"The Downswings of Property and Poker"

[Eso Kral]

RUMBLESTRIPS AND REDBULL

So i'm now running an estate agency in Loughton for the same firm and due to the housing boom in early 2000's we are doing record sales but I'm potless with no hope of getting a mortgage again for the forseeable future and loans and credit cards coming out of my ears which are accruing charges left right and centre due to missed payments as when your gambling your life away like any drud addiction, the money to feed your habit is more important than life expenses.

My health was pretty rubbish for reasons previously stated and all i could think of was betting during the day and then leaving work to get to Walsall for the card comps and i would prior to the comp starting regularly lose 200-300 on the roulette before sitting in the comp and tilting off, playing again during the break and after having won or loss beofre setting off on the long drive down south.

Where i firstly class myself lucky to be alive is that on countless occasions despite having had 1-2 cans of Redbull my body was that tired that i would doze off at the wheel and it was only as the car would hit the rumble strips i would wake up just in time to steer away from the hard should and subsequent grass verge or the central reservation. In addition to this i would sometimes wake up right up the backside of a car or lorry infront of me having accelerated whilst asleep again waking in time before hitting them, this was scary but my addiction kept me doing it night after night.

By now i was immune to the phone calls or letters coming through the door daily and in most cases i never even opened them just put them in a drawer and burying my head in the sand, my Dad could never work out how i coped with the pressure of running a good business coupled with juggling finances and finding the time to drive and play poker and gamble but you just do.

I had some consistent results in the local comps but my mind was never on them as i was usually watching the numbers coming up on the magic wheel cursing and bemoaning my luck as it came up 8/11/29/7/0/36/36/30 and telling anyone on the table who would listen that my numbers were coming up and i was sat in this £30 f/out but no-one really cared, and i had now found a game slightly closer to home at the Westcliff Casino in Southend so was playing there as well...

[millidonk]

I had some consistent results in the local comps but my mind was never on them as i was usually watching the numbers coming up on the magic wheel cursing and bemoaning my luck as it came up 8/11/29/7/0/36/36/30 and telling anyone on the table who would listen that my numbers were coming up and i was sat in this £30 f/out but no-one really cared, and i had now found a game slightly closer to home at the Westcliff Casino in Southend so was playing there as well...

You liked 36 so much you bet it twice.. 29,7,30 also 3 of mine. need to get 20,14 and 22 involved though for the big bucks!

Many times the rumble strips have acted as my alarm clock, although i sometimes go over them when i am awake..

Great read. Keep up the good work.

[Eso Kral]

LIFE CHANGING WINS!!!

As a gambler there are probably only a few occasions where you are in a position to win a life changing amount of money for a small outlay and i was in that position at Jnc 10 one night during a poker festival.

I think it was the final event of the festival probably a £100 side event whilst the main event final was gong on and i was sat to the left of Ram Vaswani in the days when "The Hendon Mob" were the only group of players to look up to, obv they had all the run good in those days and my AK was no match for AQ and as i got knocked out a Thai girl called Pham who used to date one of the players but was pretty degen herself called me over saying i needed to play roulette vs this dealer as he kept spinning the ball in the same section.

FML i was skint had no access to getting any money and had £140 in my pocket and needed to put petrol in the car, so wondering why no-one was on this table and checking out the numbers obv put my £100 down to receive 20 £5 chips to which i said "singles please".
The dealer replied "sorry its a five pound table" well this was going to have to work out quickly then.

I let the dealer spin a few times without placing a bet and yes he seemed to spin the same section 3-4 spins on the trot before moving to the other side of the wheel and as a frequent visitor realised he must be anew dealer due to the fact i didnt recognise his face. So off we went with my £100 being place on Tier section but £5 on numbers 1 & 6 just in case, BINK 16 FML as followers from the start will know 16 is the worst possible number for me infact i was lucky i even covered it and looking down it could have been game over but luckily for me i had a split with 13 so i was losing on the first spin but as Pham had said he stayed true to his tendancies and the next 3 spins sailed into Tier with the next spin giving me £5 s/up and £5 split and on we went.

After the 3rd spin i started to take chips off the table and put them in my pocket which i now realise in this instance was a BIG mistake but at the time putting 200-300-500 per spin in my pocket was the bigger objective and after the first spin of number 16 a small crowd had gathered around the table with players following me in.

I decided to carry on until my first losing spin and then would stop and this happened on the 20th spin which was 3 spins after they had taken this poor young kid off the wheel and replaced him with a pitboss, heading straight to the cash desk i had no idea how much money was in my pockets and just kept placing bundles of lovely pink £100 chips on the top until my pockets were empty bar my last £40 

That £15'000 said the lady and the queue of people behind looked at me like i was Donald Trump (this was Walsall) remember so i cashed in and gave £200 to Pham as a thank you and £100 to an interesting fella called Con Cronin and went to sit in the 1-2 PLO...

[Eso Kral]

I had some consistent results in the local comps but my mind was never on them as i was usually watching the numbers coming up on the magic wheel cursing and bemoaning my luck as it came up 8/11/29/7/0/36/36/30 and telling anyone on the table who would listen that my numbers were coming up and i was sat in this £30 f/out but no-one really cared, and i had now found a game slightly closer to home at the Westcliff Casino in Southend so was playing there as well...

You liked 36 so much you bet it twice.. 29,7,30 also 3 of mine. need to get 20,14 and 22 involved though for the big bucks!

Many times the rumble strips have acted as my alarm clock, although i sometimes go over them when i am awake..

Great read. Keep up the good work.

