Tuesday 24 November 2009

It’s Oh So Quiet

As you can probably judge from the increased number of blog entries, work is pretty quiet at the moment. With the company being up for sale, a lack of clear price trend in the markets and Christmas approaching, there appears to be something of a “what we have, we hold mentality” going on.

I played some tournaments on Friday. I made the last two tables of the $50 1r 1a on Full Tilt and cashed in the $80k guaranteed on Stars (I was amongst the chip leaders for a while and had 9,000 chips after two hands when people threw chips at me like they were on fire) but failed to win crucial 60/40s. I managed to play most of the evening in a fairly zen state and even managed to type “nh gg” when busting in the 80k when someone shoved J7hh into my AJ and flopped a flush.

I then played some really good HU for a while on Sunday, played for far too long, got tilty and went from $300 profit to a $100 loss fairly quickly and hated myself for it. That said I switched back to Ipoker *spit* on Monday night and played a reasonably long $50NL session without getting tilty at any point.

Outside of work I’ve returned to the gym and an working on being less of a fat cunt. Wonderflop is doing the same thing but has some lame routine involving salads and fruit juice, which sounds a lot like hard work to me. Hopefully he’ll be back on two pizzas for lunch fairly soon to make me feel a lot better about myself.

On a more serious note, I was pleased to see Wayne’s coach confirm that he’d been running like total shit. We regularly go through his sessions and the poor bastard did seem to keep getting violated by either getting massively coolered or sucked out on in every big pot – stuff like this can really knock your confidence so it is reassuring to have a guy that knows (and virtually every source possible confirms that his coach should know).

West Ham contrived to throw a two goal lead away at Hull on Saturday and eventually drew 3-3. Clattenburg awarded a penalty that wasn’t even close to being one and Bullard scored a doubled deflected free kick. We really need to tighten up at the back and concede less from set pieces, but we did look somewhat unlucky. Upson and possibly Behrami are rumoured to be off in January (Upson hasn’t looked all too interested in the last few games) – we can’t continue to sell good players, not replace them and simply hope that everyone around us continues to be shit. Da Costa has been a pleasant surprise at centre-back so far though, so I hope his form continues.

We play Burnley at home next Saturday. I’m looking forward to it – there are four of us going, including a mate of mine who is (I think) Head of Online Gaming at William Hill. He normally has some good poker related gossip, so I’m looking forward to catching up as he lives in Gibraltar and I don’t see him too often. On Sunday I am going for lunch with my parents and Lucy’s parents, which hopefully won’t be too painful.

I spoke to a couple of people at a social gathering on Saturday and sorted out my best man for my wedding. We also agreed on a possible joint stag do in Amsterdam, where I am likely to be hugely violated by my “friends” so two months may not be enough to recover for the wedding.

Good luck at the tables.

2 comments:

  1. Good to have you back on ipoker. Now you just need to make the change to 6max and we are all sorted to go on a durrrr & Galfond type run.

    My heathly eating is not that hard tbh. I'm not eating salads either you clown just Juicing for breaky. Hard bit for me if getting out of bed in the morning but i'm hardly alone there.

    Amsterdam for the stag do! ;-). Expect Lucy to hear something more along the lines of "Going to the countryside for a quite weekend at some health spa to recharge my batteries" I'll translate that into male for the rest of you reading this "Going to the porn capital of europe for to get pissed as a fart, stoned as can be and go roaring up anything that has a red light close to it, waiter 2 of your special scones please!"

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  2. I went to the Dam for my Stag doo too! Fucking awesome time was had by all apart from the minor miss hap of a couple of the guys getting totally mashed on shroomz and trashing one of the hotel rooms!!! You know it's gonna be a good old bash though when you walk into reception to check in and the lobby TV is showing some serious pr0n. Of course, that might have something to do with the hotel being smack bang in the red light district though... Only wish I could remember the name of the place... sigh!

    WTF?!?!?! West Ham actually won? AND scored 5 goals??? How much did you boys pay the ref for that one? I can't believe the draw we got in the FA Cup! Now we just have to get past the mighty Kettering and it's off to Old Trafford we go... STAND UP, IF YOU HATE THE SCUM!

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