Well it's been an interesting 10 days as a week last Saturday I arrived at work having been out for drinks with the team as a girl on the lettings department who was leaving and when pulling up at work the owner of lettings was outside with a henchman telling me they needed my car as it was a car owned by lettings and they had moved out.
Basically Anthony the owner of sales bought out Gary 2 years ago but we still trade in the offices together and unfortunately this relationship has become further strained to the point where Gary has underhandedly sold the business to a company 100 yards away from ourselves and when this particualr company opened this new office 6 months ago they took the two members of deadwood in our sales staff who would have come under a lot of pressure with me in my new role over this past six months so they took the option to leave.
The new company have not done very well in sales as they are known as a lettings company and to date have 20% of the business on sales we have despite spending well over £100k on their office refurb, but they took no time in getting this in the papers and over their social media and in their window which is pretty poor form being as they dont even own the image rights for our brand they have only bought out the lettings company so would imagine they will be getting a solicitors letter this week on that.
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Unfortunately we Anthony cannot open a lettings company for 5 years himself but somebody else might be able to.....
Last Tuesday saw Petra and the kids due to fly to Slovakia for 7 days to see her family before Christmas and for the first time ever the flight was missed as we left Southend at 5am for an 8.10 flight from Luton but got caught up in the traffic on the M25 with the big lorry smash and despite getting to the M11 and zooming through Harlow, Hertford, Hatfield she missed the bag check in by 2 minutes and after transferring what she could fit into an extra rucksack she proceeded to miss the gate by 5 minutes and having left at 5 we got back home at 11.30am with Petra then flying on thursday instead.
This meant Thursday was a long day for me as having dropped them at the airport and then gone home to pick up the dog to get him to kennels before an hours in the office it was upto Sheffield for a business/pleasure trip where I was playing the GPS main event but also checking out a restaurant that is similar to the concept for our next venture.
I often believe as a rec player that starting table is so important and I had tables that for this event I reckon I was pretty unlucky to keep finding with my starting table on Thursday being very pro heavy and then on Friday it was as if once the other 2 recs had bust they kept shipping in pro after pro so the table started with a Russian guy who battles Trigg online, Jack Elwood, Richard Horton (tight solid reg) Rayfish, Mark Lane and then later during the day the seats were filled by Leo McClean, Trigg and Boz amongst others and at the end of day 1 I was put in a position having started the hand with 20bbs and opening AKss where I called the river with Ace high on 67992 and it meant I was either going to have 9bbs for day 2 if wrong, 12bbs if I fold and 18bbs if I am winning and really felt he would try and put me in a spot as played and decided that there was not a massive difference between 9 or 12 so called and lost to 44.
This meant a day 2 spin was required and 40 minutes into day 2 I was then sat with 80bbs and in with a shot, but with the bubble looming I lost a flip vs Alex Spencer btn vs SB and then had to grind for a while getting the odd ship or reship through and like GPS Nottingham the dinner break came without the bubble bursting so myself Ben Vinson and Kev Allen went to eat at a little Mexican Cantina that Trigg had took us to the day before (great find just 5 mins walk from the Casino) and with 29 left/27 paid I had 12bbs when Kev shoved in MP and I found JJ and called off and he hit a Barry on the river to leave me with 4bbs and as they were counting the chips someone bust on another table so it was now bubble time and a quick walk showed that I had 4bbs, Alex and Matt Davenport had 8bbs each and then the next hand played out with Dom Mahoney opening to 12k at 6kbb I found AQ otb which I shipped and Dom hadnt realised I was so short and told me he was just nicking the blinds so I told him I would be devv'd if he folded as its not the spirit and honestly that I wouldnt mind if he bust me with a rag hand and he called showing 57ss with me hitting an Ace in the window but a 5 behind but we held on brick turns and rivers with this being my face whilst stacking chips having survived the allin and the baying rail...
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The next hand and Matt was bust out getting counterfeit on the turn to mean we were itm which was nice as this was the Movember Charity stake that I had sold for so it was nice to get some for Movember meaning that I had raised over a grand itt and as of yesterday was the 470th highest fundraiser in the UK out of men who took part this year which definitely gives a good feeling.
Another Skyesque spin up was not to be though as at 4/8k blinds I shoved into the bb from sb with A8o and was snapped by Q5o for 8bbs and was flopped pretty dead on 55A and another min cash was booked.
The trip was great and in my next post I will go a little more into our concept and the venue next door were really helpful with information and showing me around their venue so it was a very worthwhile few days.
Tuesday saw Petra and the kids return and I love airport arrivals as just people watching is great seeing their faces as their friends, families, lovers come through those doors and it was great to see my family again after a few days and now we can look forward to Christmas together before what looks like it is going to be a really busy 2015......
Someone showed me this little kid who is so cute and in real life is actually the same height as Pads.