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It's time to unleash this.

Hi, my name is Nik Flanagan and I'm starting this diary as a sort of tracker on my poker life and general ups and downs. I've been doing a blog for a while now and to my surprise it's become quite popular. #thinbrags

Work: Price Integrity Manager at Tesco, basically it's a bag of shit. I do labels and advertising and manage 9 female members of staff.

Play: Deepstack cash games 50/1 1/1 and (rarely just moving up) 1/2, and the DTD 5k+ GTE's

Goals: Continue to learn, improve and hopefully win something big and become 1/2+ reg.

Style: Nit/Tag/ABC. Becoming more of a LAG lately though.

Mugshot: (https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-muEU4QsthWM/UTNQgJzMKwI/AAAAAAAAeq0/ui9jTuED_5M/s552/DSC01923.JPG)

Previous blogs:

http://tight4better.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/introduction.html
http://tight4better.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/recent-events.html
http://tight4better.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/enraging-tables-by-accident-and.html
http://tight4better.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/deepstacking.html
http://tight4better.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/breaking-all-wrong-records.html

Dunno whether I'll just continue blog and link it here for people to comment or do some sort of cross-hybrid diary. Just play it by ear I think.

Hope you enjoy the ride!

First

Hi Nick.

Remember our first meeting? How far we've come since then  ;)

I've never seen anyone who's body language and actual mindset were so totally divorced from each other.

Your mind is saying "Wheee! Life is so great!" Meanwhile, your body is saying "Please kill me now".

Good luck with the diary.

Subscribed.

In.

But please don't make this another diary just full of HH's!

Expect this thread to be full of smiley pics :)

<3

Remember playing you my first live casino game, god I was so bad hahaha.


Haha yes I do, pretty prime example of how first impressions can sometimes be wrong.

On my "mood". A lot of people comment on it really and I don't think it's something I can change now, suffered with untreated depression for a long time and I think it just comes out sometimes, don't take the way I act sometimes personal, it's just helps me cope I guess.


90% of my life is poker, I post about my life, if something outside of that happens I'll be sure to post it too. Some of my blogs contain what's going on outside of poker but if nothing happens I can't really post about it?


 ;D

Post about what you like, I am looking foward to it.

It has just been painful to read other diaries that are just HH's.

Oh don't change now ffs!

As soon as I got to know you a little I realised that you were far more upbeat than those other miserable bastards at DTD, especially that angle shooter Ray, (or Marris, as he is now known).

This is why you are my favourite poster red-dog.

hahahaha

Er... if the other miserable bastards at DTD do happen to read this, I'm only joking.

Except about Ray of course.

They can read?

Nik I don't recall- what was it?

Was a £10 unlimited rebuy on a monday I think, prob like 2.5 years ago? At leicester gala.

YES NIK! Definitely going to be keeping up to date with this.

What's this I hear about raising to isolate with Q5? I had you down as a bigger nit than me, such a let down... ;)

Plus,
:D

GL with the blog... Subscribed...

GL mate, wish u all the best. Hope u ship a big one this year :)

Gl with this Nik.

If your blog is anything to go by then this'll be an absolute cracker. Always honest and refreshing :)

GL with the diary.  Hope you get what you want from it and from your poker.

Definitely in. I want to see lots of pictures of your tower making tekkerz.

I really like the name of this diary, it's very clever :) How ever did you come up with it?

yeah looking forward to the mass of chip porn.

Look forward to all posts, honestly enjoy reading through your hh's (which is rare), as well as seeing your slow but definite transformation from cash game specialist to MTT grinder ;)

In for the duration.

See you Saturday for some cash shenanigans?

I still chuckle to myself intermittently about the name of this diary. Grats on getting more subscribers than mine immediately ;)

Hope this recent run of success continues mate. See you on the 1/2 soon

alright in for the journey.

I'm anticipating making this blog upon my return to Nottingham, GL kid.

hi.nik,good luck with this but i have to confess the title made me think of these.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7X9JuE4m0g

Worst Flanagan representitive ever!

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm boobs...That is all.

Plenty of HH's but stop tapping the tank Nick, it's disrespectful ;)

Hi Nik :)

Read the attached blog links... in for the ride!!

Come on Nik, we're due an update.

 
Apologies! Night off with the girlfriend last night as she wanted some us time and lives 60 miles away from me. Just sat in frankies before the trip home.. 90 min drive sigh! She's worth it though :)

Grinding tonight, not sure where though, Thursday is normally a gala night but a friend got mugged recently there which has put me on my toes a little about paying them a visit.

Thoughts?

Got a super grind planned as I have Sunday and Monday off work which is really the only thing stopping me from playing more than I currently do. Hopefully see some of you hero's later at DTD/gala. Anyone who has my number if its buzzing somewhere give me a bell and I'll pop down.

TR later folks :)

Also a story about how I was nearly completely busto later, stay tuned.

Hi Nik. You didn't say hi back last time so I'm giving it another shot.

How is it having a girlfriend who plays/gets poker?

The hours have always caused massive problems with relationships in the past for me (with no poker ppl), even though they understand the game / variance sort of.

I heard about the mugging, Alex and I walked back to our cars together for safety last week.

Alex asked if I thought I could out run the muggers. I told him I didn't have to out run them, I just had to out run him.

I will be at DTD tonight, but I have to be in Matlock by 10am tomorrow.

I'm considering driving there when I leave DTD and sleeping in my van, then I can get a couple of hours sleep and wake up on the job, as it were. 

Proper rounder^

Then, when I finish work, I can have another kip in the van and go to DTD again on the way home.

Remind me to take some clean undercrackers.

Personal interest story and a teaser itt.

Great work.  ;popcorn;

Hahahaha sorry guys! Hi to ALL my hero's who keep this diary alive, much love.

Well I've actually had 2 girlfriends who've played poker. With mixed results on that front tbh..

Girl #1; We played prob 3/4 nights we spent with each other, she was more of a tournament person and I was knocking it in tournament wise so kinda stayed away. If we were on the same table I'd completely stay out of her way and fold ridic hands to her opens pre, we also couldn't have any banter at the table because she thought I was insulting her so playing with her made me miserable, she rarely played cash so that's where I made my home really and just finished when she busto'd, she was also someone who you could never speak to regarding a hand you/she played, it was just "I play how I want, leave me alone" but if she ever saw some levelling war going on she wouldn't understand at all so it was kind of awkward..

On the upside she had a well paid job so losing didn't phase her that much.. This was also bad though because she'd blow it on roulette/slots if I was still in a tournament which I obv don't like to see people wasting their money, but it's their money and none of my business and I learnt this the hard way (read; after about 10 arguments)

EDIT: Will also add that if I blew her off to play poker one night she'd say;

"Wow you have a really gambling problem"..

Me "Oh, what you up to tonight then?"

"Playing slots on sky poker atm.."  ;whistle; ;whistle; ;whistle; ;whistle; ;whistle; ;whistle;

Relationship was gg after things like this happen, while I play poker a lot she just sounds like all of the anti-poker/gambling people I know and it really put me off.

Girl #2; Current gf. Play a lot with her, she loves the game, learning and basically wants to get better. She's a self confessed massive nit but she plays that style well and I'm not going to try and change that, she will talk to me about hands she played and how to play them better and most of the time will take onboard my opinion. I play more standard around her than vs girl 1 because we're on the same tables a lot, however I'd feel so bad about busting her in a tournament/cash so I'd have her buyin ready to give her back at the end of the night because the money means a lot to her and winning a bowl comp for £400 is peanuts to MOST of us but a huge deal for her.

She sometimes joins me on cash tables and I hold my breath every pot she's in, it's awful on the drive home when one has lost and one has won, same results you can console each other but if one of you wins £400 and one loses £75 it's hard, people might say why don't you offset each others losses but we don't play for the same amount of money, I sit with the max usually and she's normally a short stack and how dirty would I feel taking her profit because I've 4b spacked it with KQo!

On the whole though. It's fun and gives me even more time to spend with her whilst enjoying my hobby. On the sleeping pattern etc it's still a real issue, it's not so bad for me as I have to force myself awake for work but for a pro I couldn't imagine how tough it is, I guess it's something we'd have to hope they understand and just try and get some rest the day before you plan something with them.

I was given some wise advice if I ever find myself in a similar situation who knows it may be quite helpful in the future, I believe it was 'run'.  However should I find myself in a similar situation in the not so distant future, I think I may just simply laugh as they'll be quite disappointed to mug a broke guy :)

Hey Nik. Great start to the diary and loved the blogs. Really surprised people getting aggro with you. You always seem to be quite chilled at the tables. ( except when i get there on the river against you). :)
Keep posting mate I'm in for the ride.  Aspades.
Ps you playing Friday? Super 50?

Haha that was v out of character for me that day, blame Girl 1! Haha I've become more chilled of late but I've been called arrogant/cocky/loud mouthed which I guess if you don't know me that's how I might come across. I'm a lot quieter these days espec with people I don't know on the table.


Very possible :) See you there?

Really? Wow... Who are these people and have they met you? Or have they mistaken you for me, that would make more sense :p

Hi Nik,

Occasionally play at Gala & only live a 2min walk away so always walk there & back etc instead of driving..

What happened- anything to be worried about?

Paul

Hi, welcome to the madness :)

Apparently 3 guys jumped a friend of mine with a broken glass bottle, he's fine I think he just gave them his wallet but still have my concerns.


 ;D

Interesting post on relationships, quite similar to my experiences. Hope your new one continues along a better path. :)

Started off at DTD last night about 9, had to be the NITTIEST 1/1 game I've ever sat in, most sat with the max and I'd bet the average pot size was under £5. The amount of times it folded to the blinds and they'd just check a board down was ridiculous.

I soon piped up "Someone needs to lose a pot already.."

 ;whistle; ;whistle; ;whistle;

Ohai der  Ahrt 8h.. Open the CO, 3 callers (most ever fwiw), Loose-ish player (villain) peels from big.  Ad 2d 3h, £8, call.  4c turn. Check check as I had no plan what to do if c/raised..  Aspades riv. I go for £17 of his money and he says he hates the river.. YES CALL... and calls with  5c 5d. Nh. I really don't know whether I should just c/call or even c/fold this river. I'm playing a lot of hyper HU SNG's online and a lot of the time I find myself value betting super thin, this doesn't feel that thin but the more I think the more it's difficult for him to pay off with worse.. Thoughts?

Played another where I opened  5s 6s and got peeled by the bb.  Ks Js 4h, he's the kind of player who's called me for 3 streets with just a bare K in this spot before so I'm praying to make the flush, bet £7.  7c turn, How on earth can I miss now? Oh shit did I really just say that...? £16..call.  3d Riv wiiiiiiiiii, £32. He does a fold :( #tellbox.

Won £11 for the session. Solid :)

Off to gala then! Place has gone down the pan since a friend of mine left and I haven't been back since. Tried to buy for the max (#brags) and get some reload money "No? Why do you need more? If you want more just get cash out at the table".. FFS what is when you have something great it gets ruined for abso no viable reason. As if a dealer/camera wouldn't notice me casually adding 8 ponies to my stack when I've already got the max. You also now can't get chips from the desk yourself, need a managers permission, this is bad for me as I like towers and they give you bowl chips.

Anyway, we're sat in the game, position on cash game hero Sean Belton YES. Played probably 5 notable pots for the session so if you don't like HH's you can stop reading until after the card graphics end.

Hand #1; Overlimp LP with   Js Ts, this is just terrible and something I've almost got rid of in my game, think this was the only time I limped all night. anyway, few people limp behind including villain behind us.  Tc 9c 8s, checked to us and we lead for £8, he quickly makes it £20 with £75 behind. Thought about just setting him in right there but decided to see a turn for a bunch of dumb reasons. The scarecard  2h comes on the turn and I c/raise him his stack. He does a call with..  Aspades Ad! Bricked out so we're down £130 for the session now.

Hand #2; Non-pro does the popular "head shake, sigh, almost fold, ok raise to £6" move with £100 stack and I'm just praying for a pair or something juicy to stack his AA/KK.  3d 3h YES, call OTB, few others people including bb who's a bit tilted. £80 stack.  3c 5c 6d YESSSS, bb checks, opener bets £15, we pretty quickly make it £44 and before the bb has acted he almost moved all-in out of turn, the bb then moves in! We do the stato "call instantly" and hold vs  Ks Kc and  Ac 2c, was pretty sick cause the riv was an A, thought I lost!

Hand #3; Two people move all in over my 3b and we hold with  Ac Aspades.. :) Booking a nice £150 win now, got the next seat on the featured table with Belton, Goulder, George from DTD, and a few other hero's.

We move over, position on alex and belton which is always nice, was trying not to goof off or spew though. Think I only 3b alex once with KQo and had to call a 4b jam from a shortie who accidentally slowrolled with the nuts, pretty funny he stood up like he could never win and then said "oh wait I have the nuts!" lol. Had to laugh ;D

Alex also tried guessing who Girl #1 was. We played 20 questions and he gave up after question 8 with loads of help from me! Weak!

Hand #4; Cash game hero George opens UTG+1 and we peel QJ OTB. KKJ, we call a quick £6. Q turn, decent argument for folding my hand to a bet here, but me and george have never played a hand yet he has ALL the history on me cause he deals for me a lot. Anyway I stubbornly call a ~£16 bet. J river and I fold to a £21 snap bet, feel like out of all the hands I played last night I played this one the worst, only lost £20 in the hand but the manner in which I lost it and the way I played it bothered me a lot. Surprised I didn't stubbornly call the river seeing as I'd butchered it up to this point anyway.

Hand #5; I open  Js 8s and non-pro in the bb calls.  Qh Jh 8h. Bet and called.  6c turn, Bet again and was called, he has PSB back on the river which is a  7d, feels like a bet but I checked, I spoke to alex after and he described it as a spot to bet less than turn and have him call.  We showed and were good anyway.

Hand #6; Penultimate hand of the night, and likely the hand that will get the most responses. Villain is a tight/nit reg who've I played with prob twice before, apparently won the Iancredible 100 but he deffo seemed more aggro today, was drinking dunno if that had anything to do with it but he'd be opening a LOT and has also 4b alex once already.

He opens UTG (Been doing this a lot too) and we 3b  Ahrt Kh and he SNAP calls, He's playing £220 (in for £100) and we cover him.  Aspades Qs 8h. We £17, he SNAPS, literally before my chips are in his are.  Tc turn, I bet £23 (Thoughts on sizing?) and he snaps again, Riv is a  4c, your line OTR here? I went for £32 and he snapped again with  Ac Td. Once again I don't know if I'm value betting too thin here and whether I should c/call or c/fold river.

Lost almost all my profit during this last hand and it was time to go to work so we quit the game winning £21, +£32 for the night, SO solid  :) We managed to NOT get mugged also, but deffo gonna set up a deposit account as I feel iffy carrying 2 buyins around with me everywhere.

Got back from my work shift about 9, getting too old for these all nighters! Especially working this bowl amount of hours, my hours got reduced due to our "Right hours, right place" policy so it's completely fucked me in terms of £ earned outside of poker per month. I'm still working 5 days per week so it's not like I have more time to play, I just feel more tired due to the gruesome starting times. Started looking for another job but it's so hard, I have nothing special in terms of qualifications, just the usual 5 A*- C's in Maths/English/Science etc and I'm so shy when it comes to interviews/bigging myself up so it's really difficult for me to move on to better things work wise.

