Yep, I'm gone from the €1000.
Probably my biggest event to date, but, with the €10,000 still going on, it really doesn't feel like it.
Wasn't my day, but I was happy with the way I played.
Tough table of youngsters, including Rory Matthews and Stu Fox, who was located two seats to my left.
I managed to break K-K with A-K early on to add a few extra chips to my stack, but took a bad beat about 20 mins l8er. Raised A-A preflop, called in bb by Matthews. Both checked queen high flop. He bet turn, I moved all-in, he called with Q-5 and rivered the 5.
That put me down to 2,500. Then I lost a 50-50 with a shortstack which took me down to 14,000.
After the break I had 2 hands to stick it in, with blinds at 200/400. Blinds went up to 300/600 when I was underthegun, so I chucked it in with
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Great timing as usual. I was up against
and
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Board =
hehe
With 5 tables remaining, I saw a flop from the sb with
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Flop =
I checkraised all-in. Mateyboy, who had limped from seat 3, called with
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I put him on a smaller pocket pair. He'd raise with a bigger pair, so I thought I had him dominated. Not happy to see he had so many outs.
Turn =
River =
Bah. Win that and I'm up to over 10k.
Nevermind. Enjoyed it.
Great updating folks and thx to Micky for backing me.
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