DTD April £150,000 Deepstack Day 1b

[hotdog]

Five limpers at 600-1200

Callum Morgan in the big blind makes it 6,600 and gets three callers



Morgan leads for 11,700

UTG Aymen Asif, the original limper, shoves for 31,800

The button passes

Ricky Cross passes (a King)

Morgan

"I think I have to call"

"In horrible shape against A-K though"

"I call"

and flops

Asif

Cross "You are kidding me, I was miles ahead, ******* ***** you have got to be ******** with me"

turn

Cross goes *****. Sorry, Cross goes Quiet

river

Morgan knocks out Asif and is up towards 100,000

how may did Callum have when he called this any idea ?

[TightEnd]

Amandeep Atwal raises

Vinodh Jayaraman calls on the button

Nick Porter calls in the big blind

8-6-9 flop

check

Atwal bets

Vinodh nall in

Porter all in

atwal, holding 8-8..all in

3 way main pot is 120,000 wirth Vinodh at risk holding...Aces

60,000 side pot with Atwal just covering Porter, Porter holding 7-5

180,000 then, set v straight v overpair

turn Q

River 10

Porter scoops, Vindoh out and Atwal exclaiming "if Aces had played it properly I win the pot and knock him out"

Porter stays mute

[TightEnd]

Break after 11 levels

50 of 123 left going into 1000-2000 with 4 levels to play

Average 73,000


Chip counts

Nick Porter 180,000
Alex Goulder 160,000
Callum Morgan 110,000
Charles Akadiri 130,000
Jack Allen 30,000
Tom Ambler 35,000
Peter Wigglesworth 60,000
Michelle Bennett 100,000
JJandEllis Mulligan 135,000
Jin Tse Wu 80,000
Marcin Milde 35,000
Peejay 40,000

[TightEnd]

Alex Goulder goes over 300,000 last hand before the break

He raises UTG+1. two peelers, including Vargas in the small blind

Q-J-2 two hearts

Goulder 5,500

12,500 from the opponent

Goulder 30,000

Q-J-2-4, 4 is offsuit

Alex jams 90,000 into 70,000

A-5hh calls off, bricks the river and Goulder binks

[dwayne110]

Interesting spot for Callum, was getting the right odds against flushes, underpairs to the King and even non-paired Kings excluding KQ and AQ.... 20 in to get 85 back

[TightEnd]

This is what happens when you flop a straight versus a set versus Aces

Nick Porter's 180,000

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[TightEnd]

Five limpers at 600-1200

Callum Morgan in the big blind makes it 6,600 and gets three callers



Morgan leads for 11,700

UTG Aymen Asif, the original limper, shoves for 31,800

The button passes

Ricky Cross passes (a King)

Morgan

"I think I have to call"

"In horrible shape against A-K though"

"I call"

and flops

Asif

Cross "You are kidding me, I was miles ahead, ******* ***** you have got to be ******** with me"

turn

Cross goes *****. Sorry, Cross goes Quiet

river

Morgan knocks out Asif and is up towards 100,000

how may did Callum have when he called this any idea ?

estimate 80-90k before he bet 11 on the flop. Callum will know the figure better than I do

[hotdog]

Five limpers at 600-1200

Callum Morgan in the big blind makes it 6,600 and gets three callers



Morgan leads for 11,700

UTG Aymen Asif, the original limper, shoves for 31,800

The button passes

Ricky Cross passes (a King)

Morgan

"I think I have to call"

"In horrible shape against A-K though"

"I call"

and flops

Asif

Cross "You are kidding me, I was miles ahead, ******* ***** you have got to be ******** with me"

turn

Cross goes *****. Sorry, Cross goes Quiet

river

Morgan knocks out Asif and is up towards 100,000

how may did Callum have when he called this any idea ?

estimate 80-90k before he bet 11 on the flop. Callum will know the figure better than I do

Thanks Tighty

interesting spot.

[hotdog]

Interesting spot for Callum, was getting the right odds against flushes, underpairs to the King and even non-paired Kings excluding KQ and AQ.... 20 in to get 85 back

agreed, flushes are unlikely as callum has the and the is OTF. Think hes crushed most of the time though.

