Nice quiet evening at Luton last night,the £50 x 3 affair.
Nice crowd in, including Compo, Claw,
Simon Galloway, Expressman, Dick Lynch, etc. Comp made £3,400.
Claw had the most torrid evening, everything went wrong for her. She accidentally dropped 2 oversize (500) chips in instead of 3 x 100 chips to make a call, & the geezer behind seized on her error in a flash & Shoved, & she had to Pass, & every time she found a hand, she got pushed around. She eventually busted with a huge draw that missed. I felt quite sorry for her - she's out of form, & I fancy she needed a result. Cruel game when you're running bad.
Compo lasted longer than usual - Level 2 I think - before betting his A-K on every street, (he missed) & finally shoving, with
Simon Galloway cutely waiting for him with pocket Queens.
I'm running awful, too, & it really knocks your confidence & ability to make correct plays.
I managed an early double-up, nut flush v 2nd nut-flush, so at least my luck is turning, but then I bluffed half my stack off, the mistake being to make the play against a Station. Mr Station had a mighty stack - average for Final after 4 Levels, but donked the lot.
I got lucky again on the last of the "last 3 hands", when I made an intricate play designed to get my stack down to 1,500, enabling a double rebuy, but it all went wrong, I turned trips, & got paid off by A high! He had surmised I was just "getting down" to 1,500, which I was, but I was not mean't to hit trips.......
The Tourney proper stated then, & I got very lucky to find K-K against
Simon Galloway, (A-K) & position & stack sizes made the play an auto-affair, & I doubled up.
I went on a run then, plenty of good fortune, & was soon chip-daddy, & Finalled as Leader. A nasty slow-roll against me in the semi by Mr R Sole put a bit of a damper on things, but the atmo soon recovered.
In the Final. my early luck was outrageous, hirtting the nut flush (again) v second nut flush, & then I found Aces against Expressmans Kings to bust him, & I knew I was running so hot it could not last. And I was right.
I Called a huge all-in heave-ho by Mr Lairy wth A-K for half my stack, (bad play by me) he had A-Q & rivered the Q, then a huge draw (flush & one pair flopped) missed against Dick Lynch, who Finalled yet again. I was pretty cross with myself for that call with A-K. Blinds were 1k-2k, I had 62,000, he had 28,000, & he had shoved first to speak. I don't need to make this Call, I can nick little orphaned pots against that Table all night & still win the thing without ever risking my stack, why did I need to gamble half my stack? I so nearly Passed it, but that would have been too bloody sensible.
Next I Raised with
& the flop came all Diamonds, but Mr Rockity Rock shoved all in. (He had trips). I bottled it & Passed.
And so it continued, & after Finalling as Daddy, & having some lovely hands early, I exited in 5th for a disappointing £170 - only my second cash since Vegas. Must do better. Nice evening, though, but I did ache a little for Claw, who's running worse than me.
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