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Hi all,

I will be playing at the WSOP Europe, at King's Casino, Rozvadov, from Sunday 5th November, til the Main Event, which begins Friday 10th November

It is a mix of three holdem events, one 8-game mix, one PLO, and the Main Event. I played a schedule at the WSOPE in 2021, and it is a mixed field, which comes out fairly nicely overall. Some superstars, obviously, although the random location puts many off, and so a bigger middle group of Euro semi-regs, and then a bunch of recreational players. They come largely from Germany, funnily enough, as the casino actually have more of a local German feel than Czech Republic.

I have decided to charge a mark up of 1.07, to cover the need to stay at King's (other hotels are mainly over the border in Germany!), the fees of wiring money, and the slightly complicated transfer from Munich airport.

Please note: Some days updates may be slightly limited, as it was at this event in 2021 that I was alerted to the potential problem of people reading the updates during play.

Full schedule

Sunday 5th November- 5000 EUR PLO Event, with one potential rebuy.  (Potential total: 10,000 EUR)

Monday 6th November- 1650 EUR Six max no limit holdem, with two rebuys (Potential total: 4950 EUR)

Tuesday 7th November- 1100 EUR Mystery bounty, with one potential rebuy  (Potential total: 2200 EUR)

Wednesday 8th November- 2000 EUR 8-game mix, with two potential rebuys (Potential total: 6000 EUR)

Thursday 9th November: 1100 EUR NL turbo bounty hunter, with one potential rebuy  (Potential total: 2200 EUR)

Friday 10th November: 10,350 EUR No limit holdem MAIN EVENT  (Total: 10,350)

Total initial buy ins: 21,200 EUR

Total re-entries will not exceed: 13,400 EUR

Therefore, total value of package is: 34,600 EUR

Obviously, it is very likely that the full buy-in of 34,600 EUR will not be met, but it is best to keep that as the "value of package." At 1.07, the full package is "worth" 37022 EUR

Prices at 1.07 (rounded down)

1%= 370 EUR
2%= 740 EUR
5%= 1850 EUR
10%= 3700 EUR

and so on

Happy to sell up to 50% of action.

We will use the GBP to EUR exchange rate on the day of you sending, and the EUR to GBP rate on the day of me sending back.

If possible, bank transfer only

Details are:

Stuart Rutter
30-98-37
61471660

21% sold

3% please stu

10% please

Good Luck Sir

3% please Stu

All pieces confirmed.

SOLD OUT

POTENTIALLY A PIECE AVALIABLE. Please enquire.

Best of luck, mate!

Good luck Stuart!

Here's to a run good week

Start day, 5000 EUR PLO

Right, today is the day. We begin with the 4pm CET 5,000 EUR Pot limit Omaha (plus one potential rebuy)

Update note: It was funnily enough at the WSOPE in 2021 that I realised the slight potential danger of updating in detail. Therefore, I will include as much detail as I can, with it still feeling "safe" to do so. Will probably go to just chip counts on any day twos, just as a focus thing.

best of luck today stu

anyone know where to find seat draw? have looked but no luck.

5000 EUR Pot Limit Omaha

Right, we are in, at about 450pm.

Transfer from Munich airport. Over the surprisingly insubstantial border. I was expecting checks at the border, but all I saw was Czechs at the border.

 Luxon Pay worked very well, and at the table, with my hotel bags in tow.

100k to Start, we're at 200/400(400), and I have 103k

Strange field. It always is really is this festival, in this fairly bizarre central European location. I would both say that the average standard looks fairly high, and that I don't recognise a single person.

One looks very Finnish, so presumably he is a genius. Otherwise, mainly I think German and Czech.

5000 EUR Pot limit Omaha

First break:97k

5000 EUR Pot limit Omaha

92k

77 in so far (72 remain). Guaranteed at 100 entrants (500k EUR)

5000 EUR Pot limit Omaha

Meh

UTG raises to 1.7k, we call Ks Kc Jd Td UTG1

We go five way, with both blinds

Ts 6s 5c is checked round

Ts 6s 5c Jc gives us top two.

Initial raiser bets 6k into 10.8k. We call

Folds to big blind, who says "pot." (34.8k)

UTG folds. It's pretty much a decision for all the chips. Confusing when i have both top two sets blocked. However, the big blind player has done nothing so far.

At the very best, we're up against a monster draw, which will probably also have a 6 or 5 , for two more outs. It's going to be a fold.

Fold. 85k

5000 EUR Pot limit Omaha

105k

Encouraging table now.  Many pots 4,5, even 6, way

Relatively uninteresting, but fine, times for us

5000 EUR Pot limit Omaha

No good  in the light multiway streets

Raise AAQJss, QQJ9ds, and KKT9 ds, but all whiff.

90k

5000 EUR Pot limit Omaha

89k

Chidwick at next table, semi -surprisingly

5000 EUR Pot limit Omaha

Second break:88.5k

Actually some very punty play going on, but we haven't benefited

5000 EUR Pot limit Omaha

Isildur also in the field

5000 EUR Pot limit Omaha

Really nice value with KK75 on turn of Q643, and ugly river of Q6433

Think he had 52

Up to120k

5000 EUR Pot limit Omaha

108,400

5000 EUR Pot limit Omaha

92,200

Fair bit of madness, but can't get in amongst it.

Barny Boatman joins the table.

5000 EUR Pot limit Omaha

I have had what can best be described as a consistent pile of trash

88.2k

5000 EUR Pot limit Omaha

Up to 126k

5000 EUR Pot limit Omaha

Wow, I had been wondering where Isildur was, and realised that I had been looking at him, on the next table, the whole time

He looks alot more grown up and kempt (if that's the opposite of unkempt?)

123k

5000 EUR Pot limit Omaha

Up to 220k

Only bad news.. Martin Kabhrel joins the table

5000 EUR Pot limit Omaha

Mmm tough one

Raise Jc Js Th 7d  UTG2 six handed

Both blinds defend

Kd 7c 6c checked round

Kd 7c 6c Jh (second set)

SB check. BB actually bet pot, 22k. Both have me covered. 7 blocker is a bad thing. I can't get it in
Call

Small blind now check raises pot. 110k. Effectively puts me all in.

