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First

A big thanks to all those that gave me a chance to play the WSOP-E £5000 PLO

A Full report is here written during the dinner break and after i was knocked out.

I am in seat 9 on table 1 , we ae on a 2 hour dinner break due back in 10 minutes.

Seat 3 is Josh Arieh , 4 David Benyamine , 5 Donnocha Odea . 6 Alan Cunningham 7 Marc Goodwin and after Dubai departed from seat 1 he was replaced by Phil Helmuth .

Against this quality of lineup you need to get some hands !

First level i saw one KKQ8ss and called a raise but passed on a Q high flop when Alan bet out , he is a solid player who doesn't continuation bet without a made hand, he most likely has AA here or even flopped a set , i ended the level slightly up .

Level 2 i called a raise on the buton with TJJK but the flop was 2 3 4.

I did get rag AA once with T2o limping in FP and got lucky on a 4 way checked flop K high flop with a diamond flush draw , my AA were black ,  when an A turned , i bet and all folded, i ended with 11,675 ( still had my 10,000 DC )

Level 3 i had AKJT once but missed the flop and got reraised trying a button steal , ended with 17,525

Level 4 flat called with 7889ds in spades and clubs, flop was 4 way 5 6 Q with two spades  , there was a bet and raise from Marc to 3000 , i called with the straight draw and a flush draw and redraw to my other flush as did the original raiser , turn was a T , Marc first to act moved all in for 11,000 , we both folded.

Simon Galloway is here railing and has seen some of what has been happening as i will explain . Marc and i are looking at each other wondering how we can get all the chips .

Earlier Dubai went out after the flop was A 9 4 , Josh check called a bet , turn was another 4 , Josh check called again , river a blank , Josh checked , Dubai bet and was reraised all in , he called showing 99 to Josh's AA .

When Phil arrived he lost his first 10,000 to Josh on a flop of K 8 3 , again Josh check called the flop , turn it all went in Josh had KK to Phils 88 .

We saw 2 huge pots where there was a flopped full house and 2 players got all their chips in with draws !

After bleeding away a few chips to missed flops / draws i was down to 8775 with the blinds still 200 400 , it was the last hand before dinner and Phil announced he was raising blind if no one else did , all folded to me , i finally had a hand AKQJds and raised to 1400 , the cameras were on Phil and he called leaving himself 325 , flop was Q 3 3 , i bet his last 325 and he called saying he was still blind , i tabled my hand but ever the showman he asked if we could see the rest of the flop first before he showed , i agreed , turn was a 2 river 7 , Phil turned over one at a time 4 5 6 6 and was out . This was like scoring an equaliser just before half time , my first real pot worth 4050 taking me back up to 11,100.

We restart at 250 500 so i have 22 x BB and just need to continue that last hand momentum .

I know it is possible i could go on picking up the same J952 etc but i never allow myself to blind away, if neccesary i will take a stand to keep myself in contention but lets hope i get an early gift / double up and can get through the next 4 hours and into day 2

Resuming play at level 5

First an overview of the table i was on.

As Simon wrote Donnacha got a double up off Josh with AA pre dinner and finished him soon after we got back with AA again, this time on an A high flop he had bet and been check called by Josh going for an 8 high flush or middle pin 4 , flop was A 5 3 , turn was the 4 , Josh had 6788 bet his straight , Donnacha moved in , was called and the board paired to give him 50,000.

I had one hand KQQ9ss and limped , there was a raise to 1700 called in 3 spots including Marc in the BB so with 7300 in there i called for 1200 , flop was 2 2 3 , Marc bet 5000 and David reraised all in with Marc calling , he had T642 v Davids AJT2 and missed.

So when i got AA78ss in FP i knew there was no point raising to 1750 as i was going to get a minimum 3 callers , i limped hoping to check raise but there were 5 callers including the SB so 3000 pot.

Flop was 4 9 T , i had an overpair , bottom end straight draw and the nut flush draw but pointless betting as there is bound to be a set or two pair out as well as a player wrapped higher so i checked hoping for a cheap turn card , the next player bet 2100 and David and Alan called as did the BB so 11,400 in the pot , again it is now pointless raising as i can call for 2100 and if the board pairs or the top straight comes i can fold .