DTD tonight, possibly some 1/2 depending on how tough the game is, if not 1/1. Hopefully see some of you lot there.

Lastly, started listening to Taking Back Sunday's album yesterday, it's fkn incredible.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx1Csyjt190

Enjoy.

Does #Girl2 like being called #Girl2?

Lol

Over/unders on the diary hitting #girl10?

Not a good start to tonight, managed to get in a 4b pot with QQ<KJo on K high board for lots of money. Rebuild time..

Been fun playing with the new & improved Nik Flanaganaganagan, hopefully recent events haven't put you off following your new style and your move up to the 1/2 games. Good luck mate keep going with the diary.

First up, I wanna say I'm definitely not a genius, but do have a few points here. First is that I agree with not value betting A8 in the first hand, because you aren't getting called by much worse, especially on a nitty table, ditto with the AK, I'm happier check calling after the Cbet, although in fairness I think I'm being a little results orientated there, two streets of value with TPTK is obviously normally a reasonable shout. The big thing I wanted to mention though is this thing with over-limping. I've heard a lot of people talk about this being a bad thing, but really, I fail to see why. With hands that play well multi-way, like small/medium pairs, suited connectors, some suited Ax hands (I have a friend who advocates playing suited Ax like small pocket pairs, and I am just in love with that analysis) then surely we want more people in the pot? With a suited Ax hand, I'm confident I can fold top pair and not suffer too much for any reverse implied shizzle with top pair weak kicker, and I'm looking for spots where i flop trips with my kicker, and big draws which can get paid off by weird limps who make two pair or worse flushes that would fold out to this "isolation" raise. Ditto for small/medium pairs, I want to flop a set in a multi way pot to get some action off it. With hands like a suited J10, whats the problem with over-limping? I'm not, by any means, saying that raising to isolate is bad, and making moves with these sorts of hands is bad, because mixing up my game in situations like this has been massively profitable for me. What I'm saying is that both are pretty viable options given the number of limpers, their tendencies, our position etc. Whats the harm in seeing a cheap flop every now and then? In tournament play I'm more of a fan of isolating and often overlimping in that situation can be terrible, but in a cash game, I don't have a problem with this at all.

*prepares to get berated for being a fish ;)*

Who left gala?

You've been promoted to Nick Flaganan btw.

Can't fkin wait to get in these games!

Rofl!

Alex left ;(

TR soon, pretty bad night on the whole though.. Will update when I'm out of bed cause I don't wanna do a long post on my phone.

Oh, sigh.

Pauls left too now as well

Such a ladies man.

Sigh why?

Cheers for feedback Rexas, I just think they're a couple of value-cut spots.

TR Report;

Everyone sat with 200+ to start 1/1. Wasn't in a great position either as I had aggro guy to my left who's caused me a few problems before, will this be a problem for the new and improved Flaganan tho?

Folded a lot for a bit, was so card-dead, one guy who'd just lost half his stack 3b's an open to £15 out of a £100 stack. We look at  Qs Qd and plan to cold4/call,  we £46 to prevent peeling.. he peels  ;D. Plan B then. Nice flop plz.

 Kd 6d 3d and he open jams for £60, we do a call and lose to  Kc Js.

Reload £100 and go back to folding for a bit, it's actually astonishing how much I've changed over the past couple months, my mindset and general attitude have vastly improved, normally I'd take the above hand very badly but it phased me for about 5 seconds until I mucked OTR.

Then something happens away from the table that tilted me so fkn hard that I really don't want to go into. Spent like 20 mins away from my table and actually racked up because I didn't want to play anymore, took a short break to calm down a bit and then returned, big mistake really, should of just took a £100 loss and returned today..

Another hand comes up where I open  Aspades Kd, I'd started opening up a lot more and people saw a few of the hands I was opening, J9o, 65, KJo to name a few and I was getting a bit more action. Guy who's buried and trying to get out of it 3b's from sb to £14, can already tell he doesn't have the heart to be in the hand but I intend to 4/call vs his £250 stack because of mood and game flow. We 4b to £31 and he quickly peels. Thought he was WIDE at this point, thought any pair and AT+ KJ+

Board comes  7s 6s 7c and he looks to donk lead, counts out £42, re-checks his cards then checks, this is something I've been paying attention to more and more as people give a lot of shit away needlessly. Not sure what to make of this though, didn't want to bet and have him c-jam with a FD or something like 88 so we c/behind.  3d turn, he snap checks and we check. Pretty sure he has air at this point.  8h hits the river, he looks fed up and just slaps in a random amount which totals £57, we beat him in the pot with no pair and I just realised what I've done just trying to soul-read someone, all the colour leaves his face and I announce "no pair", he mucks flashing me  Ac Jc.

Very next hand I open  Ks Kc utg and same villain as above peels btn and carla goddard does a peel, I can feel the berating already ;D

We get a  2h 3c 8c flop and pot it £15, Carla loves to float, and villain is losing. They both call and we get the 6s turn, Carla already looks interested before it's on her, both check again and we bet £34. Both call again, pretty sure I now don't have the best hand. The  Ahrt hits the river for good measure to confirm I don't and I still stupidly call a £20 donk from villain OTR and he shows  6h 3h.

Then lastly I tried a bluff on above villain which is dumb for a number of reasons, one I'm losing and my image is joke bad, two villain displays he can't fold a pair so to make him fold what I thought he had is a stretch, anyway on with the butchery.

I open  6s 7s and he 3b's the small, bb cold peels and I peel, I'm now covered and the effective stack with £240.  5s 2s 5d, villain leads £17, bb folds and I call. (thoughts? pre and flop.)  4d hits the turn and he tank bets £30, I make it £81 in short order and he goes into a long tank, pretty sure he's got a 5 at this point, and figure if I can either get there or jam if a diamond comes, he looks really uncomfortable calling and the  Jd hits the river. I take about 10 seconds before jamming £140 and he sighs, says he played the hand terribly but can't fold now and calls with  Ac 5h.

Left the club shortly after. Pretty down that I tried a bluff, but mostly that I didn't leave a lot earlier, just wasn't my night though.

Spun my car on the way home just outside the club, was doing 50mph and just felt the front wheels go, few feet later my car is sliding sideways down a back street and I felt a small tip like it was about to roll. Luckily I didn't go off to meet my maker but the snow once again has given me a warning bite that I should take more notice of, was a little bit shook up but got home safe. I've had now 3 near misses in my car all during bad weather conditions, other 2 weren't my fault though. I wonder if this is gonna be one of those situations where I'm actually going to HAVE to crash my car to respect the snow more. Sounds sick but it's kind of how my brain works.

Just about to hop in the shower and go and pay George Osbourne £93.50 so I can drive my car legally on the roads which I can't currently because of the snow. I'm also un-sure whether the post office is even open so more than likely I'll be walking down to a closed post office and then stopping off in the bakery for a bacon and sausage baguette of awesomeness.

Gonna play tonight weather permitting, still + for the month but hope I don't have another night like last night.

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Gl me.

Real sorry to hear about your bad run at the moment matey, hope you get out of it soon! May well be around this evening if you fancy a chat? Considering braving the roads from Essex back to notts :p

Unlucky Nik. Being new & improved is a tough gig. I know, l was that soldier.

Love the 'Warts and all' trip report. More of these please.

I'm busting to know about the off table incident, please feel free to PM me the details.

PS - Drive  carefully you pillock. It's not just your life you're risking.

X

Think if you don't value cut yourself sometimes you're not value betting enough. A8 bet looks good to me

Oh dear.

Bad isn't good, until it gets worse. Impending update...

card dead for ages after losing £130.00 first hand of the night qq v   3c 4c, me and Red were waiting for some nice hands but never came, 2 guys stacked up early on and then managed to 3 bet raises and then donk them all off and then progressed raising £8.00 blind, moved table and walked of with a £300 profit, then took me 2hrs to drive 30 miles, M1 was horrendous, was gonna park up at services and kip till the visibility got better. Saw u went missing Nick, hope everything was ok.

Lol quoting this for truth.

So hard to post when you're knocking it in, but had a really fun night despite the fact I had one of my worst sessions in about 50 different ways.

Joined a table of hero's to start, had Sean, Alex, Gasgoigne, Matt, Kinboshi and Scott joined us but only briefly before I moved table due to being OWNED by Goulder every hand. Only one real hand of interest where I had to fold  Ahrt Kd to a Kinboshi £90 check-raise in a 3way 3b pot on  Ad Td 5c, feels like I block any legit semi bluffs he has.

Also lost  Ahrt 6h on  Kh Th 6c vs a steaming Vargas in a small 3 way 3bet pot where I check-raised a £50 lead for my entire stack (220) after Vargas moved in for £87, bricked out unfortunately vs  Ks Qs

Lost a lot of money raise-folding again, was getting my soul owned so decided to move to what looked like an easier table, look down at  Ad Kh and 3bet an open and get immediately cold4'd! Didn't win that pot either! Haha ;D

Played round of each, no real hands of interest apart from me stacking someone who the hand before I think took £50 off the table. He's so OOL all the time I actually got a bit of joy from stacking him with a marginal in PLO, wanted to call the floor so bad but I thought if I was wrong and I hadn't seen him lose a pot or something ridiculous I was going to be out on my arse.

Had some incred banter with Belton and a few others, boosted my mood a lot as I was already down a buy-in overall and felt like nothing was working.

Received another tilting phone call which lost me about 60 mins of playing time, there's nothing I hate more than the drama llama and unfortunately my life contains fkn buckets of it.

Came back to find the ROE dead and that I'd been moved to 1/1 Hold'em OOP to raggy. GL me. Find  Ac Qc and just peel a raise on the button and raggy predictably squeezes, do another peel and get an A high board, check x2, A turn I lead small he calls, and a brick river which he folded on.

Witnessed probably the tiltingist hand of the night but contained a hilarious comment from Sir Sean of Belton. He opens over a limp in a double straddled pot from the SB to £26, 3 people call. Gets checked all the way to the river and a guy shows  6d 4s for the joint "Poker's hard, everyone is solid these days" ;D

Table soon becomes a hero table again as Scott and Alex sit.

Scott plays this hilarious pot! YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krt07s3O7eE

Alex then stacks me with  Aspades 3s vs  Ks 6s on  9s 9h 7s 8s 3d where I butcher the entire hand basically. Honestly I don't actually deserve to have money when I play poker this horribly.

Left shortly after, decided to spin my car in DTD carpark this time, completely lose control and miss a £60k Range Rover by about 6ft. Was doing 30 all the way home as it didn't look like the roads were gritted AT ALL, also the turning into my road the front locked up and I had to quickly slam the car into first to prevent another crash.

Having a bit of a break cause I need to sort some personal shit out before I play again, I'm also working until wednesday which means no poker until then. Gonna be playing the APAT 6-max on friday which I'm really excited for, and hopefully do some winning on the 1/1 and then post March' results for you guys to see.

Ttfn.

How could you have possibly butchered the K high flush vs nut flush hand vs me? Be less results orientated imo.

Ha, you're probably right, although a fold pre is the best option.

Mmm Scott shows a set. Always a set.

Wow awesome. Saw the title and after my 2 week sabbatical had to head straight over here and make a post.

I have only ever seen you playing at Dtd and would have to say you are without doubt one of my top 5 Dtd regs. I will always find time to have a chat with someone who is so pleasent, well mannered and just an all round good egg.

I'm really looking forward to reading a different style of diary from someone with a different perspective and who proclaims to be a tight 4 bettor. Hey your style works for you and you keep getting some touches.

Right I will crack on now and read this diary from page 1.

Good luck at the tables and 100% subscribed.

Can't remember the action pre (folding is obviously fine) but don't berate yourself for going broke here, I don't know anyone that doesn't (except for that glasses guy that flats full houses).

Alex is right, of course, don't worry too much about the results of hands like this. Go back to this hand in a week and try and tell yourself you played it badly for going broke. It's thinking such as this that has hindered me for a long time, especially in tournaments. Although I hate the term "cooler," 'cause it feels like an excuse rather than logical reasoning a lot of the time, I think it applies here.

Chin up and no more near-deaths please.

this

some hands just arent meant to be...

Some hero's ITT!

Pumped for this week, managed to squeeze myself out of a 3am start on Saturday so after tomorrow I've got a good week to grind + Easter.

Let's win some moolah!

Gowan kid, get the lot this week.

Great new addition to the diaries.Well done young man.

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Tonight's plan.

See you at DTD later mate ;)

Last night was pretty drab for the most part, got more fun toward the end of the night.

Spent most of the XXL nursing a <10bb stack, every time I got over 25bb's I got in a flip or got it in crushed and did a lose. Dunno whether it's worth my time playing these, guarantee is so good though for the buy in.

Sat on 1/1 and buy the time I'd put my stack down I was already looking for another table. Only one real hand of interest where I checked  7s 8c from straddle 6 ways and board came  5s 6s 7c, I lead £8 and guy with £25 stack calls, I just put him all in on the turn  2h and he calls, riv is  Ad and I lose to  Kd 7d, his friend then makes a comment "You put him all in with just a 7?" and looks absolutely astonished, took everything I had to not give him a huge lecture but I took the high road and just gave him a smile.

Later proceeded to stack him, karma's a bitch.

Alex was beckoning me over to a 1/2 that didn't look deep at all, and not a lot of "sicko's", only person I noticed apart from alex was Sean Randall who's more of a tournament player afaik? Might be wrong, won't be the first time I've offended someone in the diary by accident.  ;whistle; :hello:

Played the last hand on 1/1 where I opened  Aspades Ts and a "non-solid" player does a peel. He's the only one relatively deep at the table but says things like "You only check when you don't have anything" so we did a check on  Th 9d 6d and predictably he leads a  Qs turn, we do a raise and he snaps. Riv is a brick  4c and he bombs and we snap him. He proudly shows  Ad Ks

Moved to the 1/2, alex leaves shortly after cause I'm an intimidating mother fucker, or he went to get drunk with Melissa, you pick.

Soon pick up  Js Jc in the big over a straddle, 2 limps and Randall makes it £14 OTB, I make it £45 (thoughts on sizing?) and he peels, he has me covered with £290 effective.

Get a pretty good board of  Jd 9d 5s and I go for the "I have AK mate, check it down?" play, he bets £50 pretty quick. I do a wager of all betting discs and he tanks for 30 secs then calls.  4c turn and the bricktastic  Td river, I flip the JJ and he looks VERY tilted and snap quits the game. TT?

Took a forced one hour break, don't ask. Game broke when I'd come back.

Sat in a 1/1 again with a good friend, she's solid but obv wasn't finding anything all night, gets a full triple with set over set and overpair ;D Moaning it in for the win.

Some of the people from the 1/2 had moved to the 1/1 and a very random guy was on my right with a deece stack, we play a pot where I check  Aspades 9c from the straddle with 5 limpers (Incl drunk guy who's trying to start a fight with a guy on the next table) board comes Ac Js 9s, I lead for £7, 3 callers incl villain. Brick turn, bet £22 and he's the only caller. Get a marv  7s and he announces "40" but actually puts 70 in! It's ruled as 40 thank god as I would of puked at a £70 river lead, so hard OTR here, obv two big draws get there but I've seen him do some very weird things in the last few hands, min c/r'ing with bottom pair etc, so we go for the negreanu play of wanting to see the best hand and do a call, he flashes  Ahrt, I turn A9 and he folds.

