Motoring on

Mrs A and I thoroughly enjoyed the Roy Chubby Brown show the other night.I'm still on the lookout for a new car and spotted a sexy looking Mazda rx8 in the car park afterwards.( Mrs A's hotwiring skills need working on!)

A real looker, however it apparently eats fuel ( much like my Alfa) and goes through a ton of oil, aswell as being generally expensive to maintain.I'm also looking at the Focus St170 as a compromise.Still reasonably quick but cheaper to run and insure.

At the tables I played a couple of $6 turbos with Juice last night, bubbled in the first one and took down the 2nd.The standard was fairly poor as Juice will confirm after going out when his KK was busted by 107.( not even sooooted!)

I moved to a $50 nl 6 max table afterwards and was lucky enough to be at quite a weak table.Mark from Planet Gong mentioned players who play weak Aces ( Ace rag hands) and there were a couple at my table who were easy to exploit.AJ v A5 on an Ace board won me one pot and a set of sevens on a scary board were my main winners and I left with a small profit for my 1/2hours play.

Looking forward to watching the Champions League final tonight between Liverpool and Ac Milan.I reckon Milan will be too strong for 'Pool and will win by a goal or two.It'll be interesting if it goes to penalties again as the Liverpool keeper specialises in saving them and Liverpools record in shootouts is excellent,especially considering English players tend to bottle it when it comes to pens. :-))) ( cue comments about how a nation with a tenth of the population of England never win anything either!)

I'm in trouble with Step A as she has been late for school twice this week due to me not being able to get out of bed.I offered to lean out the car window and use a megaphone to shout that "I would like to apologise for Pipsqueaks lateness this week" which raised a reluctant smile but if I'm not around after the game tonight to play poker it's because I'm completing my one hundred lines of "I must be on time for school every morning".

Righty just back after meeting Father Acorn for a damn fine ruby murray.( curry).
Time to watch the fitba'...

Tues Update

I didn’t play very much on Sunday night,only long enough to lose my wee shark fin at ‘Stars by donking out of an 18 player $15 turbo and then losing with KK and AA to go out of a wee $6 sng before bed.

Last night didn’t begin well as I crashed out of a couple of FT $11 sng’s,one on the bubble and one after misplaying KK.I had raised from the button and got a caller from a player appropriately named “oneloosecaller”.The flop came a nasty Ace high with two spades and I led out anyway with a decent ¾ pot bet.The usual purpose of this is to get the information I require at this stage and not throw any more money away if beaten.

He called and fearing Ace rag ,I slowed down and checked the turn allowing him to catch his flush on the river.The misplaying part was calling his all in because unless he was bluffing he obviously had me beaten.I put him on the Ace or flush and called anyway which was just plain stupid.

Laddys late night crapshoot beckoned and once again I was fairly card dead and had to resort to a couple of steals when folded to me just to keep afloat.Eventually my raise all in from the cut off was called by Mr QQ in the sb and IDOG ( I donked out again).

I didn’t have much motivation to play another intense 6 max or turbo game so I began two tabling $50 nl full ring games and got lucky in my first hand on one table.I decided not to wait for the big blind before buying in and posted.I was dealt Js9s and checked my option.The button made a min raise to $1.Why oh why would anyone ever make a pathetic raise like that preflop?There were a couple of callers and I decided for 50c I would call too and proceed with plenty of caution unless I flopped a monster.

The flop came J high with 2 spades and I very nearly raised when the button made his continuation bet but chose to call.The 9d on the turn gave me two pairs and the flush draw and we saw a blank rag on the river.I bet ,he raised all in for $10 more and I called expecting QQ,KK,AA or the dreaded set.He showed J4 and was possibly trying to steal and then got carried away by the Jack high flop assuming I was only on the flush draw.I left my other table $10 up and then made a quick $10 at a 6 max table before packing it in for the night.

Tonight I’ll be cheering on ex Ranger,Rino Gattuso,as his Ac Milan team visit the darkside to play celt*c in the Champions league and then hitting the tables.
Cm'on the Milan......