I can safely say that I"m the only person using this site who instead of spending Sunday Night chucking chips around on Pokerstars, will be attempting to write some poetry. Tempted as I am to use some of the contributions which have been posted on this blog within the last few days, I will stick to my principles and try to come up with something of my own creation. I filled a couple of pages of a notebook with random lines and phrases I thought sounded good, so I will take some time to knock them together into a cohesive whole.
However, I am a poker addict, so I can"t go too long without a fix of some sort. I will find some time to peruse some training material and have just completed a session of cash play. Since the turn of the year, my usual modus operandi has been to play a cash table on Blue Square alongside a table at the same buy-in on Betfair. My Blue Square table provided me with something of a rollercoaster ride. I intially went slightly ahead and established that the most dangerous player on the table was seated to my left. Things took a turn for the worse when a player who limped then called my big blind raise with five/six off, flopped trips and took three-quarters of my stack. I had aces. I rebought and eventually managed to grind back the dollars I had lost.
Over on Betfair, things were completely different. It doesn"t seem to matter whether MTTs,SNGs or cash games are your thing, but this site contains the players who are easiest to manipulate a few quid out of. If it had the same level of traffic as Pokerstars or the Ipoker network, I would never play anywhere else. Today went very, very well indeed. There was one particular player who kept calling my raises and continuation bets with top pair/good kicker. This guy gave me most of his max buy-in stack, rebought then was unlike enough to get cleaned out a second time as I hit a royal flush to his straight. If only every session was like this........