Stripped and laying on a couch

Isn't how i expected to be spending my Monday evenings but thats now the plan for the next 9 months. Had my 3 monthly (post car crash) medical on Wednesday. Basically the injuries were whiplash, damage to shoulder muscle and back with some bruising to the top of the cervical spine for good measure.

Good news though is that no lasting damage and with physio i will get back to normal. He quoted figures about being 78% healthy. I was a bit pissed off at the thought of Physio. Especially in the east end of Newcastle (Byker) as im still unable to drive and its a bit of a pisser getting there from Gateshead via public transport. Bugger it i'll taxi it up and put a claim in for expenses.

Anyways i get there and go in with a lovely young lady in her mid 20s who goes through the patter with me and asks pretty much the same stuff the doctor had as my notes hadnt come through yet. A few weird stretching and arm bending and moving around for her to evaluate any restriction of movement.

So onto the couch. Asked me to take my top off and lay face down on the couch whilst she proceeded to search for anywhere that was tight, sore or tender. Got a bit rough too towards the end but apparantly its for my own good. She also gave me the green light to exercise again which is a bit of a relief. The diet fell apart a bit over Christmas and not exercising hasnt helped.
In a lot of pain during November but December and January ive used it as a bit of a crutch i guess, especially since i quit the cigarettes at new year.

Also back at WW and lost 2 lbs this week which took me back to the 2 stone off mark.
As well as the cigarettes ive also quit CocaCola as it was one of my main weaknesses as i was doing about 2 litres a day of the stuff.

So physio every Monday
Exercising again
No smoking
No pop
No eating rubbish

The journey towards health is mapped out,

Tuesday was back to normal at Poker
2 tournaments - out of both on first hand !!!!!

a) KTd in BB , Folded to SB who limps. 8d 5d 2d flop .
He raises, i reraise. Chips in middle and he has A9d

b) AA in early Pos , raise 4x. Button reraises, I jam. he calls.
75o Flop 875 i genuinely laughed


Right im off to bed now as not playing tonight and going to try and avoid staying up till stupid o'clock through the week.

Good luck all and thanks as ever for reading.
Paul

£2.5k Added SuperSeries

37th of 609 for £60

Could have been more but not to be. Variance against me tonight but was in my corner last week. Just hope its not deserted me for a while :)


Game #6989741493: £2.5K Super series (ID8955390) £12.50+£1.25 - Hold'em NL (1200/2400) - 2009/01/18 - 21:46:25 (UK)
Table "8955390 - 4" Seat 3 is the button.
Seat 1: Shane12al (15552 in chips)
Seat 2: Samj2704 (58050 in chips)
Seat 3: Slobo1210 (38558 in chips)
Seat 4: Joh271042 (17034 in chips)
Seat 5: Nice0ne (49336 in chips)
Seat 7: Ukgatsby (32888 in chips)
Seat 8: Jam170989 (27461 in chips)
Seat 9: Hughl1901 (105523 in chips)
Seat 10: Alan23 (22294 in chips)
Joh271042: posts the ante 300
Nice0ne: posts the ante 300
Ukgatsby: posts the ante 300
Jam170989: posts the ante 300
Hughl1901: posts the ante 300
Alan23: posts the ante 300
Shane12al: posts the ante 300
Samj2704: posts the ante 300
Slobo1210: posts the ante 300
Joh271042: posts small blind 1200
Nice0ne: posts big blind 2400
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to Ukgatsby [Kd Kh]
Ukgatsby: raises to 7200
Jam170989: folds
Hughl1901: raises to 15000
Alan23: folds
Shane12al: folds
Samj2704: folds
Slobo1210: folds
Joh271042: folds
Nice0ne: folds
Ukgatsby: raises to 32588 and is all-in
Hughl1901: calls 17588
----- FLOP ----- [4d 6d 8c]
----- TURN ----- [4d 6d 8c][Jc]
----- RIVER ----- [4d 6d 8c Jc][Qc]
----- SHOW DOWN -----
Ukgatsby: shows [Kd Kh] (A Pair of Kings, Queen high)
Hughl1901: shows [Qs Qh] (Three of a kind, Queens, Jack high)
Hughl1901 collected 71476 from Main pot


We all busted there before and we all cracked them
Next time :) Early night for me as didnt play anything else alongside it after the HH earlier
Physio tomorrow so prob back at the tables on Tuesday.

