An advance viewing of my latest diary just for Blondites

As Rob has been doing a fantastic job with his report and has plugged my archive of diaries on my site i thought i would give you my latest example , basically every time i play i write about it and try to highlight one or two hands and the way i played them , i have written well over 100 and at least 70 are archived in the diaries section , hope you enjoy it and when i write the one for the $5000 Omaha you will read about a laydown i made shortstacked that Eric Seidel and Scotty Ngyuen couldn't believe .

$2500 No Limit Hold-em Event 24

Something has to be done with the payout here at the WSOP , i just came 82nd of 1056 after 11 hours play , they are paying the top 100 and i recieved $3035 , entry was $2500 , even if i finished 30 places higher i would have only got double .

To put the numbers into perspective , that is as many players as the Vic in London would have in total for a weeks festival !

I saw some awful plays and some astonishing flops so i will talk you through my progress with the key hands .

In level 1 i found AA and won a small pot and had AK with a flop of A A 3 A , finished the level with 3250 .It amazes me how some players misplay AK , seat one raised and was called by the BB , flop was 4 7 4 , BB checked , seat one all in , BB calls and shows 77 for a full house , seat one AK , this was the first level with blinds 25 25 and the all in was 1850 .

Level 2 i played one hand in the blinds , i had KQ , flop was K78 , i called and when an 8 came on the turn made a small check raise , the SB moved in , i passed , he had AK ! I finished with 2675

Level 3 i raised from FP with 99 , an aggressive player two to my left reraised , i flat called , i put him on AK flop was J 5 6 , i moved in and after some time he called and flipped up AQ , i doubled up . The interesting point about this hand was a player to my right said " nice play , how did you know to move in ? " I replied that i put him on a hand and with only one over card thought my hand was good , a check would have given him a free card , this conversation doubled me up at the end of the level .

The guy who said nice play raised in FP , i reraised 2 1/2 times with KK , he called , flop was very similar to before J 8 4 and he instantly moved in , i called and guess what he turned up ? Yes 99 , he picked the wrong player to make that play against , this was a big pot and i now had 9800

Level 4 i lost two big pots , first i had QQ in FP raised to 600 and the button reraised to 2400 , i called , he had KK , then i raised one off the button with A8s and the BB reraised to 1200 leaving himself 250 , although i knew this normally means a pair i decided to call as i knew i would have to show the hand down and it could help my table image later , of course i could hit the perfect flop , the flop was T high with two of my suit , he put in his last 250 and i called , he had KK , i needed an A or a spade , neither came and i was back down to 4625 .

Level 5 and seat one was now taken by the WPT co commentator Vince Van Patten , i have never played with him before so watched for a while , he did two things , limped in early position to reraise with pocket pairs and strongly defended his blinds , players were taking him on and he soon had a big stack . In one pot i was in the BB with T2 , there was 4 way action including Vince , flop was J 7 2 , all checked , turn another J , all checked , river a 4 , i decided if Vince made a play for this i would check raise , i checked he bet 1200 all passed to me and i reraised 1200 more leaving me 1700 , he smiled and passed , i showed the 2 and said " 72 in the BB got lucky "

This play refocused me and when there was one limper and i saw the BB who had a short stack intended to raise i flat called on the button with 77 , he raised to 800 leaving himself 700 , the limper called and so did i , i knew i was beat by one but the limper had a lot of chips and if i could flop a 7 i might get a double up , flop was A 7 5 , BB all in for 700 , limper called and i reraised , after a long think he passed , the all in turned up AJo , he had the bare A of diamonds and the flop had the 5 and 7 of diamonds , turn was perfect for him the J of diamonds so now he could hit an A J or 4th diamond , river 2 of diamonds , yuck !

Then just as it looked as though it wasn't my day i got lucky , VVP limped as did 5 others , in the SB i had 73o and was getting 13 - 1 , easy call for 100 , flop was 3 8 3 , all checked , turn 7 , i bet 800 , VVP moved in , he had A3s , i win and i am back up to 7200 .

Level 6 , no hands apart from JJ on the button but picked up some blinds finished with 7925 .