[TightEnd]

Goulder over 400,000

On a board of Q-6-8-10 he check calls the pre-flop raiser from the big blind

On the Q river they both check and Goulder's 10-7 beats A-K


A few hands later John Bousefield raises

Goulder 3 bets

Bousefield calls

flop

Bousefield checks, Goulder 7,000

Bousefield passes

Alex half groans, half smiles and flips  

[TightEnd]

Three levels to play (groan, worst shift of any live DTD event for "staff" is the Friday 1a starting 5pm with its post 4am finish back in 8 hours later)

36 left on 4 tables, and probably bringing less than 20 back when we finish tonight

blinds now 1200-2400, average  102,500

[TightEnd]

On the last four tables then

1. Table has Peter Wigglesworth playing 140,000 next to Lee Mulligan with 130,000. They are both out of position to table chip leader Daz Loynes from Liverpool with over 250,000

2. Table is the shortest stacked, containing amongst their number Tom Ambler and Peejay both grinding shortstacks

3. Hugh "h" Black" and Nick Porter with 160,000 and 180,000 respectively are at the head of affairs here

4. Chip leader Alex Goulder is not only running well on the table but on table breaks he is red hot. Having had Ayres broken onto his table earlier he has now had his own table break and he is two to the left of the unpredictable Paul Hardy

Hardy has 180,000, Goulder over 300,000

The thing I find about watching Goulder is his feel for where he is in hands, in marginal situations. A lot of people find the Ayres/Hardy's of this world difficult to play against. Difficult to assign ranges to and quite often leave tournaments thinking they were "unlucky" at the hands of the really loosey gooseys

Goulder's feel seems to allow him to avoid these wrong marginal decisions, and its a huge advantage. Its a trait/strength that someone like Wadey Ashraf shares too.

Also on this table Callum Morgan with 140,000 and Michelle Bennett playing just under 100,000


Average is currently 105,000 at 1200-2400

[JK]

Paul Hardy is a Gala Nottingham regular that Alex probably should know fairly well. Always played any 2, always will (well, thats until someone actually properly takes him up on his offers of sorting things outside, then he probably wont be playing anything at all)

[TightEnd]

So a flavour of the action at that table. These are consecutive hands....

Hand 1

Hardy 2,500 UTG

Goulder 7,000 UTG+2

"Its the third time you have done this" says Hardy "You like me, don't you?"

Call



check

Goulder 7,500

Fold


Hand 2

Goulder 5,000 on Hardy's big blind

Michelle Bennett 12,000

Goulder folds


Hand 3

Goulder 5,000

Hardy calls in the small blind

They check down 7-8-J-9

Hardy 16,000 on the 5 river

Goulder "I will let you have this one. Well played"

Hardy shows him 6-5


Hand 4

Seat 3 all in 47,000

Hardy on the button

"I feel lucky, call"

Goulder in the big blind. Pause. Trance like face, a picture of concentration and calculation. Pause

"ALL IN"

Hardy

"Now why would you do that?"

He leans back, like a Derbyshire Compo in Last of the Summer Wine savouring a meat pie in his local pub, twiddling his fingers on his tummy

"Its against my nature this. I don't like to back down"

He folds, Ace-Jack of hearts face up

"Good fold" says Alex, stroking the Compo Tom-Cat two to his right

Alex K-K

Seat 3 A-K

2-5-2-5-Q

Alex takes another out, and goes well over 400,000

[mondatoo]

On the last four tables then

1. Table has Peter Wigglesworth playing 140,000 next to Lee Mulligan with 130,000. They are both out of position to table chip leader Daz Loynes from Liverpool with over 250,000

2. Table is the shortest stacked, containing amongst their number Tom Ambler and Peejay both grinding shortstacks

3. Hugh "h" Black" and Nick Porter with 160,000 and 180,000 respectively are at the head of affairs here

4. Chip leader Alex Goulder is not only running well on the table but on table breaks he is red hot. Having had Ayres broken onto his table earlier he has now had his own table break and he is two to the left of the unpredictable Paul Hardy

Hardy has 180,000, Goulder over 300,000

The thing I find about watching Goulder is his feel for where he is in hands, in marginal situations. A lot of people find the Ayres/Hardy's of this world difficult to play against. Difficult to assign ranges to and quite often leave tournaments thinking they were "unlucky" at the hands of the really loosey gooseys

Goulder's feel seems to allow him to avoid these wrong marginal decisions, and its a huge advantage. Its a trait/strength that someone like Wadey Ashraf shares too.

Also on this table Callum Morgan with 140,000 and Michelle Bennett playing just under 100,000


Average is currently 105,000 at 1200-2400

How come he didn't fold turn versus Ayres then