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Thenfollowing hand completely sums up my session today, I am now in the midst of a 9 buy in down swing, break time me thinks.

Game #5332804474: Hold'em NL (£0.03/£0.06) - 2007/08/07 - 11:38:20 (DST)
Table "Oronsh" Seat 3 is the button.
Seat 1: wiiiii (£2.34 in chips)
Seat 2: Zandos (£2.08 in chips)
Seat 3: 1978jrw (£7.31 in chips)
Seat 4: Kasy17021 (£3.63 in chips)
Seat 6: Jobi (£5.22 in chips)
Plasma_ joins the table at seat #5
Kasy17021: posts small blind £0.03
Plasma_: posts big blind £0.06
----- HOLE CARDS -----

dealt to 1978jrw
Jobi: raises to £0.18
wiiiii: folds
Zandos: calls £0.18
1978jrw: raises to £0.42
Kasy17021: folds
Plasma_: folds
Jobi: calls £0.24
Zandos: calls £0.24


----- FLOP -----
Jobi: checks
Zandos: checks
1978jrw: bets £0.66
Jobi: calls £0.66
Zandos: calls £0.66


----- TURN -----
Jobi: bets £0.70
Zandos: calls £0.70
1978jrw: raises to £6.23 and is all-in
Jobi: folds
Zandos: is all-in £0.30
Returned uncalled bets £5.23 to 1978jrw


----- RIVER -----
----- SHOW DOWN -----
1978jrw: shows (Three of a kind, Tens, Ace high)
Zandos: shows (A Flush, Ace high)
Zandos collected £5.73 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----


The very next hand on a different table, I got it all in with someone who showed me their rivered boat, which gave me the nut flush also gg poker gods.

Roll on Greece.

*Crossover post from the NL section*

I just had a really pleasing evening session on Sun Poker, where I not only made my losses up but actually made some change. My roll was on $111 before I threw myself on the mercy of BTP'ers and pleaded for help. Roy, NV and Alex came to the rescue and I ended the session up just a few minutes ago with my roll on $222 wooooot...

The most pleasing hand of the night was thus, making up for two days of disgusting sets under overpairs and flopped straights with 34o and all that jazz.

Game #5339957034: Hold'em NL (£0.03/£0.06) - 2007/08/07 - 19:17:49 (DST)
Table "Echeoea" Seat 5 is the button.
Seat 1: Sanntos (£8.24 in chips)
Seat 2: Luveeja (£5.01 in chips)
Seat 3: _messiah_ (£2 in chips)
Seat 4: 1978jrw (£10.65 in chips)
Seat 5: Jjnant (£4.53 in chips)
Seat 6: Timr2905 (£7.39 in chips)
Timr2905: posts small blind £0.03
Sanntos: posts big blind £0.06


----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to 1978jrw
Luveeja: folds
1978jrw: raises to £0.30
Jjnant: raises to £4.53 and is all-in
Timr2905: folds
Sanntos: folds
1978jrw: calls £4.23
----- FLOP -----
----- TURN -----
----- RIVER -----
----- SHOW DOWN -----
Jjnant: shows (High Card Ace)
1978jrw: shows (A Flush, Ace high)
1978jrw collected £8.70 from Main pot


LOL RUNNERRUNNEREMENTS


Ship it.

Man that felt good.

I cleared another $10 or so in bonus today and prolly accrued another $6 in RB.

Ok so this is my definate last post before my holiday, in 24 hours I'll be airbourne on my way to Greece and leaving all you homo's to jerk off to pics in my journal.

Holiday pics from Greeece pls

Ok, so as promised, and as NV requested, trip report from Alykes, on the Greek island of Zante;

So we left London at 1.20am GMT and arrived at Zakynthos airport at 6.30am local time, and got to the resort of Alykes at around 8am local time. We dropped our suitcases in the room, (which was incidently, a bit small for 3 people but anyhoo) and had a quick wander around the town. Found enough tavernas for 3 months, and loads of bars and supermarkets et al.

We saw a place open for breakfast, full English breakfast for 3.50eu, that'll do we thought and went in. Got chatting to the waitress who spoke very good English, she reminded me of a few Greek phrases I'd forgotten and we had breakfast and left. Went back to the apartment and slept for a few hours (we'd been up like, 18 hours straight)

Woke up, got our shit together and went down to the beach, which was a bit narrow and busy but the water was gorgeous, shallow, warm and clear, just beautiful. Here's a picture of the beach taken from a restaraunt table, yes an actual table, the restaraunts were right on the beach front.



Inbetween waking up and heading to the beach, I discovered I had left a bag on the coach. A bag containing all of our passports. Genius, Jay. Just fucking genius. I met with the tour rep who made a call, received a call an hour later and bob's your uncle, the bag was found and delivered to my door at 5.30 the next morning, all safe and sound.

I was concerned, but not overly so as I know how trustworthy Greek people are on the whole. What concerned me was the bag falling in the hand of some theiving cunt of a Northener tourist. Greek people really are one of the friendliest, trustworthy and decent people on the face of this planet. Nothing is too much trouble for them and they would give you their last penny if you needed it. A stark contrast to the cunt rags that occupy London and parts of England these days, a statement I'm sure NV will agree with.

So the next day we headed to the beach, then in the afternoon found a swimming pool the rep told us we could use, and spent the rest of the week around the pool really, the beach was a little windy and I fucking hate sand everywhere. Here's a picture of me and my girfriends daughter, Shannon, in the pool



We ate out for dinner everynight, had some fantastic Greek food (which I loved anyway btw) including some nice Souvalaki (Kebabs) and some out of this world seafood, including Swordfish, Monkfish, Prawns and Siobhan had some really nice Mussels with garlic, not my thing though really.

