Sunday update

Took Mrs A our for dinner on Sat night as she ( n stepacorn) are off to Cyprus for a week on Tuesday.Fine meal.I had the scampi and she has the steak n ale pie.On the way back we were going to rent a dvd but Mrs A forgot her membership card so it was straight to the tables for me!

Pokerroom were running a promo for those involved in their Billionth hand and had estimated it to be about 3am UK time.Well i stopped playing at 4am and there were still a lot of hands to go.I think it came around 9.30am and at a .25-.50nl table.Free trip to Vegas for all invloved in the hand.I see a load of dickheads in the pokah forum moaning about the prize going to such a low limit table."Theres no .25-.50nl cash games in Vegas". Well done to the winners I say.

There seems to me to be a lot of snobbery about limits played at and a lot of sneering at those only playing with play money.Poker is not an easy game!I've been playing just over a year and
I know just how true the "minute to learn,lifetime to master" statement is.I'd love to build a bankroll and keep moving up whilst crushing limits on my way.However I'm not ashamed to have played with play money for 5 months or that the highest level I play at is $2nl. I read somewhere that a couple of thousand hours at a level before moving up is about right.I've only played 322 hours since January and I feel my progress is steady rather than spectacular.

Ok speaking of spectacular heres one of my best $$ wins in a while.I needed it too as I was down $60 at the time.I'm Zagga as usual....


Hand 999502230, Started at 06/20/2005 12:28 AMTable 'Bristol': $1-$1 No Limit Texas Hold'em (Real Money)Seat 1: RMCCURDY ($238.25 in chips) $(POSITION)Seat 2: Lowrider1029 ($37.25 in chips) $(POSITION)Seat 3: jacknebraska ($84.00 in chips) $(POSITION)Seat 4: PAUCOIN8 ($130.25 in chips) $(POSITION)Seat 5: wetdefeck ($75.50 in chips) $(POSITION)Seat 6: Zagga ($99.00 in chips) $(POSITION)Seat 7: machined01 ($97.75 in chips) $(POSITION)Seat 9: Persia23 ($65.75 in chips) $(POSITION)*** *** :
Dealt to Zagga: 7d 7s

RMCCURDY : Post Blind ($0.50)Lowrider1029 : Post Blind ($1.00)

*** Pre-Flop *** : jacknebraska : FoldPAUCOIN8 : Call ($1.00)wetdefeck : Call ($1.00)Zagga : Call ($1.00)machined01 : FoldPersia23 : FoldRMCCURDY : Call ($0.50)Lowrider1029 : Check***

Flop *** : 7c 3s 9h

RMCCURDY : CheckLowrider1029 : CheckPAUCOIN8 : Bet ($6.00)wetdefeck : Call ($6.00)Zagga : Call ($6.00)RMCCURDY : FoldLowrider1029 : Call ($6.00)***

Turn *** : [ 7c 3s 9h ] 3h Lowrider1029 : CheckPAUCOIN8 : Bet ($5.00)wetdefeck : Raise ($15.00)Zagga : Call ($15.00)Lowrider1029 : Call ($15.00)PAUCOIN8 : Call ($10.00)***

River *** : [ 7c 3s 9h 3h ] Ac Lowrider1029 : CheckPAUCOIN8 : Checkwetdefeck : Bet ($35.00)Zagga : Raise ($70.00)Lowrider1029 : FoldPAUCOIN8 : Foldwetdefeck : Fold***

SUMMARY ***Pot: $191.00 Rake: $3.00Board: [ 7c 3s 9h 3h Ac ]RMCCURDY lost $1.00 Lowrider1029 lost $22.00 jacknebraska lost $0.00 PAUCOIN8 lost $22.00 wetdefeck lost $57.00 Zagga bet $92.00, collected $191.00, net $99.00 machined01 lost $0.00 Persia23 lost $0.00

I was worried I may be up against 99 but had to go for it and was glad I did.

At an earlier table I made a poor play when I couldn't lay down my trip J's to an all in bet when the flop came Jd6d4d and I bet $5 and was put all in by somebody I just knew had flopped the flush.I told myself that it was 123-1 to flop a made flush but I still knew he had it when I called.Doh!

Balance sitting at $391.The tables await....