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Part 1

I left work on thursday evening and headed for Kings Cross. I was aiming to make it to DTD for 8pm which was going to be tight as I don't finish work in central London until 5.30. I rushed to the station and jumped into the queue for tickets. The trains for Nottingham and Sheffield were leaving within 2 mins of each other and arriving at the desk 2 minutes before departure was cutting it fine.

"Ticket to Nottingham please"
"£134.50 please sir"
"gdjfgskdjgsdkthsdg"

A quick phone call to Blatch and I would be arriving in Nottingham via Limousine as his horses should be treated Leicester at 7.10pm with only a £60.50 hit to the wallet. I don't know why I never book train tickets in advance. Actually I do know - I'm a lazy shit. I'm met at the station by Blatch and Kev (AutobetKev on here) and we drive to DTD whilst Neil is on the phone to Betfair. Upon giving his details to the guy, he's asked if he's Neil Blatchly from blonde poker. Toasty life - Neil has been phone recognised.

We arrive just a tiny bit into the first level of the sat and find our seats. 106 runners iirc and 20 seats gtd. 2k starting stack with £50 rebuys. I have 11k within 20 minutes and have had no rebuys. Table is complete heaven and I just know I'm on course to get a seat...that is until the 2nd level begins....

Toby Lewis is in and comes over to chat to me when I think there are 7 limps on my big blind at 50/100. Only the button is playing more than starting stack (7k). He limps, SB makes up and I look down at 88 and just ship while I'm talking to Tobias. Everyone folds pretty quickly and the button dwells. I obviously don't mind a call but am guessing he probably has overs but seeing as I know he never has better than 88 I'm not too bothered. He says, "This is the best hand I've had all night".

I give Toby a quick wtf look as we've been playing for approx 28 mins and this guy's going on like he's been card dead for 12 hours. He slides his stack in and turns AJ. Ahhh the good old limp for 1 bb and call for 69 more. Marv. Before the cards are dealt Toby already has his anti-railing shoes on and says, 'unlucky mate' just before the ace rolls off in the window.

Unfortunately I had to dip into makeup for 2 rebuys and an add on after that, costing me a total of £200 instead of £50. [  ] At least my train fare was cheap. I soon chipped up nicely again and was the biggest stack on my table along with said villain until I caught him overplaying A5 when he limp called vs my KK. He flopped a flush draw and led on a 662 board with 2 spades. I called to take a card off as he pretty much only has a bluff/flush draw or small overpair himself here and I wanted to make sure a spade didn't come off before I got it in. Over rolls a red 9 and he moves in, I snap and send him home. Now with 25k with the average at 7k and only around 30 needed to make a seat I guesstimate.

The plan was to stay at Stuart Hopkin's but he was at a Marilyn Manson concert (lol i know wtf). As he would be drinking there was a distinct possibility Stu would be too drunk to remember and go home in auto pilot mode so i was prepared for the possibilty of having to find a hotel last minute. However with 30 players left and Sunny Nagi (FreeRollin) on my left I got a surprise visit from the Chuckle Brothers (Clown and Pie) so knew I was safe to stay at the new born Emo-goth freak businessman/clown's house.

I was coasting along until about 30 left when I moved in on the SB and Sunny woke up with QQ in the BB to knock me down from 40 to 23k. Despite that I managed to chip up. I raised K10 in late position and a nit in the BB moved all in. I can't remember stack sizes but with it being a satellite it was a really marginal spot and Con Cronin called a clock on me in what was an unreasonable amount of time. He was annoyed because I'd raised his blinds 3 times. Sigh live players. I folded and then moved tables as we broke to 27.

Here I chipped up really well as everyone had just stopped playing and were waiting for the 2 shorties to get knocked out. I've now got 60k and coasting. The button raises to 16k at 2k/4k and I ship the BB with AQ. He makes a rather bad call for his remaining 22k with 1010. Bearing in mind 2 stacks had less than 6k and 12k respectively and he has an orbit til the blinds hit him again I hate the call but I'm unphased when I lose the hand. Down to 24k I'm still in a good spot for a seat with now 22 left. One guy on our table is in the BB and playing 6k. 4k of that is in the middle and I look down at 2 kings. Wii...until UTG an old nit playing 70k raises to 11k. I can't ship and I'm not flatting so into the muck they go.

Once when I was 11 and in my first year at secondary school I deliberately forgot my swimming kit as I hated swimming lessons. My teacher (Mr Kent - you bastard I'll get you one day) threw me a pair of trunks from Lost property and forced me to wear them. I had to share a towell with a friend too. Folding Kings pre flop brought back those similar feelings of just dirtyness and being uncomfortable in my own skin.

Shorty puts his last 2k in and loses to AQ with a 4 card flush. Luckily I didn't have the K of hearts and would have lost so I felt a little better. The other guy went out on the other table and I had a seat locked. Nice.

Part 2 soon, just need to make sure I don't get sacked until at least tomorrow now.

Nice start Cos, keep it coming please.

We need more of this sort of stuff.

Hard to believe that you could upset Con Cronin. A true gentleman.

PS - can I get this through sans smiley?

Enjoyable read.  "Bah! Humbug! I call the clock..."

tl;dr



c + p

Wiiiiiii..... good hand. :)

Great stuff Cos. Hurry up with the next installment.

Great reportage Cos.

Good read too ;)

Nice start Cos, keep it coming please.

We need more of this sort of stuff.

Hard to believe that you could upset Con Cronin. A true gentleman.

PS - can I get this through sans smiley?

Haha. So clever, I'm going to steal it.




Nice start Cos, keep it coming please.

We need more of this sort of stuff.

Hard to believe that you could upset Con Cronin. A true gentleman.

PS - can I get this through sans smiley?

Nice start Cos, keep it coming please.

We need more of this sort of stuff.

Hard to believe that you could upset Con Cronin. A true gentleman.

PS - can I get this through sans smiley?

rofl thanks guys.

Will do part 2 now.

lol even in a satty where you have a seat locked and can just fold AQ you like to make life hard for yourself! Sicko

Hahah yeah I definitely could and probably should have folded that, but I wanted to make life difficult for the other guy.

It was hard for him to fold the K-K, but he managed it. Just. Proper playa him.

Gooooooooooooot reporting sir,  moar pls

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee antirail ftw ;)

Nice report cos, the aq is very clear fold in a sat in this spot.

[ X ] Cheers Marky.

[  ] Nice of you to come down for a drink.

[  ] Didn't know that about the AQ.

[ X ] Funking around.

I thought it was slightly clearer than that

Part 2

After a good night's rest at Maison Hopkin we set off for Stu's local pub for lunch with Evilpie and Blatch. As the other two are late we get drinks (and then order our food on the tab. When Neil comes he goes to order his and pays on the table. Thinking he's paying for his own meal they put the whole tab on card Blatch. Bink! We didn't even need to grim him, the pub did it for us. A flip not even necessary. Running good before a £1k tourney is handy.

We arrive at DTD just as the tourney has started. Possibly missed one hand but my whole 30,000 is at the table. Unfortunately my table seems a rather bad one. 120 satellite winners and I'm sandwiched between John Eames, Will Martin and Ben Vinson. Anyone got a spare pair of swimming trunks? It's not all bad though, I have a man named Richard 'ChipRich20' in the BB when I'm on the button. My strat playing live is always to play an absolute ton of hands as people butcher hands so bad and play everything so face up that it's best to accumulate chips. As a cash player I'm also a lot more used to playing with a deep stack of 100-500bbs which makes the early stages better for me.

