£1k 8max - bust during level 9
had what looked like a good start table w a couple of marks 6-handed, decent young kid on my left. certainly looked better then table next door that had vamplew Ian Simpson and deadman all together. alex goulding joined table after a while but on my right.
had a sl weird hand where I elected to flat Oliver prices UTG raise to 400 at 75/150 w AKo in CO because he had folded to two raises I had made vs him already (one 3b pre and one c/r flop). the button then 3b to 1300 and Oliver price 4bs to 2900. I tank fold my 400 chips. Oliver price check folds the ktx rainbow flop :/
won a nice pot end of lev 2. opened hj k9o. older sl nervous looking chap in bb defends and c/r me on j99. I flat and call his Q turn barrell. he shuts down on 3 river and checks. decide to value bet vs worse
and good jacks that may call. make it big, almost 4k which he snaps w 89. up to 40k at 75/15O.
then lost a few k vs alex G w TT flatted in position to his open on a55a8 vs his AJ. prob shoulda folded to riverb but at the time figured i was underrepped and had played my hand so passively that it was hard for him to put me on an ace or a pp as big as TT and that he may then value bet 77/99 or 89s type hands in that spot, plus the odd bluff w bricked picture cards. prob was a fold in hindsight.
won a small pot vs simon deadmans fiancée. defended bb vs her mp raise w red a3o. flop aq3 all spades. turn is another spade. checked all way to river which is another ace. bet almost the pot and she calls saying 'if u bet smaller I would have raised you', dammit!
finished lev 3 (75/150/25) w 36k avg 32k. chipped up to 41k during lev 4. all small pots. right at end of level a now relatively short stacked alex Raises button w aa and I defend bb w KTo and lose on k8x fd 8x. gave him a full double and dropped below start stack. won some more at start of lev 5 including 3betting alex g (who was opening a lot of pots) holding k9o on button and getting there vs his 33. back up to 35k at 150/300 which was more or less avg
was just getting a good feel for table when I got moved to a table of bigstacks. lost a big pot vs rehman who won the wpt warm up recently and I have played with for a whole day before at ukpc. he raises cutoff, to 700, I 3b aqo in sb to 2k. he flats and I then check call 3 streets on q78j2 to lose to 78 off. down to 19k. won a small pot to get up to 21k at start of lev 6 (200/400) avg 38k.
table was good, two total fish w no stack size awareness and really poor vet sizing and best two players on my direct right. chipped up nicely including making a wheel straight defending bb vs a guy who had open shoved over 100bb twice and shown AA once. didn't get paid that much unfortunately but up to 36k avg 41k at break
won a biggie at start of 250/500 rivering a full house against presumed flopped trips. he was fuming either way. up to 50k. very next hand as blinds went up to 300/600 i 3b squeeze suited connectors in position to UTG open from rehman and UTG +1 flat from guy called Jimmy who seemed decent. both these guys had been playing wayyyy too many hands especially Jimmy who had opened probably 70% of unopened pots since I sat down at the table (to be fair he had had a lot of decent hands), I wanted to try to take control of the table now I had some chips and quieten down these two so I could manoeuvre some better spots against the fish. anyway UTG folds and Jimmy calls. I flop flush draw and gutshot straight. lots of chips enter pot over next two streets but we don't improve to his flopped top pair that improved to trips - he claims (and it made sense). I fold river bomb either way. 28k at 300/600 avg 44k
then lost another sizeable pot at 300/600, defending bb w 78s on AT9 and missing. another w jk on jqxdd..td...x. open shove aces guy puffing away on his e-cig min bets flop and turn like we are playing limit hold em then sets me all-in on river!? I fold ofc and he shows A8dd for the second nuts. had another hand w AQ where I lost the minimum post flop bricking.failed to get paid vs other table fish when he raises UTG off 16bigs. i3b mp w JJ to almost 6bb... and he flats God knows what oop and I check down AQxxx board for him to muck saying 'I have nothing' after river!?! dribbled a bit losing W AK and missing w 33 flatted on button and ended level w
16k as we go to 400/800. stato moves to table after JJ villain finally busts, and I do an orbit or two of folding of utter junk hands and then shortly before end of level 9 I 3b shove 33 for about 15 bb and get cold called by AK, OR folds and a king comes on the flop for game over.
pretty depressing couple of days. definitely a tonne of value in the £1k, certainly compared to the £2k 6-max but never got going in either really. £500 tourney for a saver later