Ok gonna try and do this comp report so i can move onwards n upwards, net is so tilting i have to write this from the toilet.
So saturday's comp was a big disapointment in terms of numbers for me, only 197, really thought 400 wld be a possibilty but meh halloween.
Anyway sit down to see the very good kid from friday again on my table, but i have position and he is spewing a little today.
Being a re-entry we get into a small levelling war and i stack him more or less with 2pair on a board where straights and flushes hit the river and i station his bluff.
Then give back a ton to another great young kid who is a former pocket 5's nbr 4, i spazz with k7s and his ak holds leaving me on starting stack again.
Rock up mostly now bar odd levelling with afore mentioned p5 nbr 4, and am happy to rack aces a cpla times and get paid.
Then a crazy hand comes up when i rse 10s9h lp and a weak passive oriental guy in the bb peels-his wife is sat behind.
I flop gin with
and i donk and he calls. Turn is a
and he check calls a hefty bet, i have like 100bbs b4 the hand and he has like 50 ish.
River brings the
and he checks, i bet near pot and he turns round to his wife and says 'honey i'm hungry...i'm all in'.
Hated this and hated when i hero showed even more-an old leak of mine i've largely eradicated. He now claims he had k8o but dsnt show.
Thoughts on this appreciated, i was getting like 2.2-1 on the call and it was a third of my stack. I still like the fold if only from the 'honey' comment.
Anyway i didn't really let this get to me but i certainly found myself pretty situation/card dead and was delighted to grind my way to the final 10-that plyd on sunday- with 20bbs.
Am ashamed 2admit this 2 stakers but i ended up going 4 a few beers after this to unwind and a combo of a late night and a cpla beers saw me wake up late for the final.
Sorry about that guys, i was very lucky, a few guys on the ft had gotten chummy with me (karma ftw) the prev day and one badgered the tournie director to call my room-that woke me up. I promise this will never happen again, i've had a lucky escape, vegas just causes random decisions sometimes, and the late night was a v silly 1, the beers i don't hugely regret as i didn't get smashed or anything, i just needed to unwind a little. I got there 20 minutes late.
After all the laughter subsided at my dishevelled appearance and tardy timekeeping the table was rocksteady for like an hour. Then they started falling like dominos, ppl werent shoving nor calling light enough so i exploited both and bowled along to the final 7 or so without 2 much trouble. Then blind on blind my q2 jam with like 12bbs sucked out on the bbs ace rag and i had a playable stack. From here on in i only saw 3 dangers, one v decent player called jeff, another young guy and my headache...
Jeff coolered the other danger and we were soon 4 handed, and i had position on my main rival.
I took out the mature gent/nit with a9 v jj-suckouts ftw boys, and when jeff busted the other english guy (also called dom!), we were heads up super deep.
I got a huge chip lead early on when i bluffed big and also caught him out trying similar. Then my oppo won a cple of flips and took a slight chip lead, i then decided to 5b jam a7 and AGAIN sucked out on his pocket eskimos. From then on in it was more or less a matter of time b4 the chips flew in and my 88 beat his j2 pretty quickly.
I've played a lot better and won zero, i've also played worse and won loads too. Apologies for the tardy day 2 time keeping, def learnt a lesson there and will not happen again-im actually off2 buy an alarm and also will be having a curfew when i have a day 2/final table the next day.
Laters peeps.
Golden dom.
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