Hey man,
Going really well thanks. Just in the process of buying a house. It's right across the road for where we are renting, in the village we want to be so it's really ideal. Slightly smaller house space but much larger garden than the one we're in at the minute, but also has a garage and 2 more parking spaces. Very happy with it overall, however as this is the first time we've bought a house we're a bit pensive that everything goes through smoothly. Would be devastated if it fell through or something.
This does mean that i'm going to have to knock 10/20+ on the head poker wise. Obv I can't get a mortgage and with the missus being a nurse we've a fair way to add on as a deposit to get to the right amount. Not a disaster by any means, just means no Vegas this year and some really hard work to be able to get back into the higher stakes hopefully by the end of this year. Action still looks good everywhere so I'm quite positive.
Played only a couple of SCOOP events, no luck. Gunna be missing the 8 game ones on Saturday sorting house stuff out, which is a bit annoying but should be free to put in a full Sunday schedule both this week and next. With all 3 major sites putting on huge series at the same time it really is a great time for online poker.
The Millions event at DTD last month was really great. DTD did an amazing job putting it on, the events were all incredible, they all made the guarantees, place was buzzing. Hope it becomes a regular thing as it's so good for UK poker and nice to see DTD's hard work pay off.
I came into day 1 with around 350k, having sat'd in through a phase 1 online. Table draw was pretty bad, recognised a few maybe old school regs, and from the table chat seemed there were no legit fish. With the slow structure there was no need to panic and I had a rather dull few levels of folding. Then we pick up JThh UTG+1, UTG raises, think I have maybe 30bb, BTN calls, sb calls and BB squeezes. UTG calls and I not sure if this is a call or not. Think it was 8bb so a large portion of my stack. But has anyone ever folded JTs pre? Didn't think so, so we go 5 way to a flop with a PSR of 1< for me. Flop is obv Q98dd and it small bet, call, I call, btn calls, sb shoves for chunks covering everyone and we win vs his ATdd. So not only do we get the full double up we get a quad up with all the dead money. Up to 1.2m and loving life. Few orbits later and we get in 100bb pre with QQ vs the sb from previous hand AA. Never usually get so many in pre in a slow tourney but think we had a pretty nice dynamic for it. He raises co, btn who is the only fish at the table calls, sb calls I sqz BB, he 4bets, I 5bet small and call a shove. Turn Q and we're up to 2.7m. Nothing happened for a while until we cold 4bet in the BB vs co raise and btn 3bet with AKo. Btn thought for maybe 5 seconds and ripped in 2.5m, which was like double avg stack. No idea what to do here, couple of friends have said I gotta call but I don't know. Think the QQ hand affected my decision tbh. Felt silly getting in so much way behind. So we fold feeling confused and silly again. NL is hard man.
Lost a couple of medium ish pots then we pick up A9ss, UTG limps, +1 raises, we call and go 3 way to the flop. J6Jss c,bet,call,call. Turn 9, check check to me. Think this is a check but the fish being in the hand really messed up my thinking. I bet half pot and the fish jammed, was so annoyed I had bet. Had seen him do some funky stuff but I still think I should have folded. Called and bricked vs JTo, and that's all she wrote. I'd prob rate my play as 1/10 for the whole day, and it was the whole day, busting maybe 25 mins from the end of day 1. I'd have liked to play more events but I was so frustrated with myself for messing up that hand I decided against it and just played cash.
5/10 PLO ran every day which was ideal. The VIP room game was 25/50 with min 10k sit down so that wasn't for me, and they had a what looked like 5/10/20 etc game running most nights. Lineup looked good but everyone had 5-10k. Straight 4 card I'd be in but 4/5/6 I'd prefer to play slightly smaller. Ended a small loser for the week but was really pleased with my play. Would have liked to ran slightly better in bigger pots but the poker gods were punishing me for the QQ hand. Can't have everything.
Online has been the same really.
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With non HEM tracked sites and rb this is the quickest I've hit $100k for the year by about 2 weeks. Very pleasing for 2017, EV wise not a massive amount over but def think I'm running well in other spots.
The less said about United last night the better. Awful performance, going to miss Baily so much in the Final. Haven't seen Ajax play at all, but from what I've heard this Ajax team is really quick and exciting going forward. Think the main department we can really dominate them in is just overall power and bullying. Pogba is massive and really hard to get the ball off, same with Fellaini, Herrera is a right knobhead all round and I think with the overall play and mentality of Prem teams, a team of young lads from the continent is going to find it incredibly difficult to deal with. Good luck whoever the ref is.
Will do an update post house purchase.
Good luck at the tables everyone!
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