Event report 1
Took over at the hospital in the early hours. Daughter still not breathing well, but is now better than last night. She is now home and asleep in her pram. No point in waking her right now.
Event report 2.
Got lucky a couple of times early on. I had jacks vs kings and a ten high flop in a 4 bet 3 way pot with a ten high flop very early, but managed to bink a jack. I was never going bust with 400 big blinds, but that jack was the difference between a fairly damaged stack and a big stack. I also called a reraise with
and hit a set early, and if I'd had a proper look at the reraiser's stack size, I'd never have called. That put me on about 40k after 2 or 3 levels. The first day table wasn't too tough, so managed to use the big stack to grind my way up to 80k or so, which was very much amongst the chip leaders.
Late on during the third day I lost 3 flips against shorties to go right down to 20k, then got a bit of luck and binked the last flip for a 40k stack in to day 2.
Day 2 started like day 1. In the first hour or so, I hit 2 sets and the 2nd nut flush vs the 3rd nut flush to get a big stack again. I was building really well until the last couple of hours. In the last couple of hours I mostly wasn't getting the hands and when I did play a hand, I was getting calls and the flops were horrid. Probably not the best time to find yourself with a row of players who called too much on my left.
It is fair to say that I probably wasn't concentrating enough because of my daughter. I had slipped in to the bottom 15 or so, and I eventually 4 bet shoved 20 BBs from the button with T9 off vs a SB who had 3 bet me at least 3 times in very similar spots. The shove was 100k in to a 50k pot. Probably a cross between genuinely terrible, or just terrible because he had jacks.
Cliffs: got lucky, got unlucky, got lucky again, got distracted, spewed last hand.Sent PMs to Tikay and Pleno to disperse cash monies.
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