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Had Vinny trying to ring me ALL day yesterday seeing if I was ok as I had not posted since Saturday night and he was worried! Bless!!
I had no battery on my phone all Saturday aft and evening and then having bust with 10mins of the last level to go with 4 tables left had a family day Sunday before back in work and Monday's are normally our busiest day due to weekend viewings turing into offers.
GPS Southend
Well it was my home event and had a deepish run at both tourneys I played with a mid 80s finish in the main where I can have no regrets and I should have probably bust or basically had very few chips left the hand before I actually bust where UTG1 (older than me and solid) opens to 5100 @ 12/2400 from 150k and a guy in the HJ (older than UTG1) jams for 67k and we are sat on the button with
and I folded (in before) as out of the corner of my eye the BB was getting his 58k ready to wager so when the O/R folded we saw 22 from the jammer and
from the young guy in the BB who 4flushed the older gentleman and would have me as he told me he still overcalls if I do.
The very next hand Amy Trodd opens to 5000 UTG and I 3B small to 8300 and was going to 5b vs her until a guy who I sat with on 1a and also today who we talked lots about poker and life in general but he was very naive to a lot of stuff in the poker world 4b from the BB and after Amy had folded I 5B all in with JJ and he called with "The Beltons" (QQ) and held. He had 3b or 4b alot of my opens on day2 so this was fairly std imo but still a bit disappointing to go out then.
I snap entered the £150 side event and was sat on a starting table with Sin Melin, one of her crowd, Paul "The Biz" from Southend and another fairly competant player and with Sin and her friend defo likely to re-enter and be splashing around I knew we could build a stack in the right coup, so having seen Sin lose 3/4 of her stack and her hoppo 1/2 she opend blind UTG and I had JJ in mp and 3b with her friend and Biz calling and back to her and she shipped for 2k so I jammed to go HU and her friend then says "do you mind if I call" so we have a chat that I am defo re-entering if I bust so yeah ofc call anything and however bad your cards are it really does not matter so we play for a dbl average stack in lvl one with JJ vs Sin's AQhh (blessed) and 68ss and have then dead on the turn.
Replacing Sin at the table is Skalie who instantly doubles through soemone else and wins another pot and due to his seating and Biz (cant resist a squeeze round the back I decide if the spot falls I will flat a big hand oop so when Skalie opens to 250 @ 50/100 UTG I just flat "Dem Aces" as Biz has the btn and the SB is short but when Biz just flats I am reliant on the SB who does not dissapoint and ships for 1450 so naturally we are delighted when Skalie re-pops to 5k and I stick with the plan and flat the 5k and we are 3 way to the
flop at which point Skalie jams and naturally we snap and he has
and we hold despit a spade turn to go over 60k at 50/100.
Unfortunately the SB was replaced by a dece competent player who knew a few faces and I lose a couple of decent pots to him AK v 99 AIP and flush over house to hover around 40k till the last level of the day where our remaining 39k (avg 50k) went in with AK v AA and we dont ge the gutterball needed to make day2 with a stack.
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