well sir , nice update but what about that fight ?

Part 2 (of 3)

The 'Yellow Jersey' is meant to be worth over £200 if you play a long session. Some argue more. To settle this, I'll try and play a 24 hour session when I next win it and record all of my savings!

I grind during the day on a great table and hover around even. I then get into a £1,000 pot (all in on the flop) against a maniac as a 60/40 favourite. He connects with his straight and I lose. I reload to £1k to cover the maniac and carry on…

I make friends with a real nice bloke sitting to my right who buys me a steak and lobster dinner after feeling sorry for me losing the pot. I tell him not to but he insists! What a legend. I can’t remember your name sir, but on the off chance you read this then the next steak is on me!

A really really grumpy American feller sits down and instantly pisses half the table off by moaning at everyone and everything. My new friend is taking the majority of this abuse and starts to kick back. I didn’t get involved, however, not long afterwards I win a £900 pot off Mr Grumpy and I can see the joy on my new friend's face. I buy some drinks to thank him for the dinner.

The table switches to insane mode at around midnight – very deep and very aggressive. I get involved in a big pot with a flush and luckily manage to find the fold button. I’m SB with 56dd. It gets limped around by roughly 3 players in a straddled pot and the BB raises big – everyone calls. The flop comes Kd 9d 7c (roughly). I check, BB C-bets big into 5 players – the Btn and I call. The turn comes Td. I check, BB bets pot, Btn under raises (reasonably quickly) and I tank fold. The BB calls and the river blanks. BB has the nuts.

Not long afterwards, I’m on the Btn with Jh 10c and a stack of 1.5k. In a straddled pot, there are 3 limpers and I make it 30. The straddler (Villain) makes it 75 and the limpers fold. I call. I don’t have much info on Villain, but he looks like a rec player and has 1.1k in chips. He has deep pockets as he bought in for £500 and reloaded for £1k after losing his first bullet. He thinks that I'm a nit after I revealed the flush I had folded previously. Just a reminder, this is a 1-2 deep stack (straddle = 5)

The flop - £168 – Ah 6h 9d. Villain C-bets 55 and Hero calls.

The Turn - £278 – 5h. Villain bets 100 and Hero raises to 300 – Villain looks in serious pain and calls after some thought.

The River - £878 – 2s. Villain checks and Hero shoves - £670 for Villain to call. Villain thinks for 2 mins in serious pain again. It looks as if he changes his mind 3 times, playing with his cards, then his chips and then his cards again. I feel pretty relaxed as I've had one or two beers. He looks at his girl friend (who is sitting behind her), puts his jacket on, stands up and calls. He shows Q6 off suit. GG.

wow,are you a pro already ?

Part 3 (of 3)

It felt like a bad beat when he called the bluff, but the game was so good that I couldn’t let it bother me. I reloaded to £2k (to cover the fish) and continued.

Not long afterwards, the young gobby Irish bloke I mentioned in part 1 stumbled into the card room, but now he was pissed as a fart (from this point onwards he is known as The Bell End). I invited him to join us and he told me to “fu** off” (obviously I had left an impression). My steak buddy jumped to my defence and The Bell End started gobbing off at him. I said “You’re welcome to play at this table anytime.” He lost it then and wanted to “take me outside.” The floor came over to calm him down and he was led to another table. Bell Boy must be a regular because if he was a rando then I’m sure he would have been kicked out. That was the last I heard from him that night, but I’m sure we’ll meet again some day.

Sadly, the sick game we were playing came to an end at around 0400 hrs and I had failed to get out of the £1,000 hole I was in. I moved to another table after a number of deeply stacked pros joined ours. I managed to get all in pretty quickly preflop with AA for a £2,000 pot. GG, the other player also had AA!

Shortly afterwards, a young guy I recognised from the Empire sat down with 2.5k. I believe he’s a pro. I can’t confirm this, but all I remember is that he’s very laggro – he is Villain for the hand below and this is one of his first hands.

A loose goose opened UTG to 12, I 3-bet in MP to 35 (with 78hh) and the Villain 4-bet to 95 from the Btn. UTG folds and I flat.

Flop - (£205) - 2h 7 8. I check and Villain checks.

Turn – (£205) – Ah. I bet £100 and Villain raises to £250. I call.

River – (£705) – A. I check and Villain bets £500. I fold. Villain said he had a high pocket pair.

Villain leaves not long afterwards and I’m about to call it a day. Until…. Tall, thin Max arrives pissed and sits down with £35k. Pissed Max playing poker is notorious around London. He lives up to his reputation and goes all in every hand for the next 30 mins - bearing in mind, the average stack at this table is £800. In his first hand, he went all in and showed 6 2 afterwards. The next hand he went all in again and the tightest player on the table called off his £1,000 stack. Max had QQ and stacked him! This continued for about 5 more hands until the bloke sitting next to Max stands up, walks around behind him and gets Max in a aggressive headlock, pulling him backwards off his chair. There are some fierce words exchanged before security come and throw them both out. I remember the bloke saying “You’re lucky someone doesn’t kill you if you keep calling people cun*s at the poker table.” When security arrives the man claims he was “teaching Max a lesson.” There must be some history between the two of them. All very strange…

Anyway that marked the end of my session and I finish the day in a £1,300 hole .

Lessons Learned:
1. The floor really does earn their money. If this had all happened in some dodgy club somewhere then I really don’t know what could have escalated during this session. It was like the Jeremy Kyle show meets Eastenders.
2. Don’t bluff unknowns, they are probably idiots.
3. Don’t play marathon sessions – you suck at them!

Playing UKITP this weekend in Notts. Selling some action here:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/se...rchid=40105981

Will be updating via aj5865 on twitter.

Love the story about All in Max!
Also, don't show people how good our folds are. They get free info about what we go to war with. The information is much more valuable than a pat on the back imo.
Update the thread mate.

still playing for a living?