Day 3 and accidental day 4 :-/

So after 2 days of mostly getting bust in the chops I began day 3 almost as badly. I was in a good game and had won a few little pots before getting involved in the following hand.

I raise to €20 on a straddle pot with a couple of limpers with AQ and get a call from the button, I decided to bet before the flop came out as I was c-betting anyway and this makes my hand appear stronger and generally causes some confusion. My bet was €25 on a board of 2, 8 ,Q and he calls.

The turn brings a 9 of spades giving me a nut flush draw along with my top pair, I bet €40 and he raises to €100 I decide to jam for €150 on top and to my dismay he made a set of 9's on the turn and I don't improve.

I decide to take a break for a while before rejoining the same game a couple of hours later, I see a youngish player has bought in for €800 into the €200 game lol, I managed to get some money out of him.

Folds to my button and i make it €8 to go with Qh8h and our overly rich BB calls as does the SB. The flop comes Ah Kh Jx and we check around, the turn is a blank and I check/call a bet for the BB for €12 to try and make my gutter or flush. The river brings thee gin card.

It comes a 10h and the BB makes an over sized bet of €40, something is seen him do with a nut hand earlier so I know he has a straight and I can take advantage of it, I raise to €175 making it appear that I'm trying to get him off a chop and he begrudgingly calls and is SEETHING when he sees my hand.

I scooped a nice pot there and liked he way I played the hand, by checking the flush draw on the flop I completely concealed the draw and the deck certainly helped me in creating a favourable scenario.

I then get into a hand with the guy who stacked me with 9's earlier, I raise tug with KJs to €7 and get a couple of callers. The flop is 2,7,J and I bet €15 and the guy who got me earlier calls . Turn brings another J and he checks so I check back my trips to appear I c-bet and missed... The river is another J! He leads for €25 and I tank up and then make it €80 and get he call from QQ.

By this point I'm up about €300 for the day before I drop €75 on an all-in preflop when my AKs runs into the shorty's AA. So me and Christin decide to head to the bar for the evenings beer pong free roll. Most of the dealers and many of the Internet kids are in and it took far too long to get going but was good fun. Needless to say we were both in the drinking mood by the time it concluded.

We have a few beers (including a few necked pints!) and I decide I need to get in more pokers before I head to bed and get an early night. We end back in the same game with a few faces from earlier, I jokingly (or perhaps not..) inform the table of Christin's nitty ness and she managed to stack 2 people all in pre with AQ v AK v 44, before hen going on to make quad 10's not after. Being so drunk I fail to recall any of my own hands but did leave about €30 up before Christin warned that we were getting the attention of too many pros who had began circling the table to play against the drunks, so we called it a night.

I had 2 hours sleep before I had to go the airport, I had a rapid breakfast and headed to the bus stop, unfortunate I was waiting at he public stop not he one for air coach and it went right by me,. A while later I get the next and I know I'm cutting it fine on time, I see a notification on the coach that Aer Lingus operate from T1 so get off there, however as they have taken over Aer Arann's Isle of Man flights they are based in T2 and naturally by the time I get there they have closed the flight and despite being only a few mins late they refuse to help me.

I end up having to pay €75 for a later flight and a 9 hour wait!! I decide I can't handle being stuck at the airport that long so I get the bus back to the Burlington to play for a few hours before coming back. So im here but the only €1/€2 game is with all the ringers about €1K deep... So I may be hanging around a little longer doing nothing, but will make sure I get back to the airport on time :-)