UKSPC 09 Fairy Tales

Let’s talk a bit about the 3-day UKSPC trip. I picked up “147 Super Star” at about 9:00 am on Wednesday and from there us both good looking young men made our way down to B’ham. To make the drive appear a bit shorter we started playing some 1p/2p HU cash game while I was driving. As last year we stuck the cards of the board to some blue tack spots on the cockpit. The game finished when there was still one hour to go to B’ham but “147 tight ass” refused to reload after he donated 4.50 Pound to me. He obviously was afraid to go broke! He could easily have made a profit from the game but he wasn’t good enough to fold 77 to a 5-bet-shove of mine when my range clearly can only be AA or KK. :-) I had QJss and flopped the flush draw which got there on the turn. Good start to the trip I thought. At least he is respected by all to be a world class HU player. But then he had to play me...unlucky him...

Once in B’ham we popped in the casino and it seemed like everybody (Isaac, Nick, Paul) had to play day 1A and I was on day 1B. That basically meant that I had to do something else and therefore met up with Nathan in a pool place. I managed to run like god on amphetamines and gave Nathan a very tough time in beating me at 9 and 8 ball. I had a 2 -0 lead in the 9-ball game actually but then still lost 2-3. So close. As this trip was supposed to be a nice break from the diet for me I was smoking, drinking and eating like *insert name of fat, smoking and drinking celebrity here (Paul Gascoigne e.g.).”

9:00 pm came round soon and that was when the 10 pound side event started. I was already majorly pissed by that time. Anyway I had to queue for 30 minutes only to get on the alternates list and then wait another 30 minutes to get a seat. As I finally had a seat I limped my first hand (I already had to pay a penalty) and folded to some action on the flop. The next hand I folded. Then I got T3dd on the button and shoved 20 BB’s after only one MP limper was only in the pot so far. Small blind folds, Big Blind SNAP calls with K5o and the limper snap calls with AA. Oh dear. I flopped a pair with flush draw but couldn’t get there and was out after three hands. What a waste of time. Oh by the way the hand was won by K5 as he turned 2 pair. The guy with AA was very disgusted.lol.

I think afterwards I started to donate money to the casino at the 3 card poker. Lost a coinflip to Mr Keys for I have no idea how much money and got nicely hammered. After tournament play for the day was over everybody decided to head to our appartment to play some proper 5p/10p. Beforehand we stopped to buy some booze: tons of lager, a bottle of Jack Daniel’s, a bottle of Frosty Jack’s Cider ???, and a porn magazine with DVD so we were all fine prepared to repeat our last year’s cash game session. I quickly popped to my car with Isaac to get the chips and when we got back the two professional Poker players had fallen asleep and I was unable to wake them up. That’s what those guys do huh? Tell you that they’ll come and lose some cash at your table but only need a place to sleep in the end. I crumbled a biscuit over Mr Keys head which reminded him all next day about this disappointment by itching horribly. So we played four handed but I cannot really remember about this cash game as I was absolutely hammered but I think I finished like 60 or 70 quid up. As far as I now I couldn’t get away from 45s pre flop and always managed to hit.

Next morning I was still very pissed and started the day with a lager and some frosty jack’s and then headed to the casino where I had another two lager and after them I basically had the same level of drunkness as the night before. I came to my table and trash talked my cock off. Declaring half of the talble to be big online MTT winners. I think my banter caused general amusement although the dealer was pretty annoyed be me. The dealer btw looked like a woman with a terrible hair cut and when I asked her/him for the name she/he said David! I started laughing thinking that it was a joke but it turned out she really was a he! Upps! The table was obviously super tight so I open-raised basically every second hand with all sorts off trash and even min-raised blind UTG as I wasn’t allowed to straddle. I picked up KK in the second hand and was all-in on the turn but didn’t get called and won a few chips and kept winning chips in small pots. Then I lost half my stack when I flopped a straight against one of the ladies at the table and got loads of action from her top pair but she rivered a backdoor flush. That’s unlucky. I then got bored and shoved my AQ on a JTxQx board when villain had a straight with 98 and slow rolled me when he was thinking for about ten minutes and eventually called. “I thought you might have AK.” I mean wtf!? Anyway I busted after 2.5 hours and that was longer than I expected. In the afternoon we went to Riley’s to play some Pool/Snooker. Being the moron that I am I offered to play Snooker for money against “147 Ronnie O’Sullivan” if he gave me 4:1. I still can’t believe what an idiot I am. I might as well just stick it in his pocket without playing. At least I crushed him in the HU cash game!

