Brighton Festival Were Off

[Belgariad]

Great fun getting back down to Brighton and seeing all the regulars. Nothing changes down there apart from the staff.

Great tournament it was a 50PL rebuy and we got 2500 starting chips... yep i could not believe it either finally a great structure comp and not the usual crap shoot. Really looking forward to the rest of the week.

I was chip leader on my table with about 20k no rebuys, seemed to be playing well and put in a few nice plays to build my stack. No real monster hands till I move to the new table and I find KK. Only two people on the table have me covered the guy under the gun and one other. The guy under the gun raises 3k blinds 600 - 1200 I find KK and the rest is history... of course he has AA.

Mel was down to 2k at the end of the re-buys well below average and not very positive but with the top up she was in faily good shape. Next time I see her during a short break she has 30k picked up a few nice hands and doubled through a couple of times. I was knocked out about 1 hour later go to watch her play. She is on 30k still but by then the blinds are faily big. She moves upto about 70k just from taking the blinds and calling all in's on the BB where there is a small all in raise.

When down to 10th she took the small stack all in 4 times and he survived every time

1st time AQ Vs A9 - Turn 9
2nd 10 10 vs A 6 - Flop 6 6 Turn A River Blank
3rd AJ Vs K 4 - Flop K
4th cant remember but by then it was getting silly...

She still managed to stay around 70k by picking up a few blinds and keeping her chips moving... blinds now 4k 8k and the low stacks were really feeling it mel was in 2nd.

Finally somone goes out after KK vs KQ all in pre flop the Q makes a 4 flush.

Final yay minimum at this stage 240

There was talk of a deal 12 handed 1k each but the chip leader turned it down. Get down to 9 more talk but nothing agreed.

After a mad first round the blinds creaping up there are two gone and they agree to min 1k each and play for the rest 1st 3k 2nd 2k everyone else 1k ....
One other goes out and after a few bad beats and everyone fairly level in chips they decided to chop it.

Got an evening off tonight so putting feet up.

Tomorrow the 100 rebuy that should be huge value and with the amount of chips we got for the 50 i'm expecting a lot of play.

Brighton is such a refreshing change from the recient comps I have played at gutshot. The players are so friendly and you get lots of chips.

I'm not expecting many runners for the 750 freezeout at the end of the week although they are running a sattalite in the afternoon on Thursday I think. The 300 freezeout is expected to be busy with the locals saying there will be approx 100 runners... i'm not convinced there will be that many but should be another great event.

Will keep you all updated going to get back to Declan now see you all soon.  Well done again Mel nice result for first event down there, looking good for the rest of the week.  Sorry cant do live updates as I dont have laptop.

Eugene

[MrMoves]

Well done Eugene.

I'll be there with two others on Thursday for the freezeout.  Sounds great so far.

[Exorcism]

.....and I'll be one of those others!

Isn't KK a horror? I hope I don't get it!

[Robert HM]

1st time AQ Vs A9 - Turn 9
2nd 10 10 vs A 6 - Flop 6 6 Turn A River Blank
3rd AJ Vs K 4 - Flop K
4th cant remember but by then it was getting silly...

Ouch!! Not nice!

Are you still going to be around on Friday?

[Royal Flush]

Chops are fine, but talking about it 11 way!!!?!?!

Bit mad innit?

[RED-DOG]

have they got dealers for all comps?

[Djinn]

HI nice to hear from you - I am alternately roasting and freezing out here in Crazy Vegas, and I look forward to hearing more about your tournaments..... off to do some updates now, but good luck to you and Mel!

[tikay]

Nice report Euge, thanks, keep them coming.

Declan - that your, err, child?.........

xx

[kinghawko]

Blonde member Dubai aka dave shallow is currently leading 2nites omaha/holdem 100 rebuy, there is 9 left and dubai has 33% of the chips in play....gl m8 cya on friday!!

[Splash]

Get in there DS!!   

[StacPollaidh]

I was wondering what to make my first post.

Guess it had better be sorry    as I was the guy with the AA.

Nice for me, but not very sporting when the other two showed their folded K's 

What goes around comes around, as I went out in 12th when my JJ ran into -

you guessed it AA.

Mark

[tikay]

Nice maiden post Stac, & welcome to blonde.

The dream match up eh? - AA v KK. Lovely! But as you thoughtfully remind us, tough for the player with KK.

Lets hope we get some more reports from the Brighton Festival.

[Splash]

Apparenlty Dave went onto to win it   

[Belgariad]

Look forward to seeing you down there MrMoves.

They didnt have a dealer for the 50 i'm not sure what is planned for the rest of the week I will try and find out tonight for ya.

Hi Mark, nice playing with you.  Sorry to hear you had a simular fait to me, will you be playing in any of the other events down there this week ? If so look forward to seeing you down there.

Nice result Dave congrats ...

Going to get ready and head down soon... will try and update tomorrow.

[MrMoves]

Likewise Eugene.

We'll be in the London Poker gear.  Come and say hello.