last 5 days !

Traveling:

plane delayed 3 hours total - could catch up the time in the air though ! lovely views over top of Scotland and few pics :) hit the ice over Greenland, lots of huge chunks of ice floating away in the ocean. Hit north America, coming in over Canada. Nice pics of the rocky mountains - couldn't see the little village of South Park though :( Once landed was quick transition, i was one of the first off and so were my bags so was out with 15 mins - very happy !

Hooters hotel - bit old and cheapish - guess u get what you pay for. The air conditioning work good which i guess is important in this part of the world. Heat hitting 108-109F - which is some kindda record here for this time of the year ! LOVEING IT !

Poker :

Time : 1am - 6:30 7th June

Game : 1/2 holdem

Start : $100

Finish : $140

Only finished $40 up on the session. Rolled up from 100 to 330 at one point, playing pretty standard, no major bluffs, started to get attacked towards the end of the game - lots an all in PF vs $80 stack with my AK v 44. Lost the other chunk of my rolled up money on a flopped straight, me with 86 on 457 baord, got drawn out on by 89 for a higher stright when a 6 hit the river.

All in all happy with my play, so many weak players on the table - looking forward to next sit down !

Polo training :

First training last night, was mainly based around game play, as their masters have a large tournament this weekend. That also meant i didn't get to play with the better players, they were split into two teams to have match practice against each other, so i was lumped in with the other half of players, guys & girls not going to this tournament and the other players. Was fun to get in and splash about, it showed how un-fit i was, so things to improve on. I am looking forward to getting involved with the better players after this tournament.

Poker :

Time : 6pm - 1am 8th June

Game : 1/2 holdem

Start : $100 total bought in : $300

Finish : $380

My second run of poker was very enjoyable. Im loving the chance to meet people from US and chat to them, also loving how terrible everyone at the table seems to be. I was buying in with $100 in these games, had to reload a couple of times, was ending up losing 50 - 80 - 100 dollar pots regular. All times i was getting money in while i was winning and then no money in when they hit their cards, was playing pretty well i think.

One example of a hand that this happened to is me raising Td5d in cut off, small blind gives me action - As7sTs flops. Hes checks to me i bet out about 75% pot, get the call from him. 5h Turns, i don't think this changes the situation too much - as i feel my T was good from the flop. I once again bet - know he will pay off a flush Draw, hes makes the call, a Kd rivers, he checks and i check behind. Sadly he turns of Kh7c, but me getting money in while ahead and then checking when behind felt good - although i lost the pot.

The standard is shocking, i know I'm gonna make some huge stacks, just a matter of waiting for the right opportunity. Ive started to make friends with the few people that i played with for both the sessions, one of the "Mark" tells me hes a reg, grinding it out, telling me that the games are easy etc.... I see alto of his plays as pretty bad and am unimpressed with everyone's standard of play, hopefully ill be able to report some big wins soon enough !

Peace out !