Tables closing at a rate of knots. GG the Roller. Decide to white knuckle a hand versus a very aggro player with a chip stack. They have set. I think it's ok how I played it, obv can 3bet/gii pre as well. Player Action Cards Amount Pot Balance TimmyRaRa Small blind 400.00 400.00 15030.00 daveyt86 Big blind 800.00 1200.00 12162.50 Your hole cards A Q MUZOWNED Raise 1600.00 2800.00 79831.25 Djinnrummy Fold Bromley023 Fold TommyD Call 1600.00 4400.00 19640.00 TimmyRaRa Fold daveyt86 Fold Flop 7 8 A MUZOWNED Bet 1865.00 6265.00 77966.25 TommyD Call 1865.00 8130.00 17775.00 Turn 2 MUZOWNED Bet 3845.00 11975.00 74121.25 TommyD Call 3845.00 15820.00 13930.00 River K MUZOWNED All-in 74121.25 89941.25 0.00 TommyD All-in 13930.00 103871.25 0.00 MUZOWNED Unmatched bet 60191.25 43680.00 60191.25 MUZOWNED Show 8 8 TommyD Show A Q MUZOWNED Win Three 8s 43680.00 Posted by TommyD
for those of you suffering with back pain allow me to help. simply cellotape your laptop battery to your back, leave it on overnight and in the morning the grief is relieved. i know because i tried it. booze led me to this lifechanging idea. feel free...
Would it not just be easier,cheaper,more fun, and obv guarantee a return every Sunday, if you just brought a piece of Bates each week? Ok....it would possibly be a shorter return then you get some weeks, but if worse comes to worse, you could always sell some of them many UKPC seats you have to tide you over. On a serious note, UL last night but good to know (in a funny kind of way) that these nights happen to us all and no one is immune from that fickle beast called variance . Posted by MAXALLY
I think trying to get regular action off of Matt wouldn't be a tall order.
And ty ty, beast of a Sunday but apart from a couple of close ones, such as the Roller exit, I didn't do much wrong. And you'll be happy to hear I didn't steal another UKPC seat
for those of you suffering with back pain allow me to help. simply cellotape your laptop battery to your back, leave it on overnight and in the morning the grief is relieved. i know because i tried it. booze led me to this lifechanging idea. feel free... Posted by robertod
Is it worrying that my back can be so bad that I am actually considering this?
So I've been in Nottingham since Friday. We've now hit Monday and it's quite interesting already..
Acting All English
I took the train to Notts, the GF and I share a car so taking it for over a week would be a little cheeky. I get to my seat on the train and I have a table seat. Lovely, figure I can grind for a couple of hours. Only downside is the young lady sitting opposite me has put her suitcase on the table, it covers nearly every inch of it. Now I could either ask her politely to stow it at the end or I could act all English and use the one and a half inches I had remaining to be to balance the laptop between table and belly while playing cash. I took option two. She seemed quite pleasant, we chatted a little. She still never moved her case.
Later I would hit DTD, where I would move my rep as a Satty Street Walker into the love arena.
And. ...... Haven't been this excited reading a diary since whenever Posted by GELDY
Going to be short sharp bursts my friend, on my phone and don't trust the software enough to write out more than a few paragraphs at a time without getting logged out.
In Response to Re: Many Rivers To Cross. A Diary. : Going to be short sharp bursts my friend, on my phone and don't trust the software enough to write out more than a few paragraphs at a time without getting logged out. Posted by TommyD
In Response to Re: Many Rivers To Cross. A Diary. : Just lost a huge post so gonna wait until I am back on my laptop tonight to continue, sigh times. Posted by TommyD
vul
drives you nuts when that happens as well
and it's totally unneccessary
I mean how difficult is it to program a functioning bulletin board
In Response to Re: Many Rivers To Cross. A Diary. : vul drives you nuts when that happens as well and it's totally unneccessary I mean how difficult is it to program a functioning bulletin board thought i'd say it for you Posted by GELDY
As a Mod on this site it would be totally inappropirate for me to tell you how 100% correct you are.
