Khaled Hosseini

I don't know much about novelists but, taking Catherine Cookson out of the equation, obviously, this guy is definitely my favourite at the moment. I read 'The Kite Runner' last summer when I spent a fun, if hugely unproductive, time living in Norwich with Dickie - good times - and I've spent the last two days reading the follow up, 'A Thousand Splendid Suns', which, in my opinion, is equally brilliant.

So choosing last night (and most of this morning) to reread my blog IN FULL was only going to end in tears... What a fucking awful read. It ended in tears.

Even my early 'Poker... it's just not cricket' post, which, pre-Hosseini, I felt was the most perfectly crafted literary thing to come from words since Kensie from Blazing Squad's spellbindingly unputdownable autobiography, failed to bring a sm1le to the mush.

And the blog has gone downhill from there.

Spent the other half of last night watching Lady Sovereign videos on Youtube. Very productive night. Keysie, seriously, Youtube her, 'Hoodie', '9 to 5', 'Those were the days', and 'Random' will no doubt be classics when she's shot dead on the streets in a couple of years. She's just like Dizzee Rascal mate, you'll love her. Except she's white. And female. Yeah, she's nothing like him but check out 'the Rascal' being grilled by 'the Paxman' here, haha. The cheeky sm1le stretching from 0:08 to 0:10 is hilarious, the big wally:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tM1XrVVVBAk

Ah, there was gonna be a point to this post but I really need some sleep. I think you get the message though, this blog's on it's way out.

I got 99 outs but the river ain't one

Yep, I've been playing Omaha whilst listening to Jay-Z!

When registering for the $3k guaranteed NLHE multi at the last minute earlier tonight, I first accidentally registered for a $1 FL Omaha multi.

FFS.

Lost half my stack in the holdem calling an all in pre with Q7 because I thought I was good. I lost to Q8, which got a couple of 'lols'. I was nearly right, you cunts. I then went out in a big four-way all in with JTo. A fairly standard demise really. Don’t think my heart was quite in it somehow.

The Omaha was a 252 runner affair and it soon became clear that the $49.15 first prize wasn’t going to be reward enough to endure the tilt that playing FL Omaha with complete retards seemed to drive me to almost instantly. But, five incredibly stressful hours later, I was heads up Vs one of the nice guys so all was well:

*** RIVER *** [2c Kh Th Jh] [Ts]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
markhrm: shows [6d 4c Ac Kc] (two pair, Kings and Tens)
pgchips: shows [6h 2d 6c 3h] (a flush, King high)
markhrm: gg
Dealer: Game #21795333073: pgchips wins pot (50768) with a flush, King high
Dealer: markhrm finished the tournament in 2nd place
Dealer: pgchips wins the tournament - congratulations!
pgchips [observer]: very well played
pgchips [observer]: gg
markhrm [observer]: ty u 2
pgchips [observer]: ty
markhrm [observer]: gl
pgchips [observer]: gl, take care
markhrm [observer]: ty u 2
pgchips [observer]: ty, laters
markhrm [observer]: bye

Fucking hell, he didn't say a word through the whole 5hr 20min tournament and suddenly, come bedtime, he fancies a natter. What's up with that? I lied by the way, it wasn’t ‘very well played’. At all. By anyone.

Through the fire, to the limit, to the wall. Niggaz.

Barak, the builder, can we fix it? Barak, the builder, 'YES WE CAN'.

Finally, a good result to report in this blog.
Peace.

Another bash...

Hands in a blog can be very boring so I'd advise against reading on.

Got past 2c/5c easily this time, only taking 370 hands for a $20.92 profit (57 ptBBs/100) and set about crushing my previous stumbling level of 5c/10c.

Ran good and got up to $80+ of the $100 needed for 10c/25c when it all went wrong again...

Can't get the pokerhand site working but:

PokerStars Game #21734357606: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2008/11/03 17:00:51 ET
Table 'Waterman III' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: LJ777 ($4.25 in chips)
Seat 2: vinbig ($5.75 in chips)
Seat 4: Luis Frigo ($10.05 in chips)
Seat 5: pgchips ($13.05 in chips)
Seat 6: bxP* ($17.80 in chips)
LJ777: posts small blind $0.05
vinbig: posts big blind $0.10
Puszek88: sits out
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pgchips [Ac As]
Luis Frigo: raises $0.40 to $0.50
pgchips: raises $12.55 to $13.05 and is all-in
bxP*: calls $13.05
LJ777: folds
vinbig: folds
Luis Frigo: calls $9.55 and is all-in
vinbig leaves the table
*** FLOP *** [8d 2h 9c]
*** TURN *** [8d 2h 9c] [Kh]
*** RIVER *** [8d 2h 9c Kh] [9s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pgchips: shows [Ac As] (two pair, Aces and Nines)
bxP*: shows [Kc Kd] (a full house, Kings full of Nines)
bxP* collected $5.70 from side pot
Luis Frigo: mucks hand
Luis Frigo leaves the table
bxP* collected $28.80 from main pot
bxP* said, "sorry, bro."
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $36.30 Main pot $28.80. Side pot $5.70. | Rake $1.80
Board [8d 2h 9c Kh 9s]
Seat 1: LJ777 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: vinbig (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: Luis Frigo mucked [Qh Qs]
Seat 5: pgchips showed [Ac As] and lost with two pair, Aces and Nines
Seat 6: bxP* (button) showed [Kc Kd] and won ($34.50) with a full house, Kings full of Nines

