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Well currently sat in Kuala Lumper airport waiting for our connection to Melbourne weeeeee! Didnt start to well yesterday thou, Nig said his old man would drop us off at Heathrow but cause of weather and traffic we thought best to leave with plenty of time, so im expecting them at 3pm ish, obv gets to 6pm and Nig rings me saying the 15mins journey between my house and Nig's is gunna take a lil longer due to a punture, so i say w/e gd job we left alot of time b4 our 10pm flight and ill see u ina bit. 15mins l8r and he rings again, says fml dad has let the jack slip under the tyre and broken it and thrown it in the woods lol i laugh so ring my brother who owes me a favour because of some recent nippage and says ok on my way, boom bk in business!

Get to the airport, check in and eat. Get on the plane and we have to walk through the 1st and business class areas to get to economy this tilted me cause it looked sick comfortable but w/e maybe on the way bk hey  ;) Sit down, take off and 12hrs l8r land in humid Kuala Lumper, went quite quickly actually but this could b because of the 10hrs sleep i had ;)

So the plan for the trip is to win mad dimes and play alot of events, starting with the 1kA$ side on Friday.

pz

Good luck both.

Try and keep the thread updated!

Nice1 lads very Jealous if I wasn't such a wimp with planes I'd be there! Goodluck thunder thighs and sh*t-cap all my love James x

Sigh i was going to nip you for that 'plane crash freeroll'

;goodluck;

Looking forward to the updates

+1

Have a good trip guys - pls win it all!

GL Toby and Nig

have fun and win loads of$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

and dont forget to tell the aussies who won the ashes  ;D ;D

Pics & Words>>>>>>>>>>Pics>>>>>>>>>>Words

Do a bink!

 ;goodluck;

 :goodpost: :)

gl guys, win everything

gl lads

lol

glglglglglg

win the world

Please drink plenty of...(http://i499.photobucket.com/albums/rr358/girgy85/TooheysNew.jpg) :)up

GL and win the lot!!

Well just got in the room on the 17th floor! Bit of a nightmare, basically bags didnt turn up through and so had to go and report them missing an hour l8r they turn up and weee off we go, but after 25hrs of travelling its not exactly what I had planned.

So we got on the plane in Kuala Lumper and obv were the last ones on the plane cause Nig has to play some PLO and eat the world whilst were meant to b on the plane! Get on and the announcement comes on saying were going via Jakarta now aswell so were like f our lives again this isnt going well.

As i write this its 1.30pm here and feels a bit weird cause i think i slept way to much on the planes, but only like 20 degrees here today with cloud cover and we missed the hot day yesterday app which was 40 degrees, kinda relieved as im sweating in this lol

Gunna go meet NoFlopsHomer and LuckyScrote l8r on and hopefully get wankered on Girgys beer recommend :)

pz

toby can u doo me a favour plz? find out if anyone in melbourne/at the mirryions, does oz dollars for tilt xfers. theres usually someone who does it.

sick, might book a flight to melbourne,  can get one for $500 aus, flying tonight, play the first 2 events and have some beeer etc... fly back monday and still make my trip to bali

Not the best recommendation from Girgy if you must drink Tooheys go the Extra Dry better still get into the Hahn Super Dry (and avoid VB at all costs).

tooheys extra dry has been my beer of choice since i got here. Hate redback and most wheat beers, although i quite like beez neez.

ez mate, i know Channing told me to speak to a guy called Gary Benson just google him. Were staying in the Hilton across the road from the Crown but just been there and its booming already! Gimme a shout when u get in and obv get straight on it. l8rs

dealt with benson before in macau. Cheers. whats the damage at the hilton pppn

yeh as toby said we had a luggage scare but actually ran pretty good to walk past the guy with our bags as we were leaving the airport weeeeeeeeee! need to do clothes shopping anyways tho. i fell asleep on the bed couple hours ago and just got woken up by toby coming back in (where the f he go?!) but yeh we're going for food and cash games now, updates later xx

AUS$180 pn for a twin, a pretty good one tho

VB is ok. Pure Blonde is teh bestest though.

