Born 30 something years ago into a card-playing clan in the North of England: the low-roller's poker odyssey has taken him from the school common-room via down-trodden Midlands' casinos, smoky Cotswolds pubs, celebrity Soho drinking spots and of course the ubiquitous world of cyberspace to the home of poker itself, Las Vegas. Join his search for juicy take-downs, great pot odds and the occasional back-door straight as he goes for glory.
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006
YOU GOTTA PLAY WELL TOO
Here I am again at dead-on 5'oclock a.m. The Midnight tourney at Full Tilt, $69 +$6, has just finished........I took the chip lead on the very first hand of the final table and never looked back: unrelenting aggression and some good fortune too. I went in heads-up with a 6-1 advantage, holding $650,000 chips to Beardy's $110,000, with the $30,000 in the pot, having dealt with most of the other offenders at the final table personally. Heads-up was swift, steady and relatively risk-free until I quite fancied my Q7 and pushed all-in. Beardy, from Stoke-on-Trent, rightly reasoned his A-9 offsuit would do the business, but didn't reckon on the posse of Queens that came to my aid. The good news is that the field was a little larger this time, 259 entrants in total and the winning prize was a pretty special number.....
My lucky number has always been 118, since it was assigned to me aged eight years old when I was packed off to Scarborough to learn Latin and other strange habits. Twenty years later, fully obsessed by numbers - I once guided my friends to an unknown destination through the vagaries of North London solely by the number plates of the cars in front; eventually they lost patience, and I relented and bought the A to Z, only to find the street was two minutes from the petrol station. No they weren't convinced either - numb to the power of number they were - so twenty years later I was given a 'mala' or necklace out in India, by a fakir, who said it was beautiful, but no use at all to him as it did not have 108 beads (One hundred and eight being quite special and sacred to many (1 to the power of 1 multiplied by two to the power of two multiplied by three to the power of three, thus expressing the totality of three-dimensional space). So naturally I took my gift and counted the sandalwood beads, finding out the total was 118, which suited me fine. Several years later, on a Friday night, the night before Diana's funeral, I managed to drive head-on into a black Mercedes, driven by a beautiful divorced lady, with two children.....(number plate 75 JP). Everything was fine bar my Renault, my passengeer's nerves and my necklace, which became imprinted into my neck with the seatbelt impact. So I needed a new car, which duly materialised a week or two later, courtesy of a kind lady at The Bridge Club, and before I could say "let's fall asleep at the wheel and write this one off on the motorway" I had a reasonably priced upgrade, a little white Polo, and the number plate was 116. About this time I decided to count my beads again, which now totalled a miraculous 116 - another of life's affirmations. Those who have read 'The Alchemist' will know about the language of the universe.
So where is this all going, other than serving the fine purpose of calming me down? Well if you have a lucky number, you should also pay attention to its multiples. Thus, 232 is significant, and also 464 - in particular this one has followed me as a friend, four being a number of materialisation (you need four points before you can create something substantial; three merely gives you a triangle, which has no solid form). So tonight's magic number is..... $4646.46 - which is pretty damn weird. I kid you not that was the fruit of my five hours of labour. I have taken the account over the five figure mark - in fact I have won back my stake from Vegas, including the buy-in for the smaller event - and yes even before I came across the film, I had been imagining myself winning the Big One. I just need to raise my game first. So anyone with any suggestions......
"Congratulations you finished the tournament in 1st place. $4646.46 will be credited to your account" Yeah baby!
So go check out The Secret, www.thesecret.tv and start to change the world - and if you are wondering where this total non-sequitur fits in, then you need to go read the next post down, from four days ago.
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