Being Morally Wrong to Live DTD Regs; Dem Sats Were Made For Street Walking
So off the train, check in, complete the three S's and it's time to hit DTD. The original plan was to arrive towards the end of the late reg period for Day 1b of the mini. However there were two fatal flaws in my plan:
1) I decided to walk to DTD
2) I decided to attempt a short cut to DTD
An hour wandering around a huge industrial estate later, I arrived past the late reg. Bumped into Nutter which was lovely, been a while since I have seen him and he was in sparkling form railing exactly 10% of Dan Brown who was still in the mini. These lads are cracking to chill with and was lovely o see them both here. They ended up spending most of Friday forming a sort of Northern Olympics at the local bowling alley, creating events out of every arcade game and activity there. I have no idea who won, I'm pretty sure they were both claiming victory.
For something to do I flicked it in for the Mini Sat. Now I already had a seat and had pre regged from a DTD online sat but I was bored and fancied a game. It's a £15 rebuy and just had a hint of wildness. Note the entry of the target event. £250. I am sure on person at my table was pushing £300 by the time the add on came around. Had Ivan/Wes on my table who most of you will know for his great posts here, particularly in The Clinic. Absolutely wonderful bloke to chat with over the next few days. He made the cash in the end and I believe nabbed a Main Seat, really chuffed for him because he really deserved it.
Anyway, back to the Satty. The first shocker was I was only in for £35. I can't believe it either. I make a satellite fold with TT on the turn facing an eight high board, threeway. It was pretty close but I think the fold in a Sat is good there. I would give you the full action but it has been lost in a haze of folding. I didn't play another hand for the next 90 minutes. Blinding down to the seat bubble (Still with Ivan and Minty, another great guy to have a laugh with) I am 16/16 with 7bb. Silly thing is, I'm still very confident of a seat, because the general play at both tables told me optimal sat strat was not in full force. We just had a double bustout on the same table to go from 18 to 16, that should so rarely happen in a sat at that stage. There was one of those really annoying breaks fo twenty minutes, so when I returned I steeled myself to fold like I have never folded before.
Then all of a sudden a gent on the other table, holding a top three stack, tells both tables 'I can't play the game tomorrow, everyone give me a fiver and I'll take that and the £45 left over for the seat bubble.' I do have a regret here. After everyone else agreed what I should of done was pick up the four chips which represented my stack, scratched my chin and said to him 'Nah mate, I'm good thanks, let's play.' What I actually did was snap the deal off.
So the fellow went off with cash and I had a second bullet for the mini. As if I'd need that.....
More tomorrow, in ral time I'm off to DTD again now, time for some cash action, or attempting to steal a main seat from a live reg, depending on the rules this time around.
Further updates include drunk cash, a lol fold and a French Gymnast Team. And that is not a joke
I played Day 1c of the mini. I didn't play well. Bullet number one was done and dusted in four levels. Never really had a hand, tried too many bluffs which really didn't make too much sense and in the end I jammed 22bb with AQo over an open from a lovely young tattooed lady. Quite a number of ladies with body art here, which means I have the Song as sung by Kermitt the Frog, Lydia the Tattooed Lady pretty much on repeat in my head. Google it, it's lovely. She asked me if I wanted a call and like the live fish I am I answered with the truth, I wanted to double or to re enter. So she called with 76s. They then proceeded to pretty much flop me dead.
CHIPS PLEASE!
So let's try it again I thought. Interesting new seat. I get a table with Sin Melin, very aggressive and good player currently sponsored by Tilt, and HoneyBadger from Blonde whose Strat posts on there are some of the very best. Luckily for me he is much more of a cash and mixed games player but still exceptionally handy at Holdem. He's also a lovely fellow to chat with and it's so nice to have other people at the table trying to get everyone chatting and generally have a good time. I didn't play a hand for a level, just card dead and it wasn't the sort of table to get involved light unless you were prepared to risk the lot. Sin took a hit and was battling a gentleman to my right. After going short she decided to go all in blind if the fellow on my right would call blind. I'm next to act with all this dead money in there and see A3s. Raised it is then. I haven't played a hand so I look massive which means marginals which beat us will fold, as AJ apparently did from round the back. We hold and knock out Sin. Then a little mini heater, flop top two versus top pair and FD, get it in on flop and hold. Then flat AA UTG+1 after a UTG open, get it in on flop and fade another flush draw. Starting to get a stack now. UTG playing 20bb limps (that'll be something big then) so we limp along 77 hoping no one squeezes. They don't, flop a set, UTG has QQ. Lovely stuff.
