Hey guys,
Thought I'd update as it's been a few months since the last one and I've once again been dipping my toe into live poker. The WPT was at DTD this week and after playing some online satellites managed to win a couple of seats to the £500 event to go along with my main event seat I won in the deepstack a few months ago. The £500 event had a pretty good structure and, unfortunately for DTD, a ton of overlay. My first table was very good except for a live mid stakes cash grinder from London on my direct right, who turned out to be one of the nicest people I've ever played with and gave me a lift a few days this week. I chipped up pretty nicely to around 45k from 30k. I then opened UTG with T9s, sb and BB call. Flop A78 I cbet both call. Turn 6 sb leads 3k into around 12k and bb calls. I'd played with sb before and even though I think he plays a lot he's pretty splashy to say the least. I raise to 12k and sb insta shoves, obv call and nice to see AJ drawing dead to take me up over 100k. Went a bit card dead for the rest of the day and ended up with 95k to end the day which was around avg.
Day 2 got a fairly good table redraw. However was pretty card dead again and ended up shoving 17~BB in the CO with A9, BTN calls with AK and the board runs out K5299. Bink. They had to call me back as I'd left as the flop hit. Couple of orbits later I opened UTG with AQ, Terry Jordan 3bet from MP and although I'd never played with him before I'd heard he was ultra splashy/loose, so decided to 4bet. He called pretty quickly. Flop Q52, I bet around 1/4 pot and he let out a big sigh and mumbled something to the guy next to him. Turn was another 5 and I jammed fairly fast. He tanked for a while trying to bait me into showing if he folded, said I'd let him pick one and he folded turning over the Q. This didn't quell his curiosity and seemed to tilt him a bit. I chipped up nicely approaching the bubble and had double the avg. Got moved tables to the right of Tamer Kamel, who was also extremely nice and chatty, with the rest of the table playing ultra nitty because of the bubble. Got moved table just after the bubble, with a slew of players busting just after leaving around 100 left. Again went card dead and I became quite frustrated at having to fold a lot, and seeing my once big stack dwindle to avg. UTG then open shoves for 300k ish at 16k bb and we call with KK, he has 55 and the door card is a 5. I would have had around 1m if I had won there and I think this was the deciding factor in the tourney for me. I managed to ninja shortstack for the rest of the which ended with 51 left and another bubble with the top 50 getting a £2.2k main event seat. This lasted around an hour but I squeezed in there.
Day 3 was short. Had around 400k/13~bb. Managed to get a couple of shoves through with the field falling to the mid 30's. Then I shoved A5o with around 10bb and CambridgeAlex tanked in the BB with what turned out to be a better A, he sigh folded after a little thought and I was up to around 15bb. Then couple hands later I shoved the BTN with A9 and the BB had AJ, no help and we are down to 2.5bb. Double with K8 v Ax and then bust Q8 v Ax bvb. Every time I bust a live tourney I remember why I hardly play them. The feeling I get is one I never get from anything else. Just bleugh. The money cushions the blow a little and as I had 2 seats I got a drink, composed myself and jumped straight into the main.
Table was meh but I think I played really well. Nothing really interesting happened and I ended the day with an avg 75k. Day 2 seat draw was terrible. It included Rich Trigg, Terry Jordan again and Billy Chattaway to my right with absolute heaps. Very nice guy but fucking nightmare to sit next to. Couldn't get anything going and lost 99 v AQ for 20BB~. Was super disappointed to bust, especially as I'd sold a bit of action, but I don't think I could have done anything different.
Played some live plo cash and made a nice bit in a really good game. Highlight including an older guy not seeing a flush and 3bet calling the river with a straight vs my Acxc. Nearly £10k week which is very nice, but still pretty disappointed to go so deep in another live MTT and not get that big score. Maybe it gets easier if you play more and I intend to try and win something significant before Vegas.
Also started playing a lot of daily fantasy football (soccer). Absolutely loving it and been doing pretty well. It's tough at first as I haven't watched Italian/Spanish/French football in years, but I've enjoyed sweating the games. Kolorov missing that penalty the other week probably cost me winning the main weekend Prem comp which would have netted me £3k. Didn't have chance to sweat it live as I was busy, and it was prob for the best.
Online has been ok. Last month I won a rake race on one of the smaller sites to win 100% rakeback for the month. Traffic isn't great on there but enough to make it a pretty good month.
Between 22k hands to 28k hands was pretty big stakes for me, playing 3 handed with a reg and a whale at PLO. Pretty stressful and a couple of my biggest ever pots were played. Pretty good month overall, even if a stressful one.
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Gunna play a few sats for Prague this month. Would love to go ( heard it's very nice) and I've got the live poker bug. May play a few UKOPS as well for practice.
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