January 2008 - Posts

• Strummer9's Diary - Week 86 - Tuesday 29th

  Tuesday 29th January - Sunday 3rd February Getting fat, drunk and burning!!!! Posted Jan 29 2008, 03:01 PM by Strummer with no comments

• Strummer9's Diary - Week 86 - Monday 28th

  Monday 28th Puerto Rico today.....I think. My battery life has about 2 minutes to go so no more entrys until I get back home. It's simple enough...all i'm doing for the next 6 days is sun bathing, eating and drinking... repeat this in any order... Posted Jan 28 2008, 03:11 PM by Strummer with no comments

• Strummer9's Diary - Week 85 - Sunday 27th

  Sunday 27th Firstly let me point out that the diary entry could end very suddenly as i've not brought my power pack and the battery life on this laptop is way short of an hour - so I will talk quickly!!! Main event Day Two short stacked with big blinds... Posted Jan 27 2008, 03:17 PM by Strummer with no comments

• Strummer9's Diary - Week 85 - Saturday 26th

  Saturday 26th Well i've made it through too Day 2 with 12,700 chips leaving me about 60th of the 70 left out of the field of 250. A mighty 2,700 chips more than I started with!! Sadly i'm not sat with the 30-40k chips I should have down to two... Posted Jan 26 2008, 03:18 PM by Strummer with no comments

• Strummer9's Diary - Week 85 - Friday 25th

  Friday 25th The biggest worry I had about coming on this trip (other than the missus being pregnant) was going from the freezing cold of New York to the scorching sun of the Caribbean. Well my fears for the REAL cold of NY didn't materialise with... Posted Jan 25 2008, 03:19 PM by Strummer with no comments

• Strummer9's Diary - Week 85 - Thursday 24th

  Thursday 24th 03.00am local time and i'm walking the streets of New York to get croissants and juice for my two girls who are obviously tuned in to the local time zone very well!!! Still I don?t mind because I love New York at any time of day or night... Posted Jan 24 2008, 03:20 PM by Strummer with no comments

• Strummer9's Diary - Week 85 - Wednesday 23rd

  Wednesday 23rd Wasn't looking forward to the flight today because i'm flying economy for EIGHT hours...I can't think of many things worse than that! Its not because i'm a flying snob that I prefer business class or if very lucky first... Posted Jan 23 2008, 03:20 PM by Strummer with no comments

• Strummer9's Diary - Week 85 - Tuesday 22nd

  Tuesday 22nd Fly to New York tomorrow so absolutely no time for poker today because i've got to pack etc, right? Yeeeaaah of course! No poker was the plan so when I switch the lap top on just for 2 minutes to see what was happening...well it turned... Posted Jan 22 2008, 03:21 PM by Strummer with no comments

• Strummer9's Diary - Week 85 - Monday 21st

  Monday 21st The idiot days work yesterday is still bugging me. I thought I was past being so stupid as to play with a bottle of wine in me...well apparently not. Wanted to put things right this morning so got up at stupid o'clock to try a jam in as... Posted Jan 21 2008, 03:23 PM by Strummer with no comments

• Strummer9's Diary - Week 84 - Saturday 19th

  Saturday 19th I have a theory about weekend online poker...because the tables are full of the weekend social players and generally drunk weekend social players, only one of two things happen.....you either get your hands holding up thus win big or you... Posted Jan 19 2008, 03:24 PM by Strummer with no comments

• Strummer9's Diary - Week 84 - Friday 18th

  Friday 18th 10 buy ins up and I still feel an urge to moan! FFS I seriously just can't understand how some people are wired up!!!! If you sat at the cyber tables with me on six tables eight hours a day you would soon realise that when all my chips... Posted Jan 18 2008, 03:25 PM by Strummer with no comments

• Strummer9's Diary - Week 84 - Thursday 17th

  Thursday 17th No chance of poker today as i've got the builders in at home. I say builders....I mean two electricians, two plasterers and a decorator all in the hope of getting the house up to spec for when the new baby arrives. Yes, I pick my moments... Posted Jan 17 2008, 03:26 PM by Strummer with no comments

• Strummer9's Diary - Week 84 - Wednesday 16th

  Wednesday 16th I'm going to try to be upbeat, after all I recorded another winning day and that in itself should be enough to bring a smile to my miserable face! But....... of course there's a but!!! I am getting sick and tired of this muppet... Posted Jan 16 2008, 03:27 PM by Strummer with no comments

• Strummer9's Diary - Week 83 - Tuesday 15th

  Tuesday 15th Interesting situation at Betfair at the moment. Over the Christmas period I expected to see plenty new faces as people have a bunt with their Christmas money, into the new year I expected to see a few of these players still there due to their... Posted Jan 15 2008, 03:30 PM by Strummer with no comments

• Strummer9's Diary - Week 84 - Monday 14th

  Monday 14th Not going to mention the cash game today. Was a good winning day......so to find something to moan about I will mention the Monday night Dream Team event on Betfair instead. My track record as a team member of any of the three teams i've... Posted Jan 14 2008, 03:35 PM by Strummer with no comments