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16  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: Age to tell kids the truth about Father Christmas? on: November 27, 2014, 11:55:41 PM
My 10yr old daughter posted her letter today.

Simply addressed Santa Clause, North Pole.

Apparently a stamp wasn't required!
17  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: investment opportunity Jimmy Choos on: November 27, 2014, 11:19:39 PM
this thread > bargain hunt > cash in the attic

It's like watching UK Gold
18  Poker Forums / Diaries and Blogs / Re: Legal drug dealer in Vegas!! on: November 21, 2014, 11:57:38 PM
Day 3 of the main event of the WPTUK and I was 8 away from cashing.

I play poker to win. No matter what stakes. I enjoy the strategy the ability to fight with your enemy but with chips not fists. To use your wits against their knowledge.

So why couldn't I get any sleep then not want to get up?

I could feel my heart beating all night and my irritating dry cough wasn't helping. I struggle with dry heat, artificial and the new warmth in my home and the DTD was aggravating it further.

Driving to and thro each day (car hot air blowers at 2am) and I wasn't feeling my best.

There was 2 major traffic jams locally. One at the M6 croft interchange and my detour through Warrington was a bad play.

Somehow I got to the club 10mins before the start of play but I wasn't relaxed.

When I found my table the tournament director came over, said hello and help me sort my chips.

I looked around and apart from some chips below average no one was critical. Worryingly though I had 3 monster stacks to my immediate right.

I knew that meant no walks on my blinds and worse news for me was that we weren't due to break our table until we had lost 3 others first.

I wasn't sure if this would be long enough to nurse my stack to make similar Day 2 plays. I also knew with the big stacks I'd struggle to build anything so I decided to dig a trench. No one wanted to chat so I couldn't engage anyone to get a read.

Now this might seem strange but winning the next hand would lead to my downfall.

We had only been playing a few hands when I was dealt QQ early position. The guy to my left with less than 100k shoved. I had to call and my cards survived his 88. This got me to above 420k which was double the average.

So why was this bad?

Well we broke the bubble soon after. I was one for one in cashes in WPT!!

My mind had gone though. My focus had changed. I had won 2 more pots by betting flops and turns but had forgotten that I hadn't shown my good cards.

The big stacks had already started to attack my blinds and re-raise my bets.

I had folded pocket pairs heads up and I lost where I was at in the tournament.

I was top 10 in chips but felt short stacked on my table. We had a break but with players dropping slowly we were forced 7 handed for large periods.

We were the next full table to break when the hand happened.

I had dropped to about 375k (still comfortably 1.5x above average) when one of the big stacks on my right made a min raise. I was on the button and hadn't played a hand for a while.

I looked down at 9c10c but delayed my action to show strength.

I flat called and the sb got out of the way.

The bb was playing a rush though and re-raised from 10k to 25k.

The big stack called and after a long pause I called.

The flop was a rainbow 567 and the bb continued for 55k.

The big stack called.

Now I had over,s and four 8's for the nuts but I though I could represent a set.

I contemplated raising before flat calling.

With the pot already 200k+ I thought flat calling would show more strength.

The turn was Ah bringing 2 hearts on the board.

The bb bet 110k. Now I knew he had hit the A but the big stack just flat called.

I should've folded and wanted to fold.

I still would have had just under 300k!

But somehow I managed to persuade myself to have a Maverick moment.

I thought with almost 400k already in the pot I was trying to work out a play that would give me a  Monster chip lead and a cruise to the final. (What the fuck was I thinking of the final for when I'd been playing a level and a day at a time?)

I'm surprised no one called the clock on me but during that time I managed to persuade myself that the bb would fold his A to my shove (representing a set) and the big stack would also lay down a high pair or a draw or lower set.

I still had outs though. If I got called I had four 8's to hit to save me.

I re-raised all in and the bb called straight away! The big stack also shoved and was also called.

bb AK

Big stack 78 for the flopped straight

Me 109 for the now 3 outer stone cold bluff.

The river 10 and I was out with the 1.4m chips heading to the new chip leader.

Out 34th or was it 35th for a second tier cash.

The drive home was horrendous. The 1.5hr journey took me 3.5hrs through the rush hour traffic and rain. If I had only gone outside during the break I would have cleared my head and seen the atrocious weather which would've straightened my head to stay until the end.

What was I thinking? A story too far...


Will probably feel better next week as got 20x my buy in back but I should've gone much further than my premature end.

