So me and the GF got a new car yesterday. We have gone from a black VW Golf to a black VW Golf. Not sure I can cope with the high octane speed and balla nature of my life.
The GF is essentially obsessed with VW Golfs. She's had every version since Mark 2 and up. If I ever can find a Mark 1 on ebay for like £50 I might get it for her birthday. A nice cheap way to emphasise the thought counting. I have no idea what mark we're up to now, but it's the newest. I gotta say it's pretty swish, picks up like a beauty and will probably be the cause of my first speeding ticket.
And the kicker? The GF is afraid to drive it. And why? Because it doesn't have a hand break. Yes instead of the tradition lever she so often used to grind into place (drove me potty that crunch) there's just a tiny paddle. The test drive took five minutes to leave the car park because of this.
Then there was the haggle. I hate haggling, can't do it, useless at it. The GF on the other hand drives the hardest bargain going. She uses the tactic of staunchly not moving from a number by a single penny combined with either silence or repetition of what she said five minutes ago so you feel like you've been ignored for this time. It's a tactic I have been on the wrong end of on numerous occasions. I was cringing sat there in the dealership. We agreed to let her take the lead as in truth I thought the original offer was a fair one. She got £1.5k knocked off. I suck at haggling.
Poker news. I'm a little annoyed. I don't like to bring too many other thread stuff in here but I like to say how I feel.
There have been a few threads regarding multi accounting lately. Not gonna name any names (and please don't anyone else too, over 80 pages in this diary and Ducky is still reading, don't want it deleted) but something doesn't feel 100% right. There was someone who plays small ball, tried to take absolute liberties with a promo and got rightly punished. On the other hand there was a higher stakes Reg, won a big tourney on another account, put in a social media confession I know for a fact was seen by the relevant people and after a decent absence where I thought they had suffered the same fate up they pop again last night on my tables.
Now I do not know the whole story so not making any judgements or saying what should or shouldn't have happened. All I'm saying is in my very personal opinion, it don't feel right. I'm not saying the later should be banned or anything like that at all. I am saying they should get near enough the same. Maybe they have in the end and I just haven't seen the other guy? Who knows.
Then there was the haggle. I hate haggling, can't do it, useless at it. The GF on the other hand drives the hardest bargain going. She uses the tactic of staunchly not moving from a number by a single penny combined with either silence or repetition of what she said five minutes ago so you feel like you've been ignored for this time. It's a tactic I have been on the wrong end of on numerous occasions. I was cringing sat there in the dealership. We agreed to let her take the lead as in truth I thought the original offer was a fair one. She got £1.5k knocked off. I suck at haggling. Posted by TommyD
Wow, you've described exactly how it is with me and my GF when it comes to haggling!! We went to egypt a year and a half ago and haggling is just the norm there out in the street shops/markets. But my GF employs the exact same technique you've described whilst I sit there cringing inside thinking the original offer was fairly decent. But somehow it always seemed to work!!
Hey Tommy - Just read the last couple of pages of this and it makes a good read. Hope you don't mind, but would like to ask you a couple of questions.
I remember seeing you on TV probably a few years ago (don't know why I remember it), but you and Jakally were on and you said you wouldn't go Pro, is this still the case or are you now playing Poker Professionally? If you are what made you give up teaching? (Apologies if this is covered elsewhere in this diary).
When you say site 'next door', what site is that referring to or can't you put it on here?
In Response to Re: Many Rivers To Cross. A Diary. : Wow, you've described exactly how it is with me and my GF when it comes to haggling!! We went to egypt a year and a half ago and haggling is just the norm there out in the street shops/markets. But my GF employs the exact same technique you've described whilst I sit there cringing inside thinking the original offer was fairly decent. But somehow it always seemed to work!! Posted by F_Ivanovic
They have some mystical powers. If I ever took a holiday in the Middle East and ended up in a Souq, the shopkeepers would smell the easy meat. I'd come out with a dozen items of bric-a-brac, all paid for a full price because he seemed like a charming fellow and I just wanted to end the transaction as soon as possible. Socially awkward situations are against my nature more than overpaying.
