Great moments in pokerDon't know if anyone saw it on the stream, but our man had one of those wonderful moments that only poker can bring.
All-in for not much, he has....
9-9
and faces calls in TWO spots (because he has a relative bowl), with.....
10-J
&
K-Q
So, just the 4 overs to swerve.
He survives the flop, but NOW one of the villains also has 4 to the flush.
The turn was a.......
And the river was another....
'Arulmaran Sivaguru makes it 7,000 to play from first position, action is then passed round to Alan McLean who moves all in for 23,000, Anthony Gaughan who is directly to Alans left and only playing around 10 big blinds also moves all in for 35k. The blinds get out of the way and Arulmaran makes the call hoping to knock out two players.
Alan shows J-10, Athony tables 9-9 and Arulmaran turns over
-Qh.
The flop comes
--4h--6h, giving Arulmaran a flush draw, any heart, King or Queen and he would knock out two players.
The turn card is
. The river
.
Anthony fist pumps and lets out a "Get IN" as he nearly trebles up to aroud 85,000. Which he then apologises for to Alan McLean who is elimnated in 18th place.'
Felt terrible for reacting like that, never ever do, always have grace, but not had a fade like that before on a bubble live.
This was my exit hand....
'Action is folded round to Anthony Gaughan on the button who moves all in for 120,000 (20bbs). Chris Gavriel in the big blind, says "I don't believe you" and makes the call.
Anthony turns over 6-6 and just needs to dodge a King as Chris turns over the mighty K-3.
The flop comes 3--9--2. Giving Chris a pair, but he still needs to hit if we are to make the final.
The turn card is a KING!!!
Anthony now has two outs to stay alive. The river card is a 5.
Chris Gavriel takes the pot.
Very cruel way to exit as Anthony Gaughan finishes 10th for £2,650.'
Aside from the final table bubble, what made this worse was that we were hand for hand and this went all in quickly and we weren't allowed to turn over our cards for another 5 mins until the next table finished their hand. We knew everything was done and dusted so we shared our hands without showing and i said 66 he said k3 and he initially thought i only had 70k in chips, and would have half justified his call there. Just a really bad feeling after he said he didn't think I had that much, o well.
Felt the standard was good in spots with good players like Simon Deadman cleaning up. The rest of the play from other players was different and a culture shock. Got slightly more used to it at DTD in the 500 recently. You cannot play as you do online necessarily, and it is always best to play tight for a round or two when on a new table to suss out what styles all the players have and then proceed accordingly.
That is two cashes in my last two live tourns and have noticed my play getting better and i am opening up a lot more calling and playing in position where i can to outplay people post flop, before i would be pretty nitty and would never think of 3 betting 9q suited in position to a loose utg plus one raiser with 50 bbs, just to try and outplay him on the flop and after, but where i see value i will be going for it. O and i made a few mistakes over the weekend but ones i am learning from and if i keep on exploring different avenues of play, making mistakes in the process eventually i should be knowledgeable on what best to do in ANY given spot.
Looking forward to the next one and cheers for the backing in this one and it was nice to meet Tikay, Bobalike and Vinny while there.
PS. Bobalike and Pleno have been paid, waiting for StuartHopkin to tell me how best he wants to receive monies, bank xfer or pokerstars are ideal for me.
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