Amateur Poker Association & Tour
Archive Boards => Archive => General Live Poker Discussion => Topic started by: Honeybadg on May 17, 2011, 17:39:18 PM
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Is anyone else playing this?
I am playing day 1B : £700+50 ($1,220) : 20,000 chips : 1 Hour Levels
They are estimating a prize pool of $300k.
L
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888 APAT Welsh Online Championships is about my limit at the moment.... Good Luck though.
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888 APAT Welsh Online Championships is about my limit at the moment.... Good Luck though.
i"m the same
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888 APAT Welsh Online Championships is about my limit at the moment.... Good Luck though.
i"m the same
The League games are my limt at the moment ;)
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Reports from day 1A are that it has been fairly trashoid in standard ... perhaps I am playing the wrong day!?!
L
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Exit hand : 16 mins past midnight ... I am UTG with AA ... it is a pretty active table so I limp ... Blinds are 500/1000 (100) ... UTG + 1 raises to 3500 ... I smile ... BB calls ... I decide not scope to be tricky and shove all in for 36k ... UTG + 1 insta calls with AKs ... BB folds ... we all know what happens next ... two spades on the flop for the flush draw ... brick on the turn ... three of spades on the river ... 79k pot going the wrong way ...
Nowt to say ... just poker ... the standard was pretty average to poor given the buy in ... quite a few pros ... but nothing to fear ... raced to c55k inside the first two hours ... stayed out of trouble in the main ... and first time chips were at risk was the exit hand ... I want the call ... so 1 in 7 ... I have to take the defeat ... just feels pretty dull and tedious ...
L
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vul Louis - That"s a nasty one to swallow.
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... it tastes no better this morning ... "should" have been shaping up for battle!
Tremendous structure - with a lot of very odd play - it was shaped tremendously for great joy - but instead great woe!
L
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Really sick Louis, at times you wonder why we play this game!
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Really sick Louis, at times you wonder why we play this game!
Yes indeed!
I am reflecting on this.
I think I will take a mini-break before looking at the calendar for a next event ... perhaps it is a sprint to Vegas??
I think the answer for me is to play the perfect tournament and win (something big) ... I made a few mini-mistakes along the way and could have perhaps extracting a few more chips by betting out more versus trapping people ... only for river cards to kill the action ... obviously a moot point as without the card killing action on the end I do get all the chips ...
I was delighted with one hand where I raised early position with 97o ... Blinds 150/300 (25) ... Raise to 750 ... micro re-raise to 1750 ... I am delighted to call ... I am playing c55k ... my oponent c35k ... the flop is the fanstastic 658 rainbow ... I check ... he bets ... turn gives the flush draw ... I check he bets ... I call (could have shoved) ... river gives the potential flush ... I ponder and check ... he tanks and makes the excellent check ... very close to looking for the bet with I guess an overpair ...
I could have value bet the river ... and might get paid ... but want a larger chunk of his stack ... very good player ... need to check who he was ...
Anyway ... had I gathered more chips the dynamics of everything else are changed ... I fought through the tedium of a 2 hour card dead phase with minimal loses ... before getting it all in good to go to 79BB ... so all the minor mistakes and marginal actions fall away to be engulfed by the monster bad beat ...
Not sure what is next up ...
L