Keeping Warm in Winter

[AAroddersAA]

Playing really badly at the moment by the way. Just went out of the Omaina just inside the money with the average stack of just under 30k I start the hand with 48k with a good shot of hitting the final table. I call a raise with 4 cards, the flop comes down 8-8-9r he cheats, I raise. He then 3 bets my raise so I should fold and still have an above average stack. I don"t fold I call with no good reason and no plan. He shoves the turn so I call for no reason knowing there is no way I can win gg lol.

[Bigfella42]

Playing really badly at the moment by the way. Just went out of the Omaina just inside the money with the average stack of just under 30k I start the hand with 48k with a good shot of hitting the final table. I call a raise with 4 cards, the flop comes down 8-8-9r he cheats, I raise. He then 3 bets my raise so I should fold and still have an above average stack. I don"t fold I call with no good reason and no plan. He shoves the turn so I call for no reason knowing there is no way I can win gg lol.

No wonder you lost the hand  

[AAroddersAA]

Playing really badly at the moment by the way. Just went out of the Omaina just inside the money with the average stack of just under 30k I start the hand with 48k with a good shot of hitting the final table. I call a raise with 4 cards, the flop comes down 8-8-9r he cheats, I raise. He then 3 bets my raise so I should fold and still have an above average stack. I don"t fold I call with no good reason and no plan. He shoves the turn so I call for no reason knowing there is no way I can win gg lol.

No wonder you lost the hand  

Stupid ipad predictive text or whatever it is called lol. Speaking of which I need a new Andriod tablet, can anybody recommend something good? Anyway was crap due to being bored whilst playing.

Watched the Champions League final last night and have to say I think this Barcalona team might be the best Barca team ever. Probably the greatest front line ever with Messi, Neymar and Suarez. We are lucky to be able to watch them in the era, pretty sure they would tear the premier league a new one, head and shoulders above.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gApaq-QyTJs

Playing online tonight, not a very successful day yesterday only played a few tournament games and lost about $25 playing little games. Should have done better really. Got the APAT games tonight and will play a little bit on Stars and FTP as well whilst having the Grand Prix on the the background. Hope Ferrari win but somehow doubt it.

Edit: Just did exactly the same thing as last night in the APAT main event, making two very bad bets on the turn and the river with basically nothing in a spot where it was never getting through. If I could stop doing that I would be doing a lot better at the moment lol

[AAroddersAA]

Fun week so far this week. Work has been busy and I have just found out about a nice new job within the company working from home dealing with our partnership sites in India with a couple of trips out there each year. It fits in with what I do perfectly so am busily improving my CV by tailoring it to that role and speaking to people who work within that team to try and get in. Likely to have over 100 applicants, but you gotta be in it to win it. Delhi and Pune are strange places, last time I was in Delhi I as in what was basically a 5 Star hotel but around the corner there was a shanty town, just reminds you that the phrase "first world problems" is a very real one.

I have a week off work (actually a week and two days) and planning a bit of a poker schedule for that along with some other stuff including the trip to Yarm. Want to write up a good schedule before hand though. I will likely play a local live game the first Sunday I am off and try and fit another one in before heading up to Stockton Massive land. I am pretty famlar with the games on Pokerstars and FTP but are there any good online games that people recommend on any other sites? I don"t want to just spend loads of time playing cash games. Anything in the £5 to £25 range really for week days/evenings.

Played a $11 Tournament online the other night on Stars and got down to the last 100 out of 2300 with a top 10 stack before getting it all in pre with KK against a bigger stack, he had AA but thats a really standard spot anyway. Not in work today as working Saturday so will try and play a few this afternoon I think.

[AAroddersAA]

I am not a massive fan of the Wales football team, I was though very impressed by the performance on Friday evening in the game with Belgium. Every player did his job and their work rate was excellent. The win was an amazing result and means that there is a good chance of Wales actually making Euro 2016. If they do I will be making the trip to France next year I am sure. Might even have to buy a jersey, never owed a Welsh football shirt. Other good events this weekend include Le Mans 24 hour race.

Played a few online poker tournaments this week for a small loss ran deep in a couple and played OK. Played a bit of Zoom cash last night managed to nick a little profit of just over a buyin in the /25c game, getting AA vs AK on a King high flop helped. That game is getting really tough lately so many regs in the pool. Quite ridiculous at that level, so much harder than any 50//£1 live game you would find anyway in this country.

Going to flick in some poker online today, only small ones.

11:30 The Hotter $3.30
12:30 The Hotter $4.40
12:35 PL Omaha $4.40
12:45 NL Holdem 1K Gtd $4.40
14:00 The Bigger $5.50
14:45 2.5K Gtd $3.30
15:05 Omania $5.50

Will probably add in a few 180 manners as well. Outside chance I will decide to go and play the 6pm at Grovsnor in Swansea depending on how I feel later.

[AAroddersAA]

Football Fixtures are out for the new season.

Newport County start their season away to Cambridge, this is not an easy start to the season at all and given that we are currently a club without a chairman, an academy manager, any back room staff and.... well a team to actually play the games, we may not have the best of starst again this year. Fair play to Terry Butcher who I think has been put in a difficult position however if you offered us 22nd in League Two this year I think most of us would take it. If we can survive the season I think things will improve vastly going forward but ready for a tough season. The pick of the Premiership Fixtures on the opening weekend are Chelsea Vs Swansea and Man Utd Vs Tottenham. The season is still 2 months away which will fly by I am sure.

