Alone in the Dark - The poker musings of an also ran

[Longy]

Is it just me, or do all poker players go from thinking "I'm crap" to "I'm brilliant" and back again several times a week?

All the time, it is very hard to not be results orientated.

[cambridgealex]

Good luck Tom, looking forward to a comedy TR when you return!

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Good luck Tom, looking forward to a comedy TR when you return!

I try not to do comedy, but it's Luton ffs!

[Laxie]

Win the lot and the tourney too!

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M1 closed both directions @ J 15.

I think I'm gonna be late.....

[smashedagain]

This question doesn't apply to Jason Herbert obv...

hey play poker twice a month so to get a bit annoyed if i dont get a flag on my hendonmob every month. failed april. sigh

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So here are the best bits from Luton. (Bear with me, I’m struggling).


When I arrived I shook hand with Vinny and was pleased to note that he has a proper handshake. None of that ‘rubber glove full of snot’ feel with Vin. It’s like giving your hand to a rottweiler, you don’t get it back until he’s finished with it.

For some strange reason, I was hungry so I had the meat-feast pizza.
Actually this turned out to be a mistake. I was going to have the steak pie with mash but was unable to resist the subliminal mental image conjured up by the words “Meat” and “Feast”.

In reality, it looked and tasted like a rag that had been used to rub down a pig with scabies.



The poker was unremarkable. Players were limp calling raises of anything between 700 / 1500 and building 10k pots almost every hand right from the get go.

A typical example would be something like this.

Blinds 25 / 50. Limp – limp – limp – limp – limp – limp – limp - Raise to 900. Call – call – call – call – call – call –call.

Flop. Check – check – check – check – check – check – check.

Turn. Bet 3000 – fold – fold – fold – fold – fold – dwell……. call.

River. Bet 3000 – dwell…….. call. 

Pair of fives beats ace high.

I say that’s unremarkable because it is. That’s how players play deep-stack tournaments these days. I’m too scared to get involved. Like a solder who has found safety at the bottom of a shell hole during the battle of the Somme, I just sit there, gasping and wincing while the battle rages around me.

I did play one hand well, but it was an accident.

Blinds are 200 / 400. Everyone limps around to me in the sb. I have J8 of clubs and decide that I will make up the blind and hope to see my first flop. The trouble was, I inadvertently include a 1000 chip, and instead of calling, I make it 1200 to go.

The table is stunned into silence. It’s like we were in a Sky plus movie and someone had pressed the pause button. Then there is a flurry of cards going into the muck so fast that it sounds like a flock of pigeons taking off.

That was the high point of my game. It was all down hill from that point.

I left around 10:pm without troubling the scorers.

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I didn't know it was a bank holiday again today ffs!!

Is there anything good on anywhere?

[RED-DOG]

Just before I went to Luton yesterday, I had a little fling on Stars.

[ ] It went well.

SBR = $135.47

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Disaster:

Tilt re shove my AK into serial raise lag's KK....

SBR = $57.63

[Dewi_cool]

Disaster:

Tilt re shove my AK into serial raise lag's KK....

SBR = $57.63

Reshoving with A high tut tut, you wait till Jason sees this.

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Disaster:

Tilt re shove my AK into serial raise lag's KK....

SBR = $57.63

Reshoving with A high tut tut, you wait till Jason sees this.

It's OK. He isn't in the clique.

[marcro]

To overcome the variance associated with this game you will need to put in significant volume, say >1,500 hands/day. 

[smashedagain]

pmsl. love this thread but am stuck for words. guess i think your bet sizing may have been wrong with the squeeze in the sb... and them sort of moves making out you had put the extra chips to raise by accident whislt sitting with a premium hand just get lol'd at these days.

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To overcome the variance associated with this game you will need to put in significant volume, say >1,500 hands/day. 

Sigh....  Now he tells me.