Matt Russell has 31,000 just after the break

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Julian Thew is out, A-Q playing 13,000 against Pete Haslam's Jacks. 8-K-4-4-J

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Milk Shake/Dom Smith is out

KK v Clinton Speight's AA, all in on a Q high flop

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Its been a cruel game this weekend...

GL to all blondes left in!

Get off your phone and concentrate! Gl gl dom

Probs texting you met

Spot on!

Knock out another sicko?

Haha not yet!

Get off your phone and concentrate! Gl gl dom

Probs texting you met

Spot on!

Milk Shake, aka Dom Smith

Finished 9th in the Online 1a last night, 8 went through

Another 16 levels today, hopefully

Pleeasssseeee let me get through todays 16 levels!

I played the super 50 on friday and one thing baffled me. I cant remember the exact play but the blinds were something like 600/1200 a100 and it folded round to the lady on the button who shoves around 10bigs with A6os. The SB folds and the BB is the only person left to act. This guy has everyone on the table covered and is a fairly old bloke. Not quite old enough to be considered ancient. Anyway this guy asks the dealer for a count so the dealer goes away with his business of counting the all in players stack. After a short while the dealer tells the guy how much it is total and he starts counting out the exact amount of chips. he then re counts about 3 times to make sure he has the right amount. Finally he puts the chips over the line and flips over AA! I felt bad for the woman as she pretty much had been slow rolled and had the nut worst hand against AA. At the end of the hand about 3 people kept asking the guy why he didnt just annouce call and make the process about 2 minutes shorter. The guy just rambled some bollocks off. I don't bother getting involved like i used too. I'm just there to enjoy the game especially on a friday. At least i got the guy later just before the bubble. Weeeeeeee. Will be there again this Friday. Really enjoyed the night and was a good atmosphere.

 What did he say when confronted by other players?

This is key here, he may be new to the game or something. If he's a reg then he's a moron

The guy was a definite reg as other players on the table knew him and how he played, some were saying his name as well.

I played the super 50 on friday and one thing baffled me. I cant remember the exact play but the blinds were something like 600/1200 a100 and it folded round to the lady on the button who shoves around 10bigs with A6os. The SB folds and the BB is the only person left to act. This guy has everyone on the table covered and is a fairly old bloke. Not quite old enough to be considered ancient. Anyway this guy asks the dealer for a count so the dealer goes away with his business of counting the all in players stack. After a short while the dealer tells the guy how much it is total and he starts counting out the exact amount of chips. he then re counts about 3 times to make sure he has the right amount. Finally he puts the chips over the line and flips over AA! I felt bad for the woman as she pretty much had been slow rolled and had the nut worst hand against AA. At the end of the hand about 3 people kept asking the guy why he didnt just annouce call and make the process about 2 minutes shorter. The guy just rambled some bollocks off. I don't bother getting involved like i used too. I'm just there to enjoy the game especially on a friday. At least i got the guy later just before the bubble. Weeeeeeee. Will be there again this Friday. Really enjoyed the night and was a good atmosphere.

Great updates Tighty and cheers for getting a snap of me earlier! Was gonna post earlier but my phone ran out of battery!

Last hand was a bit of a sweat for me as Button open shoved and i snapped with 99 to see him turn over 23os. easy enough to win right? 45T flop disagrees. Brick brick!!! weeeee Last hand double up! Looking forward to tomorrow.

[I don't think anyone is limping a hand that makes two pair even though this is live.]

Agree with bigger bets post, bet/bet/jam is ideal here.

As played I think the river is a fold. Most players aren't going to shove worse hands here for the following reasons:

- KQ/KJ/55 probably raises flop or turn and flats this river as played
- I don't think anyone is limping a hand that makes two pair even though this is live.
- The "spread the pot" ordeal is a pretty standard weak-means-strong tell versus most recreational players.

Just feels like a spot where we don't really know how they have it, but they just have it.

I'm going to lose all credibility here, but thoughts on folding pre?

The opponent i was up against was the player in the cutoff not the player who limp called to see the flop.

