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Curlarge:
Best of luck us....................I can smell 5,000,000  :o :o :o :o :o

Joker161:
Level 1 - (50/100) - 29,150 chips left.

I played no hands for 20 minutes. My first hand is a speculative call with KQs in the SB after a raise and a call. The flop is AJ5. I check and so do the other two. Turn a ten. Nice. But there are two diamonds and two clubs. So I bet 500 (nearly the size of the pot) and they both call. River the queen of clubs. Annoying. I check, next bloke bets, the other bloke raises! I fold and the other bloke calls. The re-raiser has the nut flush.

Hand 2: about 40 minutes in I get JJ in the SB. There"s a raise and a call (from the loose bloke who looks like Chan the dual Main Event winner) and I re-raise. They both call. Hmm. The flop is T66, so I bet and they both fold. That was my only decent hand.

Hand 3: I have ATs and raise from mid-position. SB and BB both call (Chan is the BB). Flop is Q87. Check, check, and I bet. The SB raises. Oops! Should have taken the free card.

I raise a couple of times to steal and they get through, so I"ve lost less that a thousand, but Chan is out already. He played every other hand! Apparently he is a pro and does very well. Not in two-hour level tournaments. One bloke is already on about 50k. The bloke to my right is nice, and he is hitting all sorts of cards. He"s had two boats already! He"s on about 45k. There"s a very nervous Italian opposite me in seat one (I"m in seat 4) and in seat 7 is a bloke who looks like Ross Boatman. Nice table. I"ll get back to you in two hours. Still a bit annoyed they took two of the smaller levels out. The pot already get quite big at times.

AceOnTheRiver:
Good Luck Joe, keep calm and smash it to pieces!

mylesfdo:
Keep it up Joe....marathon not a sprint!

Joker161:
Level 2 - 100/200 - 31,325 chips left.

Lots more going on in this level. First hand back I get QQ. I raise and get one caller. Flop is J43, two clubs. I bet and he calls. We both check the eight of clubs and then both check the two of clubs. Nasty. I show and he mucks. Then Beppe from Eastenders turns up in seat 9 to replace Chan. Nice. Then there was an annoying one where I almost call with QT in the SB (probably shouldn"t anyway) and the flop is J98. Cheers then! Then I get AQs in the BB. UTG just calls, there are three other callers, so I raise it up to 900. Only UTG calls (dodgy!). I bet the Q77 flop and he calls. I bet the turn and he folds. Phew! I thought he might be doing one of those UTG calls with AA. I then get AA, finally! I raise. Everyone folds. Hmm. I"m now up to about 38k, but I then have a bad 45 minutes. The same UTG just calls, Beppe raises to 800, SB calls and I call, then UTG makes it 3300. Annoying. I had to fold 99. Then the same UTG raises when I have JT in the BB. The Italian bloke in seat 1 calls as well, so if he had made it 500 I would definitely call, but I decide to fold. Flop is KQ9 rainbow. Grrrr! I then decide to steal from the button with 75 and a tricky player (Boatman lookalike) calls. The flop is 998. He checks, I bet an he calls. We check the turn, and I fold to his bet on the river. More chips gone. Finally, I get AK and raise, and the big stack calls in the BB. Flop is QT5. I bet and he calls. Turn is a 9 and we both check. The river is a king, which is great, except there are three hearts and only a jack is required for a straight. He bets 2k and I know I should fold but can"t help myself. He has J9. So back to square one. The bloke to my right is still hitting all sorts. He hit two sets in two hands, and showed them both. I sense he will lose a very big pot soon. Hopefully to me! Beppe is on 20k, if your interested!

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