Had a quick peek at the GPS stream from day 3, re the A 10 hand in small blind, was such an obvious shove spot ( even without knowing the hole cards), Pretty sure Matt would not of called so not a biggie, ( he folded AQ to my utg shove with 66 for 15 bigs the night before), I got a double by KQ calling and winning that flip.a raise from utg maybe a fold but to a min raise from the button, mistake on my part, missed opportunity, never mind move on and just next time go for it.
I am just about getting over that trip now what with 3 X 4hr drives and 16 + hours of poker over 3 days, making a mistake at that stage was inevitable, tbh I don"t think I would of lasted the full day if I had got lucky, got home and was drained, although I did manage to play the online game, lost a flip to Leigh I think, played the Monday game at rainbow lost with AK v 88 v QQ, the Q folded to my reshove, how was I to know the guy behind had flopped a set of eights behind, even told the table before he flipped, cards reading skills, lol, he is a bigger nit than me so was pretty obvious, the Queens who had folded flopped a set on the turn, if she gets it in pre she trebles up, Betty stop limping every hand, lol.
The glutton for punishment that I am, I decided to play a sat for the 25/25 last night, there were 10 seats guarenteed, it made 12 + £85, I managed to squeeze in with 5 bigs, we agreed all the 12 players paid an extra £10 to make a 13th seat, so a saving of £160, not the greatest value sat but the £160 is better in my account than Grosvnors, playing Thursday night as out for a curry on Friday and Boro are at home on Saturday.
A couple of hands from last night, I raise QQ from 12 bigs, get min raised from a 16 bob stack, can you guess what he has ?, lol pretty obvious AA or KK, can"t fold, board runs out a 6 high straight, choppity chop.
There are 15 left there are 4 shorties. Inc myself, 2 massive stacks and 1 or 2 not sure if they will get there.
The chipleader by a mile just piles a load of chips over the line, the 2cd chip leader ( who could fold to seat no problem there is no need to get involved) looks perplexed and after tanking 5 minutes reshoves, it"s the old classic AA v KK in a sat were folding KK in this spot is just the obvious play, the AA held, and knocked out the other guy, leaving 14 left, a 3big blind gets knocked out in the next few hands and we have squeezed into a seat.
Facebook also reminded me of a nice memory for Dave Howard from 2 years ago when he blinked 25/25 in Brighton, making me a pound or 2 in the process.
I don"t know how, but I have somehow got permission to go to New York for my birthday, middle of January so looking to see if there are any bargains tbh it"s highly unlikely I will go, the usual logistics regarding Susan but if any bargains are about and arrangements can be made its a possibility.
If anything interesting happens in the 25/25 will update but if no updates assume it didn"t happen and if this is the last post of the year I would like to to wish everyone a Happy Christmas and a great New year, run good, be lucky stay healthy.
