So southamton lost at home to Cardiff which squashed my football bet and ive Had a bit of a rocky last few weeks at the tables too. Cash live and online hasn't gone well and was on a bit of a big downswing for the first time for a long time.
It's been tough to get through as it hasn't happened for so long to be losing session after session however tournaments have been my saving grace this year and yet again it has come to my rescue.
It started off a couple weeks ago with another chip lead which then lead to another big disappointment. In the DTD grandprix I came into day 2 from the online leg with over 1m chips. Which was a cool novelty. However blinds got outrageously huge and I ended up busting in 23rd for £300 which is exactly how much I spent on the 5 bullets I used.
It just seems wrong to have finished 23rd out of 2900 players and win £300 or in my case win nothing!
Anyway we took a couple of days off after that and hung out at my brothers house in Sheffield and soaked up the nice weather and played the £250 8Max online and ended up chip leader again.
It's pretty incredible that in the 9 major tournaments I've played this year, I've held the day 1 chip lead in 6 of these tournaments!....if only the prizes were given out after day 1 lol.
So up until now, I had never shipped a tournament that took place over more than 1 day however that changed this weekend when I took my chip lead and won the 8 max for over 8k plus 1k in dtd tournament credit.
Got lucky against Mitch bvb AJ>JJ with around 15 left which put me in a great position going into the final table bubble and I applied pressure when I needed to and took my foot off the gas when it was necessary and went onto the FT with a third of the chips in play.
I was quiet early on then when we got 7 handed I started becoming a lot more active by 3 betting certain people and targeting the blinds of people who wouldn't give me resistance.
My jacks held against AQ to take us 6 handed then we were 5 handed after a decent young player knocked mark smith out. Paul grummet open jammed 20 bigs from the button to my big and I had A9. He didn't look comfortable and i asked why such a big raise and he said he wanted a call but all the while showing the tells that he in fact didn't want a call. He seemed very nervous so I made the call. I was playing 125 bigs at this point so I went with my read and was correct. Ace high held up and I had half the chips in play 4 handed.
My jacks made quads against 99 to take us 3 handed.
Then button raised, I 3b 99 from sb. Button calls to see 833. I bet, button over jams. I call and held vs 89.
Heads up vs my friend willie tann didn't last long. I had 5.5m which was 200bbs! vs his 1m. I played aggressive from the beginning opening every button or raising each limp from him.
I ground him down to 250k and he jams 55 and I call with K9. His pair held up.
Then I ground him down again then he raised AT from button and I shipped 87hh which made trips and I won
Since my 27th in the UKPC I've made the money in every tournament I've played except for the first 250 8 max so hopefully take this run to the UKIPT and have another deep run.
First up though is the 250 deepstack online tonight. Good luck all.
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