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The games broke early tonight so I thought i'd use this time to start a diary as i'm already a bit of a lurker on here and could do with getting more involved!

My names Fred and i'm 22 years old currently residing in Nottingham. I'm mainly a cash game player, playing the 50/1, 1/1 and 1/2 and occasionally flicking it in for the deepstacks.

Poker has always been something i've done on the side as an additional income stream both during and post-uni, however my plan now is to put more hours into the game and play a lot more events both in the UK and abroad over the next 12 months.

I started taking the game more seriously whilst at Uni in Derby as the new Riverlights Casino there was pretty sick and had good games running throughout the week. The games unfortunately have died there a little recently and so i've become one of the Nottingham regs which i'm sure is boosting Alex, Nik, Sean and the other regs hourlys nicely  :D

My main problem atm is that my life expenditure is ridic high as i've basically been living in hotels for the past month ballin' outta control. I have now realised this has to stop if i'm ever going to make any money so am hoping to sort out an apartment within the next few months.

The aim of this diary will be to keep track of what i'm doing and in both life and with poker and hopefully set some meaningful goals that can be achieved throughout the year.

Will post more in this later but I look forward to seeing you all at the tables :)

Fred's a very brave player.

Welcomed to Dtd mate . I think the game st Dtd are much softer with the players like Alex,Mitch, Kurt,Raggy,Nik,Matt & few more . In Derby the game there don't start till late . Dtd it is mate . Lots of fishes and easy money

Wise word of the day? :D

Wise so serious?

This should be funny if you dont curtail what you really want to say for fear of being a bad reg...

Leave me alone.


Cheers mate, definitely agree with you. I keep seeing Alex pile money in with suited deuces so should be pretty profitable :D


Despite my surname, there aren't many wise words that come out of my mouth, usually the complete opposite tbh.


Haha, I do want to try and get to the 'Premiership Reg' status so will have to adhere to the etiquette guidelines that have been set out  ;)

A FREDW DIARY?!

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Vbol with this Fred!

So tonight turned out to be a pretty fun/degen session...

Started off at DTD where I got seated on a 1/1 next to Matt Harris where I didn't stay long but managed to double through by winning a flip and then whacking Matt with a number of props that we were playing. Do seem to be running pretty golden on props atm :D

Then headed down to Gala with Alex where we decided to play some OFC whilst waiting for the cash games to start. Because normal open face isn't degen enough, we decided to play with 7 cards, passing 2 pre and then all deuces were wild @ £2/point. For those of you that understand this, you realise how swingy this can be and how much money can soon be passed between players! Ended up a small loser in the pre cash game session however managed to lock up a nice win after the game broke and once we moved up to £5 a point. Hustle confirmed ;)

The cash game itself was pretty dull and didn't really play many hands throughout the night, however there was some good table banter with George from DTD making an appearance and seemingly running over the table and owning Alex in the pots they played together ;applause;

Really loving OFC atm and will hopefully be able to squeeze in a game tomorrow, however I need to try and remain disciplined and make sure I put in enough hours playing holdem to actually earn a living!

Here's a quick picture of Alex behind the OFC winners tower ;)

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Can you manage 1 hotel for every three nights? So have a long degen session followed by a day sleeping? Obviously check in at 1 check out at 10 can be a real issue. I stayed in some Bb's in west bridge ford for a while before getting a house which rangedfrom £15-£30 a night might be worth a look to keep things cheap especially if you go in looking for a cash deal!

Good luck with the diary by the way I'm Callum and we have played a little bit before!

Not a bad idea mate although I think by the end of the 3 days I would be like a zombie! Did have a session last week though where I basically got back from Turkey and stayed out for 48 hours running on nothing but Red Bull. Was in a pretty bad way by the end and my decision making at the end wasn't exactly at it's best!

This is where we need pay by the hour hotels!

Had a pretty brutal night tonight at Gala where we managed to get an uncapped .50/1 going with an average stack of probably £600+. Was a great game to be in but unfortunately was on the wrong side of some pretty big pots.

First big one of the night involved getting ~£500 in on a  5h 4c 3d 4d 2d board run out with the mighty  4h 3h which was unfortunately no good vs  5d 5c. One of them fold pre ldo spots but hey ho.

Second pot was vs PJ where I raise to £10 UTG+1 with  Ahrt Jh, he peels on the button and UTG flats. The flop comes  Qh Th 7d and UTG leads out for £20 and I make it £65. PJ then 3bets to £145 playing around £600 and I cover. UTG folds and I decide to flat with the aim of keeping in any weaker draws and check jamming any non board pairing turn. Turn is the  Js and PJ jams. Wasn't loving it as it was for around £100 more than pot but figured i'm ahead of some of his semi bluffing range and have good equity vs his value range so flick it in and unfortunately lose to  Kh 9h on the  3c river.

Luckily managed to grind quite a bit back by the end of the night and also had another good win playing OFC during the game which limited the damage for the night a little.

Callum aka 'BorntoBubble' made an appearance which added some comedy value to the table :D Also quite enjoyed hearing an elderly gentleman call Alex a "smart-arsed twat" when Alex tried to talk him into calling his bet. Great read there chap ;)

Planning on playing at DTD tomorrow to hopefully lock up a decent win before heading back to Boston on Sunday for a big family BBQ!

My only goal in poker is to reach it into everyone's blogs about a hand they lost to me. No dreams of a bracelet or anything like that, just pain to Notts regs.

*hides*

Seems pretty achievable tbf. Who's next on the list?

Flanagan

Marv.

Not a bad day yesterday, managed to lock up a win which was nice after Fridays session!

Started off by going to Nandos with Neil Bull which I find is a good way to start any session. We ended up at DTD quite early on and managed to get a .50/1 game going in which we were joined by Ian Gascoigne which always makes for an interesting game :D He managed to catch out 'Nitty Neil' who jammed AQ pre into Ian's TT. Unlucky mate ;)

Then moved to a 1/1 and was joined by Melissa who managed to whack me in a weird spot where I over called AA on a river where the aggressor can never have a hand. Unfortunately didn't win vs the J2cc.. Nice hand, wp :D Ended up winning 200 in the game despite not winning any big pots.

Didn't stay in the game for long as I was soon bum hunted over to Gala by Alex and PJ where a .50/1 game was starting. The .50/1 at Gala hasn't really been playing like a .50/1 at all this week and it wasn't long before there was quite a lot of money on the table and we were effectively playing 1/2. Fortunately we weren't donating on this occasion and managed to lock up a reasonable win as well as win a bowl playing Alex at ofc.

All in all a good night and not a bad end to the week. Heading back to Boston now where a BBQ awaits me :)

It does play well in raised pots OOP tbf :D

Haha you need to learn to let that one go. It was a long time ago and probably a good fold ;)

Take her advise dude , she's very good

So last night went pretty well. Won't go into loads of detail but basically won a couple of all ins and ran like god at Chinese to end up +£500 on the night.