Good luck all and thanks as ever for reading
Paul

Well i chucked that away...........

Game #6987693193: Head Hunter $10 (ID8994222) $10+$1 - Hold'em NL (1200/2400) - 2009/01/18 - 19:41:06 (UK)
Table "8994222 - 1" Seat 6 is the button.
Seat 2: Costi02 (32093 in chips)
Seat 3: Stu290624 (7124 in chips)
Seat 6: Nubs_wh (46460 in chips)
Seat 8: Ukgatsby (49103 in chips)
Seat 9: Alf2301 (67720 in chips)
Ukgatsby: posts the ante 300
Alf2301: posts the ante 300
Costi02: posts the ante 300
Stu290624: posts the ante 300
Nubs_wh: posts the ante 300
Ukgatsby: posts small blind 1200
Alf2301: posts big blind 2400
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to Ukgatsby [7s 7d]
Costi02: folds
Stu290624: folds
Nubs_wh: raises to 7500
Ukgatsby: raises to 48803 and is all-in
Alf2301: folds
Nubs_wh: is all-in 38660
Returned uncalled bets 2,643 to Ukgatsby
----- FLOP ----- [Qc 2s Ac]
----- TURN ----- [Qc 2s Ac][2c]
----- RIVER ----- [Qc 2s Ac 2c][5d]
----- SHOW DOWN -----
Ukgatsby: shows [7s 7d] (Two Pairs, Sevens and Twos, Ace high)
Nubs_wh: shows [Qd Qs] (A Full House, Queens full of Twos)
Nubs_wh collected 96220 from Main pot



Finish the 6pm SuperSeries then will call it a night :

Got Cold but fighting it to stop it turning into Man Flu

Out last night which wasnt to clever as coming down with cold. Felt yuk and ended up going back to bed at 2pm today. Slept through until 7pm. Got up and decided to play some poker as avoiding tv etc meant being able to watch Match Of The Day WITHOUT knowing any of the results !!!!!

Poker was nice tonight as it has been pretty much all of January when ive bothered to play

7.14pm £5 Headhunter - 9th of 157 for £29
8.00pm 8pm £2 mtt - 6th of 293 for £18
8.15pm £1k gtd - 2nd of 135 for £270

Also won a 63p lottery for the 9k gtd , Only shame was that i busted out of that so early.
Just before the break. AQQK board. Ive got KQ. He had AQ. One of those things. Had fortune in other moments of other games. Swings n roundabouts and all that bollox.


Couple of weeks for January left for the Gatsby awards so let me know any nominations. For live and online poker achievement i try to list either people i know or what i have heard of. Easy to have the odd one slip the Net. So any major results let me know and i will see if they worthy of the monthly award..

The hero award surely gotta go to the pilot of that aircraft that crash landed into the Hudson river in New York. All 155 live. Nice moment amongst the shitty news these days.

Knob of the month im currently debating between Craig Bellamy or a couple of others.
Joey Barton and Bassong could be up there with their little onfield spat as Newcastle got humped 3-0 . Brought back memories of Bowyer and Dyer. Play bad but try. Give it all even when shite. But never turn on your own. Effing barmy.

Added another link to the right whilst down to the last couple of tables of the 8.15pm £1k gtd
Ant040689. Looks to be a decent read so give it the once over and see what you think.

Getting late so lemsip and kip time
Good luck all and thanks as ever for reading
Paul

Nearly twice in 3 days !!!!!

