Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[Suited_Jock]

I had this email aswell tikay I thought it was a fake until i've seen now that someone else has received it must be true, so i've just been onto that site and changed my details. Thanks for the heads up.

[kinboshi]

I had this email aswell tikay I thought it was a fake until i've seen now that someone else has received it must be true, so i've just been onto that site and changed my details. Thanks for the heads up.

LOL

[tikay]

I had this email aswell tikay I thought it was a fake until i've seen now that someone else has received it must be true, so i've just been onto that site and changed my details. Thanks for the heads up.

Err...was that wise?

I'm sure I'm being over-cautious, but these things are so dangerous. As I've never had an Account with Halifax, it smelt a bit iffy to me. Please be careful.

[Suited_Jock]

My attempt at humour went unnoticed

[tikay]

My attempt at humour went unnoticed

Only by me, whom it totally whooshed, everyone else got it I think.....neverends.

I'm VERY tired & grumpy today, though luckily, nobody has noticed.

[Bongo]

The big "this is a fraud site" warning that popped up when I clicked the link gave it away for me.

[Suited_Jock]

My attempt at humour went unnoticed

Only by me, whom it totally whooshed, everyone else got it I think.....neverends.

I'm VERY tired & grumpy today, though luckily, nobody has noticed.

I'm actually tired but not grumpy today change in schedule has hit my sleep pattern hard since going back to work

[Jon MW]

I keep on getting loads of those emails - Halifax, Egg and Nationwide mainly - the fact that my filters put them into my spam folder as well as not having an account with them helps give the game away.

[Graham C]

Abbey National do them too, well not the Abbey I'm sure, but we get Abbey fronted ones.

[Shogun112]

I got one from a bank (with whom I don't have an account) that needed me to confirm my security details while at the same time buy 6 cases of viagara, 3 cases of cialis, 3 penis enlargers, while winning eleventy twelve zillion pounds from the Dutch Lottery, while also confirm that I would keep hold of 6 trillion US Dollars from a rather nice lady who used to be married to the govenor of the Ivory Coast, and also agree to 4 Nigerian businessmen convert my £6.50 into £12,000,000 in 2 hours..!!!

Do you think that I should do that?

[tikay]

OK, it's time to try & Update this, I've had so much going off in the last week. I'm suffering from sleeping sickness again, I just can't understand it, but anyway, here's the last week as best as I can recall......

[TheChipPrince]

My attempt at humour went unnoticed

Only by me, whom it totally whooshed, everyone else got it I think.....neverends.

I'm VERY tired & grumpy today, though luckily, nobody has noticed.

Hope this cheers you up...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7179030.stm

[tikay]

Played the lovely little £50 + £50 (one rebuy OR add-on) at Luton last wednesday, & got a dream starting table, with Jeff Buff rampant. It's such a fun comp, it's tough not to enjoy it, win or lose. And I was going for three Tourney Cashes on the Bounce, & just about managed it, salvaging £100 after Finalling & then running into heavy weather.

In Level One - ONE - (we began with 4k chips) I got up to 9k, & Jeff Buff got up to 13k, amazing stuff. But Jeff & I are always gonna butt heads, & I had to Raise it up on his BB with any two. Luckily, I found a hand, & duly made it 300, with 2 limpers already in at 25-50.

Jeff, being the crud he is, immediately says "I'm all-in. Blind". For 13k, sigh. "You really Blind, Jeff?". "Yup" says the jovial American. "OK, I call". For 9k, & we have an 18k Pot, all in Pre, in Level One.

He tables 6-4 - what an idiot!, & I'm positively HUGE with my 7-3. The entire Cardroom was abuzz, "you see those two idiots getting all-in with junk?".....I ran it through a Poker Odds Calculator later, I'm 50%, he's 42%, & we are 8% to chop. The Board came K-K-Q-9-8, chop chop. He runs so damn good.

How do these things happen? Well, I dunno, but they just do, I mused to myself.

A few hours later, in the Final, & in OK shape, I had cause to reflect ruefully on those thoughts.

I am sitting quietly, plenty of chips, doing the passive laddering thing, plenty of shorties around, this is a guaranteed top three, maybe a 4 figure win, very nice. And then, out of a clear blue sky, the bomb dropped.

With Blinds at 800-1,600, & average chips 42,000 - plenty of play here, then - UTG suddenly pushes his entire stack over the line - ALL-IN. Eh? Ah well, such is poker, no big deal. Until I look down & see the beautiful K-K. What a dream coup! CALL I bravely say. He turns over J-8, he has trips on the flop, & houses up with a card to spare, & I'm toast.

How do these things happen?

The J-8 play was as daft as it gets, but no dafter than my 7-3 affair, earlier. The game is great, but we weirdos who play it need certifying sometimes.

Thank the Lord for players like Jeff, me, & J-8 man, without us, how would you guys make a living?

[TightEnd]

Jeff Buff I think is hugely talented

J-8 man less so

tikay, somewhere in the middle!

[bobby1]

7-3!!! sounds like a cash game.