Ramblings of an old man

Jac35

Cheers chaps

Gazza

You're the last one. PM bank details and I'll send you some money

You'll see me at the main event. Unfortunately I wont  be playing. Gonna turn up though and do a bit of railing/drinking.

hhyftrftdr

In Response to Re: Ramblings of an old man:

Busto unfortunately.  Cashed for £500 in 55th 5 short of the £1k seat. Guess that's just not meant to be.  A number of times I've come close to a seat for that.  Not to worry though. Had a great time.  Loved every minute of it.  Gl to Slklist, Ivan and Ryan who I think are still in. Exit hand I think was pretty standard.  I jammed 135,000 from the small blind at 600/1200 with 200 running ante. Had K6.  It gets through plenty of times and even when called prob still got 40% He had Ace 10 and I didn't improve.  Great tournament and thanks to Adam,  John and Gazza for the 10%'s. So pleased you've doubled your money.  Sorry it wasn't a little more
Posted by Jac35

FYP.

Standard jam for north of 100 bigs blind on blind I'd say.

Bit of a set up hand tbh, never getting away from that.

TENTENTEN

wd paul wp

shakinaces

Congrats on the cash, must have been a pretty tense time in the run up to the 50 ME seat bubble!

MAXALLY

Bloody rubbish! ☺

(see ya at the bar mate) 

Jac35

I thought the atmosphere was really good at DTD. However, on my table for most of day1 was the sort of chap who can give live poker a bad name.

I didn't bother to get his name. His name in my head was 'pro boy'. 

He was fully kitted out. 

Hoodie - check

Poker site logo cap - check 

Big headphones - check

etc

He called the floor 5 times during the time he was there. He demanded clarification on matters. He said,too loudly, to me that it wasn't a £15 freezeout and if the dealers didn't know what they were doing, then they  shouldn't be there.

One guy starting to count out a raise and one of his chips just about crossed the line as he was doing so. Instant shout "floor" and then to the dealer "I shouldn't be having to do your job. The line is a rule here and that is a call" Technically correct maybe but we all knew the players intention.

He talked about ranges, thin value and so on.

I had one lovely moment where I'd flopped a set from the bb and took the betting lead on the turn. I bet big on the river and he said my line only makes sense if I have a set. He then called with top pair and as I turned my cards he exclaimed "God, I'm good"  I smiled back at him agreeing.

He seemed to like me, which was a shame because every time he wanted to moan about how bad the other players were, he turned to me.

There was a lovely finish to all this. On my table for the whole day was a guy called Kevin. Really great bloke, plays occasionally on Sky as SpecialB20. He had driven up from Falmouth at 04.00 to get there and was driving back on Sunday. He had been really unlucky and grinded 10 bigs for 5 hours. Ended up cashing as well, which was great.

Kevin wasn't a fan of pro boy but was far too polite to say anything. He just looked at me a few times and rolled his eyes. As you have to do when short he was making a few moves. 3 times he ended up all in against pro boy.

Hand 1 pro boy is big favourite with a dominating ace. Board pairs on the turn. "Double pair it for the chop" shouts pro boy. BINK

Hand 2 pro boy is favourite with AJ v 89. He flops the J. Turn brings a gut shot. "Give him a 10" shouts pro boy

BINK

Hand 3 pro boy is big favourite. Can't remember the actual hands. Before river "Give him a 6" shouts pro boy

BINK

Kevin is really struggling hard now not to laugh.

Iranian bloke with an amazing accent and a slightly high pitched voice, who was really good fun says "why you keep asking for the card that beats you? Is stupid" Pro boy not amused, rest of table struggling with their poker faces.

2 mins later pro boy is out. Bangs the table and leaves with the comment "can never beat bad players"

Everyone at the table looks at each other. Everyone smiles. We all know that, inside everyone of us is cheering

liamboi11

wp on your cash mate nice one ul not get in top 50 for main event seat but it`s good your still attending means we can still get our drink on .

Also one other thing sounds like pro boy needs a drink haha

Jac35

Enjoyed a good run in the main tonight.

Once the blinds got high I was in my comfort zone. No more having to play through the streets. Just close my eyes and shove

Got low and then ran really well to be chip leader from about 18 in. Made the final table and came 6th in the end for £230.

Really pleased for Hendrik62 who won it. He played a great game. 

I was railing Bromleys table as well and he had about a million chips at one stage. Unfortunately he had a few coolers late on.

...

Bought Harry, Heisenburg and Los Pollos baby grows. Is that bad? I'll put the pics up soon.

I can imagine the conversation with my Mum.

Mum "What's this all about then? Odd babygrow, man in sunglasses and a hat?"

