The evening before we left I had a balance of £2k left with Dubai and I invested £200 in Andy Carrol to break his duck that evening which was a loser and since then have lost £200 in a btts double Bury vs Southend and Inter/Palermo with the Italian match the only Sunday one without both teams scoring FML plus a PUNTERS bet on the footie handicap going by the wayside with not one of the 3 teams covering ironing out another £100 then on Sunday after seeing Camel/bobby saying some shrewdies were on NY Jets got £330 on the -5.5pt handicap and the result is one of the reason I hate betting on NFL as with 1 minute to play the Jets are 13 Yds from the endzone and lead by 1pt so I need a touchdown to collect and on this particular play they get another first down but the guy could have scored a touchdown if he carried on running but the "correct play was for him to STOP on the 1yd line and then they "take the knee" to end the game as if they score the touchdown which wins my bet the other team get the ball back and have the chance to get a touchdown and score an extra point which would send the match to overtime.
I had a small winner on over points in the Philly v Dallas game to claw back some ££ and then fancied Wigan +1 on the handicap but Dub's said laying Newcastle was better so I did that for £330 which was GG after 12mins so currently have £840 locked up with him.
As soon as we were back home Weds it was a case of me picking up the paint brush again as whilst we were away we had a downstairs toilet fitted in the old understairs cupboard and also in the 2nd bedroom had wardrobes and a toy trunk for Max fitted into the recesses of the chimney breast as we are hoping to move Max in there after Christmas to give him a few months to acclimatise to being in a big bedroom and his first bed so that come March we dont have him not settled and the newborn crying as well (well that's the plan anyways) so I have a list of stuff that I need to do which started literally the minute we got back home Weds morning before back to work Thurs.
The boys in the office did really well whilst I was away and there was no repeat of my last break away which was good plus they had a great sales result so we are in good shape going into next year. Petra was getting everything ready to fly to Slovakia Sunday which obv required different clothing to St.Kitts as thye currently have quite a bit of snow there so Bikini's were not needed and this is the last time she can fly and see her folks before the baby is due and gives her chance to see them before Christmas and she is a real trooper as being a nit she is flying with Max, 1 sports bag as hand luggage which needs to be caried, a pushchair and all this whilst being 6months pregnant obv it helps when you are good looking and can just ask someone for help but much kudos to her!!
So the back end of my week looked like this Friday work and then left at 2pm to get to DTD for the £500 which on Friday I played really badly followed by the drive back down south and up early for work for Saturday, rinse repeat the drive back upto DTD to reload and whilst the second bullet went better I exited on a bluff in a triple avg pot at 4/800 avg 52k feeling I had some equity but actually was drawing dead due to the turn being the nut card for my oppo and another drive down south was made before Sunday taking Petra to Luton airport for her flight which enabled me to play the £50 Sunday afternoon tourney where I finished 4th for £280 and had the priveldge of doubling up all bar 2 of the players on the final table and was chastised for 5mins when I refused a saver of £50 for the 3 players who would not get paid and gave in after hearing "you will obv bubble", "we allways do deals", "the poker gods wont look good on you if you keep saying no" ok ok give the next 3 £50 but it was all good.
Tuesday evening me and the boys in the office made a late decision to go and watch Southend play Brentford in the JP trophy and the owner of the firm came along as well which meant he paid for everything so after the match we end up in the Westcliff Casino on the seafront which has been refurbished by Genting and looks really good with a large central cocktail bar
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and is set up that it will be the place for everyone to roll out of the clubs and donate with the 24hour opening now it is so easy to see how people will be seduced into it and after a few drinks there I donated £60 to the million pound makeover but that is all they were getting from me although I regret the 3am getting in with a days wrk on the house needed yesterday!
After 7 hours graft I decided to play the monthly £100 at said casino and a £5k gtee and watched 8x raises galore and just sat quietly hoping I might pick up a hand or even a spot to get some chips but this didnt happen till3 tables out and with 28k at 6/1200 after an older gentleman of the any2 variety opens utg to 10k I ship QQ and get called by the sb with
AI for his 20k and AQo OR and finish second to 45 obv leaving me 8k but a few ships later and a couple of get theres I had 80k with the avg 55k and sailed into the final table which was fairly short as the blinds were so high and the avg stack only 13bigs so a chompyesque 7way chop of £700 each as there were many friends on the table including S O'Keefe, Dave Barnes (now residing in Southend) and other local faces from my old days there leaving £350 to play for deal was done and I bust in 3rd so added the profits to the £100 won in the cash game on the first break and a good night was had by all
Back in work after the 4.30 finish and am flagging already plus got more work on the house to do tonight as want to get to DTD Sat afternoon before Petra fly's back Sunday...
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