Well after following the advice of the blonde forum (and kind of what I already knew), I chucked in Gala and went to
dtd for the first time last night to play the £75 freezeout. After being down to 1500 chips after the first 4 hands I thought "here we go again". But by some miracle I came back from almost nothing and ended up finishing 7th out of nearly 150 runners. Unfortunately I was card dead for the final otherwise I think I could have done better. Nonetheless it was a nice change to be rewarded for good play. The most important hand for the night for me would have undoubtedly ended in disaster if I had been at Gala. The blinds were 300-600 and second to act had raised to 2400, with a call from the guy next to him. I was on the button with
and it felt to me like chances are I was behind to a bigger pair. I opted to call and see a flop as I had position on them. The flop was a brilliant
. I am sat with about 12k. First person to speak checks, and the other guy bets 5k. I re-raise all in for 12k. The checker immediately passes, and the other guy calls the remaining 7k with
. Two blanks come down and I'm home free. I find out after the hand that the guy who passed to my all in had in actual fact thrown
. The river was in fact the
which would have sent me to the rails if he wasn't good enough to pass. Just highlighted to me the huge difference in standard. So it wasn't a massive cash, but a confidence booster even so. I also sat in the cash game for an hour after and won £200 quid, so a good night all in all. Roll on brighton!
nice work mate, all the best in Brighton
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