Got a fun prop on with Alex this week in which we are seeing who can make the most playing live cash capped at 1/1 until Friday. The loser then has to buy other into the Sky Poker 6max at DTD this weekend. Unfortunately he has taken a slight lead after last night but hopefully it'll remain pretty close so we can have a sweat by the end of the week.

Looking forward to the SPT as I haven't played many 6max tournaments live and love that format online so should be good fun!

Have u sorted your living accommodation in notts yet? Staying and paying for hotels bill isn't the right choice . Maybe Alex will let u share his room and become his roommate . Lol

Not a bad idea, maybe we could get bunk beds or something :D

Ok jokes aside . Have u try to ask Rob ? He have lots of flats that he rented out to Dtd dealers . Ask him . Maybe he had some empty one that u can rent of him .

Fred's in if they have their own pool and spa facilities.

You'll have to pass face control first. And you should know that my rules for people in Alex's bed are quite strict.  :D

I did go have a look around some today, one did actually have a pool/jacuzzi/steam room but I think that might be too balla for my needs. Gonna have a think but it's likely I'll just go with one I looked at today and hopefully move in next week sometime.

Might have a house party once I move in. You can bring the ladies yeah Frankie?

I will defo be there if u invited me. Makesure u invite all the Dtd waitress aswell . BBQ will be nice . I will make u some chicken wings and also some other stuffs for BBQ as long as u don't I invite people that eat a lot ( like Mitch ) . Lol. Lets the party begin . Welcome to Nottingham , the city of sin !

Ballin'. I fully expect a penthouse, remote controls for everything and I'm sure you've contacted the private cleaner already right?

And some cleaners that wear bikinis only . WAL

Mate I've got A7, what do I do?

I speak for the entire English speaking population and Frankie when I say whaaaaatttttt da fuckkkk baby?!!

I like the title of this diary, and I like your style - NO WHERE TO LIVE, FUCK IT I'LL JUST LIVE IN HOTELS :D

I got back from my first Vegas trip homeless spent 3 weeks in a suite at the Queens hotel in Leeds and it was SIIICCCCCCCCCCCCK

complete spew ofc, unjustifiable, pointless spew but a man after my own heart nonetheless.

GET THE LOT.

Haha yes! This is definitely my attitude towards life although most see it as reckless and quite ridiculous.

I've read your blog Dave and definitely think you have the nut lifestyle. Not quite at your level of balla just yet but hopefully i'll get there one day!

Try to find that few words there in my special dictionary but can't find them . Tell me what they meant next time u see pls . Thanks for your time . xx

It's easy. I write about 100/100 games in monte carlo and 60euro sandwhiches, leave out storys from £2/£2 at Gala Leeds, or the 45 hours a week spent sat at my desk listening to the same playlist on repeat playing online midstakes, taking a break every few hours to eat a generic home-prepared pasta dish and watching an hour of storage hunters on Dave :P

It has nothing to do with money, it's about attitude :) think like a "balla" then you are one, you don't have to do your nuts on club sandwhiches just do what makes you happy if its spew but you like it and it's not totally rinsing you financially then keep doing it :) Pretty sure the best times I've had have in no way been directly correlated to how much money I've had.

Get yourself your own place though seriously lol - make sure you get some ballin' bedsheets when you do though, feel free to PM for advice :)up

This is defo a diary for me!!!! Great start, GL at the tables and getting set up in Nottingham.

Are you the weakest link?

What a blog! Definitely subbed.

Well tonight was a bit of a disaster!

Lost a pretty substantial amount playing at Gala tonight. So ridiculous how big the game gets even though it's only .50/1. Started by getting stacked by Mitch who decided to shove the turn of a  3s 4c 4d 8s board in a 3bet pot with 6 high and no fold equity. He was winning on the river though so nice hand mate ;)

There were then a load more coolers etc over the course of the night and unfortunately I did not manage to get out of it this time. Pretty funny as by the end of it people were describing run bad as 'running like Fred'. Marv.

To make it worse I also lost a chunk playing Stato at OFC for £5 a point. Now I know the guy is obvs good at the game but I think that anyone who's played him (mainly Mitch) will admit that he does run pretttttty well. One classic hand involved him starting off with an absolute bag of spanners and then managing to make flush/set of Ks/Q high with two cards left to go. He then makes a comment about how painful it would now be if he were to hit running Queens. You can guess what happened next.

To illustrate how big the game gets now, here is a picture of Stato's stack midway through the session and it actually grew substantially before the end of the night.

Me and PJ were saying on the way home, it was probably the worst we'd ever seen anyone run in a live cash game ever. Brutality everywhere, took it incredibly well.

Nice rub dude .

Had quite a nice non-poker day today.

Decided to join Alex, Stato, PJ etc in watching the cricket at Trent Bridge this afternoon which despite knowing nothing about cricket turned out to be quite good fun. To make it more interesting, we obviously decided to bet on different things during the match and although I didn't quite understand some of the bets I did manage to lock up a win which meant I freerolled the event as well as the many beers which were consumed during it.

We all then went to Hooters afterwards which is always an enjoyable trip! Mitch to everyones surprise ordered a salad however the majority of it seemed to be fried so turned out not to be the the healthiest of options... This was accompanied by many more beers, chicken, chips and obv...tits.

The night was then continued in a pub in West Bridgford where we met Keith and his mates before moving to a bar close by called Fire and Ice. This was more of a bar/club and was full of some really hot girls however with Mitch's dancing we funnily enough didn't manage to attract any of them.

Going to try and get an early(ish) night now before playing the Sky Poker event tomorrow at DTD which I could do with winning to get me into profit this week :)

I miss Hooter chicken wings and their nice girls .

Bust out the SPT rather disappointingly. Guy to my left seemed to keep spite calling me for some reason even though i'm pretty sure i've never met him... Thought i'd finally found a spot to double through him when I jam the turn of a  Kh Qc 4s 4h  with  Kd Qd however unfortunately he has  Jh 4d to scoop the pot.

Heading to Gala at 9 to play Mr Flanagan at open face to hopefully win a few buyins before playing cash later on once the games get going ;)

I enjoy this diary alot.

End of.

Enough said.

We have met once, on the student poker tour main event last year, balling out of control.

Was on a table where some random welsh guys were hurling abuse at you because you werent speaking to them. They were desperate to know your name for some reason. You told them it was Fred and they were mocking you thinking you were lying. I was talking to them and you a little. We clashed alot and then got it in with 44 v 66 on 642 in a 4bet pre spot. Crippled my stack. Was v impressed with your game and table ettiquete especially with the abuse the random guys gave.

Neways gl with poker n keep the diary up v good reading.

