As tough as i try to make myself out to be, i am always going to be one of them boys with a soft spot for home. Now everything has been done to a level in macau i can come back home to sort things out down that end. I want to get high on refreshing air, feel the cold drips of rain trickle down my face as i run for shelter, ride the dirty transport and eat the food fit for royalty FISH AND CHIPS.
I should be back in macau hopefully pretty soon at least 100 k US richer since ill be back for the poker camp me, Mr Black and Jade will be doing but until then i am going to scrape for whatever i can get down here. I decided i will work as many jobs as i can down here to get some money together. I also plan to get some new songs done but i need to start networking down here again from scratch.
GOOD news though i found out i am free from my contract and i was actually free since July 2008. Reason why its such good news is because i thought i had another year on the contract because the thief wouldn't legally cut me off with intentions to give me trouble. The thief is Stevie eagle e. So i am free to work with who ever i want and do what ever i want. The guy is a joke he doesn't even know this. The lawyer who went over the contract actually asked if a primary school kid wrote it because it was so badly written.
Any way, the poker scene has improved in UK even more which is cool. They have a casino poker room now which is open 24 hours. They have tournaments EVERY day. I actually entered a 50 pound satellite which i won. It was for the festival main event which was a 1000 pound buy in. It would of been great to win it but an IDIOT who actually paid 1000 bust me on my first hand when i was dealt aces with 5 6!!!!!
This is how it went down. Bare in mind we had 15000 chips and blinds started at 25 50. I was under the gun so i didn't want to scare any one away so i raised to 150. I got 3 callers then the big blind raised to 1000 !!! i thought this guy must have pair 10's to kings or ace king so i tried my luck and raised it to 2000. The 3 folded and he called. The flop was 3 king 7 rainbow. I wanted to trap him hoping he didn't hit a set and checked. He bet 1000 i raised to 2000 and he called. The next card was an ace giving me a set, so i checked again as he looked eager to bet. He bet 1000 again so i raised to 2000 He re raises me another 2000 so i go all in and he turbo calls me. I expected to see either ace king or trip kings, he shows 5 6 off suit and i am happy but thinking what the hell is this guy doing. But you know how it goes....... a 4 comes straight down on the river giving he a straight. INSANE! i tried to keep calm since it was my first day back in 6 months and I'm basically a new face so i didn't want to make a scene. But you should of seen the faces of everyone on the table. Flabbergasted lol. Well ya win some you lose some!
The way i got my buy in though was my first game back at a pub game. My friend said they started hosting games on Thursdays and i should come down check it out. It was a 10 pound rebuy a real homey type of game. I thought id make a statement saying I'm back from Asia and I'm cooler so i wore my funky sunglasses. Steven being the upfront wan*er he is shouted in the middle of the street 'you look like a cock with them, cant believe you wore them in public,' so the only quick reply i had was 'well I'm a pro poker player and these are a strong asset'. At that moment i realised there would be pressure on me to win this game since i have been claiming i have gone pro since my bad experience in the music business. I thought if i lost this it would make me seem I'm a joke. Even though i could of lost a number of ways which would of just been bad old luck. I tried to keep in mind a chapter in one of Doyle's books about pride, that i didn't have to act like a cowboy to prove i am a great player and keep making big bluffs. I did make big bluffs but rarely which was when i found the right opportunity. Luckily i didn't lose and it was a good game. And my glasses did actually work phycologically but for me they almost cost me a lot of chips since i could hardly see anything as the pub had quite dark lighting.
So for now i will be doing 'real' work and entering as many tournaments as i can to keep me top notch.
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