Last night Paullie D chopped the £20 event, and Don Roberts and James Roberts cashed in the £50 event.
Well done all
Since we"re sharing....
Thursday 26th AugustHad to go into work for the morning but got away around 12.45. M25/M1 was the usual bag of ******** but thanks to the traffic app as part of my Sat Nav (and some prior planning) I wasn"t held up too much and arrived an the Travelodge around 3.30...not a bad run.
Checked in with no real hassles. Room is pretty standard, not a whole heap of amenities but what can you expect for £32? Nothing to complain about really and I"m only here for one night before moving to the Holiday Inn.
So, a quick shower and change of clothes and it"s off to DTD which is only a 5 minute drive. Said hello to Des, Tighty & Leigh and quickly bolt down 4 Red Bulls to set me up for the rest of the day.
Just mooched around the card room for a couple of hours chatting with the familiar APAT players before signing up to the £20 + £5 Freeze-out. £800 guarantee but we got away with 81 runners.
Nothing spectacular in the way of hands to report but, Jesus, you see some incredibly head-scratching plays and decisions here.
Snap call a shover for half your stack (with plenty of play left) with J8s? Limp UTG with Q5 off. Hit your 5 and stack off when I make my top-pair with an open-ended straight & flush combo draw? WTF?
Anyway, once Q5 guy (quite possibly the worst calling station I have EVER seen) had busted on the bubble, we head off to the final table with, unfortunately, me as a pretty short stack.
That didn"t last long as two double ups in running hands got me back to the average (which was still only 10BB).
Then I finally hit my run..AK, JJ, & QQ in pretty short order...all of which held up when calling shorter stacks and...boom, I"m chip leader with 1/2 the chips in play.
Playing a little for the ladder up and a run of nothing hands and we get down to 3 handed. Me and one other with about 40% each and the third with 20%...not doing a deal yet but we"re at 4k/8k/800 with only 30BB on the table.
We go at it for a while before I double up the shorty with my KJ against his KQ and a chop is suggested. We run the numbers and it works out to £377 each which is better than 2nd place for all three of us.
Done deal, job"s a good "un.
I never know how much to tip for these things but I leave £22 (??) and pocket £355 for a nice little bonus. Weekend covered...yay, me!
I finally get back to the hotel about 2am and a 21 hour day and realise I haven"t eaten...no wonder I"m knackered. Oh, well, the hotel is next to a decent restaurant and I feel a major breakfast coming on.
