Coining it in…
April 30, 2007
Well another weekend has gone by, and I’m pleased to say that it was a profitable one for me! So let’s go through the diary….
Thursday 26th - The 2nd game of the forums sit and go league took place and whadda ya know? The Blasphemers took it down again! Flibinite (Annie) just pipping the Dog who played for The Vikings. The Blasphemers stretch their lead, now sitting on 10 points.
Friday 27th - A day away from poker today. My wife has left the country, and I’ve got the kids to look after. Thank God sh’s coming back soon!
Saturday 28th - Global Gaming Events in association with the OFC held another forum challenge. 98 players paid $5 for cash prizes and the chance to win a trip to Mexico. I was in the zone for the full game, but the blinds froze at 300/600 and I ended up playing for 5 hours. A complete joke for this type of thing to happen. If the blinds incremented as they should have, I would have slaughtered them and taken 1st place. But after 5 hours I just got bored and tired and then played virtually every hand in the hope that I take people out or be taken out myself. I ended up in 4th place claiming $49 for my efforts, and a $27 satellite entry for the weekly $150K event at Vegas Poker. WTG To Arizona for making the final table too.
Later, decided to play the forum game for a small but dainty $2. After two huge suckouts against the boss I became chipleader early on. Went on to win against Netty after a tremendous battle. My slowplayed pocket Kings against her A5 on a board of K86AA. Another $12 odd to the kitty.
Sunday 29th - Went to the footbal to see my team, Celtic, beaten 3-1 by the Jam Tarts, but was only really there for the party. Celtic lifted the League Championship trophy for the 2nd season in a row, after winning in the dying seconds of the game against Killie. Here’s how they won it, along with authentic japanese commentary! 
Champions!
Later in the day, I played the $400 freeroll that the forum won in a recent OFC challenge. All those that played for the forum was invited to play this game. It lasted almost 3hours and I went heads up with Blagger. I had a good chiplead. When the final hand arrived, it was a belter! I raised on the small blind and Blagz tells me hes going all-in, which he duly does. Unknown to him, I had THE hand! All I said to him was, “I’ve just opened the portal!” Oh-oh came the reply as I called and showed pocket 6’s against his pocket 2’s. The flop and turn helped no-one, but the river popped up that 3rd 6. How ironic that the original messenger of the portal is gazzumped by the 
. A nice little $100 profit for the win with a spirited Blagz, bagging $75.
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So, That was my weekend. Unfortunately, a agame I played tonight didn’t go according to plan. I should never have played it as I had just woken up…. bad move. But I don’t care as I made a total profit of just short of $155 plus my $7 in entry fees back. A good weekend as far as I’m concerned…..
Till next time…..
This week…
April 26, 2007
Tuesday seen the start of the Sit and Go League in the forum. As I said in my last entry, I’ve tried to cover all bases in regards to this to make sure it all runs smoothly. Only time will tell, but if the first game was anything to go by there shouldn’t be too many issues.
I played a few games over the weekend but had very little luck. But I did win a 27 player sit and go that also seen Netsson, Blagz and The Dog enter. To tell you the truth, I have no idea how I won it as I had had quite a few beverages of the alcoholic kind by that point. I had intended to have a coffee midway through the night but kept on returning to the comp with another beer. And I can vaguely remember talk of sex toys…. but I’ll keep that for another day!
By the end of the weekend I managed to eek out a small profit with my s&g win, so it wasn’t all bad. I just wish the MTT I played had been a bit more profitable. I had played steady, patient, aggressive poker and had built up a good number of chips. In the last hand I flat called with 
in early position (in hindsight I should have raised). Anyways, the pot was raised further around the table, so I called the raise. 
flopped and I put out a pot sized bet. The inital raiser came over the top with an all-in. Somehow I knew I was winning and after thinking long and hard, I called. He turned over 
. Woohoo for me…. until the river brought the 
and once again, I went out to a suckout. Unfrickenbelievable! I wish these poker sites stopped rewarding the underdog so often, just because the have a few more chips. But, I’ll be back… I now have the hunger again to, as Lippy would put it… KILL, KILL, KILL!
As mentioned earlier, the Sit and Go League started in earnest on Tuesday. A lot of excitement going around, and the first game was won by Weedbus (AKA Gary). A complete and utter lucky git of a player!
In all seriousness, he played a hell of a game. To start with, he tried to limp in with a few hands and lost around 150 of his 1500 starting chips. After that though, he played controlled poker right to the end and thoroughly deserved his win. He had the hand of the night too when his pocket 10s went all-in against Ash’s pocket rockets after a 10 had hit the flop. Not content with trip 10s he made it quads on the river!
I played for my team, and after a bright start - taking out 2 players - I went down the usual road of a very cold deck, eventually going out in 4th place. But I picked up a point for The Varmints! Tonight sees Magpot going into the hotseat for the team. Here’s hoping for a Varmint victory this time! 
I will try and finish of my starting hands series now that the league has kicked off and I’ve got a little more time, so I will hopefully have it posted early next week.
Good luck on the felt, and say hello if you see me at your table…. just don’t trust me!!!
Gone for the weekend
April 25, 2007
Well, it’s been a while since I posted.
Poker wise, I haven’t been playing too much. I did hook up with the Skype crew for a couple of games during the week. I made the money in a few, lost a couple, but had fun in the process.
One night, me and Dog ended up playing together. During one of the SNG’s, Dogs Uncle Tilford (sp?) who is in his early 80’s called Dog on Skype. Dog added him to our conversation. We finished the one tourny we were at and decided to play a $6 sng.
After about 3 hands into the sng, Dog went all-in and lost. It was funny cause it was the first time Dog’s Uncle was listening to him play. Dog says something to the effect of “wow, I really impressed him with my play”. Knowing Dog and how he consistently plays good, going out in the 3rd hand was just bad luck and bad timing.
A Sour Week That Gopher Rescued ;)
April 24, 2007
It’s that time again..
Time to sit here tap away some more stuff to fill up the big white space that is my blog page.
Poker stuff…
Still pretty barren in this department. Played a couple of very early morning SNG’s nothing big just $10 tables. Took a couple of money spots and one win. Also played a 200 seater over at PKR one afternoon, whilst doing some work on a separate PC and took 7th.
Last nights vip-tournament
April 23, 2007
OK I can’t enough tell you all what patience, confidence and to know it ain’t over until the fat lady sings (last hand is lost) means, i can give you a very nice example that happened last night!
Been away for a week
April 21, 2007
OK i’ve been away for over a week in business. Had to travel to the other end of Sweden Gothenburg and work with a colleague! And Man how i love to fly! When the plane made it’s takeoff i laughed all the way up in the air! The flight back where even more fun due to the winds, it felt like the best rollercoaster in the world and the plane came down almost with a broadside and with one wing tilting downwards a bit! The pilot had to struggle real hard with the upwinds and i really felt alive! I’m a adrenaline-junky getting high from all things that can accelerate like cars, planes and some rollercoasters! Been racing gocarts and cars for some years now.
