Managed to bink a seat in the satty on thursday night which reduces my makeup with Blatch to under £2k. Wiiii.
Had a nightmare table when I first sat down today, on my right was Will Martin and John Eames and on my left Ben Vinson and Rich '8-bet air' Hare. My usual style in tournaments is to accumulate chips early by opening lots and lots of hands but I wasn't getting the rub of the green and was down to 21k and Andy Bradshaw giving me the hairdrier treatment.
One hand I opened 74o and got a call from Bradshaw in the blind. Flop 652 with 2 diamonds. I bet and he called. Turn was the 4 of diamonds and now Bradshaw leads. I know he's full of shit and call. I'm holding
too. River is a black queen and I pay off a bet as his KQ black got there. So I'm getting rubbed down, smiled at, just anything to rub me up the wrong way and I wait to make a hand against him. He duly pays me off and I rub him down hard. He starts spewing and I just jump on everything he says. I really think I got to him and he was out not long later, with me on 66,500 and half his chips in my stack.
I managed to leave that table in level 6 or so with 70k before moving to table Snoops and Marenholz for a while. This was the one bad hour in the tournament for me. I doubled up someone blind on blind and tried to bluff Karl 'I sure project an image of happyness at the table' Marenholz who, to his credit made a good call. Luckily the table broke quickly. Not that it was a hard table but I was down from 70k to 43k, not playing my best and just needed the change. So I get moved to table Bradpiece and double up, winning an 80k pot within 2 orbits. I opened AK utg and got 3-bet by the button. LOL i was sure letting that one get through. I 4-bet to induce and he insta shoved. I couldnt snap him off fast enough but it's always horrible when you have AK vs two live ones. His 910 looked scary. The door card was an Ace and just as I felt home and dry the dealer pealed back the J8hh to give oppo an up and down. Turn was the King of hearts and he has a heart, i dont. afhdslkgs. Luckily the river bricked. I picked off a bluff from Jerome to get to 100k. Peaked at 113k and finished on 94. Playing well and with a good table. Let's gogogo today.
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