Big blind tank folds

Hmm. It's surely very often either top set, or a monster draw. It's never a bare set of sixes, or the unlikely sevens, but the only good shape I could be in is against a small set and, say, a bare nut flush draw.


What do we make of the big blind's folded cards? It could ordinarily be KJ,  but we block that. We even somewhat block K7. So, he is reasonably unlikely to have folded a King.

Small blind becomes a bit more weighted towards top set, and less towards a big draw. My Jc blocks the draws somewhat, as does my ten

A significant amount of the time, we are either 60% vs a big draw, or 2% Vs top set

I just about fold.


190k

Ren Lim, Kabhrel, and Pierre Jachtmann here now.


Loud table

5000 EUR Pot limit Omaha

Up to 240k

5000 EUR Pot Limit Omaha

Final break:220k
End of re-entry period

5000 EUR Pot Limit Omaha

267k

5000 EUR Pot Limit Omaha

Up to 295k

5000 EUR Pot limit Omaha

End of day. 283k

Average 381k, 53 left of 202 entrants.

Pleased with that

Great stuff Stu & thanks for the updates

Nice one

Wd Stu.

5000 EUR Pot limit Omaha Day two


Just about to start . 51 left 31 in the money. Average 396k

5000 EUR Pot limit Omaha Day two

Table change. Rocco, Dvoress, Ramos


288k

5000 PLO Day two

Down to 44. There are plenty of stars here, for this week's high rollers. They're going to drop quickly

310k

5000 PLO Day two

Take down small, nice one

322k

PLO

Phew, double barrel K763hh turn for 90k with AT97 one h, and get it through. 400k

PLO

Confirmed slow. 42 left 31 in money, I have 400k, average 480k

PLO

Boom catch Rocco triple barrel in a massive one. 720k

PLO

36 left, 31 in money, I have 680k, average is 587k

34 left 31 in money. 680k

On pure bubble now. Hand for hand

Dvoress bubbles. In the money

675k, average 580k

To quote Fred Couples: “ooh baby”

In my own words: Let’s go!

oioiiiiiiiiiii

keep it up stu

PLO

600k pot all in... We win... Up to 1.1m

Keeping updates short

PLO

1.1m, 27 left, average 748k

PLO

Up to 1.2m
Down to 24, table redraw

OUT

Humungous pot

2.5m

Get to turn of Ts 8c 2h Qs with red AKJ9

Goes in

Potential lovely freeroll

Instead he has AJ88 with Jack high spades

60/40 to me. (Fading board pair and spades)

He gets there

T82QQ

Sigh, that's a completely massive pot, for probable second in chips in the room

Cheers guys

Unlucky Stu. Still a great start: only one bullet; got it in good; a cash.

Next!

awesome effort stu

best of luck for rest of the week

Thanks So much guys

Bookkeeping: Cashed in 24th for €8,625. Missed one re-entry in package. Bought into the €1,650 six max, in break before level 4

Total buy in: €6,650

Total cash: €,8625

€1650 six max Holdem

In, at start of level 4, 200-400(400)

Looks hopeful table. Mainly German.

€1650 six Max Holdem

42k at 500bb

Old German guy, through trying to be nice, is giving some hilarious , inadvertent rubdowns.


"I'm sorry that I made you a little short stacked. But, I think next time you have to be a little more careful."

Nice start

Deep breath

Brush yourself down

And onto the next

Leeeeeeeeego

Cheers Typhoon

€1650 six max Holdem

Up to 52k at 300-500(500)

€1650 six max Holdem

Had the big chance against the nice German who is handing out many Geschenke


UTG raise to 1.2k, UTG1 call all in, I call SB with Ahrt 5h, he calls BB.

8h 6h 4c.

I check, German pots (5k), I call

Miss 8h 6h 4c 2d. I check, he goes all in for 3x pot. Fold. He has 99.

I think I would have got the lot had i hit

38k

€1650 six Max Holdem

German to moody Russian:

"So you gave me back a donation. That's how life works sometimes."

39k

€1650 six Max Holdem

Five handed, the German has 120k, and isn't pressing the fold button at all. So, we will be playing very ABC

Second break. 44k. , going into 400-800(800). German is massive and gifting, so will sit tight

Good luck, Stu.

Do wins.

Cheers Tal

€1650 six Max Holdem

Up to 65k at 500-100(1000)

€1650 six Max Holdem

66k at 600-1200(1200)

€1650 six Max Holdem

Funny but sigh one

2s 2d. Limp UTG five handed, as the German on my left is an open book on when he is going to play a hand (and he is going to play this one)

Four way with the blinds.  Aspades Tc 3s 7d Ac is checked to the river.

On the river, good player in SB bets 1.2k into 7k. Not so good player in BB makes it 3.6k

Feels very strongly that the hands are a) a ten, and b) a bluff, respectively.

I think this is a rare and good opportunity for me to "bluff call." The bluff being for the SB to fold a better hand. He may give me some credit for limping JJ -KK pre, but more likely will believe that I have his ten outkicked.

It works, he tank folds.

But, sadly, the BB has inexplicably bluff raised with 87. I created the only way for him to win the pot.

66k at the third break

€1650 six max Holdem

Sigh spot against the second German, where I ultimately fold the river with AQ on 889Q3

He shows Q9

Down to 45k

€1650 six Max Holdem

Out. In a sigh way.

The German on my right (for want of a better description)  has a skill set that does not include poker.


I have 36k, and red Aces. First big hand.

He raises to 3.2k UTG at 1600bb. Has to be right to play it "face up". Make it 7.2k. Rest fold, he calls


28.8k effective, 18.4k in the middle

8s 7s 2c . He checks. Has to be right to check, with SPR litrle over 1.5. Need him to make one pair.

8s 7s 2c 7d. Check check. Same reasons.

8s 7s 2c 7d Qs

Seems a lovely card.

