Wow that is absolutely disgraceful behaviour in their part. I've literally never seen that kind of mistreatment.

Barcelona sounds amazing.

The land of thieves, angleshooters and being thrown down stairs.

Did you find out the reason the bouncers starting chucking folk around? Or were they just being arseholes for the sake of it?

The reviews on TA aren't too great

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attrac...Catalonia.html

Ivan Freitez is still on the tour? :O

Nice rebuilding effort, btw. Good luck on Day 2!

Did you take the bottles?

From all the things I've seen about Barcelona on 2+2, it sounds like a crooked shtshow.

That club incident is just ridiculous.

This.

I don't get why people love it so much.

Ben,

fwiw I'm approaching 2300 hours of live poker and the "accidentally raise to much" is like a top 3 angle. It also always seems to come from seemingly rec players (good angle shooters have moved way beyond this into some pretty incredible stuff)

Like, each time i see it i think "well, this guy seems new and nice and has been quiet all night playing standard poker, maybe it was an honest mistake." Then they always show up with AA.

Just contributing likely the only real poker advice I could from an amature semi rec to a crusher like you. Keep this and all other weird happenings in your head when playing live poker. If something seems weird it is almost always better to assume angle above honest mistake, as sad as that is (speaking at least for US poker)

All of that said, I know its obv lol at ever folding kk there. Thats just gonna be a spot where you "take your lumps" so to speak, for the % of times its not an angle and for the % of times it is but its worse value (both small, imo).

I was moreso just highlighting the angle for future reference in case it happens again. Ive seen it many times.

small tip for anyone who travels a lot and already hasn't done this

download the tripadvisor app, urbanspoon, etc

always check the reviews for a place before you go. mainly this is when you're walking around and come upon a place on the street so you don't walk into a tourist trap (which barcelona is absolutely full of). the overall rating isn't necessarily the best indicator since a 3.5 star place might be mostly 3-4 stars. lots of places (like pacha) that have a tonne of 1-star reviews will leave a bunch of ghost 5-star reviews to pump up their overall rating. also read the recent reviews, especially the ones in english since owners have a harder time faking good english reviews. i most mostly use this for lunch spots during the day but can definitely use it for clubs and bars as well. 11/10 wouldn't have gone to pacha reading the reviews it has. alternatively don't listen to mayo (assuming he picked this place) since his taste in clubs seems to pretty sh*te.

Lol mayo bang bang

in all honestly pacha branchs in spain are known for tis. we got semibooted back in teh day as well but was in mallorca. we didnt have henny though

Bled down to 14bb after losing several srps. Got in 14bb co vs bb who called KQo and I couldn't fade unfortunately!

who cares!?!?!

You do bc u took ze taing to read, quote and reply to that post

If you avoid all the noob **** and don't run bad (get pickpocketed etc) it's a wonderful city.

Indeed.
Barça def top3 in Europe <33

Barcelona fits in nicely Wolverhampton and Middlesborough in my list of European cities.

EDIT; not the top three

Def needed clarification

I'll have both of you know that back in 1927 Wolverhampton had the first automatic traffic lights in Britain, what more could you ask for?

i know, pretty mental. Apparently, as Tim says, this kinda stuff happens all the time here - guess we learnt the hard way.

They were trying to remove people who hadn't paid for that section of the club. Apparently the way you deal with that is by physically throwing people!

tyty mate!

haha we tried but the police were gone and the bouncers threatened to 'kick the **** out' of us if we went down to get them.

it's mostly awesome but obv tourists are always vulnerable to this kinda stuff

yeah, this sounds pretty on the money. I do wonder whether or not people are results oriented here - ofc you will see that they have AA when they've made a missclick. It's easy to forget the times someone folds when they make that mistake cus the hand is over with no showdown. I'll be keeping a close eye out for these kinda missclicks in the future though!

But yeah KK always losing many here so no biggie.

Strong advice and lmao at the mayo rubdown - his choice of clubs are decent enough!

fk henny

happy to see you still enjoying the thread man!

haha this. He just can't bring himself to using that unsub button. ego tooooooo big

yeah we've avoided the pickpocketing so far. Noobs gunna noob tho. Although we found a much quieter beach where you aren't getting harassed for drinks every 30 seconds.

finally some love for this great city!

lmao, you know nothing!

haha, you a wolves boy?!

So I'm back from barca, and it was as much of a blast as i had hoped for. Awesome to get away from the online grind and actually experience what summer is meant to be, as oppose to the ****storm of a summer we've had in the UK. Was a ton of fun meeting some new poker players, including doctor77 and some of the timbey boys.

Here are some pics from the trip

Most of the crew



Massages on the beach with smb



Epic 3 man tower catching game that took legit 1 hour to complete



smb being smb at 3pm



The king of poker and his new gf



Me and dccnesquick (he was desperate to make the thread )



dcc massage at dinner



My good friend kreuznagel in a pretty bad state of affairs in the club lmao



Definitely will do this stop again next year!

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Got a welcome home gift from stars



We love the bd's vs rec



Interesting line from rec



Just the classic line by reg



lol vs reg with gto line (both regs)



Gutted to be home but got another week till i'm seeing clients, and another 4 weeks till i start back at uni. Will be playing a lot of poker, sport and reading books for school.

glgl

You know those times where you lose the nut minimum but still get tilted by villains lines even though they save you money and/or they are burning money long term?

Thats the 87 hand for me



3 man tower is epic

nice trip report looks like alot of fun, welcome back

Looks like fun but I can't imagine dining with the high poker sheriff himself being a very relaxing experience. I mean when do I sit? And where? Did i sit in seat 3 or 4 last time we dined? Do I just get up and go when I need a bathroom break?

bzzt nice welcome back session.

The look on cams face in that pic when we missed the ball for the 50th time in a row ahah