"The Downswings of Property and Poker"

[Chili]

Maria you're tez

Oiii you want some lessons too?  Don't be jealous now sweety.

[Eso Kral]

I get moved to Chilli's table (bow chicka bow wow   ) and were chatting away and i have never seen such a card rack in my life, does this girl ever not have Aces??

 

 

  boys gonna be boys    glad to be of service I suppose.

After Richard alerted me to the possible merits of reading his diary I did so when I got home about 3.30am & read away for 2 hours until I couldnt control my eyes any longer. 

TYTYTYTYTYTYTY It is amazingly honest and I, like so many others can relate to so much of it - either from my life or my utterly degen father's life (might get him to read this).  It does go to show how we shouldn't put people in boxes when we meet them, its great when they surprise the crap out of you

So so sorry about your dad, I don't do talking on the phone hardly ever - but I rang mine tonight. Cheers luv x

Well if your reading this and posting you obv didnt grind your shortstack further than mine     glad you enjoyed the read, keep upto date but next time you will need the tissues handy me thinks unless your hard as nails.
See you next weekend...

nah I don't have your Jackson 5 skills lol.  Had a great weekend though, great talking with you & I hope you learned some lessons from me on how to play a bubble situation skillfully

Unless your coming to Cyprus with me at the weekend, then I'll see you in a month.

Sounds like a nice idea    qouted as not sure on the other diaries the boys have been invited to Cyprus for a week with Chilli!!!
Mrs Eso says not poss though so mid Wales it is 

[MTT DESTROYER]

Great read!

[Eso Kral]

Well after a 6hour drive and 2 stops for Maxwell and Bentley (our dog) we get to Wales and its pissing it down :-(  it is just like when me and my brother were kids as were staying in a park by the sea so hopefully the weather might improve if not i might have to degen the weekend winnings away at the arcade ;-)

[bobAlike]

Hi Rich where you staying, I spent a lot of time in Mid Wales as kid, practically grew up there hunting and fishing with my dad.

[Eso Kral]

Hi Andy  were staying just outside of Aberystwyth but will be going to Tywyn and Aberdovey where my Dad used to take us during the course of the week, nice and chilled :-)  vwp the weekend m8 next time top 3!

[bobAlike]

Hi Andy  were staying just outside of Aberystwyth but will be going to Tywyn and Aberdovey where my Dad used to take us during the course of the week, nice and chilled :-)  vwp the weekend m8 next time top 3!

Cheers mate, I'll just have to try harder.

We spent most of our time at a place called Llanbedr which is inbetween Barmouth and Harlech.

Have a great break.

[Eso Kral]

Ok lets get this diary back on track...

Had a great 4 days in wales, apart from the weather it was nice and relaxed and to spend time with Petra and Maxwell as normally when i go to work they are just waking up and when i get in Maxwell is about to have a bath and go sleep plus travelling to Notts once or twice a month for the live pokers takes even more time away from the family.

Had 1 bet all week which was to late a dog on betfair i thought was too short on Sky but it won  , then on friday we leave at 9.30 am and on first service break for Max i read the paper to find a horse i tipped a while ago running at 4.10pm with 2 more stops needed i know i will be back around 3.45 subject to traffic and on getting near home i stop to place a £20 ew plus £20 win on sirius prospect at 18/1 and a further £20 e/w at sp and get home just in time to see it win well
oioi oioi ship the £1210 total return and i then have 2hours at home before leaving to get to Luton for a drink with Celtic and to play the £100 fo on the way to DTD for the Sky Poker event today.

Starting table is ok till Alex MFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFkin Martin sits 3 to my right and i was going to sit quietly until Vinny introduces us which means were probs gonna have a cock waving contest, i win the first one to set up my table image 5betting  against tight Dave and watching him laydown AK after some terrible speach play that anyone else would have snap shoved allin obv i show.

Then i do a massive get there after the break raising the c/o with    flopping    cbet which is called  turn i check and villain bets allin i stare at him he looks uncomfortable as you do when you have KJ for top 2 i call it off as its only 30% of my stack and hit my flush   yeah yeah im a fish on a heater!!!!