VB is GASH! Pure Blonde is a nice drop though!

btw, everyone has to go to Phillip Island and see the Little Penguins. So cool.

lol wrote out quite a long day report and the f browser errored and gg the whole lot, sighhh

some cliff notes from it:

crown poker room has a buzz and makes me excited for mirrions festival
aussies suck at poker
played satty which was abit of a crapshoot; woulda had chips had kk held vs ak aipf in big pot
appt winner david saab on my table; complete wanker, lots of reasons listed, likened him to an "asian joe hatchem"
have never played poker with joe hatchem but his face is all over the f crown casino and it tilts me hard
melbourne is the nuts
aussies suck on the cash tables
witness hilar hand where two guys both tried slowrolling each other, the loser got super tilted with hilar consequences
alot of asians in melbourne; they suck at poker too; one took me for $1k with J2o on 632hh vs my AKhh
took a loss on the night and about to have first proper night sleep in ages

night all xx

If only more posts were like this!!

Enjoy it mate, shame Toby went with you but you will struggle on.

Awesome awesome post. Proper trip reports pls nubs!

lol

You've got that the wong way round, Pure Blonde is about the only Aussie beer I can't drink. My personal favourite has to be Crown.

Yea mate the Walkabouts serve up some right tosh! You should go and sample the real ales down under for yourself!

Real ales? Pure Blondes a low carb beer thats been out for about a year! I've been to Oz twice in the last 18 months thanks.

Cliffs notes posts FTW!

Must admit, I quite enjoyed VB when I was in Sydney a few years ago. Mind you when you are sitting in 100 degree heat watching England play cricket, I suppose anything is good!

 ;fishing; Think Girgy caught himself a Teacake!

Can you 2 hurry up and win the lot pls!

Ha ha, was wondering but dived in anyway, nice catch. Pure Blondes still shit though  ;D

Well its not as nice as Tooheys New!!  :)up

gl toby, win the world

way to go son ! btw wtf u doing playing  Ahrt Kh ! Have a great time and ;goodluck;

+1 for David Saab love

How has nobody mentioned Carlton Cold yet

Fancy nipping down to Sydney and telling Serena "The Man Beast" Williams to pull her finger out please

kthxbyeta

fyp and no

Some people just wont help other blondes out, puh

Master Brammer in action at the Aussie Millions.

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Updates online? gogogogogo all blondes.

What a glorius picture of Chris, although mate.. why do you look so constipated?!

Pokernews are doing updates for all events.

it's because i was
a) cold (its f freezing sitting in the poker room imo)
b) unhappy at being shortstacked after playing 2 hands in 2 levels
c) airplane food

:D are you on a break at the mo? GL mate!

Am I infact being stupid and its the end of day 1 possibly 2-49am where you are? Keep forgetting the difference in time zones.

lol enough of the rubdowns williams i was out after 90 mins ok!

Sigh sorry to hear that mate, was actually thinking to myself I hope this isn't an un-intentional rub.

just opened my aussie mirrions goody bag and thought of an amazing prop....

inside is loads of stuff but also this beauty....an aussie mirrions 2010 baseball cap with aussie flag on the side.

so the prop should be when toby loses X he has to wear THIS hat at every live poker event he plays for next 3 months or something.

just havent thought of what X should be yet.

all in favour say g'day or something typically aussie to pressure toby into agreeing because i just mentioned it to him and he was a pussy about it :(

Gday ;-)

g'day cobber

g'day thunder thighs brammer :)

ummmm put another shrimp on the barbi

No worries mate

gday

noiiceeee buns

Where's me ute?

Three jaars of laager please cobber.

