Just a quick update on the latest poker quests, online the usual up an down breakeven week, not really been in the mood to be honest so volume has been minimal.
On the live front would loved to have given the Ukipt a go but a bit out of the roll,had a few sat attempts but to no avail.
Grosvenor are running a festival in Stockton this week, so instead of the usual Stockton home game at Rileys, I decided to give the 6 max event a go it was £110 fee 10 k starting stack with 25min blinds.
On arrival at the Casino I met up with Philtc who was also playing.
We took our seats and initial runners was about 18, this rose to 26 with late entries and a couple of re entries, prize pool was £2600, top 4 paid.
Phil and I were on separate tables which I am quite happy about, we would meet up later.
I won"t go through a list of hands apart from the first one which was although good for me, the villain just went mad, I don"t know what made him play that way, I have played him before and is usually quite solid.
Remember £100 buy in 10 k chips 25/50 25 min clock.
Table is 3 handed 2 people missing, I get AA in small blind, raise it to 150, big blind repops to 650, being so early do I want to trap or see if has got something, I reraise to 1750, he flats flop Q, 5, 9 rainbow, I bet 2k5 , he calls, now I am thinking has he just hit his set or two pair, turn 2, a brick , the pot is now too big to fold so I just get the lot in expecting this to be the shortest £100 game I have ever played, he calls and shows AJ off, drawing dead, 1 hand up to 20k, happy days.
A few hours later myself and Phil got to the final table, I think I had about 40 bigs, Phil had about 20.
I managed to double up the shortie when I raised with A8 and called his re raise obv he had AK but I was getting 2.5/1 so it was a sigh call as I was never ahead, so I am down to 30 bigs.
Next hand get AK utg standard re raise 2.5 bigs shortie who I have just doubled up shoves again, Phil who is on the big blind asks how much I have behind and I have him covered he tanks for a while then folds (he has aq clubs), he knows I am not light here and my actions pretty much indicate my chips are going in, placed them close to the line, I call the short stacks shove and we are off to the races, he has JJ, nice K in the window, I fade the the J and knock out the short stack at the table, the board did run out 3 clubs so Phil would of rivered the nut flush, cant be results orientated Phil good fold mate.
We are now on the cash bubble, it"s folded to the small blind who limps into Phils big blind, who checks, flop comes Q J 9, small blind checks Phil shoves and gets an insta call small blind has QQQ, Phil has J9 I think or at least the J, the Q on the river just rubs salt into the wounds ul Phil that was just a cooler mate.
Each time a player had been knocked out if any player suggested a deal each player was given a red and black card if you wanted a deal to be discussed you had to place a black card in the centre of the table,if all cards were black then a deal could be discussed if one card was red the game carried on, we carried on.
One player suggested we split pot 4 ways which would of been about £625 each and play on for the trophy and the champion of champions seat worth £700 I think but this was refused by the card vote.
At this point in the tourney I had about 25bigs and was in 3rd position short stack had 10 bigs so he was in push fold mode, he pushed all in (a4) chip leader re raised all in (aq) I have A9 spades, obv was calling the 10 bigs shove but the all in was too much to call, the AQ held but like Phil earlier I would of hit the nut flush on the river, what did I say earlier, can"t be results orientated, in hindsight maybe should of called because even if we both get knocked out I still would of got 3rd place providing the big stack won the hand as I had more chips than the short stack, the difference between 3rd and 4th place was £300.
The last 2 levels made a few shoves which got through but eventually the blinds caught up and 3 handed the chips disappeared quite quickly, I pushed A9 into the big blinds A10 and even though I got a few outs for a chopped pot didn"t manage the bink, so at about 3 am finished a creditable 3rd for £520, which by the way was only £30 short of the buy in for the main event 50k chips 1 hour clock, my kind of structure, but circumstances at home means that I could not commit to a poss 3 day event without social services putting me in jail for cruelty and neglect, more important things in life than a poker game.
Just want to give a good luck message to another Apat member who has made day 2 of the ukipt, no doubt david3103 will be updating his blog poker pops ponders poker with hopefully some run good.
run good, be lucky and stay healthy.