That was the order of numbers coming up so 36 doubled always happy days as i was told always press the last number if you had money on it for the occasions when it doubles or triples wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

[pleno1]

lol incred

[Eso Kral]

Having no base up North it meant staying in hotels and on this occasion i was staying at the Posthouse hotel and having got back to my room at early o'clock and due to be in Loughton after the festival at 8.30 am it meant leaving at 5.30 to gtee it down the m6/m1 so when the alarm went off up i jumped checked my 2 x £5k sealed bags and 4 x £1k bags were still on the bedside table and got in the shower.

I think i got to about Coventry on the M1 before i thought F**k it and turned straight back round driving to Walsall Manor Hospital to phone my employers up (just in case they caller id'd me) and tell them that i had been admitted to hospital with some chest pains and they were keeping me in for a few days, they were concerned and said let them know when i would be back in and i was free for a few days and i drove back to the hotel checking in for another few days of degeneracy just spending money like it was going out of fashion, busting out of tourneys and sitting in dealers choice games playing games i didnt know or understand until 15k became 10k and my extra 4day holiday was over...

It turned out to be an interesting few days as sat in the omaha game one night, the legend Mickey Wernick was on his uppers and asked if he could borrow a couple of hundo as he had done his last bullet as i was holding i said yes but wanted to know when i would get it back as i had learnt that if i liked them i would lend once and get an agreed payback date if the money came back if they needed i would lend again and if not then even if i had the cash i wouldnt lend. Mickey said a week friday would be the return date and true to his word i received the money and having been on his uppers Mickey then preceeded to win the Sunday afternoon comp in Walsall headed down to Luton and won the evening comp there finally reaching his destination of the Vic where the festival was on and he won a side event early in the week followed by a chop or outright win in the main event (cant remember) either way it was a phenominal week and one which ended with him winning the european rankings on the way to many cashes that year.

I wasnt really interested in Poker then and still didnt play higher than £100 f/outs as was enticed by the other games around and having made my way down south and lied through my teeth about how the hospital had said i had just drunk too much redbull and was completely drained so my body had just shut down i then had a very fortunate escape with 10k in my pocket one that i have never repeated...

[Dubai]

Always heard good things with regards to Mickey and lending/borrowing- been told he is very fair, and obviously he is old school punter- used to be bookie at dogs when John Shipley was the biggest punter there apparently

[tikay]

Always heard good things with regards to Mickey and lending/borrowing- been told he is very fair, and obviously he is old school punter- used to be bookie at dogs when John Shipley was the biggest punter there apparently

100% true.

He sometimes takes a while to find the money, but he has always paid in full, & when he's been overdue - quite often - he adds a sweeetener on top when the money eventually comes through. I must have lent him a good few bob down the years, but he repaid every single penny.

[dik9]

Something has always bothered me .... why did players always give Con money?

[I KNOW IT]

Always heard good things with regards to Mickey and lending/borrowing- been told he is very fair, and obviously he is old school punter- used to be bookie at dogs when John Shipley was the biggest punter there apparently

100% true.

He sometimes takes a while to find the money, but he has always paid in full, & when he's been overdue - quite often - he adds a sweeetener on top when the money eventually comes through. I must have lent him a good few bob down the years, but he repaid every single penny.

When Mickey is carrying he can be very generous........

[Eso Kral]

NEVER RUN OUT OF PETROL

Having worked the day i had completely forgotten i needed petrol and having ebarked on the short journey down the m11 towards gants hill and 1/2 mile before i reached the speed camera that must earn London Borough of Redbridge hundreds of thousands per year my care ground to a halt oh and its raining.

So out i get and start to walk down the motorway knowing the closest garage is as you come off towards Gants Hill about 2miles away i see a red car pull in and wait for me.   Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii   as i approach the car i realise there are 4 guys sat in it and they say in broken english with a thick european tone "Do you want lift to garage" obv its pretty difficult to say no as im wet through in a suit with 10k in my pocket but all im thinking of is getting out of this in one piece so in i get.

Keeping conversation to minimum we get to the Esso garage and i purchase a green petrol can, fill it up and they are still waiting. It turns out they work on one of these car valeting places in an old garage but live in Walthamstow which is now completely in the wrong direction so i offer the fella driving £20 to say thanks for picking me up but i cant possibly take them out of their way to which he snap declines the money and says look get in we dont have anything else to do so jump in, obv i have to jump in and they take me upto the Loughton turn to turn around and drop me back to the car and wait to make sure my car starts even running down the grass verge to pick up the green petrol can i tossed down the side as i will never need it again and i make him take the £20 to have a drink before getting in my car locking it from the inside and going home feeling like an absolute Luckbox!!

The rest of my money didnt last long its funny how quickly you can spend it when you have it and when i had next ran out i took to borrowing from sources i would never recommend even my enemies (if i had any) to borrow from...

[Dubai]

one more post today pls

[Eso Kral]

Something has always bothered me .... why did players always give Con money?

He never did any harm to me, i saw his faults very early on and i would never lend him money but in life if i had a tenner and i could see someone else needed it more than me i would happily give it to them and this was one of those occasions.

[dik9]

Something has always bothered me .... why did players always give Con money?

He never did any harm to me, i saw his faults very early on and i would never lend him money but in life if i had a tenner and i could see someone else needed it more than me i would happily give it to them and this was one of those occasions.

But he is/was minted lol, I have never seen him borrow money but he was always given it? lol

[Eso Kral]

Always heard good things with regards to Mickey and lending/borrowing- been told he is very fair, and obviously he is old school punter- used to be bookie at dogs when John Shipley was the biggest punter there apparently

I love Mickey to bits especially when he takes you to the side to tell you the stories about his Gold and Ruby ring that has been in and out of hock more times thanTikay says EPIC on Sky poker and shows you the newspaper article of when he was one of the first uk players to go to vegas!!  Legend