FYP

another snag please lav

Was an inbetweeners quote.

ahhhh don't watch it! But my fyp works as that's what they call the vessels you drink out of over there!

please do. download it or buy the dvd or something

 
'Tie me kangaroo down sport tie me kangaroo down '
 
 'Thats not a knife.....This is a knife 'Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee: I don't mean to put down your black widow spider, but the funnelweb spider can kill a man in eight seconds, just by lookin' at him.
 My boomarang wont come back !
 ;booder;

Met up with Nig/Chris for a few beers last night.....Sure ended well.....A few beers obv turned into 15 vodka redbulls, we are both supposed to play the 1k (again) today, starts in 20 mins, ughhhhh

And i thought it was supposed to be an alcohol free trip !  ;slavedriver;

we both played event 1, which was a $1k nlhe repechage comp, which is kinda unique in format in that all players who bust day 1a and 1b can rebuy in on day 1c. so yeh gg $2k on a $1k comp!

day 1a didnt last very long for me; my table was v soft so i was more than disappointed when my TT<K3o aipf (lol) and then A9o<QJo aipf. to be fair the tournament structure didn't allow for an awful amount of play early doors and with the players well aware they could rebuy on saturday it promoted quite a gambly mentality on my table. finally i picked up KK with 16bb in the bb but QJo rivered two pair and i would have to try again on saturday to have my second shot at the $1m+ prizepool.

day 1a my table was very soft and i didnt recognise anyone. day 1c was a completely diff story... i had roberto romanello and sorel mizzi on my table, as well as some young australian poker hotshot i didn't know and a young scandi who was friends with sorel and very aggressive himself, fml! within the first 5 mins i slowplayed KK and managed to trap the young aussie and get paid off nicely on the river board reading 356TQ, so i was upto 17k weeeeeeeeee.

then sorel crushed my soul :(

i c/r AQ on KJ2ss and fold to his river overbet, he had...AQ! i pay him off with JJ on A927K vs his KK! the guy is so good its scary. i thought the gods where shining on me when he was all in pre flop for his tourney life with QQ vs an old guy's KK within the first 20 mins...but when the river binked the Q he just smirked and then proceeded to terrorise the table! meanwhile the scandi disposed of romanello and tried to win every pot sorel didn't. when he iso'd a limper i had plans to play most hands in position vs villian so black tens were more than enough for me to 3bet. unfortunately for me we had to say gg when his AQ got there.

today is the $550 nlhe comp played on the pokerpro computer tables, so it's like playing online in a live setting! haha

oh and as salamander said we enjoyed many a vbull on friday night with his canadian poker friend (jadedjason online). tilting story...after getting ko'd from day1c i went over to salamder's table to wish him luck,he was sat next to salty joe hatchem.... who proceeded to hit a straight flush while i stood there. he sits there in silence as he rakes the pot listening to his ipod, then takes his earphones out and tells the table "i havent hit a straight flush in months" before quietly putting his earphones back in and not saying another word ASDFGHJKLASDFGHJKL

Did Lewis play the 1k? Are you both playing the main?

Good post nigdawg,is Joe Hachem the biggest tit in poker pretty much ? I think so....

Evening all,

Not guna moan too much but wat a fucking brilliant start to the trip [  ]!!!

Basically i won in a cash session yesterday weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, this is the only thing i have won so far sigghhhhhhh

So played 2 cash sessions which are obv hilar as live cash is, 1k satty to the ME, 1k 1st event and this 550 poker pro thing that nig currently has the world in as im writing this post ship it plz, so im hoping that b4 im busto i can bink sumfin and get home safely in 1st class one time?

Its 8pm sunday here but the sunday comps online arent until like 6am Monday so im guna sleep a bit then play them as we dont have anything on at the Crown 2moro so prob grind then, well could play the 1k Limit event but id prob shoot myself halfway through it! Anyways were guna bink online 2moro and then bink the in the sides here plz a +$ trip plz.

Hope everyones getting the world at home and enjoying the weather :)

pz

Chris is on the final table of the $550 Poker Pro atm. Updates on Pokernews.