Me "oh, it's from a television series. Heisenberg, aka Walter, is an ill man who start cooking crystal meth. Oh, he kills lots of people as well"

Mum "Lovely. What about the other one?

Me "Los Pollos is the restaurant chain that Gus owns"

Mum "Gus?"

Me 'Yeah, he's worse than Walter"

Mum "Marv"

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wp paul

Jac35

I've had a look at the situations vacant post. I don't think I'll be applying but I am prepared to do a job share.

I feel that some of the poor people who have lost with Aces occasionally get mocked in BB&V.

Therefore, I offer my services.

Anyone who has suffered an unfortunate run out of cards can post the hand here. I will be extremely sympathetic and will nod and shake my head at the appropriate times.

I think I'll call it the "I've had a Badbeat JacPost"

GELDY

careful what you wish for Paul

I'm sure you are fully qualified for any of the roles on offer.  But do you really want your great thread cluttered up with bad beat stories? 

GELDY

did i tell you of my last live game

just before the FT and I shove my 8BB from the BB over a couple of limpers with Ax

one of the limpers, with only about 15BB himself, tanks for a couple of minutes repeating

"i feel lucky"

and then calls with 26s

and yes he was - hits his 2 on the flop

Jac35

In Response to Re: Ramblings of an old man:

did i tell you of my last live game just before the FT and I shove my 8BB from the BB over a couple of limpers with Ax one of the limpers, with only about 15BB himself, tanks for a couple of minutes repeating "i feel lucky" and then calls with 26s and yes he was - hits his 2 on the flop
Posted by GELDY

Well why the xxxx did you let yourself get down to 8 bigs?

You brought it all on yourself.

Yep, I think I'll be good at this

Jac35

I have a cold and I'm grumpy. This as you will be aware is very unusual for me.

Managed to get a post deleted for the first time ever as well.

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Went over to DTD last night for a while. Good to meet up with people again. Fantastic achievement to make the guarantee and great to see some of the Sky regs doing well.

I'm off work till Tuesday now and so hopefully I'll get over again and maybe play a bit myself

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Think I'll go for a little nap now before I get myself into more trouble

devonfish5

Hi Paul,

thanks for your post in my diary mate.

no worries about anything, we all have our own points of view & our own way of playing & how we see things.

as i said, the only thing that matters is either having fun or winning, preferably both.  ha ha

run good buddy,dev

Jac35

Glenelg

Loving your posts...............  I've not had a bad beat in ages! Why?  when I get outdrawn etc. I call it a "lesson"!  It feels less painful that way.  :-)   I've had quite a few lessons in the last week & learned from quite a few of em....

GELDY

ok 8BB not enough for you

was playing a cheapo deep stack the other night

when I was 3 bet by an aipf shove of over 100BB

had to call with my KK

and the villain showed AQ

only hit a house didn't he

a little later we had another aipf this time for 130BB

didn't call that time - do you think that was wrong of me? 

PS googoo gaga

Jac35

Geldy

Just copied your post from another thread

"K6 was it?

live generally plays tighter than online though it is table dependent

maybe i've just been hanging around with teeks a bit too much!"

It was a really interesting spot actually. A bit of background. I had sold 40% of my action in the mini. It had been agreed that the stake was for the mini only and that there would be no carry on to the main if I got a seat. I was uncomfortable but it's what we went with.

If I was playing purely for myself and using this tourney as a satellite, then I think it's an easy fold. I had locked up £500 and could probably blind myself out of the mini but secure a £1000 seat. With the top heavy payout structure, I would have needed to finish around 10th to get the same return.

This just wouldn't have been fair on the people who had been good enough to invest in me though. I had to play it as a normal tourney. 

I was on a very aggressive table with no real weak players. For once tha action had folded around to me in the small blind. I'm playing 135000 and with the blinds and antes there's 30000 in the middle. The big blind has around 380000 and so will not be calling me light. I get the shove through plenty of times here. Even when called Ive still most likely got around 40%.

I think the play was fine. I was just a little unlucky to run into a hand.

Jac35

Before I start this post I need to stress that everything should be fine now.

The beginning of the week marked the start of the worst 48 hours of my life.

On Monday morning Harry woke up as usual around 6.30 and Penny gave him his bottle. About 30 minutes later he was grumbling a little and so I brought him into bed with us for 10 minutes before getting up. He was immediately quiet and after a few seconds Penny turned over as she's used to him wriggling around. She began screaming as Harry wasn't breathing and his eyes were open but totally vacant.

