Part 7So we arrive at the final and unbag our chips. Not ideal is that I have two of the most capable players directly on my left - James 'Cottonbud' Williams and Simon Deadman. CF is a few to their left but doesn't yet have a big enough stack for me to worry about.
With James and Simon on my left I figure I'll be playing a little tighter than normal. The guy in the one seat is about 5 minutes late for the final and absolutely reeks of weed. For the next 10 minutes the dealer holds her cardigan over her face. However, the guy quickly busts himself defending A8, though Charles should have bust him earlier when he defended A8 to Charles raise and they say a board with two Aces on for it to come QQ to chop vs Charles AK.
Chris 'Dancefloorpro' Gregg busted the guy in 8th in a 84green vs KK encounter. All the while I had maintained my stack, adding little bits here and there.
However, my big hiccup came just before the break. Now I call it a hiccup, at the time it felt like the mother of all fuck ups, pardon my french. At 2k/4k, my open had been to 8900 and I looked down at QQ. I announced to the dealer 8900 once again, which the dealer nodded as if to confirm and then I looked down. James Williams quickly called and next thing I know, me James and Charles in the BB are 3 way to the flop.
Charles checked, I bet and only James called. The turn was the
. I opted to check here purely for pot control as James was the only person who could bust me at this point and to get value from James' middling pair type hands. I figures James would check behind a lot with a flush draw here. So I check called a small bet of like 17k and we see the
on the river. When I went back over it the hand didn't make too much sense to me and I called James' 60k river bet for James to show a five, a five, a five and another five, which I believe makes 4 of a kind: fives.
When talking about it at the break I was told it was infact Charles who had opened that pot. saghjsdg. Apparently he had AK and if I'd known I'd of 3-bet/got it in, won a nice pot and eliminated a player who just seems to make no real mistakes. Sigh.
From looking a lock to at least get in the top few spots I'm now back in the pack and James has all the chips. James has started drinking Guinness by this point.
With blinds reaching 3k/6k and me now on just under 90k I locked up for about a round just waiting for a hand when I thought I found a good spot to reshove against the cutoff's 16k open with
. Simon Deadman thought for ages in the big blind and I knew I was in trouble, having never really been worried at all about the cutoff. I thought Simon had AQ or similar but when he eventually moved in I wasn't too disappointed to see 99. The board ran out
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I was a little embarrassed at doing a small fistpump there as I hate celebration at the table but it was literally just a small bit of relief. The adrenaline was really running at that point, the way the board ran out and I was expecting disappointment and then BAM the river. I didn't think I got rivers like that. I just thought it was the sort of standard shit that happens to me.
We were now playing 6 handed and with a 200k stack again I opened to 15.5k with
for James to call in next position. I received one other caller and flopped the stonecolds on a
and my lead was immediately raised by James. I got it in and quickly called over to Blatch that I had to fade James'
for the world which I did when it came brick brick. Has someone put me in the wrong seat?
In the £1k main right next to us there are two tables in play and the stable boss Niall Blakey is all in. His QQ racing with AK and I rush over from my table to sweat it. Not that a coin flip should be much of a sweat for Blatch but after the raggy board the K on the river was such a gutshot and I felt gutted for Neil.
Now on around 400k of the 1m in play, 6-handed - the chinese lad who is short shoves and I'm in the BB with
. The SB flats and I elect to move in, only to get my arm bitten off by KK. Not a problem, I'll just flop a flush draw on the flop and bink it on the river. EZ game.
We're down to 4-handed and I have around 600k now, with James on around 200, Chris Gregg on 120ish and Cf on 80. Chipcounts obviously a little hazy in my head. At this point one of the massage girls is working on Charles, doing some sort of ponytail thing on his hair. I'm pretty sure it influenced me to instacall his all in with QK. Charles had AJ and I was ready to say bye when the card in the window was infact another Q. However, the two Jacks that peeled back right behind it weren't so nice. It wasn't too much later that Charles had seemingly run a bit card dead and I called his shove with QJ and got there vs his AK.
Now 3-handed Chris Gregg suggested a deal but it wasn't right for me with such a significant chiplead. Doctor Cottonbud wasn't bothered either as he'd never done a deal before (and is baller) and we played on for me to make a badly timed move on a 458 flop with 34 vs Dancefloorpro's J8. Now he'd doubled all the stacks were very similar and we did a deal whereby we all took £6250 and would play on for £2k. James was knocked out soon after in a bit of a weird pot vs Chris which saw them get it in on the flop of a J10J board, Chris's K kicker playing until the 10 turn which looked like choppidy chop. The brudal K river saw James eliminated and even though I was playing ftw and James is such a good player, I was genuinely a bit gutted. A super nice guy, me and James talked through most of the last two tables and he was really complimentary about my game. More importantly he bought me a tuna melt and buying a greek person food will always earn you brownie points.
At 3-handed I think the Guinness's had started to take effect on James and he became pretty damn funny...saying things to the dealer like 'I'd definitely cheat on my girlfriend...if she wasnt SO FIT'. I might have to delete this bit as James mrs sometimes reads stuff after him. Anyway, I'm now officially a James 'Toasty Life' Williams fanboy.
The HU doesn't last too long but I have a bit of a rail behind me during the break of the £150 which is nice. Evilpie, Clown, Chili, Redbull, Blatch, Bedi, Sonny and a few others are railing which is nice. Chris has around 670k to my 330k at the start of play and I cheekily say I'll accept an even chop which Chris can't do but after winning the first hand or two and getting back to around 450 vs 550 the even chop is done for £7250.
Blatch has a monster stack in the £150 after having played for all of about 2 levels but just cba to play and moves in every hand until busto and he feeds us horses a meal in the bar. (Thai curry at DTD is v good). I can't complain even though I was surprised to see the massage he bought me when we got to 3-handed added to my makeup!
I was gonna make this the last part but I'm gonna finish with one more short bit...which will defo go up today. Promise!
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