2015 Diary- Family, Work, Poker and everything in-between

[UgotNuts]

Going up tomorrow for the 2.00pm, i get you a drink in at the bar - easy way to find me be sitting outside in silver merc coupe LL09 during the first break eating my mrs ham sandwich

Mike

I'll come and say hi, I'll be the aggro looking kid with a grey nikey hoodie and big dark pink headphones..... Probably see me before the break.

[arbboy]

Going up tomorrow for the 2.00pm, i get you a drink in at the bar - easy way to find me be sitting outside in silver merc coupe LL09 during the first break eating my mrs ham sandwich

Mike

So thin! Tempted to play tomorrow just so I can meet Mike and see if he will stake me to win the world!

Come along I'd like to put a face to your name.

You can see my ugly face online! Much nicer than meeting it in person!  I do want to meet Mike though!

[UgotNuts]

Going up tomorrow for the 2.00pm, i get you a drink in at the bar - easy way to find me be sitting outside in silver merc coupe LL09 during the first break eating my mrs ham sandwich

Mike

So thin! Tempted to play tomorrow just so I can meet Mike and see if he will stake me to win the world!

Come along I'd like to put a face to your name.

You can see my ugly face online! Much nicer than meeting it in person!  I do want to meet Mike though!

:-) Which I could. I have no idea who you are or what your name is.... Not sure i could find you if i put Arbboy into google.


Edit: I thought I would wack your name into google and it honestly found you! well on the betfair community anyway and some of your old poker results.....

No pic though!

[UgotNuts]

on the train up to Nottingham, and I thought I would bring my bike, as I'm trying to shred some pounds. Anyway got on the train, standing up in between garages eating my Greek yogurt, and all of a sudden I feel seasick( if that is even possible on a train.

Now the nearest carriage is  first class and I feel that if I try and make it up the train I'm going to empty my stomach over someone's lunch, ipad, laptop or head. So I settle on upgrading my ticket  to 1st class. Little did I know it was 80% of a new ticket to upgrade.


Think I'm leaving the old bike at home next time!

Edit: just thought I saw Tikay in my carriage.... Must be just a look a like

[UgotNuts]

So another weekend playing poker has come to an end. After 4 bullets in the Mini I had it through to say two with about 16bb after a couple of blow ups in the final level of day 1 on Friday night. Met Tikay, mike, and Chris from blonde in the order, and Tikay kindly pointed out some more of the blonde poker members, Cambridge Alex and a few others.

Day two was a bit of a nightmare, I knew I had a lot of work to do with 16bb and it wasn't going to get any easier even if I found a couple of double ups, due to the blinds increasing at a rapid pace. So when I saw two limps in front of me, and looked down at AK first hand I thought it would be a good spot to pick up a few big blinds, only to be looked up by KK who turned over is hand before Chris had a chance to fold. Anyway the board ran out dry and I was left with 1 bb which went in the next hand and found a set of sixes. Chris said he had 4's and was going to call if the first limper didn't.


The first limper was old mikey from blonde, who I had met on Friday night and over a drink he had some really funny life stories to tell, and all in all a really nice bloke.. I never played with him on day 1 and had no idea how tight he had been playing. After watching and chipping in with a few of my observations I realised how obvious it was he had a big hand by limping from early position. May have just flat called the bet and seen a flop in hindsight.

Also bumped into a few of the local regs from luton travelled up from luton to play the turbo in the morning which is always nice to see.

next stop for me is the luton monthly next weekend... The max number of entires is 4, and as my ticket to luton is 25% if the Nottingham one I might make a smaller loss!

GlGl to anyone in e main or still in the Mini

VERNDOG was playing well and running golden.... long May it continue.

[UgotNuts]

I can't believe its been nearly a month since I last updated this. I knew it had been a while, but was under the impression it was only a couple of weeks.

Its been a bit of a manic month so far, I haven't played much poker in the last few weeks. Have been doing up my Sons bedroom and fitting in a new bathroom. And making plans on turning my outside bricked shed/come spare room, into a poker themed chill out room. Have purchased a Marshall Budweiser Fridge via Auction, and needed somewhere sensible to put it which kicked off the idea of a chill out room. Somewhere away from the wife and kids. Once Completed I will post some pictures up, looking to have a 9 handed poker table, Mini bar, TV with Sky and the old PS4 to kit it out a bit. maybe a recliner chair which I can sleep In, If I'm feeling too lazy to head back into the house.

I had some bailiff's from Marston come knocking on my door a couple of weeks back now, demanding debt for someone I had never heard of. After forcing their way in and threatening to Drop me like a sack of shit, the Police were called and advised as this was a civil matter they couldn't interfere. Me and my partner both showed our ID, which should of ended the matter, but apparently this "didn't prove shit" and they will be bring the Van around to start unplugging things. Stressed, and fearful of losing our stuff, I paid the £616 quid.

