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Joker161:
Levels 3 and 4. Lose a grand to the bloke to my immediate left. He's from Lithuania (L from now on) and clearly knows what he's doing. I raise he calls. My QJs misses the flop, but I rep the ace on the flop and he calls. Check the turn, and then he bets the river. He probably had nothing but knows I won't call. I call early with 33. L raises. Loose player calls and I call. 853 flop. I check, L checks and loose player bets 1.5k. I raise to 4K and they both fold. On about 11k now. I win a small pot against loose boy (AK on a king high flop) before he loses all his chips to a nice bloke to my immediate right. Inevitable. Folded to me in the SB and I raise with AK. L calls, obviously. Miss the flop. Check, check. Miss the turn. Bet, call. Miss the river. Check, check. He has Q4 for a pair of fours. I get 99 and raise. L calls and the BB puts in a hefty raise. Tough one, but I fold. The very next hand, I get QQ. UTG, quite loose, raises. I reraise and the SB goes all in for about 5k. I'm thinking I probably have to call (I have 1200 in there) when UTG goes all in for 10k! I fold QQ face up, and UTG is amazed. SB has AA, obviously, and UTG has AK. Ace on flop and then the aces makes the flush. I had the queen of the suit for what it's worth (nothing, clearly). So I lose nearly 2k in two hands and did nothing wrong. Then a really annoying hand. Folded to the button, who is quite new to the table. He raises to 400, I make it 1200 from the BB with AQ, then he instantly makes it 3400. I have a think, but I know I have to fold. Should have taken a flop, although that could have been messy if he had something like AK. So at the end of Level 4 I'm down to starting stack. It's 100/200 when we get back, so I have plenty of chips, but still feel a bit annoyed. Interesting fact: my table is REALLY close to the toilet. Handy when the breaks are only 15 minutes long. And there's no dinner break.
Joker161:
Levels 5 and 6. I raise to steal, L reraises, obviously. I get QQ in the BB. Result! Folds to the SB. He calls, I raise and he calls. Queen high flop. Check, bet, fold. Very annoying. There's been a raise nearly every hand except that one! I raise with 66 UTG but the BB reraises and I have to let it go. Then the final hand. There's a raise, three calls and I have 66 again in the SB. I call and so does L in the BB. Flop is K75. So close! We all check. Turn is the six. I'm slightly worried about the straight, but this feels like my hand. I bet 1500 and the only caller is the SB next to me (not the nice bloke any more - he went out earlier, so this bloke is new to the table). River is a queen. He checks, I go all in and he calls pretty quickly. In my eagerness to get my chips in, I didn't see that the queen was the third heart, and he has AhJh. Bugger. I wonder if he calls if I push the turn? Not sure I would have done anything different even if I had spotted the three hearts. I was down to 3k and he could have had loads of other hands. Perhaps I could have checked the river and tried to grind up the 3k? Still, all very annoying.
Joker161:
Friday 6th July
Didn't wake up until about 4am, but then struggled to sleep well again. Was still snoozing as the football started. Easy win for France. Then Wimbledon, followed by the Brazil match. A cracker! Although Brazil had chances at the end, I still think Belgium deserved it. Loved the fact that the ref was having none of the Brazilian diving. The Belgian keeper had a blinder too. France/Belgium semi should be good.
As soon as the match was over I was in the shower to get ready for the PLO at the Rio. I got there by 1.30pm so I could register with no queues and then go and get some lunch of the eggs/bacon variety. A 3pm start with a late finish again. Fingers crossed I can be there at the end of the day.
Joker161:
First two levels. Just like yesterday, we start with 7,500 and he have 60 minute levels. First significant hand. I raise with AQJJs. I get reraised, then there's a 4-bet. Obviously I fold. Lots of raising at the start, but by the end of the first level, lots of limping. I'm in a limped pot with AQ83s. The flop is AJ9 and there's a small bet that I call. I'm the only caller. Then another ace on the turn. He bets small I call. Then a third spade on the river, and I haven't made the boat. He makes it 800. I fold, showing the ace. He shows the jack of spades. Next, big error. Folded to me in the button and I raise with AKJ4, suited ace. The BB calls. Flop is QT5 rainbow. He bets 600, I raise to 2k, he goes all in. Bugger. I can't call, even with all those outs. I'm not here to gamble. Very annoyed that I didn't just take the turn which my straight draw. Down to 4K. That was about 10 minutes into Level 2. Nothing after that, and I'm on 3,500. Looking grim.
Joker161:
By the way, we've had two players go out already. One of them pushed with a straight and a flush draw on a paired board. Obviously the other bloke had a boat. The other one called an all in bet. The bettor showed the nut straight and the caller grumbled and walked off. Didn't anyone tell them this is a game of the nuts? The first bloke was on my immediate right and kept saying "is this a re-buy", and "this should be a re-buy". He was clearly here to gamble.
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