Cheers for the responses guys.
To be honest I was pretty baffled when he moved in. I did not expect it in the slightest.
For once in my life I even sat back and had a bit of a ponder about what he could have! Despite a few of you saying over pair I had pretty much ruled out any pair as I think a raise would have come in preflop.
56 or JT were possible but coming over the top for such a massive raise just seemed off. I came to the conclusion of another poster that he had a straight draw with a pair such as 9T.
In the end I decided to call and was shown JT for the nuts. Bizarrely when he saw my hand he said he "wouldn't have raised so much if he knew I was that strong and had expected me to fold instantly". Hmmm.
I know I had plenty of chips left to play on but if that was my mentality I wouldn't have got anywhere near the final
Had I been right I would have had a 6:1 lead and more than likely would have taken the £2500. I'd already turned down a 3 way chop though as was more interested in trying to win.
Also I'm not much of a live player as Flushie helpfully points out (
) so can't get away with the reasoning that many can give that "I'm the best player so it's not worth the risk".
Anyhow an enjoyable enough evening. I haven't played many tournaments with a decent structure before and have certainly never actually attempted to play one properly (drink and be merry!). I'm buggered if I'm gonna spend 7 hours doing it again any time soon though.
Roll on Vegas and pissing off the Yanks pushing all in on them every other hand in their crap shoots.....
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