Tales of the Honeybadger

[Honeybadg]

Betfair $50k ... card dead ... I patiently wait for the AA ... get it all in pre to triple up vs JJ ... but get spiked ...

Perhaps my last hand pre Nottingham??

L

[ck1888]

Pish blog.....

Really looking forward to next week and catching up.

Chris.

[NewLimproved]

Iv missed over 90 pages!
Can i tune it?... I dont think so

[Honeybadg]

Pish blog.....

Really looking forward to next week and catching up.

Chris.

Smile - looking forward to playing some great cards - currently on train to London - pondering whether I can hack another attempt at the Sunday Warm Up??

Classic Sunday - hire 3/4 movies and hope I am still alive as they finish!

Feels like an incredibly long time since last at DTD - one year ago.

Even thinking back to Newcastle and the Home Internationals seems a long time ago.

Need some Silverware ...

... and more immediately some golf bets on the go!

L

[Honeybadg]

Not long to go now ... two more full days of work and then off to Nottingham ...

[Honeybadg]

Day 1 of Team Event.

Solid 44 points - Leaders have 55

Individually 14 points

NLHE 5th : losing AQ into Qxx vs AA and AQ vs AT in successive hands
PLO 5th : losing AAxx vs QQxx after epic card dead run

Heads Up to wins ...

Middle of the pack ... but everyone in play ...

L

[Honeybadg]

Day 2 - No Mistakes made - but not enough to help win Scotland a medal.

NLHE 2nd : Ousted KK vs Q6s - lots of Q"s on the board
MTT : 6th : Short Stack throughtout - waited patiently - the final shove J6 into 76 - but no joy with a 7 on the flop ...

4 exits - all in when ahead - yet top individual points scorer - but 4th place and no medal.

I guess you always look to learn something from such events - there were marginal hands to play differently - but little really that I would change beyond cards standing up.

Main Event to come - who knows where my head will be for that?

Strange to be typing this at 5.40am - one tournament to bed - with another to rise tomorrow!

Interesting chat in the bar - poker hands and ranges - and the ability to sometimes get away from coolers and then come back to win.

Some talk about the structure of the event too.

In truth I wouldn"t do a lot to it - points could be tweaked and stacks made deeper - antes could be brought in earlier to create more play - but in the end Wales" MTT prowess shines through again to take down the win.

Time for bed and to dream of raising hands of all shapes and sizes!

L

[Honeybadg]

Next up - how to win the Main Event on 2hrs40 sleep ...

I really don"t do late nights - but good to be leaving the bar just past 5am.

Key question - Is Red Bull or Guinness the solution?

Battle plan is in place.

FTW

L

[Honeybadg]

Main Event ... no joys ...

Tried to play allsorts but missed everything ... finally getting ousted with KK vs AA (JJ also folded) ... don"t think I folding that.

Great eccles cake on the way home ...

L

[Honeybadg]

... the Eccles cake now a faint memory ... starting to ponder the Sunday Warm up ...

Athletics betting off to a good start - opposing Farah in the 10000m - lost by a whisker - not the way I thought it would go (losing to the fast finishing Jelian) but I"ll take the money ... perhaps the pre-amble to Olympic victory ...

Next up Yohan Blake to beat Usain Bolt??? 13/1 is massive - in what should be a close race - I expect Blake will run 9.80 - so by how much can Bolt beat that??

Should be a great race ...

L

[Honeybadg]

WALLOP!

Bolt is the man ... look left ... look right ... then produce a massive false start!

13/1 become 1/2 in a flicker ...

+£759 on the day ...

GAME ON!

L

[Honeybadg]

... okay let"s keep these things going ... Newcastle vs Fulham - correct score 0-0 ... go for a walk and come back to some further winnings ...

[Honeybadg]

... obviously betting 0-0 correct scores is an ocassional hobby ...

Hard to believe Man City were 6/4 to win at to Spurs ... a reasonable missed opportunity ... could have been closer ... Dzeko superb ... going forward City both precise and powerful ...

Had a little bet on there being a penalty in the Hearts vs Hibs game.

Pondering having a lump on Man U but 2/5 is weak (or maybe about right!)

Sunday Warm Up has just begun ...

L

[Honeybadg]

Sunday Warm Up ...

Great start playing every hand before trapping the now disbelivers with a set ... 37.7k vs 15.5k ... even managed to lay down the overpair vs top set for a min loss ... but back to reality with my set getting gobbled up with a set between by a 4 to a flush nonsense ... time to re-group 23.3k vs 18.6k ...

Table captaincy over ... back to the semi-grind forward ...

[Honeybadg]

Break 3

20.2 vs 24.6k : 300/600 (60) : Total Runners 3130 : Left 1280 : Probably 475 paid : But amusingly you can still enter!

No pressure yet - but a shame to not have a dominate stack due to a ropey flush - I could have killled the action but I don"t think that is usually my plan.

Struggling for live sport to take in interest in ...