Another terrible day's poker - was very tired after getting drunk last night until 7am and having to get up at 3pm for my weekly jobcentre interview - the fact that I have 2 part time jobs doesn't seem to stop them wanting me to get a 'proper' career - that's what you get when you elect a fascist dwarf president I suppose. Quite fancy the girl who I see every week though so worth going just for that :-D - can't really tell her about my other 2 part time 'off the books' jobs - might not go down too well.

Poker is definitely not in danger of becoming a source of income - started the day on Laddies with about 60$ and now have about 16 for tomorrow. Played a few stt's and the 3 rebuy earlier on but got nowhere and decided to give up for the night and watched a few episodes of QI on youtube and coronation st which I have just started watching again thanks to a link I got from the ladbrokes not really very much about poker but a good laugh forum.

My sofa dwelling was interrupted at about 10:30 when my Dad messaged me saying that he was about 200/500 in the 5 rebuy on Mansion and would I like to take over coz 'he's not great at big bets'. Surprised me a bit as he's been playing poker for years - my love of all card games probably stems from the endless sunday afternoon games of 13 card brag he used to play with his mates.

Knew I was playing badly but took over anyway - was my account which I don't use very much so I'd said to him and my brother to have a game when they feel like it - 1700 runners with 200 places paid. Doubled up soon after with QQ v 44 and was looking good to at least cash when I got A10 on the button with 2 bigger stacks to my left. First instinct was to fold and wait to play against the lower stacks but I put in a raise and was re-raised a small amount by the SB. K rag rag flop so when he checked it I went all in on a steal. Didn't take him long to call with his pocket kings. No excuses - I think that's the worst i've played a hand for a long long time.

Stopped for a bit and watched some more QI - the episode I was watching finished just in time for me to enter the 10 rebuy on laddies and the 5 rebuy on stars. Went out just after the break on stars - can't win a hand on there lately - but was doing ok in the laddies tourney with no rebuy or add on - was 16/50 at one point with 20 paid. downfall was when I had about 9000 chips with blinds 600/1200 and some guy went in early for his last 3400 - one caller with a bigger stack and I decided to call from the cut off with AQ - flop comes rag rag K and I hope matey's going to check it down but he bet and I had to fold. He had something like K9 and the all inner had A3. never recovered after that and went out 31st when I took a chance with A7 - very low stacked and the bigger stack's 66 held.

Now I know the play on Mansion was ridiculously bad but i'm not so sure about the call with AQ on Laddies - had I gone all in the guy with K9 would have called anyway - enough value with what he already had in, so maybe I should have folded. Now i'm pretty tight usually but what can I do? Fold AQ and wait for AA? Bit confused. Having said that the tourneys I have gone deep in have involved folding hands like AQ on a regular basis.

Ah well, tomorrow's another day and all that.