I held off on my usual Monday afternoon blog post until today due to the transfer deadline day being yesterday and what a transfer deadline day it was. As a life long Liverpool fan it was pretty hard to see Fernando Torres move to Chelsea but £50m is a lot more than the player is worth in my opinion. Fernando gave us some great years and was an amazing servant to the club but the way he conducted himself this January showed a lot of disrespect to the people in charge at the club, Kenny Daglish and LFC fans worldwide. His transfer request that arrived in what seemed to be nano-seconds after Chelsea bid for him left a sour taste in the mouth. His decision is even the more baffling when you consider only this summer he stated his long-term commitment to the club while Hicks & Gillette were in charge, two blokes who brought the club to being literally one or two days decisions away from not existing. Now we have NESW at the helm who clearly have long term ambitions and willingness to spend money he immediately jumps ship, tough one to get the head around but sure good luck El Nino, cheers for raping Rio and Terry. We'll always have the memories.
On to the future of LFC. Luis Suarez is a monster signing. Liverpool have a horrid reputation for ruining good players but I really think this one will work. He has pace, he is extremely instinctual in front of goal and has the passion to succeed. I'm very surprised we got him but obviously pleasantly surprised. As for Andy Carroll, £35m is a sick amount of money to pay for Andy Carroll and from a strictly business point of view yes its a massive gamble. I know these hypothetical situation are sometimes silly but I really dont think Liverpool would have got anywhere near £50m for Torres in the summer and probably would have got Carroll for £25m but what's done is done. I think Suarez and Carroll can now start a pretty formidable partnership. A Drogba-esque brute of a man in Carroll who's only 22 who can score a bag of goals on his day and a natural born finisher in Suarez with a proven record internationally and domestically who will be a constant nuisance to defenses in the Premier League. It's an exciting time to be a Liverpool fan thats for sure.
On the poker front, this week was a mega dud for me. The last two Monday's I've got my money in with T7 on a A779T board just to be shown A7 and AK on a K75 flop to be shown AA. Pokers no fun when this keep happening. Wednesday lost a race for the chip leas QQ v AK, then shipped AK v QQ for an above average stack. Obviously lost both races. Pretty massive pain in the hole. Friday was pretty standard, 16 players left I ship 10x short stack KcQc called by JJ and missed. Blergh!!
My only saving grace and the moment is my mate Ray. We play pretty much all our tourneys together and swap 15%. He's been running/playing really good poker recently and has put together some nice results. I bought 25% in the D1 Cash League final and he cashed for €900 so that was nice, add that to a few other little results he's thrown together and he's breaking keeping me in the plus column.
Keep it up mate :)
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