STT's (Single Table Tournament).

After finishing 3rd in The Poker Academy christmas tourney I felt refreshed and ready to play some seriouse poker.

Played a game against a friend and his drunk dad and won £10 then put some money into my Pacific Poker account ($25), 2 days later I have finished 2nd in 2 40 seater SnG! Giving me a current profit of $55 for the year!

Hopefully I can keep this going.

There have been so many games:

Lost $100 on Paradise poker, I just couldn't get a placing on any of the tables! Finished 4th, 5th, 6th 10th many times, but didnt make the money at all!

Joined Party Poker with $50 and managed to win one Limit game and came 2nd No Limit game. But finished on a downer!

Here I will list my finishes in STT and the monies won or lost!!


27 November 2005

£3.00 - 60-p Rake

Finished 8th

Lost £3.60

This was a very tight table.

28 November 2005

£3.00 - 60p Rake

Finished 2nd

Won £5.40

I was easily the best (or 2nd best) player at this table!

29 November 2005

£5.00 - 50p Rake

Finished 6th

Lost £5.50

I was beaten by a pair of 4's when I went all in with A, T against 4, 8!

£5.00 - 50p Rake

Finished 8th

Lost £5.50

I went all in after the flop holding AQ Flop was rag, rag, A, Turn was a K, river was a Q, my opponent had AK! How unlucky is that!?!?!?!?

I also entered a MTT and finished way outside the money.

Helpful Hints. Number 1 in a series of many, many, many!

It became apparent that I was sat on a fountain of knowledge and wisdom, so after a brief struggle I was pushed of and the fountain got up and walked away, his name was Moochacha Moochacha Booganda Jones, I call him....Bob!

Bob was getting ready for work one day and realised he needed a shirt, so, not being an experienced ironer he took his shirt and proceeded to press his shirt and it took 20 minutes.

This is the tip: If you are short on time just iron the front of your shirt and keep a jacket on all day, if you are in a real hurry just iron the collar and wear a jumper!

More tips will be acoming!

Commuters, wankers!

As you can probably tell, I hate commuters.

Having commuted to my place of work in London for almost 15 years I believe I have the right to announce myself as judge and executioner for those who feel that they do not need to consider their other travelling companions.

At the end of the day those of us who need to use the mass transit system to get from point A (Home) to point B (Work) and vice versa. So it riles me everytime I find myself either inconvenienced or just plain ignored by other commuters.

I do my best to take others into consideration when in a shared space, such as a train or underground carrage. I do not listen to loud distorted music on my MP3 player, if it is distorted to those not wearing the headphones, how bad must it sound to the idiot wearing the headphones? I do not talk so loud on my mobile that everyone in the carrage now knows that my wife pissed me off or that my kids are going to scouts tonight or that the cream the doctor prescribed is working a treat and I should be wearing those knickers at the weekend if you want to come over, my parents are away!

When my wife and I travelled from Edgware to central London on the underground we had a saying, "London is full of arseholes and they all use the northern line" this statement stands the test of time and Im sure can be used for your particular mode of transport.

This morning I had some idiot rustling his paper in my ear and coughing all over me and the other seated passangers, I asked if he would mind covering his mouth when he coughed or if he would face in another direction. He seemed to think that if he continued to cough in my direction it would apease my displeasure. I asked again and so he decided he would use his newspaper. I calle dhim an idiot and was very tempted to punch him from behind his newspaper, but I counted to 10 and then stepped on his foot as I left the train. one - nil to me I think!

There is no need for this type of behaviour!

Mad ramblings, 2 folds and an Eves pudding.

I am sat at work thinking about what I am going to write here and honestly can't think of anything to say.

This is often the way when you put yourself under pressure to be creative. How many times do you find yourself coming up with the best one liners and put downs only to crumble when you are put in a position to use them? Well this blog will hopefully help me with this problem. I am going to put so much crap here that some of it should be interesting some of the time to some of the people.

POKER: I am fairly new to poker, having been playing for about 6 months, I had played prviously with a friend of mine, who had been trying to get me interested in the game for about 18 months.

DEFMAN (who introduced me to the game) and I were playing a STT just last evening, he got delt pocket kings (Cowboys) and bet heavily into the pot and was seen by some lunatics at the table (well, infact the table was really tight and we still had a full table after 40 minutes) only for an ace to come down, this left DEFMAN with little option, would he raise? or fold? a large raise cam e in before him and he folded, which was the right thing to do as another ace came down on the turn and the winning hand had AKo so won a handsome pot.

In the same game I was delt a JQo and as I had said earlier, it was a really tight table, I had pushed in and had to fold a hand earlier, so my stack had shrunk a little to araound 600 chips, I pushed all in pre flop only to get beaten by an AK!

Should have folded, learn by your mistakes.

As for the eaves pudding, what a wonderful pudding!

I will publish the recipe soon enough and put a photo of one I made earlier!