Fyp

V good. Did think that as I wrote it. Should have done 2 seperate posts. Wondered how long before someone pointed it out. Slightly let down by the slow response time ;-)

My only memory of playing an SPT is exactly the same. Some guy peeling every hand vs me and getting me with K4 vs my AK on K63 lol.

Diary starting off epic. Will add it to my browsewhenilogonblondeonceeverysooften list! GL

Ron Yong called Fred a "Pigeon" .

Pigeon in pigeonland

This is true however he also said I have a cool name and that it's no surprise Nik is single, so I will forgive him :D

This is how degen / baller our hero is. Two OFC games on the go on two phones. Eating pudding.

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Sickest OP in this diary confirmed!!!!

He had a pudding at midnight in Dtd. No justice in this world! What a life! In fact I think he had the same pudding!

Was great to meet you on Saturday, thanks for coming along, & I hope you enjoyed it.

I looked out for you on Day Two, but must have missed you.

He was losing to flushes on the cash table with the rest of us!

And straights  ;whistle; ;flushy;

Same to you. Shame I was out so early but will definitely be looking at playing more of the Sky Events in future!

Just caught up with this diary after a sabbatical from Blonde.
Easily one of the most interesting characters to appear on the Notts poker scene.
Get the lot kid, and see you when i'm back for uni.

Thanks for all the positive feedback guys, means a lot!

Just thought I'd write a post about the other 'non-poker' side to me e.g. what I do for a living. Hopefully won't turn out to be too much of a TL;DR :D

Whilst being at Uni I decided that although I wanted to live like a balla, I didn't like the idea of getting a job. Therefore the obvious choice seemed to be setting up a business of some sort and begin what I hoped would be my journey to becoming a millionaire. Before Uni I had dabbled a bit in website design and after working part time in the marketing department of a multi million pound labelling company, I realised that businesses were willing to spend incredible amounts of money on website design & development especially when it came to ecommerce which was really starting to boom back then. I therefore came to the conclusion that it would be +EV to learn this trade and that I could make a reasonable income freelancing alongside my studies.

Within 6 months I had a pretty good grasp on the different technologies and trends being used in website development and what companies were looking for when choosing to branch out online. I chose to brand myself under the name Alliance Studio setting up a portfolio website, getting business cards printed etc. I then managed to land a few clients both in Derby and back home in Boston, including luckboxing a contract to design an ordering system used by every train company in the UK. I still continue to build and develop Alliance Studio as a brand and have some pretty exciting new ideas for the next few months which will offer both existing and new customers a whole bunch of new services.

My second entrepreneurial outburst was the acquisition of an online clothing company, 8th Wonder Clothing. Now at the time I knew pretty much nothing about the clothing industry however did know a lot about selling online and search engine marketing therefore thought - what's the worst that can happen? When I first looked at buying the company, it didn't have a huge range of clothes but did have a steady rate of traffic with good search engine rankings for the brands that they stocked so seemed like a pretty sound investment.

Once the deal went through I suddenly found myself with a ridiculous number of boxes taking up almost all the space in my room at Uni. Didn't really think that part through, however I soon got used to it and made sure that I locked up the biggest room when moving into our 3rd year house. After the stock was all moved over I got to work on a complete redesign of the site as well as working hard on the general marketing of the business including handing out flyers at uni, emailing offers to customers and utilising Facebook and Twitter to build relationships with customers. Since then the company has grown and I'll soon be looking at putting more money into new stock ready for the winter with the aim of turning over enough of a profit to make it viable to invest in another online business idea.

So that's basically it, just thought some of you might find it interesting to see how I manage to fund my gambling habit :)

Nice to meet you Saturday. Thanks for not wanting any food in nandos.

FYP

Brags ITT continue to be dope-nasty!!!!

Wpwp.

FYFYP

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Was at gala tonight, literally everyone was like "WTF WHERE'S FRED?!"

"Oh game's dead"

"It's just not the same without Fred around"

"This game is missing something" "Yeah fred.."

When DTD owners aren't asking telling you your name is cool you're being pined for by gala regs.

W
A
L

Baller diary btw. <3

Not surprised I'm missed with the amount I've donated this week! Will probably be missed by Stato and Alex now I've left their house too.

Yessssss Mr Cool

Do you currently keep your stock in a hotel room?

Haha no, it's currently kept in the garage back in Boston and the postal side of the business is currently run by my employees/parents :D

Looking at putting more volume in online over the next few months and just wondered what people's opinions are on the softest formats to play online? Which is more likely to achieve the highest hourly? Cash,
MTTs, sngs?

Stick to ofc and live you will lose slower win quicker

Online I think MTT's and SNG's are much softer in general than cash.  As for what sort of games you think you would do best in, you should more about your game than anyone else....

Love how "where's Fred?" is literally a catchphrase now. Not worried about any of this going to his head as if it gets any bigger it will literally burst.

TL;DR - Fred Wise; head size.

Did u win MR COOL ?

loool Mitch! Nice blog, gl for the future.

Interesting about your background. I know nothing about e-commerce but I have a couple of ideas of things I was going to look at to sell online.

How would a total noob get started?

What do you think of sites like these to use for a noob?

http://www.shopify.com/

Or do you have any other sites to rec?

I must admit I haven't had a lot of experience with Shopify as it requires little input from designers however from what i've heard it's good for start-ups but can be quite limiting in terms of features and will work out to be more expensive in the long run than hiring a designer to build you a site from scratch on a different platform.

Would recommend it though if you wanted to test out the market and get a feel for customer demand and then look at potentially upgrading in the future.

Ok fair enough ty  :)

Today's been pretty hot and having to use trains and buses has made me realise how much I miss having a car.

As a few of you know, I had a nice BMW until recently when I unfortunately wasn't paying attention to the road ended up skidding round a bend, through a traffic light and into a roundabout. Luckily no one was injured but the car was completely totalled.

Initially I thought that I could save money by not having a car now that I plan to move to Nottingham. However I've now come to the conclusion that having more money is not worth having no car. So I'm going to start looking round for a little runabout, possibly something like this:

Cool diary, sounds like a lot of fun but I bet you have to dedicate a lot to keep two businesses running??

What's your plans for poker?
Thoughts considering Alex mentioning a possible move away from Nottingham?
Favourite films? Cry-er or 'manly'?

:)

I knew you were an Andy Murphy wannabe... ;)

nice meeting u the other day Fred, good luck crushing alex at the ofc ap :)

Ben

Had a few good days live so decided to play a few of the sunday tournaments. Bricked most of them but still in the million and am now 28/251. Would happily use my one time on this I think! :)

Fred's first time playing the sunday million or any sort of MTT session by the way folks.

Sigh, ended up coming 78th for $1.8k. Ended up winning for the day but disappointing to have come so far and not get further but hey ho. Going to look at putting some time into trying to improve online and hopefully play some bigger sessions in the coming weeks!

