Had a pretty decent weekend all in all even though we didnt win the deepstack (will do a TR for investors after the weekend) which started with picking up Vinny and heading up north and after we had dropped off his GF at
school work it was a quick journey as he constantly rubbed me down over losing £28k
We arrived in plenty of time to place £7 on 3 horses in the national which is one day in the calendar that I dislike as most of my real life friends and family know i like a punt so most of the morning is taken up replying to texts and taking the odd call on what they should be backing, if only they knew I cannot pick my nose at the moment!!
Headed straight over to Vinny's second home Nando's and snap got a table for us, Scotty77, Leatherman and the late arriving JB (<3 JB) and ordered my standard Medium Livers with 2 sides of Chips and a salad along with a beer (ask for the glass but dont pour the beer in and you have a free soft drink as well) and being as Vin had already lost the CCR it would be rude not to get some pre-match olives as well.
Ran pretty bad in the table draw as had Boshi (that was the good part
) Ben Vinson, John Black and eventually Nick Hicks and after chipping up against the guy who was destined to spew to someone I got rivered twice by Ben being taken to the town of Value on both occasions
which then left me short in the middle levels eventually shipping the river with AK on A87 2Q losing to a set of 8's should really fold the turn as I went against my read on a guy.
Not that many people will remember but at the Blonde Bash last year there were some golden chips with the last 5 chips getting the opportunity to play either Simon or Rob Yong heads up for £1000 in DTD tourney credits and till this time I have not been able to hook up with Rob and he is the one you want to beat heads up so we sat down on the feature table and played with SS of 10k on a 15min clock and as we had not played despite arranging it a couple of times he very kindly said that if I best him he would enter me for the Monte Carlo (obv was playing anyway as sold %'s already but extra £100 wiiii)
To be honest any monkey who could have held/looked at the cards and was able to flick in the chips with gay abandon would have won as we had the best hand sooooo much which apparently is quite a good thing HU and opening the first button with A9hh and flopping 2 hearts with Rob calling the cbet followed by chk chk when the heart came I was sure he leads the river which he did for 1500 and a small CR and he folded but we were ahead in the game.
We won the next big hand and were 16k vs 4k in about 5mins and then after raising the btn he 3b and we shipped A2o as one of our shots to win but he held AQ and held and we were back to 12k/8k but won the next pot when he told me after 3b'ing my btn again that he would barrel 3 streets and we held A5cc and flopped 753 so we peeled one, turned an "A" and he true to his word barrelled again and we flatted before he bet the river small on a blank and we raised and he dwell called with second pair and he was back to 4k.
Running well 2 hands later I open 9/10o from the btn and flop
(yh I know) and he CR me leaving 2k so I set him in and he turns over K3cc and the dealer starts to stack the chips and send them my way before we both tell him to finish the run out as obv he is never folding but we run good turning
to hold and win the seat
Just after I won Vinny got knocked out so we made a second visit of the day to Nando's before heading home.
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