LONDON BABY!!

This is the first post for a while and the reason behind this is long and boring so here is the shortest version possible: no Internet cause former tenant is a moron and bt are a bunch of cunts! So i havn't played online for ages and i'm writing this blog from an Internet cafe on tottenham court road. With any luck we'll sort the Internet soon but for the mean time i'm happy playing live at the gutshot; my new spiritual home.

The flat is awesome and so far myself and Ant 'big tone' yousefian have been getting on as well as ever. We have got sky set up and i find myself drawn to the junk on MTV more and more; hogan knows best and made have rather embarrassingly made it on to my daily viewing list! I'm also a huge fan of Dog the bounty hunter.. arghhhhhh i'm turning into a twat. Also got the ps2 running and have a £50 bet on with Ant on who gets to 50 wins first, i'm 3-2 down and know i'm a slight dog on the bet but we are playing regular heads up matches for £10 each which is a good laugh and evens the score, i'm currently 3-0 down lol.

As far as poker goes i've been at the gutshot 7 out of 10 days and i'm down about £350 which is pretty standard variance i guess. On the first night we both played the £100 FE and Ant chopped it 3 way for £1500, lucky i had 20%. In the same tourney i busted 14th of 72 with 9 getting paid. I thought i played well and i had the chip lead with 30-25 left but lost 3 showdowns in a row, with the final one resulting in my elimination. 1 hand of note from the tourney was with 21 players and 3 tables left. The blinds were 500/1000 and i had 12K in chips, gets folded round to the button (a chav who is quite aggressive and not very good) who makes it 5K leaving himself 14ish. The sb dwells up for ages and looks soooooo weak but sticks his last 10K into the pot, i look down at 99 in the bb; Oxford flashback lol. This time however there was no doubt in my mind that i had the best hand and i shove for 7K more. Now its on the chav, he needs to put 7K in to win 28K and knock out two players, he has to call, but he starts to dwell. So i know he's got gash and obviously i want him to fold so i start yapping away when a guy on the other side of the table, who is not in the pot says, "you have to call"!!!!!!!!. I go mental!! "you can't say that, your not in the fucking hand, shut the hell up!" i believe was my response, i get an apology and in the confusion the chav folds Q8. The sb flips A9 and i win a very nice pot, Q hit the flop btw. The hand was interesting because it showed my advantage in live play, i'm loud, big and get angry and ironically i think the chav was gonna call before the argument. Another saving factor was the fact that i had saved the lower value chips and my shove looked a lot more than what it actually was, i saw Daniel Negreanu do this in the wsop one year and its stuck with me since, once again if i had just 12 chips in total at the start of the hand i think he calls. Although this tactic may only work in 1 tourney a year this alone makes it worth while, your opponent may not ask for a count thinking that you have a lot more chips than you actually do.

On the cash tables I've been playing the £1/£2 game with an unlimited buy in. I've been buying in for £300 and enjoying some major swings but alas am down in the game. Although the standard of play is hugely varied in this game (with around 40 regular players) on the whole it sucks ass!! people limp soooooooo weak its scary, there must be 5-6 regular players who are playing over 60% of hands which is ridiculous!! Although i'm not gonna blog any specific hands i will say that i'm pretty happy with my play; i've not been limp calling with marginal hands and have been trying to play the button and cut off as hard as possible. The thing that works against me in a full ring game is that its very slow and i find myself trying to make things happen rather than waiting for good situations; i've also made some dumb calls on the river when its been obvious that i'm beat.
Gonna play the £75 Fe at the gutshot with Ant and Mike Alp, who is staying at the pad for a few days. Hope we sort the internet soon cause i'm poor.
Bankroll:$5,250