- Edit, 3rd with 10 left, $12k up top. The tables are com, like the ones in the Excalibur....

Go on bigboy take it down! This torny sounds well cool will have to check put some pics later!

GOWAN GOWAN GOWAN !!!

Go on the ginger dawg, TID

Busto 4th for $4.5k. gg

lol wrote out 90% of my tourney report when computer installed something and needed to restart so we'll make this some cliff notes again

[ x ] finalled aussie millions comp
[ x ] still stuck lol!

big sighh at finalling the SMALLEST comp all festival lol
step in the right direction and another hendon mob flag tho
played ridic tight early doors; got some donations
played ridic laggy middle to late lol; got there when we 4b all in light lol
stewart scott the only australian tv poker player that seems vaguely cool
lost pot for 1/2 chips in play with 11th left asdfghjklhowdoyouhavemoneyasdfghjkl
final very crapshooty
lost pot for 2/3 chips in play with 4 left asdfghjklfmlwinaflip1timeasdfghjkl
wanted an aussie mirrions ring so f bad :(

pretty tired now but i do want to grind mondays (lol) so will probs get couple hours sleep then play later, night all xx

Wp mate! Nice result! What do the rings look like?

Its all about the flags

Congats on the result, wp

qft - quite a rare flag the aussie one too, nhnh

wp bram!!!
wtf was toby doing with that 4ball in 100 rebuy yesterday tho ?!!?!?!?!

what was the pickup? gratz on flag

unlucky mate, nice to meet u

today is the $1k PLO tourney which i've been looking forward to but toby said something about maybe skipping it to go go-karting with luckyscrote and noflopshomer before getting thai massages...hmmmmmmm decisions

i missed out on the steakhouse dinner with those guys last night sighhhhh because my sleeping pattern is completely f'kd lol gunna nap for couple hours now and pretty sure wake up in time for omahaha before busting in time for go-karting?

hope everyone is good back home and also a shout out to my friends 'canadian donk' steve and 'jaded' jason who both had $40k scores on sunday! n1 wp mbn iwwil etcetc  :P

pretty sure there's gunna be a happy ending to this story

Steakhouse was incred. Go-karting was cool but I fucking ache to shit now.

Going to watch the Tennis tomoz. Wiiiiiii

NIG loving ftw?

i bubbled the plo $1k after having a big stack all day sighhhhh. all my chips went to the same guy pretty much and he was so f bad it tilts me to think about it :(

just as i got knocked out salamander had come to bok rail me so we went for a few beers after, which ended up in a drunken house games degen session lol. the night was starting to get expensive until we got out of it on the craps table :)

today is the $1650 bounty event where each table has a bounty player with $1k on his head. im hoping for salty joe obv

[ ] Joe Hachem will defo care if you take his scalp in the Bounty Hunter.

Where you going after Brammdawg knocks you out of the Bounty Hunter Joe?

"Just off to throw another 'brick' on the barbie"

(http://howardconnell.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/p1_hachem.jpg)

sigh

grinded all the way into the antes, and then still peaked at 16k from 10k starting! Lowlight was getting Gary Benson in on the flop J82hh, wher guy opens, i call ip, he smooths 9bb with A5hh and check calls all in v my JQ, obv im dead on the turn and his 1k bounty is gone meh

Eventually bust 10mins after dinner (lost 5way flip for dinner) and go across to see Keys and i find Channing is all in and called KJ v 33 so lil anti railing l8r and obv he doubles, some gd news is that Keys has the world and we swapped a % so maybe ill get semi to not really close out it for the trip!

