Just had a pretty awesome weekend. Had a bit of everything.
Don't play many tournaments in the UK these days, but when I found out that GPS was on and Southend was only an hour away from me and that a few good lads were going I thought why not? Drove down on Thursday didn't pack a bag as thought I'd just drive home that evening.
Fast forward to Saturday and I'm still there wearing the same clothes.
Busted the comp twice on Thursday in pretty hasty fashion. Got a cash game set up, watching liverpool game and started drinking. A few hours later we decided to see what Southend nightlife had to offer and ended up in a pretty decent club ("Talk"?) and got the most ballin table right on the dancefloor. All we had to spend between 6 of us was £300! In Vegas that'd be like $10k
Everything in Southend was pretty cheap actually, even a parking fine was only £25!
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So ended up getting a hotel and doing it all again on Friday night. This time the cash game and the drinking got heavily merged with one another, and ended up playing a pretty huge game lol. At about 1am we noticed that the casino had its own D J and dance floor and it was actually buzzing there lol so we cash outed and danced the night away there.
Then someone made a big claim about his blackjack tekkers and next thing he's convinced us to do £200 a man syndicate! Which doubled to £400 a man before we'd even played the first hand!
It went pretty horrif and one of the boys was doing £1k red/black spins to try and get out of it. We ended up with it all in one hand, doubling, splitting, doubling, splitting etc, all riding on this. The dealer busts and we all go berserk! Breaking even on table games is a BIG win in my book!
Saturday morning came and I felt horrific, and I was still in the same clothes as thursday ffs. I thought I'd drive home, get cleaned up and sweat the football at mine then bring Victoria back with me for one final night in Southend lol.
We had an awesome meal together, played cash and drank some more, but never made it out - everyone was just too knackered by this point.
Sunday I went to White Hart Lane to see Spurs vs Bournemouth. I had Kane, Lloris and Rose in the Fantasy Draft with the boys but needed a big performance to stand a chance...
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Kane scores in 44 seconds, then scores again, then sets up the 3rd! Lloris and Rose keep clean sheets and I scoop the draft for my 4th outright win in the last 8 gameweeks! Booooooom!
One of the best weekends in a while - bit of poker, bit of gambling, bit of partying, good food, great company and watching my draft players get me a win live in the flesh was the icing on the cake!
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