One of the last hands of the night was very tilting where a guy from a previous post where I value cut myself with  Ahrt Kh vs  Ac Td shows up again. Drunk guy opens £3 and he peels along with confusing guy from above, I peel  6s 3s from the big.

 7c 5c 4d

I donk £9 and he ponders and calls OTB, his pondering seemed more like hollywood than an actual decision, decided to go with this read and evaluate turn. Turn is  2s and I lead small £17 and he raises pretty quick to £35, obv now I know the flop is hollywood and he likely has a pretty huge made hand. He has £150 behind and I decided to do a call and then lead a non 8/board pair/club river. Riv is  4c and visibly he looks more comfortable than the turn, I check and he pretty quickly bets £68, I don't think for long before folding, hurts obviously but I'm pretty glad I didn't get stubborn and call the river, just can never see him betting worse.

Alex and Melissa are hilariously drunk at this point, watching Alex kiss Gavin while I'm pondering my river fold certainly cheered me up ;D

Left about a £200 winner for the night, bought in for the 6max on friday which I'm excited for, a nice little run in that will boost morale a lot.

Tonight really isn't gonna be fun, I'm tanking a trip to Gala due to a few things. But just got a text from a really good friend I've not seen for like 8 months who's going DTD tonight and I want to see him so..  Either way if I'm in a less jovial mood tonight you have my premature apology.

Monthly results coming up Sunday, and you'll see why I don't really like my job for the world's greatest supermarket on a bowl wage.


 ;)

£45 sizing for JJ 3bet is exactly what i'd make it, nh

im up for causing more trouble tonight :D

Haha I've been paying attention. ;)

I thought you just folded everytime I 3bet you regardless of how big I made it :D

First George was sexy, and now a kiss for Gavin, a pattern is emerging...

Not interested mate, sorry :D

devastated :'(

Ha nice to be recognised.  That in itself is a compliment. I venture onto cash games but seem to run sooo bad at dtd, atm. (Feel like belton) Had played for a couple of hours aa,kk,kk. Not paid properly once. Ak v 63; k33 flop, etc,etc. goulden one outplaying me :((((. But had made a few bluffs to stay level. My lift was hassling me to go and I should have left a good 1 hand before THAT hand; that along with the run out caused me to tilt more than usual.  Anyway nice catch, I'll go back to torns ...

This is fast turning into a car crash of a diary. Genius in my opinion.

Like a butchered poker hand that gets there. Good luck over the weekend mett.

Who's this sorry? Sean I assume?

Fml. I have been reading this for days. Needs the title changing as I thought this was you.

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Hey Ho anyway. If #2 is the girl in the car on Facebook I would be chip dumping to her if I were you. She can do better you probably can't :)

You assume well. Nice diary btw...

Haha! Now I'm insulted ;)


Haha. Women ain't on my mind at the moment. #gaycliffhanger


Cheers pal, hope to play with you again soon think that was the first time?

Do you do the same job as Jarmaine from X factor Nick?

Weekend TR soon, including pinging a gutter for a £600 pot  ;flushy; ;flushy; ;flushy;

APAT main today, would love to do well in this. Bit of grub and then legoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Gl me.

Take it down boi!

APAT breakdown.

• got QQ a lot

[ ] won the pots.

Finally succumbed QQ<AK for 40 bigs. My mum told me there'd be days like this.

Currently stuck 150 on cash, and the crank shaft sensor on my car has broken on the way here. I actually run GOOD because I thought it was the cam belt or the alternator which a lot more expensive.

Lets get out of this hole.

Monthly stats. This doesn't include online.

52 Hours Tournament Poker.

+1065

92 Hours Cash Poker

£2895 total.

+£1835

Hourly rates;

£19.94 p/h - Cash poker.
£20.48 p/h - Tournament poker.

Biggest/Worst days;

Biggest tournament win = £850 (not including money to backers)
Biggest Cash Win = £480
Biggest Tournament Loss = £110
Biggest Cash Loss = £440

1k swing yesterday. Incoming TR.

Great results / hourly. Volume a bit poor, but I suppose you have one of those "job" things so I'll let you off :P

I might be off with the volume slightly, feel like I played a LOT this month. Forgot to note down so I've had to read through text messages.

But yeah being a muggle does affect volume slightly ;)

My average over the past 2.5 years is 128/month, but over the last 12months or so is more like 140. Doesn't sound like a lot, but feels like loads.

How many hours/month do you work at Tesco?

Contractually. 105 p/m

Realistically. 120 p/m

pretty strong combined volume

Every little helps.

144 on poker and 120 on job... when do you find time to please #2

So this week has been pretty fun, had a deep run in a tournament with a chunk up top, entered some fun tournaments, and won/lost some huge pots on cash.

The XXL wasn't something I was looking forward to in all honesty, the day was already planned to be a huge fuck up but I went with a plan of headphones and HOOOOOOOOD, didn't work out very well as I spent most of level 1 chatting to the dealer and a v good player on my table. We're soon cruising with a 50k stack and I've already got my eyes on the prize (2.5k) with 50 still to go at 800/1600. I also, in an attempt in showing off I guess accidentally misclick when I meant to peel a raise to 2100 and instead managed to somehow get a purple in there and made it 6100! My face when he jammed was something the entire table found hilarious ;D

Get moved to a new table, good player on my right now and I keep her in check a lot, slam dunk folded  Ahrt Qh to her jam OTB for about 25bb's, she claimed 88 but I still think it's a fold considering how strong I thought she was.

We're on the bubble and there's a guy asking for everyone to play "Very slow please" seeing as he 8k at 3/6, I remind him about the hand for hand rule and we get in a 5 minute palava about how other people are playing and we aren't, that's because their hand isn't completed yet! Sigh why do I even open my mouth in situations like this? It's like word vomit. Stfu next time. He ends up making the money after I get ridic lucky opening  Kd 9d in CO vs 2 nit blinds, bb jams for 5bb's and I obv can't fold, lucky she doesn't have me crushed with  Aspades Qs, until we get the death flop of  Qd 4s 3s, I'm already getting my cards ready to toss them right in the muck until a beautiful  Kh hits the river for me to scoop.

We're on the final with 250k at 10k/20k/2k so not a lot of play, I don't pick up anything remotely playable, only hand I folded which is maybe a cawl is when a nit jams and I fold ATo for 8 bigs, he flashes me KK. We have the shortest rail ever where alex and Sean see me jam T5o OTB with 3 bigs at 30/60k/10k and it gets through! Then geeg K9<A2  next hand. Ship the moneyyyyyy in 6th.

Went onto the 1/1 with an incred table of flush, belton, kinboshi and evilpie. Ended up giving evilpie 200 of my pounds when he had the nizzles! Sigh! He played it well, I ofc didn't #butcher.

Go absolutely batshit pre after this, not steaming it just seems to be my new style vs a tighter table, basically played/3b every hand until the game went stale. Moved to the much loved 50/1 100bb poker. Got told off twice by Carla before I'd even been dealt a hand for;

1; Sitting with £102.50
2; Sitting with my reload on the rail

Basically won every hand I played. Got in  7d 5d vs  Td 9s on  7c 8d Jd ended up making dat flush and AK>KK pre. Deffo won't be gracing 50/1 though, it's hard enough to beat the rake at 1/1 never mind when you can only sit with a maximum £100, I know it sounds bad, I'm not a balla by any means but I'd say it's hard enough beating 10% rake without only being allowed to sit with 100bb's.

Friday.


So the 6max was going great. I played like one of dem pesky internet kids and won a lot of pots with below average holdings. Also had the abso NUT dealer which was a big morale boost, had to impress after misclicking the other day >:(

Got moved table, lots of big stacks but all unknowns. Some random limps OTB and small limps and we check  Ts 9c from the big. Get an ok flop of  Qd Jd 8c, I heard straights were good so did a bet, got called twice. Decided to do another bet on a  Kh turn and button calls, I now have a 2x PSB left on the river which is  2d, I go for a half pot bet and he goes into the tank, was feeling pretty good when he just called, fastrolled the straight and he shows  Ad 7d EH KID? Couldn't even comprehend what was going on, dealer just destroys the board without noticing the guy has just called with the nuts on the river.

Crippled I soon bust with  Aspades 7s being no good vs  4c 3s for all my chips pre so we decide to sit for a bit of 1/1. Had position on mike who I respect a lot, we ordered the breakfast x2 and I was salavating at the thought of destroying some nosh.

I'm soon £100 winner, feeling pretty comfortable, guy tries angle shooting me and another guy where he acts like he meant to call a £4 raise but "two chips got stuck" even though they obviously didn't, anyway he makes it £10 and we have  Jc Jd OTB, I just fold because he has £80 behind, and the other guy has a determined look on his face, anyway we fold and instantly a 4b goes in, predictably angle shooter jams and says "Ha you didn't expect that did you?", they get it all in and we see the  Qd Js 3c board and want to vomit. Only to be very happy once I found out his "one pair" which I assumed was AA was actually QQ! He says "well I only have a pair in my hand, everyone can use that Q on the board" he later pipes up "why can't someone have JJ there?"

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Don't tell him will you? ;)

Anyway he spews a bit to me, tries getting to see my hand at showdown when I don't have to show etc, trying to tilt me. Obv it doesn't work and I make sure I do everything possible to not get slowrolled. He later goes broke twice and I feel karma giving me a nice massage cause I can't get one the regular way, where the fk are the masseuses!?

I later lose all my profit hero calling a maniac with  Kc Jc on  Ad Kh 3h 4d, was a 4b pot and he tank-jammed the turn, I call it off and he slowrolls  Kd 8d on a  Jd river, he mentions "I thought you had a full house" I politely inform him the board isn't paired "I wasn't looking at the board", how do you know your K8 wins then met? We leave shortly after, was tired anyway and I didn't want to spew or end up falling asleep in the car on the way home.

Saturday;

Won a huge pot to basically start the night. Table was very tight apart from one guy who wanted to gamble it up a lot, I 3b  Ad Qs and he cold peels, I end up calling him down and check-jam a miracle gutshot on the river for a full double, I GIQ cause I completely misread him strength wise.

No other hands that I can remember..

Sunday

Half way driving over, my car splutters and almost cuts out, the engine management light comes on and I'm preparing for a breakdown, I somehow make it to DTD and call the breakdown service, turns out it's my crank shaft sensor (?) and it's only a small job to sort. I'd love to get a new car but it's gonna be a sizeable portion of the roll.

The APAT went very badly, thought I had a great starting table, one guy gambling and tilting before we even start, the whole table arguing, 2 people who didn't know the chip denominations.

Quietly c-folded  Aspades Ac on  7h 8h 9h vs a donk bet and call in 3b pot.

We pick up QQ 4 times in the first 3 levels and lose every pot. Felt very very demoralised after I busted finally cold4/calling vs the maniac earlier with  Ad Ks, K right on the flop to send me out. I know it's tournaments and variance so it only bothered me for a short while, it DID bother me though. I think it's healthy but at the same time I can't let it affect my mood when playing cash games afterwards.

Soon I find myself stuck £400 due to a lot of coolers and a BAD BAD BAD LEARN FROM THIS bluff. Belton and lad join the table and it starting to look very reggy. Me and belton soon get in a pot where I open  Ad Td over his straddle, lad peels and sean squeezes to £31. Stacks are £210 effective. I peel cause IMO sean is light in this spot a light, he's in position to lad and knows I raise/fold a bunch. We get a flop of  Tc 9c 4h and he quickly bets £45, I decide to jam.

Sean calls pretty quickly and I start to think I really don't have the best hand. I make a comment that I've jammed and turned a pair into a bluff but it's not really what I meant. My jam is meant to LOOK like a bluff but maybe my hand is a little too "good" for that. I'd be interested to know what people do apart from fold pre. I won't spoil the result of the hand.

I move to 1/1 PLO as the game dies. And soon get in a humungo pot with lad where I raised pre over the double straddle with  Kh Qs Js Th and he pots the button. Both of us have around £350 when the hand starts. I peel and we get it all in on  Td 9s 3c and I'm lucky enough to make a straight on the river to get me out of the hole for the day and a considerable winner. People said the hand played itself but I'm by no means a PLO expert so I just GIQ as I don't like taking mega pots off my good friends. I've said it over and over, we all want to win and make money but I'm not going to deliberately go out and try and take my good friends money.

And that's the end of march, happy with the results I posted, a few hands I butchered, some I won, some I didn't. But I think the player I was pre-march has gone and the player I'm hoping to become will start to emerge more and more through April.

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Morning!

Few questions....

Why fold 66 5 handed ;) your money would have looked great in my wallet....

do you think its easier with the hours you work to fit poker in also. Was thinking about this today when i was waking up at 7.30 after no sleep till 4. Id much rather have got up just before session played poker and then gone work, but then if i had lost a bit playing pokers i couldn't help but think im coming to work just to recover 1/4 of my poker loses etc etc! so imo

9to5<3amtomidday!

question3 where are we staying in vegas!

P.S sorry this was not a troll.

It was nice to help you make a good start to April.

Cause I had a live read you'd make a flush! Durh! Nah idk, I normally never fold that, espec on the button. Just seemed to insta-muck without thinking. You already have enough of my fkn money. ;)



I honestly hate my shift pattern and the way I have to do work>nap>poker>sleep>work. 9-5 would be easier but in todays economic climate it's not that easy finding a 9-5 job. I sometimes go straight to work from a session and I'm honestly SUPER zombified. Who knew sitting at a poker table was so tiring.

Big problem currently is I work saturday AND sunday and can't get them off work to play 2 day events, so I'm reduced to using ALL my holiday just to play poker.


Soon plz. :)


Was very unsuccessful troll.


Think that's the first hand I've ever beat you Ian! It did take flopping a set to do it!


 ;tightend;

You do work 9-5, just starting at 9pm ;)

On a table with Langley, mistry, nick hicks and John black

[ ] gonna end well

Unlucky tonight bro, genuinely felt painful at times watching...

Pleasure to meet you and to be party to a fully successful 4way diary merge....
;)

After all, obvious float is obvious.

Hahaha! Swear that's gonna stick for life now!

Was good to meet you mate, and the rest of the hero's obv! First real bit of banter we've had bar the forums.

Was pretty painful losing on the river a lot tonight. Apart from when I couldn't find a fold vs Langley which is obv terrible.

TR later after work. Got a magical 4 hours sleep so I'm well up for today... [ ]

Lol hand was pretty standard vs someone who's blind pre and flop. Obv can't raise bvb as I just put my self in a horrid spot post vs good player.

Tried to keep bluffs in on flop/turn and just stationed on river when I probably should of folded, got levelled into thinking he'd think that I would think he'd make a straight with a PSB on the river, should of just though level 1 and gave up ;D

Alex' analysis of hand was what I expected too, no surprises there really. Just a ul river. ;(


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So this week went pretty fkn well. Small dip at the end where I basically played a hand bad and then got dealt a tempting NFD and couldn't fold for a £300 pot.

