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Erimus:
Managed to bag a Day 2 place in Nottingham at the weekend, I have 180k which will be 30 bigs but with antes it"s the M which is a bit low, the last time I made a day 2 had a similar stack and lost a flip hopefully variance will be on my side this time.
The tournament itself was odd, lost a flip AK v 88 early on flop a 8 x, turned a flush draw so was down to 30 bigs and pretty hamstrung I couldn"t raise fold so was waiting for a spot.
Pushed AQ from utg big blind wakes up with AK which is standard, but I 4 flush it, this gets me to 20 bigs, go card dead for another 2 levels, again all spots when I have hands are raised and reraised so no joy, I have 12 bigs in the big blind when the button min raises, hoping for a flip I shove all in 22,he turns over KK, as I was typing in nh gg wp, the miracle 2 hit the river, not quite a miracle but you know what I mean.
I am now above starting stack and get moved were i get AA into QQ , JJ into 99 and called various short stack shoves with decent hands, always ahead and the hands hold, I peaked at 250k, then lost 3 way flip 77 v a10 v k10, if this hand holds I am up to 350k plus but alas the a k 10 flop didn"t improve, can"t complain about that one, yes I can, sigh balls.
Play slowed down in the last level as we were all in similar positions, I didn"t get any hands in the last level to test any one plus all to my left had me covered so decided to be happy with what I had gained.
Although not a massive stack it"s obviously worth the trip down and get a double early and we are away.
off to learn my 6000 times table now.
PHIL_TC:
Wiiiiiiii nice one Brian.. GL sunday mate x
pokerpops:
--- Quote from: PHIL_TC on March 01, 2013, 13:05:23 PM ---
Wiiiiiiii nice one Brian.. GL sunday mate x
--- End quote ---
Obviously this, despite your shove on my BB shortly before my exit.
Erimus:
Sorry about that one Dave, only had one eye open seen the ace assumed the other matched, imagine my horror when I opened the other eye and it was a ten, was annoyed when you get moved to my table, we should have had a word with td, at least we didn"t have to come to blows, obv keep you updated on Sunday, may pop to the G tonight to remove all tilt from my world.
Erimus:
Had a few hours to reflect over yesterdays game, and if I was in the same position with the same decisions to make I don"t think I would of played any of my hands differently.
My reputation precedes me as being a tight player and it was never my intention to just go into this tourney to nit it up and climb the ladder. I had already planned on what I was spending the £30k on, unfortunately all that gold bling will have to wait another day.
It was good news when we arrived there were 62 players and all were to be paid £600 so it was worth the trip down the motorway as I was in it for £60 plus had sold and swopped a bit with a few people.
Blinds started at 3k/6k running ante 1k so I had 30 bigs which is ok but can be a vulnerable stack.
As expected no limped hands ensued and usually was 2 people to a flop and when hands went to showdown, the hands shown were fairly decent.
A barren run of hands in the first 30 mins and I was down to 25 bigs, I get AJ in the cut off and I raise to 14k, bb calls, completely whiff the flop but c bet fairly small third of pot is met by a reraise, with the info given pretty sure I am beaten so I give up, he had 99, nh move on.
Blinds move up a level and I am between 18 bigs, folds to me on button I have A5 suited, the villain in small blind only has 10 bigs so I raise to 10 bigs, obviously hoping big blind doesn"t wake up with a hand but happy to try and get the short stacks chips, he folds as does the big blind, that pays for the next round.
We have just hit a pay jump now guarenteed £850, I wasn"t aware of this but was informed by another player.
I still want a double up rather than sit and fold , I get 44 utg plus 1, happy to flip here, shove,gets through, with my stack people are not calling to light as i have about 16 bigs or so.
Raise utg to 16k, I get AQ suited in cut off, I 3 bet not all in but enough to say I am not folding, he folds, please I need a double up just not happening.
Dave had put a post on blonde I think about playing 5 hours and losing only 4k in chips, which although is ok and my shortstack play had been ok but I did want a double up obviously not going to win this thing by hanging around my starting stack all day.
AQ shove at 8/16, Bb calls hope to see AJ, no he has AQ split it, get JJ in v k10 yes at last I have won a pot, unfortunately this gets me back up to 180k, I get very few opportunities to shove against people"s raises and reraises and eventually shove KQ utg into the shortstacks AA, he didn"t even cover me so I have 30k left and this goes in blind 84 off against A10 which holds.
It was just one of those days were all my big hands didn"t meet not so big hands and I don"t think I could of done anything different, when holding between 10-15 bigs I have very little fold equity versus people"s raises, I am quite happy to gamble with suited connectors etc, but hands like j3, 94, etc just don"t usually fair well and are insta folds.
I finished 20th for £1150, 70% of this is mine the rest to be divided between a few people, G have their monthly £100 game on Saturday, should be playing it, again depends if I can get Susan looked after.
Regarding the online day 1, although it makes sense to play it online, ie no fuel, hotel costs etc if I am playing a£300 comp I think I would prefer it live just to make it a bit different to my normal live games which regularly see 11 people to a flop, including 2 from a different table.
If you are still here thanks for reading, run good, be lucky stay healthy.
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