Day 2, Blackpool GUKPT
So with the field being maybe 8 good regs and a very very very soft field we came into day 2 with really good hopes. We got to the casino to find out we were on the feature table and then realised Richard "The Claimeer" Trigg and Tom "Gaggleokings" were there too. Trigg was on my direct right and Tom was on my direct left. The rest of the table were the regs who don't give their chips away either. They were the tight ones who were abit uncomfortable and not the ones who I mentioned in yesterdays report.
Whatever though. Very first hand of the day we open the button with 66, Tom 3bets the sb, we peel and fold the AJ9r flop.
We play pretty aggressive for the most part, opening most unopened pots with good holdings. I 3bc AK vs AJ and had around 120k which was 2nd in chips with around 60 left and 17 paying.
MP, an older guy who played decent/tight opened, a very tight guy peeled from the cut off and we peeled the sb with 66. Tom flicked it in from the bb for the extra change.
The flop was T65ss I considered leading but I felt like the original raiser may bet AK and the tighter guys were the kind who would probably bet/gii but if I lead just call and fold on scary run outs.
They all checked and we got the T65ssx
turn.
I lead for pot on the turn and Tom calls quickly and the tight guy in the cut off calls. At this point I think Tom has straights/flushes around 90% of the time and the other guy has Ask/q very often.
River is the beautiful 10 and I lead out for a big bet assuming Tom will call.
Tom reaches for yellows (5ks) pretty quickly and I instantly got "that" feeling when you just know that he has it. He puts in a 38k raise.
It was such a gross spit (
) and I tanked a long time, I felt like he would fold t7/t5/t6 on the turn because I bet into 4 people but I wasn't 100% of that. I figured the other guy had the As all the time, so he didn't have that kind of hand that was bluffing, so he''d need something very ambitious. It's obviously hard to flop a set in live poker and harder to river a full house on such a drawy/connecting board but I think I had to fold with all the "feelings" I was having. I got the text 30 seconds later that he had t5o and was really happy with the fold.
Nothing else really happened on the feature table, a few raise, cbets, give ups and we went to the secondary table with around 70k at bb1600.
An unknown player who seemed to have done not much wrong, but had saw me make the biggish fold opened mp to 3500, Trigg in the sb then make it 4200. He hadn't seen the open, and it was made a call. I have TT, it didn't feel like a squeeze spot, the original raiser could think that I thought Triggs money was lighter than it actually should be etc and 4bet me and with literally such an insane tournament I didn't want to have a "well he knows I know he knows" where I'm literally just guessing that he can think past level X. So I decided to call and told the table, "always bad karma these pots"
The flop was the lovely
T.....
KQ
Which is fine. We check/call vs the original raiser, the turn brought the KQT7fd, I checked and he bet around 12.5k into 18.5k. I really didn't like it but had to call.
The river was the KQT7K and I checked and he bet 21.5k, I really thought I was going to level myself into folding, but felt he could value bet AJ,J9,AK and afterwards this was definitely the case as he value bet really thinly like a2 on k9248 multi streets.
I really felt like I was beat but also that he could be tripling a hand like qj, tj, 98, axss and I was ofc getting a good price, but anyway after a few minutes of tanking I called to see QQ.
I then raised to 3500 at 1800bb with KQs, a new guy to the table 3bet to 5500 with 2 chips that I wasn't sure was intentional or not. It stood and he bet 5k on a AQ2 flop. I think I have to peel one and I did. The turn was the AQ2A and I checked and he jammed and then showed KK.
Eventually I busted shoving AJo utg+1 vs a trigg open at 1800bb for 23-5kish where he had been opening wider after winning some chips, but anyway it was a clear shove at the time.
Pretty annoying to bust after such good expectations. I really can't tell you how great this tournament was. It also had a 30k overlay from the 200k prizepool. I'm assuming ROI's in this tournament would be well over 100% so happy I made the trip to play it.
Tomorrow I'm going to grind online then Monday is the highroller which I unfortunately may skip due to not selling enough, but next confirmed event is the WPT main event which starts on Tuesday.
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