just like the thread

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Surely the current size of your bank roll must be a major if not the overiding factor weather to do a deal or not.

At Cardiff they did a deal when down to 3 and not knowing the players finances that made good sense if there bankroll wasnt that high, they still played for a bit

8 8 was always beating K Q however if you were playing me you would probably have hit a K or Q on the River.

Anyway i now feel compelled to tell you about my 2 bad beats as they were exactly that

Walsall,

Had a horrible tournament and kept getting JJ, 10 10 and even QQ with AK flops and got down to my last 3000 chips and found KK in the smaill blind and made it 600 to play Shaf calls me in the big blind and the flop comes down 6 3 8 and i move all in and Shaf calls me with 6 4  and the turn is a 7 and the River well you guessed it was a 5

Cardiff,

Played very well with a stategy of playing tight for the first 4 levels with a view to exploiting my tight image at a later stage and I had about 13000 chips at the dinner break, unfortunately the table broke and the new players didnt respect my raises as much as the first players would have anyway after the break I was surviving on one hand an hour ie a hand I could call a raise with. were towards the end of level 8 and im on the button with A Q Suited and i have 3 callers so i reraise All in a good spot for my last 6000 chips, Kashan in the Small blind calls me with pocket 10s and the other two callers fold and the last person to act moves All In for an additonal 3000 chips, Kashan then says I have to call, how bad a shape Am I in, he then turns over pocket .  I think every player on the table just couldnt believe it and I felt in very good shape and felt very confident I would hit an A or a Q as it was more or less indicated that not there werent too may high cards dealt out.  Anyway first card was an Ace and the turn card was a 4.  This hurt me a lot more than Walsall because the player who beat me just shouldnt have been in the hand.  If he didnt hit the 4 i would have had 20000 chips and back in the tournament in a big way and I was due to get better cards at some point.

In both cases I was massively ahead at the flop and got badly beat up, so it does beg the question about which style to adopt in these tourneys Tight and Agressive or Very agressive from the Off to try and get to 20000 quickly from where it is hard for people to put you out on a bad beat

Interesting points, im not a full time pro but do take my poker very seriously and I live in spain but have managed to get over to play the first 3 GUKPT events.

Anyway just a couple of questions for the Pro's how do you deal with the bad beats which i have had two herendous ones in Walsall & Cardiff and as you cant win every event you enter what how do you judge your relative success of a tournament etc etc

One lesson i have learnt is if you end up getting low stacked you get a lot more bad beats

I made a decision to play the first 3 events just so i could see what level i was at and the bottom line is bar one mistake in Cardiff I'm very happy with the way I played for the 8 hours or so before this idiot made a horrnendous play and put me  out, I wont bore everyone with what happened in Cardiff( As I did that in Cardiff) but just to say the person who won the hand wont be winning many poker tournaments.  Kashan who made the final table was also in the hand and DTDs Carlo was also at the table.

The interesting observation for me is that the Bolton was won by the poker player and the card catcher has won the last two tournaments

Anyway I probably wont play Manchester  but hope to be in brighton