GG in the milli. Hope u are successful in future attempts to profit from dem tough online playas. My fav diary on here btw, keep up the good work :)

Cheers bud! What happened to your diary?

Yeah the amount of time consumed fluctuates quite a bit depending on time of the year (for 8th Wonder) and how many contracts I have going at a time web-design wise but I can usually juggle it pretty well and balance it out with poker.

Plans with poker are to move more to playing online and cut down playing live. I still love playing live but think I should be able to more online if I put the hours in. Will then concentrate on playing some of the bigger comps live and potentially travelling more including Vegas next year!

I do watch quite  a lot of films but prefer TV series like Breaking Bad, 24, Game of Thrones, Suits etc. Don't usually get too emotional about films really but love really complex ones such as Inception.

 Quick update: Decided to do a trip to London with Stato and PJ and was later joined by Mitch.

Cliffs so far:
- checked into a bowl hotel
- went to the Vic and played a mix of 1/2 and 1/3
- got in a £2.8k hole
- got out
- actually won money
- checked into the Hilton down the road with Mitch

Will do a proper trip report when I get back!

Wiiiiii balllllla, just sit in the 5/10 & win, then u can check into the ritz :D

gogogogo

oh this hotel is farrrrr to bowl for me, i'm going to upgrade rah rah rah

best night of my life

just like fulham

oh and, team eureka friends!

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

#HeadOfTheTable ;)

Back from London and although I didn't get the lot, i'm definitely going to be looking at making more regular trips there.

Ended up losing a small amount overall on the trip after 2 winning nights and then losing on the final night when deciding to punt on 2/5 with the big boys :D Probably wasn't the best idea especially when I was constantly getting 3bet and cold 4bet with  Jd 6c...

One of the best things about London was the availability of games at almost every point of the day which is pretty uncommon in the rest of the UK. For example we got to the Vic at 3pm on Thursday and there were already 6 games going which was really good. You would have thought that it would just be pros playing in games at that point in the day but it was actually a good mix of players.

Throughout the trip I did manage to do my brains on massages which at the time didn't seem like a great deal of money but when I added it up at the end of the trip it's actually a ridiculous amount and definite spew that I need to try and avoid next time!

Got back at lunch time yesterday after playing all night and then getting a lift back with Stato. Because of check-out times at the hotel, i'd only had about 3 hours sleep in the last 48 hours and then had to endure Mitch and Stato singing along to the entire Elton John album on the drive home, which me and PJ weren't overly enthused about...

Went straight to bed when I got back and then got up at 6 to go for a Nandos with a mate from Boston. He said he hadn't played poker in a long time and fancied a game so I offered to put him in the 1/1 game with a few £50 bullets to see if he could spin it up but unfortunately for the both of us he ran terribly and ended up doing 5 bullets. Marv. Despite this I still managed to lock up a winning night at both DTD and Gala.

Time to watch the latest episode of Suits and then head down to DTD for some cash and hopefully see Flanagan and whoever else is playing make day 2 of the deepstack!

Sorry yeh i just cba atm. Cliffs = Went Vegas made bags, spent bags, came back and bored of uk already, booked trip to Thailand for Sept, playing online until then. reading ur diary make me want to hang out with u guys in notts tho. Hope u make loads of £££.

Really enjoying this diary. Has to be one the best on here, if not THE best.

Maybe even the best thread of all time on the Internet in fact.

I dunno, I think this is one of my favorites:

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Rofl. It's close.

Thanks for the kind words mate and I really appreciate your honesty.

Pigeon never tell the truth !! Nice playing u dude . U take beat like a pussy . Lol

Pipe down you lucky Chinese pigeon!

Went to Sheffield tonight to check out the cash games at Genting with Mitch, Stato and PJ. Last time I visited Sheffield I wrote my car off so was hoping I would run a little better this time. Fortunately I did.

Went for a meal with PJ whilst we were waiting for the cash game to start as we weren't too fussed about playing the comp. Stato and Mitch decided to flick it in and obvs Stato took it down for £1.8k after beating Liam Batey heads up. He said he played really well but then we heard that actually he got AA vs AQ for most of the chips left in play HU. WP :D

Cash game started at about half 11 and although it was pretty slow to get going, it got really good after a while with one guy constantly jamming £200+ over £8 raises with trash. I luckily ran like god and ended up +£1.3k on the session. Must admit that some of it was from the omaha flips at the end though ;)

Then played OFC on the journey back which turned about to be pretty brutal for Mitch who was so tilted by the end that he turned down the offer of a free Greggs! Hopefully he'll be back to his jolly self tomorrow.

Heading to Manchester tomorrow with Nik for a few days to play poker and meet up with some mates. He left me in charge of booking the hotel which i'm sure he will be very happy with... until the bill arrives. Can't wait!

U ARE SO LUCKY .....,, PIGEON

LOL! Fred were did you get the money to be chilling in hotels for weeks on end? Poker seems like a good shout, but then where and when?!?

Best of luck, enjoyed so far.

wtf I said bowl hotel.

 :redcard:

Haha I don't really, just enjoy spending every penny I have on hotels! Am actually staying with Alex atm which is helping my bank balance quite considerably :D

Forgot to mention that i've decided that i'll be going to Barcelona at the end of the month for the EPT to play the side events/cash games and chill out in the sun seeing as though I haven't seen day light in what seems like weeks. Should be good fun providing I don't go broke.

Probably going to sell pieces of myself in certain things if anyone wants a sweat but will look into that more closely in the next few weeks.

Think u can sell at - 1.2 at markup !! PIGEON . Gl in Manchester dude

Does Alex know that someone is staying with him?  :D

Spoken to Alex last time and he say he's bored of girls/women and willing to try SOME YOUNG BOYS !! So Fred came into his life as consolations for not having to pay rent!

Yes I am aware.

Fred's is on a rolling contract, he doesn't have to pay any rent but must play at least 50 hands of Chinese with us per day at minimum £2/point stakes.

Bumhunting taken to the extreme ;whistle;

Be cheaper to book 5 star hotel :)

shhhh

This diary ain't so ballin now your sleeping on Alex's floor. Hope you have booked into the Hilton in Manchester great location for Manchester 235 when you staying till? I'm thinking of going home this weekend and if I do I may come down Friday or Saturday night!

 
Of course! Nik wanted to stop in a bowl hotel but thought the Hilton would be more convenient.

The money you will save in taxis obviously justifys it ;)

Surely g on Tuesday ?
I heard g has a v big game on Fridays


But 235 most other days

Tuesday budget games there

Yeh as far as i am aware its Tuesday G and then 235 every other night

Fred surely you have enough Hilton Points by now anyway??

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Checked into the Deansgate Hilton and have just arrived at Manchester235 but the games look a bit dead. Gonna get something to eat and then head to the G I think!

Wednesday is pretty dead i think  but 235 prob best bet


thurs is PLO day at 235 v fun

How long u in town for?