Then the meltdown. Many sighs here on in. I had another very nice body inked woman on my table now. I had already gotten away with one versus her by playing a flush draw which didn't get there was a set or trips (top card on the flop paired on the turn, was good for my range) and flat flop, c/r turn and bomb-a-long river got through.
Lolfold time. I always have one these days in live poker. I open UTG with AK and get three callers. Flop A96cc, we do not have a club. SB donk leads and I figure it might sometimes be a set but mostly we're looking at betting to see where we are with a marginal up to a combo draw. So i flat to keep her betting. Then the fellow who won the PLO (unconfirmed but is he Russia on Sky, think I saw that somewhere) in Feb raises. Interesting, I am at this point still pretty sure I have the best hand most often. Then the young lady ums and errs really visibly. Suddenly my mind is drawn to that awful Hollywooding at an EPT and I am suddenly convinced I am dead. It's a set, it has to be, the attacking was so bad. So I nitfold which soon turns into a lolfold when I see she had AJo and he had ATo. Sometimes them doing that is what it is I guess. I'm a fish.
Then I run another play on the lady, get to the river and I really can't rep anything. I'm about to give up when the trays for a table break come over. This totally changes my mind because now I have no way of getting these chips back in a later hand. So we have a pop and get policed by an overpair. Was a good call, I can't remember much about the hand other than I repped nothing in the slightest.
So table move and a gentleman in his early 120s was having fun. He had roughly a bazillions chips, one arm in a sling and a song in his heart. He was doing his standard 15x opens, 10x 3bets and singing while he got the lot. Card dead again I waited. And I look down at AKo again. I am not folding it now, I 3bet an open. A fellow who had not played a hand since I sat down cold 4bets. I know /i should fold but then after another player tried to clarify something the gent stated shouting really nastily at the player and the dealer. I decided i just wanted to get there to see the look on his face. Might be a leak. He had Kings and we bricked to bust. Oh well, to the bar then.....
So after a lovely drink and giggles with wonderful people like Nutter, Dan, Ivan and the Brommers Duo I somehow end up on a 1/1 table. This generally does not end well. However this was my night. Apparently. Not completely sure, shots were involved and I only recall two hands.
Hand One
We bought in for a ton and are now playing £300. We don't know how we got here. Defend T8o against a player who covers. Flop 886. Had worse, let's check/call. Turn is a 2, he bets big and we flat again. River is the case 8. Oh hello there. Of course we really risk losing value by checking, but it is unlikely they raise a donk lead. Let's try to go for the lot, YOLO etc. I check, in my head I am screaming 'Don't check back!' He doesn't. I jam over his bet something like two times the pot. He smiles, is very confident and says 'I only lose to quads' and proudly calls with QQ. I say 'I have quads Sir'. He growled at me all the way to hand two.
QQ fellow open jams UTG with AQ. It looks like £40 but there is a cheeky pink £100 pink chip hidden away. Didn't make much of a difference, I had AA. Good times. I cash in over £600 in profit, get back to the hotel and begin to sleep it off.
Ok back to real time, off to play the PLO now, really
Great read Tommy, was good to meet with you! Kind of wish I was there playing the PLO. I decided against it but now wish I hadn't!! What day are you playing the main? I really don't know whether to play it or not. £1k on just 1 tournament just seems ridiculous with my BR. But then I'm in for just £40 and I don't really fancy going to DTD multiple times for other smaller BI tournaments to use up the £1k where I'm not likely to have as much fun as I would at the £1k with plenty of sky regs there! So yeah... I think I pretty much have to play. Just need to book a hotel again, preferably one closer again! What were you staying at again?
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And ty ty, beast of a Sunday but apart from a couple of close ones, such as the Roller exit, I didn't do much wrong. And you'll be happy to hear I didn't steal another UKPC seat
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Mr D (the dirty live sat animal!)
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