Harebrained November Challenge - from £17.15 to Priority?

tomgoodun

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.

Phantom66

^^^^I think it could be Salman Rushdie but I doubt he will admit that - which will prove it's him! (or not)

SR23

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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. 

SR23

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^^^^I think it could be Salman Rushdie but I doubt he will admit that - which will prove it's him! (or not)
Posted by Phantom66

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. 

SR23

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. 

Bankroll: £986.51

Points: 4052

TheEdge949

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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

SR23

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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

Ha, it's not. OR IS IT? 

SR23

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. 

Bankroll: £1055.26

Points: 4472

unknown_username

come and join jack and me in the friday orfordable its a fun 10 seater tourny plus Neil Channing is playing tonight with a £25 bounty on his head

gl bud

SR23

Sorry dude, missed this. Next week, perhaps. Looks fun. 

SR23

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. 

Points: 5599

Bankroll: £1152.45

unknown_username

Na. I'm Eastbourne, same coast though.

Great read.

SR23

Shame, but thanks very much though Mumsie. 

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-hell rec's open, he calls, shortstack (70 bigs) who had flatted shoves, I shove over the top (350 bigs), and loose-as-hell 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. 

Okay, bye. 

Donttelmum

Enjoy your diary SR.

Oh, and I play tennis.....but live in Newcastle

Tikay10

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Na. I'm Eastbourne, same coast though. Great read.
Posted by mumsie

Very astute, mumsie.

In fact if you lived in Swansea, Blackpool, John O'Groats, Skegness or Southend, it'd still be the same coast.

Tikay10

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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.  

Tikay10

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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

There is no such thing as a "cement bridge".

How many times do I have to explain this? 

Tikay10

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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.

Obv.   

Tikay10

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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.   

Tikay10

You may continue.

unknown_username

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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

chilling

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In Response to Re: Harebrained November Challenge - from £17.15 to Priority? : 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
Posted by stokefc

Nay, just connecting the cement , concrete theme.Plastic, wrought iron, wooden furniture needs a lot of upkeep or in the plastic case, needs throwing in the recycling bin. Concrete furniture just needs the occasional blast with the jet washer.Easy.

SR23

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Enjoy your diary SR. Oh, and I play tennis.....but live in Newcastle
Posted by Donttelmum

Thanks very much DTM - do you play live up there? I'm on a really protracted tour of all of the UK's casinos (Aberdeen was a highlight) and will drop you a PM if you do. Should be up there at some point in 2017. 

SR23

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In Response to Re: Harebrained November Challenge - from £17.15 to Priority? : 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.   
Posted by Tikay10

Good post, would read again. But - gah - I should have highlighted the cement/concrete distinction. In my mid-twenties I worked for a couple of years on a building site in Mallorca. My days were spent mixing concrete (they called it pasta, which is cool as) and taking concrete to builders. Not sure I've ever been happier. Those concrete mixers are seriously hypnotic/meditative. Do wonders for your body, too. 

IrishRose

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In Response to Re: Harebrained November Challenge - from £17.15 to Priority? :  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.   
Posted by Tikay10

Well - unless I've baked it - and then it's more likely to taste like concrete.........

PS SR23 - great diary and one I head for most days but forget to comment on!  Good luck with the rest of the month x

SR23

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In Response to Re: Harebrained November Challenge - from £17.15 to Priority? : Well - unless I've baked it - and then it's more likely to taste like concrete......... PS SR23 - great diary and one I head for most days but forget to comment on!  Good luck with the rest of the month x
Posted by IrishRose

Great stuff, thanks Irish Rose. I'll do my best. 

dragon1964

Enjoying the diary.

I must apologise for Tikay's "rants".

I was the one who accidentally(??!!) put "cement" bridges in my post.

I must try harder.

Keep up the good work.

Remember many people read who do not post.

SR23

Thanks Dragon, both for your positive words and for getting Tikay all pumped-up - appreciate it. 

scouse_red

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Thanks Dragon, both for your positive words and for getting Tikay all pumped-up - appreciate it. 
Posted by SR23

great diary this SR ..... cracking read all the way through, it's definitely "cementing" it's place as one of the most popular threads on here, and "it's set in stone" that it's my first port of call every day.

keep up the good work

and Good Luck with your challenge, Run Good

Tikay10

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Enjoying the diary. I must apologise for Tikay's "rants". I was the one who accidentally(??!!) put "cement" bridges in my post. I must try harder. Keep up the good work. Remember many people read who do not post.
Posted by dragon1964

Eh?

As Queen Victoria may have said, we are not amused.

Agree, it's a grand Diary, & I apologise to Mr Harebrain for the diversion. Which was your fault.
 
I promise to ignore any such future jibes.
 
"cement bridges" indeed. You'll be referring to a locomotive as a "train" next, or a ceiling as a roof, or a tile as a slate.