Tales of the Honeybadger

[AMRN]

Cold poker exit in the APAT league ...

77 into Q74 vs QQ ... would have been an amazing escape ...

It was cruel Louis - ul.

I went on to lose the chips in two successive hands with AK though - AK < AQ and AK < AT.   They must have been jinxed!

[Honeybadg]

Savage game at the moment ...

Was in the zone a few months back - but need cards to stand up - or you are two hands away from death.

Hard to justify the travel and time - given the horrible ends that so often await.

L

[Honeybadg]

Feels like I am in the wrong place today ... should be in Edinburgh ... but busy trying to make work related hay ...

I was super key to play all the Genting main events this year ... but that might be commuted into playing the end of year main event^2 instead?

Interesting event at the International Club

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/festival.php?a=r&n=10623

£15k g"tee - surely more like £30k with various entry points - 5 starting points and surely carnage - not checked the structure though ...

£50 re-entry means many bullets and play every hand!

L

[Honeybadg]

Ventured out and found a "new" way to lose half my chips ...

I flop the flush draw in position ... I call the bet ... my opponent goes all in ... in the dark ... the flush promoptly appears ... but the turn card fills up his full house ... I then lose the value added "race" ... AK vs JJ vs J8 ... J8 the obvious winner there ...

Happy to re-enter ... next exit Flush draw miss versus top pair ... standard attempt to gather chips ...

Third try ... got to a decent stack ... but no starting hands better then JJ in five hours ... and finally I re-clash with my all in the dark foe ... AJs vs 77 and out ... 5 mins too late for the last tube ... sigh ... got to wonder why they had a break before the last 30 min level of the day ...

Pretty weak turnout really ... will make the £15k g"tee ... but probably not a whole lot more ...

L

[Honeybadg]

APAT

AA vs 44 vs 77 ... 44 always the winner at the moment ... lost a lot of these during the season ... this one inside the money ... two other bigger pairs lost nearing the money in early weeks ... all standard ... earlier lost with AK vs A4 ... standard^2

Earlier in the Warm Up ...

JTs became trips but no good vs the flopped set which became a full house ... I maybe could have escaped with about 11BB ...

... save a better run for something bigger??

Not sure that it works that way ...

Scotland FTW

[Honeybadg]

Saturday is for gently gambling ...

Mervyn King up in a moment - surely too big for the tournament at 25/1

Also finally and too slowly bet on Holland to win Euro 2012 - only 13/2 at Betfair - should have had more ...

[Honeybadg]

Denmark 1 Holland 0

Such a weird game - if the world class Dutch strikers shot it could have been a rout.

Was pondering a monster bet on the Dutch : 14.5/1 now : Seems like a punt if their manager can manage to select their best players which I suppose he will have to now.

1988 - lost game one - won the Championship - big odds.

I love all the chat about how bad their back 4 is - oddly then linked to how England"s back 4 plus GK are the best in the tournament ... Glenn Johnson (a defender???) ... John Terry (not long since Liverpool completely torched him) ... Lescott ... dodge city ... I like Hart and Cole ... and Jagielka could step up ... as could Martin Kelly (doubtful for the opener)

Two tardy 1-0 wins and England are Euro-Beaters

Fascinating Monday to follow ...

[Honeybadg]

Good grief ... dipping my toe back into the poker pools ...

AK vs AA in event 1 ... then need to ram KT into QQ ... KxxxQ

Event 2 - Big $55k

42o into 842 rainbow ... my opponent does the betting ... turn 9 ... he is then all in with A8 ... river A ... 92 Vs 110 BBs at the start of the hand ...

So I limp on with c20BB when I ram AJ into KK and TT ... J on the river ... but no miracle ...

[Honeybadg]

Got to get up early to watch "pages from ceefax" - with accompanying lift music ...

That said better than the BBC News which is debating the definition of "solidarity" ... the German speaker"s version is you need to play by the rules or be punished ... interesting ... overall I do agree ... but it"s not solidarity ... it fairness ... but first one needs stability ...

Not exactly convinced that the US letting Lehmans fail was helpful ... it was probably "fair" ... but now we get 10 years of nightmare ... sometimes you need a fudge to keep the train moving ... once you are off the rails it"s a struggle to drive your train on the mud ...

Back to bed ...

[Honeybadg]

Rather enjoying the cricket this morning ... in front of a sp**** Egbaston crowd ... first number XI to score a fifty versus England for 106 years ...

Inept fielding/captaincy ... where is the edge ...

I know a dead rubber and people rested but there needs to be some sort of a plan ... like having an extra slip ...

Fair play to Strauss for his batting this series - but always a bit robotic as a captain.

[mal666]

Rather enjoying the cricket this morning ... in front of a sp**** Egbaston crowd ... first number XI to score a fifty versus England for 106 years ...

Inept fielding/captaincy ... where is the edge ...

I know a dead rubber and people rested but there needs to be some sort of a plan ... like having an extra slip ...

Fair play to Strauss for his batting this series - but always a bit robotic as a captain.

Ha, sparse      , just testing.

[mal666]

Sparse.    S****horpe.

[mal666]

Any more ?

Sorry for the derail.  

[Honeybadg]

Sp****.    S****horpe.

Amazingly enough I was thinking of testing the concept of a sparse crowd at S****horpe for the cup game vs Arsenal ...

[Honeybadg]

France 1 England 1 ...

... once again a super weird game ... it feels like if England had any confidence they could do quite well ... but once they get 1-0 ahead ... the battle plan is to play ridiculously deep ... the second half was astonishing ... not seen the possession figures get ... feels like 65/35 to France in the second half ...

Lescott"s goal showed pretty clearly that France would struggle to defend any crosses - so why not press that home??

You could easily see England drawing every game and out.

I think someone mentioned that England have failed to beat a top team in a major championship for 10 years!

You can see why ...