"The Downswings of Property and Poker"

[Eso Kral]

Not cried much since my mums funeral but that just bought a lot of emotion back.

That waiting moment for them to stop breathing is the worst. There was 8 of us in the room totally clueless. We all looked blankly at one another and my auntie Carol said "that's it. I'll go get a nurse." As soon as she left the room my mum started breathing again. After 15 mins more silence I looked round the room at all the people with tears in their eyes. I could not bare the silence so just says "cheer up you lot. We all feel pretty bad right now but how bad do you think Carol is feeling trying to kill mum off early?". That broke some tension and my mum passed away a couple of minutes later.

This is great stuff rich

Hi Jason, i knew this would touch a nerve with you especially being so close to your Mum and i think most people will agree that the first anniversaries   ie first birthday/ first mother or fathers day/ first year from actually passing away are the toughest to get through.
Hope you and the family are ok m8 and i look forward to seeing you at the deepstack!!

[JK]

Amazing stuff Rich. I just sat there with tears in my eyes. Really appreciate the honestly in this, it cant be easy digging up these kinds of things.

[smashedagain]

Yea very emotional. Will be back on the poker soon. Now the oldest has started school and the twins nursery my wife ain't having the "I'm a full time stay at home dad" any longer. And as she is my 50 % manager she has been telling me that my hendonmob ain't getting any flags if I don't play lol

[leethefish]

brilliantly honest story great reading...

brings back memories of when we lost my gran,

 i spent most of the night at the hospice went home to shower had a sleep came back  and missed her passing by five Min's i was heartbroken...still am.

i wish i could write like you ..you tell an amazing story ...please don't stop.

[Eso Kral]

Amazing stuff Rich. I just sat there with tears in my eyes. Really appreciate the honestly in this, it cant be easy digging up these kinds of things.

Thx JK, TBH it probs makes it easier and its nice to hear +feedback from everyone.

Just working on something now to keep my readers happy when im upto date and then there is no degen activity left

keep em peeled 

[Eso Kral]

Yea very emotional. Will be back on the poker soon. Now the oldest has started school and the twins nursery my wife ain't having the "I'm a full time stay at home dad" any longer. And as she is my 50 % manager she has been telling me that my hendonmob ain't getting any flags if I don't play lol

Yeah i heard THM had to lay off a member of staff who used to update your flags weekly, they said they will re-advertise the position once you venture out again 

[Eso Kral]

brilliantly honest story great reading...

brings back memories of when we lost my gran,

 i spent most of the night at the hospice went home to shower had a sleep came back  and missed her passing by five Min's i was heartbroken...still am.

i wish i could write like you ..you tell an amazing story ...please don't stop.

Dont worry there is no stopping yet, one of the things i was happy about was that i was able to be there with my Dad when he went so i truly understand where your coming from mate.

[Eso Kral]

TIKAY UPDATE

I forgot to mention this in the past week but Tikay reminded me this weekend i needed to post this...

If anyone is sat at a table with Grandad in the next 6months fear not he will definately have it if he is betting or as he would say "back raising" as last weekend in the £150 at DTD being sat immediately to the left of the big man in the space of 2 hours i saw

1) Tikay do his yearly bluff and show against a young hoodie

2) 1 x Hero call with bottom pair

3) A value bet, well i think Tikay thought it was a value bet but it was really turning his hand into a bluff

4) Finally when he got moved from our table not only did our table cheer but his new table cheered him over knowing not only was the value there but he had chips too..

[tikay]

Shush.

I gave Chinese Frankie a little lesson yesterday in how to play poo-poo on an A-K-9 flop, too. Frankie said "OK, show us the 3", so I did. Never showed him the 2, though, that woulda been a step too far.

Hope you enjoyed the Sky Poker event, thanks for coming along.

[tikay]

TIKAY UPDATE

I forgot to mention this in the past week but Tikay reminded me this weekend i needed to post this...

If anyone is sat at a table with Grandad in the next 6months fear not he will definately have it if he is betting or as he would say "back raising" as last weekend in the £150 at DTD being sat immediately to the left of the big man in the space of 2 hours i saw

1) Tikay do his yearly bluff and show against a young hoodie

2) 1 x Hero call with bottom pair

3) A value bet, well i think Tikay thought it was a value bet but it was really turning his hand into a bluff

4) Finally when he got moved from our table not only did our table cheer but his new table cheered him over knowing not only was the value there but he had chips too..

