Barca Hangover

After being KO'd from the main event in sick circumstances I really had no desire to stay in Barcelona but I had my room booked until Saturday so decided to grin and bear it. I also tried to look on the positive side of things. I've played two big buyin live events this year and managed to get chips early doors in both (despite getting no bloody hands but thats another story) so I must be doing something right.

I slept most of Thursday, played for a couple of hours online then decided to go and find a pub showing the Rangers v Molde UEFA Cup game. I phoned a mate who had been to Barca before and he told me of a pub that would definetly be showing the game. So off I head and surprisingly I manage to locate it with the minimum of fuss only to discover that the pub has now shut down. I'm just too lucky!! So I set off in search of another pub which is showing the game. I walk for miles and miles and get nowhere and I'm on the point of giving up when I stumble across an Irish pub and spy the game on through the window...happy days?? Yeah that will be right what a fecking awful game and performance.

I then head back down to the casino to see how the other lads are getting on and I find that Azimut has just busted out, I have a few drinks then decide to head back and get some shut eye. The following night I met Azimut and his mate Mark and went for a few drinks before I headed back to get a relatively night as I couldnt really face being tired and hungover on flight home.

Upon arriving back in Glasgow I'm beseiged by calls and text messages asking how Barcelona was....well incase anyone else is wondering I fucking hated it. Although in fairness thats basically because I got busted out early. I went to Barcelona to play poker..not enjoy the sights and as soon as the poker was over I just wanted to get home.

I had planned to play the Dublin EPT sat on Stars when I got home on the Saturday night but had totally forgotten I had arranged to meet a young lady that I had met a few weeks ago. Now I'm tired and not really in the mood for going out, but I'm not one to disappoint so I scrap my plans to play the Dublin sat. The young lady tells me not to worry about getting a taxi home later as I can sleep on her couch..now I've heard that umpteen times and had never spent a night on a couch yet ;-)....however there is a 1st time for everything and she really did mean the couch!!! One was not amused..I mean there is a time and place for morals but this was not one of them surely lol.

Anyways back to the poker. On Sunday I had a 'mare, I played the £50k on Crypto and spunked my stack away early doors. I was also in WCOOP event2 on Stars as well as the Dublin FPP Sat. I'd never entered one of the FPP sats before but I guessed that as they didnt need to part with money they would be full of even more muppets than normal...I was right. There were 140 runners with 2 seats and I cruise to the final table as chip leader before doing a chunk with JJ v QQ in bvb but I get it back without too much trouble then I picked up my only 3 hands on the FT AA, KK and QQ consecutively and I picked up the blinds each time lol. Then I really started struggling, I had no cards to speak of and I was being constantly re-raised pre. The players were so bad that you couldnt put any kind of move on them as they would call, anyway we ended up 4-handed with a huge chip leader (he was also the worst player on table but had shit the deck and was hitting EVERY flop) who was sat two to my left which was a bugger as he called all my preflop raises and check called every c-bet on the flop and the sick thing was he had it every time. I had been card dead for over an hour now and SB made a standard raise on my BB and I jammed with QT, he called with AJ and he held which crippled me down to around 2xBBs. However I won a couple of allins and got myself back into things when I find KhQs on the button and raise. Chip leader calls as per and flop comes Qd9d6d, he checks as per and I jam and he takes a while before calling with Q9 and I got no help. Sick!!!

As for the WCOOP I was going slowly and found myself down to 1200 with blinds 50/100 when I my EPT sat goes on a 15min break. Now I have my full focus on this and I manage to spin my stack up to 2.9k without showing a card when I pick up KK on the button and smooth call the cutoffs raise to 400. Flop is all raggy hearts (I have no heart) and he leads out and I jam..he calls with TT with a heart and the Kh duly lands on the turn just to tease me lol, I don't fill up on river and I'm a goner. Win that and I have a playable stack but thems the breaks. I've had better weekends!!

Today I went back to the 6paks and played really really well only to get outdrwan time and time and time again. WTF do I have to do to get a hand to hold up FFS. Oh I still ended up well up on the day but thats hardly the point lol.