Start of year 3 of uni

hi so this is my 1st real go at blogging and I’m going to get this out the way now this will probably be used to vent my anger as a bustout poker player!!

so the summer started good and things were looking up I was in about £600 worth of profit within like 2/3 weeks of being back from uni had big plans of Vegas the lot. as you can tell this all fell apart and this is how it happened

it all started when I called an all in for a £300 pot with a straight flush draw during the august fest at Luton (oh yea Luton is my degen place of choice I find the regs there a good laugh even when they are fishing on you for £500) on a paired board thinking I might still be frav only to find out he had me crushed and I was only drawing to the flush and 3 to the straight. so this was the start of my downfall I then went on to bust out of about 7/8 tourneys because I would sit down in them and end up dreaming of the lure of the cash game going on in the background! I was doing ok at the cash game making about £1k in total for the summer then life took a turn and my landlord decided he wanted his rent! this wasn’t good and put me a further £300 out of pocket and with fresher’s week of my final year coming up I decided I just could not afford to play anymore as I want it to be a big 1!

lucky for me I have a mate who has recently made it as a pro poker player so there was a few buy in's in the pipe line for me. I decided that I would take it seriously and try and take down a tourney as I get mocked for my lack of tourney cashes and the short story is I made the final table of 1 with my AKs getting beat by AQo putting me in a dismal 9th. the villain even had the cheek 2 scream QQQQQ all the way down to the river then hitting it. the next tourney I play I finish 16th losing a 28k pot that would have put me in chip lead to AJo with my AQ0 he hit his 4 card flush and I delt it too!! then a final one I played I played like a total loser all night and managed to somehow get my short stack in V 10 3 when I had A3 only for him to hit the 4 outer

so after this for some reason my friend decides to roll me for a cash game and 4 hand in I do my usual trick of putting someone on a hand then trying 2 bluff them off and giving up when the scare card hits I managed 2 build my stack back up with what I thought was a bluff on one bloke only to see another bloke call and the original raiser who I was trying to push off fold and my 2nd pair was somehow good when he missed his flush draw even though I hit 2 pair on the river. I then get moved to the main game and to my right is the biggest fish sitting on a 700£ stack I lick my lips only to see him leave 3 hands later. I then get my best hand of the night QQ and with a £150 stack 3 bet some1 and somehow got the pot heads up (at Luton this is rare) only to see him tank then go all in I think I must be ahead because he has thought for so long and I call he then turns over QQ as well everyone has a joke ha-ha he then says well I could still hit a flush and low and behold 4 card flush comes gg I can’t help but blow up and storm off. with the recent run of luck I have been getting I don’t blame myself! we then hit the pit and somehow build up enough to get us back in the game so I sit for a second time about 5 hands in I flop 2 pair and a short stack of about £60 shoves all in to a pot of £36 its folded round to me and I call only to see him turn a bigger 2 pair beating my top and bottom gg

the rest of my night is filled with watching huge pots being played by total donks who are beating all the regs but my friends runs over the table and despite being in the game for £500 with me and his buy ins still manages to walk away with a nice £95 profit that made me feel better as I would have been gutted to lose him £200 when he needs a new pc to take this online deal to the next level.

so I go back to uni in the morning and after the run I’m having in the card room it couldn’t come soon enough. need to get back to the daily grind of drinking and lectures! going to hit fresher’s big and get pissed as much as I can then settle down to try and get the 1st I need so I can do a masters. bad news for me is a new card room is opening in pompy so think I will have to check out the tourneys there or get a job. but the good news is I can’t run worse so let’s hope I can take down a few when I’m at uni and put off getting a job for another year!

gg gl