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Quasar:
Love your blog John, good luck for today, with a few double-ups :) xx
MintTrav:
Went back with 16k. After two hands I had over 50k. First hand AK; shoved over a raise, called with AQ by mement_mori himself, Mickey Petersen, which made the original raiser fold. Next hand I get AQ, flop is AQx and I get loads. Then I had KK cracked by someone who doesn"t know the difference between early and mid-tournament play and called a raise with 89 and ended up back where I started, where I"ve been ever since. Went even lower, but shoved anything pretty a few times to get back a bit. Shoved over Brammer"s raise with 22. Told him some nonsense about not minding getting knocked out now that the dinner had just been served. Anyway, he folded.
60 left now, 31 get paid. I"m still favourite to bust soon, but who knows? Looking around, there seem to be only two others from my table yesterday still in, which is amazing considering the stacks some of the others had.
MintTrav:
Out 47th or 48th, doesn"t matter which - they both receive the same prize as 300th. There are plenty of pro players scattered through the field, but it seems that there are also some people playing these tournaments who regard them the way I regard LPPL games in the pub during the week - as a bit of fun, with a poker game thrown in, but mainly a chance to meet their friends. A quarter of the field re-entered, so those have an advantage over the ones who satellite in with one shot as they can go all out (all-in?) with their flush draws, etc and either get a double stack or come back in with the same chips. If they lose, the other player who can afford to take big risks gets the chips.
Anyway, no spondulicks, but I enjoyed it a lot.
MintTrav:
A couple of observations:
I saw plenty of people squeezing out the corner of one card and then the other. Slows down the game when a few of them do it one after the other in turn. It"s a K! Aw, the other one"s a 3. Just look at your fecking cards! I haven"t noticed this going on in APATs or other lower-cost tournaments, so why are people in high buy-in events drawing out the suspense like a bunch of housewives playing 3-card poker?
On the Trumper thing, the only place I have seen this happen before is DTD. Some of the tournament chips are quite close in colour there and I have seen people put in a hugely wrong amount on several occasions, not because they are colour-blind, but because the chips are too similar. As I say, I have never seen it happen anywhere else. If he has a particular personal problem in this area, you would think that the issue at DTD could have been avoided.
Hammerite:
You want see to the the chips at The Mint John, the 500 & 5000 are virtually indentical, I have seen many a massive over raise there, I just don"t undertstand it given the number of colours in the spectrum.
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