Top read. Are you Sreven Ratcliffe from Higher Fold Leigh? Just a wild guess, I have wild guesses at times, I have a 0% strike rate. Loving the writing style. Good luck in your quest. Posted by tomgoodun
Cheers Tom, appreciate the kind words. I'm afraid your 0% success rate continues, though. Run better.
Poker was at its hideous best tonight. Endless whiffed flops, tons of counterfeiting, the turned nuts shrivelling up on the river, losing all flips, sweating spinal fluid to call all-ins on T667 boards with T8 only for A2 to get there on the river, cards becoming garish, near-meaningless symbols after an eight-hour grind - that kind of thing.
Still, a win is a win - and who doesn't like a win? Me, that's who, when that win is £2 over lots of hours and has stripped me down to the marrow.
I'm kidding, pretty much. I quite like hanging out in the poker trenches, getting knocked around. Good for the character. Who doesn't like hanging out in the poker trenches, getting knocked around, and that being good for the character? Nobody, that's who.
Points have gone up, at least. Good old nerve-shredding points. Looking forward (genuinely) to playing tomorrow. Thanks for reading.
In Response to Re: Harebrained November Challenge - from £17.15 to Priority? : Gah! If I say I'm not him does that mean I'm him? Or, rather, does that mean I'm me? I'm very tired and confused. We do have the same initials though. Posted by SR23
You are Stuart Rutter and I claim my £10 pounds lol
In Response to Re: Harebrained November Challenge - from £17.15 to Priority? : You are Stuart Rutter and I claim my £10 pounds lol Posted by TheEdge949
Odd session. Card dead for the first 30 minutes or so. "This is good," I thought. "This is a chance to explore other things - to value bet a bit lighter, to float out of position and check-raise scary turns then bomb rivers, to concentrate on making more and better notes, to look for spots, to practice self-discipline and realise that folding is a skill. Being card dead can be your friend."
Except it wasn't my friend. I went poker-feral. I clicked buttons and opened and called wider and barrelled when it was entirely lacking in sense and tried to bluff people off flopped sets with 53 high (it's fine, it was suited) and generally just monkeyed around for an hour. Such monkeying around cost me 6-7 buy-ins.
A break for a beer and a cigarette and I came back determined to tighten up and play better. The first hand back I called with 63o in the small blind. Then I ran golden and flopped sets and nut flushes and made a few nice, believable bluffs and made one or two tough calls and went on a mini-heater.
Bankroll up, points up. I'm praying I won't get corrupted (or corrupt myself) this weekend. Assuming I can resist all of those wonderful temptations out there and focus on playing poker I'll update on Saturday/Sunday. Thanks, as ever, for reading.
How do the full-time multitabling regs do this? My respect for them has ballooned. Just three weeks of grinding - which included three days of being Keith Richards and not playing - has left me poker fatigued. Sat down to play last night and it was the usual mix of four reasonably solid regulars, me, and an unknown/rec. I could barely face it.
After an hour or two I started to open to £0.69p for amusement (it wasn't actually that amusing) then barrelling every flop to £1.69p (this actually wasn't that amusing either) and open shoving Q9s to try and alleviate some of the boredom. Playing Mastercash 50NL helped spice things up for a bit.
I'll tell you what else has ballooned this weekend: My respect for people writing diaries on here regularly. It can sometimes feel a bit like howling into a void. There are a handful of diaries that I read regularly - I'm always happy to see they've been updated, I enjoy reading them, but rarely comment. Must do better. One or two regulars passed on their good wishes to me on the tables over the weekend, though, so it's good to know this is being read and not written in vain. Actually, plenty of people have commented on here and I've genuinely been touched by what they have said. And I've enjoyed their gags. I don't know what I'm going on about, really. I'm poker-fatigued.
Points up a bit, bankroll up a bit, although I've not been playing that well. Made a nice river call with AJ high earlier, that's about all I can remember from the last couple of days. Still I've managed to get through the weekend without getting buckled, so that's something. There are still eight hours left of it, though.