PokerStars Game #21732001892: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2008/11/03 15:38:36 ET
Table 'Niobe V' 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: PedritoRico ($11.60 in chips)
Seat 2: SEB194 ($1.85 in chips)
Seat 3: pgchips ($22.35 in chips)
Seat 4: Maximoff ($9.10 in chips)
Seat 5: $m0kin' @ce$ ($6.30 in chips)
Seat 6: mareilein ($5.05 in chips)
SEB194: posts small blind $0.05
pgchips: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pgchips [Jd Jc]
Maximoff: folds
$m0kin' @ce$: folds
mareilein: folds
PedritoRico: calls $0.10
SEB194: calls $0.05
pgchips: raises $0.30 to $0.40
PedritoRico: raises $0.30 to $0.70
SEB194: folds
pgchips: raises $11.30 to $12
PedritoRico: calls $10.90 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($0.40) returned to pgchips
*** FLOP *** [8h Qd 7c]
*** TURN *** [8h Qd 7c] [7d]
*** RIVER *** [8h Qd 7c 7d] [Kd]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pgchips: shows [Jd Jc] (two pair, Jacks and Sevens)
PedritoRico: shows [Ah Ac] (two pair, Aces and Sevens)
PedritoRico collected $22.15 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $23.30 | Rake $1.15
Board [8h Qd 7c 7d Kd]
Seat 1: PedritoRico (button) showed [Ah Ac] and won ($22.15) with two pair, Aces and Sevens
Seat 2: SEB194 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: pgchips (big blind) showed [Jd Jc] and lost with two pair, Jacks and Sevens
Seat 4: Maximoff folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: $m0kin' @ce$ folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: mareilein folded before Flop (didn't bet)

PokerStars Game #21733840532: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2008/11/03 16:42:28 ET
Table 'Tomita II' 6-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: Anjun4 ($10.55 in chips)
Seat 2: allergieker ($13.70 in chips)
Seat 3: pgchips ($9.60 in chips)
Seat 4: Swiss777 ($19.15 in chips)
Seat 5: z_raver ($10.90 in chips)
Seat 6: JusteBelmont ($13.90 in chips)
JusteBelmont: posts small blind $0.05
Anjun4: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pgchips [Jh Js]
allergieker: folds
pgchips: raises $0.20 to $0.30
Swiss777: folds
z_raver: folds
JusteBelmont: folds
Anjun4: raises $0.80 to $1.10
pgchips: raises $8.50 to $9.60 and is all-in
Anjun4: calls $8.50
*** FLOP *** [Qc 4h 8h]
*** TURN *** [Qc 4h 8h] [8d]
*** RIVER *** [Qc 4h 8h 8d] [3d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Anjun4: shows [Ac Ad] (two pair, Aces and Eights)
pgchips: mucks hand
Anjun4 collected $18.30 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $19.25 | Rake $0.95
Board [Qc 4h 8h 8d 3d]
Seat 1: Anjun4 (big blind) showed [Ac Ad] and won ($18.30) with two pair, Aces and Eights
Seat 2: allergieker folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: pgchips mucked [Jh Js]
Seat 4: Swiss777 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: z_raver (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: JusteBelmont (small blind) folded before Flop

Seat 1: rjfisher ($2.20 in chips)
Seat 2: Franciflo ($11.35 in chips)
Seat 3: frouf ($6.35 in chips)
Seat 4: pgchips ($7.95 in chips)
Seat 6: ocram72 ($4.80 in chips)
pgchips: posts small blind $0.05
ocram72: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pgchips [Qd Qh]
rjfisher: raises $0.15 to $0.25
Franciflo: raises $0.15 to $0.40
frouf: folds
pgchips: raises $7.55 to $7.95 and is all-in
ocram72: folds
rjfisher: calls $1.95 and is all-in
Franciflo: calls $7.55
*** FLOP *** [4d 8c Td]
SeltoDurka joins the table at seat #5
*** TURN *** [4d 8c Td] [Ks]
*** RIVER *** [4d 8c Td Ks] [3c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pgchips: shows [Qd Qh] (a pair of Queens)
Franciflo: shows [Ac Ah] (a pair of Aces)
Franciflo collected $10.90 from side pot
rjfisher: mucks hand
Franciflo collected $6.40 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $18.20 Main pot $6.40. Side pot $10.90. | Rake $0.90
Board [4d 8c Td Ks 3c]
Seat 1: rjfisher mucked [Js Ad]
Seat 2: Franciflo showed [Ac Ah] and won ($17.30) with a pair of Aces
Seat 3: frouf (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: pgchips (small blind) showed [Qd Qh] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 6: ocram72 (big blind) folded before Flop

PokerStars Game #21733501430: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2008/11/03 16:30:22 ET
Table 'Sun IV' 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 2: Franciflo ($11.50 in chips)
Seat 3: frouf ($6.50 in chips)
Seat 4: pgchips ($16.40 in chips)
Seat 5: DuckMySick88 ($10.60 in chips)
Seat 6: ocram72 ($7.75 in chips)
DuckMySick88: posts small blind $0.05
ocram72: posts big blind $0.10
rjfisher: sits out
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pgchips [Jh Ah]
Franciflo: folds
frouf: folds
pgchips: raises $0.20 to $0.30
DuckMySick88: folds
ocram72: calls $0.20
*** FLOP *** [4h Th 4c]
ocram72: checks
pgchips: bets $0.40
ocram72: calls $0.40
*** TURN *** [4h Th 4c] [3h]
ocram72: checks
pgchips: bets $0.60
ocram72: calls $0.60
*** RIVER *** [4h Th 4c 3h] [Kd]
ocram72: bets $2.30
pgchips: raises $4.70 to $7
ocram72: calls $4.15 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($0.55) returned to pgchips
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pgchips: shows [Jh Ah] (a flush, Ace high)
ocram72: shows [Td Ts] (a full house, Tens full of Fours)
ocram72 collected $14.80 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $15.55 | Rake $0.75
Board [4h Th 4c 3h Kd]
Seat 2: Franciflo folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: frouf folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: pgchips (button) showed [Jh Ah] and lost with a flush, Ace high
Seat 5: DuckMySick88 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: ocram72 (big blind) showed [Td Ts] and won ($14.80) with a full house, Tens full of Fours

And I realise that some of those shoves are proper tilty but I was getting fucked all over the place so no need to analyse.

All these took me down to $31 of the $40 I started the level with after 881 hands.

