Chef Pants

I suffered my second trouser split of the year on Tuesday, as I sat down at work. As a result, I have finally resigned myself to purchasing a bigger pair of strides, rather than pretending that I haven’t put on any weight.

Speaking of trousers, Honest Dave was putting in a stint as chef for the evening last night. He wandered out of the kitchen resplendent not only in a chef’s shirt, but also those blue and white chequered pants. Whilst his outfit bordered on ludicrous, the trousers looked incredibly spacious and comfy. I am sorely tempted to swipe them, spray them black and use them for work going forward.

On the poker front, I found it hard to focus last night, losing £700. My job is under serious threat at the moment and unfortunately that state of mind isn’t conducive to playing good cash game poker.
I didn’t play well at all although I started well, flopping a set and 2 pair on consecutive hands to build my stack up. However, the wheels then fell off in a succession of poorly played hands.

Firstly, I snap called a shove from Jimbo2, when he looked at his blind hand for the first time on the turn. The board read KKT7 and I held QT. My read was good as I was ahead of his T7 but unfortunately Ioannis was waiting with K5 to scoop.

I then folded KK on a board of AJ874 (with 3 hearts) to a bet and a re-raise on the river. The re-raise took the hand down - Nemo folding his Jack to Ioannis’ monster King high (!)

The final debacle occurred when I ran a bluff with my last £250, painting a pretty believable picture on a board of 957A with my 45. Unfortunately my turn shove was looked up by Ioannis (again!) with KK and I was done for the night. My mistake here was that I didn’t really have enough behind to make my shove painful for Ioannis to call, and added to the fact he was well up at that stage (making the call more likely) it wasn’t really a good spot at all.

Anyhow, I don’t think I’ll play more cash until my job situation is resolved, so I will be trying to knock off a tournament or two a week in the meantime.