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poker_diary
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DannyH
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Balance from previous year +£950
Balance for this year so far +£320
Life total so far +£1270
All live games will be included. Only internet cash-ins and deposits included although pokerstars account currently stands at +$150
(I'm Rubberfish on stars by the way)
Wish me luck...
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040519
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DannyH
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-£90
Year so far +£230
Life total so far +£1180
At the gutshot cardroom on Clerkenwell Rd. The Friday night £10 plus rebuys no limit hold 'em game attracts 86 runners. Tables spill out into the bar upstairs. Our hero decides to gamble it up in the rebuy period to try and grab a few chips. Net result: three rebuys and a top up to wind up with less than starting chips at the break. A couple of steals takes the stack back up to about a thousand when A 10 comes. The table's resident maniac calls and it looks like the perfect place to make a stand. I go all in. The maniac thinks a long time before calling with K J. You know the rest of the story. He hits his jack on the flop and I tap the table twice and stand up.
I compound my £50 loss in the tournament with two £20 "sit and go" games. A sit and go is a one table tournament in which first place gets %70, second %30 and the rest, like me, walk half a mile to the night bus stop instead of getting a taxi.
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040522
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DannyH
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-£82
year so far +£148
life total so far +£1092
Busted out of a £10 plus rebuys tournament at gutshot. I flat call with KQ in late position. Flop comes Q J 5 with two spades. It's checked to me and I bet half my stack. One caller: wily old scotsman who loves to trap. Another spade comes down. He checks. I don't like the look of it but I'm too low stacked not to go the whole way. He calls and of course he's got two spades in his hand. J 6. If I'd bet it before the flop he'd never have been there. No-one to blame but myself. That was £30 lost in total. £2 more went in a cash game.
The other fifty was lost playing in the pub down the road. Kept getting drawn out on by the calling station to my left and raised out of pots by the very aggressive player opposite. Failure to adjust my play to the style of the opposition my major downfall.
Rather unpleasant pattern emerging since starting this blathe...
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040610
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DannyH
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+ £28
Year to date + £176
Life balance + £1120
Home game with the hardcore players. Played the first couple of hours like an idiot and lost my whole £30 buy-in. Bought in for another £30 and pulled myself together. Two hours later I was back up and proceeded to go on tilt. Final hand of the night, I'm holding 9 9 and I get re-raised all-in before the flop by Alex of all people. I call, which is one of the dumbest things I've ever done. There is no way Alex would make that move with anything less than what he had 10 10. The board comes down 567 with two diamonds. One of my 9s is a diamond. Alex hasn't got one. The next card comes another diamond and Alex's face goes from sympathy to bracing for impact. River card - an eight! Alex gets up from the table and stomps out of the room. I can't believe I've done it to him again. There is no way to apologise. Still, they all count...
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040614
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DannyH
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-£58
year + £118
life + 1062
Two nights of lousy cards at Gutshot.
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040619
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minnesota_chris
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I've been gambling with two kids from church. Because I'm a good role model, that's why. The first round we were sitting in the church cafe, and we were gambling coasters with Bible verses on them. We'd read the verse and ante. That was fun, we called it Jesus Poker.
The next time, we were at home. We gambled with Beanie Baby Cards. But I had drunk a little wine and was saying how I was going to own them by the end of the night. So I got out little pieces of paper and wrote the names of the two of them, and my own name. Then I asked them how many Beanie Baby cards their lives were worth. The younger sister, I said "Your whole life is in front of you. I say you're worth at least 25 beanie Baby cards." So her card, with her name on it, was worth 25 Beanie Baby cards. The other sister and myself decided we were worth 10 Beanie Baby cards.
Then we gambled. And when we were out of Beanie Baby cards, we threw ourselves into the pot. At one point I ended up owning one of the sisters (I told her I was going to keep her in my car), but she ended up owning ME, and then her sister ended up owning us both. Stupid pair of jacks.
So, if I were to do a tally, it would be
My Life: -1
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040619
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DannyH
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+£35
year + £153
life + 1097
$50 deposited in pokerstars account after dreadful run of being too pissed to play like a human being. £65 won at the cardroom. Real life is where it's at.
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040705
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DannyH
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OOps. Should be life +£1103
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040705
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DannyH
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+£130
year + £283
life +£1233
Tasty little home game at Alex's flat on the top of Crouch Hill. We can see all of London from here. The sun is going down doing that trick you see on the front of all those christian science magazines. All we see is cards and faces. Early carelessness slides into one of those last hour reverses that leave me utterly ignorant as to where it all went right.
Better still, the Sunday night satellite at Gutshot nets me a seat in the £250 buy in tournament at the end of the month for an outlay of £15. No re-buys for our hero this time. Shrugging off suggestions of a deal. "I want a seat." I said and proceeded to blast the patronising old Scottish git on my right out of the water with a 4 9 he should never have let me play. When poker is this good, who needs life?
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