So, I now don't have any hair. Pictures will be coming online shortly, but probably not until next week now, will take a while to find them and wrestle with the demon that is the internet to try and make them available.
I decided to celebrate this in a number of ways, starting with:
The EventI'm actually really glad I did this. I was very, very nervous initially. Especially when Sam turned up to nandos in a shirt and jacket and looked awesome. It took a while for us to get going, but as soon as the first little bit had come off and I realised how ridiculous it looked (again, pics to follow), I couldn't wait to get it off. We discovered that Sean will one day make a fantastic old man, I look like in 35 regardless of how I do my hair, and Sam looks like an awful lot of people from behind. I've got used to the change now, and I do kinda like it. It seems like every now and then I go through a complete image shift. I went through a stage where I had contact lenses and basically all I would wear was rugby shirts, then I got a very long fringe for a few years, then I lost the fringe and got a massive beard, and now I've got very little hair indeed. People I knew a few years ago will just never recongise me. So far the feedback on the new look has been mostly positive, and once I get over the shock of seeing myself in the mirror, I think this one will stay for a while. Will probably need to get a new ID photo for my driver's licence and my student card, though.
Sunday FundayCan basically fuck itself. What a disaster. Bricked the few tournaments I played on stars, and bust very near the bubble in almost all of the tournaments I played on Sky. Highlights include being the pure bubble boy in the £55 speed bounty hunter losing AQ to 77, and grinding a bowl for hours in the “super roller” only to finally break the 30bb mark, find AA, go all in, and fail to do a win vs AQ. Did not cash a single event, busting in pretty standard spots basically every time. *sigh* was definitely the comment of the day.
UKIPT I was not going to play this event. 1k is a ton of money, more than I can rightly afford for a single tournament. Flicked it in for a few of the satellites, which started out like a total disaster. Then I played the super satellite on Monday. Started the day being pretty close to freerolling the comp through Chinese, only to lose a few big ones right at the end. Still ended up a winner, and loving the game tho, so definitely no complaints. Regged at the end of late reg for the full amount, and sat down to play. Very quickly lost a few k, then got some back, then got it in with the nut flush draw vs the second nut flush draw for quite a bit, only to see that offsuit K pop up on the river, leaving me with about 5bbs. Shoved a few hands later and got it through, which was nice because I didn’t have a very good hand. Got it in on my next BB with a Q and a 9, and won vs A4 to have 10bbs. Won a few more pots from this point, including getting KK vs a UTG shove for a fair amount with 10s
, and flopping a house with A2 and having Raggy turn the wheel. Then someone tried to bluff me, which in the first place was a little bit silly because I’m a bigger station than Colchester (which, as one of the dealers told me, is the longest station in the country). Turns out he actually had way too good a hand to be bluffing with, but fortunately I had one better. A few nittylicious folds later, mostly of premiums in gay spots, I found AA utg and got it in against KJ for loads. This still wasn’t a locked seat by any means, but managed to fold my way through for the most part. I did end up all in with 10/10 on the pure bubble, which was certainly fun. Even more so when everyone folded.
With a seat locked up, I’m looking forward to playing this event on Wednesday. It will be my biggest ever buy in event by some way, but right now I’m planning to get AA a lot and win the easy way. Hoping to see a lot of blondes over the next week, gl us!
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