I probably can't help you myself (I'm useless) but I can certainly point you in ye right direction. PM your number and I'll give you a call. I also like beer.

Had a three hour lunch today, feeling on good form. Back me in 5/10 IMO.

Hi Parsons,

Great thread, I liked the mix of live, online and London life. Voted 5*.

I'm a London Recruitment Consultant as well, mainly for IT but fair amount of finance. I wouldn't be surprised if we had same clients. I've been in London for less than a year and loving it. I'm looking to get into 1/1 1/2 live poker and I assume you recommend the vic?

Keep up the good work with the blog/thread.

This Is All Getting a Bit Scilly


Last weekend we decided we'd have a crack at the Scilly Isles, most of us hadn't been before, there's a little quiet nightlife and is a beautiful place to spend a weekend. For those among us who haven't heard of/don't know where the Scilly Isles are:



We set off from London and happened across Glastonbury setting up for next weekend, all the stages were going up and the tents had been pitched. I'm very jealous of everyone going!





The plan was to stop at Bovey Castle for lunch after a quick refuel and then continue down. If you're looking for somewhere beautiful to take the other half for a birthday or something like that Bovey is absolutely brilliant. It's nestled away just West of Exeter on the edge of Dartmoor, lots of good walking, a golf course and some nightlife in Exeter if you're desperate.



We had a great lunch on the terrace but received the unfortunate news that they'd shut the airport at the Scilly Isles due to fog. While not being impossible for us to land there, we wouldn't be flavour of the month if we turned up and argued about it; they will remember your tail number and can be a bit difficult in the future. We set about finding somewhere else in Devon or Cornwall that we could go visit but it's a bit of a difficult task. Finding somewhere we can land the helicopter as well as putting 5 of us up in rooms at about 30 minutes notice is quite difficult. However luckily we found somewhere that said they could let us land as well as give us all rooms, it wasn't really what we were looking for but at this point beggars can't be choosers! We booked a club in Exeter and the rooms at the hotel and finished our drinks.

We had a bit of time so we headed out over Dartmoor and as you can imagine it was beautiful, we had a look at the infamous Dartmoor prison and emerged at Plymouth in glorious sunshine. We buzzed the coastline all the way up to Exeter with absolutely fantastic views. Being lazy unfortunately I didn't take any photos but I'll try get some at some point.

We got over the hotel and to be honest were pretty disappointed. Their landing area was very public next to a motorway, a car park and people's houses. Not really an ideal place to leave it overnight. All things considered we cut our losses and headed back to Surrey to stay at one of the teams places. This proved to be a great decision, we made it back in an hour or so and drank deeply into the evening in hotel like comfort.



Glass roof for star light swimming



I suck at snooker, despite being around average at billiards and pool.

The next morning we didn't feel like heading right back to London so we made for the Isle of Wight for lunch, but not before finishing the whisky.



It might not be the Scilly Isles but at least we made it to an island. We decided to come back into London from the East which gave us some fantastic views of Canary Wharf and the City and also passing over Dunsfold where they film Top Gear.







All in all it was a great weekend, we achieved almost nothing we set out to do except having a great laugh with great people. Next on the list is probably going to be Scotland, lots to explore up there!



Our noble steed, Whiskey Fox.

In The Vic £1/2 game, in for £300, sitting on £200

Ended up in for £400, cashed out £811.



Beginning of the session was pretty rough, first 6-7 hours were spent around £200 down, really grinding through a dull run of cards, a lot of raising pre, getting called in a million places and missing. First big hand was KK going all in pre 3 ways and holding up for a c. £500 pot. From there I did play a number of hands which I'm too tired to write about now, if people are really interested I'm more than happy to put more poker detail in, just let me know!

Back in the game, 1/2 in for £375.

GL!

was it rented or one of you owns it?

One of us owns it.

£1/2 at the Vic.

In for £550, out for £1550, peaked at c. £1625.



I felt ridiculously dialled in today, played well and ran better!

Played 2am - 6am and booked another small win, up £83. Definitely time to sleep properly now.

In for a brief evening session, in for £400! Sitting on around £500. Got it in three ways with AQs thinking they were both short but one had a very similar coloured £100 chip in his stack which I only realised once he shoved. I was priced in and was against AK in both spots. Needless to say I hit my flush so onwards we go.

Booooom

Done for the weekend and I'm absolutely exhausted. Overall up around £1550 which after knocking off a bit for expenses (taxis etc) is one of the best weekends I've had. I'm happy to say Ben agreed to extend our staking deal for the foreseeable future for live £1/2 cash games. I look forward to being able to play in more casinos around London now that don't have a £1/1 game.

Now time for a good supper and the last episode of Top Gear.

Next week.... Henley.

Ill join you in the after work grinds! Need someone to go with ha, get too bored by myseld.

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Hey man, best of luck. Will take a proper read when I get the chance but good to see some other southerners out there!

Shoot me a PM anytime and we'll sort something out! Always good to meet more London regs.

Thanks a lot, appreciate it. There are a fair few of us lurking around the forums I think.

Played a couple of short sessions last night, won a little at the Grosvenor in Bayswater and then lost a buyin the Cromwell Mint when I ran KT into AQ on a AQJ board, Q came on the river but most of the money was already in by then.

Will def be making the Mint a regular place for me now.

Have had today off work to get some job applications out the door. Those are done now so going to enjoy this beautiful weather and probably play some poker later!

Played a session at the Hippodrome today, really like the room and the food! Poker wise results not great, played one big hand which was standard. Opened 96 on BTN and sb flatted. Flop came A96ss and we get it in 200bb deep, he has 78ss. We're very slightly ahead but it's essentially a flip and he makes the flush on the turn. Ended up down £450 but will definitely be going back!

How light is the average villain getting it in in that spot?

fwiw not sure this is standard, definitely wouldn't be online

this is live poker, OESFD, it's going all in. You got bottom 2 pair..it's going all in.
Heck, Pair of Aces weak kicker some donks are going all in.

yeah, live it's just so chilled to get in 200bb with bottom 2 on this board

Thanks for the feedback guys. I chatted over the hand with Ben right after and he felt it was a good spot to get it in. To an online player I agree it isn't standard but I have a super laggy image at this point and I think getting it in here is fine.