just like to say big well done and thanks to the team- it is impossible to imagine the scale of their job if you havnt winessed it- row after row of tables- not just the 1260 main eventers- cash tables/sats etc filling the room ,and then all the ailse full of spectators/press etc.
ok observations-
was not impressed that we were made to queue with no explanation in corridor till 10 minutes before projected start time.
30 minutes breaks after each 2 hour level was too long
2 hour dinner break- ditto
if these had been 15 mins and 1 hour end time after 6 levels would have been 3 not 4- peeps were pretty grumpy by level 6.
As you might have gathered I went out on level 6- never really got going- being moved twice didnt help.
level 1 hand 2 matey boy 1 gets
cracked by matey boy 2 s
ouch, joined by Joe beevers who was already on 38k- n1- finnished level on 17.5k- no hands played a few speculative hands- had to lay down kj on a kt3 board to reraise from even rockier than rudders player.
level 2/3- got moved to intresting table including 2 irish guys(one of whom was riish open champ marty smyth.) picked a few hands up- had
in mid position after 1 limper- raised to 4x bb- called by limper flop
ugh- he checks i bet1.5k- he dwells and calls- time to shut down- turn is a bootilicious
- bet 4k -dwell and call river
- he folds to my river bet.- he had ace big of spades he says.
then i get
in mid 600 - reraised by the other irish guy- who i had played before- and i knew was not doing this with nothing. i call for 2100 flop
check check- I am well suspicious now- he bets the blank of a turn- i consider callingbut am sure he has an Ace (maybe 2?) i fold- he show the ace- bloody kings!
next hand there is a limp utg 2 callers sb raises to 4x bb - bb calls (1200) utg raises to3k sb calls- flop TT8- allin call kk(sb) v aa(utg) turn and river blanks- the BB had folded qq also !
next hand i get kk again- no action.
nothing more to report on these levels most hands were raised with a call or fold preflop and i had no hands- got moved last hand of level to new table holding a 19k chip stack- still no panics.
New table had maybe 1 ewak player- everyone else had 30 k or bigger chip stacks and were playing solid poker. All raises that were seen were genuine and they all seemed aware of what the score was.
i played a few marginal hands and was 20k at end of level 4 jus scambling to keep pace without actually getting any genuine monsters- but now had a good rocky image!
early level 5 utg limps for 300 raised by mid position aussie- reasonable player from what i have seen- i call for 1500 with
ytg then min raises to 3k! ugh dont like it but call as now have odds to call- apparently this guy had played
this way before. any way flop is
. and the ug bets half his stack- (5k)-original raise folds (JJ) I dwell but fear at best he has KK with
so fold- it turns out that he was a novice and had played
this way- brilliant??. LOL
i then get a gift- gy open shoves for 8k into my Bb- i have
he flips
flop
- not ideal! turn a rather nasty
he has a few outs to say the least! river is a blank- I am now on 28k
I then have JJ 3 times i call a raise then we get repopped once and then raise twice get a call then am bet out at on ace high flops each time. UGh
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I played some nice hands- Kt from bb getting a river and turn bet paid on a t5673 board by early limper. calling a river bluff from "the cockroach" after he called my pre flop raise from the bb ( I had
) the board was an unpleasant
check check turn
quick call of his pot sized bet. then a call of his river bet on the
. he mucked without showing.
late level 5and then level 6 blinds were killing there were 2x 150 stacks on the table and they were crushing the table- i was getting blinded and was looking for places to shove my 16k- 15k 14k 13k stack played a few hands having to fold to raise reraises from the non bigstacks. we are 800/400 with 100 rolling ante i have had a duece evey hand for last 30 mins- getting beyond a joke- am knackered but there is still time i have 12.5k which is an M of 6- not quite panic time.
i have
in sb there are 3 limpers so it costs me 400 into an 4600 pot- no brainer despite low chips- ( some reservations as i went out of brighton gukpt event with j7 on a j73 board to set of
- but cant be choosy in my position!!)
anyway flop comes
deja vu or what- i instashove my remaining 12k called by 140k bigstack. he flips
- i am 85% fav pot =29k
turn is the case
- I am now 90% day 2 here i come.......
river is the
- he whoops in that classy american way- I shake his hand ( and sadly my head) and walk wearily to the rail- the dream is over... oh well
PS the cabbie on the way back engages me in conversation- asks how i went out? i tell him- well he asks in amazement- you went out of a 10k event with 2Pr? I mean 2pr? thats not very good is it after all its only 2 pr
FFs I am evengetting a rubdown from the cabbies. Today i have break from poker- then i may well venture over to the venicain for the 1k tourny.
Thanks to all for the good luck messages- ther is always next year...
Rudders
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