Had a pretty sweet weekend all in all!!
Obviously it's nice to start off with a winner on the gee gees and then I played day 1a of the grand prix and had a fun starting table with Craigbetts to my right, I had never met him before but he is defo a ledge and we both got busted in pretty gross spots but meh!
I then played the £150 six max and took a very strong line against a young kid who unfortunately became a wizard calling all in ott drawing at best to 3 outs as the hand had played unfortunately I had the air part of my range so his A high was goood and we departed to watch the NFL back at the hotel.
This year is the first that I have really watched the NFL but after looking at the shrewdies bets and copying a few I have really got into it, so it was a late night before going back to DTD for day 1b where we had a dream table with only 1 semi competant player who was oop and without much difficulty doubled the ss to 30k and then 36k as the table broke and maintained this through another break until we joined Frankies table where the run bad started to happen. With the blinds going up and really needing to bring back 100k we lost a race against a shortie AK v 99 lost 67dd v 44 on a 459dd board in an iso raised pot and then got educated by the 44 guy as to how well he played his hand mbn to know how to play sets well when ur oppo has a big draw!!
Then I made a questionable play and realised I need to stop spewing in these spots as I donated 13k out of a 26k stack and will post the hand on pha (obv its gonna be a fold pre) and we were grinding with the average at 35k we needed a double through which came at 4/800/50 and down to 10 bigs having raise folded twice we jammed a lp raise from a middle aged guy with
he nit rolled me with
and got his comeuppence on the King ball turn to get a full double through to 18k and next orbit was lucky to find dem aces with the young guy from my spew hand who had "the beltons" and we held to have 3/4 average going into the last 2 levels of the day.
With blinds at 8/1600/100 and then 1/2000/200 plus the drive next weekend I was prepared to take a shot if required to get 100k plus but didnt get a spot except a couple of jams until with 25 minutes left the young guy who turned out to be my nemesis open jammed 34k from utg+2 and we open up AK and follow him into the pot for 34300 then the bb dwells and checks his cards over and over so now I am hoping the villain does not have a pair as I'm pretty sure the BB has one of my outs and after his dwell he folds declaring AQ and we have the villain dominated with him holding AJ, unfortunately I dont seem to "race well"
in these spots and the jack on the flop sealed my fate with the 300 left making its way in next hand and me making my way down the M1...
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