So here's my weekend at a glance.
Saturday got off to a late start due to a shortage of dealers at Dusk. We got ourselves three simultaneous 1/2 games at around 9.30, and a 2/5 started a little later. I was on the list, but the lineup was basically: stato, Alex, Tim Chung and his mate whose name I always forget, Skalie, and Kurt. Naturally I faded this game! The £1/2 was a lot of fun anyways, only had one key hand which goes as follows.
In the £4 straddle with
. It's been raised to £12 on the button and both the blinds have called, so I peel. We're all playing roughly £500. Flop is
, and the small blind donks for £20, big blind folds, I call and the raiser folds. Heads up to a
turn. The small blind bets £30, I've made it £95 and he's called. I know my raise here is tiny, but his bets are so small it's pretty unlikely for him to have much of anything. He calls and I'm thinking of a card. The river is the
. How did you know? He checks super quick. I give it six seconds and move all-in which is around £380. He tanks for a while and calls. Been a while since I shipped a four figure pot. Towards me, anyway.
Sunday started off well enough. We had a nice £1/2 game, perhaps a bit nitty, but it had only just opened up. Before the game had time to breathe, six players moved to the £2/2 PLO game effectively killing the holdem game. I don't know whether a good reg is meant to stay fast with his sinking game, but I moved to the PLO as well. We agreed on a 4/5/6 game. No problem. Got it all-in on the turn with what I thought was a monster draw, but what actually turned out to be way the best of it, had villain drawing to five outs. Trying to recall the hands, it was roughly this: board was
. I had
Tx 9x 9x
8x and he had the
9x 6x 5x Xx, so while it looks like he has a straight flush draw, he actually only has three kings and two eights left. Unless I'm missing something dead obvious. Not that it matters too much, it's six card madness and I thought I was getting it in on a bit of a gamble if called anyway.
Got it allin again a little later, preflop in 6 cards, which is a bit of a joke. I made it £10, it's been raised to £30 near the button and the small blind has made it £100 playing another £100 behind. I have
so I'm reasonably happy about the situation. Was hoping to have two hands that want to get all in pre in jail, but nope, managed to get scooped by a hand that looks something like Q J 9 6 4 2. Not only that, but the game immediately breaks after that hand as the £5/5 DC opens up. Nobody can sit still!
I move to the £1/1 while I wait for a seat on the rejuvenated £1/2, and win every hand I play totaling about £100 profit. Move to the £1/2 and get it all-in first hand with AQ on Q Q 9 5 for £400 each only to chop it up, then get all in with
on
later against someone who couldn't more obviously have a worse flush draw and the guy who's been getting it in joke bad all evening but decides this is the time he's going to flop top and bottom and fill up on the turn.
Monday I woke up feeling pretty drained. I think it's a combination of having a long, losing weekend and having hit the gym really hard this week. Regardless, I scraped myself off the mattress and got myself down to the gym. Normally I train legs on monday, but my central nervous system was feeling pretty fragile, so I decided to do a 20 minute circuit. How hard could that be, right? Those of you for whom fitness is part of your lifestyle will want to try this and see how you feel afterwards!
This would work better as a 30 seconds on/20 seconds off routine, but I didn't have a partner to time me so I just did a set amount of reps on/10 deep breaths off. Grab yourself a light barbell, I got myself a 12.5kg.
10 Weighted squats
15 Barbell bent-over rows with a pronated grip (palms face down)
10 T push-ups
10 Jump-up burpees
20 Lying toe touches
Now just do that four times.
Tuesday I slept all day! I only woke up for a quick grocery shop and to eat my body weight in carbohydrates while the 36-hour loading window is open.
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