I fkn love Dusk Till Dawn!
Been in London the last two days. Was visiting my cousin who's just had a baby, and spent time with my london mate Steve, Ed Gascoigne and two friends from school let me crash in their house last night. I've recently got back in touch with them and it's been really cool, no idea why we went so long without speaking when we were really close at school. Anyway, they've gone down the path I was going down - they graduated with great degrees from great uni's (think Mark got a first from Oxford in Engineering) and now have good jobs in the city and live in a nice house in Chelsea! They work very long hours but are paid well and seem happy. Interesting to see how I probably would've been living if I'd never discovered poker.
Anyway, I of course took the opportunity to play some cash at the Vic. Figuring I'd get in a big evening session last night, and play allday /evening tonight and get the last train back. I probably played about 5 hours in total. It was so miserable. Not the cards, though I did just fold mostly, but the atmosphere, the games, the people zzzzzzzz I couldn't be bothered. Grinding live cash with dull people in dull games when you're card dead really is a bad way to spend time.
I kept thinking, this is your job, stay longer, you can't have fun all the time. And I did sit it out for a while, but as we got towards 7pm and I knew a good 1/2 at DTD had been planned I left (after sessions of +£13, - £73) and got the train to notts, taxi to DTD (having no car is really annoying) and got sat in a 1/2 game with Mitch and some non-regs.
And what a massive difference it was. Everything is superior, and this isn't knocking the vic, because it's probably the 2nd best place in the country, but I just love it at DTD.
I lost AA<99 aip for £600 pot reasonably early on in the night, and my spirits were 100x higher than when I was stuck £50 in the vic. There was the two key ingredients for a good cash games - banter and action. It was just so much fun.
I ended up doing well in the game too, I won KK vs something allin pre for like 500, and then I won a nice pot with a straight where I bet £150 on the river, and this really nice guy threw in £250 thinking the dealer had said £250, it went as a raise to £300 so I called and won, but gave the guy his £150 back for some good karma.
Mitch gets into a pot with him soon after where money piles in and Mitch smugly whispers to me (thanks for giving him that 150 back) BOOM karma works, and the guy outdraws Mitch and doubles up (so me giving it back cost Mitch 150 extra too
).
And then I get it ALL back with a "cooler" hand as follows:
Multiway pot, he leads a
board with
, I raise to £40 (I have
) he calls. Turn is
, he leads for £160! I shove for £500 ish total effective and he calls and I hold and booked a £1400 win
I believe in Karma now, especially after last month when I took that £100 from the cashier when I maybe should've given it back, and then did £2.5k damage to my car the next day....
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