Speaking of tilt (just before the AA vs KK vs QQ hand):

PokerStars Game #21734284947: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2008/11/03 16:58:17 ET
Table 'Waterman III' 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: LJ777 ($4.15 in chips)
Seat 2: vinbig ($6 in chips)
Seat 3: langer79 ($18.80 in chips)
Seat 5: pgchips ($22.35 in chips)
Seat 6: bxP* ($9.30 in chips)
Luis Frigo will be allowed to play after the button
pgchips: posts small blind $0.05
bxP*: posts big blind $0.10
vinbig: posts small & big blinds $0.15
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pgchips [8d 8h]
LJ777: folds
vinbig: checks
langer79: folds
pgchips: raises $5.90 to $6
langer79 leaves the table
bxP*: raises $3.30 to $9.30 and is all-in
vinbig: folds
pgchips: calls $3.30
*** FLOP *** [4s 3d Ad]
Puszek88 joins the table at seat #3
*** TURN *** [4s 3d Ad] [Jh]
*** RIVER *** [4s 3d Ad Jh] [4c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pgchips: shows [8d 8h] (two pair, Eights and Fours)
bxP*: shows [Ah Ac] (a full house, Aces full of Fours)
bxP* collected $17.85 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $18.75 | Rake $0.90
Board [4s 3d Ad Jh 4c]
Seat 1: LJ777 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: vinbig folded before Flop
Seat 3: langer79 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: pgchips (small blind) showed [8d 8h] and lost with two pair, Eights and Fours
Seat 6: bxP* (big blind) showed [Ah Ac] and won ($17.85) with a full house, Aces full of Fours

and

PokerStars Game #21732363121: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2008/11/03 15:51:07 ET
Table 'Zachia' 6-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: DeAad ($12 in chips)
Seat 2: ESCROB@R ($3 in chips)
Seat 3: pgchips ($27.65 in chips)
Seat 4: Taqtiq$MJR ($3.65 in chips)
Seat 5: HokusPokusss ($4.05 in chips)
Seat 6: animalis ($12.45 in chips)
pgchips: posts small blind $0.05
Taqtiq$MJR: posts big blind $0.10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pgchips [Th Ks]
HokusPokusss: folds
animalis: raises $0.30 to $0.40
DeAad: folds
ESCROB@R: folds
pgchips: raises $0.70 to $1.10
Taqtiq$MJR: folds
animalis: calls $0.70
*** FLOP *** [8s 8h 8c]
pgchips: bets $1.30
animalis: calls $1.30
*** TURN *** [8s 8h 8c] [Qh]
pgchips: bets $3.80
animalis: calls $3.80
*** RIVER *** [8s 8h 8c Qh] [Tc]
pgchips: bets $4
animalis: calls $4
*** SHOW DOWN ***
pgchips: shows [Th Ks] (a full house, Eights full of Tens)
animalis: shows [Qd Ad] (a full house, Eights full of Queens)
animalis collected $19.55 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $20.50 | Rake $0.95
Board [8s 8h 8c Qh Tc]
Seat 1: DeAad folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: ESCROB@R (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: pgchips (small blind) showed [Th Ks] and lost with a full house, Eights full of Tens
Seat 4: Taqtiq$MJR (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: HokusPokusss folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: animalis showed [Qd Ad] and won ($19.55) with a full house, Eights full of Queens

How's he got AQ there btw?

Soo bad from me.

Okay, will play on at 5c/10c with my $31 but if I drop below $20 for the second time, the challenge is over and I'm 16-tabling 2c/5c for life. Waste of fucking time.

Perfect, perfect.... but not in the good way!

This hand led to many a 'lol' in the chat at one of my tables earlier:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3387553
and, as it was 2c/5c, I couldn't help but join in (even at 5c/10c I probably chip in with a few 'ffs's). Ain't no way either of us are getting away from that flop though... standard cooler imo.

Lizard2412 said, "even had the feeling ur on aces". Hilarious.

All started well for the challenge in that I made it past the first level... I got stacked twice early on, though, when QQ < KK in an $8 pot and folded to me otb TT < BB's AA in a $15 pot. Did I need to be all in pre for 150 BBs with tens? Possibly not...

This left me with chips on only two tables, which made progress feel ridiculously slow (and is actually another unforseen problem that this challenge has thrown up). But I kept plugging away and when I'd built a stack on one of the tables, three different people suggested I stand up and open more tables. I was sitting on $31.50 and $3.40 at the time and really felt like carrying on to sit with the full 800bbs on the one table. But time was dragging, and when I finally stood up and got four tables going again, I reached my $40 target within ten minutes.

It took a lot longer than I'd hoped though... 2hrs 40mins. Obviously due to the fact that I was only two tabling for most of it. Running like a twat never helps, mind.

648 hands
$21.61 profit
33ptBBs/100
$8.10 p/h

Erm, suppose it's okay, looking at it.

This was the hand that sealed my place at 5c/10c:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3386407
'Well, that's what happens when you call with jacks'. Gold.

So, onto 5c/10c...

It took me only 1hr 40 mins to lose my two buy in buffer.

$0 p/h, through 4hrs 20mins.

So I'm back down to 2c/5c.

KK < JJ aip ($17 pot) and A6dd < 44 ai on TJ4Qdd board in what felt like a good squeezing opportunity three handed on the turn for another (in terms of the challenge) massive pot. A two buy in downswing buffer isn't very much when you're an absolute maniac.

Will probably try again over the weekend. I'm not prepared to scrap the idea just yet.

Verybored

Fucking hate Full Tilt. Took ten days to clear my $20 bonus, hate the software.

Managed to lose $25 in a mad rush to clear the final $2 of it 8-tabling on HUGE tilt (you know it’s bad when you get ‘lol’s at your play on three tables at the same time). Pg, you stupid fuck, just leave the $2 behind… Despite that, I cleared the bonus for a $346 profit, none of which I have left on FT.

Bit bored of poker at the moment so, to a new challenge…

Spoke to Keysie briefly last night (well, I spoke briefly, he nattered on in great length… standard) about short term swings playing cash poker and a bit about bankroll building so I have devised a mini-bankroll-build challenge for fun. Feel free to join in to see how far you can get.

