April and evening openings

Well April's here and what a great month it is !!!!!!!!!
My Birthday to celebrate , my sons 21st Birthday to celebrate, Aintree and the Grand National, the Masters, NFL Draft, FA Cup Semi Finals and the Promotion/Relegation encounters etc , etc

But there is a downside to April ......Evening racing starts !!!!!!!
Even though the British meetings don't start until mid April, the betting industry decide in their wisdom (greedy fat cats imvho) to extend trading hours commencing the 2nd April.
Today was the first time i was down for the 'late' shift, not only the 'late' shift but the powers of be also introduced an earlier start time for many of our shops !!!!!!!
We now trade from 8.30am till 9.30pm , with setting up and closing down you are looking at a 14 hour day (8am-10pm) not allowing for travelling.
Today i copped for the lot, with the joys of Aussie horses + dogs this morning, then the normal programme from 10am of dogs, numbers, virtual, horses and more canine action to the delights of more Virtual, American Horses and the BEGS service later on, Oh yes and the near fight in the shop as to which Sky Channel was being shown- Man Utd, Chelsea or England v Sri Lanka !!!

On a brighter note, today was a decent day, we had two runners on the Bags at Hall Green and they managed a First @ 3/1 and a third.
Archies win was his first for us on his seventh attempt - well done Son :)

Onto the Poker and after my win on the opening day it seemed that the Poker Gods had turned against me. Having managed to get a couple of days holiday from work i decided i would play a lot, i stayed on the Betfair site having recently gone back to them. Betfair seems to have solved most of the problems they had since leaving 'crypto' and the Guarantees are very good value at times.
Playing various MTTs from a Buy In of $5 - $40 i couldn't do anything right, missing out on the money four times by the odd place here and there. A couple of ill timed gambles, stupid calls with a middle Ace and of course the odd outdraw.

A couple of hours off did me good when me and the missus went house hunting, having accepted an offer on our house it was time to get our fingers out !!!!!!!

Back at the tables in the evening i entered four MTTs making three Finals :)
I played really solid and i fancied i could win another one. Not to be though i finished 4th, 5th and 9th.
The $800 GTD i finished 4th in was the one that really got away. I had a decent Chip Lead on the FT and when we were 6 handed 3 times my AK, AQ and JJ all ran into monsters and were beaten. Then with four left i got dealt K9 on sb (other 2 had passed) i raise 3xBB and BB calls.
Flop K82 i bet the pot out, he min raises, i push with the rest 40k in total, he pauses for ages..... his stack just about covers me.......just as the timer reaches the end he calls and flips over K10 aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh turn and river no help and gone.
He soon polishes off the other two short stacks for the win.

Off to Ludlow Races tomorrow (working) then Good Friday (day off) then three runners at Hall Green on Saturday night plus more house hunting no doubt i will be fairly busy in the coming days. I will try and sneak in the odd Multi in between :-)

Best of luck to you all
Neil