I raised 74o in LP and Andy Bradshaw who had been quiet until then called in the BB. The flop was 256 with 2 diamonds. Andy checked and I bet. He called. The turn was the 4d bringing 3 diamonds. I now had a pair, straight draw and a flush draw. Andy now lead out and I called. The river was a black queen and I ended up paying off a small bet to be shown KQss. I don't know why but I just knew he had air on the flop and turn. Andy seemed to be the sort of guy who wants to be a hero (yeah see the irony...i just called with a pair of 4's) and outplay everyone every hand even in those early levels when it wasn't necessary. That hand cost me 700 I think. Shortly after that hand I tried to bluff Bradshaw and when he called I got the rub. As he began asking me something I ignored him completely, took my ipod out and put my earphones in. He was really giving it, 'You got somewhere to be kid?' etc... I thought to myself I'm gonna get this guy. I'm not some shy internet kid who will let him make me look silly.

He now thinks he's got my number and I decide, on around 22k to tighten up considerably for a while. With my image I'm now getting paid if I hit. Shortly after I got KK and won a big pot on a  Qc 9c 7d board where I raised pre and bet big on the flop, turn and river which both bricked clubs/straight draws. Oppo didn't call river bet. Back up to 30k without showing down that one I'm pretty sure Bradshaw still thought he knew how I was playing. As Maria said on the update thread the way he puts chips in the pot is quite tilting. He also semi slowrolls when turning his hand. Ben Vinson declared Ace high one time and Bradshaw slowly flicked one card over and then slowly flicked the other over without announcing that Ben was beat. Not a slowroll but a bit douschey. I went over and told that cheeky little Prewdie pie who was updating on the table behind me that I was gonna get him. 15 mins later I raise the cut off with 78dd and flop the 3rd nuts on a 910J board. The flop goes check check and then I bet turn, Bradshaw calls. River blanks and I bet 2700 into about 3300 and Bradshaw calls pretty quickly. I turn the card exactly the same way he did to Vinson. Not overly slowly but in that tilting one at a time slow way without saying a word.

This is where it got quite funny. Bradshaw bemoans his luck and then says, 'If you'd have bet 8k I'd have called'. (It wouldn't have surprised me if he had a 9 or a 10 here as I knew the next hand I played with him he was gonna call me). My ipod went off at this point and the verbals went on for ages. I think anyone at the table would agree I made Bradshaw look quite silly.

Me: "Hmm yeah I don't normally bet 8k into 3.5 though. Maybe its a leak."
Bradshaw: "I was definitely calling a lot more. Massive cooler there"
Me: "What did you have?"
Bradshaw: "A set!"
Me: "Of....."
Bradshaw: *Stutters* erm...Eights
Me: "(Sarcastically). Wow sick cooler. I should have defo bet 8k, you were calling with three 8's in your hand, not a single one on the board and the other in my hand"

(Continues....fast forward 5 minutes)

Me: "I think you just made a horrible call"
Bradshaw: "I had a set"
Me: "No you just made a bad call, but there's no shame in that. You're a bad player. Bad players make bad calls. Don't worry about it".

So as we continue Bradshaw raises a while later to 600 at 100/200. I call on the button with 22. Flop is  Q65 and Bradshaw bets 500 into 1400 and I may have the best hand here. I call to take a card off and now the board pairs the Q. This time Bradshaw bets 1k and again I decide to call. The river is a beautiful deuce and I lead for 3k. Andy snap makes it 7.5k and I quickly call. Radio B says: "If you've got a Queen it's good" and I turn deuces. "I didn't have a queen" I reply. I think I can see smoke....no no that's steam coming from Mr Bradshaw. I knew it wasn't too long before he was gone though his exit hand was pretty sick 4-betting AA all in and getting a call from QJ.

After that I continue building my stack, playing lots of pots and chipping up slowly. I didn't think Will Martin was as tough as I thought he'd be and I 3-bet him in position twice with the same hand 78hh and made him fold post flop both times. I won another nice pot with KK. Meanwhile I was mega impressed with John Eames. The guy ALWAYS knows where he is in a hand and had to play tight because he had Will, me and Ben, the 3 most active players along with Bradshaw all in position on him but in like 5 hours he never lost a significant pot. I was delighted when he limped once in the small after Will Martin had been knocked out, I raised Q10 and he folded. I nearly got up and told Tighty to put it on the updates. As the blinds got a little bigger I knew Ben would make life difficult and after the first time he 3-bet me and I folded I tightened up a fair bit, making sure I only raised every time it was Rich's BB.

I left the table with a peak of 70k and was moved to table Marenholz (I don't know how it's spelt but I'm pretty sure it's not the way I just did) and Snoops for my first and only bad hour of the day....

Part 3 soon.

Good pennage Cos ... enjoyable read.

+1

how many parts to this?

Don't know yet.. likely around 4/5

would you say you were trying to 'own' bradshaw?

great read - keep it coming

Nice continuation Cos, keep it coming please.

We need more of this sort of stuff.

Hard to believe that you could upset Andy Bradshaw. A true gentleman.

PS - can I get this through sans smiley?

Matt does it best - he remembers to do the italics.

Nice continuation Cos, keep it coming please.

We need more of this sort of stuff.

Cant wait for the cash update.

PS - can I get this through sans smiley?

Winner so far.

FYP

Mega sigh.

.

Yeah good stuff.

Good banter Cos!

Wait til your bit comes Williams! Make sure the mrs isnt reading though!!

Top quality thread.

"Meanwhile I was mega impressed with John Eames. The guy ALWAYS knows where he is in a hand and had to play tight because he had Will, me and Ben, the 3 most active players along with Bradshaw all in position on him but in like 5 hours he never lost a significant pot"

Absolutely spot on.  He is a superb player and if I owned a poker site I would be knocking his door down trying to sponsor him.  Interesting on Friday night how he was just about the only one in that group not drinking and having an early night. 

This thread is getting epic!

And this is the reason I should be a life nit like my mate John Eames and never drink whilst playing poker lol.

A standard John Eames Facebook post....

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guna b there early evening, coming 2nite?
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Lol I reckon john might prove us all wrong... and have a smirnoff ice

Nice conk Cos, keep it coming please.

We need more of this sort of stuff.

Can't wait for the Radio 1 roadshow bit.

PS - are you too young to remember smiley miley?

Cos you would know by reading blonde that Will Martin is terrible!!

This is whooshing me. Anybody enliten me please?

+1  :dontask:



PS. great read so far. keep it coming Cos

Nice question Dingdell, keep them coming please.

We need more of this sort of stuff.

Hard to believe that you could upset a Hollyoaks girl. A true lady.

PS - can I get this through sans smiley?

brag post?

i wish i was a nit like john mfkn eames!!

[X] Confirmed saw John Eames drinking once.

Yeah but apart from Middy you say everyone is terrible!

I wanted to be a little more tactful, especially since Will seemed a really nice guy.

Dunno didn't think much of him as a person either, but he is proper terrible, middy is bad but not the same level.

Were there any good players playing in the Monte Carlo IYO?

Yeah, i didn't play any of them but they were about

such as?

Papertits obv.

Con obv

Doc Sausage ?

Pab obv

Lol the man is starting to tilt the entire place!

