Of mice and men vol. 2...
Didn't end up playing the £150 after all: when I got to Dusk, I realised I still wasn't feeling 100% and as much as I usually prefer 6-max tables, I was in the mood for something more serene and altogether less engaging. I entered the Super50 instead, and was seated on a table full of a diverse range of fish: two nits to my left, Dr. ABC to my right along with some LAGtards, and someone who flopped the world every hand and overbet the pot without fail before showing, "top two pair on a dry board is a vulnerable hand, and I'm happy with what's in the pot." I suppose you learn something new every day; perhaps James Keys should update his articles about chip accumulation. There was one guy on my table making life difficult, though, named Rahul I think. He and I had some good banter, including a pretty funny spot where he thought the guy doing the updates for the DTD website was a waiter.
I had a pretty tricky start when I found AK three times, twice in multiway pots where I hit air in position, and once in a heads up 3bet pot where the LAGtard donks pot into me on
and shows
. This would have been the nut table if I could just hit a pair. To that end, I decided to open a hand that hits pairs statistically more often than AK,
on the button seemed like a good starting point. I opened 325 at the 50/100 level and picked up the blinds and one limper.
. It gets checked to me and I make it 600, Rahul calls which is pretty fun because I know he's trying to generate a dynamic being the small and big blind to my button and cutoff, but then the limper just moves in for 5k~ with
. The whole table fell silent for a second before the gentleman to my left wished me a happy birthday.
After the break, the table broke, and I ended up on a table full of shortstacks. I doubled two of them up before the table broke again (Mitch, stop sitting on the tables ffs). I rotted down to 11bb and kept getting shoved into before I could get it in with my marginal hands and there never seemed like a great spot, until the very last hand. I squeezed out
on the button, and moved in only for the big blind to find DEM ACES! Of course, aces are no match for "The Belton" and I binked on the flop. Exit hand was pretty standard, at the 800/1,600/200 level with 18k~ average was about 32k this guy had shoved both blind vs blind and the button, then shoved the cutoff on my big blind where I found
. I called it off and his
held.
Not that anybody had read up to this point, because I'm attempting to analyse and report a live £50 freezeout. Instead why don't you all go over to Alex's diary and see his new movie poster.
Two weeks until i can play cash at Dusk, and will probably play the deepstack if I can sell at least half. About time I stopped pissing around in these no-chips/no-structure/no life-changing-sum-of-money-up-top comps. And it's about time I went to a casino and actually found a cash game running. Epic Saturday fail.
Steak tonight, although probably won't generate 21 pages of food critique on this diary. Will probably just have a moan to myself about how my fillet mignon wasn't French enough. Peace.
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