He bets 5.2k. Lovely

All in for 28.8k. after ten seconds, feels like we must be good

After two minutes, feels like we definitely are.

He sigh calls. Has Ks Ts

Re-entering

€1650 six max Holdem

Sigh, not nice

38k, folded to my small, raise to 3.4k with Qs Qh. Big blind call.

Qc 8c 4c

I bet 4k into 8.4k. He raises to 15k.

Size makes me hopeful of good news. It's going to be something like Kc 8d alot, but some chance we have 84s or 44 coolered.

All in, call. He has it. Jc 5c.

No help

Qc 8c 4c 5h 2d

Re-entering, final entry.

€1650 six max Holdem

Last bullet:38k going into 1000-2000(2000), two levels to play

€1650 six max Holdem

Well, that wasn't a pleasant two hours of poker, and it ended in two very nasty rivers.

First, we have 32k at 2kbb and Ahrt Kd in the big. UTG ships the exact same stack, and has Ac 4c

Ks Th 3d Jh....

Qs

Then, at 34k, UTG1 opens to 5k and we have Aspades Ac on the button. It's one the solver will say to flat, but it feels like he's calling a ship with the slightly larger opening size.

He does. Has 6s 6d

9c 7c 5h. Hmm

9c 7c 5h 4s. More to fade

9c 7c 5h 4s 6c

Damn. Never mind. Mystery bounty tomorrow.

€1100 Mystery Bounty

Today is the 1.1k Mystery Bounty, and it's actually my first ever one.

They haven't been particularly clear, but the best guess from their schedule is that the bounties come in with 20% od the field left.

Bounties range from €300 to €30,000.

Start delayed by an hour, til 4pm CET, 3pm UK time.

€1100 Mystery Bounty

Starting. 30k to start, blinds start 100/100(100)

The 109 runner field, surprisingly and impressively, includes Isildur

€1100 Mystery Bounty

Things happening. Raises to 10x. Gifts flying.

I stand by the belief that adding the word "turbo" or "bounty ' to a poker tournament makes people falsely believe that they should play drastically differently.

A whiff with squeezes that were called 4way with 99 and AJ of hearts. 28k

€1100 Mystery Bounty

28k at 100-200(200)

€1100 Mystery Bounty

We got a nice gift.

Down to 25k, 3bet black offsuit AQ small blind Vs cutoff. Call

 Ahrt Qd 3h

Best to size up, he won't fold a Queen. Bet 60%, call

Ahrt Qd 3h 2h

Flop call was quick enough that that's not pretty. 1.2x pot left. Has to be right to go for value, and i think the best way to do that is to do it is all in one

All in. Call

Very good news. Ac 9s. Very nice to have no sweat

52k

I can never understand why some players want a sweat. I absolutely love a “no sweat”

€1100 Mystery Bounty

Yuk hmm


Flat  Aspades Tc cutoff vs hijack. Heads up

Ac Ad 8d

He checks. It feels right for me to go big. Bet 1.5k into 2.6k

He check raises to 5.2k. Hmm. Call

Ac Ad 8d Ks

He bets 9.8k into 13.8k

He looks like he's good. That makes a difference.  A poor player may be more likely to just lose-his-mind bluff, but I think a good player actually under Bluffs this.

He presumably will read me to have an Ace alot. And won't expect me to fold an ace.

Feels therefore a relatively comfortable fold

44k

€1100 Mystery Bounty

Nice one

Flat Jd Td cutoff vs hijack

Call half pot twice on Ts 6d 5c 4h

Ts 6d 5c 4h 3h

He checks. I bet 7k into 12k. Lack of turn flush draw helps. He just can't really call QT+ and overpairs

Tank fold

62k

€1100 Mystery Bounty

63k at 300-500(500)

Plugging away nice and steady

€1100 Mystery Bounty

59,800, second break, coming back to 400-800(800)

€1100 Mystery Bounty

Treading water a little, 53.2k

€1100 Mystery Bounty

Down to 19k

UTG2 open to 2.4k, I call 9s 9h on Button, small blind ships for 28k. UTG2 fold

Close. Need 43%. With 28k, he does just about have the squeeze to leave fold equity potential, so I'm going to weight down AA, KK, and probably QQ, a fair bit.

Call. It's right. He has Ahrt Th

Jd 7d 4h

Jd 7d 4h 2h

61k river.....

Ac

Down to 19 bigs

€1100 Mystery Bounty

Out

Raise Qs 9s UTG3 to 2.3k from 17k at 1kbb.  Big blind calls.

Qh 8h 4h

He checks, I bet 2.5k into 6.1k. He calls. Recheck of cards suggested that he was maybe more likely offsuit

Qh 8h 4h 3c

Check. I decide to check with SPR around 1.1

Qh 8h 4h 3c 3s

He thinks for a long time, and puts me in. 12.2k into 11.1k

Hmm, I'm not sure he's good enough to value bet KQ for that size. That's alot of offsuit combos. AQ may well put me in pre. Obviously, it could definitely be a flush; a flush probably slow plays. House feels unlikely - flopped set I think gets it in. The 33 run out shouldn't provide many houses.

It all depends how many, with a heart, JT, T9 and maybe even, but less likely, 76/75/65 peeled pre, and  peeled flop. That's alot of offsuit combos
I decide to just count the twelve JT and T9 ones. There's some possiblity of the confused bluff with Kh8c, say, or red fives.

It comes to enough. Call.

He has 4c 3h. Sigh. The unlikely house.

Re-entering

geez , getting rivered left right and centre.

fingers crossed you get some luck soon in the big pots.

updates are much appreciated.

€1100 Mystery Bounty

Back in. Davenport's table. 30k at 600-1200(1200)

€1100 Mystery Bounty

Just sigh.

Raise Ahrt 4h to 2.5k from cutoff. BB defends.

Qh 6c 5h.  Big possibilities. Check, bet 3k into 6.5k, call.

Qh 6c 5h 5d. Check -check. Will be bluff catching some non-straight completing rivers.

Qh 6c 5h 5d 6h


He bets 4k. I'm never folding, never raising. Call.

