Well not the greatest of days today but still very enjoyable.
Woke up at 9 by the maids and then eventually got up at 10.30 so I could grab some brekkie from the full tilt room before the comp at 12. Went down to the taxi place to get a ride up to the rio to see a huge cue, forgot it was sunday and looks were checking out. So was forced into getting a Limo for $40 as wouldnt arrive in time. So off I went in the limo in my Full Tilt gear. Pulled up at the rio at the Poker entrance and was greated by some little Chinese kid who asked for my autograph. I didnt have the heart to tell him I wasnt a pro so I signed away and off he ran to his Dad saying "I got it". Bless
Got my to my table and was pretty happy with it. Table was very soft apart from a Stars pro in seat one and Mr O'Dea to my left. After a round of the button one guy had shown to be an idiot so I targeted him and about a round later I managed to get 3 streets of value out of him with JJ on a 10 high board. Then Layne Flack came to sit in seat 10, two to my left. First hand he flopped a set and then within one round he then had AA, KK and AK and got action everytime.
I got the first break with around 11k from the 9k start and had started to work most of the table out. I then got in a hand with Flack, with it folded round to me on the button I raised with A3 off. Flack flatted and check the ace high flop with 2 diamonds, I checked behind. Blank on the turn saw me get check raised which I called and Flack led for 2k on the river when the flush draw filled up. I called and he mucked so was no sitting pretty with around 19k.
About a round later an active player raised UTG to 550, I flatted with
and the stars pro flatted on the button. Board came
HELLO!!!! UTG led for 825, I flatted, BUtton pumped to 4150, UTG folded and I shoved for 19K. Button had me covered by 1k and reluctantly called. He flipped
to kill most of my outs but I was happy to see any 4 or 5 werre good too. Quenn came on the river to leave me thin and blank on the river to leave me out. Sadly a 40k didnt go my way when the average was around 12k. Maybe I could have played it differently but im surprised he raised with the flush into a UTG bet and a flat.
I have registed for the $1500 tomorrow after Channing telling me just how soft it was.
On British news Karl, Richie Allen and Stu Rutter all seemed to be going well in the $3k triple chance and one of the blackbelt team was deep in the $1500 from Saturday.
I met up with Tikay and the sky team earlier and they want to start there filming tomorrow so could be an interesting day.
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