Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[tikay]

Many congratulations to Tighty on winning tonight's £50 + £50 at Luton, a long overdue, & thoroughly deserved victory for one of the most dignified guys in poker.

I've rarely seen a guy take so many beats, so well, over so long, & still retain his spirit & optimism.

Tonight, it all reversed, & he was a little fortunate once or twice to get the right side of Big-On-Big, including his K-K which Setted on the Flop against slow-played Aces.

It was a business as usual Final Table, & included Brian Sadler, MDD Lynch, John Vacc, Gershun, & At-It-Bradley, who had been dominant all evening.

After John Vacc busted in 4th, to give, for the first time, a small chip lead (120k of 320k in play) to Gershun, At-It proposed an equal chop, about £900 each, but Gershun was not having any of that, & so the Law of Turned-Down Deals came into play, & Gershun immediately busted when running A-Q into Aces.

At-It & Tighty chopped it there & then, with victory being credited to Tighty without argument by a most sporting Bradders.

Well done Rich, may the Form last a-while now.

The term "tight player" has almost become derogatory these days, but Richard can out-think most at the Table, reads the game well, dances a little when the need arises, & if he could perhaps turn the Tight-Dial down half-a-nadge, has the game to win a big Comp.

Delighted for him.

Ding ran well again, deep-stacked all the way, but the wheels came off near the end.

[tikay]

There was a Stewards Inquiry after tonight's Luton Comp, on the grounds that Lady Luck had got Tighty confused with me. It's normally Tighty that gets hit by the oddest & biggest of suckouts, but tonight it was my turn, & in the space of 30 wham-bam minutes, I exited.

As a trio of succcessive "beats" go, in half-an hour, this was Lady Luck at her imperious best.

First up, on the third hand of Level One, I ran K-K into J-J, (80% - 20%), & the Jacks setted on the rver.

I exited when the Button levied Limpers Tax & I looked him up from the SB with A-K, he had 8-5. (64%-36% - barely a bad-beat really). The Board of 4-4-6-J just had to end with a Seven, & duly did.

Sandwiced between those two was a real purler, in which I was only 2% to win, but 95% to chop - .....


 

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The Board came not 4, but 5 Hearts!

So, what's that - £1.50in the tin? Fair enough.

[Rookie (Rodney)]

SB with A-K, he had 8-5. (64%-36% - not a bad-beat really).

FYP

[tikay]

SB with A-K, he had 8-5. (64%-36% - not a bad-beat really).

FYP

Agreed.

[the sicilian]

Ahem ! do i need to mention the 7 5 O/S bluff ... that went horribly wrong

[tikay]

Ahem ! do i need to mention the 7 5 O/S bluff ... that went horribly wrong

Semi-Bluff, please.

I'm entitled to think my hand is good on a Board of K-Q-J-J-3, & so I bet out. Three times. And got called by a Rag-Ace.

Intolerable.

[lazaroonie]

Even for those, like myself, who have grown tired of the antics Premiership Footballers get up to, & so have abandoned spectating, it's still a treat to look forward to big match reports in The Times by Martin Samuel, their supremely gifted football correspondent.

Now to the hapless Lee Naylor, the unfortunate Celtic defender charged with marking Ronaldo.

He decided the best policy was to let Ronaldo know of his presence early and may have regretted it as his opponent made it his aim in the next ten minutes to torment him as often as possible, feet flying in all directions and then, as often as not, the ball laid off squarely, simply, the footballer’s equivalent of a great sleight of hand card trick. One minute, Naylor would be staring intently at the ball in front of him, the next Ronaldo would have pulled off some act of distraction and it would have moved, imperceptibly, to a team-mate.

Football writing as you've never seen it.

nothing special about that. I have seen Lee Naylor make players from St Mirren/Dunfermline/ etc etc look like ronaldo...

[tikay]

Even for those, like myself, who have grown tired of the antics Premiership Footballers get up to, & so have abandoned spectating, it's still a treat to look forward to big match reports in The Times by Martin Samuel, their supremely gifted football correspondent.

Now to the hapless Lee Naylor, the unfortunate Celtic defender charged with marking Ronaldo.

He decided the best policy was to let Ronaldo know of his presence early and may have regretted it as his opponent made it his aim in the next ten minutes to torment him as often as possible, feet flying in all directions and then, as often as not, the ball laid off squarely, simply, the footballer’s equivalent of a great sleight of hand card trick. One minute, Naylor would be staring intently at the ball in front of him, the next Ronaldo would have pulled off some act of distraction and it would have moved, imperceptibly, to a team-mate.

Football writing as you've never seen it.

nothing special about that. I have seen Lee Naylor make players from St Mirren/Dunfermline/ etc etc look like ronaldo...

Good grief. No wonder you support Rangers, then.

