Firstly a short internet updated... played 8 $10 heads up SNG's only winning 2....
So total = -$260.70
Ok onto the 1st visit to D.T.D.... a great venue with everything running very professionally, defiantly looking forward to going back
The £50+5 tourney on sat night had 116 runners (actually only around 70 when we sat down but they allow registration up to the end of the 2nd level).
I went out in 50th position while the friend I was with (his very 1st live game) went out in 38th.
He was playing well (as I expected him to) and then had a card dead run where he was just looking for a spot to push but others kept beating him into the pot.
Slightly different for me as I was allin more times than I can remember (the girl to my left did ask me to stop as it was becoming annoying) until I eventually got called when I pushed with AQ and ran into KK.
There was an incident early on in the tourney at my 1st table that got me slightly riled. We had reached the river in a hand where I had 10 8 with a board of 6 2 10 10 Q and I bet 500 (the only other player in the hand had been flat calling my bets each street and by the river I was fairly certain he had a 10) at this point the guy (obviously a regular) tanks for a while, looks at me, his chips, the board etc and then puts out 800.... dealer says that will have to be 1000 and he starts a whole story about how he thought he was just calling my bet of 800.... this was total bull as I had put out a 500 chip and it was clear as day.
So he moans a bit and puts out the other 300.... now I wasn't laying down the trip 10's for another 500 (i'm not that good) but the whole act was just to make him look weak. When I called there were certainly players at the table that also knew exactly what he had done and what I thought of it. He showed his A10 and raked it the chips.
I was still fuming a bit about that hand when we returned from the break and did not have any sympathy for him at all when he called an UTG push of AQ with his AK and lost most of his stack when a Q flopped. What made it better was he had spent the last half hour moaning at this particular dealer for never dealing him a playable hand.
Better still very next hand it folded round to me and I pushed with A6s (no excuses I was short stacked and desperate) this guy insta calls me and the blinds fold. I flip over my weak A and he takes great pleasure in showing his JJ.... 5 cards later and he's off to the rail as I river a straight.
Anyway after I exit the tourney I sit at a .50/1.00 cash game with £100 and quickly run it up to £300 only to lose the lot over the next hour.
I think I played OK but 2 large pot bad beats did most of the damage.
So anyway new totals are now -$260.70 and -£155.00
I seem to have answered the original question about whether or not I'm a winning player and I've answered it quicker than I hoped.... think this tread may just die a quite death to avoid me any more embarrassment
