Blogger Freeroll

I can't seem to get the wee banner thing to work but hopefully providing these two links to Pokeronamac.com and the Bloggerpod page will be enough to get me registered for their excellent blogger freeroll at midnight on Sunday.

Registering for that one and reading a recent post on BurnleyMiks blog has got me in the mood for a UK bloggers tourney.If the US bloggers can organise several blogger games every week then surely us Brits can manage at least one.Rather than the usual endless debate on how much/where and when ,I think I'm going to simply set one up,post details and see who ( if anyone!) turns up.Watch this space....

Last night was a good laugh.The s-man and Miami Trout ( his new name after busting me heads-up in a sng after calling my all in with K9 and busting my QQ!) and I played a load of turbo sng's and some cash tables.It wasn't a great night for my bankroll as I made a poor play or two due to the sheer frustration of some of the beats I took.I did make up for it a little later on by doubling my buy-in at a Party $50 nl 6 max table when my trip Kings took home the bacon.( which was nice...)

Not a lot of poker to be played today as Mrs A and I are watching "The Last King of Scotland" tonight and as she was very good about my loud ( who me?!) night on the skype last night,I'd better not push it too much!

Earlyish start tomorrow as my cousin and I are off to visit the meccano set in the East End to watch Rangers play our great rivals celt*c ( 12.30 ko).They have won the league by a distance this season and our new management team need to lay down a marker for next year by getting a result.Still at least Rangers have another European game to look forward to next week unlike c*ltic who crashed out last week :-)))

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Party time

I was feeling quite tired last night so I didn’t play too much poker although I did manage to win half a buy-in at FT’s cash tables and lose it in a couple of $11 turbo’s.I got a “lol” “ 7’s?” in the chat box after I’d reraised a donkey all in,he called with AQ and my sevens held up.I’m usually silent in the chat but couldn’t resist pointing out he’d made the call and was behind when he did.There was already a limper when he made a small raise ( he’d been raising on a regular basis) so I hoped to squeeze out both players with my bet.Not my fault he called off his chips with the worst of it!

I’ve not made the money in my last few FT Turbo’s and decided to play one at Party for a change.I’ve played very few turbo sng’s at Party because sharkscope only works in beta mode there and doesn’t give stats for more than a few players at the table.On the upside though ,the tourney history they send is great and was well worth checking over to see where I made mistakes.( I came 3rd $11 turbo).

The hand histories helped illustrate how situation poker can be.I folded A10 to a raise in one hand and called a raise with A3 in a later hand.I don’t remember the last time I called a raise with A3 when 7 players were still in an sng, but it had folded round and it was an all in move from a shortstack (930 raise,I had paid 200 in bb) which I just sensed was a bit of a desperate move and called.He showed J9o/s and I won.I’m still not sure about the call but at least I went with my instinct.

Not long back from visiting Mother Acorn where I was well fed and in return helped my Mum to a 3rd and a win at Party $6 turbo sng's.She said she did try playing a standard speed sng but it was too slow.I know the feeling!

I'm off to the Gers game at Ibrox tomorrow night and I'm going to try and stay away from the tables when I get back.Friday nights plan is to go to the cinema to see "The Last King of Scotland ".Right I've wittered enough for today...