Manchester came and went, lasted longer than last year but after peaking at 30k, didn"t win a significant hand in level 3,4 and 5, AK was my down fall had said hand 3 x played them all 3 ways, 3 bet, limped, called lost all of them, then jammed 88 (17 bigs) into AK, lost the flip, fun game though.
Had to laugh when someone gets 65 bigs in with K7 diamonds v AA, ofc he gets there hitting 2 pair on the river, excuse was boredom, this was in the 2cd level, 45 mins in.
Had a tilt issue on Sunday for the first time in ages, I was playing a few games online and just went off it for some reason and started ranting and raving, apologised to the missus for ranting and raving like a lunatic went for a walk and decided to play the Sky bounty hunter at 8pm, laptop almost went through the wall as second hand got AA all in v JJ on a 10 high flop, turn was a Jack but got lucky and rivered an Ace.
I went on to direct bubble this one running AQ into AK finishing 34th, 33 paid, made money with bounties though so pays for a few more of these during the week, didn"t tilt accepted it like the grown adult I am.
A few years ago would of played safe and limped into the cash but game has changed a bit, gotta go for the win.
The local schedule has changed from next week and last night was the final Deepstack turbo, start with 25k chips, ( people started moaning for the extra 10% bonus chips), how many chips do people want, 25k more than enough, but we start with 27.5k.
Mondays is going to be Omaha from now on, perhaps a time to learn a new game, we shall see.
Overlay tonight as only 16 runners, luckily didn"t have to re enter when I wasn"t shoved on by a slow played full house, I had made 888 and luckily for me villain only decided to call my river bet, she turned over 77 for a turned house, obviously I could of had quads, can"t be too careful v me as I nearly always have it, allegedly.
Reach break with 20 bigs, no thought poker now, chip up easily as people just do not call unless they have premiums and reach the final table.
Again get shoves through and finally get to a point were I can raise, fold, only 3 paid so need to chip up though, get a decent stack shoving 77 into AK and AQ, 7 first in the window, no sweats, easy game.
We get to 4 handed and a bubble is discussed, but decided to chop it 4 ways, not normally a fan of this but other villains are all decent regs down there and no doubt will see them on a final table again so hopefully this will be reciprocated in future outings, I was chip leader but wasn"t going to moan on for an extra £50/£100, if it was the other 3 non regs left just would of played on for the win.
Fun times at the Riverside on Saturday, it was the best we had played for ages tbh and AKs comments after the game were a bit strange, the atmosphere in the ground was quite good, and the supporters were just encouraging team on, survival is main aim this season but if we go down so be it, tbh rather be in top 6 fighting for promotion than bottom 6 of prem, much more enjoyable, if we do manage to stay up then hopefully kick on next year, get relegated, go again.
Unfortunately can"t make Edinburgh, family do on the Sunday, could just come up and donate on the Saturday but I don"t think that"s the point of poker not a plus ev move, I should be able to make at least 1 game in Manchester probably the £200 not because I am a baller or anything like that it just fits into my schedule, still plenty of time to make a decision on that one.
It"s been a good start to the year, above what I want to earn through poker but with a week to go it may go back down to my average returns.
