Oh look Cat won a comp therefore.....

........like a fucking predictable kipper, I make a blog entry.

I guess it's entirely natural that poker players' blogs consist almost entirely of shameless, self-proclaiming chirps when they've won something, or a series of whining, bleating moans when they're on a bad run.

I cannot deny that this is the case here, but at least you don't have to listen to me whinging on about getting ironed out again.

Yes, I won a comp. It shows what a shit year I'm having that winning a 10$ rebuy is cause to gloat but fuck it, it's my blog and chirp away I shall. 124 runners, i came to the final table after hitting some nice cards with 4 x the average, uber chippie and never threw it away, taking home 900$ exactly.

There's no point going through the comp, i had some nice cards after a wretched rebuy period but I will post one hand as it was one of the strangest I've ever played.

I have J9s with 295k in the sb, my opponent 135k in the bb. (4k 8k)

I make it 18k to go, he calls.

Flop comes Qs 9d 4c.

I like the flop so when he checks i bet 15k. He check min raises me. Hmmm, i'm not ready to let go yet so i call him.

Turn is the 2d. He bets 8k, I'm having none of that so i make it 22k, he again minimum raises me 14k to 36k!

I can't work out what the fuck he has. He's obviously telling me a story of great strength, but I'm having trouble buying his tale. I can't see QQ or 99. The only set he might have is 44 but based on a play he made earlier, I can't see it.

The river is a 4. He pushes for 51k.

I feel like I'm kind of committed with my 2nd pair here given the size of the pot. I just couldn't work out if i was good or not.

I call. He has K2 for bottom pair which he hit on the turn and I win, taking the comp down in the process. Flushy mocked me for calling this bloke down, but to be honest it was based on how he had played throughout the final. His style of play was, like flushy, FAG or Fish AGgressive.

Anyway the win rounded off a good week with five final tables, including a live result (5th in a 10 quid rebuy for 300£) which I should have won but couldnt get KK to hold. I've been playing a lot more MTTs recently and feel my form is returning back to the old days where I used to win one a week.

Just a quick mention of my moron flatmate Flushy who has been getting some great results in the sussex masters festival in brighton. The guy's a fish but you can't knock 1st in a 100 rebuy for 5.5k and getting a 2.7k deal result in the £300 fo too.

The 2nd one's a bit odd. Flushy hates making deals as he knows he has a good edge on people on final tables who are afraid to go broke whilst he can just play without worrying about the money so much.

The £300 comp was scheduled to be a 2 day event but they reached the last 10 players, flushy on 110k and a decent chip lead. A laughable 10 way chop was suggested which flushy rightly scoffed at. It meant it looked likely they would have to come back tomorrow. At this point the other players on flushy's table all started abusing him calling him "cunt" "wanker" and other such names almost every hand. Now Flushy, being the person that he is, is used to regular abuse, but I could tell when he related the story to me later that this bad tempered needling upset him, especially as part of it was from a guy he previously considered a friend. Eventually, fed-up with constant abuse, Flushy gave in and dealt (admittedly after losing his chip lead!)

Rare that I feel like I should stand up for Flushy but this kind of childish behaviour is pretty pathetic and had he called me up, I'd have got over to the casino and given him some support. What kind of ball-less morons want to chop the money before the final table's even started?

Fuck me, I don't know why after the first 20 people were eliminated they didn't suggest a 60 way chop so they can all bank their small profit, go home to a cup of bovril and jack off over knitting patterns.

Absolutely pathetic.

They are lucky it wasn't me in flushy's position, because there would have been no dealing once they tried the strong arm bullshit. Well I might have offered them 1st place money to the cat, the rest of you chop the remainder. Deal or no deal bitches?

Anyway well done to flushy who won 2 events at the last festival, has won the 100 rebuy this time and basically "chopped" the 300, although the farcical deal meant the competition basically ended with 10 left.

Whatta fukkin liberty! Laterz kippers.