We had a round of applause when we got rid of him in the £150

Nice report Cos :)

Part 3

As the dinner break hits I go for some food with Tom Rutter, James Atkin and a few other blondes. My memory of this is hazy as my objective was just to get into the buffet queue before ChipRich and Brent. I see PAUL HO at a table. ZOMG. Paul Ho. Much to my disappointment Paul is quite a normal and really nice guy when I expect him to be a fruitloop. At this point I go outside for a quick cigarette before the restart and Luke Fullflush introduces himself to me as we've had a bit of a run in offline before. He had parked his new Bentley right outside the front of the club and must have lost something as he checked the boot, driver's seat, glove compartment etc every 2 minutes. I think people may have realised it was his car at this point. He actually seemed alright though.

As my table is right up at the back it was broken in level 6 or 7 and I was moved only one table away, going with my peak chip stack by that point, of 70k. I recognised 3 faces there. Snoopy, Marenholz and another relatively new blonde, (CUTEMOFO). Snoops introduces himself and we exchange a quick hello though it's a bit awkward to chat at opposite ends of the table. Me and Cute had also played a billion hands against each other back in the £1/2 NL games on crypto when I was a real fish and had a bit of banter about that. I briefly tried to say a quick hi to Karl, mentioning the DTD overlay thread he made but either I got blanked or Karl didn't hear. I'm 99% sure it's the latter though. I couldn't be arsed to say it again as Karl doesn't exactly look like the happiest man ever at the table.

I opened my first pot and was immediately 3-bet. With there being no real banter on the table apart from a bit of chat between me and Cutefish I decided to put my ipod on and play steady. My plan worked half perfectly - I put my ipod on. The other half not too well - I did not play steady and kind of lost my way for a bit. Marenholz raised in MP and I called with dishonest intentions in LP with A7o, not that I'm trying to justify my play - it's plain bad here. The flop comes Q103 all hearts. My recollection of the hand is poor but one street was bet and I called holding a heart. I bet 5700 into circa 11k on the offsuit 9 river and Karl made a good call with 55. Shortly after I limped QJ in the small, for deception and wanting to play a pot with the BB really and ended up butchering the hand vs his J5 on a J75 board to double him up. Sighhhhhh they didn't call him Cute_Nit on Crypto for nothing. I call a Snoops raise with KQ and we both check the Q high board but I bet and take it on the turn. I'm so glad they break the table.

I've gone from a very healthy 70k to a much more back in the pack 44k and have some real words with myself as I look for my new table. I'm sat opposite Jerome Bradpiece and on the right of Gem Husnu, who's game I'm fairly familiar with. I'm playing steady and raising fairly regularly again but my chipstack hasn't moved much in 2 orbits. There's one guy on the table who's played 3 or 4 pots in 3 or so rounds by open shipping his 40bbs in every single one. He explains that 'he wants to see 5 cards if he's all in' when asked. Utg at 600/1200 and playing 49k or so I open to 2900 utg with AK and the button insta 3-bets to 7.1k. I 4-bet and we get it in. He has 109off and I'm thinking 'dont fucking doing it to me'. As the dealer goes to spread the flop I see an ace in the window. Before I can breathe a sigh of relief the other two cards are J 8. Two hearts on the board and the turn is the K of hearts. [  ] Truly feels like my hand just improved. I fade the heart/Q/7 river and I'm up to c.90k. As I'm stacking the big pot, Jerome raises, as he's doing pretty often and the sb calls. I call in the BB with K10ss. The flop comes 3JQ rainbow and we both check. Jerome checks behind and a king hits the turn. Again we both check and Jerome bets. SB passes and I call. Jerome makes a big bet of 10/11k or so into about 13k on the river. I think for a second and call. Jerome mucks.

I peak at 113k but end the day on 94k. Apart from that one nightmare level where I had a brainfart and played a few hands badly for the large part of the day, I kept my concentration, played well, really aggressively and was happy with how it finished. (If John Eames happens to read this and wants to know what I mean by the term brainfart or the expression 'playing hands badly' please ding me a pm and I'll do my best to try and explain). Average coming back for day 2 was like 66k.

We didn't spend too long in the bar on day 1 but it was nice hanging around and just generally having banter with a lot of the blondes who had turned up. Some of whom, despite having talked to a lot before I'd never actually met..i.e Messrs Horner, ChipRich, Middy, Pab, $Muscles$. I also met two heroes throughout the day, Mr Jakally and Dave Dubaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Shallow. My two 10% investments (Leknave and Numpty Dumpty) turned out to be very bad poker players and had already been knocked out.

Day 2 of the main event to follow....

Good read man Keep it coming!!

3 parts in and no Larry?

Patience is a virtue. You think I'd leave Notts without some lobster lovin'?

Sighhhhhhh, I did post on the updates to tell rich to keep you off Larry ... that yellow suited lobster catcher hates you !!

Fine report Cos  ;hattip;

Loving this. You've even put a few curve-balls in, &, I suspect, got most of them through, great stuff, you are learning fast. I particularly enjoyed this one......

had also played a billion hands against each other back in the £1/2 NL games on crypto when I was a real fish

Terrific stuff, the little suggestion that you used to be a fish.

You should be in PR, or the Media.

Non sequitur ftw

Sure didnt spend long in the bar on the Friday? What are you talking about?

Great work so far mate, showing how it shud be done for a blogger. BTW Blatch's rubdown on the cash game earlier had me loling, would be nce to see how you dress that up :)

We spent ages in the bar on saturday mate, not friday.

Meanwhile you prob spent ages there both nights, what with your early exits lol!

Is it me or you losing the plot!

I didnt even go on Saturday I was in my local pub you clown!

Nah, it was the 1%....

I wish I had have heard though as I would have loved to have chatted about my favourite part of the weekend. The part where Mr Trumper asked us to give DTD a round of applause. "Players, just to let you know the tournament you've just paid £1k to enter doesn't have any overlay...give DTD a round of applause!" Either people didn't really know what they were clapping for or the marketing machine is well oiled in there.

Can't make any apologies for being overly serious at the table, but am not such a bad guy off it and would happily buy anyone a drink at the bar afterwards

Sorry fella, but all of us regulars are happy there wasn't an overlay. We actually want the club to be around in 5 years..............

Haha brilliant

This is true, but thats really funny what Karl's said cos I really think I was clapping without actually thinking about why I'm clapping! A true blonde..

So are you suggesting that I wasnt chatting to you in the bar at 4am saturday morning (ie friday night),

FML - been calling the wrong bloke Cos all this time!  ;carlocitrone;

Barry Neville said 'What are we clapping for? Is it for the building? Are we clapping the walls and the roof?'

OK....but if all the overlay is still there but spent in the sats to get extra people in, rather than just in the tournament itself, does this actually make any difference to the chances of the club being there or not in 5 years?

I didn't know if you had just had a bad beat or something or maybe you were just concentrating on owning my soul as you did with the 55 hand.

Well next time I'll say hi properly and get the first drink.

Meanwhile my favourite Trumper announcement, was the Ali Mallu rubdown. I can't remember exactly what Simon said though.

Also, I'd normally be more than happy about a Grosvenor/Gala type establishment getting hit with an overlay to fork out for but I clapped genuinely for DTD and was pleased they made the overlay. It's the only place in England I genuinely enjoy going and playing live in so regularly. Having also met Rob Yong this weekend, I'm glad that such a nice bloke with such good intentions for poker doesn't have to reach for his chequebook over this.

It turns out I did stay rather late on saturday night, thinking it was sunday.

I'll explain and recap when I post up part 4.

Yes but having an overlay in the sats AND the event itself might make a difference, especially if its as large as the last big event. As it turns out the reg fees/cash probably covered most of the overlay in the sats but that's not really the point.