Things women can do which men cannot:
Haggling. That way they can wrap a towel around their head after coming out of the shower. Seriously, I've tried to do that back when I had longer hair, how does it work? Start a sentence with the term 'Can you just do one thing while you're on your feet..' while the man is sat down, without one ounce of irony and with a 100% success rate. Throw instructions on how to make a table away rather than read them and not think this is completely unnatural.
Hey Tommy - Just read the last couple of pages of this and it makes a good read. Hope you don't mind, but would like to ask you a couple of questions. I remember seeing you on TV probably a few years ago (don't know why I remember it), but you and Jakally were on and you said you wouldn't go Pro, is this still the case or are you now playing Poker Professionally? If you are what made you give up teaching? (Apologies if this is covered elsewhere in this diary). When you say site 'next door', what site is that referring to or can't you put it on here? Cheers Greg. Posted by GREGSTER
Hey Greg
Don't mind answering at all. That show was just before myself, Neil and many others such as Ryan, Matt, Oldboy and Marc headed over for the Main Event. Lovely time, gutted I am not going this year, but an idea I have about that is for another post.
I'm not a poker professional. It's true I do, at this time, make the predominant amount of my income from poker. I'm trying to get some other things going, not quite worked out yet. Sorry to be vague but I don't want to say I'm doing something if it falls through at a very early stage, if things get off the ground I will let you guys know here.
I took a career break from teaching. I'm still on that break. I may go back, I may not. We will see. At the mo though everything, touch wood, is bumbling along tickety boo.
Next door is the online skin run by the venue for the UKPC, Dusk Till Dawn.
Good evening Tommy. Sorry to intrude on your thread, i know you have played the £2.20 @2.20 DEEPSTACK before, but if you are free on the 4th June i would consider it a huge honour if you could participate. Mr Thew has already registered along with some top class players. All the best Rainman397 P.S Mr Orford has declined at the moment.
In Response to Re: Many Rivers To Cross. A Diary. : Hey Greg Don't mind answering at all. That show was just before myself, Neil and many others such as Ryan, Matt, Oldboy and Marc headed over for the Main Event. Lovely time, gutted I am not going this year, but an idea I have about that is for another post. I'm not a poker professional. It's true I do, at this time, make the predominant amount of my income from poker. I'm trying to get some other things going, not quite worked out yet. Sorry to be vague but I don't want to say I'm doing something if it falls through at a very early stage, if things get off the ground I will let you guys know here. I took a career break from teaching. I'm still on that break. I may go back, I may not. We will see. At the mo though everything, touch wood, is bumbling along tickety boo. Next door is the online skin run by the venue for the UKPC, Dusk Till Dawn. Posted by TommyD
Thanks for taking the time to answer Tommy. Interesting times them, best of luck with whatever direction you take next.
Glad to see you've resurrected this thread after a lengthy sabbatical Tommy, it's always been a great read.
Advice please.....
Over the years and pretty much like yourself I have played a wide variety of the games available here on Sky. DYM's, NL20-100 cash, PLO 20-50 cash and MTT's. I find playing a variety of games keeps poker fresh and interesting for me but I reckon my scatter brained approach may be hindering my overall results. For instance at one stage tonight I had 3 MTT's, 3 DYM's, 4 NL50 and 1 PLO50 tables open. Got me thinking that with the different approaches and ranges applicable to each game there was no way I could be thinking/playing optimally. Do you keep your cash, DYM and MTT sessions totally separate or do you incorporate one or two together. Do you stick to playing primarily what's most profitable or do you just see how you feel at the start of any given session? Love the game and been lucky enough to be a small winner over the years but like many I feel I'd benefit from a little discipline in the game selection department.....
Great that you have started back posting in your diary. As always a great read esp your Sunday grind post. Re the muti accounters just a massive sigh. The promo guy was soo blatent esp on social media basically accounts for the whole family. The other was just as bad tweeting about it using hashtags and sending it to sky poker. Good luck with your targets for poker im sure you will smash them. Just a couple of questions
1) Are you going to Vegas this year ? 2) Any plans to do another sunday grind post ? 3) When are we going to find out about the missing fingers ?
