A few min cashes here and there this week, best effort of he week finishing 35/3000 + in the big $22 for $150, took a spot with 10 10 v a 12 bb shove and a 22 bb re shove, would of put me in a really good position with 30 left was up against AJ and AK, a couple of Kings made an appearance, lost all momentum after that one and spluttered to a finish.
The Tuesday game has finally been killed off at Rainbow, with a massive £1200 overlay on Tuesday, only 14 played, I finished 6th for £100 which was 3x buy in, ran AQ into AK blind on blind.
I was likened to a particular player in the area who is renowned to be so tight he actually squeaks and apparently I have now taken his mantle, wasn"t going to argue with them, happy to keep the rep and play accordingly.
Rainbow have decided to try the game on a Monday now with a £1500 progressive guarantee, so it"s not in direct competition with a £2k guarantee across the road.
There is still a £1k on at G, but runners seem to be dwindling at both places, it may or may not work but would imagine it will be a short term experiment as there is talk of redundancies taking place at Rainbow.
Couldn"t be bothered driving to Leeds at the weekend for the 25/25, there is one at Newcastle early Feb so will probably pop up there for that.
Another final table at Rainbow tonight with a 4 way chop for £520 each, snapped chip leaders hand off with the offer of an equal split, (pretty ridiculous tbh, but I am not going to look a gift horse in the mouth).
Cliffs, lose with kings early when I announce a bet of 3 ( a 5k chip), into a 6k pot, dealer insists its 300 as blinds were at 100/200, this allowed villain to call and pick up more equity on the turn, I jammed my remaining 6k into the middle and he snapped me with AQ and he binked the heart.
I was more annoyed at myself tbh as this is a regular occurrence over there, accepted it and moved on, reentered as a new player and grinded my way to the final table, very few hands going to showdown, just picked spots and targets, had 25 bigs on the final table.
Made a tight fold after I had raised 88, and was jammed all in by the button, he had me well covered, he had already over jammed Queens earlier and even though I might of been flipping, 18 bigs was enough to play with.
I was guarenteed £200 and was now in shove or fold mode and accumulated a few but was always around 12 bigs, just enough to jam over people"s limps, yes still limping at 3k/6k and folding to most shoves.
Make an extra £100 when someone is eliminated in 6th, the crucial hand I min raise to 20k, from a 15 bb stack, AA, get 2 callers including a jam by the bb, (KQ), obviously snap call and we go to the flop heads up, flops a King and rivers a Queen, sigh, do a count and I am left with 15k with blinds at 5/10 and I am in the big blind next, I win a flip 98 v 22, then jam small to big, then jam button again no callers and I am back to 75k, next hand some one jams with 33 (with me being short probably should fold, but was unlucky to run into ladies jacks) so I move up the ladder again, the chip leader offers us an equal chop as she wants to get home as she has work the next day, she gets the extra £10, 2cd place money was £590 so happy to accept.
Monday next at Rainbow, too much value as pretty sure these games won"t last long, I can"t see them taking off, fingers crossed they do though.
Probably go to the Riverside today, play Huddersfield, we need the 3 points to keep in touch with the leaders, Tuesday sees a trip to Newcastle to see First Aid Kit, a Swedish Folk duo, check them out on you tube very good, seen them in the Boro a few years ago when they were just starting out and bought all the albums since.
I reach the grand old age of 53 on Wednesday, bloody hell time flies when you are having fun, son taking us for a posh meal next weekend with the rest of the family so looking forward to that, sorry for the waffle, run good, be lucky stay healthy.