The turn was in fact a great card for me a non flushing 2 , now i can bet my last 5600 as i am going to call anyway and hopefully if there is a set behind they will raise to isolate so in went my 5600 , the flop bettor now reraised 30,000+ all in so we knew where the set was and David also went all in for 14,000 , the others passed.

I was now over the main pot of 30,300, 6000 more than average.

The first player had 9955 in his hand no diamonds , David had 679T for top two requiring a T or he could split the pot with me with an 8.

My nut outs were any non pairing diamond , any J or an A and i could split with a 6.

River was a Q and both David and i were knocked out.

Even if i had raised preflop if the 9955 player flolded David would have called with 679T as this a great hand to crack AA and he would have won with 2 pair.

Just out of interest i checked a poker calculator , pre flop i was 46% fav , on the flop i was 47% even though i was up against a set and on the turn i was 35% so even if i had checked, the set would have bet and even if David just called i would have been getting over 4-1 so was never folding.

So that's it , i tried my best but today wasn't my day , thanks to all those that bought shares , you had a good horse, just a shame i never really got started.

I ended up selling more shares than i intended at 70 and even with the £250 juice i didn't allow for, i laid out less than the £1500 i was prepared to so i am considering playing the £1050 Double Chance PLO on Sunday at The Vic.

If i do i will sell shares at 1.2 again but with a bonus for all of you that backed me in the WSOP-E , i know i deserved to do better than i did today . I played well and with an average run of cards and a little luck i am capable of winning these events.

As there were so many of you i will offer shares at £30 each for 2.5% chunks  and i will pay the £50 juice , maximum i will sell is 24 x 2.5% ie 60%.

The bonus is if i win a minimum of £4000 ie returning £1600 to myself i will enter the £1060 Thanet GUKPT and after paying any shareholders the balance you will also have a second chance %age of the same amount that you had at The Vic.

So should you buy say 5% for £60 ,based on a £4000 win you would be returned £200 and still have 5% of me at the GUKPT Thanet

Please let me know if there is any interest

All the best and thanks again

ACES

Put me down for a share then Simon.

UL in that last hand, sometimes PLO hands play themselves, don't think any other way of playing it would have brought any different result and you did give yourself a way out on the turn too.

Unlucky Simon :(

Can i ask why you folded the wrap and fd vs Marc?

As Simon wrote Donnacha got a double up off Josh with AA pre dinner and finished him soon after we got back with AA again, this time on an A high flop he had bet and been check called by Josh going for an 8 high flush or middle pin 4 , flop was A 5 3 , turn was the 4 , Josh had 6788 bet his straight , Donnacha moved in , was called and the board paired to give him 50,000.


Do you like the way Don played this hand??  Has he totally discounted Arieh having a straight?  The straight doesn't look that likely admitedly.  Or is he looking to gamble?  If he was, I know the board pairing may cost him a customer on the end in normal circumstances, but the way Arieh was playing, Don could have called the turn and still got paid on the end if it paired.  I don't know if the stack sizes made this possible or not..

Simon,

Put me down for 2.5% - I'm a glutton for punishment.

You have my DTD account details, good luck.

Cheers Scott

Flop was 5 6 Q and with Marcs reraise i have to put him on QQ , when the T comes on the turn only a 4 or 7 now gives me a nut straight as an 8 or 9 could give Marc higher straights if he has 9J or JK with his QQ , also the player behind may now have a top wrap or/and a bigger flush draw and decide to gamble if i call further reducing my outs , + i still had plenty of chips relative to the blinds at that stage , maybe if i was last to act i may have called.

Cheers

ACES

Hey Simon,

I'll take 2.5% please

Cheers...

5 shares requested so far.

4 to WSOP-E backers with the bonus.

1 to a newbie MC.

I will give this till 8pm tomorrow then make a decision as to whether i am going to play.

