Today was the £80 freezeout event but proceedings did not get off to a great start when the beginning was delayed for 30 minutes due to the big march in town. Still, no worries, with the grand entrance of four PKR players dressed as the teletubbies (they were the bounty players) we were up and running. The whole table was good-natured and I think everyone got into the spirit of things; the only known players to me were Elz442, jimmyfizzels and also a regular Fox Club player who was sitting to my left and who had to put up with most of my twaddle - but it was also nice to be joined by James666 who came bounding to the table with his sumo outfit on.
As things went, I was 99.9% card-dead for the whole tourny. I got very few opportunities to get creative and when I did I was given resistance, mainly by a young fella called apdavies01 who just seemed to like tangling with me for some reason. The best hand I had all tourny was 88 and although I got a double up with this from James666 (when he flipped over the 33), from then on my cards were dead dead dead. I can't actually remember my exit hand clearly but I think it was when I held something like K 10 (my second best hand of the tourny) when I had something like 5 or 6 BBs left.
After this it was onto the cash game tables to get given the same crummy cards that I had been given through the tourny. What do you do when you continually get shovelled the shit for hours on end!? Anyway, I met up with the chap called UwillLose at the cash tables; this was the fella who I met at the Arsenal v Sunderland game. He was quite a character it has to be said but when I went to shake him by the hand I got a real telling off from the women sitting between us who said I shouldn't be waving my hand around near her chips! I kind of took exception to this and tried to reason with her but I was the one who was taken aside with a warning from the floor manager! To be fair, other players were telling me to just drop it as well and I know I probably carried on for longer than was necessary but... there ya go.
After this I sat on kickofff's table with the likes of KKowboy, mrj1210, lugfest369, LockeLamora et al. Again, the cards were dire and so after a while I decided it was best to take my leave. For some reason, I stupidly decided to give The Empire a go and ended up sitting down with £300 at a newly formed £1/£3 table. Needless to say I ended up face down with my head on my stack of chips, half asleep, and was politely asked to leave by the floor manager who said that due to the state I was in he was actually saving me money - which was probably true I suppose.
As always, it was good to meet some of the PKR players and staff in the flesh and it's nice that most of the players tolerate my twaddle at the table. There were just a few cold-shoulders, it has to be said, but these were a very very small minority.
Unfortunately (keeping the negativity going) if you count the £80 for the freezout along with all cash game shenanigens AND the sit 'n' go losses then I have ended up down £300 over the two days. It also means that I am down £230 at the live game for the month of March. Boo. Thankfully despite a little dip recently my online game has generally come on in leaps and bounds this month and have tipped the scales in my favour and into the green for March so far.
P.S. I'm really starting to question whether I just forgot to cash out my chips and left them on the table. I hardly played any hands yet I'm down £200! It doesn't make any sense.
Sunday, 27 March 2011
Live Session #13: PKR Social - Part 1
It's now Sunday afternoon and I'm sitting up in bed with my laptop. I've got one of those horrible colds where the throat is sore and it hurts to swallow. I've got a slight headache and a queezy stomach from over-drinking and my legs are very achey and tired from having walked a long way last night when I fell asleep on the bus and ended up in Bromley - about 6 miles from where I live! I wasn't even quite sure exactly where I was as I slept on the bus the whole way - and the bus stopped in the middle of suburbia somewhere when we got kicked off! (I think it may have been Grove Park.) There were no other buses or taxis in sight and it was bloody freezing so I just had to let my instincts guide me in the right direction. NOT nice.
Anyway, the PKR Social event has come and gone and I think I may have made a bit of a fool of myself yet again. I definitely remember shouting obnoxiously at people from my table on the Saturday and I remember upsetting a certain player who took exception to me reaching across her space to shake someone by the hand. I knew she was very annoyed at me for doing this and I think I provoked her a little bit but at least she didn't end up slapping me in the face - which she certainly looked like she wanted to do.
Things started on the Friday evening with a few mad sit 'n' go formats. I arrived a little early and was told it wasn't opening until 8 o'clock so I popped into a nearby pub with a fella called ZenPagan, who was also outside, and we also got chatting to a guy called ShortfinMako. Back in The Fox, there were four sit 'n' go tables; three-card holdem; a round of each; pairings and some other version where you got extra cards or something (but I didn't play that one). It really was all about having a laugh and meeting new people so it was all good. Results-wise, out of the three I played, I just cashed in the pairings while teamed up with a fella called mrj1210 and so won the £10 back meaning overall I ended up £23 down (counting the £1 fees).
To be honest, Friday night was all a bit of a blur as I drunk quite heavily both on the Friday and the Saturday. There were also just far too many names to recall here on the blog as well - I just don't have the energy to remember every detail so I'll just say there were a lorra lorra laughs. Oh, I ended up having to walk home about two or three miles on the Friday night as well.
Anyway, the PKR Social event has come and gone and I think I may have made a bit of a fool of myself yet again. I definitely remember shouting obnoxiously at people from my table on the Saturday and I remember upsetting a certain player who took exception to me reaching across her space to shake someone by the hand. I knew she was very annoyed at me for doing this and I think I provoked her a little bit but at least she didn't end up slapping me in the face - which she certainly looked like she wanted to do.
Things started on the Friday evening with a few mad sit 'n' go formats. I arrived a little early and was told it wasn't opening until 8 o'clock so I popped into a nearby pub with a fella called ZenPagan, who was also outside, and we also got chatting to a guy called ShortfinMako. Back in The Fox, there were four sit 'n' go tables; three-card holdem; a round of each; pairings and some other version where you got extra cards or something (but I didn't play that one). It really was all about having a laugh and meeting new people so it was all good. Results-wise, out of the three I played, I just cashed in the pairings while teamed up with a fella called mrj1210 and so won the £10 back meaning overall I ended up £23 down (counting the £1 fees).
