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Played the main, mini and the £55b/h
0/3 cashes
The roller started off really well but then had a couple of hands go the wrong way. Called a shove with AK and was lost out to AJ. Had to fold QQ on the river in a big pot shortly after that. There was a straight on the board and the flush had come in. May have been a bad fold but was happy at the time to let it go. Think the hand that pretty much finished me was ok. Short stack raised utg playing about 8 bigs and I flatted with 7's utg+1. 9 high board and he shoved. Called and had 1 out. He had 10 9 and a flush draw. Got knocked out in a flip by 7's next hand.
Mini was going well but had a couple of dents to my stack. Called a shove with AQ and lost to AJ on river. Can't remember exit.
£55. Down to the last 18 and I had just over 20 bigs. Raised utg with 9's and The Hux called in the bb. Flop was 643 and he put me in. He had 7's and he hit his gutshot on the turn. Didn't really like his shove, he was only getting rid of worse but it worked out well for him.
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Dyms have gone a lot better since Black Thursday and I won 7 out of 9 tonight to make it not quite such a bad night.
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Gave another chance to a place this morning. Finished with them now. My eggs benedict was exceedingly average.
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Mighty Rams won again. Football fans never fail to amaze me. Heard a bit of the phone in. Apparently we have no plan b, it was boring (we won 3-0!) . Martin is not the same player since he played for Scotland (14 goals this season) we have no killer pass, out ball retention is poor.
Silly me. I thought that we were top of the league and doing pretty well. This the best Derby team since the Jim Smith era.
We're on tv 6 times over the next few weeks. Hopefully we'll be able to carry it on. Got tickets for St Andrews on Boxing Day. Oddly I've not been there before. I'd have gone anywhere on Boxing Day in truth. Football or Mother-in-laws for the day. Tough one that.
"....Got tickets for St Andrews on Boxing Day...."
You have a round of golf booked @ St Andrews on Boxing Day?
Wrap up warm.
It's a lovely feeling when a group of players just click... probably only injuries will give Forest a chance to even run you close now
Belated "Happy Birthday" Mr J.
Unfortunately Poker didn't seem to realise that it was my birthday. Friday night going into Saturday morning ended up being my biggest losing night at poker in the 10+ years that I've been playing online.
The next bit should probably go in bb&v and so it might be best to scroll down a bit if you can be bothered to read any more of this.
Over the last 4 weeks I've struggled with the game more than at any time that I can remember. Mtt exits have been horrible. I went out of both the rebuys on Wednesday within a minute of each other. In the main, after I had raised pre, bet flop, bet turn, my opponent shoved all in with zero fold equity on paired and flushing board with a gutshot and got there. in the mini I 3bet shoved 15bigs and my opponent snapped with K9.
Dyms have been frightening. I've put the volume in and so the variance normally starts to even out. I've just had weird stuff happening. Getting shoves called with 10 8 etc. It has really got to the point where I have just felt that it's almost impossible for me to win.
Friday night was the most brutal yet. Nothing went right. There's one good reg who recently seems to play every hand against me. Why not? he's winning every one. I have AK he has KQ gg me etc. Last couple of games, a £55 and a £33 summed it up for me. On the bubble in both. I get AK in the sb and shove at 200/400 for 2100. The bb tanks and then calls with 64off from a 2800 stack. Please don't anyone say that I want the call there. This is a Dym, taking the blinds here is far preferable to having to win at showdown when i'm only 60/40. In the other one there was great news. Short stack shoves and the bb snapped with Aces. K7 makes a straight on the river. A minute later I shove aces and bubble.
I played a lot of cash as well. First hand of the night and I lose a £100 pot. QQ for me in bb v buttons AK. Don't mind that one. I then lost with aces 5 out of 6 times. All in pre flop on 4 occasions and the other one I called an all in on the turn on a K high board and KQ hit another K on the river. Twice I made disguised back door flushes on the river. Twice they had the nut flush. £174 and £102 pots. Set over set 3 times as well.
I went to bed a little miffed. Good job I didn't post straight after session, It would be an even bigger moan
The past few weeks have been really tough. All confidence gone and huge doubts about my game. I know full well that i'm very average at mtts and cash but dyms have always been my goto game when things aren't going well. To be losing badly at them has got me worried. Maybe it's just me but I guess it happens to everyone? My stats stand up pretty well at mtts and dyms but after a bad month i'm left wondering if I've just got lucky in the past and I'm going to become a big losing player.
