DTD Monte Carlo £500,000 GTD: Day 1c

[TightEnd]

Also, counts on James Tomlin, Kourosh Radfar, David L'honore and Adam Reynolds please.

edit - just seen Tomlin's busted in the last 15 mins

Adam about 40,000 above

Will get the others and Mondatoo now



Apologise for lack of detail/hands

30 tables on the go, impossible to spot hands start to finish until we lose some players unless I a) get lucky or b) just do one table, I'd rather follow more players than that....

[theprawnidentity]

Blehhhh. Not gonna make it   GL all blondes!!!!!

[cambridgealex]

The good diary of John Black  Age 12 3/4

Tom Ambler raises to 400

I look down at A-2 suited.

Yippee, I can play the Ace-deuce game

I peel, consider the min click float jam strategy but decide to play small-ball as tighty is watching. and So, more importantly is Jake. Jake is next to me. I wonder if he knows I crush NL10 over 127,000 hands? Only on Friday nights though. I will have to strike up a conversation with him

Another player comes along. Stupid of him. How can he hope to outplay me in the Ace-Deuce game?

the flop comes Q-8-2

Perfect. I have a pair

Ambler bets into me

Perfect again, for volume 35 of the John Black Ace-Deuce strategy guide

I raise. Completely standard in this spot aainst a non-thinking opponent like Ambler. At least I think he is non-thinking. Everyone is compared to me. and pleno. and Jake. Oh Jake, you are so close to me it hurts.....

Tom calls

We both check on the Ace turn. This is wonderful not only am I playing the Ace-deuce game but I have an Ace and a deuce on the board to match those in my hand. Pleno taught me this means I have two pairs. Oh Jake, I am going to make you so proud...

the river is a blank

Tom checks

I overbet rim dunk slam jam, as I do against the Ukrainians on a Friday.

Tom thinks about it and I think he is going to call.

He folds though

Jake looks at me. Yes, he looks at me!

----

The bad diary of John Black, age 12 3/4

George Baldock raises

Baldock is a town in Hertfordshire

I learnt that in basic spy training....

Someone I do not know and therefore they are unimportant peels. Fool.

Jake Cody folds in the small blind

Oh Jake, I so want you to out-play me in a hand so I can see what it feels like

I flat

Q-Q-5 flop

Perfect, if I have any hand really. He can't possibly have any part of it and I can use being out of position to outplay him as Jake would want me to do

I check. For deception. I only ever check for deception

Baldock bets 700

I call, with ultimate dexterity, hopefully Jake notices the artistry with which my right index finger flicks those chips in

We both check



He has none of it

I bet 1200

He makes it 3100

Oh. Can't give up now, Jake is watching

10,000. Take that Hertfordshire town man

He shoves for 35,000

Oh. Oh. Jake, I'm sorry. I only wanted to impress you. Jake, Jake, Ja....I fold
  

 

[mulhuzz]

Absolute gold

this.

Jamie Rutherford updates tighty?

[TightEnd]

Also, counts on James Tomlin, Kourosh Radfar, David L'honore and Adam Reynolds please.

edit - just seen Tomlin's busted in the last 15 mins

Adam about 40,000 above

Will get the others and Mondatoo now



Apologise for lack of detail/hands

30 tables on the go, impossible to spot hands start to finish until we lose some players unless I a) get lucky or b) just do one table, I'd rather follow more players than that....

L'Honore 25,000

Radfar starting stack 30,000 sitting next to The Camel


Mondatoo 42,500

[TightEnd]

Absolute gold

this.

Jamie Rutherford updates tighty?

yup 35,000


He is on the same table as a big hand I saw


Sam Grafton opened and got five callers. Only five, including Sky Poker player Steven Carr

10-J-7 flop, two diamonds

Checked round to Carr, last to speak who bets 1,000

One caller

Grafton 6,000

Carr flats

Heads up to the turn 3 of diamonds

Grafton shoves, just over a pot sized bet

Carr calls him with A-J top pair top kicker and holds against K-Q the up and down on the 7 river to go to over 80,000 and knock Grafton out

[geordieneil]

The good diary of John Black  Age 12 3/4

Tom Ambler raises to 400

I look down at A-2 suited.

Yippee, I can play the Ace-deuce game

I peel, consider the min click float jam strategy but decide to play small-ball as tighty is watching. and So, more importantly is Jake. Jake is next to me. I wonder if he knows I crush NL10 over 127,000 hands? Only on Friday nights though. I will have to strike up a conversation with him

Another player comes along. Stupid of him. How can he hope to outplay me in the Ace-Deuce game?

the flop comes Q-8-2

Perfect. I have a pair

Ambler bets into me

Perfect again, for volume 35 of the John Black Ace-Deuce strategy guide

I raise. Completely standard in this spot aainst a non-thinking opponent like Ambler. At least I think he is non-thinking. Everyone is compared to me. and pleno. and Jake. Oh Jake, you are so close to me it hurts.....

Tom calls

We both check on the Ace turn. This is wonderful not only am I playing the Ace-deuce game but I have an Ace and a deuce on the board to match those in my hand. Pleno taught me this means I have two pairs. Oh Jake, I am going to make you so proud...

the river is a blank

Tom checks

I overbet rim dunk slam jam, as I do against the Ukrainians on a Friday.