Started on a 1/1 rake free table, JK was an absolute hero for me and sean and just piled his float into our stacks, towers ftw! #lovethetowers

Game looked pretty deece, was IP to belton (wtf is this position) picked up  Ahrt Kh and squeezed vs a drunk guy and belton, drunk guy takes a min or so before £100 goes in the middle, obv snap. Nice K high board, HOLD.... Show AK. Oh..  Ac Ad #nh.

Now I'm in the hole for about £125 when Sean asks "1/2 mate?", normally I'm not an advocate of moving up stakes when losing but decided to as the game was not as fun as first expected. Tough player from 1/1 moves up also, so it's Belton (oop sigh, y u do dis?), Gasgoigne, Adam (tough player from earlier), couple leicester unknowns and a LAG I've played before.

Play first big pot with John who's just sat down, lost a pot earlier so I expect him to be ramming and jamming, he opens, both unknowns peel and have been peeling WIDE and I 3b the small with AQo pretty sizeable, Ideally I just want the pot now, I've made it enough so if any of them jam it's not too much more but ideally I don't really want to be playing £500 flips, for people who are going to pipe up "why 3b then", if I don't 3b here I hate basically every board and c-folding doesn't earn money, better to squeeze, give myself a chance to win a bigger pot vs John who I'd expect to get stubborn with worse Ax's and KQ/QJ hands.

Board is useless  8s 3c 9h and I c-bet £65, john moves in for 100+change and I obv can't fold, bink a Q on the turn and hold.

Later we go 6 ways to a flop with  2d 2c and it's  8c 2s 5h, to my surprise Ian leads out for 1.5x the pot (£85) think he has about £200 behind at this point but I've been misremembering a lot of stuff lately, I just call (prob bad, thought he'd move in a lot of turns though, surely raising doesn't keep bluffs in?) turn is  3d and he moves in, we snap and pair the 5 for a scoop. Don't know what he had at all thought it might of been a cooler if he'd flopped 2p or something but obv wasn't cause he'd of housed up as well!

Tried a look-up in a weird pot with one of unknowns on JT296ssxxx where I looked him up on the river when he potted it with  Aspades Qs and he showed  Ks 2s, again this was a live read of weakness which probably means I should be raising not calling on the river. A lot of stuff I do like this goes wrong which prob means it's a big leak which I need to plug, felt like I got a lot of information for what I paid for though so I'm kinda happy. Y NO SPADE.

Got 3 streets vs unknown with TT where I just call OTB, KT9, £10, 2, £25, T! £54. Thoughts on sizing? If I figure him for a K can I go for £100+ on the riv? No offence but I didn't see him folding a pair a lot.

Belton plays a hilarious pot where he raises dem pesky limpers with a 7 and a 2 and has to call a limp/shove cause he's put too much in! ;D Obv flops a 2, fkn golden!  Ad Kd no good.

Getting the lot at this point, and the tower has been built, v rare for me to get the pyramid and I've had it twice in the last week or so, deffo could get used to building it!

Get QQ vs TT in vs Adam later and we run it twice and I lose to the 1-out T on the second river :( don't really mind though, anything I can do to reduce a bit of variance is fine by me.

Move on to Gala as the game breaks. Gala has gone down the fkn pan, completely. Fav dealers have left and they are absolutely shagging the floor guy who's an absolute hero by giving him no dealers, no cover, massive list for a game and he can't get a dealer to start a game cause his staff are still dealing the comp or off on holiday and they won't give up pit staff, at one point his radio goes off "When are we opening a second cash game" He looks like he's about to explode and replies "When you give me a dealer?! I'M dealing the tournament atm", ffs I wish sometimes we'd get put first over roulette spunkers... Anyway rant over. Stef looks after the regs so much and it's actually a nice place to play when there's no aggro drunks.

Proceed to still run like god and get 2 players all-in in the first orbit almost dead. Sean moves table and a rich gambler sits to my left, hand plz.. Folded for a bit, Sam from DTD gets a lot of his money where I open  Jc Jh, rich guy 3bets to £15, same doesn't take long cold4'ing, and I just fold. They get it in pre and board runs QJT3T :( Sam flips AK for the scoop. I folded because Sam is on the tighter side imo, did wonder if he'd fold to a jam as he was relatively deep and me 5betting there looks so strong, wouldn't of worked he said.

Move table as the game dies a bit and I get on the main table with a lot of money on. George from DTD joins us, hero line-up! Cruised to a nice £800 win for the day as no hands really come up.

Get to DTD early the next day, take a bad beat immediately when the only masseuse there doesn't seem to be interested at all. Bring back rochelle!

Once again get in the habit of getting in a hole early, the swings I've had lately are ridic, sometimes 1k which for a predominately 1/1 player seems absolutely ridiculous. The 1/1 was full of hero's, RED, Fred, Stato (don't think he knows me, tehe). Soon all the rest leave and it's down to us 4 handed! Sigh! Do I smell or something? Decided to 3bet stato who'd be opening a lot with  Jh 8h.. went well...

• got 4bet. #tellbox

Move to 1/2, OOP to belton (shocker) and I'm dealt KK first hand! wiiii. 4 callers.. This'll be fun.  Js 3d 3c, just TID right there, cheers lads. Soon the upcoming villain loses a pot and is looking very steamy, we open TT to £8 and he jams for £105, do a quick call and hold until a pesky A river and lose to AJo, chipssssssssss. Couple new guys sit down and are absolutely itching to gamble, one guy has already rebought twice in one orbit so we're praying for a hand to get into it with him. We're also looking to get our chips back off villain from AJ hand.

Good reg opens £8 UTG and v splashy guy makes it £50 pretty quick, has about £200 and is looking to get it in, we cold4 £200 with AKo OTB and hold vs XX. Good reg asked me how much more I was playing (about 300) and had me covered, would of been pukey if I had to call off £500 with AK high here! Anyway I'm out of small hole and a v sizeable winner now. Have a bit of banter with Sean before he loses a gross 1k pot :/, we go for a bit of a walk and I find out something absolutely hilarious on my travels around the club. Some people..

Come back and the game is dying a bit, nothing really happens and I move over to 4/5/6 omaha with some splashy players, should be fun! Only really notable hand of the night was me check/potting JJATxx on KJ4r and getting a big pot all-in.

Couldn't play the deepstack this month, would of loved to but unfortunately my lovely job gets in the way of my hobby a lot, I've been thinking of a career change for a long time, moving into IT most likely, as I'm a bit of a balla when it comes to this stuff, mainly cause I spend what little time I don't spend playing poker/working infront of my PC, looking up memes or whatever.. More than likely though it means going into training which means I'm not earning, my outgoings aren't too bad and obv I've built a good roll to be getting along with but being without a steady (if small) income for a few months while I re-train may bother me. At the end of the day though I need to move on and do something I enjoy as I'm not going to live forever (inb4 emo) and I don't want to be 30 still working for the worlds greatest supermarket (possible sarcasm ITT)

Played Saturday, got a better massage YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS (I actually got 2, oops £40  ;whistle; ;whistle; ;whistle; ;whistle;) but ended up doing a lose in a fkn heroic game, was up a bunch on another table so I decided to quit for some banter with some of the blondes including JB, he didn't know who I was so it was quite hilarious at first ;D

Got introduced to JB, played a few pots with Langley (fkn god of poker) and Sunny and they're all just getting the lot. Great to see, some good banter.

Spot comes up where I 3bet Langers £5 open with TT to £14, splashy guy in small peels and JB decides to cold4 to £41 from the BB, immediately thoughts go through my head what I'd do in JB's spot with marginals, SB never has nutted range, I'm probably percieved as weak or being a goof on the BTN, and langers is big favourite to fold without a premium. I'm £250 deep (after the bet) and the effective with JB covering me. WWYD?

Later I open  Ahrt Ad and get 4 callers including langley.  Ts 3c 2h and I bet £10 and TL calls, I make my new patented comment "Obvious float is obvious" should be noted at this point I don't think he's floating me, while the rest of the table tries to explain memes to Poshboy a 9 hits the turn and TL c-raises £15 to £52, You? I decided to call and make a comment about how it's going to be £157 OTR. It's £103 on a brick. Everything says fold. Everything except my fkn right hand, obv I flick it in and get shown a set. #butchery.

I don't top up as I figure if I get stacked I'm only losing 100 for the day instead of 350 and I'm leaving in 30 mins cause of work anyway, I get in  Ad 3d 3-ways on  Qd Jd 9c vs a random and JB who's 3bet on the flop. We're against  8d 9d and JB who I assume has a straight, river is a disgusting  8h for random to scoop.

All in all, week 1 of april has gone very well, up over a bag, 31.25 hours put in, happy overall with my play. View leaks still, talking to a lot of v good players who are helping me improve massively so much love to anyone who helps me with my game or mood in general. You aren't forgotten.

Will be around wednesday most likely once I get work out of the way. Hope to build some more of these.

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Lastly as sort of a humilation/punish for spacking with AA vs Langley on saturday I'm offering a freeroll to anyone who can name the dealer in picture 2, you only get 1 guess and first to post wins, I've yet to decide what sort of freeroll I want to offer but thought it'd be a fun quiz for the regs/readers of this diary. Providing the freeroll isn't too humiliating/expensive you win!

Matt?

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too thin i know, but thought they were his hands. that's weird.

Nick?

waaaaay too thin surely!

-5 points from Hufflepuff.

Still up for grabs, also post what you'd like as the prize to give me some ideas.

Simon?

Ding ding ding, we have a winner. Decide your prize.

You should of got it alex, look at his stance during this!

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfFi1lYd0zQ

Good run Lad, i managed to hit and run, bit to heavy for me but nice few hands got me £600

What was his 4bet sizing? I fold a lot of the time to this particular player because basically his stats dictate that we should, but sometimes sizing can give you an indication of whether you're flipping, and when the 3bettor is going to stick in some dead money and probably block some of villains outs I may put it in; JJ is the line though. I don't like the idea of turning it into a bluff at all.

Also: http://imgi.uibk.ac.at/mmetgroup/MMet_imgi/tools/mayfield/have-of.htm

YES! I WON SOMETHING! :D
Thoughts on prizes...?

I'm not completely sure, I think it was £43 with £160 behind. I might be off though


Ha, you've had a few good 2nds ;)

2nd = 1st of the losers :)

Unfortunately, still makes me a loser :p

Back to winning ways! Can hardly call one losing session a downswing but it did bother me how bad I played some hands.

TR tomorrow including a hilarious goofy hand where the flop has to be reshuffled and I end up flopping the nuts on flop #2 and end up stacking someone ;D Hilar!

Need sleep now, was almost falling asleep at table/on drive home.

Had this on repeat tonight! fkn nostalgia!

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGw8DWctAts

<3 this diary, Everytime I read it, I just want more! It's just like chocolate imo

just don't meet him....

#dontmeeturheros

So Wednesday went ok.

Started with my usual wednesday bowl of rice comp, mashed a lot early and was v healthy after 2nd break on about double average. Only one real problem at my table who I was IP to for once. Then got a king and another king and made a raise, got min-raised by a "splashy player" and decided to wager all chips, he called with an ace and a jack and we did not win. :(

Sat down on a v good 1/1 and played like an absolute mentalist for 3 hours and won a lot of pots. Problem, I was OOP to two stations who love to press the middle button. Solution, make/have a pair a lot.

Notable hands I open OTB  8h 8s over a limp to £6, both stations and limper peel  Kh Th 6h, checks around.  Jh, first guy leads £15, we flick it in. Riv  Qh and obvious bluff becomes very obvious. £57 gets donated to me as I pretty much beat him in the pot and he proudly shows  Aspades 2c..

Later we get dealt  8d 8c again, just peel a raise from a nit, both stations peel.  Qc 7c 5s, checks around.  2s Guy from earlier bets small, we call. He pots a Jd river, once again feel like he's massively FOS here, he also weirdly would bet a 5/7 here for what he thinks he value. We station and here "one pair". Normally I just whip my hand over but I've done this before and been shown  Ad Ac, so we wait, see a 7 shown and just whip dem eights over.

Pick up  Qs Qc, how can this EVER win? Nobody wins with the beltons, Villain from above calls which was really surprising.. He's losing prob £200 at this point so I expect him to get very wide especially pre.  Ahrt Td 5c board and I c-bet £8, he calls.  5d turn. Bet £14 he calls. Basically decided I'm checking all rivers bar a Q, feel like I can't get 3 streets from a ten and he's never ever ever folding an ace. We check-check a  3c river and lose to  Aspades 4d #nhsir

And now for the most hilarious hand of the night. Whale limps with £5 chip and I iso  Tc 9s OTB to £5, station calls. Dealer puts a very disappointing  Kd Qd 4c flop out, then the whale pipes up that he's not called the raise pre and wants the floor called. Floor rules that the board is completed face down and the flop is re-shuffled. We get a much better flop of  7s 8c Jd and the whale pots it £15! LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. We make it £44 and now station pipes up he wants his money back and folds  Aspades Kc face up while other guy hasn't acted! SIGH. STOP FOLDING WHAT HE THINKS ARE HIS POTENTIAL OUTS FACE UP PLZ. Anyway he's quickly all in with  Ac Jc, club on turn for a sweat but we hold.

Work related news now to please all the non hand history lovers. So normally I work Sun-weds+sat and rest of time is poker time, yesterday I was given 4 hours notice that my shift was changed and to deal with it. Obv wasn't happy. Got to work and was given a very condescending lecture about how I should think about giving gamblers anonymous a ring. I mention about my rights regarding notice of shift changes and changes to unsociable hours and quickly ushered out before they realize I might have a case. Yawn, think my time at Tesco is gonna come to an end pretty soon, been looking for a new job for a while but realistically I don't want to take a side-step so it probably means quitting and re-training into something better suited for me. We'll see and keep y'all updated.

Heading up to Dusk tonight to calm my addiction GOD I NEED TO PLAY SO MUCH..

Hopefully see y'all there.

Anyone else get really nervous when hidden people are viewing your diary?  ;scarymoment;

Do you a favour if its one of those pesky purveyors of  ;izimbra; so don't sweat. Odd's on to be girl 1 anyway  ;D

Lol

Read few pages back and somehow still missed the girl 1/ girl 2 thing, cliffs pls.

very tired and being rather pathetic today.

Calls ex girl one and current then girl girl 2. Girl 1 then
informs girl 2. Then 2 become none.

Such a hero.

Lock up wed24th for the streamed charity big one one dude

Lolgirlaments.


Sickkk in for the ride.

"I keep making 2 pair and it being no good"

I developed this problem! Enjoy work im going for a nice sleep with less money in my pocket than at the start of the day... a lot less!!

Just pricing up vegas trips.... :P

FFFFUUUU

You having a lot less money = justice for that post

Cliffs from last nights pretty bad session.

- Folded QQ on 9527Jccxcx to a 17f/17t/72r cannon
- Made two pair a lot, didn't win the pots
- Folded KK to the carla goddard check-raise on T74dd, shown T4ss obv, we don't like folding two spades.
- Checked 75 from bb vs goddard, 752, pot flop, T turn, pot turn, 6 river, she £23 with 89o..
- Got bluffed with JJc on KQ776cccxc, vs 42ss
- Binked a 4 vs Red-dog for my only decent pot of the night, soz bud ;)

Work are shafting me hard. Flanagan in job hate shocker.

