Got to tell someone......
Only played in about 10 live tourneys, always at the local casino. Well the local Stanley's casino have introduced a Saturday night 2nd chance £30 freezeout. Unfortunately there's not a great turnout at the moment due possibly to the starting time of 5.30 pm and also the infancy of the tourney. So I turn up on Saturday night to be notified there are 18 runners, almost double last weeks
. Previously I have only ever played in the regular £10 re-buy lotto were your given 1000 chips and the blinds are 50/100 to start
and my previous best is bubbling twice.
Anyways I couldn't have asked for a better start, Aces 1st hand. Give it the standard raise, get 2 callers. Flop comes down put in a 2/3Rd's pot raise, one caller. Check/check the turn. Small bet on river and foe folds.... Nice! Next hand I flop a flush to take all the chips of the well known maniac
. From then on I played TAG, keeping my chips at a nice level. Gets to the final table were I start to get crap hands. Fold on a regular basisand my chips are dwindling quite rapidly as the blinds are huge. Take a couple of chances and double up a couple of time... always with the best of it I hasten to add, no muffing. Soon enough I actually make the money, then it was like a switch that had been turned on. I decided to take this thing down with some mega aggressive play. I totally surprised myself the way I was playing, and I'm sure I surprised the rest of the table as well. Eventually we were heads up with equal stacks of 80,000 and blinds 4000/8000. 1st hand pocket 7's.. all in foe folds. 2nd hand pocket 7's.... all in foe folds to much disgust... Now I know he's angry. 3rd hand....I'm in the BB with A10 suited. I know he's gonna raise, which he does, I give him the all in move.... his face was a picture
He calls with Q7 and I take it down.
OK I know it was only 18 runners and the prize was £336 but it was just nice to break my duck in live play.... and I never gave any one a bad beat nor did I receive any... so I'm well chuffed.
Sorry to bore everyone with the gory details, but the missus thinks I'm speaking dutch!
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