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pokerpops:
Failed in another tourney on Tuesday, although not so badly as the Saturday.
Final Table at the £10+£10+£10 started with me as CL having c 26k of the 160k in play.
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pokerpops:
Another bubble...
I"m beginning to think that my cavalier approach to the bubble, and my disinclination to ladder is maybe not such a good thing.
On the one hand, I can pick up chips as others take a cautious approach
on the other hand, I seem to be bubbling a lot lately, both live and online
Take last night... FT of 10 in a 25runner live £15+£15. I have c 48k with average being 32k. 4 places paid.
I am active and winning my share of pots but the problem with this is that when you get resistance you know you"re behind...
Last night, I"ve had a couple of walks in the BB and I suggest to the SB that another would be welcome. He minraises me to 4,000. I have A s 7h and 3bet to 10,000. He tank calls and the checks the Ah Jd 9c flop.
I lead for 12,500 he tank raises to 25,000....
Eventually I"m down to around 9 BB at 1500/3000 with maybe one hand before it goes to 2000/4000 and it"s folded to my button.
I jam, both blinds call
board runs out Kc Qc 4c 6c 8s
BB flips his pocket nines
I have Qh 7d
SB slowly reveals a rivered set of eights
Maybe I have to think about my late game strategy and tighten up a little.
pokerpops:
I"ve been having a shot at the UKIPT satellites, mostly on DTD where the fields tend to be a little smaller in the feeders. Had a fair run at it on Saturday and made the full satellite via a E2.20 mini-feeder but didn"t get close to a seat.
Sunday, I couldn"t get past the feeders, tried a few minis and a feeder but then decided to go and play some live poker at the local G and take the ipad to play the League game as well.
I reg"d late for both the live and the online game and had the usual swingy spell. At the break (live) the guy who was dealing announced that he wanted to stop and since I was in Seat 10...
so now I"m not only playing two games, I"m dealing one of them. Luckily the guy who got put into Seat 10 kept an eye on the ipad for me and eventually I went out in 40th. No hands of note, no suckouts no bad beats just the usual "they alwyas get there/hold against me"... There were a few odd moments like the open raise from ep to 2000 when the blinds were 100/200 but that"s standard I guess.
So - back to the UKIPT satellite trail. I won a feeder into last night"s 3 seat guaranteed satellite and to cut a long story short (too late!) I won a seat ;D ;D ;D ;D
Folded lots, avoided playing for big pots as much as I could for as long as I could.
Went down to 6650 at 150/300
picked up some then lost some, picked some up and lost some
got to final table in moderate shape and was chip leader with 8 left but a combination of being card and spot dead reduced me to shortstack at 4000/8000/400 and then I got lucky...
6 handed I open shoved deuces from utg with 5BBs and binked a 2 to beat QQ to take me to 88k
beyond that, and in less than 10 minutes it"s over
AJ shoved uncalled to get to 100k
AK>K9 reduces the table to 5 with 3seats and some cash for 4th and I now have 170k
By the time we"re 4 handed I have just under 300k with the other three having 185, 93 and 80 and I"m feeling confident enough to call with JJ over a cut off shove. He has QJo, JJ holds
I know the 22>QQ looks like I had some last night, but I just got my rungood at a better time than I got my runbad. Old David would n"t have survived long enough to get that bit of luck. Old David would have donked it off well before then.
I have no illusions about my ability to run deep in the UKIPT - that would take some exceptional good fortune. But I love the atmosphere at DTD on big days and I"m really lookin forward to being part of that.
PHIL_TC:
Fantastic Dave WP! Well chuffed for you x
pables:
vwp I look forward to your victory blog :D
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