Degenerate Diaries: The Chronicles Pt. 2

[cambridgealex]

Loved the bit about the slow rolls.

I miss gala a bit for those "only in gala" moments.

[zerofive]

[ ] Did well in the heads up comp today.
[ ] Made it to round 2.

I thought I was being owned, but when I 3bet folded KQ and KJ to an overbet shove, I was shown AA both times. Called down three streets on 5 5 5 Q 9 with 77 and villain obv flopped quads with 54. Doubled up to 3.8k (3k starting stack) with AT all-in preflop against A7, then gave them all immediately back with 77 on T 3 6 7 where villain had turned a street. River bricks of course. Stuck my last 3BB with 93o and villain had found another pair and holds.

Looking forward to the PLO although expecting to last about as long.

[JK]

Flip for stacks if we get drawn together? xD

[zerofive]

Flip for stacks if we get drawn together? xD

In. Swap 10%?

[JK]

Flip for stacks if we get drawn together? xD

In. Swap 10%?

Done. 25% if we do actually flip? xD

[zerofive]

I played the most satisfying hand of poker of my career so far, last night. I have a lot of history with the guy, he is a huge casino fish and an all round unpleasant person. He raises pre to £4 at .50/1, four callers, I peel from the big blind with the "Jamie Kay" . Flop is , I check it to unpleasantfish123, and he just moves it all-in for £36. When it's folded round to me, I do what I think we call in the business a spite call. turn, river. I announce "one pair." He confirms that it is good and storms off from the table. I don't normally get a kick from pissing people off, but that felt great. I probably can't be much of a dog against his range there actually, but accepting that would take all the fun out of it for me, and I already knocked myself down a peg with the way I played AQ against a friend and fellow spewtard.

I open UTG to £4, one caller to my immediate left whom I perceive to be the least threatening poker player in the world ever, then villain in the hand makes it £17 on the button. I assure you he's doing this with a huge range of hands; one open and one call is a "great squeeze spot" for our villain. Here's where I should clearly 4bet and call it off, but I flat with the intention to call down on most boards. Pacifist folds. Flop is , and I check call the £17 cbet. The turn is the brickiest of all bricks, the . I check and he tank shoves £63. From my reads on the villain he has AK/sets/air here, but he would probably bet bigger with air on the flop, so I level myself into believing he probably had a flush draw or straight draw and I think he believes he can move me off my hand because it's so under repped. So I call and he has . Obviously. At first, I thought he'd tabled the , which would have been a nice chop, and not as uncommon in Nottingham Gala as you might think...

Won exactly £100 for the night, after peaking at £170~. The above hand was the only hand that required any brain work, so I guess you guys (that's my audience of about three readers) will tell me if I played well over the course of the night or not.

August crush thus far: £1,194 (£18.44/hr)

[zerofive]

Flip for stacks if we get drawn together? xD

In. Swap 10%?

Done. 25% if we do actually flip? xD

Keep in mind an inside wrap with one mucked card is not a flip versus top set...

[JK]

Flip for stacks if we get drawn together? xD

In. Swap 10%?

Done. 25% if we do actually flip? xD

Keep in mind an inside wrap with one mucked card is not a flip versus top set...

Ill try sir

[cambridgealex]

Wp this month Sean, more than 60 hours next month maybe?

You going to be playing alea much? I have a dream, I'll hope you'll be in.

[zerofive]

Wp this month Sean, more than 60 hours next month maybe?

You going to be playing alea much? I have a dream, I'll hope you'll be in.

I still have three days of poker left in August to do the lot simply trying to get the hours in! I am a little disappointed, I was hoping to get 100+ this month, but in my defence the games have been dying pretty early at Gala recently.

If there's money to be won at Alea, then of course I will be there. It's spacious, the £5 chips aren't made entirely of plastic, there's no underlying threat of violence. The smell of the place when I first walk in is always a haunting reminder of the night I did my absolute brains on roulette, but hopefully "new Sean" won't let that give me nightmares. Always in for dreams, though. Details?

[JK]

Wp this month Sean, more than 60 hours next month maybe?

You going to be playing alea much? I have a dream, I'll hope you'll be in.

Blog about this Alea dream imo

[zerofive]

I blew the dust off my Nintendo 64 today, and spent a good eight hours completing Blast Corps. I miss the days of 64-bit gaming.

My evening of poker was pretty dull. Nothing of any interest occurred. Levels of excitement almost overcame inertia when I flopped a gutshot flush draw on with and turned the nuts, but after getting in 300bb each, we chopped it up on a non-spade river. Somehow accumulated £187 over the course of the night though, so there will be no complaints.