What A Day

Had to cancel first trip back to WeightWatchers for the year as had to go to Newcastle for a medical (3 month review thingy) from Car Crash. Well it was so so , Good news wasnt there any long lasting damage but neck and shoulders still about 70-80% and im going to have to have physio for the next 6-9 months which is a pain but has to be done.

I was actually expecting a clean bill of health and the say so to start driving again and get back to normal so it was a bit deflating . Not to mention getting exercise or joining a gym. I was going to go to the match but just went back to work and then home for about 7pm and just thought fuck it. Have a bath, make something to eat, stick the radio on and have a game of poker. Played well , had a slice of luck and the 1st , 2nd and 5th shown on previous posts.

Dunno what it was , everything just clicked together. Well timed aggression (well a lot of manic aggression) or maybe after the day i had i didnt give a monkeys and was letting off steam, until of course i realised i was in a position to win a little.

So a bad day, turned ok. Still cant drive, on medication, Newcastle out the cup. But won over £600 tonight and every Monday till Halloween some young Physio Nurse is going to lash the hell out of me :) Could be worse couldnt it ???

Added a couple of blog links to the list ,. I need to read more or start cull them. I (like everyone) have my favourites, but the rest of time my blog reading is mood depending. Obviously the widget sorts them in order by date so i tend to click the updated ones.

I liked it better when i had them in alphabetical order i think. Clicking eagerly seeing if anyone had updated. Seeing if any big wins or any gossip or tales of dashing and cunning or pure cheek or evil, Or would a bad beat be accompanied by a tirade of blue expletives.

I often wonder how mine gets so many hits. I can win small stakes mtts , i can get lucky and then appreciate its variance so not go mental when i get rivered. The Gatsby awards are of course unique and legendary but do people come for them. Im sure you could google Lucy Pinder , Heidi Range , Gemma Merna , Gemma Atkinson , Keeley Hazel and view better than i publish

Im never going to go bust but im never going to be at the Final table of WSOP or EPT event either. Maybe i do need to hammer the live scene a bit more but at the moment i dont trust myself as its 2 weeks since i had a cigarette (or coca cola) See how this physio goes, Maybe start swimming a bit more and being more healthy. That said ive coughed more in 09 than i did in 08 !!!!

Anyways im rambling so im off to bed
Good luck, thanks as ever for reading
Paul

8.15pm £1k gtd - 1st of 128 for £384

7.44pm £2k gtd Headhunter - 2nd of 185 for £228

9.30pm £2 mtt - 5th of 191 for £23

Not playing much

Tuesday
£2k HH - Out in 7th for £60
8.30pm - busted in 27th (20 paid)
9.00pm - busted in 34th (20 paid)

Wednesday
SuperSeries
Got chiplead after 1st hour, still top 10 after 2nd, midway thru 3rd, walked KK and AK into AA within 5 mins. lovely !!!

8.44pm HH
Went out early . Called 3 shortstack all ins (yup its a manic game) with JJ. BB had QQ and it was goodnight Irene

Thursday
9.00pm - out in 25th (20 paid)
9.14pm - out in 8th for £45


Friday and Saturday i didnt play. Late in from work and then visited family plus i had an early start on the Saturday. Also disappointed to see Lucy Pinder get voted out of CBB. Still if youre a one trick pony and that trick is getting your tits out you gotta expect to be voted off if you dont do it. Shame though as the pic of her on the Gatsby awards thread 2 posts down was beautiful. Got to the weekend. Work first then the match. Backed a first goal scorer Yankee (Owen :) ......Cahill :( ...... Van Persie... :( .... Rooney : ) then settled back to watch Newcastle to destroy those cheeky hammers. 1-0 Owen, job done but then as per we chuck it away and only a late equaliser by young Andy Carroll rescues a point for us. Couple of jars in the town afterwards and end up getting in at stupid o'clock.