Pokerwise I have played a little bit online mostly around the $5 level. Won a small one today the hand that really put me on my way is below (this is called making the wrong move at the right time)

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/14832395_4A046E02BE

[pokerpops]

NH, wp    

[AAroddersAA]

NH, wp    

Thought I played it well. Bet sizing was perfect to win the max innit

[AAroddersAA]

Today is the first day of 11 days off work for me (yippee). I have a few things planned including and important trip to the Kingdom on Stockton-on-Tees to catch up with some legends including Ger Smyth, Stu Ward, Matt Ward, Phil Fryer, Brian Harland and with a big of luck the APAT legend that is Phil_TC. There is a tournament there at some time on Thursday night but seeing as I get into Yarm station at around 2pm and meeting up with Stu and Ger pretty much straight away the chance of us turning up sober are.... well non existent. Looking forward to drinks in the Eagle and the Black Bull. I know some other people including Carl are coming up for the poker game so should be good

On Tuesday I have to go to Cardiff in the morning so will be visiting Cardiff Bay that afternoon/evening and doing some reconnaissance for the APAT trip at the end of October. Should really book the Friday night in the Hotel for that one. Might try out the casino tomorrow night to see if it has improved at all since we last used it a couple of years ago. Never been a fan but got to give it a chance  suppose.

Will be playing some online as well whilst I am off although I am thinking that the weather is too nice to be sitting on playing poker every day. No matter will get on it today.

[AAroddersAA]

[AAroddersAA]

lol

So last night was going OK. I cashed in the Omania and the first ipoker one and had some OK stacks in the Storm and the deep stack. Managed to get up to about 200K in chips in the deep stack with the average about 50K, thought I was running nicely. Then my Internet disconnects, I reboot the modem which does not come back online. Great. I send a text message and find out my area of Swansea has gone down. Great timing, the first time it drops offline in 5 years. I set my phone to be a wireless hotspot and my laptop refuses to connect. I turn on my desktop and try that, still won"t connect. Ipad and Hudl also fail. The only think in my house that actually has an Internet connection is my phone itself...... Which is a Windows phone so I can"t put the Pokerstars app on it.

I give up and go to sleep, checked this morning I cashed for about $30 in the deep stack but could have been a lot better, needless to say Internet connection and phone are now working fine.. I can"t even complain to my ISP or mobile provider *lol*

[AAroddersAA]

Couple of deep runs tonight but came to basically nothing. Came about 80th in the Big $8.80 and about 60th in the $11 Deep Stack. Small profit but pretty happy with how I played for the most part, a couple of hands I played badly but I suppose there will always be some.

[AAroddersAA]

So had an interesting couple of days if you can all it that *lol* I had to nip into work to compete a presentation for a project I want to be involved in which didn"t go that great but was probably ok enough. I then nipped off to Cardiff Bay as the sun was out and some mates were down there drinking. It was really hot and humid and I noticed not feeling that great as I got there but assumed I would feel better once I got to the pub. Now I should have had something to eat but basically just drank two bottles of cider in about 10 minutes with ice. Didn"t cool me down and made me feel sick. I decided the answer here was to have a pink of Guinness the upshot of this was that I decided to go home as I did not want to feel ill going to Yarm the next day. That didn"t work and I spent the rest of the afternoon and evening being quite ill. Could not sleep but to be fair to me I made an attempt to get up and get ready for Yarm, I gave up shortly and texted the lad to say I would be unable to make the game this evening. I eventually fall to sleep for 8 hours wake up, grab some food and have magically got better. It is now 4pm though. I check flights to Newcastle to see if I can get to Stockton quickly enough to make it worthwhile no flights. I check trains but they take forever and it will take about 7 hours to drive. I abandon plans to hit Yarm yesterday.

The good news is I am writing this on the train on my way to Yarm planned ETA of 2pm. Gutted to miss Carl and Emma who were there last night but can catch up with the locals including the Ward brothers and Phil Fryer and with a bit of luck Mr TC!!! With a bit of luck Ger will make it too.

Good luck to Carl, Tom, Bamber, Grant, Duffy and Ross and anybody else I know who is playing the APAT this weekend as well.

[AAroddersAA]

A nice lady I work with in Swansea has made National news today due to trying to help her mother.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brave-daughters-raising-money-pay-6070702

I have known about this for a while but was surprised it got picked up by the national press. Is it really such a big thing that somebody with a terminal disease wishes to end their life with dignity and without having their family watch them suffering before death. I think it is very brave of them to support their mum with this. They had even arranged a "ladies night" this coming weekend to help with the fund raising. All good and I made a donation on the fund raising page but not something that had really caught my interest until today.

Due to some people poking in their nose where they are not required they have had to cancel the fund raiser because they have been warned by the police that if they go ahead with this they could be prosecuted and face up to 14 years in prison and also had to put up with other people who have no involvement sticking in their two cents because they don"t approve? Really - I mean wtf, this is beyond crazy. Surely people who wish to end their own life should be allowed to do so. That is all.

Not going to say anything poker related this week.

[AAroddersAA]

Think the Micro Millions gotta be worth a punt on Stars today. Will have a look at that, played the PLO on it yesterday and got a cash of $6.60 (yeah - go me!!). I like the look of the 3-stack game (Event 29)

Will also play some of the Deep stack events as I seem to be OK at those at the moment for some reason.

In other news I think 8/1 On Middlesbrough to win the Championship is quite good so have gone a £25 for my season long football bet despite Stu"s advice. Should get a good run at it. Newport County beat Torquay 3-1 away yesterday and played quite well for a brand new team, getting more confident of a solid mid table finish even though it will still be a tough first few months.