the canvas for a while. I was dealt aces twice in half an hour. I lost £60 the first time when J 8 decides to call and turn a straight; and £90 when J 10 turned two pair. It happens, eh? Yeah, it does. But twice in such a short space of time was tough to take.
Anyway, I'll be driving down to Nottingham on Friday evening and I'm playing the £110 Mini Event on Saturday afternoon. Apart from that, I'll just be taking things as they come, but hopefully I'll get a few cash sessions in and maybe bink a seat to the Big One as well
Great to hear live cash is going so well for you.
Have a good time at Nottingham.