DTD £500+60 Staking Thread - Ed Gascoigne

[cambridgealex]

Gasciogne all in for 30k with  
Thew all in for 65k with  
Stan Topol has them both covered with  
Thew in good shape as Storer announces he folded  

Board runs out   .....  
Thew elminates Gascoigne who mis-timed a squeeze

[cambridgealex]

*May have Ian...

[cambridgealex]

May have been*

[edgascoigne]

Was indeed Ian.

I have 55k.

[edgascoigne]

Bad news chaps, we are busto.

At 1k/2k a300 we open utg to 4.4k with AKs, get 3bet by the next seat along who is steamed after losing a healthy pot where QQ<AJ aip.

We jam the rest and get called by KK.

Case king on the flop and it's all she wrote.


Thanks for the staking guys and sorry for the lack of a day 2 sweat.

Cheers, Ed

[cambridgealex]

Unlucky Ed, like I said, I feel I got more than my monies worth. Safe journey home.

[millidonk]

Ul ed, tks for updates

[rfgqqabc]

Probably the best value stake I'll ever see on blonde... Don't worry. Ul mate and gl with your shoes off!

[JK]

Had I seen this in time, I would have bought just for the TRs and banter with Father Gascoigne on cash after. Such a hero

[edgascoigne]

As per earlier posts the dream ended relatively late on day 1, though in case investors/others are interested thought I would post up a report of key hands/amusing moments etc.

Lunch/Theory/The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men

Arrived up from London in good time and nipped out for a bit of Dim-Sum with Father Gascoigne at a newly re-opened place on the Derby Road. We shot the breeze and calmed the excitement with green tea and talk of being disciplined, only opening monster hands in the early levels, keeping the inner spewtard caged.

All good so far.

Arrived at DTD and sat in the bar just long enough to see Marius walk past, a Lituanian (?) ex-dealer at the Vic who now plays for a living, and a chap off whom I am currently 0/57 in pots won. He's a properly hard barsteward.

I draw table 58/2, take my seat, and of the 455 players registered am truly delighted to see Marius arrive in 58/3. Marvelous. 453/1 pokes happen all the time to be fair.

The actual poker

First hand of true note unfortunately didn't go to plan. Adam Connell (? - ex-photographer at DTD) had been really quite active and opened UTG at 100/200. I 3bet the  in cut-off and he peels.

 

Obv pretty reasonable for my hand. He check calls.

 

He checks again, see no reason to slow down really, I bet & he calls.

River bricks off and he now leads 5k, which was I believe about half pot. I had been thinking if the river bricks and he checks this was basically the size I would fire as a bluff. Also figured he could be betting missed draws, though out of game time this is unlikely for any number of reasons. Final thought is that if I raise the end he should have a tough time calling with most things - my line looks pretty damn strong.

I raise. He tanks, asks if I have aces etc. etc. before calling off with AK. After the pre-match teamtalk and all those delicious dumplings we are down to 27k.

Fightback/Splashdown 1

Can't remember the sequence of hands for the life of me but properly get my head down, play some decent poker imo, making good decisions coupled with a couple of hands I'm sure and we are back to 57k @ 250/500 a50.

Relatively young, but quiiite tight chap opens to 2.5x from MP on my BB. Recent history has seen me squeeze the BTN (in what I thought was a v good spot) and barrel, barrel, call for a split on something like QJ8T9, regrettably having to show the mighty 74o but mercifully, and largely unfairly, getting my money back.

Folds to me in the BB where I find  wiiiiiiiii.

I 3bet to 3.3k and he is playing 40.3k effective.

He 4balls to c8k, I jam the rest repping AK and he snaps with dem Aces.

An uninteresting runout later and we are down to 17k and on break. Marvelous.

The most bonkers 4/5 hands

Hand 1

So we're returning to 17k @ 300/600 a75.

Folds to me in the cut off first hand back and the BB is not in his chair. I open 

Brazilian/German guy in the SB flats.

 

He checks and I sense something, I check.

 

He checks and I check. I know people will think this is terribad but there was something rotten in the state of Denmark.

River bricks off and he bets basically full pot, 5k. Don't see how I can pass given how under-repped my hand is.....but I basically announce there is something funny going on here as I call off to see 87o.

Down to 10.5k.

Hand 2 - Literally the next hand.

Folds to us in the cutoff and we open  from 16bigs.

Marius peels, blinds fold

   

I check jam over Marius' bet, he calls  , we fade and are back to c22k. Almost certainly bad post, was arguably, and regrettably, tilting a little when the Ace flopped and just thought "I'll stick it in his eye anyway".

Hand 3 - Again, literally the v next hand

Pretty sure this one is bad.

Folds to me in MP, I open  .

Adam Connell 3bets the BB to 4k over a 1.4k open. He has 3bet from the blinds an unhealthy amount.