Sorry but I can't help but get a bit annoyed when a guy is trying to do the best for poker, and has already spent a small fortune doing that for all of us trying to achieve that. You then get people hoping/wishing/wanting for him to do his bollocks a little bit more so there is a bit more value in the short term.

They didn't though, that just spread it around in the sats. Anyway, no big deal was just saying I found it funny at the time. Was a great tournament still, not doubting that


Ok I'm gone from this thread.....

No problem, sorry to have annoyed you. I'm not going to post any more about this. DTD seems a nice place to play even though I don't go there often. Things I have learnt from people close to me mean I too get a little worked up when conversations start going down this route and so time for me to step away...

Back on track, good trip report so far Cos

No probs mate, I'm just talking generally, not specifically about you. As we know there are a lot of skinflints in poker who are always looking for something for nothing............

Carry on Cos sorry for the thread fk.

Friday night you kebabadopolous

sgdhsdghs

Lol, it was deffo Friday ... :D

the moment of the tournament was when john eames busted.  " taxi for john..... taxi for john" was announced  literally 5 seconds after he busted lol, was pretty com.

get on with it :)

So you got busted by the fish then? ;)

Tikay would probably say he was a world beater as he won stuff 10 years ago, Surinder Sunar, limp called 5x playing 40x with A7, flopped a flush draw, check jammed and got there, nh sir.

Fair summary of the standard but most were happy to open for more and jam with less.

I got some time before going to family in a few hours today so I'll be writing part 4 shortly.

[  ] Love being woken up at 10am to open presents.

Part 4

I'll rewind a little bit and begin with last night where I got confused and actually spent longer in the bar than I thought. All the shrewdies etc were there and after the day's play I went for a drink with everyone. Stu tells me at about 2 he wants to leave in a min which suits me fine as I'm playing day 2 the next day and keen to get a good nights sleep.

Voice: Another drink Stu?
Clown: Guinness please.

Me: Sighhhhh.

Voice: And you Cos?
Me: Yeah pls mate, nice one. (Double sigh)

So we end up in the bar for another hour or so and bit by bit everyone slowly goes home until it's just me, Sunny, Stu and Tommy Mfckin Ceee. We're chatting away but I'm not really drinking. I think I had one and a little bit. After winning the £40 NLH Guy (Outrageous76) comes to join us for a quick drink and before we know it it's 4am. Guy leaves and the 4 of us decide we gotta pay homage to Larry.

Agreeing on £20 each (me, Sunny, Stu and TommyC) give Larry a spin and do our £80. All we want to do it play until we get a bonus which [  ] happens. The next £80 that went in seems to last forever, to the point where Stu is fistpuming every losing spin just so we can go home. At 5am its gg and I go back to Stu's for some sleep.

Play restarts at 2 and I'm already up by 12. Used to 4/5 hours sleep at night, 7 is a bit of a luxury so even though I got back at 5, I felt fine and ready to go.

However, starts of day 2's have always been bad for me and this one was no different, except this time it's no-one's fault but my own. Within a few hands of sitting down a young lad opens the button and I have one option here with stacks as they are and my hand, KQss. Call. However I decided to 3-bet and had to call the shove. Sick thing is I decided beforehand that the young lad would raise on the button if the pot was unopened before him and when I 3-bet I decided it wasn't as a bluff, but to induce and I snapped his all in so fast and turned over KQ that the guy's face dropped until he saw my hand and turned over his AQ. This put me down below average for the first time in the tourney but with 50k and average at 68 I wasn't worried.

I open a few pots and get 3-bet in two of them but maintain my stack and am on about 55k when the following hand happens. Guy opens in late MP and I have  Ahrt Aspades in the SB. I 3-bet the same amount I did when I had KQ and he shoved. This time I snap and wait to collect my 115k pot vs  Ac Kd.

I look a lock to do it too.

 Th 5h 2d

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 3c

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 4c


gsghsghsdlggshgdgsdg. This was the same guy who got it all in the day before with QQ vs Jerome's KK and binked on the flop. I was sure there was only one Blatchley playing in this event too.

All this has happened within the first few rounds of being back at day 2 and now my table is very very annoying. Everyone is open shoving with like 40bb stacks, following the example of the 1 guy from the day before. It's pretty tilting and me and Gem Husnu are sat next to one another frustratingly not able to open any pots as they've been shoved before us. I open A3 in the cutoff and Steve Jelinek's mrs shoves in the BB. Pass, again.

I wait two orbits with not 1 single pot I can open. The only person not shoving, is the shover from day before. He explains that he needs a new tactic as everyone else is following his example. dghslkjdghsdgs. Two guys have come over from Latvia and are both on the table. When they are talking in their native language to one another inbetween and during hands I discreetly give the dealer a signal to tell them no more.

I finally reshove 69ss from the SB to a button raise, leaving just 1x 100 chip on my cards. When the dealer says I'm all in I confidently correct him that I still have money behind to bet the flop. Villain looks and sees I have just the one chip behind and waits for about 30 seconds before moving in. He has Aces. I hit a 9 on the flop and and waiting for a justice 6 or 9 for his slowroll so that I can fistpump and accidentally catch his nose with a knuckle or two but alas, despite picking up a flush draw on the turn I brick. I'm out of there as quick as possible before I get angry at him.

Left scratching my head and with a massage girl following me I decide to reg for £300. I've got that stubborn feeling now that I need to do well in it.

excellent pennage Cos

This is a great read cos. I can't believe how many people sloow roll or nit roll at dtd. there were ay least 7 times on the friday in the 40 with 2 when someone said I think I have to call and then slow roll the nuts or quasi nuts! Its starting to annoy me a bit to the point where they need to do something about it.

Keep up the good work on this thread :o)

To be fair if he announced all in straight away you'd know you 96 is no good. Bit of hollywood to make sure you call hurt no one.

In fact I'd have flat called and bet the 100 on the river assuming you checked it down

Sigh

I tried to go home at 11-30 ish

LeKnave offered me a drink and I said 'I think im alright mate, gonna get going' to which he replied 'Your Stuart Hopkin, you dont turn down drinks' to which i replied 'Guinness please'

This carried on all night with the only variation being if i said no twice then it was 'Your Stuart M'fckin Hopkin'

Sunny was the best!

5 hours later i felt like a cheap skate cus i hadnt bought a drink and I could hardly see.

".....When they are talking in their native language to one another inbetween and during hands I discreetly give the dealer a signal to tell them no more....".

Since when did GreekBoys do anything discretely?

I assume "discrete" means "Oi Scandie Kiddo, stfu or I'l slap you".

7 pages & about a week to get the ME out of the way, now there's the Chirpathon about the £300 to follow.

Over-under on when Cos will finish this, & how many Pages it will run to?

I go long on Easter, & 83 pages.

Good pennage though. We need more of this sort of stuff. *

* That's called BT ground-bait.

"All this has happened within the first few rounds of being back at day 2 and now my table is very very annoying. Everyone is open shoving with like 40bb stacks, following the example of the 1 guy from the day before. It's pretty tilting and me and Gem Husnu are sat next to one another frustratingly not able to open any pots as they've been shoved before us."

Yeah, check it out Cos. You seem to get pretty damn annoyed at the poker table. In this event you had words with Con, you wanted to chin your oppo when you had that 6-9, you're vexed about the Latvians, you had all that bad feeling vs Bradshaw wanting to prove a point etc, as well as lots of general annoyance and frustration with almost every random player you come up against. This doesn't help you play good poker and I'm sure you know that. So why play with such a tilt prone emotional mentality?