Will decide in next few days whether to try and satellite into Genting Main or GUKPT but I think that'll be it for this year.

Ended on a cash which is nice and playing the odd tourneys here and there is definitely better for me than you grinders out there.

Respect for maintaining your standards for days on end. 3 days going on 4 was a day too much for this guy.
19  Poker Forums / Diaries and Blogs / Re: Legal drug dealer in Vegas!! on: November 21, 2014, 10:30:29 PM
Wednesday I worked like a Trojan at work. 8am until 7pm before heading home for my local Wednesday night indoor football game.

I sorted work for Thursday day 2 and even booked a locum for Day 3 Friday.

Blind levels for Day 2 onwards would be extended to 90mins and I was just going to make sure I made Day 3.

I was at DTD nice and early fully refreshed after a better nights kip. The new boiler made my wake up shower a heavenly experience and the Mrs even wished me luck as I left for Day 2.

With only 6 levels to be played although below average stack I knew I could be patient.

To be fair it was probably my best day of short stacked poker I have ever played. I had been chatting to the fellow Brits on the table and I made sure the headphones stayed in my bag.

I'm a amateur poker player who's edge is reading people rather than complex plays or 3/4/5 betting and floating flops etc...

I can't read people if they're not speaking to me so I tried to be more friendly. I decided to show a few hands when I picked up pots which was rare. If I was short stacked at the end of the day I needed as much fold equity as possible if I had to shove all in.

With blinds approaching 1.2/2.4k a400 I was as low as 23k. I never got a run of cards and got raised off flops when I missed. I had made a great lay down with KK against A10 on a A10x flop and folded a bottom set of 6's to a possible straight and flush draw against 2 opponents.

I had already been criticised for going all in on pre and post flops but I had ignored the jibes. I had only needed one caller earlier to double my short stack. With the set of 6 my cards were red whilst the board was black. The flop action and call meant I could've tripled up but against both a flush and straight draw between the 2 bigger stacks it was a risk I just didn't want to take.

They both went all in on the turn (1st player had top 2 pair, 2nd had the flush draw). So although I wasn't up against a straight draw the board pairing (apart from the case 6) or a flush card would've beaten me and the river did bring the 3rd spade.

I've made the right play in tournaments before and got knocked out so I wanted a bigger edge to progress to day 3.

I won a few all ins pre to increase my stack slightly before another Spaniard made a stand with 99. I had 1010 which held and I was now half average.

A couple more uncalled all ins on the flop and I was just below average at dinner with 118k with average stack of 137k.

The rush continued after dinner. I managed to catch some bluffs (I must seem a easy target) and was soon up to 260k.

I had been keeping an eye on which tables were breaking and started to get aggro. I was putting the pressure this time and although I lost a few pots I was up over 320k as the table broke.

If having the new table full of monster stacks wasn't bad enough I also had the legend Chris Moorman on my table. He recognised my Essex accent though and he was still gleaming from flopping a Royal Flush and winning himself a cruise!

I only had to survive 2 orbits before the end of the day so bagged up 308k for Day 3.

The tournament director had spoken to me earlier and made me feel very welcome. His handling of the tournament was superb and he said the nicest thing anyone in poker has said to me.

He said new players and amateurs like me are needed for poker to thrive and it's what the WPT encourages. He wished me the best of luck and I thank him for taking the time to find me on Day 3.

Day 3 with 1.5x average stack. 8 to cash and turn the £330 satellite seat to a min 6k cash.

Where did it all go wrong?
20  Poker Forums / Diaries and Blogs / Re: Legal drug dealer in Vegas!! on: November 21, 2014, 09:54:58 PM
I was playing solid poker. The low blinds and 60min levels meant I could really make sure the boxes were ticked for each hand I played.

I folded small pairs in early position and even gave the suited connectors and 2 gappers a wide birth. As long as I didn't get moved from the table I wanted to play ABC and take a few blinds later on if I went card dead.

I was dealt 22 on the button and called the bb re-raise. I decided I wasn't playing small pairs early in this tournament structure as I've wasted so many chips this year with failed sets but this guy was the person the Russian had rivered a straight to early. I knew if a 2 came I would get all his chips so I called the re-raise.

Being the WPT (and with Mike Sexton) on the adjoining table I was playing his commentary in my head to pass the time.

