So whats happened since my last blog? Well seen as my previous blog was mid-December then friggin LOADS has happened!!!! Christmas for a start!! Well, first things first, my staking deal....
Well its still going, although it did not start well.... I lost 20 buy-ins & we agreed to carry on but I didn’t see him for a while to get the money. When i eventually saw him, a great “ballin” story came from it! I am upstairs in 235 casino & he walks up with another lad we know. He asks how much i want off him to continue the staking deal, i suggest another 10 buy-ins. His exact words at this point were “well i only have a grand on me”, then he starts lookin over my shoulder & the other lad says “whats that look on your face about?” Anyway he just walks over to a roulette table, takes a grand in cash out of his pocket & sticks it on Red. I can’t watch so i walk away, a minute later i look round and he is at the cash desk cashing in 2 grand!! Utterly ridiculous!!!!! He walks over to me & hands me £1,000 in fiftys that look like they have just been printed!!!!!! My life-goal is to one day be as balla as he is!!! I know that he will be reading this & having a little chuckle to himself !! That story is a pretty tame one compared to some of his others, i might share one or two on a future blog!
So yeh, that was on 11th February, and i have been steadily winning back some of the original outlay. I feel like things are going much better, i feel confident again which is massively important imho. Hopefully this little run of form continues & i will have won the original losses back before too long, fingers crossed!
Banter has been good at the tables too, especially at weekends..... Usually find myself at a table with at least one of Gra, Kez, Fozzie or OD, all from Warrington, which makes things a bit more entertaining. Alternatively when me & Todd are on the same table we have some small but highly entertaining prop bets, which just keep things ticking along & energy high at the table (well, for Todd especially.... he jumps up to celebrate sometimes like he has scored the winning goal in an FA Cup Final... hahahaaa, quality!!).
I’m playing virtually all my poker at Manchester 235 casino now. For me its just the best place to play, always at least 1-2 good cash tables running during the week and then 7 or 8 on Fridays & Saturdays . The dealers are nearly all very good at controlling the tables too, don’t get any stupid shit happening & any players stepping out of line are left under no illusions that it won’t be tolerated again. Just things like rabbit hunting etc are not allowed so the game runs quicker & more smoothly . Also a guy got suspended/banned for slowrolling someone a few weeks ago!! Ok, some people might say that seems a bit harsh but wait til you hear the full story. The guy FLOPS quads. His opponent rivers a full-house & pushes all-in for about £250 into a pot of about £120 ish. The guy with the quads THINKS, then says something like “ohhhh what could you have to do that?”, then he asks the dealer to count how much the all-in is for, then he counts out his own chips, then he thinks for a bit longer before eventually saying “ok, i better call then” before whipping over his unbeatable hand & LAUGHING !! One of the worst things i have heard about at a poker table ever, and the guy fully deserved banning for it. When he said he only laughed cos he was stoned it really didn’t help his case!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have been to the new G Casino at Didsbury a few times which opened a few weeks ago and, although its a nice place, the games are ridic slow cos the dealers are all new!!! The second time i went i literally had to leave after an hour or so cos the pace of the shuffling & dealing was tilting me!!!
I cant write this blog without at least one bad beat story, so here it is.... but i’m not telling it in a “FFS” way, i actually think its pretty funny. It was the worst badbeat of my live poker career to date, percentage-wise, although nowhere near some of the biggest pots i have lost which is probably why I didn’t get angry! So it is the FIRST hand as i sit down at the table, its a £1/2 game and i have pocket 7’s, there is a raise to £11 and one caller. I have sat with £100 initially to get a feel for the table before i maybe reload with more funds. So I decide to just flat call too, before we see a flop of K73 rainbow. Pretty much perfect, checks to original raiser who bets £28, other guy folds & i just decide to shove, he calls & shows KQ. Pokerstove tells me that i am a 98.4% favourite. Just to confirm that is NINETY-EIGHT POINT FOUR PERCENT !!! The astute ones amongst you will have already realised that the turn comes a King & the river another queen to give him a bigger full-house than my own! Absolute shitballs for tea !!!Ohhhhh and i nearly forgot to tell you about a hilarious story that happened to me & Gra as we arrived at the casino just before Xmas. So we parked up in the multi-storey and walked over to the lift, as the doors open we both notice a pair of shoes just sat there on the floor of the lift, with no feet/legs in them, just a pair of mens shoes!! Me & Gra look at each other, and then proceed to get into the lift! As we both walk in we notice a guy stood up against the mirrored wall, apparently fast asleep stood up with no shoes on (surprisingly)!! As we pressed the button to go down to the casino, his head moves, he mumbles something then his head falls so his chin is on his chest & he is kinda drooling!! Well, the whole situation was just too much for me, i’m in dire need of laughing hysterically at this point, as i often am when my mind is telling me to be quiet. Pretty sure my shoulders were shaking from trying to control my laughter. I kinda know Gra is in exactly the same situation as me so i’m deliberately looking away from him cos if i see his face trying to control laughter too then i’m gonna just break down in fits of laughter, i just know it !!! Just as the lift reaches the ground floor, Gra lets out like a muffled laugh, kinda like the noise you would make if you had been holding your breath for as long as possible. That was it, the lift doors opened & me and Gra burst outta the lift crying laughing, straight into a couple waiting to go up in the lift !! They looked into the lift, seen the guy and turned around to wait for the next lift!! It just compounded everything, we had to wait about 5 minutes to compose ourselves before we went into the casino. Truly one of the funniest things i have ever seen cos it was just SO FRIGGIN bizarre!!!!
On that note i’m gonna end my blog cos i’m laughing too much again. GG & GL
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