For people that don't know I'll be playing the big one one with the rest of the hero's on stream (fingers crossed) on weds 24th. Thinking about doing what Alex did with the 2/5 a while back and doing a small % sweat if anyone would be interested?

Possibly playing today, even though I have work at 5am and have only just finished today, grinder/addict, make your choice.

Big 1/1 tonight, full of hero's. Can't wait.

Think I rate as a dog in the game to make a profit but think what I'm losing in EV I gain in playing with some great players who'll help me improve a lot.

Seeing as alex has the exclusive on the game you guys will have to sweat in his diary.

Nandos pre first, few days off work, loving life  ;D

My face when I saw the line-up

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"It's not about the money, money money, we don't need your money money money..."

No, but when Nick is around it does help to have the extra ££ being flicked into the pot.

Nik has covered the cost of a few months rent for me. Such a nice guy!

Stop making trips then!

You fold overpair to Sean on the 98x8?well played mate

Lol not sure if troll but yeah I did.

Successful troll was successful!

Adam you gotta remember Sean and nik chop it up in the car park the only people that win when there heads up is the rake box.

disclaimer this hypotheses of chopping up in the car park is based on no actually fact just a rumour I'm hoping to start.

Thoughts on the  Ad 8d stack off? Think I know why you called off but reckon it must have been close?

He didn't stack off. You did.

;bumwiggle;

Was pretty close. decided once I raise to 55 I have to stack off.

EDIT: Sorry bit blunt, I'll explain more later :)

No worries - felt from your facial contortions like that was the the craic. Discuss later, there from 730ish or so I think and going to be playing in the last chance satoon.

Fair.

But at least I did it with your chips :D

No trolling about. Not quite caught up with Matt's diary or this but it is on the cards. Keep up the grind and diary imo, might see you late tonight/tomorrow if your in/

U at DtD Adam? Or did you actually get barred?! Saw you in reception...

No, there was still a note on my account, had a chat with the floor (Dennis?) who let me in, I then went to speak to Simon and had a 5 min chat with him and Nick about a few things. Had to drive home to sort computer problems, but will be back either late tonight to grind for a bit as JB and I have the hotel for a second night, if the computer shit takes ages then I'm sleeping here and coming for 1c tomorrow.

Yeah will be in tonight, feel like the diary is dying a bit due to not much happening out of poker (lolgirls bein girls). We'll see, I'll keep it going when fun things happen :)


Glglglgl, yeah we'll have a chat.

On for my biggest losing day, maybe the diary will get a few bumps by the end of the day, keep you posted

Come on Nik get out of it!

join me in the april hole! its fun in here. I keep trying to find the ladder out but i somehow keep ending up deeper and deeper in it!

Folded JJ to John black,  Qc 6c 4c board, he shows  2h

Gtfo

#buried

:)

Fish is blind..
He was shown a black 2 and doesn't know difference between red and black...

Found myself BURIED last night in the 1/2, in for 800 and two double ups wouldn't get me unstuck, looked like it was gonna be a horrendous day..

Didn't faze me too much though due to some good table convo and not a lot I could of done in the big pots I lost.

Hand 1 - Open  Ac Jc to £7, sb good reg makes it £22, I cover him just playing £300. I peel  Js 7d 3c he bets £22, I make it £57 pretty quickly and he tank calls.  Ad comes turn and he leads £55, seemed a little weird but folding/calling seemed ridiculous so I jammed and he snapped with  Jh Jd

Hand 2 - Double a shorter stacked Belton up when I open  Ahrt Kc and get four callers and bet £23 on Ac 2c 3c, Sean calls, brick turn, I bet £38, Sean jams for 140 more and I call it off and lose to  3d 3h

Absolutely buried at this point, in for 800 and 230 infront of me. Soon get all-in again with good reg from before when I £15 a couple of limpers with  Kd Kh, they all call. I look very steamed at this point I assume and lady has commented to her friend that "I'm a bluffer" ;)

 Tc 8d 2d and I £42, reg jams and I call and win. JB comments that reg must have a set but I hold in a slightly bad board run out.

Proceeded to win a lot of medium sized pots after this to end with a -140 loss which really easy that bad in the grand scheme of things, only my 3rd losing day this month but due to work my hourly has dropped a little.

End of HH's.

Had some great table conversation, and something that came up in my mind while I was talking to someone was "Don't judge a book by it's cover" for people who don't know me I'm a hoodie wearing emo lookalike and properly look I'm about to be executed on a daily basis, it came up when I was playing a tournament recently that someone commented that "I didn't look very friendly", 30 mins later I'm telling them all about my family and showing them pictures of my baby niece.

On to next week and the stream cash game on Wednesday which I'm really looking forward to. I get to see behind a few curtains and some people get to see behind mine...

Hoping to end april on a high and win the May deepstack. :)

Also played with Tom Ambler for the first time, v good player and all round good egg.

Played with JB most the night, whaleeeeeeeeee  ;bumwiggle; ;bumwiggle; ;bumwiggle; ;bumwiggle; ;bumwiggle; <3

Yeah Tom is a good egg.

Thinking about this streamed game... Hmmm...

Lmk if yr in JB. Need players otherwise won't run.. Who else keen?

Haha cheers guys, was a pleasure to meet you both in the flesh!

Definitely keen

Thought we had a big interest list? :(

4/5 people can't make this wednesday so we're under it a bit.

just said on fb mate, just too far for a one night jaunt while I have a day job.  Am up for it at a weekend at some point...?

Weekend recovery?

#girl3 about yet?  ;ifm;

If you want me to flick in 300 I can have a pop if your short! I've been flicking it in everywhere else so at this month!

While waiting for a 1/1 game.

"Nik, 1/2?"

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 rotflmfao ;hide;

Amazeballs...

#6?

One of the funniest things I've ever seen.

April results. Shafted cause of work.. Feel like a broken record.

Work hours: 126.5
Cash hours: 113
Tournament hours: 12.75
Girl #3 hunting hours: 0

Cash profit: £915.50
Hourly: £8.10/hour

Tournament profit/loss: -£66
Hourly: n/a

Best/Worst;

Best cash day; +£629.50
Best tournament day; +£105
Worst cash day; -£379
Worst tournament day -£57

Session results;

Winning cash sessions: 8
Winning tournament sessions: 1
Losing cash sessions: 4
Losing tournament sessions: 3

Man#1 hunting hours?

ask JB

You should feel blessed work hours are so low ;) plus your cash profit was green!

yeh wal

Yeah sounds like your work hours are easy in volume but crippling with the timing. Get a 40 hour 9-5 IMO and grind weekends.

I wish! Not exactly lots of that up for grabs atm.

mbn. :)

was so happy

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In general or where you work?

Both ;D

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Lots of this.

Wonder why I'm swinging so much the last couple months?

keep your sex life away for the diary IMO.

I was thinking the same.  He's trying to rack up #4, #5 and #6 in the same night, obviously.

More like #21 #22 and #23 ;bumwiggle; ;bumwiggle;

Off out clubbing with a few friends tonight. This can ONLY end well.  :D

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Oh my god hahaha, you realise I actually listen to this band Red?! Girls generation ftw!

Oh and 1, 2, 5, 6, and 8.

AKB48

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Yessssss <3 girls generation

Ok so last night was very fkn embarrassing.

Went out pretty early with Jamie and met a few of his friends, introduced him to life with face cards, hilarity did ensue!

Soon I'm on the double JD and cokes and it's been a while since I've had a drink so I wasn't prepared at all for what happened  :-X

Went off to a "shots only" bar, at £1 a shot I got fkn destroyed on "poison apples" which judging by the colour of my puke today didn't agree with me at all! Green puke ftl.

And to top off the night we went back to the bar previously, I'm on probably JD number 10 at this point and had a lot of shots and I'm wanting a bed but it's only 1:30.. I put my fingers on the bridge of my knows at the bar as I was getting a headache, bouncer comes up to me lifts my chin up and goes "Oi wake up", obv him ragging my head didn't go well and I soon brought up most of what I'd drank previously, managed to stealth puke in a corner but did get caught like 5 min later as puking is kinda like having a pringle, once you pop you can't stop! Got chucked out, first for me, waited a bit for friends to finish and got back to J's about 4am, fell asleep with no more puking which I'm amazed by. I had said to Jamie a few hours previous "meh I don't get sick on nights out"... Oops  ;whistle;

He woke me up at 7am to 8table zoom! Hero! Drank more than I did too, was fkn badly hanging this morning though, which I normally don't get cause I'm too old for this hangover shit. After psyching myself up I rail him playing 100nl/200nl zoom like a boss which hurt my head how fast it is. In 5 minutes he played more hands than I rate to in a nightly 1/1 session. Prob should get back to my online grind on when I'm not working/playing live, heads up hypers really aren't agreeing with me though, still tilts me losing flips, am winning though.

DTD tonight, deepstack tomorrow as I decided I'm only gonna fire 1 bullet at it. Got over my hangover now just a small headache to be getting on with. Just had a hilarious convo with George on facebook about how he thinks I'm perceived at the tables, cracked me up.


Also, while I was absolutely wasted I decided to text a girl I like.. Didn't screw it up which makes a change. Maybe John Black and the Man #1 will have to wait a bit, depends if she actually wants a thing or not.. Gl me.

Hopefully next time I post in here I'll be the deepstack winnerrrrrrrrrr, let's win some sterling.

GL Nik. Plenty of shenanigans today pls

MTT'S Y U DO DIS.

Had a great start to the deepstack, despite having one of the tougher tables imo I was doing ok, 60k at first break after a few medium sized pots and then got a guy to cold4 jam 50bb's with  4h 4d, as usual we had  Ac Aspades.

All downhill after the break, got bluffed by sulphur man in a 3b pot for quite a lot where I bet/c-called/c-folded on  8s 4s 3c Ks 2c where I folded something ridiculous and got shown  Ahrt Ts, nothing out of line all day and then he goes and does this, Y U DO DIS. Joking ofc, nh ;)

Tried to get some chips going after weak shortstacks which didn't end well. Y U DO DIS FLANAGAN.

Got crippled shortly after in a very annoying pot vs phen and shoved 12bb's with  Js Jd and got it through, very next hand pick up  Aspades Qh UTG+1, UTG opens for 3x I jam, Ian jams over top and we busto to  Qs Qc, geeg.

CASH GAMES Y U DO DIS.

Sat on 50/1 whilst waiting for a 1/1 seat, actually half decent amount of money on the table so I thought I'd flick it in. Melissa was on there and obv I tried to bluff her early which WENT WELL [ ], basically opened and both blinds incl Melissa peel out of big.  8c 5c 2d, bet £7 she calls, 7h we chk/chk and  Kh where I overbet and she soulread calls with  Qs 2s. Y U DO DIS.

Proceeded to hate life for a bit as I realise I'm never going to beat melissa cause she's too fkn good and owns me and I try and bluff the best player at the table  ;D

Got stacked later with  Td 9d on  Kd Jd 2h 4d 3-way all in on turn vs  Ad 2d and  7d 8d! No miracle OTR and I left DTD pretty early, was tired anyway but felt I'd end up spewing if I stayed.

Booked this weekend off so a LOT of cash games today, let's try and get out of yesterdays hole and not;

• Try to bluff Melissa
• Blow the whole bankroll on massages
• Check who's defriending me on Facebook
• Tweet about who's defriending me on Facebook on twitter.

Shenanigans ITT!

Some quality shenanigans in this thread if you can ignore all the poker crap.

Good stuff Nik.

      Matt spot on. More about massages from cute Irish girls and flirting with Melissa whilst Alex is away.

Nik, swings come with being a better, more aggressive player. It would have been pretty brutal for you to have had swings of the magnitude you're experiencing recently when you were the quiet little nit in the corner who only played aces or better. You can't expect your stack to keep heading in just the one direction when you're playing 35/35/22 with an AF of infinite ;)

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This.

You have till Tuesday.

Wtf you know I'm dating JB?

#13 unlucky for someone

     And Alex has been going to the gym.

Nik has been going to the John.

Didn't Alex have target of having a threesome during 2013? Sounnds like the plan is reaching fruition :)

Resolutions for 2013.

Real Life


See more of my school friends
Join a gym
Continue to play football once a week
Write lots of piano covers of popular songs
Be less of a shit driver - no speeding fines or accidents or bumps or anything in 2013!
Visit St. Petersburg
Have a threesome

;applause;

BUSTED! :D

The diary that just keeps giving.  Ahrt

And occasionally taking. (Apparently)

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And nobody reads this diary huh Flanagan?

Yeah shock Nik moans it in (cue red pun)

I really enjoy it and always tune in.
I will be posting more an getting involved.

Likewise but Nick moans it in saying nobody reads it.

I love a good moan.

Usually when I'm riding man #1

Just read your whole diary lol good stuff KUTGW  Ac

Welcome to the madness. :)

Wheyy

He's playing it up like he's a proper little bender but the second bedroom hasn't been used by Nik yet.

Also,
"only faggots f**k pussy..."
(name that movie - because I can't remember)


And Melissa, wouldn't you want to assist Alex in completion of his resolutions?

1) Why would he use the second bedroom, when he can just stay in the first?
2) Subtle as a mcflurry in KFC there matey :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnd14nHTtbQ

Is this the one?

Also Hi Nik keep winnings monies, enjoying this diary alot.

You think we live in some liberal country like the Netherlands or something?

 ;whistle;

And Melissa, wouldn't you want to assist Alex in completion of his resolutions?
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Short answer. No.

Short answer. No.
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does the long answer include a mabye?

Wonder if my diary can go one page without mentioning girls/men/sex. Pretty sure it's not possible.

Especially when I post on every page.

does the long answer include a mabye?
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A tap in for sure but still gold.

Also, Melissa - does this mean you have already experimented? Or just not interested? Or not Alex? Other?

John why don't you stop being such a fucking creepy perv sleazeball?

This. Without the swear word  ::)

embarrassing

jeez.... chillout.

#obvajoke

Come on guys, let's all just hug and change the subject.

I like mine Medium Rare

Shenanigans itt

I still haven't found what I'm looking for.

Yes you obv are a joke.

edited: cba

Meh just chill guys.

Sigh... Feel like nik's diary is being unfairly derailed.

Nik how's the night going?

Reposting first paragraph as think it should be said.

You brag on your blog about all the women you 'get'. I can't imagine what they are like if they respond to such tactics. I mean you met Melissa like once right? Twice at best? And by met I mean, said a few words. I don't know what on earth gave you the impression that she would find that sort of joke funny or that she was the type of girl to enjoy being talked about like that on a public forum. Or that you two were on such close terms that you could judge where the line was and ask her those sort of questions even as a 'joke'. Not to mention having no idea about my relationship with her and whether I/we were OK with being talked about like that on here.

Thanks for the PM John. Let's move on....

Any donkament plans Nik? Scoop main maybe?

Depends on work as usual, maybe :)

fook you T****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Got in at 4am, just got to work. ;(

Pretty hilarious game last night for many reasons even though I ended up dropping (donating) £100

TR later

gl gl with the labels ;)

 ;tk;

Been quiet a bit sorry. Work related BS that I've reached the end of my tether with, left work early on Tuesday as I nearly gave someone the finger and told them to get the fuck out of my sight. Anyway..

