Well it’s been really busy irl since UKIPT Nottingham week so haven’t really had chance to report much so apols for the Tl;Dr...
I drove up to Nottingham late on the Monday afternoon and checked into my hotel for a couple of nights before attempting to satellite into the High Roller and had sold a small package to my usual investors which included if they wanted the option of H/R satty, Main satty on Tues, Main weds and Friday if required and then the Nottingham Cup if we had bust the main we settled down for the first satellite and didn’t require the reload which saved a carpet but didn’t yield a seat although the field looked a lot different to other H/R’s I have seen either on UKIPT events or even Sky events.
I played a bit of cash before retiring for the evening as I had a game of golf booked with Karabiner on Tuesday meaning I had to miss my outing for London/Essex in the footie and instead took a pasting at golf having only played 3 rounds in the past 2 years and Ralph expecting me to play off 14 with him off 12 it was hardly a fair match and I was well and truly hustled out of the same value as the winter allowance he will get in a few months time when the weather turns back
I have to say though he is a member at a beautiful course called Wollaton Park of which you can see a couple of photo’s below with the last showing Wollaton House? Which Ralph tells me was used in the last Batman film made.
Pre golf selfie of me with all the gear and no idea..
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14th fairway
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In the Tuesday evening satty we fared no better than the H/R so I headed off for an early night before the main on Weds where I was hoping to get through on 1 bullet and on sitting down there were only a couple of players I knew being Typhoon, a Swedish H/r and a young mixed games specialist I played with in London and I had position on the latter two so set about trying to accumulate some chips.
I fluctuated between 20 and 40k and then bled for a couple of levels but eventually after sitting patiently found a guy who also managed to finished in the top 4 or 5 to get it in drawing thin with about 30 mins of the day left to bag up a decent amount for Saturday and headed back down South as I needed to work on Thursday and was also booked to have the beard off.
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Friday afternoon I set off and having seen a status on FB that Vinny may be in London (it was just Gav messing around) I headed to Luton and though we may catch up but later he phoned me to say he was in Scotland so I stayed in Luton and went to the gym before playing Nirvana’s Friday night comp which was a fairly amateur mistake as I finished 8th at 4am on Saturday morning and by the time I arrived at my hotel again in Nottingham it was 6am and I slept till 11am before heading to DTD to commence day 2 which started on the feature table (no stream) and I managed to win a really big pot where I was all in 15 players off the bubble in an interesting hand (for me) with 67hh having opened the co and then called the proceeding 3b from a dutch guy in the sb to flop 632 with one heart and called his cb to see the
turn which he again kept the lead on which now became an auto peel for us and after he bet 60% of my stack on the river I looked to see the
river and value jammed to see him tank call 46cc with my
playing and scooping a pot that gave us 400k with the avg at 120k.
I then got a table move back to Trevor’s table and found myself a bit card/spot dead but again found some momentum when making a good call with AQ high vs a guy on the button who eventually took my scalp on day 3 and then found AA vs Ian Bosleys 1010 in the BB where he jammed 25bb’s over my utg raise and we were back in the game but a bad last hour meant I was coming back for Day 3 with just over 20bbs.
Sunday morning I went to see my brother over in Borrowash as he and his GF had just given birth to a beautiful baby boy called Finlay a couple of days previously so I had become an uncle for the first time so it was good to see them and congratulate him for becoming a dad for the first time which I am sure would have made our Dad really proud.
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I bust in 27th in the end later that day which was a bit yeah but sigh as for someone like me who pays 15 comps per year ranging from £300 - £1000 along with 5-6 smaller comps you can never guarantee a deep run so when you bust close to the life changing amounts of money it is always disappointing but at the same time 55% of what we cashed for is still decent enough to take home and it also means that in the last 3 £1k tournies I have played we have finished 11/1000, bust day one in a massive pot 5 mins before the end which would have given us a top 15-20 stack for day 2 and then 27/1026 but I would still dearly love a slightly deeper run.
I actually think my exit hand was a small mistake coming away and that peeling was by far the better option it is probably close so having busted I decided t snap late reg the Omaha comp in an attempt to get a double flag weekend and despite making all the usual Hold-em player Omaha mistakes I managed to get a decent stack just prior to the bubble bursting and then sailed into the top 3 before getting in all in vs Marcel Luske who eventually won it where pretty much any red card plus an oesd on the river would have given me 85% of the chips in play but alas it was black and not a straightening card so I bust out for just over a grand in that and headed back home.....
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