"Bingo, Bango.... There's a 2 on the flop"

I called the C-bet and check raised the turn bet all in. Our plucky Spaniard called with QQ and he was out and I was up to 105k.

I then made small errors reading people calling hope to catch bluffs when they had it.

I then lost a all in pre against a small stack who had QQ when I held AK. Unlike my online competitors I was gracious and took the hit.

I was up and down like a yo-yo and dropped to below 40k. I then had a word with myself and told myself 'GET A GRIP'

'IT's a FRIGGIN 5 DAY TOURNAMENT, stop trying to win it on day 1'.

I recovered to 58k which was just below average stack so off home I drove giving me a day to organise cover for Day 2.
21  Poker Forums / Diaries and Blogs / Re: Legal drug dealer in Vegas!! on: November 21, 2014, 09:39:23 PM
There were only 2 choices of day 1's to play and I had to sort work quick. The boiler was still being fixed so I couldn't rely on the Mrs to cover the Pharmacy.

She took the news quite well this time though as it helps she used to watch the WPT on challenge TV in the day.

"Seats worth 3k"

"1m is gtd".

She wasn't impressed.

Her motto has always been though that satellite seats mean jack unless you then cash in the tournament. I put enough pressure on myself without her adding to it!

The best option was to play the first day by late reg'ing once my afternoon pharmacist had arrived. I would figure days 2,3,4 & 5 later as I had no idea how the tournament would play out. I've only ever played a max 3 day event.

Obviously I didn't tell the wife how long the comp was for!

So with a zipped up hoodie over my smart work clothes (took the tie off) I arrived before the end of level 2 after a 8am work shift and 2hr drive.

I was pretty shattered though as the satellite had finished less than 12hrs ago and who can sleep when you've just won a seat into the most expensive tournament you've ever had the opportunity to enter? Thinking about work and the Mrs meant I got no where near enough beauty sleep but what's sleep to a poker player anyway?

I was amused at the poker table by my first experience with a proper Russian tycoon.

He was viewing some bond charts on his iPad and kept taking calls on his phone. He had a high roller complimentary slip for drinks and I heard him say he min cashed in the high roller event.

With the bb only 150 his raises ranged from 1200-2500 and we never saw flops. His play was annoying the other players but I enjoyed them trying to figure out his play. It was obvious we were all waiting for a big hand to play against him but some players were getting impatient.

One guy flat called with a big pair against him and then nearly flipped when he went all in on the river to be shown a rivered straight!!

A few hands later he bluffed the 2 big stacks with another all in on the river. This time they both folded and he showed 6 high.

He kept winking at me and was a really bubbly (chunky) Russian. It didn't affect me so I enjoyed the change of table dynamics.

At dinner break I had nursed the 30k starting stack to a healthy 69k with average only 47k. Unfortunately the Russian got knocked out just after dinner and with it so my luck also took a downswing.
22  Poker Forums / Diaries and Blogs / Re: Legal drug dealer in Vegas!! on: November 21, 2014, 09:08:16 PM
Well what a week that was!

Been so busy still with work (staff leaving, more NHS changes etc...) I've been watching/reading about the euphoria generated by Dusk till Dawn hosting the WPT.

I've practically been hibernating away from online and live play and have even stopped attending my local mixed game. The WPT in the UK though, I've got to give this ago.


To be fair, I wasn't travelling the 2hrs to play the 125 warm up so gave that a shot online.

I had kept an eye on chip stacks from the previous nights so I only wanted to travel if I could take forward a big stack. After some solid play a very healthy stack is what I had but I only wanted a monster!

With less players online then would play live I decided to get aggro. Long story short with only 2 levels left a fellow big stack called my all-in preflop with AK against my 1010 and I lost the race on the flop which would've given me my wish.

I had got the bug back though so thought I'd give the 1m gtd 500 a shot.

A sick wife and the home boiler needing replacing meant I couldn't attend the great value tournament.

I watched on in envy and was tempted to give the Saturday turbo a go but some how I got ropped into getting my girls a haircut with a X-factor night at home.

Young family eh!!


I thought that would be it for the year as the next few weeks will be mad at work. Patients start ordering double prescriptions early and the winter bugs mean my pharmacy will be busy.

I then noticed the 10 seat gtd satellite on DTD online and decided to play at the last minute.

For the majority I played super tight as I was completing spreadsheets in the office. The wife didn't know and I kept minimising the screen every time she came to print off her work!!!

