Bring on the Fiorentina!

They did it! Rangers beat Sporting Lisbon 2-0 last night to send us through to the first European semi-final we've ever been in during my lifetime! ( I missed our win in '72 by a few months!)

I ( and Nacho) nearly hit the roof when our goals went in!Darcheville took his well and Whittakers mazy run from his own half ,beating three players,was one of the best goals I've seen in years.Watching the Gers fans doing the Bouncy near the end and singing "Are you celtc in disguise?" to the Lisbon team ( who also play in green and grey hoops)just capped off a brilliant night of football for the blue two thirds of Glasgow!

To think this time last year we were on our way to winning nothing for the 2nd year in a row ( for first time since the 60's)and now we're in a Euro Semi v Fiorentina ,have a Scottish Cup quarter final on Sunday,have already won the league cup and are in pole position to win the league! Follow Follow!

A chat with Rosie , a win for the Gers and then winning six turbos in a row!What a night! Ok,the last bit isn't true but two outta three 'aint bad eh!

I did finish my first block of twenty sngs for Stars planet promo with a 229 score which was no surprise as I actually had to take a ten minute break to compose myself after another nasty run last night.

Losing hands is unavoidable in poker but when QQ loses to 1010 on a board that read 10JK99 it's hard not to shake your head! Aww lost to a set,yeess I've made my straight,nooooo the board paired!!

I did scrape a fourth place finish and came 2nd in one game to keep me slightly ahead ( by a few dollars only) for the night.

Ok,tonight is the RTR league game on Virgin.Always a good crowd although I'm not going to be able to play in all the games and don't have a realistic chance of winning overall.Before that I'm off to see a man about a dog and get some dinner.

I'm also going to try and squeeze in another 20 sngs on Stars before the deadline of 4am UK time on Sunday and may also try and play in Kats weekly rebuy donkament on Full Tilt at 2am.( password:donkarama)

Ok,thanks to the s-man for sending me this joke today...

A man walks up to a woman in his office each day, stands very close to her,
draws in a large breath of air and tells her that her hair smells nice.

After a week of this, she can't stand it any longer, and goes to her
supervisor to file a sexual harassment complaint. She tells the supervisor
what the co-worker does, and that she wants to file a sexual harassment suit
against him.

The supervisor is puzzled by this approach, and asks, 'What's sexually threatening about a co-worker telling you your hair smells nice'?

The woman replies, 'It's Keith, the dwarf.'

Superhero Friends...

The football wasn't that great last night and thankfully Rosie texted to remind me The Apprentice was on.I don't watch much tv at all but I love watching those twats makes fools of themselves on a weekly basis and last night was no exception.

Before the footy I finished the book "We need to talk about Kevin"( by Lionel Shriver) and after a slowish start I'd highly recommend it.Not many books have actually made me physically shiver the way the last couple of chapters of this book did!

I'm now reading a book called "All my friends are superheroes" ( Not as catchy as my version, "All my friends are balding plump blokes") ** after it caught my eye in Waterstones yesterday.So far it's a wee gem of a book!


On the poker front I'd read a little about Stars new sng planet leaderboard promo and although I was too lazy to read the detail,Mair was kind enough to write an overview on her blog.It seems I only need to play 20 games to have a shot.I played five last night ( my usual $16,18 player turbos) and managed a 2nd,3rd and three non cashes.I was on 91 points after 10 games before last night and I don't think my first set of 20 will be winning me any prizes! ( now 167 pts with 6 games to play)

I did feel I was back to playing somewhere near my best and the new promo has definitely helped focus me.I did run into some nasty suckouts too.One in particular was quite amusing because this total donk had just flopped a flush versus a solid regulars premium hand.I'm always happy to see a fish knock a regular out and was quietly pleased the 120-1 chance of flopping a flush had hit.On the very next hand I wasn't so pleased as the fish insta-called my 5bb preflop raise with 910 and busted my Aces on a perfect 678 flop!

I'm probably going to cashout some poker profit this month to pay for a few things I've mentioned before.I won't be touching my Stars roll though and my next poker goals are to break through the $6k profit barrier on Sharkscope and to get on the Planet Earth leaderboard at some point.Just checked and I'm really pleased to have made it back onto the 2-3 table average profit leaderboard for $6-$15 games,even if it is only in 17th position!










Tonight I'm looking after Nacho and will be spending a nerve wracking 90 minutes watching Rangers playing Sporting Lisbon in the Uefa cup quarter final.As with my poker I prefer not to be too optimistic before the start and then be pleasantly surprised if it does go well.I do think we've probably come as far as we're going to in this competition, but the beauty of sport is that anything can happen on any given day.Come on Rangers! Just do it!

** Any resemblance to anyone called Al Eleven or S-man,living or dead, is of course purely coincidental...