So I didn't play and had to wait till Saturday. No matter as Thursday was an exciting day for me. One of the girls from my Egypt tour group was in the UK. Us in Nov 2008:
This was on our 5* cruise ship sailing up the Nile, on the themed Egyptian night. You can see who put the most effort into their costume! I got the train to London and met Taylor and her friend and we went for a pint near Paddington. I asked them what they were doing that evening and they had no plans, so invited them to Reading to go to a nice country pub. Taylors friend had never experienced this and it's a nice thing to do in the UK, especially if your experience is only London! So they got to Reading and me and Guy took them to the Pot Kiln, my favourite country spot. Us as the sun is setting:
They enjoyed it, especially the local ale (but not the pork scratchings) and we then dropped them back to Hammersmith.
My weekend was fairly quiet and Saturday I went to play the Rileys game. The play was the usual but I saw one outstandingly bad play. I was shocked. Blinds were 100/200 and a super tight player made his first raise in the HJ to 600. About 4 others called and saw the flop.
10x 6d 7d
First position bet 1k into the pot of about 2.5 and there were 3 callers (lol I know) until it got the the raiser. He was relatively new to the game (or live poker at least) and hastily threw in 1k and then excitingly saying raise. The table called him on the string bet and he was only allowed to call. The player to my right went into the tank before announcing 'its not this bet, but what you'll bet on the turn'. Now after this speech I'd put him on a 10 of some sort, maybe J10 or something. But then he flashed me his cards, 9d4d, gutshot and flush draw. Wtf?!
I was shocked. I have never seen a more basic call in all my life. Not only is he getting like 6/1+ (the numbers are a little off) but the implied odds are through the roof. I mean you know a tight player has a good hand! If you hit on the turn you're busting him. If you miss and he bets too much you fold. You have plenty of chips.
Anyway, I bubbled the final table after having a swingy game. I flopped two sets and lost both hands, so its hard to win. I stuck around to play the cash game for the first time in a while but we decided to play chinese poker instead. Happy to do so, we'd played around 5 hands when one of the regulars laid down 3 hearts at the front and proclaimed flush. Thinking he was joking, I showed my jacks but he went to take the chips. ?!?!?! 'It's a 3 card hand' he claimed, as the rest of the table agreed. We had a heated debate that those may be his rules, but not the standard chinese poker rules (wiki it) and that I'd been playing at a disadvantage. Whatever, he agreed, but we kept with his rules now I knew. I won a little bit. Edit: I actually lost a few pound!
Sunday we watched the final. Thought it was pretty boring! I then showed the guys the families 3D TV. They have bought a 3D BR player and Mosters vs Aliens 3D came with it. It's definitely impressive, with the quality being excellent. Another thing I didn't know the TV could do it turn ANYTHING into 3D. Now that is something special. I watched the Matrix on BR and not only was it excellent quality but the 3D gave it an extra layer of depth. Will be exciting when all these new 3D films come out.
This week has been crazy work and hitting the gym. I'm really enjoying the gym at the moment, especially the cross trainer. Now my life is a little more stable it will be exciting to see what can happen when I stick for it.
I feel like playing some cash tonight so will go to Deja Vu and play most of the game.
PokerIdols Facebook Freeroll is this Sunday. There is over $1600 in the pot already and all you have to do it 'Like' our page to enter. $2 is added to the pot for each entry. Check out this link:
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Thanks again for reading.
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