Yeah chillax.

 :-X

Testosterone ftw  ;nemesis;

Keep 'em coming please Coc.

FYP

Tilting/Annoying/Frustrating etc are all words I choose to use to give dramatic effect for the sake of the piece of writing. Whilst many of the situations were not ideal, I rarely ever let them influence my play. Bradshaw's mouth probably got to me the most but I soon rectified the situation and used it to my advantage.

To correct you once again Mantis, I did not have words with Con Cronin in this event. I had words with him in the satellite the night before.

As regards the Latvians, I just did what was right for the sake of the whole table. No big deal.

I'm not really a hugely confrontational guy by nature, I like more than anything just to get along with people and have a good time but I can ignite pretty quickly if I feel someone is taking the piss. I'm pretty happy that in the last 6 months or so I've learnt to just get on with stuff at the table and really not let it affect my play.

Chiprich was sat at the table with me for most of the weekend and will tell you my play wasn't tilty and I was more good banter at the table than anything.

Wow look how mad cos is getting at mantis. Posting on the forum when your so tilted is not ideal mate.

I think you need to take a step back!

Oh ok. It's just when you said that after 20 minutes of sitting down at the table you were very very annoyed, pretty tilted and frustrated, I naturally presumed that's how you felt. If it was just for dramatics then fine. With Bradshaw you get the hump that he thinks you're an internet kid and you want to prove him wrong. But if you're a more experienced and cultured player than Bradshaw thinks you are then that's a good thing for you. Your eagerness to disprove his perception is detrimental imo. Verbals that went on for ages, turning your cards the same way as he does, reporting his antics to Tighty, happy that you'd made him look silly. Just don't know how all that baggage helps you. You might think that stuff doesn't affect your play but if you were indifferent to this guy's opinions it definitely wouldn't affect your play.

You were having words with Con in a sat on the day before having words with people in this event. Yep I certainly stand corrected bud.

Mantis 1 : 0 Papertits

Mantis 2/9
Papertits 7/2

Look - COS WAS NOT ANGRY OR TILTED UP, RIGHT?

This Thread gets better & better.

Do GreekBoys celebrate Christmas?

STOP SHOUTING !

Sorry, I thought I was Cos, saying I WAS NOT ANGRY, RIGHT?

This.

FWIW I get exactly the same, let stupid factors effect my game. I think Karl said earlier that away from the table he is a pretty fun guy but at the table he's all business (or implying something to that effect anyway). I think to be successful you do need to do this. Sometimes I get caught too much up with the banter etc and it effects how I play.

In 2010 I hope to take a more professional approach

Less Whining, whinging, banter and ultimately- girly giggles.

Praise the lord

Sigh, now I'm tilted. In fact, I'm tilted any time Mantis goes near a thread and posts his usual tosh. Not nearly as bad here as on PHA though.

Mantis has never met me and doesn't know what I'm like so has no clue that me finding someone annoying/frustrating/tilting etc would affect my game or not. I'm a lot more aware these days of when my game begins to be affected and I quickly correct it.

Apparently Mantis knows me better than I know myself though. Despite feeling any of the emotions described, I didn't play any hands differently to how I would have if I was happy as Larry and Cheryl Tweedy was under the table.

One final thing Mantis, if we ever share a table, rest assured you WILL be able to tilt me and take me off my game. However, if you play like you post on PHA I doubt you'll be able to capitalise on it in any way.

Merry xmas.

Yup - I ate for 12 hours solid yday. Heaven!

I'll try do the next part today!

NORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

Cos has tilted hard.

Epic thread so far :)

Deffo epicage.

I do think it will be finished around Easter, too. Every time Cos goes to write another Part, MANTIS tilts him up.

As someone who has a job, which for a very significant part involves analysing hands, how does Mantis' butchery on PHA not tilt you up too!?

Gonna write next part now.

I also see Spacefrog is viewing the thread. If he gives me a needle I'll be forced to out his identity.

epic. "in the well with Mantis" FTW.

For the most part the Hand Analysing I do on TV & other places is based on what MANTIS preaches. He is a God of PHA, imo, & I owe everything to him.

FYP

Mantis is a bit like a politician he says a lot and presents it in pleasing English but at the end of the day he doesn't really say anything of use. He is a loveable politician a bit like Boris though and I don't know why you let him wind you up Cos.

lol

+1

Mantis is also in the top ten most good looking blondes, so that gives him a lot of leeway in my book.

Well talking about PHA buddy your most recent thread on there tells us how villain had the sort of face that annoys you. So forgive me for getting the impression that you get annoyed at the table by insignificant stuff. Yes I don't know you and my info only comes from what you write. Admittedly I'm struggling to distinguish between what's genuine and what's for dramatic effect. Personally I don't know how getting agitated by this sort of thing assists the clarity of thought you think you have but w/e.

Anyway, my intention was to give you a bit of advice for xmas. If you think that staying calm, composed and indifferent at the poker table is bad advice or tosh then don't accept it. I can't say I'm especially bothered either way. By the way kid, I know all too well I can tilt you. You see the power I have to effect your mentality. By contrast your words have zero effect on my temperament. Can you see the difference? Can you see how that might be beneficial when playing poker?

Finally, considering you like to prove a point I hope that in 2010 you get yourself on PHA to expose my tosh. Because I didn't see much evidence of that in 2009. You should be able to embarrass me with ease and it will make for a good debate.

By the way I love you.

Wow you really do kid yourself?! Anyone with half a clue about poker who reads PHA knows you're terribad. You've been exposed a billion times this year. I just ignore your posts these days, they are a joke.

Btw you need to read more closely...the villain who was annoying, for more reasons than just his face (as I said but you failed to notice) was NOT the villain in the hand I wanted opinions on.

Also, we've never got on, so why you'd think I want advice from you is beyond me. I have plenty of friends who do that are are much better qualified to. I personally would rather you just steered clear from my threads.

Enjoy the rest of your xmas.

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You just ignore my posts on PHA? That's what my advice was about Bradshaw that you didn't take kindly to?? Advice can be good whatever the source and I gave the advice because I'm feeling charitable around this time of year. Whilst you may not be big enough to take it on board others already have so I'm satisfied. Whilst you dished out all that stuff about not knowing you and how you play how well do you know me? And yet you make such judgemental comments. My profit from 2009 is a better indication of my ability than your opinion. But like I say I invite you to post on PHA and expose my nonsense if you wish.

Yeah I did read that PHA thread thoroughly. The villain who you were in the hand with had just arrived at the table. So it made me wonder why you chatted on about what a crazy ass you'd been before he arrived. By the way, I post where I please buddy.

That's two "buddy's" from Mantis- obv means business

Didn't say you couldn't post on my threads, just rather you didn't but thats fine.

Also, post graphs pls.

Get on with the story!

We're talking Whitsun now before we'll get the £300 finished..

Was loving the trip report, and now am enthralled by the added difference of opinion.  Dunno what I want next now TBH but anyway, keep it coming!
 ;popcorn;

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Oops. Misread.

Just like you playing a hand Cos .....

We all know where its going but you dwelling for a bit of TV time.

All aboard the Failboat?

nice pic Tom, but wtf is with those boots?

Dunno. This pic is a mistake anyway. I was googling "Tilted" and accidentally pressed the K instead of the T.

:)

quite often wonderful things are discovered by accident.

