Had a couple of hours reflection on the Home International game when I got back to the hotel. Have to say huge congratulations to the wales A Team, to get all 4 players on to the FT from 32 runners is pretty fantastic. On our team performance I can only say that we gave ourselves a chance from Thursday evening"s SnG"s, leading by 7 after both rounds 1 & 2 then being only 2 behind England B overnight after round 3. Also have to give a shout out individually to Andy Kingan of the England B Team, who played superbly consistent over the 2 days and was a pleasure to share a table with (when he wasn"t taking my chips
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Final day saw us under a fair amount of pressure after mediocre scoring in the heads up, though I loved my 2 games against Steve Roderick (great game that swung back and forth but ended in defeat after about 50 minutes) and against Ger Smyth Jnr ( again a great game, poor Ger seemed to hit middle pair every time I had top pair, got low in chips and clawed them back, then finally re-raised my button raise with 55 and ran into my AA).
The MTT was a very mixed bag that became a different monster after the early exit of team mates Ian and a while later Stu. I decided at that point to try to build chips as getting deep into the points was about the only way we could possibly win over all. Needless to say that plan backfired when i tried to rob Dan Owston with 3/4
So 5th place at the finale and feel like I"ve just watched Black Swan again over the past 2 days, a nice beginning, a strange middle and very much a WTF ending!
Now set for the individual UK Championship and can play my own game without considering team position, scoring, responsibility etc. Sure I"ll be just as focussed though and looking forward to meeting up with the gang again.
