Well last night"s re-buy was fun and a bit of a rollercoaster ride. Think I got bluffed off a hand right before the add-on that took me down to 3.8k and I didn"t get the re-buy quick enough like most folk
, so went to the 2nd hour with 6.3 and looking short in comparison to most, never mind plenty of play, still 50 BBs. Got that built up to a comfortable enough 15.5k and then came the raise against a shortie with JQ only for Bill "KTMC?" to re-raise and shortie to put the rest of his stack in. Getting about 4/1 odds i called the other 650. Flop came 4/9/10 if I remember correctly with 2 diamonds, I checked and Bill checked. Turn gave me the magic 8 for the nut straight so i bet about 2.6 into the 3.2 pot, Bill shoved and I instacall obv. He flips 10/10 then paired the 8 on the river to leave me with only 4k. No complaints about any of the play but Bill must have kicked himself for giving me that free turn card, worked out well for him in the end though.
Went out not long after, think it was A/10 v 5/5 of Leigh. 10 and 5 on flop sealed my fate. Like Ger, I agree we all have to show a bit of loyalty for the last 2 games regardless of our points (only 9 from first game so need a miracle now) so I"ll be back in for the 6 handed game tonight.
On the positive side, I joined in with my regular nightly 11.15pm Betfair $22 1500 chips MTT game. Again another rollercoaster, quickly went up to 1860 despite a very very very frustrating disconnection after I 3 bet on a KJ4 flop with KJ. Thankfully found the chips in my stack when I was reconnected so the others obv folded. Got up to 2.5 k soon after then went completely card dead for ages, fell in love with the number 2 as it appeared in every hand unfortunately without one of his friends. Donked some chips off attempting a few plays then with blinds at 80/160 the hand that turned my game. Made standard raise with 6/6, against a shorter stacks BB. He called and flop came 5/7/J, BB checked, so 1200 in middle to steal and 1600 in my stack my chips got shipped. BB called with 8/8
Shortly after that I was down to 183 chips and 200 in the BB. Amazingly about 10 minutes later I had about 7k after double ups galore, went on to cash, made final table with about 21k, then finished 8th for $98ish.
A fun day indeed but apologies to pc_plod, a regular on Betfair, good player and more importantly to me a great guy to chat at the table.....Busted his AK shove with my KJ on my BB when i was short stacked and left him with a few grains of sand. Hoped I was getting odds against a middle pair and only had 7 BBs left, got very lucky against him, but that"s poker and he"ll get me back someday very soon I"m sure