Best tourney of he day is Albion (genting Salford)50£ but no cash games at all, but prob v budget for u
2 k guarantee n v fun tho

At 235 atm and they've got a few games going including 1/2.

This is our last night here but would definitely come again. Was really impressed with the G last night!

Heading back to Boston tomorrow for Mums birthday and then back in notts for the weekend.

Sick diary, only just got involved but will be lurking!

GL sir

Not very nice

Haha WP

Exactly what I keep telling people but for some reason it's a hit!

Your jealousy is becoming simply overwhelming.

Of this thread or of you and Nik?

 Both :D Don't worry, we can both spend some quality time together once we're back in Notts!

 Enjoyed sharing a table with you on Friday & Saturday.

I knew there's something wrong with u, once u stayed over at  Alex place. I wonder if u really like men !
Pigeon

Cheers man, you too! You seemed to get the better of me in almost every pot we played though from what I can remember :D

Urgh tonight was brutal. Seem to be absolutely haemorrhaging money atm and it's starting to take its toll. Starting to become pretty under it what with live cash and other investments.

Started off ok, winning a bit playing the 1/1 with big ol' Mitch Johnson. Managed to bum hunt him into coming out of retirement from OFC however he went on an instant heater and won 143 points @ £5/point within the first hour! Luckily managed to grind the majority of that back throughout the night but still wasn't the best way to start the night.

We then moved to a 1/2 with a really good line up. Was pretty card dead to begin with but won a few small pots without showdown. Then run into Mitch where he 3bets me OOP, flops a straight and I unfortunately decided to choose that moment to bluff him. [ ] Went well.

Then lose another to him with  Th Ts on a  7d 8d 9d flop vs  Ks 9s. Fold the river but still pretty annoying. Throughout all this, Mitch absolutely god modes the table and basically stacks everyone ending up with a bigger stack than everyone else combined. When asking how he does it, his reply was: The Lord works in mysterious ways :D

To finish up I get £800 in pre with  Ad Kd vs  9h 9s and despite running it twice, lose the lot.

Getting a bit disheartened with playing live atm and am thinking that i'm probably gonna grind online between now and Barcelona to try and claw back some of the roll. Hopefully i'll be able to get out of it and be able to have the flexibility to play what I want when i'm out there. Wish me luck!

We can run it twice again?

Mitch can we run the river again so it's not a 5 plz? :)

No, because i wouldn't have a straight then. The hand would turn out awfully for me!

Also @Fred;

Never heard of effective stacks? If you shove £800 over the line, and he has £540, you get some change. kthxbai.

Ok well didn't lose the lot in that pot but still gave Ed the remainder at the end in flips. Happy now? Now GTFO you big lucky creature!

Happier, yes.

You dont want people coming on here calling you a liar, like Alex used to get on his diary.

Frankie, come on watch the language please

No need for it, or on Alex's thread

yeah its pretty weird lol.

Sorry , deleted ( misclick ) lol

Played a small schedule today and bricked almost everything. Am now contemplating whether to go to London for a few days to play cash which seems like a better option than staying here and doing my brains to Alex playing Chinese...

Pigeon , no updates here ?

Will do an update of tonight's comical events when I get home later :)

The fans want to hear the latest news Fred come on!

Tell us about your thought process with that £105 8high river call?

Just got another £500 in on the turn with J high. Was ahead though this time ;)

More details to come.

Ok so I had a bit of a mare tonight...

Today began by getting up quite early (compared to my usual 6 o'clock wake up) and going to see the new Alan Partridge film "Alpha Papa" at the cinema. Absolutely loved it! Best comedy I've seen in a while and would definitely recommend it, especially if you're a fan of the Partridge.

We then went and played mini golf which despite claiming I was good at golf, managed to joint lose with Alex. Would have won it if he hadn't luck boxed a hole in one!

Then played some chinese at Gala obvs. Was supposed to be a trial run of the new Tuesday OFC tournament that Gala are planning to start running in September but unfortunately got cancelled so turned into a 5 handed game for cash. Locked up a small win after some classic punts ended up paying off.

Went to Alea afterwards and by this time I was getting pretty tired. Couldn't really be arsed to play however a really juicy 1/2 game got going with money flying about everywhere so thought I should probably get a few hours in.


First 'fun' hand of the night:

£8 straddle is on and I make it £25 with  9d 8d in middle position. 4 callers and we go to a flop of  Ac 9c 6d.

Villain1 leads for half pot, Villain2 flats and I flick it in with backdoor equity playing about £650 and covering both.

Turn is the  3c and it's checked to me and I check behind.

River is the  9s. Villain1 checks, Villain2 then bets less than half pot. At this point I considered raising for value but thought i'd take the lower variance line and call. Villain turns over  Ad Qc and I embarrassingly turn over  8d 7d having completely misread my hand and called £105 on the river with 8 high. Marv.


Second hand:

After this slight mistake I was a bit frustrated with myself but not necessarily on tilt. £4 straddle is on and I raise to £15 UTG with  Ks Qs. 3 people flat and a shortstack jams £150
and a guy tank flats behind him.

I don't usually base a lot of my decisions on live tells but thought that the initial jammer looked competent enough to squeeze with a wide range here and the flatter would call with a lot of pairs/suited aces etc. Unfortunately I miscounted the second guys stack and didn't realise he had as much behind him when I rejammed...

He called pretty quickly with  Jh Js and unfortunately the initial guy had  Aspades Kc so I wasn't in the best of shape.  Qd dealer?  Ts 4s 7s flop, brick turn, brick river. That'll do :D

Both hands show that it's really not a good idea to play when tired and stupid mistakes can cost you a lot of money. Unless you run as good as I do that is and then it doesn't even matter ;)


Final hand of the night

This was a personal fav although i'm sure my good friend Nik Flanagan won't agree ;)

£4 straddle is on, UTG calls and I raise to £20 with  Jc 9c. 3 callers including Nik.

Flop comes  Qc 2s 5s. Nik checks, I check, other 2 guys check.

Turn is the  3c. Can't really rep a lot on this turn however have more equity now and don't think i'm going to get hero'd a lot of the time. Nik checks, I bet £45, two guys fold and Nik makes it £130 with about £350 behind. Now i'm not saying he would never take this line with a strong hand but I had never seen him do it however had seen him do it with straight draws/gutshots and air especially when HU.

I elect to wager all of my betting discs and surprisingly Nik snaps. I obvs grimace and asked what he had and to my surprise he declared flush draw. How high Nik? Ten high. Oh good :) Nik had  Ts 8s and after running it twice I managed to scoop with 2 flushes. Was a pretty sick hand however after getting whacked twice by him last week, I don't feel too bad :D

Gonna get some sleep now and then probably going to go to Coventry tomorrow and play cash whilst the Goliath is on. Haven't decided on whether to play the Goliath itself yet but will decide on that tomorrow.

