GPS Nottingham GPS Nottingham started in typical fashion for me. Walked in to the club about two minutes late, made my way through the sea of people to my seat, and instantly heard got a "Hello Sir" for a very recognisable Irish accent. Drawn on the same table yet again, me and Adrian proceeded to start folding our way to a mincash. I had a bit of an accident along the way before the first break, when after calling a rather large three bet with 66 I saw a flop of 567 rainbow, and accidentally won the lot vs KK.
Me and Adrian got back into our usual table banter within no time. Easily one of the loudest tables in the room, everyone seemed to be having a reasonably good time. Then, as Tighty was approaching, all hell broke loose. The guy who had been sitting next to me, and had been pretty much silent the whole way through, decided to take issue with the noise that we were making. Initially, I think we all thought he was joking around with us, as was the rest of the table. Rather quickly however Sinclair had appeared, and the guy started visibly shaking and directing threats towards me. I promptly shat myself, as he was considerably bigger than me and would pretty easily break my face with his little finger. Thankfully nothing came of things, we all shut up, the atmosphere sort of died a bit but at least I wasn't lying in a hospital bed.
The tournament itself continued fairly normally. The table wasn't really appropriate for a small ball strategy so I opted for a more TAG approach, which was working nicely. Took a bit too long to adjust for my liking, but I got there eventually. Chipped up pretty nicely to about 70k, lost a big pot where I called a min check raise on the turn with a flush draw against a pretty face up set that was never folding a river, but bricked out. A few hands later, I open AQos to 1200 @ 250/500, get a call and raggy makes it 3700. Folds round to me, and I make it 8500. Guy sat in between me and raggy then makes it 17200. Raggy folds, and knowing the player in question I'm pretty sure he can't have too much of a value range in this spot, so I pretty confidently jam. He starts tanking, and announces that he is definitely losing but it's his favourite hand, and eventually flicks it in. We are up against
and hold to move to around 100k.
Very next hand, we find the ol'
and open to 1200. Folds to raggy who again makes it 3700. We ram it in his eye by making it 8500, and he jams just shy of 60k. We call, and are up against
. The Q high ccc flop isn't exactly the best we could have hoped for, and are turned dead to be back down to just over 40. A few hands later we three bet AJ to 6k over a 1500 open and two calls, seeing a flop 3 ways. Flop comes A high, guy who flatted both raises donk leads for 9k, we call and jam over a 12k turn bet. The bad news is delivered when we are up against AK, and fail to improve. I was, and still am, fairly confident that the guy would get it in with pretty much any A in the spot and has a whole bunch of them in his preflop calling range, but what can do.
Side EventBit of a disaster, again. Am pretty card dead the whole way through, and lose a big one with A4 when we check raise a
flop, get called and check fold a
turn. A few hands later I open
playing 22k or so to 1200 at 300/600. Both blinds call, and the BB donk jams for 25k on a
. We call, and he rolls over
and obviously binks the
on the turn. We fail to improve on the river, and wave goodbye to bullet #1. Bullet #2 consists of making a couple of marginal calls and being wrong, and jamming 11bbs with 22 and losing to A10.
Omaha After busting the second bullet in the side and railing CV in the GPS main for a while, a 2/2 Omaha opens up and I pretty quickly decide to sit in. Gholden7 joins, and we get some pretty good banter going on what develops into a very relaxed, very loose/gambly table. Sean then sits down, we completely lift the straddle cap and the game turns in to comfortably the biggest, and most high variance, game I have ever seen. The banter is fantastic, the action is brilliant, and better still I manage to find
during the 80 straddle and hold in a 4 way all in, making the second nut straight.
Highlight of the weekend however is definitely railing Chris Verndog158 in the GPS. He is currently in the middle of day 3 of the GPS, best of luck to the lad, always nice when good things happen to bad people
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