Just call me Larry

Larry Letdown . . . Got home aroung 6.30pm last night from the daily grind! Looking forward to a night at the G with BurnleyMik and NoCash, although was running late as usual. I then got a call from the police, the office alarm was going off FML!!!

Quickly finished getting ready and shot up to the office, which is in Preston, the total opposite way to Blackpools G Casino!! Arrived to find one fed up policemen and those slightly less paid wannabe "comunity officers" waiting. We did a tour of the building and found the back door had been tampered with and someone attempted to force it. SCUMBAGS . . . The alarm was still wailing happily, I punched the code in . . . the alarm continued to wail, a thought crossed my mind at this point! "mayhap the poker gods were with me and apart from £5 petrol, they were preventing me burning £45 at the G" who knows, but I was fuming!! The police left saying we would hear from them today (Friday) and I was left to contact our maintence dept for them to get someone to sort the alarm!! So just sat in the office cold and miserable. To be fair although not good enough to get me to the game, the alarm guy was prompt and reset everything in double quick time.

So I got back to the empty house, feeling dejected and with the missus at her mates, I fired up the trusty lap top, a five, ahem sorry ten knuckle shuffle later and onto the $10NL pokes, I ran like god and soon (17mins at this point in) had my $6 BI's on 5 tables up to $17, $18, $24, $13 and $8 in fine style, people were just bluffing into me all over the shop with air, when I had the nuts or near nuts it was great. So logged a solid $45+ session.

I then came off for a bit when the girlie got in and logged back for a second session a bit later. I got mullered!! I came across a player who reminded me of a lad I play with who is just a clueless calling station!! Example (1st hand I play against him), he is in the big blind, A raise under the gun to 40c, I reraise to $1.20 from cut off with AKcc, BB(Station) calls, UTG calls, flop QcJc3h mahoosive for my hand, BB and UTG check I lead out for $2, BB snaps and UTG folds, turn 8s Check, I bet out again $4.50ish which puts me all in and he insta calls with 8h7d!!!! WTF, I obv brick my thousand outs, farewell buy in one.

A few hands later, I watch in dispair as he gets picked off by other guys and has to reload for $10. I'm then involved again with him I've chipped up to around $9, I set about raising to 30c with 1010 from MP, he flats in SB, BB raises to $1.50, iffy spot for me, but he is three betting to squeeze alot, I consider shoving but elect to flat and get out of the way of a suspicious flop and or action. flop is a healthyish 689 rambo. Station in SB checks, BB C-bets with a weak $1 bet, I think and shove. Any raise is pretty much comitting my stack and I'm not letting the hand go here. Here's the good bit SB insta calls his remain $6, BB hollywoods it then folds. turn 2, river K . . . SB K3o . . . OH MY GOD I WAS DUMBFOUNDED. Don't get me wrong I want this guy at my tarb all the time but it was burning me up. He then proceeds to LOL and thank me for playing and don't try to "Bluff" a Corsican or some shit. BLUFF!!!! WTF? . . . Steaming doesn't cover it.

I then getting bummed on a seperate tarb when I river shove, get called by Ace high when after betting hard, into a K high board, that had a flush and by the turn had an openended str draw for me, that obv failed to materilise on the river, he checks again and my only hope of taking down the substatial pot is to blast he just insta calls for almost all his stack with AQo!! This guy was also sat at my Corsican friends table with me, so maybe that influenced him, feck knows? But A high with K and a 10 by the riv is just redic. I simply felt shellshocked. I'm not saying my play was perfect by any stretch but with the hands shown down they should not even be involved by the final "call" sigh.

Although I do except these were the types that gave me my early $40+ session. I then logged off all my tables down $20 for my troubles but still up $25 for the night. . . I can't sleep when this type of shit happens. As my darling harridan of a girlfriend was soundly asleep next to me I logged onto 4 tarbs of $50NL for $30 . . . Then, had a real WTF am I doing moment and insta unreg'd off them all and felt good. In the old days I'd manically shizz off a big % of my roll and blame all the poker donks in the world for my losses. (Whilst playing like one!) Instead I played for twenty mins at $25NL and a $15 buyins on four tables. I came off around $17 up and it made me feel alot better.

I'm now comfortably rolled for 25/30 Bi's on Stars for my $15 buy in @ $25NL, yet am still kinda not wanting the bubble to burst. I've obv played higher in the past but never with this discipline and I used to scoff when I read people being comfortably rolled for higher stakes, but scared to take the step up @ like $200NL to $400NL or whatever, I just thought if you have the roll whats the problem. I'm virtually half stacking $10NL and have now got the jitters when I step up to play with $15 at $25Nl. Weirdness.

Anyways, all's positive in general. I haven't got round to firing into another poker site yet, a combination of laziness and having quite alot on has held me back and I have $1500 burning a hole in my bank account ready to be redistributed and it feels good!!But I suppose I'm seriously missing out on rake back now, I've nearly completed 15000 hands @ 5c/10c and even the rake of $10NL adds up.

Big sorry to Mik and Dave for being a no show. Obv it gave them more chance of doing well with my SKILLZ missing, but I was really looking forward to the tourney and a catch up with the two RtR balla's . . . ho hum.

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