Hopefully see some of you there!

Pigeon pigeon . Called 8 high for £105 . Xmas came early for that guy .
Good luck at Coventry

Was supposed to be a trial run of the new Tuesday OFC tournament that Gala are planning to start running in September but unfortunately got cancelled

Details?

Come on Fred, you HAVE to raise that "89" for value lol

Obviously a great thing you didn't :P although it was the only way you could win the hand as it goes!

I remember yeaaaarrrrs ago a friend of mine who used to play live cash mis-read his hand for 22 on AT2 x 6 he jammed the river got called by AK announced "set" then realised he'd misread his hand somehow and had 62 and won lol :D

re hand #1: You made a way better flop call with your actual hand than the hand you thought you had. River is close but might be a fold; don't have much sdv with 8 high

this is very true, I think 8d 9d should prolly be folded. 8d 7d you can raise!

actually on reflection I'd prefer to raise 8d 9d, I think raising it here in this spot is pretty cool actually - not really a fan of these passive lines with marginal/backdoor equity in multi-way pots, spesh when you're range is strong (this is a good flop for a MP PFR right?) turned 8 looks like a bad card for you but its sick and you should be able to force AT/AJ out of the hand as long as you're prepared to barrel off.

If you're gonna have a "bluffing range" here this is like the nut hand for it, if you get 3bet on the flop then you got a pair of nines no big deal can just fold.

min raise flop, pot turn

How's that?!

Your sporting prowess has been widely publicised.  Pretty sure I would be swinging from a plastic windmill now.

105 with 8 high. Ball harder.

Such a good image call, even got the diary to help publicise it!

Don't want to spam here but we're trying to setup a regular £25 OFC comp on a tuesday night. Hopefully get lots of people interested in the game! Will be cash games after on demand!

In

Sounds like great idea!

Well the Coventry cash games are incred. Has two decent winning nights and am currently having my biggest ever winning session live. Hopefully I don't end up spewing the lot off before the end of the night.

Back in notts now and thoroughly enjoyed my visit to Coventry. Was a great casino with some really good games running!

Played mainly the 1/2 games which got deep as the evening went on with everyone sitting with £1k+. Also decided to give the boys on 5/5 a spin at the end of last night as the game seemed pretty good value when it opened. However it didn't take long before it got short handed and we were effectively playing 5/10 with Tim Chung, Mitch and two other sickos. Didn't stay in that game long!

Stopped in the De Vere next door whilst I was there which was a pretty bowl hotel (forgive my language) and I didnt get hardly any sleep on the first night as the room was red hot and I had to share a bed with Alex as there were no twin rooms available... Once he left I decided to upgrade to a club room that had air conditioning however when I got into there, the windows were about the size of a cat flap and the bathroom light didn't work. Great.

Ended up making just over £4k on the trip with last night being my biggest ever winning session of just over £3.3k. Has come at a good time as this will give me a nice cash boost ready for Barcelona!

Heading to DTD in a bit and then gonna try to have an early night ready for a day of shopping with the family tomorrow for my sisters birthday. Haven't got her a present yet so if all else fails i'll have to resort to the DTD gift section :D

GL to everyone left in the Goliath and i'll see the rest of you pigeons tonight!

Silly Question..  Why would you not go back all Weekend???

OBV if you have family/life stuff.

As you say just family stuff really or I would have done. Might go tomorrow night if anyone else from here is going!

Why do a blog when u not posting or writing  anything here! At  least spent 10/20 minutes writing something or posting photos . Like your blog but u are not doing your job properly ! PIGEON..

Stop badgering me! Nothing interesting has happened in the last 24 hours but when it does, you'll be the first to know :)

Pigeon bites back !! Love pigeon ... Hahahaha

Apologies for the spam but incase any of you haven't already, please make sure you vote for CHIPPYMAN's chip shop before the voting closes!

THANKS mate . Really appreciate this . Hope fully they all will vote for me . Only 5/6 days left . As many vote as u all can ..pls pls

when exactly are these starting?

Think it will be the second Tuesday in September but will confirm after speaking to the guys at Gala!

Good luck in Barca ,, PIGEON

Why I love Fred

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Tried to continue but the air hostess was quite insistent. Thought that the feeling of fantasy land wouldn't outweigh the feeling of guilt that risking the lives of everyone on board would provide.

However did play Linton using actually cards the second we sat down which proved difficult during takeoff. Started off by winning but by the time we landed... well lets just say I could have chartered a private jet with the money that i'd lost :D

Will do a proper update later but cliffs so far:

Arrived in Barcelona, checked into the apartment and been to the casino.
Lost the flip for the rooms so have ended up on the bunk beds. Mitch obv luck boxes the top floor of the apartment with his own ensuite...
Tried to buyin to the tournament but there were that many players there, they had to close the queue. Will be going early tomorrow to get on the alternates list.
Went to a restaurant recommended by Deadman. Was awful. Worst tapas I've ever had including what I can only describe as meat paste in breadcrumbs.
Chilling out tonight in the apartment with Deadman waiting for Alex to arrive. Mitch and Linton have gone to watch the football which doesn't start til 11.

More updates to come including pictures!

Congrats on the launch of your OFC stable mate. Tell us a bit about it please.

Really enjoying Barcelona so far despite playing very little poker and that which I have played hasn't yielded the best results!

When we arrived we decided to flip for beds as there is one really nice room on the top floor of the apartment and then a bowl room with bunk beds on the lower floor. Lucky Mitch obv boxed the top floor and me and Simon were left with this room. Certainly cosy to say the least!

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Have spent the last few days exploring parts of the city, going to the beach and checking out Barcelona's restaurants. Decided yesterday that I probably wouldn't need sun cream as we weren't going to the beach for long and I could do with a bit of colour anyway. [ ] Good read. Great beach though and definitely want to go again. Would have taken some pics of it however it was a topless beach so that might have been frowned upon :D Here's some pics of the surrounding area instead.

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Afterwards I went and registered for the 300 mini event after missing out on the 1k the day before. Was pretty tilted by that as I was only a few mins too late before they cut off the queue for registration. Deadman made a pretty deep run in it but got pretty unlucky about 100 runners out to not go further.

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So grinded that and was double average before the second break but then sit down and snap lose half my stack with AK < 77 and then grind 10-15bbs before jamming 13bbs in the cutoff with 22 to only be snapped off by the old lady in the bb with 33 :D GG me.

After having some wine last night, I suggested to Alex that we set up a womens only stable and stake women to play the various ladies events around the world. I then wake today to a message from Alex saying that we've put our first horse into the 300euro EPT womens event :D Ah well, Victoria seems pretty excited about it and if she's as good at poker as she is at OFC, we should have a good chance at binking.