Thanks for all the responses. The general view is that i should bet bigger so next time ill probably step it up a notch. In this case like a couple of you have said I could have folded and left myself with 20BB which is more than enough to keep grinding with, Even if it would be a pretty sickening fold.

Okay so just got back from DTD. Early exit from the Incredible 100.

The hand went like this.

The blinds are 200/400 a25. My stack at the start of the hand is 20,500

An early position player limps in and I look down at  . Make it 1,050 and a player in the cutoff called as well as the player who limped. The flop comes down  . The limp caller checks and my thought process was that because its a pretty wet board I should bet out any draws or make them pay to see the turn. Also it looks like a standard C-bet so i put in 2,100. The cutoff called and the limper folded. the turn was  and i fired out 3,600 and was called. the river was  so with the board reading  I fired out 5,500. The guy asked for the pot to be spread which at this point was now about 20,875 including my bet of 5,500. He then jammed his chips across the line and I called. He tabled  for the flush.

My thought process was that i was pretty willing to believe him had the river of been a heart but i just couldnt see him calling the flop with 2 diamonds. I literally thought the only hand im beat by i can put him on is KK or a KdXd hand. I also thought he might think i was overplaying AK so he might shove with 2 pair so i figured i would be ahead of most of his range there.

What I also would like to know is can I fold there? after all the betting action (20,500 - 1,050 - 2,100 - 3,600 - 5,500) it leaves me with a stack of around 8,250 (20.625 BB) and I think its a pretty sick fold in that spot. But does anyone here let that go and think/know they are beat?

Please get back to me as im pretty stumped and would like to know what you guys would have done.

Thanks.

Having only just read the first post in this it has inspired me to try and become more handy myself, im 19 and live with my parents and my dad is the handy man around the house with him being a joiner. But one day ill have to move out and i highly doubt ill be able to survive without calling him up whenever there is a problem. My dad always gets onto me about my car as well as i never even lift the bonnet up. Hopefully i will learn a lot of this thread.

Well done Ian

And also well done to Leicester local Minesh for finishing 2nd

Minesh nearly taking it down for Leicester! Well played to Mr Ian Gascoigne.

Well played to Andy. We were briefly at the same table. After our table broke I was grinding 7-10BB from 58 runners left all the way down until I eventually crashed out in 29th when my  couldnt improve against the BB's AKos. Sigh. Looking forward to the next one!

"One pair? Whats your kicker? Interesting, I've got quads"

"What else can I do?"

"These young kids think they know everything"

My exit hand was pretty painful.

Juan marceris, who was somehow a stars pro bust me.

I had 29k at the start of the hand. Ep opens to 750 at 150/300. I flat  marceris makes it 2200 we both call.

Flop is  . We check to marceris who decides betting 17k into 7k is the best play here. Raiser fold I jam he calls with dem aces.

Turn  river 

Woah unlucky George, Betting 17k into 7k when your opponent has 26.8k left. Only going to get called by better then AA every time. Then the mirical turn and river. Unlucky bud.

Who was the villan Dom?
The only way I play the hand different at gala is to rise to maybe 10200 then if still called shoving any turn!

It was Minesh Lee. And yeah but in my case he still calls the 10,200 i think and the same result comes round. But its probably better to raise more because if he is calling with middle pair then i may aswell get more value rather then just popping it to 7,500.

You didnt explain why you bet more then you would usually? although its pretty obvious surely its not balancing your range, or does everyone think this is not important due to the small Buy in?

Personally my standard would be like 3k but if you have stations wouldnt be afraid to 3 x, obv depends on table. Flop i prefer bet/get in, unless you think they are a solid player then check/call.

Turn as played dont hate the shove, just ul that they got there i suppose but i doubt your ever getting called worse here unless they have KQ/KJ and they get attached to top pair. horrible turn really bringing the flush cos as played he has it alot of the time

Yeah the reason i made it more then my standard is because the villain was just as likely to call 3x as he was 2.5x and he hadn't of even noticed that this was higher then my normal raise. So pretty much it was for more value.