OK here goes.

After a reasonably heavy saturday night, I began my trip across london on the tube with a reasonable hangover. Hangovers seem to bring out a very claustrophobic reaction in me so 40 minutes on the tube was not much fun. I tried to reason with myself that, well maybe when you are hung over you are more sensitive and therefore maybe more intune at the table, hmmm...

Well I got there, well excited, as I invariably am at the prospect of poker, ordered myself a coke and some internet time and proceeded to play on the 50c-50c NL tables at pokerroom.com for an uneventful 1/2 hour.

Then it was downstairs to sign up for the freeroll which I was informed was not on and it was a £10 rebuy (500chips) for a GSOP seat. Oh well ho hum, I knew I would have more than likely ended up rebuying in the freeroll anyhow!!

Game starts, 2nd-3rd hand and I'm rebuying, think it was AJ out kickered or something unexciting like that. In my mind I'm now £20 down relative to my expected freeroll, so Its time to tighten up. According to Fecks last report from las bagshot, I play tight as a Spursfan anyhow, which was news to me cos in my other two regularish games I'm down as a maverick and in one am aka "Maddog" :o), Anyway... I do knuckle down and get myself up to about 2500k at the first break.

After the break I get up to about 3.5K I get a couple a hooks which well I never like but I guess you tend to remember the beats moreso!! I call the chip leaders raise of 1000, and its just me and her. She has only being playing pairs, but my what a pair they were ( J-Jx3,9-9). She had been all in preflop with them before so maybe I should have seen those rockets a comin, flops a good'en 10-4-2, im 1st to act, rebuy time. ARSE!!!! all that work for nowt. Back to square 1, but I carry on playing FANTASTIC poker, and as we approach the freezeout I'm doing ok, hangin in.there.

My Poker may have been fairly good but my dealing was even worse than usual and I managed to make one bloke nearly cry when I fluffed laying down the flop and he tried to claim the Ace (one of the 3 cards (another A and a king) which made the other two callers both beat his jacks!!) was not off the top of pack, oh how I s******ed as did others as he sulked off cursing and shooting me dirty looks :o).

Nothing much really happened for a while now, I was just sitting back making little plays ever so often, and all of a sudden I look round and realise theres not many of us left. I'm on ~2K, pretty darn short stacked, and then it happens. I havn't looked down to see those beauties in a while now. I sometimes panic and wonder if they will ever show up again, cos well they might not mighten they?

So sitting there with american airlines, and some one raises 3k infront of me, Im well covered, so, excellent, I shove all in and get one more greedy caller aswell.

They both battle out, board looks nasty 3clubs, k-j and a 9 in there aswell. I'm sure from the betting i'm outta there (and so is the resident Helmuth behind me as he whispers your beaten by the flush mate) either to 2 pair or the flush The second caller behind me is then all in and it turns out they were both full of it, with just 1 king between them, YEAH BABY, I treble up!! And were down to the final table, perfect timing for the rockets :o).

Its final;table time and I ain't the short stack (~6K)!! 2-3 drop out nice and quick, but blinds are crippling me (down to ~3.5K) and well i had a nice day and didnt expect to make it this far so WTF. UTG, 5 of us left now I get em all in before my 1k BB with A-9 off. 1 call , shows KQ off, and my Ace romps home, You Beauty!!!! I've got a few fans by now aswell, not sure why ???

1 round later UTG again, A-9o again, I nearly muck em, but then decide, WTF again and whack em all in. 2 callers this time, both show KQ off again, ace on the flop, SHOW ME THE MONEY!!.

Its bubble time now though, gotta keep those all-in impulses under control as there is one shorty left and 3 of us about even.Turns out though the 3 others left are all mates and jeepers well i'm thinkin there all gonna be out to screw me. But no they were cool and the little guy bowed out soonish. I involuntarillylly showed my happiness just a tad too early as he is applauded off, but I was not too crass just a bit of a TigerTim shake of the fist too my fans (ok fan) behind me :o).

Well that was it really the lady mentioned earlier was still in and her and her mate both did their best to get 3rd place as they wanted the cash. She got it in the end I wanted the cash as well really but am just too competitive to do that, oh well!!!

Cant be arsed to proof read so thats it.

Craig