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Can you remember that its Poker Hand Analysis please Cos & Mantis, and Mantis is just giving Analysis (as asked for) rather than "advice".

Mantis = LOL

Will post properly tomorrow.

But right now just lol, if you cant understand how cos is thinking at the table then your not human.

I guess you accidentally pressed the W

Just out of interest for the morning so i can reply to your drivel? Do you no longer have any emotions?

Do you look at everyone as a number at your table?

I have never seen so much tosh in my life as your replies to Cos's posts.

Its a shame to see this thread sent of course by such backwardness.

If I ever get to play in a vacuum of great opponents for ever more please remove the above post as i didnt realise such a toasty world existed.

lol sorry - will post the rest tomorrow. Promise. Been doing big fat hairy greek foody things the last few days.

I know perfectly well how he feels. Everybody who plays poker gets annoyed, tilted and frustrated from time to time. But are these emotions helpful? Of course not. So as poker players becoming less frustrated at the table is something we should want to aspire to. It's not easy to do granted, but that's what we should aspire to. Because that's what good players do. I remember when Linford Christie lined up at the start of the 100m in the Olympics. He was doing that tunnel vision thing and blocking out all the other runners so they wouldn't affect his concentration. He was there to do a job and wasn't going to let anybody get inside his head. What you appear to be saying is Linford should have been fretting about the other runners to show his emotional side.

I enjoy reading Cos's stuff but lately I'm seeing a lot of angst towards other players. My advice was for him to try and be less frustrated by his opponents. His reaction was to get frustrated. He believes that even when he is tilting he is fully in control. But it isn't possible to be tilted and fully in control at the same time. DUCY? So I'm afraid that is the only drivel in the thread. Anyway I'm enoying this report so let's move on with the next instalment....

ooooh friend
ooooh poker friend

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FYP

Do you not think that sometimes having someone tilt you slighlty motivates you to play your A game more against them?

Tq save Mantis 1000 words: No

Why did you feel the need to post a picture of me?

FY Picture

£1000 heads up match please.

I learn few things today.

1. Grec food is worse than Rosbif food.

2. Kebap is from Turcs.



Merci for this.

Usually when I get tilted by someone, they end up with my chips.

Nice post Mrs Mantis

Part 5

Scratching my head a little bit I walk away from the tournament area, being followed by the masseuse I had still paid another half an hour for. When I busted out the last thing I wanted was her saying, 'Can you not play anymore now then?' or 'Did you go out on an unlucky hand?' in her ditsy little voice. I normally like being left alone after I bust a comp for a little bit.

Apart from the little blonde voice it was just like a shrewdie style rub down. 'Did you run out of chips?'. I was polite though because unlike the shrewdies her massive boobs were nice, she meant no harm.

So I reg for the £300 and go find my seat. The tournament has already been underway for a little while. Once again I'm on the same table as Chiprich which is nice cos in these comps it's always good to have someone to talk and banter with in a different way to just standard table chat. Cf is there too so apart from Rich, Charles and one other guy, it becomes immediately apparent that the table is really soft. I go down to 7k after I fold A8 on a AJ2A board. Villain just seems far to comforable betting into 2 of us, insistant he has the best hand and doesn't want to get outdrawn. He shows A8 too. Sigh. Pretty sure that's the right fold 95% of the time against the action though.

I soon managed to chip up and was quickly flying. If the table wasn't soft enough already they ship over two complete fish to our table. They look like forum geeks and as I ask their names, the replies I get are 'LeKnave' and 'Evilpie'. Dave goes when he reshoves AQ and gets called by someone with K10. (I had 1% of Dave for £1 - buying at less than 1.0 ftw). Playing about 25k now I open AQ to 550 and oldish guy in sb 3-bets to 1600. I peel, cos that's how I roll and I'm ready to check fold on the K53 rainbow. Old guy checks and I check. Turn = J. Old guy checks and again I check with the intention of giving oldie one free ticket to nutville on the river. Oh hi der mr  Th. Comically oldie snap bets a pile of chips which turns out to be 5500 into the 3400 pot. I move in, he calls, I quickly table my hand and he's out the door. Now on around 40k I'm comfortably chip leader on the table.

Me and Matt have several stupid battles, cos we just can't resist mucking around when the other opens a pot. With Blatch and a few others standing behind the table I call a Russell river bet on a Q8533 board with K10 hoping that Matt would show 46/67/910/10J hand and I'd appear a hero but alas Matt had 4Q. I then peel vs a shrewdie raise with 78 and check raise the 679 board and shrewdie folds. He does make one nice move when I lead an 892 board 3-way and Rich shoves showing a 6. I get Matt back with Q9 on a 472 board when Matt raised pre and let me see the 9 on the turn free and got a biggish bet to be called on the river. Over a bajillion squirmishes we ended up even on that table.

I opened 88 UTG+1 and folded to a 3-bet. The very next hand I pick up 88 again and raise. Matt calls, Charles calls and guyin the bb calls. Flop  Ks 8s 6c. Charles checks and the guy in the BB leads out for a hefty bet but me and him are the two table chipleaders by a comfortable distance and so I decide to peel one rather than raise straight away. Matt passes but CF calls and I'm now pretty certain Charles is on a fd so I'm raising the turn unless the board pairs. Turn  5d and BB bets 12k. I make it 29k and Charles passes. BB ships, I snap and his K8 doesn't hit a K on the river. I've now got 100k. With 990k chips in play and the blinds at 400/800 I'm in a perfect spot with 27 left.

Me and Evilpie get moved to table Woodsey and Cottonbud....

Yeah I remember that last hand. Think I had QJss or QTss. Felt I was getting a decent price on my fd without needing to get funky with it. I was pretty much always folding the turn after the other guy bet big though, even without your raise as it'd gone from being a nice cheap fd to one that's costing me a large % of my stack with only 1 card to come.

The most annoying bit of course was the river card was a spade sigh. You should have both slow played your hands on the turn!

Part 6

As the day got longer, more and more of the lads were busting from both the main event and the 300 so every time there was a short break in the tournament I naturally got more and more bubble wishes from the boys.

Arriving back to my table there were now 27 left. With my stack at about 100k and James Williams' (Cottonbud) on 80k we were well above average with only 990k in play. It didn't take very long at all to get down to 2 tables. Unfortunately Matt and Woodsey both busted. I raised the button with A3 and Matt shoved 88 in the SB but the BB found JJ and Matt was gone which I was gutted about. Though with me and Matt it may not have been ideal to have us both on the final table. Getting stacks in with 44 vs A7 prob not best for either of us!

As we're broken to two tables, me and James Williams are sat next to one another, luckily though I have position. On my left I have Greek Jack and CF. Earlier on the tourney I'd got Charles all in with AK vs 1010 and I bricked. I was now opening a lot of pots that were unopened before me and delighted to find 1010 on the button as I had a feeling CF was gonna ship it on me soon. I opened/snapped but Charles found AK of green. I don't expect to beat two such beautiful greens and over goes about 20k.

As we continue I still manage to maintain my stack until I get into a big hand with Greek Jack. I can tell Jack is a tad frustrated about having been outplayed a few hands before and it's passed round to me in the SB at 1k2k. Jack is playing c.70k and I cover. I make it 5500 with KK and Jack calls. The flop comes  5d 2d 2c and I continue for 5.5k, a smaller bet than I'd usually make hoping Jack will raise. Luckily Jack obliges instantly and throws out 3x 5k chips. I consider my options for about 20 seconds and decide to call. The  9s hits the turn and as I check to Jack he moves in for about 50k. I call and Jack has A9. I think he should check back the turn there once he makes his hand but I'm not complaining now just shy of 200k. All the while me and James are bantering and chatting away - he's a good lad and playing really well. He manages to surpass me in chips as he 4-bets all in with QQ and gets a call (from a big stack with 60k behind). James tilted him right up from a bluff a little while before and earnt every one of those chips but with it he got a massive sweat.

