Fleck of Gold

I was at Ibrox yesterday to watch 17 yr old John Fleck win a penalty before picking the ball up and slotting the spot kick away for his first goal for Rangers.He looks a very talented kid and hopefully that will be the first of many goals he scores for us."Fleck...Fleck will tear you apart...again"...( Good excuse to post the excellent original by Joy Division)



After watching a couple of Cardrunners vids I fired up the Party $22's about 10pm and put in a 5 hour session,playing 28 sng's in total.I've emailed Sharkscope about my two missing Party games, but noticed they missed two more last night ( two I didn't cash in)so perhaps there are a few minor coverage problems.I've just had a reply to say they can only add games from Stars,Merge and Ongame.Ahh well.

I ran like crap at the $22's and was anticipating writing another boring "won no flips and got rivered all night" type of post.Just before 3am I decided to fire up a $55 and a few $33's.I was chasing my losses a bit and trying to get unstuck I suppose, but I also reckoned I was still playing well and would have a decent chance of cashing.Thankfully I took the $55 and a $33 down to bring me back into profit for the night.

The $55 had it's share of fish and didn't seem much of a step up at all.I've seen enough Jackal69 training vids to know that games above $33 are not some mystical place where only the very best sharks hang out.It's not really the standard which puts me off.It's more the thought of running badly over 10-20 games at that level.A 20 game downswing would cost about $1100 and I don't think I'm quite ready to lose £750 in one session! I do think I've upped my gulp limit quite a bit already over the last year and maybe I'll hit the $55's on a more regular basis one day.


Last nights graph:



I was buzzing a bit after that wee comeback and decided to roll another one up before bed.I couldn't be bothered folding my way through the early stages of yet another sng and decided to hit up a Full Tilt $50nl 6 max table.I was lucky enough to pick one with two tilty fishy donators and I left $65 up after a quick 40 minute session.I didn't get to bed until 5am and feel too tired to go through PT3 and try and find noteworthy hands.

Today I watched the Newcastle v Sunderland game and have just switched over to see our rivals drop two points up in Inverness.They only have a two point lead over us now and we play them at their midden in two weeks.Roll on..!

St Mirren played their first game yesterday at their new stadium in Ferguslie Park in Paisley having moved from their old ground at Love Street.Ferguslie Park is known as being a bit of a shithole and the new ground has already been nicknamed "The Methadome".Classy!

On the good news front I was chatting to the San Jose Salmon last night and they ( Mrs Salmon too) are coming back to Glasgow on the 14th Feb for 3 weeks.I've not seen them since Xmas '07 and it'll be great to catch up properly.

Found a superb link via Brystmars Cardrunners blog.Very funny stuff.Not safe for work!Bloodninja's cybersex transcripts.

Ok,Back soon...

Highs n lows

I'm not really in the mood for a blog post.After spending time with Rosie,poker and writing up my every thought on the game just don't seem very appealing.I'd written about how I only had 2 games left to complete a set of 20 and how I was hoping to get onto the Stars Planet Earth leaderboard.In the end ( despite Rosie sleepily asking how my game was going at 3am late Fri night when I didn't even have the laptop on!) I didn't play those last two games.

Sunday morning and Rosie leaving came around far too quickly as usual.Usually I don't sleep much the night before big football games due to prematch nerves.This time I hardly gave the game a thought. I just hope Rosie can book up again soon and that the weeks will fly in!

The Old Firm game could have gone better.My cousin and I were 5 minutes late into the ground ( queued alongside Newcastle player,Alan Smith) and missed celtcs first goal which apparently the replays show was offside.We came back to lead 2-1 but the orcs won 3-2 in the end to leave them 5 points ahead of us.We still have 3 games in hand ( 3 points for a win) however and I'd rather be in our position than theirs.Our biggest match of the week is on Thursday night and with the players we have out injured,it's going to be tough to get a result in Florence and make the Uefa cup final in Manchester on May 14th.

Today I arrived into work to find the girl who sits next to me in tears due to the sheer pressure of her current workload.My own work is piling up too and although it's only work,that horrible feeling of having too many balls to juggle and not enough time to juggle 'em is creeping over me too and I don't like it!

My mobile phone battery was dead all day,I spent 50 minutes trying to find the parcel depot to pick up my new laptop keyboard,the frozen Yorkie pud I'd taken out of the freezer and put in the fridge this morning was still half frozen when I got home,the woman who barged in front of me at the ATM had her card in and out three times ( by third time my head was close to exploding!) and finally the King prawn chow mein I've just eaten was the most bland and disgusting meal I've eaten in a long time.That apart,it's been a fine day...

Not much to report on the poker front.I'm feeling totally exhausted this week as well as being on a downer and that combination does not make for good poker.Thankfully I've been sensible enough not to play much although I will do a quick end of month stats post tomorrow.

Oh, I did play in Sundays BritBloggerment and thanks to everyone else who played too.I came 7th after running QQ into KK preflop.Congrats to WeeGem who took it down.


Ok,I've tried gripping the steering wheel and just yelling as loudly as possible.Now I'm off to cheer myself up by whistling this .....



..and watching John Flecks fine goals in last weeks 3-1 Youth Cup final win v them...

Gers destroy cel*ic 5-0 to win Youth Cup

Just back from Hampden where a crowd of 11486 watched Rangers under 19's rip c*eltic to shreds in the Youth Cup final.Andrew Shinnie scored the first within 5 minutes before Stevie Lennon ( his proud Mum and Dad were sitting right next to us)scored the first of his three with a beautiful 35 yard lob.Dean Furman scored our other goal we should have had more.Great night for the wee Gers and probably the most enjoyable 90 mins of football I've seen this season.( our 1-0 win in the last Old
Firm game comes close!).











After getting back from Mother Acorns last night I found Miami Mark online ( soon to be San Jose Mark,congrats on the new job) and we played a $15 ,18 player turbo at Stars.I came 4th after running AJ ( all in preflop) into AA and MM was out in the next hand after running his A8 sooted into the same villains A10 soooted.

My mum was at the table watching again!If she looks for me on a Sunday evening around 9pm my days of keeping my blog to myself could be over.Hmmmm.Where's that "delete blog" button?!!

MM headed off and my Mum did too so I hit up Party 6 max $50 nl table and lost a buy-in when my Kings were scudded by 76 sooted.It wasn't an awfckit call at least but I did get my read completely wrong, which probably wasn't surprising, as Mrs A had arrived home and I was chatting to her and folding almost every hand until the cowboys came up.

I'd raised preflop with my KK and pushed all in for $37 ( doh) after the flush draw came in on the turn.I hadn't ruled out the villain having the flush entirely, but I had the King of clubs and reckoned that even if he had made it ( and for some reason I reckoned he hadn't) then I still had outs.

It was a daft move and I spent the next five mins carrying on my conversation with Mrs A and trying to smile like a kid with an icecream whilst my stomach churned inside at the money I'd just thrown away!

I'd been thinking earlier about picking a table with an low-ish average pot and trying out a more Loose Aggressive game and that thought may have influenced my all in.Still onwards and upwards...


Ok,here's a another wee funny from the paper before I go...

IT is pilots' week in Los Angeles, when television executives visit all the main studios to pitch their ideas for pilot programmes that may eventually become successful, money-spinning television series.

Our LA contact tells us that one British producer arrived off his flight, and perhaps not having his wits about him after the near 12-hour journey, told US immigration, when asked the purpose of his visit, that he was there "to shoot a pilot".

It was after a further six hours questioning that he was finally allowed to leave LAX.