Hi guys,
Sorry for not writing anything, just been massively demoralised after the trip. I've played less than an hour online and just been really in a bad mood, and of course being home with family for the first time in 20 months has been nice.
It's pretty weird, but because of how intense the last 2 tournaments were I can't even remember what happened in the ESPT.
Ah yes. We lost most of our stack with 88 on jj8, it was a 3bet pot and we go berzerk on the flop, i leave him a 1/2 pot sized bet on the turn and it comes a J and I fold to his 1/4 pot bet which really sucked
I kept composure and folded JJ to a skandi pre with less than 40bbs so definitely was in the zone and not trying to spew etc.
I eventually busted after losing AK < j7s before a hand w
oh shit edit rofl:
Trip report
This is coming off iPhone so potentially lots of typos.
We start really well making some pretty standard stations to get upto 20k. We were playing 8 handed and apart from one v good skandi wte rest are old and Spanish and generally play very bad.
Here is note I made from the tourny. Some may not like my line but think its pretty std.
Open co w/a9cc to 275. Cbet 225 on 982cxx he c/r to 525 we call
Turn is 3 he bets 1200 we tank call
River is queen e bets 2750 we. Call
He had aa so we dropped to starting stack again.
We raise jj and get c/r on 976 and decide to fold and he showed kk.
Table had no 3bets really and no 4bets. Italian team pro sits down, opens first 7 pots then cold called 3 3bets and showed down k2s in one of then. He also called a raise for 200 or something then when the guy cbet 3.1k miso neon the pro snapped in less than 5secpnda with 88 on k23
We open co with 88 call the tight guy from bbs 3bet and flop jj8.
He cbets 1.1 we go 3.1 he goes 7 and we decide to flat to stop any hero folds. Turn is j and we fold to his 5k bet.
Skandi bumps up aggression as controls the table with next interesting hand.
Tight utg 300, splashy Irish guy 650, skandi utg+2 1650. We have jj and 8kish and decide to fold.
After dinner we 4bet fold vs the Italian guy who 5bets.
Very next hand skandi 400 utg, Italian peel mp, we go 1350 from co planning to get it in with aqss.
Skandi folds, Italian snap peels. Flop is a105csd he checks, I decide to go for 725 to induce some spew.
He snaps really quick. Turn is
I look at h cards then overran 5.1k into 4.5 ish. He calls any ax and probably 10x as well. But on this occasion e had 55 and I was drawing dead.
Again, coolered early with 44v77 on j74, chipped up etc, eventually 5b folded AQs pre flop in a really weird spot. We later 3bet called A9 vs his K9 hj v btn and he turned a kind which really sucked as it was for 50bbs which was plenty in this comp.
Main:In first orbit got off to an insanely bad start. Here is a link to the hand,
http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=Lots of semi iunteresting hands where I either had to value cut myself in standard spots or got coolered, one potential hand I could get away from.
http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=58796.0Blonde seems to think I should fold, 2p2 seemed to say call by the end of the discussions, think tis really close.
Lost a big chunk of stack with AA < AA which really sucked.
Basically for the whole week I continued to make second best hand after second best hand, so many marginal spots which I just couldn't do anything different. I played tight for most of the week and to be honest just got no real momentumn going or when I did quickly got coolered.
From a personal point of view, I took a big chunk of my holidays from work, meaning I couldn't go away with my girlfriend on holiday, I prepared massively, I planned to meet some of my good friends from around the world and we all stayed together. 2 of us were robbed and others had such a bad time with all the trouble we encountered.
I spent over 6 hours in cues waiting to get into tournaments which is just so unacceptable.
Sorry again guys and I'm happy to say I tried my best and wouldn't change much. Probably call queens now tho
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