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Some of you will remember the charity 24 hour pokerthon that Larson7 and I did back in December 2013. This morning - 18 months after we did it - I got an email saying someone had donated £40, bringing the total to £1,345 for Cancer Research UK.
The page is still available here --
https://www.justgiving.com/pokerthon/
-- if you want to go check it out. The donation is listed to visitors as 'Anonymous' but as the owner of the page I can see the person's name.
If this is you, thank you very much - better late than never and all that jazz - although a quick Google search (I'm quite good at those...) has me thinking this person probably doesn't play on Sky, you know, being a big name live player an' all...
Anyway, if you missed it first time round and want to throw some money at it, thanks in advance.
I did suggest to Larson7 that we do it again, this time for 36 hours, but he told me what I could go and do with that idea.
Sigh.
I'm sure there are other degenerates knocking around on here that would be willing to have a run at topping the 24 hour mark and raising more. With it's current popularity I'm sure a micro PLO8 cash table could be kept running for the cause
All is fine. The job may not be there for much longer, but such is life - I'm sure I can pick up another one of those. There are certainly forum regs who have it a lot tougher than I do right now, so I don't wish to undermine or draw silly comparisons... but I'm a writer, so I'm prone to wallow in a bit of melodrama from time to time.
Phantom - no offense taken at all, but what on earth makes you think I've ever won a flip?
Sam - your compassion is duly noted.
Oddly, this last weekend was the most profitable I've had in the casino - perhaps the knowledge that I may be out of a job soon pushed me to try something different, and I walked away with just under £1k for my Friday/Saturday efforts.
Lucky hand of the weekend: I raised pre to £8 with AQ and get two callers. The rainbow flop comes down Q34. I lead out for £12. Caller number one shoves for £130 and caller number two calls (leaving himself with about £40 behind). So there's now just under £300 in the pot and I have top pair. I thought about it for ages - put one of them on a big queen (maybe even the same hand as mine) and the other one on maybe A2 or a mid pocket pair like 7s or 8s.
It probably should have been a fold, and I don't think your profit/loss for the night should ever be a factor in your decision, but I looked down at my stack and saw that I was about £200 to the good for the night, so going for it here wasn't really going to hurt me. I raised, to put the other guy all-in. He showed JQ and the original shove showed 34. Way ahead of one, and way behind the other. Dodge a jack. Ace or queen for the win.
Turn 6. River 6.
Ouch.
I win the £400 pot.
I only intended to take a few days away from the forum, and before long a few days turned into a week, that into a month, and then... well, here we are. And three months down the line, the reasons for my absence in the first place have escaped me.
Now, if you don't mind, the level of literacy around this place has not improved sans Slipwater, and as a result there are a lot of grammatically incorrect posts I have to fix.
See you in another few months then, yeah?