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The charity hasn't been confirmed yet but I have an idea so will try and confirm asap. The Arsenal community charity seems like a good idea but I don't know if I can do it to Tommy!
So let's try to get the ol' diary back into action:
January? Well it's been swingy. Had one of my worst ever downswings in the middle of it. I managed to drop £7k in four days, the technical term for this sort of expenditure is a 'City Trader Weekender in Amsterdam.' Pre swong I had a purple patch, post swong I did a heck of a lot of grinding. Just like AC/DC we are now back in black for January. I'm probably going to cruise the last couple of days as well, I never have a winning January since the dawn of time, so booking a win would be sweet albeit a small one.
Ahhh, good reminding on the bet with Bates. Bet with Bates? Sounds like a channel 5 TV show, probably with a naked Keith Chegwin. Anyways, when Mr B decides upon the charity I will obv donate.
This year we're doing a good one so I have decided to keep track of it here. It is:
BINGO WITH BATESO
I know what you're thinking, how can anyone out bingo the man I will always call Bingo Bates. Well I like a challenge. The bingo card for the year is:
Every main of the week
Every mini of the week
Every 9pm £55 Bounty Hunter/The 9pm roller slot of UKOPS weeks etc of the week
Every 10.30 £55 Speed Bounty Hunter (obviously called the Matt Bates Invitational) of the week
Four in a night, twenty eight spaces to fill on the card. You tick them off with a win, most spaces filled in a year wins (or first to house up and get the set, although this is unreal tough).
And we've both frankly gotten off to a slow start.
The current scoring:
Matt - 1 - Weds Mini
Tommy 2 - Fri 9pm, Weds Main.
Obviously will get a lot more interesting closer to the end of the year or if we heater them. You will notice of course that Matt hasn't won the MBI this month to date. Might be time for a name change.....
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.
So I'm all regged up for the day. We're on three sites today. Sky, next door and ***. I have gone fairly heavy on Sky and ND, fairly light on *** but obviously in for the wing and a prayer big score finals. You never know, it might be my day. Just in the lows of the first two shovel events, plus oversized 11 and Bad Weather. (You may have picked up I've decided to over do the code for non Sky sites). As for Next Door, in for today's biggie there, a couple of the supports and will be grinding the Sats for the DTD live Deepstack and of course the UKPC. Here on Sky, basically regged everything a tenner and over up until 10:30pm. Really looking forward to the Roller tonight, I feel good and think I can break my barren spell in it. The UKPC final here should offer up a ton of seats (today is the day to take a shot at it if you are considering it imo) plus I've got he challenge final which will add a fun dynamic to my screen at a time I hope it will be chock-a-block.
Got a music mix on, it's ten hours in length. Let's hope I have to restart it today.
Happy gringing all, I hope to update every break
Oh yeah, numbers. In for £1.5k or so across the poker world today. Let's see if it was worth it.
The calm before the storm. Only been one tabling for the last hour, a £11 BHer on Sky. Pretty much in the field with one bounty. I haven't really focussed in just yet but nice a settled. I keep looking outside through my office door to the garden. Looks like a lovely day for a beer and to chill with friends. Sun is shining, life feels good. Then instead of feeling sorry for myself I remember two key points:
1) Sunday's is the biggest day of the week for Online Poker. It's one of the sacrifices, alongside giving up many Friday and Saturday nights.
2) Luckily I'm at the age where most of my good friends have mortgages and fleets of little 'uns. It's not like there's a party going on and I'm missing out.
Still, would be nice to chill in the garden with a cold one.
To give you an idea, here is my view. Please excuse the washing. It's washing day. I am obviously over 30 after saying that.
2 tabling Sky now, other sites begin from 4pm.
In other news, the Hound is running around in the garden without a care in the world, chewing stuff. Lucky girl
A genuine question as I honestly don't know what the best move would be in that spot.
Gl in all your games today
We have to think why we are betting. If it's to fold out everything we crush then we're doing something wrong. Although I take your point on board totally that that is a wet flop. And like I say, sometimes I raise for value, sometimes I flat.
Hope you run better in your other games!
Just to expand on that hand more. Their gutshot isn't the only turn card, they can also pick up a K or J etc to make it more difficult for them to fold. It's not just get there's a bricks for my oppos there, many cards in the deck, many permutations.
Anyway, back to it. Made first hour of the early Roller sat, got an ok stack. *** and Next door about to enter the fray. Sunday starts in earnest.
Hopefully your one will be shown on another night. I have bought popcorn especially
Need more tea I think.
No real progress on ***, can't find a spot next door. Getting ever so slightly frustrated. Not at the races yet. Will watch a Rocky montage in the break to find inspiration.
The meat of Sky will open soon, only got a Roller semi going there, bumbling along.
Next Door I have GGed get Cosy, got their main to the power of 4 going, average start
Shovel 43L on ***, found some traction, probably luckboxing, managed to chip up a bunch. And I have survived late reg in it, a feat in itself.
GL grinders. Feeling more in the zone of a Sunday
GG 43l. JJ v KK Button v SB. Not sure if standard or if I could play it different. Think it'll be one I discuss with friends later. 44L just started, that's my only other *** tonight.
Next Door, 3 of the starting 4 still carry the banner into the next hour, one of them with a decent stack, the other two around the average. Still got the UKPC sat next door to come at 9pm
Since the de regging Sky has been mostly sats with no real success. But I still have main and mini, 9pm, MBI YKPC final and UKPC Challenge ahead. Now it matters.
Next Door I have two good stacks and one below average stack in the special.
*** Main around starting, not much to report.
Big hour this coming up, really is going to define my day I feel. Game face time.
In other news the Hound has decided to stop licking and chewing everything in the garden. She has decided right now she'd much prefer to lie behind me and snore like a fog horn. Bless. Kinda......