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This post should be a bit of a mixed bag today, with some poker, life and silly things in it! For some unknown reason, I am in a good mood today, maybe it is because the sun is shining outside, who knows?

At the tables things have been frustrating to say the least. I just cannot seem to log a decent amount of hands. At the beginning of the month I played over 3.5k hands in one day (more..) and if I go back two or three months I managed to grind 18k in one week whilst I was clearing a bonus. Fast forward to the present and I have not logged a session of more than 300 hands and I do not know why.

I have downloaded a fantastic piece of software that logs all my hand histories and lets me analyse my play and my opponents play too. I currently have a 15-day free trial but once it is over, I am going to try to convince Mrs P to buy it for me for the kingly sum of $80. The best part of it is that is works on Betfair so expect to see YorkyPuds at a NL10 table near you soon!

I also placed my first bet on Betfair! I had something like $3.62 in my account, before I moved my bankroll around, and used it to back Chelsea vs Wigan this Sunday at crap odds of about 2/5. If I win, I will get a whopping $1.59 back! LOL! BTW, my betting history is awful so feel free to back Wigan to win by five clear goals now that I have had a punt on Chelski!

We had the first midwife appointment yesterday and all seems well. They did not perform a scan but took Mrs P's weight, blood pressure and took some blood samples, three pints if you believe what the missus says! According to the midwife, we should expect our first ultra-sound scan in 2-4 weeks and then we have to go back for another blood test at 16 weeks. We want a special test doing as one of my uncles had a baby with Down's Syndrome many years ago and they can only do this certain blood test at this stage of the pregnancy.

I have a couple of questions that I wondered if any of you knew the answer to:

1. If you blow in a dogs face, they absolutely hate it, so why do they stick their heads out of the car window when their owner is driving?
2. Why is it that you fold 84o in the small blind and the flop always comes 884? Every single time. But you call with 84o and the flop comes AKQ?
3. Do you actually know anyone who has had his or her arm broken by a swan?
4. Why do you only ever stand on an upturned plug when either bare footed or wearing slippers? Never when you have safety boots on?
5. WTF is going on with the kids wearing their socks over their trousers? Is it the modern day version of wearing socks with sandals?

I have loads more stupid questions I ask myself daily but those are a small selection. Answers on a postcard to the usual address!

In the next blog I should have some hands to discuss, albeit from the micro stakes but we all have to start somewhere! I may have also played in my first $55 WSOPE Qualifier too, fingers crossed it goes well.

As always, thanks for reading and best of luck at the tables!

26 August 2008 / About Matthew Pitt

Tags: WSOPE Qualifier, YorkyPuds /

Comments (3)

The 84 question....
I read that just as I saw my first flop in an onlin donkament.... yep, I got 84(suitd, but anyway, I called and the flop wasn't AKQ, It was A J Q!)

Moving on.

Why do teenagers wear their trousers prison style with the band of their boxers showing? And, given that the whole prison-style thing is to show how prisoners have to wear their trousers because they have no belt; why do teenagers wear their trousers across their arse and keep them there with a belt???

David | 28 August 2008

Thanks for stopping by David.

There are a load of the "pant showers" around here and also the guys who pull their socks over their trousers too? Maybe they have all been cycling or something? Who know / cares?!!!

Pud's Poker | 31 August 2008

3. Do you actually know anyone who has had his or her arm broken by a swan?

I'll take 'em, any f-ing swan who wants to break my f-ing arms outside RIGHT NOW. All beak and no action you ugly f-ing ducklings, just you come within 10 meters of my f-ing arm and I'll f-ing show you. I'll break your 35cm long f0ing necks in 12 places before you have so much as 'quacked'. Come on then you oversized ducksssss.

Or, to put it another way, no - good question though.

Cheers, Mark

Mark | 12 September 2008