The idea is to four table cash, starting with four buy-ins at the chosen level, and move up once four buy-ins at the next level is reached and drop back down should you drop under four buy-ins at the previous level.

My aim is to show that extreme bankroll nits are cunts.
My prediction is that I won’t.

For a winning player, this can only be a winner as you’re unlikely to lose four buy-ins at every level you’re forced to move down to, and the general move in stakes should be up.

And it can be applied to any starting bankroll. Obviously, you could start with $8 at $0.01/$0.02 and move up to $0.02/$0.05 when the mini-br reaches $20 (though this leaves nowhere to move down to should you fall at the first). Or start with $1600 at $2.00/$4.00 if you must, Ptevey, then up to $3.00/$6.00 with $2400… etc.

Perhaps, with only a two buy-in buffer and the swingy nature of cash, this form of bankroll building may involve too much moving down in stakes to make this +EV for the long term player. Take, for example, someone who is conventionally ‘rolled’ for $0.50/$1.00. If they decided to take this experiment on with a $1600 'mini-bankroll' at $2.00/$4.00, and started off with two drop downs (two buy-in downswings at $2.00/$4.00 and another two at $1.00/$2.00), which is very possible, it would see them back at their ‘rolled’ level with a serious dent to their ‘actual bankroll'. So, thinking about it, maybe my experiment would only be good for a quick bankroll ‘spin-up’ with some spare money (after an exceptionally profitable month, for example).

There must be something wrong with it because no one’s doing it. Except maybe Dickie.

To test the waters on something I could be horribly wrong about, I’m going to start at $0.02/$0.05 with $20 ($5 on each table) until the mini-bankroll reaches $40. Then, four table $0.05/$0.10 until $100 is reached… And so on… This is a slightly dangerous choice of starting stakes, I guess, as I only have one level to fall back on! The level is very, very weak though so it shouldn’t come to that.

I would be interested to hear any thoughts on this type of bankroll build from any ct grinders out there. Isaac, Gambon? Even Cheesio?

I have no work tomorrow (Thursday) and nothing to do so I’ll be starting the new experiment at 2pm our time on Stars, if anyone fancies joining, railing or sabotaging!

147, I've made bigger bets in the $3 rebuy

Ptevey, quite amusingly, challenged me to include the numbers 1, 4 and 7 in every raise I made in the $3r on Stars the other night. Looking back, that is the only thing funny about this hand for about the chip lead:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3327966

I think Dthestudentj, Sm1le and 147_star were railing, which explains the turn card. This was to come 266/3276 for $36. Villain in the hand went on to come 4th for $2.1k. The night before, I had AKhh < KK late on in the same tourn to come 29/3537 for $76. Skolsuper was railing this, obviously. Villain in that hand also went on to come 4th for $2.1k. I played shit to come 29th to be fair but well imo in the one I came 266th in and ran well to get where I did in both. But I really need to stop running badly late on in that tourn. Seriously, I'd rather the cooler happened first hand of the freezeout for zero money than this close to some real money.

I haven't played on Full Tilt for ages, not since I was staked to play a bunch of tourns a while back when I was playing shit. Deposited $50 the other day to clear the $20 bonus playing omaha h/l cash. Lost $25 in the second hand with $0 of my bonus cleared. WP Tilt.

But I grobbled through it and my Full Tilt bankroll is now up to $425 after some good 5c/10c o8 and a couple of tournament wins. $10 of the bonus cleared.

Work seems to be getting in the way of poker at the moment. Only played 35 tourns this month and a bit of cash (albeit for a $600 profit) compared to over 500 tourns in August and September. It's a shame not to be playing much when I seem to be playing well.

It's very hard to turn down work when I'm offered it but I'm seriously thinking about taking a couple of weeks off to make some money!

We'll see.
Peace,
PG.

Putting in the hours

At the fucking NEC...

The only good thing about working a 16 hour shift is that it makes the 12 hour ones seem short.

T’was a busy week, last week, for us agency staff as the NEC hosted the ‘Horse of the year’ show. Was booked for a deadly total of 84 hours from Monday to Sunday, which included a horribly illegal 29 hr spell over a 39 hour period on Tuesday/Wednesday. If there was ever a time to ‘accidentally’ fall and break my neck, or get ran over by an ‘orse, or get hurt by something in some way, 'illegal Wednesday' was the day. The NEC is sooo rich, I would have absolutely fleeced them. A bone-break of any kind would have absolutely slipped down, but, obviously I run bad, and the only things I broke that day was an expensive case of NEC crockery and the world record for most times caught sleeping at work without getting the sack. Some lovely big horses knocking about, there were.

FFS, the cunts. Bought a mug from some cheap shitty shop for a pound when I was on Bearwood high street about an hour ago, and the cunting handle’s just fallen off. Half a mug of coffee all over the laptop FFS. The cunts. I bet they did that deliberately the cunts. It’s still working, so all’s well. I should probably check all the letters though.

Have had two attempts at the $11 double shootouts to the million recently, failing in both. I’ve realised that I’m too immature to be playing shootouts atm. Losing heads up, as I have done in a couple, tilts me so bad. I challenge you to tell me of anything more annoying than losing heads up in a shootout. Not going to play one for a while now, may try again if I grow up ever.

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ASDFGHJKL;’#ZXCVBNM,./`1234567890-

Yep, running good.

Actually, maybe being the bubble boy in two multi table rebuy sats in a row was more annoying. Yeah, won’t be playing any of those for a while either.

Cheers to Fran for thinking about the AQ hand...more than I did at the time! It is a tough one pre with 15bbs or whatever. I think it's still a raise, just got to avoid getting all in on the flop drawing vvvvv slim in future...

I have another full week of work this week, including two days at Cheltenham race course on Friday and Saturday, which makes a nice change. Was supposed to be at the NEC at 8am this morning but given that I was still drinking Sambuca at 5, I figured that texting in sick was the +EV, though unprofitable, thing to do.

