Well I had a GREAT time. Met lots of new people and was able to put faces to forum names which is nice.
I didnt fair too well in the comp though unfortunatly. I managed to double my stack by the first break and was feeling more confident and decided to loosen up a bit as the table was fairly tight (apart from Matt Dale lol), unfortunatly nothing was hitting the board, I raised and was reraised preflop with QQ and had to lay down to a flop of AK?, my 99 was beaten by TT, my suited connectors didnt connect and any attempt to steal the pot was reraised. I went alarmingly quickly from being comfortable to shortstack and was moved to the table of death. Allin with A9s was called by QT who hit and I was off to the bar.
Played an stt and bubbled...last hand shortstack (again) and on SB I decided before seeing the cards I was going allin, UTG goes allin, I have 89 and stick my chips in, BB has us both covered and calls with KK, UTG is rolling about laughing and turns over 72...guess who won!! yep..it doesnt only happen online, 72 hit a straight
I then went onto a cash game with Nick Wright, Dan Carter (pros woohoo) and a very drunk Woody (some of you might remember him from BB4) to name a few and managed to win back enough to cover the cost of the evening. I did feel rather bad when I reraised a young chap putting him allin with my 99 and busted his aces with a flush though.
Meanwhile, a very nice Aussie lady who I had contacted through Matts forum and who had kindly offered me a lift was doing very well in the comp. In the second break she had been chatting to Matt and was trying to get him to sponser her into the European Ladies Cup, he said if she won the comp he would, fully expecting her not to win as he later admitted and she WON!!! So GOOD LUCK to Robyn
Im sure Matt is hoping the same
All in all a very enjoyable evening, made new friends, had fun and won a signed piccy of the Hendon Mob in the raffle woohooooo and it didnt cost me a penny.
Roll on Blonde Bash
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