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Wednesday's 300 PLH Freezeout had 121 runners, and a Prize Pool of 36,300, divided up as follows:

10th to 18th, 300 each

9th, 840

8th, 1,010

7th, 1,180

6th, 1,350

5th, 2,020

4th, 2,860

3rd, 4,200

2nd, 6,720

WINNER, 13,420

Play was halted at 05.00am, at which time 18 runners remained. Average stack at this stage is 40,333. Average chips for the 9 man Final will be 80,666. Blinds remain at 1,000-2,000 for a further 15 minutes, & the clock is 45 minutes.

Table & seat order......

Table 1

J Patel, 25,000

J "Theo" Tsouvallaris, 33,500

C Gerrard, 60,500

D DeCruz, 74,000 (BUTTON)

Debbie Rogers, 18,500

R D Wolfe, 38,500

Cemal Alp, 49,000

Jim Reid, 77,500

Roger Brush, 52,000

Table 2

A Rutter, 20,000

D Morris, 34,000 (BUTTON)

Ian At It Bradley, 30,500

B Kohli, 8,000

Tony tikay Kendall, 38,000

Mrs N Peters, 48,000

A Raja, 33,000

Brian Johnson, 64,000

D Johnson, 22,500.

Play resumes at 2.45pm Thursday.

Good luck Tony :D

ah, now i know why the old man requires an 11.15 wake up call....

Tikay in nosebleed territory again but this time hes already through the bubble. Has to be a Tikay top 2 finish from there (remember my previous tips have all come good so dont let me down).
Good luck Tikay hope you get a nice payday.
ariston

Good Luck Tony

You deserve to make good money for your efforts.

 

I'm playing my first 'medal' of the season this afternoon Tony.

I hope you play considerably better than I expect to !

Good luck, and play well.

 ;)

Good luck tikay - does this mean the 80/1 on offer about you for the main event is going to be value? ;)

Wow, thank you one & all! I've gone all shy now.......

I had some awesome hands early - e.g., A-5, board A-5-K-5-5, three sets of trips, and a str8 against AA, but managed to fritter away most of the chips before level 4.

Down almost to the felt, I encountered an incident when I mistakenly moved in with Q-3, got called by Mick Cook with AJ, flop came x-Q-Q, but Mick took it well. After a mini-recovery, I then found KQ suited & Raised in late position, & deep-stacked Theo set me all-in, pot odds obliging me to call, more in hope than anticipation, & he had me totally dominated with AK. Board 2-2-3-8-........Q. Theo NOT a happy chappie at ALL, & went into full Walsall Chunter Mode.......

So, got a bit lucky once or twice, truth to tell. Though it was an eye opener to lose with a properly Raised AK to Matey Boy with 5-6, so it's the "what comes round goes round" story really.

Anyway, thank you for your nice comments.

Ruru - where can the odds for Saturday's Main Event be found? Blonde don't mind if you post them, but use a new topic please.

"mistakenly moved in"
thats a classic tk,
the mistake being when you got called i guess... ::)

good luck to you & mr reid

Hmm, you about right there Thewy. but Q-3 is a LOT better than Q-2, if you get my drift........

Jim Reid played awesome Poker all night, we shared tables. He made three tremendous calls for all his stack. Terrific stuff.

good luck tony

master of the short stack should turn his average stack into 1st place

I hope the fact that Tikay is not posting means he is still in fighting

Love the "mistakenly" move Tikay. If you only knew how often I move in mistakenly with junk, the only problem when you do it live is you cant claim it was a missclick when you get called ;D
The fact hes not posting I hope means hes still involved- I will ring my man in the casino to find out.

gl tony keep them chips oiled ;)

Unfortunately Tk finished 10th and is now playing the 500 freezout.

Correct Ariston, but what a rollercoaster ride I had!

Plan A, as I had average chips, was to wait until we got down to 14 or 15 & then open up. Plan A lasted until the very first hand....

Ian At it Bradley Raises on my B, I got AQ. I am sure he is stealing, & decide to get him off his hand by RR-ing. At It gives it a long dwell - he's obviously acting, & is gonna pass, followed by some wise words. He sets me all-in. Good read tikay. Thing is, I know At it is likely at it. But At It knows that I know that I think At it is at it. Anyway, I am pot committed, & call all-in. I turn over my AQ, dreading AK, he turns over JJ - see, I KNEW At It was at it. I miss, & get up to leave after one hand. But when they match the chips, I have 1.5k left. Blinds are 1k-2k.....!

Typically, next hand I get...QQ...! I chuck my 1.5k in, and in one of the most amazing plays I can recall, the SB, to whom is it 1k to make up the blind, passes! The BB is given 500 back from the pot, & I take the pot. Up to 4k, hehe.

I move in again next hand with A-2, simply because there has been a R to 7k, so I am getting value. He has 5-5. Board comes four rags then an A, I am up to 11k.

This continues, my 1.5k eventually becoming 36k.....!

Then I find a REAL hand, TT, & get all-in against a young lady who has AQ. First card A. Groan. Next hand, Q, groan groan. Third card, TEN! Now my 1.5k has become 72k, we are down to 12, & I am above average. I start thinking about how to play the Fiinal.....

I then blow away 30k against the lovely Mrs Peters in a blinds battle. I R'd to 21k with A-T suited in the SB, she dwells for ages before moving all-in for 8k more, I have to call for value, she has K-9, fine. I wish her good luck & we kiss. She rivers the K, bless her, I tell her I love her & give her another kiss.

Blinds are 4k-8k now, we are down to 10 on 2 tables of 5, so the Blinds are racing round, so it's steal or die. Debbie Rogers, on the other table, asks the Cardroom Supervisor if we can have a 10 seat Final, but no luck, they say no.

My stack moves regularly between 15k & 60k. Brian Johnson keeps passing to my Re-raises in case I tell HIM I love him. He says he don't mind that, but does not fancy me giving him a kiss. But I still can't believe I am back in it after dropping to 1.5k first hand.

Then came death. A routine button steal went "slightly wrong". I am at the lower end of my fluctuating stack with 27k & move all-in with Q-5. Mrs Peters RR's me, oops, then Ian At It Bradley RRR's. Oops oops. I sense I may be in a spot of bother here. Mrs Peters shows, amazingly, KK, so I am definitely drawing a shade thin. At It then belies his nickname by showing AA.....! So Mrs Peters & tikay exit on the same hand, but as she had 34k to my 28k, I get 10th & 500, & she gets 9th & 840. She deserved better, she played terrific all afternoon.

I cannot recall having a more enjoyable 3 hours. A shade disappointed to miss the Final, but I had a real ball. No excuses, no complaints.

The result of the Final will be posted next on a new thread.