Not much to report on the poker front as I’ve been too tired/pissed after work to play. I have enjoyed railing for a couple of hours though before sleeping some nights. If it’s not 147_fish shipping some sat, it’s the $100r or the $50r I watch, or just whatever’s deep at the time. Reassuringly for the ‘poker isn’t all about luck’ crew, the same names are regularly cropping up late on in a lot of these.

Something wrong with my eyes I think, which is worrying me atm, probably should get that checked out. Then sue the NEC imo. Would love to see their faces if I did… though I suppose I probably couldn’t as that would mean I’m going fucking blind.

I might play something on Stars today and/or tonight as I have nothing to do. Bit bored of grinding the lower stakes but fuck it, I might as well. Wish I’d gone to work actually.

Well, this post has dwindled out as always… ah, saw a nice bit of vandalism earlier. If you can call it vandalism. Above the entrance to the foreign language centre in town is a big sign saying ‘Language Centre’, and some funny fucker’s nicked the ‘C’: ‘Language entre’. I do hope that this is the doing of a clever French vandal but, knowing Birmingham, it’s probably some chav looking to get started on graffitiing the word ‘Cunt’ elsewhere.

25k with ace high, nh

PokerStars Game #20964631980: Tournament #110966654, $3.00+$0.30 Hold'em No Limit - Level XIV (800/1600) - 2008/10/05 23:42:32 ETTable '110966654 157' 9-max

Seat #2 is the button

Seat 1: DWyobuzz (7965 in chips)
Seat 2: M.FUERTES (8332 in chips)
Seat 3: Parck (2330 in chips)
Seat 4: colts2129 (43569 in chips)
Seat 5: Bürobursche (14633 in chips)
Seat 6: pgchips (25851 in chips)
Seat 7: tcryder (62471 in chips)
Seat 8: powerchoke (38105 in chips)
Seat 9: SikaTrx (53369 in chips)
DWyobuzz: posts the ante 150
M.FUERTES: posts the ante 150
Parck: posts the ante 150
colts2129: posts the ante 150
Bürobursche: posts the ante 150
pgchips: posts the ante 150
tcryder: posts the ante 150
powerchoke: posts the ante 150
SikaTrx: posts the ante 150

Parck: posts small blind 800
colts2129: posts big blind 1600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to pgchips [Ah Qd]
Bürobursche: folds
pgchips: raises 2475 to 4075
tcryder: calls 4075
powerchoke: folds
SikaTrx: folds
DWyobuzz: folds
M.FUERTES: folds
Parck: folds
colts2129: folds
*** FLOP *** [8d 4d 9s]
pgchips: checks
tcryder: bets 1600
pgchips: raises 20026 to 21626 and is all-in
tcryder: calls 20026
*** TURN *** [8d 4d 9s] [7s]
*** RIVER *** [8d 4d 9s 7s] [Ad]

***SHOW DOWN ***
pgchips: shows [Ah Qd] (a pair of Aces)
tcryder: shows [4h 4c] (three of a kind, Fours)

tcryder collected 55152 from pot

My embarrassing exit just in the money of the $3 rebuy above. Not sure what I should do with that flop having already put 20% of my stack in pre, figured a cr would be the only way to get any fold equity, don't know if I should just give up on the pot completely... betting the flop might give me a price to call... Looking back, I much prefer trying to get it in pre with some kind of fold equity from hands like 88/99. A limp pre seems a bit odd but I think a limp/shove pre might be the play as an open fold surely isn't an option and making it 4/5k to go leaves an awkward amount back. Limping pre may also invite AT/AJ to go mad. Or do I have to raise here? Opinions on every street welcome.

Either way, another annoying $3r to go with these recent ones (might as well get the negativity out in one post):
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3165048
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3145219

AA runs bad for me at the moment as this was another beauty from today approaching the bubble of the $30k gteed with average stack:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3283893

Okay, bad beats are boring in a blog so I promise there'll be no more for a while. Working later so I'd better sleep, just thought I'd post the hand while it was fresh. Feel free to rip me to shreds.

Gotta love Kenny Rogers

Just stumbled across the lyrics for his song 'The Gambler':

On a warm summer's evenin' on a train bound for nowhere,
I met up with the gambler; we were both too tired to sleep.
So we took turns a starin' out the window at the darkness
'Til boredom overtook us, and he began to speak.

He said, "Son, I've made my life out of readin' people's faces,
And knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.
So if you don't mind my sayin', I can see you're out of aces.
For a taste of your whiskey I'll give you some advice."

So I handed him my bottle and he drank down my last swallow.
Then he bummed a cigarette and asked me for a light.
And the night got deathly quiet, and his face lost all expression.
Said, "If you're gonna play the game, boy, ya gotta learn to play it right.

You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when you're sittin' at the table.
There'll be time enough for countin' when the dealin's done.

Ev'ry gambler knows that the secret to survivin'
Is knowin' what to throw away and knowing what to keep.
'Cause ev'ry hand's a winner and ev'ry hand's a loser,
And the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep."

When he'd finished speakin', he turned back towards the window,
Crushed out his cigarette and faded off to sleep.
And somewhere in the darkness the gambler, he broke even.
But in his final words I found an ace that I could keep.

You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when you're sittin' at the table.
There'll be time enough for countin' when the dealin's done.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kn481KcjvMo

Tune imo.

Another FT failure

I have won only one of my last twenty four final tables in multis and it's starting to get a bit annoying. 3rd in an $8 PLO8 tourn is my latest for $147 (loving that Paul...).

Standard race for my exit hand:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3267145
Think I'm a slight favourite actually but not by much. Fairly standard I think. Shame.

Also played a 4-handed shootout which threw up this hilarious hand:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3266271
Wonder what he put me on and why he called the turn? And folded the river?

I lost to him in the funniest heads up of all time.

My '100% flop' challenge continues to draw comments, some absolute knobheads sitting at the 1c/2c tables saying things like 'playing every hand, look at this fish, I'm gonna take his money'. It's 1c/2c, who gives a fuck who ends up with the money? And why you being such a cunt at these stakes anyway. It's making me quite sad actually being around these kinds of people. Not only at the poker table, at work and home too.