Ps . Hope D the elder is still picking out winners
Good evening Tommy. Sorry to intrude on your thread, i know you have played the £2.20 @2.20 DEEPSTACK before, but if you are free on the 4th June i would consider it a huge honour if you could participate. Mr Thew has already registered along with some top class players. All the best Rainman397 P.S Mr Orford has declined at the moment. Posted by rainman397
Put me down as a maybe Rainman. The GF's niece and nephew arrive for a visit that day so not sure if I am free. If I am grinding, I'll play it mate.
Glad to see you've resurrected this thread after a lengthy sabbatical Tommy, it's always been a great read. Advice please..... Over the years and pretty much like yourself I have played a wide variety of the games available here on Sky. DYM's, NL20-100 cash, PLO 20-50 cash and MTT's. I find playing a variety of games keeps poker fresh and interesting for me but I reckon my scatter brained approach may be hindering my overall results. For instance at one stage tonight I had 3 MTT's, 3 DYM's, 4 NL50 and 1 PLO50 tables open. Got me thinking that with the different approaches and ranges applicable to each game there was no way I could be thinking/playing optimally. Do you keep your cash, DYM and MTT sessions totally separate or do you incorporate one or two together. Do you stick to playing primarily what's most profitable or do you just see how you feel at the start of any given session? Love the game and been lucky enough to be a small winner over the years but like many I feel I'd benefit from a little discipline in the game selection department..... R's Spanky Posted by SJspanky1
Hey Spanky (not the first time I've used that line)
These days I keep variant sessions completely separate. I used to play cash and MTTs at once but both games really suffered for me, I generally disconnected from one or the other. I know some can do it well, I'm just not quite in that mindset. I once tried to play NLHE, PLO and Badugi at once across three different sites. I knew it was maybe a bad idea when I tried to discard one on my PLO table.
I play what I feel like playing tbh. I think it's becoming increasingly more important to have a good understanding of a variety of mixed games because the edges in NLHE are getting smaller, you never know where the value will turn up and you never know the way poker will go. Just as the Stud players of the 70s thought the main game would always be stud, you never know what's gonna happen with NLHE. Ditto Cash, MTTs and STTs. STTs got solved a few years ago, then most of the regs disappeared, now there is a mini resurgence in them as more recs enter and the old regs have not been completely replaced.
I also love to switch around and keep my enjoyment of the game fresh and my interest fully involved.
Hi Tommy, Great that you have started back posting in your diary. As always a great read esp your Sunday grind post. Re the muti accounters just a massive sigh. The promo guy was soo blatent esp on social media basically accounts for the whole family. The other was just as bad tweeting about it using hashtags and sending it to sky poker. Good luck with your targets for poker im sure you will smash them. Just a couple of questions 1) Are you going to Vegas this year ? 2) Any plans to do another sunday grind post ? 3) When are we going to find out about the missing fingers ? Ps . Hope D the elder is still picking out winners All the best pal Pat Posted by day4eire76
Hey Pat, how's tricks man! Really hoping to get over to Dublin for something soon, will give you a shout when I make it!
1) Sadly no. A massive aim will be WSOP 2015 but I think I have to get the bankroll together from now for it. I want just once to go out there and play a huge schedule, just to see what could and would happen.
2) I will do another Sunday Grind post, probs not tomorrow but I'll bring it back for sure.
3) Dude, I don't know the story either. I'm going to the races with D the Elder next week so I might chance my arm with the aid of a few light ales and try to get the story out of him.
Yeah he's having a decent run with the nags and hounds. He's also texting me every time there's a football matchfixing story in The Times and telling me he told me so. He keeps quoting the page number without realising that not everyone gets the paper, I certainly don't.
Life news. Suffering a bit today. Went to the Nine Inch Nails gig at the O2 last night. Love that band so much and after several beers and an hour in the mosh pit I woke up this morning with a thorough understanding I'm not a kid anymore. It turned into a really bizarre night, I will blog about it later on in the week when I can piece it all together.
