Plan B - the only flight we could get on was the 6.40pm from Stanstead, so we had to get a taxi there, damn £150 quid taxi plus £80 to change the flights. However, in the lounge at Stanstead Nick won £600 quid online and ended up pretty pleased we had missed the flight (and i was pretty pleased as he would have moaned and moaned about this balls up).
The flight went pretty quick and before long we were ordering a taxi to our the Hotel Princess in Barcelona, about 80km away from Gerona Airport, that was until I realised I had LOST my wallet with all my cash and cards.........what a nightmare, I checked my bag over and over again, I had left it in the lounge at Stanstead Airport. We were stuck in Gerona with no cash or cards, Nick had not brought anything as I owed him money, what a balls - up.
Just when we were losing the will to live, 2 skint sad blokes in an airport at midnight with no idea what to do. our "Knight in Shining Armour", in the form of Simon Zach, arrived on the next Ryan Air flight and bailed us out with some euros. Anyway, my luck is changing, my wallet was handed in by the waiter at Stanstead with ALL of the cash and cards still in tact, what a blessing. Cussions and Mickey Wernick were kind enought to lend me euros so we're okay. There's a good crowd here, Mr Cool, DC, Chezza, Actionjack, Whisky Kev, Nowab, Zach, Cussions, The Worm, Marbella Kid, Jonny Texas(the official sponser), Stephen "the mouth" Pearce etc etc. There's plenty of bantor and some interesting heads-up matches to watch.
The round 1 matches are over 2 days, I play today (day 2). Yesterday DC and Michael Grecco went out, but Chubbs, Zimbler, Mickey W, Jo Grech and Actional Jack all went through. I play today versus an english guy I do not know, but he's a mate of Mark Goodwins, in fact Mr Cool has placed a side bet of 12,600 euros on his mate to beat me at even money (10k with me and 2.6k with Chubbs). Should be an interesting day today..................................
Chubbs had a very tough match against a friend of ours from Austria called Eric, quality player. This was the very 1st hand of the match:
Chubbs raises on button with Ks Kh
Eric calls with 8c 6s
Flop 9c 5d 7s, Eric bets his straight, Chubbs calls
Turn 2d, Eric bets, Chubbs calls
River Kd!!!!!!!!!! - Eric fires again AND Chubbs JUST CALLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He only did 50% of his stack with that hand and came back to win the match, impressive.
Okay, I gotta go and win the 12k side bet off Mr Cool, my match starts at 4pm. i have a feeling there may be a few railbirding this one, so I gotto a try and really concentrate. Hopefully my opponent will feel a bit of pressure with the extra side bet.