He has 5s 4c

Down to 19k

€1100 Mystery Bounty

Up to 34k

€1100 Mystery Bounty

Up to 40k at 800-1600(1600)

Table change (sadly)

€1100 Mystery Bounty

So sigh

Ac Qc in hijack, 35k at 1600bb (22 bigs)

Ren Lin's friend has sat down and is joking and splashing all over the place (and winning)

Therefore feels right to ship for value

He calls. (has Aspades Th)

Big blind inexplicably re-ships 4c 4d  with no fold equity

A lovely Spot to triple, to 110k

But

Ks 4c 5h

And he turns quads

Ks 4c 5h 4h

Sigh, we've lost 5 consecutive all ins. Shame, we get a nice double if the fours doesn't re-ship

Re-entering for third bullet

Book-keeping

We are in for

5k EUR PLO
3* 1650 EUR six max
3* 1100 Mystery Bounty

For 13,250 EUR total

We have cashed for 8,625 EUR

€1100 Mystery Bounty

Sigh. Very much not our day.

Exactly 30k at 1600bb (18.66 bigs)

7s 7c in hijack. Lojack opens to 3.4k.

It's solver approved. Ship

Folds to him. He sadly has Ts Tc

No help on Ac Kh 5d 4c 3s

I could in theory re-enter, but it might be time to decide that today does not belong to us

8game mix tomorrow, should be great

€2000 8game mix

Today is a great one.

The eight game mix is exactly that :

No limit Holdem
Limit Holdem
Pot limit Omaha
Omaha hi -lo (limit)
Seven card stud
Seven card stud hi-lo
Razz
Deuce to seven triple draw

Given some of the Holdem play on show, it should be interesting if anyone jumps in with not much experience of the less common games.

100k guaranteed. My guess is 70 entrants. 50 minutes before the start, we actually only have 4!

€2000 eight game mix

50k starting stack. 6 handed tables

Good news: Isildur's impressive commitment continues
Bad news: He's on my right.

€2000 eight game mix

Started Omaha hi-lo, very nice first hand. AT75 ns vs a limper, makes a house, and then a better house, on

Th Tc Qh 5d Ac

60,500

€2000 Eight game mix

58.5k

Isildur is awesome. He's loving playing all the games, and knows the exact blind and ante structure of each.

In my opinion, that makes him so much better for the game than

-Ivey. Who has incredible talent, but seems to hate being there
- Helmuth. Who loves being there, but.......

€2000 eight game mix

Wow. Seriously lucky.

Isildur has been giving all the banter about gambling, especially as we got to the PLO round

(Indeed, spolier alert, he's just dark bet the rest Vs another opponent before the flop comes)

100 bigs effective in cutoff with Ac Kd Ks 4d. He pot raises vs a limper to 2.3k

The moment I decide to 3bet obviously has to be the moment I decide to play for it all. I think it has to be right with the ace blocker.

3bet, 4bet, 5bet all in

He has aces. All happened to quick to take in side cards. I suspect that bit is very unlucky. Think I see all kinds of hands there.

However, what happened next is seriously lucky:

Kh Td 9h Kc 6c


108k

€2000 Eight game mix

89k

Lost weird triple draw hand

Fairly quick structure actually, will move quickly

€2000 8game mix

38 entries so far. Will get there

With all the bad luck/runouts etc that you suffered yesterday, I think you were due a little good fortune

Did you eliminate isildur? If not, how’s his mood now?

Let the good luck keep rolling in 🤞

€2000 Eight game mix

Isildur made a good comeback, but I just moved table. Barbero and Pescatori.

Bit of an ugly O8 round. 82k first break

€2000 8game mix

Painful razz round, 75k

€2000 Eight game mix

Really nice stud8 hand, 108k

€2000 Eight game mix

Lose 3 consecutive triple draw. 68k

€2000 Eight game mix

There is one person at the table still learning the rules of the games. Sadly, that is the dealer.

78k

€2000 Eight game mix

Rough times in Limit round, 60,800, dinner break

€2000 Eight game mix

78k

€2000 eight game mix

Nice stud vs Nacho, who gives me a sarcastic "nice play.' 102k

€2000 Eight game mix

98k, table change, back with Isildur

€2000 Eight game mix

Isildur has two big things about him that can normally make someone not so friendly at the table

-He is really really good
- He is Swedish

And yet, he's the most fun person at the table

€2000 Eight game mix

Got Isildur nice in stud8

Bet (2d3c) Ahrt 8d three way, vs his likely (xT)xT, and a (xx)89

He calls, (xx)89 folds

(2d3c) Ahrt 8d Qh on 5th Vs his (xx)T96

Check raise to rep a trap, and win it when I catch low and nice on

(2d3c) Ahrt 8d Qh 6h

116k

€2000 Eight game mix

Nice triple draw catch, 131k

€2000 Eight game mix

Sigh

Lose the crucial one, to Isildur, in PLO

He gets ready to rebuy, and 3bet-gets it in weak for 53k

Our Ac Aspades 7c 4c vs his Kc Qc Tc 9h

Good til the river

9s 4h 2d 7h

No good after it

9s 4h 2d 7h Qd

Sigh, one beat each way I guess, but that was the chance for 180k

Got 76k, end of rebuy period

Book-keeping

End of rebuy period


They actually have non-bracelet 1k PLO and Holdem tournaments seemingly every day, so will try to find one on Saturday, and add it to the schedule

Do let me know if any objections

€2000 Eight game mix

Nice, won two limit Holdem and sweet stud8. Chip peak of 142k

€2000 Eight game mix

Chip peak, 168k

Stud8 has been our best friend

Got a guy still whinging about the stud8 pot ten minutes ago. I guess never bad news, but always slightly annoying  Ad

€2000 Eight game mix

Sigh, no good.

No limit Holdem

Open Ac Qh UTG1 to 4.5k. Isildur 3bet button to 12k from 69k

I actually don't love it. It's after the rebuy period, he seems to be enjoying playing the games.

But I think I have to do it

All in. Call. AK. No help

Think it's probably just a nasty cooler. Sigh.

