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Joker161:
 Day 6 - Saturday 4th July

Decided to play the $250 bounty tournament at Planet Hollywood. I was sat next to a nice guy called Tom and we had a good chat. No big hands to report. I dribble a few chips here and there, then lost more when raising with a flush draw and overs. He re-raised and I had to let my KQs go. After the first break I get KK on the button. The bloke to my right raises, I re-raise and he thinks for quite a while then goes all-in. This time I do snap call and he has aces! Twice in two days! So a very early exit for me.

I go to the cash tables and play a bit of $1/$2. There"s a REALLY pissed up English bloke next to me who keep telling me that a hooker stole all his money. I asked how and he couldn"t really explain it. Very odd. I win a decent pot with KK and then lose quite a bit on a hand were I get in cheap on the SB with 8c7c and see a flop of 662 with two clubs. It gets checked round (there are about five in the pot, as often happens on these cash tables). The turn is the five of clubs, giving me the flush and a straight flush draw! I bet $20, there are two callers, then a raise to $60! I call, irrationally, because the straight flush draw is too temping! There"s an ace on the river and the raiser bets another $60. I fold and he shows 22 for the house. So I lose $50 in total. Not much more to report. Lack of sleep catching up with me, so I go and have a burger in the Gordon Ramsey place (long wait, quite nice but the actual meat wasn"t special) and then back for an early night, ready Sunday"s papers on Saturday night on the iPad (always a treat!)

I hope all is well up in Edinburgh!

Joker161:
Day 7 - Sunday 5th July

Still struggling to sleep properly, even after a week. I"m dead by 10.30pm, but then wake up at 12.30am and then 3.30am, and then it"s dosing after that. Hmm.

My last biggish tournament today - one of those Venetian Deepstack efforts. $400 buy-in and $100 of that is your bounty, much like yesterday. We start with 12k in chips and the blinds start at 50/100, but they have shuffling machines which really speeds things up. I reckon it"s the equivalent of having 40 minute blinds. So in the first hour I only get two hands, KK and AQ. In both cases I raise and get four callers. WTF! In both cases I but in a hefty bet and it gets through. What are they calling with? The next hour (we are at the first break at the moment) is marginally more lively. I get KK again, UTG calls, I"m next to him and raise and he re-raises. I decide to call in case he"s doing one of those "aces UTG" calls. Flop is ten high. He bets and I call. All very cagey. Turn is an ace. Hmm. He checks and so do I. Does he have aces? A check would make sense here if he did. The river I forget, but we check/check again. Should I bet here? Anyway, he has QQ. I also get AQ again, a few callers and they fold the flop. A fun hand where I have 44 in a limped pot (five or six players!), it gets checked round twice and then the button puts in a small bet on the river. I decide to call and he has nothing. Nice! My final nice hand was AKs and I get just two callers. Flop is A87 and the 8 and the 7 are my suit. Blimey! I check hoping for a bet and it doesn"t come! Turn is a nine. Not sure I like that. There"s a bet, a call and I raise it up to see where I am, and a really tight bloke calls. Hmm. River gives me the nut flush. First one of the holiday! He checks, I put in a small bet and he folds. Thinking about it, he was a bit short, so perhaps I should have gone all in to look more desperate. Anyway, I need to get back now and I"m on just over 30k which is pretty healthy.

Joker161:
Next four levels were pretty massive and I only have seven minutes to write it up. I"ve won four bounties, so this is now a free tournament, and am up to 60k (average about 25k), although I was on about 75k but lost a hand when I moved tables. I raised with 55 (a bit lairy) and get a few callers. The flop is 468. I C-bet and get one caller. The turn is another six. I keep betting and he goes all-in. I fold and he shows the six. I can"t remember all the bounties, but one was QQ .v. AK and he missed. Another I had aces and bet the flop and turn as he clearly wanted to go and play cash and so called with a flush draw, which he missed. One hand worth mentioning. There are a bunch of calls and I raise with AQ and the button, who has been playing all sorts, re-raises. The standard play here is to call, but looking back I should have just gone all-in given the way he had played. Anyway, the flop is Q75 and I bet, he calls. The turn is an eight. Check/check. The river is a nine. It"s looking dodgy now. I check, and he bets. I really should fold, but given who it is I call and he shows Q7! His re-raise pre was very lairy! Anyway, I have a minute left so will go back now. Report back soon.

Joker161:
Next four levels. Still chipping up, but only one more bounty (I forget how now). I got moved to a new table with a very loose bloke from London who plays at the Vic. I vaguely recognised him. Anyway, he"s playing nearly every hand, so one has to change one"s range when he"s in the pot. A classic example was one where he had called and I was on the button with some rubbish like K3, but I called anyway because it was him. Flop was AK3. Nice. I didn"t win so much there, but the big hand against him was when I got AK, and I C-bet the flop which was all low cards. He calls. Turn an ace. I bet again, he calls. River a brick, I bet quite a lot and he folds. Just before the break I got moved to a new table and have won a couple of small pots, so I think I"m on about 130k, the average is 60k. There were 280 runners and there are 54 left. 27 get paid and there"s $16k up top.

Joker161:
Next four levels. No life changing hands, just the standard chipping up. I"m knackered and it"s hard to remember hands, but there was one where I called a raise with A9 (a bit loose, but so was he), and there was another caller. Flop 998 but with two spades. I decide to bet and they both fold, but the shorter stack said afterwards that if I had checked he would have gone all-in. I got moved towards the end and have been a little card dead, so decided to raise EP with anything that I got, which happened to be J9. Two callers. Hmm. I miss the flop but bet anyway and they both fold. Hands like that are crucial at this stage. It"s amazing how many chips you end up winning. I"m struggling to remember any others because they all ended quite quickly, either with me winning a bit or losing a bit. That last hand I mentioned has got me up to about 170k with an average of 120k. Right at the end of the last level, just before the break, the bubble burst, so there are 27 left, and I have $559 locked up, plus the $500 in bounties (no new ones in the last four levels). I"m going for the 16 bags.

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