Hilarious cash game on saturday, ending up losing in the game but ended up;

- Losing a big pot to Jack early with 33 when I got a sick board runout of 97379ssxxs, prob should of raised the turn
- Running a shit load of bluffs, mostly against Melissa for some reason, seemed like me and her were playing every pot tho, most of them I got caught, could also feel a live tell I have on myself manifesting so I need to adopt some way of making myself more comfortable so I don't give shit like this away and cost myself pots.
- Faced an open from nit and Mel 3balls and I look down at  Qc 4c and fold pre cold 4 and end up betting flop and turn on AT9K to get rid of Mel who hangs on to me like a deer tick postflop! Y U SOULDREAD ME
- End up running a ridiculous bluff against Jack, we were playing "Dealer shows 1" and the dealer ended up showing both!  ;madasahatstand; Showing 1 prolly makes jack think I have a house. This was not good for my tight image.  ;flushy;
- Played Lodden thinks with Tommy Bingham, Jack, Melissa and a few dealers, hilarious as always!

Real life now. Celebrated my dad's birthday (64 now, Boss!) Applied for a few jobs here and there, only one I really want is Fraud Prevention at HSBC but it looks to be a dead end, I have no experience, HSBC have a super tough recruitment policy (No re-applications for any jobs within the branch before 6 months) so you have one shot really which it looks to have missed. Work aren't happy as usual so are shafting me with shift changes, double shifts, split shifts and changes to my days off with no notice. Soon the moaning in this diary about Tesco will end, read into that what you will.

Moved up stakes online, doing ok but still struggling because I love playing live so much, even though;

- The rake is higher
- The game is slower
- The variance is higher
- The expenses are higher
- The games don't always run

So it comes to ask. People who prefer live over online, why? I'm one of them and I can't explain it. In b4 sausage "CUZ ONLINE IS RIGGED LOL? HAVNT U SEEN ME ALL IN WITH AA ON THE BUBBLE AND GUY CALLED WITH 92 SUITED IT CAME 992A9 LOL RIGGED BS" I don't know if it's the social aspect as I'm not much of a chatter to non-friends/regs but it does seem to have a certain charm!

Couple days off now, they've tried making me work all this week too but I gave them the finger, booya.

See you at DTD/Gala degens.

What stakes/games do you play online?

Cos I can't frigging win online.

I used to play hyper HUSNG's but I've moved back to NL cash, at 25NL atm.



 Me either hahah! ;D

Very courageous bluff there Nik :p

Online name?

Full ring or 6-max?

Atleast he got 1 of 39 bluffs against you through.. ;cheerleader;

Remember if you need any bar work, you know where I am ;)

Yeah, guess I gotta let him have one...  ;)

Totally worth it

#girl3 confirmed sighting

0205 Saturday 18th June 2013

#girl4???

Tell me she isn't

So many shenanigans....

Ok TR. Get the feeling this is gonna get some interest.

Uncapped 1/2, OOP to Vargas and Alex with loads (2k+), Rexas, Belton, and couple of non-regs. Was pretty good but I never got anything going, was card dead for most of the night. Don't think I ever had a profit of over 100 which probably means I'm not good enough to beat the game, idk. The game felt huge, casual £80 pots going to flops when I'm used to it being £10.

A few spots came up, one where I had to fold AA otf on K64hh after a shit load of action, ended up being a bare K vs a FD, he got there so I guess I'm not too bothered. Lost half my stack TT<KJo pre vs a frustrated guy who was looking to gamble, ran a bluff against Sean where I 3b pre and bet/bet/jammed on T62JJxxddx, could actually feel myself shaking as the pot got huge. Not sure if this is a good or a bad thing, I love the rush but feel like I'm playing over my roll/skill level to "enjoy the swings". Hero'd vargas with Queen high in a 75bb pot which was good ;D #station

Finally busto'd where I value cut myself vs alex where I opened AK, got 5 callers. A86r, reg donks £14, me £35, alex cold calls which I don't like but obv I have a strong hand, 9 on turn, £50 each. and Jammed a Q river which is probably bad as I'm not sure he calls worse, he tank called with 89 which made a lot of sense. Felt like I didn't play my best but that's maybe cause I lost 500.

Was about to go home and stef text me to say a great game was going at Gala, so I flicked it in. Game was great, lots of money and felt I was capable of winning in the game.

Immediately double a guy with AK<A9o all in pre for 100, chipsssssss. Take a short break as I actually felt on tilt that I was now stuck 600 due to really not much fault of my own, get back and run nut flush into quads  ;frustrated; chipsssssssssssss.

So I'm now in for a bag, feeling surprisingly calm as I'm on for my biggest losing day. Game goes to one table and I proceed to probably play 80/60/25 until 7:30am (Work at 8) where I win every orphan pot and every 3b pot possible but still run bad in the big ones. KK<AJo in pre for £160, puke.

Left a £700 loser which really hurt. Biggest losing day but felt like I couldn't of done anything to save about £500 of it. Probably gonna avoid reggish 1/2 for a while though, it plays sick high and I feel actually scared the amount of money that goes in some of the pots.

Playing tonight even though I have work at 4am, degens gotta degen. Gl me.

Will hopefully see you at dusk later matey,

I had one of my biggest ever losing days whilst at the GPS on thursday, and as I got told by a certain hero, you can take comfort in the fact that you will definitely have worse. I definitely feel like those 1/2 games play too big for me sometimes, I just happened to be in probably the best possible seat at that table, so I went for staying in it. I do tend to avoid these games though, simply because there are times when I start thinking about it in terms of money rather than chips, and its at that point that I stop making anywhere near good decisions. Everybody loves the #swings

Get on the 1/1 mate. So much more fun, plus you crush :D

Disagree, the 1/2 is hilarious when it's full of heroes like Nik belton Vargas etc

U've just ran cold last two sessions I've played with you, obv super common. Man up and lovethegame imo!

Alex just wants your money mate. ;shark;

1/1 is like 95% of my live play still, deffo think most tables I'm capable of being +EV and beating the general level of play. Rake is a small problem but I'm playing more games where it's 5% which is more manageable.


It's fun and nice to challenge myself, lot to learn though and it's v expensive to "learn" in an uncapped 1/2, I'd buy for shorter but I just hate it and feel like I'm grimming the game buying in short as me losing even a medium sized pot leaves me crippled.

Running cold always happens, to everyone. I've taken it pretty well although it's cost me about 1.1k!  ;frustrated;

Always gonna lovethegame :) never stop loving the want to play and the people I've met playing!


LDO!  ;flushy;

MC on my 1/1 tonight :o

Bankroll Management ftw <3

fyp

Almost out of my 1k hole I dug for myself last week. Had a pretty good night on the hole last night, narrowly missing out on a 1.1k tourney score which obv would of been nice.

Starting the 1/1 early at dusk tonight with a few regs. Should be fun. And someone's gotta give dusk some money cause apparently they don't want to make any the regular way by you know, running a tournament that isn't a satellite for a 6 day event.

 ;hide;

I hope you meant 'a good night on the whole'

Then again......

:o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o

Wheyyyy

Obvious Freudian slip is obvious

Soz been a bit quiet lately, been lurking a lot and not a lot to post about outside of poker. Been attempting some sort of girl thing but it's not going very well due to me being the  2c with women, might just turn gay then if I have a bad session I can just bum my probable degen boyfriend, plus FredW says I've been through all the women at DTD so I'd best start on the men, watch out boys ;)

It's been another swingy month, posted biggest losing day then earned it back and then some with a hugely good session on 1/2 where I basically couldn't lose a pot, had a great tower going which everyone looked to destroy, was pretty sick to be sitting with £1.8k (most I've ever had in play) and be covered in 6/8 spots. I remember when my roll wasn't much more than 1.8k so to have that in play was pretty scary. Did make me play pretty tight but the table was mega tough and full of regs so I was gonna be on the tighter side anyway, unless I was flicking it in with the  Jh 6h and check-raising Mitch because I obviously have some sort of mental problem where I want to make myself puke when I see how much money is going into the middle.

Most importantly worthy of a diary post is that I've handed in my notice (1 month) at work, had enough now. Gl me whatever I pursue next.

Ok, monthly results. Not sure if it's a good idea to post them or not but anyways.

May

Total hours: 161
Sessions: 19
Winning Sessions: 13
Losing Sessions: 6
Biggest losing session: -£700
Biggest winning session: +£1418
Tournament entries/cashes: 4/3
Tournament profit/loss?: Profit
Cash Profit/loss: Profit

Definitely a most excellent shenanigan!


GL GL! Professional shenanigans for a living FTW  :)up

awesome! glad for you...

shame you've let me get a housemate already or you could come down and crush the northampton and mk games. :)

plans, ideas??

Got ABSOLUTELY crushed last night, 3rd month running I've had my biggest losing day. Although as a side-note I'll add I seem to have HUGE winning days after huge losses and last night ended an 8-game streak.

Not a lot of HH to discuss, LOADS of coolers and then I got the NFD in on the flop in like the worst spot vs  6c 8c on  9c 7h 5c :/

Silver lining, I'm still in profit for June, time to get my grind on.

Playing the 6 max tonight or just cash! Opportunity for a good night as I'm coming for a spin!

Cash yo, not sticking around dusk for long, it's gala night.

got the makings of a good game tonight

Alex I owe Mitch 150$ can I give it to you tonight please?

Your probably going to take a couple of £100s of me anyway!

Im in myself tonight mate, will see you later for it.

callum nik, want seats locking up in the follwing game?

1/2/4 from 8/830pm

Me
Mitch
THE VENUE
Will Fry
Belton
Ian G
Kurt

?

Going to play the 6 max then will go on the list later!


Sorted

Prob gonna pass mate, game looks a bit too big time for me :(

Playing 1k pots for fun these days, it's pretty insane how desensitized I'm becoming to the size of the pots I'm playing that were higher than my monthly wage. I used to keep a track of the biggest pots I've ever played on my phone and the 1k category is now into the 20's, pretty insane for a relative bowler like myself

Had a pretty good time last night, game was incred, I think in two orbits we didn't have a pot where someone didn't go all in! Not for bowls either.

Spewed in a really gross spot for like close to a 1k pot with a questionable/optimistic holding going on live reads, turned one of them full house thingies but didn't win. Luckily I had a good session at dusk pre so we still ended in profit but not as much as it could of been and that's real annoying, had a real fight with my emotions on the drive home, would of been hilarious if I had a camera following me for some reality TV show.

Started a massive online grind during the afternoons that's going well, bowl sample size atm though.

Gl meeeee

same, wtf else is there to do :D

dem womenz

Also wtf is with all the reg filled 25/50nl?!

Probs HNR the 100nl regs

I saw that pot. Live reads live shmeads. You should not have a raising range on that flop - flat your entire continuing range. Yes, including your Ad Qd type hands.

hh for the fans obv...

Your bed gets more action that this diary. And thats saying something!

Hit us with the updates.

How's it going? In meme or .gif

Having a bit of a bad time atm, I'm not gonna go into the massive moaning and "How can I beat the fish when they have K and 3" etc even though it feels like all I want to do right now is scream and break something into a million pieces.

Outside of poker, people are fucking me around as usual. I'm currently owed 1k by couple non-poker friends which I'm obviously not getting back, but this is obv gonna affect lending in future and has made me sour about the whole "being a nice guy" thing to people who are in financial trouble.

Will do a proper long update tomorrow, I'm tired and tilted, I'm going to bed, alone.

Forever alone.

Love the LOTR pic...

hh for the  Ad Qd hand mentioned above.

Never a borrower or lender be.

Sorry to hear you're having a rough time mate, I've had the same recently and I found that just the aspect of 'winning' irrelevant of the stakes helped me.  So just fire up some 0.01/0.02$ and play a few hundred hands to remind yourself you can win some moneys... and if you feel like gambling or having fun, then do it there - its cheaper!

While this is good advice in some cases, you must read between the lines lest you become a complete cynic. Let's not forget that we're here to love one another and to help one another.

Say not unto thy neighbor, "Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give," when thou hast it by thee.

I would never lend to someone I didn't consider a good friend, and if mere paper has the capacity to tear the fabric of a friendship, remind yourself that they probably were not the person you thought they were.

I agree with John's idea of playing small just to get some gamble out of your system, and to remind yourself that actually you love poker because if you didn't then you would have stayed at Tesco! Also remember that poker doesn't owe you anything; just because you found and ace and a king doesn't mean you deserve to make a pair with it! You are not entitled to win just because you have good hole cards. That sounds obvious and condescending now, but try to remind yourself of it in-game; it's tougher than it sounds. £1k downswing completely standard as well, please don't merge diaries with Matt Harris ;)

Yeh you play 1/2 and deep 1/1 games.

- £1k = [ ] downswing [X] bad night

Stat of the day: 10% of my 1/2 sessions lifetime have been 4figure losing sessions. And I run good remember!

edit: of course you remember, take your OFC turn :D

Soz guys, posting after a bad session is something I need to cut out as the moans really do come out!

For those of you not sure what a £1k "downswing" looks like...

(http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n632/pointzerofive/nikf_zps4299f698.jpg)

the classic moaning it in!! never fails! wiiiiii

Moaned it in like a champ didn't I?

Last night went v well. Ended up playing 4 handed props with Belton, Marris and Adi, hit KKK for a nice £150 ;)

Played a few of dem poker hands, couple tough spots and a big pot with an Ace and a King, proper moaning it in for my biggest pot of the night.

Tough spot #1-

Tank folded jacks to a FredW 3b, normally this is absolutely terrible but Fred has been nitting up a bit and was playing pretty hood so.
 
Spot #2

- Rec open £6 out of £60, we 3b KK to £25, Fred cold4's £64 with £300 behind, 5b/call vs peel? We're OOP.

Spot #3

- I open UTG over Straddle  Ad Kd, 5 callers including Jack Allen, I cover him he has about 400.   Kh 6d 2d, I cbet 30 and he makes it 64, £250 behind. 3b/call? Feels like I'm gonna be in a horrid spot on a brick turn vs a super good opponent who's repping sets but also a lot of crushed hands like  3d 4d /  4d 5d /  5d 3d?

Lastly.. 1/1, occasional straddles, whale who's just tripled to 330 thanks to a nice river card limps, we £6 with AK, good reg £31 OTB (360 stack), Asian guy with £50 stack calls, whale calls. We £125, reg folds, asian guy all in and whale CALLS.

 Kc 8d 2h

We £165 and he check-jams with an obv QQ. Ship it.

AK, U MADE A PAIR WELL DONE.

End of HH's, not much else going on in the world of the Flanagan atm, maybe that'll change soon though. Problem is I've been grinding super hard this month, wanted to get a good start. Doesn't really leave a lot of time for a social life, this will change though, just about finding a balance and keeping that Live EV up.

I've also been massively getting into open face chinese, if you want to play on the App or Live (SO SO SO much more fun) let me know and we'll sort something out.

Monthly Results

Total Live Sessions: 25
Total Online Sessions: 24
Total Live Wins: 18
Total Live Losses: 7
Total Online Wins: 18
Total Online Losses: 6
Best Live Win: +£1100
Worst Day: -£680
Tournament Entries/Cashes - 3/2
Total Hours: 225.5
Hourly: Fucking more than I was on at Tesco.

Saw this and thought of you...




(http://www.greeneheaton.co.uk/assets_cm/files/image/book_girlfriend_44.jpg)

Say whaaaaat? Put in a horrid spot on what turn? Literally 0 bad turn cards for your hand imo.