Hands: 1774
Profit: $20.69 @ 29ptBBs/100
Won without showdown: 496/1774 (28%)

Doing the work that I do, in the city I live, I happen to work with a lot of foreign people. The patience they have with and the understanding they show to some of the ignorant cunts that give them endless abuse wherever they go, no matter how hard they work is something to admire.

I sat during my dinner break today opposite a Polish guy and an Iranian girl, who I saw were forced to sit together as there were no other seats. Listening to two people from completely different backgrounds, meeting for the first time, talking happily and respectfully, in English, about England was not only inspiring but also something I found deeply moving. Especially after the shit they had to put up with during the shift. The UK has a lot to be proud of imo and the people (not just Brits) who try to ruin this, and the fuckers who look at me and smile, expecting me to smile back when they're dishing out their abusive jokes based on nothing but nationality, deserve a fucking good slap.

Shit, soz, dunno where that came from but some cunts just piss me off sometimes. I'm starting to sound like Travis in Taxi Driver ffs... if you know any young prostitutes I could help, just send 'em my way, I'll buy them some jam on toast or something.

By the way, steer clear of Spiceworld at all costs. It's real bad, man.

Peace, pimpshoota (my next poker name for sure).

EDIT: Very nearly deleted the second half of this post as it really isn't what this 'poker' blog is supposed to be about. It's what happens when you work an eleven hour shift with likable foreigners and English cunts. But, fuck it, I'll leave it there - might be funny to look back on some day.

Owned, and new rule

Got walked all over at one of my four tables during a brief session last night. Three of the four tables were standard passive/rubbish but the other one I joined was mental - the standard raise was to 12c which I can handle when there's one player at a table doing it, but this table had three players making it 12c to go whenever they felt like it. Obviously, being the only one who had to call these bets made it quite tough for me to get the better of the table as a whole. I looked like a right loser to be honest and my preflop started getting comments. And the longer I continued to call them, the more comments I got and the more they raised and laughed, idiots... If I was an absolute Moorman about the stats of this challenge, I might have left the table after one round but I stuck with it and played 80 hands there for a $2.10 loss, which actually included a $2 KK vs AA aip sickener. [This also got laughed at despite me insta-typing 'nh' in the chat. Cunts.] A $2 loss looks good for a table like this but it's heavily varianced because of the unusually large size of the (often effectively blind) flop bets/raises which have to be made because of the... unusual preflop action. I could have stacked myself very quickly if some of my early bluffs didn't run good. I may seek more tables like this in future sessions because it's much more of a challenge and a lot less boring than the tighter tables. My new rule is simply that I can't leave a table because it's too hard, though, as I've just explained, hard is a quality I look for in a table now. So, rule one: Must call every raise to 29c or less and rule two: don't be a complete and utter Moorman twat about the stats and leave a table I'd be lucky not to lose on. Finally, a nh to Keysie who has just cashed in the WSOPE for the second year running for another £20k+ score. Well played mate. Quite where my paragraphing has gone, I'm not sure. Moorman, who I've just given a bit of stick to there, hilariously (because I don't know him and it got cheesy closer) lost a massive KK vs AA and busted shortly after to bring the bubble on, which burst the same hand... So sick at that stage in a tourn that big to run KK into another big stack's AA but I don't know him and I do know Keys, so fuck it, it's FUCKING HILARIOUS. imo. Soz, rambling...

Game: NLHE, 6-max, 1c/2c
Hands played: 1484
Pots won without a showdown: 418 (28% of hands)
Profit/loss: +$17.74

The 'pots won w/o sd', of the stats I have available to me, is the only one (except for profit) that really interests me now with this challenge. We all know the rules so 'flops seen' is irrelevant. 'Pots won at showdown' could actually have been interesting for a couple of reasons but I don't care to explain them and I've lost track of that stat already anyway. My 'pots won without a showdown' was 118 of 310 (38%) in my mini 4-tabling session last night which is totally ridiculous six handed. Though I recorded a loss. Peace.

Well, a Pgchips challenge wouldn't be a Pgchips challenge without some Pgchips challenge music

Raided the charity shop again and I think I've found a couple of beauties:

Spice Girls - Spiceworld, their second album which is over ten years old now ffs. How old do I feel? Should be fucking horrific to listen to but I'm looking forward to it. Hopefully it won't tilt me too much when I'm playing. It was a bargain at 50p imo.

And,

Pure Global Chillout, which pretty much speaks for itself. Perfect untilting poker music I reckon. Unless it's shit. Double CD, 50p.

That's about three hours of music to play to. I hope it treats me well. I've played poker with Elvis' In the Ghetto on repeat in the past though so I should be able to cope with whatever shit these CDs throw up. Woman was supposed to be coming round tonight but isn't now, I don't feel like any more tourns at the moment, so I might as well continue the Pgchips 'let's-go-broke' challenge.

Preflop rule

Okay, I've decided that any pre flop raise of 15 big blinds (to 30c) is too expensive. I must call a raise to 29c (unless one of yous decide to sit down and make it 29c to go every hand...) but can fold pre to any raise of 30c or more.

Just finished my first session which was fucking hilarious to be honest, there were people getting proper pissed off! Four tabled for a few hours:

Hands played: 1174
Flops seen: 1063 (lots of pots taken down pre and folds to bets that were too big...plus the odd accidental fold as with the similar Omaha challenge from a while back)
Pots won at showdown: 118 of 210
Pots won without a showdown: 300

That last stat is pretty sick to be fair, I won over a quarter of the hands at six handed tables without showing my cards. I suppose bluffing is where I made most of my profit...

Total profit: $20.70 (@44ptBBs/100)

As with the Omaha challenge, I think that this looks like a great little exercise to improve your post flop play, though the standard really is horrendous at these tables. Maybe I should try it at 10c/25c?...

New challenge!