Yes I got a little lucky twice (but who doesn't when you admit it). There are times when below average chips you have to go all in AK and I faded KK on both occasions. It's just a shame that players try and use the chat box to abuse you. I never do/did anything of the sort when it happened to me last week.

I would dare anyone to berate me in person rather than being a coward online. I soon found the block chat icon then actually enjoyed watching said player bubble a seat later as I joined 15 players through to WPTUK 3k main event.

Now I just needed to explain my time away from work/family to the wife.
23  Poker Forums / Diaries and Blogs / Re: Legal drug dealer in Vegas!! on: October 12, 2014, 11:18:40 PM

Welcome back, now keep this Diary going, you write so well.

Thank you. Quiet the compliment from you Sir.

I will try. Poker has had to take a back seat for now but hopefully will have more time to play/write leading up to Christmas.
24  Poker Forums / Diaries and Blogs / Re: Legal drug dealer in Vegas!! on: October 12, 2014, 11:14:22 PM
Was nice to see you in Blackpool, even if you were in disguise.



Yes. The disguise being a Texas tournament or clean shaven?

What can I say? There just isn't the live mixed game scene in Barnie but the beard is back!
25  Poker Forums / Diaries and Blogs / Re: Legal drug dealer in Vegas!! on: October 09, 2014, 08:16:22 PM
Cheers Tal

Vegas was great to get the need, the want to play poker out of my system.

Now I play the odd satellite or rare medium £ main event. Even dealers choice cash games have taken a back seat!

London suited me as I spent the evening with family before getting the last train back ooop North!!

Looking forward to focusing on the odd tournies with good structure and hopefully can turn that early monster stack into a final table cash!
26  Poker Forums / Diaries and Blogs / Re: Legal drug dealer in Vegas!! on: October 09, 2014, 07:19:00 PM
I need to post this as part of the hand made the pokerstars blog for the current London UKIPT.

After delays at registration desk I buy in half way through level 2 of London UKIPT day 1a.

Last hand before break I flat call on the button after a UTG raise of 2.5bb.  Cut off who I haven't seen play a hand at all calls so I decide to call with my garbage 23off.

Cannot raise here especially on Jack Cody's bb!!

He comes along and we see a flop of 10 2 8 with 2 spades.

UTG continues and the tight player calls. I call on the button and Jake calls in the bb.

Turn is a off suit 4 and Jake checks. Initial raiser bets again and tight guy calls again.

A slight pause and I call as does Jake.

River brings the 6 of spades and Jake leads with a pot size bet. Initial raiser and tight guy fold. I pause then relive a article I read on the train up in my head on trying to get him to fold his steal attempt at the rivered flush card or to make him fold a non Ace flush.

A raise from me can only mean the nuts to Jake.

I take my time then reraise 1.5 times his bet.

I stare at the board with the break announced as he goes into tank.

He's saying this would be a massive call and I can feel his glare at me whilst my gaze never leaves the 5 cards on the felt. I wish I had worn a tighter top to the neck as I can feel the fast pulse in my neck as I try to stay calm and focused without showing weakness. 

Eventually he folds and I shake his hand telling him he's a great guy. He says he knows I had him best but I do decide to show the bluff and he tells me he laid down the J high flush.

This is why I love the rare occasions I can play against the pros who would make that lay down. I've not shown a hand so I could've had it but it was a great feeling to know my scenario worked.

I also knew that if Jake had taken the pot with the building stack he would've run over the table and these were all the thoughts I had through my head as I was deciding whether I could take the pot away from him.

I decided to show the bluff because in Texas especially early in a tournament I'm usually a tight nut player so I hoped showing the bluff would get me called or played back at later when I would have the goods.

Unfortunately after knocking another player out and raising the tight guy out of a big pot I busted with a cooler of a hand.

Raising with 10d8d in middle position against the fellow big stack in the bb we see a 10 10 4 flop. I continue betting and the bb calls. The turned 9 gives him a boat to his pocket 99's and the river blank meant my river reraise all in was insta-called for a monster stack in level 3.

I've a long way to go to get the balance right that's needed for tournament play but I was made up today to get mentioned by Jake Cody on his twitter account.
27  Poker Forums / Diaries and Blogs / Re: Legal drug dealer in Vegas!! on: August 21, 2014, 11:09:52 PM
I promise I'll finish the Vegas diary but you know work/family etc... But I've got time sat at the poker table to type this!!!!

