30 Mar 2009

Out and about.

Another month so another show for me!!
This time an outdoor event in Newark.......surely the home of the man who invented anagrams??!!!!!
The friday setting the stand up was a nightmare,it was freezing cold & peeing down most of the day,then saturday it managed to be even more windy together with half an hour of sleet/hail/snow...it was fucking freezing & we sold next to fuck all!! Thank god yesterday (sunday) was nice & we managed to ship out some stuff to make the long trip worth while!

I normally recommend a few places on my travels so here's 2 just in case you visit Newark.

Cafe Bleu. (Restaraunt along the main drag ,close to the church) Lovely but a bit expensive French inspired gaff. Good food but we had the draught Stella & swore they had mixed the barrels with Tescos Blue Label lager...it was like water......always drink bottled bears in these places imo....they either dont know how to keep draught lager properly or the cheeky muvvas substitute the decent stuff for piss water & hope we dont notice!!
The Italian down the far end of town!!. So good i cant remember the damn name of it!!
But top hole grub,myself & my colleague asked for extra chilli/garlic on our meatballs....they were the best meatballs on spaghetti ive had in ages! The bottled Peroni was ice cold & went down a treat,then we finished of with a few 'lemoncellas' (i think thats how its spelt!!) Basically a strong after dinner drink that tasted lemony (f obv!!) & contributed to my serious headache the next day. (allthough the 2 bottles of red between us,8 Peronis, 4 pints of Guiness (before we got in there!) then what seemed like a gallon of voddy/red bull in the club after might have also helped!! And that was Newark for another year,i just hope next time its warmer & drier, thats the 2nd year we have done that show & its been piss poor weather both times!

As for my Poker exploits (this is supposed to be a poker blog after all!!) well,there arent any!!
Going away doesnt help & ive been working hard at home this past week so i havnt played any pokes at all for about 10 days! hopefully i can change that & crack on.
Right then,take it slow & glglgl to you all.

14 Mar 2009

Learning to stop & Nike hats!

I have shut down Ladbrokes after a right dodgy evening!! I just couldnt win a race or get any cards to hold up. But progress is being slowly made!!
A little while ago i would have either carried on & prob lost even more at the same stakes,or gone up in buy in to recover my losses (& done even more of my BR!!).
But this evening was different,i knew i was going to end up badly stuck if i carried on so that was the time to quit....it helped that the poxy comp decided to fuck up half way through some games i was playing but enough was enough.
If it was any consolation i realised i had lost most of the time when i was actually getting it in in front,so another day i could have easily been well up,but theres always another day/night.
The good news was this afternoon when UTD were mullered by the Scousers,ha fucking ha i say,i hope the glorious Blues beat the other Manc idiots tomorrow so we can close the gap at the top....i still dont think its over,but we cant afford any slip ups!!

Had a funny experience the other morning. I got up at about 6.30 to walk our 2 dogs.
Being a kind geezer i got dressed in the bathroom so i didnt wake the Mrs or kids.
It was quite frosty so gloves & wooly hat were found & put on...( a week or so ago it was still quite dark at that time so i didnt even put a light on......i'm so thoughtfull!!!)
Any how,i walk for a while then return up my road,theres a lovely looking girl scraping her car & as i walk past her i say 'good morning' She looks up & gives me a huge smile & with a bit of a giggle says Hi.
Obv she is now weak at the knees after glancing at my rugged good looks & is probably fantasising about me using the dogs leads on her & walking her naked around house,ever so often stopping to pleasure her in a variety of ways........................................
It wasnt until i got home that i realised my Nike wooly hat was inside out & the white washing instruction label was sticking up in the middle of it which made me look a right tool!! No wonder she was giggling at me, i must have looked like one of the fucking Tweenies!!
O well,message to self....make sure i dress myself properly before leaving the house!!!! (oh,and stop having pervy thoughts about my neighbours!!!)

Right then,thats it,ta for reading & glglgl to you all.

5 Mar 2009

Hoooooooooold!!! lol!

I dont normally post specific beats because we all get them & they bore the bollox of every one reading them!!
Its only 6 handed so its bubble time,i'm quite happy to call his mini raise with atc as i need some action before the blinds begin to bite; when i flop 2 pair v his AA i'm laughing like a schoolboy!!! lol!!

** Hand # 2461439284 starting - 2009-03-04 21:17:31** 6-Handed Hustle[2759208]:Table 1 [Sit & Go Hold 'em] (70.00140.00 NL - MTT) Real Money
Bacardy sitting in seat 1 with 3085.00[Dealer]
smoothplz sitting in seat 3 with 1895.00
esragib sitting in seat 6 with 7020.00
smoothplz posted the small blind - 35.00
esragib posted the big blind - 70.00
** Dealing cards to smoothplz: 9d, 6c
Bacardy folded
smoothplz called - 70.00
esragib bet - 140.00
smoothplz called - 140.00
** Dealing the flop: 5h, 9s, 6h
smoothplz bet - 70.00
esragib raised to 490.00
smoothplz went all-in - 1685.00
esragib called - 1755.00
esragib shows: Ac, Ah
** Dealing the turn: 10s
** Dealing the river: 5c
esragib wins 3790.00 from the main pot

All i needed was to dodge the A or 5.....but no,thanks Laddies!!!!!!
I wouldnt normally play 9 6 o/s before i get slated,but here i would!!
glglgl to you all.