Enut and Drags - you two are the nuts. Thanks for dropping by and for the encouraging words. I'll take it easy with my numerous cement bridges anecdotes.
Enut and Drags - you two are the nuts. Thanks for dropping by and for the encouraging words. I'll take it easy with my numerous cement bridges anecdotes. Posted by SR23
Some cement bridge anecdotes are fine especially the "legend says that X is burried in the foundations"etc. Enjoying the diary keep it up.
In Response to Re: Harebrained November Challenge - from £17.15 to Priority? : The poker results are interesting but it's little nuggets like this that will keep me coming back. But no stories about cement bridges please. Good luck. Posted by dragon1964
lol lol love it, the old fella will have steam coming out of his ears......:-)
In Response to Re: Harebrained November Challenge - from £17.15 to Priority? : lol lol love it, the old fella will have steam coming out of his ears......:-) Posted by HENDRIK62
Can you somehow stumble into living like a retiree? I seem to have done. Lately, my life has become that of an active, solvent pensioner: long walks on the beach, reasonably elaborate lunches, the odd game of tennis, afternoons in the library. It's good though, I like it, much better than the low-rent Keith Richards impression that I spent a decade or so doing.
Evenings are for poker. Poker has been going well, perhaps too well. I'm not used to things going well. I'm used to broken relationships, abandoned projects, unwritten plays on my desktop, falling down the stairs, dogs barking at me - that kind of thing. I'm not used to starting something and it actually going well, actually looking like I might, perhaps, set out what I acheived to do.
Running well helps. I took down the 18:30 £1,000 BH earlier for roughly £210. I got lucky. With five left on the FT I fist-pump jammed with A3s over an active player's button raise but then fist-pump moaned when the quiet-as-**** BB called my shove. His AQ shrank on a XX3 flop, shrank further still on a 3 turn and evaporated on a 3 river. Good old quads. Made a couple of ambitious calls for my tournament life in the mid-late stages though, both with pocket 7's on K9452-type boards (and missed draws). On the first I thanked my earlier self for making a note on a player a couple of years ago.
Next update in a couple of days. Thanks for reading and for the messages of goodwill on the tables.
Bankroll: £842.21
Points: ****, can't find out whilst writing this. Roughly 2.8K, I think.
Can you somehow stumble into living like a retiree? I seem to have done. Lately, my life has become that of an active, solvent pensioner: long walks on the beach, reasonably elaborate lunches, the odd game of tennis, afternoons in the library. It's good though, I like it, much better than the low-rent Keith Richards impression that I spent a decade or so doing. Evenings are for poker. Poker has been going well, perhaps too well. I'm not used to things going well. I'm used to broken relationships, abandoned projects, unwritten plays on my desktop, falling down the stairs, dogs barking at me - that kind of thing. I'm not used to starting something and it actually going well, actually looking like I might, perhaps, set out what I acheived to do. Running well helps. I took down the 18:30 £1,000 BH earlier for roughly £210. I got lucky. With five left on the FT I fist-pump jammed with A3s over an active player's button raise but then fist-pump moaned when the quiet-as-**** BB called my shove. His AQ shrank on a XX3 flop, shrank further still on a 3 turn and evaporated on a 3 river. Good old quads. Made a couple of ambitious calls for my tournament life in the mid-late stages though, both with pocket 7's on K9452-type boards (and missed draws). On the first I thanked my earlier self for making a note on a player a couple of years ago. Next update in a couple of days. Thanks for reading and for the messages of goodwill on the tables. Bankroll: £842.21 Points: ****, can't find out whilst writing this. Roughly 2.8K, I think. Posted by SR23
Reads like a chat magazine short story . We have a 500 words or less competition winner.
In Response to Re: Harebrained November Challenge - from £17.15 to Priority? : Reads like a chat magazine short story . We have a 500 words or less competition winner. Posted by mumsie
This is precisely what I was going for - what I am always going for. Thank you.
Only just seen this, top stuff and gl with finding enough time to grind your way to priority. Are you still writing / working on your poker book? Sounded like there could be some entertaining live game stories to share from that. Posted by shakinaces
The book is going slowly and is in danger of being abandoned/dominating the next five years of my life. Thanks for the encouraging words.
Planned on grinding all last weekend. Got a text on Friday evening asking about the pub. "I'll pop down," I said, "But ONLY FOR ONE PINT. Two at the most." Capital letters because that was how serious I was about only going out for one pint (two at the most). I didn't end up getting home until 10pm on Sunday. Like I said, whoops.
So, work is needed. Pubs are not needed. May turn off my phone until December. Sat down for a while last night: played okay, ran well, points inched up.
Well, readers (?), it was bound to happen sooner or later. Had my first losing session of the month just now. Within seconds of sitting down I 4-bet/got it in on a 552 flop with QQ but AQ got there. Then AQ got there again aipf versus my QQ. Then I had a few fun middle set versus top set experiences. Then I rallied. Then I unrallied. Then I thought I would show everyone how awesome I am by peeling four bets out of position with 74s. Then I gave up. But I will be back, probably in 20 minutes. More edge-of-your-seat updates to follow later this evening.
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Reads like a chat magazine short story . We have a 500 words or less competition winner.
Are you still writing / working on your poker book? Sounded like there could be some entertaining live game stories to share from that.