Cheers

ACES

Same here Simon. Can you do it thru my Dtd account? Any problems PM me and I can do a bank transfer for the £30. GL at the Vic

Hi All

I had a request yesterday for 10 shares taking the total so far to 16 .

Whether i will play with less than 24 sold i will decide later.

Cheers

ACES

i'll take 5% again pls...er, on the slate again i'm afraid

A true poker player!

Ok . let's see if i can do better this time lol.

The shareholders for the £1050 PLO Double Chance at The Vic are as follows.

Evil Pie ( Matt ) 20% Paid

Simon (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=399) Nowab (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=399) 15% Paid

Tony Minnis 5% Paid

Julian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=225) Thew (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=225) 5% Slate

Tikay 5% Slate

Red Simon 2.5% Paid

MC ( James ) 2.5% Paid

Scott Mcgee 2.5% Paid

Robbiebox (Jon) 2.5% Paid

Updates will be on this thread.

Cheers All

ACES

pfft been abroad all week, would have had another go with you Simon. GL anyway. :)up

Good luck in this Simon

Would happily of had a chunk if I had seen it sooner.

Good luck Simon!

Incoming Text from Simon (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=400) Trumper (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=400) early this morning.....

"Just finished, went to Chip Count, came 2nd, £22,490, slight improvement. Will do report tomorrow".

Whahoo!

Many congrats Simon.

That looks like a spot of good news to me.

Nice one Simon.

Awesome! Well done to Simon and all the stakers- blondes owning atm

well done!

First . sorry for those that didn't see this thread in time to take a share, i improved on my placing in the WSOP-E.

There were 95 players for this £1000 PLO European Championship which started at 6.15pm with 10,000 chips and 40 minute levels.

During the first 5 levels i played very few hands as again i was pretty card dead.

AKQT won me 2000 on an A 5 T 8 A board when a player tried to represent the nuts i had.

Then i lost it back in a 6 way raised pot with KK89 , flop was all diamonds and i had the K flush , Dave (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=95) Colclough (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=95) checked , the preflop raiser bet 2100 and i flat called as everyone looked as though they were passing , but DC was trapping with the nut flush and reraised pot , the pre flop raiser put his last 500 in and i passed , he had a small flush , turn paired the board and river was a K !

I took the second chance and had 8200.

By level 5 i was all in on a K 4 2 flop with AAQ5 but no callers.

During level 6 i called a raise on the button with K567ds ( this looked good after the crap i had been getting ) Dan (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=85) Alspach (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=85) a top American player bet out 1200 on a K 2 K flop and i moved in for 4000 but he folded.

After level 7 came and went there were 29 left with an average of 32,800 , i had 7600 and had not been above 10,000 yet.

Level 8 was 600 - 1200 so i had 6 x BB , there was a raise to 3600 which i called with AAQT , most would push here but i was in SB and if i completely missed the flop had another round. Flop was T high and i moved in and got the call , he had KK , i made 2 pair and now had 16,400 around half the average.

With a little room to manouver i called a min raise on the button the very next hand with 99TQ , flop was Q T 8 , the pre flop raiser pushed and i reraised all in , he called with KK and i ended this level with 32,800.

Now with blinds at 800 1600 Lucy (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=251) Rokach (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=251) joined on my left with 70,000 !

She limped as did DC and in my BB i found AKKTds and made it 6400 more , only DC called , flop was 9 8 3 giving me an overpair and nut flush draw , i bet 19,200 and DC folded. Up to 43,200

Level 10 started at 1000 2000 and most of the players were not happy as the management in order to get the comp finished had removed the 1500 3000 level so 11 was now going to be 2000 4000 , as the average was 45,000 this meant theis level would be around 12 x bb , DC was very unhappy and went for a double up and got busted.

Rather than remove any more levels i suggested dropping the clock to 30 minutes and this was done after one more level at 40 , as you will see this was not enough unfortunately.

We were down to 18 and i had exactly 40,000 and had been moved to the right of Willie (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=450) Tann (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=450) and Lucy who as BB had been moved earlier.