Later I managed to win three 9-ball matches against Isaac in a row. Obviously not playing for money. How can you be such a good pool player Isaac and lose three times in a row against a pissed German moron?

Made the way back in the casino for the side event. Before the event started I got stuck another 130 Pound at the roulette tables. Betting on red always red but it kept bringing black about 17/20 times. Registered for the side event on time and got seated next to Nick which obviously had to be good for some action. Normally we agreed to shove the first hand regardless but Nick voided the bet as we were at the same table. Chicken! I busted this tourney after 5 hands. Limp-fold JT, fold flop with AK, fold pre, fold pre, limp-shove 66. I run into 99 and TT but clearly my limp shove can only be AA or KK here again. :-) One guy at the table tells me that he already folded a 6 so I’m hoping for my one outer. TT flop a set and I am drawing dead but to make it worse I managed to hit the one outer on the turn. The pot gets taken down by the 99 as they spike a flush on the river.

Well I get myself to the bar and am working hard to keep myself nicely pissed. I get to talk to Imran (one of the organisers) and he introduces me to some people. Most importantly to Chris “John Kane” or something who suposedly is a 2+2 legend and used to be a 1000NL reg before his parents forced him to get a job. There is a soft Omaha game going and everybody begs him to play it and take stakings. I have only 70 Pound left in the wallet and run to the cash machine. The cash machine is outdrawing me and is not giving me any more money as I already withdrew my daily maximum. What a sick beat. The staking deal was brilliant. He said I give you your money back regardless + you can have 10% of the winnings. No staking for me due to lack of cash in the wallet. He lost the whole stack very soon anyway so no winnings missed. A nice group of us now sits down at the 1/1 pound table to play some cash. This cash session was the best I played my whole live so far. Here a few hands: I straddle the first hand and get dealt AT. Imran had raised from EP and I called from the straddle. Flop: TJx. I check, Imran bets, I raise, He shoves, I call and he has 99 SHIP!!! Up to roughly 140 Pound. One orbit later I straddled again. Imran raises, Chris 3- bets, Unknown player 4- bets, comes round to me and I find 44 and have a sick feeling about this hand and 5-bet shove it. Everyone folds and I take down the pot pre flop and showed that I had the nuts! :-) I then lose a few pots and am all-in in the dark on the flop with AJss against one 60ish year old guy. Turn is a J and he mucks his hand on the river. From there it went up up and up. I got a bit lucky when I raised K7ss from the cut off and got called by the MP limper and I manage to flop a flush. We get it in on the flop and he has a set of 6’s but my flush holds. I had a few brilliant moments. One of the best being a 6-high tripple barrel bluff I got through which won me 10 quid in a side bet as well which I had for showing a tripple barrel bluff. Was the only one that I attempted as well. Spot perfectly picked imo. A few hands later I picked up a bluff/super light 3-bet by a student player when he committed himself pre and we get it in with my A9ss against his T7o and I hold. I made plenty of well timed floats, 3 and 4 bets, bluffs and good value bets and got lucky to never get coolered with set over set or anything. When ever I got my money in I was ahead and held. I finished this cash session on a 400 Pound stack!!! Having bought in for only 70 Pound this is a pretty sick result. Especially because I didn’t hit and run I was at the table when we started and I was still at the table when everything was over. I played from beginning to the end. This nice session obv helped to cover some losses and costs and I will keep having sweet dreams about how well I played there. There are so many more small stories and details to tell about but this post is already longer than it should be.

I am ill at the moment so can’t go to the gym. I am doing some extreme dieting atm and finally got rid of the gained weight from B’ham. I hope to get below the 90kg mark in April.

I am running really well on PKR as well, basically crushing the NL10 there and had a minor tourney cash as well. Shot taking at 25 NL will follow soon.

Stats:

Weight lost: 15.3 kg (2.40 Stone)
Weight to lose: 9.7 kg (1.52 Stone)

Poker:

Stars: - $ 70
PKR: + $ 170
Live Cash: + £ 403.50
Live Tourney: - £ 55


That’s it. Thanks for reading.

Truthans