You still in?  Good luck Stu, get it won.

€2000 Eight game mix

Sigh, were out.

Down to 63k at 2kbb. Hijack opens to 5k.

We have Ts Tc on the button . I'm actually happy to 3bet small, to 13k, and leave a decision. Nothing has to be automatic in live poker.


He 4bets all in, with absolute lightning speed. You never want to be certain, but to be honest, all instinct on the speed says it's AK

I weight AK as a 2x on the combos, and it's an easy call

It's AK

Ace in the window.

Sigh, play nixed games for 8 hours, and go on a no limit Holdem cooler and a race

Turbo Bounty tomorrow

€1100 Turbo Bounty Hunter

Sitting down for start of €1100 Turbo Bounty Hunter. 30k to start, 20 minutes levels starting 100-100(100). 136 entries so far. No mysteries to the Bounty, €300 for each player knocked out. Table looks promising

Run good Stu.

In fact you don't need to run good on present form, you just need to not run bad.

Thanks so much Tom. All tips for running good appreciated

€1100 Turbo Bounty Hunter

Sigh.

UTG raises to 700, I call Td Tc cutoff, both blinds call.

Ts 7s 4s

UTG bets 1.3k from 17.3k

I'm more than happy in some spots in live poker to raise without a certainty whether I'm raise -calling or raise-folding

Raise to 3.4k

Blinds fold. He goes all in super quick.

Not quite sure what to make of the super-speed. Part of the reason I'm happy to raise-decide is that he won't take in just how many of his flushes from UTG are the nuts or second nuts, and in fact a very large percentage the nuts. We might expect some element of slow play, or Indeed some small element of an act, with the nuts.

I feel it's a call.

He has Ks Qs. Sigh

No help on Ts 7s 4s 6h 9d

Down to 12k

saving all the run good for the main then.

like it

€1100 Turbo Bounty Hunter

Absolutely Henry

Up to 20,800

€1100 Turbo Bounty Hunter

UTG1 all in for just 2.8k. Lojack calls

I am hijack with Ks Jd

With the bounty 30% of the buy in, has to be right to call for 10% of a starting stack. Blinds join in.

Kd Ts Tc

Lojack bets 2.8k into 14.2k. Call. He'll have to be relatively face up now, given I would trap all my tens.

Blinds fold

Kd Ts Tc 7d. He bets 8k into 19.8k

Easy fold. He has Th 8h, and indeed takes the bounty.

Some argument to moving in myself pre, but KJ flops well at that SPR, and he should play all his range as flat calls there, so he probably has all his traps


Down to 12k

€1100 turbo Bounty Hunter

13,200 first break

Coming back to 400-800(800). Correct to play both tight and linear, as of course there is value for people in calling my shoves

€1100 Turbo Bounty Hunter

OUT

Shove Hijack for 12.3 bigs with 5c 5d. It's close, I obviously want to be tighter here, as I have less fold equity. However, I think it's just about in there.

Small blind reships for 38k. Has Kings.

Blind blind inexplicably reships with 2s 2d

8s 7c 4c

Hope

8s 7c 4c Kd 4h

No good

Re-entering

€11100 Turbo Bounty Hunter

Nice. Second hand, weird pot leads to a semi gift of a double up plus

Raise 9c 9s to 1.6k. Goes five way. 8.8k in pot

7d 6h 5h

Big blind leads 1.8k. May be right to move in here. Feel it's just about a call

Two others call in position.

7d 6h 5h 8d for a straight

Big blind leads 6.8k (he later folds, making that strange)

I feel that I don't have to just auto move in. Given that a heart flush draw only just has the odds to call, and a set doesn't, I feel I can trap, to attempt to keep a 4 in


Call. Cutoff all in, for 40k. BB folds

Call. Cutoff has Ad 4d. No need for him to move in there.

Need to fade a diamond

7d 6h 5h 8d 5c



Up to 74,600

€1100 turbo Bounty Hunter

 80k

€1100 Turbo Bounty Hunter

At this table, three people have filmed the hand when all in.

Tikay would fall off his chair

82,300

€1100 Turbo Bounty Hunter

Squeeze with Kh3h vs button and sb gets through. 88k

€1100 turbo Bounty

80,200

End of rebuy period

€1100 Turbo Bounty Hunter

Card dead at wrong time, 65k

143 left, 86 in the money

€1100 Turbo Bounty Hunter


Out. Running hasn't improved. Shove 56k (14 bigs) button with Ah7h, small blind reships, and has AsKs. Flopped dead, KhQs6s

Main event tomorrow

€10,000 Main Event


 Actually started with just 2 of us here, and 7 stacks in play! Now 3 here. 105k, 100k to start So, it's 100k chips, blinds start 100-300(300). 90 minute levels, 7 levels today. They said two surprising things:

- 12 levels of late registration!

- Over 400 qualifiers

Table looks very encouraging

€10000 Main Event

110k

€10000 Main Event

Wow, nice, up to 139k

Defend 5h 3h big blind Vs button

Ahrt Ts 3d
 
He bets 1k into 2k. Check raise with back doors feels fine. Make it 3.5k. Call

Ahrt Ts 3d 3s

Lucky boy. Bet 7.5k into 9.5k. Call. Call was pretty quick

Ahrt Ts 3d 3s 7s.

Spade isn't too pretty, with the ace a non-spade. Obviously need to be value betting, but it's a factor

Bet 12k into 24.5k

Very quick call. Sigh, guess this is Ax of spades.

But no, we're good. Guess I should have bet more. But, nice

€10,000 Main event


First break, 148k

 €10,000 Main event

Nice semi gift. 168k. Wow

Excellent starti

€10000 Main Event


8h6h in SB. UTG raises, we go five way, including BB

K88r, lead 3k into 5.5k. Button calls

K885ss. Bet 5.5k into 11.5k. button calls

K8854r. Bet 6.5k into 22.5k

I mean, I'm never bluffing and never have a King. So, was tough to know whether I should block smaller, or indeed check, but call-muck came pretty quickly

pokernews just posted that hand

run well stu

Structure is of course great, but never quote as great as people think. 2 bustees in the room already.