[Rod Paradise]

Even for those, like myself, who have grown tired of the antics Premiership Footballers get up to, & so have abandoned spectating, it's still a treat to look forward to big match reports in The Times by Martin Samuel, their supremely gifted football correspondent.

Now to the hapless Lee Naylor, the unfortunate Celtic defender charged with marking Ronaldo.

He decided the best policy was to let Ronaldo know of his presence early and may have regretted it as his opponent made it his aim in the next ten minutes to torment him as often as possible, feet flying in all directions and then, as often as not, the ball laid off squarely, simply, the footballer’s equivalent of a great sleight of hand card trick. One minute, Naylor would be staring intently at the ball in front of him, the next Ronaldo would have pulled off some act of distraction and it would have moved, imperceptibly, to a team-mate.

Football writing as you've never seen it.

nothing special about that. I have seen Lee Naylor make players from St Mirren/Dunfermline/ etc etc look like ronaldo...

Good grief. No wonder you support Rangers, then.

And Tikay gets Fergus off the top of the hit-list

[Dingdell]

Ahem ! do i need to mention the 7 5 O/S bluff ... that went horribly wrong

Yes you do.    Rag ace my uncles called Bob. It was the call of the night imho.

[tikay]

"Work expands to fill the time available".

I've done absolutely zilch today, a wasted day really, which is daft, all things considered.

After busting out of last night's comp somewhat hilariously, I could not quite convince myself to leave the Cardroom & go & get caught up on stuff Online - my PM backlog is growing daily, & I just can't seem to get to it. Poor self-discipline really.

I played Cash from 10pm until 5am, sheesh, & swung £500 up to £1,300, down to £175, & back up to £900, & was pleased to get out ahead in the end. We had a player who would re-raise on the end, in 6 Card Hi-Lo, holding a bad straight & no Low on a flushing, straigting, paired, & lowing board. He was awesomely bad, but we sort of tripped over each other trying to get our share of the easy money. But I then got "must-moved" & I sort of "lost" him. Luckily, Chandra was "busy", so that compensated.

So, in bed at 5am, up a 1pm, & straight to "work", clearing e-Mails. I sent about 40, mostly nonsense, "light" stuff, but the first one I opened plunged me into a gloomy mood, which I hate when I first get up. I sulked for an hour, and then, out of a cloudy rainy storm-filled sky, a real beauty of an e-Mail arrived, which had me dancing on air, it was truly wonderful news. Mood swings FTW.

The PM box has been busy today - you can't imagine what a hornets nest that Brian Wilson thread has stirred up. I sit in the middle, don't do anyone, but somehow, I seem to get all the "middle-man" grief about scammers, folks telling me who's done who. Marvellous.

[tikay]

Ahem ! do i need to mention the 7 5 O/S bluff ... that went horribly wrong

Yes you do.    Rag ace my uncles called Bob. It was the call of the night imho.

A shocking Call. You were only beating a bluff.

[Dingdell]

Ahem ! do i need to mention the 7 5 O/S bluff ... that went horribly wrong

Yes you do.    Rag ace my uncles called Bob. It was the call of the night imho.

A shocking Call. You were only beating a bluff.

Exactly. I was playing the player and observing that massive tell you had....

[tikay]

Tonight, for the 2nd time in 3 nights, I'm doing Play The Presenter.

I enjoy it immensely, & was lucky to be part of the Team that trialled it, but although I can play B & M poker for 14 hours straight without blinking, I find Online play quite tiring & stressful. It's not just playing, it's trying to chat with everyone at the same time, as well as play poker, with the restrictions that chat-box typing bring. I do tend to talk a lot at B & M poker, but Online it's much harder. I'd not miss it for the world though, meeting new folks, & genuine questions from folks, many of whom are just starting out on the poker ladder.

So, at 7pm tonight, I start a 5 hour Online stretch, & I'm all geared up. The 21.30 Tourney is a sort of rest, it plays so different to Cash, & that's like a rest-break really, then afer that, it's back to the Cash until Midnight.

Something different seems to happen to me every day, & I love every single day. I so wish I were a bit younger, but I'm not sure that's do-able.

[tikay]

I'm off to Luton on Friday for their Monthly £250, & DTD on Sunday for their £100 jobbie.

Meanwhile, Thewy rung today, hes off to Dublin to play the Irish Open, & flies straight to Busapest from Dublin next week to play the EPT. If he fails to Final, we may hook up for a chinwag at the DTD 3-2-1 next weekend. I don't think he'll play it though, as he wants to spend some time with Amanda, who will be delivering Thewy Mark 3 very shortly.

Chili called, too, she's heading to Teeside in the morning for the Gala £500, she has been paid in by Virgin. Go girlie.

Teeside, Dubin, Budapest, lucky them, but Luton will have more laughs & less stress than all of those combined, I fancy.

What chance Final Tables in Dublin, Budapest, Teeside & Luton for the three of us? Thewy's the weak link there.