Don`t You Just Hate It When . . .

Don`t you just hate it when you do everything right and still lose? Played the First Depositors FR at Carbon last night and had ground my way into the money despite having very few playable hands. We`re down to 15 players and I double my 3,500 stack with AQh. The next hand I`m the BB and I had AKos and there`s just me and the button who limped in the hand and I`ve checked because I know this guy (40k+ chips) will call me with almost anything and I want to see the flop. Well it comes king high and I check knowing he`ll try and push me off. Sure enough he pushes all-in nd I can`t call quick enough. He has 34os giving him a pair but the damned river makes him a straight Now it`s not a bad beat he had 9 outs but still it was frustrating, a double-up there would have given me an average stack and who knows how far I might have gone.

Still that`s poker as they say . . .

Crazy Weather

Wow what a crazy day we`ve had locally with a months rain falling in one day. Rivers have burst their banks and some of the roads flooded so badly that cars were actually floating down them. Buildings have collapsed and people have had to be evacuated from their homes because there`s a possibility one of the local dams may burst, it has already cracked and they`re looking at possibly releasing the water in a controlled fashion. Helicopters where rescueing stranded people and according to the news the emergency services were receiving calls every thirty seconds. Our local council ran out of Road Closed signs.

Apart from losing power because of a flooded sub-station it hasn`t really affected me but it was literally impossible to get out of my area yesterday unless you had a boat or wanted to swim through the deeper puddles.

Fishing Trip

I happened to start chatting to a mate of mine on MSN the other night and he mentioned he`d been playing the beginners sngs at Bodog. I`d played one recently myself and noticed that the opposition was pretty weak and we decided to sign up for a couple. The first was pretty much a slaughter margin with the two of us ending up HU and me taking it down. Army won the second one with me taking 4th and we played another tonight which I won and he took 5th.

The thing is these pay 5 places so any half decent, patient player should at worst get their stake back and probably should profit a little most of the time. I`ve played five in total now and placed 1st three times, 2nd and 4th once each. The 2nd place came from a $4 buy-in where the players seemed a little more clued up but it was still pretty easy to outplay most of them. I really should have won it but my opponent kept hitting against my better starting hands.

Now I know some people won`t regard these games as being worthwhile playing because of the extended payout structure but they really are a great way to build your bankroll in relative safety. They`re also a good place to try out some moves.

So if you fancy catching a few fish and making an easy profit check them out.