I'm heading out to get a carvery breakfast before I pass out for the morning. This will require a double session at the gym on Tuesday (or Monday when I busto the PLO comp in level one.)

August crush thus far: £1,381

Peace.

[zerofive]

After I turned broadway in the second hand of the night and doubled up, the topic of age came up in conversation. Allow me to best explain the segue: "must be nice" -> "do you want to crossbook?" -> "we can't play games like that, we all have children/a mortgage apart from Sean" -> "Sean doesn't have kids? How old is he?" For those of you who don't know, I'm 23. Barely legal. However, after getting the table in question to guess how old I was, it was revealed that my perceived age range is between 29 and 36. That's a deviation of around 55%. What in the world is going on?

Even though I'm keeping one mind's eye open for signs of being middle-aged, a lot was revealed in my morning grocery shop. First of all, I woke up and immediately thought about Yorkshire tea. But that's not uncommon, right? Not many people on this forum are morning people, we need caffeine to function, it's only a natural human response to get excited about the consumption of a necessity. Then I brought in my mail, clutching my back as I bent over to pick it up. My bank are offering me several pension plans. That's fine. The idea is to start planning for being old, before you're old, no need to worry... So I'm getting in my car to drive down to Tesco, and it suddenly occurred to me that I can't get in or out of a chair without groaning. Then I popped a CD in the stereo (because I can't keep up with kids and their mp3 players - hey, at least I didn't slip in a cassette. Or a vinyl.) and before I know it, I'm cranking up the volume and singing along to Eric Clapton. And reminiscing about how inexpensive petrol was "in my day." I actually said "oooh," when I found a banana loaf in the bargain bin. All of a sudden, 36 doesn't seem like such a ludicrous guess. As soon as a got home, I took a look in the mirror, and apparently my hairline was so frightened by the middle aged monster that stood before it that it backpedaled half way up my scalp. Oh well, at least now I have that forehead that I was so lacking as a teenager.

Anyway, I'm off to pour myself a glass of prune juice, soak my feet in some warm salty water, and fall asleep drooling in front on the television, before I drop my grandchildren off at football practice and my wife off at aerobics. Old money in spandex. Just thinking about it makes me wish I could still get an erection. Peace.

[cambridgealex]

After I turned broadway in the second hand of the night and doubled up, the topic of age came up in conversation. Allow me to best explain the segue: "must be nice" -> "do you want to crossbook?" -> "we can't play games like that, we all have children/a mortgage apart from Sean" -> "Sean doesn't have kids? How old is he?" For those of you who don't know, I'm 23. Barely legal. However, after getting the table in question to guess how old I was, it was revealed that my perceived age range is between 29 and 36. That's a deviation of around 55%. What in the world is going on?

Even though I'm keeping one mind's eye open for signs of being middle-aged, a lot was revealed in my morning grocery shop. First of all, I woke up and immediately thought about Yorkshire tea. But that's not uncommon, right? Not many people on this forum are morning people, we need caffeine to function, it's only a natural human response to get excited about the consumption of a necessity. Then I brought in my mail, clutching my back as I bent over to pick it up. My bank are offering me several pension plans. That's fine. The idea is to start planning for being old, before you're old, no need to worry... So I'm getting in my car to drive down to Tesco, and it suddenly occurred to me that I can't get in or out of a chair without groaning. Then I popped a CD in the stereo (because I can't keep up with kids and their mp3 players - hey, at least I didn't slip in a cassette. Or a vinyl.) and before I know it, I'm cranking up the volume and singing along to Eric Clapton. And reminiscing about how inexpensive petrol was "in my day." I actually said "oooh," when I found a banana loaf in the bargain bin. All of a sudden, 36 doesn't seem like such a ludicrous guess. As soon as a got home, I took a look in the mirror, and apparently my hairline was so frightened by the middle aged monster that stood before it that it backpedaled half way up my scalp. Oh well, at least now I have that forehead that I was so lacking as a teenager.

Anyway, I'm off to pour myself a glass of prune juice, soak my feet in some warm salty water, and fall asleep drooling in front on the television, before I drop my grandchildren off at football practice and my wife off at aerobics. Old money in spandex. Just thinking about it makes me wish I could still get an erection. Peace.

Brilliant. Stop hacking peoples accounts Tikay!

[millidonk]

I actually said "oooh," when I found a banana loaf in the bargain bin.

Amazing stuff