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Pokerpops ponders poker
Fatcatstu:
--- Quote from: pokerpops on November 30, 2015, 10:54:37 AM ---
Day 2 to follow
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Quickly then.
pokerpops:
Patience dear boy, patience.
You wouldn"t want me to rush it would you?
pokerpops:
Day two
The journey...
I set off at around 1030, giving myself plenty of time to get to Aspers by noon. Arrived in Newcastle a little after 1100 and was, according to my satnav, 1000yds from the carpark by 1110. At 1130 I was closer, 100yds closer, and not moving. Geordies love to shop, especially on a bumper bargain weekend.
I managed to get out of the gridlock and somehow found my way to Stowell Street, maybe 100yds from the side entrance to Aspers but once again I was stationary. By now it was 1153 and had it not been for the APAT Updaters Valet Parking Service I would have had no chance of taking my seat on time. Lucy came to the rescue and I was in time to open my bag and play some poker.
Day 2 started fairly slowly, I folded a lot of hands, including giving up my blinds. Eventually as the table settled down I found a few spots where I could open and pick up some uncontested pots, and a few where the board allowed me to win the pot on flop or turn. I took the chip lead for a while at one stage following a flurry of hands that were actually good enough to win at showdown.
AQ beat 33 with a Barry Greenstein Ace on the River to reduce us to 18 and two tables.
I had opened KJ utg+1 and bet every street from a K high flop with the guy two to my right check calling each time with, I believe, a smaller kicker. As I gathered in the chips from that pot I had to dig out my new hole cards
As an aside, the number of chips in any single pot was ridiculous. People were posting their blinds and antes in 100 chips, a practice that I would outlaw. However...
I dug my cards from under the weight of chips and found KK utg, obviously a raise was in order.
By the time it got back to me I was calling an all in and up against 66, I didn"t much like the 6 on the flop but the K on the turn got me out of trouble.
Things slowed again for a while but I maintained my stack pretty well with the usual mix of walks and steals and got to the final table with 250ish which was pretty much average.
Final Table
Hand 1 QJo utg, raise and take
Hand 2 QQ in BB, MP made a rather unorthodox raise to 12 X and called my shove with AQdd. A on the flop, that"s it then, eliminated on the first occasion throughout the tournament when I was all in and at risk. Such is poker.
I did a stint on the FT commentary with Lucy and enjoyed it. Would be good if we could do it a little further from the action to make it feasible to comment on the hands a bit more, but it was fun nonetheless.
Thursday sees the Stockton Massive gathering for a pre-Christmas game which will no doubt involve bramble brandy and shots, and an early exit for me. Other than that and the APAT onLine on Sunday my poker year is done.
Have a great Christmas all.
Des:
Great to see you in Newcastle David and thanks for your stint on the commentary. Enjoyed the blogs too!
pokerpops:
It"s been a while...
Since my last post I"ve played the DTD/Party thing in Newcastle and a few of the new, improved Sunday game (4pm start, 25k, sensible structure to finish before 1am).
I have failed miserably in winning DTD seats, I seem fine converting $5.50 into $22 but couldn"t even get a seat in the 50gtd jobs. So, I deposited £70 and then discovered that wasn"t enough to get me $109, tricky this thing of living in a country which is proud of it"s own currency but being forced to buy into poker tournaments in foreign currency. I understand this when the tournament is pnline and has an international constituency, but the Grand Prix Poker Tour is all about the live games in "iconic" football grounds.
I played my Day One at Aspers and busted around the end of level 15 of 18. JJ
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