€10000 Main event

Strange turn of events. 14 of the last 20 pots 3bet or squeezed. Only one shown down, which was KK. Could be a rush of cards, but appears table not as nitty as it first appeared. 174k

Some big action now. 6 bustees in room. 1 nearly at our table. 163,500

 Second break - 167k. Young German guy from the PN update hand can't be good, given the speed he paid off 3 streets on K8845Stewey: Couple of German nits confirmed
 One seemingly German nit has Tried to bust himself
One local paid me off on the ATT337, and later had a go at the dealer for giving him bad cards. Dealer held back from telling him "it's the way you play them"
One non-german/local Seems good, but bizarrely has sat out for the last 35 minutes
So, all in all, a good table

Nice one. Cutoff (who had seemed decent) opens to 1.3k at BB500, gifty guy calls button. Incorrectly thought the new CO sizing may indicate strength given the button  player, therefore just called 99 from BB

Ks 5s 2h CO bets 40% pot, but fold, i call

Ks 5s 2h 3h. Check check

Ks 5s 2h 3h 6h

Check, he bets 5k into 6k

Seemed a poor bluff line, repping very little. Therefore, veered towards believing it. But, had to call with limited info. And it was Indeed what it seemed. 182k

€10000 Main event

181k. Poor dynamic developing where i think two to my left is really good, and German one to my left is handing him Squeeze opportunities on a plate. But, good table

184k. This table , and the Vegas day one, is proof that any strategy of "buying in Day two for 60bb is a great Idea" is , nonsense

178,800. Seems to be eight handed all day
 New guy joins, with Pokerpro.Fr cap

€10000 Main event

Absolute puke, vs the one very good player.

Squeeze Qc Jc on the button, he cold calls big.

Ad Ahrt Qd, check Check.

Ad Ahrt Qd 9d. He bets 6k into 13k. Call A

Ad Ahrt Qd 9d  3s. He bets 36k into 25k.

Versus anyone else, it's an easy fold of the nut flush. Versus him, it's different. He's very capable. If I'm losing, I'm very unlcuky with my blockers. Because they leave only one combo of AQ suited, and one combo of QQ. Fairly sure he doesn't cold call AQoff. He can only really have JTdd, and I'm not convinced he does. He has 3 combos of 99, and I'm not actually fully sure he a) cold calls them, and b) value bets them for more than pot. However, it's not easy - what are his bluffs? It would mainly have to be JJ, TT and 88 turned into a bluff. 15 combos .He's capable, but doesn't mean he's going to. It's actually of some significance that cap guy (who raise folded pre) is staring very intently through my 6 minute tank. I'm not going to factor that too strongly, but I think it gives him more likely a key card (most likely an ace). I think it's a call. Queen blocker is big. Think I fold KK (there would then be 3x more combos of QQ, and 2x more combos of AQs), but I think the blocker against a very capable player obliges me. I call. He has the one combo of AQ suited.

Aspades Qs.  

Sigh. I'm not sure. Maybe it's terrible (if I'm wrong to think that he would be so eager to take advantage of my cappedness, as to bluff with 88, TT and JJ). But, I think we have probably got very circumstantially (blocker) unlucky there

 Nice mid one. AK off, raise UTG1 8 handed. Guy we'll call 'only very good player ' 3bets. 200bb deep, fairly ugly. If it's a 4b , it's a 4b-fold. Definitely going to be a factor, that I have to accept, that he may come after me more, with the energy of "you called incorrectly vs me in a big one, you'll have to fold now."

Feels right to call, and try to catch a triplebarrel

Check, he bets 4k into 11k. Just about call


 Q84Q. Check Check

Q84Q9hhh.

 I bluff 12k into 18k. He may have same hand. All depends on whether he'll make the logical fold of JJ, or whether he'll feel there is a dynamic. Good to have AA and KK blocked (even though they should in theory make for a worse call than JJ, think anyone is more likely to call them

Get the semi- tank fold. 131k

€10000 Main event

Lovely one. Up to 152k

Peel Qd Td from SB Vs gifty guy, and get check raise and three streets on

Jh Th Tc 5d Kh

And, with some extra sweetness - he tried to angle me by pump-fake calling the river. I didn't fall for it. I have experience of being angled, because I have played the Partouche Poker tour.

Restarting, 147k

Got nice one through. Raise KcJx, 3way, B40 on Qc6c2s. Two calls. Qc6c2s5c. Two checks. Kc is big here, with the Q being a club. Bet 8k into 13k and both fold. 152k

Couple of anticlimactic flops, but then double barrel through wiht QcTc on 622cc 5x, LJ Vs CO. 152k

€10000 Main event


153k. Chaos around.  Was starting to think that every river overbet is value, but then one guy bet 120k into 65k with A3cc on 874sxx8s2x, and got massively heroed by black tens

 (truly heroic as it's arguably the Worst bluff catcher)

€10000 Main Event

End of level 5. Never known a table more contrary to the first expectation. Squeezes, over bets, hero calls all over the place. We had a fairly quiet level. 145k. Coming back to 500-1000(1000)

End of level 5. Never known a table more contrary to the first expectation. Squeezes, over bets, hero calls all over the place. We had a fairly quiet level. 145k. Coming back to 500-1000(1000)

Few small losses against the passive brick wall half of the table. 131k

131k. Sigh, Kabhrel sits down

Nice, squeeze AK vs gifty guy, check down T923, bet 8k into 15.5k on T923K, and get the call

145k. Becoming increasingly hamstrung without a hand at the bad chair on a weird table. All good

143,500, final break of day, coming back to one final 90 minute level of 600-1200(1200)

Nice, patience paid off. Raise red Aces UTG, UTG2 call, gifty guy in UTG3 makes it 8.8k from 36k. He's not going to be folding. Try to work out what the best thing to do is in case UTG2 wants to do something interesting with JJ or AK. In the end, I make it 22k, to also allow the possibility of him cold calling, shortie being all in, and me being allowed to 6bet

In the end, doesn't matter. As quickly as UTG2 is out the way, UTG3 is all in

And his Qd 9d is a surprise, even given what has gone before!