 Qs Qd vs  Kh 9c

Flop  Ahrt Th 9h.

The dealer manages to find brick brick for James and we're down to a final 9. The TD gives us the option to play on now or come back tomorrow and play. Unfortunately 8 want to come back tomorrow and only I want to play on now (how else am I going to play the £150 the next day!?).

I spend the rest of the evening in the bar with Flushy and Dubai etc. Unfortunately I manage to surpass my £40 Larry Loss from the night before, except this time unfortunately it's to Pab. As we are watching the last few hands of the day in the £1k there's an Indian looking lad on Blatch's left. I asked Blatch about half an hour earlier if it was Jagz and Blatch quickly confirms that it is indeed him. When Pab comes in after a night out Pab mentions that he's never met Jagz in person before but doesn't think that's him. We bet £50 and I go ask the kid his name. Oh right, hi Chris. shdhghslkdgsgd. I hand Pablo a crisp £50 and then he tells me Jagz told him online he wouldn't be at DTD. Sighhh. Maybe it was a good thing we weren't playing on tonight.

That night in the bar was good fun. Middy at one point losing half his clothes and belongings in flips, Dubai apparently not wearing those UGG boots as part of a prop bet and just general comedy as many of the guys had come back from a night out.

Finally I get back to Stu's and hit the hay.

Neil probably had half of Pab's action

I assume this was not the same as the one you had on Sunday.
The Sunday one was perfect.
Sigh......................

was that one bud.

[  ] massive boobs?
[X] tiny super tight and petite?

gogogogo part 7 :)

i esp want to read the bit about the ridic cooler hand where cos ran better than blatch

Did he cheat?

bump

Completely forgot about this as I actually wrote the last part like a week ago! Will dig it out tomorrow and post.

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honest

Bump Bump

Part 7

So we arrive at the final and unbag our chips. Not ideal is that I have two of the most capable players directly on my left - James 'Cottonbud' Williams and Simon Deadman. CF is a few to their left but doesn't yet have a big enough stack for me to worry about.

With James and Simon on my left I figure I'll be playing a little tighter than normal. The guy in the one seat is about 5 minutes late for the final and absolutely reeks of weed. For the next 10 minutes the dealer holds her cardigan over her face. However, the guy quickly busts himself defending A8, though Charles should have bust him earlier when he defended A8 to Charles raise and they say a board with two Aces on for it to come QQ to chop vs Charles AK.

Chris 'Dancefloorpro' Gregg busted the guy in 8th in a 84green vs KK encounter. All the while I had maintained my stack, adding little bits here and there.

However, my big hiccup came just before the break. Now I call it a hiccup, at the time it felt like the mother of all fuck ups, pardon my french. At 2k/4k, my open had been to 8900 and I looked down at QQ. I announced to the dealer 8900 once again, which the dealer nodded as if to confirm and then I looked down. James Williams quickly called and next thing I know, me James and Charles in the BB are 3 way to the flop.

 8s 2s 5h  

Charles checked, I bet and only James called. The turn was the  Jh. I opted to check here purely for pot control as James was the only person who could bust me at this point and to get value from James' middling pair type hands. I figures James would check behind a lot with a flush draw here. So I check called a small bet of like 17k and we see the  5s on the river. When I went back over it the hand didn't make too much sense to me and I called James' 60k river bet for James to show a five, a five, a five and another five, which I believe makes 4 of a kind: fives.

When talking about it at the break I was told it was infact Charles who had opened that pot. saghjsdg. Apparently he had AK and if I'd known I'd of 3-bet/got it in, won a nice pot and eliminated a player who just seems to make no real mistakes. Sigh.

From looking a lock to at least get in the top few spots I'm now back in the pack and James has all the chips. James has started drinking Guinness by this point.

With blinds reaching 3k/6k and me now on just under 90k I locked up for about a round just waiting for a hand when I thought I found a good spot to reshove against the cutoff's 16k open with  Jh Qh. Simon Deadman thought for ages in the big blind and I knew I was in trouble, having never really been worried at all about the cutoff. I thought Simon had AQ or similar but when he eventually moved in I wasn't too disappointed to see 99. The board ran out  2s 3h Kd 6c.....Jd.

I was a little embarrassed at doing a small fistpump there as I hate celebration at the table but it was literally just a small bit of relief. The adrenaline was really running at that point, the way the board ran out and I was expecting disappointment and then BAM the river. I didn't think I got rivers like that. I just thought it was the sort of standard shit that happens to me.

We were now playing 6 handed and with a 200k stack again I opened to 15.5k with  Jc Ts for James to call in next position. I received one other caller and flopped the stonecolds on a  9d 7d 8h and my lead was immediately raised by James. I got it in and quickly called over to Blatch that I had to fade James'  Ad Td for the world which I did when it came brick brick. Has someone put me in the wrong seat?

In the £1k main right next to us there are two tables in play and the stable boss Niall Blakey is all in. His QQ racing with AK and I rush over from my table to sweat it. Not that a coin flip should be much of a sweat for Blatch but after the raggy board the K on the river was such a gutshot and I felt gutted for Neil.

Now on around 400k of the 1m in play, 6-handed - the chinese lad who is short shoves and I'm in the BB with  Ahrt Qh. The SB flats and I elect to move in, only to get my arm bitten off by KK. Not a problem, I'll just flop a flush draw on the flop and bink it on the river. EZ game.

We're down to 4-handed and I have around 600k now, with James on around 200, Chris Gregg on 120ish and Cf on 80. Chipcounts obviously a little hazy in my head. At this point one of the massage girls is working on Charles, doing some sort of ponytail thing on his hair. I'm pretty sure it influenced me to instacall his all in with QK. Charles had AJ and I was ready to say bye when the card in the window was infact another Q. However, the two Jacks that peeled back right behind it weren't so nice. It wasn't too much later that Charles had seemingly run a bit card dead and I called his shove with QJ and got there vs his AK.

Now 3-handed Chris Gregg suggested a deal but it wasn't right for me with such a significant chiplead. Doctor Cottonbud wasn't bothered either as he'd never done a deal before (and is baller) and we played on for me to make a badly timed move on a 458 flop with 34 vs Dancefloorpro's J8. Now he'd doubled all the stacks were very similar and we did a deal whereby we all took £6250 and would play on for £2k. James was knocked out soon after in a bit of a weird pot vs Chris which saw them get it in on the flop of a J10J board, Chris's K kicker playing until the 10 turn which looked like choppidy chop. The brudal K river saw James eliminated and even though I was playing ftw and James is such a good player, I was genuinely a bit gutted. A super nice guy, me and James talked through most of the last two tables and he was really complimentary about my game. More importantly he bought me a tuna melt and buying a greek person food will always earn you brownie points.

At 3-handed I think the Guinness's had started to take effect on James and he became pretty damn funny...saying things to the dealer like 'I'd definitely cheat on my girlfriend...if she wasnt SO FIT'. I might have to delete this bit as James mrs sometimes reads stuff after him. Anyway, I'm now officially a James 'Toasty Life' Williams fanboy.