In Response to Re: Many Rivers To Cross. A Diary. : Hey Pat, how's tricks man! Really hoping to get over to Dublin for something soon, will give you a shout when I make it! 1) Sadly no. A massive aim will be WSOP 2015 but I think I have to get the bankroll together from now for it. I want just once to go out there and play a huge schedule, just to see what could and would happen. 2) I will do another Sunday Grind post, probs not tomorrow but I'll bring it back for sure. 3) Dude, I don't know the story either. I'm going to the races with D the Elder next week so I might chance my arm with the aid of a few light ales and try to get the story out of him. Yeah he's having a decent run with the nags and hounds. He's also texting me every time there's a football matchfixing story in The Times and telling me he told me so. He keeps quoting the page number without realising that not everyone gets the paper, I certainly don't. Catch ya soon mate. Posted by TommyD
In Response to Re: Many Rivers To Cross. A Diary. : Put me down as a maybe Rainman. The GF's niece and nephew arrive for a visit that day so not sure if I am free. If I am grinding, I'll play it mate. Posted by TommyD
Good afternoon Tommy. Thank you for reply, hope you can make it on the 4th June. All the best Rainman397
In Response to Re: Many Rivers To Cross. A Diary. : Good prompt lambo, I have geeked it up and the scores on the doors are (we both have multiple wins on some nights) 1 main win each 1 mini win each 3 £55bh wins for me, 2 for Mr D 2 £55bh speed wins v 4 for Mr D This means its 8 v 7 in the favour of the old guy. Posted by MattBates
After each winning the 9pm on a night we had already crossed off, my main win on Tuesday means its 8 all.
It's been a weird few weeks for me. Nothing different at home, luckily (and touching wood as I type this) all the members of my immediate family are in fine form. Two close friends of mine seem to be at the end of their marriage. It'll be the first (and statistically unlikely to be the last) very close friends of mine to get a divorce. It's all gone rather messy. It's not the first effective divorce, another two close friends of mine went through a similar break up a few years back at a time where same sex couples couldn't get a marriage to get divorced from. This is different though in one huge regard, kids are in the equation.
It's a scene straight out of the Jeremy Kyle back catalogue. I won't bore you with all of the sordid details but the fellow in the piece has decided to prove his virility by impregnating two women in a year. Not being Mormon, only one of these is his wife. He found out his sharpshooting abilities when we were at a Nine Inch Nails concert a little while ago, deciding to tell me all over a post gig beer at Aspers. While the urge to just smack him in the face was huge it would not help anyone. And the bouncers at Aspers are huge, I didn't fancy being taken the short way to the exit. So I became constructive instead, off we popped to see the non wed other half. Now there were two things I didn't know when I came up with the constructive plan. A) She lived in a housing estate in Tottenham. and She had two flat mates so didn't want us to go in. Thoughts of a nice cuppa on the sofa while they hashed things out in private suddenly dashed, they talked on the doorstep while I waited around the corner. Standing on a street corner in Tottenham selling neither narcotics or booty. At 2am. For an hour. I've had better evenings.
Situation clarified and realisation sunk in I took the fellow back home, to his wife. Under a unique combo of compassion towards him as a dear friend and the very real hint of violence if he didn't take my sage advice, he agreed with my advice to confess all to his wife which he did the following morning. That was a few weeks ago and the end result still seems a way off for them. Since then myself and the GF, as well as other friends, have become a sort of domestic services for the wife. Very happy to do it, she needs all the support in the world right now. The GF had a spell as cleaner, I am a groundsman since I am a dab hand with a mower. All this pith and lather just masks my actual sorrow for the kids. They have two boys, a toddler and a baby. It's going to be a rocky time for them and they won't even be able to understand why.
Notch up a Saturday night mini for me in the Bingo race v Mr Bates. Luckily there were two tonight so there were double chances. Took down the mini turbo thanks to a large overlay (the mini Primo was stickied, the mini turbo wasn't, so understandably a lot of people didn't even know it was there) and thanks to my luckbox reshove skillz.