78k pot, and mercifully no sweat, on 2h 4c 7d Ts Kc

183k

Defend 9s8s Vs new cutoff. Kd8d2s. Check, he bets 3k. I go for the old school small "protection raise"  to 8.4k, as the circumstances feel safe to, and it gets through. 185k

€10000 Main event


Boom, got Kabhrel penultimate hand of day. Thrilled with this one

His opening sizings has been fairly open book. He's talking relentlessly (obviously). The speech to me seems to be that he thinks
I'm nitty. 80% that that's true

He opens but to 2.8k at 1.2kbb. I have Aspades 8s in the SB. Sizing probably week. He's 128k deep. I make it 10k

Speech. Call

7s 4c 2d. Bet 12k into 23k

Speech. He makes it 24k

It really feels like this is a writing off of me doing anything agressive. Possibly not, possibly he's on a different level.
 
But I think I have to. Make it 55k

Speech. Call

He has 58k behind, 134k in pot

7s 4c 2d 9c

 I think it's such a good spot to leverage bluff. If it's what it seems, he's writing off the chance of me doing so. Bet 38k into 134k

Speech. Fold. Phew

 246,500 to finish the day

Great News.  GL on day 2 Stu. 

That's why I am at DTD and your at Rozadov

Well Done

Are you playing the PLO or NLH today?

what a hand. laughed when i saw that you showed him the bluff   https://www.pokernews.com/tours/wsope/2023-wsop-europe/event-13-10-350-main-event-nlh-european-championsh/

(last hand reported at bottom of page)

Hi, sorry for slow update on this. Actually decided

- I couldn't get a clear enough answer on whether you can play the satellite, and just collect the value in cash

- The obvious tournie, the 1k bounty, actually started at 8pm, threatening the night's sleep

-  A rest day felt like a good idea!

No rush (after the tournament win is fine), but would you explain the leverage bluff point for me, please?

38k into 134k, when the villain only has half a pot behind at the turn, leaving 20k behind if he calls: why is this better than shoving?

Not a criticism. Genuinely interested as this seems like a situation where you don't have enough to get a river fold, unless it's total air on his part.

patrick zidek 86bb   live cashes 410k  . 10th place in this event last year

stu 154bb

marius iftimia 46bb live cashes 300k . 6th mini main event vegas this year

jovan kenjic 223bb live cashes 188k .  mostly in high buy in events

kulvinder sidhu 18bb live cashes 3.7m . brummie, sure stu knows all about him

simon wilenius 107bb live cashes 130k . most of this being a 50k 4th place in a 300 buy in last month in rozvadov

elia salerno 68bb live cashes 61k .

karol radomski 115 bb live cashes 409k . vast majority small buy ins czech

decent looking table draw, best of luck today stu

Amazing, thanks so much mate. Shame about Kully. Otherwise, looks good actually

12pm start

€10000 Main event

Right, sat down ready to go. Table draw looks encouraging. Kully Sidhu the only bad News. Could do with his 18bb not doubling up

246,500, 452 left of 696, average is 154k

 This seems to suggest that they had a much smaller 1b field!

Very best of run-good today Stu

Let’s go!

€10000 Main Event

Strangeish first hand.

Raise Jc Js to 3.4k button. Table chip leader in big blind makes it 18k. Really sigh sizing. Has to be a call

Kc 7s 4s

He bets 10k, call. Pot is 50.4k

Kc 7s 4s Qd.

He tanks his decision for literally five minutes. Bizarre

Bets 40k

Honest answer is, I don't know. Obviously a big sizing may leave him thin on value, if it takes away AK. However, AK may be in there if he is unsure on his sizings. I decide to go that 1) I block some obvious bluffs, and 2) There is some arguement to not creating a massive spot with limited info, and keeping a stack

Fold. 220k

€10000 Main event

3bet KQo but vs HJ. 643r, bet 13k into 24k to try to get the AQ fold. Call. 6438r, he checks. I just about decide to give up. 64382, he bets, I fold. 202k

All the very best today Stu😀

€10000 Main Event


 Win nice vs Sidhu. Raise QT cut-off, sb and him from BB defend. Comes Q729r 4 (driest board in poker?)

Go bet -check -bet, with 12k into 19k on river, and he calls

220k

Seat 4 has said twice, after a pot between others, what his inconsequential folded hand was. Which I think makes a fairly big (positive) difference to the KxxQ decision

Sidhu out

218k

First break, 216,600, Coming back to 1k-2k

235k

First hand JJ decision Vs seat 4 CL feeling better.

He just opened KK from Hj, only flatted vs BB 3b, folded Axx, and showed his kings. And I think actually, from all that, the biggest piece of information isn't what he showed, but the fact that he was happy to show.

Nice. Open Ac Qd UTG2 to 4.2k. Seat 4 chip leader makes it 12.6k from CO. Button tanks and cold calls. Button is the guy who bet-called AJ on 987JJ


Seat 4s flat of a 3b with KK is helpful here . There is surely only one hand which would 5bet, and I block it.

I feel that the looseness of button's cold call ultimately will count for more than the stubborness of his previous river call, given that a 4bet would make it obvious that his 170k stack is being threatened

 Make it 40k and both fold. 280k

Sigh Vs seat 4 CL. Raise black A9. Q54 is xx. Q54A dd. I bet 6.5k, he xr to 22.5k

 Q54AJr

 He tanks for 5 minutes (literally)

Bets 110k into 55k. Won't go into decision process, but I fold

He shows a 3h. Probably good news, probably has it, only realistically gives him four combos of 63s

That length of tank before betting borderline ridiculous now, but obviously fine , given it could be good info, and looks like value both times

 250k

Second break, 264k, feeling good, coming back to 1.2k-2.5k (2.5k)

256k

Second break, 264k, feeling good, coming back to 1.2k-2.5k (2.5k)

Table change. 264k. Recognise no one, they're mostly hoodies and sunglasses bunch

350 left of 774, average 221k

243k

215k. Missed everything for a while. Open 88 HJ, SB calls, Seems passive, German BB squeeze to 20k. Probable good spot for him but can't do much. KT3r, he bets 20k. Same. Fold.

