Thanks for the support everyone
As you can see on a separate thread, Ariston being the fellow blonde on my initial table.. and after the 1st hour of fun.. he made decisions a little more difficult going in blind with his ridici-high chip stack, however by the time rebuy had ended, I was sitting ok with 13k... 1k being the starting amount
We split the table pretty much straight after, picked up QQ first hand... found a short stack going all in so called
a J high board and me thinking not a bad pot.. he has 6 6 which spiked a further 6 on the river..
I saw very little action apart from my blinds really... won a couple of pots calling small stacks all in,both times holding 10 10 vs A rag which didnt hit
The FUN hand! I had AQ in fairly early position, raised 3x bb and received 3 callers, 2 short stacked all ins and 1 other
with the board being 8 high we checked in down... and amazingly my AQ won with high card for about 12k chips
Seemingly next thing I realise its 2.20am and we're down to the last 15 or so players, and play slowed down a little...when we got to 12 it took an age to get to 11 and with 10th being the bubble, I decided the time was to be aggressive ( blinds 3k/6k)
First bubble hand I was UTG.. picked up
.. instant decision..ALL IN ( not realising a guy on the other table had less than 1bb), all folded to the BB who dwelled and called all in ( I had her covered by about 10k)
she flips
.. the flop comes 10 high with 0 hearts, turn J river 9 and we're on the final table with approx 62k stack
Got a nice draw for the final table, seat 9, which meant I could sit and watch the play for a while....
And quite fortunate really as I was totally card dead. A couple of players went out ( inc chip leader at the start) and the short stack had fought his way to approx 30k , however on my BB ( now 8k) he just called, no other players.. and a flop of 10 4 4 ... I check he goes all in, and naturally holding 5 4 I call, he has the 10 and he's out.. stack up to approx 90k
Final 5 played for about half an hour..lots and lots of blind stealing and uncalled all ins, moved up to about 130k and I'm being the table aggressor
blinds now 6k/12k so turned into a real crapshoot.. and on my BB holding 3 4 the SB calls and I check... flop comes 10 3 3 and I seem to be laughing, so slow play it, turn 5 he makes min raise and I call... on the river being an A he goes all in for his last 50k... I have to call.. I'm sure he has an A.. but he has Q 3 which cripples me down to approx 40k
Steal next 2 hands and on my next BB the big stack goes all in, I have
and call, he holds A 2... 8 turn and 2 river made things fun but another double up
I change gear up again, becoming very aggressive, which led to the others playing the same way, making it a push/fold situation
I fold utter garbage on the button as UTG goes all in, sb calls all in, and BB and chip leader calls the difference with 10 10 which holds and we're down to 3
£150 guaranteed, although now the short stack with blinds 8k/16k with just under 100k, CL has about 450k, other guy has 180kish
After a few steals etc, I get dealt
UTG, worth a steal, go all in, CL nearly calls on the SB, BB does call
he has A 10, and its bye bye me...
And typically as soon as I go out, they dont want to carry on and split for £350 each... was I bothered?? Not in the slightest
Sat all night with a smile on my face, really enjoyed it all, with esp thanks to Ariston for making it more fun!!
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