Going to go try and get on the cash game list now which has been a nightmare the whole trip with about a 4 hour waiting list most days. Alex and myself managed to get near the top of the list on Thursday only to be told that we had missed our chance by getting a drink from the bar and that we would have to sign up again. Marv.

If anyone wants to know why this diary has the title it does, this will explain it.

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(If someone could embed that'd be great :) )

Ty. Still don't know how to convert that link into that format :/

Oh god :/

HEI PIGEON, HAVE U LOST YOUR BRAIN OR FINGERS ?
 :hello: :hello: :hello:

The next day Alex said, "It was inappropriate to buy flowers for Victoria."

Apparently, making a video of other man buying flowers for his girl seems more appropriate to him.   ;whistle;

I absolutely love  drunk Fred this video.  :-*

Haha it was slightly inappropriate but oh well, you made it up to me ;)

Time to start writing up the trip report. Got some abs incred pictures for the diary, mostly featuring hilarious Mitch moments.

Looked like you were running pretty bad against Mitch at ofc last night. Why don't you tell us a bit about that?

Yeah that was a pretty brutal session on Mitch's part. Think the worst one was when he finally had it set to get into fantasy land with QQ up top and one card to go... which turned out to be the case Q.

Not gonna feel too bad though because he did run quite well in Barca and I remember on multiple occasions him thanking me for paying for his trip :D

Oocha oocha got u PIGEON ? Unlucky

Decided to give one of the euro sites a go today rather than playing the WCOOP as I couldn't be bothered with a massive outlay today due to going out last night.

Ended up luck boxing one of the 50euro comp for 3.7k and final tabling one of the hypers for a bit more :D

Probably gonna have a month of playing mainly online although am heading back to Boston for a few days to actually do some work in the office!

Going to Stoke this week, PIGEON ?

Have a lot on work-wise atm so going to have to give Stoke a miss unfortunately!

Seriously you are the first poker pro that have to work !! Ohhhh sorry , clicking buttons is working . Sighhhhh

Sorry for the lack of updates, have been pretty busy both grinding online and sorting out some business related things for the upcoming months.

Am in the process of acquiring a new business atm which should be fully operational by November which is pretty exciting and although I can't say a great deal about it now, I am hoping to share more of that side of my life as it begins to take off.

Unfortunately this has taken up a lot of my time and cash which has meant that my roll for poker has taken quite a hit. Rather than move down the limits, I've been incredibly reckless over the last few months and made some pretty big gambles which really haven't paid off. This has taken quite a toll on me and is for the first time making me really see the real lows of gambling.

I guess I've been quite lucky in the past in that I've never really had that big of a downswing and even when I did I've managed to compensate by having money coming in from different jobs to keep me afloat. For that reason, bank roll management has never seemed that essential and I could just play what I wanted and if it didn't go well then just top up and play again the next week. As my circumstances have changed, I haven't managed to adapt and am now facing the consequences of this.

So plans for the coming months...

Until this new venture gets up and running, I have decided that it would probably be wise to move back to Boston where I've been offered a management position in marketing on a 6 month contract. Although this is the last thing I really want to do, I think it's the best option and will allow me to concentrate on improving my online game and then travel to play the deepstacks and other comps around the country.

Hopefully this will be a successful 'moan it in' and something will be around the corner to allow me to return to splashing around in hotels and playing high stakes open face chinese but until then it's going to be more respectable business man than balla gambling addict!

Zzz boring.

Cliffs on last post.

Fred busted his role on flowers and now goes back to the real world

Ha yeah something like that. Not really back to the real world though, just need to find more of a balance between poker/business.

This will keep me on track to being a millionaire by the age of 30 :D

ICWYDT

Is this diary not going to be amazing anymore, Freddie?   ::)

I'll try to ensure it's still good enough for you baby ;)

Am heading back to notts tomorrow for a few days and then planning on spending a couple of days in London.

Tonight however I will be venturing into my hometown of Boston for a night out. Now I haven't been out in Boston for a while, mainly because it's full of terrible people and the last time I went out I got smacked outside of 'Boston Delight' because I accidentally looked at someone...

As some of you know, it wasn't that long ago that I was in the process of buying a Nightclub in Boston. I was pretty excited about this prospect however unfortunately we had to pull out quite close to the signing due to agreed planning permission for another club in the centre. Although I was seriously disappointed at the time, I think we might have had a lucky escape there.

Anyway, hopefully tonight will go alright and i'll make it home with no broken bones and won't wake up next to some horrific monstrosity of a Boston lass. Wish me luck!

FYP

Did u buy their gf flowers ? :p

Make sure you don't go in trainers, don't wanna have to borrow shoes off a tramp.

Have a good night x

Yep. Good one.

Been back in Notts for the last few days and it's been quite eventful.

Time for a rant...

Cash games are usually quite good on Tuesdays at Alea so decided I would go and give the boys a spin. Haven't played live in a while so went to the cash desk to withdraw enough money to play for the week. After giving them my card and entering my pin number, it for some reason came up as declined... This was strange as I knew it was the right pin number and there were definitely enough funds in the account. Upon phoning my bank I found out that Alea had taken the funds from my account regardless of what they had just told me!

I then asked them to check again whether it had gone though and they said it had not and that there was nothing they could do. I then asked to speak to the manager as this wasn't really the response I was looking for. I told him that if he was to fax the bank with their details mentioning that it hadn't gone through then the bank would instantly release the funds back to me. The manager then told me that this wasn't the case as he obviously knew the bank's procedures on these matters better than the bank themselves and refused to help me in any way. When I asked what he proposed I do he simply shrugged his shoulders. At this point I was more angry than I've been in a long time but just laughed and shrugged it off. One of the worst examples of customer service I've ever seen.

Luckily I managed to use my 1 bullet on cash very well and spun it up to lock up a decent win. Was still in incredibly frustrating night and despite making daily phone calls to them since, the issue has still not been resolved. Hopefully it will be refunded shortly as it's pretty much just theft otherwise.

/rant.

On to Wednesday...

One of my mates wanted to play the grand prix so decided I'd go down with him and give it a go. Regret doing it now as I wasn't really in the mood for a long grind and probably didn't play my best. Flopped a set early on and lost the majority of my stack vs a flopped straight. Was left with 1200 chips which I managed to spin back up to 27k in an hour and a half only to lose half of it in a flip and the rest by shoving 18bbs over a CO open with  Kd Jd which turned into a 3way all in vs  Ad Ac and  Jh Js :D Somehow didn't win!

Then played cash for a bit and lost 2 buyins, both in pretty comical fashion. First hand I 3bet the button with  9h 9s, young bad spewy guy calls and initial raiser calls. Board comes  8c 5h 2s. He checks, other guys checks, I cbet and he jams... with  Ks 5d. I called. Didn't win. Was pretty tilting as I felt he was just spite sticking it in my eye and wasn't really sure why. Obvs quite profitable in the long run but annoying at the time.