Later, I found out that I without knowing it, I did the right thing. I shook him a little with no response and then jumped out of bed with him and he quietly came round. We took him to Childrens A&E and they did plenty of tests on him and observed him for most of the day.

They explained that these things can happen and unfortunately they couldn't give a reason but all the tests had come back fine and he should be ok.

We have a device that monitors his breathing and movement. If it doesn't detect either of these things after 20 seconds it goes crazy. Around midnight it went off. We ran to him and he seemed to be sleeping normally and was breathing ok.

Straight back to A&E and the staff were marvellous. They did a full set of tests on him including a lumbar puncture to test for meningitis. I'm sure you can imagine what it was like seeing him having to go through this.

The next morning the results  came through and again everything was ok. The consultant believed that he had a viral infection and pauses between breathing are totally normal and can be longer when not 100%.

He was very reassuring and said he had seen this many times before. He was happy to send him home stating that in all his years he had never sent a baby home after something like this and they'd been a problem. We just had to trust him.

Putting Harry to bed that night was the most stressful thing that I think I've ever done. I must have checked on him a 100 times. We decided to leave the second monitor on all night which beeps as he breathes. It was frightening and we haven't done that again.

He slept well and did so again last night. His cold has come through a bit which although I obviously don't want him to be unwell, I welcomed. It gave a bit of logic to everything (I like to know reasons for things)

Getting back to normal is going to be difficult but hopefully it should get easier with every 'normal' night. The image in my mind of him on Monday morning is still there and it's going to be difficult to shake that no matter how hard I try.

During the day when he's awake is no problem, it's the night when it's tough right now. I actually played a bit of poker last night to try and get my mind off it a bit. Not really successful but it probably helped a bit. It's amazing how quickly time can go when playing online.

I've had another little bash at it tonight and although I got a bit of chatbox abuse from someone called Tikay1, I quite enjoyed it.

Take care everyone.

VespaPX

Sounds like every parents nightmare.
Hope everything goes well for the future.
Best wishes to you and the family.
Mick

MAXALLY

Gulp. Glad everything seems to be ok now mate....and I am so glad you put your opening line in first. It is always a difficult and worrying time when put through something like this. 

I went through similar when my lad was a wee bit older than yours and the worry and stress it causes does affect you and you never forget. It took  many hospital visits and even a change of consultant until we were content it was nothing serious. Problems with breathing was down to a 'twisted' lung which thankfully sorted itself out naturally.

Best wishes to Penny too. Now go out and spoil him this bank holiday!

bbMike

The mind is boggling. Sorry to hear you've had to go through this, glad to hear that all tests are clear - I'm sure you will become more comfortable as time moves on.

Nothing but stress and worry, kids! Worth it? Marginal

cpfc_2010

There I was thinking us palace fans had experienced a stressful week, kinda brings everything into perspective.
All the best to you, Penny and of course Harry.

Tikay10

Oh my word.

I can't begin to imagine how horrific that must have been, the thought must haunt you & Penny.

Makes you think, eh?

No matter how precious he was to you before, he's even more precious now. 


 

Tikay10

On a MUCH lighter note......

"....I've had another little bash at it tonight and although I got a bit of chatbox abuse from someone called Tikay1, I quite enjoyed it......"


A chap chased me round the tables last night, berating me for having a bit of banter with you. He was VERY cross with me. Oh dear......
 
It leaves me breathless that people can think I'd deliberately abuse people online, & I well know what it's like to be on the wrong end of it, especially from "anons".

In case anyone is dumb enough not to get it, the people I "abuse" online are in a very special category - they are all people I respect very much indeed. If I don't like them, or are not a kindred spirit, I say nothing to, or about, them.

Those who get most of this mock "abuse" from me are all very dear to me, & that includes you, MOTHER, Twiglet, Spanner Mick, Anna, & Orford.  

Tikay10

Actually, I have to correct that.

Exclude Orford from that list. I really mean it when I abuse him.  

Jac35

Thanks for the comments chaps.

I sometimes think that I shouldn't really post things of such a personal nature and just stick to my poker failings.

I kind of find it therapeutic to write it all down though...

Jac35

A chap chased me round the tables last night, berating me for having a bit of banter with you. He was VERY cross with me. Oh dear......

Oh that's ridiculous. 

One of the players in that game really thought that I was upset? I guess there's always the danger online of people not really 'getting it'

I have plenty of banter with friends in the games I play. Sometimes I wonder afterwards how the other players may have  interpreted it.

shakinaces

Blimey can only imagine what a scary few days that must have been for you all.

Good news it didn't turn out to be anything more serious.

It's the sort of posts that help make a diary worth reading, and very much puts into perspective any poker related chunterings!