Just a quickie to let you know what my plans are at the moment. Have ran badly the last couple of days, including another really annoying outdraw in the $3 r, but whatever, not gonna keep complaining about bad beats, so I've decided to have a go at a new challenge I've been thinking about for the last couple of weeks. Probably my toughest yet...

My aim is to show a profit from seeing every flop at the 1c/2c 6-max NLHE tables.

I've spoken to a couple of people about it and they seem to think it's impossible. An obvious problem is having to call open shoves... bound to prove expensive. I will play for a bit and work out whether or not I need some kind of rule that means I don't have to call all in pre, we'll see.

Let's hope I run better than I did at my recent trip to the barber's...

Living next door to Jim

I moved to my current address in early December of last year, an unfit twenty two year old slightly annoyed at the unfitness of his, once marginally less unfit, twenty two year old body. My house is literally a thirty second walk (twenty if, unlike me, you don't have to stop half way to catch your breath) from one of the 'biggest and best' gyms in Birmingham. So why, before today (almost ten months later), I hadn't even taken a look inside, sort of beggars belief.

Not only did I look inside, I joined. I didn't even mean to...

I left my house at about half five this evening in search of one thing, food. Unhealthy food. Pizza was the plan. I usually take the unpleasant short cut to the high street, which takes me past three dead and unused factories in just a two minute journey to the shops. But today, for some reason, I decided to take the slightly longer scenic route (scenic in that it only takes me past two small factories and a public toilet), which, along with it's many delights, leads me past a Fitness First gym. Completely unexpectedly, my brain led me in.

After all these months living next door to a gym, I can't help but wonder why I chose today as the day. I don't know... maybe it was the two and a half days of sleep I needed after my embarrassing one hour football session a few weeks ago that prompted my subconscious to lead my body gymwards. Or perhaps it was my worrying lack of shock at the heart pains I experienced on holes fourteen onwards during my second round in Bournemouth. Thinking about it, it's probably a combination of both.

Either way, it's over now, I've done the easy part by committing myself to forking out literally tens of pounds a month for the next twelve months, now 'all' I have to do is drag myself out of the house to use it. The opening hours are 6.30am - 10pm on school nights so, no matter what hours I'm working, it'll be hard to justify not finding time to go. Only laziness should keep me away and, given that I live so close, that would be pathetic.

Golfing trip was great fun, nh and ty to Paul for organising it all, I had an amazing time. But my golfing was shit. This also needs to be sorted imo. I need to start putting in some volume! Me and Ptevey (Ptevey and I?) live fairly close to each other and have talked about playing a round every couple of weeks or so. I would love for this to happen. I spent some decent dosh on golf clubs a few weeks ago so it really would be disappointing if I stayed this bad at a sport I enjoy and have spooned out some decent dosh buying equipment for. I refuse to let my clubs gather dust, rust and spiders.

As usual, I'm bored of writing this shit again so not gonna write even half of what I wanted to talk about, not even going to go back, reread it and correct it,



(anaverageof)threeputtbarrett.

Peace, Brothers.

Bubbles and other losses

September has been a good pokering month for me so far. I have been playing almost entirely holdem multis, which I'm glad to say I've started enjoying again. I was +$1200 for the month before I started playing yesterday thanks to a couple of wins. But last night, I had my first real setback. Spazzed away a shitload.

It started badly with the O8 WCOOP where I played well in the first few levels and felt comfortable with an above average stack despite running pretty badly but made that awful river call (third hand of my last post), which I'm still a bit pissed of at myself about. 10k stack if his two outer misses but whatever, no excuse for me playing the river like a cunt, just got to forget about that now...

But what happened afterwards pissed me off even more. I decided to experiment with the $5 rebuy sats to the $55 80k gteed, so I quickly registered for four of them. The first one kicked off, I was in for $15 (started with double stack and an add on) and was looking good for a seat when the freezeout started. 45 paid, I unavoidably came 46th. Standard. $15 loss.

By this time the second one had started. Again, I looked good for a seat when the FO kicked off. I was in for $25 and came 26th with 25 seats up for grabs (I was forced in with QQ in the small and the BBs T6 held up). Pissed off at that one. Got $16 for another $10 loss or some shit. I also failed to cash in the other two. A fairly unsuccessful experiment, you could say...

Ran KK into JT on a 489 flop (he stop and goed for about a million big blinds and I was prepared to take the gamble) which couldn't hold for double average heading into crunch time in the 50k gteed $5 rebuy. That pissed me off too.

Built a stack in the $11 30k gteed after a nice set vs set but then AK couldn't hit vs KK in a massive pot so I had to hold out for a small cash.

What else? Oh yeah, splashed out on a $22 deep stack tourn where I limped 44 in the second level, few more limpers, BB checked and bet double the pot when the flop came 642... wtf? I flatted, everyone folded. Turn blank, pot, call. River blank, pot, call. I'm beating nothing really and losing to everything, he shows 66 and scoops it, nh. Lost most of my stack in the second level and I didn't fare much better after that.

Had a couple of small cashes last night but overall I lost $100, which is exactly what I missed out on in those shocking $5r sats... Oh well, ran really bad and could have broke even.

In other news, I'm really looking forward to the golf trip to Bournemouth that Paul (or 147_star to give his 'real' name) has arranged. Looks amazing, £75 for two nights bed and breakfast and as much golf as your body can handle (about seven holes, if my footballing is an accurate indication of my current fitness). Going with a great group of lads so it should be an amazing trip, and I'm really looking forward to spazzing my roll out to all the old Durham lads in the cash games too!

I really want to play as much golf as my body allows me to. I think the current plan is three rounds but I'm sure I could convince a couple of them (or maybe just Ptevey, the nutter) to play at least a couple more. I want to squeeze in at least five rounds on this trip, especially if I've got to buy my own set of glubs and other golfing-related shit.

I'm interested in getting in a practice round of golf before the trip so if anyone knows of any good cheap (doesn't actually have to be good) courses near them let me know, I'll try and get down there. Or if anyone fancies coming to lovely Birmingham for a few days for a couple of rounds, you're more than welcome to stop here. I know Paul, the cheating fucker, has been putting in practice rounds right left and centre so I must get in at least one round before this trip. So let me know in the comments or on MSN when I'm next on if anyone's interested in shipping some pre-trip holes and pints.