I got a grip of myself on Saturday morning and stopped feeling sorry for myself. I 've had a bad month at poker, so what? I've still had a very good year overall and made a decent amount of cash. Also in the scheme of things one bad losing night at poker means buggger all. I listened on the radio to the story of the poor Sudanese(sp) man who died on the M25. A lad at work around my age has just been diagnosed wiith a very serious illness.
I really should count my blessings. I've a very nice life right now.
Maybe things are also starting to turn pokerwise. When I returned from the pub last night I made the wise decision to load up a few tables. I ran pretty well for an hour and made just over a £100. The 3 hours I played on Saturday morning were somehow enough for me to get a £100 in the promotion. Funny how I hadn't even looked at the days promotion and got in the top 50 whereas the other day I played for 9 hours in the SNG promotion and bubbled it. I got another £20 on one of the other days and rewards points have been pretty good. This has all helped me recover a bit of the cash I lost the other night and so that's pleasing.
Once again I've decided to stop posting for a while after this one. Forums, facebook etc can take up too much time and a break is required. As an incentive to myself not to post I've come up with a plan. If anyone catches me posting on here again this month then they are entitled to punch me in the face at Newcastle. If I do fail at least Hhyftdrr wouldn't be the only one getting a black eye up there.
Run well everyone.
Morning Paul.
The Old Man Diary is much missed.
Merry Xmas to Penny, Harry, & Mr Grumble.
PS - I'd really like the opportunity to punch you in the face.
So I may as well post again.
There may have been the odd chunter from me this month about poker. Before the weekend I was a good chunk down. Now, courtesy of a little live bink and some drunk cash, I'm a good chunk up. Must stop the moaning. There are 2 or 3 people that I talk to about poker and how they've put up with me over the last 6 weeks I'll never know. Thanks a lot to them. I'll try and stop it now.
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Looked on with interest the comments about the Russian Roulette guys and how daft they were. I'm not so sure. Lets say I get together with JimRiddle7. We play 103 £50 Russian Roulettes. We split the money. We pay £515 in rake and get a phone worth more than that. We also get a load of rakeback and we're well on our way to priority and some decent freerolls. Also, I get to look on in awe as Jimmy correctly informs me of each and every river card before it's dealt.
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Sky are understandably getting some stick this morning. It wasn't good last night. We should have a bit of balance though. I've looked through the forum and for some reason I can't find the threads that say what an amazing promotion they have put on this month. They've clearly tried very hard to find a way that will give everyone a chance. Without too much effort, I've made £220 out of it this month. They've given away a serious amount of money.
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I bumped into a lad yesterday who was probably my best friend growing up. Unfortunately, as has been the case on the few occasions that we have seen each other over the last 20 years we just about nodded to each other.
His name was either "Bully" or "FatBull", either worked just fine. I did use to cringe a little when he rang me and my Dad would shout up to me "Paul, FatBull on the phone"
I loved Bully. He was thick as pigshit, tubby and had an impossibly high pitched voice.
I used to go to the casino with him. As I sat there for hours on end at the blackjack tabling slowly losing £25, he'd sit at the bar drinking. Every so often he'd walk over and chuck down £20 on a box, invariably get Blackjack, chuckle to himself and wander back to the bar and order another drink.
His rungood wasn't confined to casinos either. We went to Ibiza. We hired a car and I hadn't got my license and so he drove. After the scariest 10 minutes of our lives we came to the decision that it would be a bigger gamble for him to continue driving than me driving without a license. We drove down to the beach the 1st day as it was a good 600 yards or so away from our hotel. Not quite sure why we drove, possibly something to do with looking cool. Our wheels were a lime green corsa.
We went in the sea and when we packed up to go I rhetorically asked him if he had the car keys. I had left them in my shorts when we went in the sea. He said that we'd just go back in and find them. I said something like "lol" and sat there with my head in my hands. 5 minutes later FatBull emerges triumphantly from the sea. "Get in you little fighter" he cries holding the keys.