Simon Trumper Bounty.

So in only my 3rd tournament after Vegas I decide to enter the local Thursday night tourney in Liverpool dubbed the Simon Trumper GPS Bounty Night.

I don't play weekday tournaments due to early starts in work the next day but as I was planning on picking the Mrs up from the airport in the early hours this was a possible quick way of trying to win a bounty and not being late to pick her up. 64 entries and my usual late reg meant I'd be lucky to get to play him. Although I sat at a different table I noticed there were single seats free at some tables so I was hopeful he'd be moved around then join my table. Move he did but to my immediate left!!

He didn't know that I hadn't played many hands when he sat down so I just called and called again hoping he would play and I could hit a flop. He'd got way a few hands earlier when I turned trips and heads up I shoved on the river blank. He didn't call with his K on the king high flop and said I should have let him raise.

So I started the banter that he was the only reason I played and how I had a plane to meet!!!

I tested the waters with a bluff 2 hands later. Simon must've thought I was reckless but the others I believe thought I was still tight.

I still had to figure out how with Simon on my left I would get all his chips in the middle. So I decided my best option was in the blinds out if position.

My first time in the bb Simon flat calls utg and I'd already decided to make a play with any connectors or 2 gappers.

5 players called him incl the sb. J9 suited would do me fine and the fact they were spades made the hand look so much prettier. I raised just short of the pot and Simon called. Even better was everyone slowly folded around and then the banter started. I repeated I had to meet the Mrs and kept calm as the dealer revealed a orgasmic 8 10s for the flopped straight and redraw to the flush and straight flush.

I nonchalantly bet 2/3 the pot with 1k chips and after looking me up and down Simon raised with some black 5k chips.

With a slight delay I shoved hopefully representing a over pair which I wasn't going to fold. Ever the professional he checked his cards and the flop then called the overbet confidently turning over pocket 8's for a flopped set. A sick cooler of a hand and he was so gracious on the blank turn and river. Point is though 6 handed I wouldn't have got his chips as flat calling on the bb I would have been the only player in the hand with him come the river and he's too good a player to lose with bottom set on that board.

The table was stopped for the obligatory photo and hand shake with the bounty bar (which had gone way over my head when he sat down with it!!).

Simon you made my night and this small role play was the highlight of my year. It wasn't just the final hand but the build up to it and I couldn't have written the script better myself!
28  Poker Forums / Diaries and Blogs / Re: Legal drug dealer in Vegas!! on: June 25, 2014, 01:49:19 AM
A poor call by me on river. Raised min pre-flop with AA69 hoping short stacked Greenstein would re-raise all in. Another short stacked called as did the button. Greenstein folded. Flop was 35Q and it was checked around. Turn was the 8 and I bet small and got one caller. River 10. I checked and short stacked went all in for 2000.

I knew my A6 was trash but I felt my AA would be good for half.

He had the nut low and rivered 10's & 3's.

A few hands later Barry goes all in for 575 on the cutoff with blinds 100/200.

I have A37J and re-raise as I want to be heads up with him.

Bb calls!!!!

Flop is JQ7 with one spade. I go all in and bb calls with AKQ2 and two spades.

Cards on their backs Barry also has a Q with his low cards. Need to dodge the bb pairing up to at least win a side pot and still might get it all.

I  didn't expect to get called by the bb and hoped he would table AAxx.

Turn was a excruciating Q of spades and I need to fill out with 2 remaining Jacks or 2 remaining 7's.

River was a spade giving the bb the pot with the nut flush taking Greenetein and me out.

I was chugging away nicely reaching nearly 9k but the error call on river earlier damaged my stack so I had no moves left.

I guess I was in bad shape on the flop with bottom 2 but I didn't dodge the outs.

Heading off back to hotel and maybe see if I can spin up another entry fee.

Tomorrow is the 8-game which is what I delayed my stay to play in.
29  Poker Forums / Diaries and Blogs / Re: Legal drug dealer in Vegas!! on: June 25, 2014, 12:43:58 AM
Break end of level 4 and on a steady 8400
30  Poker Forums / Diaries and Blogs / Re: Legal drug dealer in Vegas!! on: June 25, 2014, 12:14:46 AM
A few hand later I get re-raised by sb and guy that 3/4 me. I decide to go all in with AA47 against his AAKQ.

Flop was a floptastic 568 and a 4 and 7 river meant a double up and back up to 6150
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