Walk bk to the hotel, come in the room its 9pm here and obv Nig is snoring away boy sleeps ridic amounts, guess its better than him doin chunks lool

2moro is the 1k HORSE which should b fun or i could go to the tennis maybe get some sunlight and perv at some hot aussies? Tell me which sounds best plz guys

Anyway brin on the mirronsss

pz

That is good news as I got a nice chunk of his action too :)

Just arrived today.  What kind of cash games being spread at Crown?  Standard?

various tbh from 2/3 to 10/20 nl and some 5/10+ plo enjoy

Toby / Nig, the threads gone quiet lads... gogogogogo

i just had AMAZING sushi at nobu and won the flip weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

play day 1 of the aussie mirrions main event 12.30pm tomorrow gl me?

gogogoogoogoggo

Good luck my  son ! Make this one count  ;first; ;mexicanwave;

played day 1a of the main event yesterday, overall pretty happy with the end result of 94.5k. i mean, i had 120k 2hrs before the end of the day but dribbled down/spewed/spazzed, then had a wake up call and got it back so its ok.

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my starting table was ridic soft; had jesse metcalfe on my table who was obv jealous of all my female fans on the rail, and team pokerstars pro eric assadourian, but the standard was so bad. jesse's highlights include opening to 2500 @50/100 and trying to pay for drinks with tournament chips lol. this event plays 8 handed and i made a few hands early but the common theme was for the aussie donks to try randomly bluffing me with obv bluff lines with no pair/no draw type hands which was very nice lol. managed to get my starting stack of 20k upto 90k by the dinner break and i must of been one of the biggest stacks in the room.

after dinner a scandi gets moved to my table and starts 3betting me/ being a general pain so the table breaking didn't seem like too bad of a thing at the time. however my new table was pretty hellish. at first i think we were 6 handed with mel judah, masaaki kagawa, keith camel hawkins, a tight bwin qualifier and an aggro young german kid. i imagined it tougher to get chips off of these guys as opposed to my first table, but then another 2 young germans joined the table and i think the term 'super aggressive' wouldn't really do them justice! every pot was opened when folded to them, they 3bet around 25% of the time, and the 4bet frequencies weren't far off this either lol

i felt like i was coping well enough/holding my own for a while but i was obviously not entirely comfortable on a table like this. one of the german kids who'd 4bet the camel 3/3 times i think, tried 4betting me the first time i 3bet him but nigdawg stuck it straight in his eye. i also found what i thought was a good 4bet spot when another of the aggro kid's opened the cutoff and the camel 3bet the button on my big blind. i could sense some frustration from keith as he had a big stack before the "kids" joined his table, and a bit later i won a nice pot off of him with  Ac Kc in another 3bet pot.

i peaked at around 120k @ 300/600 w/75 and next on the table probably had around 60k but then i dribbled down to 90k on some frustrating hands which im sure i couldn't of played worse. i value owned myself with  Ahrt Th vs  Qh 9h on  Q883T in a 3bet pot vs a bavarian youth, then i pay off with KQo on Q97A3 vs the KK of the same guy and then 78s vs Q2o on 238Q7. I'm not tilted but frustrated and feel i've played these hands bad so i should be having a word with myself and just sitting back for a minute to ensure i don't lose a big pot...

but instead i open  6c 7c from utg and peel a 3bet vs dan shak! FFS! played with dan a little over the festival side events so far and everything i know about him is that he has lots of money but he is a filthy nit. the flop could do me a favour and come  Kh 3s 2d or something to ensure i don't spazz anymore, but no it comes  5h 6d  9c giving me mid pair and a gutshot. we have a 9k pot and i check over to Moneybags-Nitball who bets 12k which i level myself into thinking is really weak because surely he wouldn't actually bet this with AA or KK. i jam for 50k effective and he happily calls all in with  Aspades Ahrt. wp nigdawg sighhhh. shockingly it comes brick brick and we're down to 38k. at this point its fair to say i am super tilted, so the 15minute break couldn't of come at a better time.