Long shot, this, but if anyone from Bournemouth is reading I'll be playing live for a few hours this evening. Longer shot: does anyone from Bournemouth read this, is free during the day time, and plays tennis? Good - PM me.
The only time I've ever become visibly angry playing (live) poker was in Brighton. The rest of this Sunday afternoon is looking pretty empty so I'll tell it briefly. I was on a £2K live losing slump. I was annoyed. The Brighton reg's paleolithic strat-talk was annoying me further. One of the said regs had just floated me two streets and got there on the river. I pick up KK and 3-bet this loose-as-**** rec's open, he calls, shortstack (70 bigs) who had flatted shoves, I shove over the top (350 bigs), and loose-as-**** rec calls.
The flop is K23 (which I quite like) with two diamonds. Turn diamond, river diamond. Shortstack's AA and rec's TT both got there. I slammed my cards down and said some rude words and left to play roulette (which I never do). I hate bad beat stories unless they're super-rare/odd, and I've pretty much hated telling this one but it was in the middle of losing 19/23 all-ins live when either flipping/quite a bit ahead and it actually hurt.
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
Concrete bridges, not cement bridges. There is no such thing as a "cement bridge".
That apart, wonderfully eclectic & well-written diary.
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
In Response to Re: Harebrained November Challenge - from £17.15 to Priority? : Some cement bridge anecdotes are fine especially the "legend says that X is burried in the foundations"etc. Enjoying the diary keep it up. yours in poker Posted by TheEdge949
There has never, like, never ever ever, been a single anecdote about cement bridges, as they are like ghosts - they don't exist, they are a figment of imagination in a child's mind. Or a deranged grown-ups mind.
And stories of gangsters victims being buried in foundations are utter tosh. Concrete foundations are reinforced, so it would be impossible to get a body into them. You could bury a body in mass concrete (mass concrete is unreinforced) but foundations are always reinforced.
What's the difference between cement and concrete please? Posted by IrishRose
Cement is a fine powder, very much the consistency of flour. It comes in a bag, or a bulk tanker. It is a dry, grey, powder.
Concrete is a composite of cement, water, & aggregate - the aggregate usually being sand, shingle, or ballast. Mix them all up, pour into a mould, vibrate to remove air bubbles, & when it hardens, or "sets" you have a hard, strong product which will last forever.
Concrete has no tensile strength (unless reinforcement is added) but great compressive strength.
Buildings, bridges, dams, foundations, columns, beams, even some road surfaces, are all, typically, made of concrete.
Think of flour, & a cake. Flour in cake is the equivalent of cement in concrete, you can't make cake without flour, but cake and flour are very different things. Flour is a fine powder & tastes ghastly, cake is a solid & is nice.
In Response to Re: Harebrained November Challenge - from £17.15 to Priority? : Before the continuation, I'd like to " point " out, garden furniture has been ommited. Posted by chilling
lol at Tikay
are you refering to pointing you still need sand added to cement to point weather you can point garden furniture is another thing all together if your onnabout another thing forget what ive just said
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Great read.
In fact if you lived in Swansea, Blackpool, John O'Groats, Skegness or Southend, it'd still be the same coast.
That apart, wonderfully eclectic & well-written diary.
How many times do I have to explain this?
And stories of gangsters victims being buried in foundations are utter tosh. Concrete foundations are reinforced, so it would be impossible to get a body into them. You could bury a body in mass concrete (mass concrete is unreinforced) but foundations are always reinforced.
Obv.
Concrete is a composite of cement, water, & aggregate - the aggregate usually being sand, shingle, or ballast. Mix them all up, pour into a mould, vibrate to remove air bubbles, & when it hardens, or "sets" you have a hard, strong product which will last forever.
Concrete has no tensile strength (unless reinforcement is added) but great compressive strength.
Buildings, bridges, dams, foundations, columns, beams, even some road surfaces, are all, typically, made of concrete.
Think of flour, & a cake. Flour in cake is the equivalent of cement in concrete, you can't make cake without flour, but cake and flour are very different things. Flour is a fine powder & tastes ghastly, cake is a solid & is nice.
You may continue.