BFWCOP 2
Got to the hotel bar at about 4.30pm to meet all the Flashmobbers. Top blokes and blokettes all of them. Said hello to various other people who I hadn't seen for a year and got to Big Slick at about 7pm. Team game went off late.
Tight table consisting of Callarock, Fishrock, War Of Arock, Ovalrock, Doobrock, Dpommo, Hiwayrock and Toshirock. We were the last table to lose a player. Dpommo on my left however was getting restless (He had cash games to play) and for the 3rd time in a row he minimum raises blind UTG (I'm obviously in the BB). I crack, call all-in with QT and he has K9. I hit my straight and that was really it. No great play just decided my odds of a race against Dpommo was good odds. Probably didn't win another hand but finished 3rd, good game. Callataxi played his usual excellent game to win.
Had 2 cooked breakfasts in the morning at hotel and Fiveways greasy spoon and arrived at Big Slick at about 1.30. Knew it would start late.
My table consisted of ..... re-raise, hiwayman, jazzy jon, waheyyy, Estelle, manwell (Tighter than ajcairns and MC Roller combined, oh yes) and Wonky Jim. At various other times Doobs, kpnuts, Big Phil and dacdacdac (big man, bigger headphones) came along to generally outplay me.
For the 1st few hours I flop various flushes and straights and sets and get absolutely no action and then Manwell who had been folding for England for the past 2 hours minimum raises UTG (Just show that high pocket pair man), I have JJ on the button so for 400 it's worth seeing a flop and folding if it is no good. Flop is KJ9 of spades and I have a set but its not a flop to slow play, Estelle (BB in the pot for value) checks, manwell bets 500, I raise to 1500 and Estelle is gone and Manwell just calls. Surely he plays KK stronger than this? The turn is something low and red and manwell checks so I fire in my last 6000 chips. Manwell thinks for a minute, folds and shows AA (including a spade). Incredible, I couldn't have folded that but a good fold, I would just dream of my opponent having AK and call.
More cards were played, I was all-in a few more times without calls but was generally losing chips and I was left with a mere 8,000 chips (Blinds 1000/2000) at the end of the 2nd break. I wasn't looking good, 1st hand after break I get AQ in the Small Blind and despite Deejays raise they are all-in, Systems calls from the BB with KQ and Deejay shows 77. Four rags but an Ace on The River trebles me up.
3 tables left now and I have approx 30,000, UTG is all-in, he has me covered and I have AK on the Small Blind. Call, no idea what the community cards were but there wasn't a 9 and the bubble breaks soon after and I have 66,000 chips and 17 players left at 3rd break. Not a huge stack only 11 BB but I don't last much longer....
AQ on the BB, VeraPera raises from the button, it's me against her and I push, she may be trying it on, she may have ace rag. In fact she has 88 and calls, I miss and am out in 15th. £100 though, my 1st ever cash in a live MTT. Good stuff enjoyed the game immensely, no hardluck stories.
Played a £30 STT and won it, Ariston was on it being his normal self (good laugh, didn't mind him at all) and I got some nice hands when he was going all-in blind (along with Spudy and re-raise). Loved the time VeraPera raises, ariston re-raises and then as she is thinking about he shows her AA. Maybe I should play poker in a T-Shirt 2 sizes too small for me :) Didn't mind though, summed up the weekend, it's just a laugh, it's not the bloody world series.
Milton / Sean: I am really sorry I did not stay around until the end, it was really attritional poker and well played to you for having the stamina to play that way at 3am. I could not have done that. Well played to you, really well done.
I can't name everybody because I can't remember everybody, you know who you are, you are all bloody nice people.
Tight table consisting of Callarock, Fishrock, War Of Arock, Ovalrock, Doobrock, Dpommo, Hiwayrock and Toshirock. We were the last table to lose a player. Dpommo on my left however was getting restless (He had cash games to play) and for the 3rd time in a row he minimum raises blind UTG (I'm obviously in the BB). I crack, call all-in with QT and he has K9. I hit my straight and that was really it. No great play just decided my odds of a race against Dpommo was good odds. Probably didn't win another hand but finished 3rd, good game. Callataxi played his usual excellent game to win.
Had 2 cooked breakfasts in the morning at hotel and Fiveways greasy spoon and arrived at Big Slick at about 1.30. Knew it would start late.
My table consisted of ..... re-raise, hiwayman, jazzy jon, waheyyy, Estelle, manwell (Tighter than ajcairns and MC Roller combined, oh yes) and Wonky Jim. At various other times Doobs, kpnuts, Big Phil and dacdacdac (big man, bigger headphones) came along to generally outplay me.
For the 1st few hours I flop various flushes and straights and sets and get absolutely no action and then Manwell who had been folding for England for the past 2 hours minimum raises UTG (Just show that high pocket pair man), I have JJ on the button so for 400 it's worth seeing a flop and folding if it is no good. Flop is KJ9 of spades and I have a set but its not a flop to slow play, Estelle (BB in the pot for value) checks, manwell bets 500, I raise to 1500 and Estelle is gone and Manwell just calls. Surely he plays KK stronger than this? The turn is something low and red and manwell checks so I fire in my last 6000 chips. Manwell thinks for a minute, folds and shows AA (including a spade). Incredible, I couldn't have folded that but a good fold, I would just dream of my opponent having AK and call.
More cards were played, I was all-in a few more times without calls but was generally losing chips and I was left with a mere 8,000 chips (Blinds 1000/2000) at the end of the 2nd break. I wasn't looking good, 1st hand after break I get AQ in the Small Blind and despite Deejays raise they are all-in, Systems calls from the BB with KQ and Deejay shows 77. Four rags but an Ace on The River trebles me up.
3 tables left now and I have approx 30,000, UTG is all-in, he has me covered and I have AK on the Small Blind. Call, no idea what the community cards were but there wasn't a 9 and the bubble breaks soon after and I have 66,000 chips and 17 players left at 3rd break. Not a huge stack only 11 BB but I don't last much longer....
AQ on the BB, VeraPera raises from the button, it's me against her and I push, she may be trying it on, she may have ace rag. In fact she has 88 and calls, I miss and am out in 15th. £100 though, my 1st ever cash in a live MTT. Good stuff enjoyed the game immensely, no hardluck stories.
Played a £30 STT and won it, Ariston was on it being his normal self (good laugh, didn't mind him at all) and I got some nice hands when he was going all-in blind (along with Spudy and re-raise). Loved the time VeraPera raises, ariston re-raises and then as she is thinking about he shows her AA. Maybe I should play poker in a T-Shirt 2 sizes too small for me :) Didn't mind though, summed up the weekend, it's just a laugh, it's not the bloody world series.
Milton / Sean: I am really sorry I did not stay around until the end, it was really attritional poker and well played to you for having the stamina to play that way at 3am. I could not have done that. Well played to you, really well done.
I can't name everybody because I can't remember everybody, you know who you are, you are all bloody nice people.
posted by Doob at 6:57 pm
1 Comments:
LOL, read my post about it. Ewan nearly cost himself the game sledging me when I overplayed q8 - completely woke me up and we wrapped around 4am when everyone else was falling asleep, including the dealers. Don't honestly know where the time went: last reference point I had before we gave up was half time in the ManU-Spurs game, probably 10 hours earlier.
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