Motörhead, the Premier League and the Bad Beat Jackpot

I had my best friend from Germany being over for a week holiday which meant I didn't play a lot of Poker. Last Friday we went to see Motörhead in the Carling Academy in Newcastle and I was very suprised. Motörhead was absolutely brilliant and especially the crowd commited a lot to a superb concert. I had seen Motörhead live in Germany before and it was a big disappointment as sound quality was very bad and the crowd was absolutely lame and full of retired people/pensioners. The only good thing about the concert in Germany was the support band Mondo Generator which is one of my favourite bands. As mentioned the English crowd enjoyed Motörhead so much more and the sound quality was brilliant as well as the show was. It even included a littel acoustic session with Mr Lemmy Kilmister playing the harmonica to some acoustic guitar sound by Mickey D. Fantastic. The support band was Saxon and to be honest they were boring. Typical boring, slow, uninspired heavy metal. Saxon sucks big time.
The day after we went to the Stadium of Light to see Sunderland vs. Portsmouth which was the first live Premier League match I have seen so far. We had good seats and the match was ok as well but we were a little disappointed by the lack typical fan activities. No real loud singing, no drums, nothing special. Just 40.000 people sitting and watching a match and clapping their hands when something happened. I try St. James Park next time and see if that's any better. Anyway we went on to go down Durham and getting nicely hammered. There was a brilliant Punk cover band playing in this Shamrox pub which was awesome. By midnight my friend was so pissed that they wouldn't let him into Lloyd's bar so we decided to go home. He was so pissed that he fell over in my bathroom and obviously raped my toilet with his inner liquids. When I checked if he was still alive I found him lying next to the toilet covered with the duvet and holding the toilet brush in his hand just like a king his sceptre. Absolutely hilarious. I love this bloke. Already looking forward to Germany for two weeks at christmas and getting hammered 14.5 out of 16 days. Weehaa, let the games begin!

Pokerwise nothing special happend. I played 500 hands in November for a tiny profit. A sick hand occured in my Tuesday Poker tourney. Player 1 raises from BTN. SB calls. All others fold. Flop 10c, 8s, 3s a little bit of betting follows. Turn is 10s, players get all of their chips in the middle. Player one shows 10h, 10d for a turned quadzilla and Player two shows Js9s for the turned flush with straight flush draw. The river is obviously the Qs to destroy Quadzilla and set the pub in a general "Oh my fucking god" expression. As tournamnt organiser I obviously had to honor this horrendous beat somehow and bought player one a pint of fine lager. lol. On Party Poker a hand like this is worth about $50.000

Right that's it for now. I hope to get some more hands in tonight as my girlfriend's regular sunday bath is coming up soon which gives me a quiet two hours of poker.

Laters,

Moaning obviously helps

I just wrote a post and when I was finished my laptop suddenly shut down and everything I wrote was gone. What a fucking nightmare. So this is going to be significantly shorter than the other one. Had brilliant start into November with taking down the Poker Soc tournament. I really needed that and treat it as a major success just like winning a bracelet. lol.

I give you a few hands from the tourney. I got involved a bit more early on and accumulated a few chips then lost a biggish pot when I folded KT on a KQJ board on the turn and villain showed me KQ. I was short stacked from this point onwards until I reached the final table. I had between 3 and 5 bb blinds almost for the whole tourney. With 16 left I shoved A2dd from MP and got called by A6 in the BB and luckily split the pot. Next hand was my major suck out when I shoved A7cc and got called by AT in the bb. Flop 7xx; Turn T; River 7. Yeahaa. A few hands later a russian player limps UTG. He was a complete beginner as he even needed to use a hand ranking card and always had to ask at the showdown if he won. Everyone else folds and I find KK in the bb and min-raise it. Russina player re-raises and I go AI. He snap calls with 22. lol. I flop a set and everything is fine. On the final table I knock one player out with my 88 that hold up against his 77. Only made one little bit advanced play when Isaac raised from CO and I think his range there is as wide as my bottom. So I 3-bet him with my J8dd. Everyone else folds and Isaac calls. Flop is a King and two rags. Isaac checks and I c-bet. How can he put me on AK there. I knew he read my last blog entry. lol. With 3 players left I shove AQ into a Button raise and get called from K9. My hand holds up. As there wasn't enough time to finish playing I was declared the winner as I had more than 50% of the chips. Now my name finally appears in the leaderboard on the poker soc website. Yeah. I hope I can keep this up and that November will be a good month. Oh, and guess what I didn't have AK once in this tourney. How does it happen that I moan in the blog about me not winning a tourney for ages and getting fucked by AK and the next tourney I play I win immediately and never found AK to fuck me up. What is going on?

Anyway my girlfriend is having a bath at the minute so I take the chance and get a few hands on Full Tilt in.

Hasta Luego

P.S. Below you find one of the memorable AK moments I promised in the last post. Is there any worse flop I could catch there. May AA8 or KK8. Nevermind.