UKIPT London Main Event Sold Out

Day 1 report

Sat down to see a table consisting of Joeri Zandvliet, Jaffacake, Tim Chung an agro Polish online guy who was decent and also a guy who Stato said he knew online who was also agro and vented his aggression on me most of the time Sad

However I flopped well early in the small blind levels with suited connectors and small pairs and chipped up nicely to 17800 with pretty much no showdown at all and then further to 20k going into the final hand of level 3 before my first setback where I open to 425 at 75/150 UTG with

and Tim who just lost a big all in coup jams 2300 total and we call to be up against

and see

to drop back to 17500 and then lost ground further against the guy Stato mentioned to me when he took me to town on the river and I stationed off a small raise and was left with 13700 at the end of level 4 and the second break.

I raise folded 44 and a couple of blinds go through before at 150/300 UTG Jams allin for 3450 and it folds tous OTB with KK which we reship for 12.8k total and are up against AQo and flop JJJ A 4 for another boring runout and we now have less than 10k and the next significant hand was when I had 8800 and I receive a full double when Joeri opens the CO to 650 (standard) and finally finding some cards meaning we can play back at him a bit make it 1400 with

which was our first 3b of his co open since the antes kicked in and was prepared to stack off vs him when the BB (Polish online guy) clicks it back to 2200 which looked really strong but it also could well have been a "I know that you know" kinda coup so after a moment I jammed 8800 and he snapped with "Dem Aces"but this time we lucked out on a

runout to double over 17k.

At 2/400/50 I again found myself short stacked in a spot where in hindsight I prefer checking the flop as betting basically hung me out to dry. UTG opens to 800 and is flatted by guy Stato picked out and we find

otb and 3b to 2200 hoping to induce the blinds or either villain but the blinds got out the way and both villains flatted the 2200 eff stacks were UTG 32k, UTG 38k, me 17k and we flopped

which they both checked and as I say the moment the 3700 chips left my hand I regretted it as the action then went 8200 followed by a dwell raise to 14700 and I folded and the guy in UTG snap folded and we were back to25 bbs again.

I remember a convo I think on here where Dubai had said about stacks of 12-20 bbs and that most people stack off too lightly and this has remained ever since and I had blinded to 8900 at 3/600/75 when getting vv marginal holdings that a few years ago Iwould have definately bust with and having had one of the Laming brother replace the recently exited Zandvliet open to 1200 I ship AA from the CO the Btn calls off and Laming folds and we hold vs 88 before losing a small pot the very next hand when 3b another Laming open with AQo but fold after he donks 4710dd and know as he will peg me as old,tight he must have a better hand than me so fold quietly.

Still being comparitively short (in before) I get a couple of ships through back to back before a min raise otb to 1600 @ 4/8/100 and we have 22 and 25bb's which I flat and was pure set mining and on the KK10 flop expected a cbet from villain but he checked back and let us hit the 2 turn again I checked and he bet 1300 and I clicked to 2900 leaving 10k back for a shove on the river but another K fell and I again checked but the villain checked and I was still good and then I played a hand that gave me confidence for th remaining levels as I had some chips to play with.

I open light (in before) to 1600 with three clubs

and Stato guy peels IP otb as he had most the day when we tangled and on a flop of 9 10 4 I cb 2200 he 3b to 5k and I made a 4b to fold 8900 and he folded but we were defo going to tangle again which we did a few hands later at 5/1000/100 when I opneed UTG

to 2200 my newly found friend again peeled IP and we saw a flop of

but this time I had a diff plan as I had some chips and checked knowing he would bet small and always planned to float hoping to pick up equity so when he bet 3100 flatted and the turn brought the

and my intention was now to check raise all in as stack sizes seemed ok and he again obliged by betting 5400 so I went allin and got snapped again and this time held "The Beltons" but the

river binked us upto 73500at the end of the level.

The last level I hovered around 80k and finally finished bagging up 78400 which with blinds going back 8/1600/200 and gives us some wiggle room for manouvre on Day 2. Just need to hope Petra can keep the baby in for hopefully the next 3 days from Friday!!