After dinner, we pretty much headed to the same bar every night, which ended up being the place we had breakfast on the first day. We made friends with the couple owning it, and Shannon, loving kids like she does, adored their little 3 year old, and insisted we went to the bar every night, which we did.

We got merry most nights, and absolutely smashed at least two nights, which was great at the time but wasteful the next morning when we slept in 'till 12pm.

Here are some pictures of the couple who owned the bar. It once again emphasised the true geniunity and warmth of Greek people. These guys took us to their hearts, and we did likewise, and neither of us wanted to leave the island in the end. We all swapped numbers and email addresses, and I will definately keep in touch and almost certainly go back, maybe next year.





Overall the weather was fucking hot, over 100c in the last two days and it was hard work to get a suntan as you just burned up. You really need two weeks there, to build up a gradual tan.

These pictures are of our last meal out, this is me and my gf obv;



And my gf and her daughter, Shannon;



Writing this post has fucking depressed me. Holiday blues I guess. I have been to Greece maybe 6 or 7 times but this time, as an adult has made me realise how we English have it so wrong. We work 40 hours a week, to pay for a house for 25 years that we end up leaving to our kids(not a bad thing btw) and then if we're lucky, we spent 10 years of retirement taking coach trips to fucking Scotland or Bognor Regis, before the concern switches from financial security to whether you'll make the toilet before you shit yourself.

Over there, they work to live, not the other way around. I guess I have the holiday blues and I'm glad I have a few days before I have to go back to work but it's seriously making me think about emigrating somewhere like Zante, rather than Australia. Maybe if I become a decent poker player, making a regular win rate at $200NL then I may consider being a poker pro out there. The cost of living is so much cheaper than in England, and I'd need to make prolly $2400 a month to live very comfortably. Instead of coming home after work and sitting in watching telly, you could swim, sunbathe, go to a little taverna for a nice meal by the sea...meh, it's all a pipedream but we have to have dreams.

Well done for anyone reading this entire post btw...

Yeah, here's to pipe dreams...no wonder most people here are sick of it and dream of escaping... considering we're the world's 4th biggest economy our quality of life is truly shite compared to places like France, Italy and Greece.

What was the UK Chav% like in Zante?

TBH Rich, it depends where you go, like most places I guess. Where we went, Alykes, is pretty non commercial and I can recall 3 complete pricks in the entire holiday, 2 of em were Chelsea fans, obv.

But in Laganas, which is the Southern part of the island, that's where all the 18-30's head and we saw a few loud cunts at the airport on the way home. I'd highly recommend a trip there for you and your partner, mate. Zante has been referred to as "The flower of the Mediteranean" so I've heard and I can back up that it, it's a lovely place.

One thing I forgot to mention in my TR was we had a boat trip booked up which got cancelled very last minute by the coastguards due to the sea being a bit choppy. We was due to visit a shipwreck and a place called the blue caves. I saw other pictures of the caves on postcards and stuff and the colour of the water is like nothing else, was gutted to miss out on it. Another boat trip is to the South of the Island, where they have Loggerhead Turtles that congregate there to feed and breed and whatever the fuck else Turtles do. I wish I'd of had two weeks there to do all the trips and hire a car and stuff.

I've just ordered a fucking huge pizza to cheer me up.

So today was a strange affair.

I put in 3,200 hands, 6 tabled this morning, 8 tabled this afternoon and 9 tabled this evening. At the end of the afternoon session I was down 5 buy ins, by the end of the entire session I was up 4 and some change.

6 max variance, you gotta love it.

Had some bad beats, runner runners and two outers but I dished out a few myself including rivering a queen to make a set on my oppo's flopped top two with AK and my favourite, not so much a "bad beat" but still two outs, whatever way you look at it. In chat after he was steaming, like I'd just one outered him for a £1000 pot or something. I suspected PF that he had aces, or in the least a big pair and knew I was playing for set value, tried to explain that to him but he just called me a lucky c*nt and demanded I played him for £100 HU, which I said I'd do tomorrow. I have no intention to, of course.

By the turn I knew he had aces and just had to figure out how to stack him...

Game #4309498613: Hold'em NL (£0.03/£0.06) - 2007/08/17 - 19:01:21 (DST)
Table "Jeffred" Seat 6 is the button.
Seat 1: THOMAS7 (£6.47 in chips)
Seat 3: Mookie_d (£1.32 in chips)
Seat 5: 1978jrw (£13.80 in chips)
Seat 6: tanja.dk (£3.18 in chips)
THOMAS7: posts small blind £0.03
Mookie_d: posts big blind £0.06


----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to 1978jrw
1978jrw: raises to £0.30
tanja.dk: calls £0.30
THOMAS7: raises to £0.90
Mookie_d: folds
1978jrw: calls £0.60
tanja.dk: folds
----- FLOP -----
THOMAS7: checks
1978jrw: checks


----- TURN -----[2s]
THOMAS7: bets £1.80
1978jrw: raises to £3.72
THOMAS7: raises to £5.57 and is all-in
1978jrw: calls £1.85


----- RIVER -----
----- SHOW DOWN -----
THOMAS7: shows (Two Pairs, Aces and Twos, Ten high)
1978jrw: shows (A Full House, Nines full of Twos)
1978jrw collected £12.64 from Main pot


Ship it.

And he was from Glasgow too, *snigger*

Ran at 17/9/4 and a win rate of just under 7.

Bankroll currently $361

Pending release of $30 of bonus money which gets paid at the end of the month

And $27 in RB which also gets paid at the end of the month

Total $418