Sunday was really good and I had a decent table draw and some passive players but played a pot with 3 left before the bubble where I basically 3b pre, 1/2 pot cbet the flop, 2/3 pot bet the turn when checked to again and after the villain who I had some history with donked the river small leaving me just enough wiggle room to jam on him with air, got it through which gave us a lot of confidence and also another 200k to play with.
I am honest enough to know that I got some great cards on day 2 and some unbelievable spots ie where utg raises pre, lady 3b's all in for 10bigs, sb jams all in for 13 bigs and we find "dem aces" and scoop vs AK and QK and also had the "Eso Spew" we got into a raising war with Dan Owston in late pos and ended up sighing it off with
vs his "Beltons"
and despite a dream turn didnt get there. Then we chipped back up before losing 2 pots vs shorties to be short going into the last 9 players.
I never worry about having 20-25 bigs late on as once you get a double through you are always back in the game and after Jon played out a dream hand for him vs Tommy B and A.Tuxworth I really felt if I could get the double through we had a good shot on the live stream final.
This happened vs Glen and from that point with cards and without I think I played really good solid aggressive poker and was only playing FTW in fact if it had been anyone other than Jon in the last 2 then I would have played it out.
The hands I enjoyed the most were the
hand otb vs Jon and also the flopped house vs him but it was a dream final for me and the money will really come in handy as
the Chinese need paying Petra is already working out the other bits of modernisation we can do in the house and top of her list currently is installing a downstairs wc under the stairs.
Whilst I was away she also booked for us to go to Malta in September as we are taking my Mum for her 60th birthday and we can catch up with all the relly's over there allof whom have not seen Max yet so it will be a nice break for all.
Thx for all the rails and text's over the weekend it means a lot and was pretty surreal driving home with a nice "Gregory" in your pocket and funnily you are never tired on the 2 1/2 hour drive home after a win as you are buzzing and playing hands over in your mind again, it was good to see the wee man as he woke up and despite being knackered was in the office at 8am and unlike Jon my chq was deposited at 9.30 when the bank opened!!
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