I have plans tonight and tomorrow so I don't think I'll be playing any poker and I think (though I can't actually remember) that I'm working most of next week so, unfortunately, I might not be putting in quite the volume of poker I have done so far this month before the golf. But then again, after last night, that may be a good thing...

Run well all,

Teadrinka. xxx

WCOOP PLO8 $320

Here're a few of the more interesting hands I played in this:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3173535
Always annoying to miss a freeroll...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3173525
I felt I could have taken it on the flop if I had bet but I was hoping for a low card to fall to get a few people interested. It did but I missed. Sigh.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3173501
Don't mind me semi bluffing this flop, hate his call, betting the nut high on the turn is okay (though I could have kept the pot small by checking incase his low was freerolling me with two pair or the river paired the board as it did), hate his call. River is horrible but I shouldn't really have check called for that much. I much prefer bet, puke and fold.

Went out shortly after with some kind of A2xxs. Highly annoying as I was really looking forward to it.

Broke

Don't worry, the bankroll's fine, it's my body I refer to!

A severe lack of most things even vaguely physically strenuous over the last best part of a decade really did come back and fuck me today. It felt like such a good idea as well as I finally got round to doing something I have wanted to do ever since I got back to Brum.... I signed up with a football team.

As I turned up at the park today for my first training session with the team I fully expected to pick up where I left off five years ago when I left my old Sunday league team to 'go to University'. But I was in for a big disappointment. Today I waved goodbye to the days where I could seemingly run forever without ever breaking sweat, muscles or bones and panted a big 'hello' to creaky bones, muscles and sweat. Seriously, I can't believe how unfit I have become. I once beat everyone in my year at the bleep test ffs, how quickly lungs forget...

Two minutes in, I was gone. I'd already rushed off twice for gulps of water, Lucozade and oxygen before I half-heartedly (the half that'd sensibly packed in at this point) went in for a 50/50 challenge with their fifteen stone striker. I lost fairly comprehensively and was down on my arse as my right knee felt the full force of Robbie Coltrane's size-12 Pumas. Yep, after just two minutes of the first half, I was off the pitch for the third time. The looks of disappointment from my team mates were perfectly just in my opinion, though I thought the sniggers that rippled around the park were a little unnecessary. If equally just.

When I finally came back on, I asked if I could go in goal for a bit to rest my knee. I let three past me in as many minutes and was swiftly replaced.

Truth be told, as the game went on, I did get better. I made one great goal line block early in the first half (mainly because I was sprawled across it gasping for air at the time) which got me a hard slap on the back and a whack in the arm from a couple of guys (at least one of them was congratulatory, I'm sure). But there's no doubt that I was by far the unfittest and most out of practice 'player' on the pitch. It was embarrassing at times. I have only ever once seen a football player cover less distance in a game than I did today*.

It was absolutely pissing it down in the second half so we decided to cut the game short with a 'next three goals wins'. A few of their players were a bit pissed off by this point and wanted to make it a next goal winner but first to three was the decision, much to their annoyance. It was no coincidence, I suppose, that we went two goals up veryquickly. It all looked over so our skipper sent me up front to finish them off. Needless to say, four golden chances, at least fifteen minutes and a good 3mm of rain later, it was still 2-0. So we called it a day. It's fair to say that I was not the most popular player on the pitch:

"Oi, Curly (an amazing bit of obs. com. referring to the current state of my hair. Why the fucker isn't wowing the crowds of Edinburgh at the moment, I don't know...), my dinner's going cold because of you."

"Yeah, soz, mate."

"Fucking Cornish pasty and chips, as well," he added as he turned to an equally peeved and genuinely sympathetic team mate. The team mate said nothing, but gave that unmistakable look that effectively said, "I know what you're saying mate, that curly-haired cunt right there is a right useless cunt." I'm pretty sure that was the jist of what he was thinking at that very moment. And he spoke for every rain-drenched fucker there. Including me.

It's about four hours later now and I currently feel that there is about a 50% chance of me surviving the night - a vast improvement on an earlier estimate. Worryingly though, I have won more than my fair share of races recently (ignoring the pre-game shuttles earlier) so I'm due a loss at some point... So, as tired as I am, I guess I'd better stay awake long enough for that 50% to become at least 80%. I haven't been losing many 80/20s to be fair...
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3105322
... okay, let's try 90%.

* Emile Heskey - 13 yards, Birmingham vs Arsenal, Summer 2005. He was offside.

18/27/45/180/360-man SnGs

I twenty tabled the 10c 360-player NLHE SnGs last night. (Well, I loaded up twenty of them but busted a few before a lot of the others started). But I played 20 of them in total for a 20c loss. Ran bad at the only ft I made (ran AK into JQ pre for the chip lead 8-handed). Came 8th. Only other nice run was 15th where I ran two overs and a fd into top pair and couldn't improve. Was surprisingly fun to be playing for such small amounts of money again. Though I wasn't taking it lightly, I even folded the best hand once just to make the money. Ship it.

Just tried something similar, but upping the stakes a little. I 18-tabled some $1.20 18/27/45-man tourns with a couple of 10c 360-man ones thrown in and an expensive 180 player $2.20 one for thrills. This last one was sick. Great tourn, $100+ first prize. Came 7th despite being comfortable chip leader 7-handed. This sick hand for a massive chip lead with 7 left did most of the damage and I tilted out soon after:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3017304

I minraised because my computer was being slow and it's all I had time for but, given how crapshooty it was by this stage, I'm not sure I mind the minraise much. Anyway, standard river.

About $20 profit in the 18 Sngs I played but should have been more obviously, can't remember anything much interesting happening (guess tables were always popping up over the top of the horrendous outdraws I was putting on people).

Really don't feel like playing any Omaha at the moment. Think I'm scared of losing. Will probably just 18-table these sit and goes until it gets boring.

Inabit.