Level 7 , again no hands , went down to 6500 then raised to 1800 on the button , VVP reraised me 3000 , i flat called leaving me 1700 , flop was A 3 A , he moved in and obviously i called , he had K6s , turn was a J making my full , finished with 14,900

Level 8 Huck Seed joined the table , blinds now 300 600 antes 75 , tight player in seat two limped as did three others i had QQ and raised to 3600 , tight player called , all passed , flop was A x x , he moved in for 1800 , i had to call , he had 55 ? I then made one of the best calls i have ever made , the previous round i had QQ on the button , raised VVP BB and he passed and i showed them , the next round i had A9s on the button and just called , SB passed and VVP moved in for 5425 more , first of all i seperated the call and knew if i was wrong i still had average chips of 17,000 , then i decided his hand could be K6 again or a small pair or an A that doesn't want a call , i called and he turned up A8s , flop was K 5 K 5 and we were heading for a chop till the river brought a 9 ! I finished the level in great shape with 32,100 .

Level 9 , i called an early raise in BB with KJs , flop was T J Q , i checked , he bet 3500 , i called , turn paired the T , we both checked , river made a backdoor flush , i had him on AJ or AQ but felt my weak check on the turn would mean a bet now would be called , we both checked , he had AQ , i got my chips back when Marcus Golser made an all in play from early position , he had called a raise preflop from Huck Seed with 99 , when the flop came T high he moved in , Huck had KK and doubled up , this left Marcus with 2300 and i knew they would go in before the blinds got to him , i called with AJ and he had JQ , i finished this level with 33,500

Level 10 and again i saw no hands but with 120 left my job was done for now as the average for the money was 26000 at 100 players so with 32,000 i intended to sit on my stack until we were near the money then steal as many blinds and antes as possible , i had been at the same table all day and i knew who the weak players were , during this period Huck Seed had an amazing two hands i have never seen , the first was when a player moved in from FP for 11,000 , all passed to Huck in the BB , blinds were now 600 1200 with a 200 ante so the bet looked like it didn't want a call , Huck called with JJ , his opponent turned over QQ , Huck got up and walked away from the table so didn't see that he flopped quads !

Two hands later a player to Hucks right raised to 3000 and Huck called on the button , flop was 5 T 5 , the raiser moved in for 12,000 , Huck had flopped another quads !

Everything was going to plan , Huck could bully his side and i could bully mine , unfortunately with 110 left they finally broke my table and i couldn't have ended up in a worse position , on my right was the chip leader who had just doubled to 50,000 , two to my left was a player i didn't know with 9000 who i was about to find out was prepared to take advantage of the weak players to his left .

We were down to 107 , the survivors were passing any hand hoping to get paid , the aggressors were taking advantage , i hadn't seen a pair for two hours and my best hand had been AJ , the first couple of hands the chip leader raised to 3600 , all passed and he added 7200 to his stack , we were down to 103 , now the player on my left raised to 3600 three times in a row and picked up 10,800 , i had the BB next hand and decided if he did it 4 times in a row i would call , he raised again and as he expected all on his left meekly folded , i however called the 2400 into the 7200 pot , he had 13,400 left , i decided no A or K and i put him to the test , flop was 8 T Q , i moved in , now bare in mind i didn't know who he was and i assumed although he had enough game to take advantage of the weak players to his left would he call with no pair for all his chips or did he want to cash , i soon found out , he called with AJ , my hand is irrelevant but in fact i had J5 , his A high stood up and i was down to 17,000 , i found out he was Jason Tate a high limit cash player who was willing to gamble rather than secure a payday , i made 2 mistakes here , one i should have tried to work out his position relating to cashing and also i could have checked the flop or bet out 4000 and saved 9000 if he moved in .

I continued to get no hands and now the chip leader decided to take over Jasons role with 102 left , he raised 7 hands in a row , i was prepared to reraise if i so much as found half a hand but didn't , we finally made the money and i still had 14000 , i was patiently waiting for an opportunity and finished the level with 10,100 .

Level 11 , blinds 800 1600 antes 200 so each round was costing 4200 , i needed to pick a spot and it soon came , the player next to me obviously decided he needed to make a move and pushed in his 12,800 after the chip leader passed , i had 66 , i was sure i was no worse than even money , if i called and won i would have average chips , i thought about the way he pushed his chips in , he stacked them up and was very vocal in his all in , i decided at best he had a medium A , i called , all passed and he said " you got me " and turned up A3o , flop was K 4 2 , turn an A , no 6 on the river and i was out in 82nd of 1056 .

I am not disappointed in my earlier play , i probably found the only player on the table who would have called with his hand at that stage , at least i had the guts to set up and make the play and i maintained my discipline after it failed and i continued to pick up filth , finally making a good read and call but getting unlucky .

I am sure that i will get a lot deeper finish in one of the No Limit events to come , hopefully the main event .

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