Landan and being a degen

So went to London for the weekend and had an awesome time. I am really feeling the affects of so many nights out now tho!

Anyway Geoff and I flew out on Friday afternoon, had to get a taxi to the airport because all my mates are benders! Grabbed a quick Maccy D's and we were on our way. Got to Geoff's cribnest about 7, chilled for a while and then decided we should eat again. We hit up Wagamama's, fucking love the place, food is fantastic, the service is great and there always seems to be a good buzz about the place. Then after a few beers at dinner we headed to the Vic to meet up with James666. But Geoff the ballbag forgot his I.D, so I headed in alone as he hit the mingin tube back to Islington to grab his I.D. I'd say I was in the Vic 45 mins and had 3 triple jager redbulls, was well oiled to say the least when Geoff arrived. We then left cause James couldnt handle the aggro scando's at his cash table:) We had a few drinks in this salsa place which was pretty cool (passion fruit mojito's, yum yum) We stayed there for a while and then decided it was time for some degening. Empire casino was our hole of choice and James and I got a private table and played series of HU games. We played every type of poker imaginable , it was awesome. We ended up even in the end, but I owned his soul, he ran like god in PLO. I think we left Empire about 3am and decided it was time for bed. We left James and headed back to Geoff's house. He hit the bed and I decided to play online ( fantastic idea ofc). I jumped in a 1/2 6 max game and managed to find some mugs who were somehow more hammered than I was. One hand for an example of the dismal play, I make it $8 on the button with Q10s ($200 effective stacks). The small and big blind both defend. We see a flop a rainbow flop of QJ10, it's checked to me so I fire $18, the sb quicky calls and the turn rolls out another 10. He checks again and I decide betting is best as he is a fishay and he wont fold any of his draws/top pair hands. I throw out $40 and he snaps me. The river comes a deuce and he again checks to me, I overbet jam (not by a huge amount) and he tanks down, uses his full timebank, and looks me up with Q6 yipeee! I won about $1200 over the course of a couple of hours, which was good considering I was deranged. I hit the scratcher about 6am absolutely wrecked.

Then next couple of days in London were very cool. We went to two Premiership games, Villa vs West Ham (Upton Park and its surroundings are in absolute bits by the way) and Arsenal vs L'pool. Keano got off the mark which was good news but I felt we should have got more from the game. We also ate some great food and drank out fair share of beers. We got back to Dublin late Sunday night and I got a text 'you home? coming out tonight?'. I was feeling ill and sooooo tired so obv I replied with 'yeaahhhhhhhhhh'. A mad night in Coppers in which we downed every drink we had , geeeeeeed ideas. Then the casino was visited at 4am, again not a fantastic idea, I bluffed away 400 euro in the last hand to leave a 150 euro loser, ah well it was good fun.

An entry of my chrimbus goings on will be posted soon............As for online poker, I played the $250 one day on laddies and managed to scoop the win for $2175. That is all:)

Happy Festive Period
Nick

Ummmmmmm

As I write this I am insanely hungover, properly in bits. So if it makes little or no sense you know why. What have I been doing the last week or so? Went on the piss, thurs, fri and sat..............good banter was had as per usual, but really feeling the affects of treating my body so poorly. And with Christmas just around the corner i'm guessing I won't be getting much of a break from it! Oh well, i'l just have to soldier on and suck it up. Tough life I have!

Pokers....................hmmmmmmm...................................Played a few tounries sat afternoon and managed to scoop 2nd in the $250 on laddies for 1.8k. I played like a toolbox HU. I have been playing a lot of HU since then, making a serious effort to improve, hopefully it will pay off:) Then played a huge slate on Sunday and had some great stacks in some big wans but the poker gods decided it was time to slap me in the face, really hard.

-15 left in the Irish Open sat with 4 packages, I have an average stack which is 12bb (Ipoker = jokes) My AA is no match for 89s. GG
-115 left in the 250k on ipoker I lose a massive pot with AKs to AQ, standard, it cripples me and I bust in 103rd with 100 paid. GG
-200 left in the Brawl on FTP I have a top 20 stack I get it in with A8s on and 822 board vs AQ.........turn the standard Q. I then run JJ into AA blind v blind, like come on, FUCK MY LIFE!

In better news I managed to have some sucess staking. I staked Snow-Men into the $300 daddy on laddies and he managed 5th for $3k and change. Great effort for a mug! I'm off to London tommorow for the weekend to watch the might pool beat the Arsenal scum, should be banter.

Take it ham and
Nick

Losing Live winning Onlizzle

Been a while since my last post. Mainly because I played a few live tounries, they went muck and I couldn't be shizzzed to talk about them.

Anways, I played the 1k event int Fitzwillam and was out by level 3. It had a great structure and I really don't think you will find a softer 1k event anywhere in the world. Honestly it was mad, like 7 people to every flop, people limping and then calling re raises, it was gas. I had to fold KK on 8 9 6 2 board when i guy shoved on me, wasn't the ideal board, but my plan was to bet/fold the turn given its drawy nature, oh well! I ended up busting flopping top two blind v blind, he bet i the flop i raised, he called, the turn completed a gutter and he led (made no sense) so I jammed trying to get value from worse two pairs ect, he obv turned the nuts with 64 o. GG. Was very annoyed to bust so early as the field was so weak.

Onto Cavan............Drove up friday night and met up with Snow-Men and Ballybaykid. Had some dinner and a pint and it was time to play. I played like a monkey for the first few levels, basically spewing chips left right and centre, again the standard was horrif! Tbh I found it hard to adapt to playing live from playing online so often. Its something I need to work on because my patience was no where to be seen. Ended up busting in level 8 I think, limped pot I had QJs in the sb, flop 7 9 10. I check shoved on the button who bet like 3k I had like 14k. He made a great hero call with 78o and even after turning a flush draw I couldnt get there, sigh! Live poker can blow my nuggets. Was fun to hang out with Snow-Men and Ballybay even if they are mugs!

As for online, it had been going very well.

2nd in the 15k on ipoker for $2.5k
3rd in the 4k on laddies for $900
4th in the Ipoker 25k for $2k
3rd in the laddies 15k $1.8k

So been a pretty decent 10 days......really haven't put in much volume but when I have played I have been winning. Little dissapointed I didn't win any of the above tounries, but in all honesty it just came down to not running well enough shorthanded!

In other news.........been goin out on the sauce alot:) My mates and I are such pissheads , lol! But na, really been enjoying myself! Also been managing to go the gym every 2nd day which is good for a fatboy like me! And finally booked a ski holiday for new year, so am really excited for that.

Over and out

Nick