Off to play live tomorrow. I made Day 2 of the £250 Deepstack at DTD. I played the online Day 1 and managed to bumble through. I arrive in Nottingham for a 50bb stack and all the hopes and fears live poker holds for me now. I am not playing live as much as I want to or even should be. My recent performances have been less than stellar. The UKPC main I played probably the worst day of poker I have ever played, and to make sure I squeezed every hideous moment of my own idiocy out of it I busted the very last hand of the day. The UKPC 6max was one bullet of awful play again and a second bullet of hope, played better, near the end of Day 1 and lose a 60/40 for a mighty stack. But at least there was improvement there. The GPS at Southend was a solid Day 1 followed by what I have the fear over now. A dribble down Day 2, in that I busted 4 or so from the money. Sounds unlucky, it wasn't. I was basically sat out for the entire day, I hate how I played that day, so so much. DTD Grand Prix was my last live poker. Again, like tomorrow, got through the online day 1 with a very good stack, then dribbled, bumbled, spewed and generally sighed my way into the middle of the money.
I want tomorrow to be different. I need to get over the fear. I need to tell myself so what if I bust the first orbit of Day 2 after a 2 hour car journey to get there. If it's the right move and right spot, take it. Don't dribble down, don't tighten up far too much, don't make nonsensical bluffs or plays, just play poker in a bubble. Sigh, I've said bubble. That's a bok.
So yeah, not playing live poker regularly for years (I started playing both live poker and online poker within a week of each other, I used to play live every week) has really thrown me off playing live. I have a vast array of fishy acting moves, facial sighs, groans and fake confused faces. I am also able to talk like a fool, including one time, at the SPT 6 Max, telling someone the correct calling range against my shove just because they asked me. No idea why I did that.
Will let you know how it goes. To add a dash of fun the GF is using the car in the morning, so I'm gonna be leaving it fine actually leaving. If I hit traffic I'll probably be late for the noon start, because I just wasn't feeling stressed enough with all of the self doubt. Marvellous.
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So me and the GF got a new car yesterday. We have gone from a black VW Golf to a black VW Golf. Not sure I can cope with the high octane speed and balla nature of my life.
The GF is essentially obsessed with VW Golfs. She's had every version since Mark 2 and up. If I ever can find a Mark 1 on ebay for like £50 I might get it for her birthday. A nice cheap way to emphasise the thought counting. I have no idea what mark we're up to now, but it's the newest. I gotta say it's pretty swish, picks up like a beauty and will probably be the cause of my first speeding ticket.
And the kicker? The GF is afraid to drive it. And why? Because it doesn't have a hand break. Yes instead of the tradition lever she so often used to grind into place (drove me potty that crunch) there's just a tiny paddle. The test drive took five minutes to leave the car park because of this.
Then there was the haggle. I hate haggling, can't do it, useless at it. The GF on the other hand drives the hardest bargain going. She uses the tactic of staunchly not moving from a number by a single penny combined with either silence or repetition of what she said five minutes ago so you feel like you've been ignored for this time. It's a tactic I have been on the wrong end of on numerous occasions. I was cringing sat there in the dealership. We agreed to let her take the lead as in truth I thought the original offer was a fair one. She got £1.5k knocked off. I suck at haggling.
There have been a few threads regarding multi accounting lately. Not gonna name any names (and please don't anyone else too, over 80 pages in this diary and Ducky is still reading, don't want it deleted) but something doesn't feel 100% right. There was someone who plays small ball, tried to take absolute liberties with a promo and got rightly punished. On the other hand there was a higher stakes Reg, won a big tourney on another account, put in a social media confession I know for a fact was seen by the relevant people and after a decent absence where I thought they had suffered the same fate up they pop again last night on my tables.
Now I do not know the whole story so not making any judgements or saying what should or shouldn't have happened. All I'm saying is in my very personal opinion, it don't feel right. I'm not saying the later should be banned or anything like that at all. I am saying they should get near enough the same. Maybe they have in the end and I just haven't seen the other guy? Who knows.
