Bad beats and Dissenting Dunkers. (Thurs & Fri)

Thursday.

Typically I over stayed and over indulged on my last night away, crawling into bed at 1:30am accompanied by the contents of several containers of certain alcoholic beverages, only to be up again 4 hours later. Ick…Arrived home mid afternoon, the ‘plan‘ being to step in the door, drop my bags and stagger to the couch for some much needed catchy-up Z’s. But then, rather stupidly I made my first mistake of the day. I played my telephone messages and of course that was the end of the “plan”.

After attending to all the messages on the machine it was 10pm and with my eyes resembling something akin to a pair of over ripe cherry tomatoes and my brain just so much mashed potatoes, I popped into the poker chat room. Just to do a fly-by, hiyyah – see yah, kind of thing.

This was my second mistake of the day.

Because, you just know, once you are in the crowd chatting, the poker crowd that is, you just know the itch will take you and you’ll end up playing a game. And with maybe ten minutes to go before the kick off of the leagues daily game, I caved in and signed up for it.

Actually my right hand did it of its’ own accord, I just sat there staring in disbelief, unable to stop it; poor thing has been getting twitchy these last 24 hours for lack of click exercise.

It was a quiet night in the chat room and the game itself was down on numbers, due to the Turkey-fest otherwise known as Thanks Giving. Not surprising I played a pretty loose game and lost half my chips in the first hour. Gaining a 2nd wind from somewhere (actually the 2nd wind came from Rich who donated me his chip stack) I managed to nibble my way back up to a less embarrassing sized chip stack.

Then five handed on the table in the BB I made my third mistake of the day. Picked up an Ace-Jack suited and pushed them all in, only to be called by the big stack who showed pocket fours. Flop came KKK. Well, any 2nd wind I had in my sails was abruptly emptied, and of course, I didn’t hit on the turn or river. Not too concerned, it was one of those ‘coin flip’ moments that will happen when you are down to 4 or 5 players on the table. I think it took me exactly 27 seconds from the river card being dealt, to being tucked up and snoring.

Regarding the Poker-Thon free roll weekend, in retrospect I may have been a little harsh in my earlier post. Not about the banana wielding blindfolded chimps, but about the whole idea of having the freeroll day in the first place. As has been pointed out, it seems that the league did in fact gain some new and useful looking players and that is a big positive for everyone in the league, old and new players alike. It was one of those new players that went on to win last nights game, congrats to that player!

Friday

After my world record beating, in a sit and go NL game last Friday, today exactly a week later, I have managed another.

Not as ridiculous as last weeks bad beat, but flipping bad enough, this is I think my first sit and go since last weeks bad beat. So in theory this is like 2 “in a row!”

Now this fact makes it even more outrageous, can you imagine coming up against these beats in concurrent games?

You can read all about the beats in the league forum in the “rant & rave” section, but for those reading this who do not read the forum (tsk tsk) here is a very brief rundown on last Friday’s and this Friday’s.

Last Friday:

• $20 Sit n Go 9 seater.
• 20 mins in – 3 players out.
• Sitting on the BB..
• Dealt AA.
• Stack leader sitting mid table raises 4 times BB.
• All fold back to me on the BB. I flat call his 4x raise.
• Flop comes AQQ.. Whoopy de doo me a boat!
• The dude raises another 4x BB.
• Ok so that’s enough, I push it all in and he calls me immediately, and then shows pocket 33.
• What is that? Lol
• Turn card comes 3.. ok no problem I have AAAQQ.
• River comes 3.
• Yup read the last 2 lines again, takes some “sinking in”.

Today (this Friday) same site, pretty much same time of day infact!

• $10 sit n go 9 seater.
• 45 mins in, 5 out, playing the bubble position, 4 left.
• Again sitting on the BB!
• Dealt 8c9d
• SB calls the BB (me). I check.
• Flop comes Qd8s9s Whoopy de doo me, 2 pair!
• SB raises the on the flop, I reraise, he calls me.
• Turn card another 8d. Whoopy de doo me, I got a boat!
• SB bets 5x BB. Trying to push me off the hand no doubt with his flush or straight draw.
• No point calling the bet may as well push it all in, we are both pot commited. So all in and he calls me. he shows 6s7s.
• River comes 10s.
• Sheesh… a straight flush.. Screen grab here.

Think I might go away again for a week, away from poker.

HoooKay… So grumble over, on to more pressing matters. Seems we have a dissenter on the blog! Ginger Nuts are not all that? And Hob Nobs are? See the post “Ginger Nuts are the best dunkers”

Quote: = Jack4Ever “Sorry folks but i have to disagree on the subject of the suitability of ginger nuts for dunking……. Hob Nobs……now thats the marine of the biscuit world when it comes to holding its own with a nice hot cup of Typhoo…”

No, no, no……….no! 100% wrong!

Not since General John Sedgwick, Union commander in the US Civil war, uttered, “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dista…!” then promptly fell down dead, shot by a sniper, have such wrong words been ‘uttered’.

A Hob Nob is like the crumbly sponge of the biscuit world! You only have to wave it over the steam of the tea cup and it starts to fall apart! If you actually dunked it, well, even using the Mrs Beeton’s two fingered flash dunk technique, where only 25% of the biscuit is exposed to the tea and only for a period of between one 10th and one 15th of a second, you still find yourself left with a smudge of mush left between your forefinger and thumb. Leaving you to fish the rest of the soggy mess out of your cup with a teaspoon.

Now, with the glorious Ginger Nut it is a whole different story! You can take a 5 or 6 pace run-up and slam dunk the whole biscuit into the tea cup, walk away from it, let the cat out, use the bathroom, return and play a hand or two of poker and then lift the biscuit out of the tea without it breaking or disintegrating.

Now that’s true dunkability!

Right that’s it for today, NL league game tonight at 11pm .

Let’s be ‘aving yah..

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