All passed to me in the cut off and i raised to 7000 with KQ99ds , Willie on the button reraise 23,000 all in, with 33,000 in the pot and 16,000 to call , like DC i decided i had to take a shot so called. Willie had rag AA and even though i flopped one of my flush draws i missed and all my short stack work was ruined , i was back to 17,000 lowest stack.

2 rounds later i made it 7000 to go and with 3 to act Davood Mermand asked what i had left which i though was bang out of order as basically he is letting the others know he is going to put me in , they all folded and sure enough he made it 14,000 putting me all in , i called with AKQ9 and had his AQT9 in bad shape , KQ flopped , he missed his middle pin and i was up to 29,000 , there were 15 left , 11 getting paid. Average 63,000.

Next round we were on the bubble , Davood raised my BB , but this time i had AA83ds and reraised all in , he called and i flopped a full house to get up to 60,000.

It was then suggested we take £100 off each prize to make £1100 for 12th , one player objected but agreed to all of us putting in £100 from our pockets , so we did and 12th got £1200.

Now blinds were 3000 6000 , all folded to me in the SB , i had AK45ds and thought if i limped Willie woud raise so i did and he made it 12,000 more , as earlier i flat called as if i totally missed it would be easy to get away from. Flop was Q 7 3 all spades , i had the stone cold nuts and checked , Willie went all in for 26,000 and i called instantly and declared nuts , Willie had A973 for bottom two pair but didn't improve and i now had 106,000 which i made the final with in 4th position.

The first level i stole the blinds once then with 8 players a deal was suggested as one player had 299,000 of the 950,000 and blinds were now going to 6000 - 12000 with av stack only 119,000 .

I worked out the deal which would give Davood £24,000 , the shortest stack £6500 ( better than 5th ) and myself £9,400 but the short stack decided he wanted to play on.

We dropped to 6 and by now i had stopped taking notes and concentrating on winning , i was all in once after dropping to 56,000 , blinds were 8000 16000 and a pot raise of 56,000 was made, i called all in with AJJTds , pot was 136,000 , he had KK which he rivered for a set but it gave me the nut straight.

At this point we were now down to 20 minute levels and had been told it would be finishing after the 10,000 20,000 level at 5.15am.

I now got caught in the middle and lost 50,000 chips , there had been a raise to 18,000 , i had TT45ds and with one level to go before it went to a chip count was willing to gamble so called 10,000 more in the SB , Simon Eastood , an old friend from Reading days ( we split the PL-HE here in 97 for £10,000 each which i won ) now raised 18,000 more and the original raiser went all in for an under raise of 26,000 , i called and after an A flopped Simon and i checked it down , both of us missed completely and the other player had AA .

4 handed we had 15 minutes to go , i had 58,000 , Simon was big chip leader with over 400,000 so could fold his way to the tiltle , i had a choice , each 10,000 chip was worth approx £800 , do i gamble or hope with the stalling ( Davood was getting a clock called nearly every hand ) i would lose no more than 30,000 and make an extra £2240 on top of £8080 for 4th .

It was obvious Davood had settled for a chip count as he had over 160,000 so on the button i went all in and in fact Simon raised to isolate , i don't even remember the hands but i rivered 2 pair and was now in 3rd place then came the key hand.

In FP i raised 70,000 with 3 minutes left to go , Simon and Davood folded but Salvadore reraised to put me all in , now it was 62,000 to call worth nearly £5000 and all i had to do was stall to avoid losing the BB on the next hand to lock it up. I had AT98 and decided to gamble for a big win so called.

He had KQQ7 , flop was 9 high , turn an A and river a T , he was left with 24,000 , it was all over , Simon had 500,000 , i had gone from 58,000 to 310,000 and Davood had 116.000.

Simon was declared the winner and i think he deserved it even though ideally as it was a European Championship he would have preferred to play it out . His key hand had been earlier when faced with a call and an all in raise he risked everything with rag AA and against 3 all ins with one that had him covered, they stood up propelling him to chip leader , he could easily have passed and moved 2 places up the pay ladder.