I jam over the top. He tank calls with 

I get there on the turn, back up to 45k.

Hand 4 - there's been a few hands pass til now

Shortie jams about 12bigs from the hijack, I call  from the SB, BB folds.

We are up against 88 but.....what's that? A  in the window??

We are up to c55k.




Phew. Deep breaths readers, if any of you are at a sufficiently loose end to still be here!

Can't remember what happens for a while now but not too long after the table breaks and I draw 48/8.

What's that coming over the hill in 48/6? Is it Father Gascoigne? Is it Father Gascoigne?

It is!!! Well hello father. Ian looks marginally less amused than the rest of the table.


Pwning the Father

Been at the table for about an orbit and pretty quiet.

On my BB the cut off (young Sarf London kid who is (a) hilarious and (b) tilts my dad rather cos he doesn't understand Cockney innit) opens from about 40bigs @ 400/800 a100.

My dad peels the BTN, SB calls and I check the BB with  after dwelling a squeeze but deciding I'll just pwn my dad postflop (love you dad).

 

We check round to my dad, who bets 6.5k into a pot of about 8k. SB folds.

I decide the Cut-off would deffo lead his value hands on the flop, apart from perhaps a set, but if he has one Gold bless him. The most key point here however is my knowledge of my dad's play, in a few disparate parts.

(i) He would 3bet a premium pre to stick it in the cockney's eye.
(ii) He would bet a set smaller on the flop.
(iii) He once read an article on taking possession of orphan flops.
(iv) He's got either  or  basically.

I raise to 14k. Cockney folds, my dad's shoulders visibly slump like the first time I nutmegged him in the garden or aced him at tennis and I know the read was on the money.

After a bit of chuntering about £xk per year on school fees and now all I get is this sh1t he passes, and morale is high.


Part 2 to follow if anyone is actually reading this and is bothered let me know!!

[tikay]

Reading........

[edgascoigne]

Table 48 Cont.

We have a nice draw on this table and are happy to open a lot when folded to us. We chip up nicely without any overly interesting hands until this comes up - pretty sure a lack of experience costs us here.

Folds to me in the cut off and I open  to 2.1x from about 60bigs.

BB, who has been bleeding at a rate of knots jams 17bb.

We......?

Should fold, I'm almost sure now, but I thought it was close and clicked the call button. Presumably about 88+ AQ+ is actually the line?

He now announces he is actually blind. Cool. Oh, a pair of queens. No miracle this time and we chip down.



Resume chipping up in raise/cbet type spots until opening  in MP. Next seat along peels.

  or some similarly beautiful flop.

I check/call.

Turn is a brick.

I crai and he snaps with 87.

Puts us up to the dizzing heights of 85k. We chip up to 95k and then the table breaks, sad times.


Table 25/1

New table seems ok though I'm certainly not as comfortable as on the previous one and don't know many of the faces. Billy (used to be staked by Frankie?) is in seat 6. The chap who arrives in seat 3 has the world after flopping a set of 10s when on table Belton previously and having a chap gift him about 80bb with an open shove on a K-10-x flop.

No traction but no dramas when I play a hand v poorly.

Folds to the BTN who had loads on my arrival but did loads to David Williams (still in and chipped up) where JJ<AA and he, in my opinion, rather overplayed his hand.

He limps, SB completes and I check 69o.

Flop comes 

SB checks. I lead about 1/3rd pot figuring this should take it down often. I bet 2.2k using a 5k and two 100 chips.

BTN raises to 5.2k, SB folds and I call with my gutshot

 

Well I'm now up and down, but given he has the initiative I check to him. He checks back - I now put him on air basically. He did seem to have a bit of gamble and there was the possibility he was just trying to get them back after losing JJ < AA.

   

So I've hit it, but the flush draw has completed. Given read he has naff all (would expect him to continue with flush draw on the turn) I plan to check call.

He obliges with a 12k bet, I call, and he rolls over  .

Back down to about 70k.


Card dead and chip down a bit until we are at about 55k with blinds 1k/2k a200

Bust Out Hand

Chap on my direct left has shown up with  (and getting there) after calling a bet oop on  (or similar) an orbit or so back and is steamed after opening  in MP, having a 15-20bb stack jam  over him on the BTN and getting there. He is playing about 70k.

I find  UTG and open to 4.4k.

He 3bets to 10k from the next seat along.

Folds to me and I do contemplate the impossible.... before remembering I'm young, wearing a hood, haven't been able to show down a value hand on this table and he is steaming.....and sticking it in his eye.

He calls with  and I do think I might get there....until the case king in the window and it's game, set and match.


Fin



Thank you to all stakers for your confidence and backing. Some days we're the pigeon and others we're the statue, and regrettably we ran into a statue day on Saturday.

Cheers, Ed

[Eso Kral]

Nice TR Ed and good to meet you as well over the weekend!!