I remember seeing you on TV probably a few years ago (don't know why I remember it), but you and Jakally were on and you said you wouldn't go Pro, is this still the case or are you now playing Poker Professionally? If you are what made you give up teaching? (Apologies if this is covered elsewhere in this diary).
When you say site 'next door', what site is that referring to or can't you put it on here?
Cheers
Greg.
Things women can do which men cannot:
Haggling.
That way they can wrap a towel around their head after coming out of the shower. Seriously, I've tried to do that back when I had longer hair, how does it work?
Start a sentence with the term 'Can you just do one thing while you're on your feet..' while the man is sat down, without one ounce of irony and with a 100% success rate.
Throw instructions on how to make a table away rather than read them and not think this is completely unnatural.
Don't mind answering at all. That show was just before myself, Neil and many others such as Ryan, Matt, Oldboy and Marc headed over for the Main Event. Lovely time, gutted I am not going this year, but an idea I have about that is for another post.
I'm not a poker professional. It's true I do, at this time, make the predominant amount of my income from poker. I'm trying to get some other things going, not quite worked out yet. Sorry to be vague but I don't want to say I'm doing something if it falls through at a very early stage, if things get off the ground I will let you guys know here.
I took a career break from teaching. I'm still on that break. I may go back, I may not. We will see. At the mo though everything, touch wood, is bumbling along tickety boo.
Next door is the online skin run by the venue for the UKPC, Dusk Till Dawn.
Sorry to intrude on your thread, i know you have played the £2.20 @2.20 DEEPSTACK before, but if you are free on the 4th June i would consider it a huge honour if you could participate.
Mr Thew has already registered along with some top class players.
All the best
Rainman397
P.S Mr Orford has declined at the moment.
Greg.
Great that you have started back posting in your diary.
As always a great read esp your Sunday grind post.
Re the muti accounters just a massive sigh.
The promo guy was soo blatent esp on social media basically accounts for the whole family.
The other was just as bad tweeting about it using hashtags and sending it to sky poker.
Good luck with your targets for poker im sure you will smash them.
Just a couple of questions
1) Are you going to Vegas this year ?
2) Any plans to do another sunday grind post ?
3) When are we going to find out about the missing fingers ?
Ps . Hope D the elder is still picking out winners
All the best pal
Pat
These days I keep variant sessions completely separate. I used to play cash and MTTs at once but both games really suffered for me, I generally disconnected from one or the other. I know some can do it well, I'm just not quite in that mindset. I once tried to play NLHE, PLO and Badugi at once across three different sites. I knew it was maybe a bad idea when I tried to discard one on my PLO table.
I play what I feel like playing tbh. I think it's becoming increasingly more important to have a good understanding of a variety of mixed games because the edges in NLHE are getting smaller, you never know where the value will turn up and you never know the way poker will go. Just as the Stud players of the 70s thought the main game would always be stud, you never know what's gonna happen with NLHE. Ditto Cash, MTTs and STTs. STTs got solved a few years ago, then most of the regs disappeared, now there is a mini resurgence in them as more recs enter and the old regs have not been completely replaced.
I also love to switch around and keep my enjoyment of the game fresh and my interest fully involved.
1) Sadly no. A massive aim will be WSOP 2015 but I think I have to get the bankroll together from now for it. I want just once to go out there and play a huge schedule, just to see what could and would happen.
2) I will do another Sunday Grind post, probs not tomorrow but I'll bring it back for sure.
3) Dude, I don't know the story either. I'm going to the races with D the Elder next week so I might chance my arm with the aid of a few light ales and try to get the story out of him.
Yeah he's having a decent run with the nags and hounds. He's also texting me every time there's a football matchfixing story in The Times and telling me he told me so. He keeps quoting the page number without realising that not everyone gets the paper, I certainly don't.
Catch ya soon mate.
Pat
n Response to Re: Many Rivers To Cross. A Diary.:
Thank you for reply, hope you can make it on the 4th June.