[Eso Kral]

Then have a really interesting hand with Alex and if i had met him the week before i would have slow rolled him to the max but i had only met him 1hr previous.

I raise UTG with  to 450 at 1/200   Alex flats and the bb makes it 975, i dwell 4bet to 2350 hoping Alex folds but he flats and the bb gets out of the way.
flop is  and i cbet 2950 which Alex flats and in rolls the    i keep the lead raising to 4500 which he flats again and i house up on the  now i know Alex due to the past hour or so wont give me any credit for much so i check and after a short while he sets me in, I snap which Vinny says i should have dwell called the clock on myself before showing one 2 which would have been good.

After getting the CL on the FT when i hold JJ v AK i then lose 2 races v shorties and lose 6handed in a massive pot when the gin card comes on the turn and i only min cash.

Ok going to DTD now so GL me and all other Blondes playing and i will carry on with my story on Monday to catch us upto date before i have to start thinking of ideas to keep my readership up 

[celtic]

Given any thought to that great idea for your diary, I gave you last night?

[Claw75]

Starting table is ok till Alex MFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFkin Martin sits 3 to my right

sick rubz!!

[AlexMartin]

haha, nice to meet you, just finished grinding You will be pleased to know i lost that bet with Adam and duly done in £700 with him recording his first ever luton g victory. fml. You are a very good poker player and an exceptional spewtard, will def be reading this fully later today and in the future.

[TightEnd]

Sky Poker Tour Grand Final

[Eso Kral]

Weekend Trip Report

Didnt book a win in the poker as in the main event peaked a 22k then at 2/400 made the correct long term play vs Paul Jackson even though this time i was good (will probs post on pha) and ended up getting my 12 bigs in first with 88 and getting called by another shortie behind with AJ and Barry Carter insta reshipping with KK  gg me.

Played the Super 50 a bit loose and couldnt find a fold with Kings when should have folded the turn v an agro eastern european player to find he had trips, then drove to Luton for the £50 deepstack and finshed 17/67 when it got shooty at 600/1200 100 i took a shot against sicilian calling off my 18500 with AQ to his mid pos shove and he had AK.

Booked a small win on the footie to break even the weekend inc poker and travel so not all bad, and also met Simon Galloway at Luton and The Lad @ Nottingham  top fellas imo

Now going to get back on track with the main diary...

[Eso Kral]

March 18th 2009

I received a phone call at 11.30am from the Care Home and they said i should come up north as they felt my Dad was in the final stages so i called Petra and we headed up to Walsall meeting my brother at the home.  Dad was now morphined up to the hilt and had not spoken or opened his eyes since the Sunday when i left him, his breathing was eratic and 2-3 times that afternoon it looked as if he stopped breathing before going again.

We stayed till 9pm that night when the Nurses told us to go as we were staying 1 mile away at my brothers and they would call us if there was any change, it was really distressing and i dont think anything can set you up for seeing a loved one at deaths door.
Needless to say i didnt sleep much weds night as i was expecting the phone to ring and did not want to miss the call so at 9am when there was no call we headed back to the home to find Dad in the same condition as yesterday, the nurses told us that today would be the day.

They left us alone and its amazing how they can pinpoint the date when a sufferer will pass away, i guess its experience of seeing it so many times.  I will never forget the peacefullness in the room which consisted of Dad, Iain (my brother) Petra and myself and at about 11.45 Iain went to get us all a coffee.

I have not spoken about my brother much in the thread as for a large period of my life due to my degen tendancies we didnt get on but he is a top guy really and is very superstitious and on the day Dad was diagnosed as being terminal had seen a single magpie and on 3 other occasions after this date had again seen single magpies when bad things had happened, now im not that much of a believer of this kind of thing but he is and has since had a big wrap around tattoo of my Dad's resting place and 2 magpies on the lower half of one of his legs.

When he came back with the coffee he told us that as he walked back to the room he saw a magpie in a window and he had docked his cap to him and said "morning mr magpie where is your wife" as you do!!!