first hand back of the last level and i look down at  Aspades Ahrt, mbn i know. even better news, Shak-attack asks for a chip count before flatting. it comes  9s 9h 4s we both check. turn  Ts i check raise his 3k bet to 10k, which he doesn't even think of folding to. river  6d i shove for 26k and again he quickly calls weeeeeeeeeee. over the next 90 minutes i cant remember any big hands and i don't think i get to showdown once in any hands i did play. a fairly deepstacked james akenhead joins the table with 15 mins of play remaining and it's probably a good job we have a redraw for day 2 what with him and the 3 aggro kids now all deep stacked too. after we bagged up i said gg/gn/etc to them and one told me i was very difficult to play against which is at least encouraging to know i'm giving them some problems back!

stayed for a lil bit in the bar after with james, jp and karl who all made it through the day with good chips so gl to them when we restart on wednesday! also goodluck to my donko friends toby, keys, steve and jason playing day 1c

lynn gilmartin is the hot aussie pokernews presenter here at the crown for the festival

found this gem of a cameo at the end of the vid lol

http://tv.pokernews.com/Calling+The+Clock+on+Lynn+Gilmartin/28016970001 (http://tv.pokernews.com/Calling+The+Clock+on+Lynn+Gilmartin/28016970001)

How have we not seen this before lol

The old man from sky poker - classic

err there's a thread about it somewhere

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=42766.0

Blooming Bavarian Youths!!! damnit!!


 ;tightend; trip report, gl :)

pretty much bubbled the main event :(

started day 2 with 94.5k and had redrawn to a pretty soft table tbh, had a deepstacked laggy american two to my left and some capable players directly on my right but the other 4 were fish. i steadily built through the first level upto 120k, then level 2 i think started badly by me doubling up the shortstacks twice in flips. after that though i didnt really have any problems increasing my stack. by level 3 i think i had ~180k which was around double avg.

the laggy american busted and his empty seat stayed that for a while until annette obrestad got moved into it with a 200k stack sighhh. she played really tight to begin but i was expecting to get leaned on any time i opened on her button so i deliberately didn't for a while. then i found  9s 7s too pretty from the hijack, so i opened to 4.7k @ 1k/2k and sure enough she 3bet the button to 12.5k lol. i mean i could just fold but i don't like that option much so i made it 27k she gave me a staredown before folding. i think it worked because she pretty much left me alone bar a couple instances. she did defend her bb to my button raise tho and beat me out of 2 decent sized pots like that.

the guy on annette's left was this spewy danish guy who wanted to play pots with me. had an interesting hand vs him which could of been way bigger where i open  Kc Qc and he c/r big on  Qs 9c 8h. i called and he checked the  Tc turn. i checked it back and the river brick also went check check. he was forced to open his hand and he showed  7c 5c. i shipped a 40k pot here but the turn is such a huge card for both our hands that i can only imagine he would c/r all in had i bet, and i would of been bet/calling not bet/folding had i bet.

i chipped down towards the end of the level, including a double barrel bluff vs this guy who i was sure had 88-QQ on a K7543 board. i would of bet money on him having one of these pairs and i fired a big bet on the turn which he took a good 3-4 minutes to call sighhhh. when he checked river i gave up and snap checked behind and he opened 6c 8c! i was more than surprised and he was pretty angry at me not barrelling river too. at the dinner break i had ~120k and a tournament official came over to tell us we were chosen as the feature table and had to move upto the studio! i knew that the studio had around 7 tables and just assumed we would be on one of these outer tables but then found out we were on the main table lol. i went and had dinner with toby and somehow won the flip! unfortunately this run good did not continue with the cards :(

i arrived at the studio with the official announcing shuffle and deal so i had to run upto the table and quickly get miked up. i sat down all flustered and nervous, the bright lights making me sweat and the guy on my direct right opens in front of me. i look down at KK and immediately 3bet. it must of looked so redic strong lol and everyone folds. other things were bothering me like the holecard camera being over to the left of my chair so i couldn't look at my cards like i naturally would, and the dealer stacked my chips for me in a random assortment of stacks all over the place. i just felt like such a twat lol. i won a decent pot off of annette the very next hand and as i raked in the chips i decided i really had to do something with my stack lol. so i took a couple minutes to tidy my chips and this really helped me chill out. its weird but i felt fine with everything after i'd done this and now i could settle down and play poker. i think i played pretty good and i just hope that when the show is aired that they show a fair representation of the dynamic going on. having said that i do anticipate alot of my hands probably won't get shown because they will have alot of footage from other tables throughout the tournament, and the vast majority of my hands which weren't all in showdowns were preflop 3bets and squeezes which is obv not typical tv stuff.