Livid with what just happened, I decided to do a bit of research to find out our rights on what just happened, and emailed Marston's CEO with my complaint, detailing the various laws his firm had ignored. To my surprise he emailed back the same day and copied in his heads of department and basically told them to sort this out. After a few emails back and forth I arranged a meeting with their head of fraud at the Costa in Bedford town centre. I thought this was going to be a Letter of the law meeting, and them trying to Wessel their way out of it. However without much prompting they agreed to repay the money which I had paid plus 50% in compensation. I agreed immediately and they then asked if I had any loss of earnings for taking the time out to meet them and I declined the offer. In hindsight I probably should of charged them my daily rate as I had to take a day's holiday to sort this all out. Payment was received a couple of days after.

I knew I would be getting my money back at some point, but thought I would need to go through the ombudsmen to do it. As it turns out, this is the only +EV transaction I have had in the last 3 months, taking my wage packet out of the equation!

Next stop of my poker tour is likely to be the 25/25 at the Vic at the end of the month or the DTD deep stack the week after. Don't really want to play both, not feeling it really. Currently favour the Vic at the moment, as it is slightly closer and easier to get back home via the train after.

Any other Blondes playing the 25/25 at the Vic this month?

[UgotNuts]

So the trip to the Vic was a +EV trip from a PLO cash game perspective. Got to the Vic around 2ish and put my list on all the games going at that time and the 1/2 deep Omaha game and the 2/5. Grinded the 1/1 game for a couple of hours and posted a small win for me in real money worth, but about 180BB in poker terms. The game got really nitty and I could feel I was going to lose patience and end up playing like a donk.

So I took a break and headed down to Hyde park to chill for a bit, before heading down Oxford Street, to get a couple of bits for the kids and the Mrs. Got back to the Vic about 6ish and head my name being called for the 1/2 Omaha game which was finally about to get started. Played for around an hour and managed to find some good spots to take the pot down on the turn, which has sometimes 4 handed action. Also managed to flop the bottom end of a straight flush which was nice and practically got a double up vs a jack high flopped flush. Didn't really want to quit the game, but hand come down to play the 25/25 and was looking forward to it so off I trotted to play that.

Busted about half way through level 2! Just couldn't get anything going really, was running my made flush on the turn, into a bigger river flush, had top set flushed away, just not my tournament really.  Don't feel I played any hands incorrectly, just kept on getting outdrawn. Maybe I inflated the pot pre  too much thinking about it. went to re-enter but was like 14 on the list and with the PLO Full I decided to head back home.... Not until I did a couple of hundred on the BJ like a fool.

Will probably be forced to skip the UKIPT, as I wait for my passport to turn up.  So the next comp will be the 25/25 at my local casino, always tend to play better, go deep there. I must be more relaxed I guess.

[shipitgood]

Played the last 25/25 game in Edinburgh, it was really good fun with a decent structure.

There was quite a mix of players as well, from "pros" to just your normal casino player.

You've got me thinking about playing another one of these!

Gl for the next one.

[Ransom]

Got a couple of spare 21 inch monitors for that grind room when you get it sorted.

Over/under before the police show up to investigate nosebleed cash games?

[celtic]

Why do you need a passport for the UKIPT?

[mikeymike]

hi

i have my passport so will probably go up friday - if your going up let me know

mike

[UgotNuts]

Why do you need a passport for the UKIPT?

I've never played a pokerstars live comp before. Was told you need photo ID, I dont drive so only photo I'd I have is my work pass, and my passport which I sent off for renewal a couple of weeks back.

If I don't need photo ID I'll play it. Can anyone confirm?

[UgotNuts]

hi

i have my passport so will probably go up friday - if your going up let me know

mike

Will do Mike- if I can't play, you should come across to luton for the 25/25 at the end of the month! It would be good to catch up.

[UgotNuts]

Got a couple of spare 21 inch monitors for that grind room when you get it sorted.

Over/under before the police show up to investigate nosebleed cash games?

Thanks, I'll take them. Who much do you want for them? Or are they a donation? 😎

How did you get on at the G tonight?

[UgotNuts]

Played the last 25/25 game in Edinburgh, it was really good fun with a decent structure.

There was quite a mix of players as well, from "pros" to just your normal casino player.

You've got me thinking about playing another one of these!

Gl for the next one.

Agreed- it has a good structure and a nice mix of players. Quite relaxed too.

Thanks for the run good, you should come and play the luton one this month? If it's not too much of a trip for you.