DAY 2 - I started with 23k chips and had a nice surprise to be on table O'Connell.
Mr O'Connell is an outgoing character and I was hoping to learn something from his play. He said he was a little under the weather and had not got to bed till 6am. He proceeded to play most hands and as the play developed he was mainly going all in.
I questioned his strategy and he said the power of the all in bet was immense, but had to be used in the right place at the right time. I quickly discovered when the right time was - it was when it was his turn to act. This strategy meant that his stack varied in proportion to his starting range until eventually his luck ran out.
After that the table calmed down a bit and I gradually increased my stack to 125k. A player called Graham commented that I seemed to be getting good hands all the time and he had been existing on scraps. I did get good cards for about two hours but then the last two sessions I went card dead. Graham, however, Started hitting
and
and
with amazing regularity and his stack of about 25k ended up 200k+ . In one hand he had
againt
and
with all 3 all in and he eliminated both players for a 120k pot.
In another hand he took a massive pot with AA again with the cards on board
all in and called - I think the other player had AK.
You have to expect to go card dead at some stage but hope that it dosnt last forever.
The bubble lasted nearly an hour and there was much discussion regarding what hands would be played and it was felt that only AA or KK was playable - someone even suggested that AA may be folded preflop.
I ended up with 83k so need to act quickly today to avoid beeing blinded out
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