a hand that i suspect probably will make the final show unfortuantely went against me:
a ftp qualifier in seat 2  opens utg+1 to 5800 @ 1200/2400/400, seat 3  is this solid young american guy who flats out of a ~70k stack. im in seat 4 and i look down at 33, the initial opener is playing about 180k which is roughly the same as my stack so i call. the guy in seat 5 is this really fishy australian guy who i think i've seen on tv before. as i call he says "i hope i pick up aces now" then looks at his cards and says "oh why did i have to pick up this hand?!" then calls. im pretty sure this gives away his hand as something like 99-QQ or AQ/AK. annette then also overcalls on the button and the blinds fold. we're now 5 handed to a flop and a ~35k pot. the flop comes  9h 8c 3c mbn i know. seat 2 checks, seat 3 bets 11k. i raise to 25k, it folds back round to seat 3 who shrugs his shoulders and shoves. i call and see  8c 9c. it's not ideal and i'd rather see an overpair obv but im still a healthy favourite. the  9d turn card kills his clubs but the ten on the river is pretty sickening. the guy on my left makes me feel better by saying he passed TT on the flop lol.

i still have around 100k after the hand and i try not to let it bother me. there's a hand immediately after this where i open ATo and the spewy danish guy 3bets the button out of a 30bb stack. given our history, my image, his spewy tendancies, some physical tells and the general situation, he is getting this is his eye. however the bb tank moves in for 13bb. i cant put my money in now and as soon as the dane hesitates i know he is light. he shakes his head and counts his chips for the next 5 minutes then finally makes the call with  3h 8h. the bb has 55 and holds. i dont like to be results orientated but this hand is annoying on two levels for me. first, if the bb folds i 4bet shove my hand and win a nice pot there. second, if the dane doesn't 3bet me im assuming the bb would shove on me, which i would of called and been in a reasonable position in another nice pot (incidentally the flop came TTxxx). i actually double the spewy guy up when he jams 12bb utg and i call with ATo on the button. toby said afterwards he thought it was pretty close to a fold but i think thats probably too nitty vs this guy who should be shoving super wide and he is pretty spewy anyway. given he had to showdown  8h 3h i don't think he shoves any two but it's probably all broadway, all aces, all pairs and good sc's. with the blinds + antes providing a nice bit of dead money i think the call with ATo is fine and i'd probably call A8o too. he actually had 88 and despite me picking up a flush draw on the turn it fades everything.

i play some really aggro poker to build some chips back, i mean i've played aggro all day but on this feature table my image is really laggy but im pushing the right people around imo. i think i can still push the ftp qualifier some more because he seems super nervous and very fit or fold but im sensing one guy in particular is right on the edge vs me. the situation really couldn't be any better when he opens utg to 7500 @ 3000/1500/500 and i look down at  Aspades Ad in mid pos. we are playing 100k effective and altho an oversized 3bet would probably work well vs this opponent in particular, i have annette on the button behind me so its important to balance my bet sizing so that annette is not able to pick up any tells (even if the others are incapable of doing so anyway) and might 3bet squeeze the button. she doesn't as it folds round to utg but he is instantly giving me the filthy looks and i can sense he is not going to fold this time after i make it 20k. he eventually calls and checks the flop of  Kd Jc 5d. i quickly bet 25k and he goes into the tank for about 5 minutes before saying all in. i snap and flip up my hand and he slams down  Ks Js. he has what feels like the entire rail shouting for him as it comes  7h 6d and im out in around 90th place 20 minutes from the end of the day. 72 got paid and plenty of guys made it to the money with less than 100k in chips which is tilting in itself. i shook everyones hand and a couple were very complimentary about my play but im so disappointed about the results. this game can be so cruel and altho those hands aren't 1 outers or anything super sick im kinda depressed about how many times im having to shake people's hands and get the compliments without getting the big bucks or the win at the end of a live donkament. its happened in the vegas main event, the emop in slovenia, the gukpt champion of champions and the ukipt in galway to name a few.

