The Poker Beard

Is all that sprang to mind when I realised how long ago it was since my last post on here, a month seems to have flown by, I never wanted to post boring stuff or feel that I had to post something, there are just periods in life where nothing major seems to happen.

Things have been quiet poker wise as I have not been playing except for some live excursions, particularly Helen and I representing our good friends public house in the APAT pub poker championship event in Blackpool with Sean and Cath putting in some strong performances but sadly we did not win.

Another thing that has taken my time is getting into digital composite effects, I did some practical/physical makeup & prothetics back in the day but this sudden urge to get into the digital side of things suddenly struck me so I have been working with AE & Lightworks -

It can be a slow process working on something frame by frame for a slight touch to the shot which will last less than a second purely to add a sense of realism & depth but so far I am loving it, besides, I will only improve by working on such things.

Just be assured, this blog is not dead……

To simply denounce tournaments, ahem, I mean donkaments as lottery games, you pays your money and you takes your chances, to secure first places ? (Although my previous advice is still worth a £ or 2 of anyones money. Maybe.)

After all my “Gah, tournaments are’nt real poker.” & “I prefer cash games to buying lottery tickets.” comments, I took down the last APAT league game of the season last night in spectacular fashion as my infamous hand, 5-4 off despatched my HU opponent and a couple of others along the way.  Due to my somewhat, er, esoteric choice of hands I was in first position pretty much all the way -

While I was busting players with some less than premium holdings, it is nice to see the best hand holding up when it counts -

This was actually so well timed as the two opponents both had just over 30K while I had shy over 50K, thus they were the real dangers to me so a swift, surgical removal of them was just what the Dr ordered.

Nottingham have now promoted themselves to the top division in the league and it is rightly deserved as out of 10 matches, 6 were won by a Nottingham player.

Now this is my main event !

I love Omaha, it’s such a fantastic game which relies more on skill than Hold’em, however some people think it is more a gambling game.  While preflop no hand is a huge favourite against another, that all changes on the flop and yet too many are still quite happy to flip at the slightest opportunity !

Last year I final tabled and had the best hand going in when I was busted, here I hope to improve by winning !

10000 chips & 30min

Wish me luck -

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