One of those nights where you lose loads, the nights when aces don't ever hold - beaten three times and only won once when I picked up the blinds, every time I made a move, I ran into decent hands and lost, the just when I was going to give up all hope and go to bed in a bad move a strange but wonderful act of kindness by the poker Gods occured.

I was in a $10 rebuy sat to the nightly $162 and about 25th of 50ish with 11k in chips. 40 spaces were being paid out but the blinds were 2k/4k and going up every hand with the amount of time it took people to act. Anyway, I was getting concerned as it looked like I was due to be in the BB in two hands for about 6k when all of a sudden, someone went out and my table collapsed and I was moved to the button seat of the new table and didn't have to face another blind :D

Thank you Poker Gods, I needed that, the T$ are a help, I shall no doubt donate them back again in due course, but thank you for moving me.

Also a strange thing. Some guy was UTG +2 and had only 700 left or so and it was a 600 ante and he's called with A5 and got knocked out. Not quite sure why he did that, there were about 7 all in's that hand and pushing the fold button would have got him a seat. Perhaps he got one anyway, I'm not sure, but it was a strange move.

Sunday donkaments

Amber and Heather away - check
Internet on - check
Laptop on - check
Day of poker - double check

Aim for the few days the family are away is to play as much poker as I can, including hitting the Western Club as many times as possible. The plan was to go today, tomorrow, find a cheap freezeout on Wednesday and go Thursday but this is already looking unlikely as I have to bowl tomorrow and they're coming back Thursday. I may not find a suitable game on Wednesday which leaves tomorrow nights the last one for the week!

Anyway, started the day off with a few games on Stars where my best result was 90ish in the $8 rebuy, but I collected enought to make a profit for the day. That finished around 7pm for me and then I had to wash up then spend about 15 mins trying to get the chickens back into the coop. Rushed out, then hit traffic on the M4. At 8:30, I'd just pulled off the M4 on to the north circular which was thankfully clear. Made it there 10 mins late but they were running behind so it was all ok.

Started off nicely, picking up AK early on and managed to get some chips of the guy to my right who had AQ. Then disaster hit. Same guy raised to 600 preflop on the button. There were two callers, I looked at QQ and called. Flop came 9 high so I bet 1500 into the pot. He pushed and for 900 more, I had to call. Needless to say, he had KK. Down to 1400, called a preflop raise on the bb with 88, flop came 6 high so I pushed, ran into JJ. Not my night, out before it was dark! Bit disapointed as I was hoping to win some nice cash tonight after doing most of my cash at Ascot yesterday.

Back home to Stars. there's a tourney starting at midnight that I may play in that I like the look off, but in the mean time, I seem to have joined a limit game (again) by mistake!

Edit: damn, not only is it limit, it's not the game I ment to join - it's a 750 fpp sat, I ment to play the $4 rebuy!

Well it's been a while and sadly I don't have too much to shout about. I managed to get an invite to the Sky Poker live event in Birmingham which was great fun. Did no good in the ME but did manage to win a sit and go from being down to 75 chips and in the big blind for 50! Also played an omaha sng with Norman Pace who was quite good fun. It was a great day out and if you get the chance to go to the next one, I'd certainly recommend it.

I've treated myself to a nice new 150mm Macro lens for my camera. I should have bought one of these before instead of the other lens I bought but never mind. The other lens is still great, but the macro lens is such fun.

Couple of samples below but the galleries can be found here I'll be adding fairly frequently from now on!