To be honest, Friday night was all a bit of a blur as I drunk quite heavily both on the Friday and the Saturday. There were also just far too many names to recall here on the blog as well - I just don't have the energy to remember every detail so I'll just say there were a lorra lorra laughs. Oh, I ended up having to walk home about two or three miles on the Friday night as well.
Friday, 25 March 2011
PKR Social Tonight
Tonight, I'm going to head on down to The Fox Poker Club to play some crazy Sit & Go stuff with the PKR faithful. Tomorrow it's the £80 freezeout. As I said in earlier posts, the result of the freezeout on Saturday will go towards the profit and loss of my live balance.
When it comes to tonight's events, I really don't know because it's a one-off and unlike the live sessions that I've encountered before. Therefore, as it stands, I'm undecided as to whether to count it as a proper live game session or just to treat it as a social event without thinking about the money or recording the actual results.
My gut-feeling tells me that as it's a "social" and it really is all about the fun, then recording how much I win or lose just seems a bit daft. There again, I always treat the Fox MTTs as "just a bit of fun" but I always count those results towards my balance. I just don't really know.
When it comes to tonight's events, I really don't know because it's a one-off and unlike the live sessions that I've encountered before. Therefore, as it stands, I'm undecided as to whether to count it as a proper live game session or just to treat it as a social event without thinking about the money or recording the actual results.
My gut-feeling tells me that as it's a "social" and it really is all about the fun, then recording how much I win or lose just seems a bit daft. There again, I always treat the Fox MTTs as "just a bit of fun" but I always count those results towards my balance. I just don't really know.
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
And The Spew Goes On
Jesus, it's just carrying on. I've decided to put a stop-loss limit on for the month and will call a halt to online poker playing proceedings, for the month of March, should I fall to a monthly profit of £500. Thanks to a great start to the month, I guess I should really be happy that I'm in this position in the first place but I still could have done without these recent spewing sessions. This gives me around just £50 ($80) to donk around with for the rest of the month - but I do just feel I need to put the breaks on a little at the moment.
This way, I can, at least, say that my online profit for the year will be in the green come 1st April and that, psychologically speaking, I can start April in a happier place than if I started in the red. To be honest, I'm having a tough time at work at the moment and I think this is affecting my game and just making me play badly. I've actually cashed-out the £500; again, psycholigically, banking this to make me feel that I've actually accomplished something at the online game.
On a more cheerful note, the PKR social event is fast approaching. On Friday 25th, I'll be making my way to The Fox to play some Sit n Goes and then on Saturday it'll be the main £80 event. I will need to knock £80 off my live poker balance for the Saturday event but I'm still undecided whether to include cash won or lost at the Friday night shenanigens in my overall live balance or whether to just keep this separate as normal outgoing expenses for entertainment. I just dunno yet.
For reasons not really appropriate for this blog, there are issues happening at work at the moment which might mean that I'm not coming across as my cheerful self - but I certainly won't let this dampen my spirits come the weekend. Hopefully, all will be well in the long run.
This way, I can, at least, say that my online profit for the year will be in the green come 1st April and that, psychologically speaking, I can start April in a happier place than if I started in the red. To be honest, I'm having a tough time at work at the moment and I think this is affecting my game and just making me play badly. I've actually cashed-out the £500; again, psycholigically, banking this to make me feel that I've actually accomplished something at the online game.
On a more cheerful note, the PKR social event is fast approaching. On Friday 25th, I'll be making my way to The Fox to play some Sit n Goes and then on Saturday it'll be the main £80 event. I will need to knock £80 off my live poker balance for the Saturday event but I'm still undecided whether to include cash won or lost at the Friday night shenanigens in my overall live balance or whether to just keep this separate as normal outgoing expenses for entertainment. I just dunno yet.
For reasons not really appropriate for this blog, there are issues happening at work at the moment which might mean that I'm not coming across as my cheerful self - but I certainly won't let this dampen my spirits come the weekend. Hopefully, all will be well in the long run.
Sunday, 20 March 2011
Spew! Spew! Barney Mcgrew...
...Cuthbert! Dibble! Grub!
That was Captain Flack's roll-call at the beginning of every episode to Trumpton which was a TV programme for kids way back in the good ol' 70s. (Well, he actually said "Pugh! Pugh! Barney Mcgrew..." but you get the idea.) Check out the way the fire engine tears dangerously down the streets of Trumpton on the way to an emergency in the opening clip. That roll-call has been indelibly stamped on my memory from when I used to watch it meself on my days off from school - great stuff.
Rubbish.
That was Captain Flack's roll-call at the beginning of every episode to Trumpton which was a TV programme for kids way back in the good ol' 70s. (Well, he actually said "Pugh! Pugh! Barney Mcgrew..." but you get the idea.) Check out the way the fire engine tears dangerously down the streets of Trumpton on the way to an emergency in the opening clip. That roll-call has been indelibly stamped on my memory from when I used to watch it meself on my days off from school - great stuff.
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Anyway, it had to happen I suppose and I guess today had to be the day. I still think I must be on some sort of "winning tilt" because after a very good start to the month and waking up to around a $1350 profit in my PKR account this morning, I managed to spew a cool $300 today and I'm now looking at a $1050 profit instead.Rubbish.
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