The HU doesn't last too long but I have a bit of a rail behind me during the break of the £150 which is nice. Evilpie, Clown, Chili, Redbull, Blatch, Bedi, Sonny and a few others are railing which is nice. Chris has around 670k to my 330k at the start of play and I cheekily say I'll accept an even chop which Chris can't do but after winning the first hand or two and getting back to around 450 vs 550 the even chop is done for £7250.

Blatch has a monster stack in the £150 after having played for all of about 2 levels but just cba to play and moves in every hand until busto and he feeds us horses a meal in the bar. (Thai curry at DTD is v good). I can't complain even though I was surprised to see the massage he bought me when we got to 3-handed added to my makeup!

I was gonna make this the last part but I'm gonna finish with one more short bit...which will defo go up today. Promise!

Nice update Cos, looking forward to the final part!

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Nice report Cos. I've a few interesting bits from the £300 that I experienced and will post them on here later this afternoon.

Cheers bud, pls do.

I'd forgot about this. Nice write up. Should we hit the cash tables around Easter? ;D

oh ffs

I just wrote loads of stuff. Had it in a text editor.

Decided I should save it just in case it crashes or whatever.

Pressed the save button. The program seg faults.

Sigh.

Time to start again.

Cf's DTD £300 report that isn't as long as Greekstein's

I was originally intending to play the £1000 Monte Carlo event but had to withdraw at the last minute due to attending a funeral. After the funeral we went out for a few drinks and ended the day pretty drunk. This ended up with me talking to Rich Hawes and we agreed to go down to DTD the next day for the £300. I woke up the next morning hungover and also had a cold coming on. I considered cancelling but instead we arranged to travel down to Nottingham.

When I got there I bumped into Chris Gregg, a friend from Leeds, who I didn't know was playing this. We wish each other good luck and go and take our seats.

Note that the following isn't neccesarily in chronological order.

As we start my table has no-one that stands out and everyone is playing pretty tight. Except for one loud mouted guy who is complaining about the 25/50 level because he finds it boring. After he says this he opens the next hand for 600 and complains when everyone folds showing KK. He asks why no-one calls. Erm, perhaps because you 12xed with with KK. This guy was ultra annoying and always seemed to get away with some bad plays he made. The hands I remember best both involve A8. The first was against Cos on an AxxA board. In a 3 way pot he put a big bet in causing everyone to fold, including Cos who had the same hand. I hated his bet there because I felt it got no value from worse, and was gonna get owned by someone with better. The other hand was much later in the tourney with 2 tables left. I've raised pre with AK. On an AQxA he check/called my flop bet. On the turn he check/shoved and I fistpumped. His A8 was no match for my AK and I'm ready to wave him goodbye when he plays his get out of jail free card with the Q hitting the river. Sigh. He ended up finishing 9th. Glad he was first off the final as he was sat next to me and stunk of weed.

After a while though on our original table he was moved. And our table at this point had an interesting lineup consisting of me, Greekstein, EvilPie, ChipRich and LeKnave. Watching Cos play was fascinating as he played a very very aggressive style, something that I don't play myself and rarely see done well. Once Matt had joined the table though it got a bit daft with those 2 playing some really weird pots against each other. I remember a call with Q high being considered at one point but can't remember if it was actually made. I did ok at this table grinding along. I did have a fun hand where I raised it with QQ and recieved a caller. The QTx board was good. I led right into it and was called. The T turn was lovely and I again led into it. The guy now raised half of his stack in. Happy days! I get the lot in and he folds, wtf. Guess he was making an expensive play. Dave then donks out. Think he'd shoved over a raise with AQ and got called by KT lol. Me and Rich then had a couple of pots. The first I'd raised utg with 44 and he shoved the button. I decided to call as I was getting reasonable odds and was happy to be against AK. [] I liked the TJQ flop. A bit later I raise with 99 utg and he button shoves again, this time for quite a bit more. But there were a few limpers over my raise so deciding it was a nice squeeze spot I fancied my chances. I was against AJ and proceeded to win the race and knock him out. So at this point I had a healthy 40k at 300/600-50.

Our table then got split which sucked. I moved to a new table and this is where things went down hill. The fact that I was a) hungover, b) cold really hitting me now, and c) suspected food poisoning from their fajita wrap (not the first time i've felt ill having had one of them from DTD) meant that I felt like death. I had to rush to the toilet like 4 times in 45 minutes and missed loads of hands. At one point I limped pre with T7s, then called a raise, and folded on the flop. At this point I menetally told yself to sort my head out because no matter how ill I was I didn't want to get busted by making idiotic plays like that. I had another run in with the annoying guy when I led into the flop of an Axxx5 board with AT. He called. I checked the turn and he bet really small so I called. I checked the river and he fired a slightly more than pot sized bet. I sighed and folded knowing that I had him but he just hit that 5. And sure enough he turned over A5.

So as we're down to 2 tables my stack has taken a bit of a battering, but at least I'm feeling a bit better now. I receive a double up from Cos when he button raises me with TT and I have AK in the big blind. But apart from that nothing really happens for me in the next few levels, except for the AK vs A8 hand mentioned about. Had I won that one I'd have had a 100k stack at 800/1600. Instead I just grinded away and we're up wo 1k/2k I'm starting to have to play the short stack game. We're on the bubble and I'm one of the short stacks with 40k/990k. But thankfully the bubble bursts in bizarre circumstances when some guy 3bet/calls with K7 against James' QQ. We're told that the final will take place the next day at 2.30pm and I'm thankful that I get to go and have some sleep.

Also on the final was Chris. I hadn't seen him during the tourney but he told me of an early christmas present he recieved early doors when he got it in with AA against what I think was 66. We sit down and I'm the short stack with only ~32k at 1200/2400. But somehow I'm not first out. I did my best to pick spots carefully, and a couple of people were knocked out before me. I got a double up from Cos when I shoved AJ and he called with KQ. The first card was a Q sigh but the next two were both jacks :) The very next hand I'm now playing ~90k and raise to 8900 at 2k/4k. Cos and James both called and after they were betting at a raggy flop I just let my AK go. Cos lost a big pot with an overpair of queens to quad fives. It then transpired after the hand that he didn't realise I'd opened pre and thought he was raising himself. Had he noticed he'd have 3bet, I'd have shoved and we'd have got it in eliminating me and giving him a big pot. I always find it interesting how these little bits of unseen luck go. Cheers for that one Cos :D

A few more go and we're 4 handed. But alas I don't last long as I shove AK on the button into Cos who this time calls with QJblue. 2 diamonds on the flop, a queen on the turn, and another diamond on the river just to rub it in meant I was out in 4th. Obviously really happy with that result, especially considering how unwell I was at the end of day 1 and how short stacked I was on the final. Obviously dissapointed as well. A double up there puts me on ~170k at 4k/8k and back into it, but I daresay I had a good enough run of luck as it was.

Chris and Cos then went on to chop the comp for £7250 each so a nice result for them :)

Didn't play the deepstack in January but I'll be back for February!

Nice report Cos and Charles.

I never give credit unless its due, like I said to you at the time anyone can talk a good game by posting on forums etc but you proved you could play a great game at DTD Cos, so welldone mate you deserved to win. Cf although you were limited with your stack I thought you played great short stack poker and did really well, felt it was harsh when 11 left you split the pot AK v A8 both having flopped trips your kicker playing at the time. As for when I drink well I probably shouldn't drink as I embarass myself most of the time lol. But its all in good jest I just try and make people laugh.

Nice avatar mate :P

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