All the best
Rainman397
It's been a weird few weeks for me. Nothing different at home, luckily (and touching wood as I type this) all the members of my immediate family are in fine form. Two close friends of mine seem to be at the end of their marriage. It'll be the first (and statistically unlikely to be the last) very close friends of mine to get a divorce. It's all gone rather messy. It's not the first effective divorce, another two close friends of mine went through a similar break up a few years back at a time where same sex couples couldn't get a marriage to get divorced from. This is different though in one huge regard, kids are in the equation.
It's a scene straight out of the Jeremy Kyle back catalogue. I won't bore you with all of the sordid details but the fellow in the piece has decided to prove his virility by impregnating two women in a year. Not being Mormon, only one of these is his wife. He found out his sharpshooting abilities when we were at a Nine Inch Nails concert a little while ago, deciding to tell me all over a post gig beer at Aspers. While the urge to just smack him in the face was huge it would not help anyone. And the bouncers at Aspers are huge, I didn't fancy being taken the short way to the exit. So I became constructive instead, off we popped to see the non wed other half. Now there were two things I didn't know when I came up with the constructive plan. A) She lived in a housing estate in Tottenham. and
Situation clarified and realisation sunk in I took the fellow back home, to his wife. Under a unique combo of compassion towards him as a dear friend and the very real hint of violence if he didn't take my sage advice, he agreed with my advice to confess all to his wife which he did the following morning. That was a few weeks ago and the end result still seems a way off for them. Since then myself and the GF, as well as other friends, have become a sort of domestic services for the wife. Very happy to do it, she needs all the support in the world right now. The GF had a spell as cleaner, I am a groundsman since I am a dab hand with a mower. All this pith and lather just masks my actual sorrow for the kids. They have two boys, a toddler and a baby. It's going to be a rocky time for them and they won't even be able to understand why.
Ladies, I agree. In many ways men suck.
Notch up a Saturday night mini for me in the Bingo race v Mr Bates. Luckily there were two tonight so there were double chances. Took down the mini turbo thanks to a large overlay (the mini Primo was stickied, the mini turbo wasn't, so understandably a lot of people didn't even know it was there) and thanks to my luckbox reshove skillz.
Off to play live tomorrow. I made Day 2 of the £250 Deepstack at DTD. I played the online Day 1 and managed to bumble through. I arrive in Nottingham for a 50bb stack and all the hopes and fears live poker holds for me now. I am not playing live as much as I want to or even should be. My recent performances have been less than stellar. The UKPC main I played probably the worst day of poker I have ever played, and to make sure I squeezed every hideous moment of my own idiocy out of it I busted the very last hand of the day. The UKPC 6max was one bullet of awful play again and a second bullet of hope, played better, near the end of Day 1 and lose a 60/40 for a mighty stack. But at least there was improvement there. The GPS at Southend was a solid Day 1 followed by what I have the fear over now. A dribble down Day 2, in that I busted 4 or so from the money. Sounds unlucky, it wasn't. I was basically sat out for the entire day, I hate how I played that day, so so much. DTD Grand Prix was my last live poker. Again, like tomorrow, got through the online day 1 with a very good stack, then dribbled, bumbled, spewed and generally sighed my way into the middle of the money.
I want tomorrow to be different. I need to get over the fear. I need to tell myself so what if I bust the first orbit of Day 2 after a 2 hour car journey to get there. If it's the right move and right spot, take it. Don't dribble down, don't tighten up far too much, don't make nonsensical bluffs or plays, just play poker in a bubble. Sigh, I've said bubble. That's a bok.
So yeah, not playing live poker regularly for years (I started playing both live poker and online poker within a week of each other, I used to play live every week) has really thrown me off playing live. I have a vast array of fishy acting moves, facial sighs, groans and fake confused faces. I am also able to talk like a fool, including one time, at the SPT 6 Max, telling someone the correct calling range against my shove just because they asked me. No idea why I did that.
Will let you know how it goes. To add a dash of fun the GF is using the car in the morning, so I'm gonna be leaving it fine actually leaving. If I hit traffic I'll probably be late for the noon start, because I just wasn't feeling stressed enough with all of the self doubt. Marvellous.