Alas FatBull didn't run so well with the ladies. At 20 he had as much experience with them as he had at 10. None.
We cheered one night as he came into the pub and excitedly told us that he'd met a old bird who was gaggin for it.
"Name?"
"Joan" okay
"Age?"
"err 52" okaayyy
"She's a Grandma as well"
Over the next few weeks he had the time of his life and there was plenty of good natured banter which he enjoyed. One night I said something that wasn't particulary complimentary about Joan and he exploded.
"You xxxx, she's right about you lot, you're all bastardds. I love her and iIm moving in with her. And he did. He went to live with her at her place in another part of Derby and that was the last we saw of him.
It actually makes me a bit sad thinking about it. He was a great guy and it was a shame to fall out.
It makes me sadder still to think that if he's still with her, then one of my mates girlfriends is 71. I'm definitely getting old
Have a great Christmas everyone
Especialy this.........
"We should have a bit of balance though. I've looked through the forum and for some reason I can't find the threads that say what an amazing promotion they have put on this month. They've clearly tried very hard to find a way that will give everyone a chance".
Oh and before i forget...
We are top of the league :-))
Have a good Xmas
The Outlaws were accused of a number of things and I think a little balance is required. Before you come to the conclusion that we're all a bad lot, i'd ask that you consider a few things.
If you're a member of a Facebook/Skype group can everyone honestly say that they've not ranted on occasion about something that has happened at the table?
Yes, we do swear. It's not something to be proud of but I imagine that most adults do swear on occasion.
Comments were made about Tash actively encouraging the team to abuse people. Absolutley ridiculous. Tash does a great job as Captain and is a lovely person. She doesn't rule the team with a huge ego and want to tell everyone who's boss all the time and so she doesn't tell people off. This is good, as we're grown ups and are just part of a poker team.
One of the team got a chatban yesterday. His crime? He had a bit of banter with a friend. I accept that if it offended others at the table then they have the right to complain. Personally, having seen what was said, i'm very surprised that someone judged it to be worthy of a complaint. Tikay mentioned a while ago that after a plo8 game, where we'd exchanged some banter and i'd pretended to be hurt by his comments, that another player followed him around the tables saying how rude he'd been. Tikay hasn't got a bad bone in his body and we were having a bit of banter. it just shows that people can get the wrong idea sometimes.
There seems to be a perception amongst some people on here that we're all out to cause trouble. Don't really get it!
Lets have a look at the members of the team who post on the forum on a regular basis.
Jordz16 - New boy to us. I don't know him yet but the first thing that he did when joining the team was to say that any
money he won in the DTD's that week, he'd donate to charity. He'll do for me. (Non league at swearing)
Shakinaces - I doubt very much that he has ever upset anybody on here.keeps a great diary and has a lovey wry sense of humour. (Swearing wise, as with his team, very much 2nd division standard)
Enut - I don't know Paul well but to me he comes across excellently on the forum offering good advice to people and has a lovely light hearted manner. (Lower/mid table Premier League at swearing)
Samantha25 - The old frog is as mad as a box of frogs. She has a gob and does do swearing. She's also extremely good fun and I doubt that many who have met her at Spts etc will have a bad word to say about her. (Regular Premier league winner for swearing)
Hhyftrftdr - The one that causes all the trouble. BB&V aside, and the conspiracy nutters are fair game in my book, if you look closely he rarely is the one to start any of the arguments. Don't get me wrong, he's no shrinking violet and will go back twice as hard if he thinks that he's been wronged but that's fine in my book. He's opinionated and is funny. A lot of people don't get his humour but he's a good bloke. I think that it gets missed that he is often there helping people and gives good advice in the clinic etc. Off the top of my head he gave a wealth of information to TeddyBloat the other day. Look back and you'll find plenty more examples of this kind of thing. (Swearing wise Barcelona/1989 Milan and Brian Cloughs Derby team all rolled in to one)
We only have 19 members and I've named 6 of them in this post. There's also me (ok, fair enough on that one)
I don't think we're all bad people. Contrary to belief there are no agendas with the team other than to have fun and enjoy our poker.
It's undoubtedly a fun team, but like everything in life, it wouldn't suit everyones tastes. Thankfully, it suits me down to the ground
You outlaws aren't a bad bunch