I love sports betting

The simple problem is that i'm not very good at it. Down about £350 on Euro 2008 and the last few days have been the worst of the tournament, lost £100 on the Italy v Spain game and my £30 bet on Croatia to win the comp at 14/1 was looking awesome until Turkey scored in the last minuet and then won the shootout. Think i'm now going to switch my attention to Wimbledon and hope this goes a little better.
In other news i was reminded last week of why i love living in London so much. Went to a silent disco in south bank on thursday which was loads of fun. I hadn't been to one before and was a little sceptical but as it goes we all had a good time my only regret is the massive hangover i had on the friday. Thankfully i had just recovered in time to attend my sisters 24th on the Saturday, which started in a bar in Angel and ended in a Karaoke bar in Farringdon. Once again not a regular night out for me but the place was well set out with a central bar/dance floor and a number of private side rooms for the karaoke each holding parties of between 8-40. All of my sisters friends from work seemed really cool and have always got on with her friends from home so had no problem making a total twat out of myself; why change the habit of a lifetime, and would have to say that hello by Lionel Richie was a personal highlight.
Will just write a few quick words of congtars to my mate Will for coming 11th in the GBPT Bristol. I'm sure he was dissapointed not to make the final but its still a good result and good practice for the WSOP main event.
Now onto my own poker playing of which i have some good news. Managed to chop the $20K gtd on party last night for $4.6K/$4.3K, certainly a well timed win. The weird thing was that i had no intention of playing the comp but logged in at 11.58 saw the comp was seating and just thought wtf might as well. It certainly felt a bit like fate through the first 50 mins of the comp where i went from 3K to 12K thanks to some serious donkey play from my opponents and 1 cold deck with 22 v QJ on a JJ2, SHIP IT.
So things were going great when this pot took place:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2795161

Ouch!! Obviously the beat hurt but his stack size made it that little bit more painful. Went a bit card dead after this hand but managed to survive for a while and then got lucky to double with AQ V AK all in pre. Another fortunate hand:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2795166

This hand is so very lucky for a number of reasons the sb could very well have had a hand like 77 - 1010 which obviously has me in a load of trouble. When the bb raises he must have a big hand so to be up against AK with the dead money was awesome. Tournaments are crazy, 1 sec i've got 5000 playing 300/600 then a few hands later i have 35,000 playing 400/800, insane.
This is the worst hand i played all comp:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2795174

I open light which is standard and have no problem with but the call in the middle gives me a tough decision when it gets back to me. I can't fold cause obviously to much in there so i have to raise the other guy all in or call. I made the wrong choice but at the time was thinking i can just call hope to get lucky and also the fact i'm out pf position is not important cause he is unlikely to bluff me with the other player all in. Obviously i make the value bet on the river but the sick thing was i worked out he had KQ as soon as i made the bet, not to sure how but when he moved in i was pissed off. The 1 good thing about the hand is that a year ago i would have said ffs you have KQ i call, i was annoyed by the hand but the fold on the river allowed me to save some crucial chips.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2795177

This hand got me going. The guy had been raising a fair bit and c betting most of the time so i figured i could well be winning on the flop and also could well bluff him off 99-kk on the turn. As it turns out he did have an ace and i got the miracle river, who said poker was a game of luck?

From that hand on i got into full swing and started running the comp playing very Lag and loving every second of it, couldn't help myself:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2795181

So at this stage of the comp there were about 14 left and from here to the final table i got a lot of chips together and managed to build a bit of a lead on the field. When the final started had 35% of the chips. This next hand is a weird one:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2795185

The sick thing is that if he moves in i would probs just move in over the top but the size of the raise was filthy and my gut said AA, guess we'll never know.

Busting 2 short stacks:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2795186

From this hand to 3 handed things were quite easy some of the players were quite waek and was able to pick up a lot of chips at 2000/4000 and 3000/6000 with very few people ever playing back at me. The only real threat was FaxEmpoker who played very well all comp so i was a little worried when this hand took place:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2795196

Got them all back:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2795199

The guy busted a few hands later so when the heads up started i had him 550K v 70k but this changed with 2 back to back all in pre hands Q9 V 76 and A4 V 88 both of which i lost. When he offered a deal i had a slight chiplead but he had the momentum so i went for it like the girl i am.
Nice to win some $ before vegas and wont be able to play that much before hand so doubt i will blog until i'm day 1 chipleader, one time!