Second hand was an even better way to lose £200. Guy raises UTG, I peel with  Qd Jd in the CO. Flop comes  Js Jh 7c. He checks, I bet £20, he raises to £55. He definitely does this with air a lot of the time or even a value range that I'm still ahead of. I call. Turn is the  Kh. He checks with about pot behind him. I jam and he snaps with  Kd 9h. River is the  Ks :D NICE HAND SIR. WP.

Decided to call it a night and my mate needed to get the bus back to Derby so I said I'd walk with him to the bus stop as it wasn't far down the road. Turned out that the bus he needed didn't stop there so walked a bit further to the next one... and the next one... until eventually we reached Nottingham Bus Station 2 hours later. Not really sure why I had carried on with him but must just be because I'm a good mate :D. Upon our arrival we realised that there weren't actually going to be any buses back to Derby for another 3 hours. After seeing this we thought we'd be best off going to Gala/Grosvenor and thinking of a plan to get him back. In the mean time I got a text from another mate who suggested we go out for a few drinks with it being freshers week. Didn't seem like a bad idea so we met up at Grosvenor and after having complementary drinks from Stef the card room manager we headed to the only place we knew to be open, the gay bar.

Now this was the first time I've been to a gay bar and must admit that I was a little anxious over what to expect. Well I certainly wasn't prepared for what we were about to see. Now I'm not sure if it was just this venue or because it was a Wednesday night but this place was full of some of the strangest people I have ever seen. And everyone was just getting it on with everyone regardless of gender, age or social norms. There were men dressed as women, women dressed as men and I didn't have a clue what was going on. I decided it was best that we sit in a corner where it was safe from what seemed to be a place rife with sexual predators. However despite the clientele, the music was actually ok and the drinks were only £1 each allowing it to be a very messy night for a small amount of money.

I definitely won't be forgetting last nights experience and almost certainly wont be going there again. Ah well, guess it's something to tick off the bucket list...

Am heading back to Boston tonight as I've been called into a meeting tomorrow at one of the companies I consult for and have got a feeling it's not going to be an enjoyable one. Roll on the weekend!

Cliffs on tonight's antics please

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Just caught up with this Diary, makes an interesting read... Personally I think the move back to Boston is a good thing.  Gives you an opportunity to get yourself together and work out what's important, seems like you're in-between wanting to be successful in business and successful at poker, there's nothing stopping you from being both, but one before the other...

Anyway... GL

 

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Definitely agree with this and am trying to find that balance between business and poker. Spent most of last week in Boston and although I enjoy the buzz of being in the office, attending board meetings and getting involved in the decision making process of big projects & contracts, I do miss the social side that poker has to offer and in general miss a lot of my mates in notts both in and out of poker.

Have been back in Nottingham for quite a chunk of this week and have been trying to cut down how much time I actually play poker by doing shorter sessions and having more of a normal sleeping pattern so that I can work more effectively from wherever I'm residing. Used some of my 'Club Carlson' points to have a few nights at the Park Plaza whilst my mate who I've been staying with recently had family over. Whilst there they generously upgraded me to the Presidential Suite which includes champagne and complimentary chocolates :) I do love hotels and in a lot of ways would love to live in them permanently but from now on am trying to cut these areas of spew out of my life and minimise my monthly outgoings. Am getting slightly better but still find myself slipping back and eating out loads/having nights out/travelling first class rather than standard when on trains :D

Have played poker 3 nights this week and have had 1 good winning session, 1 break even session and tonights losing session. Am being more sensible in terms of BRM atm and playing in less fun games that are going to be more profitable in the long run than in games with great banter but where I'm going to have a smaller edge or even no edge on the table. Tanking the deepstack tomorrow but am pretty tempted to just take advantage of the cash games on offer this weekend instead. Will see how I feel tomorrow.

Played a 14 hour session yesterday which was my longest in a while. Cash games have been great this weekend so tried to take advantage of it by doing longer sessions as it's usually hard to get a 1/2 going at all let alone a full ring deep game that runs all night. Managed to lock up a decent win which was most appreciated after a rather disappointing weekend both in the Deepstack and on cash.

Was constantly battling with Mitch all night for chips and despite him constantly getting there in ridiculous fashion as always, I managed to win a reasonable pot at the end of the night with  Kh 9h on  6h 8c 9s Jh Ks vs what I can only assume was  Js 9c. By the end of the night the game got pretty ridic with every pot being straddled for £16 and there being about 200 in pre which lead to some pretty fun punting by some :D

Bit of a nightmare last night when I turn up to the Lace Market Hotel at 4 in the morning and the whole place is locked up with no one answering the door bell or phone. Was outside for what seemed like ages before ending up checking in at the Mercure. For what is supposed to be one of Nottinghams best hotels, I thought this was pretty poor and definitely won't be booking there again!

Heading back to Boston today for a day or two and then meeting with some customers in Derby on Wednesday for a potential new web development project I might be working on. Hopefully back to Notts for the weekend to try and win some more monies!

Any big tournament wins recently you'd like to tell the fans about?

;bump;

Funny you should say that mate ;)

Played the trial run of the OFC comp at Grosvenor last night which managed to get 4 tables and actually went pretty smoothly. We ran into a few issues which need to be ironed out before next week but other than that it went really well!

Obviously the biggest punter there managed to take it down :D

Looking forward to next week's OFC comp which will be a £25+4 buyin with an unconfirmed free paella! Hope to see some of you down there but if none of you could none of you bum hunt me into playing for cash, that would be great :D

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Fred wise for his fans

Was nice to see you tonight mate, despite your intoxication ;)

Good luck trying to get with that girl although I think learning her name first might be the best way forward...

Red color phone, pink chips... What's next, baby? Lipstick in your pocket?  :dontask:

 ;laxie;

One question. Where is the rest of your stack in that photo?

How come these games run t grosvenor and not Dtd?

Sorry baby, i'll make sure I only get the red and black chips next time, like a real man ;)



It may have looked small Neil but was made up of the larger chip denominations! :D



We were at DTD earlier in the night but the games there usually start early and finish early whereas the Grosvenor games go on til 9 in the morning sometimes.

Make sure you find me in the island of men, I will buy you a half  :P

Think we might be going to different places mate? ;)

Yeh I'll be at the final table.

Thin

You just worry about your next bowl comp!!!!

Dont u notice that kid look like a gay boy pigeon ? U won package to IOM for poker but he's going to ISLAND OF LOTS OF MEN FOR BUMB !!!

Drama Llama says this is not awesomesauce.

You're my hero for a reason <3

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

Now that your partner in crime has bowed out of the diary race, are you going to resurrect this diary....?



 

Am probably going to do a trip report when we get back from Prague as the last few weeks have been pretty eventful poker-wise and i've got a feeling there will be a few things after this trip that readers will find interesting! :D

Good luck if u getting married to someone from nowhere .