Just sleep naked . U feel more comfy than thd fan blowing . It's make it more warmer with fan spinning left n right ! Wingdis open & naked in bed . Lovely

BUMP DIS SHIT.

Nik is currently on 1k downswing [insert sympathetic smiley] (This is a joke btw)

But crushing Championship and Premiership regs at OFC. MBFN

Massive fight with my emotions right now, not a good time to post.

Why ? U found out u gay ?

<3

IS IT

Such a hero.

Frankie, I think I love you.

I knew it !!

I love poker.

I love everything about it, people I've met I wouldn't have, the intense strategy, the adrenaline I get playing a pot with chips covering the middle, running a huge bluff.

Lately I've not been having a good time, whether it's me playing poorly, running terribly or both I've not been putting W's in the column at the end of the night and it's getting to me.

Taking a small break, not sure how long, not really enjoying the live poker scene in nottingham either for some reason, maybe that's just a side effect of the run bad, we'll see.

Might give london a visit solo when I return, or perhaps give home turf another shot.

Either way gl me.

But who am I going to play props with? Don't want to have to find another massive degen...

Will be sadly missing that laugh, gl and a pleasure playing with you Nick, cash so much fun then comps  2s 3s

Moan moan moan moan . Every poker players does this . Some even kick off , some monk on , some can't stop loosing , some can't stop winning , some have delete stuff , sine have to storm off . Fuck the poker and enjoy sunshine

Feeling the same way buddy let me know if you want a beer sometime! Non poker related activities are the best!

Hey Mate, read through this over the last few days and feel a bit deprived as a reader that you've tailed off a little lately. Swings are part of the poker game, probably easier to manage when playing within your regular game and/or roll.

If you feel the downswing is affecting your ability at the table then a break is good (we all need one whatever "job" we're doing) but if mentally you're still all there then your next hand is your next hand, no matter when it may be.

Enjoy your honest HH analysis and thoughts/reasoning during hands (whether they turn out to be correct or not).

Hope you're back at the tables enjoying the undoubted forthcoming upswing soon -  having made most of your break i.e. Girl #69 ;)

Subtle, Frankie ;)

Seriously though, what he says about poker and sunshine is pretty much spot on. I know you're not much of a morning person, but if you're seriously planning on taking a couple of weeks off then make sure you get yourself out of bed during the daylight hours. Come out with the boys (and probably girls) one day/night next week. Let's get massages or something. We'll forget all about poker for the time being, and give London a shot when we get rid of the sour taste that this line of work sometimes leaves you with.

#nohomo

When u play this cards game or any gambling game , u knew the down swing going to massive . Either u take or u leave it! I once staked 5 players playing a comp in a weekend n it's cost md £5k in buyin . Believe me , none of them  cash !!! I took on the chin . If u think that u can't take the risk of downswing , I think u should apply to work at Asda or Tesco , where the bad beats are only from the old age pensioners ! Gl dude

Any jobs at your chippy? And are staff allowed to eat during their shift? :)

The job are to hard for u to handle . Yes, staff are allow to eat on their break .

I know :) Hard work and me don't mix too well! :)

And you give people breaks, don't believe you :)

Wise words Frankie. Been meaning to write a piece on balance(life balance) will get it done later today and post up on the forum. Enjoy the sunshine indeed.

Highlights from our 3 way OFC session, memorable quotes.

Fred "This is a shit fantasyland, I'm not even retriggering, I only have quads"

Fred also says the implied odds of fantasyland for him are immense because he has massive skill edge, I assume this skill edge is not noticing retriggers and generally whaling about. Relax Fred it's good for your image ;)

Alex "This is a shit card" "Fuck off" "I've just pulled running KJ to misset"

Nik "balls"

OFC went well, poker not so good. I keep losing to flushes :D

In an average 4 hour cash session

100 hands played
Average person may hit 2/3 flushes.
Nik hits 235 flushes in this time

What a life

Take more strange lines mett

Strange

Oh u guys

More TRs needed in championship regs diaries imo

It'd be strange not to.

Been a crazy couple of days poker wise. Deffo high and lows.

Highs;

Came down to Dusk thursday, it's normally dead but I rock up to the cash desk "1/2 Nik? Seat free" I snap accept, something I probably wouldn't of done a few months ago, game was really good, good mixture of regs/recs. Proceeded to run like fucking god for the entire session and couldn't really do anything wrong, even a few bluffs worked  ;bumwiggle;

2nd hand I got AA vs AA, think my first time ever, just chopped it pre with kurt, super nice guy as always offering the chop.  :)

Would of been fun to look at "pots won I put chips in" stat from that session, probably something absurd like 90%! Always fun to run good.

Lows; (Warning this contains HH's)

Flicked it in for the friday deepstack, 10k isn't something to be sniffed at imo. I'm actually a fan of the structure/payout scheme.

Started mashing really early, was up to 50k from the first break just doing ma thing, then things got a bit bleak when we hit the 600/1200 level, had a guy I've played with a lot who loves to do goofy stuff like limp UTG and then squeeze JTo etc, we had plans to win a big one.

He's just lost a huge pot and probably a bit tilted, limps, another guy limps and we find  Ahrt Kd OTB, I cover him just with 60k and make it 5100, folds back to him and he insta piles and we snap and lose to  Ad Js

12k stack on the break and I'm already scouting the cash games, phone is dead, no music. I LOVE TOURNAMENTS <3333

I come back off the break after a tea and a bit of fresh air and get a couple of shoves through with KQ and 99. Then double with AA>AQ for 30k.

We're back on 60k again at 1k/2k and in the big when villain from earlier limps again, 3 others limp to us and we 12k with  Jd Jh, he looks to pile again but hollywood folds, to my surprise another limper now piles for 200k and guy on the button snaps! I flick it in super fast (probably too quick)
and discover I'm against a predicted  8s 8h and a not so predicted  4s 2s!

Be kind please dealer, I'd like this pot.  6s 7s 9h. Oh dear. I'll get my coat.  4c.. ANY BRICKS IN THIS DECK DEALER...  6c

180k now and we're moved to table EvilPie, he looks to be mashing, instantly we get 3b and figure we're in for a long one but he leaves me alone for most of it. Folded  Tc Td after I opened 8k at 2k/4k got one call and unknown piles 140k in, still not sure. JJ claimed..

All went a bit shit from here, just saw villain 3b/f AJo for 3rd of his stack and then double with AQ>44 for a 125k stack, he makes it 9500 and we have AKo in the CO, we make it 21.5k and he snap piles, we snap and basically get flopped dead by QQ. :(

50k, last level and another table move, need to mash now. Pretty decent table, people still limping and 5x'ing, shame we keep looking at 94o.. We finally find 77 with a 48k stack at 2500/5000/500 when UTG opens for 20k, I pile hoping for a flip, he tank calls (lol) with  Ad Qd and we don't win, 15 mins from the end. This is now my 5th "last level bust" and came home very demoralised, think I text my dad something along the lines of "Another day wasted, should of just stayed on cash", this is standard Flanagan bustout syndrome and probably the reason I don't play a lot of tournaments  ;D

Cliffs, won 1.6k in a 1/2.

(http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lltzgnHi5F1qzib3wo1_400.jpg)

Lost £60 in a tournament.

(http://mydualities.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/woman_pulling_hair_out.jpg)

Oh yeah.. I'm playing the 5pm flight today.

"most people aren't playing it cause it's top heavy and bowl "

This is ridiculous

20% for first is not top heavy

£50,000 GTD is not bowl

Cliffs:

Win £1600 in a 1/2 = 1 paragraph

Brick a £50 comp = 1423738483 paragraphs

;bumwiggle;

To clarify, I like top heavy tournaments and £10,000.

That's why I'm playing it.

Not criticising you, but those who used the sentence or similar sentiments to those that you quoted

Its not top heavy either.

Done a bit of editing.

GL today bud!

Evie the dealer is the best. That is all.

Are u not writing or updates anymore dude ?

surely there were no mentions of 'bowl comps'in this diary, after what ive seen posted in others?!

Think these comments have been more in relation to the fact its 10k up top for £50

Pretty much predicted this from you, very boring.

There's also a massive difference between me saying people have an opinion on a tournament buy in/pay out structure rather than personally attacking people who beat me a hand by scouting their hendon mob.

I've also mentioned that I didn't say it was "too bowl" otherwise it would of been ridiculous wasting 21 hours of my time and £120 just to try and make day 2 of a tournament I considered "bowl and top heavy" I was merely commenting on why others aren't playing as the guarantee wasn't made.

Learn the difference before trolling again, and come with something new, been wasting the trolls on 5 different forums for the past 10 years and you're a very bitter pathetic attempt just because I called your buddy out for something totally unacceptable.

Yup writing today :)

Trolling is a long lost art. Fkin annoying how the media have grabbed onto the word and given it a totally new meaning. Death threats do not equal trolling.

ok

Its 20% of the GTE Prize pool

What would you like? 15% 10%?

For the recreational player with one or two stabs at an entry, gotta give him/her something to shoot at

Not sure what all this is about fellas, but lets cool it please? On here, anyway.

I think u need to troll the MENTAL HOSPITAL  rather than talk nonsense on poker forum dude !

20% up top pretty standard. I guess for 1k runner comps actually 18% is a bit more standard but not worth arguing about surely!?

And also the 10k first prize is a good advert for the comp, it is pretty incredible the thought of winning 200x your money and TEN THOUSAND POUNDS for a £50 outlay. Definitely a better marketing ploy to up it a bit to 10k rather than have it at 9.2k to keep all the structure geeks happy :P

I don't think the comp is aimed at 1/2 regs at all

Obviously a £60 comp is going to be 'bowl' to some regardless of the guarantee or payout structure etc. It just depends what you're definition of 'bowl' is. It's a buy-in level that people trying to earn a wage from playing the comp won't be interested in (although that's clearly not the target market) just because it's a £60 comp, so even with an avg ROI of 100% (probs not going to be loads higher than this for anyone entering) you're going to be making £60 in x hours play, where x will be a big number. It's clearly a great comp with a good payout structure and an excellent guarantee, but it will be much better for a recreational player looking for a good comp with a shot at really good money for very little investment.

Personally not too bothered if people call something bowl, it's all relative. So long as those who say things are bowl aren't offended when someone who plays much bigger than them calls the stuff they play bowly. Not really an offensive term as such, just a way of saying it's small-stakes to that individual. That said, some people clearly say it in a derogatory way, which isn't cool.

Do you want to talk about it? ;)

Agree, and I think recreational players have a very big part to play in the welfare of the club so some festival events should be catered for them.


Honestly it's been bought up so many times now I tire of it, 99% of people use it as a joke and that's how it should be taken. Eg "Min-Cashed for a bowl, sigh, was chipleading till I spewed."

Stay awayyyyyy.

Was pretty fun moment this morning- am staying in Mums flat in Edinburgh, went to make myself a bowl of cereal. At home I have really nice big bowls to fit in all the cereals that I like. All there was here was this tiny little bowl that could fit about 12 Cheerios in.

My first thought- "that's a bowl bowl"

:D

ha, i do apologise, mainly to tighty. my comment was highly tongue in cheek, and to suggest i am trolling is highly unfair, not my intention, but i guess slightly justifiable in this case! ha wasting trolls for 10 years? can tell u liked playing harry potter on the PS2 then ;)
must agree hugely with alex, all about a big bowl when it comes to cereal. interesting your a cheerio man, as a bit of a degen have always been any cereal with 'nuts' in! anyone else with a fave cereal?

Every time I have cereal for breakfast I think of you and your ridiculous bowls. #nohomo

I swear you used to eat out of a punch bowl. Loudly, too.

So arrived early on sunday for day2 of the deepstack with 400k 0 big blinds.

Went for nandos with Sean, he was sitting on the 50/1 rofl'ing around so we decide to sit in and quickly lose a buy-in with  Ac Ad vs  9s 3s in a 3b pot on  Aspades Ks 8c.

Did a few flips and basically just degenned the table for a while before devouring some chicken, Sean was doing his balls then magically found JJ AND TT blind and doubled both times so I was the big loser (we decided winner pays for nandos, this actually didn't happen, so you owe me Sean)

Came back, still no 1/1! Sigh. Rebought and don't think I played another hand till we moved, got on a much better 1/1 game and won a few/lost a few can't remember anything real big.

Sean wanted to kick it up to 1/2, few groans but we did eventually some people over, one guy who didn't say a word and just stared at his iPad, didn't join in with conversation or say basically anything at all, I know everyone is entitled to do what they want but I think it's in the best interests of poker and the game in general if the live scene is a chatty friendly place, I know most of the time I don't seem like a very friendly face seeing as I'm incapable of smiling and sometimes "hood" up but I'm pretty chatty and generally don't shut the fuck up when you get to know me.

Did a lot better on the 1/2, we even got a Fred to join us, standard that he comes and sits down and doubles first hand, who says this guy runs bad?! Also got Frankie <3 and a few other fun faces. I got lucky a bit  ;whistle; with AT>AQ for £100 in pre but then just seemed to be in the zone. Thing about my game is if I have a good start I'm generally in the zone the entire night but a bad start to the game can only end in disaster, this obviously has to change and I need to be focused 100% of the time.

Had some double glazing done today, delightfully I was told yesterday he was coming to do them today, this is after I've awoken at 2pm so last nights 10pm bedtime went well [ ] think I finally dropped off about 3am, 7am they turn up, radio full blast and the window in my room needed changing so obviously I needed to be awake and move my shit. Pretty amazing how quickly my body has got used to 6am finishes instead of 3am starts.

Manchester tonight with Fred, if he fucking wakes up! Already knackered from being up 13 hours already and dunno what time he went to bed but it's 6:15 now, was supposed to be meeting him at 7 and still no answer.

Friends eh?  ;D

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7yFkCMGrLY

Had this on repeat all day, enjoy.

Also by Sean, I expect?

Sigh. Should have messaged me!!
Good to see an update on this blog. My favourite if all.

Nothing to do with my snap chat this is it?!?

I've got full on addicted to that song. Bruno is a babe!

You misunderstand what I mean Tighty.

I mean theyre saying the buyin is a bowl (lets be honest, £50 is a bowl nowadays). Nobody is complaining about the fact its 10k up top (or at least I wasnt), 200x entry fee is not seen anywhere live really

Just got back. 25th hour no sleep. Ended up eating in 235 then getting taxi to G, thanks Paul ho / Callum for recommendation, place was rammed with a £50 tournament and loads of 1/1 and a slightly deep 1/2.

TR later, tired as balls, Fred obv isn't cause he didnt get up till the evening so he's playing online, full time degen.

Also worst taxi driver ever, got motion sick for the first time in 10 years so I'm lying in bed with my stomach churning wanting to throw up. Sigh.

How much did u and pigeon win ?

Did ok :) full TR later just got up, checking out then a 2 hour drive home ;(

Had a real good time in manchester, we arrive pretty late to 235 and discover a couple of 1/1's and omaha, obviously this is too bowl for fred the baller so we move over to G.

Day 1

Get there and they have a £50 tournament running with like 150 players and £3.5k up top, not shabby, the poker room reminded me a lot of a vegas room, approx 50 tables, lots of them cash games (10+).

