TOURNAMENT REPORT
I won?t bore everyone with how I couldn?t find the civic centre. However once I did find it I met the crowds of poker players waiting to put there wallets to good use for once? This was my first poker4charity event and I really enjoyed the whole thing, including Davey?s constant chatter!
So after all of the ceremonies we got started at the poker, I had a nice starting table with ?RoyalFlush? ?Tikay? ?John ?Wolfman? Rabb? ?Ginger? ?Alpha? ?mmm boy? and others who I don?t know. It started off as it usually does for me in rebuy comps some early buyins! I think it was ten in a row, all double rebuys. So after trying the 89off and realising that my best chance was a flush draw, I decided to bide my time a little and win a pot for once. All this time I spent whiling away working hard for my chips ?Tikay? had amassed a mountain of chips? He actually looked quite shocked at the whole situation he had found himself in, because as all of us he probably expected to be rebuying for the first hour yet he had average chips for 2 tables from the final! By the end of the rebuys I had managed to catch ?Tikay? up, through him losing some and me building my chips to around 18 000. Now I have a good memory for hands that I played but to be honest I can?t really remember how I got my chips in the rebuys, a couple of timely bluffs and hitting trip
with my raised 98. However I don?t recall any big hands maybe someone on my table could enlighten me!
After the buyins and the auction in which I was outbid on a book from an elderly gentleman who I here likes books and has a larger bank balance than me so I let him win the auction once the bid got to an acceptable value! So back to the poker, I really didn?t do anything of interest till we got to about 3 tables out. ?Tikay? had lost his chips in unlucky fashion but I had kind of gone quiet which is not one of my normal traits!
So after doubling flushy up when he hit a set on the river after being all-in preflop I got my chips back and moved to around 30 000. Now Joe Beevers walks to the table with chips and sits to my right, I like to be the table captain most of the time and I think he wanted to take that role! I don?t give it up easily, his first raise on my small blind was treated with contempt and all my chips going in the middle! He raised 8000 I moved in for around 35 000, he passed after a lot of deliberation claiming he should really call but I thought he would pass as I basically had the same chips as him. In this hand I had kq but didn?t expect a call and was correct, normally this is one of my favourite stages of competitions as I increase my stack through a lot of pre-flop raises and keep the pressure on, not that I don?t do a lot of pre-flop raises throughout the competitions!
I will call short stacks with marginal if not bad hands in this stage of competitions because the value of knocking a player out increases massively in my opinion, so I?ll take a chance to knock a player out as long as it doesn?t effect my position considerably! A railbird questioned one of my calls when a lad moved all-in on my big blind, I had 8000 in and it was another 12 000 to call so I call with k7. I lose this hand he had A8 and caught the ace, however I still feel as though it was the correct call as I can regain my losses by raising one hand and not getting called, which I did!
Now to the final, I got there in decent shape having around 90 000, average was 56 000 I think. My plan was to stay out of the way with the blinds being big and let people knock each other out this worked to a certain degree as we got 6 handed pretty quickly. I then began to get busy, raising quite a few hands in a row and then having KJ called by A7 then making the straight on the river with the 10 being my only out. I was only in for 25 000 out of 120 000+ stack but it certainly was a helpful 10! I then had the good fortune of finding KK in the big blind and one of the tightest players on the table had decided to make a move all-in with Q10 from early position to which I was surprised as he had played tight for most of the time I played with him.
So now I have the chip lead and take a shot at knocking Andy ?VC? Horne out with KQ and catch to beat his 55, now I knock the other short stack out after he made a move and get heads up with around a 2-1 chip lead. After a few hands going either way, me limping with kings but getting no action etc I decide to put some pressure on and he limps I raise etc and it worked as I increased my lead, then what I think was the key hand of the heads up?
I limp with 75off he doubles the bet and I call. Flop comes K 10 3 and we both check turn brings another 3 and he bets 50 000 I now move all-in and he never even looks as though he would call, this allowed me to take a free shot at knocking him out wish I did with Q9. Now I was the ?Champion? and a tired and weary one at that, so don?t expect a chatty TV interview lol.
So that?s it off back down the A19 with trophy bad hair and a girl?s car! Brilliant day and I expect to hold on to my title next year. Now I hope that this is readable as it is not up to the standard of the majority of the writers on this site but I think I?ve managed to fumble together something! Right off shopping then down to robs to learn something off some real players?
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