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Life's A Flop...

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  • SlipwaterSlipwater
    edited January 2015

    Grumpy Old Man: Item #1

    People who talk on their mobile phones at a decibel level that should be reserved for jet aircraft, the approach of a really big dinosaur, and the high-pitched squeals of five-year olds. You’re on the phone: there’s absolutely no need to shout: I promise they can hear you at the other end. If you insist on talking as if you’re trying to project to the dark side of the moon, please wait until I have vacated the area and am suitably out of earshot. Thank you.

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  • VespaPXVespaPX
    edited January 2015
    Can you read this?


              H H Y
                   F T R 

                        F T D R
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  • samantha25samantha25
    edited January 2015
    In Response to Re: Life's A Flop...:
    Can you read this?           H H Y                 F T R                      F T D R
    Posted by VespaPX

    Reads - T R O

                  LL

    I need an eye test Slip, been shocking since I picked up hayfever a few years ago. 

    Been putting it off as Eyeman is my local ophthalmologist <<< sure that's what he calls himself these days to sound posh(er) :)
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  • samantha25samantha25
    edited January 2015
    In Response to Re: Life's A Flop...:
    All I got from this was that you're pushing 40 :D :P
    Posted by mrsduck

    Will take the overs :)

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  • hhyftrftdrhhyftrftdr
    edited January 2015
    In Response to Re: Life's A Flop...:
    In Response to Re: Life's A Flop... : Reads - A B S    L U T    E    H E   R O              I need an eye test Slip, been shocking since I picked up hayfever a few years ago.  Been putting it off as Eyeman is my local  ophthalmologist  <<< sure that's what he calls himself these days to sound posh(er) :)
    Posted by samantha25
    FYP
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  • SlipwaterSlipwater
    edited January 2015
    In Response to Re: Life's A Flop...:
    In Response to Re: Life's A Flop... : Will take the overs :)
    Posted by samantha25
    You are banned for one orbit!
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  • neil1970neil1970
    edited January 2015
    Wishing you the best of luck in this quest for glory brian,i'm sure you can do this before you burn your way through 3k..
    Really have enjoyed the first few snippets of your diary made me smile after a sh***day at work....
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  • samantha25samantha25
    edited January 2015
    Orbit = aceness club - Morley/90's :) 

    This is what that word means to me.
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  • SlipwaterSlipwater
    edited January 2015
    In Response to Re: Life's A Flop...:
    Wishing you the best of luck in this quest for glory brian,i'm sure you can do this before you burn your way through 3k.. Really have enjoyed the first few snippets of your diary made me smile after a sh***day at work....
    Posted by neil1970
    Thanks Neil - always good to have an audience, and I can empathise with the bad days at work! :)
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  • samantha25samantha25
    edited January 2015
    I had this crazy dream last night. I was forced to read everyone's diary on the forum... so it was a nightmare really.

    Anyway, I won't bore you with how I decided killing myself was the only out... but yours was called "Slippery Water".

    Please never change it to this :)
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  • SlipwaterSlipwater
    edited January 2015
    Tonight’s TournamentsPosition
    £1,200 BH149/309
    £1,200 BH15/73
    MAIN EVENT135/373
    MINI EVENT90/256
      
    Balance2840.75
     
    Best Main Performance76th
    Consecutive Mains w/o Cashing3
    Best Mini Performance90th
    Consecutive Minis w/o Cashing3
        







    297 lives left...

    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.
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  • SlipwaterSlipwater
    edited January 2015
    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... ;)

    Balance £2841
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  • LARSON7LARSON7
    edited January 2015
    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.  
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  • SlipwaterSlipwater
    edited January 2015
    In Response to Re: Life's A Flop...:
    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 ;)

    Good luck this year.
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  • liamboi11liamboi11
    edited January 2015
    In Response to Re: Life's A Flop...:
    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 :)


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  • SlipwaterSlipwater
    edited February 2015

    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.

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  • mrsduckmrsduck
    edited February 2015
    Good luck with the exam slip...see you soon!
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  • SlipwaterSlipwater
    edited February 2015
    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 hell? 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 bloody 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.
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  • LARSON7LARSON7
    edited February 2015
    We all missed you, oh yes we did:)

    Gl with the exam tomor
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  • GELDYGELDY
    edited February 2015
    glgl, and don't forget your integrity
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  • SlipwaterSlipwater
    edited February 2015
    Sigh.

    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 ;)
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  • GELDYGELDY
    edited February 2015
    blame it on the mirror
    vul mate

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  • GELDYGELDY
    edited February 2015
    of course if i was Harry I'd say
    what you thick or something
    but I'm not so i won't
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  • hhyftrftdrhhyftrftdr
    edited February 2015
    In Response to Re: Life's A Flop...:
    of course if i was Harry I'd say what you thick or something but I'm not so i won't
    Posted by GELDY
    Excuse me?
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  • GELDYGELDY
    edited February 2015
    In Response to Re: Life's A Flop...:
    In Response to Re: Life's A Flop... : Excuse me?
    Posted by hhyftrftdr
    you're excused
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  • samantha25samantha25
    edited February 2015
    UL Slippy, better luck next time. 

    And next time, make sure you take double the time of the forum to revise ;)
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  • SlipwaterSlipwater
    edited February 2015
    In Response to Re: Life's A Flop...:
    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.

    Anyone else here playing the Mini on that day?
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  • SlipwaterSlipwater
    edited February 2015
    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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  • LARSON7LARSON7
    edited February 2015
    Hey Bri,

    Great to hear live cash is going so well for you.

    Have  a good time at Nottingham.
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  • liamboi11liamboi11
    edited February 2015
    hey mate enjoy nottingham hope u run well :)
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