Sunday, 7 June 2009

La La La Manga!

I finally gone and booked it up - 4 nights and 3 rounds of golf at La Manga golf resort in Spain! I've been needing a break soo badly, and I don't have long to wait as I'm off in 11 days :) I'm going with the boy Prior, and got ourselves a decent deal. Trying to practise as much as possibly before then, so off to the range shortly. Need to fit in a few rounds in prep too. Yee haw..

Been spending the last week sorting the garden too, and it's not far off. Just a few tidying up jobs and it'll be all ready for a BBQ. Weather is a bit tosh this weekend though, so it might have to wait a week, but I did see the one that I wanted to get: Monster BBQ!

Getting back to the poker, I've started to ramp things up again. I'm back on the FullTilt trail and playing the $30 again. Doing ok since my comeback and long may it continue :) Still have my accounts on LuckyAce, Pacific, PokerStars, Carbon, and Betfair - I'll save signing up for other sites another time, but there aren't many left. Perhaps PKR and something on iPoker could work.

PFU wise, played the last game of the Session last week, and only went and ruddy won the round :) Crushed the final table knocking out at least 7 of them, just couldn't go wrong and hit the right flops. That result pushed me all the way to 2nd in the table and meant I finished about 30 points behind deserved winner Joe. I did win 3 rounds in total though, so quite happy with that, especially with my largely laughed at tight game :) Session III is definitely gonna be a looked forward to event.

Lastly, went to the casino last night with Toobad again. What an f'ing joke. At the break after an add-on I had 6.9k in chips. Came back to find I was 1k chips down! I complained but they talked to me like I was some degenerate gambler who had miscounted his chips. I was not happy chappy. Blah blah you'll just have to carry on they said. So I told them I wanted my money back for my £20 add on, which after a bit of initial resistance I got back and told them I was done with the place. I carried on with my short stack though not really caring any more. Managed to bump my stack up, but after playing a few hands on a new table I pushed AQ for about 5k. The button insta-called, and then the BB oh'd and ah'd before deciding to call her all in too. Button turns over AJ and BB turns over A6s! Of course the board turns a 6 and rivers a J, and I was on my way home. Complete waste of my time and energy. Might stick to online for a while.

Right off to hit some balls in this crappy weather (that's dedication eh!), before sponging Sunday dinner off my Bro :) Laters...

Monday, 1 June 2009

Playing Tosh

Well it's been a mixed week, with me on the realisation that I've been playing some rubbish poker. It doesn't help that I've got no set poker home at the moment. I opened an account on Lucky Ace but there's just so little traffic flying through there it's difficult to get a game. PokerStars is ok, but I guess I still don't like the GUI much. I even resorted to a game on Carbon and Betfair the other day - madness!

The PFU barraged the new 888 15k challenge on Friday, and a couple of guys went deep, but I didn't get a great deal of joy. Toobad persuaded me to go to the casino again on Saturday, and I bombed out quite early in the £20 second chance, only to win my money back playing the cash game. After giving my bro a lift back from town and chomping on a Miss Millies I got the most unusual phone call - Toobad had only gone and got down to the final 3 and they all did a deal. Top bombing!

Played golf yesterday, but after my recent good form the wheels well and truly fell off! I'm sure I can put it right with a little range session, but it just goes to show how much variance and tilt there is golf. With the sun shining, I'm also on the verge of booking a golfing weekend up possibly in Spain or Portugal. Should be able to get some good deals in June.

Working from home again mostly this week, but am attempting to get the garden up to scratch. Potentially buy a new BBQ and have a bit of a party at the weekend. Be a shame to waste the sun :)