Pretty mixed day yesterday, yo yo'd stack over 4 levels before busting early in the 5th about 8 from the money! Did not realise until after that there was lots of lower stacks on the other table which may have edited my decision making.
A few hands of note:
I raise at 800/1600/200 to 3400 with
and get called to my left and in small blind. Flop comes down
and I am suspicious about small blind who thinks for a bit before checking, I bet out aroun 8000 get called to my left and by sb. At this point I am not in love with the hand, turn is a blank, it checks round as I am basically trying to get to show down, I intend to call most river bets. River is a queen, check check and player to my left bets 15,000 sb folds, I sigh call and get shown
for the flopped nuts! Not in love with calling that pre at the levels but hey ho, you play your cards.
Few hands later I defend the blind (stupidly) into same player with
flop comes down
and I float a continuation bet, turn is the drawtastic
check check, river is a
and I fire out 15,000. I am somehow called by Ace high, soul read maybe but not entirely sure what I could have missed on that board, thought it was a good bet, but not this time.
I chip back up shoving my 90k with
over a raise and a call, then stacking a short stack by calling a button shove with
versus
and then another where I raise
get 3b shoved for 25k and obviously call. Raiser had not realised I had bet when he shoved and had
and did not improve.
Next action player limps button out of 60k stack, we have
in sb, last time limper did this he had
and I audibly reminded the bb of this before making up in hope of stopping a squeeze. He does check and we get a
flop, check check check, turn is
and I lead for 6000, fold, call from suspicious limper. River is the fantastic
and I throw a 25,000 plate in, he dwell shoves and I of course call to see AK, as expected limping monsters. Wish this was a bounty as I would have 3!
Up to about 190k at this point but got real dymanic problem as I have very aggro massive stack to my right and literally can't find a spot to open. Very hard to predict and will make life awkward down streets.
Do not play a hand for ages, eventually raise
and get 3b, this tilted me as I had been so tight for so long and I got stubborn. Ended up costing me 60k repping a flush on a river, he played the hand like KK and it was an A high flop so felt I could bluff river and yet again picked off, last time I put my hand in the cookie jar!
Bust hand is hugely frustrating, 2nd hand back after dinner, aggro player raises at 2000/4000/500 to about 10k, I have 130k on button with
which does not play well down the streets with a thinking player 30bb deep imo. I shove and BB wakes up with KK, flops a K and it is GG. I can 3b fold here probably into kings villain as his cold 4b range is pretty polarised and I am never good with 9's here but just a cold spot I guess.
On the plus side, went straight accross town to play the £110+£50 game at Genting, late reg'd and made day 2 playing pretty jokingly bad for the lot. Spent the first 4 levels hating my life, very hard to adjust to having loads and then having nothing! every pot I wanted to stack everyone! Got as low as 3k (4bb) from 25k starting and then shoved
late and got lucky against
then very next hand shove my 6kish over an open with
get an isolation shove on button with
(WOOP) but then original raiser finds the call with
(BOO) but we then get a K high flop (WOOP) and hold. Very next hand again we open
get a 3b from aggro reg, we insta shove and he calls with
and we end up sweating a flush on the turn and then getting a chop on the river on a double paired board! pretty sigh as it was a 40k plus pot for average stack at the time. On the flip side if he hit the flush I would have thrown up.
Blinded down getting no hands, was on about 10 pints but had found a zen centre and was so passive it was untrue, I was like MY SPOT WILL COME, not defending blinds, not shoving light, felt a bit proud of myself! then I got a button open, I have
and get called by the best possible hand
, that put us to 40k, won a few further points, all the villains I had issue with had busted and the table was a dream, wished it did not have to end. Anyways, we make day 2 with 41,200 chips. Full counts below, looks like about 30/40
William Leckie- 212,100
Richard Goldberg- 144,000
Doreen Levine- 135,400
Ian Laird- 134,800
Simon Appleby- 126,900
John Carty- 124, 000
Elizabeth Murphy- 119,900
Alan Davdson- 104,500
Andy Mackenzie- 105,400
Neil Feenan- 96,600
Kane Duffy- 87,200
Dan Coll- 79,800
John Angus- 77,400
Brian Tannerhill- 77,300
Michael Henderson- 76,600
Lisa Ferris- 71,400
Andrew Stalker- 69,900
Marios Grekos- 68,800
Davie Nicol- 62,100
Anne Chisholm- 61,300
Stephen Prandstatter- 60,500
Gordon Sloan- 60,100
Stuart McDonald- 58,700
Stuart Paterson- 58,500
Malcolm Stewart- 58,500
Mark Hanlin- 49,900
Peter Ford- 49,800
Chris Wildig- 45,300
Chris Roberts- 41,200 Maggie Clabby- 40,600
Sally Burns- 35,900
Paul Johnson- 35,400
Campbell Foggo- 33,700
Nick Kimbell- 33,400
David Ho- 32,200
James Douglas- 30,300
Steven Nicholson- 27,300
Steven Murray- 27,200
Tommy Noble- 21,000
Krysztof Sobecki- 20,700
Coming back to 800/1600/200 with 25bb so still got a chance. £19k pot £5.5k for the win and 13 paid. Happy to have made day 2 on single bullets in all the big games this year thus far. I shall be going back at 4pm and trying my heart out.
Pot below:
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