Sunday
Get out of bed late, Go for the papers but the shop is shut, lazy twat that he is finishing early (1pm) How much more cash would he make if he stayed open till say 4pm as surely loads of people have a lie in on a Sunday. Go for a walk and end up nearly getting blown away by hurricane type winds. How mental is this weather at the moment !!!!
Watch the Man Utd vs Chelsea game and the B.D.O (BBC - county / shite version) Darts final
Phil Taylor would destroy these with 2 darts never mind 3 !!!!!

Onto the Sunday multis and it was a hit the bar weekend.
£15 qualifier for Sunday £35k gtd - 9 seats (Qualified)
6.30pm 1k euro gtd - finished 8th for 38 euros
6.44pm HH - busted in 11th for about $20
8.00pm £2 - busted in 17th for £4
£35k - busted in 117th

so near yet so far :)
Anyways thats it for now. Good luck all and thanks as ever for reading.
Paul

1st Mtt of 2009.....and i win it !!!!!!

8.44pm 516 runner £1.4k gtd Headhunter

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Nice to finally get 36th Win (Hall of fame on left hand side now updated)

Been a long time coming.

Hope the rest of 2009 is as good :)

Paul

Happy New Year + 2008 Gatsby Awards

Best wishes for 2009. I havent played online poker since Dec 21st so no tales to report. Indeed that live game was my only poker at all. I toyed with the idea of going to play again last night but having been out all day i resisted temptation and just stayed in the pub instead

New Year was a good night, A local pub, we had the room upstairs booked as a private party then onto a friends house party. Got in about 6am and spent the majority of NYD in bed which was a bit of a pisser as i was meant to go out in the afternoon.

New Year Resolutions

(still kept so far as i type on Sun 4th Jan Night)
Quit Smoking
Quit Coca Cola (in all forms)
Quit Crisps and Nuts
Exercise at least 30 mins , 100 times in 2009 (roughly twice a week)
Get to goal weight.

Poker Goals for 2009
Not really much marked out. Keep enjoying the game, Try and make a profit, Play a bit more live and generally have fun.

Right thats pretty much it for now so will leave you with the Annual Gatsby Awards of 2008

Live Poker Performances Of The Year (Joint)
Marty Smith - WSOP PLO Champion and winner of the Poker Million.
Paul "Pab" Foltyn - Winner Of the GUKPT main event
Neil Channing - Winner of the Irish EPT. Also decent cash in the WSOP
Mrs D - Won the BFWCOP main event down in Birmingham.


Online Poker Performance Of The Year
Aryan "Avkid86" Varabi - Took down the 8,030 runner PokerStars Sunday Million Gtd for a very nice payday of over $138,000 and change. Absolutely awesome from a fellow geordie.
Runners Up - Soap and Mrs Dests - Consistent winners during 2008


Blog Of The Year
Degenerate Would Be - Fantastic compulsive reading
Runners Up - Melted Felt and Punterz - Different but very entertaining


Website Of The Year
Newcastle Poker Forum - Great forum, lots of info about not only the online poker world but the live bricks and mortar poker at the Newcastle venues and afar


Babe Of The Year
Lucy Pinder - Just went into the big brother house. The page 3 girl going to hot things up

Runners Up - Heidi Range , Gemma Merna , Gemma Atkinson , Keeley Hazel


Hero Of The Year
Sir Bobby Robson - Former Newcastle and England Manager (and of course a few smaller jobs such as Barca and PSV) Diagnosed with Cancer again and whilst getting treated decide to raise funds. Created The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation. A Geordie and a Gentleman


Knob Of The Year
Tiffany Michelle - See links below for development of story. Could have walked away a poker princess but now tainted and will prob just fizzle away into the background
PokerNews Statement
Tiffanys PokerNews Video Interview
Tony G Blog Statement
Tiffany My Space Response
Pot Committed Excellent Article

Thats it for now. Off to play some online poker for the first time in aaaages.

Good luck all and thanks as ever for reading.
Paul