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The event

The World Heads Up Championship is a £3000 buy-in event, and starts at the Vic on Tuesday 27th October. They are predicting a field of 128 players, which I anticipate being a good mix of big name players, Vic regulars, and quite a few qualifiers.

My record

I have a reasonable live tournament record (http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=54053). I am mainly an online cash player, and have alot of experience of Heads Up cash online.

The pricing

The pricing of the tournament has recieved some criticism, as it is effectively a £3,000 + £390 tournament. I am going to make it a bit simpler by selling at 1.1:1 relative to the actual value of the seat, which £3,000. This means that

1% =£33
10%= £330
20% =£660

And so on, in whatever chunks you like. I'm looking to sell anything up to 50%.

Payment

Bank transfer is best (I will PM you the details), and the player to player transfer on iPoker is also a possible option.

Stuart

I will take 5% if that ok, PM your bank details and I will send it over

Cheers, PM sent.

Would love to take a piece Stu but this is out of my bankroll right now.

Doubt someone with your h/u online game should have any problem getting bought up.

gl in the event

Cheers Cos, maybe we make the mad dimes sometime soon.

im running good at mo so put me down for 20% pls

Can you pass some of it on? Awesome, cheers Blatch. Will send a PM.

5% dude. Lemme know how you want it.

I'll be lame and take 2% :)

Cheers James and George, Pms sent

3% please stu!!

(that way i can give you £100, buy a mcdonalds poundsaver cheeseburger with my change, and use the last penny to play HU for rolls against Cos)

Tom

die.

kthx

FYP

I'll take 10% sir.

(I was on your left at EPO for a bit,  9 seat to your 8, towards end of day 1).

PM how you want it shipped.

Awesome, cheers mate. PM Sent.

(I accidentally left it as a message here first though!

lol play better than you post.

Shipping as I type.

Going to call it a wrap. Thanks to all:

Niel- 20%
George- 5%
James- 2%
T-Mar- 5%
Titatneumbeam- 10%
Putter, T- 3%

For a total of 45%

Fingers crossed for the event. I'll be doing daily reports on here.

I'll be travelling down to London for the first round tomorrow, and will update as much as I can.

Bizarrely, one update I would like to give is "travelled down to London, and almost straight away came back."

That will come about if I get a bye in tomorrow's midday draw. Though it's maybe unavoidable, it seems strange to hold a tournament where everyone has to turn up, possibly to be told they are not playing.

Anyway, once I know the result of the draw, I'll try to get someone to put it up as soon as I can.

Then will update later on, fingers crossed for good news!

gl

glglgl

Win it all pls :)

Is there live updates anywhere for this?

hey micko, there are no live updates today. there will be from thursday (the last 16 players)

Stu asked me to update his progress on here... so this is all we have so far..

smalll turnout, so obviously the field is pretty damn strong - only ~40 players in total!

first round: bye!! (although most players seem to have got a bye)   [40 players reduced to 32]

second round draw - vs Sorel Mizzi (pretty bad news!) - still, confident that stu is good enough to hold his own against anyone out there at deepstack HU play, so this promises to be a great matchup

will update on here when i know more

Tom



(one bit of news - first round Ryan Fronda vs Richard Kellett - it all went in after a few hands on the turn after Kellett turned the nut flush vs Fronda's two pair. A pair up on the river gave Fronda a boat and a massive chip lead. Kellett then won a couple of races to get back into it a little, but Fronda took the win.

Fronda plays Bambos in the second round - the winner of this match plays the winner of Stu vs Mizzi)

Cheers Tom - any news on The Camel?

or Kimber?

Thanks Tom :)

sorry guys, no idea. stu's second round is just starting, so will speak to him after it finishes and let you know what i can find out about the others

Urgh sick draw, but sure he will do well .... gogogogo

Dissapointing turnout - only 40, feck organisers must be gutted!

I'm not playing neil, u bought a stake in me in the £5k GUKPT heads up later this month (as explained in the staking thread!!). Not too late to change yolur mind tho if you were confused and wanted me in this. I'm flying to Vegas on the Sickdog express on Friday so couldn't commit to playing the world hu....cheering on any foreigners tho so I remian the only british champ ;)

ohh feel a tad silly now lol - oh well.

Still want the stake - any comp your in ill have a piece :-) Shipppppppp

GL Stu!

I was wondering why you didnt want him to draw Stu lol

XS on Sat night?

Sorry guys, it's bad news. I'm on my way back to Brum...

The day started with bad news for the organisers, as, despite hanging on for a while, only 40 registered. Soon after, came bad news for me, as I was drawn against Sorel Mizzi in my first match.

I had to acknowledge that (give or take Dario) this was probably the worst possible news, but at the same time, put that to the back of my mind, and give him a good run for his money.

He played as you might expect; really well, and very aggressively, without wanting to get it in too crazily. Here are the key pots.

- Blinds start at 100/200, witha 20k starting stack. I raise A10 to 600 on the small blind, and he calls. Flop K82, both check. Turn ace, which is a second spade; he checks, and calls a 900 bet. River is a blank five, for K82A5. He leads for 1.5k. I don't like it, but think for a while and call. He shows ace-five.

- Sorel limps for the big blind of three, I raise 600 more with K6 offsuit. He calls, flop is 6c5x3c. I bet 1k, he calls. Turn is a seven, check-check. River is a blank seven, for a board of 65377. He leads for 2.8k, and I tank and call. He shows ace-seven.

- I was down to about 15k, and raised ace-nine off to 900 from the 200 small blind. Sorel called, and we saw a rainbow flop of 987. For the first time in the match, he led out, for 1,200. I had already decided that, given the flow of the match, a lead out was most likely to be looking to 3-bet all-in, with something like a weak pair/draw combo. I was tempted to flat call, given it felt like I could be pretty sure what the safe/dangerous turn cards would be. However, I decided that if he was going to 3-bet all-in with a hand like 108, I should be happy to escalate the pot, and try to get it in as a slight favorite.

I raised to 3.5k, and he thought for a while. I may be wrong, but it just felt like he changed his mind, as he decided to flat call. I was hoping for a safe card, but ther turn came better than that. It was an ace, to give me the top two pair. I had a decision, with 8.8k in the pot, and 10.5k in my stack. I felt I should't make the strongest looking bet of something like 6-7k, but needed to protect my hand, and so moved all-in. He again thought for a long while, and eventually folded, which was very frustrating.

It is this hand I regret the most. I should maybe have been prepared to ride the danger of a cheap or even free card, in order to allow him to make a big move at the pot. It might actually have been better to check, and invite him to make a big move on a river that did not improve his hand, whilst being prepared to get away from probably a jack, eight or six.  It obviously would have been an unusual move, but relied on him having played so well that he would follow through a bluff that I could make "look" a very good one.

- Up to 19k, I called a min-raise to 800 with 107 of spades. The flop was Aj7 rainbow, and I decided  to play my hand aggressively by check-raising his 1.2k bet to 3.6k. Sorel made the call, and I was prepared to give up, before hitting the gin card on the turn, a ten. I checked a board of AJ107, and faced a 4.5k bet. It was obviously a tricky spot, but I felt my hand was beating more of Sorel's value bets than it was losing to, and committed the rest of my chips. He snapped, and showed ace-jack for the flopped top two.

A frustrating sucker hand at the end, but a sucker hand that I potentially get away from if I don't make the untimely bluff on the flop.

Anyway, thanks very much for the backing guys, sorry to have not delivered more excitement.

Sick draw bud. Unlucky

Ul sir. ty for update.

ul, thks for report