Day2 Deepstack
I didnt really go into Saturday with any great expectations but have been able to spin up stacks since the middle of last year and believe I have a pretty good grind ethic and as I sat down and saw only Middy who I recognised I thought if I could just double up we could have a deep run and as we were on table 12 it was unlikey I would be moving all day.
I saw some amazing things happen at the poker table during the day and there was one gentleman who really loved the game basically playing any 2 and either getting there with one comedy hand where he called an all in with
on a 3 diamond board with no pair or gut shot and the shover had a big pair and as the diamond rolled in he rubbed the guy down by saying "I knew you didnt have a diamond in your hand which was why I called mate".
He also provided this commentary when another short stack was all in vs me
335k after open 44 utg to 13k @6k bb and MP jams for 45k total.
As the cards go over the guy 2 to my right says I passed a four but luckily we were up against AJ and flopped the other 4 on 488
"I passed a 4 guy" then gives me a fist pump with a big "Yessssssss"
After we had Ko'd Middy it was all upwards on the chip curve for a long while and we pretty much coasted into the money with the bigger bubble looming at 31 when the next out didnt get a WPT seat for November and was an event I missed last year so it would be good to lock one up early for me and this months staking team.
Taking Middy's spot now was my good friend Steve O'Keefe who we always have an unwritten swap with if we play the same event and a % of cash works itself one way or another during the year and he came over pretty chipped up and is good banter at the table and sat to my left was a young lady who I had seen before at a Sky event 2 years ago and remember her being pretty smashed and berating of the table at everyone's play which I reminded her of but she took it in good spirits. We were just chit chatting and someone else asked where I was from so I said Leigh on Sea in Essex and she then asked a few minutes later what I did for a living so I told her I was an Estate Agent (it normally works!) to which she replied "I knew that" and it transpired that she had stumbled across my diary a few months ago and had read the best bits (pages 1-50 imo) and had even taken the time to link it up on FB saying that any degenerate 20 year olds should read it and she said she could really relate to a lot of the stuff in there which was nice to hear.
Unfortunately she bust without a WPT seat but with a couple of grand and she has quite a game so am sure another opportunity will arise for her and she changed my opinion of her massively from the first time we met!
The rest of my day went well and with 40 left I got to 900k so had seat locked but then lost 2 annoying pots to go back to 500k and still felt I would need to win a pot to get a seat and dug in for the grind as I posted here halfway down in the staking thread http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=65490.75 hand for hand dragged a bit and myself and Steve had a conversation about the seat should not affect things to which I disagreed and am sure I am right as you needed to finish 10th to get the value of the seat if it werent there and therefore it would be bad to dust off a stack and it should be played as a satelite until the seat bubble burst.
Based on that I made a bad open with AQdd utg1 as the big stack was on the button and put in a hefty 3b and I folded without showing and took a walk round the tables H4H to see that there were 3 shorter than me and one guy had 4bbs so I was inwardly funking for him to bust which eventually he did and then you saw people get in rediculous stacks with very less than average hands as if their whole goal was the seat and had forgot about the £££ uptop and knowing how you can spin up from 1bb as we did at the Sky 6Max I just sat patiently whilst Steve heatered upto 2 million with a few hands of the day left.
Most of my table knew that I had made day2 of the 25/25 which I think made them think I would just gii light but that was never going to happen but I was AI on the last hand vs Steve when he opened btn and I shipped AQdd and we won the race vs 99 to make back to back Day 3's at DTD and also means that having played 13 Mtt's all year I have now had 7 cashes with 6 flags so am definitely out performing skill level and expectation
I went to see my brother and my little nephew who is 5-6 weeks old now having had 6 hours sleep (kids get you this way) even though I was in thee comfiest hotel king bed I have slept in for a long while and then rocked up at DTD in good spirits with my 15 bigs which was the same number of bigs that we rocked up 24 hours earlier with.
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Here he is with Finlay (despite the photo he is one year younger than me which obv makes you feel great as for years he used to rib me about me looking old)
We kept the same tables as the night before and ergo everyone knew about Leicester so they all expected me to be just ripping but they really hadnt thought it through so the very first hand I shipped the button with 15bbs and AJss and got called for 80% of the villains stack with 66 and we won the race to get to 30bb and in with a shot agai but unfortunately we lost a race (hadnt lost many this weekend) for 16bbs Aipf with Ako vs 99 to take a sizeable hit and then peeled for one bb when Tim Blake opened UTG and Steve called the button and we had Q9dd but check folded as we flopped zilch.
Our exit was a bit boring jamming Q10 for 8bbs otb and getting looked up by Tim with A6cc and were turned pretty thin so exited and said goodbye before driving straight to Leicester where we eventually finished 9th for a bit more dough but not a TOP3!!! Just gotta keep knocking at the door I suppose.
Whilst driving down I heard Steve had finished 3rd so got a further £1k from our swap which is nice and now apart from some online cash there will be no more live poker until next months deepstack when we will do it all again.
Thanks for all the nice words and the rail from anyone who I saw or spoke to at the weekend it is really nice to read the texts etc and I look forward to next month to play some live poker again.
I think I love the game in a good way although I may still seem degenerate to some with multi tabling comps in diff casino's but playing about 20 comps a year across 12 weekends during that year I try to squeeze as much into it as I can.
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