Rachel has already started one of her jobs so she was hard at work and urging me on to go out and look for work. I have honestly given out so many CV's online and in stores but i have had no reply from any of them. I don't see it as being unworthy because I'm far from it but i see it as destiny telling me I'm worth more. I looked destiny in the face and said 'look here i know im destined to be great and do great things but right now im in a pickle and i need to earn just a bit for now and pick up full speed after im in a comfortable position' I shit you not as soon as i had stopped talking to myself a flyer floated across my feet. As i picked it up i could here eye of the tiger playing from a phone ringing, It was information on the new tournament schedule at the empire casino. There was a 25 pound freeze out happening in 10 minutes and i was 5 minutes walk from the casino. As it just so happened i had 30 pounds on me i was going to use for a haircut and a bit of food. I thought about it and 5 pound of the buy in was going to go towards the bounty which is pretty nice so i started to make my way.
As i entered i felt at ease knowing this was where i belonged and not an office, but i realised if i was going to be on the cash tables across the room or enter the £250 tournaments id need to get a job to fund my bank roll or win a couple of the 20 pound rebuy tournaments. Anyway there was 23 runners so the pot was £460. Not too bad hopefully meant i could get in the money no problem even though 3 people got paid but i would aim for 1st or 2nd as 3rd would get £60 max.
As we all sat down with one person in the dealer seat my memories of having to shuffle ourselves all came rushing back to me. I have had the luxury in macau of having a dealer even for small tournaments. The reason it was so devastating was because i am terrible at shuffling. Yes i know i am trying to play poker pro and i cant shuffle, laugh it up. As soon as i started to attempt a shuffle the guy in the dealer seat requested if he could shuffle and deal the whole game to speed things up. Luckily for me or shall i say for them everyone agreed.
People in the early stages were going crazy, i assumed it was in attempt to take the bounty each time. One person called a pre flop raise of 350 when blinds were 25 50. We started of with 2500 chips so they had around that amount. the Flop was Ace d 7s 9s. The guy who raised pre flop pushes all in and the other guy ill call made in china ( as he always tried to act fake) snap calls. The guy who pushed had king 10 flush draw and made in china had king jack off suit lol. Made in china won and he kept saying well i was trying to bluff.
Any way i managed to make made in china fold when i needed him to even though he called everyone else and miraculously won every time like when he had ace 3 and called ace king all in pre flop and hit a 3. It was highly amusing.
I got lucky a few times but otherwise i was playing a good game and threw tells around which put me in control. For instance one hand a small stack went all in for 1200 when blinds were 150 300 and i could see 2 people between looked like they were itching to call. I wanted the bounty and i didn't want to go up against the other two with my pair of 3's so i simply fiddled with my chips and they folded. I was up against 7 10 and hit a set and won. Another time i lucked out was on the final table, i was on the button and i had 2nd largest stack and the largest stack was on the big blind for 1000. One person called in mid position with a fairly small stack and i wanted to get him all in with my pair of 10's. I pushed all in thinking everyone will fold with a chance to get the caller in but the Big stack snap called. I knew i was in big trouble but he gave no indication before that of having a big hand, as he didn't look at his cards before i made my move. Of course he shows aces but i caught a bit of luck and HIT a 10. The guy was pissssseeeeeedddd but he held it all in probably knowing i didn't really do anything wrong.
After that i was massive stack. I lost 2 all ins trying to get the small stack out who had no more then a big blind but it didn't really do much to my stack. The final table lasted ages and the other tournament was going to start, so after the 5th guy went out made in china who had the smallest stack asked to split four ways. It was quite an amusing game and i didn't think it was much of a difference so i agreed. I kinda regretted it though after realising it was a hundred less, but that was if i definitely took 1st place but in poker anything can happen.
I'm not going to write much about this but that night i went to the pub game for a 10 pound rebuy and i got taken out by super donks. I should have stayed away but i didn't! basically i had a flush on the turn, king high. The guy only had 700 in the pot but i knew he had a ace of spades so he needed one more spade so i pushed all in for 3600 more. He was the only donk with a little knowledge and said there is no value to call this but I CALL. And of course he hits a damn spade! I think I'm going to stay away from blackjack poker!
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