You may not be surprised to know that I have no idea what either of those things are......though if I recall the hand correctly, it was a bit of a Masterclass in how to mangle the nuts.....

[Eso Kral]

Shush.

I gave Chinese Frankie a little lesson yesterday in how to play poo-poo on an A-K-9 flop, too. Frankie said "OK, show us the 3", so I did. Never showed him the 2, though, that woulda been a step too far.

Hope you enjoyed the Sky Poker event, thanks for coming along.

Really enjoyed it thanks, it was well run and also i spoke to few familiar faces from my neck of the woods and the social interaction from all your players is a massive part of your tour
WD.

[Simon Galloway]

Nice to meet you also, Richard.  Although I somehow feel that I am now unable to use the word 'degen' ever again...

[Eso Kral]

Nice to meet you also, Richard.  Although I somehow feel that I am now unable to use the word 'degen' ever again...

Lol thx for the compliment/level   will pm you when i get a chance later this week.

[Eso Kral]

THE RUN UP TO THE WEDDING!

Dad had always stated that the wedding must go on and with 45 family and friends having let us organise flights and accomodation for them we still had a few bits and pieces left to sort out. We had initially booked everyone to fly from Luton to Bratislava as some were travelling from the midlands and some from down south so it was the best airport to get everyone to so that the coach we had organised could pick everyone up and give them a tour of Bratislava on the friday before taking them to the hotel for a pre wedding meal and then the main event on the Saturday.

So to receive an e-mail saying that our chosen airline of Sky Europe had gone into receivership was a real pain, we frantically looked at the Ryanair flights and rebooked everyone on there with slightly different flying times and also flying from and back into Stanstead then had to write to all the guests to confirm the change which also meant us swallowing the cost of the flights at £70 per head for now in the hope of getting the money back.

Due to my history it should be obv to all that i dont have a credit card and Petra has a low limit card we got her to build a history to enable our property business to start which i shall come onto later so it was booked on a Visa debit card and you dont get the same benefits as with a visa credit card, and despite filling in the e-forms and being promissed a payment before the wedding nothing was appearing. First they lost the form, second they said it needed doing again, third we were told our payment had been processed but i knew they were fobbing us off so when i checked out moneysavingexpert.com i fell across an article called Visa Chargeback where your local bank will not have heard of this or will pretend they have not and refer you to a different dept who will endeavour to delve secretly back into the other parties bank account and reclaim the money. This was now our last hope as the travel insurance does not cover it on a group basis.

[Eso Kral]

MY BROTHER AND I!!

With Dad having gone and only Iain living in the midlands i was really concious of him being distanced from us and also as he lived closer to the solicitor having to deal with the whole probate side of things and i think my Dad in his last few months was concerned that we could end up just sending each other Birthday and Christmas cards and that would be that, I am sure he also thought as soon as i got my hands on my share of the inheritance it would be gone within 6 months and who knows he may have been right.

But i had now got a greater sense of values and being stable in my position within the agency was determined to prove Dad wrong on both points, so having sniffed out a couple of property deals i convinced Iain that unless he had some greater plan for the money we should really invest it into property and should not sell Dads place but start to build ourselves a nice portfolio with a minimum 5 year plan.  He agreed and we secured our first 2 properties both were repossesions one flat in Essex for £88k and a detached house for £153k  plus we had to give the family of the previous owner £12k cash as this property was really a distressed sale whereby the Lady we were dealing with was the mum and her Son had decided to commit suicide on the day we went to repossess the house with the bailiff, I had got to know her really well and the bank involved didnt want any publicity about us turning up and finding him there so had just instructed us to sell the property.

When an investor i had put the family in touch with failed to get the money we stepped in in the knowledge this house was worth £235k even in 2009 and it took us 1 month of full work to refurbish the house doing everything except the kitchen units which were fine and the double glazing which would do for now, infact the day we started work we had a tenant lined up who is still there to this day and just signed for another 2 years

I knew getting my brother involved in the property game would be good for our relationship and also mean that i could prove everyone wrong about spunking my inheritance....