Tom thinks about it and I think he is going to call.

He folds though

Jake looks at me. Yes, he looks at me!

----

The bad diary of John Black, age 12 3/4

George Baldock raises

Baldock is a town in Hertfordshire

I learnt that in basic spy training....

Someone I do not know and therefore they are unimportant peels. Fool.

Jake Cody folds in the small blind

Oh Jake, I so want you to out-play me in a hand so I can see what it feels like

I flat

Q-Q-5 flop

Perfect, if I have any hand really. He can't possibly have any part of it and I can use being out of position to outplay him as Jake would want me to do

I check. For deception. I only ever check for deception

Baldock bets 700

I call, with ultimate dexterity, hopefully Jake notices the artistry with which my right index finger flicks those chips in

We both check



He has none of it

I bet 1200

He makes it 3100

Oh. Can't give up now, Jake is watching

10,000. Take that Hertfordshire town man

He shoves for 35,000

Oh. Oh. Jake, I'm sorry. I only wanted to impress you. Jake, Jake, Ja....I fold



   

ROFL not normally a reader of the diaries, but I'm subscribed now   FAF

[TightEnd]

Break after 4 levels

261 of 285 remain

There are still about 15 online sat winners to be put in when they arrive, so we are around 300 runners or £18-20k short of the guarantee

Late reg is until 9pm. Going to be close close close


exits are

262    Sam Grafton
263    Cheung Tai Law
264    Terence Owens
265    Lewis Hunter
266    James Tomlin
267    James Hoyes
268    Ian Simpson
269    Frank Flanagan
270    James Clarke
271    Enzo Gomez
272    John Cleverly-james
273    Kyriacos Dionysiou
274    Sarbjit Kular
275    Francis Obadun
276    Richard Pearson
277    Aaron Brunskill
278    Long Sui
279    Matthew Dyke
280    Gurdev (tony) Millan
281    Martin Donoghue
282    Terry Jordon
283    Orlando Anderson
284    Anonymous


blinds go 100-200 ra 25 next


and it is, to say the least, hectic and busy in here

[TightEnd]

Another one of the chip leaders...

Jeff Kimber

"67k about to go 150 300 w25, knocked out terry owens ak v 67hh. Held on 852hh flop mbn. I say held, he turned 6 but there was still a river"

[Marky147]

Tighty might just be the greatest!

[luther101]

The good diary of John Black  Age 12 3/4

Tom Ambler raises to 400

I look down at A-2 suited.

Yippee, I can play the Ace-deuce game

I peel, consider the min click float jam strategy but decide to play small-ball as tighty is watching. and So, more importantly is Jake. Jake is next to me. I wonder if he knows I crush NL10 over 127,000 hands? Only on Friday nights though. I will have to strike up a conversation with him

Another player comes along. Stupid of him. How can he hope to outplay me in the Ace-Deuce game?

the flop comes Q-8-2

Perfect. I have a pair

Ambler bets into me

Perfect again, for volume 35 of the John Black Ace-Deuce strategy guide

I raise. Completely standard in this spot aainst a non-thinking opponent like Ambler. At least I think he is non-thinking. Everyone is compared to me. and pleno. and Jake. Oh Jake, you are so close to me it hurts.....

Tom calls

We both check on the Ace turn. This is wonderful not only am I playing the Ace-deuce game but I have an Ace and a deuce on the board to match those in my hand. Pleno taught me this means I have two pairs. Oh Jake, I am going to make you so proud...

the river is a blank

Tom checks

I overbet rim dunk slam jam, as I do against the Ukrainians on a Friday.

Tom thinks about it and I think he is going to call.

He folds though

Jake looks at me. Yes, he looks at me!

----

The bad diary of John Black, age 12 3/4

George Baldock raises

Baldock is a town in Hertfordshire

I learnt that in basic spy training....

Someone I do not know and therefore they are unimportant peels. Fool.

Jake Cody folds in the small blind

Oh Jake, I so want you to out-play me in a hand so I can see what it feels like

I flat

Q-Q-5 flop

Perfect, if I have any hand really. He can't possibly have any part of it and I can use being out of position to outplay him as Jake would want me to do

I check. For deception. I only ever check for deception

Baldock bets 700

I call, with ultimate dexterity, hopefully Jake notices the artistry with which my right index finger flicks those chips in

We both check



He has none of it

I bet 1200

He makes it 3100

Oh. Can't give up now, Jake is watching

10,000. Take that Hertfordshire town man

He shoves for 35,000

Oh. Oh. Jake, I'm sorry. I only wanted to impress you. Jake, Jake, Ja....I fold



   

Poetry     .............

[jack2off]

Tighty might just be the greatest!

+1

[peejaytwo]

Yep, top stuff tighty.

[jgcblack]

Tighty might just be the greatest!

+1

Nice hand bro.

Its difficult to win chips when I have 93o every hand.. Trying tho.
12k @ 150/300/25

Had one tough spot earlier where Chris Smith did a bluff and had to fold a pair, then did the river 3bt with some live reads that turned out to be not so concrete.

Grindin and chilling.

Jakes had some Eugh spots.. Getting reraised all over the shop.

[TightEnd]

I was asked for Dan Brown earlier by his Dad. Here he is

45,000 average 33,000