I negotiated a pass out for Genting Lutons decent monthly tournament on Saturday evening and despite not having above average chips for the first 9 levels of the tournament I managed to find a bit of rungood in the last level of the day and moved from 21k at 8/1600 to 98600 by the end of the level which was just under 50 bigs coming back on MOTHERING SUNDAY!
For the past two years I have had a bag of scrabble letters in my drawer at work and had wanted to create something in a frame for Petra from the kids but last year she went to Slovakia around mothers day and the year before I ran out of time so shelved the idea so getting home at 3.30am Sunday morning and still knowing Max would be awake at his standard 6am I knew I had to do this and commenced sticking some of the letters together and trying not to stick my fingers together at the same time and had already bought a frame to mount it in having seen it in a house we were selling a few years ago.
Not being creative and without wanting to lose any MAN points itt I am pretty happy with the result as was the good wife
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2 hours later Max was awake and got chance to sign his first mothers day card although I think his letter sizing needs a touch of work...
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Then after football training with Max at 9am we went off to one of his pals 4th Birthday parties and a quick bite to eat before the drive back to Luton for day 2 which started really well with me chipping up to 150k without showdown and then I lost AK v AJ for 60k AIPF hitting my King otr to give my oppo a straight and finally expired with set over set to exit (no hard feelings as was never winning the hand) and decided to venture over to the G for their afternoon £50 comp which started well finding KK first hand to win 10k in a pretty fast middle structure before flopping a set of 10's vs a loose villain who flopped the straight and called my cbet with the turn bringing a one card str8 and he checked again so I just gave myself the chance to hit a full house whcih duly appeared on the river and he check raised me all in and I was never in danger of not going deep (in before) with treble average and some good tables although I lost 3/4 of my stack on a protacted final table bubble that went on when I tried to rep the hand the guy behind me had when a flush draw hit the river in a 3 way pot to leave me 30k at 4/8k but span it back up to 250k in about 25 minutes to make the FT as one of the chippies.
The std Luton dbl bubble saver was declined by me and 2 others with 9 on the FT and only 7 paid and I managed to get this stack which was 1/4 the chips in play with 8 left
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and really pushed for the win as the payouts were 1360,890,580,420... but lost all the pots vs the shorties as I seemed to be the only player wanting to get involved so doubled 3 of them up when they had 5-8bb's and then lost a 3 way allin for about 3/4 chips in play when villain opened to 32k at 5/10k and the shortie shipped for 75k and I found AKcc in the bb and reshipped putting the opener all in for another 250k who tank called with QQ with the shortie holding 89hh which flopped decidely well on A88dd but we didnt hold on diamond turn and rivers for the main pot as the villain had the
to scoop the bigger pot.
I managed to chip back up to 350k 5 handed then lost an annoying pot before 89hh man exited and then stuck the shortie in for 6bbs when I saw a King bvb but he found AQ somehow in the bb which left me short and the very next hand my 11bbs went in otb with A9drawing thin vs AJ to exit in 4th but a little bit of profit for the time invested over the weekend even though my 40 year old body is a bit shattered from just 5 hours sleep over the weekend.
I also saw an incredible beard this weekend at the G and as a grower myself you do find yourself having cases of "Beard Envy" as you look around the streets these day but check out this beauty!!
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Not sure I would still be married if mine got this long!
This week consists of work, GPS Southend and a couple of side events with Tom Langley staying at Chez Kral for a couple of days and hopefully we will agree a few things on the restaurant which continues to roll forwards along with my shared day of sadness as another anniversary passes of both my Dad's and Vinny's Holly who both passed away on the 19th March so my thought will be with my little Maltese brother.
Anyone coming to Southend this week?
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