We get a seat on a 1/1 and get on the list for a deece looking 1/2, Fred whacks me pretty early in an annoying one and felt like it was gonna set the tone for the trip, he gets a seat shortly after so I'm left all alone with the people of manchester, made a few friends and got a 1/2 seat.

Starts to break immediately as I sit down! wtf do I smell? Noticed a couple of dtd people who come down for deepstacks so they must be regs around here. Decided to break my FredW curse and whack him with 35 where I donk 284 and c-jam a 4 turn, river was very helpful :p

Unfortunately I get whacked in a few spots including by well loved gala/alea reg Mr Hui with AA<JJ AIP, so funny to watch him river a set and be like YESSSSS, never lost with so much happiness than to double that guy up, so much fun. :D

Also did my brains on the masseuse who was there, £70 down the drain, so good. Elbows on the shoulders for over an hour makes you feel better about being down £600 in a 1/2.

Game gets very deep after this, Fred has 2.5k, couple others have a bag so I top up to 1.5k, pretty sick how I'm starting to feel comfortable sitting with this much now, wonder what's gonna happen to my nerves when I get this in pre one time..

We're 4 handed at this point and it's playing very big apart from one guy who we were all gunning for, and warring with each other in the process. I open BTN with  8h 9h £15 over mandatory £4 straddle and Fred 3b's the SB £50. We peel and see  7d 7h Td, Fred bets £45 and I want the lead so I make it £105, I'm covered with about 1.6, turn is  Qd, feel like I'd raise Fred with any flush draw on the flop anyway and go ahead and bluff turn £210, Fred re-checks cards and calls.  6s river and I'm not really sure what to do now. There's £700 in the pot. I don't really take long before betting £350, not really sure about this sizing as I wouldn't make it with a bluff so it just looks like I'm going thin vs Fred's range. Anyway he calls and claims  Ad 7c.

Day 2

Head to 235 after doing my brains in Hollister with Fred, there's a pretty deep 1/1 and a 1/2 going, Fred gets first seat as usual cause I'm such a nice friend :)

Lost min with AK<44 on AK4T9 after he c-calls/chks/leads and moved over to 1/2, was a lot of the people from the G the day before but it broke pretty quick, very annoying as people seem to leave whenever I get a seat! Y U DO DIS.

I go back on the 1/1, they have great rules here where you can match the largest stack or if you've moved from a broken table you can sit with DOUBLE the largest stack, suffice to say when Fred got a seat with 600 the game got deep real quick and it was soon a 1/2.

Was a good table, friendly and people looking to gamble, obv I luckboxed a double with  7s 6s vs  Aspades 2c on  3d 4d 5h.  ;whistle;

Me and Fred still warring, he's getting it 4b pots with me and asking me to top up as I only have a "bowl 800 stack", all banter though and in good fun.

Two girls who are pissed out their face want to play, obv Fred decides this is hilarious as she's sitting right next to me and tries to line her up to be girl #3/#4, not my type though sorry bud, he's a horrible human being, text message evidence will emerge if our friendship turns sour ;)

Lost a couple of 3b pots being massively aggro in a couple spots, unfortunately couldn't flop much or when I flopped a draw couldn't seem to get there which obv isn't standard flanagan tekkers as if we flop a flush draw we DO make flushes.

Ended the night with £100 flips, no masseuse in 235 though, sigh. Probably a good thing as I'd end up doing the roll to them if they were available all the time. Didn't win the flip either but still ended with 2 sessions and 2 wins so very happy with how it went, probably spent £250 in expenses so I don't know if it's worth coming down a lot or not, it's about a 2 hour drive from Leicester but fuck all going on in Notts Mon-wed these days and while I like the comfort of my home and playing online, Live is just so much more fun.

While we were cashing out girl from earlier came over and said her friend had invited me for drinks, Fred standing there laughing immensely, very embarrassing, I politely declined partly because it was 6am (!) and still had a drive to do.

All in all though, a great trip and hope you enjoyed the write up. Nando's tonight with Beltonio and back to Dusk. See you there.

Cliffs-

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL4L4Uv5rf0

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Ha, that's actually probably your problem irl!

How the fuck u refused an invitation from two drunken bird for a drink ? U seriously like boys ?

ISIT

Got a feeling she wasn't a bonnie lass.

Troubles with emotions surfaces again!!

yeh but we don't know that innit.

She was game tbf, as was her mate.

One of my favourite moments when these two lovely ladies were at the table was when i'd put her all in and once she understood what was actually going on and deciding whether to call, her mate leans over, picks the cards off the table and shouts 'you aint f*cking calling that'.

Stay classy Manchester.

I wish she would have said , I call ur alin and raised u a pair of my fake titties !!

I assume you rejected on the basis of them being pre 50 years old?

Got a phone call from my dad just now, pretty shit news. He's being moved to another company but still working in the same place from October 1st, obviously he's worried that it's going to go shit and he doesn't like change, he's also 64 and has serious lung problems so can't do any labouring like most would for a company that specializes in petitioning.

If it goes terribly and he ends up not having a job from October 1st most likely he'll end up retiring and I'll have to take over on probably double/triple bills I'm currently paying, if this happens not sure what I'm gonna do poker wise but it'll likely mean an early retirement and use the roll for more important things.

Sigh . Hope he get well and u keep on playing poker .

Wishing your dad the very best of health and good fortune Nik.

Wow, very sorry to hear this. My dad was forced into retirement while I was in university. I thought it meant I'd have to drop out and help pay the bills but it just meant working a bit harder. I still helped with the bills by taking on two jobs and I managed to stay in school.

Hopefully, your dad will also get a severance package for retiring due to medical reasons. If not, you can always try to balance poker and a part-time position. I wouldn't think about retiring just yet, and I'm sending well wishes for your pa's health. x

Hopefully it'll all be fine like I said he's still employed by this new company and still has the same position, I just hope they don't force him to labour or annoy him as he'll rage quit.

Got home in world record time today.

In completely unrelated news broke a few records.

• biggest losing day
• biggest pot lost

Nh Mitch :)

So much love for the flann's.....

How much and how big ? PLEASE

Aaron if you wanna troll about have some balls to keep what you say posted instead of deleting it in the first 5 minutes.

You can repost it in here if you want, mods don't read my diary as I'm not very interesting.

2k

clliffs?

Interested on your thought process during the Mitch hand...

Sigh . Lucky ginger

UL Nik. He's a lucky one that Mitch. Terrible player also. Cliffs on Aaron trolling?


Brutal rubs. Too soon surely...

The Mods do read this, worry not.

The posts in question, in the early hours of this morning apparently, were quickly removed by the author, and I never saw them.

We will not tolerate trolling.

Very sorry to hear about your Dad.

Woke up with little hangover, back on the horse today. Hopefully it's a better one! Wanted to go to London but I think that's off due to everyone knocking it right in the eye.


Was a very poor attempt at humour my apologies.

The post in question was pretty lengthy and I didn't have time to read/reply before it was removed. Basically it was shit-talking mine and Alex' diaries, probably in an attempt to troll and get us to delete/stop posting.


Lol far too soon after I get whacked for my biggest ever pot/loss. Ill forgive you this time.

I read it! Don't know you but still enjoy it. Other than your post about your dad obv.

I don't read it.

Haha sorry, wasn't meant as a rub. Am genuinely interested what you're plan was on different rivers.

First hand on the 1/2 we get KQ in against mark Doherty on  Kc 6d Qd vs  Ad Kd for 1k pot, didnt win.

It's gonna be a long night.

Spent most the night climbing/grinding out the hole, then slowrolled by Gordon after he 4bet jams deuces pre and gets there. I know he does it to tilt me it's just a shame I let it get to me. Anyway no more etiquette when it's me vs him now, if it's his turn to show he's showing, don't care if I have the nuts, rules are rules.

Crappy end to the week, Goliath this week, £40k might cheer me up.

Night.

Sigh

Aaron - stop stirring

Nik - stop reacting

Taken it all off the forum, you can have handbags in PMs if you like


Very tiresome.

if he wants to do it in his own blog then whats the problem? if its people just trolling him and he doesnt respond and its bullying sure, but if hes replying etc why do you guys have the right to take that down?

because he flamed the other poster, breaking the forum guidelines

anything else you'd like to express an opinion on?

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Has Nik been banned?

Forum guidelines or forum rules?

A week off for a couple of people, yes

Always thought he was a wrong un

Thank fuck for that. Saves him posting photos of him crushing my soul at OFC

Guidelines. Button top of forum takes you to them

Abso ridic. Well that's another diary halted for one fool. WP.

Bump

RIP

was nice knowning you Nik, and about your beats

Rofl

Nik's given me permission to continue the diary in his honour which I am happy to do.

Please don't.

Monday 19th August

MARV. Great start to the session. Didnt fancy the bowl comp so met Fred and Alex for some open face.

After winning £250 I snap went on a £60 downswing it was so fkn gross. Fred just kept getting there and kept retriggering. MARV.

Got it all back but still in a pretty foul mood.

Off to play Holdem now, probs gonna snap do a buying to Fred in the first hand and have to write my car off on the way home just to make the pain go away.

Gg.

It's like he's actually writing this.

#showers

Nik, if you keep this up, Alex and Fred will join the postmen who will never come to dtd again.

Might be early #showers for me. Bought in for £400 and guy gives me no small denomination chips for me to build a #tower with. Just ponies. WHY U DO DIS?

So I'm instantly on tilt then get snap coolered JJ vs AK on QT5JK MARV

#showers

omg so good can't even breathe. might hand over the keys to my diary, Alex.

Is this u or Nik ?

It's me pretending to be Nik. Writing in his style. Did you not get it?

U too good mate , i was tricked that it was u .. Lol

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+1 internet point for the Goulder.

So tempted to snap-ban :D

But welcome back :)up

TWO WEEKS FOR SWEARING , AGAIN!!!!

Oioi

Anything worth writing about happen last night?

You gay waiter, you.

So yeah flicked it in for 30 freeze yesterday and probably the sickest example of cause and  effect ever happened.

We're pretty card dead, 17 left with like 5 paid, jam 7bb's with ATo and folds to the big blind who exposes Ad then sweats the other card, I instantly knew what was happening but the dealer ruled his hand DEAD and shoves me the pot, he turns over  Jd.

Very next hand we double and then an orbit later we're big chip leader and luckily go on to win the tournament, guy who unfortunately got his hand mucked got heads up with me and a big chance for redemption but luckily we boxed a win.

Think it's like my third outright tournament win ever, don't really play a lot of them but felt nice to win money I probably shouldn't have had the correct ruling been given. Big tip was given too obv.

Back to cash tonight, comedy night at gala tomorrow should be fun. Then probably some shenanigans over the weekend.

Peace.

Should've given the guy a generous equity chop if you got HU imo.

Ban imo.

Jk, grats Nik. Barca?

congrats on the win, nice blog

edit: how much do you typically tip live? I'm never sure and although I don't play small live tournaments anymore I'm pretty sure I wouldn't tip in a £30 tournament where 5 get paid but that might just be me being stingy. Do you think it has a negative impact on your ROI as a result?

I always tip but obviously it's not mandatory. Cash I tip between 50p-£2.50 depending on pot size. Gave a little bigger in the tournament.


Possibly yeah

Fiver tip for the tourney, yeah?

I tend to tip a couple of % of my cash.

I kinda feel like tipping is important to keep good relations to the Casino. We get so much from those guys, I have no problem giving them something back, and I know it's appreciated.

1-3% normally. If I cash for like £317.44. Leave the change and round it up to £300.

Thin

Only replying to specific people now mate?

Sorry skim reading :p too many fans these days.

Skipping barca due to solo not really being my thing, sorry boys :)

Ah shame, since stato dropped out there's half a double bed that someone could share with Mitch.

Alright probably a quarter.

GL

Hahahaha

JASON MERCIER APPROVES OF THIS HASHTAG.

oooh frieennnndd

bud?

should tell him he can only use that hashtag if he swaps it for 1% of his yearly winnings :p

Mentioned on EPT live.

BOOM

How come bud?

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Bump.

Any recent wins bud?

MTT pro oioi

Sponsor Pro player at Milton Keynes Aspers Casino . Travelling and playing all EPT .
#WAL

This is gala! Pigeon :-) new cloth cause its G now

Giving up on poker.

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Oh god. What's happened?

Please dont say Gala-ites beat you!

Looks like this diary will be coming to a close.

Really tough for me to write. Last 2 months or so have been terrible, life expenses have been through the roof and have been running absolutely terribly in the live cash games.  Last month was my worst ever month losing 23/29 sessions and most of them for at least one full buyin. Don't feel like I've changed my game or "punting it in" so to speak but to have such a drastic change of results is extremely worrying.

This month no change, 3 out of 4 losing sessions and the only win was due to a big cooler.

Online has been a grind, one I'm not enjoying either, just something I've never enjoyed as much as playing live.

Probably give a few more thoughts tomorrow, just watching the WSOP main before bed. Probably better for me to watch instead of play right now.

Don't have to quit the game u like mate . Just have a break at the moment or just probably find some work to do before coming back . Maybe moral are not high after 23/29 sessions . We all understand that poker are very very high risk & the swing are alway massive . Sometimes I really hate it to but u know that as Alex say #Lovethegame. Hope everything will be fine for u soon . I will ring n tweet Jason Mercier ( your Bud ) for u & ask him to tweet u !! Gl bud

Pokers are not the only shenanigans. (Apologies to Jeanette Winterson)

I am sure I just saw you win a pot with a queen and a queen!!!

Oh my god..... closely followed by stacking someone with Aces......
Talk about moaning it in!!!!!!!

Good to meet you the other night.

Can confirm you run bad :(

fyp

Yeah pleasure mate :) We've played before in Luton you busted me in one of the comps :D think you forgot haha, didn't know it was you before then.

Yeah good luck beating wes when he's got 6 outs! #drawingdead

Drinks on me next time.  ;)

I bust you out a comp? When was this?

Feeling excited ehhhh!!

Too right! It's not often people say that to me.

It was probs Bobalike :D

Ahh quite a while ago now, was in Luton during the girl #2 stages.

It's rant time.

Just sat down on a 1/1, two pretty chatty guys next to me but I'm sitting quietly, one starts giving me a bit of banter cause I'm raising and straddling and he wants to limp every pot.

Anyway later on his mate comments on how tight he's being and how he's always seem to got it and he replies "Well I never bluff" I give a friendly rub of "How boring" he looks at me like I'd just been caught f****** his mum.

"Listen mate, I've been playing longer than you've been alive, I've played EPT's WPT's WSOP's WSOPE's I know what I'm doing"

What the actual ****, do I just act like a douche and don't realise or are these p***** just too f****** sensitive?

EDIT: For RedDog's/other's eyes we've added some stars.

I hope you asked to see his Hendon Mob

Yeah we HM'ed, no entries.

Ask him if he's a VAG. A friend of mine explained to me recently that this stands for virgin aggressive, because nothing is tighter than a virgin.

Everyone uses the occasional swear word Nic, but this post is borderline  pornograpic.

Try to remember that your in mixed company.

Sorry bud, need a swear jar

Matt are you like still 12 or something?

Be prepared to be knocked out if you ever ask anyone this at the table - male or female...

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ahh poor rexas, always taken so seriously. does anyone really think that hed ask someone on a poker table if they were a VAG? haha