Last Games Of The Year

I played two tournaments at The Montesino card room in Vienna to finish off the year.
The Xmas special was a 30 euro entry fee with a guaranteed 50k prize pool. 4 casinos took part in it and I entered day 1d with 320 runners. I lost 2/3rds of my stack in the first two levels and then ground it back up until we got down to the last 50 but got busted out when I shoved my 10bb stack with A6 off to grab the blinds and the chip leader looked me up with KJ. Jack on the flop...

Last night there were a couple of hundred runners and I got busted pretty early when i got all the money in with a straight v 2 pairs on the turn. The 2 pairs improved on the river and It was the high road for me.

Its Not been a brilliant year all in, online poker and tournaments have been profitable, though a lot less so than last year. Cash poker and sport betting showing a loss. All in all, a modest profit for the year.
Anyway a Happy new year to you all and good fortune for 2013.3

Losing a million pounds in a day is pretty disgusting

BBC documentary with Luke Schwartz + Andrew Feldman where you get a fine bit of understatement with the comment "Losing a million pounds in a day is pretty disgusting"

When poker is beautiful - Flopping a boat

Results have been ok last few weeks, a few cashes here and there and I've been pretty happy with my game.
I played a  tournament last week where I got involved in a big pot with four other players.
To summarise the essentials:

Preflop raise to 4X from UTG

Me -  Seat 5 Pocket 3,s  I call

Seat 6 calls

Seat 8 calls.

Flop comes a sweet 6, 6, 3 with 2 hearts.

UTG checks,
 I check
 Seat 6 bets 800,
 Seat 8 calls,
 utg calls
 and I flat it.

Theres now about 7k in the pot.

Turn comes a jack of hearts. This is getting better and better. The flush just got there, but sadly its check, check, check, check.

Cooler

River comes Ace of spades.

This is about as good as it gets.
 The full house isn,t exactly the nuts, but with potential flushes and ace somethings getting there, its probably the perfect river for me and...

UTG bets 1200
I raise  to 2600, seat 6 folds, and seat 8 reraises to 7500.

After much deliberation, the initial raiser (UTG) folds.

 I reraise all in for about 15k.
Seat 8 snaps me off and tables pocket jacks.

Bollocks.