Third break. 222,500. Coming back to 3kBB

Sigh. Defend Ahrt Th from SB. Aspades Jh 6s. Check-call small 5k. Aspades Jh 6s 7h. Check check. Aspades Jh 6s 7h 4s

Think I have a 15k into 30k value bet here. Surely doesn't have AT outkicked. Spades probably barrels. Very few other ways to be beaten.

He calls. He has rivered a set of fours. He probably should give the puke decision of raising, repping spades badly. Down to 180k

Another guy tanked his river OOP decision. Clock called. First time I've ever seen clock called on a bet or check decision. In fact, on any decision which isn't a big river call. 195k

So close. LJ open 6.5k, I flat HJ with AQo. Bad passive CO and SB call. Big blind makes it 37k. German, 40 years old. LJ fold. It's all or nothing. It's

clearly a lovely squeeze spot. It's not completely clear whether he knows/treats it as a good squeeze spot. He looks at me, and I think my stack, in his

tank before squeezing. Which definitely somewhat veers him towards being aware of the value of this squeeze spot, as it's of course me, my stack,

and my potential to back raise that are the most crucial factors. Hmmm. There is definite value in staying at this table. I just about click the fold button. Maybe it's a flake. All good. 188k

Table seems very nice. 215k

Dinner break. 220k. Had the potential to be spectacular twice ,but I pressed the non spectacular buttons. May have Spursed it, may have got it right. Coming back to 4kBB

221k , average is 267k, with 299 of 799 left

Involved in three back to back pots

1) UTG raise 7 handed. I have Ac Kh and decide to flat, rather than get in 55bb

Js 7s 4c goes check check

Js 7s 4c 5d. He bets 18k into 30k. Close. AQ and AT shouldn't really delayed Cbet. But, call

Js 7s 4c 5d 3c.

He tanks for ever. Theme of the day. But, knuckle eventually hits table. Mine does instantly.

AK is good.

A bet would have been tough decision, but I think I have to call.

2) German raises cutoff, i have Kh Qc in BB. Decide to 3bet to 3.5x

Ad 2d 3d us ugly, but 22k into 60k mercifully gets through

3)

Ks Qs in small blind. UTG1 raise 7 handed, German call UTG2. Should in theory squeeze, but a few things favour call. BB comes, four way

Qc Ts 4c

Lead 18k into 34k. People defend badly against multi way leads.

However, it appears they didn't have much. Three quick folds

Up to peak of 320k, let's go

Nicked a nice one 3way, with turn probe of Qs 2s on J754r. 302k

330k

5th break. 301k. Average is 305k with 267/815 left

Nasty one. Open T8dd on seemingly passive rec BB. Qd5d4c5c, double barrel 12k and 35k. Get check raised on the turn, but small, to 76k. Puke. Looks weird. Hard to be house. Likely a 5. Something feels Bluffy. Thing I have to lay down. 230k

Get some back with 22k bet with QTo on AK3 3way. 250k

€10000 Main Event

I'm sadly out

Horrible cooler

Have my first big hand, Aspades Ac in hijack, 255k deep.

Lojack opens to 12k. There's some history now. Make it 35k.There is hope. He doesn't 3bet, but he does flat.

83k in pot. 220k deep

Kh Td 3d

He checks. I bet 45k, to leave almost exactly pot sized bet.

He makes it 110k.

The non all -in sizing isn't the best news. But, whilst I'm always open to getting away, there's just no way here. Only two combos of KTs, three threes, and not even all the sets of tens, as they may have done something pre.

All in, call

He does have one of the two KT suited combos. Kc Tc

Still 28% hope. But, no good

Kh Td 3d 2c 9c

A disappointing week. A very disappointing way for it to finish. 18 hours in, and just get coolered with no decision.

Thanks for the support guys

Numbers to follow.

Stu x

Bookkeeping

We entered

€5000 PLO
3*€1650 Six Max
3* €1100 Mystery Bounty
€2000 8game mix
2*€1100 Turbo Bounty
€10,350 Main event

For a total buy in of  €27,800

Priced at 1.07, that total buy -in is €29,746

We cashed for:

€8,625, in the 5k PLO

Price of package was €37,022. Therefore, there is a refund of €7,276 for unused re-entries.

Therefore, value of package is €8625+€7276, which is €15901. Converted at the current rate, that is £13907

So, to come Back:

1%= £139.07

10%=£1390.70

etc

*Doesn't 4bet

Hey Simon, yes, good question! Leverage I guess was technically the correct term, but used in the wrong context.

When I bet 38k of his remaining 60k, then, yes, both it is almost all of it, so not the classic leverage spot, and also, I will (super sigh) call if it does move all in, given 14:1

One thing that I may be wrong with, but do absolutely swear by, is that, against a new opponent, and possibly playing a slightly naive image myself as the middle aged Dad I am now, then, when effectively moving all in pre or post, the move of not quite going all in can work wonders. It can confuse the count, sometimes look stronger (even though it should be obvious that it is exactly the same), and I find just maybe carry a psychological effect of making a fold more likely. It's definitely worked both ways over the years, but I feel with more success than failure.

In that hand, there was also the worry of not knowing what his rebuy situation was - I knew he had somewhat recently finished 6th in the 50k, but wasn't fully sure that it was only his first bullet (only one rebuy was allowed). There was some fear that he may just "give up" on his final 60k chips, and stick it in, but luckily wasn't the case.

This idea of betting half the opponent’s stack came up on The Chip Race a while back. I think it was O’Kearney who felt that people were more likely to fold when they would be left with shrapnel than if they were simply out.
Glad it worked for you anyway. Best trip reports ever.

Ah, that is very interesting, and will be seeking out that exact episode!

Thanks for the answer, Stu.

Less so for the Spursy thing... :redcard:

The joke's on me, my form seems to mirror Spurs'