Cash is King!

Apologies for the lack of posts, but to be honest, there aren't enough hours in the day and there's nothing much (of any interest) to report. Also the missus's money is now down to purely SMP, so she's spending even more of mine than usual!!!

Not bet on anything since the Dessert Classic Darts.

I went fishing the Thursday before last for the weekend, which I thoroughly enjoyed, but the two youngest kids have been really poorly so not much has happened other than looking after them. The five year old Alfie has had tonsillitis and the five month old baby Gabriel has had some virus, with terrible high temperatures, a rash and the most awful cough. It's always a lot more scary when they are so little, especially as you are limited to what the can take medication wise.

I have played a little on-line poker but to no avail and I really am getting awfully pissed off with it. I am really happy with my play but as has always been lose 9/10 times with the best hand. I managed to get out to play live on Thursday at Napoleons in Sheffield, where numbers have been slowly dwindling over recent months. I was even finding it difficult to motivate myself to go, when my mate Keith the builder, who hasn't been out for weeks due to uncertainty with work slowing down, rang me to say he was going and my mojo was re-perked.(It gets highly tedious going on your own every week and listening to your own bad beat stories on the way back in the wee hours)

Due to the lack of numbers over recent months we are in no rush to get there and also they have recently altered the format so new players can join in the first hour, with a total of 2 hours of rebuys. So we arrive at 9.30ish expecting no problems in getting in when the £10+1 NLHR only started at 9.10ish. How wrong we were, miraculously the room was nearly full with 86 runners already and no spare seats. With a reserve list of 8 we managed to talk the card room manager into putting another table with one of us offering to deal it, as they only had 7 dealers and one table was already self-dealing.

The tourney was fairly uneventful for me with only 1 rebuy and an addon, I went out not long after the blinds had gone 200/400 with a stack of 4200 when dealt 88 I shoved from early to mid and was duly battered by QQ one seat to my left. Keith was fairing much better and after kicking about winning £80 on roulette and £50 on the 3-card poker, I noticed a NLH cash game was starting so went to play that. They were playing £1\£2 with a minimum £50 sit down and the action was crazy with live blind straddle's nearly every hand. Some baby faced assassin sat down with just over 50 notes, who looked no older than 15 (I must be getting old) and made £800+ in 2 hands. The 1st he had AJ on a J high flop and wasn't at all worried when 4 people called his £50 reraise on the flop and his allin on the turn and it stood up. very next hand he rode his rush and managed to get a 4 way allin this time for £200+ and duly rivered his nut flush; and proceeded to tip the dealer (which is custom as it's not a house dealer) only £2!!! Obviously no-one commented (HA HA!)

Keith managed to fight all the way to bubble 11th for £60 at 4.20am (LOL!), in which time I managed to sneak under the radar with all the fuss over the young kid and turn my £50 into £570 an amazing nights work, can't wait to do it again, they were mostly total loons, asian guys with too much cash chasing any flush all the way to the river for £100+

It was the best cash session I've had since an £800 win the vic when I went with Richard (RickyZ) Robinson when he was playing the British open years ago.

Lets hope it's the start of a nice run on poker, it's not before time!!!