First the important stuff, good win on Friday night at Brentford, still not counting chickens as "typical Boro" could turn up but fairly confident of a draw minimum which will see us through, hope we are 2/3 up before half time though so the old ticker doesn"t have to go through 90 mins of turmoil. I got a ticket online as opposed to going and standing in line from midnight in the rain as some people decided to do, hopefully a trip to Wembley is on the cards.
Decided to watch the first half in the pub then late reg at Rainbow, should of stayed in the pub tbh, played about 3 hands, exit as follows, Utg raises (K8 off) to 1k, I 3 bet JJ from small blind to 3k5, happy to get it in here as blinds are going up next hand will have 18 bigs, bb (KJ clubs)flats, as does the original raiser, flop Q 10, x 2 clubs, I check utg jams for not a lot (should be all in pre rather than call), I Know he is fos, I rejam as does the big blind, need to fade clubs, 9, Ace, King, I don"t, the Ace from space gets there and Bob the other half of the infamous Bob and Betty chuckles as he scoops the lot, I say nice hand and I am home and in bed by 10:20, his call pre bit iffy, (against me he probably only has 30% equity in this spot! always, but it"s Bob, it"s suited and pretty, he is not thinking what I might have, as long as he keeps coming to play it"s no problem), no probs with his jam with the up and down and flush draws.
I don"t have any money on any one site anymore, I know how much I have won this year live and online so I know what my bankroll is, ie poker winnings, so I tend to deposit on any sites if I fancy a game, I was becoming stale on Stars and am currently on a $1k6 downswing there, obviously live results and results elsewhere have compensated for this but I am trying to look for better value, reopened 888 and Pkr accounts and played one or two on there, no cashes but a couple of deep runs which gives me some encouragement.
I put £33 on Sky and played there Bounty Hunter at 8pm tonight, another frustrating night finishing 7/347 for £275, getting it in AQ v A9 by the only guy who could bust me, the 9 binked and although I picked up a flush draw I couldn"t get there. We had been battling all game, the only time he didn"t jam all in was when I flopped a house, sigh.
The Strategy in these seems to be if you hit the flop just jam the lot in, not very subtle, but was ok with me as I chipped up quite easily and got away from marginals without too much damage.
I have left £110 on to play the Sky Roller thing tonight and withdrew the rest, Scoop starts tomorrow, I may plonk the other £150 on there and play the low and medium events today or I might just go and buy a new hat.
I realised a few months ago I was becoming really unfit so have started to get out and about a bit, doing loads of walks round the moors locally really enjoying these although got a bit scary last week when we got lost and bloody grouse were flying out at us every 5 yards, the gamekeeper with his rifle got us back on the right track and we made it back to the pub for a well earned pint, a 1 hour hike turned into a 3 hour wander, typical townies, I blamed my mate as he was in charge of the map, fun times.
The home game returned on Thursday in the old Rileys, not a lot to report apart from its gone really posh, the venue, not us, 2 real tables with drink holders, table tennis tables, snooker and pool, the game itself I finished 4th, think Stuart was 3rd, I didn"t stay to see who won, Gary and Phil F heads up, these don"t run as regular as they used to but it"s good play every now and then.
Anyone playing a scoop schedule ?, waffled on enough, run good, be lucky stay healthy.
