Sadly im back in my room now and basically what vsick fuck invented limit "poker", or should it be called Limit "Who hits the most cards"?
I did actually really enjoy it and I think I had a pretty soft table really. There were 540 registered and so we played 8 or 9 handed with 64 going through and all 64 cashing for $4.3k. I busted in 3rd and think with a bit more experience of limit I would have won it. I made some schoolboy errors in the early levels that I managed to work out by about level 3 or so. What I really enjoyed was trying to figure out a new game and improving on my errors.
I staretd off in the first level playing a few small pots and started off well getting up to 5k after 15 misn from a 4.5k hand. I then had Aces busted by a flush draw chaser which got there on the river. I then found 77 in the cut off and raised, got re raised by a tight player on the button, I flatted after a call in the BB too. I loved the 7 flopping and check called a bet from the button. The gorgeous case 7 then popped up on the turn and I checked raised and still pick up two callers. A flush draw filled on the river and I led into the Button and still got 2 callers.
Would limit players check raise there??
Going into the final 5 I had 7k or so and was 3rd in chips when the problem hand came. I raised with 10 5 on button and got called in the SB. I managed to flop an up n down straight flush draw flush draw and got looked up by 33 all the way including the river. Pretty sick and frustrating having 3 million outs and not hitting one. Sadly that hand left me with 50 chips with blinds at 300/600. I did then win the next 3 hands, with 55, then Q8 twice, first floipping two pair and then next top pair. Sadly my J5 on a J high flop was no good against KJ.
All in all a very entertaining comp but doubt ill ever play it out unless it is the shootout next year.
Off to bed now as a chilled day tomorrow before my first big comp of the $3k triple chance on Sunday. Also the sky poker crew arrive here tomorrow and they want to do a lot of filming of me in Vegas and at the tables so I may have to get some of that done too.
Oh yeah .... almost forgot!! Went to pick up my Full Tilt stuff and got a hat, one shirt, one top thingy and a t shirt and thats it. Wasnt overly happy really and the stuff really isnt that good either but oh well.
Good news is I saw Steve Jelenik at the Omaha High Low and is he down to the final 22 and going well. He told me the only pot he had won in the last 4 hours was against Hellmuth and while he was scooping the chips Hellmuth went to town until the guy next to Steve gave Hellmuth the rub down
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