Poker4Charity Newcastle Part 2 + OtherStuff

Once again, I post a blog entry and leave an inordinate amount of time before posting the second entry. I even surpassed myself this time by promising a 2nd installment which I then failed to deliver. WOW, man I'm a bastard. Or you're gullible. Or some other shit got in the way as usual. Plus I'm lazy. Just mingle all this stuff together in the blender, chuck in some ice, press the button, hear the whizz and pour yourself a lame-ass excuse smoothie. Enjoy!

Wellllll, I don't want to go into a long story about the newcastle event. At a later date I may or may not expand upon the simple, unadorned account I'm about to give but not right now dude. Let's just say , I got there, got lucky a few times, and ended up with all the chips and won the pot limit event.

Which was sweet.

It was a very good event, well organised and great fun. In the two times I've been to newcastle I've found the locals friendly and up for fun which is all the cat asks. And a plentiful supply of alcohol. And some chicks. And...ok Ill stop now before I'm arrested.

Other news? Wellllll, since the newcastle event, I played in the ICHUC - due to be held in newcastle but moved at the last minute to scarborough. For those who aren't aware this was an event organised by poker4charity consisting of a series of heads up matches between english and irish representatives.

I'll be putting up an entry about this at some point but for now suffice to say we had a real good time, drunk a lot, messed about in caravans and drank some buckfast.

Since the poker4charity comp, pokerwise i've been running really bad, as bad as I have ever since i started poker. I've lost with top set 5 times in a row during this run, managed to lose 6 hands in a row where I've been dominating my opponent. Had KK and AA back to back and lost both to TT and AJ! Oh and got one outed for an 85k pot when the guy in 1st had 90 and 2nd 42. Basically any bad beat that can happen has happened to me in the last 3/4 weeks.

Uh oh. I always planned on never turning my blog into a series of bad beat stories. And yet here I am bitching on like one of the kippers. Just ignore my spurious mewings.

In a totally unrelated (i think) matter, I've given up smoking. Going well, i had one minor indiscretion where i smoked 2 cigarettes in a row but other than this, i've been going strong for about 9 days or so, which is a lifetime for me. I'm gonna do it baby, no holding me back!!

ANyway this was jsut a quickie so you know I'm not dead. I'll have a better thought out and more interesting entry to post next time but till then be good and stay lucky dudes...