Hi Snoopy,
I think it is great what you and Jen do, I havent met Tikay as yet maybe soon if I qualify for EPT Monte Carlo or one of the other events no doubt I will. I am getting closer and closer to making a firmer move into making poker my true path. The bankroll from the Sunday $750k win and the 4th spot money will help (although my wife's nabbed half for looking after the kids all weekend).
What I love about poker is you can act whichever way you want at the table but when you need to wield the axe you can do it mercilessly without people realising what is happening.
Lawrence Gosney knows first hand as he was trying to bait me before I took half his stack away on Day 2 (when he was probably one of the chip leaders).
I was in 2nd position and the raised it up 3 yellow chips (15k) blinds were 1500 3000 I think. Everyone else folded to Lawrence who was in the BB. He called to see the flop. The flop came down something like
. He announced All in straightaway doing all the betting for me. I called turning
and he had
Cant remember the turn and river but neither hand improved immensely then we went for the break. Oucho.
Maybe he saw me as an easy fish target to start putting under some pressure and I am not sure why he thought a raise to 15k was strange. He thought i was weak and bluffing for not raising more modestly or may have put me on
perhaps.
Would be interesting to hear back from Lawrence to see what he thought as the only information I gave was the raise. I had gambled my tournament life a few orbits earlier when up against an all in from the pokernightlive presenter. I had
to his
and i felt that in a coin flip I would be a possible winner. So I am guessing he thought I was loose which in fact was the only really loose play i made in the first 16 levels of the tournament.
Anyway kids need my attention as I havent seen them for 3 days.