this post has gotten way to long and probably personal lol. the tourney was a really big deal and im sorry for having a whinge im just disappointed :(

nice report

ul btw

ul mate, sounds like u played good. hope rest of the trip is still as awesome as it sounds so far

btw toby is too tilted to post on here lol. mbb to buy a stake in him imo

lol jk

buy stakes in min cash keys FTW :)

Great trip report Chris, unlucky mate variance will smash you in the face sooner or later !

Unlucky to Toby too. Just a matter of time for the big bucks I'm certain.

Unlucky son. so gutted for you. your playing awesome thats the main thing .just dont give up trying.
well written  post even though wrong result. lookin forward to major fun time up manch ukipt soon.:cheers:
 enjoy rest ya trip

played the 2k 6max yesters and ran up chips early but got involved in a big pot vs the laggy young guy on the table. he was 3betting pretty liberally and i found AQ when he had 3b AK, hmm not sure how i feel about it tbh because i can def just find a fold but think thats probs a bit nitty vs this guy.

played the turbo $550 today and the standard was lol bad. people were raise folding out of 4bb stacks and just making some redic tight laydowns button vs blind or even blind vs blind. the comp was a shovefest after about 6 levels but these guys were just consta surprised at me open jamming 10bb eff etc. i had one guy raise fold AKs faceup to my 12bb 3bet shove lol. i was able to maintain my stack and then really apply the pressure approaching the bubble to be one of the bigger stacks when we reached the money. really tho it was just shove or fold poker all the way home. i lost a decent sized pot with KK aipf vs QThh with 12 left which kinda prevented me from being a big stack as the final table soon got under way. i think i shoved 5 of the first 7 hands on the final, much to the disgust of the other players lol but effective stacks were like 4bb-10bb. i lost a small one when 88<TT btn vs sb, then chipped back up to like 16bb before getting my  Aspades Ks jam called by JJ and the board bricked. that pot was for the chip lead 7 handed with me having direct position on the only other big stacks (as in 20bb lol) at the table and bearing in mind nobody else at the table really seemed to have any clue, especially about shortstacked play, i let out a big sighhhhhh. was 28k and a ring ftw and i ended up with 3.75k which is pretty depressing ldo.

on a side note i would of made alot more $ had i stayed at home and grinded online comps with toby since he made 3 finals and had an $18k upswing! mbn, wp, fml, iwwil etc etc lol

so thats it. the aussie mirrions is over. i cant help but feel disappointed with the results even though i managed to make two final tables and get 2 aussie flags for the hendon mob. i pretty much bubbled the plo when i had big chips, and the same for the main event which was the biggest letdown of all. i barely played any cash games (but i still lost like 5 buy ins ffs) and excluding the main event i basically broke even on the festival side events with my two cashes + 5% swap with keys on his two cashes. could of and probably should of been writing this with a mirrions ring on or at least a healthy amount of $ in my wallet imo, sighhhhh. maybe save my run good for the wsop??

Love the look old nits give u wen u open shove '100k'  (despite it being only 10 bigs). I mean you should be limping in, seeing a safe flop and then betting apparently!!

Sigh at not binking a ring... but yeh save run good for vegas obv!
Been a cool read man wp, ul, gg etc etc etc

and wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii toby

great writeup, geniunely gutted for you, wp ul.