Obviously i would have relished the heads up if we had got there but i think i came second because Davood locked up and Salvatore didn't realise the value of his stack with minutes to go.

For my efforts i received £22,490 , much better than the £1200 for 12th i was destined for. or the £9400 deal i agreed to when i had less than 8 BB .

So , the following payouts are due and all apart from MC, as promised, will also be freerolling with the same value shareholding when i play the GUKPT in Thanet.

Evil Pie ( Matt ) 20%  £4500 + same share holding in Thanet GUKPT

Simon (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=399) Nowab (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=399) 15% £3375 + same share holding in Thanet GUKPT

Tony Minnis 5% £1125 + same share holding in Thanet GUKPT

Julian (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=225) Thew (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=225) 5% £1125 + same share holding in Thanet GUKPT

Tikay 5% £1125 + same share holding in Thanet GUKPT

Red Simon 2.5% £562.50 + same share holding in Thanet GUKPT

MC ( James ) 2.5% £562.50

Scott Mcgee 2.5% £562.50 + same share holding in Thanet GUKPT

Robbiebox (Jon) 2.5% £562.50 + same share holding in Thanet GUKPT

I got out of The Vic at 5.50am , found a b&b to get some sleep as i have some business in Kent today but couldn't so came to an internet cafe to get this written up ( and do some work lol )

Thanks for all those that gave me a second chance and i apologise to Woodsey and Chris (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=65) Bruce (http://www.blondepoker.com/blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=65) who missed out.

Payments will be made either when i see you at the club or by transfer, i will contact you all.

Cheers

ACES

Da iawn Simon Ad Ahrt

Fantastic result!!

Cheers Simon

Brilliant result mate and well done for taking those gambles at the end. Must've been difficult decisions.

Well done to all the stakers for keeping the faith after the disappointing card run at the WSOPE.

Good luck at Thanet.

 ;tightend;

Very well done Simon and all of the stakers too.

It was fully subscribed by the time I noticed this thread  ;reallyamsorry;

Great result Simon!!!

PS, I'm going to kill EvilPie for snapping up the rest before me lol.

Well done all.

Great result Simon

That's awesome news Simon, Congratulations!

FFS bloody work conferences that stop me getting online, I run bad......

Well done Simon!

wp simon great result for backers too.....

i have only met simon on a few occasions and every time we been on the same table he have been a true gentleman,
1 rings to mind at the midlands masters 2004 where we were sat next to each other for sometime,
.,.,every time i played a hand he guessed what hand i had.,i didnt tell him at the time as i was a bit shy but on about 4 or out 5 hands he was 100% right,,,down to pocket fives,,aq,,jj,,,and how the hell did he get this one 22 lol.,.,.,whether he had some sort of read on me.or.,.mmmmm i think he was looking at my cards.,.lol
how could someone be this good i thought??/./.?well he was.,.,and still is.,.,

blatant brag here i went on to final table finishing 9th to a suck out from paul "lucky bastard" jackson and simon ground out to a 4-5th place for about £15k.,.,.,

well done simon keep it up..,,.,.,.

Meh :)
Look what a difference not having my bok money on your back makes!!

WD on the result.

awesme result, Simon was one of the first guys I saw on Late Night Poker.

The blondes are doing well for their backers!!!!

Nice result. ;applause;

Great result Simon! Cash will pay for this weekend' s £300 at dtD...so it'll be right back in circulation :)

Nice result Simon ... chuffed for you.

Delighted for you and the backers and mighty p'd off that I didn't take my 2nd chance option :-(

That was the deciding factor in giving Simon some more of my hard earned dough, knew he would win if I didn't!

Smart move :-)

good skills fella,
pass the slate...

Well done, Simon.

Collected my 4.5k off Simon tonight.

I've never seen anyone so happy handing over an envelope full of money.

Obviously as pleased about this result as anyone and on a poker buzz ready for Thanet.

Well done again mate.

wp, Simon! ;applause;

B&H

Received my share via my DTD account, thanks Simon and good luck in Thanet.